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Notice what this verse DOES NOT SAY. It does not say Enoch
went to heaven. It says he was NOT FOUND, for God TOOK
HIM. But this verse does not say WHERE God took him! To say God
took Enoch to heaven is only human conjecture that has no basis
in Biblical FACT.
In Deut. 34:6 we read also how God TOOK Moses from the
people, after which he DIED and was BURIED by God. "But no man
knows his sepulchre unto this day." God REMOVED Moses - God
translated him also - and HE WAS NOT FOUND either!
LAMSA translates the Aramaic Heb. 11:5 as, "By faith Enoch
DEPARTED and did not taste death, and was not found, because God
took him; but before he TOOK HIM AWAY, there was a testimonial
about him, that he pleased God."
ENOCH DIED!
Paul says the faithful ALL died. Enoch was one of "all
these."
Enoch, then, DID DIE. Jesus said only the Son of man had
evee ascended to heaven, so Enoch never went to heaven!
Now GEN. 5:24 and HEB. 11:5 should start to become plain.
Enoch was a man of God, walking with God by obeying and seeing
His maker. He was a man of whom the world was not worthy (Heb.
11:38). Evil and sin were all around him, yet he had FAITH. It
was nearing the time when the wickedness of man became so great
that only Noah and his family were found worthy to escape
destruction. Enoch would have had MANY enemies - enemies that
would want to see him DEAD. After only 365 years (relatively a
short period for the length of days they lived back then) God
REMOVED Enoch - took him away from his enemies and spared
his physical life from destruction and death at their hands.
NONE could find him. Just like Moses was removed from
Israel and died sometime after (only known to God), so too Enoch
was removed by God to live in safety and eventually DIE at some
point and place only known by God.
Turn to 2 Kings 2:3,5 and see for yourself WHY Elijah was
to be taken away.
ELIJAH DIED!
MOSES DIED
Of all that have ever been FLESH & BLOOD - born of women -
Jesus Christ ONLY has gained IMMORTAL LIFE! So says your Bible.
He alone of all humans was RESURRECTED to receive the promise of
ETERNAL LIFE. He alone is the only one to be changed from MATTER
into SPIRIT - from human to DIVINE! Read it in your own Bible,
never forget those plain verses. A child can understand them:
"But now is Christ risen from the DEAD and become the FIRSTFRUITS
of them that slept...For as in Adam ALL die (that includes,
Enoch, Moses and Elijah), even so in Christ shall ALL be made
alive (see Jn 5:25-29 and request our article "WHITE THRONE
JUDGMENT") BUT every man in his own order: CHRIST THE
FIRSTFRUITS..." (1 Cor. 15:20-23).
It was not Moses that was first from the dead, nor was it
Elijah or Enoch that first received eternal life - IT WAS CHRIST
JESUS! "And He(speaking of Jesus) is the head of the body, the
church: who is THE BEGINNING, the FIRSTBORN FROM THE DEAD..."
(Col. 1:18). Jesus was "the firstborn of every creature" (Col.
1:15). Yes, the FIRST Human to be BORN into life eternal.
Christ was the FIRST to be PERFECTED as an immortal being and so,
"...being MADE PERFECT, He became the AUTHOR (the one who wrote
the book on it - who led the way) of ETERNAL SALVATION unto all
them that OBEY Him" (Heb. 5:9).
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Written in 1981