Monday, April 6, 2020

Enoch walked with God; then he was no more

Genesis 5:18-32
Enoch lived 365 years. Enoch walked with God; then he was no more, because God took him away.
When Lamech had lived 182 years, he had a son. He named him Noah and said, "He will comfort us in the labor and painful toil of our hands caused by the ground the Lord has cursed.
After Noah was 500 years old he became the father of Shem, Han and Japheth.
The life-span assigned to these early ancestors is remarkable to Methuselah's 969 years. Each of the ten records follows the same formula. 
When A was x years old he had a son B. He lived another y years and had other sons and daughters. He lived z years and then he died.
The somber note of the final phrase and then he died is varied only in the case of Enoch, the man who walked with God. Fro him God has other plans. Noah, the last of the ten, in his turn also walked with God. And he too, though in a different way, was saved from death,
Why?
Enoch has a different way for he walked with the Lord so God took him away.
People were hard to work by their hands for the land was cursed by the Lord.
Noah is another man chosen to be a God's man, obey God's word.
How?
Blessing is the man who obeys God's word!



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