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his grandpa Adam had told him so much about.
And the awaited day did finally arrive. And as his first
child, a boy, cried out at the top of his lungs that he ar- rived, Enoch knew this was it, exactly what he had been waiting for.
It was God who put the thought in his mind to name his first son Methuselah, which literally means, when he dies it comes. And judgment did come!
From my studies, Methuselah left this world during the same year the flood came.
Enoch knew that judgment was coming to the earth. Enoch also knew life as people then knew it... was soon going to change forever. Sounds kind of familiar, doesn’t it?
Was it the judgment of God that was coming that stirred Enoch into final action? I wonder if that will be
a catalyst for any of us? Yes, things are winding up. The handwriting is on the wall. Jesus is coming soon! The most important question you can ask yourself now is, “Are you ready for our Lord’s soon return?”
The Bible informs us in Genesis 5:22,
And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years...
So Enoch must have told the family that there was something he had to do. He probably didn’t say for the next 300 years or so, as more than likely he didn’t know that himself.
So, as the evening shadows lengthen, off he walks into the evening. After all, wasn’t it the cool of the day when God came down and fellowshipped with grandpa and grandma?
Armed with a faith in his heart and a spring in his step (after all - he is only 65 years old), and a gleam in his eyes, he left home to meet with the Creator and King of the
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