Faithbook: Faith of Enoch
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In this sermon we explore Enoch, the man who walked with God and never experienced death. We also see how a myth arose in Jewish literature which obscured both the man and his message.
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Faithbook: Faith of Enoch
- 1. Connecting with God’s Faith-filled Friends
- 2. Search Faithbook Home Enoch Edit Profile Proud of my son Methuselah. Elohim 4 hrs Love your walk!!! See you real soon… sooner than you think! Jared 2 hrs Happy 365th birthday son. Groups We Never Died Elijah the Tishbite I’m praying God grants him a long life.
- 3. Search Faithbook Enoch Edit Profile Learning How To Walk With God Hebrews 11:5-6 Genesis 5:18-24
- 4. Learning How To Walk With God Enoch Hebrews 11:5 5 By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God.
- 5. Learning How To Walk With God Enoch Hebrews 11:6 6 And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
- 6. Learning How To Walk With God Enoch First Post Enoch The Man
- 7. Learning How To Walk With God Enoch Genesis 5 18 When Jared had lived 162 years he fathered Enoch. 19 Jared lived after he fathered Enoch 800 years and had other sons and daughters. 20 Thus all the days of Jared were 962 years, and he died.
- 8. Learning How To Walk With God Enoch Genesis 5 21 When Enoch had lived 65 years, he fathered Methuselah. 22 Enoch walked with God after he fathered Methuselah 300 years and had other sons and daughters.
- 9. Learning How To Walk With God Enoch Genesis 5 23 Thus all the days of Enoch were 365 years. 24 Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him.
- 10. Learning How To Walk With God Enoch What do we know about Enoch’s family of origin? •We don’t know anything specific about the household of Jared, his father. •We know that generally, he is a part of the unrighteous generation preceding the flood.
- 11. Learning How To Walk With God Enoch 21 When Enoch had lived 65 years, he fathered Methuselah. 22 Enoch walked with God after he fathered Methuselah 300 years and had other sons and daughters. 23 Thus all the days of Enoch were 365 years. 24 Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him.
- 12. Learning How To Walk With God Enoch “When a child is born, a father is born.” Frederick Buechner
- 13. Learning How To Walk With God Enoch What do you think motivated this change in Enoch’s life?
- 14. Learning How To Walk With God Enoch Genesis 5 24 Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him. Hebrews 11 5 By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him.
- 15. Learning How To Walk With God Enoch Second Post Enoch The Myth
- 16. Learning How To Walk With God Enoch 1 Enoch •Written in Ethiopic. •Authored during the mid 2nd century B.C.
- 17. Learning How To Walk With God Enoch Jude 14-15 14 It was also about these that Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his holy ones,
- 18. Learning How To Walk With God Enoch Jude 14-15 15 to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness that they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”
- 19. Learning How To Walk With God Enoch 1 Enoch 1:9 9 And behold! He cometh with ten thousands of His holy ones to execute judgment upon all, and to destroy all the ungodly: And to convict all flesh of all the works of their ungodliness which they have ungodly committed, And of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.
- 20. Connecting with God’s Faith-filled Friends
- 21. Learning How To Walk With God Enoch An Exaggerated View of Enoch Enoch is identified as the Son of Man. (1 Enoch 69-71)
- 22. Learning How To Walk With God Enoch 1 Enoch 32 2a To the east of these beasts I perceived the extremities of the earth, where heaven ceased. The gates of heaven stood open, and I beheld the celestial stars come forth.
- 23. Learning How To Walk With God Enoch 2b I numbered them as they proceeded out of the gate, and wrote them all down, as they came out one by one according to their number. I wrote down their names altogether, their times and their seasons, as the angel Uriel, who was with me, pointed them out to me.
- 24. Learning How To Walk With God Enoch 3 He showed them all to me, and wrote down an account of them. 4 He also wrote down for me their names, their regulations, and their operations. 1 Enoch 32:1-4
- 25. Learning How To Walk With God Enoch 2 Enoch •Written in Slavonic. •May have originally been written in Greek around the first century A.D. •Details Enoch’s journey through the “seven heavens.”
- 26. Learning How To Walk With God Enoch 2 Enoch •Increasing emphasis upon angels. God recedes into the background. •The God of 2 Enoch is lacking in mercy. •This book is clearly and entirely gnostic.
- 27. Learning How To Walk With God Enoch 3 Enoch •Claims to be written by Rabbi Ishmael, in the early 2nd century A.D. •In all likelihood it was written in the fifth to sixth centuries A.D. •Written in Hebrew.
- 28. Learning How To Walk With God Enoch 3 Enoch and Metatron • Part of the Jewish mystical Kabbalistic literature. •Teaches that Enoch was transformed into the archangel Metatron, who is equivalent to the “Angel of the Lord”.
- 29. Learning How To Walk With God Enoch 3 Enoch 11:3 Before a man thinks in secret, I see his thought; before he acts, I see his act. There is nothing in heaven above or deep within the earth concealed from me.
- 30. Learning How To Walk With God Enoch Third Post Enoch The Message
- 31. Learning How To Walk With God Enoch 24Enoch walked with God; then he was no more, because God took him away.(Gen. 5:24) For before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God. (Heb.11:5b)
- 32. Learning How To Walk With God Enoch Genesis 5:24 (Hebrew Bible) Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him. Genesis 5:24 (Septuagint) And Enoch was well-pleasing to God, and was not found, because God translated him.
- 33. Learning How To Walk With God Enoch What is the Message of Enoch’s life? There is nothing that pleases God more than a man or woman who walks with Him.
- 34. Learning How To Walk With God Enoch How do we walk with God? • We walk in obedience. • We walk in faith.
- 35. Learning How To Walk With God Enoch Hebrews 11:6 6 And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
- 36. Learning How To Walk With God Enoch How do we walk with God? •We walk in obedience. •We walk in faith. 1. We must believe that God is. 2. We must believe that God is good.
- 37. Connecting with God’s Faith-filled Friends
Editor's Notes
- Offering Your Best to God with a Proper Attitude
- Hebrews 11:5 5 By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God.
- Hebrews 11:6 6 And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
- First Post Enoch… The Man
- Genesis 5 18 When Jared had lived 162 years he fathered Enoch. 19 Jared lived after he fathered Enoch 800 years and had other sons and daughters. 20 Thus all the days of Jared were 962 years, and he died.
- 21 When Enoch had lived 65 years, he fathered Methuselah. 22 Enoch walked with God after he fathered Methuselah 300 years and had other sons and daughters.
- 23 Thus all the days of Enoch were 365 years. 24 Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him.
- What do we know about Enoch’s family of origin? We don’t know anything specific about the household of Jared, his father. We know that generally, he is a part of the unrighteous generation preceding the flood.
- Do you see any sign of a turning point in Enoch’s life? After the birth of his firstborn son, Methuselah, Enoch is said to have walked with God.
- When a child is born, a father is born. A mother is born too, of course, but at least for her it's a gradual process. Body and soul, she has nine months to get used to what's happening. She becomes what's happening. But for even the best-prepared father, it happens all at once.
- What do you think motivated this change in Enoch’s life? The birth of Enoch’s firstborn made him uncomfortable with the ungodliness all around him. Children have a way of re-focusing our lives.
- 23 Thus all the days of Enoch were 365 years. 24 Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him.
- Enoch the Myth By the first century, the historical Enoch had been almost completely swallowed up by the mythic Enoch. The Jewish Gnostics transformed Enoch into a mystical mediator of faith. He had become for the Jews of Jesus’ generation a spiritual equivalent of the saints in Roman Catholicism.
- I Enoch: The Ethiopic Apocalypse of Enoch Written in Ethiopic. It is likely that, like Daniel, it was originally composed partly in Hebrew and partly in Aramaic. Fragments in these languages have been found in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Authored during the mid 2nd century B.C.
- Enoch is identified as the Son of Man. It is revealed that he pre-existed in heaven. He returns to heaven to continue his role as a mediator between God and fallen humans. When Jesus used the term Son of Man, it had immediate recognition, not only because of Daniel’s use of this term, but also because of the way in which it was misused in 1 Enoch.
- 2 Enoch Written in Slavonic. May have originally been written in Greek around the first century A.D. Details Enoch’s journey through the “seven heavens.”
- Increasing emphasis upon angels. God recedes into the background. The God of 2 Enoch is lacking in mercy. This book is clearly and entirely gnostic.
- 3 Enoch Claims to be written by Rabbi Ishmael, in the early 2nd century A.D. In all likelihood it was written in the fifth to sixth centuries A.D. Written in Hebrew.
- 3 Enoch and Metatron 3 Enoch is part of the Jewish mystical (kabbalistic) literature. Teaches that Enoch was transformed into the archangel Metatron, who is equivalent to the “Angel of the Lord”. Jacob is said to have wrestled with Metatron, the Prince of the Divine Presence. In 3 Enoch, Enoch is tranformed into angelic flame. He is placed over all the other angels, who resent his elevation over them. Enoch, or Metatron, becomes a distorted Christ-figure, a mystical mediator between God and man who knows man’s every thought.
- 3 Enoch 11:3 Before a man thinks in secret, I see his thought; before he acts, I see his act. There is nothing in heaven above or deep within the earth concealed from me.
- Third Post Enoch… the Message Tragically, the mythical fascination with Enoch distorted and obscured the Message of God’s Word. What is the Message of Enoch’s life?
- 24Enoch walked with God; then he was no more, because God took him away.(Gen. 5:24) For before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God. (Heb.11:5b)
- Why did the Holy Spirit inspire the use of the Septuagintal language rather than the original Hebrew language, that Enoch walked with God? The advantage of the Septuagint was that it was broadly used both in the Jewish and Gentile world. The biblical author of Hebrews did not see a significant difference between walking with God and pleasing God. Neither did the Holy Spirit of God.
- What is the Message of Enoch’s life? The Message of Enoch’s life and miraculous translation is a simple message: There is nothing that pleases God more than a man or woman who walks with Him.
- How do we walk with God? We walk in obedience. Enoch walked in obedience. By Enoch’s day, obedience to God was in rapid decline. Over the millennial span of his son Methuselah’s life, obedience would collapse entirely, being found in just one family, the family of Noah. We walk in faith.
- Hebrews 11:6 6 And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
- The walk of faith has 2 distinct aspects. We walk in obedience. We walk in faith. We must believe that God is. We must believe that God is good. He rewards those who earnestly seek him.