A Study on Enoch

July 8th, 2006

Happy Kid’s Day!!!
A Study on Enoch

As if children really needed a day dedicated to them, but evidently there is one available, just in case. You use dial.

Genesis 5:21-24
When Enoch had lived 65 years, he became the father of Methuselah. And after he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters. Altogether, Enoch lived 365 years. Enoch walked with God; then he was no more, because God took him away.

Enoch:
chănôk
khan-oke'
Initiated; Chanok, an antediluvian patriarch: - Enoch.

Things I noticed about Enoch’s life.
#1: Enoch lived a perfect circle. 365 years (a stretch), but if you twist it into days, it works into a modern day year, or one rotation around the sun.

Walked:
haw-lak'
A primitive root; to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively): - (all) along, apace, behave (self), come, (on) continually, be conversant, depart, + be eased, enter, exercise (self), + follow, forth, forward, get, go (about, abroad, along, away, forward, on, out, up and down), + greater, grow, be wont to haunt, lead, march, X more and more, move (self), needs, on, pass (away), be at the point, quite, run (along), + send, speedily, spread, still, surely, + tale-bearer, + travel (-ler), walk (abroad, on, to and fro, up and down, to places), wander, wax, [way-] faring man, X be weak, whirl.

Lived (verse 23):
yôm
yome
From an unused root meaning to be hot; a day (as the warm hours), whether literally (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figuratively (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverbially): - age, + always, + chronicles, continually (-ance), daily, ([birth-], each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever (-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (. . . live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year (-ly), + younger.

Took:
lâqach
law-kakh'
A primitive root; to take (in the widest variety of applications): - accept, bring, buy, carry away, drawn, fetch, get, infold, X many, mingle, place, receive (-ing), reserve, seize, send for, take (away, -ing, up), use, win.

Just to restate before the court, the first thing I noticed…
#1: Enoch lived a perfect circle. 365 years (a stretch), but if you twist it into days, it works into a modern day year, or one rotation around the sun.

Now, the second thing that I thought about was the earlier similarity of walking and living, which doesn’t make the similarity in the Hebrew in this particular scripture. That surprises me, but maybe he is the one who set the standard on walking with God and living with God as being an attainable goal. Enoch pleased God so much, he walked with him so closely, that God “took him away.” More poetic ways of saying it would be: swept away, mingled away, carried away… imagine being “mingled” away by God himself. The I AM WHO I AM comes down and merges with me and then, since we’re known for walking, we walk. And we walk for a great deal… such a great deal, that God just decides to take me back to his house to crash. And all of a sudden, I’m no more… maybe that’s what happened to Enoch? Anyway, this tweaked me in class on Thursday. I just love the story of Enoch and I had been thinking about him much of late. It just seemed fitting now that I am doing Old Testament Survey. Johnny Out.