Enoch Walked With God

The genealogy in Genesis is mostly a list of names and numbers.

He lived. He had children. He died.

Every entry follows the same pattern.

Except Enoch.

Enoch lived sixty-five years and fathered Methuselah.

After that, Enoch walked with God three hundred years.

That phrase appears twice in five verses.

Walked with God.

Not served God. Not feared God. Not worshipped God in the prescribed ways.

Walked with.

The intimate, daily, directional language of companionship.

Then the record ends differently.

And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.

He was not.

The other patriarchs all end the same way: and he died.

Enoch does not end that way.

He was not. For God took him.

No burial. No mourning account. No death scene.

One day he was walking with God.

And then he was simply somewhere else.

Hebrews says he was translated, that he should not see death.

By faith he was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found because God had taken him.

He had this testimony — that he pleased God.

Three hundred years of walking.

And then the walk continued somewhere the record could no longer follow.

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