Walking With God

Every believer should walk with God even as Enoch walked with God. But before we go on to study the life of Enoch and to find out why Enoch speaks of the type of the end-time believers that God seeks after, we begin by looking at some passages of Scripture of Isaiah's prophecies concerning the end-time.

"Now it shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow to it. Many people shall come and say, 'Come, and let us go to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; He will teach us His ways, and we shall walk in His path'" (Isaiah 2:2, 3, NKJV, emphasis added).

"Arise, shine; for your light has come! And the glory of the Lord is risen upon you. For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and deep darkness the people; but the Lord will arise over you, and His glory will be seen upon you. The Gentiles shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising" (Isaiah 60:1 - 3, emphasis added).

God gave Isaiah a picture of the last days, and He caused him to see something that is going to happen in the world - at the time we are living right now. Isaiah saw a vision of the last days on earth when deep spiritual darkness basically is covering the whole earth. But he saw a people who are different, who are not in darkness but are walking in the glorious light of God. These people are walking with God, walking in God's way and God's path.

As we walk in the way of the Lord we will arise out of darkness, set free from areas of darkness in our lives. We, as God's people, walking with Him are going to arise and shine and His glory is going to be revealed in us. And many unbelievers will be drawn to us.

The people who are walking with God

Enoch was a man who walked with God. In fact he had such a powerful walk with God that one day God just took him right up into glory (Gen. 5:24). He was a man who escaped the appointment of death.

The writer of Hebrews said, "And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment" (Heb. 9:27).

Destiny of God's people who are walking with God

It is interesting to note that Enoch was not the only person ever lived who escaped the appointment of death. The Bible tells us that there is a day yet to come, there will be a certain company of God's people on earth who are walking with God will also be loosed from the appointment of death.

The psalmist said, "You (the Lord) will arise and have mercy on Zion; for the time to favor her, yes, the set time, has come. For Your servants take pleasure in her stones, and show favor to her dust. So the nations whall fear the name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth Your glory. For the Lord shall build up Zion; He shall appear in His glory. He shall regard the prayer of the destitute, and shall not despise their prayer. This will be written for the generation to come, that a people yet to be created may praise the Lord. For He looked down from the height of His sanctuary; from heaven the Lord viewed the earth, to hear the groaning of the prisoner, to release those appointed to death, ..." (Ps. 102:13 - 20, NKJV, emphasis added).

Here are some statements of truth:

1. When the Bible speaks of "Zion" it does not refer to a geographical location over the land of Palestine, but refers to corporate company of people called out to be totally abandoned to God's eternal plan and purpose. In other words, "Zion" simply means collectively the true Church of Jesus Christ.

2. God is in the building program. He is building us together as a Church. We are living in a period of time where God is building into our lives the very nature and character of Jesus Christ. A day will come when the Lord will appear in His glory to take His Bride with Him (Ephesians 5:26, 27).

3. What the psalmist said here was for a particular generation of people, the end time generation created to praise the Lord.

4. A day is coming when the Lord in His divine moment is going to loose a company of His people from the appointment of death.

The life of Enoch - a man who walked with God

Very little is written concerning the life of Enoch in the Bible. But if we are careful to search the Scripture diligently we will discover gems of truth.

Genesis 5 describes the first ten generations from Adam to Noah. Enoch represents the seventh generation from Adam whereas Noah the tenth. Every man listed in Genesis 5 apart from Enoch died in faith. Enoch, who did not see death, is a very real type of the last day Church on earth. He was a type of your life and of my life - provided of course we walk with God as he walked with God.

The importance of names

Names in the Old Testament, including Adam's family to the tenth generation, give a picture of the character and personality of the persons. Adam means earth or earthly in the Hebrew language; Seth means appointed of God; Enosh means mortal; Cainan means sorrow; Mahalalel means praise of God; Jared means descending and Enoch means dedicated. I will surprise you with the meaning of Methuselah's name later.

Uniqueness of Enoch and his son Methuselah

"Enoch lived sixty-five years, and begot Methuselah. After he begot Methuselah, Enoch walked with God three hundred years, and had sons and daughter. So all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years. And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him. Methuselah lived one hundred and eighty-seven years, and begot Lamech. After he begot Lamech, Methuselah lived seven hundred and eighey-two years, and had sons and daughter. So all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred and sixty-nine years; and he died" (Gen. 5:21 - 27, NKJV, emphasis added).

Here are some statements of truth:

1. Enoch lived the youngest (365 years) of all those in Adam's family to the tenth generation.

2. Something happened to Enoch (a dedicated man) when his son Methuselah was born. He began to walk with God in a much higher dimension than he had walked with God in those first 65 years of his life. I believe, because of his heritage, Enoch was a man during the first 65 years had an intimate relationship with the living God. Something transformed his lifestyle at the age of 65 and it had something to do with the birth of his son Methuselah.

3. Methuselah lived (696 years) longer on earth than any man ever lived as recorded by the Bible. I believe the numbers 9 and 6 have great significance. 9 is the number of the Holy Spirit; it speaks of fullness, finality and fruitfulness. And we know there are 9 gifts and 9 fruit of the Holy Spirit. 6 is the number of man. Therefore I have the reason to believe Methuselah walked with God just like his father Enoch walked.

4. Now, the question is why God kept Methuselah alive longer than any other man on earth? I think it has something to do with his name. Methuselah's name had a very unusual meaning in Hebrew - "In the year that he died the Flood came" (Fausset's Bible Dictionary). In other words, whe Methuselah is dead the Flood would come! Quite incredible!

5. Methuselah was born when Enoch was 65 of age. He was told prophetically by God what to call his son! He knew that when the son dies the Flood is going to come. I believe because Enoch was aware of the coming of the Flood he began to change his lifestyle and he walked before God in total dedication to Him for 300 years! I think his son Methuselah also changed his lifestyle and began to walk with God in a more intimate way.

Enoch was a type of God's end-time people

We have seen that Enoch missed his appointment to death because he walked with God in total dedication. Another reason, revealed by the Scripture, is that he pleased God.

"By faith Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death, 'and was not found, because God had taken him'; for before he was taken he had this testimony, that he pleased God. But without faith it is impossible to please Him, ..." (Hebrews 11:5, emphasis added).

So, on the basis of the above Enoch was a man of faith who pleased God and walked with Him.

Enoch and Methuselah were signs to every generation

Enoch and Methuselah who walked with God by faith were signs to their generations and our generation.

I believe God has marked every one of us, who are walking with God by faith, to be signs and wonders in the midst of a people who are living in gross spiritual darkness.


To be signs and wonders are far more wonderful than seeking signs and wonders or even having signs and wonders following the ministry of the Word.

Isaiah said, "Here am I and the children whom the Lord has given me! We are for signs and wonders in Israel from the Lord of hosts, who dwells in Mount Zion" (Isaiah 8:18).

Enoch and Methuselah were disciplined people

As we have seen earlier both Enoch and Methuselah were warned of the coming Flood, it is understandable that they feared God and became disciplined people. Genesis 6 tells us that God sent the Flood because the people were corrupted, evil, undisciplined, going their own way and doing their own things.

Many God's people today, even they are born again and baptized in the Holy Spirit, still love their own ways and yet they ask God to bless them in the way they are going and doing - totally lack of discipline. But God is looking for a people who will lay down their own way, seek after His will and be obedient to Him. He is looking for a people who are disciplined and who will walk in His way because His way is so much higher.

The most amazing prophecy of Enoch - Jesus' Second Coming

"Now Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men (apostates) also, saying, 'Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of His saints, to execute judgment on all, to convict all who are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him" (Jude 14, 15, NKJV).

Amazing! How did a man living hundreds of years before the Flood and hundreds and hundreds of years before Jesus was born, was given a vision from the Almighty God, not of the birth of Jesus, not even the life of Jesus on earth and His death on the cross and His resurrection; but God gave to Him a revelation of the second coming of the Lord Jesus?

To me this revelation is staggering! There was a prophetic mental picture upon Enoch's life and his eyes were opened to the coming again of the Lord Jesus. To me Enoch was a type of a man who made preparation for the coming again of Jesus Christ. And in that preparation he was walking with God, dedicated, disciplined, pleasing God, moving in faith and he was preaching everywhere concerning the second coming of the Lord Jesus with ten thousands upon thousands of His saints and the judgment which would follow if men and women did not turn to Him! God is looking for a people like Enoch in our days!

Among these ten thousands upon thousands of His saints will be some of us who have walked with God even as Enoch walked with God by faith. Just like Enoch some of us will never see death! This coming event was made clear by Paul:

"Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord" (1 Thess. 4:17, NKJV).