IMITATE THEIR FAITH/ENOCH - "ENOCH KEPT WALING WITH THE TRUE GOD -CONTINUE

The same Bible verse says that Enoch continued to walk with Jehovah after he fathered his son Methuseleh.  So we see Enoch as a family man when he was about 65 years old.  He had a wife, unnamed in Scripture, and an unspecified number of "sons and daugthers."  If a father is to walk with God while raising and providing  for a family,he must try to care for his family in God's way.  Enoch understood that Jehovah expected him to stick faithfully to his wife.  (Genesis 2:2)  And he surely did his best to instruct his children about Jehovah God.  With what result?

The inspired recored offers only tantalizing hints on that score.  It says nothing  about the faith of Enoch's son Methuselah, who life span became the longest in the Bible record, ending in the year that the great Deluge came.  However, Methuselah fathered a son named Lamech. Lamech's life overlapped with that of his grandfather Enoch for over a century. And Lamech  grew  up to show notable faith. Jehovah inspired him to utter a prophecy about Noah, Lamech's son, and that prophecy came truie after the Flood. Noah, like his great-grandfather Enoch, was singled out as a man who walked with God.  Noah never met Enoch.  But Enoch  left a rich legacy.  Noah could have learned of that legacy from his own father, Lamech, or from his grandfather Methuselah or perhaps even from Jared, Enoch's father, who died when Noah was 366 years old. - GENESIS 5:25-29; 6:9; 9:1.

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