IMITATE THEIR FAITH/ENOCH - "TRANSFERRED SO AS NOT TO SEE DEATH"

 How did the end come for Enoch? In a way, his death is even more mysterious and intriguing than his life. The Genesis account simply says: "Enoch kept walking with the true God.  Then he was no more, for God took him." (Genesis 5:24) In what way did God take Enoch?  The apostle Peter later explained:  "By faith Enoch was transferred so as not to see death, and he was nowhere to be found because God had transferred him; for before he was transferred he received the witness that he had pleased God welll." (Hebrew 11:5)  What did Peter mean by the phrase "transferred so as not to see death"?  Some Bible translations say that God took Enoch to heaven.  But that cannot be. The Bible shows that Jesus Christ was the first one ever resurrected to heaven. -  JOHN 3:13. 

In what sense, then was Enoch "transferred" so that he did bot  "see death"? Jehovah likely transferred Enoch gently from life to death, sparing him any pangs of death. But first, Enoch received "the  witness  that he had pleased God well." How? Just before his death, Enoch may have received a vision from God, perhaps one showing him the earth as a paradise.  With that vivid sign of Jehovah's approval,  Enoch fell asleep in death. Writing about Enoch and other faithful men and women, the apostle Paul stated: "In faith all of these have died." (Hebrews 11:13) Thereafter, his enemies may have searched for the body, but it was nowhere to be found," perhaps because Jehovah disposed of it, preventing them from desecratign it or using it to promote false religion.

Note: I remember seeing in the Bible where Enoch had run from his enemies and hid in a cave and then God transferred him so he would not be killed by his enemies.  That was  how it happened. His enemies may have looked for a body after it happened, but never found where it could be. 

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