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

 Mankind was in a bad way when Enoch came along. It was the seventh generation in the line of Adam. Granted, humans were much closer to the physical perfection that Adam and Eve had once possessed and lost. That is why people still lived so long. Yet, they were in terrible condition morally and spiritually. Violence was prevalent. That trend has started in the second generation, when Cain murdered his brother Abel. One of Cain's descendants seems to have been quite proud of being more violent and vengeful than Cain! In the third generation, a new evil arose. People began calling on the name of Jehovah, but not as a reverent act of worship. They were evidently using God's sacred name in a blasphemous, disrespectful way. - GENESIS 4:8, 23-26.

That kind of corrupt religion was likely in full sway during Enoch's time. As Enoch grew up, then, he faced a choice. Would he fit in with the crowd of his day?  Or would he search for the true God, Jehovah, who had made the heavens and the earth? He must have been deeply moved to learn about Abel, who had died as a martyr because he worshipped Jehovah in way that pleased Him. Enoch decided to make a similar stand. Genesis 5:22 tells us: "Enoch continued to walk with the true God."  That remarkable expression singles out Enoch as a godly man in a godless world. He is the first human the Bible describes that way.

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