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

 The same Bible verse says that Enoch continued to walk with Jehovah after he fathered his son Methuselah. So we see Enoch as a family man when was about 65 years old. He had a wife, unnamed in Scripture, and an unspecified number of "sons and daughters." If a father is to walk with God while raising and providing for a family, he must try to take for his family in God's way. Enoch understood that Jehovah expected him to stick faithfully to his wife. (Genesis 2:24) And he surely did his best to instruct his children about Jehovah God. With what result?

The inspired record 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 the great Deluge came. However, Methuselah father 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 true after the flood. Noah, like great-grandfather Enoch, was singled out as a name who walked with God. Noah never met Enoch. But Enoch left a rich legacy.  Noah never 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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