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 Paul later explained: "By faith Enoch was transferred so as not to see death, and was nowhere to be found because God had transferred him, for before he was transferred, he received the witnesses that he had pleased God well." (Hebrews 11:5) What did Paul mean by that 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 not see death"? Jehovah likely transferred Enoch gently from life to death, sparing any pains 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 ethe 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 died." (Hebrews 11:13) Thereafter, his enemies may have searched for his body, but it was nowhere to be found," perhaps because disposed of it, preventing them from desecrating it or using it to promote false religion.

Note: I remember reading that the hostile people he proclaimed a warning to, was after him to kill him. He went to hide in a cave, and they were outside it ready to come in to get him, but Jehovah transferred him so as not to see death, because of his deep faith in Jehovah God.  Someone needs to read their Bible another time or two. I have read mine so many times from front to back, word for word, that I lost count and I keep on reading it and learning more. The more I learn and understand it more, I feel even closer to God each time.

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