Enoch followed God all the time, and God had taken him away (Genesis 5:24).
When Enoch saw how his son Metushelach come into the world at the age of 65, he decided to live in the presence of God (Genesis 5:22). The root of his name חנך ḥnk means “inaugurated”. His name can be translated as “the inaugurated“.
Jesus was also inaugurated. “The Son can do nothing of himself except what he sees the Father doing, for whatever the Father does, the Son also does“ (John 5:19).
Jesus also inaugurated his disciples: “I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything I have heard from my Father“ (John 15:15).
God wants to share his thoughts with us. He reveals himself to us through the Bible.
At a time when people were asking less and less about God and evil was gaining the upper hand, Enoch lived a completely different life. He allowed himself to be formed by God.
The genealogical table shows that Enoch lived by far the shortest life. This contradicts the idea that you have a good long life with God. Enoch probably suffered from the godlessness of his environment. His longing for God was greater than his desire to live a long life.
Enoch’s life and rapture did not cause his fellow men to turn back to God.
Enoch becomes the image of the promised Saviour, who lives in intimate communion with God, experiences a conscious beginning of service, is not taken seriously by those around him, and is taken into the presence of God in his prime.
Messiah images in the Torah
- God seeks us – Adam where are you?
- The possibility of a choice – Two trees in the Garden of Eden
- Neediness instead divinity – A new view
- God’s master plan – Salvation through a human being
- A divine clothing – God acts
- A world upside down – Kai and Abel
- Living in the presence of God – Enoch
- God is calling – Noah
- A king-priest like Melchizedek
- God visits Abraham
- Life through a sacrifice – Isaac
- The ladder to heaven – Jacob
- New identity from Jacob to Israel
- Messiah Ben Joseph – Joseph the son of Jacob
- Shiloh, whom all nations will serve – Blessing on Judah
- Moses, the prototype of the Saviour
- References to Jesus in Moses
- The Passover Lamb
- The pillar of cloud and fire
- God wants to be with us – The tabernacle / The temple
- The snake on a pole – An image of a new beginning
- The rock in the desert – Faith is not a method
- A prophet greater than Moses
- A star from Jacob – Bileam