"It was by faith that Enoch was taken up to heaven without dying - he disappeared, because God took him. For before he was taken up, he was known as a person who pleased God. And it is impossible to please God without faith. Anyone who wants to come to him must believe that God exists and that he rewards those who sincerely seek him." (Hebrews 11:5-6 NLT)
"And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him." (Jude 14-15 KJV)
If you don't know anything about Enoch, he was probably the only one that was really seeking God in the time that he was taken from this earth. There was something God was planning to do, and because Enoch pleased God, He took him up because he was pleased with his walk upon a very wicked world.
It isn't surprising that this is recorded in the Bible as it is, because this is one of those illustrations of God removing those who are His off the earth before judgment of the earth will take place; much like it will be before the Tribulation, when Jesus comes for His bride, before the disaster that will take place upon the earth.
They say that the earth would have had billions of people in those days, which were not that far away from the time of the flood; so it really isn't a big surprised that God would take someone that pleased Him, before He was about to do something that would kill him. Besides that, the quote that Jude is sharing from the Book of Enoch, is more in line with that of the Tribulation, than that of the flood, which in and of itself should be something we all should be aware of.
There is a Book of Enoch, which was not allowed into our modern-day Bibles, probably because of the ungodly details of what was going on about the time Enoch was taken up...
"And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which were not convenient; being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness, full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity, whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection. implacable, unmerciful: Who, knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them." (Romans 1:28-32 KJV)
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