Interlude 2Enoch
In Genesis 5:23-24, we learn that “Enoch lived a total of 365 years,” and he “walked faithfully with God; then he was no more, because God took him away.” In the New Testament, Hebrews 11:5 tells us, by faith Enoch walked with God and because of this, he was taken so that he would not see death. In fact, before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God.
First, I wanted to give a possibly solution for where Enoch went to when he was taken out of the world. The traditional understanding is that he was translated into Glory, which of course might be true. However, we are not specifically told that. We are only told that he was taken and that he did not see death. In my story, I felt it was at least plausible that he went somewhere else first! The same is true of Elijah, and for the same reason. We only know that Elijah was whisked away by a flaming chariot. We not told where we went off to. In fact, while I do not agree, some see the Two Witnesses in Revelation 11 as Elijah and Enoch, not Elijah and Moses. NOTE: In my story, Logan’s father, Joshua, is NOT Moses, but comes in the power and spirit of Moses, just like John the Baptist did in the time of Yeshua.
Second, since Enoch was “commended as one who pleased God,” I imagined how a man like that would live and act in the present age. Everything about Enoch in the Present Day is directed toward that idea.
