056: Roger Lewis – How and Why was Enoch Translated

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This class is by Brother Roger
Lewis.

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It was presented at the
Birmingham family study day

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sometime this year in 2019.
This the series is called Three

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Strange stories.
This is the first one titled how

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and why was Enoch translated?
I found this class to be really

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enjoyable.
Definitely answers kind of a

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mystery kind of a question
that’s been in my mind.

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What does that mean?
You know and Curious passage.

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He does a really good job first
eliminating options of what it

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could mean and then kind of
detailing his his theory and and

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kind of the why around it.
I thought the why was just

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definitely the most interesting
part brother Roger is I would

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say the best at this that we
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enjoyed because he he used one
of his very classic quote.

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It’s which I’ve heard, you know
over 15 years ago.

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It was rev school when he said
he said good Bible study is good

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Bible reading something.
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matters here is Roger Lewis how

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and why was Enoch translated the
question?

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Title is how and why was he not
translated?

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And certainly the terms of
Hebrews 11 verse five have been

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debated as to what their proper
meaning might be by faith Enoch

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was translated that he should
not see death and was not found

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because God had translated him
for before his translation.

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He had this testimony that he
pleased God.

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Let me read some other
translations to you.

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So that you can feel the
Dilemma.

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The Easy-to-Read version which I
suppose already makes one feel

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that are nervous says by faith
Enoch was carried away from the

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zoo.
So he never died.

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Later, no one knew where he was
because God had taken Enoch to

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be with him.
All the new English Bible, which

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says by faith Enoch was carried
away to another life without

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passing through death.
Uber which says by faith Enoch

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was removed from this world
without experiencing death or

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the Amplified Bible that says by
faith Enoch was caught up and

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taken to heaven so that he would
not have a glimpse of death or

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the New Living Translation would
see us by faith Enoch was taken

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up into heaven without dying he
disappeared because God took him

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now the common theme of all of
those particular translations is

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brothers and sisters that they
teach number one that he not

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really went up into heaven and
number two that he never

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Actually experience death.
And the only problem with all of

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those translations.
Is that there are because they

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are immediately in conflict with
clear scriptural teaching.

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Are they not?
So as to the matter of the idea

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of Heaven going?
We know that some hundred and

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fifteen says they haven’t even
the heaven of Heavens are the

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Lord’s but the Earth of e given
to the children of men or x 2,

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which says for David is not
ascended into the heavens or

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John 3 would see his and no man
hath ascended up into heaven.

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And concerning the matter of the
reality of death, but all we

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know that Romans 5 says so death
passed upon all men for that all

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have sinned and infect Roman
Caesars death reigned from Adam

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to Moses.
And if you’re astute on your

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genealogies.
You’ll probably figure out that

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Enoch sort of sits between and
even Moses does indeed somewhere

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in that Continuum or Ezekiel 18
behold All Souls are mine and

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the soul that sinneth it shall
die coupled with Galatians 3,

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which says about the scripture
hath concluded the Greek word

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means locked up all under sin.
So according to scripture Enoch

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a did not go up into heaven and
V didn’t escape from Death

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despite all of those interesting
translations. show me the

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passage doesn’t mean but the
question is what does it mean?

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And that’s our study this
afternoon, isn’t it?

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How and why was he not
translated?

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Well that takes us back to
Genesis chapter 5 where inanna

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first appears.
Let’s go back and get our

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bearings.
Shall we in terms of the story

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is this will unfold in the
biblical account.

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By the way, I’m aware.
Even before I begin that there

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may be some who hold different
views on a matter of the destiny

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of Enoch.
So if you were to hold a

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different View and we come to
the end it matters not we saw

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remain in Fellowship, even if we
differ because it’s not in the

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statement of facts as to what
precisely happened to Enoch, but

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we’re going to try and piece
together what we think the

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evidence of scripture brings to
our most likely conclusion.

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You notice in Genesis 5 just a
couple of crucial details to

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begin with it says this verse 21
and I just want you to look at

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the language.
There’s 21 Enoch lived sixty and

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five years and begat Methuselah.
But do you notice that that

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language is the same as the
generations which precede and

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follow him?
So he lived a certain number of

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years and they need to get a
summer see his father.

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He was 18 Jared Jared lived an
hundred and sixty-two years and

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he begat Enoch and the guy in
verse 25 his Enoch son,

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Methuselah lived and hundred and
eighty seven years and begat

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Lane leak.
So each of these men lives a

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certain number of years and then
has a son Well likewise, this is

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2260 is and Enoch walked with
God after he begat Methuselah

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three hundred years and begat
Sons and Daughters.

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Let me just read that again more
slowly after he begat

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Methuselah.
He was there for three hundred

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years and begat sons and
daughters, but that’s like the

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same of us, but as his father
verse 19 Jared lived after he

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begat Enoch eight hundred years
and begat sons and daughters and

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it’s the same as Those are there
in verse 26 Methuselah lived

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after he begat lamech 780 and
two years and begat Sons and

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Daughters.
You see the similarity of

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language for each of these
Generations.

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It’s exactly the same and now
there’s 23 series and all the

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days of Enoch were 360 in five
years, which incidentally is a

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phrase implying that he not died
because their phrase is also

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used in the original equation of
the line of Adam through see

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with and that marks the
termination of their lifespan

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verse 20 and all the days of
Jared were nine hundred sixty

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and two years and he died or
again verse 37 and all the days

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of Methuselah were 960 and nine
years and he died.

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Well, it’s the same of Enoch you
see in that in that verse verse

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20 when it says a story verse 23
all the days of Enoch were three

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hundred sixty and five years.
the only difference between

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sisters is that when we come to
verse 24, it says of Enoch and

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Enoch walked with God and he was
not so instead of saying end he

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died.
This Record says and he was not

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for God took him.
But the question is what does

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the phrase end?
He was not mean.

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Well, let’s look at a couple of
other Bible passages.

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The first of which is in Genesis
itself in Genesis 42 in the days

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of Joseph and his breathe.
Genesis 42 and verse 13 always

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helpful to have another
reference with the same phrase

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in the same book.
You see because it argues

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similarity Genesis chapter 42
cities in verse 13.

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They said thy servants are 12
Brethren the sons of one man in

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the land of Canaan behold the
youngest is this day with our

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father IND And one is not see
that little phrase and one is

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not it’s in as or again a
Jeremiah chapter 31, you’ll

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remember the story of the
prophecy of Jeremiah When Rachel

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weeps for her children.
It’s going to be quoted in the

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New Testament.
Is it not and the Book of

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Matthew Chapter 2 here?
It is in Jeremiah 31 verse 15

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That’s it.
Yahweh.

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A voice was heard in Ramah
lamentation and bitter weeping

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Raquel weeping for her children
refused to be comforted for her

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children because they were not
now the Hebrew scholar Umberto

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kazuto states that the intention
of the text in Genesis 5 and

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verse 24 when it says that he
was not Is not to convey that

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Enoch did not die.
But only that his death was not

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like the diff of other people
and when you think about it, you

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can understand because you see
all these references imply that

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death had occurred.
But the circumstances were

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different you see in Genesis 42
concerning Joseph.

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Why would they say he’s not all
Rachel’s children?

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Why would they say they are not
and the answer is because there

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were no bodies and No Grave to
prove it death was presumed.

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But they wasn’t the normally
evidence.

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And that matches the phrase
found in this verse and Genesis

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chapter 5 and verse 24 because
it says that Enoch walked with

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God and he was not for God took
him.

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So in Enochs cased likewise,
there was no body or grave to

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provide the evidence of death.
Which is not at all the same

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thing as saying that he didn’t
die.

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Which is why did God taken
that’s what we want to know,

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isn’t it?
But this is why did God take

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him.
Well the answer I think at least

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in part lies in counting the
generations now the count is

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simple.
We’ve got Evan verse 3.

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We’ve got safe in verse 6.
We’ve got a loss in verse 9.

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We’ve got Canaan in verse 12.
We’ve got mahalaleel and verse

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15.
We’ve got Jared in verse 18.

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And we got in up in verse 21,
which means that he’s the

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seventh from Adam.
Enoch and why that’s interesting

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is because you see Genesis
chapter 5 is the line of the

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seed of the woman.
But Genesis chapter 4 is the

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line of the seed of The Serpent
and if we come back to the line

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of the seed of The Serpent and
Genesis chapter 4 and verse 17,

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we read this record of the
genealogy when it says in verse

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17 and Cain knew his wife and
she conceived and bare Enoch and

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he builds a city and called the
name of the city after the name

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of his son Enoch.
So there was a need knock in the

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seed of the serpent line before
the seed of the woman.

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But now we’ve got it Adam Cain
Enoch Verse 18.

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I read the who jail Methuselah
lamech.

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We suddenly realize that they
make also has the Seventh

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Generation from Adam.
But this time in the line of

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Cain rather than the line of
sin.

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This man is the Contemporary of
Enoch. and between Kane and

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lamech There’s no detail
whatsoever about what’s

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happening with the seed of the
serpent, but suddenly they make

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arrives and now there’s an
explosion of information about

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the seed of the serpent at this
point of time and its history at

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the moment of Les make you see
something we’ve got six verses

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about this one, man.
It’s obviously a watershed

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moment in the history of the to
see these and this is what we

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read of him verse 19 lamech took
unto him two wives the name of

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the one was adah and the name of
the other Zillah.

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So this man is the first one to
introduce polygamy and depart

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from the Divine standard of one
man, one woman for life and

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Genesis chapter 2 and he’s got a
son has he not verse 20 called

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jabil and jabil is responsible
to be the father of such as

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dwell in tents and Kettle.
He was in charge of business and

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commerce and the word father.
He has the sense of being the

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founder or the originator of
those things and if he was

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responsible for business and
commerce his brother Jubal in

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verse 21 was clearly responsible
for entertainment and culture.

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He was the father all such as
handle the harp and the organ in

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tubal-cain the third brother and
verse 22 was an instructor of

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every artificer in brass and
iron ores that as the revised

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Standard Version says he was the
forger of all the instruments of

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bronze and iron this third son
was the master of machinery and

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armaments quite a family And
this is where the seed of the

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serpent exploded on the scene.
And now we have the spirit of

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lamech verse 23.
They mimic said under his wives

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adah and Zillah hear my voice
you wives of lamech hearken unto

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my speech which just goes to
show loving sisters how easily

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we can read a Bible passage and
correctly because that’s not how

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it should be really is it we
read it again.

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It should be me in don’t you
think?

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And Linux it on to his wives
pause.

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Adah and Zillah hear my voice
Eve wives of lamech hearken unto

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my speech.
But head in the Book of Genesis

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4 gallon Genesis 3 verse 8 with
men and women hearing the voice

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of the Lord God walking in the
midst of the garden.

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But lame it wants people to
listen to his voice now say

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Islamic you listen to me you
listen to my opinion.

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What was it that caused they
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importance of his opinion and
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Well, the answer is he had the
armaments that has some had made

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possible.
He was empowered to make such

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boastful claims.
You see what he says lose 23

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years this He says I have slain
a man to my wounding and a young

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man to my Hoot the margins
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statement of future intent.
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the case but that whether it’s
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same either he is saying I will
if anyone dares to oppose me, I

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will I will take Vengeance on or
I have done it before and I can

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do it again if I wanted to
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So here’s the voice of the
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the seed of The Serpent and what
he added was a boastful speech

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of Flesh the aggression and
violent retaliation.

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It was the spirit of defined
arrogance and implacable

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Revenge.
And what did he say verse 24 if

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Cain shall be Avenged Sevenfold
truly lamech seventy and

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Sevenfold.
Now, where did that principle of

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Vengeance come from that lame
makruh first to whether this

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whole idea of Vengeance come
from well, isn’t it verse 15?

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Yahweh said unto him therefore
whosoever slayeth Cain Vengeance

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shall be taken on him Sevenfold.
IBC that’s God’s vengeance is

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that’s the Lord’s Vengeance.
What Kane does what Layman does

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is he reverses this?
He spurns the principle of

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divine retribution and he boasts
in his ability to exact his own

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inventions as and as and when it
suited him I would take my own

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business and it will be far more
terrible and terrifying than

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anything.
God can do see Islamic.

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What a hateful, man.
Is he goes nowhere in this

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family?
He was nowhere in their world.

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These were the ungodly.
We don’t know about ancestors.

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How Enoch?
And lamech might have ever met.

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Although there is one
possibility.

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Because by the time he not comes
end eyes Only one man in all the

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lineage of Genesis chapter 5 has
died before him every one of his

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predecessors are still alive.
Pat from one Adam and it may be

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that at the funeral Adam a man
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Bumped into a man called lemic,
who knows when the possibility

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of such a meeting might have
occurred at math is not about

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this is when it was but the one
spoke Vengeance and the other as

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a result was in danger now come
and have a look a bit idea of

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scriptural teaching on
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There was a couple of Proverbs
which are helpful in this regard

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as to the spirit of how we
should react to their Vengeance

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which was shown so terribly in
the boastful speech of lame like

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Proverbs Chapter 20 series
Proverbs 20 verse 22 is Say not

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there.
I will recompense the evil but

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wait on Yahweh.
And he saw safely a little

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things about good Bible study is
that it’s based on the Bible

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reading.
All we have to do largely as

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read carefully but to read
carefully we’ve got to emphasise

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properly and don’t you think
verse 22 again should be read

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perhaps more properly this way
say not vow.

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I will recompense evil. but wait
on the our way and he shall save

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thee isn’t that the emphasis but
this is about not taking it into

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your own hands that recognizing
that it’s to be left to God that

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cometh few pages often to
Proverbs 24 and verse 29 and we

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have something like unto it at
season Proverbs 24 verse 29 say

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not I will do so to him as he
has done to me.

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I will wind into the man
according to his group.

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No, that’s not right either.
It should be halfway through

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that verse that God replies.
So verse 29 should say say not I

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will do so to him as he have
done to me: And now go to see is

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I will wind up to the man
according to his work.

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It’s God’s prerogative It’s
God’s responsibility.

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Not are as you see now those
passages probably become part of

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the key.
Don’t they to the Old Testament

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background to a New Testament
passage in the Book of Romans?

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Because Paul says the same thing
does he not Guided by the spirit

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Romans chapter 12 will make a
similar pronouncement of on how

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To behave in the face of such
adversity Romans chapter 12 puts

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it this way and we can hear the
echo of Proverbs 20 and Proverbs

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20:4 and the Council of the
Apostle perhaps reading Pravda

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Romans 12 from verses 17 to 19.
Recompense to no man evil for

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evil provide things honest in
the sight of all men if it be

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possible as much as lieth in you
live peaceably with all men.

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Dearly beloved avenge not
yourselves, but rather give

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Place unto wrath for it is
written vengeance is mine.

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I will repay saith the Lord we
can hear the spirit of those

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Proverbs.
Can you not and this episodic

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Council?
What’s interesting?

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However, is that Romans chapter
12 as not quoting from either

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problems 20 or Proverbs 20:4.
It’s quoting from Deuteronomy

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chapter.
And Deuteronomy 32 and turn is

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based upon the foundation
principle of Genesis chapter 4

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verse 15 that God is the one who
will take Vengeance.

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Now.
This is the principal brothers

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and sisters that they make set
aside.

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He boasted that his retribution
would be 10 times more violent

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than gods.
Now if you were Enoch and you

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lived at the same time.
As a man like lamech.

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What do you do when you’re
living in an in an Epoch of such

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Vengeance being threatened
against you?

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Well, you probably pray the
prayer of Psalm 94 and it’s a

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good lesson for all of us
brothers and sisters because all

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of us face times of provocation
and difficulty.

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Where the worst thing we could
be we could do is to respond in

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a way that was inconsistent with
the Commandments of Christ.

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And the best thing we can do.
Is to speak the words of the

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Sun.
So sound ninety four verse one

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says own Yahweh alone to whom
Vengeance belongeth oal to whom

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Vengeance belongeth show thyself
lift up.

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Thy self thou judge of the earth
rinder a reward to the proud.

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Yahweh how long shall the wicked
how long shall the wicked

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Triumph how long shall a after
and speak hard things and all

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the workers of iniquity boast
themselves.

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They break in pieces.
Thy people Yahweh and afflict

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thine Heritage.
So here is the prayer of the

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saint of God who acknowledges
even in the worst of

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provocations that Vengeance
belongs to God and not to us

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that we will commit our cause to
God in the face of an ungodly

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age. difficult level my b and
that takes us to the book of

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Jude you see because well now
we’ve got the right moment to

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examine.
Quite what do you see?

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Because Jude verse 14.
Said and Enoch also.

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The savings from Adam are they
reduce the seventh from Adam so

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immediately we’ve got the era of
both Enoch and lamech being

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pinpointed.
And of course, what’s

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interesting is that seven
generations have passed and yet

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the same controversy still
exists between the two seeds

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whilst they’re not enmity
between Cain and Abel.

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And there are in the Seventh
Generation that same hostility

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is going to be manifested from
lamech towards Enoch and Enoch

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the seventh from Adam prophesied
of these saying behold the Lord

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cometh with ten thousands of his
Saints.

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Now when it says in verse 14
that the Lord comes we

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prophesied of these whoever
these do you think of verse 14

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well have a look at the context.
I think we can determine who it

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was that he not was prophesying
both about and again, This

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eight.
These speak evil of dignities.

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Verse 9 these by implication
bring railing accusation has

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verse 10 these speak evil of
things which they know not verse

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15 these in the middle of the
verse have hard speeches which

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they have spoken verse 16 these
speak great swelling words or

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was the revised Standard Version
says are loudmouth boosters.

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And clearly the references here
to the extreme boastful Fierce

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words would seem to be an
allusion to they make would they

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not?
This is who Enoch stood up

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against in his prophecy of
impending judgment.

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And when he says in verse 15
that the Lord cometh with ten

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thousands of his Saints to
execute judgment upon all he’s

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referring to the matters against
which he stood in the time of

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Enoch and Lane that you see so
Enoch really was warning lay

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make that his boast of Vengeance
had in reality been spoken

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against God against him.
Therefore God would respond and

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God would exercise his right to
been dance for the honor of his

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name.
So what we’ve got other

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ancestors in the very same
generation, Is Li Mac and his

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speech of personal retaliation?
And Enoch and his prophecy of

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divine retribution. two modes of
thinking in the same generation

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that were Worlds Apart.
Because if you’re not named his

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son Methuselah, didn’t he?
And as best as we can determine

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it would seem that Methuselah
means when he died Earth it

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shall come.
And then every year the

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Methuselah died the flood did
come and God executed judgments

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against an ungodly world.
And so even the naming of his

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son was part of Enochs prophecy
that the world was not under

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man’s control but undergarments.
Yeah, he’s the thing about

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ancestors for Enoch to preach
that message of coming Divine

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judgment in the face of lame
except violence and power was an

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act of extraordinary courage.
and faith Which really brings us

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back to Hebrews chapter 11,
doesn’t it?

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Because now we have the
contextual setting perhaps to

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the story of what Hebrews 11 is
really all about.

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You see faith is what Hebrews 11
is about and it’s faith in the

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lives of those who have gone
before and all sorts of

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different circumstances and
faith in emacs life was the

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Motive Power to overcome the
fear of persecution and the

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pressure of peers in standing
for God’s righteous principles.

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He stood for the truth in his
own day and generation of and

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sisters which is never as easy
as we imagined.

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So challenge in Cleveland off?
As to whether it pleases will

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actually stand for the truth.
And when controversies and

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difficulties and things arise
will we do something about them

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or we will we just leave them
be?

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one of the things about he not
was he really stood for what he

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believed in.
But at threatened him endangered

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him so verse 5 says by faith
Enoch was translated.

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Now the word translated metadata
me means no more than this as

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Vine says to remove a personal
thing from one place to another

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it’s the word used next 7 verse
16 when it says they were

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carried over to shechem.
It’s a word used in Galatians 1

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verse 6 when it says I Marvel
that ye are so soon removed from

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him that called you and one
thing we can be quite certain of

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with regard to that word.
Is that doesn’t mean to go up.

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Simply means he was removed or
taken away.

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But why verse 5 is interesting
is that it says by faith Enoch

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was translated that he should
not see death and was not found

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because God had translated in
which was not quite what Genesis

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5 season the Hebrew.
The Hebrews is he was not for

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translator than God, but the
translation that Paul rather the

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explanation that the writer
gives here and Hebrews is that

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he not just was that he was not
but that he was not found and

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that little extra wood becomes
as it were an explanation of the

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hips why it was that he was
taken away.

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It indicates that God had
removed him from the scene to

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another place.
And presumably that a search was

434
00:31:39,500 –> 00:31:41,700
made for Enoch after his
disappearance.

435
00:31:41,700 –> 00:31:44,400
But to no avail he wasn’t there
and he was taken away and he

436
00:31:44,400 –> 00:31:47,200
wasn’t felt you know, but this
is I’ve always thought this is

437
00:31:47,200 –> 00:31:50,100
one of the most marvelous things
that God even did because he is

438
00:31:50,100 –> 00:31:52,600
Les McCann all this boastful
pride of all his guns and

439
00:31:52,600 –> 00:31:57,000
Rockets and tanks and bombs, and
he’s really to obliterate any

440
00:31:57,000 –> 00:32:04,800
knock off the face of the Earth.
And God took his men. moved him

441
00:32:06,400 –> 00:32:09,200
It’s all they did.
You just moved him to another

442
00:32:09,200 –> 00:32:13,300
place.
And in the face until they may

443
00:32:13,600 –> 00:32:15,000
see what you can do with your
bombs now.

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00:32:16,400 –> 00:32:20,800
Any totally rendered all of
latex boasting to be made in D

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00:32:20,800 –> 00:32:24,600
by the simple expedient of
physically removing Enoch from

446
00:32:24,600 –> 00:32:27,900
the place of threat or danger,
which incidentally is one of the

447
00:32:27,900 –> 00:32:31,500
best contextual answers to the
question of Enochs translation

448
00:32:31,500 –> 00:32:33,700
because now I suggest why it
might have happened.

449
00:32:34,300 –> 00:32:37,800
Why was he translated to take
him away from danger?

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00:32:38,200 –> 00:32:42,600
So this word translated does not
prove a mysterious Ascension to

451
00:32:42,600 –> 00:32:46,700
heaven or a change to an
immortal state or condition of

452
00:32:46,700 –> 00:32:51,700
suspended animation none of
which incidentally come with any

453
00:32:51,700 –> 00:32:55,100
reason for their occurrence, but
to remove from from one place to

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00:32:55,100 –> 00:32:59,200
another where there might be
Security in the move is

455
00:32:59,200 –> 00:33:02,700
absolutely consistent with what
we might expect from what we’ve

456
00:33:02,700 –> 00:33:07,800
seen thus far and as to the
matter of how Enoch was

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00:33:07,900 –> 00:33:11,000
translated or we’ve got other
examples in scripture haven’t

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00:33:11,000 –> 00:33:13,000
we?
There’s no difficulty for God to

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00:33:13,000 –> 00:33:15,900
do that whatsoever.
God can easily do that.

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In fact, remember X chapter 8
company look at x 8.

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Let me show you.
Old and one New Testament

462
00:33:20,700 –> 00:33:25,700
passage the new first and X8
you’ll remember the story of the

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00:33:26,000 –> 00:33:31,100
baptism of the Ethiopian eunuch
and the record C is in x 8

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00:33:31,100 –> 00:33:34,700
verses 39 and 40 that when they
were come up out of the water

465
00:33:35,100 –> 00:33:38,200
the unit No Doubt with water
pouring down his face turned

466
00:33:38,200 –> 00:33:42,900
around to thank the think Philip
for his baptism and Philip had

467
00:33:42,900 –> 00:33:46,400
gone because verse 39 says the
spirit of the lord caught away

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00:33:46,400 –> 00:33:48,100
Philip and the eunuch saw him no
more.

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00:33:48,100 –> 00:33:51,500
He went on his way rejoicing
Icing so you see Philip was

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00:33:51,500 –> 00:33:54,500
removed by the spirit was not a
difficult thing for God to do.

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00:33:54,500 –> 00:33:59,300
He’s done it before won’t you
see verse 40 at but Philip was

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00:33:59,600 –> 00:34:06,000
found.
Arizona’s So Philip was removed

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00:34:06,000 –> 00:34:10,199
to another place not because of
danger but because he had

474
00:34:10,199 –> 00:34:12,900
another task to perform and in
their place.

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00:34:12,900 –> 00:34:16,900
He was found.
Well, it’s a bit like second

476
00:34:16,900 –> 00:34:19,300
Kings chapter 2 wasn’t that
remember second Kings chapter 2

477
00:34:19,300 –> 00:34:22,300
and the ascent of Elijah and
again, we’re not going to spend

478
00:34:22,300 –> 00:34:25,400
too much time on this because
it’s another study in its own

479
00:34:25,400 –> 00:34:29,400
right is it not but again, it’s
just notice that a couple of

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00:34:29,400 –> 00:34:34,000
things about second of Kings
chapter 2 the records Sears.

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00:34:34,600 –> 00:34:39,100
This 11 it came to pass as they
still went on and talked but

482
00:34:39,100 –> 00:34:42,699
behold there appeared a chariot
of fire and Horses of fire and

483
00:34:42,699 –> 00:34:45,900
part of them both asunder and
Elijah went up by a whirlwind

484
00:34:45,900 –> 00:34:49,600
into heaven and Elisha saw it
and he cried my father my father

485
00:34:49,600 –> 00:34:52,000
The Chariot of Israel and the
horsemen the robin he saw him no

486
00:34:52,000 –> 00:34:54,699
more and he took hold of his own
clothes and rent them into

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pieces.
And so we’re told that Elijah

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00:34:57,100 –> 00:35:00,400
was removed.
He was removing some way about

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00:35:00,400 –> 00:35:04,400
ancestors.
But certainly wasn’t a hit.

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00:35:06,700 –> 00:35:10,500
See what happens later on the
booze in the chapter verse 17

491
00:35:10,500 –> 00:35:14,700
says that they urged a lighter
to send out a search party.

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00:35:14,700 –> 00:35:19,600
But verse 17 says they simply a
450 Min and sought for him three

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00:35:19,600 –> 00:35:23,300
days, but all they didn’t find
him.

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00:35:24,600 –> 00:35:28,400
I didn’t find them because he’d
been removed by God, but he

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00:35:28,400 –> 00:35:31,200
hadn’t gone to heaven hit even
says he gone to the kingdom of

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00:35:31,200 –> 00:35:34,200
Judah because eight years later
Elijah’s and Judah busy writing

497
00:35:34,200 –> 00:35:37,100
a letter to the king is he not
Second Chronicles chapter 21

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00:35:37,200 –> 00:35:40,200
verses 12 to 15.
He was removed from one place to

499
00:35:40,200 –> 00:35:44,900
another it wasn’t even He was
removed to start another stage

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00:35:44,900 –> 00:35:47,600
of his Labour’s.
Hence was Philip, by the way.

501
00:35:47,800 –> 00:35:53,800
So the power of God was easily
capable of physically removing

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00:35:53,800 –> 00:35:56,800
his witnesses to another
physical location.

503
00:35:56,900 –> 00:36:01,000
Should he choose to do so and I
think that’s what happened to

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00:36:01,000 –> 00:36:10,400
Enoch. but in his case his
removal was the precursor to his

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00:36:10,400 –> 00:36:15,700
d So coming back to Hebrews
because there’s one little bit

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00:36:15,700 –> 00:36:20,900
not yet considered.
So if that is the case then what

507
00:36:20,900 –> 00:36:27,300
did these words mean in Hebrews
11 and verse 5 when it C is by

508
00:36:27,300 –> 00:36:33,700
faith Enoch was translated that
he should not see death.

509
00:36:35,300 –> 00:36:39,200
Does that mean that he would not
experience mortality itself?

510
00:36:40,700 –> 00:36:44,100
Or that he would not see a death
that threatened him and some

511
00:36:44,100 –> 00:36:50,500
direct and personal way.
I think the context suggests the

512
00:36:50,500 –> 00:36:54,100
letter does it not?
It’s not a suggestion that he

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00:36:54,100 –> 00:36:58,100
would Escape mortality.
But he would not see the

514
00:36:58,100 –> 00:37:01,500
prospect of a violent death that
loomed up large and the face of

515
00:37:01,500 –> 00:37:05,500
laning boasting Rich abuse and
against him that if he would not

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00:37:05,500 –> 00:37:07,600
see was translated so that he
wouldn’t see it.

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00:37:07,600 –> 00:37:09,800
It will be you know, what we
know, that’s correct, but and

518
00:37:09,800 –> 00:37:14,800
sisters or because Hebrews 11:6,
so doesn’t it Hebrews 11 says

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00:37:16,900 –> 00:37:26,600
this for by faith Abel There’s
five by faith Enoch. verse 7 by

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00:37:26,600 –> 00:37:34,100
faith Noah verse 8 by faith
Abraham verse 11 through faith

521
00:37:34,100 –> 00:37:52,300
serie verse 13 these all died in
faith And Enoch is among those

522
00:37:52,300 –> 00:37:58,400
described as dying in faith in
this chapter death was their

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00:37:58,400 –> 00:38:00,900
common Destiny despite their
faith.

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So he not died.
But he was also translated.

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Well that takes us back to
Genesis chapter 5 because we

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00:38:15,100 –> 00:38:18,700
didn’t just happen to Omit a
couple of matters.

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00:38:20,600 –> 00:38:22,800
So that we can come back and
examine them at the end of the

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00:38:22,800 –> 00:38:30,500
story.
Genesis chapter 5 said in verse

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00:38:30,500 –> 00:38:35,000
24 these words.
And Enoch walked with God and he

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00:38:35,000 –> 00:38:38,000
was not.
For God took him.

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So you like Elijah and for the
people’s relocated, but what is

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00:38:45,600 –> 00:38:48,900
interesting brothers and sisters
is that verse 23 season all the

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00:38:48,900 –> 00:38:51,500
days of Enoch were three hundred
sixty and five years.

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00:38:51,900 –> 00:38:56,700
Now the thing about there is
that those years are very very

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00:38:56,700 –> 00:39:01,500
short.
He know I’m not only stored days

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00:39:01,500 –> 00:39:05,800
but he saw a very early death.
He was laid on sleep early.

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00:39:06,100 –> 00:39:08,700
See verse 20.
This is his father all the days

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00:39:08,700 –> 00:39:12,900
of Jared were nine hundred sixty
and two years and he died.

539
00:39:14,200 –> 00:39:17,500
And he is he not a son
Methuselah verse 27 all the days

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00:39:17,500 –> 00:39:20,800
of Methuselah 969 years and he
died.

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00:39:21,100 –> 00:39:28,900
Do you know that those two Jared
962 and Methuselah 969 at the

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00:39:28,900 –> 00:39:35,200
two longest life spans in the
genealogy of Genesis chapter 5

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00:39:35,200 –> 00:39:40,100
and in between them verse 23,
all the days of Enoch was 365

544
00:39:40,100 –> 00:39:43,900
years, and he knocks has the
shortest by far.

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00:39:44,200 –> 00:39:49,000
The shortest is the only one of
his land whose did before him as

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00:39:49,000 –> 00:39:52,500
in fact, Adam himself every
other generation beyond their

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00:39:52,500 –> 00:39:56,500
animals alive after Enoch.
And the reason that Genesis

548
00:39:56,500 –> 00:40:00,200
gives is really the equivalent
in Hebrews 11 as if not because

549
00:40:00,200 –> 00:40:05,300
it says here in verse 24.
He not walked with God and was

550
00:40:05,300 –> 00:40:09,200
not and that’s like Hebrews 11
for before his translation.

551
00:40:09,500 –> 00:40:13,800
He had this testimony that he
pleased God and so here in

552
00:40:14,000 –> 00:40:18,500
Genesis their testimony that he
pleased God here in both verse

553
00:40:18,500 –> 00:40:24,300
22 and verse 24 is that Enoch
walked with God and so for Enoch

554
00:40:24,300 –> 00:40:28,700
to be removed from the scene
before his predecessors suggests

555
00:40:28,700 –> 00:40:32,500
a special relationship that he
had with God and that his

556
00:40:32,500 –> 00:40:36,800
removal was an Ursa full
provision in the face of an

557
00:40:36,808 –> 00:40:45,700
ungodly and a violent world.
So he was first taken away to a

558
00:40:45,700 –> 00:40:50,300
safe place.
And then his life was mercifully

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00:40:50,300 –> 00:40:53,400
shortened.
It’s interesting.

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00:40:53,400 –> 00:40:56,100
Isn’t it on the sisters?
We don’t tend to see that

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00:40:56,100 –> 00:40:57,200
perspective.
Do me.

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00:40:59,400 –> 00:41:01,800
We all struggle against the idea
of why should my life be

563
00:41:01,800 –> 00:41:04,700
shortened.
I want it but you see in the

564
00:41:04,700 –> 00:41:08,400
greater picture of God’s purpose
that that can be a merciful

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00:41:08,400 –> 00:41:10,500
provision.
In fact, there is a Bible

566
00:41:10,500 –> 00:41:14,900
passage that seems to have
strange overtones of be not if

567
00:41:14,900 –> 00:41:20,000
you come to Isaiah chapter 57, I
think this is this helps to sit

568
00:41:20,000 –> 00:41:23,600
in them context you see to take
away a man’s life is not

569
00:41:23,600 –> 00:41:26,700
necessarily punishment.
It depends on what the men might

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00:41:26,700 –> 00:41:31,500
be facing.
So here it is eyes are 37 verses

571
00:41:31,500 –> 00:41:34,600
1 and 2 and I think this was
this is a very good explanation

572
00:41:34,600 –> 00:41:38,600
of what happened to Enoch in
terms of why God prematurely

573
00:41:38,600 –> 00:41:42,500
took his life away early.
It says Isaiah 57 verse 1 the

574
00:41:42,500 –> 00:41:47,200
righteous Rod him says the
righteous one the righteous one

575
00:41:47,200 –> 00:41:51,000
Parish Earth and no man lay at
the heart and merciful men are

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00:41:51,008 –> 00:41:54,400
taken away.
None considering that the

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00:41:54,400 –> 00:42:02,400
righteous is taken away. from
the evil to come He shall enter

578
00:42:02,400 –> 00:42:06,400
into peace, which I think is the
equivalent of Genesis 15 verse

579
00:42:06,400 –> 00:42:09,400
15 thou shalt go to thy fathers
in peace.

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00:42:09,500 –> 00:42:13,100
They shall rest in their beards
each one walking in there

581
00:42:13,100 –> 00:42:16,200
uprightness and that beard upon
which they waste is that sleep

582
00:42:16,200 –> 00:42:18,900
of death brothers and sisters,
but they rest in peace because

583
00:42:18,900 –> 00:42:21,800
they’ve walked before God
uprightly isn’t that exactly

584
00:42:21,800 –> 00:42:24,400
what he knock have done and so
God took him.

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00:42:25,500 –> 00:42:28,000
And he placed him in the article
of death is a merciful provision

586
00:42:28,000 –> 00:42:29,800
that he might not see what was
coming.

587
00:42:32,100 –> 00:42:34,300
And I think we’ve got another
illustration of that have we not

588
00:42:34,300 –> 00:42:38,700
in the second of Chronicles and
chapter 34 in the days of Josiah

589
00:42:38,900 –> 00:42:42,900
because second Chronicles
chapter 34 seated they get hold

590
00:42:42,900 –> 00:42:46,600
of the prophetess out of these
words concerning the king just

591
00:42:46,600 –> 00:42:48,800
drop though.
He was at the impending

592
00:42:48,800 –> 00:42:50,900
calamities that will come upon
the nation.

593
00:42:51,400 –> 00:42:56,200
He was told that second
Chronicles 34 verses 27 and 28

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00:42:56,300 –> 00:42:59,400
holder said because thine heart
was Tinder and they are did

595
00:42:59,400 –> 00:43:03,000
stumble thyself before God.
When they are her dusters words

596
00:43:03,000 –> 00:43:06,100
against this place and against
the inhabitants thereof and

597
00:43:06,100 –> 00:43:09,100
humblest thyself, before me and
digit wind I clothes and week

598
00:43:09,100 –> 00:43:16,900
before me I have even heard the
also cftr way behold.

599
00:43:17,400 –> 00:43:21,900
I will gather the to my father’s
and thou shalt be gathered to

600
00:43:21,900 –> 00:43:24,200
thy grave in.
Peace.

601
00:43:25,400 –> 00:43:30,800
Neither cell thine eyes see all
the evil that I will bring upon

602
00:43:30,800 –> 00:43:34,000
this place and upon the
inhabitants of the same.

603
00:43:35,800 –> 00:43:40,000
So Josiah was removed in the
Providence of God.

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00:43:41,500 –> 00:43:46,600
So as not to see the apostasy of
his sons. all the ensuing

605
00:43:46,600 –> 00:43:52,100
overthrow of Judah Wasn’t it
God’s mercy brothers and

606
00:43:52,100 –> 00:43:55,600
sisters?
And Enoch we suggest was

607
00:43:55,600 –> 00:43:58,700
removed.
So as not to see the unfolding

608
00:43:58,700 –> 00:44:02,700
evil of lamech and so that he
might not see the developing

609
00:44:02,700 –> 00:44:04,400
apostasy of the seed of the
woman.

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00:44:04,500 –> 00:44:08,400
And so that he might not see the
impending Judgment of God upon

611
00:44:08,400 –> 00:44:10,600
all the Earth.
It was not God’s judgment upon

612
00:44:10,600 –> 00:44:12,900
his men.
It was the measure of his Mercy

613
00:44:13,700 –> 00:44:17,000
because when Enoch awakes the
Lord will come with ten

614
00:44:17,000 –> 00:44:19,800
thousands of his Saints to
execute the Judgment written and

615
00:44:19,800 –> 00:44:21,800
it will be like the blink of an
eye.

616
00:44:21,800 –> 00:44:25,000
Andy not will be there.
So Took him.

617
00:44:27,100 –> 00:44:32,300
God took him.
He was the agency of Enochs

618
00:44:32,400 –> 00:44:34,500
early death.
It was a work of Divine

619
00:44:34,500 –> 00:44:44,300
Providence. and perhaps like
Moses all now is there.

620
00:44:45,800 –> 00:44:52,800
Deuteronomy chapter 34 perhaps
like Moses brother and sisters

621
00:44:58,100 –> 00:45:03,700
He was late in a resting place.
Known only to the Almighty.

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00:45:08,000 –> 00:45:13,700
So Deuteronomy Deuteronomy, 30 4
and verses five and six say so

623
00:45:13,700 –> 00:45:17,300
Moses.
The servant of Yahweh died died

624
00:45:17,300 –> 00:45:19,900
there in the land of Moab
according to the word of Yahweh

625
00:45:19,900 –> 00:45:24,000
and he buried him in a valley in
the land of Moab over against

626
00:45:24,000 –> 00:45:29,000
bfp, or but no man knoweth of
his Sepulchre and to this day so

627
00:45:29,000 –> 00:45:34,100
actually to be true we ought to
say that Moses was not Shouldn’t

628
00:45:34,100 –> 00:45:37,100
we?
Because no one knew where he

629
00:45:37,100 –> 00:45:40,000
was.
No, one found the grave and just

630
00:45:40,000 –> 00:45:42,100
as no one ever found the grave
of Moses.

631
00:45:42,100 –> 00:45:44,700
So no one ever found the grave
of Enoch.

632
00:45:46,600 –> 00:45:54,700
God took him and he was not.
But in those very meetings. the

633
00:45:54,700 –> 00:46:01,000
Providence of God will see in
mercy upon his faithful soup.

634
00:46:03,100 –> 00:46:04,900
You see God knew where he was
all along.

635
00:46:07,700 –> 00:46:10,000
And God knows where all of us
are been sisters.

636
00:46:12,600 –> 00:46:14,000
God knows where we are every
day.

637
00:46:16,300 –> 00:46:23,700
God knows what’s in our hearts.
and in our minds he knows

638
00:46:23,700 –> 00:46:30,200
whether we are standing for the
truth. or not he knows whether

639
00:46:30,200 –> 00:46:32,600
we are taking Vengeance or
leaving it to him.

640
00:46:35,100 –> 00:46:38,100
We all live under the shadow of
God’s watchful eye.

641
00:46:40,000 –> 00:46:42,800
In the network to find the
comfort of and sisters that just

642
00:46:42,800 –> 00:46:47,400
as Enoch will be raised to a
place of honor in the Kingdom.

643
00:46:48,900 –> 00:46:53,700
So the father’s him might guide
us all safely towards that end.

644
00:46:56,000 –> 00:46:58,000
It’s like a him that we have
that serious.

645
00:46:59,700 –> 00:47:07,000
The Lord will be a refuge to the
imprisoned. a refuge in times of

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