Who is Enoch?

July 6th 2025

Series:    Bible Characters

Sermon Title: Who is Enoch?

Topic: Study of Enoch

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Topic: Enoch

Sermon Blurb: In today’s message, we will look at the places Enoch showed up in the Bible and what we know about him from outside the Bible as well.

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        Today, we launch into a new sermon series called Bible Characters.

        This is a FUN series we like to do every summer.

And the COOL part is that literally EVERY weekend this month is different!

A few months ago, we asked everyone to let us know what Bible Characters they would like to hear taught on.

Then we compiled those votes across all our campuses, and the people who got the most votes are who we will teach about this year!

That means every week, we will have a teaching about a different person in the Bible.

AND every week is a different pastor teaching on a NEW Biblical person.

Every week this month will have a different flavor and be a lot of fun!

And to top it off….

We are also rotating down to Hamilton to do that there as well, at our future campus, coming this fall!

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We are just a few months away from launching our 5th campus!

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Today, we are going to learn about a guy in the Bible named Enoch.

        Enoch was the #1 person voted for by all campuses.

        Which kind of surprised me because there are only a few passages in the entire Bible about Enoch.

        But then again…if you are a DEEP Bible thinker, you know this guy also has some books he wrote outside the Bible that are quite interesting.

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So, let’s start with some background on him.

        Go to the next slide and let me show you a genealogy map.

Now, if you are new to church or the Bible.

The Bible teaches us that God created Adam, who you see at the top of this genealogy, and his wife Eve.

From Adam & Eve came all people.

We know about Cain, who killed his brother Abel.

We know about Seth, their other son.

And likely they had many other sons and daughters we do not know about.

From Seth, you can see that a few generations later comes Enoch, who lived around 365 BC.

        If you continue down from Enoch, you see his family leads to a guy named Methuselah…

Methuselah is someone I hope someone else teaches on because Methuselah lived longer than anyone else in the Bible.

He lived over 900 years!!!

Imagine how much his son saw in 900 years of life!!!!

If you keep going down that genealogy, you will see his great-grandson was Noah, whom God used to save mankind from the flood.

So….the question is…who was Enoch?

        What does the Bible say about Enoch?

        What do we know about Enoch from church history or other things outside the Bible?

        Why does his life matter to you and me.

And that is what we will dive into today!

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Let’s start with what the Bible says about Enoch.

        A great place to start is with their birth.

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        If you have your Bible with you, and I hope you do, would you open it with me today to

Genesis 5

        Now we will bounce all over today, so bear with me…but that is where we will start.

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Genesis 5:18-19 When Jared had lived 162 years, he became the father of Enoch.

19 After he became the father of Enoch, Jared lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters.

People used to live a LONG time….but that is another sermon…

Then the Bible says,

21 When Enoch had lived 65 years, he became the father of Methuselah.

        He got after it 100 years earlier than his dad!

22 After he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked faithfully with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters.

23 Altogether, Enoch lived a total of 365 years.

24 Enoch walked faithfully with God; then he was no more, because God took him away.

Now let’s stop there…

The Bible says Enoch lived 365 years devoted to God.

        Faithfully for 365 years, he followed God.

Here is the first thing you can learn from Enoch.

        Write this down.

        Enoch was one of the most faithful followers of God in the Bible.

        Repeat

Now, some of you might think that is a stretch…

        Well, hang on…

        You will see why I say that….

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But that verse ends with, “He was no more.”

        So, you might ask….what does that mean?

Well, we know what that means because the Bible tells us!

        If you open your Bible to Hebrews chapter 11, you will see a list of people who lived by faith WAY before Jesus' time.

        Enoch is mentioned there, as is his unique death.

Hebrews 11:5-6 5 By faith Enoch was taken from this life, so that he did not experience death: “He could not be found, because God had taken him away.”

For before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God.

6 And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.

Stop there…

        Enoch is one of only two people recorded in the ENTIRE Bible as never having died.

        Who knows who the other one was?

        Yes, Elijah.

        We taught a whole series on Elijah, if you missed it go to our website or app and you can listen to that.

But…

        Enoch was apparently from this verse in Hebrews and also from what we read in Gensis a SUPER GODLY man.

        A SUPER Godly man who had incredible faith.

        A SUPER Godly man who was SO CLOSE to God that God decided he would spare him from death and took him straight to heaven from earth.

        SUPER unique…as that only happened for two people in all of human history!!!!

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What else do we know about him from the Bible?     

        Well, he is also mentioned in Jude chapter 1.

        In Jude 1, Jude is talking about the sin and doom of ungodly people.

        He is writing to believers in Jesus about how some people have slipped in among them who do NOT believe in God and are trying to lead people astray.

        And this chapter in Jude is so interesting because it even talks about the Arch Angel Michael and Satan arguing!

But after all of that Jude says this starting at verse 14…

Jude 1: 14-16 Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about them: “See, the Lord is coming with thousands upon thousands of his holy ones

15 to judge everyone, and to convict all of them of all the ungodly acts they have committed in their ungodliness, and of all the defiant words ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”

So, this is a perfect transition based on what Jude just did.

Look in your Bibles….

Do you notice that Jude literally quotes something Enoch said…hence the quotation marks…

Now, Judge did not live during the time of Enoch, so that should beg the question, “How do you quote a guy who lived generations before?”

        Which EVERY person in this room knows the answer to that.

        How do you quote something from President Lincoln, Thomas, or Jefferson?

        How do you quote something from any person?

        Come on work with me…this is not a trick question…

        YES!!!!

        You READ their writings or writings others said they said, and you quote from that.

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So right here in the Bible, we see Jude quoting Enoch.

        Which should make you ask, “Where did that quote come from?”

Well…who here has heard of the Apocrypha?

        Let me see those hands?

        Ya…about what I would guess a few of us have, but a lot of us have not.

        I had honestly NEVER heard of the Apocrypha until I went to seminary.

        And in seminary, we had to learn about all these books called the Apocrypha.

What Jude did here was quote from the Apocrypha.

        The Apocrypha are a group of writings by people who lived a SUPER long time ago…like Enoch…and people who lived around the time of Jesus.

        Jude quoted from the book of Enoch, one of the many books in the Apocrypha.

So, let me take a minute to explain the Apocrypha and why some people love it, and some do not know anything about it.

The Apocrypha refers to a collection of pre-New Testament writings.

Many of which were included in the Septuagint, a Greek translation of Hebrew scriptures.

Now what makes it even more interesting is that these books are considered Scripture by the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church.

But once all the Protestant denominations came online… We did not include them.

The term "apocrypha" originally referred to writings that were initially prized, later tolerated, and eventually excluded.

In Christianity, the word "apocryphal" was first applied to writings that were to be read privately rather than in public church services.

To keep unpeeling this onion…

        There are some Protestant denominations that think the books of the Apocrypha are heretical…which means REALLY BAD!

        While other Christian denominations have the Apocrypha literally printed inside their Bibles!

        While others accept them as more of a middle ground…where they are not quite as high as the Bible but higher value that other books.

So…

        To boil all that down…

        Really the debate on the Apocrypha is this…

        Was it inspired 100% by God or only in part or not at all.

But for all you reformers out there, let me give you a quote from Martin Luther, the great reformer:

Martin Luther: “Apocrypha, that are books which are not considered equal to the Holy Scriptures, but are useful and good to read.”

So….

Let’s shift gears and talk about what we can learn about Enoch from outside the Bible.

From things like church tradition or his writings in the Apocrypha.

So, again, remember we are talking about a guy who lived thousands of years ago.

        Back then, things were not passed down in writing as much as in speaking.

        Back in the day, before written language, people remembered stories and sayings of people and passed those down over the generations.

        Those stories and sayings became later writings and books.

        That is how the original books of the bible were passed down.

What is interesting about the Book of Enoch is not only who wrote it…but also what is inside it.

        Remember, Enoch is Noah’s great-grandfather.

        And there are all kinds of things we don’t know about how life really was in ancient times.

Enoch’s book talks about those times.

        It talks about the origins of supernatural demons and giants.

        He talks about why some angels fell from heaven.

        He explains why a Great Flood was MORALLY necessary to cleanse the world!

        He has one section where he gives this prophetic exposition of the thousand year reign of the Messiah that would one day come…

        And so much more…

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Many other Aramaic, Greek, and Latin writings talk about Enoch as well.

Jude quoted from the book of Enoch, chapter 1:9.

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Now…it might also be good to know that Enoch is quoted more than once in the Bible.

        Jude 1:6 and Peter 2:4 also reference things said in the book of Enoch…

Let me show you both of those passages:

2 Peter 2:4 For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment;

Jude 1:6 And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day–

What story are they talking about in Peter and Jude?

        Well…a story told in the Bible and the Book of Enoch.

Here again, it will get really interesting…let me show the story they are talking about…

Genesis 6: 1-8 When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them,

2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose.

Stop there…

        Who are the sons of God?

        Well, there is some debate.

                Some scholars say Seth, the son of Adam.

                But MOST scholars say nope…

The sons of God are fallen angels…

        Which is what is says very clearly in the book of Enoch.

        And it makes more sense that it is fallen angles only based on the Bible when you keep reading.

3 Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not contend with humans forever, for they are mortal; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.”

4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.

Stop there…

        So, when these “Sons of God” procreated with daughters of HUMANS…

        Note God’s phrasing…

        Sons of God…

        Daughters of humans…

        Hence fallen angels…

        Human women…

But here is something interesting I had to study in seminary.

        Think about this.

        Why does every ancient people group believe in Demi-God’s?

        Why does every ancient people group teach about superhumans?

        Why does every ancient people group teach that there was a time when there were these AMAZING warriors that lived…

        That could do things that normal men could not.

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        Why does the Bible say that there were offspring of fallen angels and human women that created a race of people that were EPIC warriors…

        Why…

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Because it is true.

        Because they used to exist.

And the Bible talks about it.

        And Enoch, who lived in that time, talks about it extensively in his book.

        These corrupted angels…corrupted mankind…

Which the Bible, and the book of Enoch say led to the flood.

Keep reading in your Bible…

5 The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time.

6 The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled.

7 So the Lord said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them.”

8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.

Noah…

        Enoch’s great grandson stayed faithful to God even as ALL other people on the face of earth went another direction…

Here is another thing to learn about Enoch…

        And this is something I hope every parent, grandparent, and great-grandparent takes to heart…

Enoch was a man who kept his family on the Godly path.

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Parents, grandparents, and great grandparents…

        How are you doing at leading your family to stay aligned with God and not culture?

        And don’t think for a second it was easier back then!

        I know our culture is crazy…

        But it sounds like their culture was PRETTY messed up as well!

        I mean we don’t have angels cometing for our women any more!

        And we don’t have giant warrior offspring of angels trying to kill us any more!

Every generation has its challenges…

        Don’t make excuses…

        Parents, grandparents, great grandparents…how are you doing?

Enoch led his son Methuselah well…

        Methuselah and probably Enoch, to some extent, led Noah well.

How are you doing?

        What are you doing?

        Do you do anything to spiritually lead your family?

        Do you do anything to try and lead your family toward God?

Enoch did…

        He is a great example of a Godly man who lived a Godly life.

And it is my prayer that all of us listening to this message can learn just that one thing from Enoch…

        And try our best to do the same….

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But before we pray, let me give you your life application today.

        If you are new, or newer, to Family Church, we LOVE to end our messages with something for you to talk about with someone else.

        Something to help you apply the message to your life.

So here is this week’s Life Application…

Life Application: Enoch lived a Godly life. What needs to change in your life to be remembered as a Godly man or woman one day?

As a result of today’s message, I will _________________________.

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