Enoch as a type of the Rapture

Enoch as a type of the Rapture

* The last time we met together for Bible study we had mentioned the name of Enos, the s/on and Adam and Eve. Eve said that after Enos was born, “then men began to call upon the name of the Lord. Eve said that Enos was given to her to replace her son Able who was killed by his brother Cain.

* At that point, in passing, I had mistaken the name Enos for Enoch and began to mention that some people believed that Enoch was a type of the rapture of the church. The Bible says in Genesis that Enoch walked with God, but his life was cut short because God took him.

Genesis 5:17–24 (KJV 1900)

17 And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died. 18 And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch: 19 And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: 20 And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died. 21 And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:

22 And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: 23 And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: 24 And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.

* In the book of Jude, a short book just before the book of revelation, we read of this same Enoch and he is associated with people in the last days, just before Jesus comes back for the church. In this chapter we are commanded to earnestly contend for the faith in the last days. Enoch is given as an example of one who contended for the faith in his day before the judgment of the flood came.

Jude 3–4 (KJV 1900)

3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation,

it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.

4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

* The apostle John spoke of these same people in the last days who would deny Christ and subvert the churches. Notice that the apostle John refers to these people as anti-christs.

* The apostle John speaks of the same people in I john 2:18-29:

2 John 7–11 (KJV 1900)

7 For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.

8 Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.

9 Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God.

He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. 10 If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed: 11 for he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.

* Again, the apostle John speaks of these same people, who supposedly represent the church in the last days, deny Christ and usher in the second coming of the Jesus to bring judgment upon the earth.

1 John 2:18–29 (KJV 1900)

18 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time. 19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.

20 But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things. 21 I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth. 22 Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. 23 Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. 24 Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father. 25 And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.

26 These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you.

27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.

28 And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

29 If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.

* The apostle Peter warned of the same people who would seduce the church away from Christ in the last Days as well:

2 Peter 3:3–13 (KJV 1900)

3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, 4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. 5 For this they willingly are ignorant

of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: 6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: 7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. 8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. 10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. 11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, 12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? 13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.

* Jude, speaking of these seducers, scoffers, deceivers, those who follow their own lusts, (homosexuals ect.), uses Enoch, who also lived in a day of sexual evil, as an example of someone who in his day also contended for the faith just before the judgment of God came.

Jude 12–15 (KJV 1900)

12 These are spots in your feasts of charity when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; 13 raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.

14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, 15 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.

* The Bible says that Enoch walked with God, and that God just took him. There is no record of Enoch’s death; God took Enoch without dying, just like he will take the church to himself, without death, for those who are alive at the time of the rapture of the church.

* The Bible says that God took Enoch without death, and the Bible also indicates that Elijah was taken up in a similar manner in a fiery chariot. There are many Bible teachers that believe Enoch as a type, represents the church and Elijah, represents the Nation of Israel. Many believe that Enoch and Elijah are the two prophets that come back in the book of revelation and defy the antichrist. These tow prophets are slain and the whole world watches them come back to life and ascend into heaven.

* The apostle Paul spoke also of the time right before the coming of the Lord, that the world will be given over to pleasure and God will allow the antichrist to come and deceive the world and lead them away from the truth of Jesus Christ.

2 Thessalonians 2 (KJV 1900)

2 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,

2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. 3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; 4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? 6 And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. 7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.

8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:

9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.