Walk

Enoch walked with God after he fathered Methuselah 300 years and had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 5:22 ESV

The implication is that Enoch didn't walk with God until he fathered Methuselah. I actually think this verse is referring to a literal walk with the pre-incarnate Lord Jesus Christ, allow me to explain myself.

In the Garden of Eden, we're told that God was in the habit of walking there in the cool of the day. I believe that to be the pre-incarnate Son of God, who I understand literally moulded Adam out of clay and literally breathed the breath of life (his Holy Spirit) into him. So I think Enoch was so overwhelmed by becoming a dad that he asked God to walk with him, and God graciously responded.

In context, we're told that it came to a point where Enoch walked with God, and then was no more. He literally didn't die, but walked with his Lord into glory (maybe a sweet chariot swung low eventually for to carry him home!). It all started when he became a dad to Methuselah: I think wise people realise their need of divine intervention when they become parents.

I vaguely remember hearing that Methuselah's name means 'when he dies, it shall come', and AI tends to agree with that general meaning. If I've done my maths properly, the global flood in Noah's day happened within a few years of Jesus's death. So I think Enoch was being prophetic in his naming of Methuselah- the Lord probably revealed his coming judgement on one of their initial walks.

'Almighty Lord, please help us to realise that Christ will return and judge the living and the dead. May we be ready for that great day, and walk with you in the meantime. We ask for the honour of your name, amen'. 

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