Gen.5:24 And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
Have you ever meditated on this. Enoch walked with God. He was Not. God took Him.
Can you just imagine, Enoch was walking with God and walked right into heaven. Now this was a man living on the edge. Enoch surly had seen as Amos a plumb-line, and taken heed.
A plumb-line is:
an instrument that hangs directly toward the earth's center and determines depth.
I can imagine God standing in heaven plumb-line in hand reaching downward to determine the depth of man. And He found Enoch a man of depth, one with which he could communicate, the details of heaven. Then one day ... while they walked and talked together of heavenly things ... God just says, "Enoch come on over to my house!" And the two of then in agreement walked right into heaven places, and thus Enoch was no longer earth bound!
What does it mean for a person to have depth?
A person of depth is a person of character and integrity. They have morals, values and are very detailed and through people. They are skilled and of good understanding.
Ps 111:10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments...
When we respect (fear) the Lord that is when wisdom comes; and if we are a person of depth (good understanding) we will follow Gods written instruction as well as the voice of His Spirit.
The only way to truly know God is through fellowship, and fellowship with God was instituted from the beginning when Adam walked and talked with Him in the garden.
Jesus confirmed heavenly fellowship with Him by saying:
- "the sheep follow him, because they know his voice"
- "the sheep will not follow a strange, but will flee from him, because they know not the voice of strangers"
- "that His sheep hear His voice and, He knows them and they follow Him"
- Joh 10:4
- And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.
- Joh 10:5
- And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.
- Joh 10:27
- My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
If Enoch walked and talked with God and was no more because God took Him ... it seems to me that we need to draw nearer to God since we are under a New and Better Covenant.
James 4:7-10 tells us that if we Submit to God ... resist the devil He will flee. Then as we draw near to God ... he draws near to us.
7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
Sin separates us from fellowship, and hinders our walk with God. Just as sin separated Adam in the garden. Yet, under the blood covenant of Jesus Christ, we can walk boldly with the Lord with our conscience sprinkled with the blood. ~ Heb. 10:22
Enoch knew that kind of boldness in his day as He and God walked together. But we too should be experiencing personal relationship with God through Christ Jesus. We need to be daily walking and talking with God and being caught up into heavenly arenas by faith.
Einstein was caught up into heavenly arenas and gathered wisdom from God over and over again as he studied the universe. Einstein was said to tell folks that he had a fear (respect) of God and believed in High morals as well as religious convictions which he believed to be the strongest and noblest motives for scientific research.
Through respect for God and consideration to his fellowmen, Einstein reached into the adventure of the unknown, opened his imagination, meditated, inquired and required, studied and God caused him to be filled with wisdom, knowledge and good understanding. Einstein went down in History ... His name remembered not for perfection, for there is only one perfect (God Himself, according to Jesus), but remembered for his contribution to science.
John while on the Isle of Patmos was caught up in the Spirit hearing heavenly sounds and seeing heavenly visions. ~ Rev. 1-
Paul also knew those catching away times.
II Cor. 12:1-4
1 It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
2 I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
3 And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;)
4 How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
According to Eph. 1:20, Jesus was raised up and seated in Heavenly places with God. Then as we continue to read we find that we also have been raised up together with Christ Jesus to those same heavenly seats through the New Birth. ~ Eph. 2:6
In other words when we are born again we actual step out with God and move up to heavenly places. Caught up ... no longer earth bound.
As born again believers we should be able to step in and out of Spiritual arenas with no effort at all, for we have been seated in heavenly places with Christ, and yet standing on planet earth as ambassadors of reconciliation.
Come on Church
... Let's walk with God here on earth, knowing our heavenly seats until He comes and takes us!
