Genesis 5:

21 And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah 

22 And Enoch walked with God: and he was not for God took him 

Sin has been set in motion by the disobedience of the first couple in the garden of Eden. Excluded from the tree of life, man is now in the complete grips of sin. Sin is death, it’s the control of man in himself;  he has the centr of all things in himself. It’s a law, a principle whose captivity man cannot escape from; it’s an exclusion from God’s presence. Under the sway of this law, man quickly records his acquired ability to kill as seen in the scene of Cain and Abel his brother.

This spells the failure of God’s desire to rear up man who is in the image and likeness of God. Image and likeness indicate that God should be the template upon which man should build upon. Man is supposed to be God’s viceroy, exercising His dominion and suzerainty in His earth-kingdom. Man is supposed to have God as the centre of his life. But, no, man chooses another template centred in him and establishes his own kingdom on earth.

Centuries after Eden,  and Cain, of the evil one, having been at Nod, east of Eden, away from the presence of God, the seventh generation from Adam – reckoning from Seth as the first son (Abel having been killed and Cain estranged –  there arrives another male child who grows to adulthood and becomes a father at sixty-five. But before this, in the third generation, in the days of Enosh, the son of Seth, men have began to call upon the name of God. Restoration process seems to be in the offing. By the days of Enoch, there’s enough revelation light of God for man to walk; for more than three hundred years, Enoch in walking with God experiences a catch-up to God. This walk is by faith in God. By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death, and was not found, because God had translated him, for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God (Hebrews 11:6).

I have always wondered how exactly Enoch exercised the faith that made him so pleasing to God that He had to translate him, take him from the earth so that his record was completely different from those before and after him; it’s recorded for all others that after having children and grandchildren and great grandchildren…they died. Enoch was translated. Perhaps, it’s good that I have not been able to puzzle out this type of faith; it’s possibly able to cause distraction from focusing only on the Lord Jesus Christ Who was to come later and became the template of what to expect.

Jesus Christ appeared aeon of generations after, in Israel being built up as God’s kingdom on earth. The Lord Jesus Christ walked with God, always testifying that his works were not His but God’s. This man-in-God and God-in-man individual so walked with God that he completed and finished the length of the rope! Only Him could do it so perfectly. And He was transfigured on the Mount. And he was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light (Mathew 17:2). This was a unique experience but is what walk of the saints should be. This experience remained with Peter, who was present at the scene on the Mount, throughout his life and spoke about it to the saints towards the end of his life. …. but were eyewitnesses of his majesty. For he (Jesus Christ) from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased (2 Peter 1:16-17).

The word translated transfigured in the above passage is metamorphoo a word that found its way to English language as metamorphosis. In secondary school biology, it means change of state: egg to larvae; larvae to pupa and pupa to imago (adult). The Lord finished the transformations after walking with God, His Father for just about three decades. His Father testified of Him: this is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. Enoch pleased God!

The Lord finished the walk and was transfigured on the Mount – metamorphosed, that is. Pa Austin Spark said that the Lord, for His personal self, finished the walk and could from there pass into immortality, into life eternal. However, according to this teacher of the word, since He didn’t come to save Himself, but humanity. He had to return to the plains again to take up the walk of the mortal as of man.

The Lord Jesus Christ in His walk with the Father had broken through the barriers of death, was swallowed up of immortality. I grow amongst humanity that believes so much in the power of death. They say, The end of man’s journey is death or, We all owe death. So I too have been looking for death, physical demise, as the right way to exit the earth. But the gospel of apostle Paul speaks of walking on in Christ to break the barrier of death and breaking forth into immortality. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. But every man in his own order: Christ the first fruit, afterwards they that are Christ’s at his coming 1 Corinthians 15:22-23).

In this year, we receive the grace to stand perfect in all the will of God.

Thank You Lord for this