Enoch – The First Known Person To Be Saved.
June 27, 2010 History, Just Me, No War, Religion, Wisdom No CommentsGenesis 5:18 And Ja´red lived on for a hundred and sixty-two years. Then he became father to E´noch. 19 And after his fathering E´noch Ja´red continued to live eight hundred years. Meanwhile he became father to sons and daughters. 20 So all the days of Ja´red amounted to nine hundred and sixty-two years and he died. 21 And E´noch lived on for sixty-five years. Then he became father to Me·thu´se·lah. 22 And after his fathering Me·thu´se·lah E´noch went on walking with the [true] God three hundred years. Meanwhile he became father to sons and daughters. 23 So all the days of E´noch amounted to three hundred and sixty-five years. 24 And E´noch kept walking with the [true] God. Then he was no more, for God took him.
I read the bible when I was a teenager and I remember reading this and questioning Christianity then because Enoch was apparently saved and Jesus hadn’t even come yet. The reply I believe I had gotten when questioning this was, “without the Holy Spirit we cannot understand the bible.” Sadly I bought that, wasn’t too bright back then. Now that I’m reading it again, now I’m like like “wait a minute.”
Jesus said that he had to give his life for our redemption and further he explains that only through him can we enter the Kingdom. I’m not going to say that those things are false, I’m just going to say that maybe these things are misunderstood, Jesus taught not an eye for eye a tooth for a tooth, but should someone strike you, turn the other cheek so that they can strike the other side. He brought us a higher law, to do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
To understand what Jesus meant by these things he had said, lets look at what he did. The religious leaders of his time who represented God taught an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth and only by following a strict code could one please God. Jesus had come with a higher law teaching that if someone strike you on the cheek, turn the other so that they may strike you again, to do unto others as you would have them do unto you. That the meek should inherit the earth and peacemakers should be called sons and daughters of God and to forgive those who persecute you. These teaching went strongly against the teachings of the religious leaders of his time and they were angered by this believing that if this man was the messiah he claimed to be, his teachings would go along with theirs. So they sought at every corner to trip him up and take him out and they succeeded (well maybe).
Jesus healed the sick, raised the dead, cast out demons and taught that if you just had the faith of a mustard seed (which is very, very small seed), you could tell a mountain to move, and it would. So now he is nailed to a cross to die after being mocked and beaten. A man who tamed the seas and walked on water, surely he could have called lightning bolts down from the sky and had all his enemies killed, but no. He practiced just what he taught and said, “father forgive them for they know not what they do.” If he would have done otherwise he would have been a hypocrite. So what are you if you practice what you teach, you are a man of your word. And if what you teach is the truth, then you are the truth you teach. So if you believe in what Jesus taught then you shall be saved. But how could you believe in what Jesus did if he did not practice what he taught and rather became a hypocrite. So this is what Jesus meant that you can only be saved through him. Through his teachings, as he was what he taught. You must put away the old teachings of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth and be born again into a new teaching and he gives you example after example of this and his own death would be his last example of that.
You are not saved by just believing that he died for your sins. You have to believe in what he taught, because that is what he did. If you believe in what he taught then you will try to follow it and if you fail he will forgive you, just as you forgive others, as he taught you to pray.
He said to them, “When you pray, say:
” ‘Father,
hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come.
Give us each day our daily bread.
Forgive us our sins,
for we also forgive everyone who sins against us.”
So that is how Enoch was saved. Enoch must have learned the higher law and followed it. Just as anyone who learns of this higher law, believes in it and tries to follow it, they too will be saved.
And if anyone teaches anything other than what Jesus taught and says rather, do this or do that, believe this or believe that, confess this or confess that and you will be saved, I would suggest you question it. By trying to follow the teachings of Jesus you are not going to go to hell, THINK ABOUT IT.












