Originally posted by FabianFnas
So it actually wasn't his name before someone named him that? Was he named after his death or before?
(Any answer to this question will be followed by "and your reference is...?)
Sounds quite much like a ad hoc construction, if you ask me.
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So it actually wasn't his name before someone named him that? Was he named after his death or before?
(Any answer to this question will be followed by "and your reference is...?)
Sounds quite much like a ad hoc construction, if you ask me.
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I am sure that the name was given to him at birth. His name was given by his father a Godly man named
"Enoch". Enoch is the man who walked with God and was raptured out of the earth.
He knew something was going to happen. And for that reason he prophetically called his son
"When he dies it will come" . The
"it" most likely refers to the flood of God's judgment.
Two signigicant things that happened before the flood is that Enoch walked with God and was raptured and Methuseleh ("When he dies it will come" ) , lived a good long long life.
"And Enoch lived susty-five years and begot Methuselah. (Gen.5:21)
And Enoch walked with God after he had begotten Methuselah three hundred years
... And Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God too him., (v.24)
... and all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sisxty years, and he died. (v.27)
And Lamech [Methuselah's son] lived a hundred eighty two years and begat a son.
And he called his name Noah, saying, This one will give us rest from our work and from the toil of our hands, which came because of the ground which Jehoivah has cursed." (v. 29) [/b]
Enoch probably knowing through God what was coming, walked with God for 300 yearw and was raptured because of his godly walk. One day Enoch was just not found.
Of all the other men it says that they died. Enoch was an exception. How would
you walk if you knew that God's judgment upon the world was coming soon ? Seeing that God's judgment is coming, we should learn to take each step walking with God.