Now there's an escape. This one engineered totally by God. You see, there is a wide variety of kinds of escapes. Now we find in verse 13 of this same chapter:
We know from the testimony of God's own word that Enoch pleased God. God engineered an escape and then Enoch died wherever God took him on this escape.
In each of the cases that we've covered so far the person fled, or was taken because of the anger or the hatred - maybe the two of them combined - anger and hatred of others that threatened the life and limb of the servants of God. Now we're going to examine a somewhat different condition. Let's go to Noah in Genesis 6.
This is kind of the story of Enoch, in a way. We can use that as an early example of a righteous person taken away from trouble and allowed to go to his rest. If you want to look at his story, it is very spare, but it is in Genesis 5:18-24. A righteous man taken by God to escape evil, even evil that is in the future. But Enoch still perished, he still died. And so he qualified for the Hebrew 9:27 death at some point. He is not up in heaven, you know, drinking wine with Elijah. It is just not what happened. He was taken away from a very serious situation and allowed to die in peace.
Enoch's walk is described in Genesis 5:21-24. He began to walk with God when he was 65 years old and he was still walking with God when he was at the age of 365. God allowed him to die eventually and he had a three hundred year walk. I cannot even imagine that, a three hundred year walk with God. And that is what God calls us to do and be - walk our entire lives with God. We are to act justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with our God as long as we live - 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
