Enoch Has This Testimony that “By faith Enoch was translated so as not see death; and he was not found, because before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
But it was John The Baptist of whom it was said “of all the Law and the Prophets, there was none greater than John, but those who are LEAST in the Kingdom are greater than he.”
So the question is, was John greater than Enoch? The answer is no, for Enoch had the testimony that he was greatest of those born of the flesh to include John the Baptist because he NOT was taken. BUT it was Enoch who pleased God “for he was taken for he was not”. To say that Enoch “was NOT”, was to mean he was NOT here. But John was NOT taken because he only represented “All the Law and the Prophets” that only starts with the Old Covenant, and closed at the coming of Christ, who was the Eternal sacrifice much greater than any and all sacrifices of any sort. That Christ came and expired, to mean to be shelved as historical facts only, as the way on how NOT to do it.
So then for us in The New Covenant, all of which are greater than the Old Covenant Law to include John the Baptist. That Christ is “the New and Living way to the Father. And Christ, the Son of God first, to then become a son of man, being a byproduct of Adam.
So what this all means is that just as “Enoch was taken for he was not” should spurn us on to completion because Christ likeness being our respective object to obtain, with Enoch having done so, shows us that this is possible for us too. And we have to go way beyond the Law and The Prophet era, that just serve us as replicas and play things and why the Israelites were called children nearly 1200 in the Old Covenant, because they did not convert.
That just as Enoch finished the course of faith and did what each one of us has the potential to do as being re-made in the image of God. We say remade because Adam was the first, and Christ restored that by becoming Adam’s replacement. This is why “we are a new creation (newly created) in Christ. Old (testament) things having (already) passed away, behold all things become new and all things are (invisible) of God”. To mean that just as Adam fell only in the spirit of his mind, that there were no broken bones or blood shed, just a damaged way of thinking. That is why we are “renewed in the spirit of our mind. In this way we are resurrected or “raised back up” from a dead way of thinking that God must become physical again, because that is Him transitioning into us, and His Son already did that and told us to “follow Me that where I am, you may be also. To spurn us on to the finish line of faith. This is what Enoch did and what the Law and The Prophets didn’t do. And when scripture says that “the first shall be last”, it was referring to the Law era interlude. And that “the last shall be first”, means the ripening of the age and why tge disciples were called “the first-fruits “ only. Was to indicate that they were a foreshadowing and a foretaste of the final harvest.
Now then, to be and do as Enoch who was greater than the produce of the Law era interlude, we have to have a greater testimony than Law in Gods Son The Christ. That our objective to become “Word”, is Christ’s spiritual DNA. And that to Please God the Father, which is quite different than just being a do good church goer. Is for us to “put on Christ, one revelation after another until our journey is complete. To mean that “we are complete in Him, who is head over all powers and principalities”. And “we are transformed into His self same image, from the Glory to the Glory AS BY THE SPIRIT (2 Corinthians 3.18). And not to be like “the slothful steward who says in his heart, my master delays his coming”. Then just goes about life as if to be ordinary.
For the Word even says “come out from among them and be ye separate (be distinguishably different) and I shall receive you. These shall be My sons and daughters”. To mean those cloaked in Word and Spirit. That just as “in the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God and the Word was God, then the Word became flesh and dwelt among us”. That we in turn receive the gift of godliness by putting on Word and Christ dwells in us. Not just a visit from the Son but an “I will never leave you or forsake you” kind of abiding. This is what it means to “abide in Christ”. That “if you abide in Me and My words abide in you, then you shall ask what you desire and it shall be done for you”. This is the Gospel.
For this reason we are told by the Apostle John. “If that from the beginning abide in you. Then you shall abide in the Father and the Son”. So since it is a “from the beginning “ message, then you have to discard, shun and dispose of any second coming expectation as an illusion if possible to deceive the Elect. This is why scripture says “the wicked servant says my lord delays his coming”. But we know that “The Kingdom of God (in Christ) is at had,,, FROM THE BEGINNING!!! And Enoch is a powerful example of this type of godliness. To mean his invisible components that interact with the invisible living God.
So for us, “of all the Law and the Prophets there is none greater than John the Baptist, but those who are least in the Kingdom are greater than he”. This is meant to be our starting point in our journey to the finish line of faith. And that finish line has a resting place for all who would compete, not against each other, but of ourselves as though we have one life to do it because we do. Let us not be found waiting for tge mater to return from the wedding chamber because that’s the goal.
So then what about those who go to church regularly and pay tithes? Well you have a lot of good people, but “unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and the Pharisees you will in no way enter The Kingdom”. To mean that there is only one way into the Kingdom. For even now “The Kingdom of God is at hand” in a proverbial way to mean Word, Gods Word, who is Gods Son.
To be in Word and Spirit is to be in the wedding Chamber. And because John the Baptist said “I beheld Heavenly Jerusalem descend from Heaven as a Bride adorned for Her Husband. He had distanced himself from Christ when he said “there is a coming One of whom I am not worthy to untie his shoes.”
Similarly with the end of The Revelation. They were describing not so much a physical event, but a REVELATION. To mean it’s available to each one of us in the order of our own personal experiences pertaining to the reality of the invisible. That we are “being transfigured from the glory to the glory as by the spirit”.
And this is why Enoch “was taken for he was not because he had this testimony (or the conclusion of the collection of his testimonies) that he pleased God” by receiving the full gift of “The Kingdom of God prepared from (before) the foundation of the world”. That Enoch was a firstfruit into the Kingdom.
That there are others here awaiting your arrival to these truths. For God is Spirit and Truth and seeketh such”. Such are we.
And just for the record, it was the Jews with their Law scribes and the Pharisees were rejected as brood of vipers, sons of Satan and whited sepulchres, to mean caskets full of dead man’s bones while they walked.
That unless we too cast off old religious structures, we will likely end up on parr with that despicable generation, that was left without one brick left upon another that was not cast down. And “generation” from genome, refers in this case not just to a gene so much, it did that too, but moreso a collective way of thinking. And to live in an age where all denominations with a few exceptions, have tolerances that are despicable in the eyes of the Father. Even as Christ said
So then to think that to do church over and over without true repentance and change, to also “come out from among them and be separate, then I shall receive you, and you shall be My sons and daughters”. Was a call for you (personal pronoun) to stand alone and aloof. To discard all surrogate beliefs and religious systems. To be like Enoch, for he had this testimony that he pleased God, because in His sanctification and being set apart, was done so by His actions first. So that Enochs departure was painless and easy because he had “come out of her My people”. To mean all religious establishments. Even as we are warned of the “Mother of Harlots” and “Mystery Babylon”, essentially the same thing. The Mother of Harlots, is a collection of cross sectioning faiths (inter-faith) all waiting to be saved by their God, be it a rapture or second coming. None of these have truly reconned, or reconnected with The Son of God who was sent to “save”, from Savior as His gift of His death to give you Eternal life, in exchange for the one you had. For they are looking for a Savior to come and rescue them again as though the cross was insufficient. And the saving that they want has to do with this life. And because they do not like the saving of the cross, they are satisfied by surrogate types of saviors and savings to include all their sorts of savings and coverages. Be it for any emergency, need, lust or desire. Which in truth turns your savior into a full time job for Him as you spit out requests to assay all your fears, where if you had the Savior the cross, you wouldn’t have any fears, because your fear is your proof that you have NOT been saved because the media generated boogie men today have a huge grip on you, so much that you cannot see who a Savior is