God is long suffering and not willing that any person perish. He is love and that is Who He is, but most people do not know the nature of God.
Enoch began to walk with God, because God revealed mysteries to him.
Enoch began his walk with God when He was sixty five years old. He was a great, great, great, great, great, great, great, grandson of Adam, the seventh generation of Adam and would sit on his lap and Adam use to tell him what it was like to walk with God.
At the age of sixty five the Lord revealed to him that he was going to send a flood and destroy all flesh on the earth when his son died who was not born yet. So he named his son Methuselah which means man of the dart, or he dies and it (the flood) is sent.
This revelation put the fear of God in his heart, so he surrendered his life to God 100 percent and started walking with God to the point, he became so much like him that he was translated without experiencing death.
Genesis 5:21–27. And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah: and Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: and all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: and Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him. And Methuselah lived a hundred and eighty and seven years,
There’s a little phrase we used to say, “The oldest man who ever lived died before his father did.” That is true. The oldest man who ever lived was Methuselah and he lived nine hundred and sixty-nine years, but he still died before his father did because his father never died. Enoch was translated when he was three hundred and sixty-five years old.
Enoch was an amazing man. The eleventh chapter of Hebrews tells of his tremendous faith. Verse 5, 6: By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and he was not found, because God translated him: for he hath had witness borne to him that before his translation he had been well-pleasing unto God: and without faith it is impossible to be well-pleasing unto him; for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that seek after him.
By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death. He believed for it; he believed it with all his heart.
In the fourteenth verse of the book of Jude we read, And to these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, Prophesied, saying, Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones, to execute judgment upon all.
Enoch lived at the dawn of history and he wrote a book, the Book of Enoch. There is a true book of Enoch somewhere, but the apocryphal book I believe is a specious one which was written about 100 B. C. Enoch has been said to be the father of writing. Frankly, I think the Book of Enoch is preserved some place and during the great kingdom age it will be discovered again. No doubt other books that are mentioned in the Bible will also be recovered.
God always has His perfect word and revelation. The Old Testament was perfect for the Old Testament times. It contained all the seed principles and thoughts that were to govern the church age and the kingdom. It was complete even without another revelation; but aren’t you glad we received the New Testament in due time?
Eventually there will be other words that God will add to govern us when the kingdom comes, but that will be for another age. We have everything we need right now. We have so much that points the way.
Enoch wrote his book as he was walking with God. He was listening to what God had to say, he was seeing the things God wanted him to see. He saw the great visions of the Lord’s coming. The Lord must have taught him many things, and his faith kept growing.
During Enoch’s life the days were growing very evil in the world. He was more concerned about His walk with God than anything else. God showed him the flood coming that would destroy all flesh, and that is why he called his son Methuselah which means man of the dart, or he dies and it (the flood) is sent.
That is why Methuselah was the oldest man that ever lived. God kept extending his life, and extending his life because God is longsuffering and merciful and not willing than any should perish, but that all would come to repentance.
Noah was the oracle of God at that time, but no one believed him, they thought he was crazy, because it never even rained before, a mist would come and water he earth.
God showed Enoch the things that are going to come in the end time in which we are living, when He would bring judgment on all the ungodly. Enoch was a friend of God; God only reveals his mysteries to his friends.