In previous posts we looked at the 5 women mentioned in the Geneology of Messiah.
In that same list is another enigmatic individual whose name is Chanokh.
We may be more familiar with the English translation of
Enoch.
Enoch in Hebrew is pronounced as Chenock
and sounds close to Henokh.
The name Hanok is from the same Hebrew word translated Enoch in both verses, Genesis 4:17 and Genesis 5:18. Other translations say Hanoch, hhanock or Henoch. The only difference is one of English spelling.
Part of Speech: proper name, masculine Transliteration: Chanok Phonetic Spelling: (khan-oke’) In the pronunciation sounds like anochi
Who was Enoch /Chanoch?
Enoch the name means:
dedicated, initiated one.
chet nun vav kaf
חֲנוֹךְ
Genesis 5 shows the direct line from Adam to Noah.
In Luke 3 working backwards:
Which was the son of Cainan,
which was the son of Arphaxad,
which was the son of Sem,
which was the son of Noe,
which was the son of Lamech,
37 Which was the son of Mathusala,
which was the son of Enoch,
which was the son of Jared,
which was the son of Maleleel,
which was the son of Cainan,
38 Which was the son of Enos,
which was the son of Seth,
which was the son of Adam,
which was the son of God.
If the ages of the individuals genealogies are added together, we will discover that Adam was alive at the same time Enoch was alive!
Enoch was the 7th from Adam, and the great-great Grandfather of Noah,
and his son Methuselah died the same week that Noah entered into the ark.
The meanings of their combined Hebrew names preach the gospel message of the coming Messiah.
Adam – Man
Seth – Appointed
Enosh/Enos – Mortal
Kenan/Cainan – Sorrow
Mahalael/Maleleel – The Blessed God
Yared/Jared – Shall Come Down
Enoch – Teaching
Mathusala/ Methuselah – His Death Shall Bring
Lamech – The Despairing
Noe/Noah – Comfort/ Rest
Adding in: is, to, but and the it could read
Man is Appointed to Mortal Sorrow
but The Blessed God
Shall Come Down Teaching
His Death Shall Bring the Despairing
Comfort/ Rest
In Genesis 5:1-32
1 This is the written account of Adam’s family line.
When God created mankind, he made them in the likeness of God.
2 He created them male and female and blessed them. And he named them “Mankind” when they were created.
3 When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth.
4 After Seth was born, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters.
5Altogether, Adam lived a total of 930 years, and then he died.
6 When Seth had lived 105 years, he became the father of Enosh.
7 After he became the father of Enosh, Seth lived 807 years and had other sons and daughters.
8Altogether, Seth lived a total of 912 years, and then he died.
9 When Enosh had lived 90 years, he became the father of Kenan.
10 After he became the father of Kenan, Enosh lived 815 years and had other sons and daughters.
11Altogether, Enosh lived a total of 905 years, and then he died.
12 When Kenan had lived 70 years, he became the father of Mahalalel.
13After he became the father of Mahalalel, Kenan lived 840 years and had other sons and daughters.
14 Altogether, Kenan lived a total of 910 years, and then he died.
15 When Mahalalel had lived 65 years, he became the father of Jared.
16After he became the father of Jared, Mahalalel lived 830 years and had other sons and daughters.
17 Altogether, Mahalalel lived a total of 895 years, and then he died.
18 When Jared had lived 162 years, he became the father of Enoch.
19 After he became the father of Enoch, Jared lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters.
20Altogether, Jared lived a total of 962 years, and then he died.
21 When Enoch had lived 65 years, he became the father of Methuselah.
22After he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked faithfully with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters.
23 Altogether, Enoch lived a total of 365 years.
24Enoch walked faithfully with God; then he was no more, because God took him away.
25 When Methuselah had lived 187 years, he became the father of Lamech.
26After he became the father of Lamech, Methuselah lived 782 years and had other sons and daughters.
27 Altogether, Methuselah lived a total of 969 years, and then he died.
28 When Lamech had lived 182 years, he had a son.
29 He named him Noah and said, “He will comfort us in the labor and painful toil of our hands caused by the ground the LORD has cursed.”
30 After Noah was born, Lamech lived 595 years and had other sons and daughters.
31 Altogether, Lamech lived a total of 777 years, and then he died.
32 After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham and Japheth.
Genealogy of Yeshua/Jesus. Luke 3:21-38
21 When all the people were being baptized, Jesus was baptized too. And as he was praying, heaven was opened
22 and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: “You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.”
23 Now Jesus himself was about thirty years old when he began his ministry. He was the son, so it was thought, of Joseph, the son of Heli,
24 the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, the son of Melki, the son of Jannai, the son of Joseph,
25 the son of Mattathias, the son of Amos, the son of Nahum, the son of Esli, the son of Naggai,
26 the son of Maath, the son of Mattathias, the son of Semein, the son of Josek, the son of Joda,
27 the son of Joanan, the son of Rhesa, the son of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, the son of Neri,
28 the son of Melki, the son of Addi, the son of Cosam, the son of Elmadam, the son of Er,
29 the son of Joshua, the son of Eliezer, the son of Jorim, the son of Matthat, the son of Levi,
30 the son of Simeon, the son of Judah, the son of Joseph, the son of Jonam, the son of Eliakim,
31 the son of Melea, the son of Menna, the son of Mattatha, the son of Nathan, the son of David,
32 the son of Jesse, the son of Obed, the son of Boaz, the son of Salmon, the son of Nahshon,
33 the son of Amminadab, the son of Ram,the son of Hezron, the son of Perez, the son of Judah,
34 the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor,
35 the son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of Eber, the son of Shelah,
36 the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech,
37 the son of Methuselah,
the son of ENOCH
the son of Jared, the son of Mahalalel, the son of Kenan,
38 the son of Enosh, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.
He is also mentioned in Hebrews
Hebrews 11:5-6 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
Hebrews 11:5-6 New Living Translation (NLT) 5 It was by faith that Enoch was taken up to heaven without dying—“he disappeared, because God took him.”[ a] For before he was taken up, he was known as a person who pleased God. 6 And it is impossible to please God without faith.
Jude 14-15 King James Version (KJV) 15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
14 Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about them: “See, the Lord is coming with thousands upon thousands of his holy ones 15 to judge everyone, and to convict all of them of all the ungodly acts they have committed in their ungodliness, and of all the defiant words ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”[ a]
Enoch is located at position seven in the Genesis 5 genealogy he is not to be confused with Cains son by the same name in Genesis 4:17 the number seven is a symbolic number denoting perfection this is a fact Jude did not overlook when he referred to Enoch as the seventh from Adam, or a perfect man.
Jude 14-15 Amplified Bible (AMP) 14 It was about these people that [ a ] Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied, when he said, “Look, the Lord came with [ b ] myriads of His holy ones 15 to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the [ c ] ungodly of all the ungodly deeds they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh and cruel things ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.”
Jude clearly notes Enoch as a prophet for he says
Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied, when he said,
In Jude 14-15, Jude describes the second coming with the following quote:
“See, the Lord is coming with thousands upon thousands of his holy ones.”
The Jewish historian Josephus and the secular historian Tacitus report an army seen in the clouds at the start of the Jewish War in A.D. 66!
So Who was this man there are only such few verses about him in the Scriptures?
Even a casual reading of Genesis account emphasizes that
Enoch walked with God,
the only person in the entire genealogy to do so
and whats more he walked with God for 300 years!
The significance of Methuselah.
Enoch’s son Methuselah, was the oldest man that ever lived and died.
In truth it is Methuselah’s father who is the oldest man that ever lived, because Enoch never died!
Followed of course by Elijah.
Enochs great grandson Noah built the ark and was spared from the flood and that year his grandfather died.
Two facts we can compare:
Genesis 5:27
tells us that Methuselah died at age 969
Second in Genesis 5:25
Methuselah’s age was 187
when Lamech was born’
and Genesis 5:28
Lamech’s age was 182
when Noah was born.
Genesis 7:11
+600
Noah’s age when the flood came.
Total 969
From these two facts anyone can calculate that Methuselah died the year of the flood.
Soon after Methuselah was laid in the ground the fountains of the great deep broke up.
As Methuselah died the year of the flood it speaks to us that his name was very prophetic, giving insight that his father Enoch was a prophet. As Jude declared over 3000 years later. A prophet tells things ahead of time not only about the flood, but he also foretold the second coming in Jude 15.
The fact that Methuselah died at the oldest age on record reveals the mercy of God in not wanting to send the flood until he has given time for man to asked for forgiveness, to repent.
Is not the fact that we are called to
repent/ teshuvah
the very core of salvation?
This is why in the New Testament Peter tells us that he is not slow in his coming as some men thinks slowness.
Peter spoke about God’s reluctance to destroy mankind in direct connection with the lifestyle of Methuselah when he referred to the patience of God while the ark was being built 1 Peter 3:20
Did God keep extending Methuselah’s life year-by-year because he is long suffering toward mankind and is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance? 2Peter 3:9
Noah a preacher of righteousness was only able to save his family by Gods directive. 2Peter 2:5
Enoch, who by position was already part of the Godly lineage, found his life radically altered by the birth of Methuselah. Apparently, God came to Enoch and informed him of the prophetic significance of the child that his wife was soon to give birth to. He was also told to call his name Methuselah because, when he dies, an event will occur which will be recorded historically as the flood.
This new birth led to a new walk and
Enoch walked with God
after he begat Methuselah.
The new walk
in turn led to a new life
and Enoch walked with God and
he
was not –
for God took him.
The term
was not –
has two meanings:
It is a Hebrew idiom meaning
he died
but it can also be interpreted as his
being translated –
going straight to heaven without dying, (physical body).
In the version of the Septuagint, “and he was not found, for God translated him.” Hence, in the New Testament it is said, Hebrews 11:5, “By faith Enoch was translated, that he should not see death.”
The first is one word in Hebrew
we’eynennû,
which could be literally translated
“and he not there,”
the verb “was” to be supplied:
”he was not there/he was no more.”
It could mean that he disappeared or that he died.
1) to go, to walk, to go along (to, through or over a place, with someone, after someone, to follow someone, to pursue someone);
2) “to walk” is to live, to follow any manner of life (to follow someone’s footsteps is to imitate him in life and manners)
הלך hâlak is similar in sound and meaning to ילך yâlak (Strong’s #3212) “to go” which according to some lexicons is first used of the Serpent in Eden being forced “to go” on its belly without its legs but also of Abram’s great commission (Genesis 12:1) to leave Ur and go to a new land, clearly using his legs not slithering like a snake.
From these meanings, Halak
clearly shows
a literal place where he went daily
in order to walk and talk with God.
Of course Enoch also walked with God in the usual sense of the term as he sought to include into every aspect of daily life the lessons he learned during intimate communion with God.
Amos 3:3 poses the question:
can two walk together except they be agreed
since the obvious answer is that they cannot,
and since God does not change,
Enoch discovered what we must also learn
that it is we/us that must do the changing.
We must continuously adjust and strive to stay closely connected with God.
The last three words about each of Enochs’ predecessors are
that he died.
Genesis 5:55:8:5:11 5:14 5:17 5:20.
The last three words about Enoch are:
God took him
Genesis 5:24
We are informed later in the New Testament that God took him, means that he did not see death because God translated him Hebrews 11:5
The Enoch principle to remember from the Genesis account is that: he walked with God.
This phrase can be reduced to one word – fellowship.
Enoch pleased God and the next time we find Enoch mentioned in the scriptures is at the 2nd position in the Hebrews list of Faith heroes. Heb. 11:5,6; By faith Enoch…
Whereas the Genesis account mentions twice
that Enoch walked with God
and the Hebrews account speaks twice of
Enoch pleasing God.
Verse 6 is one of the most popular faith verses in the Brit Chadashah,
it should be looked at as a comment on Enoch and then verse 7 quickly moves to Noah.
Since the emphasis of the Hebrews account is that
Enoch pleased God
it follows that only by
walking with God
(genesis text)
will one ever please Him.
(Hebrews text)
Or to put it another way Fellowship precedes approval. Yeshua/Jesus will never say I knew You, unless we are intimate with Him during our sojourn here and that is not summed up in us giving Him our list of wants and calling it prayer time!
Hebrews adds some interesting insights about Enoch one is that his translation did not seem a surprise to him.
By faith Enoch was translated.
His translation was something Enoch was believing for. The word translate here is
metathesis
Strongs 3331 3346
and means: transportation ie transferal to heaven
Enoch miraculously stepped from the earthly realm to the heavenly realm
How does faith come?…
by hearing and hearing by the word of God, Rom. 10:17
The question arises; how did he hear the word in order to receive such faith; especially for an event for which there was no precedent (translation)? At this time the revelation from God to man was not much in evidence. Man did not know much more than of sin and sacrifice.
Seeing as Enoch had no Bible to read, nor church to attend; how could he hear Gods word??
Refocus on the words
Enoch walked with God
and consider that it is possible that Enoch and God conversed as the two of them walked together? Just as his 7th generation forebear Adam had done? According to the scripture in 1 John 4:12Enoch could not see God, however, according toJohn 10:27;Enoch could hear Gods voice. This would be similar to how we hear His voice today and maybe even in a stronger sense because he did not have the other means of the Father’s grace extended to him. Was Enochs’ diligence in seeking the Lord rewarded with God giving him a clear revelation of Himself?
Again in Heb 5:22,24 the Hebrew word for walk is Halak and means to walk up and down with another, to be conversant with…
God was conversant with Enoch, before his translation he had this testimony that he pleased God,
The word testimony here means witness
Enoch had the witness the vocal testimony that he pleased God. Was it was upon hearing this witness that he received faith to step up into the heavenly dimension?
We should remember that they had enjoyed fellowship and daily conversation for 300 yrs!!
Enoch had adjusted his life following the instructions from the voice. it is possible God found in Enoch what he had intended and longed for with Adam and Eve and when it was lost he found it again with Enoch?
These are the same principles seen in later examples of fruitfulness. Moses, Joshua, David, Daniel etc. Yeshua/Jesus is our prime example.
He had FELLOWSHIP with His Father in perfect obedience.
For the first 30 years we hear almost nothing of Him, then he received public declaration of his Fathers APPROVAL at the Jordan river before His public MINISTRY.
The Biblical order the scripture repeats for us to see is Fellowship Approval Ministry.
For Enoch there was a moment when something special and unique occurred … He was transported into the Fathers presence. In Hebrews 11:5 we are told His family searched for him but he was not found … It was as though he vanished into thin air; with no trace no sign of struggle … nothing…. for God took him God had translated him.
In Genesis, we have the Enoch principle that is fellowship and the Enoch principle in Hebrews is Approval. When a person fellowships with God and pleases Him through obedience, God is usually pleased to then use that person as a mouthpiece to others.
This leads us to the third scripture where Enoch is mentioned.
The book of Jude precedes Revelation and is placed strategically because it is prophetic of the things which will unfold in the last days immediately prior to the Lords return. It is in this very short book Enoch is mentioned. Jude 14.15
The Enoch principle in Jude is that of Ministry which is based on the statement that Enoch also prophesied.
He spoke TO God
before he
spoke FOR God
The underlying Enoch principles are:
FELLOWSHIP leads to
APPROVAL and that leads to MINISTRY
Relationship precedes permission to preach!?
Jude is referencing the book of Enoch when he quotes Enochs prophecy about the Lords return. This book was never received as canonical and its certain that not all the letters Paul wrote are included either! Many are not aware that Paul wrote a letter to the Laodecians is just an example. It is notable and important to see that God made sure that Judes book was included and that a small portion of Enochs prophesies were included in the ‘canon’!
It may surprise readers to know there are scrolls believed to have been written by Enoch however they are not well known and have been somewhat hidden from view.
Several fragments of it, in Aramaic, have been found among the Dead Sea Scrolls. (It is not known if the book was written originally in Hebrew or in Aramaic, the common language of the time.) He gave his writings to Methuselah (the son of Enoch and grandfather of Noah), and Noah to preserve them “so they can be delivered to the generations of the world”.
It is not regarded as scripture by Jews or any Christian group, apart from the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, which to this day regards it to be canonical. This prophesy of Enoch is not found in the Tenach, but is found in “The Book of Enoch,” a work that has long been lost and only discovered in Africa the 17th century. The book was thought to have been lost, for over 2,000 years, with many ancient sources referring to it, and even quoting parts, but no complete copies were known. Then in 1773, James Bruce brought three copies back from Ethiopia, having spent some years exploring the country.
Access to their content is now more easily available with the internet offering the contents and it has become more popular now we are nearing the return of Messiah. Many say they should not be read as they are not included in the Bible…There is some evidence that they were excluded by decree of men around the time of Constantine and the council of Nicea who determined what books should be left in and which should not. Would we read the writings of Noah or Abraham if they existed? We read Job, Jeremiah, etc,. etc,. without thinking; yet we stumble over the so called apocryphal books, saying they are not genuine. Then we read Josephus the historian employed by Rome, and believe what he wrote concerning the events of the times in which he lived. Here is where we trust the Fathers spirit of holiness and read with a discerning heart and noting that if the contents are confirmed by scripture they may well have benefit now that as Daniel prophesied, knowledge shall increase in the last days.
There is certainly some curiosity to read what Enoch wrote, a man who walked with God for 300 years, pleased God, prophesied of the end time, mentioned by the new testament writers and literally did not die but was taken up to be with the Lord…. Let the reader decide.
Many scholars think that Enoch could be one of the 2 witnesses of revelation along with Moses and or Elijah seeing as Enoch and Elijah did not physically die, they may return to die as stated inRevelation 11 :1-14.
Enoch was divinely inspired to prophesy that Jehovah /YeHoVeH would come “with his holy myriads to execute judgment against all, and to convict all the ungodly concerning all their ungodly deeds that they did in an ungodly way, and concerning all the shocking things that ungodly sinners spoke against him.
The first words of the book are very close to known scriptures.
The words of the blessing of Enoch, wherewith he blessed the elect ⌈⌈and⌉⌉ righteous, who will be living in the day of tribulation, when all the wicked ⌈⌈and godless⌉⌉ are to be removed.
And he took up his parable and said–Enoch a righteous man, whose eyes were opened by
God, saw the vision of the Holy One in the heavens, ⌈which⌉ the angels showed me, and from them I heard everything, and from them I understood as I saw, but not for this generation, but for a remote one which is for to come.
Concerning the elect I said, and took up my parable concerning them: The Holy Great One will come forth from His dwelling,
And the eternal God will tread upon the earth, (even) on Mount Sinai,
⌈And appear from His camp⌉ And appear in the strength of His might from the heaven of heavens.
And all shall be smitten with fear
And the Watchers shall quake,
And great fear and trembling shall seize them unto the ends of the earth.
And the high mountains shall be shaken, And the high hills shall be made low,
And shall melt like wax before the flame p. 32
And the earth shall be ⌈wholly⌉ rent in sunder, And all that is upon the earth shall perish,
And there shall be a judgement upon all (men).
But with the righteous He will make peace.
And will protect the elect, And mercy shall be upon them.
And they shall all belong to God, And they shall be prospered,
And they shall ⌈all⌉ be blessed. ⌈And He will help them all⌉,
And light shall appear unto them, ⌈And He will make peace with them⌉.
And behold! He cometh with ten thousands of ⌈His⌉ holy ones To execute judgement upon all,
And to destroy ⌈all⌉ the ungodly: And to convict all flesh Of all the works ⌈of their ungodliness⌉ which they have ungodly committed, And of all the hard things which ungodly sinners ⌈have spoken⌉ against Him.
Abel is the first person in the scripture who is identified as a prophet but Abel has no recorded words in scripture. Looking at him more closely we see that Yeshua/Jesus obviously referred to him as a prophet through his martyrdom. Luke 11:50,51
Enoch is the first person after Abel identified as a prophet and the first one whose prophetic utterance is cited. even though we have come to the last but one book in the Bible to find it!
Enoch emphasized about the ungodliness of his day (ungodly repeated.)
Enoch the prophet speaks to us today telling us that IF we will
(IF CONDITION AGAIN)
fellowship daily with our Lord,
we will please Him
and He in turn will please us by using us for His glory
or to quote literally
Enoch walked with God, he pleased God, Enoch also prophesied…
A closer look at his name and the meaning of the individual letters with the paleo pictographs:
חֲנוֹך
chet nun vav kaf (reading right to left)
חֲנוֹך
kaf vav nun chet
chet: fence private sanctuary a place of protection and refuge
noon: fish activity and life seed
vav: iron nail connect two things together
kaf: open palm of the hand to cover teaching kippur atonement.
One combination of these pictographs could be:
chet: In a private set apart place/ sanctuary where noon /life is both created and protected, this wonderful event occurs because of a connection between 2 things separated from each other, which in this case: sinful man and a Holy God – the separation is restored/healed by an iron nail – vav – which is connected to the kaf the palm of the hand. And the picture of the letter kaf seems to tell us what this is about, that it is the redemptive work of atonement which came through Jesus/Yeshua.
Is this what our Heavenly Father was thinking
as a indication of his redemptive plan
when He named Enoch?
חנוך
hhanokh
7th from Adam
7= divine perfection
which was manifest in Yeshuas life, death and resurrection.
Enoch pleased God/YeHoVeH.
is this also an indication of the coming Messiah?
Let us be among those of whom it can be said
He becomes a rewarder of those who seek Him out
They referred to
חנוך
hhanokh
Enoch as
“the man who walked with God.”
Is that how others refer to us?
It is interesting that we read many books without even a second thought. Then when we are told not to read something written by a direct ancestor of Messiah we are almost afraid to even look at it.
The contents of Enochs’ writings are somewhat controversial and being prayerful and discerning is at the readers personal discretion. MMM is simply presenting information for those who love to study.
For individuals who are led by His Ruach HaKodesh together with an interest in further study of his writings; some of which were also attributed to Noah! There are downloads available as well as hard copies that can be purchased on line.
We are living in the closing days of this age, some of which are what Enoch prophesied about. If you have not already made a decision or given your heart to Yeshua/Jesus or just simply NOT SURE? YOU CAN BE..
please make sure you are secure in the knowledge that you are saved…. Today is the day of salvation for we are not promised tomorrow….
SAY THE FOLLOWING FROM YOUR HEART RIGHT NOW…
Heavenly Father I come to you in the Name of Jesus/Yeshua asking for forgiveness of my sins for which I am truly sorry. I repent of them all and turn away from my past. I believe with my heart and confess with my mouth that Jesus/Yeshua is your Son and that He died on the cross at calvary to pay the price for my sin, so that I might be forgiven and have eternal life in the kingdom of Heaven. Father I believe that Jesus/Yeshua rose from the dead and I ask you to come into my life right now and be my personal Savior and Lord and I will worship you all the days of my life. Because your word is truth I say that I am now forgiven and born again and by faith I am washed clean with the blood of Jesus/Yeshua. Thank you that you have accepted me into your family in Jesus’/Yeshua’s name. Amen.
In previous posts we looked at the 5 women mentioned in the Geneology of Messiah. 
