DAILY READINGS: 2 Kings 6:1-23; Jeremiah 39-40; Hebrews 10:1-18
And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him. Genesis 5:24
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first. 1 Thessalonians 4:16
Genesis 5 has been called “the obituary page of the Bible” for repeatedly we read, “and he died!” However, everything changes when we come to saintly Enoch. The enemy, death, is interrupted! Here was a man “who walked side by side with God,” in a corrupt society until one day “He was not, for God took him.” What a glorious hope for the believer! Live expectantly in the hope of His imminent return.—James Comte
Come, and begin Thy reign of everlasting peace;
Come take the kingdom to Thyself, great King of righteousness.—H. Bonar