Enoch – Type of Christ’s Resurrection and Ascension

Figures God took Enoch
Figures God took Enoch
Ascension-lafarge
Ascension-Lafarge
Rabbula Gospels Folio 13v Ascension
Rabbula Gospels Folio 13v Ascension
Brooklyn Museum - The Ascension - James Tissot
The Ascension – James Tissot

Genenis 5:24 (KJV) And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.

 

Mark 16:19 So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.

 

Rev. 12:5 And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.

The Geneology of Adam

Geneology adam

Drnhawkins, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

 

In Genesis chapter 5, there is a list of names. Let’s look at them in the light of Jesus.

Adam – Mankind

Seth – Substituted

Enos – Mortal, a man, singular or collectively, suffering man

Cainan – Fixed, Possessor

Mahalaleel – Praise of God

Jared – Descent

Enoch – Initiated

Methuselah – Man who is of God

Lamech – Overthrown

Noah – Rest

These meanings were drawn from a Strong’s concordance and a Bible dictionary.