Enoch

Enoch – Type of Christ’s Resurrection and Ascension

Gen. 5:2 Enoch walked with God, and he was not found, for God took him.

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

Rev. 12:5 She gave birth to a son, a male child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron. Her child was caught up to God, and to his throne.

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I Do Always Those Things That Please The Father

Types and shadows have been mentioned before. The definition of a type is “a person or thing symbolizing… something.” (Source) The definition of a shadow is “to represent vaguely, mysteriously, or prophetically.” (Source) Enoch is depicted this way in the Bible.

By illustrators of the 1728 Figures de la Bible, Gerard Hoet (1648–1733) and others, published by P. de Hondt in The Hague in 1728 [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him. Genesis 5:24

This foretells the resurrection of Christ, of Jesus being raised from the dead.

It also has another meaning. Enoch walked with God. Jesus said that he always pleased the Father.

And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him. John 8:29

 

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