Enoch


Scripture shows that Eden's corruption was so complete that only nine exceptions to it existed in the history of its civilization: Enoch, and the eight people who were saved at the time of Noah.

Enoch was a type of the rapture in the land of Eden. "Enoch walked with God. Then he vanished because God took him." (Gn.5:24). He lived in the land for 365 years and then ascended directly into heaven. "It was because of his faith that Enoch was taken up and did not have to experience death." (Heb.11:5). Because he pleased God, Satan and his battalion of evil angels had no power over him.

There is something very special about Enoch -- his holiness, his companionship with God and the fact that his life of 365 years (a year of years) relates symbolically, like Jesus, to our sun. What that importance is, we can only speculate, but it is as if Jesus, Himself, had been planted there and then divinely removed because the creation in Eden was too faithless and evil