The Faith of Enoch | Pastor Carl Henry | October 17, 2010

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, first of all, let's go ahead and break this down before we go to the obvious text which is back in the book of Genesis in chapter 5.

[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to break this down just a little bit first.

[SPEAKER_01]: There's a couple words here that, well, we may not use it a lot, and the word is translated.

[SPEAKER_01]: the word translated it comes from two different Greek words and one of those part of that Greek word means to to be against or among or assembled and the other one is to go over against before et cetera.

[SPEAKER_01]: And so what it's tying together to mean is this that this word translated is that

[SPEAKER_01]: and ends up together there before God.

[SPEAKER_01]: And so what has happened, let me explain this a little bit too, there's other places that the word to be translated means to to follow way or to desert from one thing to another.

[SPEAKER_01]: And all times, it has to do with people that actually left something that was good.

[SPEAKER_01]: They were translated and went from something that was positive and absolutely went the opposite direction and fastened themselves with the wrong crowd.

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, here it is in the positive, to the same definition, meaning that he, Enoch, fell away or left this earth,

[SPEAKER_01]: to be joined in heaven, if you will, with God, where all the Old Testament heaven, with Abraham's bosom, and he was there joined together with the Old Testament Saints, Enoch.

[SPEAKER_01]: He was not because God translated or took him out.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know of anybody that has tried to do this, but I'm sure some of the liberal phyologians would talk about, well, it doesn't mean that he actually didn't die.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's just he was, you know, I'm sure some would try to put away the miracle of all this, but the truth is, this is, as we would know it, a rapture, a snatching away from Earth

[SPEAKER_01]: to heaven.

[SPEAKER_01]: And there's no way around it.

[SPEAKER_01]: There are several in the Scriptures that this has happened to, Enoch is one of them, Elijah is another.

[SPEAKER_01]: And when I bring these two up, as the Scriptures teach us, these two did not taste death.

[SPEAKER_01]: They never experienced what many of our loved ones who have gone before us have experienced.

[SPEAKER_01]: They did not experience that last breath.

[SPEAKER_01]: They didn't experience the pain possibly.

[SPEAKER_01]: The circumstances around it.

[SPEAKER_01]: Instead, they were taken immediately while they were alive as well as you and I are right now and literally snatched out of this world and God took them.

[SPEAKER_01]: It wasn't a will of man.

[SPEAKER_01]: It was a will of God in His timing.

[SPEAKER_01]: By the way, you know, it was 365 years old when it's happened.

[SPEAKER_01]: So it wasn't like he was a young guy on this earth, you know, 20, 25 years old.

[SPEAKER_01]: Lots of children, of course, but those love was one of those children, as you know.

[SPEAKER_01]: And so this is the man, Enoch.

[SPEAKER_01]: What his testimony was, and the word testimony here means to obtain a report or this report about him.

[SPEAKER_01]: In other words, this is not coming from man necessarily at this report, but I believe that it's coming from God Himself to you and I to show you and I that the report that Enoc and another word to help you to understand this is that Enoc won or earned this report.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know what the report was all about?

[SPEAKER_01]: One word.

[SPEAKER_01]: And you get three chances to guess what it is and the first two don't count.

[SPEAKER_01]: Since we're in the whole tax is talking about one key word, right?

[SPEAKER_01]: Anybody know what it is?

[SPEAKER_01]: Faith, good job.

[SPEAKER_01]: And that's what he won as far as a testimony, a report that yes, others could see.

[SPEAKER_01]: But the next verse says, because without faith,

[SPEAKER_01]: It's impossible to please God.

[SPEAKER_01]: This whole text is about man pleasing God because of their trust and faith in him.

[SPEAKER_01]: And that's what Enoch won.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's what God says, you receive a special reward because of that.

[SPEAKER_01]: So God translated him, took him from this position here on this earth to God's presence, and then before his translation, that was what he had as a testimony that he pleased God.

[SPEAKER_01]: Now, let's go back to the book of Genesis and chapter number five, Genesis and chapter number five.

[SPEAKER_01]: it's going through in chapter number five and I'm sure you know it's not too far into Genesis you'll see in I think it's a book of Luke where it's recorded about the generations that Enoch was the seventh generation from Adam now it says oftentimes the seventh from him seventh from Adam will literally there were many people born obviously so it was the second

[SPEAKER_01]: So Enoc is seven generations from Adam, and with that in mind, as you see in this text, they're going through the different genealogies and the death of many of the patriarchs.

[SPEAKER_01]: And these, of course, all would have been right before one of the most critical events that happens in the Old Testament.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm sure you know what that is in Genesis chapter number six, and that was the flood.

[SPEAKER_01]: As this earth was totally consumed under water for those days and all flesh died, this is right before that.

[SPEAKER_01]: Now, you'll need to follow me tonight because I'm going to be teaching you not this the practical things about Enoch.

[SPEAKER_01]: I also want to show you what I see is a beautiful prophecy that he shows you and I about ourselves.

[SPEAKER_01]: This translation, this rapture, is a unique one.

[SPEAKER_01]: A little bit more unique even than Elijah's.

[SPEAKER_01]: Elijah's taken up and chariote the world when snatches him and takes him up.

[SPEAKER_01]: And of course, he's got someone to follow him and that was Elijah.

[SPEAKER_01]: There are some that believe because Enoch and Elijah were the only two recorded from the Old Testament that were snatched away and didn't taste death.

[SPEAKER_01]: Many believe that those are the two that are going to be the witnesses in the revelation in the 11th chapter.

[SPEAKER_01]: Some feel Enoch is one of those because at that point then Enoch, and if it were to be,

[SPEAKER_01]: be there in the streets for three days and then resurrect after that.

[SPEAKER_01]: And if you believe that and I have some guys come up and said, I definitely believe he knocks the other witness and it's okay, your preacher doesn't agree with you.

[SPEAKER_01]: As we see the miracles there in that text, they line up with what God says is the primary

[SPEAKER_01]: the law, the witness there to the world, would be under Moses.

[SPEAKER_01]: You'll see many of the miracles that are performed there in the revelation are just like those coming out of Egypt.

[SPEAKER_01]: Then the second one, Elijah, the miracles that are done there by the second in Revelation, are just like the miracles of Elijah.

[SPEAKER_01]: and we see those two tied together many times as the premier logiver and there's no greater profit on the earth known than Elijah from the Old Testament.

[SPEAKER_01]: In fact, they were waiting for Elijah to come again.

[SPEAKER_01]: Remember that prophecy?

[SPEAKER_01]: And it was fulfilled, Jesus taught, in John the Baptist, the Spirit of Elijah, had already come.

[SPEAKER_01]: So that's the wisdom that I feel brings those two out.

[SPEAKER_01]: And you would say, well, wait a minute.

[SPEAKER_01]: So you're saying that Moses died once, he's going to become back to the earth, and he's going to die again, poor guy, yes he is, and then he's going to be resurrected, that's yes.

[SPEAKER_01]: And you say, well, that doesn't make sense, because it's appointed in Hebrews, unto man, once to die, and after this, the judgment, that's my point.

[SPEAKER_01]: You say, well, you mean that's your point, that is my point, because it is appointed unto

[SPEAKER_01]: And you say, preacher, what you're telling me then is God is saying that Enoch did not die and won't ever have to die.

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, that goes against the Scriptures, but please follow me on my point.

[SPEAKER_01]: If the rapture were to happen today, would you die?

[SPEAKER_01]: The answer is, hmmm.

[SPEAKER_01]: Allow God to be God and set a bus trying to figure out everything that God is trying to do here.

[SPEAKER_01]: I believe personally that God is trying to show here a pattern before the judgment, there is a rapture.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure that there were many on this earth that walked with the Lord, but not like Enoch.

[SPEAKER_01]: There was something special about this man.

[SPEAKER_01]: Let's go ahead and read it.

[SPEAKER_01]: verse number 21 is where we pick up is verse first mention of him is in verse number 18 and that's where the last part he we got Enoch and that's Jared the father verse 21 we pick up Enoch lived 65 years in Begatt, Methuselah and of course most of you know the story of Methuselah and he lived longer than all Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah 300 years

[SPEAKER_01]: and to be got sons and daughters, and all the days of Enoch were 360, 5 years, and Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God, took him.

[SPEAKER_01]: God took him.

[SPEAKER_01]: Now, it says that he had many children, but it's interesting that Methuselah is the one that has singled out of all

[SPEAKER_01]: Now, I'm going to start tying some things together and I'm going to go backwards with you tonight.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, usually we start here and we're going forward.

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I'm going to show you the conclusion, and I'm going to take you back words to try to show you the point.

[SPEAKER_01]: In Genesis 6, God tells us and reveals that the earth at that time period

[SPEAKER_01]: The idolatries, the just everybody doing whatever they wanted to do, and it was nothing but riotous type of living.

[SPEAKER_01]: And because of that, God is looking at the earth, and He has found only one individual that He says, that guy is going to receive grace.

[SPEAKER_01]: Now, as you know, in Hebrews chapter 11, verse 7, we're going to go into Noah's life.

Hebrews 11:7

[SPEAKER_01]: So you say, well, you're going to teach it now.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going back to Enoch.

[SPEAKER_01]: But that flood was predicted to this man.

[SPEAKER_01]: And Noah was told that this flood was going to come, and it was going to destroy the earth, it was going to rain for the very first time, and we'll talk about the canopy effect, that many believe at the scientists as Christian scientists as they look at this, they believe that's how this whole earth was at that time period before, and that's why the longevity of life and et cetera before, before the flood, and a lot of things that we believe, and I think it would be true, sounds right.

[SPEAKER_01]: course, I didn't live back then.

[SPEAKER_01]: So I don't know.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's amazing how many things the preachers talk about and doctors talk about and colleges that you don't find in the Bible.

[SPEAKER_01]: We kind of fabricate and sometimes make things up.

[SPEAKER_01]: But anyways, so God says to Him, you've got 120 years, you've got to start preaching.

[SPEAKER_01]: And at me in time, like preaching, you've

[SPEAKER_01]: because I'm going to destroy all flesh, get in about.

[SPEAKER_01]: And as Peter tells us, he was saved and his family.

[SPEAKER_01]: And the earth, pretty much, was destroyed.

[SPEAKER_01]: Noah is a picture there of something very special.

[SPEAKER_01]: And he is a picture of the remnant were saved.

[SPEAKER_01]: Many are called few chosen.

[SPEAKER_01]: It seems as though all the time except for maybe back at the beginning, you know, Adam and Eve, the majority were believers.

[SPEAKER_01]: You follow me.

[SPEAKER_01]: And then it got into the boys and then it was all beside me.

[SPEAKER_01]: You got 25% or whatever the numbers will be, or now not believers.

[SPEAKER_01]: And then the number seems to just go horrifically downhill.

[SPEAKER_01]: that the majority of the earth said, I don't need God, I'll make my own God.

[SPEAKER_01]: I want to eat, drink, and be merry, and do whatever I want to do, because nothing's going to happen to me.

[SPEAKER_01]: Sounds like the world right now.

[SPEAKER_01]: And so sure enough, God says, I'm going to destroy this, and I want you to be preaching, and I'm going to take this out, take them out.

[SPEAKER_01]: If you look at the revelation, and you get into chapter 12 in that area,

[SPEAKER_01]: During the time period of the tribulation, there again, there will be a remnant that is going to be saved.

[SPEAKER_01]: Now, follow me on this point, please.

[SPEAKER_01]: When Christ is teaching on the kingdom,

[SPEAKER_01]: were through the Gospels.

[SPEAKER_01]: He was leaning towards not his the rapture, but his second return back to this earth, explaining to the people, primarily to the Jews, that there will be a specific time period in characteristics about that time period, as in the days of Noah.

[SPEAKER_01]: He, Christ, relates his coming to the majority of the people on the earth are going to hate God.

[SPEAKER_01]: They're going to want to do whatever they do.

[SPEAKER_01]: Humanism is going to be the primary religion.

[SPEAKER_01]: Then we tie in, of course, the anti-Christ, the belief in him, which is, as brother Tester taught, me myself and I, is the whole religious meaning behind it all.

[SPEAKER_01]: And if Satan can convince mankind, just do whatever you want to do, then he's got them.

[SPEAKER_01]: Anyways.

[SPEAKER_01]: So, during the tribulation,

[SPEAKER_01]: There will be many people saved during your trip.

[SPEAKER_01]: Many will die, many will give their lives for their faith and we understand that.

[SPEAKER_01]: But at the very end, a remnant only shall be saved.

[SPEAKER_01]: In with that salvation at the very end of that, it is those that have persevered to the end that are saved will be then those who will be entering into the millennial reign with the Lord Jesus Christ.

[SPEAKER_01]: And so as we know this, as we follow the Scriptures,

[SPEAKER_01]: that know as day and the destruction of the earth, you'll remember the one place, a third of the earth, the population is destroyed and one of the plagues alone.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, just millions, millions of people are going to be dying.

[SPEAKER_01]: Over here, you're hearing this catastrophe, you're hearing this catastrophe, and they're going to be dying.

[SPEAKER_01]: And that's just like the days of Noah and the remnant will be saved.

[SPEAKER_01]: So as we see this going backwards,

[SPEAKER_01]: We see that there's an event that begins that tribulation.

[SPEAKER_01]: As you, I'm a current, I'm a current, I were talking this week.

[SPEAKER_01]: When you look at the Daniel 9 in other texts, you'll see that there is a covenant between the Antichrist and the Israelite, the Jewish people, a covenant between them that begins this great tribulation as Jesus describes it in the gospel of Matthew.

[SPEAKER_01]: That seems to be that which begins that seven-year of tribulation here on this earth.

[SPEAKER_01]: Now, as we're going backwards, there is obviously a season.

[SPEAKER_01]: There's time period that is here between what we're going to go backwards towards.

[SPEAKER_01]: And that is the rapture, and then this covenant is going to be made, and then this great tribulation begins.

[SPEAKER_01]: Um, just so you know, we believe, and as we see the Scriptures, we are a pre-malanial, pre-tribulation rapture of the church.

[SPEAKER_01]: Please give me at least a couple of way men's on that.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, thank you.

[SPEAKER_01]: Because there are mid-trip than their post-trip, and I got people that don't

[SPEAKER_01]: have any rapture.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it's amazing what's out there.

[SPEAKER_01]: And so, so that's where we see is this snatching away takes place before the judgment.

[SPEAKER_01]: You follow me?

[SPEAKER_01]: Rapture?

[SPEAKER_01]: Chaos.

[SPEAKER_01]: Bringing judgment.

[SPEAKER_01]: Bringing the Lord's return.

[SPEAKER_01]: Now, follow me to the book of Jude.

[SPEAKER_01]: Great after third John in case you were, where's that at?

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's not one of the minor prophets.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's over in a new testament.

[SPEAKER_01]: First, second, third John, it comes to the book of Jude.

[SPEAKER_01]: One of the only other places besides him being in the genealogy is that Enoch's name is mentioned.

[SPEAKER_01]: And here it is in verse number 14.

[SPEAKER_01]: And Enoch also,

[SPEAKER_01]: the 7th, that will be the 7th generation from Adam, prophesied of these things, saying, behold the Lord comeeth with 10,000s of His saints to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them that are that

[SPEAKER_01]: All their ungodly deeds, which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches with which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.

[SPEAKER_01]: You say, what is Enoch trying to say here?

[SPEAKER_01]: And as I read Genesis chapter number five, I don't remember Enoch saying that.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm glad you noticed that.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's a good question.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's like, wait a minute.

[SPEAKER_01]: Here, he is saying, Enoch, identified the seventh from Adam, had a message.

[SPEAKER_01]: You're telling me he was a preacher, and he was preaching against false prophets, and false teachers, now you're seeing it.

[SPEAKER_01]: And you say, what doesn't record that back in the book of Genesis in chapter five?

[SPEAKER_01]: That's exactly right.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's not there, and you can look and look.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's not there.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know what?

[SPEAKER_01]: This is what we call a progressive revelation.

[SPEAKER_01]: God is revealing to you, and I, because this is not man-made.

[SPEAKER_01]: We believe in the inspiration of the scriptures.

[SPEAKER_01]: God is not lying about this.

[SPEAKER_01]: Enoch then way back in Genesis, before the judgment comes, he actually is one who was preaching against the sinners of that time period.

[SPEAKER_01]: In other words, this whole case of the world going corrupt didn't happen in a day.

[SPEAKER_01]: It was decades.

[SPEAKER_01]: It was literally centuries until finally God says, it repents me that I have made man.

[SPEAKER_01]: By the way, some people say, well, God didn't give much of a chance.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's my point, folks.

[SPEAKER_01]: hundreds of years, the long suffering of our God put up with the earth.

[SPEAKER_01]: So, Enoch comes on to the sea, and he has children in particular, Methuselah.

[SPEAKER_01]: Methuselah usually is known for the longevity of life.

[SPEAKER_01]: But realistically, his name in what it means has more to do with this whole story than does how long he lived.

[SPEAKER_01]: His name literally, once I get to my note here, literally means, when he dies is the emission.

[SPEAKER_01]: has to do with the shooting out of a dart as another way of understanding Methuselah and what his name means.

[SPEAKER_01]: And you say that makes absolutely no sense to me.

[SPEAKER_01]: Let me teach you what it means.

[SPEAKER_01]: Dart doesn't give life as taken.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's a destruction, if you will.

[SPEAKER_01]: When he dies, when Methuselah dies is the emission, the emission would be the flood, the came out.

[SPEAKER_01]: Or came, literally, the same year, Methuselah died, the flood came.

[SPEAKER_01]: Do you think, do you think Enoch knew what was happening?

[SPEAKER_01]: Do you think by naming his own son by that name,

[SPEAKER_01]: You can rest assured, when my son dies, destruction is going to be coming.

[SPEAKER_01]: He is prophesying through his own name.

[SPEAKER_01]: that God was going to be bringing judgment and as Jude tells us that God Himself is going to be coming, Christ is going to be coming with 10,000s of His saints in particular, is His witness back in the book of Genesis.

[SPEAKER_01]: Therefore, this makes concrete my belief before you study the Revelation, you better study the book of Genesis.

[SPEAKER_01]: Genesis reveals the plan of God for all of the ages.

[SPEAKER_01]: It is the book of beginnings.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's the pattern of God.

[SPEAKER_01]: And that's why I believe I'm right with what I'm going to teach you.

[SPEAKER_01]: Therefore, Enoch is a picture of you and I.

[SPEAKER_01]: He was translated and snatched away because of one thing.

[SPEAKER_01]: Do you know why you and I are going to be raptured and snatched away out of here?

[SPEAKER_01]: It's not because you're a good guy.

[SPEAKER_01]: Not because you're the perfect ideal Christian.

[SPEAKER_01]: All in Christ, whether you think they're strong or whether you think they're a weak, they're snatched away, they will be raptured.

[SPEAKER_01]: And his bride is finally going to be going into the very presence of the husband,

[SPEAKER_01]: So, Enoch is a picture of you and I.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's walking with God.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's just walking with him.

[SPEAKER_01]: And the only testimony he had that God says, this is what you have won.

[SPEAKER_01]: You believe me.

[SPEAKER_01]: And that's why that's why we're going to be seeing that without faith, it's impossible to please him.

[SPEAKER_01]: So, because Enoch is snatched out,

[SPEAKER_01]: That then allows the season to come in to view what his own son, that when he is gone, in other words, when that takes place, then the judgment, the wrath of God will be coming.

[SPEAKER_01]: And it will be coming, and that's going to be my point in the moment.

[SPEAKER_01]: And then, of course, we know that after that tribulation, the Lord Jesus Christ is going to be coming back.

[SPEAKER_01]: Are you still there in Jude?

[SPEAKER_01]: Let me go back to it.

[SPEAKER_01]: Sorry about that.

[SPEAKER_01]: Enoch, also the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these saying, you say, what are of these, who are the these?

[SPEAKER_01]: The these are the false prophets.

[SPEAKER_01]: You'll probably not hear a lot of preaching from the book of Jude, because it's a really,

[SPEAKER_01]: It's about people of the past, whether it be King or Baalam and Quora, all these different people, judgment came upon them because of their actions.

[SPEAKER_01]: False teachers, false prophets, all these things, the devil and Michael fighting, it's just a whole lot of rage and things that are going on in this book.

[SPEAKER_01]: An inoc,

[SPEAKER_01]: though in this book is the one positive witness to the earth, to all that we're there, and he was preaching and prophesying against the false teachers, and this is what he was saying.

[SPEAKER_01]: The Lord's coming.

[SPEAKER_01]: The Lord is coming, which is message.

[SPEAKER_01]: The Lord's coming.

[SPEAKER_01]: Does that ring a bell?

[SPEAKER_01]: That might be our message, eh?

[SPEAKER_01]: Is the Lord coming?

[SPEAKER_01]: That's what closes the revelation down.

[SPEAKER_01]: Even so, Lord Jesus, come.

[SPEAKER_01]: That is our anticipation.

[SPEAKER_01]: This is what we are hoping for.

[SPEAKER_01]: This is our rest.

[SPEAKER_01]: And when He comes, He says, here, it has to do with judgment.

[SPEAKER_01]: As He is coming, He is coming with 10,000s of His saints.

[SPEAKER_01]: Just the first part of 15.

[SPEAKER_01]: The reason He is coming is to execute judgment upon all

[SPEAKER_01]: that are here.

[SPEAKER_01]: Here we are.

[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to church, we're trying to be a witness on this earth, we're here for seven years, give or take some years, and some of us are on borrowed time here, right?

[SPEAKER_01]: And some of us may not make it to that 70 mark.

[SPEAKER_01]: But here we are.

[SPEAKER_01]: We're going

[SPEAKER_01]: I really don't anticipate and look forward to dying.

[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe you do.

[SPEAKER_01]: I just, it's kind of like, you know, you're wondering how it's going to happen.

[SPEAKER_01]: Hard attack is going to be lung cancer.

[SPEAKER_01]: My doctor says lung cancer, carol.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, you had lung cancer.

[SPEAKER_01]: All my dad, my mom, my, all my great uncles, my path, the old dietal lung cancer, 65.

[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm good for about 15 years yet.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I'll be kicking a bucket, okay.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I said to the doc, I said, Doc, but you don't understand.

[SPEAKER_01]: My brother and I, we didn't smoke.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, all those guys were all heavy smokers, you know, they're just not going to say you're at, you know, you know, two packer of dayers or so.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I said, I didn't do that.

[SPEAKER_01]: And the doctor just smiled at me.

[SPEAKER_01]: He said, yeah, that doesn't matter that you're not a smoker.

[SPEAKER_01]: You're probably going to have the lung cancer, too.

[SPEAKER_01]: I said, thanks for the encouragement, you know.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm here for good news.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, you know, I washed my dad die of the lung cancer the two years of cruel punishment that that does to the body, et cetera, and it's not easy to watch people go downhill as many of you have had to go through.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's not death.

[SPEAKER_01]: There's not a pleasant thing.

[SPEAKER_01]: And so as we're here as Christians, we stop and we think, boy, that'd be sweet.

[SPEAKER_01]: If we could just be translated and just snatched away,

[SPEAKER_01]: never even taste it, understand it, we will be just taken in that moment, in the twinkling of an eye.

[SPEAKER_01]: At that last Trump, and we're going to see the dead and Christ rise first, and they're going to be there, and those which are alive remains snatched up together in the clouds.

[SPEAKER_01]: And we look forward to that, but is there not a message also that we have about the tribulation

[SPEAKER_01]: that we are trying to warn people of the wrath of God to come.

[SPEAKER_01]: The wrath that's going to be coming on this earth to the lost, to those who take the mark of the beast, etc.

[SPEAKER_01]: And if they even would endure to the end when the Lord Jesus Christ comes, and the war takes place.

[SPEAKER_01]: He will be destroying and separating the sheep from the goats and destroying the goats and cursing them into hell.

[SPEAKER_01]: Not good news for them.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's the warning.

[SPEAKER_01]: And boy, you start putting warnings out to people and you're not liked very much.

[SPEAKER_01]: You start preaching on hell and you start talking about damn nation and judgment.

[SPEAKER_01]: The first thing they're saying See, that's the whole thing about you You you Christians.

[SPEAKER_01]: You're always trying to put me on a guilt trip.

[SPEAKER_01]: You're always trying to talk about the condemnation.

[SPEAKER_01]: I thought God was a God of love That's the Best comeback they can usually come up with and you say you're not absolutely right God is love

[SPEAKER_01]: And the long-suffering of our God and the love of God is constraining him from doing it and bringing that judgment upon us all.

[SPEAKER_01]: For by grace, are we saved?

[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, God is love.

[SPEAKER_01]: And yet our God is just.

[SPEAKER_01]: And the love that he has for those who have received Jesus Christ is their personal Savior.

[SPEAKER_01]: to receive them the free gift of eternal life that will become the sons of God, those who have rejected the Son, even though God loved them, even though his son died for them, because of that, the justice of God will come on the earth, and it is because of his love.

[SPEAKER_01]: It is because of his love for his son,

[SPEAKER_01]: and it is because of his love for man.

[SPEAKER_01]: The justice of God will be there.

[SPEAKER_01]: The judgment of God will be on this earth, folks.

[SPEAKER_01]: And Peter says, oh yeah, everybody's talking about the Lord's return.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, generation generation.

[SPEAKER_01]: Everybody keeps talking about the Lord's return.

[SPEAKER_01]: Ah, he's not coming back and they begin to mock it.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I've heard people mock it.

[SPEAKER_01]: I have one guy at work.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you guys always talk about this raptor.

[SPEAKER_01]: Where is it?

[SPEAKER_01]: It's coming.

[SPEAKER_01]: It is coming.

[SPEAKER_01]: Good news for the Christian, bad news for the world.

[SPEAKER_01]: Because even as Methuselah was taken out and the judgment came in our prophesied about the judgment that was going to be coming.

[SPEAKER_01]: testimony that Enoch had is what we need to have.

[SPEAKER_01]: Faith.

[SPEAKER_01]: We believe God because that is all in God's sight that is going to please him.

[SPEAKER_01]: And when these witnesses like Enoch had that witness

[SPEAKER_01]: O that we would also have that testimony that the world Christians, whoever is viewing, you as an individual, would see faith.

[SPEAKER_01]: So Lord willing next week, we're going to see verse number six, and we're going to see why God says, if you do not have faith as these, we can't please him.

[SPEAKER_01]: He is looking for that, inside of you and I, a trust-dependence, full reliance upon our God for all.

[SPEAKER_01]: And my challenge will be, concerning not individuals, but even as a church, the stepping out of faith and believing our God.