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Enoch and the Second Coming of Christ

And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied . . . saying, Behold, the
Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, to execute judgment upon all.
Jude 14, 15.

The pure and lovely Garden of Eden, from which our first parents were
driven, remained until God purposed to destroy the earth by a flood. God had
planted that garden and specially blessed it, and in His wonderful
providence He withdrew it from the earth, and will return it to the earth
again more gloriously adorned than before it was removed from the earth. God
purposed to preserve a specimen of His perfect work of creation free from
the curse wherewith He had cursed the earth.

The Lord opened more fully to Enoch the plan of salvation, and by the Spirit
of prophecy carried him down through the generations which should live after
the Flood, and showed him the great events connected with the second coming
of Christ and the end of the world (Jude 14).

Enoch was troubled in regard to the dead. It seemed to him that the
righteous and the wicked would go to the dust together, and that would be
their end. He could not clearly see the life of the just beyond the grave.
In prophetic vision he was instructed in regard to the Son of God, who was
to die man's sacrifice, and was shown the coming of Christ in the clouds of
heaven, attended by the angelic host, to give life to the righteous dead and
ransom them from their graves. He also saw the corrupt state of the world at
the time when Christ should appear the second time--that there would be a
boastful, presumptuous, self-willed generation arrayed in rebellion against
the law of God and denying the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ, and
trampling upon His blood and despising His atonement. He saw the righteous
crowned with glory and honor while the wicked were separated from the
presence of the Lord and consumed with fire. . . .

Enoch continued to grow more heavenly while communing with God. His face was
radiant with a holy light which would remain upon his countenance while
instructing those who would hear his words of wisdom. His heavenly and
dignified appearance struck the people with awe. The Lord loved Enoch
because he steadfastly followed Him and abhorred iniquity and earnestly
sought heavenly knowledge, that he might do His will perfectly. He yearned
to unite himself still more closely to God, whom he feared, reverenced, and
adored. God would not permit Enoch to die as other men, but sent His angels
to take him to heaven without seeing death. In the presence of the righteous
and the wicked, Enoch was removed from them. Those who loved him thought
that God might have left him in some of his places of retirement, but after
seeking him diligently, and being unable to find him, reported that he was
not, for God took him (The Story of Redemption, pp. 58, 59).

>From Lift Him Up - Page 350

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