Enoch is mentioned in only a few verses of Scripture, but each is loaded. Genesis 5:21-24 tells us almost everything: "Enoch lived sixty-five years, and begot Methuselah. After he begot Methuselah, Enoch walked with God three hundred years, and had sons and daughters. So all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years. And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him." Twice that phrase appears: Enoch walked with God. In a generation when "the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually" (Genesis 6:5), Enoch walked with God. And God "took him" — he did not die. Hebrews amplifies: "By faith Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death... for before he was taken he had this testimony, that he pleased God" (Hebrews 11:5). Jude adds that Enoch was a prophet who spoke of the coming Lord in judgment. Enoch stands as a witness that it is possible to live faithfully in a faithless generation. Every generation has its Enoch figures — those who walk with God when the world walks the other way. His fate — caught up to God without seeing death — prefigures the hope of those who will be alive and remain at Christ's coming.