By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God. Hebrews 11:5
"The experience of Enoch and John the Baptist represents what ours should be....we need to study the lives of these men." Testimonies for the Church vol.8, p.329 E.G.W.
"Enoch's case is before us. He lived in a corrupt age, when moral pollution was teeming all around him; yet he trained his mind to devotion, to love purity. His converstion was upon heavenly things. He educated his mind to run in this channel, and he bore the impress of the divine.Enoch had temptations as well as we. The atmosphere he breathed was tainted with sin and corruption, the same as ours; yet he lived a life of holiness. He was a representative of the saints who live amid the perils and corruptions of the last days. For his faithful obedience to God he was translated." Testimonies for the Church vol.2 p.122 E.G.W.
"It was through constant conflict and simple faith that Enoch walked with God. You may well do the same." Testimonies for the Church vol.3, p.543 E.G.W.
"Brethern, pray at home,...night & morning; pray earnestly in your closet; and while engaged in your daily labor, lift up the soul to God in prayer. It was thus that Enoch walked with God." Testimonies for the Church vol.4, p.616 E.G.W.
"Enoch did not become polluted with the iniquities existing in his day; why need we in our day?" Testimonies for the Church vol.5, p.113 E.G.W.
"During those early years, Enoch had loved and feared God, and had kept His commandments. But after the birth of his first son he reached a higher experience; he was drawn into closer relationship with God. As he saw the child's love for its father, its simple trust in its protection; as he felt the deep, yearning tenderness of his own heart for the first born son, he learned a precious lesson of the wonderful love of God to man in the gift of His Son and the confidence which the children of God may repose in their heavenly Father. Enoch's walk with God was not in a trance or a vision, but in all the duties of his daily life. He did not become a hermit....His faith waxed stronger, his love became more ardent with the lapse of the centuries. To him prayer was the breath of the soul. As the scenes of the future were opened to his view, Enoch became a preacher of righteousness...the prophet of God made known the wonderful scenes that had passed before his vision. Behold, he declared, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of His saints, to execute judgement upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds. Jude 14,15. The servants of God are to bear a similar message to God in these last days, and it will also be recieved with unbelief and mockery." Testimonies for the Church vol.8, p.329,330 E.G.W.
"Enoch, pure in heart, holy in life, holding fast his faith in the triumph of righteousness against a corrupt and scoffing generation." Education p.254 E.G.W.
"We have the encouraging record that Enoch walked with God. If Enoch walked with God, in that degenerate age just prior to the destruction of the world by a flood, we are to recieve courage and be stimulated with his example that we need not be contaminated with the world but, amid all its corrupting influences and tendencies, we may walk with God." Selected Messages vol.3, p.338 E.G.W.
