Oct 21
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The Faith of Enoch . . .
…and how to get it (part 4)
What if all it takes to access the Faith of Enoch is a KEY and the key is in the following less-than-perfect translation from the original language into
English?
5 By faith Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death, “and was not found, because God had taken him”; for before he was taken he had this testimony, that he pleased God. 6 But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.
I’m not going to attempt to tell you how to access the very same faith by which Enoch never experienced physical death (again, according to this passage), but I AM going to share how a thump on the back of my head confirmed the path for me.
It was two a.m. on a Monday morning; I’d been invited by Walter Miller, the President of the local Christian Contractors Association, to speak at their monthly 7:00 a.m. breakfast at a hotel meeting room in Hilo, Hawaii.
I woke up with a start, realizing I didn’t have a clue what I was going to say. He had told me that the group was comprised of construction workers and everyone would show up dressed to go to their various job-sites.
I quickly got dressed in very casual clothing, and went into my little office in my home about twenty miles from the hotel, got on the floor with my head under the desk and started beating on the floor with my fists, telling my Friend, repeatedly that I wanted only his will.
The thump on the back of my head occurred when I heard an audible voice say: “Twenty-nine: Thirteen.” Startled, I scrambled to get out from under the desk and hit my head on the center drawer getting up.
I immediately knew somehow that it was Jeremiah 29:13, not a book I had spent a lot of time studying.
“You will seek me and find me, when you search for me with all your heart.”
I asked, “What am I supposed to do with this?” A vivid picture came into my mind, of sharing what had happened, including banging my head at the hasty exit from under the desk and that I was not supposed to speak, but rather the group should have a discussion about what the passage meant to each individual.
Walter introduced me and I simply told them what had happened and that I was to sit down and basically shut up (period).
The link below is to a Brad Cullen article I wrote in 2014, sharing the same story with some other details. This will bring us full circle back to the key that unlocks the mystery of The Faith of Enoch and Part 5 which is next.