The Grands Letter

Dear Grands,

Hebrews 11:5-6, “By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death; and he was not found because God took him up; for he obtained the witness that before his being taken up he was pleasing to God.

6 And 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 seek Him.”

The 11TH chapter of Hebrews is known as the Roll Call of the Faithful. Abel was the first one listed in this Roll Call. The next is Enoch.

Enoch is the seventh from Adam, and is the first of only two men in all of Scripture (Elijah was the other) who was translated into Heaven without having to experience death. Enoch walked with God for 300 years and must have had an extraordinary faith in the secrets the LORD shared with him. Oh, what He has in store for us, if we are faithful!

Enoch was 65 years old when he became the father of a son, whom he named Methuselah. The meaning of Methuselah’s name indicated that the world would be destroyed when he died. It was in the very year of Methuselah’s death that the Flood in the day of Noah destroyed the Earth. It’s both interesting and meaningful to note that Enoch’s translation without death parallels with the Rapture of the Church, and that the destruction of the world of Noah parallels the Great Tribulation that follows the Rapture.

The witness of Scripture regarding Enoch is that “he was well-pleasing to God.” You know, when we really get down to it, being “well-pleasing to God” is all that matters. First, He is pleased when we repent of our sins and trust His Son, Jesus Christ, as our Savior. At that point, the LORD gives us the Holy Spirit, who guides and instructs us to follow the LORD. He is pleased when we listen and follow the Holy Spirit. He has also given us His Word, the Bible, that feeds us spiritually and keeps us “on track” with His will. He is pleased when we saturate ourselves daily in His Word.

All of that raises the question: “Are we ‘well-pleasing’ to the LORD?” If we know Him, we will be “caught up to meet Him in the air” at the Rapture. But, then, there’s the Judgment Seat of Christ, where we will be reprimanded for unconfessed sin, and be rewarded for having been “well-pleasing” to Him in our lives here on Earth. Please take all of this seriously! These are not rambling words from me!

They are spiritual truths that come to us from Holy Scripture! In summary: BELIEVE and BEHAVE! The LORD is our Judge! And He is Coming soon!

Heartily in Christ Jesus,

(Dado III)

Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.

Springdale, Arkansas 72764

United States of America

“We never know that God is all we need

until He becomes all that we have.”