Solomon Aggrey - Following His Glory

Isaiah 40.3-11

Enoch brought good tidings of Jehovah’s favour to the people of his day. He taught that people should lead righteous lives and change their ways so that God would have mercy on them and not bring judgement upon them. The people of his day did not listen to him.

Apostle Paul also speaks of Enoch, saying, ‘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. But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is the rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.’ (Hebrews 11.5-6). Enoch was a man of great faith and so committed himself to seeking after God, walking in faith and obedience. He brought the message of the love of God as well as the judgement of God to his generation. Enoch pleased God and was raptured/translated to heaven, without seeing death.

Enoch, the seventh patriarch, symbolises the final remnant before the great and final judgement. He points to the fact that the last perfect or matured sons of God before the Second Coming of Jesus Christ will walk with God so intimately that they will live in two realms (heaven and earth) at the same time. God will be their rest, comfort, and supply in difficult and evil times. Methuselah gave birth to Lamech and Lamech gave birth to Noah. Lamech said of Noah, ‘This one will comfort us concerning our work and the toil of our hands, because of the ground which the Lord has cursed.’ (Genesis 5.29).

‘Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord was sorry that he had made man on the earth … I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping things and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them, but Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.’

Genesis 6.5-8.

Methuselah did not walk with God, nor did Lamech, son of Methuselah, but Noah was righteous and walked with God. The Bible says, ‘Noah was a just man, perfect in his generation. Noah walked with God.’ (Genesis 6.9). The meaning of Noah is ‘rest’ or ‘comfort.’ He was the tenth patriarch from Adam, the second preacher of righteousness (2 Peter 2.5) and the second man who walked with God after Adam. Noah, like Enoch, lived in a terrible time; the period of time when violence, wickedness, evil, and sin were dominating the world.

The sins of Enoch’s generation continued into Noah’s days. As mentioned earlier, the sons of God from a previous creation sent to help mankind had married the women of the earth and had children of mixed genealogy called mighty men and men of renown:

‘Now it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose …There were giants on the earth in those days and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.’

Genesis 6.1-4

The word ‘giants’ in Hebrew is nephilim (from nephil). It originates from a root word, naphal, meaning to fall. So, the giants could be referred to as fallen men, but they were not the same as the fallen angels who rebelled with Satan. They were living alongside mankind in the time of Adam and Eve. The mighty men and the men of renown, children of the sons of God, were people with hybrid DNA. They were half spirits and half human, and were considered as semi-gods. They had superior knowledge and ruled the humans at that time. The names of some of the giants appeared in Greek mythology as Hercules, Jupiter, Pluto, etc.

As I have mentioned above, the mighty men and the men of renown corrupted mankind and taught them fornication, adultery, evil, wickedness, war, murder, occult science, witchcraft etc.

‘Wickedness of man was great in the earth and every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil …the earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.’

Genesis 6.5, Genesis 6.11

Violence was and is one of the original characteristics of Satan. ‘By the abundance of your trading you became filled with violence within, and you sinned; therefore I cast you as a profane thing, out of the mountain of God …’ (Ezekiel 28.16). The world, in the time of Enoch through to Noah, was trading on the same platform as the devil, as it does today.

The root of the problem was the fact that the original human DNA was corrupted. If the activities of the mighty men and the men of renown were not stopped, the human race was doomed. ‘So God looked upon the earth, and indeed it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.’ (Genesis 6.12). The devil might have intended to corrupt and destroy the seed of the woman through whom the Messiah would come. The flood judgement wiped out the mighty men and men of renown, but they found their way back to the earth and were referred to as Anak (Numbers 13.22, Joshua 15.13), Rephaims, Zumins, Emim (Genesis 14.5), Zamzummims (Deuteronomy 2.20).

‘All flesh had corrupted their way on the earth’ but ‘Noah was a just man, perfect in his generation. Noah walked with God.’ (Genesis 6.9). The Hebrew word for perfect is tamiym. It means complete, entire, sound, and whole. It indicated that Noah’s DNA code was not corrupted or tainted. Noah had been able to separate and preserve himself from the sorcery, witchcraft, occultism and the corruption of his day. He had the perfect genetic code through which the seed of the woman (Jesus Christ) would come.

‘And God said to Noah, ‘The end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth is filled with violence through them; and behold I will destroy them with the earth. Make yourself an ark of gopher-wood; make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and outside with pitch.’’

Genesis 6.13-14

‘By faith Noah, being divinely warned of the things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household, by which he condemned the world and became heir of righteousness which is according to faith.’

Hebrews 11.7

Noah was warned of the flood judgement because of his walk with God. ‘Things not yet seen’ included ‘the flood.’ Scripture in Genesis 2 suggests that there had not been any rain or flood before that time, so both Enoch and Noah had no physical knowledge of the flood except for what God told them or what they might have seen spiritually. They had to take the prophecy of the flood judgement by faith. Enoch therefore was the father of faith and righteousness and Noah the heir. Enoch mentored Noah; to put it another way, the mantle of Enoch fell upon Noah. They both were teachers or preachers of righteousness and they both walked with God.

God destroyed all living creatures on earth in the flood judgement except Noah, his family and samples of each kind of all living creatures, male and female. When the flood subsided, Noah and his family came out of the ark and started the human race again. God made a rainbow covenant with Noah that He was not going to destroy the world again by flood. The new race began to multiply and build cities and nations. But mankind, left to itself without the Spirit of God, could not produce a government like that of the kingdom of heaven, so they created various imitation governmental structures and systems to govern themselves; none of them perfect. The seed of chaos and darkness through Adam was already embedded deep in mankind and man could only produce his kind.

When the Bible says that ‘Noah was a just man, perfect in his generation. Noah walked with God,’ it does not include Noah’s wife, nor his children and their wives. Therefore, there were traces of corruption still on the face of the earth. ‘And Noah begot three sons; Shem, Ham and Japheth.’ Out of the three sons, Ham showed a tainted nature or DNA, the source of which might have come from the corruption of his day.