Chapter 61—Men and Women of the Bible
Enoch
Conversation on Heavenly Things—Enoch’s case is before us.
Hundreds of years he walked with God. 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 conversation was upon heavenly
things. He educated his mind to run in this channel, and he bore the
impress of the divine. His countenance was lighted up with the light
which shineth in the face of Jesus.—
Testimonies for the Church 2:122
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Preacher of Righteousness—As the scenes of the future were
opened to his view, Enoch became a preacher of righteousness, bearing
God’s message to all who would hear the words of warning. In the land
where Cain had sought to flee from the divine presence, 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 judgment upon all, and to convince all that are
ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds.”
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The power of God that wrought with His servant was felt by those
who heard. Some gave heed to the warning and renounced their sins;
but the multitudes mocked at the solemn message. The servants of
God are to bear a similar message to the world in the last days, and it
also will be received by the majority with unbelief and mockery.
As year after year passed, deeper and deeper grew the tide of human
guilt, darker and darker gathered the clouds of divine judgment. Yet
Enoch, the witness of faith, held on his way, warning, pleading, and
teaching, striving to turn back the tide of guilt and to stay the bolts of
vengeance.—
Gospel Workers, 52, 53
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Reprover of Sin—He was a fearless reprover of sin. While he
preached the love of God in Christ to the people of his time, and
pleaded with them to forsake their evil ways, he rebuked the prevailing
iniquity, and warned the men of his generation that judgment would
surely be visited upon the transgressor. It was the Spirit of Christ that
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