the great tribulation. Two of these are of especial significance, the translation of Enoch before the judgment of the flood and the deliverance of Lot before the destruction of Sodom. Enoch “walked with God, and was not because God took him” (Gen. 5:24). He thus became a type of those who will be living when the Lord descends into the air to wake the bodies of sleeping saints and change “in a moment” those “who are alive and remain,” translating them without seeing death. The preservation of Noah
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