17:1–2; Deut. 30:15–16). This does not mean that everyone who walks with God will avoid physical death, but it does mean that everyone who walks with God will experience the same kind of life that Enoch experienced, both in this life and in the next life. The implication is that there is spiritual life which extends beyond this life after death. Death does not have the final word. The second time the pattern is broken is with the birth of Noah when his father Lamech (not the Lamech of Genesis 4)