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HEBREWS has been deeply appreciated by Christians throughout the ages-from the first century to the twenty-first. During the early days of the church, believers of all backgrounds were subject to persecution and pressure to renounce their faith. Jewish believers were vulnerable to doubts about Christ and to thinking about turning back to their familiar rituals and old way of thinking. The Epistle...

death. This passage states that God took him away (literally: God “translated” him). Enoch was translated from earthly life to heavenly life. Enoch is one of two Old Testament characters who never died (the other being Elijah, 2 Kings 2:11–12). God chose to take Enoch without dying because Enoch lived by faith. He was a righteous man who was commended as one who pleased God. The Hebrew Old Testament says that Enoch “walked with God,” but the Septuagint (the Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament)
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