1. Genesis 5:24 (ESV)
  2. Application

God rewards his children

Genesis 5:24 (ESV)

24 Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him.

Enoch’s departure was a testimony. What did he say by the fact that, he was not, for God took him, but this—there is a future state. Men had begun to doubt it, but when they said, Where is Enoch? and those who had witnessed his departure said, God took him, it was, to them, evidence that there was a God, and that there was another world…His departure was also a testimony to mankind that there is a reward for the righteous, that God does not sit with stony eyes, regardless of the sins of the wicked, or of the virtues of his saints. It proved that he sees and is pleased with his people who walk with him—and that he can give them, even now, present rewards by delivering them from the pangs of death—and therefore he will certainly give rewards to all his people in some way or other.1

Charles H. Spurgeon