The Experience of EnochOf Enoch it is written that he lived sixty-five years and begat a son; after that he walked with God three hundred years. During those earlier years, Enoch had loved and feared God, and had kept His commandments. But after the birth of his first son he reached a higher experience; he was drawn into closer relationship with God. As he saw the child’s love for its father, its simple trust in his protection; as he felt the deep, yearning tenderness of his own heart for that first-born son, he learned a precious lesson of the wonderful love of God to man in the gift of His Son, and the confidence which the children of God may repose in their heavenly Father. The infinite, unfathomable love of God through Christ became the subject of his meditations day and night. With all the fervor of his soul he sought to reveal that love to the people among whom he dwelt. {8T 329.3}

Enoks erfaring
Om Enok står der skrevet at da han levede i femogtres år fik han en søn; og derefter at han vandrede med Gud i tre hundrede år. Under de tidligere år, havde Enok elsket og frygtet Gud og havde holdt hans bud. Men efter fødslen af hans første søn fik han en højere erfaring; han blev draget i tættere forhold med Gud. Idet han så barnets kærlighed for sin fader, dets enkle tillid til hans beskyttelse; ligesom han følte en dyb, inderlig ømhed af sit hjerte for denne førstefødte søn, lærte han en dyrebar lektie om Guds underfulde kærlighed for mennesket, ved at give sin Søn og den tillid som Guds børn kan svare deres himmelske fader. Guds uendelige alt omfavnene kærlighed gennem Kristus blev genstand for hans meditationer dag og nat. Med al hans sjælevarme søgte han at åbenbare den kærlighed for dem han boede imellem.