Enoch and Noah: Difference between revisions

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=Did Noah watch Enoch?=
=Did Noah watch Enoch?=


If you make a time line chart based on Genesis Chapter 5, you will find that Enoch was taken by God:
If you make a time line chart based on Genesis Chapter 5, you will find that '''Enoch was taken by God''':
*69 years before Noah was born,  
 
*'''69 years before Noah was born''',  
*569 years before God TOLD NOAH to build the ark, and  
*569 years before God TOLD NOAH to build the ark, and  
*669 years before the flood started.
*669 years before the flood started.


This means that, contrary to what William Branham stated in the First Seal, Noah did not watch Enoch because Enoch was gone before Noah was even born.
This means that, contrary to what William Branham stated in the First Seal, Noah did not watch Enoch because '''Enoch was gone before Noah was even born'''.


==Where did William Branham get this from?==
==Where did William Branham get this from?==
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:''And in those days Noah saw the earth that it had sunk down and its destruction was nigh. 2 And he arose from thence and went to the ends of the earth, and cried aloud to his grandfather Enoch: and Noah said three times with an embittered voice: ‘Hear me, hear me, hear me.’ 3 And I said unto him: ‘Tell me what it is that is falling out on the earth that the earth is in such evil plight and shaken, lest perchance I shall perish with it.’ 4 And thereupon there was a great commotion on the earth, and a voice was heard from heaven, and I fell on my face. 5 And Enoch my grandfather came and stood by me, and said unto me: ‘Why hast thou cried unto me with a bitter cry and weeping?<ref>R. H. Charles and W. O. E. Oesterley, The Book of Enoch (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1917), 44.</ref>
:''And in those days Noah saw the earth that it had sunk down and its destruction was nigh. 2 And he arose from thence and went to the ends of the earth, and cried aloud to his grandfather Enoch: and Noah said three times with an embittered voice: ‘Hear me, hear me, hear me.’ 3 And I said unto him: ‘Tell me what it is that is falling out on the earth that the earth is in such evil plight and shaken, lest perchance I shall perish with it.’ 4 And thereupon there was a great commotion on the earth, and a voice was heard from heaven, and I fell on my face. 5 And Enoch my grandfather came and stood by me, and said unto me: ‘Why hast thou cried unto me with a bitter cry and weeping?<ref>R. H. Charles and W. O. E. Oesterley, The Book of Enoch (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1917), 44.</ref>


Given that this is the only ancient book which speaks of Noah talking to Enoch, it is assumed that William Branham took his inspiration in this regard from 1 Enoch.
Given that this is the only ancient book which speaks of Noah talking to Enoch, it is assumed that William Branham took his inspiration in this regard from 1 Enoch.


=What does the Flood type?=
=What does the Flood type?=