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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?= | ||