Cains World

Genesis chapter 5 verse 18, and Jared lived 160 and 2 years and he begat Enoch. Jared lived after begat Enoch 800 years and begat sons and daughters. And all the days of Jared were 960 and 2 years and he died.

And Enoch lived 60 and 5 years and begat Methuselah. And Enoch walked with God after begat Methuselah 300 years and begat sons and daughters. And all the days of Enoch were 360 and 5 years.

And Enoch walked with God and he was not, for God took him. Well, this afternoon we'd like, with the help of the Lord, to speak a little on this man Enoch. I think it's very encouraging that Enoch lived on a day similar to ours.

Enoch lived between the death of Abel and the flood, when the judgment of God fell on this world. And you and I are living in the same kind of a day between the death of Christ and the coming of the Lord and the judgment that's going to fall on this poor world. So I think we can learn many lessons from this man.

And I'll introduce him in this subject. In the fourth chapter we have the story of these two young men, Cain and Abel. Abel, we know, was a picture of Christ.

And Cain, I suppose, was a picture of Israel that cast his brother out and murdered him. The first man born into this world was a murderer. So sin came into this world full-grown, did it not? There was no evolution with sin.

It came in full-grown, murder. The first man ever to be born, his hands were stained with the blood of his own brother. We notice that Cain, too, was a man of religion.

He was a man who had his own religion, his own thoughts. He approached God without any blood, without any death. He felt that he was good enough.

He felt that his way, what God calls Cain's way, was acceptable. And it tells us in the 16th verse that Cain went out from the presence of the Lord. Here was Cain's now independence of the Lord.

A man of religion, still with Cain's religion, but he went out from the presence of the Lord. We hear a lot today about modernists. But here was the old story way back at the beginning of the Bible.

Cain himself, the first modernist. What a strange thing that the history repeats itself at the end of this world's history almost. As far as we're concerned, the history repeats itself and the modernists are here again who sneered on the blood and believe that their own religion, their own way of getting to heaven is the way.

I notice too, I think there's about seven things said here about Cain's world. This brings us into Enoch's day. Cain's world.

First of all, in the 17th verse, he built a city. He was going to make the world attractive. A place to be attractive so he could live now outside the presence of God.

This is the history of each one of us. We all, before we came to know the Lord Jesus, we all tried to make this world a comfortable place. A place to live in.

A place to enjoy life. A place to live for self. He built a city and he gave it a name after his own son.

Then we find later on, in the end of the 20th verse, such as have cattle. Here we have the farming business beginning. Such as have cattle.

Then down further, the end of the 21st verse, all as such as handle the harp and the organ. Here we have the entertainment world. Cain was going to drown out the cry of his brother's blood for vengeance.

With his harps and his organs and his music, he was going to drown out everything to do with Abel's call for vengeance. This is exactly what we have today. The entertainment world.

To make people happy. To make people try to be happy. To find satisfaction outside the presence of the Lord.

Then we find in the 22nd verse, brass and iron. Here we have the industrial world. Brass and iron.

Then in the 23rd verse, Lamech. We hear him say, For I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt. Murder again.

I think there's seven things there, Seth. About this world that Cain tried to dress up and bring up, as it were, a world that he could live happily and contented and with no need or no want away from God, away outside the presence of the Lord. Isn't that just remarkable? This is exactly what the world has done ever since.

This is exactly what the world is doing today. Now, in the midst of all this, later on, we find that this man had a son. And I suppose, as we read in Genesis chapter 6, that a man was so wicked that God decided that he was going to destroy man from off the face of the earth.

That he repented of the Lord that he had made man on the earth. Oh, beloved, isn't that a wonderful thing? That he had never repented of the Lord that he had redeemed man. He had never repented of the Lord in his heart that he had redeemed man, but that man was redeemed through the precious blood of the Lord Jesus.

Well, I think it's a marvelous thing in the book of Genesis, the seed plot of the whole Bible, to find that God always had Christ before him. And even in this very fifth chapter of the book of Genesis, God is delighting in Christ. Oh, I love to think of this.

That God was bringing out, through Moses, through this fifth chapter of Genesis, through the book of Genesis, all kinds of pictures of his beloved son. And just as much as I say, and I speak reverently, in the 24th chapter where he brings out about the bride, as much as I say, and again I speak reverently, that mystery that was hidden through the ages, God says, I can hardly keep it back. And we're bringing out these pictures, which we today, through the Spirit of God, see as beautiful pictures of Christ and his church.

Here we have this story of Enoch. His name, I understand it, one of his names, one of the meanings of his name, rather, is Dedicated. That was a wonderful name.

Here was a father, had a son. In the midst of all this confusion, this evil of Cain's world, he calls his boy a name that means Dedicated. What faith that man must have had.

And now there's young parents in this room today. Some of us are older parents. How wonderful it is, in spite of the day in which we live, to be able to say, thank God for this boy, and thank God for this girl.

But in spite of all the darkness, infidelity, and wickedness, and evil increasing, and all the things that the young people are accused of today, that we can say, this boy is for the Lord. This boy was given to the Lord before he was born. And this girl was given to the Lord before she was born.

And I'm going to trust the Lord, in spite of the darkness, that my boy and my girl will be brought up for the Lord Jesus Christ. This man, I suppose, when he looked upon this boy and saw the day he lived in, he called his name Enoch, Dedicated. And Enoch starts off his life, and it tells us 8 times in this 5th chapter of Genesis, the words 8 times appear, and he died.

A sad record. The 7th man from Adam did not die. We'll see them later.

And he died, and he died. In the 4th chapter, which we find more or less Cain's seed, we don't read much about death, but isn't it nice in the 5th chapter that God mentions these men that died. Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.

God takes note of each one of them and says, and he died. Surely we know it was a result of sin, but God marks the death of his people. It tells us in this verse we read, in the 21st verse, And Enoch lived 65 years in Begat, Methuselah.

This man lived, we know, and I'll turn over our page of the Bible, 969 years, the longest life on record. The longest life of any man, 969 years. I believe his name means, after he dies it shall be sent.

And God in his wondrous long patience and grace allowed this man to live the longest life because after he died the flood was going to come. Judgment was going to fall on the world and how slow God is in judgment and how fast he is when it comes to grace. The father ran to meet his boy, but God is always slow when it comes to judgment.

And so this young man's name is called Methuselah. After he is gone it shall be sent. Now, it tells us in the 22nd verse, And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah.

This is a remarkable thing that for 65 years apparently of Enoch's life he did not walk with God. Now this is encouraging for each one of us, is it not? It's encouraging for me. I'm sure it's encouraging for you.

We do get discouraged when we look back over our lives, the hours that have been wasted, the days that have been wasted. Oh dear young people, you who belong to Christ, live for him now. Don't wait till you get old to live for the Savior.

Live for him now. Enoch wasted 65 years of his life. Apparently he did not walk with God until this boy was born into his house.

And I suppose when that child was born, Enoch realized this boy has come into a world that's against God. This boy has come into a world that's full of defilement and sin, increasingly wicked. And he said, It's time for me to now walk with God.

Oh dear fathers and mothers, what bad examples we have been with our children. How much of Christ have our children seen in us? Do they see us honest? Do they see us sincere? Do they see us looking forward to going to the prayer meeting? Do they see us interested in the Bible reading? Do they see us reading the stock market page and the magazines of this world? Do they see us bored by the Bible? Or do they see us walking with God? Do they see us, you and me, their fathers? Do they look at their father and say, There is a man of God. I read a story recently about a father whose son was very, very wayward.

And he prayed that on his deathbed he would be a living testimony to his son. And at last his deathbed came. And the father died in agony.

He died in great pain and agony. But he died rejoicing in the Lord. And that led to his son's conversion.

He said, If my father can die a death like that happy, there must be something that he had that I haven't got. And he was led to Christ. God didn't answer that father's prayers the way he wanted them to be answered.

But God did answer the prayers. That boy was saved. All many of us can look back over our lives and see the mistakes that we've made.

Maybe our boys, our girls, haven't turned out the way we wanted them to turn out. And we blame them. We criticize the young people.

But beloved, don't the young people see, and we who are older may be a bad example, don't they see in us little reality? Don't they see in us we don't really and honestly and truthfully believe these things? We don't live as if we really expected the Lord to come. We don't really live as if we really believed the Lord Jesus was in the midst. If we did, we wouldn't miss the meetings.

We wouldn't find so few out to the prayer meeting and Bible reading. We'd find that every one of us would be there if God allowed us to have health and strength to get there. We wouldn't put our business first.

We wouldn't have our ambitions to get on in the world and to get money. If we really believed that Christ was here in the midst. Oh, as we said the other night, if the Lord Jesus came personally into the room and stood in our very midst and looked at each one of us and called us all by our names and said, I'm so glad to see you here tonight.

I'm so glad you came to meet with me. Would we not rejoice, beloved? Well, if we believe Matthew 18 and 20, not only a doctrine in our minds and our heads, but in our hearts we really believe, we too will be like Enoch. We will seek to be dedicated to the Lord Jesus Christ by the grace of God and with the help of God.

Paul tells us that Enoch walked with God. As we begat Methuselah three hundred years and begat sons and daughters. Can you imagine? Three hundred years this man walked with God.

I suppose it was seen in his face. You know, beloved, when we come to the meeting here, as we walk into this room, into the room where we go to the prayer meeting, to the Bible reading, to the Lord's Day morning meeting, does that fragrance of Christ come off us? When we walk into the room to our brethren and look at our faces and say, there is a man that's enjoyed the Lord. There is a woman that's enjoying the Lord.

Oh, I believe that after three hundred years of walking with God, Enoch must have had a stamp upon his person that marked him out differently from all the world around. He must have been a separative man. He must have been a sanctified, set-apart man for God to walk three hundred years.

Now, we know that his whole life was three hundred and sixty-five years. That would correspond with a day per year for every day of our calendar. Three hundred and sixty-five days of the year, three hundred and sixty-five years that he walked.

Sixty-five days, as we mentioned, or sixty-five years, rather, of his life were wasted. Now, you and I maybe have done the same thing. We have wasted much time.

I see for myself, I've wasted much time. We wasted much time when we were young. When we were young, the things of this world attract us, business, getting on.

The world pushes us up. You know, there was an old porter on the train. He was a child of God.

And he was very, very black, this man, very dark. And I used to love to be on that train, to go and speak to that porter. There were many white people on the train, but they didn't interest me at all.

There was one man on the train that really interested me. And this was this dear old saint of God. And one night as we sat in this bedroom together talking, we heard a knock on the door.

And another white man came in, and he said, Porter, I want to ask you to do me a favor. I want to ask you if you'll change my space into this car. And he said, yes, I will, if you'll sit down.

And then he introduced me as his brother. Well, the man was very surprised. He looked at the porter, he looked at me.

He couldn't understand. His brother, he said, we are brothers in Christ. It wasn't that blessed.

We are brothers in Christ. And then he made this statement, which I'll never forget. He said, in this world, we're taught to go up, higher and higher and higher.

And the higher we get, the world says, get up higher, go higher, get to the very top. But, he said, in the school of God, we're taught to go down, down, down to the very bottom, until we get to the very bottom of the cross. And then we look up, and we see by faith our blessed Lord on the cross, dying for our sins.

We receive him as our Savior. And then, by the grace of God, we start up, up, up into those heavenly places. Wasn't that blessed? Oh, how wonderful it was to see that dear, old, dedicated porter.

When the train stops at the station, and all the bags line up, he would say to me, Brother, it's journey's end. It's journey's end. And someday, it'll be journey's end, and we'll be together in the glory with Christ.

The passengers were all there, but he didn't care about the passengers. He was rejoicing in the Lord. Oh, he was a dedicated man, dedicated to Christ.

Well, Enoch wasted these years. He never got them back again, but he certainly profited when this boy came into his house. He walked with God.

Now, if we just look over to Jude, holding our place, we'll see also that Enoch was a preacher, a prophet. We see what he says, because it tells us in the 11th verse about Cain, just in fashion, Cain is mentioned again here. Cain is religion.

Woe unto them, for they have gone in the way of Cain. Maybe there's somebody in this room this afternoon that's not saved. Maybe you're going in the way of Cain.

You've got your religion, but it's something of your own mind. It's not according to God's word. There's no blood in your religion, no death of the Lamb in your religion.

Woe unto them, says God, for they have gone in the way of Cain. It tells us then about these men, these people, verse 13, raging waves of the sea, swallowing up their own shame, wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever. And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousand of his saints to execute judgment upon all and to convince all.

You notice the word ungodly four times. To convince all that are ungodly among them of their ungodly deeds, which they have ungodly committed, of their hard speeches, which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. This was Enoch's message.

Oh, in the midst of all the confusion of all Cain's world and Cain's religion, there stood a man that said, The Lord is coming to judge this scene, to judge Cain's world. The Lord is coming to judge Cain's world. Beloved, we believe this.

We believe that the United States of America, this great country, the greatest country, I suppose, in the world today, is going to come under the judgment of God. And all other countries with it are going to come under the judgment of God. We believe this.

Is this our message to this world? Are we deceived by the teachings of the world that there's a better day coming without Christ? Or are we convinced in our souls from the word of God? Like Enoch was a dedicated man. He was convinced that we had gone to Enoch's home and sat down in his living room and said, Enoch, what about Cain's world? Aren't you going to do something to try and make it a better place? Aren't you going to try to get better streets and get the streets paved and get everything fixed up nicely and put in sewers and try to improve this town so we'll have a better mayor and better councilmen? We can see Enoch say, No, sir. I have nothing to do with Cain's world.

I belong to heaven. And I believe that God is going to judge this world. Well, they would have laughed at Enoch.

They would have probably mocked at him and sneered at him and said, What a hopeless case. What is the good of you in this world? What good are you in this world? As a dear Christian was asked once, What good are you in this world? And he replied, As long as I'm here, the world will never be judged. That's how good I am to this world.

As long as I'm here, God will never judge this world. What an answer that was. Enoch fully stood up and said, Cain's world is coming under judgment.

God is going to judge Cain's world. And so it says, Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah 300 years and begat sons and daughters. And all the days of Enoch were 365 years.

And Enoch walked with God. There it is again. Repeat it again.

Enoch walked with God. Oh beloved, didn't the Lord appreciate that fact that Enoch walked with him? And doesn't the Lord appreciate today you and me by the grace of God? If we're interested to walk with God, if we're interested in walking through this defiling world, if we're interested in enjoying the company of the Lord, don't you think that he appreciates that twice he repeats in his word? And later on, too, we'll see in a minute or two, Enoch walked with God and he was not, for God took him. Oh, what a wonderful thing this is.

Very, the very thick chapter of divine revelation, we find a man is translated to heaven. A man is caught away. Who can deny that Enoch was not a picture, he's not a picture of the church.

He's not a picture of the saints who will be taken out of this world before the judgment falls. Enoch walked with God. Somebody beautifully said, as he walked with God, God said, Enoch, we've walked a long time together.

Let us walk right into my house. And Enoch walked with God. You know, it's lovely to think in the 21st chapter of John's gospel, I think it was Peter and John, was it not, who walked with the Lord Jesus.

There's no record there of the Lord ascending to heaven, but I like to think in the end of John, just like in the 5th of Genesis, the Lord Jesus of the world walked right into the Father's house. There he was with his two disciples. And here Enoch and God are walking together.

And Enoch walked right in to that blessed scene of love. God took him. Oh, beloved, where is Enoch today? Where is Enoch? Well, every child of God today, every born-again Christian today is Enoch.

Where Enoch, beloved, God is going to take us out of this world. We belong to heaven. And God is going to take us out of this world for we today are the true Enoch.

What a wonderful thing. Enoch walked with God and he was not, for God took him. If we look in the 11th chapter of Hebrews, behold in our place, Hebrews chapter 11, we find Enoch is mentioned again.

The 5th verse. By faith, Enoch was translated that he should not see death and was not found because God had translated him. For before his translation he had this testimony that he pleased God.

Isn't it fair what we said? The very fact that this man walked with God, he pleased God. Now hold in this place a moment. Let's look at 1 Thessalonians chapter 4. 1 Thessalonians chapter 4. In the first verse.

Furthermore, then, we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more. And we know the end of the chapter very well. I suppose all of us could repeat it almost by heart.

The Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout and catch away the saints of God. What is this first chapter, this fourth chapter of 1 Thessalonians? Here we have the Enoch chapter. Isn't that a wonderful thing? The very words that appear about Enoch now appear in 1 Thessalonians chapter 4 about God's people now.

How ye ought to walk and to please God. And in the very chapter the Church is translated to heaven. The true Enoch is taken to heaven in that very chapter.

And so back in Hebrews it tells us, Hebrews 11 before we look back at Genesis, Hebrews chapter 11 it tells us by faith Enoch was translated that he did not see death. He was a man who didn't die. Oh, is it possible that we're going to not have to pass through death? Is it possible that each one of us here are never going to die? Is it possible that this afternoon before this meeting closes we'll hear the shout and every one of us will be caught up to meet the Lord in the air.

What a wonderful thing this is. Translated. Caught up.

No spacesuits needed. No preparation. $300,000 for a spacesuit to get to the moon.

No such a garment for us. Garments of salvation. Caught up under the mighty power of God.

Somebody has said why, you'll freeze to death. In a sneer they said, you'll freeze to death if you go that high. No.

Our blessed Lord I speak reverently, didn't freeze to death. He ascended in all the dignity and the majesty of his person. In the Gospel of Luke and in the first chapter of Acts the Lord was seen ascending up, up, up.

But the saints of God will be caught up in a moment in the twinkling of an eye. How fast is that? Caught up to meet the Lord in the air. What a wonderful thing this is to think that the Lord is going to come for us himself.

If we were to go to some great person in this world I'm sure they wouldn't come to meet us in that way. They would send a secretary, a representative or an assistant to meet us and usher us into their presence. But the Lord Jesus doesn't do that.

He comes himself in the air to snatch away his people. What a startling thing. Friends, beloved brethren do we really believe this? Did you ever stop to think what it'll mean? Some night we'll be eating our supper.

Some day we'll be eating our dinner. Maybe our breakfast. There we'll be gathered around the table and suddenly the room will be empty.

We'll be gone. So fast that should there be an unsaved person in that room, they won't even see us go. We'll be gone in a flash.

Just imagine. Just imagine what's going to happen to this world. And so it tells us back in Genesis chapter 5 that after Enoch was taken away and oh, I believe they looked for Enoch I suppose the people looked for Enoch.

They tried to find him, but they couldn't find him. They looked, wondered what happened to him. He was gone.

And this poor world will look too. I suppose for a little while after the Lord comes the men of this world will say where have these people all gone? Where have they all disappeared to? But they'll soon get used to it. And they'll be so glad to get rid of us.

They'll be so glad they won't have to worry about tracts and Bibles. They won't have to worry about people staying on the street. Are you saved? Are you on the way to heaven? Nobody will bother them.

So they'll soon forget all about the true Enoch who has gone to heaven. But now we go on and find that this man Methuselah lived 180 and 7 years and he begat Lamech. Then it tells us and Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech 780 and 2 years and begat sons and daughters.

And all the days of Methuselah were 960 and 9 years and he died. So on the last verse, the 31st verse and he died. Now on the 6th chapter we have here God's solemn words in the 5th chapter, the 5th verse.

And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. It would seem that the removal of Enoch brought this to a head. The removal of Enoch out of the world brought no ushered in the days of Noah when man became so wicked that it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth.

And we know the result. The flood came, beloved. We know the story well.

I'd just like to bring a few thoughts out in connection with this. We know the flood came. We know the ark was built.

We know the ark was a picture of Christ. We know the storm broke upon the ark. We know that Noah was safe in the ark.

Oh, just in passing, we know there were seven men in the book of Genesis, outstanding men. Each one of them brings out to us something to do with our Christian life. I believe in A, will we get redemption through the blood of a lamb, a substitute.

In Enoch, we get communion. He walked with God. In Noah, we get eternal security.

Safe in the ark. Noah was safe in that ark. If he fell in the ark, he would fall in the ark.

He would not fall out of the ark. He was secure. He was safe.

In Abraham, we get faith. The walk of faith through the world. Abraham's faith is mentioned.

And in Isaac, we get sonship. In Jacob, we get discipline. And in Joseph, we get glory.

The whole Christian life that God brings before us in these seven men. We can know this ark, when we speak of peace, beloved, it's a wonderful picture of Christ. Have you ever noticed where the door was? It was cut, it tells us.

I'm sure that means something. The door was cut in the side of the ark. Doesn't that remind us of the fact that the Roman soldier pierced his side, and forth came thereout blood and water.

Heaven's door was open. The precious blood flowed from the side of a dead Christ. And you and I now have an entrance into the ark.

The storm burst upon the ark. And then we find, beloved, too, in connection with this ark, that after the waters began to abate, that these birds were let out. The raven and the dove.

Well, we know the raven would remind us of the fact that we have that old nature that loves the things of the world, Cain's world, under judgment, dead bodies floating in the water, the ravens going down and feeding on those dead bodies. But the dove, the dove returned to the ark. Oh, it found no resting place for its foot.

And then years later we find again the dove comes on the scene. It flies around. It seeks a resting place for its foot.

And the dove rests on the person of Christ. The Spirit of God as a dove descends from heaven and at last finds a resting place on the person of our Lord Jesus Christ. And the Father's voice is heard from heaven, Thou art my beloved son, and whom I am well pleased.

But there's something else about this ark, beloved, that tells us when the dove came back and tells us Noah put out his hands and brought that dove into the ark. Oh, how blessed it is in connection with this dove or this new life to find that the very hand of Jesus would reach out and bring us in to all these blessings that he has for us in this precious book. We know this about the ark, but after the great storm had passed, the great flood had gone, and God had swept the earth in judgment, there was in the heavens a bull, beloved.

The rainbow was in the heavens. There was a rainbow with its various colors. How beautiful it looked, God promised.

But I've enjoyed this thought, beloved, that ark that bore that storm. That storm, speaking of the wrath of God, falling on that ark as the judgment of God fell on the Lord Jesus on the cross. Would not the rainbow remind us of the risen Christ, the one whom God has exalted, the one in the glory of many colors? The rainbow of colors there seems.

Oh, we look up. When the storm passes by, the great thunder and lightning passes by, have we not often seen in the heavens that rainbow, that rainbow in the heavens? Does it not make us remember that our blessed Lord Jesus Christ who bore that storm of wrath is now magnified and glorified, exalted to the right hand of God in the heavenly scene above? There was God's promise in the heavens. And Abraham looked, remember.

Abraham looked toward heaven. God said, look now toward heaven. And so you and I as Enoch, as those who are now in this world, living between the death of Abel and the judgment of this world, that's exactly where we live.

And surely we're not blind, beloved. Surely we're not blind. We can see, can we not? Everything getting ready for the judgment to fall on this world.

Everything getting ready for God to judge this world just exactly as the book tells us. Just exactly as the book tells us. We haven't got to be ashamed of the book.

The book tells us the truth. The word of God tells us the truth. We have an up-to-date book, a book that will tell us exactly what's going to happen in this world.

What would they say if we went to Washington today? I went into the White House and called together a group of great officials of this country and said, we're going to tell you about the future of this world. Well, they would probably say, this poor fellow, I guess he's a little bit off his top, so we'll have to listen to him. But we have the book in our hand where God tells us, beloved.

God tells you and he tells me the future of this world is going to be destroyed. It's going to be destroyed under judgment. But oh, the Enoch, those who have the privilege of walking with God as his people, his children, cleansed from our sins and the precious blood of the Lamb of God, as it were, those who, like Abel, come God's way through the death of the Lamb.

We are now not only the Abels, saved by faith as Abel was, but we're now the Enoch waiting for God's Son from heaven. The flood was over. God was never going to destroy the world by water or by a flood again.

The flood was over and the book of Genesis with all the glorious pictures brought before us time and again unfolding by the Spirit of God, the glories of Christ. Oh, is there somebody in this room today that's not saved? Is there somebody in this room, some young person? You know, we take it for granted that all the brethren's children are saved. Every one of them, we believe, people say.

Every one of them. They say that they're all saved, regardless of how they live, regardless of any interest they might have in the things of God. Of course they're saved.

They went to Sunday school when they were young. They heard these things. Oh, I wonder if there's somebody in this room this afternoon, who if the Lord Jesus came suddenly.

Beloved, he is coming. He's coming to say, sure as we're alive, he's coming. Even surer than that, he's coming.

He said, I will come again and receive you unto myself, that where I am there you may be also. The Lord is coming. The end of this age is near.

Are you ready? Is there somebody, some boy, some girl? Oh, dear boys and girls, you'll miss your father. Your mother will be gone. Your father will be gone.

Oh, you know, you get used to this, don't you? We get so accustomed. We hear these things time and time and time again. It's just like an epidemic comes to the city.

For a few days, people are concerned. The cases are mounting up. A thousand, two thousand, five thousand, ten thousand.

But after a while, we get used to it. Who cares? We're going to get it, we're going to get it. And that's the attitude of the unsaved.

Oh, they say, we've heard these things. We've heard them for hundreds of years they've been preaching this. Nothing happens.

Oh, an enough thing. This dedicated man, this man that walked with God, this man that brought this boy that he had and said, I must walk with God now in order that my boy will not become like Cain. My boy will not become a Cain and reject the truth of God concerning sin and the need of a sacrifice.

Oh, beloved, the Lord will come. And this is Enoch was snatched away to heaven. So we will be snatched away to glory.

Are we enjoying this Enoch? Are we dedicated? Beloved, we say again we live in the last days. The world becomes hardened and careless as time goes on. But the Lord is coming.

The Lord is coming. And if we read on in the book of Genesis, we'd find the power of Babel, would we not? We'd find the power of Babel, the confusion. The power was to be built to heaven, and the judgment of God fell on them.

The power of Babel, confusion. Do we not find it all around us? Can we not praise God today? By the grace of God, by the matchless grace of God, you and I have been brought into a place where the Lord Jesus Christ, I say again, and we say it with thanks, not to boast, God forbid, we say again, by the grace of God, into a place where the Lord Jesus Christ is given his title, where he is looked upon with admiration and praise, where the saints of God seek to exalt him, where the Spirit of God is free to take the book and open its pages to as many of our dear brethren who are saved by the grace of God. Do not know the things that we know.

Do not understand. I've never had these truths that you and I have brought before us. Many of them do not know the Lord is coming.

Real Christians do not know anything. They believe the world is going to go through the tribulation, that Christians are going to go through the tribulation. They're all upside down.

They're confusion. The Tower of Babel, confusion. Isn't it sad that those people in that day, you know, their languages were mixed.

They couldn't understand each other. A man couldn't say to his neighbor, pass that hammer or pass that saw. They didn't understand.

Their languages were confounded. Isn't that true today in Christendom? The languages are confounded. And even Christians will not accept the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

When they ask you what church you belong to, and you tell them the Church of God, the only church that God recognizes. When they ask you what name you go by and you say we're gathered to the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, they say, but you have to have a name. You must.

We can't understand that. You've got to have a name. And at last the poor Saint of God says, they call us the Plymouth Brethren.

And they say, good. That's fine. We know who those people are.

We've heard about these people. We understand they're mighty fine people. Ah, now they've tagged a name on confusion all around us.

The name, the blessed name that's above every name not recognized in the confusion around us. Oh, out of this confusion this evil, this darkness, Enoch, was snatched away to heaven. And before his translation he had that testimony that he walked with guns.