The Turning Point of Life

The life, like river, has many turning points. For Enoch, one of the most important turning points was in the year of his sixty five, when he begot his first son, Methuselah. “Methuselah” is a very special name means “after he dies, it will come.” That tells us, something happened in Enoch’s life and he named his son, to remind others “it will come”.

What was “it” that Enoch expected? We know from Bible that Methuselah was lived 969 years and on the year he died, the great floor came to the earth. Was that the special message which Enoch tried to convey? Jude 14, 15 tells us “And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh, with ten thousands of his saints, to execute judgement upon all and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.” He was tried to tell the world of his time, the judgement of ungodly was coming. “It” may also refer to the Lord second coming.

For whatever reason, the birth of his son changed Enoch’s life, after that turning point for he was “walking with God after he begat Methuselah”. God will reward everyone that diligently seeks him. 1 Corinthians 2:9 “Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him”. And he did not see death for God took him

The birth of a child can be an important point for all mankind.