Someone has called the fifth chapter of Genesis "a desert of death". You could almost see the caskets and the graves. You can almost hear the widows weeping in the background. You can almost smell the stench of death that arises from this chapter, because over and over we read these words, "and he died." The last words of verse 5 read, "and he died." Verse 8 says, "and he died." Verse 11 says, "and he died." Verse 14 says, "and he died." Verse 17 says, "and he died." Verse 20 says, "and he died."

Yet right in the middle of this desert of death stands a lily of life, a little flower, called Enoch. Interestingly very little is said about Enoch. In fact, more is said about Enoch in the New Testament than we find in the Old. There are fifty-one words in the Old Testament about Enoch, but nine…