Dream
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Hey Greymare,
I was just looking through this thread, and I looked up those passages. Both Enoch and Elijah were unusual, because the Bible mentions that they were taken by God, instead of dying. Moses' death is very unusual, too.
Elijah
Elijah was a very famous and influential prophet who lived midway through the Kings period of Jewish history. His prayers were very powerful so he could make big miracles happen. Unfortunately, he became depressed because he wasn't well-liked. He wanted to die, but his duties weren't completed and so God told him to appoint a successor, Elisha. Their names are similar. Its a great story, and in 2 Kings 2:11, Elijah is taken directly into heaven without dying. We are told later, by the prophet Malachi, that Elijah is supposed to return someday. This can be taken 2 different ways, because 2 Kings 2:15 introduces the possibility of another person bearing Elijah's spirit. Its becomes a very important factoid to know when you read about Jesus and John the Baptist in the gospels. John is a type of Elijah.
There's a short, mysterious snippet about someone named 'Enoch' in Genesis. It appears in the list of ancestors of Noah. Then, there is a little bit more information we get much later from the writer of Hebrews, which is a Christian work. The thing about it is that there are traditional stories about Enoch and also other information about Enoch that we don't have. He was someone that Jewish people knew about. Some poorly preserved and altered copies of a book called Enoch have been found, but that's beyond the purpose of the thread and I don't know much about it.
I was just looking through this thread, and I looked up those passages. Both Enoch and Elijah were unusual, because the Bible mentions that they were taken by God, instead of dying. Moses' death is very unusual, too.
Elijah
Elijah was a very famous and influential prophet who lived midway through the Kings period of Jewish history. His prayers were very powerful so he could make big miracles happen. Unfortunately, he became depressed because he wasn't well-liked. He wanted to die, but his duties weren't completed and so God told him to appoint a successor, Elisha. Their names are similar. Its a great story, and in 2 Kings 2:11, Elijah is taken directly into heaven without dying. We are told later, by the prophet Malachi, that Elijah is supposed to return someday. This can be taken 2 different ways, because 2 Kings 2:15 introduces the possibility of another person bearing Elijah's spirit. Its becomes a very important factoid to know when you read about Jesus and John the Baptist in the gospels. John is a type of Elijah.
Enoch
There's a short, mysterious snippet about someone named 'Enoch' in Genesis. It appears in the list of ancestors of Noah. Then, there is a little bit more information we get much later from the writer of Hebrews, which is a Christian work. The thing about it is that there are traditional stories about Enoch and also other information about Enoch that we don't have. He was someone that Jewish people knew about. Some poorly preserved and altered copies of a book called Enoch have been found, but that's beyond the purpose of the thread and I don't know much about it.
