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He could wait no longer. How strange a work is judgment, how the Lord delights in
mercy.
Enoch's second prophesy is recorded in Jude:--
"Behold the Lord cometh with His holy myriads, to execute judgment against all, and
to convict all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have
ungodly committed, and concerning all the hard things that ungodly sinners spoke against
Him" (verses 14, 15).
Enoch's twofold prophecy resolves itself into type and antitype. The flood, a real and
dreadful judgment, was itself a type of a future day of wrath. The ungodliness of the
days of Noah which brought down the floods of wrath was in turn typical of the character
of the time of the end. "The coming of the Lord" therefore is no new doctrine, it is as old
as Adam, for Enoch lived together with Adam for the last 308 years of Adam's life;
Adam must therefore have understood the significance of Methuselah's name, and must
have heard Enoch's prophecy of the Lord's coming.
"And God took him". In the days which are drawing nearer it will again be true that
"one shall be taken, and the other left". Enoch was taken in blessing, and did not see
death (type of those who "are alive and remain at the coming of the Lord"). Enoch's
twofold prophecy is confirmed by his consistent walk with God, and thus together sets
forth a threefold witness that cannot be gainsaid. Let us believe the literal accuracy of
His Word, the graciousness of His purposes, the certainty of His judgments, and the
blessed assurances of one day being with the Lord.
Lamech: the Curse and the Comfort.
pp. 101-103
The person who before the flood stands out more prominently than any other
descendant of Adam, is Noah. Enoch's twofold prophecy, considered in previous series,
pointed to the flood, and to that of which the flood was a type, the coming of the Lord in
judgment.
Enoch could not have avoided explaining to Methuselah the prophetic import of his
name, and this would doubtless have been the topic of many an earnest conversation both
between them, and with Lamech, Enoch's grandson. Lamech was sufficiently well
instructed to know that he was not the one who should survive the coming judgment, and
is divinely guided in the naming of his firstborn son.
Before we pass on to consider the Scriptures that deal with Noah and the flood, it will
be to our profit to pause awhile and learn what we can from his less prominent yet none
the less godly parent. From what the Scriptures say concerning the "days of Noah", we
may picture to ourselves the environment of the days of Lamech; he lived to within five
years of the flood, and, further, in his grandfather Enoch's days ungodliness marked the