Another remarkable characteristic about Enoch is that he is the first one recorded in Scripture to have prophesied (see Jude 14). Prophecy is a definite product of walking with God. When we walk with God, so that we are changed into His image, we will begin to see with His eyes, hear with His ears, and understand with His heart. God is beyond time. He sees from the perspective of eternity. To Him the future is just as clear as the present. Because of this, Enoch, who lived in the days of Adam, was able to look all the way to the end and see the second coming of the Lord with His hosts.

 

It is fitting that Enoch should prophesy of events all the way at the end of this age, since he is a prophetic model of the church at the end. The church at the end is going to walk with God, prophesy, and be caught up into the heavens to be with Him. That is why we see in Acts 2:17-18:
 

 

     '"And it shall be in the last days,' God says, 'That I will pour forth of My Spirit

     upon all mankind; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,

     and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams;

     Even upon My bondslaves, both men and women, I will in those days

     pour forth of My Spirit and they shall prophesy.'"

 

 

Enoch was the first one after the Fall to recover the most important purpose for our creation, to walk with God. And when he did, he could not help but to prophesy. Why is this?

 

First, prophecy is not just predicting the future, but it is speaking on God's behalf. Man was created to be God's representative on the earth, to speak for Him. Remember, Jesus, the One all things were made through and for, is called "the Word of God." It was by His Word that all things were made, and His Word, His communication, is found in everything that was made. That is why Jon Amos Comenius said "Nature is God's second book." This was a paraphrase of what Paul wrote in the first chapter of Romans, that the Lord is revealed in everything that was made.

 

God speaks. He made His creation to speak through, and man was the crowning glory of His creation. He made man in His image to represent Him, which includes speaking for Him. That is why it appears that everyone in Scripture who walked with God also prophesied. If we can recover our basic purpose to walk with God, we will also recover our basic purpose to speak for Him.

 

This is also your destiny. When you were redeemed it was the first step toward recovering the ultimate purpose that you were created for—to walk with God, and to represent Him on the earth. Because He is the Word, He speaks. We cannot represent Him without speaking for Him. That is why we are told in Ephesians 4:29:

 

     "Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth,

     but only such a word as is good for edification

     according to the need of the moment,

     that it may give grace to those who hear."
 

 

Because Jesus Himself is the Word, words have infinite value. Words have power, for good or evil. Words have changed the world far more than armies or politics. Therefore, if we are walking with God, our goal should be for our words to be His words. As we are told in Proverbs 18:21, "Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit."

 

 

What is the fruit of our words? Do they impart reconciliation, faith, love, joy, peace, and patience—the fruit of His Spirit? Do our words represent what the Lord is saying in that situation? Do they impart grace to those who hear them? If we are walking with God, they will, and we will also speak for Him. As the Word Himself told us in Luke 6:45:

 

     "The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth what is good;

     and the evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth what is evil;

     for his mouth speaks from that which fills his heart."

 

 

Is Jesus the One who fills our hearts? If so, we will speak His words.

 

Nowhere in Scripture does it say that you cannot do what Enoch did. The greatest testimony of the last day church will be that she walked with God, and she "was not," because God took her, so she did not even have to taste death. She did not have to taste death because she died daily to herself by walking with Him every day, taking up her cross daily to sacrifice anything that was required to walk with Him. This is the ultimate quest of man. It is your ultimate quest—to walk with God.