The Days of Enoch

By: John Bellam & Pete Garcia

So all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years. And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him. Gen 5:23-24

From the beginning, a line was created stretching from Adam through Seth, Enoch, Noah, to Abraham and continuing his lineage via Isaac, Jacob, and their sons. They are the line God has chosen to show mercy to, not because they are worthy of it (none of us are), but because through them, God would bring salvation and the Kingdom to Mankind. The line that ties the God-Man, Jesus Christ, to humanity is called the Crimson Thread. This thread would continue even though God would come to judge and destroy the whole earth with water. That means these men were preserved from the flood (Enoch) and through the flood (Noah), and were 'the called' (Abraham) and were blessed with a family to bring forth the Messiah (by way of the Jewish race). That line was given the law, the priestly oracles, the sacrificial system, and the prophetic word. All of this was designed before the foundation of the world to lead to the coming of the head of redeemed humanity, the last Adam, Christ Jesus.

Although God faithfully preserved the Messianic line from Adam to Christ to bring forth the eternal life, that physical lineage culminated—and concluded—with Jesus’ death on the cross. Contrary to the speculative claims of The Da Vinci Code and similar esoteric mythologies (such as those promoted by the Valentinians, Sethians, Merovingians, Templars, Rosicrucians, and Dan Brown), there is no continuing physical bloodline of Christ. These assertions are not only unfounded—they are blasphemous distortions of biblical truth.

While Jesus did have physical siblings (eg, Matt. 13:55–56; John 7:5; Gal. 1:19), His redemptive mission did not perpetuate a biological legacy, nor need to. Rather, from the cross forward, His lineage proceeds spiritually—not physically—as seen in the establishment of His kingdom in its present, temporary, mystery form (Matt 13, John 18:36). This spiritual genealogy consists of all born-again believers, whether of Jewish descent or Gentile, united in Him as the true seed of Abraham (Gal. 3:29).

Enoch was of that line.

Noah was in that line as well.

Lot, however...was not. 

Types and Shadows

This is the genealogy of Terah: Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran begot Lot. Genesis 11:27

Technically, Enoch, Noah, and Lot were all Gentiles because they either came before Abraham or were born outside his seed bloodline. Nevertheless, Enoch and Noah were still a form of Jew, being part of the Crimson Thread before Abraham’s birth. They were technically ancestors of the Jewish race because they were the forefathers leading to Abraham. But Lot was from a different branch, shooting off from a different line from Abraham’s father, Terah. And therefore, Lot was blessed by his association with the faith of Abraham (father of Israel ) just as the Church is blessed by the faith of Israel’s Patriarchs and prophets. Israel was the tree God planted…the church has been grafted in like branches foreign to the natural tree (Romans 11), whose grafts increasingly became made up of Gentiles.

Lot was a Gentile like Enoch and Noah.

However, Lot was not in the direct lineage of Christ, as Enoch and Noah were.

Instead, he benefited from his association with Abraham and the mercy of God. In this way, Lot mirrors the Church: not a physical heir to the promises of the Messiah, but a spiritual one, blessed through relationship and grace.

Scripture presents Lot as a man who exhibited signs of redemption. He is described as righteous and deeply troubled by the wickedness of Sodom (2 Peter 2:7). Yet, despite his convictions, his family had become profoundly compromised by the corrupt culture they lived in so much so that in his warning to his sons-in-law, they laughed at him, thinking he was only joking (Gen 19:14). Seriously, he was warning them about the sudden impending destruction, and they laughed at him. I imagine, since they were not with their wives (who were at Lot's house), they were out having a good time. As the old saying goes, the good times only last until they don't.

Even his wife, unable to let go of her life in Sodom, disobeyed God’s command by looking back—and was turned into a pillar of salt. From a "how did it happen?" perspective, perhaps it's plausible that Lot’s wife, in turning back toward the city, paused long enough to catch the outer ring of the divine, thermonuclear-like burst that had hit the plains of Sodom and Gomorrah. The sheer intensity of the radiant heat could have instantly vaporized the moisture in her body while simultaneously bleaching her skin in a flash of incinerating light. Given the salt-saturated environment near the Dead Sea area, airborne sodium particles may have crystallized rapidly upon her remains. What stood in the aftermath was not merely a victim of fire, but a white, salt-encrusted figure—a physical monument to disobedience and divine judgment.

And Lot himself was not untouched by the corrupting nature of Sodom and Gomorrah's influence. In an effort to protect his angelic guests, Lot shockingly offered his daughters to the violent mob, a decision that reveals the extent of his moral confusion. Later, in what may have been an act of misguided survival, the daughter's thinking the world was coming to an end (from their perspective, the Flood was not that long ago), manipulated and intoxicated him to become pregnant by Lot to save his bloodline (Gen 19:31). Each of these events underscores the deep, lingering impact of Sodom’s depravity, even on those whom God had chosen to spare.

So, if Enoch’s catching away is a picture of the faithful and righteous believers being raptured just before judgment, and Noah’s Ark is a picture of God delivering His people through the Tribulation on the day of wrath, what does Lot’s evacuation from Sodom represent? And Abraham, for that matter? Neither John nor I is saying "definitively," but it's interesting to see how these typologies line up.

Character	Type	Symbolizes
Enoch	Raptured well before judgment	The faithful remnant Church, removed before the Tribulation (Daniel's 70th Week)
Noah	Preserved through judgment	Remnant Israel, protected through the Tribulation (Rev 12)
Lot	Escaped as judgment fell	The Remnant Gentile Tribulation Saint, some survived, some didn't (Lot's wife, sons-in-law)

Granted, this is a bit of a stretch with Lot; even still, he is one of two who are referenced as whose days the last days would mirror. It’s possible, all things being equal, that Lot and Noah each represent different types of tribulation saints—Lot as a type of Gentile believer and Noah as a type of Jewish believer. Both are part of a faithful remnant. If Enoch is a foreshadowing of the Church—mysteriously taken before the judgment—then Noah would symbolize the believing Jewish remnant (remember he is in the Crimson thread) who will endure the 70th Week of Daniel by being hidden away (Zech 13:8-9, Revelation 12:6) and preserved so they may enter the Messianic Kingdom in their mortal bodies to, like Noah's family, repopulate the earth.

 And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man: They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed. Luke 17:26-30

Viewed this way, there is a certain symmetry with the pairing of these four patriarchs from both before and after the global flood. Thus, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, and Lot each serve as archetypes of God’s redemptive strategy. And while we’re not equating people with animals, it is noteworthy that God preserved a pair of every kind through the flood—perhaps a subtle echo of His intention to preserve both Jew and Gentile believers during His global judgment to repopulate the earth afterward.

However, Abraham and Lot were exclusively post-diluvian, who came after the flood and Babel. Here is the contrast. Before the flood, Enoch and Noah were both of the Messianic line. However, after the flood and Babel, that bloodline narrowed, including Terah, but excluding Haran and consequently, Lot. And yet, even though Abraham is in the bloodline and Lot is not, both were preserved.

Halfhearted

Another interpretation may still exist. Given Lot's paradoxical nature concerning types and shadows, Lot and his family may also reflect the final church age at the end, Laodicea, who will be mostly married to the world yet maintain a hint of faithfulness. A church that is disheartened in some ways by the world but so caught up in it that they long for its good things and pleasures more than the coming of Christ. In other words, they cling to a form of godliness but deny the power thereof in a very real sense (2 Tim 3:5).

When God called Abraham out of Ur, he took Lot (his nephew) with him, and Lot inherited part of Abraham’s land for his faithfulness to his uncle's calling from God. Similarly, when Israel brought forth the Messiah, the Church was born out of the fulfillment of Israel’s faith, and the church inherited many of the spiritual blessings of Abraham. The church never replaced Israel, nor did it intercept Israel’s physical blessings. But they did inherit the Spiritual blessings of Abraham’s faith through “whom all the world will be blessed.”

In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.

-Gen 22:18

But like Lot's family, the Church would be full of compromisers who would enjoy the world and become too mingled with it in the end to maintain their saltiness (Matt 5:13). It is to these that Jesus warns, But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly (Luke 21:34). In other words, not only is your life like a vapor, but this whole form of reality is passing away, and normal is going to come to a sudden and violent end. As to the lukewarm Christians basking in the warmth of their self-righteousness and wealth, Jesus says—

“And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see."

Rev 3:14-18

Like the final Church, which is filled with some true believers (most of whom are not watching for the Lord’s return) but also has many false believers and worldly socializers filling the pews, Lot's family has a similar makeup. Like today’s church, that Sodom culture desired filling its bellies with food and drink and concerned itself more with the economic system of buying and selling and planting and building than with righteous living and seeking God. 

Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed. Luke 17:28-29

Lot's family escaped Sodom but only to an extent. Lot was saved, as I believe the true believers in the final church will be in the Rapture. But his wife was turned into Salt for turning back and longing for Sodom. Perhaps she pre-figures church goers that will not have their oil in their lamp when the Lord comes and will be cast into the Tribulation with a half-hearted faith...the desire to fit in and regain their former status may cause them to take the Mark of the Beast and be damned forever. Some (perhaps like one or both of Lot’s daughters ) will carry their worldliness into the tribulation but eventually choose their faith in Jesus instead of the Beast system and die as tribulation saints. Their salvation will come with a cost, but they will be saved in the end. 

Lot’s family, living in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah, also depicts the sad state of humanity at the end of the age. A time when even the Lord’s people are teetering on complete merger with the lost world, and a time Jesus spoke of when he said: 

And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth? Luke 18:7-8

When the rapture comes, it will be the realization of the blessed hope for many who have longed for Christ’s return. It will also be the greatest gift of grace the Church can imagine because God will be fulfilling His promise to keep His Church from the hour of trial coming on the whole earth, and He will be doing it in spite of the fact that so much worldliness has seeped into the Church body. But the glorious event will be immediately followed by the worst time of trouble in human history. Lot’s evacuation from Sodom mirrors closely this fiery escape and the sudden destruction that fell when he was gone. So too will it be when the church is raptured! 

There is a strand running down through time from Adam through Seth, Enoch, Noah, to Abraham and his lineage via Isaac, Jacob, and their sons. They are the line God has chosen to show mercy to, not because they are worthy of it (none of us are), but because through them, God will bring salvation and the Kingdom to Mankind. The line that ties Christ to humanity is called the Crimson Thread. They were preserved from the flood (Enoch) and through the flood (Noah). They were the-called (Abraham) and were blessed with a family to bring forth the Messiah (by way of the Jewish race). That line was given the law, the priestly oracles, the sacrificial system, and the prophetic word. All of this was designed before the foundation of the world to lead to Jesus Christ. 

And through Him, we who are born again, will be able to explore our own spiritual family trees, to see all who came before us. When Enoch was taken up, the world that was then seemed normal. It was getting progressively more wicked, and yet, if Enoch's enigmatic departure is any clue, the world is going to struggle mightily with where all these people disappeared to right before apocalyptic judgment fell on them.

By faith Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death, “and was not found, because God had taken him”; for before he was taken he had this testimony, that he pleased God. 6 But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. Hebrews 11:5-6