Of A Different Spirit

OF A DIFFERENT SPIRIT

(by brother Tarran Dookie)

ENOCH

Gen 5:21-24 And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah: And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.

Genesis chapter 5 gives the generation of Adam up to the time of Noah. Most of the people lived in excess of 900 years. But Enoch departed this earthly life when he was 365 years. However, he did not die for God took him. Why did God take him? God did so because Enoch walked with Him. He began to walk with God after he begot Methuselah. The birth of Methuselah represents a turning point or crisis in the life of Enoch. It is from this point that we are told that he walked with God. Many a believer can testify that it took a crisis, a special problem or difficulty to deepen their spiritual walk. It resulted in drawing closer to God and depending upon Him to resolve the difficulty.

We learn from Jude 14-15 that Enoch was a prophet of God, the first one we have recorded as giving a prophesy. He prophesied that the Lord will come with ten thousands of His saints to execute judgment. Before the Lord comes to execute judgment the saints will be translated. 'Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.' Enoch being caught up unto God typifies the translation of the saints.

Enoch's walk with God had to be deep and especial. Among the prophets only Elijah and Enoch did not die. Such a walk with God involves deep fellowship and total consecration. Being caught up in God in spirit, he was caught up bodily as well. Let us walk with God that we would be translated at the sound of the last trump and not be found wanting.

CALEB

Num 13:26-33 And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land. And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it. Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there. The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan. And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it. But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we. And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature. And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.

Num 14:20-24 And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy word: But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD. Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice; Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it: But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.

Moses had sent twelve leaders from the tribes of Israel to search out the land of Canaan. Ten of these spies gave a report that greatly discouraged the children of Israel. Although they acknowledged the bountifulness of the land, the presence of the giants in the land made them afraid. According to them the enemy was stronger than they.

However, Caleb sought to encourage the people and he said that the children of Israel were able to overcome the giants of the land. But the people would not heed and actually wanted to return to Egypt. Caleb and Joshua rent their clothes and again sought to encourage the people. Again they paid no heed and wanted to stone these two faithful spies. This is when the glory of the Lord appeared in the tabernacle and God was about to strike the children of Israel for their murmurings and unbelief. Moses interceded for them but God swore that the murmurers would not enter Canaan's land. Only Caleb and Joshua did enter the land.