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¶ And Enoch lived sixty and five years,
and begat Methuselah: 22 And Enoch
walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons
and daughters: 23 And all the days of
Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: 24 And Enoch walked with God: and he was not;
for God took him.
Here is a foundational verse, number 24, for belief in
the Translation of the church,
popularly called The Rapture since the 1800’s. The Bible uses Interpretation for our modern thought of
translating one word in one language into a word in another language, much like
we use the word “interpreter” for someone at the UN with headphones on
translating what the Russian ambassador said into English. This definition it
uses as well as the interpreting of dreams.
John
1:42 And he brought him to Jesus. And
when Jesus beheld him, he said, Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be
called Cephas, which is by interpretation,
A stone.
John
9:7 And said unto him, Go, wash in the
pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation,
Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing.
Acts
9:36 Now there was at Joppa a certain
disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation
is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good works and almsdeeds which she
did.
Translation is to move something from one place to
another, as Enoch was removed by God from the earth alive, missing the judgment
on the earth to come.
Hebrews
11:5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see
death; and was not found, because God had translated
him: for before his translation
he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
Much of the belief in the translation of the church is
founded based on verses in Paul’s letters and in Revelation. The doctrine
begins here with Enoch, however.
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