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Secrets of Heaven #614

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614. To see that walking with God symbolizes the doctrine concerning faith, look at earlier statements about Enoch at Genesis 5:22, 24519]. He too was said to have walked with God, which there symbolized the doctrine of faith preserved for the use of later generations. Since this is the generation destined to use it, the phrase recurs here.

  
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Genesis 5:24

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24 And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.