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THE SEVENTH FROM ADAM An interesting aspect to Enoch’s typology is his connection to the number seven. Before Jude tells us that Enoch prophesied the Second Coming, he chooses to inform us that Enoch was “the SEVENTH from Adam.” (Jude 14) That is, Enoch is the seventh in line in the oldest human genealogy. For some reason, Jude felt that that little fact was relevant. Any serious student of Scripture has probably taken note of the fact that the number seven is a special number to God. The word “seven,” for instance, is found 463 times in the Bible, yet its numeric neighbors “six” and “eight” line up far behind at only 202 and 80. “Seven” is found 54 times in the book of Revelation alone, a higher per chapter ratio than any book of the Bible, which is quite interesting since Revelation is THE prophecy book of the Bible that deals almost exclusively with events surrounding the Second Coming of Christ: Enoch’s prophecy! But this preacher firmly believes that God has a 7,000 year plan for humanity with the seventh millennium being the one thousand year kingdom of Jesus Christ on earth (Rev. 20:1-7). The prophet Enoch’s number seven rank in the Genesis genealogy fits all too well into this to be mere coincidence, especially since the global flood, a type of the Second Coming, according to Jesus (Luke 17:26), strikes the earth in the SEVENTH chapter of Genesis. To further stress the seven factor, God sent the flood SEVEN days after Noah and his family entered the ark (Gen. 7:10). And if that’s not enough emphasis, the Holy Spirit records for us in Genesis 5:31 that the last man in Noah’s ancestry lived “seven hundred seventy and seven years.” So, Enoch was number seven, and he preached the Second Coming and then was taken from the earth without dying. Sound familiar? Of the SEVEN churches listed in Revelation chapters two and three, WE are number seven, and it is the faithful remnant within the Laodicean church period that, like Enoch, faithfully walks with God and preaches the Second Coming! After that, a voice from heaven says, “Come up hither” (Rev. 4:1)