<p>11:5 <i>By faith Enoch was snatched away so that he should not be killed; and he was not found, because God had taken him away. He had witness borne to him, that before his being snatched away he had been well pleasing to God</i>- Paul wrote this to Hebrew Christians under persecution, believing that the second coming was at the doors, and soon they too would be snatched away to safety from persecution (1 Thess. 4:17). Paul was urging them to believe as Enoch did, and to be confident of final salvation as well as preservation in this life. He was &quot;well pleasing&quot; in that he believed (:6). Perhaps the example of Enoch is chosen because his ancester was Cain, who did <i>not </i>please God, in contrast to Abel who has just been mentioned (:4). The point would be that we can break out from our surrounding environment, we are not inevitably, genetically tied in to any spiritual situation, but there is available to us the radical power of new creation in the Spirit (2 Cor. 5:17). There is no reason here to believe that Enoch was snatched away to Heaven or immortality, for the wages of sin is death; and Enoch was not perfect. The Lord Jesus was the first to rise from the dead and receive immortality (1 Cor. 15:20-23).&nbsp;</p><p>The &quot;witness borne to him that he had been well pleasing unto God&rdquo; is courtroom language. Could it not be that his representative / guardian Angel in the court of Heaven had made this testimony to God Almighty?</p>