Are there people described in the Word who have lived and are living without having passed through death?

We will take time to examine what the experience and merit of each of them consists of, so that they were granted this precious gift — life without death.

There is little written about Enoch, because he lived before the flood, more about Elijah, and about John there are facts written, as a topic for reflection and facts that need to be analyzed. And now I will present Enoch first:

Genesis 5

23 Altogether, Enoch lived a total of 365 years.

24 Enoch walked faithfully with God; then he was no more, because God took him away.

What does it mean to believe and walk with God? This means to have trust in the principles and rules given by God and to comply with them, as well as to apply them toward yourself and others. That is, to live in harmony both with yourself and with others and thus to sow balance and unity in society. To hold to morality, honor and justice.

Hebrews 11

5 By faith Enoch was taken from this life, so that he did not experience death: “He could not be found, because God had taken him away.” For before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God.

From the following verses we understand something very important about Enoch — he very accurately describes the characteristic marks of the weeds and compares them with those of the wheat.

Jude 1

10 Yet these people slander whatever they do not understand, and the very things they do understand by instinct—as irrational animals do—will destroy them.

11 Woe to them! They have taken the way of Cain; they have rushed for profit into Balaam’s error; they have been destroyed in Korah’s rebellion.

12 These people are blemishes at your love feasts, eating with you without the slightest qualm—shepherds who feed only themselves. They are clouds without rain, blown along by the wind; autumn trees, without fruit and uprooted—twice dead.

13 They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.

14 Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about them: “See, the Lord is coming with thousands upon thousands of his holy ones

15 to judge everyone, and to convict all of them of all the ungodly acts they have committed in their ungodliness, and of all the defiant words ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”

16 These people are grumblers and faultfinders; they follow their own evil desires; they boast about themselves and flatter others for their own advantage.

17 But, dear friends, remember what the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ foretold.

18 They said to you, “In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires.”

19 These are the people who divide you, who follow mere natural instincts and do not have the Spirit.

20 But you, dear friends, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit,

21 keep yourselves in God’s love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life.

22 Be merciful to those who doubt;

23 save others by snatching them from the fire; to others show mercy, mixed with fear—hating even the clothing stained by corrupted flesh.

24 To him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy—

25 to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen.

In these verses the characteristic marks of the weeds are clearly pointed out, in contrast to the spiritual purity of Enoch. There is a comparison of weeds and wheat and the consequences of their actions, both for the one and for the other.

He lived in the time of Samaria. A city that was located in the middle of Palestine (six miles northwest of Shechem). It was built by Omri, king of Israel, (around 920 BC), and named after Shemer, the previous owner of the hill where the city was built. This city became the usual residence of the kings of Israel, instead of Shechem and Tirzah (the previous capitals). The city was adorned with public buildings. Ahab built there a house of ivory and a temple of Baal. The prophets often rebuked him for his idolatry. The Syrians besieged it twice. Finally Sargon, king of Assyria, took and destroyed the city, and led its inhabitants into captivity (721 BC).

The heroes who participate in the story of the deed and events concerning the life of Elijah are the following:

Ahab reigned over Israel and reigned 22 years. His reign was characterized by great evils, as well as that of his wife Jezebel. Ahab is king of Israel, who ruled around 870 – 850 BC. According to the Bible he marries Jezebel, who has great influence on him and tries to impose the worship of Baal in Israel.

1 Kings 16

30 Ahab son of Omri did more evil in the eyes of the Lord than any of those before him.

31 He not only considered it trivial to commit the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, but he also married Jezebel daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and began to serve Baal and worship him.

32 He set up an altar for Baal in the temple of Baal that he built in Samaria.

33 Ahab also made an Asherah pole and did more to arouse the anger of the Lord, the God of Israel, than did all the kings of Israel before him.

Jezebel kills the Lord's prophets, and Ahab kills Naboth, symbolizing Jesus Christ and takes his vineyard (subjugates the church and it becomes part of satanic cults).

In the published excerpts God explains that Ahab symbolizes Satan in his second person — beast, earthly power. Satan achieves the same in New Testament times, when he uses earthly power to subjugate the New Testament church.

For Elijah, who lived after the flood, before Christ there are more presented facts.

At the time when Elijah lived in Samaria there was a great drought and famine. Jezebel the wife of king Ahab persecuted and killed God's prophets. Obadiah servant of Ahab saves 100 prophets servants of God from the persecution of Jezebel and from her hatred against God's servants.

Shown is the radically different attitude of Ahab and of Obadiah toward Elijah. King Ahab is a servant of the Baal idolaters. For Ahab Elijah is a troublemaker and disturbs Israel, and for Obadiah, Elijah is a man worthy of respect. Elijah in response shows the harmful role of the Baal followers, or the so-called Baalites. Shown is Elijah's responsive determination to prove which God is the true one and with whom people should comply if they want to have normal climatic conditions for life. And so Elijah gathers all the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal, and the four hundred prophets of Asherah, who are under the protection of Jezebel. And he acts very honestly, because he sets a wager, staking his life against theirs. Whose God is truly God, will manifest and will hear the prayer of His Prophet. If the true god is Baal, he will hear the Baalites and will accept their sacrifice, by sending fire on the bull as a sign that he accepts their sacrifice. If Elijah's God is true, He will send fire to accept the sacrifice of His prophet.

From then on the events develop obviously in favor of the True servant of the Lord. The fulfillment of the bet follows: it is not Elijah who loses his life, but the prophets of Baal. When the cause of the evils that bring desolation, bad climate, bad health, lack of food, lack of agriculture and animal husbandry, of energy, morality and peace on earth is destroyed, then everything, as a consequence is restored around us and in us with the help of the Spirit. Elijah says: Seize the prophets of Baal. Don’t let anyone get away! They seized them, and Elijah had them brought down to the Kishon Valley and slaughtered there. And although he killed, he is still righteous for which he is rewarded. The goal of the devil is that the Spirit of Elijah does not come. That is, the separation of weeds and wheat, if it is from GOD must be by Spirit, not by law!

Because this separation that Elijah made can happen only and solely with the Spirit of God.

1 Kings 18

2 And Elijah went to shew himself unto Ahab. And there was a sore famine in Samaria.

4 (For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)

7 And as Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him: and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said, Art thou that my lord Elijah?

17 And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel?

18 And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the LORD, and thou hast followed Baalim.

19 Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel unto mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the groves four hundred, which eat at Jezebel's table.

20 So Ahab sent unto all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together unto mount Carmel.

21 And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.

22 Then said Elijah unto the people, I, even I only, remain a prophet of the LORD; but Baal's prophets are four hundred and fifty men.

23 Let them therefore give us two bullocks; and let them choose one bullock for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under: and I will dress the other bullock, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under.

24 And call ye on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of the LORD: and the God that answereth by fire, let him be God. And all the people answered and said, It is well spoken.

25 And Elijah said unto the prophets of Baal, Choose you one bullock for yourselves, and dress it first; for ye are many; and call on the name of your gods, but put no fire under.

26 And they took the bullock which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, O Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any that answered. And they leaped upon the altar which was made.

27 And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.

28 And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.

29 And it came to pass, when midday was past, and they prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that there was neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any that regarded.

30 And Elijah said unto all the people, Come near unto me. And all the people came near unto him. And he repaired the altar of the LORD that was broken down.

31 And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, unto whom the word of the LORD came, saying, Israel shall be thy name:

32 And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD: and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.

33 And he put the wood in order, and cut the bullock in pieces, and laid him on the wood, and said, Fill four barrels with water, and pour it on the burnt sacrifice, and on the wood.

34 And he said, Do it the second time. And they did it the second time. And he said, Do it the third time. And they did it the third time.

35 And the water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench also with water.

36 And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things at thy word.

37 Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the LORD God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again.

38 Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.

39 And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, The LORD, he is the God; the LORD, he is the God.

40 And Elijah said unto them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape. And they took them: and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there.

41 And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is a sound of abundance of rain.

42 So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees,

43 And said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. And he went up, and looked, and said, There is nothing. And he said, Go again seven times.

44 And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. And he said, Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get thee down, that the rain stop thee not.

45 And it came to pass in the mean while, that the heaven was black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel.

46 And the hand of the LORD was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.

And therefore for the deed that Elijah performed he is rewarded with Life without death. This is the separation of good and evil. Evil is justly punished, to protect all who want to be normal and live with Divine principles and laws. This is the love that shows mercy to the wheat and justice to the weeds. Therefore it is said God is merciful and just and He is longsuffering, but does not forget. AMEN!