Monthly Manna Revelation: March 2025

Apostle Dr. James Brewton

A Walk in the Kingdom with the King

 

Genesis chapter 5, verses 21–24 NKJV says:

 

21 Enoch lived sixty-five years, and begot Methuselah. 22 After he Enoch lived sixty-five years, and begot Methuselah. After he begot Methuselah, Enoch walked with God three hundred years, and had sons and daughters. 23 So all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years. 24 And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.

 

The context of scripture that you just read is of profound magnitude. It is deep! It is weighty with the splendor of God, and it expresses an unfathomable amount of revelatory knowledge that many believers miss. I like to relate this verse of scripture from Psalm chapter 42, verse 7 (NKJV) which says, “Deep calls unto deep at the noise of Your waterfalls; all Your waves and billows have gone over me,” to scriptures like the one we just read because they contain secrets and mysteries of which the Holy Spirit is willing to reveal to any believer who sincerely desire Holy Spirit revelation of the Word of God, and makes himself available to receive it.

 

The Bible says that Enoch walked with God. What exactly does it mean to walk with God?

 

Halak is the Hebrew word translated for walk. It means to walk continually, be conversant, be eased, enter, exercise self, follow, grow, walk abroad, to and fro, up and down to places. (Strong’s O.T. # 1980)

 

Halak is akin to yalak, which means to walk; to carry away, follow, grow, lead forth, prosper, pursue, spread, to be weak. (Strong’s O.T. #3212)

 

The Greek translation our English word, walk, is peripateo (per-ee-pat-eh-o), which means a path under foot; to tread all around—that is, walk at large as proof of ability; to live, deport oneself, follow as a companion or votary; be occupied with, walk about. (Strong’s N.T. #4043)

 

I am convinced that the New Testament saints of the first century walked with God, signifying the lifestyle and activities of the individual life, their observance of Kingdom ordinances as well as moral conduct. Their walk with God was one of walking in the newness of life—by the power of the Holy Spirit, in love, by faith, in wisdom, in honesty, in truth, in good works, after the commandment of the Lord, Jesus, and not after their flesh—not after the manner of men in craftiness nor in the vanity of the mind nor disorderly.

 

Let’s read several texts of scripture—Kingdom principles—that confirm the Kingdom-walk of the first-century saints of the Church-Age, beginning with Romans chapter 6,verses 4–6 NKJV, emphasis added:

 

4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, 6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin.

 

Romans chapter 8, verses 3–6 NKJV, emphasis added:

 

3 For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, 4 that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. 5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. 6 For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

 

Ephesians chapter 5, verses 1–2 NKJV, emphasis added:

 

1 Therefore be imitators of God as dear children. 2 And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.

 

2 Corinthians chapter 5, verse 7 NKJV, emphasis added: “For we walk by faith, not by sight.”

 

Colossians chapter 4, verse 5 NKJV, emphasis added: “Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.”

 

Romans 13:13–14 from the King James Version, emphasis added: 

 

13 Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. 14 But put ye on the LORD Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof.

 

2 John, verse 4 NKJV, emphasis added: “I rejoiced greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, as we received commandment from the Father.”

 

Ephesians chapter 2, verse 10 NKJV, emphasis added: “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.”

 

2 John, verse 6 NKJV, emphasis added: This is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the commandment, that as you have heard from the beginning, you should walk in it.

 

According to the scriptures you just read, it is clear that 1) the Kingdom-walk begins with the newness of life in Christ Jesus; 2) the Kingdom-walk is according to the Spirit, not according to

the flesh; 3) the Kingdom-walk is a walk in love, as Christ also has loved us; 4) it is a walk by faith, not by sight; 5) it is a walk in wisdom toward those who are non-believers; 6) it is a walk in honesty; 7) it is a walk in truth; 8) it is a walk in good works prepared by God before the world began; and, 9) it is a walk, according to the commandments of the King.

 

Let’s go back to the life of Enoch and highlight the difference between walking with God and leaning on God.

 

Leaning on God implies merely living in survival mode. But walking with God signifies thriving in life, living the best life on earth as God does in heaven. The things that accompany our salvation are ours in abundance as we obey and serve Him.

 

The Kingdom-walk, even among the Old Testament saints was a life of thriving, experiencing continual blessings as they obeyed and served God.

 

Job chapter 36, verse 11 NKJV makes this clear: “If they obey and serve Him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, And their years in pleasures.”

 

Salvation is both a spiritual and physical reality. It is the object of our confident hope. We have eternal life with God, but we live on the physical earth now; therefore the things that accompany our eternal life are enjoyed physically on earth.

 

The Greek word for salvation is soteria, which denotes deliverance, preservation, health, rescue, safety, maintenance of peace and harmony, do well and make whole. (Strong’s N.T. #4991) These are things we need here on earth, not in heaven.

 

Enoch’s walk with God, the distinguishing factor in his life, entailed both the spiritual and the physical realms. Something transpired or shifted Enoch after he turned sixty-five years old and after he begot Methuselah. As we know, Methuselah is believed to have lived 969 years, longer than any recorded human beings physical life. But Enoch, Methuselah’s father, was taken to eternity with God after only 365 years. So then, Methuselah symbolizes longevity of physical life on earth and Enoch symbolizes our eternal existence with God, which is far greater, even if our life on earth is short.

 

After the birth of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God for three hundred years. For three hundred years, Enoch’s lifestyle and activities signified his observance of God’s Kingdom ordinances, as well as his personal moral conduct. His walk with God was one of walking in the newness of life—after the Spirit of God, in love, by faith, in wisdom, in honesty, in truth, in good works, and  after the commandment of the Lord; not after his flesh—not after the manner of men in craftiness nor in the vanity of the mind nor disorderly. And he did so among a generation of ungodly people who sinned continually, and whom God would destroy by the Flood.

 

Genesis chapter 6, verses 5–7 NKJV is my supporting text:

 

5 Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil, continually. 6 And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. 5 So the Lord said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.”

 

Enoch’s walk with God over a period of three hundred years, living a lifestyle that signified his reverence for God in observing and obeying God’s ordinances, reveals to us God’s secret blueprint detailing how we will be taken away by God, not that we won’t see death or die physically, like Enoch and like Elijah, both of whom God took so that they didn’t experience death, but in the sense that as we get older and abide in our walk with God the devil can’t kill us prior to the fulfillment of our kingdom assignment. After our divine assignment is fulfilled, we can say like the apostle Paul said in Philippians chapter 1, verse 21 NKJV, “For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.”

 

Enoch walked with God for three hundred years! I am assured he maintained that walk, not by his might nor by his power but by the power of God’s spirit, as stated in Zechariah chapter 4, verse 6 NKJV, since the Holy Spirit had not been personally manifested in the earth to abide in the heart of man.

 

I am convinced that he key to how we experience death rests in our sustained walk with God.

 

I believe that there is a difference between experiencing physical death and being received in death by God, the latter of which signifies our supernatural leverage as saints. As his sons and daughters, heirs of salvation, saints are valuable to God—we’re priceless! That’s why Psalm chapter 116, verse 15 NKJV says, “Precious in the sight of the Lord Is the death of His saints.” God receives the death of those who walk with Him and brings us into His glory—His heavenly bliss.

 

Receive is the Hebrew word laqach (law-kakh), which means to take; accept, bring, buy, carry away, drawn, reserve, send for, and take away, take up. Win. (Strong’s O.T. #3947)

 

For all nonbelievers and those faithless believers, death has a sting to it, which is sin. If sin is the lifestyle of nonbelievers, and also those saints who initially used their faith to enter into eternal salvation but afterward lived a lifestyle of unbelief, death has a sting which is God’s judgment equal to the accumulated sin committed.

 

Sting is the Greek word kentron, which means to prick; a point—that is, a sting (poison) or goad for poking and pricking, a divine impulse; prick, sting. (Strong’s N.T. #2759)

 

2 Corinthians chapter 5, verse 10 NKJV says, “For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.”

 

This is the judgment reserved for saints only. Romans chapter 2, verses 5–11 NKJV describes the judgment of those who have an unrepentant heart, and did not trust God’s truth:

 

5 But in accordance with your hardness and your impenitent heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, 6 who “will render to each one according to his deeds” 7 eternal life to those who by patient continuance in doing good seek for glory, honor, and immortality; 8 but to those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness – indignation and wrath, 9 tribulation and anguish, on every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek; 10 but glory, honor, and peace to everyone who works what is good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.11  For there is no partiality with God.

 

If we go back to the life of Enoch and look closely at the wording of scripture relative to family genealogy, we will observe that every person from Adam to Noah lived and died, with the exception of Enoch. They lived, begat sons and daughters and they died. Enoch lived sixty-five years, and his life shifted. Enoch did not live the normal custom of the genealogy of those from Adam to Noah. Enoch not only lived, but he walked with God for three hundred years. I’d say that was a major shift. Where the others lived and died, Enoch walked with God and was taken away by God, escaping physical death.

 

My questions would be, “Why did God take Enoch? Why didn’t God allow Enoch to live eight hundred, nine hundred or so years as he had allowed others?”

 

The answer to each of the two questions is not only pertinent to our walk with God today but also significant to our life purpose and divine assignment. Why did God take Enoch that he didn’t experience the sting of death? I believe it is because Enoch was not a sinner. He lived among the vilest of sinners, yet he maintained his walk with God for three hundred years without sin. God did not allow Enoch to live for eight hundred or nine hundred years, because Enoch had fulfilled his divine purpose in three hundred years. For example, some people may live only a short time on earth because they fulfill their earthly assignment, let’s say in 70 years. Others may live longer because their earthly assignment may be more extensive and require more time.

 

I believe that longevity of life is directly related to divine purpose and assignment. Satan’s plan was to kill Enoch because he could not persuade him to sin, as he had persuaded all the generation of Enoch’s time. Satan knew that Enoch’s life was a testimony of his trust and faith in God and he wanted Enoch dead. So death was looking for Enoch but couldn’t find him because his life testimony pleased God and became his life shield against experiencing the sting of physical death.

 

Hebrews chapter 11, verse 5 (NKJV, emphasis mine) is my confirmation: “By faith Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death, ‘and was not found [by death], because God had taken him,’ for before he was taken he had this testimony, that he pleased God.”

 

It is our walk, our lifestyle, with God as a testimony of our faith, not our leaning on Him for survival, that distinguishes us from being received by God through death or experiencing the sting of death when we die. Enoch’s life testimony of faith, walking with God, saved him from a premature death and experiencing its sting. Saints today have the same opportunity as Enoch. We can choose to walk with God or live in this world according to its evil systems. We should always remember that we live in the world, but we are not of the world. We walk with the Lord both spiritually and physically while we live on the earth by being God conscience, Christ centered, and Holy Spirit-focused.

 

Enoch was the seventh generation from Adam. The number seven symbolizes completion. Enoch’s final testimony regarding God’s future judgment of false teachers and those who opposed Christ (anti-Christ) was a prophetic rhema from God, and it completed him:

 

Let’s read that from Jude, verses 14–16 and verses 19–21 NKJV):

 

14 Now Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men also, saying “Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of His saints, 15 to execute judgment on all, to convict all who are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.” 16 These are grumblers, complainers, walking according to their own lusts; and they mouth great swelling words, flattering people to gain advantage.

 

19 These are sensual persons, who cause divisions, not having the Spirit. 20 But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, 21 keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

 

 

As we walk with God, we keep ourselves in his love, where we have access to his perpetual grace and mercy unto eternal life. As we do so, we grow spiritually, and we learn to walk in the newness of life, walking by faith, not by sight. We grow into our walk with God. Enoch didn’t begin his life walking with God; that shift of the spirit took place after he was sixty-five years old and had begotten Methuselah.

 

I believe our holy Father has shifted or changed times and seasons, making them compatible with our walk with Him, no longer leaning on Jesus as a crutch or leaning post or portraying ourselves, our physical bodies, as an old house with so many leaks that we need to find us a better home. That is not a mentality of victory but of defeat—religion and escapism—hoping the Lord hurries to rapture the church out of the earth.

 

Saints, we are anointed to change the world and bring it under the authority of the Kingdom of Heaven and its King, who also is King and Lord of all earthly kings and kingdoms. Our walk with God, our oneness with Him, through faith, to represent his holiness on the earth, will determine our life testimony. The power of God and our security in Him is in our trusted walk with God.

 

I know some of you think that when believers walk with God, trusting Him and obeying the principles of the Kingdom of Heaven here on earth, the world sees us as weak and mentally challenged because, according to them, we look to a God somewhere in the sky to rescue us. And they are partly correct, especially when believers vacillate between belief and unbelief. In other words, we believe God one day and believe the systems of the world the next. But our supernatural leverage lies in ungodly peoples’ unbelief. Ungodly people cannot recognize our humility before God, because it is spiritually discerned; and therein lies our strength.

 

In 2 Corinthians chapter 12, verse 9 NKJV, Jesus said to the apostle Paul:

 

9 …My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.

 

Paul’s reply is the second half of verse 9, and verse 10:

 

Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

 

Today I encourage you to ask the Father to shift your mentality from religion to kingdom, from surviving to thriving, and from leaning on the Lord to walking with Him. He may not let us fall if we lean on Him, but we’re assured there is no earthly way we can fall as we walk with Him.

 

Walk in the Kingdom with the King, and you will stay tuned-in to the frequency of heaven!