Beginning of the End - Ellen G. White

As year after year passed, deeper and deeper grew the tide of
human guilt, darker and darker gathered the clouds of divine
judgment. Yet Enoch kept on his way, warning, pleading, working
to turn back the tide of guilt. Though his warnings were ignored by a
sinful, pleasure-loving people, he had the assurance that God
approved. He continued to battle against evil until God removed him
from a world of sin to the pure joys of heaven.
Enoch Is Translated to Heaven
The people of that generation had laughed at Enoch because he
did not seek to build up possessions here, but his heart was upon
eternal treasures. He had seen the King in His glory in the midst of
Heaven, and his mind and his way of living were in heaven. The
greater the existing iniquity, the more earnest was his longing for the
home of God.
For three hundred years Enoch had walked with God. Day by
day he had longed for a closer union; nearer and nearer had grown
the relationship, until God took him to Himself. Now the walk with
God, which he had so long pursued on earth, continued, and he
passed through the gates of the Holy City--the first from among
earth's inhabitants to enter there.
His loss was felt on earth. Some, both righteous and wicked,
had witnessed his departure. Those who loved him searched
diligently for him, but without success. They reported that he "was
not," for God had taken him.
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