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    years old, and he never ever died. That’s right, guys.
    He never ever died because he always obeyed the
    Lord, and one day the Lord just zapped him up to
    heaven. He didn’t collect anything to take on the
    journey; he just shot through, straight up. Must have
    fairly freaked out Mrs. Enoch, eh? She was probably
    walking around her kitchen calling out to Enoch to
    come for dinner.
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    “Hey, dear, why don’t you come for dinner?
    You’ve been praying for ages, and your dinner
    is going to get cold if you don’t stop soon. I can’t
    understand why you love God so much when you
    can’t even see Him.”
    “Enoch!” she yelled. “Get in here, will you, man?
    Enoch, why don’t you answer me?” Mrs. Enoch
    walked outside just in time to see Enoch’s feet disap-
    pearing through the clouds. She probably fainted or
    something, and when she woke up she had twice as
    much food to eat.
    I’ll bet Satan was as mad as a donkey with its tail
    on fire. Up until now he had watched everyone die
    when they got old, but Enoch slipped right through
    his fingers. Satan was still watching out for this
    baby that was gonna fight him, but he wasn’t really
    worried at the moment because things in the world
    were becoming very, very bad.
    After Cain killed Abel other people did that as
    well, and things were going to get even worse. Some
    of Satan’s demon buddies had decided they would
    like to have children and their children would be
    huge giants who would teach the people very evil
    things. When you thought it couldn’t get any worse it
    did—and Just Because only one man on earth really
    loved the Lord now. His name was Noah. The other
    one who really loved the Lord had just left through
    the clouds before dinner. ZAP—gone.
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    Now things were getting very bad in the world,
    and people stopped believing in the Lord. One
    man still believed in the Lord and also loved the Lord,
    and his name was Noah. Near where Noah lived and
    everywhere in the world, people had become very
    evil. Some of Satan’s buddies married human girls
    and had babies that grew into big giants. They were
    called the Nephilim, and they were half demon. They
    were very powerful and strong, and many people have
    written stories about them. The Nephilim taught the
    people evil things, like how to kill each other. They
    made the people worship Satan. All the people except
    a few were listening to Satan and his demon buddies
    and not to God. People would do anything Satan
    asked them to do, and they did terrible things to each
    other. They were killing each other and stealing and
    killing their children and burning people alive. They
    built big buildings like pyramids and killed people
    on top of these buildings. They told the people that
    if they did this then the gods would help them. The
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    gods they were talking about were their parents, the
    demons, and especially Satan. It was a terrible time
    to be alive in those days because you never knew
    when terrible things might happen to you.
    The Lord saw all the evil in the world, and He
    decided to stop it. He decided to give the people a
    chance to change; He would make a big flood, and
    every evil person would drown. So the Lord told Noah
    to build a huge boat called an ark. The Bible doesn’t
    tell us how He spoke to Noah, but Noah heard Him
    anyway. Now Noah decided to trust the Lord even
    though he didn’t know for sure what would happen
    in the future. The Lord was pleased with Noah for
    trusting Him, because God loves people to have
    faith. Faith just means to trust the Lord and do what
    He asks, even when you don’t know for sure what
    will happen.
    The Lord told Noah exactly how to make the
    ark and how many rooms to put into it. Noah drew a
    picture of what the ark would look like, and he started
    work. It was the first time anyone in the world had
    ever built a big boat. It would be bigger than a whole
    football field and take a very long time