Will,
You wrote..."
He died 153 years after Enoch was translated. That has always intrigued me.
It is thought by a number of people that the patriarchs of Gen 5 are a type of the last days. Enoch, Methuselah, and Noah seem to be good types of the rapture.
It reminded me of this passage in John 11...
11 Simon Peter went up and dragged the net to land, full of large fish, one hundred and fifty-three; and although there were so many, the net was not broken.
YBIC
Bruce Baber