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Genesis 5:5
"And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died."
"The patriarchs from Adam to Noah, with but few exceptions, lived nearly a thousand years. Since the days of Noah, the length of life has been tapering. Those suffering with disease were brought to Christ for him to heal, from every town, city, and village; for they were afflicted with all manner of diseases. And disease has been steadily on the increase through successive generations since that period. Because of the continued violation of the laws of life, mortality has increased to a fearful extent. CE 10.1"
EGW directly references the long lifespans of the patriarchs, specifically mentioning Adam and Noah, and alluding to the information found in Genesis 5.
Genesis 5:22
"And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:"
Of Enoch it is written that he lived sixty-five years, and begat a son. After that he walked with God three hundred years. During these earlier years Enoch had loved and feared God and had kept His commandments. He was one of the holy line, the preservers of the true faith, the progenitors of the promised seed. From the lips of Adam he had learned the dark story of the Fall, and the cheering one of God's grace as seen in the promise; and he relied upon the Redeemer to come. But after the birth of his first son, Enoch reached a higher experience; he was drawn into a closer relationship with God. He realized more fully his own obligations and responsibility as a son of God. And as he saw the child's love for its father, its simple trust in his protection; as he felt the deep, yearning tenderness of his own heart for that first-born son, he learned a precious lesson of the wonderful love of God to men in the gift of His Son, and the confidence which the children of God may repose in their…
The EGW passage directly references Enoch's age when he begat Methuselah and the fact that he walked with God for 300 years, which is explicitly stated in Genesis 5:22. It then expands on the nature of that walk with God.
Genesis 5:24
"And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him."
"Enoch walked with God. So may every laborer for Christ. You may say with the psalmist, “I have set the Lord always before me: because He is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.”[ Psalm 16:8 .] While you feel that you have no sufficiency of yourself, your sufficiency will be in Jesus. If you expect all your counsel and wisdom to come from men, mortal and finite like yourselves, you will receive only human help. If you go to God for help and wisdom, He will never disappoint your faith. GW 417.4"
The EGW passage uses Enoch's walk with God as an example for Christian laborers, drawing a parallel between Enoch's close relationship with God and the need for believers to rely on God's guidance and sufficiency. The Psalm is used to reinforce the idea of keeping God always present.
"We should know what we must do to be saved. We should not, my brethren and sisters, float along with the popular current. Our present work is to come out from the world and be separate. This is the only way we can walk with God, as did Enoch. Divine influences were constantly working with his human efforts. Like him, we are called upon to have a strong, living, working faith, and this is the only way we can be laborers together with God. We must meet the conditions laid down in the word of God or die in our sins. We must know what moral changes are essential to be made in our characters, through the grace of Christ, in order to be fitted for the mansions above. I tell you in the fear of God: We are in danger of living like the Jews—destitute of the love of God and ignorant of His power, while the blazing light of truth is shining all around us. 5T 535.2"
The EGW passage explicitly mentions Enoch walking with God, directly referencing Genesis 5:24. The passage uses Enoch as an example of someone who walked with God, making the connection clear.