Enoch

...A thousand years before the flood, a man stands on the land his father gave him, that he in turn must pass down to his many sons and daughters. In the late afternoon Sun, a being of light and wonder appears before him seemingly out of nowhere. With eyes wide, the man recognizes that this is one of the mythic beings his ancestors spoke of, with all due reverence and awe, as one of the messengers of the most high... And so begins the journey of the hero... (seventh novel, twenty-sixth book by the author). It tells the fascinating story of the Patriarch, father of Methuselah, great-grandfather of Noah...of whom it was said, four generations before the flood, that Enoch was taken up by a divine messenger, shown many wonders, brought back to teach, and then, "...Enoch walked with god, because god took him..."