City of Enoch

Enoch, son of Jared, was the seventh patriarch in Adam's line, born in Cainan. Adam ordained Enoch to the Melchizedek Priesthood. He established a city called Zion (meaning "the pure in heart") which was full of righteous people. They lived the law of consecration, and "there was no poor among them (Moses 7:18). Enoch's people were completely united in living the celestial law of God in a telestial world. Enoch "saw the Lord, and he walked with him, and was before his face continually" (D&C 107:49). The Lord even dwelt in the city of Enoch and taught Enoch's people there.

Enoch and the people of Zion became so righteous that the Lord translated them and took their city to heaven after 365 years (Moses 7:69). Enoch was 430 years old at that time. The city of Enoch thus attained a terrestrial glory.

The Lord promised Enoch that his posterity would remain upon the earth, which it did through Enoch's son Methuselah. Methuselah was left on the earth when Enoch and his people were translated, in order to continue the bloodline through which Noah would come (Moses 8:3-4). Methuselah was Noah's father.

The city of Enoch will return to the earth after the Second Coming, at the start of the Millennium, becoming part of the New Jerusalem that is to be built in what is now Jackson County, Missouri in the United States (see Moses 7:58-64).