Gleanings From Enoch, Part 2

GLEANINGS FROM ENOCH, PART 2   by eternalissues@cox.net Blog Post Date:  2-11-2021

I think part of what I love so much about Enoch is the glimmer we get to see of the other side, and the reminder that earth is merely the trial run.  Living here on earth, trudging through the days in and out of making a living, providing and protecting, nurturing and being nurtured, sometimes the eternal seems so surreal.

Section Three of Enoch is titled “The Astronomical Book”, and starts with chapter 72.  Most likely I will not adequately comment on the richness of this section – for it moved me beyond what I think I’m able to convey.  But I can’t help but wonder if we had set ourselves to learning according to the revelations of God versus the study of man, if our understanding and paradigm on earth would be very different than what it is in my lifetime?

I’m reminded of my hero George Washington Carver, and how his education was in the laboratory of nature with the instructor of the Holy Spirit.  If ever there was a humble man who emulated the divine inspiration for understanding nature and the elements of how this life was ordered, to me it is he. 

Enoch begins this section with a discourse on the path of the sun.  I suppose the possibility exists that it was allegorical, but I do not think so.  And if you don’t take his discourse allegorically or symbolically, your mind will likely tilt, because his description defies modern science.

To begin, he references the laws of the sun, moon and luminaries (stars).  Uriel is the host who is showing him such grand behind the scenes, and it is made plain the order is a natural law.  In fact, he says at the end of verse one,

“…and he [Uriel] showed me all their laws exactly as they are, and how it is with regard to all the years of the world and unto eternity, until the new creation is accomplished which endures until eternity.”

There is constant foreshadowing of a time after the time of earth.  Reading Enoch is an experience in learning of worlds that have been, worlds that are, and worlds that will be.  We almost have to leave behind preconceived ideology from the days of school rooms and lectures, and even the tidy lessons of Sunday School. 

Enoch calls the sun a luminary, and tells us the first law of the sun is “its rising in the eastern portals of the heaven, and its setting in the western portals of the heaven.”  Immediately we will have to consider that we have either been taught and/or believed a lie.  If the sun rises and sets out of portals of the heaven, then it is not stationary in the sky with globes revolving around it.

Enoch described six portals in both the eastern and western parts of the heaven, as well as multiple windows on each side of the portals.  He describes a sequence of days in which the sun departs one portal in the east, returns to one in the west for about thirty days, and then changes portals, which obviously shows the sun moves across the sky as the seasons progress.  It’s a fascinating depiction as it tells how the seasons move with the sun’s path, how the days get longer in some passages and shorter in others.

The chapter on the sun ends with:

“As he rises, so he sets and decreases not, and rests not, but runs day and night, and his light is sevenfold brighter than that of the moon; but as regards size they are both equal.”

When Enoch describes the moon’s course, he is very specific how the moon’s course runs separate from the sun’s, and how measuring time by the moon must take into account the discrepancies.  He explains that the moon falls behind the calendar record over eight years by eighty days.  And then he says something interesting, he addresses “world stations”.

I found some websites with people who have really taken some of these concepts Enoch shares and applied principles to them.  Here are a few I’d like to peruse sometime when I have more time:

Astronomy confirms the accuracy of the Book of Enoch

Revolutions of the Luminaries

Enoch and the still flat earth

What I also find interesting is that Enoch describes a year as 364 days (and as 52 weeks).  There are four intercalary days injected.  But it makes me wonder how off our calendars may or may not be from the variations over the millennia of measuring time into years….  For instance, if we failed to account for a year being 364 days by God’s calendar, just that one day over the course of 4000 years would make our calendars off by almost eleven years (10.9).  These are things that matter if we’re trying to keep God’s timetable.

Enoch segues into the course of the luminaries (stars) by explaining that the star courses set the intercalary days.  And then he says this fascinating thing (75:2):

“And owing to them men go wrong therein, for those luminaries truly render service on the world-stations, one in the first portal, one in the third portal of the heaven, one in the fourth portal, and one in the sixth portal, and the exactness of the year is accomplished through its separate three hundred and sixty-four stations.”

If we can temporarily set down our preconceived notions of the earth and its orbit around the sun, and just imagine, even if just to pretend, that Enoch’s descriptions are true, we find such fascinating courses of chariots and winds, windows and portals and world-stations. 

Remember when you read The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe for the first time?  I remember how I had to lay aside the laws of this earth as I was taught them, to embrace the world of Narnia.  It was similar but not the same.  It had elements that did not fit with the principles I was taught of earth and life by my earliest teachers.  This reminds me of that.  I don’t necessarily have to discard the original teachings I have of these concepts, but if I just set them aside to entertain a different way of looking at them, I may be able to glean something I would otherwise miss.

Wind has always been a mysterious concept to me.  What causes it?  Where does it come from and what causes it?  I know science has their theories, but Enoch puts science on its heels.  Enoch tells us the winds are found in the twelve portals that open to the four quarters of the earth, and to find these portals you must go to the ends of the earth!

He describes the purposes of the winds, some for good, some for harm.  He assigns the plagues to the winds.  And then he moves into the quarters….

How does a round globe have four quarters?  Enoch says the quarters are also called the north, south, east, and west.  He tells us what each quarter holds, calling the second quarter most special because the Most High descends from it, and it is also called the south.  The northern quarter is subdivided into three parts, a part each for:  man, seas & land, and the “garden of righteousness”.

Then Enoch circled back to the sun and moon, and gave us their names (two for the sun and four for the moon) and their luminous abilities.  Enoch concludes this section with three chapters that I personally subtitled “the transgression”.  Here are some passages I found especially noteworthy:

[80:2)  “And in the days of the sinners the years will be shortened, and their seed will be tardy on their lands and fields, and all things on the earth will alter, and will not appear in their time.”

I grew up a farmer’s daughter.  I know that this is true even in my lifetime.

Enoch goes on in verse four to say, “And the moon will alter her order, and not appear at her time.”  This tells me the original discourse Enoch gave on the plight of the sun and moon through the portals will change.  Six thousand years later, I do believe it has changed.

Verse five tells us the sun will burn more brightly “than accords with the order of light”, and the following versus add:

“And many chiefs of the stars will transgress the order (prescribed).  And these will alter their orbits and tasks, and not appear at the seasons prescribed to them.  And the whole order of the stars will be concealed from the sinners, and the thoughts of those on the earth will err concerning them.”  (This gave me pause.  How much error is in our ways and interpretations?)

Enoch continues to hearken his son, Methuselah, (and future readers), to walk in the ways of righteousness and not depart from it.  We’re to teach the wisdom of heaven to our children and them to theirs, that the way not be lost.  He says in 82:3, “And those who understand it will not sleep but will listen with the ear that they may learn this wisdom…”

When Enoch goes on to explain the four luminaries that correct the calendar by their intercalary insertions, he admonishes:

“Owing to them men will be at fault and not reckon them in the whole reckoning of the year:  yea, men will be at fault, and not recognize them accurately.”  What point in the future was he prophesying about?   A hundred years?  A thousand?

 It’s as though Enoch looked forward through the passage of time and saw a future time that the wisdom given to him and made available by the faithful who passed it along through the millennia would hit a point that error would prevail to the detriment of those who profess to be knowing. 

If the descriptions of Enoch be true, then what we know as truth is a lie.  The earth does not spin on an axis and traverse in an orbit around a stationary sun.  That’s a difficult pill for most to swallow.  I do not portend to tell another what to think or what conclusions should be made.  I only wonder if the story has been obscured over time with the increasing wickedness of man and interference of the fallen spirits, and if there is a way to peel back the layers of fallacy to arise at honest truth that stems from the source of all Truth, God Himself.  To receive that, what must we be willing to lay down in our beliefs in order to embrace truths that contradict such? 

Surely it is not a salvation issue whether we believe the principles science and education have indoctrinated us with, or if we choose to believe ancient scripts from patriarchs of the faith.  I say that because I don’t think such topics are worth the division they cause.  They don’t impact our salvation.  Let people evaluate the data as they must, and arrive at the conclusions that their pursuit of truth leads them.  If it’s not a salvation issue, if it doesn’t deny the Lordship of Christ, let’s walk in grace toward one another.

That said, there are numerous passages of Scripture itself that indicate maybe our thoughts have been hijacked by the “reason of man”. 

Joshua 10:12-14  (NASU)

Then Joshua spoke to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites before the sons of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel,

"O sun, stand still at Gibeon, and O moon in the valley of Aijalon." So the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, until the nation avenged themselves of their enemies.

Is it not written in the book of Jashar? And the sun stopped in the middle of the sky and did not hasten to go down for about a whole day.  There was no day like that before it or after it, when the Lord listened to the voice of a man; for the Lord fought for Israel.

Now there’s no reason the Scripture couldn’t have called on the earth to stand still if it was rotating.  But it doesn’t.  It tells the sun to stand still and the moon to stop – for a whole day!  This was never corrected.  No translation staying as close to the original language as it could has altered that interpretation. 

And Revelation 7:1 practically reiterates Enoch’s discourse on the four winds in chapter 76.  Revelation says it like this:

After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth,

And Enoch says it like this:

And at the ends of the earth I saw twelve portals open to all the quarters of the heaven from which the winds go out and blow over the earth.

The word translated “corners” in Revelation 7:1 is also translated “quarters” in Revelation 20:8.  In the Strong’s concordance they are interchangeable as corners or quarters. 

Maybe there’s more to Enoch and his revelations than the Church at large has allowed to come forth.

All this to say, Enoch was a refreshing book for me to read, full of wonder and revelation.  It presents images and explanations that make the Scripture come alive, and exposes stale or stagnant teachings that may need revisited, reevaluated, and possibly rethought. 

Gleanings From Enoch

 GLEANINGS FROM ENOCH, PART 1

February 4, 2021 eternalissues@cox.net 

Blog Post Date:  2-4-2021

From my rough timetable, I have that Enoch was born in the 622^nd year on earth (from a timetable calculating Adam at year zero).  His father, Jared, would have been born in the 460^th year.  Enoch’s great grandson Noah would have been born in year 1056, and the Great Flood would have been about year 1656.

That means Enoch spoke of the events to come in a thousand years, roughly [at Chapter 54 the word about the coming destruction through flood begins].  He tells us that in the days of his father, Jared, the Watchers came to earth to copulate with the daughters of men.  The Watchers numbered 200, and descended onto Mount Hermon.  He lists nineteen of their leaders by name, and calls Semjaza, Samlazaz Azazel various specific leaders.    

These Watchers wrought havoc on the earth by their fornication with humanity and the introduction of the Nephilim, also called giants.  They taught humanity all sorts of knowledge that would lead to ultimate destruction.  The earth got filled with a lot of bloodshed, and the Most High slated destruction to the earth because of the bloodshed and wickedness.

Enoch was given insight and revelation to the events in his day, the structure of the heavenly realm, and things to come on the earth.

I love the first chapter because it speaks of the Holy Great One, the eternal God, coming out of His chambers to execute justice upon the earth.  It is quoted by Jude, but I like the passage right before Jude’s citation, [Enoch 1:8]:

But with the righteous He will make peace.  And will protect the elect, and mercy will be upon them.  And they will all belong to God, and they will be prospered, and they will all be blessed.  And He will help them all, and light will appear unto them, and He will make peace with them.

Then verse nine is what is quoted in Jude 14-15:

And, behold, He comes with tens of thousands of His holy ones to execute judgement upon all, and to destroy the ungodly:  And to convict all flesh of all the works of their ungodliness which they have ungodly committed, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.

The violence against mankind on earth was noted in chapter 8, verse 3:  “And as men perished, they cried, and their cry went up to heaven.”

Chapter nine continues noting the lawlessness on earth, and verse three says:

And now to you, the holy ones of heaven, the souls of men make their suit, saying, “Bring our cause before the Most High.”

Azazel was marked in verse six for teaching “all unrighteousness on earth and [revealing] the eternal secrets which were (preserved) in heaven, which men were trying to learn.”

The following chapters spell out the judgement forthcoming to the angelic realm for their sin.  The Watchers learn of the anger of God and seek Enoch to intercede for them.  The Lord is not pleased and remarks in chapter 15, verse 2 that Enoch should point out to them:  “You should intercede for men and not men for you.” 

The whole chapter is vital for hearing the Lord’s judgment on the Watchers.  In verse eight and nine the Lord decrees and defines the definition of giants:

And now the giants, who are produced from the spirits and flesh, will be called evil spirits upon the earth, and on the earth will be their dwelling.  Evil spirits have proceeded from their bodies because they are born from men and from the holy Watchers is their beginning and primal origin; they will be evil spirits on earth, and evil spirits will they be called.

Probably a decade or more ago when I was down the rabbit hole of UFOs and aliens, the Spirit spoke to me that aliens were just demonic spirits manifesting under new titles.  Here I learn through Enoch that the product of the union of fallen angel and man is decreed an “evil spirit”.  When we consider that a whole other world is going on in tunnels and labs and undisclosed locations across the earth with entities the like most human eyes will never lay upon, we can know for certain that such evil is what Enoch said wreaked the earth in the days of his father leading up to the Great Flood.

Enoch goes on with the words of the Lord to him, explaining what the Church has been neglectful to teach:

[As for the spirits of heaven, in heaven will be their dwelling, but as for the spirits of the earth which were born upon the earth, on the earth will be their dwelling.]  And the spirits of the giants afflict, oppress, destroy, attack, do battle, and work destruction on the earth, and cause trouble:  they take no food, but nevertheless hunger and thirst and cause offences.  And these spirits will rise up against the children of men and against the women, because they have proceeded from them.

Men and women before me have labored to expose what goes on in the dark.  They have been ridiculed and scorned, neglected and rejected.  It doesn’t change the truth because one denies it exists.  The truth is still the truth.  We have enemies who have set themselves against the order of the Creator, and in so doing have endeavored to corrupt and destroy mankind. 

They are teaching insidious and irreversible techniques and methods to corrupt the flesh of humanity, to remove the God piece in humanity.  These methods come in the form of artificial intelligence, transhumanism, androgyny, nano particles and involuntary genetic modifications, gene splicing, cloning, and DNA manipulations.  How are we none the wiser today to these tactics of the enemy?

Gratefully, this passage in chapter sixteen stood out to me as a beacon of great comfort and hope:

And now as to the watchers who have sent you to intercede for them, who had been previously in heaven, (say to them):  “You have been in heaven, but all the mysteries had not yet been revealed to you, and you knew worthless ones, and these in the hardness of your hearts you have made known to the women, and through these mysteries women and men work much evil on earth.”  Say to them therefore:  “You have no peace.”

All the mysteries have not been revealed.  There is a higher wisdom; there are deeper mysteries, greater knowledge, and more encompassing truths.  The works of Freemasonry, the Illuminati and Satanic fraternities and organizations, the revelation of alien technologies, they are not the fullness of the mysteries of the wisdom of Heaven and the Holy One.

Oh that the servants of God would implore the Maker of Creation for the tools and wisdom to thwart these works of darkness!

Chapter 42 tells us that “Wisdom went out to make her dwelling among the children of men and found no dwelling place:  Wisdom returned to her place and took her seat among the angels.”  We must enter the courts of Heaven to find the Wisdom we need.  It does not exist in the channels of earth.

Chapter 46 reads so much like Daniel 7:9-10; I highlighted the whole chapter.  Chapter 48 tells us of the inexhaustible fountain of righteousness and the Son of Man and this great encouragement is found in it.  It says the Son of Man has preserved the lot of the righteous, “…because they have hated and despised this world of unrighteousness and have hated all its works and ways in the name of the Lord of Spirits.”

This was particularly encouraging to me.  I have been so weary of this world, feel so alien here, want very much to depart and abide in the abode of the spirit.  I am reminded of these passages….

1 John 2:15-17  [NASU]   Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world. 17  The world is passing away, and also its lusts; but the one who does the will of God lives forever.

John 12:25  [NASU]  He who loves his life loses it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it to life eternal.

Heb 11:37-38 [NASU]   They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were tempted, they were put to death with the sword; they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated 38 (men of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and caves and holes in the ground.

In chapter sixty-two verse seven we read:  “For from the beginning the Son of Man was hidden, and the Most High preserved him in the presence of His might and revealed him to the elect.”  Which has beautiful echoes of Colossians 1:15-18 and John 1:1. 

And at the end of that chapter we read about the garments given to the righteous and elect:  “And they will have been clothed with garments of glory, and these will be the garments of life from the Lord of Spirits:  And your garments will not grow old, nor your glory pass away before the Lord of Spirits.”  Which has echoes of Rev 3:5 [NASU], “He who overcomes will thus be clothed in white garments; and I will not erase his name from the book of life, and I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels.”

The Book of Enoch was not canonized, and part of me wonders if it was because parts of it were excerpts from the Book of Noah.  For example, critics have used Enoch 60:1 to contend the book is faulty – because it says, “In the year 500….in the life of Enoch….”  Obviously a literal interpretation indicates that would be errant.  Enoch was not alive in the year 500 of earth, nor did he live 500 years.  However, this was understood to be about Noah, in Noah’s 500^th year.  When reading the context of the 60^th chapter we learn that Leviathan and Behemoth were placed one in the sea and the other in the wilderness to beget judgement upon the earth in part.  The judgement that subsequent chapters portray are those of the days of Noah.  Obviously Enoch was not on the earth in those days.  It seems to me to be a mixture of Enoch’s revelation of those days and Noah’s experience in those days. 

While many have discounted the work of Enoch for these seeming discrepancies, I think it’s a great loss to dismiss this work on such grounds.  The uncanny overlap of themes and even descriptions in Enoch that parallel other passages of Scripture cannot be missed.  If we want a better understanding of the “Days of Noah” here in our 21^st century, perhaps an account of one who was there and one who foretold of it would be valuable for at least consideration. 

For instance, chapter sixty-four has just two sentences, but the second sentence elucidates the reason for the destruction on earth (via the Flood):  “These are the angels who descended to the earth and revealed what was hidden to the children of men and seduced the children of men into committing sin.”

Simply put, the angelic realm crossed into the earthly realm and seduced humanity to sin against God.  In the following chapter it further details, “…because they have learnt all the secrets of the angels and all the violence of the devils, and all their powers – the most secret ones – and all the power of those who practice sorcery, and the power of witchcraft, and the power of those who make molten images for the whole earth.”

We know that it is Noah speaking in this chapter because he says so plainly in verse 9 (Chapter 65).  Enoch told Noah, “Because of their unrighteousness their judgement has been determined upon and will not be withheld by Me forever. [quoting God’s words to him]  Because of the sorceries which they have searched out and learnt, the earth and those who dwell upon it will be destroyed.  And these – they have no place of repentance forever, because they have shown them what was hidden, and they are the damned.”

But Enoch was clear to point out Noah was innocent of knowing these secrets.

There is so much we can learn from this, especially in the light of current events.  When we hear of  Jeffrey Epstein’s tunnels and underground rooms on his island, and that as a private citizen he held an office in Harvard, wanted to “seed the human race with his DNA” and cryogenically freeze his penis and brain to be brought back at a future date, there are questions that should arise in our minds.  This New York Post story tells us:

Epstein used his own key card and campus passcode to make at least 40 visits to an office known as “Jeffrey’s Office” at the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics. He had showered the program with $6.5 million before he served time for soliciting sex with a minor.

“Program for Evolutionary Dynamics”….wonder what that was about?  He helped start the program with his hefty donation, which includes population genetic s.  He was also quoted as wanting to “strengthen the human gene pool” through eugenics. 

Couple that with tidbits coming out on Bill Gates’ and those like him and their research into genetic modifications, transhumanism, cloning, etc., and we should be realizing we’re dabbling in realms of human reconstruction that will surely facilitate the judgement of God.  If humans were meant to live forever, it was surely before there was sin.  The wage of sin is death, and if we think we need to circumvent death by clones and unnaturally extending the human lifespan, what are the implications of that?  Surely that is playing God with no fear of the Creator.

The examples that have gone before us would indicate that will not work out well for humanity on planet earth.   In Noah’s day, the fallen angels were the source of the secrets that led to the wickedness encompassing the earth.  It doesn’t take too long of research to realize the likes of people in the Illuminati, Freemasonry, DUMBs, the Nazi medical labs, and other laboratories and fraternity circles are getting instructions from extradimensional beings.

Chapter 69 lists the fallen angels’ crimes with an interesting sidebar about an oath requested by Kasbeel  (requested of Michael) and called the “chief of the oath” that immediately made me think of Freemasonry and the secrets of that order based on oaths.  (This starts at verse 13 and is fascinating.)

In verse 26 we learn the Name of the Son of Man was revealed to those in this angelic order, and that the “sum of judgement” was given to Him.  Beautifully, section two ends with chapter 72 with the Son of Man proclaiming “peace in the name of the world to come”. 

And these are just the first two sections of Enoch’s work.