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Audio Software icon An illustration of a 3. Software Images icon An illustration of two photographs. Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses. It appears your browser does not have it turned on. Please see your browser settings for this feature. EMBED for wordpress. He was put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit, in which also he went and made a proclamation to the spirits in prison, who in former times did not obey, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, during the building of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were saved through water.
And to the west, he showed me a great and high mountain of flint-hard rock. Three of them were dark, and one was illuminated and had a spring of water in the middle of it. For they were fashioned for this very purpose , that the souls of all the sons of the humans should be gathered here. They have been fashioned in this manner until the day on which they will be judged, and until the time of the day of the end of the great judgment which will be exacted from them.
And Abel appeals against him until his seed perishes from the face of the earth, and until his seed is obliterated from among the seed of the humans. And this first hollow has been separated for the spirits of the righteous-ones, where the bright spring of the water is. There he will be bound to an age. But their spirit will not be afflicted with damage on the day of the judgment, nor will they be raised from here.
For if God did not spare messengers who sinned, but instead, with cords of thick-darkness, hurled them into Tartaros, committing them there to be kept for a judgment. Jude Also messengers, the ones who did not keep their own government, but instead abandoned their own dwelling, he has kept in everlasting bonds under thick-darkness reserved for a judgment of a great day. Both are generally summarizing the entire main account in the book of Enoch, with the heavenly messengers led by Azazel and Shemihazah leaving the heavens and committing sexual-immorality with the daughters of the humans.
And I looked and turned to another part of the earth, and there I saw a deep valley with burning fire. And there my eyes saw that their fetters were being fashioned, iron chains of immeasurable weight. And Michael and Raphael and Gabriel and Phanuel will take hold of them on that great day, and cast them, on that day, into the burning furnace, so that the Lord of Spirits may take vengeance upon them on account of their unrighteousness for having become servants of the Adversary, and leading astray those who are dwelling upon the earth.
Neither was there water upon it, nor bird s ; instead the place was desolate and fearsome. And their spirits, assuming many forms, are ruining the humans and will lead them astray to sacrifice to the demons as to gods, until the day of the great judgment, in which they will be judged with finality. And no one among humans has seen as I saw. Why are you eager for the truth? And I saw fearsome works—a great fire burning and flaming there. And the place had a narrow cleft extending to the abyss, full of great pillars of fire, borne downward.
Neither the measure nor the size was I able to see, nor to estimate. Here they will be confined to the age of the age. Enoch He is coming with tens-of-thousands of his holy-ones,. Revelation of Johanan John. And the dead were judged, according to their works, from the things which were written in the books. And the sea gave up the dead, those who were in it; and the Death and the Netherworld gave up the dead, those who were in it.
And they were judged, each one according to his works. Revelation And the fifth messenger trumpeted: And I saw a star which has fallen from the heaven to the earth. And to it was given the key to the well of the abyss. And he opened the well of the abyss, and a smoke arose out of the well like a smoke of a great furnace.
And the sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke of the well. And out of the smoke locusts came out onto the earth. And they were given authority, as the scorpions of the earth have authority. And they have as a king over them the messenger of the abyss, whose name in Hebraic is Abaddon, but in Hellenic he has the name Apollyon, but in Latin and English he has the name Destroyer.
Now there are clear allusions from Enoch in Revelation of John, exactly as there are many illusions in Revelation of John from many other Old Testament prophets. But he is righteous in his judgment,. And again I saw with my eyes as I was sleeping. And I saw the heavens above, and behold, a star fell from the heavens, and it transformed and was eating and pasturing among them.
And in the midst of those calves they transformed into bulls, and they pastured with them in their midst. Why are there all these demonic beings in the center of the earth? Where did they come from? Enoch [from the same symbolic vision above]. And I saw one of those four who had come before; he seized that first star which had fallen from the heavens, and he bound it hand and foot and threw it into an abyss.
Now that abyss was narrow and deep and desolate and dark. And when their sons perish and they see the destruction of their beloved ones, bind them for seventy generations in the wooded-vales of the earth, until the great day of their judgment and consummation, until the judgment of the age of the ages is consummated.
Now, if the book of Enoch is an accurate book of prophecy, then these messengers will be bound in there for 70 generations. Now according to Jude , Enoch is the seventh generation from Adam.
Therefore, if Enoch is the 7 th generation, and the fallen messengers will be bound for 70 generations, then that means they will be bound until the 77 th generation. Jesus is the 77 th or 76 th generation.
Now it says in Luke also Matthew Yes, I tell you, this generation will be charged with their blood! So, the generation which Jesus spoke of, is the same generation as him, that make his audience also the 77th generation. Jerusalem was destroyed in 70AD, which is when that generation paid for all that blood which was shed.
So, the 77th generation would still be considered about 70AD or so, or very close to 79AD a date which will be explained below. Or, using other manuscripts, if 76 th is the generation of Jesus, there is no reason that 79AD could not easily be in the 77 th generation. Either way, this is not a huge deal. Now, there are a few possibly relevant verses to bring up beforehand:. Psalms — Who makes his messengers spirits, and his ministers a flaming fire.
Enoch — And they [heavenly-messengers] took me [Enoch] and led me away to a certain place, where those who were there were like a flaming fire; and whenever they wish, they take on the appearance of men. Now it needs to be explained why 79AD is an important date.
This is one of the biggest volcanic eruptions to this day. Eyewitness records still survive of this event, of a man who experienced this himself. This was a secular individual, a pagan Roman. Also, there are Roman histories which are not Christian affiliated which mention this event.
Both of them speak of strange spiritual things happening at that time. Therefore, this is my account which I composed from combining both of those sources as present in the first volume of my Christian History.
In fact, I did not intentionally discover this, nor have I ever encountered anyone else who has. I was compiling historical material for my Christian History book and came across this:. Christian History: Book 1, Ch Now in the 1 st year of the reign of Emperor Titus, a remarkable and frightful occurrence took place; for a great fire from Mount Vesuvius in Campania suddenly flared up at the very end of summer.
This mountain stands facing Neapolis near the sea, and it has inexhaustible fountains of fire, and often, it throws up smoke and ashes; and the tremors caused by it were a common occurrence in Campania and no cause for panic. But at this particular time, many great men, far surpassing any human stature , appeared: indeed, on the mountain, but also around the country; also in the cities, wandering day and night over the earth and through the air. And after this, both terrible and sudden violent quakings occurred, growing much stronger, so that even the entire plain all around seethed, and the summits leaped up into the air.
But there were indeed frequent sounds, indeed, some were subterranean, like thunderings, but some were also on the surface, like bellowings. And both the sea roared, and the heaven resounded it. Then suddenly, an excessive crash was heard, as if the mountains were falling against one another.
And first, enormous stones leaped up into the air , so that they rose even as high as the very summits. After this came lots of fire and endless smoke, so that, indeed, the entire air was overshadowed, but the sun was entirely covered up, as if it had been eclipsed. Therefore, both day was turned into night, and light into a darkness which was darker and thicker than any night. And indeed, some thought that the giants were rising up again for at this time, many of their apparitions shown through the smoke, and above all, a sound like a trumpet was also heard ; but others even believed that the entire world was being consumed into chaos and fire.
And for this reason, they fled; indeed, some from the houses into the roads, but others from outside inside; both from the sea to the land, and from there to the sea. For in their excitement, they regarded any place where they were not as safer than where they were. While this was happening, an unspeakable amount of ashes puffed out of the mountain. These dark and horrible clouds, rent by twisted and quivering fiery spirits, opened into long figures of flames, like lightning, but bigger.
And the ashes covered both the land and the sea like a flood, and filled all the air. And indeed, they wrought many and various kinds of injury, even to humans and countries and fattened-animals; but it utterly-destroyed all of both the fish and the birds. For not only the smoke, but the trembling of the earth caused the sea to be sucked backwards. And with the shoreline receding, many sea-creatures were left on dry sand.
And the ash was so thick, that the one who did not continuously shake it off, was crushed by the weight. The darkness was not like a moonless or cloudy night, but more like the black of closed and unlit rooms.
There was the wailing of women, the cries of infants, the clamor of men, the calling of relatives. They could only be recognized by their voices. Some, who were so afraid of death, prayed for death. Many raised their hands to whatever they considered a god, and even more believed that no god existed anywhere, and that this was the last night of the world. And above all this, two entire cities were buried in ash like snow, both Herculaneum which used to be called Herakleion and Pompeii, the latter while the throng was seated in a theater.
And even until this day, nearly 2, years later, these cities have not been rebuilt. For the amount of all the dust was so great that, indeed, some even reached Africa and Syria and Egypt, but it also reached Roma, and both filled the air overhead and overshadowed the sun.
And here there was no little anxiety, which lasted for several days, since the humans did not know and could not imagine what had happened. Instead, they believed that everything was being turned upside-down, and, indeed, that the sun was disappearing into the earth, but that the earth was going up into the heaven. Therefore, indeed, these ashes did no great evil to the Romans at this time, though later, they brought down upon them a terrible pestilential sickness, the like of which had hardly been known before.
But I know for certain that this proves the divine inspiration of the prophecies given in Enoch. This happened 70 generations after Enoch down to the exact. And that is the 77 th generation. So, I do not think that I have to linger any more on the inspiration of the book of Enoch, when it has proved prophecies such as this which could not have been fabricated. I should also mention, that there is no other event like this found at all within Roman history, where people state that they saw spirits coming out of a volcano, or anything supernatural to this magnitude at all.
This is a very unique event testified by secular historians. This is a full list of all the known authors with surviving works during this period. However, many of them have little to no works surviving.
Therefore, it would be assumed that an author with only a few fragments or a single work would have less of a chance of mentioning Enoch even if he believed in it, not to mention the rest of the holy scriptures.
This must be taken into account in order to ascertain a proper survey of the beliefs of the Christians about this book during this period.
Authors which should be most-considered due either to their closeness to the apostles or because they have a substantial amount of writings still extant have been bolded. Barnabas c. In his one letter, he refers to Enoch three times, twice without mentioning the name of the prophet, showing that his audience clearly was familiar enough with the book that he did not have to even mention its title when quoting from it.
Barnabas The final stumbling-block approaches, concerning which it is written, as Enoch says:. Yet he says again:. It is happening now. For because they [the Israelites] went to war [in 70AD], it was demolished by their enemies [Romans]. And now, they, as the servants of the enemy, will rebuild it. Again, it was revealed that the city and the inner-sanctum and the people of Israel would be surrendered. For the writing says:. But let us inquire whether there is still an inner-sanctum of God.
Yes, there is—where he himself says, that he is making and perfecting it. For it is written:. Barnabas also preserves quotations from books which we no longer have, plus, in addition to many other New and Old Testament passages, also quotes from 2 Ezekiel which was unknown until the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls , as well as 2 Baruch and Wisdom of Solomon.
Strangely, this passage, which would have been quoted from the Greek book of Enoch, does not seem to be present in the current extant fragments of the Ethiopic Enoch though, after the Dead Sea Scrolls were found, there was evidence that entire sections have went missing from the Ethiopic version.
And I grieved exceedingly over that tower, and because that house of the sheeps had been demolished. And they began again to place a table before the tower, but all the bread on it was polluted and impure. A great punishment will come from the heavens upon all these,. And after this there will arise a seventh week….
And at its conclusion, they will acquire possessions in righteousness, and an inner-sanctum of the kingdom of the Great-One will be built in the greatness of his glory for all the generations of eternity.
Clement of Roma c. Does not refer to Enoch at all in his one long letter, which is comprised of quotations from primarily the Old Testament, including Wisdom of Solomon and Judith and some unknown scriptures which are now lost. Ignatios AD [disciple of John]. Does not refer to Enoch. However, despite a collection of 7 letters, he has very few scripture quotations at all, a saying of Jesus which is possibly of uncertain origin.
Aristeides AD. Quadratus of Athens AD. Neither refers to any scriptures in their writings at all. Mathetes AD. Does not refer to Enoch, however he only has one New Testament quotation in his single letter. Hermas Shepherd of Hermas c AD. Does not refer to this book at all. Aristo of Pella AD. However only a few fragments of his writings remain, and there is only a single quotation from any scripture. Polykarpos Polycarp AD [disciple of John].
However he only has one short letter and a martyrdom account, in which he quotes several times from the New Testament and twice from the Old Testament of which is Psalms and Tobit. Papias c. Only very few fragments of his works remain. However, he does have Jesus quoting from 2 Baruch, a so-called apocryphal work. Justinus Justin Martyr c. Justinus: Second Apology. God, when He had made the whole world, and subjected things earthly to man, and arranged the heavenly elements for the increase of fruits and rotation of the seasons, and appointed this divine law--for these things also He evidently made for man--committed the care of men and of all things under heaven to heavenly messengers whom He appointed over them.
But the messengers transgressed this appointment, and were captivated by love of women, and begat children who are those that are called demons; and besides, they afterwards subdued the human race to themselves, partly by magical writings, and partly by fears and the punishments they occasioned, and partly by teaching them to offer sacrifices, and incense, and libations, of which things they stood in need after they were enslaved by lustful passions; and among men they sowed murders, wars, adulteries, intemperate deeds, and all wickedness.
Justinus has a collection of several lengthy works. Tatianus c. However, he has only one writing which is long but has very few scripture quotations. However, only fragments of a few of his works survive. However, in them, he quotes from Wisdom of Solomon and Martyrdom of Isaiah, showing that he is not limited to the modern day canon. Theophilus He only has one writing. Hegesippus Only fragments of his one writing survive, which is a church history and does not have many quotations at all.
Dionysios of Korinthos Only a few fragments of his letters remain, which only have a few quotations. Athenagoras Athenagoras: A Plea for the Christians.
Just as with men, who have freedom of choice as to both virtue and vice for you would not either honor the good or punish the bad, unless vice and virtue were in their own power; and some are diligent in the matters entrusted to them by you, and others faithless , so is it among the heavenly messengers.
Some, free agents, you will observe, such as they were created by God, continued in those things for which God had made and over which He had ordained them; but some outraged both the constitution of their nature and the government entrusted to them: namely, this ruler of matter and its various forms, and others of those who were placed about this first firmament you know that we say nothing without witnesses, but state the things which have been declared by the prophets ; these fell into impure love of virgins, and were subjugated by the flesh, and he became negligent and wicked in the management of the things entrusted to him.
Of these lovers of virgins, therefore, were begotten those who are called giants…. Therefore, these messengers, who have fallen from heaven, and who haunt the air and the earth, and who are no longer able to rise to heavenly things, along with the souls of the giants, which are the demons who wander about the world, perform similar actions. The one, that is, the demons, perform actions to the natures they have received. The other, that is, the messengers, performs actions to the appetites they have indulged.
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