Enoch’s Influence about the Apostles

1. Enoch’s Influence within the Apostles Enoch’s Influence to the Apostles Enochian scholar Dr. R. H. Charles noted at the turn of the twentieth century that “the influence of Enoch on the New Testament has been greater a new study from the researchers at Tobit than that of all the other apocryphal plus pseudepigraphal books taken together.” [23] Although scarce few had even heard of the influential volume until the modern era, Dr. Charles points out that “all the writers of the New Testament were familiar with it, in addition to were more or considerably less influenced by it in thought and sometimes diction.” [24] For example, Dr. Charles Francis Potter notes that “with Paul, it [the Work of Enoch] is said to have been his vade mecum, literally, his ‘go with me,’ his pocketbook, his manual for frequent reference.” [25] the website Jack Whigham Perhaps Paul quotes the Booklet of Enoch indirectly in I Timothy 6:16 in his listing of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Immortal One. He speaks of him as the one who only hath immortality, dwelling while in the light which no man can angle unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be merit in addition to power everlasting. This description is much like that of the Essay of Enoch, what reads: No angel was capable of penetrating to view the face of Him, the Glorious and the Effulgent; nor could any mortal behold Him. A fire was flaming around Him.... Not one of those who surrounded Him was capable of approaching Him. (14:23–24) The same paperback also seems to be the source of Paul’s chastisement of the Gentiles “They sacrifice to devils, as well as not to God,” (I Cor. 10:20) as did the profane men in Enoch’s hardback, what reads: In addition to being numerous in appearance [the fallen angels] made men profane, and more than that caused them to err; so that they sacrificed to devils as to gods. (19:2) Paul’s story of a “man in Christ” who was “caught in anticipation of the third heaven,” either within the body or out of the body (Paul could not tell), may reference Enoch’s profile of several heavens, implied in the main booklet of Enoch in addition to directly stated while in the E-book of the Secrets of Enoch. [26] Furthermore, one apocryphal New Testament booklet referred to as the Revelation of Paul describes Paul’s journey for the duration of those several heavens, including Paul’s meeting with a hoary-headed man of grateful countenance — who turns out to be none other than the patriarch Enoch. This is how the author tells his story: 29 And more than that the angel says to me: Hast thou start all these things? In addition to I answered: Yes, my lord. And more than that just as before he said to me: Come, follow me, as well as I shall cinema flick thee the shape of the righteous. And more than that I followed him, and sometimes he set me before the doors of the small town. And I saw a golden gate, and more than that two golden pillars past it, and more than that two golden plates upon it full of inscriptions. And sometimes the angel said to me: Blessed is he who shall enter into these doors; as the not every one goeth in, but only those who have single-mindedness, and guiltlessness, as well as a pure heart.... And more than that straightway the gate was opened, as well as there came forth a hoary-headed man to meet us; and sometimes he said to me: Welcome, Paul, beloved of God! and, with a thankful countenance, he kissed me with tears. And sometimes I said to him: Father, why weepest thou? And sometimes he said to me: For the reason that God hath prepared many good things for men, and sometimes they do not His will information that they may enjoy them. In addition to I asked the angel: My lord, who is this? And more than that he said to me: This is Enoch, the witness of the continue day. [27] The apostle John, author and sometimes amanuensis over the biblical Revelation of Jesus Christ, came even closer to Enochian symbolism, tone, and more than that narrative. Many of his visions familiar to lovers of the Bible can also be seen inside the Book of Enoch: the “Lord of lords, and more than that King of kings,” the casting down of the devil into the swells of fire, the vision of the seven Spirits of God, the tree whose fruit is to the elect, the four beasts across the throne, the horse wading until eventually his breast in blood, and more than that the manuscript of life. [28] Some believe it was Revelation’s close similarity within the apocryphal Manuscript of Enoch that nearly prevented it from becoming canonical scripture — which place it gained by a especially close call. (While in the third century, Dionysius of Alexandria, along with many others from the churches in Syria in addition to Asia Poorer, rejected the Revelation on literary grounds as being inauthentic.) [29] Acts 10:34 quotes Peter as saying that “God is no respecter of persons” — a word also invoked by Paul the same thing that is originate while in the Manuscript of Enoch and in Deuteronomy, Chronicles, and sometimes intermittently for the duration of the Old Testament. The Publication of Enoch may have been the source of all of these biblical usages. Both of Peter’s letters while in the New Testament seem to be predicated upon the Essay of Enoch. [30] Peter’s second letter, discussing the binding as well as casting down to hell of the angels who sinned, denounces the wicked in terms Enoch himself you can possibly have used. Peter writes: Spots they are and more than that blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you; Having eyes full of adultery, and more than that that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children.... (II Pet. 2:13–14) 30 Greek specialists Rendel Harris as well as M. R. James, among others, have speculated that Peter’s first epistle may have originally contained an explicit reference to Enoch by forename precisely what was deleted — whether by error or direct intent — in later copies of Scripture. [31] Yet there is even more dramatic evidence of the early Christian acceptance of the E-book of Enoch. The Epistle of Jude clearly discusses the your blog posts of the Tome of Enoch, noting that there are certain men crept in unawares, who were back of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness.... These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without unease: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; Raging pangs of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of dark for ever. (Jude 4, 12–13) Jude in reality quotes Enoch directly in addition to refers to him by name, saying: Plus Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, To execute judgment upon all, in addition to to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds the same thing they have ungodly keen, and more than that of all their hard messages just the thing ungodly sinners have spoken against him. (Jude 14–15) Note that the entire premise plus actions of the Work of Enoch — i.e., the judgment of the Watchers because key over the

2. liberation of the souls of Light and sometimes as a essential planetary purge prior to the Lord’s kingdom come — is predicated to occur “in a generation the same thing that is to succeed at a distant period, on report of the elect.” (En. 1:2) Who are the elect? We define the elect as those who elect to be instruments of God’s will, according to their calling from the Father plus the Son to be bearers of the Light of the Elect One — keepers of the flame of the prophecy of the Holy and more than that Mighty One, the God of the World. We take Enoch 1:2 to mean that the judgment is usually a direct and more than that inevitable consequence of the coming of the Elect One — the incarnate Name — and his chosen in this and sometimes succeeding centuries. The judgment prophesied by Enoch will come throughout the Christ Light that the Son has ignited while in the hearts of his own. The Light is of the “inner man,” known to Paul as “Christ in you, the hope of glory.” [32] Our hope was in Christ the eternal Judge; for if he come, and sometimes he will naturally come ‘quickly’ with “ten thousands of his saints,” [33] then the glory of the Lord will shine on earth for the duration of the anointed hearts who confirm the Phrase of the Lord — on earth as it is at heaven. 31 Enoch’s prophecy for the judgment is quoted by Jude as acceptable scriptural evidence of “the ungodly.” Jude based his entire epistle upon this Enochian theme. But what time Enoch’s booklet was later questioned, Jude himself also became suspect, his letter barely remaining among the canonical books of the Bible. Another remarkable bit of evidence over the early Christians’ acceptance of the Paperback of Enoch was for ages buried under the King James Bible’s mistranslation of Luke 9:35, describing the transfiguration of Christ: “As well as there came a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son: hear him.” Apparently the translator here wished to produce this verse agree with a similar verse in Matthew and sometimes Mark. But Luke’s verse inside original Greek reads: “This is my Son, the Elect One. [34] Hear him.” The “Elect One” is a most strict term inside the Hardback of Enoch. If the hardback was indeed known about the apostles, with its abundant descriptions of the Elect One who should “sit upon a throne of glory” and the Elect One who should “dwell while in the midst of them,” (En. 54:3–4) then colossal scriptural authenticity is accorded for the Publication of Enoch when the “voice out of the cloud” tells the apostles, “This is my Son, the Elect One” — the one promised inside the Essay of Enoch. The Manuscript of Enoch was also much loved by the Essenes, the new-age society that had a large monastery at Qumran within the Dead Sea at the time of Jesus Christ. “The motif of the fallen angels,” Dr. Potter notes, “was a favorite legend among the Essenes.” [35] Fragments of ten Enoch manuscripts were establish among the Dead Sea Scrolls. The renowned scrolls in fact comprise only one part of the total findings at Qumran. Much of the rest was Enochian literature, copies of the Paperback of Enoch, in addition to other apocryphal works inside Enochian tradition, like the Tome of Jubilees. With so many copies around, the Essenes could well have exactly Enoch as a the people prayer e-book or teacher’s manual and study text. The Essenes were waiting over the coming Messiah to deliver them from the persecution they suffered, just the thing they attributed within the “sons of Belial” — undoubtedly the fallen angels. They awaited the coming of the Elect One; for because Booklet of Enoch had prophesied, “You shall behold my Elect One, sitting upon the throne of my glory. As well as he shall judge Azazeel [Azazyel], all his associates, and more than that all his hosts.” (54:5) In this same tradition, Jesus himself said, “At present is the judgment of this world-system [of the Watchers]: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.” (John 12:31) [36] Very seriously his listeners, well-versed as they were within the teachings of the Paperback of Enoch, as you may have caught Jesus’ without color inference: that he came to implement the judgment of the fallen angels prophesied within the Publication of Enoch. In essence, Jesus revealed himself since the Messiah, the Elect One of the Publication of Enoch, who came not only to fulfill the prophecies of the Old Testament but also to fulfill one a select special prophecy inside the Work of Enoch — namely, the judgment of the Watchers and more than that their offspring. 32 The Booklet of Enoch was also question by writers of the noncanonical (i.e., apocryphal or “hidden”) texts. The author of the apocryphal Epistle of Barnabas quotes the Tome of Enoch three times, twice calling it “the Scripture,” a term specifically denoting the inspired Phrase of God. [37] Other apocryphal works reflect knowledge of the Enoch story of the Watchers, notably the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs and sometimes the Volume of Jubilees. (See “Enoch inside Forgotten Books” in this paperback.)