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Enoch the seventh from

In the , there are two ’s; one from the line of , in Genesis 4:17, and one from the line of , who is the Enoch that we are concerned with here. The lineage is Adam — Seth — — — Mahalaleel — — Enoch. Enoch walked with , and after 365 years God took him — he did not die.

 Genesis 5:23-24 And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him. This fact is expanded upon in chapter 11 — among those who walked in .

:5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see ; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his he had this testimony, that he pleased God. Enoch is also found in the genealogy of .

:37 Which was the son of Mathusala, which was the son of Enoch, which was the son of Jared, which was the son of Maleleel, which was the son of Cainan. Note; above the names are spelt differently in the which was originally written in Greek. In the time of the early fathers, the was widely accepted as inspired scripture by , , , Athenagoras, , and . They all referenced Enoch in their own writings, probably because of Jude’s reference that it was a prophetic text.

 Jude 1:14-15 And 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, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.

 Enoch 1:9 And behold He cometh with ten thousand of His holy ones to execute judgement upon all and to destroy all the ungodly. And to convict all 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. This is a Day of the Lord judgement prophecy! Now we come to Genesis chapter 6, very relevant to the book of Enoch and which references the giants, called in Hebrew, who had children by the daughters of men.

 Genesis 6:2-4 That the saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. And the LORD said, My Spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. Peter also references the who sinned.

 2 Peter 2:4-5 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

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And spared not the old world, but saved the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in upon the world of the ungodly. Jude also refers to the angels who came down from .

 Jude 1:6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. Enoch says, that in the days of Jared, his father, 200 of the angels descended upon Mount Hermon.

 Enoch 6:3-7 Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men and beget us children. And Semjaza, who was their leader, said unto them: I fear ye will not indeed agree to do this deed, and I alone shall have to pay the penalty of a great . And they all answered him and said: Let us all swear an , and all bind ourselves by mutual imprecations not to abandon this plan but to do this thing. Then sware they all together and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it. And they were in all two hundred; who descended in the days of Jared on the summit of Mount Hermon, and they called it Mount Hermon, because they had sworn and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it . The fallen angels taught men all manner of things which thoroughly corrupted them.

 Enoch 7:1-6 And all the others together with them took unto themselves wives, and each chose for himself one, and they began to go in unto them and to defile themselves with them, and they taught them charms and enchantments, and the cutting of roots, and made them acquainted with plants. And they became pregnant, and they bare great giants, whose height was three thousand ells: Who consumed all the acquisitions of men. And when men could no longer sustain them, the giants turned against them and devoured mankind. And they began to sin against birds, and beasts, and reptiles, and fish, and to devour one another’s flesh, and drink the . Then the earth laid accusation against the lawless ones.

 Enoch 8:1-3 And taught men to make swords, and knives, and shields, and breastplates, and made known to them the metals of the earth and the art of working them, and bracelets, and ornaments, and the use of antimony, and the beautifying of the eyelids, and all kinds of costly stones, and all colouring tinctures. And there arose much godlessness, and they committed fornication, and they were led astray, and became corrupt in all their ways. Semjaza taught enchantments, and root-cuttings, Armaros the resolving of enchantments, Baraqijal (taught) , Kokabel the constellations, Ezeqeel the knowledge of the clouds, Araqiel the signs of the earth, the signs of the sun, and the course of the moon. And as men perished, they cried, and their cry went up to heaven. The sin of the giants was great as they devoured everything, each other, and blood. Lawlessness ensued. Then few generations on from Enoch — — — we come to Noah whose father…

 Genesis 5:29 …called his name Noah, saying, this same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed.

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When Noah was 500 years old, he had three children, and who joined Noah his wife and their wives in the ark — eight people in total were saved from the flood. God said, the end of all flesh is before me for the earth was filled with violence — much like today would you say? As Enoch had walked with God, so did Noah, his great grandson. Noah pleased God as attested by the Old and New Testaments.

 Genesis 6:8-9 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD. These are the : Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.

 Hebrews 11:7 By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.

 2 Peter 2:5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly. Through the grace of God, it appears that those who were destroyed in the flood were apparently afforded the chance to repent.

 1 Peter 3:18-20 For Christ also hath once suffered for , the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing , wherein few, that is, eight were saved by water. Now another very interesting scripture, which our Lord Jesus Christ spoke regarding the Day of the Lord, and of judgement, concerns Noah.

 Matthew 24:36-39 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. But as the days of Noe (Noah) were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe (Noah) entered into the ark, and knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. The majority of the world today has no time for God being more concerned about eating and drinking enjoying life marrying and giving in marriage, and even that has changed somewhat as many just ’t bother, but cohabit with their partners. Violence and tumult are increasing throughout the world, so should we not expect Jesus’ return fairly soon? What do you think? For those who are interested in reading the book of Enoch translated by R. H. Charles, downloads can be found at www.hiddenbible.com or you can read it online. Printed copies are also available on Amazon if you want to splash your money around. The Book of Enoch was first brought to from Ethiopia in the late 18 th century by . It was written the Ethiopian language of Ge’ez and was understood to have been translated from a Semitic language, which was probably . It was first translated into English by August Dillmann and the Reverend Schoode. The most well-known English translation, and I think the best, is by R. H. Charles, (1855–1931) an Irish theologian, prolific writer, and scholar who served as Archdeacon of Westminster until his death, and who was buried in the Abbey.

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Today, the book is recognized as inspired only by the Ethiopian churches and is usually dated between the third century BC and the first century AD. I have no answers as to why this is so. Fragments of the book of Enoch were found in cave 4 at Qumran, also referred to as the Scrolls, in 1947, written in Aramaic and koine Greek. In God’s perfect timing, it is useful that we, who are living in the latter days, have access to this almost lost book by Enoch, the seventh from Adam to remind us once again that Jesus is coming back to wreak vengeance on His enemies and upon His children, and it may happen sooner than we think.

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