City of Enoch

Hi Sweetie!!!!!!

We need to be open to both figurative and literal interpretations of scriptures, particularly the Old Testament. One example is whether Adam and Eve actually ate a piece of fruit that caused their bodies to be subject to death, or whether “partaking of the forbidden fruit” is representative of a priesthood ordinance which Satan performed without the authority to do so.

I tend to be a literalist. I believe that most things actually happened the way outlined in the scriptures, rather than someone having made up a story that got canonized. From a literal interpretation perspective, probably the most difficult book is Job. Here, I side with the figurative interpretation. While I believe that Job was a real person, I just don’t think that God and Satan had the kind of exchange as described in book – it seems way too much like C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters.

Here’s a literal perspective of the City of Enoch. Enoch established the City of Enoch, which was probably translated at the same time as Enoch when he was 365 years old (Gen 5:23). The City of Enoch was Zion in a real sense – it was the gathering place for the righteous. Surely many of Adam and Eve’s children and descendants were righteous. Abel could have been married and had righteous children. Seth was born a righteous man, and it’s possible he had children. Adam and Eve had many sons and daughters. During the years of Enoch, the righteous started congregating in Zion – the City of Enoch.

That would have left the remaining geographies populated with wicked people. Then the City of Enoch is translated. It is possible that this was a LITERAL translation, in addition to a spiritual translation – that the city its surrounding lands were actually lifted into the sky, above everyone in the earth. “Translate” literally means to move from one place to another.

Sometime thereafter (Enoch was born in 3404 BC and Noah in 2705 BC), all the righteous except for Noah and his family were gathered to Zion (Moses 7:27). Then comes the Great Flood of Noah in 2349 BC. The only righteous left on the earth are Noah’s family – but the City of Enoch is still floating in the sky.

The flood wipes out everyone – a literal baptism of the earth. It is interesting that the earth would need baptism, which is a covenant / ordinance that you would expect to be reserved for people. But the earth somehow has a soul that mourned the wickedness upon it.

After Noah, estimated at around 100 years after the flood, the people of Babel decide to build a tower to heaven (Gen 11:3). How odd is that? The thought is simply ridiculous, and that’s why Bible scholars all try to make up interpretations for what that means – UNLESS “heaven” was ACTUALLY a city floating around in the sky that you could physically build a tower up to…. i.e. the City of Enoch.

In the days of Peleg the earth was divided (I will be writing on that) and the City of Enoch is nowhere to be found – except that Enoch was told that his city would come back to the earth to join with Zion, the New Jerusalem (Mos 7:63). It would be way awesome to be there when that happens – as long as it’s not winter in Missouri!

I LOVE YOU!!!!

Dad