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Book Of Enoch And Noah‘Enoch lived three hundred sixty-five years. Enoch walked with God and he was not for God took him’(Genesis 5:23 & 24).‘By faith, Enoch was taken so he would not see death, and he was not found (on earth) because Godtranslated him. Enoch has the testimony given to him, before his translation he had been well pleasing toGod’ (Hebrews 11:5).‘Enoch, the seventh generation from Adam prophesied saying, "Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands ofHis holy ones to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodlinesswhich they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the blasphemous things which ungodly sinners havespoken against Him’” (Jude 1:14 & 15).This quote in Jude was a prophecy written by Enoch about the final judgement of all mankind. About 300 BC,the Jewish group called the Sadducees removed from the Tenach (Old Testament), the Book of Enoch.During that time, much of the Old Testament was translated into Greek for the Greek-speaking Jews. TheSadducees did not believe in the resurrection or life after death (Matthew 22:23; Luke 20:27), putting theSadducees at odds with the prophets, because the Book of Enoch majors on the Godly being resurrected toeternal life with God, and the ungodly being resurrected to damnation, as is also written in the Book of Daniel(Daniel 12:2). Jesus warned the Jewish people living in His day, not to accept the wrong teaching, or the‘leaven’ preached by the Sadducees (Matthew 16:6). The Pharisees and the Jewish group called theEssenes, from where Yeshua (Jesus) came from, continued to use the Book of Enoch. The Essenes werethe people who hid the ‘Dead Sea Scrolls’ in caves where the Book of Enoch was uncovered last century.Yeshua, the Apostles and other disciples read the Book of Enoch and frequently quoted from it, as we canread in the above verses written by Jude, who was a half-brother of Yeshua (Matthew 13:55; Mark 6:3).When the Tenach (Old Testament) and the B’rit Hadashah (New Testament) were being translated fromHebrew to Greek during the days of Constantine (circa 300 AD), the two books were re-named Byblosmeaning ‘the Book’, from where we now have the word Bible. The ‘church fathers’ wanted to completely omitthe Book of Enoch, the Book of Ezekiel and the Book of Revelation from the Bible, because the ‘churchfathers’ believed these three books were too deeply spiritual in a time when the church was spiritually dyingand the church had turned against the Jewish believers, ostracising them and persecuting them, evensometimes murdering them as anti-Semitism swept the earth. Just as the translators divided up the Bible intochapter and verse, so they also divided up the Book of Enoch into chapter and verse before they omitted itfrom the Bible. The Lord must have wanted the book written by Enoch to be read by His people becausequite miraculously, it has been preserved intact and it can be read today. It was the very first book of theBible written by Enoch and Noah for future generations. It was written long before Moses wrote Genesis. TheBook of Enoch is quoted throughout the Bible. The Prophets, Yeshua and all the apostles quoted Enoch.King David was inspired to write many Psalms based on the written words of Enoch. Solomon quoted Enochin Proverbs and Ecclesiastes. Many verses in the Bible are quotes or experiences taken from the Book ofEnoch and Noah. Like the Books of Ezekiel and Revelation, much of the Book of Enoch is a deeply spiritualbook. Enoch was alive during the very beginning of mankind when it was still quite normal for angels to walkon earth with people; he was alive before the wickedness on the earth brought about Noah’s flood. Enochprophesied about Messiah Yeshua, calling Him King of kings and Lord of lords. To remove such animportant book from the Holy Scriptures was perfidious. This is a modern English translation of the Book ofEnoch, showing some of Enoch’s words quoted in the Bible by Yeshua, the prophets and apostles, plus themany parallels between the experiences of Enoch and what the prophets and apostles experienced,presented in brackets ( ).Enoch’s visions of his travels were a divine revelation from God just as the visions written by the prophetsand apostles were divine revelations. During his visions, the Prophet Daniel was often with the angel Gabrielwho looked remarkably like a man (Daniel 8:15 & 16). Apostle Paul did not know if what he saw was a visionor if he was really in heaven (2 Corinthians 12:1 to 4). Apostle John knew he was ‘in the Spirit’ when he sawhis visions and he was accompanied by holy angels (Revelation 1:10). Enoch was shown visions of thefuture of the earth that would be taking place after Noah’s flood changed the earth forever. The flood is ourancient history, but for Enoch, the flood was in the future. We need to keep in mind as we read the Book ofEnoch, when Enoch wrote his book the earth was still a perfect setting with a heavy mist watering the wholeearth each night (Genesis 2:6), with the perfect amount of sunshine, night and daylight. The whole earth wascovered with thick vegetation. There were waterfalls, pristine streams and rivers. It was the time before rain,

storms, strong winds, dark freezing winters, snow or hail, before earthquakes shook the ground and beforevolcanoes rose to the surface. The only lava flows were underground. Enoch describes lava flows like ‘ariver of fire from where the fire flows like water and discharges itself into the sea’. It was the time beforeanimals became carnivorous. There was enough protein in some vegetation so animals did not need to killfor food. No animals were at that time toxic, aggressive or poisonous. No plants were toxic, poisonous orharmful. Alcohol as a drink did not exist. The earth was so perfect, fermentation could not happen and wasonly discovered by Noah by chance when he accidentally drank too much fermented wine and becamedrunk (Genesis 9:20 & 21) and that could not have happened before the flood changed the earth. Enoch saw‘great beasts’ or what we now call dinosaurs and a vast array of bird life. Some of the larger beasts that nowlive in the oceans once roamed the earth but after the flood, they could no longer live on land, as we will readlater in Enoch’s book. Although many hundreds of species of animals and birds were rescued in the Ark,they became extinct after the flood because the earth changed too much for them to survive. Although therewas sin, before the flood came the earth itself was still perfect. Enoch marvelled at the beauty of creation. Hepraised and blessed the Lord for all the things He has done on earth to make it suitable for mankind.Through a vision, Enoch saw the earth as it would be after the flood and he was horrified at what he saw.Enoch was seeing into the future; into the time after Noah’s flood that caused the earth to reel off it’s perfectaxis, which caused the whole structure of the earth to change to what we have now. The earth’s currentweather patterns and many other situations did not yet exist, and only came to pass after the earth wasflooded, but through divine revelation Enoch was able to describe in much detail, the earth in the alteredstate it became after the flood. Enoch described the world in its pristine condition as it was before sin andbefore the flood. He was able to describe the new heaven and the new earth the Lord promised to create(Isaiah 65:17) to replace this earth because it has been so defiled by sin and death (Isaiah 24:1 to 6, 19 &20). When Enoch walked ‘through’ the earth it is possible he walked safely through a huge cave and cameout the other end of the cave into a forest, as he describes during his journeys. He was always accompaniedby several angels, which was normal for that time in history. Enoch describes the Garden of Eden long afterAdam and Eve were evicted, when they were aged but still living. At the time Enoch was shown theovergrown Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve would have been about six hundred years old. Enoch often wroteabout going to the ‘ends of the earth’, meaning he travelled beyond the place that had been an horizonlandmark when he began walking. Some of his journeys may have been real travels and some may havebeen visions but the spiritual content of Enoch’s pilgrimage journeys is unmistakable. Enoch hadexperiences many of us can only dream about. He was truly a remarkable, righteous and devoted man ofGod. One year before Enoch was taken to heaven, he was instructed to write down everything he had beenshown in visions and in reality, for future generations. Enoch was shown the Ten Commandments written on‘heavenly tablets’ hundreds of year before Moses was born. Enoch’s book was taken on the Ark with Noah.This book reveals the loving closeness of the family of Jared, Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech and Noah. Whatthis book nor the Bible do reveal, is the profound grief Noah must have felt as he was safely in the Ark withhis wife, sons and daughters-in-law, while all his brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles, cousinsand hundreds of other close family members all drowned.The Book Of Enoch And NoahThe parables of Enoch regarding the future destiny of the righteous and the wicked Chapter 1, verses 1 to 9: The words of the blessing of Enoch when he blessed the elect and the righteouswho will be living in the Day of Tribulation when all wicked and godless will be removed from the earth(Matthew 24:21; 2 Peter 3:7; Revelation 7:14 to 17; Revelation chapters 21 & 22). Enoch took up his parableand said, “Enoch, a righteous man whose eyes were opened by God, saw the vision of the Holy One in theheavens which the angels showed me and from them I heard everything, and from them I understood as Isaw, not for this generation but for a remote generation which is yet to come” (2 Kings 6:17 & 20; Luke24:31; Psalm 22:31; Psalm 78:6). “Concerning the elect I (Enoch) said, and took up my parable concerningthem. The Holy Great One will come forth from His dwelling” (Revelation 21:2 & 3). The Eternal God willtread upon the earth, on Mount Sinai and will appear from His camp, and will appear in the strength of Hismight from the heaven of heavens (Exodus 19:11 & 18; Revelation 19:11 to 15). All will be smitten with fear,the Watchers (rebellious angels) will quake and trembling will seize them to the ends of the earth (Exodus20:18 to 21). The high mountains will be shaken and the high hills will be made low and will melt like waxbefore the flame (Exodus 19:18; Isaiah 40:4; Luke 3:5; Psalm 97:5). The earth will be wholly rent asunderand all on earth will perish (Isaiah 24:1 to 20). There will be a judgement on all mankind (2 Peter 3:7, 10 &12; Revelation 16:18). God will make peace with the righteous and will protect the elect. Mercy will be on