1 ENOCH
(?200 B.C.)
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Here are some facts about 1Enoch the book and Enoch the man.
Enoch Facts
1. Ethiopic Enoch = 1Enoch
2. 1Enoch is the oldest. 2 and 3 Enoch are later works.
3. Enoch was the seventh
descendent of Adam and Eve in the Bible.
4. Enoch "walked with
God. Then he vanished and God took him." (Genesis 5:24)
5. Enoch was the son of Cain
and Ramona, and he led the Nodites. (UB 849)
6. Enoch was the first mortal
fused with his thought adjuster. (UB 514)
7. Enoch is one of 24 members
‘Urantia advisory council.’ (UB 513)
8. The Book of Enoch was an inspiration to Jesus. (UB 1390) The title
"Son of
Man" was taken from
the Book of Enoch. (UB 1390) Of all scripture the Book
of Enoch "was nearest
to the truth" regarding Jesus’ identity and mission as
assessed by Jesus himself.
(UB 1390).
9. Enoch is said to have been
taken away by God, saw the secrets and mysteries of
the universe, the future
of the world, and the predetermined course of human
history (Biblical
literature).
10. There are three parts to
1Enoch.
11. 1Enoch was found among the
Dead Sea Scrolls pushing its date of origin back to
at least 100-200 BC (except
for part 2, see below).
12. Part 2, the Similitudes, is
the part containing all the references to the Son of Man
and is the only part not
yet found among the Dead Sea Scrolls. Therefore, its
dating is unsure (?
pre-Christian or not).
13. The New Testament was
significantly influenced by 1Enoch.
14. Many early Church fathers
were inspired by 1Enoch.
15. Many copies of 1Enoch were
found among the Dead Sea Scrolls. 1Enoch was
probably one of the most
authoritative and popular scriptures of the Qumran
Community.
16. After the fourth century A.D.
1Enoch was apparently suppressed as heretical by
the Church due to its
references to the physicality of the fallen angels who were
said to have had sexual
relations with the ‘daughters of men.’.
17. The entire Book of Enoch not
discovered again until 1773. It was brought to
Europe from Ethiopia.
18. The book survived as a whole only in Ethiopia. Why? Was it destroyed
by the
church?
19. 1Enoch is directly quoted in
Jude and 2Peter of the New Testament in reference
to danger of a perverted
form of Christian belief which claimed that it was only
necessary to have
faith. The overriding concern of these two New Testament
books is that the believer
feels that he or she is otherwise above the biblical laws
and commandments. This belief mainly took the form of
sensual and sexual
indulgence. Jude and 2Peter
reject such licentiousness and state that the fate of
such believers will be like
the angels or "Sons of God" who sinned by descending
from heaven and having
intercourse with daughters of men. (See Genesis 6:1-4).
The story of these
"fallen angels" is discussed in 1Enoch.
The Nephilim of the
Bible are the Nodites of
the Urantia Book (UB 856) and are the
descendants of
the original disloyal
‘Dalamatia staff of one hundred’(UB 758), and who
became the ‘eighth race to
appear on Urantia’(UB 857).
Since many
readers probably have not read 1Enoch, I would like to present at some length
the parts that are revelant to our present discussion, along with some
commentary as we proceed. The 1Enoch text quotes, unless otherwise
indicated will be taken from The Book of
Enoch, from the Ethiopic, literally translated by Richard Laurence, LL.D.,
Archbishop of Cashel, Late Professor of Hebrew in the University of Oxford,
1882. The biblical references in parentheses are part of the translation and
are not my comments. These references are Biblical verses that are felt to be
related to 1Enoch by the Archbishop.
1Enoch 1:1 The
word of the blessing of Enoch, how he blessed the elect and
the righteous, who were to exist in the
time of trouble; to the
rejection of all the wicked and ungodly
(Psalms 1). Enoch, a righteous
man, was with God, answered and spoke,
while his eyes were
open, and while he saw a holy vision
which was in the heavens
(Genesis. 5:24).
This the angel showed me.
1Enoch 1:2 From them I heard all things, and
understood what I saw; that
which will not take place in this
generation, but in a generation
which is to succeed at a distant period, on account of the elect.
(Daniel. 12:4).
Parts of
1Enoch are written specifically for the sake of those who elect God’s will
during the time of trouble, in the "distant" messianic period, now
about to begin.
1Enoch 1:3 Upon their account I spoke and conversed with him, who will go
forth from this habitation, the Holy and
Mighty One, the God of
the world.
Enoch
conversed with Melchizedek "on
account of" the elect. The Mighty One, God of the World, is
Melchizedek who goes forth from his heavenly "habitation" with
strength and power, riding the white horse of Revelation to put an end to war,
persecution, and terror. This God of the world:
1Enoch 1:4 ...will hereafter tread upon Mount
Sinai; appear with his hosts; and
be manifested in the strength of his power
from heaven.
1Enoch 1:5 All shall be afraid, and the Watchers be
terrified.
1Enoch 1:6 Great fear and trembling shall seize
them, even to the ends of the
earth. The lofty mountains shall be
troubled, and the exalted hills
depressed, melting like a honeycomb in the
flame. The earth shall
be immerged, and all things which are in
it perish; while judgment
shall come upon all, even upon all the
righteous (Revelation. 20:11-15).
Melchizedek will visibly "appear with his hosts." How so? The Watchers are probably the descendants of those who had been "cast out of heaven," (the Dalamatia 100) who are from the Nodite (Nephilim) racial line. Are these some of the "princes" of the world, the powerful and heartless that run our world system from behind the scenes. Many of these behind the scene leaders apparently come from "royal" lineages. They are terrified, as they should be, when Melchizedek comes. As many other times stated in scripture, the hills are made low during cataclysmic tectonic activity. Notice that all those in (but not above or on) the earth perish, i.e. those hiding in mountains and subterranean locations. All people are then subject to individual judgment according to prophecy. Further information on those who elect God’s will follows next.
The Elect
1Enoch 1:7 But
to them shall he give peace: he shall preserve the elect, and
towards them exercise clemency.
1Enoch 1:8 Then shall all belong to God; be happy
and blessed; and the splendor
of the Godhead shall illuminate them
(Isaiah. 40:5; 65:21-25).
The elect are physically
"preserved" probably to help build a new world from the old.
1Enoch 2 Behold he comes with ten thousands of his saints, to
execute judgment
upon them, and destroy the wicked, and
reprove all of flesh for every thing
which the sinful and ungodly have done,
and committed against him.
(Jude 14,15).
Are these "ten thousands of his saints" the
"hosts" of 1Enoch 1:4?
The
"wicked ones" behind the scene will be exposed and dealt with.
Mankind will be rid of Caligastia (the devil) and like-minded men forever.
The Elect
1Enoch 6:1 They (the elect and righteous) consider
how the trees, when they
put forth their green leaves, become
covered, and produce fruit;
understanding that He who lives forever does
all these things
for you:
1Enoch 6:2 That the works at the beginning of every
existing year, that all
his works, are subservient to him, and
invariable; yet as God has
appointed, so are all things brought to
pass.
1Enoch 6:3 They see, too, how the seas and the
rivers together complete their
respective operations:
1Enoch 6:9 The
elect shall possess light, joy, and peace; and they shall inherit
the earth. (Matthew. 5:5;
Psalms. 1:1-6).
1Enoch 6:11 Then
shall wisdom be given to the elect, all of whom shall live, and
not again transgress by impiety or pride;
but shall humble
themselves, possessing prudence, and shall
not repeat
transgression.
1Enoch 6:12 They shall not be condemned the whole
period of their lives,
nor die in torment and indignation; but the
sum of the days of their
life shall be completed, and they shall grow old in peace; while
the years of their happiness shall be
multiplied with joy, and with
peace for ever, the whole duration of their
existence.
Note 9,
11, and 12 for further information regarding "the elect." Next, Enoch
is taken to heaven in a vision.
1Enoch 14:10 They elevated me aloft to heaven. I
proceeded, until I arrived at
a
wall built with stones of crystal. A tongue of fire surrounded it,
which
began to strike me with terror.
1Enoch 14:11 Into this vibrating flame I entered (11Kings
2:11).
Next,
Enoch encounters one who is described much like the Ancient of Days described
in Revelation:
1Enoch 14:17 Attentively I surveyed it, and saw that it
contained an exalted throne;
1Enoch 14:18 The appearance of which was like that of
frost; while its
circumference
resembled the orb of the brilliant sun; and there
was
the voice of the cherubim.
1Enoch 14:19 From underneath this mighty throne rivers of
flaming fire issued.
1Enoch 14:20 To look upon it was impossible.
1Enoch 14:21 One great in glory sat upon it (Revelation
4:2-11).
1Enoch 14:22 Whose robe was brighter than the sun, and
whiter than snow.
(Ancient of Days)
1Enoch 14:23 No angel was capable of penetrating to view
the face of Him,
the
Glorious and the Effulgent; nor could any mortal behold him
(John.
1:18). A fire of flaming fire was around Him.
Enoch’s vision in heaven
continues:
1Enoch 24:1 I went from thence to another place, and
saw a mountain of fire
flashing both by day and night. I proceeded
toward it; and
perceived seven splendid mountains, which were
all different from
each other.
1Enoch 24:2 Their stones were brilliant and beautiful;
all were brilliant and
splendid to behold; and beautiful was their
surface. Three
mountains were toward the east, and
strengthened by being placed
one upon another; and three were towards
the south, strengthened
in a similar manner. There were likewise
deep valleys, which did
not approach each other. And the seventh
mountain was in the
midst of them. In length they all resembled
the seat of a throne,
and odoriferous trees surrounded them
(Zechariah. 6:1).
1Enoch 24:3 Among these there was a tree of an unceasing smell; nor of those
which were in Eden was there one of all the
fragrant trees which
smelt like this. Its leaf, its flower, and
its bark never withered, and
its
fruit was beautiful.
1Enoch 24:4 Its fruit resembled the cluster of the
palm. I exclaimed: Behold!
this tree is
goodly in aspect, pleasing in its leaf and the sight of its
fruit is
delightful to the eye. Then Michael, one of the holy and
glorious angels
who were with me, and one who presided over
them, answered,
1Enoch 24:5 And said: Enoch, why dost thou inquire
respecting the odor
of this tree?
1Enoch 24:6 Why are thou inquisitive to know it.
1Enoch 24:7 Then I, Enoch, replied to him, and said:
Concerning everything
I am desirous of
instruction, but particularly concerning this tree.
1Enoch 24:8 He answered me, saying: That mountain which
thou beholdest,
the extent of
whose head resembles the seat of the Lord, will be
the seat on
which shall sit the holy and great Lord
of glory, the
everlasting King, when He shall come and descend to visit the
earth with
goodness. (Daniel 7:13-14; Luke 1:32-33).
1Enoch 24:9 And that tree of an agreeable smell, not
one of flesh, there shall
be no power to touch, until the period of
the great judgment.
When all shall
be punished and consumed for ever, this shall be
bestowed on the
righteous and humble. The fruit of this
tree shall
be given to the elect. For towards the north life
shall be planted in
the holy place,
towards the habitation of the everlasting King.
1Enoch 24:10 Then shall they greatly rejoice and exult in
the Holy One. The
sweet odour shall enter into their bones; and they shall live a long
life on the earth, as thy forefathers have lived; neither in their days
shall sorrow, distress, trouble, and punishment afflict them.
1Enoch 24:11 And I blessed the Lord of glory, the
everlasting King, because
He has prepared this tree for the saints, formed it, and declared
that
He would give it to them (Revelation. 22:2).
Michael
is a "glorious and holy angel" who helps protect those who follow
God’s will in the trial period. The "great Lord of glory the everlasting
King" is probably a reference to Melchizedek who will literally
"descend" to and "visit the earth with goodness." Following
judgment, the tree of life will be
bestowed on the "righteous and humble" and will be possessed by the
elect, those who both understand God’s plans and do his will. The righteous and
humble know, love, and respect God but have not achieved the understanding that
the elect have achieved through special books discussed soon.
The next set of chapters 37 through 71 constitute the
second part of 1Enoch and are called the Similitudes
or Parables. This is the only
section where references to the Son of Man appear. It is also the only section
not found among the Dead Sea Scrolls,
therefore casting some doubt on its pre-Christian dating. Since Jesus reads
from this section in the Urantia Book,
the Urantia Book is definitely on
record as to its pre-Christian origin. We shouldn’t forget that the Scrolls
were out of circulation and held in secrecy for forty years before being
published when considering these matters.
1Enoch 38:1 PARABLE THE FIRST. When the congregation of the righteous
shall be manifested; and sinners be judged
for their crimes, and be
troubled in the sight of the world.
The
congregation of the righteous are those whose hearts are centered on God’s ways
and will. The elect are the same, except in addition there is a greater
understanding, as a result of special books discussed later, about God’s
kingdom of heaven within and his developing kingdom of the outer world as well.
1Enoch 38:2 When righteousness shall be manifested in
the presence of the
righteous
themselves, who will be elected for their good works
duly weighed by
the Lord of spirits (God); and when the
light of the
righteous and
the elect, who dwell on earth, shall be manifested;
where will the
habitation of sinners be, and where the place of rest
for those who
have rejected the Lord of spirits? It would have been
better for them,
had they been never born (Ecclesiastics 7:1).
1Enoch 38:4 From that period those who possess the
earth shall not be
powerful and exalted. Neither shall they be
capable of beholding
the countenances of the holy, for the light
of the countenances of
the holy, the righteous, and the elect, has
been seen by the Lord of
Spirits (Daniel 12:10).
"Those who possess the earth" are the political, financial, economic,
and religious leaders who lead the world into chaos and ruin. They are removed
from their power and a new leadership, with Melchizedek at its head, is
founded.
1Enoch 38:5 Yet shall not the mighty kings of that period be destroyed; but shall
be delivered into the hands of the righteous
and the holy (Psalms 149:9).
These
world's misleaders will be delivered into the hands of those whom they
persecuted and tried to destroy.
1Enoch 38:6 Nor thence forwards shall any obtain
commiseration from the
Lord of spirits, because their lives in this
world will have been
completed.
1Enoch 39:1 In those days shall the elect and holy race descend from the
upper heavens, and their seed shall
then be with the sons of men.
The
"Elect and holy race" are probably the children of Adam and Eve who
left the planet after the Adamic default (UB 839, 844) and who now return to
finish their original mission to biologically/genetically uplift the mortal
races (UB 827). These are physical beings who physically "descend from the
upper heavens." How do they descend? What is the means of their
transportation?
UB 1025 "Is there a possibility that an unexpected and
unprecedented
event is to take place, the sometime
return to the planet of Adam
and Eve or certain of their progeny as
representatives of Michael
(Christ) with the titles of vicegerents of
the second Adam of Urantia?"
Scripture
and The Urantia Book mutually
interpret one another over and over again, thus revealing their deep
interconnections. Returning to Enoch:
1Enoch 39:3 A cloud
then snatched me (Enoch) up, and the wind raised me above
the surface of the earth, placing me at the
extremity of the heavens.
1Enoch 39:4 There I saw another vision; I saw the
habitations and couches of
the saints.
There my eyes beheld their habitations with the angels,
and their
couches with the holy ones. They were entreating,
supplicating,
and praying for the sons of men; while righteousness
like water
flowed before them, and mercy like dew was scattered
over the earth.
And thus shall it be with them for ever and for ever.
1Enoch 39:8 There was I (Enoch) desirous of remaining,
and my soul longed
for that
habitation. There was my antecedent inheritance; for thus
had it been
revealed respecting me before the Lord of spirits.
Note the
mention of a "cloud" in 39:3, Enoch specifically states he is snatched up in a cloud and then is above the
surface of the earth as if looking back at it from space, again raising
questions about the identity of these "clouds" so frequently
mentioned in scripture.
The next chapter of interest is 45.
1Enoch 45:3 In that day shall the Elect one sit upon a throne of glory; and
shall choose
their conditions and countless habitations (while their
spirits within
them shall be strengthened, when they behold my
Elect one),
shall choose them for those who have fled for protection
to my holy and
glorious name.
The Elect one is Melchizedek, "King of Righteousness," who sits
on the throne of Planetary Sovereignty. The spirits of those who have
"fled to the protection" of God are the spirits of those who elect
God’s will. They are uplifted at the sight of Melchizedek.
1Enoch 45:4 In
that day I(God) will cause my Elect one(Melchizedek) to dwell in
the midst of
them; will change the face of heaven; will bless it, and
illuminate it
for ever (Revelations 2l:1, 20:15). The Elect One
(Melchizedek)
dwells among the righteous and elect. He changes the
face of heaven.
How, I do not know. He "illuminates" the area or the
world probably with the light of his own radiance.
1Enoch 45:5 I
will also change the face of the earth; will bless it; and cause
those whom I have elected to dwell upon it.
But those who have
committed sin and iniquity shall not tread
upon it; for I have seen
them. My righteous ones will I satisfy with
peace, placing them
before me; but the condemnation of sinners shall
draw near, that
I may destroy them from the face of the
earth.
He "changes the face of the earth," possibly through
tectonic activity, which begins, upon his arrival. Next, we turn to the Son of
Man passages which are also located in the Similitudes.
Son of Man
1Enoch 46:1 There I beheld the Ancient of days, whose
head was like white
wool, and with
him another, whose countenance resembled
that of
man. His
countenance was full of grace, like that of one of the
holy angels.
Then I inquired of one of the angels, who went with
me, and who
showed me every secret thing, concerning this Son of
man; who He
was; whence He was; and why He accompanied the
Ancient of days
(John 17:3; Daniel. 7:9).
1Enoch 46:2 He answered and said to me: This is the Son of man, to whom
righteousness
belongs; with whom righteousness has dwelt; and
who will reveal
all the treasures of that which is concealed; for the
Lord of spirits
has chosen him; and his portion has surpassed all
before the Lord
of spirits in everlasting uprightness.
1Enoch 46:3 The Son
of man, whom thou beholdest, shall raise
up kings and
the mighty from their couches, and kings
from their thrones;
shall loosen the
bridles of the powerful, and break in pieces the
teeth of sinners
(Luke 18:31).
1Enoch 46:4 He
shall hurl kings from their thrones and their dominions;
because they
will not exalt and praise Him, nor humble themselves
before Him, by whom their kingdoms
were granted to them (Psalms.72:11).
The countenance likewise of the mighty shall
He cast down,
filling them with
confusion. Darkness shall be their habitation, and
worms shall be their bed; nor from that their
beds shall they hope
to be again
raised, because they exalted not the name of the Lord
of spirits.
1Enoch 46:5 They (sinners) shall condemn the stars of
heaven, shall lift up their
hands against
the Most high, shall tread upon and inhabit the earth,
exhibiting all
their works of iniquity, even their works of iniquity.
Their strength
shall be in their riches, and their faith in the gods
whom they have
formed with their own hands. They shall deny
the name of the
Lord of spirits, and shall expel Him from the
temples, in which they assemble (Amos
8:11-12; Revelation. 3:17).
1Enoch 46:6 And with Him the faithful, who suffer in
the name of the Lord of
spirits (Luke
2l:12).
The Son of man who
accompanies the Ancient of days "raises up kings" from their thrones
and "hurls them from their thrones and dominions." This sounds like
the actions many times associated in scripture with Messiah/Lord/Melchizedek,
although we associate the name "Son of Man" with Jesus. How can we
resolve this conflict? Consider again this passage from The Urantia Book:
UB 1390 While turning all these problems over in his mind, he
(Jesus) found
in the synagogue
library at Nazareth, among the apocalyptic books
which he had been studying, this
manuscript called "The Book of Enoch";
and though he
was certain that it had not been written by Enoch of old, it
proved very
intriguing to him, and he read and reread
it many times.
There was one
passage, which particularly impressed him, a passage in
which this term
‘Son of Man’ appeared. The writer of this so-called Book
of Enoch went on
to tell about this Son of Man, describing
the work he
would do on
earth and explaining that this Son of Man, before coming
down on this
earth to bring salvation to mankind, had walked through the
courts of
heavenly glory with his Father, the Father of all; and that he had
turned his back
upon all this grandeur and glory to come down on earth to
proclaim
salvation to needy mortals. As Jesus would read these passages
(well
understanding that much of the Eastern mysticism which had
become admixed
with these teachings was erroneous), he responded in his
heart and
recognized in his mind that of all the Messianic predictions of
the Hebrew
scriptures and of all the theories about the Jewish deliverer,
None
was so near the truth as this story tucked away in this only partially
accredited Book of Enoch; and he then and
there decided to adopt as his
inaugural title
"the Son of Man." And this he did when he subsequently
began his public
work. Jesus had an unerring ability for
the recognition of
truth, and truth
he never hesitated to embrace, no matter from what source
it appeared to
emanate.
By this time he had quite thoroughly
settled many things about his
forth-coming
work for the world, but he said nothing of these matters to
his mother, who
still held stoutly to the idea of his being the Jewish
Messiah.
The great confusion of Jesus’
younger days now arose. Having settled
something about
the nature of his mission on earth, "to be about his
Father’s
business" – to show forth his Father’s loving nature to all
mankind – he began to ponder anew the many statements
in the Scriptures
referring to the
coming of a national deliverer, a Jewish teacher or king.
To what event
did these prophecies refer? Was not he a Jew? or was he?
Was he or was he
not of the house of David? His mother averred he was;
his father had
ruled that he was not. He decided he was not. But had the
prophets confused the nature and mission of
the Messiah?
(UB 1390 –
1391)
Please note the Urantia
Book does not say that the reference in the Book of Enoch was a reference to Jesus, rather it says that no
other scripture "was so near the
truth" as these Enoch passages
were in relationship to Jesus. Perhaps
Jesus is not the Son of Man portrayed in the Enoch that comes down to us today, and that these passages are
"so near the truth" about Jesus because Jesus is also a pre-existent divine being, who walked with the "Father
of all" before leaving the glory of the divine world to proclaim salvation
to mankind. Therefore, perhaps Jesus chooses this title "Son of Man"
because it’s meaning is as close as he can get to his own self-understanding.
Jesus was human just like we are and had doubts and confusion just as we do. He
definitely had a limited knowledge of his mission at this point in his
spiritual development. Listen to these
doubts and questions in his mind as he
ponders these issues in a very human way:
UB 1391 After all, could it be possible that his mother was right?
In most matters,
when differences
of opinion had arisen in the past, she had been right. If
he were a new
teacher and not the Messiah, then how
should he recognize
the Jewish
Messiah and, further, what should be his relation to this Jewish
Messiah? And
what should be his relation, after embarking on his life
mission, to his
family? to the Jewish commonwealth and religion? to the
Roman Empire? to
the gentiles and their religions? Each of these
momentous
problems this young Galilean turned over in his mind and
seriously
pondered while he continued to work at the carpenter’s bench,
laboriously
making a living for himself, his mother, and eight other
hungry mouths.
(UB 1391).
Ultimately, Jesus had to follow his own internal guide and
move away from the Messiah role to offer the spiritual salvation that was to
become his mission. This mission was not preordained, it was a conscious choice
by Jesus made over and above other possibilities. Returning to Enoch we have:
1Enoch 47:1 In
that day the prayer of the holy and righteous, and the blood
of the
righteous, shall ascend from the earth into the presence of
the Lord of
spirits.
1Enoch 47:3 At
that time I beheld the Ancient of days, while He sat upon the
throne of his
glory, while the book of the living was
opened in his
presence, and
while all the powers which were above the heavens
stood around and
before him (Revelation. 20:12).
1Enoch 47:4 Then were the hearts of the saints full of
joy, because the number
of righteousness
was arrived, the supplication of the saints heard,
and the blood of
the righteous appreciated by the Lord of spirits.
(Revelation. 14:1; 11
Ezra 2:40).
The Lord of Spirits is God in 1Enoch.
1Enoch 48:2 In that hour was this Son of man invoked
before the Lord of spirits,
and his name in
the presence of the Ancient of days.
1Enoch 48:3 Before the sun and the signs were created,
before the stars of
heaven were
formed, his name was invoked in the presence of the
Lord of spirits. A support shall He be for the righteous and the holy
to lean upon,
without falling; and he shall be the light of nations
(Hebrews. 1:2; John. 1:1-19).
1Enoch 48:4 He shall be the hope of those whose hearts
are troubled. All, who
dwell on earth,
shall fall down and worship before him; shall bless
and glorify Him,
and sing praises to the name of the Lord of spirits
(Psalms. 22:27).
1Enoch 48:5 Therefore the Elect and the Concealed one existed in His
presence, before
the world was created, and for ever.
1Enoch 48:6 In His presence he existed, and has
revealed to the saints and to
the righteous by
the wisdom of the Lord of spirits; for he has preserved
the lot of the
righteous, because they have hated and rejected this
world of
iniquity, and have detested all its works and ways, in the
name of the Lord
of spirits (John. 17:16).
1Enoch 48:7 For in His name shall they be preserved;
and His will shall be
their life. In
those days shall the kings of the earth and
the mighty
men, who
have gained the world by the work of their own hands,
become humble in
countenance.
1Enoch 48:10 But in the day of their (kings) trouble,
rest shall be on earth.
Here the Son of man is associated with an "unfailing
fountain of righteousness and wisdom," exists "before the sun and
stars were created," is the "light of nations," is the hope of
"those whose hearts are trouble," and reveals the wisdom of God, the
"Lord of spirits," to the righteous. This reference fits very
well with Jesus’ mission rather than the Messiah’s. Perhaps in 1Enoch this
phrase Son of man sometimes refers to Jesus and other times Melchizedek. More
often Melchizedek is one like a son
of man and Jesus is a son of man as discussed previously in other biblical
references. The prophets had great difficulty separating Jesus and Melchizedek
from one another. We should also note that Jesus may have read from a somewhat
different "Book of Enoch" than that which comes down to us today in 1Enoch. All in all, I'm afraid confusion
must still remain regarding this issue.
1Enoch 48A:1
Wisdom is poured forth like water, and glory fails not before
Him for
ever and ever; for potent is He in all the secrets of
righteousness (Proverbs 3:13-35).
1Enoch 48A:2 But
iniquity passes away like a shadow, and possesses not a
fixed
station: for the Elect one stands before the Lord of spirits; and
his glory
is for ever and ever; and His power from generation to generation (Psalms 1).
1Enoch 48A:3 With Him dwells the spirit of
intellectual wisdom, the spirit of
instruction and of power, and the
spirit of those who sleep in
righteousness; He shall judge secret things.
1Enoch 48A:4 Nor shall any be able to utter a single
word before him; for the
Elect
one is in the presence of the Lord of spirits, according to his
own
pleasure (Ecclesiastics. 12:14).
Melchizedek has direct access to
the Lord of Spirits (God).
1Enoch 49:1 In
those days the saints and the chosen shall undergo a change.
The light of day
shall rest upon them; and the splendor and glory of
the saints shall
be changed (1 Corinthians. 15:51).
1Enoch 49:2 In
the day of trouble evil shall be heaped up upon sinners; but
the righteous shall triumph in the name of
the Lord of spirits.
1Enoch 49:3 Others shall be made to see, that they
must repent, and forsake the
works of their
hands; and that glory awaits them not in the presence
of the Lord of
spirits; yet that by his name they may be saved. The
Lord of spirits
will have compassion on them; for great is his mercy;
and
righteousness is in his judgment, and in the presence of his glory;
nor in his
judgment shall iniquity stand. He who repents not before
Him shall perish
(Revelation. 20:15).
Some kind of change, possibly a spiritual transformation is
noted in 49:1 with reference to the "chosen," which is another term
for the elect; ie: those who choose (elect) God.
1Enoch 50:1 In those days shall the earth deliver up
from her womb, and hell
deliver up from
hers, that which it has received; and destruction
shall
restore that
which it owes (Revelation. 20:13).
1Enoch 50:2 He shall select the righteous and holy
from among them; for the
day of their
salvation has approached.
1Enoch 50:3 And in those days shall the Elect one sit
upon his throne, while
every secret of intellectual wisdom shall
proceed from his mouth; for
the Lord of
spirits has gifted and glorified him (Luke 1:32-33).
This agrees with other scripture and The Urantia Book with regard to Messiah/Melchizedek being a teacher
as well as a "King."
1Enoch 50:4 In those days the mountains shall skip
like rams, and the hills
shall leap like
young sheep satisfied with milk; and all the righteous
shall become angels in heaven (Psalms 114:4).
1Enoch 50:5 Their
countenance shall be bright with joy; for in those days shall
the Elect one be
exalted. The earth shall rejoice; the righteous shall
inhabit it, and
the elect go and walk upon it (Matthew. 5:5, Revelation. 26-27).
The Elect One is Melchizedek as noted before.
1Enoch 51:1 After that period, in the place where I had seen every secret sight,
I(Enoch) was
snatched up in a whirlwind, and carried off westwards.
1Enoch 51:2 There my eyes beheld the secrets of
heaven, and all which existed
on earth; a
mountain of iron, a mountain of copper, a mountain of
silver, a
mountain of gold, a mountain of fluid metal, and a mountain
of lead.
1Enoch 51:3 And I inquired of the angel who went with
me, saying: What
are these
things, which in secret I behold?
1Enoch 51:4 He said: All these things which thou
beholdest shall be for the
dominion of the
Messiah, that he may command, and be powerful
upon earth.
1Enoch 51:5 And that angel of peace answered me,
saying: Wait but a short
time, and thou
shalt see, and every secret thing shall be revealed to
thee, which the
Lord of spirits has decreed. Those mountains
which thou hast
seen, the mountain of iron, the mountain of
copper, the
mountain of silver, the mountain of gold, the mountain
of fluid metal,
and the mountain of lead, all these in the presence of
the Elect one shall be like a honeycomb before the
fire, and like
water descending
from above these mountains; and shall become
debilitated
before his feet (Daniel. 2:31-45).
1Enoch 51:6 In those days they (wicked,power elite)
shall not be saved by
gold and by
silver (Ezekiel7:19).
1Enoch 51:7 Nor shall they have it in their power to
secure themselves, or fly.
1Enoch 51:8 There shall be neither iron for war, nor a
coat of mail for the breast.
1Enoch 51:9 Copper shall be useless; useless also that
which neither rusts nor
consumes away;
and lead shall not be coveted.
1Enoch 51:10 All these things shall be rejected, and
perish from off the earth,
when the Elect one shall appear in the presence
of the Lord of spirits.
Notice again the reference to men flying in 51:7. In some manner they will be prevented from doing so
when Melchizedek arrives. How?
1Enoch 52:1 There my eyes beheld a deep valley; and
wide was its entrance.
1Enoch 52:2 All who dwell on land, on the sea, and in
islands, shall bring to it
gifts, presents,
and offerings; yet that deep valley shall not be full.
Their hands shall commit iniquity. Whatsoever they
produce by
labor the
sinners shall devour with crime. But they shall perish
from the face of
the Lord of spirits, and from the face of his earth.
They (the people of God) shall stand up, and
shall not fail for ever
and ever.
1Enoch 52:6 After which the righteous and chosen house
of his congregation
shall appear,
thence forward unchangeable, in the name of the Lord
of spirits. (?
3rd Temple)
1Enoch 52:7 Nor shall those mountains exist in his
presence, as the earth and
the hills, as
the fountains of water exist. And the righteous shall
be relieved from
the vexation of sinners.
The "Kings and powerful ones of the earth" pile up
worldly treasure in a "deep valley" (?literal vs. figurative). Here
they, the powerful, are said to perish, elsewhere they, or possibly their
remnant, are said to be handed over to the elect. Repeatedly in scripture tectonic activity takes place and "the
mountains" and hills become flat as in 52:7 Enoch. See also:
Isaiah 40:4 Every
valley shall be lifted and filled up,
and every
mountain and hill shall be made low
and the crooked
and uneven shall be made straight
and the rough
places a plain.
This may be a local event rather than global, and it is
probably literal as well as figurative. Elsewhere the mountain on which
Jerusalem and the Temple Mount are located actually raises up high – literally
and figuratively elevating the glory of God and His Temple.
Chapters 53 and 54 slip back in time before the flood and are
omitted here.
1Enoch 55:1 After this I beheld another army of chariots, with men riding in
them
(Zechariah.
6:1-3).
1Enoch 55:2 And they
came upon the wind from the east, from the west, and
from the midst of the day.
1Enoch 55:3 The sound of the noise of their chariots was heard.
1Enoch 55:4 And when that agitation took place, the
saints out of heaven
perceived it; the pillar of the earth shook from its
foundation; and
the sound was
heard from the extremities of the earth unto the
extremities of
heaven at the same time.
1Enoch 55:5 Then they all fell down, and worshipped
the Lord of spirits (Psalms. 86:9).
1Enoch 55:6 This is the end of the second parable.
As discussed previously, here are described noisy, chariots,
with men riding in them, upon the wind. These are modern aircraft very likely.
Next, a "great agitation" of some type occurs that "shakes the
foundation" of the earth. This is the tectonic event, which occurs on the
arrival of Melchizedek. Alternatively, the agitation could be nuclear
explosions.
1Enoch 56:1 I now began to utter THE THIRD PARABLE,
concerning the
saints and the elect.
1Enoch 56:2 Blessed are ye, O saints
and elect, for glorious is your lot.
1Enoch 56:3 The saints shall exist in the light of the
sun, and the elect in the
light of
everlasting life, the days of whole life shall never terminate;
nor shall the
days of the saints be numbered who seek for light, and
obtain
righteousness with the Lord of spirits (Philippians. 3:14; Romans. 9:23; 1 Timothy. 6:16).
1Enoch 56:4 Peace be to the saints with the Lord of
the world.
1Enoch 56:5 Hence forward shall the saints be told to
seek in heaven the secrets
of
righteousness, the portion of faith; for like the sun has it arisen
upon the earth, while darkness has passed away. There shall be
light which
cannot be numbered; nor shall they enter upon the
enumeration of
time; for darkness shall be previously destroyed,
and light shall increase before the Lord of
spirits; before the Lord of
spirits shall
the light of uprightness increase for ever (Rev. 22:4-5).
Skipping chapters 57 through 60 we have:
1Enoch 61:1 Thus the Lord commanded the kings, the
princes, the exalted,
and those who
dwell on earth, saying: Open your eyes, and lift up
your horns, if
you are capable of comprehending the Elect
one.
1Enoch 61:2 The Lord of spirits sat
upon the throne of his glory.
1Enoch 61:3 And the spirit of
righteousness was poured out over him.
1Enoch 61:4 The
word of his mouth shall destroy all the sinners and all the
ungodly, who
shall perish at his presence.
1Enoch 61:5 In
that day shall all the kings, the princes, the exalted, and those
who possess
the earth, stand up, behold, and perceive, that He is
sitting on the
throne of his glory; that before Him the saints shall
be judged in
righteousness;
1Enoch 61:6 And that nothing, which shall be spoken
before Him, shall be
spoken in vain
(Revelations 6:15-17).
1Enoch 61:7 Trouble shall come upon them (the power
elite), as upon a woman
in travail,
whose labor is severe, when her child comes to the mouth
of the womb, and
she finds it difficult to bring forth (Jeremiah 13:21).
1Enoch 61:8 One
portion of them shall look upon another. They shall be
astonished, and
shall humble their countenance:
1Enoch 61:9 And trouble shall seize them, when they
shall behold this Son of
man sitting upon
the throne of his glory (Jeremiah 31:22).
1Enoch 61:10 Then shall the kings, the princes, and
all who possess the earth,
glorify Him who has dominion over all
things, Him who was
concealed; for from eternity the Son of Man was concealed, whom
the Most High preserved in the presence
of his power and revealed
to the elect (Hebrews 1:6-10).
1Enoch 61:11 He shall sow the congregation of the
saints, and of the elect, and all
the elect shall stand before Him in that
day (Isaiah 65:21-25).
1Enoch 61:12 All the kings, the princes, the
exalted, and those who rule over the
earth, shall fall down on their faces
before Him, and shall
worship Him (Psalms 72:11).
1Enoch 61:13 They shall fix their hopes on this Son
of man, shall pray to Him,
and petition Him for mercy.
1Enoch 61:14 Then shall the Lord of spirits hasten
to expel them from his
presence.
Their faces shall be full of confusion, and darkness shall
be added to
their faces. The angels shall take them to punishment,
that
vengeance may be inflicted on those who have oppressed his
children
and his elect. And they shall become an example to the
saints and
to his elect. Through them shall these be made joyful;
for the
anger of the Lord of spirits shall rest upon
them
(Revelations 14:18-20).
1Enoch 61:16 The Lord of spirits shall remain over
them;
1Enoch 61:17 And
with this Son of man shall they dwell, eat, lie down, and rise
up, for
ever and ever (Revelation. 7:16-17).
1Enoch 61:18 The saints and the elect have arisen
from the earth have left off to
depress
their countenances, and have been clothed with the garment
of life.
That garment of life is with the Lord of spirits, in whose
presence
your garment shall not wax old, nor shall your glory
diminish (Isaiah 53:12).
Clearly, the powers that be are brought to judgment and
justice. The Son of man described here seems to fit better with the activities
of Messiah/Melchizedek rather than Jesus. The Lord of spirits is God as
previously indicated.
Chapter 62 contains similar information about the judgment of
the power elite. Chapters 63 through 70 are mostly about times before the flood
but do contain several more references to the Son of man. In all these
references to the Son of man there is nothing to indicate a specific knowledge
of Jesus’ life and teachings or Christianity. Based on this, it would seem
highly probable that this part of 1Enoch,
the Similitudes, chapters 37 through 71, was written before the time of Jesus,
as is portrayed in the Urantia Book.
Perhaps future discoveries will confirm this. The next chapter of
interest is 79.
1Enoch 79:1 In
those days Uriel answered me and said to me; Behold, I
have shewed thee
all things, O Enoch;
1Enoch 79:2 And all things have I revealed to thee.
Thou seest the sun, the
moon, and those
which conduct the stars of heaven, which cause
all their
operations, seasons, and arrivals to return.
1Enoch 79:3 In the days of sinners the years shall be
shortened.
1Enoch 79:4 Their seed shall be backward in their
prolific soil; and every thing
done on earth
shall be subverted, and disappear in its season. The
rain shall be
restrained, and heaven shall stand still.
1Enoch 79:5 In
those days the fruit of the earth shall be late, and not flourish in
their season;
and in their season the fruits of the trees shall be withholden.
1Enoch 79:6 The moon shall change its laws, and not be
seen at its proper
period. But in
those days shall heaven be seen; and barrenness
shall take place
in the borders of the great chariots in the west.
Heaven shall
shine more than when illuminated by the orders of
light; while
many chiefs among the stars of authority shall err,
perverting their
ways and works.
1Enoch 79:8 The thoughts of those who dwell on earth
shall transgress
within them; and
they shall be perverted in all their ways
(2 Timothy 3rd Chapter).
1Enoch 79:9 They
shall transgress, and think themselves gods; while
evil shall be
multiplied among them.
Evil multiplies, coming into full
bloom, at the end of the age. Note again
"the rain will be restrained" at that time and the "fruits of
the earth and of the trees shall be withholden" due to drought very probably, as discussed
previously. "The moon is not seen at its proper time and place" is a
sign that will indicate the closing of the age. "Barrenness shall take
place in the borders of the great chariots of the west" refers, I think, to America. The
barrenness may refer to drought conditions developing in America as well as
other places. I think that this end of the age drought has probably already
begun in the Middle East, and perhaps also in the United States as of 1999. If
my timing is correct, I would expect drought conditions in the Middle East and
the world to progressively worsen until Melchizedek arrives. Then, tectonic
activity will open up generous streams and rivers of water, and rain will fall.
Beginning
with Chapter 84, Enoch relates a dream to his son Methuselah. The dream
recapitulates the history of "God’s people" Israel from a time before
the flood. The interesting feature of this history is that it continues into the future messianic period, just ahead of us now.
And so, we read tomorrow’s newspaper today. This part
of 1Enoch is an important piece of scripture, which outlines certain events, in
the messianic time period just ahead that concern the elect. The sheep are symbolic of God’s traditional
peoples, mostly Christians and Jews. These people give birth to a new people (lambs) of God, who "begin to open
their eyes" (? as a result of new revelation.) As the lambs awaken to the
newly discovered realities of the kingdom of heaven, they call to their
predecessors (Christians and Jews: sheep) to open their eyes too. But the
traditional peoples of God (the sheep) have been blinded by the false teachings
of the past and they are "deaf, blind, and obdurate in the greatest
degrees." The lambs, I believe, are the congregation of those who elect
God’s will.
1Enoch 89:10 I saw in the vision that ravens flew down upon those lambs;
1Enoch 89:11 That they seized one of them; and that
tearing the sheep in
pieces,
they devoured them.
1Enoch 89:12 I saw also, that horns grew upon those lambs; and that the
ravens
lighted down upon their horns.
The ravens symbolize the evil ones of the world who attack the
innocent lambs because the lambs understand the evil that is transpiring in the
world and have become a threat to the powers that be. As a result of the open
attack on the lambs, the elect become fully cognizant of the evil that exists
and therefore they increase in strength, as symbolized by the growing of horns, which always symbolize power (good or bad).
1Enoch 89:9-11 Then I kept seeing till one great horn sprouted on one of those
sheep, and he opened their (the lambs) eyes, and
they had vision
in them and their eyes were opened.
He cried aloud to the sheep,
and all the
rams saw him and ran unto him. (1Enoch;
Pseudoepigrapha,
James
Charlesworth).
The ram with the "great horn" "opens the
eyes" of the others probably by revealing God’s plan for the messianic
age. I believe He is the final prophet to come. The rams are the strongest ones
among the lambs and sheep, and run to join the final prophet (one with the
great horn) after the revelation is made to them.
1Enoch 89:11-12 In spite of this,
all those eagles, vultures, ravens, and kites until now
continue to
rip the sheep (Christians and Jews) swooping down on
them and
eating them. As for the sheep they remain silent; but the
rams are
lamenting and crying aloud. Those ravens gather and battle
with him
(the large horned ram/prophet) and seek to remove his
horn (his power), but without success. (James
Charlesworth).
(my parentheses)
In the verse above, we witness the persecution and killing of
the sheep (predominantly Jews and Christians). The stronger ones among the
Christians (the rams) cry out and lament while the rest of the sheep remain
silent and blind.
1Enoch 89:13 I saw thereafter the shepherds coming; and those vultures and
kites cried
aloud to the ravens so that they would smash the horn
of that ram
with the great horn (the prophet). But he (the prophet)
battled
with them, and they (shepherds) fought each other, and he
(prophet)
cried aloud, while battling them, so that God’s help
would come.
(James Charlesworth). (my parentheses)
The shepherds are the misleaders
who are supposed to be tending the flock, but are instead killing and enslaving
the sheep. The ram with the great horn (the Dabela), the final prophet, calls
to God for help as he battles against the agents of evil (shepherd leaders and
henchmen ravens).
1Enoch 89:21 Then I (Enoch) perceived that the man
came who had written down
the names
of the shepherds, and who ascended up before the Lord of the sheep.
1Enoch 89:22 He (the man) brought assistance, and caused every one to see him
descending to the help of the dabela.
The "Lord of the sheep" is Melchizedek and the
"dabela" is the ram with the great horn, the final prophet. The man
who writes down the iniquities of the shepherds is an unidentified helper or
assistant of Melchizedek’s. This helper "descends" to the aid of the
prophet in plain sight for "everyone" to see! How does he descend in plain sight?
1Enoch 89:23 I perceived likewise that the Lord of the sheep came to them in
wrath, while
all those who saw him fled away; all fell down in his
tabernacle before
his face; while all the eagles, the avest, ravens,
and kites
assembled, and brought with them all the sheep of the field.
The Lord of the sheep
(Melchizedek) comes to his tabernacle (? temple) and all fall down "before
his face." The sheep (faithful Christians and Jews) are gathered up by the
eagles and other birds.
1Enoch 89:24 All came together, and strove to break
the horn of the dabela.
This line makes little sense as the dabela (horned ram) has
already been "helped" and is presumably out of danger, but 89:24
still has the prophet under attack.
1Enoch 89:25 Then I saw, that the man who wrote the
book at the word of the
Lord,
opened the book of destruction, of that destruction which the
last twelve
shepherds wrought; and pointed out before the Lord of
the sheep,
that they destroyed more than those who preceded them.
1Enoch 89:26 I saw also that the
Lord of the sheep came to them, and taking
in his hand
the scepter of his wrath seized the
earth, which became
rent asunder; while all the beasts and
birds of heaven fell from the
sheep and
sunk into the earth, which closed over them.
Melchizedek, grasping his scepter
(like his sickle in Revelation) of power, causes a tectonic event, which
kills the ones who commit evil, but saves the sheep under attack. The Dead Sea Scrolls also symbolizes the
Messiah by the scepter.
1Enoch 89:27 I saw, too, that a large sword was given to the sheep, who went
forth against all the beasts of the field
to slay them (Psalms 149:9).
1Enoch 89:28 But all the beasts and birds of heaven
fled away from before their face.
Here, some type of weapon is given to the sheep (faithful Jews
and Christians) to "slay the beasts of the field."
1Enoch 89:29 And I saw a throne erected in a delectable land (Palestine);
1Enoch 89:30 Upon this sat the Lord of the sheep,
who received all the sealed books (Revelations 20:12);
1Enoch 89:31 Which were opened before him.
1Enoch 89:39 I also saw that the Lord of the sheep produced a new house,
great
and loftier than the former, which He bounded by the former
circular spot. All its pillars were
new, and its ivory new, as well as
more
abundant than the former ancient ivory, which he had brought out.
Melchizedek produces a "new house" (Temple) and it is
placed on the circular Temple Mount, occupied presently by the Moslem
"Dome of the Rock." Whether or not a new Temple is made by
Melchizedek or is made for Melchizedek before he arrives is as yet still
uncertain to my understanding, although I lean toward a new temple made by
Melchizedek as evidenced in the verse above.
1Enoch 89:44 All the sheep were enclosed in that
house, and it did not contain them;
and the
eyes of all were open, gazing on the good
One, nor was
there one
among them who did not behold Him.
1Enoch 89:45 I likewise perceived that the house was
large, wide, and extremely
full. I
saw, too, that a white cow was born,
whose horns were
great; and
that all the beasts of the field and all the birds of heaven,
were
alarmed at him, and entreated him at all times (Psalms 72).
1Enoch 89:46 Then I saw that the nature of all of them (sheep) was changed, and
that they
became white cows (1 Corinthians 15:22-28).
1Enoch 89:48 While the Lord of the sheep rejoiced
over them, and over all the cows.
1Enoch 89:49 I lay down in the midst of them: I
awoke; and saw the whole. This
is the vision, which I saw, lying down
and waking. Then I blessed
the Lord of righteousness, and gave
glory to Him.
1Enoch 89:50 Afterwards I wept abundantly, nor did my
tears cease, so that I
became incapable of enduring it. While I
was looking on, they
descended on account of what I saw; for
all was come and gone by;
every individual circumstance respecting
the conduct of mankind was seen by me.
1Enoch 89:51 In that night I remembered my former
dream; and therefore wept
and was troubled, because I had seen that
vision.
White cows symbolize a spiritual transformation that occurs
with the faithful remnant that is left at the end of the messianic time period.
1Enoch 90:4 Enoch said: Hear, my children, every word
of your father,
and listen in
uprightness to the voice of my mouth; for I would
gain your
attention, while I address you. My beloved: be attached
to integrity,
and walk in it.
1Enoch 90:5 Approach not integrity with a double
heart; nor be associated
with
double-minded men; but walk, my children, in righteousness,
which will
conduct you in good paths; and truth be your companion
(James. 1:8).
1Enoch 90:6 For I know, that oppression will exist and prevail on earth; that
on earth great
punishment shall in the end take place; and that there
shall be a
consummation of all iniquity, which shall be cut off from
its root, and
every fabric raised by it shall pass away (Flood).
Iniquity
however, shall again be renewed, and
consummated on
earth. Every act
of crime, and every act of oppression and impiety,
shall be a second time embraced. (The first time
was before the
flood, the
second time will be at the end of this age)
1Enoch 90:7 When therefore iniquity, sin, blasphemy,
tyranny, and every evil
work, shall
increase, and when transgression, impiety, and unclean-ness
also shall
increase, then upon them all shall great punishment be inflicted from heaven.
1Enoch 90:10 In
those days oppression shall be put off from its roots, and
iniquity
with fraud shall be eradicated, perishing from under heaven.
1Enoch 90:12 Righteousness
shall be raised up from slumber; and wisdom shall
be raised
up, and conferred upon them.
1Enoch 90:15 And now, my children, I will describe
and point out to you the
path of
righteousness and the path of oppression.
1Enoch 90:16 I will again point them out to you,
that you may know what is to come.
Again, men and women will cause their own downfall, their own "punishment," as a result of their foolish disregard of God’s laws and warnings. We truly reap what we sow. Free will implies the freedom for error, the freedom for sin, and the freedom for iniquity. Unfortunately, people with good intentions project their intentions onto others and therefore have difficulty understanding and recognizing the self-serving and controlling intentions of others. The essence of God’s presence is his free willingness; His total lack of force and coercive intent. He respects absolutely the domain of free will of every individual. On the other hand, the essence of evil is characterized by the use of force, coercion, and fear to dominate and control the actions of others. It is these behaviors that can easily identify those who seek to possess power over others. If you are busy asserting your will you are not following God’s. This is why our "leaders" and our "elite" end up on "the top of the heap." They are willing to disregard ethics and religion for power and politics. Many others will not. Unfortunately, the well intended are confused and altogether too passive, thus allowing the controllers to dictate the way unopposed.
In 90:6, Enoch discusses the pre-flood iniquity that was cleansed by the flood and then states that such iniquity will be again "embraced a second time," which is now. Hardship is coming and it will bring out the best and the worst in human nature. Since "the worst" controls the power of the world the "best" will be at a distinct worldly disadvantage. But it is not man’s world that counts in the end, but rather it is God’s world that counts. Human and sacred history will finally intersect at the point of Melchizedek’s arrival. The kingdom of heaven within intersects with the Kingdom of God on earth. The harvest time comes, and the weeds are bundled up and thrown in the "fire." The good harvest is stored up and the newly plowed earth is reseeded with good seed. 1Enoch 90:11 ends with sin perishing forevermore, which is only possible when "the rebellion" against God is ended and the kingdom of God on earth begins.
1Enoch 91:1 That which was written by Enoch. He wrote
all this instruction of
wisdom for every
man of dignity, and every judge of the earth; for
all my children
who shall dwell upon earth, and for subsequent
generations,
conducting themselves uprightly and peaceably.
1Enoch 91:2 Let
not your spirit be grieved on account of the times; for the
holy, the great
One, has given days to all (John 14:1).
1Enoch 91:3 Let
the righteous man arise from slumber; let him arise, and
proceed in the
path of righteousness, in all its paths; and let his
goings be in
goodness and in eternal clemency. Mercy shall be
showed to the
righteous man; upon him shall be conferred
integrity and
power for ever. In goodness, and in righteousness
shall he exist,
and shall walk in everlasting light; but sin
shall
perish in
eternal darkness, nor be seen from this time forward
for evermore (Jeremiah 31:33-34).
The Great One is God, who is the only one who could "prescribe a period to all." "Let the righteous man arise from slumber" is a call to every generation and every age but especially applies to our generation, which will find itself immersed in the harvest of iniquity in the messianic end of the age. The last sentence of 91:3 says that sin will perish for evermore thereby referring specifically to the messianic time period. (Except for bible references the parentheses are my comments.) Next we have some more history that continues into Enoch's distant future, which is our near future.
1Enoch 92:1 After this, Enoch began to speak from a book.
1Enoch 92:2 And Enoch said: Concerning the children of
righteousness,
concerning the
elect of the world, and concerning the plant of
righteousness
and integrity.
1Enoch 92:3 Concerning these things will I speak, and
these things will I explain
to you, my
children: I who am Enoch. In consequence of that
which has been
shewn to me, from my heavenly vision and from
the voice of the
holy angels have I acquired knowledge; and from
the tablet of heaven have I acquired
understanding.
1Enoch 92:4 Enoch then began to speak from a book, and
said: I have been born
the seventh in
the first week, while judgment and righteousness wait with patience.
1Enoch 92:5 But after me, in the second week, great
wickedness shall arise, and
fraud shall
spring forth.
1Enoch 92:6 In it the end of the first shall take place, in which mankind shall be safe (Flood).
1Enoch 92:7 But after it (flood) has been completed,
iniquity shall grow up; and
he (God or
Melchizedek) shall execute the decree upon sinners.
1Enoch 92:8 Afterwards, in the third week, during its
completion, a man
(Abraham) of
the plant of righteous judgment shall be selected; and
after him the
plant of righteousness shall come for ever.
1Enoch 92:9 Subsequently, in the fourth week, during
its completion, the
visions of the
holy and the righteous shall be seen (Old Testament
prophets), the
order of generation after generation shall take place,
and an habitation shall be made for
them. Then in the fifth week,
during its
completion, the house of glory and of dominion shall be
erected for
ever. (? First Temple)
1Enoch 92:10 After that, in the sixth week, all
those who are in it shall be
darkened,
the hearts of all of them shall be forgetful of wisdom, and
in it shall a man ascend. (? Jesus)
1Enoch 92:11 And during its completion also he shall
burn the house of dominion
with fire,
and all the race of the elect root shall
be dispersed
(Matthew
23:37-39). (?Roman War AD 70)
1Enoch 92:12 Afterwards, in the seventh week a
perverse generation shall arise;
abundant
shall be its deeds, and all its deeds perverse. During its
completion,
the righteous shall be selected from the plant of
everlasting
righteousness; and to them shall be given
the sevenfold
doctrine
respecting every part of his whole creation.
(see
upcoming discussion)
1Enoch 92:13 Afterwards there shall be another week,
the eighth of righteousness
and justice
upon all oppressors.
1Enoch 92:14 Sinners shall be delivered up into the
hands of the righteous, who
during its
completion shall acquire habitations by their
righteousness; and the house of
the great King shall be established
for praises
for ever. After that, in the ninth week, shall the
judgment of
righteousness be revealed to the whole world. (House
= Third
Temple, great King = Melchizedek)
1Enoch 92:15 Every work of the ungodly shall
disappear from the whole earth;
the world
shall be marked for destruction; and all men shall be on
the lookout
for the path of integrity.
1Enoch 92:16 And after this, on the seventh day of the tenth week, there
shall be
an
everlasting judgment, which shall be executed upon the
Watchers;
and a spacious eternal heaven shall spring forth in the
midst of
the angels. (watchers, race of Nodites?)
1Enoch 92:17 The former heaven shall depart and pass
away; a new heaven shall
appear; and
all the celestial powers shine with sevenfold splendor
for ever.
Afterwards likewise shall there be many weeks, which
shall externally
exist in goodness and in righteousness.
1Enoch 92:18 Neither shall sin be named there for
ever and for ever
(Revelations 21:1, 22:3-5). (Rebellion
ended)
1Enoch 92:19 Who is there of all the children of men,
capable of hearing the voice of the Holy One without emotion?
1Enoch 92:20 Who is there capable of thinking his
thoughts? Who capable of
contemplating all the workmanship of heaven? Who of
comprehending the deeds of heaven?
1Enoch 92:21 He may behold its animation, but not
its spirit. He may be capable
of
conversing respecting it, but not of ascending to it. He may see
all the
boundaries of these things, and meditate upon them; but he
can make
nothing like them.
1Enoch 92:22 Who of all men is able to understand
the breadth and length of the
earth?
1Enoch 92:23 By whom have been seen the dimensions
of all these things? Is it
every man
who is capable of comprehending the extent of heaven;
what its
elevation is, and by what it is supported?
1Enoch 92:24 How many are the numbers of the stars;
and where all the
luminaries
remain at rest? (Job 38th, 39th chapters).
In Chapter 92, Enoch reads our future history, from a heavenly
tablet "concerning the righteous" and the "elect" which are
two related but distinct groups. As we will see, the elect are distinguished by
their knowledge and understanding which they obtain from special books given
them. The "decree executed on sinners" in 92:7 is the flood which
wipes the slate clean at the end of the first age of transgression, thus
clearing the slate for the second round of apostasy (falling away from God's
precepts) in our age. In 91:8, Abraham is the "man of the plant of righteous
judgment" who is "selected." Notice here, the concept of
"the selection of Abraham" as an individual is the same as the
understanding in The Urantia Book, while
the Bible portrays God’s selection as a whole group of people, the Israelites,
who are the "chosen ones." In 92:8, Abraham’s legacy is "for
ever", in keeping with the Old Testament prophecy of the reunion and
replanting of Israel and Judah, by the Messiah at the end of the messianic age.
In 92:9, "the visions of the holy and righteous" are the prophecies
of the Old Testament prophets. In 92:9, the "house of glory and
dominion" is the First Temple. Jesus is probably "the man who
ascends" in the sixth week. Shortly after this, at the end of the sixth
week, the "house of dominion" (the 2nd Temple) is "burned with
fire" and destroyed in the War of Rome in 70 A.D. Shortly before this, the
"elect root" (early Christians) disperses, acting upon the warning
signs given them by Jesus before his death (UB) . The "sevenfold doctrine" given to the elect of righteousness
is a curious reference. Consider the following in this regard:
UB 1269 Time-space creatures must have origins, relativities, and
destinies in order to
grasp universe relationships and to understand
the meaning values of divinity.
Therefore does Paradise Deity attenuate and
otherwise qualify the extra-
Paradise personalizations of divinity, thus
bring into existence the Supreme
Creators and their associates, who ever carry
the light of life farther and
farther from its Paradise source until it finds
its most distant and beautiful
expression in the earth lives of the bestowal
Sons on the evolutionary worlds.
And this is the origin of God the Sevenfold, encountered by mortal man in the
following order:
1.
The Creator Sons (and Creative Spirits).
2. The Ancients of Days.
3. The Seven Master Spirits.
4. The Supreme Being.
5. The Conjoint Actor.
6. The Eternal Son.
7.
The Universal Father.
Also, consider the Seven
Master Spirits which are "the full representation of the Infinite
Spirit to the evolutionary universes," (UB 189) the seven adjuvant mind spirits, the seven absolutes, the seven
superuniverses, the seven psychic
circles, and the seven triunities among
many others.
Could the "sevenfold
doctrine" be a reference to The
Urantia Book? If so, this would be consistent with another passage of Enoch
to come that states that special books are given to those who elect God’s will
near the end of the age.
Returning to Enoch in
92:14 and 92:15, the messianic end of the age comes and the "house of the
great king," Melchizedek (King of Righteousness) will be established while
"sin disappears forever." Next we have:
1Enoch 93:1 And now let me exhort you, my children, to
love righteousness, and to
walk
in it; for the paths of righteousness are worthy of acceptation; but
the paths of iniquity shall suddenly fail, and be diminished.
1Enoch 93:2 To men of note in their generation the
paths of oppression and death are
revealed; but they keep far from them, and
do not follow them.
1Enoch 93:3 Now, too, let me exhort you who are
righteous, not to walk in the paths of
evil and oppression, nor in the paths of
death. Approach them not, that you
may not perish; but covet.
1Enoch 93:4 And choose for yourselves righteousness,
and a good life.
1Enoch 93:5 Walk in the paths of peace, that you may
live, and be found worthy.
Retain my words in your inmost thoughts,
and obliterate them not from
your hearts; for I know that
sinners counsel men to commit crime
craftily.
They are not found in every place,
nor does every counsel possess a little of them.
1Enoch 93:6 Woe
to those who build up iniquity and oppression, and who lay the
foundation of fraud; for suddenly shall they be subverted, and
never obtain peace.
1Enoch 93:7 Woe to those who build up their houses
with crime; for from their very
foundations shall they be demolished, and by the sword
shall they
themselves fall. Those, too, who acquire
gold and silver, shall justly and
suddenly perish. Woe to you who are rich,
for in your riches have you
trusted; but from your riches you shall be
removed; because you have not
remembered the Most High in the days of
your prosperity (James. 5:1-8).
Enoch warns his children and us indirectly to choose
righteousness and peace. Those who acquire "gold and silver riches"
and covet their wealth will suddenly perish because "they have not
remembered the Most High." But remember:
Ezek 18:32 For
it is not My desire that anyone shall die – declares the Lord God. Repent therefore, and live!
1Enoch 95:1 Wait in hope, ye righteous; for suddenly
shall sinners perish from before
you, and you shall exercise dominion over
them, according to your will.
1Enoch 95:2 In the day of the
sufferings of sinners your (the righteous) offspring shall be
elevated, and lifted up like eagles. Your nest shall be more exalted than
that of the avest; you shall ascend, and
enter into the cavities of the earth,
and into the clefts of the rocks forever,
like hares, from the sight of the
ungodly;
1Enoch 95:3 Who shall groan over you, and weep like
sirens.
1Enoch 95:4 You shall not fear those who trouble you;
for restoration shall be yours; a
splendid light shall shine around you, and
the voice of tranquility shall be
heard from heaven. Woe to you, sinners; for
your wealth makes you
resemble saints, but your hearts reproach
you, knowing that you are
sinners. This word shall testify against
you, for the remembrance of crime.
1Enoch 95:5 Woe to you who feed upon the glory of the
corn, and drink the strength of
the root of the spring, and in the pride of your power tread down the
humble.
1Enoch 95:6 Woe to you who drink water at all times; for suddenly shall you be
recompensed, consumed, and withered,
because you have forsaken the
fountain of life (John 4:13-14).
1Enoch 95:7 Woe to you who act iniquitously,
fraudulently, and blasphemously; there
shall be a remembrance against you for evil.
1Enoch 95:8 Woe to you, ye powerful, who with power
strike down righteousness; for
the day of your destruction shall come;
while at that very time many and
good
days shall come to the righteous, even at the period of your
judgment.
The righteous gain dominion. The meek inherit the earth. The
offspring of the righteous and elect are to be "lifted up like
eagles" apparently physically "elevated" to safety and
spiritually "exalted" over and above the "ungodly." "A
splendid light" probably from the radiance of Melchizedek "will shine
around" the "exalted." 95:4 tells us that "the sinners’
wealth" make them "resemble saints" superficially but Enoch’s
"words will testify against them" because the book of 1Enoch will
help the elect and righteous to recognize the faces of deception and iniquity.
Apparently there is a great drought because only the rich and iniquitous will
"drink water at pleasure" while the rest must suffer severe thirst
and deprivation. The
"powerful" are put on notice in 95:8 that their "day of
destruction will come."
1Enoch 96:1 The righteous are confident that sinners
will be disgraced, and perish in
the day of iniquity.
1Enoch 96:5 Your faces shall be covered with shame;
while every deed, strengthened
by crime, shall be rejected.
1Enoch 96:9 And now I swear to you, ye crafty, as well
as simple ones; that you, often
contemplating the earth, you who are men, put elegance upon you more
than married women, and both
together more so than unmarried ones,
every where arraying yourselves in majesty,
in magnificence, in authority,
and in silver: but gold, purple, honor, and
wealth, like water, flow away.
1Enoch 96:10 Erudition therefore and wisdom are not
theirs. And in it shall they
perish, together with their riches, with
all their glory, and with their
honors;
1Enoch 96:11 While with disgrace, with slaughter,
and in extreme penury, shall their
spirits be thrust into a furnace of fire (Revelation. 17th and 18th
Chapters.).
1Enoch 96:12 I have sworn to you, ye sinners, that
neither mountain nor hill has been or shall be a servant to woman.
1Enoch 96:13 Neither in this way has our crime been sent down upon earth, but men
of their own heads have invented it; and greatly shall those who give it efficiency be execrated.
1Enoch 96:15 I have sworn to you, ye sinners, by the
holy and the great One; that all
your evil deeds are disclosed in the
heaven; and that none of your
oppressive acts are concealed and
secret.
1Enoch 96:16 Think not in your minds, neither say in
your hearts, that every crime is
not manifested and seen. In heaven it
is daily written down before the
Most High. Hence forwards shall it be
manifested; for every act of
oppression which you commit shall be
daily recorded, until the period of your condemnation..
1Enoch 96:23 Woe to you who frustrate the word of
the righteous; for to you there
shall be no hope of life.
1Enoch 96:24 Woe to you who write down the word of
falsehood, and the word of
the wicked; for their falsehood they
record, that they may hear and not
forget folly.
The "righteous are confident that sinners will be
disgraced" because all of this has been revealed to them through 1Enoch
and other prophets of scripture as well. Wealth "is suddenly ascended"
away from the wealthy who covet in 96:6. The "crafty" men are
"adorned more than women" in stylish and expensive clothes (not to
mention haircuts). As we read these woes of those who choose sin and iniquity,
we remember that the Urantia Book depicts
Jesus as saying that although God is understanding of our frailties, he is
relentless and even ruthless when it comes to rooting out sin and iniquity. We
of the modern age are not accustomed to hearing such "harsh" verbiage
as we have been taught that there really is no right and wrong; just differing
but equally valid points of view. The words evil, sin, and iniquity are almost
never used anymore. We will tolerate
anything and everything, except the moral-religious perspective, of course.
There is a covert war on God on this world and it is waged by the powerful
elite, the "intellectuals," the propagandists, the government, and
the media establishment. Our public schools are instruments for the
indoctrination of an alternate, unacknowledged, value system of no-values; the
official, unannounced, state religion. This secular humanistic state is slowly
enslaving its citizens and will lead them into crisis. The war against God has only one possible outcome, and that outcome is,
and forever will be, failure! The
most difficult task is teaching the well intentioned that such a war actually
exists. The well intentioned project their own intentions onto the
intentions of others, because the reality of evil intent is so totally foreign
and so totally irrational to them. But evil and iniquity does exist and unless we learn to recognize it, we will continue to
be its victims. Jesus has spoken well:
"Be as wise as serpents and as
gentle as doves." To be as wise as serpents we must first recognize and
understand those serpents of wrong choosing.
Evil, Sin, Iniquity
Lets take a detour here and review some information regarding
"the rebellion" against God’s will on our world.
UB 1660 Rebellion brought sin to this world. (short paraphrase).
UB 394 rebellion by a Planetary Prince instantly isolates the
planet.
UB 59l rebellion changes the world so much, people have no idea what is normal.
(brief paraphrase)
UB 617 Divine Minister of Salvington issued…mandate…that nothing be
done to
half cure,
cowardly suppress, or otherwise hide the hideous visage of
rebels
and rebellion. The angelic hosts were directed
to work for full disclosure and
unlimited
opportunity for sin expression as the quickest.technique of
achieving the perfect and final cure of the
plague of evil and sin.
UB 617 allow rebellion to pursue a natural course of self
obliteration…to the end that
all sympathy for these evildoers should be sooner
uprooted…
UB 602 (Satan) became a bold and earnest advocate of "self
assertion and liberty."
UB 603 Lucifer charged that the Universal Father did not really
exist…
UB 607 Satania was isolated in both the constellation and the
universe circuits…the
circuits to the fallen worlds were also cut
off…these circuits will not be
restored as long as the arch rebel lives…
UB 609 The bestowal of
Michael (Christ) terminated the Lucifer rebellion in all
Satania aside from the planets of the apostate Planetary Princes (ours
included).
UB 610 The Planetary Prince was dethroned and discredited. He was
once termed
"God of Urantia." (Caligastia, the
devil)
UB 610 Caligastia and Daligastia spurned Jesus’ tender offer of
mercy.
Caligastia…is still free to prosecute his nefarious designs…
UB 610 The devil has been given a great deal of credit for evil
which does not belong
to him…weak and dissolute mortals are merely
being dominated by their own
inherent and debased tendencies…
UB 611 Satan was allowed to visit Caligastia…right up until another Son of God
should be accepted by such apostate
worlds, or until such time that the courts
of Uversa should begin the adjudication… Melchizedek has since been
proclaimed Vicegerent Planetary Prince of Urantia, and the opening of
the
case Gabriel vs. Lucifer was signalized by the inauguration of temporary
planetary regimes on all isolated worlds…Satan did visit Caligastia
right up
until the time of these revelations…Satan is now detained on the Jerusem
prison worlds.
UB 611 The rebellion of Jerusem has ended. It ends on the fallen
worlds as fast as
divine Sons arrive. (Therefore the rebellion is
still active.)
Note here, that Urantia will be reinstated and restored to the
system circuits and to interplanetary communication only after Melchizedek
arrives. Final adjudication will not be complete until earth, its citizens,
Caligastia, and Daligastia experience "Judgment Day" as described in
the Bible. Only then will the current dispensational age end and a new age
begin.
Planetary peace and order cannot
come until the harvest of this age is reaped and Melchizedek assumes
sovereignty. In this regard consider:
UB 597 The bestowal son (Jesus) is the Prince of Peace. On normal
worlds this is a
dispensation of world-wide peace…such salutary
influences did not attend
the coming of your bestowal Son…Urantia is not proceeding in the normal
order. Your Master…warned…his advent would not
bring the usual reign of
peace…He distinctly told them (his disciples)
that there would be "wars and
rumors of wars," and that "nation
would rise against nation."
At present one-third of all nations (65 out of 185) are at
war. At the end of the cold war in 1990 there were only 35. This planet is in
the hands of self-serving, unwise, and immature leadership who, as a rule, have
little spiritual connection. The world is getting more violent and uncertain.
This corrupt world leadership possesses all the political, economic, military,
and financial power. It cannot be removed or replaced except by force and
defeat. The world cannot evolve smoothly
into a peaceful age without a crisis and only divine intervention can conclude
that crisis favorably on the behalf of the brotherhood of man, which is
otherwise in the process of formation. The Urantia
Book quotes the following Bible passage:
UB 600 ‘For, as the new heavens and the new earth, which I (God)
will make, shall
remain before me, so shall you and your children survive; and it shall come
to pass that from
one new moon to another and from one Sabbath to another
all flesh shall come to worship before me,’ says the Lord. (Isaiah 66:22-23).
The authors of the Urantia
Book would not have quoted the Bible on something they didn’t agree with.
One must conclude that something very sudden will occur such that "all
flesh will come to worship" before God over a short time period of only
one week or one month.
Returning now to the Urantia Book quotes regarding the
rebellion and the iniquitous ones, we have regarding Satan:
Satan
UB 611 Satan visited Urantia recently…He is now interred on the
prison worlds.
UB 1971 approved the plans to kill
Jesus.
UB 602 was the first lieutenant of
Lucifer.
UB 602 is a Lanonandek son.
UB 754 was a brilliant creature of
light.
Lucifer
UB 604 led greatest rebellion in Nebadon, beginning 200,000 years
ago.
UB 710 gave a beautiful message of
acceptance of Life Carrier’s work.
UB 529 Soon Urantia will be restored to intersystem communion and interplanetary
communication.
UB 434 Lucifer misled and deluded
the orders of seraphic ministers by the sophistries
of unbridled personal liberty.
As we look around today, these same "sophistries of unbridled personal liberty" are all
around us. The rebellion is ongoing and coming to full fruit at age’s end. We
see this in our youth, on our TV sets, in our government, in our marriages, and
in our academies. Power has replaced religion and politics has replaced ethics.
The time of trial approaches. Rebellion still has its last gasp to breath. The
"world crisis" of the Urantia
Book is still ahead of us. We now move on to the next iniquitous one,
Caligastia:
Caligastia (devil)
UB 742 chose 100 (corporeal staff) from over 785,000 ascendant
citizens of
Jerusem…These Jerusem volunteers were brought by seraphic transport…
UB 610 Caligastia has been comparatively impotent since the cross
UB 753 has contributed to miscarriage
of Adamic plan
UB 833 was difficult to combat
since invisible.
UB 602 is the "devil"
UB 753 cannot coerce any normal
human will
UB 610 still free (along with
Daligastia) to prosecute his nefarious
schemes.
(my parentheses)
UB 745 Caligastia "one hundred" lost immortality through
rebellion.
UB 742 Daligastia and Caligastia
are secondary Lanondek sons. Lucifer is a primary
Lanondek son.
Caligastia and Daligastia are still here. What
"schemes" are they involved in? Can we find and recognize their
activities in the world today or are they so impotent that they do not even
register on the scales of human activity? What difference does their presence
make in the world around us? How would our planet, our nation, our lives be
different without their presence? There
are two mistakes that can be made with regard to evil. One is to be blind to it
and therefore become powerless to effectively overcome it. The second mistake
is to overly focus on and stress evil.
This blinds us
to the good around us, robs us of our inner peace and creates undo fear and
paranoia. Evil and sin exist, but they
remain powerless relevant to the destiny of any soul. Rebellion against God,
the very source of being and all reality, is tantamount to cosmic insanity. It
is suicidal and bears its own seed of self-destruction. God allows it, because
true freedom requires it and true freedom is necessary to any prospect of true
love, and true love, the love a Father for His children is the foundation of
the world. Emily Dickinson says it the best, as usual, "Evil is the
leisure of God’s Will" – it is the transient shadow cast by God’s
ever-increasing light of life. Before leaving this topic let’s continue down
the line of iniquitous ones and consider the Caligastia 100:
Caligastia
100
UB 747 Nod was the leader of the Caligastia’s staff of one hundred.
UB 758 Nodites were the
descendants of disloyal Dalamatia staff of one hundred
UB 856 Nodite was both a racial
and cultural term. They were the eighth
Urantian
race.
UB 857 The Sumerian descendants of the Nodites produced the
inscribed clay tablets
of ancient Sumer. (which are in our possession).
UB 856 Nodites are one half the
ancestry of the secondary midwayers. (Adamites the
other)
UB 856 legend had represented the Nodites as gods who came down and mated with
daughters of men (referred to in Genesis and 1Enoch).
1Enoch speaks about a race of people who are descended from the
offspring of "the sons of God who mated with the daughters of men."
This race is referred to as the Nephilim, which corresponds to the Nodite race
of the Urantia Book. This
inter-racial union between Nodites and the daughters of man is blamed for the
evil and sin that resulted in "the flood," by which God purified the
earth. Enoch again identifies "an evil race" which is associated with
the evil harvest of the messianic period. This raises the question of whether
or not there are still present, relatively pure line descendants of this
ancient Nodite race? Is this the race that has been associated with royalty
throughout the centuries? If so, this would explain the royal links between the
ruling class, the Power Elite, and the secret societies. Who are they, where
are they, and what role, if any, will they play in the messianic period? Lets
consider further the topic of evil, sin, and iniquity:
Evil, Sin, Iniquity
UB 2064 We are equipped to
overcome evil with good, vanquish hate by love, to
destroy fear with a courageous and living faith
in truth.
UB 1984 In the half-civilized man there still lurks an evil brutality which seeks to vent
itself upon those who are superior in wisdom and spiritual attainment.
UB 1982 (Regarding Jesus’ Crucifixion) God in heaven did not will it,
neither did the
archenemies of Jesus dictate it, though they did much to insure that
unthinking and evil mortals would thus reject
the bestowal Son.
UB 1940 Jesus looking them (apostles) over said, "I have told you
how much I desired
to have this supper with you, knowing how the evil forces of darkness have
conspired to bring about the death
of the Son of Man.
With this statement, Jesus would be branded a religious
fanatic and conspiracy theorist in today’s world.
UB 1766 I (Jesus) am meek and humble in the presence of my Father, but
I am equally
and relentlessly inexorable where there is deliberate evil-doing and
sinful
rebellion against the will of my Father who is in heaven.
Jesus did not turn his other cheek
to rebellion, sin, or iniquity.
UB 1747 All the forces of evil and hosts of sin shall not prevail
against this human
fraternity of the divine spirit.
This fraternity is the rock on
which the Kingdom of Heaven within is built.
UB 176 By nature, before the rebirth of the spirit, mortal man is
subject to inherent
evil tendencies, but such natural imperfections
of behavior are neither sin nor
iniquity.
UB 1660 Evil is inherent in the natural order of this world, but sin is
an attitude of
conscious
rebellion which was brought to this world by those who fell from
spiritual light into gross darkness.
Sin and iniquity don’t even exist
on normal worlds, and yet we tolerate
it as if it is part of the natural scenery.
UB 1912 Jesus said: "Yes, I will tell you about the times when
this people shall have
filled up the cup of their iniquity, when justice shall swiftly descend upon this
city of our fathers." (Jesus referring to
the destruction of Jerusalem, 70 AD)
If anyone said this today, they would be compared to Hitler.
And yet it was the truth.
UB 1972 Even so do you who knowingly reject the council of God appear
outwardly
to men as holy and righteous, but inwardly your
hearts are filled with
hypocrisy and iniquity.
Do we have the wisdom to recognize those around us who may
fill such a description? Who are they? What are they doing? Outward appearances
can be deceiving.
We are taught to be tolerant of
everything and everyone. Do we unwittingly tolerate and encourage evil, sin,
and iniquity? The Father doesn’t. Neither did Jesus of Nazareth.
UB 1661 The penalties of sin are inevitable;
the destroying consequences of iniquity
are inexorable.
Who else will be innocently destroyed as unwitting bystanders
when the harvest comes. Humankind is a family. The family suffers the sin of the
individual and vice-a-versa.
UB 1638 iniquity destroys the prayer connection…there ensues the loss
of personal
communion (with God)
UB 1590 And when he (Jesus) said, "Resist not evil," he
later explained that he did not
mean to condone sin or counsel fraternity with iniquity.
And yet we do.
UB 610 faith is an effective armor against sin and iniquity.
Are there any such suicidal behaviors in the world today?
UB 1660 Iniquity is the willful, determined, and persistent
transgression of the divine
law, the Father’s Will.
The Father’s Will is the Father’s Way. The Way of truth, beauty, goodness, and love.
UB 1906 Remember this is the sin of these rulers: they say that which is good, but they
do it
not (Then and now).
This technique of deception has been perfected in the art of "spin," the manipulation of perception in total disregard for the truth.
UB 1661 Man should not blame God for those afflictions which are the
natural result
of the life which he chooses to live.
Now consider a few lines from scripture about this topic:
Micah 7:2 The pious are vanished from the land, none
upright are left among men; all
lie in wait to
commit crimes, one traps the other in his net. They are eager to
do evil: The magistrate makes demands, and the
Judge (judges) for a fee; the
rich man makes his crooked plea, and they grant it.
This was written about ancient Israel. However, ends of ages
tend to be the same over and over again. Nations rising and falling, rising and
falling. Does Micah apply to today as well as yesterday? Could America be a
replay of ancient Israel? Witness the O.J. Simpson trial. Lets now return to
finish our study of 1Enoch.
1Enoch
1Enoch 97:1 Woe to them who act impiously, who laud and
honor the word of
falsehood. You have been lost in perdition;
and have never led a
virtuous life.
1Enoch 97:2 Woe to you who change the words of integrity. They transgress against the everlasting decree (John 10:35).
1Enoch 97:3 And cause the heads of those who are not
sinners to be trodden down
upon the earth.
1Enoch 97:4 In
those days you, O ye righteous, shall have been deemed worthy of
having your prayers rise up in remembrance;
and shall have deposited
them
in testimony before the angels, that they might record the sins of
sinners in the presence of the Most High.
1Enoch 97:5 In
those days the nations shall be overthrown; but the families of the
nations shall rise again in the day of perdition (John
5:28-29).
1Enoch 97:6 In
those days they who become pregnant shall go forth, carry off their
children, and forsake them. Their offspring
shall slip from them, and while
suckling them shall they forsake them; they
shall never return to them, and never instruct their beloved.
1Enoch 97:9 But
in those days blessed shall they be, to whom the word of wisdom is
delivered; who point out and
pursue the path of the Most High; who walk
in the way of righteousness, and who act not impiously with the impious.
1Enoch 97:10 They shall be saved.
In 97:9, again we see those who elect God’s will in receipt of wisdom delivered to them
in some manner and means, possibly by the books mentioned ahead.
1Enoch 99:1 In
those days the angels shall descend into places of concealment, and
gather together in one spot all who have
assisted in crime.
1Enoch 99:2 In
that day shall the Most High rise up to execute the great judgment upon
all sinners, and to commit the guardianship
of all the righteous and holy to
the
holy angels, that they may protect them
as the apple of an eye, until
every evil and every crime be annihilated
(five prophets in Bible quoted
Enoch’s "apple of an eye")
(Zechariah.
2:7-8).
1Enoch 99:3 Whether or not the righteous sleep a deep sleep, wise men shall then truly perceive.
1Enoch 99:4 And the sons of the earth shall understand
every word of that book
(which?), knowing that their riches cannot
save them in the ruin of their
crimes.
1Enoch 99:6 Woe to you, ye perverted in heart, who are
watchful to obtain an accurate
knowledge of evil, and to discover terrors.
No one shall assist you.
1Enoch 99:8 And now know ye, that the angels shall
inquire into your conduct in
heaven; of the sun, the moon, and the
stars, shall they inquire respecting
your sins; for upon earth you exercise jurisdiction over the righteous. (but not for much longer)
1Enoch 99:9 Every
cloud shall bear witness against you, the snow, the dew, and the
rain; for all of them shall be withholden from you, that they may not
descend upon you, nor become subservient to your crimes.
In 99:2, the Most High is present for the "great
judgment." The Ancient of Days will also attend because the annihilation
of any being requires his presence and consent. Who else may be present when
Melchizedek is given sovereignty of our planet? Also note in 99:2 the repeated
scriptural promise of divine protection "of all the righteous and
holy" until every "evil and crime is annihilated." Verse 99:9
mentions the withholding of all forms of precipitation from the iniquitous,
again implying a drought in the messianic period. Also note that "all the
sons of the earth" (those who have not chosen God) shall know " all
the words of that book " and will know that their riches will not save
them. What is the identity of "that book"? Could it be 1Enoch itself?
1Enoch 100:1 Attentively consider heaven, all ye progeny
of heaven, and all ye works of
the Most High; fear Him, nor conduct
yourselves criminally before Him.
1Enoch 100:2 If He shut up the windows of heaven, restraining the rain and dew, that it
may not descend upon earth on your account, what will you do?
1Enoch 100:3 And if he send his wrath upon you, and upon
all your deeds, you are not
they who can supplicate Him; for you utter
against his righteousness great
and powerful things. To you there shall be
no peace.
1Enoch 100:4 Do you not see the kings of ship, how their
vessels are tossed about by the
waves, torn to pieces by the winds, and
exposed to the greatest peril?
1Enoch 100:5 That they therefore fear, because their
whole property is embarked with
them on the ocean; and that they forebode
evil in their hearts, because it
may swallow them up, and they may perish in
it?
1Enoch 100:6 Is not the whole sea, all its waters, and
all its commotion, the work of
Him, the Most High; of Him who has sealed
up all its exertions, and
girded it on every side with sand?
1Enoch 100:7 Is it not at his rebuke dried up, and
alarmed; while all its fish with every
thing contained in it die? And will not
you, ye sinners, who are on earth,
fear Him? Is not He the maker of heaven and
earth, and of all things which
are in them? (Job 38th and 39th chapters).
1Enoch 100:8 And who has given erudition and wisdom to
all that move progressive
upon the earth, and over the sea?
1Enoch 100:9 Are not the commanders of ships terrified at
the ocean? And shall not
sinners be terrified at the Most High?
There is no chapter 101.
1Enoch 102:1 In
those days, when He shall cast the calamity of fire upon you, whither
will you fly, and where will you be safe?
1Enoch 102:2 And when He sends forth his word against
you, are you not spared, and
terrified?
1Enoch 102:3 All the luminaries are agitated with great
fear; and all the earth is spared,
while it trembles, and suffers anxiety. (This is a much more hopeful
prospect than the usual destruction.)
1Enoch 102:4 All the angels fulfill the commands received
by them, and are desirous of
being concealed from the presence of the
great Glory; while the children
of the earth are alarmed and troubled.
1Enoch102:5 But you, ye sinners, are for ever accursed;
to you there shall be no peace.
1Enoch 102:6 Fear not, ye souls of the righteous; but
wait with patient hope for the day
of your death in righteousness. Grieve not,
because your souls descend in
great trouble, with groaning, lamentation,
and sorrow, to the receptacle of
the dead. In your lifetime your flesh has
not found according to your
goodness, but in the period of your
existence have sinners existed; in the
period of execration and of punishment.
Many have and many will die in
righteousness.
1Enoch 102:7 And when you die, sinners say concerning
you: As we die, the righteous
die. What profit have they in their works?
Behold, like us, they expire in
sorrow and in darkness. What advantage have
they over us? Hence
forward are we equal. What will they obtain, and what behold for
ever?
For behold they are dead; and never will
they henceforward for ever
perceive the light. I say unto you, ye
sinners: You have been satiated with
meat and drink, with human plunder and
rapine, with sin, with the
acquisition of wealth and with the sight of
good days. Have you not
marked the righteous, how their end is in peace? For no oppression is
found in them even to the day of their
death. They perish, and are as if
they were not, while their souls descend in
trouble to the receptacle of the
dead.
1Enoch 103:1 But now I swear to you, ye righteous, by the
greatness of his splendor and
his glory; by his illustrious kingdom and
by his Majesty, to you I swear,
that I comprehend this mystery; that I have read the tablet of heaven,
have
seen the writing of the holy Ones,
and have discovered what is written and
impressed on it concerning you.
1Enoch 103:2 I have
seen that all goodness, joy, and glory has been prepared for you,
and been written down for the spirits of them who died in righteousness
and in much goodness. To you it shall be given in return for your
troubles;
and your portion of happiness shall far exceed the portion of the
living.
1Enoch 103:3 The
spirits of you who die in righteousness shall exist and rejoice. Their
spirits shall exult; and their remembrance shall be before the face of
the
mighty One from generation to generation.
Nor shall they know fear and disgrace.
1Enoch 103:4 Woe to you, sinners, when you die in your
sins; and they, who are like
you, say respecting you, Blessed are the
sinners. They have seen all their
days; and now they die in goodness and in
wealth. Distress and slaughter
they saw not while alive; in honor they
die; nor ever in their lifetime did
judgment overtake them.
1Enoch 103:6 Woe to you, for to you there shall be no
peace. Neither can you say to the
righteous, and to the good who are alive:
In the days of our trouble have
we been afflicted; every species of trouble
have we seen, and many evil
things have found.
1Enoch 103:7 Our spirits have been consumed,
lessened, and diminished.
1Enoch 103:8 We have perished; nor has there been a
possibility of help for us in
word or in deed; we have found none,
but have been tormented and destroyed.
1Enoch 103:9 We have not expected to see life day
after day.
1Enoch 103:10 We hoped indeed to have been the head
(Isaiah 19:15-16).
1Enoch 103:11 But we have become the tail. We have been
afflicted, when we have
exerted ourselves; but we have been
food for sinners and the ungodly;
their yoke has been heavy upon us.
1Enoch 103:12 Those have exercised dominion over us who
detest and who
goad us;
and to those who hate us have we humbled our neck; but
they have
shewn no compassion towards us.
1Enoch 103:13 We have been desirous of escaping from
them, that we might fly away
and be at rest (Psalms 55:6); but we
have found no place to which we
could fly, and be secure from them. We
have sought an asylum with
princes in our distress, and have
cried out to those who were devouring
us; but our cry has not been regarded,
nor have they been disposed to hear our voice;
1Enoch 103:14 But rather to assist those who plunder
and devour us; those who
diminish us, and hide their
oppression; who remove not their yoke from
us, but devour, enervate, and slay us; who conceal our
slaughter, nor
remember that they have lifted up
their hands against us
(11Corinthians 11:20-30).
Apparently, the "portion of happiness" reserved in
heaven for the righteous who die "far exceeds" the portion who live.
This is comforting to know.
1Enoch 104:1 I swear to you, ye righteous, that in
heaven the angels record your
goodness before the glory of the
mighty One.
1Enoch 104:2 Wait with patient hope; for formerly
you have been disgraced with evil
and with affliction; but now shall you
shine like the 313.luminaries of
heaven. You shall be seen, and the
gates of heaven shall be opened to
you. Your cries have cried for
judgment; and it has appeared to you: for
an account of all your suffering shall
be required from the princes, and
from every one who has assisted your
plunders (Daniel 12:3).
1Enoch 104:3 Wait with patient hope; nor relinquish
your confidence; for great joy
shall be yours, like that of the angels
in heaven. Conduct yourselves as
you may, still you shall not be
concealed in the day of the great
| judgment. You shall not be found like
sinners; and eternal
condemnation shall be far from you
during every generation of the
world.
1Enoch 104:4 And now fear not, ye righteous, when
you see sinners strong and
worthy in their ways.
1Enoch 104:5 Be
not associates with them; but keep yourselves at a distance
from their
oppression; be you associated with the host of heaven.
You, ye
sinners say: All our transgressions shall not be taken
account of, and be recorded. But all your
transgressions shall be
recorded
daily.
1Enoch 104:6 I will shew you that light and
darkness, day and night, behold
all your
transgressions. Be not impious in your thoughts; lie not;
holy and
the mighty One; glorify not your idols; for all your lying
and all
your impiety is not for righteousness, but for great crime.
1Enoch 104:7 Now will I point out a mystery: Many
sinners shall turn and
transgress
against the word of uprightness.
1Enoch 104:8 They shall speak evil things; they
shall utter falsehood; create
a great creation; and compose books in
their own words. But
when they
shall write all my words correctly in their own language,
1Enoch 104:9 They
shall neither change nor diminish them; but shall write
them all correctly; all which from the first I
have uttered concerning
them.
1Enoch 104:10 Another mystery also I point out. To the
righteous and the
wise shall
be given books of joy, of integrity, and of great
wisdom. To
them shall books be given, in which they shall
believe;
1Enoch 104:11 And in which they shall rejoice. And all
the righteous shall be
rewarded, who from these shall
acquire the knowledge of every
upright
path.
In 104:8, Enoch tells us that the words of his writing,
paradoxically will be preserved correctly by the iniquitous ones who translate
his words, despite their otherwise outrageous deceit. And as if in response the
editor here writes in a footnote for this passage: "Despite Enoch’s
mandate, his book was most certainly ‘changed’
and ‘diminished’ by late editors, though these fragments of it have
survived." Were Enoch’s words preserved correctly as Enoch foretellsor
were they ‘changed’ as claimed by the seemingly irritated editor? Personally, I
would bet on Enoch. When God is on your side your chance of winning is always
100%.
In 104:10, Enoch reads from the "tablets of heaven"
about "books of joy, great wisdom, and integrity" which shall be
given to the "righteous and wise" who "from these" books
"shall acquire the knowledge of every upright path." Enoch is
speaking here about the end of the age generation which implies that these
books are made available not until the time period of the end of the age.
1Enoch itself may qualify as one of these books as it was only recently
(nineteenth century)made accessible after: centuries of censorship, attempts to
destroy it, and deep submergence of the text (found only in Ethiopia and also
among the Dead Sea Scrolls). The Dead Sea Scrolls would also qualify as a
recently given source of great wisdom and joy. Finally, of course, is The Urantia Book, which is the
"mother load" of wisdom, joy, and integrity. And it has been indeed a
"gift," as prophesied.
1Enoch 104A:1-2 In
those days, he (Enoch) says:
105:1-2 "The Lord will be patient and cause the
children of the earth
to hear. Reveal it to them with your wisdom,
for you are their
guides; and
you are a reward upon the whole
earth. Until I
and my
Son are united with them in the upright paths in their
lifetime,
and there shall be peace unto you, rejoice you children of
truth.
Amen." (Charlesworth, Pseudoepigrapha)
This important passage addresses the "children of
truth" who have received the "books of wisdom and joy" in the
previous chapter. It tells these individuals to be leaders and guides for
others who will be trying to understand what is happening in the world and in
the kingdom of heaven within and without. These "children of truth"
will be a blessing upon the whole earth especially to those who suffer in
darkness. Note carefully that these people of wisdom are united with "I
and my Son," God and Melchizedek, during their lifetime presumably when
Melchizedek arrives in person.
Chapter 105:1-12 and the first few verses below revisit issues
from before the flood and then begin to speak of the second, messianic time of
transgression, our upcoming end of the age.
1Enoch 105:13 Then I, Enoch, answered and said: The Lord
will effect a new thing
upon the
earth. This have I explained, and seen in a vision. I have
shewn thee
that in the generation of Jared my father, those
who were
from heaven disregarded the word of
the Lord. Behold they committed
crimes; laid aside their class, and intermingled with women. With
them also they transgressed; married
with them, and begot children.
1Enoch 105:14 A great destruction therefore shall come
upon all the earth; a deluge,
a great
destruction shall take place in one year.
1Enoch 105:15 This child which is born to you (Noah)
shall survive on the earth,
and his
three sons shall be saved with him. When all mankind who
are on
earth shall die, he shall be safe. (Time of the flood)
1Enoch 105:16 And his posterity shall beget on the
earth giants, not spiritual,
but carnal.
Upon the earth shall a great punishment be inflicted,
and it
shall be washed from all corruption. Now therefore inform
thy son Lamech that he who is born
is his child in truth; and he
shall call
his name Noah, for he shall be to you a survivor. He
and his
children shall be saved from the corruption which shall
take place
in the world; from all the sin and from all the iniquity
which shall
be consummated on earth in his days. Afterwards
shall
greater impiety take place than that which had been before
consummated
on the earth; for I am acquainted with holy mysteries,
which the
Lord himself has discovered and explained to me; and
which I have
read in the tablets of heaven.
1Enoch 105:17 In them I saw it written, that generation
after generation shall
transgress,
until a righteous race shall arise; until transgression and
crime perish
from off the earth; until all goodness come upon it.
1Enoch 105:21 Another book which Enoch wrote for his
son Methuselah, and
for those
who should come after him, and preserve their state of
life in
the latter days. You, who have labored, shall wait in those
days, until
the evil doers be consumed, and the power of the guilty
be
annihilated. Wait, until sin pass away; for their names shall be
blotted out
of the holy books, their seed shall be destroyed, and
their
spirits slain. They shall cry out and lament in the invisible
waste, and
in the fire shall they burn, where there is no earth.
There I perceived, as it were, a cloud
which could not be seen
through,
for from the depth of it I was unable to look upwards. I
beheld also
a flame of fire blazing bright, and, as it were, glittering
mountains
whirled around, and agitated from side to side.
1Enoch 105:22 Then I inquired of one of the holy angels
who was with me,
and said: What is this splendid
object? For it is not heaven, but
a flame of
fire along which blazes; and in it there is clamour of
exclamation, of woe, and of great suffering.
1Enoch 105:23 He said: There, into that place which
thou beholdest, shall be
thrust the
spirits of sinners and blasphemers; of those who shall
do evil,
and who shall pervert all which God has spoken by the
mouth of
the prophets; all which they ought to do. For respecting
these
things there shall be writings and impressions above in
heaven,
that the angels may read them, and know what shall happen
both to
sinners and to the spirits of the humble; to those who have
suffered in
their bodies, but have been rewarded by God; who have
been injuriously
treated by wicked men; who have loved God; who
have been
attached neither to gold nor silver, nor to any good thing
in the
world, but have given their bodies to torment;
1Enoch 105:24 To those who from the time they were,
have not been covetous of
earthly
riches; but have regarded themselves as a
breath passing away.
1Enoch 105:25 And this have they kept; and much has the Lord tried them;
and their
spirits have been found pure, that they might bless his
name.
All their blessings have I related in a book; and He has
rewarded
them; for they have been found to love heaven with an
everlasting
aspiration. God has said: While they have been
trodden
down by wicked men, they have heard from them revilings
and
blasphemies; and have been ignominiously treated, while they
were
blessing Me. And now will I call the spirits of the good from
the
generation of light, and will change those
who have been born
in darkness;
who have not in their bodies been recompensed with
glory, as
their faith may have merited.
1Enoch 105:26 I will bring them into the splendid light
of those who love my
holy name;
and I will place each of them on a throne of glory, of
glory
peculiarly his own, and they shall be at rest during
unnumbered
periods. Righteous is the Judgment of God
(Matthew 19:28).
1Enoch 105:27 For to the faithful shall He give faith
in the habitation of upright
ways. They
shall see those, who having been born in darkness into
darkness
shall be cast; while the righteous shall be at rest. Sinners
shall cry
out, beholding them, while they exist in splendor and
proceed
forward to the days and periods written down for them.
In 105:13, "Those who were from heaven" probably
refers to the Nephilim or Nodites. Among these are the "sons of God who
cavorted with the daughters of men" (Genesis: 6). In Enoch 10:18, we are
told that the offspring of these "watchers" who fell from heaven are
destroyed in the "last days" judgment because they "have
tyrannized over mankind." 1Enoch thus reveals to us the presence of an
ancient and ongoing "evil race" (? Nodites) who have existed
throughout the history of mankind. And so we can begin to understand the Psalm
"Why do the heathen rage and the nations conspire against the Lord and his
anointed" (Psalms 2). The concept of an evil, world order that attempts to
impose itself over mankind should be studied in detail in our attempt to
understand the forces that are shaping our world situation today. In order to
be the bearers of truth, one must be able to bear ridicule, slander, and
contempt. World government could be a wonderful development and a great benefit
to mankind. However, ask yourself, if our developing world order is really so
beneficial, why has it developed and flourished in secrecy, without public debate and knowledge. There are scores of
international institutions that most of us have never heard of and know nothing
about. Why not? Consider the World Trade Organization so recently in the news.
How many know that this organization represents the interests of the ever-more
powerful international corporate elite who use the political power and auspices
of the United States Government to facilitate and maintain their success. These
interests care nothing about people, jobs, environmental concerns, or equity.
They care only about profit, control, and power. Government has become an arm
of the corporate interest. Is this the world system that we want? How many of
us know that the United States law is being changed by Federal Executive Orders
directly by the President, bypassing Congress, in order to prepare for the day
when the United States Constitution is made subservient to the United Nations
Charter? How many know that the United Nations Charter has no bill of rights
and no protection for the individual against the arbitrary power of the World
State? The Book of Enoch reveals to
us that the core of such "nefarious plans" has ancient roots dating
from the very origins of rebellion on this planet. Is it really surprising to
anyone who understands the Urantia Book that
our developing world system has points of contact with the same forces of evil
which ‘conspired’ to bring to an end
the life of the Son of Man. However, it would be a mistake to give these
"principalities" of evil too much credit. Mankind itself bears the
greatest burden of blame, for without its willing assistance, such
principalities could have no power and no influence. The kingdom of heaven
within, established in each and every heart, is the only true antidote for the
evil, sin, and iniquity that are present in our world today that acts under the
guise of good will. If we don’t recognize this deceitful aspect of our world,
we will become its victims. Consider the following quotes which have been
chosen from the website www.thewinds.org in
regard to this secretly operating power elite:
The Power Elite
From the days of Spartians Wieshophf, Karl Marx,
Trotski, Belacoon,
Rosa Luxenberg, and
Emma Goldman, this world conspiracy played a
definite role in the
tragedy of the French Revolution. It has been the
mainspring of every subversive movement of the
nineteenth century. And
now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the
underworld
of the great cities
of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people
by the hair on their
head and have become the undisputed masters of that
enormous empire.
(Winston Churchill stated to London press in 1922.)
The World is governed by very different
personages from what is imagined
by those who are not
behind the scenes. (Benjamin Disraeli, First
Prime Minister of
England, 1844)
The real rulers in Washington are invisible and
exercise power from behind
the scenes. (U.S.
Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter)
The real menace of our Republic is the
invisible government which like a
giant octopus sprawls
its slimy legs over our cities states and nation.
(John F. Hylan, Mayor
of New York, 1918-1925.)
The real truth of the matter is, as you and I
know, that a financial element
in the large centers
has owned the government of the U.S. since the day of
Andrew Jackson.
(President Franklin D. Roosevelt in a letter dated
November 21, 1933.)
The Trilateral commission is the
international…[It] is intended to be the
vehicle for
multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking
interests by seizing control
of the political government of the United
States. The
Trilateral Commission represents a skillful, coordinated effort
to seize control and
consolidate the four centers of power – POLITICAL,
MONETARY,
INTELLECTUAL, and ECCLESIASTICAL. (U.S.
Senator Barry
Goldwater, Republican candidate for President, 1964, in
his book, "With
no Apologies")
One may ask why there hasn’t been more press coverage of such a
well-established movement. How have its antagonists been so effectively
excoriated, ridiculed, and labeled as crackpots? For those who think that the
"Free Press" is free and uncontrolled, consider the following:
We are grateful to the Washington Post, The New
York Times, Time
Magazine and other
great publications whose directors have attended our
meetings and
respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years.
It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if
we had been subject
to the bright lights of publicity during those years.
But, the world is now
more sophisticated and prepared to march towards
a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite
and world bankers is
surely preferable to the national auto determination
[read that
"democracy"] practiced in past centuries. (David Rockefeller,
founder of the
aforementioned Trilateral Commission, in an address
to a meeting of that
organization in June of 1991.)
There is no such thing, at this date of the
world’s history, in America, as
an independent press.
You know it and I know it. There is not one of
you who dares to
write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know
beforehand that it
would never appear in print. I am paid
weekly for
keeping my honest
opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of
you are paid similar
salaries for similar things, and any of you who would
be so foolish as to
write honest opinions would be out on the streets
looking for another
job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one
issue of my paper,
before twenty-four hours my occupation would be
gone. The business of the journalists is to
destroy the truth; to lie
outright; to pervert;
to vilify; to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his
country and his race
for his daily bread. You know it and I know it and
what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are
tools and vassals
of rich men behind
the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the
strings and we dance.
Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the
property of other
men. We are intellectual prostitutes. (John Swinton,
former Chief of Staff
of the most powerful and prestigious
newspaper on earth,
The New York Times, when asked to give a toast
to the "free
press" at the New York Press Club.)
The media looks for minor details to report on –
‘what the Group of 7
Finance ministers had
for dinner’ – instead of concentrating on the fact that
they are orchestrating the whole global economic,
environmental,military,
and political
infrastructure of the world. (Joan Veon, Financial advisor
and international
journalist.)
With all
the significant statements and famous names sitting at the final
press briefing, they
(most reporters) sat there all calm, cool, and collected.
A few of us who were
concerned and wanted to understand their (UN)
agenda had our tape
recorders going and were writing as fast and furiously
as possible. There
they (mainline reporters) sat with their 3x5 cards,
occasionally writing
a word. I watched them and couldn’t believe it. No
wonder we don’t know the truth about what is going
on in these
conferences. (Joan
Veon, attending the 1994 United Nations Conference
on Population and
Development in Cairo.)
When returning home after each conference I
attend, I check the
newspaper’s report
and, believe me, what the media reports
is absolute
nonsense. The
entire world infrastructure is being changed at these
conferences. Each
conference has a piece of the big puzzle, and we don’t
even know our left
foot from our right when it comes to understanding
what’s going on. The version of the news we view is a
carefully crafted
design described as
DECEIT, DISTORTION and DECEPTION. They
have an agenda that
they do not want you and me, Joe Average, to
understand. When they
have all the pieces in place, when they have all the
power that they need
to effect this global agenda, then we will find out,
like the people of
Czechoslovakia, when it’s too late. (Joan Veon)
The western media
have neglected their questioning role. He sees the
media’s role as
producing consensus within the public towards the ruling
elites in government
and business. The media’s current mission is to
ensure that any
thought of controlling their destiny must be driven from
the minds of the
rascal multitude. (Professor Noam Chomsky views the
media as an
ideological system serving the powerful elites in society.)
Most of us are solely informed by the newspaper and television
news. Most of us are not aware of the tremendous deceptions that we operate
under. The "elite" have long ago learned how to manipulate value
systems and ideas through the use of government regulated public education
systems and through the various media available. Consider the following:
Those who manipulate
the organized habits and opinions of the masses
constitute an
invisible government which is the true ruling power of the
country…It remains a
fact that in almost every act of our daily lives,
whether in the sphere
of politics or business, in our social conduct or our
ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small
number of
persons…It is
they who pull the wires which control the public mind,
who harness old
social forces and contrive new ways to bind and guide the
world…As civilization
has become more complex, and as the need for
invisible government
has been increasingly demonstrated, the
technical
means have been
invented and developed by which opinion may be
regimented.(Edward
Bernays in his book Propaganda (1928).
Bernays
was Sigmund Freud’s
nephew and chief advisor to William Paley, who
started CBS in 1928.)
Above this race of men stand an immense and tutelary power, which takes
upon itself alone to secure their gratifications and to
watch over their
fate…After having
thus successively taken each member of the
community in its
powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the supreme
power then extends its arm over the whole
community…The will of man
is not shattered, but
softened, bent, and guided…It does not tyrannize, but
it compresses,
enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each
nation is reduced to
nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious
animals, of which the
government is the shepherd. (Alexis De
Tocqueville in Democracy in America, 1840.)
The
bewildered herd are a problem. We’ve got to prevent their rage and
trampling. We’ve got
to distract them. They should be watching the
Superbowl or sitcoms
or violent movies or something. Every once in a
while you call on
them to chant meaningless slogans like ‘Support Our
Troops’, and you’ve
got to keep them pretty scared because unless
they’re scared
properly and frightened of all kinds of devils that are going
to destroy them from
outside or inside or somewhere, they may start to
think, which is very
dangerous because they’re not competent
to think, and
therefore it’s
important to distract and to marginalize them. (Noam
Chomsky, on the Power
Elite’s conception of democracy in America.)
Assemble a mob of men and women previously
conditioned by a daily
reading of the
newspapers; treat them to amplified band music, bright
lights…and in next to
no time you can reduce them to a state of almost
mindless sub
humanity. Never before have so few been
in a position to
make fools, maniacs, or
criminals of so many. (Aldous Huxley in The
Devils of Loudon.)
I think the subject which will be of most
importance politically is mass
psychology…Although
this science will be diligently studied, it will be
rigidly confined to
the governing class. The populace will
not be
allowed to know
how its convictions were generated. (Bertrand
Russell in The Impact of Science on Society.)
The man
who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he
who reads them
insomuch as he who knows nothing is nearer the truth
than he whose mind is
filled with falsehoods and errors. (Thomas
Jefferson)
These are the voices of highly respected individuals of great
intelligence, many of them now of legendary stature. Such voices, independently
attesting to the same truths, must be taken with utmost respect and consideration.
Manipulation and control of values, attitudes, and ideas is much in evidence
during our daily lives and are the only evidence necessary to confirm the
reality of these statements. But one can not see what one is not aware of.
There is an alternate media growing up on the internet, which
portrays the other unreported side of events. One must sift, judge, and
correlate all the available facts before making an interpretation.
Next,we focus on our corrupt financial system, which is a
direct descendent of the one developed in Babylon four thousand years ago.
I see in the near future a crisis approaching
that unnerves me and causes
me to tremble for the
safety of my country. As a result of the war,
corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high
places
will follow, and
the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong
its reign by working
upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is
aggregated in a few hands, and the Republic is
destroyed. I feel at this
moment more anxiety
for the safety of my country than ever before, even
in the midst of war.
(Abraham Lincoln – in a letter written to William
Elkin less than five
months before he was assassinated.)
When plunder becomes a way of life for a group
of men living together
in society, they
create for themselves in the course of time, a legal system
that authorizes it
and a moral code that glorifies it. (Frederick Bastiat –
1801-1850, in Economic Sophisms.)
The
Power Elite
If the American people ever allow private banks
to control the issue of
their money, first by
inflation and then by deflation, the banks and
corporations that
will grow up around [the banks], will deprive the
people of their
property until their children will wake up homeless on
the continent their
fathers conquered. (Thomas Jefferson)
The system of banking [is] a blot left in all
our Constitutions, which,
if not covered, will
end in their destruction…I sincerely believe that
banking institutions
are more dangerous than standing armies; and that
the principle of
spending money to be paid by posterity…is but swindling
futurity on a large
scale. (Thomas Jefferson)
A great industrial nation is controlled by its
system of credit. Our system
of credit is
concentrated. The growth of the Nation
and all our activities
are in the hands of a
few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled,
one of the most
completely controlled and dominated Governments in the
world – no longer a
Government of free opinion no longer a Government
by conviction and
vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion
and duress of small groups of dominant men. (Woodrow
Wilson)
Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had
men’s views confided to me
privately. Some of
the biggest men in the U.S., in the field of commerce
and manufacturing,
are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They
know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so
subtle, so watchful,
so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not
speak
above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
(Woodrow Wilson – in The New Freedom)
The fact is that there is a serious danger of
this country becoming a
pluto-democracy; that
is, a sham republic with the real
government in
the hands of a small
clique of enormously wealthy men, who speak
through their money, and whose influence,
even today, radiates to every
corner of the United
States. (William McAdoo – President Wilson’s
national campaign
vice-chairman, wrote in Crowded Years,
1974.)
This is a
government of the people, by the people and for the people
no longer. It is a
government of corporations, by corporations, and for
corporations. (U.S.
President Rutherford B. Hayes)
The powers of financial capitalism had (a) far-reaching aim, nothing
less than to create a world system of financial control in
private hands
able to dominate the
political system of each country and the economy
of the world as a whole. This system was to be
controlled in a feudalist
fashion by the central banks of the world acting in
concert, by secret
agreements arrived at
in frequent meetings and conferences. The apex
of the systems was to
be the Bank for International Settlements
in Basel,
Switzerland, a
private bank owned and controlled by the world’s central
banks, which were themselves private corporations. Each central
bank…sought to dominate its government by its
ability to control Treasury
loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to
influence the level of economic
activity in the country, and to influence
cooperative politicians by subsequent
economic rewards in the business world. (Prof.
Carroll Quigley in Tragedy
and Hope)
In a small Swiss city sits an international
organization so obscure and
secretive…Control of
the institution, the Bank for International
Settlements, lies
with some of the world’s most powerful and least
visible men: the
heads of 32 central banks, officials able to shift billions
of dollars and alter
the course of economies at the stroke of a pen. (Keith
Bradsher of the New
York Times, August 5, 1995)
Banking was conceived in iniquity and was born
in sin. The Bankers
own the earth.
Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create
deposits, and with
the flick of the pen they will create enough deposits to buy
It back again. However, take it away from them,
and all the great fortunes
like mine will disappear and they ought to
disappear, for this would be a
happier and better world to live in. But, if you
wish to remain the slaves of
Bankers
and pay the cost of your own slavery, let
them continue to create
deposits. (Sir Josiah Stamp - President of the
Bank of England in the 1920's,
and the second richest man in Britain.)
[The Great Depression resulting from the Stock Market crash] was not
accidental. It was a carefully contrived occurrence…The international
bankers sought to
bring about a condition of despair here so they might
emerge as rulers of us all. (Rep. McFadden testified in
Congress, 1933.
There were at least
two attempts on his life by gunfire. He died of
suspected poisoning
after attending a banquet.)
The Federal Reserve [Banks] are one of the most
corrupt institutions
the world has ever
seen. There is not a man within the sound of my
voice who does not
know that this Nation is run by the
International
Bankers. (Rep. Louis McFadden) \
History shows that the money changers have used every form of
abuse,intrigue, deceit and violent means possible to maintain control over
governments by controlling the money and the
issuance of it.
(President,James A. Madison)
Power Elite
Permit me to issue and control the money of a
nation and I care not who
makes the laws…(Mayer
Amschel Rothschild, 1744-1812)
Give me control over a man’s economic actions,
and hence over his
means of survival,
and except for a few occasional heroes, I’ll promise
to deliver to you men
who think and write and behave as I want them
to. (Benjamine A.
Rooge)
The few who can understand the system (Federal
Reserve) will be so
interested in its
profits, or so dependent on its favors, that there will be
no opposition from that class, while on the
other hand, the great body
of the people
mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous
advantage that
capital derives from the system, will bear its burdens
without complaint, and perhaps without even suspecting that the system is
inimical to their
interests. (Rothschild Brothers of London)
[The] abandonment of the gold standard made it
possible for the welfare
statists to use the banking system as a means to an
unlimited expansion of
credit…Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the
‘hidden’ confiscation of
wealth. Gold stands in the way of
this insidious process. It stands as a
protector of property
rights. (Alan Greenspan [now Fed Chairman] wrote in
1966)
I believe that banking institutions are more
dangerous to our liberties than
Standing
armies. Already they have raised up a monied aristocracy that has
set the Government at defiance. The issuing
power should be taken from the
banks and restored to the people to whom it
properly belongs. I consider the
foundation of the Constitution as laid on this
ground that "all powers not
delegated to the United States are delegated to
the state…" To take a single
step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn
around the powers of
Congress is to take possession of a boundless
field of power, no longer
susceptible of any definition. The incorporation of a bank, and the powers
assumed by this bill (chartering the first Bank
of the United States), have not,
been delegated to the United States by the
Constitution.
(President Thomas Jefferson)
The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires
against it in
times of adversity. It is more despotic than
monarchy, more
insolent than autocracy, more selfish
than bureaucracy. It denounces,
as public enemies,
all who question its methods or throw light upon its
crimes. (Abraham
Lincoln)
Our financial system is a fraud; it is a deceptive way to
transfer wealth from the working man to the banker. Everything not based on a
foundation of integrity, honesty, and sincerity will collapse of its own
weight. To build an enduring social system, mans way must become first God’s
way.
Is this what will happen to our financial system and our
financial assets?
Nostradamus Treasure is placed in a Temple by Western citizens
10Q81 Withdrawn there to a secret place:
The Temple opened by hungry bonds
Recaptured,
ravished, a terrible prey in their midst.
The treasure is "treasuries" or financial assets in
general. The Temple is the bank. The bank
is our Temple where we worship money and wealth. "Where your treasure
is, there will be your heart also." (Gospels) We’ve replaced God and His
grace with money and wealth as our object of worship. Our God is money.
Financial assets are brought to a secret place where the assets are borrowed
against and leveraged into risky investments by the bankers. Debt eventually
implodes (symbolized by "hungry bonds") and the assets are
"ravished," becoming worthless.
There is a book Secrets
of the Temple, by William Greider, 1987, which exposes this Federal Reserve
System.
The Federal Reserve System was the crucial
anomaly at the very core
of representative
democracy, an uncomfortable contradiction with the
civic mythology of
self-government. Yet the American system accepted
the inconsistency.
The Community of elected politicians acquiesced to
its power. The
private economy responded to its direction. Private
capital depended on
it for protection. The governors of the Federal
Reserve decided the
largest questions of the political economy, including
who shall prosper and
who shall fail, yet their role remained
opaque and
mysterious. The
Federal Reserve was shielded from scrutiny partly by
its own official secrecy, but also by the curious ignorance of the American
public. (Secrets of the Temple, pg. 12)
Money was like the sacred totem in a primitive culture, a mysterious
object that
efficiently expressed the larger social reality. In the American
culture formed by
democratic capitalism, money was the
sacred totem.
The common faith shared by Americans was secular rationalism and
the
social order was
defined by the scientific abstractions surrounding money.
Yet religious mystery was still required – priests and ritual,
sacred secrets
that sustained
belief.
If one understood money’s secrets, the true
nature of the American
social reality was made plain. Money revealed
compromised ideals in
the civic order.
Limitations were imposed on the idea of democracy and
sovereign citizens
passively accepted them. Money defined the social
hierarchy, the rank
ordering of citizens, which valued some above others.
Money expressed the
culture’s deepest longings and obsessions, the fretful
belief that a dead substance could somehow
confer immortal life on those
who
accumulated it. Money was a living creed in
American life, as Veblen
said, a more convincing realty than human toil
or material needs or the
tenuous things of the human spirit.
If the
secrets of the temple were revealed, the money mystery would
dissolve and people
would have to look upon these things directly. Taboos
uncoded lost their
power to persuade. Americans would see the full terms that
bound them together
as a society, the deals that were made in their name and
The harsh rituals. They would stand before the
awesome authority to which
Free
citizens deferred. They would know at last what it was they really
Believed in.
The mystery was necessary, therefore, to sustain
social faith. Knowledge was
disturbing. Not
knowing the secrets was reassuring. If Americans were afraid
to look inside the
temple, perhaps it was because they feared to see the
truth about
themselves. (Secrets of the Temple,
pg. 716-717,William Greider)
Notice the title of Mr. Greider’s book and compare it to the
quatrain by Nostradamus.
Now consider the presently reigning world system and world
religion – secular humanism. (Also see Secular Humanism after Isaiah 47,
Chapter Isaiah). Government by the elite substitutes for God and is the answer
to every need and every problem. The High Priest is replaced by the scientist
who knows all, explains all, and who conquers all. Man has put his trust and
faith in "science" and in government. God doesn’t seem to be
necessary. Man is the measure of all things. Man can succeed on his own, with
his own brain and his own laws and his own values. Gone are the moral
strictures, gone are the Ten Commandments, gone are right and wrong, gone are
accountability, responsibility, and duty. Now we are told – if it feels good,
do it! You owe it to yourself. You are entitled. Consider again:
To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of
men their individualism, loyalty to family tradition,
national patriotism,
and religious dogmas…We have swallowed all manner
of poisonous
certainties fed us by
our parents, our Sunday and day school teachers, our
politicians, our
priest…The reinterpretation and eventual
eradication of
the concept of right
and wrong which has been the basis of child training,
the substitution of
intelligent and rational thinking for faith in the
certainties of old
people, these are the belated objectives…for
charting the
changes in human
behavior.(Brock Chislholm, 1959 Humanist of the
Year and former head
of World Health Organization, in the February
1946 issue of Psychiatry.)
One
cannot permit submission to parental authority if one wished to bring
centralized regime must mount a vigorous attack on the family lest the
traditions of present
generations be preserved. It is necessary, in other
words, artificially
to create an experiential chasm between parents and
children to insulate
the latter in order that they can more easily be
indoctrinated with new ideas. The desire may be to cause an even
more
total submission to
the state, but if one wishes to mold children in order to
achieve some future
goal, one must begin to view them as superior, in as
much as they are closed
to this future goal. One must also study their
needs with care in
order to achieve this difficult preparation for the future.
One must teach them not to respect their tradition-bound elders, who
are
tied to the past and know only
what...(Philip Slater in The Temporary
Society, 1968)
I
am convinced that the battle for humankind’s future must be waged and
won in the public school classroom by teachers who
correctly view their
role as the
proselytizers of a new faith…The classroom must and will
become an arena of
conflict between the old and the new; the
rotting
corpse of
Christianity, together with all its adjacent evils and misery,
and the new faith of Humanism…(The Official
Journal of the
American Humanist
Association, 1983)
Every child in America entering school at the age of five is insane
because he comes to school with certain allegiances toward
our founding
fathers, toward our
elected officials, toward his parents, toward a belief
in a supernatural
being, toward the sovereignty of this nation as a separate
entity. It’s up to
you as teachers to make all these sick children well, by
creating the
international children of the future. (Dr. C.M. Pierce of
Harvard University in
a speech to teachers, 1973)
…the first condition for the liberation of the
wife is to bring the whole
female sex back into
public industry, and this in turn demands the
abolition of the
monogamous family as the economic unit of
society…With the
transfer of the means of production into common
ownership, the single
family ceases to be the economic unit of society.
Private housekeeping
is transformed into a social industry. The care and
education of the
children becomes a public affair; society looks after all
children alike,
whether they are legitimate of not. This removes all anxiety
about the
‘consequences,’ which today is the most essential social – moral
as well as economic –
factor that prevents a girl from giving herself
completely to the man
she loves. Will not that suffice to bring about the
gradual growth of unconstrained sexual
intercourse and with it a more
tolerant public
opinion in regard to a maiden’s honor and a woman’s
shame? (Friedrich
Engels, colleague of Karl Marx, wrote in his work
The Origin of the Family, late 1800’s).
Think slowly about Friedrich Engels’ quote above from the late
1800's. How is it that every single statement has become or is becoming
reality? One answer is that he was a great prophet. Another answer is that this
well thought out system has been implemented knowingly and purposefully, to
achieve certain goals. How clever! Fortunately, this blueprint for human
society fails to take into account the indomitable strength of the human spirit,
bestowed by God. And we have been told by Daniel of the Old Testament, that a
rock, not made by human hands, is destined to crush all such man made
"kingdoms." This rock or stone
is the foundation stone of the kingdom of heaven, the spiritual partnership
between God and man, Father and son.(The preceding quotes were taken from
the website www.thewinds.org.)
Our public schools continue to fail to educate. Is it really a
coincidence that our citizens are so poorly informed that they don’t realize
they are loosing their rights and that the constitution that protects them is
being progressively subverted. What we don’t know, will hurt us unfortunately. We are comfortable, we have what we
want and that is all we really care about. Nevertheless, those who seek control
over others are in a desperate, doomed to fail, last ditch effort to further
their own ends. They are allowed by God to proceed only as an instrument to
perfect those who would do God’s will and stand against the tide. When their
(the power elite) function is complete, they will be removed from power;
forever.
Now, lets look at a few quotes about our political system. In
another book by William Greider, Who Will
Tell the People, 1992, the author tells us the truth about our broken
democratic process:
The blunt message of this book is that American
democracy is in
much deeper trouble
than most people wish to acknowledge. Behind
the reassuring
facade, the regular election contests and so forth, the
substantive meaning
of self-government has been hollowed out. What
exists behind the
formal shell is a systemic breakdown of the shared civic
values we call
democracy.
Citizens
are cut out of the politics surrounding the most important
governing questions.
The representative system has undergone a grotesque
distortion of its
original purpose. The connective tissues that in different
ways once linked
ordinary people to governing—political parties, the
media, the secondary
mediating institutions—no longer function reliably.
At the highest levels of government, the power
to decide things has
instead gravitated
from the many to the few, just as ordinary citizens
suspect. Instead of
popular will, the government now responds more
often to narrow webs
of power—the interests of major economic
organizations and
concentrated wealth and the influential elites
surrounding them.
These organizations and individuals manage to shape
the largest outcomes
to the extent anyone does, while they neutralize or
deflect what ordinary
people think and believe.
In place of a meaningful democracy, the
political community has
embraced a permissive
culture of false appearances. Government responds
to the public’s
desires with an artful dance of symbolic gestures--hollow
laws that are emptied
of serious content in the private bargaining of
Washington. Promises
are made and never kept. Laws are enacted and
never enforced. When
ordinary people organize themselves to confront
the deception, they
find themselves too marginalized to make much
difference. Many
citizens, especially those closest to power, will be
reflexively inclined
to resist this diagnosis. Partisans typically claim
that the governing
problems can be blamed on the people now in
power—either
Republicans in the White House or the Democrats who
control Congress.
Others will observe that, whatever obvious flaws now
exist, American
democracy has always been afflicted by large
imperfections and
contradictions. Both claims are narrowly correct, of
course, but they are
also ways to evade the present reality. The
roots of
democratic decay, as
this inquiry will demonstrate, are deeper than
personalities or
parties and the familiar ideological arguments; the system
will not be cured by
an election or two that change the officers of
government. Furthermore,
the nature of the civic breakdown is peculiar to
our own time,
reflecting our contemporary conditions and failures; the
questions cannot be
answered by reciting the shortcomings of previous eras.
Another reason why the actual condition of
democracy is difficult to
grasp is that the
form and facade of self-government remain elaborately in
place and
functioning. In fact, the mechanics of electoral democracy are
not more highly
developed (and more costly) than at any other time in
history. Collectively
American voters will select more than five hundred
thousand people to
represent them in the public’s business, from local
sewer commissions to
the White House. The results, as everyone know,
are so unsatisfying
that the active electorate has been steadily shrinking for
a generation and
"reforming" elections has become a major preoccupation
of public-spirited
debate. The self-correcting mechanisms of politics are no
longer working. Most
of them are still in place and functioning but, for the
most part, do not
produce the expected results. Some of the mechanisms
have disappeared entirely. Instead of a
politics that leads the society
sooner or later to
confront its problems, American politics has
developed new ways to
hide from them. If these connections between
the governed and the government are destroyed, if citizens
can no longer
believe in the
mutuality of the American experience, the country may
descend into a new
kind of social chaos and political unraveling, unlike
anything we have
experienced before. But, if the voters have only weak
influence over those
govern then who does influence them? That is the
question neither
political party will discuss with any candor, but citizens
at large have
inferred the answer. "The government
is pretty much run by
a few big interests
looking out for themselves." A generation later, this
resigned view of
politics was held by two thirds of the people. In fact,
while congress is
most visible in this arena, the legislators are often only
peripheral players.
The well-placed officers of the Executive Branch, as
the facts will show,
do the same sort of work every day on behalf of their
clients but with more
influence over the outcomes and much less risk of
exposure.
The result
is random law enforcement, so subject to political
manipulation that it creates a kind of lawless
government in which the
weakest players, like
injured industrial workers, are left to defend
themselves against
the more powerful violators. Grand pronouncements on
toxic wastes and
other problems designed to sound responsive to the
public, but also
designed to be neutered or neglected later in the dense
details of the
regulatory government. In this realm, meaningless laws exist,
not just for years,
but for decades, and the political action never ends.
In sum, from Congress
to the White House to the federal courts, there
is no protected
ground for citizens—no corner of the political system that
faithfully defends
their interests or even tells them the truth about what is
happening. (William
Greider, Who Will Tell the People,
1992)
We now return to the end of 1Enoch and change topics. The word
"peculiar" in 105:26 is a peculiar word and is used several times in
scripture. Let’s have a look at this word: ( Bible verses are from The Amplified Bible)
Peculiar
1Enoch 105:26 I will bring them into the splendid light
of those who love my holy
name; and I
will place each of them on a throne of glory, of glory
peculiarly his own, and they shall be at
rest during unnumbered
periods.
Righteous is the Judgment of God (Matthew. 19:28)
Exodus 19:5 Now therefore if you will obey My
voice in truth and keep My
covenant,
then you shall be My own peculiar
possession and
treasure from
among and above all the peoples; for all the earth
is mine.
Psalm 135:4 For the Lord has chosen the
descendants of Jacob for Himself,
Israel for His peculiar possession and treasure.
Titus 2:14 Who gave Himself (Jesus) on our
behalf that He might redeem us
(Christians) From all iniquity and
purify for Himself a people to
be peculiarly His own, people who are eager and enthusiastic
about living a life that is good
and filled with beneficial deeds.
1Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen race, a royal
priesthood, a dedicated nation, a
peculiar people, that you may
set forth the wonderful deeds and
display the virtues and perfections
of Him Who called you out of
darkness into his marvelous light.
Deuteronomy. 19:1-2 You are the sons of the Lord your God; You shall not cut
yourselves or make any baldness on your
forehead for the dead,
For you are a holy people set apart to
the Lord your God; and The
Lord has chosen you to be a peculiar people to Himself, above all
the nations on earth.
These "peculiar" people are identified as the House of Israel in the Old Testament, the end-time elect of Enoch, and Christians by Paul and 1Peter in the New Testament. This is the lineage of the elect from Ancient Israel (Joseph), to the Lost Ten Tribes, to the identified Lost Ten Tribes as Christians, and from Christians to the end-time elect of 1Enoch, those who elect to do God's will during the messianic trial period. These people are peculiar because they take pleasure in following God’s will and giving His goodness to those they meet. Normal is "peculiar" on our upside down world.