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Enoch
Chapter 68:1 And after that my grandfather Enoch gave me the teaching of all
the secrets in the book in the Parables which had been given to him, and he
put them together for me in the words of the book 2 of the Parables. And on
that day Michael answered Raphael and said: “The power of the spirit
transports and makes me to tremble because of the severity of the judgement
of the secrets, the judgement of the angels: who can endure the severe
judgement which has been executed, and before 3 which they melt away?” And
Michael answered again, and said to Raphael: ‘Who is he whose heart is not
softened concerning it, and whose reins are not troubled by this word of
judgement 4 (that) has gone forth upon them because of those who have thus
led them out? ‘And it came to pass when he stood before the Lord of Spirits,
Michael said thus to Raphael: ‘I will not take their part under the eye of
the Lord; for the Lord of Spirits has been angry with them because they do 5
as if they were the Lord. Therefore all that is hidden shall come upon them
for ever and ever; for neither angel nor man shall have his portion (in it),
but alone they have received their judgement for ever and ever. Placing Sources in Proper
Context The above examples are clear
evidence that sources must be viewed in their proper context. Revelation uses
many symbols also used in the book of Enoch, a book that is omitted from the
Bible. James, brother of Christ and Jude, was the head of the Jerusalem
church and wrote the book of James. The above gives more meaning
to the burial spot of the disciples Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Christ. His
grave is linked with a “potter’s field”, a place of red clay called Akeldama
(Haceldama), on the south face of the Valley of Hinnom (Ennom or Gehenna), outside
the southern wall of Mount Sion. Another burial there belongs to Absalom,
King David’s rebellious son. Hinnom was a place where
children were burned and sacrificed to Moloch and where King Josiah burned
false idols. The bones and rubbish
accumulated there formed a bed from ten to fifteen feet thick before the
crusaders of Constantine and Empress Helena. The valleys of Hinnom and
Kidron joined south of Solomon’s temple and flowed eastward into the
Wilderness of Judea and the Dead Sea. This ravine is associated with the
temptation of Christ by Satan on the temple mount, the followers of Azazel,
the Abyss, and the “bottomless pit”. The temple was on the west side of the
Kidron, and the Mount of Olives was on the east. Context of Kidron Valley and
Mt. Olivet Ancient beliefs can be used
to prove lots of present beliefs. Some say the world must be flat because the
Bible says the earth has four corners. First century Jews and Arabs
were looking for “the signs”. If Hezekiah’s water tunnel could flow through
Jerusalem into the Kidron Valley and out to the Dead Sea, so the Messiah will
return and split the Mount of Olives in half (Zechariah 14:4) to widen the
Kidron Valley and cause Living Waters to flow into the Dead Sea and heal it. |
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