Welcome back to the deep dive. Get ready, because
today we're plunging into a really unique piece
of ancient literature. That's right. We're working
from the source material you provided us, which
is excerpts from The Secrets of Enoch. Now, this
isn't a text most people know offhand. No, definitely
not. but it gives this fascinating kind of non
-canonical look at themes we think we know really
well, you know, creation, the fall, judgment,
the whole cosmic setup. And our mission here
in this deep dive is basically to go through
this text together. We're not just summarizing,
we're really digging, trying to un... Earth,
the most, well, surprising details and insights
in your source material. Like digging for hidden
treasure, really. Exactly. And there are definitely
some treasures here. We'll get into things like
the unbelievably specific recipe for making a
human being and the exact target of God's curse
after the fall, which might surprise you. Then
there's Enoch himself, how he was transformed,
and some really unexpected bits about animals,
stars, even the weather. Okay, let's unpack this.
Where should we start? Right at the beginning,
I guess. With this text's really unique take
on creation. Yeah, let's do that. It sort of
jumps into the creation account, picking up around
day three. It covers the familiar stuff, earth,
trees, hills, seeds appearing. Standard enough,
yeah. But then it adds this really striking detail.
Paradise was planted, sure. But crucially, it
was enclosed and guarded by flaming angels. Flaming
angels? Okay, wow. That immediately gives the
garden a whole different feel, doesn't it? More
intense than just, like, a fence. Absolutely.
A different kind of boundary. So what about day
four? The lights, the celestial bodies? The text
gets incredibly specific there, I remember. It
really does. It talks about great lights set
on heavenly circles. And it names them. using
names that sound, well, pretty different from
typical biblical accounts. We see names like
Cruno, Aphrodite, Eris, Zeus, Hermes. assigned
to specific circles. These aren't names you usually
hear in this context. No. It suggests some really
interesting cultural crosscurrents influencing
the text itself. Yeah. You know. So it's not
just the sun, moon, and stars in a general sense.
It's like a mapped, ordered cosmos. Specific
entities, specific places. Exactly. The sun for
the day, the moon, and lesser stars for night.
Yeah. And the sun follows a path according to
12 animals. 12 animals. What's that about? Sounds
like. It seems to be an ancient reference to
the zodiac signs. Yeah. Showing how astronomical
observation was woven into this particular cosmology.
Huh. And the text links the sun's path through
these signs directly to, like, the months and
seasons. Right. To the succession, names, lives,
thunderings, even the hour markings of the months
is all appointed. Okay, moving on. Day five,
the living creatures. The sea brings forth fishes,
feathered birds, many varieties. Land brings
creeping animals, four legs, and also things
soaring in the air. Male and female. Both male
and female created, yes. And the text makes a
point of saying every soul is breathing the spirit
of life. And then we get to the climax, day six.
Man, and this is where the secrets of Enoch gives
us that almost like alchemical formula, seven
consistencies. This list is just, it's wild.
Flesh from earth, okay. Blood from dew, eyes
from the sun, bones from stone, intelligence
from the swiftness of angels and from cloud.
Angels and cloud, wow. Veins and hair from grass,
and then the soul from God's breath and the wind.
Blood from dew, eyes from the sun, intelligence
from angels and cloud. I mean, that's a far cry
from just being made of dust, isn't it? Oh, absolutely.
What does this incredible mix of ingredients
earthly, cosmic, divine tell us about how this
text sees human nature? Well, it presents humanity
as this kind of microcosmos, right? Drawing elements
from literally every sphere of creation. The
solid earth, the sky, you know, dew, cloud, weaned
the heavens with the sun and angels and the divine
itself with God's breath. So we're not just earthly
creatures. Not at all. We're intrinsically linked
right down to our physical makeup to the whole
visible and invisible universe. And man gets
seven natures too. functions. Yeah. And they
seem to correlate with those consistencies, flesh
for hearing, eyes for sight, soul for smell,
veins for touch, blood for taste, bones for endurance,
and intelligence for sweetness, which seems to
mean enjoyment or pleasure. So our very senses,
our capacities are tied back to these cosmic
origins. The text says, man is created from invisible
and visible nature. Death, life, image, they
come from both. He knows speech. And then there's
that phrase, small in greatness, And again, great
and smallness. What do you make of that? Hmm.
It seemed to capture that paradox of humanity,
you know, physically tiny in the grand scheme
of things, but with this immense potential. Potential
for greatness. Yeah. Through intelligence, that
connection to the divine and the rulership he's
given. He's put on earth as a second angel, it
says. Honorable, great, glorious, appointed ruler
with God's wisdom, none like him on earth. And
his name, Adam, even comes from the four directions
east, west, south, north. And four special stars
appointed just for him. Right. And he was shown
the two ways, light and darkness, so he could
learn whether he had love or hatred for God.
The text adds something quite poignant here.
What's that? That sin is made worse. because
man fails to see his own true nature, this incredible
complex blend of elements we just talked about.
And asks, you know, after sin, what is there
but death? Which, yeah, brings us right to this
text description of the fall and what happened
next. So God puts Adam to sleep, takes a rib,
creates Eve. And here's another one of those
specific kind of startling details. The text
states that death should come to him by his wife.
And her name, Eve, is said to come from Adam's
last word while he was asleep. Huh, okay. Now,
Adam, before the fall, he lived in paradise,
in the garden, Eden, in the east. Yeah, and the
heavens were open to him. He saw angels singing
this gloomless light, continuously in paradise,
observing the testament, keeping the command.
Sounds pretty good. It does, but meanwhile, the
devil enters the picture. Right, described as
the evil spirit of the lower places. this fugitive,
Seton or Satan Nail from the heavens. He understood
God was creating another world with Adam as its
Lord. And his nature didn't change? No, not regarding
understanding right and wrong. And he knew his
condemnation was coming. So he cooked up a plan
against Adam. He did. And the text is very explicit
here. He entered and seduced Eve, but did not
touch Adam. Okay, that distinction is interesting.
Now, this next part is maybe one of the most
striking differences. from, you know, the accounts
most people know, the target of God's curse after
the fall. It doesn't say God cursed the man or
the ground. Correct. It explicitly states God
cursed ignorance. Ignorance. Yes. It says God
did not curse man or the earth or other creatures,
but man's evil fruit and his works. Wow, so that
really shifts the blame, doesn't it? It's not
inherent evil in creation or humanity itself,
but the results of acting out of ignorance, the
wicked deeds that follow. Exactly. It's a subtle
but profound difference. And God's words to Adam
when he sent out, they're also different. The
familiar dust thou art bit is there, but there's
a significant addition. Right. Earth thou art.
And into the earth, whence I took thee, thou
shalt go. I will not ruin thee, but send thee
whence I took thee. then I can again take the
Yet My Second Coming. A promise of resurrection
right there at the moment of expulsion. Embedded
right in it. It frames the whole thing not just
as punishment, but as a temporary sending away
before a future return. The text then mentions,
God blessed all creatures, visible and invisible,
and it gives a time frame for Adam in paradise.
Surprisingly short. Just five and a half hours.
That's it. Wow. Seems incredibly brief, doesn't
it? Yeah. Then it talks about the seventh day,
the Sabbath, which God rested on and blessed.
But then interestingly, it introduces the eighth
day. The eighth day. Yeah, as the first created
after God's work finished. And it elaborates
on this idea. The first seven days revolve as
the 7 ,000 years maybe, but the 8 ,000 is described
as a time of not counting. Endless. Without years,
months, weeks, days or hours. Okay, hang on.
A time of not counting? Where time itself basically
dissolves? That's a concept. It is. And it's
definitely something we should keep in mind when
we get to Enoch's visions of the end. Good point.
Okay, so let's turn to Enoch himself. His ascension.
He's shown everything right. Creation, judgment.
Everything. And he gets these profound insights
into God's nature. Self eternal, not made with
hands. Unchanging. God's thought is his counselor.
Wisdom and word are made. His eyes see everything,
making it tremble. Just turning his face away
is enough to destroy all. And this is where Enoch's
role becomes absolutely central to the material
we're looking at. God gives him a very specific
job. Right. Take the books he himself has already
written. He'd already written books. Apparently
so. Take those books, go back down to earth with
the angels, Samuel and Regiel. And do what? Tell
his sons, his household, his people, everything
he's seen and heard. From the lowest heavens
right up to God's throne, all the heavenly hosts.
These books were meant to be given out to children,
generations, nations so they can know God, understand
his unique unity. Michael gets a mention here
too, as an Archistratage. Yeah, Chief Commander
basically, a leader in heaven. He's presented
as an intercessor for the handwritings of earlier
figures, Adam, Seth, Enos, Canaan, Mahallel,
Jared. So Enoch's writings are positioned within
this long tradition of divine record keeping.
Exactly. But the text also explains why judgment,
like the Great Flood, became necessary in the
first place. Why? What reason does it give? It
says the forefathers, the generations before
the flood, they rejected God's commandments,
His yoke. A worthless seed came up, they didn't
fear God, bowed down to vain idols, denied God's
unity. And it gets quite graphic, doesn't it?
It does. They had laid in the whole earth with
untruthed offenses, abominable letcheries, namely
one with another, and all manner of other unclean
wickednesses. Strong stuff. Yeah. So because
of all that God decided to bring the deluge destroy
men let the earth crumble into darkness Pretty
bleak, but there's also a prophecy tucked in
there About hope or at least another chance maybe
for a future generation. Yeah another generation
arising much later though many of them will be
Insatiate it warns insatiate greedy unsatisfied
seems like it but someone He who raises that
generation will reveal Enoch's books to them.
They'll be shown to faithful people who fear
God and don't misuse his name. And these rediscovered
books will have a big impact. The text claims
those who read them shall become more glorious
thereafter, more than the first generations.
So Enoch's writings are seen as absolutely crucial
for some kind of future restoration or enlightenment.
Okay, now his return to earth. There are some
startling details about that. He gets 30 days
back. 30 days yet to relay everything he heard
from the Lord's lips. But there's this angel.
The older angel. Yes, described as terrible menacing
whitest snow, hands like ice, great frost. This
angel is placed beside Enoch and he freezes Enoch's
face. Freezes his face? Why on earth would he
do that? The text gives a reason. It says it
was because Enoch couldn't endure the terror
of the Lord's face comparing it to a stove's
fire or the sun's heat. Ah, okay. So the freezing
was necessary so that no ordinary person back
on earth could look directly at Enoch's face
after he'd seen the divine presence. It was too
much. That really drives home. how transformative,
almost dangerously holy that experience was supposed
to be. Definitely. So the man who led him up
plays him back on his couch at night. His son,
Missusel, is there waiting, completely awestruck.
And Enoch gathers his family, tells them to gather
round, explains he's back, not to speak his own
words, but from the Lord's lips to tell them
everything, all that is and was and all that
is now and all that will be till judgment day.
And he describes how seeing the Lord physically
changed him. Yeah. His eyes became like the sun's
rays, filling people with awe. His hand filled
heaven when the Lord helped him write. He saw
the Lord's limitless compass, heard his voice
like huge thunder with hurling clouds. So this
experience hasn't just given him knowledge, it's
fundamentally altered him, giving him incredible
authority. Precisely. And the knowledge itself
is presented as totally comprehensive, right?
The text says Enoch knows and has written everything,
beginning to end. It really emphasizes the scope.
The heavens, their structure, armies, movements,
he measured and described countless stones. And
get this, it makes a point to say he knows their
names, which even the angels don't know the number
of. Knowing the names of stars when angels don't,
that definitely puts Enoch in a unique position
in this cosmology. Absolutely elevated. He measured
the Sun's circle, its rays, counted hours, wrote
about everything on Earth, plants, grass, flowers,
their smells, their names. He observed clouds
too. Yeah, wrote about their dwelling places,
their composition, their wings, how they carry
rain. He investigated it and wrote down the path
of thunder and lightning. Path of thunder and
lightning. Yeah, noting they have keys and guardians.
and they're let out gently by a chain. A chain?
Yeah. Lest by a heavy chain and violence, it
hurl down the angry clouds and destroy all things
on earth. It's incredibly specific. It really
is. What else did he write about? Treasure houses
of snow, storehouses of cold and frosty airs,
they're key holders. The resting places of winds
whose key holders use scales and measures, letting
them out carefully. Lest by heavy breathing,
they make the earth to rock. Wow. Scales and
measures for the wind. He measured the whole
earth, mountains, hills, fields, rivers, and
maybe most striking. He measured the height from
earth up to the seventh heaven and also downwards
to the very lowest hell. He measured hell, including
the judgment place and this very great open and
weeping hell. He saw prisoners there in pain
waiting for limitless judgment, wrote it all
down who was judged. their sentences, their works.
It paints this picture of a universe that's not
just vast, but like meticulously measured, governed
by precise rules and ultimately subject to total
accountability, all observed and recorded by
Ena. And seeing all this judgment, especially
Hell, it leads him to reflect on humanity. He
saw Adam and Eve there. In Hell. Well, he saw
their ruin. And he wept over it, saying, Woe
is me for my infirmity and for that of my forefathers.
That's heavy. Then he makes this really stark
statement. Basically, it's better not to exist
than to sin and end up there. That seems to be
the sentiment. He saw the key holders of hell
described as great serpents with faces like extinguished
lamps, fiery eyes, sharp teeth. But the text
also affirms, you know, God's works are right.
It's man's works that are a mix, some good, some
bad, known by what you actually do. It compares
different kinds of earthly honor. Like wealth,
wisdom, strength, looks. Yeah, all those things.
Possessions, wisdom, intellect, cunning, silence,
cleanliness, strength, comeliness, youth, sharp
wit. body shape, sensibility, quite a list. But
what's the punchline? The conclusion is crystal
clear. There is none better than he who fears
God, he shall be more glorious in time to come.
Fear of God trumps everything else. Okay. So
based on this whole cosmic view and the reality
of judgment, the text then gets really practical,
doesn't it? Specific moral instructions, warnings.
Very practical. It drills down into specific
actions and crucially, intentions. Look what?
reviling a ruler or a pouring the Lord's face
that's seen as despising God directly, getting
angry without cause or spitting reproachfully
that leads to judgment. And the positive side.
It uses this image of judgment day as a marketplace.
A marketplace. Yeah, where everyone's works are
put on scales, weighed, measured, like make weights,
and you receive your reward accordingly. Very
transactional in a way. And it connects offerings
and sacrifices back to the heart's condition,
right? Absolutely. Bringing gifts from labor
your own hands didn't make. The Lord turns away.
Even if you did make it, if your heart is just
murmuring and complaining incessantly, no advantage.
So the ritual isn't the point. Not in itself.
This is crucial. When the Lord demands bread
or candles or flesh, cattle, or any other sacrifice,
then that is nothing. But God demands cure hearts,
and with all that only tests the heart of man.
The interstate is what matters. Exactly. It prioritizes
that over the outward show. And there's a strong
warning about false appearances too. Yeah. Powerful
one, bringing gifts to an earthly ruler with
disloyal thoughts. The ruler gets angry, refuses
them, sends you for judgment. Same principle
applies with God. Appearing good with a deceitful
tongue, but having an evil heart, that tritury
will be exposed and condemned. Because at the
great judgment. When the Lord sends that great
light, nothing stays hidden. No one escapes notice.
It's all laid bare. The text also hammers home
the idea of God's singularity, doesn't it? No
other God. Definitely. No other God in heaven,
earth, the lowest places, the one foundation.
It uses these rhetorical questions to emphasize
God's unique power. Like who counted the water?
Exactly. Who counted the water, the foundation,
the dust, the sand, the drops of dew, the wind's
breathings. Who filled earth and sea or cut stars
from fire? It's meant to show God as utterly
beyond comparison, the sole creator and sustainer.
And the detailed description of the Sun's path
comes up again. Yeah. Adding more layers to this
measured cosmos. It moves along seven heavenly
circles, as specific numbers of thrones for shorter
and longer days. It reinforces this precise,
almost clockwork -like cosmic order. And its
movement directly affects Earth's seasons and
fertility. Right. Closer to earth, fruit grows.
Further away, the earth is sad, no fluorescence.
Everything measured with good measurement and
wisdom, visible and invisible. What about oaths?
Any guidance on that? Yeah, interesting point.
It advises swearing simply by yay, yay, or nay
nay, and specifically not by creation. Why not
by creation? Seems to highlight the reverence
due only to the Creator Himself. The Lord has
no oath or injustice, only truth. Swearing by
created things might somehow diminish that. Okay.
And then there's this really profound concept,
the pre -existence of souls. This is a big one.
The text states that before a person is even
conceived in the womb, a place for the repose
of their soul is already prepared. Already prepared.
Yes. And a measure is fixed for how much trial
they will face in this world. A place is prepared
for every single soul. Wow. So earthly life is
framed as this measured trial within a much larger
preordained spiritual journey. That's exactly
how it seems. The invisible is made visible in
creation, but God himself remains invisible.
And the books Enoch wrote, they're presented
as absolutely vital for navigating this life
and judgment. Critically important, they must
be distributed. Children, generations, nations
who fear God, people should love them more than
food or sweets, read them, study them. And if
they don't? For those who don't understand the
Lord, don't fear God or reject these books. The
text warns of a terrible judgment. But blessed
is the one who bears the yoke of these books
carries them because they'll be released at judgment.
Accountability sounds absolute. Totally. Every
person's work is written down before creation
even happened. Nothing is hidden. God sees everything,
even the vain thoughts just flickering in the
heart. Reading the books is presented as a way
to avoid future regret. The text also gives advice
on how to live day to day, doesn't it? Patience.
Endurance. Yes. Spend your days in patience and
weakness, aiming for that endless life. Endure
wounds, injuries, evil words, attacks for the
Lord. Don't retaliate because the Lord is the
Avenger at Judgment Day. What about wealth and
poverty? Give gold and silver for your brother
that earns ample treasure in the world to come.
Don't injure widows, orphans, or strangers that
brings God's wrath. Stretch out your hands to
the poor. Don't hide your silver. Help the faithful
in affliction. An affliction won't find you.
That's the promise. Yeah. Bear a cruel yoke or
burden for the Lord's sake, and you'll find your
reward at judgment. And worship is that detailed.
Simple but consistent instruction. Go to the
Lord's dwelling morning, midday and evening to
glorify the Creator. Every breathing thing, every
creature, visible and invisible, glorifies and
praises Him. Then the text gets into those lists.
Blessings and curses based on actions, speech,
heart. Right. Often contrasting opposites. Blessed
are those who praise God with lips and heart.
Cursed are those whose lips show contempt or
slander their neighbor because that brings God
into contempt too. So speech matters a lot. Hugely.
Blessed are those blessing and praising God.
Cursed are those cursing and abusing before the
Lord. Blessed are those who bless the Lord's
works. Cursed are those who bring His creation
into contempt. Actions too. Yep. Blessed are
those who look down to raise the fallen. Cursed
are those eager for the destruction of others.
Blessed are those who keep the father's foundations
the ancient ways. Cursed are those who pervert
their forefathers decrees. One about relationships.
Blessed are those who implant peace and love.
Cursed are those who disturb people who love
their neighbors. Blessed are those who speak
with a humble tongue and heart. Cursed, that's
a good one. Cursed are those who speak peace
with their tongue, but have a sword in their
heart. Wow. That cuts deep, doesn't it? And all
of this, all these actions and tensions, words
will be laid bare on those scales and in the
books at the Great Judgment. Nothing missed.
Then after all this talk about works and judgment,
there's a really direct warning about relying
on, well, connections. Extremely direct. Do not
say, our Father is standing before God and is
praying for our sins, for there is there no helper
of any man who has sinned. So no pulling strings,
no relying on someone else's righteousness. Seems
not. It's a powerful statement about individual
accountability. At that final judgment, you stand
alone with your deeds, no intercessor for your
own sin. Enoch's handwriting records it all.
God sees even the hidden thoughts. And the advice,
again, is... Read the books. Understand this
so you don't regret it later. And give these
books to everyone who wants them. Instruct them
on God's works. Share the knowledge. Now, moving
on slightly. One of the most Maybe surprising
sections is the specific instruction about animals,
the care of animals. Absolutely, it's quite detailed.
It describes Adam naming them all, being appointed
ruler over them, subjecting them, making them
kind of dumb and dull so they'd be obedient.
Every man is lord over his own possessions, animals
included. Okay, standard enough so far. But then
it says something really extraordinary. The Lord
will not judge a single soul of a beast for man's
sake, okay, instead. He will judge the souls
of men to their beasts in this world. Meaning.
Implying men have this special place, this responsibility
towards their animals. And the really sharp point
comes next, right? About judgment. Yeah. Beasts
won't perish until the great judgment, and they
will accuse man if he feed them ill. Animals
will accuse humans at the judgment. If they were
mistreated, yes. That's what the text says. It
gives mistreatment of animals actual cosmic consequences
for the human involved. Whoever defiles the soul
of beasts defiles his own soul. Wow. Okay. What
else does it say about animals' sacrifice? It
mentions clean animals and birds for sacrifice
as a good cure for the soul, especially when
bound by the fore feet, maybe implying proper
ritual handling, but killing a beast without
wounds. What does that mean without wounds, like
improperly strangling? Could be. It's described
as killing one's own soul and defiling one's
own flesh and entering a beast secretly. That's
an evil practice that defiles your own soul.
The emphasis on the perpetrator's soul being
defiled is really strong. It is. And the consequences
for harming other humans are described with similar,
like, ultimate finality. Oh, soul. Killing a
man's soul kills your own soul and body. And
there's no cure for him for all time. For all
time. Eternal consequence. Seems like it. Setting
any kind of snare for another person, you get
stuck yourself. No cure for him for all time.
Putting someone in any vessel may be imprisoning
or confining them. Retribution at the great judgment
for all time and just general cricketness working
crickety or speaking evil against any soul You
will not make justice for self for all time.
These aren't just bad deeds They're presented
as actions with irreversible eternal consequences
for the person doing them That really underlines
the text's focus on absolute accountability for
actions against humans and animals, and it ties
into the idea of judgment and those places prepared.
Exactly. The many mansions prepared for men.
Good ones for the good, bad for the bad, without
number. The blessed enter the good mansions,
but from the bad ones there's no peace nor return.
No escape. Seems not. And it comes back again
to offerings in the heart. Bringing gifts from
labor you didn't do yourself, rejected. Even
if you made it, if your heart is just murmuring
and complaining, no advantage. But bringing gifts
with faith. That brings forgiveness of sins.
But there's also this warning about repentance
being time sensitive. Right. You mentioned that
taking back words or not doing what you promised.
If time passes, it says there's no repentance
after death and doing work deceitfully before
the time, maybe trying to cheat the system. That's
sin before God. What about charity again? Rewarded.
Yes. Clothing the naked, feeding the hungry.
But again, the heart. If you do it with a murmuring
heart, it's a double evil ruins you and the gift.
No reward. And being self -absorbed. If your
heart is filled with your own food, clothed with
your own clothing, while others suffer. That
brings contempt. You forfeit any reward for enduring
poverty earlier. No reward for good deeds now.
The proud, the boastful man, hateful to the Lord.
And false speech. Lying. Cut by the sword of
death, thrown into fire, burned for all time.
The consequences are consistently severe and
eternal. Okay. So after all this focus on individual
actions, morality, judgment, the text culminates
in a vision of the end times, right? The ultimate
fate of everything. Yeah, brings it all together.
When all creation finally ends, great judgment.
And then that really mind bending event happens.
All time shall perish. Years, months, days, hours
will be stuck together and will not be counted.
There will just be one Eon. One single endless
state where time as we measure it, as we experience
it, just stops existing. Exactly. And the righteous,
those who escape judgment, they'll be collected
together in this great Eon. They'll live eternally.
And what's that eternal life like? No labor,
no sickness, no humiliation, no anxiety, no need,
no violence, no night, no darkness, only great
light. Sounds peaceful. They'll dwell within
a great indestructible wall in a paradise that's
bright and incorruptible. All the corruptible
things pass away. No. Eternal life. And there
was that detail about them shining. Right. They
just shall shine forth more than the sun sevenfold.
Seven times brighter than the sun. How does it
explain that? It gives this intriguing explanation
that in this world, right now, The seventh part
is somehow taken off from things like light,
darkness, food, enjoyment, sorrow, paradise,
torture, fire, frost, everything. Wait, so everything
we experience now is like a deluded version,
only one seventh strength? That seems to be the
implication. the intensity of everything in that
future eon both the good and paradise and presumably
the bad and judgment will be seven times greater
than anything we can even conceive of now our
current reality is just a shadow intensity wise
a diminished version yeah of the true potential
intensity of existence. Wow, okay. So finally,
the text describes Enoch's actual departure,
his final exit. Yeah, his term, his time approached.
Angels were there on earth, urging him to leave.
Tomorrow they say, you go up to the highest heaven,
the uppermost Jerusalem, your eternal inheritance.
He tells his family, do God's good pleasure.
And his son, Methuselah, asks for a blessing.
Asks, what would please Enoch? So he can bless
the dwellings, the sons, the people before Enoch
goes. And Enoch's reply is quite telling. How
so? He says that since he was anointed with that
ointment of glory back in heaven, he's had no
food. His soul doesn't remember any earthly enjoyment.
He wants nothing earthly anymore. He's completely
detached from this world. Fully transformed.
Completely. He summons his family, the elders.
It lists his brethren. Regime, Ramon, Wu Chen,
Chermian, Guy Dad. and he blesses them. And the
text gives specific dates for his life and departures.
handed the books to his sons, stayed on earth
30 days, then taken up the second time on Sivan
6th. Which was? The very day and hour he was
born. Wow, full circle. Exactly. The text notes
that man's nature, conception, birth, departure,
it's all dark, mysterious. And the hour conceived
equals the hour born equals the hour died. A
cyclical view, almost. And his family built an
altar. Methuselah and Enoch's sons, yeah. At
a Chuzan, the place where Enoch was taken up.
They sacrificed oxen, called the people, had
a big feast for three days, rejoicing, praising
God for the sign given through Enoch who found
favor so they could hand it on. And they found
something there. A roll inscribed at the words,
the invisible God. A fitting end note for a text
that tries so hard to reveal the workings of
the invisible God in his cosmos. A perfect symbol,
really. Okay, wow. Stepping back now from this
deep dive. We really covered a lot. The secrets
of Enoch text, from the source material you provided,
it just offers this incredible scope, doesn't
it? Truly unique insights. Absolutely. From that
cosmic recipe for making a human. Right. The
blood from dew. To the intricately measured universe
named stars, regulated winds and lightning, the
surprising rules of judgment, the focus on animal
care. Yeah, the animal care part was unexpected.
And that vision of an end where time itself just
dissolves, it's packed. And it's not just retelling
stories we think we know, it's constantly providing
these specific, often really counterintuitive
details in this rigorous set of moral and cosmic
instructions. Yeah, and the core themes come
through so strongly. God's ultimate power, definitely.
The importance of a pure heart and right actions
over just going through the motions of ritual,
that absolute accountability for every single
thought and deed. No hiding place. None. And
then the promise of that eternal existence for
the faithful, but an existence that's fundamentally
different and way more intensely real than anything
we experience now. This deep dive has definitely
given us a shortcut, I think, to understanding
a really extraordinary piece of ancient literature
and its unique worldview. So much to think about.
What stands out most to you now, looking back
over it? For you listening, maybe ponder this.
The text describes the end, not just as eternity,
but as the actual perishing of time. Years, months,
days, hours stuck together will not be counted.
Just one single, endless eon. What does it fundamentally
change about how we understand existence? Maybe
God's relationship to creation when time, as
we know it, simply ceases to be a factor. What
does that even mean?