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Sunday 28 January 2018

The Ninth Week

The ninety-first chapter of the Book of Enoch (R H Charles translation) reads:

"12. And after that there shall be another, the eighth week, that of righteousness,
And a sword shall be given to it that a righteous judgement may be executed on the oppressors,
And sinners shall be delivered into the hands of the righteous.

13 And at its close they shall acquire houses through their righteousness,
And a house shall be built for the Great King in glory for evermore,
14d. And all mankind shall look to the path of uprightness.

14a. And after that, in the ninth week, the righteous judgement shall be revealed to the whole world,
b. And all the works of the godless shall vanish from all the earth,
c. And the world shall be written down for destruction.

15. And after this, in the tenth week in the seventh part,
There shall be the great eternal judgement,
In which He will execute vengeance amongst the angels." (Enoch 91)

c3100 end of tenth week
c2400 start of tenth week
c1700 start of ninth week
c1000 start of eighth week
c300 start of seventh week
c400 BC start of sixth week
c1100 BC start of fifth week
c1800 BC start of fourth week
c2500 BC start of third week
c3200 BC start of second week
c3900 BC start of first week

So here we are in the early twenty-first century, the middle of the ninth week and God gives some a foretaste of things to come. The dominion power humans were made to have over nature will become normal reality. The Son of Man has it now - doninion over nature and dominion over me (hopefully you too) - and words remain in those who receive them that give them some dominion now by faith in the love of God counting on it like these words convey: "Say to this mountain 'Move' and it will move if you believe and do not doubt in your heart". This saying is true about any of nature - animals, plants, rocks, mountains, sea. It is just humans that harden their hearts and disobey but humans too are subject to God's power over them which can mean we can use faith to command humans too and they obey when God makes it so. Our little faith and the many hindrances surrounding us mean we get only a forestaste now until the Son of Man comes in the clouds (before the ninth week). Then man will command nature all the time with full dominion - those who received the call to stop sinning and let the Son make them saints will have dominion by faith in God like the Son of Man already has. This will mean a time of great judgement among humans but the final judgement by God will not come until near the end of the tenth week, many centuries from now. A week is 700 years.