Given the usefulness of the Book of Jubliees in helping decypher the ten week foretellig in the Book of Enoch by Jubilees providing a chronology resistant to error and similar to the Enoch ten weeks in the use of wimdows of time linked to major holy events this to my mind explains why both books were prevalent among the Dead Sea Scrolls. It also suggests to me the people of the time had the full ten week passages available to them.
Genesis and Jubilees gives a key to decyphering the Enoch 93/91 ten weeks foretelling of the Judgement time.
The key is that Enoch was born just less than 700 years - around 622 years - after the creation of Adam. He said it was in the first week but "seventh in the first week" implies the seventh "day" of that week - the seventh century of the seven centuries after Adam. This leads to a seven century week. So altogether it is spanning ten seven-century periods. A seven thousand year period.
Using seven centuries as a week and using the second temple construction as reference point while seeking best fit (not necessarily perfect fit) with key events and approx dates for them does give a starting point of 3900 BC or thereabouts. Then adjusting further to get all the clearest events to match what is feasible from known history such as the giving of the law to Moses and the time of Abraham you get a better fit for events like the creation of Adam and start of first week as around 3950 BC and therefore the Judgement as 7000 years after at around 3050 AD but using 364 day years as Uriel and Enoch instructed gives 6980 normal modern years and therefore a creation of Adam around 3940 BC and Judgement around 3040 AD. Then checking how the other weeks fit with history it all works nicely. The temple built is indeed the Second Temple. The plant of righteousness is Abraham. The ascending man is Christ. The burning of the house is the destruction by Titus and Vespasian. The apostasy is around 300 AD. The blindness is that of the Jews who said they could see in defiance of Christ. It fits well. This gives confidence the dates are right. Any later and the law is to late. Any earlier and the Judgement leaves no time for a millenium reign plus the second temple is too early. Different week period makes no sense either - it fits well with a 7 century week.
Chapters 93 and 91 of Book of Enoch plus some comparable historic approximations give these years of events through history leading up to future Judgement:
Creation of Adam 3940 BC
3940 BC is the start of 'week' 1 where 'week' is 700 364-day years
Flood c2600-2540 BC [edited]
'week' 2 end 2540 BC [edited]
Abraham c1900-1850 BC
'week' 3 end 1850 BC
Law c1200-1150 BC
'week' 4 end 1150 BC
Temple completed 500-450 BC
'week' 5 end 450 BC
Ascension between 450 BC and 250 AD
'week' 6 end 250 AD
The Final Judgement between 2940 and 3040 AD (seventh part of 'week' 10)
'week' 10 end 3040 AD
Another (almost) independant way for dating the Judgement using the Book of Enoch gives it as around 3070 AD: The "dream of beasts" (Enoch 89 to 90) says that, around the time just after the Assyrian conquest of Israel, God commanded there be 70 tenures by angels as shepherds over His flock, Israel. The tenures seem to have a fixed length (Enoch 89-90) and seem to end at the coming of Christ which is before the Judgement and the Judgement needs to be around 3050 AD if you take the weeks of Enoch to total 7000 years. Jewish traditions affirm this and both Jewish and Christian prophesies say there is a millennium of rest before this judgement so the millenium must start before approximately 2050 AD. Therefore the end of these tenures is likely to be around 2050 AD. There is now very encouraging confirmation of the way this fits together because it makes the fixed tenure period 40 years which scriptures say is the length of reign of both kings Saul and David and Solomon so a significant period in God's purposes. Then all the more emcouraging is that this lets us hone that timing approximation of the time of the second coming of Christ: Starting 2800 years (364 day years or 2790 modern years) after Assyrian conquest of Israel - which was 722 BC - so approx 2068 AD. (That is provided these shepherd angels were appointed to start watching over Israel at the time they went into captivity.) So we get another 1000 years reign of Christ and short time of war with Satan and then Judgement so around 3070 to 3075 AD. And it then fits well with the foretold ten weeks too.
Genesis and Jubilees gives a key to decyphering the Enoch 93/91 ten weeks foretelling of the Judgement time.
The key is that Enoch was born just less than 700 years - around 622 years - after the creation of Adam. He said it was in the first week but "seventh in the first week" implies the seventh "day" of that week - the seventh century of the seven centuries after Adam. This leads to a seven century week. So altogether it is spanning ten seven-century periods. A seven thousand year period.
Using seven centuries as a week and using the second temple construction as reference point while seeking best fit (not necessarily perfect fit) with key events and approx dates for them does give a starting point of 3900 BC or thereabouts. Then adjusting further to get all the clearest events to match what is feasible from known history such as the giving of the law to Moses and the time of Abraham you get a better fit for events like the creation of Adam and start of first week as around 3950 BC and therefore the Judgement as 7000 years after at around 3050 AD but using 364 day years as Uriel and Enoch instructed gives 6980 normal modern years and therefore a creation of Adam around 3940 BC and Judgement around 3040 AD. Then checking how the other weeks fit with history it all works nicely. The temple built is indeed the Second Temple. The plant of righteousness is Abraham. The ascending man is Christ. The burning of the house is the destruction by Titus and Vespasian. The apostasy is around 300 AD. The blindness is that of the Jews who said they could see in defiance of Christ. It fits well. This gives confidence the dates are right. Any later and the law is to late. Any earlier and the Judgement leaves no time for a millenium reign plus the second temple is too early. Different week period makes no sense either - it fits well with a 7 century week.
Chapters 93 and 91 of Book of Enoch plus some comparable historic approximations give these years of events through history leading up to future Judgement:
Creation of Adam 3940 BC
3940 BC is the start of 'week' 1 where 'week' is 700 364-day years
Flood c2600-2540 BC [edited]
'week' 2 end 2540 BC [edited]
Abraham c1900-1850 BC
'week' 3 end 1850 BC
Law c1200-1150 BC
'week' 4 end 1150 BC
Temple completed 500-450 BC
'week' 5 end 450 BC
Ascension between 450 BC and 250 AD
'week' 6 end 250 AD
The Final Judgement between 2940 and 3040 AD (seventh part of 'week' 10)
'week' 10 end 3040 AD
Another (almost) independant way for dating the Judgement using the Book of Enoch gives it as around 3070 AD: The "dream of beasts" (Enoch 89 to 90) says that, around the time just after the Assyrian conquest of Israel, God commanded there be 70 tenures by angels as shepherds over His flock, Israel. The tenures seem to have a fixed length (Enoch 89-90) and seem to end at the coming of Christ which is before the Judgement and the Judgement needs to be around 3050 AD if you take the weeks of Enoch to total 7000 years. Jewish traditions affirm this and both Jewish and Christian prophesies say there is a millennium of rest before this judgement so the millenium must start before approximately 2050 AD. Therefore the end of these tenures is likely to be around 2050 AD. There is now very encouraging confirmation of the way this fits together because it makes the fixed tenure period 40 years which scriptures say is the length of reign of both kings Saul and David and Solomon so a significant period in God's purposes. Then all the more emcouraging is that this lets us hone that timing approximation of the time of the second coming of Christ: Starting 2800 years (364 day years or 2790 modern years) after Assyrian conquest of Israel - which was 722 BC - so approx 2068 AD. (That is provided these shepherd angels were appointed to start watching over Israel at the time they went into captivity.) So we get another 1000 years reign of Christ and short time of war with Satan and then Judgement so around 3070 to 3075 AD. And it then fits well with the foretold ten weeks too.
