The Book of Enoch Chapter 90:1-5 is at the end of the account of Enoch of his prophetic dream and this point in the prophecy seems to be about 666 AD to 1580 AD: The suffering inflicted on Israelis under Islam and Europe and Russia. Those were terms 35 to 58, 23 terms out of the total seventy terms of office of angelic shepherds given power over Israel (90:5).
The next verses, chapter 90 verses 6-12, take us beyond 1580 AD and focus on the end of this time in particular leading up to our time and then beyond up to 2060 AD which mentions lambs which is reminiscent of a new Israel and sounds like the state of Israel today. I think it sounds like it is describing a major premier of Israel who is a great leader to whom many Jewish leaders are drawn to build up the state of Israel (90:9-10). The enemy countries do not give up their attacks though. Then a leader, who might be this same leader, becomes a threat to the enemy countries and they try to stop him and remove his power but they fail (90:11-12). This great leader is called a ram in RH Charles’ translation but the Ge’ez word translated is dabela which might mean a he-goat. It is not yet clear who this leader is so this might be the point at which the prophecy looks at times which are currently in our future.
Here is the passage (Book of Enoch 90:6-12)
“6. But behold lambs were borne by those white sheep, and they began to open their eyes and to see, and to cry to the sheep. 7. Yea, they cried to them, but they did not hearken to what they said to them, but were exceedingly deaf, and their eyes were very exceedingly blinded. 8. And I saw in the vision how the ravens flew upon those lambs and took one of those lambs, and dashed the sheep in pieces and devoured them. 9. And I saw till horns grew upon those lambs, and the ravens cast down their horns; and I saw till there sprouted a great horn of one of those sheep, and their eyes were opened. 10. And it †looked at† them [and their eyes opened], and it cried to the sheep, and the rams saw it and all ran to it. 11. And notwithstanding all this those eagles and vultures and ravens and kites still kept tearing the sheep and swooping down upon them and devouring them: still the sheep remained silent, but the rams lamented and cried out. 12. And those ravens fought and battled with it and sought to lay low its horn, but they had no power over it.”
So this looks like the beginning of the State of Israel but apparently including times in our future (regarding the dabela, the ram or he-goat).
The next verses, chapter 90 verses 13-19 seem to cover the period after the appearance of the great leader, the ram or he-goat, then continuing after that for thirty to forty years, the last term of the seventy, the term of the last angelic shepherd. (It seems likely that given the timeframe described, the great leader, ram/he-goat will appear within the next ten years.)
Book of Enoch chapter 90 verses 13-19.
“13. And I saw till the †shepherds and† eagles and those vultures and kites came, and †they cried to the ravens† that they should break the horn of that ram, and they battled and fought with it, and it battled with them and cried that its help might come. 14. And I saw till that man, who wrote down the names of the shepherds [and] carried up into the presence of the Lord of the sheep [came and helped it and showed it everything: he had come down for the help of that ram].
15. And I saw till the Lord of the sheep came unto them in wrath, and all who saw Him fled, and they all fell †into His shadow† from before His face. 16. All the eagles and vultures and ravens and kites were gathered together, and there came with them all the sheep of the field, yea, they all came together, and helped each other to break that horn of the ram.
17. And I saw that man, who wrote the book according to the command of the Lord, till he opened that book concerning the destruction which those twelve last shepherds had wrought, and showed that they had destroyed much more than their predecessors, before the Lord of the sheep. 18. And I saw till the Lord of the sheep came unto them and took in His hand the staff of His wrath, and smote the earth, and the earth clave asunder, and all the beasts and all the birds of the heaven fell from among those sheep, and were swallowed up in the earth and it covered them. 19. And I saw till a great sword was given to the sheep, and the sheep proceeded against all the beasts.”
This all leads up to the Judgement in chapter 90 verses 20 onwards, so it might be that verse 18 is the second coming of Christ; possibly verse 15 too.
So who is the ram with the great horn? Reading the passages through again, I notice that the ram is originally called a sheep so maybe this ram is an Israeli. Then I notice that the ram is caught up to heaven which is reminiscent of the two witnesses in Revelation. Maybe this ram has a wife who is going to be caught up to heaven with him and both are witnesses but this is not as close a fit as is the man child of the woman who is also caught up to heaven. The passages follow one after the other in Revelation - the witnesses in chapter 11 and the woman and man-child in chapter 12. It seems the two witnesses might appear and ascend to heaven just before the woman and child appear. This all makes me more sure the ram is this man-child of the woman and the woman is Israel. Then in Enoch 90 the prophecy continues after the ram ascends but the prophecy then starts to speak of the attempts of Gentile enemy nations to break the horn of the ram. This implies that something powerful which helps Israel protect herself and fight her enemies will have been produced by the ram and left behind after it is snatched up to heaven. I suspect this is its powerful message or political system because it is seen as such a threat to other nations that they try to destroy it but fail. In Revelation the prophesy is of the woman remaining on earth when the man-child has ascended. The dragon seeks to destroy the woman. This matches the Enoch prophesy very well so again improves my confidence these two prophecies speak of the same events. The ram or he-goat (‘dabela’) seems to be the man-child and the woman who is mother of the man-child seems to be the sheep, Israel. The other children of the woman are those who have the testimony of Jesus, which alludes to the fact Christianity came originally from the Jews. The flood of water sent by the dragon (in Revelation 12) to destroy the woman seems to match the attempt by nations to join together to destroy the sheep (in Enoch 90) after the ram has gone into heaven. The two prophecies both say the earth will open up to thwart this attack. Enoch merges this opening of the earth with the coming of the Lord. Revelation resolves this showing the earth opening up happens prior to this second coming - it provides more resolution to the prophecy. Enoch’s prophecy at this point has far less resolution than the vision Jesus receives to give John in Revelation, which is why Revelation is an improvement on Enoch’s dream prophecy. Revelation describes how the empire it symbolises as a beast was arising to power initially at the time of the two witnesses before the man-child appears and is snatched to heaven. The beast is then described more fully in chapters 13 and following as fully in power when the man-child has been removed out of harm’s way. This substantiates the theory I had that the seventy (angelic) shepherds of Enoch’s prophecy complete their seventy terms just before the second coming but the Millennium reign of Christ is not described by Enoch’s dream. It is described in Revelation. Enoch’s dream jumps from the coming of the Lord and saving of Israel to the Judgement first of angels then of humans so the thousand years of the Christ is summed up in just one verse in Enoch 90 with no mention of how long it will be. Enoch’s dream is only clariied later as the events actually unfolded to show these terms are forty years long and the fotetelling of the ten weeks is shown by later events to be seven thousand years long and putting the two together in later times long after Enoch’s prophecies shows a thousand year gap between coming of the Lord and the Judgement.
