The Book of Enoch chapter 70:
“1. And it came to pass after this that his name during his lifetime was raised aloft to that Son of Man and to the Lord of Spirits from amongst those who dwell on the earth. 2. And he was raised aloft on the chariots of the spirit and his name vanished among them. 3. And from that day I was no longer numbered amongst them: and he set me between the two winds, between the North and the West, where the angels took the cords to measure for me the place for the elect and righteous. 4. And there I saw the first fathers and the righteous who from the beginning dwell in that place.”
Some would teach that the Son of Man did not exist until He was conceived anf then born in Bethlehem. Enoch prophesied much about Him and his prophesies were well regarded among the first believers and more broadly too among many of the Jews of that time. Some would say Enoch merely foresaw in visions this Son of Man and the Son of Man, they would say, did not exist in Enoch’s time, long before Abraham was born. Yet here in the Book of Enoch is a record of Enoch being taken up into Heaven “to that Son of Man”. So clearly the Son of Man taught of by Enoch and much prophesied about by Enoch was there in Heaven when Enoch was famously taken up into Heaven thousands of years before the Son of Man was born.
