Firstly I confess I am not a left wing leaning person and not even deeply knowledgable about Marxism. Yet reading the prophetic dream God gave Enoch of the seventy shepherds whose reigns over Israel and the Jewish people leads up to the reign of the Son of Man and God’s rule over the sheep it starts to make sense that a coming of an Elijah to prepare the way for the coming of the Messiah is prophesied in it and will be on the same lines as the coming of Elijah then before Jesus, of John the Baptist. John was an Elijah figure, Jesus proclaimed, who was done away with but who preached social equality by those with two coats giving to those with none; thus, as foretold, John was asking for the social mountains of society to make themselves lower in order to lift up the socially depressed poor. The dream of Enoch about the history of the Jews - the white sheep who descend from the twelve sheep we can deduce to be children of Jacob, Israel - this dream tells of Elijah without naming him and tells of his being persecuted by the sheep because he is a prophet but he evades them and is taken up to be with Enoch in heaven. This is a reminder to us today of how John the Baptist preached to prepare socially level ground for the Messiah so He would not strike the land with a curse and it reminds that God might do the same before Jesus (Yeshua) returns. Only God could give such a dream to Enoch because only God could foretell truthfully the words He Himself would be saying in the fiuture. The dream brings us up to recent past events through a period of God speaking to seventy ‘shepherds’ (clearly angels) putting them in charge over the sheep, descendants of Israel. So the fact the dream tells the things God will say in distant future after Enoch ascended shows this dream strictly sees things from the Father’s own point of view and shows them to Enoch to tell us. So the shepherds continue successive reigns up until the last twelve who precede the days of judgment by the Son of Man. The start of the seventy is dedicible as in Assyrian Empire control of the Israeli lands 2760 years ago. So the coming of Christ forty years from now would fit with the shepherds each ruling a forty year term. This makes sense. Saul and David and Solomon each ruled forty years showing it to be a divinely preferred complete term. So the last twelve shepherds in the Book of Enoch must have started ruling over the Jews around 1540 AD. So the description of their time must include today and the last century. The end of their time includes Elijah-like and John the Baptist-like events as a ram (or he-goat which in Ge-ez/Amharic is a dabela) gets horns after some sheep start getting horns and these start to take on power even over their oppressors such that they can withstand the oppressing nations around them. The main horn gets unsuccessfully opposed by all and remains at the coming of the Son of Man to make judgment. Both Marx and later Trotsky were prominent teachers who were Jewish by birth. Marx’s family converted to Christianity so he was raised with both influences. Their powerful horn of Communism took over many gentile nations and forged some into regimes and Empires such as Soviet Union and China and North Korea as well as many African countries and South and Central American countries. China is still communist today. The social message of Communism has strong parallels with the raising of valleys and levelling of mountains socially by establishing equality. So it seems very plausible to me that this horn of the ram/he-goat during the last shepherds’ terms before Christ comes to judge fits well with the prophetic dream of beasts given to Enoch over five thousand years ago. It is for our blessing to know what is happening the way God personally sees it.
