Perhaps the greatest truth the Book of Enoch shares with us in all those wonderful passages about the Son of Man (chapters 37 to 63) is how precious this Son of Man was, in Enoch’s time and before and after, over milllennia, to God the Lord of Spirits. It tells how delighted God was in this Son of Man who He anointed and set apart from all angels and men and who God hid away from all but a few. God was keeping this beloved righteous and faithful son away from public knowledge and corruption. Of everything that God had in all the universe He has made, His Son, the Son of Man is most cherished of all. This is a tremendous service Enoch has provided in recording all this because it tells us two things that Enoch might not at that time have even known himself. Firstly it tells us what an overwhelmingly great price God paid for a sacrifice for our sins: The one most precious member of His heavenly family so dearly loved from before time, the Son of Man, is the one He sent to suffer and die, and on the third day rise again. Secondly, in telling us how special this Son of Man was to the Lord of Spirits, Enoch reveals the height and breadth and depth of the love God has for each one of us to have paid this beloved Son for the ransom for our wretched souls. Other scriptures touch on this but none in quite as vivid depth of expression of true prophetic words as the Book of Enoch. God be praised forever!
