The Most Ancient Holy Teacher

The most ancient teacher from whom we would do well to learn today is one who was active before the earliest pyramids were built, teaching mankind about God and angels and the calendar and the marvels of creation - known from history and extant texts of the Sumerian King Lists and scriptures such as the Epistle of Jude, Genesis, the Book of Hebrews and his own scriptural writings: En-men-dur-ana, also known as Enmenduranki and as Enoch and as Idris. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/En-men-dur-ana 

Ask that you may receive

When we are so assured God must surely will something particular that we have no doubt about it then we are in a true position to be able to count on God for it and act in this assuredness – asking or knocking or seeking or commanding it to be sure – whichever fits the situation. Then having done so we have to follow through to receiving or finding or seeing it done. We must learn that we cannot waver and back out as if the victory was in the asking. The victory is in the receiving – on persiating in certainty we can count on God from the outset right through to the outcome. With a goal that God be thanked.

The Need to be Ready

We need to be ready to die. Anyone who has never known faith and the safekeeping of counting on God, who has not loved like God loves and has not had the joy of hopeful prospects given by God has nothing that will be with them throughout death except their own guilt. Death vaporises everything except faith and hope and love so we cannot be ready for it without having those things in our lives. If we have those things then we can be ready. The coming of the Son of Man will be a similar elimination of all but faith and hope and love. Readiness for it requires having them in our lives.

An Important Faith

How important is believing the message of the Book of Enoch about the Son of Man and who He is to our future prospects? The Son of Man is the One with whom Jesus of Nazareth identified Himself. He put an immense emphasis on people believing this.

John 8

23But he continued, “You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world. 24I told you that you would die in your sins; if you do not believe that I am he, you will indeed die in your sins.”

25“Who are you?” they asked.

“Just what I have been telling you from the beginning,” Jesus replied. 26“I have much to say in judgment of you. But he who sent me is trustworthy, and what I have heard from him I tell the world.”

27They did not understand that he was telling them about his Father. 28So Jesus said, “When you have lifted upa the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he and that I do nothing on my own but speak just what the Father has taught me. 29The one who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, for I always do what pleases him.” 30Even as he spoke, many believed in him.


It is the first step but such an important one. John 8 continues

31To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. 32Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

He Did Not Know

When Satan said to Jesus "If You are the Son of God..." it seems logical that he really did not know. I mean, he was not around nor were any angels when God begat His only-begotten Son. Only God and the Son of Man would know it had happened - and the Holy Spirit who searches all things.

Rather Exciting Communication

It is rather exciting, aside from modern day thoughts of aliens from a distant galaxy seeking to communicate with us, to think that people living in the times before the pyramids who were only just coming out of the Stone Age around 3000 BC endeavoured earnestly to communicate with us the vitally important things one of their greatest kings had learned from the true guardians of all the galaxies. We are its target audience so it was vital that Methuselah and Noah ensure the Book of Enoch survived the Flood to warn us living today there is something worse than that Great Flood coming and we are on the brink of it. It tells us, yes us living today, what we need to do to survive in body but more importantly in soul.

A Dream of God

I once had a vivid dream more vision than dream just after pleading with God to show Himself to me like Jesus promised in Gospel of John chapter 14. One like one of those ancient Greek gods you see in films stood there before me in a long robe to His feet and said "I am God". He told me the next day at work a document of sorts with many names on it would be put on my desk in front of me (this would never normally happen because I simply dealt with invoices and they were put in my intray not on my desk)    "Look at it!". The feeling of certainty it was God the Father was great but proof came during the following day. At the end of the day around 4pm with few left in the office a girl brought a card and circulation envelope with many names on the card signing it as a greetings card and on the envelope to go around all the people in the office. I knew it was the dream fulifilled. I barely remembered to look at it closely but when I did I saw a note saying it had to be back to Janet so-and-so by 4pm. I remembered the dream somehow had mentioned her name too but I didn't know her. I rushed it to her. Last minute! she said. It had to be back so she could get it to the man (a marvelous prophetically gifted man who worked next door and wowed us with poetry from time to time) who was getting married and the bank holiday was next day. It saved the day that I got it to her. God saved the day and showed me how important it is to Him to love ordinary folk even in little ways.

The Anointed Son of Man

What makes us call Jesus 'Jesus Christ'? See we humans are naturally scared of spirits - we want flesh and blood born of our own kindred speaking to us and ruling us - but with all the blessing and anointing of God - enter the Son of Man - the Christ. This is why we need to read Enoch's writings to understand that there is and always has been this Son of Man, anointed by God. Then we can better understand who Jesus is. Knowing He was crucified brings it home and makes it personal.

When Did Enoch Write His Book?

In my reckoning the Book of Enoch comprises texts originally written between 3200 and 2750 BC. The Masoretic has Methuselah born 687 years after Adam was created. My own estimate of Adam being created 5893 years ago has Methuselah born about 5200 years ago or around 3200 BC. This is when Enoch told Methuselah he started to write - just before Enoch was married and Methuselah was born (when Enoch was about 60). Enoch was among humans (king over everyone) another 300 years (walking with God - living God's way). Then he went and spent a while in heaven then returned for a year with books to pass on. This would be around 2900 BC. Then another 100 years passed and some of the contents of one the Book of Noah portions of the Book of Enoch took place around 2800 BC when Noah was born and Lamech feared he might be son of an angel but Enoch assured this was not so. Then more dreams of coming Flood and the final parts of the writings of the Book of Enoch are completed originally by Noah it seems in his early years around 2750 BC at the latest. This chronology would have the Flood 600 years after 2700 BC or 2100 BC. (Note: Convention or tradition seems to have the Flood being much earlier around 2500 BC.)

A Social Revolution

Many are putting the Book of Enoch into general awareness as scripture through social media, like printer publishers did with the KJV in the past. According to this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_James_Version it was a commercial printer  publisher decision to print KJV Bibles without the Apocrypha books - to make them cheaper. Now that all books of Bible are free online it is up to us through social media to determine which scriptures people choose to read and choose to mention in churches - many churches will be influenced to include what their members want because they will need to compete with social media. We are in a social revolution similar to that of the printing press that led centuries ago to scriptures being read in English and modern languages in churches instead of in Latin. We can lead through social media like publishers led churches of the past centuries more powerfully than church officialdom. Let not the blind lead the blind but let the Holy Spirit lead us all - from the grass roots, as Enoch and Daniel prophesied.

Aramaic Enoch Scroll

https://lnkd.in/e9bb7GZ If this scroll goes public and has the Parables of the Book of Enoch included, so much could then be proven about why Jesus called Himself 'The Son of Man".

Of What Account Were They?

People claim the contents of the Bible is determined by a canon (church laws) and the Book of Enoch is not included, yet how true is that? The main Bible that determined other Bibles' contents seems to have been the King James Version but not in itself controlled by any Church Council regarding which books it included but rarher the scholars of Oxford and Cambridge universities. Of what account were they? 

Who Wrote the Book of Enoch?

Who could have written the Book of Enoch if not those by whom it says it is written? If it wasn't Enoch and Noah and Methuselah who wrote it they must have been the cleverest person in history to have gotten all the historic details of the Calcholithic and Early Bronze Age I and II so correct with such precision and accuracy plus they must have been inspired by a spirit from God to have gotten the Parables section so truthful regarding the Son of Man so anyone with knowledge of such history and real faith must ask whether such a person could make up a fake book. We could believe it now or we could doubt it and simply wait for very ancient fragments to be discovered much older than the Dead Sea Scrolls. I'm done with doubting it personally and will carry on believing it since it leads to truth Jesus said I must believe.

Know the Certainty

The (extant) Instructions of Sharappak begins
[http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section5/tr561.htm]
"In those days, in those far remote days, in those nights, in those faraway nights, in those years, in those far remote years, at that time the wise one who knew how to speak in elaborate words lived in the Land; Curuppag, the wise one, who knew how to speak with elaborate words lived in the Land. Curuppag gave instructions to his son; Curuppag, the son of Ubara-Tutu gave instructions to his son Zi-ud-sura: My son, let me give you instructions: you should pay attention! Zi-ud-sura, let me speak a word to you: you should pay attention! Do not neglect my instructions! Do not transgress the words I speak! The instructions of an old man are precious; you should comply with them!"

Ziudsura = Noah
Curuppag = Lamech
Ubaratutu = Methuselah

The (extant) Sumerian King Lists show Udaratutu as successor to the king who ascended to the angels to be taught by them (Enmendurana = Enoch]

Jesus is God's life's work

The Oldest Holy Scriptures

Book of Enoch, to a believer, survives as arguably the oldest scripture existing today. It is recorded (Jasher) that Enoch living in the Sumerian Copper-Stone Age around 3000 BC was first to learn how to write testimonial prose at a time when cuneiform was limited to lists and numbers. Archaeologists date the start of the Fara Period when writing prose books started to around the 25th century BC. Enoch, the first to write like this, using a form of writing that could record speech and thought, said to his son (Biblical Methuselah) that he started writing before his marriage. This would be around the 30th century BC. Sumerian history records that he ascended with angels to where the throne of God is. The Bible says this was in his 365th year which would put it in the 28th century BC. The majority of the Book of Enoch consists of writings which report to be from this time. Clearly he had been writing before then (as recorded in the account of his first prophetic dream). It appears Adam was created in the 38th century BC and the Bible says Enoch was born over 600 years later in the 32nd or 31st century BC. So writing characteristic of the Fara Period may have existed as early as the 31st century BC and some of the Book of Enoch texts existed in the 28th century BC.

God's Masterplan

The Book of Enoch tells us the great plan of God to deal with wickedness - make a new righteous people and do away with the wicked and ungodly. Within this plan emerges His even greater plan from before the beginning of everything - make a human Son begotten of Himself and keep this person pure by hiding Him from all the rest of creation while grooming Him to be the new boss to sit on God's throne. Then to make the righteous replacement people to replace the wicked, send this Son of Man for a little while before bringing Him back into hiding until the time comes to judge and remove the wicked from among the righteous.

The Law of Christ

The Law of Christ: What is that? A sequence of steps: "Stop sinning", "Believe that I am", "Hold to My teaching", "Stop sinning all the more as truth sets you free", "Hold to My teaching", "Now you are friends", "Receive the Holy Spirit", "I will come to him and the Father will come to him, and dwell with him", "Hold to My teaching", "Bear much fruit", "Remain in Me and let My words remain in you", "Live forever - and I will raise him up on the Last Day"

Brightest Lights of the Fara Period

How did the writings we have today in the Book of Enoch survive the 'Noah's Flood'? Well another book surviving the flood might give a clue - this book got written down again not long after the flood by a scribal priest and two copies from that time - extant copies - still survive in museums in Oxford and Chicago - The Instructions of Sharappak - written record of proverbs passed on from Lamech to Noah - so either Noah remembered them or copies survived the flood - perhaps the cities from before the flood like Methuselah's capital Shurappak were excavated when being rebuilt after the flood (the city of Sharappak site Tel Fara shows the flood layer and rebuilding on top of it and Sumerian history backs this up) - Noah would have known this city well and that it held libraries of books from before the flood (it is still famous for them and this gave that period the characteristics of first book writing so the period is now known as the Fara Period).

The Nature of the Son

Jesus agreed He could rightly be called a god in the same way other great leaders can. And He can rightly be called Lord because He is a great lord and powerful master. But He is and in some mysterious spirit way always has been human. Unlike God. Hence He is the Son of Man. And God has made Him truly Lord by raising Him from the dead after He was crucified. Because His being first of all God's makings He is before time and is not changed in His nature at all by time because He is Lord over time. This is how He is like God the Father but God the Father is greater.

The Son of Man was always human

If Jesus is God then we need a normal human who isn't God to intercede with Him and represent normal humans with Him - someone like a pope say - hence there are many who love such doctrine - Truth is, Jesus was always human and normal from before time but hidden from sin until He was sent. This is why He is called the Son of Man. That is why, as Enoch explained, He was hidden by God - he was hidden away from corrupting influences and events in the world so He would be perfect to be born into the world - Jesus Christ. He was the Son of Man before His coming in Bethlehem so this means He was always human even in heaven before He came and for this reason God hides Him away to spare Him the constant temptation a human suffers -yet for a few decades He did suffer the temptations we suffer so He knows what it is like and this is what is so important about Him being the Son of Man. 

Jude quoting Noah

The Bible's Epistle of Jude quotes not just one verse from the Book of Enoch but two - from the beginning and again from the middle. The first is quoting Enoch the prophet himself writing by the Holy Spirit. This is chapter 1 verse 9. The second quote in the same verses of Jude is a quoting Noah (Noah's Flood Noah) who contributed part of the texts combined together in what is called the Book of Enoch. This is from chapter 60 verse 8 (in R H Charles' chapter/verse numbering) which states that Enoch was seventh from Adam. It reads "But the male is named Behemoth, who occupied with his breast a waste wilderness named Dûidâin, on the east of the garden where the elect and righteous dwell, where my grandfather was taken up, the seventh from Adam, the first man whom the Lord of Spirits created." This "seventh from Adam" is supported by modern archaeology which found the Sumerian King List regarding kings of the first civilisation Sumer before the Flood which states that Adam (it calls him Alulim) was first king and was created by God having no earthly parents and that Enoch (called Enmenduranki or Enmendurana) was seventh king after Adam. Seventh from Adam. Noah's writing might also have been referring to Enoch being seventh generation after Adam, as later genealogies show.

Believing the Apocalypse

I always kept an open mind about Revelation, The Apocalypse, knowing it says dire things, yet never hearing anyone back it up or express certainty about it, so I admitted to God I was not certain it was authentic - not that I refused to believe it - I just did not have it in me to be certain. After all it is dire what it says in 21:8. And there is weird stuff all through it. I needed to be sure and asked God about it. A friend pointed out the similarity between Rev 13 and Daniel 7 - the Beast in Rev and empires prophesied in Daniel and I suddenly saw what they meant and just knew in my heart the same Spirit inspiring Daniel with the dream (and we know it came true with Babylon followed by Persia then Greece) was the inspirer of Jesus showing John what would take place yet still. The continuity was there. I believed it - after decades of reading it I was sure. Then to see Enoch reflected in it too - it is so profound it could only be God and Jesus and the Holy Spirit behind it as behind Enoch and then Daniel too.

I used to be trinitarian

I was brought up to be a trinitarian pastor like my father and his father - I taught trinitarian teachings dutifully but hated not being true to the scriptures in spirit and truth - but I asked to know God by visitation - for God to show Himself as Father and Son and Holy Spirit. Well God showed Himself to me in a real dream with signs following and said "I am God" - weeks later Jesus came to me as I walked near my home and later gave me proof it had been Him - and later the Holy Spirit visited me in a church service - and then I was shown the Book of Enoch and got a better view of Father and Son from it - God and the Son of Man who God calls His Son - then what really did it was a man online telling me to look up where in the scriptures it says "God the Son" - I was stunned not to find it anywhere - so I repented - though breaking the old habit of saying "God the Son" took a long time. I still need deprogramming with trinitarian concepts well embedded in my psyche. Preaching this helps. I came across Arians too and that helped. Many are persuaded of Soccininan teachings but after struggling with such teachings I'm convinced of the pre-existence of Christ. Just that He came from the Father before time began as a Son by birth - the only one. The only-begotten Son.

He that liveth for ever

I once went to a pentecostal church because a friend promised I would witness the true Holy Spirit there and took me along. The message I heard spoken in tongues of angels became English in my mind as it was spoken (maybe this is gift of interpretation) and the words were clear "Look at the trees how they put forth buds and leaves. They do so by the authority of the name of Lord Jesus Christ" and it continued about planets but I have forgotten the words. Weeks later I read the Book of Enoch for the first time browsing in a church bookshop. I opened it and read almost the exact words of that message in tongues - yet the words were written five thousand years ago! Thank God it has been so well preserved and translated over and over without losing its original inspired message from the Holy Spirit. It says in chapter 5:1-2 "Observe ye how the trees cover themselves with green leaves and bear fruit - wherefore give ye heed and know with regard to all His works and recognise how He that liveth for ever hath made them so and all His works go on thus from year to year." This is not anywhere in the Bible scriptures so I had never heard it before and the speaker in tongues was church leader but did not believe in any scriptures outside the Bible (he later strongly rebuked me for even mentioning the Book of Enoch and told me not to return to that church - for this and other reasons). So the Holy Spirit Himself was using the Book of Enoch together with His gifts to tell me even now that Jesus is He who lives for ever and is this Lord spoken of in the prophecies.

The Truth worth dying for

The Gospel of John chapter 18 verse 37 '"You are a king, then!" said Pilate. Jesus answered, "You say that I am a king. In fact, the reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me."'
He died testifying to something true and died knowingly. It was for you, for me. So what truth could be so important and so potentially beneficial to His hearers and to us that it was worth dying to reveal? Surely the greatest revelation uniquely associated with the coming and life on Earth of Jesus Christ: His resurrection. God in love and power was and is and ever will be so dependable that Jesus could die depending on Him to raise Him from the dead; and God did just that. God raised His obedient and much loved Son to live forever. That love and power and dependability of God is the truth Jesus put out there and died to do so.