The BrExodus Precedent

EXODUS

Exodus 9:

5The Lord set a time and said, “Tomorrow the Lord will do this in the land.” 6And the next day the Lord did it: All the livestock of the Egyptians died, but not one animal belonging to the Israelites died. 7Pharaoh investigated and found that not even one of the animals of the Israelites had died. Yet his heart was unyielding and he would not let the people go.

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Exodus 10: 

24Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and said, “Go, worship the Lord. Even your women and children may go with you; only leave your flocks and herds behind.”

25But Moses said, “You must allow us to have sacrifices and burnt offerings to present to the Lord our God. 26Our livestock too must go with us; not a hoof is to be left behind. We have to use some of them in worshiping the Lord our God, and until we get there we will not know what we are to use to worship the Lord.”

27But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he was not willing to let them go. 28Pharaoh said to Moses, “Get out of my sight! Make sure you do not appear before me again! The day you see my face you will die.”

29“Just as you say,” Moses replied. “I will never appear before you again.

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Exodus 11: 

9The Lord had said to Moses, “Pharaoh will refuse to listen to you—so that my wonders may be multiplied in Egypt.” 10Moses and Aaron performed all these wonders before Pharaoh, but the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not let the Israelites go out of his country.

At the Cross

The fact that philosophically inclined people interested in Christ tend to find scripture verses they can use to justify their philosophical position does not mean God endorses their position or their philosophical leanings. God makes philosophy appear foolish by making the wonderful salvation of believers flow out of the inner workings of the message that Christ died for them. The cross is the sign that God has made settlement through the death on the cross of His Son. Hearing and taking to heart this message fills a believer whose heart is opened by God with knowledge of God’s truthfulness and rightness. 

“At the cross at the cross where I first saw the Light 

and the burden of my heart rolled away.

It was there by faith I received my sight 

And now I am happy all the day.”

When you are given to know God through the inner working of the death of Christ for you then you will love God because He has forgiven you and given you grace and taught you personally. But you might forget all this and lose your love for Him. So remember often and build on that love by acting on it and letting it fill your heart. Build on it by growing in goodness and knowledge and self-discipline and godliness and brotherly kindness and love for all the ones who love like this. Know God’s will and obey it.

The Meaning of the Cross

Researching the Book of Enoch got me paying attention to Sumerian and Akkadian cuneiform script and its meanings and their use in scriptures and understanding of things of God. One treasure I found is the original symbol of the cross and what it means -  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/𒈦 The cross symbol means a settlement of account or a tax and similarly means a sacrifice which settles with God. It also came to be associated with those whose role was to settle things between God (or gods) and men - mediating. Such people typically offered sacrifices to appease gods before seeking oracles. So the lamb of God having such a symbol in being crucified on a cross shows the open mind that He is a sacrifice to settle things with God.

Dabela - ram, he-goat

DABELA - Ram, he-goat (Amharic, Ge’ez)

(Book of Enoch ch 90)

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. 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.“

Dreams

DREAMS

Enoch appeared to warn of people getting sidetracked by following spurious dreams in chapter 99

“8. And they shall become godless by reason of the folly of their hearts,

And their eyes shall be blinded through the fear of their hearts

And through visions in their dreams.

9. Through these they shall become godless and fearful;

For they shall have wrought all their work in a lie,

And shall have worshiped a stone:

Therefore in an instant shall they perish.”

Clearly there are dreams and there are dreams.

The magi who visited the Son of Man when He was a baby were following a star in their magi understanding of what it signified but later they saved His life by following a warning in a dream. So magi wise in spiritual things were discerning of God-given dreams and discerning of dreams that should be ignored. The Law given to Moses warned about spirits coming to people predicting things: the warning is that the prediction not coming true is to be ignored but even if the prediction did come true but if the spirit led towards making idols then it should not be heeded. Yet the wise know to not ignore some dreams if they do show signs of coming from a God-sent spirit and are not leading to idolatry. Over thousands of years of human history folk all over the world have been led in dreams to making foolish idols out of things not supposed to be worshipped which has harmed true religion and corrupted humanity. Yet the Holy Spirit when given does lead through dreams as light amid this darkness. The wise magi who went to see the baby Son of Man followed the dream wisely and it proved to be a God-send saving God’s Son. Those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. 

What is the Kingdom of God?

What is the Kingdom of God?

The archaeology of Enoch’s times tells us clues about the meaning of Kingdom of God and what it is. Enoch’s original name shortened to Enoch over the centuries tells us the same as a sign of this kingdom. Enmenduranki. En meant Lord, AnKi meant God kingdom or God domain. The rest meant bridge. It tells us there is a task for us to be part of God’s domain by doing things led by the Spirit of God but then there is another challenge for us of bridging our holy task with our normal lives and human body needs so we manage to make it all holy. The Son of Man exemplfied this and taught it is like mixing yeast with dough.

The Offer

The ‘wealthy investor’ offer of the Son of Man given in the Name of the Father - what is it?

A bit like a business offer we can ask what is on offer and what is asked in return. What is on offer? Eternally perpetuated fulfilled life with constant salvation and inner renewal. What then is asked in return? What is that “If ...”?

It is like enrollment on His course which is really behind the scenes the Father’s course. The “if” is perpetually staying signed up - sticking with the Son and the Spirit as disciples.

‘If you abide with the word” https://lnkd.in/dVgEUnn - stick with the Son of Man and what He says as teacher - stay on His course - remain a disciple of Him - and follow the Spirit coming in His name. This is the deal to accept and perpetually keep to. Eternal enrolment with the Son and the Holy Spirit in the name of the Father in exchange for eternally being saved and renewed.

Our Sorceries

“... nor did they repent of their murders or their sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts.” — Revelation 9:21

The use of metals to protect ourselves which of course endangers others and ultimately endangers everyone including ourselves, and provides a culture in which violence can increase; the use of colourful chemicals to brighten up our lives and overbrighten them which ultimately provides a culture in which promiscuity can increase; these things started around 3300 BC and have continued and increased since then. Archaeology shows all this and it was the background to the original writings found in the Book of Enoch which explains it as the result of Azazel an angel mixing with humans to gain a human wife and teaching things to humans better kept to angels alone. So archaeology backs up these things with evidence from around 3300 BC in Mesopotamia spreading from there. 

Then the veracity of the account details which passed through the ages is verified by the Son of Man preaching teachings consistent with the Book of Enoch and teaching that those writings are Scripture (as evidenced in the Gospel of John 7:38 and the Book of Enoch 49).

In Revelation this Son of Man together with the Father, God, testify that sorcery will be among the reasons humans will be permanently cast into fire as final judgement (Rev 21:8). Sorcery grew out of the technologies of metal working, according to the Book of Enoch (chapter 65). The Book of Enoch relates how Noah saw that sorcery in metallurgy would result in world destruction.

Book of Enoch chapter 65

Verse 1: 

“And in those days Noah saw the earth that it had sunk down and its destruction was nigh...”

Verses 6-11: 

‘And a command has gone forth from the presence of the Lord concerning those who dwell on the earth that their ruin is accomplished because they have learnt all the secrets of the angels, and all the violence of the Satans, and all their powers--the most secret ones--and all the power of those who practice sorcery, and the power of witchcraft, and the power of those who make molten images for the whole earth: And how silver is produced from the dust of the earth, and how soft metal originates in the earth. For lead and tin are not produced from the earth like the first: it is a fountain that produces them, and an angel stands therein, and that angel is pre-eminent. And after that my grandfather Enoch took hold of me by my hand and raised me up, and said unto me: 'Go, for I have asked the Lord of Spirits as touching this commotion on the earth. And He said unto me: "Because of their unrighteousness their judgement has been determined upon and shall not be withheld by Me for ever. Because of the sorceries which they have searched out and learnt, the earth and those who dwell upon it shall be destroyed." And these--they have no place of repentance for ever, because they have shown them what was hidden, and they are the damned: but as for thee, my son, the Lord of Spirits knows that thou art pure, and guiltless of this reproach concerning the secrets.”’

Origins of the Kingdom of God?

Origins of the Kingdom of God?

The people of the time of Enoch and Noah around 3000 BC living in what is now Iraq and Iran had the word Anunnaki which combined Anunna meaning sons of God with KI meaning domain or city. Ki on the end of a word is likely to be a diminutive signifying that the word might be a city or province or domain. So the word shows an awareness of there being of domain of the sons of God. There was a tradition at the time that the first angelic sons of God existijg long ago before the start of the human race were rejected by God after falling into sin and that God created humans with the purpose of eventually replacing these sons of God. In the meantime God had designated seven more sons of God to be closest to Him in their service. The Book of Enoch names these and some of the names are familiar such as Michael and Gabriel. The Epic of Gilgamesh written in the later years of Noah’s life tells how it was Noah who provided Sumerians with much of their teaching about the sons of God. Both Noah and Enoch his great grandfather are given in the Book of Enoch as its main authors who were made privy to knowledge of these angelic ministers over this earth. Yet nowhere in the writings in this book or other Sumerian writings does it indicate that angels are the ultimate focus of God’s longterm purposes except that they will be judged if they depart from His decrees and plans as a group of them did before Enoch’s time. The focus seems to coincide with that tradition that ultimately it is humans whose purpose is to be the stock from which God will select elect righteous sons to be with Him forever and He with them along with His righteous anointed Son, the perfect human.

The Gentle Judge

Considering why the prophet Enoch (in the Book of Enoch) focussed in his writings so much on the righteous Anointed One of faith being the Son of Man: As a son of man, eternal, yet like a young man in nature, the Son of Man can be gentle of heart and kind towards humans and forgive those who cannot repay their debts to His Father, God. Yet this cuts both ways because as the Son of Man made flesh (Jesus, Isa, Yeshu) said of the ones so forgiven who go out and torture those in much smaller debt to them, once the time comes for the Son of Man to review the situation He may well punish such former debtors by forcing them to repay their own debt to God formerly forgiven by Him. So what does this say about God’s character in giving this Son of Man authority over other humans to both forgive and judge? In doing so God provides humans with the very best just opportunity to receive mercy through someone of gentle sympathy to fellow humans whilst making any judgement that is yet incurred by the unmerciful in no way undeserved or overly harsh. This shows God in providing judgement provides the most tender and gentle form of judgement overall but not falling short of overall justice to the victim of merciless judgement by humans. This favours the poor and the victims while maintaining fairness and sternness when punishment is warranted.

Baptism into the way of the Son of Man

Baptism in the name of the Son of Man: 

The Son of Man seen by Enoch but hidden from most others became visible to many around 20-30 AD when He appeared in the flesh and He gave teachings which were powerful as little hurricanes here and there and changed the world. He also gave baptism into those teachings as a way for people who believed His message to commit to following His teachings. Yet how foolish that now so many who spread and preserve the practice of baptising ‘in His name’ and being so baptised are doing that without the important bit - following through with living by His teachings. Occasionally someone actually takes on his shoulders the yoke of adhering to and practising the teachings of the Son of Man while struggling with trying to understand them and put them into sensible action and some, but few, try to teach this to others too. So why is it an exception? Why do so many others go through the ritual of baptising but not the way of following?

the Lamb who was slain from the creation of the world

Revelation 13:8b “...the Lamb who was slain from the creation of the world.”

The Son of Man is now a slain and risen human being back in the provinces of God and His top angels and this was determined before the creation of the world as if it already was so. Given this eternal future nature of the Christ it figures that God would prepare Him long before sending Him to take a flesh and bone body for eternity to come. So it stands to reason that even aeons before He came the Son of Man would have the close resemblance to human flesh that made Enoch then later Daniel see Him and call Him a son of man.

A New World is Emerging

There was an ancient Sumerian king who was a great prophet and teacher about God and this Enoch (Enmendurana, seventh world king) saw the Son of Man long before this same Son of Man came as a human baby boy and grew to an adult we call Jesus of Nazareth. This Jesus (Yeshu, Yeshua, Isa) said it is not flesh that makes us children of Abraham but spirit. Children of Satan lie and hate. Children of Abraham put lying far from their mouths. This is what the Son of Man taught when He came. Then He died for us to set us free from lying and hating. The freedom from sinning comes when the true message that He died for you enters your heart and teaches you repentance (turning from such things). So keeping the Law of Moses and related teachings (Torah) is not all there is to it for the Jew and is not imposed upon the non-Jew. Saul of Tarsus kept that Law (Torah) better than most and had everything to help him do so (like the most famous master of the Law, Gamaliel to teach him). Yet still Saul hated followers of Yeshu (Jesus) of Nazareth and effectively showed hatred towards God and God’s Son by doing so. Then the Son of Man transformed him and we have the Apostle Paul. So Enoch tells it well thousands of years in advance what the Son of Man would be as a way to be saved but it is all so much more certain now that the Son of Man has come in flesh and blood, crucified and risen. As the chief apostle of Jesus, Peter put it (2 Peter 1:19) “... and we have the prophetic word more fully confirmed, to which you will do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.“ So we can receive prophecy as a gift from God confirmed by this coming of Jesus. Today God still speaks and says “Israel has sinned” and we see world events unfolding as a sign of the faithfulness of God’s prophetic word. We should love this God, this Father, with all our hearts as we see the events unfold and prophecy fulfilled. The US spy planes and other spying agencies take to the skies while below the Iranian and Balkan and Iraqi conflicts have taken many to destruction and a new order emerges to be an empire of tomorrow like combinations of the empires of the distant past. We can take these things as signs of the truth of the prophecies and write God’s prophetic words as notices in our households and shout them from rooftop and social media site. The love towards this one God Yahweh, the Father, proclaimed by the Son, is a way towards the elimination of sin from among the Israel of God and all of us who believe as we give God’s commands priority in all aspects of our lives and set them on both our lips and our hearts.

Next Level Perspective on Jesus Christ

“Next level” perspective on Jesus Christ. The perspective on Jesus Christ given in the Book of Enoch is important to the growth of faith because it takes the believer to the next level. In the Book of Enoch a believer in the book’s veracity and historic authenticity can find evidence of Jesus Christ existing as the Son of Man thousands of years before His advent as a baby. The Son of Man’s longevity is revealed. This revelation leads to the necessary conclusion that this Jesus who turns people from their sins and turns Sauls into Pauls can keep doing so for endless thousands of years into the future with the same person and eternal security becomes a reality.

Sight or Touch

People ask other people whether they have ever seen Jesus. Well, I reply: Is touch as good as sight? It is even better perhaps because now I know He is living and human. Just what we need for Salvation from our human corruption so we can be righteous and ever be kept that way by this living - ever living and resurrected - human mediator with God.

Swiss Cheese

Nature is mostly in the kingdom of God. Most human souls are pockets devoid of the kingdom. They are trying to pull the kingdom into their void pockets by force. Many are callng on their gods. “Oh my god” they say. Yet they should listen and believe what the Holy Spirit teaches in order to bring the kingdom into their void. They should consider Nature beyond their void. Consider the authoritative One and His teachings and fame. The Anointed One. The Deliverance. Lament the void. Reach beyond the void. Seek the kingdom. Call on the name of the One who grows to fill all voids.

Writings from long ago

The origins of writing as seen in the archaeology are mysterious. There were the strange stone cones used to line temples in Uruk around 3400 BC which had writing on their outward facing ends. This was pictographic writing rather than the cuneiform that developed from it later. It coincided with the start of the leaps in technology that marked the later Chalcolithic Period followed by the first stages of the Early Bronze Age in Mesopotamia. These technologies included metallurgy advances, chemicals used for pigments, and colourful beads of enamel and gemstones and weaponry such as blades and axes and maces. The Book of Enoch writes of these things and where and when they appeared among humans and explains that the originators were angelic rather than human. Why is it interesting? Because it means we who are Book of Enoch readers are reading something holy from the earliest days of writing. An odd thing to be doing? Well, not if you remember how Jesus Christ so often mentioned the contents of this book. You see it was much of it about Himself, the Son of Man. Writings about a Son of Man written not long after writing first appeared among humans and then three thousand or more years later He turns up - Jesus the Christ - saying it is He of whom these writings wrote.

Sharing in Jesus Christ

“Truly I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in their heart but believes that what they say will happen, it will be done for them.” — Jesus Christ (Mark 11:23)

By speaking to the storm and it obeying, you find yourself sharing spiritually in the authority of The Christ, Jesus. He has been doing it thousands, maybe millions, maybe billions of years and once only He was doing this before the Fathee making all things by this powerful speaking. To be united with Jesus Christ is the greatest thing in the Universe.

I rejoice at the wisdom about heavenly things given to the apostles that they would use “Lord” (Greek: kurios) for Jesus rather “God”. They reserve “God” for the Father who is Almighty. Whereas Kurios (Lord) is one who starting small grows to fill a great area. So Jesus became small and constantly grows in greatness. This is why He is called Lord. Distinct from the Father who has always been completely Almighty. We too can grow as we are united with Christ in baptism and learn to do as He does as we receive from God things of power to do. We start as it were small and dead in baptism beneath the water as He was baptised into weakness and even death. Then we grow from there as risen Christ is united with us as we are part of His body. The Father makes us grow as He makes Christ Jesus grow. We do greater and greater things which display Christ’s Lordship until we can control Nature like He controls it. And as Head of the Body He controls us too as we learn submission to His greater authority.

Speaking in Church is not for Everyone

SPEAKING IN CHURCH NOT FOR EVERYONE

About twenty years ago I went to a church where many were allowed speak in meetings but my (now) wife advised me not to speak while still a newcomer there. Someone spoke saying that EVERYONE should speak. I knew this was dangerous because it might encourage women to speak without knowing it was right for them to stay silent in church. So the day of the next meeting I prayed asking God to tell them through others that not everyone should speak in services. That morning service the leader split the attenders into two groups about twenty or thirty in each group. In the group I was in there were three young men who spoke in turn and each said that it was right for some to speak but for others they did best to just listen quietly citing Mary listening at the feet of Jesus. One of these young men spoke so powerfully and prophetically that I asked afterwards who he was. They said he rarely came but was known as a prophet and must have come that day led by God to say this.

The Oath Updated

THE OATH UPDATED

We are fortunate, judging from the Book of Enoch, to live at a time when the Oath behind all the workings of Nature has been updated to include the actual name of the Son of Man, the name which is called in its English form Lord Jesus Christ. So now the Oath is enunciated to include His actual name so we can better understand it that all of Nature is constantly adhering to the authority of the name of Lord Jesus Christ.

I’ve noticed the new enunciation of this Oath including the name Lord Jesus Christ spoken by the Holy Spirit in church meetings through angelic “tongues” with interpretation. So it is clearly of great importance to include it in our lives, learning to live and be saved by it: “Consider the trees how they put forth buds and leaves; they do so by the authoritative power of the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.”

A Shadow of Things to Come

The Shedu God 𒀭𒆘

A shadow of things to come. 

The name El Shaddai is mysterious and few understand its origins. God told Moses it was the term about Himself He used to describe Himself to Abraham. Abraham was of Akkadian semitic origins living originally in Ur in what is now modern day Iraq. So Akkadian rather than Hebrew would have been Abraham’s birth tongue and Hebrew was very similar to Akkadian. So what did El Shaddai mean to Abraham? Well a shedu is a fabulous creature in Akkadian lore with the head of a human and the body of an ox and wings - like a Sphynx but ox replacing lion. So it had all-round strength. Hence it represented God being Almighty. El was a syllable added to names or representations of highest heavenly beings - meaning God as we know it today. So when Hebrew was translated into Greek centuries later, when nobody outside the Middle East knew what a shadu was, they took the meaning of Mighty in all kinds of ways which today we say as Almighty to translate this word. So today we have it as God Almighty or Almighty God.

Now the new name God gave Moses to use was Yahweh meaning “yet to come”, “becoming”, “will come to pass”, “will be”. What God truly is was yet to be revealed. Watch this space, God was effectively telling Pharoah, You will see what I am. Be afraid; be very afraid. And what Pharoah saw of God in the plagues shook him to the core and forced him to relinquish his vice-like control of Israel. To Israel they would see their God too and every year celebrate Him in the Passover feast for the joy of hope that what God forever will be could give them. To some a terrible doom and to others an eternal Salvation.

Behold the man

“He breathed His last.”

Does He breathe in His resurrection body and life that continues forever? Whatever He is now, He is man and He is what the Father makes Him.

“When the man comes around.”

Not One and the Same

How unfortunate is the common meaning of the phrase “one and the same”. We can be unified but we are never going to be “one and the same” in the commonly understood meaning. We can be “one” and we can be “the same” but never will we be “one and the same”. If only people would see Father and Son that way.

The Young Son of Man

The Book of 2 Esdras tells us the fuller secret of the Son of Man: why He is called that. He is a young man foreseen in the prophecy. Esdras foresaw the Messiah as coming as a young man into the public eye. Never before had He been made publicly known until He was a young man whose time had come. The one like a son of man. Like somebody’s young son.

The Son and the Spirit of God

“And so I tell you, every kind of sin and slander can be forgiven, but blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.” — Jesus Christ

The Son of Man made it clear He and the Holy Spirit are truly distinct beings by pointing out the absolute distinction between blaspheming Himself and blaspheming the Holy Spirit. If they were one deity together and one being and one substance then blaspheming Him would actually be blaspheming the Holy Spirit too. But it isn’t. So they’re not the same single being and deity. Ref Matthew 12:31-33.

Trinity-teachers

TEACHERS OF THE TRINITY

There is not a heavenly Trinity club or society with three members - if there was then Jesus would have told His disciples so. Everything Jesus did teach them emphasised that He would include them in everything. There was no indication from Him that there was a special group with room for three members only. Those who do the will of God - only these will be saved - so best to only teach what God wants taught.

Cities of Angels

CITIES OF ANGELS

Could the ancient great cities of Enoch’s time and people actually have been founded by angels?

The Sumerians including Enoch and Noah were apparently using two main words for angelic heavenly beings - Anunna and Anunna-Ki. Anunna meant “sons of God” and the custom of associating a name or word with a city was to add the suffix KI so Anunna-Ki might be Anunna who were associated with a city. Indeed most if not all great cities of the time in Sumer (Iraq and Iran) before the Flood had heavenly beings associated with them just like Jerusalem has long been associated with God. So maybe these cities as ancient writings of Noah’s time claim, were indeed founded by individual angels. In theory this might be why after the Flood people mainly resettlled the same sites as the destroyed cities and built over the flood deposits as archaeology shows with cities like Ur and Shurrapak and Eridu and Nippur. They might have believed only an angel should found a city and the angelic providence assured them to be safe settling in that place. So this might also be why ziggurats (predecessors of pyramidal structures worldwide) were built as temples in cities to house their patron angels because this way the angel would bless its city. So we might have here the origin of national gods - founders of a nation’s main cities and therefore protectors too. This in Israel became denoted by the word Elohim. Only Yahweh was to be Israel’s Elohim. No others before Him. To Enoch this God was known not just as God but as the Lord of Spirits. Perhaps this was the origin of the deity name Enlil meaning Lord Spirit. Later in Israel this might become Lord of Hosts.

Miss it miss out

You can be in error if you miss out on knowing the Book of Enoch as the Messiah taught:

Matthew 22:29 ‘Jesus replied, "You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God.”’

The next verse shows He meant the Book of Enoch. It is the only scripture that teaches what Jesus said next:

“At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven.”

Only the Book of Enoch, of all scriptures known at that time Jesus was speaking, teaches that angels are not meant to marry.

Have faith in God

The Messiah says “Have faith in God” then explains and shows how God acts on our behalf if we speak in faith to command nature and do not doubt. This draws attention to two things in particulat about the Father - His love towards us and His power to reach us and our environment. The Father must have powet and ways and means to immediately hear our words of faith and our prayers of faith in Him. He must have love towards us constsntly to do this. He must have power and love to make our prayers and words of faith come to pass. His name is all about this too - love and power and coning to pass. The Son demonstrates this Himself by the miracles He does by faith in the Father’s love and powet. This faith of the Son results in salvation as His own name expresses. It resulted in Lazarus rising from the dead. And many such things too numerous to mention. Still He works this way today. I’ve seen it and surely many have. Putting into practice His words of assurance leads to doing as He too has done and greater things now He is with the Father. God is looking to have offspring who do the things His Son does so God can call us sons of God.

Agency

AGENCY - imbued with the characteristics - and aithority - of the one in whose name the agency is sent

John 1:1 everything God was, the Word was

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ónoma – name; (figuratively) the manifestation or revelation of someone's character, i.e. as distinguishing them from all others. Thus "praying in the name of Christ" means to pray as directed (authorized) by Him, bringing revelation that flows out of being in His presence. "Praying in Jesus' name" therefore is not a "religious formula" just to end prayers (or get what we want)!

["According to Hebrew notions, a name is inseparable from the person to whom it belongs, i.e. it is something of his essence. Therefore, in the case of the God, it is specially sacred" (Souter).]

 <end quote>

https://biblehub.com/greek/3686.htm

The Son came *in the Father’s name* - so much so He came with all the characteristics of the Father and all of His teachings and His works to do - so He mirrors God - just as in the beginning (John 1:1), when He was the Word, all that God was, He was

... and is, and will be.

Sidestep the twisted interpretations

The Book of Enoch helps me sidestep some extremely dangerous trinitarian interpretations of scripture by showing more clearly the true interpretations of scriptures which interpret and build on the Book of Enoch. If people change the meaning of the words of Jesus/Yeshua “Except you believe that I am he you will die in your sins” to be trinitarian (saying it means to believe Jesus/Yeshua is God) they lose the true meaning and that leads to fortfeiting salvation. He had just been telling them about the Son of Man so He clearly meant you must believe that He is the Son of Man - the Messiah. If you do not believe that He is the Son of Man you will die in your sins. What is more valuable - 1. being trinitarian but dying in your sins or 2. believing in the Son of Man and being saved from your sins by Him? “If the Son shall make you free you shall be free indeed”.

Little Foxes

“Come Lord Jesus” “Take away for us the little foxes that spoil the vines”

The teachings of Azazel from ancient times when this angel fell and taught humans the weaponry and metal working skills to use metals for personal protective shields and attack and defense weapons such as maces and swords and the teachings persisting among humans in using metal cars and bicycles and guns and knives to protect while cunningly getting the edge on neighbours it is all like foxes that spoil the vines in the vineyard and the Christ will remove these things when He comes in great power and glory.

The Resurrection and the Life

THE RESURRECTION

It was always one thing that God responded to His Son in love by hearing His invocations of God. But to respond without any possible invocation is another more profound indication of love and favour that could only be demonstrated by the Son dying so He cannot call on God then God raising Him from the dead without any invocation.

A Better Path for Monotheism

Trying to control the narrative of names of God and their meanings is one way many monotheists try to achieve the will of God today but is only second best. The Messiah indeed has power to bring things all under His control and so establish the Kingdom of God. However the better way is that people love God enough to make Him their one god - their entire Elohim. This love was promoted by the Messiah dying on a cross. Proclaiming it helps establish this love in people’s hearts and open their hearts to the Holy Spirit shining into them the knowledge of the nature of God and His holiness.

Confused about God?

Many are confused about what it means to be God or a god. A god is a heavenly being. One heavenly being is higher than all the others and is known for fatherliness. There were cities which made certain heavenly beings their patrons and all such patrons were called the gods of a nation. They recognised one Most High God existed but got confused about which god was supreme. This one supreme God was singled out by Himself as God when in ancient times He commanded the Israelites - descendants of His friend Abraham - to only count Him as national god (Elohim). The Son of Man is the one son of this fatherly supreme God and was so before any other heavenly beings existed so the Son of Man is firstborn. He is therefore a heavenly being - a god - but fully human. He is not the Most High God but is Son (firstborn Son) of the Most High God.

Before and After

“Before Abraham was born, I am” — Jesus Christ (Gospel of John 8).

If Jesus had only begun life just before His birth, then, when He rose from the dead, how could anyone have strong confidence He would live forever and stay righteous forever? And without such confidence how could anyone trust Him to keep them righteous and alive before His Father forever?

144,000

When judgement is in the air and an angel is poised to deliver, say, a fresh bout of ebola to the masses, we who love the believers would say “Wait! The sacrifice of Messiah is for the world and especially the believers! Do not dish out judgement until some sort of protection is distributed to those who deserve protection who are worthy of it. Seal them first!” This is what is going on in heaven and in prayers on earth. When it comes to the severest judgements it will be from Israel only 144,000 sealed but maybe many Gentiles too.

2060 AD

The Book of Enoch chapters 89-90 describe a series of seventy angelic shepherds to whom God handed over Israelites from the time of the Assyrian conquest of Israel up until the present time. It seems likely that the period of each shepherd’s term is forty years which fits with the description of the first 35 terms of rule of these angel shepherds.

The Book of Enoch Chapter 90:1-5 covers terms 35-58 which fits with around 670 AD to 1580 AD: The suffering inflicted on righteous Israelis under Islam and Europe and Russia. 

The Book of Enoch Chapter 90 verses 6-12, 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.

The Book of Enoch 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.

Book of Enoch chapter 90 verses 13-19 leads up to the Judgement in chapter 90 verses 20 onwards, so it might be that verse 18 is the second coming of Messiah; possibly verse 15 too.

Seventy forty year terms starting around 730 BC (Assyrian conquests) using Enoch’s 364-day year and converting to our 365.25-day years put the end of these terms at 2060 AD.

Then in further chapters of the Book of Enoch, chapters 93 and 91, Enoch described the plans of God he saw in heaven. Here is how they fit with history:  

Creation of Adam 3940 BC

3940 BC is the start of 'week' 1 (‘week' is 700 364-day years)

Flood c2600-2540 BC

'week' 2 end 2540 BC

Abraham c1900-1850 BC

'week' 3 end 1850 BC

Law c1200-1150 BC

'week' 4 end 1150 BC

Temple completed 500-450 BC

'week' 5 end 450 BC

Ascension between 450 BC and 250 AD

'week' 6 end 250 AD

The Final Judgement between 2940 and 3040 AD (seventh part of 'week' 10)

'week' 10 end 3040 AD

So a 2060 AD coming of Messiah fits very well indeed.

Plans of God seen in Heaven

Timescales of plans of God seen in heavenly places by Enoch the Prophet, Seventh from Adam

Creation of Adam 3940 BC

3940 BC is the start of 'week' 1 (‘week' is 700 364-day years)

Flood c2600-2540 BC

'week' 2 end 2540 BC

Abraham c1900-1850 BC

'week' 3 end 1850 BC

Law c1200-1150 BC

'week' 4 end 1150 BC

Temple completed 500-450 BC

'week' 5 end 450 BC

Ascension between 450 BC and 250 AD

'week' 6 end 250 AD

The Final Judgement between 2940 and 3040 AD (seventh part of 'week' 10)

'week' 10 end 3040 AD

Elohim

This is how I understand the usage of the word Elohim in the scriptures. Originally Enoch (Idris), Noah and everyone religious in their times were probably what is called Tengrists, followers of Tengri, then called Dingri, also called An, later called El. Then idolatry muddied the water and it became normal to ignore the supreme heavenly being (Most High) and make invocations more to other heavenly beings and even to eartly entities too. The gods people worshipped depended where they lived, especially the nearest city and temple because cities and temples had patron heavenly beings. So the divisions of patron worship grew and grew as more cities were founded. A nation might collect all these patron deities of its cities and their temples into a national kind of pantheon - and Elohim - and so these collections were on regional lines. So Egypt had its gods - its Elohim - and Cush had its gods and Ugarit had its gods and Hittites had their gods and there was some overlap though names had regional variations of spelling. These people all still believed one god was supreme but the understanding of which god is supreme was muddled. Usually they just used a name which meant whichever god is supreme - that God. Only later with Abraham and then Moses did the supreme god clarify things by making Himself known.

Cosmic Ripstop

Ripstop is a type of fabric into which are woven intermitten threads of extra-strong material which keep the fabric from tearing and ripping as normal fabric would do. The fabric of the universe was under threat of tearing when angels sinned against their nature and archangels asked to strengthen it using the name of the Lord Jesus the Son of Man the Anointed One, the Salvation of God. So the oath that upholds all things was interwoven with this name and so in this name all things hold together; this name invoked before anything else but God and His firstborn existed.

The Similitudes

SIMILITUDES

One part of the Book of Enoch is a set of three sections called The Similitudes or The Parables. Fragments of the Book of Enoch found among the Dead Sea Scrolls dating from before and during and after the earthly time of the Messiah do not as yet include any fragments from this section of the Book of Enoch leading some to doubt this section’s true antiquity and authenticity. Yet within this sections is chapter 49 which seems to have been referred to by the Messiah when teaching about the Holy Spirit being like a spring of water (John 7:38 and see also John 4). No scriptures contain such a metaphor except this chapter of the Book of Enoch Parables (Similitudes) section. So this is good evidence of the existence and high regard of this section during the Messiah’s times.

Metals and Colours

The use of metals to protect ourselves which of course endangers others and ultimately endangers everyone including ourselves, and provides a culture in which violence can increase; the use of colourful chemicals to brighten up our lives and overbrighten them which ultimately provides a culture in which promiscuity can increase; these things started around 3300 BC and have continued and increased since then. Archaeology shows all this and it was the background to the original writings found in the Book of Enoch which explains it as the result of Azazel an angel mixing with humans to gain a human wife and teaching things to humans better kept to angels alone. So archaeology backs up these things with evidence from around 3300 BC in Mesopotamia spreading from there. Then the veracity of the account details which passed through the ages is verified by the Messiah, the Son of Man, Jesus preaching teachings consistent with the Book of Enoch and teaching that those writings are Scripture (as evidenced in the Gospel of John 7:38 and the Book of Enoch 49).

Enoch’s Book of Scriptures

John 7:38 ‘Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.”’
Jesus quoting Book of Enoch and calling it “Scripture”? Wikipedia says so.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-canonical_books_referenced_in_the_Bible
Anyone know where this saying is found in the Book of Enoch? If so it means Jesus taught that the Book of Enoch is Scripture.

Enoch 48:1 In that place I beheld a fountain of righteousness, which never failed, encircled by many springs of wisdom. Of these all the thirsty drank, and were filled with wisdom, having their habitation with the righteous, the elect, and the holy.” John 7:38 is probably Jesus quoting not just Enoch 48:1 but all of Enoch 49 too

Book of Enoch 49

l. For wisdom is poured out like water,

And glory faileth not before him for evermore.

2. For he is mighty in all the secrets of righteousness,

And unrighteousness shall disappear as a shadow,

And have no continuance;

Because the Elect One standeth before the Lord of Spirits,

And his glory is for ever and ever,

And his might unto all generations. p. 68

3. And in him dwells the spirit of wisdom,

And the spirit which gives insight,

And the spirit of understanding and of might,

And the spirit of those who have fallen asleep in righteousness.

4. And he shall judge the secret things,

And none shall be able to utter a lying word before him;

For he is the Elect One before the Lord of Spirits according to His good pleasure.

Dingir

Why did God appear to the Israelites in Moses’ time as a very bright light in the sky? The Sumerians (of whom Enoch was a prominent leader around 3000 BC) had a word for God which is written as a star (asterisk) symbol, pronounced either as AN or as DINGIR. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingir This last way of saying “God” - Dingir - has persisted throughout subsequent history even up until modern times in the form Tingir in the oriental parts of the world. The translation of these people of this word for God into English is Eternal Sky and associated with they phrase regarding God, The Eternal Blue Sky. The Sumerian symbol of the star asterisk Dingir was very much associated with the sky, the high heavens. So the appearance of God as a bright light in the daytime sky must have evoked the most widely understood concept of the supreme, most high God, in the ancient world.

Thousands of years later another great light in the sky was seen when the hater of Christians Saul of Tarsus was struck with blindness on the road to Damascus from Jerusalem by the light of the Messiah. The appearance of Jesus to Saul (who became Apostle Paul) associated this Messiah, this Christ Jesus, with the sky too and so the awareness started of the sky being associated with both Almighty God the Father and Lord Jesus Christ the Son and this would continue and spread worldwide even to this present day.

Why is the Son of Man called the Son of Man?

Why in the Book of Enoch and the Book of Daniel is the Son of Man called the Son of Man? In Daniel 7 to 11 there are several heavenly beings called “a man” but they are not human beings but angels; archangels. In chapter 7 there is just one who is called a Son of Man; because He is not an angel looking like a man but looks like He actually is a real man. So this is the Messiah’s meaning when He calls Himself the Son of Man; He means He is this Son of Man who Daniel and Enoch saw.

Original Written Words for God

THE MOST ANCIENT WORDS FOR GOD

Aside from heiroglyphics the closest extant (actual cuneiform tablets) writings we have to the time of Enoch are the Temple Hymn of Kesh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kesh_temple_hymn and the Instructions of Sharappak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instructions_of_Shuruppak. These texts are both religious in nature, like scripture, and one uses the word or name EN.LIL for God (the supreme heavenly being) and the other uses the word or name UTU. The uses of these names in literature show clear similarities with references to God in the Book of Enoch and other scriptures so it is plausible that they are references to the same supreme heavenly being. The Temple Hymn of Kesh praises God using the name or title EN.LIL whose meaning is like the translation we have in English of the title in the Book of Enoch “Lord of Spirits”. It could mean Supreme Spirit. The content of these praises is consistent with it being about the same God in other religious writings and scriptures such as those in the Bible. Likewise the Utu mentioned in the Instructions of Sharappak seems to be referring to God.

Anunna, Anunnaki and An

“Anunna” is the Sumerian and Akkadian original word for the many angels, sons of An, God. “An” meant heavenly being generally but there was one heavenly being whose name was Heavenly Being (An). So they called God “An” and angels “Anunna” (sons of God). Now the top angels, especially the top seven who were with God in the Underworld places where God only allowed some to go, were called “Anunnaki”. It is apparent how this word might eventually have become “arch-angels” - Anunna-ki. Yet the “ki” (𒆠) means earth. So originally these were the sons of God on earth perhaps. They preside over all matters concerning the earth and are those allowed to stand before the Heavenly Being Himself.

What is Sin?

WHAT IS SIN?

In John 8 is one of the last public sermons of the Messiah before His crucifixion and so it figures He would focus it on the most important aspects of His message. His emphasis about what is sin is on lying and murderous hating. He says these are characteristics of Satan. Then His last message in Revelation after He rose and ascended is in chapter 22 on the main sins that will keep people constantly committing them out of the holy city of God. The words of the Messiah there mirror the words of God the Father in chapter 21:8. The sinfulness of lying appears again with a qualification in 21:8 that “all kinds of liars” are implicated. Murder appears too. Now there are additional sinful ways of life mentioned - looking up the meanings of the Greek terms is interesting. Sorcery means plant uses for drugs and potions and not just incantations and spells. So drug pushing and possibly even medicinally is part of what this means. Then what is translated as idolatry is a matter of renting out your worship-life for wages - paid worship. There is cowardice and doubt - the equivalent of what used to be called FUD “fear, uncertainty, doubt”. There is sexual immorality which is included by the word we translate as porn but the original word means a male prostitute or gigolo. We might sum a lot of this up as vice. Lowlife living. Sleaziness. Ethically unsound behaviour. In a modern world people sanitise it in corporations and hide it from the Law but God sees it for what it is and will destroy one day all who practice it. John 8 says how to be free forever from it in our lives - the Son setting us free if we believe Him and hold to His teachings.

The Seven Archangels

Book of Tobit 12:15 ‘“I am Raphael, one of the seven holy angels, which present the prayers of the saints, and which go in and out before the glory of the Holy One.”’ 

Gospel of Luke 1:18-20 ‘Zechariah said to the angel, “What proof is there for this? I’m an old man, and my wife is beyond her childbearing years.” The angel answered him, “I’m Gabriel! I stand in God’s presence. God sent me to tell you this good news. But because you didn’t believe what I said, you will be unable to talk until the day this happens. Everything will come true at the right time.”’

Of all the angels it is the seven foremost archangels who have the honour of ministering in the very throne chamber of Almighty God, hence what Gabriel told Zechariah the father of John the Baptist and what Raphael told Tobit. So you don’t want to be ignoring or disrespecting or disbelieving one of these archangels. Surely that applies to writings of their words too, such as in scriptures some have the boldness to call ‘apocryphal’ as if to rashly say such scriptures can be safely ignored.

It was among some of these seven archangels that the Son of Man was revealed in the visions seen by the prophet Daniel. This Son of Man was among these who could enter into the throne chamber of God.

Sons of God (Part 2)

Regarding the chief angels it was written “All of you are sons of the Most High” Psalm 82:6

Constantinian Christians stripped out the supernatural meaning of Psalm 82 verse 6 and substituted their prefered Trinitarianism philosophical ideas which fitted with Greek and Roman philosophies and theologies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psalm_82  But the roots of Genesis and Job reveal the ancient worldview that was taught by Noah. The Book of Enoch being translated into English has helped improve the original understanding of the archangels as sons of God and what it means to be a son of God. Sumerian texts from Noah’s time have highlighted how ancient the “sons of God” reference is in Genesis 6 and how Genesis’ flood narrative ties so tightly to ancient texts influenced by Noah himself such as the Epic of Gilgamesh. These are a foundation to the proper meaning of the Messiah when He spoke about being a son of God like other sons of God, deities.

Sons of God

The term “sons of God” has many meanings. Archangels are called sons of God and have been throughout human history. Archangels have throughout history been considered deities. So sons of God almost equates to deities. There is more to sons of God - there is ranking and relative eminence. There has always been a hierarchy. Four archangels are at the corners of the throne of God’s glory and this gives them eminence over other archangels. There are then seven wellknown archangels considered an inner circle of topmost angels. Then there are watchers including these seven but extended to other angels and archangels. There are many many watchers. This is how scriptures and other sacred texts and revelations have explained sons of God since the times of Noah till today. Then on top of this for the Son of Man to say that believers in Himself have power to become sons of God paints a glorious picture. The question then is how these new sons of God fit in with the others; with their hierarchy. One consideration is pre-eminence; the pre-eminence of those who were sons of God earlier. Angelic sons of God were there earlier than humans. Yet the firstborn of the sons of God, the Son of Man, was there first; the first son of God. The other consideration is about association and unity with this firstborn. Sons of God made so by faith in the Firstborn are the latest additions to the family but are not least because they are united with the first son of God. Over aeons in the future the distinction of pre-eminence might look less and less significant but the truth will ever remain of the connection between these human, soon to be resurrected, sons of God and their firstborn elder brother, all, like the Son of Man, their head, unique in having been firstborn twice - by the work of God the Father and by the resurrection to immortality from the dead.

NT and OT: Messiah and Torah

“... a righteousness apart from Law ...” (Apostle Paul, Epistle to the Romans)

The Messiah taught Torah (Old Testament Law and teachings) keeping as a way to survive and live “Do this and you will live” He said. Then He taught selling all and following Him as a way to be made perfect. So maybe the righteousness Paul had in mind is not to simply live but to become perfect. This is not merely through Torah keeping but through faith and following the Messiah. He even taught that the focus is not so much on Torah as on faith and obedience coming from faith. He even taught it is available even to those who are not under the Torah - who are not bound to keeping it. So for a Jew to live there is Torah but for both Jew and Gentile to be made perfect there is a Messiah in whom to believe and then follow forsaking this world’s trappings.

The nature of this perfection is all there in the gospels: perfect elimination of fornication entails permamently ceasing to look lustfully at women; perfect elimination of satanic ways entails permanently ceasing from lying and from murdering and that ceasing from murdering entails ceasing from hateful thoughts that aren’t deserved. Perfect kindness entails kindness to not only friends but also extending to enemies who do you harm. So it is more perfect in degree beyond what Torah requires but also in permanence beyond what Torah requires - permanence after death eternally as well as before in this life. In Revelation there is more: ceasing from lying means all kinds of lying. The Epistles expand on it and start to introduce the means of this perfection which is becoming part of a mutually loving body all united in spirit and purpose and rebuking each other to perfect each other and washed from pollutng thoughts and attitudes by anointing of the Holy Spirit.

The disobedience gets knocked out of those who believe in Messiah to lead them into perfect righteousness. Eventually they obey perfectly. Those who are Jews who do not believe in this Messiah do well to obey Torah. Then they will live. But they will likely die in the sins they cannot help continually committing without Messiah to set them free.

The Usual Challenge to the Book of Enoch

Every now and then readers of the Book of Enoch get a challenge by people who use one of the sayings of Jesus Christ which they construe to mean Jesus might have denied Enoch’s ascension into heaven. I do not like to publicise this use of the verse but just to point out that there is another way to understand Jesus’ saying in the Gospel of John. Jesus frequently, as John recorded, emphasised the importance of His words as coming from someone well acquainted with God the Father since nobody else on earth at the time had come from Heaven. Once it is recorded that He used a phrase to say He alone had ascended into Heaven. The usual saying recorded is that He alone had come from Heaven. He usually spoke in the context of His immediate hearers and how things were to them. They would never hear Enoch speak on earth because Enoch was in Heaven. The only person they would hear testify who had both come from Heaven and at some time or times ascended into Heaven too was Jesus. Jesus was not denying the ascension of Enoch nor of Elijah. Colloquially He was speaking of those present on earth as He spoke and in that context only He out of all those present on Earth at that time had ascended into Heaven and come from Heaven. Daniel had written of Him being brought into the presence of God the Ancient of Days. Enoch had written about such occassions too. Both Daniel and Jesus alluded to the writings of Enoch and Jesus also alluded to the writings of Daniel. Be cautious how you understand the words of Jesus and how you regard the understandings others have of His words.