THE STORY OF ENOCH: HOW THE LORD TOOK HIM TO HEAVEN... SO THAT HE MIGHT SEE THE HIGHEST REALMS: AND OF THE MOST WISE AND GREAT AND INCONCEIVABLE AND UNCHANGING KINGDOM OF GOD ALMIGHTY. AND OF THE MOST MARVELOUS AND GLORIOUS AND SHINING MANY-EYED STATION OF THE LORD'S SERVANTS, AND OF THE LORD'S UNMOVABLE THRONE. (1a: 1-4).
...WHILE I SLEPT...TWO HUGE MEN APPEARED TO ME...THEIR FACES WERE LIKE THE SHINING SUN: THEIR EYES WERE LIKE BURNING LAMPS. FROM THEIR MOUTHS FIRE WAS COMING FORTH: THEIR CLOTHING WAS VARIOUS SINGING: THEIR WINGS WERE MORE GLISTENING THAN GOLD:THEIR HANDS WERE WHITER THEN SNOW...I WAS TERRIFIED...THOSE MEN SAID TO ME, " BE BRAVE, ENOCH! IN TRUTH, DO NOT FEAR! THE ETERNAL GOD HAS SENT US TO YOU. AND BEHOLD, YOU WILL ASCEND WITH US TO HEAVEN TODAY..." AND THEY TOOK ME UP ONTO THEIR WINGS, AND CARRIED ME UP TO THE FIRST HEAVEN...AND THEY SHOWED ME AN OCEAN, MUCH BIGGER THAN THE EARTHLY OCEAN. (3: 1,3). AND THERE I PERCEIVED THE TREASURIES OF THE SNOW AND ICE (5:1) AND BROUGHT ME UP TO THE SECOND HEAVEN... I SAW DARKNESS GREATER THAN EARTHLY DARKNESS AND THERE I PERCEIVED PRISONERS UNDER GUARD, HANGING UP WAITING FOR THE MEASUERLESS JUDGMENT... I SAID TO THE MEN WHO WERE WITH ME, " WHY ARE THESE ONES BEING TORMENTED UNCEASELY?" THOSE MEN ANSWERED, " THESE ARE THOSE WHO TURNED AWAY FROM THE LORD, WHO DID NOT OBEY THE LORD'S COMMANDMENTS...(7:1-3)
THEY BROUGHT ME UP TO THE SECOND HEAVEN... I SAW A DARKNESS GREATER THEN THE EARTHLY DARKNESS. AND THERE I PERCEIVED PRISONERS UNDER GUARD, HANGING UP, WAITING FOR THE MEASURELESS JUDGMENTS... I SAID TO THE MEN WHO WERE WITH ME, WHY ARE THESE ONES BEING TORMENTED UNCEASINGLY?" THOSE MEN ANSWERED ME, " THESE ARE THOSE WHO TURNED AWAY FROM THE LORD, WHO DID NOT OBEY THE LORD'S COMMANDMENTS...(7:1-3).
...THE BROUGHT ME UP TO THE THIRD HEAVEN...AND I SAW PARADISE. AND THAT PLACE IS INCONCEIVABLY PLEASANT. AND I SAW THE TREES IN FULL FLOWER...AND IN THE MIDST OF THEM WAS A TREE OF LIFE... AND IT HAS SOMETHING OF EVERY ORCHARD TREE AND OF EVERY FRUIT... (8:1-4).
AND THOSE MEN CARRIED ME TO THE NORTHERN REGION: AND THEY SHOWED ME THERE A VERY FRIGHTFUL PLACE... AND ALL KINDS OF TORTURE AND TORMEANT ARE IN THATPLACE...FIRE HERE FREEING, ICE THERE...VERY CRUEL PLACES OF DETENTION AND DARK AND MERCILESS ANGELS...AND I SAID, "WOE,WOE! HOW VERY FRIGHTFUL THIS PLACE IS! AND THOSE MEN SAID TO ME, " THIS PLACE, ENOCH, HAS BEEN PREPARED FOR THOSE WHO DON'T GLORIFY, GOD, WHO PRACTICE ON EARTH THE SIN WHICH IS AGAINST NATURE, WHICH IS CHILD CORRUPTION... WHO BOAST THEIR EVIL DEEDS... ENRICHING THEMSELVES FROM THE POSSESSIONS OF OTHERS, DEFRAUDING THEM: WHO, WHEN THEY ARE ABLE
TO PROVIDE SUSTENANCE, BRING ABOUT THE DEATH OF THE HUNGRY BY STAVATION: AND, WHEN THEY ARE ABLE TO PROVIDE CLOTHING, TAKE AWAY THE LAST GARMENT OF THE NAKED: WHO DO NOT ACKNOWLEDGE THEIR CREATOR, BUT BOW DOWN TO IDOLS... FOR ALL THESE THIS PLACE HAS BEEN PREPARED AS AN ETERNAL REWARD. (1O:1-6).
AND THOSE MEN CARRIED ME UP TO THE SIXTH HEAVEN. AND I SAW THERE WERE SEVEN GROUPS OF ANGELS, BRILLIANT AND VERY GLORIOUS ... ARCHANGELS WHO ARE OVER ALL THE ANGELS... AND ANGELS WHO RECORD ALL HUMAN SOULS, AND ALL THEIR DEEDS, AND THEIR LIVES BEFORE THE FACE OF THE LORD. (19:1-5).
...THEY CARRIED ME UP TO THE SEVENTH HEAVEN. AND I SAW THERE AN EXEPTIONALLY GREAT LIGHT... ARCHANGELS... DOMINIONS... CHERUBIM... AND SEAAPHIM... AND I WAS TERRIFIED...THEY SAID TO ME,"BE BRAVE, ENOCH! DON'T BE FRIGHTENED!" AND THEY SHOWED ME THE LORD, FROM A DISTANCE, SITTING ON HIS EXCEEDINGLY HIGH THRONE...ON THE TENTH HEAVEN IS GOD... AND ALL THE HEAVENLY ARMIES CAME AND STOOD ON THE TEN STEPS, CORRESPONDING TO THEIR RANKS, AND THEY DID OBEISANCE TO THE LORD... SINGING SONGS WITH SOFT AND GENTLE VOICES, WHILE PRESENTING THE LITURGY TO HIM GLORIOUSLY.
(20: 1-4).
AND THEY DO NOT LEAVE BY NIGHT, NOR DEPART BY DAY, STAND ING IN FRONT OF THE FACE OF THE LORD AND CARRYING OUT HIS WILL.-- CHERUBIM AND SERAPHIM STANDING ALL AROUND HIS THRONE., SIX-WINGED AND MANY-EYED: AND THEY COVER HIS ENTIRE THRONE, SINGING WITH GENTLE VOICE IN FRONT OF THE FACE OF THE LORD: HOLY, HOLY, LORD SABAOTH
HEAVEN AND EARTH ARE FULL OF YOUR GLORY. (21:1-10).
AND FROM THE FIRE I CREATED THE RANKS OF THE BODILESS ARMIES-- TEN MYRIAD ANGELS--AND I GAVE ORDERS THAT EACH SHOULD STAND IN HIS OWN RANK. BUT ONE FROM THE ORDER OF THE ARCHANGELS DEVIATED, TOGETHER WITH THE DIVISION THAT WAS UNDER HIE AUTHORITY. HE THOUGHT UP THE IMPOSSIBLE, THAT HE MIGHT PLACE HIS THRONE HIGHER THAN THE CLOUDS WHICH ARE ABOVE THE EARTH, AND THAT HE MIGHT BECOME EQUAL TO MY POWER. AND I HURLED HIM OUT FROM THE HEIGHT, TOGETHER WITH HIS ANGELS (29:3-5). PICTURE OF "SATAN!"
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