The story of Enoch the Scribe is only briefly mentioned in the Bible, yet his story is told elsewhere such as the Book of the Giants. For this article I will refer only to that which is said about Enoch in the Book of Enoch and the Fragment of the Book of Noah. He was seventh generation from Adam and also the grandfather of Noah.
The story starts as two hundred angels descended from heaven following
the one but bound by an agreement to him, the angels took women and taught them
secrets of herbology, astrology, forging of metals, how to write and other secrets. But
the women gave birth to giants who could not be sustained by the
supplies of the community, so the giants turned against men, making
war.
So Enoch was given visions and was told that because of the wickedness the Deluge would come to punish the wicked. So he was given power over the 200 and the wicked and he took the message to declare the coming
destruction to the two hundred, the giants and the wicked. But they pleaded with him for mercy, and so he promised them to make a petition of their
behalf. But their petition was refused and their fate was decided.
The story carries on, telling how he sought wisdom "I wish to know about everything" and so angels come and start to teach him knowledge about everything., although sometimes the vision become too much for him to bear. He is shown the places where the 200 will go for imprisonment. He is shown where souls go after death, the good separated from the bad and is shown how the spirits of the giants will become the evil spirits as they are neither man nor angel (angel as in the 200).
Then he was shown all the secrets of the
earth and the universe, the laws of the universe and then a vision of the end of all things. He is then shown the future, of the one who will be like the Lamb (Jesus) and everything that happens between the deluge and Jesus concerning his descendants. One prophecy relates to the moon changing orbit and stars changing position suggesting a polar shift.
At the end Enoch spoke to his family in regards
to all his knowledge, and his son Methuselah is taught and given Enoch's books of knowledge and from there Noah is taught, books are to be
kept safe to ensure safety for future, one book contains a complete
doctrine of wisdom. Then he was taken from the earth and did not die like all other men.
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