Uncategorized

THE MAN WHO DID NOT DIE

Posted by Donna on August 16, 2009 at 8:37 pm.

This is the story of Enoch, the man with a special relationship with God Almighty, unique in all of history.  Enoch was taken up to Heaven twice.  The first time he was taken, he toured the heavenlies with one of the four archangels who explained to Enoch the places and functions of the heavenly realms.  After Enoch finished his tour, he met with God who he referred as “The God of Spirits”, and God instructed him to go back to earth, describe what he had seen to his sons and then write it down.  Since there was no means to “write” anything down, the angels taught Enoch how to make ink, scrolls out of skins and taught him the angelic language.

It is not stated that Heaven is a deminsional place, but the very fact that God had to “open Enoch’s eyes” reveals that Enoch could not see Heaven, the angels,  or any of the heavenly realms, with his natural  eyesight.  Enoch also described his body and his clothes being “changed” so he could stand before God.

Enoch’s story begins with The Watchers.  The Watchers are the special group of angels, 200 in all, who left the Heavenly Places and came down to earth because they were dazzled by the daughters of men and wanted wives for themselves.  From the union of angels and earth women, came those known in the Bible as Nephilim.  The Nephilim were those great men of reknown of whom many stories were told, but there were also Nephilim who were monsters, giants who consumed all that mankind could produce, and when they could produce no more, would eat humans instead.

The Archangels Michael, Uriel, Raphael and Gabriel looked down from Heaven and saw all of the carnage and lawlessness upon the earth and were horrified.  They went The God of Spirits and told Him what had been done on the earth, so The God of Spirits reasoned that the Watchers had no need of mortal wives because they were created immortal with access to the Heavenly places.  But because the Watchers had committed outrageous sin, corrupting themselves with the mortals, they had to be punished.  God instructed the archangels to bind the Watchers under the earth until judgement day.  Because the children of the Watchers were half human and half angel, their flesh could die, but their spirits were immortal. Therefore, when the Nephilim died, they were constrained to walk the earth and became known as demons.

It is obvious from Enoch’s account, that the Lucifer had nothing to do with the Watchers and was a different encounter with God with a totally different judgement.  Lucifer and his “satans” (meaning adversaries) have full access to the Heavenlies as well as the Earth and was granted the role of accuser of mankind.  Lucifer’s sin was pride and  thought himself equal to God.

Nevertheless, the Watcher’s work was continued after the Flood of Noah.  Genesis 6 says that the Nephilim were upon the earth “even after” the great flood.  There were whole races of Giants.  Goliath was a Philistine, the City of Jherico was a city of giants and many more surrounded the promised land after the Hebrews left Egypt for the Promised Land of Caanan.

Despite Enoch’s remarkable history, the Canon that decided which books would be in the Bible, left Enoch’s story out.  Some even called it “heresy” even though Enoch’s account of his encounter with God is mentioned  throughout the Old and New Testament and is completely consistent with Genesis 1-6, fleshing out the biblical account.  The Book of Enoch was lost for hundreds of years, but in 1773 James Bruce discovered  and brought to England two contemporary manuscript copies of the Ethiopian Book of Enoch. Then in 1821, Richard Laurence, Archbishop of Cashel translated the work.

After Enoch left the heavenlies, he wrote down what he saw, instructed his sons, and then in the 365th year of his birth, God took him.  Enoch never returned to the Earth and is the only human that did not have to die.

76 Responses to “THE MAN WHO DID NOT DIE”

Leave a Reply