1 Enoch 87

1 Enoch 87

Verse 1

The verse describes a full out war and turmoil between human beings and the Nephilim, so that “the earth began to cry aloud.”

Verse 2

The verse describes beings that come from heaven who seem to be the seven Archangels.  The verse makes a distinction between four of them and three with them. 

Verse 3

The 3 archangels grasped Enoch and took him to a high place.

Verse 4

So that he would see the rest of the vision.

These last two verses describe an interaction between Enoch and his “vision”, it is hard to say what this part of the vision would represent.  What do the angels represent?  What does the viewer being taken to a high place represent?

For this reason this makes me think that this is the stage in the vision is Enoch’s present moment in which the vision switches from revelation of the past, into revelation of the future.

It would not be too foolish to assume that everything that Enoch has seen in the vision so far is what has happened before him, since Enoch was alive around this time after the population of the earth towards the beginning of the flood.  And as the angel tells him “’Remain here till thou seest everything that befalls those elephants, camels, and asses, and stars and the oxen, and all of them.’”

I then found out in 89:52 that Enoch sees Elijah join him in heaven.  Thus I conclude that this part of the vision actually represents the time he gets taken up to heaven. Since in 1 Enoch 89:52, Elijah actually joins him in heaven like if Enoch had been an interactive part of the vision all along.

It is interesting how Enoch saw all of this (the whole story of the world), and everything he was going to live through (the story of the world), in a vision before he lived through it.

June 2, 2012