1 Enoch 98

1 Enoch 98

Verse 4

“I have sworn unto you, ye sinners, as a mountain has not become a slave, and a bill does not become the handmaid of a woman, even so sin has not been sent upon the earth, but man of himself has created it, and a great curse shall they fall who commit it.”

“sin has not been sent upon the earth, but man of himself has created it”

The Qur’an also has many attestations that say that God only brings blessings and it is man who created sin and suffering.

Verse 6

“I have sworn unto you, ye sinners, by the Holy Great One, that all your evil deeds are revealed in the heavens, and that none of your deeds of oppression are covered and hidden.”

“all your evil deeds are revealed in the heavens”

There is a realm in which every action that is done, every intention that is possessed is exposed.  In the realm of clarity, nothing is hidden.  When one is able to see into this new dimension (usually referred to as “heaven” because of its extrinsic nature), one can see thoughts and actions in all possible sites and locations (whether it is inside a room or inside one’s own imagination and even in certain regions of time).  Everything that manifests explicit and eternal; all is transparent.

 Verse 7

“And do not think in your spirit, nor say in your heart, that ye do not know and that ye do not see that every sin is every day recorded in heaven in presence of the Most High.”

This verse implies that we know and see in our hearts and our spirit about this realm in which all is revealed and permanent (from 1 Enoch 98:6).  Deep down, we know that we cannot deny that we know about this realm, since we can derive this statement from knowing that truth is undeniable and unalterable.  No matter how well a secret is kept, it is still part of reality, it is still part of the truth; no matter how much one tries to hide it, it can never be destroyed.  By understanding the essence of this truth, we inherently and undeniably certify that realm in which everything is recorded.

June 14, 2012

1 Enoch 89

1 Enoch 89

Verse 1

The first 9 verse tell the story of Noah and the flood, the bulls to represent them are again, two white bulls, a red one and a black one, just like Adam and his sons.  Except the first white bull (Noah) became a man.   Because of this, Noah is not represented as a human being by a bull anymore, but is an actual human being.  This could either mean that he was more reasonable than the typical human (as reasonable as a human is to an ox), or it could be a symbol of God’s choosing and identifying him from the crowd.

Verse 6

So now that the stars were bound and cast into the abyss, the fate of the rest of the beings was as so:

“… while all the oxen and elephants and camels and asses sank to the bottom with all the animals, so that I could no longer see them, and they were not able to escape, but perished and sank into the depths”

Verse 7

And interesting note:

In the R.H. Charles version of the book of Enoch this verse is mistakenly labeled as verse 6; the preceding verse being verse 6 and the next verse being verse 8. 

The verse says that the water torrents were finally removed from the high roof.  So it wasn’t just rain that caused the flood, it was torrents of water.

“… and other abysses were opened…”

Verse 8

“Then the water began to run down into these, till the earth became visible;”

Again one must have an open mind and be familiar with concepts of relativity to understand that maybe the water didn’t only run down into the abysses, but the definition implies just as well that the earth may have floated to the surface through the water.  Just another possibility and perspective.

Verse 10

The verse seems to talk about the repopulation of the earth after the flood.

It interesting how the animals used to represent the generations after the flood are mostly carnivores, while before the flood, even the Nephilim were herbivores. 

Verse 11

This happens until the white bull begets the wild asses, since the asses were also use to represent the Nephilim.

 

The white bull here seems to represent Abraham.  The white bull that Abraham begets seems to represent Isaac, while the wild asses,

[at first, I thought represented Ishmael.  Since there is always a distinction between Isaac and Ishmael and in verse 13 it talks about one (Joseph) of the 12 sheep (sons of Israel) being given up to the asses (Ishmaelites).  But then in verse 16, it talks of a sheep (Moses) who escapes to the wild asses.  Moses had actually escaped to Midian, and although I could not find if the people of Midian were Ishmaelites or not, I actually found out in Genesis 25 that Abraham had a second wife named Keturah (Genesis 25:1) and had 6 sons: “Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak and Shuah.” (Genesis 25:2)  I think it is reasonable to assume that Midianites lived in Midian (where Moses fled to); and that Midianites descended from Midian (Abraham’s son).  

With this assumption we can conclude that the white bull that Abraham (the white bull) begat can represent Isaac, while the wild ass can represent “the rest of Abraham’s children”, whether they were by Hagar or Keturah.

Verse 12

In this verse, the white bull (Isaac) that came from the white bull (Abraham) begets a black wild boar, and a white sheep.   The black wild boar seems to represent Esau, or Edom; while the white sheep seems to represent Jacob, or Israel.  I assume this because the sheep then begets 12 sheep (which seems to represent Israel’s 12 sons).

Verse 13

This verse tells the story of Joseph, sold into Egypt, in animal form.

That is if we assume the sheep to be Israel’s sons, the asses to be the Ishmaelites (or as we explained in verse 11 reflection, descendants from the non-Isaac sons of Abraham), and the wolves to represent the Egyptians.

Verse 14

This verse then explains how the rest of Israel’s sons eventually joined the sheep (Joseph) with the wolves and lived among them and multiplied.

Here is the end of Genesis represented and breaking into the beginning of the book of Exodus in the Bible.

Verse 15

Tells the story of how the pharaoh began to fear the number of Israelites and began to get rid of them, in animal form.  The Egyptians are represented by wolves, while the Israelites are represented by sheep.

Verse 16

In this verse the sheep escaped from the wolves to the wild asses.  This is a representation of how Moses escaped from the Egyptians to the Midianites (which I explained in verse 11 I assumed them to be descendants of Midian… a non-Isaac son of Abraham).

Verse 41

This verse comes after the sheep that represent the people of Israel, reach the promise land.

As we know, after Israel reaches the promise land, God raises judges among them; then king Saul comes after the judges.

This verse sums up the time of judges by saying that “sometimes their eyes were opened, and sometimes blinded, till another sheep arose and led them and brought them back, and their eyes were opened.”

Verse 42

In this verse the Lord of the sheep doesn’t just raise another sheep to lead them back, but a ram from the sheep.  These rams now represent the kings.  With the first ram being Saul.

Verse 44

In this verse the first ram (king Saul) begins to behave “unseemly”.

Verse 47

This verse tells how Saul pursued David.

Verse 52

This verse seems to be talking about one of the sheep that God sent (or the prophets) it managed to escape and not get slain by the other sheep.

The interesting thing is that, Enoch sees in his vision that God brought that sheep up with him (Enoch), and they hung out together.

This makes me realize that Enoch had been an interactive part of the vision all this time.

Enoch’s part of the vision where he gets taken up to heaven (1 Enoch 87:4) represents just that; the time in his life that he gets taken up to heaven.  And then, everything he sees since then.

Verse 58

After Enoch cries to God about Israel being “devoured”, God “remained Unmoved, though He saw it, and rejoiced that they were devoured and swallowed and robbed and left them to be devoured in the hand of all the beasts.” (1 Enoch 89:58)

Just another example of God’s funny side, it reminds me of that verse in Job 9:23.

June 2, 2012

1 Enoch 88

1 Enoch 88

Verse 1

The star that first fell to the earth was bound and thrown into an abyss.

Verse 2

The angels gave a sword to the (Nephilim) so that they would destroy each other. The earth quaked.

Verse 3

The angels stoned and gathered the rest of the stars and bound them and threw them into the abyss.

June 2, 2012

1 Enoch 1

Verse 9

And behold! He cometh with ten thousands of His holy ones
To execute judgement upon all,

And to destroy all the ungodly:
And to convict all flesh

Of all the works of their ungodliness which they have ungodly committed,

And of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.

Jude 1:14-15
"It was also about these that Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying,

'Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones, 

to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness 

that they have committed in such an ungodly way,
and of all the harsh things that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.'"

July 4, 2012

Luke 15

Verse 20

“And he arose and came to his father.  But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him.”

Instead of maintaining his rightful dignity and honor as an oriental patriarch, however, he abandoned social propriety and ran out to meet his son while he was still far away.”  - David K. Bernard

Our God is a desperate God,
He is a God that ridicules and makes a fool of Himself by begging.

Desperate because He is doing everything in His power to bring us back to His Harmony.

And yet we still reject Him in exchange for suffering.

He is desperately crying out to us with all His might;

so loudly it even killed Him at the cross;

so loud the fires of hell burned inside His throat.

He does so because He is not willing to lose us to that hell fire.

He does so because He knows about the impending pain we will go through; it is already hurting Him, He already sees it coming, He is already experiencing it for us, and He is warning us.

He does so because He is willing to set Himself on hellfire to get our attention,

if it means we will be saved.

He is not just as desperate as I am from my own suffering, He is even more desperate, because He is even sympathetic for the suffering that I have numbed from and have tucked away.

He is resorting to ridicule Himself, not because He is foolish, but because we have already crossed those lines ourselves.  What kind of father would be afraid to get a little mud on his shoes to save his child out of the pile of dung that is pinning him down?

He ridicules Himself; it reflects how wrecked our situation really is.

Because if a reasonable God who knows everything is acting like this about us…

What must He know?

And if an omnipotent God is doing all He can do for us…

What is there left to do?

Written on August 26, 2012

Genesis 7

“In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.”

Some say there must have been an ice canopy or a vapor canopy over the earth before the flood, which melted/condensed down and flooded the earth.

But, as I mentioned in Genesis 1:14-15, the cosmos where inside this firmament that separated the waters, which made me think that there is water at the ends of the universe.  This would mean that when it is said that the “windows of heaven were opened”, it may mean that these “windows” were (not just clouds, if the were clouds I think they would have been called mists; but they were)actually portals that accessed the ends of the universe… where all the rest of the water is stored. 

Wormholes to the ends of the universe?  I think I just made the bible seem even cazier.

Reflection:
There are so many things that go observed but unexplained, like wormholes to other universes or other parts of our universe. These things have always existed and may have even been casually manipulated in the past or in other parts of the universe by higher or lower powers and beings.  But people hardly believe anything that is not mentioned in the textbooks; this is how an infinitely Reality becomes so limited and confined.

June 15, 2012

Genesis 1

Genesis 1

Verse 7

“And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from waters which were above the firmament.”

The first times I read through this verse with an attentive intent, I glanced over this verse without wondering what it meant too much.  Maybe it was a typo, maybe it was talking about something else, maybe I misread.  I disregarded it for a while, but then the inevitable question came back.

Waters above the firmament?

What could it be talking about?

Is there really water above our sky or is this “firmament” refer to some other firmament?

The next verse confirms the meaning of this firmament.

Verse 8

“And God called the firmament Heaven.  And the evening and the morning were the second day.”

I noticed that in the KJV, Heaven is spelled with a capital “H”; maybe it refers to a higher heaven?

So far up to the end of the universe maybe?

Is that what surrounds our universe? Water?

And what would such water be like?

What form would it take in such location?

Would it be an ethereal state of water and therefore have a metaphorical meaning, and not really a physical state of water?

Or is this just a cheap way to explain why the sky is blue?

I looked back to it a couple of times each time I thought about it, to make sure it actually said that.  Even now it surprises me when I read it.

For a while I believed that the mysterious contents of the ends of the universe was, therefore, water;

especially because in verse 14 and 15, God places “lights” in this firmament (the sun, the moon, and the stars… galaxies and such), and if there is water above the firmament, then the water is found above all of these.  In other words, at the ends of the universe.

Until I read Genesis 7:11 where it says that the ”windows of heaven were opened” and torrents of water poured out…  So I guess there is no more water at the ends of the Universe.  I still wondered whether all or only some of the water was flushed out.

Verse 22

“And God blessed them, saying, be fruitful, and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.”

When I think of God’s words I think of something engraved in reality itself, this is how God is able to “speak things into existence”.  When God gave the command to be fruitful and multiply, I imagine it as a description of the manifestation that happened within the instinctual mind and physical anatomy and neuro-anatomy of these beings.  When God commands for something to happen, the universe morphs itself to match his command; when God commands us to do something, that command becomes part of us, so that if we decide to go against His command, we are ultimately going against something that is intrinsically and naturally part of our constitution and/or part of the design of the universe as well (and this is what is called chaos/darkness/evil/etc.).

June 15, 2012