1 Enoch 80

1 Enoch 80

The first verse restates that which Uriel had shown Enoch about the courses of the heavenly luminaries.  The second verse then begins to talk about what will happen to these:

“In the days of the sinners the years shall be shortened… And all things on the earth shall alter” (1 Enoch 80:2)

“And the moon shall alter her order, and not appear at her time.  And in those days the sun shall be seen and he shall journey in the evening on the extremity of the great chariot in the west and shall shine more brightly than accords with the order of light.  And many chiefs of the stars shall transgress the order prescribed; and these shall alter their orbits and tasks, and not appear at the seasons prescribed to them.”  (1 Enoch 80:4-6)

So the years are shortened, the moon alters its order and so does the sun and the stars.

A lot of prophetic visions deal with this kind of cosmic chaos, and people usually assume that this kind of stuff is impossible; first of all because the cosmos do not revolve around the earth (as was discovered by a certain modern astronomer), but in fact the earth rotates and gives the illusion that the sun goes around the earth.  The language that is used by Enoch in these verses makes it seem like he believes that the sun moves around the earth.

For this reason a lot of people discredit words of prophecy and decide to ignore these ancient messages.  But someone with an open and generous mind would see through  these seeming errors to understand the message… they could even say, what if Enoch DID know that the earth revolved around the sun, but for the sake of the understanding of the people in his time, he decided to use these words.

                The last chapters talked about the courses and phases of the cosmos, this chapter talks about their “perversion”.  The way that these perversions could happen is if the earth’s rotation and revolution was altered. The movement of the stars and the sun would relatively, but definitely, be altered.

                We know that this is not impossible because just a few years ago we had an earthquake that altered the earth’s axis; this alteration definitely affects the length of our equinoxes and solstices, thus affecting our weather patterns: “…  And their seed shall be tardy on their lands and fields and all things on the earth shall alter, and shall not appear in their time: And the rain shall be kept back, and the heaven shall withhold it.  And in those times fruits shall be backward, and shall not grow in their time, and the fruit of the trees shall be withheld in their time.” (1 Enoch 80:2-3)  Also, anyone who studies astronomy would know that the orbits of our planetary system are always changing and not perfectly constant.

We only have to wait until Enoch’s visions manifest themselves in the present.

June 2, 2012

1 Enoch 78

The first two verses of the chapter give the names of the sun and moon.
Sun: Orjares, Tomas
Moon: Asonja, Ebla, Benase, Erae

May 30, 2012

1 Enoch 74

The chapter talks about the lunar year and compares it to the solar/stellar year.

It also mentions the leap years in the solar calendar.

This is evidence that they were aware of different calender systems back then.

May 30, 2012

1 Enoch 73

The chapter describes the moon and its phases.
It gives the amount of light compared to the sun when the moon is full (sun is 7x brighter)
and also the amount of light in certain phases.

It also tells of the moon's course in relation to the sun in each of it's phases and the duration of the phase.

1 Enoch 72

Chapter 72 seems to talk about the course of the sun throughout the year.
It describes how the days become longer and shorter and the sun rises and sets
from and to different positions on the horizon called "portals".

Of course, the author has his own system of terms and frame of reference.

The second half of the last verse of the chapter:
"his light is sevenfold brighter than that of the moon; but as regards size they are both equal."
(1 Enoch 72:37)

It is interesting how the author gave a set multiple comparison of how much brighter the sun is to the moon,
I wonder how he calculated that.

As far as size any closed-minded person would agree that this statement is false because the sun
is obviously much bigger than the moon.  But it is much more possible that the author is
referring to the size of these luminaries in relation to how much of the "sky space" they take up;
and is most likely disregarding the actual size of the luminary in outer space.

May 30, 2012
 

Psalms 121

Verse 6

“You won’t be harmed by the sun during the day or by the moon at night.”

Sunburns and lunatics. Some mental illnesses were thought to be caused by the moon.  I wonder if anyone thought to study the harmful effects of moon rays.

Aristotle believed that the brain was mostly composed of water and so that the moon had an effect on it just like it did with the water in the ocean.

One confirmed way in which moon rays are indeed harmful is by affecting ones sleep pattern by providing light during the night.  Which may cause mood swings, and other things that result from sleep deprivation.

September 23, 2012