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
