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The Book of Enoch
Notes
(18) PROPHECY OF THE ANIMALS (pages 120-135)
Although Enoch says here that it was a dream this is a long and detailed
prophecy. The Watchers may have told him to say it was a dream. He has written it in
his own words, his style is easily recognizable, particularly where the story is
complicated.
Most of the contents of prophecy are now history and are recognizable as bible
stories but the end stretches off into the future. There are no names or dates; different
animals represent different nations or nationalities. The next chapter, The Ten Weeks,
covers the same story but from a different viewpoint.
We start at 85.3 with Adam and Eve, and Cain and Abel. Cain and his
descendants are at 85.5.
At 85.8 Seth is born to Eve. Next (85.9-10) there is Enoch's family line
described in Genesis chapter 5.
The star at 86.1 is the first of the Watchers to appear. They are represented in
this story by stars rather than as animals – another indication that they were the real
authors or, at least, the editors of this chapter. This first one is the fall of Satan, perhaps
a senior member of the Watchers, we don’t seem to have any reliable information on
this story, the information here is that Satan caused people to be dissatisfied, they
moved around and changed their wives.
The period covered by Enoch's book starts at 86.3 and continues through to 88.3.
Here the runaways are described as fallen stars. This is also described at the start of
chapter 6 in Genesis - Sons of God (Godlings in Hebrew) desired the daughters of men.
These unions gave rise to giants (Nephilim - meaning “to fall”, as in ‘swoop down’).
At 87.2-3 Enoch describes how beings from heaven, and he actually says they
looked like white men, raised him to their tower. 88.1-3 seems to describe serious
warfare using advanced weapons. It is possible that this war and the events surrounding
it are described in the Mahabharata an ancient Hindu text where the gods fight a war
with many advanced weapons, nuclear missiles included, judging from the detailed
descriptions in the text.
The story of Noah (possibly 17,000 BC) starts at 89.1 and continues through to
89.9. The flood starts at 89.2. Noah's three sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, give rise to
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