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The Book of Enoch

Notes

(13) THE STOREHOUSES (pages 87-90)

Enoch often mentions storehouses throughout the book. Storehouses were
probably first introduced to Enoch's people by the runaways. Since they were

considered as angels their storehouses were probably considered divine and magical.

Many people probably believed that the storehouses created the goods that were stored
inside them.

Enoch probably knew better than that since he may have been the keeper of

records and inventories. However, he does seem to regard storehouses as basic to God's
way of distributing natural things such as the weather.

At the beginning he again describes his journey (70.2-3) - he was lifted on a
chariot of the spirit and they went northwest. I assume this is some kind of flying

machine today we would probably call it a UFO rather than a chariot of the spirit.
Enoch goes on to describe the land of the angels and a meeting with the Head of

Days. Four of the Watchers are named at 71.9; they may have been assigned to look

after Enoch because they could speak his language well.
Enoch seems to have asked questions and made some notes, and this section,

and the next section, and "the Law of the Stars" is the result. My opinion is that the
Watchers knew the answers to Enoch's questions but it was difficult for them to explain

the answers to Enoch in terms that he could understand.
This is shown clearly at 60.14 and 60.15 where Enoch reports an explanation of

thunder and lightning and why you see the flash before you hear the bang. This is

common knowledge now - but not to Enoch. I think that Enoch believed, initially, that
the bangs and flashes occurred separately made by different processes. He reports that

they are not separate although not the same, 60.14, because a spirit makes them

inseparable. Since Enoch assumes that you see and hear things at the instant they
happen he finds it hard to understand why the sound has to wait and so brings a

storehouse into the explanation.

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