1 Enoch may not be a perfectly 'preserved' document in its present forms, but its contents are still something I hold to a high regard. To me, it helps answer many mysteries about clues from the ancient world that are attributed to space aliens or other apostate ideas.
It also doesn't make sense to me that a liar would compile the very document that explicitly details a horrible condemnation for them, to behave in uprightness and walk with fear because absolutely nothing is hidden from God.
Most of the content aligns well with what's already established in the old & new testaments, but let me share some portions of the book that I can use my personal wisdom to justify:
67:4—
And He will imprison those messengers who have shown unrighteousness in that burning valley which my grandfather Enoch had formerly shown to me... And I saw that valley in which there was a great convulsion and a convulsion of the waters. And when all this took place, a smell of sulfur was produced from that fiery molten metal and from the convulsion thereof in that place, and it was connected with those waters, and that valley of the messengers who had led [mankind] astray burned beneath that land. And streams of fire proceed through its valleys where these messengers who had led those who dwell on the earth astray are punished. But in those days those waters will serve for the kings, and the mighty, and the exalted, and those who dwell on the earth, [not] for the healing of the body, but for the punishment of the spirit; now their spirit is full of lust, that they may be punished in their body, for they have denied the Lord of Spirits and see their punishment daily, and yet do not believe in His Name.
I often hear sinners casually uttering phrases like "I'm probably going to hell" or "I'm defintely going to hell for this". Hell never seems to be too far from the minds of those who deny God, even though they insist it isn't real, which makes me think back to this section every time its concept manifests.
77:8—
I saw seven great islands in the sea and in the mainland: two in the mainland (Eurasia, Africa) and five in the Great Sea. (Austrailia, North & South America, Greenland, and Antarctica)
At the time when this was written, no one had a complete map of the whole earth.
80:2—
And in the days of the sinners the years will be shortened, and their seed will be late on their lands and fields, and all things on the earth will alter, and will not appear in their time: And the rain will be kept back, and the heavens will withhold it. And in those times the fruits of the earth will be backward, and will not grow in their time, and the fruits of the trees will be withheld in their time. And the moon will alter her order, and not appear at her time. [[And in those days the sun will be seen, and he will journey in the evening on the extremity of the great chariot in the west,]] and will shine more brightly than accords with the order of light. And many chiefs of the stars will transgress the order prescribed. And these will alter their orbits and tasks, and not appear at the seasons prescribed to them.
98:1—
And now I swear to you—to the wise and to the foolish—for you will have manifold experiences on the earth. For you men will put on more adornments than a woman, and more colored garments than a virgin. They will be poured out as water in royalty, and in grandeur, and in power, and in silver, and in gold, and in purple, and in splendor, and in food. Therefore they will be wanting in doctrine and wisdom, and they will thereby perish together with their possessions, and with all their glory, and their splendor; and in shame, and in slaughter, and in great destitution, their spirits will be cast into the furnace of fire.
These prophecies are observably beginning to be fulfilled.
It also doesn't make sense to me that a liar would compile the very document that explicitly details a horrible condemnation for them, to behave in uprightness and walk with fear because absolutely nothing is hidden from God.
Most of the content aligns well with what's already established in the old & new testaments, but let me share some portions of the book that I can use my personal wisdom to justify:
67:4—
And He will imprison those messengers who have shown unrighteousness in that burning valley which my grandfather Enoch had formerly shown to me... And I saw that valley in which there was a great convulsion and a convulsion of the waters. And when all this took place, a smell of sulfur was produced from that fiery molten metal and from the convulsion thereof in that place, and it was connected with those waters, and that valley of the messengers who had led [mankind] astray burned beneath that land. And streams of fire proceed through its valleys where these messengers who had led those who dwell on the earth astray are punished. But in those days those waters will serve for the kings, and the mighty, and the exalted, and those who dwell on the earth, [not] for the healing of the body, but for the punishment of the spirit; now their spirit is full of lust, that they may be punished in their body, for they have denied the Lord of Spirits and see their punishment daily, and yet do not believe in His Name.
I often hear sinners casually uttering phrases like "I'm probably going to hell" or "I'm defintely going to hell for this". Hell never seems to be too far from the minds of those who deny God, even though they insist it isn't real, which makes me think back to this section every time its concept manifests.
77:8—
I saw seven great islands in the sea and in the mainland: two in the mainland (Eurasia, Africa) and five in the Great Sea. (Austrailia, North & South America, Greenland, and Antarctica)
At the time when this was written, no one had a complete map of the whole earth.
80:2—
And in the days of the sinners the years will be shortened, and their seed will be late on their lands and fields, and all things on the earth will alter, and will not appear in their time: And the rain will be kept back, and the heavens will withhold it. And in those times the fruits of the earth will be backward, and will not grow in their time, and the fruits of the trees will be withheld in their time. And the moon will alter her order, and not appear at her time. [[And in those days the sun will be seen, and he will journey in the evening on the extremity of the great chariot in the west,]] and will shine more brightly than accords with the order of light. And many chiefs of the stars will transgress the order prescribed. And these will alter their orbits and tasks, and not appear at the seasons prescribed to them.
98:1—
And now I swear to you—to the wise and to the foolish—for you will have manifold experiences on the earth. For you men will put on more adornments than a woman, and more colored garments than a virgin. They will be poured out as water in royalty, and in grandeur, and in power, and in silver, and in gold, and in purple, and in splendor, and in food. Therefore they will be wanting in doctrine and wisdom, and they will thereby perish together with their possessions, and with all their glory, and their splendor; and in shame, and in slaughter, and in great destitution, their spirits will be cast into the furnace of fire.
These prophecies are observably beginning to be fulfilled.
