The Book of Enoch Prophesied Abortion in Last Days
By
James Scott Trimm
Enoch was a prophet who lived in the days before the flood (Gen. 5:22-24; Heb. 11:5; Jude 1:14-15). His book is quoted in the book of Jude (Jude 1:14-15 is quoting 1Enoch 1:9). Enoch speaks of the last days saying:
And in those days the women shall become pregnant
and abort their babies
And cast them out from their midst
Yea, they shall abandon their children (that are still) sucklings,
and not return to them,
And shall have no pity on their beloved ones.
(1Enoch 99:5)
The original Hebrew of the Book of Enoch has not survived, and this passage has survived only in the Ancient Ethiopic version. In the Ethiopic the word for “abort” here is MASIT a verb meaning “to pluck or tear out”; “to violently remove”; “to carry off” or “to rob”. Clearly this passage speaks of women aborting their babies in the last days.
The Fallen Angels Taught Abortion
Yeshua tells us that the last days would be like the days of Noach (Matt. 24:37-38). In these days before the flood the Torah tells us:
1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
2 That the sons of Elohim saw the daughters of men, that they were fair. And they took them wives, whomsoever they chose.
3 And YHWH said: My Spirit shall not abide in man forever. For that he also is flesh; therefore shall his days be a hundred and twenty years.
4 The N’filim were on the earth in those days and also after that, when the sons of Elohim came in unto the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. The same were the mighty men that were of old–the men of renown.
5 And YHWH saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil; continually.
(Gen. 6:1-5 HRV)
The Book of Enoch tells us that these fallen angels taught men many things, and says that they “…showed the children of men … the smitings of the embryo in the womb, that it may pass away,…” (1Enoch 69:12)
Abortion is Murder
Abortion is murder. Murder is simply the taking of an innocent human life. This is to be differentiated from “killing” when there is a righteous purpose for it. For example, the Bible sets up special cities to which a person may flee who has killed a person “by accident.” The person may stay and be protected in one of these special cities until the family of the deceased has stopped looking for the person for the purpose of revenge.
Also, YHWH Himself commands capital punishment, the death penalty, for the breaking of certain commands.”. Self defense is clearly a valid reason for “killing” since the life being terminated is not innocent life. However, the taking of innocent life is considered a “sin” and “wickedness.”
In the Torah we are commanded “You shall not kill”. The literal Hebrew of Ex. 20:13 means, as we read in the HRV “Do not murder”.
Moreover we read in Deut. 23:7
“Keep you far from a false matter,
and the innocent and righteous slay you not:
for I will not justify the wicked.”
Life Begins at Conception
A human being’s person hood begins not at the time that he or she has completed development in the womb and is transferred out of the mother into the world. It is clear from Scripture that there is a seamless continuity in the life of a person from the moment of conception.
YHWH knows each person from the beginning. As we read in Jeremiah:
4 And the word of YHWH came unto me, saying:
5 Before I formed you in the belly, I knew you, and before you came forth out of the
womb I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet unto the nations.
(Jer. 1:4-5 HRV)
Each person has a YHWH-given purpose from conception, as the Psalmist writes:
13 For You have made my reins; You have knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I will give thanks unto You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: wonderful are Your works, and that, my soul knows right well.
15 My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret, and curiously
wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
16 Your eyes did see my unformed substance, and in Your book they were all written;
even the days that were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
(Ps. 139:13-16 HRV)
The Spirit of Elohim is with a person in his/her mother’s womb. As we read in Luke:
11 And an angel of YHWH, who stood at the right side of the altar of incense, appeared to Z’kharyah.
12 And he was agitated: and trembled when he saw the angel, and fear fell upon him.
13 And the angel said to him, Do not fear, Z’kharyah, because Eloah has heard the sound of your prayer. And your wife, Elisheva, will bear to you a son, and you will call his name Yochanan,
14 And you will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice in his birth.
15 For he will be great before YHWH, and will not drink wine or strong drink. And he
will be filled with the Ruach HaKodesh, while he is in the womb of his mother.
16 And he will turn many of the sons of Yisrael, to YHWH their Eloah.
17 And he will go before Him, in the spirit, and in the might of Eliyahu, the prophet: that he might turn the heart of the fathers unto the children, (Mal. 3:23-24 (4:5-6)) and those who are disobedient, to the knowledge of the just. And he will prepare for YHWH a wholehearted people.
(Luke 1:11-17 HRV)
Any action or lack of action which intentionally causes the death of an unborn child, from the moment of conception is an act of murder.
