Enoch on the Apostasy and Last Days Restoration
By
James Scott Trimm
The Book of Enoch prophecies of a great apostasy in the last days:
6 And unrighteousness shall again be consummated on the earth, and all the deeds of unrighteousness and of violence and transgression shall prevail in a twofold degree.
7 And when sin and unrighteousness and blasphemy and violence in all kinds of deeds increase, and apostasy and transgression and uncleanness increase, a great chastisement shall come from heaven upon all these, and the Set-apart YHWH will come forth with wrath and chastisement to execute judgment on earth.
(1Enoch 91:6-7)
The Book of Enoch tells of how 200 fallen angels led by Shemikhazah and Azazel “saw and lusted after” human females and copulated with them producing a race of giants (1Enoch 6) and taught mankind secrets such as sorcery, the making of weapons (1Enoch 7-8) and how to perform an abortion (1En. 69:12). YHWH’s judgment finally comes. Shemikhazah and “all his associates” are bound fast “for seventy generations” until “the judgment that is forever is consummated” (1En. 9:11-12) (compare Y’hudah 1:6 & 2Kefa 2:2-10). The giants are killed by the flood but their spirits remain on earth as evil spirits (1En. 15:8-12).
The Book of Enoch tells us that Shemikhazah and his associate fallen angels would be bound up for seventy generations:
11 And YHWH said unto Mikha’el: ‘Go, make known to Shemikhazah and his associates who have united themselves with women so as to have defiled themselves with them in all their uncleanness.
12 And when their sons shall die, and they have seen the destruction of their beloved ones, bind them fast for seventy generations in the valleys of the earth, till the great day of their judgment and of their consummation, till the judgment that is for ever and ever is consummated.
(1Enoch 10:11-12)
Now if one counts the generations from Enoch to Yeshua one finds there were seventy generations (Luke 3:23-37).
So the seventy generations end immediately after the generation of Yeshua and hit Talmudim. This brings us to an interesting statement made by the Nazarene writer Hegesippus around 185 C.E. as he recounted the beginning of the apostasy:
Up to that period the Assembly had remained like a virgin pure and uncorrupted: for, if there were any persons who were disposed to tamper with the wholesome rule of the proclaiming of salvation, they still lurked in some dark place of concealment or other. But, when the sacred band of Emissaries had in various ways closed their lives, and that generation of men to whom it had been vouchsafed to listen to the godlike Wisdom with their own ears had passed away, then did the confederacy of godless error take its rise through the treachery of false teachers, who, seeing that none of the emissaries any longer survived, at length attempted with bare and uplifted head to oppose the proclaiming of the truth by proclaiming “knowledge falsely so called.”
(Hegessippus; Memoirs)
The generation which followed the life of Yeshua and his emissaries was the generation in which Shemikhazah and his associates were to be released. And this was the very generation in which false teachers began with bare and uplifted head to oppose the proclaiming of the truth, the very generation in which the apostasy began.
The long night of the apostasy is ending. The Book of Enoch is again coming to light that it may be a cause of joy and uprightness and much wisdom to those who observe the Torah in the last days. The culmination of all things is at hand.
One of the great revelations of the Book of Enoch is that the fallen angels were set loose for a period of time pending their final judgment, beginning with the generation immediately following Yeshua and his Talmidim. In other words, by the late first Century, the apostasy was well underway!
The prophet Enoch continues:
7 And when sin and unrighteousness and blasphemy and violence in all kinds of deeds increase, and apostasy and transgression and uncleanness increase, a great chastisement shall come from heaven upon all these, and the Set-apart YHWH will come forth with wrath and chastisement to execute judgment on earth.
8 In those days violence shall be cut off from its roots, and the roots of unrighteousness together with deceit, and they shall be destroyed from under heaven.
9 And all the idols of the heathen shall be abandoned, and the temples burned with fire, and they shall remove them from the whole earth, and they (i.e. the heathen) shall be cast into the judgment of fire, and shall perish in wrath and in grievous judgment forever.
(1Enoch 91:7-9)
According to the Talmud, Elohim has postponed bringing judgment to the Gentile nations because they have at least kept three commandments:
Said Rab Judah: These are the thirty righteous men among the nations of the world by whose virtue the nations of the world continue to exist. Ulla said: These are the thirty commandments which the sons of Noah took upon themselves but they observe three of them, namely,(i) they do not draw up a kethubah document [marriage contract] for males, (ii) they do not weigh flesh of the dead in the market, and (iii) they respect the Torah.
(b.Chullin 92b)
The Talmud teaches that Elohim withholds judgment from the nations of the world because they do not give marriage certificates to homosexuals, they do not sell human meat in the market, and while they do not keep the Torah, they do at least respect the Torah. But the world is in these last days descending into a darkness not seen on this planet since the days before the flood, and the time of YHWH’s judgment cannot be far off!
On June 26, 2015 in Obergefell v. Hodges the US Supreme Court plunged this world into an even deeper darkness by inventing is a supposed Constitutional right to a “gay marriage”. (This despite the fact that the US Constitution never mentions marriage and the Tenth Amendment reserves all powers not delegated by the Constitution to the Federal government to the States and the People)
Yeshua warned that the last days would be like the days of Noach:
37 And as it was in the days of Noach, so will it be at the coming of the Son of Man.
38 For as they were in the days that were before the flood–eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noach entered into the ark,
(Mt. 24:37-38 – HRV)
And this is a major theme of the Book of Enoch. Enoch forewarns of the coming judgment of the flood, and parallels this with the judgment of the last days. The Book of Enoch even prophecies that in the last days:
“women shall become pregnant and abort their babies
and cast them out from their midst”
(1En. 99:5).
The very same week that the Supreme Court ruled there is a right to a gay marriage a video was released of a Planned Parenthood official chatting about selling human organs from aborted babies… as casual dinner conversation!
Finally Enoch the Prophet prophecies a last days restoration:
10 And the righteous shall arise from their sleep, and wisdom shall arise and be given unto them.
11 And they shall have rooted out the foundations of violence and the structure of falsehood in it, to execute judgment.
(1Enoch 91:10-11)
This will be a last days restoration of Torah truth, as the Book of Enoch states that it was written “for those who will come after him, and keep the Torah in the last days.” (1Enoch 108:1)
Enoch the Prophet prophecies that the restoration would include a bonus, a restoration of lost books:
But when they write down truthfully all my words in their languages, and do not change or diminish ought from my words but write them all down truthfully –all that I first testified concerning them. Then, I know another mystery, that books will be given to the righteous and the wise to become a cause of joy and uprightness and much wisdom. And to them shall the books be given, and they shall believe in them and rejoice over them, and then shall all the righteous who have learnt therefore all the paths of uprightness be recompensed.’
(1Enoch 104:10-13)
These words have been fulfilled as the original Hebrew and Aramaic manuscripts of the books of the so-called “New Testament” have been translated and published, and as lost books like the Book of Enoch itself are restored.
This is where we are right now in Biblical prophecy! And I am delighted that this ministry has been on the cutting edge of this great last days work of restoration!
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The book of Enoch sounds legit. However it isn’t in the Catholic Bible, the LXX, the 1611 KJV, or the CEB. Supposing we accept its authenticity as the inspired word of God, what other deuterocanonical literature not in the above Bibles should be considered a part of God’s word? Thank you for the important work that you’re doing.