Latest / Sacred Texts Archive / 14 - The Book of Enoch

Transcript

14 - The Book of Enoch · Sacred Texts Archive

• 0:00
  Chapter ninety, verses one through five. Third period, from Alexander the Great
• 0:06
  to the Greco Syrian domination, chapter ninety. And I saw till that in
• 0:12
  this manner thirty five shepherds undertook the pasturing of the sheep, and they severally
• 0:18
  completed their periods as did the first, and others received them into their hands
• 0:23
  to pasture them for their period, each shepherd in his own period. And
• 0:29
  after that I saw in my vision all the birds of heaven coming, the
• 0:34
  eagles, the vultures, the kites, the ravens. But the eagles led
• 0:38
  all the birds, and they began to devour those sheep, and to pick
• 0:41
  out their eyes, and to devour their flesh. And the sheep cried out
• 0:46
  because their flesh was being devoured by the birds. And as for me,
• 0:50
  I looked and lamented in my sleep over that shepherd who pastured the sheep.
• 0:55
  And I saw until those sheep were devoured by the dogs and eagles and kites,
• 0:59
  and they left neither flesh, nor skin, nor sinew remaining on them,
• 1:03
  till only their bones stood there, and their bones too fell to the
• 1:07
  earth, and the sheep became few. And I saw until that twenty three
• 1:11
  had undertaken the pasturing and completed in their several periods fifty eight times, chapter
• 1:19
  ninety, verses six through twelve, fourth period, from the Grecosyrian domination to
• 1:25
  the Maccabean revolt. But behold, lambs were borne by those white sheep,
• 1:30
  and they began to open their eyes and to see, and to cry to
• 1:33
  the sheep. Yea, they cried to them, but they did not hearken
• 1:37
  to what they said to them, but were exceedingly deaf, and their eyes
• 1:41
  were very exceedingly blinded. And I saw in the vision how the ravens flew
• 1:46
  upon those lambs and took one of those lambs, and dashed the sheep in
• 1:49
  pieces, and devoured them. And I saw till horns grew upon those lambs,
• 1:55
  and the ravens cast down their horns, and I saw till there sprouted
• 1:59
  a great horn of one of those sheep, and their eyes were opened,
• 2:02
  and it looked at them, and their eyes opened, and it cried to
• 2:06
  the sheep, and the rams saw it, and all ran to it.
• 2:09
  And notwithstanding all this, those eagles and vultures and ravens and kites still kept
• 2:15
  tearing the sheep and swooping down upon them and devouring them. Still, the
• 2:20
  sheep remained silent, but the rams lamented and cried out, and those ravens
• 2:25
  fought and battled with it, and sought to lay low its horn, but
• 2:30
  they had no power over it. Chapter ninety, verses thirteen through nineteen,
• 2:36
  the last assault of the Gentiles on the Jews, where verses thirteen through fifteen
• 2:42
  and sixteen through eighteen are doublets. And I saw till the shepherds and eagles,
• 2:47
  and those vultures and kites came, and they cried to the ravens that
• 2:52
  they should break the horn of that ram, And they battled and fought with
• 2:55
  it, and it battled with them and cried that its help might come.
• 3:00
  And I saw till a great sword was given to the sheep, and the
• 3:04
  sheep proceeded against all the beasts of the field to slay them, And all
• 3:07
  the beasts and the birds of the heaven fled before their face. And I
• 3:12
  saw till that man who wrote down the names of the shepherds and carried up
• 3:15
  into the presence of the Lord of the sheep, came and helped it and
• 3:19
  showed it everything he had come down for the help of that ram, And
• 3:23
  I saw till the Lord of the Sheep came unto them in wrath, and
• 3:28
  all who saw him fled, and they all fell into his shadow from before
• 3:32
  his face. Chapter ninety, verses twenty through twenty seven, Judgment of the
• 3:38
  Fallen Angels, the Shepherds and the Apostates. And I saw till a throne
• 3:44
  was erected in the pleasant land, and the Lord of the Sheep sat himself
• 3:46
  thereon, and the other took the sealed books and opened those books before the
• 3:52
  Lord of the Sheep. And the Lord called those men the seven first white
• 3:55
  Ones, and commanded that they should bring before him, beginning with the first
• 4:00
  star, which led the way, all the stars, whose privy members were
• 4:04
  like those of horses. And they brought them all before him. And he
• 4:09
  said to that man who wrote before him, being one of those seven White
• 4:13
  Ones, and said unto him, take those seventy shepherds to whom I delivered
• 4:16
  the sheep, and who, taking them on their own authorities, slew more
• 4:21
  than I commanded them. And behold they were all bound, I saw,
• 4:26
  and they all stood before him, And the judgment was held first over the
• 4:30
  stars, and they were judged and found guilty and went to the place of
• 4:34
  condemnation, and they were cast into an abyss full of fire and flaming,
• 4:40
  and full of pillars of fire. And those seventy shepherds were judged and found
• 4:45
  guilty, and they were cast into that fiery abyss. And I saw at
• 4:49
  that time how alike abyss was opened in the midst of the earth, full
• 4:55
  of fire. And they brought those blinded sheep, and they were all judged
• 4:59
  and found guilty, and cast into this fiery abyss, and they burned.
• 5:03
  Now this abyss was to the right of that house, and I saw those
• 5:08
  sheep burning, and their bones burning. Chapter ninety, verses twenty eight through
• 5:13
  thirty eight The New Jerusalem, the conversion of the surviving Gentiles, the resurrection
• 5:18
  of the Righteous the Messiah. And I stood up to sea till they folded
• 5:23
  up that old house and carried off all the pillars, and all the beams
• 5:28
  and ornaments of the house were at the same time folded up with it.
• 5:31
  And they carried it off and laid it in a place in the south of
• 5:34
  the land. And I saw till the Lord of the sheep brought a new
• 5:39
  house greater and loftier than that first, and set it up in the place
• 5:43
  of the first, which had been folded up. All its pillars were new,
• 5:47
  and its ornaments were new and larger than those of the first, the
• 5:51
  old one which he had taken away, and all the sheep were within it.
• 5:57
  And I saw all the sheep which had been left, and all the
• 6:00
  beasts on the earth, and all the birds of the heaven falling down and
• 6:03
  doing homage to those sheep, and making petition to and obeying them in everything.
• 6:10
  And thereafter those three who were clothed in white and had seized me by
• 6:14
  my hand, who had taken me up before, and the hand of that
• 6:17
  ram also seizing hold of me. They took me up and set me down
• 6:21
  in the midst of those sheep before the judgment took place. And those sheep
• 6:27
  were all white, and their wool was abundant and clean, and all that
• 6:31
  had been destroyed and dispersed, and all the beasts of the field and all
• 6:35
  the birds of the heaven assembled in that house. And the lord of the
• 6:40
  sheep rejoiced with great joy because they were all good and had returned to his
• 6:44
  house. And I saw till they laid down that sword which had been given
• 6:48
  to the sheep, and they brought it back into the house, and it
• 6:51
  was sealed before the presence of the Lord. And all the sheep were invited
• 6:56
  into that house, but it held them not. The eyes of them all
• 7:00
  were opened, and they saw the good, and there was not one among
• 7:04
  them that did not see. And I saw that that house was large and
• 7:09
  broad and very full. And I saw that a white bull was born with
• 7:14
  large horns, and all the beasts of the field, and all the birds
• 7:17
  of the air feared him and made petition to him all the time. And
• 7:21
  I saw till all their generations were transformed, and they all became white bulls,
• 7:27
  and the first among them became a lamb, and that lamb became a
• 7:30
  great animal and had great black horns on its head, and the Lord of
• 7:34
  the sheep rejoiced over it, and over all the oxen and I slept in
• 7:40
  their midst and I awoke and saw everything. This is the vision which I
• 7:44
  saw while I slept, And I awoke and blessed the Lord of Righteousness and
• 7:47
  gave him glory. Then I wept with a great weeping, and my tears
• 7:51
  stayed not till I could no longer endure it when I saw they flowed on
• 7:57
  account of what I had seen. Forever every thing shall come and be fulfilled,
• 8:01
  and all the deeds of men in their order were shown to me.
• 8:05
  On that night I remembered the first dream, and because of it I wept
• 8:09
  and was troubled, because I had seen that vision and of Chapter ninety