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1 Enoch 1 1–9 — The Holy Great One Comes · A Tithe of Time Podcast

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to a tithe of time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today we begin our study of the Book of Enoch, with chapter 1, verses 1 through 9.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Holy Great One Comes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Reading from the R.H.
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  SPEAKER_00: Charles Translation.
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  SPEAKER_00: The words of the blessing of Enoch, wherewith he blessed the elect and righteous, who will be living in the day of tribulation, when all the wicked and godless are to be removed.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he took up his parable and said, Enoch, a righteous man, whose eyes were opened by God, saw the vision of the Holy One in the heavens, which the angels showed me, and from them I heard everything, and from them I understood as I saw, but not for this generation, but for a remote one which is for to come.
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  SPEAKER_00: Concerning the elect, I said, and took up my parable concerning them.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Holy Great One will come forth from his dwelling, and the eternal God will tread upon the earth, even on Mount Sinai, and appear from his camp, and appear in the strength of his might from the heaven of heavens, and all shall be smitten with fear, and the watchers shall quake, and great fear and trembling shall seize them unto the ends of the earth, and the high mountains shall be shaken, and the high hills shall be made low, and shall melt like wax before the flame, and the earth shall be wholly rent in sunder, and all that is upon the earth shall perish, and there shall be a judgment upon all men.
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  SPEAKER_00: But with the righteous he will make peace, and will protect the elect, and mercy shall be upon them, and they shall all belong to God, and they shall be prospered, and they shall all be blessed, and he will help them all, and light shall appear unto them, and he will make peace with them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And behold, he cometh with ten thousands of his holy ones to execute judgment upon all, and to destroy all the ungodly, and to convict all flesh of all the works of their ungodliness which they have ungodly committed, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now let's look closer.
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  SPEAKER_00: The opening calls these words a blessing, even though much of what follows describes judgment.
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  SPEAKER_00: Verse 1 tells us why.
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  SPEAKER_00: The blessing is directed toward the righteous who will be living during the trouble.
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  SPEAKER_00: For them, God's coming brings protection, mercy, and peace.
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  SPEAKER_00: Notice when these people are living.
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  SPEAKER_00: They are present in the day of tribulation.
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  SPEAKER_00: This opening does not describe them as already absent from the trouble.
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  SPEAKER_00: It promises that God will protect them, without explaining here exactly how that protection will happen.
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  SPEAKER_00: The vision also looks beyond its immediate generation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Enoch says it concerns a remote one which is for to come.
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  SPEAKER_00: That establishes a future audience within the account, but it gives us no calendar date.
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  SPEAKER_00: We should not turn that statement into a claim that it specifically identifies our own generation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then watch the scale of God's arrival.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mountains shake, hills melt, and the earth is torn apart.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even the watchers tremble.
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  SPEAKER_00: The passage names them here without yet explaining who they are.
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  SPEAKER_00: The things that seem strongest and most secure cannot stand unmoved before the Holy Great One.
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  SPEAKER_00: But verse 8 changes the emphasis but with the righteous he will make peace.
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  SPEAKER_00: Their hope rests in what God does.
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  SPEAKER_00: He protects, shows mercy, helps, and makes peace.
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  SPEAKER_00: The words, they shall all belong to God, place that relationship at the heart of the promise.
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  SPEAKER_00: Finally, judgment reaches both actions and speech.
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  SPEAKER_00: The closing verse names ungodly works and the hard things spoken against God.
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  SPEAKER_00: The passage presents both as matters for which people are accountable.
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  SPEAKER_00: This concludes 1 Enoch 1 1 9.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Holy Great One comes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Next, we'll continue with 1 Enoch chapters 2 through 4 and chapter 5, verses 1 through 3.
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  SPEAKER_00: Creation keeps its appointed order.
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  SPEAKER_00: And remember, tithe your time.