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1 Enoch 5 4–9 — But You Have Not Been Steadfast · 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 continue our study of the Book of Enoch with chapter 5, verses 4 through 9.
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  SPEAKER_00: But you have not been steadfast.
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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: But ye, ye have not been steadfast, nor done the commandments of the Lord, but ye have turned away and spoken proud and hard words with your impure mouths against his greatness.
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  SPEAKER_00: O ye hard-hearted, ye shall find no peace.
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  SPEAKER_00: Therefore shall ye execrate your days, and the years of your life shall perish, and the years of your destruction shall be multiplied in eternal execration, and ye shall find no mercy.
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  SPEAKER_00: In those days ye shall make your names an eternal execration unto all the righteous, and by you shall all who curse curse, and all the sinners and godless shall imprecate by you, and for you, the godless, there shall be a curse, and all the shall rejoice, and there shall be forgiveness of sins, and every mercy and peace and forbearance.
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  SPEAKER_00: There shall be salvation unto them, a goodly light, and for all of you sinners there shall be no salvation, but on you all shall abide a curse.
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  SPEAKER_00: But for the elect there shall be light and grace and peace, and they shall inherit the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then there shall be bestowed upon the elect wisdom, and they shall all live and never again sin, either through ungodliness or through pride.
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  SPEAKER_00: But they who are wise shall be humble, and they shall not again transgress, nor shall they sin all the days of their life, nor shall they die of the divine anger or wrath, but they shall complete the number of the days of their life, and their lives shall be increased in peace, and the years of their joy shall be multiplied, in eternal gladness and peace, all the days of their life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now let's look closer.
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  SPEAKER_00: The opening words make the comparison direct.
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  SPEAKER_00: But ye, ye have not been steadfast.
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  SPEAKER_00: The preceding passage described creation following God's appointed order.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now the charge against people is that they have turned away from his commandments.
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  SPEAKER_00: The observations about nature lead into a question of human conduct.
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  SPEAKER_00: The accusation includes both disobedience and speech.
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  SPEAKER_00: They have not done the commandments, and they have spoken proud and hard words against God's greatness.
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  SPEAKER_00: Their words express the same resistance shown in their actions.
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  SPEAKER_00: That connection continues the opening chapters concerned with both ungodly deeds and what people say.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then notice the repeated word peace.
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  SPEAKER_00: The hard-hearted are told, ye shall find no peace.
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  SPEAKER_00: Later, the elect are promised light and grace and peace, and the closing lines return to peace again.
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  SPEAKER_00: Within this passage, the two futures differ in more than length of life.
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  SPEAKER_00: One is marked by condemnation, the other by a life of peace and joy.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is an important difficulty in the middle of our reading.
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  SPEAKER_00: The line, and all the shall rejoice, contains missing words, and this addition marks a larger portion of that passage as restored.
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  SPEAKER_00: We can hear references to forgiveness, mercy, and salvation, but we should not pretend every part of the wording is secure or supply the missing subject ourselves.
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  SPEAKER_00: The clearer lines that follow say the elect will inherit the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: The future pictured here includes life upon the earth, with wisdom bestowed upon them and an end to their sin.
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  SPEAKER_00: The passage does not explain here how every part of that transformation takes place.
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  SPEAKER_00: Finally, notice what accompanies wisdom, humility.
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  SPEAKER_00: Earlier, proud words were part of the accusation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here, they who are wise shall be humble.
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  SPEAKER_00: Pride and wisdom are set against one another through the conduct of the people described.
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  SPEAKER_00: This concludes 1 Enoch 5, verses 4 through 9.
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  SPEAKER_00: But you have not been steadfast.
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  SPEAKER_00: Next, we'll return to chapters 1 through 5 in our recap Judgment and the Promise of Peace.
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  SPEAKER_00: And remember, tithe your time.