A Commentary on the Book of the Prophet Enoch, Introduction

Over the course of my commentary on the Book of Hebrews so far readership of this blog has steadily dropped. So I shall table that for the time being and write on a subject that is not so blasé. When Jesus Christ walked the Earth, the Book of the Prophet Enoch was included in the Bible, both the Hebrew cannon used in the synagogues and the Septuagint translation everyone used in their homes. Many of the early Christian Fathers and Mothers of the Church quoted Enoch extensively. And the Book of the Prophet Enoch is the most internally quoted book in the Bible from Genesis to Revelation.

For a little background, Enoch was a shaman who lived before the flood. He was the seventh from Adam in line of descent. At the time Enoch practiced his faith, there were no evil spirits as there are today, because the Nephalim had not yet perished. Therefore, it was still possible for a spiritualist to walk with God as a friend. Enoch built a stone circle to observe the movements of the stars and planets and he sought visions to learn of the world around us and the world of the unseen.

The pharaoh who conquered Egypt and enslaved the Hebrew people must have brought the Book of Enoch with him from Mesopotamia, because Moses read it thoroughly before his mission. Although it is very possible Moses read the book only in his birth mother’s home or borrowed a copy from Jesse, his father-in-law, the Book of Enoch was too important a work to exclude from a royal library in the second millennium BC.

I am totally disgusted with the modern scholastic view that no book containing a fulfilled prophecy could possibly have been written before the event that fulfilled the prophecy it contains. In Wikipedia the various writers try so hard to discredit the prophetic nature of these books that they at one point claim that the Book of Enoch copied from the Book of Jubilees for the calendar and the Book of Jubilees copied from the Book of Enoch in another place. You can’t have it both ways, one of them must have been written first.

I hold the view that most of these books are what they claim to be, written by the author identified in the text and containing his own words. Doubtless there are many spurious works out there written for the purpose of leading God’s people astray. In my humble opinion, those are the ones most touted by the “scholars” as true examples of the faith of the times and suggested to be used to replace the canonical works in use for over sixteen hundred years. The blatant blasphemy of these so called scholars leads me to reject their hypotheses whole cloth and to stick with the textual explanation of authorship and date.

I shall use the excellent work of Andy McKracken as the text of my commentary. He has demonstrated a reverence for God and an intelligent interpretation of the dates and authors. So far as I have seen, there is no existing translation in the English tongue that surpasses McKracken’s work.

Tomorrow I shall start on the first chapter of the Book of the Prophet Enoch.

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