A Commentary on the Book of the Prophet Enoch, Part 11

We saw Enoch’s dream vision of God’s answer to the petition of the watchers. So where does Enoch go next?

17.1 And they took me to a place where they were like burning fire, and, when they wished, they made themselves look like men.
17.2 And they led me to a place of storm, and to a mountain, the tip of whose summit reached to Heaven.
17.3 And I saw lighted places, and thunder in the outermost ends, in its depths a bow Of fire, and arrows and their quivers, and a sword Of fire, and all the flashes of lightning.
17.4 And they took me to the Water of Life, as it is called, and to the Fire of the West, which receives every setting of the Sun.
17.5 And I came to a river of fire, whose fire flows like water, and pours out into the Great Sea, which is towards the west.
17.6 And I saw all the great rivers, and I reached the Great Darkness, and went where all flesh walks.
17.7 And I saw the Mountains of the Darkness of Winter and the place where the water of all the deeps pours out.
17.8 And I saw the mouths of all the rivers of the Earth, and the mouth of the deep.

Enoch says the watchers or some other angels with him took him on a spiritual walkabout. The angels at first appeared to Enoch as beings of fire. This is obviously their normal spiritual form. In the realm of the spirit, form is mutable, people take the form they normally associate with themselves unless they have learned, like the angels, to take on an alternate form of their own choosing. Spiritual form is a function of self image.

This commentator is unsure if Enoch is giving an overview here of a later passage or describing a separate vision. Either way, he tells of a trip that he took in the spirit world to explore spiritual topology. This is something Enoch did many times with different angels at different times. Each time Enoch saw something different. Many commentators have tried to interpret the visions with esoteric systems of symbology that satisfy their personal agendas. My agenda is to promote the book on its own face and not read anything else into it.

The people who try to put some physical meaning to the spiritual visions are either denying the reality of the spiritual world or the veracity of the book. Don’t get me wrong. I don’t think that magic and spell craft are fake. But I believe that if you take Enoch at his word, you will understand the grave spiritual and psychoid dangers of using any magic system, because they’re all beholden to the spirits of dead Nephalim. Instead of placing magic based metaphors over the things Enoch saw let’s interpret Enoch’s visions in the light of God’s subsequent revelation to humanity and the rest of the book that tries to explain these things.

Enoch didn’t try to wander around the spirit world without a guide from that world. Modern shaman always use a spirit guide. My caveat is that you must be careful to vett your spirit guide most carefully. Enoch’s guides were all angels from Heaven. Today there are many spirits who clamor for the attention of the spiritual traveler. Do not let yourself be deceived by the spirits of dead Nephalim or fallen angels. These entities desire nothing less that the eradication of humanity. Why would you trust your spiritual safety to a spirit who wants you dead? Instead, place your trust in the Lord Jesus Christ and the angels who serve Him. They want you to grow to your fullest spiritual potential.

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