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And Enoch, The Seventh From Adam Also Prophesied
Science & Mystery in the First Book of Enoch
Shortly after I became saved, I decided to read The Bible from cover to cover. One day,
I was reading in Deuteronomy, and I became curious about God’s dietary laws; why were
some foods considered "clean" and others considered "unclean"? Later that day I happened to be
in a bookstore, and a certain book caught my eye. It was called the "Lost Books of the
Bible." Curious, I picked it up and opened it, and I immediately saw the word, "Deuteronomy".
As I scanned the verses surrounding it, I realized that I had opened it right to the
answer to this very question. This sort of experience was not new to me, because God
had answered many of my questions this way in the past, and I had come to believe that
this was one of the ways God speaks to us. But this time it was different--this wasn’t
The Bible, but a book that was rejected by early Church theologians. I wasn’t sure
if this was a sign or just a coincidence, but felt I had to buy the book anyway. I grew
to really like what these books had to say, but I still had to wrestle with my conscience,
because I wasn’t too sure if these books were inspired, or were just brilliant fictions.
I finally grew to love them so much that I just didn’t care anymore, I had come to
learn so much from them that I simply began to accept their inspiration on their own merits.
The years passed, and then it happened. I was reading the First Book of Enoch, and all
of a sudden I realized that what I was reading could not have been fiction. I was absolutely
sure that what had been written in these pages could not have been the ramblings of an overzealous
pseudoprophet. What I read I read over and over again, and the more I read it, the more
certain I became about my conclusion. What I was reading was a perfectly scientific description
of a BLACK HOLE! This account is taken from 1 ENOCH chapter
21: "And I came to an Empty place And I saw there neither a heaven above nor an earth
below, but a chaotic and terrible place. And there I saw seven stars of heaven bound together
in it, like great mountains, and burning with fire. At that moment I said, "For which sin
are they bound, and for what reason were they cast in here?’ Then one of the holy angels,
Uriel, who was with me, guiding me, spoke to me and said to me, "Enoch, for what reason
are you asking and for what reason do you question and exhibit eagerness? These are
among the stars of heaven which have transgressed the commandments of the Lord and are bound
in this place until the completion of ten million years, according to the number of
their sins." I then proceeded from that area to another place which is even more terrible
and saw a terrible thing: a great fire that was burning and flaming: the place had a cleavage
that extended to the last sea, pouring out great pillars of fire; neither its extent
nor its magnitude could I see nor was I able to estimate. At that moment (I said), ‘what
a terrible opening is this place and a pain to look at!’ Then Ura’el, one of the holy
angels who was with me responded and said to me, Enoch, why are you afraid like this?’
(I answered and said), ‘I am frightened because of this terrible place and the spectacle
of this painful thing.’ And he said unto me, ‘This place is the prison house of the
angels; they are detained here forever.’ A black hole is the final stage of a star’s
life; if the star had at least three solar masses. Some black holes are much larger,
containing millions, or even billions of solar masses. There isn’t any limit to how enormous
they can become--especially if they are well fed by stars near the center of a galaxy.
A super massive black hole, such as are believed to lurk at the centers of radio galaxies tend
to spew out huge PILLARS of radiation--some as far as 6000 light-years, or even more!
Our entire galaxy is only about 100,000 light-years across, so the two ascending and descending
pillars of radiation could add up to a total of 12,000 light-years across.
A super massive black hole would be surrounded by stellar and interstellar material, such
as dust, and other stars. One example of a black hole having captured a star is Cygnus
X 1, the star seems to be orbiting absolutely nothing at all, but is in fact losing much
of its mass in its fatal attraction. A black hole has at its center what is called
a ‘singularity’, which has an incredible mass and an infinite gravitational force,
but is infinitely small. So great is its pull, that the space around it is bent to infinity,
and even light cannot escape. Everything that passes a certain point, called the event horizon,
is doomed; it is the threshold beyond which there is absolutely no possibility that anything
could escape. The material that surrounds it forms a white-hot
spiraling feature called an accretion disk. In some cases, this whirling mass can outshine
its entire galaxy a hundred fold. It is paradoxical, but even though no light can escape from a
black hole, its accretion disk can be extremely bright.
Now that we have the black hole basics down, we can interpret Enoch’s vision. The EMPTY
PLACE, which is CHAOTIC and does not have a heaven ABOVE or an earth BELOW is OUTER
SPACE. Space is almost completely empty, and it can be called CHAOTIC because there are
constantly at work cycles of stellar and planetary birth and death. There is, moreover no ‘up’
or ‘down’ in space--all directions are relative to one another.
The GREAT FIRE that was burning and flaming corresponds to the ACCRETION DISK that surrounds
and feeds it. The CLEAVAGE is the bending of the space-time to infinity. If one imagines
space-time as a rubber sheet, this bending of time and space would resemble the kind
of funnel that would be the result of a long stick pushing down the center of it. The bending
is so extreme, and the forces so vast, that science does not even have physics adequate
to describe it just yet. All current laws of physics and quantum mechanics break down,
and as yet unknown laws of quantum gravity take over. Time and space literally go out
of existence within the singularity. It is an ending point--an infinitesimal boundary
to the universe. The LAST SEA is the SINGULARITY. Under the
new physics of quantum gravity, this singularity is somehow a seething mass of something called
‘QUANTUM FOAM’. It is chaotic and not well understood as of yet, but one can see
that it would correspond nicely with the word ‘sea’, since the sea is both fluid and
somewhat chaotic. The GREAT PILLARS of FIRE would correspond
to the immense radiation jets that spew out from it in both directions perpendicular to
the accretion disk. The fact that Enoch goes on to state that he could neither estimate
its extent nor its magnitude lets us know that the forces at work in it are infinite
and impossible to describe or even imagine. Another account of this black hole is given
in chapter 18, verses 10 16. "...a place beyond the great earth, where
the heavens come together. And I saw a deep pit with heavenly fire on its pillars; I saw
inside them descending pillars of fire that were immeasurable in respect to both altitude
and depth. And on top of that pit I saw a place without the heavenly firmament above
it or earthly foundation under it or water. There was nothing on it--not even birds--but
it was a desolate and terrible place. and I saw there the seven stars which were like
great burning mountains. Then the angel said to me, ‘This place is the ultimate end of
heaven and earth: it is the prison house for the stars and the pillars of heaven. and the
stars which roll over upon the fire, they are the ones which have transgressed the commandments
of God from the beginning of their rising because they did not arrive punctually. And
He was wroth with them and bound them until the time of the completion of their sin in
the year of mystery." The fact that this place is BEYOND THE GREAT
EARTH firmly establishes its location in outer space. When it says that it is the place where
the HEAVENS COME TOGETHER it indicates that it is a boundary to the fabric of space and
time. The DEEP PIT is the infinite bending of time and space that occurs beyond the event
horizon. Again, the PILLARS are the radiation jets that ‘pour out’ of it. The fact that
stars (a codeword for the fallen angels) are in orbit around it correctly indicates that
stars can be, and often are captured by black holes. The image of the STARS ROLLING correctly
reflects the fact that stars rotate as they orbit it.