What can you tell me about the Biblical figure, Enoch?

Question

He was one of the only 3 people taken up to Heaven while still alive and became known as the angel Metatron. He is also a prophet in Islam known as Idris.

skalite5: I mean, what ELSE can you tell me

Answer 1

Enoch (Hebrew: חֲנוֹךְ; Tiberian: Ḥănōḵ, Standard: Ḥanokh) is a name occurring twice in the generations of Adam. In one, he is described as having had a city named after him, but it is the other occurrence for which the name is famous. Despite the fame, the second mention of the name merely says that Enoch walked with God, and was not, for God took him, that he lived 365 years, and the great-grandfather of Noah (Genesis 5:22-29). Despite the brief description, its highly esoteric nature lead Enoch to be one of the main two focal points for much of the 1st millennium BC Jewish mysticism[citation needed]. In Islam, he is usually referred to as Idris (إدريس), and regarded as a prophet.



The Book of Enoch refers to extensive apocryphal works attributed to Enoch, that originated between the 2nd century BC and the first century AD. These recount how Enoch is taken up to heaven and is appointed guardian of all the celestial treasures, chief of the archangels, and the immediate attendant on God's throne. He is subsequently taught all secrets and mysteries and, with all the angels at his beck, fulfills of his own accord whatever comes out of the mouth of God, executing His decrees. He teaches, conducts souls to the place of felicity, and is known as Prince of God's face, Prince of the Torah, Prince of Wisdom, Prince of Reason, and Prince of Glory. Enoch was also seen as the inventor of writing, and teacher of astronomy and arithmetics, all three reflecting the interpretation of his name as meaning initiated.

While many of these secrets, which are subsequently given away in the books, are elaborations of parts of the Sefer ha-Yashar, others are elaborations on brief esoteric details in the torah, such as the tale of the Nephilim, which becomes a major theme in the Book of Enoch. Much esoteric literature of the period, like the Book of Enoch, either explicitly or implicitly, identifies Enoch as the Metatron, the angel which communicates God's word. In consequence, Enoch was seen, by this literature, and the ancient kabbala of Jewish mysticism, as having been the one which communicated God's revelation to Moses, in particular, the dictator of the Book of Jubilees

Answer 2

I'd ignore the metatron/idris stuff, but the Bible does record some of his words:

Jude 1:14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, 15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. 16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.

Interesting that the man who may have loved/been closer to God more than any other wasn't afraid to say that God would judge and not only love us.

Answer 3

There isn't much about him in the Bible. But if you read Enoch, you might know a lot more-- if it is true. I believe that Enoch buildt the Great Pyramid in Giza. And it wasn't the Muslim God or the Gnostic God that had him do it.

Answer 4

The Pearl of Great Price from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints gives the best account of Enoch that I've found

Answer 5

ENOCH

The Bible has several occurrences of that name: A direct descendant of Adam and ancestor of Noah. He is the protagonist of the several apocryphal books of the Old Testament:

1st Book of Enoch, an apocryphal book in the Ethiopic Bible.
2nd Book of Enoch, an apocryphal book in the Old Slavonic Bible.
3rd Book of Enoch, a Kabbalistic Rabbinic text in Hebrew, attributed to Kohen Gadol Yishmael (90-135 CE).

Enoch, son of Cain, after whom Cain named the first city he founded. / Enoch, son of Reuben / Enoch, one of the five sons of Midian / Note: Enoch is often confused with Enos.

THE BOOK OF ENOCH

The book consists of five quite distinct major sections:

1. The Book of Watchers (1 Enoch 1 – 36)
2. The Book of Parables (1 Enoch 37 – 71) (Also called the Similitudes of Enoch)
3. The Book of the Heavenly Luminaries (1 Enoch 72 – 82) (Usually abbreviated to The Book of Luminaries. Also called the Astronomical Book)
4. The Dream Visions (1 Enoch 83 – 90) (Also called the Book of Dreams)
5. The Epistle of Enoch (1 Enoch 91 – 108)

The Book of Enoch describes the fall of the Watchers, the angels who fathered the Nephilim (cf. the bene Elohim, Genesis 6:1-2). The fallen angels went to Enoch to intercede on their behalf with God after he declared to them their doom. The remainder of the book describes Enoch's visit to Heaven in the form of a vision, and his revelations.

The book contains descriptions of the movement of heavenly bodies (in connection with Enoch's trip to Heaven), and some parts of the book have been speculated about as containing instructions for the construction of a solar declinometer (the Uriel's machine theory).

The first section of the book depicts the interaction of the fallen angels with mankind; Sêmîazâz compels the other 199 fallen angels to take human wives to "beget us children".

"And Semjâzâ, who was their leader, said unto them: 'I fear ye will not indeed agree to do this deed, and I alone shall have to pay the penalty of a great sin.' And they all answered him and said: 'Let us all swear an oath, and all bind ourselves by mutual imprecations not to abandon this plan but to do this thing.'. Then sware they all together and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it. And they were in all two hundred; who descended in the days of Jared on the summit of Mount Hermon, and they called it Mount Hermon, because they had sworn and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it."

The names of the leaders are given as "Samyaza (Shemyazaz), their leader, Araqiel, Râmêêl, Kokabiel, Tamiel, Ramiel, Daniel, Chazaqiel, Baraqiel, Asael, Armaros, Batariel, Ananiel, Zaqiel, Shamsiel, Satariel, Turiel, Yomiel, Sariel."

This results in the creation of the Nephilim (Genesis) or Anakim/Anak (Giants) as they are described in the book:

"And they became pregnant, and they bare great giants, whose height was three thousand ells [the Ethiopian text gives 300 cubits (135 meters), which is probably a corruption of 30 cubits (13.5 meters)]: Who consumed all the acquisitions of men. And when men could no longer sustain them, the giants turned against them and devoured mankind. And they began to sin against birds, and beasts, and reptiles, and fish, and to devour one another's flesh, and drink the blood."

Answer 6

You answered you own question. What do you want from us, other than to give us 2 points?

Answer 7

He Walk with GOD and GOD did take him away. He did not became a angel.

k1

Answer 8

not much
no photo memory
try concordance

Answer 9

Yes, you are correct, you answered your own question...

Answer 10

Read the Bible for yourself please.