Showing posts with label Eve. Show all posts
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Saturday, December 28, 2024

A Declaration of Faith

My God is the Creator of All things.
He created the Son of Man; the Angels of Heaven; and Adam and Eve.
He is the God of Enoch; Noah; Abraham; Isaac; and Ishmael.
He is the God of of Jacob, but not of Esau.
He sent his Son incarnated in human form, Jesus Christ, The Son of Man, as the Angels and Enoch call him, to experience, preach, suffer, and Die for our Sins.(As Isaiah prophesied)
Ever since, blood sacrifices are, not only unnecessary, but despised by God.

Jesus Christ (Son of Man) is not the only incarnation in human form we know of.
The fallen angels did it, and still do it.
Angels are sent by God as holy messengers, from time to time.
Satan is known to have done it, and still does it.

As for reincarnation, there is one example we know of: John the Baptist was the reincarnation of Elijah.

The power, glory, justice, and mercy of our Almighty God is beyond imagination.

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And Testimonies

Dec. 9th 2024 (posted on facebook)
Testimony (those who know me have seen me struggle for over 10 years)
Do you believe in miracles?
I do. I've had 6 arthroscopic surgeries on my knees (3 each).
My right anterior cruciate was snapped, the left like a loose rubber band. After the last surgery in 2011, the surgeon told me to wait a little and then get knee replacements. Never did, yet my knees are fully functional, don't crack, don't ache when it's cold.
Thank you for restoring me Lord Jesus!

Yes, I've just put away the cane. I waited to see how cold weather would affect me. It doesn't.
Further more, I was diagnosed with fat liver, bad liver enzymes, High Cholesterol, mild diabetes, high blood pressure. Only took the High blood pressure medicine, none of the others (trash can). Last blood test, the doctor was surprised: liver enzymes fine; Cholesterol fine; diabetes fine; blood pressure fine. I might stop the blood pressure medicine.
My last knee re-injury was in 2011. Until last winter, the cane was a must. So what happened in 2024? I started to praise God daily. I obeyed all 10 commandments (including observing Shabbat). I repented of all my sins (except 1, smoking), and did them no more. I started (since March) to fast one day a week. I observe the law including Leviticus 11 and if I'm attentive enough Lev 23 (using the Zadok calendar). What I now need to do is stop desecrating my body with smoking, and repent of it. Then maybe, the Holy Spirit will abide in me and speak to me?

May 2021 (Covid)
The pandemic started in 2020. Florida's laws concerning it were more relaxed than in most other states.
I would often go out without wearing a mask, and even in places that allowed people without masks.

So eventually, I got sick. In May, I spent 5 days and 4 nights, more sick than I had ever been. I was 64 at the time, not the age group with the better immune system.
It started with caughing and seezing on the 1st day. Then at night I was feaverish, and caughing so much that my ribs hurt.
I couldn't sleep. As soon as laid down, I couldn't breathe. So I sat on my coach all night. Every time I fell asleep, I'd wake up gasping for air.
I lived alone. No way I was going to a hospital (I had heard how they dealt with people with the virus).
I had vitamin C, and D on hand, and Ginger. I prayed to the Lord, and asked him if it was my time to go, if it was his will, I was Ok with it. Praised by saying that I trusted him.
The 4th night ended and I fell asleep early morning, and woke up a few hours later.
My ribs still hurt, but I wasn't caughing, and my breathing was fine. I thanked God for allowing me to live a little longer. Now, it did take me almost 2 months to recover a normal sense of taste and smell.
I never took their shot, and never got this sickeness again so far. I trust God, and not men.

I've always been reckless, and was sucker of adranaline rush, from childhood until my mid 50's.
I can't enumerate the number of times I could have died. But, I guess God didn't want me dead yet.


My favorite Psalms:
  • Psalm 19 (Praise Almighty God)
  • Psalm 23 The Lord the Shepherd of His People
  • Psalm 91 Safety of Abiding in the Presence of God
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Thursday, December 5, 2024

Book of Jubilees 1-3

JUBILEES 1

YAHWEH Call Mosheh up to the Mountain to give the account of the division of the days

1 And it came to pass in the first year of the exodus of the children of Yisrael out of Egypt, in the third month, on the sixteenth day of the month, [2450 Anno Mundi] that YAHWEH spoke to Mosheh, saying: 'Come up to Me on the Mount, and I will give you two tables of stone of the Torah and of the commandment, which I have written, that you may teach them.'
2 And Mosheh went up into the mount of YAHWEH, and the splendor of YAHWEH abode on Mount Sinai, and a cloud overshadowed it six days.
3 And He called to Mosheh on the seventh day out of the midst of the cloud, and the appearance of the splendor of YAHWEH was like a flaming fire on the top of the mount.
4 And Mosheh was on the Mount forty days and forty nights, and YAHWEH taught him the earlier and the later history of the division of all the days of the Torah and of the testimony.
5 And He said: 'Incline your heart to every word which I shall speak to you on this mount, and write them in a book in order that their generations may see how I have not forsaken them for all the evil which they have wrought in transgressing the covenant which I establish between Me and you for their generations this day on Mount Sinai.
6 And thus it will come to pass when all these things come upon them, that they will recognise that I am more righteous than they in all their judgments and in all their actions, and they will recognise that I have been truly with them.
7 And do you write for yourself all these words which I declare unto, you this day, for I know their rebellion and their stiff neck, before I bring them into the land of which I swore to their fathers, to Abraham and to Yitschaq and to Yacob, saying: ' Unto your seed will I give a land flowing with milk and honey.
8 And they will eat and be satisfied, and they will turn to strange gods, to (gods) which cannot deliver them from aught of their tribulation: and this witness shall be heard for a witness against them. For they will forget all My commandments, (even) all that I command them, and they will walk after the Gentiles, and after their uncleanness, and after their shame, and will serve their gods, and these will prove unto them an offence and a tribulation and an affliction and a snare.
10 And many will perish and they will be taken captive, and will fall into the hands of the enemy, because they have forsaken My ordinances and My commandments, and the festivals of My covenant, and My Shabbats, and My kodesh place which I have hallowed for Myself in their midst, and My tabernacle, and My sanctuary, which I have hallowed for Myself in the midst of the land, that I should set MY NAME upon it, and that it should dwell (there).
11 And they will make to themselves high places and groves and graven images, and they will worship, each his own (graven image), so as to go astray, and they will sacrifice their children to demons, and to all the works of the error of their hearts.
12 And I will send witnesses unto them, that I may witness against them, but they will not hear, and will slay the witnesses also, and they will persecute those who seek the torah, and they will abrogate and change everything so as to work evil before My eyes.
13 And I will hide My face from them, and I will deliver them into the hand of the Gentiles for captivity, and for a prey, and for devouring, and I will remove them from the midst of the land, and I will scatter them amongst the Gentiles.
14 And they will forget all My Torah and all My commandments and all My judgments, and will go astray as to new months, and Shabbats, and festivals, and jubilees, and ordinances.
15 And after this they will turn to Me from amongst the Gentiles with all their heart and with all their soul and with all their strength, and I will gather them from amongst all the Gentiles, and they will seek me, so that I shall be found of them, when they seek me with all their heart and with all their soul.
16 And I will disclose to them abounding shalom with righteousness, and I will remove them the plant of uprightness, with all My heart and with all My soul, and they shall be for a blessing and not for a curse, and they shall be the head and not the tail.
17 And I will build My sanctuary in their midst, and I will dwell with them, and I will be YAHWEH their Sovereign Ruler and they shall be My people in truth and righteousness.
18 And I will not forsake them nor fail them; for I am YAHWEH their Sovereign Ruler.'
19 And Mosheh fell on his face and prayed and said, 'O YAHWEH my Sovereign Ruler, do not forsake Your people and Your inheritance, so that they should wander in the error of their hearts, and do not deliver them into the hands of their enemies, the Gentiles, lest they should rule over them and cause them to sin against You.
20 Let your mercy, O YAHWEH, be lifted up upon Your people, and create in them an upright spirit, and let not the spirit of Belial rule over them to accuse them before You, and to ensnare them from all the paths of righteousness, so that they may perish from before Your face.
21 But they are Your people and Your inheritance, which you have delivered with your great power from the hands of the Egyptians: create in them a clean heart and a kodesh spirit, and let them not be ensnared in their sins from henceforth until eternity.'
22 And YAHWEH said to Mosheh: 'I know their contrariness and their thoughts and their stiffneckedness, and they will not be obedient till they confess their own sin and the sin of their fathers.
23 And after this they will turn to Me in all uprightness and with all their heart and with all their soul, and I will circumcise the foreskin of their heart and the foreskin of the heart of their seed, and I will create in them a kodesh spirit, and I will cleanse them so that they shall not turn away from Me from that day unto eternity.
24 And their souls will cleave to Me and to all My commandments, and they will fulfill My commandments, and I will be their ABBA (Father) and they shall be My children.
25 And they all shall be called children of the living YAHWEH, and every malak and every spirit shall know, yes, they shall know that these are My children, and that I am their ABBA in uprightness and righteousness, and that I love them.
26 And do you write down for yourself all these words which I declare unto you on this mountain, the first and the last, which shall come to pass in all the divisions of the days in the Torah and in the testimony and in the weeks and the jubilees unto eternity, until I descend and dwell with them throughout eternity.'
27 And He said to the malak of the presence: Write for Mosheh from the beginning of creation till My sanctuary has been built among them for all eternity.
28 And YAHWEH will appear to the eyes of all, and all shall know that I am the Sovereign Ruler of Yisrael and the ABBA of all the children of Yacob, and King on Mount Zion for all eternity. And Zion and Yerusalem shall be kodesh.'
29 And the malak of the presence who went before the camp of Yisrael took the tables of the divisions of the years -from the time of the creation- of the Torah and of the testimony of the weeks of the jubilees, according to the individual years, according to all the number of the jubilees [according, to the individual years], from the day of the [new] creation when the heavens and the earth shall be renewed and all their creation according to the powers of the heaven, and according to all the creation of the earth, until the sanctuary of YAHWEH shall be made in Yerusalem on Mount Zion, and all the luminaries be renewed for healing and for shalom and for blessing for all the elect of Yisrael, and that thus it may be from that day and unto all the days of the earth.

JUBILEES 2

Mosheh Is Given the complete history from Creation

1 And the malak of the presence spoke to Mosheh according to the word of YAHWEH, saying: Write the complete history of the creation, how in six days YAHWEH ALMIGHTY finished all His works and all that He created, and kept Shabbat on the seventh day and hallowed it for all ages, and appointed it as a sign for all His works.
2 For on the first day He created the heavens which are above and the earth and the waters and all the spirits which serve before him -the malakim of the presence, and the malakim of sanctification, and the malakim [of the spirit of fire and the malakim] of the spirit of the winds, and the malakim of the spirit of the clouds, and of darkness, and of snow and of hail and of hoar frost, and the malakim of the voices and of the thunder and of the lightning, and the malakim of the spirits of cold and of heat, and of winter and of spring and of autumn and of summer and of all the spirits of his creatures which are in the heavens and on the earth, (He created) the abysses and the darkness, eventide (and night), and the light, dawn and day, which He has prepared in the knowledge of HIS heart.
3 And thereupon we saw His works, and praised Him, and lauded before Him on account of all His works; for seven great works did He create on the first day.
4 And on the second day He created the firmament in the midst of the waters, and the waters were divided on that day -half of them went up above and half of them went down below the firmament (that was) in the midst over the face of the whole earth. And this was the only work YAHWEH created on the second day.
5 And on the third day He commanded the waters to pass from off the face of the whole earth into one place, and the dry land to appear.
6 And the waters did so as He commanded them, and they retired from off the face of the earth into one place outside of this firmament, and the dry land appeared.
7 And on that day He created for them all the seas according to their separate gathering-places, and all the rivers, and the gatherings of the waters in the mountains and on all the earth, and all the lakes, and all the dew of the earth, and the seed which is sown, and all sprouting things, and fruit-bearing trees, and trees of the wood, and the garden of Eden, in Eden and all. These four great works YAHWEH created on the third day.
8 And on the fourth day He created the sun and the moon and the stars, and set them in the firmament of the heaven, to give light upon all the earth, and to rule over the day and the night, and divide the light from the darkness.
9 And YAHWEH appointed the sun to be a great sign on the earth for days and for Shabbats and for months and for feasts and for years and for Shabbats of years and for jubilees and for all seasons of the years.
10 And it divides the light from the darkness and for prosperity, that all things may prosper which shoot and grow on the earth. These three kinds He made on the fourth day.
11 And on the fifth day He created great sea monsters in the depths of the waters, for these were the first things of flesh that were created by his hands, the fish and everything that moves in the waters, and everything that flies, the birds and all their kind.
12 And the sun rose above them to prosper them, and above everything that was on the earth, everything that shoots out of the earth, and all fruit-bearing trees, and all flesh. These three kinds He created on the fifth day.
13 And on the sixth day He created all the animals of the earth, and all cattle, and everything that moves on the earth.
14 And after all this He created man, a man and a woman created He them, and gave him dominion over all that is upon the earth, and in the seas, and over everything that flies, and over beasts and over cattle, and over everything that moves on the earth, and over the whole earth, and over all this He gave him dominion.
15 And these four kinds He created on the sixth day. And there were altogether two and twenty kinds.
16 And He finished all his work on the sixth day -all that is in the heavens and on the earth, and in the seas and in the abysses, and in the light and in the darkness, and in everything.
17 And He gave us a great sign, the Shabbat day, that we should work six days, but keep Shabbat on the seventh day from all work.
18 And all the malakim of the presence, and all the malakim of sanctification, these two great classes -He has bidden us to keep the Shabbat with Him in heaven and on earth.
19 And He said to us: 'Behold, I will separate unto Myself a people from among all the peoples, and these shall keep the Shabbat day, and I will sanctify them unto Myself as My people, and will bless them; as I have sanctified the Shabbat day and do sanctify it unto Myself, even so will I bless them, and they shall be My people and I will be their Sovereign Ruler.
20 And I have chosen the seed of Yacob from amongst all that I have seen, and have written him down as My first-born son, and have sanctified him unto Myself forever and ever; and I will teach them the Shabbat day, that they may keep Shabbat thereon from all work.'
21 And thus He created therein a sign in accordance with which they should keep Shabbat with us on the seventh day, to eat and to drink, and to bless Him who has created all things as He has blessed and sanctified unto Himself a peculiar people above all peoples, and that they should keep Shabbat together with us.
22 And He caused His commands to ascend as a sweet savoir acceptable before Him all the days
23 There (were) two and twenty heads of mankind from Adam to Yacob, and two and twenty kinds of work were made until the seventh day; this is blessed and kodesh; and the former also is blessed and kodesh; and this one serves with that one for sanctification and blessing.
24 And to this (Yacob and his seed) it was granted that they should always be the blessed and kodesh ones of the first testimony and Torah, even as He had sanctified and blessed the Shabbat day on the seventh day.
25 He created heaven and earth and everything that He created in six days, and YAHWEH made the seventh day kodesh, for all His works; therefore He commanded on its behalf that, whoever does any work thereon shall die, and that he who defiles it shall surely die.
26 Wherefore do you command the children of Yisrael to observe this day that they may keep it kodesh and not do thereon any work, and not to defile it, as it is more kodesh than all other days.
27 And whoever profanes it shall surely die, and whoever does thereon any work shall surely die eternally, that the children of Yisrael may observe this day throughout their generations, and not be rooted out of the land; for it is a kodesh day and a blessed day.
28 And every one who observes it and keeps Shabbat thereon from all his work, will be kodesh and blessed throughout all days like unto us.
29 Declare and say to the children of Yisrael the Torah of this day both that they should keep Shabbat thereon, and that they should not forsake it in the error of their hearts; (and) that it is not lawful to do any work thereon which is unseemly, to do thereon their own pleasure, and that they should not prepare thereon anything to be eaten or drunk, and (that it is not lawful) to draw water, or bring in or take out thereon through their gates any burden, which they had not prepared for themselves on the sixth day in their dwellings.
30 And they shall not bring in nor take out from house to house on that day; for that day is more kodesh and blessed than any jubilee day of the jubilees; on this we kept Shabbat in the heavens before it was made known to any flesh to keep Shabbat thereon on the earth.
31 And the Creator of all things blessed it, but he did not sanctify all peoples and nations to keep Shabbat thereon, but Yisrael alone: them alone he permitted to eat and drink and to keep Shabbat thereon on the earth.
32 And the Creator of all things blessed this day which HE had created for blessing and making it kodesh and splendid above all days.
33 This Torah and testimony was given to the children of Yisrael as a Torah forever unto their generations.

JUBILEES 3

Adam names all that was on the Earth and the first Jubilee

1 And on the six days of the second week we brought, according to the word of YAHWEH, unto Adam all the beasts, and all the cattle, and all the birds, and everything that moves on the earth, and everything that moves in the water, according to their kinds, and according to their types: the beasts on the first day; the cattle on the second day; the birds on the third day; and all that which moves on the earth on the fourth day; and that which moves in the water on the fifth day.
2 And Adam named them all by their respective names, and as he called them, so was their name.
3 And on these five days Adam saw all these, male and female, according to every kind that was on the earth, but he was alone and found no helpmeet for him.
4 And YAHWEH said to us: 'It is not good that the man should be alone: let us make a helpmeet for him.
5 'And YAHWEH our Sovereign Ruler caused a deep sleep to fall upon him, and he slept, and He took for the woman one rib from amongst his ribs, and this rib was the origin of the woman from amongst his ribs, and He built up the flesh in its stead, and built the woman.
6 And He awaked Adam out of his sleep and on awaking he rose on the sixth day, and He brought her to him, and he knew her, and said to her: 'This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called [my] wife; because she was taken from her husband.'
7 Therefore shall man and wife be one and therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh. 8 In the first week was Adam created, and the rib -his wife: in the second week He showed her unto him: and for this reason the commandment was given to keep in their defilement, for a male seven days, and for a female twice seven days.
9 And after Adam had completed forty days in the land where he had been created, we brought him into the garden of Eden to till and keep it, but his wife they brought in on the eightieth day, and after this she entered into the garden of Eden.
10 And for this reason the commandment is written on the heavenly tablets in regard to her that gives birth: 'If she bears a male, she shall remain in her uncleanness seven days according to the first week of days, and thirty and three days shall she remain in the blood of her purifying, and she shall not touch any kodesh thing, nor enter into the sanctuary, until she accomplishes these days which (are enjoined) in the case of a male child.
11 But in the case of a female child she shall remain in her uncleanness two weeks of days, according to the first two weeks, and sixty-six days in the blood of her purification, and they will be in all eighty days.'
12 And when she had completed these eighty days we brought her into the garden of Eden, for it is most kodesh than all the earth besides and every tree that is planted in it is kodesh.
13 Therefore, there was ordained regarding her who bears a male or a female child the statute of those days that she should touch no kodesh thing, nor enter into the sanctuary until these days for the male or female child are accomplished.
14 This is the Torah and testimony which was written down for Yisrael, in order that they should observe it all the days.
15 And in the first week of the first jubilee, [1-7 A.M.] Adam and his wife were in the garden of Eden for seven years tilling and keeping it, and we gave him work and we instructed him to do everything that is suitable for tillage.
16 And he tilled (the garden), and was naked and knew it not, and was not ashamed, and he protected the garden from the birds and beasts and cattle, and gathered its fruit, and eat, and put aside the residue for himself and for his wife [and put aside that which was being kept].
17 And after the completion of the seven years, which he had completed there, seven years exactly, [8 A.M.] and in the second month, on the seventeenth day (of the month), the serpent came and approached the woman, and the serpent said to the woman, 'Has YAHWEH commanded you, saying, You shall not eat of every tree of the garden?'
18 And she said to it, 'Of all the fruit of the trees of the garden YAHWEH has said to us, Eat; but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden YAHWEH has said to us, You shall not eat thereof, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.' And the serpent said to the woman, 'You shall not surely die: for YAHWEH does know that on the day you shall eat thereof, your eyes will be opened, and you will be as gods, and you will know good and evil.
20 And the woman saw the tree that it was agreeable and pleasant to the eye, and that its fruit was good for food, and she took thereof and eat
21. And when she had first covered her shame with figleaves, she gave thereof to Adam and he eat, and his eyes were opened, and he saw that he was naked.
22 And he took figleaves and sewed them together, and made an apron for himself, and covered his shame.
23 And YAHWEH cursed the serpent, and was wroth with it forever.
24 And He was wroth with the woman, because she listened to the voice of the serpent, and did eat; and He said to her: 'I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your pains: in sorrow you shall bring forth children, and your return shall be unto your husband, and he will rule over you.'
25 And to Adam also he said, ' Because you have listened unto the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat thereof, cursed be the ground for your sake: thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to you, and you shall eat your bread in the sweat of your face, till you return to the earth from whence you were taken; for earth you are, and unto earth shall you return.'
26 And He made for them coats of skin, and clothed them, and sent them forth from the Garden of Eden.
27 And on that day on which Adam went forth from the Garden, he offered as a sweet savior an offering, frankincense, galbanum, and stacte, and spices in the morning with the rising of the sun from the day when he covered his shame.
28 And on that day was closed the mouth of all beasts, and of cattle, and of birds, and of whatever walks, and of whatever moves, so that they could no longer speak: for they had all spoken one with another with one lip and with one tongue.
29 And He sent out of the Garden of Eden all flesh that was in the Garden of Eden, and all flesh was scattered according to its kinds, and according to its types unto the places which had been created for them.
30 And to Adam alone did He give (the wherewithal) to cover his shame, of all the beasts and cattle.
31 On this account, it is prescribed on the heavenly tablets as touching all those who know the judgment of the Torah, that they should cover their shame, and should not uncover themselves as the Gentiles uncover themselves.
32 And on the new month of the fourth month, Adam and his wife went forth from the Garden of Eden, and they dwelt in the land of Elda in the land of their creation.
33 And Adam called the name of his wife Eve.
34 And they had no son till the first jubilee, [8 A.M.] and after this he knew her .
35 Now he tilled the land as he had been instructed in the Garden of Eden.

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Sunday, August 25, 2024

Jasher, Chapter 1

1 And YAHWEH said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, and YAHWEH created man in his own image.
2 And YAHWEH formed man from the ground, and he blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul endowed with speech.
3 And YAHWEH said, It is not good for man to be alone; I will make unto him a helpmeet.
4 And YAHWEH caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept, and he took away one of his ribs, and he built flesh upon it, and formed it and brought it to Adam, and Adam awoke from his sleep, and behold a woman was standing before him.
5 And he said, This is a bone of my bones and it shall be called woman, for this has been taken from man; and Adam called her name Eve, for she was the mother of all living.
6 And YAHWEH blessed them and called their names Adam and Eve in the day that he created them, and YAHWEH the ALMIGHTY said, Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
7 And YAHWEH the ALMIGHTY took Adam and his wife, and he placed them in the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it; and he commanded them and said unto them, From every tree of the garden you may eat, but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat thereof you shall surely die.
8 And when YAHWEH had blessed and commanded them, he went from them, and Adam and his wife dwelt in the garden according to the command which YAHWEH had commanded them.
9 And the serpent, which YAHWEH had created with them in the earth, came to them to incite them to transgress the command of YAHWEH which he had commanded them.
10 And the serpent enticed and persuaded the woman to eat from the tree of knowledge, and the woman hearkened to the voice of the serpent, and she transgressed the word of YAHWEH, and took from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and she ate, and she took from it and gave also to her husband and he ate.
11 And Adam and his wife transgressed the command of YAHWEH which he commanded them, and YAHWEH knew it, and his anger was kindled against them and he cursed them.
12 And YAHWEH the ALMIGHTY drove them that day from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which they were taken, and they went and dwelt at the east of the garden of Eden; and Adam knew his wife Eve and she bore two sons and three daughters.
13 And she called the name of the first born Cain, saying, I have obtained a man from YAHWEH, and the name of the other she called Abel, for she said, In vanity we came into the earth, and in vanity we shall be taken from it.
14 And the boys grew up and their father gave them a possession in the land; and Cain was a tiller of the ground, and Abel a keeper of sheep.
15 And it was at the expiration of a few years, that they brought an approximating offering to YAHWEH, and Cain brought from the fruit of the ground, and Abel brought from the firstlings of his flock from the fat thereof, and YAHWEH turned and inclined to Abel and his offering, and a fire came down from YAHWEH from heaven and consumed it.
16 And unto Cain and his offering YAHWEH did not turn, and he did not incline to it, for he had brought from the inferior fruit of the ground before YAHWEH, and Cain was jealous against his brother Abel on account of this, and he sought a pretext to slay him.
17 And in some time after, Cain and Abel his brother, went one day into the field to do their work; and they were both in the field, Cain tilling and ploughing his ground, and Abel feeding his flock; and the flock passed that part which Cain had ploughed in the ground, and it sorely grieved Cain on this account.
18 And Cain approached his brother Abel in anger, and he said unto him, What is there between me and you, that you come to dwell and bring your flock to feed in my land?
19 And Abel answered his brother Cain and said unto him, What is there between me and you, that you shall eat the flesh of my flock and clothe thyself with their wool?
20 And now therefore, put off the wool of my sheep with which you hast clothed thyself, and recompense me for their fruit and flesh which you hast eaten, and when you shall have done this, I will then go from your land as you hast said?
21 And Cain said to his brother Abel, Surely if I slay you this day, who will require your blood from me?
22 And Abel answered Cain, saying, Surely YAHWEH who has made us in the earth, he will avenge my cause, and he will require my blood from you shouldst you slay me, for YAHWEH is the judge and arbiter, and it is he who will requite man according to his evil, and the wicked man according to the wickedness that he may do upon earth.
23 And now, if you shouldst slay me here, surely YAHWEH knows your secret views, and will judge you for the evil which you didst declare to do unto me this day.
24 And when Cain heard the words which Abel his brother had spoken, behold the anger of Cain was kindled against his brother Abel for declaring this thing.
25 And Cain hastened and rose up, and took the iron part of his ploughing instrument, with which he suddenly smote his brother and he slew him, and Cain spilt the blood of his brother Abel upon the earth, and the blood of Abel streamed upon the earth before the flock.
26 And after this Cain repented having slain his brother, and he was sadly grieved, and he wept over him and it vexed him exceedingly.
27 And Cain rose up and dug a hole in the field, wherein he put his brother's body, and he turned the dust over it.
28 And YAHWEH knew what Cain had done to his brother, and YAHWEH appeared to Cain and said unto him, Where is Abel your brother that was with you?
29 And Cain dissembled, and said, I do not know, am I my brother's keeper? And YAHWEH said unto him, What hast you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries unto me from the ground where you hast slain him.
30 For you hast slain your brother and hast dissembled before me, and didst imagine in your heart that I saw you not, nor knew all your actions.
31 But you didst this thing and didst slay your brother for naught and because he spoke rightly to you, and now, therefore, cursed be you from the ground which opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand, and wherein you didst bury him.
32 And it shall be when you shall till it, it shall no more give you its strength as in the beginning, for thorns and thistles shall the ground produce, and you shall be moving and wandering in the earth until the day of your death.
33 And at that time Cain went out from the presence of YAHWEH, from the place where he was, and he went moving and wandering in the land toward the east of Eden, he and all belonging to him.
34 And Cain knew his wife in those days, and she conceived and bare a son, and he called his name Enoch, saying, In that time YAHWEH began to give him rest and quiet in the earth.
35 And at that time Cain also began to build a city: and he built the city and he called the name of the city Enoch, according to the name of his son; for in those days YAHWEH had given him rest upon the earth, and he did not move about and wander as in the beginning.
36 And Irad was born to Enoch, and Irad begat Mechuyael and Mechuyael begat Methusael.


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Thursday, March 21, 2024

The Book of Enoch: Chapters LXV - LXVIII

Chapter LXV

1. After this he showed me the angels of punishment, who were prepared to come, and to open all the mighty waters under the earth
2. That they may be for judgment, and for the destruction of all those who remain and dwell upon the earth.
3. And the Lord of spirits commanded the angels who went forth, not to take up the men and preserve them.
4. For those angels presided over all the mighty waters. Then I went out from the presence of Enoch.


Chapter LXVI

1. In those days the word of God came to me, and said, Noah, behold, thy lot has ascended up to me, a lot void of crime, a lot beloved and upright.
2. Now then shall the angels labour at the trees ; but when they proceed to this, I will put my hand upon it, and preserve it.
3. The seed of life shall arise from it, and a change shall take place, that the dry land may not be left empty. I will establish thy seed before me for ever and ever, and the seed of those who dwell with thee on the surface of the earth. It shall be blessed and multiplied in the presence of the earth, in the name of the Lord.
4. And they shall confine those angels who disclosed impiety. In that burning valley it is, that they shall he confined, which at first my great-grand-father Enoch showed me in the west, where there were mountains of gold and silver, of iron, of fluid metal, and of tin.
5. I beheld that valley in which there was great perturbation, and where the waters were troubled.
6. And when all this was effected, from the fluid mass of fire, and the perturbation which prevailed in that place, there arose a strong smell of sulphur, which became mixed with the waters ; and the valley of the angels, who had been guilty of seduction, burned underneath its soil.
7. Through that valley also rivers of fire we're flowing, to which those angels shall be condemned, who seduced the inhabitants of the earth.
8. And in those days shall the sewaters be to kings, to princes, to the exalted, and to the inhabitants of the earth, for the healing of the soul and body, and for the judgment of the spirit.
9. Their spirits shall be full of revelry, that they may be judged in their bodies ; because they have denied the Lord of spirits, and although they perceive their condemnation day by day, they believe not in his name.
10. And as the inflammation of their bodies shall be great, so shall their spirits undergo a change for ever.
11. For no word which is uttered before the Lord of spirits shall be in vain.
12. Judgment has come upon them, because they trusted in their carnal revelry, and denied the Lord of spirits.
13. In those days shall the waters of that valley be changed ; for when the angels shall be judged, then shall the heat of those springs of water experience an alteration.
14. And when the angels shall ascend, the water of the springs shall again undergo a change, and be frozen. Then I heard holy Michael answering and saying, This judgment, with which the angels shall be judged, shall bear testimony against the kings, the princes, and those who possess the earth.
15. For these waters of judgment shall be for their healing, and for the death of their bodies. But they shall not perceive and believe that the waters will be changed, and become a fire, which shall blaze for ever.


Chapter LXVII

1. After this he gave me the characteristical marks of all the secret things in the book of my great-grandfather Enoch, and in the parables which had been given to him ; inserting them for me among the words of the book of parables.
2. At that time holy Michael answered and said to Raphael, The power of the spirit hurries me away, and impels me on. The severity of the judgment, of the secret judgment of the angels, who is capable of beholding the endurance of that severe judgment which has taken place and been made permanent without being melted at the sight of it ? Again holy Michael answered and said to holy Raphael, Who is there whose heart is not softened by it, and whose reins are not troubled at this thing ?
3. Judgment has gone forth against them by those who have thus dragged them away ; and that was, when they stood in the presence of the Lord of spirits.
4. In like manner also holy Rakael said to Raphael, They shall not be before the eye of the Lord ; since the Lord of spirits has been offended with them ; for like Lords have they conducted themselves. Therefore will he bring upon them a secret judgment for ever and ever.
5. For neither shall angel nor man receive a portion of it ; but they alone shall receive their own judgment for ever and ever.


Chapter LXVIII

1. After this judgment they shall be astonished and irritated ; for it shall be exhibited to the inhabitants of the earth.
2. Behold the names of those angels. These are their names. The first of them is Samyaza ; the second, Arstikapha : the third, Armen ; the fourth, Kakabael; the fifth, Turel; the sixth, Kumyel; the seventh, Danyal ; the eighth, Kael ; the ninth, Barakel ; the tenth, Azazel ; the eleventh, Armers; the twelfth, Bataryal ; the thirteenth, Basasael ; the fourteenth, Ananel ; the fifteenth, Turyal ; the six- teenth, Simapiseel ; the seventeenth, Yetarel ; the eighteenth, Tumael; the nineteenth, Tarel; the twentieth, Kumel ; the twenty-first, Azazyel.
3. These are the chiefs of their angels, and the names of the leaders of their hundreds, and the leaders of their fifties, and the leaders of their tens.
4. The name of the first is Yekun : he it was who seduced all the sons of the holy angels ; and causing them to descend on earth, led astray the offspring of men.
5. The name of the second is Kesabel, who pointed oat evil counsel to the sons of the holy angels, and induced them to corrupt their bodies by generating mankind.
6. The name of the third is Gadrel : he discovered every stroke of death to the children of men.
7. He seduced Eve ; and discovered to the children of men the instruments of death, the coat of mail, the shield, and the sword for slaughter ; every instrument of death to the children of men.
8. From his hand were these things derived to them who dwell upon earth, from that period for ever.
9. The name of the fourth is Penemue : he dis- covered to the children of men bitterness and sweetness
10. And pointed out to them every secret of their wisdom.
11. He taught men to understand writing, and the use of ink and paper.
12. Therefore numerous have been those who have gone astray from every period of the world, even to this day.
13. For men were not born for this, thus with pen and with ink to confirm their faith;
14. Since they were not created, except that, like the angels, they might remain righteous and pure.
15. Nor would death, which destroys everything, have affected them
16. But by this their knowledge they perish, and by this also its power consumes them.
17. The name of the fifth is Kasyade : he discovered to the children of men every wicked stroke of spirits and of demons
18. The stroke of the embryo in the womb, to diminish it , the stroke of the spirit by the bite of the serpent, and the stroke which is given in the mid-day by the offspring of the serpent, the name of which is Tabaet.
19. This is the number of the Kesbel ; the principal part of the oath which the Most High, dwelling in glory, revealed to the holy ones.
20.Its name is Beka. He spoke to holy Michael to discover to them the sacred name, that they might understand that secret name, and thus remember the oath ; and that those who pointed out every secret thing to the children of men might tremble at that name and oath.
21. This is the power of that oath ; for powerful it is, and strong.
22. And he established this oath of Akae by the instrumentality ^ of the holy Michael. 23. These are the secrets of this oath, and by it were they confirmed.
24. Heaven was suspended by it before the world was made, for ever.
25. By it has the earth been founded upon the flood; while from the concealed parts of the hills the agitated waters proceed forth from the creation to the end of the world.
26. By this oath the sea has been formed, and the foundation of it.
27. During the period of its fury he has established the sand against it, which continues unchanged for ever; and by this oath the abyss has been made strong; nor is it removable from its station for ever and ever.
28. By this oath the sun and moon complete their progress, never swerving from the command given to them for ever and ever.
29. By this oath the stars complete their progress ;
30. And when their names are called, they return an answer, for ever and ever. 31. Thus in the heavens take place the blowings of the winds : all of them have breathings, and effect a complete combination of breathings.
32. There the treasures of thunder are kept, and the splendour of the lightning.
33. There are kept the treasures of hail and of frost, the treasures of snow, the treasures of rain and of dew.
34. All these confess and laud before the Lord of spirits.
35. They glorify with all their power of praise and he sustains them in all that act of thanksgiving ; while they laud, glorify, and exalt the name of the Lord of spirits for ever and ever.
36. And with them he establishes this oath, by which they and their paths are preserved ; nor does their progress perish.
37. Great was their joy.
38. They blessed, glorified, and exalted, because the name of the Son of man was revealed to them.
39. He sat upon the throne of his glory ; and the principal part of the judgment was assigned to him, the Son of man. Sinners shall disappear and perish from the face of the earth, while those who seduced them shall be bound with chains for ever.
40. According to their ranks of corruption shall they be imprisoned, and all their works shall dis- appear from the face of the earth; nor thenceforward shall there be any to corrupt ; for the Son of man has been seen, sitting on the throne of his glory.
41. Everything wicked shall disappear, and depart from before his face ; and the word of the Son of man shall become powerful in the presence of the Lord of spirits.
42. This is the third parable of Enoch.

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