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Pillar of Enoch Ministry
Pillar of Enoch Ministry
Category:
Religion
Publisher: Pillar of Enoch Ministry
ISBN-10: 0975913115
Type: Non-Fiction
Pages: 650
Copyright: June 10, 2006
ISBN-13: 9780975913116
"The Language of God in Humanity” explores what it means to be created in God’s image, and how this reflects God’s ultimate purpose for humanity. First, it shows how the dual witness of the Gospel in the Stars, and the Bible reveal God’s allegorical Language of love to humanity. Then, using the knowledge of love revealed in these witnesses, Blood Covenant ceremonies like Communion are shown to symbolically communicate the correct basis for all human and divine social relationships.
Next, by comparing the familial relationships between God and His human children, this book shows how all people serve as living parables, and potential members of God’s family. Using the Language of God as a key, the parables of Yahshua (Jesus), and biblically based festivals such as Passover, Chanukah, and Sukkot also take on far deeper meanings. This fervent look at Judeo-Christianity also deciphers the prophetic elements in biblically inspired religious buildings such as the Tabernacle, and rituals such as Communion, baptism, and blood sacrifice - and shows how vital and relevant their symbolic meanings still are today.
For Immediate Release:
Did the Design of the Ark of the Covenant and
Desert Tabernacle Have A Hidden Message?
Is it possible that the Ark of the Covenant and Desert Tabernacle described in the Bible had a far greater, hidden purpose than most people are aware of? Bible Scholar Helena Lehman has written an intriguing book called “The Language of God in Humanity” to show the meaning of these, and many other symbols used in the Bible. Topics in this well-researched, imaginatively illustrated, 660-page book include:
- The meaning of the nine Blood Covenants that God made with humanity
- How the design of the human body reflects God’s invisible image
- Why the New Covenant fulfilled every other divinely initiated Covenant
- How the Desert Tabernacle symbolized the triune nature of God and mankind, the 12 Tribes of Israel, the 12 Signs of the Zodiac, and the mission of Christ in His First Advent role as a Suffering Servant
- How the Ark of the Covenant represented the nature and purpose of Christ as High Priest and King, the triune nature of God, and the salvation of mankind
- The prophetic message of the nine biblical Feasts of Israel
- How every blood sacrifice was a symbol of the blood atonement that was given by Christ for all people, and for all time - making the need for blood sacrifices obsolete
- How many heroes of the Bible typified Christ, and were represented in the Zodiac just as Christ was
Helena Lehman’s easy-to-read study of these topics shows how the Zodiac is a reflection of the Bible, and its greatest heroes. In layman’s terms, Helena offers thorough descriptions that reveal many layers of hidden spiritual meaning in every symbol, and hero mentioned in the Bible, and how each person is a living parable. In the process, she reclaims many ancient symbols for Christ, who is their source.
For those who seek to know even more about the remarkable ways God speaks to us, “The Language of God in Humanity” is the second book in a four book series that exhaustively covers many different aspects of this complex subject. Helena’s books, along with excerpts, free articles, and downloads on related topics are available at the Pillar of Enoch Ministry Web site at http://pillar-of-enoch.com. In addition, all the Language of God Series books are available at local and Internet bookstores, and through Ingram/Spring Arbor distributors.
Helena Lehman is an expert on the connection between the Gospel in the Stars, the Great Pyramid, the Desert Tabernacle, and the Bible, and she is available to speak on the bulleted topics above. Interested parties may e-mail Helena for more information, or to obtain book copies for review, and media kits.
Excerpt
The Language of God, and the Two Great Witnesses
Besides the record of God to be found in the metaphorical, scientific, and mathematical messages given to us in the Mazzaroth, the Earth, and the living things inhabiting it, the written Word of God in the Bible serves as another multi-dimensional witness. It is not just a collection of religious documents, but also a detailed record of the history and culture of the Jewish people. Furthermore, it contains detailed explanations of the religious feasts, rituals, and customs that Yahweh commanded Moses to teach the Israelites. The Bible also contains the writings of over a dozen prophets who came to convey God’s Will to the Israelites before the time of Christ, and afterward.
Together, the historical, religious, and prophetic writings of the Bible serve as a Witness that silently cries out the truths of Yahweh God. Along with the Mazzaroth, the sixty-six books of the Bible stand as witnesses that Yahweh exists. Together with the Mazzaroth, they also form a perfect testimony to humanity that was meant to teach us about Yahweh’s nature and purpose. However, only the testimony found within the fabric of Creation has been evident to all people throughout time.
Though the Bible is the greatest of God’s Witnesses today, it was not always so in past ages. The Language of God as revealed in the Mazzaroth, and the Universe preceded the Bible, and is incapable of being physically altered by men. However, just like the Bible, God’s Language in the Universe can be grossly misinterpreted unless one has been given divine wisdom, and receives the gift of discernment through the Holy Spirit. Our spiritual eyes need to be opened by God’s Spirit before we can truly understand God’s Language. This is why the Bible makes it clear that no testimony is considered true unless there are at least two witnesses to verify that the testimony given is accurate (Numbers 35:30; Deuteronomy 17:6, 19:15; Matthew 18:16; John 8:17-18; Hebrews 10:28). Comparing the Language of God hidden in the Mazzaroth, and in allegorical Bible verses, is therefore essential when seeking the correct interpretation of the parables found in both.
Based on the need to have two witnesses to verify any truth, the witness of the heavens and the Earth serve to substantiate the truths of the Bible to skeptics. Due to this, the witness of the Mazzaroth (which is the subject of the first book in this series) should be considered secondary to the Bible in spiritual authority. This book series gives many complex and powerful reasons to believe that the Gospel in the Stars, and the silent witness of the Mazzaroth should be considered valuable for teaching others about the one true God, and His Gospel message. Nonetheless, though the Universe Yah created tells us much through the Mazzaroth, the Bible is superior to it.
In this present Age, the Bible is a superior witness to the Universe for several reasons. First and foremost, the Bible, and the Jewish rituals and history it relays are far easier for modern humanity to understand. This is because most people alive today have not been taught to think allegorically, but logically, and we doubt what we cannot see, or measure empirically. We therefore have been trained to be skeptical, and to doubt that there is an unseen spirit world, or that there are any allegorical messages written into Creation. However, if we make the effort to understand the Language of God hidden in Creation, it can lead us into a much more intimate relationship with Yah, a deeper understanding of the Bible, and a real grasp of the meaning behind the Jewish rituals revealed in it.
In the first book of this series, we explored the testimony about Yahweh found in the structure of the Universe. We also learned to discern Yahweh’s revelations to us found within the structure of the starry heavens, our own Solar System, and on Earth. Now we will focus on the divinely created parables that can be readily seen within the nature of human existence. In the process, the Bible, and the rituals of the Israelite/Jewish people, will be shown to be the Two Witnesses that support, and confirm God’s testimony of Himself found in the magnificent Universe He created. Then we will see how these Witnesses teach us about God, and salvation through Christ.
All the witnesses to Yah’s greatness: the Universe, and the Bible and its rituals, can be viewed as one great testimony full of truth. They are communally to be viewed as part of the same whole - just like the Trinity of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. However, they can also be seen as the Spirit of the Two Witnesses - the two men who stand as witnesses for Yahweh during the Great Tribulation. The Mazzaroth and the Bible are the Two Great Witnesses, and together they form a true and perfect testimony about Yahweh - a testimony readily available to all who care to seek and find it.
In this book, we will focus on a deep exploration of what it means to be created in God’s image, and what the allegorical meanings of biblical rituals can tell us about our place in God’s future. We will examine many analogies, metaphors, and allegories that form the Language of God and convey truths about Yahweh that are fully supported in the Bible. They do not reveal anything against its teachings or modern Evangelical Christian thought. Furthermore, many of these metaphorical messages contain astounding scientific and mathematical information that attest to the greatness of our Creator.
Yahweh's mathematical, scientific, and metaphorical revelations about Himself, in the natural world and in the Bible, are completely in agreement, so long as we view them both with the guidance and direction of the Holy Spirit dwelling within us. Like the Universe, our Earth is an especially masterful work of art that reveals Yahweh’s true nature to us, in many different ways. To understand how Yahweh God reveals Himself in both, we must see beyond the ordinary aspects of Creation, and grasp the analogies to be found therein. God’s “Language,” or allegorical method of communicating to us is therefore very different from ordinary human language.
Instead of using written or spoken words, Yahweh God initially filled the Universe with symbolic images that metaphorically “said” far more about His nature than voiced or written words. These magnificent pictures within Creation reflect His greatness and purpose. Book One explores many of these visual metaphors found in nature. Yahweh later also filled the Bible with similarly complex pictures made up of words instead of images. Yahshua (Jesus) Himself used powerful word pictures to teach His followers. Allegorical in nature, these word pictures are called parables. In these parables, Yahshua used common scenes from nature and everyday life to communicate important truths about God the Father and His relationship to us.
The Bible fully supports the idea that the Universe is a parable of enormous scale that was devised by God. Furthermore, Yahweh deliberately constructed it to communicate spiritual knowledge to us, as well as to serve as the habitation of men and angels. Along with the quotation preceding this chapter (that is more fully explored later on), here is another passage that upholds this view:
“Praise the Lord (Yah) from the heavens, praise him in the heights above. Praise him… all his heavenly hosts. Praise him, sun and moon, Praise him, all you shining stars. Praise him you highest heavens and you waters above the skies. Let them praise… the Lord (Yahweh), for he commanded and they were created. He set them in place... for ever and ever; he gave a decree that will never pass away.” - Psalm 148:1-6 (NIV)
In the above Scripture, the Psalmist is proclaiming that the Sun, Moon, and Stars should praise God. But how can these objects in space praise God since they are not alive? Unless we want to attribute these celestial bodies with a form of sentience that is totally unsupported in the Bible, then they can only do so through the silent Language of God that was allegorically encoded within them, and their movements by Yah when they were created. Therefore, from this Scripture, two truths become clear.
The first is that Yahweh is the Creator of the heavens. Secondly, the Creation praises Yahweh by revealing Yah’s nature allegorically through parables. God’s Language of parables allows those with their spiritual eyes open to praise and worship Yahweh in truth. Yah is not unknowable, or unreachable. Yah is as close to us as our own parents, and as familiar to us as our own faces. In both, we can see an imperfect reflection of Yahweh’s perfect nature.
In understanding the mathematically and scientifically supported allegorical messages about Yahweh presented in the Universe, and within ourselves, we can really deepen our personal relationship with God the Father, and His Son Yahshua. It is the depth of our relationship with God that determines the degree of our faith, and the truth of our walk with Christ. Therefore, strengthening this relationship is of paramount importance. To this end, this book has been written. Through this detailed study, we will see how the Two Great Witnesses of God’s existence - the Creation, and the Bible with its many rituals - are in complete agreement. Furthermore, we will explore how loving and intimate our relationship with Yahweh can be. Through understanding Yahweh’s visual and symbolic Language, each person can draw nearer to Him, and learn what they need to grow spiritually.
Solomon’s Pillars and The Two Witnesses
It never ceases to amaze me how Yah shows new revelations of deep spiritual truths to His people in layer upon layer, building on the foundation of each previous layer. It’s like the difference between seeing a tree and knowing a tree. When we see a tree, we can admire its external beauty and majesty. But until we get close to, touch, and look inside the tree, we cannot know the tree. When we get close to the tree, we can enjoy its shade and study its bark, flowers, scent, fruit, seeds, and leaves. We can also observe the animals and birds that find refuge and food in the tree. This makes us understand and appreciate the tree better, but our knowledge of the tree is still only on the surface.
Not until we test its wood to see the tree’s strength, examine the depth of the tree’s roots, eat the tree’s fruit or seeds (if edible!), and see the growth rings inside the tree, can we know the tree fully. Each growth ring in a tree is like the layers in an onion, and like the onion, the whole tree is more than the sum of its layers. Likewise, the Tree of Life allegorically has growth rings that give forth the fruit of Yah’s Truth. As we mature spiritually, Yah feeds us layer upon layer of His Truth. Yahshua is called the Bread of Life, and, as we study the Bible and the Gospel in the Stars, we learn about Him as the Word of God. When we study the Good News, or Gospel concerning Yahshua, we are symbolically eating the fruit of the Tree of Life, which is another symbol for Yahshua.
Yah chooses to reveal Himself to us in layers, so as not to overwhelm us with His incredible, infinite depth and complexity! This is also how Yah has revealed the truth of the Two Great Witnesses within His Creation to me. In the previous section, I explained the first layer of truth concerning these witnesses. In this section, however, I will share the newly revealed second layer of truth about these witnesses. Many years after the first layer of knowledge was given to me, a second layer was given - to make sure that my soul, and this book, contains a more complete picture of truth. Isn’t Yah an amazing God?
My knowledge of the witnesses was left incomplete because I had not yet studied the meaning of the Tabernacle and Temple of Yahweh, which I had to do to finish this book. Now that this study has been completed, however, all the pieces of the spiritual puzzle I was attempting to put together have fallen into place. Now that I can picture the entire puzzle, I can see that the Two Great Witnesses of Yah - the Mazzaroth and the Bible - are allegorically revealed in Scripture through several pairs of witnesses.
The first set of Two Witnesses that are biblically identified are the prophets Enoch and Elijah, who were the two men translated to heaven without tasting death. Yah Himself therefore identified them as the greatest prophets before the perfect prophetic voice of Yahshua came into the world. Considering their translation, these two bold prophets appear to have been exalted by God above Moses. Though Moses wrote the first five books of the Bible, and gave the Law of God to the Israelites, he was denied entrance into the Promised Land, and died outside of it. Yet both Enoch and Elijah were saved from death, and were taken up to Heaven to dwell with the angels! In a moment, I will explain more about what this means.
The second set of Two Witnesses connected to the Two Great Witnesses of the Mazzaroth and the Bible were the two great pillars that once framed Solomon’s Temple doorway:
“Then he set up the pillars by the vestibule of the temple; he set up the pillar on the right and called its name Jachin, and he set up the pillar on the left and called its name Boaz. The tops of the pillars were in the shape of lilies. So the work of the pillars was finished.” - 1 Kings 7:21-22 (NKJ)
These great bronze pillars had lily-shaped capitals. Interestingly, lilies are decidedly trumpet-shaped spring flowers with six petals like the almond, which was also used in biblical sacred art. This partly suggests that these pillars were like giant trumpets poised to sound a blast toward Heaven, just as the rainbow is like a giant, mystical archer’s bow poised to shoot an arrow into Heaven (more on this later). These trumpet-like pillars are suggestive of the Shofar, or ram’s horn trumpet used by Jews in religious rituals, especially in regard to the Shofar blasts that are sounded annually on the Feast of Trumpets, or Rosh Hashanah. In addition, since the lily has six petals, like an almond flower, these capitals are also suggestive of the six-pointed Star of David.
The right-hand pillar was named Jachin, meaning: “He will establish”, and the left-hand pillar was named Boaz, meaning: “In Him is Strength” (1 Kings 7:21-22; 2 Chron. 3:17). The name of one of the pillars is likely tied to the man of Judah called Boaz, who married Ruth, and is named in both genealogies of Christ (Ruth 4:13; Mat. 1:5; Luke 3:32). Not surprisingly, the names of these two pillars also obviously allude to Christ, whose two Advents did, or will do, exactly what these two pillars suggest. After all, Yahshua established His priestly ministry, and His role in our salvation during His First Advent, and He will show His strength as a judge and ruler during His Second Advent - when He comes again to set up His Millennial Kingdom on Earth.
The brazen pillars on Solomon’s Temple also connect to another set of Two Witnesses, the House of Judah, and the House of Ephraim, or Israel. These Two Houses refer to Yahshua’s saints, who are seen in prophecy as Judah and Israel/Ephraim. These Two Houses consist of a worldwide congregation of Messianic Jewish believers, and a global community of spiritual and literal Israelite believers that are united by their common love of Yahweh and His Son. This is why Yahshua said that He had come to reach the Lost Sheep of the House of Israel (Mat. 10:6, 15:24; Luke 15:6). Yahshua had come to preach to more than just the Jews in Judea, who represented only a small fraction of the Two Houses of Israel. This is because Israel had long ago divided into two kingdoms, or Houses: Judah, and Israel, which is also called Ephraim in prophecy. The reason this is not common knowledge today is because the people of that divided kingdom called Israel gradually lost their identity. This is why they are called the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel, and why Yahshua called them His “lost sheep.”
The Assyrians carried the Israelites in Israel’s northern Kingdom into captivity. Later, the Babylonians carried the captured citizens of the southern Kingdom of Judah away. Subsequently, these captive peoples were set free, and though all Twelve Tribes are now represented in modern Israel, only significant numbers of people from the Tribes of Judah, Levi, and Benjamin returned to Israel at the time of the rebuilding of Jerusalem and the temple under King Zerubbabel.
There is also ample evidence that significant numbers from ten of the Twelve Tribes of Israel migrated north, gradually lost knowledge of their identity, and resettled in many places such as Europe, Asia, Russia, and England. This Israelite migration is discussed more in this book’s final chapter, and in Books Three and Four.
These two waves of Israelite migrations into the world were part of the Diaspora, and make much sense of the prophecies in Scripture that speak of the Two Houses of Israel as Judah and Ephraim. Judah represents Messianic Jews, while Ephraim signifies saved Lost Israelites, and believing Gentiles that have been adopted into God’s Kingdom, and are now determined by their faith instead of their bloodlines. Eventually, the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel were assimilated into the Gentile nations of the world, especially the Christian West. As a result, Jews, Israelites, and Ephraimites are now found all over the world. Therefore, the Two Houses of Israel can also be found in every nation.
Both Jews and Lost Israelites existed at Yahshua’s First Advent, which as why Yahshua sent His disciples and apostles out in pairs to preach the Gospel of the Kingdom. Furthermore, this would explain why Yahshua had them first seek out the people of Judah to spread the Good News, and then go out to the Gentiles, or the other Lost Sheep of Israel. Yahshua was likely referring to these Lost Sheep when He said:
”I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also. They too will listen to my voice, and there shall be one flock and one shepherd.” - John 10:16 (NIV)
Here, Yahshua was referring to His saints as sheep in two separate sheep pens. Uncannily, this same imagery is used in the Gospel in the Stars, in the constellations Canis Major and Canis Minor, and Ursa Major and Ursa Minor. These constellations show two separate sheep pens, or congregations that the Good Shepherd Yahshua is attempting to lead. These constellations will be discussed more later in this book, and are also extensively covered in the other books in the Language of God Book series.
The final set of two witnesses who represent the Mazzaroth and the Bible are the Two Witnesses in the Book of Revelation. Many believe that these Two Witnesses will be Moses and Elijah. This view is derived from Yahshua’s Transfiguration, when Moses and Elijah were present with Christ:
“And as He prayed, the appearance of His face was altered, and His robe became white and glistening. And behold, two men talked with Him, who were Moses and Elijah, who appeared in glory and spoke of His decease which He was about to accomplish at Jerusalem.” - Luke 9:29-31 (NKJ)
On the Mount of Transfiguration, Yahshua appeared with the two men who represented all of the Old Testament writings. Allegorically, Moses represented the Torah or Pentateuch, which signified the Mosaic Law. Likewise, Elijah signified the entire body of Old Testament prophetic writings. Saint Paul explained the meaning of the Transfiguration in his Epistle to the Romans:
“But now a righteousness from God, apart from law, has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe.” - Romans 3:21-22 (NIV)
There is no ambiguity here about the identity of the Two Witnesses that testify about Christ and His coming. These were the Mosaic Law, represented by Moses, and the prophetic books, represented by Elijah.
Paul tells us that “the Law and the Prophets” testify about the righteousness from God apart from the Law - the righteousness based on faith that Christ now offers to the world.
But did this righteousness apart from the Law originate with Yahshua’s First Advent? As will be explained shortly, the answer is no. Rather, this righteousness apart from the Law was formally recognized when Yahweh blessed Abraham, and cut a Blood Covenant with him based on his faith alone. However, though the salvation and righteousness that comes through belief in Christ is based on Yahweh’s Covenant with Abraham, Abraham was not the first person to be greatly blessed by Yahweh for his faith. Rather, the Bible tells us that the seventh antediluvian patriarch Enoch was the first man in history to be unusually honored for his devout love for, and faith in God. For his faith, Yahweh translated Enoch directly into Heaven without experiencing physical death. This is attested to in the Bible, the Book of 1 Enoch, and the Book of Jasher:
“And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.” - Gen. 5:24 (NKJ)
“And he (Enoch) was raised aloft on the chariots of the spirit and his name vanished among them.” - 1 Enoch 70:2-3
“…and it was upon the seventh day that Enoch ascended into heaven in a whirlwind, with horses and chariots of fire.” - Jasher 3:36
The only other man so honored by God was Elijah, who walked the Earth over two thousand years after Enoch, and over a thousand years after Abraham. The Bible record of Elijah being taken up to Heaven sounds much like the Book of Jasher’s account of Enoch’s translation. Here is the biblical account of Elijah’s translation:
“Then it happened, as they continued on and talked, that suddenly a chariot of fire appeared with horses of fire, and separated the two of them; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.” - II Kings 2:11 (NKJ)
Like Enoch, Elijah was taken up to Heaven in a chariot. In addition, Elijah was a miracle-worker, and servant of God. The Books of 1 and 2 Kings reveal that Elijah was a miracle worker with a godly character, and powerful prophetic abilities. According to the Book of 1 Enoch and the Book of Jasher, Enoch was also a great prophet, and miracle-worker in that he could converse with angels, prophesy about the future, and go directly into the presence of God in visions.
The previously quoted passage about Enoch from the Book of Jasher is part of a much longer section that tells of Enoch’s great righteousness, and similarity to Elijah:
”And the spirit of God was upon Enoch, and he taught all his men the wisdom of God and his ways, and the sons of men served the Lord all the days of Enoch, and they came to hear his wisdom.” - Jasher 3:8
This text tells us that Enoch was one of the most righteous men who ever lived. Perhaps that is why the Book of 1 Enoch, and the Book of Jubilees both say that Enoch was given a special mission, which was to read the Heavenly Tablets, where the record of all the deeds of men and angels will be inscribed until the Last Judgment:
“And he said unto me: ‘Observe, Enoch, these heavenly tablets, and read what is written thereon, and mark every individual fact.' And I observed the heavenly tablets, and read everything which was written (thereon) and understood everything, and read the book of all the deeds of mankind, and of all the children of flesh that shall be upon the earth to the remotest generations. And forthwith I blessed the great Lord the King of glory for ever, in that He has made all the works of the world…” - 1 Enoch 81:2-3
“For Enoch's office was ordained for a testimony to the generations of the world, so that he should recount all the deeds of generation to generation, till the day of judgment.” - Jubilees 10:17-18
Here, the Book of Jubilees tells us that Enoch was appointed to “recount all the deeds” of mankind, meaning that Enoch was picked to record, and remember everything his fellow men did until the end of this present world. To do so, Enoch recorded what he could read in the Heavenly Tablets, which always reflected the unfolding of God’s Will being done among people on Earth.
The Book of 1 Enoch makes it clear that Enoch began this task of reading and understanding the Heavenly Tablets before being translated, and that he continued to read them after his translation (1 Enoch 81:2, 103:1-7). From the various ancient accounts of Enoch’s life, it is apparent that he was as great a prophet as Elijah, and performed miracles that altered physical laws. Like Elijah’s miracles, Enoch’s miracles were manifested in the realm of the Spirit before they became a physical reality. However, unlike Elijah, Enoch could converse with, and learn directly from God’s holy angels. He also could fully understand God’s symbolic language, and likely introduced hieroglyphic writing to symbolize words and ideas. Furthermore, Enoch was the first man to decipher all the underlying meanings locked into the Gospel in the Stars. As such, Enoch was the first true master of Sacred Astronomy, and likely constructed the first accurate calendar for keeping track of time, and seasons. The Book of Jubilees tells us of Enoch’s miraculous accomplishments in glowing terms:
“…he (Jared) called his name Enoch. And he was the first among men that are born on earth who learnt writing and knowledge and wisdom and who wrote down the signs of heaven according to the order of their months in a book, that men might know the seasons of the years… And he was the first to write a testimony and… set in order the months… And what was and what will be he saw in a vision… as it will happen to the children of men throughout their generations until the day of judgment; he saw and understood everything, and wrote his testimony, and placed the testimony on earth for all… generations.” - Jubilees 4:17-20
Some of the visions of “what was and what will be” that Enoch saw still exist today, and can be found in the book discovered in Ethiopia that bears his name. We will explore several of Enoch’s prophecies in Book Four, “The Language of God in Prophecy.” Enoch’s writings of “the signs of heaven according to the order of their months” can be found in the Ethiopian Book of 1 Enoch, and they include a description of how to build a henge to keep track of time, and to monitor the movements of various celestial bodies like the Sun and Moon. Henges like the one Enoch described have been found all over the world, and are examined closely in Book Three, “The Language of God in History.”
Just as they differed somewhat in the way they ministered to humanity on God’s behalf, Enoch and Elijah also differed in health, in how they acquired their knowledge of righteousness, and in how they applied it in their lives. First of all, as a close relative of Adam, Enoch was physically and intellectually superior to Elijah - though the two men were spiritually equal. This comparison alludes to the difference between Yahweh and Yahshua, since God the Father is physically and intellectually greater than Yahshua was during His First Advent. This is why Yahshua asserted: “My Father is greater than I” (John 14:28).
Since Enoch was physically superior to Elijah, Enoch is likely going to be the Tribulation Witness who will expound upon the Father’s perfection and greatness. Since Elijah was physically and mentally weaker than Enoch, he is likely the prophet who will serve as the Tribulation Witness for Yahshua, who - though He was not physically equal to the Father - is spiritually equal to Him, and worthy of our worship and praise (John 5:18, 10:30-33, 14:9). As proof of this, Yahshua declared that John the Baptist - who came in the power and spirit of Elijah - witnessed for Christ, and said that Yahshua is the Son of God (Luke 1:14; John 1:34). Elijah, whom John represented, is therefore the prophet who witnesses for Christ!
Secondly, though Elijah was subject to the Law, Enoch was born two thousand years before the Law was given to Moses. This means that Enoch was found to be righteous outside of the Law, just as Abraham was, and all those who follow Christ are. Therefore, the Law, and the Prophets under the Law both testify about the Salvation by Faith given to men like Enoch and Abraham long before the Law was written! This Salvation by Faith is now also given to all those who believe that Yahshua is the Son of God and Messiah. For this reason, though many people believe that Moses and Elijah will return during the Great Tribulation to serve as the Two Witnesses, it makes much more sense for these Two Witnesses to be Enoch and Elijah, who are uniquely qualified to testify about the faith of Enoch and Abraham, and its application through the Law of Moses which Elijah lived by. Also, Enoch and Elijah must physically die before they can receive everlasting life, for: “all have sinned and fall short of the Glory of God” (Romans 3:23).
Let me explain what I mean. First of all, Enoch and Elijah were the only two people in history to go to Heaven without dying first. However, because the resurrection into eternal physical life was not given to anyone until Christ rose from the dead, neither Enoch nor Elijah received their perfected, glorified bodies when they were taken up to Heaven. Instead, they must have been preserved as healthy, though mortal men all these millennia. This would make them uniquely qualified to become the Two Witnesses of Revelation, especially because the Two Witnesses must die and then be resurrected into everlasting life after three days, just as Christ was:
“And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy… clothed in sackcloth…” “Now when they finish their testimony, the beast… will make war against them, overcome them, and kill them. And their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city… where also our Lord was crucified…” ”Now after the three-and-a-half days the breath of life from God entered them, and they stood on their feet, and great fear fell on those who saw them… And they ascended to heaven in a cloud, and their enemies saw them.” - Rev. 11:3,7-8,11-12 (NKJ)
This Scripture tells us that the Two Witnesses are mortal men who must die, and then lie dead for three full days before being resurrected. Therefore, Moses cannot be one of the Two Witnesses, because Moses died, and was buried before the Israelites entered the Promised Land (Deut. 34:5-6). Since the Bible tells us: “it is appointed for men to die once” (Hebrews 9:27), Moses cannot die, and decompose twice. In fact, just like all who hoped in a future resurrection, and died believing in the coming Savior prophesied about in Scripture, and the Star Gospel, Moses took part in the first stage of the First Resurrection into Everlasting Life at the time of Yahshua’s resurrection. This means that Moses, like all the patriarchs that died believing in the Messiah’s coming, have already been resurrected into physical bodies. The fact that there are several stages to the First Resurrection will be covered in future sections.
My point is this: the Two Witnesses haven't died yet, and will therefore be able to die after they testify about the greatness of Yahweh and Yahshua during the Great Tribulation. Furthermore, they will represent more than the Law and the Prophets. Instead, they will testify to the witness of both the Bible, and the Gospel in the Stars - the Two Great Witnesses identified in the last section. This is why, as was unequivocally proven in Book One, the symbolism in the Gospel in the Stars is revealed repeatedly in the Bible’s prophetic segments. Every biblical prophet prophesied about Yahshua with allegorical imagery that was first revealed to mankind in the Star Gospel!
Nonetheless, though many Old Testament prophets prophesied about Yahshua’s coming, Yahweh only chose to translate two: Enoch and Elijah. Enoch was the first godly prophet who fully understood the Gospel in the Stars. The third antediluvian patriarch in the line of Seth - Cainan - was the only person before Enoch who may have understood the Star Gospel, though the evidence revealed in Book Three suggests that his understanding of it was not as deep, and rich as Enoch’s. Incidentally, Cainan and Enoch were part of a very select few to be filled with the Holy Spirit before Christ’s First Advent. Another Spirit-filled prophet, Elijah, was also blessed by being translated. Unlike Enoch, Elijah knew God through the Torah, or Law, and the Prophets, or prophetic books in the Bible. But like Enoch, Elijah had the benefit of the Holy Spirit’s guidance.
These two great prophets - Enoch and Elijah - were identified by their translations as the most exceptional holy men in history outside of Christ. Furthermore, when their two separate testimonies concerning the Mazzaroth and the Bible are combined, they provide the only truly complete revelation concerning Yahweh. It is therefore likely that Enoch and Elijah were chosen by God to be the Two Witnesses of Revelation, and that they will boldly preach about their Messiah Yahshua using the dual testimonies of the Bible, and the Gospel in the Stars. Through their writings, these Two Witnesses have prophesied for millennia about Yahweh’s greatness, and Yahshua’s coming and purpose.
According to the Book of Jasher, Noah and Shem taught Abraham the ways of righteousness. Both of these patriarchs were born before the Great Flood. As a result, they were both surely schooled with the hidden spiritual wisdom of the Gospel in the Stars that Enoch understood. Since Abraham likely learned the Gospel of Salvation from the stars and constellations just like his ancestor Enoch did, it seems fitting that Enoch’s salvation was based on faith and blood atonement like Abraham’s, and Salvation by Faith is found apart from the Law.
In Book One, we examined the complex witness of the Gospel in the Stars and Sacred Astronomy. In this book, though its emphasis is on the rituals and people of the Bible, we will explore many other instances where the Gospel in the Stars serves as a Witness to God’s Glory, and is alluded to in the remarkable people and symbols populating the Bible’s pages. Finally, in Books Three and Four, we will examine archeological evidence, and ancient literature that can tell us about the patriarch Enoch, his Pre-Flood world, and how he and his antediluvian contemporaries learned about Yah using the Gospel in the Stars - long before the Bible was written.
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