To the Ends of the Earth | Ep 10 Book of Enoch Bible Study: Down-to-Earth & Verse-by-Verse

This is part 10 of our in-depth study of the Book of Enoch (also known as 1 Enoch). In this series, we’re reading through the entire Book of Enoch, providing commentary on each chapter, and discussing parallel Scriptures from the Bible.

This episode covers Enoch 17:1-19:1 and is the intro video for the part of the book known as Enoch’s Journeys. Discussions include the Hebrew behind Biblical phrases such as the “cornerstone of the earth,” “the ends of the earth,” and more.

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Timestamps:

0:00 Introduction
0:53 Enoch’s first journey
7:55 What is the cornerstone of the earth?
10:59 Hebrew words for cornerstone in Job
13:17 What are the pillars of heaven?
17:36 Hebrew word picture for “completed”
19:07 What the Bible means by “ends of the earth”
21:22 10,000 year mystery
23:52 Fallen angels, Nephilim and demons

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Carlos: This is the travels of Hanuk.

Dawson: Yes, the journeys and travels.

Carlos: The journeys, how he was a scribe and wrote everything down.

Dawson: Yes.

Carlos: And this is pretty exciting. I think as we go through it, some of you will be surprised.

[Music]

Dawson: So, we’re reading in Enoch chapter 17, which says, “And they took and brought me to a place in which those who were there were like flaming fire. And when they wished, they appeared as men.”

Carlos: Very easily angels.

Dawson: Yes. So, we talked before about how sometimes, not all the time, but sometimes in the scriptures when you hear fire, it’s referring to light. And in the Psalms, it talks about how Father makes his messengers, that is His angels. He makes them winds and his ministers a flaming fire.

Carlos: Amen.

Dawson: So, it looks like a moving light. The best thing that Enoch and that a lot of people could equate it to was fire.

Carlos: Well, we gave our testimony of seeing an angel kind of imploding in itself.

Dawson: Yes.

Carlos: Amen. Wow.

Dawson: Verse two. “And they brought me to the place of darkness and to a mountain, the point of whose summit reached to heaven. And I saw the places of the luminaries and the treasuries of the stars and of the thunder. And in the uttermost depths where were a fiery bow and arrows and their quiver and a fiery sword and all the lightnings.” Now, when it says in the uttermost depths, the actual translation for that is the depths of the air. So, like an arrow.

Carlos: So, it’s not the ocean.

Dawson: Yeah. “And they took me to the living waters and to the fire of the West, which receives every setting of the sun.”

Now, later on, Enoch talks about the fire of the West. So, we know what it is. And he describes it later as a course of fire, which runs without resting day and night and pursues all the luminaries of heaven.

Carlos: Amen. Now, that one, we don’t have way too much comment on.

Dawson: Right. It just kind of sounds to me like if it’s an angel, it’s an angel that is causing the other luminaries, the other angels to stay on their paths that they’re supposed to keep. It’s what it kind of sounds like to me.

Carlos: To the best of our – for those who know a little bit of astronomy, it gets quite wild out there. So, as we read more, you’ll understand how he needs luminaries to hold it in place.

Dawson: Yeah. “And I came to a river of fire in which the fire flows like water and discharges itself into the great sea towards the West. I saw the great rivers and came to the great river and to the great darkness and went to the place where no flesh walks.”

Carlos: That sounds like the Mariana Trench.

Dawson: The deepest place on earth.

Carlos: The deepest place on earth where no man walks.

Dawson: So, one thing I noticed here is that it sounds like he’s – this is the summary of kind of everything that he saw because he starts out talking about somewhere in heaven, the place of the angels, and then somewhere on earth, and then somewhere in heaven, and then somewhere on earth.

Carlos: I’m seeing him as the angels pick him and take him. As he’s looking forward, he’s seeing full spectrum all the way to the bottom of the earth, all the way to what I believe might be the third or fourth heaven. We don’t know, like Paul says. He’s shown enough, and then he’s shown a shamayim that’s so far out, the stars are held there.

Dawson: Yes.

Carlos: That is the shamayim, shamayim, the deepest, deepest in space.

Dawson: He’s going to elaborate on a lot of this stuff later. So, if it seems like it’s kind of jumping around right now, I think it’s kind of like when you go on vacation and you come back and people ask you, “Hey, how was your trip?” And you just start rambling off a bunch of things that you saw and that you did, and it’s not necessarily in chronological order. It’s just in the order of impact.

Carlos: Not chronological, but I really truly believe that you need to understand these things before I explain these other things.

Dawson: Yes, exactly.

Carlos: That’s what Hanuk’s doing.

Dawson: Yeah, they’re laying the groundwork for what he’s going to elaborate on later.

Carlos: Amen. Now some of you are hearing me call him Hanuk because that is how you pronounce his name in original Hebrew. But Enoch is just great with us.

Dawson: Yeah. Verse 7, “I saw the mountains of the darkness of winter, and the place went all the waters of the deep flow. I saw the mouths of all the rivers of the earth, and the mouth of the deep. I saw the treasuries of all the winds. I saw how Hhe hath furnished with them the whole creation and the firm foundations of the earth.” And what does that mean? He used the winds. Father used the winds to furnish the whole creation and the foundations of the earth.

Carlos: Move the clouds, make them rain, create the Nile. One day He’s going to dry up the seven fountains of the Nile with a hot east wind.

Dawson: Yes.

Carlos: Amen. So, it makes sense. He controls the winds. He controls what He’s going to do with the winds.

Dawson: Yeah.

Carlos: Amen.

Dawson: One thought that I had, and I don’t know if it’s accurate, but when he uses the word winds, and he talks about the winds make up the foundations of the earth. Is that perhaps in there he’s also talking about like the forces, meaning like the gravitational force, or the electromagnetic fields and things like that? Because in Hebrew, you have the word “ruach,” right? And it’s translated as wind and as spirit. It’s actually the exact same word. So, when you read about the east wind, it’s the east ruach.

Carlos: Ruach.

Dawson: Yeah. So, there wasn’t like scientific, technical terms back then.

Carlos: Well, without wind there’s no rain.

Dawson: Yes.

Carlos: Amen. And any kind of putrescence would just remain in the air. The place would be dead zones.

Dawson: Yeah.

Carlos: So, it needs to be moved, and then Father’s plants swallow it up, and we get oxygen.

Dawson: Right.

Carlos: So, yes, He showed them where the winds are.

Dawson: But I don’t know if he’s talking about just the earth here. He’s saying the whole creation and the foundations of the earth. So, it might be in the heavens as well.

Carlos: What they call solar winds is very possible.

Dawson: Could be, could be.

Carlos: Because he gave a full spectrum, and he might be starting with the winds on earth, then the winds in outer space.

Dawson: Yeah, maybe.

Carlos: Amen? It’s possible. Now, only for your consideration.

Dawson: Yes.

Carlos: We’re not starting a new religion. We’re talking about Enoch, and we’re considering this.

Dawson: Yeah.

Carlos: Amen?

Dawson: Chapter 18, verse 2, “And I saw the cornerstone of the earth.” Now, with this verse, we do need to get into a little bit of a discussion on the shape of the earth, because how you view the shape of the earth is going to impact how you interpret the statement. We do believe that the earth is round, which you should know if you’ve watched this channel. But a lot of people who watch this channel believe that it’s flat.

Carlos: Okay. For those of you who think the earth is flat, as long as you believe in Yeshua, He’s the Savior, I don’t believe that kind of doctrine would hold you back from His love nor from His salvation for you. So, we don’t care. You’re welcome. We say round. If you say flat, we don’t care. So, the foundation of the earth.

Dawson: The cornerstone of the earth. So, we want to throw that in there before you give your interpretation of that.

Carlos: Amen. And we had just mentioned how he has to explain certain things before he explains others. So, He lets us know the winds.

Dawson: Right.

Carlos: Including solar winds. When he went up where the luminaries are, there’s winds up there. So based on the forementioned from Hanuk, the core of the earth is the foundation, and that makes it round.

Dawson: So, the cornerstone. When we read the cornerstone of the earth, we’re thinking of the earth’s core.

Carlos: Earth’s core, which creates the electromagnetic field, as we know now, which stops the solar winds from taking over our atmosphere. So that’s the foundation. Without that, we don’t breathe. There’s no water. We’ll look like Mars without a live core in us. For those who know a little science.

So, He told us about the solar winds, and now we have a core, the foundation, that keeps those winds from blowing away the environment Father created for us.

Carlos: Right.

Dawson: Amen? The word cornerstone is in the Old Testament as well, and it’s a little bit lost in translation from the Hebrew to the English, because if you think of a cornerstone in English today, you’re typically thinking of something square. And it’s something that architects use in buildings, and it’s a big square, and they start building their kind of square buildings based on the location of the cornerstone. But in Hebrew, we find it in the book of Job, and it’s in Job chapter 38, verses 4 through 7. Father is talking here, and He says, “Where was thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if thou hast understanding. Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? Or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? Or who laid the cornerstone thereof, when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?”

Now, that word for cornerstone in Job, it actually doesn’t say He laid the cornerstone. It says He instructed the cornerstone. The word is “yarah,” which is the same root word as Torah. So, it’s an instruction.

Carlos: Ya and rah. That’s the term right there. He commands, so I would say.

Dawson: So, he instructed its cornerstone, and cornerstone in Hebrew is eben pinnatah.

Now, eben just means rock or stone. And a pinnah, pinnatah, the root is pinnah. The word “pinnah” all by itself can be translated to the cornerstone.

And the interesting thing about the pinnah is it’s based on the letter peh, which is the mouth, and it’s the edge. So, you’ll see the letter peh used in all kinds of words that have to do with the edge of something. Now, if you think of the core of the earth, it’s something that’s like a little mini sphere, I guess. It’s a round thing in the middle of the sphere of the earth. And a sphere is all edge. Like it’s all pinnah. It doesn’t necessarily have to be a square thing.

Carlos: Due to the circumference, and that’s a peh.

Dawson: Yes. Another translation for pinnah is chief. So, He’s talking about a chief rock that He laid at the very beginning, and all the angels rejoiced when He laid it. So, earth’s core is the chief rock of the earth that He laid down for us.

Carlos: That’s how you have it, and that creates the wind. That creates everything here, the magnetic field, everything. He told us about the different winds.

Dawson: Yeah.

Carlos: Well, the core creates the field that protects us against those winds.

Dawson: Yeah.

Carlos: Amen? So, it needs that to survive. It upholds the earth. I believe the words say there.

Dawson: The next verse is, yes, “I saw the four winds which bear the earth and the firmament of the heavens.”

Carlos: There you go. See that magnetic field? It keeps the firmament of the shamayim or atmosphere.

Dawson: And it says, “And I saw how the winds stretch out the vaults of heaven and have their station between heaven and earth.” These are the pillars of the heaven.

Carlos: There you go. The pillars of shamayim that holds our atmosphere together.

Dawson: Yeah. There’s – Job also. He talks about the pillars of heaven. And if you ever look at a commentary on Job, they don’t understand what that means, what are the pillars of heaven. But it’s right here in Enoch, which Job and our fathers would have been familiar with.

Carlos: They would have been familiar with Job.

Dawson: He knows.

Carlos: Job would have been familiar, definitely.

Dawson: Yeah. So, Enoch says that the pillars of heaven are these winds that Father made.

Carlos: And here they are in Hanuk. His descendants, he’s descended from Hanuk. He’s reading the book and we’re descendants from Hanuk.

Dawson: Yes.

Carlos: Amen?

Dawson: Verse 4. I saw the winds of heaven, which turn and bring the circumference of the sun and all the stars to their setting. So that to me sounds like gravitational force. I don’t know.

Carlos: Well, everything moves.

Dawson: Everything moves.

Carlos: The earth is moving. Everything moves.

Dawson: So that’s one thing. If your view on earth is that it’s stationary and everything else moves, one argument that people make is it’s so obvious reading the Bible that the sun itself moves. Well, we do believe that it moves.

Carlos: It moves.

Dawson: The sun has its own orbit that it follows around the center of the galaxy. So, everything’s moving.

Carlos: Everything.

Dawson: It’s true what Enoch says. It’s true what the Bible says. You can see that.

Carlos: And the angels hold them in place. If not…

Dawson: The fire of the West is persecuting or pursuing all of the luminaries to kind of keep everybody in place.

Carlos: There we go.

Dawson: Yeah. We don’t see it with our eyes, but Enoch was able to see it.

Carlos: [0:15:14] Esh l’yam – fire of west. Those who do Hebrew.

Dawson: That’s not bad, yeah.

Carlos: Esh l’yam

Dawson: I think that’s pretty good.

Verse 5, “I saw the winds on the earth carrying the clouds. I saw the paths of the angels. I saw at the end of the earth the firmament of the heaven above. And I proceeded and saw a place which burns day and night, where there are seven mountains of magnificent stones, three towards the east and three towards the south. And as for those towards the east, one was of colored stone and one of pearl, and one of jacinth, and those toward the south of red stone. But the middle one reached heaven like the throne of God, of alabaster, and the summit of the throne was of sapphire.”

In some translations it says lapis lazuli instead of sapphire. And Moses talks about a blue stone under Father’s feet when he sees Him too.

Carlos: They take that as lapis lazuli. They knew nothing else.

Dawson: Yeah.

Carlos: Amen.

Dawson: And I saw a flaming fire, and beyond these mountains is a region, the end of the great earth. There the heavens were completed.

Carlos: Amen.

Dawson: Now explain what this means, because this sounds like there is an end of the earth and at some point, you’re going to hit a wall if you don’t understand it.

Carlos: To help you understand Hanuk imagine yourself being picked up, taken by angels to see things. Write this down. So, he’s writing it down here, the scribe. And the angel is saying, “Here are the four winds.” These are the winds, this, this, this, got it, got it, got it. Then when he comes to this very end, repeat the last line, and repeat it as if an angel is giving you instructions.

Dawson: “And beyond these mountains is a region, the end of the great earth. There the heavens were completed.”

Carlos: Amen. That’s it. Write it down. That’s all you’re going to get for now. If you don’t know all of it, more is coming.

Dawson: Right.

Carlos: Amen. You’re writing it down as a scribe, and he says, here, it’s completed. You have a full tour. No need to go around again, we need to teach you something else. Now we go on to the next verse.

Dawson: Great. So, the first time I asked you about this, when we were preparing for this show, I didn’t quite get what you meant. And I had no idea what this means. So, I asked you. But I’m just going to make it super clear what you’re saying.

Carlos: Amen.

Dawson: For everybody, in case you guys have the same question that I did. He’s basically saying that Enoch is being shown a bunch of things that he needs to know as a foundation for everything else that he’s going to see.

Carlos: Amen.

Dawson: And so, you can call this the first tour of Enoch’s journey. And when he comes to this region, the end of the earth, where the heavens were completed, it doesn’t mean that at this location, Father did the final star or something.

Carlos: No, no, it doesn’t mean that.

Dawson: It means that Enoch was shown the entire circumference of the earth, and he comes back to the place where he started. So, at that point, his initial tour of heaven and earth was completed.

Carlos: Once around the world.

Dawson: Once around the world.

Carlos: Amen. And he goes – and basically the angel is taking him and saying, “This is it. Now prepare for something else.” They’re still moving him on. He has still got a pen, and he’s still scribing.

Dawson: Yes.

Carlos: Amen.

Dawson: Yeah. One note on when you hear the phrase “the ends of the earth,” in the Bible and in Enoch, the word in Hebrew for “end” is qets. And we actually talked about this in our Paleo Hebrew alphabet series in the video about the letter quf. So qets starts with the letter quf, and it’s a picture of the sun at the horizon.

He says that the going forth of the sun is from one end of the heaven, and His circuit onto the other end. Right? So, if you were to look at the horizon line, let’s say that this is the east where the sun rises and the west where it sets. So, the word “end” is actually “qets”. And the letters are quf, tsade.

So tsade is that picture of the man lying down. So qets is a picture of where the sun lies down, and it lies down at the horizon in the east.

Lisa: At the horizon, you’re right.

Dawson: And here on the other side is the other qets. David says that the sun’s going forth is from one qets to the other qets. Isn’t that cool?

Lisa: Nice.

Dawson: The terms east and west are used interchangeably in the Bible with the ends of the earth. So, from the place where the sun lays down to the other place where the sun lays down, ends of the earth.

Carlos: Amen. And for those of you who’ve seen our Father’s alphabet, in between that is the tequfah.

Dawson: The tequfah, the path that the sun—

Carlos: The path that the sun takes.

Dawson: Yeah.

Carlos: Starts there, qekufah, and then ends on the other side.

Dawson: Yes.

Carlos: Verse 11, “And I saw a deep abyss with columns of heavenly fire, and among them I saw columns of fire fall, which were beyond measure alike towards the height and towards the depth. And beyond that abyss, I saw a place which had no firmament of the heaven above, and no firmly founded earth beneath it.”

There was no water upon it and no birds, but it was a waste and horrible place. I saw there seven stars like great burning mountains, and to me, when I inquired regarding them, the angel said, “This place is the end of heaven and earth. This has become a prison for the stars and the host of heaven. And the stars which roll over the fire are they which have transgressed the commandment of the Lord in the beginning of their rising, because they did not come forth at their appointed times. And he was wroth with them, and bound them till the time when their guilt should be consummated, even for ten thousand years.”

Carlos: Amen. That sounds like the angels that rebelled.

Dawson: Yes.

Carlos: And he’s quite angry at them. They didn’t, they’re not the kind that came down and took women.

Dawson: No, this is a different group.

Carlos: But it sounds like this group should have come to the rescue or something.

Dawson: Why do you say that?

Carlos: Because they’re punished. For a punishment like that, it takes like an abortion or blood, or Cain has to kill Abel for that kind of punishment. Father doesn’t change his ways.

Dawson: Yeah.

Carlos: So, missing the star, okay, but they also missed something else. They should have come down and intervened, but they didn’t.

Dawson: Interesting.

Carlos: They missed their appointment.

Dawson: The timing here is interesting, because he talks about for ten thousand years. Now, if you were to – we have a calendar, and we’ve gone through a biblical timeline, I should say, and we’ve gone through and tried to figure out the date of Adam’s birth, you know, all the way through the end of millennium.

Carlos: Four thousand one eighty-eight.

Dawson: You know, I don’t have the exact number. I think there’s a 4, 1 and an 8, and I never remember the exact number. I’m going to put it on the screen, though.

Carlos: We will put it on the screen.

Dawson: So, if you were to count all the time from Adam until the end of millennium, it’s not even ten thousand years. So, that’s why this verse is kind of curious to me. How is their guilt like consummated…?

Carlos: I have a feeling as we read, once we have this information, all you brothers and sisters out there, fathers, children, once we read this, as we go on …

Dawson: You think we’ll figure it out?

Carlos: We’re going to find it.

Dawson: I’ve read Enoch so many times, and I’ve never been able to figure it out.

Carlos: I just got the feeling.

Dawson: You got the feeling? Okay. We’ll keep going. We’ll keep going. Chapter 19, verse 1, “And Uriel said to me, ‘Here shall stand the angels who have connected themselves with women and their spirits, assuming many different forms, or defiling mankind, and shall lead them astray into sacrificing to demons as gods. Here shall they stand, till the day of the great judgment, in which they shall be judged, till they are made an end of.’”

Carlos: Amen. Now, we know they did that in the first before the flood.

Dawson: Yes.

Carlos: And after the flood. So, it’s plain what happened in the days of Nimrod.

Dawson: So, yeah, we’ve gotten a few questions on that. I’m glad you brought that up. The Bible talks about how there were Nephilim on the earth in those days, speaking of the days of Noah, and also after that. So, what does that mean, after that?

Carlos: They came down again.

Dawson: Yeah. That’s the only way you get Nephilim, is if women mix with angels.

Carlos: Amen. They came down again, and the evidence shows that they came down to seduce men. Look at Nimrod.

Dawson: Yeah.

Carlos: He went wild, created the first army, made himself a king, and then made himself a god. After that, went straight into perversion, but we don’t get into that here.

Dawson: Yeah. Family show. Amen?

Carlos: Yeah. And if you want to watch it without commercials, we have it at fathersalphabet.com. No commercials, because some of the commercials are not so good.

Dawson: You could download it for free too. So, I had a question here. It says that these angels are stuck there in this location, but it also says “And their spirits, assuming many different forms, are defiling mankind, and shall lead them astray into sacrificing to demons as gods.” So, their spirits are – it sounds to me like even though they’re bound, their spirits are still allowed to go and seduce men, even at that point.

Carlos: These are angels that came down, took wives. No, no, no. They left their …

Dawson: Left their estate.

Carlos: Yeah. Estate is good. Domain is good, whatever you want to call it.

Dawson: Holy habitation.

Carlos: Habitation. They crossed the frontier, okay?

Dawson: Yeah.

Carlos: They don’t belong here. You’re not from around here. And they did things that were straight out against – they tried to make their own creation, reshape it themselves instead of Father’s will. For that, they had children that were giants or great men. Maybe not 20 feet tall, but strong.

Dawson: Yeah.

Carlos: And they were great among regular men. And the children that those giants had were called “elioud”.

Dawson: Elioud.

Carlos: Elioud and those are deformed. Three arms, one eye, doesn’t look like a man, doesn’t look like a woman, who knows what. And all those, both the Nephilim and the elioud, Father says, you’ll be as demons. And you’re going to cause trouble for men all the way until the very end.

Dawson: Yes. And at the end, they will be judged. And I say this all the time, but they will not be joining us in Millennium.

Carlos: No, they will not.

Dawson: Don’t worry about that.

Carlos: Now, for those of you who haven’t crossed a demon, a real one, or a fallen angel, don’t worry, bunny. Just a matter of time.

Dawson: In this verse also is a prophecy from Enoch. And he’s saying that mankind is going to be sacrificing to demons as gods. And I think that’s like, if you enjoy history, the one thing that you got to put up with, and that it makes studying history so hard, is that the study of ancient history is basically the study of man’s false gods. Like there are no truer words than what Enoch is saying here.

Carlos: Well, I believe in Israel history, so it’s not all false gods.

Dawson: Yes. Well, even with Israel’s history, it’s a lot of baal worship and whatnot.

Carlos: It is.

Dawson: So, it’s true what Enoch says. Mankind went after false gods, and that’s all related to these angels here that fell.

Carlos: It is. They’re seduced. Amen?

Dawson: The next verse says, “And the women also of the angels who went astray shall become sirens.”

Carlos: Okay, here we go.

Dawson: I love this stuff. People read verses like this, and they’re like, “Ah, Enoch’s not true.” But let’s look into it, because actually what he’s saying here is, it’s amazing.

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