Enoch’s Journey to Jerusalem: Prophetic Tree, Holy Mountain & Final Judgment | Ep 15 Book of Enoch

Enoch’s journey to Jerusalem reveals the prophetic tree we get grafted into. In this episode, we draw out Enoch’s description of the topography of the Holy Land’s most important city, including Zion and the City of David, the Mount of Olives where YASHUA (JESUS) once walked, and the future Valley of Jehoshaphat.

Part 15 of our in-depth study of the Book of Enoch (also known as 1 Enoch). In this series, we’re reading the book verse-by-verse, providing commentary on each chapter, and discussing parallel Scriptures from the Bible.

This episode covers Enoch chapters 26-27.

For a free downloadable PDF copy of the Book of Enoch, see links below.

Thanks for watching, and hope you enjoy.

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Timestamps:

0:00 Introduction
1:21 Future Mount Zion
3:00 A tree cut down
4:23 YASHUA’s Tree Parable
5:06 Job’s Tree Prophecy
5:44 Grafted into Israel
6:47 Enoch’s journey to Jerusalem
7:23 The Holy Mountain
7:58 City of David
9:07 Mount of Olives
9:29 Western Hill
12:16 Tyropoeon Valley
12:45 Valley of Hinnom
14:15 Landscape changes
15:41 Kidron Valley
17:27 Hebrew word study: Qadar
18:53 Lake of Fire
22:17 Testimony
22:55 Mercy & judgment, bless THE LORD
24:36 Temple Mount?
25:22 Song: Journeys – Jerusalem

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Transcript:

Dawson: Today we’re going to take a look at Father’s beloved city, Jerusalem. It’s the place where His Spirit once lived among the people of Israel and it’s also the place where one day Yeshua will live among us as King of Kings.

Enoch saw a vision of this place, and one of the first things that he saw was the tree that we get grafted into.

Carlos: Welcome to Enoch 15.

Dawson: Enoch episode 15.

Carlos: Yeah, the journeys of Enoch. And it has been amazing, the places he has seen and what he has visited. Now, here I am, the way I look without glasses. For those of you who have the glasses disagreements out there. Some of them don’t want me to have sunglasses, but the lights are bright if you notice.

Dawson: Yes.

Carlos: Amen. So the travels and the journeys of Enoch. No one has seen more than Enoch. No one knows more and no one has written down more than Enoch. So, it’s amazing reading what he has written. Amen? If you’re alive right now, you are a descendant of Enoch. Amen. That’s our great-great-great-great grandfather. So, let’s proceed here.

Dawson: So, the last time around, we joined Enoch for his journey to where we think was the future Mount Zion. So, Mount Zion, as it’s going to be after Yeshua returns, when all the things that are prophesied in the book of Zechariah come to pass. So, when Father changes the landscape essentially, and He raises up Mount Zion so that it becomes higher than all other mountains.

Carlos: Amen. Now this city called Rimmon, He’s going to scrape the land all the way to a city called Rimmon. Now those of you who have a map west of the Dead Sea and right near the bottom. So, he scrapes the land clean.

Dawson: Yeah, He takes a huge area of the land of Israel and He flattens it and then He’s going to raise up Mount Zion. So that’s what we think Enoch saw last time around and I bring that up because Enoch’s journey this time around is to Jerusalem as well.

Carlos: The Holy Land.

Dawson: But we believe it’s at a different point in time.

Carlos: Forward in time, back in time, all of a sudden back in the regular time.

Dawson: Yeah.

Carlos: He pops in and out because he’s seeing revelations as Father’s going to do works in Jerusalem.

Dawson: Right, right. So, we’re reading from chapter 26. And as we read through this, you’ll see why we believe that this is the city of Jerusalem. Carlos is going to draw this out for us actually in just a little bit.

Carlos: We’ll go the chart right here? Okay.

Dawson: Yeah. Chapter 26, verse 1, he says, “And I went from thence to the middle of the earth, and I saw a blessed place in which there were trees with branches abiding and blooming of a dismembered tree.”

Carlos: What can we say about this?

Dawson: So, the very first thing that Enoch sees when he comes into Jerusalem is a dismembered tree, literally a tree that has been cut down. But nevertheless, it has branches that are blooming.

Carlos: It’s still blooming.

Dawson: Yeah. So, I think this is a symbol for the people of Israel.

Carlos: Amen. And even though it has been cut, there’s still hope. And I believe at the time he’s looking at now, it’s coming back to life little by little, bit by bit.

Dawson: Yeah.

Carlos: You know, the bone by bone, piece by piece…

Dawson: The Ezekiel prophecy.

Carlos: Branch by branch, twig by twig also here.

Dawson: Yeah. So, for those of you who are not familiar with these things, Jeremiah is one of the prophets that talks about Israel being a tree and the branches of this tree are broken off. And that’s because they ended up worshipping other gods and Father was angry.

And so, it says that He set fire to the tree and He broke off its branches. When Yeshua was here, and He did His ministry, He gave a parable about a tree. And He said that that there was the Lord of a vineyard. And he would come for three years. And every time he would look at this tree, it wasn’t bearing any fruit. And so, he decided to give it one more year. And if it was still not bearing fruit, the order would be cut it down. And we believe that that parable is speaking about Yeshua’s ministry. He ministered for three years.

And in the fourth year, He still saw no fruit in the nation of Israel, which was the house of Judah at the time. And so that tree was cut down. But there is a beautiful prophecy in the words of Job. And it’s about a tree as well and it matches what Enoch is saying here.

Job wrote, “For there is hope for a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its shoots will not cease. Though its root grow old in the earth, and its stump die in the soil, yet at the scent of water, it will bud and put out branches like a young plant.”

So that’s basically what Enoch is seeing when he gets to Jerusalem.

Carlos: Slightly off subject, maybe, but pretty well on. The apostle also wrote that Israel is the natural olive tree that’s being cast out, and the nations are wild olive trees. But you’re going to be grafted, if you’re in Yeshua, you’re grafted into the olive tree, and the natural branches are one day going to be restored.

Dawson: Right. If they don’t continue in their disbelief, he says. Yeah.

Carlos: If they don’t, yeah. If they don’t continue what they’re doing, because they do have to change their ways.

Dawson: Yes.

Carlos: Amen?

Dawson: Yeah.

Carlos: So where are we at here now?

Dawson: So next up, Enoch says in verse two, “And there I saw a holy mountain, and underneath the mountain to the east, there was a stream, and it flowed towards the south.” Now, here is where you’re going to have to start drawing some stuff out for us so we could take a look at the layout of Jerusalem.

Carlos: Do I just go ahead and move over there?

Dawson: Mosey on down.

[Music]

♫ In the center of the world,
I saw a blessed place on earth –
Jerusalem ♫

Carlos: So, we’re going to try to draw out step by step what Enoch, Hanok, is seeing in this journey. Now he’s seeing the future.

Dawson: To him, the future. Yeah.

Carlos: To him, it’s the future.

Dawson: Yeah.

Carlos: So here we go.

Dawson: So, verse two, “And there I saw a holy mountain, and underneath the mountain to the east, there was a stream, and it flowed towards the south.” So, this is a holy mountain. We believe that Enoch here is talking about the holy mountain.

Carlos: City of David.

Dawson: So, City of David in the south, what they call Mount Moriah at the north. And this entire mountain, for this episode, we’re going to call it Mount Zion.

Carlos: Mount Zion would be a great name for it.

Dawson: Yeah. So something interesting, I’m sure many of you watching have studied the whole Temple Mount, where is the Temple Mount issue. And one point that a lot of people make, a lot of scholars and teachers make, is that they say that “the City of David is not part of Mount Moriah. So, it’s not part of the holy mountain.

That it’s, yeah, it’s elevated, it’s on the same ridge, but it’s not part of the mountain.” But what Enoch is saying here is that underneath the mountain to the east, there was a stream, and it flowed towards the south. That stream that’s underneath this mountain is directly underneath the City of David in the south. So that’s the Gihon Spring.

Carlos: I would say you want to name the name of the spring?

Dawson: Yeah.

Carlos: Gihon.

Dawson: Yeah. So, if Enoch is saying it’s underneath the holy mountain, that means this entire elevated space is the holy mountain. It’s Mount Zion. Okay. So that’s the mountain, that’s the stream. And then verse three, “And I saw towards the east another mountain higher than this, and between them a deep and narrow ravine. In it also ran a stream underneath the mountain.”

Carlos: This would be the Mount Olives.

Dawson: Yes.

Carlos: Amen?

Dawson: Amen.

Carlos: The Mount of Olives.

Dawson: Okay. “And to the west thereof, there was…”

Carlos: To the west thereof.

Dawson: “There was another mountain lower than the former.”

Carlos: Another mountain lower than the former.

Dawson: So, the former actually – and we’re going to get a little bit technical here with the wording.

Carlos: We’re about to get into it.

Dawson: Yeah. Because the former mountain, meaning the mountain that he just talked about, so Olives. So, what Carlos is about to draw is what they call in Israel today the Western Hill.

Carlos: Yeah. Let me show you where they make a mistake. It’s, they read it and they go, it’s smaller than the former. I’m about to draw a mountain that’s taller than the holy mountain here.

Dawson: Right.

Carlos: But he’s talking about the former mountain, which is Mount of Olives.

Dawson: Correct.

Carlos: Not the City of David.

Dawson: Correct.

Carlos: So here we go. This mountain says a little taller than …

Dawson: So, it’s, yeah, lower than the former.

Carlos: Lower than the former.

Dawson: And it also says, here’s another technical point, “lower than the former and of small elevation.” But if you look up those words in the Greek manuscripts, it actually says having, not a small elevation, but having no height.

Carlos: No peak.

Dawson: No peak.

Carlos: Had no peak. More like a plateau.

Dawson: Yeah. So …

Carlos: So, can we go over that one more time to clear it up?

Dawson: Sure.

Carlos: So, Enoch in his travels, sees this in this order. I saw, I saw a holy mountain.

Dawson: Right.

Carlos: And to the east, I saw a greater mountain, the Mount of Olives. And then he goes to the west is a, is a mountain that’s smaller than the Mount of Olives.

Dawson: Right.

Carlos: Not than the City of David. It’s smaller than the Mount of Olives.

Dawson: Right.

Carlos: And we’re seeing that that hill is called …

Dawson: They call it today, the Western Hill. They don’t have a name for it.

Carlos: Amen.

Dawson: In Israel today, they actually call this hill, this mountain, Mount Zion, which is wrong.

Carlos: Some of them.

Dawson: They know it’s wrong.

Carlos: Amen.

Dawson: So, you know, sojourners, travelers, hundreds of years ago, didn’t know that it was not Mount Zion. They named it that, and it kind of just stuck. But we call it the Western Hill.

Carlos: It got away on them.

Dawson: Yeah. So, what Enoch is saying about this piece of elevated land here is that it has no height. It has no peak, like Carlos was saying.

Carlos: Think like a plateau or a mesa.

Dawson: Yeah. It’s fairly flat.

Carlos: There’s no peak to it.

Dawson: Yeah. Unlike Mount of Olives, which has three peaks and unlike Mount Zion, which has the peak known as Temple Mount, so Mount Moriah.

Carlos: Mount Moriah.

Dawson: Yeah.

Carlos: Continue with this journey.

Dawson: Okay. “And a ravine deep and dry between them.”

Carlos: Now, today they have a name for it.

Dawson: For this ravine.

Carlos: For this ravine.

Dawson: For this valley. What is it?

Carlos: The Cheesemonger Valley.

Dawson: Yes. What about this one?

Carlos: Kidron.

Dawson: Kidron Valley.

Carlos: Amen. The Brook of Kidron.

Dawson: Okay. And so, Enoch says a ravine deep and dry between them and another deep and dry ravine was at the extremities of the three mountains. So, this valley that Carlos is drawing now is what they call Gehinnom.

Carlos: Gehinnom.

Dawson: The Valley of Hinnom.

Carlos: Now in Greek, Gehenna.

Dawson: Gehenna. Yes.

Carlos: Amen. For those of you who do dabble in Greek, Gehenna.

Dawson: Yes.

Carlos: Amen.

Dawson: Verse six, and I marveled – excuse me, verse five, “And all the ravines were deep and narrow, being formed of hard rock and trees were not planted upon them. And I marveled at the rocks and I marveled at the ravine. Yea, I marveled very much.” One note before we continue with the next chapter is this landscape has changed since Enoch wrote these words.

Carlos: A little bit.

Dawson: Yeah. So, I want to go through some of the changes.

Carlos: Okay. So, let’s give them the last notes here – it’s Mount of Olives,

Dawson: Yes.

Carlos: Jerusalem and the Temple, and the Western Hill.

Dawson: The Western Hill.

Carlos: Western Hill.

Dawson: Yeah.

Carlos: And behind that Gehenna.

Dawson: Yeah.

Carlos: Gehenna. Now notice it looks like a shah. The letter shah.

Dawson: The letter shin.

Carlos: Shin or shah. Either one is good.

Dawson: Yeah. So, since Enoch’s days, this valley here has been filled in.

Carlos: Quite a bit.

Dawson: So, this valley is actually underneath what they call the Old City Jerusalem. And it’s not much of a – you can’t see much of a valley there.

Carlos: Now I don’t know if I’m going to make her do some editing, but she has a good picture that shows this valley filled in nowadays.

Dawson: I don’t know if I could show it because it’s copyrighted.

Carlos: Oh, it’s copyrighted. Oh, well.

Dawson: It’s hard to get pictures of Jerusalem, but if I can, I’ll put it on screen. The other thing that has changed is like Enoch says that this Gihon Spring, this water used to come and stream into the Kidron Valley, but Hezekiah, one of the kings of Judah, he diverted it. Another change is that somewhere here, and this is recorded by Josephus, somewhere here, one of the Maccabees actually leveled a part of this mountain.

Carlos: Okay. They did level it. It took them three years to level.

Dawson: Three years to level.

Carlos: And so, we got to wait until Yeshua comes back where He sends a prophet and tells us where everything really belongs, but He’s giving you a general direction of what Enoch saw. Just a good definition of what he sees here.

Dawson: Yeah. But by His explanation, we can tell that he is talking about definitely the city of Jerusalem.

Carlos: Amen.

Dawson: Yeah. So, chapter 27, verse 1, “Then said I, ‘For what object is this blessed land, which is entirely filled with trees, and this accursed valley between?’” Now that word between is actually not between. It’s just in their midst.

Carlos: In the midst of.

Dawson: Yeah. So, I do believe when He’s talking about the cursed valley that he’s talking about this extension that goes south. And this Kidron Valley, it actually travels 20 miles south and then to the east.

Carlos: Turns left.

Dawson: Yeah. And eventually over here is the Dead Sea. Right. And so, the accursed valley that we think he’s talking about is the Kidron, and we believe that for a couple of reasons. One is that in the book of Joel, there’s a prophecy about Father gathering the nations to the Valley of Jehoshaphat, which means God judges. God has judged. And traditionally, Jehoshaphat, that valley has been associated with Kidron, but you can also get a sense of why Kidron is the accursed valley by the Hebrew name of Kidron.

Carlos: Darkness.

Dawson: Darkness. It means darkness. Yeah.

Carlos: What’s the root word?

Dawson: The root word is “qadar”.

Carlos: Qadar. Amen.

Dawson: Yeah. Do you want to draw it out for them?

Carlos: I wish I had the number one, three, seven, qadar, qadar. Remember?

Dawson: Oh, the Strongs.

Carlos: The Strongs.

Dawson: The Strongs number.

Carlos: “Something, something,Qadar .”

Dawson: Qadar.

Carlos: I love when they do that [on blueletterbible.org].

Dawson: His voice is copyrighted, or I’d play that for you guys.

Carlos: Amen. Yeah.

Dawson: But if you’ve ever looked up the Strongs number audio, it sounds just like that.

Carlos: Amen. So, it’s amazing seeing what Hanok is seeing in the future here.

Dawson: Yeah.

Carlos: Amen.

Dawson: You want to draw out the word “qadar” for them? The root word of the Kidron Valley? So, it’s the quf. That’s the letter quf, the letter dalet, and then the letter resh.

Carlos: Qadar.

Dawson: Qadar. So, this word in Hebrew, it’s used to mean dark, and also to mean mourn, and by the letters, it’s a picture of the sun lowering its head. So, I’ll show something on screen, but if you think of evening when the sun is going down, and it’s beginning to get dark, the sun is lowering its head into the horizon.

Carlos: Amen.

Dawson: Doesn’t she do that great? I mean, wow.

Dawson: I love Father’s alphabet.

Carlos: I love the way she does Hebrew teaching.

Dawson: So, in biblical times, there were two kings, Hezekiah and Josiah, and when they wanted to get the idols out of Father’s temple, and out of his city –

Carlos: Off to the Kidron.

Dawson: Off to the Kidron Valley, and they would smash and burn them. So, yeah, we do think that cursed valley that we’re going to be reading about next is the Kidron

Carlos: I got a feeling it was somewhere in the corner of Kidron and Gehenna, where they would take it. I mean, it’s just me, right? The corner of Kidron and Gehenna.

Dawson: Probably.

Carlos: And probably do it there.

Dawson: Yeah. So, verse 2 says, “Then Uriel, one of the holy angels who was with me, answered and said, ‘This accursed valley is for those who are accursed forever. Here shall all the accursed be gathered together, who utter with their lips against the Lord unseemly words, and of His glory speak hard things. Here shall they be gathered together, and here shall be their place of judgment. In the last days there shall be upon them the spectacle of righteous judgment in the presence of the righteous forever. Here shall the merciful bless the Lord of glory, the Eternal King.’”

Now, that’s a match for something that Isaiah says. Isaiah actually, he ends his book talking about – I’m going to read that to you from chapter 66. This is Father talking through His prophet Isaiah. “From new month to new month, and from sabbath to sabbath, all flesh shall come to worship before Me, declares the Lord, and they shall go out and look on the dead bodies of the men who have rebelled against Me, for their worm shall not die, their fire shall not be quenched, and they shall be in abhorrence to all flesh.”

Carlos: Now, let’s take a look at this. Zebulun and Issachar will be calling all the people to cross over and visit the Lord. Is this where Father says that they’re all inside the Kidron Valley?

Dawson: So, if you’ve watched our other video on – I don’t remember which one it was, but it was part of the Gog Magog series, and we used a part of Enoch to figure this out, and it sounds to us like south of the city is where the burning ruins – the fire that never quenches is going to be a bit south of the city. When you visit Father in Millennium, He wants people to know what happens…

Carlos: Notice she paused. Amen. Yeah.

Dawson: Yeah.

Carlos: He wants them to know this is what happened to the wicked.

Dawson: Yes, yes. It’s an accursed valley. It’s a very, it’s a very hardcore thing.

Carlos: It’s a place of punishment in the future.

Dawson: Yeah, and it’s something that that He wants us to see for all of Millennium, and we are going to bless Him because He did this. So, blessed be His name.

Carlos: Amen. So, this is the valley Kidron, kid-ra, and put a nun, Kidron.

Dawson: Yeah.

Carlos: Put a…

Dawson: That’s the letter nun, the Hebrew letter.

Carlos: The letter nun, Kidron.

Dawson: Yeah.

Carlos: Kidron.

Dawson: So …

Carlos: It’s original Hebrew.

Dawson: Yeah. So, somewhere down here, you could call it Gehenna, you call it Kidron, but it’s going to be the lake of fire, which Enoch refers to as, “The spectacle of righteous judgment in the presence of the righteous forever, and here shall the merciful, or the godly, bless the Lord of glory, the eternal king, in the days of judgment over the former,” meaning over the wicked, they, meaning us, “we shall bless him, Father, for the mercy in accordance with which He has assigned us our lot.”

Carlos: Amen. He’s being merciful.

Dawson: Yeah.

Carlos: By the way, I know it’s right in the middle of our teaching, but …

Dawson: It’s okay.

Carlos: One of the sisters that watches had a 40, 45-pound growth on the side that was breaking the skin.

Dawson: Yeah.

Carlos: And no hope of getting a doctor, and Father healed her overnight.

Dawson: Yes.

Carlos: Overnight. So, hallelujah.

Dawson: Hallelujah.

Carlos: So, yes, Father is in the healing business.

Dawson: Yes.

Carlos: Amen. Sorry about that.

Dawson: No, that’s okay. That is okay. That’s good news. That’s good news.

Carlos: Good news.

Dawson: We just found out about that not too long ago.

Carlos: Yeah.

Dawson: That’s good news. So, the last verse in this chapter is Enoch saying, “Then I blessed the Lord of glory, and set forth His glory, and lauded Him gloriously.” So, after he sees all of this, starting off with this cut-down tree, yet the branches still live, and this accursed valley that we don’t have to go to.

Carlos: Amen.

Dawson: He blesses the Lord.

Carlos: Amen. So, Israel right now is in a state of the tree being cut down. The natural branches have been cut. They’re off, and they’re dry. And the nations are wild branches.

Dawson: Right.

Carlos: But they’re already cut and dry because if no God, no life – amen? Not to know Him. But in the future, they sprout again, and we can connect them back to the tree. Amen. And we get to come and visit Father. And I guess we have to notice the judgment that He did in the valley of Qadar, of darkness, in the valley of Kidron, right in the corner of Kidron, right in the corner of darkness, and hell. Amen. Qadar, Gehenna, you know.

Dawson: Yeah.

Carlos: So, that’s a bad place that corner. Stay away. Don’t go there. Amen.

Dawson: Amen. So, that’s it for this episode of the Book of Enoch Bible study. Next time around, Carlos is going to draw us a map to the Garden of Eden.

Carlos: Oh, here we go. Yeah.

Dawson: Can you do it?

Carlos: Oh, yeah.

Dawson: Oh, you got it?

Carlos: I’d love to.

Dawson: It’s probably under the floodwaters by this point.

Carlos: Not the best artist, but to illustrate…

Dawson: Yeah.

Carlos: Amen.

Dawson: So, now I noticed you put this big square up here.

Carlos: Temple.

Dawson: Is that where you think the temple is?

Carlos: Well, you know, like I say, if you’re wrong, it’s okay. Your salvation is not based on it. It’s just, why not? It could be there. It could be higher. It could be lower.

Dawson: But what do you think?

Carlos: General area, yes.

Dawson: Where the Temple Mount currently is or City of David?

On second thought, I think we’re going to leave that conversation for Enoch, Chapter 89. As you will see in that chapter of Enoch’s book, he actually has something to say about the temple that is on the Holy Mountain. Until next time, shalom to you and shalom unto Jerusalem.

[Music]

♫ In the center of the world,
I saw a blessed place on earth –
Jerusalem
with trees and branches abiding and blooming –
Jerusalem
And there I saw a Holy Mountain
and I marveled very much…
What is this place HE loves? ♫

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Our Book of Enoch Bible Study series offers a down-to-earth look at this often sensationalized text. Instead of focusing mainly on fallen angels, our goal is to learn the heart of our Father and gain understanding of the Old and New Testament Scriptures that parallel Enoch’s words. Throughout this series, we’ll read together and discuss:

• Life before the Flood
• How sin and transgression caused GOD to destroy His creation,
• Enoch’s epic prophecies covering the history of humanity and Israel,
• The many passages in Enoch that point to YASHUA HA MASHIACH (JESUS CHRIST),
• The ancient calendar of Israel,
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• What life will be like in Millennium.

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