Chapter 5:8 tells me a lot about how the world should work:
And then there shall be
bestowed upon the elect wisdom,
And they shall all live and never again sin,
Either through ungodliness or through pride:
But they who are wise shall be humble.
Enoch is having a vision about end times and those who
remain. We see the wisest are humble. We also see this through much of the
teachings of Jesus, where pride is the problem with most sin. I believe most of
us can look back into our conflicts and pride will have surfaced.
I think of arguments Katy and I both have, when you get to
the root our opinion is more important as being accepted than what is right.
And often we are on two different levels of trying to win which causes even more
problems. And often since we both tend to keep talking and turn away such that
the other cannot hear, our words are not heard and that gets us mad. Because
how could they not care to listen to the important things I have to say,
therefore pride sinks in and reality is dismissed.
I look at how I debate Evolution vs Creationism with others.
Both of these communities are prideful and believe they have the answer on
something that may never be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. Who really knows
what happened billions of years ago or even 10,000 years ago. All we have are fossils
and a story that may or may not be right. And note BOTH stories can be told
using the same data and both can be intertwined. When I get deep into a debate,
winning becomes more important than changing hearts.
If you think about it pride has caused most wars in this
world when you boil down to the root. Pride is the root for most sins. This is
why we must WORK on being humble since pride is a more natural “state” for humans.
Think about it, why would I be wrong? School attempts to correct this but most
often just strengthens it by exalting individuals for their smarts, athletic
prowess or beauty thus feeding pride and envy.
As I read this, since this is not a book in the current
version of the Bible, I wondered who Enoch was. We know he was taken by God and
was Adam’s grandson but as I researched I found another Enoch. Genesis 4:17 –
18 has Cain’s son Enoch who bore a son Irad. Then in Genesis 5:18 – 25 we see
another Enoch who was taken by God. This is the one who I believe wrote this
book. The reference to Enoch’s not dying is from verse 24 that simply says “for
God took him” implying Enoch never saw death.
This is another one of those stories that may have been
overly embellished in Hebrews 11:5 as “took” him becomes he did not die.
Hopefully this will be explained more in this book since I don’t see where
Enoch never died based on scripture. This may have been one of those stories
from the Jewish text that intellectuals of the day took and over stated. I don’t
know since all I have to go on is what was written, and what I have read is he
was taken by God and then some 2000 years later someone wrote he never died.