The Book of Enoch 90
Israel from the Return to the Messiah (Animal Apocalypse)
Themes: Divine Judgment and the Flood
1his is the vision which I saw while I slept, and I awoke and blessed the Lord of righteousness and gave Him glory.
2 Then I wept with a great weeping, and my tears stayed not till I could no longer endure it: when I saw, they flowed on account of what I had seen; for everything shall come and be fulfilled; and all the deeds of men in their order were shown to me.
3 On that night I remembered the first dream, and because of it I wept and was troubled—because I had seen that vision.’ THE CONCLUDING SECTION OF THE BOOK. (XCII-CV.)
4 And all that had been destroyed and dispersed, and all the beasts of the field, and all the birds of the heaven, assembled in that house, and the Lord of the sheep rejoiced with great joy because they were all good and had returned to His house.
5 And I saw till they laid down that sword, which had been given to the sheep, and they brought it back into the house, and it was sealed before the presence of the Lord, and all the sheep were invited into that house, but it held them not.
6 And the eyes of them all were opened, and they saw the good, and there was not one among them that did not see.
7 And I saw that that house was large and broad and very full.
8 And I saw that a white bull was born, with large horns, and all the beasts of the field and all the birds of the air feared him and made petition to him all the time.
9 And I saw till all their generations were transformed, and they all became white bulls; and the first among them became a lamb, and that lamb became a great animal and had great black horns on its head; and the Lord of the sheep rejoiced over it and over all the oxen.
10 And I slept in their midst: and I awoke and saw everything.
11 And I saw till that a throne was erected in the pleasant land, and the Lord of the sheep sat Himself thereon, and the other took the sealed books and opened the books before the Lord of the sheep.
12 And the Lord called those men the seven first white ones, and commanded that they should bring before Him, beginning with the stars which had first of all gone astray, and they brought them all before Him.
13 And He said to that man who wrote before Him, being one of those seven white ones, and said unto him: Take those seventy shepherds to whom I delivered the sheep, and who taking them on their own authority slew more than I commanded them.
14 And behold they were all bound, I saw, and they all stood before Him.
15 And the judgment was held first over the stars, and they were judged and found guilty, and went to the place of condemnation, and they were cast into an abyss, full of fire and flaming, and full of pillars of fire.
16 And those seventy shepherds were judged and found guilty, and they were cast into that fiery abyss.
17 And I saw at that time how a like abyss was opened in the midst of the earth, full of fire, and they brought those blinded sheep, and they were all judged and found guilty and cast into this fiery abyss, and they burned; now this abyss was to the right of that house.
18 And I saw those sheep burning and their bones burning.
19 And I stood up to see till they folded up that old house; and carried off all the pillars, and all the beams and ornaments of the house were at the same time folded up with it, and they carried it off and laid it in a place in the south of the land.
20 And I saw till the Lord of the sheep brought a new house greater and loftier than that first, and set it up in the place of the first which had been folded up: all its pillars were new, and its ornaments were new and larger than those of the first, the old one which He had taken away, and all the sheep were within it.
21 And I saw all the sheep which had been left, and all the beasts on the earth, and all the birds of the heaven, falling down and doing homage to those sheep and making petition to and obeying them in every thing.
22 And thereafter those three who were clothed in white and had seized me by my hand, who had taken me up before, and the hand of that ram also seizing hold of me, they took me up and set me down in the midst of those sheep before the judgment took place.
23 And those sheep were all white, and their wool was abundant and their fleece heavy and clean.
24 And all that had been destroyed and dispersed, and all the beasts of the field, and all the birds of the heaven, assembled in that house, and the Lord of the sheep rejoiced with great joy because they were all good and had returned to His house.
25 And I saw till they laid down that sword, which had been given to the sheep, and they brought it back into the house, and it was sealed before the presence of the Lord, and all the sheep were invited into that house, but it held them not.
26 And the eyes of them all were opened, and they saw the good, and there was not one among them that did not see.
27 And I saw that that house was large and broad and very full.
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