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Noah's Warning of the Flood

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Noah's Warning of the Flood is the divine revelation to Noah that the entire world will be destroyed by water - requiring him to build an ark over decades while enduring mockery from a civilization that sees no sign of coming judgment. 1 Enoch 65-67 describes Enoch's earlier prophecy to Noah about the coming waters, while Jasher 5 records Noah and Methuselah preaching repentance for 120 years before the Flood. Jubilees 5 frames the warning within its jubilee chronology. The combination of advance knowledge and extended preparation tests Noah's faith more severely than any sudden crisis could. Supernatural revelation in these texts operates as the primary mechanism by which hidden truths cross the boundary between celestial and earthly realms. This vision participates in a tradition of divine disclosure that runs from Enoch's heavenly journeys through the patriarchal dreams to the Mosaic theophany at Sinai. Each revelation builds upon previous ones, creating a cumulative body of disclosed knowledge that the faithful community preserves and transmits across generations. The visual and auditory elements of the experience are recorded with precision because they constitute authoritative communication from the divine realm to human understanding.

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The Book of Enoch 65 Enoch foretells to Noah the Deluge and his own Preservation. 3 min read The Book of Jasher 5 Noah and Methuselah Preach Repentance for One Hundred and Twenty Years. Noah Builds the Ark. Death of Methuselah. 7 min read

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Enoch warns Noah

The Book of Enoch 65:1-12

And in those days Noah saw the earth that it had sunk down and its destruction was nigh....

A1nd in those days Noah saw the earth that it had sunk down and its destruction was nigh.

2 And he arose from thence and went to the ends of the earth, and cried aloud to his grandfather Enoch: and Noah said three times with an embittered voice: Hear me, hear me, hear me.' 3 And I said unto him: ' Tell me what it is that is falling out on the earth that the earth is in such evil plight and shaken, lest perchance I shall perish with it ? ' 4 And thereupon there was a great commotion , on the earth, and a voice was heard from heaven, and I fell on my face. 5 And Enoch my grandfather came and stood by me, and said unto me: ' Why hast thou cried unto me with a bitter cry and weeping? 6 And a command has gone forth from the presence of the Lord concerning those who dwell on the earth that their ruin is accomplished because they have learnt all the secrets of the angels, and all the violence of the Satans, and all their powers -the most secret ones- and all the power of those who practice sorcery, and the power of witchcraft, and the power of those who make molten images for the whole earth: 7 And how silver is produced from the dust of the earth, and how soft metal originates in the earth. 8 For lead and tin are not produced from the earth like the first: it is a fountain that produces them, and an angel stands therein, and that angel is pre-eminent.' 9 And after that my grandfather Enoch took hold of me by my hand and raised me up, and said unto me: ' Go, for I have asked the Lord of Spirits as touching this commotion on the earth. 10 And He said unto me: " Because of their unrighteousness their judgement has been determined upon and shall not be withheld by Me for ever. Because of the sorceries which they have searched out and learnt, the earth and those who dwell upon it shall be destroyed." 11 And these-they have no place of repentance for ever, because they have shown them what was hidden, and they are the damned: but as for thee, my son, the Lord of Spirits knows that thou art pure, and guiltless of this reproach concerning the secrets. 12 And He has destined thy name to be among the holy, And will preserve thee amongst those who dwell on the earth, And has destined thy righteous seed both for kingship and for great honours, And from thy seed shall proceed a fountain of the righteous and holy without number for ever.

Noah preaches

The Book of Jasher 5:1-15

And it was in the eighty-fourth year of the life of Noah, that Enoch the son of Seth died, he was nine hundred and five ...

A1nd it was in the eighty-fourth year of the life of Noah, that Enoch the son of Seth died, he was nine hundred and five years old at his death.

2 And in the one hundred and seventy ninth year of the life of Noah, Cainan the son of Enosh died, and all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years, and he died. 3 And in the two hundred and thirty fourth year of the life of Noah, Mahlallel the son of Cainan died, and the days of Mahlallel were eight hundred and ninety-five years, and he died. 4 And Jared the son of Mahlallel died in those days, in the three hundred and thirty-sixth year of the life of Noah; and all the days of Jared were nine hundred and sixty-two years, and he died. 5 And all who followed the Lord died in those days, before they saw the evil which God declared to do upon earth. 6 And after the lapse of many years, in the four hundred and eightieth year of the life of Noah, when all those men, who followed the Lord had died away from amongst the sons of men, and only Methuselah was then left, God said unto Noah and Methuselah, saying, 7 Speak ye, and proclaim to the sons of men, saying, Thus saith the Lord, return from your evil ways and forsake your works, and the Lord will repent of the evil that he declared to do to you, so that it shall not come to pass. 8 For thus saith the Lord, Behold I give you a period of one hundred and twenty years; if you will turn to me and forsake your evil ways, then will I also turn away from the evil which I told you, and it shall not exist, saith the Lord. 9 And Noah and Methuselah spoke all the words of the Lord to the sons of men, day after day, constantly speaking to them. 10 But the sons of men would not hearken to them, nor incline their ears to their words, and they were stiffnecked. 11 And the Lord granted them a period of one hundred and twenty years, saying, If they will return, then will God repent of the evil, so as not to destroy the earth. 12 Noah the son of Lamech refrained from taking a wife in those days, to beget children, for he said, Surely now God will destroy the earth, wherefore then shall I beget children? 13 And Noah was a just man, he was perfect in his generation, and the Lord chose him to raise up seed from his seed upon the face of the earth. 14 And the Lord said unto Noah, Take unto thee a wife, and beget children, for I have seen thee righteous before me in this generation. 15 And thou shalt raise up seed, and thy children with thee, in the midst of the earth; and Noah went and took a wife, and he chose Naamah the daughter of Enoch, and she was five hundred and eighty years old.

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Noah preaches repentance for 120 years according to Jasher - the longest warning period.

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Enoch prophesied the flood to Noah before being translated to heaven.

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The warning comes with specific instructions (build an ark) not just general alarm.

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Society shows no signs of impending doom - making faith the only basis for action.

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Methuselah's death is timed to coincide with the flood's arrival in some traditions.