from the Book of Enoch, Chapter 89:73-77.
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89:73 And they began again to build as before, and they reared up that tower, and it was named
the high tower; and they began again to place a table before the tower, but all the bread on
it was polluted and not pure.
89:74 And as touching all this the eyes of those sheep were blinded so that they saw not, and the
eyes of their shepherd likewise; and they delivered them in large numbers to their
shepherds for destruction, and they trampled the sheep with their feet and devoured them.
89:75 And Yehuveh of the sheep remained unmoved till all the sheep were dispersed over the
field and mingled with them (the beasts), and they (the shepherds) did not save them out
of the hand of the beasts.
89:76 And this one who wrote the book carried it up, and showed it and read it before Yehuveh
of the sheep, and implored Him on their account, and besought Him on their account as
he showed Him all the doings of the shepherds, and gave testimony before Him against
all the shepherds.
89:77 And he took the actual book and laid it down beside Him and departed.
89:73 The temple “was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.” “And they set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their courses, for the service of Elohim, which is at Jerusalem; as it is written in the book of Moses.” Yet, from the comment of Enoch, it is clear that this reinstated service and all that it involved “was polluted and not pure.” Indeed, throughout the remaining centuries until the temple was again destroyed in A.D. 70, the services and sacrifices were all “polluted and not pure.” Haggai commented, “Who is left among you that saw this house in her first glory? and how do ye see it now? is it not in your eyes in comparison of it as nothing?” Ezra 6:15, 18; Haggai 2:3.
89:74-77 Yet, in the midst of this polluted and impure worship, Israel and its leaders remained blinded to this corruption. “They shall pollute My secret place: . . . and defile it. . . . The land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence. Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and . . . their holy places shall be defiled. Destruction cometh.” In blindness, the shepherds continued their abuses and Yehuveh judged them. Ezekiel 7:22-25.
Gael Bataman
Originally Written: 15 September 2006
Latest Update: 10 December 2011
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