1 Enoch 69:27

Pseudepigrapha

25 And this oath prevails over them, keeping their paths secure, ensuring their actions are not destroyed. This concludes the Third Parable. 26 There was great joy among them, and they blessed, glorified, and extolled the name of the Son of Man that had been revealed to them. 27 He sat on the throne of his glory, the entirety of judgment was given to the Son of Man, and he caused the sinners to vanish from the face of the earth, along with those who misled the world. 28 They will be bound in chains, confined to their place of destruction, and all their works will disappear from the face of the earth. 29 From now on, nothing corruptible will exist; the Son of Man has appeared, has taken his seat on the throne of his glory, and all evil will vanish before his face. His word will go forth and be strong before the Lord of Spirits. This is the Third Parable of Enoch.

1 Peter 4:5

New Testament

1 So, since Christ suffered in the flesh, you also arm yourselves with the same attitude because the one who has suffered in the flesh has finished with sin, 2 in that he spends the rest of his time on earth concerned about the will of God and not human desires. 3 For the time that has passed was sufficient for you to do what the non-Christians desire. You lived then in debauchery, evil desires, drunkenness, carousing, drinking bouts, and wanton idolatries. 4 So they are astonished when you do not rush with them into the same flood of wickedness, and they vilify you. 5 They will face a reckoning before Jesus Christ who stands ready to judge the living and the dead. 6 Now it was for this very purpose that the gospel was preached to those who are now dead, so that though they were judged in the flesh by human standards they may live spiritually by God’s standards.

 Notes and References

"... The sickle as a symbol for death and destruction might hint at an identification of Christ with the Destroyer as in the Exodus tradition. Fifth, the description of the one like a son of man as 'sitting' can be explained by the assumption of the use of the Joel tradition, because Joel 4 also includes a scenario of judgement. Notably in Joel 4:12 God is judging in the valley of Jehoshaphat while he is 'sitting'. Possibly the description of the one like a son of man as 'sitting' could additionally express a certain increase of power and therefore represent his enthronement. The sickle can probably be interpreted as a sign representing a certain juridical function of the one like a son of man which becomes rather obvious by the following description of the scenario of the harvest in Apc 14:15-20: The depiction continues to be very reminiscent of Joel 4. Indeed, it is also possible that the author of the Apocalypse picked up a similar tradition as in 1 Enoch 69:27, where the enthronement of the Son of Man and his function as judge are combined. In case of Apc 14 this presupposes the bearing of a sickle as a juridical attribute of the one like a son of man (which is a feature absent in 1 Enoch) ..."

Hoffmann, Matthias Reinhard Angelomorphic Christology and the Book of Revelation (pp. 49-50) The University of Durham, 2003

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