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Revelation 8 echoes 1 Enoch 18, which describes burning stars like fiery mountains. Revelation expands this imagery in its apocalyptic narrative, reflecting an ancient tradition where stars were thought to be divine beings.
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2500 BCE
1000+ CE
1 Enoch 18:13
Pseudepigrapha, Apocalypses
11 And I saw a deep abyss, with columns of heavenly fire, and among them I saw columns of fire fall, which were beyond measure alike in height and depth. 12 And beyond that abyss I saw a place which had no dome of heaven above, and no firmly founded earth beneath it; there was no water upon it, and no birds, but it was a waste and horrible place. 13 I saw there seven stars like great burning mountains, and to me, when I inquired about them, 14 The angel said: 'This place is the end of heaven and earth; this has become a prison for the stars and the army of heaven. 15 And the stars which roll over the fire are those which have transgressed the command of the Lord at the beginning of their rising, because they did not come forth at their appointed times. 16 And He was angry with them, and bound them until the time when their guilt should be consummated, even for ten thousand years.'
Date: 300 BCE – 100 CE (based on scholarly estimates)
Revelation 8:8
New Testament
6 Now the seven angels holding the seven trumpets prepared to blow them. 7 The first angel blew his trumpet, and there was hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was thrown at the earth so that a third of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up. 8 Then the second angel blew his trumpet, and something like a great mountain of burning fire was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea became blood, 9 and a third of the creatures living in the sea died, and a third of the ships were completely destroyed. 10 Then the third angel blew his trumpet, and a huge star burning like a torch fell from the sky; it landed on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water. 11 (Now the name of the star is Wormwood.) So a third of the waters became wormwood, and many people died from these waters because they were poisoned.
Date: 92–96 CE (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References
"... seven stars like great burning mountains — While “stars” is used in verse 15 is a term that points to the transgressing Watchers, the stars here are restricted to seven and are described as being “like burning mountains.” The conclusion must be that the term can be used of both divine beings and objects. The conceptual overlap between celestial objects and divine beings in ancient cosmology is behind this seeming incongruity. The same sort of star-entity equation is witnessed in the Hebrew Bible (Job 38:7–8; Daniel 12:2–3; cp. the phrase “host of heaven” for heavenly beings; e.g., 1 Kings 22:19 and 1 Enoch 18:14) ..."
Michael S. Heiser, A Companion to the Book of Enoch: A Reader's Commentary (Crane, MO: Defender, 2019), 1:183.
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Does the book of Enoch what percent different from the old testament or the new testament? (2) Question what are the differences in revelation with the seven angles and there trumpet? My email address is [email protected] thank you for helping me understanding it better.
Does the book of Enoch what percent different from the old testament or the new testament? (2) Question what are the differences in revelation with the seven angles and there trumpet? My email address is [email protected] thank you for helping me understanding it better.Something happened in 2013. Which led me to the book of Enoch. I believe many truth seekers would be interested to know the events which are leading all of us to today, which soon would become the end of this epoch. Jesus is Enoch. He is the only begotten son, who went up into heaven and absorbed in ...
Something happened in 2013. Which led me to the book of Enoch. I believe many truth seekers would be interested to know the events which are leading all of us to today, which soon would become the end of this epoch. Jesus is Enoch. He is the only begotten son, who went up into heaven and absorbed into godhood. He came back as a sacrificial lamb, of his own (his lineage) didn’t recognize him in his first return. At his second return, he is going to split the heavens and raise people from the dead, and those who are still alive one would be left behind, and one taken up. Some people called it the rapture. The book of Revelation called it the first resurrection. The second resurrection is going to happen in the next epoch thousands of years later. Describe in a short phrase as an allegory for another world after this.