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1 Enoch 90 describes a throne set up in a heavenly courtroom where sealed books are opened in front of God. Revelation echoes this description of a heavenly courtroom where a scroll is unsealed in front of the throne before judgment begins.
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1 Enoch 90:20
Pseudepigrapha
19 I watched until a great sword was given to the sheep, and the sheep went out against all the beasts of the field to kill them, and all the beasts and the birds of heaven fled before their face. 20 I watched until a throne was set up in the pleasant land, and the Lord of the sheep sat on it, and the other took the sealed books and opened those books before the Lord of the sheep. 21 The Lord called those men, the seven first white ones, and commanded that they should bring before Him, beginning with the first star which led the way, all the stars whose genitals were like those of horses, and they brought them all before Him. 22 He said to that man who wrote before Him, who was one of those seven white ones, and said to him: 'Take those seventy shepherds to whom I handed over the sheep, and who, taking them on their own authority, killed more than I commanded them.'
Revelation 5:1
New Testament
1 Then I saw in the right hand of the one who was seated on the throne a scroll written on the front and back and sealed with seven seals. 2 And I saw a powerful angel proclaiming in a loud voice: “Who is worthy to open the scroll and to break its seals?” 3 But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or look into it. 4 So I began weeping bitterly because no one was found who was worthy to open the scroll or to look into it. 5 Then one of the elders said to me, “Stop weeping! Look, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, has conquered; thus he can open the scroll and its seven seals.”
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"... compare 1 Enoch 90:20, 'he took all the sealed books and opened those very books in the presence of the Lord of the sheep'; 2 Baruch 24:1, 'For behold, the days are coming, and the books will be opened in which are written the sins of all those who have sinned.' ..."
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