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1 Enoch

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Chapter 7

1 And all the others together with them took wives for themselves, each choosing one for himself, and they began to unite with them and defiled themselves with them.⁠ They taught them sorcery, spells, and the art of extracting medicinal substances from plants.⁠ 2 The women became pregnant and gave birth to enormous giants,⁠ whose height was three thousand ells.⁠ 3 These giants consumed everything humans produced. 4 And when humans could no longer support them, the giants turned against them and devoured mankind.⁠ 5 They began to sin against birds, beasts, reptiles, and fish, eating each other’s flesh and drinking the blood.⁠ 6 Then the earth brought charges against these lawbreakers.⁠

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Compare 1 Enoch 7:6 and 2 Thessalonians 2:8

Pseudepigrapha, Apocalypses · New Testament

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Summary

1 Enoch describes giants who commit violence against creation, ending in the earth itself bringing charges against them. The same term for lawlessness is used in 2 Thessalonians to describe the opponent who will be destroyed at the end of the age.

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1 Enoch 7:6

Pseudepigrapha, Apocalypses
2 The women became pregnant and gave birth to enormous giants, whose height was three thousand ells. 3 These giants consumed everything humans produced. 4 And when humans could no longer support them, the giants turned against them and devoured mankind. 5 They began to sin against birds, beasts, reptiles, and fish, eating each other’s flesh and drinking the blood. 6 Then the earth brought charges against these lawbreakers.
300 BCE – 100 CE (scholarly estimate) Read in 1 Enoch

2 Thessalonians 2:8

New Testament
6 And so you know what holds him back, so that he will be revealed in his own time. 7 For the hidden power of lawlessness is already at work. However, the one who holds him back will do so until he is taken out of the way, 8 and then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will destroy by the breath of his mouth and wipe out by the manifestation of his arrival. 9 The arrival of the lawless one will be by Satan’s working with all kinds of miracles and signs and false wonders, 10 and with every kind of evil deception directed against those who are perishing, because they found no place in their hearts for the truth so as to be saved.
80–90 CE (scholarly estimate) Read in 2 Thessalonians

References

"... the lawless ones — The Greek lemma is anomos and denotes general wickedness and immorality. It is found in the New Testament in several places, including in a description of the eschatological Antichrist figure (2 Thessalonians 2:8) ..."
Michael S. Heiser, A Companion to the Book of Enoch: A Reader's Commentary (Crane, MO: Defender, 2019), 1:90.

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