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28 Dating the Book of Job of men have averaged longer in the first-world nations where men live on fuller, more nutritious diets. Only one hundred years ago men in Europe lived on average fifty years but today, in North America, men are living on average to be seventy and eighty years of age. It may well be that men were designed to live nearly five hundred years as the Bible purports but have been suffering a sort of malnutrition ever since the global flood changed the topography of the earth to the extent that seventy percent of its surface is now covered with water. This explanation fits neatly with the genealogical record given in the Bible. Some have proposed that the accelerated aging that men now undergo relative to those who lived before the flood may be due to a thiner atmosphere on the earth which is allowing more E.M. Radiation to bath men. While intense E.M. Radiation does cause accelerated cell division, and hence aging, this explanation does not explain the genealogical record of the Bible because men continued to live prolonged lives for a short while after the flood. If the reduced lifespans of men were a matter of an external element being present that actively shortens their lifespans, then Noah should have died in short order after the flood and not lived out the rest of a full lifespan of 950 years! Likewise, his sons should not have lived for 500 years after the flood (250 years when the doubling is accounted for as discussed earlier). If the shorter lifespans were due to the lack of some crucial chemical as suggested by I Enoch, however, then the genealogical record makes sense. Noah, who was exposed to the abundant pre-flood chemical for about 300 years, lived a total of 475 years. Shem, Ham, and Japheth, who were exposed to the abundant pre-flood chemical for about 50 years lived a total of about 300 years. Arpachshad, Shelah, and Eber, who were all born within the first 35 years after the flood and were consequently exposed to a less potent mixture of the chemical in the atmosphere because most of the plant life which continually replenished the chemical in the atmosphere before the flood had been destroyed, lived about 200 years. From about 35 years after the flood on, men have not lived much over 100 years (usually less due to poor nutrition). There does appear to be a bit of a stepwise decrease in the lifespans of men after the flood as recorded in the Bible. This may indicate that the chemical is more crucial at certain stages of men’s lives than at others (e.g. at puberty). Chapter 24 isn’t the only reference in I Enoch that associates abundant foliage on earth with the longevity of men. Chapter 10 also seems to indicate a parallel. Chapter 10 is excerpted below and the relevant portion emphasised (and more as well which is to be discussed soon). – Then the Most High, the Great and Holy One spoke, And sent Arsayalalyur to the son of Lamech, Saying, “Say to him in my name, ‘Conceal yourself’. Then explain to him the consummation which is about to take place; for all the earth shall perish; the waters of a deluge shall come over the whole earth, and all things which are in it shall be destroyed. And now teach him how he may escape, and how his seed may remain in all the earth.” Again the Lord said to Raphael, “Bind Azazyel hand and foot; cast him into darkness; and opening the desert which is in Dudael, cast him in there. Throw upon him hurled and pointed stones, covering him with darkness; There shall he remain for ever; cover his face, that he may not see the light. And in the great day of judgment let him be cast into the fire. Restore the earth, which the angels have corrupted; and announce life to it, that I may revive it. All the sons of men shall not perish in consequence of every secret, by which the Watchers have destroyed, and which they have taught, their offspring. All the earth has been corrupted by the effects of the teaching of Azazyel. To him therefore ascribe the whole crime.” To Gabriel also the Lord said, “Go to the biters, to the reprobates, to the children of fornication; and destroy the children of fornication, the offspring of the Watchers, from among men; bring them forth, and excite them one against another. Let them perish by mutual slaughter; for length of days shall not be theirs. They shall all entreat you, but their fathers shall not obtain their wishes respecting them; for they shall hope for eternal life, and that they may live, each of them, five hundred years.” To Michael likewise the Lord said, “Go and announce his crime to Samyaza, and to the others
Dating the Book of Job 29 who are with him, who have been associated with women, that they might be polluted with all their impurity. And when all their sons shall be slain, when they shall see the perdition of their beloved, bind them for seventy generations underneath the earth, even to the day of judgment, and of consummation, until the judgment, the effect of which will last for ever, be completed. Then shall they be taken away into the lowest depths of the fire in torments; and in confinement shall they be shut up for ever. Immediately after this shall he, together with them, burn and perish; they shall be bound until the consummation of many generations. Destroy all the souls addicted to dalliance, and the offspring of the Watchers, for they have tyrannized over mankind. Let every oppressor perish from the face of the earth; Let every evil work be destroyed; The plant of righteousness and of rectitude appear, and its produce become a blessing. Righteousness and rectitude shall be for ever planted with delight. And then shall all the saints give thanks, and live until they have begotten a thousand children, while the whole period of their youth, and their sabbaths shall be completed in peace. In those days all the earth shall be cultivated in righteousness; it shall be wholly planted with trees, and filled with benediction; every tree of delight shall be planted in it. In it shall vines be planted; and the vine which shall be planted in it shall yield fruit to satiety; every seed, which shall be sown in it, shall produce for one measure a thousand; and one measure of olives shall produce ten presses of oil. Purify the earth from all oppression, from all injustice, from all crime, from all impiety, and from all the pollution which is committed upon it. Exterminate them from the earth. Then shall all the children of men be righteous, and all nations shall pay me divine honours, and bless me; and all shall adore me. The earth shall be cleansed from all corruption, from every crime, from all punishment, and from all suffering; neither will I again send a deluge upon it from generation to generation for ever. In those days I will open the treasures of blessing which are in heaven, that I may cause them to descend upon earth, and upon all the works and labour of man. Peace and equity shall associate with the sons of men all the days of the world, in every generation of it.” (I Enoch 10) There is a corresponding verse in the canonical Bible which speaks of the earth being drastically reformed at the beginning of the second advent. The verse is Zechariah 14:10. – All the land shall be turned into a plain from Geba to to Rimmon south of Jerusalem. Jerusalem shall be raised up and inhabited in her place from Benjamin’s Gate to the place of the First Gate and the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the king’s winepresses. While we are on the subject, I Enoch reveals a great deal of important information about Azazyel. This information is relevant because many confuse Azazyel with Satan. When the details that are given in I Enoch are known, however, it becomes clear that the two are not the same because Azazyel and his followers are subjected to a different punishment – they are bound in darkness until the day of judgement of mankind. Below are the next few chapters of I Enoch which discuss his crime and punishment. Note how much more sense the Atonement ceremony makes when the Azazyel story is known. During the Atonement ceremony, many of the sins of mankind are transfered to two goats; one of which represents Azazyel and the other Christ. In the previous excerpt, which is continued below, it is made clear exactly which sins are ascribed to Azazyel – those committed by men before the flood as a result of Azazyel’s direct interference. – Before all these things Enoch was concealed; nor did any one of the sons of men know where he was concealed, where he had been, and what had happened. He was wholly engaged with the holy ones, and with the Watchers in his days. I, Enoch, was blessing the great Lord and King of peace. And behold the Watchers called me Enoch the scribe. Then the Lord said to me: “Enoch, scribe of righteousness, go tell the Watchers of heaven, who have deserted the lofty sky, and their holy everlasting station, who have been polluted with women. And have done as the sons of men do, by taking to themselves wives, and who have been greatly corrupted on the earth; That on the earth they shall never obtain peace and remission of sin. For they shall not rejoice in their offspring; they shall behold the slaughter of their beloved; shall lament for the destruction of their sons; and shall petition for ever; but shall not obtain mercy and peace.” (I Enoch 12) – Then Enoch, passing on, said to Azazyel: “You shalt not obtain peace. A great sentence is gone forth against
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