God gave Enoch his mission — and a deadline.
"Everything I have told you," the Lord said, "everything you have seen — from the lowest heaven to My throne, all the hosts and all the troops — all of it I devised and created from the uppermost foundation to the lowest end. There is no counselor to My creation. No inheritor. I am self-eternal, not made with hands, and without change."
"My thought is My counselor. My wisdom and My word are made. My eyes observe all things. If I turn away My face, all things would be destroyed."
Then God gave the command: "Take the books you have written. I give you Samuil and Raguil — the angels who led you up — and go down to earth. Tell your sons everything I have told you. Everything you have seen. From the lowest heaven to My throne."
The purpose was clear: the books must be distributed. Children to children. Generation to generation. Nation to nation. So that humanity would know there is no other God — and understand who created all things.
But first, a warning. God revealed what was coming. The generations after Enoch would reject His commandments. They would worship empty gods and deny His unity. They would fill the earth with wickedness.
"And therefore I will bring down a deluge upon the earth," God said, "and will destroy all men, and the whole earth will crumble into great darkness."
Yet from that destruction, a new generation would arise. And someone would reveal Enoch's books to them — the faithful ones, the workers of God's pleasure — and those who read the books would be glorified even more than the first generation.
Then the final instruction: "I give you thirty days to spend in your house. Tell your sons and your entire household. Let them hear from My face what you tell them. Let them read and understand that there is no other God but Me. And let them keep My commandments and study your books."
Thirty days. That was all. After thirty days, God would send His angel to take Enoch from the earth forever.
1 And I appointed the eighth day also, that the eighth day should be the first-created after my work, and that (the first seven) revolve in the form of the seventh thousand, and that at the beginning of the eighth thousand there should be a time of not-counting, endless, with neither years nor months nor weeks nor days nor hours.
2 And now, Enoch, all that I have told you, all that you have understood, all that you have seen of heavenly things, all that you have seen on earth, and all that I have written in books by my great wisdom, all these things I have devised and created from the uppermost foundation to the lower and to the end, and there is no counsellor nor inheritor to my creations.
3 I am self-eternal, not made with hands, and without change.
4 My thought is my counsellor, my wisdom and my word are made, and my eyes observe all things how they stand here and tremble with terror.
5 If I turn away my face, then all things will be destroyed.
6 And apply your mind, Enoch, and know him who is speaking to you, and take thence the books which you yourself have written.
7 And I give you Samuil and Raguil, who led you up, and the books, and go down to earth, and tell your sons all that I have told you, and all that you have seen, from the lower heaven up to my throne, and all the troops.
8 For I created all forces, and there is none that resists me or that does not subject himself to me. For all subject themselves to my monarchy, and labour for my sole rule.
9 Give them the books of the handwriting, and they will read (them) and will know me for the creator of all things, and will understand how there is no other God but me.
10 And let them distribute the books of your handwritingchildren to children, generation to generation, nations to nations.
11 And I will give you, Enoch, my intercessor, the archistratege Michael, for the handwritings of your fathers Adam, Seth, Enos, Cainan, Mahaleleel, and Jared your father.
1 They have rejected my commandments and my yoke, worthless seed has come up, not fearing God, and they would not bow down to me, but have begun to bow down to vain gods, and denied my unity, and have laden the whole earth with untruths, offences, abominable lecheries, namely one with another, and all manner of other unclean wickedness, which are disgusting to relate.
2 And therefore I will bring down a deluge upon the earth and will destroy all men, and the whole earth will crumble together into great darkness.
1 Behold from their seed shall arise another generation, much afterwards, but of them many will be very insatiate.
2 He who raises that generation, (shall) reveal to them the books of your handwriting, of your fathers, (to them) to whom he must point out the guardianship of the world, to the faithful men and workers of my pleasure, who do not acknowledge my name in vain.
3 And they shall tell another generation, and those (others) having read shall be glorified thereafter, more than the first.
1 Now, Enoch, I give you the term of thirty days to spend in your house, and tell your sons and all your household, that all may hear from my face what is told them by you, that they may read and understand, how there is no other God but me.
2 And that they may always keep my commandments, and begin to read and take in the books of your handwriting.
3 And after thirty days I shall send my angel for you, and he will take you from earth and from your sons to me.
