After the ten plagues, after the final convulsions of the dying age, God revealed to Abraham the moment everything would change.
"Then I will sound the trumpet out of the air and will send my Elect One, having in him all my power, one measure."
The Elect One. The Messiah. A title drawn from the prophet Isaiah (Isaiah 42:1), used throughout the visions of 1 Enoch, and here given its most concentrated description. "One measure" of all the divine attributes, a human being who reflected in miniature the totality of God's character. Not a supernatural angelic being like Metatron, but a divinely endowed man, full of the power of the Holy Spirit (Isaiah 11:1), sent by God at the appointed time.
"This one shall summon my despised people from the nations."
The ingathering of the exiles. The same hope expressed in the daily liturgy: "Sound the great horn for our freedom; lift up the ensign to gather our exiles, and gather us from the four corners of the earth."
"And I will burn with fire those who have insulted them and who have ruled over them in this age. I will give those who covered me with mockery to the scorn of the coming age. I have prepared them to be food for the fire of the underworld and for ceaseless flight through the air beneath the earth."
The punishment of the wicked was twofold: fire below and restless wandering above. Their bodies consumed by the worm of Azazel. Their spirits finding no rest until the judgment.
"For they shall decay in the body of the evil worm Azazel, and be burned with the fire of Azazel's tongue. For I had hoped that they would come to me, and not have loved and praised a strange god, and not have adhered to one for whom they were not allotted. But instead they forsook the mighty Lord."
Even in judgment, the note of grief. God had hoped. He had waited. They had chosen otherwise.