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When the voice stopped speaking, Abraham looked in every direction. No one. No breath of a man anywhere. His spirit was seized with terror. His soul fled from him. He became like a...
Abraham rose and saw the one who had grasped his hand and lifted him to his feet. The sight was overwhelming. Iaoel's body was like sapphire. His face shone like chrysolite. The ha...
They walked together for forty days and forty nights. Abraham ate no bread and drank no water. His food was the sight of the angel beside him. His drink was Iaoel's speech. This wa...
The sun went down. Smoke rose from the ground like the smoke of a furnace (Genesis 15:17). The angels who held the portions of the sacrifice ascended from the top of the smoking fu...
Abraham turned to the angel in distress. "Why have you brought me up here? I cannot see anymore. I am already grown weak, and my spirit is departing from me." The mortal body was f...
While Iaoel was still speaking, fire closed in around them on every side. A voice was inside the fire, like the voice of many waters (Ezekiel 1:24), like the roaring of the sea in ...
While Abraham was still reciting the song, the fire on the surface rose up on high. He heard a voice like the roaring of the sea. The fire would not stop. And as it climbed, ascend...
A voice came from the midst of the fire. "Abraham, Abraham!" "Here I am." "Consider the expanses beneath the firmament on which you are now placed, and see that on no single expans...
Enoch was three hundred and sixty-five years old when the visitation came. He was alone in his house. Resting on his bed. Asleep. And in that sleep, a terrible distress seized his ...
The angels lifted Enoch onto their wings and carried him upward. The earth fell away beneath him. The air thinned. And then — the first heaven. They set him down on the clouds, and...
The second heaven was darkness. Not ordinary darkness — not the darkness of a moonless night or a sealed room. This was a darkness thicker and heavier than anything on earth. A dar...
But paradise had a shadow. The two angels led Enoch to the northern side of the third heaven, and everything changed. The fragrance vanished. The light died. What he saw next was t...
The fifth heaven was silent. That was the first thing Enoch noticed. In every other heaven, there had been song — ceaseless, layered, beautiful. Here, nothing. A vast emptiness of ...
Cherubim and Seraphim surrounded the throne. Six-winged, many-eyed, they never departed — standing before God's face, doing His will, covering the entire throne with their wings as...
When Enoch had spoken his final words, something extraordinary happened. People from far and near — two thousand of them — heard that the Lord was calling Enoch home, and they came...
Levi, third son of Jacob and Leah, called his sons together when he knew his death was near. It had been revealed to him that he would die. When they gathered, he told them everyth...
