This comes from Torah Class lesson 4 Revelation Chapter 1 Conclusion About Enoch I hope this helps. George There is a reason that thousands and thousands of Jews were the first Believers in Yeshua as their divine/human Messiah; they were expecting such a thing and they became convinced He was that Messiah. Such an expectation was already built-in to Jewish Tradition. In fact, because the Son of Man concept had existed and been accepted (and debated) within Jewish culture for hundreds of years, it is not found only in the Bible but also in the book of 1 Enoch, which is really a group of 5 books, one of them called Similitudes of Enoch. It is now fairly well agreed that this was written at or before the time of Christ. I mentioned earlier in our lesson that other branches of Christianity can have different books in their Bibles than we do, but we of the West are typically unaware of it. The Ethiopian Church as well as some of the Eastern Orthodox sub-branches include these 5 books of 1 Enoch in their Bibles. Listen to an excerpt taken from the Similitudes of Enoch, chapter 46: There I saw one who had a head of days, and his head was like white wool. And with him was another, whose face was like the appearance of a man; and his face was full of graciousness like one of the holy angels. And I asked the angel of peace, who went with me and showed me all the hidden things, about that son of man….who he was and whence he was and why he went with the Head of Days. And he answered m and said to me: “This is the son of man who has righteousness.” Sounds amazingly similar to the Gospel accounts and our passage in Revelation doesn’t it? As well it should because the Gospel accounts didn’t innovate a new concept in the Son of Man; rather the new Believers in Yeshua just assigned a long held Jewish concept to this carpenter’s son from Nazareth. Also note that the Similitudes were written before the Gospels were written and also likely before Yeshua even started His earthly ministry.
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"...let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath." sab'-bat-on Of Hebrew origin [Intensive from H7673; intermission, that is, (specifically) the Sabbath: - (+ every) sabbath.]; the Sabbath (that is, Shabbath), or day of weekly repose from secular avocations (also the observance or institution itself); by extension a se'nnight, that is, the interval between two Sabbaths; likewise the plural in all the above applications: - sabbath (day), week. "Now, therefore, why are you putting God to the test by placing a yoke on the neck of the disciples that neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?"
Paul is talking about mans traditions/laws in this context if you continue reading he states that closer to the end of the chapter I hope this helps clear up any questions you may have
What a great teaching!!
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I have a question, Where did the book of Enoch come from? Should we trust reading it? I was just wondering because it is not used in Christian bibles.
This comes from Torah Class lesson 4 Revelation Chapter 1 Conclusion
About Enoch
I hope this helps. George
There is a reason that thousands and thousands of Jews were the first Believers in Yeshua as their divine/human Messiah; they were expecting such a thing and they became convinced He was that Messiah. Such an expectation was already built-in to Jewish Tradition. In fact, because the Son of Man concept had existed and been accepted (and debated) within Jewish culture for hundreds of years, it is not found only in the Bible but also in the book of 1 Enoch, which is really a group of 5 books, one of them called Similitudes of Enoch. It is now fairly well agreed that this was written at or before the time of Christ.
I mentioned earlier in our lesson that other branches of Christianity can have different books in their Bibles than we do, but we of the West are typically unaware of it. The Ethiopian Church as well as some of the Eastern Orthodox sub-branches include these 5 books of 1 Enoch in their Bibles. Listen to an excerpt taken from the Similitudes of Enoch, chapter 46:
There I saw one who had a head of days, and his head was like white wool. And with him was another, whose face was like the appearance of a man; and his face was full of graciousness like one of the holy angels. And I asked the angel of peace, who went with me and showed me all the hidden things, about that son of man….who he was and whence he was and why he went with the Head of Days. And he answered m and said to me: “This is the son of man who has righteousness.”
Sounds amazingly similar to the Gospel accounts and our passage in Revelation doesn’t it? As well it should because the Gospel accounts didn’t innovate a new concept in the Son of Man; rather the new Believers in Yeshua just assigned a long held Jewish concept to this carpenter’s son from Nazareth. Also note that the Similitudes were written before the Gospels were written and also likely before Yeshua even started His earthly ministry.
where is the rest of Exodus? How do I access the private videos?
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"...let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath."
sab'-bat-on Of Hebrew origin [Intensive from H7673; intermission, that is, (specifically) the Sabbath: - (+ every) sabbath.]; the Sabbath (that is, Shabbath), or day of weekly repose from secular avocations (also the observance or institution itself); by extension a se'nnight, that is, the interval between two Sabbaths; likewise the plural in all the above applications: - sabbath (day), week.
"Now, therefore, why are you putting God to the test by placing a yoke on the neck of the disciples that neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?"
Paul is talking about mans traditions/laws in this context if you continue reading he states that closer to the end of the chapter
I hope this helps clear up any questions you may have