Recently, I watched a Joe Rogan podcast in which he interviewed United States Representative, Anna Paulina Luna. I remember hearing her mention the Book of Enoch several times throughout. Although, the main topic of discussion was about UFOs and UAPs. Rep. Luna is Chairwoman on the House Oversight Committee Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets. Moreover, one can learn more by reading the following article at the following link.
Also, one can watch the Rogan podcast with her at the
following link.
https://youtu.be/v-yPOBaYDOo?si=s2B45kS9jZYpBxbu
But why Enoch? I will answer that soon. I was reading the
material the Representative was referring to on Rogan about Enoch already when
she was probably still in her early teens. Enoch was the seventh patriarch from
Adam before the flood. In the Book of Genesis in Bible, we read that Enoch
lived 365 years. Genesis reads that, he was not; for God took him. The
Book of Hebrews said that Enoch did not see death. We really have very little
else with relevance to Enoch.
However, in the Epistle of Jude in the New Testament, we get
a little more. Jude quotes Enoch in verses 14 and 15, but we do not have the
texts Jude references in our western canon (our Bible). So, where are the words
taken from? Many scholars agree that the text in Jude are taken from the Book of
Enoch (Enoch 1). There are three apocryphal books attributed to Enoch (Enoch 1,
2, and 3). These books may not be in our Bible, but the Ethiopian canon does
contain them, which the Representative knew about. Seemingly, Jude also had copies of
the Enoch manuscript back in the first century, and St. Athanasius kept Jude in
the canon for a reason. Of course, he was a bother of James and very likely a brother of Jesus himself.
If you want to know about Jesus’ siblings, there is mention of them in the Gospel of
Mark 6:3. Obviously, there is way more to Enoch than we are often led to
believe, but this is just a brief post designed to encourage everyone to do more
research on the subject. Now, back to Rep. Anna Paulina Luna.
Why did she mention Enoch so much? Well, when one reads the apocryphal text, at a certain point it sounded as if Enoch was describing that he was taken onboard of a spaceship, but I am going to stop here and leave it up to you. Take some time and read for yourself at the following link.
https://www.ccel.org/c/charles/otpseudepig/enoch/ENOCH_1.HTM
References:
https://www.ccel.org/c/charles/otpseudepig/enoch/ENOCH_1.HTM
https://youtu.be/v-yPOBaYDOo?si=s2B45kS9jZYpBxbu
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