The Book of Enoch Messianic Prophecy Edition

Meme by James Heinz

We still have the Book of Enoch today because Methuselah fulfilled his father's request...

In Enoch and in the rest of the so-called "apocrypha", persecution of the righteous is a big theme! Is this why in our day these books are making a splashy comeback?

One of the amazing things about the "apocrypha" and maybe one reason for its being hidden in the West, generally, there is a theme of persecution running through the books. The theme of persecution can be seen in Enoch, Wisdom, Tobit, Greek Esther, the rest of Daniel, and all four books of the Maccabees!

Is it possible these books were "hidden" by God, (which is the original meaning of the word, apocrypha) so they could make a big comeback right before the time when they will be most needed to encourage the elect?

After all, Christians are on the receiving end of persecution more so now than in Roman times. In the last generation before Jesus returns, death will become the price for confessing Christ on a worldwide basis. ~ RI Burns

In order to answer the question, "How and when did we come to have a Bible with only 66 books?", the story goes like this...

1. About 400 AD, is when they first began removing Enoch. This was the time of Augustine and Jerome. Augustine and the clergy decided that the Book of Enoch was not to be trusted because it had angels committing carnal sins and bearing children who were giant. This was decided to be mythology (despite the fact that Genesis and Jude ALSO say this), and the Book of Enoch should no longer to be read in churches. Jubilees, which also corroborates Enoch's book would have been discarded about that time too.

2. That was also the time when Jerome decided the Bible needed a total revamp into Latin. Jerome believed the Greek Old Testament, which had been the Old Testament of the Christians for 300 plus years should no longer be the standard for the Old Testament. The Jewish Hebrew Scriptures were to be used instead, but since the Scriptures of Judaism did not contain certain books which were in the Greek Septuagint (which is sometimes called "The Apocrypha", in our day), those Greek books were to be removed. However, the bishop of Rome told him he had to leave those books in. Jerome reluctantly included just 7 of the books and some of the others he included in an appendix at the back.

3. In the 1530's Martin Luther decided ALL the books of the "Apocrypha" (the 7 Jerome included within the Latin Old Testament, and the rest that were in the appendix) were "valuable for edification", but were not inspired Scripture and should all be placed in an appendix to the Old Testament before the New Testament. (By this time, the Apocrypha had already been without Enoch for more than 1,000 years).

4. In 1611, the KJV Bible was published following Luther's pattern. The books of the Apocrypha were not removed from the Bible, but they were placed in an appendix to the Old Testament before the New Testament.

5. In the early 1800's, just when the Protestant Missionary Movement was exploding, the British Bible Society made the decision to remove the Apocrypha altogether since they were no longer being considered as inspired Scripture anyway. This would create a cheaper and lighter Bible too. Thus, for the first time a "66-book-only Bible" began to become the normal Bible for almost all Protestants in the West, and going forward in their missionary outreaches around the world.

6. Throughout history, the Church in the East, in its various Orthodox expressions, (Greek, Armenian, Syrian, and Ethiopian) has not followed most of the innovations introduced by Jerome, Luther and the later Protestant movement, (though most but not all had already removed Enoch and Jubilees). Western Christianity, has been characterized by a willingness to innovate and change the Bible, but in the East a more conservative approach has been taken. As such, the Orthodox communions of Christianity taken as a whole preserve a more true picture of the Bible as it was from the earliest times. ~ RI Burns

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