1 Enoch 87:4
Study resource: not ScriptureR. H. Charles translation (1917) · public domain
And one said unto me: ‘Remain here till thou seest everything that befalls those elephants, camels, and asses, and the stars and the oxen, and all of them.’
This verse’s chapter, studied
Taken Up to Watch the Judgment
The violence spreads until the oxen gore and devour each other and the earth itself cries out. Enoch sees beings "like white men" descend from heaven, four, then three more, and the last three seize him, lift him up, and set him on a high tower above the hills to watch what happens to the giants and the fallen stars.
- Revelation 4:1 : "A door was opened in heaven… Come up hither" is the same lifting-up-to-watch device John experiences before his own judgment visions.
- Ezekiel 8:3 : "The spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven" gives Ezekiel the same elevated vantage this chapter grants Enoch on the tower.
Teachers on this ground
R. H. Charles
The Book of Enoch (1917)
The public-domain translation this shelf reads, with the critical introduction the field still builds on.
Johnny Enlow
The Book of Enoch: Paraphrase and Commentary (2025)
A living teacher's paraphrase of the whole book with his own running commentary, from the prophetic stream.