Enoch 90
Common Questions About Enoch 90
How does the Animal Apocalypse depict the persecution leading up to the Maccabean revolt in chapter 90?
Birds of prey, eagles, vultures, kites, and ravens, are shown devouring the sheep down to their bones, symbolizing severe persecution of Israel, until lambs are born who begin to see clearly; one lamb grows a great horn (widely understood to represent Judas Maccabeus), and though ravens and other birds try to destroy this horn, they cannot overcome it, and a heavenly figure comes down to help it.
How does this chapter picture the final judgment and the coming of the Messiah?
The Lord of the sheep takes His throne, opens the sealed books, and judges the fallen stars (Watchers), the seventy shepherds, and the blinded sheep, casting the guilty into a fiery abyss; the old house (the Temple) is folded up and replaced by a new, greater house, and finally a white bull with large horns is born, who is honored by all creatures, symbolizing a coming messianic figure and the dawn of a renewed age.
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Questions to Think About
- This vision shows persecution reaching its worst point right before deliverance finally comes, the horn grows strongest just as the ravens attack hardest. When you're in the middle of a hard season, how do you hold onto hope that breakthrough can be closer than it feels?
- The vision ends with 'a new house greater and loftier than the first,' a picture of restoration that exceeds what was lost. Where in your own life have you seen God replace something broken with something even better, rather than simply repairing what was there before?
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