Friday, February 27, 2009

PSEUDEPIGRAPHA WATCH: Is 2 (Slavonic) Enoch being read by Dispensationalists? In the Tampa Tribune one Dale L. Gillis writes with consternation:
Recently I found that some believers in Rapture are reading The Secrets of Enoch and treating it as Scripture. While Enoch is an ancient book, it isn't in the Bible or even in the Apocrypha. Supposedly it was written before the flood and Noah carried a copy on the Ark.

Secrets of Enoch assume that God has a physical body. It tells us that both Eden and the place of torment for mortals are in the third heaven. This is apparently lower than the moon and sun, which are in the fourth heaven. The fifth heaven contains the place of torment for demons, the angels who rejected God.

Although read by Rapturists, Secrets of Enoch says nothing about God planning to Rapture believers off the earth before the end. ...
I wonder if this is an isolated incident or a trend. Could get interesting ...