Here are some facts about 1Enoch the book and Enoch the man.

1. Ethiopic Enoch = 1Enoch
2. 1Enoch is the oldest. 2 and 3 Enoch are later works.
3. Enoch was the seventh descendent of Adam and Eve in the Bible.
4. Enoch "walked with God. Then he vanished and God took him." (Gen 5:24)
5. Enoch was the son of Cain and Ramona, and he led the Nodites.(UB p. 849)
6. Enoch was the first mortal fused with his thought adjuster.(UB p. 514)
7. Enoch is one of 24 members ‘Urantia advisory council.’ (UB p. 513)
8. The Book of Enoch was an inspiration to Jesus.(UB p. 1390) The title "Son of Man" was taken from the Book of Enoch. (UB p. 1390) Of all scripture the Book of Enoch "was nearest to the truth" regarding Jesus’ identity and mission as assessed by Jesus himself. (UB p. 1390).
9. Enoch is said to have been taken away by God, saw the secrets and mysteries of the universe, the future of the world, and the predetermined course of human history (Biblical literature).
10. There are three parts to 1Enoch.
11. 1Enoch was found among the Dead Sea Scrolls pushing its date of origin back to at least 100-200 BC (except for part 2, see below).
12. Part 2, the Similitudes, is the part containing all the references to the Son of Man and is the only part not yet found among the Dead Sea Scrolls.  Therefore, its dating is unsure (? pre-Christian or not).
13. The New Testament was significantly influenced by 1Enoch.
14. Many early Church fathers were inspired by 1Enoch.
15. Many copies of 1Enoch were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls. 1Enoch was probably one of the most authoritative and popular scriptures of the Qumran Community.
16. After the fourth century A.D. 1Enoch was apparently suppressed as heretical by the Church due to its references to the physicality of the fallen angels who were said to have had sexual relations with the ‘daughters of men.’.
17. The entire Book of Enoch not discovered again until 1773. It was brought to Europe from Ethiopia.
18. The book survived as a whole only in Ethiopia. Why? Was it destroyed by the church?
19. 1Enoch is directly quoted in Jude and 2Peter of the New Testament in reference to danger of a perverted form of Christian belief which claimed that it was only necessary to have faith. The overriding concern of these two New Testament books is that the believer feels that he or she is otherwise above the biblical laws and commandments. This belief mainly took the form of sensual and sexual indulgence. Jude and 2Peter reject such licentiousness and state that the fate of such believers will be like the angels or "Sons of God" who sinned by descending from heaven and having intercourse with daughters of men.   (See Genesis 6:1-4). The story of these "fallen angels" is discussed in 1Enoch. The Nephilim of the Bible are the Nodites of the Urantia Book (UB p. 856) and are the descendants of the original disloyal ‘Dalamatia staff of one hundred’(UB p. 758), and who became the ‘eighth race to appear on Urantia’(UB p. 857).

     Parts of 1Enoch are written specifically for the sake of those who elect God’s will during the time of trouble, in the "distant" messianic period, now about to begin.

1Enoch 1:4 ...will hereafter tread upon Mount Sinai; appear with his hosts; and
                     be manifested in the strength of his power from heaven.

1Enoch 1:5 All shall be afraid, and the Watchers be terrified.

1Enoch 1:6 Great fear and trembling shall seize them, even to the ends of the
                     earth. The lofty mountains shall be troubled, and the exalted hills
                     depressed, melting like a honeycomb in the flame. The earth shall
                     be immerged, and all things which are in it perish; while judgment
                     shall come upon all, even upon all the righteous (Rev. 20:11-15).

     Melchizedek will visibly "appear with his hosts." How so? The Watchers are probably the descendants of those who had been "cast out of heaven," (the Dalamatia 100) who are from the Nodite (Nephilim) racial line. Are these some of the "princes" of the world, the powerful and heartless that run our world system from behind the scenes. Many of these behind the scene leaders apparently come from "royal" lineages. They are terrified, as they should be, when Melchizedek comes. As many other times stated in scripture, the hills are made low during cataclysmic tectonic activity. Notice that all those in (but not above or on) the earth perish, i.e. those hiding in mountains and subterranean locations. All people are then subject to individual judgment according to prophecy. Further information on those who elect God’s will follows next.

1Enoch 1:8 Then shall all belong to God; be happy and blessed; and the splendor
                    of the Godhead shall illuminate them (Isa. 40:5; 65:21-25).

The elect are physically "preserved" probably to help build a new world from the old.

1Enoch 2 Behold he comes with ten thousands of his saints, to execute judgment
                  upon them, and destroy the wicked, and reprove all of flesh for every thing
                  which the sinful and ungodly have done, and committed against him.  (Jude 14,15).

Are these "ten thousands of his saints" the "hosts" of 1Enoch 1:4?

     The "wicked ones" behind the scene will be exposed and dealt with. Mankind will be rid of Caligastia (the devil) and like-minded men forever.

1Enoch 6:3 They see, too, how the seas and the rivers together complete their
                     respective operations:

1Enoch 6:12 They shall not be condemned the whole period of their lives,
                       nor die in torment and indignation; but the sum of the days of their
                       life shall be completed, and they shall grow old in peace; while
                       the years of their happiness shall be multiplied with joy, and with
                       peace for ever, the whole duration of their existence.

     Note 9, 11, and 12 for further information regarding "the elect." Next, Enoch is taken to heaven in a vision.

1Enoch 14:10 They elevated me aloft to heaven. I proceeded, until I arrived at
                         a wall built with stones of crystal. A tongue of fire surrounded it,
                         which began to strike me with terror.

1Enoch 14:11 Into this vibrating flame I entered (11Kings 2:11).

     Next, Enoch encounters one who is described much like the Ancient of Days described in Revelation:

1Enoch 14:17 Attentively I surveyed it, and saw that it contained an exalted throne;

1Enoch 14:18 The appearance of which was like that of frost; while its
                         circumference resembled the orb of the brilliant sun; and there
                         was the voice of the cherubim.

1Enoch 14:19 From underneath this mighty throne rivers of flaming fire issued.

1Enoch 14:20 To look upon it was impossible.

1Enoch 14:21 One great in glory sat upon it (Rev. 4:2-11).

1Enoch 14:22 Whose robe was brighter than the sun, and whiter than snow.  (Ancient of Days)

1Enoch 14:23 No angel was capable of penetrating to view the face of Him,
                         the Glorious and the Effulgent; nor could any mortal behold him
                         (Jno. 1:18). A fire of flaming fire was around Him.

Enoch’s vision in heaven continues:

1Enoch 24:1 I went from thence to another place, and saw a mountain of fire
                      flashing both by day and night. I proceeded toward it; and
                      perceived seven splendid mountains, which were all different from each other.

1Enoch 24:2 Their stones were brilliant and beautiful; all were brilliant and
                      splendid to behold; and beautiful was their surface. Three
                      mountains were toward the east, and strengthened by being placed
                      one upon another; and three were towards the south, strengthened
                      in a similar manner. There were likewise deep valleys, which did
                      not approach each other. And the seventh mountain was in the
                      midst of them. In length they all resembled the seat of a throne,
                      and odoriferous trees surrounded them (Zech. 6:1).

1Enoch 24:4 Its fruit resembled the cluster of the palm. I exclaimed: Behold!
this tree is goodly in aspect, pleasing in its leaf and the sight of its
fruit is delightful to the eye. Then Michael, one of the holy and
glorious angels who were with me, and one who presided over them, answered,

1Enoch 24:5 And said: Enoch, why dost thou inquire respecting the odor of this tree?

1Enoch 24:6 Why are thou inquisitive to know it.

1Enoch 24:7 Then I, Enoch, replied to him, and said: Concerning everything
I am desirous of instruction, but particularly concerning this tree.

1Enoch 24:8 He answered me, saying: That mountain which thou beholdest,
the extent of whose head resembles the seat of the Lord, will be
the seat on which shall sit the holy and great Lord of glory, the
everlasting King, when He shall come and descend to visit the
earth with goodness. (Dan. 7:13-14; Lk. 1:32-33).

1Enoch 24:9 And that tree of an agreeable smell, not one of flesh, there shall
be no power to touch, until the period of the great judgment.
When all shall be punished and consumed for ever, this shall be
bestowed on the righteous and humble. The fruit of this tree shall
be given to the elect. For towards the north life shall be planted in
the holy place, towards the habitation of the everlasting King.

1Enoch 24:10 Then shall they greatly rejoice and exult in the Holy One. The
                        sweet odour shall enter into their bones; and they shall live a long
                        life on the earth, as thy forefathers have lived; neither in their days
                        shall sorrow, distress, trouble, and punishment afflict them.

     The congregation of the righteous are those whose hearts are centered on God’s ways and will. The elect are the same, except in addition there is a greater understanding, as a result of special books discussed later, about God’s kingdom of heaven within and his developing kingdom of the outer world as well.

1Enoch 38:2 When righteousness shall be manifested in the presence of the
righteous themselves, who will be elected for their good works
duly weighed by the Lord of spirits (God); and when the light of the
righteous and the elect, who dwell on earth, shall be manifested;
where will the habitation of sinners be, and where the place of rest
for those who have rejected the Lord of spirits? It would have been
better for them, had they been never born (Ecc. 7: 1).

1Enoch 38:4 From that period those who possess the earth shall not be
                      powerful and exalted. Neither shall they be capable of beholding
                      the countenances of the holy, for the light of the countenances of
                      the holy, the righteous, and the elect, has been seen by the Lord of
                      Spirits (Dan. 12:10).

     These world's misleaders will be delivered into the hands of those whom they persecuted and tried to destroy.

1Enoch 38:6 Nor thence forwards shall any obtain commiseration from the
                       Lord of spirits, because their lives in this world will have been completed.

     The "Elect and holy race" are probably the children of Adam and Eve who left the planet after the Adamic default (UB) and who now return to finish their original mission to biologically/genetically uplift the mortal races (UB). These are physical beings who physically "descend from the upper heavens." How do they descend? What is the means of their transportation?

UB p. 1025 "Is there a possibility that an unexpected and unprecedented
                     event is to take place, the sometime return to the planet of Adam
                     and Eve or certain of their progeny as representatives of Michael
                     (Christ) with the titles of vicegerents of the second Adam of Urantia?"

1Enoch 39:4 There I saw another vision; I saw the habitations and couches of
the saints. There my eyes beheld their habitations with the angels,
and their couches with the holy ones. They were entreating,
supplicating, and praying for the sons of men; while righteousness
like water flowed before them, and mercy like dew was scattered
over the earth. And thus shall it be with them for ever and for ever.

1Enoch 39:8 There was I (Enoch) desirous of remaining, and my soul longed
for that habitation. There was my antecedent inheritance; for thus
had it been revealed respecting me before the Lord of spirits.

The next chapter of interest is 45.

How, I do not know. He "illuminates" the area or the world probably with the light of his own radiance.

He "changes the face of the earth," possibly through tectonic activity, which begins, upon his arrival. Next, we turn to the Son of Man passages which are also located in the Similitudes.

1Enoch 46:5 They (sinners) shall condemn the stars of heaven, shall lift up their
hands against the Most high, shall tread upon and inhabit the earth,
exhibiting all their works of iniquity, even their works of iniquity.
Their strength shall be in their riches, and their faith in the gods
whom they have formed with their own hands. They shall deny
the name of the Lord of spirits, and shall expel Him from the
temples, in which they assemble (Amos 8:11-12; Rev. 3:17).

1Enoch 46:6 And with Him the faithful, who suffer in the name of the Lord of
spirits (Lk. 2l:12).

UB p. 1390 While turning all these problems over in his mind, he (Jesus) found
in the synagogue library at Nazareth, among the apocalyptic books
which he had been studying, this manuscript called "The Book of Enoch";
and though he was certain that it had not been written by Enoch of old, it
proved very intriguing to him, and he read and reread it many times.
There was one passage, which particularly impressed him, a passage in
which this term ‘Son of Man’ appeared. The writer of this so-called Book
of Enoch went on to tell about this Son of Man, describing the work he
would do on earth and explaining that this Son of Man, before coming
down on this earth to bring salvation to mankind, had walked through the
courts of heavenly glory with his Father, the Father of all; and that he had
turned his back upon all this grandeur and glory to come down on earth to
proclaim salvation to needy mortals. As Jesus would read these passages
(well understanding that much of the Eastern mysticism which had become
admixed with these teachings was erroneous), he responded in his heart
and recognized in his mind that of all the Messianic predictions of the
Hebrew scriptures and of all the theories about the Jewish deliverer, none
was so near the truth as this story tucked away in this only partially
accredited Book of Enoch; and he then and there decided to adopt as his
inaugural title "the Son of Man." And this he did when he subsequently
began his public work. Jesus had an unerring ability for the recognition of
truth, and truth he never hesitated to embrace, no matter from what source
it appeared to emanate.

By this time he had quite thoroughly settled many things about his
forth-coming work for the world, but he said nothing of these matters to
his mother, who still held stoutly to the idea of his being the Jewish Messiah.

Please note the Urantia Book does not say that the reference in the Book of Enoch was a reference to Jesus, rather it says that no other scripture "was so near the truth" as these Enoch passages were in relationship to Jesus. Perhaps Jesus is not the Son of Man portrayed in the Enoch that comes down to us today, and that these passages are "so near the truth" about Jesus because Jesus is also a pre-existent divine being, who walked with the "Father of all" before leaving the glory of the divine world to proclaim salvation to mankind. Therefore, perhaps Jesus chooses this title "Son of Man" because it’s meaning is as close as he can get to his own self-understanding. Jesus was human just like we are and had doubts and confusion just as we do. He definitely had a limited knowledge of his mission at this point in his spiritual development. Listen to these doubts and questions in his mind as he ponders these issues in a very human way:

1Enoch 47:1 In that day the prayer of the holy and righteous, and the blood
of the righteous, shall ascend from the earth into the presence of the Lord of spirits.

1Enoch 47:3 At that time I beheld the Ancient of days, while He sat upon the
throne of his glory, while the book of the living was opened in his
presence, and while all the powers which were above the heavens
stood around and before him (Rev. 20:12).

1Enoch 48:5 Therefore the Elect and the Concealed one existed in His
presence, before the world was created, and for ever.

1Enoch 48A:2 But iniquity passes away like a shadow, and possesses not a
fixed station: for the Elect one stands before the Lord of spirits; and
his glory is for ever and ever; and His power from generation to generation (Ps. 1).

1Enoch 48A:3 With Him dwells the spirit of intellectual wisdom, the spirit of
instruction and of power, and the spirit of those who sleep in
righteousness; He shall judge secret things.

1Enoch 48A:4 Nor shall any be able to utter a single word before him; for the
Elect one is in the presence of the Lord of spirits, according to his
own pleasure (Ecc. 12:14).

Melchizedek has direct access to the Lord of Spirits (God).

1Enoch 49:1 In those days the saints and the chosen shall undergo a change.
The light of day shall rest upon them; and the splendor and glory of
the saints shall be changed (1 Cor. 15:51).

1Enoch 49:2 In the day of trouble evil shall be heaped up upon sinners; but
the righteous shall triumph in the name of the Lord of spirits.

1Enoch 49:3 Others shall be made to see, that they must repent, and forsake the
works of their hands; and that glory awaits them not in the presence
of the Lord of spirits; yet that by his name they may be saved. The
Lord of spirits will have compassion on them; for great is his mercy;
and righteousness is in his judgment, and in the presence of his glory;
nor in his judgment shall iniquity stand. He who repents not before
Him shall perish (Rev. 20:15).

Some kind of change, possibly a spiritual transformation is noted in 49:1 with reference to the "chosen," which is another term for the elect; ie: those who choose (elect) God.

1Enoch 50:1 In those days shall the earth deliver up from her womb, and hell
deliver up from hers, that which it has received; and destruction shall
restore that which it owes (Rev. 20:13).

1Enoch 50:2 He shall select the righteous and holy from among them; for the
day of their salvation has approached.

1Enoch 50:3 And in those days shall the Elect one sit upon his throne, while
every secret of intellectual wisdom shall proceed from his mouth; for
the Lord of spirits has gifted and glorified him (Lk. 1:32-33).

This agrees with other scripture and The Urantia Book with regard to Messiah/Melchizedek being a teacher as well as a "King."

1Enoch 50:4 In those days the mountains shall skip like rams, and the hills
shall leap like young sheep satisfied with milk; and all the righteous
shall become angels in heaven (Ps. 114:4).

1Enoch 50:5 Their countenance shall be bright with joy; for in those days shall
the Elect one be exalted. The earth shall rejoice; the righteous shall
inhabit it, and the elect go and walk upon it (Mat. 5:5, Rev. 26-27).

The Elect One is Melchizedek as noted before.

1Enoch 51:1 After that period, in the place where I had seen every secret sight,
I(Enoch) was snatched up in a whirlwind, and carried off westwards.

1Enoch 51:2 There my eyes beheld the secrets of heaven, and all which existed
on earth; a mountain of iron, a mountain of copper, a mountain of
silver, a mountain of gold, a mountain of fluid metal, and a mountain of lead.

1Enoch 51:3 And I inquired of the angel who went with me, saying: What
are these things, which in secret I behold?

1Enoch 51:4 He said: All these things which thou beholdest shall be for the
dominion of the Messiah, that he may command, and be powerful upon earth.

1Enoch 51:5 And that angel of peace answered me, saying: Wait but a short
time, and thou shalt see, and every secret thing shall be revealed to
thee, which the Lord of spirits has decreed. Those mountains
which thou hast seen, the mountain of iron, the mountain of
copper, the mountain of silver, the mountain of gold, the mountain
of fluid metal, and the mountain of lead, all these in the presence of
the Elect one shall be like a honeycomb before the fire, and like
water descending from above these mountains; and shall become
debilitated before his feet (Dan. 2:31-45).

1Enoch 51:6 In those days they (wicked,power elite) shall not be saved by
gold and by silver (Ezek7:19).

1Enoch 51:7 Nor shall they have it in their power to secure themselves, or fly.

1Enoch 51:8 There shall be neither iron for war, nor a coat of mail for the breast.

1Enoch 51:9 Copper shall be useless; useless also that which neither rusts nor
consumes away; and lead shall not be coveted.

1Enoch 51:10 All these things shall be rejected, and perish from off the earth,
when the Elect one shall appear in the presence of the Lord of spirits.

Notice again the reference to men flying in 51:7. In some manner they will be prevented from
doing so when Melchizedek arrives. How?

1Enoch 52:1 There my eyes beheld a deep valley; and wide was its entrance.

1Enoch 52:2 All who dwell on land, on the sea, and in islands, shall bring to it
gifts, presents, and offerings; yet that deep valley shall not be full.
Their hands shall commit iniquity. Whatsoever they produce by
labor the sinners shall devour with crime. But they shall perish
from the face of the Lord of spirits, and from the face of his earth.
They (the people of God) shall stand up, and shall not fail for ever and ever.

1Enoch 52:6 After which the righteous and chosen house of his congregation
shall appear, thence forward unchangeable, in the name of the Lord
of spirits. (? 3rd Temple)

1Enoch 52:7 Nor shall those mountains exist in his presence, as the earth and
the hills, as the fountains of water exist. And the righteous shall
be relieved from the vexation of sinners.

.The "Kings and powerful ones of the earth" pile up worldly treasure in a "deep valley" (?literal vs. figurative). Here they, the powerful, are said to perish, elsewhere they, or possibly their remnant, are said to be handed over to the elect. Repeatedly in scripture tectonic activity takes place and "the mountains" and hills become flat as in 52:7 Enoch. See also:

Isa 40:4 Every valley shall be lifted and filled up,
and every mountain and hill shall be made low
and the crooked and uneven shall be made straight
and the rough places a plain.

This may be a local event rather than global, and it is probably literal as well as figurative.  Elsewhere the mountain on which Jerusalem and the Temple Mount are located actually raises up high – literally and figuratively elevating the glory of God and His Temple.

Chapters 53 and 54 slip back in time before the flood and are omitted here.

1Enoch 55:1 After this I beheld another army of chariots, with men riding in
them (Zech. 6:1-3).

1Enoch 55:2 And they came upon the wind from the east, from the west, and
from the midst of the day.

1Enoch 55:3 The sound of the noise of their chariots was heard.

1Enoch 55:4 And when that agitation took place, the saints out of heaven
perceived it; the pillar of the earth shook from its foundation; and
the sound was heard from the extremities of the earth unto the
extremities of heaven at the same time.

1Enoch 55:5 Then they all fell down, and worshipped the Lord of spirits (Ps. 86:9).

1Enoch 55:6 This is the end of the second parable.

As discussed previously, here are described noisy, chariots, with men riding in them, upon the wind. These are modern aircraft very likely. Next, a "great agitation" of some type occurs that "shakes the foundation" of the earth. This is the tectonic event, which occurs on the arrival of Melchizedek. Alternatively, the agitation could be nuclear explosions.

1Enoch 56:1 I now began to utter THE THIRD PARABLE, concerning the
saints and the elect.

1Enoch 56:2 Blessed are ye, O saints and elect, for glorious is your lot.

1Enoch 56:3 The saints shall exist in the light of the sun, and the elect in the
light of everlasting life, the days of whole life shall never terminate;
nor shall the days of the saints be numbered who seek for light, and
obtain righteousness with the Lord of spirits (Php. 3:14; Rom. 9:23; 1 Tim. 6:16).

1Enoch 56:4 Peace be to the saints with the Lord of the world.

1Enoch 56:5 Hence forward shall the saints be told to seek in heaven the secrets
of righteousness, the portion of faith; for like the sun has it arisen
upon the earth, while darkness has passed away. There shall be
light which cannot be numbered; nor shall they enter upon the
enumeration of time; for darkness shall be previously destroyed,
and light shall increase before the Lord of spirits; before the Lord of
spirits shall the light of uprightness increase for ever (Rev. 22:4-5).

Skipping chapters 57 through 60 we have:

1Enoch 61:1 Thus the Lord commanded the kings, the princes, the exalted,
and those who dwell on earth, saying: Open your eyes, and lift up
your horns, if you are capable of comprehending the Elect one.

1Enoch 61:2 The Lord of spirits sat upon the throne of his glory.

1Enoch 61:3 And the spirit of righteousness was poured out over him.

1Enoch 61:4 The word of his mouth shall destroy all the sinners and all the
ungodly, who shall perish at his presence.

1Enoch 61:5 In that day shall all the kings, the princes, the exalted, and those
who possess the earth, stand up, behold, and perceive, that He is
sitting on the throne of his glory; that before Him the saints shall
be judged in righteousness;

1Enoch 61:6 And that nothing, which shall be spoken before Him, shall be
spoken in vain (Rev. 6:15-17).

1Enoch 61:7 Trouble shall come upon them(the power elite), as upon a woman
in travail, whose labor is severe, when her child comes to the mouth
of the womb, and she finds it difficult to bring forth (Jer. 13:21).

1Enoch 61:8 One portion of them shall look upon another. They shall be
astonished, and shall humble their countenance:

1Enoch 61:9 And trouble shall seize them, when they shall behold this Son of
man sitting upon the throne of his glory (Jer. 31:22).

1Enoch 61:10 Then shall the kings, the princes, and all who possess the earth,
                        glorify Him who has dominion over all things, Him who was
                        concealed; for from eternity the Son of Man was concealed, whom
                        the Most High preserved in the presence of his power and revealed
                        to the elect (Heb. 1:6-10).

1Enoch 61:11 He shall sow the congregation of the saints, and of the elect, and all
                         the elect shall stand before Him in that day (Isa. 65:21-25).

1Enoch 61:12 All the kings, the princes, the exalted, and those who rule over the
                         earth, shall fall down on their faces before Him, and shall
                         worship Him (Ps.72:11).

1Enoch 61:13 They shall fix their hopes on this Son of man, shall pray to Him,
                         and petition Him for mercy.

1Enoch 61:14 Then shall the Lord of spirits hasten to expel them from his
presence. Their faces shall be full of confusion, and darkness shall
be added to their faces. The angels shall take them to punishment,
that vengeance may be inflicted on those who have oppressed his
children and his elect. And they shall become an example to the
saints and to his elect. Through them shall these be made joyful;
for the anger of the Lord of spirits shall rest upon
them (Rev. 14:18-20).

1Enoch 61:16 The Lord of spirits shall remain over them;

1Enoch 61:17 And with this Son of man shall they dwell, eat, lie down, and rise
up, for ever and ever (Rev. 7:16-17).

1Enoch 61:18 The saints and the elect have arisen from the earth have left off to
depress their countenances, and have been clothed with the garment
of life. That garment of life is with the Lord of spirits, in whose
presence your garment shall not wax old, nor shall your glory
diminish (Isa. 53:12).

Clearly, the powers that be are brought to judgment and justice. The Son of man described here seems to fit better with the activities of Messiah/Melchizedek rather than Jesus. The Lord of spirits is God as previously indicated.

Chapter 62 contains similar information about the judgment of the power elite. Chapters 63 through 70 are mostly about times before the flood but do contain several more references to the Son of man. In all these references to the Son of man there is nothing to indicate a specific knowledge of Jesus’ life and teachings or Christianity. Based on this, it would seem highly probable that this part of 1Enoch, the Similitudes, chapters 37 through 71, was written before the time of Jesus, as is portrayed in the Urantia Book. Perhaps future discoveries will confirm this.  The next chapter of interest is 79.

1Enoch 79:1 In those days Uriel answered me and said to me; Behold, I
have shewed thee all things, O Enoch;

1Enoch 79:2 And all things have I revealed to thee. Thou seest the sun, the
moon, and those which conduct the stars of heaven, which cause
all their operations, seasons, and arrivals to return.

1Enoch 79:3 In the days of sinners the years shall be shortened.

1Enoch 79:4 Their seed shall be backward in their prolific soil; and every thing
done on earth shall be subverted, and disappear in its season. The
rain shall be restrained, and heaven shall stand still.

1Enoch 79:5 In those days the fruit of the earth shall be late, and not flourish in
their season; and in their season the fruits of the trees shall be withholden.

1Enoch 79:6 The moon shall change its laws, and not be seen at its proper
period. But in those days shall heaven be seen; and barrenness
shall take place in the borders of the great chariots in the west.
Heaven shall shine more than when illuminated by the orders of
light; while many chiefs among the stars of authority shall err,
perverting their ways and works.

1Enoch 79:8 The thoughts of those who dwell on earth shall transgress
within them; and they shall be perverted in all their ways (2 Tim., 3 rd Chp.).

1Enoch 79:9 They shall transgress, and think themselves gods; while
evil shall be multiplied among them.

     Evil multiplies, coming into full bloom, at the end of the age. Note again "the rain will be restrained" at that time and the "fruits of the earth and of the trees shall be withholden" due to drought very probably, as discussed previously. "The moon is not seen at its proper time and place" is a sign that will indicate the closing of the age. "Barrenness shall take place in the borders of the great chariots of the west" refers, I think, to America. The barrenness may refer to drought conditions developing in America as well as other places. I think that this end of the age drought has probably already begun in the Middle East, and perhaps also in the United States as of 1999. If my timing is correct, I would expect drought conditions in the Middle East and the world to progressively worsen until Melchizedek arrives. Then, tectonic activity will open up generous streams and rivers of water, and rain will fall.

1Enoch 89:10 I saw in the vision that ravens flew down upon those lambs;

1Enoch 89:11 That they seized one of them; and that tearing the sheep in
pieces, they devoured them.

1Enoch 89:12 I saw also, that horns grew upon those lambs; and that the
ravens lighted down upon their horns.

The ravens symbolize the evil ones of the world who attack the innocent lambs because the lambs understand the evil that is transpiring in the world and have become a threat to the powers that be. As a result of the open attack on the lambs, the elect become fully cognizant of the evil that exists and therefore they increase in strength, as symbolized by the growing of horns, which always symbolize power (good or bad).

1Enoch 89:9-11 Then I kept seeing till one great horn sprouted on one of those
sheep, and he opened their (the lambs) eyes, and they had vision
in them and their eyes were opened. He cried aloud to the sheep,
and all the rams saw him and ran unto him. (1Enoch; Pseudoepigrapha,
James Charlesworth).

The ram with the "great horn" "opens the eyes" of the others probably by revealing God’s plan for the messianic age. I believe He is the final prophet to come. The rams are the strongest ones among the lambs and sheep, and run to join the final prophet (one with the great horn) after the revelation is made to them.

1Enoch 89:11-12 In spite of this, all those eagles, vultures, ravens, and kites until now
continue to rip the sheep (Christians and Jews) swooping down on
them and eating them. As for the sheep they remain silent; but the
rams are lamenting and crying aloud. Those ravens gather and battle
with him (the large horned ram/prophet) and seek to remove his
horn (his power), but without success. (James Charlesworth). (my parentheses)

In the verse above, we witness the persecution and killing of the sheep (predominantly Jews and Christians). The stronger ones among the Christians (the rams) cry out and lament while the rest of the sheep remain silent and blind.

1Enoch 89:13 I saw thereafter the shepherds coming; and those vultures and
kites cried aloud to the ravens so that they would smash the horn
of that ram with the great horn (the prophet). But he (the prophet)
battled with them, and they (shepherds) fought each other, and he
(prophet) cried aloud, while battling them, so that God’s help
would come. (James Charlesworth). (my parentheses)

The shepherds are the misleaders who are supposed to be tending the flock, but are instead killing and enslaving the sheep. The ram with the great horn (the Dabela), the final prophet, calls to God for help as he battles against the agents of evil (shepherd leaders and henchmen ravens).

1Enoch 89:21 Then I (Enoch) perceived that the man came who had written down
the names of the shepherds, and who ascended up before the Lord of the sheep.

1Enoch 89:22 He (the man) brought assistance, and caused every one to see him
descending to the help of the dabela.

The "Lord of the sheep" is Melchizedek and the "dabela" is the ram with the great horn, the final prophet. The man who writes down the iniquities of the shepherds is an unidentified helper or assistant of Melchizedek’s. This helper "descends" to the aid of the prophet in plain sight for "everyone" to see! How does he descend in plain sight?

1Enoch 89:23 I perceived likewise that the Lord of the sheep came to them in
wrath, while all those who saw him fled away; all fell down in his
tabernacle before his face; while all the eagles, the avest, ravens,
and kites assembled, and brought with them all the sheep of the field.

The Lord of the sheep (Melchizedek) comes to his tabernacle (? temple) and all fall down "before his face." The sheep (faithful Christians and Jews) are gathered up by the eagles and other birds.

1Enoch 89:24 All came together, and strove to break the horn of the dabela.

This line makes little sense as the dabela (horned ram) has already been "helped" and is presumably out of danger, but 89:24 still has the prophet under attack.

1Enoch 89:25 Then I saw, that the man who wrote the book at the word of the
Lord, opened the book of destruction, of that destruction which the
last twelve shepherds wrought; and pointed out before the Lord of
the sheep, that they destroyed more than those who preceded them.

1Enoch 89:26 I saw also that the Lord of the sheep came to them, and taking
in his hand the scepter of his wrath seized the earth, which became
rent asunder; while all the beasts and birds of heaven fell from the
sheep and sunk into the earth, which closed over them.

Melchizedek, grasping his scepter (like his sickle in Revelation) of power, causes a tectonic event, which kills the ones who commit evil, but saves the sheep under attack. The Dead Sea Scrolls also symbolizes the Messiah by the scepter.

1Enoch 89:27 I saw, too, that a large sword was given to the sheep, who went
forth against all the beasts of the field to slay them (Ps. 149:9).

1Enoch 89:28 But all the beasts and birds of heaven fled away from before their face.

Here, some type of weapon is given to the sheep (faithful Jews and Christians) to "slay the beasts of the field."

1Enoch 89:29 And I saw a throne erected in a delectable land (Palestine);

1Enoch 89:39 I also saw that the Lord of the sheep produced a new house,
great and loftier than the former, which He bounded by the former
circular spot. All its pillars were new, and its ivory new, as well as
more abundant than the former ancient ivory, which he had brought out.

Melchizedek produces a "new house" (Temple) and it is placed on the circular Temple Mount, occupied presently by the Moslem "Dome of the Rock." Whether or not a new Temple is made by Melchizedek or is made for Melchizedek before he arrives is as yet still uncertain to my understanding, although I lean toward a new temple made by Melchizedek as evidenced in the verse above.

1Enoch 89:44 All the sheep were enclosed in that house, and it did not contain them;
and the eyes of all were open, gazing on the good One, nor was
there one among them who did not behold Him.

1Enoch 89:45 I likewise perceived that the house was large, wide, and extremely
full. I saw, too, that a white cow was born, whose horns were
great; and that all the beasts of the field and all the birds of heaven,
were alarmed at him, and entreated him at all times (Ps. 72).

1Enoch 89:46 Then I saw that the nature of all of them (sheep) was changed, and
that they became white cows (1 Cor. 15:22-28).

1Enoch 89:48 While the Lord of the sheep rejoiced over them, and over all the cows.

1Enoch 89:49 I lay down in the midst of them: I awoke; and saw the whole. This
                        is the vision, which I saw, lying down and waking. Then I blessed
                        the Lord of righteousness, and gave glory to Him.

1Enoch 89:50 Afterwards I wept abundantly, nor did my tears cease, so that I
                         became incapable of enduring it. While I was looking on, they
                         descended on account of what I saw; for all was come and gone by;
                         every individual circumstance respecting the conduct of mankind was seen by me.

1Enoch 89:51 In that night I remembered my former dream; and therefore wept
                        and was troubled, because I had seen that vision.

White cows symbolize a spiritual transformation that occurs with the faithful remnant that is left at the end of the messianic time period.

1Enoch 90:4 Enoch said: Hear, my children, every word of your father,
and listen in uprightness to the voice of my mouth; for I would
gain your attention, while I address you. My beloved: be attached
to integrity, and walk in it.

1Enoch 90:5 Approach not integrity with a double heart; nor be associated
with double-minded men; but walk, my children, in righteousness,
which will conduct you in good paths; and truth be your companion (Jas. 1:8).

1Enoch 90:6 For I know, that oppression will exist and prevail on earth; that
on earth great punishment shall in the end take place; and that there
shall be a consummation of all iniquity, which shall be cut off from
its root, and every fabric raised by it shall pass away (Flood).
Iniquity however, shall again be renewed, and consummated on
earth. Every act of crime, and every act of oppression and impiety,
shall be a second time embraced. (The first time was before the
flood, the second time will be at the end of this age)

1Enoch 90:7 When therefore iniquity, sin, blasphemy, tyranny, and every evil
work, shall increase, and when transgression, impiety, and unclean-ness
also shall increase, then upon them all shall great punishment be inflicted from heaven.

1Enoch 90:10 In those days oppression shall be put off from its roots, and
iniquity with fraud shall be eradicated, perishing from under heaven.

1Enoch 90:12 Righteousness shall be raised up from slumber; and wisdom shall
be raised up, and conferred upon them.

1Enoch 90:15 And now, my children, I will describe and point out to you the
path of righteousness and the path of oppression.

1Enoch 90:16 I will again point them out to you, that you may know what is to come.

Again, men and women will cause their own downfall, their own "punishment," as a result of their foolish disregard of God’s laws and warnings. We truly reap what we sow. Free will implies the freedom for error, the freedom for sin, and the freedom for iniquity. Unfortunately, people with good intentions project their intentions onto others and therefore have difficulty understanding and recognizing the self-serving and controlling intentions of others. The essence of God’s presence is his free willingness; His total lack of force and coercive intent. He respects absolutely the domain of free will of every individual. On the other hand, the essence of evil is characterized by the use of force, coercion, and fear to dominate and control the actions of others. It is these behaviors that can easily identify those who seek to possess power over others. If you are busy asserting your will you are not following God’s. This is why our "leaders" and our "elite" end up on "the top of the heap." They are willing to disregard ethics and religion for power and politics. Many others will not. Unfortunately, the well intended are confused and altogether too passive, thus allowing the controllers to dictate the way unopposed.

In 90:6, Enoch discusses the pre-flood iniquity that was cleansed by the flood and then states that such iniquity will be again "embraced a second time," which is now. Hardship is coming and it will bring out the best and the worst in human nature. Since "the worst" controls the power of the world the "best" will be at a distinct worldly disadvantage. But it is not man’s world that counts in the end, but rather it is God’s world that counts. Human and sacred history will finally intersect at the point of Melchizedek’s arrival. The kingdom of heaven within intersects with the Kingdom of God on earth. The harvest time comes, and the weeds are bundled up and thrown in the "fire." The good harvest is stored up and the newly plowed earth is reseeded with good seed. 1Enoch 90:11 ends with sin perishing forevermore, which is only possible when "the rebellion" against God is ended and the kingdom of God on earth begins.

1Enoch 91:1 That which was written by Enoch. He wrote all this instruction of
wisdom for every man of dignity, and every judge of the earth; for
all my children who shall dwell upon earth, and for subsequent
generations, conducting themselves uprightly and peaceably.

1Enoch 91:2 Let not your spirit be grieved on account of the times; for the
holy, the great One, has given days to all (Jno. 14:1).

1Enoch 91:3 Let the righteous man arise from slumber; let him arise, and
proceed in the path of righteousness, in all its paths; and let his
goings be in goodness and in eternal clemency. Mercy shall be
showed to the righteous man; upon him shall be conferred
integrity and power for ever. In goodness, and in righteousness
shall he exist, and shall walk in everlasting light; but sin shall
perish in eternal darkness, nor be seen from this time forward
for evermore (Jer. 31:33-34).

The Great One is God, who is the only one who could "prescribe a period to all." "Let the righteous man arise from slumber" is a call to every generation and every age but especially applies to our generation, which will find itself immersed in the harvest of iniquity in the messianic end of the age. The last sentence of 91:3 says that sin will perish for evermore thereby referring specifically to the messianic time period. (Except for bible references the parentheses are my comments.) Next we have some more history that continues into Enoch's distant future, which is our near future.

1Enoch 92:1 After this, Enoch began to speak from a book.

1Enoch 92:2 And Enoch said: Concerning the children of righteousness,
concerning the elect of the world, and concerning the plant of
righteousness and integrity.

1Enoch 92:3 Concerning these things will I speak, and these things will I explain
to you, my children: I who am Enoch. In consequence of that
which has been shewn to me, from my heavenly vision and from
the voice of the holy angels have I acquired knowledge; and from
the tablet of heaven have I acquired understanding.

1Enoch 92:4 Enoch then began to speak from a book, and said: I have been born
the seventh in the first week, while judgment and righteousness wait with patience.

1Enoch 92:5 But after me, in the second week, great wickedness shall arise, and
fraud shall spring forth.

1Enoch 92:6 In it the end of the first shall take place, in which mankind shall be safe (Flood).

1Enoch 92:7 But after it (flood) has been completed, iniquity shall grow up; and
he (God or Melchizedek) shall execute the decree upon sinners.

1Enoch 92:8 Afterwards, in the third week, during its completion, a man
(Abraham) of the plant of righteous judgment shall be selected; and
after him the plant of righteousness shall come for ever.

1Enoch 92:9 Subsequently, in the fourth week, during its completion, the
visions of the holy and the righteous shall be seen (Old Testament
prophets), the order of generation after generation shall take place,
and an habitation shall be made for them. Then in the fifth week,
during its completion, the house of glory and of dominion shall be
erected for ever. (? First Temple)

1Enoch 92:16 And after this, on the seventh day of the tenth week, there shall be
an everlasting judgment, which shall be executed upon the
Watchers; and a spacious eternal heaven shall spring forth in the
midst of the angels. (watchers, race of Nodites?)

1Enoch 92:17 The former heaven shall depart and pass away; a new heaven shall
appear; and all the celestial powers shine with sevenfold splendor
for ever. Afterwards likewise shall there be many weeks, which
shall externally exist in goodness and in righteousness.

Also, consider the Seven Master Spirits which are "the full representation of the Infinite Spirit to the evolutionary universes," (UB p. 189) the seven adjuvant mind spirits, the seven absolutes, the seven superuniverses, the seven psychic circles, and the seven triunities among many others.
Could the "sevenfold doctrine" be a reference to The Urantia Book? If so, this would be consistent with another passage of Enoch to come that states that special books are given to those who elect God’s will near the end of the age.

Returning to Enoch in 92:14 and 92:15, the messianic end of the age comes and the "house of the great king," Melchizedek (King of Righteousness) will be established while "sin disappears forever." Next we have:

1Enoch 93:1 And now let me exhort you, my children, to love righteousness, and to walk in it; for the paths of righteousness are worthy of acceptation; but the paths of iniquity shall suddenly fail, and be diminished.

1Enoch 93:2 To men of note in their generation the paths of oppression and death are revealed; but they keep far from them, and do not follow them.

1Enoch 93:5 Walk in the paths of peace, that you may live, and be found worthy. Retain my words in your inmost thoughts, and obliterate them not from your hearts; for I know that sinners counsel men to commit crime craftily. They are not found in every place, nor does every counsel possess a little of them.

1Enoch 93:6 Woe to those who build up iniquity and oppression, and who lay the foundation of fraud; for suddenly shall they be subverted, and never obtain peace.

Ezek 18:32 For it is not My desire that anyone shall die – declares the Lord God. Repent therefore, and live!

1Enoch 95:1 Wait in hope, ye righteous; for suddenly shall sinners perish from before you, and you shall exercise dominion over them, according to your will.

1Enoch 95:2 In the day of the sufferings of sinners your (the righteous) offspring shall be elevated, and lifted up like eagles. Your nest shall be more exalted than that of the avest; you shall ascend, and enter into the cavities of the earth, and into the clefts of the rocks forever, like hares, from the sight of the ungodly;

1Enoch 95:3 Who shall groan over you, and weep like sirens.

1Enoch 95:4 You shall not fear those who trouble you; for restoration shall be yours; a splendid light shall shine around you, and the voice of tranquility shall be heard from heaven. Woe to you, sinners; for your wealth makes you resemble saints, but your hearts reproach you, knowing that you are sinners. This word shall testify against you, for the remembrance of crime.

1Enoch 95:5 Woe to you who feed upon the glory of the corn, and drink the strength of the root of the spring, and in the pride of your power tread down the humble.

1Enoch 95:6 Woe to you who drink water at all times; for suddenly shall you be recompensed, consumed, and withered, because you have forsaken the fountain of life (Jno. 4:13-14).

1Enoch 95:7 Woe to you who act iniquitously, fraudulently, and blasphemously; there shall be a remembrance against you for evil.

1Enoch 95:8 Woe to you, ye powerful, who with power strike down righteousness; for the day of your destruction shall come; while at that very time many and good days shall come to the righteous, even at the period of your judgment.

The righteous gain dominion. The meek inherit the earth. The offspring of the righteous and elect are to be "lifted up like eagles" apparently physically "elevated" to safety and spiritually "exalted" over and above the "ungodly." "A splendid light" probably from the radiance of Melchizedek "will shine around" the "exalted." 95:4 tells us that "the sinners’ wealth" make them "resemble saints" superficially but Enoch’s "words will testify against them" because the book of 1Enoch will help the elect and righteous to recognize the faces of deception and iniquity.
Apparently there is a great drought because only the rich and iniquitous will "drink water at pleasure" while the rest must suffer severe thirst and deprivation. The "powerful" are put on notice in 95:8 that their "day of destruction will come."

1Enoch 96:1 The righteous are confident that sinners will be disgraced, and perish in the day of iniquity.

1Enoch 96:5 Your faces shall be covered with shame; while every deed, strengthened by crime, shall be rejected.

1Enoch 96:9 And now I swear to you, ye crafty, as well as simple ones; that you, often contemplating the earth, you who are men, put elegance upon you more than married women, and both together more so than unmarried ones, every where arraying yourselves in majesty, in magnificence, in authority, and in silver: but gold, purple, honor, and wealth, like water, flow away.

1Enoch 96:13 Neither in this way has our crime been sent down upon earth, but men of their own heads have invented it; and greatly shall those who give it efficiency be execrated.

1Enoch 96:15 I have sworn to you, ye sinners, by the holy and the great One; that all your evil deeds are disclosed in the heaven; and that none of your oppressive acts are concealed and secret.

The "righteous are confident that sinners will be disgraced" because all of this has been revealed to them through 1Enoch and other prophets of scripture as well. Wealth "is suddenly ascended" away from the wealthy who covet in 96:6. The "crafty" men are "adorned more than women" in stylish and expensive clothes (not to mention haircuts). As we read these woes of those who choose sin and iniquity, we remember that the Urantia Book depicts Jesus as saying that although God is understanding of our frailties, he is relentless and even ruthless when it comes to rooting out sin and iniquity. We of the modern age are not accustomed to hearing such "harsh" verbiage as we have been taught that there really is no right and wrong; just differing but equally valid points of view. The words evil, sin, and iniquity are almost never used anymore. We will tolerate anything and everything, except the moral-religious perspective, of course. There is a covert war on God on this world and it is waged by the powerful elite, the "intellectuals," the propagandists, the government, and the media establishment. Our public schools are instruments for the indoctrination of an alternate, unacknowledged, value system of no-values; the official, unannounced, state religion. This secular humanistic state is slowly enslaving its citizens and will lead them into crisis. The war against God has only one possible outcome, and that outcome is, and forever will be, failure! The most difficult task is teaching the well intentioned that such a war actually exists. The well intentioned project their own intentions onto the intentions of others, because the reality of evil intent is so totally foreign and so totally irrational to them. But evil and iniquity does exist and unless we learn to recognize it, we will continue to be its victims. Jesus has spoken well: "Be as wise as serpents and as gentle as doves." To be as wise as serpents we must first recognize and understand those serpents of wrong choosing.

Lets take a detour here and review some information regarding "the rebellion" against God’s will on our world.

UB p. 1660 Rebellion brought sin to this world.

UB p. 394 rebellion by a Planetary Prince instantly isolates the planet.

UB p. 59l rebellion changes the world so much, people have no idea what is normal.

UB p. 617 Divine Minister of Salvington issued…mandate…that nothing be done to half cure, cowardly suppress, or otherwise hide the hideous visage of rebels and rebellion. The angelic hosts were directed to work for full disclosure and unlimited opportunity for sin expression as the quickest.technique of achieving the perfect and final cure of the plague of evil and sin.

UB p. 617 allow rebellion to pursue a natural course of self obliteration…to the end that all sympathy for these evildoers should be sooner uprooted…

UB p. 602 (Satan) became a bold and earnest advocate of "self assertion and liberty."

UB p. 603 Lucifer charged that the Universal Father did not really exist…

UB p. 607 Satania was isolated in both the constellation and the universe circuits…the circuits to the fallen worlds were also cut off…these circuits will not be restored as long as the arch rebel lives…

UB p. 609 The bestowal of Michael (Christ) terminated the Lucifer rebellion in all Satania aside from the planets of the apostate Planetary Princes (ours included).

UB p. 610 The Planetary Prince was dethroned and discredited. He was once termed "God of Urantia." (Caligastia, the devil)

UB p. 610 Caligastia and Daligastia spurned Jesus’ tender offer of mercy.
Caligastia…is still free to prosecute his nefarious designs…

UB p. 610 The devil has been given a great deal of credit for evil which does not belong to him…weak and dissolute mortals are merely being dominated by their own inherent and debased tendencies…

UB p. 611 Satan was allowed to visit Caligastia…right up until another Son of God should be accepted by such apostate worlds, or until such time that the courts of Uversa should begin the adjudication… Melchizedek has since been proclaimed Vicegerent Planetary Prince of Urantia, and the opening of the case Gabriel vs. Lucifer was signalized by the inauguration of temporary planetary regimes on all isolated worlds…Satan did visit Caligastia right up until the time of these revelations…Satan is now detained on the Jerusem prison worlds.

UB p. 611 The rebellion of Jerusem has ended. It ends on the fallen worlds as fast as divine Sons arrive. (Therefore the rebellion is still active.)

Note here, that Urantia will be reinstated and restored to the system circuits and to interplanetary communication only after Melchizedek arrives. Final adjudication will not be complete until earth, its citizens, Caligastia, and Daligastia experience "Judgment Day" as described in the Bible. Only then will the current dispensational age end and a new age begin.
Planetary peace and order cannot come until the harvest of this age is reaped and Melchizedek assumes sovereignty. In this regard consider:

UB p. 597 The bestowal son (Jesus) is the Prince of Peace. On normal worlds this is a dispensation of world-wide peace…such salutary influences did not attend the coming of your bestowal Son…Urantia is not proceeding in the normal order. Your Master…warned…his advent would not bring the usual reign of peace…He distinctly told them (his disciples) that there would be "wars and rumors of wars," and that "nation would rise against nation."

At present one-third of all nations (65 out of 185) are at war. At the end of the cold war in 1990 there were only 35. This planet is in the hands of self-serving, unwise, and immature leadership who, as a rule, have little spiritual connection. The world is getting more violent and uncertain. This corrupt world leadership possesses all the political, economic, military, and financial power. It cannot be removed or replaced except by force and defeat. The world cannot evolve smoothly into a peaceful age without a crisis and only divine intervention can conclude that crisis favorably on the behalf of the brotherhood of man, which is otherwise in the process of formation. The Urantia Book quotes the following Bible passage:

UB p. 600 ‘For, as the new heavens and the new earth, which I (God) will make, shall remain before me, so shall you and your children survive; and it shall come to pass that from one new moon to another and from one Sabbath to another all flesh shall come to worship before me,’ says the Lord. (Isaiah 66:22-23).

The authors of the Urantia Book would not have quoted the Bible on something they didn’t agree with. One must conclude that something very sudden will occur such that "all flesh will come to worship" before God over a short time period of only one week or one month.
Returning now to the Urantia Book quotes regarding the rebellion and the iniquitous ones, we have regarding Satan:

UB p. 611 Satan visited Urantia recently…He is now interred on the prison worlds.
UB p. 1971 approved the plans to kill Jesus.
UB p. 602 was the first lieutenant of Lucifer.
UB p. 602 is a Lanonandek son.
UB p. 754 was a brilliant creature of light.

UB p. 604 led greatest rebellion in Nebadon, beginning 200,000 years ago.
UB p. 710 gave a beautiful message of acceptance of Life Carrier’s work.
UB p. 529 Soon Urantia will be restored to intersystem communion and interplanetary communication.
UB p. 434 Lucifer misled and deluded the orders of seraphic ministers by the sophistries of unbridled personal liberty.

As we look around today, these same "sophistries of unbridled personal liberty" are all around us. The rebellion is ongoing and coming to full fruit at age’s end. We see this in our youth, on our TV sets, in our government, in our marriages, and in our academies. Power has replaced religion and politics has replaced ethics. The time of trial approaches. Rebellion still has its last gasp to breath. The "world crisis" of the Urantia Book is still ahead of us. We now move on to the next iniquitous one, Caligastia:

UB p. 742 chose 100 (corporeal staff) from over 785,000 ascendant citizens of Jerusem…These Jerusem volunteers were brought by seraphic transport…
UB p. 610 Caligastia has been comparatively impotent since the cross
UB p. 753 has contributed to miscarriage of Adamic plan
UB p. 833 was difficult to combat since invisible.
UB p. 602 is the "devil"
UB p. 753 cannot coerce any normal human will
UB p. 610 still free (along with Daligastia) to prosecute his nefarious schemes. (my parentheses)
UB p. 745 Caligastia "one hundred" lost immortality through rebellion.
UB p. 742 Daligastia and Caligastia are secondary Lanondek sons. Lucifer is a primary Lanondek son.

Caligastia and Daligastia are still here. What "schemes" are they involved in? Can we find and recognize their activities in the world today or are they so impotent that they do not even register on the scales of human activity? What difference does their presence make in the world around us? How would our planet, our nation, our lives be different without their presence? There are two mistakes that can be made with regard to evil. One is to be blind to it and therefore become powerless to effectively overcome it. The second mistake is to overly focus on and stress evil.

UB p. 747 Nod was the leader of the Caligastia’s staff of one hundred.
UB p. 758 Nodites were the descendants of disloyal Dalamatia staff of one hundred
UB p. 856 Nodite was both a racial and cultural term. They were the eighth Urantian race.
UB p. 857 The Sumerian descendants of the Nodites produced the inscribed clay tablets of ancient Sumer. (which are in our possession).
UB p. 856 Nodites are one half the ancestry of the secondary midwayers. (Adamites the other)
UB p. 856 legend had represented the Nodites as gods who came down and mated with daughters of men (referred to in Genesis and 1Enoch).

1Enoch speaks about a race of people who are descended from the offspring of "the sons of God who mated with the daughters of men." This race is referred to as the Nephilim, which corresponds to the Nodite race of the Urantia Book. This inter-racial union between Nodites and the daughters of man is blamed for the evil and sin that resulted in "the flood," by which God purified the earth. Enoch again identifies "an evil race" which is associated with the evil harvest of the messianic period. This raises the question of whether or not there are still present, relatively pure line descendants of this ancient Nodite race? Is this the race that has been associated with royalty throughout the centuries? If so, this would explain the royal links between the ruling class, the Power Elite, and the secret societies. Who are they, where are they, and what role, if any, will they play in the messianic period? Lets consider further the topic of evil, sin, and iniquity:

UB p. 2064 We are equipped to overcome evil with good, vanquish hate by love, to destroy fear with a courageous and living faith in truth.

UB p. 1984 In the half-civilized man there still lurks an evil brutality which seeks to vent itself upon those who are superior in wisdom and spiritual attainment.

UB p. 1982 (Regarding Jesus’ Crucifixion) God in heaven did not will it, neither did the archenemies of Jesus dictate it, though they did much to insure that unthinking and evil mortals would thus reject the bestowal Son.

UB p. 1940 Jesus looking them (apostles) over said, "I have told you how much I desired to have this supper with you, knowing how the evil forces of darkness have conspired to bring about the death of the Son of Man.

With this statement, Jesus would be branded a religious fanatic and conspiracy theorist in today’s world.

UB p. 1766 I (Jesus) am meek and humble in the presence of my Father, but I am equally and relentlessly inexorable where there is deliberate evil-doing and sinful rebellion against the will of my Father who is in heaven.

Jesus did not turn his other cheek to rebellion, sin, or iniquity.

UB p. 1747 All the forces of evil and hosts of sin shall not prevail against this human fraternity of the divine spirit.

This fraternity is the rock on which the Kingdom of Heaven within is built.

UB p. 176 By nature, before the rebirth of the spirit, mortal man is subject to inherent evil tendencies, but such natural imperfections of behavior are neither sin nor iniquity.

UB p. 1660 Evil is inherent in the natural order of this world, but sin is an attitude of conscious rebellion which was brought to this world by those who fell from spiritual light into gross darkness.

UB p. 1912 Jesus said: "Yes, I will tell you about the times when this people shall have filled up the cup of their iniquity, when justice shall swiftly descend upon this city of our fathers." (Jesus referring to the destruction of Jerusalem, 70 AD)

If anyone said this today, they would be compared to Hitler. And yet it was the truth.

UB p. 1972 Even so do you who knowingly reject the council of God appear outwardly to men as holy and righteous, but inwardly your hearts are filled with hypocrisy and iniquity.

Do we have the wisdom to recognize those around us who may fill such a description? Who are they? What are they doing? Outward appearances can be deceiving.

We are taught to be tolerant of everything and everyone. Do we unwittingly tolerate and encourage evil, sin, and iniquity? The Father doesn’t. Neither did Jesus of Nazareth.

UB p. 1661 The penalties of sin are inevitable; the destroying consequences of iniquity are inexorable.

Who else will be innocently destroyed as unwitting bystanders when the harvest comes. Humankind is a family. The family suffers the sin of the individual and vice-a-versa.

UB p. 1638 iniquity destroys the prayer connection…there ensues the loss of personal communion (with God)

UB p. 1590 And when he (Jesus) said, "Resist not evil," he later explained that he did not mean to condone sin or counsel fraternity with iniquity.

And yet we do.

UB p. 610 faith is an effective armor against sin and iniquity.

Are there any such suicidal behaviors in the world today?

UB p. 1660 Iniquity is the willful, determined, and persistent transgression of the divine law, the Father’s Will.

The Father’s Will is the Father’s Way. The Way of truth, beauty, goodness, and love.

UB p. 1906 Remember this is the sin of these rulers: they say that which is good, but they do it not (Then and now).

This technique of deception has been perfected in the art of "spin," the manipulation of perception in total disregard for the truth.

UB p. 1661 Man should not blame God for those afflictions which are the natural result of the life which he chooses to live.

Now consider a few lines from scripture about this topic:

Micah 7:2 The pious are vanished from the land, none upright are left among men; all lie in wait to commit crimes, one traps the other in his net. They are eager to do evil: The magistrate makes demands, and the Judge (judges) for a fee; the rich man makes his crooked plea, and they grant it.

This was written about ancient Israel. However, ends of ages tend to be the same over and over again. Nations rising and falling, rising and falling. Does Micah apply to today as well as yesterday? Could America be a replay of ancient Israel? Witness the O.J. Simpson trial. Lets now return to finish our study of 1Enoch.

1Enoch 97:1 Woe to them who act impiously, who laud and honor the word of falsehood. You have been lost in perdition; and have never led a virtuous life.

1Enoch 97:2 Woe to you who change the words of integrity. They transgress against the everlasting decree (Jno. 10:35).

1Enoch 97:3 And cause the heads of those who are not sinners to be trodden down upon the earth.

1Enoch 97:4 In those days you, O ye righteous, shall have been deemed worthy of having your prayers rise up in remembrance; and shall have deposited them in testimony before the angels, that they might record the sins of sinners in the presence of the Most High.

1Enoch 97:5 In those days the nations shall be overthrown; but the families of the nations shall rise again in the day of perdition (Jno. 5:28-29).

1Enoch 97:6 In those days they who become pregnant shall go forth, carry off their children, and forsake them. Their offspring shall slip from them, and while suckling them shall they forsake them; they shall never return to them, and never instruct their beloved.

1Enoch 97:9 But in those days blessed shall they be, to whom the word of wisdom is delivered; who point out and pursue the path of the Most High; who walk in the way of righteousness, and who act not impiously with the impious.

1Enoch 97:10 They shall be saved.

In 97:9, again we see those who elect God’s will in receipt of wisdom delivered to them in some manner and means, possibly by the books mentioned ahead.

1Enoch 99:1 In those days the angels shall descend into places of concealment, and gather together in one spot all who have assisted in crime.

1Enoch 99:2 In that day shall the Most High rise up to execute the great judgment upon all sinners, and to commit the guardianship of all the righteous and holy to the holy angels, that they may protect them as the apple of an eye, until every evil and every crime be annihilated (five prophets in Bible quoted Enoch’s "apple of an eye") (Zech. 2:7-8).

1Enoch 99:3 Whether or not the righteous sleep a deep sleep, wise men shall then truly perceive.

1Enoch 99:4 And the sons of the earth shall understand every word of that book (which?), knowing that their riches cannot save them in the ruin of their crimes.

1Enoch 99:6 Woe to you, ye perverted in heart, who are watchful to obtain an accurate knowledge of evil, and to discover terrors. No one shall assist you.

1Enoch 99:8 And now know ye, that the angels shall inquire into your conduct in heaven; of the sun, the moon, and the stars, shall they inquire respecting your sins; for upon earth you exercise jurisdiction over the righteous. (but not for much longer)

1Enoch 99:9 Every cloud shall bear witness against you, the snow, the dew, and the rain; for all of them shall be withholden from you, that they may not descend upon you, nor become subservient to your crimes.

In 99:2, the Most High is present for the "great judgment." The Ancient of Days will also attend because the annihilation of any being requires his presence and consent. Who else may be present when Melchizedek is given sovereignty of our planet? Also note in 99:2 the repeated scriptural promise of divine protection "of all the righteous and holy" until every "evil and crime is annihilated." Verse 99:9 mentions the withholding of all forms of precipitation from the iniquitous, again implying a drought in the messianic period. Also note that "all the sons of the earth" (those who have not chosen God) shall know " all the words of that book " and will know that their riches will not save them. What is the identity of "that book"? Could it be 1Enoch itself?

1Enoch 100:1 Attentively consider heaven, all ye progeny of heaven, and all ye works of the Most High; fear Him, nor conduct yourselves criminally before Him.

1Enoch 100:2 If He shut up the windows of heaven, restraining the rain and dew, that it may not descend upon earth on your account, what will you do?

1Enoch 100:3 And if he send his wrath upon you, and upon all your deeds, you are not they who can supplicate Him; for you utter against his righteousness great and powerful things. To you there shall be no peace.

1Enoch 100:4 Do you not see the kings of ship, how their vessels are tossed about by the waves, torn to pieces by the winds, and exposed to the greatest peril?

1Enoch 100:5 That they therefore fear, because their whole property is embarked with them on the ocean; and that they forebode evil in their hearts, because it may swallow them up, and they may perish in it?

1Enoch 100:6 Is not the whole sea, all its waters, and all its commotion, the work of Him, the Most High; of Him who has sealed up all its exertions, and girded it on every side with sand?

1Enoch 100:7 Is it not at his rebuke dried up, and alarmed; while all its fish with every thing contained in it die? And will not you, ye sinners, who are on earth, fear Him? Is not He the maker of heaven and earth, and of all things which are in them? (Job 38 th and 39 th chapters).

1Enoch 102:1 In those days, when He shall cast the calamity of fire upon you, whither will you fly, and where will you be safe?

1Enoch 102:3 All the luminaries are agitated with great fear; and all the earth is spared, while it trembles, and suffers anxiety. (This is a much more hopeful prospect than the usual destruction.)

1Enoch 102:4 All the angels fulfill the commands received by them, and are desirous of being concealed from the presence of the great Glory; while the children of the earth are alarmed and troubled.

1Enoch102:5 But you, ye sinners, are for ever accursed; to you there shall be no peace.

1Enoch 102:6 Fear not, ye souls of the righteous; but wait with patient hope for the day of your death in righteousness. Grieve not, because your souls descend in great trouble, with groaning, lamentation, and sorrow, to the receptacle of the dead. In your lifetime your flesh has not found according to your goodness, but in the period of your existence have sinners existed; in the period of execration and of punishment.

Many have and many will die in righteousness.

1Enoch 102:7 And when you die, sinners say concerning you: As we die, the righteous die. What profit have they in their works? Behold, like us, they expire in sorrow and in darkness. What advantage have they over us? Hence forward are we equal. What will they obtain, and what behold for ever? For behold they are dead; and never will they henceforward for ever perceive the light. I say unto you, ye sinners: You have been satiated with meat and drink, with human plunder and rapine, with sin, with the acquisition of wealth and with the sight of good days. Have you not marked the righteous, how their end is in peace? For no oppression is found in them even to the day of their death. They perish, and are as if they were not, while their souls descend in trouble to the receptacle of the dead.

1Enoch 103:1 But now I swear to you, ye righteous, by the greatness of his splendor and his glory; by his illustrious kingdom and by his Majesty, to you I swear, that I comprehend this mystery; that I have read the tablet of heaven, have seen the writing of the holy Ones, and have discovered what is written and impressed on it concerning you.

1Enoch 103:2 I have seen that all goodness, joy, and glory has been prepared for you, and been written down for the spirits of them who died in righteousness and in much goodness. To you it shall be given in return for your troubles; and your portion of happiness shall far exceed the portion of the living.

1Enoch 103:3 The spirits of you who die in righteousness shall exist and rejoice. Their spirits shall exult; and their remembrance shall be before the face of the mighty One from generation to generation.
Nor shall they know fear and disgrace.

1Enoch 103:4 Woe to you, sinners, when you die in your sins; and they, who are like you, say respecting you, Blessed are the sinners. They have seen all their days; and now they die in goodness and in wealth.  Distress and slaughter they saw not while alive; in honor they die; nor ever in their lifetime did judgment overtake them.

1Enoch 103:6 Woe to you, for to you there shall be no peace. Neither can you say to the righteous, and to the good who are alive: In the days of our trouble have we been afflicted; every species of trouble have we seen, and many evil things have found.

1Enoch 103:7 Our spirits have been consumed, lessened, and diminished.

1Enoch 103:8 We have perished; nor has there been a possibility of help for us in word or in deed; we have found none, but have been tormented and destroyed.

1Enoch 103:9 We have not expected to see life day after day.

1Enoch 103:10 We hoped indeed to have been the head (Isa. 19:15-16).

1Enoch 103:11 But we have become the tail. We have been afflicted, when we have exerted ourselves; but we have been food for sinners and the ungodly; their yoke has been heavy upon us.

1Enoch 103:12 Those have exercised dominion over us who detest and who
goad us; and to those who hate us have we humbled our neck; but
they have shewn no compassion towards us.

1Enoch 103:13 We have been desirous of escaping from them, that we might fly away and be at rest (Ps. 55:6); but we have found no place to which we could fly, and be secure from them. We have sought an asylum with princes in our distress, and have cried out to those who were devouring us; but our cry has not been regarded, nor have they been disposed to hear our voice;

1Enoch 103:14 But rather to assist those who plunder and devour us; those who diminish us, and hide their oppression; who remove not their yoke from us, but devour, enervate, and slay us; who conceal our slaughter, nor remember that they have lifted up their hands against us (11Cor. 11:20-30).

Apparently, the "portion of happiness" reserved in heaven for the righteous who die "far exceeds" the portion who live. This is comforting to know.

1Enoch 104:1 I swear to you, ye righteous, that in heaven the angels record your goodness before the glory of the mighty One.

1Enoch 104:2 Wait with patient hope; for formerly you have been disgraced with evil and with affliction; but now shall you shine like the Chapter 21 1Enoch 313.luminaries of heaven. You shall be seen, and the gates of heaven shall be opened to you. Your cries have cried for judgment; and it has appeared to you: for an account of all your suffering shall be required from the princes, and from every one who has assisted your plunders (Dan 12:3).

1Enoch 104:3 Wait with patient hope; nor relinquish your confidence; for great joy shall be yours, like that of the angels in heaven. Conduct yourselves as you may, still you shall not be concealed in the day of the great judgment. You shall not be found like sinners; and eternal condemnation shall be far from you during every generation of the world.

1Enoch 104:4 And now fear not, ye righteous, when you see sinners strong and worthy in their ways.

1Enoch 104:5 Be not associates with them; but keep yourselves at a distance
from their oppression; be you associated with the host of heaven.
You, ye sinners say: All our transgressions shall not be taken
account of, and be recorded. But all your transgressions shall be
recorded daily.

1Enoch 104:6 I will shew you that light and darkness, day and night, behold
all your transgressions. Be not impious in your thoughts; lie not;
holy and the mighty One; glorify not your idols; for all your lying
and all your impiety is not for righteousness, but for great crime.

1Enoch 104:7 Now will I point out a mystery: Many sinners shall turn and
transgress against the word of uprightness.

1Enoch 104:8 They shall speak evil things; they shall utter falsehood; create
a great creation; and compose books in their own words. But
when they shall write all my words correctly in their own language,

1Enoch 104:9 They shall neither change nor diminish them; but shall write
them all correctly; all which from the first I have uttered concerning
them.

1Enoch 104:10 Another mystery also I point out. To the righteous and the
wise shall be given books of joy, of integrity, and of great
wisdom. To them shall books be given, in which they shall
believe;

1Enoch 104:11 And in which they shall rejoice. And all the righteous shall be
rewarded, who from these shall acquire the knowledge of every
upright path.

In 104:8, Enoch tells us that the words of his writing, paradoxically will be preserved correctly by the iniquitous ones who translate his words, despite their otherwise outrageous deceit. And as if in response the editor here writes in a footnote for this passage: "Despite Enoch’s mandate, his book was most certainly ‘changed’ and ‘diminished’ by late editors, though these fragments of it have survived." Were Enoch’s words preserved correctly as Enoch foretellsor were they ‘changed’ as claimed by the seemingly irritated editor? Personally, I would bet on Enoch. When God is on your side your chance of winning is always 100%.

In 104:10, Enoch reads from the "tablets of heaven" about "books of joy, great wisdom, and integrity" which shall be given to the "righteous and wise" who "from these" books "shall acquire the knowledge of every upright path." Enoch is speaking here about the end of the age generation which implies that these books are made available not until the time period of the end of the age. 1Enoch itself may qualify as one of these books as it was only recently (nineteenth century)made accessible after: centuries of censorship, attempts to destroy it, and deep submergence of the text (found only in Ethiopia and also among the Dead Sea Scrolls). The Dead Sea Scrolls would also qualify as a recently given source of great wisdom and joy. Finally, of course, is The Urantia Book, which is the "mother load" of wisdom, joy, and integrity. And it has been indeed a "gift," as prophesied.

1Enoch 104A: 1-2 In those days, he (Enoch) says:

105:1-2 "The Lord will be patient and cause the children of the earth
to hear. Reveal it to them with your wisdom, for you are their
guides; and you are a reward upon the whole earth. Until I
and my Son are united with them in the upright paths in their
lifetime, and there shall be peace unto you, rejoice you children of
truth. Amen." (Charlesworth,Pseudoepigrapha)

This important passage addresses the "children of truth" who have received the "books of wisdom and joy" in the previous chapter. It tells these individuals to be leaders and guides for others who will be trying to understand what is happening in the world and in the kingdom of heaven within and without. These "children of truth" will be a blessing upon the whole earth especially to those who suffer in darkness. Note carefully that these people of wisdom are united with "I and my Son," God and Melchizedek, during their lifetime presumably when Melchizedek arrives in person.

Chapter 105:1-12 and the first few verses below revisit issues from before the flood and then
begin to speak of the second, messianic time of transgression, our upcoming end of the age.

1Enoch 105:13 Then I, Enoch, answered and said: The Lord will effect a new thing
upon the earth. This have I explained, and seen in a vision. I have
shewn thee that in the generation of Jared my father, those who were from heaven disregarded the word of the Lord. Behold they committed crimes; laid aside their class, and intermingled with women. With them also they transgressed; married with them, and begot children.

1Enoch 105:14 A great destruction therefore shall come upon all the earth; a deluge,
a great destruction shall take place in one year.
 

1Enoch 105:15 This child which is born to you (Noah) shall survive on the earth,
and his three sons shall be saved with him. When all mankind who
are on earth shall die, he shall be safe. (Time of the flood)
 

1Enoch 105:16 And his posterity shall beget on the earth giants, not spiritual,
but carnal. Upon the earth shall a great punishment be inflicted,
and it shall be washed from all corruption. Now therefore inform
thy son Lamech that he who is born is his child in truth; and he
shall call his name Noah, for he shall be to you a survivor. He
and his children shall be saved from the corruption which shall
take place in the world; from all the sin and from all the iniquity
which shall be consummated on earth in his days. Afterwards
shall greater impiety take place than that which had been before
consummated on the earth; for I am acquainted with holy mysteries,
which the Lord himself has discovered and explained to me; and
which I have read in the tablets of heaven.

1Enoch 105:17 In them I saw it written, that generation after generation shall
transgress, until a righteous race shall arise; until transgression and
crime perish from off the earth; until all goodness come upon it.

1Enoch 105:21 Another book which Enoch wrote for his son Methuselah, and
for those who should come after him, and preserve their state of
life in the latter days. You, who have labored, shall wait in those
days, until the evil doers be consumed, and the power of the guilty
be annihilated. Wait, until sin pass away; for their names shall be
blotted out of the holy books, their seed shall be destroyed, and
their spirits slain. They shall cry out and lament in the invisible
waste, and in the fire shall they burn, where there is no earth.

There I perceived, as it were, a cloud which could not be seen
through, for from the depth of it I was unable to look upwards. I
beheld also a flame of fire blazing bright, and, as it were, glittering
mountains whirled around, and agitated from side to side.

1Enoch 105:22 Then I inquired of one of the holy angels who was with me,
and said: What is this splendid object? For it is not heaven, but
a flame of fire along which blazes; and in it there is clamour of
exclamation, of woe, and of great suffering.

1Enoch 105:23 He said: There, into that place which thou beholdest, shall be
thrust the spirits of sinners and blasphemers; of those who shall
do evil, and who shall pervert all which God has spoken by the
mouth of the prophets; all which they ought to do. For respecting
these things there shall be writings and impressions above in
heaven, that the angels may read them, and know what shall happen
both to sinners and to the spirits of the humble; to those who have
suffered in their bodies, but have been rewarded by God; who have
been injuriously treated by wicked men; who have loved God; who
have been attached neither to gold nor silver, nor to any good thing
in the world, but have given their bodies to torment;

1Enoch 105:24 To those who from the time they were, have not been covetous of
earthly riches; but have regarded themselves as a breath passing away.

1Enoch 105:25 And this have they kept; and much has the Lord tried them;
and their spirits have been found pure, that they might bless his
name. All their blessings have I related in a book; and He has
rewarded them; for they have been found to love heaven with an
everlasting aspiration. God has said: While they have been
trodden down by wicked men, they have heard from them revilings
and blasphemies; and have been ignominiously treated, while they
were blessing Me. And now will I call the spirits of the good from
the generation of light, and will change those who have been born
in darkness; who have not in their bodies been recompensed with
glory, as their faith may have merited.

1Enoch 105:26 I will bring them into the splendid light of those who love my
holy name; and I will place each of them on a throne of glory, of
glory peculiarly his own, and they shall be at rest during
unnumbered periods. Righteous is the Judgment of God (Mat.
19:28).

1Enoch 105:27 For to the faithful shall He give faith in the habitation of upright
ways. They shall see those, who having been born in darkness into
darkness shall be cast; while the righteous shall be at rest. Sinners
shall cry out, beholding them, while they exist in splendor and
proceed forward to the days and periods written down for them.

In 105:13, "Those who were from heaven" probably refers to the Nephilim or Nodites. Among these are the "sons of God who cavorted with the daughters of men" (Ge: 6). In Enoch 10:18, we are told that the offspring of these "watchers" who fell from heaven are destroyed in the "last days" judgment because they "have tyrannized over mankind." 1Enoch thus reveals to us the presence of an ancient and ongoing "evil race" (? Nodites) who have existed throughout the history of mankind. And so we can begin to understand the Psalm "Why do the heathen rage and the nations conspire against the Lord and his anointed" (Ps. 2). The concept of an evil, world order that attempts to impose itself over mankind should be studied in detail in our attempt to understand the forces that are shaping our world situation today. In order to be the bearers of truth, one must be able to bear ridicule, slander, and contempt. World government could be a wonderful development and a great benefit to mankind. However, ask yourself, if our developing world order is really so beneficial, why has it developed and flourished in secrecy, without public debate and knowledge. There are scores of international institutions that most of us have never heard of and know nothing about. Why not? Consider the World Trade Organization so recently in the news. How many know that this organization represents the interests of the ever-more powerful international corporate elite who use the political power and auspices of the United States Government to facilitate and maintain their success. These interests care nothing about people, jobs, environmental concerns, or equity. They care only about profit, control, and power. Government has become an arm of the corporate interest. Is this the world system that we want? How many of us know that the United States law is being changed by Federal Executive Orders directly by the President, bypassing Congress, in order to prepare for the day when the United States Constitution is made subservient to the United Nations Charter? How many know that the United Nations Charter has no bill of rights and no protection for the individual against the arbitrary power of the World State? The Book of Enoch reveals to us that the core of such "nefarious plans" has ancient roots dating from the very origins of rebellion on this planet. Is it really surprising to anyone who understands the Urantia Book that our developing world system has points of contact with the same forces of evil which ‘conspired’ to bring to an end the life of the Son of Man. However, it would be a mistake to give these "principalities" of evil too much credit. Mankind itself bears the greatest burden of blame, for without its willing assistance, such principalities could have no power and no influence. The kingdom of heaven within, established in each and every heart, is the only true antidote for the evil, sin, and iniquity that are present in our world today that acts under the guise of good will. If we don’t recognize this deceitful aspect of our world, we will become its victims. Consider the following quotes which have been chosen from the website www.thewinds.org in regard to this secretly operating power elite:

From the days of Spartians Wieshophf, Karl Marx, Trotski, Belacoon,
Rosa Luxenberg, and Emma Goldman, this world conspiracy played a
definite role in the tragedy of the French Revolution. It has been the
mainspring of every subversive movement of the nineteenth century. And
now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld
of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people
by the hair on their head and have become the undisputed masters of that
enormous empire. (Winston Churchill stated to London press in 1922.)

The World is governed by very different personages from what is imagined
by those who are not behind the scenes. (Benjamin Disraeli, First
Prime Minister of England, 1844)

The real rulers in Washington are invisible and exercise power from behind
the scenes. (U.S. Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter)
The real menace of our Republic is the invisible government which like a
giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities states and nation.
(John F. Hylan, Mayor of New York, 1918-1925.)

The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element
in the large centers has owned the government of the U.S. since the day of
Andrew Jackson. (President Franklin D. Roosevelt in a letter dated
November 21, 1933.)

The Trilateral commission is the international…[It] is intended to be the
vehicle for multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking
interests by seizing control of the political government of the United
States. The Trilateral Commission represents a skillful, coordinated effort
to seize control and consolidate the four centers of power – POLITICAL,
MONETARY, INTELLECTUAL, and ECCLESIASTICAL. (U.S.
Senator Barry Goldwater, Republican candidate for President, 1964, in
his book, "With no Apologies")

One may ask why there hasn’t been more press coverage of such a well-established movement. How have its antagonists been so effectively excoriated, ridiculed, and labeled as crackpots? For those who think that the "Free Press" is free and uncontrolled, consider the following:

We are grateful to the Washington Post, The New York Times, Time
Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our
meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years.
It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if
we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years.
But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards
a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite
and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto determination
[read that "democracy"] practiced in past centuries. (David Rockefeller,
founder of the aforementioned Trilateral Commission,in an address
to a meeting of that organization in June of 1991.)

There is no such thing, at this date of the world’s history, in America, as
an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of
you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know
beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for
keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of
you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would
be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets
looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one
issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be
gone. The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth; to lie
outright; to pervert; to vilify; to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his
country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it and
what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are tools and vassals
of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the
strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the
property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes. (John Swinton,
former Chief of Staff of the most powerful and prestigious
newspaper on earth, The New York Times, when asked to give a toast
to the "free press" at the New York Press Club.)

The media looks for minor details to report on – ‘what the Group of 7
Finance ministers had for dinner’ – instead of concentrating on the fact that
they are orchestrating the whole global economic, environmental,military,
and political infrastructure of the world. (Joan Veon, Financial advisor
and international journalist.)

With all the significant statements and famous names sitting at the final
press briefing, they (most reporters) sat there all calm, cool, and collected.
A few of us who were concerned and wanted to understand their (UN)
agenda had our tape recorders going and were writing as fast and furiously
as possible. There they (mainline reporters) sat with their 3x5 cards,
occasionally writing a word. I watched them and couldn’t believe it. No
wonder we don’t know the truth about what is going on in these
conferences. (Joan Veon, attending the 1994 United Nations Conference
on Population and Development in Cairo.)

When returning home after each conference I attend, I check the
newspaper’s report and, believe me, what the media reports is absolute
nonsense. The entire world infrastructure is being changed at these
conferences. Each conference has a piece of the big puzzle, and we don’t
even know our left foot from our right when it comes to understanding
what’s going on. The version of the news we view is a carefully crafted
design described as DECEIT, DISTORTION and DECEPTION. They
have an agenda that they do not want you and me, Joe Average, to
understand. When they have all the pieces in place, when they have all the
power that they need to effect this global agenda, then we will find out,
like the people of Czechoslovakia, when it’s too late. (Joan Veon)
The western media have neglected their questioning role. He sees the
media’s role as producing consensus within the public towards the ruling
elites in government and business. The media’s current mission is to
ensure that any thought of controlling their destiny must be driven from
the minds of the rascal multitude. (Professor Noam Chomsky views the
media as an ideological system serving the powerful elites in society.)

Most of us are solely informed by the newspaper and television news. Most of us are not aware of the tremendous deceptions that we operate under. The "elite" have long ago learned how to manipulate value systems and ideas through the use of government regulated public education systems and through the various media available. Consider the following:

Those who manipulate the organized habits and opinions of the masses
constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of the
country…It remains a fact that in almost every act of our daily lives,
whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our
ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of
persons…It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind,
who harness old social forces and contrive new ways to bind and guide the
world…As civilization has become more complex, and as the need for
invisible government has been increasingly demonstrated, the technical
means have been invented and developed by which opinion may be
regimented.(Edward Bernays in his book Propaganda (1928). Bernays
was Sigmund Freud’s nephew and chief advisor to William Paley, who
started CBS in 1928.)

Above this race of men stand an immense and tutelary power, which takes
upon itself alone to secure their gratifications and to watch over their
fate…After having thus successively taken each member of the
community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the supreme
power then extends its arm over the whole community…The will of man
is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided…It does not tyrannize, but
it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each
nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious
animals, of which the government is the shepherd. (Alexis De
Tocqueville in Democracy in America, 1840.)

The bewildered herd are a problem. We’ve got to prevent their rage and
trampling. We’ve got to distract them. They should be watching the
Superbowl or sitcoms or violent movies or something. Every once in a
while you call on them to chant meaningless slogans like ‘Support Our
Troops’, and you’ve got to keep them pretty scared because unless
they’re scared properly and frightened of all kinds of devils that are going
to destroy them from outside or inside or somewhere, they may start to
think, which is very dangerous because they’re not competent to think, and
therefore it’s important to distract and to marginalize them. (Noam
Chomsky, on the Power Elite’s conception of democracy in America.)

Assemble a mob of men and women previously conditioned by a daily
reading of the newspapers; treat them to amplified band music, bright
lights…and in next to no time you can reduce them to a state of almost
mindless sub humanity. Never before have so few been in a position to
make fools, maniacs, or criminals of so many. (Aldous Huxley in The
Devils of Loudon.)

I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is mass
psychology…Although this science will be diligently studied, it will be
rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be
allowed to know how its convictions were generated. (Bertrand
Russell in The Impact of Science on Society.)

The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he
who reads them insomuch as he who knows nothing is nearer the truth
than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. (Thomas
Jefferson)

These are the voices of highly respected individuals of great intelligence, many of them now of legendary stature. Such voices, independently attesting to the same truths, must be taken with utmost respect and consideration. Manipulation and control of values, attitudes, and ideas is much in evidence during our daily lives and are the only evidence necessary to confirm the reality of these statements. But one can not see what one is not aware of.

There is an alternate media growing up on the internet, which portrays the other unreported side of events. One must sift, judge, and correlate all the available facts before making an interpretation.

Next,we focus on our corrupt financial system, which is a direct descendent of the one developed in Babylon four thousand years ago.

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes
me to tremble for the safety of my country. As a result of the war,
corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places
will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong
its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is
aggregated in a few hands, and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this
moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even
in the midst of war. (Abraham Lincoln – in a letter written to William
Elkin less than five months before he was assassinated.)

When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together
in society, they create for themselves in the course of time, a legal system
that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it. (Frederick Bastiat –
1801-1850, in Economic Sophisms.)

If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of
their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and
corporations that will grow up around [the banks], will deprive the
people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on
the continent their fathers conquered. (Thomas Jefferson)

The system of banking [is] a blot left in all our Constitutions, which,
if not covered, will end in their destruction…I sincerely believe that
banking institutions are more dangerous than standing armies; and that
the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity…is but swindling
futurity on a large scale. (Thomas Jefferson)

A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system
of credit is concentrated. The growth of the Nation and all our activities
are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled,
one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the
world – no longer a Government of free opinion no longer a Government
by conviction and vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion
and duress of small groups of dominant men. (Woodrow Wilson)

Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men’s views confided to me
privately. Some of the biggest men in the U.S., in the field of commerce
and manufacturing, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They
know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so
interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their
breath when they speak in condemnation of it. (Woodrow Wilson – in The New
Freedom)

The fact is that there is a serious danger of this country becoming a
pluto-democracy; that is, a sham republic with the real government in
the hands of a small clique of enormously wealthy men, who speak
through their money, and whose influence, even today, radiates to every
corner of the United States. (William McAdoo – President Wilson’s
national campaign vice-chairman, wrote in Crowded Years, 1974.)

This is a government of the people, by the people and for the people
no longer. It is a government of corporations, by corporations, and for
corporations. (U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes)

The powers of financial capitalism had (a) far-reaching aim, nothing
less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands
able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy
of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist
fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret
agreements arrived at in frequent meetings and conferences. The apex
of the systems was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basel,
Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world’s central banks,
which were themselves private corporations. Each central bank…sought to
dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate
foreign exchanges, to influence the level of economic activity in the country, and
to influence cooperative politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the
business world. (Prof. Carroll Quigley in Tragedy and Hope)

In a small Swiss city sits an international organization so obscure and
secretive…Control of the institution, the Bank for International
Settlements, lies with some of the world’s most powerful and least
visible men: the heads of 32 central banks, officials able to shift billions
of dollars and alter the course of economies at the stroke of a pen. (Keith
Bradsher of the New York Times, August 5, 1995)

Banking was conceived in iniquity and was born in sin. The Bankers
own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create
deposits, and with the flick of the pen they will create enough deposits to buy it
back again. However, take it away from them, and all the great fortunes like mine
will disappear and they ought to disappear, for this would be a happier and better
world to live in. But, if you wish to remain the slaves of Bankers and pay the
cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create deposits. (Sir Josiah Stamp
- President of the Bank of England in the 1920's, and the second richest man in
Britain.)

[The Great Depression resulting from the Stock Market crash] was not
accidental. It was a carefully contrived occurrence…The international
bankers sought to bring about a condition of despair here so they might
emerge as rulers of us all. (Rep. McFadden testified in Congress, 1933.
There were at least two attempts on his life by gunfire. He died of
suspected poisoning after attending a banquet.)

The Federal Reserve [Banks] are one of the most corrupt institutions
the world has ever seen. There is not a man within the sound of my
voice who does not know that this Nation is run by the International
Bankers. (Rep. Louis McFadden) \

History shows that the money changers have used every form of abuse,intrigue,
deceit and violent means possible to maintain control over governments by
controlling the money and the issuance of it. (President,James A. Madison)

Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation and I care not who
makes the laws…(Mayer Amschel Rothschild, 1744-1812)

Give me control over a man’s economic actions, and hence over his
means of survival, and except for a few occasional heroes, I’ll promise
to deliver to you men who think and write and behave as I want them
to. (Benjamine A. Rooge)

The few who can understand the system (Federal Reserve) will be so
interested in its profits, or so dependent on its favors, that there will be
no opposition from that class, while on the other hand, the great body
of the people mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous
advantage that capital derives from the system, will bear its burdens
without complaint, and perhaps without even suspecting that the system is
inimical to their interests. (Rothschild Brothers of London)

[The] abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare
statists to use the banking system as a means to an unlimited expansion of
credit…Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the ‘hidden’ confiscation of wealth.
Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a
protector of property rights. (Alan Greenspan [now Fed Chairman] wrote in
1966)

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing
armies. Already they have raised up a monied aristocracy that has set the
Government at defiance. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and
restored to the people to whom it properly belongs. I consider the foundation of
the Constitution as laid on this ground that "all powers not delegated to the
United States are delegated to the state…" To take a single step beyond the
boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress is to take
possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible of any definition.
The incorporation of a bank, and the powers assumed by this bill (chartering the
first Bank of the United States), have not, been delegated to the United States
by the Constitution. (President Thomas Jefferson)

The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires
against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more
insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces,
as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its
crimes. (Abraham Lincoln)
 

Our financial system is a fraud; it is a deceptive way to transfer wealth from the working man to the banker. Everything not based on a foundation of integrity, honesty, and sincerity will collapse of its own weight. To build an enduring social system, mans way must become first God’s way.

Is this what will happen to our financial system and our financial assets?

Nostradamus Treasure is placed in a Temple by Western citizens
10Q81 Withdrawn there to a secret place:
The Temple opened by hungry bonds
Recaptured, ravished, a terrible prey in their midst.

The treasure is "treasuries" or financial assets in general. The Temple is the bank. The bank is our Temple where we worship money and wealth. "Where your treasure is, there will be your heart also." (Gospels) We’ve replaced God and His grace with money and wealth as our object of worship. Our God is money. Financial assets are brought to a secret place where the assets are borrowed against and leveraged into risky investments by the bankers. Debt eventually implodes (symbolized by "hungry bonds") and the assets are "ravished," becoming worthless.

There is a book Secrets of the Temple, by William Greider, 1987, which exposes this Federal Reserve System.

The Federal Reserve System was the crucial anomaly at the very core
of representative democracy, an uncomfortable contradiction with the
civic mythology of self-government. Yet the American system accepted
the inconsistency. The Community of elected politicians acquiesced to
its power. The private economy responded to its direction. Private
capital depended on it for protection. The governors of the Federal
Reserve decided the largest questions of the political economy, including
who shall prosper and who shall fail, yet their role remained opaque and
mysterious. The Federal Reserve was shielded from scrutiny partly by
its own official secrecy, but also by the curious ignorance of the American
public. (Secrets of the Temple, pg. 12)

Money was like the sacred totem in a primitive culture, a mysterious
object that efficiently expressed the larger social reality. In the American
culture formed by democratic capitalism, money was the sacred totem.
The common faith shared by Americans was secular rationalism and the
social order was defined by the scientific abstractions surrounding money.
Yet religious mystery was still required – priests and ritual, sacred secrets
that sustained belief.

If one understood money’s secrets, the true nature of the American

social reality was made plain. Money revealed compromised ideals in
the civic order. Limitations were imposed on the idea of democracy and
sovereign citizens passively accepted them. Money defined the social
hierarchy, the rank ordering of citizens, which valued some above others.
Money expressed the culture’s deepest longings and obsessions, the fretful belief
that a dead substance could somehow confer immortal life on those who
accumulated it. Money was a living creed in American life, as Veblen said, a more
convincing realty than human toil or material needs or the tenuous things of the
human spirit.

If the secrets of the temple were revealed, the money mystery would
dissolve and people would have to look upon these things directly. Taboos
uncoded lost their power to persuade. Americans would see the full terms that
bound them together as a society, the deals that were made in their name and the
harsh rituals. They would stand before the awesome authority to which free
citizens deferred. They would know at last what it was they really believed
in.

The mystery was necessary, therefore, to sustain social faith. Knowledge was
disturbing. Not knowing the secrets was reassuring. If Americans were afraid
to look inside the temple, perhaps it was because they feared to see the
truth about themselves. (Secrets of the Temple, pg. 716-717,William Greider)

Notice the title of Mr. Greider’s book and compare it to the quatrain by Nostradamus. Now consider the presently reigning world system and world religion – secular humanism. (Also see Secular Humanism after Isaiah 47, Chapter Isaiah). Government by the elite substitutes for God and is the answer to every need and every problem. The High Priest is replaced by the scientist who knows all, explains all, and who conquers all. Man has put his trust and faith in "science" and in government. God doesn’t seem to be necessary. Man is the measure of all things. Man can succeed on his own, with his own brain and his own laws and his own values. Gone are the moral strictures, gone are the Ten Commandments, gone are right and wrong, gone are accountability, responsibility, and duty. Now we are told – if it feels good, do it! You owe it to yourself. You are entitled. Consider again:

To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of
men their individualism, loyalty to family tradition, national patriotism,
and religious dogmas…We have swallowed all manner of poisonous
certainties fed us by our parents, our Sunday and day school teachers, our
politicians, our priest…The reinterpretation and eventual eradication of
the concept of right and wrong which has been the basis of child training,
the substitution of intelligent and rational thinking for faith in the
certainties of old people, these are the belated objectives…for charting the
changes in human behavior.(Brock Chislholm, 1959 Humanist of the
Year and former head of World Health Organization, in the February
1946 issue of Psychiatry.)

One cannot permit submission to parental authority if one wished to bring
centralized regime must mount a vigorous attack on the family lest the
traditions of present generations be preserved. It is necessary, in other
words, artificially to create an experiential chasm between parents and
children to insulate the latter in order that they can more easily be
indoctrinated with new ideas. The desire may be to cause an even more
total submission to the state, but if one wishes to mold children in order to
achieve some future goal, one must begin to view them as superior, in as
much as they are closed to this future goal. One must also study their
needs with care in order to achieve this difficult preparation for the future.
One must teach them not to respect their tradition-bound elders, who are
tied to the past and know only what...(Philip Slater in The Temporary
Society, 1968)

I am convinced that the battle for humankind’s future must be waged and
won in the public school classroom by teachers who correctly view their
role as the proselytizers of a new faith…The classroom must and will
become an arena of conflict between the old and the new; the rotting
corpse of Christianity, together with all its adjacent evils and misery,
and the new faith of Humanism…(The Official Journal of the
American Humanist Association, 1983)

Every child in America entering school at the age of five is insane
because he comes to school with certain allegiances toward our founding
fathers, toward our elected officials, toward his parents, toward a belief
in a supernatural being, toward the sovereignty of this nation as a separate
entity. It’s up to you as teachers to make all these sick children well, by
creating the international children of the future. (Dr. C.M. Pierce of
Harvard University in a speech to teachers, 1973)

…the first condition for the liberation of the wife is to bring the whole
female sex back into public industry, and this in turn demands the
abolition of the monogamous family as the economic unit of
society…With the transfer of the means of production into common
ownership, the single family ceases to be the economic unit of society.
Private housekeeping is transformed into a social industry. The care and
education of the children becomes a public affair; society looks after all
children alike, whether they are legitimate of not. This removes all anxiety
about the ‘consequences,’ which today is the most essential social – moral
as well as economic – factor that prevents a girl from giving herself
completely to the man she loves. Will not that suffice to bring about the
gradual growth of unconstrained sexual intercourse and with it a more
tolerant public opinion in regard to a maiden’s honor and a woman’s
shame? (Friedrich Engels, colleague of Karl Marx, wrote in his work
The Origin of the Family, late 1800’s).

Think slowly about Friedrich Engels’ quote above from the late 1800's. How is it that every single statement has become or is becoming reality? One answer is that he was a great prophet. Another answer is that this well thought out system has been implemented knowingly and purposefully, to achieve certain goals. How clever! Fortunately, this blueprint for human society fails to take into account the indomitable strength of the human spirit, bestowed by God. And we have been told by Daniel of the Old Testament, that a rock, not made by human hands, is destined to crush all such man made "kingdoms." This rock or stone is the foundation stone of the kingdom of heaven, the spiritual partnership between God and man, Father and son.(The preceding quotes were taken from the website www.thewinds.org.)

Our public schools continue to fail to educate. Is it really a coincidence that our citizens are so poorly informed that they don’t realize they are loosing their rights and that the constitution that protects them is being progressively subverted. What we don’t know, will hurt us unfortunately. We are comfortable, we have what we want and that is all we really care about. Nevertheless, those who seek control over others are in a desperate, doomed to fail, last ditch effort to further their own ends. They are allowed by God to proceed only as an instrument to perfect those who would do God’s will and stand against the tide. When their (the power elite) function is complete, they will be removed from power; forever.

Now, lets look at a few quotes about our political system. In another book by William Greider, Who Will Tell the People, 1992, the author tells us the truth about our broken democratic process:

The blunt message of this book is that American democracy is in
much deeper trouble than most people wish to acknowledge. Behind
the reassuring facade, the regular election contests and so forth, the
substantive meaning of self-government has been hollowed out. What
exists behind the formal shell is a systemic breakdown of the shared civic
values we call democracy.

Citizens are cut out of the politics surrounding the most important
governing questions. The representative system has undergone a grotesque
distortion of its original purpose. The connective tissues that in different
ways once linked ordinary people to governing—political parties, the
media, the secondary mediating institutions—no longer function reliably.

At the highest levels of government, the power to decide things has
instead gravitated from the many to the few, just as ordinary citizens
suspect. Instead of popular will, the government now responds more
often to narrow webs of power—the interests of major economic
organizations and concentrated wealth and the influential elites
surrounding them. These organizations and individuals manage to shape
the largest outcomes to the extent anyone does, while they neutralize or
deflect what ordinary people think and believe.

In place of a meaningful democracy, the political community has
embraced a permissive culture of false appearances. Government responds
to the public’s desires with an artful dance of symbolic gestures--hollow
laws that are emptied of serious content in the private bargaining of
Washington. Promises are made and never kept. Laws are enacted and
never enforced. When ordinary people organize themselves to confront
the deception, they find themselves too marginalized to make much
difference. Many citizens, especially those closest to power, will be
reflexively inclined to resist this diagnosis. Partisans typically claim
that the governing problems can be blamed on the people now in
power—either Republicans in the White House or the Democrats who
control Congress. Others will observe that, whatever obvious flaws now
exist, American democracy has always been afflicted by large
imperfections and contradictions. Both claims are narrowly correct, of
course, but they are also ways to evade the present reality. The roots of
democratic decay, as this inquiry will demonstrate, are deeper than
personalities or parties and the familiar ideological arguments; the system
will not be cured by an election or two that change the officers of
government. Furthermore, the nature of the civic breakdown is peculiar to
our own time, reflecting our contemporary conditions and failures; the
questions cannot be answered by reciting the shortcomings of previous eras.

Another reason why the actual condition of democracy is difficult to
grasp is that the form and facade of self-government remain elaborately in
place and functioning. In fact, the mechanics of electoral democracy are
not more highly developed (and more costly) than at any other time in
history. Collectively American voters will select more than five hundred
thousand people to represent them in the public’s business, from local
sewer commissions to the White House. The results, as everyone know,
are so unsatisfying that the active electorate has been steadily shrinking for
a generation and "reforming" elections has become a major preoccupation
of public-spirited debate. The self-correcting mechanisms of politics are no
longer working. Most of them are still in place and functioning but, for the
most part, do not produce the expected results. Some of the mechanisms
have disappeared entirely. Instead of a politics that leads the society
sooner or later to confront its problems, American politics has
developed new ways to hide from them. If these connections between
the governed and the government are destroyed, if citizens can no longer
believe in the mutuality of the American experience, the country may
descend into a new kind of social chaos and political unraveling, unlike
anything we have experienced before. But, if the voters have only weak
influence over those govern then who does influence them? That is the
question neither political party will discuss with any candor, but citizens
at large have inferred the answer. "The government is pretty much run by
a few big interests looking out for themselves." A generation later, this
resigned view of politics was held by two thirds of the people. In fact,
while congress is most visible in this arena, the legislators are often only
peripheral players. The well-placed officers of the Executive Branch, as
the facts will show, do the same sort of work every day on behalf of their
clients but with more influence over the outcomes and much less risk of
exposure.The result is random law enforcement, so subject to political
manipulation that it creates a kind of lawless government in which the
weakest players, like injured industrial workers, are left to defend
themselves against the more powerful violators. Grand pronouncements on
toxic wastes and other problems designed to sound responsive to the
public, but also designed to be neutered or neglected later in the dense
details of the regulatory government. In this realm, meaningless laws exist,
not just for years, but for decades, and the political action never ends.
In sum, from Congress to the White House to the federal courts, there
is no protected ground for citizens—no corner of the political system that
faithfully defends their interests or even tells them the truth about what is
happening. (William Greider, Who Will Tell the People, 1992)

We now return to the end of 1Enoch and change topics. The word "peculiar" in 105:26 is a peculiar word and is used several times in scripture. Let’s have a look at this word: ( Bible verses are from The Amplified Bible)

1Enoch 105:26 I will bring them into the splendid light of those who love my holy
name; and I will place each of them on a throne of glory, of glory
peculiarly his own, and they shall be at rest during unnumbered
periods. Righteous is the Judgment of God (Mat. 19:28)

Exodus 19:5 Now therefore if you will obey My voice in truth and keep My
covenant, then you shall be My own peculiar possession and
treasure from among and above all the peoples; for all the earth is mine.

Psalm 135:4 For the Lord has chosen the descendants of Jacob for Himself,
                      Israel for His peculiar possession and treasure.

Titus 2:14 Who gave Himself (Jesus) on our behalf that He might redeem us
                   (Christians) From all iniquity and purify for Himself a people to
                   be peculiarly His own, people who are eager and enthusiastic
                   about living a life that is good and filled with beneficial deeds.

1Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a dedicated nation, a
                   peculiar people, that you may set forth the wonderful deeds and
                   display the virtues and perfections of Him Who called you out of
                   darkness into his marvelous light.

Deut. 19:1-2 You are the sons of the Lord your God; You shall not cut
                       yourselves or make any baldness on your forehead for the dead,
                       For you are a holy people set apart to the Lord your God; and The
                       Lord has chosen you to be a peculiar people to Himself, above all
                       the nations on earth.

     These "peculiar" people are identified as the House of Israel in the Old Testament, the end-time elect of Enoch, and Christians by Paul and 1Peter in the New Testament. This is the lineage of the elect from Ancient Israel (Joseph), to the Lost Ten Tribes,to the identified Lost Ten Tribes as Christians, and from Christians to the end-time elect of 1Enoch, those who elect to do God's will during the messianic trial period. These people are peculiar because they take pleasure in following God’s will and giving His goodness to those they meet. Normal is "peculiar" on our upside down world.