Bulls-eyes with the Pearl of Great Price & Book(s) of Enoch

From my friend Consiglieri over on the Mormon Discussions Board. Yes I stole it directly because it is really good, and so he can sue me for damages if he so desires. In the meantime enjoy!

 

These twenty correlations come almost exclusively from chapters 6 and 7 of the Book of Moses, which together constitute a restored Book of Enoch.

The twenty hits documented below reduce the possibility that Joseph Smith just "happened to get it right. "

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Number 1--Enoch sees Noah protected by the hand of God

Moses 7:43--Enoch saw that Noah built an ark; and that the Lord smiled upon it, and held it in his own hand; but upon the residue of the wicked the floods came.

1 Enoch 67:2--At this time the angels are working with wood (making an ark) and when it is completed, I shall place my hands upon it and protect it.
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Number 2--Enoch Sees All Things

Moses 7:67a--And the Lord showed Enoch all things, even unto the end of the world.

2 Enoch 40:1--Now therefore, my children, I know everything; . . . my eyes have seen from the beginning even to the end, and from the end to the recommencement.

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Number 3--Enoch Sees Men's Deeds

Moses 7:41--The Lord spake unto Enoch, and told Enoch all the doings of the children of men, wherefore Enoch knew.

2 Enoch 53:2--See how I have written down all the deeds of every person before the creation, and I am writing down what is done among all persons forever.

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Number 4--Enoch Sees All Generations

Moses 7:4--(the Lord said to Enoch): Look, and I will show unto thee the world for the space of many generations.

3 Enoch 45--And I saw Adam and his generation, their deeds and their thoughts (etc.) . . . And every deed of every generation, whether done or to be done in the time to come, to all generations, till the end of time.

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Number 5--Premortal Existence

Moses 6:51--And he called upon our father Adam by his own voice, saying: I am God; I made the world, and men before they were in the flesh.

2 Enoch 23:4-5--You (Enoch) sit down and write--all the souls of men, whatever of them are not yet born, . . . For all the souls are prepared for eternity, before the composition of the earth.

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Number 6--The Earth Speaks

Moses 7:48a--Enoch looked upon the earth; and he heard a voice from the bowels thereof, saying: Wo, wo is me, the mother of men; I am pained, I am weary, because of the wickedness of my children.

1 Enoch 7:6--(After a description of the wickedness on the earth) And then the earth brought an accusation against the oppressors.

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Number 7--Enoch Weeps

Moses 7:44--And as Enoch saw this, he had bitterness of soul, and wept over his brethren, and said unto the heavens: I will refuse to be comforted.

2 Enoch 41:1--And I (Enoch) sighed and burst into tears, and I said concerning their disreputable depravity, Oh how miserable . . ..

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Number 8--Mahijuah/Mahujah

Moses 6:39-40--[W]hen they heard him (Enoch) . . . fear came on all them that heard him. And there came a man unto him (Enoch), whose name was Mahijah, and said to him: Tell us plainly who thou art and from whence thou comest?

Dead Sea Scrolls 4QEnGiants 1:20--[Thereupon] all the giants [and the nephilim] took fright and they summoned Mahujah and he came to them: And the giants asked him and sent him to Enoch [...] saying to him: Go then [...] and under pain of death you must [...] and listen to his voice; and tell him that he is to explain to you and to interpret the dreams.

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Number 9--Enoch a Lad at 65

Moses 6:31--Why is it that I have found favor in thy sight, and am but a lad?

2 Enoch 10:4--And the men answered me (Enoch), This place, youth, has been prepared for those who practice godless uncleanness on the earth.

3 Enoch 3:2--[Enoch] answered, I have seventy names; . . . however, my King calls me Youth.

3 Enoch 4:2--Why, then, do they call you Youth in the heavenly heights? He answered, Because I am Enoch, the son of Jared.

3 Enoch 4:10--Because I am young in their company (the holy angels) and a mere youth among them in days and months and years--therefore they call me Youth.

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Number 10--Enoch Given Right to God's Throne

Moses 7:59--[Enoch to God] Thou hast made me, and given unto me a right to thy throne.

3 Enoch 10:1-3--[Enoch speaking] The Holy One made for me a throne like the throne of glory . . . He placed it at the door of the seventh palace and sat me down upon it.

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Number 11--The Lord's House Shall Be Called Jerusalem

Testament of Levi 10:4 (quoting from an otherwise unknown Enoch source)--For the house which the Lord shall choose shall be called Jerusalem, as the Book of Enoch the Righteous maintains.

Moses 7:62b--For there shall be my tabernacle and it shall be called Zion, a new Jerusalem.

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Number 12--God Gives Adam Free Will

Moses 6:56--And it is given unto them to know good from evil; wherefore they are agents unto themselves.

Moses 7:32b--In the Garden of Eden, gave I unto man his agency.

2 Enoch 30:15--And I . . . called his name Adam. And I gave him his free will; and I pointed out to him the two ways--light and darkness. And I said unto him, This is good for you, but that is bad.

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Number 13--Enoch In Possession of Adam's Book

Moses 6:5, 8--Enoch quotes extensively from Book of Adam (Moses 6:51-68) that was kept by Adam and his posterity.

2 Enoch 33:11-12--[God to Enoch]--For I will give you an intercessor, Enoch; Michael, on account of your handwritings and the handwritings of your fathers--Adam and Seth. They will not be destroyed until the final age. For I have commanded my angels to guard them and to command the things of time to preserve the handwritings of your fathers so that they might not perish in the impending flood.

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Number 14--Restoration of Book of Enoch Predicted in Enochic Literature

2 Enoch 35:1-3--And I will leave a righteous man (Noah), a member of your tribe, together with all his house, who will act in accordance with my will. And from their seed will arise a generation, the last of many, and very rapacious. And I shall raise up for that generation someone who will reveal to them the books in your handwriting and those of your fathers, by means of which the guardians of the earth will show themselves to the faithful men. And they will be recounted to that generation, and they will be glorified in the end more than at the first.

Moses 1:41--(God to Moses) And in a day when the children of men shall esteem my words as naught and take many of them from the book which thou shalt write, behold, I will raise up another like unto thee; and they shall be had again among the children of men--among as many as shall believe.

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Number 15--Enoch Clothed with Glory

Moses 7:3--As I stood upon the mount, I behld the heavens open, and I was clothed upon with glory.

2 Enoch 22:8-10--The LORD said to Micahel, Take Enoch, and extract (him) from the earthly clothing. And anoint him with the delightful oil, and put (him) into the clothes of glory. . . . And I gazed at myself, and I had become like one of the glorious ones, and there was no observable difference.

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Number 16--Enoch Sees the Saints Arise

Moses 7:56--And I heard a loud voice; . . . and the saints arose, and were crowned at the right hand of the Son of Man, with crowns of glory.

3 Enoch 44:7--I saw the souls of the fathers of the world, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and the rest of the righteous, who had been raised from their graves and had ascended to heaven.

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Number 17--Enoch Sees the Return of Zion From Heaven

Moses 7:63--Then shalt thou and all thy city meet them there, and we will receive them into our bosom, and they shall see us; and we will fall upon their necks, and they shall fall upon our necks, and we will kiss each other.

1 Enoch 39:1--And it shall come to pass in those days that the elect and holy children will descend from the high heavens, and their seed will become one with the children of men.

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Number 18--A Prison Prepared for the Wicked

Moses 7:57--And as many of the spirits as were in prison came forth, and stood on the right hand of God; and the remaineder were reserved in chains of darkness until the judgment of the great day.

1 Enoch 10:13-14--In those days they will lead them into the bottom of the fire--and in torment--in the prison where they will be locked up forever. And at the time..., those who collaborated with them will be bound together with them from henceforth unto the end of (all) generations.

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Number 19--Chains of Satan

Moses 7:26--And he beheld Satan, and he had a great chain in his hand, and it veiled the whole face of the earth with darkness.

1 Enoch 53:3-4--So I saw all the angels of plague cooperating and preparing all the chains of Satan. And I asked the angel of peace, who was going with me, For whom are they preparing these chains?

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Number 20--Enoch Acts as Intercessor for Mankind

Moses 7:49-50--Enoch . . . cried unto the Lord, saying: O Lord, . . . Wilt thou not bless the children of Noah? . . . I ask thee . . . that thou wilt have mercy upon Noah and his seed.

2 Enoch 18:7--And that is why God has judged them with a great judgment; and they mourn their brothers, and they will be outraged on the great day of the LORD. And I said . . ., I have seen your brothers and their deeds and their torments . . . and I have prayed for them.

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Number 21--Lions (Wild Beasts) Roar

Moses 7:13--And ...[Enoch] led the people of God, and their enemies came to battle against them; and he spake the word of the Lord, and the earth trembled, ... and the roar of the lions was heard out of the wilderness; and all nations feared greatly.

4QEnGiants Frg 8--[Ohyah the enemy of Enoch) ... by the strength of my power, [I had attacked] all flesh and I have made war with them . . . they live in holy abodes, and ... they are more powerful than I. [Thereupon ...] the roaring of the wild beasts came and the multitude of the wild animals began to cry out.

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Okay, I couldn't resist and added one more than promised.

So here are not twenty, but twenty-one bull's-eyes for Joseph Smith.

I could go on, but I think twenty-one is sufficient to make the case that Joseph Smith was more than a "pious fraud."

Comments

[Phillip Linford]

So forgive my ignorance, Brother Shirts, but how available, if at all, was the book of Enoch at the time of Joseph Smith? Is there even a remote chance that he had access to it?

If not, it does seem very astoninshing. How do critics explain this away?

[Reed Russell]

Very cool. Thanks for this, Kerry!

[Joseph Antley]

I don't find this list particularly impressive. Most of the "bulls-eyes" are ambiguous and in different contexts. And I'm not convinced that documents like the esoteric 3 Enoch have any root in an authentic oral or written Enoch tradition.

And I'm a TBM. I think we need to be more scrutinous with what we parade as "bulls-eye" evidences.

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