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The Forgotten Books of Eden · 139 of 293

Secrets of Enoch: Chapter XXXIV

God convicts the idolaters and sodomitic fornicators, and therefore brings down a deluge upon them.

1.THEY have rejected my commandments and my yoke, worthless seed has come up, not fearing God, and they would not bow down to me, but have begun to bow down to vain gods, and denied my unity, and have laden the whole earth with untruths, offences, abominable lecheries namely one with another, and all manner of other unclean wickednesses, which are disgusting to relate.

2.And therefore I will bring down a deluge upon the earth and will destroy all men, and the whole earth will crumble together into great darkness.

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Why does God decide to destroy the earth in this chapter?

God says the people have “rejected my commandments and my yoke,” worshiped “vain gods,” and filled the world with “abominable lecheries” and “all manner of other unclean wickednesses.” The destruction is announced as a direct response to those collective sins and the spread of untruth across the earth.

This charge frames the flood as divine verdict for covenant breach and social corruption, not merely a natural catastrophe. The tone and reasoning here echo Genesis 6–9, where wrongdoing provokes judgment, and later Jewish apocalypse literature that treats cosmic cleansing as moral rectification.

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