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Secrets of Enoch: Chapter LV

Here Enoch shows his sons, telling them with tears: ‘My children, the hour has approached for me to go up on to heaven; behold, the angels are standing before me.’

1.MY children, behold, the day of my term and the time nave approached.

2.For the angels who shall go with me are standing before me and urge me to my departure from you; they are standing here on earth, awaiting what has been told them.

3.For to-morrow I shall go up on to heaven, to the uppermost Jerusalem to my eternal inheritance.

4.Therefore I bid you do before the Lord’s face all his good pleasure.

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Why does Enoch tell his sons he's about to be taken up to heaven?

Enoch tells his sons because the angels are physically present and “urge me to my departure,” so his ascent is imminent and witnessed. He frames the leaving as moving “to the uppermost Jerusalem to my eternal inheritance,” which presents the departure as a promised, destined transition rather than a secret or punishment.

Enoch uses the moment to instruct his children to live obediently: he bids them “do before the Lord’s face all his good pleasure,” tying his imminent ascent to a final moral charge. This scene echoes other ascent narratives like Moses’ farewell in Deuteronomy, where departure functions as both consummation of vocation and occasion for covenantal exhortation.

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