Enoch’s Prophecy of the Seventy Shepherds of （以诺的预言七十年的牧羊人）.pdf

Chapter 9: The United States and Israel in Prophecy Page 433 Enoch’s Prophecy of the Seventy Shepherds of Israel There is another prophecy that, although it does not give an exact year date, indicates that we are on the threshold of the Tribulation period. This prophecy also speaks of a fiery abyss that the wicked will be cast into. The prophecy isn’t in the Bible, however. It is instead found in the Book of 1 Enoch - in Enoch’s Prophecy of the Seventy Shepherds of Israel. Based on archeological evidence, even the most conservative scholars agree that the manuscript this prophecy appears in predates the New Testament by at least several hundred years. However, the Book of 1 Enoch and the Prophecy of the Seventy Shepherds may predate most of the Old Testament by a thousand years or more. In this prophecy, Enoch speaks of the shepherds or rulers who have governed Israel not just in the past, but also in the future. In a vision, Enoch saw that there would be seventy shepherds of Israel: “And He called seventy shepherds, and cast those sheep to them that they might pasture them, and He spoke to the shepherds and their companions: ‘Let each individual of you pasture the sheep henceforward, and everything that I shall command you that do ye. And I will deliver them over unto you duly numbered, and tell you which of them are to be destroyed- and them destroy ye.’ And He gave over unto them those sheep.” - 1 Enoch 89:59-61 These seventy symbolic shepherds watch over the flock of sheep that figuratively are God’s chosen people. The next passage tells us that Enoch saw the first group of thirty-five shepherds as unique from the other shepherds to come: “And I saw till that in this manner thirty-five shepherds undertook the pasturing (of the sheep), and they severally completed their periods as did the first; and others received them