BOOK OF ENOCH’S APOCALYPSE OF WEEKS Enoch’s Apocalypse of weeks is believed to be the earliest apocalypse of the Jewish tradion. The Book of Enoch was effecvely treated as canonical by the very early Church. Church fathers including Clement of Alexandria, Irenaeus and Tertullian believed it to be inspired and wrien by Enoch himself. Even those such as Augusne who were instrumental in ensuring it was ulmately rejected by most of Christendom acknowledged it to be divinely inspired, principally in view of its cing in New Testament Jude. As I have tesfied elsewhere, the Old Testament cannot be rightly interpreted without reference to the Book of Enoch, especially regarding the acvity and influence of the fallen watchers that resulted in the universal flood and the need for ethnic cleansing within the Canaanite territories. More importantly it contains prophecies of events that may be happening right now. For as the opening verse affirms, it was wrien to be a blessing, not to the Church through her history, but to “ the elect and the righteous who would be living at the me of tribulaons when the wicked and godless are to be removed”. The scholarly consensus is that it was wrien in the 1 st or 2 nd century BC. However, I am convinced, along with the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and the aforemenoned early Fathers that Enoch was wrien by Enoch. There are various theories cited on the internet as to how praccally speaking that could be the case which I won’t go into here. But think about it – if, as so many believe the Book of Enoch is inspired, being a true word from God (biblical Jude believed that or he would not have quoted from it in his leer), how then could it at the same me be a fabricaon of deceit? How could that which is divinely inspired be the creaon of someone in the 2 nd or 3 rd century before Christ claiming to be the original patriarch, passing off as divine prophecy much that was already history? Most interpretaons of the weeks have worked on such an assumpon, i.e., that the apocalypse was wrien 2000-2300 years ago. A typical example is available HERE . But taking this prophecy to have, like some within the Old Testament, a dual (Temple/Church) perspecve, my interpretaon of the first seven weeks is as follows: “I (Enoch) was born the seventh in the FIRST WEEK, while judgement and righteousness sll endured”. Calculang from the genealogy in Gen5, Enoch was born around 600 years aſter Adam’s creaon, yet he records that “righteousness sll endured”. This is supported by Gen4:26 that stated that aſter the birth of Adam’s grandson Enosh, “at that me men began to call on the Lord”. But all was about to change, yet canonical Scripture only makes a fleeng reference to it (Gen6:1-2); not so the Book of Enoch which goes into the greatest of detail. “And aſter me there shall arise in the SECOND WEEK great wickedness, and deceit shall have sprung up; and in it there shall be the first end. And in it a man shall be saved; and aſter it is ended unrighteousness shall grow up and a law shall be made for the sinners”. The fallen watchers briefly referred to in Gen6 were intended to be a guiding and restraining influence for fallen humanity. But they rejected their designated funcon, sexually uning themselves to women, creang monstrous hybrids (giants) in the process and leading humanity into ever deeper depravity. [Such giant are several mes referred to in the Old Testament, though this is somemes obscured by the translaon from the Hebrew]. Consequently, God saw that “ the inclinaon of the thoughts of man’s hearts was only evil all the me ” (Gen6:5). I say again for the sake of the many who have been deluded by the teaching of Augusne and the Protestant