The Book of Enoch, Chapter 56 summary
Chapter 56 of 108 · 2 min to read the chapter
In Chapter 56, the narrator sees armed angels and learns that they punish people who abandon their chosen status, while a vision describes eastern armies invading the chosen ones’ land. The righteous city blocks the attackers, who turn against one another before Sheol consumes them, displaying the judgment of the Lord of Spirits.
What happens
- The narrator sees angels carrying instruments of punishment and asks the accompanying angel of peace where they are going.
- The angel explains that former chosen people face confinement in a deep valley and exclusion from the living.
- Angels stir the Parthians and Medes, driving their rulers into a destructive advance against the chosen ones’ land.
- The righteous city stops the invasion, and confusion turns the attackers against their own relatives.
- Sheol swallows the sinners before the chosen ones, completing the judgment of the Lord of Spirits.
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