The Books of Enoch

by Joseph B. Lumpkin

Seventy tongues represent the 70 nations or the entirety of the known world. It is likely the word “youth” is used because Metatron is the newest and youngest being in heaven. The 70 names are derived from the divine name or the Tetragrammaton – YHWH. Yah is a shortened version of this, meaning “God.” CHAPTER 4 Metatron is Enoch who was translated to heaven at the time of the flood. Rabbi Ishmael said: (1) I asked Metatron and said to him: “why does your Creator call you by seventy names? You are greater than all the princes, higher than all the angels, beloved more than all the servants, honored above all the mighty ones in kingship, greatness and glory, so why do they in the high heavens call you ‘Youth’? (2) He answered and said to me: “Because I am Enoch, the son of Jared. (3) When the generation of the flood sinned and were twisted and contorted in their deeds, saying unto God: “Depart from us! We do not want the knowledge of your ways,” (Job 21:14), then the Holy One, blessed be He, removed me from their midst so that I could be a witness against them in the high heavens to all the inhabitants of the world, so that they can not say: ‘The Merciful One is cruel.’ (4) “What sin did all those throngs of their wives, their sons and their daughters, their horses, their mules and their cattle and their property, and all the birds of the world commit so that the Holy One, blessed be He, destroyed the world, together with them in the waters of the flood?” They cannot say...