“And Uriel said to me: “Here stand the angels who have connected themselves with women, and their spirits assuming many different forms, are defiling mankind and shall lead them astray into sacrificing to demons as gods…”

The interesting tid-bit here is that it says that these evil spirits can “assume many different forms.” I do not fully understand this statement. But on my journey to Egypt some years ago, I was taken by the many images of the various gods displayed in friezes and paintings in all of the temples there. These showed gods in different forms such as Horus, the Falcon headed god. Thoth who has the head of an Ibis while Sobek looked like a man with a crocodile head. The god Khnum had the head of a goat while Anubis was the god-man with the head of a jackal.

There are many other enlightening sections in the Book of Enoch which help us understand the hard sayings contained in the Book of Revelation. There is room for a comprehensive work to be done in connecting the two books. Enoch also sheds light on other areas of scripture which I shall not go into here.

But now I want to return to scripture and continue our journey into the prophecies of the Apocalypse. Perhaps the best way to do this is to begin at the beginning and see what we can glean from chapter to chapter. Again, this is no mean feat for when one endeavours to derive understanding from this mysterious book, it always seems to get curiouser and curiouser.

The very first verse in Revelation informs us as to whom it is addressed.

“The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his servants what must soon take place.

He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John…

Blessed is the one who reads the words of this prophecy and blessed are those who hear it and take to heart what is written in it, because the time is near.”

There are five different personages mentioned in the first verse. Jesus got the revelation from God so he could make it known to his servants. Jesus in turn sent an angel (probably the man, Gabriel), who in turn gave it to John.

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