The Apocalypse of Weeks
Enoch’s ten-week vision divides sacred history into ordered eras that culminate in judgment, a renewed heaven, and righteousness without end.
Daniel 9:24–27
24Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
25Know therefore and understand, [that] from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince [shall be] seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
26And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof [shall be] with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
27And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make [it] desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
Attributed passages in the Book of Enoch
These noncanonical passages are presented as historical literary witnesses and are kept distinct from canonical Scripture.
The cited passage supplies the Enochic prophecy or vision discussed in this evidence file; it is attributed separately from canonical Scripture.
Read the attributed passage Epistle of Enoch1 Enoch 91:12–17The cited passage supplies the Enochic prophecy or vision discussed in this evidence file; it is attributed separately from canonical Scripture.
Read the attributed passageA symbolic history moving toward final renewal
Sources & further reading
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The Book of Enoch — R. H. Charles translation
Project GutenbergPublic-domain English edition used for the displayed chapter and verse references.
4QEnoch: an Aramaic manuscript witness
Israel Antiquities AuthorityOfficial presentation of a Dead Sea Scroll manuscript of 1 Enoch, documenting its ancient transmission.
1 Enoch: The Hermeneia Translation
Society of Biblical LiteratureScholarly publication material situating 1 Enoch and its major literary sections.
Disjunction in Paul? Comparing the Apocalypse of Weeks with Galatians
Cambridge University PressPeer-reviewed discussion of the Apocalypse of Weeks as a Jewish apocalyptic periodization of history.
The sources establish the historical record and provide background on the biblical passage. The conclusion that these events fulfill prophecy is the stated interpretation of Watchman 33.