[Mephibosheth2]

Originally Posted by awareness

Great post Mephi (Can we call you that for short? If it somehow damages the reason you took the name, I'm sure we can accommodate the longer version).

In keeping with Alternative Views:

When you advise: "Keep digging, aron; but perhaps you might want to choose a different excavation spot to find your answers . . ."

aron might find help reading another multivalent Apocalypse, written circa 300 yrs before the book of Rev. : The Book of Enoch.

There it explains what happened to Enoch after being taken up into heaven.

He became the chief archangel ... head of 'em all. Head of the billions upon billions of angels.

Ha

..you may feel free to call me Mephi, awareness, or just Meph, if you like...

I'm glad you appreciated my post. I added something to the last paragraph which you might find interesting.

As for the book of Enoch, and the claim that he became the chief archangel, well that just sounds preposterous right from the word go...but then again...what do I know? Maybe aron should delve into it and research it, and then declare to us its merits, if any. After all, the apostle Paul did hint strongly that he had either read some writings associated with Enoch, or received some oral tradition related to Enoch. As to whether those particular writings are the very book you have referred to, I cannot tell; we shall have to let aron find that out for us, shan't we? Where can that book be found, anyway?

Paul's hint: "And Enoch also the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints..." (Jude:14)...