1 Enoch 14:8-9
And behold I saw the clouds: And they were calling me in a vision; and the fogs were calling me; and the course of the stars and the lightnings were rushing me and causing me to desire; and in the vision, the winds were causing me to fly and rushing me high up into heaven.
In this verse, which is when Enoch is chosen my God to view heaven, he sees the clouds and the fogs calling him. He, then, is unable to compromise on the fact that he truly believes that there is a heaven, not only because he saw it, but because God chose him to see it.
The photo below depicts what I feel like is a site that was similar to the one that Enoch had seen. The clouds are a parting in one steady beam of light that is brightly shining down to earth, like God had for Enoch when he called on to him to come and see heaven. When I see a sight like this, where the clouds are parting to let one single beam of light shine through, I cannot help but think that is a little bit of heaven shinning down on the earth. And like Enoch, this beam of light has an uncompromising spirit of reminding us that we are a part of something more then this life today and that death is not the end, in agreement with what Enoch believed. So that this picture and Enoch are one on the same, reminding us of life after death and that there is a heaven due to Enoch having a vision as in the bible verse or in a simple light beam spreading across the valley.
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| Oslos Lukas Monastery in Boeotia, Greece |
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