Welcome to part two of this week's podcast.

I'm excited to get into this vision of Enic because I think it's so fascinating, especially the idea of God weeping.

Enic's done it. He's built Zion. He did the one heart, one mind. This is a great success story. In the verse 20.

And he came to pass the Enic, talked with the Lord, and he said unto the Lord,

surely Zion should dwell in safety forever. Like we've done it, we've made it. But the Lord said unto Enic,

Zion have I blessed. But the rest of the people have I cursed. This notion that the Enic has this confidence, say,

we've done it, we've made it. And the Lord says, we're not done yet. There's more to happen. And actually a lot of what we're going to see in the vision of Enic is,

Enic trying to figure out when are we finally done. Can you translate that for me? The end, Zion have I blessed,

but the residue of the people have I cursed. Meaning I don't think the Lord saying I'm cursing them. It's, yes, you chose Zion,

but there's still a lot of people who haven't. Is that right? No, that's the guy who he's saying. And we'll see that later on.

Again, this notion of agency, verse 33, he says they want them to choose me, but they chose not.

The Zion's taken up, you know, the bosom of the Father and the Son of Man, and behold the power of Satan was upon all the face of the earth.

That's verse 24. That's a 24, 26. And he be held Satan and he had a great shame in his hand, and it veiled the whole face of the earth with darkness.

And he, that is Satan, looked up and laughed. And his angels rejoiced.

This is a really, really bleak picture that this vision is painting for Enic, but then 28, and this is so key.

And it came to pass the God of heaven looked upon the resident people, and he wept.

And of course, this notion of the God weeping and Enic bore record of it saying, how is that the heavens weep and shed for their tears as rain upon the mountains?

As we think about God weeping, one thing that's very intriguing about this is it's framed in Moses 7 as rain.

God weeping Enic is seeing it as as rain. It's worth noting perhaps that as Genesis and therefore probably Moses frames it, it doesn't rain until the flood.

Remember in the creation story, it says a miss came up and watered the earth because the Lord had not yet caused it to rain upon the earth.

Okay, so it's not just God weeping that's distinctive to Enic here, but it's also the notion of rain itself is distinctive.

Really interesting things with this notion of rain and things like that. But noting that God weeps and Enic sees it as rain.

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