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Enoch Book 1: Watchers

Book of Enoch book 1 annotated and linked with images

Book of Enoch book 1b
Book of Enoch book 1c
Book of Enoch book 2

Chapter 1

1 The words of the blessing of Enoch, wherewith he blessed the elect and righteous, who will be

2 living in the day of tribulation, when all the wicked and godless are to be removed.

And he took up his parable and said -
Enoch a righteous man, whose eyes were opened by God,

saw the vision of the Holy One in the heavens, which the angels showed me, and from them I heard everything, and from them I understood as I saw,
..........but not for this generation, but for a remote one which is for to come.

3 Concerning the elect I said, and took up my parable concerning them:
..........The Holy Great One will come forth from His dwelling,

4 And the eternal God will tread upon the earth, (even) on Mount Sinai,
..........[And appear from His camp]
..........And appear in the strength of His might from the heaven of heavens.

5 And all shall be smitten with fear
..........And the Watchers shall quake,
..........And great fear and trembling shall seize them unto the ends of the earth.

6 And the high mountains shall be shaken,
..........And the high hills shall be made low,
..........And shall melt like wax before the flame

7 And the earth shall be wholly rent in sunder,
..........And all that is upon the earth shall perish,
..........And there shall be a judgement upon all (men).

8 But with the righteous He will make peace.

And will protect the elect,

And mercy shall be upon them.

And they shall all belong to God,

And they shall be prospered,

And they shall all be blessed.

And He will help them all,

And light shall appear unto them,

And He will make peace with them'.

9 And behold! He cometh with ten thousands of His holy ones

To execute judgement upon all,
And to destroy all the ungodly:
And to convict all flesh
Of all the works of their ungodliness which they have ungodly committed,
And of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.

Chapter 2

1 Observe ye everything that takes place in the heaven,
..........how they do not change their orbits, and the luminaries which are in the heaven,
..........how they all rise and set in order each in its season, and

2 transgress not against their appointed order. Behold ye the earth, and give heed to the things which take place upon it from first to last, how steadfast they are, how none of the things upon earth

3 change, but all the works of God appear to you. Behold the summer and the winter, how the whole earth is filled with water, and clouds and dew and rain lie upon it.

Chapter 3

1 Observe and see how (in the winter) all the trees seem as though they had withered and shed all their leaves, except fourteen trees, which do not lose their foliage but retain the old foliage from two to three years till the new comes.

Chapter 4

1 And again, observe ye the days of summer how the sun is above the earth over against it. And you seek shade and shelter by reason of the heat of the sun, and the earth also burns with growing heat, and so you cannot tread on the earth, or on a rock by reason of its heat.

Chapter 5

1 Observe ye how the trees cover themselves with green leaves and bear fruit: wherefore give ye heed and know with regard to all His works, and recognize how He that liveth for ever hath made them so.

2 and all His works go on thus from year to year for ever, and all the tasks which they accomplish for Him, and their tasks change not, but according as God hath ordained so is it done.

3 And behold how the sea and the rivers in like manner accomplish and change not their tasks from His commandments'.

4 But ye -ye have not been steadfast, nor done the commandments of the Lord,
..........But ye have turned away and spoken proud and hard words
..........With your impure mouths against His greatness.
..........Oh, ye hard-hearted, ye shall find no peace.

5 Therefore shall ye execrate your days, Enoch 7:1,
..........And the years of your life shall perish,
..........And the years of your destruction shall be multiplied in eternal execration,
..........And ye shall find no mercy.

6a In those days ye shall make your names an eternal execration unto all the righteous,
6b And by you shall all who curse, curse,

And all the sinners and godless shall imprecate by you,

6c And for you the godless there shall be a curse.
6d And all the . . . shall rejoice,
6e And there shall be forgiveness of sins,
6f And every mercy and peace and forbearance:
6g There shall be salvation unto them, a goodly light.6h And for all of you sinners there shall be no salvation,
6i But on you all shall abide a curse.

7a But for the elect there shall be light and joy and peace,
7b And they shall inherit the earth.
8 And then there shall be bestowed upon the elect wisdom,

And they shall all live and never again sin,

Either through ungodliness or through pride:

But they who are wise shall be humble.

9 And they shall not again transgress,

Nor shall they sin all the days of their life,

Nor shall they die of (the divine) anger or wrath,

But they shall complete the number of the days of their life.

And their lives shall be increased in peace,

And the years of their joy shall be multiplied,

In eternal gladness and peace,

All the days of their life.

Chapter 6 Jubilees 5

1 And it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied that in those days were born unto them beautiful and comely daughters.

2 And the angels, the children of the heaven, saw and lusted after them, and said to one another: 'Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men

3 and beget us children.' And Semjaza, who was their leader, said unto them: 'I fear ye will not

4 indeed agree to do this deed, and

I alone shall have to pay the penalty of a great sin.' And they all answered him and said:
'Let us all swear an oath, and all bind ourselves by mutual imprecations
5 not to abandon this plan but to do this thing.' Then sware they all together and bound themselves
6 by mutual imprecations upon it.

And they were in all two hundred; who descended in the days of Jared on the summit of Mount Hermon, and they called it Mount Hermon, because they had sworn

See The Book of Giants.
See the story of Genun: the Jubal story

7 and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it. And these are the names of their leaders: Samlazaz, their leader, Araklba, Rameel, Kokablel, Tamlel, Ramlel, Danel, Ezeqeel, Baraqijal,

8 Asael, Armaros, Batarel, Ananel, Zaqlel, Samsapeel, Satarel, Turel, Jomjael, Sariel. These are their chiefs of tens.

Chapter 7

1 And all the others together with them took unto themselves wives, and each chose for himself one,
and they began to go in unto them and to defile themselves with them, and they taught them charms

2 and enchantments, and the cutting of roots, and made them acquainted with plants. And they
3 became pregnant, and they bare great giants, whose height was three thousand ells: Who consumed
4 all the acquisitions of men. And when men could no longer sustain them, the giants turned against
5 them and devoured mankind. And they began to sin against birds, and beasts, and reptiles, and
6 fish, and to devour one another's flesh, and drink the blood. Then the earth laid accusation against the lawless ones.

On a parchment fragment 4Q201(En ara) copied ca. 200-150 B.C.E. found at Qumrum: Other texts

13. [They (the leaders) and all ... of them took for themselves] wives from all that they chose and [they began to cohabit with them and to defile themselves with them]; and to teach them sorcery and [spells and the cutting of roots; and to acquaint them with herbs.] And they become pregnant by them and bo[re (great) giants three thousand cubits high ...]
- Book of Enoch (from Translation by J. C. Greenfield

"Later Jewish tradition has it that their seduction was at least partly their own fault since they had taught the girls the art of cosmetics, and so had begun the awful progress of mankind to degeneracy and sexual abandon. More important, 'they taught them charms and enchantments, the cutting of roots, and make them acquainted with plants..." (Enoch 7:1ff)."
- John M. Allegro, The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross

"The Hebrew word for giants (nephilum) literally means the fallen-down-ones because these tall celestial beings fell from the sky. Their half-breed progeny and their descendants are often mentioned in the early books of the Old Testament until the last of them were finally killed off. They were known as the Rephaim [Hebrew for 'phantoms'], Emim, Anakim, Horim, Avim, and Zamzummim. Some scholars speculate that this tradition of giants born from the union of gods and humans formed the basis for the demigod of Greek mythology."
- Raymond E. Fowler, The Watchers

Key to Music

Chapter 8

1 And Azazel taught men to make swords, and knives, and shields, and breastplates, and made known to them the metals of the earth and the art of working them, and bracelets, and ornaments, and the use of antimony, and the beautifying of the eyelids, and all kinds of costly stones, and all

The king of Tyre was the agent of Lucifer according to Ezekiel. In describing the breastplate two Israelite tribes are left out. They are replaced with tambourines and flutes or pipes:

Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. Eze.28:13

At that time Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, the span of a king's life. But at the end of these seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the prostitute: Is.23:15

Take up a harp, walk through the city, O prostitute forgotten; play the harp well, sing many a song, so that you will be remembered." Is.23:16

At the end of seventy years, the LORD will deal with Tyre. She will return to her hire as a prostitute and will ply her trade with all the kingdoms on the face of the earth. Is.23:17

According to Psalm 41, Judas as the agent of Satan and the den of vipers in Jerusalem, represented the same seductive force Satan always used against God's people. Jesus said that:

They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept. Lu.7:32

Therefore mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and mine heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kir-heres: because the riches that he hath gotten are perished. Je.48:36

2 colouring tinctures. And there arose much godlessness, and they committed fornication, and they

3 were led astray, and became corrupt in all their ways. Semjaza taught enchantments, and root-cuttings, 'Armaros the resolving of enchantments, Baraqijal (taught) astrology, Kokabel the constellations, Ezeqeel the knowledge of the clouds, Araqiel the signs of the earth, Shamsiel the signs of the sun, and Sariel the course of the moon. And as men perished, they cried, and their cry went up to heaven . . .

Chapter 9

1 And then Michael, Uriel, Raphael, and Gabriel looked down from heaven and saw much blood being

2 shed upon the earth, and all lawlessness being wrought upon the earth. And they said one to another: 'The earth made without inhabitant cries the voice of their cryingst up to the gates of heaven.

3 And now to you, the holy ones of heaven, the souls of men make their suit, saying, "Bring our cause

4 before the Most High."' And they said to the Lord of the ages: 'Lord of lords, God of gods, King of kings, and God of the ages, the throne of Thy glory (standeth) unto all the generations of the

5 ages, and Thy name holy and glorious and blessed unto all the ages! Thou hast made all things, and power over all things hast Thou: and all things are naked and open in Thy sight, and Thou seest all

6 things, and nothing can hide itself from Thee. Thou seest what Azazel hath done, who hath taught all unrighteousness on earth and revealed the eternal secrets which were (preserved) in heaven, which

7 men were striving to learn: And Semjaza, to whom Thou hast given authority to bear rule over his associates. And they have gone to the daughters of men upon the earth, and have slept with the

9 women, and have defiled themselves, and revealed to them all kinds of sins. And the women have

10 borne giants, and the whole earth has thereby been filled with blood and unrighteousness. And now, behold, the souls of those who have died are crying and making their suit to the gates of heaven, and their lamentations have ascended: and cannot cease because of the lawless deeds which are

11 wrought on the earth. And Thou knowest all things before they come to pass, and Thou seest these things and Thou dost suffer them, and Thou dost not say to us what we are to do to them in regard to these.'

Chapter 10

1 Then said the Most High, the Holy and Great One spake, and sent Uriel to the son of Lamech,

2 and said to him: Go to Noah and tell him in my name "Hide thyself!" and reveal to him the end that is approaching: that the whole earth will be destroyed, and a deluge is about to come

3 upon the whole earth, and will destroy all that is on it. And now instruct him that he may escape

4 and his seed may be preserved for all the generations of the world. And again the Lord said to Raphael: Bind Azazel hand and foot, and cast him into the darkness: and make an opening

5 in the desert, which is in Dudael, and cast him therein. And place upon him rough and jagged rocks, and cover him with darkness, and let him abide there for ever, and cover his face that he may

6,7 not see light. And on the day of the great judgement he shall be cast into the fire. And heal the earth which the angels have corrupted, and proclaim the healing of the earth, that they may heal the plague, and that all the children of men may not perish through all the secret things that the

8 Watchers have disclosed and have taught their sons. And the whole earth has been corrupted

9 through the works that were taught by Azazel: to him ascribe all sin. And to Gabriel said the Lord: Proceed against the bastards and the reprobates, and against the children of fornication: and destroy [the children of fornication and]

the children of the Watchers from amongst men [and cause them to go forth]:
send them one against the other that they may destroy each other in

REVELATION 9:11 They had for their king the angel of the Abyss, whose name, in Hebrew, is Abaddon, and in Greek, Apollyon, or the Destroyer. (NEB)

In Revelation 9:11, the mysterious angelic "king" of the Abyss is called by the names Abaddon and Apollyon. Both these names mean "destroyer." If you will recall, the primary sin for which Azazel was imprisoned was for teaching men how to create weapons and destroy one another through warfare. It seems likely that Azazel and Abaddon/Apollyon are the same being. Although not specifically mentioned by these names elsewhere in the Bible, Azazel plays a major role in the events at the end of this current age. For additional information on this powerful fallen angel and his activities in the end-time, see my article "Who Is The 'Destroyer'?"

Again;
(r) Genun the Canaanite, son of Lamech the Blind, living in the Land of the Slime Pits,
..........was ruled by Azael from his earliest youth,
..........and invented all sorts of musical instruments.
..........When he played these, Azael entered into them too,
..........so that they gave forth seductive tunes entrancing the hearts of all listeners.

Genun would assemble companies of musicians, who inflamed one another with music until their lust burned bright like fire, and they lay together promiscuously. He also brewed beer, gathered great crowds in taverns, gave them to drink,

and taught them to forge iron swords and spear-points, with which to do murder at random when they were drunk.

Azazel is the chief of the Se'irim, or goat-demons, who haunted the desert and to whom most primitive Semitic (most likely non-Hebrew) tribes offered sacrifices.

The Old Testament states that Jeroboam appointed priests for the Se'irim. But Josiah destroyed the places of their worship, as the practices accompanying this worship involved copulation of women with goats.

2Chr. 11:14 For the Levites left their suburbs and their possession, and came to Judah and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his sons had cast them off from executing the priest’s office unto the LORD:

2Chr. 11:15 And he ordained him priests for the high places, and for the devils, and for the calves which he had made.

H8163 śâ‛ir saw-eer', saw-eer' From H8175 ; shaggy; as noun, a he goat; by analogy a faun:—devil, goat, hairy, kid, rough, satyr.

H8175 śâ‛ar saw-ar' A rpim root; to storm; by implication to shiver, that is, fear:—be (horribly) afraid, fear, hurl as a storm, be tempestuous, come like (take away as with) a whirlwind.

The Se'irim, or hairy demons as the word itself means, are mentioned in Leviticus 17:7 and 2 Chronicles 11:15 as "goat-demons". Isaiah 34:14 says that the "goat-demons" greet each other amoung the ruins of Edom along with Lilith and other wild beasts.

"The religious poetry of the Ugaritic texts has been shown to have close affinities with the Phraseology of the Hebrew Psalms. From the same sources come references to a class of Temple personnel designated by the term serim, who exercised functions similar to those of the Hebrew singers during the monarchy and later times. Some of the servants of David who were designated in 1 Kings 4:31 by (a) term meaning 'aboriginal' or 'native sons,' and who possessed Canaanite names such as Heman, Chalcol, and Darda, were engaged in various forms of musical activity.

Machowl (h4235) maw-khole'; the same as 4234; dancing; Machol, an Isr.: - Mahol.

Machowl (h4234) maw-khole'; from 2342; a (round) dance: - dance (- cing).

Chuwl (h2342) khool; or 2427 kheel; a prim. root; prop. to twist or whirl (in a circular or spiral manner), i. e. (spec.) to dance, to writhe in pain (espec. of parturition) or fear; fig. to wait, to pervert: - bear, (make to) bring forth, (make to) calve, dance, drive away, fall grievously (with pain), fear, form, great, grieve, (be) grievous, hope, look, make, be in pain, be much (sore) pained, rest, shake, shapen, (be) sorrow (-ful), stay, tarry, travail (with pain), tremble, trust, wait carefully (patiently), be wounded.

"A further reflection of this musical interest became apparent when Megiddo was excavated and the treasure room of the royal palace was uncovered. From this area was recovered a plaque inlaid with ivory, depicting a royal personage seated on a throne. He was drinking from a small bowl, and was being entertained by a court musician who stood before him plucking the strings of a lyre." (See Amos 5; 6; 8)

"With the later days of Solomon came a resurgence of Canaanite idolatry,

and when the kingdom began to function as two separate units, the breach between the religious life of the north and south was accentuated." (Harrison, R. K., Introduction to the Old Testament, Eerdmans, p. 335-6, see p. 411).

"Individuals or guilds of singers appeared under various designations, one of the more common being Asaph (Pss 50, 78-83). A prominant court-musician in the time of David bore this name (1 Chron. 6:39); 15:17), and it may well be that the 'sons of Asaph' in the period of Nehemiah (Neh. 7:44) were members of a musical guild that went back to the days of David and the monarchy. Ugaritic sources have testified amply to the existence of a class of Temple personnel known as sarim, who were analogous to the Hebrew singers of the monarchy and later times. As far as the Psalter was concerned, Asaph could refer either to the guild, to some member of it, or to their collection of religious poetry. The mention of Ethan the Ezrahite (Ps. 89; cf. 1 Chron. 6:44; in 1 Kgs. 4:31 Ethan is a Hebrew sage) and Heman the Ezrahite (Ps. 88; cf 1 Chron. 6:33

enshrined the native Canaanite tradition of music and psalmody, since as Albright has shown, the term 'ezrah means 'aboriginal.' Mention of the 'sons of Korah' (Pss 42:44-49, 84-85, 87-88) may imply the existence of another musical guild whose traditional origins probably reached back to Korah, the great-grandson of Levi (Numl 16:1ff; 1 Chron. 6:31Ff; 2 Chron 20:19)." Harrison, p. 979-980)

"Other names occurring in connection with the musical guilds are Chalcol (calcol) and Darda (I Chron. 2:6), which with Ethan and Heman appear in the list of wise men in I Kings 4:31. This classification is quite appropriate, since a great musician was commonly also a seer (I Chron. 25:5) or prophet (I Chron 25:2,3), as well as a wise man. Chalcol and Darda are designated 'sons of Mahol' or 'members of the orchestral guild,' and seem to reflect a class of plant or flower names applied to musicians. The equivalent of 'Chalcol' significantly appears on several ivories found at Megiddo in the hieroglyphic form of Kulkul, as a singer attached to the temple of Ptah in the Canaanite city of Ashkelon, dated about the thirteenth century B.C." (Unger, Merrill, Archaeology and the Old Testament, Zondervan, P. 217)

WHERE ARE THE WISE?

10 battle: for length of days shall they not have. And no request that they (i.e. their fathers) make of thee shall be granted unto their fathers on their behalf; for they hope to live an eternal life, and

11 that each one of them will live five hundred years. And the Lord said unto Michael: Go, bind Semjaza and his associates who have united themselves with women so as to have defiled themselves

12 with them in all their uncleanness. And when their sons have slain one another, and they have seen the destruction of their beloved ones, bind them fast for seventy generations in the valleys of the earth, till the day of their judgement and of their consummation, till the judgement that is

13 for ever and ever is consummated. In those days they shall be led off to the abyss of fire: and

14 to the torment and the prison in which they shall be confined for ever. And whosoever shall be condemned and destroyed will from thenceforth be bound together with them to the end of all

15 generations. And destroy all the spirits of the reprobate and the children of the Watchers, because

16 they have wronged mankind. Destroy all wrong from the face of the earth and let every evil work come to an end: and let the plant of righteousness and truth appear: and it shall prove a blessing; the works of righteousness and truth shall be planted in truth and joy for evermore

17 And then shall all the righteous escape,

And shall live till they beget thousands of children,

And all the days of their youth and their old age

Shall they complete in peace.

18 And then shall the whole earth be tilled in righteousness, and shall all be planted with trees and

19 be full of blessing. And all desirable trees shall be planted on it, and they shall plant vines on it: and the vine which they plant thereon shall yield wine in abundance, and as for all the seed which is sown thereon each measure (of it) shall bear a thousand, and each measure of olives shall yield

20 ten presses of oil. And cleanse thou the earth from all oppression, and from all unrighteousness, and from all sin, and from all godlessness: and all the uncleanness that is wrought upon the earth

21 destroy from off the earth. And all the children of men shall become righteous, and all nations

22 shall offer adoration and shall praise Me, and all shall worship Me. And the earth shall be cleansed from all defilement, and from all sin, and from all punishment, and from all torment, and I will never again send (them) upon it from generation to generation and for ever.

Chapter 11

1 And in those days I will open the store chambers of blessing which are in the heaven, so as to send 2 them down upon the earth over the work and labour of the children of men. And truth and peace shall be associated together throughout all the days of the world and throughout all the generations of men.

Chapter 12

1 Before these things Enoch was hidden, and no one of the children of men knew where he was

2 hidden, and where he abode, and what had become of him. And his activities had to do with the Watchers, and his days were with the holy ones.

3 And I Enoch was blessing the Lord of majesty and the King of the ages, and lo! the Watchers

4called me -Enoch the scribe- and said to me: 'Enoch, thou scribe of righteousness, go, declare to the Watchers of the heaven who have left the high heaven, the holy eternal place, and have defiled themselves with women, and have done as the children of earth do, and have taken unto themselves

5 wives: "Ye have wrought great destruction on the earth: And ye shall have no peace nor forgiveness

6 of sin: and inasmuch as they delight themselves in their children, The murder of their beloved ones shall they see, and over the destruction of their children shall they lament, and shall make supplication unto

Chapter 13

1 And Enoch went and said: Azazel, thou shalt have no peace: a severe sentence has gone forth

2 against thee to put thee in bonds: And thou shalt not have toleration nor request granted to thee, because of the unrighteousness which thou hast taught, and because of all the works of godlessness

3 and unrighteousness and sin which thou hast shown to men. Then I went and spoke to them all

4 together, and they were all afraid, and fear and trembling seized them. And they besought me to draw up a petition for them that they might find forgiveness, and to read their petition in the presence

5 of the Lord of heaven. For from thenceforward they could not speak (with Him) nor lift up their

6 eyes to heaven for shame of their sins for which they had been condemned. Then I wrote out their petition, and the prayer in regard to their spirits and their deeds individually and in regard to their

7 requests that they should have forgiveness and length. And I went off and sat down at the waters of Dan, in the land of Dan, to the south of the west of Hermon: I read their petition till I fell

8 asleep. And behold a dream came to me, and visions fell down upon me, and I saw visions of chastisement, and a voice came bidding (me) I to tell it to the sons of heaven, and reprimand them.

9 And when I awaked, I came unto them, and they were all sitting gathered together, weeping in

10 Abelsjail, which is between Lebanon and Seneser, with their faces covered. And I recounted before them all the visions which I had seen in sleep, and I began to speak the words of righteousness, and to reprimand the heavenly Watchers.

Chapter 14

1 The book of the words of righteousness, and of the reprimand of the eternal Watchers in accordance

2 with the command of the Holy Great One in that vision. I saw in my sleep what I will now say with a tongue of flesh and with the breath of my mouth: which the Great One has given to men to

3 converse therewith and understand with the heart. As He has created and given to man the power of understanding the word of wisdom, so hath He created me also and given me the power of reprimanding

4 the Watchers, the children of heaven. I wrote out your petition, and in my vision it appeared thus, that your petition will not be granted unto you throughout all the days of eternity, and that judgement

5 has been finally passed upon you: yea (your petition) will not be granted unto you. And from henceforth you shall not ascend into heaven unto all eternity, and in bonds of the earth the decree

6 has gone forth to bind you for all the days of the world. And (that) previously you shall have seen the destruction of your beloved sons and ye shall have no pleasure in them, but they shall fall before

7 you by the sword. And your petition on their behalf shall not be granted, nor yet on your own: even though you weep and pray and speak all the words contained in the writing which I have

8 written. And the vision was shown to me thus: Behold, in the vision clouds invited me and a mist summoned me, and the course of the stars and the lightnings sped and hastened me, and the winds in

9 the vision caused me to fly and lifted me upward, and bore me into heaven. And I went in till I drew nigh to a wall which is built of crystals and surrounded by tongues of fire: and it began to affright

10 me. And I went into the tongues of fire and drew nigh to a large house which was built of crystals: and the walls of the house were like a tesselated floor (made) of crystals, and its groundwork was

11 of crystal. Its ceiling was like the path of the stars and the lightnings, and between them were

12 fiery cherubim, and their heaven was (clear as) water. A flaming fire surrounded the walls, and its

13 portals blazed with fire. And I entered into that house, and it was hot as fire and cold as ice: there

14 were no delights of life therein: fear covered me, and trembling got hold upon me. And as I quaked

15 and trembled, I fell upon my face. And I beheld a vision, And lo! there was a second house, greater

16 than the former, and the entire portal stood open before me, and it was built of flames of fire. And in every respect it so excelled in splendour and magnificence and extent that I cannot describe to

17 you its splendour and its extent. And its floor was of fire, and above it were lightnings and the path

18of the stars, and its ceiling also was flaming fire. And I looked and saw therein a lofty throne: its appearance was as crystal, and the wheels thereof as the shining sun, and there was the vision of

19 cherubim. And from underneath the throne came streams of flaming fire so that I could not look

20 thereon. And the Great Glory sat thereon, and His raiment shone more brightly than the sun and

21 was whiter than any snow. None of the angels could enter and could behold His face by reason

22 of the magnificence and glory and no flesh could behold Him. The flaming fire was round about Him, and a great fire stood before Him, and none around could draw nigh Him: ten thousand times

23 ten thousand (stood) before Him, yet He needed no counselor. And the most holy ones who were

24 nigh to Him did not leave by night nor depart from Him. And until then I had been prostrate on my face, trembling: and the Lord called me with His own mouth, and said to me: ' Come hither,

25 Enoch, and hear my word.' And one of the holy ones came to me and waked me, and He made me rise up and approach the door: and I bowed my face downwards.

Chapter 15

1 And He answered and said to me, and I heard His voice: 'Fear not, Enoch, thou righteous

2 man and scribe of righteousness: approach hither and hear my voice. And go, say to the Watchers of heaven, who have sent thee to intercede for them: "You should intercede" for men, and not men

3 for you: Wherefore have ye left the high, holy, and eternal heaven, and lain with women, and defiled yourselves with the daughters of men and taken to yourselves wives, and done like the children

4 of earth, and begotten giants (as your) sons? And though ye were holy, spiritual, living the eternal life, you have defiled yourselves with the blood of women, and have begotten (children) with the blood of flesh, and, as the children of men, have lusted after flesh and blood as those also do who die

5 and perish. Therefore have I given them wives also that they might impregnate them, and beget

6 children by them, that thus nothing might be wanting to them on earth. But you were formerly

7 spiritual, living the eternal life, and immortal for all generations of the world. And therefore I have not appointed wives for you; for as for the spiritual ones of the heaven, in heaven is their dwelling.

8 And now, the giants, who are produced from the spirits and flesh, shall be called evil spirits upon

9 the earth, and on the earth shall be their dwelling. Evil spirits have proceeded from their bodies; because they are born from men and from the holy Watchers is their beginning and primal origin;

10 they shall be evil spirits on earth, and evil spirits shall they be called. [As for the spirits of heaven, in heaven shall be their dwelling, but as for the spirits of the earth which were born upon the earth, on the earth shall be their dwelling.]

11 And the spirits of the giants afflict, oppress, destroy, attack, do battle, and work destruction on the earth, and cause trouble: they take no food, but nevertheless

12 hunger and thirst, and cause offences. And these spirits shall rise up against the children of men and against the women, because they have proceeded from them.

Chapter 16

1 From the days of the slaughter and destruction and death of the giants, from the souls of whose flesh the spirits, having gone forth, shall destroy without incurring judgement -thus shall they destroy until the day of the consummation, the great judgement in which the age shall be

2 consummated, over the Watchers and the godless, yea, shall be wholly consummated." And now as to the Watchers who have sent thee to intercede for them, who had been aforetime in heaven, say to them:

3 "You have been in heaven, but all the mysteries had not yet been revealed to you, and you knew worthless ones, and these in the hardness of your hearts you have made known to the women, and through these mysteries women and men work much evil on earth."

4 Say to them therefore: " You have no peace."'

Chapter 17

1 And they took and brought me to a place in which those who were there were like flaming fire,

2 and, when they wished, they appeared as men.

And they brought me to the place of darkness,
and to a mountain the point of whose summit reached to heaven.

3 And I saw the places of the luminaries and the treasuries of the stars and of the thunder and in the uttermost depths, where were

4 a fiery bow and arrows and their quiver, and a fiery sword and all the lightnings. And they took

5 me to the living waters, and to the fire of the west, which receives every setting of the sun. And I came to a river of fire in which the fire flows like water and discharges itself into the great sea towards

6 the west. I saw the great rivers and came to the great river and to the great darkness, and went

7 to the place where no flesh walks. I saw the mountains of the darkness of winter and the place

8 whence all the waters of the deep flow. I saw the mouths of all the rivers of the earth and the mouth of the deep.

Chapter 18

1 I saw the treasuries of all the winds: I saw how He had furnished with them the whole creation

2 and the firm foundations of the earth. And I saw the corner-stone of the earth: I saw the four

3 winds which bear [the earth and] the firmament of the heaven. And I saw how the winds stretch out the vaults of heaven, and have their station between heaven and earth: these are the pillars

4 of the heaven. I saw the winds of heaven which turn and bring the circumference of the sun and

5 all the stars to their setting. I saw the winds on the earth carrying the clouds: I saw the paths

6 of the angels. I saw at the end of the earth the firmament of the heaven above.

And I proceeded and saw a place which burns day and night,
where there are seven mountains of magnificent stones,

7 three towards the east, and three towards the south. And as for those towards the east, was of coloured stone, and one of pearl, and one of jacinth, and those towards the south of red stone.

8 But the middle one reached to heaven like the throne of God, of alabaster, and the summit of the

9,10 throne was of sapphire. And I saw a flaming fire. And beyond these mountains Is a region the end of the great earth: there the heavens were completed.

11 And I saw a deep abyss, with columns of heavenly fire, and among them I saw columns of fire fall, which were beyond measure alike towards

12 the height and towards the depth. And beyond that abyss I saw a place which had no firmament of the heaven above, and no firmly founded earth beneath it: there was no water upon it, and no

13 birds, but it was a waste and horrible place. I saw there seven stars like great burning mountains,

14 and to me, when I inquired regarding them,

The angel said: 'This place is the end of heaven and earth:
this has become a prison for the stars and the host of heaven.

15 And the stars which roll over the fire are they which have transgressed the commandment of the Lord in the beginning of

16 their rising, because they did not come forth at their appointed times. And He was wroth with them, and bound them till the time when their guilt should be consummated (even) for ten thousand years.'

Chapter19

1 And Uriel said to me: 'Here shall 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, (here shall they stand,) till the day of the great judgement in

2 which they shall be judged till they are made an end of.

And the women also of the angels who

3 went astray shall become sirens.' And I, Enoch, alone saw the vision, the ends of all things: and no man shall see as I have seen. See Section Five for the Bible-Music Connection

Chapter 20

1,2 And these are the names of the holy angels who watch. Uriel, one of the holy angels, who is

3 over the world and over Tartarus. Raphael, one of the holy angels, who is over the spirits of men.

4,5 Raguel, one of the holy angels who takes vengeance on the world of the luminaries. Michael, one

6 of the holy angels, to wit, he that is set over the best part of mankind and over chaos. Saraqael,

7 one of the holy angels, who is set over the spirits, who sin in the spirit. Gabriel, one of the holy

8 angels, who is over Paradise and the serpents and the Cherubim.

Remiel, one of the holy angels, whom God set over those who rise.

Chapter 21

1,2 And I proceeded to where things were chaotic. And I saw there something horrible: I saw neither

3 a heaven above nor a firmly founded earth, but a place chaotic and horrible. And there I saw

4 seven stars of the heaven bound together in it, like great mountains and burning with fire. Then

5 I said: 'For what sin are they bound, and on what account have they been cast in hither?' Then said Uriel, one of the holy angels, who was with me, and was chief over them, and said: 'Enoch, why

6 dost thou ask, and why art thou eager for the truth? These are of the number of the stars of heaven, which have transgressed the commandment of the Lord, and are bound here till ten thousand years,

7 the time entailed by their sins, are consummated.' And from thence I went to another place, which was still more horrible than the former, and I saw a horrible thing: a great fire there which burnt and blazed, and the place was cleft as far as the abyss, being full of great descending columns of

8 fire: neither its extent or magnitude could I see, nor could I conjecture. Then I said: 'How

9 fearful is the place and how terrible to look upon!' Then Uriel answered me, one of the holy angels who was with me, and said unto me: 'Enoch, why hast thou such fear and affright?' And

10 I answered: 'Because of this fearful place, and because of the spectacle of the pain.' And he said unto me: 'This place is the prison of the angels, and here they will be imprisoned for ever.'

Chapter 22

1 And thence I went to another place, and he mountain [and] of hard rock.

2 And there was in it four hollow places, deep and wide and very smooth. How smooth are the hollow places and deep and dark to look at.

3 Then Raphael answered, one of the holy angels who was with me, and said unto me: 'These hollow places have been created for this very purpose, that the spirits of the souls of the dead should

4 assemble therein, yea that all the souls of the children of men should assemble here. And these places have been made to receive them till the day of their judgement and till their appointed period [till the period appointed], till the great judgement (comes) upon them.' I saw (the spirit of) a dead man making suit,

5 and his voice went forth to heaven and made suit. And I asked Raphael the angel who was

6 with me, and I said unto him: 'This spirit which maketh suit, whose is it, whose voice goeth forth and maketh suit to heaven ?'

7 And he answered me saying: 'This is the spirit which went forth from Abel, whom his brother Cain slew, and he makes his suit against him till his seed is destroyed from the face of the earth, and his seed is annihilated from amongst the seed of men.'

8 The I asked regarding it, and regarding all the hollow places: 'Why is one separated from the other?'

9 And he answered me and said unto me: 'These three have been made that the spirits of the dead might be separated. And such a division has been make (for) the spirits of the righteous, in which there is the bright spring of

10 water. And such has been made for sinners when they die and are buried in the earth and judgement has not been executed on them in their

11 lifetime. Here their spirits shall be set apart in this great pain till the great day of judgement and punishment and torment of those who curse for ever and retribution for their spirits. There

12 He shall bind them for ever. And such a division has been made for the spirits of those who make their suit, who make disclosures concerning their destruction, when they were slain in the days

13 of the sinners. Such has been made for the spirits of men who were not righteous but sinners, who were complete in transgression, and of the transgressors they shall be companions: but their spirits shall not be slain in the day of judgement nor shall they be raised from thence.'

14 The I blessed the Lord of glory and said: 'Blessed be my Lord, the Lord of righteousness, who ruleth for ever.'

Chapter 23

1,2 From thence I went to another place to the west of the ends of the earth. And I saw a burning

3 fire which ran without resting, and paused not from its course day or night but (ran) regularly. And

4 I asked saying: 'What is this which rests not?' Then Raguel, one of the holy angels who was with me, answered me and said unto me: 'This course of fire which thou hast seen is the fire in the west which persecutes all the luminaries of heaven.'

Chapter 24

1 And from thence I went to another place of the earth, and he showed me a mountain range of

2 fire which burnt day and night.

And I went beyond it and saw seven magnificent mountains all differing each from the other, and the stones (thereof) were magnificent and beautiful, magnificent as a whole, of glorious appearance and fair exterior: three towards the east, one founded on the other, and three towards the south, one upon the other, and deep rough ravines, no one of which

3 joined with any other. And the seventh mountain was in the midst of these, and it excelled them

4 in height, resembling the seat of a throne: and fragrant trees encircled the throne. And amongst them was a tree such as I had never yet smelt, neither was any amongst them nor were others like it: it had a fragrance beyond all fragrance, and its leaves and blooms and wood wither not for ever:

5 and its fruit is beautiful, and its fruit resembles the dates of a palm. Then I said: 'How beautiful is this tree, and fragrant, and its leaves are fair, and its blooms very delightful in appearance.'

6 Then answered Michael, one of the holy and honoured angels who was with me, and was their leader.

Chapter 25

1 And he said unto me: 'Enoch, why dost thou ask me regarding the fragrance of the tree,

2 and why dost thou wish to learn the truth?' Then I answered him saying: 'I wish to

3 know about everything, but especially about this tree.' And he answered saying:

'This high mountain which thou hast seen, whose summit is like the throne of God,
is His throne, where the Holy Great One, the Lord of Glory, the Eternal King, will sit, when He shall come down to visit

4 the earth with goodness. And as for this fragrant tree no mortal is permitted to touch it till the great judgement, when He shall take vengeance on all and bring (everything) to its consummation

5 for ever. It shall then be given to the righteous and holy. Its fruit shall be for food to the elect: it shall be transplanted to the holy place, to the temple of the Lord, the Eternal King.

6 Then shall they rejoice with joy and be glad,

And into the holy place shall they enter;

And its fragrance shall be in their bones,

And they shall live a long life on earth,

Such as thy fathers lived:

And in their days shall no sorrow or plague

Or torment or calamity touch them.'

7 Then blessed I the God of Glory, the Eternal King, who hath prepared such things for the righteous, and hath created them and promised to give to them.

Chapter 26

1 And I went from thence to the middle of the earth, and I saw a blessed place in which there were

2 trees with branches abiding and blooming [of a dismembered tree]. And there I saw a holy mountain,

3 and underneath the mountain to the east there was a stream and it flowed towards the south. And I saw towards the east another mountain higher than this, and between them a deep and narrow

4 ravine: in it also ran a stream underneath the mountain. And to the west thereof there was another mountain, lower than the former and of small elevation, and a ravine deep and dry between them: and another deep and dry ravine was at the extremities of the three mountains.

5 And all the ravines were deep rand narrow, (being formed) of hard rock, and trees were not planted upon

6 them. And I marveled at the rocks, and I marveled at the ravine, yea, I marveled very much.

Chapter 27

1 Then said I: 'For what object is this blessed land, which is entirely filled with trees, and this

2 accursed valley between?' Then Uriel, one of the holy angels who was with me, answered and said: 'This accursed valley is for those who are accursed for ever: Here shall all the accursed be gathered together who utter with their lips against the Lord unseemly words and of His glory speak hard things. Here shall they be gathered together, and here

3 shall be their place of judgement. In the last days there shall be upon them the spectacle of righteous judgement in the presence of the righteous for ever: here shall the merciful bless the Lord of glory, the Eternal King.

4 In the days of judgement over the former, they shall bless Him for the mercy in accordance with

5 which He has assigned them (their lot).' Then I blessed the Lord of Glory and set forth His glory and lauded Him gloriously.

Chapter 28

1 And thence I went towards the east, into the midst of the mountain range of the desert, and

2 I saw a wilderness and it was solitary, full of trees and plants. And water gushed forth from

3 above. Rushing like a copious watercourse [which flowed] towards the north-west it caused clouds and dew to ascend on every side.

Chapter 29

1 And thence I went to another place in the desert, and approached to the east of this mountain range.

2 And there I saw aromatic trees exhaling the fragrance of frankincense and myrrh, and the trees also were similar to the almond tree.

Chapter 30

1,2 And beyond these, I went afar to the east, and I saw another place, a valley (full) of water. And

3 therein there was a tree, the colour (?) of fragrant trees such as the mastic. And on the sides of those valleys I saw fragrant cinnamon. And beyond these I proceeded to the east.

Chapter 31

1 And I saw other mountains, and amongst them were groves of trees, and there flowed forth from

2 them nectar, which is named sarara and galbanum. And beyond these mountains I saw another mountain to the east of the ends of the earth, whereon were aloe-trees, and all the trees were full

3 of stacte, being like almond-trees. And when one burnt it, it smelt sweeter than any fragrant odour.

Chapter 32

1 And after these fragrant odours, as I looked towards the north over the mountains I saw seven mountains full of choice nard and fragrant trees and cinnamon and pepper.

2 And thence I went over the summits of all these mountains, far towards the east of the earth, and passed above the Erythraean sea and went far from it, and passed over the angel Zotiel. And I came to the Garden of Righteousness,

3 I and from afar off trees more numerous than I these trees and great-two trees there, very great, beautiful, and glorious, and magnificent, and the tree of knowledge, whose holy fruit they eat and know great wisdom. (see Ezek. 31)

4 That tree is in height like the fir, and its leaves are like (those of) the Carob tree: and its fruit

5 is like the clusters of the vine, very beautiful: and the fragrance of the tree penetrates afar. Then

6 I said: 'How beautiful is the tree, and how attractive is its look!' Then Raphael the holy angel, who was with me, answered me and said:

'This is the tree of wisdom, of which thy father old (in years) and thy aged mother, who were before thee, have eaten,

and they learnt wisdom and their eyes were opened, and they knew that they were naked and they were driven out of the garden.'

Chapter 33

1 And from thence I went to the ends of the earth and saw there great beasts, and each differed from the other; and (I saw) birds also differing in appearance and beauty and voice, the one differing from the other. And to the east of those beasts I saw the ends of the earth whereon the heaven

2 rests, and the portals of the heaven open. And I saw how the stars of heaven come forth, and

3 I counted the portals out of which they proceed, and wrote down all their outlets, of each individual star by itself, according to their number and their names, their courses and their positions, and their

4 times and their months, as Uriel the holy angel who was with me showed me. He showed all things to me and wrote them down for me: also their names he wrote for me, and their laws and their companies.

Chapter 34

1 And from thence I went towards the north to the ends of the earth, and there I saw a great and

2 glorious device at the ends of the whole earth. And here I saw three portals of heaven open in the heaven: through each of them proceed north winds: when they blow there is cold, hail, frost,

3 snow, dew, and rain. And out of one portal they blow for good: but when they blow through the other two portals, it is with violence and affliction on the earth, and they blow with violence.

Chapter 35

1 And from thence I went towards the west to the ends of the earth, and saw there three portals of the heaven open such as I had seen in the east, the same number of portals, and the same number of outlets.

Chapter 36

1 And from thence I went to the south to the ends of the earth, and saw there three open portals

2 of the heaven: and thence there come dew, rain, and wind. And from thence I went to the east to the ends of the heaven, and saw here the three eastern portals of heaven open and small portals

3 above them. Through each of these small portals pass the stars of heaven and run their course to the west on the path which is shown to them.

And as often as I saw I blessed always the Lord of Glory,
and I continued to bless the Lord of Glory
who has wrought great and glorious wonders,
to show the greatness of His work to the angels and to spirits and to men,
that they might praise His work and all His creation:
that they might see the work of His might and praise the great work of His hands
and bless Him for ever.

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As It Was In The Days Of Noah

A Bible Study by Jack Kelley

As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be at the coming of the Son of Man (Matt 24:37). The time leading up to the Great Flood was a lot like our time today in that it was characterized by a deliberate and escalating disregard for the ways of God. Finally “the Lord saw how great man’s wickedness on earth had become and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time” (Gen. 6:5).

What Day Is This?

If you plot the lifespans of the patriarchs in Genesis 5 , you’ll discover it was 1656 years from Adam’s creation to the Great Flood. During that time mankind had degenerated from human beings created in the very image of God who walked and talked with Him to a race whose thoughts and actions were totally depraved and bent only on evil (Gen. 6:5). It’s been about 1977 years since man was first given the choice to be re-created by events at the Cross (2 Cor 5:17) but most of today’s world has declined. As a result, a single look around us is all that’s needed to see that from a spiritual and moral perspective life today is becoming pretty much “as it was in the days of Noah”.

What Planet Are You From?

I’ve made mention in previous articles of the mysterious people in Genesis 6:4 called the Nephillim. They were the offspring of marriages between angelic beings and earthlings . Would these beings with super natural strength (origin of the titans or demi-gods in mythology) be called aliens today? In many documented alien encounters there seems to be a great interest on their part in our reproductive system. Are aliens using humans to breed a super race again? In the King James rendering of Daniel 2:43 there’s a curious reference to someone “mingling themselves with the seed of men” in the last days. Is the anti-Christ part alien or in command of beings that are part alien and part human? As it was in the days of Noah?

Out Of The Way

But in all my years of study comparing the days of Noah with the end of the age one insight has recently made things much clearer to me. In Genesis 6:3 God warned of the removal of His Spirit from Earth before the coming judgment. Some see this passage as capping man’s life span at 120 years, but that can’t be its purpose. In Psalm 90:10 we’re told that an average man’s life span is 70 years, and Isaiah 23:15 supports this conclusion. Average life spans before the flood were much longer than 120 years, and after the flood soon became much shorter. Looking at the Genesis lifespans again shows that Shem, probably the last pre-flood man, outlived 8 of the first 9 post flood generations of his descendants, including Abraham.

The fact is that 120 years was the time God gave man to prepare for the coming judgment. He said He was going to remove His Spirit from the earth prior to that judgment. In 2 Thes 2:7 a similar warning is given concerning the end of the age (but without a deadline), and there is confusion over it’s interpretation just as with Gen. 6:3. The only truly literal interpretation of this passage is that sometime before the anti-Christ can be revealed in all his power beginning the Great Tribulation, the restraining force of the Holy Spirit must be taken out of the way (literally out of the midst, or from among).

Then as I was reading Genesis 6 again, the most remarkable thing happened. In my Bible Genesis 6:3 is in the right hand column about 1 inch down the page. I’ve had it high lighted for years. In the left hand column directly across from Genesis 6:3 is another verse I highlighted some time ago. It’s Genesis 5:24 and reads; Enoch walked with God and then he was no more because God took him away. Seeing those two high lighted verses side by side like that caused the sequence of events to suddenly become so obvious to me, I don’t know why I hadn’t seen it before. First Enoch was taken alive from earth and the Holy Spirit was withdrawn. Then in Gen. 6:5 man’s behavior is described as having become unbearably wicked and in Gen. 7 the judgment came, in that order.

Enoch’s name means teaching and according to Jude 14-15 he gave the first prophecy of the 2nd coming. Hebrew tradition holds that he was born on the 6th day of Sivan on the Hebrew calendar and was taken by God on his birthday. The 6th of Sivan is the day we know as Pentecost, the birthday of the Church. For these reasons Enoch is often seen as a model or type of the church, whose calling is also to teach the world the ways of the Lord and to talk about His coming.

You Promised You Wouldn’t Do That

The Bible declares that the Holy Spirit is sealed within believers as a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance (Ephes. 1:13-14). Paul wrote that the Holy Spirit will be withdrawn from earth sometime before the anti- Christ is allowed to trigger the judgment known as the Great Tribulation (2 Thes. 2:7). Withdrawing the Holy Spirit without removing the Church would break God’s promise to us since it would require “unsealing” the Holy Spirit from within us. That’s something that God can’t do. “What I have said, that will I bring about,” He declares. “What I have planned, that will I do.” (Isaiah 46:11)

If Enoch is indeed a model of the church and if the Lord’s prophecy of Matt 24:37 is meant to describe the sequence of end times events, as seems likely, then one day soon we will be taken alive (raptured) from earth like Enoch was, and the Holy Spirit will be withdrawn. Man’s behavior will quickly become unbearably wicked and the judgment will come, all in that order. As it was in the days of Noah. Selah 08-21-10.

Tags: Prophecy, Rapture

Related Posts:

• Enoch, Elijah, And The Rapture
• Building Noah’s Ark
• The Days Of Noah And Lot
• As It Was In The Days Of Noah
• The Holy Spirit And The Rapture

This entry was posted on Saturday, August 21st, 2010 at 4:30 pm and is filed under Prophecy, Selah.

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The Third Sign Of The Days Of Noah Not all of the angels fell

(Excerpted from Tom & Nita Horn's new book Forbidden Gates)

Posted: April 03, 2011
11:00 am Eastern

by Dr. Thomas R. and Nita Horn

According to many Bible scholars, integral to the “signs of the days of Noah” was the fall of the first transhuman technicians—the Watcher angels who altered human genetics through angelic and animal integration. 

When this mutated dna began rapidly spreading throughout nature, God instructed Noah, whose family was evidently the last on earth not yet genetically corrupted, to build an ark and to prepare for a Flood that would destroy every living thing. Worldwide extrabiblical texts consistently agree with this Bible story, detailing how the cause of the historic deluge (Great Flood) was in response to “all flesh” having become “corrupted, both man and beast” (see Genesis 6:12). When this Scripture is compared with other ancient texts, it unfolds that the giants of the Old Testament—such as Goliath, whom David slew—were the part-human, part-animal, part-angelic offspring of a supernatural interruption into the divine order of species. The book that contains the clearest historical account of this event is not widely regarded as part of the canon of Scripture (though it is included in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church’s canon and the Beta Israel canon). The authorship of this apocryphal text, known as the Book of Enoch, is ascribed to the biblical figure Enoch, the son of Jared, father of Methuselah, and great-grandfather of Noah. While not in most modern versions of the Bible, the Book of Enoch was clearly familiar to the writers of the New Testament and, according to the critically acclaimed 1899 Encyclopedia Biblica, influenced their theology. It is quoted as canon or as historical fact by Jude in the New Testament (Jude 1:14–15) and as canon or as fact by Peter in 1 Peter 3. During the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, pre-Maccabean fragments of the Book of Enoch were found, helping scholars verify its antiquity while also illustrating that the ancients held it to be inspired. Many of the early church fathers likewise considered the Book of Enoch to be part of sacred Scriptures, including Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Origen, Athenagoras, Clement of Alexandria, and Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus, (Anglicized Tertullian), who offered an explanation in ad 200 for its absence from the Jewish canon, saying it was removed by the Jews because of its prophecies pertaining to Jesus Christ. As the case may be, this ancient book provides the most detailed account of the fall of the Watchers, the angels who fathered the infamous Nephilim. From the sixth chapter of Enoch we read:

And it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied that in those days were born unto them beautiful and comely daughters. And the angels, the children of the heaven, saw and lusted after them, and said to one another: “Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men and beget us children.” And Semjaza, who was their leader, said unto them: “I fear ye will not indeed agree to do this deed, and I alone shall have to pay the penalty of a great sin.” And they all answered him and said: “Let us all swear an oath, and all bind ourselves by mutual imprecations not to abandon this plan but to do this thing.” Then sware they all together and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it. And they were in all two hundred; who descended in the days of Jared on the summit of Mount Hermon, and they called it Mount Hermon, because they had sworn and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it. And these are the names of their leaders: Samlazaz, their leader, Araklba, Rameel, Kokablel, Tamlel, Ramlel, Danel, Ezeqeel, Baraqijal, Asael, Armaros, Batarel, Ananel, Zaq1el, Samsapeel, Satarel, Turel, Jomjael, Sariel. These are their chiefs of tens.[i][i]

We raise the record of the Book of Enoch in particular because, if it is an accurate account, only two hundred of the powerful angel class known as the “Watchers” fell. When added to Revelation 12:3–4, which says, “And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon [whose] tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth,” a reference some scholars believe represents one-third of the angels following Lucifer in his fall, the record becomes clear: most angels—including the powerful ones—did not fall. In other words, the third sign “of the days of Noah” is that far more angels remain on our side than those against us. Why is this important to this book? Because angels play an active and historic role in assisting preachers of righteousness in making known the manifold wisdom of God to the world. Thus if “evil angels” or the spirits of Nephilim are at work behind transhumanism, as we believe they are, unfallen and more powerful ones can assist in our counter-mission as emissaries of God. We have supernatural “secret agents” on our side who can go where we cannot and “whisper” ideas and suggestions into the ears of policy makers and legislators at the highest levels of geopolitical influence.

From the Old and New Testament accounts, the responsibility of angels as it relates to such message delivering is obvious. The New Testament word angelos, like the Old Testament word malak, simply means “messenger.” This definition not only implies angels carry dispatches for God, but that they deliver tangible actions. This includes “guidance” to nations, help for the body of Christ, and protection of individuals. Their ministry in this capacity is according to the will of God, not the church’s (meaning we do not give them direct orders, God does), and is defined in Scriptures according to four main categories, each of which is important to this book and to our involvement in the revival of targeted spiritual warfare.

1. Angels deliver messages of guidance to nations.

Angels, both good and evil, take part in the spiritual battle for civilization. Throughout the Bible there is clear evidence that angels regularly participate in influencing world governments and in shaping human history, especially as it relates to God’s covenant people and prophetic fulfillment. In Exodus 23:20, we read, “Behold, I send an angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.” When God brought Israel out of Egypt, He promised that His angel would go before them and assist them in the development of their nation. In Daniel 12:1, we discover the archangel Michael will continue this relationship with Israel during the Great Tribulation period. “And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time.” Throughout this seven years of Jacob’s Trouble, the book of Revelation depicts angels serving God in shaping the future of nations by dispensing His will and judgments through pouring out vials, sounding trumpets, carrying out functions related to wars, and affecting “natural” phenomena such as earthquakes and storms. This latter role is especially interesting given how, simultaneous to Grin advances and man’s current fascination with becoming creation-altering technology gods, we are witnessing in America and around the world the most bizarre and destructive weather patterns in hundreds of years; in some cases, the most devastating storms on record. When we understand how angels strive with nations by controlling natural phenomena (such as weather), it emerges that God may be saying something to this generation about the message of 2 Chronicles 7:14: “If my people...will humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven...and will heal their land.” Does this suggest if we as preachers of righteousness participate in repentance and spiritual warfare, God will send forth the “heavenly host” to assist in guiding the world toward moral clarity on the issues described in this book?

 

2. Angels deliver messages of direction to individuals.

This first and most recurrent function of angels, message bearing, includes delivery of special instructions from God to individuals concerning the best courses of action. It was an angel that brought God’s prophetic message to Mary concerning the immaculate conception of her Son, Jesus (Luke 1:26–38). Earlier, a similar message was delivered by an angel to Zechariah about the birth of his son, John the Baptist (Luke 1:5–25). But after Jesus was born, angels delivered a specific warning to Joseph, instructing him to flee with Mary and Jesus into Egypt. The angel added, “be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him” (Matthew 2:13).

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Another example of a message from an angel to an individual giving instructions on timing and movement is found in the book of Acts. Satan had filled Herod’s heart with hatred for the Church. James was killed and Peter was imprisoned for preaching the gospel. When the believers understood that Herod was also planning to kill Peter, “prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him” (Acts 12:5).

Peter was in strict confinement, sleeping between two Roman soldiers in chains. During the night, an angel entered the prison and hit Peter on the side. “Arise up quickly,” the angel said. “Gird thyself, and bind on thy sandals...and follow me” (Acts 12:7–8). Peter thought he was dreaming as he followed the angel outside past the guards. It was not until he was standing on the street that he realized the angelos, the messenger of God, had pronounced God’s instructions and delivered him from the Roman prison.

Each of these examples reveals that, as we pray, divine prompting will help in determining the timing and correct course of action each of us will need in the days ahead. A peculiar additional fact to keep in mind concerning angels delivering such messages is how often they are perceived as “heavenly beings” only after their departure. This was the case in Judges 6:11–24, with the angel that appeared to Gideon; and in Hebrews 13:2, it adds the important caveat: “Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.” Entertaining angels without being aware that’s what they are is possible, because while angels can appear brilliant or even frightening, they usually manifest in simple human form. As we move toward a dystopian future, it would be interesting to know how many times we may encounter these mysterious “strangers” and how often the “person” who delivers God’s special words of counsel at just the right moment might actually be an angel on assignment.

 

3. Angels deliver messages of strength and encouragement.

In the tenth chapter of the book of Daniel, the prophet had been praying and fasting for three weeks—conducting spiritual warfare for the future of Israel—when, as he stood on the banks of the Tigris River, the angel Gabriel appeared before him. Daniel fell on his face trembling, overcome by the extent of his fast and by the glorious presence of the angel. He said, “How can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord? for as for me, straightway there remained no strength in me, neither is there breath left in me” (Daniel 10:17). Then the angel touched him, saying, “O man greatly beloved, fear not: peace be unto thee, be strong, yea, be strong” (Daniel 10:19), and Daniel immediately received strength and energy to continue supernatural combat.

Psalm 34:7 is a beautiful verse about this, written from the warrior’s perspective. It says, “The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.” It was an angel that ministered such strength and deliverance to Elijah in 1 Kings, chapter 19, when he was running for his life and trying to escape the wicked queen Jezebel. In the New Testament, we find angels ministering to Jesus in similar fashion following His wilderness experience (Mark 1:13). Thankfully, such ministry is not limited to great prophets or to Jesus exclusively, for as Paul taught, these are ministering spirits, sent forth to deliver messages of strength and encouragement to all of God’s children (Hebrews 1:14). In other words, they will be there for us too as we advance in our mission.

 

4. Angels deliver messages of protection for preachers of righteousness.

In the Scriptures, we read how angels were sent to protect Jesus. “For He shall give His angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone” (Psalm 91:11–12). Such verses reflect the ancient (and we believe accurate) Jewish belief that God assigns protective angels to those who belong to Him.

The writers of the early church, including Origen and Eusebius, believed that every person is accompanied by a personal guardian angel. The followers of Christ evidently held this view as well, for when Peter stood outside knocking on the door at Mary’s house, they said, “It is his angel” (Acts 12:15). Angels watching over children is depicted in Matthew 18:10, and in Daniel 6:1–23, it appears this is also true for adults. After a sleepless night of fasting, King Darius ran to the lion’s den where Daniel had been thrown. “O Daniel, servant of the living God,” he cried, “is thy God, whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee from the lions?” Daniel answered, “O king, live for ever. My God has sent His angel, and hath shut the lions’ mouths” (Daniel 6:20–22).

Another example of angels protecting the servant of God is found in 2 Kings 6:13–17. The king of Aram hated Elisha and sent spies to track him down. When they found Elisha in the city of Dothan, they surrounded him with a great army. “And when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, an host compassed the city both with horses and chariots” (2 Kings 6:15). On seeing this multitude, the servant of Elisha cried out in panic, “Alas, my master! How shall we do?” And Elisha answered, “Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them” (2 Kings 6:15–16). Elisha prayed that God would open his servant’s eyes and allow him to see the angelic realm. “And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw; and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha” (2 Kings 6:17).

During spiritual warfare, we can thus pray for God to surround our homes in this way and provide our families with angelic shelter. Volumes of testimonies have been given over the verity of such requests. In an earlier chapter, we related the story of a possessed young man and his attempt to attack us. We have always believed the “something” that came between us and him that day was a guardian angel.

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PRAYER AND PRINCIPALITIES

While the church does not give direct orders to angels, it is obvious from the biblical examples above that both good and evil supernaturalism responds to effective intercession by saints. Robert E. Lee (general of the Army of Northern Virginia and famed southern preacher) once wrote of this, saying, “intercessory prayer is our mightiest weapon and the supreme call for all Christians today.”[ii][ii] Lee found this important because in 2 Chronicles 7:14, the intercessory role of God’s people is directly tied to the “healing” of the nation. This is partly due to interdiction of enemy angels on behalf of persons, cities, states, nations, and even generations that can occur during intercessory prayer. John Knox was so well known for this type of prayer that the queen of Scotland, “Bloody Mary” (who burned the Protestant reformers at the stake during the Marian Exile), confessed she feared his prayers more than an army of soldiers. It is this kind of spiritual activity, when issued from a sincere and repentant heart, that radiates God’s authority and turns back evil supernaturalism. Every verse in the Bible dealing with spiritual warfare confirms this divine symmetry between God’s authority and overcoming evil as predicated upon the church’s responsiveness as evangelists of mankind. Jesus commissioned Paul to preach to the Gentiles and to “turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God” (Acts 26:18a). The Bible subsequently reveals that it is the believer’s responsibility to “ask” before God will respond, to bind and release on earth for heaven to do the same, and that part and parcel of the Great Commission is the duty of the church to cast out demons and to tread over the power of the enemy. Apparently when we do, we send shock waves through the heavenlies! Note how in Nehemiah 9:6, the prophet spoke of more than one heaven: he saw the heavens and the “heaven of heavens.” These were not peripheral heavens as taught in Mormonism, but heavenly divisions as Paul referred to in 2 Corinthians 12:2, saying, “I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one [was] caught up to the third heaven.” Some scholars believe when Paul referred to this third heaven, he was echoing his formal education as a Pharisee concerning three heavens that included a domain of air (the kosmos) or height, controlled by Satan—Beelzeboul, “lord of the height.” In pharisaical thought, the first heaven was simply the place where the birds fly, anything removed from and not attached to the surface of the earth. On the other end of the spectrum and of a different substance was the third heaven—the dwelling place of God. This was the place from which angelic spheres spread outward. Between this third heaven, “where dwells the throne room of God,” and the first heaven, where the birds fly, was a war zone called the “second heaven.” This was the kosmos—the Hebrew equivalent of the Persian Ahriman-abad—the place where Satan abides as the prince of the power of the “air” (Greek aer: the lower air, circumambient; see Ephesians 2:2), a sort of gasket heaven, the domain of Satan encompassing the surface of the earth. From here, kosmokrators could overshadow the ages of men and intrude upon and attempt to influence their philosophy and affairs.

A particularly interesting mystery about the kosmos has to do with the ancient belief that Satan’s minions could close this space above specific areas (strongholds) so that prayers from the saints would not be able to penetrate through to God. Some say this concept is allegorical, but that it illustrates how when believers pray, their intercession is literally opposed—both going to, and answers returning from, God. The effectual, fervent prayers of the righteous (James 5:16) are the battering rams that push through all such demonic opposition en route to and from the third heaven. Was this illustrated in the tenth chapter of Daniel, when the prophet prayed for twenty-one days until the angel broke through and delivered God’s answer? It would seem so, as the persistence of our prayers, when they are prayed “according to His will,” creates activity within the second and third heavens. In turn, the heavenly responses affect every level of spiritual and physical society. Daniel prayed until he pushed a hole through walls of demonic opposition and the heavens opened with spiritual revelations. In 1 Kings 18, Elijah continued in prayer until the heavens opened and the rains fell. The disciples interceded until their prayers penetrated the heavens and the glory of Pentecost came rushing down from the throne of God. Jacob prayed and the heavens opened. Angels ascended and descended. Elisha prayed and his servant beheld the heavens opened and the angelic host standing upon the mountains to help them.

 

 

(Excerpted from Tom & Nita Horn's new book Forbidden Gates)

Posted: April 03, 2011
11:00 am Eastern

by Dr. Thomas R. and Nita Horn

 

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