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Books of Enoch
The Bible, as we hold it today, is esteemed by many religious institutions and especially conservative Christians to be the inspired Word of God. This doctrinal affirms that the Bible is unlike all other books of collections of works in that it is free of error due to having been “given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works” (2 Timothy 3:16, 17).
2 Tim. 3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
2 Tim. 3:17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
While no other text can claim this same unique authority, the Book of Enoch is an ancient Jewish religious work --- ascribed by tradition to Enoch, the great-grandfather of Noah – that played a crucial role in forming the worldview of the authors of the New Testament, who were not only familiar with it but quoted it in the New Testament, the Epistle of Jude, Jude 1:14-15, and is attributed there to “Enoch the Seventh from Adam” (1 Enoch 60:8). The text was also utilized by the community that originally collected and studied the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Jude 1:14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
Jude 1:15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
1 Enoch 60:8 And the male was named Behemoth, who occupied with his breast a wasted wilderness named Duidain, on the east of the garden where the elect and righteous dwell, where my (great) grandfather was takenup, the seventh from Adam, the first man whom the Lord of spirits created.
While some churches today include Enoch as part of the biblical canon (for example, the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church), other Christian denominations and scholars accept it only as having historical or theological noncanonical interest and frequently use or assigned it as supplemental materials within academic stings to help students and scholars discover or better understand the cultural and historical context of the early Christian church. The Book of Enoch provides manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets” (Hebrews 1:1).
Hebrews 1:1 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
As Dr. Micheal S. Heiser, in the introduction to his important book, Reversing Hermon, so powerfully notes:
For those to whom 1 Enoch sounds unfamiliar, this is the ancient apocalyptic literary work known popularly (but imprecisely) as “the Book of Enoch.” Most scholars believe that 1 Enoch was originally written in Aramaic perhaps as early as the third century B.C. The oldest fragments of the book were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls dated to roughly the second century B.C. This places the book squarely in the middle of what scholars call the Second Temple Period (ca. 500B.C. – A.D. 70 A.D.), an era commonly referred to as the “Intertestamental Period.” This book will use the academic designation (“Second Temple Period”)… The Watcher story of 1 Enoch, as many readers will recall, is an expansion of the episode described in Genesisi 6:1-4, where “the sons of God (Hebrew: beney ha-‘elohim) came in to the daughters of man” (Genesis 6:4;ESV). Consequently, “Watchers” is the Enochian term of choise (among others) for the divine “sons of God.” While the story of this supernatural rebellion occupies scant space in Genesis, it received considerable attention during the Second Temple Period … The Enochian version of the events of Genesis 6:1-4 preserves and transmits the original Mesopotamian context for the first four verses of the flood account. Every element of Genesis 6:1-4 has a Mesopotamian counterpoint --- a theological target that provides the rationale for why there four verses wound up in the inspired text in the first place.
Connections to that back story can be found in the Old Testament, but they are scattered and unsystematically presented. This is not the case with Second Temple Jewish literature like 1 Enoch. Books like 1 Enoch preserve all of the Mesopotamian touchpoints with Genesis 6:1-4 when presenting their expanded retelling of the events of that biblical passage. The Enochian retelling of the story in turn finds its way into the New Testament, most transparently in the books of Peter and Jude, but … other New Testament writers do the same. Put another way, details in certain New Testament passages with links to the Genesis 6:1-4 episode can only be traced to 1 Enoch, and those elements in turn are quite consistent with the original Mesopotamian context of Genesis 6:1-4.
The Book of Enoch is therefore intended to be an important supplemental resource for assisting serious researchers and students in the study of the Bible and early the Church Age.
1 Enoch
(The Ethiopian Book of Enoch)
Chapter 6-11
The Fall of the Angels: the Demoralization of Mankind: the Intercession of the Angels on behalf of Mankind. The Dooms pronounced by God on the Angels of the Messianic Kingdom — (a Noah fragment)
Chapter 6
1 Enoch 6:1 And it came to pass when the children of men had multiplies that in those days were born unto them beautiful and comely daughters.
1 Enoch 6:2 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.
1 Enoch 6:3 And beget children. And Semjâzâ, who was their leader, said unto them: ‘I fear ye will not indeed agree to do this deed,
1 Enoch 6:4 And I alone shall have to pay the penalty of a great sin.’
1 Enoch 6:5 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 swear they all together and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it. † Or, curse.
1 Enoch 6:6 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.
1 Enoch 6:7 And these are the names of their leaders: Samȋazâz, their leader, Arâkȋba, Râmêêl, Kôkabȋêl, Tâmȋêl, Râmȋêl, Dânêl, Êzêqêêl, Barâqȋjâl, Asâêl, Armârôs, Batârêl, Anânêl, Zaqȋêl, Samsâpêêl, Satarêl, Tûrêl, Jômjâêl, Sariêl.
1 Enoch 6:8 These are their chiefs of tens.
Chapter 7
1 Enoch 7:1 And all the others together with them took unto themselves wives, and each chose for himself one, and they began to go unto them and to defile themselves with them, and they taught them charms and enchantments, and the cutting of roots, and made them acquainted with plants.
1 Enoch 7:2 And they became pregnant, and they bare great giants, whose height was three thousand ells:
1 Enoch 7:3 Who consumed all the acquisitions of men. And when men could no longer sustain them,
1 Enoch 7:4 the giants turned against them and devoured mankind.
1 Enoch 7:5 And they began to sin against birds, and beasts, and reptiles, and fish, and to devour one another’s flesh, and drink the blood.
1 Enoch 7:6 Then the earth laid accusation against the lawless ones.
1 Enoch
Chapter 8
1 Enoch 8:1 And Azâzêl 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 colouring tinctures.
1 Enoch 8:2 And there arose much godliness, and they committed fornication, and they were led astray, and became corrupt in all their ways. Semjâzâ taught enchantments, and root-cuttings, Armârôs the resolving of enchantments, Barâqȋjâl, (taught) astrology, Kôkabêl the constellations, Ezêqêê the knowledge of the clouds, Araqiêl the signs of the earth, Shamsiêl the signs of the sun, and Sariêl the course of the moon. And as men perished, they cried, and their cry went up to heaven…
1 Enoch
Chapter 9
1 Enoch 9:1 And then Michael, Uriel, Raphael, and Gabriel looked down from heaven and saw much blood being shed upon earth, and all lawlessness being wrought upon the earth.
1 Enoch 9:2 And they said one to another: ‘The earth made without inhabitant cries the voice of their crying up to the gates of heaven.
1 Enoch 9:3 And now to you, the holy ones of heaven, the souls of men make their suit, “Bring our cause before the Most High.”
1 Enoch 9:4 And they said to the Lord of the ages: ‘Lord of lords, God of the ages, the throne of Thy glory (standeth) unto all the generations of the ages, and Thy name holy and glorious and blessed unto all the ages!
1 Enoch 9:5 Thu 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 things, and nothing can hide itself from Thee.
1 Enoch 9:6 Thou seest what Azâzêl hath done, who hath taught all unrighteousness on earth and revealed the eternal secrets which were (preserved) in heaven, which men were striving to learn:
1 Enoch 9:7 And Semjâzâ, to whom Thou hast given authority to bear rule over his associates.
1 Enoch 9:8 And they have gone to the daughters of men upon the earth, and have slept with the women, and have defiled themselves, and revealed to them all kinds of sins.
1 Enoch 9:9 And the women have borne giants, and the whole earth has thereby been filled with blood and unrighteousness.
1 Enoch 9:10 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 wrought on the earth.
1 Enoch 9:11 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.’
1 Enoch
Chapter 10
1 Enoch 10:1 Then said the Most High, the Holy and Great One spake, and sent Uriel to the son of Lamech, and said unto him:
1 Enoch 10:2 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 upon the whole earth, and will destroy all that is on it.
1 Enoch 10:3 And now instruct him that he may escape and his seed may be preserved for all the generations of the world.’
1 Enoch 10:4 And again the Lord said to Raphael: ‘Bind Azâzêl hand and foot, and cast him into the darkness: and make an opening in the desert, which is in Dûdâêl, and cast him therein.
1 Enoch 10:5 And place upon him rough and jagged rocks, and cover him with darkness, and let him aide there for ever, and cover his face that he may not see light.
1 Enoch 10:6 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,
1 Enoch 10:7 And that all the children of men may not perish through all the secret things that the Watchers have disclosed and have taught their sons.
1 Enoch 10:8 And the whole earth has been corrupted through the works that were taught by Azâzêl: to him ascribe all sin.’
1 Enoch 10:9 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 battle: for length of days shall they not have.
1 Enoch 10:10 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 that each one of them will live five hundred years.’
1 Enoch 10:11 And the Lord said unto Michael: ‘Go, bind Semjâzâ and his associates who have united themselves with women so as to have defiled themselves with them in all their uncleanness.
1 Enoch 10:12 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 f their consummation, till the judgement that is for ever and ever is consummated.
1 Enoch 10:13 In those days they shall be led off to the abyss of fire: and to the torment and the prison in which they shall be confined for ever.
1 Enoch 10:14. And whosoever shall be condemned and destroyed will from thenceforth be bound together with them to the end of all generations.
1 Enoch 10:15 And destroy all the spirits of the reprobate and the children of the Watchers, because 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.
1 Enoch 10:16 and it shall prove a blessing; the works of righteousness and truth shall be planted in truth and joy for evermore.
1 Enoch 10:17 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.
1 Enoch 10:18 And then shall the whole earth be tilled in righteousness, and shall all be planted with trees and be full of blessing.
1 Enoch 10:19 And all desirable trees shall be planted on it, and they 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 (0f it) shall bear a thousand, and each measure of olives shall yield ten presses of oil.
1 Enoch 10:20 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 destroy from off the earth.
1 Enoch 10:21 And all the children of men shall become righteous, and all nations 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.
1 Enoch
Chapter 11
1 Enoch 11:1 And in those days I will open the store chambers of blessing which are in the heaven, so as to send them down upon the earth over the work and labour of the children of men.
1 Enoch 11:2 And truth and peace shall be associated together throughout all the days of the world and throughout all the generations of men.’
1 Enoch
Chapter 12
1 Enoch 12:1 Before these things Enoch was hidden, and no one of the children of men knew where he was hidden, and where he abode, and what had become of him.
1 Enoch 12:2 And his activities had to do with the Watchers, and his days were with the holy ones.
1 Enoch 12:3 And I. Enoch was blessing the Lord of majesty and the King of the ages, and Lo! The Watchers called me – Enoch the scribe – and said to me:
1 Enoch 12:4 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 wives: “Ye have wrought great destruction on the earth:
1 Enoch 12:5 And ye shall have no peace not forgiveness of sin: and inasmuch as they delight themselves in their children,
1 Enoch 12:6 The murder of their beloved ones shall they see, and over the destruction of their children shall they lament, and shall make supplication unto eternity, but mercy and peace shall ye not attain.’”
This amazing scripture continues with wonderment in its content. There are actually three Books of Enoch. The first is known as the Ethiopian Enoch, the second the Slavonic Enoch and the third edition the Hebrew Enoch. It was not a part of the Holy KJV Bible due to the fact they only found a few fragments of the Enochian scriptures in the very same caves of Qumran with the same scriptures used to piece together our holy text.
Much later it was discovered or found in ancient libraries original copies of these books. Slavonic Enoch was discovered in 1886 by professor Sokolov in the archives of the Belgrade Public Library. It appears that just as 1 Enoch escaped the sixth century Church suppression in the Mediterranean area, so 2 Enoch survived far away, long after the originals from which it was copied were destroyed or hidden.
The last great book of the Enochian tradition is the Third Book of Enoch, also known as the Hebrew Book of Enoch, or as referred to herein, 3 Enoch. 3 Enoch is a wealth of mystical knowledge. The book claims to be authored by Rabbi Ishmael, a highly respected and brilliant priest living between 90 and 130 A.D.; however, no fragments have been fond dating earlier than around 400A.D. The book was written in Hebrew but has a few Latin and Greek words and cognates. 3 Enoch has its roots in Metatron tradition, which has Enoch ascending to heaven and being translated into the angel Metatron. He is then given authority over the angels and the earthly nations, much to the protests of the angelic host. The amount of mystical information, along with the angelology contained in the book, is unrivaled. 3 Enoch is obviously a continuation and expansion of the Enochian traditions of 1 and 2 Enoch, which are drawn on for the story’s foundation.
Later the Catholic Church realized the existence of these scriptures, could but not except them because it would cause them to reevaluate the Bible and bring about a rewriting and changes to the original.
However, as a theologian we must keep and open mind and not dismiss any scriptural understanding inspired of or from God (2 Tim. 3:16-17). I have read these books and It answers many questions. One, who brought about sciences and the study of the different branches. Mankind is brought to an understanding he was not completely responsible for our downfall, much blame lays upon the very Angelic Watchers God assigned to our development and fail to do so.
Here are some Books of Enoch I have read some have scholarly theologian input on the subject matter other’s do not. I purchased some on Amazon. This edition from the ULC store.
The first Book of Enoch Ethiopian edition, ISBN 978-0-9981426-2-3
The Books of Enoch, The Angels, Watchers and The Nephilim (With extensive commentary on the Three Books of Enoch, the Fallen Angels, the Calendar of Enoch, and Danial’s Prophecy By: Joseph B. Lumpkin. Library of Congress Control No. 2011922711, ISBN 9781936533664
The Books of Enoch Complete Edition: Paul C. Schnieders and Robert H. Charles.
ISBN 978-1-60942-335-3
Including 1 Enoch-The Ethiopian Edition; 2 Enoch – The Slavonic Secrets of Enoch and 3 Enoch – The Hebrew Book of Enoch.
There are many more works on the Books of Enoch, as it is said seek and yee shall find knock and the door will open wisdom and the inspiration of God is found everywhere. “Amen”
Rev. Joseph Esquivel
God’s Faith in Man Church ULC.