A Commentary on the Book of the Prophet Enoch, Part 9

Now let’s look at the fruit of Enoch’s visit to the fallen angels, the Watchers. Today’s post will be a bit shorter than other recent posts.

13.3 And then I went and spoke to them all together, and they were all afraid; fear and trembling seized them.
13.4 And they asked me to write out for them the record of a petition, so that they might receive forgiveness, and to take a record of their petition up to the Lord in Heaven.
13.5 For they were not able, from then on, to speak, and they did not raise their eyes to Heaven, out of shame for the sins, for which they had been condemned.
13.6 And then I wrote out the record Of their petition, and their supplication in regard to their spirits, and the deeds of each one of them, and in regard to what they asked; that they should obtain absolution and forbearance.
13.7 And I went and sat down by the waters of Dan, in Dan, which is southwest of Hermon; and I read out the record of their petition, until I fell asleep.
13.8 And behold a dream came to me, and visions fell upon me, and I saw a vision of wrath; that I should speak to the sons of Heaven and reprove them.
13.9 And I woke up and went to them, and they were all sitting gathered together as they mourned, in Ubelseyael, which is between Lebanon and Senir, with their faces covered.
13.10 And I spoke in front of them all; the visions that I had seen in my sleep, and I began to speak these words to reprove the Watchers of Heaven.

Enoch did as God directed and went to the prison of the watchers to reprove them for their sins against God and humanity. And what a surprise when the very angels who had been charged with caring for humans asked a human to intercede for them with God for forgiveness. God’s mercy must have been known to them or they would never have tried to obtain mercy for such a heinous crime. They pleaded with Enoch to place their appeal before the Holiest of Holies.

These beings ought to have been praying for Enoch, placing Enoch’s petitions before God in Heaven. Instead they were incarcerated justly to await judgment. So Enoch dutifully wrote out their petition and went to his secret place of prayer to read it out to God on His Throne. God swiftly answered Enoch’s prayer of intercession with a vision in a dream. What he saw and heard in his dream was for the watchers, and Enoch dutifully returned to their spiritual prison to report the reply of the Most High.

Enoch not only walked a far distance to get to his personal prayer spot and back to his workplace, he did a lot of traveling in the spirit realm. Remember that the flood had not yet occurred, and the Nephalim were still mostly alive, but for the ones who had been murdered by their fellow giants. Therefore, spirit world travel was not so perilous as it is today. According to Andy McCracken, some scholars estimate that the flood happened around 15,000 BC. That is more than 17,000 years ago. So the Nephalim have had a lot of time to learn and practice how to do evil in their current state. I do not encourage anyone to try to enter the spirit world without years of practice and the protection of the Blood of Christ. These powerful beings who once lorded over humans in the most tyrannical way and lost their lives of nihilistic orgy now hate us with the most unholy zeal. If you go where they live, you had better be prepared to face their wrath.

Do you like to dabble in astral travel? Is the world of the spirit beckoning to you for a visit? There is a good reason that shamans today don’t begin to travel the world of the spirit until they have cleansed themselves, purified their hearts, purged themselves of all evil thoughts and intentions, and fasted for three or more days. Those of us who place our trust in Jesus our Lord ought to be doing these things regularly anyway. But a Christian has an advantage in the realm of the spirit that a shaman has not, the protection of the Son of Man over his soul.

Don’t play in the playground of the Nephalim unless you are a greater giant than they are.

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A Commentary on the Book of the Prophet Enoch, Part 8

We saw Enoch’s vision of the evils of the watchers and their offspring, and we saw Enoch’s vision of the blessings of God toward the righteous faithful. Now let’s see where Enoch’s vision leads.

12.1 And then Enoch disappeared and none of the sons of men knew where he was hidden, where he was, or what had happened.
12.2 And all his doings were with the Holy Ones, and with the Watchers, in his days.
12.3 And I Enoch, was blessing the Great Lord and the King of Eternity. And behold, the Watchers called to me - Enoch the scribe - and said to me:
12.4 "Enoch, scribe of righteousness. Go and inform the Watchers of Heaven, who have left the High Heaven and the Holy Eternal Place, and have corrupted themselves with women, and have done as the sons of men do and have taken wives for themselves, and have become completely corrupt on the earth.
12.5 They will have on Earth, neither peace, nor forgiveness of sin, for they will not rejoice in their sons.
12.6 The slaughter of their beloved ones they will see; and over the destruction of their sons they will lament and petition forever. But they will have neither mercy nor peace."
13.1 And Enoch went and said to Azazel: "You will not have peace. A severe sentence has come out against you that you should be bound.
13.2 And you will have neither rest nor mercy, nor the granting of any petitions, because of the wrong which you have taught, and because of all the works of blasphemy and wrong and sin which you have shown to the sons of men."

Here we see Enoch being sent to the watchers, who abrogated their trust from God, to deceive and corrupt humanity with knowledge of many different ways to sin against God and His creation. What a horrible condemnation these fallen angels faced. Locked away in a place of spiritual confinement, they had to watch their unholy offspring kill each other and the survivors drown in the flood. Like all parents, they desired for their offspring to grow and flourish. But because of the evil the watchers taught and the violent evil of their children, they were condemned by God.

In verse four of the twelfth chapter, you can see the accusation God brought against these angels. They left their place in Heaven, in Eternity; they corrupted themselves and the women they took for wives; and they became completely corrupt upon the Earth. The sins of the watchers are enumerated in other places more completely, but the oath they made against God was the beginning of their end. The old proverb says that misery loves company, and the leaders of these angels loved to drag their charges into perdition with them.

But the other side of the coin shows the mercy of God in the confinement of the watchers, because their oath bound them to do only evil in the Earth. Humanity was in danger of annihilation. The Nephalim were robbing them of their food and livelihood, and if they had no food or trade goods, the Nephalim ate them. Then there was the spread of war craft and witchcraft. Humans were killing and cursing each other on a scale not realized again in history until the dawn of the Twentieth Century. Now we have come full circle in the ways of death. We have developed our capacity for waging war to the extreme. And we must like it, because in every generation since 1900, a war has broken out that threatened annihilation for a major portion of the human race.

This is the example Jesus held up to us for the evil of the end of the age, the days of Noah. With the Nephalim unable to directly consume a human or his goods, they work today through proxies, most of whom are blissfully unaware of their status as slaves to dead hybrids of angel and human. But you can see the work of the Nephalim in the actions of people who amass great wealth at the expense of those who cannot afford to give it to them, or the fanatics who kill, loot, and destroy in the name of their pet dogma. The name we use for this is demonization. Yet the spiritual entities we call demons once walked the Earth as Nephalim, giants.

Have you ever been tempted to take advantage of someone who could not afford to lose what you would deprive them of? Did you ever lash out in rage at someone who didn’t deserve it? If you answered yes to either question, you have been under the influence of a Nephali. You don’t need to be completely possessed by a demon to be influenced by one. Although many of the people diagnosed with psychological disorders are actually possessed by these spirits, they have found that working in the background, giving people evil thoughts and desires, brings them greater reward for their efforts.

Do not be deceived by the spirit of a dead Nephali. Any thought or urge that you don’t recognize as natural to you is usually from them. They lie to you and hide their acts by making you believe it’s from you own mind. But it’s not. Your mind, the part of your soul wherein your volition, reason and feelings reside, is the battleground in a cosmic-scale war in the spirit realm. If you don’t hold the line, the enemies of your soul will pull you down with them to the judgment God has reserved for them in the end of the age. Do not give them a place in your soul.

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A Commentary on the Book of the Prophet Enoch, Part 7

Now look at the blessings God promised Enoch would come after the flood. It is a relief to read of peace and prosperity after all that death and destruction that went before.

10.17 And now all the righteous will be humble, and will live until they beget thousands. And all the days of their youth, and their sabbaths, they will fulfill in peace.

10.18 And in those days the whole earth will be tilled in righteousness and all of it will be planted with trees; and it will be filled with blessing.

10.19 And all the pleasant trees they will plant on it and they will plant on it vines. And the vine that is planted on it will produce fruit in abundance; and every seed that is sown on it, each measure will produce a thousand, and each measure of olives will produce ten baths of oil.

10.20 And you cleanse the Earth from all wrong, and from all iniquity, and from all sin, and from all impiety, and from all the uncleanness which is brought about on the earth.

10.21 And all the sons of men shall be righteous, and all the nations shall serve and bless me and all shall worship me.

10.22 And the Earth will be cleansed from all corruption, and from all sin, and from all wrath, and from all torment; and I will not again send a flood upon it, for all generations, forever.

11.1 And in those days, I will open the Storehouses of Blessing, which are in Heaven, so that I may send them down upon the Earth, upon the work, and upon the toil, of the sons of men.

11.2 Peace and truth will be united, for all the days of eternity, and for all the generations of eternity.

That is a beautiful picture, and it lasted up to the point when Nimrod built all the Sumerian cities. That is when the present rebellion began afresh. And things have waxed and waned over the centuries. Yet the evil of the Nephalim has not quite been equaled in the Earth since the flood. It seems to this commentator that the complete fulfillment of this prophecy of peace and plenty will not come to pass until God the Son is ruling on the Earth.

Remember, Enoch lived before the flood, and his grandson, Noah is the one who built the Ark after Enoch had been translated for about forty years. So many of the things mentioned in the Book of the Prophet Enoch that scholastic interpreters claim proves the book was written much later were actually visions that Enoch had to interpret and record. Note also that the book has been translated at least five times to produce our English language version. It was written in the antediluvian language, translated into paleo-semetic by Shem or his sons, translated into Old Hebrew by the Israelites, translated into Greek by the Alexandrian Jewish scholars who prepared the Septuagint for Ptolemy, translated into Ethiopian Coptic by the Syrian monks who brought the book to Ethiopia, and finally into English by several translators, the best of whom is Andrew McCracken. Therefore, we can expect there are many places where our modern English version of this book does not line up with the expectations of the original author.

That being said, it is still a wonder that it lines up so well with what we know of the times and the happenings since. As I go along, I shall expound upon the visions Enoch recorded that prophecy about the nation of Israel and the times we live in today. But this passage is obviously referring to the world that comes after the end of the age, not the post-diluvian times of Ham, Shem and Japheth. This should in no way discourage us. All prophetic foretellings in the Bible have shadows of their fulfillment before the fullness of the prophecy comes to pass. One case in point is the prophecy of Daniel of the Abomination of Desolation. When Antiocus Epiphanes sacrificed pigs on the altar of incense in the Temple of Nehemiah, most people assumed that the prophecy was fulfilled, then Jesus said it was yet to be fulfilled. And that happened when Titus entered the Temple of Herod with the Roman Eagles and tore the structure down.

Do you like the idea of peace and prosperity predicted by Enoch? It is sure to come after the Lord of Lords and King of Kings reigns upon the Earth from Jerusalem. Will you be a part of His kingdom then? If that is your desire, you can be a part of His kingdom now. Just join Him as He has invited you to do. Jesus works just as much now as He did when the Apostles walked the roads of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. And you can be a loyal subject of the ultimate King right here and now.

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A Commentary on the Book of the Prophet Enoch, Part 6

Now let’s look at God’s response to the evils of the watchers and their children.

9.1 And then Michael, Gabriel, Suriel and Uriel, looked down from Heaven and saw the mass of blood that was being shed on the earth and all the iniquity that was being done on the earth.

9.2 And they said to one another: "Let the devastated Earth cry out with the sound of their cries, up to the Gate of Heaven.

9.3 And now to you, Oh Holy Ones of Heaven, the souls of men complain, saying: "Bring our complaint before the Most High."

9.4 And they said to their Lord, the King: "Lord of Lords, God of Gods, King of Kings! Your glorious throne endures for all the generations of the world, and blessed and praised!

9.5 You have made everything, and power over everything is yours. And everything is uncovered, and open, in front of you, and you see everything, and there is nothing that can be hidden from you.

9.6 See then what Azazel has done; how he has taught all iniquity on the earth and revealed the eternal secrets that are made in Heaven.

9.7 And Semyaza has made known spells, he to whom you gave authority to rule over those who are with him.

9.8 And they went into the daughters of men together, lay with those women, became unclean, and revealed to them these sins.

9.9 And the women bore giants, and thereby the whole Earth has been filled with blood and iniquity.

9.10 And now behold the souls which have died cry out and complain unto the Gate Of Heaven, and their lament has ascended, and they cannot go out in the face of the iniquity which is being committed on the earth.

9.11 And you know everything, before it happens, and you know this, and what concerns each of them. But you say nothing to us. What ought we to do with them, about this?"

10.1 And then the Most High, the Great and Holy One, spoke and sent Arsyalalyur to the son of Lamech, and said to him:

10.2 "Say to him in my name; hide yourself! And reveal to him the end, which is coming, because the whole earth will be destroyed. A deluge is about to come on all the earth; and all that is in it will be destroyed.

10.3 And now teach him so that he may escape and his offspring may survive for the whole Earth."

10.4 And further the Lord said to Raphael: "Bind Azazel by his hands and his feet and throw him into the darkness. And split open the desert, which is in Dudael, and throw him there.

10.5 And throw on him jagged and sharp stones and cover him with darkness. And let him stay there forever. And cover his face so that he may not see the light.

10.6 And so that, on the Great Day of Judgment, he may be hurled into the fire.

10.7 And restore the Earth which the Angels have ruined. And announce the restoration of the Earth. For I shall restore the Earth so that not all the sons of men shall be destroyed because of the knowledge which the Watchers made known and taught to their sons.

10.8 And the whole Earth has been ruined by the teaching of the works of Azazel; and against him write: ALL SIN."

10.9 And the Lord said to Gabriel: "Proceed against the bastards, and the reprobates, and against the sons of the fornicators. And destroy the sons of the fornicators, and the sons of the Watchers, from amongst men. And send them out, and send them against one another, and let them destroy themselves in battle; for they will not have length of days.

10.10 And they will petition you, but the petitioners will gain nothing in respect of them, for they hope for eternal life, and that each of them will live life for five hundred years."

10.11 And the Lord said to Michael: "Go, inform Semyaza, and the others with him, who have associated with the women to corrupt themselves with them in all their uncleanness.

10.12 When all their sons kill each other, and when they see the destruction of their loved ones, bind them for seventy generations, under the hills of the earth, until the day of their judgment and of their consummation, until the judgment, which is for all eternity, is accomplished.

10.13 And in those days, they will lead them to the Abyss of Fire; in torment, and in prison they will be shut up for all eternity.

10.14 And then Semyaza will be burnt, and from then on destroyed with them; together they will be bound until the end of all generations.

10.15 And destroy all the souls of lust, and the sons of the Watchers, for they have wronged men.

10.16 Destroy all wrong from the face of the Earth and every evil work will cease.

Yes, this is a large chunk. But for narrative purposes, it all goes together. The Archangels Michael, Gabriel, Suriel and Uriel saw the evil being done on the Earth by their fellow angels and the offspring of those angels, and they became upset by this and prodded God the Most High to do something against these beings. It is informative the way the angels address God. The obvious deference in their prayer is a model for our reverence. We often take liberties with our prayers. But even the prince who is heir to the throne will greet the king with formal deference when approaching him on the throne. We ought to remember just Who it is that we petition and rudely disrespect.

God doesn’t waste any time in deciding what to do when the angels finally intercede with Him for humanity. He orders one angel to protect Noah, one angel to bind the leader of the fallen watchers and a third to gather the rest and imprison them until the judgment. Then He orders the rest to reassure humanity that the Earth will be restored to peace and life. If you look at the actions of the Most High in this case, you will see His patience and mercy toward even the fallen angels and their abominable offspring who are not in His plan for creation.

The imprisonment of the watchers is not for their punishment, that comes after the judgment, but it is to protect the people of Earth who were supposed to be helped and guarded by them. The extent of the betrayal of humanity by the sins of the watchers is cosmic. Imagine if you will that you hire a babysitter to guard and teach your children while you go away for a short while. When you return, you find that your oldest child has been sexually molested and a child resulted, this child then grew to gigantic size and enslaved his aunts and uncles, and the babysitter was teaching the children to cast spells and kill. Would you be patient with this babysitter and let the offense run its course? God did.

But just like one of us, God did call the supernal police to arrest the perpetrators and then eradicated the evil in His world. God’s forbearance is evident in the means of ending the evil. He does not immediately eradicate all of creation for the taint of the watchers and Nephalim. Instead he imprisons the watchers for the judgment and floods the Earth to remove the evil.

As we go deeper into the book, we shall see some more of the story of this episode in the history of the world. The Book of the Prophet Enoch has much more tho say on this subject. Don’t miss future posts on the Book of Enoch.

Do you follow some of the teachings of the watchers that God has abhorred? Perhaps you dabble in magic or spellcraft. Do you honestly believe this to be harmless? Yes, God will judge you by the intention of your heart. But if your intention is to do good, and you are consorting with these dead Nephalim, there is no way your intention can come to fruition. These beings hate you, God and all of humanity, even all of creation. They want nothing less than the total eradication of God’s plan for the world. You can’t expect to control them with your own will. The human soul is very powerful. Yet these creatures are hybrids of human an angel. They have angelic spirits and human souls. They also have over fifteen thousand years of practice in deceiving humans into doing their bidding. Do you, with less than a hundred years of personal experience, expect to outwit them?

Give it up. There is more power in the love of God than in the collected hatred of all the Nephalim and watchers put together. Turn to Jesus Christ for a real quickening of your spirit, and live for God. There is far more freedom in serving God than in being a slave to Nephalim.

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A Commentary on the Book of the Prophet Enoch, Part 5

Ol’ Fuzzy has been gone for a period of mourning. My stepfather passed away on the tenth of November, and I was a mite despondent. But I’m back now, so let’s look at the rest of the evils of the watchers and their offspring.

8.1 And Azazel taught men to make swords, and daggers, and shields, and breastplates. And he showed them the things after these, and the art of making them; bracelets, and ornaments, and the art of making up the eyes, and of beautifying the eyelids, and the most precious stones, and all kinds Of coloured dyes. And the world was changed.

8.2 And there was great impiety, and much fornication, and they went astray, and all their ways became corrupt.

8.3 Amezarak taught all those who cast spells and cut roots, Armaros the release of spells, and Baraqiel astrologers, and Kokabiel portents, and Tamiel taught astrology, and Asradel taught the path of the Moon.

8.4 And at the destruction of men they cried out; and their voices reached Heaven.

These watchers are the source for all the worldly magic that is practiced in opposition to the One Who created everything that is and set it all in motion. The very laws of creation were being abused by the people taught by the watchers for the purpose of bending creation to fit their own will, in opposition to the will of God. Why did they do it? Enoch does not say, only that they did this after their oath. And as we saw in the last post, the children borne to the wives of the watchers were worse than the most heinous human. Verse four can be read to mean that the very watchers cried out at the destruction of men, but it’s more likely it was the few men and women who still followed God who raised the outcry.

Is Enoch saying that makeup is a sin? Does he claim that pretty clothes are wrong? Not at all. It’s the second verse that outlines the sin, the reason for the dressing up and makeup, “And there was great impiety, and much fornication, and they went astray, and all their ways became corrupt.” All the pretty dies and makeup was done for the purpose of attracting others to join them in the sins of fornication, impiety and corruption. Likewise, there’s no sin in slicing a carrot or radish, nor in watching the sky. But when you have a rebellious mindset and do these things with intention of thumbing your nose at God, then you sin. And not all roots that are cut are edible. Often it’s poison or the ingredients of some magic spell.

In fact, none of the things taught by the watchers would be classifiable as sin unless they’re done with the intention of defying God. Most people will look at only the surface and jump to conclusions that this or that action is sinful, relegating those who practice them to eternal hell. But we have seen in the series on the sermons of Jesus that God looks at the intention behind what we do and judges the act accordingly. In that case, it is possible to sin by giving alms or doing a good deed, if it is done with the intention of gaining favor or covering some other transgression. Look at the whole passage and it becomes more clear. When you take things out of context, then you begin to err in the realm of heresy.

Have you ever looked at the things someone else does in order to judge them evil? Do you puff yourself up because you have never cast a spell or channeled a spirit? Don’t! God will judge those who defy His will. That’s His job. But once you fall into the trap of comparing yourself to another, you have entered into the sin of hypocrisy. And hypocrites will fill more of hell than soothsayers, mediums, witches and fornicators. God can and often does redeem them. Saint Paul wrote, “Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.” He’s not telling us in that verse that we earn our salvation. He’s telling us to mind our own business and let God handle His.

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A Commentary on the Book of the Prophet Enoch, Part 4

The watchers that swore the oath didn’t just sin by blaspheme, they carried out their plan and more. Look at the way Enoch put it and compare it to Genesis:

7.1 And they took wives for themselves and everyone chose for himself one each. And they began to go into them and were promiscuous with them. And they taught them charms and spells, and they showed them the cutting of roots and trees.

7.2 And they became pregnant and bore large giants. And their height was three thousand cubits.

7.3 These devoured all the toil of men; until men were unable to sustain them.

7.4 And the giants turned against them in order to devour men.

7.5 And they began to sin against birds, and against animals, and against reptiles, and against fish, and they devoured one another's flesh, and drank the blood from it.

7.6 Then the Earth complained about the lawless ones.

Here is the passage from Genesis:

CHAPTER SIX

1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, 2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. 3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. 4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

Notice the parallels between the two passages, and keep in mind that the italicized words in the King James Bible are ones added by the translators to fill in gaps in the English text to make it read as they had interpreted the Hebrew to mean. Because the Jewish Maserites changed the Old Testament in an attempt to eradicate all references Jesus of Nazareth, the text these translators were using was unfaithful to the original, and there were some errors in interpretation. That said, look at verse four in Genesis chapter six. The word bare refers to the Giants in those days, but the addition of the word children in italics gives the impression that the giants mentioned in the first half of the verse were different from the children of the fallen angels, the watchers. Removing the rest of the italicized words reveals a very different understanding of the rest of the verse. The same mighty men of old, men of renown, means the Greek titans and the Olympic pantheon, as well as the other idols worshiped after the flood by the rebel humans who followed Semiramis, the mother of Nimrod.

When you read the Genesis account in the light of Enoch’s scroll, your view of the times is much clearer. Picture these Nephalim. Assuming that the number three thousand is a hyperbolic expansion of the original number, I would guess two orders of magnitude, these were huge beings. There was no such thing as a standard cubit. The cubit was the length to a human forearm, usually from the wrist to the elbow. Depending on whether the measuring person included the palm and or used the inside or the outside of the forearm, a cubit could run anywhere from fourteen to twenty-four inches (35.56 – 61 cm). Let us assume an average cubit of the day to be about half a meter. That means these Nephalim were fifteen meters tall! That’s about fifty feet. (If you went with the number in the current version of the text of Enoch’s book, they would be closer to five thousand feet tall, or nearly a mile.)

Enoch paints a desperate picture of those days. Nothing you could grow or earn was yours, the Nephalim ate it. And if you ran out of food you had no fear of starving, because the Nephalim ate you instead. These were trying times, marked with open warfare between various tribes and clans of humans and between humans and Nephalim. Is it any wonder that humans became so skilled at combat, tactics and strategy? It was kill or be eaten! And a fifteen meter tall hybrid monster was not an easy thing to kill. God sent the flood as a mercy to humanity.

And look at the other things the watchers did, teaching magic, enchantment, sorcery, channeling and poisons. God’s laws were being twisted into pretzel shapes at the whim of humans and Nephalim who practiced these things. Exerting your will to alter creation contrary to the will of God is the sin. I am not saying that the modern practice of magic, such as Wiccan spellcraft, is automatically sending anyone to hell. Only the rejection of God’s salvation will send one to hell. But the sins of magic are blasphemous when you try to negate God’s will, supplanting it with your own.

But Fuzzy, you ask, what about miracle workers? Is not that some form of magic? All Christian and most Jewish thaumaturgy (that’s Greek for wonder-working) is done according to God’s will and with the power of God. The thaumaturgy of magic is done according to the will of the practitioner and with the power of the human combined with that of the dead Nephalim. The difference is in the object of the thaumaturge’s faith. If you place your faith and trust in God, nothing you do will be contrary to His will. If you place your faith and trust in spirits of darkness, everything you do will be contrary to His will.

Cannibalism is another one of the evils listed by Enoch. He says they ate one another’s flesh and drank the blood from it. The Book of Leviticus (17:14) tells us the life of every creature is in the blood. Drinking the blood of a creature was considered unfit for a human because of this. Drinking the blood of a person, human or Nephalim, was worse, cannibalism to the tenth power. Here is where the legend of the vampires began, and why vampires are not just harmless entertainment. The Nephalim who practiced this before they died want to taste blood so badly they will try to do it vicariously through the humans they dupe into Gothic games of vampirism. Do not be fooled. Nothing the Nephalim want you to do is harmless, and seldom is it entertaining to an enlightened soul.

Have you ever been drawn into dabbling in magic or vampirism? These urges are not natural to the human mind. Such a thing can only originate with the Nephalim who were drowned in the flood. Give your mind over to Christ that He can heal you from these thoughts and shield you from the whispers of the spirits of darkness who only long for your ultimate destruction.

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A Commentary on the Book of the Prophet Enoch, Part 3

We have just finished the benediction of Enoch’s scroll and his description of God’s laws. Now let’s get into the meat of the first vision.

3) REBELS AMONG THE WATCHERS

6.1 And it came to pass, when the sons of men had increased, that in those days there were born to them fair and beautiful daughters.  6.2 And the Angels, the sons of Heaven, saw them and desired them. And they said to one another: "Come, let us choose for ourselves wives, from the children of men, and let us beget, for ourselves, children.' 6.3 And Semyaza, who was their leader, said to them: "l fear that you may not wish this deed to be done and that I alone will pay for this great sin."  6.4 And they all answered him, and said:  "Let us all swear an oath, and bind one-another with curses, so not to alter this plan, but to carry out this plan effectively."  6.5 Then they all swore together and all bound one another with curses to it.  6.6 And they were, in all, two hundred and they came down on Ardis, which is the summit of Mount Hermon. And they called the mountain Hermon because on it they swore and bound one another with curses.  6.7 And these are the names of their leaders:  Semyaza, who was their leader, Urakiba, Ramiel, Kokabiel, Tamiel, Ramiel, Daniel, Ezeqiel, Baraqiel, Asael, Armaros, Ananel, Zaqiel, Samsiel, Satael, Turiel, Yomiel, Araziel.  6.8 These are the leaders of the two hundred Angels and of all the others with them.

Enoch is trying to warn his family and all who love God of the coming destruction and the enemies of their souls. According to Enoch, there were not one but two rebellious groups of angels that plagued the spiritual realm in his day. Lucifer and his band had yet to be expelled from Heaven. And the angels assigned to oversee and support humanity had a problem with the physical bodies God gave them to perform their task as teachers and aides. Having seen the beauty of human females, these angels lusted after them like human males without self discipline.

That wasn’t the full extent of their rebellion, however. These angels, watchers is the word Enoch used, took the sin of lust two miles further when they bound themselves with oaths against God and acted upon the lust. In my humble opinion, and opinion is all this is, the worst of their sin was the oaths. Once bound in rebellion against God, these watchers continued to advance into deeper sins of rebellion, as we shall see in future installments.

Part of the reason this book was discouraged in general use is the fact that Enoch names the angels who fell, or at least their leaders. A form of magic has grown up around the use of names. And while the watchers themselves cannot respond to their names, there are several children of these watchers hanging around looking for any excuse to gain power over a human soul, even resorting to impersonating their angelic parent. Therefore, to avoid the further spread of this ungodly magic, the book was removed from the Bible. That was likely the official excuse anyway. Some of the other visions of Enoch are quite uncomfortable for the Maserites who were opposed to Jesus Christ and charged with making a new Bible with vowels inserted so the lay reader could pronounce the words that were no longer in daily use.

Enoch says there were two hundred angels that rebelled in this episode and gives us eighteen names of leaders of that rebellion. That leaves one hundred and eighty-eight unnamed angels who were also involved. Since polygamy was introduced by the rebellious angels and a male human (or angel with the same physical equipment) can impregnate a different woman every day, there must have been tens of thousands of these offspring of the watchers by the time God flooded the world.

Once God collected up the watchers and bound them in the Abyss until Judgment Day, their offspring began taking revenge against God by attacking the only part of God’s creation they could get at, us. These Nephalim, as they are called, want nothing less than the total annihilation of the human race. Enoch tells us later on that the Nephalim are not allowed to enter heaven or hell because they are outside of God’s plan of creation. Therefore, these hybrid beings, now disembodied, are confined to the Earth where they began. Thus we have a large contingent of hateful spirits who want to destroy us living in our midst unseen, but not unfelt.

Forewarned is forearmed, and we were given the warning thousands of years ago. But the suppression of The Book of the Prophet Enoch has hidden the facts from most people. I have been called to be a voice of warning to all humanity who cares to live free in God’s will. Now that you are reading this, you too are forewarned. Do not be caught flat-footed by the enemies of your soul. If you are not serving God, I suggest you get acquainted with the Lord Jesus Christ. Only the protection of God in Christ Jesus can shield you from the animus of the Nephalim.

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A Commentary on the Book of the Prophet Enoch, Part 2

The next section is longer, and it covers four chapters in the Ethiopian numbering system, but the chapters are very short.

2.1 Contemplate all the events in the sky; how the lights in the sky do not change their courses, how each rises and sets in order, each at its proper time, and they do not transgress their law.

2.2 Consider the earth and understand from the work that is done upon it, from the beginning to the end, that no work of God changes as it becomes manifest.

2.3 Consider the summer and the winter; how the whole earth is full of water and the clouds and dew and rain rest upon it.

3.1 Contemplate and see how all the trees appear withered and all their leaves are stripped - with the exception of the fourteen trees, which are not stripped, which remain with the old leaves until the new come after two or three years.

4.1 And, again, contemplate the days of summer, how at its beginning the Sun is above it. You seek shelter and shade because of the heat of the Sun and the earth burns with scorching heat, and you cannot tread upon the earth or upon a rock, because Of its heat.

5.1 Contemplate how the trees are covered with green leaves and bear fruit.  And understand, in respect of everything, and perceive how He Who Lives Forever made all these things for you.

5.2 And how His works are before Him in each succeeding year, and all His works serve Him and do not change; but as God has decreed - so everything is done.

5.3 And consider how the seas and rivers together complete their tasks.

5.4 But you have not persevered in, nor observed, the Law of the Lord. But you have transgressed and have spoken proud and hard words with your unclean mouth against his majesty. You hard of heart! You will not have peace!

5.5 And because of this you will curse your days, and the years of your life you will destroy. And the eternal curse will increase and you will not reserve mercy.

5.6 In those days, you will transform your name into an eternal curse to all the righteous. And they will curse you sinners forever.

5.7 For the chosen; there will be light, joy, and peace, and they will inherit the earth. But for you, the impious, there will be a curse.

5.8 When wisdom is given to the chosen they will all live, and will not again do wrong, either through forgetfulness, or through pride. But those who possess wisdom will be humble.

5.9 They will not again do wrong, and they will not be judged in all the days of their life, and they will not die of wrath or anger. But they will complete the number of the days of their life. And their life will grow in peace, and the years Of their joy will increase in gladness and eternal peace; all the days of their life.

Chapter two starts with the word contemplate. In the ancient languages, the words we translate with contemplate had a much deeper meaning than merely giving it some thought. To contemplate is to bring the subject into your heart and make it a part of you. If you have read the article I wrote on the Topology of the Human Soul and the Struggle for Holiness, you know that most ancient people considered the heart to be the seat of the mind, not the brain. To take the sky into your heart is actually to expand your soul to encompass the sky. Most people today would have a hard time expanding their soul to encompass the clothes they’re wearing. But the ancients spent a lot more of their time inside themselves, and they were less self-limited in the things they could do and did in the spirit.

Enoch looks for God by studying His works. Starting with the sky, Enoch takes us on a trip through the things that he contemplated on his spiritual journey to obtain his visions and his meeting with God. Enoch was impressed by the order and consistency of God’s creation. The only verse in chapter four gives us a clue to the home of Enoch. He lived in a place where the summer sun was very hot, and it made the ground unbearable to walk upon. But what impressed Enoch the most was the cycles of the trees and plants. Invariably they followed the same timing and progression from year to year, almost as though they watched the sky too.

Enoch took these observations of nature as lessons for life under God. And God took Enoch’s faith and his attempt to live according to the order he observed as righteousness. Enoch was a friend to God. They chatted as friends. We shall see in future verses that God the Father even bragged a little to Enoch about His only begotten Son.

Enoch then makes all these observations into a personal exhortation to righteousness in his readers. The fourth verse of chapter five begins in the second person to list the faults of Enoch’s fellow humans. The indictment is telling, and applies even more today than in Enoch’s time: You have not continued to keep, nor even observe, the law of the Lord. Far worse, you have actively blasphemed the Lord your God with foul cursing from your own mouth, which you have made a practice of using for sin. The rest of this passage is a prediction of the punishment God will mete out upon those who assault Him in actions and words. This ends with the sinners becoming a byword for wrongdoing, their very names taking on the denotation of curses.

Finally, Enoch talks about the blessings God will bestow upon the ones who follow Him, the Chosen, or as Robert Charles termed it, the elect. Before I go on I want to warn anyone who would take this terminology to mean they are superior to any other human being. God did not single out people beforehand to be damned or saved based upon some arbitrary whim. Nor did He decree that there are people of some better essence than others thus making them Chosen or Elect, as some heretical teachers would have you believe as they stimulate your itching ears. Don’t puff yourself up with false pride. God, being eternal, knows the end from before the beginning, and He loves you anyway. Therefore, the ones whom he knew would receive His Son are chosen to become by grace what He is by nature, not sharing in the essence of God, but sharing in the energies of God.

That said, God has big plans for those who are chosen. And Enoch begins laying them out in outline here. The final verse of the passage is a blessing and a great hope for all believers. Do you struggle with an inability to understand the will of God for your life? Are you having difficulty making choices? Enoch says you will be given wisdom to keep you from all wrong, and you will be protected from harm, until the day God appointed for you life to end. Bask in this hope.

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