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The Book of Enoch
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Published January 31, 2019
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March 8, 2024
The Book of Enoch is an apocalyptic Abrahamic collection of three books held canonical only among the Ethiopian Haymanot Jews, and the Ethiopian Orthodox Christian churches; despite references to Enoch in the Bible, and existing fragments of his book found in the Dead Sea Scrolls; as well as just being father of Methuselah, and great grandfather of Noah.
Enoch tells a story on the corruption of mankind by the Fallen Angels (the part everyone wants to read), and lays down his prophecy for the generations to come which (surprisingly to me) contains numerous reference to "the son of man" and the reign of the Messiah.
We begin with a telling of two hundred Angels (the children of the heaven), and Samyaza, their leader. These Angels noticed that the children of men on the other hand had beautiful daughters, who they lusted after. They then took an oath to descend to earth and choose wives for themselves since God didn't give them any in heaven as they were supposed to be satisfied see? But at any rate their ungrateful actions greatly offend God when he finds out.
Samyaza had apprehensions about this, thinking if he did *this thing* the others would get cold feet and he'd be caught with his pants down, and so required the angels bind themselves to the deed. Then blame could be evenly distributed, which should save him a little face (for whatever that would be worth) in the face of damnation.
We get the names of their leaders (love the role calls just as in the Bible) and these guys are the ones whose human wives bore them giants who basically took advantage of and corrupted everything. Though they teach what might otherwise be considered ancient wisdom/knowledge by some, sorcery by others (basically the stuff the pagans, a.k.a. bronze age people were doing at the time). Still they continued to abuse humanity for their purposes.
As men perished because of all this fighting and fornication, their cries went up to heaven. From here the Arch Angels Michael, Uriel, Raphael, and Gabriel heard these cries, and brought their cause before The Most High, The Lord of lords, The God of gods, The King of kings, and The God of the Ages, a.k.a. "God".
Then Noah enters the picture as he is warned of the coming deluge, and the bad Angels are rounded up and imprisoned to wait it out until their judgement of eternal fire.
After this affirmative action God promises to open the chambers of blessing, freeing all those from the oppression of "the watchers" (the Fallen Angels) and The Giants (their children) and of the knowledge they have disclosed to them (because knowledge is power, sorry I mean bad!)
From there the righteous will have thousands of children. The whole earth can be tilled in righteousness (Yes!) and planted with trees, have an abundance of wine and olive oil, and God will never again send down his punishment on his elect.
The book also contains astrology (the then astronomy). Enoch gets the tour of heaven and earth (which reminds me of Dante's Inferno). Enoch learns many things from the good Angels such as the luminaries (celestial bodies), the winds on earth, and the days and nights of the year (all that important agricultural related stuff) which he shares with his son Methuselah.
Later Enoch has dreams which are clearly allegories of the story already told, but with animals in place of people in the two kingdoms of Judea and Israel.
This would definitely make a good movie and I'm sure it has already inspired a few and some books. I'm rating this on the narrator alone who is 5 stars.
Enoch tells a story on the corruption of mankind by the Fallen Angels (the part everyone wants to read), and lays down his prophecy for the generations to come which (surprisingly to me) contains numerous reference to "the son of man" and the reign of the Messiah.
We begin with a telling of two hundred Angels (the children of the heaven), and Samyaza, their leader. These Angels noticed that the children of men on the other hand had beautiful daughters, who they lusted after. They then took an oath to descend to earth and choose wives for themselves since God didn't give them any in heaven as they were supposed to be satisfied see? But at any rate their ungrateful actions greatly offend God when he finds out.
Samyaza had apprehensions about this, thinking if he did *this thing* the others would get cold feet and he'd be caught with his pants down, and so required the angels bind themselves to the deed. Then blame could be evenly distributed, which should save him a little face (for whatever that would be worth) in the face of damnation.
We get the names of their leaders (love the role calls just as in the Bible) and these guys are the ones whose human wives bore them giants who basically took advantage of and corrupted everything. Though they teach what might otherwise be considered ancient wisdom/knowledge by some, sorcery by others (basically the stuff the pagans, a.k.a. bronze age people were doing at the time). Still they continued to abuse humanity for their purposes.
As men perished because of all this fighting and fornication, their cries went up to heaven. From here the Arch Angels Michael, Uriel, Raphael, and Gabriel heard these cries, and brought their cause before The Most High, The Lord of lords, The God of gods, The King of kings, and The God of the Ages, a.k.a. "God".
Then Noah enters the picture as he is warned of the coming deluge, and the bad Angels are rounded up and imprisoned to wait it out until their judgement of eternal fire.
After this affirmative action God promises to open the chambers of blessing, freeing all those from the oppression of "the watchers" (the Fallen Angels) and The Giants (their children) and of the knowledge they have disclosed to them (because knowledge is power, sorry I mean bad!)
From there the righteous will have thousands of children. The whole earth can be tilled in righteousness (Yes!) and planted with trees, have an abundance of wine and olive oil, and God will never again send down his punishment on his elect.
The book also contains astrology (the then astronomy). Enoch gets the tour of heaven and earth (which reminds me of Dante's Inferno). Enoch learns many things from the good Angels such as the luminaries (celestial bodies), the winds on earth, and the days and nights of the year (all that important agricultural related stuff) which he shares with his son Methuselah.
Later Enoch has dreams which are clearly allegories of the story already told, but with animals in place of people in the two kingdoms of Judea and Israel.
This would definitely make a good movie and I'm sure it has already inspired a few and some books. I'm rating this on the narrator alone who is 5 stars.
June 2, 2024
While it was nice to learn where things originated & what Enoch was doing when he disappeared, this book reminded me of 1 & 2 Kings. Very boring and repetitive. I understand why it was left out of the Bible now.
I thank God for it for sure, because now I am more knowledgeable about some things, but now I understand why it’s literally its own book.
Good for any person who studies the Bible or who enjoys learning history.
I thank God for it for sure, because now I am more knowledgeable about some things, but now I understand why it’s literally its own book.
Good for any person who studies the Bible or who enjoys learning history.
September 17, 2025
Audio book - Creepy stuff.
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