The Book of Enoch Explained: Fallen Watchers & Nephilim — Transcript

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1. 0:00The book of Enoch about the fallen watchers,  the human women, the bloodthirsty giants.
2. 0:06Should Christians read it since Jude quotes it?  Why is it not included in the Bible as part of
3. 0:12the canon? Who wrote this book and what is this  book all about? In this video we're going to dive
4. 0:18a deeper look into this book. It's a mysterious  book and it has gained a lot of attraction lately,
5. 0:24not just among Christians but also among those  who are into new age and other religions.
6. 0:30So first and foremost, what is this? The book  of Enoch is an ancient book with five separate
7. 0:35parts by different authors plus segments from the  book of Noah thrown in there for good measure. Who
8. 0:43wrote this book? Actually nobody knows who wrote  this book. The authorship of the book of Enoch
9. 0:48like many other ancient books is not very clear.  It is attributed to Enoch, the great grandfather
10. 0:55of Noah but it was not actually written by  him. Enoch is considered a legendary figure
11. 1:01and the attribution to him is part of this work,  that's called pseudepigrapha. It's the writings
12. 1:10of people that are actually not true writers of  these works meaning, that the true authors used
13. 1:16his name to give the extra aura of ancient wisdom  and authority but Enoch actually never wrote this
14. 1:24book. The book of Enoch was most likely written  by multiple authors over several centuries with
15. 1:31estimates ranging from 3rd century BC to 1 century  AD. This period of time is known as the second
16. 1:40temple period in Jewish history. It's a time where  there was a lot of religious writing and thought,
17. 1:46outside of the Hebrew Bible. Now, what is the  Book of Enoch all about? Let me break down the
18. 1:52five parts of this book. The first book is the  book of the watchers. It's 1 Enoch 1 through 36.
19. 2:00Now this section tells about the fallen angels  who are called the watchers, who descend to the
20. 2:06earth and marry human women, resulting in the  birth of hybrid giants known as the nephilim.
21. 2:13You probably have heard a similar story in the  book of Genesis. Enoch is the righteous man,
22. 2:18chosen by God to receive wisdom and knowledge.  He's shown the secrets of the universe including
23. 2:23the workings of the heavens and acts as this  intercessor in between heaven and the earth. The
24. 2:30watchers asked Enoch to intercede on their behalf  before God but they are denied forgiveness and are
25. 2:36bound and cast into the abyss as the punishment  for their action. So that's the first book,
26. 2:4136 chapters. Now the second book is the book of  the parables. 1 Enoch 37 through 71. This section
27. 2:50contains three parables that deal with the themes  of divine judgment and the coming Messiah kingdom.
28. 2:57It introduces the concept of the Son of Man, a  heavenly figure that will judge the wicked and
29. 3:03establish a righteous kingdom. This term is later  used actually in the New Testament in reference to
30. 3:10Christ. Now the third book of Enoch is the book of  the heavenly luminaries. 1 Enoch 72 till 82. Here,
31. 3:18Enoch is given knowledge about the movements of  the heavenly bodies. The sun, moon and the stars
32. 3:24suggesting a particular interest in astronomy  and its connection to the divine order. It
33. 3:30describes a solar calendar that is different  from the lunar calendar used by the Hebrews at
34. 3:36the time. The next book of Enoch is the book of  dreams and visions. 1 Enoch 82 till 90. Enoch has
35. 3:45two visions. The first one is about the great  flood and the second one is about the history
36. 3:50of Israel symbolically represented by animals.  These visions, they recount the history of the
37. 3:57world from the time of Adam to the establishment  of the Messianic kingdom and now the last book
38. 4:03of Enoch is the book of the epistle of Enoch. 1  Enoch 81 until 108. This final section includes
39. 4:13the series of encouragements to the righteous and  the warnings to the sinners. Revelations about the
40. 4:19future including the resurrection and the final  judgment. It ends with an appendix that reaffirms
41. 4:26the judgment and the importance to living in  righteousness. So now, these are the five books
42. 4:33of Enoch within 1 Enoch. The one that has a lot  of interest and probably where you have heard
43. 4:40different references to is the first book that  I've highlighted is the book of the watchers. Now,
44. 4:45I'm going to break down the book of the watchers  just a little bit more so that you will know kind
45. 4:50of where some of these ideas have been coming  from. The book of the watchers which is the
46. 4:54first book of Enoch which has 36 chapters, that  book I'm going to break it down a little bit
47. 5:00more into the descend of the watchers, chapters  1-5 and that's when Enoch starts with a warning
48. 5:07about the great judgment against the watchers, a  group of angels who have sinned. These angels see
49. 5:12the earth's women as beautiful. So they decide  to leave their heavenly home to marry them. This
50. 5:18of course is forbidden and their actions start  causing problems on the earth and then if you
51. 5:23go a little bit down, chapter 6-16, you will  see the sins of the watchers and the nephilim.
52. 5:30The angels now on earth teach humans various  forbidden knowledge and crafts which lead to
53. 5:36warfare, sorcery and all other sins. Now this  angel and human union produced this hybrid
54. 5:44offspring called nephilims, who are the giants  that bring pretty much havoc on this earth and
55. 5:50actually consume the humans alive, leading to  widespread despair and chapters 17 through 36
56. 5:58talk about Enoch's mediation and the judgment on  the watchers. The watchers realize that they have
57. 6:05done wrong and they ask Enoch to speak to God  on their behalf hoping for forgiveness. Enoch
58. 6:11ascends to the heavens where he receives visions  and is told about the natural order and why the
59. 6:16watchers cannot be forgiven. God declares that the  watchers must be bound and imprisoned in the earth
60. 6:22and their giant children must be eliminated  and the judgment is carried out and Enoch is
61. 6:28given more revelation about the workings of the  cosmos. You probably have heard this especially
62. 6:34in reference in the book of Genesis about the sons  of God you know sleeping with the daughters of men
63. 6:41and then this hybrid offspring is being produced  and then the flood comes in to wipe out the hybrid
64. 6:47offspring and there's a lot of debate on that.  There's some people saying that they were just the
65. 6:51descendants of Cain. I lean more toward the fact  that they were actually angels who have rebelled
66. 6:56against God and who have violated their domain and  have created hybrid descendants or hybrid humans
67. 7:04that were devouring people and then God had to  wipe them out and so but this actual idea is also
68. 7:11supported in the book of Enoch. That's not why I  lean toward that idea because it's supported in
69. 7:16the book of Enoch but it seems to make most sense  in concerning the explanation of Genesis chapter
70. 7:236 and I have other videos that deal with that that  we will link below. Now, why was the book of Enoch
71. 7:29not included in the Bible? Now, the term  pseudepigrapha refers to the collection
72. 7:36of ancient books written from about 200 BC to  about 200 AD and they're not considered part of
73. 7:45the canon by most Jewish and Christian traditions.  The word pseudepigrapha actually comes from Greek
74. 7:53words meaning, 'false' and 'to write,' indicating  that the works are falsely attributed to authors
75. 8:00who did not actually write them. So that kind of  tells you right away why it's not in the Bible.
76. 8:05It's part of the collection of these books that  are falsely being attributed to different people
77. 8:11who didn't write them and the Bible is the book  of truth and so that right away should be a red
78. 8:16flag why it shouldn't be in the Bible. Now these  texts often bear the names of Biblical characters
79. 8:22but they were not written by them or within their  lifetime. The book of Enoch is not included in the
80. 8:28Jewish or Christian scriptures with an exception  actually of Ethiopian Orthodox church which
81. 8:35regards the book of Enoch as part of the canon,  as part of the scriptures but the Jewish and the
82. 8:41Christian scriptures do not have it. Now, Jude  actually quotes the first of Enoch. Jude 1:14
83. 8:49and 15 says, 'Now Enoch, the seventh from Adam,  prophesied about these men also, saying, “Behold,
84. 8:56the Lord comes with ten thousands of His saints,  to execute judgment on all, to convict all who are
85. 9:01ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds  which they have committed in an ungodly way,
86. 9:08and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners  have spoken against Him.” Now it actually quotes
87. 9:14from 1 Enoch 1:9 I'm going to read it to you  straight from 1 Enoch, And behold! He cometh
88. 9:22with tens of thousands of His holy ones to execute  judgment upon all, and to destroy all the ungodly,
89. 9:28and to convict all flesh of all the works of their  ungodliness which they have ungodly committed,
90. 9:34and of all the hard things which ungodly  sinners have spoken against Him. So Jude
91. 9:40quotes from Enoch but it does not mean that all  of the book of Enoch is inspired. Paul quotes a
92. 9:47pagan philosopher in Titus 1:12 but it doesn't  mean that everything that this philosopher wrote
93. 9:53is the holy scripture. No scholar believes that  the book of Enoch was truly written by Enoch.
94. 10:00So just because Jude quotes a portion of  Enoch does not mean that Jude thought that
95. 10:06the entire book of Enoch was valid or that it  was scripture. Finally, what should Christians do
96. 10:13about this mysterious book of the 1 Enoch? It does  provide insights into the beliefs and culture and
97. 10:20religious understanding of this period between  the Old Testament and the New Testament. Also,
98. 10:27it gives us some understanding about the second  temple Judaism. It's important to understand the
99. 10:33second temple Judaism because it was this forming  period for both Judaism and Christianity. We also
100. 10:40see that the themes that are in Enoch, they do  appear in New Testament passages. Not only the
101. 10:46reference of Jude but also even this idea  of judgment, the coming of the Messiah,
102. 10:51these themes are in the New Testament as well as  it has apocalyptic genre and the prime example of
103. 10:59this apocalyptic literature, we see visions,  angelic things, we see the end of the world
104. 11:05scenarios which is present both in Daniel and in  Revelation. We should treat the book of Enoch and
105. 11:12all other books in the same manner that we treat  all other books that we call Apocrypha and I have
106. 11:18a whole video about that which some things they  say are true and correct but much of it is false
107. 11:25and historically inaccurate. Apocrypha books are  interesting. They're fascinating but they're not
108. 11:33accurate and they're fallible documents from  history. They are not inspired and they're not
109. 11:39part of the scripture. Dr Michael Heiser said this  about the book of Enoch, Just because bad people
110. 11:44like new agers and people who practice occult use  the particular book like Enoch does not mean that
111. 11:50the book itself is bad. Bad people use the Bible  but we don't throw it out and he would say that
112. 11:56use Enoch in its own context. The second temple  period not in the context of aliens meaning,
113. 12:04you can read it. What you have to understand  is that a lot of the stuff is not true and
114. 12:08the whole idea that it's written by Enoch is  also not true and so you have to use wisdom
115. 12:13and it's not part of the Bible. It's not part of  canon. It's not because Christians were trying to
116. 12:20reject some mysterious information is because a  lot of that information is deeply flawed. So if
117. 12:26you've never read the book. Well, this gave you  pretty much a little summary. If you read it,
118. 12:30I'm pretty sure you came to the similar  conclusions and so if you've enjoyed this video,
119. 12:33let me know in the comments below what you learned  today. Share this with other people and as always,
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