“But you were ⌈formerly⌉ 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”. [Book of Enoch 15:6-7]
Justin Martyr, a philosopher who converted to Christianity during the time of Polycarp, suggested that fallen angels had infiltrated the highest offices of the church and desired to remove any evidence of fallen angelic activity prior to and after the flood. This is why any book that referred to the Book of Enoch was censored. However, the Bible supports evidence of fallen angel intervention. —CK Quarterman Tertullian called the Book of Enoch “Holy Scripture” and, the Book of Enoch, including the Book of Jubilees, have always been canon in the Ethiopian Bible. Did you know that the Book of Jubilees and the Book of Enoch have always been canon in the Ethiopian Bible? Justin Martyr, the earliest church writer, said about the fallen angels: “But the angels transgressed this appointment, and were captivated by love of women, and begat children who are those that are called demons; and besides, they afterwards subdued the human race to themselves, partly by magical writings, and partly by fears and the punishments they occasioned, and partly by teaching them to offer sacrifices, and incense, and libations, of which things they stood in need after they were enslaved by lustful passions; and among men they sowed murders, wars, adulteries, intemperate deeds, and all wickedness. Whence also the poets and mythologists, not knowing that it was the angels and those demons who had been begotten by them that did these things to men, and women, and cities, and nations, which they related, ascribed them to god himself, and to those who were accounted to be his very offspring, and to the offspring of those who were called his brothers, Neptune and Pluto, and to the children again of these their offspring. For whatever name each of the angels had given to himself and his children, by that name they called them“. Justin Martyr, Second Apology They lusted after the daughters of Adam That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair [Gen. 6:1] Their offspring were the demigods of mythology the “men of renown” or Nephilim. The Nephilim of Genesis Chapter Six were the children of the Fallen Angels. “And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. 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. 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.” (Gen 6:1-4) Not everything, of course, should be included in the Canon; however, we can’t disregard everything ‘historically’ just because it is not in the Bible. For example, Julius Caesar wrote about giants, but his writings should not be included in the Canon. The Book of Josephus contains history of Christ, as Flavius Josephus was a historian, but it should not be added to the Canon. First Enoch, the Book of Giants, and the Book of Jasher are all three historical works, NOT Canon; however, they should be accepted where they are in agreement with the Canon and of course rejected where they disagree with the Canon. We study history of our nation in school, which is NOT in the Bible, yet we accept it as true history regardless. This is how we should look at extra–biblical texts such as the Book of Enoch. These books give us more insight into the biblical accounts, but they do not take away from the biblical accounts. Please view them as history, and allow them to help fill in some of the gaps and explain some of the details so that we can better understand. Julius Caesar in several volumes gave first hand accounts of fighting giants. Should we discount that, because the Bible doesn’t mention Julius Caesar’s accounts? No! The Bible gives us the outline. There is nothing wrong with connecting the dots in the outline using historical Jewish writings. —CK Quarterman Did Jesus Quote from the Book of Enoch? It is possible Jesus confirmed the Book of Enoch by calling it Scripture, even quoting from it. There is a phrase in Matthew 22:30 which is close to a quote from the Book of Enoch. Jesus teaches a principle that angels in heaven don’t marry, but this principle isn’t found anywhere in the Old Testament. It is found only in the book of Enoch. Since the book of Enoch was found with the Qumran Texts (Dead Sea Scrolls), we know it was in existence during the time of Christ. Is it conceivable that Christ was quoting from the Book of Enoch? —CK Quarterman “For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven”. (Mat 22:30)
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