Avalon Chronicles #191: Pre-flood World-200 Angels to Mount Hermon: Part One

 Reference: Lumpkin, Joseph B. The Books of Enoch. Fifth Estate Publishers: Blountsville, AL. 2011.

     All I knew until recently about the pre-flood world was the Garden of Eden, Cain killed Abel, God brought the flood because the "inhabitants" had become so bad. A study of First Book of Enoch describes those "inhabitants" and how bad they really were! To assist in establishing the credibility of the Book of Enoch it is helpful to know the book is in the Bible of the Ethiopic Christian Church. "...Dead Sea Scrolls found at Qumran prove the book was in existence before the time of Jesus Christ." (pg. 11). "Many of the early church fathers also supported the Enochian writings. Justin Martyr ascribed all evil to demons whom he alleged to be the offspring of the angels, who fell through lust for women; directly referencing the Enochian writings." (pg. 15).

     The book describes the proliferation of humanity after Adam and Eve. "...that in those days were born to them beautiful and fair daughters." [6:1] Certain angels, led by one named Semjaza, saw and lusted after these beautiful women on earth. They made a plan to come to earth and choose as wives these daughters. They planned to have offspring with them. In the days of Jared, father of Enoch, two hundred of these angels ascended to earth through the portal of Mount Hermon. On a trip to Israel, when I was in the Golan Heights, at the far northeast of Israel, I looked further north to the snow-capped top of Mount Hermon, a part of which was in Syria. 

     [Chapter 7] "And all of them together went and took wives for themselves, each choosing one for himself, and they began to go in to them and to defile themselves with sex with them." [7-3]. "And the women became pregnant , and they bare large giants..."

     Genesis 5 and 6 "There were giants in the earth in those days ...And God saw the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of his heart was only evil continually."

     Enoch 8:2; "And there was great impiety; they turned away from God, and committed fornication, and they were led astray and became corrupt in all their ways." Enoch 9-1; "And then Michael, Uriel, Raphael, and Gabriel looked down from heaven and saw much blood being shed on the earth, and all lawlessnes being done on the earth." Enoch 9:9; "And the women have borne giants, and the whole earth has thereby been filled with blood and unrighteousness." 

     Special note! Enoch was taken straight to Heaven!

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