Fallen Angels

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Fallen Angels- BOOK OF ENOCH

The Book of Enoch is an apocryphal work that dates back centuries before Christ. Enoch was the grandfather of Noah. He was a righteous man and was shown divine visions and given messages from the Heavenly Angels. The Book of Enoch has been preserved by the Ethiopic Church. They place it right a long other writings found in the Bible. Also, The Book of Enoch has been discovered within the Dead Sea Scrolls.

The Book of Enoch is broken down into five sections:

The Book of the Watchers (1 Enoch 1 – 36)
The Book of Parables of Enoch (1 Enoch 37 – 71)
The Astronomical Book (1 Enoch 72 – 82)
The Book of Dream Visions (1 Enoch 83 – 90)
The Epistle of Enoch (1 Enoch 91 – 108)

It is believed the Book of the Watchers date to about 300 BCE. This book comprises of revelations concerning divine judgment and the fall of the angels. The second part of the book concerning the fall of the angels is split into two parts the story or Semjaza and the story involving Azazel.

About the story of Semjaza:

The Watchers observe from Heaven and desire the daughters of men (6:1-8)
Descending from Heaven, they give into their desires to marry and defile themselves with women. They teach women about charms, enchantments, cut-root and plants (7:1)
The women give birth to giants who consume all of man’s food. When the giants can no longer be sustained they devour mankind. They sin against all the creatures of the earth and the earth speaks against them (7:3-6)
As human perished there cries went up to heaven they Angels Michael(link) and Gabriel(link) heard their cries and saw the blood shed (8:3-9:1)
The Lord told Gabriel to kill the Giants and Bind the Watchers for seventy generations in the valleys of the earth until judgment when they will be led into the abyss of fire (10:9-13)

About the story of Azazal:

Azazel taught mankind the secrets of warfare and the practice of vanity and the ways of seduction (8:1-2)
Azazal is charged with teaching unrighteousness and revealing the secrets of heaven which were to be kept hidden from man (9:6)
The Lord told Raphael to bind Azazal’s hands and feet and cast him into darkness until the day of judgment when he will be cast into the fiery pits (10:4-5)
The whole earth had been corrupted by Azazal (10:8)
God will send the flood to destroy the evil of the world (10:3)
And He will destroy “all the spirits of the reprobate and the children of the Watcher” because they have wronged mankind (10:15)

Read the Book of the Watchers (1 Enoch 1 – 36) in its entirety.

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Fallen Angels- BOOK OF JUBILEES

The Book of Jubilees also known as Little Genesis is an ancient Jewish Text not included in the Jewish and Christian canonical scripture. However, it is considered canonical to the Ethiopic Church. Its believed to be from about 2nd century BC. The Book of Jubilee chronicles the event in Genesis on through Exodus 12. They are dated by jubilees of 49 years each of which is composed of seven cycles of seven years. Jubilees 5 recounts the story of the fall of the angels known as the Watchers who mate with women giving birth to giants, also known as Nephilim.

Read about the accounts of Enoch’s birth, the Watchers on earth, the fall of the angels, and the foretelling of the flood in chapters four and five of the Book of Jubilees.

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Fallen Angels- BIBLICAL REFERENCES

There are many biblical references to Satan in the Christian Bible, but little is known of the fall of Satan and his Angels. However, there are some verses within the Bible that refer to Satan’s fall and the fall of the angels.

Here are some verses:

1 Timothy 3:6 (New International Version, ©2011)
6 He must not be a recent convert, or he may become conceited and fall under the same judgment as the devil.

12 How you have fallen from heaven,
morning star, son of the dawn!
You have been cast down to the earth,
you who once laid low the nations!
13 You said in your heart,
“I will ascend to the heavens;
I will raise my throne
above the stars of God;
I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly,
on the utmost heights of Mount Zaphon.[a]
14 I will ascend above the tops of the clouds;
I will make myself like the Most High.”

12 “Son of man, take up a lament concerning the king of Tyre and say to him:

‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says:
“‘You were the seal of perfection,
full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
13 You were in Eden,
the garden of God;
every precious stone adorned you:
carnelian, chrysolite and emerald,
topaz, onyx and jasper,
lapis lazuli, turquoise and beryl.[a]
Your settings and mountings[b] were made of gold;
on the day you were created they were prepared.
14 You were anointed as a guardian cherub,
for so I ordained you.
You were on the holy mount of God;
you walked among the fiery stones.
15 You were blameless in your ways
from the day you were created
till wickedness was found in you.
16 Through your widespread trade
you were filled with violence,
and you sinned.

So I drove you in disgrace from the mount of God,
and I expelled you, guardian cherub,
from among the fiery stones.
17 Your heart became proud
on account of your beauty,
and you corrupted your wisdom
because of your splendor.
So I threw you to the earth;
I made a spectacle of you before kings.
18 By your many sins and dishonest trade
you have desecrated your sanctuaries.
So I made a fire come out from you,
and it consumed you,
and I reduced you to ashes on the ground
in the sight of all who were watching.

Luke 10:12-20 (New International Version, ©2011)
12 I tell you, it will be more bearable on that day for Sodom than for that town.
13 “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. 14 But it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment than for you. 15 And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted to the heavens? No, you will go down to Hades.[a]16 “Whoever listens to you listens to me; whoever rejects you rejects me; but whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.”17 The seventy-two returned with joy and said, “Lord, even the demons submit to us in your name.”

18 He replied, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. 19 I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you. 20 However, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”

Revelation 12
The Woman and the Dragon

1 A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. 2 She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth. 3 Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on its heads. 4Its tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that it might devour her child the moment he was born. 5 She gave birth to a son, a male child, who “will rule all the nations with an iron scepter.”[a] And her child was snatched up to God and to his throne. 6 The woman fled into the wilderness to a place prepared for her by God, where she might be taken care of for 1,260 days.

7 Then war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. 8 But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven. 9 The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.

10 Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say:
“Now have come the salvation and the power
and the kingdom of our God,
and the authority of his Messiah.
For the accuser of our brothers and sisters,
who accuses them before our God day and night,
has been hurled down.
11 They triumphed over him
by the blood of the Lamb
and by the word of their testimony;
they did not love their lives so much
as to shrink from death.
12 Therefore rejoice, you heavens
and you who dwell in them!
But woe to the earth and the sea,
because the devil has gone down to you!
He is filled with fury,
because he knows that his time is short.”
13 When the dragon saw that he had been hurled to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child. 14 The woman was given the two wings of a great eagle, so that she might fly to the place prepared for her in the wilderness, where she would be taken care of for a time, times and half a time, out of the serpent’s reach. 15 Then from his mouth the serpent spewed water like a river, to overtake the woman and sweep her away with the torrent. 16 But the earth helped the woman by opening its mouth and swallowing the river that the dragon had spewed out of his mouth. 17 Then the dragon was enraged at the woman and went off to wage war against the rest of her offspring—those who keep God’s commands and hold fast their testimony about Jesus.

Matthew 25:41 (New International Version, ©2011)
41 “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.

2 Peter 2:4 (New International Version, ©2011)
4 For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell,[a] putting them in chains of darkness[b] to be held for judgment;

Jude 1:6 (New International Version, ©2011)
6 And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their proper dwelling—these he has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great Day.

17 ‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God?
Can even a strong man be more pure than his Maker?
18 If God places no trust in his servants,
if he charges his angels with error,

15 If God places no trust in his holy ones,
if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes,

Genesis 6:1-4 (New International Version, ©2011)
Genesis 6
Wickedness in the World
1 When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, 2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose. 3 Then the LORD said,

“My Spirit will not contend with[a] humans forever, for they are mortal[b]; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.”

4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them.

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Fallen Angels- OTHER RELIGIONS