Doctrines and Practices of the Church
Part 10

The Flood
Part 2

The Missing Antediluvian Age
      With only a few words from Moses and brief general descriptions from Matthew and Luke, there is little to point to the true cause of man's evil binge before the flood:
♦  Matthew 24:37  But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.  38  For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,  39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
♦  Luke 17:26  And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.  27 They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.

      There is a source that sheds considerable light on the cause of mankind's demise, and presents a scenario so unorthodox it is no wonder it was rejected by the church.   Here, in brief, is what Enoch has to say about the reason for mankind’s near demise:

Enoch's Revelation
      There is a source that sheds considerable light on the cause of mankind's demise and presents a scenario so unorthodox; it is no wonder the church rejected it.  It is the Book of Enoch.

·  Enoch was so close to God, the Bible says God took him:
♦  Genesis 5: 24 And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.

·  Paul recalls his favor with God:
♦  Hebrews 11:15 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.

·  The book of Enoch is quoted in the Bible:
♦  Jude 1:14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints. 

The Book of Enoch Purged
      Why isn't his book in the Bible?  The Book of Enoch was recognized centuries before Christ, it was accepted by early Christians, and early Christian literature contains many references to it.  The book was an accepted part of the scriptures up to the middle of the third century when the church leadership decided to ban it during the Council of Laodicea.  Along with 40 other books it was banned as a scriptural source and was lost for over a thousand years.  It was not until the late 1700s that a copy surfaced. 
      The obvious reason for this mass book banning was that these books did not agree with the beliefs of the church leaders.  During the same Council, this leadership declared the keeping of the Sabbath a sin.  The simple reality was scripture did not determine what dogma was accepted; rather dogma determined what scripture was accepted. This may have occurred centuries ago, but the modern day church practices the same contradiction. 

Enoch is Taken
      It is recorded that Enoch lived for 365 years, but that is a relative figure because apparently Yhovah took him on board and didn't bring him back.  In Hebrews 11:5 the word ‘translate’ is used 3 times:
♦  “By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God”. (Hebrews 11:5)
      The words from which "translate" is rendered mean" to transport".  It is clear that he was physically transported and it is the amazing odyssey that Enoch records after, “God took him”, that reveals the true cause of early mankind’s demise.  Enoch had a revelation given to him just as John received thousands of years later on the Isle of Patmos. 

      Here, in brief, is what Enoch has to say about what caused such a radical action as a worldwide flood:
·  The angels were in such close contact with mankind that they actually taught men previously unknown knowledge.  This is a practical explanation about why there is no apparent evolution of early culture, just a sudden burst of knowledge with no evident progression of learning.  It not only seems that our ancestors were taught advanced skills, but the records of many ancient cultures testify to that reality.
·  Certain angels actually organized a plot to inbreed with human women and swore an evil oath to seal the devastating conspiracy.  The ringleaders are named and the number of conspirators is given.  Many ancient writings speak of such a relationship with divine or extraterrestrial beings.
·  The offspring of this plot were giants.  World anthropological and historical documentation, as well as the biblical record, testify to the existence of giants throughout the ages. 
See the section on Giants
·  The giants apparently had appetites that matched their size.  These hybrid monsters ate all man could produce, and when man could not produce enough, they began to eat humans.  They also began to consume all they could acquire from nature, and when this ran out they turned on each other.
·  The rampant destruction of the natural environment by the giant hybrids and the corruption of mankind caused the decision to flood the planet.  
·  When the flood killed the giants, their spirits separated from their bodies as spirit beings whose sole purpose is to torture and devastate man until the judgment day.
·  The angels who perpetrated the invasive act are imprisoned, but the spirits of their illicit offspring are roaming the planet.

Enoch and the Flood -A Liaison to Angels
      After taking Enoch, God appointed him as liaison to the imprisoned angels that had perpetrated the corruption of, and inbreeding with mankind.  This gave him direct knowledge of the cause and effect of this act and witness to the events that followed.  Not only are the criminals named, but also the true nature of the devils recorded in the Bible is revealed.  This is a revelation concealed from mankind by the actions of other men, a decision that keeps the most evil of forces hidden from view.  Many of the strange events and entities witnessed in ancient and modern times remain unexplained without this knowledge. 
      Following are the verses from the Book of Enoch that relate to the Flood, the angels that caused this worldwide disaster, and the destructive spirits that now inhabit Earth.  Though many ancient writings refer to a worldwide flood, none is more concise and descriptive of the root causes of this disaster than the writings of Enoch. 

The Angels Plot Against Mankind
♦  Enoch 6:1 And it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied that in those days were born unto them beautiful and comely daughters.  2 And the angels, the children of the heaven, saw and lusted after them, and said to one another: 'Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men 3 and beget us children.' And Semjaza, who was their leader, said unto them: 'I fear ye will not 4 indeed agree to do this deed, and I alone shall have to pay the penalty of a great sin.' And they all answered him and said: 'Let us all swear an oath, and all bind ourselves by mutual imprecations 5 not to abandon this plan but to do this thing.' Then sware they all together and bound themselves 6 by mutual imprecations upon it. And they were in all two hundred; who descended in the days of Jared on the summit of Mount Hermon, and they called it Mount Hermon, because they had sworn  7 and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it. And these are the names of their leaders: Samlazaz, their leader, Araklba, Rameel, Kokablel, Tamlel, Ramlel, Danel, Ezeqeel, Baraqijal,  8 Asael, Armaros, Batarel, Ananel, Zaq1el, Samsapeel, Satarel, Turel, Jomjael, Sariel. These are their chiefs of tens.

Inbreeding Begins
♦  7:1 And all the others together with them took unto themselves wives, and each chose for himself one, and they began to go in unto them and to defile themselves with them,

An Education in Secret Arts Begins
♦  7:1 .....and they taught them charms  2  and enchantments, and the cutting of roots, and made them acquainted with plants.....

Voracious, Giant, Man-eating, Cannibal Mutants Are Born
♦  7:2  .....And they 3 became pregnant, and they bare great giants, whose height was three thousand ells: Who consumed  4 all the acquisitions of men. And when men could no longer sustain them, the giants turned against 5 them and devoured mankind. And they began to sin against birds, and beasts, and reptiles, and 6 fish, and to devour one another's flesh, and drink the blood. Then the earth laid accusation against the lawless ones.

Weapon Making and Metallurgy Are Taught
♦  8:1 And Azazel taught men to make swords, and knives, and shields, and breastplates, and made known to them the metals of the earth and the art of working them, and bracelets, and ornaments, and the use of ¹antimony,
¹antimony, a trivalent and pentavalent metalloid element that is commonly metallic silvery white, crystalline, and brittle and that is used especially as a constituent of alloys and semiconductors

Cosmetics and Jewelry Are Taught
♦  8:1.....and the beautifying of the eyelids, and all kinds of costly stones, and all 2 colouring tinctures...

Society is Corrupted
♦  8:2.....And there arose much godlessness, and they committed fornication, and they  3 were led astray, and became corrupt in all their ways.

Sorcery, Astrology, and Astronomy
♦  8:3.....Semjaza taught enchantments, and root-cuttings, 'Armaros the resolving of enchantments, Baraqijal (taught) astrology, Kokabel the constellations, Ezeqeel the knowledge of the clouds, Araqiel the signs of the earth, Shamsiel the signs of the sun, and Sariel the course of the moon. And as men perished, they cried, and their cry went up to heaven . . .

The Corruption is Exposed
♦  9:1 And then Michael, Uriel, Raphael, and Gabriel looked down from heaven and saw much blood being 2 shed upon the earth, and all lawlessness being wrought upon the earth. And they said one to another: 'The earth made without inhabitant cries the voice of their cryingst up to the gates of heaven. 3 And now to you, the holy ones of heaven, the souls of men make their suit, saying, "Bring our cause 4 before the Most High."' And they said to the Lord of the ages: 'Lord of lords, God of gods, King of kings, and God of the ages, the throne of Thy glory (standeth) unto all the generations of the 5 ages, and Thy name holy and glorious and blessed unto all the ages! Thou hast made all things, and power over all things hast Thou: and all things are naked and open in Thy sight, and Thou seest all 6 things, and nothing can hide itself from Thee. Thou seest what Azazel hath done, who hath taught all unrighteousness on earth and revealed the eternal secrets which were (preserved) in heaven, which 7 men were striving to learn: And Semjaza, to whom Thou hast given authority to bear rule over his associates. And they have gone to the daughters of men upon the earth, and have slept with the 9 women, and have defiled themselves, and revealed to them all kinds of sins. And the women have 10 borne giants, and the whole earth has thereby been filled with blood and unrighteousness. And now, behold, the souls of those who have died are crying and making their suit to the gates of heaven, and their lamentations have ascended: and cannot cease because of the lawless deeds which are 11 wrought on the earth. And Thou knowest all things before they come to pass, and Thou seest these things and Thou dost suffer them, and Thou dost not say to us what we are to do to them in regard to these.'

Noah Informed
♦  10:1 Then said the Most High, the Holy and Great One spake, and sent Uriel to the son of Lamech,  2 and said to him: Go to Noah and tell him in my name "Hide thyself!" and reveal to him the end that is approaching: that the whole earth will be destroyed, and a deluge is about to come  3 upon the whole earth, and will destroy all that is on it. And now instruct him that he may escape 4 and his seed may be preserved for all the generations of the world.

Giants Become Evil Spirits
♦  !5:1 And He answered and said to me, and I heard His voice: 'Fear not, Enoch, thou righteous 2 man and scribe of righteousness: approach hither and hear my voice. And go, say to the Watchers of heaven, who have sent thee to intercede for them: "You should intercede" for men, and not men 3 for you: Wherefore have ye left the high, holy, and eternal heaven, and lain with women, and defiled yourselves with the daughters of men and taken to yourselves wives, and done like the children 4 of earth, and begotten giants (as your) sons? And though ye were holy, spiritual, living the eternal life, you have defiled yourselves with the blood of women, and have begotten (children) with the blood of flesh, and, as the children of men, have lusted after flesh and blood as those also do who die 5 and perish. Therefore have I given them wives also that they might impregnate them, and beget 6 children by them, that thus nothing might be wanting to them on earth. But you were formerly 7 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. 8 And now, the giants, who are produced from the spirits and flesh, shall be called evil spirits upon 9 the earth, and on the earth shall be their dwelling. Evil spirits have proceeded from their bodies; because they are born from men and from the holy Watchers is their beginning and primal origin; 10 they shall be evil spirits on earth, and evil spirits shall they be called. [As for the spirits of heaven, in heaven shall be their dwelling, but as for the spirits of the earth which were born upon the earth, on the earth shall be their dwelling.]  11 And the spirits of the giants afflict, oppress, destroy, attack, do battle, and work destruction on the earth, and cause trouble: they take no food, but nevertheless 12 hunger and thirst, and cause offences. And these spirits shall rise up against the children of men and against the women, because they have proceeded from them.

     The previous concepts from scripture and the Book of Enoch show clearly that the blame for the Flood, which is used by the Church to shame mankind into believing it was responsible, is false.  It also shoves the existence of giants under the rug, and hides the true origin and nature of demons.  Perhaps this is one of the prime reason reasons Enoch was purged from the Bible.