Eschatology

But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. 2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, 4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these. 6 For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses, 7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. 8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith. 9 But they will not make further progress; for their folly will be obvious to all, just as Jannes’s and Jambres’s folly was also.- 2 Tim 3


Now it will come about that
In the last days
The mountain of the house of the Lord
Will be established as the chief of the mountains,
And will be raised above the hills;
And all the nations will stream to it.
3 And many peoples will come and say,
“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
To the house of the God of Jacob;
That He may teach us concerning His ways
And that we may walk in His paths.”
For the law will go forth from Zion
And the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
4 And He will judge between the nations,
And will render decisions for many peoples;
And they will hammer their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.
Nation will not lift up sword against nation,
And never again will they learn war. Isaiah 2

Thus says the Lord of hosts,
“Do not listen to the words of the prophets who are prophesying to you.
They are leading you into futility;
They speak a vision of their own imagination,
Not from the mouth of the Lord.
17 “They keep saying to those who despise Me,
‘The Lord has said, “You will have peace”’;
And as for everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart,
They say, ‘Calamity will not come upon you.’- Jere 23


Therefore prophesy, son of man, and say to Gog, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “On that day when My people Israel are living securely, will you not know it? 15 You will come from your place out of the remote parts of the north, you and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great assembly and a mighty army; 16 and you will come up against My people Israel like a cloud to cover the land. It shall come about in the last days that I will bring you against My land, so that the nations may know Me when I am sanctified through you before their eyes, O Gog.”
17 ‘Thus says the Lord God, “Are you the one of whom I spoke in former days through My servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days for many years that I would bring you against them? 18 It will come about on that day, when Gog comes against the land of Israel,” declares the Lord God, “that My fury will mount up in My anger. 19 In My zeal and in My blazing wrath I declare that on that day there will surely be a great earthquake in the land of Israel. 20 The fish of the sea, the birds of the heavens, the beasts of the field, all the creeping things that creep on the earth, and all the men who are on the face of the earth will shake at My presence; the mountains also will be thrown down, the steep pathways will collapse and every wall will fall to the ground. 21 I will call for a sword against him on all My mountains,” declares the Lord God. “Every man’s sword will be against his brother. 22 With pestilence and with blood I will enter into judgment with him; and I will rain on him and on his troops, and on the many peoples who are with him, a torrential rain, with hailstones, fire and brimstone. 23 I will magnify Myself, sanctify Myself, and make Myself known in the sight of many nations; and they will know that I am the Lord.”’- Ezekiel 38


And it will come about in the last days
That the mountain of the house of the Lord
Will be established as the chief of the mountains.
It will be raised above the hills,
And the peoples will stream to it.
2 Many nations will come and say,
“Come and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord
And to the house of the God of Jacob,
That He may teach us about His ways
And that we may walk in His paths.”
For from Zion will go forth the law,
Even the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
3 And He will judge between many peoples
And render decisions for mighty, distant nations.
Then they will hammer their swords into plowshares
And their spears into pruning hooks;
Nation will not lift up sword against nation,
And never again will they train for war.- Micah 4

‘And it shall be in the last days,’ God says,
‘That I will pour forth of My Spirit on all mankind;
And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
And your young men shall see visions,
And your old men shall dream dreams;
18 Even on My bondslaves, both men and women,
I will in those days pour forth of My Spirit
And they shall prophesy.
19 ‘And I will grant wonders in the sky above
And signs on the earth below,
Blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke.
20 ‘The sun will be turned into darkness
And the moon into blood,
Before the great and glorious day of the Lord shall come.
21 ‘And it shall be that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’- Acts 2

in these last days has spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the world. 3 And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of His power. When He had made purification of sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, 4 having become as much better than the angels, as He has inherited a more excellent name than they.
5 For to which of the angels did He ever say,
“You are My Son,
Today I have begotten You”?
And again,
“I will be a Father to Him
And He shall be a Son to Me”?
6 And when He again brings the firstborn into the world, He says,
“And let all the angels of God worship Him.”
7 And of the angels He says,
“Who makes His angels winds,
And His ministers a flame of fire.”
8 But of the Son He says,
“Your throne, O God, is forever and ever,
And the righteous scepter is the scepter of His kingdom.
9 “You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness;
Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You
With the oil of gladness above Your companions.”
10 And,
“You, Lord, in the beginning laid the foundation of the earth,
And the heavens are the works of Your hands;
11 They will perish, but You remain;
And they all will become old like a garment,
12 And like a mantle You will roll them up;
Like a garment they will also be changed.
But You are the same,
And Your years will not come to an end.”
13 But to which of the angels has He ever said,
“Sit at My right hand,
Until I make Your enemies
A footstool for Your feet”? - Hebrews 1 

Know this first of all, that in the last days mockers will come with their mocking, following after their own lusts, 4 and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all continues just as it was from the beginning of creation.” 5 For when they maintain this, it escapes their notice that by the word of God the heavens existed long ago and the earth was formed out of water and by water, 6 through which the world at that time was destroyed, being flooded with water. 7 But by His word the present heavens and earth are being reserved for fire, kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.8 But do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day. 9 The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.- 2 peter 3

Behold, a day is coming for the Lord when the spoil taken from you will be divided among you. 2 For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city will be captured, the houses plundered, the women ravished and half of the city exiled, but the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city. 3 Then the Lord will go forth and fight against those nations, as when He fights on a day of battle. 4 In that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, which is in front of Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be split in its middle from east to west by a very large valley, so that half of the mountain will move toward the north and the other half toward the south. 5 You will flee by the valley of My mountains, for the valley of the mountains will reach to Azel; yes, you will flee just as you fled before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the Lord, my God, will come, and all the holy ones with Him!

6 In that day there will be no light; the luminaries will dwindle. 7 For it will be a unique day which is known to the Lord, neither day nor night, but it will come about that at evening time there will be light.
8 And in that day living waters will flow out of Jerusalem, half of them toward the eastern sea and the other half toward the western sea; it will be in summer as well as in winter.
God Will Be King over All
9 And the Lord will be king over all the earth; in that day the Lord will be the only one, and His name the only one.
10 All the land will be changed into a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem; but Jerusalem will rise and remain on its site from Benjamin’s Gate as far as the place of the First Gate to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the king’s wine presses. 11 People will live in it, and there will no longer be a curse, for Jerusalem will dwell in security.

12 Now this will be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the peoples who have gone to war against Jerusalem; their flesh will rot while they stand on their feet, and their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongue will rot in their mouth. 13 It will come about in that day that a great panic from the Lord will fall on them; and they will seize one another’s hand, and the hand of one will be lifted against the hand of another. 14 Judah also will fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the surrounding nations will be gathered, gold and silver and garments in great abundance. 15 So also like this plague will be the plague on the horse, the mule, the camel, the donkey and all the cattle that will be in those camps.

16 Then it will come about that any who are left of all the nations that went against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to celebrate the Feast of Booths. 17 And it will be that whichever of the families of the earth does not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, there will be no rain on them. 18 If the family of Egypt does not go up or enter, then no rain will fall on them; it will be the plague with which the Lord smites the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths. 19 This will be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths.

20 In that day there will be inscribed on the bells of the horses, “HOLY TO THE LORD.” And the cooking pots in the Lord’s house will be like the bowls before the altar. 21 Every cooking pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to the Lord of hosts; and all who sacrifice will come and take of them and boil in them. And there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of the Lord of hosts in that day. Zech 14

Biblical Profile: Fool

Proverbs


1:7
¶The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge;
Fools despise wisdom and instruction.

1:22
“How long, O naive ones, will you love being simple-minded?
And scoffers delight themselves in scoffing
And fools hate knowledge?

1:33
For the waywardness of the naive will kill them,
And the complacency of fools will destroy them.
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3:35
The wise will inherit honor,
But fools display dishonor.
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10:1
¶The proverbs of Solomon.
A wise son makes a father glad,
But a foolish son is a grief to his mother.

10:8
The wise of heart will receive commands,
But a babbling fool will be ruined

10:10
He who winks the eye causes trouble,
And a babbling fool will be ruined.

10:14
Wise men store up knowledge,
But with the mouth of the foolish, ruin is at hand.

10:18
He who conceals hatred has lying lips,
And he who spreads slander is a fool.

10:21
The lips of the righteous feed many,
But fools die for lack of understanding.

10:23
 Doing wickedness is like sport to a fool,
And so is wisdom to a man of understanding.
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12:1
¶Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge,
But he who hates reproof is stupid.

12:15
The way of a fool is right in his own eyes,
But a wise man is he who listens to counsel.

12:16
A fool’s anger is known at once,
But a prudent man conceals dishonor.

12:23
A prudent man conceals knowledge,
But the heart of fools proclaims folly.
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13:16
Every prudent man acts with knowledge,
But a fool displays folly.

13:19
Desire realized is sweet to the soul,
But it is an abomination to fools to turn away from evil.

13:20
He who walks with wise men will be wise,
But the companion of fools will suffer harm.
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14:1
¶The wise woman builds her house,
But the foolish tears it down with her own hands.

14:3
In the mouth of the foolish is a rod for his back,
But the lips of the wise will protect them.

14:7
Leave the presence of a fool,
Or you will not discern words of knowledge.

14:8
The wisdom of the sensible is to understand his way,
But the foolishness of fools is deceit.

14:9
Fools mock at sin,
But among the upright there is good will.

14:16
A wise man is cautious and turns away from evil,

But a fool is arrogant and careless.

14:17
A quick-tempered man acts foolishly,

And a man of evil devices is hated.

14:18
The naive inherit foolishness,

But the sensible are crowned with knowledge.

14:24
The crown of the wise is their riches,

But the folly of fools is foolishness

14:33
Wisdom rests in the heart of one who has understanding,

But in the hearts of fools it is made known.

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16:22

Understanding is a fountain of life to one the one who has it, but the discipline of fools is folly

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17 :7

Excellent speech is not fitting for a fool, 

Much less are lying lips to a prince.

17:10
A rebuke goes deeper into one who has understanding than a hundred blows into a fool 

17:12

Let a man meet a bear robbed of her Cubs rather than a fool in his folly 

17:16
Why is there a price in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom,

When he has no sense?

17:21
He who sires a fool does so to his sorrow,
And the father of a fool has no joy.

17:24-25
Wisdom is in the presence of the one who has understanding,
But the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.
25 A foolish son is a grief to his father
And bitterness to her who bore him.

17:28
Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is considered wise;
When he closes his lips, he is considered prudent.

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18:2
A fool does not delight in understanding,
But only in revealing his own mind.

18:6
A fool’s lips bring strife,
And his mouth calls for blows.

18:7
A fool’s mouth is his ruin,
And his lips are the snare of his soul.

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19:1
Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity
Than he who is perverse in speech and is a fool.

19:3
The foolishness of man ruins his way,
And his heart rages against the Lord.

19:10

Luxury is not fitting for a fool;
Much less for a slave to rule over princes.

19:13

A foolish son is destruction to his father,
And the contentions of a wife are a constant dripping.

19:29
Judgments are prepared for scoffers,
And blows for the back of fools.

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20:3

Keeping away from strife is an honor for a man,
But any fool will quarrel.

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21:20
There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise,

But a foolish man swallows it up.

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22:15
 Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child;

The rod of discipline will remove it far from him.

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23:9
¶Do not speak in the hearing of a fool,

For he will despise the wisdom of your words.

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24:7¶Wisdom is too exalted for a fool,

He does not open his mouth in the gate.

Heretical Refutations

Compiled here from several references are refutations of the heretical books of Enoch, Jasher, And Jubilees. Firstly for my part I will be focusing on the idea that "Sons of God refers to angels" which is one of the major premises for Enoch. Gen 6:2 is where they derive the idea :
📖Gen 6:2 that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose.

Scripture counters this idea in Hebrews 1:5 where it states that the Angels are not called sons of God.

📖Hebrews 1:5 For to which of the angels did He ever say, “You are My Son, Today I have begotten You”? And again, “I will be a Father to Him And He shall be a Son to Me”?

Yeshua even states that Angels don't marry in Matt 22:30
 📖Matt 22:30 For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

The sons of God took wives. The Hebrew verb here, laqah, commonly describes marital transactions, including taking a wife for oneself (4:19;11:29; 12:19; 20:2,3; 25:1; 36:2,6; Exod 34:16) and taking a wife for another (Gen 21:21; 24:4, 40, 48). One might also take somebody else' wife (2 Sam. 11:4). Most of the former instances involve polygamy or potential adultery but not rape. When indiscriminate rape is described some verb like forced (2 Sam. 13:14) is necessary. Furthermore in the OT (Gen 36:2; 2 Sam 1:20, 24; Isa 3:16) benot (daughters) followed by a gentilic or place name normally designates those who are eligible for marriage, another indication that we are dealing here with marriage rather than rape (Victor Hamilton, Genesis, 1-17, Eerdmans, 1990, p. 265)

📖Gen6: 4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them.

Note that it makes the distinction between Nephilim and the sons of God as being two separate groups. Nephilim are giants. Giants existed. Not demons or fallen angels. Who are the sons of God? Israel and the righteous men of faith. They are the ones that are to appear before God at the three appointed times God outlines.

📖Exodus 4:22 Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord, “Israel is My son, My firstborn. 23 So I said to you, ‘Let My son go that he may serve Me’; but you have refused to let him go. Behold, I will kill your son, your firstborn.”

📖Deut 16:16“Three times in a year all your males shall appear before the Lord your God in the place which He chooses, at the Feast of Unleavened Bread and at the Feast of Weeks and at the Feast of Booths, and they shall not appear before the Lord empty-handed

The idea that that sons of God means angels is also taken from Job 1:6

📖Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them.

When we read Job 1:6 we can see that this event is easily shown as one of the appointed times that Israel appeared before God, and makes no mention of Angels at all.
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From Joseph Schauer-
Dismantling the Book of Enoch

The Book of Enoch is NOT reliable

Contradiction #1

☠️Enoch 6:1-6
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 heaven, saw and lusted after them, and said to one another, "Come, let us choose us men from among he children of men and beget us children." 3 And Semjaza, who was their leader, said unto them "I fear ye will not agree indeed to do this deed, and I alone will have to pay the penalty for this great sin." 4 And they all answered him and said "Let us all swear an oath, and all bind ourselves by mutual imprecations not to abandon this plan but to do this thing." 5 Then swear they all together and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it. 6 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 and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it. 

Enoch is referring to the same time frame in Genesis 6:1. We know this because Genesis 6:1 says pretty much the same statement that Enoch 6:1 makes. Genesis 6:1 tells us that the children of men had multiplied that in those days were born unto them daughters just like in Enoch 6:1. Now in Chapter 8, we see a contradictory statement. Let's have a look.

☠️Enoch 8:1
And Azâzêl 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 antimony, and the beautifying of the eyelids, and all kinds of costly stones, and all colouring tinctures. 

📖Genesis 4:20-22
20 Adah bore Jabal; he was the father of those who dwell in tents and have livestock. 21 His brother's name was Jubal; he was the father of all those who play the lyre and pipe. 22 Zillah also bore Tubal-cain; he was the FORGER OF ALL INSTRUMENTS BRONZE AND IRON. The sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.

In Enoch 8:1 we are told that Azâzêl taught men how to work metals. Yet Genesis 4:20-22, before men multiplied on the earth like in Enoch 6:1 and Genesis 6:1, we are told that Tubal-Cain was a forger of all instruments bronze and iron. That is a contradiction to the Book of Enoch that leaves us in a position to choose either Torah or Enoch. I think it is safe to say that Torah doesn't contradict itself, Enoch does.

This Book is loaded with passages which contradict Scripture .

Contradiction #2

☠️Enoch 10:1
1 Then said The Most High, the Holy and Great One spake, and sent Uriel to the son of alameda, and said to him: 2 "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 upon the whole earth, and will destroy all who is on it. 

Ok, here in Enoch we are told that The Most High is about to destroy the earth.

☠️Enoch 10:8
8 And the whole earth has been corrupted through the works that were taught by Azâzêl: to ascribe him all sin. 

Here we are told that Azâzêl is responsible for all sin. But this is not what scripture teaches. Genesis 3 tells us Adam was responsible for all sin. And the Book of Romans confirms this as well.

📖Romans 5:12
12 Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned.

The contradictions don’t stop there.

Contradiction #3

📖Genesis 6:13-16
13 And God said to Noah, “I have determined to make an end of all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth. 14 Make yourself an ark of gopher wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and out with pitch. 15 This is how you are to make it: the length of the ark 300 cubits, its breadth 50 cubits, and its height 30 cubits. 16 Make a roof for the ark, and finish it to a cubit above, and set the door of the ark in its side. Make it with lower, second, and third decks.

Here we are told that God commanded Noah to build the ark. But what does Enoch say?

☠️Enoch 67:1-2
1 And in those days the word of God came unto me, and he said unto me: "Noah, thy lot has come up before me, a lot without blame, a lot of love and uprightness. 2 And now the Angels are making a wooden building, and when they have completed that task

There is a false teaching going around that originates from the Book of Enoch which postulates that reading and writing are part of the dark arts.

☠️Enoch 68:9-16The name of the fourth is Penemue: he discovered to the children of men bitterness and sweetness; And pointed out to them every secret of their wisdom. He taught men to understand writing, and [the use of] ink and paper. Therefore numerous have been those who have gone astray from every period of the world, even to this day. For men were not born for this, thus with pen and with ink to confirm their faith; Since they were not created, except that, like the angels, they might remain righteous and pure. Nor would death, which destroys everything, have effected them; But by this their knowledge they perish, and by this also [its] power consumes [them].

Here we are told that the Angel Penemue taught men how to understand writing. And that because of reading and writing, many have gone astray because writing was never meant to be for men and that writing makes men unrighteous and impure. It even appears to have stated that death itself would have never affected us if we never learned how to read and write. Let me make something crystal clear. Writing and reading does not make anyone unrighteous or impure in even the slightest sense. Writing is not part of the Dark Arts that fallen Angels taught men like this absurd passage teaches. We do not die because we know how to read and write either, we die because of our fallen sin nature which still curses and consumes us. Nowhere in Gods Law was writing ever forbidden, declared sin, nor are we told it could even make somebody ceremonially unclean. That is not a teaching from the Bible, that is a teaching from men. None of the patriarchs or prophets ever warned about the dangers of reading or writing. And as a matter of fact, The Most High God Himself wrote the 10 commandments on stone before he handed them to Moses. God would never do anything unrighteous or impure. This is one of the most blasphemous teachings that I have ever heard. To say that the men who gave us the written word of God, which was written by the Prophets, Apostles, Holy men of God and even God Himself by the power and inspiration of the Holy Spirit, were unrighteous, impure and were engaging in one of the Dark Arts given to us via fallen angels is blasphemous and heretical in every sense. This is one of the many false teachings of the Book of Enoch that adds to Scripture. Let’s look and see what the Bible has to say about adding words to Scripture.

📖Deuteronomy 4:2
You shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall you diminish from it, that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.

📖Deuteronomy 12:32
What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: you shall not add thereto, nor diminish from it.

📖Revelation 22:18-19
For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and [from] the things which are written in this book.

Will a Holy and Elect race from Heaven mix their seed with the children of men after the judgment?

I guess according to the Book of Enoch, a Holy and Elect race from the upper heavens will one day mix their seed with the children of men.

☠️Enoch 39:1
In those days shall the elect and holy race descend from the upper heavens, and their seed shall then be with the children of men. Enoch received books of indignation and wrath, and books of hurry and agitation.

Interesting considering the fact that proponents of the Book of Enoch claim that the entire book was written because Angels had sex with women and that act was a great sin and act of rebellion against God. Then, in Enoch 39:1 we are told that a Holy and Elect race will descend from Heaven (even though HUMANS are in SHEOL and Matthew 22 says the ANGELS IN HEAVEN DONT MARRY WOMEN) and mix their seed (a rebellious sin) in women. The contradictions in the Book of Enoch are as endless as they are silly.

And in case you are wondering, to make matters much much much much worse for defenders of the Book of Enoch, the context of this passage is AFTER THE JUDGEMENT. Meaning, after we are all judged and either given eternal life or eternal death, a Holy and elect race of heavenly beings is going to mix their seed with women. . Read for yourself.

☠️Enoch 38:2-39:2
And when the Righteous One shall appear before the eyes of the righteous, Whose elect works hang upon the Lord of Spirits, And light shall appear to the righteous and the elect who dwell on the earth, Where then will be the dwelling of the sinners, And where the resting-place of those who have denied the Lord of Spirits? It had been good for them if they had not been born. When, too, the secrets of the righteous shall be revealed, THEN SHALL SINNERS BE JUDGED; and impious men shall be afflicted in the presence of the righteous and the elect. From that period those who possess the earth shall cease to be powerful and exalted. Neither shall they be capable of beholding the countenances of the holy; for the light of the countenances of the holy, the righteous, and the elect, has been seen by the Lord of spirits. Yet shall not the mighty kings of that period be destroyed; but be delivered into the hands of the righteous and the holy. Nor thenceforwards shall any obtain commiseration from the Lord of spirits, because their lives in this world will have been completed. IN THOSE DAYS SHALL THE ELECT AND HOLY RACE DESCEND FROM THE UPPER HEAVENS, AND THEIR SEED SHALL THEN BE WITH THE CHILDREN OF MEN. Enoch received books of indignation and wrath, and books of hurry and agitation. 2. Never shall they obtain mercy, saith the Lord of spirits.

Those who are defenders of Enoch are in a tough spot here. They can’t say that this Holy and Elect race of people are fallen angels because the Book of Enoch here calls them HOLY AND ELECT. Plus, the context is after the judgement so if they were fallen angels, that would mean God judged everyone and everything and yet after the entire Revelation is revealed, angels who somehow escaped judgement (which remember, are called Holy and Elect) mix their seed with women.

They can’t call this Holy and Elect race of people good angels either. Because good angels in their view (and mine too) don’t have sex and mingle their seed with women. Matthew 22 confirms this.

And they can’t call them men either because men are in Sheol and even if men were in Heaven, well, Matthew 22 explicitly tells us that at the judgement and resurrection, men neither marry or are given in marriage but are like the angels in heaven.

This is an inescapable contradiction regardless of any view you can possibly take on identifying this race of beings from the upper heavens. The Book of Enoch is a false and contradictory polytheistic book of paganism and fairytales which teaches unorthodox and anti-Apostolic doctrines in direct conflict with Scripture. Have nothing to do with Jewish myths or fables.

📖Titus 1:13-16
13 This testimony is true. Therefore rebuke them sternly, so that they will be sound in the faith 14 and will pay no attention to Jewish myths or to the commands of men who have rejected the truth. 15 To the pure, all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure. Indeed, both their minds and their consciences are defiled. 16 They profess to know God, but they deny Him by their actions. They are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good deed.


Here are some more inescapable contradictions in the Book of Jasher that those who believe it have no rebuttal to for those interested in sound biblical truth and exposing error.

☠️Jasher 81:39-41
"And the Lord manifested to the children of Israel his wonders in Egypt and in the sea by the hand of Moses and Aaron. And when the children of Israel had entered the sea, the Egyptians came after them, and the waters of the sea resumed upon them, and they all sank in the water, and not one man was left excepting Pharaoh, who gave thanks to the Lord and believed in him, therefore the Lord did not cause him to perish at that time with the Egyptians. And the Lord ordered an angel to take him from amongst the Egyptians, who cast him upon the land of Ninevah and he reigned over it for a long time."

The Psalms quote says otherwise.

📖Psalms 136:15
"But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea: for his mercy endureth for ever."

The contradictions in the Book of Jasher are so opposed to Scripture, it becomes clear that proponents of the Book of Jasher probably have never even read the Book of Jasher in its entirety, or the Bible for that matter. Because it should only take one read of it to see how false it is.

The Book of Jasher lists 15 plagues on the Egyptians (Book of Jasher 80:2-51). The Bible says there were 10 plagues (Exodus 7-12).

The Book of Jasher has Isaac dying after Joseph went into slavery (Book of Jasher 43:35; 47:3, 9). The Bible mentions that Isaac died before Joseph went into slavery (Genesis 35:29; 37:2).

Here are some more that I’ve spoken of in the past.

The Book of Jasher claims that Methuselah was 960 years old when he died. Have a look.

☠️Jasher 5:36
And it was at the time Methuselah the son of Enoch died, NINE HUNDRED AND SIXTY (960) YEARS OLD WAS HE AT HIS DEATH. 

This is another direct contradiction of Scripture which states that he was 969 years old when he died.

📖Genesis 5:27
27 Altogether, Methuselah lived a total of 969 years, and then he died.

The question now that we see this obvious contradiction is who do we trust? One of these Book are lying and divine books from God do not lie and they certainly don’t contradict themselves. Which book do we throw in the trash here? Genesis? Or Jasher?

☠️Jasher 5:19-20
And Lamech the father of Noah, died in those days; yet verily he did not go with all his heart in the ways of his father, and he died in the hundred and ninety-fifth year of the life of Noah. AND ALL THE DAYS OF LAMECH WERE SEVEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTY (770) YEARS, AND HE DIED. 

What does the Bible say about this though? Let’s have a look.

📖Genesis 5:30
30 After Noah was born, Lamech lived 595 years and had other sons and daughters. 31 Altogether, LAMECH LIVED A TOTAL OF 777 YEARS, and then he died.

As a matter of fact, there are two contradictions in this small passage here. Lol. In Jasher 5:19, it tells us that Lamech the father of Noah died in the 195 year of the life of Noah. But, Genesis 5:30 states that after Noah was born, he lived for 595 years. Jasher is off by about 400 years here. I may as well post the passages again for those who missed it.

Jashers 195 year account.

☠️Jasher 5:19-20
And LAMECH THE FATHER IF NOAH, DIED IN THISE DAYS; yet verily he did not go with all his heart in the ways of his father, AND HE DIED IN THE HUNDRED AND NINETY-FIFTH YEAR OF THE LIFE OF NOAH. And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred and seventy years, and he died.
Here is another contradiction in the false book of Jasher. The false book of Jasher makes the claim that Lamech, the father of Noah, died at 770 years of age. This is a direct contradiction to what Genesis states about Lamech which says that Lamech died and 777 years of age. 

Genesis 595 year account.

📖Genesis 5:30
30 AFTER NOAH WAS BORN, LAMECH LIVED 595 YEARS AND HAD OTHER SONS AND DAUGHTERS. 31 Altogether, LAMECH LIVED A TOTAL OF 777 YEARS, and then he died.

Just because a book is quoted in Scripture, doesn’t mean it is inspired. The Apostle Paul quoted an erotic greek poet once (Titus 11:12) and even agreed with him. The prophets did stuff like that too. Just because a book is quoted, does make it Scripture. Especially if it contradicts Torah.

📖Titus 1:13-16
13 This testimony is true. Therefore rebuke them sternly, so that they will be sound in the faith 14 and will pay no attention to Jewish myths or to the commands of men who have rejected the truth. 15 To the pure,

There’s a growing belief out here that says that the Bible teaches us that sirens are real. And since many confused Christians twist Isaiah 13:21 to be a prooftext for their paganism, I thought it be wise to take a good look at this passage and see if it adds up.

📖Isaiah 13:21
21 But desert creatures will lie there, jackals will fill her houses; there the ostrich (יענה) will dwell, and there the wild goats will leap about.

The Hebrew word for ostrich in Isaiah 13:21 is yaanah or יענה and it means “unclean bird.” The Law of First Mention is a hermeneutical principle that may be said to be the principle that requires one to go to that portion of the Scriptures where a doctrine or word is mentioned for the first time and to study the first occurrence of the same in order to get the fundamental inherent meaning of that doctrine or word. In the case of Isaiah 13:21, we encounter the word “yaanah” but it is not the first time that we see this word in the Scriptures.
The first time that we see this word is in Torah laws (Leviticus 11, Deuteronomy 14). The meaning behind the hebrew word yaanah is “unclean bird.” It makes no sense to say that it means “siren” like many people are starting to believe. In Greek/Pagan mythology, sirens were 1/2 bird, 1/2 women creatures who would lure sailors with their seductive singing into shipwreck. We are also told in 2 Timothy 4:3-4 that we are not to entertain silly myths and fables. The Most High didn’t command people not to eat “sirens” in Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14 where the hebrew word yaanah appears. He commanded them not to eat unclean birds. That is what the entire chapters of Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14 are about.
The Greek Septuagint (LXX) uses the word “Seirenes” or σειρῆνες to describe these creatures. And although the word does mean siren in Greek, you can NOT use Greek words to change the Hebrew meaning of a word. For example, the Hebrew word Sheol is used over 60 times to describe what happens to somebody and where they go when they die. Now, in the Greek Septuagint (LXX), the Greek word used for the Hebrew word Sheol (שאול) is “Hades” (ᾅδου). Hades was a Greek mythological name of the place where the Greeks thought that they go after death. Now, the reason why the Septuagint uses this term isn’t because the Bible is in support of greek myths. Nor was there a conspiracy to change the Hebrew Scriptures into a watered down Greek myth. It was used because that is the best Greek word that the Hebrew writers had to describe the place which was written about. In the case of sirens or σειρῆνες, the reason why the Hebrew writers probably choose this word is because it captures the sounds and danger and luring aspect along with probably the spookiness or a haunting factor of Babylon after its destruction. Given the fact that the Septuagint could be so loosely translated at times, there are many reasons why that word could have been translated that way from Hebrew to Greek. Greek myths being real isn’t one of those reasons. That passage doesn’t make sense if that was really what the author intended to convey here.

Just for kicks, let’s have a look at the passage and see if it makes any sense with the word siren in place of ostrich there.

📖Isaiah 13:21
21 But desert creatures will lie there, jackals will fill her houses; there the siren (יענה) will dwell, and there the wild goats will leap about.

Why would Isaiah talk about all of these animals and then all of a sudden, quickly bring up a Greek mythological monster and then casually move on with his passage? Don’t you think that if Isaiah is going to tell us about supernatural monsters infesting the area of ancient Babylon, he would have expounded more on that passage? Why would literal sirens (evil mermaid like creatures that lived in the sea) now be in the desert and ruins of the deserted city of Babylon? That makes absolutely no sense. Plus, the fulfillment of this prophecy also complicates the issue of sirens here whether this prophecy be fulfilled or unfulfilled. If this prophecy is fulfilled, where are the sirens in the middle of the desert of ancient Babylon? They’re nowhere to be found. And if this is an unfulfilled prophecy like many Black Hebrew Israelites believe and it takes place right before the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, well, why is Jesus coming back to destroy sinners and usher in a millennial age of peace on earth but allow sirens to live in that area? That makes absolutely no sense. This is sensationalism defiling people at its finest. To say that the word “Seirene” or “σειρῆνες” is talking about literal sirens here is absolutely absurd in every sense and fails logic on many accounts. The word was clearly used to express other meanings, just like Hades was used to talk about Sheol. My recommendation from this point forward is that you really begin to learn what the Hebrew is teaching you before you dig into the Greek. Because many times, people read into the Greek and pick up on the Greek and pagan doctrines and philosophies because that’s what pagans are wired to pick up on and believe. Keep your calm and study the Hebrew first though so you aren’t carried away by these strange pagan and gnostic Greek doctrines. You’re going to want to play it safe because if you don’t, you’ll end up defiling yourself with paganism and once that happens you’ll start attacking people who don’t hold to your pagan beliefs that you’ve injected into the text.

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Regarding the Canon.
First, the Jews themselves never accepted the Deuterocanonical books that Orthodox and Catholic Christians accept.
-We actually see the concept of a closed canon of the OT within the Intertestamental period between Malachi and Matthew.
-The introduction to Sirach/Ecclesiasticus by the author introduces the Law, Prophets, Minor prophets as the Canon.
-And we see in 2 Macc. 2:13-14 where the Scriptures themselves are inside of the temple.
-And Josephus in his work to Apion lists the 22 Books (Jews counted differently their books, they never separated it into 1 & 2, 3, 4 etc.).
-Philo of Alexandria does the same as well. The council of Jamnia in 90 AD which was on the canon never did as well.
-Now going on to the Christians. Both the earliest list of canons by Melito of Sardis and Origen are recorded in Eusebius "Ecclesiastical History" and mentions the same canon as the Jews.
-Eusebius himself gives list of the books which are canonical, spurious, not listed, etc. And mentions the same amount of both OT and NT books.
-Cyril of Jerusalem in his catechetical lectures in 350 AD list the same as well.
-Hilary of Poitiers list OT books. Never mentions them. Circa 360 AD.
-The Synod of Laodicea in 363 AD had to do with the Canon of Scripture, never mentions them.
-Athanasius in his 39th Festal epistle mentions the entire canon, not a single one of them.
-In the 380's, you had Gregory of Nazianzus, Basil the Great, Amphilocius of Iconium, and Epiphanius of Salamis give their canons and not one of those books are mentioned.
-Jerome, the editor and creator of the Latin Vulgate, was very learnt into Hebrew and never accepted those books as canonical.
-Augustine, at first did believe those books to be Scriptural/canonical, and as a result both the councils of Hippo (393) and Carthage (397) were influenced by him to accept them.
-But later on, came to view them as historical rather than prophetical. See "City of God: Book 18, Chapter 36"
-Rufinus never accepted them. Neither did Leontius of Byzantium, Catalogue of the Sixty Books, Stichometery of Nicephorus, John of Damascus etc.
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Raymond Richard’

I'm curious how proponents of “Enoch” balance their view in light of these verses from the Canon when compared with “Enoch:”

📖John 3:13, “No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven—the Son of Man.”

📖Hebrews 11:5 and 13, “5 By faith Enoch was taken from this life, so that he did not experience death: “He could not be found, because God had taken him away.” For before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God.
13 All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; •they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance•, admitting that they were foreigners and strangers on earth.

Here is where Jubilees contradicts John and Hebrews:

☠️Jub 4:16-25, “And in the eleventh jubilee [512-18 A.M.] Jared took to himself a wife, and her name was Baraka, the daughter of Râsûjâl, a daughter of his father's brother, in the fourth week of this jubilee, [522 A.M.] and she bare him a son in the fifth week, in the fourth year of the jubilee, and he called his name Enoch.

And he was the first among men that are born on earth who learnt writing and knowledge and wisdom and who wrote down the signs of heaven according to the order of their months in a book, that men might know the seasons of the years according to the order of their separate months.

And he was the first to write a testimony and he testified to the sons of men among the generations of the earth, and recounted the weeks of the jubilees, and made known to them the days of the years, and set in order the months and recounted the Sabbaths of the years as we made (them), known to him.
And what was and what will be he saw in a vision of his sleep, as it will happen to the children of men throughout their generations until the day of judgment; he saw and understood everything, and wrote his testimony, and placed the testimony on earth for all the children of men and for their generations.

And in the twelfth jubilee, [582-88] in the seventh week thereof, he took to himself a wife, and her name was Edna, the daughter of Danel, the daughter of his father's brother, and in the sixth year in this week [587 A.M.] she bare him a son and he called his name Methuselah.

And he was moreover with the angels of God these six jubilees of years, and they showed him everything which is on earth and in the heavens, the rule of the sun, and he wrote down everything.

And he testified to the Watchers, who had sinned with the daughters of men; for these had begun to unite themselves, so as to be defiled, with the daughters of men, and Enoch testified against (them) all.

And he was taken from amongst the children of men, and we conducted him into the Garden of Eden in majesty and honour, and behold there he writes down the condemnation and judgment of the world, and all the wickedness of the children of men.
And on account of it (God) brought the waters of the flood upon all the land of Eden; for there he was set as a sign and that he should testify against all the children of men, that he should recount all the deeds of the generations until the day of condemnation.

And he burnt the incense of the sanctuary, (even) sweet spices acceptable before the Lord on the Mount.

Now, I will lay out what “Enoch” states. Here where and how the Book of “Enoch” contradicts Scripture:👇🏻

☠️1 Enoch 17-33 establishes that Angels literally the Angels chaperoning “Enoch” literally took him places around earth. Notice the language. It is the same language use in chapter 39-52, and 82 which revealed that “Enoch” is given a bodily tour of heaven and then bodily returned to his home. This language during this visial tour is •strongly contrasted• with that of Chapters 83-85 which show that Enoch received a “dream vision” while lying down in his house. During these chapters, Enoch does not go anywhere and only is shown things. Notice the how The language is very different:
☠️1 Enoch 17:1-2a, “•And they took and brought me to a place• in which those who were there were like flaming fire, 2 and, when they wished, they appeared as men. And they brought me to the place of darkness, and to a mountain the point of whose summit reached to heaven.”
☠️1 Enoch 21:1-4, “•And I proceeded• to where things were chaotic. And I saw there something horrible: I saw neither 3 a heaven above nor a firmly founded earth, but a place chaotic and horrible. And there I saw 4 seven stars of the heaven bound together in it, like great mountains and burning with fire.”
☠️1 Enoch 22:1-2 he’s taken to see Sheol: “•And thence I went to another place,• and he mountain [and] of hard rock. 2 And there was in it four hollow places, deep and wide and very smooth. How smooth are the hollow places and deep and dark to look at.”
☠️In 1 Enoch 23:1-4, we see Enoch back in proximity of heaven, “From thence I went to another place to the west of the ends of the earth•. And I saw a burning 3 fire which ran without resting, and paused not from its course day or night but (ran) regularly. And 4 I asked saying: 'What is this which rests not?' Then Raguel, one of the holy angels who was with me, answered me and said unto me: 'This course of fire which thou hast seen is the fire in the west which persecutes all the luminaries of heaven.'
☠️1 Enoch 33:9-14 we see Enoch see things in heaven with his own eyes, “In those days I praised and extolled the name of the Lord of Spirits with blessings and praises, because He hath destined me for blessing and glory according to the good pleasure of the Lord of 10 Spirits. For a long time my eyes regarded that place, and I blessed Him and praised Him, saying: 'Blessed is He, and may He be blessed from the beginning and for evermore. And before Him there is no ceasing. He knows before the world was created what is for ever and what will be from 12 generation unto generation. Those who sleep not bless Thee: they stand before Thy glory and bless, praise, and extol, saying: "Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of Spirits: He filleth the earth with 13 spirits."' And here my eyes saw all those who sleep not: they stand before Him and bless and say: 'Blessed be Thou, and blessed be the name of the Lord for ever and ever.' And my face was changed; for I could no longer behold.”

 And here in Chapters 41, 52, and 82 we have the Death Knell for 1st Enoch:

☠️41:1-2, “And after that I saw all the secrets of the heavens, and how the kingdom is divided, and how the 2 actions of men are weighed in the balance. And there I saw the mansions of the elect and the mansions of the holy, and mine eyes saw there all the sinners being driven from thence which deny the name of the Lord of Spirits, and being dragged off: and they could not abide because of the punishment which proceeds from the Lord of Spirits.”

☠️1 Enoch 52:1-5, “And after those days in that place where I had seen all the visions of that which is hidden -for 2 •I had been carried off in a whirlwind and they had borne me towards the west-There mine eyes saw all the secret things of heaven that shall be•, a mountain of iron, and a mountain of copper, and a mountain of silver, and a mountain of gold, and a mountain of soft metal, and a mountain of lead. 3 And I asked the angel who went with me, saying, 'What things are these which I have seen in 4 secret?' And he said unto me: 'All these things which thou hast seen shall serve the dominion of His Anointed that he may be potent and mighty on the earth.' 5 And that angel of peace answered, saying unto me: 'Wait a little, and there shall be revealed unto thee all the secret things which surround the Lord of Spirits.”

☠️1 Enoch 81:2-5, “And I observed the heavenly tablets, and read everything which was written (thereon) and understood everything, and read the book of all the deeds of mankind, and of all the children of flesh 3 that shall be upon the earth to the remotest generations. And forthwith I blessed the great Lord the King of glory for ever, in that He has made all the works of the world,And I extolled the Lord because of His patience, And blessed Him because of the children of men. 4 And after that I said 

' Blessed is the man who dies in righteousness and goodness,

Concerning whom there is no book of unrighteousness written,
And against whom no day of judgement shall be found.'5 And those seven holy ones brought me and placed me on the earth before the door of my house...”

As I mentioned, here is where we see The author of “Enoch” differentiate between
when he has a dream vision versus actually seeing:

☠️1 Enoch 83:1-4a, “1And now, my son Methuselah, I will show thee all my visions which I have seen, recounting 2 them before thee. Two visions I saw before I took a wife, and the one was quite unlike the other: the first when I was learning to write: the second before I took thy mother, (when) I saw a terrible 3 vision. And regarding them I prayed to the Lord. I had laid me down in the house of my grandfather Mahalalel, (when) I saw in a vision how the heaven collapsed and was borne off and fell to 4 the earth. 

☠️1 Enoch 85:1-2, “And after this I saw another dream, and I will show the whole dream to thee, my son. And Enoch lifted up (his voice) and spake to his son Methuselah...”

Bible teachers that promote conspiracies regarding the “destruction of God’s Scriptures” or that “these books were hidden for the last day” not only deny God’s Providence and Sovereignty but are also contradicted by Paul:

Romans 8:38-39 takes on a whole new meaning when we Scripturally contextualize Agapē as meaning, “The love that comes from selflessly obeying and being the recipient of selfless obedience to God’s righteous Law:

📖Romans 8:38-39
38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,[a] neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the •love of God• that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Strongs 26, Agapēs, noun)

📖1 John 5:3,
For this is the •love of God,• that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.(Strongs 26, Agapēs, Love: Noun)

It’s the #FruitOfWolves to tell you that mere mortal or angels or men can separate God’s people from His Love or His commandments that tell us how to Love. God’s Providence and Sovereignty is greater than the schemes men or demons.
If books were hidden that keep the “true” instructions of God from us, then that makes them too burdensome to accomplish.

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