Judgment
The story unfolds with Enoch, a righteous man chosen by divine vision to walk with God amidst a world engulfed in sin. From his mysterious marriage to Edna, the daughter of Danel, Enoch’s life becomes a beacon of wisdom and prophecy. He teaches mankind the ways of the Lord, amassing followers and even reigning over kings who seek his counsel and leadership.
As the plot thickens, Enoch’s visions intensify, revealing apocalyptic truths about the earth’s impending doom and the judgment awaiting all. He confronts fallen angels and their monstrous offspring, issuing dire warnings and sealing their eternal fate. Meanwhile, his son Methuselah inherits this sacred legacy, learning of the catastrophic visions that haunt his father’s dreams. Together, they navigate through prayers and prophecies, preparing humanity for the trials to come while continuing their lineage amidst the turmoil.
Through Enoch and Methuselah’s trials and triumphs, the series unfolds a tapestry of faith, prophecy, and divine justice, echoing with the urgency of their mission to guide humanity toward redemption in the face of celestial reckoning.
Major Characters
Minor Characters
Insignificant Characters
GENESIS
2%
ENOCH
75%
JASHER
16%
JUBILEES
7%
Exposition
Y: 682-686 | Enoch (Seth’s line) marries Edna
Jubilees 4:20a
J: 15 | Y: 687 | Methuselah (Seth’s line) is born
Genesis 5:21, Jasher 3:1, 13a, Jubilees 4:20b
Rising Action
Y: 688 | YHWH calls Enoch out of retirement, teaches him wisdom, and Enoch becomes king
Jasher 3:3-12
Enoch learns to write, learns special wisdom, and prophesies
Jubilees 4:17-19
Enoch spends time with the angels of God
Jubilees 4:21
Climax
Enoch’s prophecy of the end times
Enoch 1:1-9
Enoch called to testify against the Watchers
Enoch 12:1-6
Enoch testifies against the Watchers
Jubilees 4:22, Enoch 13:1-10
Enoch’s dream about the Watchers
Enoch 14:1-25
The judgment against the Watchers and the origin of demons
Enoch 15:1-11
The future judgment of the demons
Enoch 16:1-4
Falling Action
Cainan (Seth’s line) rules over the demons, prophesies, and reigns over the earth
Jasher 2:11b-14
Review the following chapters from the book of Enoch
Enoch 2-5, 17-63, 72-82, 84-108
Resolution
Enoch teaches Methuselah secret things
Enoch 83:1-11
J: 18 | Y: 852 | Methuselah (Seth’s line) marries Edna
Jubilees 4:27a
Y: 874 | Lamech (Seth’s line) is born
Genesis 5:25, Jasher 3:13b, Jubilees 4:27b
Year: 682-686
Enoch (Seth's line) marries Edna
Jubilees 4:20a
20a 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,
Jubilee: 15
Year: 687
Methuselah (Seth's line) is born
Genesis 5:21
21 And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:
Jasher 3:1
1 And Enoch lived sixty-five years and he begat Methuselah; and Enoch walked with God after having begot Methuselah, and he served the Lord, and despised the evil ways of men.
Jasher 3:13a
13a And these are the generations of Enoch, Methuselah, Elisha, and Elimelech, three sons; and their sisters were Melca and Nahmah,
Jubilees 4:20b
20b and in the sixth year in this week [587 A.M.] she bare him a son and he called his name Methuselah.
Year: 688
YHWH calls Enoch out of retirement, teaches him wisdom, and Enoch becomes kingi
Jasher 3:3-12
3 And it was at the expiration of many years, whilst he was serving the Lord, and praying before him in his house, that an angel of the Lord called to him from Heaven, and he said, Here am I.
4 And he said, Rise, go forth from thy house and from the place where thou dost hide thyself, and appear to the sons of men, in order that thou mayest teach them the way in which they should go and the work which they must accomplish to enter in the ways of God.
5 And Enoch rose up according to the word of the Lord, and went forth from his house, from his place and from the chamber in which he was concealed; and he went to the sons of men and taught them the ways of the Lord, and at that time assembled the sons of men and acquainted them with the instruction of the Lord.
6 And he ordered it to be proclaimed in all places where the sons of men dwelt, saying, Where is the man who wishes to know the ways of the Lord and good works? Let him come to Enoch.
7 And all the sons of men then assembled to him, for all who desired this thing went to Enoch, and Enoch reigned over the sons of men according to the word of the Lord, and they came and bowed to him and they heard his word.
8 And the spirit of God was upon Enoch, and he taught all his men the wisdom of God and his ways, and the sons of men served the Lord all the days of Enoch, and they came to hear his wisdom.
9 And all the kings of the sons of men, both first and last, together with their princes and judges, came to Enoch when they heard of his wisdom, and they bowed down to him, and they also required of Enoch to reign over them, to which he consented.
10 And they assembled in all, one hundred and thirty kings and princes, and they made Enoch king over them and they were all under his power and command.
11 And Enoch taught them wisdom, knowledge, and the ways of the Lord; and he made peace amongst them, and peace was throughout the earth during the life of Enoch.
12 And Enoch reigned over the sons of men two hundred and forty-three years, and he did justice and righteousness with all his people, and he led them in the ways of the Lord.
Enoch learns to write, learns special wisdom, and prophesies
Jubilees 4:17-19
17 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.
18 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.
19 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.
Enoch spends time with the angels of God
Jubilees 4:21
21 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.
Enoch's prophecy of the end timesii, iii
Enoch 1:1-9
1 The words of the blessing of Enoch, wherewith he blessed the elect and righteous, who will be
2 living in the day of tribulation, when all the wicked and godless are to be removed. And he took up his parable and said -Enoch a righteous man, whose eyes were opened by God, saw the vision of the Holy One in the heavens, which the angels showed me, and from them I heard everything, and from them I understood as I saw, but not for this generation, but for a remote one which is
3 for to come. Concerning the elect I said, and took up my parable concerning them: The Holy Great One will come forth from His dwelling,
4 And the eternal God will tread upon the earth, (even) on Mount Sinai, [And appear from His camp] And appear in the strength of His might from the heaven of heavens.
5 And all shall be smitten with fear And the Watchers shall quake, And great fear and trembling shall seize them unto the ends of the earth.
6 And the high mountains shall be shaken, And the high hills shall be made low, And shall melt like wax before the flame
7 And the earth shall be wholly rent in sunder, And all that is upon the earth shall perish, And there shall be a judgement upon all (men).
8 But with the righteous He will make peace. And will protect the elect, And mercy shall be upon them. And they shall all belong to God, And they shall be prospered, And they shall all be blessed. And He will help them all, And light shall appear unto them, And He will make peace with them’.
9 And behold! He cometh with ten thousands of His holy ones To execute judgement upon all, And to destroy all the ungodly: And to convict all flesh of all the works of their ungodliness which they have ungodly committed, And of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.
Enoch called to testify against the Watchers
Enoch 12:1-6
1 Before these things Enoch was hidden, and no one of the children of men knew where he was hidden, and where he abode, and what had become of him.
2 And his activities had to do with the Watchers, and his days were with the holy ones.
3 And I, Enoch was blessing the Lord of majesty and the King of the ages, and lo! the Watchers called me–Enoch the scribe–and said to me:
4 ‘Enoch, thou scribe of righteousness, go, †declare† to the Watchers of the heaven who have left the high heaven, the holy eternal place, and have defiled themselves with women, and have done as the children of earth do, and have taken unto themselves wives: “Ye have wrought great destruction on the earth:
5 And ye shall have no peace nor forgiveness of sin: and inasmuch as †they† delight themselves in †their† children,
6 The murder of †their† beloved ones shall †they† see, and over the destruction of †their† children shall †they† lament, and shall make supplication unto eternity, but mercy and peace shall ye not attain.”‘
Enoch testifies against the Watchers
Jubilees 4:22
22 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.
Enoch 13:1-10
1 And Enoch went and said: ‘Azâzêl, thou shalt have no peace: a severe sentence has gone forth against thee to put thee in bonds:
2 And thou shalt not have toleration nor †request† granted to thee, because of the unrighteousness which thou hast taught, and because of all the works of godlessness and unrighteousness and sin which thou hast shown to men.’
3 Then I went and spoke to them all together, and they were all afraid, and fear and trembling seized them.
4 And they besought me to draw up a petition for them that they might find forgiveness, and to read their petition in the presence of the Lord of heaven.
5 For from thenceforward they could not speak (with Him) nor lift up their eyes to heaven for shame of their sins for which they had been condemned.
6 Then I wrote out their petition, and the prayer in regard to their spirits and their deeds individually and in regard to their requests that they should have forgiveness and length 〈of days〉†.
7 And I went off and sat down at the waters of Dan, in the land of Dan, to the south of the west of Hermon: I read their petition till I fell asleep.
8 And behold a dream came to me, and visions fell down upon me, and I saw visions of chastisement, ⌈and a voice came bidding (me)⌉ I to tell it to the sons of heaven, and reprimand them.
9 And when I awaked, I came unto them, and they were all sitting gathered together, weeping in ’Abelsjâîl, which is between Lebanon and Sênêsêr, with their faces covered.
10 And I recounted before them all the visions which I had seen in sleep, and I began to speak the words of righteousness, and to reprimand the heavenly Watchers.
Enoch's dream about the Watchers
Enoch 14:1-25
1 The book of the words of righteousness, and of the reprimand of the eternal Watchers in accordance with the command of the Holy Great One in that vision.
2 I saw in my sleep what I will now say with a tongue of flesh and with the breath of my mouth: which the Great One has given to men to converse therewith and understand with the heart.
3 As He has created and given ⌈⌈to man the power of understanding the word of wisdom, so hath He created me also and given⌉⌉ me the power of reprimanding the Watchers, the children of heaven.
4 I wrote out your petition, and in my vision it appeared thus, that your petition will not be granted unto you ⌈⌈throughout all the days of eternity, and that judgement has been finally passed upon you: yea (your petition) will not be granted unto you⌉⌉.
5 And from henceforth you shall not ascend into heaven unto all eternity, and ⌈in bonds⌉ of the earth the decree has gone forth to bind you for all the days of the world.
6 And (that) previously you shall have seen the destruction of your beloved sons and ye shall have no pleasure in them, but they shall fall before you by the sword.
7 And your petition on their behalf shall not be granted, nor yet on your own: even though you weep and pray and speak all the words contained in the writing which I have written.
8 And the vision was shown to me thus: Behold, in the vision clouds invited me and a mist summoned me, and the course of the stars and the lightnings sped and hastened me, and the winds in the vision caused me to fly and lifted me upward, and bore me into heaven.
9 And I went in till I drew nigh to a wall which is built of crystals and surrounded by tongues of fire: and it began to affright me. And I went into the tongues of fire and drew nigh to a large house which was built of crystals: and the walls of the house were like a tesselated floor (made) of crystals, and its groundwork was of crystal.
11 Its ceiling was like the path of the stars and the lightnings, and between them were fiery cherubim, and their heaven was (clear as) water.
12 A flaming fire surrounded the walls, and its portals blazed with fire.
13 And I entered into that house, and it was hot as fire and cold as ice: there were no delights of life therein: fear covered me, and trembling got hold upon me.
14 And as I quaked and trembled, I fell upon my face.
15 And I beheld a vision, And lo! there was a second house, greater than the former, and the entire portal stood open before me, and it was built of flames of fire.
16 And in every respect it so excelled in splendour and magnificence and extent that I cannot describe to you its splendour and its extent.
17 And its floor was of fire, and above it were lightnings and the path of the stars, and its ceiling also was flaming fire.
18 And I looked and saw ⌈⌈therein⌉⌉ a lofty throne: its appearance was as crystal, and the wheels thereof as the shining sun, and there was the vision of cherubim.
19 And from underneath the throne came streams of flaming fire so that I could not look thereon.
20 And the Great Glory sat thereon, and His raiment shone more brightly than the sun and was whiter than any snow.
21 None of the angels could enter and could behold His face by reason of the magnificence and glory and no flesh could behold Him.
22 The flaming fire was round about Him, and a great fire stood before Him, and none around could draw nigh Him: ten thousand times ten thousand (stood) before Him, yet He needed no counselor.
23 And the most holy ones who were nigh to Him did not leave by night nor depart from Him.
24 And until then I had been prostrate on my face, trembling: and the Lord called me with His own mouth, and said to me: ‘Come hither, Enoch, and hear my word.’
25 ⌈And one of the holy ones came to me and waked me⌉, and He made me rise up and approach the door: and I bowed my face downwards.
The judgment against the Watchers and the origin of demonsiv
Enoch 15:1-11
1 And He answered and said to me, and I heard His voice: ‘Fear not, Enoch, thou righteous man and scribe of righteousness: approach hither and hear my voice.
2 And go, say to ⌈⌈the Watchers of heaven⌉⌉, who have sent thee to intercede ⌈⌈for them: “You should intercede”⌉⌉ for men, and not men for you:
3 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 of earth, and begotten giants (as your) sons?
4 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 and perish.
5 Therefore have I given them wives also that they might impregnate them, and beget children by them, that thus nothing might be wanting to them on earth.
6 But you were ⌈formerly⌉ spiritual, living the eternal life, and immortal for all generations of the world.
7 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 the earth, and on the earth shall be their dwelling.
9 Evil spirits have proceeded from their bodies; because they are born from men, ⌈⌈and⌉⌉ from the holy Watchers is their beginning and primal origin; ⌈they shall be evil spirits on earth, and⌉ evil spirits shall they be called.
[10 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 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 future judgment of the demons
Enoch 16:1-4
1 From the days of the slaughter and destruction and death ⌈of the giants⌉, from the souls of whose flesh the spirits, having gone forth, shall destroy without incurring judgement–thus shall they destroy until the day of the consummation, the great ⌈judgement⌉ in which the age shall be consummated, over the Watchers and the godless, yea, shall be wholly consummated.”
2 And now as to the Watchers who have sent thee to intercede for them, who had been ⌈⌈aforetime⌉⌉ in heaven, (say to them): “You have been in heaven, but ⌈all⌉ the mysteries had not yet been revealed to you, and you knew worthless ones, and these in the hardness of your hearts you have made known to the women, and through these mysteries women and men work much evil on earth.”
4 Say to them therefore: “You have no peace.”‘
Cainan (Seth's line) rules over the demons, prophesies, and reigns over the earthv
Jasher 2:11b-14
11b for Cainan was a very wise man and had understanding in all wisdom, and with his wisdom he ruled over spirits and demons;
12 And Cainan knew by his wisdom that God would destroy the sons of men for having sinned upon earth, and that the Lord would in the latter days bring upon them the waters of the flood.
13 And in those days Cainan wrote upon tablets of stone, what was to take place in time to come, and he put them in his treasures.
14 And Cainan reigned over the whole earth, and he turned some of the sons of men to the service of God.
Review the following chapters from the book of Enochvi, vii
Enoch 2-5, 17-63, 72-82, 84-108
Enoch teaches Methuselah secret things
Enoch 83:1-11
1 And now, my son Methuselah, I will show thee all my visions which I have seen, recounting them before thee.
2 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 vision. And regarding them I prayed to the[paragraph continues]Lord.
3 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 the earth.
4 And when it fell to the earth I saw how the earth was swallowed up in a great abyss, and mountains were suspended on mountains, and hills sank down on hills, and high trees were rent from their stems, and hurled down and sunk in the abyss.
5 And thereupon a word fell into my mouth, and I lifted up (my voice) to cry aloud, and said: ‘The earth is destroyed.’
6 And my grandfather Mahalalel waked me as I lay near him, and said unto me: ‘Why dost thou cry so, my son, and why dost thou make such lamentation?’
7 And I recounted to him the whole vision which I had seen, and he said unto me: ‘A terrible thing hast thou seen, my son, and of grave moment is thy dream-vision as to the secrets of all the sin of the earth: it must sink into the abyss and be destroyed with a great destruction.
8 And now, my son, arise and make petition to the Lord of glory, since thou art a believer, that a remnant may remain on the earth, and that He may not destroy the whole earth.
9 My son, from heaven all this will come upon the earth, and upon the earth there will be great destruction.
10 After that I arose and prayed and implored and besought, and wrote down my prayer for the generations of the world, and I will show everything to thee, my son Methuselah.
11 And when I had gone forth below and seen the heaven, and the sun rising in the east, and the moon setting in the west, and a few stars, and the whole earth, and everything as †He had known† it in the beginning, then I blessed the Lord of judgement and extolled Him because He had made the sun to go forth from the windows of the east, †and he ascended and rose on the face of the heaven, and set out and kept traversing the path shown unto him.
Jubilee: 18
Year: 852
Methuselah (Seth's line) marries Ednaviii
Jubilees 4:27a
27a And in the fourteenth jubilee [652 A.M.] Methuselah took unto himself a wife, Edna the daughter of Azrial, the daughter of his father’s brother, in the third week, in the first year of this week,
Year: 874
Lamech (Seth's line) is bornix
Genesis 5:25
25 And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech.
Jasher 3:13b
13b and Methuselah lived eighty-seven years and he begat Lamech.
Jubilees 4:27b
27b [701-7 A.M.] and he begat a son and called his name Lamech.
i. Jasher 3:12 and 3:17 states that Enoch reigned for 243 years until the death of Adam in 931, therefore making the beginning of his reign in the year 688.
ii. The placement of each of the following chapters of Enoch is based on speculation and educated guesses.
iii. Jude 1:14-15 quotes from Enoch 1:9.
iv. Jesus quoted Enoch 15:6-7 in Matthew 22:29-30.
v. Cainan became wise when he was 40, which was year 365 and about 100 years before the angels descended. The spirits and demons aren’t mentioned until after Enoch learns about them. Therefore, I’ve placed this passage after Enoch 15 and 16 though it could be placed anywhere between here and when he died.
vi. This seems like an appropriate place for these chapters of Enoch to be inserted.
vii. Jesus quoted Enoch 5:7 in Matthew 5:5, Enoch 38:2 in Matthew 26:24, Enoch 45:3 in John 14:2, Enoch 48:1 in John 4:14, Enoch 69:27 in John 5:22, and Enoch 94:8 in Luke 6:24
viii. This is where the years take a different account. When looking at the accounts in Jasher and Jubilees and comparing them to Genesis, the Genesis numbers make better sense and line up more easily with subsequent events.
ix. The years 701-707 mentioned in Jubilees 4:27 are associated with Lamech’s marriage in Jubilees 4:28, not his birth.
Exposition
Y: 682-686 | Enoch (Seth’s line) marries Edna
Jubilees 4:20a
And in the 12th jubilee, in the 7th week thereof, Enoch took to himself a wife, and her name was Edna, the daughter of Danel, the daughter of his father’s brother, and in the 6th year in this week.
J: 15 | Y: 687 | Methuselah (Seth’s line) is born
Genesis 5:21, Jasher 3:1, 13a, Jubilees 4:20b
Enoch lived for 65 years and begat Methuselah, Elisha, Elimelech, and their sisters Melca and Nahmah. Enoch walked with God after having Methuselah, he served the Lord and despised the evil ways of men.
Rising Action
Y: 688 | YHWH calls Enoch out of retirement, teaches him wisdom, and Enoch becomes king
Jasher 3:3-12
And it was at the expiration of many years, while he was serving the Lord and praying before Him in his house, that an angel of the Lord called to him from Heaven. He said, “Here am I.”
The angel said to him, “Rise, go forth from your house and from the place where you hide yourself, and appear to the sons of men. Teach them the way they should go and the work they must accomplish to enter into the ways of God.”
Enoch rose up according to the word of the Lord. He went forth from his house, from his place, and from the chamber where he was concealed. He went to the sons of men and taught them the ways of the Lord. At that time, he assembled the sons of men and acquainted them with the instruction of the Lord. He ordered it to be proclaimed in all places where the sons of men dwelt, saying, “Where is the man who wishes to know the ways of the Lord and good works? Let him come to Enoch.”
All the sons of men then assembled to him. For all who desired this thing went to Enoch. Enoch reigned over the sons of men according to the word of the Lord. They came and bowed to him and heard his word. The spirit of God was upon Enoch, and he taught all his men the wisdom of God and His ways. The sons of men served the Lord all the days of Enoch, and they came to hear his wisdom.
All the kings of the sons of men, both first and last, together with their princes and judges, came to Enoch when they heard of his wisdom. They bowed down to him and required Enoch to reign over them, to which he consented. They assembled, totaling 130 kings and princes. They made Enoch king over them, and they were all under his power and command.
Enoch taught them wisdom, knowledge, and the ways of the Lord. He made peace among them, and peace was throughout the earth during the life of Enoch. Enoch reigned over the sons of men 243 years. He did justice and righteousness with all his people and led them in the ways of the Lord.
Enoch learns to write, learns special wisdom, and prophesies
Jubilees 4:17-19
And he was the first among men that are born on earth who learned writing, knowledge, and wisdom. He wrote down the signs of heaven according to the order of their months in a book so that men might know the seasons of the years according to the order of their separate months. He was the first to write a testimony and he testified to the sons of men among the generations of the earth. He recounted the weeks of the jubilees, made known to them the days of the years, set in order the months, and recounted the Sabbaths of the years as were made known to him.
He saw in a vision of his sleep what was and what will be, 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, placing it on earth for all the children of men and for their generations.
Enoch spends time with the angels of God
Jubilees 4:21
And he was moreover with the angels of God these 6 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.
Climax
Enoch’s prophecy of the end times
Enoch 1:1-9
The words of the blessing of Enoch, with which he blessed the elect and righteous who will be living in the day of tribulation when all the wicked and godless are to be removed. And he took up his parable and said, “Enoch, a righteous man, whose eyes were opened by God, saw the vision of the Holy One in the heavens, which the angels showed me, and from them, I heard everything, and from them, I understood as I saw, but not for this generation, but for a remote one which is for to come. Concerning the elect I said, and took up my parable concerning them: The Holy Great One will come forth from His dwelling, and the eternal God will tread upon the earth, even on Mount Sinai, and appear from His camp, and appear in the strength of His might from the heaven of heavens. And all shall be smitten with fear, and the Watchers shall quake, and great fear and trembling shall seize them to the ends of the earth. And the high mountains shall be shaken, and the high hills shall be made low and shall melt like wax before the flame, and the earth shall be wholly rent in sunder, and all that is upon the earth shall perish, and there shall be a judgement upon all men. But with the righteous He will make peace, and will protect the elect, and mercy shall be upon them. And they shall all belong to God, and they shall be prospered, and they shall all be blessed. And He will help them all, and the light shall appear to them, and He will make peace with them. And behold! He comes with 10,000s of His holy ones to execute judgment upon all, and to destroy all the ungodly, and to convict all flesh of all the works of their ungodliness which they have ungodly committed, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.”
Enoch called to testify against the Watchers
Enoch 12:1-6
Before these things Enoch was hidden, and no one of the children of men knew where he was hidden, where he abode, and what had become of him. And his activities had to do with the Watchers, and his days were with the holy ones. And I, Enoch was blessing the Lord of majesty and the King of the ages, and lo! The Watchers called me–Enoch the scribe–and said to me: “Enoch, you scribe of righteousness, go, declare to the Watchers of the heaven who have left the high heaven, the holy eternal place, and have defiled themselves with women, and have done as the children of the earth do, and have taken to themselves wives: ‘You have wrought great destruction on the earth: And you shall have no peace nor forgiveness of sin: and since they delight themselves in their children, The murder of their beloved ones shall they see, and over the destruction of their children shall they lament, and shall make supplication to eternity, but mercy and peace shall ye not attain.’”
Enoch testifies against the Watchers
Jubilees 4:22, Enoch 13:1-10
And he testified to the Watchers, who had sinned with the daughters of men. These beings had begun to unite themselves, defiling themselves with the daughters of men, and Enoch testified against them all.
Enoch went and said, “Azazel, you shall have no peace. A severe sentence has gone forth against you to put you in bonds. You shall not have toleration nor request granted to you because of the unrighteousness which you have taught, and because of all the works of godlessness, unrighteousness, and sin which you have shown to men.”
Then I spoke to them all together, and they were afraid. Fear and trembling seized them. They besought me to draw up a petition for them so that they might find forgiveness, and to read their petition in the presence of the Lord of heaven. From then onward, they could not speak with Him nor lift their eyes to heaven for shame of their sins for which they had been condemned. Then I wrote out their petition, the prayer regarding their spirits and their deeds individually, and their requests for forgiveness and length of days.
I went off and sat down at the waters of Dan, in the land of Dan, to the south of the west of Hermon. I read their petition until I fell asleep. Behold, a dream came to me, and visions fell upon me. I saw visions of chastisement, and a voice came bidding me to tell it to the sons of heaven and reprimand them. When I awoke, I went to them. They were all sitting gathered together, weeping in Abel-jahar, which is between Lebanon and Seneser, with their faces covered. I recounted before them all the visions that I had seen in sleep, and I began to speak the words of righteousness and reprimand the heavenly Watchers.
Enoch’s dream about the Watchers
Enoch 14:1-25
The book of the words of righteousness, and of the reprimand of the eternal Watchers in accordance with the command of the Holy Great One in that vision. I saw in my sleep what I will now say with a tongue of flesh and with the breath of my mouth: which the Great One has given to men to converse therewith and understand with the heart. As He has created and given to man the power of understanding the word of wisdom, so hath He created me also and given me the power of reprimanding the Watchers, the children of heaven. I wrote out your petition, and in my vision, it appeared thus, that your petition will not be granted to you throughout all the days of eternity, and that judgment has been finally passed upon you: yes your petition will not be granted to you. And from henceforth you shall not ascend into heaven to all eternity, and in bonds of the earth, the decree has gone forth to bind you for all the days of the world. And that previously you shall have seen the destruction of your beloved sons and you shall have no pleasure in them, but they shall fall before you by the sword. And your petition on their behalf shall not be granted, nor yet on your own: even though you weep and pray and speak all the words contained in the writing which I have written.
And the vision was shown to me thus: Behold, in the vision clouds invited me and a mist summoned me, and the course of the stars and the lightning sped and hastened me, and the winds in the vision caused me to fly, and lifted me upward, and bore me into heaven. And I went in till I drew nigh to a wall which is built of crystals and surrounded by tongues of fire: and it began to affright me. And I went into the tongues of fire and drew nigh to a large house which was built of crystals: and the walls of the house were like a tesselated floor made of crystals, and its groundwork was of crystal. Its ceiling was like the path of the stars and the lightning, and between them were fiery cherubim, and their heaven was clear as water. A flaming fire surrounded the walls, and its portals blazed with fire. And I entered into that house, and it was hot as fire and cold as ice: there were no delights of life therein: fear covered me, and trembling got hold upon me. And as I quaked and trembled, I fell upon my face. And I beheld a vision, And lo! there was a second house, greater than the former, and the entire portal stood open before me, and it was built of flames of fire. And in every respect it so excelled in splendor and magnificence and extent that I cannot describe to you its splendor and its extent. And its floor was of fire, and above it was lightning and the path of the stars, and its ceiling also was flaming fire. And I looked and saw therein a lofty throne: its appearance was as crystal, and the wheels thereof as the shining sun, and there was the vision of cherubim. And from underneath the throne came streams of flaming fire so that I could not look thereon. And the Great Glory sat thereon, and His raiment shone more brightly than the sun and was whiter than any snow. None of the angels could enter and could behold His face because of the magnificence and glory and no flesh could behold Him. The flaming fire was round about Him, and a great fire stood before Him, and none around could draw near Him: 10,000 times 10,000 stood before Him, yet He needed no counselor. And the most holy ones who were near to Him did not leave by night nor depart from Him. And until then I had been prostrate on my face, trembling: and the Lord called me with His own mouth, and said to me: “Come here, Enoch, and hear my word.”
And one of the holy ones came to me and waked me, and He made me rise and approach the door: and I bowed my face downwards.
The judgment against the Watchers and the origin of demons
Enoch 15:1-11
And He answered and said to me, and I heard His voice: “Fear not, Enoch, you righteous man, and scribe of righteousness: approach here and hear my voice. And go, say to the Watchers of heaven, who have sent you to intercede for them: You should intercede for men, and not men for you: Wherefore have you 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 of earth, and begotten giants as your sons? And though you 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 and perish. Therefore have I given them wives also that they might impregnate them, and beget children by them, that thus nothing might be wanting to them on earth. 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. And now, the giants, who are produced from the spirits and flesh, shall be called evil spirits upon 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; 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. 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 hunger and thirst, and cause offenses. And these spirits shall rise against the children of men and the women because they have proceeded from them.”
The future judgment of the demons
Enoch 16:1-4
“From the days of the slaughter and destruction and death of the giants, from the souls of whose flesh the spirits, having gone forth, shall destroy without incurring judgment–thus shall they destroy until the day of the consummation, the great judgment in which the age shall be consummated, over the Watchers and the godless, yes, shall be wholly consummated. And now as to the Watchers who have sent you to intercede for them, who had been aforetime in heaven, say to them: ‘You have been in heaven, but all the mysteries had not yet been revealed to you, and you knew worthless ones, and these in the hardness of your hearts you have made known to the women, and through these mysteries, women and men work much evil on earth.’ Say to them, therefore: ‘You have no peace.’”
Falling Action
Cainan (Seth’s line) rules over the demons, prophesies, and reigns over the earth
Jasher 2:11b-14
For Cainan was a very wise man and had understanding in all wisdom, and with his wisdom he ruled over spirits and demons, And Cainan knew by his wisdom that God would destroy the sons of men for having sinned upon earth and that the Lord would in the latter days bring upon them the waters of the flood. And in those days Cainan wrote upon tablets of stone, what was to take place in time to come, and he put them in his treasures. And Cainan reigned over the whole earth, and he turned some of the sons of men to the service of God.
Review the following chapters from the book of Enoch
Enoch 2-5, 17-63, 72-82, 84-108
Resolution
Enoch teaches Methuselah secret things
Enoch 83:1-11
And now, my son Methuselah, I will show you all my visions which I have seen, recounting them before you. Two visions I saw before I took a wife, and the one was quite unlike the other: the 1st when I was learning to write: the 2nd before I took your mother, when, I saw a terrible 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 the earth. And when it fell to the earth I saw how the earth was swallowed up in a great abyss, and mountains were suspended on mountains, and hills sank down on hills, and high trees were rent from their stems, and hurled down and sunk in the abyss. And thereupon a word fell into my mouth, and I lifted up my voice to cry aloud, and said: “The earth is destroyed.”
And my grandfather Mahalalel waked me as I lay near him, and said to me: “Why do you cry so, my son, and why do you make such lamentation?”
And I recounted to him the whole vision which I had seen, and he said to me: “A terrible thing have you seen, my son, and of the grave moment is your dream-vision as to the secrets of all the sin of the earth: it must sink into the abyss and be destroyed with a great destruction. And now, my son, arise and make petition to the Lord of glory since you are a believer, that a remnant may remain on the earth, and that He may not destroy the whole earth. My son, from heaven all this will come upon the earth, and upon the earth, there will be great destruction.”
After that, I arose and prayed and implored and besought, and wrote down my prayer for the generations of the world, and I will show everything to you, my son Methuselah. And when I had gone forth below and seen the heaven, and the sun rising in the east, and the moon setting in the west, and a few stars, and the whole earth, and everything as He had known it in the beginning, then I blessed the Lord of judgment and extolled Him because He had made the sun to go forth from the windows of the east, and he ascended and rose on the face of the heaven, and set out and kept traversing the path shown to him.
J: 18 | Y: 852 | Methuselah (Seth’s line) marries Edna
Jubilees 4:27a
And in the 14th jubilee Methuselah took to himself a wife, Edna the daughter of Azrial, the daughter of his father’s brother, in the 3rd week, in the 1st year of this week.
Y: 874 | Lamech (Seth’s line) is born
Genesis 5:25, Jasher 3:13b, Jubilees 4:27b
Methuselah lived 187 years and begat Lamech.
This chart shows who was alive in the years 442-1029.
Years with question marks are estimates.