thousands of people claim that this book should never have been banned from the Bible whilst others claim it should never be opened again so who's actually writes well before I give you my controversial answer first let's investigate what is the Book of Enoch all about 365 is how many days there are in a year and at the end of those days we get a new beginning well so it was with Enoch he lived 300 65 years and then after that he got his new beginning because he was taken up to be with the Lord and
no Christian will ever dispute this fact with you but the Book of Enoch goes into exceptional detail of what happened once Enoch was taken up and know this as I share this information remember I'm not sharing this as total fact I'm just repeating the information from The Book of Enoch it was an ordinary night just like any other when a bright ball of light appeared above Enoch's Village all the villagers were afraid but Enoch wasn't and suddenly he found himself being carried up to heaven by an Angel called Uriel whilst in heaven The Book of
Enoch states that God told Enoch to scribe and to write down all of these important things that he was about to be shown he was shown the mountains he saw all the rivers of the world and then the angel Uriel took Enoch on a tour of the universe he saw how Celestial beings could be trans ported he sees the solar system he sees the lunar cycle he sees how the length of the Earth's orbital cycle is 365 days and this is the reason why many people believe that the Book of Enoch must carry a certain
weight about it because most of these scientific discoveries had not yet been found when the book was written in 300 BCE but hey now you mustn't forget that there are actually two massive inconsistencies in The Book of Enoch which would actually contradict the Bible and before I reveal those two things to you first let's look at what this book is really famous for in the first book of the Bible Genesis we read this there were giants on the earth in those days and also afterward when the sons of God came into to the daughters of
men and they bore children to them those were the Mighty Men Who were of old men of renown I wonder now how many of you were around 3 years ago when I made this video about why I believe the Bible teaches that there were these Angelic beings and these Angelic beings looked down from heaven and they saw that the women of Earth were very beautiful so they went in and they had relationships with these women and from these relationships came these children who were part man part Angel these hybrid beings that were Goliath likee in
size and when the Lord God saw all of these evil Vil ways he was very angry and he poured out his judgment his water on all of the Earth on everyone except for Noah and his family who sought salvation in the ark I can hear exactly what you're saying right now you're saying Joe how can this be possible didn't Jesus Christ himself say that in heaven we will be like the angels we will not be given to marriage you're right Christ did say that and one day in the not so distant future my plan is
to do a deep dive on the subject of giants so if you want to see that video in a couple of weeks time please do make sure you subscribe but right now watch this because the Book of Enoch offers a very detailed account of where Giants came from and I want to hear from you I want you to listen to this account and you tell me whether you think it's accurate or not according to the Book of Enoch God sets over the Earth certain angels to watch over it to look after it some of these
Angels were good but others were bad and just like the biblical account some of these bad Angels these Celestial beings they were attracted to the women of Earth and so these angels went down and they messed up the DNA of mankind in fact The Book of Enoch raises the bar it says the reason that these Angels were attracted to the women is because they had long flowing hair and some people take this detail and they believe that's what Paul was doing when he was instructing women to cover their hair whilst praying personally I find that
very questionable but here's the big difference in the Book of Enoch we are told that the Angels had a leader they had a boss and he was called shemi hazah and he was a rather slim kind of guy he said I am really afraid that you guys will back out of what we've agreed to do and I will be the only angel who gets in trouble with god so let's make a deal let's all bind an oath that we will do this act and there with his persuasive words he convinced 199 angels to fall from
Heaven and meet him on Mount hernon and that is where they begun searching out their targets to create Chaos on the earth what goes through your mind as I tell you this that here we have these Angelic beings who fell from heaven they saw that the women were beautiful they went in and from these relationships these women gave birth to these hybrid Goliath like creatures and then suddenly we now have giant Clans all across the Earth who are spreading evil I wonder what you're thinking about right now well it gets even crazier one of these
bad Angels was called Azazel and he is the one who taught the people how to Fashion the metals of Earth he taught them how to create Shields armor and swords and Believers in The Book of Enoch claim that aael is the reason why we have fighting between countries today because he is the one who taught us how to hate he's the one who taught us to create these Advanced Technologies and to do these things to one another so just remember that name aael because we're going to return to it a little bit later I did
say to you that I was going to show you the two unbiblical errors that the Book of Enoch teaches well it's not just time for that right now but there is a third one that I do want to draw your attention to where do we as Christians believe that sin came from we believe that Adam and Eve when they ate of the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil when our first father Adam sinned that is why you and I now sin that is why you and I now do wrong but the Book of
Enoch doesn't teach that the Book of Enoch would really imply that sin was learned by these fallen angels as well as a ail there was another Angel called Sam yazar and he according to the Book of Enoch taught the people of Earth how to do magic then we have the Angels kabel Ezekiel arakel Shamil and seriel and these all taught the signs of the Earth the Sun the moon the clouds and according again to the Book of Enoch not the Bible apparently God said to these angels you must never share this knowledge it's forbidden but
these Angelic beings ignored the advice or the commands of God and again this is only according to the Book of Enoch the fall Angels had succeeded the Earth was now populated with Giants and these Giants were doing Unthinkable things they were making a total mess of God's creation and on top of that the Fallen Angels had also completed their goal in teaching men and women idolatry because now the humans of Earth they were also doing unspeakable things they were copying the Angelic beings meaning that anything evil that entered into their mind that they wanted to
do they did it so here's my question for you as you take all of that into your mind do you think the Book of Enoch should be avoided or honored well we're going to talk about that very soon in our story we then meet a handful of men and women who were broken by what these Giants had done they were afraid of them they did not like the Angelic beings and so what did they do they cried out to the only one who could help them they cried out to God and the Book of Enoch
says that the Lord God answered their cry this ancient text then goes on to say that God called four of his archangels and called them to act immediately firstly he sent the angel Uriel to go and warn Noah to build an ark why because God was about to flood all of the earth to wash away all of this sin and anyone who hid inside of the Ark would be Sav secondly God sent his Archangel Raphael to lock who aael away in darkness remember how I told you I was going to come back to the angel
who taught men and women to do bad things with metal he taught them how to fight well the Book of Enoch says that Raphael will bind Azazel hand and foot and cast him in a desert called Jude and it says that when he's cast into this desert he will be covered in total darkness so his face will never see the light again now here's an interesting theory that people who believe in The Book of Enoch propose they say because Azazel was the angel who taught men and women how to fight and because it says that
Judea is located to the east of Jerusalem there is a river which also is in that area what is that river called the Euphrates and we know that when the Euphrates River when it dries up there are four Fallen Angels who are bound at the bottom of the Euphrates and when it dries up those angels will be released and that's not all when this River finally dries up 200 million people will begin marching to fight for a big big showdown in megiddo so the theory that those who believe in The Book of Enoch put forward
is this if aael is the Angel who taught men and women to fight would it be possible that he could be one of these four Fallen Angels waiting for the river Euphrates to dry up it's just a theory but it is worth mentioning at this point in in the video thirdly The Book of Enoch states that God then sent out his Archangel Gabriel to if you like delete all of the Giants and all of their sons of the face of the Earth and then fourthly it is said that God sent the Archangel Michael out to
deal with the boss the king of the fallen angels can you remember his name shemi hazar and he too was locked away in a place described as total gloomy Darkness guys can I just be a little bit transparent with you I'm literally just about to tell you on whether we should avoid the Book of Enoch or whether we should honor it and read it but I do want to just say this what makes this so confusing and we're going to come to this in more detail is there is truth in The Book of Enoch but
then there's also many things that are not in the Bible and right now we've seen something that is very similar to what the scripture talks about in Revelation 9 it talks about the abyss and in side of the Abyss are supernatural beings and I personally believe that as the Earth winds down in the final moments as Revelation 9 says the abyss will be opened and these bad evil supernatural beings will be released on Earth and those people who are still alive will see Unthinkable things things that aren't even worth thinking about right now okay the
first huge error is the Book of Enoch claims that you can pray to Enoch himself Noah in the Book of Enoch is described as having an almost angelic appearance as he was born his hair was as white as wool and his skin glowed like the sun and unusually the book claims that Noah could speak perfectly even though he was just a newborn baby now please everyone look at me because I really do want to reemphasize this vital point the problem with the Book of Enoch is it takes biblical truths and then it mix is it
in with what would seem to be Absolute Total fiction for instance we know in the scripture that Noah's father was called methusa that is biblical fact and we know that Methuselah's dad was called Enoch so in other words Noah's grandfather was Enoch so that is in the scripture but then what does The Book of Enoch do well it turns it into an error listen The Book of Enoch says that methusa because he looked at Noah's appearance and he was so perplexed by how unusual it was he then decided to pray to his dad Enoch in
heaven and Enoch apparently said hey don't worry about it instead of calling your son lamech change his name to Noah and don't worry because God is going to do something new on the earth he's going to bring judgment but Noah and his family will be saved well again there's a truth there Noah and his family were saved God did bring judgment on Earth but what's all this about pray praying to Enoch nowhere in the Bible do we ever see any of the characters in scripture pray to someone else in heaven who is not the Lord
God the Bible could not put it any clearer than this for there is one God and one mediator between God and man the man Christ Jesus there's only one mediator there is only one middleman there is only one bridge by which we can get to heaven and that is through the god man Jesus Christ Christ Jesus said I and the father are one in other words I am God in a flesh I am God in a skin and he is the only one we can turn to not Enoch not Moses not any other Saint in
heaven we can only turn to the Lord Jesus Christ because he alone is the mediator for us but I'm not going to lie to you things are about to get a lot worse in chapter 48 of the Book of Enoch 3 it it says that Enoch transformed from a man into an angel called Metatron and what is particularly wrong about this teaching is that it led others including the famous Rabbi Elisha Ben to claim that Enoch was a lesser Yahweh and that actually there were two great powers in heaven God and Metatron or God and
Enoch okay here is the second biggest error of the Book of Enoch I want you to imagine that a man or woman who has zero knowledge of the Bible picks up the Book of Enoch do you know what conclusion they come to pretty much they would be given the impression that salvation can only be achieved by knowledge by being righteous and by keeping the words of the Book of Enoch however we know that when we read the Bible we can never get to Heaven by being righteous for the Bible says as it is written there
is non righteous no not one and the Book of Enoch literally says and for all of you Sinners there shall be no salvation well everyone now take a deep breath because the Bible says something completely different 1 Timothy 1:1 15 says this is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance that Christ Jesus came into the world to save Sinners of whom I am chief in other words the man who wrote this the apostle Le Paul though he had written many scriptures though he had done many mighty if you like righteous acts for the Lord
God he was saying I am the chief of Sinners I'm nothing more than a rotten sinner at heart and you know what is there anyone listening to my voice right now that can hold up their hand and say I too am the chief of Sinners if that's you well the good news is this there are only two types of people that get into heaven perfect people and forgiven people again I'll ask you can you raise your hand anyone listening to me right now and say I am perfect you can't because there is none that is
righteous no not even one we all fail God even our thought life the acts we do even when we're not even trying to sin we sin we make such a mess every single day and if the books are opened and everyone can see our sin and our lives everyone would be able to agree with us that we are truly worse than we actually think we are but the wonderful news is this Christ Jesus loves sinners Christ Jesus offers salvation to Sinners he came into the world to save sinners like you and me and it works
like this on an old wooden cross 2,000 years ago the worst of me all of my sin was placed on the Lord Jesus Christ all of your sin was laid on him and there God the Father crushed him there God the Father poured out all of his judgment for our sins on Jesus so that you and I can be forgiven so that you and I can have our sins washed away ripped up gone buried at the bottom of the ocean so that we can now have a fresh start a new beginning just like we've talked
about with Noah how Noah was instructed to get onto the ark to hide himself in the ARK for safety so you and I we have an ark which is the Lord Jesus Christ and we can hide behind him and have Total Safety because Jesus Christ died died for our sins he rose from the dead meaning he can conquer death and sin and today he's ascended on the right hand of the father and we go to him no other man we go to Christ when you want to pray and ask for forgiveness right now if you
do you go to Christ you don't go to a priest you don't go to a pastor you don't go to any religious figure you go to the God man Jesus Christ because Jesus Christ is enough and the only question I need to ask you right now is will you do it will you call on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ maybe you came here to learn all about Enoch and all these interesting theories and ideas well I've come to tell you something even more precious you have to meet your God one day you will
wake up one day on the day you die and you will see your Creator and you need to know are you prepared for that day because I want on that day you to have a big smile on your face saying I'm so glad to see my savior not be filled with fear because you know you've spent your life rejecting him so you call on his name right now okay let's do it should the Book of Enoch be avoided or should it be read well here's my personal opinion we know that the book of Enoch's manuscripts
date back to 300 BCE that's 1,200 years after Moses wrote Genesis so we know straight off the bat that the Book of Enoch was not written by Enoch himself it's impossible for that to happen and as far as we know there are no writings from the time of when Enoch was alive and unlike the earliest writings by Moses this is again evidence that it was not written around the time of Moses when Moses wrote things down he wrote them down in Hebrew whilst The Book of Enoch is recorded in Aramaic and above all remember this
the Bible strongly warns us never to add and never to take away away from the word of God and I would argue that the Book of Enoch it does add a whole bunch of things that are never mentioned not even once in scripture come on then between you and me do you think it's all negative when we think about the Book of Enoch well actually the late Michael Heiser who spent a large portion of his life studying this book in much greater detail than my little brain could ever do he would actually Echo that the
Book of Enoch okay it isn't to be considered as the word of God it's not to be in the cannon of scripture but it is he would say a very valuable insight into how ancient Jews used to think and also he would say there are many ancient commentaries which were written about it so it must be important in one sense as well as the fact that the ancient early church fathers like tulan Clement of Alexander arenus all of them held it with high regard and they they saw it as an important part of our history
I also expect some of you as I've been speaking you've been saying Joe don't forget this did not Jude quotes from The Book of Enoch and also did you know that the Dead Sea Scrolls when they were discovered what was next to them a manuscript of the Book of Enoch does that not give it credibility well well yes I I actually do believe it does give it credibility and as I've said I do believe there are elements of Truth in The Book of Enoch and there is history in there that that could be gleaned but
really what do I want to say in my heart of hearts if a young believer approached me and said Joe should I read The Book of Enoch what would I say to them I'd probably say I would say please just be so very careful the reason I say that is because of this I truly do believe that the Lord God is good I truly do believe that God cares about his children and when the Bible was put together do you think that God was just on some distant Cloud letting men do it all or do
you think he guided their mind and put it together to give us the exact information that we need knowing that this book would be the best seller this book would spread across the Earth do you think he would allow us to have some missing key information I personally don't that's not the god I believe in that allows man to overrule his ultimate final decisions but friends listen to me I also want to say this the Bible that we do have is deep is it not there are mysteries in the Bible that my little brain if
I had 10 million lives I'd never understand and so I want to spend my time searching the scriptures understanding what I know to be the word of God rather than searching a book which does seem to preach a completely different gospel though it may have grains of Truth here and there in it so guys please open your Bibles and spend time on the simple solid truths that we all need in our hearts that Jesus Christ died he's risen from the dead and that the word of God is vital and it teaches us how to be
men and women of God and one more final thing it is important to say like I say I feel like I'm saying in every video these days I am not an expert and I read what you have to say and if I've missed anything in this which I will have done please just graciously write it out in the comments section because I know I'm constantly getting things wrong in fact the latest video I did that just went out this last week all about the age of the Earth I read so many of your comments and
I realized yes I did get a few things wrong there and I did learn some things from all of you guys who a lot of you are much smarter than me if you would like to see that video I'm talking about uh please check it out and maybe you can give me some comments and if you haven't yet subscribed and you found this video helpful please do subscribe we'd love to see you again God bless you all and thank you for watching