The COMPLETE Mystery of The SECRET Bible | Full Doc

There was a book that was left out of the Bible, not lost, not forgotten, but it was straight up excluded. And here's the thing, it's actually quoted in the New Testament. You see, early Christians may have even treated it like scripture. It tells stories about fallen angels and giants. And it tells about forbidden knowledge handed down to humanity by these celestial beings who came down from the heavens. And, oh, the main character, according to the Bible itself, never died. Yeah, this is the book of Enoch. So, what is actually in it? And why did it not get included in Biblical canon? And why, even to this day, is it all over the internet? Tangled up in conspiracies from the Antichrist to ancient aliens? Well, goodness. Today, we're going to find out. We're going to walk through the entire book of Enoch itself and then trace its mysterious journey through history and look at how 200 angels look down at earth and decided to break God's rules. Get comfy, because here is a little campfire story. So, before we get into any of this, you need to know who Enoch even is. Well, good news. He shows up in the Bible for a grand total of just like a few verses. He's buried in a genealogy in Genesis, one of those, like, endless, like, so and so was the Father and so and so, like that kind of thing. If you'd blank, you'd probably wouldn't even notice it. But, Enoch is different from every other name on that list, for one reason. Because according to the text, Enoch never died. Yeah, that's right. The Bible you have at home just says that he walked with God. And then he was just gone, like, taken, lifted up, assumingly, like, alive into heaven. So, a man who walks so closely with God that he skipped death entirely and got a look behind the curtain of the universe, which keep that in mind. We'll get to that in a second. That is the man whose name ends up on one of the strangest, most influential books ever left out of the Bible. And it actually starts in the ancient world. Actually, before the ancient world, way back even before the flood of Noah. So, get this. Up in the heavens. This is what the book says. First, Enoch specifically. There is a group of angels called the Watchers. And their job is just, I guess, watch, right? They're observing humanity. They're not supposed to interfere, okay? But, of course, that's not what happens. So, according to the text, 200 of these watchers looked down on Earth and they saw human women. And they made a decision. They said they wanted them. So, they're leaders. These two angels named Semjaza and Azazel. They gathered the others on top of a mountain, an actual mountain called Mount Hermon. And it's a real place on the border of modern day Lebanon and Syria. And it is the highest point in the entire region. And it's mentioned in the Bible a lot. It's actually a really significant holy place. But here's the cool part about it. The mountain actually gets its name from this moment. So, in the ancient language, Hermon becomes the root word meaning, like, oath or curse because of this time when the watchers actually swore on its summit. So, the mountain is literally named after this story that's not even included in the Bible. So, they meet up on top of this mountain, right? And they basically swear an oath. And, you know, they did that because Semjaza was afraid. He knew that if they got caught, he alone would have to take all the blame. He alone would take the punishment. So, he makes all 200 of them bind themselves together with a curse so that they're all guilty and no one can back out. And then, they descend. The text literally says the 200 descended in the days of Jared on the summit of Mount Hermon. Now, who's Jared? Well, that was actually Enoch's own father. So, this is all happening one generation before our main character even shows up. But here's what's kind of weird. The name Jared comes from a root word that means descent or to go down. So, the angels came down in the days of the man whose name literally means coming down. Now, is that a coincidence? Maybe. Scholars still debate what the actual etymology is. But honestly, the book is full of weird little synchronicities and echoes just like that. So, anyway, these waters descend. And they're going down in the time of Enoch's dad and they don't just take human wives. They actually start teaching humanity things. Like, things that humans were allegedly never supposed to know. Things like metalworking, how to make swords and knives and armors for war. Like, they teach sorcery and enchantment. They teach astrology. Like, how to read the stars to learn prophecy. They even says that they teach cosmetics. Like, how to make yourself beautiful. And the text kind of implies deceptive. This is all forbidden knowledge, quote unquote, right? It's like the whole explanation for how evil floods into the human world. And according to the text, it gets even worse. Because the angels and the women start producing children together. And the children are not normal. They're the Nephilim. That's the name that's given. They're half human, half divine, ethereal beings. And also, yeah, they're giants. And I don't just mean like big guys. Like, the text literally says that there are 3,000 elves. And depending on how you translate that, it could mean somewhere between like 450 feet to nearly half a mile tall. Now, obviously, you know, most scholars think that that's an exaggeration or maybe even like an error on the scribes part. But nevertheless, that's what's written. And they're basically monsters towering over the world. And on top of that, they're insatiable. Yeah, like they devour everything the humanity has. And when the food runs out, they start actually eating people. And then they turn to the animals. And then eventually each other. And now the whole earth is drowned in like violence and chaos and corruption until finally, the earth itself cries out into spare. The text says that the earth is just so aggrieved by what happened. And God hears it. So God sends in the archangels. The names you probably have heard of Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel. And he actually gives each one of them a job. Uriel is told to warn a man named Noah that a flood is coming, which is supposed to basically wipe out all the evil in the world. Which quick side note, this will happen in the future because Noah isn't even born yet. But that is just when God gives Uriel that job. And then Raphael is sent after Azazel specifically. Which remember, he's like the ringleader who taught humanity how to make weapons. And he binds him hand in foot and casts him into a pit in the desert buried under sharp rocks and just total darkness basically waiting for judgment day. Gabriel, on the other hand, turns the giants against each other. And then Michael, the archangel, is sent to bind the rest of the watchers to chain them beneath the earth for 70 generations until the final day of judgment. Now this is the moment where our guy actually comes in because the watchers are terrified. And so they go to Enoch, a human, a righteous man, a scribe, and they basically ask him to write a petition to God on their behalf. Basically like, "Yo, Enoch, talk to God for us. Just beg for mercy." Now at this point, Enoch is basically the last righteous man left. He's crucially a scribe, one of the only people who can actually read and write. So these condemned angels, Enoch is the perfect go-between. He's the one human still on speaking terms with God because of his righteousness. And he's the only one who can actually write down their plea. So Enoch writes it. And he goes off and sits down by the waters of Dan, just south of Mount Hermann. And he reads the petition aloud until he falls asleep. And in a dream, the answer actually comes to him from God. And the answer is no. God says that there's no forgiveness for the watchers and for how they've corrupted humanity. But because Enoch made that journey, God decides to show him things. So he takes him on a tour of the entire cosmos. And we'll actually come back to that in a minute because it's really important. But let's just return to the man himself. The guy whose name is literally on the cover of this book, who really filled in the blanks of the story. Now remember Enoch. He's the seventh generation from Adam. That's in the Bible. He's the father of Methuselah, the oldest man in the Bible, and the great grandfather of Noah himself. Now normally these genealogy entries in the Bible are pretty boring and kind of pedantic, right? It's just name, after name. Every single one falls the same formula. It's like this guy lived this many years and then he had kids and then he died over and over, lived and died, lived, had kids died. That kind of thing, except Enoch. For Enoch, the text says something different. It just says that he walked with God and he was not for God took him. That's Genesis 524. It's in the Bible. It says that he never died. He just got lifted up alive into God's presence. He's one of only two people in the entire Hebrew Bible who never died, the other being the prophet Elijah. But during his time on earth, the Bible does say that Enoch lived exactly 365 years. 365 and many people have pointed out this is the same number of days in the solar year. Now that's all the Old Testament really tells us about Enoch. The rest that we actually know about him comes from this text. But here's the thing with the books of Enoch. Enoch is actually not the one who wrote it. So this type of literature is called pseudo epigrapha, which is just a fancy word for a book written by one person under someone else's name. The idea here is that even though someone else wrote the book, Enoch himself communicated it from where he was like with God in the heavens. And back in this era, that wasn't considered deception or fraud. It was a recognized way of writing. You would attach your work to a famous ancient figure. Sometimes it was to give it weight and authority. But sometimes because you were like a student of their teachings or you know, something along those lines. You usually had some kind of relationship to the person whose name that you were using. So that begs the question, who actually wrote the text and the truth is we don't actually know. Like there's no author's name anywhere, but we can pin down the dates. So the oldest parts of the book, including the watcher's story that we just told date all the way back to like the third century BC. Like over 2,200 years ago, some scholars think that some parts of it might be even older. And the newest major section was added around like the first century BC and into the first century AD. So if you do the math, this book was assembled over two or even three centuries by multiple anonymous authors. And the oldest layers were most likely written in a language known as Aramaic. That is a very important detail because Aramaic wasn't the language of priests or of scripture. It was the language of the everyday person, like the common language that ordinary people across the ancient Near East would actually speak. So whoever was writing this wasn't necessarily some walled off like temple elitist or some priest. This was a living popular religious writing meant to be read and understood by basically everyone. Also Aramaic most likely is the language that Enoch himself would have spoken, which is pretty cool to think about. And honestly, it's more of a collection of writings than one singular book written by one singular person. So when people say the book of Enoch, they usually mean what scholars would call first Enoch because there's second Enoch and third Enoch too. But those are entirely different books written by different authors, many centuries later. So the one that we're talking about today, first Enoch is the most famous. And it's the one that is always the most talked about. And first Enoch itself is actually five separate books bound into one. But the thing that ties them all together, every single one of them is actually about some kind of knowledge that humans were never supposed to have. So I can give you an example of what I mean. Book one tells the story of the washers, the one that we just went through. And remember what the watchers actual crime was. It was not just taking human wives, but what they taught them. Things like I said, metal working, weapons, sorcery, astrology, cosmetics, which is kind of funny. This is the book that shows us that some knowledge is forbidden and was basically smuggled down to humanity by beings who rebelled against God. Now book two is the book of parables. This is visions of the end of the world and a mysterious heavenly figure that we'll come back to. But even here, Enoch is being shown things that no living person is supposed to see. He's basically seeing the hidden mechanics of final judgment. And book three is the astronomical book, and this one is just crazy. It's basically a cosmic instruction manual. Enoch is basically seeing the secret movements of the sun and the moon and the stars. The whole hidden clockwork behind the sky. And the book four is the book of dream visions. This is where Enoch has shown the entire sweep of human history before it happens encoded in symbolic dreams. And then of course book five is the epistle of Enoch. This book is super important. This is where he lays out the whole arc of the world, so past, present, future, divided into ten symbolic weeks running all the way to final judgment and a renewed creation. This is actually called the apocalypse of weeks. And it drops the reader right near the end of the timeline just before the reckoning. And also another thing. The final book is the one piece of Enoch that got quoted directly in the New Testament. Yeah, the book of Enoch is literally quoted in the Bible that we have. It's in the book of Jude. It quotes Enoch almost word for word warning that the Lord is coming with thousands of his holy ones to judge the wicked and crucially, it names Enoch as a prophet. It might seem like a little line, but it's actually really important because it's actually part of why this book ended up getting excluded from the Bible altogether. But again, we'll get to that in a second. So remember how we said Enoch got a tour of the cosmos, right, in this vision. Well, before he goes up to heaven, he was shown a lot of stuff that no human being was supposed to see. So what was it? It was things like a house made of crystal, ringed with fire, storehouses where the stars are kept, the prisons that were made to hold these fallen angels, the mountains of the dead. He even walked step by step through a whole secret machinery of how the universe like literally works. So for example, the astronomical book, the angel, Ariel shows Enoch exactly how the sun, moon, and stars move and actually hands him a calendar, a 364 day solar calendar. And that's a pretty radical thing to claim for the time because it directly contradicts the moon based calendar that most of Judaism was actually using at that time. So think about what it's saying that this is the true calendar, the real heavenly measurement of time and everyone else around you is doing it wrong. Now here's the cool part about this. Remember how we said Enoch lived exactly 365 years before he walked with God. So in a world that ran on the moon, Enoch's lifespan was actually pointing to the rhythm of the sun. So if all the figures in the Bible, this is the man who was the keeper of the hidden measurement of time. But after all the time, solar system stuff, the book of Enoch has some other things that you probably thought was in the Bible, but it's not. So here's one example. Think about the Gospels. Jesus is constantly casting out demons and unclean spirits, but the Old Testament barely mentions demons at all. And plus the whole Bible never actually tells us what they are or where they came from. So where do we get the origin story of demons? It's actually from Enoch. So remember the giants, the Nephilim, these monsters, like children of the watchers that are eating everything? Well, in the flood, they get destroyed. And of course when they die, their bodies die, but here's the thing. Because they're half angel, death couldn't hold them the way that death holds a human. So their spirits were released from their dead bodies, but they didn't go up to heaven and they didn't go down to hell because they didn't belong to either world. So they just stayed here, trapped between worlds with no physical body to hold them so they just became demons. So the thing that Jesus spent so much of the gospel fighting is actually the spirit of the Nephilim if we're to take Enoch's word for it. There are a couple places where Enoch and the Bible do crossover. We obviously mentioned the reference in Jude, where there's a warning from Enoch, almost word for word that the Lord is coming down. But that's not the only place. Second Peter talks about the fallen angels from Enoch, chained in darkness until judgment. Even early Christian leaders, the church fathers took Enoch pretty seriously. Men like Irenaeus, Clement, origin, and one of them, Tertullian, around the year 200 straight up defended the book of Enoch as scripture. His argument was basically, "Hey, if Jude quoted Enoch like this must be legit, it must be a part of scripture." So the book is ancient, it's extremely influential, and it explains where demons come from, and it gets quoted by name in the New Testament. And like I said, early church fathers were fighting for its legitimacy, which raises the single biggest question of the whole episode, why is it not in your Bible? Well the honest question is, there's not one reason, it was a convergence of several things all stacking up. The first is the biggest, it wasn't in Hebrew canon. So when Christian leaders were deciding which Old Testament books to include, they mostly deferred to the list that Judaism had already locked in, and Enoch wasn't in it. But why wasn't it? Well there are a few reasons for that too, because Enoch didn't just fail to make the list, it may have actually been pushed off. You see, its content was probably a huge reason, I mean it talked about sprawling cosmos, it named angels and fallen watchers, and all of that just felt uncomfortably close to compromising Judaism's strict monotheism. Plus, it's whole explanation for evil, like the invasion of fallen angels, clashed with the idea that evil came through human sin in the Garden of Eden, so it became kind of a contradiction for how evil enters the world. And the solar calendar it talks about, I mean it actually contradicts the lunar calendar that the Jewish authorities were using to schedule every sacred festival, so it basically was telling the establishment that they were celebrating every holy day on the wrong date. So a book like that doesn't just get overlooked, some scholars think that early rabbis were pushing back against it, and so much so that it nearly vanished from Judaism altogether. And finally, it was pseudonymous, remember, it claims to be written by Enoch himself, but by this point no one really believed that. Which figures like Augustine rejected it specifically because you couldn't verify who actually wrote it or trust how it had been passed down. So by the fourth and fifth centuries, Christianity basically pushed this book aside, and it kind of faded out of Western church awareness. Now, some say that this was a reasonable thing for the church to do. They argue that the early church wrestled with it for centuries, and they just eventually decided like, hey, it's not going to make the cut. And for good reasons, getting quoted by Jude proves that it was really familiar, not that it was ever officially scripture, but other people feel very differently. Instead of the book being intentionally removed for scholarly reasons, they would argue that it was intentionally suppressed. Now, this is a much more dramatic interpretation of it because it claims that this book was banned and intentionally buried that the powerful people of the time basically came together and deliberately hid inconvenient truths about the watchers and the real origins of evil and tried to cover it up so humanity didn't know. So while the Western church basically let Enoch disappear, one church never let it go. This is the Ethiopian Orthodox Tahuhaedot church. So this is way off in the Highlands of East Africa. they kept them. the book of Enok as full canonical scripture, but Ethiopian Christianity didn't grow from the same soil as Western Christianity. It grew out of a deeply Jewish root, one that traces all the way back through traditions like the Queen of Shiba and ancient Jewish communities that lived in this region for centuries. So while the rest of the Christian world was basically trimming its cannon down to match the shorter Jewish list, Ethiopia had inherited a much broader library of ancient Jewish writing, the same kind of text that were treasured back in the second temple times before the cannon that everyone else agreed on was ever closed. So Enok was simply one of the books that they had kind of always been reading, and they never rejected it because they never went through the debate that threw it out. So for over a thousand years, the West completely forgot that this book existed until 1773. There's a Scottish traveler named James Bruce, and he came back from Ethiopia carrying three complete copies, and that is how the book came back from the dead and got introduced to Western Christianity. And then in 1821, there's an Oxford professor named Richard Lawrence, and he finally translates it into English, but there's a real moment of indication, and that doesn't come until 1947 with the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls. One of the greatest archaeological finds in all of history, and among those documents were fragments of the book of Enok in Aramaic, in the original language that was written in, and these fragments were dated to be over 2000 years old. So think about what that proves. The book was genuinely ancient, genuinely pre-Christian, and exactly as old as its tradition had claimed. And that's really when the modern obsession with this text really kicked off. So once this ancient book came into the light, people started reading it in a very different way. I mean, think about it. If you take away the religious language and read the watcher's story just as is, you kind of get a different version. So if you're reading it in the modern lens, you're saying like, okay, beings descend from the sky onto a mountain. They share advanced technology with human beings. They interbreed, they create a hybrid race, and then there's a catastrophe, and then their offspring get wiped out. To a lot of people, it didn't sound like angels. I mean, modern readers would look at it and they were like, hey, they're talking about aliens. The watchers became an extra terrestrial visitation. So the descent becomes like a spacecraft landing. Enoch's tour of the heavens obviously is like some type of alien abduction. And then the forbidden knowledge is like a shared alien technology. And some even go further. Blending the watchers and the nephilim into a giant web of theories from ancient Mesopotamian gods like the Anunnaki, reptile overlords, a secret blood lines running the world now to be clear. Most scholars will breed the watchers as like a moral allegory. The story about corruption and temptation and where we believe evil came from. There is nothing about spaceships in the ancient text. I don't want to mislead you, but aliens are just one layer. Because the nephilim, the giants, have spawned an entire conspiracy world on their own. There are theories about giant human skeletons that were dug up all over the world and that a powerful institution, usually the Smithsonian, has been systematically hiding them. There are people who call themselves nephilim researchers who hunt for this suppressed evidence, and the theory has been pushed on major podcasts and documentaries around the world. And then there is the strangest afterlife of all. This may be my favorite part. Because it's connected to actual magic. I'm not talking about like David Blan or Chris Angel. I'm talking about like actual ritual sorcery. So in the 1580s, there is an advisor to Queen Elizabeth I, a brilliant mathematician named John D. And he had a partner named Edward Kelly. And they claimed that they had made contact with angels. And those angels they said were teaching them a lost language. They called it the original tongue of the angels, the one that they believe Enoch himself had spoken before advanced from the earth. And they called it anokian, a complete alphabet its own grammar, its own syntax dictated letter by letter from the other side. And crazy enough, people are still practicing anokian magic today. Still speaking words that two men swore an angel gave them four centuries ago. The idea with anokian magic is that if Enoch was shown the true reality of the universe that maybe we using these rituals can do the same thing. So between the story of the watchers, the Nephilim, the tour of the cosmos, the secrets of time, the universe, parables, Jewish traditions, lost manuscripts, rediscovered in a cave in the Middle East. I mean, conspiracies, aliens, the hidden language magic. This single book may be the most influential text that people have never actually read. So we know that the book of Enoch is real and it is actually very ancient. We have the air make fragments from the Dead Sea dated to more than 2000 years ago. We know that it comes from the world of second temple Judaism and we know that it survived completely because one church in Ethiopia refused to let it disappear. And then there's another layer with the aliens and suppression theories and the idea that this book was forbidden and it's both of these layers that make the book of Enoch so unique and so mysterious. Right? The book that got left out, the book that was banned, a book about a man who walked with God and never died. And somehow, pretty fittingly, the book itself did the same exact thing. Thank you so much for joining me for this mini documentary on the books of Enoch. There is so much to say about these texts. They are so ancient and so fascinating. There are so many theories about them. So this is just a brief overview. But fortunately for you, we have done deep dives on this channel on religion camp, but on history camp, all about all of these topics, very specific things in all of these books. We've even talked about Anokian magic and John D. We've talked about the Nephilim and have done an entire one hour long episode of the Nephilim. And then multiple episodes with actual theologians and biblical scholars like Dr. Jeremy Hulton, Nathaniel Andrade, where we deep dive on the books of Enoch, what they mean, who wrote them and why they matter to this day. You can check out all those episodes in a playlist in the description or right here on the screen. Thank you guys so much for tuning in and I'll see you next time around the campfire.