Book of Enoch Bible Study Ep 8 - Enoch as Scripture & Answering Questions About Death (Chapter 15:1-7)

Many use JESUS’ words that angels don’t marry to say the Book of Enoch can’t be Scripture. In this video we show how what HE said actually proves it is Scripture. We also discuss how what the Apostle Paul wrote correlates to what Enoch said about flesh and blood being perishable by design.

This is part 8 of our in-depth study of the Book of Enoch (also known as 1 Enoch). In this series, we’re reading through the entire Book of Enoch, providing commentary on each chapter, and discussing parallel Scriptures from the Bible.

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Timestamps:

0:00 Introduction
0:30 Father’s message to the fallen angels
2:42 YASHUA alludes to Enoch’s Book
6:02 Angels in heaven don’t marry
7:23 Death by design?
8:42 How can death be part of a “good” creation?
9:55 Adam and the Tree of Life
11:08 Grief as a result of the Fall
12:22 How the New Testament aligns with Enoch on death

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Transcript:

When we left off last time, Enoch had delivered Father’s message of judgment to the fallen angels. And those angels asked Enoch to write out a petition on their behalf. We’re about to read Father’s response to that petition, and as you will see, it provides a bit of context for something that Yeshua said about the resurrection.

Chapter 15, verse 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. 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 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. 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 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 the spiritual ones of the heaven, in heaven is their dwelling.”

We see from reading these verses that Father designed the concept of marriage and of having children as something that is strictly for flesh and blood which perishes. Marriage was not designed and was not given for beings who are immortal. So, He’s upset at these angels for getting married.

Yeshua actually references this scripture from the Book of Enoch in the Book of Matthew. The Sadducees come up to Him and they ask Him a question. And it’s written in Matthew 22 that they said, “Teacher, Moses said, if a man dies having no children, his brother must marry the widow, and raise up offspring for his brother. Now there were seven brothers among us. The first married and died, and having no offspring left his wife to his brother. So too, the second and third, down to the seventh. After them all, the woman died. In the resurrection, therefore, of the seven, whose wife will she be? For they all had her.” But Yeshua answered them, “You are wrong, because you know neither the scriptures nor the power of God. For in the resurrection, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.”

So, Yeshua is implying here that if the Sadducees knew the scriptures, they wouldn’t have asked this question. And that’s because the scriptures teach us that in the resurrection, we will be immortal.

And also that the immortal do not marry. There are several examples in the scriptures of immortality being part of the resurrection. But there is only one example where it’s clear that the immortal don’t marry. And that is in the Book of Enoch, which we just read. So, the implication here is that Yeshua is teaching these people that Enoch is part of scripture. So as for immortality being part of the resurrection, we can look to a few different scriptures.

One of them is Daniel 12, which says, “Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life.” So, in the resurrection we will be immortal. And as we just learned from Enoch, the immortal don’t marry.

Father said to the angels, “You were formerly spiritual, living the eternal life and immortal for all the generations of the world. And therefore,” meaning because of this, because you were immortal, “I have not appointed wives for you.”

One thing we can take away from this is if Enoch wasn’t considered scripture in Yeshua’s eyes, then what these Sadducees were asking was a fair question because there’s nowhere in the Old Testament where it says that in the resurrection we don’t marry, or that once we have eternal life, we don’t marry. The only place that it’s clear is in the Book of Enoch. In case you have ever heard the teaching that Enoch cannot be scripture because Yeshua said angels don’t marry, you can see for yourselves here that what he actually said is angels in heaven don’t marry.

Now if you’ve been reading Enoch along with us in this series, you know by now that in order to be an angel of God in good standing with Him, you better not get married. Because if you do, you are going to meet the same judgment that these fallen angels did. The fallen angels are, as God says here in Enoch, the ones who left the high, holy and eternal heaven.

And Jude in the New Testament, where he quotes the Book of Enoch, he calls them the angels which kept not their first estate but left their own habitation. So, angels in heaven do not marry. Yeshua is speaking the truth. The angels who left heaven did marry, and for that very reason they are kicked out of heaven and bound in the earth until judgment day.

Another takeaway from these verses of chapter 15 is that flesh and blood is and always has been perishable. It says here that wives are given because flesh and blood perishes.

We know from Genesis that when Father gave Eve to Adam as a wife, it was before either of them sinned. So even before they sinned, they were already perishable flesh and blood, since wives are only given to men because they perish. So, this means that the body being perishable is part of Father’s design.

For those of you who have seen our Creation Week Series, in particular the video called “Dinosaurs and Death through Adam,” you’ve heard us talk about this before. But for those who haven’t seen that, I’d like to address a couple common questions that come up once you start talking about death being part of Father’s design. The first question that people ask is, “How could death be by design if God made everything good in creation?” And the answer to that is that we don’t determine what is good. Father does. The Hebrew word for good is “tov,” and it’s spelled tet, beyt. All throughout the creation story, you will see how the letter beyt is used as a picture of creation itself.

The letter beyt in Hebrew is a house, and all of creation is a house that our Father built. And the letter tet is a picture of a storage container. So, the meaning of the word good is whatever Father determined to store and to keep contained in His creation.

And that includes anything that He felt would serve the purpose that He wanted accomplished. So, does death serve a purpose that He wants accomplished? Absolutely. He created Adam so that Adam needed to eat from the Tree of Life in order to live forever.

And even after Adam sinned, he still could have lived forever if only he had kept his access to this Tree of Life. But Father blocked the tree of life, and He created the way to the Tree of Life. From the very beginning, this was our Father setting up a picture of us needing something from Him in order to live forever.

So, death all by itself is not something that is bad because originally it was intended as a transfer of locations, and there was no grief, sorrow, or pain before the fall. It was grief, sorrow, and pain that entered the creation as a result of sin. Without those things, death becomes, as Paul describes, as gain because it means you go to be with Yeshua.

The word for grief and sorrow and painful labor that is used in Genesis where it talks about the fall is atsab, and atsab is a picture of mankind seeing and experiencing humbleness, humility, being laid low in Father’s creation. So those are the letters ayin, which is a picture of the eye; tsade, which is a picture of a man lying on his side; and the letter beyt, which is a picture of the house and represents creation. So as a result of sin and the fall, we now experience, and we know, and we see ourselves laid low in His creation.

He didn’t want those things for us, and when He returns, He is going to remove, as we talked about before in the Sabbaths in Peace video, He’s going to remove the grief and the sorrow and the painful labor that came as a result of the fall, and we will be back to how He intended for us to live. One verse that gets used a lot by people who say that there was no death before Adam unless it was maybe a vegetable. Vegetables died because Adam had to eat, but no animals died, and certainly man was not designed to die, they say, because in Romans 5 verse 12, it says that death entered through Adam.

But if you read that verse, it says, “By one man, sin entered the world, and death by sin.” Death by sin is not physical death, it is spiritual death, and spiritual death separates you from God. You could be alive and standing on your feet and walking around and enjoying your day, but if you’re not His, then He sees you as dead in your sins. So that is the kind of death that was introduced by Adam.

The apostle Paul agrees with Enoch that flesh and blood is perishable. Paul wrote in First Corinthians, flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, and also this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality.

Another scripture that people may point to when it comes to this subject is that Paul says all are condemned through Adam, and that’s in Romans 5 verse 18, where it tells us that one trespass led to condemnation for all men. But the condemnation that Paul is talking about there can’t be physical death, because if you keep reading in Romans in chapter 8 verse 1, he writes that “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.”

So, if the condemnation that we inherited through Adam is physical death, and there is no condemnation in Yeshua, then why do people in Yeshua still die? That’s because physical death is not the condemnation that came in through Adam.

The death and the condemnation that came in through Adam is spiritual death, which is separation from God. So, everything in the Bible aligns with what Enoch records here in chapter 15, which is that flesh and blood is perishable by design, and that this is a reason that Father created the concept of marriage and children for the continuity of people on the earth.

We’ll go ahead and leave it here, and next time around we’re going to hear the rest of our Father’s response to the angel’s petition, which will include information on where demons came from. And as part of that study, we’re going to take a look at the armor that He has given us to protect us against evil spirits.

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