Book Analysis: The Book Of Enoch

Book of Enoch: The Watchers

• Angels falling to earth

• The great flood

• Giants destroying

In the first book of Enoch, “The Watchers”, Enoch is introduced and we see a man whose eyes have been opened by God to see all the happenings of earth and record them. He believes that God will come forth at one point in time and when he does, he will punish those who have been wicked according to judgment day, while those that were righteous will find peace in comparison to the others that will experience a version of hell on earth. When judgment day comes, Enoch described that God will come with ten thousand angels to execute judgment on all and destroy those that are ungodly. The judgment that is to occur will take place at mount Sinai. The luminaries have also been introduced as non-changing, who are individuals that have set their own order and time. With Enoch’s location, he is able to see everything, including all that is good and in his observation, he learns everything about the earth and its natural occurrences. Through his travel experiences, he learns new smells, sees new sights and has become aware of the order on earth. He also discusses what judgment day plans to offer those who are either godless or faithful. The two options yield very different results and Enoch believes that the day is coming sometime in the future. After judgment day, there will be peace on earth. At this point in time, Enoch states that the children of god, the angels, will see women on earth and lust for them and so eventually the give into their temptations and come down to earth and have relations with the women. The result of these relationships were half angel and had human individuals called nephilim that wreak havoc and end up being destroyed by...

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...Many did not want to bow before Enoch, acknowledging him as a man of God, and they are imprisoned until they oblige, the Enoch is sent back to earth. Through these events, we are able to see that Enoch, and angelic humans, in a form presented as a second Adam.

This book was written in a form where the lessons taught or shared come from stories. It offers additional insight into heaven and how things are run. It also shows the guidance that angels offer when needed. This book is not a part of the bible because it depicts visions of an individual in which the visions that he had were not bestowed by God. Nonetheless, the book is important to the history of Christianity because it offers insight into the world of God and shows that hell is really prison in heaven. This text strongly reinforces that there is salvation for the righteous and punishment for the godless.