Aramaic, some in Hebrew. The manuscript that was found with the Dead Sea
Scrolls was found in fragments.
“Oh.”
“Anyway, angels weren’t called Watchers in the Bible. That
kind of connotation – calling them Watchers as if overseeing something or
someone – would be used if you’re talking about guardian angels. And, the
concept of guardian angels is not found anywhere in the Bible. Bible talks
about angels only as messengers and warriors.
“Enoch writes that these Watchers, against God’s wishes, came
down and bred with humans. The Watchers instructed humans - well only the ones
they procreated with and their offspring - in metallurgy and metalworking,
cosmetics, medicine, astrology, astronomy and meteorology.
That was interesting , I thought. The Ancients had written in the AHM manuscripts
that they had created a man. Not cloned one, but created one. And their
creation had mated with the human Watchers. The people assigned to observe
them. I had deduced that their creation was what we know as the Neanderthal.
Even our scientists had determined that humans didn’t evolve from Neanderthal
and had mated with them at some point. Could this be who Enoch was talking
about?
“So,” I said, after a long pause. “Basically, these Watchers
gave the humans and their children knowledge way ahead of what was known in
their time?”
“Right. But then,” he said, “Enoch, I believe, is writing in
this book that the advanced knowledge that had been given to these
people by the Watchers was taken from them. Something definitely happened to this
knowledge, but there is a difference of opinion what that was. One
interpretation is that the people were lost or destroyed. Someone put
‘flood’ on Wiki. That they, meaning the humans, and not just the advance knowledge
they had, was destroyed in the flood. Meaning the Great Flood. I didn’t write
that because I don’t agree with it for two reasons.
“One, I don’t think these humans and the Nephilim, that’s what
the offspring were called, were destroyed . In a previous verse it says
that the Watchers ‘consumed all the acquisitions of men.’ So I think man lost the things he had acquired from the Watchers – knowledge –
that’s what was lost or taken from man. Not their lives . The Hebrew word
used was abad , which means perish, but also can mean lost. Charam -
”
“Would mean ‘utterly destroyed’,” I said.
“Right. And he didn’t use that word.”
“So that part was written in Hebrew?” I asked.
“Hebrew. Yeah. Now, the other reason I don’t think that these
people, the Nephilim, who the Watchers parented were destroyed in the Great
Flood is because they didn’t include people from all over the world. Enoch
describes these people as being in one place. The flood destroyed everyone and
everything. Worldwide. It’s been estimated that there were about ten million
people on Earth at the time of the flood.”
“Yeah. I know,” I said. “So why kill ten million if you’re
only trying to get rid of the offspring of say two hundred people? Especially
since it was only three generations later until Noah and the Christian’s flood
story, it couldn’t have been that many of them. What did you call them the
Nephilim?” I said.
“Right.”
“Although,” I said, thinking more or less out loud. “Enoch, in
this dream state, could have been talking about something that happened years
before his time. He writes that these Watchers gave people advanced technology,
but he doesn’t know anything about this technology. He’s not living in the time
of it. He just sees it in his vision.”
“That’s good thinking, Justin. Some people would argue that
he’s talking about a future vision, but how much could happen between the time
of his vision and the flood? So, that’s another reason I believe the flood
didn’t wipe out the people with the knowledge. Because if Enoch was viewing
something that happened in the past, this knowledge, or
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