This post is intended to set the stage of an important worldview that has been lost over the millennia.
God told Enoch in Moses 7: 36, "... and among all the workmanship of mine hands there has not been so great wickedness as among thy brethren."
What was this wickedness? What happened such that this earth of all the earths (see Moses 7:30) was more wicked than others?
Why would angels of heaven not keep their first estate? (Jude 1:6)
Where did the giants come from (Moses 7:15, Genesis 6)?
Is the fall of Lucifer (Isaiah 14:12) related to such great wickedness and fallen angels?
Let's see if we can connect some of these dots in this series.
Genesis 6 really sets the stage to understand what has gone on over the past 6000 years or so.
2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
3 And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Who were the "sons of God"? And how did we get giants from them coming in unto the daughters of men? It should be obvious that giants would not come about if these "sons of God" were ordinary humans, but that this would require something of a more supernatural ilk.
The wickedness of man was tied to the giants by using the conjunction "and". Therefore the presence of these giants and the "sons of God" (who I believe to be the angels that kept not their first estate as described in Jude and discussed later) brought about great wickedness. So much wickedness that God decided he would wipeout all flesh by the flood.
We learn in the first book of Enoch that the watchers (as the fallen angels are called) taught the children of Adam forbidden knowledge. What was that forbidden knowledge?
1 Enoch 8:
1 And Azazel taught men to make swords, and knives, and shields, and breastplates, and made known to them the metals of the earth and the art of working them, and bracelets, and ornaments, and the use of antimony, and the beautifying of the eyelids, and all kinds of costly stones, and all
2 colouring tinctures. And there arose much godlessness, and they committed fornication, and they
3 were led astray, and became corrupt in all their ways. Semjaza taught enchantments, and root-cuttings, 'Armaros the resolving of enchantments, Baraqijal (taught) astrology, Kokabel the constellations, Ezeqeel the knowledge of the clouds, Araqiel the signs of the earth, Shamsiel the signs of the sun, and Sariel the course of the moon. And as men perished, they cried, and their cry went up to heaven . . .
Why is it that the weapons of war brought about godlessness? Could it be that they no longer were reliant on God, but on these angels? We aren't given much detail, but we do know that in the same chapter in Genesis, Noah is given the command to build the arc. The two incidents (angels coming down and the flood) seem to be related.
Side note: I'm not saying that we can't or shouldn't study some of the things listed above. One should be very careful when studying such things as it can easily lead to pride and idolatry.
But why did the angels of heaven fall? What would cause holy and righteous angels to make that kind of choice?
Perhaps there is more going on than meets the eye at first glance. Let's take a look at the book of Enoch for some further clarification.
1 Enoch 6:
1 And when the sons of men had multiplied, in those days, beautiful and comely daughters were born to them.
2 And the watchers, the sons of heaven, saw them and desired them. And they said to one another, “Come, let us choose for ourselves wives from the daughters of men, and let us beget for ourselves children.”…
5 Then they all swore together and bound one another with a curse.
6 And they were, all of them, two hundred, who descended in the days of Jared onto the peak of Mount Hermon.
1 Enoch 7:
1 These and all the others with them took for themselves wives from among them such as they chose. And they began to go in to them, and to defile themselves through them, and to teach them sorcery and charms, and to reveal to them the cutting of roots and plants.
2 And they conceived from them and bore to them great giants. And the giants begat Nephilim…
In other words, the angels were enticed by the beauty of women and sought to have their own seed.
They took an oath, much like the ones in the Book of Mormon. In Ether 8, we read:
15 And it came to pass that thus they did agree with Akish. And Akish did administer unto them the oaths which were given by them of old who also sought power, which had been handed down even from Cain, who was a murderer from the beginning.
Where did Cain get this oath?
Moses 5:
29 And Satan said unto Cain: Swear unto me by thy throat, and if thou tell it thou shalt die; and swear thy brethren by their heads, and by the living God, that they tell it not; for if they tell it, they shall surely die; and this that thy father may not know it; and this day I will deliver thy brother Abel into thine hands.
30 And Satan sware unto Cain that he would do according to his commands. And all these things were done in secret.
31 And Cain said: Truly I am Mahan, the master of this great secret, that I may murder and get gain. Wherefore Cain was called Master Mahan, and he gloried in his wickedness.
Isn't this the same kind of oath the "watchers" made with each other? This is speculation, but it would appear that they either watched Cain make his oath, or were taught by the prince of the power of the air (or one of his subjects). Some even believe azazel is the same being as lucifer, but we won't delve into that debacle here.
So these angels were wicked, but why does Genesis 6 say that the wickedness of man was great? What did these angels do to cause men to be wicked?
The watchers taught them sorcery and charms. The children of Adam were taught to rely on themselves instead of God. They were taught to manipulate the world around them, not by the will of the true and living God, but by their own will. Letting go of one's will for the will of God is one of the most important tasks in this life. The "miracles" that they would have performed can be done by God, and by His followers, but never without permission and always in His way. A good example of this is any of the plagues of Egypt that were replicated by the sorcerers. Doing those miracles was sinful because they didn't do it by the power of God, or with His permission.
Additionally, the watchers taught them how to be idle by technology. What great wickedness has been brought about by the technology we have today?
What else happened that led to the flood?
Let's take a look at Genesis 6.
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
The earth was corrupt? What did they do to the earth to corrupt it? Was it the violence? Violence has a tendency to harden hearts, just look at how people feel toward those in "enemy" countries.
What does "all" flesh signify? If we look at the current direction of gene editing technology, it should be clear that animals are included in our experiments. One example is the liger, a combination between a lion and a tiger. I'm not making this up.
So all flesh was corrupted and life needed a new start. That's why there was a flood. It's not just wickedness, but corruption of flesh.
Now that we have some more background, let's take a look at the offspring of the watchers.
They were giants.
1 Enoch 7:
1. And all the others together with them took unto themselves wives, and each chose for himself one, and they began to go in unto them and to defile themselves with them, and they taught them charms and enchantments, and the cutting of roots, and made them acquainted with plants.
2. And they became pregnant, and they bare great giants, whose height was three thousand ells:
3. Who consumed all the acquisitions of men. And when men could no longer sustain them,
4. the giants turned against them and devoured mankind.
5. And they began to sin against birds, and beasts, and reptiles, and fish, and to devour one another's flesh, and drink the blood.
6. Then the earth laid accusation against the lawless ones.
Did those giants have spirits? Where did those spirits come from? For those that have been through an LDS temple endowment, you are aware of the threat that the spirits that followed lucifer would possess the bodies of the children of Adam. I submit that the giants were not a creation ordained by God, so God was not going to be supplying spirits for them; yet they had spirits.
1 enoch 15:
And now the giants, who have been begotten from body and flesh, will be called evil spirits on earth, and their dwelling-places will be upon the earth.
9. Evil spirits proceed from their bodies; because they are created from above, their beginning and first basis being from the holy watchers, they will be evil spirits upon the earth, and will be called evil spirits.
10. But the spirits of heaven have their dwelling-places in heaven, and the spirits of the earth, who were born on the earth, have their dwelling-places on earth.
11. And the spirits of the giants, who cast themselves upon the clouds, will be destroyed and fall, and will battle and cause destruction on the earth, and do evil; they will take no kind of food, nor will they become thirsty, and they will be invisible.
12. And these spirits will not rise up against the children of men and against the women, because they have proceeded from them, in the days of murder and destruction.
Other translations use the word "demon". Either way, their spirits are evil or demonic. The spirits were already followers of satan and lucifer, they just inhabited giant bodies.
At this point, you may be thinking: ok, I can understand why God would just send a flood to wipeout all of the giants and corrupt flesh, but what does this have to do with wickedness after the flood? That's the topic we'll cover in part 2.
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