Ancient Book of Enoch | Ken Johnson

What do you know about the book of Enoch? Well today you're going to find out about the book of Enoch and how important it is in several different ways and we have the author of The ancient book of Enoch. His name is Ken Johnson You've seen him before many of you have and and and he is a very very Interesting author because he goes where nobody else Dares to tread and thanks for being with us today. Thank you the ancient book of Enoch now It is ancient It's sort of laid in the dustbins for centuries until it was discovered And let's talk about that. Well the book of Jude quotes the book of Enoch and Says that Enoch gave prophecy and the church fathers talk about this book of Enoch that he wrote that has Pre-flood history to it Prophecy about end times and a lot of other things and so the book has laid dormant for a long time It's in the Ethiopian canon and RH Charles finally translated it into English and I believe the 1800s and by the way, I've got an open my old beat-up and RH Charles this one was 1917 copyright and Again I have gotten a lot out of it, but Not as much as when I read Ken's book. We give the ancient book of Enoch Well after the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered parts of the book of Enoch were discovered. So we know now it's not Just Ethiopic it does actually go back way far in the past and there were other texts found with it that the RH Charles version doesn't have So I wanted to compile and create a modern English version because of the prophecy parts so we could easily understand them And you have done so we find Enoch mentioned in the Bible in the book of Jude and and in Jude is only 25 verses long very short letter and in the 14th Verses is on and Enoch also the seventh from Adam prophesied of these Saying behold the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints well, who did he prophesy of he prophesied of apostates who would come along and It's really interesting that when you go back to the book of Enoch you see a grand apostasy a history of apostate angels and Used to your first reaction as a Christian. Did that really happen? And as you begin to look yes, it really did happen and not only were there consequences But there are consequences that roll have rolled down through the centuries to us today Yeah, the the church fathers talk about that as being actual history They they quoted Enoch a lot and what's interesting about it Is one of the church fathers talked about the book of Jude and said that it was specifically written against a group of Gnostic heretics called the Corpocratian Gnostics Corpocrates was known to believe in Genesis 6 the concept of fallen angels From Genesis 6 and he said that he actually was a reincarnation of one of these beings So I think what Jude is trying to say here is the version of the story that Enoch gives is the correct one Which is found in the Bible the version that these Gnostics are telling you is fake and a Gnostic you might define Gnostic for those who are not familiar with Gnosticism It's a combination of Judaism and a bunch of pagan ideas. And so they were the cults of the first day So they were cults and it's fascinating when you go back to Jude The foundation of this letter and I'm sure most of you have read the book of Jude all 25 verses of it and he He was going to he says Dude says I was going to write a book about the common salvation meaning faith and love and how you should comport yourself and so forth and so on and exhortation of some sort but he says as I was writing this the Holy Spirit kind of changed my mind and And he he is directing me to write about certain men who crept in unawares who were before of old ordained to this condemnation ungodly man turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness and denying The only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ and then what does he do? He begins to write about the fallen angels. He goes back to Michael the Archangel he goes back to Cain he goes back to Balaam And so he's focusing in on these grand apostasies But he also focuses in and actually quotes the book of Enoch, which is maybe an apostasy that to beat them all It's kind of an apostasy of the angels who fell Yeah, absolutely The first six chapters of Enoch talks about the apostasy how it was then how it will be and that's the part that Judah's quoting and I think that's Really important for us to look at but then the second section is all about the pre-flood apostasy the angels and those kind of things They actually give a whole lot of detail about Between that the the book of Giants, which is I put in the back of our book of Enoch Tells you how they did the genetic tampering and the things that happened with it a little bit about the civil war of the giant Clans pre-flood and how it all ended with the flood and so this apostasy or a tendency toward apostasy that began in the heavens and and then landed on planet Earth and has Proliferated down through the ages and has been destroyed and rebuilt and destroyed and rebuilt and Jude just felt compelled To talk about these things and and if you look at the book of Enoch What is it the first thing you see you see the angels that who come down with? Ulterior motives about taking over the earth. This is amazing It as we were talking before we came on today, it sounds like sci-fi almost well It sounds like it but it's actually correct as as far as we can tell because some of the things in it are profit prophecy and some of the prophecies have come to pass like for instance the one where Enoch is told that the Messiah who would redeem us Actually comes 70 generations after him now They don't set a date per se a year But a generation you can count the generations if you go to the book of Luke in chapter 2 and look at the genealogy You'll see that it starts with Adam and goes all the way down to Jesus Christ and if you count them Jesus Christ is the 70th from Enoch so that's a prophecy fulfilled and again you could say if this was written in the Middle Ages Maybe it's been you know fake it tampered with or whatever But since we've found parts of it in the Dead Sea Scrolls, we understand that it's at least 300 BC So to have the accurate prophecies It's really amazing I'm opening Ken's Book of Enoch and in the first verse behold He comes with 10,000 of his holy ones to execute judgment upon all destroy the ungodly. What's being pictured here? in Jude or in Enoch actually the second coming in the establishment of the kingdom so So you you have to get this through your head. Wait, you've got this very old manuscript And you'd open it to the very beginning and here's this picture quoted by Jude behold He comes with ten thousands of his holy ones Is that really talking about what I think it's talking about? When Messiah comes with his holy ones to establish the kingdom and that's mentioned in many other Dead Sea Scrolls, too So they all knew what they were talking about Now this ends up for us If we had never seen the book of Enoch we would go to the book of Revelation and see the Lord coming with ten thousands of his saints and but here we have a different perspective of the same event and Then let's pick up and and see how this carries us through the book For those not familiar with the book of Enoch. Well, it talks a lot about the concept of repentance and holiness It has a lot of prophecies about the first and second comings of the Messiah. They would be born of a virgin He would somehow take away our sins He would eventually come and establish what we call a millennial kingdom It's a virgin birth never interrupt here. The virgin birth is mentioned in the book Yes, the the whole concept of the seed of the woman and it's explained a little bit more there and in other Scrolls too But the concept that the seed comes from man and the seed of the woman is a is an old term for a virgin birth And that was a prophecy for many of the scrolls And so again, we see all of these things in Enoch as being things that would happen eventually so somehow the genetic problem with man or man has a genetic problem and that's where we get our sin nature and Somehow that's fixed by the coming of Messiah now They don't have a whole lot of details just that somehow Messiah would fix it and and by the way If you go to first second and third John, you know, it's kind of dealing with the same subject Many many places in the New Testament you're dealing with the sin nature of man and its correction, which is a genetic problem and And again you come to Jude and it's just surprising if you haven't really put it all together in your head It's just surprising that Jude turns back to the very beginning to the to the rebellion that started this whole thing off and Then he he goes from the rebellion He describes what the angels did after they came to earth the fallen ones And let's talk about that a little bit because they were businessmen as far as I'm concerned They wanted to set up nice fat lucrative If you will ranch land On planet earth, this is my ranch here This is your ranch over here and and they wanted to come down here and set themselves up as the moguls Running planet earth. Mm-hmm Yeah According to the book of Enoch the first one to do that was an angel named Azazel And what's interesting about that is when we go back to the Old Testament and Leviticus and then also mentioned in I believe Hebrews Paul's mentioning the scapegoat. That's how we translate it in King James But the scapegoat literally is the Azazel goat and it's a it's a symbol or a prophecy in ritual form About what Azazel did and how it caused problems in the book of Enoch It says that all sin will be ascribed to Azazel for what he did So he started doing what we would call genetic tampering trying to create something He's off by himself not bothering anybody. It doesn't corrupt the planet. So there's no judgment that actually falls So then a little bit later there were 200 angels that decided they wanted to do the same thing that descended on Mount Hermon which is what we're told in the book of Enoch Jubilee's book of Giants and a few others and That's what caused the problem when you get 200 different people trying to do genetic problems all at the same time So you have just to the north of Israel Mount Hermon still there today I've had people tell me that there's a kind of a memorial of some sort built up at the top of Mount Hermon Mm-hmm and with some some engraving on it to the effect that I don't think anybody really knows what it says, but it Apparently it memorializes the coming of these angels Which I find just astounding that we live in a world like that And usually we don't look at these things and and we kind of try to gloss gloss over the evils and and look at the world through you know eyes of Christian grace and everything's fine and and the Lord loves us and we broadcast his love Through our faith to the rest of humanity. We try to put a nice a wonderful if you will patina on the What we would what we perceive about the Christian faith and yet there is this underlying landscape of rebellion and evil and It ends when the Lord comes with ten thousands of his saints, right? And so you have this this huge narrative, which I think Really needs to be integrated into the preaching of the gospel Yeah, I mean we have through scriptures with the scriptures talk about giants in the land of Canaan It talks about the fall of the angels the fall of people the sin nature Demons things like that. So if you believe the scriptures you understand there is this other realm Of angels that are good and angels that are bad and they're gonna try to cause problems What are the kind of problems they can cause so we have one record of a certain kind of set of problems That they caused I wouldn't be surprised You know I think the value of reading the ancient book of Enoch is and by the way You have the language of your book is it has been How should we say smoothed out it has been made I think more understandable and easier to read than then foregoing Translations. Yeah, I wanted to do a modern English translation For that purpose and then also the prophecies that point to things in our time period Yeah, it was really cryptic anyway, especially with a King James in type English or you know that kind of thing Charles so I wanted to do something with some commentary to point you in the right direction so we can figure the prophecies out if In your work as you did this if there's one place in this book that really caught your attention when you started putting it together and Translating it. What would that be? Which which part my part? I always focused on the prophecies there's a prophecy about the The shepherds and The talks about if you interpret it, right It's the leaders of Israel and they basically ceased to exist at a certain point for a couple of millennia And then they come back and there's a certain number of leaders Until an evil king arises and a seven-year period and things like that so again, not it's impossible to set a date with that, but it's possible to set a Generation or some sort of a government structure generation type thing so it's giving us a an approximate time on when things would happen and so there's two or three prophecies like that in the Book of Enoch that point to things in our lifetime Just like it talked about the 70 generations from Enoch to Jesus first coming Does it actually give a time span or an approximation of the time that would would pass? Yeah in groups and we're not sure what the groups mean exactly but it's if we're talking generations It would be your great-grandfather. And so five generations down would be your son or your grandson So as soon as your grandson is born something might happen. It's that kind of a thing. So it's an approximate time period well Based on that and I'm going back to my King James Bible book of Jude Enoch 7th from Adam prophesied of these that is apostates and And verse 15 says the Lord's coming to execute judgment upon all to convict all That are ungodly among among them of their ungodly deeds, which they have ungodly Committed and all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against them So you can't really call this a prophecy But it is it's it's almost It's saying Cheer up in the end. It's all gonna work out those people who have been apostates will be exposed Just as the angels who left their first estate Right were exposed and so I think that's what Jude is talking about when he quotes Enoch Yeah, and if you actually go and look at the first six chapters of Enoch It's more descriptive of what Judah's summarizing so you get a better understanding of exactly what kind of Ungodliness we're talking about and so you can begin to see where that's at in our society and watch the proper Points grow see how close we're getting to the end and can it's amazing to me as we're talking about this You know before we came on the air today we're talking about contemporary society and all the things that are just Taking a nosedive, I guess Society seems to be coming apart at the seams globally and of course all this is prophesied and yet you you know you you your heart still longs for stability and Social true social justice knowing that that'll never come unless Jesus comes but We're now living in a apostate society and globally and it seems to be going toward a deeper and deeper apostasy and we all long for for the correction of that and We are promised several places including Jude that that's gonna be corrected and then we look back We sort of take a backward look with Enoch and and his Review of what happened in the past when those angels fell and That's not fiction it's not science fiction a bunch of renegade angels coming down on a mountaintop sounds sort of like a Movie. Mm-hmm, but it actually happened. Yeah, and it's interesting to me You take the basic story and again, it's found in the Dead Sea Scrolls also in Jubilees and in the book of Giants It talks about how they did to the genetic tampering and we look at society today and some of our science We're following in the same footsteps. They're doing some of the same experiments having some of the same results How would ancient people writing fiction know how to do that and have it? correctly if it wasn't something that actually occurred and you've got all these other histories like for instance the The the history was kept by the school of the prophets including Enoch and When they left the Amorites came in we're told and kind of took over everything Somewhere along the line there's Giants in the land of Canaan again So there's got to be something to the technology if it keeps happening if you believe the scriptures and I do by the way Ken's gift I think is taking old manuscripts Difficult to read manuscripts and bringing them into modern English collating or Organizing making them readable for you And if you've heard the book of Enoch discussed and said I've always wanted to read that well here's your chance to read a very readable version of the ancient book of The apocryphal book of Enoch is one of the most controversial books found among the Dead Sea Scrolls The account of Enoch's flying house with God as his tour guide is just one of many astonishing revelations shared in this ancient writing if this subject is new to you understand that Enoch the father of Methuselah Lived a remarkable life and according to the Bible God took him Yes, Enoch was the first man to experience the rapture Though the book of Enoch is quoted in the Bible It is not inspired scripture, but it adds some remarkable details to some key passages that have troubled theologians for ages Enoch is one of the few places that documents the heavenly rebellion of the fallen angels in the sixth chapter of Genesis Let's just say he names names Documenting the actual leaders of the rebellion and offering insight into their corruption of the human race in the days of Noah Today we see this same genetic tampering taking place in laboratories all around the world but according to Enoch these fallen angels knew the secrets of heaven and the manipulation of DNA long before our generation We've put together two exciting packages for you today The first package the ancient Enoch package offers Ken's book on Enoch along with a two-disc DVD set Produced by Gary and Ken and time prophecies in the book of Enoch together They take a long look at this 2300 year old book from beginning to end and highlight some of Enoch's amazing prophecies and revelations This package is available to you for your gift of $39.95 to our ministry And as always we'll ship the book and two DVDs to you for free anywhere in the US Ken is a prolific writer authoring some 25 books We've chosen five of those books that best represent Ken's teachings on these subjects all written from the perspective of ancient church fathers the Ken Johnson Enoch collection includes the ancient book of Enoch the book of Jubilees the end times by the ancient church fathers Fallen angels and ancient paganism. This is a wealth of biblical knowledge on a subject You will likely never hear about in church We've also included two special bonuses with this package Gary and Ken's to our discussion on the book of Enoch and a tremendous book on the genetic manipulation of the fallen angels Appropriately entitled corrupting the image How did these fallen angels mate with the women of earth and produce the race of Giants the Bible calls the Nephilim? 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That it changed your life you're thinking in any way Well, it really made you understand that the whole the whole story given is not fiction, but it's history So we're talking from the church fathers and everyone else and then our scientists doing the same genetic experiments having the same results apparently it's all true and With that in mind the prophecies in there pointing to the first coming of the Messiah According to scriptures were true And then the rest of the stuff things happening in our time period was always of interest to me So they'll probably be true also So all of that I try to pull together just to try to figure out where we're going what's going on in our society what to watch for and you know all this talk about genetics and the human genome and and the very very high-tech Modeling genetic modeling that's going on these days that which is very scary to me. Yes, absolutely We've got a couple of minutes Anything encouraging that you'd like to impart to our audience about this and about your work on the book of Enoch Well, I keep trying to Do more of the Dead Sea Scrolls? They have theology that matches the New Testament. They understand the second coming and the prophecies So we're trying to focus on them just to learn more Enoch is amazing because it's got first coming prophecies and prophecies about things happening in our time period So many generations or so back from when Messiah sets up the kingdom So again prophecy wise it's amazing to pull all these scrolls together and to learn I just have to share this the Enoch walks at one point walks up apparently he's out on a Grass prairie of some kind he walks up to a house With a door and he feels the wall of the house and it feels cool or even cold and He opens the door goes on inside the house it feels the walls of the house and It's they have a funny funny feel to him. And this this whole thing is like you know walking with Enoch as he has a little adventure when he walks into this house and Wouldn't you know the Lord Causes that house to fly with Enoch in it and he gets a if you will an aviators view of planet Earth as This house flies across the terrain and what I told Ken before we came on is that as a pilot of many years When Enoch describes what it looks like when he looks out the windows is exactly what I would see is I look out the windshield of an airplane thereby Convincing me that Enoch actually did fly and it's in the book just one more piece of the evidence It's everything if you're making up a story It's not gonna fit somewhere and every piece of information we see seems to fit. Yeah, it's sort of self If you will self Amending it's just one little piece adds to another little piece and you look at the whole story You said this this had to actually happen and that's my reaction to this book It's it's strange and yet it actually happened. So Read it. You'll be amazed You're working on something now that's equally amazing. Yeah We're going through still the Dead Sea Scrolls trying to pull together all the idioms to understand Paul and things like that better We're also trying to pull together the pieces of the prophecies from times back to see what the apostasies were like and if there's any Similar threads through all the apostasies so we can look and see and understand better what Paul means when he talks about the apostasy that comes in our time period well our thanks to Ken and Rita's books. They're always amazing. I'm Gary Stearman. Hey, you keep watching we are