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The Book of Enoch

Notes

(4) THE MOST HIGH OF THE WATCHERS SPEAKS OUT. (Pages 19–21)

Enoch presents us with a condemnation of the runaways by the Most High of the
Watchers. This section shows how the runaways are regarded at home.

Some background details do emerge later in the book. At 106.13 (section 10),

we learn that the runaways came to Enoch's area in his father's day. Enoch is a scribe,
see 12.4, and he says that it was the angels who introduced writing. So, Enoch was

probably taught to write, and employed, by the runaway angels.

At 10.1-3, the Most High instructs an angel to save the son of Lamech (this will
be Noah) from the flood. This is interesting, because besides prophesying details of the

flood, and its timing, it reveals that this was written at a time when Enoch is a
grandfather, (of Lamech), but he does not yet know what Lamech's son will be called.

If the runaways were young in Enoch's father’s day, then they are probably at
least 10 years older than Enoch and maybe more. So, it is likely that the events in this

book happen at a time when the runaways are quite old. I have wondered if they (the

angels) lived longer than we would think was normal but there isn’t enough detail to
draw a conclusion.

The majority of this section consists of a prophecy of doom for the runaways:
They will see their families destroyed by fighting amongst themselves during their

lifetime. They will suffer in the afterlife and the societies they founded will be wiped
away by a flood.

He says, at 10.22, that there will never again be another flood like the one to

come.

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