The Watchers
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American Standard Version Chapter 4
watchers
This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men.
I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and, behold, a watcher and an holy one came down from heaven;
And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven.
Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?
Then the Most High, the Great Holy One, spoke about these things; and he sent Istrael to the son of Lemech and said: “Say to him on behalf of my name, ‘Hide yourself,’ and reveal to him the end that is coming, that the whole earth is destroyed, and a flood is about to happen among all the earth and utterly destroy everything that is in it. And teach him that he should flee, and his seed will remain in all the generation of eternity.”
And he said to Raphael, “Bind Azael hand and foot, and throw him into the darkness; open the desert that is in the Daduel and throw him there. And place under him the rugged and sharp stones, and let darkness cover him. Let him live there for the eternities: cover up his appearance and let no light be seen. For in the day of great judgment he will be led away into the burning. And the earth that the angels removed will be healed, and reveal the healing of the earth, so that they may heal the injury, lest all the sons of the humans be destroyed with the whole mystery that the watchmen ordered and showed to their sons. And the whole earth was destroyed and laid waste by the works of Azael’s teaching. Ascribe to him all sins.”
And the Lord said to Gabriel, “Go against the bastards, against the base ones and the sons of fornication, and destroy the sons of the watchmen among the humans; send them into the battle of destruction. For they do not have length of days, and their fathers will not have any questioning even concerning them, because they hoped to live an eternal life, and because each of them will live five hundred years.”
Then Michael said, “Go and make known to Semiaza and to those remaining with him, those women with whom they mixed, being defiled by them in their uncleanness. Should their sons ever be slaughtered and see the destruction of their beloved ones, bind them for seventy generations in the wooded vales of the earth until the days of their judgment and consummation, until the judgment of the eternity of eternities is completed. Then they will be led away into the gaping abyss of fire and into the torment and into the jail, being shut up from eternity. And whoever is burned up and destroyed from the present, they will be bound up together with them until the completion of the generation. Destroy all the spirits of the frauds and the sons of the watchmen on account of wronging the humans. Destroy all wrongdoing from the earth, and every work of wickedness will be coming to an end. Let the plant of righteousness and truth be revealed into the eternities. It will be planted with joy.
“And now all the righteous ones will flee, and they will be the living ones until they father thousands, and all the days of their youth and their Sabbath rest will fill with peace. Then the whole earth will work in righteousness, and the tree will be planted in it and be filled with blessing. And all the trees of the earth will rejoice exceedingly. It will be planted, and they will be planting vines. The vine that they plant will make pitchers of wine; according to each of the sown seeds it will make a thousand measures of olives. It will make up to ten jugs.
“And you, make the earth clean from all uncleanness and from all wrongdoing and from all sins, ungodliness and uncleanness that is upon the earth. Wipe it away. And all the people will be serving and blessing and worshiping me. And the whole earth will be made clean from all defilement and from all uncleanness, wrath, and suffering. I will never send it upon them again unto all the generations of the ages.”
And the earth that the angels removed will be healed, and reveal the healing of the earth, so that they may heal the injury, lest all the sons of the humans be destroyed with the whole mystery that the watchmen ordered and showed to their sons.
“And to Gabriel said the Lord: ‘Proceed against the bastards and the reprobates, and against the children of fornication: and destroy the children of fornication and the children of the Watchers.
And destroy all the spirits of the reprobate, and the children of the Watchers, because they have wronged mankind. Destroy all wrong from the face of the earth, and let every evil work come to an end.1 Charles, R.H. and Oesterley, W.O.E. (1917) The Book of Enoch. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, p. Enoch 10:14–16.
Charles, R.H. and Oesterley, W.O.E. (1917) The Book of Enoch. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, p. Enoch 10:9. Below, Azazel the Watcher, has taken on the Holy Representation as Christ the Scapegoat. Is he saying that he is also the fall guy? Mocking God?
AZAZEL, a-zāʹzel (עֲזָאזֵל, ‛ăzā’zēl; ἀποπομπαῖος, apopompaíos; AV Scapegoat, “removal”).
“And the whole earth has been corrupted through the works that were taught by Azâzêl: to him ascribe all sin.’ And to Gabriel said the Lord: ‘Proceed against the bastards and the reprobates, and against the children of fornication: and destroy the children of fornication and the children of the Watchers from amongst men: and cause them to go forth: send them one against the other that they may destroy each other in battle: for length of days shall they not have.”
1 Charles, R.H. and Oesterley, W.O.E. (1917) The Book of Enoch. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, p. Enoch 10:9.
Charles, R.H. and Oesterley, W.O.E. (1917) The Book of Enoch. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, p. Enoch 10:8–9.
And they began to sin against birds, and beasts, and reptiles, and fish, and to devour one another’s flesh, and drink the blood. Then the earth laid accusation against the lawless ones. 11 Charles, R.H. and Oesterley, W.O.E. (1917) The Book of Enoch. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, p. Enoch 7:1–6.
Charles, R.H. and Oesterley, W.O.E. (1917) The Book of Enoch. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, p. Enoch 6:5–6. (Dan. 4:17; 10:10–21; 11:1; 12:1; Mt. 18:10; Heb. 1:14).11 Dake, F.J. (1997) The Dake Annotated Reference Bible. Dake Publishing, p. Da 4:13.
11 Baker, W. and Carpenter, E.E. (2003) The complete word study dictionary: Old Testament.