
“And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their proper dwelling-these he has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on a great Day” Jude 1:6Ĭonfirmation of heavenly beings in the Bible The biblical book of Jude provides a clue: They might be the fallen watcher angels or Grigori. The substantial debate also surrounds the nature of the “sons of God” who fathered the Nephilim.
Some secret societies are said to be in possession of knowledge that was inherited by the Watchers, who were led by Lucifer, the Bringer of Light. Some of the Watchers who fall are imprisoned in the 2nd heaven and others are cast to earth where they take human women (Enoch 7:3, 18:4) who bear giant offspring (the Nephilim of Genesis 6) – Jubilee 13:17-35 Testament of Reuben 5:6. This Satan will also later condemn and torture these same Watchers (54:3, 5). Satanail entices the Watchers in the 5th heaven to revolt against God. Falling from heaven, led astray by the first 2 of 5 Satans – Similitudes of Enoch 69:4 54:6 – Esp. However, the Watchers (or some of them) are also those identified below. Teach men knowledge and crafts – 1 Enoch 7:1 8:1ff. Prepare for the judgment of the righteous and wicked – 1 Enoch 103:2-3. Guide people in the right way of life – and report to God on what they see (good or evil) – Jubilee 4:6. Mediate between God and man – Testimony of Dan 6:2. Here the Watchers have the following qualities. However, the book of Enoch has all the connected characters, story, background, and timeline that goes along with the Old Testament. The ministering angels from The Book of Enoch The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, the decision by the word of the holy ones, to the end, that the living may know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will and sets over it the lowliest of men.’ Daniel 4:17Īnd because the king saw a watcher, a holy one, coming down from heaven and saying, ‘Chop down the tree and destroy it, but leave the stump of its roots in the earth, bound with a band of iron and bronze, in the tender grass of the field, and let him be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts of the field, till seven periods of time pass over him,’ Daniel 4:23įrom the above-mentioned references “The Watchers” are used as holy spirits or guardian angels that come down from heaven with authority to speak for God.
“I saw in the visions of my head as I lay in bed, and behold, a watcher, a holy one, came down from heaven. The term’ The Watchers” and Daniel 4: This term is used three times in Daniel 4 as mentioned below.
Although the term ‘Watchers’ in the ‘Book of Enoch’ refers to fallen angels. Godly descendants of Seth, the third son of Adam and Eve.īiblical scholars don’t have much to say about this topic that who are they, what they look like, or what are their stories.