About this episode

This episode explores the story of the angelic Watchers and their transgressions as described in Genesis 6 and the Book of Enoch.

I’ve mentioned this a few times before: I’m a newspaper guy. Or, I was. I got degrees in journalism and in mass communication when I was in college. And I briefly worked for a few area papers around that time. And then I got into radio so I haven’t really done the reporter thing much since then. But I have taken those newspaper guy skills and applied them to how I study the Bible. You see, when you need to break a story, you have to establish the who, the what, the when, the where, and the why. And that’s what I’ve been doing with this story of the angelic Watchers who descended to the earth in the antediluvian era. All year long on this podcast, we’ve been breaking this story. WHO were the Watchers? In Genesis 6, they’re called the Sons of God. They’re angelic or spiritual beings who had a job of watching over humanity. WHAT did they do? Genesis 6 says When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them, 2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose. WHY did they do it? The Book of Enoch’s sixth chapter told us it was because they lusted after the women and wanted to create children…

People in this episode

Host: Luke Taylor

Topics covered

• angelic Watchers
• Nephilim
• Genesis 6
• Book of Enoch
• antediluvian era
• spiritual beings

Keywords

• Watchers
• Nephilim
• Genesis 6
• Book of Enoch
• Mount Hermon
• angelic beings
• antediluvian

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Book of Enoch

Places: Mount Hermon, Genesis 6, the days of Jared

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