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by Priestly1 » Wed Jan 14, 2009 9:10 pm
Peace,
According to the Books of Enoch, Jubilees and the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Hebrew beliefs before, during and after Christ was that the demons are the wandering spirits of the dead Nephil'im who were killed in the flood and there after. That notion is confirmed by Christ's discussion on them and human posession. According to the Book of Enoch the Nephilim were condemned by God for their evils and were to wander the earth until His Messiah comes and casts them into everlasting fire appointed for the Devil and their fathers the fallen angels known as the Beni-ha'Elohim (Hebrew Masoretic Text & LXX Text of Gen. 6:1-3).
The Beni-ha'Elohim (Sons of God) saw the heads/faces of the uncovered daughters of sons of men, and descended to earth on Mt. Hermon, after tempted by Satan to do so. Their Leaders Azazel (translated scape goat in faulty early English Bibles) and Shamyazah also told their followers to instruct humanity in forbidden sciences and arts. These fallen angels then took wives from the humans there. There they were worshipped as gods and their hybrid offspring as the gigantic demi-gods and heros (i.e. Nephil'im).
Thus the the Beni-ha'Elom, their consorts, their offspring and most of humanity began a wicked relationship and their ever increasings sins and sufferings increased until YHVH God put His foot down in the Flood. First the Fallen Angels were found guilty of leaving their proper places and forms, and corrupting mankind further and begetting abominations worse than they i.e. the Nephil'im. So they were condemned, rounded up, bound with chians and cast into the dark nether regions (i.e. Tartaus) and their to await the Last Judgment. The Pit they were cast into was a desert called Du'odel. Their offspring were cursed likewise, but had to see their Fathers captured and imprisoned. They would await their condemnation at the hand of God's Messiah, until then they would wander the earth and in their rage they seek the destruction of all mankind....posessing all they find uninhabited by God's grace.
This history is backed by the statements of the demons who confont Christ, as well as by Paul's admonition that women should cover their heads out of fear of the angels in heaven, and by Peter's and Jude's references to this in their letters. Jude even cites Enoch verbatum...equating the sins of the fallen angels with women to the preversions of the men who sought out sex with the angels sent to destroy them. The books of Enoch and Jubilees remain in the Ethiopian Old Testament canon after Job.....and are cited by early church Fathers as Scripture also. The Dead Sea scrolls prove that these Books were also in circulation among Jewry until the Fall of Jerusalem, when in 90CE these Books and the LXX Text and canon was rejected because the Nazaraeans (Christians) now used them and preached all their heresies according to them. This was the Pharasaic Synod of Jamnia, in which these rabbis took control over Judaism and revised not only the Hebrew text of the Old Testmament but also the Canon list. They also began to write down the Mishna and later the Palestinian Talmud. This is the source of the Text/Canon used by Reformed Protestantism.....never accepted by the Apostolic Church as authoritative.
In the West this demonology was supplanted by the beginning in the middle 5th Century, when Augustine rejected Enoch and Jubilees. He also introduced the idea of racial purity by saying the daughters of men meant "The daughters of Cain" and the Beni-ha'Elohim meant "The Sons of Shem." Thus the sin was the pure Race interbreeding with the impure Race. The hybrids must then be seen as corrupted half breeds.....Serpent Seed. This is the origins of such heresies. Augustine of Hippo vomited many new heresies into the West it seems....you can take the man from the Manichaeans, but you cannot take the manichaeanism from the man.
By the 7th century Augustine's views and hermanuetics spread throughout the Western Lands once known as the Roman Empire. His views were allowed, but never deemed authoritative in the Eastern Roman Empire or among the Oriental Churches. Yet most of Proestantism has never heard of the original doctrine nor accept it....they cite Rome and her Saint Augustine. The dead Sea Scrolls and Ethiopian Orthodoxy re-awakened the Church to this ancient Hebrew and Nazaraean Doctrine.
Rev. Ken Huffman
