Days of Noah – Part Four – Enoch, a Hero of Faith

Last time, I talked about interspecies breeding again as part of the Days of Noah, because many theologians believe that is what happened in Genesis 6. We reviewed that and showed a couple of places for more information.

I’m returning to Enoch, because he is a hero of mine. He walked with God and was not. As a caution, when you read about ancient history, especially material that was not included in the Canon of Scripture, you have to put some grains of salt on what you read. But his righteousness was recorded in Scripture in Genesis and Hebrews 11.

While re-reading the Book of Enoch bit by bit, and watching a video about it, (yes, it was AI, but it was helpful), I understand much more clearly what those days might have been like. Here’s a link to the video I watched:

Enoch – The Movie (2026) | 10 Heavens and the Origin of the Nephilim | Full Biblical Movie in 4K

There are shorter films about Enoch, but this is the one I took time to watch. It’s interesting. It’s not scripture, but it is thought-provoking, and some of it is extremely inspirational. A lot of it makes sense. I’ve read the Book of Enoch before. I’m reading it again now because he lived during the time when God pretty much decided that He would soon send a flood to destroy what mankind had become. It’s very sad, and yet it helped me make more sense of the Genesis narrative.

Back to Genesis 6:6. The Bible says, “And the LORD was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.” Wow. God is sorry He ever created mankind. And yet, in His sovereignty, He knew beforehand what man would do. He even knew that His watchers (angels) would choose to fall. That YouTube video shows “why” the watchers chose to fall. They wanted to know what they were not created to know. The video says they wanted to know what it was like to have flesh. They wanted to know what it was like to have sexual union with these beautiful girls they saw. And they wanted offspring.

Then, once they did all that, the Book of Enoch says they taught “forbidden” knowledge to mankind. “And Azazel taught men to make swords, and knives, and shields, and breastplates, and made known to them the metals of the earth and the art of working them, and bracelets, and ornaments, and the use of antimony, and the beautifying of the eyelids, and all kinds of costly stones, and all coloring tinctures.”[1]

That’s just one example of what one watcher taught.

Why is all this important for us to know? In reality, it may not be important for most of us. What matters is how we live our lives. The relevance is the degree of perversion it portrays and the permission it gives.

When we permit and encourage non-traditional, sinful views of humanity and sexuality, we come into agreement with ideas that are not godly. When we entertain and accept these ideas, they become perversion. Perversion means twisting or distortion, but it can also mean corruption, misapplication, and falsification (these are all synonyms in Microsoft Word).

There is hope, however. I just saw an encouraging news story about teenage girls rejecting lesbianism, which is a perversion. Young women are waking up to realize they have not been valued when they accept nontraditional views. Let’s keep praying that the Holy Spirit continues to reveal the lies they have believed. Here’s a link to that story.

CDC data shows teen girls identifying as lesbian or bisexual drops | Fox News

History is drawing to a close. As we continue to recognize that we are still in the Days of Noah, as we understand what those were like, we can face the future unafraid, with the truth of God and Christ, and be prepared for His coming.