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This video explores the origins of the King James Bible and the exclusion of the Book of Enoch. It examines the \"ancient astronaut\" theory, which suggests that biblical angels and \"Watchers\" were actually physical extraterrestrial beings and that divine ascensions were the result of advanced technology rather than spiritual miracles.
London, England, 1604.
To end a dispute in the Anglican Church,
King James I orders the creation of a standardized English
Bible.
Today, more than four centuries after its creation,
the King James Version remains the most famous Bible
in history and one of the most published books of all time.
Interestingly, while it contains 66 books,
the Catholic Bible has 73.
And the Ethiopian Orthodox Version is comprised of 81.
But why were so many texts, including the Book of Enoch,
edited out?
There has always been accepted literature,
which becomes the foundation of orthodoxy.
And then there's other literature.
That the accepted orthodoxy rejects.
Books that don't make it in to the collection of the Bible,
both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament,
are the apocrypha.
The word apocrypha means hidden things.
And that's probably from the ancients hiding these texts
away from the general public because they
could be dangerous.
Dangerous?
Is it possible that the Book of Enoch
was omitted because it exposed truths about human history
that were considered too risky for the public to know?
Ancient astronaut theorists suggest
insight can be found by examining
a passage in the Old Testament.
We know from the Book of Daniel in Chapter 4
that there is a group of angelic entities whose job,
whose role it is, is ordained by God
to direct the affairs of humanity.
These angelic forces look over our world
and control the direction of civilization.
While this passage is brief, these beings
serve as the primary focus of the Book of Enoch,
where they are described as divine overseers known
as the Watchers.
Enoch calls them, in the English version,
guardians of the sky or watchers of the sky.
In the German version, they are called angels.
No, it was simply an other time.
Now we have a new time.
Now we must translate it with new words.
Change the word of angel, trash it out,
and write extraterrestrial.
These angels were not spiritual beings.
They were physical beings.
That is something very clear about the identity
of biblical angels.
They're not of this world, and therefore they
are not terrestrial.
And therefore they are extraterrestrial.
According to the Book of Enoch, a total of 200 watchers
descended to Earth.
Enoch gives us some of the names,
but we know they were ruled by Samyaza and Azazel.
Azazel was later known as Lucifer.
The Watchers had a very bright appearance,
and one of their names was the Shining Ones.
And even Enoch, when he wrote about them,
he even said he could barely look at them
because they were so bright.
As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned,
the idea that the Watchers were alien visitors
is most strongly corroborated by the stories
of the prophet Elijah.
Aside from Enoch, there is one other we know from the Bible
who did ascend to heaven in chariots of fire,
whatever that is meaning.
And this, of course, is the famous prophet Elijah.
Elijah was a powerful, powerful prophet
who had abilities apparently far beyond those of other prophets.
Elijah possessed a power cloak or a garment
that gave him the ability to heal the sick
and even to raise the dead.
And then one day, he used that power cloak or garment
to ascend upon a fiery chariot, a chariot of the gods.
And when Elijah ascended, there were 50 prophets
that witnessed his ascension.
The Bible calls it chariot of fire.
Now, what is this chariot?
Was it some type of a technological transportation
device, which in ancient times would not
have been understood as anything else but a chariot of fire?
Curiously, while the idea of the soul ascending to heaven
is a key component of Judeo-Christian traditions,
there are a number of instances in the Bible
where it is said that a person ascends bodily.
In addition to Enoch and Elijah, this
is also the case with both Jesus and his mother Mary.
But why?
If heaven is a spiritual realm, why
is it written that certain individuals ascended bodily?
Neither Enoch nor Elijah ever claimed that they were prophets.
It was the biblical writers later
who claimed that they are prophets.
The reason why Enoch ended up being called a prophet
is because of the experiences he had.
He was taken up into space by extraterrestrials.
And we have a similar story with Elijah.
Enoch, Elijah, it's all part of the big concept
of misunderstood technology.