There was man who was so righteous that God walked with him and took him from earth to heaven.
Genesis 5
21 And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:
22 And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
23 And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:
24 And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
Enoch is credited as being the author of The Book of Enoch which, although not included as canon, is quoted in several places in the old and new testaments. In Enoch’s time the Earth was still covered by a firmament. God instructed the Watchers (angels) to show him all the secrets behind heaven and earth and to answer all his questions. The Book of Enoch is a unique peek behind the curtain of heaven that must have survived the deluge with Noah, the great-grandson of Enoch. It was discovered in Ethiopia in 1768 by Scotsman, James Bryce.
The Book of Enoch expands on Genesis 6 with great detail:
Genesis 6
1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
4 There were giants in the earth in those days;
Passages below are from The Book of Enoch:
“It happened after the sons of men had multiplied in those days that daughters were born to them, elegant and beautiful.
And when the angels, the sons of heaven, beheld them they became enamored of them, saying to each other: Come let us select for ourselves wives from the progeny of men, and let us beget children.
Then their leader, Samyaza said to them: I fear that you may perhaps be indisposed to the performance of this enterprise.
And that I alone shall suffer for so grievous a crime.
But they answered him and said: We all swear;
And bind ourselves by mutual execrations, that we will not change our intention, but execute our projected undertaking.
Then they swore all together, and all bound themselves by mutual execrations. Their whole number was 200, who descended upon Ardis, which is the top of Mount Armon…
…Then they took wives, each choosing for himself; whom they began to approach, and with women they cohabited; teaching them sorcery, incantation, and the dividing of roots and trees.
And they conceiving brought forth giants.
Whose stature was each 300 cubits. These devoured all which the laboor of men produced; until it became impossible to feed them;
When they turned themselves against men, in order to devour them;
And began to injure birds, beasts, reptiles, and fishes, to eat their flesh one after another, and to drink their blood.
Then the earth reproved the unrighteous…”
“…I also was so far advanced, with a veil on my face, and trembling. Then the Lord with his own mouth called me, saying: Approach hither, Enoch, at my holy word.
And he raised me up making me near even to the entrance. My eye was directed to the ground.
Then addressing me he spoke and said: Hear, neither be afraid, O Enoch, O righteous man, and scribe of righteousness: approach hither, and hear my voice. Go say to the Watchers of heaven, who have sent thee to pray for them; You ought to pray for men, and not men for you.
Wherefore have you forsaken the lofty and the holy heaven which endures forever, and have lain with women; have defiled yourselves with the daughters of men; have taken to yourselves wives; have acted like the sons of the earth, and have begotten giants.
You being spiritual, holy, and living a life which is eternal, have polluted yourselves with women; have begotten in carnal blood; have lusted in the blood of men; and have done as those who are flesh and blood do.
These however die and perish.
Therefore have I given them wives that they might cohabit with them; that sons might be born of them, and that this might be transacted upon earth.
But you from the beginning were made spiritual, living a life which is eternal, and not subject to death in all the generations of the world.
Therefore I made not wives for you, because being spiritual, your dwelling is in heaven.
Now the giants, who have been born of spirit and of flesh, shall call upon earth evil spirits.and on earth shall be their habitation. Evil spirits shall proceed from their flesh, because they were created from above; from the holy Watchers was their beginning and primary foundation. Evil spirits shall they be upon earth, and the spirits of the wicked shall they be called. The habitation of the spirits of heaven shall be in heaven; but upon earth shall be the habitation of terrestrial spirits, who are born in earth…”
“… And after some days my son Methuselah took a wife for his son Lamech, and she became pregnant by him and bore a son.
And his body was white as snow and red as the blooming of a rose, and the hair of his head and his long locks were white as wool, and his eyes beautiful. And when he opened his eyes, he lighted up the whole house like the sun, and the whole house was very bright.
And thereupon he arose in the hands of the midwife, opened his mouth, and conversed with the Lord of righteousness.
And his father Lamech was afraid of him and fled, and came to his father Methuselah. And he said unto him: ‘ I have begotten a strange son, diverse from and unlike man, and resembling the sons of the God of heaven; and his nature is different and he is not like us, and his eyes are as the rays of the sun,
and his countenance is glorious. And it seems to me that he is not sprung from me but from the angels, and I fear that in his days a wonder may be wrought on the earth. And now, my father, I am here to petition thee and implore thee that thou mayest go to Enoch, our father, and learn from him the truth, for his dwelling-place is amongst the angels.’
And when Methuselah heard the words of his son, he came to me to the ends of the earth; for he had heard that 1 was there, and he cried aloud, and I heard his voice and I came to him.
And 1 said unto him: ‘ Behold, here am I, my son, wherefore hast thou come to me? ‘
And he answered and said: ‘ Because of a great cause of anxiety have I come to thee, and because of a disturbing vision have I approached. And now, my father, hear me: unto Lamech my son there hath been born a son, the like of whom there is none,
and his nature is not like man’s nature, and the colour of his body is whiter than snow and redder than the bloom of a rose, and the hair of his head is whiter than white wool, and his eyes are like the rays of the sun, and he opened his eyes and thereupon lighted up the whole house.
And he arose in the hands of the midwife, and opened his mouth and blessed the Lord of heaven.
And his father Lamech became afraid and fled to me, and did not believe that he was sprung from him, but that he was in the likeness of the angels of heaven; and behold I have come to thee that thou mayest make known to me the truth.’
And I, Enoch, answered and said unto him: ‘The Lord will do a new thing on the earth, and this I have already seen in a vision, and make known to thee that in the generation of my father Jared some of the angels of heaven transgressed the word of the Lord. And behold they commit sin and transgress the law, and have united themselves with women and commit sin with them, and have married some of them, and have begot children by them.
And they shall produce on the earth giants not according to the spirit, but according to the flesh, and there shall be a great punishment on the earth, and the earth shall be cleansed from all impurity. Yea, there shall come a great destruction over the whole earth, and there shall be a deluge and a great destruction for one year. And this son who has been born unto you shall be left on the earth, and his three children shall be saved with him: when all mankind that are on the earth shall die.
And now make known to thy son Lamech that he who has been born is in truth his son, and call his name Noah; for he shall be left to you, and he and his sons shall be saved from the destruction, which shall come upon the earth on account of all the sin and all the unrighteousness, which shall be consummated on the earth in his days.
And after that there shall be still more unrighteousness than that which was first consummated on the earth; for I know the mysteries of the holy ones; for He, the Lord, has showed me and informed me, and I have read (them) in the heavenly tablets….”
“…To Gabriel also the Lord said: Go to the biters, to the reprobates, to the children of fornication; and destroy the children of fornication, the offspring of the Watchers, from among men; bring them forth and send them one against the other. Let them perish by mutual slaughter; for length of days shall not be theirs.
They shall all entreat thee, but their fathers shall not obtain their wishes respecting them; for they shall hope for eternal life, and that they may live, each of them, five hundred years.
To Michael likewise the Lord said: Go and announce his crime to Samyazza, and to the others who are with him, who have been associated with women, that they might be polluted with all their impurity. And when all their sons shall be slain, when they shall see the perdition of their beloved, bind them for seventy generations underneath the earth, even to the day of judgment, and of consummation, until the judgment, the effect of which will last forever, be completed.
Then shall they be taken away to the lowest depths of the fires in torments, and in confinement shall they be shut up forever.
Immediately after this shall he, together with them, burn and perish; they shall be bound until the consummation of many generations.
Destroy all the souls addicted to dalliance, and the offspring of the Watchers, for they have tyrannized over mankind.
Let every oppressor perish from the face of the earth;
Let every evil work be destroyed”
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So, “Why do Muslims cover their women?”
According to the Book of Enoch women were placed on the planet so that they would cohabit and mate with men and produce offspring. The Angels, being immortal, did not need offspring. God made women beautiful to enhance the repopulation effort. He did such a good job that the temptation was just too much for 200 pure spiritual dwellers of heaven.
Where would the Muslims get the idea that looking at a woman would pollute them? Why would they believe that God would not want them to look upon their beauty? Where did the fear of the sight of a woman originate? These passages from the Book of Enoch, above, may shed some light:
“You being spiritual, holy, and living a life which is eternal, have polluted yourselves with women;”
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“Now the giants, who have been born of spirit and of flesh, shall call upon earth evil spirits.and on earth shall be their habitation. Evil spirits shall proceed from their flesh, because they were created from above; from the holy Watchers was their beginning and primary foundation. Evil spirits shall they be upon earth, and the spirits of the wicked shall they be called. The habitation of the spirits of heaven shall be in heaven; but upon earth shall be the habitation of terrestrial spirits, who are born in earth…”
These terrestrial spirits would remember that their plight was due to their spiritual fathers polluting themselves with earthly women. It would appear they have succeeded in transfering that guilt to the Muslims.
