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They Were Not Supposed to Walk Among Us

Jude 1:14-15 cites Enoch by name. What that tells us about how the earliest believers regarded the text.

Jude records a dispute between Michael and Satan over Moses's body, while Deuteronomy hides his grave from Israel entirely — a look at what Scripture says and why the location may have needed to stay hidden.

Enoch isn't part of the biblical canon, but Jude quotes it by name as prophecy and Peter borrows its vocabulary directly. Here's what that means.

And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, to execute judgment upon all.

Semyaza is the ringleader of the Watcher descent recorded in Genesis 6 and elaborated in 1 Enoch. He organized the oath among 200 angelic beings and led the original transgression that produced the Nephilim. He is depicted as suspended between heaven and earth as punishment, hung upside down among the stars.