Missing Pieces of the Bible: Lost Books Fill-In The Blanks. Revised Edition

INTRODUCTION

How well do you know the Bible? There are things within that disregard reason and excite our interest in the paranormal. For a start there is the fleeting reference to a peculiar race of superhuman giants, the result of women procreating with ‘the sons of God’. Intriguing beings from the heavenly realm are described in various forms, some having four faces and feet of bronze and others as wheels with eyes all around.

Further inciting our fascination of the unknown is mention of unusual vehicles that transport human beings to an exquisite but unfathomable realm. Also worthy of mention is the hidden passageway that reaches into the immortal realm, where angels travel between heaven and earth.

Even more extraordinary is the unheard-of story of the animal that wandered into the supernatural realm and walked out of it in an altered state. And not least on the list of unbelievable is an unprecedented army that consists of eerie beasts mixed with human seed.

And there are more incredible references besides, things that seem so very different from the other portions of the writings but are nevertheless a part of them,

illustrious things that were lost…

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Missing Pieces

A good deal of information within the Bible sounds stranger than the best science-fiction novels. Many of the subjects are forgotten or ignored in many circles simply because they sound too weird. The details that might otherwise clarify these bizarre-sounding portions appear to be missing and we are left with endless speculation.

The Revelation to John is, for a lot of people, the most fascinating book of the Bible. No other segment of the Bible has been analyzed to the same degree as view have been exhausted until the information is now just repeating itself under different titles.

The Book of Daniel is probably quoted more frequently than parts of the even-more eccentric sounding Book of Ezekiel, but both books are equally as puzzling in some places. Information from other books also appears out of place and yet, to my mind, the Bible would be a dull book without this element of the unusual. The more peculiar bits are speaking of a time so removed from our generation that we can only piece together small fragments of what ancient civilizations must have been like, let alone the world of angels. Such fascinating information has been largely closed to us – or so I used to think.

The book of Ezekiel barely made it into the canon. For certain Ezekiel penned some unusual thoughts, but only unfamiliar to us because he spoke of matters concerning the celestial realm;

"Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a man. And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings, And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf’s foot: and they sparkled like the color of burnished brass…" (Ezek. 1:5)

Further, in Ezekiel 9:2b it says,

"…one man among them was clothed with linen, with a writer’s inkhorn by his side."

The same chapter, verse 3 says;

"…And he called to the man clothed with linen, which had the writer’s inkhorn by his side."

Have you ever read these passages from Ezekiel that speaks of the special man with a ‘writer’s inkhorn by his side’? He seems to appear out of no where and disappears just as mysteriously, never to be heard from again, or so it seems.

I recall being curious about him but there didn’t appear to be additional information in the Bible about this subject and so my interest was diverted to other topics. It did seem strange to me that a book of the Bible would mention this notable individual yet appear to have so little information about him. However, aside from these verses in Ezekiel there appeared to be no other obvious mention of the man with the writer’s inkhorn by his side.

Let’s leave this subject for a moment and look at another mysterious person of the Bible;

"…Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah: And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him." (Gen. 5:18-24)

Enoch has always been an enigma. His life was comparatively short to others of his generations and yet it’s quite obvious that he was a favored man; verses proceeding say that he ‘walked with God’. Enoch was, and then seemingly overnight, ‘he was not’ because ‘God took him’, but what does that mean?

For certain something out of the usual occurred to Enoch as he appears to have been at the very center of paranormal activity. And what was it about this man that God singled him out in the first place?

The Book of Jude in the New Testament provides some additional information about Enoch;

"And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold the Lord comes with ten thousands of his saints, To execute judgment upon all, and to convict all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him." (Jude 14-15)

Tradition has it that Jude was one of Jesus’ brothers, and he rated Enoch’s words very highly. However, aside from this mention in Jude’s book, we might not know that such a prophecy even existed. The prophecy was obviously passed onto Jude’s generation, otherwise how could Jude quote from it? And yet, it’s not in the Bible!

It, along with other apocryphal books, never made it into the official canon. However, at the same time church fathers included the book of Jude that makes mention of it!!!

The very fact that the Book of Jude was included in official Bible canon shows that it satisfied inspired requirements; the telltale method being, it repeats information from other inspired books. If Jude thought enough of Enoch’s prophecy to quote from it, one would assume that Enoch’s entire prophecy would fall under that same sanction!

If Jude’s book was the only information linking the Bible and Lost Books then for certain the credibility of the Lost Books would be in question. However, you will see as you read on that the evidence of similarities between the Bible and lost/forgotten books is not limited to the Book of Jude. As it is the forgotten books contain vast amounts of information that predates the books of Moses.

Returning to the question of the man with the writer’s inkhorn, one could easily believe that he was an angel because he is mentioned with others who have their abode in the heavenly realm (Ezekiel 10:2);

"And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate…and every man a slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man among them was clothed with linen, with a writer’s inkhorn by his side" (Ezekiel 9:2).

However, the man clothed in linen is very different from the others because whereas they carry weapons, he is the only one that carries a writer’s inkhorn;

"…And he spoke unto the man clothed with linen, and said, Go in between the wheels, even under the cherub, and fill thine hand with coals and scatter them over the city. And he went in in my sight." (Ezek. 10:1-5)

One man is singled out and there is something about him that God sets him apart from the others. This then raises the question, ‘who is this man and what was/is his purpose’?

Most of Ezekiel mirrors some of the other prophet books as it speaks of apostate Israel, her false prophets and warns of coming judgment. Sections of Ezekiel, however, sound very similar to the Book of Enoch. As I read the lost books it became clear to me that without them it might be difficult to discover from the Bible itself that, the man with the writer’s inkhorn is Enoch.

The Book of the Secrets of Enoch contains a great deal of information that has been all but lost to present Christianity. There are a total of 108 chapters and they are divided into different headings as follows:

The Book of Enoch (chapters 1 – 16)

Enoch’s Journeys through the Earth and Sheol (chapters 17-36)

The Parables (chapter 37)

The First Parable (chapters 38 – 44)

The Second Parable (chapters 45 – 57)

The Third Parable (chapters 58 – 59)

Book of Noah – A Fragment (chapters 60 – 71)

The Book of the Courses of the Heavenly Luminaries (chapters 72-82)

The Dream-Vision (chapters 83 – 90)

The concluding section of the Book (chapters 91 –105)

Fragment of the Book of Noah (chapters 106 – 107)

An Appendix to the Book of Enoch (chapters 108)

The entire Book of Enoch is fascinating, however, I will only present parts of it that coincide with some of the mysteries of the Bible that I present in this book. This information is important and, as I will show, harmonizes perfectly with the Bible.

The Biblical account provides a brief overview of Enoch’s life but only enough for us to guess at what happened to this favored man. Genesis states that God took Enoch, and though it implies a highly unusual event, we are left wondering.

The Book of Hebrews in the New Testament