No study of Lilith would be complete without a discussion of Azazel.\u00a0 Azazel is a famous demon in First Enoch, the Zohar, and other ancient texts.\u00a0 He is even mentioned in the Bible in Leviticus.\u00a0 Today, Azazel is commonly assumed to be a Watcher, thanks largely to the influence of First Enoch.\u00a0 Watchers were fallen angels who left their heavenly estate to have sexual relations with the daughters of Adam.\u00a0 The result of these fornications were the Nephilim — a race of powerful angel-man hybrids that First Enoch states nearly pushed ordinary mankind to extinction before the flood.\u00a0 However, a careful study of all the ancient texts – including First Enoch – reveals that Azazel was not a Watcher.\u00a0 Rather he was a Nephilim seed of the Watchers.\u00a0 Moreover, as we shall see, Azazel was no ordinary Nephilim.\u00a0 He was not born to the daughters of Adam like his brethren.\u00a0 Instead, he was the product of Lilith mating with Semjaza, the leader of the Watchers.\u00a0 Thus, Azazel was less human than all the other Nephilim, and the most powerful.\u00a0 He was even more powerful than his father Semjaza.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Yom Kippur ceremony of Leviticus demonstrates that Azazel is the legendary seed of the Serpent. Azazel\u2019s role in the ceremony identifies him as a rival to Messiah.\u00a0 God cursed the Serpent that its seed would bruise the heel of Eve\u2019s promised seed (Messiah), but Eve\u2019s seed in turn would crush the head of the Serpent Lilith and destroy her seed.\u00a0 Azazel precisely mirrors this foiling role in Yom Kippur. Furthermore, God heaped upon the Serpent\u2019s seed all the curses associated with the sins of Lilith and Lucifer in causing man to fall.\u00a0 This heaping of all sin is repeated upon Azazel in Leviticus and First Enoch.\u00a0 In Leviticus all the sins of Israel are placed upon the scapegoat sent to Azazel.\u00a0 First Enoch says in regard to Azazel, \u201cAscribe to him the whole sin.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Identifying Azazel as the seed of the Serpent Lilith is largely a revolutionary idea outside of the Zohar.\u00a0 Many who have not pondered the issue much may think the seed of the Serpent is Anti-Christ and is yet to come.\u00a0 However, this cannot be the case.\u00a0 The seed of the Serpent has already worked his most dastardly deed.\u00a0 According to scripture, the seed of the Serpent must bruise the heel of Messiah.\u00a0 This bruising was accomplished over 2000 years ago in Messiah\u2019s self-immolation.\u00a0 The seed of the Serpent must have existed at that time.\u00a0 Any future Anti-Christ could be nothing more than a descendent or reemergence of that infamous seed.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Undoubtedly, the biggest obstacle to proving Azazel is the seed of the Serpent is dispelling popular misconceptions about his nature due to hasty conclusions drawn from First Enoch.\u00a0 Because of First Enoch, Azazel has long been considered a fallen Watcher, at least outside of Kabbalah.\u00a0 In First Enoch Azazel suddenly appears after the Watchers began cavorting with women.\u00a0 Readers naturally assume he is a late appearing Watcher.\u00a0 This is an easy mistake to make.\u00a0 For even though Azazel appears late, when he does suddenly show up, he is always at the forefront of all the Watchers\u2019 sins.\u00a0 Azazel also takes a dominate position over all the Watchers, even over Semjaza their leader.\u00a0 Scholars have attempted to explain this bizarre transition of prominence from Semjaza to Azazel by various unsatisfactory means.\u00a0 Some claim that later redactors of First Enoch clumsily edited together two versions of the story.\u00a0 They hold that in one version the leader was Semjaza, in the other it was Azazel.\u00a0 However, the true explanation requires no such hypothetical editing.\u00a0 Close examination reveals that First Enoch never states that Azazel was a Watcher.\u00a0 First Enoch treats Azazel quite differently than the Watchers, and his treatment is consistent with him being a seed of the Watchers.\u00a0 Confusion about Azazel\u2019s role arises, at least in part, because he is immensely powerful, even more so than the Watchers themselves.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I am not alone in identifying Azazel as the seed of the Serpent Lilith.\u00a0 The Zohar of Kabbalah implies Azazel is the seed of the Serpent.\u00a0 A few old legends also hint at this possibility.\u00a0 However, the most conclusive evidence for identifying Azazel as the seed of Lilith comes from the Bible itself.\u00a0 Leviticus 16 states that the Yom Kippur scapegoat, upon whom was cast all the sins of Israel, was given \u201cto Azazel\u201d, whereas the goat who atoned for Israel was given \u201cto Jehovah.\u201d\u00a0 By carefully studying the Yom Kippur ceremony and its spiritual symbolism, one reaches the conclusion that Azazel must be a rival to Messiah.\u00a0 He therefore meets all the requirements for being the infamous seed of the Serpent.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
No study of Lilith would be complete without a discussion of Azazel.\u00a0 Azazel is a famous demon in First Enoch, the Zohar, and other ancient texts.\u00a0 He is even mentioned in the Bible in Leviticus.\u00a0 Today, Azazel is commonly assumed to be a Watcher, thanks largely to the influence of First Enoch.\u00a0 Watchers were fallen … Continue reading “6) The Case for Azazel”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":6,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterwaters.com\/bw_12_21_2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterwaters.com\/bw_12_21_2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterwaters.com\/bw_12_21_2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterwaters.com\/bw_12_21_2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterwaters.com\/bw_12_21_2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterwaters.com\/bw_12_21_2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":350,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterwaters.com\/bw_12_21_2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions\/350"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterwaters.com\/bw_12_21_2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterwaters.com\/bw_12_21_2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}