Below I have compiled twenty evidences from First Enoch, the Book of the Giants, Leviticus 16, and the Zohar that Azazel was not a Watcher, but rather the firstborn seed of the Serpent Lilith with the Watchers.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n- First Enoch never explicitly states that Azazel is a Watcher or angel.<\/li>\n
- Semjaza mating with Lilith provides an explanation for the mysterious sin Semjaza must commit and the strange oaths he extracts from the other Watchers atop Mount Hermon in First Enoch 6:3. This is especially valid when one considers the anti-parallels of the events with the legend of Asterah.\u00a0<\/li>\n
- In First Enoch 6:7 Azazel is not listed as one of original leaders of the Watchers before their fornications with women.<\/li>\n
- In First Enoch 8:1-2, immediately following the Watcher\u2019s sexual relations with women, Azazel is listed as the foremost figure in the Watcher\u2019s sin. Azazel being a Watcher cannot explain his sudden prominent appearance, but being a seed of the Watchers can.\u00a0<\/li>\n
- First Enoch 10:8 ascribes all the sin of the Watcher\u2019s crime to Azazel. This is not consistent for a Watcher who was not even present at the start of Watcher\u2019s downfall.\u00a0 However, this is consistent with Azazel\u2019s role in the Bible\u2019s Yom Kippur ceremony, which identifies him as the infamous seed of Eden\u2019s Serpent, Lilith, upon whom are placed all the sins of Israel.\u00a0<\/li>\n
- In First Enoch 9:6, Azazel is testified against by God\u2019s angels first and separately from \u201cSemjaza and his associates\u201d in the next two verses. This implies Azazel is not an associated of Semjaza (i.e. a Watcher).\u00a0 This also implies Azazel is not under the authority of Semjaza, who the next verse reminds us is the leader of the Watchers.\u00a0 Thus, Azazel cannot be a Watcher, and his sin is again more prominent than the Watchers.<\/li>\n
- In First Enoch 9:6, the angels do not accuse Azazel of fornication with the daughters of man, but Semjaza and his fellow Watchers are in the next verses. Azazel is merely blamed for instructing man in unrighteousness.\u00a0 This is consistent with Azazel not being an angel or Watcher, since all Watchers pledged by solemn oath upon Mount Hermon to go onto the daughters of man.\u00a0 Note that if Azazel was the seed of the Watchers and had sexual relations with women, he still would not have be accused of this act by the angels, because any seed of the Watchers would not be under any heavenly prohibition as their fathers were.\u00a0<\/li>\n
- In First Enoch 10:4-6, the angels punish Azazel before the Watchers, along with the Watcher\u2019s other seed. This early punishment is consistent with him being the seed of the Watchers.\u00a0 A key element to the Watcher\u2019s punishment was to witness the demise of all their seed.\u00a0<\/li>\n
- In First Enoch 10:4-6, Azazel\u2019s special and heavy punishment being first before all other seed of the Watchers, is consistent with him being a firstborn seed of the Watchers.<\/li>\n
- In First Enoch 10:4-6, Azazel being the first punished precludes him from being a Watcher. He would not be able to witness the demise of his seed, per the judgment laid out against the Watchers.\u00a0<\/li>\n
- First Enoch 10:6-7 states that when Azazel is cast into the lake of fire, this will heal the earth of the angel\u2019s corruption upon it. The angel\u2019s corruption upon the earth is their Nephilim\u00a0 This again suggests Azazel is the foremost seed of the Watchers.\u00a0<\/li>\n
- In First Enoch 10:8, Azazel is once again not accused of fornication with the daughters of man, but Semjaza and his associates are in just a few verses. Azazel is only accused of teaching man unrighteousness.\u00a0 (See #6)<\/li>\n
- In First Enoch 10:9, Azazel suffers an individual punishment at the hand of an angel who is different from the one commissioned to punish all the Watcher\u2019s seed of \u201cfornication.\u201d This fornication is specifically the sexual acts of the Watchers with the daughters of Adam.\u00a0 Note that given Azazel is a seed of the Watchers, his not being included in this category suggests Azazel\u2019s mother was not a daughter of Adam.\u00a0 In which case she could only be Lilith.<\/li>\n
- In First Enoch 10:11, Azazel is again not included with \u201cSemjaza and his associates.\u201d This again implies Azazel is not a Watcher.<\/li>\n
- In First Enoch 13:1, when Enoch is commanded by God to confront the fallen Watchers and their seed, Enoch confronts Azazel separately and first from the Semjaza and his fellow Watchers.<\/li>\n
- In First Enoch 13:1-2, Enoch does not charge Azazel with the sin of having sexual relations with women, as God earlier commanded Enoch to do to the Watchers on his mission. Rather, Enoch accuses Azazel only of teaching man unrighteousness.\u00a0 This is consistent with Azazel not being a transgressing Watcher.\u00a0<\/li>\n
- In First Enoch 13:3, Azazel is not present at a gathering where all the Watchers are said to be present.<\/li>\n
- In a fragment from the Dead Sea Scrolls\u2019 Book of the Giants, Azazel is treated as a peer to the Nephilim seed of the Watchers. The fragment implies that Azazel\u2019s linage is more polluted and deserving of punishment than the giants\u2019 linage, which was the product of Watchers mating with the daughters of Adam.\u00a0 From this, it may be inferred that Azazel\u2019s linage was the product of Lilith mating with the Watchers.<\/li>\n
- Vayetze 116 of the Zohar indicates that the secret of Azazel is that he is the \u201cunholy filth\u201d in whom is \u201cjoined together\u201d the male rider with the female Serpent, Lilith. \u201cUnholy filth\u201d suggests the result of sexual acts.\u00a0 This indicates that Azazel is the resulting seed of the Serpent Lilith mating a male inseminating spirit.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n
- Azazel\u2019s role in Yom Kippur ceremony of Leviticus 16 indicates he is the Serpent\u2019s infamous seed. This is because of the parallelism between the Yom Kippur ceremony and the bitter water trial of the Sotah, of whom the first archetype was the Serpent, Lilith.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Below I have compiled twenty evidences from First Enoch, the Book of the Giants, Leviticus 16, and the Zohar that Azazel was not a Watcher, but rather the firstborn seed of the Serpent Lilith with the Watchers.\u00a0 First Enoch never explicitly states that Azazel is a Watcher or angel. Semjaza mating with Lilith provides an … Continue reading “6.6) Summary of Evidences for Azazel”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":16,"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-356","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterwaters.com\/bw_12_21_2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/356","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=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterwaters.com\/bw_12_21_2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":435,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterwaters.com\/bw_12_21_2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/356\/revisions\/435"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterwaters.com\/bw_12_21_2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterwaters.com\/bw_12_21_2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}