The sudden death of YouTuber and paranormal author David Wilcock has left many of his followers shocked and looking for answers. As discussions about his death continue online, many people are revisiting one of the texts he often talked about, the 'Book of Enoch’.
The Book of Enoch is a Jewish religious text dating back to around 300 BCE which makes it one of the oldest surviving religious texts outside the Bible. It was mostly unknown in the West until Scottish explorer James Bruce brought Ethiopian manuscripts of the text to Europe in 1773.
The book is named after Enoch, the great-grandfather of Noah who is described in Genesis as a man who “walked with God.” However, modern scholars believe it was not written by one person. Instead, it was put together by different Jewish writers over time, somewhere between 300 BCE and 100 BCE.
Many Protestant groups did not include it in the Bible because it was not part of the Hebrew canon. Its ideas were also seen as not matching mainstream Christian beliefs. The book talks about angels having children with humans and sharing forbidden knowledge, which made it very controversial.
The book has five sections, the Book of Watchers, the Book of Parables, the Astronomical Book, the Book of Dream Visions and the Epistle of Enoch. These parts cover topics like divine judgment, angels, the universe and future visions.
Some of the most debated parts describe the Watchers that are the angels who came to Earth and took human wives and had giant children called the Nephilim. These angels also shared forbidden knowledge with humans, including astronomy, sorcery, weapon-making, metallurgy and astrology which the text describes as dangerous and corrupting.
The Book of Enoch has often been used in UFO research and ancient astronaut theories. Its descriptions of heavenly chariots and beings coming down from the sky and advanced knowledge being given to humans have made some researchers compare the Watchers to aliens.
David Wilcock was one of the well-known supporters of this idea. According to in.mashable, he often talked about the Book of Enoch and suggested that the Watchers were not supernatural beings but interdimensional or extraterrestrial entities.
He believed the text was hidden proof of ancient alien contact and connected it to his theories about UFOs and human history.
Just two days before his death, Wilcock went live on YouTube and spoke about the increasing number of deaths in the UFO and paranormal research community. He said it made him feel uneasy.
