Asbeel – The Forsaken Angel
By James Donahue
The Book of Genesis tells about the “sons of God” lusting after women of the Earth and taking them as wives. They produced giants on the Earth called Nephilim who filled the earth with violence and caused God to flood the earth and restart creation with the family of Noah.
Many Bible scholars consider this story as a myth. Yet the Book of Enoch, chapter 69, speaks of the fallen angel Asbeel who “imparted to the holy sons of God evil counsel and led them astray so that they defiled their bodies with the daughters of men.”
The very name of Asbeel in Hebrew means “to abandon,” thus suggesting that he was a forsaken or fallen angel. Thus there is evidence in these ancient stories that Asbeel may have deserted his special place in Heaven because of his lust for the beautiful women of Earth.
Indeed, Asbeel was listed as the second of five “satans” that were led astray because they fell in love with humans. The others were Yegon, Gadreel, Penemue and Kasdaye.
While the story of the angelic rebellion is briefly mentioned in scripture, some Bible scholars believe that an estimated 120 years passed, in which the angels “continued to have relations with the daughters of men” and produced Nephilim, thus creating an ungodly world. It was only then that God decided to bring the flood.
By James Donahue
The Book of Genesis tells about the “sons of God” lusting after women of the Earth and taking them as wives. They produced giants on the Earth called Nephilim who filled the earth with violence and caused God to flood the earth and restart creation with the family of Noah.
Many Bible scholars consider this story as a myth. Yet the Book of Enoch, chapter 69, speaks of the fallen angel Asbeel who “imparted to the holy sons of God evil counsel and led them astray so that they defiled their bodies with the daughters of men.”
The very name of Asbeel in Hebrew means “to abandon,” thus suggesting that he was a forsaken or fallen angel. Thus there is evidence in these ancient stories that Asbeel may have deserted his special place in Heaven because of his lust for the beautiful women of Earth.
Indeed, Asbeel was listed as the second of five “satans” that were led astray because they fell in love with humans. The others were Yegon, Gadreel, Penemue and Kasdaye.
While the story of the angelic rebellion is briefly mentioned in scripture, some Bible scholars believe that an estimated 120 years passed, in which the angels “continued to have relations with the daughters of men” and produced Nephilim, thus creating an ungodly world. It was only then that God decided to bring the flood.