The Book of Jubilees is an ancient Jewish text written around 150 BC that was once considered scripture by many Jewish and early Christian communities but was removed from the Western canon in 382 AD. It provides additional details about creation, including that angels were created on the first day before light, that Adam and Eve lived in Eden for seven years before the fall, and that the Watchers (angels) fell and fathered the Nephilim (giants). The text was preserved by the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and fragments were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls. It serves as a supplementary narrative to Genesis, filling in details that the canonical Bible does not include.
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Tonight, you don't have to do anything.
Just rest.
In the next 75 minutes, I'm going to read you something most people have never heard. A book that was once part of the Bible, but was quietly removed nearly 2,000 years ago.
The Book of Jubilees.
Let your eyes close.
Let your breathing slow. Let your shoulders fall away from your ears.
The world has been heavy today, but here, in this quiet place, you are safe.
We're going back to a time before Noah, before the flood, before history, as you know it, began.
You don't need to remember anything.
You don't need to understand every word.
If you fall asleep before this ends, that's exactly what's meant to happen.
The Book of Jubilees was written to be listened to, to be received slowly, like rain into dry earth.
So, breathe, and let me carry you for a while.
The Book of Jubilees was preserved by faithful believers for over 2,000 years.
The Ethiopian Orthodox Church still holds it as scripture today.
What you're about to hear is part of God's story, told in a way most of the world has forgotten.
We're not going to argue with anyone.
We're not [music] going to claim conspiracies.
We're simply going to listen gently to what this ancient book says.
Settle in.
Adjust your pillow if you need to.
And when you're [music] ready, we'll begin.
Imagine yourself in Jerusalem around the year 150 before Christ.
It's a quiet evening. The lamps are being lit. Somewhere in a small room behind a stone wall, a Jewish scribe is bent over a piece of parchment. He's writing in Hebrew. Slowly, carefully.
He believes with all his heart that what he's writing is true.
His name is lost to us now.
We don't know who he was, but we know what he wrote.
He called it Sefer Hayovelim, the Book of Jubilees, sometimes also called the Little Genesis, because it retells the stories of Genesis and parts of Exodus, but with details that aren't in the Bible you know.
Details he believed had been forgotten, or hidden, or never told at all.
He wrote that an angel of God dictated this book to Moses on Mount Sinai while Moses received the Ten [music] Commandments. According to Jubilees, while Moses was on that mountain for 40 days and 40 nights, he didn't only receive the law.
He also received the true history of the world, the history from creation all the way to the giving of the law itself. And in that history, the scribe wrote, were things the world needed to remember.
For centuries, Jubilees was treated as scripture by many Jewish and early Christian communities.
Fragments of it were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls near the caves of Qumran, meaning the community that preserved them considered [music] the book sacred.
The early church fathers quoted it.
Tertullian, Origen.
The Epistle of Jude in the New Testament refers to traditions that come from Jubilees and the related [music] book of Enoch.
So, what happened?
In the year 382, in the city of Rome, a council of bishops met to decide which books would form the official Christian Bible.
They worked carefully. They prayed. They examined each text.
And when they were finished, Jubilees was not on the list.
The Ethiopian Orthodox Church disagreed.
They kept Jubilees in their Bible, and it [music] remains there to this day.
But for the rest of the Christian world, the book slowly slipped out of memory until now.
Tonight, you'll hear what the ancient scribe believed was hidden.
The things he believed Moses was told about creation, about Adam and Eve after they left the garden, about the angels who watched over the earth and the ones who fell, about the world before the flood and the giants who walked it.
This is not a conspiracy story.
This is not a horror story.
This is a sacred story told by a man who loved God, preserved by faithful communities for 2,000 years, and largely forgotten by the modern world. You're going to receive it now, gently, in the dark, while you rest.
Take a breath.
Let me begin.
Creation according to Jubilees.
In the beginning God created the heavens [music] and the earth.
These are the same words you know from Genesis.
But what Jubilees adds quietly in the very first chapter is what God created on that first day before the earth had formed, before the light shone, before anything we [music] can see existed.
The angels.
According to Jubilees on the first day of creation before God said, "Let there be light." [music] He created the angels of his presence, the angels of sanctification, the angels of the spirits of fire, the angels of the spirits of the winds, the angels of the clouds, of darkness, of snow, of hail, of frost, the angels of thunder, of lightning, of cold and heat, of winter and spring and summer and autumn.
All the spirits of all his creatures, both in heaven and on earth.
All of them he made on that first day.
You see, in Jubilees creation is not a lonely act.
When God spoke the heavens into being, he was surrounded by witnesses.
The angels watched.
They sang.
They saw the first light break across the void.
And they praised the one who had brought them into being just moments before the world began.
Imagine it.
Before there was a single star, before there was wind or water or stone, there was God, and around him a host of beings of fire and light.
Beings he had just spoken into existence.
And together they watched the universe begin.
On the second day, God divided the waters.
The angels watched.
On the third day, God gathered the seas and let the dry land appear.
He commanded the earth to bring forth grass and herbs yielding seed and fruit trees.
The angels watched.
On the fourth day, the sun, the moon, and the stars were placed in the heavens.
The angels watched.
On the fifth day, the great creatures of the sea were created >> [music] >> and birds that fly above the earth.
The angels watched.
And on the sixth day, God [music] said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness."
Jubilees pauses here in a way Genesis does not.
The book describes how God formed the man Adam from the dust of the ground and breathed into him the breath of life.
But Jubilees also tells us something about the time that followed.
For 7 days, Adam was alone in the garden.
He walked among the trees.
He watched the rivers flow.
He named the animals as they came to him.
And in those 7 days, an angel of the presence was beside him, teaching him.
Teaching him what?
Teaching him to till the garden.
Teaching him to cover his nakedness with the leaves of the trees.
Teaching him to honor the Sabbath, which God had blessed on the seventh [music] day.
And teaching him, gently, the names of things.
Then, on the seventh day after Adam was made, God brought him into a deep sleep.
And from his side, God formed Eve.
Take a breath now.
Rest for a moment.
We've only just begun.
>> When Adam woke, he saw her. And he loved her.
And the two of them lived in the garden for 7 years, the book tells us.
Seven full years before the day of the serpent.
Seven years of walking among the trees.
Seven years of naming things.
Seven years of speaking with the angels who came and went from the garden.
Seven years of peace.
You may have wondered, while reading Genesis, how long Adam and Eve lived in Eden before the fall.
The Bible doesn't say.
But Jubilees does. Seven years.
A complete cycle. A Sabbath of years.
And then, in the second month of the eighth year, the book is very specific about the date. The serpent came to Eve.
And everything changed.
But before we go on, I want you to rest in this thought for a moment.
Before the fall, before sin entered the world, Adam and Eve had seven full years of perfect peace.
Seven years of walking with God, of working in the garden, of loving each other without shame.
That peace was real.
It was their inheritance before they lost it.
And in some quiet corner of every human heart, we remember it still.
The longing for that garden. The ache for the world that was lost.
You feel it sometimes, don't you?
In the morning, before the day begins, in the silence after a long rain, in the eyes of someone you love, a whisper of something we lost and a promise that one day, somehow, it might be restored.
Rest in that thought and let us continue.
Adam and Eve's lost years.
The serpent came.
The fruit was eaten.
Adam and Eve were sent out of the garden.
Genesis tells you this in just a few verses, but Jubilees lingers here.
The scribe wants you to understand what happened next.
What it meant [music] for two people made for paradise to suddenly find themselves outside [music] of it.
When Adam and Eve left the garden of Eden, they did not go far.
According to Jubilees, God placed them in the land of Eldad, a region just outside Eden, where the earth was still kind, but the trees were not the trees of paradise.
They built a simple dwelling. They wore garments of skin, which God himself had made for them, and they began to work the ground.
It was harder than the garden had been.
The earth resisted them.
Thorns came up where Adam had planted seeds.
Eve, when she gave birth, knew pain such as no woman before her had ever known.
But they remembered the garden. They remembered the angels. They remembered the voice of God walking in the cool of the day.
And so, in their grief, they began something new.
Something Jubilees says is the oldest practice of worship in the world.
Each morning, >> [music] >> when the sun rose, Adam would go to the eastern boundary of their dwelling, closest to the lost garden, and he would lift his hands toward the place he could no longer enter.
And he would speak to God.
Not loudly. Not with many words. Just speak.
As a man speaks to a father he has wronged but still loves.
And God heard him.
The first sons came in time.
Cain.
Then Abel.
Then daughters, whose names are not in Genesis, but whose names are remembered in Jubilees.
Awan.
Azura.
Cain married his sister Awan.
Seth, who came later, married his sister Azura.
This is how the first family grew.
This is how the line of humanity was carried [music] forward in those very first generations before any other women existed in the world.
It is strange to our modern ears.
But the scribe of Jubilees tells it without apology.
The world began with one family, and from that family came all peoples.
Cain killed Abel. You know the story.
But Jubilees adds a detail that the Bible does not.
After Cain killed his brother with a stone, Cain himself died in a strange way.
His house collapsed upon him.
A stone from the wall fell, struck him in the head, and killed him.
Measure for measure, Jubilees says.
He killed with a stone, and a stone killed him.
This was the first murder and the first divine justice.
Take a breath.
The night is long and we have time.
>> [music] [music] >> After Cain's death, [music] Adam and Eve grieved for a long while.
But they also continued to live.
Seth was born, then more children, then grandchildren.
The earth began to fill with people and not all of them remembered the garden.
Adam lived to be 930 years old.
In all those [music] centuries, he watched generations rise and fall.
He taught his [music] children and his children's children the names of things.
He taught them the seasons.
He taught them the Sabbath.
And he taught them most of all to remember God.
When Adam finally died, all his children came to his burial.
He was the first man to be buried in the earth from which he had been taken.
Jubilees says they wept for him for 40 days and that God's own angels were present [music] at his funeral.
Imagine that.
The first death, the first grave, the first time the children of men stood around a body and wondered where the soul had gone.
It was the beginning of something we still feel today.
The grief that never quite leaves us, the mystery of the end.
But for Adam, the book tells us, God prepared a place, a place where the righteous wait, a place of light.
We'll hear more about it before this night is done.
Eve died some [music] years after Adam.
The book of Jubilees says she was laid beside him and that their children placed flowers on their graves every spring in remembrance.
The first father, the first mother, the two who lost the garden [music] and who taught their children to long for its return.
If you find yourself drifting into sleep now, let yourself.
The story will keep going around you and what you don't hear tonight, you'll hear again.
Sleep is the smaller cousin of the death we just spoke of, >> [music] >> a gentle rehearsal, a small mercy God gives us every night.
>> [music] >> The watchers [music] and their fall.
Many generations passed.
Seth's son was Enosh.
And in the days of Enosh, the book tells [music] us, men began to call upon the name of the Lord.
They built altars. They offered sacrifices. [music] They remembered the God of their fathers.
But not all of them.
Some of them began to wander, to forget, [music] to worship the things of the earth instead of the one who made them.
And in heaven, the angels watched.
You'll remember from the beginning of our story tonight that God had created the angels on the first day.
And among those angels were certain ones whose task was to watch [music] over the earth, to guard it, to teach the children of men, when the time was right, the secrets of righteousness and the ways of God.
These angels were called the watchers.
Jubilees [music] calls them this.
So does the Book of Enoch, which Jubilees draws upon.
The watchers were not lesser beings.
They were great.
They were beautiful.
They were full of the wisdom of heaven.
And in the days of Jared, the father of Enoch, 200 of them came down to Earth.
The book does not say at first that they came to do wrong.
It says [music] they came to teach, to help, to guide the children of men toward truth.
But what happened slowly over the years was this.
They saw [music] the daughters of men.
And they saw that they were beautiful.
And they began to desire them.
This is where the line was crossed.
In Genesis, [music] you may remember the verse, the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair.
And they took them wives of all which they chose.
It is a strange verse.
It passes by quickly.
Most people read [music] it and don't know what to make of it.
Jubilees tells you what to make of it.
The watchers, the angels assigned to teach humanity, chose [music] instead to take human wives.
They left their place.
They abandoned their post.
And they fathered children with the daughters of men.
The children of these unions were not like other children.
They were enormous.
They were called the Nephilim, the fallen ones, >> [music] >> the giants.
And the giants did what their fathers had begun to do.
They turned away from God. They corrupted the Earth.
They taught the children of men things they were never meant to know.
Jubilees says the leader of the watchers was called Semjaza.
And under him were many others, each of whom taught humanity a different forbidden art.
One taught the making of weapons of war.
Another taught women the arts of beautifying themselves, paints for the eyes, dyes for the hair.
Another taught the cutting of roots and the mixing of drugs.
Another taught the reading of the stars and the casting of spells.
These were not all evil things in themselves, but they were given too soon.
They were given to a world that wasn't ready.
They were given by beings who had broken their covenant with God and who therefore could not hold the wisdom they shared with the right hands.
And so the earth was filled with violence.
The book says, "The earth was filled with violence and all flesh corrupted its way."
Take a breath.
This is the heaviest part of our story tonight, but it is also the part that turns, that always turns, because God [music] did not abandon the earth.
In the midst of all this corruption, there was one man, one quiet man who walked with God.
His name was Enoch.
Enoch was the great-grandfather of Noah.
He lived in a world growing darker by the year.
The watchers had fallen.
The Nephilim ruled the high places. The men of his generation had largely forgotten the God of Adam, but Enoch did not forget.
He walked with God.
The Bible says it twice >> [music] >> in just one verse.
Enoch walked with God.
Jubilees expands on this.
It says that Enoch, more than any other man of his time, gave himself to the study of the heavens.
He learned the names of the stars. He learned the seasons.
He learned the patterns of the moon and the sun.
And he wrote books, many books, to teach his children the truth of God.
Then, one day, when Enoch was 365 years old, God took him.
The book says he was taken up alive, not dead, not buried, taken body and spirit into the presence of God to learn things no living man had learned, to see things no living man had seen, and to bring back somehow a message for those left behind.
What he saw we'll hear about in our next section.
But for now, let it rest in your mind that even in the darkest age of the world, there was one man who walked with God.
And God noticed. There is always one.
There has always been one.
And often, that one is enough.
The world before Noah.
When God took Enoch, he took him through the heavens.
The Book of Jubilees only summarizes this.
The Book of Enoch, which Jubilees refers to, tells it in fuller detail.
But what Jubilees does say is this.
Enoch saw the place of judgment prepared for the fallen watchers.
He saw the place of the righteous where the souls of the just [music] wait for the day of resurrection.
He saw the orbits of the sun and the moon.
He saw the springs of the great [music] deep and the chambers where the winds are stored.
And then he was given a task.
God told Enoch to write down everything he had seen to leave a record for his children and his children's [music] children so that even after the flood, which God had now decided to bring upon the earth, the truth would not be lost.
Enoch returned to earth briefly to deliver his books to his son Methuselah and then he was [music] taken away again, this time forever, to the garden of the righteous, where he remains to this day, according to the tradition.
Methuselah was the longest-lived man in the Bible, 969 years old when he died. And he died, the rabbis say, just before the flood came.
Methuselah's son was Lamech and Lamech's son, born in a strange way, the Book of Enoch tells us, was Noah.
Noah's birth was strange because when he was born, his appearance was different from other children.
>> [music] >> His skin was white as snow.
His hair was white as wool.
His eyes were like the rays of the sun.
When his mother held him, the room filled with light.
Lamech was afraid. He wondered if the child was even his. He went to his father Methuselah, who went to Enoch, who was still alive then, in the place of the righteous.
And Enoch said, "This child is yours.
He is the son of Lamech, but God has set him apart.
Through him, the earth will be preserved.
Through him, what is good will be carried over the flood that is coming."
And so, Noah grew up knowing from his earliest days that he was different, that he had a task, that the world he was born into would not be the world he would die in.
The earth grew worse.
The giants grew more violent.
The watchers, those who had fallen, taught more and more forbidden things.
And finally, the earth itself cried out to God.
Jubilees says the earth has a voice, that the blood that was shed upon it cried out from the ground, that the sins of the Nephilim weighed upon the soil like a stone too heavy to bear.
And God listened.
He came to Noah.
He said, "I am going to bring a flood upon the earth.
Build an ark. Bring your family. Bring two of every kind of clean animal and one pair of every kind of unclean animal.
The earth must be cleansed."
Noah built the ark.
The Book of Jubilees gives us details Genesis does not. The dimensions, the time it took, the seasons of work and rest.
Noah's three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, helped him.
His wife and his sons' wives helped him.
For many years, they worked.
And then the rain came.
The fountains of the great deep broke open.
The windows of heaven were thrown wide.
The waters covered the highest mountains.
The Nephilim were destroyed.
The watchers who had fallen were bound in deep places until the day of judgment.
And the world that had been was no more.
40 days of rain, 150 days of flood.
Then the waters began to recede.
The ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
Noah opened the window and sent out the raven and [music] then the dove.
And the dove came back with an olive leaf.
And then, finally, the family stepped out onto a clean earth.
Noah built an altar.
He offered sacrifices.
And God placed a rainbow in the sky as a sign of his covenant that he would never again flood the earth.
A new beginning, a second creation in a way.
And the world we live in today is the world that descends from those eight souls, Noah, his wife, his three sons and their wives who came through the waters.
Rest now.
Let the story rest with you.
We're nearly at the end of our night together.
Reflection.
So, what do we make of all this?
The Book of Jubilees is not in your Bible.
The bishops who met in Rome in 382 had reasons for the decisions they made.
They were not bad men.
They were trying in a difficult time to preserve what they believed was essential.
And the Book of Jubilees did not make their list.
But that does not mean Jubilees is worthless.
Many faithful Jews and Christians for centuries before and since have read it with reverence.
The Ethiopian Orthodox Church still treats it as scripture.
Fragments of it were preserved in the Dead Sea Scrolls.
The Epistle of Jude in your New Testament quotes from related traditions.
Jubilees tells us things the Bible does not.
Some of those things might be true.
Some might be embellishments.
Some might be the holy imagination of a faithful scribe who wanted to honor God by filling in the silences. I don't think we need to decide [music] tonight which parts are which.
What I want you to take with you as you drift off to sleep is this.
The Bible is not the only window into the world to the patriarchs lived in.
For 2,000 years, our spiritual ancestors lived with stories like the ones in Jubilees.
Stories of Adam and Eve in the days after Eden.
Stories of the watchers who fell.
Stories of Enoch who walked with God.
Stories of Noah who built the ark and saved the world.
These stories shaped how they read Genesis.
They filled in the silences.
They made the world of scripture feel populated, alive, full of meaning.
When we read Genesis in modern times, we often read it quickly.
Two verses for the creation of light.
Five verses for the fall of man.
Four verses for the strange and terrible sons of God who took human wives.
We pass over so much.
We miss so much.
Books like Jubilees slow us down.
They invite us to wonder. To ask. What was it really like?
What did Adam feel in those first years after the garden?
What did Enoch see when he walked with God?
What did Noah's family carry with them on the ark of the world that was being lost?
You don't have to believe every word of Jubilees to be enriched [music] by it.
You can hold it the way you might hold a very old painting of a Bible scene.
Not the Bible itself.
But an honest attempt by a faithful soul to imagine what the Bible describes.
A doorway into deeper attention.
And maybe tonight that's what you needed.
Not a new doctrine, not a controversial revelation.
Just a slower, deeper way of sitting with the old, old story of the beginning of the world.
Genesis still stands.
Scripture is still scripture.
The God of Adam, of Enoch, of Noah, is still your God.
The same God who walked in the garden in the cool of the day is the same God who sees you tonight in this room, in this bed, hearing these words.
He has not forgotten you.
He has never forgotten you.
And just as he prepared an ark for Noah, he has prepared a place for those who love him.
A place beyond all floods.
A place beyond all loss.
The garden somehow restored.
Rest in that thought.
Rest in his care.
The God who made the angels on the first day, who walked with Adam, who took Enoch, who saved Noah, that God knows your name.
He knows the day you were born.
He knows the troubles of your day and the longings of your heart.
He has counted every hair on your head.
You are not alone in this dark night.
You have never been alone.
Closing.
Let me leave you with one line from the Book of Jubilees.
It comes near the end when the angel who has been telling the story to Moses is [music] finishing his account.
He says, "Blessed is he who walks in righteousness.
He shall have peace.
Blessed is he who walks in righteousness. [music] He shall have peace.
Let those words go with you into sleep.
Walk in righteousness.
Have peace.
Walk in righteousness.
Have peace.
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