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Evil spirits is another term for demons and that is why they don’t resemble the spirits of men. The holy
“Watchers” are a type of angel that can be seen in Daniel 4:17 “by decree of the angelic watchers.” The Book of Jude
refers to the Prophet Enoch. Jude directly quotes from the Book of Enoch and makes a statement from Enoch 1
that says “Behold, the Lord came with many thousands of His holy ones…..” Enoch had seen things that “no man shall
see.” It also states from Enoch 19 – “And I, Enoch, alone saw the vision, the ends of all things: and no man shall see as I have
seen.”

Jude 14 “It was also about these men that Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied,
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saying, “Behold, the Lord came with many thousands of His holy ones,”

Enoch 19 “And Uriel said to me: 'Here shall stand the angels who have connected themselves with
women, and their spirits assuming many different forms are defiling mankind and shall lead them
astray into sacrificing to demons as gods, till the day of the great judgment in which they shall be
judged till they are made an end of. And the women also of the angels who went astray shall become
sirens.' And I, Enoch, alone saw the vision, the ends of all things: and no man shall see as I have seen.”

Enoch 20 “And these are the names of the holy angels who watch. Uriel, one of the holy angels, who is
over the world and over Tartarus. Raphael, one of the holy angels, who is over the spirits of men……...”

Enoch 22 “And thence I went to another place, and the mountain of hard rock. And there was in it four
hollow places, deep and wide and very smooth. How smooth are the hollow places and deep and dark
to look at. Then Raphael answered, one of the holy angels who was with me, and said unto me: 'These
hollow places have been created for this very purpose that the spirits of the souls of the dead should
assemble therein, yea that all the souls of the children of men should assemble here. And these places
have been made to receive them till the day of their judgment and till their appointed period.”

We can see that there are two distinct locations: one for immortal angels and one for mortal men. The place for
immortal angels is the “abyss” also called the “bottomless pit” or Tartarus. The place for mortal beings or unsaved
man is Hades, which is similar to the Old Testament term, Sheol as “the place of the dead.” Sheol or the
underworld is described as having “four hollow places, deep and wide.” The saved in Christ are those sealed with the
Holy Spirit. When they die, their spirits go to heaven unlike the Old Testament saints, who went to Sheol.
Abraham’s Bosom is the hollow place in Sheol where the Old Testament saints went prior to Christ’s resurrection.

It is also very clearly written in the Book of Jubilees that these beings were angels. The Book of Jubilees is called
“The Little Genesis Book” and was written in Hebrew by a Pharisee between the years of 135 BC to 105 BC. This
book describes in greater detail the time of Noah and the angels on the earth. It describes the underworld to be
“in the depths of the earth.” Jonah 2:6 says “I descended to the roots of the mountains. The earth with its bars was around…..”

Jubilees 5:1-2 “And it came to pass when the children of men began to multiply on the face of the earth
and daughters were born unto them, that the angels of God saw them on a certain year of this jubilee,
that they were beautiful to look upon; and they took themselves wives of all whom they chose, and they
bare unto them sons and they were giants.”

Jubilees 5:6-7 “But Noah found grace before the eyes of the Lord. And against the angels whom He had
sent upon the earth, He was exceedingly wroth, and He gave commandment to root them out of all
their dominion, and He bade us to bind them in the depths of the earth, and behold they are bound in
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the midst of them, and are (kept) separate.”

98 New American Standard Bible : 1995 update. 1995 (Jud 14). LaHabra, CA: The Lockman Foundation.

99 Wesley Center for Applied Theology, Northwest Nazarene University.