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43 "... for MANY ANGELS OF GOD accompanied with women, and begat sons that proved unjust, and despisers of all that was good, on account of the confidence they had in their own strength, for the tradition is that these men did what resembled the acts of those whom the Grecians call giants" (Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, 1,3,1). Further testimony of this fact is recorded in the book of Jubilees, written by a priest of the Levitical priesthood. Notice what he says concerning the time of God's servant Enoch: "And he [Enoch] wrote everything, and bore witness to the Watchers, the ones who sinned with the daughters of men because they began to mingle themselves with the daughters of men so that they might be polluted. And Enoch bore witness against all of them" (Jubilees 4:22). In a parallel commentary to the account of the angels marrying women in Genesis, chapter 6, the author of Jubilees writes: "And when the children of men began to multiply on the surface of the earth and daughters were born to them, that the angels of the LORD saw in a certain year of that Jubilee that they were good to look at. And they took wives for themselves from all of those whom they chose. And they bore children for them, and they were the giants... . "And against his angels whom he had sent to the earth he was very angry. He commanded that they be uprooted from all their dominion. And he told us to bind them in the depths of the earth, and behold, they are bound in the midst of them, and they are isolated. And against their children a word went forth from before his presence so that he might smite them with the sword and remove them from under heaven. . . . " (Jubilees 5:1-11). This ancient compilation of history and tradition gives us a great deal of insight regarding the fall of angels and their rebellion, and their decision to marry women. As we saw in chapter | of this book, a great deal more insight into this ancient, hidden time, is revealed in the book of Enoch, a book the apostle Jude himself quotes in his own epistle in the New Testament. Enoch was a man of God who "walked with God" in the days before the Flood (see Gen.5:21-24). Jude, inspired by the Spirit of God, quotes directly from the book of Enoch, (Jude 14-15). Although the book of Enoch as we have it today is not "scripture," Jude found it worthy to quote from. The book of Enoch gives us these fascinating details about the intermarriage that occurred before the Flood between angels and the daughters of men: "In those days, when the children of man had multiplied, it happened that there were born unto them handsome and beautiful daughters. And the angels, the children of heaven, saw them and desired them; and they said to one another, 'Come, let us choose wives for ourselves from among the Josephus, the Jewish historian of the first century, tells us of this ancient time: The Book of Enoch