Reversing Hermon is a groundbreaking work. It
unveils what most in the modern Church have
never heard regarding how the story of the sin
of the Watchers in 1 Enoch 6-16 helped frame
the mission of Jesus, the messiah. Jews of
the first century expected the messiah to
reverse the impact of the Watchers’
transgression. For Jews of Jesus’ day, the
Watchers were part of the explanation for why
the world was so profoundly depraved. The
messiah would not JUST revoke
the claim of Satan on human souls and
estrangement from God, solving the predicament
of the Fall. He would also not ONLY bring the
nations back into relationship with the true
God by defeating the principalities and powers
that governed them. Jews also believed that the
messiah would rescue humanity from self-
destruction, the catalyst for which was the sin
of the Watchers and the influence of what they
had taught humankind.
The role of Enoch’s
retelling of Genesis 6:1-4 in how New Testament
writers wrote of Jesus and the cross has been
largely lost to a modern audience. Reversing
Hermon rectifies that situation.
Though
every topic addressed in Reversing Hermon can
be found in scholarly academic literature,
Reversing Hermon is the first book to gather
this information and make it accessible to
Bible students everywhere. The book also
includes lengthy appendices on the ancient
debate on the inspiration of the book of 1
Enoch, New Testament allusions to the book, and
academic resources for studying 1 Enoch and the
Book of Giants from the Dead Sea Scrolls. 326 pages
