The Book Of Enoch

Should the Book of Enoch be in of the Bible?

In the Book of Jude, a verse regarding Enoch from the Book of Enoch is quoted (Jude 1:14-15).  For this reason, many have contended that the Book of Enoch should be in the Book of Truth (The Bible) as well.

However, merely quoting from a source is not sufficient to show that the entire source should be in the Book of Truth.  Jude the Jew also quotes from a lost source that appears to be the Assumption of Mose regarding the body of Moses (Jude 1:9).

There is only one known copy of the Assumption of Moses in existence.  It is from the sixth century AD, and it is incomplete – missing the section that Jude the Jew is presumed to be quoting from.  However, writers with access to this document before 200 AD like Origen wrote that the complete manuscript contained the quote found in the Book of Jude.

So, it is certain that the Assumption of Moses that Jude the Jew quotes should not be in the Book of Truth just because he quotes from it.  No part of the Book of Truth can ever be lost because the Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka THE LORD) watches over the Indestructible Book to preserve it as He promised.

If one were to insist that the Assumption of Moses should be in the Book of Truth because of a single quote from it, then they would be insisting that the Father of Truth was liar who was not able to preserve His word through all generations as He promised.  The same thing would be true about any other source that was quoted but the source was not preserved.

Since the Assumption of Moses is not part of the Book of Truth, then why does Jude the Jew use this quote?  There are two reasons for this.

First, he is warning against false teachers that are bringing in teachings contrary to the Book of Truth to speak evil concerning Heavenly dignitaries – Angels (Jude 1:3-8).  He is using a quote from one of their own sources to convict them of their evil.

This is the same thing that Paul the Jew (Shaul aka Saul aka the Apostle Paul) did when he quoted the writings of the Greek poet Aratus to convict the Greak philosophers of their sin of idol worship at Mars Hills (Acts 17:28-30).  He also did this when he wrote to Titus the Gentile about Cretans that had gone astray (Titus 1:12-13).

The other reason was that the quote contained truth – just like the quotes that Paul the Jew had used.  However, acknowledging that a part is truth does not mean that the whole that it is taken from is truth.

When the Father of Lies (HaShatan aka Satan Aka The Devil) tempted Eve he used truth to lead her to believe a lie (Genesis 3:4-5).  Even the Father of Truth confirmed that that part of what he had said was truth (Genesis 3:22).

In the same way, Jude the Jew included this quote to reveal a truth that had not been revealed previously in the Book of Truth.  He could see that this quote was consistent with other passages in the Book of Truth.

Mose the Prophet of Truth was indeed buried in hidden grave by the Father of Truth (Deuteronomy 34:5-6).  Jude the Jew understood that the Father of Truth could have been counted as having done it Himself if he had commissioned Michael the Angel of Truth to do it, just a David was counted as taking Zion because he commissioned someone else to do it (2 Samuel 5:7-9).

Jude the Jew also knew that the Angel of the Father of Truth had been resisted by the Father of Lies concerning Joshua the Priest of Truth and the Angel of the Father of Truth had prevailed by saying “the Lord rebuke you” without bringing any accusation against the Father of Lies (Zechariah 3:1-5).  So, the quote concerning the Father of Lies resisting Michael the Angel of Truth burying the body of Moses the Prophet of Truth and Michael the Angel of Truth prevailing by saying “the Lord rebuke you” without bringing any accusation against the Father of Lies was consistent with the rest of the Book of Truth.

So, Jude the Jew included the quote from the Assumption of Moses because it was the one part of the book that contained truth.  This truth provided an example of how believers should handle encounters with the Father of Lies and Angels of Lies.

Are the same things true about the quote from the Book of Enoch?

So, when Jude the Jew went on to quote from the Book of Enoch, he  could have been using one of their own sources against them.  This is exactly what he had done before with his quote from the Assumption of Moses.

Jude the Jew knew that when the Father of Truth came with ten thousand of the Children of Truth when He came to give the Law of Truth (Torah aka The Law) to Moses the Prophet of Truth (Deuteronomy 33:1-3).  He knew that when the Man of Truth comes to bring judgment upon the Gentiles for their wickedness that the resurrected Children of Truth are going to carry out that judgment (Psalm 149:5-9).

So, Jude the Jew could see that this quote from the Book of Enoch was consistent with what had already been revealed in the Book of Truth just like his quote from the Assumption of Moses.  This quote also made this truth a little clearer.

One thing is certain about the inclusion of these quotes in the Book of Jude – they are not a mistake for this inclusion was inspired by the Father of Truth (2 Timothy 3:16).  Jude the Jew was only a scribe for the Spirit of Truth who is the author of all scripture (2 Peter 1:20-21).

So, it can be certain that Jude the Jew used the quote from the Book of Enoch for the same purposes that he had used the quote from the Assumption of Moses.  However, whether or not it should be in the Book of Truth still depends upon the book itself.

So, it is time to examine the Book of Enoch itself.

The first thing to examine is whether the contents of the Book of Enoch have been preserved as the Father of Truth promised to do with His Word.  If not, then like the Assumption of Moses, it is not part of the Book of Truth.

We have to begin with clarification of what we mean by the Book of Enoch because there were actually three books called that written at different times in different languages at different places.  They are commonly referred to as 1 Enoch, 2 Enoch, and 3 Enoch based on the order that they were written in.

The oldest fragment of 1 Enoch is from about 300 BC.  The earliest parts were written in Hebrew in Israel, but later parts were written in Aramaic.

The oldest reference to 2 Enoch is from around 100 AD.  It was reputed to be written in Greek outside of Israel, but the oldest known fragment is from about 800 AD in Slavic.

The oldest reference to 3 Enoch is after 135 AD.  It was written in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin at Babylon.

So, we can see that 1 Enoch is the only Book of Enoch that Jude the Jew could have been quoting.  The later two versions both build upon and contradict it.

The next thing to examine is the contents of 1 Enoch to compare it to the contents of the Book of Truth for consistency.   We will begin with how it is structured.

1 Enoch actually is composed of five separate books that collectively have 108 chapters.  We will give a brief synopsis of each book.

This arrangement of five books inside 1 Enoch is not problematic.  Psalms also has five books inside it – one for each book of the Law of Truth.

The first book is the Book of Watchers, and it has thirty-six chapters.  It is mostly concerned with fallen Angels called the Watchers and their efforts to corrupt mankind.

The second book is the Book of Parables of Enoch, and it has thirty-five chapters.  It contains three parables that tell of the judgment that will come upon the Watchers and the people that they have corrupted.  It ends with the final translation of Enoch into heaven and two other short visions that he had before being translated.

The third book is the Astronomical Book, and it has eleven chapters.  It contains details of a Solar calendar that Enoch had revealed to him as the correct calendar for determining the seasons.

The fourth book is the Book of Dream Visions, and it has eight chapters.  It has a series of dream visions that tell the history of the people of Israel starting with the flood of Noah and ending with the New Jerusalem.  Some dream visions with symbolic animals are interspersed through it.

The final book is the Epistle of Enoch, and it is eighteen chapters.  It is a series of warnings that Enoch leaves to his descendants before his translation that cover everything that is going to happen until he is reunited with them in the New Jerusalem.  It also has some details about the birth of his grandson Noah.

So, it can be seen that each of the five books that make 1 Enoch build upon the previous books.  The entirety of the legitimacy of the Book of Enoch stands or falls on the legitimacy of each of these books.

Now we will compare the contents of each book with the Book of Truth.

So, we will start with the Book of Watchers.  This is the book that Jude the Jew quotes.

In this book, a lot of Angels are named that are not otherwise found anywhere in the Book of Truth.  Some of these Heavenly dignitaries are reported to have schemed to overthrow the Father of Truth and are called the Watchers.

It says that one of these Angels of Lies called Gadreel deceived Eve.  It also says that sin was introduced through the line of Cain while the line of Seth remained righteous.

The Book of Truth says that a serpent that deceived Eve (2 Corinthians  11:3).  It says that serpent was the Father of Lies – not some other Angel of Lies (Revelation 12:9-10).

The Book of Truth says that the curse of sin came upon the entire line of Adam – not one of his sons (Genesis 3:17-19).  It says that sin came through Adam – not one of his sons (Romans 5:12-14).

The Book of Watchers continues to tell about how some of these Heavenly dignitaries proceeded to marry human women and produce giants as also found in the Book of Truth (Genesis 6:1-4).  It then tells of how the Father of Truth had Noah build an Ark that was three hundred cubits long as does the Book of Truth (Genesis 6:13-15).

However, the Book of Watchers says that these giants were also three hundred cubits tall and so they would not have died from a flood that only covered the highest point on Earth by fifteen cubits according to the Book of Truth (Genesis 7:17-20).  They would have been more than thirty times taller than the tallest giant mentioned in the Book of Truth (Deuteronomy 3:11).

The Book of Watchers also says that these giants were imprisoned in bottomless pit (abyss) while the Book of Truth says that they were killed in the flood like every thing else that had the breath of life in it (Genesis 7:21-23).  The Book of Truth says that only the Angels of Lies who sinned by fathering the giants were imprisoned beneath the Earth (2 Peter 2:4).

Now we will move to the Book of Parables.  It builds upon the Book of Watchers.

It not only tells of a final judgment on the Angels of Lies (the Watchers) but also about the judgements that are to come upon mankind as well.  It introduces “the Son of Man” as the Messiah in Heaven – as Daniel had written hundreds of years earlier (Daniel 7:13-14).

However, the Book of Parables also identifies Enoch as the Son of Man in some places.  It also implies that Enoch had been enthroned in Heaven before his birth on Earth.

It is based on this that 2 Enoch and 3 Enoch state that Enoch became an Angel of Truth called Metatron after he was translated off of the Earth.  This contradicts the Book of Truth that says the people and Angels of Truth are two different things (2 Peter 2:10-11).

The resurrected Children of Truth are only like the Angels of Truth in not marrying one another (Matthew 22:30).  They are given a body like that of the Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ) – not Angels of Truth (Philippians 3:20-21)!

In fact, the Book of Parables appears to have been added much later to 1 Enoch.  Unlike the Book of Watchers, no fragment has ever been found at Qumran (the place of the Dead Sea Scrolls).

More than that, it is missing entirely from the earliest Greek translations of 1 Enoch that have been found.  There is no real evidence that it existed until about 300 AD.

This would mean that all copies of 1 Enoch are corrupted that contain it.  That would mean that the Book of Enoch was not preserved as the Father of Truth promised to do with His Word.

Now we will look at the Astronomical Book. It is tied to the words and deeds of Enoch in the previous two books.

The Astronomical Book contains a revelation that Enoch received that all months are thirty days long and there is an extra day after each set of three months to separate the seasons.  This allowed the same day of the year to always fall on the same day of the week.

This contradicts the calendar that the Father of Truth gave to Moses the Prophet of Truth.  It uses months that begin with each new moon – almost half of which are only twenty-nine days in length (Isaiah 66:23).

This calendar in the Book of Truth has years set by the month when the barley in Egypt is first ripe (Exodus 9:31-33).  This month is the first month of every year – which requires a leap month to be added every two or three years (Exodus 12:1-2).

Not only that, this 364-day calendar does not work in reality either.  The Essenes abandoned maintenance of The Astronomical Book when they found it snowing in what it said was summer after trying to use it for  almost two centuries.

So, we can be certain that the Astronomical Book is not from the Father of Truth.  He is never wrong about anything – ever!

Next, we will examine the Book of Dream Visions.  It is about Israel and the Watchers.

This book gives a history of the people of Israel all the way up to about 140 BC when the oldest fragment indicates that it was written.  It presents this history plus the final judgment as prophecy of Enoch.

It is not like the Book of Daniel – that told all of the events of the Maccabees several hundred years before any of them occurred.  It also does not mention any event after that until the final judgment - unlike Daniel who even gave the exact year that Messiah would be crucified (Daniel 9:25-27).

In fact, it makes no mention of the Messiah at all – unlike every single book in the Book of Truth.  It is not focused on Israel returning to the Father of Truth at the end of the Tribulation like the Book of Truth, but rather presents the Gentile nations like the Greeks being destroyed in a final judgment by the Father of Truth soon after the time of the Maccabees.

This obviously did not happen as it predicted.  In fact, there is not one single thing in the entire Book of Dream Visions to confirm that it is prophecy given to Enoch – or anyone else – by the Father of Truth.

It also does not mention one single reference to any of the terms of the Law of Truth in the Book of Dream Visions – or the entirety of 1 Enoch (The Book of Enoch).  These terms are referred to by every single book of the Prophets of Truth in the Original Covenant (Tanakh aka The Old Testament) as well as almost every single book of the Renewed Covenant (B'rit Chadashah aka The New Testament).

Most of the material in the last chapters about the End Times was already written in the Book of Truth.  The majority of material that is different concerns the Watchers – the Heavenly dignitaries.

So, it is obvious to anyone who is not willfully blind that this book is the work of a Prophet of Lies.  The contents of it are not consistent with the Book of Truth nor does it pass the test that all prophetic books of the Book of Truth have passed – some short-term and medium-term prophecies that all came to pass to confirm that the long-term prophecies are from the Father of Truth.

Finally, we will look at the Epistle of Enoch.  It is a summary of the previous books.

It begins with a vision of ten weeks that cover the entire history of the world.  It says that seven of these weeks have already passed by the time of the Maccabees and the last three weeks were about events would happen right after the time of the Maccabees that would end in the final judgment.

The events of the first seven weeks had all happened by the time of the oldest fragment.  Not one single event of the final three weeks has happened yet.

This means that this vision of  “the complete history of world” has over two thousand years of history that it did not see coming.  Those events of the last three weeks did not follow the events of the first seven weeks as shown in the vision.

It then gives a short warning to live righteously in view of the events of the last three weeks that are coming upon the reader soon.  It then expounds upon predestination explaining that it is impossible for the reader to heed the warning.  Finally it ends with condemnation to the reader for not heeding the warning that they could not possibly heed.

It then gives a short description of the birth of Noah and how those who were predetermined to be the Children of Light will enter the New Jerusalem.  This last section is separated from the rest of the Epistle of Enoch in the manuscripts at Qumran by a blank line indicating that they were written in later by another person.

So, we must conclude that the Book of Enoch should not be in the Book of Truth.

It has not only failed the tests of consistency with the rest of the Book of Truth and preservation by the Father of Truth, but it also has failed the tests of fulfilled prophecies and being factually accurate.  Not even the Essenes at Qumran considered the Book of Enoch to be part of the Book of Truth.

All of the books of the Book of Truth were stored in separate caves from the other writings at Qumran.  The later fragments of the books of the Book of Enoch were found in caves where books that the Essenes suspected to be the work of false teachers were kept.  These scrolls were kept there until the name of the Father of Truth could be cut out of them, so they could be destroyed with damaging His name.

However, there are some other tests given by the Book of Truth that the Book of Enoch would fail as well.  These concerned the authorship of it.

The Book of Truth says that any book that is in it must be either the work of a Prophet of Truth or an Apostle of Truth (Ephesians 2:20).  Even though Enoch was a real Prophet of Truth, it is apparent that the author of the Book of Enoch was not him.

Even if Enoch had written the Book of Enoch, then there is another test that the Book of Enoch would fail.  Nothing written by Enoch could pass this test.

The Man of Truth said that salvation was of the Jews (John 4:22).  The Words of the Father of Truth were only committed to those marked as Jews by circumcision (Romans 3:1-2).

Enoch was the Gentile ancestor of Abraham (Luke 3:34-37).  Abraham was the father of circumcision that marked his descendants as Jews (Romans 4:12).

So, the Book of Enoch would fail this test of authorship as well that the Book of Truth requires.  The Book of Truth makes it plain that it cannot belong in the Book of Truth.

Therefore, we need to heed the warnings of the Apostles of Truth about the Book of Enoch.

Jude the Jew called those who spoke evil about Angels that they only knew about from the Book of Enoch - but had not seen themselves - corrupt deceivers (Jude 1:8-10).  He warned that the same judgement that these Teachers of Lies have been teaching about these Angels that they have spoken evil against is going to happen to them (Jude 1:11-13).

James the Jude warned that these Teachers of Lies were among those that Enoch had said would be destroyed when Messiah comes to bring judgment on the ungodly (Jude 1:14-16).  He warned they were among the mockers that the Apostles of Truth had warned would come in the last days before the Tribulation - who did not have the Spirit of Truth in them (Jude 1:17-19).

Peter the Jew (Sh’mon aka Simon aka Simeon aka Cephas aka The Apostle Peter) also warned that Teachers of Lies would rise up among the Children of Truth to later be destroyed with the rest of the wicked (2 Peter 2:1).  He warned that many of them would follow these Teachers of Lies to destruction and cause the Book of Truth to be spoken against (2 Peter 2:2).

Peter the Jew warned that these Teachers of Lies would do this to sell things to the Children of Truth because they would be covetous, but they would be destroyed in the end (2 Peter 2:3).  He warned that they would be destroyed in the future as surely as the ungodly had been destroyed in the past (2 Peter 2:4-6).

Peter the Jew warned that these Teachers of Lies – who spoke evil of Angels– would be punished on Judgement Day (2 Peter 2:9-11).  He warned that they had never seen these Angels in a vision from the Spirit of Truth, but only knew what that they had learned about from another source - like the Book of Enoch - with a mind that was devoid of the Spirit of Truth (2 Peter 2:12).

Peter the Jew warned that these Teachers of Lies were in the congregations of the Children of Truth to deceive them due to their love of money but would be destroyed in the end (2 Peter 2:13-14).  He warned that like Balaam, they had once walked in the way of Truth, but had lost their minds when they turned from it to gain money (2 Peter 2:15-16).

Peter the Jew warned that since these Teachers of Lies no longer could bring the Word of Truth to the Children of Truth, then they would experience the judgment that they taught would happen to the Angels from the Book of Enoch (2 Peter 2:17).  He warned that they would face this judgment because they had spoke the Word of Lies to cause the Children of Truth to return to the sins that they had once escaped (2 Peter 2:18-19).

Paul the Jew warned that many of these Teachers of Lies were circumcised descendants of Israel, but they taught the Word of Lies from sources like the Book of Enoch because they wanted the Children of Truth to give them money (Titus 1:10-11).  He warned that the Word of Truth must be used to rebuke the Children of Truth who had been deceived by these Teachers of Lies -  who had appealed to the sinful desires of their flesh to turn them from the Word of Truth (Titus 1:12-13).

Paul the Jew warned that the Children of Truth need to treat Jewish fables - including the Book of Enoch - like the commandments of circumcised descendants of Israel that turned the Children of Truth away from the Word of Truth (Titus 1:14).  He said that these circumcised descendants of Israel taught these things because they did not know the Father of Truth – as their works proved (Titus 1:15-16).

These Apostles of Truth warned believers against the Book of Enoch - specifically quoting from it to make it plain - as well as many other sources from the Rabbis.  They warned that the Rabbis are liars and things like the Book of Enoch are no better than the Book of Mormon.

So, what should be in the Book of Truth?

The truth is that the Book of Truth has no missing books.  It contains the Incorruptible Word of Truth that the Father of Truth promised to preserve through the ages.

The Book of Truth contains two inseparable covenants.  These work together just like the four Gospels work together as a four-part harmony.

Those who teach the Book of Truth is incomplete or corrupted are teaching the Doctrine of Lies.  They are not teaching the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

Those who preach using another book are preaching another gospel based on another Jesus -who is not the Man of Truth - that was given to the author by another spirit - that is not the Spirit of Truth.  They are often the hidden danger that in the midst of the congregations of the Children of Truth like a snake in the leaves.

Some of these deceivers have made the Messianic Mess.  Other deceivers have used the same tactics to turn many of the Children of Truth to Neo-paganism.

Other deceivers have used another tactic in the Great Deception that is causing many to turn from following the Man of Truth without even realizing it.  They have assaulted the Book of Truth through corrupted thought-for-thought translations that include one disturbing sentence that is not found in any original source document.

With so much deception, how can you protect yourself from being deceived?

Fortunately, once you learn a few simple rules it is not that hard to pick a good translation.  After that, you can learn to rightly divide the Word of Truth by following the rules for interpreting scripture that are laid out in the Book of Truth.

Once you have the Word of Truth available to study, you are ready to begin protecting yourself from deception.   The only other thing you need is the Spirit of Truth.

The Children of Truth can overcome all deception because the Spirit of Truth lives in them (Romans 8:9).  The Spirit of Truth is greater than the Spirits of Lies that are in the world that speak through the Prophets of Lies (1 John 4:1-4).

The Spirit of Truth will guide the Children of Truth into all truth and confirm the Word of Truth (John 16:13).  They just have to be willing to follow the leading of the Spirit of Truth (Galatians 5:16).

When the Children of Truth follow the Spirit of Truth, then they will not have mind ruled by their flesh that cannot keep the Law of Truth (Romans 8:4-8).  Instead, they will have the mind of the Man of Truth – who kept the Law of Truth in the way always intended by the Father of Truth (1 Peter 4:1-2).

The love of the Children of Truth for the Man of Truth will cause them to keep his commandments (John 14:15).  The more they keep his commandments, the more they will know him (John 14:21).

It is those who do not keep the commandments of the Father of Truth who do not know Him (Matthew 7:21-23).  The more the Children of Truth love the Father of Truth the more they will keep His commandments (1 John 5:3).

The Children of Truth will be able to overcome the deception of the world because of their faith in the Man of Truth (1 John 5:4-5).  They will be able to overcome the Father of Lies by the Word of Truth in their mouths and the death of the Man of Truth because they love the Man of Truth more than their own lives (Revelation 12:9-11).

The Children of Truth will be able to stand against every deception of the Father of Lies when they put on all of the armor that the Father of Truth has provided them to fight against the Spirits of Lies (Ephesians 6:11-12).  Their sexual conduct will be protected by truth, their heart will set on doing what the Father of Truth says is right, they will be ready to bring the Good News to other people, their confidence in what the Father of Truth says will lead them to action that shields them from every attack of the Father of Lies, salvation will protect their minds, and they will be able to use the Word of Truth to attack the Spirit of Lies (Ephesians 6:13-17).

The Word of Truth will allow the Children of Truth to not be deceived by the Word of Lies that is empty and useless (2 Timothy 2:14-16).   It will allow them to discern between those who speak truth out of a sincere heart and those who speak lies out of a perverse heart (Hebrews 4:12).

When the Children of Truth hide the Word of Truth in their hearts, then they cannot be deceived into breaking the commandments of the Father of Truth (Psalm 119:10-11).  They will be not even be able to be deceived into departing from walking in truth by signs and wonders like everyone else (Matthew 24:24).

You will come into the House of Truth when you will make a commitment to obey the Man of Truth in everything because you believe that the Father of Truth raised him from the dead (Romans 10:9).  Then the Spirit of Truth will live in you and witness to your spirit that you are a Child of Truth (Romans 8:14-16).  Then the Word of Truth will be able to live in your heart, so that you will not be deceived by things like the Book of Enoch (Colossians 3:16).

Come into the House of Truth!

 

The Missing Books of The Bible

Are there books missing from the Book of Truth (The Bible)?

One Christmas my Aunt Londa got me a book entitled "The Missing Books of the Bible".  (This was before I became like The Mensch Who Killed Christmas by coming to the second of the two kinds of knowledge.)  This book was a two volume set that contained fifteen books that were part of the King James Bible in its original 1611 AD Edition.  The King James Bible underwent numerous revisions over the years to correct minor errors in translation until the 1769 AD version which is the version still printed today.  It was printed using the newly invented stereotype printing that made the cost per Bible considerably cheaper than it had been before.  The 1769 AD version did not include the fifteen books that were included in "The Missing Books of the Bible" that my Aunt Londa gave me.

One reason for this was so that the cost of production could be lowered to the point where the King James Bible could be afforded by everyone who wanted one.  This was not that different than the Gideons producing Bibles that only contained the Renewed Covenant (B'rit Chadashah aka The New Testament) so they could afford to give them to every school child in America.

Now in the case of the Gideons, they were not saying that the Original Covenant (Tanach aka The Old Testament) was not as important as the Renewed Covenant.  In fact, some of their small pocket Bibles contained Psalms (Tehillim) and the Book of Daniel as well.  They simply understood that if people read the Renewed Covenant first that it would lead them to search out the Original Covenant later.  They were following the same strategy as the Apostles of Truth who gave the bare minimum requirements of the Law of Truth (Torah aka The Law) that Gentiles had to keep to come into the House of Truth with the understanding that the Gentiles would have the opportunity to learn more from the Law of Truth later (Acts 15:19-21).  The Gideons gave out Renewed Covenants instead of the Original Covenant because they understood that it was pointless to put the cart before the horse.

However, this was not the case with the 1769 AD version of the King James Bible.  The goal was to produce a complete version of the Book of Truth that everyone could afford.  These books were not included because they were considered supplement information similar to maps and dictionaries found in the back of many modern versions of the Book of Truth.  These books were part of a section of the 1611 AD version of the King James Bible called the Apocrypha.  The Apocrypha was located between the Original Covenant and the Renewed Covenant in the 1611 AD version of the King James Bible because it contained historical information, particularly in first and second Maccabees, about what happened between the two covenants.

Since this was supplemental information, not scripture given by the Spirit of Truth (Ruach HaQodesh aka The Holy Spirit aka The Holy Ghost), then they did not include it in the 1769 AD version of the King James Bible similar to how they did not include any maps or dictionaries.  The fact is that the Apocrypha had never been considered to be part of the Original Covenant by the Jews who originally maintained it.  It was not part of the canon of the Renewed Covenant that was formalized around 70 AD by the Jews.  For this reason the False Church of Rome calls the twelve books of the Apocrypha that is in their version of the Book of Truth the "Dueterocanonical" (literally "second list") books because these books have never been listed as being scripture from the Spirit of Truth but rather supplemental information to fill in the historical gap that occurred between the end of the Original Covenant and the beginning of the Renewed Covenant.

So "The Missing Books of the Bible" was a really misleading name for this two volume set.  It would have been more appropriate to have called it "The Missing Supplements to the Bible".  It would make as much sense to use these books of the Apocrypha to form doctrine as it would to use the Book of Mormon.

You see the Book of Mormon is really a collection of Apocryphal books according to the words of Joseph Smith.  Apocrypha literally means "hidden things" and is used to describe books outside of the Book of Truth that are used to determine the doctrine (set of teachings) of an organization.  The term was originally used by Origen somewhere around 220 AD to distinguish the books that the False Church of Rome kept hidden from the public that it used to determine doctrine from the books of the Book of Truth that it read in public.  Eventually these hidden books were revealed and often included in a bound set appropriately called "The Apocrypha". They were included as a supplemental part of the Book of Truth to justify the doctrines taught by the False Church of Rome.  This is exactly the same thing that Joseph Smith said about the Book of Mormon.  The books in the Book of Mormon were hidden and then revealed in a bound set called the Book of Mormon to justify the doctrine that he taught.

Not only did the False Church of Rome use twelve of the books of the Apocrypha that were written before the time of the birth of the Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ) to form its doctrine but it also used many books of the New Testament Apocrypha that were written after the resurrection of the Man of Truth.  This New Testament Apocrypha contains more than 50 Gospels other than the four included in the Renewed Covenant.  It also contains epistles and other works allegedly written during the time of the Apostles of Truth.  Many of these writings are even contributed to the Apostles of Truth.  There were also epistles from the period after the Renewed Covenant was finished in 95 AD like those attributed to Clement and Ignatius.  These books of the New Testament Apocrypha were used by the founders of the False Church of Rome to form many of its doctrines.  The False Church of Rome kept the use of these books, along the twelve books of the Apocrypha that they include as their Dueterocanonical books, to form their doctrine hidden from the public as previously noted.  Many of these books that the False Church of Rome used to form its doctrine were written more than one hundred years after the book of Revelation and many of them had Gentile authors.  However, the False Church of Rome came way too late to have invented using Apocryphal books to justify its doctrines.

Indeed at least two hundred years before the Man of Truth even came to the Earth there were Jewish groups like the Essenes who were using their own set of Apocryphal books.  This Jewish Apocrypha contains way more books than just the supplementary fifteen books that were included the Apocrypha found in the 1611 AD King James Bible.  These books include works like the Book of the Jasher, the Book of Enoch, the book of Jubilees, and many others.  Some of these works have not survived to modern times but are only known by references to them in other writings.  Some of the modern versions of these works have been proven to be fabrications that were made in America in the 1800s just like the Book of Mormon.  Many of these books have multiple versions that contradict each other like the five versions of the Book of Jasher and the nine versions of the Book of Enoch.  Most of these books from the Jewish Apocrypha contradict the Original Covenant in some manner as well.  Others, like the first and second book of Maccabees, are simply history books that were not given through the Prophets of Truth by the Spirit of Truth.  So for all of these reasons they were not included by the Jews in the set of books that make up the Original Covenant.

Besides these books there were also the Jewish oral traditions that did not start being accumulated into books until Yahudah HaNasi started writing them in the Mishnah sometime before his death in 217 AD.  There were then the commentaries written by other "Rabbis" in the land of Israel in the Galilee area (Tiberias) on the Mishnah called the Gemara.  These commentaries came to an end around 400 AD.   The Mishnah and this Gemara from Israel form the misnamed Jerusalem Talmud.  At this same time in the land surrounding Babylon other "Rabbis" were writing their own Gemara until about 500 AD.  The Mishnah and this Gemara form the better named Babylonian Talmud.  So in either case, both Talmuds were written well after the Book of Truth was completed in 95 AD.

So Rabbinic Judaism forms doctrines based first on one of these Talmuds and second on the Original Covenant.  It could be said Rabbinic Judaism has three testimonies of the dealings of the Father of Truth with the human race: the Original Covenant, the Mishnah, and the Gemara.

There were then even later books like the Kabbalah that preserved other Jewish traditions and Jewish mysticism that also had their origins in Babylon.  These additional testimonies are usually added on top the other three testimonies and considered to be the final authority.

So how about these other books?  Are the books of the New Testament Apocrypha, the Jewish Apocrypha, the Talmud or any other Rabbinic source any better than the Book of Mormon?

The Father of Truth entrusted His writings to the Jewish people through Moses (Moishe) when they received the Law of Truth (Torah aka The Law) at Mount Sinai (Acts 7:37-39).  The Father of Truth entrusted His writings to the Jewish people alone so any book that was written by a Gentile is certainly not part of the Gospel that came from Him (Romans 3:1-3).  Anyone that preaches a Gospel built upon Gentile sources, like many of the books in the New Testament Apocrypha that was originally used by the False Church of Rome to form its doctrine, is preaching another Gospel.

So what about the books that came from Jewish sources?

There are twenty other books, like the Book of Jasher, mentioned by name in the Book of Truth (Joshua 10:13).  So it is argued that if a book is mentioned by name in the Book of Truth then the book must surely have come from the Father of Truth.  Is this really true?

The Book of Truth also mentions the Chronicles of the Kings of Media and Persia by name (Esther 10:2).  As already shown, any book that was not written by the Jewish Prophets of Truth does not qualify as being being sent by the Father of Truth to form doctrine.  The mention of these other books only serve to show that the books were in existence at the time and contained a reference to the event that was written about in the Book of Truth.  So anyone that preaches a Gospel built upon a book that is only mentioned in the Book of Truth but not contained in the Book of Truth is preaching another Gospel.

However, there are some books that may not be named by name in the Book of Truth but they are quoted in the Book of Truth.  There are about twenty quotations from the Jewish Apocrypha and the Oral Torah (later collected into the Mishnah) in the Renewed Covenant.

For example, the disputing between Michael the Angel of Truth and the Father of Lies over the body of Moses comes from the Jewish Apocrypha (Jude 1:9).  The prophecy of Enoch is found in the Book of Enoch (Jude 1:14-15).

If these are quoted in the Book of Truth then some would argue that means that the entire contents of these books are just as much from the Spirit of Truth as what is found in the Renewed Covenant.  Is this really the case?

The Man of Truth quoted the saying that had been collected in the Manual of Discipline of the Essenes (or perhaps another Jewish sect) to contrast that saying with His own teaching (Matthew 5:43-45).  The Man of Truth later quoted from the Greek playwright Ascylus when he arrested Paul the Jew (Shaul aka Saul aka The Apostle Paul) on the road to Damascus to get his point across (Acts 9:4-6).  Paul the Jew quoted Epimenides of Gnossus and the Stoic Philosopher Aratus to convince the Athenians to stop worshiping idols (Acts 17:26-29).  When Paul the Jew rehearsed his encounter with the Man of Truth on the road to Damascus for King Agrippa and Governor Festus they were already very familiar with the quote from the Greek playwright Ascylus which caused Festus to acknowledge that Paul the Jew was well educated and not easily duped (Acts 26:14-24).   Paul the Jew quoted from a play by Euripedes, the Shakespeare of ancient Greece, to admonish the Corinthians to live righteously instead of being influence to live wickedly by those around them (1 Corinthians 15:33-34).  Paul the Jew again quoted Epimenides of Gnossus, a Cretan poet and prophet whom the Cretans once worshiped as a god, to reinforce a point about their character to bring them to repentance (Titus 1:12).

The truth is these other Jewish sources, that are quoted in the Book of Truth, contain nothing that came by the inspiration of the Spirit of Truth, except for when the Spirit of Truth moved upon the Man of Truth and the Apostles of Truth, to quote from them to make a point.  Quoting from these Jewish sources to make a point, is no different than quoting from pagan Greek sources to make a point.  So there is nothing about a quote from another source existing in the Book of Truth, that proves that the entire source, was from the Father of Truth.  In essence, these Jewish sources are no better for forming doctrine, than secular sources or even pagan Greek sources.

That is not even all that the Book of Truth has to say about these other Jewish sources.

The Jewish traditions collected in the Mishnah are the very same traditions of the Pharisees that the Man of Truth said caused people to transgress the commandments of the Law of Truth (Matthew 15:1-3).  He said that these Rabbinic traditions were made to cancel out the commandments of His Father (Matthew 15:4-6).  He said that these Rabbinic traditions formed a doctrine based on the commandments of men and those who kept them were only paying lip service to His Father (Matthew 15:7-9).  He said that those who keep the Rabbinic traditions find fault with everyone who does not keep their traditions (Mark 7:1-3).  He said that zealously keeping these traditions collected in the Mishnah causes people to become religious hypocrites who have moved far away from His Father (Mark 7:4-6).  He said that keeping the doctrine of the Mishnah causes people to reject the commandments of the Law of Truth (Mark 7:7-9).  He said the doctrine of the Mishnah is nothing more that the attempt of men to justify breaking the commandments of His Father to keep their own traditions (Mark 7:10-13).

Consider that Paul the Jew was practicing Rabbinic Judaism, that is built on Jewish traditions collected in the Mishnah, when he was the main persecutor of the Children of Truth (those who obey The Father of Truth because they love Him) (Galatians 1:13-14).  The Father of Truth delivered Paul the Jew from the Jewish traditions collected in the Mishnah so the Man of Truth could transform Paul the Jew into an Apostle of Truth (Galatians 1:15-17).  It is for this reason that Paul the Jew warned the Children of Truth to not follow traditions, like those of the Mishnah, because they are contrary to the teachings of the Man of Truth (Colossians 2:8).  He said that the Children of Truth are to be as insensitive as dead men to these commandments that make up a doctrine that came from men instead of the Father of Truth (Colossians 2:20-22).

Paul the Jew taught that the only traditions that the Children of Truth were to pay any attention to were those that are taught in the Renewed Covenant (2 Thessalonians 2:13-15).  Paul the Jew taught the Children of Truth to withdraw themselves from anyone who taught any traditions, like those of the Mishnah, that were not taught in the writings of the Apostles of Truth that form the Renewed Covenant (2 Thessalonians 3:6).  Paul the Jew also warned in the second epistle that he ever wrote for the recipients were to check all epistles for a salutation written in his own hand writing as a token of authenticity because people were already writing false epistles in his name (2 Thessalonians 3:17).

Paul the Jew in like manner charged that no one among the Children of Truth were to teach fables, like those found in the Jewish Apocrypha, or go into endless genealogies to make their teaching seem more authoritative (1 Timothy 1:3-4).  He warned that such supposed teachers of the Law of Truth would only prevent the Children of Truth from keeping the Law of Truth by loving other people as much as they loved themselves (1 Timothy 1:5-7).  He said that the Ministers of Truth were to feed the Children of Truth the clean doctrine of the Book of Truth and to reject the unclean doctrine that comes from fables like those found in the Jewish Apocrypha (1 Timothy 4:6-7).  He said that sound faith in the Man of Truth requires avoiding Jewish fables, like those found in the Jewish Apocrypha, and the commandments of men, like those found in the Mishnah, because they turn people away from the truth that is found in the Book of Truth (Titus 1:13-14).  The Renewed Covenant does not contain clever fables, like those in the Jewish Apocrypha, but rather an accurate record of what the Apostles of Truth personally saw and heard (2 Peter 1:16-18).

Everything that is needed from the Mishnah or the Jewish Apocrypha for sound doctrine is already included in the Renewed Covenant.  The rest of these writings, the ones that are not modern fabrications, contain a mix of secular history, Jewish fables, traditions that contradict the Law of Truth, and Rabbinic doctrines that lead people away from the Man of Truth.  Even books like first and second Maccabees that contain accurate Jewish history are still just secular books of Jewish history just like the writings of Josephus.  The Jewish Apocrypha and the Mishnah are the basis of Rabbinic Distort that is the source of Jewish trouble so they should be avoided like the plague.

It makes as much sense to say that the Oral Torah contained in the Mishnah, or any book of the Jewish Apocrypha like the Book of Enoch, are missing parts of the Book of Truth on this basis as it would to say that the works of Greek poets, playwrights and prophets are missing parts of the Book of Truth.  Those who preach a Gospel built on any of these Jewish sources is preaching another Gospel as much as those who preach a Gospel built on the Book of Mormon.

These supposedly missing books of the Book of Truth are used to preach another "Jesus", who is not the Man of Truth who is written about in the Book of Truth, by those who are being lead by another spirit, that is not the Spirit of Truth who wrote the Book of Truth, to get people to accept another Gospel that is not found in the pages of the Book of Truth (2 Corinthians 11:4).  So do not be fooled by clever marketeers or Teachers of Lies who seek to convince you that the Book of Truth is missing books in order to gain your money and trust so that they can lead you out of the House of Truth (2 Peter 2:1-3).  The Doctrine of Truth is built on the Book of Truth alone.  Any teaching that relies on any book that is supposedly missing from the Book of Truth is part of the Doctrine of Lies.

The Book of Truth says that you can only come into the House of Truth by surrendering control of your life to the Man of Truth because you believe that His Father raised him from the dead (Romans 10:8-10).  This is the true for both Jews and Gentiles (Romans 10:11-13).  The Book of Truth, that is composed of the writings of the Prophets of Truth in the Original Covenant and the writings of the Apostles of Truth in the Renewed Covenant, is the only foundation for coming into the House of Truth through the Man of Truth (Ephesians 2:20-22).  The Book of Truth is more certain to contain the only means for coming into the House of Truth than hearing the Father of Truth speaking out of Heaven because there are no books missing from the Book of Truth that was given by the Spirit of Truth (2 Peter 1:18-21).

Come into the House of Truth!