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Story: The Punishment of Fallen Angels  Photo: Wikipedia   Azazel and Shemhazai decided that one day they wanted to go on a road trip, they work so hard and yet they get no praise for all of their dedicated hard work.  "Azazel," said Shemhazai, "Why can't we just go to earth and walk among the humans? Surely they will show us a good time." They both went to ask God for a week off. After all, they were angels, and the corruption of vacationing on earth's fine beaches shouldn't impact them too much. "God... do you mind if Shemhazai and I have a teensy weensie break?" Azazel asked shyly, "we have been working so hard watching over these insolent humans that never follow any of our rules and we just need a break. We've seen how much fun the beach looks! Even Noah had a nice drink of merlot and got to sleep, can we just go for a week? Pleassseeeee."  God was ashamed with his two angels, they were supposed to be happy with the condition

Photo: Wikipedia Story Source: The Legends of the Jews by Louis Ginzberg (1909) Noah took the book of necessary wisdom which was given to Adam by the angel Raziel that all celestial and earthly knowledge was recorded. God gave Adam the Torah, the angels were envious of the wisdom he had drawn from the book and sought to destroy him. The envy they had was so great, they stole the book from him and threw it into the sea. After Adam died, the book disappeared and appeared later to Enoch in a dream. He memorized the book and hid it again. God sent a message to Noah via Raphael with the holy book, Noah took and studied it and once he did he could build the ark successfully. Once the ark was built, all of the sinners tried to take entrance to the ark, but the beasts watching the ark attacked them and many of the sinners died there rather than to the flood. The hot scalding rain burnt the skin of the sinners, they tried to use their children to block the water from coming. Seven pairs of ani

  Photo by Wikipedia Commons Bibliography: The Story of Noah  from the King James Bible When Noah was born he resembled the children of angels in heaven according to his father Lamech. His mother cried and Enoch came and told her that her son will survive the great punishment of the earth that will come. The curse brought by the sins of Adam ceased with the appearance of Noah. As Noah grew up Uriel was sent to him so he would know how to save his own life. Raphael was told to put a fallen angel in chains, the fallen angels wanted to occupy earth after all the humans were erased from it. The angels came to earth and could not contain themselves from sin. The angels had sons that were having visions. Shemhazi suspended himself for penance between heaven and earth as god pardons the sins of Israel. The offspring of the angels were the giants and they were known for strength and sin-fullness. The descendants of Cain were sinful and depraved, they new neither toil nor care.   God said to th