Who were the Fallen Angels that sinned?

Answer 1

A:The Jews of the Apocalyptic period (200 BCE to 100 CE) could not understand why God had abandoned them and allowed evil to rule the world in their time. They studied the Hebrew scriptures and found proceeded to develop answers that included fallen angels, as in the Book of Enoch. In this book, Enoch is taken on an inspection tour of Sheol, the shadowy underworld place of the dead, where he sees the sons of God in their fallen state and learns that these "angels, the children of heaven, saw and lusted after" the daughters of men. Because of their interest in women, the fallen angels became known as Watchers.

2 Enoch added to the myth the notion that the angels rebelled on account of pride: "And one from out the order of angels, having turned away with the order that was under him, conceived of an impossible thought, to place his throne higher than the clouds above the earth, that he might become equal in rank to any power. And I threw him out from the height with his angels, and he was flying in the air continuously above the bottomless." It is thought that this passage may be of later, Christian origin.

The Book of Jubilees specified that nine tenths of the angels fell and one tenth remained sinless and loyal to God. Medieval writers later reversed these proportions, creating a new tradition that one tenth of all the angels fell.