Genesis chapter 6, verse 6: six words that should make you tremble. “And the Lord regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.” The creator of the universe, the omniscient being who knows all things before they happen, the God who designed the galaxies, programmed DNA, and ignited the stars, looked at what he had created and regretted it. He wasn’t disappointed, he wasn’t saddened; he regretted it.
The Hebrew word is naham , and it doesn’t simply mean feeling sorry. It means a pain so profound that it makes you wish you hadn’t done what you did. It’s the pain of a father who watches his son destroy everything he gave him. It’s the pain of an architect who sees his masterpiece burned down by the very people for whom he built it. God looked at the earth and wished he had never created humankind. That’s in your Bible, in every version and translation, in every language. It’s not an apocryphal text or a forbidden gospel; it’s in Genesis.
However, almost no one stops to ask the most obvious question: Why? Why would the God who declared his creation good, who looked upon man and woman on the sixth day and said it was very good, regret it a few generations later? What happened between the “very good” of chapter 1 and the repentance of chapter 6? What occurred that was so catastrophic, so irreversible, and so monstrous that the creator decided to destroy his own work with a flood?
Your Bible gives you the answer in exactly two verses, Genesis 6:1-4 and verse 5: “The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of their hearts was only evil all the time.” That’s a diagnosis, but not an explanation. It’s like saying the patient died of a systemic infection; technically correct, but if you don’t know what caused the infection, you don’t understand anything.
Your Bible tells you that humanity became corrupt, but it doesn’t tell you how or who corrupted it. The Ethiopian Bible tells you, with names, dates, and details. What it says is so disturbing that when Mel Gibson read it while researching his film about the resurrection of Christ, he said it was like reading the script for the scariest movie ever written. What corrupted humanity wasn’t human weakness; it was an invasion.
Let’s turn to the Book of Enoch, chapter 6, a text that the apostles read as sacred scripture. It reads as follows:
“And it came to pass, when the sons of men multiplied in those days, that beautiful and lovely daughters were born unto them. And the angels, the sons of heaven, saw them and desired them, and said unto one another, ‘Come, let us choose wives for ourselves from among the daughters of men, and beget children.’”
Semiaza, who was their leader, told them: “I fear that you may not agree to do this thing, and I alone will have to pay the penalty for a great sin.”
And they all answered him: “Let us all take an oath and bind ourselves to one another not to abandon this plan, but to do this thing.”
Then 200 angels swore an oath together. They were not demons or vagrant evil spirits; they were high-ranking celestial beings known as the Watchers. Their original task was to descend to Earth to instruct humanity in justice and righteousness. They were sent by God as tutors and teachers, but they failed because they chose to betray Him.
Enoch names them one by one: Semiaza, the chief; Azazel, the weapons instructor; Amazarac, who taught sorcery; Baraquiel, astrology; Cocabiel, the constellations; Tamiel, astronomy; and Asradel, the cycles of the moon. What Enoch describes is a systematic and planned operation of corruption that attacked humanity on three fronts.
The first front was genetic corruption. The Watchers fathered children with human women: the Nephilim. They were hybrid giants, half celestial and half terrestrial, with the power of angels and the instincts of beasts. Their appetite was insatiable; they devoured the crops, then men, and finally devoured each other, drinking blood.
The second front was the corruption of knowledge. Azazel taught how to make swords, shields, and armor, introducing the metallurgy of war. Before this, humans did not forge metal to kill. Other angels taught sorcery, enchantments, and how to manipulate spiritual forces and other human beings. They also taught astrology to replace faith with superstition, and the use of cosmetics as part of pagan rituals and ritual seduction.
The third front was spiritual corruption. When the Nephilim died, their spirits did not disappear. Being beings born of both spirit and flesh, their souls remained trapped on earth as evil spirits or demons. According to Ethiopian tradition, these are the same unclean spirits that Jesus cast out. Each exorcism was a skirmish in a war that began on Mount Hermon.
Now you understand the scale of what happened. It wasn’t that some men sinned and God got angry; it was an extraterrestrial invasion. Humanity was a victim before it was guilty. When God looked at the earth and saw that everything was evil, he was seeing the result of a contamination that should never have occurred. That’s why he regretted it. Not because his design was flawed, but because his creation had been sabotaged.
God’s repentance is the fury of a father who discovers that someone poisoned his son. The flood was not merely a punishment; it was a cosmic cleansing operation to eliminate genetic corruption and forbidden knowledge. God preserved Noah because he was “upright in his generations,” which can be interpreted as meaning that his genetic lineage was untainted, uncontaminated by the Watchers.
Mel Gibson understood that he couldn’t tell the story of the resurrection without telling the story of the fall of the angels, because the resurrection is the answer to the problem the Watchers created. The crucifixion is the solution to the equation that began on Mount Hermon. Jesus’ descent into Sheol, where the Watchers are chained, is the moment when the Creator confronts those who sabotaged his work.
God sent his archangels to carry out the judgment. He commanded Raphael to bind Azazel and cast him into the darkness of the Desert of Dudael. He commanded Gabriel to destroy the children of the Watchers, causing them to kill one another. He commanded Michael to bind Semiaza and his associates beneath the hills of the earth for seventy generations until the final judgment.
Despite the punishment, God promised to heal the earth. In Enoch chapter 10 it says: “Heal the earth that the angels have corrupted… and all the earth was corrupted by the works that were taught by Azazel; to him ascribe all sin.”
God Himself says that the primary responsibility lies not with man, but with the angel who corrupted him. God’s repentance was not against man, but for man. The flood gave humanity a second chance, but the forbidden knowledge and the spirits of the Nephilim survived. That is why something more radical was needed: the incarnation. The Creator Himself descended as a man to undo the damage at its root.
If humanity corrupted itself, Jesus came to redeem the guilty out of mercy. But if it was poisoned by its guardians, then Jesus came to redeem the victims out of justice. It is a debt that heaven owed earth for having failed to protect it. God assumed responsibility for the failure of his own agents.
The complete story is a narrative thread that runs from the oath of the 200 angels to Jesus’ “It is finished” on the cross. With 66 books you see fragments; with 81 you see the whole picture. It is the story of a Creator who decides to personally descend into hell to fix his creation, even if it costs him his life.
This story also answers the question of why evil exists. Evil didn’t enter the world simply by biting into an apple; it entered through an invasion that imposed disproportionate wickedness. This changes your view of God: He is not a judge who condemns you for being bad, but a doctor who heals you from an illness you didn’t choose to contract.
Even in the worst of times, God’s impulse was to heal. “Heal the earth.” These three words contain the entire gospel. God didn’t regret creating you; He regretted what was done to you and gave everything He had to save you.
