The Book of Enoch: Ancient Vision or Inspired Scripture? The “Book of Enoch” is one of the most famous writings outside the Bible. It fascinates because Jude quotes it directly, some early Christians admired it, and yet it’s absent from nearly every Bible except the Ethiopian Orthodox canon. What is it? Why was it written? And why is it not considered Scripture by most of the Church?

The Myth of the “Intertestamental Period”. Many Protestant Bibles speak of the “Intertestamental Period” or “400 years of silence.” This phrase refers to the time between Malachi (as arranged in the Protestant canon) and the New Testament. The idea is that God gave no prophetic word during those centuries, leaving Israel in silence until John the Baptist arrived.

Bel and the Dragon: God Exposes False Gods. Bel and the Dragon is one of the lesser-known but most striking narratives in the Bible of the early church. Preserved in the Greek Septuagint (LXX) as part of the Book of Daniel, it tells two stories: the defeat of the idol Bel and the destruction of a dragon worshiped as a god in Babylon.

Susanna: Justice, Wisdom, and the God Who Sees. The story of Susanna is one of the most powerful narratives of integrity and justice in the Bible of the early church. A faithful woman is falsely accused of adultery by two corrupt elders who lusted after her. Facing death by false testimony, she cries out to God — and the young prophet Daniel exposes the lies, delivering her from condemnation.