Genesis 6 indicates that the "sons of God" (B'nai Elohim)
took wives of the "daughters of men,"
which gave birth to the "Nephilim." What on earth was going on?
The B'nai Elohim is a term that refers to angels.
It occurs four times in the Old Testament and is rendered "Angels of God" in the ancient Septuagin translation.
The intrusion of certain angels into the human family resulted in unnatural offspring termed Nephilim,
which derives from the Hebrew naphal (to fall), or the Fallen Ones.
(The Greek Septuagint renders this term gigantes, which actually means "earth-born."
This is often misunderstood to mean "giants"--
which they also happen to have been, incidentally.)
The B'nai Elohim saw the daughters of Adam, that they were fit extensions. And they took wives for themselves from all those that they chose...
The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and even afterwards when the B'nai Elohim CAME IN TO the daughters of Adam, and they bore to them --
they were Powerful Ones which existed from ancient times, the men of name. (from the Interlinear Hebrew Bible Genesis 6)
The word which is translated, "giants", in the King James version of the Bible is, in Hebrew, "Nephilim", which means, "Those who fell, or ... the fallen ones".
Jude, the brother of Jesus describes them as "angels, having left their first estate in heaven". These fallen angels came to earth for a serious purpose.
The "fallen ones" sought to merge with the bloodline of Adam, because of the promise to send a redeemer through Adam's kinsman.
The Hebrew says that the Sons of God saw that the women were a fit "extension", for they sought to extend themselves into this realm from the spirit realm, as well as to extend themselves into the "children of the promise" the lineage of Adam.
Satan tried to prevent the eventual birth, in the distant future, of the Messiah.
The mating of human beings with angels resulted in hybrid creatures, evil spirits with human bodies.
The human \ angel hybrids began to corrupt and destroy the human race, resulting in the Deluge, "the end of all flesh" except Noah and his family.
The Bible uses other names to describe these degraded fallen angels and their descendents in addition to the word Nephilim, they are. . . .
Rephaim - from the root rapha = spirits, shades Gen. 14:5
Anakim - Race of Giants Num. 13:33 Descendents of Nephilim
Emim - the proud deserters, terrors, race of giants Gen. 14:5
Zuzim - the evil ones, roaming things Gen. 14:5
Zazummims - the evil plotters, Deut. 2:20
Zophim - watchers, angels who descended Num. 23, distinct from 'Holy Watchers' aligned with God Sepherim - the many. . . .
For over a thousand years the Nephilim corrupted the earth and oppressed mankind.
The Bible states that the giants existed before the flood and even after that time, Gen. 6:4.
This contradicts tradition but is historically upheld by accounts in Exodus where descendents of the Nephilim are encountered in Canaan by the Israelites.
The Apocryphal Book of Enoch, a 1st century B.C. extra Biblical manuscript quoted by Jude and John, details events of the fallen angels.
It describes their punishment and even their names. Some of the Nephilim perished, at least their bodies perished, beneath the waters of the flood. The leaders of this rebellious act were chained until judgment day at various locations in the earth.
Jude and John also relate this account. Job 26:5 KJV says, "Dead things are formed from under the waters". This seems to imply that men were killed under the waters of the deluge.
The original Hebrew text relates something much more mysterious.
The literal translation is, "The Rafa were made to writhe from beneath the waters".
The word Rafa is only found in scripture identifying the "fallen angels", and is never used to denote the "human dead" anywhere in the Old Testament.
The historical basis for the interpretation of Gen. 6 as an account of fallen angels is consistent. Philo, Josephus, Epiphanius , Hilarius , are some of many examples.
The book of the Jubilees remarks that Jared or Yeh-red, an Old Testament patriarch, was so called because in his days the angels descended upon the earth - Yaw-rad "descend".
It is interesting to note that "Jordan" comes from that same root word denoting "descent, coming down or falling" - Yar-dane "the place of the descent".
Jordan, "place of the descent", is located in the ancient boundary of Israel. Israel is currently a major location for sighting UFOs, and the fallen angels in disguise as "aliens".
The Book of Enoch explains that the Sons of God descended first onto the mountain called Hermon which in Hebrew means desolation, in the land of Jordan the place of the descent.
Desolation is exactly what Satan and his angels intended to make the earth by destroying the descendents of Adam -- desolation has been the plan of the rebel angels from the beginning.
It was the infusion of these strange beings into the human predicament that brought on the Flood of Noah.
The Flood was preceded by four generations of prophets/preachers warning of the coming judgment: Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, and Noah.
It seems that this was part of Satan's stratagem to corrupt the line of Adam to prevent the fulfillment of the Messianic redemption.
Noah was apparently unique in that his genealogy was still uncorrupted.
The strange events which led to the flood are also alluded to in ancient mythologies.
The legends of the Greek "titans"--partly terrestrial, partly celestial--embrace these same memories.
(The Greek titan is linguistically linked to the Chaldean sheitan, and the Hebrew satan.) So where did these sinning (fallen) Angels come from?
"Son of man, take up a lament concerning the king of Tyre and say to him:
'This is what the Sovereign LORD says:
"'You were the model of perfection,
full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
You were in Eden, the garden of God;
every precious stone adorned you:
ruby, topaz and emerald, chrysolite,
onyx and jasper,
sapphire, turquoise and beryl.
Your settings and mountings were made of gold;
on the day you were created they were prepared.
You were anointed as a guardian cherub,
for so I ordained you.
You were on the holy mount of God;
you walked among the fiery stones.
You were blameless in your ways
from the day you were created
till wickedness was found in you.
Through your widespread trade
you were filled with violence, and you sinned.
So I drove you in disgrace from the mount of God,
and I expelled you, O guardian cherub, from among the fiery stones.
Your heart became proud on account of your beauty,
and you corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor.
So I threw you to the earth; I made a spectacle of you before kings.
By your many sins and dishonest trade you have desecrated your sanctuaries.
So I made a fire come out from you, and it consumed you,
and I reduced you to ashes on the ground
in the sight of all who were watching.
All the nations who knew you are appalled at you;
you have come to a horrible end and will be no more.'"
Ezekiel 28:11-19
"How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!"
Isaiah 14:12.
Jesus said,
"I behold Satan as lightning fall from heaven."
Luke 10:18.
"Thou wast upon the holy mountain of God."
Ezekiel 28:14.
That's right, Lucifer, who became Satan was kicked out of Heaven and when he went, a third of the Angels went with him. These were the fallen Angels:
The strange events of Genesis Chapter 6 are also referred to in the New Testament. Peter refers to events preceding the flood of Noah:
"For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment..." 2 Peter 2:4
(Peter uses the term tartarus, here translated as hell. This was a Greek term for "the dark abode of woe, the pit of darkness in the unseen world." Homer's Iliad portrays tartarus "as far below Hades as the earth is below Heaven...")
Also, in Jude, it mentions them:
"And the angels which kept not their first estate,
but left their own habitation,
he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness
unto the judgment of the great day.
Even as Sodom and Gomorrah,
and the cities about them in like manner,
giving themselves over to fornication,
and going after strange flesh,
are set forth for an example,
suffering the vengeance of eternal fire."
Jude 6,7.
Scripture warns against meddling with the spirit world.
The punishment which overtook the angels that sinned was to emphasize the serious nature of apostasy:
beings of a higher order than ours have been hurled down into a dark place of confinement where they have remained for thousands of years.
God has not changed His attitude toward them;
time has not mitigated the seriousness of their sin. False teachers are prewritten into condemnation.
So it's over right, no, the flood did not end the meddling of the Fallen Angels nor Satan's attempt to thwart the plans of God...
"The Nephilim were on the earth in those days--and also afterward--when the sons of God went to the daughters of men and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown." Genesis 6:4
Genesis 6:4 leaves us with a haunting, almost chilling three words,
"...and also afterward",
could the Nephilim have survived the flood?
Could this strange being produced from the union of fallen angels and earthly women, a hybrid race called the Nephilim or "fallen ones", still be around?
According to Genesis 6:4, they were still around after the flood.
After the flood we find that the Bible mentions several occurrences of "giants" appearing, specifically the giant-races of Canaan.
Actually the Bible mentions a number of such tribes: the Rephaim, the Emim, the Horim, and Zamsummim, that were giants.
"The Emites used to live there--a people strong and numerous, and as tall as the Anakites. Like the Anakites, they too were considered Rephaites, but the Moabites called them Emites. Horites used to live in Seir, but the descendants of Esau drove them out. They destroyed the Horites from before them and settled in their place, just as Israel did in the land the LORD gave them as their possession." Deuteronomy 12:10-12
The Kingdom of Og, the King of Bashan, was the "land of the giants".
"Only Og king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaites. His bed was made of iron and was more than thirteen feet long and six feet wide. It is still in Rabbah of the Ammonites." Deuteronomy 3:11
"That is, the whole kingdom of Og in Bashan, who had reigned in Ashtaroth and Edrei and had survived as one of the last of the Rephaites. Moses had defeated them and taken over their land." Joshua 13:12
We also find Arba: "Hebron used to be called Kiriath Arba after Arba, who was the greatest man among the Anakites." Joshua 4:15
Anak, and his seven sons (the "Anakim") also as giants, along with the famed Goliath and his four brothers.
"A champion named Goliath, who was from Gath, came out of the Philistine camp. He was over nine feet tall. He had a bronze helmet on his head and wore a coat of scale armor of bronze weighing five thousand shekels ; on his legs he wore bronze greaves, and a bronze javelin was slung on his back. His spear shaft was like a weaver's rod, and its iron point weighed six hundred shekels. His shield bearer went ahead of him." 1 Samuel 17:4-7
"And Ishbi-Benob, one of the descendants of Rapha, whose bronze spearhead weighed three hundred shekels and who was armed with a new sword, said he would kill David. But Abishai son of Zeruiah came to David's rescue; he struck the Philistine down and killed him. Then David's men swore to him, saying, "Never again will you go out with us to battle, so that the lamp of Israel will not be extinguished." In the course of time, there was another battle with the Philistines, at Gob. At that time Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Saph, one of the descendants of Rapha. In another battle with the Philistines at Gob, Elhanan son of Jaare-Oregim the Bethlehemite killed Goliath the Gittite, who had a spear with a shaft like a weaver's rod. In still another battle, which took place at Gath, there was a huge man with six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot--twenty-four in all. He also was descended from Rapha. When he taunted Israel, Jonathan son of Shimeah, David's brother, killed him. These four were descendants of Rapha in Gath, and they fell at the hands of David and his men. 2 Samuel 17:16-22
Sort of puts the story of "David and Goliath" in a whole new light when you realize that Goliath was a Nephilim and that he had four brothers. When God had revealed to Abraham that the land of Canaan was to be given to him, Satan had over 400 years to plant his "mine field" of Nephilim!
When Moses sent his twelve spies to reconnoiter the Land of Canaan, they came back with the report of giants in the land. (The term used was Nephilim.)
"We saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them." Numbers 13:33
Their fear of those terrifying creatures resulted in their being relegated to wandering in the wilderness for 38 years.
When Joshua and the nation Israel later entered the land of Canaan, they were instructed to wipe out every man, woman and child of certain tribes.
"They devoted the city to the LORD and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it--men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys." Joshua 6:21
It would seem that in the Land of Canaan, there again was a "gene pool problem." These Rephaim, Nephilim, and others seem to have been established as an advance guard to obstruct Israel's possession of the Promised Land. Was this also a Satan's plan?
"And as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man." Luke 17:26
So what does Luke 17:26 really mean?
"And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken." Luke 21:25,26
What things are coming upon the earth? Is it possible that the Bible is referring to UFO's and their occupants? Could this be part of the End-Time scenario called the "Great Deception"? Are the Nephilim involved and present today?
[] "And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay." Daniel 2:43
The famous dream of Nebuchadnezzar in Daniel Chapter 2 appears to lay out all of Gentile history until God ultimately intervenes and sets up His own kingdom.
The various metals which make up the image in the dream are well known to serious students of prophecy. Even our common expression, "feet of clay," comes to us from this classic passage.
But what is represented by the "miry clay" in this image? It seems to be strangely mixed-but not completely-with the iron in the dream. The term "miry clay" refers to clay made from dust, a Biblical idiom which suggests death.
Daniel interprets this for us in verse 43:
"And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay."
Mingle themselves with the seed of men! One thing that many alien abductions have in common, is that the beings attempt to breed with the human or experiment with their reproductive organs.
Satan’s tactic back in the days of Noah was to take over the world by physical brute force through interbreeding with humans, and creating a master race of giants. Also included in this interbreeding was the plan to corrupt the human genetic code, so that the Messiah could’t be born.
The plan almost worked. Probably if it wasn't for the flood of Noah, the overwhelming population of giants would have taken over the Earth. I know this all sounds too fantastic, but read Genesis chapter 6, and make your own conclusions. This is a very bizarre chapter indeed!
Now, Satan’s tactic of takeover has changed. He plots to deceive as many as he can.
Genetic experiments are more covert than they were then; instead of creating giants, (which stand out), fallen angels are trying to become as human as possible, (to blend in).
The more diluted the human seed is, the easier people are to possess, manipulate, and deceive - the more evil reins in the world, especially in positions of power.
"For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms." Ephesians 6:12
"In which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience."Ephesians 6:2
What can we do ? How can we protect ourselves ? How can we stop from being deceived ?
"Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord
and in the power of His might.
Put on the whole armor of God,
that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood,
but against principalities,
against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age,
against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places."
Ephesians 6:10-12
