“And there we saw the giants…. and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers.” — Numbers 13:33.
In our original article on the
Nephilim,
we detailed the Biblical origin of the half-angelic, half-human hybrid
giants, known as Nephilim, who were the product of illicit relations
between evil fallen angels and human women in the time before the Flood
and Noah’s Ark. The flood wiped out the giants but shortly after the
flood they returned and spread all throughout the Promised Land. As this
article will show, not only did the giants return after the flood, they
were major enemies of God and His chosen nation, Israel for centuries.
This article will show that for a time Nephilim were all over the
ancient Middle East wreaking havoc, attacking God’s people and creating
spiritual practices to lure humanity in worshiping Satan and his angels.
Genesis 6: The Origin of the Nephilim
And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the
face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, That the sons of
God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them
wives of all which they chose. And the LORD said, My spirit shall not
always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be
an hundred and twenty years. There were giants in the earth in those
days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the
daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty
men which were of old, men of renown. And God saw that the wickedness
of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the
thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. — Genesis 6:1-5.
This brief passage tells a very important origin story. A group of
the “sons of God”, the Biblical name for angels, in rebellion against
The Lord, came to Earth and took human women as wives to have illicit
relations. And their children, half-human, half-angelic hybrids, were
the Nephilim giants. The idea of angels sleeping with women and having
kids is not something that all Christians agree upon, know about or even
comfortable with. However, the truth of Christianity is based upon one
source: God’s Word as revealed in the Holy Bible. And from a study of
Scripture it becomes clear that this event did indeed happen.
Were the “Sons of God” Angels?
This question is often raised initially as an objection to the idea
that Nephilim giants ever even existed. the Hebrew words for the “sons
of God” is
B’nai Ha Elohim, which would means these are Heavenly beings, giving credence to them being offspring of fallen angels (the term
Elohim
is literally the plural of ‘god’). And then we see the children of
these sons of God and daughters of men were “mighty men” and of
“renown.” They were also “giants.” Something in their genetics made them
super-sized people. And it was their fallen angelic parentage.
But again, we must keep searching the Bible to make certain of
meaning. The Bible is self-confirming and one passage of Scripture can
always be confirmed by another. We see the term “sons of God” next used
in the book of Job. Job chapter 1 reads:
“Now there was a day when the sons of God came
to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among
them. And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan
answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and
from walking up and down in it.” (
Job 1:6-7)
The scene being described, where God is literally meeting with the sons of Go, took place in Heaven. This is a
Divine Council
that God holds where He chooses to meet with both good and evil angels
to discuss affairs of the world (for more examples of these assemblies
see
1 Kings 22 and
Psalm 82).
Another Divine Council is called in Job Chapter 2. Verse 1 states:
“Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD.”
So again from the clear reading of the text, the “sons of God” are
not human men but are in fact angels, who are meeting in Heaven with The
Lord. And the Hebrew term is
b’nai ha Elohim. The third
reference to the sons of God in the Old Testament is again in Job, but
this time in chapter 38. God who in this is posing questions to Job
about the creation of the universe (to show Job how little understanding
and knowledge he has compared to The Lord) says:
Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?
declare, if thou hast understanding. Who hath laid the measures
thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner
stone thereof; When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? — Job 38:4-7
So again, not only were the sons of God again with God, they existed
even before the Earth itself was created. Every use of the term
b’nai ha elohim
in the Old Testament is a reference to angelic beings. In the
Septuagint, the oldest form of the Old Testament today (and the version
most quoted by Jesus and His disciples in the New Testament) the term
‘sons of God’ is not even used in these passages in Job, it just reads
“the angels of God.” Thus it can be concluded with certainty that the sons of God in Genesis 6 were in fact, angels.
Did Angels Have Sexual Relations With Human Women?
Job, the oldest book of the Bible, was written by the patriarch Job
who lived close to the time of the flood, thus the references to angels
reflect this. There is passage not often cited in scripture that states
directly that certain angels were indeed involved in illicit relations
with human women. It occurs when Eliphas, one of Job’s friends who is
consoling him over the loss of his family in a Satanically empowered
hurricane, shares a Divine vision he had:
Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear
received a little thereof. In thoughts from the visions of the night,
when deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, which
made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; the
hair of my flesh stood up: It stood still, but I could not discern the
form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I
heard a voice, saying, Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a
man be more pure than his maker? Behold, he put no trust in his
servants; and his angels he charged with folly: – Job 4:13-18.
The word “folly” in the Old Testament is used to describe sexual sin.
Once again, we use Scripture to interpret Scripture. Here are several
examples:
And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto
Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land. And when Shechem the
son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her,
and lay with her, and defiled her… And the sons of Jacob came out of the
field when they heard it: and the men were grieved, and they were very
wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob’s daughter: which thing ought not to be done. – Genesis 34:1-2, 7.
Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father’s
house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die:
because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father’s house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you. – Deuteronomy 22:21.
And it came to pass after this, that Absalom the son of David had a
fair sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved
her. And Amnon was so vexed, that he fell sick for his sister Tamar;
for she was a virgin; and Amnon thought it hard for him to do anything
to her… And when she had brought them unto him to eat, he took hold of
her, and said unto her, Come lie with me, my sister. And she answered him, Nay, my brother, do not force me; for no such thing ought to be done in Israel: do not thou this folly. – 2 Samuel 13:1-2. 11-12.
So here we see that certain untrustworthy angels were charged with the sin of
“folly” for sinful sexual acts. In the Septuagint the verse from Job says:
“he perceives perverseness in his angels” giving even more confirmation that there were sinful sexual acts committed by angels.
The books of 2 Peter and Jude detail the punishment of the angels who committed these sins:
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
Gomorrha, 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. Likewise also these
filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of
dignities. – Jude 1:6-8.
Here we see a reference to angels who left their “habitation” and are
reserved in chains until Judgment Day. This was the punishment for
those angels who left their habitation of he spirit world to “go after
strange flesh”, namely human women. Also note there is a reference to
Sodom and Gomorrah, cities so steeped in sexual corruption that when two
Godly angels cam to visit the home of Lot to usher he and his family
out of the city, the men and boys came to Lot’s home demanding that the
angels be brought out so that they could “know them.”
Nephilim Giant Offspring
By the measurements in Scripture, the original Nephilim offspring were quite larger than the average human.
The offspring from this illicit union between angels and human women were giants who
“became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.”
(Genesis 6) The fact that they were giants, is also proof in and of
itself that their parentage was superhuman. But these giants were evil.
Having been born of corrupted, Satanic angels they dominated the Earth
and filled it with violence. It is also interesting to note that the
Bible calls them
“men of renown.” The Hebrew word here,
shem,
refers to being famous and legendary. It is as if the Bible is
indicating that when the reader hears of legends of “demigods”, titans
or legendary heroes who were part god, that this is who those “myths”
were referring to. These were ‘men’ of superhuman ability and strength.
In addition to causing violence and sin in the world, the Nephilim were
also corrupting the human bloodline.
Why Would Satan Do This?
As it will be in the end times, much of the conflict centers around human DNA.
After the sin of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden God pronounced a judgment on Satan:
And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast
done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of
the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the
days of thy life: And I will put enmity between thee and the woman,
and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou
shalt bruise his heel. – Genesis 3:14-15.
This pronouncement was historic. God proclaimed that the means by
which Satan would ultimately punished and destroyed would be through the
seed of the woman. (It must be remembered at this point that our enemy,
Satan is a far older, and vastly more powerful and evil being, so this
prophecy was a serious pronouncement). A human woman would give birth to
a male child who would one day destroy the Devil. This was the first
prophecy of the coming Messiah, Jesus Chris. Satan was put on notice.
From then on he set out to corrupt or destroy an God-fearing child as
that could potentially be the prophesied Redeemer. To no surprise the
first Godly child born, Abel, was killed by his wicked brother Cain.
Cain was banished and Adam and Eve bore another son Seth. At his birth
Eve declared:
“For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.” – (Genesis
4:25).
As more God-fearing sons began to populate the Earth, Satan
instituted his Nephilim plan into action. By corrupting the seed of the
woman, Satan could prevent the birth of the Messiah, who of course, had
to be human and not part fallen angel. Satan wants the Word of God to
fail but he knew that in addition to the woman, God prophesied that
Satan too would have a “seed” (v. 15). Thus the Nephilim were an attempt
to thwart God’s plan of salvation for humanity. At every step, the
Nephilim giants, via their evil angelic parentage, sought to undermine
or undo what God had set out for humanity to be reconciled to Him. In
their dominance of the Earth, they reproduced so rapidly, God proclaimed
that all flesh on the Earth had become corrupted. They dominated the
Earth with war, bloodshed and their pagan religion (which will be
covered in Part 2 of this series).
The Nephilim giants spread violence and sin that:
“God
saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every
imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.” Humanity
was on the verge of being wiped out with no hope of being saved from
sin if every person born became part fallen angel. Thus God judged the
Earth with the flood.
The Purpose of the Flood in Noah’s Day
Rather than being an act of cruelty, the Flood was God’s way of saving the last of humanity from complete destruction.
Many pastors, Bible scholars and Bible skeptics alike view the flood
as God’s way of dealing with humanity after humanity just sinning too
much. However, with all due respect, this is a very simplistic way of
looking at the flood. After all, today’s society is just as corrupt and
depraved, if not far worse than any era before (more people have been
killed in war in the past century than in the prior 900 years). So why
would such a global judgment only happen in Noah’s day? The answer is
that there were far more complex issues going on in the days of Noah
then just humans sinning.
The flood served 3 chief purposes: 1) To destroy the Nephilim giants. 2)
To punish the angels who committed the illicit relations with women and
make an example of them so that no other angels would ever attempt this
again and 3) to save humanity from certain destruction.
Much more than the “over-reaction by an angry God” as skeptics like
to paint it, the flood was God’s way of preserving the human race and
its bloodline, before it became completely corrupted by the Nephilim
giants. This is an important point: many people today point to the flood
as “proof” that God is cruel and angry with humanity all the time, and
willing to just kill millions of people in genocide on a whim. However
the Biblical truth was that God sent the flood to preserve humanity and
to make sure we could still receive the promised Redeemer who could save
our souls. Without Jesus Christ, there is no hope. There is no future.
There is no forgiveness. Meaning every person would spend eternity in
hell. The flood was God’s way to keep that hope for all people.
But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD. These are
the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his
generations, and Noah walked with God.
Noah was chosen to carry on and re-start humanity after the flood because he was a believer in God. Additionally he was
“perfect in his generations”
which meant that his genetic bloodline and ancestry was 100% human.
Noah had not been a part of the Nephilim hybridization that was plaguing
humanity. The Hebrew word for “perfect” in that verse is
tamiym,
which means “complete, whole” with reference to health and physical
condition. This is the same word used to describe the condition of
animal sacrifices to the Lord:
And whosoever offereth a sacrifice of peace offerings
unto the LORD to accomplish his vow, or a freewill offering in beeves or
sheep, it shall be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no blemish therein. – Leviticus 22:21.
Thus Noah, his three sons and their wives were able to survive the
flood and re-start humanity. But unfortunately, the Nephilim giants
returned.
Nephilim Giants After The Flood
Noah and his family survived the flood. But the Nephilim gene came with them.
“ There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that…” — Genesis 6:4
The verse above makes it clear that Nephilim giants returned after
the flood. Now nowhere in scripture is it again written that angels ever
cohabited and/or had relations with human women after the flood.
Genesis 6 was the only instance of this. So how did the Nephilim return?
How could this have happened? The Bible holds the answer:
And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth. And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. –Genesis 7:6-7.
While Noah and his sons were 100% human, we are not told the same
about the wives of his 3 sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth. What is clear is
that one or more of these women were carrying the Nephilim gene. This is
the source of the post-flood Nephilim.
Nowhere in the Bible is it ever stated that angels once again cohabited with human women.
The first time Nephilim giants are mentioned by name after the flood
is in Numbers 13 after the Exodus in which Moses led the Israelites out
of Egypt to go to God’s designated Promised Land. Moses sent 12 spies to
scout out the land in advance. 2 of the spies, Caleb and Joshua spoke
of the land in glowing terms and urged the Israelites to enter and
rightfully claim the land God had promised them. But the other 10 spies
had a different opinion:
And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let
us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.
But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against
the people; for they are stronger than we. 32 And they brought up an
evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of
Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a
land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we
saw in it are men of a great stature. And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight. – Numbers 13:31-33.
We will discuss this extremely important passage in much more detail
below but a few things should be noted. First off the giants living
there were descendants of specific person named Anak. This description,
where a Nephilim is referred to as “[name] who was born of the
giant..” shows that the Nephilim hybrids after the flood were the
offspring of other giants and not angels (this will be explained in
greater detail in Part 2). And in Numbers 13, the giants the spies saw
were the sons of the Nephilim giant Anak.
And they were so large that the Israelites spies were like insects to
them. Additionally, these giants had special agricultural knowledge
that they knew how to grow grapes so large that it took two Israelite
men using poles to carry a cluster! So how did the giants return and how
was it that they knew to be in the exact place that God was going to
send His chosen people to, namely the land of Canaan? The answer starts
with the lineage after the flood.
The Bloodlines of the Nephilim
The Bible provides a specific geneology and bloodline of the Nephilim
giants after the flood that can be traced back to Noah’s own sons. What
seems to be consistent with the presence of the Nephilim gene was an
affinity for evil, due to their fallen angelic parentage. And among
Noah’s sons, Ham was by far the most wicked.
Ham
“And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.” – Genesis 9:18.
From the first time Ham is introduced, he is described as “the father
of Canaan.” Notice none of his brothers get any similar distinction.
Whenever special descriptions are included in a genealogy in Scripture
it is the Bible’s way of saying something significant happened with this
particular event. And the student of the Bible should search the
Scriptures to find out what that event could be. In this case, it is
clear that Canaan carried the Nephilim gene. This could only happen
through his mother, Ham’s wife, having the Nephilim gene herself, since
we know Noah in all his generations was 100% human. If Ham were wicked
and not a follower of God, the odds of him taking a wife who was a part
of the Nephilim hybrid pagan culture was much higher (
B&E:
also note that throughout Scripture, men who fell into sin often ended
up marrying wives who worshiped false gods; for example, Solomon or King
Ahab). And from what the Bible details, Ham was no follower of God. In
fact, he was involved in an inappropriate incident with Noah that led to
a curse:
And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a
vineyard: And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was
uncovered within his tent. And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the
nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without. And Shem and
Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went
backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces
were backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness. And Noah awoke
from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him. And he said, Cursed be Canaan;
a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. And he said,
Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. — Genesis 9:20-26.
The details of this incident are somewhat vague but going by
Scripture alone, it can be concluded that Ham, out of evil intent,
looked at his father’s nakedness and then made it public. The Hebrew
term for “without”,
chwuts, means “outside, in the street.” But
the evil of this sexually immoral act is again repeated by the Lord as a
general principle for all to follow:
Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that
puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest
look on their nakedness! Thou art filled with shame for glory: drink
thou also, and let thy foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the LORD’s
right hand shall be turned unto thee, and shameful spewing shall be on
thy glory. –Habukkuk 2:15-16.
Shem and Japeth, righteous children of Noah, show a contrast as they
seek to respect their father’s dignity by not looking upon, him and
carefully covering him. Ham’s sin was so severe that it resulted in his
youngest son Canaan becoming the second person in the Bible record to be
cursed (the first being Cain, the wicked son of Adam and Eve).
That Ham was wicked (there is no record of him ever repenting for
this sin) would make it more likely that he would marry a woman from a
pagan family who would be carrying the Nephilim gene.
Why Would God Allow Nephilim DNA to Make It Through the Flood?
(
B&E: Special thanks to reader Rick for raising
this question). If it were not already clear, the reason why God
permitted the Nephilim gene to make it on to the ark is because of
human sin.
We can never forget the role we play in human affairs. If humans sin,
they will be judged. If they do not follow God’s ways, they invite sin
and its inevitable destructive force. Ham was not a follower of God and
he was judged for his sinful rebellion via his wife. As will be seen
in Part 2, the Nephilim nations after the flood are at various times
used by God as judgment against the Israelites for their disobedience.
We are all responsible before God.
Part 2 will also review Noah and the world he was living in. There
were giants walking around the Earth warring with nations, angels openly
being revealed and being worshiped as gods and all sorts of
supernatural activity taking place. The pre-flood world was a very
unique place. Noah’s family was well aware of this and that it’s root
was satanic, hence Noah being a “preacher of righteousness.” Ham
rejected God’s righteousness and God’s ways to forge his own. This was
solely Ham’s fault. James chapter 1 outlines the process of sin in one’s
heart:
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he
is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath
promised to them that love him. Let no man say when he is tempted, I am
tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he
any man: But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. – James 1:12-15.
Ham was drawn by his own lusts to the pagan, sinful world. He knew
the right way to live because the Bible states that Noah was a
“preacher of righteousness.” Noah and his family were completely aware
of the Nephilim hybridization taking place and Noah clearly made efforts
to live separate from this. Despite having the most Holy man on the
planet (literally) as is his father, Ham had no faith in God. This
always brings in sin to a person’s life. We can never forget that when
looking at any Biblical account. God could have certainly killed Ham’s
wife or told Ham “she’s corrupted” but it is this author’s thinking that
Ham did not care about what God had to say because Ham was not a
follower of God. Ham had a choice. And he chose to reject God.
There are many examples of this in scripture. Moses led the
Israelites out of Egypt and right up to the Promised Land but could not
enter. Why not? Because of his sin. King David brought the ark to
Jerusalem where it was supposed to be all along but could not build the
temple for it. Why not? Sin. King Solomon had the most prosperous reign
in all of Israel and yet led to the nation dividing and ultimately being
conquered. Why? Sin. Sin provides the backdoor for Satan to enter and
execute his next move in the chess match between he and God. Let this be
a lesson to the reader:
Satan is relentless in his quest to corrupt and destroy you. And if he cannot get to you, he will happily enter your life through a child or family member. Ephesians 4 states:
“That ye put off concerning the former conversation the
old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; And be
renewed in the spirit of your mind; And that ye put on the new man,
which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness…Neither give place to the devil.” – Ephesians 4:22-27.
We are renewed in the spirit when we have
salvation in Jesus Christ. And we are not to leave
any space in our lives for Satan to enter. Satan entered the space of the ark because Ham invited him.
The Curse of Canaan
What is interesting is that Cannan of Ham’s three sons, was the one cursed. Why? Why is Ham distinguished as
“the father of Canaan”?
Is it possible that Canaan was already showing the appearance of being
part Nephilim? This is not stated in scripture, but we will see a
similar distinction made for another infamous hybrid being below. What
we can know with certainty that it is from the line of Ham that we find
the resurgence of the Nephilim giants.
By comparing Scripture with Scripture, the lineage of the post-flood
giants can be traced specifically to three of Ham’s sons, Cush, Mizraim
and Canaan. The Bible is full of lineages and the Bible student should
take note that they hold significance in bettering our understanding of
Scripture. The first grandson of Ham who receives special designation in
Genesis 10 is King Nimrod.
Nimrod
Nimrod led the tower of Babel rebellion. Was he a Nephilim giant?
And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and
Canaan. And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah,
and Sabtechah: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan. And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.
He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as
Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD. And the beginning of his
kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of
Shinar. Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and
the city Rehoboth, and Calah, And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the
same is a great city. – Genesis 10:6-12.
Just as Canaan received a special distinction in his genealogy,
Nimrod gets several extra verses! Clearly this is someone of special
significance. Nimrod was the first murderer and conqueror in the
post-flood world. He was the founder of the city of Babylon which became
a center of pagan, satanic idolatry, much of it with various versions
of Nimrod himself being worshiped as a god. His name, which means “to
rebel” or “let us rebel” indicates his disposition. He was an enemy of
God and at the time was Satan’s main servant on Earth. He is credited
for leading the effort to build the tower of Babel, a religious temple
used to access the angelic realm through pagan ritual. The Tower of
Babel was also the first attempt at a global government, led by Nimrod
and an attempt for man to reach the spiritual realm and “godhood”
without The Lord (to which God swiftly responded by destroying the
tower, confusing the languages of all the people of the world and
scattering them all over the Earth). Was this grandson of Ham possibly a
Nephilim?
It is interesting to note is that the verse 9 states that Nimrod
“began to be a mighty one in the earth.” The term for “mighty one”,
gibborim,
is the same Hebrew phrase used to describe the Nephilim giants in
Chapter 6 of Genesis who were “mighty men”. It is also the same term
used to describe the giant Goliath in
1 Samuel 17:51.
Was Nimrod a Nephilim? In mythology, Nimrod is known by many names,
among them Gilgamesh and Osiris, who were worshiped as gods. In Sumerian
texts he is described as “2/3 god, 1/3 man.” The Hebrew word for
“began” in the verse is
chalal, which means, “to profane, desecrate or pollute oneself, begin, ritually or sexually”.
Matthew Henry’s Bible commentary on this passage states:
That which is observable and improvable in these verses
is the account here given of Nimrod, v. 8-10. He is here represented as a
great man in his day: He began to be a mighty one in the earth, that
is, whereas those that went before him were content to stand upon the
same level with their neighbours, and though every man bore rule in his
own house yet no man pretended any further, Nimrod’s aspiring mind could
not rest here; he was resolved to tower above his neighbours, not only
to be eminent among them, but to lord it over them. The same
spirit that actuated the giants before the flood (who became mighty men,
and men of renown, ch. 6:4), now revived in him, so soon was that tremendous judgment which the pride and tyranny of those mighty men brought upon the world forgotten. (source)
The final piece of evidence to consider is that in the Septuagint,
the oldest version of the Old Testament, the same verse from Genesis
reads:
And [Cush] begot [Nimrod]: he began to be a giant upon the earth.
He was a giant hunter before the Lord God; therefore they say, As
[Nimrod] the giant hunter before the Lord. – Genesis 10:8,9 (LXX)
So from just the text of scripture it appears that through some form
of defilement and/or occult ritual, Nimrod. the grandson of Ham, was
transformed into a giant. This would not be the only time a human king
was transformed into a different creature. Please note that in Daniel 4,
King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon,
was literally transformed into a “beast”
and lived as an animal for seven years. And this was at the
pronouncement of “watchers” and “holy ones” (the same type of angels
that are named as being involved in the Genesis 6 illicit relations in
extra-biblical texts like the Book of Enoch). (
B&E:
There is much more to write on Nimrod and his role in Bible scripture
that will be covered in a forthcoming article. In the meantime, we
strongly encourage the reader to research and explore this figure).
Casluhim and Capthor
And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and
Naphtuhim, And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,)
and Caphtorim. – Genesis 10:13-14.
Ham’s son Mizaraim also contributed to the Nephilim lineage. In verse
14 we have the first mention of the Phillistines (whose forefather was
Phillistim), the nation of the giant Goliath. Calshuhim was the father
of Phillistim and his family later resided in Capthor in the Promised
Land. So we see the direct origins of the Philistines, one of the most
heated enemies of the Israelites, who also carried the Nephilim gene.
In fact, as will be shown, the Philistine nation was the final “hideout”
for the remnant of the Nephilim giants. And they can be traced back to
Casluhim, the son of Mizraim and grandson of the evil Ham.
Canaan
The name of Canaan should be the most familiar as it was the land
that bore his name that was the Promised Land that The Lord reserved for
the Israelites after they escaped out of Egypt thanks to God miracles
and the leadership of Moses. The fact that they were in the Promised
Land the Israelites were supposed to inhabit was no coincidence! The
Philistines were worshipers of demons, fallen angels and Satan. And the
Nephilim giants among them were working to attack God’s chosen people.
Canaan’s line contains many of the enemies of God:
And Mizraim begat Ludim, And Canaan begat Sidon his
first born, and Heth, And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the
Girgasite, — Genesis 10:14-16.
The Jebusites, the Amorites and Gegusites, all cousins of Nimrod, are
mentioned time and time again with reference to the Israelites
capturing the Promised Land. These families were usurpers in the
Promised Land and carried lots of the Nephilim gene. This is once again
why God had to deal mercilessly with these nations. It cannot be
stressed enough that the Nephilim threatened not only the existence of
the human race itself but the ability of an all-human Messiah to
eventually be born as well. Note God’s instructions to Moses on how to
battle against these children of the cursed Canaan:
When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land
whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before
thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the
Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou; And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee;
thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no
covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them: Neither shalt thou make
marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor
his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son. — Deuteronomy 7:1-3.
Notice that God describes these nations as
“greater and mightier than thou”
to the Israelites. The physical and military advantage was clearly on
the side of the enemies of God – the nations that were home to the
Nephilim giants. But what gave the Israelites the ultimate edge was that
The Lord Himself was going to supernaturally intervene
early on in the conflict to deliver the enemies of Israel so they could
be defeated. This point is not discussed enough: God fought against and
defeated the early post-flood Nephilim. This shows the severity of the
matter. The Lord was no longer allowing these superhuman, powerful
hybrids to dominate humanity. Thus He not only says to wipe out these
nations, but makes a specific point of prohibiting any marriage between
them. God was bringing the spread of the Nephilim genes to an end.
Lord willing, at this point it is clear that giants did indeed exist in
the Bible and in large number. Satan, who has constantly sought to stop
God’s plans and destroy the souls of humanity, used a select group of
angels to interbreed with human women and try to corrupt human DNA. By
altering humanity from being no longer fully human, Satan could ensure
that a pure human Messiah would never be born. To counter Satan’s
offensive, God sent the global flood judgment to punish those angels who
committed folly, destroy the Nephilim and save the existence of the
human race. The flood ensured the Messianic bloodline was preserved so
that
we could have a chance to go to Heaven.
It was as an act of love of mercy on God’s part to save a people that
had rejected him to follow Satan’s minions and their God-given powers.
The bloodline of the Nephilim after the flood can be clearly traced
to Ham, Noah’s evil son who brought a curse upon his own child, Canaan.
But this is just the beginning. In Part 2,
“Nephilim Giants – Enemies of God in the Bible”
we will continue to examine the post-flood Nephilim lineage from the
perspective of the righteous men of God who fought against them
throughout the Old Testament in the continuing chess match between God
and Satan and the Sons of God against the seed of the Serpent. The
article will also look that as the number of Nephilim giants on the
Earth decreased, they soon became smaller in size. And we will reveal a
modern occult mystery so secret even Wikipedia states it do not have the
answer for it! These and other revelations will be detailed, all of
this from the pages of Holy Scripture.
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