I have a confession to make. I had some real trouble believing that the God of the OT (Yahweh, Jehovah) was the same as God the Father. I couldn't reconcile them both as being One and the same. And I also found out that I wasn't alone in that struggle. Many faithful followers of Christ either have had or still have this same doubt. Some have even gone so far to say that the God of the OT, Yahweh, was an "evil" God - a view that I personally don't ascribe to, but neither do I condemn them for believing so. Why? Because it seems that the God that was in the OT was...how do I put it...a bit unhinged - at least, at times. I simply could not get over the suspicion in my mind that He ordered the extermination of entire peoples, just because they grew up learning about other gods and/or He wanted land for the tribes of Israel to settle down in - so He "dispossessed" the Canaanites, among other peoples. He even promised the sons of Israel that they would inherit land that He would give them and live in houses they did not build. I recently read this quote from theologian George MacDonald, "Many claim that God does this or that which is not fair. But to say on the authority of the Bible that God does a thing no honorable man would do, is to lie against God." If I can't see a decent human being doing it, why should I believe that our Good God would do such a thing? I've said it before that, at the end of it all, He will be justified in everything He does. The God that I believe in is not a hypocrite. He won't tell me to do something or not do something and not hold Himself to the same or higher standard. That wouldn't be right and is outside of His character. For "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts," He says through Isaiah. Perhaps a lot of the "killing" that He ordered done in the OT was to get rid of certain..."creatures" for lack of a better word. These people were not fully human, but seem to be a forbidden alchemy of angel and human chimera. When you mix angel "DNA" with that of any other creatures, you give birth to freaks of nature - things that should never have been birthed! The fall of man was bad enough, but by the sixth chapter of Genesis, God was grieved to the point that He actually repented that He had made man!
Can you imagine if God had allowed these half-angel, half-human monsters to live?? I think that when the serpent heard his curse, "And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel," he must have thought, "Alright, then. What I will do is to combine my offspring and hers so that this one who "will crush my head" will never come to be!" In the apocryphal Book of Enoch, the angel Azazel and others do exactly that. It's briefly recorded in Genesis, as well, although expounded on in other texts. They literally made giants, known as the Nephilim. This would explain how all of the huge "man-made" structures of the ancient world came to be. You really think that huge monoliths such as the Egyptian pyramids, Stonehenge, and others were built merely with human hands??
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| I believe this giant would have been bigger and stronger than this medieval painting depicts. |
He said that if they were off by even just half an inch at the bottom, by the time they reached the top, the whole thing would have been off. Here's just a few clips:
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| These were built using forced Jew slave labor, huh? I think not! |
The same person who made that first video also has this explanation for why the flood of Noah happened. It was not to destroy the human race, but to save it!
https://www.tiktok.com/@sling_
It was to wipe out the Nephilim, although some of them managed to somehow still survive. If the Nephilim were allowed to survive and flourish, the human race, as we know it, would have ceased to be! And this is why Noah was chosen. The NIV Bible says this about him, "Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time" (Gen 6:9). This is not an accurate translation. I'm sure he was righteous and just, but that is not what the Scripture says. In the more accurate Young's Literal, the same verse reads, "Noah is a righteous man; perfect he hath been among his generations." You're asking, "So what?" This changes the meaning. What the Scripture could be saying is that Noah had a "perfect" (uncorrupted) bloodline. Remember that in the Bible (OT especially), genealogies were very important. Why? Because they were able to trace the lineage and bloodline all the way back to the twelve sons of Jacob Israel. So, in this way, God preserved the bloodline so that the Messiah would be born as a "full" human being - with an uncorrupted bloodline from Judah! It would also make sense why God commanded him to bring along every (uncorrupted) animal onto the ark. God flooded the world as a way to "cleanse" it and start over. And to make sure that it wouldn't happen again, he punished the angels by sending them to prison until the time when they will be judged. In the NT, in the letters of Peter and Jude, we find that "God didn’t spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus (mis-translated as "hell" in many Bible translations, and this is the only time this word is used in the entire Bible and only has to do with angels - as well, it's not even eternal), and committed them to pits of darkness to be reserved for judgment" (2Pt 2:4 WEB) and "And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their proper dwelling—these he has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting (a common mis-translation, should be age-lasting, since the word is "aionian") chains for judgment on the great Day" (Jude 1:6 NIV).
From Genesis 6,
"When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, 2 the sons of God (i.e., angels, "the Watchers") saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married (I don't believe that they had a "ceremony" as it was likely based on forbidden lusts, they just took them sexually) any of them they chose."
So
much for these angels being "perfect, sinless" beings like we thought
they were. From this text, it seems like they were just as fallible as
humans. They fell into temptation just like Adam and Eve did. This is a
perversion - bestiality really, when you think about it. It's something
that should never have happened!
"4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown."
For this reason, I believe that the Greco-Roman religions were based on men who actually lived. You think about such characters as Zeus, Athena, Artemis, Hercules, Peracles, Perseus, etc. Yes, of course, they were "embellished" and their stories were exaggerated, but I can't help but think that they came out from somewhere. I've read bits and pieces of the book of Enoch and in the beginning chapters it says that some of the Nephilim reached the height of 3,000 ells. If you're wondering what an "ell" is, don't worry, I had to look it up, too. It's a unit of measurement that isn't commonly used today. According to the wikipedia entry, there isn't really a standard of measurement that everyone fully agrees upon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ |
| A possible explanation for why this mountain looks like a person sleeping. It probably is. |
Now, look at the size difference of these humans next to the bones of these giants:
I also would not doubt that Goliath and the Philistines were descended from these Nephilim. In the book of Numbers, Israelite scouts were giving their report back to Moses and Caleb. Here is what they had to say,
"But the men who had gone up with him said, “We can’t attack those people; they are stronger than we are.” 32 And they spread among the Israelites a bad report about the land they had explored. They said, “The land we explored devours those living in it. All the people we saw there are of great size. 33 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.” (Num 13:31-33).
These men were not cowards - they were telling the truth! When they said that "we were grasshoppers in their eyes," they meant that literally!! It seems that as time went on, human DNA began to again be the dominant genes and man returned to being "normal" in stature. Do I believe the Nephilim still exist today? Why, yes. Yes, I do. But that is a discussion for another day.
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