Three of the most telling and chilling words in the whole Genesis 6 text are found in verse 4:
“The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown.” Gen 6:4
Apparently this unholy union wasn’t happening in pre-historic times only. The text says that whenever angels had sex with humans, the offspring was the Nephilim.
Let me paint the grand picture here. God declares war on Satan and states the battle will be played out between the seeds. This was very general so Satan tries to pollute the seed of man before the flood - and almost succeeds.
After the flood, history travels very quickly from Noah to Abraham. Then one day, God selects Abraham and tells him that through his seed, the nations of the world will be blessed. He is told that his descendants will spend 400 years in captivity in Egypt and then inherit the promised land.
Now Satan can narrow his attack. If God’s people were to dwell in Canaan in 400 years time, Satan had 400 years to corrupt the seed of man in that area. Indeed scripture indicates that the area was already well under way in being corrupted anyway.
Fast forward to Moses leading the Hebrews out of Egypt. As they near the promised land, 12 spies were sent out on a recon mission to check out the land they were about to enter. The story they came back with was the cause of the 40 years wandering of the Hebrews in the desert.
“However, the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. And besides, we saw the descendants of Anak there. 29 The Amalekites dwell in the land of the Negeb. The Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the hill country. And the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and along the Jordan.”
“Then the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we are.” 32 So they brought to the people of Israel a bad report of the land that they had spied out, saying, “The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people that we saw in it are of great height. And there we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim), and we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.” Number 33:28-29, 31-33
Despite Joshua and Caleb pleading to the people that God will deliver them against these genetic freaks, the Hebrews doubted God and spent the next 40 years wandering the desert.
Next time someone asks you, “why did Israel spend 40 years in the desert”, now you know. Next time someone asks you, “why is God so cruel that he orders the slaughter of women and children when Israel entered the promised land?” You can know in your heart that what God was orchestrating was the cleansing of the demon seed in Canaan. These were not normal humans but genetic mutations as a result of an unholy union.
Even King David had an encounter with the Nephilim. As the story goes, Israel did enter the promised land and defeated most of the people. Some they didn’t and this continued to play havoc. One such people were the Philistines - and in particular, Goliath.
Goliath was a giant. Him and his four brothers (now you know why David gathered 5 stones - he was gonna whack Goliath and his brothers) were direct descendants of the races of giants in Canaan. These freaks had 24 fingers and toes - 6 on each limb - something apparently normal with demon DNA.
So if you still think the Nephilim have nothing to do with our understanding of scripture, I hope you are starting to sit up and take notice. They were the reason why God destroyed the earth with a flood. They were the reason why the Israelites wandered in the desert for 40 years. David defeated Goliath.
From here on, the seed of the woman is promised through the line of David. Widespread corruption of human DNA is no longer needed as now our enemy has a family to deal with. Just a casual reading about the story of David and his descendants tells a story wrought with sin and it’s devastating effects.
Remember, this was an ongoing war and Satan even managed to thwart the line of David. But God, in His wisdom found a way around it and led to the virgin conception of Mary. Even a reading of the events leading up to Jesus’ birth and early childhood reveal an ongoing Satanic inspired attempt to crush the seed of the woman. But Satan failed and the seed of the woman was born on the earth. His name is Jesus.
Revelation has a much better description of these events:
“And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. She was pregnant and was crying out in birth pains and the agony of giving birth.
And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven diadems. His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she bore her child he might devour it.
She gave birth to a male child, one who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up to God and to his throne, and the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, in which she is to be nourished for 1,260 days.” Rev 12:1-6
The tale of the two seeds. It’s still being played out in our day. After all, Jesus says that as in the days of Noah, so shall it be when He returns. A huge event happened with the Nephilim in WW2. Next time I will delve into the mind of Hitler and what the Nephilim had to do with his wicked plans.
Tags: Nephilim, Israel, Canaan, Promised Land, Giants
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