In researching this topic, the most frustrating thing I uncovered is how people get it so wrong as to fallen angels and Nephilim. Look at the text;
“When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose. Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years.” 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 6:1-4
Let’s set this straight. Angels left their position in heaven and “fell” to earth - therefore becoming the fallen angels. These beings had sex with women and bore offspring. As was described in my previous post, these fallen angels were bound and sent to Tartarus.
Their offspring, the Nephilim were allowed to wreck havoc on earth. The Book of Enoch is a text which didn’t make it into the cannon but was quoted by Jude and James - the brothers of Jesus. This book gives an extraordinary account of what happened.
“And it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied that in those days were born unto them beautiful and comely daughters. And the angels, the children of the heaven, saw and lusted after them, and said to one another: ‘Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men and beget us children.’
And Semjâzâ, who was their leader, said unto them: ‘I fear ye will not indeed agree to do this deed, and I alone shall have to pay the penalty of a great sin.’ And they all answered him and said: ‘Let us all swear an oath, and all bind ourselves by mutual imprecations not to abandon this plan but to do this thing.’
Then sware they all together and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it. And they were in all two hundred; who descended in the days of Jared on the summit of Mount Hermon, and they called it Mount Hermon, because they had sworn and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it.
And these are the names of their leaders: Samîazâz, their leader, Arâkîba, Râmêêl, Kôkabîêl, Tâmîêl, Râmîêl, Dânêl, Êzêqêêl, Barâqîjâl, Asâêl, Armârôs, Batârêl, Anânêl, Zaqîêl, Samsâpêêl, Satarêl, Tûrêl, Jômjâêl, Sariêl. These are their chiefs of tens.
And all the others together with them took unto themselves wives, and each chose for himself one, and they began to go in unto them and to defile themselves with them, and they taught them charms and enchantments, and the cutting of roots, and made them acquainted with plants. And they became pregnant, and they bare great giants, whose height was three thousand ells: Who consumed all the acquisitions of men. And when men could no longer sustain them, the giants turned against them and devoured mankind. And they began to sin against birds, and beasts, and reptiles, and fish, and to devour one another’s flesh, and drink the blood. Then the earth laid accusation against the lawless ones.” Book Of Enoch. Sec 1. Chap 6-7
Compare this with the biblical account:
“The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.” Gen 6:5
“Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight, and the earth was filled with violence. 12 And God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.” Gen 6:11-12
To tie this all in together, fallen angels took (abducted) women and bore offspring with them. These half spirit, half human beings were giants and were taught sorceries and all manner of occultism. Further chapters in Enoch outline how the Nephilim and mankind were also taught the means of warfare and other technologies. The end result of all this is death, destruction and evil - to the point were God was “sorry” that He made mankind.
What on earth was going on here? The fallen angels and the Nephilim were Satanic strategies to thwart the arrival of the Messiah. Think about it for a second. If you were the enemy of God and were told that your seed - your future generations - would see the culmination of this battle and that the “seed of the woman” will crush you, wouldn’t you seek to corrupt the seed of the woman?
In other words, Satan and his 1/3 of heaven set into motion an attempt to defile the genetic makeup of man - thereby preventing the “seed of the woman” - the Messiah - to be born. According to the Book of Enoch, 200 fallen angels impregnated women and offspring were born. Replicate this time and time again and let it run for generations and you start to see that mankind’s gene pool had some serious issues.
But Noah, good old Noah was different for he found favour in God’s eyes. The trick is to know why he found favour and I will cover this next time. But going back to fallen angels and the Nephilim, there is a a serious question to be asked..
What are demons?
Satan and his 1/3 of heaven are not demons. Some have been imprisoned for what they did pre-flood. However they are angels - beings with the ability to manifest physically - just ask the women impregnated by them as to how physical they are.
Are demons Nephilim? No as they were destroyed by the flood and the conquest of Canaan when they re-surfaced again before Israel took possession of the land.
There is a thought that demons are the disembodied spirits of the Nephilim seeking embodiment again as they cannot manifest physically. That’s why demons need to posses instead of manifest.
Chew on that one for awhile and then reconsider if you think this study is not relevant to our Christian walk.
Tags: Nephilim, Fallen Angels, Book of Enoch, Noah, Genetics, Demons
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