2 + 2 + 2 + ? = 8
By analysing the information to hand, we can fill in the blanks in a reasonable fashion and find the correct answer. But we must return to the original passage in Genesis 6 once more to begin this analysis.
When men began to increase in number on the Earth and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw the daughters of men were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose.
Then the Lord said: “My spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days will be a hundred and twenty years.”
The Nephilim were on the Earth in those days and also afterwards, when the sons of God went in to the daughters of men and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.
The Lord saw how great man’s wickedness on the Earth had become and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all of the time.
Genesis 6:1-5
Because the Lord was grieved that he had made man, he decided to destroy all living things:
“I will wipe mankind, whom I have created, from the face of the Earth: men and animals and creatures that move along the ground, and birds of the air, for I am grieved that I have made them.”
Now the Earth was corrupt in God’s sight and full of violence. God saw how corrupt the Earth had become, for all the people on Earth had corrupted their ways.
Genesis 6: 7,11
What could man have done that was so bad that it would require Yaweh to totally obliterate all living creatures? Let us consider each verse and see if we can tease out the clues.
The “sons of God” married any of the daughters of men they chose. “Sons of God” in Hebrew is Beni-ha-Elohim. The word ben in Hebrew means “son.” So Beni-ha-Elohim are the sons of Elohim (God). We have already concluded from a previous chapter that these “sons of God” are created spirit beings known to us as angels. These spirit-men were part of a band of angels which rebelled against Yaweh and became evil in their intent. It is said that they “married any of them they chose,” the inference in the text being that these spirit beings were so powerful that the daughters of men could not resist them. Therefore they married any whom they chose. Again this phrase suggests more than one wife and probably very many.46
Now it would appear that there is a problem here in understanding how spirit beings can have intercourse with ordinary human women and produce children as a result? We are informed in Genesis chapter one that Yaweh created all manner of plants and trees, animals and fish, and they were all to produce seed “after their own kind.” And, left alone in nature, animals and trees etc will automatically produce offspring after their own kind. Does this mean that the genetics of plants and animals cannot be interfered with to produce genetically-modified aberrations? No, it merely states that if you leave nature alone, it will produce seed after its kind.
So when the evil fallen spirit-men made the daughters of men pregnant, they may have done so by means of genetic engineering.
Is there any precedent for this in the old Hebrew texts? I believe that there is. Look at Genesis 3:17, where the context is Yaweh confronting Adam after the Fall:
“Cursed is the ground because of you:
Through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. It will provide thorns and thistles for you and you will eat the plants of the field.”
Genesis 3:17,18
When Yaweh made Paradise, there was only perfection. Adam and Eve lived in a veritable Garden of Eden. No thistles, no mosquitos, no noxious plants or poisonous insects or snakes. The lion ate grass like the ox. But all that changed after the Fall. Because of the influence of the serpent, the Earth became cursed. Satan and his host of evil spirit beings changed Paradise into a hostile environment. Thorns grew on bushes which had none before. Man now had to toil and sweat to eat. And all the time be bitten by insects or be on guard against other animals or creatures which could inflict harm.
We know that only good can come from the creator, Yaweh. Therefore the change in the environment had to be a result of the interference in the genetics of the whole universe by Satan and his entourage. Remember, we are dealing with a powerful foe. One who was so full of wisdom and knowledge that he thought himself to be on equal terms with the Most High, Yaweh.
But why would Satan want to produce such a race of evil people and have them populate the Earth? Remember the first promise and prophecy of the Messiah? When Yaweh pronounced that the seed of the woman would crush the head of the serpent?
Well, put yourself in Satan’s shoes. Here the Most High is telling him that the lineage of the woman, Eve, will produce the offspring which will ultimately destroy him. So what is he going to do in order to thwart this plan? Well, the obvious thing to do is to kill off the line so that the seed cannot be born and the sentence can be averted. Satan begins to destroy the lineage when he has Cain murder his own brother, Abel. But this does not prevent the line continuing, since Adam and Eve produced many more children. So Satan decides to populate the world with his own seed and corrupt the Earth to such a degree that the line of Adam and Eve is wiped out completely. Thus the seed of the woman is extinguished and Satan preserves his own existence.
So Lucifer has some of his own band procreate with women and produce children. But these are no ordinary children. They are the offspring of superhuman and supernatural beings, half-human, half-demon, whose only intent is evil.
We are told that these Nephilim were on the Earth “in those days,” i.e. the days of Noah. Now Noah was six hundred years old when the Flood finally came in the year 2348 BC (see Appendix). This means that the Nephilim were multiplying and living for at least six hundred years prior to the deluge taking place. So these genetically-engineered people were inhabiting the then known world only 1,000 years or so after Adam. We must realise that these Nephilim were totally evil. They were a hybrid of demons and men. They were evil and wicked by nature and could not be rehabilitated and made good, for the evil was in their genes. They were so corrupt and wicked that they had almost totally infected the whole human race at that time.
So what heinous crime could they have committed which would cause Yaweh to regret that he had made man and decide to destroy all living flesh on the face of the Earth with the exception of eight individuals? And, secondly, who were these people who so corrupted the ancient world? We will now endeavour to answer these two important questions. Firstly, who were these Nephilim of old? Look again at verse four of Genesis six:
The Nephilim were on the Earth in those days (the days of Noah) and also afterwards (after the Flood) when the sons of God went in to the daughters of men and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.
(New International Version)
The above verse contains all the detail we are given concerning these “heroes of old.” But this passage is pregnant with information.
We are told that the Nephilim were the “heroes of old, the men of renown.” In the Hebrew, “renown” means “the men of name,” i.e. those men who got a name and were renowned as heroes. And what was the extent of their sin?
The Lord saw how great man’s wickedness on the Earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time.
Now the Earth was corrupt (Hebrew shachath: destroyed) in God’s sight and full of violence.
God saw how corrupt the Earth had become, for all the people on Earth had corrupted their ways.
Genesis 6: 5,11,12
Things must have been extremely bad when we are told that “every inclination of the thoughts of man’s heart was only evil all the time,” and that the whole Earth was full of violence. We go now to the New Testament, which sheds a little more light on the background to this situation. Speaking of the fallen angels, Jude 6 tells us:
And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, He has reserved in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great day.
In a simil
ar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves over to sexual immorality and perversion . . .
Jude 6,7
In the above verse we are told that these evil angels left their own habitation. In the Greek, this word is oiketerion, and it is used only here and in II Corinthians 5:2, where it refers to the “spiritual body.” So these angels left their spirit body and came into physical form in order to produce the Nephilim, who were superhuman in size and in wickedness and evil. So heinous were their crimes that not only did Yaweh destroy all living creatures on the face of the Earth, but also the millions of people who had become totally evil and morally bankrupt as a result of the activities of the Nephilim. Their sin is likened to the perversion and sexual immorality of Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns.
The sin which these fallen spirit beings committed in debauching virtually the whole of the then known world was so vile that it precipitated the Flood. This worldwide deluge is well documented in the historical annals of most of the known ancient world. It destroyed all breathing things except for the eight souls preserved through the Flood and the animals Noah was instructed to bring along. But water cannot kill spirit beings. When we are told that these angels left their own spirit sphere, the inference is that they could not return there. So Yaweh, because of their sin, cast them into a place called Tartarus, there to await future judgment.
But was their crime merely excessive sexual immorality and worldwide violence or was there something more? I believe that there was something more. This theory is not spelt out in black and white in any of the Scriptures. But by examining the ancient written records pertaining to the period before the Flood, and even afterwards, I believe we can construct a good argument.
As was mentioned in an earlier chapter, it would appear that these spirit beings were involved in some form of genetic engineering. We observed how two of the Israeli spies carried one cluster of grapes between them on a pole from the land inhabited by the Nephilim in the days of Moses. Later, we encountered Goliath the Gittite, who had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot. In this chapter we considered how all the Earth was changed after the fall of man. Noxious plants and poisonous insects and other creatures appeared which were never part of the original Eden. Evil influences must have interfered with the DNA of all these plants, animals, insects etc to cause them to change and become as they are today. Consequently, when the fallen angels married the daughters of men, perhaps it was genetic engineering which was utilised to impregnate the women and produce the monstrous evil aberrations called the Nephilim. These in turn produced offspring who were genetically-engineered supernatural and superhuman evil monsters. Over the course of several hundred years, while the Ark was being prepared, these people contaminated the whole world with their immorality, perversion and violence. And only eight souls preserved their true nature and were saved: Noah and his family.
Let us take this a step further. If we examine many of the ancient writings and pictures, we see some peculiar images appearing in many of the countries surrounding the area where mankind dwelt during that time. We see pictures of beings who are half-human and half-animal. We see pictures of centaurs, who had the upper body of a man and the lower body of a horse. We have statues called sphinxes which show a man’s or woman’s head attached to the body of a lion (see Figure 6). In yet more reliefs we see other strange animals which appear to have human appendages (see Figure 7) as well as four-footed animals with men’s heads and birds with the head of a man.
Figure 6
A drawing of a standing female sphinx, somewhat “Asiatic” in appearance, found on a fragment of limestone block dating from the Egyptian late New Kingdom period (Cairo Museum).
Figure 7
A creature mostly animal in appearance but possessing some human features. Relief on a black obelisk dedicated to the Assyrian king Salamasar III (British Museum).
An Egyptian historian named Manethos chronicled these times and wrote extensively on the legends of his country. He describes just such half-human, half-animal creatures and credits the gods with their creation. He wrote:
“And they [the gods] were said to have brought forth double-winged human beings, also others with four wings and two faces; and with one body and two heads, man and woman, male and female within one creature; still other human beings had thighs of goats and horns upon their heads; others had the feet of horses; others were horses behind and men in front; there were also said to have been man-headed bulls and four-bodied dogs, whose tails emerged like fish-tails from their backs; also horses with heads of dogs . . . and other monsters, such as all kinds of dragon-like beings . . . and a great number of wondrous creatures, variously formed and all different from one another, whose images they ranged one beside the other in the Temple of Belos, and preserved.”47
Could all these be just myth or is there more to this than meets the eye? Many of these reliefs depict similar strange creatures, yet they are found in different regions such as Greece, Assyria, Italy and Egypt. Let us again look at the verse in Jude, this time taken from the King James Version. Speaking of these fallen angels and the activities of the people in Sodom and Gomorrah and those prior to the Flood, we read:
. . . in like manner giving themselves over to fornication and going after strange flesh . . .
The word “strange” here is heteros in the Greek, which means “another of a different kind, usually denoting generic distinction.”48
By the way, the word “fornication” here is ekporneuo, which is the intensive form of porneuo, from which we derive our English word “pornography.” So intensive, extreme pornography is what they were involved in. The sin of these people was an unnatural one, breaking through the natural bounds which Yaweh had set. Could this mean cross-breeding between man and animals, or humans breeding with birds etc?
In reading Genesis six one is struck by the way Yaweh pronounces judgment not only against mankind, but against the animals and other creatures as well. Observe:
“I will wipe mankind, whom I have created, from the face of the Earth, men and animals, and creatures that move along the ground and birds of the air . . .”
One can understand why such a judgment is passed upon human beings, for they have minds and can reason. But why destroy the poor dumb animals, who are blameless? Or is there more to this? Let us consider a passage from the Book of Romans.
For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities – His eternal power and divine nature – have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.
For although they knew (Greek: ginosko: to know by experience ) God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.
Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for degrading of their bodies with one another.
They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served created things rather than the creator.
Romans 1: 20-25
The context of this verse is the “creation of the world.” Well, the only ones who have been around since the creation of the world are the “sons of God,” who “shouted for joy,” and the “morning stars,” who sang together when Yaweh laid the foundations of the world. Next, we are told that they knew God. This word in the Greek is ginosko, meaning to know by (personal) experience.
Furthermore, we are told that these “people” changed the glory of the immortal God to images made to look like – wait for it – mortal man, birds, animals and reptiles! This is the exact same phrase we just read in Genesis six, where Yaweh is quoted as saying that he would destroy men and animals, and creatures that move along the ground, and birds of the air!
Could it be that this passage is referring to t
he fallen angels of the time of Noah and to their immoral and indecent behaviour? Not only were they morally depraved, but they interfered genetically with animals and birds and reptiles and changed them into objects of worship. Is this why so many of the reliefs, pictures and hieroglyphs depict animals, birds and reptiles as being half-human, half-animal? I cannot categorically state that this is exactly how it was. I am presenting the evidence as I find it and I encourage readers to reach their own conclusions. If this was the case, it would be highly understandable that Yaweh would pronounce judgment against the Nephilim and their offspring and mankind in general by way of the Flood. Furthermore, we can understand why it was necessary to imprison the fallen angels who perpetrated these heinous sins, and to contain them in Tartarus, awaiting a day of judgment.
Now let us address the other great question posed at the beginning of this chapter. Who exactly were those “mighty men of old, who were renowned and got the name of heroes?”
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