The Nephilim and Pyramid of Apocalypse

by Patrick Heron

  In a previous chapter we surmised that the fallen angels, the Nephilim, interfered in some way with the animals and birds of the Earth, for it seemed unusual that Yaweh would pronounce judgment against “the beasts, the creeping things and the fowls of the air” (Genesis 6:7). Yet, here again in the Book of Enoch, we are told that these reprobate angels began to “sin against birds and beasts and reptiles and fish ...” The context of this passage is sexual sin, for how else can you “sin” against such creatures. Is this another allusion to genetic engineering? Is Enoch here intimating that these Nephilim were involved in creating the half-human, half-animal creatures which appear in numerous images in many countries during this same era?

  Also note that it was these angelic beings who taught them “enchantments and charms and the cutting of roots,” i.e. witchcraft, black magic, call it what you will. It is all proceeding from the same source. “And made them acquainted with plants.” Could this mean that they introduced them to cultivating and producing drugs such as opium and heroin? For such could not possibly emanate from Yaweh. We are also told here how these giants, the offspring of the Nephilim, began to devour one another’s flesh and to drink blood. This fits in with many of the stories of the Greek gods who, we are told, indulged in all these activities.

  And Azazel taught men to make swords, and knives, and shields, and breastplates, and made known to them the metals (of the Earth) and the art of working them, and bracelets, and ornaments, and the use of antimony, and the beautifying of the eyelids, and all kinds of costly stones, and all colouring tinctures.

  And there arose much godlessness, and they committed fornication, and they were led astray, and became corrupt in all their ways.

  Semjaza taught enchantments and (the use of) root-cuttings, Armaros the resolving of enchantments, Baraqijal astrology, Kobabel the constellations, Ezeqeel the knowledge of the clouds, Araziel the signs of the Earth, Shamsiel the signs of the sun and Sariel the course of the moon.

  And, as men perished, they cried, and their cry went up to heaven . . .

  Book of Enoch VIII 1-4

  In the naming of these fallen “sons of God” and the things they imparted to men, we find astrology, the constellations, the courses of the sun and the moon. This provides more evidence that the Zodiac and its signs were not merely invented by the imaginations of ordinary men over time, but were known to these fallen “stars,” and the knowledge of them was transferred, along with other magic formulae, to humans. It is also evident that astrology, considered by some to be the false counterpart of astronomy, has its basis in evil and issues from the forces of darkness.

  The Book of Enoch continues:

  And then Michael, Uriel, Raphael and Gabriel looked down from Heaven and saw much blood being shed upon the Earth, and all lawlessness being wrought upon the Earth.

  And they said to the Lord of the Ages: “Thou seest what Azazel hath done, who hath taught all unrighteousness on Earth and revealed the eternal secrets which were (preserved) in Heaven, which men were striving to learn.

  And they have gone to the daughters of men upon the Earth, and have slept with the women, and have defiled themselves, and revealed to them all kinds of sin.

  And the women have borne giants, and the whole Earth has thereby been filled with blood and unrighteousness.”

  Book of Enoch IX 1-11

  Michael and Gabriel we are familiar with. They are named in the Scriptures often, appearing in many places. Uriel and Raphael were never named in the Scriptures and are new to us. In reading this passage we can contemplate the original story from Genesis 6 of how the Earth was filled with violence and blood caused by the giants, or Titans, the Nephilim and their offspring. The Book of Enoch adds yet more detail and insight. But what is Yaweh to do concerning this great sin? The story goes on:

  Then said the Most High, the Holy and Great One spake, and sent Uriel to the son of Lamech, and said to him:

  “Go to Noah and tell him in my name ‘hide thyself’ and reveal to him the end that is approaching: that the whole Earth will be destroyed, and a deluge is about to come upon the whole Earth, and will destroy all that is on it. And now instruct him that he may escape and his seed may be preserved for all the generations of the world.”

  Book of Enoch X 1-3

  Enoch had a son whose name was Methuselah, which means “when he is dead it shall be sent” (i.e. the deluge). Methuselah died at the age of 969 in the first month of the Flood year of 2348 BC (see Appendix). 62 He was the only man ever to live to such an age. When Methuselah was 187 years old he had a son whom he named Lamech. When Lamech was 182 years old he had a son and called him Noah. Noah literally means rest, comfort or consolation. For Noah was to give rest and comfort from the evil deeds which were being perpetrated all around him.

  In the beginning of this section devoted to the Book of Enoch we are told that it was “in the days of Jared” that the fallen angels descended on Mount Hermon and began their evil doings. Jared was born in 3544 BC and Noah in 2948 BC, so the activities of the fallen ones, or the “Watchers” as Enoch refers to them, occurred sometime during the 596 years between Jared and Noah. And there is yet another 600 years of Noah’s life before the deluge strikes. Ample time for the gods of Greece and Rome and Egypt to erect their temples and other edifices and establish their legends.

  And again the Lord said to Raphael: “Bind Azazel hand and foot, and cast him into the darkness; and make an opening in the desert, which is in Dudael, and cast him therein. And on the day of the great judgment he shall be cast into the fire. And the whole Earth has been corrupted through the works that were taught by Azazel: to him ascribe all sin.”

  And to Gabriel said the Lord: “Proceed against the bastards and the reprobates, and against the children of fornication; and destroy the children of fornication and the children of the Watchers from amongst men and cause them to go forth; send them one against the other that they may destroy each other in battle, for length of days shall they not have.”

  And the Lord said unto Michael: “Go, bind Semjaza and his associates who have united themselves with women so as to have defiled themselves with them in all their uncleanness . . . In those days they shall be led off to the abyss of fire; (and) to the torment and the prison in which they shall be confined forever.

  And destroy all the spirits of the reprobate, and the children of the Watchers, because they have wronged mankind.”

  Book of Enoch X 4-15

  In this passage the past and the future are linked in the same notion. We see the Watchers, the fallen angels, being condemned for their corruption of mankind and sent to a prison which sounds not unlike Tartarus, there to be held until a future judgment, which is set at the end of the Apocalypse and will be discussed in the latter part of this book. The Abyss is also mentioned, but this is a future abyss which is spoken of as a place of torment and confinement for all the evil host of heaven and their mentors and the godless in the final chapters of the Book of Revelation.

  The Book of Enoch continues with the pronouncement of blessings and joy for the righteous in a future Paradise. But other mentions are made of the angelic host, both good and evil, and it may be beneficial, in light of the thesis thus far, to briefly quote some of these passages.

  This next passage is from the Book of Enoch XV and XVI. In it, Enoch is asked by the aforementioned condemned angels to bring a petition to the Most High, asking for their sentence to be remitted. Enoch reads the petition and then falls asleep. In his sleep he has a vison and recounts the words given to him. In this section he quotes the Most High himself:

  “And go, say to the Watchers of Heaven, who have sent thee to intercede for them: You should intercede for men, and not men for you.

  Wherefore have ye left the high, holy and eternal Heaven, and lain with women, and defiled yourselves with the daughters of men and taken to yourselves wives, and done like the children of Earth, and begotten giants (as your) sons.

  And though ye were holy, spiritual
(beings) living the eternal life, you have defiled yourselves with the blood of women, and have begotten (children) with the blood of flesh and blood as those (also) do who die and perish.

  And now, the giants, who are produced from the spirit and flesh, shall be called evil spirits upon the Earth, and on the Earth shall be their dwelling.

  And the spirits of the giants afflict, oppress, destroy, attack, do battle and work destruction on the Earth, and cause trouble: they take no food, but nevertheless hunger and thirst, and cause offences.

  And now as to the Watchers who have sent thee to intercede for them, who have been aforetime in Heaven (say to them): ‘You have been in Heaven, but all the mysteries had not yet been revealed to you, and you knew worthless ones, and these in the hardness of your hearts you have made known to the women, and through these mysteries women and men work much evil on Earth.’

  Say to them therefore: ‘You have no peace.’ ”

  Book of Enoch XV 2 to XVI 4

  Although the Book of Enoch is not part of the canon of Scripture, we feel it is appropriate to quote it at length, for it fits in with the other parts of Scripture which we have discussed so far. Also, it adds to what we know from both the Old and New Testament and fills in many of the blanks with details not found anywhere else.

  Next is a section from Enoch XXVII 11 to XIX 3, in which he describes places of an other-worldly nature. In relation to Tartarus and a future destiny facing the wicked angels and their associates, he describes what he saw:

  And I saw a deep abyss, with columns of heavenly fire.

  I saw there seven stars like great burning mountains, and to me, when I inquired regarding them, the angel said: “This place is the end of Heaven and Earth: this has become a prison for the stars and the host of Heaven. And the stars which roll over the fire are they which have transgressed the commandment of the Lord in the beginning of their rising, because they did not come forth at their appointed times. And He was wroth with them, and bound them till the time when their guilt should be consummated (even) for ten thousand years.” And Uriel said to me: “Here shall stand the angels who have connected themselves with women, and their spirits, assuming many different forms, are defiling mankind, and shall lead them astray into sacrificing to demons till the day of the great judgment in which they shall be judged till they are made an end of. And the women also of the angels who went astray shall become sirens.”

  And I, Enoch, alone saw the vision, the ends of all things: and no man shall see as I have seen.

  Book of Enoch XVIII 11 to XIX 3

  Here we are told of women angels who went astray. In Egypt, Isis was a leading goddess, as were Athena and Aphrodite in Greece.

  Enoch was, or rather is, a very enigmatic entity insofar as we are given very little information about him. He is only mentioned in a couple of verses in Genesis 5, telling us who his father was and that he “walked with God.” We are also told that he was “translated” and did not experience death. That is, he was taken up by Yaweh and never died, as was Elijah (see 2 Kings 2:11). The name Enoch means “tuition, initiation or teaching,” yet we find no tuition from him in the Scriptures. Many Biblical scholars might dismiss the Book of Enoch because it is not part of the canon. However, the fact that Jude, the half-brother of the Messiah, quotes directly from the Book of Enoch gives its author much credence. In his own writings, Enoch is referred to as a “scribe of righteousness.”

  The overriding fact that the apostles and disciples knew of Enoch’s writings and quoted them gives gravitas to this book and suggests that we should be aware of its contents and take notice.

  The revelations of the Book of Enoch substantiate the evidence advanced in this hypothesis thus far. In discussing the pyramids and other ancient monuments, many profess to believe that aliens or extra-terrestrials came to Earth from afar and were responsible for these buildings. The theory advanced here would support this supposition. The only difference is that the Scriptures do not label these beings as “aliens” or “extra-terrestrials,” but refer to them as “fallen angels,” “sons of God” or the “Nephilim.” Enoch calls them “stars,” “spiritual beings” and the “Watchers.”

  These beings left their spiritual abode in the heavens, came to Earth and materialised in the realm of the senses. Here they bred with humans and produced a hybrid of human and spirit people. These beings were great in size and, because of their genetic make-up, were wicked beyond redemption. During a period of several hundred years on the Earth, they spread their corruption and infected all of mankind save for eight souls. The mastermind behind this worldwide irruption of the Nephilim was Satan and his raison d’être was to totally destroy the entire human race so that the line of the Messiah would be broken and his birth aborted. In this way Satan hoped to nullify the prophecy of Yaweh, given in Genesis 3:15, which stated that the “seed of the woman” would crush the head of the serpent.

  But his plan failed. Noah and his family were the only souls left on this Earth whose lineage was pure and uncontaminated by the Nephilim and their offspring. Yaweh destroyed the whole of the population because of their sinful state in a worldwide deluge and preserved Noah and his family. Thus the line of the Messiah was saved and the seed of the woman was perpetuated.

  After the Flood, when men began to increase in number again in the Earth, there was a second irruption of these fallen angels and the Nephilim roamed once more. By the time Moses led the children of Israel out of the bondage of Egypt, the whole area of Canaan, the Promised Land, was filled with the Nephilim and their descendants. Satan again endeavoured to thwart the prophecy of Yaweh and prevent the Israelites from possessing the land by populating the region with giants. But his scheme failed when Joshua and his armies defeated these beings and destroyed the 60 “giant cities of Bashan” and their king, Og.

  The fallen angels who were responsible for the first corruption of the Earth prior to the Flood are imprisoned in a place called Tartarus, there to await a future judgment. We are told that the Messiah went and heralded his triumph before these beings after his resurrection in much the same way as the Roman generals of old heralded their victorious conquests before the city of Rome on returning from some far-flung battlefield.

  We have no knowledge of what happened to the fallen “sons of God” who caused the second contamination of the Earth after the Flood. Perhaps they are still wandering the Earth, hiding out in some dark, evil forest, wary of the advance and onslaught of man.

  But what does all this mean and where is it leading us? In this next section we will discuss the significance of the pyramid shape and introduce a new concept: the Pyramid of the Apocalypse.

  If the first part of this book seemed like a leisurely cruise down a lazy, meandering river which occasionally threw up interesting sites along the way, then get ready for the rapids. For in this next section the excitement and tension should increase and cause you to hang on to the sides of the boat with white knuckles. But, after the rapids, we will return to the calm of peaceful waters and the security of dry land, figuratively speaking.

  The journey continues.

  The next several chapters were already published in my second book, Apocalypse 2000. However, these chapters have been amended and updated and are now presented with much new information.

  BACK TO THE FUTURE

  Before examining the predictions of the Book of Revelation, it is important first to understand how prophecy works. About one-third of all Biblical texts are prophetic. That is, they foretell future events before they occur. If the events forecast come to pass, the veracity of the prophecy is borne out. If the event fails to materialise, then the prediction is shown to be false.

  This is never the case, however, in Biblical prophecy. For instance, there are 737 distinct prophecies throughout the entirety of the Scriptures. 63 Some of these prophecies are mentioned but once or twice. Others are repeated hundreds of times. Of these predictions, 594 have been fulfilled to date, with 100% accuracy every time. Put anoth
er way, over 80% of the prophecies have already been fulfilled down to the last letter. The remainder of the prophecies pertain to our future and it is at these that we shall be looking.

  No other book ever written, either secular or religious, is as prophetic in its nature as is the Bible. No other books contain such prophecies concerning the future and, if they did, their non-fulfilment would have long since proved them wrong. There are 845 quotations from the Old Testament in the New Testament and 333 of these refer to the Messiah.

  The Messiah literally fulfilled 109 prophecies relating to himself in his first coming. In the last 24 hours of his life, 25 specific prophecies came to pass, all of which were written into the Old Testament between 500 and 1,000 years before his birth.64 According to the laws of probability, the chances of 25 specific predictions coming to pass in one 24-hour period of a particular person’s lifetime must be billions to one.

  We will now recount a few of these prophecies from the Old Testament which were fulfilled in the last 24 hours of the Messiah’s life. It was prophesied that:

  1. The Messiah would be betrayed for 30 pieces of silver (Zechariah 11:12)