They Might Be Giants: Part I
Written Aug 16th, 2006 by Josh Rives | Email This
The story goes that the champion of the Philistines, Goliath from Gath, stood just shy of 10 feet and he challenged Israel, only to be defeated by a young man named David. Goliath, though the best known, is not the only giant found in the Old Testament. The groups of giants we come across are the Nephilim, the Rephaim, the Emim and the Anakim.
The Nephilim are generally seen as the oldest and possibly the founding race of the other three groups of giants. We run into the Nephilim first in Genesis 6:1-4 which proves to be a very difficult passage to understand…
Now it came about, when men began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them, that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose. Then the LORD said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.” The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
The most common explanation of this passage is that some of the fallen angels came and had children with some women on earth and the children ended up as giants. This holds up at a glance but looking closer at the verses we see some problems. The first thing we notice is this group of “people” being referred to as the “sons of God”. There are at least three explanations that I have found about who they are:
- The default explanation is that they are fallen angels. The reason for this is that the term “sons of God” is usually used to refer to angels in the OT. Of course there are many problems with that theory, some biological and the fact that it is just weird.
- One of the more conservative explanations says that “sons of God” means those in the chosen lineage thus descended from Seth. This seems to be logical since the Godly are sometimes called sons, except the usual usage of sons of God in the OT still means angels.
- They could have been kings since many ancient texts use “sons of god” to describe kings. However the OT is not like other ancient texts in that it does not call kings “sons of god”.
Another enigma comes with the sons of God’s relationship to the Nephilim. Many people think that this verse implies that the Nephilim came about from the sons of God, but the text does not necessarily say that. It seems to say that the Nephilim were already “on the earth in those days”.
This passage only refers to them as mighty men, but we know that they were giants from later passages referring to them as giants. The spies who went into Canaan reported that the people who lived there were Nephilim and they made them feel like grasshoppers in their sight. Of course this could have been an exaggeration since the Nephilim were more than likely destroyed in the flood. I guess though that Noah had a little Nephilim in him as you can see in They Might Be Giants: Part Deaux.
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I think they are humans like us and not strange “half angels” that is only oldfashioned mitology
they were only very tall people
http://www.christiancourier.com/articles/read/who_were_the_nephilim
Great articles by a very knowledgeable Bible scholar.
OKAY, HERE IS THE TRUTH: THE NEPHILIM/FALLEN ANGELS ARE ALSO CALLED THE ANUNNAKI.
THEY ARE HERE HIDING WAITING FOR THE NIBIRU PLANET TO CAUSE THE GREAT DESTRUCTION… SO LARGE THAT HAS NEVER BEEN ON THE EARTH BEFORE.
THIS IS THE GREAT DECEPTION:
THEY WILL COME, WHEN WE ARE MOST VULNERABLE, AFTER THE NATURAL DISASTERS HIT BECAUSE OF NIBIRU, AFTER THAT THEY WILL ROUND UP ALL THE CHRISTIANS AND JEWS SO THEY WILL NOT BE AROUND TO TELL THE TRUTH.
THEN THE FALLEN ANGELS/NEPHILIM/ANUNNAKI WILL SHOW UP, SAY THEY ARE THE CREATORS, PROVE THIS WITH THE SUMERIANS DETAILS, THEY HAVE BEEN SEEDING THE EARTH WITH THEIR “PROOF” SAY THEY ARE THE TRUE GOD, TRICK THE RACE OF ADAM INTO BELIEVING THE GREAT LIE.. THAT THERE IS NO REAL TRUE LIVING GOD.
THE TEST TO SEE WHO IS TRULY A GODLY PERSON IS ASK THEM THE IMPORTANCE OF JESUS AND THE VIRGIN BIRTH AND JESUS’S BLOOD AS THE SON OF GOD.
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reply to blessedONE333
All the research seems to point to dec 21st 2012 when Nibiru is supposed to knock us of our axis and cause the ’stars to fall’ by virtue of the fact we will be wobbling on our axis.
The research i am doing would indicate a link with ‘alien’ beings / fallen angels (take your pick) that are actually physical beings. The church it seems is ignorant of the most basic
knowledge of satan or demonology. Google ‘operation bluebeam’ for the low down of how the technology for the arrival iof the antichrist is in place already. It seems to me the church should wake up, focus less on coffee mornings / jumble sales and hit the streets.
Too many televangelists millionaires claiming to be christian.
The church has become infiltrated by the illuminati.
Proverb - think camel & eye of the needle.
We have only 7 years from the antichrist to the second coming of jesus christ himself.
Research would indicate the antichrist is already alive today and living in London.
check out http://www.infowars.com or http://www.texemarrs.com for some home truths.