NEPHILIM PART 2 - THE RETURN

    While I was in Scotland I was shocked that there were so many people who believed that there were real giants. According to folklore, giants lived in Scotland among men and fairies. I will focus here on the giants and save the fairies for another time. 

The nephilims are referred to in Genesis 6. I have discussed the arguments given by scholars, many of whom believe that the giants were the children of human women and fallen angels. Also, I have suggested a relationship with the theme of separation nifal and the name nephilim. In this blog I want to focus on the situation at the time and how it relates to today. To keep it simple I will use sub-headings:

• the situation
• the bloodline
• science, technology and today

The situation

The main text on the nephilim is taken from Genesis 6:1-6

Now it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose.

And the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.” There were giants 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.

Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.

What we learn is that there was a specific environment, a set up and a main sin. The human population had grown. There were many women born. The set up would be to position oneself to see. Of course the sin is sexual immorality but further specified as the pursuit of strange flesh.

Using nifal which means to spread, break through or separate, the set up would be when the nephilim broke through the barriers that kept them within a specific domain. They saw they were beautiful. Like David on the roof. He knew he would be able to see more from his roof. This led to his sin of sexual immorality which is adultery, and murder.

In the garden of Eden, lucifer seduced Eve into eating the forbidden fruit. He said you can be like God. Take it, it is there for you. I can imagine a similar conversation with the angels.

The bloodline

In the first part  I present an argument for the giants as different to the Nephilim but called nephilims. To take the conversation further I am looking at God's response. It is suggested that God saw that by mixing the blood lines the children would be able to live very long. God was not pleased with something that resulted in reducing the amount of years for our lifespan to 120 years. 

Why punish us humans for sins committed by angels? Why do it at this point? It could only be because of the sin that was committed and sin that He saw in the continuation of the bloodline. I believe this is why  He says, My Spirit will not strive with man forever. 

Additionally, the giants were of renown. They lived long and had a reputation, good for some and bad for others. They spread because we later learn they were in Canaan and all over Israel. They were with the Philistines. This is a possible explanation for why God wanted them Canaan and Philistia to be wiped out. His anger towards these tribes that had giants among them, their bloodline. 

By the time of the Great Tribulation the Nephilims do return to the earth as their former selves. They are cast out of heaven with the devil Revelations 12:12 Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time. 

The bloodline would not matter at this point. I suggest that in God's timing the bloodline of the giants will be wiped out from the earth and the only return would be a repeat of the first appearance in Genesis except in definitive defeat.

Science, technology and today

The environment described in Genesis 6 and again in Jude 1, is very much like that of today in several ways:

• There are more women today in positions of power than ever before.
• Generally there is a population explosion with improved health care. 
• Borders are broken through by; trade, alliances, internet, space travel, and inter-racial marriages. 
• Domains exist on the internet which is virtual and not spiritual but can be seen as the same in some contexts. 
• There are gender boundaries broken with gay rights and even sex with beasts. Physical changes are made to the human body with science in sex changes or a simple operation to use a steel rod to replace a bone.

Now in 2021 mankind is preparing to break another boundary or enter another domain. It started with the USA stating that they are ready to create hybrid humans or chimera. Chimera as defined by the US as a non-human life form that is engineered or having a face like human or body morphologies to look like human or a life form with a combination of human and non-human DNA. 

The reasoning is to compete with China. The idea of a super-human is no longer a conspiracy theory based on the headways made so far. Many other nations may join this race or competition. It is being called a threat for national security.

It is a time when things can get confusing. The environment and the set up for sin is made legal and promoted in every society. We are fast approaching another turning point in human history, perhaps the rapture and or the tribulation. A turning point like that in Genesis 6.

I pray that you are able to see God's plan for you in this time. I pray that God gives you clear vision and guides you each day in Jesus name. 

If you have not accepted Jesus as your Lord and Saviour you may say this prayer;

Dear Heavenly Father,

I ask you to forgive my sins in knowledge or ignorance. Please forgive me. I accept Jesus as my Saviour. I ask that Jesus comes into my life as I live to be a witness for Him. Please change my life and make me into the person you want me to be, in Jesus name I pray. Thank you.