Continuation of Chapter 3 - Who were the
Nephilim ?
According
to Hebrew writings and other apocryphal books (such as the book of Enoch), the
Nephilim were a race of giants and super - heroes, who committed acts of great
evil. Their great size and power seemed to come from the mixture of their
demonic DNA and human genetics. All the Bible says directly about them is that
they were “mighty men which were of old,
men of renown". (Genesis 6 verse 4) The Nephilim were not aliens,
as many people often think, they were literally physical beings produced by the
union of the “sons of God” (fallen angels) and daughters of men.
The
Nephilim were one of the main reasons for the great flood in Noah's time .
Immediately after the Nephilim are mentioned, the word of God tells us that,
" When the Lord saw how wicked
everyone on earth was and how evil their thoughts were all the time, he was
sorry that he had ever made them and put them on the earth. He was so filled
with regret that he said, “I will wipe out these people I have created, and
also the animals and the birds, because I am sorry that I made any of them.”(Genesis
6 verses 5-7) So God proceeded to flood the world, killing all and everyone, including
the race of giants, saving only Noah and his family, and the animals within the
ark (Genesis 6:11-22).
The bible
tells us that “Noah had no faults
and was the only good man of his time.”…in other words, Noah was not
contaminated with the DNA of the Nephilim.
Related to
the fact that Angels had relations with human woman, it is interesting to note
a text of the book of Job, the oldest book of the bible:
This book
is written by the patriarch Job, who lived close to the time of the flood, thus
the references to angels reflect this. There is a passage that states directly
that certain angels were indeed involved in illicit relations with human women.
It occurs when Eliphas, one of Job’s three friends who are trying to encourage
him over the loss of his family, shares a Divine vision he had:
The word
“folly” in the Old Testament is used to describe sexual sin.
We can see
that also in other places such as in Genesis 34: 7 (“because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's
daughter”) and also in 2 Samuel 13 verse 12 (“And she answered him, Nay, my brother, do not force me; for no such
thing ought to be done in Israel: do not thou this folly”).
These and
other passages in the bible give us more and more the guarantee that the giants
(nephilim) were indeed beings, produced by the union of the “sons of God”,
(fallen angels), and daughters of men. They have no relation whatever with
the so-called “aliens”, that many people wrongly believe, are visiting
us from outer space.