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Explaining the Evils of the Nephilim Explaining The Nephilim Giants ‘When mankind began to multiply on the earth and daughters were born to them, the ‘sons of God’ (fallen angels) saw the daughters of men (human women) were beautiful and they took (raped) all the women they desired and chose. (As a result) there were Nephilim on the earth in those days and also afterwards when the ‘sons of God’ (fallen angels) lived with the daughters of mankind and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown’ (Genesis 6:1,2 & 4). ‘The people who dwell in the land are strong and the cities are fortified and very great. We saw the children (descendents) of Anak there … Amalek dwells in the land of the South … They brought up an evil report of the land they had spied out to the Children of Israel saying, “The land where we spied out is a land that eats up its inhabitants. All the people who we saw in it are men of great stature (giants). There we saw the Nephilim, the sons (descendents) of Anak who come of the Nephilim and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers and so we were in their sight’” (Numbers 13:28, 29, 32 & 33). These evil beings called the Nephilim were the wicked giant offspring born to the women who had been raped by the fallen angels referred to as ‘the sons of God’. The Nephilim ‘men of renown’ were not decent men who were well known, they were vicious, violent, wicked half human, half fallen angels who later brought into existence the Amalek and Anakim (plural of Anak). There is another account of the same events written in more detail in the Book of Enoch, and this account gives us more information regarding the Nephilim. The Book of Enoch was once included in the Bible. The holy prophets, Jesus and the apostles all quoted from the Book of Enoch, which was removed from the Bible by the early church because they considered it to be ‘too spiritual’. The Book of Enoch, Chapter 6 verses 1 to 8: ‘When the children of men (descendents of Adam and Eve) had multiplied, in those days beautiful and comely daughters were born to them. Some angels, the ‘sons of heaven’ saw and lusted after the women and said to one another, “Come, let us choose women from among the men and beget children.” Their (wicked) leader Semjaza said to the (fallen) angels, “I fear you will indeed agree to this deed and I alone will have to pay the penalty of a great sin.” The (fallen) angels all answered, “Let us swear an oath and all bind ourselves by mutual spoken curses not to abandon this plan but to do this thing.” Then they swore all together and bound themselves by mutual spoken curses upon the sin. They were in all, two hundred who descended in the days of Jared (Enoch’s father, Genesis 5:18) on the summit of Mount Hermon and they called it Mount Hermon because they had sworn the oath and bound themselves by mutual spoken curses on the summit.’ We can see by what is written here, the fallen angels knew they were about to commit a terrible sin for which they knew they would eventually be punished, but in their rebellion against God Who had created them, they continued with their path of destruction, destroying themselves and the women they raped. The fallen angels also taught mankind about witchcraft, astrology, the defiling of plant life, cannibalism, abortion and homosexuality. The Nephilim eventually turned against mankind and brought about the earth’s very first all out war. It was at this time when make up first appeared ‘to beautify the eyelids’. All of this happened before the worldwide flood when only Noah and his immediate family survived. It was this level of terror, violence, homosexuality and wickedness that brought about Noah’s flood. Thousands of years later, Jesus said just before He comes again the world would once again become just as wicked and godless as it was before the flood (Luke 17:26). The Book of Enoch, Chapter 7 verses 1 to 6: ‘All the other (fallen) angels took to themselves women and each chose for himself a woman and they began to go into them and to defile themselves with them. They taught the women charms and enchantments (witchcraft), the cutting (grafting) of roots and made them acquainted with plants (defiling the perfect plant life created by God). The women became pregnant and bore great giants whose height was 3,000 ells (about 3½ metres or over ten feet tall). The giants consumed all the acquisitions of mankind and when men could no longer sustain them, the giants turned against them. The giants devoured mankind and they began to sin against birds, beasts, reptiles and fish. They began to devour one another’s flesh and drink the blood (they became cannibals) then the earth laid accusation against the lawless ones.’ Chapter 8 verses 1 to 3: ‘Azazel (a fallen angel) taught the men how to make swords, knives, shields and breastplates (they encouraged war). He made known to men the metals of the earth and the art of working them and made bracelets, ornaments and the use of antimony (a brittle silvery metal used in alloys), the beautifying of eyelids, all kinds of precious stones and colouring tinctures. There arose much godlessness and the (fallen) angels committed fornication. Men were led astray and became corrupt in all their ways. Semjaza taught enchantments and root-cuttings. Armaros taught enchantments (witchcraft, occult). Baraqijal taught astrology. Kokabel taught the constellations. Ezeqeel taught the knowledge of the clouds. Araqiel taught the signs of the earth. Shamsial taught the signs of the sun and Sariel the course of the moon. As men perished they cried and their cries went up to heaven.’ Chapter 10 verses 1 to 22: ‘Then said the Most High, the Holy and Great One spoke and sent Uriel to the son of Lamech (Noah’s father, Genesis 5:28 & 29). “Go to Noah and tell him in My name, ‘Hide yourself!’ Reveal to him the end is approaching, 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 instruct him how he (Noah) may escape and how his descendents may be preserved for all generations of the world. The Lord said to Raphael (a holy angel), “Bind Azazel hand and foot and cast him into the darkness. Make an opening in the desert in ‘Dudael’ and cast him in there. Place on him rough and jagged rocks and cover him with darkness. Let him abide down there forever and cover his face so he may not see Light (2 Peter 2:4; Jude 1:6). On the day of the Great Judgement he will be cast into the lake of fire (Revelation 20:10). Heal the earth which the fallen angels have corrupted and proclaim healing of the earth, so they may heal the plague so all the children of men may not perish because of all the secret things the Watchers (rebellious angels) have disclosed and have taught their (evil) sons. The whole earth has been corrupted through the works that were taught by Azazel and to him ascribe all sin.” To Gabriel (the holy messenger angel) the Lord said, “Proceed against the bastards (the wicked offspring of the fallen angels) and the reprobates, against the children born of fornication and destroy the children born of fornication, the children of the Watchers from amongst men. Cause them to go forth. Send them one against the other so they may destroy each other in battle, for length of days they will not have.’ Chapter 15 verses 1 to 12: ‘The Lord spoke to me (Enoch) and I heard His voice, “Fear not Enoch, you righteous man and scribe of righteousness, approach here and hear My voice. Go and say to the Watchers of heaven (fallen angels) who sent you to intercede for them, ‘You should intercede for men and not men for you. You have left the high, holy and eternal heaven and lain with women. You defiled yourselves with the daughters of men and have taken to yourselves women and done like the children of earth, and produced giant Nephilim as your sons. Though you were holy, spiritual, living the eternal life, you have defiled yourselves with the blood of women and have produced children with the blood of flesh, and as the children of men have lusted after flesh and blood, those also who do, perish. I have given the men wives so they might have children by them so nothing might be wanting to them on earth, but you were formerly spiritual, living the eternal life and immortal for all the generations of the world. I have not appointed wives for you, for as the spiritual ones of the heavens, heaven is their dwelling. Now the giant Nephilim who are produced from the fallen angel spirits and the flesh (half human/half fallen angel) will be called evil spirits on the earth and on the earth will be their dwelling. Evil spirits have proceeded from their bodies. Because they are born from women and from the Watchers, their beginning and primal origin, they will be evil spirits on earth and evil spirits they will be called. The spirits of heaven, in heaven their dwelling will be (evil principalities and powers, Ephesians 6:12) but the spirits of the earth, born on the earth, on the earth will be their dwelling.
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