Chapter 3.4
Giants
The Nephilim, The Sons of God
Goliath, Emims, Zamzummims,
Anakites, Sabeans and Rephaims
First
Word
We all bring BS baggage, a Belief System
of things we already embrace or reject into a discussion of Bible topics; sometimes
our mind is changed and sometimes we are just left confused. To talk about Giants, we first should explore
where they came from. According to
scripture; some Angels rebelled and left their assigned habitations and came to
earth.
NOTE: Whenever angels
are seen on earth, they are always seen in the form of a man.
Nephilim
Nephilim; Wikipedia; The majority of ancient biblical versions, including the
Septuagint, Theodotion, Latin Vulgate, Samaritan Targum, Targum
Onkelos and Targum Neofiti interpret the word to mean "GIANTS".
Symmachus translates it as "the violent ones" and Aquila's
translation has been interpreted to mean either "the fallen ones" or
"the
ones falling (upon their enemies.)"
Scripture clearly states that some angels left their own habitations.[1] “When
men began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them”.[2] This
is a special passage when you realize that daughters of men had always been
born to them; it seems at some point, a desire was awakened in the “sons of God”
and they took “whoever
they chose” to marry with no emphasis on character, but only on
beauty, probably marring more than one.
These “Fallen”
Devine beings had sexual intercourse with the earthly women resulting in a
hybrid of GIANTS or Nephilim. There
is no marriage in heaven and since Devine beings are immortal there is
therefore no need to propagate; to replenish or repopulate as mortals must do
on earth.[3]
Side Bar
I would be amiss if I
didn’t acknowledge a difference of opinion on the sons of God; the Nephilim. The sons of Adam, the Sethites and the Kenites
were going in two opposite directions, specifically in moral and character
distinctions as well as keeping diversely apart physically.
Some students of the Book hold
that the Godly line of Seth were
actually “the sons of God” and were said to have disobeyed God, by “coming down” from
the mountains and breeding with the wicked Kenites thereby producing giants; they conclude that there were not any fallen angels at all, only
disobedient men.
Some students of the Book believe
that the flood of Noah wiped out ALL of the Giants
in the land, and the “bad report” that was brought back by the
Israelite spies was actually a “False Report” as they had not actually seen
giants in the land, but were just afraid.[4] I
hope to change their BS as we unpack the Nephilim.
Giants
Nephilim were a people
that existed before the flood of Noah and according to what I read existed
after the flood also; so the Nephilim came down at least twice. I know this is reaching, but in the Apocrypha,
the Book of Jubilees 7:21–25 states that ridding the Earth of
these Nephilim was one of God's purposes for flooding the Earth in Noah's time.
The Apocrypha describe the Nephilim as being evil
giants.
Giants terrorized the Israelites from the time they entered into Canaan
until the time of David. The fearsome race of Rephaims; the Emims,
Zamzummims, Anakites, Sabeans,[5]
and some Philistines were of great physical statue, large framed and abnormally
powerful. King Og, the last of the giant Rephaites, bed was eight feet wide
and thirteen feet long.[6]
There were more giants than you think; scripture says a Philistine Giant
named Ishbi-Benob was hell bent on killing David with his new
sword, but David was saved by one of his men.[7]
Goliath
Goliath is never described as
a “Giant”, but as a “Champion” that was nine feet tall. He is thought to have been a descendent of
the Rephaims,
a race of Giants which had been scattered by the Ammonites and then took refuge
among the Philistines.[8]
If you remember the story of how David slew Goliath with his sling shot, you
may very well remember that he reached down into the brook and picked up five
smooth stones. One to kill Goliath
and four more for his brothers if they messed with him.
Goliath
was over nine feet tall[9]
and had four brothers; Ish-benob, Saph, Lahmi, and another un-named brother that had six fingers and six
toes.[10] At some point, David and his boys “took them
all out”. No archaeological skeleton remains have ever
been found of these giants. They were “totally” decimated. (Some student of the Word say they never existed)
What
If
Sometimes my BS begins to wonder about; when God
placed a mark on Cain[11]
that he made him thirteen feet tall; a giant, so no one would try to kill him. Thirteen is the Biblical number for Sin,
Rebellion and Depravity. It was about
this time that scripture starts talking about Giants.
Just fun thoughts
The Flood
It was after the actions of
the Nephilim that the earth became corrupt. The very next verse says that God was grieved
at man’s great wickedness and wanted to start over.[12] The Nephilim were the prelude to the “Flood of Noah”. It was at this time God prepared to destroy
the earth by flood of water and start over.
Only nine LIVING
people
were counted righteous as Methuselah had died just before the flood and Enoch
was translated and saved just before the flood, leaving just eight living
people; Noah, his wife, their three sons and their three wives to be saved in
the Ark.
A little
The Take Away
In my spirit I want to
embrace the scriptures at its face value; in the simplest of terms; which is to
say, what it
says is what it is. Another part of me fully understands the Greek
mythology that embraces the Gods and Humans cohabitating, which I strongly
reject.
I want to buy into the concept of the Godly line of Seth
inter-marring with the wicked line of Cain,
but this does not account for the GIANTS. Therefore with my BS, I must embrace the scripture as
it is written… fallen Angel’s cohabitated with the Women of Earth.
It is unclear to me if the “Nephilim” were the “sons of God” that came down or
the product of
their union with the women; their children, the Giants.
Scripture supports that Angels appear on earth and have direct contact
with men and even eat food with them.
They are mentioned in the OT 108 times and in the NT 165 times, that’s
273 times.
This is a hard one, with students on both sides of the argument. Which side did you take?
[1] Jude 6 – Some angels left
their own habitation. -- Job 1:6 – Satan and the Sons of God present themselves
in the Heavenly Council of God -- Genesis 6:4 – The Sons of God had sex with
the women of the earth
[2] Genesis 6:1-2 – Nephilim
known as “The sons of God” saw the daughter of man were beautiful --
[3] Mark 12:25 – There is no
marriage in Heaven
[4] Numbers 13: 31-33 – After
the flood of Noah, the Spies saw Giants
[5] Isaiah 45:14 – Giants
called Sabeans -- Deuteronomy 9:2 – Giants
called Anakites -- Deuteronomy 2:10-11 – Giants
called Emims -- Deuteronomy 2:20-21 – Giants called Zamzummims
-- Joshua 18:16 – The Valley of the Giants; The Rephaims
[6] Deuteronomy 3:11 – Giants
called Rephaites; King Og’s Bed was 13 feet long
[7] 2 Samuel 21:16-17 – A
giant named Ishbi-Benob wanted to kill David
[8] Deuteronomy 2:21 – The
Rephaims were as tall as the Anakites -- Deuteronomy 2:20-21 The giant Rephaims
were driven out of their land
[9] 1 Samuel 17:4 – The Champion Goliath was over
nine feet tall
[10] 2 Samuel 21:22 – Goliath had four brothers -- 2 Samuel 21:16 –
Goliath’s #1 brother Ishbi-benob -- 2 Samuel 21:18 – Goliath’s #2
brother Saph -- 2 Samuel 21:19 –
Goliath’s #3 brother -- 1 Chronicles 20:5 –
Goliath’s #3 brother name was Lahmi -- 2 Samuel 21:20 – Goliath’s #4 brother with 6 fingers and toes -- 1 Chronicles
20:6 – Giant had six fingers and six toes
[11] Genesis 4:15 – Cain gets
mark… Maybe he got stretched
[12] Genesis 6:5-7 – God was
grieved at the wickedness and evil of man
[13] Genesis 5:23-24 –
Methuselah’s father Enoch didn’t die; he was translated
[14] 2 Peter 3:8 – A day is like
a thousand years to God.
[15] Genesis 5:27 – Methuselah
lived 969 years; just short of one of God’s days.
[16] Genesis 2:17 – The day
that you eat of the tree you will die
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