Lesson 8 Given the mating of angels and humans in Genesis 6, consider the union of that offspring. What would the offspring be like? The Bible calls them the Nephilim. They are the mighty men of old, the men of renown. They are also the problem children that brought on the flood. [Gen 6:5 ESV] 5 The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. [Gen 6:13 ESV] 13 And God said to Noah, "I have determined to make an end of all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth. Who is the them mentioned in Genesis 6:13? It has to be the Nephilim. The Bible speaks about the wickedness of mankind leading up to the Flood. The Bible points out that it is these Nephilim that are the cause. The Book of Enoch leaves no doubt that it was the offspring of this union that brought about the need for God to wipe out mankind (except for Noah) and start over again. So here we have the product of this Genesis 6 union as partly from the spirit world, and partly from the earthly world. What is God to do with a being such as that? In Hebrews, the Bible says that God does not offer salvation to angels. But He does offer salvation to men. [Heb 2:16-17 NKJV] 16 For indeed He does not give aid to angels, but He does give aid to the seed of Abraham. 17 Therefore, in all things He had to be made like [His] brethren, that He might be a merciful and faithful High Priest in things [pertaining] to God, to make propitiation [atonement] for the sins of the people. What will God do when you have a hybrid combination of angels who can t get salvation, and humans who can get salvation? Can a Nephilim obtain salvation? Enoch 15:6 16:1 It would appear the answer is no. It also appears that the dead spirits of the Nephilim are earthbound and are prime candidates to be the demons. The Book of Enoch suggests that. Luke 11:14-16; 21-26 Note that the spirits in verses 24-26 are seeking rest. The only place they find rest is indwelling an earthbound creature [in this case a man]. That would complement the Book of Enoch position that the spirit offspring of the angel-human union is condemned to earth; not the heavenly places. Their dead spirits would be confined to earth, but it doesn t say they are confined in the earth. They are basically being labeled in the Book of Enoch as the evil spirits the Bible speaks of. In other words, the demons.
But what about the spirits that are confined within the earth? Who are they? Enoch 15:2-4 Enoch 10:11-14 The angels who came down and indulged in the sexual relations were entombed in the earth and were sentenced to never see heaven again. Now that we have looked at the Book of Enoch, let s go back and read Jude. When you get to verse 6, does it read a whole lot clearer now than it did the first time you read it? Now read 2 Peter 2:4-11. It also should read with more clarity for you than it ever did before. 1 Peter 3:18-20 The Bible says that two or more witnesses are needed to establish a charge. The witnesses I pick for my charge that the sons of God in Genesis 6 are rebellious angels are Peter and Jude. Who are the biblical witnesses for the Sethite theory? [2Co 13:1 ESV] 1 This is the third time I am coming to you. Every charge must be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. The key to all this focus and dialogue upon Genesis 6 is not to incite a theological argument. That is not God s intention when one reads Genesis 6. It is not my intention also. Instead, it is to lay the groundwork for what we will study next week, which is to explain the genocidal activities of the nation of Israel, as commanded by God, as they enter the Promised Land. If you do not have this angelic understanding of Genesis 6, you in turn will not have any understanding at all or any explanation at all as to why God mandated genocide when the Israelites entered the Promised Land. That is why a proper understanding of Genesis 6 is important. What is the grand strategy behind Genesis 6? Is it really just sexually-aroused angels? Back in Genesis 3, Satan was told that he was going to be defeated through the seed of the woman. Satan, therefore, needs to stop this seed from coming about. Satan does not know who this seed will be. Therefore, Satan is trying to corrupt the entire seed of mankind to stop this Human from coming through the seed of the woman. He doesn t know who the seed of the woman will be, but if he can eliminate the biological seed of the woman, then there won t be a messianic seed of the woman.
Satan is trying to corrupt the DNA of humankind so that this human seed cannot come about who is to defeat him. He is trying to make the world an inhabitation of hybrid, quasi-human seed. That way, the seed of the woman cannot come about. It must be noted in Genesis 6:9 that Noah was perfect in his generations. [Gen 6:9 NKJV] 9 This is the genealogy of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God. The term perfect means complete, whole, without spot or blemish. The term generations means his quality or his condition; his makeup; his lineage. Therefore, Noah was without spot or blemish in the quality of his lineage. This is not talking about Noah s moral makeup. It is talking about Noah s DNA composition. In other words, Noah s bloodline had not been corrupted by the hybrid angel DNA. Apparently, the angel DNA had become so pervasive throughout mankind that it was necessary for God to completely wipe out mankind and start over again. The physical makeup of mankind was being diverted away from being pure humanness. Noah s DNA (and his family s) was still pure human. The Book of Enoch said the angel action of coming down to the daughters of men was begun in the time of Jared. (Jared was Enoch s father). That gave this DNA corruption a maximum of 1,200 years to blossom and permeate throughout the seed of mankind before the Flood. The key to the story is the offspring; the Nephilim the unusually large men of the angel-human cohabitation. They are the direct, corrupt result of this angel-human cohabitation. [Gen 6:4 ESV] 4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them Did you catch that? The Nephilim were also on the earth after the Flood. How and why does that come about? Genesis 6 says it happens in the same fashion as it did before the Flood; through the union of more angels with human women. Where do we see giants on the other side of the Flood? We see them in the land of Canaan. Numbers 13:1-3; 17-33 Note in verse 33 that the sons of Anak come from the Nephilim. One would imply from this that the Nephilim are capable of producing their own offspring. Numbers 14:6-9 Note verse 8.
[Num 14:8 ESV] 8 If the LORD delights in us, he will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land that flows with milk and honey. Why did God tell them to spy out the land in the first place? Was it because God didn t know anything about the land? It was because God was testing them. Joshua and Caleb sensed this as they said; If the LORD delights in us, he will bring us into this land and give it to us. They understood that this spy game was a test from God. Note vs. 9. [Num 14:9 ESV] 9 Only do not rebel against the LORD. And do not fear the people of the land, for they are bread for us. Their protection is removed from them, and the LORD is with us; do not fear them." What was their protection? It was a demonic protection with its base foundation in the action once again of angels mating with humans. This is happening again? Why here? The initial cause was Satan trying to corrupt the seed of the woman as the person who was going to defeat him. This caused him to try and corrupt all seed across all mankind because he did not know who the seed would be. But on the other side of the flood, Satan now has more specific information. He observed that the Word in Genesis 15 told Abraham that the seed would come through his lineage; and not only that, but that the seed would come from the land that God was giving Abraham, namely, the land of Canaan. So now Satan has more specific information. He now only needs to have his corrupt seed set up in the land of Canaan to thwart or stop the coming of the seed. So, he now just focuses his angelic corruption upon the Promised Land. When might this have occurred? There is probably some sort of clue trying to be conveyed in Numbers 13:22. [Num 13:22 ESV] 22 They went up into the Negeb and came to Hebron. Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, were there. (Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.) The information in the parenthesis at first blush comes across as a so what? But generally, words aren t wasted in the Bible. Therefore, it is probably trying to tell us something. Hebron was the area where Abraham set up shop in the land of Canaan. [Gen 13:18 ESV] 18 So Abram moved his tent and came and settled by the oaks of Mamre, which are at Hebron, and there he built an altar to the LORD. [Gen 35:27 ESV] 27 And Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, or Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had sojourned.
[Gen 17:8 ESV] 8 And I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God." You can see the specifics imparted by God to Abraham about where he and his offspring will be established. Satan, being an astute observer, is probably also made aware of this information. We know the story of the sons of Jacob and their journey to Egypt. There is a famine in the land of Egypt and Joseph is already down there as a powerful Egyptian official. When the entire Jacob family comes to Egypt, Joseph establishes them in their own segment of land. [Gen 45:10-11 ESV] 10 You shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you shall be near me, you and your children and your children's children, and your flocks, your herds, and all that you have. 11 There I will provide for you, for there are yet five years of famine to come, so that you and your household, and all that you have, do not come to poverty. Joseph puts the family of Jacob in Goshen. What about Zoan? [Psa 78:12, 43 ESV] 12 In the sight of their fathers he performed wonders in the land of Egypt, in the fields of Zoan.... 43 when he performed his signs in Egypt and his marvels in the fields of Zoan. Zoan is probably a city associated with the establishment of the Israelites in the land of Goshen. For Hebron to be built seven years before Zoan implies that it was built during the seven years of feast that Joseph saw in his dream. ( for there are yet five years of famine to come ). Jacob and his sons (except for Joseph) were in the area surrounding Hebron. It also implies that this might be the start of the implanting of the Nephilim in the land of Canaan. (The angels coming down and repeating what they did back in Genesis 6). If so, you can see the wisdom and the hand of God in getting the family of Jacob out of there for a while. To have left them there exposed them to the risk of interbreeding with the Nephilim offspring. To get them out of that land was to keep their gene pool pure. [Gen 15:13-16 ESV] 13 Then the LORD said to Abram, "Know for certain that your offspring will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs and will be servants there, and they will be afflicted for four hundred years. 14 But I will bring judgment on the nation that they serve, and afterward they shall come out with great possessions. 15 As for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age. 16 And they shall come back here in the fourth generation, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete." The Amorites were the first peoples Moses and company came to after the 40 years of wilderness wandering where God gave them permission to attack and eliminate the culture. They traveled through Edom, Moab, and Ammon to get there. God would not let the Israelites attack those three groups because God had already eliminated the giants from their land at an earlier date. Giants in the land is the key.
It was a repeat of the Genesis 6 action that the Israelites saw. The resulting giants were identified as coming through Anak, who came from the Nephilim. [Num 13:33 ESV] 33 And there we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim), and we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them." The Nephilim come from the mating of angels and humans. The sons of Anak came from the Nephilim. Therefore, the Nephilim could produce their own offspring. Ten of the 12 spies sent into the land were intimidated by the giants and afraid of the entire society. But Joshua and Caleb saw through this Satanic action. [Num 14:24 ESV] 24 But my servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit and has followed me fully, I will bring into the land into which he went, and his descendants shall possess it. Caleb was attuned to the spiritual struggle that was surrounding the land of Canaan. [Num 14:9 ESV] 9 Only do not rebel against the LORD. And do not fear the people of the land, for they are bread for us. Their protection is removed from them, and the LORD is with us; do not fear them." Because of this Satanic design and your understanding of what was undertaken in Genesis 6 and further spelled out to us in the Book of Enoch, you can now put together why God would mandate the genocidal sweeping of the land of Canaan. But the people would not listen. They had their own set of fears; and their fears were of the forces that feared the Lord their God. So, God turned them around, took them out into the wilderness for 40 years and waited for the adult generation that was brought out of Egypt (the ones who witnessed God s mighty works) to die off. He would return with that generation s offspring 40 years later.