Let’s start with Genesis 6:1-5, 7:
Now it
came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and
daughters were born to them, 2 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. 3 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.” 4 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. …So the Lord said, “I will destroy man whom I have
created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and
birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.” 8 But
Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
Now
read the New Living Translation of Genesis 6:4:
In those days, and for some time after, giant Nephilites
lived on the earth, for whenever the sons of God had intercourse with women,
they gave birth to children who became the heroes and famous warriors of
ancient times.
The New
King James says the “sons of God” and daughters of men bore giants, mighty men
of renown. Curiosity compels us to ask: Who are the “sons of God?”
Modern commentators say they were the descendants of Seth, the third son of
Adam and Eve, the godly son from whom Jesus came after many generations.
The phrase “daughters of men,” they also say, refers to the descendants of
Cain, the wicked son of Adam who killed Abel. So, plugging in these
definitions, what are they saying? That
the marriages of godly men and ungodly women produced giants. What? There is
not one verse of Scripture backing this theory. No Scripture anywhere, either,
refers to the descendants of Seth as “sons of God.” Why are godly men and
ungodly women singled out? Why not the
reverse? And why would their sexual
union produce giants? Their theory is too odd. This unprovable idea
proves that you can’t always follow the commentators.
You can
see why I like the NLT above. It clearly says the children of this union were Nephilites,
a word used in many other translations; and it clearly says it was the sexual
union between “sons of God” and earth women, women in general, that produced
giants. More on that later.
There
is more proof about who the “sons of God” are. As it turns out, the
phrase “sons of God” does appear elsewhere in NKJV Scripture. We
find it in Job 38, where God is chastising Job for not seeing the big picture
of His sovereignty. He is speaking here of the creation of the earth.
Here is God talking to Job:
“Where
were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have
understanding. 5 Who determined its measurements? Surely
you know! Or who stretched the line upon it? 6 To what
were its foundations fastened? Or who laid its cornerstone, when the
morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted
for joy?
I
remind you, God is referring to the time of the creation of the earth; notice
how the "sons of God" were present. But as you read the order of Creation
in the first chapter of Genesis, man was not created at the very beginning of
Creation represented here; that was later. Thus, the only ones who were there
with God were the angels. So they
have to be the "sons of God.”
For
further proof, in Job 1 and 2, when Satan appears in heaven to accuse
Job, angels are in attendance and are again called by that name, “sons of
God." For my third and final proof, one translation of the Bible, the
Septuagint, was so reliable that its Old Testament was used by the early
apostles, such as Paul and Peter. It translates the Hebrew word in Genesis 6 by
not calling them “sons of God;” they straightforward translate it “angels.”
Thus, with these three proofs, the "sons of God" in Genesis 6 were,
by all reasonable accounts, angels.
But
most of us believe angels are always good. These angels, however, seem to
be breaking God’s command; after all, they knew that their DNA was immortal but
the earth women’s DNA was mortal—so that something aberrant would result. But Scriptures (Isaiah 14:12ff) show
that there were angels that earlier rebelled against God and were called fallen
angels. Satan himself was their
chief, being the first fallen angel. So Genesis 6 is probably blaming these
fallen angels, as lusting after earth women. They had sex with them; they had
babies, called Nephilim, that were giants.
Genesis
6 also shows that God was so sick of the corrupt culture that He brought about
a flood under Noah that wiped the entire population of humanity away, except
Noah’s family; which I presume (speculation, to be partially proved later) had
the only DNA that were unpolluted.
Now, to
answer an objection that some of you knowledgeable folk might raise--it’s true
that Jesus said in Matthew 22 that heavenly angels are unmarried, so they
therefore would not lust after women. But these angels in Genesis 6 are
rule-breakers, and not heavenly--their ultimate destination is hell. Despite
being spirits, they took human form--as men (that happens often when demon expulsion
is spoken of—even today; they desire to live in human bodies). So, the fallen
angels entered earth and broke God’s rule by taking upon themselves physical
bodies, to have sex and to marry—and to have children.
Here is
another Scripture which will back our theory up. In the Book of Jude, verse 6, some
angels are accused of the sin of “not keeping their proper domain,” and leaving
“their own abode.” Their proper domain was originally heaven. But they broke
that rule, and became fallen--to earth (PS: Fallen angels are not in hell).
It's fair to assume that when they became humans on earth, that was
not keeping their proper domain; and, they messed with human births, society,
and generation, which was outside His commands as well. So God punished them by placing them in
“chains under darkness.” As it says in Jude 6:
And the
angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has
reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the
great day fire.
Now,
another proof; please read Jude 7:
7 as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the
cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over
to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example,
suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
Note that
Sodom and Gomorrah are called a “similar manner to these.” How are they
similar? Their proper abode, sexually, was with women. In Sodom, they
had "given themselves over to sexual immorality…after strange flesh."
Scripture means homosexuality. That’s strange flesh. The same idea is
true of Genesis angels: They lusted and wanted to have sex with mortal women so
much that they were willing to leave their domain, though they knew they would
be punished severely for it. Immortal angelic “flesh,” even taking on a human
form, is not human flesh. Sexually preying on mortal women is strange flesh.
Thus, the reference in Jude has to be the same angels that are spoken about in
Genesis 6. Jude and Genesis are tied together.
This is
confirmed, and proven again, by II Peter 2. Note the “chains of darkness”
reference again, which now ties all three Scriptures together. Here's II Peter:
For....God
did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and
delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment 5 and
did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a
preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly
Now we have three verses that are tied together;
angels that sinned, and put into chains of darkness for breaking God’s
commands. Noah also ties II Peter to Genesis. Those angels were
rebellious and fallen. The angels that
stayed in heaven who were NOT disobedient are the ones that carry out God's
commands in Scripture, and protect us now, including fighting with "rulers
of the darkness of this age," making warnings and happy announcements to
humans, and worshiping God in heaven.
Back to
the union of fallen angels and women. The evil result was that the babies
turned out to be giants. Why giants? Now I get to my very important
speculation: I think the reason is in the DNA.
Angel DNA is not human; but, if mixed with human DNA of the women, that
sex act with "strange flesh" produced aberrant DNA and aberrant children--who
can predict how that DNA mix would result? This is not impossible to believe,
especially since we can observe DNA now, and even change it.
Now
here’s another point in the theory: It's true that when the children grew up,
their activities were at the same time (as it says in Genesis) as a vast
increase in violence and evil. The question is, were the appearance of
the giants and increase in evil, cause and effect? It’s possible. The likely
answer to that is the Scriptural word “then.”
Note how fast the giants and violence are close to one another in
Scripture. Reading further in Genesis 6:
Those (the
giants) were the mighty men who were of old, men of
renown. 5 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. 6 And
the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was
grieved in His heart…12 So God looked upon the earth, and
indeed it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.
When
you think about it, tying the giants to increase of violence is easy. The
giants were loved by the people for their sinful ability to conquer and kill.
Let's just show our giant the enemy--and in those days, anyone not of your
tribe could be your enemy. Thus, if a tribe has a giant, they'll attack
other tribes to conquer them for booty, slaves, and women. This heightens the
killing, and the bloodshed. It seems reasonable to then suspect that the
giants, the greatest of warrior-heroes who ever lived, were often worshiped as
demigods. After all, they had one parent mortal, the other parent
immortal—there would have been a fascination with them just because of that.
(It would also explain the stories of powerful demigods like Atlas and
Hercules, and others in world literature of the day.) They were called “men of
renown”—the public knew them. They were rock stars in that day. They were
incredibly strong. Based on Galileo's estimates of size and weight, they
could easily have weighed over 3000 pounds! They also had superior intellect
and could make weapons of war (see Genesis 4 and 11). I suspect Satan
passed along a lot of information to them. So, I see men falling into idolatry
by worshiping these creatures. And idolatry will ruin any godliness you
used to have faster than anything. I’m sure the Nephilim were happy for the attention, and it boosted
their ego—egged them on to perform outrageous feats for entertainment. How
many of these women can I take on? How many men could a giant kill? The
people asked, Can we capture more men, make them slaves, take advantage of
their wives, loot their houses, with this giant as our leader? Let’s find out!
To
prove my DNA speculation, let's take a closer look at the Word in Genesis
6:9. It says that Noah "was a just man, perfect in his
generations.“ The combined reference of "perfect"
and "generations" (not used elsewhere in Scripture), really suggests
the possibility of DNA perfection down through his family's years, unlike
others who had corrupted their DNA by inheriting it from a fallen angel
ascendant who had passed it down. Speaking of “corruptness” of
men, let's take a closer look at that word, used twice in Genesis 6:12.
In Hebrew, the word means “marred, spoiled, perverted,” and “injured.” So their
corruptness was not just immoral, as "perverted" says--the
definitions included "marred" and "injured," which guide us
to some physical harm. I speculate that the mixed DNA of the angel and
the women perverted and physically injured, or radically changed the DNA genes
of their descendants. I speculate that
the giants and their parents then probably spread these corrupted genes
around. We can assume that they, with their giant egos, had casual sex.
Women would certainly be attracted. Their female "casual sex"
partners probably had sex with others. Any resulting babies’ DNA would be
corrupted, and on down it would go with their partners passing it on to others,
and it multiplies geometrically through each generation until it perverts a
great number of people's DNA (think about the rapid spread of sexual diseases;
don't all of these spread super-rapidly from a small starting point?).
The thing to also keep in mind is the extended life span they had to spread their
corrupted DNA. We're talking a lifespan of over 800 years, on average. Imagine
how many people you could corrupt over THAT life! Now, finally: If you pervert
the gene pool, you can’t go back and make it right again. I also believe (and
this is speculation) that a person who is not really human, with aberrant DNA,
cannot experience salvation from hell; cannot repent to be godly or heaven-bound.
That’s because God's plan of salvation was strictly for humans. We humans are the people in His image. These giants, and their genes, were NOT
humans, but a hybrid. They were not in
His image. Look how Noah was considered a preacher of righteousness in II
Peter 2--yet, in 120 years that he worked on the ark and explained to everyone
its purpose, he couldn't save one person outside his immediate family!
That's unusual failure. That failure has to have been caused by preaching
to a group of people that were completely unreceptive. The simplest explanation
is, they couldn't be turned to righteousness, because they were not
human. So if we ever wonder about why God killed everyone except 8 people,
perhaps He had a legitimate reason; maybe they were tainted and unsavable.
Perhaps we could also understand why God would want to start over, at least
with humans, with those whose DNA had not been corrupted. They would have a
chance at salvation. He loves to see
people saved.
Lest
you think this story is just too strange to be true, let’s not throw away this
idea because you've never heard it before. Modern commentators often have
a flaw they learned in seminary; they shy away from the supernatural (except
in cases like Mary, or cases that most people accept), as an explanation for
strange events. They see it as a cop-out from rational thinking (and they take
great pride in being rational). And they also shy away from showing God's
anger in judgment. They want to sell more books. Negative subjects or wild
fantasy are killers for book sales.
Actually,
though, supernatural events are what God is all about. Think about Mary
and Joseph, and the number of times a dream or a word actually from God helped
them. If I had a daughter who got pregnant, what would people say when I
told them, “she is still a virgin—she has never known a man. The child’s
father is God.” Would I be believed? No. But was it true nevertheless?
Yes. Likewise, the Resurrection is hard to believe, but it happened--nothing is
impossible with God. And also consider the anthropologists’ argument
that, when many societies have a legend, it more than likely that the
core of it really happened. I'm thinking of the demigod giants. They were
spoken of, not just in Europe. Also in India and in the East they have such
stories.
I’m
also thinking of this: Don't we have
huge structures and detailed perfection in weighty materials, that
archaeologists and architects say could not have been engineered or put
together by humans? Perhaps the simple explanation is, they were in fact not
humans--they were built by giants in that day.
So, God
wanted to start over with Noah’s immediate family, perhaps the only ones left
who had pure DNA, uncorrupted by sex with a not-savable recipient of corrupted
DNA. Well, what happened to the Nephilim, the giants? Physically, they died
with the Flood. But their evil spirits lived on, since they were
immortal. Satan was not done with corrupting men, so the fallen angels were
still living, still under his command, and they were "at it" again,
later, taking human form and enjoying sex, and messing in society. Scripture
implies this: take another look at Genesis 6:4 again:
There were giants on the earth in those days, and
also afterward (the NLT says: “and for some time after”).
The
Bible has many references to giants later; they were still being born after the
Flood. (Trace the word “Nephilim” or "Rephaim" in Scripture,
using the NIV Bible, and you will also see other tribes mentioned with giants,
like Emim, Zamzummim, and Anakim (Deut. 2)). And, of course, don’t forget
Goliath. His angelic physique was reduced by many generations—he was more
human than angelic, since he was at the end of the giants. (And look up Og of
Bashan). I would like to add another speculation: Since all of the tribes just
mentioned were Canaanites, could it be that All the Canaanites were unsavable?
Is that why God wanted the Israelites to kill ALL of them? He was interested in
maintaining men’s genes human; killing all the tainted ones would have been the
only way to prevent another Noah’s “wipeout” happening again. The Israelites did
not do a complete job of obeying God’s orders; that would be why there were
some giants left.
Think
what that would mean: when God put His promised Land in Canaanite country, the
devil made sure it was filled with giants. When God told the Israelites to
attack them, He wanted them to attack men who were several feet taller than
them. When the scouts were sent out as spies, they praised the country, but
felt like grasshoppers compared to the giants. Numbers 13:33:
We saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak come from the
Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same
to them
It
would have taken a real leap of faith to attack these men; to all but two of
the Israelites, it was a suicide mission. In answer to that, God made sure none
of the men and women with no faith would survive the next 40 years in the
wilderness. A harsh sentence! But when the kids grew up, they didn’t hesitate
to go on the attack. Their memory, and newfound faith, found a way, with God’s
help.
I’d
like to take a little rabbit path below, making things up-to-date. I realize I
am dipping into speculation now, but it’s interesting stuff.
Jesus
said the end times would be like the days of Noah, in Matthew
24:36-38. Here is part of His teaching:
“But of
that day and hour (that is, end times) no one knows….but My Father only.37 But
as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.38 For
as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and
giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark
In what
way will the end times be like Noah's day? They ate and drank too much,
they forgot about God--much like today. But the simple truth is, men haven’t
thought about a second coming for Judgment much in any time period, so why did God pick Noah’s day as the particular
comparison for judgment? One scenario is, today's scientists are getting
close to the ability to mess with DNA, and create monster-men eager for war and
violence. Chimeras (more than one DNA) with extraordinary advantages are
being created. Have you ever heard the term “editing DNA,” or
“recombinant DNA?” Or, have you ever heard the word "transhumanism?"
An interesting article in Wired in August 2017, issue, gives the
good side of altering DNA. Their headline is "Transhumanism And The Future Of Humanity: 7 Ways The
World Will Change By 2030." They cite DARPA and claim that that
agency is working on making humans more “augmented.” Their ultimate goal is making humans live
"forever" and supposedly live a more fulfilling life. Much of this
controversial subject is secret now, especially regarding DARPA. But here is another
article:
- The Economist, in March of this year, has
noted that advances in genetic engineering might allow for performance
enhancements beyond the limits of diet and exercise. Research has
successfully used gene therapy to build significant muscle mass in mice
(often referred to as "super mice" in headlines), which points
to the underlying biological potential of these technologies.
- The
gene-splicing technique CRISPR is a prominent topic in
science magazines and journals due to its efficiency in editing the human
genome, which has fueled discussions about both therapeutic and
enhancement uses.
But articles consistently
highlight the profound ethical issues surrounding human enhancement. Concerns
include:
- Safety and
Unintended Outcomes: The risk of off-target
mutations and unforeseen side effects is a major concern.
- Social
Inequality: There
are fears that if genetic modification becomes widely available, it would
be used by the wealthy first, exacerbating existing socioeconomic
disparities and potentially creating a "genetically stratified"
society.
- "Designer
Humans": There
is ongoing debate about the moral boundary between using gene editing for
preventative medicine (e.g., removing serious diseases) and using it for
enhancement (e.g., increasing muscle strength or intelligence).
Military
Interest: Some articles, such as one in the South China
Morning Post mentioned by the United Church of God blog,
have discussed Chinese military scientists exploring the use of animal DNA to
create "super soldiers" with increased resistance to radiation, a
concept also explored in general human enhancement discussions.
Bioweapons.
Invasive mutants. Reading further on transhumanism, these DNA mixing are
creating chimeras. By mixing man's DNA with creatures' DNA, they can mix
in the creature's superiority in some trait. What if soldiers had the benefits
of the eyes and ears of the bat, so they could see and hear better in the
semi-darkness? They would have a great advantage if they attacked terrorists at
dusk or just before sunrise.
To
quote Wired again: “designer babies, invasive mutants,
species-specific bioweapons, and a dozen other apocalyptic sci-fi tropes. It
brings with it all-new rules for the practice of research in the life sciences.
But no one knows what the rules are—or who will be the first to break them.” At
least, successfully.
But despite
the risks, I'm sure that that won't stop the military; they would love to
develop mixing in these creatures into soldiers' DNA. They could breed
super-soldiers, the kind that could kill more people, hear and see them better,
maybe mixing in ant DNA so they could comfortably carry more weight, making
them more efficient and durable. And I'll bet they could also
psychologically engineer them to not feel remorse. Those countries who
have this technology would use it to attack other nations who don’t have the
money or the scientific capability to develop it. This would kick off a
scramble of many wars of oppression and land-grabbing again, on a scale like it
hasn’t been for centuries. That’s the military’s dream
scenario--assuming, they figure, we could win such wars. As for the other
purposes of editing DNA--most everybody would like perfect babies. With
that, we could say good-by to the flaws of natural birth and natural
genes. Does that sound great too? No? But what if only some parents
could afford it, others couldn't? Then we'd be talking about who gets the
designer genes, who doesn't. Separate schools would have to be built for
the mutant intelligence. This is starting to sound like X-Men. Then we're back
to the Superior Race stuff again, a replay of Nazism, and that didn't turn out
good. Every one of these results has an immoral end-play. More wars, more
killing, more oppression, slavery, superior races, no remorse. Man creates bad
with far more devastation than his creation of good.
So here
we are, messing with DNA again, looking at the possibility of unpredictable
sinful results again. There are no rules, so I guarantee some scientists
are on a quest to expand DNA editing, no matter the results. The Wired
article’s sub-headline was spooky and probably prophetic, "The Genesis
Engine."
This “third scenario” of Nephilim could go like: Satan
sends his demonic angels to have sex with women again, and giants are produced
again. These giants perform the same way they did in Noah's day, with the
same worship, and tragic results--war, bloodshed, and oppression. End-times
stuff. Or, they could come in a spacecraft, and pretend to be aliens visiting
us because they “seeded” the earth millions of years ago (they say). Many
people could worship them (one world religion), if they could stop war and
chaos, and bring economic justice and higher standards of living. Now we’re
close to Revelation 13:3-4:
And all the world marveled and
followed the beast. 4 So they worshiped the dragon who
gave authority to the beast; and they worshiped the beast,
saying, “Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with
him?”
Thus my
final point in my theory: If we, or satan, corrupt DNA again, we again
have superior "people," or really hybrid trans-humans, who are
revered for their killing power and for their intelligence. Since they are a
chimera of DNAs, and not in God’s image, and not human, they are again
unsavable. Like Noah. They would again be prone to ego, violence, and
oppression. It also could lead to many wars and land-grabbing, and man
oppressing man. Now think about it: Does this not sound like a Scriptural
description for the Beast's environment in Revelation? Would this not help
generate the wars predicted in the End Times? The Beast is a great warrior and
general, with an ego to match. He loves being worshipped. And plenty of people
are willing to be his lackeys. Is the Revelation’s “Beast” a
"demigod," super-strong, unsavable, ego-driven, partly evil angel and
partly Man? Is that why he is called a "beast" in
Scripture? And note his extreme hatred of God and his extreme
persecution of God's people in Revelation 13:5ff:
5 And
he was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, and he was given
authority to continue for forty-two months. 6 Then he opened his
mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His name, His tabernacle, and
those who dwell in heaven. 7 It was granted to him to make war with
the saints and to overcome them. And authority was given him over every
tribe, tongue, and nation. 8 All who dwell on the earth will
worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb
slain from the foundation of the world.
If the
Beast is a DNA-edited creature, along with lots of other warriors that are
chimera-produced by man or directed by satan, that may mean judgment day is
coming again--the Last Days. We're not far off from editing DNA, so we
may not be far off from end times. I have other blogs that say more about
the chronological events of end times, and my Scripture-based belief that
Scripture proves that Christians will have to live through this Great
Tribulation from Matthew 24 and Revelation 6-13. It will be a world
of great danger.
Are you
ever fearful for the future, for yourself and your children? Would you
want them to live in a world where you have no answers for the things that are
happening? Where you are always feeling unsafe? You can receive help by
falling into the arms of Jesus. He has a claim on your obedience to His
commands in Scripture--He loved you enough to die for you. And He is the winner
in the battle with the Beast.
Acknowledgement:
David Bercot, CD, “Satan and the Demons,” Scroll Publishing.
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