Let’s
start with Genesis 6:1-4:
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
It says
the “sons of God” and daughters of men bore giants, mighty men of renown.
Curiosity compels asking this question: 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. A strange idea. There
is not one verse of Scripture backing this theory. No Scripture anywhere 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 wild idea proves that
you can’t always follow the commentators.
As it
turns out, the phrase “sons of God” does appear elsewhere in 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, this is at the time of the creation of the earth. Notice how the
"sons of God" were present. But as you read the order of events in
the first chapter of Genesis, man was not created at this time; that was later.
Thus, the only ones who were there with God were the angels. 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 simply translates the Hebrew word in
Genesis 6, instead of “sons of God,” they straightforward call them angels.
Thus, with these three proofs, the "sons of God" in Genesis 6 were,
by all reasonable accounts, angels.
Why is
it so hard for modern commentators to accept this? Because it is followed by a
strange supernatural event. Other Scriptures show that these Genesis 6 angels
earlier rebelled against God and were thus called fallen angels. That Satan himself was their chief (as Isa
14:12 and following show). So Genesis 6 is saying, these fallen angels,
who were immortal, lusted after earth women. They had sex with them; they had
babies, called Nephilim, that were giants.
I will
further speculate that their aberrant children were not only giants, but
violent. In any event, further in Genesis 6 show that God was so sick of the
situation that He brought about a flood under Noah that wiped the entire
population away, except Noah’s family; which I presume had the only DNA that
were unpolluted.
Now, to
answer an objection some of you knowledgeable folk might raise, it’s true that
Jesus said in Matthew 22 that heavenly angels are unmarried, but
these in Genesis are rule-breakers, and not heavenly--their ultimate
destination is hell. Anyway, they took human form--as men. This is not
unusual; it happens many times in Scripture, such as Genesis 19. So, back
to Genesis 6, the fallen angels entered earth with a physical body, to have sex
and to marry. But this broke God’s rule. What rule, you ask? The
one hinted at in another Scripture, which again will back our theory up. In the
Book of Jude, 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; we can presume they broke it by becoming
humans on earth. God punished them by
placing them in “chains under darkness.” Note what Jude says:
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; 7as
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
the “similar manners” tying these angels to Sodom. But it is easy to tie the
Jude angels to the Genesis 6 angels. There
were two characteristics both possessed: first, in Sodom, they had "given
themselves over to sexual immorality." The same is true of Genesis
angels: They lusted and wanted to have sex with these desirable women so much
that they were willing to leave their domain, heaven, though they knew they
would be punished severely for it. Secondly, note the reference in Jude to
their going after "strange flesh." That's true in the Genesis 6
angels simply because angels are immortal and earth women are mortal. So
angelic "flesh" is not human flesh. It's strange flesh. Thus, the
reference in Jude has to be the same angels that are spoken about in Genesis 6.
This is
confirmed, and proven again, by II Peter 2. Note the “chains of darkness”
again. Just that phrase ties Jude and II
Peter together. I’ll read II Peter now:
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;
Note
another connection; this time to Noah.
This ties II Peter back to Genesis 6, where Noah was introduced. Thus, all
three verses—Genesis, Jude, and II Peter-- speak of the same angels, lusting
after earth women in Genesis 6.
I
remind you that those angels were rebellious and fallen. The angels that stayed in heaven who were NOT
disobedient; these are the ones that 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.
The
evil result was that the babies turned out to be giants. Why giants? Now
I get to my very important point for the rest of this paper: The story is the DNA. Angel DNA is not human; but mixed with human
DNA of the women, that sex act with "strange flesh" produced aberrant
children who grew to be giants. Now here’s another point in the theory: When
the children grew up, their activities were at the same time as a vast increase
in violence and evil, as we shall see in Scripture. The question is, were
the appearance of the giants and increase in evil cause and effect? The
key is the word “then.” Note how fast
the connection of the giants and violence are told. 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. 7 So
the Lord said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the face
of the earth…12 So God looked upon the earth, and indeed it was
corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.
Tying
the giants to violence is easy; the giants were loved by the people for their
sinful ability to conquer and kill 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, the blood shed. 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 giants 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
had faster than anything. I’m sure they were happy for the attention, and
it boosted their ego—egged them on to perform outrageous feats for entertainment.
How many men could a giant kill? 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
further prove my speculation on this detail, there is the word “corrupt” in
Gen. 6:12, which I read above. In Hebrew,
the word means “marred, spoiled, perverted,” and “injured.” So their
corruptness was not just moral, as perverted says, but the words marred and
injured guide us to something physical. I speculate that the mixed DNA of
the angel and the women perverted and physically injured, the DNA genes of
their descendants. Because of that
injury, they became an aberration, the giants. The giants and their
parents then probably spread these corrupted genes around. We can assume
they, with their giant egos, had casual sex. Women would certainly be
attracted. Their female "casual sex" partners probably had sex
with others. Those babies’ DNA would be corrupted, and on down it would
go with their partners passing it on to others ,until it perverts a great
number of people's DNA (think about the rapid spread of sexual diseases; then
think about the Delta variant; don't all of these spread rapidly from a small
starting point?). The thing to 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. Now also keep in mind: 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 deserve heaven. That’s
because God's plan of salvation was strictly for humans. We humans are the people in His image. These giants, their genes, were NOT humans,
but an aberrant 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 unsaveable. Perhaps we could also understand
why God would want to start over, at
least with humans, 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, I have several more Bible
quotes to consider. And do 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 as an explanation for strange
events. And they also shy away from showing God's anger in judgment. They want
to sell more books. Actually, though, supernatural
events are what God is all about. Think about Mary, Jesus’ mother.
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 that speak of basically the same thing,
it more than likely really happened. I'm thinking of the demigod giants. 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 by humans? Perhaps
the simple explanation is, they were built by these giants in that day.
So, God
wanted to start over with Noah’s immediate family, perhaps the only ones left
who had pure DNA. 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 angels were at it
again, later, taking human form. Scripture shows some more of these giants, on
a lesser scale, were still being born, after the Flood. (Trace the word
“Nephilim” or "Rephaim" in Scripture, using the NIV Bible, and don’t
forget Goliath. And don't forget Og of Bashan).
I’d
like to take a little rabbit path below. I realize I am dipping into
speculation now for awhile, 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,
Everybody
focuses on the feasting and marriages, and the lesson they get is that people
are not thinking of God, and no one is aware that judgment is coming. But
the simple truth is, men weren’t thinking about God or a second coming much in any
time period, so why did God pick Noah’s day as the particular comparison for judgment?
Well, what’s starting to happen today? Have you ever heard the term
“editing DNA,” or “recombinant DNA?” Or, have you ever heard the word
"transhumanism?" An interesting article in Wired magazine’s
August 2015, issue, gives the good side of altering DNA. To quote: “Using
the three-year-old technique, researchers have already reversed mutations that
cause blindness, stopped cancer cells from multiplying, and made cells
impervious to the virus that causes AIDS. Agronomists have rendered wheat
invulnerable to killer fungi like powdery mildew, hinting at engineered staple
crops that can feed a population of 9 billion on an ever-warmer planet.
Bioengineers have used Crispr--that's the name of the technique--to alter the
DNA of yeast so that it consumes plant matter and excretes ethanol. This promises an end to reliance on
petrochemicals.”
All
good results, right? But the article also shows a little of the
questionable side of it. I 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. It’s all done in
the quiet.
Bioweapons.
Invasive mutants. I don't know what that is, but "mutants" catches my
eye. Reading further on transhumanism, these DNA mixing are creating what they call
a chimera. That word’s meaning’s meaning: "In medicine, a person composed of two genetically
distinct types of cells." 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.
But
there is a problem. We can't predict side effects. Did Satan know that
the mixed-DNA babies of angels and women would be giants? Not until it happened. There’s also a rumor, with some support, that
the giants had six fingers and six toes.
Despite the risks, I'm sure 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? 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
headline says, “Easy DNA editing will remake the world.” What’s really
spooky is the subheading: "The Genesis Engine"
Thus my
final point in my theory: If we 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 unsaveable. 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, and for 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. By the way, note that that term "beast" is an unusual
description of a man. It could conceivably mean he is partly animal and partly
human. And note his extreme hatred of God and his extreme persecution of
God's people in Revelation 13, where I quote:
And all
the world marveled and followed the beast. 4 So they worshiped the
dragon (or Satan) 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?”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, 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.
Acknowledgement:
David Bercot, CD, “Satan and the Demons,” Scroll Publishing.
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