paper.dropbox.com/doc/Who-Are-The-Nephilim-Nqyss2ArwLfVrsj6N6JiE1. After Its Kind:
Genesis 1:11 (KJV) And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. 12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:22:. And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. 25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
So to claim that angels, who are spirits, can reproduce with humans, is to mean that both can reproduce outside of their own kind. This is counter intuitive when given the pattern that is set within Genesis, and the fact that we know that humans can only naturally reproduce with humans. God however, was able to create life within Mary, because He is the source of life.
Furthermore, in Genesis 6 we read:
9 These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
The Hebrew word for “generations” here in the Masoretic text is “dowr”, and refers to all those living at the same point in time, as opposed to the word for “seed” (zera) which refers to physical reproduction, aka DNA. Certainly Hebrew shepherds understood the concept of zera in the selective breeding of animals, yet that is not used in the text of this passage.
2. Angels Do Not Marry:
Genesis 6:2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
Matthew 22:30 For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels of God in heaven.
Mark 12:25 For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.
3.The Jude Eisegesis:
4 For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ. 5 But I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe. 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; 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 8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
What Jude is doing is NOT comparing the fallen angels to the Sodomites, he is comparing the Egyptians, the fallen angels, and the Sodomites to the 1st century false teachers described in verse 4, who like them were condemned for their unbelief (v.5); they also defiled the flesh (like the Sodomites), despised dominion (like the fallen angels) and spoke evil of dignitaries (like the Egyptians); this is written in reverse to what is presented because it is an ancient literary form of emphasis called a chiasm.
4. Surviving the Flood:
How could the other usage of the word nephilim in Num 13:33 be possible, given that the Flood killed all flesh on the earth in Genesis 7? It reads as follows:
21 And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of *every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man: 22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.*23 And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
So what this view does is make scripture logically contradict itself, since these “giants” were flesh, and yet we find more giants after the Flood. Being the word of God, it cannot do that. However, we can contradict; thus, the origin of this supposed contradiction is not with God, but man.
We cannot have the “giants” surviving the flood. Some may say that more angels could have mated with humans later, but how can that not also trigger the wrath of God then, and why doesn’t this happen elsewhere in history, or even today? Also, that creates another issue with the common interpretation of Jude in point 3, that those angels who may have mated with women were thrown into the abyss.
5. Giants Among Men:
Hebrew is not an abstract language, like Greek or most of English, it is a concrete language that bases words on the five senses. As this explains:
“In our minds we would never relate an oak tree to a ram or view them as the same. The reason being is that we relate to features and appearances. However, the Hebrews relate to the function and in the case of the oak and the ram, they function in the same way. An oak tree is a very hard wood and the horns and skull of a ram are equally as hard. For this reason, the Hebrew word איל (ayil) is used for a ram (see Genesis 22:13) and an oak (see Isaiah 1:29).”
www.ancient-hebrew.org/language_philosophy.html So thus in the Hebrew language, a “giant” does not necessarily refer to physical size. In fact, the singular for nephilim is nephyl, which in turn comes from the root naphal which means “to fall”. The Gesenius' Hebrew-Chaldee Lexicon definition prefers “falling on, or attacking”. Thus the “nephilim” are those who fall, or are apostate, rebellious, violent, aggressive, or tyrannical:
www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H5303&t=KJVSo thus, “giants” can refer to their inward nature, not their physical size.
6. “Loveliness”
In all the genealogy proceeding Genesis 6, aside from Eve, there is only 3 other women listed by name:
Adah, whose name means “ornament” or “beautiful”:
www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H5711&t=KJVZillah, whose name means “shadow”, whose root-words may go back to the word for “dark”:
www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H5711&t=KJVNaamah: whose name means “loveliness” or “pleasantness”:
www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H5279&t=KJVNo women are mentioned by name in Seth’s line. Why? There is no idle word in the Bible, thus there is a purpose for telling us these names. That reason is in Genesis 6:2, and the “daughters of adam (men).
7. Daughters of the Flesh
Genesis 6: 2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
Adam in Hebrew literally means “man”:
www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H120&t=KJVPaul in the New Testament teaches in Romans 5:12-19 and 1 Corinthians 15:44-50 that we are all born in Adam, as a expression of the flesh that exists without the spirit of God in it, which died in Adam when he fell in the Garden. When Genesis 6:2 speaks of the “daughters of men” the word for “man” is adam. I believe that Paul is using “Adam” in the same sense as this is (Paul gets most, if not all, of his teaching from his understanding of the Old Testament), thus what “daughters of men” refers to is not the physical origin of all women on the face of the earth, but of the spiritual origin in the dead spirit of Adam, i.e. the “flesh” as Paul states it.
Thus “the daughters of men” are those who are of the flesh, of Adam, and of unbelief.
8. Sons of the Spirit
“Sons of God” this is one of the most misunderstood terms in the Bible. Only in Job does this refer to heavenly angels, and that may only be in Job 38:7, where the “all the sons of God shouted for joy” at the creation of the earth. All other uses of the term “Sons of God” in the rest of the Bible refers to those who are children of God by faith :
www.blueletterbible.org/search/search.cfm?Criteria=Sons+of+God&t=KJV#s=s_primary_0_1 (see also Mat 5:9, Luk 20:36, Rom 8:14, Rom 8:19, and Gal 3:26)
Thus by the phrase as defined in Biblical usage, those unfaithful angels who fell with Satan CANNOT be “Sons of God” as they are not in faith, as pointed out in Jude.
9. Of Vulgar Name:
“Mighty men which were of old, men of renown”.
this literally reads four words: gibbowr `owlam 'enowsh shem
“gibbowr”, i.e. tyrants or champions, great warriors, i.e. those who are viewed as having prominence, i.e. celebrities
www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H1368&t=KJV“`owlam” i.e., perpetual, or all the days of their life as the Gesenius' Hebrew-Chaldee Lexicon defines it:
www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H5769&t=KJV“'enowsh”, or common man, in older English usage, this might be translated as vulgar which in the old usage, meant “characteristic of or belonging to the masses” or “profane”
www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H582&t=KJVThis is a antonym of “holy” which means ”set apart”
“shem” literally means “name”. In the Hebrew culture, when you name something, you assert ownership if it, that’s why Adam’s first action of dominion is to name the animals. That’s why God renames those through whom He chooses to do something great, according to His will.
www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H8034&t=KJVConclusion:
So what is being said here is that these offspring were of great reputation, i.e. celebrity, of a perpetual, submission under unholiness, meaning that they were under the dominion of sin and not set apart from it. Thus what we have in Genesis can be understood as this:
Genesis 6:1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,2 That the sons of [the Spirit] saw the daughters of [the flesh] that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. 3 And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. 4 There were [tyrants] in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of [the Spirit] came in unto the daughters of [the flesh], and they bare children to them, the same became [celebrities] which were [perpetually], [people of unholiness]. 5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
So what this whole passage is talking about is that those of faith intermarried those of the flesh because of their physical beauty, ignoring their dead spiritual state, and thus mixed the holy and the profane, and as a result, they produced children who were famous in their long living legacy of vulgarity, not being set apart by faith, but living in the flesh.
Furthermore, Genesis 6:11 and 13 tell us that the world was filled with violence (or injustice:
www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H2555&t=KJV) as a result.
The Days of Noah
Our world loves violence today. If you can’t get the real thing, you can watch it in movies, simulate it in video games, or listen to people rant about it in music. Our media and entertainment revolves around violence and injustice. As Jesus pointed out in Matthew 5:21-28, Adultery and hatred are matters of the heart, not necessarily the hand, thus it is consistent to consider that simulated violence for entertainment is a product of the flesh, and is not edifying to the Christian.
This has huge eschatological implications. Our society is exactly like this today. If this exegesis is correct, we are in the days of Noah and we have been for decades. The world loves celebrities, disregards the spiritual beauty of a Godly partner in favor of fleshly characteristics, and loves violence and injustice.
Lord, come quickly.
