And there were giants in those days, after that the sons of God came down and mated with the daughters of men.
Seeing the females were fair they disobeyed and came down.
And there were giants as a result.
The book of Enoch tells us that those giants were caused to fight and kill each other,
and that their spirits were not allowed to leave the earth.
Even though many were killed off in their civil war, some remand, and the children of Israel were tasked
with slaying the rest of them Numbers 13:33 and any lineage to them.
And so demon spirits are those spirits of the giants.
And there are evil men that are in communication with those demons, they get direction and tasks from them.
We know from the Bible that the demons ultimate goal is the installation of the beast and false prophet. [Rev 16:13]
I believe that many of the ideas we get from modern 'science' lead to things
associated with the deceptions related to the beast and false prophet.
The beast will open his mouth in blasphemy against God, blaspheming those in heaven. [Rev 13:6]
Blaspheming, speaking lies, about what is in heaven, that is what the Bible says!
The ideas of 'outer-space' and other planets and aliens lead up to the blaspheme the beast will be saying.
I believe he will say things like how that angels are really beings from such and such planet.
Due to the generational foundation of lies, many people will be deceived.
Those following the true Messiah (John 10:27-28, Luke 6:27-49) will not be deceived.
The use of the word "giants" is interesting. Now, it's true that the translators of the LXX rendered the Hebrew word nephilim as the Greek word gigantes. There can be reasonable speculation as to why they chose to do this, but I'd suggest the reason has to do with the connection between the nephilim and people like Goliath or the inhabitants of the Canaanite city of Ai in other parts of the Old Testament. When Joshua and Caleb went into Canaan as spies, they saw large people; and specifically the inhabitants of Ai are said to be large. Goliath, likewise, is described as a man of incredible stature.
So the word gigantes, or "giant" needs to be understood in that context. Rather than trying to insert our ideas about giants, based on myths, legends, and folklore rooted in various pagan mythologies; let's take a biblical perspective.
How big was Goliath? Well according to the medieval Masoretic Text (that it is medieval is relevant here, I'll get back to that in a moment) Goliath is described as man who stood six cubits and a span tall, using modern measurements that is about 9'9" using imperial standard, and about 2.97 meters using metric. That's crazy tall, nearly 10 feet is ridiculously tall. But here's the rub, that's the height as described in the medieval Masoretic Text, the text compiled and put together by medieval Jewish academics and rabbis in part it was to revitalize the Hebrew language among Jews throughout the Diaspora. When we look at earlier texts, however, we see something slightly different. In both the Dead Sea Scrolls and the LXX we get a different height measurement, not six cubits and a span, but four cubits and a span. That's a difference of two cubits. Converting that to imperial that's 6'9", and in metric it's 2.06 meters. That is a far more reasonable height, but still really, really tall.
In a time and place where the average adult man would have stood between 5'5~5'7 (1.65~1.7 meters), that would have been crazy tall. The appelation of "giant" makes a lot of sense in that context. From the perspective of near eastern people 2,000-3,000 years ago, that's legitimately gigantic. And that makes the translation of gigantes in the LXX make a lot more sense, the translators were making their translation on the basis of what other parts of the Scriptures were saying about these later nephilim--they were really tall people.
This should dissuade us froom entertaining fabulous and mythical ideas about "giants", we do not need to etnertain myths which have their origins in paganism. We can simply let Scripture itself be our guide on understanding this.
Further, while it has been a popular opinion of some, both among some Jews and some Christians, to interpret the vague statement made in Genesis 6 concerning the nephilim, and the "sons of God" and "daughters of men" (which
is vague, it's incredibly ambiguous) as describing some kind of union between heavenly beings and mortal humans; that is hardly obvious from the text and requires a bit of finagling and a lot of conjecture.
The nephilim seem to be described much more mundanely, "the mighty of old, men of renown". They're called men, mortal human males. Also, these were there both before and after this "sons of God" coming to the "daughters of men". That's why we see these nephilim in later parts of the Old Testament, such in Canaan. These weren't supernatural beings, these were people, mortal human beings like you and me. The are called "the mighty [ones]" ( הַגִּבֹּרִים ha-giboryim) and "men of the name" or "men of renown" or "famous men" (אַנְשֵׁי הַשֵּׁם ishy ha-shem).
There's no need for fabulous conjectures here. It may be tempting, that phrase "sons of God" is a tempting little phrase, in some parts of the Bible it seems to indicate heavenly beings, aka angels; as it does in Job. But it takes a whole lot of conjecture and wild speculation to get from this phrase to fabulous tales of supernatural beings called nephilim, or talk of aliens and hybrids and all that wild nonsense.
Just stick with the Bible, no need to go jump off the cliff into the wild deep of silliness.
-CryptoLutheran
