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The Nephilim, Or “Giants”

The Nephilim, Or “Giants”

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Today we will have the most in- depth study we have had so far, not of my own, but copied from the Appendix’s of the Companion Bible. If it is too deep then put it away, and come back to it at another time. Dr. E.W. Bullinger is the best scholar of the 20th. century. He died in 1915, though he never got to see Israel become a nation (1948), no other scholar comes close to his knowledge that he shared with the world. He also was the only Christian allowed to read the Massorah kept by Dr. C.D. Ginsburg. He was so impressed that he allowed Dr. E.W. Bullinger to be the first and only to translate it from Hebrew to English.

Today we will learn a great deal about who the “Giants” of Gen.6 were, and who fathered them. Important because there have been two “influx’s” so far, and a third on the way. The third will come with Satan at the 6th. trump. And with that, appx. 25 reads.

Appendix 25. 

THE NEPHILIM, OR “GIANTS”
Of GEN. 6, &c.


The progeny of the fallen angels with the daughters of Adam (see notes on Gen. 6, and 
Ap. 23) are called in Gen. 6, Ne-phil-im, which means fallen ones (from naphal, to fall).  What these beings were can be gathered only from Scripture.  They were evidently great in size, as well as great in wickedness.  They were superhuman, abnormal beings; and their destruction was necessary for the preservation of the human race, and for the faithfulness of Jehovah’s Word (Gen. 3:15).

This was why the Flood was brought “upon the world of the ungodly” (2Pet. 2:5) as prophesied by Enoch (Jude 14).

But we read of the Nephilim again in Num. 13:33 :  “there we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, which come of the Nephilim”.  How, it may be asked, could this be, if they were all destroyed in the Flood?  The answer is contained in Gen. 6:4, where we read :  “There were Nephilim in the earth in those days (i.e. in the days of Noah); and also AFTER THAT, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became [the] mighty men (Heb. gibbor, the heroes) which were of old, men of renown” (lit. men of the name, i.e. who got a name and were renowned for their ungodliness).

So that “after that”, i.e. after the Flood, there was a second irruption of these fallen angels, evidently smaller in number and more limited in area, for they were for the most part confined to Canaan, and were in fact known as “the nations of Canaan”.  It was for the destruction of these, that the sword of Israel was necessary, as the Flood had been before.

As to the date of this second irruption, it was evidently soon after it became known that the seed was to come through Abraham; for, when he came out from Haran (Gen. 12:6) and entered Canaan, the significant fact is stated :  “The Canaanite was then (i.e. already) in the land.”  And in Gen. 14:5 they were already known as “Raphain” and Emim”, and had established themselves at Asteroth Karnaim and Shaven Kiriathaim.

In ch. 15:18-21 they are enumerated and named among Canaanite Peoples :  “Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims, and the Amorites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites” (Gen. 15:19-21; cp. Ex. 3:8, 17; 23:23.  Deut. 7; 20:17.  Josh. 12:8).

These were to be cut off, and driven out, and utterly destroyed (Deut. 20:17.  Josh. 3:10).  But Israel failed in this (Josh. 13:13; 15:63; 16:10; 17:18.  Judg. 1:19, 20, 28, 29, 30-36; 2:1-5; 3:1-7); and we known not how many got away to other countries to escape the general destruction.  If this were recognized it would go far to solve many problems connected with Anthropology.

As to their other names, they were called Anakim, from on Anak which came of the Nephilim (Num. 13:23), and Rephaim, from Rapha, another notable one among them. From Deut. 2:10, they were known by some as Emim, and Horim, and Zamzummim (v. 20, 21) and Avim, &c.

As Rephaim they were well known, and are often mentioned :  but, unfortunately, instead of this, their proper name, being preserved, it is variously translated as “dead”, “deceased”, or “giants”.  These Rephaim are to have no resurrection.  This fact is stated in Isa. 26:14 (where the proper name is rendered “deceased,” and v. 19, where it is rendered “the dead”).  It is rendered “dead” seven times (Job 26:5.  Ps. 88:10.  Prov. 2:18; 9:18; 21:16.  Isa. 14:8; 26:19). It is rendered “deceased” in Isa. 26:14.

It is retained as a proper name “Rephaim” ten times (two being in the margin).  Gen. 14:5; 15:20.  Josh. 12:15 (marg.).  2Sam. 5:18, 22; 23:13.& b31 nbsp; 1Chron. 11:15; 14:9; 20:4 (marg.).  Isa. 17:5. In all other places it is rendered “giants”, Gen. 6:4; Num. 23:33, where it is Nephilim; and Job 16:14, where it is gibbor (Ap. 14. iv). By reading all these passages the Bible student may know all that can be known about these beings.

It is certain that the second irruption took place before Gen. 14, for there the Rephaim were mixed up with the five nations or peoples, which included Sodom and Gomorrha, and were defeated by the four kings under Chedorlaomer.  Their principal locality was evidently “Ashtaroth Karnaim”; while the Emim were in the plain of Kiriathaim (Gen. 14:5).

Anak was a noted descendant of the Nephilim; and Rapha was another, giving their names respectively to different clans.  Anak’s father was Arba, the original builder of Hebron (Gen. 35:27.  Josh. 15:13; 21:11); and this Palestine branch of the Anakim was not called Arbahim after him, but Anakim after Anak.  They were great, mighty, and tall (Deut. 2:10, 11, 21, 22, 23; 9:2), evidently inspiring the ten spies with great fear (Num. 13:33).  Og king of Bashan is described in Deut. 3:11.

Their strength is seen in “the giant cities of Bashan” to-day; and we know not how far they may have been utilized by Egypt in the construction of buildings, which is still an unsolved problem. Arba was rebuilt by the Khabiri or confederates seven years before Zoan was built by the Egyptian Pharoahs of the nineteenth dynasty.  See note on Num. 13:22.

If these Nephilim, and their branch of Rephaim, were associated with Egypt, we have an explanation of the problem which has for ages perplexed all engineers, as to how those huge stones and monuments were brought together.  Why not in Egypt as well as in “the giant cities of Bashan” which exist, as such, to this day?

Moreover, we have in these mighty men, the “men of renown,” the explanation of the origin of the Greek mythology.  That mythology was no mere invention of the human brain, but it grew out of the traditions, and memories, and legends of the doings of that mighty race of beings; and was gradually evolved out of the “heroes” of Gen. 6:4.  The fact that they were supernatural in their origin formed an easy step to their being regarded as the demi-gods of the Greeks.

Thus the Babylonian “Creation Tablets”, the Egyptian “Book of the dead”, the Greek mythology, and heathen Cosmogonies, which by some are set on an equality with Scripture, or by others adduced in support of it, are all the corruption and perversion of primitive truths, distorted in proportion as their origin was forgotten, and their memories faded away.

Now we can understand Gen.6:4. These giants are the children of the fallen angels, the 7,000 that die when the feet of the true Christ return at the 7th. trump. They broke God’s law that all must come through the flesh. They wouldn’t, but instead came and seduced woman. In John 3:5 it reads.

John 3:5] Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

This is a commandment of God, that all must come through the flesh, born of water, and of spirit. This spirit God places in the womb at conception. Jer.1:3. Any that leave their first habitation (kingdom) and come to earth to seduce woman instead of being born of woman shall not have the kingdom. Let’s go to Rev.12:7-9 and it reads.

Rev.12:7] And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
[8] And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.
[9] And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

These angels are the fallen angels of Gen.6. We find in the book of Jude it is written also.

Jude 6] And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
[7] Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

And, also in 1Cor.11:10 it is talking about when the angels return with Satan. Remember Gen.6, the angels came to seduce the women.

1Cor.11:10] For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels.

Dr. E.W. Bullinger is the creator of the Companion Bible. It has on its page the King James version and beside it his scholarly notes, hence the “Companion” Bible. Also, in the back it has 198 Appendix’s. In these appendix’s he shares the deepest knowledge anyone can receive. Let’s go to his throne.

Father, we thank you for your word and ask that you bless all that love you in Jesus’s precious name, Amen.