Appendix
G
Notes
on the Demi-gods of Genesis 6
(original
author unknown)
Part
I. Who Are The Nephilim?
Of
all the unimaginable Biblical phenomena on Earth, the progeny of this union
between extra-terrestrials and humans is the most bizarre. Man has paid little
attention to them until now, for the fact of their existence has been shrouded
in legend. But can they be dismissed as myth any longer? In this end time
hour, many strange phenomena are occurring. Jesus said, "As the days of
Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be" (Matthew
24:37). It was the wickedness of humanity and the abominable union of the
supernatural with the natural that moved God to judge the world. We are fast
approaching a new period of God's wrath. The return of these super creatures
may even now be a real threat to us.
THE
NEPHILIM: ETYMOLOGICAL EVIDENCE
Who
are these beings? A clue to their identity is found in their name--Nephilim.
The word itself is Hebrew, and it is first used in Genesis 6:4.
There were giants in the earth in those
days: 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 mighty men which were of
old, men of renown.
Nephilim
is translated "giants" in the Authorized King James Version, but
"giants" is in no way a complete description.
Commentators like Lange trace the word "Nephilim" to the root
"Niphal" meaning "distinguished ones." This corresponds
perfectly with the "men of renown" at the end of Genesis 6:4,
nevertheless it is not a generally accepted translation.
Others have sought the root of the word in the Hebrew consonants
"npl" as found in Psalm 58:8. Here it means "miscarriage."
Accepting this theory, the Nephilim would be those superhuman beings that
resulted from miscarriages. Genesis Rabbah (26:7) seems to confirm this
translation when it states: Nephilim
denotes that they hurled the word down, themselves fell (naflu) from the
world, and filled the world with abortions (nephilim) through their
immorality. (1)
Most scholars, however, reject both these interpretations and trace the word
"Nephilim" to the Hebrew root "Naphal" meaning "to
fall." The Nephilim are the "fallen ones." A direct reference
to the fallen angels who sired them. Some writers such as Ben Adam believe the
word "Nephilim" refers to the fallen angels themselves and not to
their offspring.
Because of some uncertainty in the translation of the Hebrew word, more and
more Bible versions are now leaving the original word untranslated. Thus the
New International Version renders the passage: "The Nephilim were on the
earth in those days..." (Genesis 6:4). This also does justice to the fact
that the definite article precedes the word in the original. "The
Nephilim were on the earth..." The same definite article is also found in
the other biblical passage where the word "Nephilim" occurs, namely,
Numbers 13:33. "We saw the Nephilim there..."
Interpreting the Nephilim as "the fallen ones" dismisses the
suggestion of one modern author that belief in the Nephilim could lead to
racism. He fears that people would boast of having celestial blood in their
veins and consider themselves superior to those of ordinary, human ancestry.
To claim descent from stellar explorers could lead to a class distinction
surpassing anything ever seen in society, but he need have no such qualms! If
the Nephilim are stellar, they are also infernal. To claim descent from such
beings would be to admit an ancestry from Hell.
Although there is no etymological evidence to justify
"giants" as an accurate translation for "Nephilim," such a
translation is not without merit. In more senses than one, Nephilim were
giants.
GIANTS IN SIZE
For one thing, they were giants in size and strength. Much documentation of
the exceptional physical stature and super- human strength of the Nephilim
exists, and this is not in the least surprising, knowing that they were
"fathered" by angels. Angels as already stated, do "excel in
strength" (Psalm 103:20). They are greater "in power and might"
than men of earth (2 Peter 2:1 1).
What applies to holy angels, applies equally to the offspring of these
rebellious angels. Their moral fall does not seem to have reduced their
physical prowess. The Book of Enoch states that their "height was like
the tallness of cedars and whose bodies were like mountains."
A modern author describes them in the following terms:
Perverted power and strength are (thus) conspicuous attributes of
fallen angels. This titanic energy is displayed in the supernatural strength
demons can impart to the human body when they enter it and possess it. (2)
The New Testament supplies many such examples. One of the most noted is that
of the Gadarene demoniac, who by his super-human strength could snap fetters
and break chains. John Wesley in
his journal entry for May 2, 1739, writes of a certain John Haydon, a
respectable person, present in one of his meetings, and who "fell off his
chair and began screaming terribly and beating himself against the ground
...Two or three men were holding him as well as they could. The man then
roared out, "O thou devil! thou cursed devil! Yea, thou legion of devils!
thou canst not stay! Christ will cast thee out!"' Fortunately, after
prayer, Wesley reports that "both his body and soul were set at
liberty." These and
countless similar examples are reminiscent of what happened to the seven sons
of Sceva in Acts 19. A demonised man out-numbered seven to one, was able to
overcome all seven by a phenomenal show of strength. The Bible states that
they were fortunate to escape from the house naked and wounded.
A SECOND INCURSION
In Genesis 6, where the word "Nephilim" is first used, we are told
that the Nephilim appeared on the Earth just before the Flood, and that their
appearance was the main reason for the Flood.
(The
main reason for the Flood was mankind's total rebellion against God, Genesis
6:5-8, "The LORD 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. And the LORD was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it
grieved him to his heart. So the LORD said, "I will blot out man whom I
have created from the face of the ground, man and beast and creeping things
and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them." But Noah
found favour in the eyes of the LORD.--ed.)
There
followed another incursion of these fallen angels at a later date, (i.e.,
after the Flood,--ed.).
We read in Genesis 6: "The Nephilim were on the earth in those days and
also afterward..."
(N.I.V.). This data is found in Numbers 13:33: "We saw the Nephilim there
(the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim)" (N.I.V.).
This second eruption was probably on a more limited and restricted
scale than the first. Nevertheless, God ordered their complete destruction.
One has often wondered at the severe an extreme measures that God asked Joshua
to put into effect once he entered the land of Canaan. God commanded him to
"utterly destroy them." (The
Canaanites were not these giants, they were descended from Ham's son
Canaan--the post-flood giants, the offspring of fallen angels merely lived in
the same land--near Hebron and in parts of what is now Jordan.--ed)
We
have found it difficult to reconcile this with the character of God. One can
only surmise that God had a special reason to issue such a command. Could it
be that God knew the heritage of these Nephilim?
God was aware that the Canaanites and their neighbours manifested the whole
gamut of demonical practices, and that they were a threat to the character and
destiny of His chosen people Israel, who were entering the land at that time.
This is why He warned the Israelites not to imitate the occult practices of
these people whom they dispossessed. With the same unmatched anger that He had
displayed in Genesis 6, God orders the complete extermination of the
inhabitants of Canaan. "But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the
Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites,
and the Jebusites; as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee" (Deuteronomy
20:17). However, Israel, as so often in her history, failed to obey God, and
there is reason to believe that some of the Nephilim survived (Joshua 13:13,
16:10; Judges 1:28-34).
The
progeny of these Nephilim went under various names. We read of the Anakim,
descended from Anak (Numbers 13:28); the Rephaim, descended from Rapha; the
Zamzummims, the Emims, the Avims, etc. All shared the characteristics of being
huge, tall and strong. Rabbi Bahya ben Asher, a Spanish Cabalist, claimed the
Nephilim were heads of the family called "sons of God." They were so
called because terror fell on those who saw them. As the virility of the stock
declined, they were called Anakim and later Rephaim. (7) Here is an Old
Testament description of the Emim: "The
Emim dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the
Anakim; which also were accounted giants, as the Anakim; but the Moabites
called them Emims. (Deuteronomy 2:10, 11)."
These
men were such giants that the Israelite spies who went in to reconnoitre the
land, cowered before them: "And
there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we
were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight."
(Numbers 13:33).
Flavius
Josephus, the noted historian of the first century A.D., described these
giants as having "bodies so large and countenances so entirely different
from other men that they were surprising to the sight and terrible to the
hearing." (8) And he adds that in his day, the bones of the giants were
still on display! Deuteronomy 3:11 describes one of these giants in more
detail: "For
only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants: behold, his bedstead
was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? Nine
cubits was the length thereof and four cubits the breadth of it, after the
cubit of a man."
A
super king-sized bed! In modem measurements it was 18 feet, 6 inches long, and
8 feet, 4 inches wide! Some of these giants carried spears that weighed from
ten to twenty-five pounds. One carried a spear whose staff was "like a
weaver's beam" (II Samuel 21:19). Goliath wore a coat of armour that
weighed 196 pounds, and he was said to be about nine feet tall. Some of these
giants had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot.
EVIDENCE
FROM OUTSIDE THE MIDDLE EAST
These
giants were not confined to the Middle East. Two dozen human footprints of
abnormal size have been found in the Paluxi riverbed, Texas, some of them
measuring eighteen inches long. Other giant markings have been discovered in
such diverse places as Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and California. In the
Mt. Vernon area of Ohio, Dr. Wilbur G. Burroughs of the Geological Division of
the Berea College, Kentucky, reported finds of human foot prints 23.75 cm.
long and 10.25 wide! Near Antelope Springs, Utah, William Meister discovered
in 1968 two human footprints 32.5 cm. long and 11.25 wide.
Similar
giant footprints have been discovered in other countries especially in the Mt.
Victoria region of Australia. Not
only do we have footprints of giants but actual skeletons as well. In 1936
Larson Kohl, the German palaeontologist and anthropologist, found the bones of
gigantic men on the shore of Lake Elyasi in Central Africa. Other giant
skeletons were later found in Hava, the Transvaal and China. The evidence for
the existence of giants is incontrovertible. "A scientifically assured
fact," says Dr. Louis Burkhalter. (9)
GIANTS
IN KNOWLEDGE
The
Nephilim also were giants in knowledge. According to the Book of Enoch, God
was incensed against the fallen angels partly because they disclosed certain
classified information to humans. The ancient world associated demons with
special esoteric knowledge and with superior intelligence. The word
"demon" in Greek (daimon) comes from the root meaning
"knowledge" or "intelligence." The Scriptures also testify
to the fact that demons have access to knowledge and information denied to
ordinary mortals. We read in the Gospels how they recognized and acknowledged
the deity of Christ when humans seemed totally blind to the fact. When the
Gaderene demoniac saw Jesus, he fell down before him, and cried out,
"What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God most high?"
(Luke 8:28). These demons recognized Jesus at the beginning of His ministry,
way ahead of His own disciples.
In
the Book of Acts, with the same supernatural knowledge, demons recognized the
mission and message of the Apostle Paul. The possessed damsel at Philippi
cried, "These men are the servants of the most high God, which shew unto
us the way of salvation" (Acts 16:17). This happened at a time when the
people of Philippi had no idea who Paul was, nor did they know the nature of
his mission. We cannot but note that every recorded statement made by demons
in the New Testament concerning Christ or Paul was one-hundred percent
accurate.
Clement
of Alexandria suggested an interesting reason for this superior knowledge of
demons: It is evident, since they
are demoniac spirits, that they know some things more quickly and more
perfectly than men, for they are not retarded in learning by the heaviness of
a body. Examples of this trait in
demons are supplied by various missionary organizations. They tell us how
people possessed by evil spirits acquire superior knowledge, far above that of
their brethren. In an editorial in Christian Life Magazine we find these words
concerning the murder of five young American missionaries in the jungles of
Ecuador in 1956:
"Indians
at Arajuno mission base knew in a few hours what had happened when five
missionaries deep in Ecuador's Auca territory in 1956 failed to make radio
contact with anxiously waiting fellow missionaries. How? They asked a local
witch doctor. He obliged by falling into a trance, calling up his favourite
demons and asking them to tell him where the missing missionaries were.
According to the friendly Indians, they heard demons leave the scene
and, in a short time, returned with the message that the missionaries were in
the Curaray River with Auca lances in them."
John
L. Nevius, a medical missionary in China at the end of the last century
gathered a significant compendium of data on this subject. After sending a
detailed questionnaire to Protestant missionaries all over China, he gleaned a
vast amount of information about the symptoms of demonism. One characteristic
he found again and again was the prevalence of superior knowledge and
intelligence in the possessed person--even on subject matters of which the
person had no prior knowledge.
PROGRAMMED
FROM SPACE
This
may well supply the key to the great knowledge and expertise that
characterized certain men in ancient times. As already seen, such knowledge
and expertise by "primitive" men continue to defy explanation. P.J.
Wiseman admits to this mysterious factor:
It was expected that the more ancient the period, the more primitive
would excavators find it to be, until traces of civilization ceased altogether
and aboriginal man appeared. Neither in Babylonia, nor Egypt, the land of the
oldest known habitations of man, has this been the case. (10)
Arthur
Custance pertinently states this strange sequence right at the beginning of
human history: "...an
unbelievably long time with almost no growth; a sudden spurt leading within a
very few centuries to a remarkably high culture; a gradual slowing up, and
decay, followed only much later by recovery of lost arts and by development of
new ones leading ultimately to the creation of our modern world. What was the
agency which operated for that short period of time to so greatly accelerate
the process of cultural development and produce such remarkable results?"
(11)
Could
this agency be the Nephilim? Could this expertise have been imparted by beings
from outer space? And could this explain the mysteries surrounding Stonehenge,
the Mayan Caracol, Tiahuanaco, the Bay of Pisco, and particularly the Great
Pyramid? Did the knowledge necessary to construct these monolithic structures
come from the Nephilim? Were they the ones responsible for what Custance calls
the "climax at the beginning"? (12)
As
for the Great Pyramid, many scientists suggest a date back in the generations
preceding the Flood. If so, those happen to be the very times of the Nephilim,
the generations of the "giants" and of the "men of
renown." But what if it could be proven that the Great Pyramid was not
built until after the Flood? There is still no problem.
(Note:
The pyramids are made of fossiliferous limestone derived from flood deposits,
so the pyramids definitely do not predate the Flood--ed.)
Could
not Noah and his family have carried this information with them into the Ark,
and transmitted it later to their descendants? According to the Babylonian
version of the Flood, the "Chaldean" Noah was made to bury his books
before the Flood, and then disentomb them after emerging from the Ark. But
there is still another possibility: Could this knowledge have come from the
second eruption of the Nephilim, which occurred after the Flood?
"TREE
OF KNOWLEDGE"
If
we go further back, could one find a linkage between this esoteric knowledge
and the "tree of knowledge" found in the Garden of Eden? We know
that this was the one tree whose fruit Adam and Eve were forbidden to eat, or
even touch (Genesis 2:17, 3:3). Why was this tree so named? Few commentators
have shed any light on its meaning. Many dismiss the account as mere
symbolism, without even telling us what the symbolism is supposed to
represent. Others look upon the passage as poetry; conveniently forgetting
poetry is often the truest history. It not only relates facts but interprets
them as well. Poetry has been described as "history written from the
inside rather than from the outside, and therefore incomparably truer. (13) Or
in the words of British author Graham Green, "Poetry is the photography
of the invisible."
Supposing
we applied this principle to the "tree of knowledge." If it is a
symbol, then obviously it must be a symbol of something. Or if poetry, then it
must convey some inner truth. But why should one speculate and search for
cryptic meanings when the truth may well be on the surface. Obviously, the
"tree of knowledge" must have something to do with knowledge, or why
should it be so named? It undoubtedly contained the key to certain divinely
classified material that God did not want early man to possess. But somehow,
and it could well be by means of the Nephilim, early man did come to possess
that knowledge--at least a part of it.
This
was knowledge that primitive man could never have discovered on his own.
Indeed, it was knowledge beyond the capacity of modern man! Kelly Segraves
reminds us: "With all our intelligences, we cannot figure out how
pyramids were constructed." (14)
(not
true, the construction of the pyramids has been reviewed and re-examined in
recent years. No supernormal or supernatural factors need to be invoked to
explain their construction--ed.)
We
ask again, could this intelligence have been transmitted by the "sons of
God"?
Egypt
is not the only country that has pyramids. A whole network of them can be
found around the planet--in Cambodia, Shen Shi, China, Thailand, Mexico,
Nazca, Yucatan, Alaska...How does one account for such advanced scientific
technology, on such a universal scale, and in such prehistoric times?
Could
the answer be man's longevity at that time? The average age span before the
Flood was close to nine hundred years-- thirteen times the proverbial
"three score and ten." This, of course, provided exceptional
opportunity for learning, research, experimentation and the accumulation of
knowledge. If only modern-day scientists could live that long! But longevity
alone could never account for the specialized knowledge that our forefathers
possessed. Their awesome expertise indicates a source outside of themselves.
No other viable explanation can be offered except that mankind was
pre-programmed from the depths of space.
The
Bible not only supplies the key to the source of this knowledge, but to the
way it was transmitted--space-beings called "fallen-angels." As we
have seen, such extraterrestrials possess superior knowledge. This they
transmitted to man in direct contradiction to God's wishes.
Satan, the leader of fallen angels, is himself a creature of rare
brilliance and inimitable genius. The Latin translation of his name,
"Lucifer" (from the Hebrew "Helel"), comes from a root
meaning "brilliance" or "magnificence." This is a trait he
shares with his cohorts. He and they have access to classified, divine
information, and are cognizant of hidden things (See Acts 16:16, 17).
According
to Professor C. S. Dickerson, "The source of their knowledge is found in
their superior created nature and in their vast experience, as they lived
through many thousands of years observing and collecting information."
(15)
John
L. Nevius, after surveying demon possession in China, documents the amazing
knowledge revealed by the demon- possessed: "Many persons while demon
possessed give evidence of knowledge which cannot be accounted for in ordinary
ways. They often appear to know of the Lord Jesus as a divine person and show
an aversion to, and a fear of Him. They sometimes converse in foreign
languages of which in their normal states they are entirely ignorant."
(16)
BETTY
AND BARNEY HILL
Betty
and Barney Hill of New Hampshire, while returning home from a vacation in
Canada in 1961, spotted a flying saucer and pulled off the road to watch it
land. The engine of their car went dead, but they have no recollection of what
happened after that. The next thing they remembered was being close to home...
sixty miles south! After this bizarre experience, they suffered from
nightmares, anxiety syndromes and ulcers. They finally consulted a
psychiatrist, the noted Dr. Benjamin Simon of Boston. By the use of hypnosis,
he was able to induce from them--quite independently of each other--the story
of those missing hours. Both told the same story. Taken aboard the flying
saucer, they underwent physical examination by the humanoid occupants. Tape
recordings were made of their story (given under hypnosis), and a book was
published. Later, an NBC television movie was made of the event.
Stanton
T. Friedman, a nuclear physicist, studied these reports and was greatly
impressed. But what finally convinced him was the map drawn in 1964 by Betty
Hill of a star system unknown to science at the time. Betty claimed that she
had been shown this map aboard the UFO, and revealed the details of it under
hypnosis. The astronomers who examined the map at that time, dismissed it. But
since 1964 new evidence has appeared on the subject--star systems that were
invisible in 1964 have now been discovered. And an amazing fact has come to
light. Dr. Friedman explains: "Using
these new data, a computer came up with a map of the Zeta Reticuli
system--faint stars 220 trillion miles away - which astronomers agree matches
Mrs. Hill's precisely." (17)
GIANTS
IN WICKEDNESS
Giants
in wickedness is another distinction of the Nephilim. Sired by demonic beings,
their character and activity certainly reveal the nature of the "fallen
ones."
Many
of the legends surrounding the cross breeding between the natural and the
supernatural depict subhuman behaviour. To the last one, the semi-gods of
mythology--Zeus (the Roman Jupiter), Poseidon (Neptune), Eros (Cupid), Hermes
(Mercury)--were violent, wanton, lustful and promiscuous beyond restraint.
They constantly engaged in sex orgies and seduction, and produced the
strangest of offspring. Emil Gaverluk tells of Zeus:
"He disregarded marriage laws and engaged in love affairs with
members of both sexes. Zeus married Hera, his sister. One of the loves of Zeus
was Europa. He seduced her by becoming a bull and carrying her away. Another
was Leda, daughter of Thestios, King of Aetolia and the wife of Tyndereus,
King of Sparta. But this did not stop Zeus...Athene was the daughter of Metis
by Zeus. Metis tried to evade him. He seduced her. She warned him that if he
did this again and the child was a male, that child would depose and conquer
him. Zeus didn't like the sound of this and took no chances. He swallowed the
child whole. Zeus' amorous victories illustrate the actions of uncontrolled
spirit-beings lusting after human flesh." (18)
This
is only one example from Greek mythology of the evil associations between
spirit-entities from space and human beings from Earth. But it was not only
the spirit-beings who acted this way; they seem to have passed on the trait to
their descendants. The Nephilim,
in this respect more than in anything else, were close imitators of their
fathers. They reflected the works of their demon ancestry. And just as there
are degrees of goodness among the saints, so there are degrees of evil among
the demons. Evidence of this is recorded in Matthew 12:43-45. It tells of the
unclean spirit returning to occupy the house from which he had been displaced,
and returns with "seven other spirits more wicked than himself."
Irrespective
of the degree of evil, all demons are regarded by God as vile and depraved. A
recurring biblical adjective is "unclean" (Matthew 10:1, Mark 1:27,
3:11). These spirits are both morally and spiritually unclean, and the same
distinctive applies to their progeny on Earth. What is more, those who traffic
with such beings, frequently end up like them. Indeed such is the degree of
their degradation that the Lord abandons them to their own depravity. Romans
1:24-32 graphically states that "God gave them up." The depths of
their degradation and the infamy of their immoralities, puts them on a level
lower than animals. Abandoned by God to the consequences of their wickedness,
and deranged by demonic harassment, people have been driven to insane asylums
and even to suicide.
Is
it any wonder when incorrigible spirit-beings and rebellious humans cooperated
to pollute Earth, to seek genetic control and produce hybrids that threatened
the race itself, and even tried to thwart the very plan of God, that God
should intervene in a judgment terrible to behold?
(19)
GIANTS
IN PRIDE
The
Nephilim were giants in pride also. Lord Acton claimed that power corrupts,
and absolute power corrupts absolutely, as does knowledge. With their superior
intelligence and knowledge, the Nephilim soon succumbed to the sin that became
the downfall of Lucifer--pride (1 Timothy 3:6). Like Lucifer, his followers
also dreamed of being gods, desiring to control and rule the Earth. Their
advanced knowledge was the desired diet for their egotism. Such knowledge
wedded to an already arrogant nature led to self-deification. They craved
divine honours and religious worship. This was the ambition of Lucifer, of the
Nephilim, and of every fallen creature. They were propelled in all that they
did by self-will, self-determination, self-glorification, and ultimately
self-deification. No wonder Josephus refers to the Nephilim as "sons who
were overbearing and disdainful of every virtue."
Man's
fascination with the occult and otherworld phenomena is amazingly significant
today. At no other time has he been more conditioned to accept the possibility
of extraterrestrial life. Having once escaped his Mother Earth, man now
strains at his celestial tether, wondering what or who lies beyond the final
frontier. With this star ward look, the stage could be set for the coming of
the unwelcome guests from space. The "days of Noah" are again here;
perhaps even now agents from another realm are plotting the return of the
Nephilim.
Notes:
1.
Tr. I. Epstein 1.218.
2. Merill Unger, Demons in the World Today (Wheaton: Tyndale House,
1971), p. 26.
3. Quoted by F. Seth Dryness, Jr., The Journal of Christian Reconstruction,
Vol. 1, No. 2, Winter 1974, p. 51.
4. Kurt Koch, Christian Counselling and Occultism (Grand Rapids: Kregel
Publications, 1973).
5. Ibid., p. 22.
6. Robert Pearson, Storm Over Borneo, (Overseas Missionary Fellowship,
1967).
7. Rabbi Bahya ben Asher., Biur al ha Toral (Venice, 1566), p. 179.
8. Josephus, The Work of Flavius Josephus; Antiquities of the Jews
(London: G. G. Rutledge), 1.3.1., Book vii.
9. Revue du Musee de Beyrouth.
10. P.J. Wiseman, New Discoveries in Babylon about Genesis (London:
Marshall, Morgan and Scott, 2nd edition), pp. 28-29.
11. Arthur C. Custance, Genesis and
Early Man (Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House 1975), p. 103.
12. Ibid., pp. 81ff.
13. J. Cynddylan Jones, Primeval Revelation (London: Hodder &
Stoughton, 1897), pp. 206-7.
14. Kelly Segraves, The Great Flying Saucer Myth (San Diego: Beta
Books, 1975), p. 52.
15. C. S. Dickerson, Angels Elect and Evil (Chicago: Moody Press,
1975), p. 165.
16. John L. Nevius, Demon Possession and Allied Themes (Old Tappan, New
Jersey: Fleming H. Revell, 1894), p. 161.
17. Stanton T. Friedman, UFOs A Complete Nightmare (Dick Adler, Los
Angeles Times, October 20,1975), p. 14.
18. Emil Gaverluk, Did Genesis Man Conquer Space? (Nashville: Thomas
Nelson, Inc., 1974), pp. 88-89.
19. C. S. Dickerson, Angels Elect and Evil (Chicago: Moody Press,
1975), pp. 170-174.
Part
II: Sons of God, Daughters of Men
"The
craving of demons for a body, evident in the Gospels, offers at least some
parallel to this hunger for sexual experience." -Derek Kidner
In
1947 an Arab boy tending his sheep accidentally discovered an ancient cave
near the Dead Sea. In it were found a priceless collection of ancient scrolls,
which soon became known as the Dead Sea Scrolls or the Qumran Texts. Among
these writings was one known as the Genesis Apocryphon. At first it was
thought to be the long lost Book of Lamech. Although the scroll consisted of a
speech by Lamech and a story about some of the patriarchs from Enoch to
Abraham; it was not that book.
According
to the Bible, Lamech was the son of Methuselah and the father of Noah. He was
the ninth of the ten patriarchs of the antediluvian world.
It is significant, however, that the Genesis Apocryphon mentions the
Nephilim, and makes reference to the "sons of God" and the
"daughters of men" introduced in Genesis 6. The Apocryphon also
elaborates considerably on the succinct statements found in the Bible, and
provides valuable insights into the way these ancient stories were interpreted
by the ancient Israelites.
The copy of the Genesis Apocryphon discovered at Qumran dates back to the 2nd
century B.C., but it was obviously based on much older sources. When
discovered in 1947, it had been much mutilated from the ravages of time and
humidity. The sheets had become so badly stuck together that years passed
before the text was deciphered and made known. When scholars finally made
public its content, the document confirmed that celestial beings from the
skies had landed on planet Earth. More than that, it told how these beings had
mated with Earth-women and had begat giants.
Is
this story myth or history, fable or fact? Specialized research has revealed
that many ancient legends have a basis in fact. But to answer the question,
let us consult the most authoritative document known to man--the Bible.
In
Genesis 6:1-4 the "sons of God" are captivated by the beauty of the
"daughters of men." They subsequently marry them and produce an
offspring of giants known as the Nephilim. Genesis goes on to say that these
Nephilim were "mighty men" and "men of renown."
"Sons of God"? "Daughters of men"? What sort of
beings were these? Were they human or did they belong to an alien species from
outer space?
IDENTIFYING
THE SONS OF GOD
There
is no problem in identifying the "daughters of men" for this is a
familiar method of designating women in the Bible. The problem lies with the
"sons of God." Three major interpretations have been offered to shed
light on this cryptic designation. First,
a group within Orthodox Judaism theorized that "sons of God" meant
"nobles" or "magnates." Hardly anyone today accepts this
potentially dangerous view.
Second,
some interpret the "sons of God" as fallen angels. These were
enticed by the women of Earth and began lusting after them. Many reputable
Bible commentators have rejected this theory on psycho-physiological grounds.
How can one believe, they ask, that angels from Heaven could engage in sexual
relations with women from Earth? Philastrius labelled such an interpretation a
down-right heresy.
Third,
many famed scholars contend that the "sons of God" are the male
descendants of Seth, and that the "daughters of men" are the female
descendants of Cain. According to this view, what actually happened in Genesis
6 was an early example of believers marrying unbelievers. The good sons of
Seth married the bad daughters of Cain, and the result of these mixed
marriages was a mongrel offspring. These later became known for their
decadence and corruption; indeed, it reached such a degree that God was forced
to intervene and destroy the human race. This comment of Matthew Henry could
be taken as representative of those holding this view:
"The sons of Seth (that is the professors of religion) married the
daughters of men, that is, those that were profane, and strangers to God and
godliness. The posterity of Seth did not keep by themselves, as they ought to
have done. They inter- mingled themselves with the excommunicated race of
Cain." (1)
However,
in spite of the excellent pedigree of the proponents of this theory, their
argument is not convincing. Their interpretation is pure eisegesis--they are
guilty of reading into the text what is obviously not there.
FALSE
EXEGESIS
Their interpretation fails on other grounds as well. At no time, before the
Flood or after, has God destroyed or threatened to destroy the human race for
the sin of "mixed marriages." It is impossible to reconcile this
extreme punishment with the mere verbal strictures found elsewhere in the
Bible for the same practice. If God is going to be consistent, He should have
destroyed the human race many times over!
The
contrast made in Genesis 6:2 is not between the descendants of Seth and the
descendants of Cain, but between the "sons of God" and the
"daughters of men." If by "sons of God" is meant
"sons of Seth," then only the sons of Seth engaged in mixed
marriages, and not the daughters. And only the daughters of Cain were
involved, and not the sons. And another strange assumption is implied: that
only the sons of Seth were godly, and only the daughters of Cain were evil.
The strangeness is compounded when one seeks for evidence that the sons of
Seth were godly. We know from Genesis that when the time came for God to
destroy the human race, He found only one godly family left among them--that
of Noah. Where were all the other supposedly godly sons of Seth? Even Seth's
own son could hardly be called righteous. His name was Enos, meaning
"mortal" or "frail." And he certainly lived up to it!
Genesis 4:26 reads, "And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and
he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the
Lord." That statement seems harmless enough, but what does it mean when
it says that it was only now that men began to call upon the name of the Lord?
Upon whom did Adam call? And Abel? And Seth himself?
Some
scholars give us a more literal and exact translation to this verse:
"Then men began to call themselves by the name of Jehovah." Other
scholars translate the statement in this manner: "Then men began to call
upon their gods (idols) by the name of Jehovah." If either of these were
the correct translation then the evidence for the so-called godly line of Seth
is non- existent. The truth of the matter is that Enos and his line, with few
noted exceptions, were as ungodly as the other line. The divine record could
not be clearer: "all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth"
(Genesis 6:12).
In the Old Testament, the designation "sons of God" (bene Elohim) is
never used of humans, but always of supernatural beings that are higher than
man but lower than God. To fit such a category only one species is
known--angels. And the term "sons of God" applies to both good and
bad angels. These are the beings of whom Augustine wrote:
"Like the gods they have corporeal immortality, and passions like
human beings." (2)
The
designation "sons of God" is used four other times in the Old
Testament, each time referring to angels. One example is Daniel 3:25, where
king Nebuchadnezzar looks into the fiery furnace and sees four men, "and
the form of the fourth is like the Son of God." The translation is
different and clearer in our modern versions, "like a son of the
gods." Since Jesus had not yet become the "only begotten son"
of God, this "son" would have had to be angelic.
Another
example is Job 38:7 which says the sons of God shouted for joy when God laid
the foundations of the Earth. Angels are the only entities that fit this
designation since man had not been created at that time!
In Job 1:6 and Job 2:1 the "sons of God" came to present
themselves before the Lord in Heaven. Among the sons of God is Satan--a
further implication that the "sons of God" must have been angels.
Since
the designation "sons of God" is consistently used in the Old
Testament for angels, it is logical to conclude that the term in Genesis 6:2
also refers to angels.
SONS
OF GOD: THREE CATEGORIES
In
the New Testament, born-again believers in Christ are called the children of
God or the sons of God (Luke 3:38, John 1:12, Romans 8:14, 1 John 3:1). Dr.
Bullinger in the Companion Bible states: "It is only by the divine
specific act of creation that any created being can be called 'a son of
God.'" This explains why every born-again believer is a son of God. It
explains also why Adam was a Son of God. Adam was specifically created by God,
"in the likeness of God made He him" (Genesis 5:1). Adam's
descendants, however, were different; they were not made in God's likeness but
in Adam's. Adam "begat a son in his own likeness, after his image"
(Genesis 5:3).
Adam
was a "son of God," but Adam's descendants were "sons of
men." Lewis Sperry Chafer
expresses this in an interesting way when he states:
"In the Old Testament terminology angels are called sons of God
while men are called servants of God. In the New Testament this is reversed.
Angels are the servants and Christians are the sons of God." (3)
It
is thus clear that the term "sons of God" in the Bible is limited to
three categories of beings: angels, Adam and believers. All three are special
and specific creations of God. As for the use of the term in Genesis 6, since
it cannot possibly refer to Adam nor believers in Christ, we conclude that it
has to refer to the angels whom God had created.
LIGHT
FROM THE NEW TESTAMENT
Two
New Testament passages shed further light on Genesis 6. They are Jude 6-7 and
2 Peter 2:4. These verses indicate that at some point in time a number of
angels fell from their pristine state and proceeded to commit a sexual sin
that was both unusual and repugnant. Jude 6-7 states:
"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. Even as
Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves
over to fornication, and going after strange flesh..."
These
angels not only failed to keep their original dominion and authority, but they
"left their own habitation." Habitation is a significant word: it
means "dwelling place" or "heaven." And the addition of
the Greek word "idion" ("their own") means that they left
their own private, personal, unique possession. (4) Heaven was the private,
personal residence of the angels. It was not made for man but for the angels.
This is why the ultimate destination of the saints will not be Heaven but the
new and perfect Earth which God will create (Revelation 21:1-3). Heaven is
reserved for the angels, but as for the beings referred to in Jude 6-7, they
abandoned it.
Not
only did these angels leave Heaven, they left it once-for- all. The Greek verb
"apoleipo" is in the aorist tense, thus indicating a once-for-all
act. By taking the action they did, these angels made a final and
irretrievable decision. They crossed the Rubicon. Their action, says Kenneth
Wuest, "was apostasy with a vengeance." (5)
As
to the specific sin of these angels, we are given the facts in Jude 7. As in
the case of Sodom and Gomorrah it was the sin of "fornication" and
it means "going after strange flesh." "Strange" flesh
means flesh of a different kind (Greek "heteros"). To commit this
particularly repugnant sin, the angels had to abandon their own domain and
invade a realm that was divinely forbidden to them. Says Wuest: "These
angels transgressed the limits of their own natures to invade a realm of
created beings of a different nature." (6)
Alford
confirms: "It was a
departure from the appointed course of nature and seeking after that which is
unnatural, to other flesh than that appointed by God for the fulfilment of
natural desire." The
mingling of these two orders of being, was contrary to what God had intended,
and summarily led to God's greatest act of judgment ever enacted upon the
human race.
TEMPTING
THE ANGELS
Another
New Testament verse may have bearing on Genesis 6. In I Corinthians 11:10,
Paul instructs that a woman should cover her head as a sign of subjection to
her husband, and also "because of the angels." This observation has
intrigued commentators through the years. Why this sudden reference to angels?
Could it be a reference to what happened in Genesis 6 where angels succumbed
to the inducements and physical charm of the women of Earth? Obviously, Paul
believed that an uncovered woman was a temptation even to angels. William
Barclay mentions an old rabbinic tradition, which alleges that it was the
beauty of the women's long hair that attracted and tempted the angels in
Genesis. (6)
STRANGE
PARENTAGE
The
offspring of this union between the "sons of God" and the
"daughters of men" were so extraordinary that it indicates an
unusual parentage. In no way could the progenitors of such beings be ordinary
humans. Their mothers possibly could be human, or their fathers, but certainly
not both. Either the father or the mother had to be superhuman. Only in such a
way can one account for the extraordinary character and prowess of the
offspring. God's law of
reproduction, according to the biblical account of creation, is
"everything after his kind." God's law makes it impossible
for giants to be produced by normal parentage. To produce such monstrosities
as the Nephilim presupposes super- natural parentage.
GIANTS?
"Nephilim"
is a Hebrew word translated in the Authorized King James version as
"giants." "There were giants in the earth in those days"
(Genesis 6:4). It is true that they were giants in more senses than one.
However, the word Nephilim does not mean "giants." It comes from the
root "naphal," meaning "fallen ones," and most modern
versions of the Bible have left the word "Nephilim" untranslated.
When
the Greek Septuagint was made, "Nephilim" was translated as
"gegenes." This word suggests "giants" but actually it has
little reference to size or strength. "Gegenes" means "earth
born." The same term was used to describe the mythical "Titans"
-- being partly of celestial and partly of terrestrial origin. (7)
The
Hebrew and the Greek words do not exclude the presence of great physical
strength. Indeed, a combined supernatural and natural parentage would imply
such a characteristic. Angels, according to Scripture, are known for their
power. They are often referred to as "sons of the Mighty" (Psalm
103:20). Therefore, if the ones who sired them were strong and mighty, it
could be assumed that their offspring were likewise.
No
evidence exists in Scripture that the offspring of mixed marriages (believers
and unbelievers) were giants, excelling in great strength and might. No
evidence can be found anywhere in history for that matter. Such an
interpretation poses impossible assumptions.
When
the word "Nephilim" is used in Numbers 13:33, the question of size
and strength is explicit. Here we are left in no doubt as to their superhuman
prowess. When Joshua's spies reported back from Canaan, they called certain of
the inhabitants of Canaan "giants." "And there we saw the
Nephilim, the sons of Anak, which come of the Nephilim, and we were in our own
sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight."
Some
commentators have speculated that the Nephilim of Numbers 13 belonged to a
second eruption of fallen angels, since the earlier Nephilim had been
destroyed in the Flood. And they see an allusion to this in Genesis 6:4, where
it states that "there were Nephilim in the earth in those days; and also
after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men."
Could it be that the "after that" was a reference to the Nephilim
found in Canaan during the Israelite entry into the land? If so, it could
explain why the Lord commanded the total extermination of the Canaanites, as
He had earlier ordered the near annihilation of the human race.
NEPHILIM
-- NO RESURRECTION
The
Book of Isaiah says that the Nephilim and their descendants will not
participate in a resurrection as is the portion of ordinary mortals. Isaiah
26:14 reads: "They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they
shall not rise." The original Hebrew word translated "deceased"
here is the word "Rephaim." It would have saved a lot of
misinterpretation if the translators had left the word as it was in the
original. The verse actually reads: "Dead, they shall not live; Rephaim,
they shall not rise." The Rephaim are generally understood to be one of
the branches of the Nephilim, and God's Word makes it clear that they are to
partake in no resurrection. But with humans it is different: all humans will
be resurrected either to life or to damnation (John 5:28-29). (Note: the
Nephilim had human mothers, but no human fathers, so they were not considered
members of Adam's race. Only the members of Adam's race are offered
redemption--the angels are not. Thus when they died the Nephilim spirits could
have become disembodied and free to roam, seeking other bodies of men or
animals to possess and dwell in. It has been suggested that this group of
fallen spirits is responsible for the phenomenon of demon possession in the
world today--ed.)
We
have already seen that the Greek Version of the Old Testament (The Septuagint)
translated "Nephilim" as "gegenes;" we shall now inquire
how it translates "sons of God." In some of the manuscripts it is
left as "sons of God," but in the others-- including the Alexandrian
text--it is rendered by the word "angelos." This text was in
existence in the time of Christ, but there is no indication that He ever
corrected or queried it. Can we not assume from His silence that He agreed
with the translation!
RAPE
OF THE TEXT
Having studied all the arguments in favour of "sons of Seth," one
concludes that the only argument that is valid among them is that of
rationality. "Sons of Seth" is an interpretation that is more
palatable to human reason. Reason can never subscribe to the incredible notion
that fallen angels could have sex relations with women of Earth. Angels have
no physical bodies! They do not marry! They belong to an entirely different
species of being! The mind revolts against such absurdity. So, what does one
do? Settle, of course, for an easy, rational interpretation--sons of Seth and
daughters of Cain. But what if the meaning of Scripture is clearly otherwise?
There is the rub! Scripture is clearly otherwise! To impose a human
interpretation at the expense of the obvious meaning of the divine Word, is a
rape of the biblical text. Furthermore, when one deals with the world of the
supernatural, rationality is never an argument.
Perhaps
the most conclusive argument for interpreting the expression as
"angels" is the simplest one of all. If the writer of Genesis wanted
to refer to the "sons of Seth" he would have just said so. If God
had intended that meaning, then the verse would undoubtedly read, "the
sons of Seth saw the daughters of Cain that they were fair..." But the
Bible meant something far more sinister--the sexual union between angels from
Hell and evil women from Earth. Because of the gravity of such a union, and
its dire consequences for the human race, God moved to destroy the race before
it could destroy itself--except for one family which had not been
contaminated.
THE
ULTIMATE SIN
God
made man in His own image, the highest of all His earthly creations. While God
said that everything He made was good, He considered man very good. Man had
been made for fellowship with God Himself, but he soon turned his back upon
his Maker and worshipped the creature more than the Creator. Before many
generations, the human race was being polluted by this abominable union with
demons. It seemed that Hell and Earth were in league together against the God
of Heaven. God's righteous anger was such that He regretted having made man.
"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. And it repented the Lord that he had made
man. ..."(Genesis 6:5-6)
It
was specifically because of this ultimate sin that God brought about a deluge
of such magnitude that man and beast were drowned from the face of the Earth.
In the words of old Joseph Hall: "The
world was so grown foul with sin, that God saw it was time to wash it with a
flood: and so close did wickedness cleave to the authors of it, that when they
were washed to nothing, yet it would not wash off, yea, so deep did it stick
in the very grain of the earth, that God saw it meet to let it soak long under
the waters." (14)
WAS
NOAH IMMUNE?
Why
Noah and his immediate family were the only ones immune from this great
judgment is significant. Genesis 6:9 says, "Noah was a just man." He
stood out as an example of righteousness and godliness in a perverse age. Like
Enoch before him, Noah also "walked with God." But there was another
reason why Noah was spared, one that seems to have escaped most commentators.
Genesis 6:9 says that Noah was "perfect in his generation." Does
this mean moral and spiritual perfection? Hardly. Genesis 9:20-23 disproves
any such perfection. What, then, does the Bible mean by calling him
"perfect"? The Hebrew word is "tamiym" and comes from the
root word "taman." This means "without blemish" as in
Exodus 12:5, 29:1, Leviticus 1:3. Just as the sacrificial lamb had to be
without any physical blemish, so Noah's perfection. In its primary meaning, it
refers not to any moral or spiritual quality, but to physical purity. Noah
was uncontaminated by the alien invaders.
He
alone had preserved their pedigree and kept it pure, in spite of prevailing
corruption brought about by the fallen angels. (15) And again: Noah's
bloodline had remained free of genetic contamination. (16)
This implies, of course, that all the other families on Earth had been
contaminated by the Nephilim. It also proves that the assault of Satan on the
human race had been far more extensive than realized. It is no wonder that God
pronounced such a universal fiat of judgment.
As for the fallen angels who participated in the abomination, God put
them in custody "in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment
of the great day" (Jude 6). This is sometimes interpreted as Tartarus or
the "nether realms" (2 Peter 2:4). This would also explain why some
fallen angels are in custody and why others are free to roam the heavens and
torment mankind. Such a drastic
punishment, both for men and angels, presupposed a drastic sin, something
infinitely more evil and more sinister than mixed marriages. It was nothing
less than the demonic realm attempting to pervert the human world. By genetic
control and the production of hybrids, Satan was out to rob God of the
people He had made for Himself.
If
Satan had succeeded in corrupting the human race, he would have hindered the
coming of the perfect Son of God, the promised "seed of the woman,"
who would defeat Satan and restore man's dominion (Genesis 3:15). If Satan had
by any means prevented that birth, he would obviously have averted his own
doom. Satan did succeed to a large extent. It was for this reason that God
drowned mankind in the Deluge.
ARE
ANGELS SEXLESS?
Interpreting
the "sons of God" as fallen angels, the question immediately
arises--do angels marry? In Matthew 22:30, Jesus said angels neither marry nor
are given in marriage. This seems a clear and emphatic negative. However, it
does not preclude the possibility of such a thing happening--obviously
contrary to the will of God. And it does not preclude fallen angels, who had
rebelled against God already, from cohabiting with women of Earth, as the
Scriptures state. Some interpret
the words of Jesus as meaning that angels do not marry among themselves. Is it
because they are all male? Or is it because celestial beings are deathless and
thus need no offspring. Only terrestrial beings need to find immortality in
their children. (17) But if they do not need to marry and procreate, is it
still possible that they could engage in sexual acts? If not among themselves
then with human spouses? Jude seems quite explicit on the matter: the angels
left their own habitation, and gave themselves over to fornication, going
after strange flesh. In other words, they were capable of performing human
functions--eating, drinking, walking, talking, even sexual activity and
fathering children.
The
fact that angels do not marry does not in itself prove they are sexless.
Throughout the Bible, angels are referred to only as men. Finis Drake writes:
"It is logical to say...that the female was created specifically for the
human race in order that it could be kept in existence; and that all angels
were created males, in as much as their kind is kept in existence without the
reproduction process. Angels were created innumerable to start with (Hebrews
12:22) whereas, the human multitudes began with one pair." (18) Even in
the next world, when the saints will dwell in their resurrection body and live
forever, it does not imply that they will be sexless. The Bible teaches that
everyone will have his own body in the resurrection (1 Corinthians 15:35-38).
No suggestion is made that they will be unsexed. Furthermore, Christ remained
a man after His resurrection.
DEMONS
AT LARGE
One
other question has been raised. If the fallen angels who lusted after women of
Earth in Genesis 6 have been interred in Tartarus with "everlasting
chains," how does one explain the demons who have been operating since
then? They seemed to have been quite active during the ministry of Jesus, and
are busy again in our day. Following this reasoning, some share the conclusion
of Kent Philpott: However one
might wish to interpret Genesis 6: 1-4 to link this passage with the verses in
2 Peter and Jude seems to post far more problems than it would solve. But 2
Peter 2.4 and Jude 6 clearly assert that the rebellious angels are being kept
prisoner in the "nether gloom." If they are prisoners, they could
not very well function as the demons are described as functioning in the New
Testament. (19) But Philpott
failed to see that there are two categories of fallen angels: Those cast out
of Heaven with Lucifer, and who are still free to torment mankind; and those
who fell the second time by committing carnal acts with the daughters of men.
The spirits in this second category are those chained in the nether regions.
It
seems clear to me that the "sons of God" are none other than fallen
angels, and, because of their further sin of lusting after the "daughters
of men," many (of the responsible angels) were imprisoned by God. Both
the near annihilation of the human race and the incarceration of the fallen
angels in Tartarus indicate the magnitude of the sin they committed. By such
drastic judgment, God saved the human race from a calamity worse than the
physical death originally imposed upon them.
Notes:
l.
Matthew Henry's Commentary (Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1961).
2. Aurelius Augustine, The City of God (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark,
1949), Transl. Marcus Dods.
3. Lewis Sperry Chafer, Systematic Theology, Volume 2. (Dallas: Dallas
Seminary Press, 1947), p. 23.
4. Kenneth S. Wuest, Word Studies in the Greek N.T (Grand Rapids: Wm.
B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1966), Vol. 4, p. 240.
5. Ibid., p. 240.
6. Ibid., p. 241.
7. Unger, Biblical Demonology (Wheaton: Van Kampen Press, 1957), p. 48.
8 W. F. Allbright, From the Stone Age to Christianity (Baltimore: John Hopkins
Press, 1940), p. 226.
9. Bemard J. Bamberger, Fallen Angels (Philadelphia: The Jewish
Publication Society of America, 1952), p. 53.
10. Philo, DeGigantibus, pp. 58-60.
11. The Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 8, pp. 85 and 273.
12. Ibid., p. 190.
13. Josephus, The Work of Flavius Josephus; Antiquities of the Jews
(London: G. G. Rutledge), 1.3.1.
14. Joseph Hall, Contemplations (Otisville, Michigan: Baptist Book
Trust, 1976), p. 10.
15. Companion Bible (Oxford University Press). Appendix 26.
16. The Gospel Truth Magazine, Vol. 18, (June 1978), No. 7.
17. Dr. Morgenstem, Hebrew Union College Annual, XIV, 29- 40,114ff.
18. Finis Dake, Annotated Reference Bible, p.63.
19. Kent Philpott, A Manual of Demonology and the Occult (Grand Rapids:
Zondervan Publishing House, 1973), pp. 77-78.
Appendix
H
STORMTROOPERS
FOR DARWINISM
By
Will Hart
Extracted
from Nexus Magazine, Volume
9, Number 3 (April-May 2002)
The
public does not seem at all aware of the fact that the scientific
establishment has a double standard when it comes to the free flow of
information. In essence, it goes like this... Scientists are highly educated,
well trained and intellectually capable of processing all types of
information, and they can make the correct critical distinctions between fact
and fiction, reality and fantasy. The unwashed public is simply incapable of
functioning on this high mental plane.
The
noble ideal of the scientist as a highly trained, impartial, apolitical
observer and assembler of established facts into a useful body of knowledge
seems to have been shredded under the pressures and demands of the real world.
Science has produced many positive benefits for society; but we should know by
now that science has a dark, negative side. Didn't those meek fellows in the
clean lab coats give us nuclear bombs and biological weapons? The age of
innocence ended in World War II.
That
the scientific community has an attitude of intellectual superiority is thinly
veiled under a carefully orchestrated public relations guise. We always see
Science and Progress walking hand in hand. Science as an institution in a
democratic society has to function in the same way as the society at large; it
should be open to debate, argument and counter-argument. There is no place for
unquestioned authoritarianism. Is modern science meeting these standards?
In
the Fall of 2001, PBS aired a seven-part series, titled Evolution.
Taken at face value, that seems harmless enough. However, while the program
was presented as pure, objective, investigative science journalism, it
completely failed to meet even minimum standards of impartial reporting. The
series was heavily weighted towards the view that the theory of evolution is
"a science fact" that is accepted by "virtually all reputable
scientists in the world", and not a theory that has weaknesses and strong
scientific critics.
The
series did not even bother to interview scientists who have criticisms of
Darwinism: not "creationists" but bona fide scientists. To
correct this deficiency, a group of 100 dissenting scientists felt compelled
to issue a press release, "A Scientific Dissent on Darwinism", on
the day the first program was scheduled to go to air. Nobel nominee Henry
"Fritz" Schaefer was among them. He encouraged open public debate of
Darwin's theory:
Some
defenders of Darwinism embrace standards of evidence for evolution that as
scientists they would never accept in other circumstances.
We
have seen this same "unscientific" approach applied to archaeology
and anthropology, where "scientists" simply refuse to prove their
theories yet appoint themselves as the final arbiters of "the
facts". It would be naive to think that the scientists who cooperated in
the production of the series were unaware that there would be no
counter-balancing presentation by critics of Darwin's theory.
Richard
Milton is a science journalist. He had been an ardent true believer in
Darwinian doctrine until his investigative instincts kicked in one day. After
20 years of studying and writing about evolution, he suddenly realised that
there were many disconcerting holes in the theory. He decided to try to allay
his doubts and prove the theory to himself by using the standard methods of
investigative journalism.
Milton
became a regular visitor to London's famed Natural History Museum. He
painstakingly put every main tenet and classic proof of Darwinism to the test.
The results shocked him. He found that the theory could not even stand up to
the rigours of routine investigative journalism.
The
veteran science writer took a bold step and published a book titled The
Facts of Life: Shattering the Myths of Darwinism. It is clear that the
Darwinian myth had been shattered for him, but many more myths about science
would also be crushed after his book came out. Milton says:
I
experienced the witch-hunting activity of the Darwinist police at first hand.
It was deeply disappointing to find myself being described by a prominent
Oxford zoologist [Richard Dawkins] as "loony", "stupid"
and "in need of psychiatric help" in response to purely scientific
reporting.
(Does this sound like stories that came out of the Soviet Union 20 years ago
when dissident scientists there started speaking out?)
Dawkins
launched a letter-writing campaign to newspaper editors, implying that Milton
was a "mole" creationist whose work should be dismissed. Anyone at
all familiar with politics will recognise this as a standard Machiavellian
by-the-book "character assassination" tactic. Dawkins is a highly
respected scientist, whose reputation and standing in the scientific community
carry a great deal of weight.
According
to Milton, the process came to a head when the London Times Higher
Education Supplement commissioned him to write a critique of Darwinism. The
publication foreshadowed his coming piece: "Next Week: Darwinism -
Richard Milton goes on the attack". Dawkins caught wind of this and
wasted no time in nipping this heresy in the bud. He contacted the editor,
Auriol Stevens, and accused Milton of being a "creationist", and
prevailed upon Stevens to pull the plug on the article. Milton learned of this
behind-the-scenes backstabbing and wrote a letter of appeal to Stevens. In the
end, she caved in to Dawkins and scratched the piece.
Imagine
what would happen if a politician or bureaucrat used such pressure tactics to
kill a story in the mass media. It would ignite a huge scandal. Not so with
scientists, who seem to be regarded as "sacred cows" and beyond
reproach. There are many disturbing facts related to these cases. Darwin's
theory of evolution is the only theory routinely taught in our public school
system that has never been subjected to rigorous scrutiny; nor have any of the
criticisms been allowed into the curriculum.
This
is an interesting fact, because a recent poll showed that the American public
wants the theory of evolution taught to their children; however, "71 per
cent of the respondents say biology teachers should teach both Darwinism and
scientific evidence against Darwinian theory". Nevertheless, there are no
plans to implement this balanced approach.
It
is ironic that Richard Dawkins has been appointed to the position of Professor
of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. He is a classic
"Brain Police" storm trooper, patrolling the neurological front
lines. The Western scientific establishment and mass media pride themselves on
being open public forums devoid of prejudice or censorship. However, no
television program examining the flaws and weaknesses of Darwinism has ever
been aired in Darwin's home country or in America. A scientist who opposes the
theory cannot get a paper published.
The
Mysterious Origins of Man
was not a frontal attack on Darwinism; it merely presented evidence that is
considered anomalous by the precepts of his theory of evolution.
Returning
to our bastions of intellectual integrity, Forest Mims was a solid and skilled
science journalist. He had never been the centre of any controversy and so he
was invited to write the most-read column in the prestigious Scientific
American, "The Amateur Scientist", a task he gladly accepted.
According to Mims, the magazine's editor Jonathan Piel then learned that he
also wrote articles for a number of Christian magazines. The editor called
Mims into his office and confronted him.
"Do
you believe in the theory of evolution?" Piel asked.
Mims
replied, "No, and neither does Stephen Jay Gould."
His
response did not affect Piel's decision to bump Mims off the popular column
after just three articles.
This
has the unpleasant odour of a witch-hunt. The writer never publicly broadcast
his private views or beliefs, so it would appear that the "storm
troopers" now believe they have orders to make sure
"unapproved" thoughts are never publicly disclosed.
TABOO
OR NOT TABOO?
So,
the monitors of "good thinking" are not just the elite of the
scientific community, as we have seen in several cases; they are television
producers and magazine editors as well. It seems clear that they are all
driven by the singular imperative of furthering "public science
education", as the president of the Cambrian Institute so aptly phrased
it.
However,
there is a second item on the agenda, and that is to protect the public from
"unscientific" thoughts and ideas that might infect the mass mind.
We outlined some of those taboo subjects at the beginning of the article; now
we should add that it is also "unwholesome" and
"unacceptable" to engage in any of the following research pursuits:
paranormal phenomena, UFOs, cold fusion, free energy and all the rest of the
"pseudo-sciences". Does this have a familiar ring to it? Are we
hearing the faint echoes of religious zealotry?
Who
ever gave science the mission of engineering and directing the inquisitive
pursuits of the citizenry of the free world? It is all but impossible for any
scientific paper that has anti-Darwinian ramifications to be published in a
mainstream scientific journal. It is also just as impossible to get the
"taboo" subjects even to the review table, and you can forget about
finding your name under the title of any article in Nature unless you are a
credentialed scientist, even if you are the next Albert Einstein.
To
restate how this conspiracy begins, it is with two filters: credentials and
peer review. Modern science is now a maze of such filters set up to promote
certain orthodox theories and at the same time filter out that data already
prejudged to be unacceptable. Evidence and merit are not the guiding
principles; conformity and position within the established community have
replaced objectivity, access and openness.
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Merry
Christmas, and OFF WITH YOUR HEAD!
by
Carol A. Valentine
Curator, Waco Holocaust Electronic Museum
http://www.Public-Action.com
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15, 2002 -- Why have I only now found out about this? We can argue about who is most to blame, but the facts remain the
same: Congress and the White House have been helping to
establish a theocracy in America. That's right, in America --
the nation that used to be a land of religious freedom.
And now, since the advent of the 9-11 war, the would-be leaders
of this theocracy are stronger than ever. Little stands
between them and the realization of their plans. The Chabad Lubavitchers also rely on the works of renowned Jewish
teachers such as Maimonides. Of course they rely on the Torah;
but note that the word "Torah," in Jewish religious
discourse, is somewhat elastic; it can denote (1) the Pentateuch
(the first five books of the Old Testament), (2) the Old Testament
in its entirety, (3) the Old Testament in its entirety, and the
Talmud, and (4) the entire body of Jewish religious literature. IMPORTANT
LUBAVITCHERS
For contemporary Lubavitchers, the most admired is late Rabbi
Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the "Lubavitcher Rebbe," or
simply "the Rebbe." (Jewish people call a rabbi with whom
they have a close and personal relationship their "Rebbe."
Since I feel as though I have a close and personal relationship with
him -- having read much about him -- and since I am not Jewish, I
will use the Americanised form of the word and call Rabbi Schneerson
"the Reeb." ) WORLD
WIDE LUBAVITCH RESOURCES
According to the Jerusalem Post of October 19, 2001, "Chabad
is a potent force: 2,600 institutions around the world, large
numbers of English-speaking rabbis, control of most of Judaism in
Italy as well as the chief rabbinate of Russia (its Russia budget
alone is $20 million a year). It is an organization with immense
world-wide financial resources . . . In fact, Chabad is a movement
of monumental importance. Observant Jews are profoundly dependent on
its emissaries all over the world . . . its rabbis dominate or
are poised to dominate Jewish communities in a startling number of
countries." LUBAVITCHERS
ARE NOT DILETTANTES
Baruch Goldstein, the American-Israeli who shot 29 Muslims to death as they prayed during Ramadan at the al-Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron in 1994, was a Lubavitcher. Lubavitch rabbinates are hereditary, passed from father to son, sometimes from father to son-in-law: His [Goldstein's] family ancestry, through his mother, went back eight generations to the Baal Hatanya founder of the Lubavitch dynasty. One Year Later -- Purim Hebron 1994 Remembered, by Dr.
Manfred R. Lehmann http://www.newkach.org/special/baruch/04.htm Like
that of most high-ranking White House officials, press secretary Ari
Fleischer's life has been an exhausting blur since the Sept. 11
terrorist attacks. But he took a few hours off last week to pick up
an award from American Friends of Lubavitch, and to help boost the
group's extensive Jewish outreach efforts on Capitol Hill -- efforts
that Mr. Fleischer, a former congressional staffer, has supported
from the beginning. ("Ari Fleischer: Reform Lubavitch," by James Besser, Baltimore Jewish Times, 10/26/2001, V.262, N.8, p. 30. as quoted by The Jewish Tribal Review. http://jewishtribalreview.org/cha.htm LUBAVITCHERS
ARE NOT INTEGRATIONISTS
The Lubavitchers are proselytisers, but of a
different sort. They want to make all Jews -- Reform, Conservative
or Orthodox --hyper "Jewish." Thus we see Orthodox
Jews like Lieberman and Reform Jews like Fleischer standing
side-by-side working the Lubavitcher program. Lubavitchers
don't want to convert non-Jews to Judaism -- they want Jews to
understand they are a class apart from everyone else. LUBAVITCHER
GURU IS MIGHTY FINE
In 1995, Schneerson became the first religious leader ever to be
awarded the United States Congressional Gold Medal. Just
this March, Bush II entertained a delegation of Lubavitchers to mark
Schneerson's 100th birthday and issued a glowing statement about
Schneerson in a White House Proclamation. THE
TOUCH AND FEEL OF YOUR NEW RELIGION
Let's start our journey at a website run by
"Jews and Hasidic Gentiles—United to Save America"
("JHG-USA"). The purpose of the website is to
popularise Schneerson's plans for Gentiles. Schneerson's
plan calls for non-Jews to be converted into "Hasidic
Gentiles," a lower life form in the cosmology of America's
future. The Reeb's photo is at the top left side of the
homepage. As you read the Jews and Hasidic Gentiles—United to Save America (JHG-USA) website, be aware of the sliding definitions. The Hebrew word "Moshiach," (sometimes spelled "Mashiach"), is the word for "Messiah." Sometimes "Moshiach" connotes a person, but often it connotes the Jewish people as a whole and the Utopia they will bring to the world through their transcendence over lesser beings. CHRISTIANS
ARE IDOL WORSHIPPERS - CHRISTMAS MUST BE ABOLISHED
Here is the flier the Lubavitchers are circulating. http://www.noahide.com/xmas.htm The ad reads: "Campaign to Abolish X-mas celebration by
gentiles . . . according to the known Jewish ruling that
Christians are idol worshippers. (Likkutei Sichos 37:198)" CELEBRATE
"X-MAS" AND DIE
Go back to the anti-"X-mas" flier: KILL
THEM ALL
The central book in Judaism is the Talmud, which contains the
teachings of the Pharisees -- those people on whom the New Testament
spends so many words. Jesus called their teachings "the
ways of men," an abomination, and he condemned them; for doing
so, He was crucified. At the time Jesus lived and up until
several hundred years after His death, we are told, the teachings of
the Pharisees were not written down, but were memorized, added to,
and passed around by word of mouth. This is called the
"oral law." The original Hebrew Babylonian Talmud (Soferim 15, Rule
10) cites Rabbi Simon ben Yohai: "Tob shebe goyyim
harog." Translation: "Even the best among the
Gentiles deserves to be killed." OTHER
GENTILE HOLIDAYS TO BE DECLARED VERBOTEN
See: "The Law Is Only a Minimum," and you will learn that observance of other Christian religious holidays constitute idolatry and will be banned. Christian holidays to be banned include:
http://www.noahide.com/minimum.htm SPECIAL
DEAL ON ANTI X-MAS FLIERS
Later, we will learn that the "idol-worshippers" who
refuse to give up their religious observances will be put to death
by beheading. But for now, be aware that Jews and Hasidic
Gentiles—United to Save America (JHG-USA) are offering a special
discount on those anti-"X-mas" fliers. Normally they
sell for 25 cents a piece -- now they are selling for 15 cents a
piece. Hurry to order! THE
LUBAVITCHERS ON JESUS Bush II claims to be a Christian. Want to
know what Bush's Lubavitcher friends think about Jesus?
Read the "Who Was Jesus" page: The
Talmud (Babylonian edition) records other sins of 'Jesus the
Nazarene': Such is the blasphemy against Jesus coming from the friends of Bush II. If Jesus Christ stepped into the America Bush is helping to create, Jesus would be put to death again -- by Jewish law. A
LUBAVITCH WHITE HOUSE RECEPTION
Not only did Bush issue a proclamation, he actually held a White House reception for the Lubavitchers to celebrate the Reeb's 100th birthday. Bush
Meets Lubavitch Rabbis to Mark Rebbe's 100th Birthday. --Reported in Haaretz [Israeli newspaper], March 26, 2002, as
quoted by The Jewish Tribal Review According to this book, all non-Jews are totally satanic creatures 'in whom there is absolutely nothing good.' Even a non-Jewish embryo is qualitatively different from a Jewish one. The very existence of a non-Jew is 'inessential,' whereas all of creation was created solely for the sake of the Jews. (Israel Shahak, Jewish History, Jewish Religion , Pluto
Press, London, 1994, pg. 27.) The late, highly revered Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the 'Lubavitcher Rebbe' who headed the Chabad movement and wielded great influence in Israel as well as in the U.S., explained that, 'The difference between a Jewish and a non-Jewish person stems from the common expression: ‘Let us differentiate.’ Thus, we do not have a case of profound change in which a person is merely on a superior level. Rather, we have a case of ‘let us differentiate’ between totally different species. This is what needs to be said about the body: the body of a Jewish person is of a totally different quality from the body of [members] of all nations of the world [i.e., Gentile people] . . . A non-Jew’s entire reality is only vanity. It is written, ‘And the strangers shall guard and feed your flocks’ (Isaiah 61:5). The entire creation [of a non-Jew] exists only for the sake of the Jews . . . ' ("Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel," by Israel Shahak
and Norton Mezvinsky. London. Pluto Press, 1999; as
quoted by the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, March 2000.) THE
SON OF GOD IS . . .
So we have now learned Jesus was not the Son of God, but a false prophet. Who is the Son of God, then? In the book of Exodus, G-d openly proclaims His son to the world: "Thus says the L-rd: My firstborn son is Israel. 'Israel' is the Jewish people -- all of them. The Jews were chosen by G-d to be His special 'son,' to be, in the words of the Bible, 'a kingdom of priests and a holy nation' for the whole world . . . Read "Who is the Son of G-d?" If a heathen smites a Jew, he is worthy of death . . . He who smites an Israelite on the jaw, is as though he had thus assaulted the Divine Presence; for it is written, 'One who smiteth man [I.e., an Israelite] attacketh the Holy One.' (Sanhedrin, 58b.) A Jew -- any Jew -- is the Divine Presence, the Holy One. Get it, dummy? KING REEB . . .The Rebbe is a direct descendant of King David and has received a true prophecy from G-d that we who are alive in this generation shall be the first in history to see the coming of the true messiah. Many Jews are eagerly anticipating the Rebbe's resurrection from the grave, ready to re-establish the Sanhedrin and anoint the king. http://www.noahide.com/yeshu.htm HE
HAS THE WHOLE WORLD IN HIS HANDS
In our generation, the spiritual leader of the Jewish people--and
therefore of the whole world--is Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson
(known as the "Lubavitcher Rebbe"), in New York . . .Did
you catch that -- the Reeb is the leader of the Jewish people AND
THEREFORE THE WHOLE WORLD. So now we see how the Pyramid of
Power is shaking out. From "Who is the Son of G-d?" CONGRESS
AND BUSH INVENT HISTORY
Now let's go back in time to the reign of Bush I, when Congress
passed, and Bush signed, Joint House Resolution 104, Public Law
102-14. In House Joint Resolution 104, the birthday of Rabbi
Menachem Schneerson, March 26, 1991, was designated as
"Education Day, USA." You may have noticed that in 2002,
the Rebbe's birthday was on March 25, not March 26. More of
that later. Here is JHR 104, Public Law 102-14: Whereas Congress recognizes the historical tradition of ethical values and principles which are the basis of civilized society and upon which our great Nation was founded . . . Ah! You think they're going to mention, perhaps, the great
Christian precept "do unto others as you would have them do
unto you," or even the Ten Commandments? I am a real Christian . . . a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus . . . To see Jefferson's comments in context, go to: <
http://christianparty.net/tjchristian.htm >. Whereas these ethical values and principles have been the bedrock of society from the dawn of civilization, when they were known as the Seven Noahide Laws . . . Naugahyde Laws? No, that's not Naugahyde, that's Noahide .
. . Never heard of them! What are they? WOULD YOU BELIEVE . . .Explanation No. 1: "Noahide" is the adjectival form of "Noah." So perhaps God passed down laws to Noah that somehow we overlooked? No, I just scrutinized Genesis in my King James version, and on two Bible Internet search engines. God did not pass down seven laws to Noah, and Noah did not pass down seven laws to anyone else. Explanation No. 2: Let's go to a Lubavitcher website --
surely they know from where these laws came. All of these laws are derived from specific passages in the Torah, which G-d gave to the Jewish people at Mt. Sinai. Let's try to be logical. Noah lived and died in Genesis.
Mt. Sinai is not mentioned in Genesis. Moses lived in Exodus
and beyond. God handed over the Ten Commandments to Moses at
Mt. Sinai, in Exodus. Therefore God could not have given Noah these
laws at Mt. Sinai, for Noah had already died, back in Genesis. And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein. But as you can see, there is not one mention of seven laws in
that verse, despite what the Talmudic sages tell us. All of these laws are derived from specific passages in the Torah, which G-d gave to the Jewish people at Mt. Sinai. Ah! The operant word is "derived." The Pharisee
scholars derived, or reasoned, the laws into existence.
So . . . just as Athena sprang from the head of Zeus, so the Noahide
laws sprang from the heads of the Pharisees. Our Rabbis taught: seven precepts were the sons of Noah commanded: social laws; (5) to refrain from blasphemy, idolatry; adultery; bloodshed; robbery; and eating flesh cut from a living animal (1) . . . Footnote 5, for the above passage, says: "I.e., to establish
courts of justice, or, perhaps, to observe social justice
(Nahmanides on Gen. XXXIV, 13): Hast. Dict. (s.v. Noachian precepts)
translates 'obedience to authority.'" These commandments may be regarded as the foundations of all human and moral progress. Judaism has both a national and a universal outlook in life. In the former sense it is particularistic, SETTING UP A PEOPLE DISTINCT AND SEPARATE FROM OTHERS (emphasis added) by its peculiar religious law. But in the latter, it recognises that moral progress and its concomitant Divine love and approval are the privilege and obligation of all mankind. And hence the Talmud lays down the seven Noachian precepts, by the observance of which all mankind may attain spiritual perfection, and without which moral death must inevitably ensue. That perhaps is the idea underlying the assertion (passim) that a heathen is liable to death for the neglect of any of these . . . Let's pause here for a moment and notice the phrase I put in
emphasis: " . . . setting up a people distinct and
separate from others . . . " MEET
YOUR NEW RELIGION, PART II
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where they will spend ALL of eternity.
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section 14 "The Protocols of the Illuminated Elders of Tzion"
Wall Street " The Mark" is Here
It has happened "War Declared upon and in America"
"All you ever need to know about their god and Qabalah"
A Sincere Request to "Rapture" Teachers
Compulsory Constitutional Cremation
Homeland Security, "The Police State"
The Babylonian Talmudic Mystical Qabalah
How will they do it- " The false-christ"
"Summation" The beginning of sorrows has begun
Satan's Tales "Wagging the Global Dog"
"Satan's Plan", Protocols of Zion ( of course they will dispute it's authenticity)
I Witch, New One World Order Seal
Satan's Enforcers of Quaballah
The Seed of God or the Seed of Satan, Your choice by faith
I AM, the Revelation of Jesus Christ
National Organization Against Hasidic International Talmudic Enforcement
Where's Da Plane Boss, wheres da plane?
The Federal Reserve, Fed up with the Fed?
The Protocols Today. Dispute this, Liars !
Letter to a friend "It's not the Jews Dummy"
The "Son's of the Synagogue of Satan"Chabad Lubavitch
The Chabad Satan Wall of Destruction
Columbia "The Queen of Heaven"
The Infiltration of the leaven "Jerusalem Council"
Obedient Ishmael Kislev 19, 5764
The Lord of the Ring, the Return of the Talmudic king
Changing the Time and the Laws
"Replacement Theology" of Judaic Talmudism
Eating Rainbow Stew with a Silver Spoon, underneath a Noahide Sky
