Who are the Nephilim and the Sons of God? A lot of people are getting very distracted
with teachings about angels mating with humans and
making super-humans or half-angels. In fact, some Bible translations
have left the untranslated word, Nephilim,
so we have to trust the experts to tell us what it means. Is it possible that
God isn't the author of this distraction? Is it possible that the Devil
has something to do with this? And is it possible that the Devil
is trying to distract us from listening to something important
that God is saying to us? If so, what truth is it that
Satan trying to distract us from? Would you like to know, all
by answering some simple questions? Hi, I'm David Daniels
from Chick Publications. I want to ask some very simple,
very direct questions. What you believe is up to you. But you need to have the tools to properly
ask and answer these questions. The Bible says that
there is God the Father and His only Begotten Son. The Bible also says that there are also
those called "the sons of God." Who are "the sons of God" in Genesis 6? How do we start? We want to know what God said. So let me read it to you, in a real Bible. Genesis 6:1-2, 4-5 1 "And it came to pass,
when men began to multiply on the face of the earth,
and daughters were born unto them, 2 That the sons of God
saw the daughters of men that they were fair;
and they took them wives of all which they chose. 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. 5 And GOD saw that
the wickedness of man was great in the earth,
and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart
was only evil continually." So there are men on the earth. Those men had daughters. The sons of God saw
those daughters of men. They were fair. The sons of God took wives
of all the daughters of men that they chose. There were giants on the earth
in those days. There were also giants on the earth
after those days, at the time that the sons of God
made babies with the daughters of men. Those were the mighty men
which were of old, men of renown. After that, the earth became so wicked
that only Noah was found righteous on the earth. That's in verses 8-9. There are five basic questions
we can get from the text. 1. Who were the men? 2. Who were the daughters of those men? 3. Who were the sons of God? 4. Who were the giants (Hebrew, Nephilim)? 5. Were the giants or Nephilim
the same as the babies that the sons of God had
with the daughters of men? Walk through this with me slowly. Who or what will you trust to
tell you the answers? If you already believe
that angels mated with humans, surprise! There are some
Bible version paraphrases made just for you! They literally wrote it into the text! Let's start with the 2002 Message Bible. I already showed you
its occultic leanings in the Lord's Prayer in Matthew, when I talked about Baphomet. This is Genesis 6, verses 1-2 and 4. 1 "When the human race
began to increase, with more and more
daughters being born, 2 the sons of God noticed
that the daughters of men were beautiful. They looked them over
and picked out wives for themselves. 4 This was back in the days
(and also later) when there were giants in the land. The giants came
from the union of the sons of God and the daughters of men. These were the mighty men
of ancient lore, the famous ones." So this is The Message
of Eugene Peterson of 2002: 1. The men are the human race 2. The daughters of those men
are daughters of the human race 3. The sons of God don't seem to be
the human race, but it doesn't say. 4. The Nephilim are giants,
like in the King James. 5. The giants are those babies
that sons of God had with the daughters of the human race. And after this, in verse 5 it says that
"God saw that human evil was out of control." So Eugene Peterson's Message is
that sons of God had giant babies with the daughters of the human race. That's one paraphrase. Now let's look at the 2012 Voice Bible,
Remember, The Voice is written like a big script. It might as well start with
"A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away..." Nonetheless, here's Genesis 6, verses 1-2 and 4 1 "As human beings began to multiply
and spread across the surface of the earth as God commanded,
they had lovely daughters. 2 The sons of God saw how
beautiful the humans' daughters were, and they decided to take
any daughters they wanted as their wives. 4 Now at that time
and for some time to come, a great warrior race
lived on the earth. Whenever the sons of God
would have sex with the humans' daughters,
the women bore them children who became mighty warriors. In the days of old,
they became famous heroes, the kind people tell stories about!" So these are the opinions of
The Voice Bible of 2012: 1. The men are human beings. 2. The daughters are
the humans' daughters 3. The sons of God
don't seem to be human beings, but it doesn't say what they were. 4. The Nephilim were
"a great warrior race" 5. The "great warrior race"
are those children the sons of God had with the humans' daughters. And those baby great warriors
were only born whenever the sons of God had relations
with the humans' daughters. And after this, it says "evil became
the first thought on every mind." Now let's look at
The Common English Bible of 2011. Genesis 6, verses 1, 2 and 4: 1 "When the number of people
started to increase throughout the fertile land,
daughters were born to them. 2 The divine beings saw
how beautiful these human women were, so they married the ones they chose. 4 In those days, giants lived on the earth
and also afterward, when divine beings
and human daughters had sexual relations and
gave birth to children. These were the ancient heroes,
famous men." So in the opinion of
"120 biblical scholars from 22 faith traditions"
for The Common English Bible of 2011: 1. The men are "people" 2. The daughters are "human women" 3. The sons of God are "divine beings" 4. The Nephilim are "giants,"
just like in the King James 5. The giants are those children
the "divine beings" had with the human women. And according to verse 5,
"The LORD saw that humanity had become thoroughly evil
on the earth, and every idea their minds thought up
was always completely evil." As I said, a number of
other translations, like all of the New Century Version translations,
from the English Version for the Deaf, the International Children's Bible
and the generic New Century Version, through the 2014 MEV
--Modern English Version, don't even translate the word
"Nephilim." They just literally put
"Nephilim in the text, so you have to trust
some scholar to tell you what it means. So where do the paraphrases leave us? We have an interesting story, if true. In short, "the sons of God"
or "divine beings" found pretty human wives
and made babies. Those babies were giants
or a "great warrior race." And after that, the whole world
went wicked, except for one man who pleased God, named Noah. They claim that somehow,
the entire world went wicked, once angels picked out women
and made powerful babies. Is that the way the story goes? Are these paraphrases
smarter than a 5th grader? Or can I ask a few simple questions
that will blow this story to shreds? Are you ready? Here we go. Number One. Can angels make baby angels? What verse in the Bible
says angels can make baby angels? If you don't get that from the Bible,
what book do you get that from? Let me help you out. There are three groups:
believers, heathen and pagans. Believers believe and follow God. Heathen don't follow God. Pagans follow other gods. So if you don't get this story
from the Bible, did it come from heathen or pagans? And why would you trust
heathen or pagan writings to interpret the Bible? Number Two. Do angels have
men's private body parts? For angels to make baby angels,
they have to have private body parts. For angels to make baby humans
with women, they have to have men's private body parts Not only that, but angels
would have to make baby angels the same way
humans make baby humans. And angels would have to have
physically-compatible DNA. What clear Bible verses state that
angels have men's private body parts? And if it's not in the Bible,
do you get it from a heathen book, or a pagan one? Why do you trust that book
more than the Bible? And wait. I thought angels
were spirits, like in Psalm 104:4 and Hebrews 1:7. Hebrews 1:14 says, 14 "Are they not all ministering spirits,
sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?" Jesus made the angels,
so He should know what's true. He Himself said, in Luke 24:39, 39 "...for a spirit hath not flesh and bones,
as ye see me have." So angels, which are spirits,
don't have flesh and bones. And I thought that angels
don't marry and aren't given in marriage. Like it says in Mark 12:25: 25 "For when they shall
rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage;"
(talking about our resurrection) "but are as the angels
which are in heaven." And there couldn't be
unwed angels' babies running around. That's just silly. God ordained marriage --
but evidently, only for earthly life, nowhere else. So if
angels do not make baby angels, angels do not have private parts,
angels do not have human flesh, human bones or human DNA,
how could they make human babies? How could spirit beings mate
with physical women and have human babies? What verse of the Bible says that? And if it's not there,
what heathen or pagan book says that? And why would you
believe that book over the Bible? Three. Why would God make them
able to do that? Why would God make that even possible? Now that you think about it,
does that story even make sense? But what else could it possibly mean? You can see that
I don't trust these paraphrases. They leave me with a situation
that makes no sense at all, as soon as I start asking questions. There are no baby angels in the Bible. God did not create angels
to mate with humans or even marry, in the Bible. Realize that I am placing my faith
in the verses of the Bible, not in a theory. First and foremost,
I want every word that God said. I don't want a paraphrase. You just saw how man's opinions
created a whole fairy tale story. So I need a literal Bible,
with only what God said, nothing added, nothing taken away. Otherwise, how will I know if I have
what God wanted me to know or not? People could take away
what they didn't like and leave it blank or
put something else in its place. You already know
from my books and my vlogs that I only trust the King James. It's got a 400+ year track record. So lets go with that. And now that we've picked
a literal translation, let's start all over again,
with a number of questions that people do not
commonly seem to ask. What happened? And when did this happen? These are from the days
after Seth had Enos. Genesis 4:26 says,
"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." The Bible says that
Seth has Enos. And after that men, plural,
began to call upon the name of the LORD. So godly society has begun. That's all well and good. This is the beginning of
the believers on the earth. But something happened
that was so bad that by the time of the Flood
there was only one righteous person left. God revealed to Ezekiel
that if Noah had been in Jerusalem in Ezekiel's day,
he wouldn't even have saved his own family --just himself. Ezekiel 14:20,
"Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live,
saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither
son nor daughter; they shall but deliver
their own souls by their righteousness." Something made men
and families turn away from the Lord by the thousands,
maybe millions. Do you realize
how effective that was, whatever it was? The Devil must have loved that. If it worked that well for him, the Devil,
whatever he did, don't you think
he would have done it again? After all, in the Garden of Eden
and in the temptation of Jesus Christ, Satan used the three lusts:
The lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes,
and the pride of life. Check out Genesis 3,
Matthew 4, and 1 John 2:16. The Devil keeps using them
even today, over and over again, because it works so well. So the Devil did something
so dangerous that it pulled every person on earth away
but Noah, and maybe to a lesser extent his family. Whatever this danger is,
it worked and sure made the Devil happy. So you've got to believe
that he tried it again. That's the Devil's pattern. He repeats what works. If so, then
it must be in the Bible. If I look in the Bible and
find out that the people of God were turned away,
I will probably be able to see what it was that turned their hearts
from following God. So what's the first place
that tells specifically what could turn the hearts
of the people away from following God? Look no farther than
the fourth book of the Bible, the book of Numbers. In Numbers 22,
Balak the king of Moab sent for a diviner named Balaam
to come and curse Israel, being led by Moses. He offered piles of riches for this,
so Balaam must have been otherwise good at this. But by the end of Numbers 24,
God had humiliated the king, the Holy Ghost spoke through Balaam
and he totally blessed the 12 tribes of Israel and
prophesied parts of the first and second coming of Christ! That didn't go how Balaam expected. He still loved riches. So at the end of Numbers 24,
Balaam returned home. But a few chapters later,
Balaam is back in the land, this time in Midian,
and killed in a battle. What happened? Why did Balaam come back? Did he get his riches, after all? And what turned the heart
of the Israelites against God in such a short time? A number of Bible verses
give us the answers. First, let's go to Numbers 31:7-8. 7 "And they warred against
the Midianites, as the LORD commanded Moses;
and they slew all the males. 8 And they slew the kings of Midian,
beside the rest of them that were slain; namely,
Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba,
five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor
they slew with the sword." Why? Look at verses 15-16. 15 "And Moses said unto them,
Have ye saved all the women alive? 16 Behold, these caused
the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam,
to commit trespass against the LORD
in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague
among the congregation of the LORD." So Balaam obviously told them
one thing that caused the children of Israel
to sin massively. The "counsel of Balaam"
"caused the children of Israel" "to commit trespass
against the LORD in the matter of Peor." And it obviously involved women. So let's go back to Numbers 25
to find out what happened. 1 "And Israel abode in Shittim,
and the people began to commit whoredom
with the daughters of Moab. 2 And they called the people
unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat,
and bowed down to their gods. 3 And Israel joined himself
unto Baalpeor: and the anger of the LORD
was kindled against Israel." So "the people" (obviously men)
"began to commit whoredom with" who? "...the daughters of Moab." And what was the result of
the followers of God committing whoredom with
the daughters of Moab, who were pagans? "And they" (the Moabites)
called the people (the men of Israel) unto the sacrifices of their gods;
and the people did eat, and bowed down unto their gods. And Israel joined himself
unto Baalpeor..." Wait. What? In no time,
people who were following God, with Moses alive as their leader,
started having relations with the daughters of the pagan Moabites
--and the next thing you know, they're bowing to the Moabites' gods! And not only that
--they "joined themselves to Baalpeor"! That means they got into
a covenant relationship with the Moabites' gods,
and not only that, they forsook
--turned their hearts from-- the Lord their God! Wow! That was so easy! And so fast! And so many. That is why God told Moses
in Deuteronomy 17:17, regarding the future kings of Israel: "Neither shall he multiply wives
to himself, that his heart turn not away..." And yet, despite this rule,
that every king had to write down by hand (see verses 18-19),
the wisest king in the world --fell for it! 1 Kings 11:1
"But king Solomon loved many strange women... 2 Of the nations concerning which
the LORD said unto the children of Israel,
Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you:
for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods:
Solomon clave unto these in love. 3 And he had seven hundred wives,
princesses, and three hundred concubines:
and his wives turned away" his what? "His heart." What turned away
this man of God's heart? The daughters of pagan kings. Are you detecting a pattern here? And did you notice that God said,
"SURELY they will turn away your heart
after their gods?" It wasn't even a question! It was a certainty! Obviously,
Satan was overjoyed! And obviously,
he continued this pattern. After the Israelites
began returning from the Babylonian captivity,
after 536 BC, they messed up again! Take a look at Ezra 10:2-3. 2 "And Shechaniah
the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam,
answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God,
and have taken strange wives of the people of the land:
yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing. 3 Now therefore let us
make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives,
and such as are born of them..." The men of God
married the daughters of the heathen and the pagans,
who bore children to them. You've got to be kidding me. They still hadn't learned their lesson? Now look at Nehemiah 13:23,
decades later. In fact, read the next few verses,
just the odd ones. 23 "In those days also saw I
Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab: 25 And I contended with them,
and cursed them, and smote certain of them,
and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God,
saying, Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take their daughters
unto your sons, or for yourselves. 27 Shall we then
hearken unto you to do all this great evil,
to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives? 29 Remember them,
O my God, because they have
defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood,
and of the Levites." So once again,
the priests of God defiled the priesthood by what? Marrying the daughters of the pagans. Could this same pattern
be true for Christians today? Let's take a look. In 2 Corinthians 6:14
"Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers:
for what fellowship hath righteousness
with unrighteousness? and what communion
hath light with darkness? 15 And what concord
hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath
he that believeth with an infidel? 16 And what agreement
hath the temple of God with idols?
for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said,
I will dwell in them, and walk in them;
and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 17 Wherefore come out
from among them, and be ye separate,
saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing;
and I will receive you, 18 And will be a Father unto you,
and ye shall be my sons and daughters,
saith the Lord Almighty." And 1 Corinthians 6:15, "Know ye not that
your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take
the members of Christ, and make them
the members of an harlot? God forbid." Sure, if a married couple
were unsaved and one of them gets saved,
it sanctifies the children if the unsaved decides not to leave. 1 Corinthians 7:14,
"For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife,
and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband:
else were your children unclean; but now are they holy." But that does not say
Christians should "missionary date" or marry an unbeliever. Finally, look at
the last book of the Bible, in the letter from Jesus
to the church at Pergamos. Revelation 2:14
"But I have a few things against thee,
because thou hast there them that hold
the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac
to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel,
to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication." There you have it. In the last book of the Bible,
there are still men fornicating with pagan women,
following the "doctrine" or teaching of Balaam
--which has caused so many to quickly turn their hearts from the Lord. Do you suppose that
what Genesis 6 really does is give us the beginning
of the very pattern that Satan used to pull away the hearts
of the people of God throughout the Bible? There are no Bible verses
(count them --zero!) warning us of a danger
of humans cohabiting with angels. But there are many Bible verses
warning us about the danger of the hearts of the men of God
being turned away by the daughters of pagan men. Not only that, there are
entire chapters and stories devoted to telling us
how it happened, what it did, and what had to be done about it. Do you suppose that
the Devil is using the story that "Nephilim are
human-angelic hybrids of the union
of fallen angels and women," to distract us from the real danger,
of the people of God's hearts being turned away
to follow pagan gods, by being unequally yoked
with unbelieving daughters of men? The supernatural scenario
is in no clear verses of the Bible. People have to imply them,
like in paraphrases, or go to pagan or heathen books,
to find that story. But the natural scenario,
the real and present danger is all throughout the Bible,
in plain sight. And yet Christians keep
uniting with non-believers, as if missionary dating
or marriage is suddenly supposed to work. You can believe what you want,
but I believe what my Bible says, God's preserved words in English,
the King James Bible. And from all the rest of the Bible,
From Genesis 6 on says, I think, that God's people,
the godly line descended from Seth through Enos,
who called upon the name of the Lord,
eventually had their hearts turned away from God. Why? Because they fell in love
with the beautiful but unbelieving daughters of men,
married them, and had children. The Bible says
the giants were already there. So their union
can't have made the giants. That's not what
the text of God's words says. But the Nephilim were giants. And finally, if the union of godly men,
sons of God, and daughters of men, unbelievers,
produced great leaders, it makes sense that they could
cause a wholesale defection of their followers,
other sons of God, and of most of the godly community,
to turn their hearts away from following God,
just as you see throughout history. That defection was so bad,
that finally, there was only one man left who truly sought God. He was a righteous man
who walked with God. His name was Noah. And the rest, as they say, is history. I'm going to trust the Bible story,
not the pagans' fairy tale. You can, too, if you want. God bless you, and have a wonderful day.
