Why does Peter mention the imprisoned spirits and Noah in two different letters? We have a bit of history that people have tried to erase, yet we want to review this history so that we can better understand the perspective of the first century writers and understand the age that we live in. The genetic mixing that took place before the flood still effects us today. During the fourth century the Romans were departing from their own mythology of gods and demigods; so during the period in which they were canonizing scripture they eliminated certain writings regarding the pre-flood era. This would be three hundred years after Peter’s letters. The Romans decided that angels do not and did not cohabitate with earth women, and yet they could not eliminate every book that speaks of the race of the fallen earth-born beings. The Masoretes also tried to eliminate this knowledge. Why? If we read history we understand where mythology came from. If we combine Josephus with our Bible, we have a solid view of Peter’s words. How long were the sons of the Nephil in the land? What happened to the spirits of the sons of the Nephil? What does this have to do with the grafting of the devil? What does this have to do with past life regressions?
Antiquities of the Jews, Josephus 1:3:1. Now this posterity of Seth continued to esteem God as the Lord of the universe, and to have an entire regard to virtue, for seven generations; but in process of time they were perverted, and forsook the practices of their forefathers; and did neither pay those honors to God which were appointed them, nor had they any concern to do justice towards men. But for what degree of zeal they had formerly shown for virtue, they now showed by their actions a double degree of wickedness, whereby they made God to be their enemy. For many angels of God accompanied with women, and begat sons that proved unjust, and despisers of all that was good, on account of the confidence they had in their own strength; for the tradition is, that these men did what resembled the acts of those whom the Grecians call giants. But Noah was very uneasy at what they did; and being displeased at their conduct, persuaded them to change their dispositions and their acts for the better: but seeing they did not yield to him, but were slaves to their wicked pleasures, he was afraid they would kill him, together with his wife and children, and those they had married; so he departed out of that land.
The Works of Flavius Josephus.
What did the historian Josephus mention regarding the angels? That they accompanied with women and begat sons. What was the Greek and Roman tradition? That there were gods and demigods, some large, some not, who became the overlords of humanity. The gods came to earth and cohabitated with humans creating the demigod race. Doesn’t mythology also teach the fighting and wickedness of the gods and demigods? What did the Almighty, Most High, Eternal, Heavenly Father do? He destroyed them in a flood because they became wicked overlords who contaminated humanity. One hundred and twenty years from the call to repentance, they were drowned.
Now as we might observe, mythology takes a lot of liberty with the “powers” and “abilities” of these gods and demigods. However all that was needed to subdue them was water. The gods (aka angels) and demigods (aka sons of the Nephilim) were not as powerful as the tales led us to believe. In fact, once the fallen angels left their habitation, oikētērion, they were bound to earth. Their children had become genetic mutants, as if the genetic experiment of Dr Jekyll’s “Mr Hyde” and Frankenstein’s “Adam” came together giving the earth born children large bodies with a lust for blood.
Jude 6 G32 Also angels G5037 G3588 G3361 not G5083 keeping G3588 their own G1473 G746 sovereignty, G235 but G620 leaving G3588 their own G2398 G3613 dwelling-place, G1519 [6for G2920 9judgment G3173 8of great G2250 7a day G1199 3bonds G126 2in everlasting G5259 4under G2217 5 the infernal region G5083 1he keeps].
5083 LSJ Gloss:τηρέω to watch over, protect, guard
Dodson:τηρέω I keep, guard, observe I keep, guard, observe, watch over.
Thayer:
1) to attend to carefully, take care of
1a) to guard
1b) metaph. to keep, one in the state in which he is
1c) to observe
1d) to reserve: to undergo something
For Synonyms see entry G5874
τηρέω
tēreō tay-reh'-o From τηρός teros (a watch; perhaps akin to G2334); to guard (from loss or injury, properly by keeping the eye upon; and thus differing from G5442, which is properly to prevent escaping; and from G2892, which implies a fortress or full military lines of apparatus), that is, to note (a prophecy; figuratively to fulfil a command); by implication to detain (in custody; figuratively to maintain); by extension to withhold (for personal ends; figuratively to keep unmarried) KJV Usage: hold fast, keep (-er), (ob-, pre-, re) serve, watch.
746 LSJ Gloss:ἀρχή a beginning, origin, first cause
Dodson:ἀρχή ruler, beginning
(a) rule (kingly or magisterial), (b) plur: in a quasi-personal sense, almost: rulers, magistrates, (c) beginning.
Thayer:
1) beginning, origin
2) the person or thing that commences, the first person or thing in a series, the leader
3) that by which anything begins to be, the origin, the active cause
4) the extremity of a thing
4a) of the corners of a sail
5) the first place, principality, rule, magistracy
5a) of angels and demons
ἀρχή
archē ar-khay' From G756; (properly abstract) a commencement, or (concrete) chief (in various applications of order, time, place or rank) KJV Usage: beginning, corner, (at the, the) first (estate), magistrate, power, principality, principle, rule.
3613 LSJ Gloss:οἰκητήριον a dwelling-place, habitation
Dodson:οἰκητήριον a dwelling-place, habitation
a dwelling-place, habitation, abode.
Thayer:
1) a dwelling place, habitation
1a) of the body as a dwelling place for the spirit
οἰκητήριον
oikētērion oy-kay-tay'-ree-on Neuter of a presumed derivative of G3611 (equivalent to G3612); a residence (literally or figuratively) KJV Usage: habitation, house.
Jude says that these angels were not watching their rulership. They were watchers, sent to watch, to keep an eye on humanity. What were they watching, guarding, and keeping humanity from? This was their job. They were keeping an eye on humans from the already fallen evil spiritual sons of God. They were to report what was taking place and intercede for humans before the throne of God. We see the gathering of the sons of God in Job, reporting the goings on of earth.
Remember, there were other spiritual sons of God who had already fallen. Why? Because the devil/dragon was created as a goad, a prick, and a graft, for the angels to sport with. Other beings defiled their habitations, some were cast out as we have previously studied. These angel watchers forsook their dwelling, or their angelic habitation. They are now guarded, watched, and observed in eternal chains in the infernal region. The fallen watchers asked Enoch to intercede for them. The Almighty’s reply to them via Enoch was that they should have been interceding for humans. As we know, they then watched their children die in the flood.
Enoch 16:1 ‘And at the death of the giants, spirits will go out and shall destroy without incurring judgment, coming from their bodies their flesh shall be destroyed until the day of the consummation, the great judgment in which the age shall be consummated, over the Watchers and the godless, and shall be wholly consummated.’2 And now as to the Watchers who have sent you to intercede for them, who had been in heaven before, 3 (Say to them): "You were in heaven, but all the mysteries of heaven had not been revealed to you, and you knew worthless ones, and these in the hardness of your hearts you have made known to the women, and through these mysteries women and men work much evil on earth." 4 Say to them therefore: "You have no peace."
Lumpkin, Joseph. Enoch, Jubilees, Jasher: Banned from the Bible (p. 28). Fifth Estate. Kindle Edition.
The spirits of the children of the fallen angels will leave their bodies when they die. They do not have a place of judgment, like hades, or paradise. They now await the Day of judgement, the white throne judgment. On that day, their judgment will be completed. The age will be completed. This tells us that they have not been judged. These spirits have been on the earth for nearly six thousand years. Do you know what past life regression is under these terms? People are simply asking a disembodied spirit of the Nephilim children where they have been, who they have been with or in, and what things transpired. In short, these spirits know history because they lived through it. They can be as accurate as they want. Their goal in this is to confuse the individual into believing that humans had past lives. Yet the human spirit goes to hades or paradise upon death, not back to the earth for another life. The demonic spirit lives in or around one person, and then goes to another person, usually within the same family, but not always. When will these spirits be judged? On the Day of Judgment. This certainly would have been handy information to have throughout the ages. For all those who have been active in deliverance ministry this information would have been helpful in casting out demons. This tells us that these spirits are still active on the earth today and until the completion of the end of the age.
Now we can understand the grafting of the devil/dragon. What is the devil attempting to ingraft humans with? The disembodied spirits of the children of the Nephilim. Can these spirits be passed down to other humans in a family? Yes. Partly because they can follow the genetic mutations, but literally, we can cast out demons, a graft, if the individual accepts Jesus as Lord. This is why certain families attempt to keep their bloodlines pure. These families seem to be overlords, dominators, and wealthy controllers of humanity. Deliverance is available.
The angel watchers were in heaven, but they did not know all the mysteries of heaven. They knew more than humans, but not very much in comparison to other spiritual sons of God. Through the worthless mysteries of the watchers, humans began to do a lot of evil. Those watchers will have no peace. The angels in higher rank, the archangels bound the stars that fell from heaven and threw them into the abyss. Enoch has better understanding of this matter as it occurred in his own day. He also explains this in greater details in his first several chapters. Jubilees also explains this as Noah is speaking to his sons with a good bit of detail.
Jubilees 7:21 Because of these three things came the flood on the earth, namely, the fornication that the Watchers committed against the law of their ordinances when they went whoring after the daughters of men, and took themselves wives of all they chose, and they made the beginning of uncleanness. 22 And they begat sons, the Naphilim (Naphidim), and they were all dissimilar, and they devoured one another, and the Giants killed the Naphil, and the Naphil killed the Eljo, and the Eljo killed mankind, and one man killed one another. 23 Every one committed himself to crime and injustice and to shed much blood, and the earth was filled with sin. 24 After this they sinned against the beasts and birds, and all that moved and walked on the earth, and much blood was shed on the earth, and men continually desired only what was useless and evil. 25 And the Lord destroyed everything from the face of the earth. Because of the wickedness of their deeds, and because of the blood they had shed over all the earth, He destroyed everything. “ 26 We were left, I and you, my sons, and everything that entered with us into the ark, and behold I see your works before me that you do not walk in righteousness, for in the path of destruction you have begun to walk, and you are turning one against another, and are envious one of another, and so it comes that you are not in harmony, my sons, each with his brother. 27 For I see the demons have begun their seductions against you and against your children and now I fear on your behalf, that after my death you will shed the blood of men on the earth, and that you, too, will be destroyed from the face of the earth.
Lumpkin, Joseph. Enoch, Jubilees, Jasher: Banned from the Bible (p. 125). Fifth Estate. Kindle Edition.
The first thing we should notice is that the watchers have laws and ordinances. They made the ‘beginning of uncleanness’. What does this mean? The first thing we want to understand is that uncleanness as compared to cleanness is the Lord’s way of keeping a complex subject simple. We don’t see much in the Bible about clean and unclean until after the exodus when Moses writes in the Book of Leviticus. We do see things that are supposed to multiply after their own type or genos. Everything has a genos; plants, animals, fish, humans, angels, cherubim, seraphim, etc. In the beginning chapters of Genesis, we see that everything was to multiply after it’s own kind, type, or genos. It does not technically mean race, as in one nationality compared to another. It means man compared to beast, beast compared to fish, fish compared to plants, watchers compared to cherubim, etc.
It is not until the time that Abraham is to circumcise the males of his household that there becomes a difference between one race and another, the circumcised compared to the uncircumcised. Keep in mind that Abraham married a Canaanite women, Ketura, and had six sons with her who were all circumcised. Yet this separation according to the race of circumcised and uncircumcised is rectified after Jesus dies, is resurrected, and ascends. Jesus tells us in Matthew 13:47 that the kingdom of heaven is like a dragnet thrown into the sea, and gathers together every kind, genos. Really, according to the Lord there is no difference in race due to circumcision; but at that time, it was a way to differentiate the followers of Yahweh and the those who did not follow Yahweh. It was not according to heritage. Abraham had eight sons, and circumcised them all, but not all of Abraham’s sons were from the tribe of Isaac and later Jacob. Many of Abraham’s heirs were from Keturah’s line, not Sarah or Hagar.
Let’s define what is unclean. The watchers were of a different genos. They procreated with human women, making that union unclean. The genetic mixing caused a race of beings whose spirits are still on the earth today. When we genetically alter what Yahweh has created, we risk dangerous mutations. What the watcher angels did was cause a genetic mixing which not only altered humanity, the disembodied spirits of their heirs still seduce humans to shed blood and behave unseemly. The altering of genos is unclean. Demons are unclean. The devil and the satan lure humans via spirits to do things against the things that Yahweh prescribes.
When Jesus, Peter, James, and John, came down from the mount of transfiguration, Jesus’ disciples were trying to cast out an evil spirit. Jesus explained that this genos only comes out by prayer and fasting. What were they trying to do? They were trying to cast out a disembodied spirit from a young boy. This demonic disembodied spirit may have been a higher rank, and may have been passed down from generations. Here is the heart of the matter. The human genos was defiled with genetics from the watcher angels. This has been the battle we have found ourselves a part of ever since the days of Noah. The mixing of genos is unclean. The mixing of ethnic races is not unclean. The mixing of angels with humans is unclean. The procreation of humans is not unclean.
We want to consider something we studied a while back. Humans are the only genos, or species of the sons of God that were created to procreate. Angels do not procreate, there are no angels having baby angels. Cherubim do not procreate, seraphim do not procreate, and so on. The devil does not procreate. The incorporeal satan does not procreate either. Instead the devil attempts to ingraft humans unto adoption. Humans were created to be life givers, to be life creators, and to do exactly that, bring forth life. Like animals, like plants, like fish, humans were to multiply. The devil has an agenda to kill, which is why he promotes to grafted humans a religion that involves human sacrifice. The only thing the devil and the fallen sons of God can do is watch us give life, then try to steal those lives. The bloodshed in Noah’s day was abominable but it may be worse now, though for the longsuffering of the Almighty, Most High, Eternal, Heavenly Father. Peter explained that the Lord knows how to deliver us out of trials on the earth, just like Lot and Noah.
Josephus goes on.
Josephus 1:3:2. Now God loved this man for his righteousness: yet he not only condemned those other men for their wickedness, but determined to destroy the whole race of mankind, and to make another race that should be pure from wickedness; and cutting short their lives, and making their years not so many as they formerly lived, but one hundred and twenty only, he turned the dry land into sea; and thus were all these men destroyed: but Noah alone was saved; for God suggested to him the following contrivance and way of escape:—That he should make an ark of four stories high, three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits broad, and thirty cubits high. Accordingly he entered into that ark, and his wife, and sons, and their wives, and put into it not only other provisions, to support their wants there, but also sent in with the rest all sorts of living creatures, the male and his female, for the preservation of their kinds; and others of them by sevens. Now this ark had firm walls, and a roof, and was braced with cross beams, so that it could not be any way drowned or overborne by the violence of the water. And thus was Noah, with his family, preserved. Now he was the tenth from Adam, as being the son of Lamech, whose father was Mathusela; he was the son of Enoch, the son of Jared; and Jared was the son of Malaleel, who, with many of his sisters, were the children of Cainan, the son of Enos. Now Enos was the son of Seth, the son of Adam.
The Works of Flavius Josephus.
Now we need to observe Josephus’ measurements; the water came up fifteen cubits higher than the earth which was the reason why there was no greater number preserved. Fifteen cubits would be about 303.6 inches or 25.3 feet, assuming the 20.4 inch cubit. This is why no greater number was preserved since they had no place to go.
Josephus 1:3:5. When God gave the signal, and it began to rain, the water poured down forty entire days, till it became fifteen cubits higher than the earth; which was the reason why there was no greater number preserved, since they had no place to fly to. When the rain ceased, the water did but just begin to abate after one hundred and fifty days, (that is, on the seventeenth day of the seventh month,) it then ceasing to subside for a little while. After this, the ark rested on the top of a certain mountain in Armenia; which, when Noah understood, he opened it; and seeing a small piece of land about it, he continued quiet, and conceived some cheerful hopes of deliverance. But a few days afterward, when the water was decreased to a greater degree, he sent out a raven, as desirous to learn whether any other part of the earth were left dry by the water, and whether he might go out of the ark with safety; but the raven, finding all the land still overflowed, returned to Noah again. And after seven days he sent out a dove, to know the state of the ground; which came back to him covered with mud, and bringing an olive branch: hereby Noah learned that the earth was become clear of the flood. So after he had staid seven more days, he sent the living creatures out of the ark; and both he and his family went out, when he also sacrificed to God, and feasted with his companions. However, the Armenians call this place, (Apobaterion) The Place of Descent; for the ark being saved in that place, its remains are shown there by the inhabitants to this day.
The Works of Flavius Josephus.
Now we are to assume that Josephus is explaining to us that these angelic watchers who left their habitation to cohabitate with humans and which brought a hybrid race of humans or demigods, had nowhere to fly, or run off to. We don’t see from Enoch, Jubilees, Jasher, or the Bible, that these chimera could actually fly, which might be an interjection of the Greek and Roman mythology. However, if they could fly, they certainly had no place to land. Twenty five feet of water covering all the land seems like a lot to us, but as we know some of the children of the Nephilim were close to that in height. However, Josephus is inferring that some of the heirs of the Nephilim survived. Now Josephus references other historians.
Josephus 1:3:6. Now all the writers of barbarian histories make mention of this flood, and of this ark; among whom is Berosus the Chaldean. For when he is describing the circumstances of the flood, he goes on thus: "It is said there is still some part of this ship in Armenia, at the mountain of the Cordyaeans; and that some people carry off pieces of the bitumen, which they take away, and use chiefly as amulets for the averting of mischiefs." Hieronymus the Egyptian also, who wrote the Phoenician Antiquities, and Mnaseas, and a great many more, make mention of the same. Nay, Nicolaus of Damascus, in his ninety-sixth book, hath a particular relation about them; where he speaks thus: "There is a great mountain in Armenia, over Minyas, called Baris, upon which it is reported that many who fled at the time of the Deluge were saved; and that one who was carried in an ark came on shore upon the top of it; and that the remains of the timber were a great while preserved. This might be the man about whom Moses the legislator of the Jews wrote."
The Works of Flavius Josephus.
Noah’s ark rests on one of the mountains in Armenia. We see at the time of the first century that this idea of angels leaving their habitation was well known and other historians were recording these things in what we might refer to as secular history.
Genesis 6:5 Now the giants were upon the earth in those days; and after that when the sons of God were wont to go in to the daughters of men, they bore children to them, those were the giants of old, the men of renown.
Moses writes that the flood did not eradicate all the children of the Nephilim. The flood left behind the disembodied spirits of the children of the Nephilim as well. Also there may have been more watchers who fell after the flood, we simply don’t know, but as we will see, there were children of the Nephilim throughout Biblical history, and as we have studied, the children of the Nephilim will be eradicated during the tribulation and judged at the white throne judgment.
There is a battle recorded in the Bible called the “battle of the five kings”. Abraham eventually joined this battle to save Lot. After this battle Abraham visited with Shem/Melchizedek and gave him one tenth of the spoils. Shem at this point in time had a school in Jerusalem/Salem, which Isaac and Jacob attended. The Book of Jasher gives better historical detail regarding this battle and this time period, but we will read Moses’ words from the Septuagint.
Genesis 14:1 And it came to pass in the reign of Amarphal king of Sennaar, and Arioch king of Ellasar, that Chodollogomor king of Elam, and Thargal king of nations, 2 made war with Balla king of Sodom, and with Barsa king of Gomorrha, and with Sennaar, king of Adama, and with Symobor king of Seboim and the king of Balac, this is Segor. 3 All these met with one consent at the salt valley; this is now the sea of salt. 4 Twelve years they served Chodollogomor, and the thirteenth year they revolted. 5 And in the fourteenth year came Chodollogomor, and the kings with him, and cut to pieces the giants in Astaroth, and Carnain, and strong nations with them, and the Ommaeans in the city Save. 6 And the Chorrhaeans in the mountains of Seir, to the turpentine tree of Pharan, which is in the desert. 7 And having turned back they came to the well of judgment; this is Cades, and they cut in pieces all the princes of Amalec, and the Amorites dwelling in Asasonthamar. 8 And the king of Sodom went out, and the king of Gomorrha, and king of Adama, and king of Seboim, and king of Balac, this is Segor, and they set themselves in array against them for war in the salt valley, 9 against Chodollogomor king of Elam, and Thargal king of nations, and Amarphal king of Sennaar, and Arioch king of Ellasar, the four kings against the five. 10 Now the salt valley consists of slime-pits. And the king of Sodom fled and the king of Gomorrha, and they fell in there: and they that were left fled to the mountain country. 11 And they took all the cavalry of Sodom and Gomorrha, and all their provisions, and departed. 12 And they took also Lot the son of Abram’s brother, and his baggage, and departed, for he dwelt in Sodom.
https://studybible.info/Brenton/Genesis%2014
During the time period where Shem was living among the Canaanites, worshipping Yahweh, and teaching others about Yahweh, in a city that later became known as Jebus, there were giants in Astaroth and Carnain. During this time Isaac and Jacob had not been born, but we see that the giants are still on the earth.
The word giant, γιγας in Greek, is referred to as ginomai, “being born or “gen”-erate”, which is a derivative of genos. The angelic watchers were of a different genos, one that was not birthed like humans. Angels are not birthed, they do not procreate and birth baby angels. Now their heirs are known as “earth born”. The Hebrew word for giants is ne phı̂yl, nephil, which means “feller” from the word nâphal, “to fall”. “Giants” written in scripture literally means “the fallen and earth born”. People have tried to explain away the literal meaning as the idea of a bully or tyrant or sometimes “men of renown”, but while the Nephilim were fallen, and their heirs earth born, they were bullies, tyrants, and generally evil, unclean, human hybrids. They mixed their older angelic genos with newer human genos. Angels were never earth born, but their children were/are. Angelic DNA has infiltrated humanity.
There were different tribes of giants and they are known by various names. Jubilees tells us that the Giants killed the Nephil, and the Nephil killed the Eljo or Elioud. They are know also as the Canaanites, the sons of Anak, Anakim, Raphah, Arapha, Harapha, Rephaim, Zuzim, Emim, descendants of Arba, Zamzummim, Gibbor, Gibborim and the Philistines. There is also a valley called the valley of the giants. During the time of the Judges, many of the tribes of giants came to live together under one name, Philistine. The Philistines were several different tribes of giants. They migrated to the coast when Joshua and the Israelites came to inherit their promised land. Philistine is the word allophulos, literally meaning “different tribes” or “other races”, or "another offshoot”. The giants lived in the land of Israel among Abraham, Shem and their heirs. In later years the Philistines became known as the Phoenicians. We read that this was Shem’s land, Semite land.
Jubilees 29:9 But before they used to call the land of Gilead the land of the Rephaim. The Rephaim were born giants whose height was ten, nine, eight, down to seven cubits. 10 Their dwelling place was from the land of the children of Ammon to Mount Hermon, and the seats of their kingdom were Karnaim and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, and Misur, and Beon. 11 The Lord destroyed them because of the evil of their deeds, for they were malevolent, and the Amorites were wicked and sinful. There is no people today which has committed the full range of their sins, and their life on the earth was shortened.
Lumpkin, Joseph. Enoch, Jubilees, Jasher: Banned from the Bible (p. 151). Fifth Estate. Kindle Edition.
The giants were earth born. They were wicked and sinful. They were an unclean hybrid genos, that have been described as quite tall and large.
Josephus 1:9:1 At this time, when the Assyrians had the dominion over Asia, the people of Sodom were in a flourishing condition, both as to riches and the number of their youth. There were five kings that managed the affairs of this county: Ballas, Barsas, Senabar, and Sumobor, with the king of Bela; and each king led on his own troops: and the Assyrians made war upon them; and, dividing their army into four parts, fought against them. Now every part of the army had its own commander; and when the battle was joined, the Assyrians were conquerors, and imposed a tribute on the kings of the Sodomites, who submitted to this slavery twelve years; and so long they continued to pay their tribute: but on the thirteenth year they rebelled, and then the army of the Assyrians came upon them, under their commanders Amraphel, Arioch, Chodorlaomer, and Tidal. These kings had laid waste all Syria, and overthrown the offspring of the giants. And when they were come over against Sodom, they pitched their camp at the vale called the Slime Pits, for at that time there were pits in that place; but now, upon the destruction of the city of Sodom, that vale became the Lake Asphaltites, as it is called. However, concerning this lake we shall speak more presently. Now when the Sodomites joined battle with the Assyrians, and the fight was very obstinate, many of them were killed, and the rest were carried captive; among which captives was Lot, who had come to assist the Sodomites.
The Works of Flavius Josephus.
This is the same battle of the five kings, the time when Abraham joined the battle to save Lot. Young’s Literal translates verse five this way.
Genesis 14:5 (YLT)
5 And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings who are with him, and they smite the Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim,
What we see with this battle which is not so obvious at first glance, is that the battle was king Chedorlaomer first fighting against the giants. He put them under his taxation, but on the thirteenth year they rebelled. Chedorlaomer came to collect. The other cities in the region came to fight against Chedorlaomer too. Lot was living in the region, he was captured, and Abraham went to rescue Lot. This battle all took pace around the Dead Sea. The five kings from the five cities around Sodom and Gomorrah all fell. The four kings took all the spoils and left. Until Abraham caught up with them. Who was now left in Sodom and the other four cities? Whoever had not died in battle, which would include some of the giants. Who repopulated Sodom and the other four cities? The giants. This is why we see the sins of Sodom come up before the Lord just a short time later. This battle left some giants to re-inhabit those cities. Abraham fought for Sodom, killing Chedorlaomer, give one tenth of the spoils to Melchizedek, then just a short time later negotiates with the Lord to spare Lot again. The sins of Sodom and the other cities became horrid after this battle including raping people who were passing through the city in public beds, stealing, torturing, and murdering anyone who came to the city. They even wanted to rape the angels that came to save Lot.
Jasher 16:11 And Adonizedek king of Jerusalem, the same was Shem, went out with his men to meet Abram and his people, with bread and wine, and they remained together in the valley of Melech. 12 And Adonizedek blessed Abram, and Abram gave him a tenth from all that he had brought from the spoil of his enemies, for Adonizedek was a priest before God.
Lumpkin, Joseph. Enoch, Jubilees, Jasher: Banned from the Bible (p. 205). Fifth Estate. Kindle Edition.
We might think that by the time of the exodus the mixed genos beings would be exterminated from the land, but we would be wrong. Moses mentions them in Deuteronomy.
Deuteronomy 1:26 Yet ye would not go up, but rebelled against the words of the Lord our God. 27 And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the Lord hated us, he has brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites, to destroy us. 28 Whither do we go up? and your brethren drew away your heart, saying, It is a great nation and populous, and mightier than we; and there are cities great and walled up to heaven: moreover we saw there the sons of the giants. 29 And I said to you, Fear not, neither be ye afraid of them; 30 the Lord your God who goes before your face, he shall fight against them together with you effectually, according to all that he wrought for you in the land of Egypt; 31 and in this wilderness which ye saw, by the way of the mountain of the Amorite; how the Lord thy God will bear thee as a nursling, as if any man should nurse his child, through all the way which ye have gone until ye came to this place.
Deuteronomy 2:10-11 (DRV)
10 The Emims first were the inhabitants thereof, a people great, and strong, and so tall, that like the race of the Enacims,
11 They were esteemed as giants, and were like the sons of the Enacims. But the Moabites call them Emims.
10 The Emims first were the inhabitants thereof, a people great, and strong, and so tall, that like the race of the Enacims,
11 They were esteemed as giants, and were like the sons of the Enacims. But the Moabites call them Emims.
Deuteronomy 2:20 (DRV)
20 It was accounted a land of giants: and giants formerly dwelt in it, whom the Ammonites call Zomzommims,
20 It was accounted a land of giants: and giants formerly dwelt in it, whom the Ammonites call Zomzommims,
Deuteronomy 3:11-13 (DRV)
11 For only Og king of Basan remained of the race of the giants. His bed of iron is shewn, which is in Rabbath of the children of Ammon, being nine cubits long, and four broad after the measure of the cubit of a man's hand.
12 And we possessed the land at that time from Aroer, which is upon the bank of the torrent Amen, unto the half of mount Galaad: and I gave the cities thereof to Ruben and Gad.
13 And I delivered the other part of Galaad, and all Basan the kingdom of Og to the half tribe of Manasses, all the country of Argob: and all Basan is called the Land of giants.
11 For only Og king of Basan remained of the race of the giants. His bed of iron is shewn, which is in Rabbath of the children of Ammon, being nine cubits long, and four broad after the measure of the cubit of a man's hand.
12 And we possessed the land at that time from Aroer, which is upon the bank of the torrent Amen, unto the half of mount Galaad: and I gave the cities thereof to Ruben and Gad.
13 And I delivered the other part of Galaad, and all Basan the kingdom of Og to the half tribe of Manasses, all the country of Argob: and all Basan is called the Land of giants.
Moses is trying to document the portions of the land that the children of Jacob are to acquire when they enter into their promised land. But Og was still in the land, and other giants from various tribes as well. What we need to remember is that the children of Jacob had been in Egypt a long time, about four hundred years. This is plenty of time to repopulate Canaan/Israel. The land was promised to Shem’s heirs, and to Abraham’s heirs. Shem and Abraham lived there, but Jacob and his family went to Egypt. Some of the descendants of the region were heirs of Shem, mostly living in Jebus. Abraham’s heirs had scattered south and east but some remained. And there were several tribes of the giants living in Canaan.
Numbers 13:31 And Chaleb stayed the people from speaking before Moses, and said to him, Nay, but we will go up by all means, and will inherit it, for we shall surely prevail against them. 32 But the men that went up together with him said, We will not go up, for we shall not by any means be able to go up against the nation, for it is much stronger than we. 33 And they brought a horror of that land which they surveyed upon the children of Israel, saying, The land which we passed by to survey it, is a land that eats up its inhabitants; and all the people whom we saw in it are men of extraordinary stature. 34 And there we saw the giants; and we were before them as locusts, yea even so were we before them.
Numbers 13:33 (DRV)
33 There we saw certain monsters of the sons of Enac, of the giant kind: in comparison of whom, we seemed like locusts.
33 There we saw certain monsters of the sons of Enac, of the giant kind: in comparison of whom, we seemed like locusts.
We want to understand that the heirs of Jacob were aware of giants, but living in Egypt they and the Egyptians were primarily humans, with a few historical occurrences of very tall odd looking people in Egypt. But the sons of Jacob had not known how to fight and war, so the giants looked intimidating.
Josephus 3:14:1. When Moses had led the Hebrews away from thence to a place called Paran, which was near to the borders of the Canaanites, and a place difficult to be continued in, he gathered the multitude together to a congregation; and standing in the midst of them, he said, "Of the two things that God determined to bestow upon us, liberty, and the possession of a Happy Country, the one of them ye already are partakers of, by the gift of God, and the other you will quickly obtain; for we now have our abode near the borders of the Canaanites, and nothing can hinder the acquisition of it, when we now at last are fallen upon it: I say, not only no king nor city, but neither the whole race of mankind, if they were all gathered together, could do it. Let us therefore prepare ourselves for the work, for the Canaanites will not resign up their land to us without fighting, but it must be wrested from them by great struggles in war. Let us then send spies, who may take a view of the goodness of the land, and what strength it is of; but, above all things, let us be of one mind, and let us honor God, who above all is our helper and assister."
2. When Moses had said thus, the multitude requited him with marks of respect; and chose twelve spies, of the most eminent men, one out of each tribe, who, passing over all the land of Canaan, from the borders of Egypt, came to the city Hamath, and to Mount Lebanon; and having learned the nature of the land, and of its inhabitants, they came home, having spent forty days in the whole work. They also brought with them of the fruits which the land bare; they also showed them the excellency of those fruits, and gave an account of the great quantity of the good things that land afforded, which were motives to the multitude to go to war. But then they terrified them again with the great difficulty there was in obtaining it; that the rivers were so large and deep that they could not be passed over; and that the hills were so high that they could not travel along for them; that the cities were strong with walls, and their firm fortifications round about them. They told them also, that they found at Hebron the posterity of the giants. Accordingly these spies, who had seen the land of Canaan, when they perceived that all these difficulties were greater there than they had met with since they came out of Egypt, they were aftrighted at them themselves, and endeavored to affright the multitude also.
The Works of Flavius Josephus.
Josephus writes that Moses told the people they already had liberty, but now were going to have the Happy Country. Isn’t it interesting that Israel still seems to be a point of contention? It was supposed to be a Happy Country, the heirs of Shem, Semites, and Jacob, Israelites, were to inherit the land. This was a decree from the days of Noah, when Noah divided the land among his sons. Yet the Canaanites moved into the region, and other tribes of giants moved into the region against the decree of Noah. Noah pronounced a curse on anyone who would take his brothers land. The inhabitants of the land who are not Semites or Israelites are cursed.
Jubilees 8:11 He called his sons, and they drew close to him, they and their children, and he divided the earth into the lots, which his three sons were to take in possession, and they reached out their hands, and took the writing out of the arms of Noah, their father. 12 There came out on the writing as Shem’s lot the middle of the earth that he should take as an inheritance for himself and for his sons for the generations of eternity. From the middle of the mountain range of Rafa, from the mouth of the water from the river Tina, and his portion goes towards the west through the middle of this river, and it extends until it reaches the water of the abysses, out of which this river goes out and pours its waters into the sea Me’at, and this river flows into the great sea.
Lumpkin, Joseph. Enoch, Jubilees, Jasher: Banned from the Bible (p. 126). Fifth Estate. Kindle Edition.
And:
Jubilees 9:14 Thus the sons of Noah divided to their sons in the presence of Noah their father, and he bound them all by an oath, and invoked a curse on every one that sought to seize any portion which had not fallen to him by his lot. 15 They all said, “so be it; so be it “ (amen and amen) for themselves and their sons forever throughout their generations until the day of judgment, on which the Lord God shall judge them with a sword and with fire for all the unclean wickedness of their errors, that they have filled the earth with, which are transgression, uncleanness and fornication and sin.
Lumpkin, Joseph. Enoch, Jubilees, Jasher: Banned from the Bible (p. 128). Fifth Estate. Kindle Edition.
This curse is in effect until the Day of Judgment, the white throne judgment. The middle portion of the earth, the portion of Shem, has a bit of a problem in and of itself. The region includes Mount Hermon, the mountain the original fallen angels descended.
Enoch 6:2 And the angels, the sons of heaven, saw and lusted after them, and said to one another: 'Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men 3 And have children with them.' And Semjaza, who was their leader, said to them: 'I fear you will not agree to do this deed, 4 And I alone shall have to pay the penalty of this great sin.' 5 And they all answered him and said: ‘Let us all swear an oath, and all bind ourselves by mutual curses so we will not abandon this plan but to do this thing.' Then they all swore together and bound themselves by mutual curses. 6 And they were in all two hundred who descended in the days of Jared in the summit of Mount Hermon, and they called it Mount Hermon, because they had sworn and bound themselves by mutual curses on the act.
Lumpkin, Joseph. Enoch, Jubilees, Jasher: Banned from the Bible (p. 19). Fifth Estate. Kindle Edition.
While Israel’s calling was to subdue the race of the hybrid genos, earth born giants, they did not eliminate them completely. The people who moved into Shem’s portion of land, Canaan, Ham’s son, put himself and his heirs under a curse along with the giants who inhabited the region. Also there seems to be a self imposed curse on the Nephilim, the fallen watchers who swore an oath binding themselves to one another. They ended up imprisoned after the period of the longsuffering of the Almighty, as Peter told us. Mount Hermon seems to be a place the hybrid races wanted for their own. Maybe in some spiritual way they are drawn to the place their forefathers descended. More exploring next week.
