The Return of the Nephilim?

[Noah's Dove]

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Enoch & the Nephilim
Part IV

Matt.24 [37] But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming
of the Son of man be. - Jesus

Who Are The Nephilim?
"...climax at the beginning." -Arthur Custance.
Of all the imaginable phenomena on Earth, the progeny of this union
between extraterrestrials 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 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 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.

The Roman Catholic Church confirms this attribute of fallen angels
when it demands the presence of super-human strength before it will
diagnose a person as being demon-possessed.

Actually a person under investigation must reveal the presence of
three phenomena before the Roman Catholic Church will categorize him
as "possessed."
First, he must be able to speak in a language unknown to him.
Second, he must have knowledge of secret facts, previously unknown to
him.
Third, he must possess unnatural strength beyond his age and ability.
(3)
Dr. Kurt Koch, from his vast experience and extensive research into
occultism, has discovered that even children or delicately built women
can offer effective resistance to three or four strong men when demon
possessed. (4)

Similarly, Professor Oesterreich cites a number of examples from his
research, demonstrating the same super-human strength in demon-
possessed people. One example he gives is of a ten-year- old boy who
could be scarcely held down by three adults. Another is of a young
girl who could barely be controlled by two men. (5)

In a similar vein, Robert Pearson wrote from Borneo in 1967 concerning
the Dyak uprising:
Evidences of demonic power were witnessed at Andjungan. Dyaks used
their fists and feet to break display cases with glass flying all over
the place. Some actually danced on it with bare feet but no one was
injured. One missionary watched Dyaks step into pans of acid used to
coagulate rubber. Undiluted, this acid can normally burn the flesh to
the bone, but these men were unharmed. Others struck locked and barred
doors with their bare hands, breaking them down so easily as if they
had been rammed by a truck...These things are hard to understand, but
we know that Satan is powerful and...able to endow men with his power
when it suits his purpose. (6)
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 demonized 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.

There followed another incursion of these fallen angels at a later
date.
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." 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 neighbors manifested the
whole gamut of demonical practices, and that they were a threat to the
character and destiny of His chosen people, 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, 16:1 0; 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
reconnoiter 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 Jewish 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 armor 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 paleontologist 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 is 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 favorite 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.

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)
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 preprogrammed 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 behavior. 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. So 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 egoism. Such knowledge wedded to an already
arrogant nature led to self-deification.

They craved divine honors 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 starward 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 Counseling 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.

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by Barry Chamish
Spanish version
from Watcher Website
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/gigantes/esp_gigantes_04.htm
RETURN OF THE GIANTS?

Are the Anakim or the Refaim, the giants of the Bible returning to
Israel today? There are only two periods of recorded history when
giants were reported in Israel; In biblical days from the time of the
Flood to the ascension of King David and since 1993 in modern Israel.

The case for the return of giants to Israel is airtight. The giants
thoughtfully chose reliable contactees as witnesses, allowed their
craft to be filmed and left in their wake ample physical evidence.

In fact, what characterizes the current Israeli UFO wave from others
in the world, is the sheer abundance of physical evidence left behind
by the visitors. Consider the first incident to usher Israel into the
UFO age.

On the evening of Sept. 28, 1987, a 27 year old auto mechanic, Ami
Achrai was driving just south of Haifa when he saw what he thought
might be a helicopter in distress hovering just above the sands of
Shikmona Beach on the Mediterranean Sea. He stopped his car and to his
utter amazement saw a disc-shaped craft which emitted a bright red
flash before disappearing.

Two days later he returned to the site with a ufologist the police
referred him to, Hadassah Arbel. What they discovered remains one of
the most lasting proofs ever left by a UFO of its physical existence.
The flash emitted by the craft burned its image into the sands of
Shikmona Beach. A fifteen meters ellipsoid disk was burnt black into
the sand but what was more interesting was what wasn’t burned.

In the vegetation which wasn’t burned was a clear image of the pilot
of the craft facing a control board.

Shikmona Beach
1
Shikmona Beach 2

Examing the Shikmona Beach burnt image

Seven years later I sent samples of the burnt sand to the television
show Sightings which subjected it to laboratory tests. The sand seemed
to melt in the heat of the camera light. The reason later discovered
was the sand particles were covered by a low melting hydrocarbon
material. The laboratory could find no natural or human explanation
for the phenomenon.

Ami Achrai’s incident was followed by a repeat performance on June 6,
1988 when a similarly shaped craft was once again burned into the
sands of Shikmona Beach, about 100 yards north of the first site. This
was followed by the most spectacular display of all.

On April 27, 1989, two teenagers witnessed a UFO explode into
thousands of shards over Shikmona Beach.

By now, Israeli ufologists were prepared to handle the latest incident
more scientifically. The beach was strewn with burning white metal
which was cool to the touch. The metal even glowed in water. When
picked up, the shards turned into a white ash. Scientists from the
Technion Institute of Technology tested the site and found that
magnetism was 6000 times higher than the surrounding area. The shards
were found to be very pure magnesium.

Two hundred yards above Shikmona Beach is a biblical shrine called
Elijah’s cave. Here Elijah preached and here or somewhere nearby in
the Carmel Mountains, Elijah challenged the Canaanites to a duel of
Gods. Two bulls were tethered and the gods were beseeched to roast
them. Naturally, Baal failed the Canaanites but Elijah’s god sent a
ray of light from heaven which cooked the bull on the spot. This ray
must have been similar to the kind of beam which burned the sands of
Shikmona Beach into a saucer shape.

Within the Cave of Elijah is an ancient drawing of something that was
the spitting image of the craft burned into the sands below. The
Sightings team decided the image “was a coincidence. Maybe it was a
bat.”

When Michael Hesemann filmed the drawing he left certain it was a
match for the burned sand pictures.

Although the cave drawing’s meaning is in dispute, the fact of the
modern UFO-burned inscriptions is not. Something unique occurred at
Shikmona Beach. Alien craft decided to leave souvenirs there at least
three times. By doing so, they revealed the dimensions of their craft
and apparently pilot, as well as their construction material. These
were not crop circles nor were they formed the same way. A very
different message was left on Shikmona Beach’s sands.

After the UFO explosion, there was a hiatus of UFO activity until 1993
broken only once in late 1991 over the village of Sde Moshe, some five
miles from Kadima. There, after two straight nights of having the
inside of his house lit up by an unexplained craft hovering above it,
Eli Cohen captured the responsible UFO on videotape. Several minutes
of the tape were filmed after daybreak making the result a most clear
and convincing record of a UFO.

It seems the visitors were merely scouting the Kadima area in 1991 but
they returned in force in 1993. And this time, the occupants of the
crafts did more than merely hover in the sky.

In the early morning of April 20, Tsiporet Carmel’s house glowed from
within. She stepped outside and saw what she thought was a new fruit
silo built outside her back yard. But then she saw the silo add a
second storey to itself. Ten yards to the side of this magical silo,
Tsiporet saw a seven foot tall being wearing metallic overalls. Its
head was covered in a what looked like a beekeeper’s hat.

Tsiporet said,
“Why don’t you take off your hat so I can see your face?”
The being answered her telepathically,
“That’s the way it is.”
This was Israel’s first publicized close encounter with an alien
being. Tsiporet could easily have been made an object of ridicule but
for the fact that a crop circle 4.5 meters in diameter was found
exactly where she had seen the craft. Within the circle were shards of
a material later found to be a very pure silicon. I add, Israel’s
ufologists are divided over the veracity of the silicon because there
was a prankster loose in Kadima.

However, within ten days, two more circles were found just outside
Tsiporet’s back yard. This time, they were soaked with a red liquid
and this fluid would be a constant feature of upcoming landing
circles. It was tested by the National Biological Laboratory in Ness
Tziona and found to be composed mostly of cadmium.

This was the end of Tsiporet’s incidents.

Now the visitors concentrated on two other woman in their late
thirties living on Hapalmach Street. The first was a Russian immigrant
Mara. Strange forces shook her house so hard they caused the outside
air-conditioning unit to fall out of its casing into the house. Voices
called to Mara in her childhood nickname.

Eventually she decided the house was haunted and she moved far from
Kadima.

Crew from Sightings at Kadima Circle

Shosh Yahud is the treasurer of the town of Kadima. She is down to
earth and wants as little to do with her UFO experience as possible.
In May, she awoke to see a seven foot, round faced being in silvery
overalls circling her bed as if “floating on his shoes.” The creature
assured her he was not there to harm her and she became relaxed. After
a few minutes the being floated through her wall outside.

Shosh thought she had dreamed the incident until she looked out her
window in the morning and saw a 4.5 meter crop circle in her backyard.
The ufologists descended on her home and discovered the silicon and
cadmium within the circle.

Next, in June, it was Hannah Somech’s turn to be visited by a giant.
Hannah lives in Burgata, three miles from Kadima. She was startled to
see her dog go flying across the kitchen into a wall. She stepped
outside to investigate and her way was stopped by an invisible force.
She then saw a seven foot, round-faced being in metallic overalls
examining her pickup truck.

She said to it,
“What did you do to my dog?”
It answered telepathically,
“Go away. I’m busy. I could crush you like an ant if I wanted to. Go
back to your husband.”
Needless to say, a 4.5 meter circle crushed out of the grass was later
found in Hannah’s back yard. Within, the grass was soaked with red
liquid cadmium.

By the end of the summer, the credible reports of giants roaming the
land persuaded the normally staid television station Channel One, to
broadcast a one hour program on the subject. Tsiporet and Shosh
appeared as well as the ufologists who had examined the circles of
Kadima. To the apparent shock of the host, the viewing audience
believed the advocates of alien landings. The result was two more
witnesses coming out into the open.

Both were women in their late thirties who lived within ten miles of
each other south of Tel Aviv. Clara Kahonov of Holon was most
reluctant to be quoted but acknowledged that she had seen a giant
being.

Batya Shimon of Rishon Letzion saw far more than one. In early July,
two seven foot tall, bald creatures beamed themselves into her seventh
floor apartment. They told her telepathically not to be frightened and
she immediately relaxed. She then felt they had “friendly faces.” They
roamed her home, “floating on their shoes” dusting her shelves with a
yellow, foul-smelling powder. One being saw her son’s aquarium, became
very excited and called his colleague over. After a few minutes, they
beamed themselves outside. The next night at 3 AM, a dozen giants
visited Batya arriving and leaving the same way.

I have had extensive conversations with the contactees and there is
much in common with their stories. That is fit subject for a separate
lecture. In short, all were the same age, all were white collar
workers, three have been haunted since their encounters
telepathically, all their men slept through the encounters, two had
mysterious pregnancies etc. But the core commonality is that these
women did not know each other and separately described the same seven
foot tall, bald, round-faced giants.

And if absolute proof that giants were about in Israel was needed, it
came in December in the village of Yatzitz, twelve miles east of
Rishon Letzion. The giants had opened a new axis after Kadima, a
triangle of twenty miles linking Rishon Letzion, Holon and Yatzitz.

Herzl Casatini, the village security chief and his friend Danny Ezra
were sharing conversation when they heard an explosion and felt Ezra’s
house shake. Herzl opened the door and stood face to face with a nine
foot tall creature in metallic clothes whose face was hidden in “a
haze.” He shut the door and called the police. They arrived and
discovered deep boot tracks in the hard mud. The tracks sunk 35
centimeters into the ground meaning whoever made them had to have
weighed, literally, a ton. Thinking there might have been a terrorist
incursion, the army was called in.

Military trackers were totally stumped. The tracks carried on for 8
kilometers. The heel dug in only 5 cm. meaning whatever made the
tracks was walking almost on tip-toes. If you can call it walking.
Sometimes the distance between tracks was twelve feet, meaning the
intruder was a world record holding broad jumper weighing about a ton.

The Yatzitz incident confirmed, even to the deepest skeptics, that
giants were indeed sighted and they left proof that was nearly
impossible to dispute. The best the Israeli authorities could come up
with to explain the tracks was they were left by an unknown cult. It
would have to be very unknown for records of cults whose ceremonies
include dressing as giants and leaving miles of unidentifiable tracks
are undoubtedly quite rare.

After Yatitz, giant sightings were reported in Ramat Hasharon, Rehovot
and Afula.

And 1996 became a vintage year for UFO evidence gathering with a good
dozen craft filmed. Two incidents stand out. In August, a UFO was
filmed over three nights with professional equipment at Kibbutz
Hatzor. The results include a close-up of what appear to be rows of
square-shaped vents on the craft. In December, a Netanya household
reported constant contact with small greys, the first such report from
Israel. The witnesses backed up their claims with an abundance of
physical evidence, including stones that melt ice immediately without
a known energy source.

The Israeli UFO experience is unique and very complicated. I have
touched on just one aspect of it; but it is vital to understanding the
Israeli puzzle. Of the seven best documented close encounters with
alien beings provably connected to UFOs, six involved giants. These
giants were determined to leave evidence of their arrival in the form
of cadmium-imbued landing circles, miles of impossible boot tracks and
deliberate communication with witnesses.

Indeed, the abundant evidence more than indicates that there are
giants roaming Israel today.

As there were 5,000 years ago and they also left proof of their
existence. The giants were descended from the nefilim, literally the
fallen ones. In ancient time, entities fell on Israel from the heavens
and later became the mortal enemies of the Hebrew nations.

One giant king was Og of Bashan. The bible records that his bed was
thirteen feet long. Bashan’s territory included the Golan Heights.
Sitting on the Golan Heights is the Israeli version of Stonehenge.
Called Gilgal Refaim, the Circle of the Refaim or giants in English,
this site consists of five concentric rings whose beauty can only be
appreciated from above.

The Circle of the Giants - Gilgal Refaim
5200-year-old monument believed by some to have been built by the
biblical giants, also called Nephilim.

Unfortunately, there was supposedly no way for the simple nomads of
5000 years ago to see the circles from above.

The cite is enormous. The outside circle has a diameter of 159 meters
and over 37,000 tons of rock went into the construction of the
complex. Two openings in the circles may have been used to measure the
solar solstice and the rising of Sirius in 3000 BCE.

The fact remains that Israeli archaeologists are totally mystified by
the Gilgal Refaim. No other complex built in the Middle East resembles
it and it predates the pyramids by over 500 years. The indigenous
nomads of the time did not engage in this kind of megalith building,
so outsiders were probably the builders. According to the Bible, the
only outsiders living on the Golan Heights back then were giants.

Maybe it’s a long-shot, but no one has come up with a better
explanation for Israel’s current UFO wave. I believe the ancient
giants may be coming home.
I conclude on a somber note. The biblical giants were god’s enemy and
Israel’s armies were the means to their utter destruction.

There is a legitimate reason to contemplate the recent re-arrival of
giants in Israel with a good measure of dread.

[Luke Nichols]

"Noah's Dove" <noah...@lightspeed.ca> wrote in message
news:ac4f3fa9-4de1-434a...@z3g2000prd.googlegroups.com...

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/bb/enoch04.htm
Enoch & the Nephilim
Part IV

Matt.24 [37] But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming
of the Son of man be. - Jesus

[snip]

I can see that this is a very well researched white paper. I found it
utterly interesting.
Luke
http://www.ashesaid.com

[JC]

I don't think they ever left.
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WATCHERS, NEPHILIM and GIANTS
 
" WHEN MANKIND BEGAN TO MULTIPLY ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH, AND DAUGHTERS
WERE BORN UNTO THEM, THE SONS OF G-D SAW THAT THE DAUGHTERS OF MEN WERE
BEAUTIFUL AND THEY TOOK WIVES OF THEM, FROM ANY WHOM THEY CHOSE......THE
NEPHILIM WERE ON THE EARTH IN THOSE DAYS, AND ALSO AFTERWARDS, WHEN THE
SONS OF G-D MATED WITH THE DAUGHTERS OF MEN AND THEY BORE CHILDREN FOR
THEM: THESE WERE THE HEROES OF OLD, THE MEN OF RENOWN"
Genesis 6:1-4

" AND IT HAPPENED WHEN THE SONS OF THE CHILDREN OF MEN COMMENCED TO
INCREASE OVER THE FACE OF THE WHOLE EARTH AND DAUGHTERS WERE BORN TO
THEM, THAT THE ANGELS OF THE LORD SAW THEM IN ONE YEAR OF THIS JUBILEE,
THAT THEY WERE BEAUTIFUL TO LOOK UPON AND THEY TOOK UNTO THEMSELVES
WIVES FROM WHOMEVER THEY CHOSE AND THEY BORE THEM SONS AND THESE WERE
THE GIANTS." Book of Jubilees

" BEHOLD, I THOUGHT THEN WITHIN MY HEART THAT CONCEPTION WAS DUE TO THE
WATCHERS AND THE HOLY ONES....AND TO THE GIANTS..... AND MY HEART WAS
TROUBLED WITHIN ME BECAUSE OF THIS CHILD (NOAH). THEN I LAMECH,
APPROACHED BATHENOSH MY WIFE IN HASTE AND SAID TO HER ' BY THE MOST
HIGH, THE GREAT LORD, THE KING OF ALL THE WORLDS AND RULER OF THE SONS
OF HEAVEN....." Genesis Apocryphon

" THIS SEED COMES FROM YOU, THAT THIS PREGNANCY COMES FROM YOU THAT, THE
PLANTING OF THE FRUIT COMES FROM YOU AND NOT FROM ANY FOREIGNER OR
WATCHER OR SON OF HEAVEN." Genesis Apocryphon

" THE ANGELS, THE CHILDREN OF HEAVEN....THEY WERE 200 , ALL WHO WENT
DOWN IN THE TIME OF YARED UPON THE PEAK OF MOUNT HARMON......THEY AND
THEIR CHIEFS ALL TOOK FOR THEMSELVES WOMEN AND TAUGHT THEM SORCERY...AND
THEY BECAME PREGNANT AND GAVE BIRTH TO GIANTS, 3000 CUBITS TALL." Book
of Enoch.

"AND THE WOMEN HAVE BORN GIANTS AND THE WHOLE EARTH HAS THEREBY BEEN
FILLED WITH BLOOD AND UNRIGHTEOUSNESS.......AND HEAL THE EARTH WHICH THE
ANGELS HAVE CORRUPTED.......THAT ALL THE CHILDREN OF MEN MAY NOT PERISH
THROUGH ALL THE SECRET THINGS THE WATCHERS HAVE DISCLOSED AND TAUGHT
THEIR SONS." Book of Enoch.

" THE GIANTS WERE SEARCHING FOR SOMEONE WHO COULD EXPLAIN THE DREAM TO
THEM......THEN ALL THE GIANTS AND NEPHILIM BECAME ALARMED...." Book of
Giants.
, http://www.biblemysteries.com/library/nephilim.htm