Dr. John Tweedie - Did Giants Walk the Earth?

March 28, 2025 | 27:29

In this episode, Dr. John Tweedie explores the mysterious presence of giants on Earth, both before and after the Great Flood. Join Dr. Tweedie as he explores the origins and fate of these giants.

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Israel: The Prophetic Connection | Dr. John Tweedie - Did Giants Walk the Earth? | March 28, 2025

- the biblical story of noah
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Includes references to giants in the land,
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Both before and after the flood, but who were they?
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Where did they come from?
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Answers next in this episode of the "prophetic connection."
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(uplifting music)
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While the biblical story of noah
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And the great flood is seems unusual enough
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To the rational mind, i mean,
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The idea of the whole earth being covered by water,
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That means the mountains,
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However tall they were, and the hills.
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But within the context of the story,
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Something that's intriguing and even more mysterious
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In verse four of genesis 6,
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"there were giants on the earth in those days,
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And also afterward..."
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So it seems not just before the flood,
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But after the flood as well, which is intriguing in itself.
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"...when the sons of god came into the daughters of men
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And they bore children to them.
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Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renowned.
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But where on earth did these giants come from
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And what happened to them when the deluge covered the earth,
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The waters cover the mountains
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And all living flesh was obliterated?
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- [voiceover] why were there giants in noah's day?
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- when i read in genesis 6, the first few verses,
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It first talks about the sin of man
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And the direction they're going
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And there's evil all of the time in their heart,
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Righteousness cannot be found.
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But then it says that god had regretted
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That he had made mankind
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And he decides to limit their years to 120 years.
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The very next verse speaks about the nephilim, the giants,
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But it goes on to describe them differently
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Than just physical giants.
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It says famous men of old, the men of renowned.
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And then there's some marriage capacity
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Between the children of god and the daughters of men.
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And i've often thought there had to be a correlation
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Between the age limitation that god placed on them,
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The verse in front of the giants,
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And then the mentioning of the giants.
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So i can certainly understand
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That there are physical giants.
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Sure, there has been throughout history there is today,
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But i could offer another explanation.
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The word nephilim comes from the original root of nephil.
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We still use this word today, naphal, in hebrew,
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Which means to fall.
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So if we were to put it into that context,
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It's to fallen ones.
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If we go back to the origins of the word,
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People that fall or people that cause others to fall,
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That seems to fit the scripture pretty well as well.
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So here's one thought.
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If the limitation of age of 120 years is in fact meant
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To be linked to the next description of the nephilim,
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The men of renowned, the famous men of old,
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Then it could be that these people were born
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Before the limitation of age was given,
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Giving them a longer life than everyone else
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That was born after the limitation was given.
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So now you can understand that there could be a series
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Of people that you know
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Who are so much older than the rest of the population.
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They've gained so much more wisdom and understanding
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And experience that they seem very famous.
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They seem like men of renowned,
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They're heroes of old if you understand
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Whether or not their physicality was giant or not,
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Their being, their existence
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Was making them giants as fallen ones.
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Now, they could have also had great stature
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Because in fact, if they had been born
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Before any curse given or any limitation given,
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Maybe physicality was in play here too,
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Maybe they could have been physical giants
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As well as wisdom giants, experienced giants,
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Years lived giants.
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But in fact, no matter where you lived,
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You certainly encountered them
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And they would've been known as the heroes of old,
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The men of renowned, whether it be physical
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Or whether it be their age born
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Before the limitation was given.
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- [voiceover] how did giants reappear
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After the worldwide flood?
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- giants reappeared after the flood.
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It's kind of mysterious, you know?
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It could be that angelic beings continued
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To have relations with humans after the flood.
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It's possible that the genetic seed
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That had been started carried on through those who survived.
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It might be that the people had this idea of giants
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And just people that were,
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Maybe there was a genetic disorder
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And there was a huge, huge people that had emerged
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That they called them, they said,
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Oh, these are the recurrence of the giants.
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- [voiceover] but how could fallen angels
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Be active on earth after the flood?
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- well, one of the things is that the fallen angels
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Or spirit beings, and so they don't physically die.
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They continue.
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On the other hand, the tendencies of humans
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To sin was there.
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And so i think it continued
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With the same situation that was in the days of noah
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And that's how we see them reappear again.
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But they were judged to be destroyed.
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They were a breed that was unacceptable
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Or bent towards sitting towards god.
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- [voiceover] what happened to these races of giants?
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- in our scripture, we see that at the flood
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They're wiped out.
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So they don't exist after the flood.
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Then somehow they reappear in the land of israel or canaan
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'cause it wasn't israel yet, but they reappear.
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But then israel takes care of them
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Under god's protective leadership, military conquest,
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So they're wiped out again.
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We find them a little bit later in david's time,
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But again, what happens is god's power
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Through the israelites subdues the philistines
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At that point.
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Now, whether or not they were wiped out physically,
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Completely, the scripture doesn't say,
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But they were subdued.
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So my guess is that there are still
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The biological descendants of some of the anakites,
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The philistines, those from gath,
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I visited them and other tribes around the world.
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So i've seen entire tribes that all look like giants.
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I've seen them, whether it be in norway,
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Where they are of enormous stature
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Or whether it be in kenya where there's a whole tribe
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Of warriors that are all about seven feet tall.
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So for me, i think that a biological rebirth
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Through translated dna, could still be applicable.
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But it does appear that when those giants face off
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Against god's people, they're always subdued
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Throughout scripture.
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And that's the history of the giants that we see
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When they're faced against israel.
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- [voiceover] while the origins of the giant races
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That existed in biblical times are mysterious
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And challenging to pinpoint,
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It's clear from the biblical record that they did exist
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And seem to have opposed israel at every opportunity.
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Moreover, these various races of giants
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Also had consistently rebellious attitudes
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Toward the god of israel,
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As evidenced by the repeated attempts
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To thwart his plans and purposes for his chosen nation.
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Don't go away after this short break,
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(uplifting music)
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- as i said in the introduction,
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The story of the worldwide flood
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Is unusual enough in itself.
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But then we have in the scriptures introduced
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Into the account the references to giants that we find
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In genesis 6, for example, in the first verse of genesis 6,
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"now it came to pass, when men began
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To multiply on the face of the earth,
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And daughters were born to them,
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That the sons of god saw the daughters of men,
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That they were beautiful,
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And they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose."
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But what on earth is meant by the phrase, "sons of god?"
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And then as i read earlier in the introduction,
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There were giants on the earth in those days
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And also afterward.
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So there seems to be a connection
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Between these so-called sons of god and the daughters of men
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And somehow illicit relationships.
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Now in my own research,
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There are many different opinions
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About the origin of the giants.
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But the commonly held belief is that
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The phrase "sons of god" refers to fallen angels
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Who somehow in, took human form and in human form,
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Impregnated human women, the daughters
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That they found attractive.
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And from these illicit relationships came a hybrid
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Or a race of giants.
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So they were part spiritual
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Because the angels are spiritual beings,
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But then they were also also a flesh
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Because the women, human women gave birth to them.
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Now, to better understand the phrase sons of god,
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We have to look at the original language
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And what was intended by this particular phrase.
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So i go to the book of job
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Where we have several references to the sons of god
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And specifically in job 1:6.
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"now there was a day when the sons of god
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Came to present themselves before the lord
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And satan also came among them."
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And we know that satan is an angelic being.
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So there is a direct connection it seems,
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Between the sons of god and satan who came with them.
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But this is in the context of the story of job,
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Who was god's man on earth?
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So lemme go back to verse one of job 1.
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"there was a man in the land of uz, whose name was job.
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And that man was blameless and upright
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And one who feared god and shunned evil."
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Which is to say he was a target for satan
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Because he was a righteous man before god.
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So this day when the sons of god
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With satan among them appears before the throne of god,
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Again, an unusual story, but it is the biblical reference.
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And we have this question that god asked satan
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In verse seven,
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"and the lord said to satan, 'from where do you come?'
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So satan answered the lord and said, 'from going to
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And fro on the earth and from walking back and forth on it.'
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Then the lord said to satan,
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'have you considered my servant job,
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That there is none like him on the earth,
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A blameless and upright man, one who fears god
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And shuns evil.'"
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So here is satan's response to god's direct question.
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"so satan answered the lord and said,
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'does job fear god for nothing?
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Have you not made a hedge around him, around his household,
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Around all that he has in every side?
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You have blessed the work of his hands
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And his possessions have increased in the land.
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But now, stretch out your hand and touch all that he has,
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And he will surely curse you to your face!'"
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So satan attacks job, but he's really attacking god.
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He's saying, as long as job has your protection,
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He'll be an upright man and they'll question nothing.
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But the minute you lift your hand of protection from him,
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Watch what he'll do.
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He will doubt you and things will change quickly.
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Well, we know as the story unfolds,
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Job goes through incredible tragedies,
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The loss of his whole family, and on and on it goes.
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But my point here is to raise the question
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Of the sons of god as being angelic beings.
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And so we come to chapter two
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And verse one, we read this,
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"again there was a day when the sons of god came
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To present themselves before the lord,
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And satan came also among them to present himself
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Before the lord."
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So here we have it again,
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And then we have another reference in the book of job
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In chapter 38:7,
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"when the morning stars ang together,
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And all the sons of god shouted for joy?"
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Here's my point, all of these references here
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And also in genesis 6 seem to suggest that the sons of god
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Is another term for angelic beings.
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So in genesis 6, and it's consistent
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Through these scriptures that this refers to angelic beings.
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Now, when we go to the new testament,
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To the book of the writings of the apostle peter,
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In 2 peter 2:4, we have this reference,
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"for if god did not spare the angels who sinned,
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But cast them down to hell
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And deliver them into change of darkness,
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Reserved for judgment and did not spare the ancient world,
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But saved noah, one of eight people,
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A preacher of righteousness,
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Bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly
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And turning the cities of sodom and gamorrah into ashes,
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Condemned them to destruction..."
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So we're being given examples in the new testament
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About events that occurred in the old testament.
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And it's interesting here that peter refers to the angels
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Who sin, but what's the context?
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But it would seem that he's thinking back
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To what happened in genesis 6,
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When the sons of god angelic beings took wives
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Of the daughters of men and produced hybrids,
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Otherwise known as giants,
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Which is why we have the giants before the flood,
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But also we have them after the flood.
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And how could we explain that?
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Well, if the giants were hybrid beings, partly spirit
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Because of the angels and then human having a human aspect
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Because of the human women, well,
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The fleshly part of them died in the flood,
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But the spirit part of them would've survived the flood
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Because angels are spirit beings
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And they're not subject to death.
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So that's a possibility
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That we have the same thing happening all over again
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After the flood where the sons of god
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Could do the same thing over again
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And take wives of the sons of men
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And once and again produce hybrids,
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Otherwise known as the giants.
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But we have another reference in the book of jude,
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Which also seems to confirm what i just read.
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In the book of jude, we read in verse six,
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"and the angels who did not keep their proper domain,
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But left their own abode,
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He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness
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For the judgment of the great day..."
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And that seems eerily similar
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To what peter said in his second letter.
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Now let me read the verse before that in the book of jude,
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And remember, jude was the half brother of jesus
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And we're told in the scriptures
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That his brothers did not believe in him at the first,
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But at some point along the way,
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His brothers began to believe
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He was indeed the messiah, the christ.
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And so jude now is writing as a christian,
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And of course, it's a very short letter
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Encouraging christians to contend for their faith
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Because the churches, as he says, is infiltrated
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By people with wrong motivations and bad intentions.
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And this tiny little letter is tucked in
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Just before the long panoramic view we get
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In the book of revelation.
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But it is so helpful and in fact, when we can read peter
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And jude, then look back at what's said
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In the old testament scriptures,
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We get a broader perspective.
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And the new testament then can give meaning
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To the old testament events such as the flood
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And the giants in the land.
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So in verse five of jude, we read this,
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"but i want to remind you, though you once knew this..."
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As if they seem to, they need to be reminded.
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"that the lord having saved the people
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Out of the land of egypt
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Afterward destroyed those who did not believe.
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And the angels..."
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We could say sons of god.
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"who did not keep their proper domain..."
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Meaning where they were supposed to be
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In the heavenly realms,
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But some of them rebelled against god.
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Some of them it seems came down to earth
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And married the daughters of men.
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"they left their own abode,
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He has reserved an everlasting chains
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Under darkness for the judgment of the great day..."
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So jude is telling us what peter has told us as well,
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That these fallen angels, sons of god
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Are reserved under judgment until the final judgment
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At the end of the age.
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So what are we to understand here?
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Let me put it this way.
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If these references indeed refer to angels,
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The sons of god were angels,
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Then there are a couple of possible interpretations.
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Men possessed by demons, fathered children by earthly women
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Or women were impregnated by rebellious, or fallen angels.
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And that's how we could explain how
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The giants appeared again after the flood
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Because the same sin was repeated after the flood.
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And that's why we have that reference.
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Now in the new testament,
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The word for demons in the hebrew is tamu naphal,
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Which is a compound word.
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Two words put together, tamu meaning dead,
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Naphal, which is the singular of nephilim.
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And naphal means giant, nephilim is the plural form of that
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Which means giants.
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So the commonly held belief in the time of jesus
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Amongst the jewish people was that the tamu naphal
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Were dead giants, the spirits of dead giants.
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That's how they explained demons.
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And in fact, in the dead sea scrolls, the essenes,
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That sect that lived by the dead sea,
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We find in their writings this word and this reference.
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So the common understanding, as i said earlier
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In the first century in israel
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Among the jewish people was this,
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Tamu naphal, dead giants or the spirits of dead giants,
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That's how they explained the existence of demons.
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- just before the short break, i mentioned that moses
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Was confronted by giants, well,
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When he tried to enter the land of israel.
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And the account is found in the book of deuteronomy,
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Which is the book, translation second law,
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But it's really where moses reiterates
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The history of israel.
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But in chapter three of deuteronomy in verse one, we read,
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"then we turned..." moses speaking for israel.
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"then we turned and went up the road to bashan.
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And og, king of bashan came out against us,
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He and all his people to battle at edrei."
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Now i am standing in the land of bashan
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Where king og ruled all those years ago.
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It's actually the land of...
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It's golan heights today.
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So the land of bashan is synonymous
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With the golan heights that we hear so much about.
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I'm standing on the golan heights
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And the sea of galilee is in the backdrop.
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So understand that's where this is taking place,
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At least at the southern border of bashan.
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So then we have, "and the lord said to me,
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'do not fear him, for i have delivered him in all his people
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And his land into your hand.
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You shall do to him as you did to sihon,
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King of the amorites, who dwelt at heshbon.'"
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Well, why would moses be afraid of one single king?
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Well, let tell you a little bit more about this king.
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In verse 11 of deuteronomy 3, we read this.
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"for only og, king of bashan remained of the remnant
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Of the giants..."
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In the hebrew, the nephilim.
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"indeed his bedstead was an iron bedstead,
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And is it not in rabbah of the people of ammon?
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Nine cubits is its length and four cubits its width,
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According to the standard cubit."
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So in an approximate measurement in feet,
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13.5-feet long by 6-feet wide.
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So it seems by inference
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That in the land of beshan there was this giant king,
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And presumably other giants remained
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From earlier eras, but they were here.
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And so moses perhaps was afraid
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Because they're referred to as mighty men
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Because they're hybrids, spiritual hybrids,
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As we said earlier, between the angels,
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The sons of god and the human women.
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So reading on becomes more intriguing than that.
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"so the lord our god also delivered into our hands,
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Og, king of beshan with all his people,
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And we attacked him until he had no survivors remaining.
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And we took all his cities at that time,
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There was not a city which we did not take from them.
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60 cities, all the region of argob,
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The kingdom of og in bashan.
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All these cities were fortified with high walls, gates,
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And bars beside a great many rural towns..."
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And then this,
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"and we utterly destroyed them
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And we did to sihon, king of heshbon,
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Utterly destroying the men, women,
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And children of every city."
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Now, i read recently the comment
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Of a british military general in the 21st century
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Who said that the army of israel, the israel defense forces
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Is the most moral army on planet earth.
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And i don't believe that that's just a description
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Of the army today.
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I believe that the israeli army,
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God's army on earth has always been highly moral.
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So we have this conundrum,
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Why did moses tell his soldiers
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To destroy the women and children?
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Why didn't he show mercy to the women and children?
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I cannot say for sure, but i can hazard this,
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I think it's a good guess,
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These were the remnants of the nephilim.
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These were the spiritual hybrids.
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It was in their gene pool, it was in their children.
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And the giants always in scripture
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Rebelled against the almighty god.
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So this i think, was god's way of bringing an end
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To them, certainly here
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'cause eventually, the giants died out.
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But as long as any of their children were left
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With that same demonic, satanic influence,
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Israel would be fighting them from generation to generation.
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But more than that,
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They were rebellious against the almighty god.
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That's the only good explanation i can have
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For killing the women and the children.
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So in the very next episode,
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How long did it take noah to build this ark?
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A ship the size of modern cargo ship?
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- [voiceover] we're so glad you joined us today.
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Tune in next time for "the ark."
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Dr. John Tweedie - Did Giants Walk the Earth?

March 28, 2025 | 27:29

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