Were the Nephilim sons of God?
Fallen Angels? Giants of Genesis 6:4?
A common belief which we share is that the \u201csons of

Why did God send the judgment of the Flood in the days of Noah? The strange events recorded
in Genesis 6 were understood by the ancient rabbinical sources, as well as the Septuagint
translators, as referring to fallen angels procreating weird hybrid offspring with human women-
known as the Nephilim. This was far more than simply a historical issue, the unique events
leading to the Flood are a prerequisite to understanding the prophetic implications of our Lord\u2019s
predictions regarding His Second Coming. This is believed to have happened both before the
Flood and after the flood. In Israel at the time of David, and before this when the Hebrews were
scouting the land \u2013 there were tribes of these Nephilim \u2013 Goliath the giant of Gath is one
example. Early Church fathers also understood this to be the case. It appears that these fallen
angels were active all over the world. These bizarre giants living on the earth are also echoed in
the legends and myths of nearly every ancient culture. The ancient Greeks, the Egyptians, the
Hindus, the South Sea Islanders, the American Indians, and most all the others have these
legends.

Genesis 6:4 (Original KJV):
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.

Bible Probe Note: Note the words; \u201cand also after that\u201c. This
probably tells of two \u201cirruptions\u201d by Satan\u2019s seed. One before Noah\u2019s
time and another after the flood. They were called \u201cThe Watchers\u201d inThe Book of Enoch.

Their descendents, called Nephilim (translated \u201cgiants\u201d), were monsters of iniquity; and being superhuman in size and in their wicked character, had to be destroyed. Was this the one and only object of the Flood?

Genesis 6:12 (Original KJV):
And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt;
for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.

Only Noah and his family had preserved their pedigree pure from Adam (Genesis 6:9). All the rest
had become \u201ccorrupt\u201d (shachath). The only remedy was to destroy it defacto (Latin for \u201cin fact\u201d),
as it had become defacto destroyed.

This irruption of fallen angels before Noah\u2019s day was probably Satan\u2019s first attempt to prevent the coming of the \u201cSeed of the woman\u201d foretold in Genesis 3:15. If this could be accomplished, God\u2019s Word would have failed, and Satan\u2019s own doom would be averted.

Genesis 3:15 (Original KJV):
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between
thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt
bruise his heel. also see Isaiah 7:14

As soon as it was made known that the Seed of the woman was to come through ABRAHAM,
there must have been another irruption, as recorded in Genesis 6:4 (see above), \u201cand also after
that\u201d (that is to say, after the days of Noah, more than 500 years after the first irruption). The aim
of the enemy was to occupy Canaan in advance of Abraham, and so to contest its occupation by
his seed.For, when Abraham entered Canaan, we read (Genesis 12:6) \u201cthe Canaanite was then
(that is to say, already) in the land.\u201d

In the late 1950\u2019s, during road construction in the Euphrates Valley of south-east Turkey, many
tombs containing the remains of giants were uncovered. At the sites the leg bones were
measured to be 120 cms (47.24 inches). Joe Taylor, Director of Mt. Blanco Fossil Museum, was
commissioned to sculpt the human femur. This Antediluvian giant stood some 14-16 ft tall (see
below).Genesis 6:4 claims: \u201cThere were giants in the earth in those days;\u201d Deuteronomy 3:11
states that the bed of Og, king of Bashan, was 9 cubits by 4 cubits (approximately 14 ft long by 6
ft wide).

Long ago, even insects may have been larger due to higher oxygen concentrations in the
atmosphere (believed to have been about 35 percent instead of 21 percent today). This increased
oxygen level could be part of the explanation for giants, long-lived people, and even why fossils of
giant dragonflies with 2-foot wingspans have been found.

Antediluvian Giants\u2019 bone below
giant leg
Other human Fossil finds
A 19\u20326\u2033 human skeleton found in 1577 A.D. under an overturned oak tree in the Canton of

Lucerne.
23-foot tall skeleton found in 1456 A.D. beside a river in Valence, France.
A 25\u2032 6 \u201d skeleton found in 1613 A.D. near the castle of Chaumont in France. This was claimed to

In 1833 soldiers digging at a pit for a powder magazine in Lompock Rancho, California,
discovered a male skeleton 12 feet tall. The skeleton was surrounded by carved shells, stone
axes, and blocks of porphyry covered with unintelligible symbols. The skeleton had double rows
of upper and lower teeth. These bones substantiated legends by the local Piute Indians
regarding giants which they called Si-Te-Cahs.

A mound near Toledo, Ohio, held 20 skeletons, seated and facing east with jaws and teeth \u201ctwice
as large as those of present day people,\u201d and besides each was a large bowl with \u201ccuriously
wrought hieroglyphic figures.\u201d (Chicago Record, Oct. 24, 1895; cited by Ron G. Dobbins, NEARA
Journal, v13, fall 1978).

Caius Julius Verus Maximinus, also known as Maximinus Thrax (235-238 A.D.) was a Roman
soldier-emperor who spent his reign on campaign. Maximinus was born in Thrace to a Gothic
father an Alanic mother in about 173 A.D.. He was reportedly 8\u2032 feet, six inches (2.59m) tall, and
of tremendous strength.

In an ancient text of the Jews, we read an astonishing description of some of these gigantic
Amorites whom the Israelites conquered. In Buber\u2019s Tanhuma, Devarim 7, the text tells us of a
Rabbi Johnanan ben Zakkai\u2019s encounter with the Roman Emperor Hadrian. This event occurred
in about A.D. 135, soon after the Roman victory in the Bar Kochba war, when the Jews rebelled
against the Romans. The text reads:

\u201cThe wicked emperor Hadrian, who conquered Jerusalem, boasted, \u2018I have conquered
Jerusalem with great power.\u2019 Rabbi Johanan ben Zakkai said to him, \u2018Do not boast. Had it not
been the will of Heaven, you would not have conquered it.\u2019 Rabbi Johanan then took Hadrian into
a cave and showed him the bodies of Amorites who were buried there. One of them measured
eighteen cubits [approximately 30 feet] in height. He said, \u2018When we were deserving, such men
were defeated by us, but now, because of our sins, you have defeated us\u2019\u201d (quoted in Judaism,
edited by Arthur Hertzberg, p.155-156, George Braziller, New York: 1962).

\u201cSons of God were fallen angels and not aliens\u201d
Some have claimed that the Nephilim, or the \u201csons of God,\u201d both mentioned in Genesis 6:2-4,
were aliens. This is a wild extension of a common view that the \u201csons of God\u201d who married the
\u201cdaughters of men\u201d were fallen angels, and that the Nephilim were products of those
\u201cmarriages.\u201d\u201cSons of God\u201d is clearly used of angels in Job 38:7 Orig KJV: \u201cWhen the morning
stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?\u201c. The Septuagint (LXX) here
translates \u201csons of God\u201d as \u201cangels of God.\u201d This need not mean that evil angels, or demons,
actually cohabited with women. Jesus made it clear that angels do not engage in sexual