http://www.sitchiniswrong.com/sitchinerrors.htm#nephilim
I ran across this link and thought it was one of the most marvelous things. Apparently Zechariah Sitchin's thesis that the Nephilim and Sons of God in Genesis 6 are aliens is completely bogus. His premise works something like this: the word Nephilim means "fallen ones", so one could make the argument that they had to "fall" from somewhere. His conclusion is that they fell from outer space. What Michael Heiser shows is that he has no idea what he is talking about in Hebrew or Aramaic (the ACTUAL language of the passage). The word "fallen one" refers to "spiritually fallen" NOT a physical fall at all. It is like when I say my "face has fallen" when I am sad you can take that out of context and assume it means literally my face has "fallen off". Sort of like OOOPS! I dropped it! But the context simply means I look sad. Sitchin makes this same error.
We come to the TRUE identity of the Nephilim, and the Sons of God. Sitchin makes an error (as do many well meaning scholars) in focusing on the word Nephilim (or the giants that were born before the flood. The thrust of the passage really points more to who the "Sons of God" were though. The Nephilim (whatever they were) were only the offspring of the union of Sons of God and the daughters of men.
There are TWO prevailing views; the Sons of God were angels (bad ones) OR they were the descendants of Seth, the godly line with the "daughters of men" being of the line of Cain. You can argue either side but if you fall on the side that this was the intermarriage of angelic beings and earth women you must say that the term "Sons of God" points to demons (and WHO would say that a demon is a "son of God"? many thanks to J. Vernon McGee for pointing this out). Which leaves us with only the godly line of Seth marrying those ungodly women from Cain's line, and if THIS is so then Sitchin's argument is completely wrong! We've eliminated not just aliens but any supernatural type of cohabitation entirely. But if the angel/demon idea is true then that begins to somewhat clarify some other passages in the New Testament:
Jude 6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
2 Peter 2:4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
When we look at these passages its important to try and get a handle on the context, what is it actually talking about in the passage before and after. Remember my face "falling" off? The angels that left their first estate passage comes right in the middle of talking about heretics and those that preach false doctrine but then the passage goes on to talk about those speaking foolishly to dignities in the angelic world. So the general sense is that this is talking about false teachers and teachings, there is also a sexual component in there when it talks about Sodom and Gomorrah:
Jude 3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
8 ¶ Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
9 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.
Its a long quote but I want to show it just to get the idea across. When seen in context, whatever the nature of the angels (if they are the Sons of God in Genesis 6) their sin had to do with false teaching, the sins of Sodom, and despising angelic/demon dignities. We get into this and this begins to sound more like the New Age! We can say one thing for sure, that if the angels were into the "Sin of Sodom" then making alien hybrid babies from earth women was NOT going to happen!
The passage in 2 Peter seems to point to the same conclusions, it is repeated almost verbatim from Jude (who quotes and is based on the Book of Enoch - not the occult volume by the way).
2Peter 2:1 ¶ But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
3 ¶ And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
Now whether you fall on the angelic being or godly line side, there is only one thing that you must remember; the problems with these beings these "sons of god" is that somewhere in there false doctrine comes into play as the thrust of the passages. I remember Winston Churchill's statement about the Communist Bloc (I believe) that it was a "riddle, wrapped in an enigma". ALL of this discussion on UFO's, government conspiracies, ancient astronauts, etc. may be nothing more than an elaborate "psyops" on the human race perpetrated by the Father of Lies, for that is his very nature; John 8:44. Remember what I posted before! The goal of the entities is to distort, deceive and eventually murder! Trust no one...
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