Why have I mentioned aliens? Because the ancients said their
gods visited them from the sky and even were intimate with them.
Giants; the word conjures up fantastical, mythological and
fairy tale like images of beings that have long passed and are but dust beneath
the earth. Today we see basketball players or professional wrestlers of unusual
height, or we thumb through the Guinness Book of World Records and see photos
of people of staggering stature, making anyone alongside them look like an
action figure! Honestly, even seeing all the “giants” photographed throughout
history, and using my imagination to envision giants decked out for mortal
combat, I don’t really think I’d be too afraid. Their super tall, so what!?
Sound to me like they would be slow, clumsy, and maybe even stupid too!
Actually, being small and agile, Israel would have an upper hand. So why was
Israel so afraid of these giants?
Moses here recaps the story of their parents who had the
opportunity to take the land the first time but chickened out:
Deuteronomy
1:21-45 Behold, the LORD thy God hath set the land before thee: go up and
possess it, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear not,
neither be discouraged. And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We
will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us
word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come. And
the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe: And
they turned and went up into the mountain, and came unto the valley of Eshcol,
and searched it out. And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and
brought it down unto us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land
which the LORD our God doth give us. Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but
rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God: And ye murmured in your
tents, and said, Because the LORD hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the
land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.
Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The
people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to
heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there. Then I said
unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them. The LORD your God which goeth
before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in
Egypt before your eyes; And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that
the LORD thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye
went, until ye came into this place. Yet in this thing ye did not believe the
LORD your God, Who went in the way before you, to search you out a place to pitch
your tents in, in fire by night, to shew you by what way ye should go, and in a
cloud by day. And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and
sware, saying, Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation
see that good land, which I sware to give unto your fathers. Save Caleb the son
of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him will I give the land that he hath
trodden upon, and to his children, because he hath wholly followed the LORD.
Also the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou also shalt not go
in thither. But Joshua the son of Nun, which standeth before thee, he shall go
in thither: encourage him: for he shall cause Israel to inherit it. Moreover
your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in
that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and
unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it. But as for you, turn you,
and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea. Then ye answered
and said unto me, We have sinned against the LORD, we will go up and fight,
according to all that the LORD our God commanded us. And when ye had girded on
every man his weapons of war, ye were ready to go up into the hill. And the
LORD said unto me, Say unto them. Go not up, neither fight; for I am not among
you; lest ye be smitten before your enemies. So I spake unto you; and ye would
not hear, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD, and went
presumptuously up into the hill. And the Amorites, which dwelt in that
mountain, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and destroyed you
in Seir, even unto Hormah. And ye returned and wept before the LORD; but the
LORD would not hearken to your voice, nor give ear unto you.
Here Moses uses examples of their cousins, who did not have
the favor of God as they did, took on these giants and took their land to boot!
Deuteronomy
2:10-22The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and
tall, as the Anakims; Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the
Moabites called them Emims. The Horims also dwelt in Seir beforetime; but the
children of Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from before them,
and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did unto the land of his possession, which
the LORD gave unto them. And when thou comest nigh over against the children of
Ammon, distress them not, nor meddle with them: for I will not give thee of the
land of the children of Ammon any possession; because I have given it unto the
children of Lot for a possession. (That also was accounted a land of giants:
giants dwelt therein in old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims; A
people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; but the LORD destroyed them
before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead: As he did to
the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, when he destroyed the Horims from
before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead even unto this
day:
Moses describes for us the impressive height of Og King of
Bashan, and hints at his massive weight that required an iron bed to hold him:
Deuteronomy
3:11 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.
So why did Moses use examples of their rebellious cousins;
the children of Esau, Moab and Ammon, who conquered some of these giants to
occupy the land they have now, as a pep talk to encourage the Israelis to take
the land? Sounds to me like these giants were more than just tall. And indeed
according to Scripture, tradition and legend they were. These giants were the
stuff that legends and myths are made of.
Here is our first encounter with these giants:
Genesis
6:1-4 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth,
and daughters were born unto them, That the sons of God saw the daughters of
men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. And
the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is
flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. 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.
The word “Giant” Nephilim in Hebrew carries a double meaning.
It means, Giant, yes, but it also means, “Fallen Ones”.
Most Christians in this enlightened age of today would scoff
at even the suggestion that fallen angels could possibly have cohabitated with
the daughters of men. Yet this was the original meaning and intent of this very
passage. Only in the modern centuries have man tried to explain this away as
the wicked daughters of Cain seducing and marrying the righteous sons of Seth.
Horse Pucky! Every instance in the Tanak when the phrase “sons of God” is used
it is used in direct reference to the angelic race, and it is obvious that the
daughters of men is mortal women.
Indeed, this is one of the reasons why God deemed the flood
necessary, not just because of the wicked ways of mankind, but because the
fallen angels were impregnating the human women in an effort to thwart the
prophecy of the Messiah coming:
Genesis 3:15 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.
This fact is backed up again and again in Midrashic,
Talmudic, Kabalistic, and Rabbinical literature.
Deuteronomy
1:28 Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying,
The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to
heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there.
According to Rashi the descendants of Shamchazi and Azael,
who fell from heaven in the generation of Enosh.
“The
Chassidic masters explain that the generation of the Spies was loath to enter
the Land because they feared the transition from the spiritual life they led in
the desert (where they were sustained by "bread from heaven" and all
their physical needs were provided by miraculous means, and their sole
occupation was the study of Torah and the service of G-d) to a life on the land
and all the material entanglements this brings.
This
explains the Spies' mention of the "sons of the giants" they
encountered in the Land. The Midrash (Yalkut Shimoni, Bereishit 44) relates the
story of these "fallen angels": In the years before the Flood, when
violence and promiscuity pervaded the earth, two angels, Shamchazi and Azael,
pleaded before the Almighty: Allow us to dwell among the humans, and we shall
sanctify your name! But no sooner had the two heavenly beings come in contact
with the material world, they, too, were corrupted.
If these heavenly
beings -- the Spies were saying -- could not survive the plunge to materiality,
what could be expected of us, mortal and fragile men?” – The Lubavitcher Rebbe
If Satan through his fallen angels could pollute the human
seed, then there would be no pure untainted human seed for the Messiah to come
through. Thus is another reason for the flood and for Noach (Noah) and his
family being spared. This is where the legends of the giants, and mythological
type beings came from that Rome is so famous for speaking of. I believe this to
be the modern explanation of the UFO and Alien phenomenon. Think about it, same
ol’ plan, different package. Human women are abducted; they are impregnated and
then re-abducted to extract the hybrid child, and many of them are shown their
prodigy. There is no proof that these beings come from another planet, But the
there is evidence leaning toward them coming from another dimension. Plus, if
these “alien” give a message for mankind, it is usually a humanistic or new age
message that belittles Messiah and His word and puts Him on the level of other
world religions. Also the same paranormal activity that takes place during a
poltergeist is the same type of things that happen when “aliens” and their
craft are present. This sounds like Nephilim to me.
