Giants in the land
D.P. Weary
August 11, 2011
April 4, 2025
The Nephilim
Gen 6:4 NASB - The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when
the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore {children} to
them. Those were the mighty
men who {were} of old, men of renown.
The nĕphiyl (Nephilim) - Nephilim:
Napil – Giants, fallers or the fallen ones, rebelers, apostates, giants (Rephaim
- Rapha).
Rephaim: râphâʼ; a giant: giant,
Rapha, Rephaim(-s).
The Nephilim or Giants were hybrid
beings, part human, part fallen angel. They were men of great repute and fierce
warriors and leaders. They corrupted the world in Noah’s day and also afterward
as in Lot’s day in Sodom and Gomorrah.
Jud
1:6 And angels
who did not keep their own
domain, but abandoned their proper abode, He has kept in eternal bonds under darkness for
the judgment of the great day,
Jud
1:7 just as Sodom
and Gomorrah and the cities around them, since they in the same way as these
indulged in gross immorality and went after strange flesh, are exhibited
as an example in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.
strange - Heteros: to
quality; another i. e. one not of the same nature, form, class,
kind; different (so in Greek writings
from Homer down): Romans 7:23; 1 Corinthians 14:21; 1
Corinthians 15:40; 2 Corinthians 11:4; Galatians 1:6; Hebrews
7:11, 13, 15; James
2:25; Jude 1:7.
Sodom and Gomorrah went after
strange flesh – fallen angels.
Num 13:33 NASB - "There also we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak are part of
the Nephilim); and we became like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were
in their sight."
Caleb saw the Nephilim in the
Promised Land in Moses’ day (the sons of Anak). These were very large people
(giants) compared to Caleb.
Deu 3:4 NASB - "We captured all his cities at that
time; there was not a city which we did not take from them: sixty cities, all the region of Argob, the
kingdom of Og in Bashan.
Og was an Amorite king. The Amorite
kingdom was essentially the land occupied today by Syria, Iraq, and the western
part of Iran (The land of the old Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian kingdoms). In
other words, the land of the Rephaim (another name for Bashan) is today the
land of the peoples that are determined to wipe Israel off the map. Interesting
to say the least.
Deu 3:10 NASB - all the cities of the plateau and all Gilead and all Bashan, as
far as Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
Deu 3:11 NASB - (For only Og king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the
Rephaim. Behold, his bedstead was an iron bedstead; it is in Rabbah of the sons of Ammon. Its length was nine cubits and its
width four cubits by ordinary cubit.)
Note here that Og king of Bashan is
said to be the only one left of the remnant (pure half breeds, genetics of half
fallen angel and half human) of the Rephaim or giants. And he was a giant of a
man maybe as much as 12 feet tall.
Deu 3:13 NASB - "The rest of Gilead and all Bashan, the
kingdom of Og, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh, all the region of Argob (concerning all Bashan, it is
called the land of Rephaim (Rapha).
The land of Bashan was called the
land of Rephaim.
Jos 13:12 NASB - all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who
reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (he alone was left of the remnant of the Rephaim); for Moses struck them
and dispossessed (yarash) them.
Yarach
- to seize, dispossess, take possession off, inherit, disinherit, occupy,
impoverish, be an heir
Moses
seized the land of Og and took over their territory. It does not say that Moses
killed Og and all his people. We will soon find that the descendants of the
giants will continue and be found in David’s day.
1Ch 20:4 NASB - Now it came about after this, that war broke
out at Gezer with the Philistines;
then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Sippai, one of the descendants of the giants, and they
were subdued. (to be humble, be humbled, be subdued, be brought down, be low, be under,
be brought into subjection)
Here we find the descendants of the
giants in David’s time among the Philistines.
1Ch
20:5 And there was war with the Philistines again, and Elhanan the son of Jair
killed Lahmi the brother
of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear {was} like a weaver's beam.
Again, we find the descendants of
the giants in the brother of Goliath the Gittite.
1Ch 20:6 NASB - Again there was war at Gath, where there was
a man of {great} stature
who had twenty-four fingers and toes, six {fingers on each hand} and six
{toes on each foot;} and he also was descended from the giants.
Here we see a descendant of the
giants characterized by a genetic deformity.
1Ch 20:8 NASB - These were descended from the giants in Gath, and they fell
by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants.
There were descendants of the giants
in Gath that David had to deal with.
2Sa
21:16 Then Ishbi-benob, who was among the descendants of the giant, the weight of whose
spear was three hundred {shekels} of bronze in weight, was girded with a new
{sword,} and he intended to kill David.
2Sa
21:18 Now it came about after this that there was war again with the
Philistines at Gob; then Sibbecai the Hushathite struck down Saph, who was among the
descendants of the giant.
Here we find the descendants of the
giants again in the Philistines.
2Sa
21:20 There was war at Gath again, where there was a man of {great} stature who had six fingers on
each hand and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in number; and he also had been born to the
giant.
2Sa
21:22 These four were born
to the giant in Gath, and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand
of his servants.
The four Philistines killed by
David’s men were born to a giant in Gath. These giants or Raphiam were people
born of humans with a genetic defect tracing back to the Raphiam in Genesis 14.
Gen 14:5 NASB - In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the
kings that were with him, came and defeated the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim and the Zuzim in Ham
and the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim,
Gen 15:20 NASB - and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Rephaim
Deu 2:11 NASB - Like the Anakim, they are also regarded as Rephaim, but the Moabites call them Emim.
Deu 2:20 NASB - (It is also regarded as the land of the Rephaim,
{for} Rephaim formerly lived in it, but the Ammonites call them Zamzummin,
The question that arises from these
verses is, are the Nephilim, the Rephaim, and the giants just different names
for the same hybrid humans, or are they different beings, all just being very
large and evil?
New Testament references to fallen angels
Jud
1:6 And angels who
did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode, He has kept in eternal bonds under
darkness for the judgment of the great day
In Jude we find references to fallen
angels who are now kept in bonds under darkness for judgment.
Jud
1:7 just as Sodom
and Gomorrah and
the cities around them, since they in the same way as these indulged in gross
immorality and went after
strange flesh, are exhibited as an example in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire
Just as in Noah’s day, these fallen
angels engaged in sexual sin and debauchery with humans resulting in the
destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Jud
1:8 Yet in the same way these men, also by dreaming, defile the flesh,
and reject authority, and
revile angelic majesties.
Jud
1:9 But Michael the archangel, when he disputed with the devil and
argued about the body of Moses, did not dare pronounce against him a railing judgment, but said,
"The Lord rebuke you!"
This is a clear warning the dealing
with fallen angels is a different proposition that dealing with demons. We
don’t pronounce railings and judgments against them. It is the Lord’s authority
that controls them and pronounces judgments against them.
2Pe
2:4 For if God did
not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them
to pits of darkness, reserved for judgment;
It is God (the Lord) that cast the
fallen angels in Noah’s day into hell (Tartarus), to pits of darkness reserved
for judgment.
2Pe
2:5 and did not
spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a preacher of
righteousness, with seven others, when He brought a flood upon the world of the
ungodly;
2Pe
2:6 and {if} He
condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing
{them} to ashes, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly
{lives} thereafter;
Again the judgment of Sodom and
Gomorrah is linked to the fallen angels.
2Pe
2:10 and especially those
who indulge the flesh in {its} corrupt desires and despise authority. Daring,
self-willed, they do not tremble when they revile angelic majesties,
Note that the sin associated with
the fallen angels deals with sexual perversion, lust of the flesh, and the
producing of genetically defected and evil human beings.
2Pe
2:11 whereas angels
who are greater in might and power do not bring a reviling judgment against
them before the Lord.
Note, even angels do not bring a
reviling judgment against the fallen angels, including Satan.
Considering all these verses taken
together, it does appear that the Nephilim, the Rephaim, and the giants are all
the result of fallen angel activity. They are generally very large (8 to 12
feet tall), very fierce, very evil, and are often found involved in sexual perversion
of one sort or another. They are beings born to human women, but beings with
some DNA of fallen angels. In the Old Testament, God either destroyed them or
He commanded His people to destroy them. God destroyed the Nephilim in Noah’s
day in the great flood. He (God) also destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah with fire
because of their great ungodliness (apparently a result of activity of fallen
angels). Moses and his warriors did overcome and displace Og (the Rephaim) and
his people from their land, but he did not destroy all of them. David had to
content with them (the giants) from Goliath to the descendants of the giants
that David’s men had to overcome. Their stature does seem to decrease from Og
(at about 12 feet tall judging by the size of his bed) to Goliath (thought to
be about 8 feet tall), to the descendants of the giants that David’s men were
able to overcome. What we can conclude is that the descendants of the giants
were never totally wiped out. Further, since there has been fallen angelic
activity on earth to this very day, the potential is there that their activity
could still produce genetically altered evil humans.
What all of this is telling us is
that the complexity and depth of our spiritual warfare in these last days has
greatly increased. To some extent, the Church has learned to deal with demons.
But, the issue of fallen angels being among us and possibly, maybe even
probably, descendants of the giants, has not even been considered. There is no
reason to believe that the genetic defect that produced the descendants of the
giants in David day does not linger in some degree to this very day. Even
worse, if we can entertain angels unawares today, what is to say they some of
these angels cannot be fallen angels? And if they are with us appearing as
humans, could they not once again produce offspring “as in the days of Noah”?
And if the Antichrist is a “son of the devil,” could it be that he is a
Nephilim or a descendant thereof? This could very well explain the extreme evil
nature and demonic authority that has been the characteristic of the very evil
world leaders from the kings of Babylon, Persia, Greece, and Rome, to the more modern-day
evil leaders like Hitler and the other despots of our day including the coming
Antichrist.
So, if the true Church, filled
with the Spirit of God, is the restraining force in the world today that is
keeping all this evil in check (to some degree), how are we to deal with this
new dimension of our spiritual warfare? We are cautioned to not pronounce
railings and reviling judgments against these fallen angels and probably not
against the genetically mutated humans they produce. Michael the archangel gave
us the key. “The Lord rebuke you” were his words to Satan. It is the power of
the cross and the Lord’s spilled blood that defeats Satan and his angels. The
Lord has given us the right and authority to use His name in rebuking and
holding back the forces of evil that are even now attempting to take over our
world. But how we do this is the issue of the hour for the true Church.
To even dare enter this battle we
must be fully covered by the armor of God. And we must be fully equipped with,
and trained in the use of all the spiritual weapons that the Lord has given us
in and by the Holy Spirit. Perhaps one of the most important is the gift of
discernment. Unless we can discern our spiritual enemies, we are but lost
children running thought a spiritual minefield.
Our greatest weapon in this battle
against Satan and his angels and demons is prayer. But how often we pray amiss.
If we find ourselves dealing with a fallen angel (in human form), or an
“ancestor of the giants,” what should we do? “The Lord rebuke you” and hinder
your activity is the prayer we can pray. We can also stand against their works,
exposing them as ungodly and evil. We can work to undue the deceptions that
they weave. We can “preach the gospel of the Kingdom” and the good news of
Christ’s salvation when even and to who ever we can.
Until the Lord at the Rapture
removes us from the earth, we have a job to do. We are to call people out of
“Babylon” and into His Kingdom. We are to do Isaiah 61:1-3. We are to raise up
“missiles” of prayer to destroy the works of the devil and his hordes and pull
down his spiritual strongholds.
We know that very evil and
terrible times are coming upon this earth. When the true Church is removed,
Satan and his hordes will be loosed to wreck havoc on this earth. And then the
Lord’s wrath will be unleashed and the 7 years of great tribulation will begin.
Even now, many in the world are asking, “Is there any hope?” Only we, the true
Church have the word of hope. There is a safe place. There is a hiding place in
this coming world of chaos and terror. That hiding place is in Jesus and we
must able and willing to tell the people.
What this “safe place” is not is a
place of total bliss and health and blessing in the physical world we now live
in. In fact, the Lord told us that in this world we would have trouble. Yes, in
His love and compassion for His children, God often does heal our wounds and
sicknesses. He often does intervene for us in our difficult situations. But
sometimes He does not answer all our prayers just exactly as we would like, and
we do suffer through illnesses and distress and even death.
But what we do know is that in the
end, everything turns out great for those that know and love the Lord Jesus.
There is coming a time when all our diseases, illnesses, physical problems,
mental and emotional problems, distresses, and all our problems are wiped away.
It will come in the blink of an eye. It will come with the blast of the last
trumpet and a shout of an archangel. And when it comes, the dead in Christ will
rise and be given new and imperishable bodies, and then we who are alive at the
time will be transformed. Our perishable bodies will be changed into
imperishable bodies and then together with the resurrected dead in Christ we
will be caught up into the clouds to meet the Lord Jesus in the air to be with
Him forever.
1Th
4:15 For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are
alive and remain until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have
fallen asleep.
1Th
4:16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with
the voice of {the} archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in
Christ will rise first.
1Th
4:17 Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with
them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with
the Lord.
1Cr
15:51 Behold, I tell you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will
all be changed,
1Cr
15:52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for
the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will
be changed
1Cr
15:53 For this perishable must put on the imperishable, and this mortal
must put on immortality.
1Th
4:18 Therefore comfort one another with these words.
Therefore comfort one another with these words! What an
understatement! This is the hope we have to give to a world going crazy. This
is the hope of glory that is the destiny of all who have made Jesus the Lord of
their lives. This is our place of safely, our hiding place, our place of
ultimate healing and wholeness. This “place” is Jesus!
We close with the Words of Jesus in His closing lines of His
Great Book.
Rev
22:17 The Spirit and the bride say, "Come." And let the one
who hears say, "Come." And let the one who is thirsty come; let the
one who wishes take the water of life without cost.
Rev
22:20 He who testifies to these things says, "Yes, I am coming
quickly." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.
Rev
22:21 The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all. Amen.
An interesting sidenote.
During the
“days of the wrath of God,” the seven years of the great tribulation, there are
a great many deaths. Some are saved by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of
their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death (Rev.12:11). Revelation 19:17-21 tells us that the Beast (Antichrist) and
his armies and followers are killed at the end of the seven years and sent to
the Lake of Fire. We also know that all those saved by the Grace of the Lord,
by believing in Him, that He, Jeshua, is the Son of God, and making Him their
Lord and Savior are in Heaven and with Him at His return (Jude 1:14, Rev
19:14). The question then is who are the living people that populate the earth
during the Lord’s 1000-year reign upon the earth?
Here is my
speculation for your consideration. The evil and wicked humans of the earth
that are killed during the days of wrath are humans whose DNA is still tainted
by the DNA of fallen angels; ancestors or remnants of the Giants (Nephilim) of
old, even if many, many generations removed. This might explain why the devil
is so interested in modifying people’s DNA these days. Those people who survive
the days of wrath alive are those whose DNA is not tainted, but who have not
been saved by believing in Yeshua (Jesus).
