Who / what were the Nephilim?

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Who and what were the Nephilim? We're going to answer that question.

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The Nephilim were the offspring of sexual relationships between the sons of God and daughters of men in Genesis 6, 1 -4.

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There is much debate as to the identity of the sons of God. It is our opinion that they were demons who procreated with human females.

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These unions resulted in offspring. The Nephilim. Why would the demons do such a thing?

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The Bible does not specifically give us the answer. Demons are evil, twisted beings, so nothing they do should surprise us.

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One speculation is that the demons were attempting to pollute the human bloodline in order to prevent the coming of the

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Messiah. God had promised that the Messiah would one day crush the head of the serpent, Satan. The demons in Genesis 6 were possibly trying to prevent the crushing of the serpent and make it impossible for a sinless seed of the woman to be born.

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Again, this is not a specifically biblical answer, but it is biblically plausible.

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What were the Nephilim? According to the Hebraic and other legends, they were a race of giants who did acts of great evil.

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Their great size and power likely came from the mixture of demonic DNA with human genetics.

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According to the movie Noah, starring Russell Crowe, the Nephilim were fallen angels encased in rock.

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In fact, all that the Bible directly says about them is that they were heroes of old, men of renown.

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The Nephilim were not aliens, angels, watchers, or rock monsters. They were literal physical beings produced from the union of the sons of God and the daughters of men.

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What happened to the Nephilim? They were one of the primary reasons for the great flood in Noah's time. Immediately after the mention of the

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Nephilim, God's word says, The Lord saw how great man's wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time.

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The Lord was grieved that he had made man on the earth, and his heart was filled with pain. So the

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Lord said, I will wipe mankind whom I have created from the face of the earth, men and animals, and creatures that move along the ground and birds of the air, for I am grieved that I have made them.

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God proceeded to flood the entire earth, killing everyone and everything other than Noah, his family, and the animals on the ark.

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All else perished, including the Nephilim. Were there Nephilim after the flood? Genesis 6 -4 tells us the

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Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward. It seems that the demons repeated their sins sometime after the flood as well.

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However, it likely took place to a much lesser extent than it did prior to the flood. When the

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Israelites spied out the land of Canaan, they reported back to Moses, We saw the Nephilim there.

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We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them. A few possibilities include, the spies witnessed very large people in Canaan and feared them to be the

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Nephilim. After the flood, the demons again mated with human females, producing more Nephilim.

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Some traits of the Nephilim were passed on through the heredity of one of Noah's daughters -in -law.

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Whatever the case, these giants were destroyed by the Israelites during their invasion of Canaan and later in their history.

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What prevents the demons from producing more Nephilim today? It seems that God put an end to demons mating with humans by placing all demons who committed such an act in isolation.

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Jude verse 6 tells us, Obviously, not all demons are in prison today, so there must have been a group of demons who committed further grievous sin beyond the original fall.

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Presumably, these demons who mated with human females are the ones who are bound with everlasting chains.

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This would prevent any more demons from attempting such sin. That answers the question, who and what were the

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