He Wasn't Supposed to Film This... | John MacArthur

Standing there. No, it's not! Dude, have you seen what I've seen right now?

Andrew Dawson was just a random TikToker until he posted this video, which now has 12 .1 million views, where he claims to have seen a giant and since then all of his videos have racked up millions of views.

This has led to much speculation about what exactly Dawson saw on that mountain and whether it could have been an example of the Nephilim described in Genesis chapter 6. And subsequent videos Dawson posted have led some to wonder if the government is trying to cover up something.

Andrew Dawson, the CIA, and the Giant Video Mystery

Let's follow the story of Andrew Dawson and his sudden mysterious disappearance and then we'll talk about the Nephilim and what all this means. Three days later, on April 12, 2022, Dawson again tried to film the giant that he saw on that.

Mountain. Okay, I'm going to use this as a tripod to try to keep it steady for you guys and it's not even there anymore too. That's where it was yesterday. I spoke to some locals and it comes and goes apparently.

I don't know. See, that's me trying to keep it super steady with something. Do you know how hard it is to keep it steady with zoomed in all the way?

So the giant isn't there anymore and Dawson says the locals know about it and they said it comes and goes. You might think the story ends here since the supposed giant is now gone but it just gets even weirder from here.

Later that same day, Dawson claims to have been stopped by the CIA.

I just got stopped by like some CIA agents. He told me to turn around and said I'm trespassing. I said it's a public freaking, it's a public area, like a public park or whatever. Some local told me to take this path.

I didn't get it on camera but I'm going to go again tomorrow and be prepared to be filming right now because he stopped the vehicle. His truck was blocking it. Said some big environmental issue was going on.

I don't know. He told me to go back and said I was trespassing. I don't get it. It was awkward but I'm going back again tomorrow to see if he's not there but if he is there I will keep camera. I will film because the only angle I could get that I found today is the one I just posted earlier and there wasn't even anything there.

But I don't understand why the road's blocked off. I don't know. The next day, on the 13th,.

Dawson posts a video that suggests that he caught a UFO on film. The next day, on the 14th, Dawson.

Posts a video where he supposedly films the CIA closing off part of the park. The guy's here again.

Yeah, this is, this is him. What's going on? Road's closed. Turn around. Really? Yeah, man. Just, just turn around, please. Okay. Have a good night, man. So that was f***ed up. There he is. I'm driving.

Past him again. Just turned around. I don't understand why it's closed off though. It's f***ing public park.

Or public road or whatever. Two days later, Dawson posts a video with the caption being stopped. I think that's the same vehicle from... Dawson then goes completely silent for many weeks,.

Not posting another video until May 6th when he posts a video that looks like a hostage video with Dawson glancing off to the side numerous times as if looking at someone else in the room.

Hey, guys. I just want to give you an update. I'm not dead. I have not disappeared. I have just been busy with life. I couldn't get around to posting and updating you guys. So now I'm going to give you an official update of what's been going on.

Sorry to disappoint you guys, but all of the videos that I post, all the videos that I posted were scripted. They're just fake. They were just strictly for entertainment. Sorry to disappoint you guys.

I just need to give you a quick update.

Ten days later on the 16th, Dawson posts yet another video walking back the things he said in the video that looked like a hostage video saying that we might not see him ever. Post again.

You might not see me post ever again. My videos, they weren't fake.

Dawson posted one more video the next day on May 17th, and then suddenly on July 1st, Dawson passed away at 34 years old. To be honest, to me, all of this seems scripted, staged, and fake except for the fact that Dawson actually died soon after posting these videos.

I don't have any explanation for that. Maybe the CIA is in fact covering up that Dawson filmed a giant, and maybe the CIA actually did force Dawson to film that video saying everything was fake, but I really find that hard to believe.

The hostage video with Dawson looking off to the side just looks like bad acting to me. But how and why did Dawson die soon after filming these videos? I simply don't know. But what about the suggestions from some that Dawson could have filmed an actual giant?

An example of the Nephilim described in Genesis chapter 6? Well, let's take a look at some interpretations of what the Nephilim are in the Bible. Here's what John MacArthur believes about the Nephilim.

John MacArthur on the Nephilim in Genesis 6

John, my name is Andy. I want to ask you, in Genesis 6, if the Nephilim giants didn't survive the flood, how come that when Caleb and Joshua and the spies went to Canaan, they found the Nephilim giants there?

And also, why is there so many interpretations of Genesis 6?

Well, the fact that there are so many interpretations of Genesis 6 means that a lot of people have gotten it wrong, right? Because there is only one proper interpretation. And you know, I understand that because there are some obscurities in the passage.

It's helpful to me, however, to know that most of the views that are different than the one that I hold have come later in history. That the earliest views of Genesis 6 that we can find, even among rabbis, say nothing of early church fathers, viewed the sons of God as angels.

So by taking, as we did when I went through that, the sons of God as fallen angels, demons who come down and possess men, who then take wives and really desire demon involvement and have children, that's to show the depth of the fallenness of man.

He engages himself with demons willingly. I think that in the context of what Satan was doing in Genesis 6 is the best interpretation. It's consistent with what he tried to do in the garden, as we pointed out at the time.

But it says that there, at that time, there were giants on the earth in those days, and it uses the word Nephilim. The term is from the Hebrew verb to fall, and it has to do with powerful beings that crush somebody.

This is not a race of people. This is just some powerful people, some powerful men, who fell on others in the sense of overpowering them. It's what I put in the note, and that's exactly what I believe is accurate.

They were already on the earth when children born of these unions of demonically possessed people came out. They were mighty men. It says the products of those unions were mighty men and men of renown.

There were, in ancient times, mighty men and men of renown born to those unions. But there also were these Nephilim, these powerful conquerors. The idea is that they are threats, dangerous. It just describes them because we want to know something about the pre-flood society.

There were oppressive, I suppose you could say even deadly men in that day. There were powerful, I suppose we could call them conquerors or warriors. And so that word Nephilim is describing them. Later on, when the spies went into the land and they came back to report what they had seen, they simply said, there are Nephilim there.

They didn't mean that they were the children of Nephilim as if they were a race. Nephilim, because of its usage here, was sort of a word that they all knew was in the scripture, and they knew that it referred to giants.

And so when they came back and wanted to report that essentially the Canaanites were unconquerable, they simply said, they're Nephilim. They just took that word in its generic sense, in its general meaning, rather than having it refer to some race.

They couldn't have been children of Nephilim. Nephilim was not a race. It wasn't a tribe. And they couldn't have had any children that lasted until that time, as you said, because the flood drowned everybody but eight people.

So it's just a term that has to do with warriors, powerful, deadly, fearful kind of men. And in Joshua and Caleb's day, the spies who didn't believe they could conquer Canaan wanted to make their point as strongly as they could.

And so they said, they're like the giants, like the Nephilim that are mentioned in Genesis chapter six.

MacArthur's View of the Nephilim as Human Warriors

MacArthur interprets the sons of God as demon-possessed men and the Nephilim simply as human men who are larger and stronger than average. Here's what Got Questions Ministries says about the Nephilim.

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. These unions resulted in offspring, the Nephilim. 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.

So Got Questions Ministries leaves open the possibility that the Nephilim may not be mere humans since it suggests that the sons of God may have been actual demons, not just demon-possessed men, which would introduce non-human DNA into their offspring.

Here's what Doug Wilson has said about the Nephilim.

Doug Wilson on the Nephilim and the Sons of God

My understanding is that the Elohim, the sons of God, looked at the daughters of men and saw they were fair and married them. And then the result was of this interbreeding was the Nephilim, which were giants.

In brief defense of that reading, the other reading is that the sons of God were the godly line of Seth who were corrupted and fell into sin by marrying the daughters of men. The problem with that is that all the masculinity is on one side and all the femininity on the other.

It's the sons of God and the daughters of men. And then the end result of this intermarriage is giants, which is not what you usually get when a Christian marries a non-Christian. And so I think there's more going on than that.

Like God Questions Ministries, Wilson suggests that the Nephilim were not mere humans as MacArthur suggested. One final question. Could there still be Nephilim today? There have been many theories about Nephilim existing today.

Here's what God Questions.

Ministry says. Were there Nephilim after the flood? Genesis 6 -4 tells us the 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.

However, it likely took place to a much lesser extent than it did prior to the flood. When the Israelites spied out the land of Canaan, they reported back to Moses, we saw the Nephilim there. 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 Nephilim. To be honest, I'm not certain what the answer is. I think both interpretations are possible. The Nephilim may have been merely human or they may have been more than human.

In any case, what I am certain about is that this is not an issue that should divide Christians since it's a matter of interpreting relatively obscure passages of scripture. While interesting and perhaps even important to think about, we need to make sure we're keeping the gospel first and central as we wrestle with these difficult passages.

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