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#5 “Judgement of the Nephilim” by Ryan Pitterson
“Judgment of the Nephilim”
Last week we
were still talking about what I have been calling - “The set up”....
YHUH created
the heavenly beings - angels / small g - gods....
Psalm
82:1 p 526
“Melchizedek stands in the congregation of
Al; He judges among the alohiym.”
(In our Bibles it
says “Alohiym” - but
in the Dead Sea Scrolls it says “Melchizedek”
!)
Anyway - YHUH
created ... and then He created the ha aretz (the earth)...
and Yah put
Adam (man) in charge of ha aretz / gan eden (the garden of eden)....
And we know
that Yah had the angel of worship... who decided he wanted to be in charge....
Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 14:12-16
p 306
12 How are you
fallen from the shamayim, O Heilel (the shining one) , son of the morning-ben
shachar (angel or fallen angel of the crescent)! How are you cut down tot he ground, you who
did weaken the nations!
13 For you
have said in your leb (heart), I will ascend {implying he was BELOW looking UP} into the shamayim (heavens), I will exalt my
kesay above the chochavim (stars) AL: I
will sit also upon the Mount (this should be moeds) of the Congregation, on the
sides of the north. (See Isaiah 2:2
also)
14 I will
ascend above the heights (bamul/bama
see Luke 10:18) of the clouds; I will be like Al-Alyon.
15 Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol to the
sides of the pit.
16 They that
see you shall ponder and stare at you, saying, Is this the man that made the
earth to tremble, that shook malchutim,
17 That made
the olam (world) as a wilderness, and destroyed its cities; that did not open
the bayit (house) of his prisoners?
( =the
Anti-Messiah)
Iyov (Job) 1:6-7 p 567
“Now there
was a day when the sons of Elohim (God) came to present themselves before YHUH
and hasatan came also among them.
And YHUH said
to hasatan From where are you coming?
Then hasatan answered YHUH and said, From going to and fro on the earth,
and from walking up and down in it.”
Luke 10:18 p 737
And He
said to them, I beheld hasatan as lightning fall from the shamayim (barach / heavens).
So the angel
of worship wanted to be on the thrown instead of YHUH... and HE fell - like
lighting.... and made ha aretz (the earth)
“tohu vavohoo” = astonishingly confused and mixed....
And then...
THEN - YHUH put MAN in charge of the garden!
and gave man
power and instruction = The Prime Directive :
B’re’shiyt (Genesis) 1: 28 p 9
“And Alohiym
blessed them, and Alohim said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish
the earth, and subdue it: and have
dominion over the fish of the sea, over the fowl of the air, and
over every living thing that moves upon the earth.”
Luke 10:19
p 737
“See, I give
to you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the
enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.”
And we talked
about sin in gan eden (garden of eden) ... and
B’re’shiyt 3: 15 p 10
“And I will
put enmity between you and the woman, and between your zera (seed) and her Zera
(Seed); HE shall crush your head, and you shall bruise His heel.”
And ever
since - ha satan has been fighting for his life - because he knows his destiny
is the lake of fire.
So we are
learning to see the battle for what it is....
Now let’s
return to “Judgment of the Nephilim”.... and carry on....
We were
talking about Qayin... and him being the seed of hasatan...
and what
really happened in the garden and how based on the Word- Chava was pregnant
with one - and Yah said He would increase her pregnancy... and that there were two babies she carried -
Qayin and Hebel (Abel)... and Hebel was
Adam’s child....
“Your Father hasatan...” - reference...
So starting
with new information ....
Genesis 4:13 p 11
“And Qayin
said to YHUH, My punishment is greater than I can bear.”
- The author states that....
“His heart
was far removed from Yah and thus his lineage would not be permitted to
interact with and bring their sinful influence to Adam and Chua’s other
children.”
- but it wasn’t just his heart - he was the seed of hasatan.
B’re’shiyt 4:25-26 p 11
24 If Qayin
shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy-seven fold.
25 And Ahdahm
knew his wife again; and she bore a son and called his name Sheth: For Alohiym said, has appointed me another
zera instead of Hebel, whom Qayin killed.”
-Hasatan had
taken out one seed of Man - that could
have been the Messiah...
The author
writes:
“Chava was
aware of the prophecy... and knew that Seth was going to replace Abel as the
continuation of the godly bloodline leading to the prophesied Seed of the
Woman.”
{Remember, since
Matthew Nolan’s
teaching on WHO Messiah is... we have
more questions about this “bloodline”.}
Hence Seth’s
name in Hebrew means “compensation”.
Though Hebel
(Abel) died, Chava (Eve) was compensated by her third son who was “another
seed - instead of Hebel” (Gen
4:25).
Scripture
goes on to say...
Seth begat
Enos, which coincide with a spiritual revival.
Faithful men of Yah were growing in number.
This would lead to another turn in the
battle....
The Daughters
of Men - growth of the human population
We know the
story of the list of the names of the guys in Genesis 5
- that the names actually mean - “The
blessed YHUH will come down and His death will bring the restoring rest and
sacrifice.”
But it also
says...
Genesis 5:3-5 p 11
3 “And Ahdahm
lived 150 years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his own image; and
called his name Sheth:
4 And the
days of Ahdahm after he had begotten Sheth were 800 years: and he begat sons and daughters:
5 And all the
days that Ahdahm lived were 930 years and he died.”
“and he begat sons and daughters....”
-This is the
first time Scripture talks about the birth of daughters!
and one would
think that there were many - that is a lot of years!
“The Bible
never tells us how old Adam and Chava were when Qayin and Hebel were born.
All we can
discern from Scripture is that they were born before Adam was 130 years old
(when he begat Seth).
So by the
time Yah banished Qayin it is very easy to see that over time, it would “come
to pass” (to use Qayin’s own words) that he would have siblings who would have
their own children.
Thus, the
human population grew at a rate that would allow Cain to find a wife!”
{Also note
here - Qayin somehow understands the laws of avenging a wrong - because that is
at least part of what he seems to be worried about.}
The Importance of YHUH’s Prime Directive - “Be Fruitful and Multiply”
So... a seed
of hasatan was born (Qayin) ....
and then a
line of Godly men were born and many children - sons and daughters.
At this point then... hasatan’s direct
approach of using one sibling to kill another or trying to corrupt one male
child at a time was no longer effective because of the number of
families in the bloodline of man (Messianic bloodline?) was growing exponentially.
Remember we
talked about ha satan’s thinking might/must have been - that the man child
Hebel - could be the one to “Crush his
head” - or at least father the one to “crush his head”...
So now -
With all the
newborn males among Adam’s descendants, the “potential messiahs” or at least
the fathers of the potential Messiah - the one to “crush his head” - were numerous.
AND Qayin, hasatan’s seed was geographically
banished from the godly land.
So this Prime
Directive - was, in part, a preventative to hasatan’s plan!
~ That means
- since they were being fruitful and multiplying... it was going to take
hasatan a MASSIVE large scale attack... to ruin humanity and stop the promised
Redeemer.
This development was the backdrop for the invasion
of the fallen angels - the ones who would be the fathers of the Nephilim....
.... Enter
... the Sons of God.
(Remember -
they were son’s of YHUH - because He had created them.... but they were FALLEN
- they’d rejected the leadership of YHUH and followed the fallen angel of
worship - Lucifer - the one whose goal it was to steal YHUH’s thrown and have
all the worship!)
B’re’shiyt (Genesis) 6:1-5 p 12
1 “And
it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and
daughters were born to them,
2 That the
sons of Alohiym saw the daughters of men that they were beautiful; and they
took for themselves, wives of all which they chose.
3 And YHUH said, My Ruach shall not always
strive with man for that he also is flesh:
yet his days shall be 120 years.
4 There were
Nephilim in the earth in those days: and also after that, when the sons of
Alohiym came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them, the
same became mighty men who were of old, men of fame (renown).
5 And Alohiym
saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that ever
imagination of the thoughts of his leb
was only evil continually.”
This is a
passage - that causes a lot of people to ignore... and also brings a lot of
debate!
Pitterson
writes:
“Genesis 6 details the greatest threat to human existence and the birth
of Messiah: The Corruption of the Human
Genetic Code Through the Nephilim.”
The author
writes...
“The question
of WHEN angels had relations with human
women is critical for understanding YHUH’s judgment in the flood.”
“Many assume
the Nephilim appeared during the life of Noah, and they most likely think this
because of Matthew 24:37”
“But as the
days of Noach were, so shall also the coming of the Ben Ahdahm be.”
Pitterson
writes -
“This verse,
however, described the peak of the violence and damage the Nephilim caused, NOT
its beginning.”
Think about
this for a second... because this could be a mindset change....
“This verse,
however, described the peak of the violence and damage the Nephilim caused, NOT
its beginning.”
He goes on to
say...
“It was
during the life of Adam not during the life of Noah when men began to multiply
and give born to the women whom the sons of God in Genesis 6 would seduce.”
Genesis 5:4 p 12
“And the days
of Ahdahm after he had begotten Sheth were 800 years: and he begat sons and
daughters.”
“The first
daughters on Earth were born to Adam and Chava.
They were sisters of Qayin, Hebel and Sheth.
This took place centuries before the days of Noah.
The timeline
of Adam’s descendants of Genesis 5 tells us that Adam, who died at 930 years of
age, lived to see SEVEN generations !
“In fact Adam
was alive for more than 50 years of the life of Lamech. Noah’s father.
With the
extended lifespans of the pre-Flood world - a husband and wife could conceive
dozens of children, allowing for rapid population expansion.”
This was the
same period that Qayin committed the first murder and was banished.
Genesis 4:3 p 11
“And Hebel,
also brought of the bechorot (first fruit) of his flock and of its fat. And YHUH had respect for Hebel and his
offering.”
Genesis 4:14
“See, You
have drive me out of this day from the face of the earth; and from Your face
shall I be hidden; and I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth: and
it shall come to pass, that every one that finds me shall try and kill me.”
Genesis 6:1-2 p
12
“And it came
to pass, when men began to multiply on
the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them
2 That the
sons of Alohiym saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they
took for themselves wives of all which they chose.”
We aren’t
told how old Qayin was when he murdered Hebel.
But it is
interesting that it seems (and there are teachings about this)... that this may
have been the “coming of age” offering... and please note - they BOTH brought
the offering at the same time - they were the same age!
Pitterson
goes on to say...
“But, Qayin
was well aware that there were other people on Earth besides just him and his
parents - namely his siblings, nieces and nephews who could come looking for
him to avenge Hebel’s death.”
But I would
add - that there were sons of god having sex with the daughters of men... so
there was - or very soon would be -
nephilim in the earth.
Isn’t this
interesting - because at this point - B’midbar hadn’t been written of course -
and the Torah parashah last week is
about the safe cities.... to be safe from the avenger. - wow... that is a whole other “rabbit
trail”!
Genesis 6:1-2 p
12
“And it came
to pass, when men began to multiply on
the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them
2 That the
sons of Alohiym saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they
took for themselves wives of all which they chose.”
Pitterson
writes
“The phrase “came
to pass” refers to the days of Adam and Qayin, not to the days of Noah.”
This is the
time period when daughters were first born to men.
Genesis 5:4 p 12
“And the days
of Ahdahm after he had begotten Sheth were 800 years: and he begat sons and
daughters.”
Thus, when
B’re’shiyt
(Genesis) 6:4 p 12
“There were
Nephilim (Fallen ones) {Pitterson
translates this as “giants”}
in the earth
in those days; and also after that, when the sons of Aloyim came in to the
daughters of men, and they bore children to them, the same became mighty men
who were of old, men of fame (renown).
Pitterson
says
when this speaks of “giants “ (Nephilim) “in those days and after that” it is referring to the days of the daughters
born to Adam all the way forward to the time of Noah.
Pitterson
goes on to say... (and this is a bit wordy and detailed...)
“Many
assume “and after that” refers to
the time BEFORE AND AFTER THE FLOOD , but that
conclusion overlooks:
1. the timing established in Genesis
6:1 and
2. the grammatical and
3. textual fact that --- the Flood had not yet been mentioned.
Thus the “that” in “after that” - could not be a reference
to the Flood.
Pitterson
also goes on to say - and we find no Scriptural evidence -
“No angels
took women as wives AFTER the flood.
BUT several
generations BEFORE the flood, the indeed partook of this illicit relationship.”
Okay so if several generations before the flood - there were sons of god having
sex with the daughters of men - then this means that
there were
generations of many children... (remember the be fruitful and multiply (Prime
Directive) is still in effect) that were GIANTS...
= children
born of the daughters of men and the fallen angels.
That means
there were a LOT of giants in the world!
Genesis 6:2
Were the “sons of God” really angels?
Genesis 6:2
p 12
That the sons of Alohiym
saw the daughters of men that they were beautiful; and they took for themselves
wives of all which they chose.”
The Hebrew
word for “sons of god/ Alohiym”...
= B’nai ha Alohiym = is a term used in Scripture exclusively of heavenly beings.
The offspring
of these mysterious sons of God and daughters of men were “mighty men” of “renown”.
They were
also “giants” (Gen 6:4)
“Something in
their genetic make up rendered the children born of this union larger and more
powerful than average humans -
-and that “something”
was their fallen angelic parentage.”
Looking at
the term Alohiym (Elohim in most writing)
- Dr Michael S Heiser, PhD (in Hebrew and Semitic studies) writes:
“All beings
called “Elohim” in the Hebrew Bible share a certain characteristic: they all inhabit the non- human realm.
By nature,
Elohim are not part of the world of humankind, the world of ordinary
embodiment.
Elohim - as a
term - indicates residence, not a set of attributes; it identifies the proper domain of the entity
it describes.
YHUH, the
lesser gods of His council, angels, demons and the disembodied dead all inhabit
the spiritual world.
They may
cross over into the human world - as the Bible informs us - and certain humans
may be transported to the non-human realm (eg prophets, Enoch) But the proper domains of each are two
separate and distinct places.”
(The Divine
Council, by Dr Michael Heiser)
Scripture confirms the Sons of God were angels
(p 37 in
text)
Iyov (Job) 1:6-7 p 567
“Now there
was a day when the sons of Elohim (God) came to present themselves before YHUH
and hasatan came also among them.
And YHUH said
to hasatan From where are you coming?
Then hasatan answered YHUH and said, From going to and fro on the earth,
and from walking up and down in it.”
Pitterson
comments:
“This passage
details God’s literal meeting with the sons of God in Heaven. This is, to use a term popularized by Dr
Heiser, a “Divine Council” in which God presides over an assembly of holy and
fallen angels to discuss worldly affairs, grant permission to carry out certain
actions in the human realm, or assign various tasks.”
Iyov (Job) 2:1
p 567
describes a
another Divine Council event/ meeting...
“Again there
was a day when the sons of Elohim came
to present themselves before YHUH and hasatan came also among them to present
himself before YHUH.”
- These are not meetings with men!!
Iyov 38: 4-7
p 583
4“Where were
you when I laid the foundations of the earth?
Declare, it if you have binah (understanding).
5 Who has
laid the measures of it, if you know?
Or, who has stretched the line of it?
6 on what are
the foundations of it fastened? Or, who
has laid the cornerstone of it;
7 When the
morning cochavim (stars) sang as echad (one) , and all the sons of Alohiym
shouted for simcha (joy)?”
The sons of
God were not only in the presence of YHUH but existed even before the earth
itself was created.
“Every use of
the term b’nai ha Elohiym in the Tanakh (OT) refers to angelic beings. The use of the phrase in the Brit Chadashah
(NT) (GREEK) has THE SAME MEANING.”
But...
what about...
??
Alef Yochanan ( I John) 3:1-2
p 832
“Behold what
manner of ahava (love) Abba has bestowed on us, that we should be called b’nai
YHUH! Therefore the olam hazeh (this
world) does not know us, because it did not know Him.
2 Beloved,
now we are b’nai YHUH; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but
we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as
He is.”
“we are sons of God / YHUH”...
After we die
- or, enter the New Heaven and the New Earth - then we will be “sons of YHUH” in
this manner.
Pitterson
says...
“So in all
contexts the term “sons of God/YHUH” is clearly referring to angels.”
And I
have a challenge with this - because
we will not be angels when we die or when - if we don't die - we enter into the new heaven and new earth.
But we will
be spiritual beings that are immortal (have eternal life) and in that regard -
we will be like angels or gods.
The author goes
on to say...
“The notion
of angels’ taking human wives poses a big hurdle for many. But we should never fear a literal reading of
the Word of Yah, which is our foundation.
Within this context, one ought leave behind whatever presuppositions he
may bring to the bible and let the
text and its corresponding passages speak for themselves.
Angels from
Heaven (or perhaps better said: FALLEN
ANGELS) married human women and produced
children with them.” ...
and they were
giants -” men of old or men of renown.”
The people of
the “myths”!
Angels Lusted For Human Women:
Genesis 6:2
p 12
“The sons of
Alohiym saw the daughters of men that they were beautiful; and they took for
themselves wives of all which they chose.”
The book of
Jude provides one of a handful of principal passages on the angelic seduction
of human women and birth of Nephilim:
Yahudah (Jude) 1:6-7 p
837
6 “And the
heavenly malachim who kept not their first dwelling, but left their own
dwelling, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the mishpat
(judgment or right ruling of the great Yom HaDin (Day of Judgment - Yom
HaKippurim?).
7 Even as
Sedom and Amora and the cities around them in like manner, giving themselves
over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth as an
example, suffering the mishpat (judgment or right ruling) of eternal life.”
Sinful lust
led the once - holy sons of God to leave their heavenly position in service to
YHUH and enter the earthly realm to interact directly with humanity and take
human wives.
The passage
in Yahudah (Jude) likens the desire for “strange flesh” to the homosexual
fornication of Sodom and Gomorrah (interestingly, the men of Sodom also wanted to have intimate relations with angels).
(Genesis
19:5 p 20 “And they
called to Lot, and said to him, where are the men who cam in to you this night? Bring them out to us, that we
may know them.”)
The second
principal passage that describes the angelic-human illicit relations?
2
Peter 2:4 p 40
“For if YHUH
spared not the heavenly malachim that sinned, but cast them down to the
Tartaros, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for
mishpat (judgment).”
***
Let’s talk
about a couple theories … so we understand why they are true or not…
The Sethite view - Were the sons of God Human descendants of Seth?
Pitterson
says that this is the most popular theory opposing the idea that angelic beings
came to earth and took human wives …
This theory
holds that the “sons of God” were descendants of Seth, “Adam and Chava’s third
son”.
They say that
the godly descendants of Seth married the sinful daughters of Cain and bore the
Nephilim (who were not giants but very sinful, combative men.)
Pitterson
points out that in addition to the Biblical confirmation that the sons of God
were angels …
1. The Bible never identifies the lineage of Seth
as “the sons of God” nor Cain’s daughters as “the daughters of men.” The Sethite view reads this connection into
the text with no warrant.
2. The
Scriptures provide a detailed lineage of Cain, and there is no mention of any
of Seth’s sons marrying into Cain’s family.
In fact, we are told that Noah, a descendant of Seth, was “perfect in his
generations,” and thus his lineage would not have had illicit genetic
intermingling. (Genesis 6:9)
3. The
Sethite theory does not explain why the union of Seth’s good sons and Cain’s
bad daughters would lead to giants being born in the entire earth becoming
corrupt. If that were the case, then any
Christian today who married and unbeliever could give birth to a giant.
Nor does it
explain what the passage from Jude is referring to when it says that certain
angels went after “strange
flesh” for the purpose of fornication and were subsequently imprisioned (Jude
1:6)
**
Pitterson
says…
“When we
examine the writings of ‘church fathers’ and other Christians of the first
through 3rd centuries, it is clear that the early church interpreted “the sons
of God” of Genesis 6:2 as angels who took human wives and conceived children
with them.”
****
The First Family of the Nephilim
Pitterson says…
“A careful
examination of the precious few verses on Cain’s lineage reveals their
connection to the birth of the Nephilim.
Banished from the presence of God, Cain continued a life of wickedness
and revolt against YHUH. His descendants,
living in exile from believers and raised to seek world pleasure, were the
perfect targets for the angelic invasion of Genesis 6.”
B’re’shiyt (Genesis) 4:16
p 11
“And Qayin
went out from the presence of YHUH and dwelt in the land of Nod, to the east of
Gan Ayden.”
Pitterson
says
“God manifested His presence in specific locations in the pre-Flood world.”
“God manifested His presence in specific locations in the pre-Flood world.”
He goes and
on points out …
1. God still appeared in Eden after
the Fall of Adam and Chava
2. Qayin and Hebel knew the location
at which to make the sacrifices before God where God would appear to accept or
reject them (Gen 4: 3-4)
3. YHUH never
abandons humanity. Only man’s willful
rejection of God’s mercy leads to the ultimate separation between a sinner and
God.
Qayin didn’t
bring the right sacrifice and he killed his brother…then he lied to YHUH. He didn’t do teshuva - repentance and
returning to YHUH.
And YHUH
separated him from YHUH’s people.
Qayin moved
east of Eden - to Nod or Nowd (in Hebrew) … it means “wandering”.
Qayin became
the first fugitive in the world.
There in
Nowd, “he established the first family that would fall prey to angelic
seduction.”
**
A Family Focused on Worldly Success and Pleasures
B’re’shiyt (Genesis) 4:7
Pitterson
writes:
“Qayin’s wife
was one of his sisters, a daughter of Hebel or a niece from antlers
sibling. No other conclusions hold any
weight.
Also of note
is that Qayin was the inventor of cities (Gen 4:17).”
Pitterson
says…
“Cities in
the early part of Earth’s history were centers of sinful rebellion.”
(Hmmm - perhaps
they still are!)
“As we will
discuss in more detail later, the first
cities after the Flood were built by Nimrod, an infamous biblical tyrant and
leader of the Tower of Babel rebellion.
His wickedness is revealed in the stated goal of the coalition of rebels
who planned the tower’s construction:”
B’re’shiyt 11:4
The author
goes on to say
“The goal of
these schemers was not just to make a tower but “a CITY and a tower.”
“They
intended the Tower of Babel to be a metropolis that encompassed all or most of
the world’s inhabitants.”
“The next
cities mentioned in Scripture are Sodom and Gomorrah, which were the gold
standard of sinful wickedness in Scripture.”
“In keeping
with his selfish nature Qayin named the fist city after his son Enoch (who
should not be confused with the righteous Enoch, the son of Jared, who was the
7th generation from Adam in the Messianic - human bloodline.).”
“Enoch means ‘dedicated,’
and the eldest son of Qayin was dedicated to
the sinful ways of the world.
Rather than honoring God in naming the first city ever built, Qayin honored his own lineage.”
Psalm 49:6-13
“captures the depraved spiritual state of men like Qayin.”
The Perfect Target for HaSatan
“In
arrogance, Qayin used his city to celebrate his own bloodline. The name Enoch would later become synonymous
with the word ‘city’ in ancient Sumerian culture, and the term unug or uruk is
often cited as the oldest Sumerian city.
The Hebrew ’n’ is equivalent to the Sumerian ‘r’ and after the Flood
Nimrod, in the tradition of sinful rebels, would built a “New Erech” (Gen
10:10). None of this sinful
self-exaltation was lost on hasatan of course.
Qayin’s linage was all of children born outside of God’s presence and
influence in Eden - children raised by Qayin, a brazen rebel who had no
faith. Qayin’s descendants were the
prefect place for hasatan to launch the next offensive in his plan to thwart
the coming Seed of the Woman.”
Lamech’s Corruption of Marriage Tempted Angels To Follow Suit
“A literal
reading of Scripture point to Qayin’s descendant Lamech and his immediate
family as the first humans to interact
and interbreed with the fallen angels who invaded earth and fathered the
antidiluvian Nephilim:” (p 52)
Genesis 4:19
p
Genesis 6:2
Then the
author quotes an 18th century sermon … not sure how this “proves… that the
descendants of Qayin were the first humans the angels mingled with.”
The Bible Uses Special References to highlight the most notorious figures
in its history…
Genesis 4:19 p 11
“And Lamech
took two wives; the name of one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.”
“Begins an
important trend in Scripture”…
“In recording
a lineage, Moses, through inspiration of the Holy Spirit, occasionally recorded
greater detail about certain infamous people whose wickedness would be
well-known to ancient Yisra’elite readers.”
Genesis 4:17-18
chronicles 6 generations of Qayin’s descendants in just 2 verses, listing the
name of one patriarch “begetting” the next. Yet, when the genealogy reaches Lamech, SIX verses are devoted to
discussing this one man and his family.
Genesis 4: 18-24
p 11
“Lamech is
the fist of several nefarious biblical figures who received this exceptional
level of detail!”
Like his
forefather Qayin, “Lamech’s life was one of open rebellion against God. He was the 1st polygamist on record in
Scripture, violating YHUH’s decree that defined marriage as one man and one
woman joined for life.”
“This sin is
an important point in history!”
YHUH “had
previously issued severe punishment to Adam and Chava, and the serpent
(Nachash) for violating His commands.
Qayin was
banished from Eden for murdering Hebel.
So what would happen to Lamech for his sins of the marital law?”
In the garden
YHUH “established that in marriage one husband and one wife “shall be one
flesh.”
“Lamech took
2 wives in flagrant violation of YHUH’s deign for wedlock.”
All humanity
and all the angels saw all of this happening….
But YHUH “didn’t
do anything” (that we can see at least)…
“Lamech
received no immediate punishment for his polygamy. Nor did God visit to speak with Lamech after
his brazen act of evil.”
Pitterson
writes:
“Lamech’s
deception was the 1st description of a person’s TAKING WIVES UNTO ONESELF (Lamech took 2 wives unto himself).
"The
next occurrence of this phrase (taking wives unto self),
referred to
the sons of God who “took them wives for all which they chose” - leading to the
birth of Nephilim.”
The First Family’s Deal With hasatan
“The Bible
confirms that angels observe human affairs (I Peter 1:12; I Corinthians 4:9).
Also certain
angels are sent to monitor specific people
(Matthew 18:10; Daniel 4:17).
Seeing the
unpunished sin of Lamech, combined with the allure of his daughter, could have
served as the provocation for the sons of God to enter the human realm.
Then they
offered divine knowledge in exchange for
the first human bride of an angel.”
“This is “an
attenuated version of Satan’s original offer of hidden divine secrets to Chava.”
“It is no
coincidence that during the time of Lamech’s marriage and childbearing, humans
made enormous technological advances:”
Genesis 4:19-22 p
11
“father of such as dwell in tents,
and such that have cattle.”
“father of all such as handle the
harp and organ.”
“an instructor of every brass and
iron tool.”
Again -
Psalm 36:1-4 p
507
…. is about men that refuse to
fear YHUH and do whatever they please.
Jude 1:11
p 837
“Woe to
them! For they have gone in the way of
Qayin, and ran with greed after the delusion of Bilam for a reward for a
reward, and perished in the rebellion of Korach.”
Pitterson
writes
“The way of
Qayin was one of trying to receive YHUH’s blessings without honoring Him.
Those who
were of Qayin lived with jealousy and hatred of faithful believers to the point
of murder. The way of Qayin embodied a
bold disregard for YHUH’s authority and wrath.
Hence Lamech’s
naming his son after the rebel patriarch and the first murderer of humanity.
Lamech’s
rejection of YHUH’s laws and his ancient artistic influence:
B’re’shiyt (Genesis) 2:22-24
p 11
22 “And
Zillah, she also bore Tuval-Qayin, an instructor in every kind of brass and
iron tool: and the sister of Tuval-Qayin
was Naamah.
23 And Lamech
said to his wives, Adah and Zillah, Listen to my voice; you wives of Lamech,
listen to my speech: for I have slain a
man to my own wounding, and a young man to my hurt.
24 If Qayin
shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy-seven fold.”
Pitterson
tells us that these verses show us “Hebrew poetry, a style employed in various
parts of Scripture. This was most likely
a part of a greater song Lamech composed to boast of his exploits in killing a
man.”
“This is the
first use of Hebrew poetry in the Bible - and it was done in the name of
prideful, human-centered justice.”
So we know
that one of Qayin’s family was the first ever to break Yah’s laws of marriage
of one man and one woman.
(This sure
makes us think hard about the world today!)
We know that
they were really into knowledge … but not about YHUH.
And in Lamech’s
poem - it “reveals his admiration for Qayin…. and his belief that sin would go
without judgment!”
“He was the
first person on record not to be punished immediately for his sin.”
Then Pitterson goes on to remind us…
“Right after
Lamech’s polygamy, his family became inventors of art and science courtesy of
the apostate sons of God.”
I’ve read
this story many times - but it seems to make so much more sense now!!
So let’s get
to the part that really seals the deal….
NAAMAH - MOTHER OF THE NEPHILIM
B’re’shiyt 4:22
p 11
“And Zillah,
she also bore Tuval-Qayin, an instructor in every kind of brass and iron
tool: and the sister of Tuval-Qayin was
Naamah.
“Naamah was
the second person in the Bible to receive a special reference in a
lineage.”
“Almost all
genealogies in the Bible only list men."
“Naamah is one of only four women mentioned by name in the 1,656 years of pre-flood history in the Bible."
“The others are
Chava, and Naamah’s mothers, Zillah, and her aunt/step-mother Adah.”
“Clearly the
women in this family were of extreme historical importance to be named in
Scripture!”
“Hundreds if
not thousands of women were born before Naamah.
Yet, curiously Moses only mentioned her and the other women in her
immediate family.”
{In pages
58-59 of “Judgment of the Nephilim” Pitterson reports several writers from 18th
and 19th centuries writing commentary that Naamah’s beauty enticed the sons of
God… and that she was the “strange flesh”
that the sons of God went in to.}
He goes on to
say that
“Namaah’s
brother were all inventors in arts and sciences. This family experienced an intellectual
explosion that is easily explained if heavenly beings delivered this knowledge
as compensation for Naamah’s becoming the first wife of an angel and first
mother of the Nephilim.”
The book of
Enoch often speaks of the fallen angels sinning and teaching humans secret knowledge.
Book of Enoch 8:1
“Moreover
Azazyel taught men to make swords, knives, shields, breastplates, the
fabrication of mirrors, and the workmanship of bracelets an ornaments…”
“In the
family of Qayin, the angels who sinned found willing participants in their plan
to violate God’s prohibition on angelic marriage.
Moses made
yet another special reference in recording the genealogy of Lamech’s sons. In the lineage of the patriarchs in Genesis 4
and 5 typically only one son from each generation is mentioned. In Lamech’s generation ALL THREE OF HIS SONS
ARE LISTED.”
Genesis 4:20-22
p 11
The things
that this family came up with are incredible!
“Jabel
invented the nomadic herder lifestyle (raising cattle while living in tents)
that many ancient biblical figures employed for several thousand years.”
We know that
Hebel was a shepherd… and many other people were shepherds… so what Jabal did..
was “most likely invented a superior method of mass-hoarding. This of course would lead to commercial
success.”
“Jubal was
the ‘father’ of music - not just the inventor of music but the instruction of
music. His name became the Hebrew root
for “trumpet” The Jubilee year, a
semi-centennial musical celebration on the ancient Hebrew calendar, shares the
name of this man.”
“The notion
that Lamech’s sons were gatekeepers of angelic knowledge that they then
disbursed in the world is the emphasis in the brief biblical history of the
family.”
“Jubal created entertainment - a mainstay of those whose chief goals in life are financial success and early desires.
(Iyov (Job)
10:7-15)
The big deal
is…
“Qayin’s
descendants relished their earthly knowledge while rejecting the Word of
YHUH.
TUBAL-QAYIN, AN INSTRUCTOR OF EVERY ARTIFICER IN BRASS AND IRON
“Tubal-Qayin
was the first teacher of metallurgy - the manipulation of metals through fire
to forge weapons and tools.”
“Tubal-Qayin,
who has taken on mythic status in the occult (his name is a password used in
Freemasonry, and books of magic are dedicated to his name), was the inventor of
blacksmithing. Tools and weapons gave
man more confidence in his own might and less reliance on God. and this human
arrogance led to Tubal-Qayin himself being deified: “
Quote from The
Millennial Harbinger: A Monthly Publication Devoted to Primitive Christianity,
Alexander Campbell, New Series - Vol. II, 1838, p 328…….
“The smith god, Vulcan of the
Greeks and Romans is no other person that Tubal-Qayin: and their Venus, the
wife of Vulcan, is most probably the same as Naamah, the sister of Tubal-Qayin:
for Naamah signifies beauty and gracious, and Venus was the goddess of
beauty. The mythology of Vulcan and
Venus shows that the origin of the whole matter is the history of Tubal-Qayin
and Naamah.”
****
INSTANCES IN THE BIBLE WHERE HUMANS SUPERNATURALLY RECEIVED KNOWLEDGE
“Could Tubal
- Qayin and his brothers have been taught supernatural knowledge by angels?”
Pitterson
says… “I contend that indeed they were.
In the Bible humans were aware of angelic beings’ superior
intellect.
In 2 Samuel 14:17-20
The
woman of Tekoah compared King David’s wisdom to that of angels:
“The belief
that angels possessed superior intelligence was well-known. If the sinning angels of the pre-Flood world
did indeed teach Qayin’s lineage, it would not be the only time in Scripture
that humans were taught via divine intervention.
Following the Exodus from Egypt, God appointed
certain men under Moses to serve as craftsmen to make the items for worship in
the tabernacle:”
Sh’mot (Exodus) 31:1-11
So these
craftsmen received divine wisdom and knowledge via the Ruach HaKodesh (Holy
Spirit) to build the tabernacle.
YHUH
empowered them supernaturally “to become expert craftsmen with gold, silver,
brass, and wood in “all manner of workmanship.”
“Interestingly,
the first skills YHUH gave to human beings involved metalwork - the very craft that Tubal-Qayin had
mastered!
***
THE LAST FULLY HIUMAN GENERATION IN QAYIN’S LINEAGE {P
64 in Judgment of the Nephilim}
“Scripture
tells us more that Lamech’s family was the original humans who interbred with
fallen angels, in that, after Jabal, Jubal, Tubal-Qayin and Naamah were born,
the record of their linage abruptly ends.
From the timeline provided in B’re’shiyt 5, Lamech and his sons lived
approximately 700 years before the Flood.”
“And yet
after Jabal, Jubal, and Tubal-Qayin, we hear
nothing further in Qayin’s lineage.
- Although Lamech’s 3 sons were all superior
innovators and inventors, there is no mention of their children.”
In fact, the last
person mentioned in the Qayinite lineage is Naamah.”
So…………
“All signs
point to the children of Lamech as the last generation that was purely human.”
“If Naamah
was the 1st Nephilim bride and her brothers received angelic knowledge in
exchange for their sister’s hand in marriage it stands to reason that the Bible
purposely excluded their corrupted, hybrid offspring from mention by name.” (YHUH hates mixed!)
“None of the
giants of the antediluvian world are mentioned by name or quoted in Scripture.”
Pitterson
does say….
“While we
cannot establish conclusively that Lamech and his children were the first to
interact with angel and provided the 1st daughter who an apostate angel took as
a wife, , Scripture certainly provides some very strong and interesting
evidence that this was the case.”
“What we can
know conclusively is that, like Lamech, the sinning angels of Genesis 6
wrongfully “took wives” from the human population, which led YHUH to render a
cataclysmic judgment.”
“Then we are
told of another class - children of the sons of God and daughter of men; such intermarriage is forbidden under the
Mosaic Law, and also in the Gospel dispensation: it is a confusion, a Babylon class, and God
was displeased.”
“this
intermarriage did not take place in Noah’s line, He was perfect in his
generations’ it must then have been the daughters of Qayin who attracted the
sons of God”
THE ANGELIC INVASION OCCURRED DURING THE LIFETIME OF LAMECH’S FAMILY
“Both the Bible
and the extra-biblical texts place the timing of the Genesis 6 invasion during
the lifetime of Lamech!”
- This further suggests “that his daughter was the first bride of an
angel and mother of a Nephilim.”
“The Book of
Enoch places the timing of the angelic inaction during the days of Jared.”
1 Enoch 6:6
“And they
were all 200; who descended in the days of Jared on the summit of Mount Herman.”
“Jared was
the 6th generation of humanity in the human/Messianic bloodline.”
Jared lived
for 962 years, making him a contemporary of Methusael and Lamech and his sons
Jubal, Jabal, and Tubal-Qayin.”
“The Bible
bible chronology further indicates the exact time frame of the “days of Jared.””
“The
flood occurred 1656 years from Adam’s
creation. In Genesis 6:5, God warned
Noah that there would be a 120- year probationary period before the flood
judgment commenced. Going back those 120
years from the Flood to the year 1536 from Adam puts God’s warning to Noah a
few years after Jared’s death.
Thus going
strictly by biblical chronology, we can know conclusively that
- the invasion of fallen angelic
beings and
- the subsequent corruption of the
earth by there Nephilim offspring -
- reached it’s peak of wickedness during Jared’s
lifetime.”
“Shortly
after Jared’s death, God told Noah that “all flesh had corrupted itself” so much that He repented of ever creating
humanity.”
This
explosion of evil led YHUH to declare the 120 year probation of repentance
before wiping out the world with the global flood.
“So, the
invasion of the fallen angels and there seduction of human women started and
reached its sinful apex in Jared’s lifetime
(which was concurrent with Lamech and his infamous children).”
“the Bible’s
timing of the angelic invasion falls directly in line with the record in the
Book of Enoch.”
The Book of Jubilees 4:15-16
“Mahalalel
took unto him to wife Dinah, the daughter of Barakiel the daughter of his
father’s brother, and she bare him a son in the third week in the sixth year,
and he called his name Jared, for in his days the angels of YHUH descended on
the earth, those who are named the Watchers, and that they should instruct the
children of men , and that they should do judgment and uprightness on the
earth.”
“The name
Jared or yarad in Hebrew mean “descent.”
“So, although
the bible doesn’t explicitly state the year of the invasion of the Sons of God,
the text supports the notion that during Jared’s lifetime the corruption of the
Nephilim was at its worst. In addition
to providing the time frame, the Bible also provides the likely location where
the sons of God entered the human realm to carry out their sinful intimate
relations.”
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