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Friday, October 30, 2020

Giants, Gods, Dragons, Watchers, Genesis 6

 GIANTS, GODS, AND DRAGONS: THE WATCHERS AND GENESIS 6

October 29, 2020 by Derek Gilbert

 Blog Post Date:  10-30-2020

Mount Hermon is the highest, most majestic peak in the Levant. At 9,200 feet above sea level, it dominates the Golan Heights on the border between Israel and Syria, anchoring the southern end of the Anti-Lebanon Mountains. It has been considered sacred for most of human history.

Mount Hermon was a holy site as far back as the Old Babylonian period—the time of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, nearly two millennia before Christ, and maybe even earlier.

In the Old Babylonian version of the Gilgamesh epic, which dates to the eighteenth century BC (roughly the time of Jacob and Joseph), “Hermon and Lebanon” were called “the secret dwelling of the Anunnaki.” The Ninevite version of the poem, written about six hundred years later, describes the monster slain by Gilgamesh, Humbaba (or Huwawa), as the guardian of “the abode of the gods.”

The Anunnaki were the seven chief gods of the Sumerian pantheon: Anu, the sky-god; Enlil, king of the gods; Enki, god of the earth; Ninhursag, mother goddess of the mountains; Inanna (Babylonian Ishtar), goddess of sex and war; Nanna (Sîn in Babylon), the moon-god; and Utu (Shamash), the sun-god. They are mentioned in texts found in what is today southeastern Iraq that date back to the twenty-seventh century BC. So, it’s possible that the more recent versions of the Gilgamesh story from Babylon and Nineveh remember more ancient traditions.The name “Hermon” appears to be based on a root word that means “taboo,” similar to the Hebrew word kherem, or “devoted to destruction.” The word is often translated into English as “under the ban.”

The first appearance of the word in the Bible is Exodus 22:20:

Whoever sacrifices to any god, other than the Lord alone, shall be devoted to destruction [kherem]. (Emphasis added)

Exodus 22:20 KJV  He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed.

But this condemnation, or “the ban,” wasn’t just invoked against disobedient Israelites. Some of the inhabitants of Canaan were also declared kherem by Yahweh—specifically those that were giants or descended from giants.

That begs the question: Where did the giants come from? A curious episode is recorded in the first four verses of Genesis chapter 6:

When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose. Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years.”

The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown. (Genesis 6:1–4)

Scholars have debated the meaning of the term “Nephilim” for millennia. Most believe it comes from a Hebrew root, naphal, meaning “to fall” or “cast down”—literally, “fallen ones.”

However, Bible and ancient language scholar Dr. Michael S. Heiser (author of the excellent book Reversing Hermon), argues that this cannot be the case:

The form nephilim cannot mean “fallen ones” (the spelling would then be nephulim). Likewise nephilim does not mean “those who fall” or “those who fall away” (that would be nophelim). The only way in Hebrew to get nephilim from naphal by the rules of Hebrew morphology (word formation) would be to presume a noun spelled naphil and then pluralize it. I say “presume” since this noun does not exist in biblical Hebrew—unless one counts Genesis 6:4 and Numbers 13:33, the two occurrences of nephilim—but that would then be assuming what one is trying to prove!

However, in Aramaic the noun naphil(a) does exist. It means “giant,” making it easy to see why the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible) translated nephilim as gigantes (“giant”).

In short, the Jewish scholars who translated the Old Testament into Greek about three hundred years before the birth of Jesus clearly understood that the Nephilim were giants, not just men who “fell away” from God.

Likewise, the Hebrew words translated “sons of God” in the passage, bene elohim, refer to divine beings, not mortal men. Now, that hasn’t been the consensus among Christian scholars since about the fifth century, thanks to the great theologian Augustine. He popularized the “sons of Seth” theory to explain away the weird supernatural element of the passages above. In short, the Sethite view is that the sons of God were men from the godly, righteous line of Seth who began intermarrying with women from the corrupt, wicked line of Cain.

Frankly, this defies logic on several points:

How likely is it that all the Sethite men were good while all the Cainite women were bad?

Cainite men never married Sethite women?

Why would these unions produce Nephilim, understood to be giants by Jewish rabbis and early Christians alike?

Why would these unions lead to wickedness so great that God had to wipe out everything that walked the earth except Noah, his family, and the creatures in the ark?

 Every other use of bene elohim in the Hebrew Scriptures refers to divine beings.

Problems with the supernatural understanding of the text usually focus on whether angels and humans could successfully produce children. But the apostles Peter and Jude make it clear that the sin of the “sons of God” was sexual:

For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly…(2 Peter 2:4; emphasis added)

And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day—just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire. (Jude 6–7; emphasis added)

If there was any doubt about what the angels did that such deserved punishment, Peter and Jude clarified things by specifically linking their rebellion to the sins of Sodom and Gomorrah.

It is significant that the phrase translated “cast them into hell” in 2 Peter 2:4 is the Greek word tartaroo, a verb meaning “thrust down to Tartarus.” This is the only time in the New Testament that the word is used, meaning it requires special attention. Our Western concept of “hell” is vague and one-dimensional; we think of it as little more than an underworld domain with lots of fire and demons. But this is far different from the concept known to the Greeks. To them, Tartarus was an entirely separate domain from Hades, a place of torture and torment much lower than Hades in Greek cosmology. In fact, it was believed to be as far below Hades as earth is below heaven.

Let that sink in for a minute. Tartarus might be called the very center of the earth!

And Peter, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, chose that specific word, tartaroo, to describe the punishment reserved for angels who engaged in illicit sexual relations with human women.

The extrabiblical books of I Enoch and Jubilees expand on this story, adding extra detail and context not found in the Bible. Mount Hermon is where two hundred Watchers, a class of angelic being mentioned in chapter 4 of the book of Daniel, descended and began cavorting with human women. From these unions came the Nephilim, the giants of Genesis 6.

The Watchers, according to Ist Enoch, were led by Semjâzâ, whose name is thought to be a combination of shem (meaning “name”) and azaz (possibly meaning “rebellion”).

Some list Semjâzâ as one of the archon class of elohim, a ruler. But whatever his name meant in heaven, his choice to descend to Mount Hermon certainly made him infamous.

Apparently, this former ruler in heaven worried that his companions might soon regret their rebellious choices and allow their leader to take the fall for what they’d all proposed to do. After all, each of them knew how the Lord of Armies had dealt with Chaos, and they’d probably heard God pronounce judgment upon the nachash in the garden, vowing to one day crush his head, just like the heads of Leviathan will be crushed.

Here is the excerpt from the Book of Enoch:

And Semjâzâ, who was their leader, said unto them: “I fear ye will not indeed agree to do this deed, and I alone shall have to pay the penalty of a great sin.” And they all answered him and said: “Let us all swear an oath, and all bind ourselves by mutual imprecations not to abandon this plan but to do this thing.” Then sware they all together and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it. And they were in all two hundred; who descended in the days of Jared on the summit of Mount Hermon. (Book of Enoch 6:3–6a; R. H. Charles, trans.)

The gift these Watchers offered for sexual favors was forbidden knowledge, the same deal the nachash offered Adam and Eve in Eden. As payment for the pleasures of the flesh, Semjâzâ and his rebellious companions offered charms, enchantments, astrology, metallurgy (read that as weaponry for warfare), cosmetics, and writing, among other things—presumably arts that humans would have developed or discovered on their own, given time.

However, the products of these illicit unions were giants, the Nephilim, whose stature and abilities far surpassed their human relatives. Believing themselves gods, these “men of renown” pillaged the earth and endangered all of humanity. The Nephilim consumed everything that men possessed; when that wasn’t enough, they began to eat people, and they finally turned on one another. Enoch describes these cannibalistic colossi as creatures of insatiable desire who threatened to pollute and even terminate the bloodline of the future Messiah by violence—but also by corrupting the human genome. It was a military move by the fallen realm, who thought to remove any possibility of defeat by polluting human DNA, while at the same time, creating their own army of superhumans. 

They probably thought themselves pretty clever—but the Lord of Armies had seen their ploy long before, for He knows all and sees all, even from the foundation of the world.

But wait, as they say on television, there’s more! Did you know that these giants didn’t completely perish—that they are still with us today? The physical forms of the Nephilim certainly died, but their illicitly begotten spirits became what we now call demons:

And now, the giants, who are produced from the spirits and flesh, shall be called evil spirits upon the earth, and on the earth shall be their dwelling. Evil spirits have proceeded from their bodies; because they are born from men and from the holy Watchers is their beginning and primal origin; they shall be evil spirits on earth, and evil spirits shall they be called. (I Enoch 15:8–9; R. H. Charles, trans.)

The church today doesn’t deal much with the topic of demons, but it’s clear the early church understood that they were real and distinct from angels. The term “angel” implies a mission, but those who live within the unseen realm are generally called elohim, written with a small e to distinguish them from the uppercase E in Elohim, one of the names of Yahweh. Whenever the elohim appear in the Bible as messengers from God, they are described as looking like men. Other classes of elohim, like the nachash, cherubim, and seraphim, are entities of a different kind; these also possess a “nonhuman” physicality—that is, an outward appearance that can be observed and described by the prophets.

Demons, on the other hand, have no innate physical presence. They are spirits only, but they seek physicality through possession. The consensus view among Jews and Christians until the time of Augustine (the late fourth/early fifth centuries) was that demons are the spirits of the dead Nephilim, who now roam the earth (boldface added for emphasis in the excerpts below):

PHILO: “And when the angels of God saw the daughters of men that they were beautiful, they took unto themselves wives of all of them whom they chose.” Those beings, whom other philosophers call demons, Moses usually calls angels; and they are souls hovering in the air.” — Philo, On the Giants 6

ORIGEN: “In my opinion, however, it is certain wicked demons, and, so to speak, of the race of Titans or Giants, who have been guilty of impiety towards the true God, and towards the angels in heaven, and who have fallen from it, and who haunt the denser parts of bodies, and frequent unclean places upon earth, and who, possessing some power of distinguishing future events, because they are without bodies of earthly material, engage in an employment of this kind, and desiring to lead the human race away from the true God.” — Origen, Against Celsus 4.92

JUSTIN MARTYR:God…committed the care of men and of all things under heaven to angels whom He appointed over them. But the angels transgressed this appointment, and were captivated by love of women, and begot children who are those that are called demons… — Justin Martyr, 2 Apology 5

Justin Martyr not only understood that the Nephilim were the source of the demons that plague mankind, he also clearly knew that the rebellious members of the divine council were the false gods of the pagan world.

The takeaways here are:

·        Rebellions lead to judgments, which then lead to rebellions, leading to judgments, and so on.

·        Prisoner Zero’s first rebellion caused the earth to become “void.”

·        The Nachash’s temptation of Eve and Adam led to their expulsion from Eden and the judgment upon the Nachash.

·        The Watchers descended to Hermon, taking human wives and creating the Nephilim.

·        The inevitable judgment came again through a worldwide Flood.

·        But neither the Watchers nor the spirits of the Nephilim were destroyed, only restrained—the Watchers in Tartarus and the Nephilim as the demon spirits venerated as Rephaim by the Amorites, and as the demigod heroes of Greece and Rome.

And the Hebrew prophets foretold their ultimate destruction—the death of the gods.

 

Friday, October 23, 2020

The Hunter Biden Laptop Scandal

 THE HUNTER BIDEN LAPTOP SCANDAL 

Blog Post Date:  10-23-2020

I was sent this short history of Hunter Biden, leading up to the laptop scandal:

Joe Biden and his first wife, Neilia had three children: Hunter, Beau and Naomi.

In 1972, Neilia and Naomi, died in a car accident. Joe eventually married a woman named Jill (his current wife).

He already knew her because she had been Hunter's babysitter at the time of the car accident. (Yeah, THAT seems normal- marry the babysitter). They had a daughter named Ashley. Ashley lives 'a quiet life' and is frequently in and out of rehab for various substance abuse issues. 

Now sadly, the sanest, most normal one of the 3 surviving kids, Beau, dies in 2015 from a brain tumor. He had been married to Hallie and they had 2 children, a boy and a girl named Natalie, who was 11 years old when her dad died. 

Enter Hunter Biden, in 2015, to "comfort" his brother's widow. Mind you, Hunter is married at the time, to Kathleen Biden, since 1993. He starts screwing around with his dead brother's wife in 2015...his wife Kathleen finds out about it and they separate.  

Hunter moves in with his dead brother's wife, Hallie, and her two kids and they have a grand old time. He ultimately gets divorced from Kathleen in 2017. 

Meanwhile, he starts screwing around with a stripper, while still shacking up with his dead brother's wife, before his divorce is finalized, and gets the stripper pregnant. Hallie kicks his butt to the curb supposedly for this indiscretion in 2018. He denies the stripper's baby is his, although a paternity test proves otherwise and eventually, he marries a woman named Melissa in 2019 after knowing her for 6 days...

 Does the tale end there? Why no, no it doesn't.

That just sets the stage...

Enter the laptop from hell...loaded with emails, text messages, photos, child pornography, videos, and other sordid digital images of drug use and rampant weirdness.... 

Hunter Biden dropped the laptop off in Delaware, his home state, to get it repaired. It seems he dropped it in some water while in a meth-induced state of mind. He then neglected to pay the $85.00 repair fee and the laptop became the repair shop owner's property for non-payment. When the owner saw what was on it, he was so disturbed that he contacted the FBI. No response. The DOJ? No response. Eventually, it landed in Rudy Giuliani's possession and he turned it over to the Delaware State Police AFTER making 4 copies of the hard drive. 

Turns out, there's quite a lot of child pornography on there...much of it involving children on Hunter's many trips to China. The Chinese Communist Party uses this as a blackmail tactic... They supply the young girls, they film you, unknowingly, and then they can keep you "in line", while paying you the big $$$ to do their bidding, like lucrative deals with your VP father. 

Millions of dollars were paid to Hunter Biden for favors with the US Govt while Joe Biden was VP under Obama. 

For 8 years Hunter made the contacts and split the money with his father, referred to as the "Big Guy" in all emails detailing how their ill-gotten gains would be split up amongst all the criminals involved.

Joe Biden sold out his country and used his meth head son to do it. ... 

But, IT GETS WORSE. Today, on the laptop, emails were released between Beau Biden's widow, Hallie, and Joe Biden in 2017 and more in 2018 when she and Hunter were still living together. They were casually talking about the continual "sexually inappropriate behavior" she had witnessed from Hunter toward her 14 year old daughter, Natalie, HIS NIECE!.. 

She told Joe that she felt she had put her children in a dangerous situation by getting involved with Hunter Biden. Joe knew his son was screwing around with his niece and he advised his daughter-in-law to go to therapy.....No one went to the police and the abuse escalated. THAT is the main reason she broke off her relationship with Hunter.

Among the pictures of Hunter having sex with young Asian children, there were hundreds of provocative pictures of a 14 year old girl, mainly topless, and hundreds more of Hunter Biden, in sexual poses with her, HIS NIECE. She was 14 years old and HE WAS 48!!

This is a short evaluation of the Hunter Biden hard drive from one who saw its contents.

https://mobile.twitter.com/TheSharpEdge1/status/1319679934369910784

 

Saturday, October 17, 2020

The Climax of the Present Age

THE CLIMAX OF THE PRESENT AGE

By Dr.Stephen Jones

Blog Post Date:  10-17-2020

Friday, October 9, 2020

A New End-Times Revelation is Being Revealed!

 A STUNNING NEW REVELATION OF THE END-TIMES IS BEING REVEALED!

 Blog Post Date: 10-09-2020

“Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.” (1 Corinthians 2:9).

 As the world gets closer and closer to the “Day of the LORD,” the church should be looking with great expectation for the increase of knowledge and revelation that was promised to the saints living at the end of the church age. When Daniel was given the revelation concerning the end of days, God told him that there would be some knowledge that would be sealed and not revealed until the days in which we live.

 But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the end; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increaseAnd he said, ‘Go your way, Daniel, for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.’” (Dan 12:4, 9).

Unfortunately, many Christian scholars are still working off of an end-times model from nearly two hundred years ago. Daniel chapter 12 makes it clear that there are certain truths that would not be revealed to any other generation except for the one living immediately before the Second Coming of Christ. So why would we think that an end-times model put forth before the invention of electricity, would have a better perspective on the times in which we live than that of present-day saints?

The first thing that must be understood before someone begins to study the Book of Revelation is the meaning of the Greek word for Revelation.

 The Greek word apokalupsis is where we get the English word “Apocalypse.” 

Mistakenly, the word apocalypse has become synonymous with “the end of the world,” or “worldwide destruction.” However, the Greek word simply means: “A revelation or a revealing of something that was previously hidden.”

In short, its meaning conveys the idea of a progressive pulling back of the veil. As we quickly approach the end of the age and the veil is slowly pulled back, we should have a better perspective than even the most pious saints and prophets who have come before us.

This is something that is true of all biblical history. Even though many great prophets like Isaiah foretold the coming of Christ, none of them would have been able to understand this in the level of detail available to those living during the actual events. Jesus said to His disciples:

“Blessed are the eyes which see the things you see; for I tell you that many prophets and kings have desired to see what you see, and have not seen it, and to hear what you hear, and have not heard it.” (Lk 10:23-24) 

Much of the Christian church has yet fathomed the glory that will be visibly manifested upon believers once we have come to a place of spiritual maturity and eventually Christian unity. When Moses came down from Mount Sinai, his face literally glowed with the glory of the Lord. The glory of the Lord was so powerful upon his face that he had to wear a veil. [See Ex 34:29-35]. This is what is coming upon the church in the last days.

“Look among the nations and watch — Be utterly astounded! For I will work a work in your days which you would not believe, though it were told you.” (Hab 1:5)  

Today’s significant problem is that the majority of end-times Bible believers insist that a rapture will occur removing all (I believe) people from the earth and leaving only the (I don’t believe) individuals fighting against a Roman-type dictator.  This will entail major armies from the south and from the east in battle against the Roman/Israeli military of the so-called antichrist figure.

From several accounts within this blog, it has been said the Revelation/Apocalypse is a prophetic history of the European church against the forces of the Muslims/Mongols and other nation/states within the European/Asian area.  The concept of Daniel’s Seventy weeks, with one week lacking, is completely untrue.   

The reading of Revelation 13, 16, and 17 is incredible with all of the symbolism, signs, and wonders that it could form the premise of a sci-fi book that would be astounding.  However, it only tells the story of a Pope who was taken prisoner by Napoleon, died, with the papacy later restored by Napoleon who wanted a pope to declare himself Emperor.

It is possible that several of the prophecies contained in the Revelation may have a secondary fulfillment.  Some can be vaguely seen as of today - such as hurricanes, monsoons, earthquakes, locust invasions, volcanic eruptions, fires, etc.  The violent demonstrations in parts of the world are also upsetting.  Many things will most likely get worse.

Mr. Trump has now authorized the total declassification of all documents related to the Russia hoax, Spygate and Hillary Clinton’s email scandal.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1313640512025513984

“I have fully authorized the total Declassification of any & all documents pertaining to the single greatest political CRIME in American History, the Russia Hoax. Likewise, the Hillary Clinton Email Scandal. No redactions! 

When the actual evidence is shown to the population, then it will be politically feasible to arrest and charge the high-level criminals for treason and sedition. Keep in mind that the 7 days of Tabernacles are pictured in the seven bowls of wine being poured out in Revelation 16, culminating with the great “earthquake” that divides Babylon into three pieces.

We are currently in the time of the feast of Tabernacles, wherein the 7 bowls of wine were poured out as a drink offering, prophesying the time of judgment on Babylon.

Dear Readers,

The time of the Millennial Kingdom is not far off.