Fallen Angels and the Origins of Evil (29 page)

And there was yet a battle in Gath, where was a man of great stature that had on every hand six fingers and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant. And when he defied Israel, Jonathan, the son of Shimeah, the brother of David, slew him.

These four were born to the giant in Gath and fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his guards.

II Sam. 21:15–22

And David spake unto the Lord the words of this song in the day that the Lord had delivered him out of the hand of all
his enemies
and out of the hand of Saul—the Nephilim king. And he said:

The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer; the God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield and the horn of my salvation, my high tower and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence.

I will call on the Lord, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from
mine enemies.

When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of
ungodly men
made me afraid. He delivered me from
my strong enemy
and from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me. The Watchers prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the Lord was my stay.

With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with
the froward
thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury. And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes are upon
the haughty,
that thou mayest bring them down.

Thou hast girded me with strength to battle: the Watchers that rose up against me hast thou subdued under me. The Watchers looked, but there was none to save; even unto the Lord, but he answered the Watchers not.

It is God that avengeth me and that bringeth down the people under me and that bringeth me forth from
mine enemies;
thou also hast lifted me up on high above the Watchers that rose up against me; thou hast delivered me from
the violent man.

II Sam. 22:1–5, 18–19, 27–28, 40, 42, 48–49

Then hear thou from heaven, [O Lord,] and do, and judge thy servants by requiting the Watcher, by recompensing his way upon his own head, and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his righteousness.

II Chron. 6:23

Yea, the light of the Watcher shall be put out, and the spark of his fire (his brilliant flame) shall not shine. The light shall be dark in his tabernacle (tent), and his candle shall be put out with him, the lamp that shone on him is snuffed.

The steps of his strength shall be straitened, his vigorous stride grows cramped, and his own counsel (cunning) shall cast him down. For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare. The gin (trap) shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.

Hidden in the earth is a noose to snare him, pitfalls lie across his path. Terrors (spirits of the giants) attack him on every side and shall drive him to his feet, step for step.

Hunger becomes his companion, by his side Disaster stands. Disease devours his flesh, Death’s First-Born gnaws his limbs.

His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors. (He is torn from the shelter of his tent and dragged before the King of Terrors.)

The Lilith
[135]
makes her home under his roof, while people scatter brimstone
[136]
on his holding. His roots grow withered below, and his branches are blasted above.

His memory fades from the land, his name is forgotten in his homeland. He shall be driven from light into darkness and chased out of the world, without issue or posterity among his own people, none to live on where he has lived.

His tragic end appalls the West and fills the East with terror. A fate like his awaits every sinful house [dynasty of the Watchers], the home of
every man who knows not God
[whose consciousness is without the flame of God].

Job 18:5–21

Wherefore do the Watchers live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?

Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes. Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them. Their bull gendereth and faileth not; their cow calveth and casteth not her calf.

They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance. They take the timbrel and harp and rejoice at the sound of the organ. They spend their days in wealth and in a moment go down to the grave.

Therefore the Watchers say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?

Is it not true they held their fortune in their own two hands and in their counsels left no room for God? How often do we see the Watcher’s candle put out, or disaster overtaking him, or all his goods destroyed by the wrath of God? How often do we see the Watcher harassed like a straw before the wind or swept off like chaff before a gale?

God, you say, reserves the Watcher’s punishment for his children. No! Let him bear the penalty himself and suffer under it! Let him see his ruin with his own eyes and himself drink the anger of the Almighty.

When he has gone, how can the fortunes of his House affect him, when the number of his months is cut off? Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.

One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet. His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow (the source of his strength is still with him). And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul and never eateth with pleasure. The Watchers shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.

Behold, I know your thoughts and the devices (spiteful thoughts) which ye wrongfully imagine against me. For ye say, Where is the house of
the great lord?
and where are the dwelling places of
the wicked?

Have you never asked those that have travelled, or have you misunderstood the tale they told,
The wicked man
is spared for the day of disaster and carried off in the day of wrath?

But who is there then to accuse him to his face for his deeds and pay him back for what he has done, and when he is on his way to his burial, when men are watching at his grave? The clods of the valley are laid gently on him, and a whole procession walks behind him.

Job 21:7–33

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the Watchers, nor standeth in the way of
sinners,
nor sitteth in the seat of
the scornful.

But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

The Watchers are not so: but are like
the chaff
which the wind driveth away. Therefore the Watchers shall not stand in the judgment, nor
sinners
in the congregation of the righteous. For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the Watchers shall perish.

Ps. 1

Why do the Watchers rage and the people imagine a vain thing? (Why this impotent muttering of pagans?)
The kings of the earth
rise up in revolt and the Watchers take counsel together (the princes plot) against the Lord and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder and cast away their cords from us.

He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have the Watchers in derision. Then shall he speak unto the Watchers in his wrath and vex them in his sore displeasure, Yet have I set my King upon my holy hill of Zion.

I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee. (I have become your Father.) Ask of me and I shall give thee the Watchers for thine inheritance and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. Thou shalt break the Watchers with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.

Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth. Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way when his wrath is kindled but a little (for the Son’s anger is very quick to blaze). Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.

Ps. 2

I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou most High.

When
mine enemies
are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy Mighty I AM Presence. Thou hast rebuked
the heathen
[Nephilim], thou hast destroyed the Watchers, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.

The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble. And they that know thy name I AM THAT I AM will put their trust in thee: for thou, Lord, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.

The Watchers are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken. The Lord is known by the judgment which he executeth: the Watcher is snared in the work of his own hands.

The Watchers shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God. For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.

Ps. 9:2–3, 5, 9–10, 15–18

The Watcher in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined. For the Watcher boasteth of his heart’s desire and blesseth
the covetous,
whom the Lord abhorreth.

The Watcher, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
The grasping man
blasphemes, the Watcher spurns the I AM Presence saying, His ways are always grievous; he will not make me pay! His judgments are far above out of sight: there is no God! This is the way the Watcher’s mind works.

As for all his enemies, he puffeth at them. He sneers at all his rivals. The Watcher hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: nothing can shake me, for I shall never be in adversity.

Himself untouched by disaster, he curses others. His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

The Watcher sitteth in the lurking places of the villages; in the secret places doth he murder the innocent; his eyes are privily set against the poor. He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den; he lieth in wait to catch the poor. He doth catch the poor when he draweth him into his net. He croucheth and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his
strong ones.

The Watcher hath said in his heart, God forgets, he hides his face, he does not see at all. Arise, O Lord; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble. Wherefore doth the Watcher spurn God, assuring himself, He will not make me pay?

Break the power of the Watcher, of
the evil man:
seek out his wickedness till there is none to be found! The Mighty I AM Presence is King for ever and ever,
the pagans
are doomed to vanish from God’s country.

Ps. 10:2–13, 15–16

Unto thee will I cry, O Lord, my Mighty I AM Presence, my Rock: Draw me not away with the Watchers and with
the workers of iniquity,
which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.

Give them according to their deeds and according to the wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert.

Unto thee will I cry, O Lord, my Mighty I AM Presence, my Rock.

Ps. 28:1, 3–4

The face of the Lord is against the Watchers to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

Evil shall slay the Watchers: and
they that hate the righteous
shall be desolate.

Ps. 34:16, 21

The transgression of the Watcher saith within my heart that there is no fear of God before his eyes. For the Watcher flattereth himself in his own eyes, so much so that though his iniquity be found to be hateful, he will neither see nor repudiate his guilt.

The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise and to do good. The Watcher deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil. Though he know the Truth, he persists in his evil course; he never rejects error.

How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! With thee is the fountain of life, the Mighty I AM Presence, my Source. The Watchers are fallen, they are cast down and shall not be able to rise again.

Ps. 36:1–4, 7, 9, 12

Fret not thyself because of Watchers, neither be thou envious against
the workers of iniquity.
For they shall soon be cut down like the grass and wither as the green herb.

Trust in the Lord and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land and verily thou shalt be fed. Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.

Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass. And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.