The Rise and Fall of the Nephilim (23 page)

(Psalm 144:3-6)

Psalm 78 is a
maskil
of Asaph—a maskil being a particular style of song, much like we’d say ballad or love song—in which the psalmist recounts the mighty power of God displayed against the Egyptians
when Moses led the Hebrews out of bondage. He speaks of the terrible wonders of God when he parted the waters of the Red Sea, turned the Egyptian sources of water to blood, spread blight, frogs, and locusts across the land, then engulfed the Egyptians in utter darkness so that pharaoh “could not see his hand before his face.” The devastation goes all the way to the house of pharaoh when the final plague of the firstborn takes the eldest child in every house of Egypt. Some have speculated that it was the power of alien forces that brought down the heinous plagues and executed the great geological miracles.

“13 You divided the sea, and allowed them to pass through it; making the waters to stand up as a mountain pass. 14 You also led them with a cloud in the daytime, and through the night with the light of fire. 15 You split the rock in the wilderness, and gave them water to drink from a deep creek. 16 God brought streams of water out of the rock also, causing it to run down like rivers. 17 And they sinned all the more against God by provoking the Most High in the wilderness. 18 And they tempted God in their hearts by asking for meat for their appetites. 19 Yes, they spoke against God and said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness? 20 Look, God split the rock, so that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; Can God give us bread also? Can God provide meat for the people as well? 21 Yahweh heard this, and was angry: so a fiery wrath was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel, 22 because they didn’t believe in God, and didn’t trust in Your salvation, 23 though You had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven, 24 and had rained down manna on them to eat, and had given them of the grain of heaven. 25 People ate the food of angels: for You, God sent them enough meat to fill them. 26 You caused an east wind to blow in the heaven, 27 and powerfully brought in the south wind, raining meat on them as dust, and quail like the sand of the sea, 28 and let them fall in the middle of their camp, all around their tents. 29 So they ate and were
well filled, because You gave them what they desired. 30 They weren’t kept from their appetites, but while their meat was yet in their mouths, 31 the anger of God came down on them, and slew the fattest of them, and brought down the chosen people of Israel….42 They neither remember God’s hand, nor the day when You delivered them from the adversary. 43 How God had wrought signs in Egypt, and wonders in the field of Zoan, turning their rivers into blood, making it so that they couldn’t drink it. 45-46 You sent different sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them, giving their increase to the caterpillar, and their labor to the locust also; destroying their vines with hail, and their sycamore trees with frost; destroying their cattle also in the hail, and their flocks with hot lightning bolts; casting on them the fierceness of Your anger, rage, indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them; making way for anger; not sparing their soul from death, but giving their lives over to the pestilence; and striking all the firstborn in Egypt, their strongest rule, in the sanctuaries of Ham…. 52 But You made Your own people go forward like animals, 53 guiding them in the wilderness like a herd, leading them safely on, so that they weren’t afraid, while the sea overwhelmed their enemies. 54 You brought them to the border of Your sanctuary, even to this mountain, which the hand of God had bought.”

(Psalm 78:13-31, 42-43, 45-46, 52-54)

There was a great rebellion among the Hebrews led by a man named Dathan. Moses descended with the tablets of the Law after spending 40 days atop the fiery, tumultuous, God-inhabited Mount Sinai, only to find the people worshipping a golden calf they had erected as their god who led them out of bondage. In righteous anger, Moses breaks the tablets of the Law and calls out to the people to divide, the followers of Dathan on this side, and the followers of Jehovah on that. After they
separate, the ground immediately opens up in a great earthquake and swallows up Dathan and his rebels. You can imagine the hushed silence that fell over the rest of the people. With all the miraculous wonders performed under the leadership of Moses during their great Exodus, one wonders how these people would do anything but follow Moses’ lead. Yet, Ancient Alienists believe there is more to this account than a simple miraculous tale of divine judgment. Was Moses not only being led by UFOs through the wilderness, but also being protected and upheld by a race of alien visitors? Here is how the book of Psalms records this event from the Exodus:

“16 They envied Moses and Aaron, the saints of Yahweh, also in the camp. 17 The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan, and buried the followers of Abiram. 18 And a fire was kindled in the middle of them, burning up those sinful ones…. 28 They joined themselves also to the false god, Baal-peor, and ate offerings made for the dead. 29 So they provoked You to anger with their inventions, and a deadly illness came on them. 30 Then Phinehas stood up and executed judgment: so the deadly illness was stopped.”

(Psalm 106:16-18, 28-30)

And that’s just a few of the Psalms. Were we to mention every biblical passage that contains even a hint of the possibility of extra-terrestrial activity, there would not be enough room in a 10-volume set to list them, let alone comment on them. This sampling should have given you a taste of what is inside the Bible itself, when it comes to the imaginings and speculations of biblical alien theorists.

When we consider all of the passages in scripture that seem to indicate miraculous deeds and divine actions, and if you place all those passages in the context of Ancient Aliens as opposed to the acts of Jehovah, you can see the wealth of information that is right at your fingertips, on the shelves of nearly every home in Christendom.

Clearly, if your perspective is one that is firmly rooted in Judeo-Christianity, you will see these passages as the amazing, almighty acts of a supreme being benevolently and sometimes violently imposing his majesty in the lives of his prophets and worshippers, making a display of his power and majesty. But if your beginning point is one that lies outside the realm of faith in the divine characters dwelling in these books, then you are outside the box looking in. Under that light, these pages can be filled with accounts of ancient UFOs, and alien races that appeared as God, angels, demons, and a host of other heavenly beings.

If Moses, Ezekiel, David, the psalmists, and other biblical leaders and figures had in fact witnessed alien presences, and interpreted their experiences as encounters with God, then it would be absolutely appropriate of them to have warned others to fear God and obey his commands. In light of the passages we have examined regarding the Watchers and their offspring, as well as the ancient gods of the Sumerians, it is clear that the issue is wide open for debate and further examination.

We may never know in this lifetime if these beings are of God or from some distant corner of our physical galaxy, but there is much fodder for thought, and a good starting point for examining the issue further.

Constantine, the first “Christian” emperor of Rome
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Photo courtesy of the Capitoline Hill Museum, Rome, Italy
(
en.museicapitolini.org
).

The story of the Nephilim and their divine parentage is one that the early Church fathers did not want told—at least in the entire form as it was written down in the Book of Enoch. It was a tale that transgressed the Church’s teachings that spirit beings were sexless, and spoke of beings who were considered to be gods among early mankind. Their presence in the story of Noah’s flood was something that created ecclesiastical panic among the early church fathers, and when push came to shove, there was no unanimous consensus, and Enoch was booted from the canon of God-breathed scripture. This was done under the influence of Rome’s first Christian emperor, Constantine, who ruled from 306 to 337
CE
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Constantine used his power to establish and promote the religion of Christianity, but he always remained a controversial figure, especially through the eyes of those who recorded his histories, which are abundant and detailed, but have been strongly influenced by the official propaganda of the period and are often skewed.
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According to the various contradictory accounts of the life of Constantine, he was seen by some as the great Christian Prince, and by others, during his decline, as a noble war hero corrupted by Christian influences who transformed into a tyrannical despot in his old age—“a hero…degenerating into a cruel and dissolute monarch.”
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Among the great accomplishments of Emperor Constantine were his ecclesiastical councils, which came as he began to enter the latter part of his reign. It is said that he did not personally adopt Christianity until well into his 40s, but once he did, he instituted laws that allowed Christians to worship and practice freely in the Roman empire, as well any other religion. Constantine established a precedent for the position of the emperor as having some influence on the religious discussions going on within the Catholic Church of that time, mainly because he disliked what he considered to be the risks to societal stability that religious disputes and controversies brought with them. And so he sought, wherever possible, to establish an orthodoxy. In fact, the emperor saw it as his duty to ensure that God was “properly worshiped” in his empire, and that “proper worship” would be determined by the Church.
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The Council of Nicea, 325
CE
. Melkite icon from the 17th century. Artist unknown
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Photo courtesy of the Peter Paul Reubens Gallery.

The first ecclesiastical council summoned by Constantine was the Council of Nicea, 325
CE
, in which several Church resolutions were discussed and set into motion. Among them was the beginnings of the canonization of scripture, which set a precedent for removing from the scriptures, any book on which the entire council could not unanimously agree. The Book of Enoch, despite its many mentions throughout the writings of both the Old and New Testaments, as well as being quoted by Moses and the Apostle Paul, was not unanimously accepted, and it fell under the surgical knife of the council.

Keep at the forefront of your mind, when considering the facts behind the Council of Nicea, the overall motivations on the part of Emperor Constantine when summoning them. Although Constantine’s reputation was bolstered by his propaganda machine, it is well-known
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that he was motivated by the desire to establish only two things: