L.A. Marzulli was on the show Sid Roth’s It’s Supernatural! for an episode titled “WE FOUND THE NEPHILIM!”
It seems to me that whatever “WE” found, it is not Nephilim. Let us review some key points.
Marzulli notes, “Jesus tells us it will be like the Days of Noah when He returns. Of course, that points to the angels coming down in Genesis 6, having sex with the women, and the offspring are the Nephilim…The Days of Noah, presence of the fallen angels” and references the days of Noah many times during the discussion.
Yet, Jesus’ reference to the days of Noah is clearly just about people going about as business as usual while being unaware of coming judgement. And you can know that by reading the whole statement Jesus made and also the one He made in Luke 17 about how “it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.”
Sid Roth tells us “Nephilim means giants” which is a meaningless statement since if Nephilim means giants then what does giants mean? That is merely a subjective, generic, vague and un-biblical English term that is best to ignore. Besides, we have no reliable physical description of Nephilim so if “giants” is supposed to refer to unusual height (just how unusual: one inch, one foot, various entire body lengths, or what?) then we cannot refer to them as such.
Marzulli replies, “L.A.: Well that was one of the characteristics. Later on, I think they became different characteristics” which is a clever loophole for getting around the fact that the Bible does not teach post-flood Nephilim nor a return of them—ever. If you claim that Nephilim were physically very, very tall (which is un-biblical) and that they survived the flood (which is un-biblical) or returned (which is un-biblical) or were born anew from further fallen Angel incursions (which is un-biblical) then you can be asked where they are since they would be quite easily identifiable.
When you realize that you have zero evidence (since all of that is un-biblical), you have to claim that they now have “different characteristics” (which is un-biblical).
Marzulli then plays upon a very, very common claim amongst neo-pop-researchers of Nephilim and giants, which is very, very common, very, very inaccurate and very, very problematic due to its implications, “I don’t know about you, when you study the Bible you see God says, destroy all the people in Canaan, destroy all the people in Sodom and Gomorrah. Why would God not have mercy on any of these people? There’s a good reason. Well, the reason simply is this. That we’re dealing with a demonic hybrid known as the Nephilim…when they push into Israel, the Land of Canaan, who were there? The Nephilim were there. And the mandate is always the same.”
In my book titled What Does the Bible Say About Giants and Nephilim? A Styled Giantology and Nephilology, I get into all of these issues in detail. In this case, I provide many quotations since God tells us many times why He is thusly judging such people groups and He never once states anything about Nephilim nor relation to them nor their genetics—nothing.
Since there is no such thing as post-flood Nephilim nor a return of them ever then these were not “demonic hybrid known as the Nephilim.” But then “who were there?” human people groups. But “Why would God not have mercy on any of these people?” He most certainly did: He gave them generations worth of time to repent, they did not, so they were judged.
This is very, very problematic due to its implications because when corrected, it has such teachers claiming that God is merciless and even a “moral monster.”
Marzulli further states, “If God could not get rid of them, they’d take over the earth. Not only that, they would pollute the genome of the Messiah. That’s really the end game, especially in Genesis 6 with the flood.”
Well, but God did “get rid of them” via the flood so that any claim of post-flood Nephilim implies that God failed. Moreover, if God got rid of them via the conquest of the land then any concept of a return of them (say, in the eschaton) still implies that God failed.
Another issue covered in my book is what Sid Roth states about Marzulli as that he “has uncovered an amazing cover-up by our government, by the Smithsonian Institution to hide the evidence that Darwinism is a phony, and he’s going to expose it to you.”
Sid Roth states, “you have found some amazing research in newspaper articles from the 1800s and 1900s about these Nephilim…Tell me about the Smithsonian and the bones that they have found of what could be the Nephilim.”
Marzulli replies, “We discovered that case after case, after case, 9-, 10-, 11-footers were found. And the Smithsonian shows up and they confiscate the bones, and they put them in crates, and they’re carried away never to be seen again. We have case after case, after case.” Well, such is a puffing up the actual facts and also implying that Nephilim has something to do with unusual height.
Marzulli states, “I believe the tribes in North America and in South America are the remnants of the Nephilim tribes that Joshua and Caleb pushed out of the Promised Land when they conquered it about 3500 years ago.”
So, apparently, “tribes in North America and in South America” are “demonic hybrid known as the Nephilim” and, by golly, God attempted to be rid of Nephilim via the flood and then, or so some wrongly claim, via the conquest of the land but they somehow made it to the Americas so God keep failing.
Yet, Sid Roth has a moment of clarity and asks, “But wait a second, if they killed all the population, how could they migrate then?”
Marzulli replies, “They didn’t kill all the population. It would stand to reason as they begin to move in to the Promised Land, the giants see what’s happening, that the Israelites, first of all the power of the most High God, and they are annihilating all the tribes. So the Amorites and perhaps maybe the Perrizzites over here, some of these guys go, we got to get out of here. Some flee northward and we have a trail that we believe follows that.”
See what I mean? God failed since, “If God could not get rid of them, they’d take over the earth” but God did not get rid of them (and, by the way, they did not take over the Earth). So, apparently, the Israelites had “the power of the most High God” at their disposal but God’s power could not prevent that “the giants see what’s happening” and move to the Americas.
Marzulli also claims that “Canaanites were a Nephilim tribe” about which Sid Roth replies, “My goodness” and about which I will reply “his badness.”
Rid Roth then notes, that Marzulli sees “a tie-in with these Nephilim in the last days and the Mark of the Beast.”
Marzulli elucidates, “the Mark of the Beast has four characteristics…The fourth one, which is the most telling in my opinion, anyone who takes the mark winds up in the lake of fire. There’s no grace, no mercy. You’re in the lake of fire. And the same judgment that we see with the Nephilim in Genesis 6, Sodom and Gomorrah and what happens in Israel, the Promised Land when Joshua and Caleb came into the Promised Land, it’s always the same ending. If Nephilim is there the judgment is always the same. It’s total annihilation. There’s never a shred of grace and mercy.”
But, then again, since Nephilim supposedly survived the flood or returned thereafter and survived the conquest, etc. then it would seem that “total annihilation” does not mean “total annihilation.”
Over all, Sid Roth’s show is about making much ado about not very much—the odder, more outlandish and sci-fi the better—and so Marzulli was not challenged on even the basic points I just reviewed: with the exception of the one key question Roth asked which was more of a softball, as it turned out.
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