Yahushua the CHIEF Cornerstone Ministry Fellowship’s NEPHILIM (& DINOSAURS): The Prophetic Significance article begins with a famous (or, infamous) chart of giants that I reviewed in detail in my book Nephilim and Giants: Believe It Or Not! Ancient and Neo-Theo-Sci-Fi Tall Tales wherein it got a failing grade—it is 99% inaccurate.
Yahushua the CHIEF Cornerstone Ministry Fellowship begins by quoting Genesis 6:4 from the Names of God Bible (NOG), “The NEPHILIM were on the earth in those days, as well as later, when the SONS of Elohim slept with the DAUGHTERS OF OTHER HUMANS and had CHILDREN by them. These children were famous long ago” (the all caps may be Yahushua the CHIEF Cornerstone Ministry Fellowship’s).
I am unsure whence the NOG version got “OF OTHER HUMANS.”
He rightly notes, “The result was called NEPHILIM. NEPHILIM means FALLEN.”
Yahushua the CHIEF Cornerstone Ministry Fellowship asks, “Why the different names?” and answers, “The Names each describe something (a feature) about the Giants. This is something recently discovered (March 2021) from one for [t]he lost Books of the Bible. These Giants could touch the sun. They were that big.”
Now, he did not alert us to what “names” he referred nor which one/s has anything to do with his subjective usage of the English word “Giants.”
He also did not tell us to what he referred by a March 2021 discovery of a lost book of the Bible. Yet, by asserting, “These Giants could touch the sun” he seems to be appealing to Rabbinic Folklore and/or metaphoric terminology since the Talmud Bavli/Babylonian Talmud (circa 400-500 AD) refers to that, “The children of Anak — [they are so called] because they wore the sun as a necklace [ma’anikin] owing to their stature” (Sotah 34b, brackets in the Soncino Babylonian Talmud, Rabbi Dr. I. Epstein, ed.)—they must have had some extraordinary SPF sunscreen!
Yet, that is what it is: folklore from millennia after the Torah and after the Anakim were no more. All we are contextually told about Anakim in the Bible is that they were subjectively “tall” compared to the average Israelite male who was 5.0-5.3 ft. in those days.
Now, if “They,” referring to Yahushua the CHIEF Cornerstone Ministry Fellowship’s reference to Nephilim no, “were that big” the, pray tell, upon what did they stand?
Yahushua the CHIEF Cornerstone Ministry Fellowship then asks, “Who were the ‘Sons of GOD’ and ‘Daughters of GOD’?” about which I will ask: what daughters of God? We have not been introduced to them as of yet and they certainly do not appear in Gen 6: whether we read it traditionally as “daughters of men” or even as the NOG has it, “DAUGHTERS OF OTHER HUMANS.”
Before replying, he also asks, “Did the ‘Sons of GOD’ do anything else? What happened to the ‘Sons of GOD’ afterwards? Where are the ‘Sons of GOD’ now?”
He notes, “SONS OF GOD = WATCHERS = They WERE GOD’S HOLY ANGELS” with Watchers being a Second Temple Era term for Angels. He notes, “that had been assigned by YAHUVEH GOD to keep an eye on mankind and REPORT BACK everything they observed. Sadly, they fell into sin by desiring man sexually in their hearts and minds after being persuaded by Satan…They were persuaded by Satan to do what they did” I can only imagine he gets, “being persuaded by Satan” from Revelation 12:4 according to which the Dragon’s “tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth” and perhaps Daniel 8:10 wherein a little horn “grew great, even to the host of heaven. And some of the host and some of the stars it threw down to the ground and trampled on them.”
Yahushua the CHIEF Cornerstone Ministry Fellowship has it that the sons of God in question were persuaded by Satan to do what they did, “sometime after Satan had already fallen from the HEAVENS together with a third of the angels who all became FALLEN ANGLES also known as DEMONS / ALIENS!”
But then how and when did the third fall? He does not tell us but is actually appealing to common, yet erroneous, knowledge and argued right past his own point.
There is no indication that Satan fell with Angels but rather, his fallen action seems to be recorded in Gen 3 while theirs is in Gen 6: the “Sons of GOD” and “FALLEN ANGLES” are one-in-the-same—I will set aside the “ALIENS!” issue for this review.
Oddly, Yahushua the CHIEF Cornerstone Ministry Fellowship mixes the original, traditional, and majority view amongst the earliest Jews and Christians alike, the Angel view, of Gen 6 with a much latter Sethite view—see my book On the Genesis 6 Affair’s Sons of God: Angels or Not?: A Survey of Early Jewish and Christian Commentaries Including Notes on Giants and the Nephilim.
He has the “DAUGHTERS OF GOD = the women from the lineage of Cain” and notes, “Sadly, later on, some of the people from ABEL’S / SETH’S (Seth was Abel’s replacement) LINEAGE also crossed over to Cain’s Lineage Camp and sinned by having sexual relations with the SONS OF GOD MENTIONED ABOVE.”
No, he did not bother elucidating what was wrong with daughters “OF GOD,” mind you, marrying Sethites. As a side note, there is no indication that Abel had any offspring. Thus, we know not why Yahushua the CHIEF Cornerstone Ministry Fellowship’s scenario resulted in having “sinned” since, on his telling, this was about, “DAUGHTERS OF GOD…having sexual relations with the SONS OF GOD.”
Yet, the picture he is, clumsily, painting is the Angel view.
He notes that, “They also taught man all kinds of SECRETS (such as about ASTRONOMY; CONSTELLATIONS…These SECRETS opened up the DOOR TO PRACTISING: WITCHCRAFT /WIZARDRY / SORCERY / DIVINATION!”
Now, I do not necessarily doubt that they taught things otherwise unknown to humans but he is picking that up from 1 Enoch/Ethiopic Enoch which is from millennia after the Torah, contains folklore, and contradicts the Bible (so much that I included a chapter’s worth of examples in my book In Consideration of the Book(s) of Enoch).
Yahushua the CHIEF Cornerstone Ministry Fellowship notes, “According to the Book of Enoch, these Angels…(also called WATCHERS / SONS OF GOD) NO LONGER HAVE A PLACE IN HEAVEN. They were banished. They are bound somewhere and will be SENTENCED on JUDGEMENT DAY!” but then, somewhat, specified, “Angels bound somewhere in the HEAVENS.”
As per 2 Peter 2:4, they were incarcerated in Tartarus.
Yahushua the CHIEF Cornerstone Ministry Fellowshiptells us, “Some say that the Angels who transgressed against YAH on this occasion were FALLEN ANGELS but this was not the case as per the Book of the Secrets of Enoch and the First Book of Adam and Eve.” In other words, thus saith texts from millennia after the Torah. First Book of Adam and Eve refers to a text that actually claims that when God created Adam, God commanded the Angles to worship Adam.
Again, he distinguished incarcerated “Angels bound somewhere in the HEAVENS” from “FALLEN ANGELS known as DEMONS roaming about the earth.” Now, my Angelology proves a biblical mechanism how these are one-in-the-same. Fallen Angels bodies are incarcerated in Tartarus whilst their spirits roam the Earth as what we term demons—see my article Demons Ex Machina: What Are Demons?
Yahushua the CHIEF Cornerstone Ministry Fellowship then loops back to that, “When Satan started his revolt…he caused 1/3 of Angels…to revolt with him” (emphasis added for emphasis) and, “Since that day, Satan started to persuade all YAH’S Holy Angels to follow him in his evil ways” but there is no indication of any such thing.
Much less that, “Some succumbed and became fallen angels together, with him” which is doubly not the case including because he is not an Angel, he is a Cherub.
Yahushua the CHIEF Cornerstone Ministry Fellowship then gets into the issue of, “the GREAT FLOOD of Noah’s time!” which, or so he claims, “begins with an account of DEMONIC INVASION OF THE EARTH (demonic because Satan was involved in the matter).”
Technically, it was not demonic because demons did not exist util Angels were incarcerated. I am unsure why “demonic because Satan was involved in the matter” since Satan is not a demon and his only involvement in the matter may have been whatever is meant by “cast them to the earth.”
Yahushua the CHIEF Cornerstone Ministry Fellowship informs us that, “Ancient Jews taught that the ‘SONS OF YAH’ were actually DEMONIC BEINGS WHO ENTERED THE EARTH REALM TO BREED WITH HUMANS HEAVENS” (sic.)
The term “Ancient Jews” is certainly generic, generic enough to make it difficult to know to when he is referring (particularly without a citation) but yes, again, the earliest majority view was the Angel view even when Rabbinic Jews later speculated that the sons of God were nobles—even though the Bible knows nothing of problems caused by marriages of people of different socio-classes.
At this point, Yahushua the CHIEF Cornerstone Ministry Fellowship decides to declare, “This was not the case!” because he has, “come to an understanding through the FIRST BOOK OF ADAM AND EVE as well as THE BOOKS OF ENOCH”—so, he is buying folklore from millennia after the Torah hook, line, and stinker—“that some HOLY ANGELS who were in the HEAVENS were persuaded by Satan to sin against YAHUVEH/YAHWEH GOD by having sexual relations with mankind and animals. The result were human beings called NEPHILIM, REPHAIM, ANAKIM, EMIM and animals called DINOSAURS, etc.”
Let us parse this because he need not appeal to “the FIRST BOOK OF ADAM AND EVE as well as THE BOOKS OF ENOCH” of that “some HOLY ANGELS who were in the HEAVENS were persuaded by Satan to sin against YAHUVEH/YAHWEH GOD by having sexual relations with mankind.”
Now, even within those folkloric text there is no indication that Angels had sexual relation with animals—that is actually a common misconception promulgated by pop-Nephilologists.
As to the result well, Nephilim were the result of Angels “having sexual relations with mankind.” Yet, there is no reliable indication whatsoever that such was the case with Rephaim, Anakim, and Emim.
Yahushua the CHIEF Cornerstone Ministry Fellowship does not seem to realize that Anakim were a clan of the Rephaim tribe.
Emim were just another good ol’ fashioned humans—just like all Rephaim.
As for dinosaurs (and to whatever “etc.” refers), he merely asserted that Angels were having sexual relations with animals so nothing untoward is to be thought of dinosaurs—at least until he closes the asserted loop.
Yahushua the CHIEF Cornerstone Ministry Fellowship noted, “The OFFSPRING between the now fallen angels…NEPHILIM…appeared in legends of many nations, such as: Greece, India, Rome, China > Mighty Warriors – EVIL!!!”
I would assume that they made it into such post-Tower of Babel when what was then commonly known and shared history eventually came to be called myth and legend. Perhaps Nephilim were “Mighty Warriors – EVIL!!!” but we have no reliable indication of that.
Yahushua the CHIEF Cornerstone Ministry Fellowship notes, “The result of in-breeding with demons means that the human race became demonized” and so, “JUDGEMENT had to come but YAH preserved a REMNANT (Noah and his family)…YAH’S JUDGEMENT in the form of THE GREAT FLOOD was decreed.”
Yet, he declares, “After all these years, the NEPHILIM are still here on this earth” which implies that God failed and also contradicts Genesis 7:7, 23; Hebrews 11:7; 1 Peter 3:20, and 2 Peter 2:5.
He ends by, finally, saying something about what any of these tall tales had to do with, “NEPHILIM (& DINOSAURS): The Prophetic Significance” in asserting that, “NEPHILIM are still here on this earth and will be more manifest during the GREAT TRIBULATION / TIME OF JACOB’S TROUBLE!”
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