As you may have probably gathered by earlier posts that I've been doing a little research about the "Nephilim" from Genesis 6:4:
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of men and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.
As I've blogged before, the Nephilim are sometimes interpreted as an attempt by fallen angels to insinuate themselves into our human gene pool creating a race of mutants. They understand the term "sons of God" as referring to angels not men in this verse. I have rejected this notion. However I have found a video series on YouTube, Nephilim Rising, that attempts to take this theory and tie in alien abductions, UFOs, and modern phenomenon.
Here is the documentary:
I have several issues with the theories asserted. The first being is that it sounds like the plot from X-Files with some Biblical eisegesis thrown in for good measure. It's not consistent with the Bible to think that:
1. "sons of God" always refers to angels; offered no proof
2. Asserting that Noah and his family were only saved because of their genetic purity, using Genesis 6:9 which says (KJV):
These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
The verses is talking about Noah's moral purity not his genetic purity! Look at the NIV rendering:
This is the account of Noah.
Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked with God.
3. The video didn't mention the Book of Enoch, but it says that the flood destroyed the Nephilim and then God chained up the fallen angels who perpetrated the deed of siring the Nephilim and teaching humanity about war, weapons, and magic. Therefore how could said angels be free to seduce the Babylonians, Egyptians, and Sumerians into worshipping them and laying the groundwork for the secret organizations and conspiracies that control history and the fate of nations? If the video's creators are disavowing the Book of Enoch, then they loose any credibility for the Nephilim to be Angelic/human hybrids.
4. The video makes a point out of the War in Heaven in which Lucifer, Satan, lead 1/3 of the angels against the angels loyal to God. The video, as well as many Christians, imagine a long, protracted conflict with heavy casualties on both sides. I can't find anything in the Bible to substantiate this teaching. God is all-powerful. Do you really think anyone or anything, especially those whom he created (which is everything and everyone that has, does, and will exist) could possible stand against the will of God? Scripture suggests more that once, at that moment, Lucifer and his forces chose to disobey and rebel against our creator, The Lord God already had their kicked their butts out of heaven! No war. No shot fired. It was over.
5. There was a montage of images of different people doing a salute or a hand gesture that is supposed to be praising the devil, but no documentation as proof was presented.
I was personally offended to be linking Spider-Man to that. I want proof. This post has a picture of Spider-man doing the gesture but it's not the same graphic the documentary uses.6. The link to alien abduction and demons I think may hold some weight (a different article), the documentary goes further by asserting that their agenda is to create a race of hybrids (taking the idea from Genesis 6:4 that the Nephilim are still with us). Therefore, on the pretense that they are really the ones who created us through genetically manipulating apes, and that they want to help us evolve further and protect, equip, and prepare us to fight another invading force. This force will be Jesus himself. It does not make sense to me because I can't substantiate any of this Biblically and no one in the video did either.
7. The makers of the documentary seem to forget that God is in complete control. Total control. No one, not demon, not angel, not human can do anything against his decree. There is no "secret" organization worshipping the devil, running our world into the ground. We are doing a great job on our own. That isn't denying the fact that there are demons gunning for us, they are. The truth is that the Devil is running the world from the stand point that he isn't trying to oppose the will of God by polluting the humanity. All he has to do is to keep Christians from getting the word out that there is hope.
8. Were the Nephilim giants or human sized? A lot of folks who adhere to the mutation theories can't seem to make up their minds. Biblically it is consistent to accept giants. Remember Goliath was over 9 ft tall! I don't know how to explain the photo at the beginning of this post but these giant people don't necessarily prove that their daddies were angels. There are other examples throughout scripture referring to men of immense strength and size.
9. We must be careful to not jump on what the world says. Many scholars who believe that there was a race of mutant people called the Nephilim accuse the Bible of copying from Sumerian and Babylonian texts and want to use the idea of space alien genetically engineering humanity as explaining why there are no transitional fossils to explain where we come from! See this link.
All of this adds up to tell me that the video or most of the theories it presents are something I cannot buy into. The one thing I do agree with is that the devil is going to try to deceive as many people as he can so that thy miss out on God. Jesus is the only way to God. At least we agree on that.
