So what really brought about the Flood? It was the emergence of a race of beings known as Nephilim?

Genesis 6 indicates that the "sons of God" (B'nai Elohim) took wives of the "daughters of men," which gave birth to the "Nephilim." What on earth was going on?

The B'nai Elohim is a term that refers to angels. It occurs four times in the Old Testament and is rendered "Angels of God" in the ancient Septuagint translation. The intrusion of certain angels into the human family resulted in unnatural offspring termed Nephilim, which derives from the Hebrew naphal (to fall), or the Fallen Ones. (The Greek Septuagint renders this term gigantes, which actually means "earth-born." This is often misunderstood to mean "giants"--which they also happen to have been, incidentally.)

The B'nai Elohim saw the daughters of Adam, that they were fit extensions. And they took wives for themselves from all those that they chose...The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and even afterwards when the B'nai Elohim CAME IN TO the daughters of Adam, and they bore to them -- they were Powerful Ones which existed from ancient times, the men of name. (from the Interlinear Hebrew Bible Genesis 6)

The word which is translated, "giants", in the King James version of the Bible is, in Hebrew, "Nephilim", which means, "Those who fell, or ... the fallen ones". Jude, the brother of Jesus describes them as "angels, having left their first estate in heaven". These fallen angels came to earth for a serious purpose.
 

The "fallen ones" sought to merge with the bloodline of Adam, because of the promise to send a redeemer through Adam's kinsman. The Hebrew says that the Sons of God saw that the women were a fit "extension", for they sought to extend themselves into this realm from the spirit realm, as well as to extend themselves into the "children of the promise" the lineage of Adam. Satan tried to prevent the eventual birth, in the distant future, of the Messiah.

The mating of human beings with angels resulted in hybrid creatures, evil spirits with human bodies. The human \ angel hybrids began to corrupt and destroy the human race, resulting in the Deluge, "the end of all flesh" except Noah and his family.

The Bible uses other names to describe these degraded fallen angels and their descendents in addition to the word Nephilim, they are. . . .
 

• Rephaim  - from the root rapha = spirits, shades Gen. 14:5
  • Anakim - Race of Giants Num. 13:33 Descendents of Nephilim
  • Emim - the proud deserters, terrors, race of giants Gen. 14:5
  • Zuzim - the evil ones, roaming things Gen. 14:5
  • Zazummims - the evil plotters, Deut. 2:20
  • Zophim - watchers, angels who descended Num. 23, distinct from 'Holy Watchers' aligned with God
  • Sepherim - the many. . . .

For over a thousand years the Nephilim corrupted the earth and oppressed mankind. The Bible states that the giants existed before the flood and even after that time, Gen. 6:4. This contradicts tradition but is historically upheld by accounts in Exodus where descendents of the Nephilim are encountered in Canaan by the Israelites. The Apocryphal Book of Enoch, a 1st century B.C. extra Biblical manuscript quoted by Jude and John, details events of the fallen angels. It describes their punishment and even their names. Some of the Nephilim perished, at least their bodies perished, beneath the waters of the flood. The leaders of this rebellious act were chained until judgment day at various locations in the earth. Jude and John also relate this account. Job 26:5 KJV says, "Dead things are formed from under the waters". This seems to imply that men were killed under the waters of the deluge.

The original Hebrew text relates something much more mysterious. The literal translation is, "The Rafa were made to writhe from beneath the waters". The word Rafa is only found in scripture identifying the "fallen angels", and is never used to denote the "human dead" anywhere in the Old Testament. The historical basis for the interpretation of Gen. 6 as an account of fallen angels is consistent. Philo, Josephus, Epiphanius , Hilarius , are some of many examples.

The book of the Jubilees remarks that Jared or Yeh-red,  an Old Testament patriarch, was so called because in his days the angels descended upon the earth - Yaw-rad "descend" . It is interesting to note that "Jordan" comes from that same root word denoting "descent, coming down or falling" - Yar-dane "the place of the descent". Jordan, "place of the descent", is located in the ancient boundary of Israel. Israel is currently a major location for sighting UFOs, and the fallen angels in disguise as "aliens".

The Book of Enoch explains that the Sons of God descended first onto the mountain called Hermon which in Hebrew means desolation, in the land of Jordan the place of the descent. Desolation is exactly what Satan and his angels intended to make the earth by destroying the descendents of Adam -- desolation has been the plan of the rebel angels from the beginning.

It was the infusion of these strange beings into the human predicament that brought on the Flood of Noah. The Flood was preceded by four generations of prophets/preachers warning of the coming judgment: Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, and Noah.

It seems that this was part of Satan's stratagem to corrupt the line of Adam to prevent the fulfillment of the Messianic redemption. Noah was apparently unique in that his genealogy was still uncorrupted.

The strange events which led to the flood are also alluded to in ancient mythologies. The legends of the Greek "titans"--partly terrestrial, partly celestial--embrace these same memories. (The Greek titan is linguistically linked to the Chaldean sheitan, and the Hebrew Satan.) So where did these sinning (fallen) Angels come from?

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