“The languages are the sheath in which the sword of
the Spirit is contained.” -Martin Luther.
In regards to the importance of understanding Greek
and Hebrew when studying the Scriptures, Martin Luther
said it perfectly. An essential component in
understanding God’s Word is first and foremost to
realize that it was His choice to have His word
originally written in Hebrew (Old Testament) and in
Greek (New Testament).
In many cases our English translations of the original
languages do a disservice to God’s inerrant word.
Understanding Hebrew and Greek is neither impossible
nor difficult, but crucial when it comes to digging
deeper into God’s word. Simply reading someone else’s
explanation of what the Bible says, or the various
English translations of the scriptures, is
insufficient. When we find verses that seem confusing,
most of the time a simple search of the Hebrew or the
Greek dispels our confusion.
Many of my brethren are confused by the description of
events of Genesis chapter 6. Some fall for any
explanation of this chapter other than what God had
made clear when read in the Hebrew. Many change the
word of God so that the “sons of God” are seen as sons
of Seth, and the “daughters of Adam” are changed to
read as the daughters of Cain. This view is commonly
referred to as the Sethite view. This erroneous
interpretation is not only a corruption of the
original Hebrew language but also a huge distortion of
the truth, and cannot be supported even when using the
English translated Scriptures.
“Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you,
neither shall ye diminish ought from it…” Deuteronomy
4:2a. Words must be added to the text to come
away with the Sethite view. What does God tell us will
happen to those who add to His inerrant Word?
“Every word
of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put
their trust in him. Add thou not unto his words, lest
he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar”
Proverbs 30:5-6. Another word for reprove is judge. Those who
blatantly change God’s word to fit their own “warm
fuzzy” feelings, or to adhere to their own likes and
dislikes, will be judged for their actions. God makes
it clear that adding to or taking away from his word
is a huge mistake.
Malevolent fallen angels are capable of mischief far
beyond what the human mind can conjure up, and this is
the only scripturally supported definition of the
“sons of God” in context. Just because we can’t
understand how something can happen or how it did
happen in the past is no reason to reject the truth.
Who, in this big world of human intelligence, can
actually grasp how God created the universe?
“In the
beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”
Genesis 1:1. It’s interesting that this verse stands firm in the
minds of many Christians as true. It is impossible for
mere humans to comprehend the depth of what God said
He did. Yet, they will completely change what God had
Moses write just six chapters later, simply because
the truth doesn’t fit with their preconceived notions
of what is plausible and what is myth.
In the Hebrew, the phrase “sons of God” is “Ben
Elohiym”. The Hebrew word “Ben” means son and everyone
seems to be fine with that particular Hebrew word. But
the Hebrew word “Elohiym”, which is a plural masculine
noun, is emphatic, and speaks of our Triune God. It’s
the same Hebrew word which is used to refer to God in
the very first verse of Genesis. Those who attempt to
translate “Ben Elohiym” into “sons of Seth” in effect
are stating that Seth is a Triune God, which is a
complete corruption of the Hebrew word Elohiym. God
does not share His Throne with Seth.
Men are not gods. Nor are men the sons of God. We are
all descendents (sons) of Adam who was the only human
directly created by God. The only place in the Bible
where we humans are ever considered sons of God
(children of God) is when we become born again, born
from above, from God by accepting His free gift of
salvation, which is Jesus His Son. But God did create
each individual angel; and there are no references to
female angels in God’s word. They are all “sons of
God”.
“And the angels which kept not their first estate,
but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in
everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of
the great day.” Jude 1:6.
As those who reject the truth of Genesis 6 venture
into the book of Jude, another question that should
arise is why did God place the angels that sinned into
everlasting chains? Then He transported them to a
place far removed from humanity and left them there
for a future judgment? What was the crime/sin that
these angels participated in that would raise God’s
ire to such a point that He would condemn them for all
eternity? Why would God place in His word a very
significant event concerning some of His angels who
had sinned (an apparent great sin) then exclude the
explanation of what that sin consisted of? He didn’t.
He gave us a plain explanation back in Genesis chapter
6.
The book of Jude describes a particular group of
angels who didn’t keep their first estate, who left
their own habitation. There are two Greek words that
are extremely important to understanding what these
angels had done. The first Greek word “archē” is
translated into English as “first estate”. The word
actually means origin, or beginning. So we see that
the angels did not keep their place of origin, which
was Heaven. Then the next important Greek word we must
examine is “habitation” from the Greek “oikētērion”.
To get an idea of what this word refers to we must
take a look at something Paul speaks of in 2
Corinthians.
“For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be
clothed upon with our house which is from
heaven:”
2 Corinthians
5:2. Paul uses the same Greek word “oikētērion”
when he mentions “house”. We, the children of God,
earnestly desire to be clothed with our new bodies
(house). The fallen angels disrobed from the bodies
(oikētērion) that God had originally provided them,
but why?
These angels left the natural habitation that God had
given them and permanently transformed themselves into
something else, something very different than that
which God had intended. We know from the scriptures
that God gave angels great power and intellect,
including the ability to change from angelic form into
human form. When the godly angels referred to in our
Bibles appear to men, they always resemble men. Why
did some of the angels, when they joined Satan in
rebellion, leave their first estate (archē/place of
origin) then cast off their habitation “oikētērion”
(the original bodies God gave them)? There is only one
place in scripture to seek that answer; the book of
Genesis chapter 6.
Peter also speaks of the punishment of these angels.
“For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to
hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to
be reserved unto judgment;”
2 Peter 2:4.
This seemingly harsh course which our God took
concerning the angels that sinned must be confusing to
those who don’t believe angels are capable of doing
what God says they did in Genesis chapter 6. When we
so blatantly refuse to believe God’s word, or change
His word into something more desirable, in essence we
are calling our Creator and Saviour a liar.
When Satan rebelled against God one third of the
angels of God also rebelled. Was this a sin? Yes, but
it was not the sin that put this particular group of
fallen angels into Hell. If it was, Satan (the epitome
of evil) would also be in Hell. But as the Bible
teaches Satan is not bound in Hell until the end when
Jesus comes back and puts an end to the war of
Armageddon. To this day Satan is still roaming earth,
devouring souls.
God gave the angels a free will just as He did
mankind. The angels that rebelled made their choice
just as humans make their choice to stand with or
against their Creator. These angels were no longer
permitted to experience the Heavenly realm of God, but
their end is not destined to come until the end of the
millennial reign of our King Jesus. So why did God
“cast them down to hell” (the word Hell used here is from the
Greek word “Tartarus” which means the deepest abyss of
Hell)? They must have been responsible for some great
evil, so great and horrible that God judged them with
an everlasting judgment. The Bible gives us no other
description of their sins other than what the “sons of
God” (angels) did in the pre-flood days of Noah.
“There were giants in the earth in those days; and
also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the
daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the
same became mighty men which were of old, men of
renown.”
Genesis 6:4.
The Hebrew word for daughters is “bat”; the Hebrew
word for men is “Adam”. Trying to build a case for the
“daughters of Cain” from that verse is foolishness, as
those who seek to do so must first substitute “Cain”
for the Hebrew word “Adam”. Thus they’ve just
rewritten God’s Holy word, which is prohibited.
In order to procreate with
human women these angels had to become men. That
change of habitation (oikētērion) did not diminish
their power as angels; it only gave them the means to
procreate. They had only one purpose – to destroy the
seed of man forever. To accomplish this they had to
corrupt the genome of man so it was no longer fully
human. By doing so there could be no redeemer, no
Messiah could come from such a corruption. To become
our Kinsmen Redeemer Jesus had to be a perfect man,
which means He could have no DNA corruption in His
family tree.
If you believe the Sethite view of Genesis 6 then
answer me this, how did your “sons of Seth” (normal
human men) and your “daughters of Cain” (normal human
women) produce a breed of fierce giants aka Nephilim?
The Hebrew is clear that this unholy union produced
giants. Skeletons of immense size have been unearthed
in every country on earth, many measure over 20 feet
tall. The Hebrew words used in Genesis chapter 6
plainly describe huge powerful beings (giants). These
mighty men are referred to in the Hebrew as
“gibbowr”, which doesn’t just mean they were mighty men but that
they were the mightiest, the strongest the world had
ever known, and that they were giants. Then according
to the Hebrew word translated into English as “renown”
they were not simply renowned as we understand the
word today; the word implies they had an unholy
reputation which brought fear to all men the land
over.
Our loving Father in Heaven was so incensed at what He
saw occurring on earth that He judged the world.
According to Genesis 6:3 that judgment was delayed for
120 years to allow for a change of mind (repentance)
by the human population. That change of mind never
materialized. Except for Noah and his wife, their
three sons and their wives God saw no redeemable
qualities in the remainder of earth’s population. How
is that? Was it simply because the sons of Seth
married the daughters of Cain? At which point God’s
judgment became swift and final? Was it the sin of
marrying outside of the family that provoked His ire?
Or was it something that had become so horribly
bizarre and contrary to God’s creation that He was
left with no alternative but to destroy them all?
Since we know from the scriptures that there was no
prohibition for marrying between the various families
at that particular time we can rule out any contrived
sin associated with such an occurrence. We then must
broach the question: why would God destroy a few
billion people for doing exactly what we read He told
them to do just a few chapters earlier?
“And God
blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and
multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it:”
Genesis 1:28. There must have been something far more sinister
going on than simply marrying outside one’s family.
Whenever God’s people, Israel, (and even Gentile
nations) were steeped in sin God always gave them
opportunity to change their minds and come out of the
sins they were engulfed in. He never simply judges
without a warning. No matter where we read in our
Bibles, before God’s mighty hand of judgment falls
people are given a choice to follow Him or to follow
Satan. There is never any other choice. God was as
patient with the antediluvian world as He is with us
today. There is coming a time when God will run out of
patience. The hammer of His perfect justice will come
down on a world that is living as if there is no God.
Mankind will be going about their lives ignoring God’s
signs of a coming judgment, oblivious to anything but
their own continued existence.
“But as the days of Noe [Noah] were, so shall also
the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days
that were before the flood they were eating and
drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the
day that Noe entered into the ark, And knew not until
the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also
the coming of the Son of man be.”
Matthew 24:37-39. The simple fact of the matter is there was not
just an ignorance of what was going on in those days,
but that world had become fully desensitized to all
the supernatural wickedness. What became the norm to
that antediluvian world is similarly and presently
occurring today. What
was once considered grotesque and filthy is
commonplace in today’s society. The desensitization of
our current civilization is almost complete.
The pervasive wickedness became so bad in Noah’s day
that God had to destroy everything…humans and animals.
Why? If it was because Seth’s sons were marrying
Cain’s daughters, why did the animals also need to be
destroyed? What did the animals have to do with Seth’s
sons marrying Cain’s daughters? “And
the LORD said I will destroy man whom I have created
from the face of the earth; both man and beast and the
creeping thing, and the fowls of the air, for it
repenteth me that I have made them.”
Genesis 6:7.
Noah and his family did not
have mixed up genes, and when they entered the Ark
they were saved from that evil. They were still fully
human and not crossed with angels or animals. God’s
protection from the flood gave them a security blanket
for a while. Today this same mixing of the genes is
happening. Scientists are crossing human and animal
cells and growing ungodly creatures in Petri dishes.
There are herds of sheep in Nevada that have human
organs that will be used for transplanting lungs,
livers, etc. There are cows that give human milk. A
herd of goats in Wyoming has been mixed with spider
DNA and the spider silk in the goat’s milk is so
strong that they are making bulletproof vests and
artificial skin with it. If you so desire, a Google
search will reveal these abominations, and many more.
So, is anybody upset about this? Most Christians are
as ignorant of all these human genome experiments as
the next guy. Christians too are going about their
lives eating, drinking, and marrying, while ignoring
the truth of the Bible, even though the signs are
glaringly obvious. Today we are witnessing the prelude
to the return of the very same monsters and
perversions that permeated the earth during Noah’s
day.
Is God simply turning a blind eye to the tampering and
outright corruption being performed to create
human/animal hybrids? If He didn’t approve of the
horrible beasts created by the procreation of angels
with human women in Noah’s day and showed His
disapproval by destroying them all with a flood, why
do we think these abominations will go unnoticed by
God today? Believe God’s word, Genesis chapter 6
speaks of the most horrible invasion the earth has
ever seen. The very same kind of invasion is coming
again, some of it is already here
“as in the
days of Noah so shall also the coming of the Son of
man be”.
God bless you all,
Ron Graham
twotug@embarqmail.com
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