At my men’s meeting last night one of the guys was talking about finds of giant human bones and skulls in North America. I suppose more internet disinformation follies by many people’s standards, but who knows there could be something to it. I think he mentioned 26 feet as a calculated height. I told him Goliath was on the small size at only 9 feet. I also joked around with him by confessing at last I was secretly really a dwarf nephilim at my six foot height. He is our group’s weird conspiracy theorist. And the two of us. amiably agree and disagree about his theories and joke around and exchange friendly male bonding ribbing and humorous joking insults.Then the synchronicity of your post happened. Perhaps I really am a dwarf nephilim cleansed by the blood of Jesus!
Intriguing! Archon is also used for the ruling power of this world in Jesus' prayer before the Last Supper in John's Gospel. In addition to Greek there are also Roman giants, such as King Tiberinus, who drowned in the Tiber and so changed the name and gender of the river, which used to be called Albula.
Love this one! (Heart eyes emoji). I just finished reading Uncle Cornelius: His Story by George MacDonald. This is one of my favourite quotes from the story and it fits so nicely here I just have to share it with you Michael.
“Then you think, uncle, that all these stories are only legends which, if you could follow them up, would lead you back to some one of the awful monsters that have since quite disappeared from the earth.” “It is possible those stories may be such legends; but that was not what I intended to lead you to. I gave you that only as something like what I am going to say now. What if,-mind, I only suggest it,-what if the direful creatures, whose report lingers in these tales, should have an origin far older still? What if they were the remnants of a vanishing period of the earth’s history long antecedent to the birth of mastodon and iguanodon; a stage, namely, when the world, as we call it, had not yet become quite visible, was not yet so far finished as to part from the invisible world that was its mother, and which, on its part, had not then become quite invisible-was only almost such; and when, as a credible consequence, strange shapes of those now invisible regions, Gorgons and Chimæras dire, might be expected to gloom out occasionally from the awful Fauna of an ever-generating world upon that one which was being born of it. Hence, the life-periods of a world being long and slow, some of these huge, unformed bulks of half-created matter might, somehow, like the megatherium of later times,-a baby creation to them,-roll at age-long intervals, clothed in a mighty terror of shapelessness into the half-recognition of human beings, whose consternation at the uncertain vision were barrier enough to prevent all further knowledge of its substance.”
I love it when women come into my church with veils. They may not know this but they’re keeping those giants from coming back. The apostle Paul wanted to keep them from tempting the angels( 1 Cor 11:10). If you ever get a chance Margret Barker’s “The Lost Prophet: The Book of Enoch and Its Influence on Christianity” is a good read.
You might be interested in Michael Heiser's (an Evangelical) thesis in The Unseen Realm.
Thank you very much for this. It sparked an old thread of curiosity in me, and has sent me on a journey of research that feeds my soul.
At my men’s meeting last night one of the guys was talking about finds of giant human bones and skulls in North America. I suppose more internet disinformation follies by many people’s standards, but who knows there could be something to it. I think he mentioned 26 feet as a calculated height. I told him Goliath was on the small size at only 9 feet. I also joked around with him by confessing at last I was secretly really a dwarf nephilim at my six foot height. He is our group’s weird conspiracy theorist. And the two of us. amiably agree and disagree about his theories and joke around and exchange friendly male bonding ribbing and humorous joking insults.Then the synchronicity of your post happened. Perhaps I really am a dwarf nephilim cleansed by the blood of Jesus!
Fascinating as always.
Fantastic!! Yes, I think many giants (and powers in the high places of the darkness of this world— to reference the NT).
Intriguing! Archon is also used for the ruling power of this world in Jesus' prayer before the Last Supper in John's Gospel. In addition to Greek there are also Roman giants, such as King Tiberinus, who drowned in the Tiber and so changed the name and gender of the river, which used to be called Albula.
Love this one! (Heart eyes emoji). I just finished reading Uncle Cornelius: His Story by George MacDonald. This is one of my favourite quotes from the story and it fits so nicely here I just have to share it with you Michael.
“Then you think, uncle, that all these stories are only legends which, if you could follow them up, would lead you back to some one of the awful monsters that have since quite disappeared from the earth.” “It is possible those stories may be such legends; but that was not what I intended to lead you to. I gave you that only as something like what I am going to say now. What if,-mind, I only suggest it,-what if the direful creatures, whose report lingers in these tales, should have an origin far older still? What if they were the remnants of a vanishing period of the earth’s history long antecedent to the birth of mastodon and iguanodon; a stage, namely, when the world, as we call it, had not yet become quite visible, was not yet so far finished as to part from the invisible world that was its mother, and which, on its part, had not then become quite invisible-was only almost such; and when, as a credible consequence, strange shapes of those now invisible regions, Gorgons and Chimæras dire, might be expected to gloom out occasionally from the awful Fauna of an ever-generating world upon that one which was being born of it. Hence, the life-periods of a world being long and slow, some of these huge, unformed bulks of half-created matter might, somehow, like the megatherium of later times,-a baby creation to them,-roll at age-long intervals, clothed in a mighty terror of shapelessness into the half-recognition of human beings, whose consternation at the uncertain vision were barrier enough to prevent all further knowledge of its substance.”
- George MacDonald
I love it when women come into my church with veils. They may not know this but they’re keeping those giants from coming back. The apostle Paul wanted to keep them from tempting the angels( 1 Cor 11:10). If you ever get a chance Margret Barker’s “The Lost Prophet: The Book of Enoch and Its Influence on Christianity” is a good read.