The sin that was perpetrated by the serpent (Devil) within the Garden of Eden may well have been the seeds of the giants that were born to the ‘daughters of men’ before the Great Flood of Noah. The curse that God pronounced upon the serpent served to remove him from looking at man face to face subtilely and cast the serpent at man’s feet; without subtile cunning the serpent was no longer any use to the Devil to beguile and tempt man. God physically transformed the serpent (who apparently was upright) and set him at enmity with man. This would not set the Devil back for long for now there was born unto Adam and Eve two sons, Cain and Abel. The Devil found a willing instrument in the heart of Cain. Fortunately for man, the Devil and his Fallen Angels are not omnipotent, omnipresent, or omniscient; the Devil cannot read mans mind or know the future as does God Almighty and he can only be in one place at a time.
In the first two chapters of Genesis, God created man, woman, and all that is in the earth from the elements of the earth; God commanded man to be fruitful and multiply, to replenish the earth, to subdue the earth, to tend the Garden, and forbids man to eat of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. God did not create the demons or fallen angel spirits at this time from the elements of this universe for He declared at the end of the sixth day that His creation was very good; there was as yet no evil in this new creation.
When God leads and commands us, He also provides us with the authority and tools to obey His commands. For Adam to be able to subdue the earth and have dominion over it, Adam would have to be endowed with extraordinary abilities and powers; the mental acuity to organize the work, the strength and authority to subdue any creature or event, the ability to be any place he needed to be at any time, the intelligence to plan for future events, and any other ability necessary to fulfill Gods command.
In this respect, Adam and Eve (as well as all living earthly things) are elemental flesh and blood; mans dominion and that of their progeny is over the physical world. The Devil and his Fallen Angels are spiritual beings (not of the elements of this world) that have been cast down to earth from God’s heavenly realm with certain limitations but with equally formidable powers and abilities; they are not said to have been created in God’s image as we. In fact, the Cherubim and Seraphim appear much differently than men being described in Scripture as having wings. The Devil (the anointed cherub of Ezekiel 28:14) has succeeded in introducing the battle between good and evil; sin is now in the physical world and Satan’s hatred for God and the man created in God’s image is without precedence. The Devil partially understands the prophecy that the Lord pronounces between he and the woman. It is the children of man that must be slain; Cain must slay his brother Abel as the instrument of the Devil’s hatred; the seed of the woman must not flourish to be able to bruise Satan’s head (Genesis 3:15).
Again, God is pronouncing judgment on the Devil and his instrument of evil. As God cursed the serpent above the cattle and beasts physically changing the serpent to limit his usefulness to the Devil, so God curses Cain from the earth which is Cain’s natural dominion as a son of Adam; Cain is now a fugitive (wandering, fleeing from others) and vagabond (wandering, not given to having a family place or issue) from the earth. Cain complains that this condemnation will make him the object of the avenger of blood; a person that will take vengeance and kill him for his crime against righteous Abel. Then, as with the serpent, God incorporates a physical change that would limit Cain’s influence and protect him from the avenger of blood; this would actually harm the perpetrator more than Cain who is already condemned. God places a mark (oth) on Cain that will make him easily identifiable and shunned by others.
The word oth can mean a physical mark but, more interestingly, it can be a sign or characteristic; the Rainbow sign of God’s promise is an oth. In the future, if Cain were to choose to disguise himself, a mark could simply be covered. How, then, may God change Cain in such a way to deny him the ability of disguise; to force Cain into the life of a fugitive and vagabond? I suggest (render my scientific and scriptural opinion) that, as God cast the serpent to the ground at man’s feet, God chooses to make Cain a giant; a person taller than any other man that would be born of women. Cain would not be able to disguise his size and could be seen from afar; he could be more easily avoided and his size might discourage the avenger of blood. This would explain how the gene for giantism came to be in the preflood society and God’s future judgment against all giants; Cain is of the elements of this world. All of these judgments, of course, against the serpent and Cain came directly from The Word that became flesh and dwelt among us; the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, the maker of heaven and earth. The Devil only knew a little piece of the future told to him by the Lord about being bruised by the seed of the woman and her understanding was equally limited in that she believed her deliverance was closer at hand.
So now Cain makes his way to Nod on the east of Eden but not alone as God’s judgment had intended, for one of Cain’s sisters disobeys the judgment against Cain, has mercy on him, and presents him with a son (Enoch) who will aid Cain. As I have conjectured, Adam and his descendants are men of unusual ability and longevity. Enoch builds a city and his children become merchants and artificers of the goods that tempt men to the mammon of the world. As the numbers of the descendants of Cain reaches into the millions (due to the long life of preflood mankind and the number of years they could propagate), they undoubtedly build more cities. The genetic trait of the mark of the giant spreads through all of the line of Cain as the changes in the serpent spread through its kind; Genesis 6:4 states that giants were already in the earth before the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men.
While Cain and his tribe spread their influence over the earth, Seth begat a son (Enos) and the Bible states that, at this time, men began to call upon the name of the Lord; this could mean that men no longer had a desire to walk with the Lord but were content to worship from afar. It is apparent that not all of Seth’s progeny stayed true to God but strayed to the cities and commerce of the Cainites (Genesis 6:2 states that the sons of God saw the daughters of men and took wives of them). They began to be polluted with the sin of Cain and the gene of the giant until one day when the earth was filled with humanity, even the sons of God (those that still worship the now unseen God of creation) began to turn to the daughters of the giant.
There are many that believe that these sons of God (the ben Eloheem) are angelic beings, but God’s heavenly angels are spiritual messengers and not created in the image of God as we; there is no giving and taking in marriage in heaven. They are not made of the clay of the earth as man. The fallen angels are no longer Godly but demonic spirit beings and not flesh and blood; not some incubus creature taking lustful women in sin. They influence the evil flesh of willing human instruments; we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against spiritual wickedness in high places (Ephesians 6:12). At this point, God repents that He has made man and declares that in 120 years mankind will be judged. The Devil is now rejoicing; he has finally seen to the pollution of all the seed of the woman and believes himself to be safe from the prophecy of the Lord about the woman’s seed. The Devil does not realize that God always has a remnant that has not bowed the knee to Baal (the Devil).
It would be prudent at this time to discuss the term the sons of God as seen in Job at the auspicious assembly of the host of heaven with the dubious appearance of Lucifer; in this case, not all of the hosts of heaven have the designation of angel as has been discussed. All are the creation of God and as such may be called the sons of God; there are no family lines indicated among the heavenly hosts as declared by Jesus in Matthew 22:30 (no giving or taking in marriage in heaven). In all, the term the sons of God occurs twelve times in the entire Bible. In Hosea 1:10 the children of Israel shall be called the sons of the living God, in John 1:12 God will give the believers the power to become the sons of God, in Romans 8:14,19 they that are led by the Spirit and are the manifestation of God are the sons of God, in Philippians 2:15 those that shine as lights among the crooked and perverse nations are the sons of God, and in I john 3:1-2 the Father has bestowed His love on us calling us the sons of God. One thing appears obvious in these references to the sons of God; the term is not applied to the fallen demonic spirit beings that were cast out of heaven and no longer in Gods service. All we who choose to trust and do the will of God, both in heaven and earth, are the sons of God; the ben Eloheem.
There is some difference of opinion as to the identity of the sons of God in Genesis 6:2-4 which are referred to twice. The common thread that runs through the references stated above is that they are all worshipful, loving, faithful, believing servants, and children of the Most High God; in only three cases are they His faithful, worshipful host of heaven. Since the sons of God in Genesis take wives of the daughters of men and the spirit beings of the host of heaven are not made of the elements of this time and space not engaging in marriage, then it would be more logical to conclude that they are faithful, believing descendants of Seth who still worship God. God commanded Adam and Eve, and their descendants, to be fruitful and multiply creating them with the biological means to do so; the spirit beings of heaven do not give and take in marriage and we are not aware of a command of God for them to be fruitful and multiply.
There are those who claim that fallen angelic spirit beings have impregnated human women to produce, what was termed by Adolf Hitler, a super race of people (mighty men, men of renown). We should be careful when elaborating on the activities of the spirit world; a world that we know little about with the exception of what we are given from the Scriptures. In Matthew 1:18 it states that Mary was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. This is intended by God to be a unique onetime event of a miraculous nature; the virgin birth of the son of God (the Christ). God’s Holy Spirit placed the perfect holy seed containing the perfect genetic code of mankind within the Virgin Mary’s’ womb to be born as the perfect Son of God. Only the All Mighty powerful God of the universe can do this. God’s Holy Spirit was the vehicle through which this event took place. In this way, the Holy Son of God had the untainted sinless blood of the God-man to be offered for the sins of the world. This event is far above man’s ability to understand or comprehend in its entirety.
We know that Satan’s goal is to subvert every aspect of God’s redemption of mankind. Let us suppose that Satan has planted a thought in the minds of sinful man regarding the activities of spirit beings with human women. If the ben Eloheem of Genesis chapter 6 are proposed to have been fallen spirit beings that fathered a race of super humans, then why couldn’t Satan father a son, an antichrist if you will, that could claim to be the fulfillment of the prophecy and redeem Israel from their great difficulties as shown in the Revelation. If you think that this is farfetched, consult the 1967 novel by Ira Levin Rosemary’s Baby; it might just shock you. Further, if fallen spirit beings could have fathered a super human race, then why aren’t they doing so now? Do fallen demonic spirit beings have the power to place a human type seed within a human female to produce a hybrid human/spirit being? Nothing in this universe occurs outside of God’s divine power and authority. The sinful nature of man was a result of a willful choice by Adam and Eve acting upon the free will that God gave them. God did not create the spirit beings to have the ability to produce offspring (no giving and taking of marriage in heaven).
We need to take care when attributing to fallen spirit beings powers relegated only to the Holy Spirit of God. If fallen spirits could impregnate human women, then it could be inferred by the lost world that virgin births are not so special, and that the Virgin Birth of our Lord Jesus may not be that special. My fellow Brothers and Sisters in the Lord, take care not to blaspheme the Holy Spirit of God by diminishing in any way His mighty power and works. Consider the possibility that the sons of God are all those who are dedicated to following and putting their trust in God as when Christ declared in John 1:12, But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God; even to them that believe in His name. Certainly the heavenly angelic beings would fall in this group as well as we who believe in Him. The ben Eloheem of Genesis 6 could just as well have been human descendants of Seth that had not yet rejected God’s salvation offered by Noah as he preached to pre-Flood mankind.
So for 120 years, God directs Noah and his three sons to build the ark (they could also have employed laborers), the vessel of salvation, the way to preserve the seed of the Savior through Shem and his righteous wife. God judges the ground because of the righteous blood of Abel that stained it and for the evil seed of the giant that has polluted all mankind. So how does the seed of the giant come through the flood when all flesh has died in the waters of judgment? Think of where all of the giants of the Old Testament are found; in the line of Ham. Since Ham was a righteous descendant of Seth, his wife must have been a penitent daughter of the line of Cain. In her were the genes of the giant.
Case in point, when Ham saw the nakedness of his father (Noah), his two brothers covered Noah; when Noah awakes and knows what has happened, he does not curse Ham. Ham’s sin was no greater than that of Noah’s drunken nakedness and eventual stupor. Noah curses the son of Ham (Canaan) and his wife who carries the evil gene of the giants; the apparent willing instrument of the Devil that has begun his attempt to continue the spiritual attack. Several centuries later, when the Hebrew children of the Exodus reach the land of Canaan, they find the same walled cities and the giants as in the days of Cain. This time, God uses the Hebrew children of faithful Abraham to destroy the remaining symbol of Cain’s seed, the giants of the land of Canaan. God uses David to slay Goliath with five stones from the brook in the valley of Elah; David slings one stone into the forehead of the giant, the other four stones being for Goliath’s brothers. Eventually, David and his ‘mighty men’ slay most of the giants of the land and the rest are now history.
So what did man and the serpent learn from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil? Before Adam and Eve ate of the ‘forbidden fruit’ they were innocent and unmindful of the concept of good and evil. They only knew the things that were told them by the Lord who walked in the garden in the cool of the day. Our Lord seems to enjoy the garden environment; then as now, our Lord speaks of love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, meekness, kindness, temperance, mercy, forgiveness, generosity, helping our neighbor, worshiping our Heavenly Father and all of those things that bring us to a position of peace and rest. Adam and Eve were like computers awaiting a processing system and the data to assimilate; unlike computers, however, they had the free will to choose and reason for themselves. It is quite possible that before the serpent beguiled Eve, he took of the ‘forbidden fruit’ then knowing good and evil making the serpent a more formidable tool in the Devil’s hands. This is conjecture and not scripture, but it seems to fit the pattern.
Satan, Lucifer the shinning fallen cherub, the Devil, was and is capable of making a choice to obey and follow God’s commands or to rebel and seek to be equal with God. Lucifer’s minions followed what he did because of the hierarchy of the spirit world. Michael and Gabriel chose to be faithful to God’s authority and their angelic groups followed them. All of the angels are spirit beings created to serve God and do His bidding along an apparent hierarchical command; they are beings without age living forever. Angels are not elemental flesh and blood as has already been said but spirit. They do not assume flesh and blood but are capable of indwelling flesh and blood creatures who are willing subjects. As a point of argument, if demonic fallen angels could become flesh and blood and have carnal knowledge with mankind, they could produce fleshly creatures possibly ageless with abilities beyond mortal men. Does such a demonic half flesh, half spirit army exist? It may be lurking in the wings awaiting the Great Tribulation but it will not be the spawn of Satan; it will be from the judgment of God against faithless mankind. The demonic spirits control willing subjects like a puppet master does his puppets or like a ventriloquist does his dummy. Our defense is to resist them and their evil; allow the Holy Spirit to strengthen the armor of faith within us. If we resist, they will have no choice but to flee as a fugitive from us.
The knowledge of evil learned by the serpent, Adam, and Eve was that of lies, deceit, hate, whore mongering, necromancy, sorcery, idolatry, lasciviousness and lewdness, fear, unbelief, abomination, murder, theft, disorder, ciaos, unrest, blasphemy and all such sinfulness as is against the goodness of God. Many of these things are appealing for a season to our sentient nature. They feel good for a time; a drunken state of mental escape, a drug induced euphoria, a lustful satisfaction of a sexual event in the pit of sin, a thrill of doing something dangerous with the adrenalin charge; all of these are addicting to that evil nature that man, through Adam, has come to know from the ‘forbidden fruit’. To resist that evil and bring our sentient, sinful natures under subjection is described quite well by the apostle Paul as he brings his body into subjection to the Holy Spirit and feeds the good nature ignoring the sentient satisfaction we as sons of Adam often relish. We have a free will choice to make; the satisfaction of the flesh for a season or the eternal bliss of communion with God and peaceful rest for eternity. We as descendants of Adam have the knowledge of good and evil and the ability to reason with God to work out our salvation with fear and trembling. No other creature of creation has the ability to trust our unseen LORD with faith, we alone possess an immortal soul, we alone are capable of worship. Turn a troop of monkeys loose at a church alter and you will have to clean up the mess.
There was another tree in the Garden; the Tree of Life to which God blocked the way by the Cherubim with the flaming sword. God has provided Himself as sacrifice for the sin of mankind and the serpent; the Lord Jesus Christ, the very judge of their original sin and Cain’s sin of murder. He is the ‘door of the ark’ that was the way of salvation, the door of the Passover with the Blood of the innocent lamb. He is our propitiation, the Blood of our Savior applied to the lid of the Ark in heaven. This is the way that man must now choose for forgiveness, mercy, grace, and eternal life.
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