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 Giants  Genesis 6:4

Intro:  What happened way back just before the flood?  Why did God have to destroy the inhabitants of the earth?  What was so bad that God went to such extreme measures?  Genesis 6:5-7 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.  7And 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.

Man’s imagination was ONLY EVIL and his heart was ONLY EVIL CONTINUALLY!  Look at Genesis 6: 12 and 13.  And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. 13And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.  All flesh was corrupted.  Was that a DNA corruption?  What kind of violence was upon the earth in those days? Is this the curse of all men because no one seeks after God naturally?  Psalm 14:2-4 The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. 3    They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one. 4  Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.  There seems to be a general curse upon all men and there is a specific curse upon those who are evil continually who cannot repent.  Who cannot repent? Fallen angels.  

I am going to present the evidence… but you have to decide.  I am not going to say absolutely this is what happened.  I wasn’t there…I don’t know.  But always take Biblical truth and good evidence and see where it leads us. 

1. Nephilim

Genesis 6:4 There were giants (Nephilim) 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.  In those days, and even later, there were giants on the earth who were descendants of human women and the heavenly beings. They were the great heroes and famous men of long ago.   There were giants on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God lived with the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

Three rebellions.  Eden, pre-flood, Babel.  All caused by man’s lust and the devils lies. 

If it’s in the Bible and it’s weird then it’s important. 

Sons of God…..sons of Seth?  Daughters of men…Cain’s daughters??  That’s the prevailing thought that has been taught for about 16 hundred years.  The early church believed in the Nephilim according to some scholars but got away from it as we went into the dark ages.    

But according to the Bible…..

Sons of God always means angelic beings.  Septuagent, the Greek translation says it means…angels of God.  So we must assume that these were Angels.  If they were sons of Seth and the daughters of Cain then that might explain the evil and violence that led to the flood.  But what made giants?  What made them men of renown?  What made them so mighty?  Why is this so different than any other marriage and birth?  Men have married evil woman for eons.  Evil men have married righteous women.  But we don’t get giants and men of renown and mighty men do we?  Something is different about this.  Something God gave us some clues about but left out the details.  Like the crucifixion of Christ.  God left out the details of that because it was not necessary.  The word crucified said it all.   Either God knew that people would understand the implications of Genesis 6:4 and the word “Giants or Nephilim” said it all.  God may have figured we would forget about it as time went o…..n or God knew we would not understand genetics until the last of the last days as we increased in knowledge.  So, God didn’t reveal to us the story behind the story until we could understand it all…… today. 

Let’s look at what happened to these angels that sinned by doing some terrible sin maybe it was having children by human women.  Jude 6 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. 2 Peter 2:4.  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.

1 Peter 3:19-20 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;  20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. In his spiritual existence he went and preached to the imprisoned spirits. These were the spirits of those who had not obeyed God when he waited patiently during the days that Noah was building his boat. The few people in the boat—eight in all—were saved by the water, In which He went and preached to the spirits in prison, The souls of those who long before in the days of Noah had been disobedient, when God’s patience waited during the building of the ark in which a few people, actually eight in number, were saved through water.

A lot of information there.  We will break all this down later.  But suffice it to say there were giants on the earth in those days.  Some angels left their first estate, or their designated place, their designed purpose, and did a abominable, horrific sin.  The question is…What was that sin?  Who were the giants?  What does “and after that” mean?   What did they have to do with the Sons of God or angels?  What did the angels do? The Bible is vague about it.  But we will try to break it all down for you with facts and legend, science, technology and of course the Bible. 

2. The Book of Enoch

The book of Enoch is a non-Cannonical book of the Bible.  It was written in the late 2nd century BC about words supposedly from Enoch from the book of Genesis.  We do not know who wrote the book of Enoch.  So it was actually written after the book of Malachi.  Jews believed the inspiration ended with Malachi and that Enoch was not inspired.  But later it was considered inspired by some of the early church fathers.  But it quickly fell out of favor because of some contradictions with the books that Jesus endorsed and some other outlandish claims. 

1. The story of angels having sex with women contradicts Matthew 22:30 for in the resurrection they neither marry or are given in marriage but are like the angels of God in heaven.

2.  The giants produced called the Nephilim were 450 feet tall according to Enoch 7:2 these giants consumed the produce of all the people until the people detested feeding them. So the giants turned against the people in order to eat them.  Enoch 7:3-4

3. In Enoch 10:4-5 Raphael a good angel digs a hole and binds Azazel a bad angel and throws him into a hole he made in the desert of Dudael and threw rugged and sharp rocks on top of him. 

4.  In Chapter 13 Enoch intercedes for Azael the evil angel

5. In Enoch 15:9 evil spirits came of the bodies of the giants. (which may explain or not explain evil spirits of Jesus day)

How does a book get in the Bible cannon?  It had to be written by a prophet or Apostle.  The Book claims inspiration from God.  Jesus taught about or mentioned it.  Jesus taught from or mentioned the books of the Old testament.  He did not ever mention the book of Enoch.  Jude did mention the book of Enoch.  Paul quoted the poet Menander.  That doesn’t mean Menander was inspired as it does not mean that he book of Enoch was inspired because Jude quoted it. 

Jesus mentioned The books of Moses, the history of the kings, poetry, law, and the prophets.    The Old Testament is well established by the time Jesus walked the earth.  The New Testament was established by circulating and copying these letters written by the Apostles to the first and 2^nd century churches.  So, the Bible you have in your lap is the ONLY word of God that is inspired by the Holy Spirit without contradiction and outlandish claims. 

But…….There are some interesting claims in the book of Enoch that might explain what happened in Genesis 6:4.  It’s as if God did not want us to go there but He did…..want us to be aware that some really bad things went on with a certain group of angels at that time.  Jude and Peter even mention some really confusing and strange statements about angels that we cannot fully understand until we put the whole picture together.  The fact is according to the Bible…..some of the angels left heaven and did some abominable actions.    The only clue we have is Genesis 6:4, the flood itself in Genesis 7-8, the 12 spies sent out and the subsequent genocide in the book of Joshua.  And Jude 6 and 1 Peter 3:19-20 and 2 Peter 2:4.  Something very bad happened with a certain group of angels according to the inspired word of God.  We have the book of Enoch to give us a clue as to what might have occurred.  I am not saying this is exactly what happened.  Did the book of Enoch take some liberties with the facts? Probably.  But it does make perfect sense that some hybrid angel-human was real.  

Plus the facts that we have discovered many bones of people that were 10-20 feet tall discovered around the world.  We have found human skulls that are elongated.  Scientists have discovered these humans were  genetically a different species of man…..not skulls made by tying the head of infants to make their heads elongated.  Who were these people? 

We have monoliths that were constructed in antiquity that weigh hundreds of tons and are perfectly dressed and on mountain tops.  The monoliths of the pacific islands that weigh hundreds of tons and are laid out sequentially.  We have discovered entire civilizations built in inaccessible places by a technology that we still can’t figure out.  We have discovered Stonehenge in Great Britain and the Stonehenge of America in the North eastern US.  We have found many burial mounds that from the sky show distinct patterns and symbols.  How did they get there?    We have ancient legends among all tribes and people groups of people about giants and legends and gods that walked the earth many years ago. 

I believe that Genesis 6:4 seems to answer these questions without giving the sordid details.  We would not discover most of these artifacts until the late 20^th century and 21 centuries.  This tells us that God for centuries hid these things from us until we had the technology to find them.  God is much more concerned with the salvation of man than the history of man.  God has always said that these last of the last days we would see things and know things that would shake us up.  Knowledge shall increase, the rocks will cry out.  The days of Noah and Lot would return.  They certainly have in my opinion. 

Here’s what we know of Enoch.  Genesis 5 18-24 And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch:  19And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:  20And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died. 21And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:  22And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: 23And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:  24And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.  God raptured Enoch before the flood and judgment.  He is important to us as he is the rapture guy in the Old Testament. 

And he is mentioned as being a prophet in Jude 14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints.  This quote is not exactly in the book of Enoch but is instead attributed to Enoch back in the days before the flood.  Enoch told of time at the end of the tribulation when Jesus would come back with his church.  So that aligns with the scriptures we have.  Enoch is raptured and Enoch tells of time of the return of the Lord with obviously His church.  So He is correct on that.  If He is beloved of the Lord so much that He raptures Him and He is correct about the Lord’s return…… maybe we should take the book of Enoch more seriously than we do.

Enoch is also mentioned in Hebrews 11:5 By Faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony that he pleased God.   He definitely is the rapture guy in the Bible.  

A couple of questions.  Is the author of the book of Enoch actually the Enoch of Genesis?  It is said to be the words of Enoch written in the late 2nd century BC.  We do not know who wrote it.  Why was Enoch not included in Bible cannon if he was a prophet? For one….. it was not written by Enoch but contains the words of Enoch or make Enoch the hero from an earlier time. 

Some of the scenes described are too controversial and not given further explanation in the Bible.  Not that they all weren’t true, but kind of weird.  But just as God chose not to give the gory details of the crucifixion of Jesus….. Maybe God chose not to include the gory details of the sin of the Angels in the Bible. 

So maybe Enoch was given to be helpful to us and if is true, gives us some great information about that time.  Since we don’t have any other information about that time in history, we have to take the book of Enoch with of course a grain of salt but it is the only detailed explanation of that era.  So, I give this information to you not to say this is the way it was….. but to give you something to ponder and research further on your own.   Always trust in the Bible where you have the true revealed word of God and not in the non-cannonical books like Enoch.  But we can glean some information from the books of the apocrypha.  There are many writings of antiquity and many lists of these books so I could not come up with one definitive list.   But this is considered the Apocrypha in the original 1611 King James Bible.

The Book of Tobit

The book of Judith

1st Maccabees

2^nd Maccabees

The Wisdom of Solomon

The Book of Eccleisasticus

The Book of Baruch

1 Esdras

2 Esdras

Additions to Esther

The letter of Jeremiah

Prayer of Azariah

Book of Susanna

Bel and the Dragon

Prayer of Manesseh

The apocrypha was not removed from the King James Bible until 1885.   The Catholic church kept these books in their Bible and still do.  There are a few more non-canonical books that are considered by many as useful….. but not inspired along with the book of Enoch that are not included in the apocrypha.   The Book of Enoch was NOT in the original 1611 King James Bible.  It was first accepted by the early church fathers but later rejected after it fell into dispute.   So the Book of Enoch has never been a part of the Apocrypha.  It is considered a NON-Canonical book but useful by many today. 

Apocryphical and non-canonical books DO NOT contain any prophecy.  They do not contain any Messianic truth.  They do not say “thus saith the Lord.”  They are not cited by any authority or prophet’s book written after them.  There were no prophets in Israel at the time of some of the books.  The Apocrypha was mostly written from 450 BC to 50 BC.    During this period God did not send any prophets so it’s no wonder that many wrote hoping to make up for the dearth of any word from God.  The Jews did not accept any book written after Malachi.  

But let’s see what Enoch says about Genesis 6:4….

1 Enoch 6:1 And it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied that in those days were born unto them beautiful and comely daughters.  2 and the angels, the children of the heaven, saw and lusted after them, and said one to another; “come let us choose us wives from among the children of men and beget us children.”  3 And Semjaza, who was their leader, said unto them: “I fear ye will not indeed agree to do this deed, and I alone shall have to pay the penalty of a great sin.”  4 And they all answered him and said: “let us all swear an oath, and all bind ourselves by mutual imprecations not to abandon this plan but to do this thing.”  5 Then sware they all together and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it.  6 And they were in all two hundred; who descended in the days of Jared on the summit of Mount Hermon, and they called it Mount Hermon, because they had sworn and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it.  7 And these are the names of their leaders: Semiazaz, their leader Arakiba, Rameel, Kokabiel, Tamiel, Ramiel, Danel, Ezeqeel, Baraqijal, Asael, Armaros, Batarel, Ananel, Zaqiel, Ssamsapeel, Satarel, Turel, Jomjael, Sariel, 8 These are the chiefs of Tens.

1 Enoch 15:2 and go, say to the watchers of heaven, who have sent thee to intercede for men, and not men for you: 3 Wherefore have ye left the high, holy and eternal heaven, and lain with women, and defiled yourselves with the daughters of men and taken unto yourselves wives, and done like the children of the earth, and begotten giants as your sons? 4 And though ye were holy, spiritual, living the eternal life, you have defiled yourselves with the blood of women, and have begotten children with the blood of flesh, and, as the children of men, have lusted after flesh and blood as those also do who die and perish.  5 Therefore have I given them wives also that they might impregnate them, and beget children by them, that thus nothing might be wanting to them on earth. 6 But you were formally spiritual, living the eternal life, and immortal for all generations of the world. 7 And therefore I have not appointed wives for you; for as for the spiritual ones of the heaven, in heaven is their dwelling. 8 And now, the giants, who are produced from the spirits and flesh, shall be called evil spirits upon the earth and on the earth shall be their dwelling.  9 Evil spirits have proceeded from their bodies; because they are born from men and from the holy watchers is their beginning and primal origin; they shall be evil spirits on the earth, and evil spirits shall they be called. 10 As for the spirits of heaven, in heaven shall be their dwelling, but as for the spirits of the earth which were born upon the earth, on the earth shall be their dwelling  11 And the spirits of the giants afflict, oppress, destroy, attack, do battle, and work destruction upon the earth, and cause trouble; they take no food, but nevertheless hunger and thirst, and cause offenses.  And these spirits shall rise up against the children of men and against the women, because they have proceeded from them. 

Here's what happened according to the book of Enoch.  Two hundred Angels called “watchers” decided to take wives of beautiful human women.  They had children called giants (Nephilim, fallen ones) They were destroyed by God in the flood of Noah’s day.  The angels or “watchers” that sinned were put in chains of darkness until the final judgment and then they will be cast into the lake of fire.  The spirits of their children born by human women (called giants) who died in the flood and afterward during Israel’s purge under Joshua (have human, half angel) live today as demonic influences on the world.  These disembodied Demons need a body to manifest in this world.  Mark 5:9 And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.  Satan doesn’t need a body to manifest Himself.  He appeared before Jesus to tempt Him.  In the book of Job Satan walks to and fro on the face of the earth.

Satan had a plan to destroy the seed of the woman since the original sin.  Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.  Women don’t have seed and Satan cannot bear seed.  But they both did.  The Woman would bear a son of the Holy Spirit.  Satan would spawn the Nephilim. 

Satan wanted to corrupt the human seed so that Jesus could not be born.  Was all the world corrupted before the flood with this inhuman seed?  We have Genesis 6:9 These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.  Noah had purely human DNA for sure.  But was he the only non-hybrid human with pure DNA? Doubtful. For the Bible emphasizes that Noah walked with God completely and was A (the only) just man.  The only man who truly followed God yes, but not the only pure Human.  But the influence of the wicked Nephilim had corrupted some of mankind genetically and threatened to pollute all the gene pool over time.  And also under their powerful influence was corrupting all of mankind spiritually by this time.   So, God had no choice but to destroy man and start again. 

3 Will the Nephilim Return?

Where are they today?  Will they come back to earth again? Jesus said it will be as in the days of Noah when He returns.  So what does that mean? 

Alien abductions.  Women and men are abducted and implanted.  Women are impregnated.  Aliens are Demons. Demons are disembodied spirits of the Nephilim killed in the flood.  Are they making more Nephilim today?  I think so…. as in the days of Noah not only means great violence and wickedness but I think it also means corrupted blood lines. 

UAP’s, UFO’s, Ancient Astronauts and Aliens— Nephilim are not either of these. But they are the disembodied Nephilim from the flood who are now demonic influences that will deceive us and cause us to lose our faith and trust in Jesus Christ.     Everyone will believe that they are from the stars and are coming back to give us a DNA update.  Will the Anti-Christ, the Beast use the mark of the Beast as a DNA update as well as a means of control and buying and selling?  Will people (demons) come from an alien craft and endorse the Beast and cause people to take the mark as a DNA update that will prevent disease, give long life and guarantee their safety? 

Will it make those who take the mark in a sense Nephilim by giving them Nephilim DNA?  Is that why God will automatically condemn them to hell if they take the mark of the Beast that transforms them into Nephilim? 

Genesis 6:4 …..And after this…..God wanted Joshua to destroy ALL of the inhabitants of Canaan.  Why ALL?  There were Giants among them as reported by the twelve Hebrew spies. 

Look at all the references to Giants in the Land of Israel, the Levant……

Numbers 13:33 And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.

Dueteronomy 2:11  Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims.

Dueteronomy 2:20 And the coast of Og king of Bashan, which was of the remnant of the giants, that dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,

Dueteronomy 3: 11 All the kingdom of Og in Bashan, which reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei, who remained of the remnant of the giants: for these did Moses smite, and cast them out.

Dueteronomy 3:13 And the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom unto the south side of the Jebusite; the same is Jerusalem: and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lieth before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the end of the valley of the giants northward:  

Joshua 12:4 And the coast of Og king of Bashan, which was of the remnant of the giants, that dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,

Joshua 13:12 All the kingdom of Og in Bashan, which reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei, who remained of the remnant of the giants: for these did Moses smite, and cast them out.

Joshua 15:8 And the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom unto the south side of the Jebusite; the same is Jerusalem: and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lieth before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the end of the valley of the giants northward:

Joshua 17:15 And Joshua answered them, If thou be a great people, then get thee up to the wood country, and cut down for thyself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the giants, if mount Ephraim be too narrow for thee.

Joshua 18:16And the border came down to the end of the mountain that lieth before the valley of the son of Hinnom, and which is in the valley of the giants on the north, and descended to the valley of Hinnom, to the side of Jebusi on the south, and descended to Enrogel,

I say that Joshua was the real giant slayer.  These were remnants of giant DNA.  No giant survived the flood.  So the only way for Nephilim DNA to get into these people had to be from one of the wives of Noah’s sons.  Look at the description of Nimrod.  Genesis 10:8 And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. 9He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.  Nimrod is called “mighty”  like the “mighty” men of old in Genesis 6.   He lived in the land of Shinar.  Genesis 6:10 10And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. 

The land of Babel, Babylon, mystery Babylon began here.  Was Nimrod a remnant of the Nephilim?  Possibly.   Nimrod was the son of Cush who was the son of Ham who was the son of Noah.  So Ham’s wife must have had some Nephilim DNA.  All of Nimrod descendants settled in the Middle east.  Canaan is one of Nimrod’s descendants which included the Hivites, Jebusites, Amorites, and the Girgasites all among the people who the Hebrews destroyed from the land of Canaan.  So it makes sense here.  Why would God allow Nephilim DNA in Ham’s wife to pollute human DNA?  Ham had no idea that his wife had Nephilim DNA.  How could he? 

Why did God allow Nephilim in the first place?  Mankind’s sin.  Women were seduced by these fallen angels.  God gave us choices.  It’s not God’s fault it happened.   And God took care of the problem with the flood.  And God took care of this problem with the slaughter of the remaining Nephilim with Joshua and the Hebrew people.  But it’s always going to be here.  Go back to Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

Why did God have Joshua and the Hebrews kill all of the residents of Jericho? 

Joshua 6:17 And the city shall be accursed, even it, and all that are therein, to the LORD: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.

Joshua 6:21 And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword.

Joshua 6:26 And Joshua adjured them at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before the LORD, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho: he shall lay the foundation thereof in his firstborn, and in his youngest son shall he set up the gates of it.

And we see where Ai was completed destroy every man, woman, and we assume children also.

Joshua 8:25-26 And so it was, that all that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai. For Joshua drew not his hand back, wherewith he stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.

Libnah….

Joshua 10:29 Then Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel with him, unto Libnah, and fought against Libnah: 30And the LORD delivered it also, and the king thereof, into the hand of Israel; and he smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein; he let none remain in it; but did unto the king thereof as he did unto the king of Jericho.

Lachish…..

32And the LORD delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel, which took it on the second day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein, according to all that he had done to Libnah.

Gezer…..

Joshua 10:33 Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua smote him and his people, until he had left him none remaining.

Eglon….

Joshua 10: 34-35 And from Lachish Joshua passed unto Eglon, and all Israel with him; and they encamped against it, and fought against it: 35And they took it on that day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein he utterly destroyed that day, according to all that he had done to Lachish.

Hebron…..

Joshua 10: 36 And Joshua went up from Eglon, and all Israel with him, unto Hebron; and they fought against it:  37And they took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof, and all the souls that were therein; he left none remaining, according to all that he had done to Eglon; but destroyed it utterly, and all the souls that were therein.

Debir…..

Joshua 10:39 And he took it, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof; and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all the souls that were therein; he left none remaining: as he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to the king thereof; as he had done also to Libnah, and to her king.

Kadeshbarnea, Gaza, Goshen, and Gibeon

Joshua 10:40 So Joshua smote all the country of the hills, and of the south, and of the vale, and of the springs, and all their kings: he left none remaining, but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the LORD God of Israel commanded. 41And Joshua smote them from Kadeshbarnea even unto Gaza, and all the country of Goshen, even unto Gibeon.  42And all these kings and their land did Joshua take at one time, because the LORD God of Israel fought for Israel. 43And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the camp to Gilgal.

Madon, Shimron, and Achshaph, Canaanite, Amorite, Hittite, Perizzite, and the Jebusite in the mountains, and to the Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mizpeh.

Joshua 11:14 And all the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the children of Israel took for a prey unto themselves; but every man they smote with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, neither left they any to breathe.

31 people groups were destroyed and removed from the land. 

Joshua 12:24 …….all the kings thirty and one.

The Hivites were spared.   No reason given.  We must assume they were NOT related to the giants. 

Joshua 11:19 There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, save the Hivites the inhabitants of Gibeon: all other they took in battle.

Were they remnants of Nephilim?  I think so. 

Actually some survived.  Joshua 11:22 22There was none of the Anakims left in the land of the children of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, there remained.

Elongated skulls show up around the world about 3500 years ago about the same time that Israel began to conquer the tribes of the Levant.  Some of the Nephilim must have escaped before the slaughter began and fled to other parts of the world. 

Joshua 11:3 And to the Canaanite on the east and on the west, and to the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite in the mountains, and to the Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mizpeh.  Joshua 12:1 Now these are the kings of the land, which the children of Israel smote, and possessed their land on the other side Jordan toward the rising of the sun, from the river Arnon unto mount Hermon, and all the plain on the east:

Mount Hermon is the legendary mountain of the gods in mythology.  There it is right in the middle of the land of the giants. Mount Hermon in the land of Mizpah was in the far north, the highest point in the northern Levant.

The slaughter of the remnant of the giants ends with chapter 12.  Then the Hebrews drive out the remaining residents and even assimilate some of the groups.  Joshua 13:13 Nevertheless the children of Israel expelled not the Geshurites, nor the Maachathites: but the Geshurites and the Maachathites dwell among the Israelites until this day. Joshua 15:63 As for the Jebusites the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah could not drive them out: but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Judah at Jerusalem unto this day. 

All this proves that God was not cruel in this slaughter of these wicked cursed people.  But if they were the remnant of the giants…. He was removing a curse from this world and a cursed people and saving millions of souls and creation itself by doing so.   By destroying these Nephilim God was allowing Jesus Christ to be born so HE could SAVE the world.  If Satan’s Nephilim curse would have been allowed He would have polluted the pure DNA of the Jews and Jesus could not have been born and thus the promise of Genesis 12:3 (In thy seed all the world would be blessed) would have been broken and Satan would have won! 

Is all this true?  Well….we believe….

God created the world is six literal days,

We believe a fish swallowed a man,

an ax head floated,

Jesus raised three dead people,

healed the blind and made the lame to walk,

found a coin in a fishes mouth,

turned water to wine,

Enoch and Elijah taken to heaven,

 God caused fire not to burn three Hebrew children,

and caused hungry lions to not eat Daniel,

caused tongues of fire landed on people and they spoke in other languages,

Jesus was born of a virgin,

That Jesus is going to suddenly take millions to heaven one day,  

that He is coming again on a white horse with His church

and on and on I could go……

…..But we don’t believe this?  I think there is enough evidence in archeology, mythology, cultural legends and tales of giants, science, the Bible, the book of Enoch, and our own reasoning to believe the Nephilim could have existed.  Will I say it dogmatically.  NO!  Will I say a good possibility….yes!