Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Nephilim = Cannibals

Probably the most terrifying thing about the Nephilim is the fact that they were cannibals. Many legends have their origins in truth, and this one is no exception. The giants of old used to eat people. Picture it, seeing one of them. They are huge. They are strong. There is no way you can win. And the last thought that goes through your mind as their mouth closes around your leg is that you will be alive to watch most of the feast.
 Psalm 22:12, 13 and Numbers 13; 32b-33, as well as The Book of Enoch Chapter 7 indicate that their hungers are insatiable. They devour whatever they can get their hands on, mankind included. Next writing will focus once again on the Rephaim, then we will move onto another topic: Nazarenes.

4 comments:

  1. What other texts would clarify that Nephilim are people? I’m reading from a NASB study Bible and can’t seem to find any place where it clearly states they ate people clearly. It seems the passage in palms it says bulls of bashan which is unclear that it actually means nephilim, and then in numbers it speaks of the land eating you alive and not the actual sons of Anak.

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  2. “So they gave out to the sons of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, "The land through which we have gone, in spying it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants; and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great size. There also we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak are part of the Nephilim); and we became like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight."”
    ‭‭Numbers‬ ‭13:32-33‬ ‭NASB

    There is a break between subjects, it separates the concept of the land eating it’s inhabitants from the Nephilim when it says “There also we saw” at the beginning of verse 33.

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