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I have been asked several times about the Nephilium here is a description from the Companion Bible appendix The Nephilium appendix 25 of Companion BibleThe progeny of the fallen angels with the daughters of Adam (see notes on Gen. 6, and Ap. 23) are called in Gen. 6, Ne-phil-im, which means fallen ones (from naphal, to fall). What these beings were can be gathered only from Scripture. They were evidently great in size, as well as great in wickedness. They were superhuman, abnormal beings; and their destruction was necessary for the preservation of the human race, and for the faithfulness of Jehovah's Word (Gen. 3:15). This was why the Flood was brought "upon the world of the ungodly" (2Pet. 2:5) as prophesied by Enoch (Jude 14). But we read of the Nephilim again in Num. 13:33 : "there we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, which come of the Nephilim". How, it may be asked, could this be, if they were all destroyed in the Flood? The answer is contained in Gen. 6:4, where we read : "There were Nephilim in the earth in those days (i.e. in the days of Noah); 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 [the] mighty men (Heb. gibbor, the heroes) which were of old, men of renown" (lit. men of the name, i.e. who got a name and were renowned for their ungodliness). So that "after that", i.e. after the Flood, there was a second irruption of these fallen angels, evidently smaller in number and more limited in area, for they were for the most part confined to Canaan, and were in fact known as "the nations of Canaan". It was for the destruction of these, that the sword of Israel was necessary, as the Flood had been before. As to the date of this second irruption, it was evidently soon after it became known that the seed was to come through Abraham; for, when he came out from Haran (Gen. 12:6) and entered Canaan, the significant fact is stated : "The Canaanite was then (i.e. already) in the land." And in Gen. 14:5 they were already known as "Raphain" and Emim", and had established themselves at Asteroth Karnaim and Shaven Kiriathaim. In ch. 15:18-21 they are enumerated and named among Canaanite Peoples : "Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims, and the Amorites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites" (Gen. 15:19-21; cp. Ex. 3:8, 17; 23:23. Deut. 7; 20:17. Josh. 12:8). These were to be cut off, and driven out, and utterly destroyed (Deut. 20:17. Josh. 3:10). But Israel failed in this (Josh. 13:13; 15:63; 16:10; 17:18. Judg. 1:19, 20, 28, 29, 30-36; 2:1-5; 3:1-7); and we known not how many got away to other countries to escape the general destruction. If this were recognized it would go far to solve many problems connected with Anthropology. As to their other names, they were called Anakim, from on Anak which came of the Nephilim (Num. 13:23), and Rephaim, from Rapha, another notable one among them. From Deut. 2:10, they were known by some as Emim, and Horim, and Zamzummim (v. 20, 21) and Avim, &c. As Rephaim they were well known, and are often mentioned : but, unfortunately, instead of this, their proper name, being preserved, it is variously translated as "dead", "deceased", or "giants". These Rephaim are to have no resurrection. This fact is stated in Isa. 26:14 (where the proper name is rendered "deceased," and v. 19, where it is rendered "the dead"). It is rendered "dead" seven times (Job 26:5. Ps. 88:10. Prov. 2:18; 9:18; 21:16. Isa. 14:8; 26:19). It is rendered "deceased" in Isa. 26:14. It is retained as a proper name "Rephaim" ten times (two being in the margin). Gen. 14:5; 15:20. Josh. 12:15 (marg.). 2Sam. 5:18, 22; 23:13. 1Chron. 11:15; 14:9; 20:4 (marg.). Isa. 17:5. In all other places it is rendered "giants", Gen. 6:4; Num. 23:33, where it is Nephilim; and Job 16:14, where it is gibbor (Ap. 14. iv). By reading all these passages the Bible student may know all that can be known about these beings. It is certain that the second irruption took place before Gen. 14, for there the Rephaim were mixed up with the five nations or peoples, which included Sodom and Gomorrha, and were defeated by the four kings under Chedorlaomer. Their principal locality was evidently "Ashtaroth Karnaim"; while the Emim were in the plain of Kiriathaim (Gen. 14:5). Anak was a noted descendant of the Nephilim; and Rapha was another, giving their names respectively to different clans. Anak's father was Arba, the original builder of Hebron (Gen. 35:27. Josh. 15:13; 21:11); and this Palestine branch of the Anakim was not called Arbahim after him, but Anakim after Anak. They were great, mighty, and tall (Deut. 2:10, 11, 21, 22, 23; 9:2), evidently inspiring the ten spies with great fear (Num. 13:33). Og king of Bashan is described in Deut. 3:11. Their strength is seen in "the giant cities of Bashan" to-day; and we know not how far they may have been utilized by Egypt in the construction of buildings, which is still an unsolved problem. Arba was rebuilt by the Khabiri or confederates seven years before Zoan was built by the Egyptian Pharoahs of the nineteenth dynasty. See note on Num. 13:22. If these Nephilim, and their branch of Rephaim, were associated with Egypt, we have an explanation of the problem which has for ages perplexed all engineers, as to how those huge stones and monuments were brought together. Why not in Egypt as well as in "the giant cities of Bashan" which exist, as such, to this day? Moreover, we have in these mighty men, the "men of renown," the explanation of the origin of the Greek mythology. That mythology was no mere invention of the human brain, but it grew out of the traditions, and memories, and legends of the doings of that mighty race of beings; and was gradually evolved out of the "heroes" of Gen. 6:4. The fact that they were supernatural in their origin formed an easy step to their being regarded as the demi-gods of the Greeks. Thus the Babylonian "Creation Tablets", the Egyptian "Book of the dead", the Greek mythology, and heathen Cosmogonies, which by some are set on an equality with Scripture, or by others adduced in support of it, are all the corruption and perversion of primitive truths, distorted in proportion as their origin was forgotten, and their memories faded away.
 
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the following is taken from the Book of Enoch and contains fragments from Noah. We might only assume it was not included in the scripture because no complete copy exists.But there may have been other reasons we do not know for sure. This is not scripture and it not to be taken as scripture, but rather as a second source of information we can use to help fill in where scripture is telling us truth and we need a second witness to clarify the thought................................................... ............................EnochVI-XI. The Fall of the Angels: the Demoralisation of Mankind: the Intercession of the Angels on behalf of Mankind. The Dooms pronounced by God on the Angels: the Messianic Kingdom (a Noah fragment).CHAPTER VI.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 to one another: 'Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men and beget us children.' 3. And Semjâzâ, 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 answeredp. 35him 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: Sêmîazâz, their leader, Arâkîba, Râmêêl, Kôkabîêl, Tâmîêl, Râmîêl, Dânêl, Êzêqêêl, Barâqîjâl, Asâêl, Armârôs, Batârêl, Anânêl, Zaqîêl, Samsâpêêl, Satarêl, Tûrêl, Jômjâêl, Sariêl. 8. These are their chiefs of tens.CHAPTER VII.1. And all the others together with them took unto themselves wives, and each chose for himself one, and they began to go in unto them and to defile themselves with them, and they taught them charms and enchantments, and the cutting of roots, and made them acquainted with plants. 2. And they became pregnant, and they bare great giants, whose height was three thousand ells: 3. Who consumed all the acquisitions of men. And when men could no longer sustain them, 4. the giants turned against them and devoured mankind. 5. And they began to sin against birds, and beasts, and reptiles, and fish, and to devour one another's flesh, and drink the blood. 6. Then the earth laid accusation against the lawless ones.CHAPTER Vlll1. And Azâzêl taught men to make swords, and knives, and shields, and breastplates, and made known to them the metals 〈of the earth〉 and the art of working them, and bracelets, and ornaments, and the use of antimony, and the beautifying of the eyelids, and all kinds of costly stones, and all colouring tinctures. 2. And there arose much godlessness, and they committed fornication, and they were led astray, and became corrupt in all their ways. Semjâzâ taught enchantments, and root-cuttings, Armârôs the resolving of enchantments, Barâqîjâl,p. 36[paragraph continues] (taught) astrology, Kôkabêl the constellations, Ezêqêêl the knowledge of the clouds, 〈Araqiêl the signs of the earth, Shamsiêl the signs of the sun〉, and Sariêl the course of the moon. And as men perished, they cried, and their cry went up to heaven . . .CHAPTER lX1. And then Michael, Uriel, Raphael, and Gabriel looked down from heaven and saw much blood being shed upon the earth, and all lawlessness being wrought upon the earth. 2. And they said one to another: 'The earth made †without inhabitant cries the voice of their crying† up to the gates of heaven. 3 ⌈⌈And now to you, the holy ones of heaven⌉⌉, the souls of men make their suit, saying, "Bring our cause before the Most High.".' 4. And they said to the Lord of the ages: 'Lord of lords, God of gods, King of kings, 〈and God of the ages〉, the throne of Thy glory (standeth) unto all the generations of the ages, and Thy name holy and glorious and blessed unto all the ages! 5. Thou hast made all things, and power over all things hast Thou: and all things are naked and open in Thy sight, and Thou seest all things, and nothing can hide itself from Thee. 6. Thou seest what Azâzêl hath done, who hath taught all unrighteousness on earth and revealed the eternal secrets which were (preserved) in heaven, which men were striving to learn: 7. And Semjâzâ, to whom Thou hast given authority to bear rule over his associates. 8. And they have gone to the daughters of men upon the earth, and have slept with the women, and have defiled themselves, and revealed to them all kinds of sins. 9. And the women have borne giants, and the whole earth has thereby been filled with blood and unrighteousness. 10. And now, behold, the souls of those who have died are crying and making their suit to the gates of heaven, and their lamentations have ascended: and cannot cease because of the lawless deeds which are wrought on the earth. 11. And Thou knowest all things before they come to pass, andp. 37[paragraph continues] Thou seest these things and Thou dost suffer them, and Thou dost not say to us what we are to do to them in regard to these.'CHAPTER X.1. Then said the Most High, the Holy and Great One spake, and sent Uriel to the son of Lamech, and said to him: 2. '〈Go to Noah〉 and tell him in my name "Hide thyself!" and reveal to him the end that is approaching: that the whole earth will be destroyed, and a deluge is about to come upon the whole earth, and will destroy all that is on it. 3. And now instruct him that he may escape and his seed may be preserved for all the generations of the world.' 4. And again the Lord said to Raphael: 'Bind Azâzêl hand and foot, and cast him into the darkness: and make an opening in the desert, which is in Dûdâêl, and cast him therein. 5. And place upon him rough and jagged rocks, and cover him with darkness, and let him abide there for ever, and cover his face that he may not see light. 6. And on the day of the great judgement he shall be cast into the fire. And heal the earth which the angels have corrupted, and proclaim the healing of the earth, that they may heal the plague, and that all the children of men may not perish through all the secret things that the Watchers have disclosed and have taught their sons. 8. And the whole earth has been corrupted through the works that were taught by Azâzêl: to him ascribe all sin.' 9. And to Gabriel said the Lord: 'Proceed against the bastards and the reprobates, and against the children of fornication: and destroy [the children of fornication and] the children of the Watchers from amongst men [and cause them to go forth]: send them one against the other that they may destroy each other in battle: for length of days shall they not have. 10. And no request that they (i.e. their fathers) make of thee shall be granted unto their fathers on their behalf; for they hope to live an eternal life, and that each one of them will live five hundred years.' 11. And the Lord said unto Michael: 'Go, bind Semjâzâ andp. 38his associates who have united themselves with women so as to have defiled themselves with them in all their uncleanness. 12. And when their sons have slain one another, and they have seen the destruction of their beloved ones, bind them fast for seventy generations in the valleys of the earth, till the day of their judgement and of their consummation, till the judgement that is for ever and ever is consummated. 13. In those days they shall be led off to the abyss of fire: 〈and〉 to the torment and the prison in which they shall be confined for ever. And whosoever shall be condemned and destroyed will from thenceforth be bound together with them to the end of all generations. 15. And destroy all the spirits of the reprobate and the children of the Watchers, because they have wronged mankind. Destroy all wrong from the face of the earth and let every evil work come to an end: and let the plant of righteousness and truth appear: ⌈and it shall prove a blessing; the works of righteousness and truth⌉ shall be planted in truth and joy for evermore.17 And then shall all the righteous escape,And shall live till they beget thousands of children,And all the days of their youth and their old ageShall they complete in peace.18 And then shall the whole earth be tilled in righteousness, and shall all be planted with trees and be full of blessing. 19. And all desirable trees shall be planted on it, and they shall plant vines on it: and the vine which they plant thereon shall yield wine in abundance, and as for all the seed which is sown thereon each measure (of it) shall bear a thousand, and each measure of olives shall yield ten presses of oil. 20. And cleanse thou the earth from all oppression, and from all unrighteousness, and from all sin, and from all godlessness: and all the uncleanness that is wrought upon the earth destroy from off the earth. 21. ⌈And all the children of men shall become righteous⌉, and all nations shallp. 39offer adoration and shall praise Me, and all shall worship Me. And the earth shall be cleansed from all defilement, and from all sin, and from all punishment, and from all torment, and I will never again send (them) upon it from generation to generation and for ever.If you would like to read the entire bookhttp://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/boe/boe004.htm
 

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This is all interesting, Kriss. I have the book of Enoch and others such as Jashar and Jubilees. Here is an additional link (I know you already gave some as well) for our forum brothers and sisters to read the Pseudepigrapha:http://www.piney.com/Old-Testament-Pseudepigrap.htmlWeren't some of these creatures reported as being as tall as 300 cubits? :eek: Then I read one article on this site regarding their appetite. 1000 camels a day! As soon as I read that I could not stop laughing for about 5 minutes. Then as I continued, they also ate 1000 horses and 1000 oxen as well!Seriously, assuming a similar body structure that we had, and maybe the same body density, I calculated that someone 75 times taller than a man would weigh about as much as a half million people. An average camel, horse and ox (today) together weighs about a ton and a half. So a thousand of them needless to say weighs in the millions of pounds, but dividing that into the number of people one of these weighed, that only comes out to several pounds of food per person daily by our standards. Actually, I found it worked out mathematically as I eat several pounds myself (to my shame).So, as crazy as this story sounded, if there was a creature that tall, that's about how much he'd need to eat to have ratio-wise the same amount of food we eat.I think that "UFO abductions" today smell like the same thing happening. Ever read Whitley Streiber's books? He makes those aliens sound spiritual and wanting to do sexual experiments, just like Genesis 6.
 
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You and I got stop reading the same stuff:) Yes thats what I think could be a very likely scenerio. I think the fallen angles could well be masqurading, pretending to be aliens. Modern society would never accept them (fallen angels) as the Gods of old but modern day man would accept aliens from outer space. claiming to be coming here to save us from ourselvesI also find it a little to convient that the (UFO) sightings come on the scene in modern times in 1947 same year Jews came back to Israel.
 

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You and I got stop reading the same stuff:) Yes thats what I think could be a very likely scenerio. I think the fallen angles could well be masqurading, pretending to be aliens. Modern society would never accept them (fallen angels) as the Gods of old but modern day man would accept aliens from outer space. claiming to be coming here to save us from ourselvesI also find it a little to convient that the (UFO) sightings come on the scene in modern times in 1947 same year Jews came back to Israel.
Excellent point---- and WW II as well.Like I always said at other times, these "things" were interpreted by the standard that society saw things in different ages. For example, long ago they were angels and demons. In the days when seances were popular (and even sometimes yet today) they are ghosts, poltergeists and shadow people. Now with us being high-tech, they are aliens. I think you get my drift.
 

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Man...*sigh*A lots of people can believe about just anything that their mind or the people says. I know the word alien is in the bible, but it is not referring to aliens from outer space as they are no such thing as aliens...but referring to the people in the below scripture.Job 19:15 - They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.Psalm 69:8 - I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.I may probably be wrong... (Correct me if I'm wrong) ...but it is likely using that word "alien" is probably they were falsely accused...(Maybe) or wicked personIf the UFO does indeed exist...I still know its not from God, but of the Devil...because they pretend to be aliens (that doesn't exist in this world) and deceives people...Lovest thou in Christ Jesus (Yahshua) our Lord and Saviour.
 
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There talking about the pre-flood fallen angels and post-flood sons of Cain. Remember also spirits occupy a different dimension, for lack of a better word, than ours. Elijah I believe, asked God to open the eyes of his servant so he could see the protection that God had provided for them. I believe what they are saying. And this also lines up with ancient mythology. Revelation says it'll be just like it was at the time of the flood when he begins to come back!Genesis 6:2 That the sons of God [angels] saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.This union produced hybred angels/slash/men, the Old Men of Renown, the Mythological god's when they died in the flood they became aliens (dead angel men, watchers) joining those who remained in spiritually corrupt body's with Satan. This is the short version don't read to much into it.
 

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Jag we arent talking about real aliens from another planet like the movies we are talking Fallen angles,evil spirits pretending to be enlightened, advanced alien beings. Because the peoples of the world today would be willing to accept that lie.
 
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Jag we arent talking about real aliens from another planet like the movies we are talking Fallen angles,evil spirits pretending to be enlightened, advanced alien beings. Because the peoples of the world today would be willing to accept that lie.
I know Kriss, I just used another persective(?) for the same agreement that we both have... It will still deceives people, and I am completely aware of that this world would willingly to accept this lie. Just helping the community.
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Here they come:)Woo-eee-wooUFO sightings bring town to a standstillLast updated at 09:12am on 26th July 2007 A crowd of 100 stunned stargazers brought a town centre to a standstill when five mysterious UFOs were spotted hovering in the sky.Drinkers spilled out of pubs, motorists stopped to gawp and camera phones were aimed upwards as the five orbs, in a seeming formation, hovered above Stratford-Upon-Avon for half an hour. The unidentified flying objects lit up the otherwise clear night sky above Shakespeare's birthplace in Warwickshire on Saturday. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/arti...in_page_id=1770
 

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I found this excert from a book on another site thought you guys might find it interesting.......So exactly what are the experts saying?Given that most UFO researchers—religious and secular—agree on this important point—that often the beings who come through portals (demons or ET) are one and the same—the question is begged, "What are the ETs up to?"The answer seems to revolve around alleged abduction and hybrid-breeding. Dr. Mack, Vallée , Keel, and other experts have in their own ways rehearsed the age old story of those who "from heaven to earth came" and conducted genetic alteration on humans, finally departing into space, leaving behind promises of a future return.The familiar Genesis story of Watchers cohabiting with women parallels the modern 'abduction' reports in that the " . . . sons of God . . . took them wives of all which they chose" (Gen. 6.2). The implication here is that, as in alien abduction, this was not by mutual agreement or harmony of wills, but that these women were taken ("took") forcibly at the sole discretion of the powerful beings. As a result of the abduction-marriages, hybrids were born called "Nephilim."Eric von Däniken and Zecharia Sitchin go so far as to use this same portion of the Bible—Genesis 6—as proof that the "sons of God" (Annunaki of Sumeria) were the extraterrestrials of their literature who performed genetic modification on Homo sapiens.So Where Is All of this Leading?Given the abundant and universal prophecies that the "end times" will witness what we have been calling a 'reopening of the gates of heaven' and the descending of a 'savior,' it's important to note that from the Middle Ages forward, many church leaders have believed that the Antichrist would ultimately represent the return of the Nephilim—the union of a demon and a human.St. Augustine wrote of such demoniality in the City of God (Augustine), and in the De Daemonialitate, et Incubis, et Succubi, Fr. Ludovicus Maria Sinistrari de Ameno (1622-1701) qualified the connection between hybridization of demons and humans:To theologians and philosophers, it is a fact, that from the copulation of humans (man or woman) with the demon, human beings are sometimes born. It is by this process that Antichrist must be born, according to a number of doctors . . . the children generated in this manner by the incubi are tall, very strong, very daring, very magnificent and very wicked . . .(Fr. Ludovicus, 127-129) Phobos clarifies this for Joe in our novel, The Ahriman Gate:Joe raised the special container with a heavy sigh. "So, if Apollyon is somehow embodied in Apol, we could actually be carrying the embryo of the Antichrist here?" "That’s correct. According to the Bible, the Antichrist will be ‘the son of perdition,’ the male progeny of the Greek apoleia, or Apollyon. The implication couldn’t be clearer—the Man of Sin will be the physical offspring of the destroyer demon, a transgenic of the highest order." (Horn 326-327) And elsewhere . . .He’d never run short of such material. A typical woman supplied thousands of eggs, and the process for multiplication, unlike at other government funded cloning labs, had been solved at Montero thanks to the Dropa, which explained the process of cell division in humans and primates using a combination of egg fertilization to jump-start spindle formation. After that, it was a simple process of replacing the human DNA with Apol’s. As the alien cells divided into two cells, then four, Apol would manually separate the cells and allow the replication process to start again. By dividing cells in this way, he had created as many as sixteen single-cell embryos at a time. All but one were typically frozen, while the remaining embryo stayed in the petri dish, dividing, specializing: transforming into Homo nephilim. Yet unlike regular Nephilim code, which had been highly successful, every embryo made of Apol’s special DNA had degenerated into worthless cell matter before developing far enough to be implanted, or died shortly thereafter. Yet any day now, he told himself, he would triumph. His son, the son of perdition, would inevitably be conceived. It had to. The Enigma was about to open, and the Master would step through it. He would expect a body, a host for his transmigration; the biblical seed of Satan depended on it. (Horn 157-158) If the Antichrist is in fact at length the physical offspring of a demon, not only will he be the exact opposite of Jesus (son of God), but the forerunner of the return of the Nephilim. This fact could be contemporary given that Jesus said the end times would be as the days of Noah, and the prophet Isaiah (chapters 13 and 14) also tied the return of the Nephilim to the destruction of the city of Babylon in the end of days (look to current war activities in Iraq).In Isaiah 13:1-3, 9, 19-22 (Septuagint Version) the prophet said:The vision which Esaias son of Amos saw against Babylon. Lift up a standard on the mountain of the plain, exalt the voice to them, beckon with the hand, open the gates, ye ruler. I give command and I bring them: giants are coming to fulfill my wrath, rejoicing at the same time and insulting. . . . For behold! the day of the Lord is coming which cannot be escaped, a day of wrath and anger, to make the world desolate. . . . And Babylon . . . shall be as when God overthrew Sodoma and Gomorrah. . . . It shall never be inhabited . . . and monsters shall rest there, and devils shall dance there and satyrs shall dwell there. . . . (Septuagint) One can only speculate if something more than is casually perceived was meant when Isaiah said, " . . . open the gates, ye ruler . . . . " Who was this ruler? And are these the gates to the city, or something more unusual? Don't be quick to bypass this question, as the "Mighty ones" of the King James and other Bible versions is Gibborim—the same Hebrew term used elsewhere in ancient literature to describe the Nephilim which are correctly translated here in the Greek as "giants". The fantastic conclusion from this is that Isaiah may literally be telling us that when Babylon is invaded and destroyed in the last days, God will command (unleash from their prisons? Command the 'ruler' to open their gate?) giant Nephilim to come forth as agents of destruction. This astonishing prophecy is further amplified by the invasion of U.S. forces and the ongoing occupation of the ancient city of Babylon, where thousands of troops admittedly filled their sandbags with archaeological material [Charles], causing some to wonder if cuneiform tablets with information about lost exotic technology was recovered, or something more alarming, such as ancient diagrams leading to pure-blooded Nephilim buried beneath the sands in underground caves. Just imagine the interest agencies like DARPA would have in studying (cloning?) this ancient DNA. Could something of this nature be the method by which Isaiah’s prophecy is fulfilled? Could man in his arrogance revive ancient DNA, revitalizing or blending it with other living organisms is a way similar to what the Watchers did in making the first Nephilim? Is this why the Rephaim (dead Nephilim) are viewed as squirming beneath the earth, waiting for resurrection? Is this why Isaiah predicted monsters, satyrs and devils accompanying the giants in Babylon and why other Apocryphal Books such as 2 Esdras 5:8 confirm the birth of "monsters" in the last days?The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has invested heavily in projects such as the "Extended Performance Warfighter" project, which among other things includes genetic alteration of future soldiers [Floyd]. The idea of genetically modifying humans is exactly what the Watchers did, and one notes with regard to the biblical "mighty ones" and their connection with Babylon, that when " . . . Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. . . . And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel . . . " [emphasis added] (Gen 10.8-10). The relationship between Babylon (the gate of god), genetic modification and the first giants, as well as the prophesied destruction of Babylon in the end times by returning giants, is stunning in light of recent advances in biotechnology coupled with the U.S. invasion of Babylon. It’s starting to look as if world history is playing out according to script.Lastly, when I speculated recently in the so-called "Famous Q-Files Bedtime Story" that perhaps the US had invaded Iraq for reasons other than what's been admitted thus far, people were quick to contact me regarding the inference to Babylonian stargates. Given that the Book of Enoch (recognized in the New Testament in such places as Jude 6 and 2 Peter 2:4) says that the Watchers first descended to earth on Mount Hermon during the days of Jared, and considering David Flynn's incredible research into Mount Hermon and the year 2012 earlier in this book, and lastly that some mid-tribulation 'rapture' believers count backwards seven years from 2012 to the current hour, some believe we may have entered Daniel's 70th week.Whatever the case may be, something was in Babylon in olden days. According to Bible prophecy, it will be again . . . already is?!?http://www.ahrimangate.com/excerpt148.htm
 

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I like this quote regarding the explanation:"lanterns which had broken loose from a local rugby club"Hee Hee...........
 

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Speaking of UFO's here's a link to a video regarding the sightings near Washington D.C. and other areas in July 2002.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8pEwdoo-bsI take special interest in this particular incident because my boys and I were traveling from Florida to Washington Dulles THAT VERY DAY (we ended up stranded in the Washington airport overnight). I gives me the chills that I could have been up there at the time and could have seen something. Thank God I did not. That would have shaken me up.They say this incident happened in Washington D.C. to the very day 50 years ago. That was not difficult for me to prove to myself. I have a thick UFO book that came out probably a decade and a half ago listing all the major sightings (Called "Above Top Secret"). Sure enough, there were sightings listed in Washington back in '52 to the very day. Sweet dreams.
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http://www.hbccufo.org/modules.php?name=Ne...rticle&sid=2804Alien Abduction Or An Entity Caught On Film (Footage)http://www.pr-inside.com/scientific-proof-...ded-r193411.htmScientific Proof of UFOs as Concluded by University of Colorado Scientists on Display at Denver UFO Conferencehttp://mysteriousanomalies.blogspot.com/UFOs... Who Cares Right? Walking With Dinosaurs (and Humans)? Are Extraterrestrial Biological Entities Among Us? http://www.theparanormalreport.com/Unexpla...he-Heavens.htmlUnexplained Materials Falling From the Heavenshttp://www.prweb.com/releases/ufo/majestic...prweb541591.htmLeaked 'Top Secret' Government UFO Documents Proven Frauds (Majestic 12 Doc)
 
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http://potw.news.yahoo.com/s/potw/30293/the-real-x-filesThe Real X Files By KEVIN SITES, TUE AUG 7, 9:12 AM PDTENCINO, California — John Greenewald Jr. has been digging for the truth about extraterrestrials since he was a kid. His online "Black Vault" may be the biggest UFO database in the world. Motivated by curiosity, fueled by obsession and empowered by the Freedom of Information Act, John Greenewald Jr. has assembled what may be the largest collection of UFO documents in the world.Greenewald scans most of his documents and archives them online on a website he calls the Black Vault, where anyone with an interest in the paranormal can check them out. "I thought to myself, 'Hey, if I'm looking for this, other people have got to be looking for this,'" Greenewald says. Getting information from the government is no easy task. Agencies don't always jump to fill the orders — Greenewald has waited years for some of them. "I've learned specifically that the U.S. government and military cover up a lot." — John Greenewald Jr.Black Vault - http://www.theblackvault.com
 
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http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/column.php?id=101822Proof in the stars? Stanton Friedman Saturday, 4 August, 2007It is not usually easy to validate claims made by UFO witnesses, and it is especially difficult in those cases in which an abduction seems to have taken place. The real complication occurs when hypnosis is used to investigate missing time in conjunction with the abduction. In the case of the very well-known abduction of Betty and Barney Hill in 1961.One key validating revelation was Betty’s conversation with an alien about a three-dimensional model or map (probably a hologram) that was shown to her after she asked where they were from. There was a pattern of a dozen or so lights (stars) connected with three types of lines indicating heavy trade routes, light trade routes and occasional expeditions. Betty knew little of astronomy and was unable to explain where she was in the model. Simon instructed her to draw it after she indicated she could remember what it looked like. The drawing was subsequently included by John G. Fuller in his best-selling book, The Interrupted Journey.Marjorie Fish, visited Betty to get more details about the map, in spite of fact that Marjorie was dubious about the Hills’ assertion that the alien beings were humanoid. Nonetheless, over a period of a few years and more interviews with Betty, Fish built about twenty-six different three-dimensional bead and fishing line models. Her goal was to find a 3-D pattern to match the two-dimensional pattern that Betty had drawn.Through her detailed and careful research, she was eventually able to identify all the stars in the pattern, and found that all of the pattern stars were sun-like. The pattern stars are also, amazingly enough, in a plane, like slices of pepperoni on a thin pizza rather than spread all about like raisins in a loaf of raisin bread. This makes travel between the stars much easier. The pattern is definitely not coincidental.And most remarkably, Fish identified the base stars as Zeta 1 and Zeta 2 Reticuli in the southern sky constellation Reticulum, but only after much better data on the distances to nearby stars was obtained and used to rebuild the models. Nobody building a model before the Hill experience would have obtained the right identification. A unique twosome, Zeta 1 and 2 Reticuli are the closest pair of sun-like stars in our entire local neighborhood. They are only 1/8 of a light year apart from each other, only 39.2 light years away from earth and a billion years older than the sun. These two stars had never been highlighted as special before Fish’s discoveries. It makes sense that they would be the hub of the local neighborhood.The cosmic perspective for intelligent inhabitants of a planet around Zeta 1 or 2 Reticuli would be very different than that for an Earthling, as the sun is thirty-five times farther away from the nearest star than the distance between Zeta 1 and Zeta 2. We Earthlings are out in the boondocks with no other star close by. However, from a planet orbiting around either of these stars, the other star is visible to the eye all day long, and planets around the other star would be directly observable. No inferences would be necessary. Even with our primitive equipment, at such a close distance we could determine, from the composition of the atmosphere around these planets, if biological activity were present.Residents of Zeta 1 and 2 would have a much greater incentive to undertake interstellar travel than we have here on Earth. They would also have had much more time for the development of advanced travel technology with their billion year head start on us. Technological progress invariably comes from doing things differently in an unpredictable way and we primitives have already determined methods for star travel.The star map work done by Marjorie Fish was a crucial factor, along with others, in the general acceptance of the Hill story of abduction.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CetusThis constellation has been known since antiquity. In Mesopotamia, it was identified with the primordial the sea-monster Tiamat. In certain earlier Greek legends, it also represented the gates (and gateposts) of the underworld (considered to be the area under the ecliptic). As such, together with other features in the Zodiac sign of Pisces (including Pisces itself, as well as prominent stars behind Cetus), it may have formed the basis of the myth of the capture of Cerberus in The Twelve Labours of Herakles.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eridanos_%28mythology%29http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eridanus_%28constellation%29The river Eridanos (or Eridanus) is a river of Hades in Greek mythology mentioned by Virgil in the Aeneid. The Eridanos is mentioned in ancient Greek writings as a river in northern Europe rich in amber. According to the mythology, amber originated from the tears of the Heliades shed when their brother, Phaeton, who took over the reins of Helios' (i.e. the Sun's) sky chariot, but didn't have the strength to control it, and so veered wildly in different directions. The result was that sometimes the chariot got too close to earth, creating desert and burning people's skin. Zeus intervened by striking Phaëton dead with a thunderbolt. Phaeton died, fell from the sky and tumbled into the Eridanos. In Dionysiaca, the vast monster Typhon boasts that he will bathe in “starry Eridanus.” A well-known star in Eridanus is Epsilon Eridani, which has been popular in science fiction because it is relatively close and relatively sun-like. It is now known to have at least one planet (see extrasolar planet), which is thought to be a gas giant, like Jupiter.“The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament showeth His handiwork.” Building upon ancient astronomical sources and modern scientific data, E W Bullinger shows how the constellations witness to the accuracy of biblical prophetic truths.
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http://philologos.org/__eb-tws/chap24.htm#cetusThis picture is that of a great sea-monster Cetus, the largest of all the constellations. It is the natural enemy of fish, hence its placed in connection with Pisces. It is situated in the southern hemisphere coupled with other Aquarian Stars. (AKA those that belong to Tartarus, or those who died in the flood.) Cetus's name in the infamous Denderah Zodiac of Egypt is Knem, which means subdued. It is pictured as a monstrous head, trodden under foot by the swine, the natural enemy of the serpent. The hawk also (another enemy of the serpent) is over this figure, crowned with a mortar, denoting bruising. The names of the stars interpret for us infallibly the meaning of the picture. The brightest star, a (in the upper mandible), is named Menikar, which means the bound or chained enemy. The next, b (in the tail), is called Diphda, or Deneb Kaitos, overthrown, or thrust down. The star o (in the neck) is named Mira, which means THE REBEL. Its names is ominous, for the star is one of the most remarkable. But he whom man cannot bind can be bound by the Lamb, and He is seen with "the Band" that has bound the fishes, now in His hands, which he has fastened with a bright star to his neck.http://www.johnpratt.com/items/docs/gis/gis_review.htmlMoreover, the symbols used are indeed the same from the holy writ: a ram breaking the bands that tie two fish to a sea monster is the same imagery of the Bible, where Christ is represented by a lamb, and death by bands, and the church by fish.Isaiah 26:21-27:1 "Behold, the LORD cometh forth out of His place To punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity... In that day the LORD, with His sore, and great, and strong sword, Shall punish Leviathan, the piercing serpent, And Leviathan, the crooked serpent; And He shall slay the dragon that is in the sea." Job 41:1-10Isaiah 51:22, 23 Psalm 74:12-14 http://philologos.org/__eb-tws/chap23.htm#band
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Here in the compolation of pictures, Aries breaks the Band of Picses being held by Cetus!(Sorry I don't have bettter pictures for this!)http://www.heavendwellers.com/hd_witness_of_the_stars.htm
 
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml...levitate106.xmlPhysicists have 'solved' mystery of levitation By Roger Highfield, Science EditorLevitation has been elevated from being pure science fiction to science fact, according to a study reported today by physicists. Their discovery could ultimately lead to frictionless micro-machines with moving parts that levitate But they say that, in principle at least, the same effect could be used to levitate bigger objects too, even a person. The Casimir force is a consequence of quantum mechanics, the theory that describes the world of atoms and subatomic particles that is not only the most successful theory of physics but also the most baffling. The force is due to neither electrical charge or gravity, for example, but the fluctuations in all-pervasive energy fields in the intervening empty space between the objects and is one reason atoms stick together, also explaining a “dry glue” effect that enables a gecko to walk across a ceiling. Now, using a special lens of a kind that has already been built, Prof Ulf Leonhardt and Dr Thomas Philbin report in the New Journal of Physics they can engineer the Casimir force to repel, rather than attact. Because the Casimir force causes problems for nanotechnologists, who are trying to build electrical circuits and tiny mechanical devices on silicon chips, among other things, the team believes the feat could initially be used to stop tiny objects from sticking to each other. Prof Leonhardt explained, “The Casimir force is the ultimate cause of friction in the nano-world, in particular in some microelectromechanical systems. The practicalities of designing the lens to do this are daunting but not impossible and levitation “could happen over quite a distance”.