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Nephilims were on the earth, before and after the flood. Who are these giants? Were there other giant tribes and nations on the earth. How did they happen? A scriptural review on giants on earth.

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In appearance, <strong>the</strong>y were <strong>the</strong> <strong>Giants</strong>.<br />

GIANTS IN THE BIBLE<br />

PROF. M. M. NINAN<br />

In addition to <strong>the</strong> Titans, Uranus and Gê produced monstrous<br />

offspr<strong>in</strong>g: three be<strong>in</strong>gs each with a hundred hands, and three one-eyed giants (<strong>the</strong> Cyclopes).<br />

Hercules is one popular example whose fa<strong>the</strong>r was a god and whose mo<strong>the</strong>r was human.<br />

emperors of Japan, <strong>the</strong> K<strong>in</strong>gs of <strong>the</strong> Aztec’s, and Mayans, are all said to be descendants of <strong>the</strong> star<br />

gods rem<strong>in</strong>iscent of <strong>the</strong> com<strong>in</strong>g of <strong>the</strong> fallen angels and <strong>the</strong>ir giant children.<br />

The<br />

We are not told any names of <strong>the</strong> giants prior to <strong>the</strong> flood. But <strong>the</strong>ir presence was mentioned<br />

apparently as a reason for <strong>the</strong> cleans<strong>in</strong>g of <strong>the</strong> earth and restart<strong>in</strong>g a new era for earth. But <strong>the</strong>n we<br />

are told <strong>the</strong>y were <strong>the</strong>re even after <strong>the</strong> flood.<br />

The nephilim were mentioned aga<strong>in</strong> when <strong>the</strong> spies returned from <strong>the</strong>ir exploratory mission of <strong>the</strong> land<br />

of Canaan.<br />

Num. 13:31 But <strong>the</strong> men who had gone up with him said, “ We are not able to go up aga<strong>in</strong>st <strong>the</strong><br />

people, for <strong>the</strong>y are too strong for us.”<br />

Num. 13:32 So <strong>the</strong>y gave out to <strong>the</strong> sons of Israel a bad report of <strong>the</strong> land which <strong>the</strong>y had spied<br />

out, say<strong>in</strong>g, “The land through which we have gone, <strong>in</strong> spy<strong>in</strong>g it out, is a land that devours its<br />

<strong>in</strong>habitants; and all <strong>the</strong> people whom we saw <strong>in</strong> it are men of great size.<br />

Num. 13:33 “There also we saw <strong>the</strong> Nephilim (<strong>the</strong> sons of Anak are part of <strong>the</strong> Nephilim); and<br />

we became like grasshoppers <strong>in</strong> our own sight, and so we were <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir sight.”<br />

Gen 6 makes it clear that <strong>the</strong>se giants were <strong>the</strong> result of marriage between "<strong>the</strong> Sons of God" and<br />

<strong>the</strong> "Daughters of Man"<br />

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