Genesis 6:4
The fallen ones226 have become in the Earth in the Days of Themselves, and also the back of227 upright, which the builders of the Elohim are coming toward built-ones of the Red-one, and they have borne to-themselves, those-ones are the Mighty-Men,228 who are from the eternal on,229 the men of the Name.230
| 226 | Strong’s #5303. The Nephilim. The word is derived from the root naphal (Strong’s #5307) which means to fall, lie flat, drop, etc. Examples are Genesis 24:64, “And Rebekah lifteth up her eyes, and seeth He-Laughs, and falls from upon the camel”, and Exodus 21:33, “and there fall into her (a pit) an ox or an ass”, and Proverbs 26:27 literal, “He digging a pit, into her he is falling; he rolling a stone, toward him she is turning back.” The ideas that these would be otherworldly beings that figuratively “fell” from a cosmic abode is a gross stretch of the meaning of naphal. Upright beings who fall from walking to crawling around by carnal instinct, mixing with the world, fits much better. The idea that they are giants is based on Numbers 13:32-33 which says they are “men of stature” while the spies thought of themselves as “grasshoppers.” Consider the language as allegorical. Fallen guys “come in” toward “built-ones” of the (first) Adam who is the coming one and BECOME Great men in the last days who are of the Name? |