Antediluvian Man

In Genesis, we learn of a global flood that took place approx. 1500 years after the days of the creation of Adam, dissolving the antediluvian era that existed. The patriarch Noah was called out as a deliverer to salvage mankind from the pre-existing world. At this point, we ask why there was a flood which wiped out most of antediluvian man?

According to Genesis, the world had become so corrupt with sin that only Noah's generation was left untainted (Gen. 6:12; 7:1). Apparently certain angels decided they wanted to live on earth with mankind. They wanted to marry the daughters of man.

Genesis 6

And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,

2 That

the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose

3 And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an

hundred

and twenty years.

There were giants 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.

When they made their abode on earth, they brought with them a considerable amount of knowledge. This knowledge and their relationship with women corrupted the earth. Scripture does not give a lot of detail about what happened. Greater details are found in the book of Enoch (Kirby). But Scripture does tell us there had to be a change and that change was going to happen with a flood. Only Noah and his family would be saved (Gen. 6: 17-18).

The greatest sin the fallen angels caused was the worship of themselves and their children instead of the Creator (later carried down to generations after the flood and seen in the worship of Greek and Roman gods). Whereas the fallen angels called themselves gods, their nephalim children were known as half man and half god and biblically speaking were called giants.

Genesis 6 4 There were giants 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. 5 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.

("giants" from Hebrew nphiyl: tyrant, giant) (Strong 5303).

The fallen angels with their children built ancient Sumeria (called Sumer or Shumer which name means the "land of the shining ones" as in those who came from the stars and also known as "land of the watchers"). Ancient Sumeria eventually extended itself to other kingdoms and progressed to Egypt. The nephalim became rulers throughout these kingdoms. Proof of this is the Egyptian dynasty with a dating that reaches to before 3000 B.C. and which describes rulers who were believed to be part god and part man (Millmore).

God caused a flood so that all the corruption the fallen angels and their children had caused would be anulled. Yet, God chose to allow antediluvian man to live on, including its nephalim ancestry.

The fallen angel lineage continued through Noah's son Ham from whose lineage came Cush who begat Nimrod.

Genesis 10 6 And thesons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan. 7 And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtechah: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan. 8 And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. 9 He was a mighty hunter before the Lord: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord. 10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

("before" from Hebrew paniym: anger, against, as in defiance) (Strong 6440)

Nomrod was a "mighty hunter" against the Lord. Believed to be the Sumarian character Gilgamesh who was one-third man and two-thirds god (although it is not for sure) (Livingston), Nimrod, was defiant of the Lord. He did not want the flood to happen and wanted things to stay the way they were before the event. And he wanted to hunt God down because of it. It is also believed that Nimrod was the instigator of the making of the tower of babel (built approx. one hundred years after the flood). Nimrod built the first empire at babel where Babylon was later settled.

If Nimrod was known to be part god, then he was descended from one of the angels that fell to earth before the deluge. But how? If Ham's wife was a descendent of a fallen angel, the child from Ham and his wife would have been half man and half god and their grandson one-fourth god and three-fourths man. But Gilgamesh was two thirds god. In order for this to happen, two of the nephalim would have to have been on the ark and then had children and grandchildren later, with Gilgamesh as the result. Another possibility, and one that would put Ham and Cush as ancestry to Nimrod, is if Ham or perhaps Cush would have mated with a nephalim or a descendent of a nephalim who had been on the ark, and their child with another nephalim. Scripture does not list the mother of Cush or of Nimrod.

That Ham's descendents are linked with nephalim continues later in Scripture. In Numbers, we read that Moses sent out men to spy various lands to conquer them. One of the lands the spies came across belonged to the children of Anak who were called giants.

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.

("giant" from Hebrew nphiyl: giant)

The Hebrew word nphiyl is the same word used to describe the children giants from the fallen angels of Noah's day.

According to Scripture, the children of Anak lived in the land of the Canaanites and were descended from Canaan (Num. 13:2), son of Ham (Gen. 10:6). So far, it seems two of Ham's children were spawned from nephalim, Canaan and the previously described Cush.

As we continue to read Scripture, we will find another of Ham's children connected with nephalim. From Ham's son Mizraim (Gen. 10:6) came the Philistines (Gen. 10:14), including the Philistine giant destroyed by God's servant David (1 Sam. 17). Scripture records that King David and his servants battled against other Philistine giants (2 Sam. 21:15-22), as well.

The nephalim were not the only people whose descendents "of every living thing of all flesh" (Gen. 6:19) which existed before the flood were found to exist after. Scripture mentions the kenites, descendents of Cain (Gen. 4:17-22) (who was a supposed son of Adam), as having descendents that lived on after the flood ("Encyclopedia Judaica: Kenite").

Genesis 15 18 In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates: 19 The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites.

The Kenites eventually settled and lived among the people of Israel (Judges 1:16).

Did any of the six day races survive after the flood? Egyptian archaeological finds tell that they did. Based on Scripture, the flood event took place at approx. 2293 B.C. Records of colored people living in Africa date to before this time. The Anu people who were black lived in Egypt before Ham's descendents (who are relatives to the now existing Egyptian people) (Ps. 105:23-38) settled there in the post-flood era.

It is believed the Anu people lived in Egypt pre-3000 B.C. before the flood. The kingship of the Anu people included rulers whose heritage were deemed to be god-man. The anu people were not the only ones who lived in Africa. Several colored races settled there during the same time who came from other existing cultures nearby also known for having been founded by fallen angels such as Somalia, "land of the gods" (Gilgal). Pictures of existing pre-flood Egyptian races other than those who were black include those who were lighter and deeper tanned.

The Bible mentions a sixth-day creation when various races were created. And it describes a nephalim lineage. Regardless, it does not mention either in great detail. Adam's lineage is given the most detail in Scripture because through Adam's lineage would come the Messiah and the salvation of mankind of all races and backgrounds through it.

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Works Cited

"Encyclopedia Judaica: Kenite." Jewish Virtual Library, 2008, https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/kenite.

Gilgal, Antoine. Egypt Before the Pharoahs. Gilgal Research. http://gigalresearch.com/uk/publications-pharaohs.php#. Accessed 15 November 2018.

Kirby, Peter. The Book of Enoch. Early Jewish Writings. http://www.johnpratt.com/items/docs/enoch.html. Accessed 15 November 2018.

Livingston, David, PhD. "Who was Nimrod." Associates for Biblical Research, 30 October 2006, http://www.biblearchaeology.org/post/2006/10/30/who-was-nimrod.aspx. Accessed 14 November 2018.

Millmore, Mark. "Ancient Egyptian Gods and Goddesses." Discovering Ancient Egypt. https://discoveringegypt.com/ancient-egyptian-gods-and-goddesses/. Accessed 15 November 2018.

Strong, James. Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. Hendrickson Publishers, Incorporated, 2009.


	Home Creation of Man

Antediluvian Man After the Flood

		In **Genesis, we learn of a global flood that took place approx. 1500 years after the days of the creation of Adam, dissolving the antediluvian era that existed. The patriarch Noah was called out as a deliverer to salvage mankind from the pre-existing world. At this point, we ask why there was a flood which wiped out most of antediluvian man? According to Genesis, the world had become so corrupt with sin that only Noah's generation was left untainted (*Gen. 6:12; 7:1). Apparently certain angels decided they wanted to live on earth with mankind. They wanted to marry the daughters of man.* *Genesis 6* 1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, 2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. 3 And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. 4 There were giants 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. When they made their abode on earth, they brought with them a considerable amount of knowledge. This knowledge and their relationship with women corrupted the earth. Scripture does not give a lot of detail about what happened. Greater details are found in the book of Enoch (Kirby). But Scripture does tell us there had to be a change and that change was going to happen with a flood. Only Noah and his family would be saved (*Gen. 6: 17-18). The greatest sin the fallen angels caused was the worship of themselves and their children instead of the Creator (later carried down to generations after the flood and seen in the worship of Greek and Roman gods). Whereas the fallen angels called themselves gods, their nephalim children were known as half man and half god and biblically speaking were called giants. Genesis 6* 4 There were giants 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. 5 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. *("giants" from Hebrew nphiyl: tyrant, giant) (Strong 5303). The fallen angels with their children built ancient Sumeria (called Sumer or Shumer which name means the "land of the shining ones" as in those who came from the stars and also known as "land of the watchers"). Ancient Sumeria eventually extended itself to other kingdoms and progressed to Egypt. The nephalim became rulers throughout these kingdoms. Proof of this is the Egyptian dynasty with a dating that reaches to before 3000 B.C. and which describes rulers who were believed to be part god and part man (Millmore). God caused a flood so that all the corruption the fallen angels and their children had caused would be anulled. Yet,* God chose to allow antediluvian man to live on, including its nephalim ancestry. The fallen angel lineage continued through Noah's son Ham from whose lineage came Cush who begat Nimrod. *Genesis 10* 6 And thesons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan. 7 And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtechah: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan. 8 And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. 9 He was a mighty hunter before the Lord: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord. 10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. *("before" from Hebrew paniym: anger, against, as in defiance) (Strong 6440) Nomrod was a "mighty hunter" against the Lord. Believed to be the Sumarian character Gilgamesh who was one-third man and two-thirds god (although it is not for sure) (Livingston), Nimrod, was defiant of the Lord. He did not want the flood to happen and wanted things to stay the way they were before the event. And he wanted to hunt God down because of it. It is also believed that Nimrod was the instigator of the making of the tower of babel (built approx. one hundred years after the flood). Nimrod built the first empire at babel where Babylon was later settled. If Nimrod was known to be part god, then he was descended from one of the angels that fell to earth before the deluge. But how? If Ham's wife was a descendent of a fallen angel, the child from Ham and his wife would have been half man and half god and their grandson one-fourth god and three-fourths man. But Gilgamesh was two thirds god. In order for this to happen, two of the nephalim would have to have been on the ark and then had children and grandchildren later, with Gilgamesh as the result. Another possibility, and one that would put Ham and Cush as ancestry to Nimrod, is if Ham or perhaps Cush would have mated with a nephalim or a descendent of a nephalim who had been on the ark, and their child with another nephalim. Scripture does not list the mother of Cush or of Nimrod. That Ham's descendents are linked with nephalim continues later in Scripture. In* **Numbers, we read that Moses sent out men to spy various lands to conquer them. One of the lands the spies came across belonged to the children of Anak who were called giants. 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. ("giant" from Hebrew nphiyl: giant) The Hebrew word nphiyl is the same word used to describe the children giants from the fallen angels of Noah's day. According to Scripture, the children of Anak lived in the land of the Canaanites and were descended from Canaan (Num. 13:2), son of Ham (Gen. 10:6). So far, it seems two of Ham's children were spawned from nephalim, Canaan and the previously described Cush.** As we continue to read Scripture, we will find another of Ham's children connected with nephalim. From Ham's son Mizraim (Gen. 10:6) came the Philistines (Gen. 10:14), including the Philistine giant destroyed by God's servant David (1 Sam. 17). Scripture records that King David and his servants battled against other Philistine giants (**2 Sam. 21:15-22), as well. The nephalim were not the only people whose descendents** "of every living thing of all flesh" (Gen. 6:19) which existed before the flood *were found to exist after. Scripture mentions the kenites, descendents of Cain (Gen. 4:17-22) (who was a supposed son of Adam), as having descendents that lived on after the flood ("Encyclopedia Judaica: Kenite"). Genesis 15* 18 In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates: 19 The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites. *The Kenites eventually settled and lived among the people of Israel (Judges 1:16*). Did any of the six day races survive after the flood? Egyptian archaeological finds tell that they did. Based on Scripture, the flood event took place at approx. 2293 B.C. Records of colored people living in Africa date to before this time. The Anu people who were black lived in Egypt before Ham's descendents (who are relatives to the now existing Egyptian people) (Ps. 105:23-38) settled there in the post-flood era. It is believed the Anu people lived in Egypt pre-3000 B.C. before the flood. The kingship of the Anu people included rulers whose heritage were deemed to be god-man. The anu people were not the only ones who lived in Africa. Several colored races settled there during the same time who came from other existing cultures nearby also known for having been founded by fallen angels such as Somalia, "land of the gods" (Gilgal). Pictures of existing pre-flood Egyptian races other than those who were black include those who were lighter and deeper tanned. The Bible mentions a sixth-day creation when various races were created. And it describes a nephalim lineage. Regardless, it does not mention either in great detail. Adam's lineage is given the most detail in Scripture because through Adam's lineage would come the Messiah and the salvation of mankind of all races and backgrounds through it. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Works Cited** "Encyclopedia Judaica: Kenite." Jewish Virtual Library, 2008, https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/kenite. Gilgal, Antoine. Egypt Before the Pharoahs. Gilgal Research. http://gigalresearch.com/uk/publications-pharaohs.php#. Accessed 15 November 2018. Kirby, Peter. The Book of Enoch. Early Jewish Writings. http://www.johnpratt.com/items/docs/enoch.html. Accessed 15 November 2018. Livingston, David, PhD. "Who was Nimrod." Associates for Biblical Research, 30 October 2006, http://www.biblearchaeology.org/post/2006/10/30/who-was-nimrod.aspx. Accessed 14 November 2018. Millmore, Mark. "Ancient Egyptian Gods and Goddesses." Discovering Ancient Egypt. https://discoveringegypt.com/ancient-egyptian-gods-and-goddesses/. Accessed 15 November 2018. Strong, James. Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. Hendrickson Publishers, Incorporated, 2009.