The Rise and Fall of the Nephilim (17 page)

Took
is the Hebrew word
laqach
(law-kakh’); a primitive root; to take (in the widest variety of applications): to take (as in: “Abraham took his cloak in his hand”), to lay hold of, to receive, to marry, to take a wife, to take to or for a person, to procure, to get, to take possession of, to select, to choose, to take in marriage, to receive, to accept.

A very different picture of Eve’s temptation in the Garden of Eden is beginning to emerge. The previous parsed passage is far more than a sinful, disobedient appreciation of fruit. All the references we hear of Eve eating an apple, or depictions in religious art of the Eden couple eating a big piece of fruit is merely coded information and hiding what the passage truly speaks about.

“It is obvious here that the snake was a symbol and not a literal talking snake selling apples. If you look up the words used in Genesis from a Strong’s Concordance, you will then see that Genesis is filled with many sexual idioms. In fact the picture of the snake eating dust is a Jewish idiom for being lower than low. To take it literally is a mistake. Note too that there are no snakes that eat dust. Also that male penis strongly resembles a snake in its shape, so I do not think that we are dealing with a literal snake. And what was the law that Eve broke and was in “transgression” of? I would think it is clear that she was in transgression because she had committed adultery. It says that Adam did too partake in the eating of the fruit and became ashamed. But this fruit did not come directly from the tree but from Eve.
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According to 1 Enoch 69:4-12, the serpent was one of five angels known as “the Five Satans,” and one of those Satans was named Gader’el, and was “he who showed the children of the people all the blows of death, who misled Eve, who showed the children of the people (how to make) the instruments of death (such as) the shield, the breastplate, and the sword for warfare, and all (the other) instruments of death to the children of the people.”

What really happened in this scene in the Garden of Eden is that Eve, the mother of humanity, lost her virginity to the Serpent; you can see that she encountered him sexually before ever having sex with her husband, Adam. And later in the passage, the text is implicit that Eve
was impregnated by this encounter. Then she drew her husband into the scenario, he willingly partook, and Eve also became impregnated by Adam. Eve was then bearing fraternal twins, Cain and Abel, one from the seed of Adam and the other from the seed of the character known as the serpent in the Garden.

The grand sin that was committed in Eden was not mere disobedience in the eating of a forbidden piece of fruit from a forbidden tree in the midst of the garden. It was a sexual sin that created a dual bloodline in the twins conceived in Eve’s womb. According to the subsequent passages in Genesis, we learn that Abel was the blood seed of Adam, but that Cain was the blood seed of the serpent, and that those opposing lineages would be in constant conflict with one another, starting with Cain murdering his twin brother.

Here, we see that events in the Garden of Eden were greatly influenced by none other than a reptilian character. Theologically, you could pigeon-hole him as Lucifer or “Satan,” taking the form of a snake, but even in that form he would had to have possessed the physical ability to have sexual intercourse with Eve. So the reptilian feature is mere poetic biblical language, or it represents the physical appearance and qualities of the person who tempted Eve.

In a very real sense, then, Cain, the seed of the serpent, was for all practical purposes the
very first
of the Nephilim, bequeathed by a fallen angel, perhaps even Lucifer himself.

Whoever the serpent truly is, there have been linkages made between the obviously coded message of the Adam and Eve story with the beings that descended to the slopes of Mount Hermon and bred with human women seven generations later. But is this “serpent seed” planted in the Garden of Eden only the first of many such recorded events in biblical history? Was the seed of the serpent something that was planted in the womb of Eve, only to be done again and again and again in the wombs of other women in both the pre-flood and post-flood worlds? And was the serpent himself—obviously not a snake or a man—a member of an angelic caste or even Lucifer, as some suggest, or was he something completely different?

“12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!”

[Isaiah 14:12]

“18 I beheld Satan as lightening fall from Heaven.”

[Jesus Christ, quoted in Luke 10:18]

The presence of a reptoid character in the biblical account of the Garden of Eden and the temptation of Eve has given rise to countless pop cultural mythologies, theories, and anecdotal personal encounters about a race of alien reptilian beings that interfered with human development and history. And they are linked closely with the Nephilim, Anunnaki, and the Sons of God of Genesis
Chapter 6
. The only problem with most of the theorizing, despite how intriguing and possible the claims may be, is that it is just that: theorizing and speculation.

There are countless numbers of books and Websites that host a plethora of information about the reptilians that lived on this planet more than 800,000 years ago, hailing from the Draco star system. The vast majority of those fonts of reptilian information have no source points, no data, no cited facts. The entire reptilian issue seems to be summed up as accepted fact in particular circles of alien and ufological thought, but they offer us no solid evidence or empirical data to use as a foundation. No evidence, no verification, no historical records—much like most of our belief systems structured around the characters and events in the Bible itself. In his book
The Big Secret
, British-born new ageist, David Icke, one of the most well-known authors and lecturers on alien reptilians, speaks of their involvement with the human race through his own gaussian-blurred view of both historical and current events. For Icke, the reptilian factor is an otherworldly platform to use as a launching pad for his anti-Semitism, neofascism, and an ostensibly oddball convergence of New Age thinking with Nazi philosophy that he incorporates into the foundation for his belief that mankind has always been controlled and governed by a global Jewish conspiracy fathered
by lizards from another planet.
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This merely illustrates that the topic of alien reptilians is comprised of more speculative ranting, subjective story-telling, and wishful thinking, than quantifiable historical or anthropological fact. Even the header on Icke’s Website states that he is “[e]xposing the dreamworld we believe to be real.”
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Reality can be stranger than fiction, it has been said, yet when we see the expositing of ideas from people who seem to have slippery holds on historical accuracy, let alone common sense and sanity, we tend to laugh them off into the other room and seat them at the children’s table so they can do their thing while we adults converse at the grown-ups’ table about the hardcore truisms of life and the universe. However, as crackpot as some of the ideas surrounding reptilians may sound, and whatever pseudo-political ideologies have been built on their shoulders, a kernel of truth may still lie quivering at the core. Although Reptilian art and religious application of serpents and dragons exist all throughout human history, there is little—if any—evidence that they dwelled on this planet and interacted with human beings on the level that is expressed in the theorizing of pseudo-scientific thought. Yet their presence in one form or another is pervasive and ultimately convincing to a certain degree.

The remarkable fact is that throughout all ancient and modern civilizations, the serpent or dragon bestowing knowledge upon the human race figures prominently in all religions and histories: the Judeo-Christian reptilian “fallen angel” Lucifer; the Mayan serpent god, Quetzalcoatl; the enormous plumed serpent god of the Hopi Indians, Baholinkonga; the East Indian mystical human-like reptilians known as NAGAS; the Egyptian serpent god, Enuph; the Phoenicians Agathodemon; and even the Hebrews Nakhustan or Brazen Serpent that Moses cast and placed high on a pole when the Israelites were plagued by serpents in the wilderness—which is a biblical scene all on its own that begs the question of more encoded language from Moses. The actual passage reads:

“4 They traveled from Mount Hor along the route to the Red Sea, to go around Edom. But the people grew impatient on the way; 5 they spoke against God and against Moses, and said, ‘Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread! There is no water! And we detest this miserable food!’ 6 Then the LORD sent venomous snakes among them; they bit the people and many Israelites died. 7 The people came to Moses and said, ‘We sinned when we spoke against the LORD and against you. Pray that the LORD will take the snakes away from us.’ So Moses prayed for the people. 8 The LORD said to Moses, ‘Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live.’ 9 So Moses made a bronze snake and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, they lived.”

(Numbers 21:4-9)

As a punishment for griping and complaining against God and Moses, the biblical account written by Moses tells us that God sent “firey serpents” into the camp of the wandering Israelites. The people were being bitten and dying in hordes. So God instructed Moses to cast a bronze snake and place it high upon a pole, and all who were bitten and taken ill could look on the serpent from anywhere within the camp and be healed. The brazen serpent remained with the Israelites for another 700 years, where it eventually stood in the Temple in Jerusalem. But the people, during the time of King Hezekiah (715-687
BCE
) had begun worshipping the snake and making an offering to it. So in a vast iconoclastic reform, Hezekiah cut down all the pagan groves, smashed all the idols, and destroyed the Nakhustan, which didn’t bear that name until his reign on the throne of Israel, suggesting that he may have given it that name himself.

It is interesting to note that originally the second commandment written by Moses included this prohibition:

“4 You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.”

(Exodus 20:4)

Moses and the Brazen Serpent: Sebastien Bourdon, 1653-54
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Photo is licensed under Wikipedia Creative Commons.

This mandate was so strong in its wording that the Jews incorporated into their laws an extremist prohibition against portraiture and sculpted imagery of any kind, of man, beast, animal, or deity. Illustrating the power of the Jewish law, two first-century Jewish historians, Philo and Josephus, recorded revolts by the Jews during the tenure of Roman Praefect Pontius Pilatus (26-36
AD
; Pilate), over the placement of graven images and effigies. According to Josephus, Pilate demonstrated a fairly insensitive approach to the Jews religious customs, and he ignored their protests by allowing his soldiers to bring
the images of Caesar into the city by the dark of night. When the citizens of Jerusalem discovered these the following day, they appealed to Pilate to remove the ensigns of Caesar from the city. After five days of deliberation, Pilate had his soldiers surround the demonstrators, threatening them with death, which they were willing to accept rather than submit to desecration of Mosaic Law. Pilate finally removed the images. The incident proved to be an early example of effective resistance to tyranny by aggressive, nonviolent means, yet Pilate quelled the rebellion by signaling other of his plain-clothed troops who had positioned themselves within the crowds, to begin a very brief but bloody massacre of many of the protestors.
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