I really appreciate this Spencer, looking forward to the next installment!
In surveying the options to answer our question, “Who are the Nephilim?,” in my last post we looked at the interpretation which believes that the “sons of God” were divinized human rulers. In The Unseen Realm Heiser gives us a third option:
- The Sethite view
- Divinized Human Rulers
- The Nephilim are the offspring of rebellious divine beings.
Peter and Jude
“Peter and Jude did not fear the alternative” (97).
2 Peter 2.4, 9-10 says,
For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment… then the Lord knows how… to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment, and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority.
Likewise, Jude 6-7 says,
And the angels who did not stay within their own position…
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Wow I never thought of this alternative interpretation before.
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You should read Dr. Heiser’s volume The Unseen Realm! I loved it, but even if you don’t agree with his assessments you’ll (perhaps) never view the Bible the same way again.
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