THE FRIDAY SPECIAL - Biblical Giants ｜ Clans, Sizes, & Supernatural Abilities with Haunted Cosmos
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The legend of the Inca giants who built cities is a fascinating aspect of Andean folklore and mythology, particularly in the context of pre-Columbian South America. According to Andean legends, particularly among some indigenous groups in Peru and Bolivia, there were giants known as the Horus, who were believed to be skilled builders responsible for constructing impressive megalithic structures, including some of the iconic Inca ruins such as Machu Picchu. These legends often describe the giants as being exceptionally tall and strong, even with supernatural abilities that enable them to move massive stones and construct elaborate cities with remarkable precision.
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The legend of the Inca giants who built cities is a fascinating aspect of Andean folklore and mythology,
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particularly in the context of the Inca civilization of pre-Columbia, South America.
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According to Andean legends, particularly among some indigenous groups in Peru and Bolivia,
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who were believed to have been skilled builders responsible for constructing impressive megalithic structures,
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including some of the iconic Inca ruins such as Machu Picchu.
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These legends often describe the giants as being exceptionally tall and strong
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even with supernatural abilities that enable them to move massive stones
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and construct elaborate cities with remarkable precision.
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It's said that they built these cities using only primitive tools and methods
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yet the structures they created have stood the test of time
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and continue to amaze archaeologists and visitors alike.
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A pop-out book, the highest quality of research.
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That was, it's where you got everything you know.
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Just a series of pop-up books that we keep in the...
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was actually constructed mainly of pop-up books.
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really, it's a topic that ascends even up into the clouds.
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It just kind of towers above all the other topics.
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I mean, in order to even be able to begin addressing this topic,
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it's almost like we would have to have some kind of beanstalk.
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Yeah, I can almost feel the footsteps of this topic approaching from miles away.
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Your YouTube metric drop-off rate is going to be high at this point.
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All right, so I think we should start with the origin,
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biblical origins of giants, because we don't want to just talk.
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so we want to get into some of the legends if we can like the incas i think that that's helpful
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because i most legends and myth as we've already discussed in previous episodes they don't come
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from nowhere yeah there's usually some underlining uh truth to it the fact that there's you know
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there's a universal myth in every culture of a flood why because it happened there's a flood
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right so we'll get there like cyclops right cyclops i mean if you have you know intermingling
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you know, interbreeding. It could be a defect, you know, one eye kind of situation, but it's
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actually a giant, you know, or it could be a giant that was in some battle and simply lost
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an eye, you know, as an injury. But eventually people found this particular giant with one eye
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on an island, Solomon Islands or something like that. It's written into folklore,
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Cyclops. But the point is that there actually is a biblical origin story. Giants are real.
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And there's a biblical origin story of getting there
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And so we'd like to eventually get to giants in the Americas.
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And it's hard to verify what is emphatically true,
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or if it's some deception of some biblical thing,
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But this is one, like you said, that it's in the Bible.
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we see that the sons of God came into the daughters of men.
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and then the mighty men of renown come from them.
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And from this line, we see in Genesis 14 to 17,
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it kind of region, Ben, am I remembering that right?
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we continue to see them in the land of Canaan.
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the sons of God came into the daughters of men,
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And when the translators of the Septuagint reached that section of the Bible pretty early on,
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they, without hesitation and without second thought,
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translated Geborim, mighty men, into giants, gigas, the Greek word for giants.
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And not only that, but well before the Septuagint,
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the understanding of the Jewish religious leaders were, of course, that these were real giants.
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These were very tall, man-like humanoids that came from the sexual intercourse of
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fallen angels with women. And then it's in Genesis 19 that we get Abraham in his kind of
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rescue mission with Lot. And the reason that all of that's necessary is because these kingdoms in
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the East were going to assault the Jordan Valley because the kingdoms in the Jordan Valley had
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been rebelling against the kingdoms in the East. And all of the Jordan Valley people were like,
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because they have to come through the northern regions.
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The Zamzumim, that's where all the giants are.
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But what's fascinating is that they're not worried
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because they're like, we have an army of giants
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and they're not going to let the kings from the east
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We were like grasshoppers in front of these guys.
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which also is sort of a word for desert and wilderness.
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but there are particular cedars in that region i did a little bit of research of my own in a pop-up
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book and uh actually on the internet so it's less reliable than a pop-up book but uh there there are
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cedars in the mesopotamia uh region that are you know um anywhere from 40 to 60 feet tall um so
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that's absolutely yeah i think plausible that um that giants could have been that large and we have
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some theories of how they could have gotten to that height. We also have Abraham communing with
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giants when he's in the promised land. Teaming up with them. Right. Teaming up with them even,
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you know, with the oaks of Mamre and all the stories surrounding that. So this is something
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that permeates the text of the Old Testament and the New. And it's something that has to be reckoned
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with. And so, yeah, I mean, one of the things that we have to then ask is, well, what else?
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Because we know they're there pre-flood, Genesis 6.
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notice the text doesn't say with these other 10 spies
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See, they're lying about the giants being there
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and that we were like grasshoppers in their eyes,
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the language of the bad report grasshoppers is just to show you not how formidable the threat
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was to Israel and what Yahweh was able to accomplish. No, no, no. It was just to show you
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how sinful the 10 wicked spies were, how fearful they are that they're willing to lie and actually
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embellish the threat and make it far more than it actually was, which obviously all three of us
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don't take that view. I think it's not that these 10 guys are bringing a lying, deceiving report.
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Whereas Caleb and Joshua, they don't discount them.
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And they could have, upon the evidence of two witnesses,
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they could have said, no, no, no, no, there's no giants.
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but in essence, their counter is not, there's no giants.
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The story is meant to highlight the faith of the two,
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not necessarily to highlight the deception of the other ten.
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Exactly. It's not so much about the fear of the 10.
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Yeah. They didn't say, you guys are just exaggerating.
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And that's something that we, you know, we'll get there in a second.
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Goliath, six foot six versus nine foot nine and the royal cubit and these kind of,
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but with that, so we know establishing that we have giants, large giants,
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large giants, not just before the flood, but after.
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So how did the giants make it through the flood?
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Well, the one view that I think we can all agree on is silly.
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It comes from a Jewish midrash of the Old Testament.
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And it basically says that some of them, specifically Og,
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who later became king of Bashan, that Moses drove out.
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And so Noah drilled a hole through the side of the ark
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But that has been an idea that has been put forward by many people.
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And along, this would be in the same category of that idea.
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They saw what Noah was doing or, you know, the watchers, fallen angels,
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knew that the flood was coming and gave them fair warning.
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And so they built their own rafts and blah, blah, blah.
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But then, you know, so that's all in one category that I think is least compelling.
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The reason why I think it's the least compelling is, one, we just don't have anything in the biblical narrative of somebody hanging onto the ark.
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Two, because again, part of it we're thinking, you know, working within the parameters of the biblical narrative, but then the overarching character and nature of God.
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So we're highlighting, you know, like the same thing we said for the 12 spies.
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It's not that these 10 spies are so lazy or so fearful that they're willing to lie about there being giants.
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because they were the equivalent of NBA players, right?
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You know, people say, oh, they're giants today.
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They'll say giants were, you know, like six feet,
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The reason I don't like that, a number of reasons,
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And the main thing he's trying to wipe out, he fails.
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So he kills everything to kill primarily one thing
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and doesn't kill that, but kills everything else.
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Like a child trying to figure out how to play
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the biblical narrative says that the flood succeeded
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in killing everything that had breath and breath in those days.
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If you say that anything not on the ark survived.
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And it doesn't say that Og held onto the side of it.
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that's jewish cope right so we're not going to handle that yep with you so um no no uh perfect
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right so some people are going to go there and i think there's some credence they're perfect in
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his genealogies his generations that he didn't have nephilim blood it's not corrupted um that
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that's part of what the watchers the fallen angels were trying to do was to uh to corrupt the blood
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line uh to ultimately um to thwart the messianic line the seed of the woman right the seed of the
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woman the head of the serpent exactly that christ would eventually come from um and so well
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And the reason I don't like this one too, so according to this, you have with the daughters, daughters-in-law of Noah, one in particular, Ham's wife, that she has fallen angel blood, Nephilim blood, a descendant of them.
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And then through them, Cain and then his offspring become giants.
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Same overarching 30,000 foot view, God sent a catastrophic global flood to wipe out everything in which there was breath in its lungs.
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but the main thing that he's trying to wipe out,
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and he was grieving because Cain had just been born,
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I can see the curse in his 12 toes and 12 fingers.
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I prefer the interpretation that he says cursed be Canaan
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because Canaan is the offspring of Ham's sin.
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where Ham takes his mother and Canaan is the product of that union.
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When it says uncovered the nakedness of his father,
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It's used for inappropriate sexual activity in general,
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including uncovering the nakedness of your mother.
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So that to me is much more satisfactory and fits in the immediate context.
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And therefore the son is cursed because it came from an unholy.
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So then how do we get giants again after the flood?
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So now we're ready to talk about legitimate theories.
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the right ones, which are ours. The ones we believe. Everybody's wrong, except for me.
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No. So in Genesis 6, 4, it says that the mighty men were in the earth in those days.
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And when the sons of men came into the daughters of women. And the word there for when, correct me
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if I'm getting the terminology wrong, but it means that whenever. The implication is at any time.
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the mighty men were in the earth in those days.
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Implying, and it says before and after the flood also,
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So it happened before the flood, it caused the flood.
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or the watchers who participated in this the first time
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But the idea is that not all of them participated.
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and they were still available afterward to follow.
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we're saying fallen angels again took daughters of men
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as angelic beings that the Nephilim, their offspring, the Nephilim, and further down the
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line, giants were wiped out by the watchers themselves. And watchers, defining the term
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there, is just a classification of angels. So a certain kind of angel group that fell in rebellion
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against God to the earth, took the daughters of men, created the Nephilim. From the Nephilim come
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the giants. God sends the flood. It wipes out Nephilim and giants, but not the watchers because
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they're not strictly or at least exclusively physical beings. They don't have the breath and
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the lungs at the literal capacity that all uh earthly creatures did that were wiped out uh so
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they they survive the flood they're able to do that they're able to take another form or they're
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able to fly or they whatever they they got to do um and then they do the deed again and the watchers
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who had already done the deed um in terms of taking the daughters of men and creating the nephilim
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they have been locked as a punishment uh locked in gloomy dungeons but the idea is you have two
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possibilities. One is the second incursion. Another group of angels falls from heaven.
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I'm less sold on that. I find it less compelling because those angels that didn't rebel against
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God the first time would have seen God's judgment towards those that did. And it seems far-fetched.
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It's difficult for me to believe that angels, righteous angels that remained in heaven while
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others fell and saw the judgment of those who rebelled against god uh watched that said that's
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a great idea i should try it um so a second encourage that for me that's harder to believe
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um the uh more believable is one incursion one group of angels at one point a large group
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falling from heaven but then only a subgroup so one fall one incursion one large group but then
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a subgroup um actually taking the daughters of men right and and they get locked in gloomy dungeons
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are already depraved, fallen, rebellious angels,
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they would be more likely than unfallen angels.
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Sinners constantly think that it's gonna be different for them.
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like he got hit by a Mack truck of God's judgment,
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okay, we're willing to be locked in gloomy dungeons,
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but the big thing is to thwart the Messianic line.
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but we witnessed with Noah when he made a covenant
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but God won't stop the product of our rebellion,
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We've got to defeat the seed of the woman.
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Go ram your ship into the aircraft carrier.
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And God raised a shield with a flood last time,
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So this time, maybe it's the same consequence for us,
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Some of the whole subtext of the flood narrative
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is saying, look how stiff-necked the curse makes you.
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It's not just the stuff that you have in front of you
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It's what's inside of you that's making you sin.
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And so to me, it wouldn't make as much sense thematically
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what God is trying to get across to people in the flood,
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Not even a global flood that kills everyone but you will save the world.
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And even in his family, you see this obviously with him.
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But the other thing I was going to say, just to keep defining terms.
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So the reason that we confidently say that it was the watchers that fell
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as the angelic category is because of why we know
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that the angels that committed this heinous sin
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So there is a heavenly being categorized as the watchers
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And Enoch tells us that they were the ones that fell
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And the reason we're confident that he's right about that
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or whoever wrote the book of Enoch is right about saying that
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that the author of that book was right in saying
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that they were bound in chains and gloomy dust.
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The apostle Paul loosely references the book of Enoch
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in certain places as well and sees it as a credible source
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just as much as we can, I think, defining terms,
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And so now just, again, some frequently asked questions.
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how could angelic beings procreate with women?
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for an episode on angels that we're going to be doing.
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So instead of how can angels procreate with human women,
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how can average sized human women give birth to giants?
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And so this gets into, well, how giant are we talking?
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so i think we can talk about that some so sizes uh but then also in terms of just the sheer physics
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um how does you do that how does uh you know just i don't know let's say five foot six
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you know woman give birth to a nine foot nine i mean obviously he wasn't nine foot nine then
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i think we can rule that out they're born yes that's safe this isn't an ad but still right
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but still a baby that's going to grow into that size
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or even more so back to the grasshopper and cedar grasshopper.
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The 10 spies say that and that's the book of the numbers.
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And it's not said that they brought a false report,
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that's actually God speaking through the prophet,
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but these are the fearful wicked spies saying this.
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There's another description of giants in terms of scale
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that comes from the mouth of God through his prophet
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which seems about the same scale proportionally
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But our argument is not just how do you get a dude who grows,
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The first is if the women weren't turned into mermaids.
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Let's suspend disbelief and say for just a second.
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that we were just a moment ago saying was so credible.
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At least he's bold enough to come up with an idea.
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thought that's like a beautiful woman no dude no matter how long he's away from his wife no dude
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is going to say that's a hot i was going to say those sailors man they look in they see they start
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getting desperate they're like look at those lines desperate they've been on a ship with a bunch of
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dudes for like six months no one's that desperate and they're like true let's hope god's common
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grace i just don't the grunting of a manatee at the surface and they're like that's the most
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beautiful song i've ever heard let's go over there i'm jumping into the ocean yeah let's go
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yeah he's just been on an island having a good time
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and of course the Odyssey is historical narrative
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when we say the Odyssey we're talking about like
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But they'd probably be bigger than your average baby.
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And the world record, we confirmed this last night.
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So this was a Russian woman who actually, her husband.
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He ate people, Englishmen for breakfast, Ukrainians for breakfast.
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You know, but 20, like 20 pounds, give or take.
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And the child only, but the child was born alive
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Okay, so let's say for the sake of the argument
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that if you're going to give birth to a 25-pound baby,
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And that is that it seems that the punishment would fit the crime
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if the child of this union experienced dramatic pain for their entire life.
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And so what if they actually were born a normal size,
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but the growth rate was so fast and it never stopped.
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And so they were constantly in agonizing growing pains.
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I just got done with my seventh read of the Silmarillion.
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And I intend to read it two more times this year.
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Yeah, so in the Silmarillion, Morgoth, the Dark Lord,
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He steals these jewels because he lusts after them.
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They're supposed to be shared with the world because they're filled with glorious light
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And he hides them away in dark caverns under the earth so that only he can see.
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It says that he begrudged the sight of them to all save himself and his most wicked servants.
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And so what he did was he put them into an iron crown that he wore,
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but that hardly anyone ever saw him wearing because he hardly let anyone ever see him
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and it said that the crown became an unendurable weight
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I think once you've removed all of the possibilities,
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said that roughly um so you really just have to lay out what are the options they were normal
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sized and they grew really fast right they killed the women in childbirth they were born prematurely
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and then you know one of the things that you brought up last night i don't want to totally
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preempt you here but this is a theme that you see running through the folklore and mythology of
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the watchers and you have to understand that this basic story of the hybrid the demigod of the gods
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It's lower G, coming down, breathing with women,
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Greek, Roman, Canaanite, go anywhere in the world.
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gave knowledge to men, technological advancement,
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Some of the things that we look at as mysteries
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and abilities were just absolutely mind-blowing to us.
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that we're actually disparaging them as patronizing.
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It's like, that's fascinating for you, Neanderthal.
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So it was fascinating to me when you mentioned the idea
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or maybe, I mean, if we can do Caesarian sections today,
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You want to go one step further to just say
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they mastered what our demons are trying to do today.
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And I thought to ask it, thanks to all of you folks,
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And that was one of the frequently asked questions.
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it just didn't seem like, oh, I got to figure that out.
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How could angels procreate with women, human women?
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But then the other one, and that one I get, right?
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and we'll address that when we talk about angels.
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basically just the answer, it's all in the Nicene Creed.
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If you affirm, if you're a Nicene Creed, enjoy it.
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If you're a Nicene denier, then you're going to hate it.
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but but i i just noticed a lot of people were asking they weren't just curious about that but
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they were you know comment after comment saying no way an average size chick can give birth to
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i've seen childbirth six times yeah and fair enough fair enough yeah fair enough so but then
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that got me thinking and it's like one uh ben ben's theory is absolutely plausible that uh
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that they just kept growing they don't they didn't cap out at 18 years old or whatever
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And at that time period, there were longer lifespans.
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And we've already addressed some of that primary water theory.
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over the course of your entire life until you die,
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when other guys are living 600, 700 years.
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I mean, you start to understand the Enochian mile hires.
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plateaus aren't necessarily calcified tree stumps.
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but God bless you for those of you who are listening.
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I'm just signaling Ben, like, we can't say that.
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It wasn't some sort of like sex ritual bed thing from Babylon.
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The point of saying how big the giant's bed was
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wasn't to say he was a normal-sized guy with a big bed.
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Solomon's bed was not big enough for 1,000 women.
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instead of you're the king for being the biggest,
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it may be kind of like a situation of orcs and cave trolls.
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but the giants, after Joshua wiped them all out,
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the remnant, the last little remnant that remained,
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And so it makes me think that the Philistines as a country,
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of a bunch of normal-sized bones and one giant.
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Can you imagine if you had a right-response giant?
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The first rule of right-response is we don't talk about a right-response giant.
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I think an earlier point, like Aug, in terms of timeline,
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giants, I think, if you're the giant, the biggest person there,
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Later on, that's like a goblin kind of situation, the goblin king.
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But then later on, like in a Goliath situation,
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You're the champion that taunts the other side.
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So where I was going, though, is minimum 14 feet tall,
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and that's after some dilution, some generations of dilution.
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So when you see these pictograms where they say like average size guy, you know, six foot.
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They are as, or we're as grasshoppers to them, et cetera.
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maybe there's some prophetic hyperbole in there.
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Yeah, I think there's probably a little bit of hyperbole.
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They might as well be for all intents and purposes.
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You still wouldn't ever go up to a six foot six guy,
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All that I think is within the realm of biblical reason.
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So now even more diluted from the giants before the flood.
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So I think Noah giants were probably the biggest.
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then you still kind of have first generation again,
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I think Og is tapering off because he's a remnant.
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He says he's the last Rephaim east of Jordan.
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but it also refers to abilities and techniques, skills.
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the Rephaim, a particular strain of giants,
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or simply at least knew the technique within there.
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Yeah, because Asclepius, the Greek god of Pharmakeia,
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but also could be 25 is reasonable 50 is is possible it's at least possible and then pre-flood
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same kind of scenario and if anything maybe even larger because of some canopy oxygen that you know
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hyperbolic chamber uh you know there's some other factors as well could be even bigger could be
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noah giants could be 80 feet tall who knows but then beyond just sizes you have different so
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different time periods of sizes but then different tribes that could also give variance of sizes but
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definitely give variance in terms of if not supernatural abilities contained innately
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within them, at least techniques and knowledge. Oh yeah. And that's super fascinating. Yeah.
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Decline. That is really fascinating. It's not one thing we know, just again,
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it's not a six foot six dude. And if I see any comments on this video that say the Giants are
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alive today, they're in the NBA, I'm banning you from the channel. Do we explain that? No. Where
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that came from? No. Explain it. You should tell, okay, explain how this happened. Because it's a
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common argument that you will hear. The reason that we know this is because in Goliath's narrative,
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we hear how he was, you know, what is the cubit measurement? Three cubits, isn't that? Or four
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cubits is what it says? I think it's like three and a half. Something like that. But here's the
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point. Before we even get to Goliath and the whole scene with the Philistines, we hear a little bit
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about King Saul. The average height of the, of the Israel male around the time of King Saul was
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about five, seven. We're told that King Saul stood a full head above the entire assembly of Israel.
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Right. So he's over six feet. He's a tall guy. Cause it says Goliath was Goliath of Gath. There
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came out of the camp of the Philistines, a champion named Goliath of Gath. This is first
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Samuel 17, four, uh, whose height was six cubits and a span. Okay. Six cubits. And then it describes
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So six and a half cubits, not three and a half.
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and a javelin of bronze slung between his shoulders.
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The shaft of his spear was like a weaver's beam.
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and he stands six cubits in a span or whatever.
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So we know that King Saul was about 6'5 to 6'8.
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And we know that he was deathly afraid of Goliath.
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King Saul is going to be deathly afraid of a guy
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Other translations that are basing it off the Septuagint
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And so they were reading the ancient Hebrew text,
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They're saying, well, their cubit was different from ours.
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So we're going to translate it into our measurement
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so that the Greek speakers know what the actual height was.
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base it off of the Septuagint because it's the oldest
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because it's the oldest that we have access to.
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And so he ends up being about the size of King Saul.
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which when they translated it back into the Hebrew
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from the Septuagint again, they made this switch.
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So the cubit for the Alexandrians was about 36 inches.
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in a span, half of a cubit, 18, half of that is nine, nine, nine.
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Yeah, so there's a YouTube channel that I've watched
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that is, I don't know if I'll say the name, whatever.
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Which you've got guns every time you come on here,
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they had one of the world's strongest guys lifting the sword that they forged it's huge
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it's like solid steel big old sword and this guy is a strongman competition type weight lifter not
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the really cut gay bodybuilder ones that oil themselves up but the ones that like actually
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lift the heaviest thing and he was trying to lift this and it wasn't that heavy relatively speaking
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when you you heard how much it was it was like maybe 100 pounds or something or 80 pounds and
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Not just six foot six, strongman competition strong.
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It was really like they crossed the Sea of Reeds.
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And so they were able to weigh its materialist.
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Prince of Egypt, Moses stood in front of the thing
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Like, I don't even care if there are whales in the Red Sea.
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Don't you think we would have some comment in scripture
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and King Saul was a giant among the men of Israel.
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one says this is a tall guy the other says giant yeah whole other class yes of thing
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right over there okay so let's get some final thoughts and then i think let's let's round out
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this episode just our final word for this episode and then next episode and brian and i will both
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just ben is going to pick us up on his back and carry us i you know i can't carry you like no
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but i can carry you we're going to be like og yeah we're going to be like but we'll lean heavily
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because I think it'd just be fascinating to, with
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Because this gave us a good giant origin story.
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