Posted on 02/07/2005 11:33:38 PM PST by JohnHuang2
Biblical-giants book soars up charts 'The Nephilim' explains ancient pyramids, future events Posted: February 1, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern
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A unique book that purports to explain the past existence of giant beings referred to in the Bible as the Nephilim is skyrocketing up online best-sellers lists, now appearing in the top 10 at Amazon.com.
Published by Xulon Press, "The Nephilim and the Pyramid of the Apocalypse" presents an explanation for an unusual verse in the first book of the Bible, Genesis 6:4, which reads: "There were giants (Nephilim) 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 book's author, Patrick Heron, says on his website that his is the only first in-depth book to throw light on the mysterious Nephilim and "to provide evidence of who built the pyramids of Egypt and Mexico and other great monuments of ancient history."
In the introduction of the hot-selling work, Heron delves into the history of the pyramids and other fascinating structures that have proven "astronomical significance" – facts that have been written about before.
In Heron's book, however, he goes to the questions of who built the structures, how they acquired such mathematical and astronomical knowledge, and what advanced technology was used in the construction.
Writes Heron: "To simply say, 'The Egyptians built them,' is not a satisfactory answer. For if man began at the stone age, progressed to the bronze and then to the iron age, then we have the oldest pyramids popping up somewhere between the stone age and the bronze age. This is akin to saying that at some point in time past, man invented the wheel. Sometime later, another made a cart. But in between the wheel and the cart we find a brand new Mercedes! This is a realistic comparison when considering the construction of the pyramids.
"Despite all the recent books written about them, the pyramids remain a conundrum wrapped in an enigma and surrounded by a paradox. Yes, these authors have discovered and charted their astronomical significance. They have unearthed their geometric alignments and mathematical accuracies. And the conclusion they have reached is that some lost civilization or race of advanced people were responsible for these mammoth edifices."
Those lost race of people, Heron proposes, are the Nephilim.
In the first part of his book, Heron answers the questions of who the architects were, where they came from, where they acquired their mathematical and astronomical knowledge, how they possessed the strength to construct these huge structures, why they chose the pyramid shape, why the pyramids align with celestial bodies and where theses mysterious over-achievers went.
"In the second part of this book," writes Heron, "I have shown how these same age-old pyramids portend a future event. Analyzing again the ancient texts, I will provide an examination of the prophecies of the book of Revelation and of the signs we are told would precede these imminent happenings. In doing so we shall garner the necessary details and information whereby the reader will be able to audition the future."
Finally, Heron says, his book proposes "a phenomenon never before proposed or explored –The Pyramid of The Apocalypse."
Heron's book begins with an analysis of the mathematical phenomena surrounding the pyramids – for example, the fact that the length of each side of the Great Pyramid at the base is 365.2422 Hebrew cubits, the exact number of days in the solar year, including the extra day for each leap year. He also points out how four long, narrow passageways in the pyramid point to specific stars in the sky and that ancient monuments in Mexico and Cambodia have similar celestial connections to the same four stars.
Next, Heron takes the reader to the Genesis text that talks of the "sons of God," citing other uses of the term in the Bible. He says the term is comparable to the mention of angels, whom Heron says should more accurately be called "agents" or "messengers."
Heron then goes back to Genesis 6, citing verse 2: "The sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all that they chose."
Writes Heron: "What this verse is implying is that these 'sons of God,' who were created spirit beings, had intercourse with ordinary human women and produced children. But these were no ordinary offspring."
The result of the unions, Heron says, were the Nephilim, Hebrew for giants, that are mentioned in verse 4. The fathers, also are referred to as Nephilim, which also means "the fallen ones." The author says the fathers were malevolent spirits, or demons.
The Nephilim, then, were "a hybrid of demons and men. They were evil and wicked by nature and could not be rehabilitated and made good, for the evil was in their genes."
Heron, a Christian author who lives in Ireland, believes the spirit beings hooked up with earthly women twice, once before the Great Flood, hence the Genesis passage, and later after the Flood. One biblical citation he mentions is in the book of Numbers, when the 12 Hebrew spies scout out the Promised Land and report back about giants who inhabited the land. These giants and others, Heron writes, actually practiced genetic engineering, citing the fact that it took two spies to carry back one cluster of grapes on a staff between them.
Perhaps the most famous biblical Nephilim was Goliath, the man who stood over 13 feet tall and was slain by shepherd boy David.
While an analysis of the Nephilim and even pointing to them as architects of the mysterious structures is not unprecedented, Heron breaks new ground in his discussion of future events and how the Nephilim's pyramids related to them.
Heron believes the pyramid design by the Nephilim was a rip-off of the shape of the "City of God" talked about in Revelation, which is said to have a square base with each side approximately 1,400 miles long.
Writes Heron: "I have become convinced that the pyramidal shape is a demonic exercise in counterfeit design, for I believe that the pyramid is a paradigm of the City of God which is at present in the heavens and which was seen and described by John in chapter 21 of the Apocalypse. …
"Some biblical scholars have suggested that this city has been created in the shape of a cube. I believe that it is in the form of a pyramid, and I believe also that the reason the Pyramid of Giza and the other ancient pyramids were built was to copy the heavenly city of Yahweh, the Holy City which is right now in the heavens. This is what I mean by the term 'Pyramid of the Apocalypse.'"
Heron says the earthly pyramids were Satan's attempt, via the Nephilim, to try to exalt himself and imitated God.
"Only an exalted celestial being could have masterminded the pyramids of that ancient epoch. Only a being or beings with such knowledge of the stars could have accomplished such things."
"And Merlin built Stonehenge."
Humanity knew of the existence of the closer planets (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn) at least since the end of the stone age. Planets move differently in the sky than do stars and are easily spotted over several days of observation.
The Book of Enoch is not considered to be authentic or inspired.
The ancient Egyptians had the same ability to think, dream and organize as anyone today, they just had fewer gadgets. To argue that they could not have done what they did without divine or extraterrestrial assistance is just insulting.
For those of you who subscribe to Coast to Coast with Art Bell, Art interviewed Patrick Heron Jan. 30 about this book. It was absolutely fascinating. Those who have Hebrew-Greek Bibles, the word Nephilim is referenced #5303, 5307, 5308 in the lexical aids to the Old Testament.
N phill: masc. noun ...means bully, a tyrant, a giant.
Naphal: to fall, throw down, to cast oneself down; the main idea behind this root is a violent or accidental circumstance or event.
Along with other forms of falling, N phill could mean that the falling is "by the hand of an opponent."
The Nephilim is also mentioned in Beowolf. Don't have the book handy, but will show the reference in a while.
http://www.preparetoleave.com/home.html
Most scholars say the Hebrew word for 'day' in Genesis can be interpreted as 'a period of time' and does not mean a strict 24 hour day. With that understanding, the Genesis account is not so hard to accept.
"not considered to be authentic or inspired" Try this book..."The Lost Prophet", The Book of Enoch and It's Influence on Christianity...by Margaret Barker. Abingdon Press, 1944. (First Published in Great Brittain 1988, SPCK, Holy Trinity Church, Marylebone Road, London NW1 4DU). Do not be a sheep, a follower of preconcieved knowledge, SEEK out what is TRUE...make up your own mind only after you have investigated fully. Even the best Republicans are too "Left" to be Holy in God's assessment.
But please don't fight about this and if you the Bishop Usher view or some other view, it's all irrelevant to me, as I said, I begin all with John 1.1.
If I understand the author's premise correctly, the fallen angels who were lost in the flood were bound and contained in "Hades", but the spirits of the offspring are the demons that plague mankind today, also known as "familiar spirits". He agrees with you (and so do I) that these are the same spirits that may show up in haunted houses or any supernatural experience (ufo's i.e.).
He also states that the Nephilim appeared after the flood, i.e. the "giants" in Canaan (Num. 13:33) which is also referenced #5303, fallen ones.
"And there we saw the giants (Nephilim), 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."
In my website, www.preparetoleave.com (in maintenance mode right now, so please be patient) there is a section devoted to looking for new revelations in the word. Those things that were "sealed" for the time of the end I believe are being revealed. Like you said, you have to seek them out with a lot of prayer.
uh... what did you just say?
Interesting.........
Unfortunately when you have been taught the world is flat you will live and believe accordingly. Doesn't the mormon bible have the book of Enoch? I will have to look, I think I have one of those somewhere. I believe where as we use maybe 1/8 of our brains, that Adam and Eve used all of theirs and were highly intelligent and mathmatically inclined, altho our knowledge has increased since Noah and all was destroyed, commom sense is a thing of the past and we get dumber by the decade. Adam and Eve were told immediately upon creation to go and replenish the earth, so my belief is that there was quite a population of the Sons of God before Cain and Abel, with Cain and Abel leaven was added to the human race thru the daughters of men (the off spring of Cain and Abel) and all mankind received a genetic portion eventually. Just my thoughts.
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I bet Zawi Hawass's blood pressure just shot up 50 points. He gets pretty hot under the collar when theories like this get touted as where the pyramids came from.
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Gen 2:4 and the Sun not created until the fourth day make translating yom as day unlikely.
"Those things that were "sealed" for the time of the end I believe are being revealed. Like you said, you have to seek them out with a lot of prayer. "
The Gnostics were a heretical sect that believed they had secret knowledge, too.
Or maybe he's just been reading too much Norse mythology and has confused places with people....
Truth is truth, if someone wants to take the truth that the Bible says and then squeeze it and stretch it and pervert it, that is a big mistake. Genesis 6 only speaks of the sons of god who had children by the daughters of men, the offspring being giants. It does not say anyone was like them before this time. Those who stick to what the Bible says, rightly dividing the Word, will be much better off and will not let their vain imagination correct the bible.
I have always believed that the nephilim were sired by fallen angels, and this was the chief reason for Noah's Flood. I read a book called The Omega Conspiracy, Satan's last assault on God's Kingdom. I doubt these two books differ on much.
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