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Giants are still with us
Giants, Gods & Dragons <substack.com/@gilberthouse>
Aug 08, 2025 ——————————
The Watchers, according to I Enoch, were led by Semjâzâ, whose name is thought to be a combination of *shem*(meaning “name”) and *azaz* (possibly meaning “rebellion”). Some list Semjâzâ as one of the *archon* class of *elohim*, a ruler. But whatever his name meant in heaven, his choice to descend to Mount Hermon certainly made him infamous.
Apparently, this former ruler in heaven worried that his companions might soon regret their rebellious choices and allow their leader to take the fall for what they’d all proposed to do. After all, each of them knew how the Lord of Armies had dealt with Chaos, and they’d probably heard God pronounce judgment upon the *nachash* in the garden, vowing to one day crush his head, just like the heads of Leviathan will be crushed.
Here is the excerpt from the Book of Enoch:
And Semjâzâ, who was their leader, said unto them: “I fear ye will not indeed agree to do this deed, and I alone shall have to pay the penalty of a great sin.” And they all answered him and said: “Let us all swear an oath, and all bind ourselves by mutual imprecations not to abandon this plan but to do this thing.” Then sware they all together and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it. And they were in all two hundred; who descended ⌈in the days⌉ of Jared on the summit of Mount Hermon. (Book of Enoch 6:3–6a; R. H. Charles, trans.)
The gift these Watchers offered to human women (and possibly to their families/husbands) in exchange for sexual favors was forbidden knowledge, the same deal the *nachash* offered Adam and Eve in Eden. As payment for the pleasures of the flesh, Semjâzâ and his rebellious companions offered charms, enchantments, astrology, metallurgy (read that as weaponry for warfare), cosmetics, and writing, among other things—presumably arts that humans would have developed or discovered on their own, given time.
*This is an excerpt from our 2020 book Giants, Gods & Dragons. Over the coming weeks, we’ll publish it here at no charge.If you want to own a copy, it’s available in paperback
However, the products of these illicit unions were giants, the Nephilim, whose stature and abilities far surpassed their human relatives. Believing themselves gods, these “men of renown” pillaged the earth and endangered all of humanity. The Nephilim consumed everything that men possessed; when that wasn’t enough, they began to eat people, and they finally turned on one another. Enoch describes these cannibalistic colossi as creatures of insatiable desire who threatened to pollute and even terminate the bloodline of the future Messiah by violence—but also by corrupting the human genome. It was a military move by the fallen realm, who thought to remove any possibility of defeat by polluting human DNA, while at the same time, creating their own army of superhumans. They probably thought themselves pretty clever—but the Lord of Armies had seen their ploy long before, for He knows all and sees all, even from the foundation of the world.
But wait, as they say on television, there’s more! Not only did the Watchers corrupt human DNA, but the Book of Jasher suggests they transgressed against all creation by “the mixture of animals of one species with the other” (Jasher 4:18). This is also hinted at in 1 Enoch, which tells us “they began to sin against birds, wild beasts, reptiles, and fish” (1 Enoch 7:5, James H. Charlesworth, trans.).
Was this the source for the “legends” of centaurs, griffins, and satyrs? Are they just legends? We know that Yahweh sent a Flood to rid the earth of all flesh that breathed air, with the exception of eight people: Noah, his wife, three sons, and their wives, along with the animals God Himself directed to board the ark. The worldwide Flood that followed killed all that remained, including the Nephilim (for they, too, breathed the air). And as punishment for their sins, the fathers of these Nephilim, the Watchers, were thrust down to Tartarus, and are now chained there, where they’ll stay until “the judgment of the great day.”
But did you know that these giants didn’t completely perish—that they are still with us today? The physical forms of the Nephilim certainly died, but their illicitly begotten spirits became what we now call demons:
*And now, the giants, who are produced from the spirits and flesh, shall be called evil spirits upon the earth, and on the earth shall be their dwelling.* Evil spirits have proceeded from their bodies; because they are born from men and from the holy Watchers is their beginning and primal origin; *they shall be evil spirits on earth, and evil spirits shall they be called*. [As for the spirits of heaven, in heaven shall be their dwelling, but as for the spirits of the earth which were born upon the earth, on the earth shall be their dwelling.] And the spirits of the giants afflict, oppress, destroy, attack, do battle, and work destruction on the earth, and cause trouble: they take no food, but nevertheless hunger and thirst, and cause offences. *And these spirits shall rise up against the children of men and against the women, because they have proceeded from them*. From the days of the slaughter and destruction and death of the giants, from the souls of whose flesh the spirits, having gone forth, shall destroy without incurring judgement. (I Enoch 15:8–12, 16:1; R. H. Charles, trans.; emphasis added; brackets in original)
The church today doesn’t deal much with the topic of demons, but it’s clear the early church understood that they were real and distinct from angels. The term “angel” implies a mission, but those who live within the unseen realm are generally called *elohim*, written with a small *e* to distinguish them from the uppercased *E* in *Elohim*, one of the names of Yahweh. Whenever the *elohim* appear in the Bible as messengers from God, they are described as looking like men. Other classes of *elohim*, like the *nachash*, *cherubim*, and *seraphim*, are entities of a different kind; these also possess a “nonhuman” physicality—that is, an outward appearance that can be observed and described by the prophets.
Demons, on the other hand, have no innate physical presence. They are spirits only, but they seek physicality through possession. The consensus view among Jews and Christians until the time of Augustine (the late third/early fourth centuries) was that demons are the spirits of the dead Nephilim, who now roam the earth (boldface added for emphasis in the excerpts below):
*PHILO:* “And when the angels of God saw the daughters of men that they were beautiful, they took unto themselves wives of all of them whom they chose.” Those beings, whom *other philosophers call demons*, Moses usually calls angels; and they are *souls hovering in the air*.”
—Philo, *On the Giants* 6
*ORIGEN: *“In my opinion, however, *it is certain wicked demons, and, so to speak, of the race of Titans or Giants, who have been guilty of impiety towards the true God*, and towards the angels in heaven, and who have fallen from it, and who haunt the denser parts of bodies, and frequent unclean places upon earth, and who, possessing some power of distinguishing future events, *because they are without bodies of earthly material*, engage in an employment of this kind, and desiring to lead the human race away from the true God.”
—Origen, *Against Celsus* *4.92*
*JUSTIN MARTYR:* “*God…committed the care of men and of all things under heaven to angels whom He appointed over them. But the angels transgressed this appointment, and were captivated by love of women, and begot children who are those that are called demons;* and besides, they afterwards subdued the human race to themselves, partly by magical writings, and partly by fears and the punishments they occasioned, and partly by teaching them to offer sacrifices, and incense, and libations, of which things they stood in need after they were enslaved by lustful passions; and among men they sowed murders, wars, adulteries, intemperate deeds, and all wickedness.
—Justin Martyr, *2 Apology* 5
Justin Martyr not only understood that the Nephilim were the source of the demons that plague mankind; he also clearly knew that the rebellious members of the divine council were the false gods of the pagan world.
Takeaways thus far:
· Rebellions lead to judgments, which then lead to rebellions, leading to judgments, and so on.
· Prisoner Zero’s first rebellion caused the earth to become “void.”
· The Nachash’s temptation of Eve and Adam led to their expulsion from Eden and the judgment upon the Nachash.
· The Watchers descended to Hermon, taking human wives and creating the Nephilim.
· The inevitable judgment came again through a worldwide Flood.
And after the Flood came Babel, where the humans once again fell victim to the lies of fallen entities.
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Giants are still with us
Giants, Gods & Dragons <substack.com/@gilberthouse>
Aug 08, 2025 ——————————
The Watchers, according to I Enoch, were led by Semjâzâ, whose name is thought to be a combination of *shem*(meaning “name”) and *azaz* (possibly meaning “rebellion”). Some list Semjâzâ as one of the *archon* class of *elohim*, a ruler. But whatever his name meant in heaven, his choice to descend to Mount Hermon certainly made him infamous.
Apparently, this former ruler in heaven worried that his companions might soon regret their rebellious choices and allow their leader to take the fall for what they’d all proposed to do. After all, each of them knew how the Lord of Armies had dealt with Chaos, and they’d probably heard God pronounce judgment upon the *nachash* in the garden, vowing to one day crush his head, just like the heads of Leviathan will be crushed.
Here is the excerpt from the Book of Enoch:
And Semjâzâ, who was their leader, said unto them: “I fear ye will not indeed agree to do this deed, and I alone shall have to pay the penalty of a great sin.” And they all answered him and said: “Let us all swear an oath, and all bind ourselves by mutual imprecations not to abandon this plan but to do this thing.” Then sware they all together and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it. And they were in all two hundred; who descended ⌈in the days⌉ of Jared on the summit of Mount Hermon. (Book of Enoch 6:3–6a; R. H. Charles, trans.)
The gift these Watchers offered to human women (and possibly to their families/husbands) in exchange for sexual favors was forbidden knowledge, the same deal the *nachash* offered Adam and Eve in Eden. As payment for the pleasures of the flesh, Semjâzâ and his rebellious companions offered charms, enchantments, astrology, metallurgy (read that as weaponry for warfare), cosmetics, and writing, among other things—presumably arts that humans would have developed or discovered on their own, given time.
*This is an excerpt from our 2020 book Giants, Gods & Dragons. Over the coming weeks, we’ll publish it here at no charge.If you want to own a copy, it’s available in paperback
However, the products of these illicit unions were giants, the Nephilim, whose stature and abilities far surpassed their human relatives. Believing themselves gods, these “men of renown” pillaged the earth and endangered all of humanity. The Nephilim consumed everything that men possessed; when that wasn’t enough, they began to eat people, and they finally turned on one another. Enoch describes these cannibalistic colossi as creatures of insatiable desire who threatened to pollute and even terminate the bloodline of the future Messiah by violence—but also by corrupting the human genome. It was a military move by the fallen realm, who thought to remove any possibility of defeat by polluting human DNA, while at the same time, creating their own army of superhumans. They probably thought themselves pretty clever—but the Lord of Armies had seen their ploy long before, for He knows all and sees all, even from the foundation of the world.
But wait, as they say on television, there’s more! Not only did the Watchers corrupt human DNA, but the Book of Jasher suggests they transgressed against all creation by “the mixture of animals of one species with the other” (Jasher 4:18). This is also hinted at in 1 Enoch, which tells us “they began to sin against birds, wild beasts, reptiles, and fish” (1 Enoch 7:5, James H. Charlesworth, trans.).
Was this the source for the “legends” of centaurs, griffins, and satyrs? Are they just legends? We know that Yahweh sent a Flood to rid the earth of all flesh that breathed air, with the exception of eight people: Noah, his wife, three sons, and their wives, along with the animals God Himself directed to board the ark. The worldwide Flood that followed killed all that remained, including the Nephilim (for they, too, breathed the air). And as punishment for their sins, the fathers of these Nephilim, the Watchers, were thrust down to Tartarus, and are now chained there, where they’ll stay until “the judgment of the great day.”
But did you know that these giants didn’t completely perish—that they are still with us today? The physical forms of the Nephilim certainly died, but their illicitly begotten spirits became what we now call demons:
*And now, the giants, who are produced from the spirits and flesh, shall be called evil spirits upon the earth, and on the earth shall be their dwelling.* Evil spirits have proceeded from their bodies; because they are born from men and from the holy Watchers is their beginning and primal origin; *they shall be evil spirits on earth, and evil spirits shall they be called*. [As for the spirits of heaven, in heaven shall be their dwelling, but as for the spirits of the earth which were born upon the earth, on the earth shall be their dwelling.] And the spirits of the giants afflict, oppress, destroy, attack, do battle, and work destruction on the earth, and cause trouble: they take no food, but nevertheless hunger and thirst, and cause offences. *And these spirits shall rise up against the children of men and against the women, because they have proceeded from them*. From the days of the slaughter and destruction and death of the giants, from the souls of whose flesh the spirits, having gone forth, shall destroy without incurring judgement. (I Enoch 15:8–12, 16:1; R. H. Charles, trans.; emphasis added; brackets in original)
The church today doesn’t deal much with the topic of demons, but it’s clear the early church understood that they were real and distinct from angels. The term “angel” implies a mission, but those who live within the unseen realm are generally called *elohim*, written with a small *e* to distinguish them from the uppercased *E* in *Elohim*, one of the names of Yahweh. Whenever the *elohim* appear in the Bible as messengers from God, they are described as looking like men. Other classes of *elohim*, like the *nachash*, *cherubim*, and *seraphim*, are entities of a different kind; these also possess a “nonhuman” physicality—that is, an outward appearance that can be observed and described by the prophets.
Demons, on the other hand, have no innate physical presence. They are spirits only, but they seek physicality through possession. The consensus view among Jews and Christians until the time of Augustine (the late third/early fourth centuries) was that demons are the spirits of the dead Nephilim, who now roam the earth (boldface added for emphasis in the excerpts below):
*PHILO:* “And when the angels of God saw the daughters of men that they were beautiful, they took unto themselves wives of all of them whom they chose.” Those beings, whom *other philosophers call demons*, Moses usually calls angels; and they are *souls hovering in the air*.”
—Philo, *On the Giants* 6
*ORIGEN: *“In my opinion, however, *it is certain wicked demons, and, so to speak, of the race of Titans or Giants, who have been guilty of impiety towards the true God*, and towards the angels in heaven, and who have fallen from it, and who haunt the denser parts of bodies, and frequent unclean places upon earth, and who, possessing some power of distinguishing future events, *because they are without bodies of earthly material*, engage in an employment of this kind, and desiring to lead the human race away from the true God.”
—Origen, *Against Celsus* *4.92*
*JUSTIN MARTYR:* “*God…committed the care of men and of all things under heaven to angels whom He appointed over them. But the angels transgressed this appointment, and were captivated by love of women, and begot children who are those that are called demons;* and besides, they afterwards subdued the human race to themselves, partly by magical writings, and partly by fears and the punishments they occasioned, and partly by teaching them to offer sacrifices, and incense, and libations, of which things they stood in need after they were enslaved by lustful passions; and among men they sowed murders, wars, adulteries, intemperate deeds, and all wickedness.
—Justin Martyr, *2 Apology* 5
Justin Martyr not only understood that the Nephilim were the source of the demons that plague mankind; he also clearly knew that the rebellious members of the divine council were the false gods of the pagan world.
Takeaways thus far:
· Rebellions lead to judgments, which then lead to rebellions, leading to judgments, and so on.
· Prisoner Zero’s first rebellion caused the earth to become “void.”
· The Nachash’s temptation of Eve and Adam led to their expulsion from Eden and the judgment upon the Nachash.
· The Watchers descended to Hermon, taking human wives and creating the Nephilim.
· The inevitable judgment came again through a worldwide Flood.
And after the Flood came Babel, where the humans once again fell victim to the lies of fallen entities.
Thanks for reading! This post is public so feel free to share it.
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