Seth called on the name of YHWH, and Enoch walked with YHWH, but people are people; and when it comes down to it, the Sons of God were people.
The Sons of Man (the pre-flood Sumerians) were as fruitful and
religious as the Sons of God. The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil had
spawned an orchard, and the fruit was tasty; exotic women, vast riches, and
great power. All the Sons of Adam had to do was forget who they were.
The exotic women worshiped exotic gods. The exotic gods got a cut of the
wealth in exchange
for the power they granted, making it impossible for these particular Sons of God to call upon, much less walk with YHWH, the One God.
That's where the "Nephilim" come in. The Torah calls them giants; just that, giants with a small g. It turns out
that, according to both Strong’s, and the Brown-Driver-Briggs’ Hebrew
dictionaries, when used as a noun, nephilim connotes bullies
and tyrants as well as giants.
When nephilim is used as a verb, it means to fall
to one’s death. It also means to fall away or to throw oneself
prostrate.
No magic. No extra-special fallen angels. The nephilim are none
other than:
White Horsemen
Just like Cain, the fallen father of the first recorded nephilim.
The Sons of Man had wealth, warriors, and women. The Sons of Adam had lots and lots of low-yielding farm land.
Someone must have had the idea of attracting wealth, warriors, and women to the
land, so they could build cities, and make better weapons from
copper and bronze. That way they could take whatever they wanted; land, crops,
flocks, precious stones, other cities... And, of course, slaves to dig their
expanded and improved irrigation systems.
Men of renown, the Bible calls them -- these giants (as in infamous big men) were the offspring of intermarriages, alliances if you will, between blood
lines.
The upshot is that the Sons of God were vanishing, but not because
of any great cataclysm. They simply turned their back on YHWH, and built early versions of the ziggurat to honor the Sumerian gods.
Why wouldn’t God be insulted? Why wouldn’t He be discouraged by
His own creation now that they were murdering each other in the names of their
kings and their adopted deities?
YHWH would have to start over before the seed He'd planted in Eve sixteen centuries earlier vanished as well. At the time, the vine that harbored the seed included Methuselah, Noah, and Noah's son Shem.
Noah walked with God, but
God didn't take him the way He took Enoch. He needed Noah to do something. God told Noah that He was tired of man's violent ways so He was going to
flood the earth, and that Noah should build an ark.
That's what Noah did, because that's what you do when you walk with God; you do stuff for Him when He asks...or tells.
Listening as hard as I can! 👍🏻
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