This is an excerpt from G.H.Pember's classic "Earth's Earliest Ages".
Jesus Himself, in answering
His disciples concerning the signs of His coming and of the end of the world,
verified it would be “as the days of [Noah] were” (Matthew 24:37). The
implication is, just as it was before the Flood when the spirits of Nephilim
were powerful upon earth (Genesis 6:4), mankind would experience an end-times
renaissance of the influence of these entities.
"The
influences of the Spirit of God are even now in process of withdrawal, as He
prepares for that departure from earth which will leave it open for Nephilim,
seven fold worse than those who formerly dwelt in it, to enter, and for a short
season to work their will upon the human race… Then will all the Nephilim, who
are yet at liberty, be among men, and will quickly make them feel the meaning of
that awful utterance, 'Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for
the Devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he
hath but a short time.'"
~ G.H. Pember
~ G.H. Pember
As far back as the
beginning of time and within every major culture of the ancient world, the
astonishingly consistent story is told of “gods” who descended from heaven and
materialized in bodies of flesh. From Rome to Greece—and before that, to Egypt,
Persia, Assyria, Babylonia, and Sumer—the earliest records of civilization tell
of the era when powerful beings known to the Hebrews as “Watchers” and in the
book of Genesis as the b’nai ha Elohim (“sons of God”) mingled themselves with
humans, giving birth to part-celestial, part-terrestrial hybrids known as
“Nephilim.” When English theologian George Hawkins Pember, in his 1876
masterpiece, Earth’s Earliest Ages, analyzed the prophecy of Jesus
Christ in Matthew 24 that says the end times would be a repeat of “the days of
Noah,” he concluded the final and most fearful sign heralding the Lord's Second
Coming would be the return of the Nephilim, “the appearance upon earth of beings
from the Principality of the Air, and their unlawful intercourse with the human
race.”
Jesus Himself, in answering
His disciples concerning the signs of His coming and of the end of the world,
verified it would be “as the days of [Noah] were” (Matthew 24:37). The
implication is, just as it was before the Flood when the spirits of Nephilim
were powerful upon earth (Genesis 6:4), mankind would experience an end-times
renaissance of the influence of these entities.
Does a curious verse in
the book of Daniel validate Pember's thesis? Speaking of the last days of human
government, Daniel said: “They shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but
they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay”
(Daniel 2:43).
While Daniel does not
explain who “they” that “mingle themselves with the seed of men” are, the
personal pronoun “they” raises questions over what (or who) in the end times
‘mingle with the seed of men?’ Who are these non-human seed? It staggers the
mind to contemplate how the same phenomenon that occurred in Genesis chapter 6,
where nonhuman species or “nonseed” mingled with human seed and produced
Nephilim could happen again in the end times. Yet when this verse from Daniel is
coupled with Genesis 3:15, which says, “And I will put enmity between thee and
the woman, and between thy seed [zera, meaning “offspring,”
“descendents,” or “children”] and her seed,” an incredible tenet emerges—that
Satan has seed, that it is at enmity with Christ, and that it is set to return
in these last days.
Has the time of their
coming arrived?
ABOUT THE
AUTHOR
George Hawkins
Pember (1836 - 1910), was an English theologian and author affiliated with the
Plymouth Brethren. His works included The Antichrist, Babylon and the
Coming Kingdom, The Great Prophecies of the centuries concerning
Israel and the Gentiles, Mystery Babylon the Great, and
others. Earth's Earliest Ages is considered by many his Magnum
Opus and has been touted worldwide as a classical masterpiece... and
end-times warning.
