Transhumanism is a word that is only just now making its way into mainstream consciousness, but the idea is an old one—as old as the Garden of Eden. After Adam and Eve fell prey to Satan’s plans to subvert God’s authority, YHWH (Jehovah) pronounced a unique and most exciting new plan:
The war begins in Genesis 6, where we learn that the ‘sons of God’ or angels who have been charged to ‘watch’ humanity look upon the daughters of men and find them beautiful and desirable. (Note: I will refer to these non-human entities as angels, but this term is not precise for it is primarily used to denote spiritual entities who serve YHWH and are sent on particular missions – ie. Messengers. It is entirely possible that God created a heavenly realm as diverse as our earthly realm). The extrabiblical book of Enoch expands on Genesis 6 and names many of these ‘Watchers’, numbering them as 200 strong. The result of this angelic/human coupling (whether consensual or forced) were gigantic beings known as Nephilim, a human/angelic hybrid. It is most probable that God sent the Great Flood to wipe out the corrupted human/angelic DNA, saving only Noah and his family (whose DNA was uncorrupted – a man ‘perfect in his generations’, that is, having unpolluted DNA). Why? The promised Messiah’s human lineage must remain unblemished ‘in its generations’.
After the flood, the fallen angels may well have returned to their old habits, because we find numerous references to ‘giants’. Nimrod, the leader who commanded his citizens to help build a tower that would reach to God, may have claimed to be ‘two-thirds god’ (if, as some scholars believe, Nimrod is another name for Gilgamesh). God had promised Noah that He would not to destroy the Earth again by flood, so we see Him choose a people for Himself—a people whom He would protect by commanding them to restrain from intermarrying with the surrounding tribes. Numbers 13:33 says this:
Anakim (sons of Anak), Rephaim, Zuzim, and Emim were also listed as tribes of larger than average height. For instance, Og of Bashan, a Rephaim king, was listed as being over 13 feet tall (Deut. 3:11). I Chronicles offers tantalizing information:
But did Satan consider the war over? Not by a long shot.
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“I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.” (Gen. 3:15 ESV)The above quote is from the English Standard Version, but the King James uses the term ‘seed’ translated above as ‘offspring’. Either way, it is clear that the enemy (Satan) would produce ‘seed’ or ‘offspring’ destined to hate the ‘seed’ or ‘offspring’ of mankind—in particular, one very specific human offspring, the promised Messiah—God made flesh. The battle lines had been drawn, and so the non-human (angelic) camp waste little time before commencing to do battle with the human camp.
The war begins in Genesis 6, where we learn that the ‘sons of God’ or angels who have been charged to ‘watch’ humanity look upon the daughters of men and find them beautiful and desirable. (Note: I will refer to these non-human entities as angels, but this term is not precise for it is primarily used to denote spiritual entities who serve YHWH and are sent on particular missions – ie. Messengers. It is entirely possible that God created a heavenly realm as diverse as our earthly realm). The extrabiblical book of Enoch expands on Genesis 6 and names many of these ‘Watchers’, numbering them as 200 strong. The result of this angelic/human coupling (whether consensual or forced) were gigantic beings known as Nephilim, a human/angelic hybrid. It is most probable that God sent the Great Flood to wipe out the corrupted human/angelic DNA, saving only Noah and his family (whose DNA was uncorrupted – a man ‘perfect in his generations’, that is, having unpolluted DNA). Why? The promised Messiah’s human lineage must remain unblemished ‘in its generations’.
After the flood, the fallen angels may well have returned to their old habits, because we find numerous references to ‘giants’. Nimrod, the leader who commanded his citizens to help build a tower that would reach to God, may have claimed to be ‘two-thirds god’ (if, as some scholars believe, Nimrod is another name for Gilgamesh). God had promised Noah that He would not to destroy the Earth again by flood, so we see Him choose a people for Himself—a people whom He would protect by commanding them to restrain from intermarrying with the surrounding tribes. Numbers 13:33 says this:
“And there we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim), and we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.” (Numbers 13:33 ESV)
But did Satan consider the war over? Not by a long shot.
And it came to pass after this, that there arose war at Gezer with the Philistines; at which time Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Sippai, [that was] of the children of the giant: and they were subdued. And there was war again with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, whose spear staff [was] like a weaver’s beam. And yet again there was war at Gath, where was a man of [great] stature, whose fingers and toes [were] four and twenty, six [on each hand], and six [on each foot]: and he also was the son of the giant. (I Chron. 20:4-6 KJV)Satan’s drive to pollute the human gene pool so that no woman ‘perfect in her generations’ might be found in Israel failed. Mary (Miriam) gave birth to a son whom she called Emanuel, ‘God with us’. Jesus Christ, Yeshuah ha Mashiach, was born, died, and resurrected, defeating Satan and his followers.
But did Satan consider the war over? Not by a long shot.
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