THE ORIGIN STORY
EPHESIANS 6:12-13 ⌄
For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm.
Genesis 6:1-8 ⌄
When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose. Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years.” The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown.
5 The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart. So the Lord said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them.” But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.
Jude 1: 5–7 ⌄
Now I want to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that Jesus, who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe. And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day— just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
2 Peter 2:4-5 ⌄
For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly..
Jude 1:14–15 ⌄
It was also about these that Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his holy ones, to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness that they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”
THE ORIGIN STORY — Ancient Accounts
1 Enoch 6:1-2 ⌄
And it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied that in those days were born unto them beautiful and comely daughters. And the angels, the children of the heaven, saw and lusted after them, and said to one another: ‘Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men and beget us children.’
“For many angels of God accompanied with women, and begat sons that proved unjust, and despisers of all that was good, on account of the confidence they had in their own strength; for the tradition is, that these men did what resembled the acts of those whom the Grecians call giants.” — Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 1.3.1
- Charms, spells, and enchantments
- Astrology and the constellations
- The cutting and medicinal or magical use of roots and plants
- The making of swords, knives, shields, and armor
- Metalworking
- Bracelets, jewelry, and ornaments
- Cosmetics and beautifying the eyes
- Precious stones and colored dyes
THE ORIGIN STORY — Giants and Nations
Numbers 13:32–33 ⌄
So they brought to the people of Israel a bad report of the land that they had spied out, saying, “The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people that we saw in it are of great height. 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.”
Deuteronomy 2:10-11, 20-21 ⌄
“The Emim had dwelt there in times past, a people as great and numerous and tall as the Anakim. They were also regarded as giants, like the Anakim, but the Moabites call them Emim... That was also regarded as a land of giants; giants formerly dwelt there. But the Ammonites call them Zamzummim, a people as great and numerous and tall as the Anakim. But the Lord destroyed them before them, and they dispossessed them and dwelt in their place.”
Deuteronomy 20:16-18 ⌄
“But of the cities of these peoples which the Lord your God gives you as an inheritance, you shall let nothing that breathes remain alive, but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite and the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, just as the Lord your God has commanded you, lest they teach you to do according to all their abominations which they have done for their gods, and you sin against the Lord your God.”
Historical Timeline
| Period | Approximate date | Relationship to David |
|---|---|---|
| Egyptian Pyramid Texts | 2350–2160 BC | More than 1,000 years before David |
| Egyptian Coffin Texts | 2025–1700 BC | Several centuries before David |
| Egyptian Book of the Dead tradition | From about 1550 BC | Already established before David and still used during his lifetime |
| Mycenaean Greek religion | 1600–1100 BC | Greek gods such as Zeus and Poseidon were known before David |
| King David | 1010–970 BC | During Egypt’s Third Intermediate Period and Greece’s “Dark Age” |
| Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey | Around 750–700 BC | Roughly 250 years after David |
| Hesiod’s organized genealogy of the gods | Around 700 BC | Roughly 300 years after David |
| Classical Greek mythology | 500s–300s BC | Many centuries after David |
THE ORIGIN STORY — Noah and Christ
Genesis 6:8-9 ⌄
But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord….Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God.
1 Peter 3:18-20 ⌄
For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit, in which he went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison, because they formerly did not obey…