The Seed of Satan: Part 1
The Seed of Satan: Part 1
When God was talking to the serpent in Genesis 3:15 He said, “And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.”We probably all know the theology behind “her seed,” meaning Jesus Messiah. We acknowledge that Genesis prophesies concerning the seed of the woman (Mary) and not the seed of the man, as is typical of genealogies, for Jesus’ seed came from the Holy Spirit (Matthew 1:18-20). But have you ever considered what God meant by “the seed of the serpent”?
Could the antichrist, the beast of Revelation, the man of sin in 2 Thessalonians 2:3, the lawless one of 2 Thessalonians 2:8, the Assyrian, the son of perdition, and many other titles, be a Nephilim?
Nephilim were both before and after the flood (Genesis 6:4). They are the giants of old. The Hebrew word translated as Nephilim is found only three times in the OT: Genesis 6:4 and Numbers 13:33, where it appears twice:
There were giants [Nephilim] on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
Genesis 6:4
“There we saw the giants [Nephilim] (the descendants of Anak came from the giants [Nephilim]); and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.”
Numbers 13:33
More references to giants are in the OT. The Anakim (descendants of Anak), the Philistines (Goliath was a Philistine), Rephaim, and Og of Bashon were all giants. Deuteronomy says of Og:
For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the giants. Indeed his bedstead was an iron bedstead. (Is it not in Rabbah of the people of Ammon?) Nine cubits is its length and four cubits its width, according to the standard cubit.
Deuteronomy 3:11
Og’s bed measured 13.5’ x 6’!
The last reference to a giant is in 1 Chronicles 20:7. He was killed by David’s brother, Jonathan, the son of Shimea.
But, just who are the Nephilim? In order to answer this we must look at who the sons of God are in Genesis 6:4. First, to state the obvious, the distinction is the sons of God verses the daughters of men. Many people believe they (the sons of Seth) are the righteous of their day, as though Seth was uniquely righteous in his day. But is this a fair interpretation? Looking at this in context listed is what we know:
1. Daughters were born to men.
2. Sons of God took these daughters of men as their wives, any that they chose.
3. This union, between the daughters of men and the sons of God, produced a unique offspring called Nephilim or giants—they were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
So could the sons of Seth be the sons of God, as some believe? Would righteous men take unrighteous women (daughters of men) as wives? Would they not then, subsequently, be unrighteous men? Furthermore, would human to human intercourse consistently produce a new type of human where all were men, all were giants, and all were mighty? The term “sons of God” everywhere else in the OT means angels—all in Job. Much more could be said about why the sons of God cannot be the offspring of Seth, but for this blog, this will suffice. Through logical exegesis, the sons of God cannot mean the sons of Seth, and the daughters of men cannot be concluded as merely unrighteous women. General giants (Strong’s 07497) seem to be the descendants of the Nephilim, whereas the Nephilim (Strong’s 05303) were the offspring of the sons of God (fallen angels) and the daughters of men (humans).
Both 2 Peter 2:4 and Jude 6 discuss angels who are already bound in chains awaiting judgment. Both references are in the context of Sodom and Gomorrah, both of which are known for and were destroyed for their sexual perversion. Jude puts it this way:
And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day; 7 as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
Jude 6-7
Major points to take away from Jude:
1. Some angels left their proper domain.
2. They are already in chains.
3. [These angels] as did Sodom and Gomorrah… in a similar manner…
a. gave themselves over to sexual immorality
b. went after strange flesh
Interesting flow of thought in these scriptures. It cannot go unnoticed that these chained angels gave themselves to sexual immorality and went after strange flesh. Sodom and Gomorrah were completely destroyed, as was all flesh (except those in the Ark) during the Flood. We must conclude, though none of us understand how, that angels (fallen ones, in such cases) can produce offspring with humans; although it appears only with women, and only can produce male offspring.
Now to tie all this back to the seed of Satan from Genesis 3.
1 Thessalonians 2 is a startling section of scripture. It discusses the lawless one who deceives the whole world. The Holy Spirit currently restrains Satan from manifesting his lawless son of perdition. Which means, if the Holy Spirit was not restraining the end-time affairs, Satan would already have it all wrapped up. But the Holy Spirit is restraining him, hence the man of sin (the beast; the antichrist) will be instated when God allows. At that time he will take a seat in the Temple of God—this is the abomination of desolation. Who is this one, the antichrist? I believe he is a Nephilim, due to Genesis 3:15 “And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel.”
We know that the Holy Spirit overshadowed Mary and she conceived Jesus (And the angel answered and said to her [Mary], “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God” (Luke 1:35)). The Holy Spirit is a spirit. The angels who left their abode and are currently in chains are spirits. Satan is a spirit. It appears that spirits can, in some circumstances, impregnate women, bizarre as it sounds. I believe this is why the Nephilim were giants and mighty men—they were a mixed-breeds: fallen angels and human.
And, I believe that the beast, the son of perdition, the lawless one, the abomination of desolation, the Assyrian—that one—will also be a Nephilim: the seed of Satan mixed with a woman.
Your thought?
Several points come to mind:
1) Scriptures have multiple levels of interpretation as suggested in PS 12:6, which implies as many as seven levels
2) The angels that fell, leaving their first estate, are not part of the set of holy angels in heaven that Lord Jesus referred to in Matthew 22:20. These fallen angels seem to have acquired the capacity to procreate giants with human women, contrary to the holy angels that remained in their places.
3) Genetic modification now coming into reality is nothing new, as it is surely included in Ecclesiastes 1:9 & 3:15. The giants of old may well have been genetically modified. The Book of Enoch claims that these powerful fallen angels sinned against man and beast.