"A star FELL from Heaven with the key to the Bottomless Pit..." Re. 9:1
I beheld Satan as lightening FALL from Heaven..." Luke 10:18
"And the stars (angels) of Heaven FELL unto the earth like figs falling from a fig tree..." Rev. 6:13
"There are seven kings; five are FALLEN, and one is, and the other is not yet come..." Rev:17:10 (Referring to the seven "heads" who are seven Fallen Angels or Nephilim and Apollo, who is the eighth, is named in the next verse).
Just as Lucifer is a "fallen angel," I think it is clear from the scope of Scripture in reference to this topic, that the Fallen Angels are exactly that i.e. Fallen Ones or Nephilim. Scripture also concurs with the legends of ancient Greece. Who were these "heroes" and gods of ancient myth? Why they were Apollo and Zeus and Mercury and Mars etc. And we had some female goddesses back then also; Hera, Demeter and Athena for instance, whom Athens was named after.
All this confusion comes from the King James Version where they didn't know what Nephilim meant, so they put in the word "giant" which has absolutely nothing to do with the Nephilim. But I wouldn't blame them. After all, the KJV was translated in 1611!
I am not interested in getting into heated debates with scholars who disagree with my thesis. If folks want to call the giants, (Gibbor), Nephilim, then that's their choice. It's not a life or death thing or a hanging offence. But I believe it is wrong.
I discovered in my years studying this topic, that the Nephilim are indeed the Fallen Angels, who are the powerful, supernatural gods who reigned and held sway on this earth for perhaps a 1,000 years prior to the Flood of Noah.(And more of them descended after the Flood. Rapha was the name of one of them).
And just as these "gods" descended to the earth and beguiled the humans in those bygone days, so they shall do so again when they appear both from below (Rev.9) and above (Rev.12) in the near coming Apocalypse, when they shall deceive "almost" the entire world.
If you are interested in a more in-depth study of these and related matters, may I recommend you read my published works which are listed below.
Keep the faith.
Patrick Heron is the bestselling author of Apocalypse Soon and The Nephilim and the Pyramid of the Apocalypse. www.nephilimapocalypse.com.
P.S. Check out this cool YOUTUBE video which is just over 4 mins long. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt5I5e5l2lw&NR=1
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