Who Were the Nephilim? -Misconceptions about the Nephilim

 Misconception: The Nephilim are still alive today.

Fact: Jehovah caused a global flood to destroy that violent ancient world. The Nephilim were wiped out along with all the wicked people. In contrast, Noah and his family found favor with Jehovah and were the only ones preserved alive at that time. -GENESIS 6:9; 7:12, 13, 23; 2 PETER 2:5.

Misconception: The Nephilim wee fathered by humans.

Fact: Their fathers are called "sons of the true God." (Genesis 6:2) The Bible uses this same expression to describe angels.  (Job 1:6;2:1; 38:7)  Angels had the power to materialize in human form.  (Genesis 19:1-5; Joshua 5:13-15) The apostle Peter spoke of "the spirits in prison, who had formerly been disobedient when God was patiently waiting in Noah's day." (1 Peter 3:19, 20) Referring to the same circumstances, the Bible writer Jude explains that some angels "did not keep their original position but forsook their own proper dwelling place." - JUDE 6.

Misconception: The Nephilim were fallen angels.

Fact: The context of Genesis 6:4 indicates that the Nephilim were not angels, but hybrid offspring born from sexual relations between materialized angels and women.  After the angels "began taking as wives all whom  they chose," Jehovah said that in 120 years he would take action against the ungodly world of that time. (Genesis 6:1-3) The account adds that "in those days," the materialized angels "continued to have relations with the daughters of men" and they produced "the mighty ones of old times," the Nephilim. - GENESIS 6:4. 

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