So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them (Genesis 1:27).
For a time is coming when people will no longer listen to sound and wholesome teaching. They will follow their own evil desires and will look for teachers who will tell them whatever their itching ears want to hear (2 Timothy 4:3).
Let’s start by looking at the two terms used in the Bible, often translated as giant and sometimes left untranslated, depending on which version you choose to read.
While there are many people that try to get around the subject, the fact is that Rapha are repeatedly referred to in the Bible as literal giants. Let’s take a quick look at how many times the word is used as singular and as plural.
As we can see, giants are referred to 21 times, which happens to be a multiple of 7. I’m not sure if that is significant or not, but I thought I’d share. The giants were broken down into various tribes, each with a descriptive meaning to their names.
One of the arguments put forth pushes the idea that these were not literal giants, but figurative giants. However, evidence in scripture points to the contrary.
The Sons of Anak
In Numbers 13:33 we read the account of the 12 spies that saw giants in the land. 10 of the spies gave an “evil” (bad), but not necessarily false report. The reason we know that their report was not false is because it is consistent with what we will see during the Israelite invasion of the Promised Land. Here is the account of the 10 spies:
“And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.” – Numbers 13:33
One safe assumption that we can make is that the Israelites knew who Anak was, and the mere mention of his name struck fear in the entire congregation. The biggest element to their report is that they looked like grasshoppers compared to the sons of Anak.
If you hold the belief that this account was false, then you also have to question the following accounts of Moses, David, and God.
Og: King of Bashan
In Deuteronomy 3:11 we find the exact measurements of Og’s bed, which gives us his approximate size. A standard cubit is 18 inches.
As we can see, this was not an average size bed. To give you an idea of just how big his bed was, here are the dimensions for a California King size bed:
While the width is the exact same, the biggest question is, why was Og’s bed almost double the length?
Sihon:King of The Amorites
Unfortunately, we do not have an exact height for Sihon, but what we do have is a statement by God, concerning the height of the Amorites.
“Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.” – Amos 2:9
Those that take the position that the Israelites saw certain taller people as giants, does not hold true when we read God’s account of their height. It becomes clear that these were giants of greater stature.
Goliath: Son of The Giant
Finally, we come to Goliath. He is hands down the most famous giant in the Bible. He is the only giant that is associated with an exact height given to us in scripture. A standard cubit is 18 inches. A span is 9 inches (half a cubit).
As we can clearly see from all of the above accounts, these giants were not the result of mythology creeping into the Bible. These giants were not exaggerations. They were real giants that the Hebrews encountered while taking the Promised Land.
After David slays Goliath, he parades his head around like a trophy to show the people of Israel what God had done. This act launches David from unknown shepherd boy to national hero. David later retrieves the sword of Goliath to use as his own.
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As mentioned before, the giants inhabited the areas promised to Israel by God. The map to the right shows where the territory of some of these tribes.
Based on the terminology that we find in scripture, we know that giants were not a rare and random occurrence, but were a very real problem because they existed in large groups called tribes.
“And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, being the kingdom of Og, gave I unto the half tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob, with all Bashan, which was called the land of giants.” – Deuteronomy 3:13
That brings us to the first mention of post flood giants in the Bible. We will be using this map as we continue looking into this subject. First, let’s look at Sodom.
If we refer to the map, we see that Sodom, Gomorrah, Zoar, and the other cities are located within the territory of the Rephaim. When the war started between the kings, Chedorlaomar turned his attention toward the Rephaim, and the other tribes of giants:
“And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims in Shaveh Kiriathaim,” – Genesis 14:5
Because this was a military strike, we have to assume that there was reason for Chedorlaomer to believe that these tribes would align with the cities on the plain to fight them. However, it is the actions that the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah take that also points to an alliance that was already in place.
“And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar;) and they joined battle with them in the vale of Siddim; With Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and with Tidal king of nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings with five.” – Genesis 14:8-9
Why do the five kings come to the rescue of the Rephaim and the other tribes of giants? Once again, scripture seems to point to an alliance.
During the scuffle between the kings, Lot is kidnapped by the four kings. It is at this point that Abraham either invokes his alliance with the Amorites or forms a new alliance with the Amorites to get back Lot.
“And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these were confederate with Abram.” – Genesis 14:13
Unfortunately, we have no idea how or why this alliance was first made, but it could be an example of, “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” Whatever the reason was, we know that they helped him rescue Lot.
After the flood, we find that there are real giants on the earth called Rapha. They break down into multiple tribes and terrorize the Middle East for over 1,000 years. If you’re interested in more information about giants, check out my book,
As The Days of Noah Were: The Sons of God and The Coming Apocalypse.
Knowledge: Article originally published on Minister Dante Forston’s website:
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No matter what voters say in the upcoming US election, a coalition of Attorney Generals intends to push for ‘even more aggressive’ climate action.
the March 29th press conference
Eric Schneiderman, New York state’s Attorney General, is a climate inquisitor. Last November, he subpoenaed Exxon Mobil. He says he’s trying to determine whether the oil giant misled shareholders and the public about climate change. The overarching allegation, advanced by green activists for years, is that Exxon supposedly possessed and suppressed secret knowledge connected to carbon dioxide emissions, thereby committing crimes against humanity. (See this overwrought Bill McKibben piece, the headline of which proclaims: ‘No corporation has ever done anything this big or bad’.)
As a November editorial at BloombergView.com observed, it’s unclear what Schneiderman “hopes to discover in the stack of climate-change documents he’s ordered Exxon Mobil to produce,” since his rationale is “pretty thin.”…
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Satan with his use of deception uses many names and BAAL is one of them. Continue reading Temple of Baal- Gateway to Satan in London and New York in 19 April 2016, then 1000 cities worldwide
BY WILLIAM CAVEN, D. D., LL. D., Late Principal Of Knox College, Toronto, Canada
Both Jews and Christians receive the Old Testament as containing a revelation from God, While the latter regard it as standing in close and vital relationship to the New Testament. Everything connected with the Old Testament has, of recent years, been subjected to the closest scrutiny — the authorship of its several books, the time when they were written, their style, their historical value, their religious and ethical teachings. Apart from the veneration with which we regard the Old Testament writings on their own account, the intimate connection which they have with the Christian Scriptures necessarily gives us the deepest interest in the conclusions which may be reached by Old Testament criticism. For us the New Testament Dispensation presupposes and grows out of the Mosaic, so the books of the New Testament touch those of the Old at every point: In vetere testamento novum latet, et in novo vetus patet. (In the Old Testament the New is concealed, and in the New the Old is revealed). Continue reading THE TESTIMONY OF CHRIST TO THE OLD TESTAMENT
Posted by EU Times on Nov 11th, 2009
JERUSALEM – A Jewish rabbi has issued a book giving Jews permission to murder non-Jews, including babies and children, who may pose an actual or potential threat to Jews or Israel.
“It is permissible to kill the Righteous among non-Jews even if they are not responsible for the threatening situation,” -Rabbi Yitzhak Shapiro,
who heads the Od Yosef Chai Yeshiva in the Yitzhar settlement in the occupied West Bank, wrote in his book “The King’s Torah.” Continue reading Book about killing gentile children becomes bestseller in Israel
Posted by EU Times on Mar 25th, 2016 
A recent tweet from Germany’s Left Wing Party, Die Linke, shows its true colors.
“Refugees are not the problem, the Germans are”
the official Die Linke Twitter account tweeted.
They tweeted this to an account called Firoze Manji, who claims to be a director of group which “promotes diversity“. Continue reading “Refugees are not the problem, the Germans are” – Leftist Party
BY ROBERT E. SPEER
“They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the hour cometh, that whosoever killeth you shall think that he offereth service unto God. And these things will they do, because they have not known the Father nor me.” (John 16:2,3).
These words suggest to us that it is not enough for a man just to believe in God. Everything depends on what kind of a god it is in whom he believes. It is a rather striking and surprising comparison at first that our Lord institutes here between a mere belief in God and the possibly horrible moral consequences, on the one hand, and a knowledge of God in Christ and its sure moral effects, on the other. And the lesson would seem to be the inadequacy of any religious faith that does not recognize the revelation of the Father in Jesus Christ and that does not know Jesus Christ as God. Continue reading GOD IN CHRIST THE ONLY REVELATION OF THE FATHERHOOD OF GOD
Not even when he received the protest sent him by Dr. Prvislav Grisogno, a Catholic Croat and former Minister in the Royal Yugoslav cabinet, did Archbishop Stepinac speak up. Continue reading Can it be true? A Catholic Croat’s protest
Did the Catholic Church help German Nazism? A look at the record.
“Antagonism to the Jews of today must not be extended to the books of Pre-Christian Judaism.” – Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber in the Advent sermons, delivered in 1933.
The Vatican’s definitive statement, “We Remember: Reflections on the Holocaust,” claims that Nazism was the antithesis of the Catholic church: Continue reading Did The Vatican Make Nazism Possible in Germany and Croatia
April 6, 2016, at 1:11 PM | By Adam Cassandra |
The Georgetown University student-run Lecture Fund announced new details this week about its plans to host Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards on campus this month. The scandalous invitation — and the administration’s refusal thus far to step in and cancel the event — has led the Archdiocese of Washington, Georgetown students, pro-life leaders and even a South African cardinal to join The Cardinal Newman Society in publicly criticizing the University for compromising its Catholic identity. Continue reading Details Released for Planned Parenthood Event at Georgetown April 20th 2016
By Jill Reilly and Sara Malm and Hannah Roberts
Published: 19 March 2013 |
Some 450,000 refugees are registered with UNRWA in Lebanon, with many living in the country’s 12 refugee camps.
Palestine refugees represent an estimated ten per cent of the population of Lebanon. They do not enjoy several important rights; for example, they cannot work in as many as 20 professions. Because they are not formally citizens of another state, Palestine refugees are unable to claim the same rights as other foreigners living and working in Lebanon. Among the five UNRWA fields, Lebanon has the highest percentage of Palestine refugees living in abject poverty.
Continue reading Palestinian Refugee Camps in Lebanon | UNRWA
Fascism is being used by governments and religious institutions worldwide. Propaganda bombards us via the bought media selling us the false flags exercises that are being implemented to move hearts and minds. Meanwhile modern day ‘Dr Mengeles’ are funded to produce medical experiments from Ebola to Zika and HIV to cancer throughout the world. Continue reading FASCISM: Is real. Religious Politics
Originally published by GR in 2009
1. Climate has always changed, and it always will. The assumption that prior to the industrial revolution the Earth had a “stable” climate is simply wrong. The only sensible thing to do about climate change is to prepare for it.
2. Accurate temperature measurements made from weather balloons and satellites since the late 1950s show no atmospheric warming since 1958. In contrast, averaged ground-based thermometers record a warming of about 0.40 C over the same time period. Many scientists believe that the thermometer record is biased by the Urban Heat Island effect and other artefacts.
Continue reading Fallacy and lies- “Cardinal Turkson on long term impact of Laudato Si’”
The article below was featured on CNN.money. Now that begs the question – what religious interest has CNN Financial reporting. The short answer is None. That’s right – there is nothing religious to report here. The significant role players are two CEOs of two business organisations where God takes a back seat or does not exist at all, or not in the Christian sense anyway. The omnipotent god here is Money and that is what CNN.money is reporting on.
If you have been misled into believing that the leader of the Catholic church is going to save your soul, then you’re wrong. It is Jesus that saves souls. This alleged, so-called Christian leader is more interested in making money than he is in praying to Jesus directly. Who is his God? He’ll pray to God, and to Christ- but Pope Francis never prays directly to Jesus. And as we are advised:
And the light of the lamp shall shine no more at all in thee: and the voice of the bridegroom and the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee. For thy merchants were the great men of the earth: for all nations have been deceived by thy enchantments.
(Rev 18:23)
Continue reading Pope Francis CEO gains 1 million Instagram followers in under 12 hours
It was just a matter of time…Francis Brings Back Bent Cross
It was bound to happen. Mr. Jorge Bergoglio – whom the world calls “Pope Francis” – has reintroduced the repulsive ‘Bent Cross’ Crozier (sometimes referred to as the “Broken Cross”), after Benedict XVI had, for the most part, abandoned it. The “bent cross” ferula, or staff, which is a hideous rendition of a crucifix, shows our Lord’s legs immodestly spread apart and shows the cross bars bent, rather than straight. Continue reading Francis brings back the Bent Cross, Broken Cross
Christian Brothers Investment Services, Inc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlmgMmVgiZs Continue reading Christian Brothers Investment Services and Pornography
Jorge Mario Bergoglio was archbishop of Buenos Aires from 1998 to 2013 and president of the Argentine bishops’ conference from 2005 to 2011. During these years, as church officials in the US and Europe began addressing the catastrophe of child sexual abuse by clergy – and even as Popes John Paul II and Benedict made public statements – Bergoglio stayed silent about the crisis in Argentina.
He released no documents, no names of accused priests, no tallies of accused priests, no policy for handling abuse, not even an apology to victims.
In his many homilies and statements (archived on the Buenos Aires archdiocesan website), he attacked government corruption, wealth inequities, and human sex trafficking, but he said nothing about sexual violence by priests.
In On Heaven and Earth (first published in Spanish in 2010), a wide-ranging collection of conversations with Argentine rabbi Abraham Skorka, he suggested in fact that the problem did not exist in his archdiocese…..
The Pope is a Catholic – he wouldn’t tell a lie?
However, is the Pope a Christian, would he tell the truth? Continue reading Argentine Abuse Victims Who Tried to Meet with Pope Francis – with “No Joy & No Love”
07 April 2016 at 15:30pm
By: AFP
Damascus – Displaced residents of the famed Syrian city of Palmyra, recently recaptured by the army, will begin returning to their homes at the weekend, a government official told AFP on Thursday.
Syria’s armed forces recaptured Palmyra and the adjacent world-famous ruins from the Islamic State on March 27, ending nearly 10 months of jihadist rule. Continue reading Displaced residents to return to Palmyra
Vatican guide says ‘not necessarily’ bishop’s duty to report suspects to police despite Pope Francis’s vows to redress Catholic church’s legacy of child abuse.
by Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Rome Wednesday 10 February 2016
The Catholic church is telling newly appointed bishops that it is “not necessarily” their duty to report accusations of clerical child abuse and that only victims or their families should make the decision to report abuse to police. Continue reading Catholic bishops not obliged to report clerical child abuse, Vatican says
Read the 1962 Vatican document (PDF file)
by Antony Barnett, 17 August 2003
The Vatican instructed Catholic bishops around the world to cover up cases of sexual abuse or risk being thrown out of the Church.
The Observer has obtained a 40-year-old confidential document from the secret Vatican archive which lawyers are calling a ‘blueprint for deception and concealment’. One British lawyer acting for Church child abuse victims has described it as ‘explosive’.
The 69-page Latin document bearing the seal of Pope John XXIII was sent to every bishop in the world. The instructions outline a policy of ‘strictest’ secrecy in dealing with allegations of sexual abuse and threatens those who speak out with excommunication. Continue reading Vatican told bishops to cover up sex abuse
For six months, National Geographic photographer Dave Yoder had extraordinary access to Pope Francis at the Vatican, an experience that he expects he will one day look back on as “surreal.”
Continue reading ‘Unimaginable’ Access to Pope Francis Yields 68,000 Photos
Family Research Council believes that homosexual conduct is harmful to the persons who engage in it and to society at large, and can never be affirmed.
It is by definition unnatural, and as such is associated with negative physical and psychological health effects. Continue reading Homosexuality – Family Research Council
The world’s largest organization of psychiatrists just released a statement condemning all forms of counseling intended to resolve unwanted same-sex attraction.
Please join us in speaking out against this incorrect and political statement by the World Psychiatric Association.
This statement is a political move, intended to appease the international pro-LGBT lobby. It does not take into account the well-documented benefits of counseling for those who freely choose counseling to resolve unwanted same-sex attractions (SSA).
Continue reading A serious faux pas by the World Psychiatric Association
Funded by the European Commission, SIIP research project will develop a break-through Suspect Identification solution based on a novel Speaker Identification (SID) engine and Global Info Sharing Mechanism (GISM) which will identify unknown speakers that are captured in lawfully intercepted calls, in recorded crime or terror arenas and in any other type of speech medium and channel (including social-media).
SIIP advanced SID engine will fuse multiple speech analytic algorithms such as: Voiceprints recognition, Gender-ID, Age detection, Language& Accent ID, Keyword & Taxonomy Spotting and Voice cloning detection.
This fusion will result in highly reliable and confident detection, keeping the False-Positives & False-Negatives to the minimum and improving the judicial admissibility of the Speaker Identification Technology.
Source: siip
Adan Salazar | Infowars.com – June 26, 2015
A prominent autism researcher and vaccine opponent was found dead floating in a North Carolina river last week under what many are calling suspicious circumstances. Continue reading Mysterious Death: Body of Doctor Who Linked Vaccines To Autism Found Floating in River
The Trans-Pacific Partnership would provide large pharmaceutical firms new rights and powers to increase medicine prices and limit consumers’ access to cheaper generic drugs. This would include extensions of monopoly drug patents that would allow drug companies to raise prices for more medicines and even allow monopoly rights over surgical procedures. For people in developing countries involved in the TPP, these rules could be deadly – denying consumers access to HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and cancer drugs. Continue reading TPP and Access to Affordable Medicines
Before you were born, before you were you
God planted a seed of love; it developed and grew!
It took root in your being – deep down in your soul.
For He’d planned you’re way out of your ED hole.
Unbeknowns to you, when lost and alone
This sapling of hope was to be your new dawn,
In the silence of togetherness: love and soul-
God found a way to make you feel whole.
With strength and endeavour your branches reach out
God’s fulfillment of love has given you new sight.
The Mulberry tree of love which you share with delight
Is God’s grace reigning down on you, for He loves you without doubt!
-By I.J. Clark 2nd Apr 2016
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