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as men, ate meals,' took people by the hand,' and were capable of direct combat. One was responsible for the death of the firstborn in Egypt. Another killed 185,000 Syrians.” (You don't mess around with angels!) They always seem to appear as men.”>> The New Testament indicates that many of us may have encountered angels without discerning any uniqueness: "Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares" (Hebrews 13:2). Some regard Christ's comments regarding marriage in heaven as disqualifying the "angel" view of Genesis 6. "But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection" (Luke 20:35-36). In heaven there is no need for procreation. Marriage is a human institution to prevent the extinction of the race by death. This statement by Jesus Christ makes no comment on the capability for sex or other mischief of the fallen angels. They can fall, they can aspire to degeneracy. What limits their technologies? Some ancient traditions attribute the various arts and sciences of the ancient world to the disclosures of angels." Angels are always rendered in the masculine. Remember, they were attractive targets for the homosexuals of Sodom." Regarding the Nephilim, Genesis 6:4 also includes the haunting phrase, ". . . and also after that... ." Apparently these strange events were not confined just to the period before the flood. We find that there seems to be some recurrence of these things which resulted in unusual giants appearing in subsequent periods later in the Old Testament narrative, specifically the giant-races of Canaan. A number of tribes were giants, among them the Rephaims, Emims, Horims, and Zamsummims. 59 The kingdom of Og, the King of Bashan, was the "land of the .tArn giants.',260 When Moses sent his 12 spies to reconnoiter the Land of Canaan, they came back with the report of giants in the land?' (The term used was Nephilim.) Their fear of those terrifying creatures resulted in their being relegated to wandering in the wilderness for 38 years. When Joshua and the nation Israel later entered the land of Canaan, they were instructed to wipe out every man, woman, and child of certain tribes?' That strikes us as disturbingly severe. It would seem that in the land of Canaan there again was a "gene pool problem." These Rephaim, Nephilim, and others seem to have been established as an advance guard to obstruct Israel's possession of the Promised Land. Was this also a stratagem of Satan? Later, we find more giants: Arba famed Goliath’ and his four brothers?" Anak and his seven sons (the "Anakim"), and the 124 POST-FLOOD OCCURRENCES