Demons, devils, satans, evil spirits

CherubRam

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Demons, devils, satans, evil spirits, all are characters or manifestations of evil persons recognized by their thoughts and deeds. Spirit is the nature of a person, place, or thing. A person who has demons or evil spirits, is a person with different sins in their life.



Mark 7:15
Nothing outside a person can defile them by going into them. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles them.”



1 Corinthians 10:13
No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.



Luke 7:21
At that very time Yahshua cured many who had diseases, sicknesses and evil spirits, and gave sight to many who were blind.


What is your understanding of such things?
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Christ's name in English is Yahshua.
 
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It was only after I was saved that I began to encounter the spirits of true wickedness. To say they made my skin crawl and my hair to stand on end would be an understatement.

Evil spirits do not possess free-will they fulfill the avenging will of the Almighty.
 
CherubRam

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Truster said:
It was only after I was saved that I began to encounter the spirits of true wickedness. To say they made my skin crawl and my hair to stand on end would be an understatement.

Evil spirits do not possess free-will they fulfill the avenging will of the Almighty.
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The Almighty does not employ evil spirits. All beings have free will.
 
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CherubRam said:
The Almighty does not employ evil spirits. All beings have free will.
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Yah Veh Elohim gave Job over to Satan. Gave Peter over to Satan and without permission Satan could not have entered Eden. An evil spirit of Yah Veh was sent to torment Saul. Yah Veh sent a lying spirit into the mouths of the prophets.

Instead of using a search engine to find scriptures to fit your heresies, try read the Bible.
 
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Demons/evil-spirits are the disembodied spirits of the Nephilim, and roam the ether (air), wishing to "attach" themselves to a human (psyche). "Attachment" is much more commonplace than realized.
 
CherubRam

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Truster said:
Yah Veh Elohim gave Job over to Satan. Gave Peter over to Satan and without permission Satan could not have entered Eden. An evil spirit of Yah Veh was sent to torment Saul. Yah Veh sent a lying spirit into the mouths of the prophets.

Instead of using a search engine to find scriptures to fit your heresies, try read the Bible.
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Your translation is defective. It should read "menacing or troubling" spirit.
 
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beameup said:
Demons/evil-spirits are the disembodied spirits of the Nephilim, and roam the ether (air), wishing to "attach" themselves to a human (psyche). "Attachment" is much more commonplace than realized.
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[FONT=&quot]This is the word spelled [/FONT][FONT=&quot]הַנֹּפְלִים[/FONT][FONT=&quot] in that verse. The English to Hebrew translator says this is the word for giants [/FONT][FONT=&quot]ענקים[/FONT][FONT=&quot] [/FONT][FONT=&quot]
[/FONT][FONT=&quot]The Nephilim were the heroes of old, men of renown. The people of the world were in a state of moral decay, and had fallen spiritually.[/FONT][FONT=&quot]

[FONT=&quot]Genesis 6[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]5[/FONT] The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time.

[FONT=&quot]11[/FONT] Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence. [FONT=&quot]12[/FONT] God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. [FONT=&quot]13[/FONT] So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth.
[/FONT][FONT=&quot]I believe that the Nephilim were Giants, but that the words nephilim is "fallen ones." The world before the flood had less gravity, and therefore would support large beings.[/FONT][FONT=&quot]

"[FONT=&quot]Nephilim[/FONT]" ([/FONT][FONT=&quot]נְפִילִים[/FONT][FONT=&quot]) probably derives from the Semitic root npl ([/FONT][FONT=&quot]נָפַל[/FONT][FONT=&quot]), "to fall" which also includes "to cause to fall" and "to kill, to ruin".[/FONT][FONT=&quot]
The [FONT=&quot]Brown-Driver-Briggs[/FONT] Lexicon gives the meaning as "giants." [FONT=&quot]Robert Baker Girdlestone[/FONT] argued the word comes from the Hiphil causative stem. [FONT=&quot]Adam Clarke[/FONT] took it as passive, "fallen", "apostates". [FONT=&quot]Ronald Hendel[/FONT] states that it is a passive form "ones who have fallen."
[/FONT][FONT=&quot]The word nephilim is not a name title, and it should have been translated as the "fallen ones." It is referring to those who have fallen spiritually and are in moral decline.[/FONT][FONT=&quot]


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CherubRam

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Truster said:
Yah Veh Elohim gave Job over to Satan. Gave Peter over to Satan and without permission Satan could not have entered Eden. An evil spirit of Yah Veh was sent to torment Saul. Yah Veh sent a lying spirit into the mouths of the prophets.

Instead of using a search engine to find scriptures to fit your heresies, try read the Bible.
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I have read the bible many times, and have spent many thousands of hours studying the bible. I have many different bible and study tools. How about you?
 
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CherubRam said:
The Nephilim were the heroes of old, men of renown. The people of the world were in a state of moral decay, and had fallen spiritually.
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The Nephilim were genetic hybrids between fallen angels ("sons of God") and human women. As such, they neither fit into the human category, nor the angelic category, and were not eligible for salvation. The "angels that sinned", referred to by Peter and Jude, are kept in confinement in Tartarus (somewhere inside the earth). The "angels that sinned" did so in order to corrupt the human genome and thus prevent a savior of mankind.
 
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beameup said:
The Nephilim were genetic hybrids between fallen angels ("sons of God") and human women. As such, they neither fit into the human category, nor the angelic category, and were not eligible for salvation. The "angels that sinned", referred to by Peter and Jude, are kept in confinement in Tartarus (somewhere inside the earth). The "angels that sinned" did so in order to corrupt the human genome and thus prevent a savior of mankind.
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Angels are a Pagan belief. The correct translation is "Messenger."
 
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beameup said:
Demons/evil-spirits are the disembodied spirits of the Nephilim, and roam the ether (air), wishing to "attach" themselves to a human (psyche). "Attachment" is much more commonplace than realized.
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This is possibly in accordance to the book of Enoch. To me, demons could be the spirits of those Nephilim who have the desire/obsession and capability to possess a human body while evil spirit may have a broader meaning. Evil spirit may be someone originally is a human but somehow acquired a kind a specialty to interfere with our world, say, they may manifest themselves as 'ghosts' to us.
 
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[FONT=&quot]God is not evil.[/FONT]​
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[FONT=&quot]Because of these verses in the King James Bible, people say," I could never serve a God that is evil".[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Very few people are aware of this fact, and that is, that the King James Bible was translated by a secret society for their use; as a matter of fact it is also called the "Masonic bible". [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Interpreting certain scriptures as God doing evil supports the Masonic philosophy of Dualism, that God is both good and evil.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Here in Jeremiah 8:8 is a prophecy; and it states that the word of God would be tampered with. [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]K.J.V. Jeremiah 8:8.[/FONT][FONT=&quot] How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain. [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]N.I.V. Jeremiah 8:8.[/FONT][FONT=&quot] "How can you say, "We are wise, for we have the law of the Lord," when actually the lying pen of the scribes has handled it falsely? [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]The word of God is divinely inspired, and as Christians it is your responsibility to see to it that you’re being taught the truth; yes, you, and not somebody else. [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Psalms 5:4-5.[/FONT][FONT=&quot] For you are not a God that has pleasure in wickedness: neither will evil dwell with you. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]5.[/FONT][FONT=&quot] The foolish will not stand in your sight: you hatest all workers of iniquity. [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Job 34:10.[/FONT][FONT=&quot] Therefore hearken to me you men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness; and from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity. [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Psalms 5:4-5 and Job 34:10 both show God doing evil is a contradiction to what is written.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Here is a list of scriptures below that are not translated correctly to support the Masonic belief of Dualism.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Exodus 5:22.[/FONT][FONT=&quot] And Moses returned unto the Lord, and said, Lord, wherefore hast thou so evil entreated this people? why is it that thou hast sent me? [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Exodus 32:12.[/FONT][FONT=&quot]Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from your fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against your people. [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Joshua 23:15.[/FONT][FONT=&quot]Therefore it shall come to pass, that as all good things are come upon you, which the Lord your God promised you; so shall the Lord bring upon you all evil things, until he have destroyed you from off this good land which the Lord your God hath given you. [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Judges 9:23.[/FONT][FONT=&quot] Then God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem; and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech: [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]1 Samuel 6:9.[/FONT][FONT=&quot] And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Beth-shemesh, then he has done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that smote us; it was a chance that happened to us. [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]1 Samuel 16:14-23.[/FONT][FONT=&quot] But the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]15. And Saul's servants said unto him, Behold now, an evil spirit from God troubleth thee. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]16. Let our Lord now command your servants, which are before thee, to seek out a man, who is a cunning player on an harp: and it shall come to pass, when the evil spirit from God is upon thee, that he shall play with his hand, and thou shalt be well. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]17. And Saul said unto his servants, Provide me now a man that can play well, and bring him to me. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]18. Then answered one of the servants, and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, that is cunning in playing, and a mighty valiant man, and a man of war, and prudent in matters, and a comely person, and the Lord is with him. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]19. Wherefore Saul sent messengers unto Jesse, and said, Send me David thy son, which is with the sheep. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]20. And Jesse took an *** laden with bread, and a bottle of wine, and a kid, and sent them by David his son unto Saul. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]21. And David came to Saul, and stood before him: and he loved him greatly; and he became his armourbearer. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]22. And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Let David, I pray thee, stand before me; for he hath found favour in my sight. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]23. And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took an harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him. [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]1 Samuel 18:10.[/FONT][FONT=&quot] And it came to pass on the morrow, that the evil spirit from God came upon Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of the house: and David played with his hand, as at other times: and there was a javelin in Saul's hand. [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]1 Samuel 19:9.[/FONT][FONT=&quot] And the evil spirit from the Lord was upon Saul, as he sat in his house with his javelin in his hand: and David played with his hand. [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]2 Samuel 12:11.[/FONT][FONT=&quot] Thus says the Lord, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto your neighbour, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun. [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]1 Kings 9:9.[/FONT][FONT=&quot] And they shall answer, Because they forsook the Lord their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold upon other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath the Lord brought upon them all this evil. [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]1 Kings 14:10.[/FONT][FONT=&quot] Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone. [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]1 Kings 21:21 and 29.[/FONT][FONT=&quot] 21. Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will take away thy posterity, and will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel, [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]29.[/FONT][FONT=&quot] Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me? because he humbleth himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days: but in his son's days will I bring the evil upon his house. [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]1 Kings 22:23.[/FONT][FONT=&quot] Now therefore, behold, the Lord hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the Lord hath spoken evil concerning thee. [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]2 Kings 6:33.[/FONT][FONT=&quot] And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger came down unto him: and he said, Behold, this evil is of the Lord; what should I wait for the Lord any longer? [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]2 Kings 21:12.[/FONT][FONT=&quot] Therefore thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle. [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]2 Kings 22:16 and 20.[/FONT][FONT=&quot] Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the words of the book which the king of Judah hath read: [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]20.[/FONT][FONT=&quot] Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place. And they brought the king word again. [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]2 Chronicles 7:22.[/FONT][FONT=&quot] And it shall be answered, Because they forsook the Lord God of their fathers, which brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath he brought all this evil upon them. [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]2 Chronicles 18:22.[/FONT][FONT=&quot] Now therefore, behold, the Lord hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of these thy prophets, and the Lord hath spoken evil against thee. [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]2 Chronicles 34:24 and 28.[/FONT][FONT=&quot] Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah: [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]28.[/FONT][FONT=&quot] Behold, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants of the same. So they brought the king word again. [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Nehemiah 13:18.[/FONT][FONT=&quot] Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? Yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath. [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Job 42:11.[/FONT][FONT=&quot] Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and everyone an earring of gold. [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Psalms 54:5.[/FONT][FONT=&quot] He shall reward evil unto mine enemies: cut them off in thy truth. [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Psalms 78:49.[/FONT][FONT=&quot] He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them. [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Isaiah 31:2.[/FONT][FONT=&quot] Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words: but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of them that work iniquity. [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Isaiah 45:7.[/FONT][FONT=&quot] I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things. [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Jeremiah 4:6.[/FONT][FONT=&quot] Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction. [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Jeremiah 6:19.[/FONT][FONT=&quot] Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened to my words, nor to my law, but rejected it. [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Jeremiah 11:11,17 and 23.[/FONT][FONT=&quot] Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they will cry unto me, I will not hearken to them. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]17.[/FONT][FONT=&quot] For the Lord of hosts, that planted thee, hath pronounced evil against thee, for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger in offering incense unto Baal. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]23.[/FONT][FONT=&quot] And there will be no remnant of them: for I will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation. [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Jeremiah 16:10.[/FONT][FONT=&quot] And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt show this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath the Lord pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against the Lord our God? [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Jeremiah 18:8.[/FONT][FONT=&quot] If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]9.[/FONT][FONT=&quot] And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it; [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]10.[/FONT][FONT=&quot] If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]11.[/FONT][FONT=&quot] Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now everyone from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good. [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Jeremiah 19:3 and 15.[/FONT][FONT=&quot] And say, Hear ye the word of the Lord, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, the which whosoever heareth, his ears will tingle. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]15.[/FONT][FONT=&quot] Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened their necks, that they might not hear my words. [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Jeremiah 23:12.[/FONT][FONT=&quot] Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the Lord. [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Jeremiah 26:3.[/FONT][FONT=&quot] If so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way, that I may repent me of the evil, which I purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings. [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Micah 1:12.[/FONT][FONT=&quot] For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the Lord unto the gate of Jerusalem. [/FONT]
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CherubRam said:
The Almighty does not employ evil spirits. All beings have free will.
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According to the biblical account, some strange types of people lived on the earth before the Flood, as described in Genesis 6: 4. The text mentions the "giants", the "sons of God" (or "sons of Elohim"), the "daughters of men" and the so-called "Nephilim ", which had been originated by the union of fallen angels with the "daughters of men" (human women).
The sons of Anak (Anaktos) were descendants of the giants, as Numbers 13:33 says, as well as the emitas (Deuteronomy 2:10) and also the zomzomenos (Deuteronomy 2:20 and 21).
Og, king of Bashan, was about fifteen feet high (Deuteronomy 3:11) and was considered one of the last remnants of those giants. However, the flood extinguished most of them, as well as the great reptiles that have settled on the earth.
The famous Philistine giant - Goliath - whose height was over 3 meters (1 Samuel 17: 4), was also descended from the antediluvian giants, whose genetic characteristics have been transmitted possibly through some of the descendants of Noah. This Goliath of Gath was the giant that David faced, as we can read in 1 Samuel 17:49.
In addition to Goliath, there were also other descendants of giants in the city of Gath, including Isbi-benob (2 Samuel 21:16), Saf (2 Samuel 21: 17-19), and another very tall man, with six fingers on each hand and foot (2 Samuel 21:20). All those men were descendants of Rafa and were defeated by David and his companions (1 Chronicles 20: 5-7-9).
The book of Enoch, despite being considered apocryphal by most Christian theologians, is mentioned in the Bible in the book of Jude 14 and 15, and describes the mystical union between the "sons of God" (angels) with the "daughters of men" (human women).
Also in the book of Job, the "sons of God" are said to be angels, among whom Satan is included, as mentioned in Job 1: 6 and 2: 1.
 
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oswaldo8553 said:
According to the biblical account, some strange types of people lived on the earth before the Flood, as described in Genesis 6: 4. The text mentions the "giants", the "sons of God" (or "sons of Elohim"), the "daughters of men" and the so-called "Nephilim ", which had been originated by the union of fallen angels with the "daughters of men" (human women).
The sons of Anak (Anaktos) were descendants of the giants, as Numbers 13:33 says, as well as the emitas (Deuteronomy 2:10) and also the zomzomenos (Deuteronomy 2:20 and 21).
Og, king of Bashan, was about fifteen feet high (Deuteronomy 3:11) and was considered one of the last remnants of those giants. However, the flood extinguished most of them, as well as the great reptiles that have settled on the earth.
The famous Philistine giant - Goliath - whose height was over 3 meters (1 Samuel 17: 4), was also descended from the antediluvian giants, whose genetic characteristics have been transmitted possibly through some of the descendants of Noah. This Goliath of Gath was the giant that David faced, as we can read in 1 Samuel 17:49.
In addition to Goliath, there were also other descendants of giants in the city of Gath, including Isbi-benob (2 Samuel 21:16), Saf (2 Samuel 21: 17-19), and another very tall man, with six fingers on each hand and foot (2 Samuel 21:20). All those men were descendants of Rafa and were defeated by David and his companions (1 Chronicles 20: 5-7-9).
The book of Enoch, despite being considered apocryphal by most Christian theologians, is mentioned in the Bible in the book of Jude 14 and 15, and describes the mystical union between the "sons of God" (angels) with the "daughters of men" (human women).
Also in the book of Job, the "sons of God" are said to be angels, among whom Satan is included, as mentioned in Job 1: 6 and 2: 1.
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[FONT=&quot]Nephilim in the Hebrew Bible[/FONT][FONT=&quot]

(Translations according to New International Version. Note that translations frequently differ. In the King James Version of the Bible, "Nephilim" is translated as "giants" in the following examples.)

The term "Nephilim" occurs just twice in the Hebrew Bible, both in the Torah. The first is Genesis 6:1-4, immediately before the Noah's ark story:
1. When men began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, 2. the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose. 3. Then the LORD said, "My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days will be a hundred and twenty years." 4. The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of men and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown. [/FONT][FONT=&quot][The fallen ones where giant human beings.][/FONT][FONT=&quot]
The second is Numbers 13:32-33, where the Hebrew spies report that they have seen fearsome giants in Canaan:
32. And they spread among the Israelites a bad report about the land they had explored. They said, "The land we explored devours those living in it. All the people we saw there are of great size. 33. We saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them."

Etymology
This subject also relates to the etymology and meaning of the phrase sons of God.
"Nephilim" ([/FONT][FONT=&quot]נְפִילִים[/FONT][FONT=&quot]) probably derives from the Hebrew root npl ([/FONT][FONT=&quot]נָפַל[/FONT][FONT=&quot]), "to fall" which also includes "to cause to fall" and "to kill, to ruin". The Brown-Driver-Briggs Lexicon gives the meaning as "giants" Robert Baker Girdlestone argued the word comes from the Hiphil causative stem. Adam Clarke took it as passive, "fallen", "apostates". Ronald Hendel also states that it is a passive form "ones who have fallen."

Arguments based on etymology

A possible connection with fallen-ness may exist in the fallen warriors of Ezekiel 32:27, where a change to the Massoretic Text reading gibborim nophelim ([/FONT][FONT=&quot]גִּבֹּורִים[/FONT][FONT=&quot] [/FONT][FONT=&quot]נֹפְלִים[/FONT][FONT=&quot] "fallen mighty ones") would produce the reading gibborim nephilim. As the text stands "And they shall not lie with the fallen mighty of the uncircumcised, which are gone down (yaradu [/FONT][FONT=&quot]יָרְדֽוּ[/FONT][FONT=&quot]) to the grave with their weapons of war:", but this could become the gibborim nephilim of the uncircumcised. In Genesis 6:4 they are described as "ancient warriors, the men of renown". In Numbers 13:32-33 they are a race of giants native to Canaan. (The idea that there were giants in Canaan when the Israelites arrived is found elsewhere, for example in Amos 2:9, where Yahwah reminds the prophet that he "destroyed the Amorites before you, whose height was as the height of cedar trees"). The two are tied together by Genesis 6:4, "the nephilim were on the earth in those days (before the Flood), and also after," and most later compositions and translations, including the Septuagint, therefore understand the nephilim to be giants.[/FONT][FONT=&quot]

This is the word spelled [/FONT][FONT=&quot]הַנֹּפְלִים[/FONT][FONT=&quot] in that verse. The English to Hebrew translator says this is the word for giants [/FONT][FONT=&quot]ענקים[/FONT][FONT=&quot] [/FONT][FONT=&quot]
[/FONT][FONT=&quot]The Nephilim were the heroes of old, men of renown. The people of the world were in a state of moral decay, and had fallen spiritually.[/FONT][FONT=&quot]

[FONT=&quot]Genesis 6[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]5[/FONT] The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time.

[FONT=&quot]11[/FONT] Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence. [FONT=&quot]12[/FONT] God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. [FONT=&quot]13[/FONT] So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth.
[/FONT][FONT=&quot]I believe that the Nephilim were Giants, but that the words nephilim is "fallen ones." The world before the flood had less gravity, and therefore would support large beings.[/FONT][FONT=&quot]

"[FONT=&quot]Nephilim[/FONT]" ([/FONT][FONT=&quot]נְפִילִים[/FONT][FONT=&quot]) probably derives from the Semitic root npl ([/FONT][FONT=&quot]נָפַל[/FONT][FONT=&quot]), "to fall" which also includes "to cause to fall" and "to kill, to ruin".[/FONT][FONT=&quot]
The [FONT=&quot]Brown-Driver-Briggs[/FONT] Lexicon gives the meaning as "giants." [FONT=&quot]Robert Baker Girdlestone[/FONT] argued the word comes from the Hiphil causative stem. [FONT=&quot]Adam Clarke[/FONT] took it as passive, "fallen", "apostates". [FONT=&quot]Ronald Hendel[/FONT] states that it is a passive form "ones who have fallen."
[/FONT][FONT=&quot]The word nephilim is not a name title, and it should have been translated as the "fallen ones." It is referring to those who have fallen spiritually and are in moral decline.[/FONT][FONT=&quot]

[FONT=&quot]Luke 3:38.[/FONT] ...the son of Enosh, the son of Seth, the son of [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Adam, the son of God.[/FONT][FONT=&quot] [/FONT][FONT=&quot]

[FONT=&quot]Genesis 6:2[/FONT]
[/FONT][FONT=&quot]the sons of God[/FONT][FONT=&quot] saw that the daughters of [humans / [/FONT][FONT=&quot]men[/FONT][FONT=&quot]] were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose.[/FONT][FONT=&quot]

[FONT=&quot]Genesis 6:4[/FONT]
The Nephilim [[FONT=&quot]fallen ones[/FONT]] were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the [/FONT][FONT=&quot]sons of God[/FONT][FONT=&quot] went to the daughters of [humans / [/FONT][FONT=&quot]men[/FONT][FONT=&quot]] and had children by them. [/FONT][FONT=&quot]They were[/FONT][FONT=&quot] the heroes of old, [/FONT][FONT=&quot]men[/FONT][FONT=&quot] of renown[/FONT][FONT=&quot]

[FONT=&quot]Psalm 82:6[/FONT]
“I said, ‘[/FONT][FONT=&quot]You are “gods[/FONT][FONT=&quot]”; you are all sons of the Most High.’[/FONT][FONT=&quot]

[FONT=&quot]John 10:34[/FONT]
Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I have said [/FONT][FONT=&quot]you are “gods”[/FONT][FONT=&quot]’ ? 35 If he called them ‘[/FONT][FONT=&quot]gods[/FONT][FONT=&quot],’ to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be set aside — 36 [/FONT][FONT=&quot]what about the one whom the Father set apart as his very own[/FONT][FONT=&quot] and sent into the world? Why then do you accuse me of blasphemy because I said, ‘I am God’s Son’?[/FONT][FONT=&quot] [/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
 
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