Noah would often say that all of humanity had been turned to clay.īut even so, life had already begun to break through the graveyard before them, as vegetation quickly sprouted from the seedlings buried in the soil. The thought of so many people drowned to death was sickening to the stomach. The land was wiped away, leaving a vision of barren ugliness and death. The waters had washed over everything, burying the once beautiful alluvial terrain in layers of mud and silt. Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.Īfter some time, Noah and his family descended from the mountainous region into the Mesopotamian plains to start anew. Now Yahweh gave Noah the charge to uphold the sacred image of God in man through just recompense. The first murderer, Cain, had violated that sacred image by slaying his own brother, and thus starting an evil spiral of violence that dragged the original creation into the very depths of Sheol. Humanity was created in God’s image and as such was a holy representation of that ruler over creation. Yahweh had started all over with a new creation and new human race. Yahweh commissioned Noah with the original calling of Adam, to multiply and fill the land.
The rainbow in the sky was his signature of that covenant promise. Yahweh made a covenant with Noah and his descendants to never again kill all life on the land with water as he had done. After the flood waters receded, Noah left the boat and offered a sacrifice of thanksgiving to Elohim known by his covenant name of Yahweh. The ark had come to rest on Mount Nimush near the river Tigris in the mountains of Aratta that are now called Ararat.
Seventy leaders of the Watchers avoided capture, along with a contingent of their subordinate mal’akim insurgent angels. Semjaza became Anu, the high god, and Azazel was Inanna, his consort, the goddess of sex and war.ĭuring the War of Gods and Men, Anu and Inanna, and many of their fellow immortal Watchers were bound by archangels and imprisoned in the heart of the earth until judgment. The lead Watchers, Semjaza and Azazel, and their two hundred defiant Watchers had taken upon themselves the identities of a pantheon of gods to accomplish their scheme. Though these chimeras died as mortal flesh in the Deluge, their divine element remained as demonic spirits that now roamed the earth with an insatiable hunger to inhabit human flesh. The Nephilim were giant preternatural hybrid offspring of the Sons of God and the daughters of men. Neela had been pregnant on the ark and had given birth to the first child of the postdiluvian generation. Shem’s wife was named Sedeq, Japheth’s wife was Adatanes, and Ham’s wife was Neela. This floating barge carried Noah and his wife Emzara, and their sons, Shem, Japheth, and Ham. Everyone else and every land animal perished. Noah ben Lamech and his family of eight were spared by Elohim in a large box of a boat, along with a multitude of animals, to repopulate the land. And then the Deluge came and washed the land clean of the corruption that had infested it. Methuselah ben Enoch had led the armies of man, undefiled by genetic miscegenation and idol worship, to gloriously defend a last stand of righteousness against the rebel Sons of God called Watchers and their demonic minions of hybrid soldiers and giants called Nephilim. In the time before the Great Flood, the War of Gods and Men raged in the desert of Dudael. This is what really happened to Gilgamesh. Special thanks to the wife of my youth, Kimberly, who is my life, my muse, and my grounding to Gilgamesh scholar Andrew George for his magisterial critical commentary The Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic to Don Enevoldsen for his editing to Mark Tapson for his helpful comments to Rich Knox, my agent and lifelong buddy for his insightful theological suggestions to Shari Risoff my sister-in-law for her excellent proofreading to that has empowered me as an author and to the God who is sometimes hidden, but always near, Yahweh Elohim. Scripture quotations taken from The Holy Bible: English Standard Version. See the back pages of this book or go to: The Watchers, Nephilim, & the Biblical Cosmic War of the Seedįor more information and products by the author, Myth Became Fact: Storytelling, Imagination Word Pictures: Knowing God Through Story and Imagination (InterVarsity Press) Hollywood Worldviews: Watching Films with Wisdom
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