A8 • HISTORY
THE BATTLEFIELD CHRONICLES • FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 2013
OPINION
RESEARCH
The Nephilim
Noah’s ark
STAFF REPORTER
JERUSALEM, ISRAEL
STAFF REPORTER
JERUSALEM, ISRAEL
Did fallen angels breed with man?
Our research has uncovered an amazing and bizarre
event that apparently took place just before the great flood of
Noah’s time. In fact, it appears to be the reason for the flood.
The Chronicles has no way of verifying what we are about
to report, because only 8 people survived the flood, (Noah,
his wife, three sons and
their wives.) and any inTo see other
formation we have has
interpretations of
flowed down from them
Genesis 6 such as the
by word of mouth. It has
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great grandchildren, etc.
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feel we have an obligation
to our readers to report
the facts we have uncovered, as strange as they may appear.
Here is what we have learned.
Before the flood, the wickedness of man was said to
have been so great in the earth, and that every intent of the
thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. Every human
being on the face of the earth had turned after the wickedness in their own hearts, but Noah, because of his righteousness before his God, was spared from judgment, along with
his wife, their sons, and their wives. Eight people in all. As
a result of man’s wickedness, judgment was rendered from
heaven on all mankind. As harsh as the destruction was, no
living person was without excuse.
It is reported that in the pre flood era, fallen angels (those
beings that were cast out of heaven,) procreated with humans and and produced an offspring known as, the Nephilim. Their height was two or three times the height of normal
men. Huge beasts they were. In one case they are described
as being polydactyly. (Extra fingers and toes).
Genesis 6
When mankind began to multiply on the earth and
daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the
daughters of mankind were beautiful, and they took any
they chose as wives for
themselves. And the
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Lord said, “My Spirit
will not remain with
“My Spirit will not remain with
mankind forever, bemankind forever, because they
cause they are corrupt.
are corrupt. Their days will be
Their days will be 120
120 years.” - God
years.” The Nephilim
were on the earth both
In Genesis chapter 6, telling us in those days and afterward, when the sons
why our life span was shortof God came to the
ened from those who lived
daughters of mankind,
previous to the flood.
who bore children to
them. They were the
powerful men of old, the famous men. When the Lord saw
that man’s wickedness was widespread on the earth and
that every scheme his mind thought of was nothing but evil
all the time, the Lord regretted that He had made man on
the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. Then the Lord
said, “I will wipe off from the face of the earth mankind,
whom I created, together with the animals, creatures that
crawl, and birds of the sky—for I regret that I made them.”
Noah, however, found favor in the sight of the Lord.
Octogenarian in Abraham’s household shares about Flood
NOAH’S ARK: 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high
When our Chronicles reporter interviewed the
unnamed source for the article, ‘Abram Ben Terah’ (page A2) they discovered an octogenarian in
Abraham’s household who was privy to information on the Great Flood during Noah’s time. We
thought this might interest our readers.
We’ve all heard the story passed down from
previous generations, about how our ancestor
Noah built an ark that supposedly carried all of the
species of animals from the pre-flood era. Really?
Could Noah’s ark really hold all those animals?
Apparently!
Here, according to our source, are the instructions Noah was given from his God. “And God said
unto Noah… Make thee an ark of gopher wood;
rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and thou shalt
pitch it within and without with pitch. And this
is the fashion which thou shalt make it of… the
length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the
breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty
cubits. A window shalt thou make in the ark, and
in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of
the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.”
Okay, so the ark was to be 300 cubits in length.
The cubit, as everyone knows, is the distance between an adult’s elbow and the tip of the finger.
(No less than 18 inches.) This means the ark would
have been 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet
high. This length to width ratio of six to one provided excellent stability on the high seas. In fact,
our modern shipbuilders say it would have been
almost impossible to turn over. In every way, it
was admirably suited for riding out the tremendous storms in the year of the flood.
So the question is… could Noah build such
a boat all by himself? Our source makes a good
point. No one said that Noah and his sons built the
Ark by themselves. Noah could have hired skilled
laborers or had relatives, such as Methuselah and
Lamech, help build the vessel. Nothing indicates
that they could not, or that they did not, build the
Ark themselves in the time allotted. The physical
strength and mental p