Genetic Manipulation: How Angels & Humans Have Corrupted God's Creation (Part 1)
How the Third Rebellion Against God Involved Genetic Manipulation
3 Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account. Hebrews 4:13
The "First Rebellion" against God took place prior to the creation of the cosmos and mankind. This was the rebellion of Satan and the Angels that followed him. After that mankind through Adam & Eve became the "Second Rebellion" against God as they succumbed to the lies of the Serpent in th Garden of Eden. On the heals of that we find that the entities (The Watchers) that God had tasked with watching over humanity, but instead they rebelled and bred with human females to produce a hybrid offspring (Nephilim), that brought evil to the world and descimated it as well. This was the "Third Rebellion" and perhaps one of many attempts by Satan to dilute/pollute the genetics of humanity.
The evil and depravity became so great that God flooded the world, killing everyone except Noah and his family.
Many today compare the level of evil we see everyday with the "Days of Noah". One possible example of Angelic Interbreeding with humans today (the bible does not say Angelic entities cannot have sex) is the long standing abduction phenomenon which includes sexual relations and experiments involving human sperm/ovum etc.
Some have rightly stated that only like can breed with like. This holds true for all of the creatures we know about but we must ask does this rule or logic also apply to entities we know next to nothing about?
The Benei Elohim, the Watchers, and the Origins of Evil
"The story of divine beings procreating with human women (Genesis 6) is expanded upon in the book of Enoch to tell how these angels also bring sin to humanity, causing the ancient flood as well, and this sin is the source of disease in the present day.
The flood story begins with YHWH seeing the wickedness of humanity:
בראשית ו:ה וַיַּרְא יְ־הוָה כִּי רַבָּה רָעַת הָאָדָם בָּאָרֶץ וְכָל יֵצֶר מַחְשְׁבֹת לִבּוֹ רַק רַע כָּל הַיּוֹם: ו:ו וַיִּנָּחֶם יְ־הוָה כִּי עָשָׂה אֶת הָאָדָם בָּאָרֶץ וַיִּתְעַצֵּב אֶל לִבּוֹ:
Gen 6:5 And YHWH saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that the inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6:6 And YHWH regretted that He had made man on the earth, and it grieved his heart.
The Torah doesn’t say anything specific about this wickedness, but early Jewish interpretation fills in the gaps.
The Book of the Watchers and the Origins of Evil
The earliest work addressing this issue is the Book of the Watchers (250-200 BCE), which now makes up chapters 1-36 of the book of Enoch. (For a brief description of this book, see appendix.) “Watchers”[1] is a translation of the Aramaic עירין (lit. the awake ones) found in Daniel (4: 10, 14, 20) that probably originates from the tradition that angels do not sleep.[2] The angels in question are those who appear as benei ha-elohim in Gen 6:1, in the story that immediately precedes the flood account.
בראשית ו:א וַיְהִי כִּי הֵחֵל הָאָדָם לָרֹב עַל פְּנֵי הָאֲדָמָה וּבָנוֹת יֻלְּדוּ לָהֶם: ו:ב וַיִּרְאוּ בְנֵי הָאֱלֹהִים אֶת בְּנוֹת הָאָדָם כִּי טֹבֹת הֵנָּה וַיִּקְחוּ לָהֶם נָשִׁים מִכֹּל אֲשֶׁר בָּחָרוּ:
Gen 6:1 And it was, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them, 6:2 that the benei ha-elohim (lit. “sons of God”) saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took wives from whomever they chose.
ו:גוַיֹּאמֶר יְ־הוָה לֹא יָדוֹן רוּחִי בָאָדָם לְעֹלָם בְּשַׁגַּם הוּא בָשָׂר וְהָיוּ יָמָיו מֵאָה וְעֶשְׂרִים שָׁנָה: ו:ד הַנְּפִלִים הָיוּ בָאָרֶץ בַּיָּמִים הָהֵם וְגַם אַחֲרֵי כֵן אֲשֶׁר יָבֹאוּ בְּנֵי הָאֱלֹהִים אֶל בְּנוֹת הָאָדָם וְיָלְדוּ לָהֶם הֵמָּה הַגִּבֹּרִים אֲשֶׁר מֵעוֹלָם אַנְשֵׁי הַשֵּׁם:
6:3 And YHWH said: “My spirit shall not abide in man forever, for that he also is flesh; and his days be a hundred and twenty years.”[3] 6:4 The nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also after that, when the benei ha-elohim came to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them; these were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown.
This puzzling passage taken on its own appears to be meant as an explanation for the existence of mythic (but mortal) heroes in the ancient world.[4] This account gave rise to an entire cycle of stories regarding these angels and their sinful behavior, such as being the progenitors of the giant nephilim, mentioned here and in Numbers 13:33.[5].." from the article: The Benei Elohim, the Watchers, and the Origins of Evil
Reversing Hermon Lecture by Dr. Michael Heiser
Video from J Kevin Johnson
This is a very long lecture, almost three hours. Worth it if you have time.
"Biblical scholars know that Paul subordinates the Law to Christ (Gal 3:1-18). He writes about how the Law could not result in the fruition of the promises given to Abraham (and, by extension, to all nations; Gen 12:1-3). Paul then asks “Why then was the law given?” He answers that it was “added because of transgressions” (Gal 3:19). The most common assumption is that this (somehow) means the Law was a response to Adam’s sin, or human sins. But, and Adam sinned only once so far as the Bible tells us. Opting for the law being added in response to human sins doesn’t address why humanity became so wicked that it needed the law. Most Christians would defer to Adam’s transgression at this point, but there is no Romans 5:12 in Galatians (Romans is a later epistle). This episode takes a minority view of Paul’s statement about the addition of the law—at least among Christians. This view, however, reflects the viewpoint of nearly every Second Temple Jewish text (Paul’s era) known to exist that comments on human depravity:that the Law was added to restrain human evil, which proliferated not because of Adam, but because of the sin of the Watchers in Gen 6:1-4." Dr. Michael Heiser Naked Bible 94: The Sin of the Watchers and Galatians 3-4
The Watchers of Satanail: The Fallen Angels Traditions in 2 (Slavonic) Enoch
… they became servants of Satan and led astray those who dwell upon the dry ground. 1 Enoch 54:6
… These are the Watchers (Grigori), who turned aside from the Lord, 200 myriads, together with their prince Satanail. 2 Enoch 18:3
Introduction
The first part of 2 Enoch, a Jewish pseudepigraphon written in the first century C.E., deals with the heavenly ascent of the seventh antediluvian hero carried by his angelic psychopomps to the abode of the Deity. Slowly progressing through the heavens while receiving detailed explanations of their content from his angelic interpreters, in one of them, the patriarch encounters the group of the fallen angels whom the authors of the apocalypse designate as the Grigori (Watchers).1 The detailed report of the group’s transgression given in chapter 18 of the text which mentions the angelic descent on Mount Hermon, leading to subsequent corruption of humanity and procreation of the race of the Giants, invokes the memory of the peculiar features well known from the classic descriptions of the fall of the infamous celestial rebels given in the Book of the Watchers. This early Enochic booklet unveils the misdeeds of the two hundred Watchers led by their leaders Shemihazah and Asael. What is striking, however, in the description given in the Slavonic apocalypse, is that in contrast to the classic Enochic account, the leadership over the fallen Watchers is ascribed not to Shemihazah or Asael, but instead to Satanail.2 This reference to the figure of the negative protagonist of the Adamic story appears to be not coincidental. The careful examination of other details of the fallen angels traditions found in the Slavonic apocalypse unveils that the transference of the leadership over the Watchers from Shemihazah and Asael to Satanail, represents not a coincidental slip of pen, or a sign of a lack of knowledge of the authentic tradition, but an intentional attempt of introducing the Adamic development into the framework of the Enochic story, a move executed by the authors of the Slavonic apocalypse with a certain theological purpose.
I previously explored the influence of the Adamic story on the Enochic account of the Slavonic apocalypse, especially in the materials of the longer recension, noticing an unusual readiness of its authors for the adoption of traditions and motifs from the Adamic trend, a tendency which appears to be quite surprising for a Second Temple Enochic text.3
Indeed, Adam’s story occupies a strikingly prominent place in 2 Enoch. The traditions pertaining to the first human can be found in all the sections of the book. 4 In these materials Adam is depicted as a glorious angelic being, predestined by God to be the ruler of the earth, but falling short of God’s expectations. Although the bulk of Adamic materials belongs to the longer recension, which includes, for example, the lengthy Adamic narrative in chapters 30-32, the Adamic tradition is not confined solely to this recension. A number of important Adamic passages are also attested in the shorter recension. The extensive presence of Adamic materials in both recensions and their significance for the theology of the Slavonic apocalypse indicates that they are not later interpolations but are part of the original layer of the text.
It should be noted that such an extensive presence of Adamic materials in the intertestamental Enochic text is quite unusual. In the early Enochic circle reflected in 1 (Ethiopic) Enoch, Adam does not figure prominently. His presence in these materials is marginal and limited to a few insignificant remarks. Moreover, when the authors of the early Enochic booklets invoke the memory of Adam and Eve, they try to either ignore or “soften” the story of their transgression and fall in the garden. Scholars previously noticed this remarkable leniency of the Enochic writers towards the mishap of the protological couple in the texts “concerned with judgment and accountability.”5
This either modest or unusually positive profile which the Protoplasts enjoy in the early Enochic circle can be explained by several factors. Scholars previously observed that early Enochic and Adamic traditions appear to be operating with different mythologies of evil.6 The early Enochic tradition bases its understanding of the origin of evil on the Watchers’ story in which the fallen angels corrupt human beings by passing on to them various celestial secrets.7 In contrast, the Adamic tradition traces the source of evil to Satan’s transgression and the fall of Adam and Eve in Eden -- the trend which is hinted at in Genesis 3 and then fully reflected in the Primary Adam Books which explain the reason for Satan’s demotion by his rejection to obey God’s command to venerate a newly created Protoplast.8
While in the early Enochic circle the presence of the Adamic traditions appears to be either marginalized or silenced – it looms large in 2 Enoch. In my previous research I suggested that the extensive presence of the Adamic motifs in the Slavonic apocalypse has a profound conceptual significance for the overall theological framework of the Slavonic apocalypse.9 It appears that the purpose of the extensive presence of Adamic themes in 2 Enoch can be explained through the assessment of Enoch’s image in the text who is portrayed in the Slavonic apocalypse as the Second Adam – the one who is predestined to regain the original condition of the Protoplast once lost by the first humans in Eden.10 In this context many features of the exalted prelapsarian Adam are transferred to the seventh antediluvian hero in an attempt to hint at his status as the new Protoplast, who restores humanity to its original state. This new protological profile of the elevated Enoch in the Slavonic apocalypse thus can serve as an important clue for understanding the necessity of the extensive presence of the Adamic traditions in 2 Enoch.
Moreover, it appears that the appropriation of the Adamic lore in 2 Enoch is not limited solely to the figure of the main positive protagonist – the seventh antediluvian patriarch, but also extended to the story of the negative angelic counterparts of the Enochic hero – the Watchers whose portrayals in the Slavonic apocalypse also become enhanced with novel features of the Adamic mythology of evil, and more specifically, with the peculiar traits of the account of its infamous heavenly rebel - Satan. Such interplay and osmosis of two early paradigmatic trends, which in John Reeves’ terminology is designated as the mixed or transitional template, has long-lasting consequences for both “mythologies of evil” and their afterlife in rabbinic and patristic environments.11 The purpose of this paper is to explore the Adamic reworking of the Watchers traditions in the Slavonic apocalypse and its significance for subsequent Jewish mystical developments..." from the article: The Watchers of Satanail: The Fallen Angels Traditions in 2 (Slavonic) Enoch Andrei A. Orlov (Marquette University)
Sources Outside the Bible
Book of Enoch
"..The oldest known Jewish work not included in the Bible is the Book of Enoch. This is a complex work, written in the third (or perhaps even the late fourth) century BCE, after the return from the Babylonian Exile and the establishment of the Second Jewish Commonwealth (6th-5th centuries BCE) and before the Maccabean revolt in 172 BCE. The oldest copies of the Book of Enoch, dating from the third century BCE, were discovered among theDead Sea Scrolls.." from the article: Jewish Holy Scriptures: The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
"BOOK OF JASHAR (Heb. סֵפֶר הַיָּשָׁר, Sefer ha-Yashar; "the upright [one]'s book"), one of the lost source books of early Israelite poetry from which the writers in the books of Joshua and Samuel excerpted Joshua's command to the sun and the moon in Joshua 10: 12b–13a and David's lament for Saul and Jonathan in II Sam. 1:19–27, as indicated by the accompanying citations. The command to the sun and moon is an archaic poetic unit embedded in the later prose narrative of the victory against a five-king coalition and in defense of Gibeon, a covenant ally. The narrative provides a prosaic interpretation of the couplet, in keeping with the book's presentation of the conquest as a divine miracle and not Israel's victory. In itself the couplet reflects the early Israelite understanding of the Federation's wars as sacral events, with God as commander in chief directing tactics through the agency of heavenly powers who are conceived as members of the divine Sovereign's court (cf. how the stars "fought against Sisera" in Judg. 5:20). The lament for Saul and Jonathan is unquestionably a genuine literary attestation of David's poetic talent and it helps to explain the later attribution of many biblical psalms to David. Probably a third excerpt from the Book of Jashar is found in I Kings 8:12–13, a couplet embedded in Solomon's prayer at the dedication of the Temple, which survives in fullest form in the septuagint version. In the latter, the couplet appears at the end of the prayer and is followed by a notation in verbatim agreement with the one of Joshua 10:13, directing the reader to the book of Shir ("Song"). It has been suggested that the latter may stem from an accidental metathesis of letters (šyr for yšr), which is not uncommon among copyists' errors. See *Book of the Wars of the Lord for another and possibly related anthology, tenth century and earlier, to which historians of Israel and Judah turned for such poetic excerpts. The Talmud (Av. Zar. 25a) homiletically identifies the Book of Jashar with the "book of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob" (i.e., Genesis), who were "upright." A quasi-historical work of the 13th century bears the same title (see *Sefer ha-Yashar )." from the article: Book of Jasher
The Parallels Between the Sins of the Watchers and the UFO/Alien Phenomenon Today
For those of us not locked into the mindset that the Alien/UFO phenomenon today is extraterrestrials, the possibility that what many people are seeing and experiencing is being mitigated from another dimension or spiritual realm is not given proper consideration.
There is much in terms of the longevity of this phenomenon and the religious overtones that make the ET theory implausable.
What we today call the "occult" plays a major role in what, when and how people encounter entities, craft and subsequent abductions.
Aside from John Keel the researcher Jaques Vallee has come to conclusions after a lifetime of research that puts UFOs and Aliens in the invisible realm of demons and other creatures.
"Summary. Jacques Vallee (1975) hypothesized that the UFO phenomenon is an element in a control system. The control system uses various absurdities that people experience to change the mythology that we have about reality. He believes that there is an intelligence involved, that there are physical manifestations, and that there is also a deep psychic dimension. His hypothesis about a control system is consistent with communications received from the Zeta race of beings. Their purpose is to encourage us to raise our level of consciousness so that we can communicate with them telepathically. This higher state of consciousness is equivalent to a higher state of love. In their cosmology, nothing could exist without the dimension of consciousness or love, including our matter universe. Their communications suggest that they may use something like Vallee’s control system as part of a strategy to help us recognize that.." from the article: A specific rationale for Vallee’s UFO control system
Are The Powers and Principalities the "Control System"?
If we consider that God's Word tells us about the invisible "Powers and Principalities" and that we are under the control of both spiritual and humans. The bible uses both words seperately and not together.
"The phrase principalities and powers occurs six times in the Bible, always in the King James Version and its derivatives (NKJV, MKJV). Other versions translate it variously as “rulers and authorities,” “forces and authorities,” and “rulers and powers.” In most places where the phrase appears, the contexts make it clear that it refers to the vast array of evil and malicious spirits who make war against the people of God. The principalities and powers of Satan are usually in view here, beings that wield power in the unseen realms to oppose everything and everyone that is of God..." from the article: What are principalities and powers?
Although the secular world prefers "Aliens" over spiritual entities, the literature has long supported spiritual entities being intimately involved with mankind and our welfare and destruction.
Spiritual beings attempting to persuade or trick us into sins and other evil behavior is a "control system' in and of itself. And we all have long been under this attack.
A Technological Religion
As Christianity declines in the western nations other things move in to takes its place. UFOs and Aliens have actually been an unrecognized pseudo-religion or I prefer the term "cult" for decades. Author Diana Pasulka offers us an explanation in her book 'American Cosmic". Read her explanation from the interview below.
Diana Pasulka - Author of "American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology"
"..The problem is that we tend to think of our own religions when we think of religiosity. And in the United States, most people are Christian or Jewish or Muslim. These are the traditional “religions of the book” that shape most of our Western understanding of history.
But there are many different religions, and some don’t involve things like gods or even dogmas. Zen Buddhism, for instance, eschews the idea of a god. It also tries to cure its practitioners of dogmas. Today, there are religions based on movies like Star Wars. So we do have to understand that religion is not exactly what we think it is.
Part of what I want to say in this book is that religion can take many forms, and the same religion can take different shapes in different places. What we’re seeing now are new forms of religion emerging from our infrastructure of digital technology and technology in general. Religions are shaped by their environments, just like most things.
And think about what many religions consist of: Often, a religion begins with contact from something divine, something beyond the normal plane of human experience, and that thing communicates with a person on earth. And then there’s a story told about it. And then from that story, we get a larger narrative that erupts into what we call religious traditions.
Something very similar is happening right now around belief in extraterrestrial life. What fascinates me about this new form of religion is that scientists and people who generally distance themselves from things like miracles seem to embrace this new religious form." from the article: The new American religion of UFOs
People in our culture today are replacing God with "Aliens" as saviors.
Are Aliens (aka Demonic Entities) Breeding with Humans Today??
Are we in the midst of yet another attempt by "Satanic Entities" to interbreed and subvert mankind? The question we must ask ourselves is if we beleive that the Genesis 6 account of angel/human hybrids is true why would a similar effort to subvert mankind not also be possible today through the slight of hand of Aliens and UFOs?
"Professor Dr. David Michael Jacobs has authored many books concerning alien abuduction. He has interviewed hundreds of people from around the world who have memories of being abducted by aliens — and in case after case, the details are uncannily similar.
The evidence suggests that all the alien procedures serve a reproductve agenda. And at the heart of the reproductive agenda is the Breeding Program, in which aliens collect human sperm and eggs. They incubate hybrid fetuses in human women to produce alien-human hybrids.." from the article: Hybrids Walking Among Us Part 1
Alien Abduction, Hybrids, and Trauma. Richard Dolan Show with Yvonne Smith. Jan. 19, 2019.
Video from Richard Dolan Intelligent Disclosure
"The subject of UFOs is controversial enough, but the matter of alien abduction generates strong opinions even among those who believe extraterrestrials are among us. Yvonne Smith is a certified hypnotherapist who has been researching this phenomenon for nearly 30 years. She has performed hypnotic regression on over 1,000 individuals. For her, the reality of alien abduction is beyond dispute. For her, the question is, "what's their end game?"
Richard Dolan is one of the world’s leading researchers and writers on the subject of UFOs and believes that they constitute the greatest mystery of our time. He is the author of two volumes of history, UFOs and the National Security State, both ground-breaking works which together provide the most factually complete and accessible narrative of the UFO subject available anywhere. He also co-authored a speculative book about the future, A.D. After Disclosure, the first-ever analysis not only of how UFO secrecy might end, but of the all-important question: what happens next?" from video introduction
Aliens, UFO's, and the Catholic Church, w/ Dr. Paul Thigpen
Video from Pints With Aquinas
00:00 Start 0:38 Extraterrestrial Intelligence and the Catholic Faith book 11:24 Objections from Catholics why there can’t be aliens 15:20 Neanderthals 25:36 ETI myth (messianic notion) 30:35 Objections from Atheists why existence of aliens would disprove Christianity 34:36 Parameters 37:07 Reasons for thinking aliens exist (and aliens interested in nuclear things) 48:36 Roswell (and Padre Pio on aliens) 57:51 US government 1:01:12 Alien abduction claims (and demonic encounters) 1:08:16 Purpose of book (reiterated at 1:42:25) 1:17:58 Gary Nolan (Stanford professor) 1:29:35 Flying saucer (and Grays) 1:33:47 Five observables of UFO technology 1:45:16 How to distinguish between ETs and supernatural beings (Start of Q&A 1:43:45) 1:57:22 Mary Queen Mother of Universe and other incarnations 2:06:22 Catechism does not rule out aliens 2:08:55 Elijah’s chariot (and Ezekiel’s wheels) 2:11:31 Marian apparitions 2:14:09 Fermi’s paradox 2:15:50 Why is scripture silent on alien life? 2:18:40 How to determine if a creature has an immortal soul? 2:30:20 Aquinas on multiple incarnations by the same person (and on friendliness & other topics) 2:39:24 Ancient civilizations and alien knowledge 2:42:39 Book takeaway
"Author Paul Thigpen earned a B.A. in religious studies from Yale University (1977) and an M.A. (1993) and Ph.D. (1995) in historical theology from Emory University, where he was awarded the George W. Woodruff Fellowship. In 2008, he was appointed as a lay representative on the National Advisory Council of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
He has published 35 books and more than 500 journal and magazine articles in more than 40 religious and secular periodicals for both scholarly and popular audiences. His work has been translated into 12 languages.
His latest book is Extraterrestrial Intelligence and the Catholic Faith: Are We Alone in the Universe With God and the Angels? (TAN Books)." from the National Catholic Registry
Mankinds Quest for Immortality Through Genetics
But what about our zeal to change and modify our genetics?
In part 2 we will look at how over the course of human history have sought to also corrupt our God given selves including the most recent ramping up of CRISPR Genetics and other technologies.
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