Dear Pastor Riley,
Today on RaptureReady.com, I read an article ("There Were Giants in the Earth") that you wrote. Over the years and via different studys on my own and reading various commentaries (such as yours), I have come to believe many of the things you espouse regarding the nephilim, fallen angels and demons. I was wondering if you have a web site with any further research or information that I could review?
Barring that... do you have any other kind of literature that I could review? On a related note... I'm hoping you can answer a question for me. As I've come to believe in all this... I stuck with the following conundrum: I believe that all life is created by God. So... why would God create angel/human cross breeds to begin with? Not to put too fine a point on it but God forbids humans to have sex with animals. Even when we do (which is totally disgusting)... God doesn't allow some kind of human/animal crossbread to be born. So why would he have allowed this? I hope I'm not sounding like a skeptic or anything... I am a true believer in Jesus Christ. I'm just confused. I understand (in a grand scheme if you will) God's purpose in allowing evil things to happen all the time. It helps strengthen the faith of believers and believers to be. I'm just confused on why God would specifically create life from an angel/human mix. Thanks so much for any comments and insight you could give.
Steve
Dear Brother,
Brother, I do not have a website. All of my studies are sent out via email. Most of them are posted on Five Doves website or Peggy Mcilveene's website. Jim Bramlett also carries some of them on his website. Other websites such as RaptureReady.com often pick them up and post them also. None of my studies are copyrighted, nor will they ever be. I do not fall out with nor have any condemnation for those who copyright their material. I take the attitude, "Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind," Romans 14:5. I am just of the conviction that I personally should not put the truth of God's Word in some copyrighted book and withhold it from those who don't have the money to buy what I write. Anyway.....
Brother, God did not create angel/human cross breeds. That was the work of Satan and his angels, and the angel/human cross breeds were not created. Satan has no power to create anything. He has the power to manipulate matter that has already been created, but that is the extent of his power. Let me explain something that even most Christians seem to have missed.
When God created Adam and Eve He implanted within them the power of procreation. That means the power to bring another human being into existence at any time we choose to do so, unless God Himself intervenes. Our children are not created directly by God as Adam was. They are procreated by the awesome power that Almighty God placed within us. I can only wish that human beings understood this truth and held such power in awe and reverence before God. If they did there wouldn't be all of the sexual wickedness that is going on in the world today. I weep over such ignorance and wickedness. The power to procreate is a gift endowed in us by God Himself and should be regarded as a "holy" power by mankind.
No angel has the power to procreate. Satan does not have that power. Only man and the animals, birds, and living earthly creatures that God created have such power within them. God alone can intervene in our use of that power as the Bible points out that on occasion God "bound up the womb" of certain women in the Bible so that they could not procreate [have a baby]. And God's Word also tells us that when things were made right the Lord "opened the womb" so that a child could be born. You see, God implanted within mankind the power of procreation and God can interfere with it as He desires.
Satan and his angels do not have such power within them. This is why they came down to women and manipulated their bodies, causing them to ovulate. Ovulation is when a woman produces an egg for fertilization by the man's sperm. Once the egg was produced the fallen angels could join their own body cell [they have bodies even though they are spiritual bodies, 1 Corinthians 15:44.] with the egg of the woman [and likely some man's genetically altered sperm] and thereby impregnate her. You see, the fallen angels were the original practitioners of genetic engineering. In this way they could cause a woman to produce a baby that contained their fallen nature and supernatural powers. Again take note, the angels were not creating anything. They were merely manipulating and corrupting what God had created.
God had nothing to do with such wickedness. The clear indication from the Scripture is that He throughly hated and despised these monstrosities brought into existence by Satan's fallen angels.
God recognized this wickedness as an attempt to supplant the human race with beings who were not true human. If Satan had been allowed to succeed then Genesis 3:15 could never have been fulfilled for (1) the "seed of the woman" would never have been born, and therefore (2) Satan would have saved his wicked head from being crushed and (3) would have made God out to be a liar for giving a prophecy that He couldn't fulfill.
Now brother, do you see the picture [the warning] the Lord placed in His Word for His people? Do you understand now why literally hundreds of women over the past forty years have claimed that they were raped by "spirits?" Do you understand why many others [both men and women] claim to have been taken aboard UFO's and were sexually assaulted? Men claim to have had sperm manually extracted from their bodies or to have been forced to have intercourse with some sort of "female" being, thereby leaving their sperm deposited in that creatures body. Women claim to have been sexually assaulted or to have had "something" implanted within their womb, or to have been "operated" on by the UFO occupants. There are so many hundreds of these claims by people of sound mind that some of the claims simply have to be true, plus the fact that the claims harmonize with what the Scriptures plainl! y state did occur before the flood, Genesis 6:1-4. What occurred in the "days of Noah" is occurring again today just as prophesied by the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, Matthew 24:37, Luke 17:26.
Dear brother, I want to share with you a thought on Matthew 24:22 that most Christians seem to have overlooked.
When the Lord determined to destroy the ancient world with a flood the whole of humanity had been genetically altered by the wicked fallen angels except for Noah and his family. If the Lord didn't bring the flood at that time "there should no flesh be saved." Isn't it obvious that this is the same type of situation that will come to pass during the Tribulation?
This genetic engineering that is going on today is not going to stop when the rapture takes place. It will continue right on into the Tribulation. The real danger [spiritually] during the Trib will be the genetic engineering being carried on by Satan and his wicked fallen angels in cahoots with the Antichrist and his crowd every time they can deceive a human being into cooperating with them. Doesn't this give some insight into why the Lord repeatedly told the people to "flee" during the Trib. Satan will be making a last ditch effort to save his neck by again supplanting the human race with beings who are not human. If he could succeed then (1) there would be human race for the Lord to return to at the end of the Trib, (2) no Jewish people left for the Lord to fulfill His promises to, and (3) Satan would have made the Lord out to be a liar unable to f! ulfill His Word. Satan would have, in effect, dethroned God from His high position of omnipotence, and thereby saved his own neck.
Now harmonize this with the Lord's statement in Matthew 24:22, "And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened." I do believe, dear brother, that the Lord will return at the exact time that He does return in order to save the last of humanity [Jew and Gentile] from being totally destroyed or genetically altered by Satan and his wicked angels, just as the Lord brought the flood exactly at the right time to save the last eight souls that had not been genetically altered, Genesis 6:8-12.
Talk about cliff hangers! Wow!
How great and gracious is our God. Praise the Lord! Glory to God! Hallelujah! What a privilege it is to be a "child of the King." Glory! Glory! Glory!
I hope dear brother, that this answers your questions and gives you some deeper insight into this subject. Thank you for writing. I love to discuss, study, and share with God's people. God bless you. Pray for me.
Pastor F. M. RileyPastor Riley,
Thanks so much for taking the time to write back and such an extensive reply too. It is much appreciated.
Hmmm... I never thought of it that way (i.e. genetic engineering/manipulation). Thanks for the clarification. That really helps. That makes sense in light of recent articles I've noticed about human/animal genetic engineering beginning in Europe. The fallen angels would have basically done something similar (probably even more advanced and possibly "magical" in nature as well). You've given me a lot to mull over.
Thanks again.
Maranatha!
Steve