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Speaker 1: The flood of Noah was supposed to end it. Every
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Speaker 1: corrupt bloodline, every unnatural creature, every trace of the Nephilim
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Speaker 1: drowned beneath forty days of divine wrath. The earth was
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Speaker 1: washed clean, the mountains disappeared underwater, every living thing that
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Speaker 1: breathed air died. Humanity started over with eight survivors and
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Speaker 1: a promise that it would never happen again. But centuries later,
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Speaker 1: when Moses sent 12 spies into the promised land, they
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Speaker 1: came back shaking. These were not frightened boys. These were
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Speaker 1: chosen men, warriors, leaders of their tribes, and they could
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Speaker 1: barely speak because standing in the valleys of Canaan were giants,
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Speaker 1: the same giants. The bloodline that was supposed to be
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Speaker 1: extinct was alive. It had rebuilt. It had spread across
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Speaker 1: the entire promised land. It had produced kings. This is
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Speaker 1: the story of the Refame, the second giant bloodline that
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Speaker 1: survived Noah's flood. In this video, you are going to
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Speaker 1: understand how they survived, the terrifying kings they produced, and
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Speaker 1: the multi-generational war god waged to destroy them, because every
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Speaker 1: single one of them was standing between Israel and a
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Speaker 1: child that had to be born in Bethlehem. Before the flood,
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Speaker 1: something broke. Genesis 6 does not ease you into it.
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Speaker 1: The text is blunt and clinical. The sons of God
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Speaker 1: saw the daughters of men and took them as wives.
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Speaker 1: Their offspring were the Nephilim. The word means the fallen ones,
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Speaker 1: the ones who came down. They were on the earth
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Speaker 1: in those days. Giants, warriors, tyrants. The ancient world called
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Speaker 1: them heroes. God called them a corruption so complete that
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Speaker 1: he grieved making mankind and resolved to unmake what he
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Speaker 1: had made. The flood came. Forty days of water from
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Speaker 1: above and below. Every mountain was submerged. Every city drowned.
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Speaker 1: Every Nephilim body is sinking into the dark. When the
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Speaker 1: waters receded, the earth was silent, wiped. The problem was solved,
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Speaker 1: except it was not solved. Go back to Genesis 6-4
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Speaker 1: and read it slowly. Not the summary you learned in
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Speaker 1: Sunday school. The actual text. It says there were giants
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Speaker 1: on the earth in those days and also afterward. God
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Speaker 1: himself embedded a warning inside the announcement of his own judgment.
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Speaker 1: The Nephilim problem did not end with the flood. He
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Speaker 1: recorded it. He knew it was coming back. Hundreds of
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Speaker 1: years pass. Moses leads two million people out of Egypt.
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Speaker 1: They stand at the border of Canaan. God tells them
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Speaker 1: this is their land, flowing with milk and honey, prepared
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Speaker 1: for them. Moses sends twelve men to scout the territory.
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Speaker 1: They cross the Jordan. They see the grapes, the pomegranates,
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Speaker 1: the figs. They see a land so fertile it seems impossible.
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Speaker 1: They walk through cities and villages and valleys for 40 days,
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Speaker 1: and then they look up. Numbers 1333. Ten of the
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Speaker 1: twelve spies return to the camp. They are supposed to
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Speaker 1: give a military assessment. Instead, they say this. We seem
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Speaker 1: to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seem to them.
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Speaker 1: That is not military language. That is the language of
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Speaker 1: men whose legs have stopped working. men who looked at
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Speaker 1: something so far outside their frame of reference that their
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Speaker 1: bodies simply refused to move. Grasshoppers. That is what grown men,
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Speaker 1: chosen men, warrior men felt like standing next to what
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Speaker 1: was living in Canaan. These post-flood giants had a name,
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Speaker 1: the Rephaim, and that name carries two meanings that should
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Speaker 1: not belong to the same word. In one context, Rephaim
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Speaker 1: means the giants, the mighty ones, the physical warriors who
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Speaker 1: terrorize the ancient Near East. In another context, used throughout
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Speaker 1: the book of Job, Isaiah, and Proverbs, Rephaim means the
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Speaker 1: spirits of the dead, the shades, the inhabitants of the underworld.
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Speaker 1: Two meanings, one word. as if the language itself could
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Speaker 1: not decide whether these beings were flesh or something that
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Speaker 1: had crawled back from a place the living were never
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Speaker 1: meant to reach. So how did they survive? There are
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Speaker 1: three theories, and each one is more terrifying than the last.
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Speaker 1: Theory 1. The Genetic Survival The Ark held eight people, Noah,
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Speaker 1: his wife, his three sons, and their wives. That is
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Speaker 1: the entire genetic pool of post-flood humanity. Every person alive
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Speaker 1: on earth today descends from one of those eight survivors.
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Speaker 1: Noah was righteous. His sons were on the ark. But
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Speaker 1: the Bible is conspicuously, deliberately silent about one thing, the
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Speaker 1: lineage of the three daughters-in-law. We know their husbands. We
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Speaker 1: do not know their mothers. We do not know their bloodlines.
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Speaker 1: We do not know what they carried. After the flood,
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Speaker 1: something deeply disturbing happens in Noah's tent. Genesis 9 records
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Speaker 1: that Ham, Noah's second son, saw the nakedness of his father.
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Speaker 1: Ancient Hebrew scholars have long argued that this phrase carries
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Speaker 1: implications far darker than accidental exposure. Whatever happened in that tent,
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Speaker 1: when Noah woke and learned what had occurred, his response
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Speaker 1: was not directed at Ham. He cursed Ham's son, Canaan.
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Speaker 1: a child. He bypassed the guilty party and pronounced a
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Speaker 1: generational curse on the next generation. Why would a righteous
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Speaker 1: man curse a child for his father's sin? Unless Noah
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Speaker 1: saw something, unless in the moment he understood what had happened,
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Speaker 1: he also understood what it meant for Canaan's bloodline. Unless
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Speaker 1: the curse was not punishment, but prophecy, a warning encoded
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Speaker 1: in grief. Now here is where it gets strange. If
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Speaker 1: you take a map of the ancient Near East and
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Speaker 1: draw a circle around every city where Canaan's descendants settled,
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Speaker 1: according to Genesis 10, you get a specific territory. Hebron, Bashan,
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Speaker 1: the Jordan Valley, the hill country. Now take a second
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Speaker 1: map and mark every location where the Rephaim, the Anakim,
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Speaker 1: the Amim, and the Zamzumim appeared after the flood. Put
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Speaker 1: the two maps on top of each other. They are identical.
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Speaker 1: Every giant clan emerged inside the exact borders of Canaan's territory,
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Speaker 1: not one mile outside of it. The curse and the
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Speaker 1: giants share the same address. That is not a coincidence.
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Speaker 1: That is a fingerprint. Did Nephilim DNA survive the flood
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Speaker 1: inside the bloodline of one of Noah's daughters-in-law? Did it
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Speaker 1: lie dormant, recessive, waiting for the right conditions to surface?
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Speaker 1: Was Noah's curse not a punishment, but a diagnosis, a
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Speaker 1: prophet seeing corruption in a bloodline that would take generations
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Speaker 1: to fully express itself? But if corrupted DNA was the answer,
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Speaker 1: it still does not explain what was seen descending onto
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Speaker 1: Mount Hermon after the waters receded. Theory 2, the second incursion.
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Speaker 1: Go back to the phrase and also afterward three words
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Speaker 1: that have haunted serious biblical scholars for 2,000 years, not genetics,
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Speaker 1: not dormant DNA, a second event. The book of 1 Enoch,
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Speaker 1: quoted directly by the apostle Jude and referenced by Peter,
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Speaker 1: describes the original watchers in precise detail. 200 of them
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Speaker 1: descended onto Mount Hermon, They swore an oath together because
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Speaker 1: individually none of them would do what they were about
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Speaker 1: to do alone. They corrupted humanity. Their offspring became the Nephilim.
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Speaker 1: God judged them. 2 Peter 2.4 uses a Greek word
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Speaker 1: that appears nowhere else in the New Testament. Tartarus, not hell,
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Speaker 1: not Sheol, a specific place of maximum confinement reserved for
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Speaker 1: beings of this specific category of rebellion. The first group
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Speaker 1: was locked away, but Genesis 6-4 does not say there
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Speaker 1: was one incursion. It records two separate time periods. In
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Speaker 1: those days, and also afterward, the first group was imprisoned
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Speaker 1: before the flood, which means the beings responsible for the
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Speaker 1: post-flood refame were a different group. a second incursion, a
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Speaker 1: second set of rebellious angels who watched what the first
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Speaker 1: group had done, watched the flood come, watched humanity start over,
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Speaker 1: and then did it again. This was not ignorance. The
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Speaker 1: second group knew exactly what they were doing and exactly
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Speaker 1: what it would cost them. They committed the same rebellion
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Speaker 1: with full knowledge of the consequences. which means this was
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Speaker 1: not temptation, this was strategy. Think about the geography. The
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Speaker 1: post-flood Nephilim did not appear randomly across the earth. They
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Speaker 1: appeared in one specific region, the territory God had designated
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Speaker 1: for His chosen people. The promised land, the exact land
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Speaker 1: God told Abraham he was giving to his descendants, the
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Speaker 1: land through which the Messianic bloodline would need to travel, settle,
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Speaker 1: and survive for centuries before producing the child in Bethlehem.
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Speaker 1: The corruption was not scattered. It was targeted and placed
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Speaker 1: in the path of the plan of God like a
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Speaker 1: wall of flesh and bone and supernatural power, daring Israel
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Speaker 1: to try to get through. Whether they came from blood
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Speaker 1: or from the sky, one thing is certain. By the
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Speaker 1: time Israel arrived in Canaan, the refame had a king,
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Speaker 1: and his bed alone will tell you everything you need
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Speaker 1: to know. THEORY 3 THE UNDERWORLD MANIFESTATION There is a
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Speaker 1: third explanation, and it requires you to sit with something
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Speaker 1: deeply uncomfortable. The word Rephaim appears in two completely different
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Speaker 1: contexts in the Hebrew Bible, physical giants in the historical books,
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Speaker 1: and the spirits of the dead in the poetic books.
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Speaker 1: Job 26.5 says the Rephaim tremble beneath the waters in
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Speaker 1: the underworld. Isaiah 49 says the underworld stirs up the
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Speaker 1: Rephaim to greet the fallen king of Babylon. Proverbs 9.18
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Speaker 1: says the guests of the forbidden woman are in the
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Speaker 1: depths of the underworld, among the Rephaim. No other category
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Speaker 1: of being in the entire Bible carries this double identity,
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Speaker 1: living giants and dead spirits sharing one name. Why? Mount
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Speaker 1: Hermon sits in the heart of what was King Og's territory, Bashan.
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Speaker 1: The ancient Canaanites did not call that region by a
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Speaker 1: political name. They called it the Place of the Serpent.
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Speaker 1: They believed it was the literal entrance to the underworld,
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Speaker 1: the gate where the boundary between the living and the
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Speaker 1: dead became permeable. The Book of Enoch places the original
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Speaker 1: Watcher descent on this exact mountain. The ancient Ugaritic texts,
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Speaker 1: recovered by archaeologists in the 20th century, describe elaborate Canaanite
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Speaker 1: rituals performed specifically to summon the Rephaim spirits from the underworld,
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Speaker 1: to bring them back across the threshold in physical form.
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Speaker 1: The Canaanite religion was not primitive superstition. It was a systematic,
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Speaker 1: intentional practice of communicating with entities from the other side
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Speaker 1: of death. Child sacrifice, necromancy, ritual prostitution, these were not
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Speaker 1: moral failures, they were transactions, payments to beings who wanted
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Speaker 1: something from the living world and were willing to offer
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Speaker 1: power in exchange. Were the post-flood refame not just genetic
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Speaker 1: accidents or the offspring of rebellious angels, but physical manifestations
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Speaker 1: of disembodied entities crawling back through the gate at Hermon?
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Speaker 1: Were the giants of Canaan the reason the gate existed?
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Speaker 1: Or were they the product of what the gate allowed through?
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Speaker 1: All three theories converge on one conclusion. And it is
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Speaker 1: not about what the Rephime were. It is about what
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Speaker 1: they were doing there. God made Abraham a promise. Your
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Speaker 1: descendants will inherit this land from the river of Egypt
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Speaker 1: to the great river Euphrates. That promise was not a suggestion.
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Speaker 1: It was a covenant. unbreakable irreversible and through that land
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Speaker 1: through that people through one specific bloodline god was going
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Speaker 1: to do the most dangerous thing in the history of
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Speaker 1: the universe he was going to become human a child
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Speaker 1: born in bethlehem from the line of judah from the
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Speaker 1: house of david The refame were in the promised land
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Speaker 1: because something needed that child to never be born. Every
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Speaker 1: giant clan, every fortified city, every refame king occupying a
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Speaker 1: strategic valley or mountain, they were not random settlements. They
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Speaker 1: were a blockade, a wall of corrupted flesh. placed directly
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Speaker 1: in the path of the Messianic bloodline, designed to make
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Speaker 1: sure Israel could never enter, never settle, never survive long
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Speaker 1: enough to produce that child. This was not a territorial dispute.
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Speaker 1: This was a war over whether God would be allowed
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Speaker 1: to keep His promise. And the giants were the front line.
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Speaker 1: They were ruled by kings who did not see the
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Speaker 1: humans living under their shadow as people. They saw them
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Speaker 1: as property, as livestock. as obstacles. And the greatest of
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Speaker 1: those kings had a name that still carries weight three
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Speaker 1: thousand years later. You stand at the border of Bashan.
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Speaker 1: Sixty fortified cities stretch across the landscape before you, not villages, cities,
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Speaker 1: with walls described as reaching to the sky, gates of iron,
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Speaker 1: bars of bronze. This is not a kingdom built for defense.
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Speaker 1: This is a kingdom built to communicate one message to
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Speaker 1: everyone who approaches it. You do not enter here unless
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Speaker 1: I allow it. You do not leave unless I decide.
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Speaker 1: This is Og's territory, the last king of the Rephaim
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Speaker 1: in the north. Deuteronomy 3.11 records his iron bed with
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Speaker 1: the precision of an archaeological entry, 13.5 feet long, 6
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Speaker 1: feet wide. Moses did not estimate. He measured. He recorded
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Speaker 1: it the way a forensic investigator records evidence at a
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Speaker 1: crime scene, because he understood that future generations would need
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Speaker 1: to know this was real. You walk into the king's chamber.
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Speaker 1: You stretch your arms as wide as they will go.
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Speaker 1: You cannot reach both edges of the bed. Stand inside
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Speaker 1: it and you're not measuring furniture. You are measuring the
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Speaker 1: appetite of something that was never supposed to exist. Og
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Speaker 1: did not build an iron bed for comfort. He built
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Speaker 1: it because it was the first thing every vassal, every emissary,
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Speaker 1: every trembling representative of a neighboring nation would see when
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Speaker 1: they entered his presence. Before he spoke a word, the
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Speaker 1: bed said everything. You are nothing here. You are small here.
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Speaker 1: In this room, I decide what you are worth. The
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Speaker 1: ground shakes when his army moves. You feel it before
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Speaker 1: you hear it. Women pull children indoors. Farmers abandon their fields.
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Speaker 1: You do not fight Og. You endure Og. You survive
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Speaker 1: the proximity of Og. His appetite is not for military
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Speaker 1: victory alone. It is for dominion. For the particular pleasure
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Speaker 1: that comes from watching something small understand exactly how small
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Speaker 1: it is. He does not see the humans in his
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Speaker 1: territory as enemies. Enemies have standing. Enemies deserve engagement. Og
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Speaker 1: sees them as subjects at best. At worst, as livestock.
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Speaker 1: God tells Moses to march against Og at Edre. And
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Speaker 1: then God says something he almost never says before a
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Speaker 1: military engagement. He tells Moses personally, directly, do not fear him.
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Speaker 1: Not the army. Not the city. Him. The individual. God
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Speaker 1: had to personally address the fear of the man he
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Speaker 1: had chosen to lead his people because the fear was
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Speaker 1: that specific and that rationale. This is how terrifying Og
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Speaker 1: of Bashan was, and Israel destroyed him, every city taken,
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Speaker 1: every fortified wall breached. The last refame king of the
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Speaker 1: north fell at Edrei, and his territory became Israel's, but
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Speaker 1: Og was not the last. In the south, Another branch
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Speaker 1: of the Rephaim had been growing for generations, the Anakim,
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Speaker 1: the descendants of a giant named Anak, whose sons occupied
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Speaker 1: the hill country of Canaan, the fortress city of Hebron,
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Speaker 1: and the surrounding territory. When the twelve spies returned from
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Speaker 1: their forty-day reconnaissance, ten of them could not stop talking
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Speaker 1: about the Anakim, not the Canaanites, not the Hittites. not
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Speaker 1: the military fortifications or the size of the armies. The Anakim.
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Speaker 1: We cannot attack these people. They are stronger than we are.
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Speaker 1: We were like grasshoppers in their sight. That fear cost
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Speaker 1: an entire generation their lives. Every Israelite over the age
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Speaker 1: of twenty who listened to those ten spies and chose
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Speaker 1: fear over faith died in the wilderness before the conquest began.
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Speaker 1: Forty years in the desert. because the shadow of the
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Speaker 1: Anakim was long enough to reach into the camp and
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Speaker 1: paralyze two million people without the giants taking a single step.
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Speaker 1: Except for two men, Caleb and Joshua, the only two
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Speaker 1: spies who came back from Canaan and said we can
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Speaker 1: take it. At 85 years old, after 40 years of
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Speaker 1: desert wandering and a decade of conquest, Caleb walks up
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Speaker 1: to Joshua and asks for one thing. Give me the
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Speaker 1: mountain where the Anakim live, the fortress city of Hebron,
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Speaker 1: the place that made ten trained warriors weep. He was eighty-five.
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Speaker 1: He asked for the hardest assignment left in the entire land,
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Speaker 1: and he took it. He drove the Anakim out of
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Speaker 1: the hill country and gave Hebron to Israel. An 85-year-old
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Speaker 1: man finished what two million people were too afraid to start.
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Speaker 1: But the bloodline was not finished yet. Remnants of the
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Speaker 1: Anakim escaped south into Philistine territory. They regrouped in the
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Speaker 1: cities of Gaza, Gath, and Ashdod. They waited. And 400
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Speaker 1: years after the conquest, one of their descendants walked into
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Speaker 1: a valley in the territory of Judah, put on 125
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Speaker 1: pounds of bronze armor, picked up a spear whose iron
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Speaker 1: head weighed 15 pounds, and began to speak. You stand
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Speaker 1: in the valley of Elah. The Philistine army is on
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Speaker 1: one hill. Israel's army is on the other. And every
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Speaker 1: morning for 40 days... You have heard this voice. The
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Speaker 1: same voice. Twice a day. Morning and evening. A figure
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Speaker 1: nine feet nine inches tall walking into the valley floor
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Speaker 1: and daring anyone to come down. He is not trying
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Speaker 1: to win a battle. He stopped trying to win a
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Speaker 1: battle on day one. He is doing something more permanent.
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Speaker 1: He is dismantling an army's will to exist. Forty days
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Speaker 1: of the same voice, the same challenge, the same contemptuous
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Speaker 1: silence from the hillside where Israel stands. He is Goliath
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Speaker 1: of Gath, the last great warrior of the Rephaim line,
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Speaker 1: and he has turned an entire nation into grasshoppers without
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Speaker 1: raising his spear. Then a boy comes down from the hill,
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Speaker 1: no armor, no sword, a staff, a sling, and five
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Speaker 1: smooth stones from the riverbed. Goliath sees him coming and laughs.
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Speaker 1: He asks if Israel has sent him a dog to
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Speaker 1: play with. He curses David by his gods. He tells
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Speaker 1: him to come closer so that he can feed his
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Speaker 1: body to the birds. He is not scared. He has
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Speaker 1: never been scared. He has stood in this valley for
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Speaker 1: forty days, and nothing has come to face him except
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Speaker 1: this child. David says, You come against me with sword
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Speaker 1: and spear and javelin. But I come against you in
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Speaker 1: the name of the Lord Almighty, the God of the
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Speaker 1: armies of Israel, whom you have defied. Today the Lord
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Speaker 1: will deliver you into my hands, and the whole world
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Speaker 1: will know that there is a God in Israel, not
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Speaker 1: an army, a God. He runs toward Goliath. The stone flies.
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Speaker 1: It strikes Goliath between the eyes. The last of the
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Speaker 1: great Rephaim line fell in a valley called Elah. and
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Speaker 1: the shepherd boy who killed him would become the king
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Speaker 1: through whose bloodline God himself would be born. But Goliath
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Speaker 1: was not the last. He had four brothers. 2 Samuel
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Speaker 1: 21 records four separate battles after David's victory, Abishai killing
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Speaker 1: Ishbi Benob, Sibachai killing Saf, Elhanan killing Lami, the brother
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Speaker 1: of Goliath, and Jonathan killing a giant with six fingers
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Speaker 1: on each hand, and six toes on each foot. Four
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Speaker 1: more refined descendants, four more battles, four more deaths. It
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Speaker 1: was not one lucky stone in one famous valley. It
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Speaker 1: was a coordinated campaign to hunt down and eliminate every
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Speaker 1: surviving member of a bloodline that had been trying to
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Speaker 1: destroy the plan of God for a thousand years. David's
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Speaker 1: mighty men did not just win battles. They ended a bloodline.
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Speaker 1: think about what god was protecting through all of this
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Speaker 1: not territory not military dominance not israel's national pride he
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Speaker 1: was protecting one unbroken human lineage from abraham to isaac
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Speaker 1: to jacob to judah to david one continuous chain of
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Speaker 1: flesh and blood that had to remain uncorrupted unbroken and
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Speaker 1: alive every re-fame king was not just an enemy of
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Speaker 1: israel He was a gatekeeper placed in the direct path
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Speaker 1: of that lineage, Og of Bashan, standing between Israel and
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Speaker 1: the Promised Land. The Anakim of Hebron, occupying the hill
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Speaker 1: country where David would eventually rule. Goliath of Gath, standing
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Speaker 1: in a valley in Judah, in David's own territory, trying
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Speaker 1: to destroy the army of the nation through which the
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Speaker 1: Messiah would come. Every giant was a strategic placement. Every
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Speaker 1: conquest was a surgical removal. God did not command the
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Speaker 1: destruction of the Canaanite cities because he was cruel. He
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Speaker 1: commanded it because something had been deliberately placed in that
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Speaker 1: land to prevent a child from being born in Bethlehem
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Speaker 1: a thousand years later. The Rephim were not random monsters.
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Speaker 1: They were a coordinated attempt to close the door before
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Speaker 1: the light could walk through it. Joshua grew old, fighting
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Speaker 1: this war. Caleb grew old, fighting this war. David's best
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Speaker 1: men spent their lives hunting down the last survivors of
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Speaker 1: a bloodline that started before the flood. generations of people
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Speaker 1: who never fully understood what they were protecting or why
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Speaker 1: the assignment cost so much. They just knew they were
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Speaker 1: called to stand in a valley and not run. Now
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Speaker 1: hear this. The physical refaim are gone. The stone in
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Speaker 1: the valley of Ella made certain of that. But the
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Speaker 1: word itself has two meanings. And the second meaning, the
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Speaker 1: spirits of the dead, the disembodied entities, the shades, has
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Speaker 1: never been imprisoned the way the watchers were imprisoned. Jesus
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Speaker 1: said it plainly in Matthew 24. As it was in
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Speaker 1: the days of Noah, so it will be at the
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Speaker 1: coming of the Son of Man. The pattern repeats. The
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Speaker 1: strategy is the same. The giants are different. Your giants
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Speaker 1: do not stand nine feet nine inches tall. They do
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Speaker 1: not wear bronze armor or carry iron spears, but they
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Speaker 1: stand in your valley every morning and every evening, and
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Speaker 1: they say the same thing Goliath said. You are a grasshopper.
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Speaker 1: You cannot win this. Your God is not big enough
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Speaker 1: for what you're facing. You've heard that voice. You know
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Speaker 1: exactly which valley it is speaking from. You know how
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Speaker 1: many days it has been standing there. The question is
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Speaker 1: not whether giants exist in your life. They do. The
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Speaker 1: question is the same one that hung over the Valley
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Speaker 1: of Elah for 40 days. Are you on the hill
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Speaker 1: watching or are you the one who picks up a stone?
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Speaker 1: The 10 spies were not cowards. They were rational. They
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Speaker 1: had seen what they had seen and they reported accurately.
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Speaker 1: The giants are real and we are grasshoppers. Everything they
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Speaker 1: said was factually true. What they forgot was that they
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Speaker 1: were not alone in the valley, and neither are you.
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Speaker 1: Caleb at 85 did not march up to Hebron because
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Speaker 1: he had stopped feeling fear. He marched because he had
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Speaker 1: decided something more important than fear. He had decided that
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Speaker 1: the God who promised him that mountain was more real
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Speaker 1: than the giant standing on it. That is not the
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Speaker 1: absence of fear. That is faith operating at full capacity
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Speaker 1: in the presence of fear. The Rephaim were the second
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Speaker 1: giant bloodline. They survived the flood. They spread across the
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Speaker 1: promised land. They produced kings who ruled through terror and
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Speaker 1: consumed everything within reach, and God dismantled them one by one,
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Speaker 1: conquest by conquest, stone by stone, until the last one
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Speaker 1: fell in a valley in Judah, and a shepherd boy
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Speaker 1: stood over him with his own sword. It took a
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Speaker 1: thousand years. It cost generations of men their entire lives.
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Speaker 1: It required the obedience of farmers and shepherds and former
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Speaker 1: slaves who walked into territories that made trained soldiers weep,
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Speaker 1: and every single step of it was protecting one bloodline
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Speaker 1: so that one night in one city a teenage girl
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Speaker 1: could say yes to an angel and a child could
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Speaker 1: be born who would do what no stone and no
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Speaker 1: sword ever could. Not just defeat the giants, but break
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Speaker 1: the power behind them forever. The giants of flesh are gone.
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Speaker 1: David Stone made sure of that. But the giants of
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Speaker 1: the Spirit are still standing in the valleys of your life.
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Speaker 1: And the God who armed a teenage shepherd with five
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Speaker 1: smooth stones is the same God standing behind you right now.
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Speaker 1: You were not born to be a grasshopper. You were
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Speaker 1: born to bring them down. I want to hear from you.
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Speaker 1: Did the double meaning of the word Rephaim stop you cold?
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Speaker 1: Did the connection between Mount Hermon and Bashan shock you?
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Speaker 1: Did you know Goliath had four brothers and David's men
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Speaker 1: hunted every last one of them down? Tell me in
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Speaker 1: the comments. I read every single one. And if this
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Speaker 1: and Goliath, send it to someone who needs to hear
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Speaker 1: it right now. Not later. Right now. Because everyone is
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Speaker 1: standing in a valley. And most people do not know
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Speaker 1: they were born to win. If you are new here,
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Speaker 1: coming next. The flood came, the giants returned, the stone flew.
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Speaker 1: The bloodline held, and the story is not finished yet.