Subject: UFOs In Our History.    Part 3. 
Jan. 26, 2012

  This talks about Nimrod.

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J-shua 18:16-17 And the border came down to the end of the mountain
that lieth before the valley of the son of Hinnom, and which is in the 
valley
of the giants on the north, and descended to the valley of Hinnom, to the 
side
of Jebusi on the south, and descended to Enrogel, And was drawn from the
north, and went forth to Enshemesh, and went forth toward Geliloth, which is
over against the going up of Adummim, and descended to the stone of Bohan
the son of Reuben, 2 S-mual 21:20 And there was yet a battle in Gath,
where was a man of great stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and
on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to 
the
giant.
1 C-ronicles 20:6 And yet again there was war at Gath, where was a man of
great stature, whose fingers and toes were four and twenty, six on each
hand, and six on each foot: and he also was the son of the giant.

Other References to Giants

http://www.crystalinks.com/sumergods.html
Annunaki - G-ds from the Skies - (Anak, Anakim, Anakites, Nephilim,
Arba, Rephaites).
Anu, Pleiades, An, Anshar, Kishar, Antu, Ki, Gibil, Nusku, Gulu, Ninmah,
Nergal, Cuthah, Kuta, Gudua, Gudea, Imdugud, Ningursu, Danu.

Giants Before the Flood
http://www.crystalinks.com/noahsark.jpg
Then the E-ohim (Hebrew idiom of a plural of magnitude or majesty
(G-n. 1:1), used of heathen go-s, or of a-gels or judges as
representatives of Go-, El-him is plural in sense as well as form.
It's etymology, the most likely roots  mean either "be strong," or
"be in front," the power and preeminence of G-d; as to EL (H-b. 'el,
Go-) it is a generic word for -od in the Semitic languages: Aramaic
elah, Arabic ilah, Akkadian ilu. In the OT, el is used over two hundred
times for -od. El has a plural, elim, occasionally elhm in Ugaritic;
but the Hebrews needed no plural, though a plural term, 'el-him,
was their regular name for G-d.

The root from which el was derived may have come from 'wl, "to be
strong"; from an Arabic root 'ul, "to be infront of" as a leader from
a Hebrew root lh to which both el and elohim belonged, with the
meaning "strong"; from the preposition el, "to be infront of"; and
using the same prepositions, as putting forth the idea of -od as
the goal for which all men seek.
A truly satisfactory theory is impossible, because el and the other
terms for -od, 'eloh-m and 'eloha, are all prehistoric in origin.)
make their return in Ge-esis 6:2, when the "sons of G-d" have
i-tercourse with the "daughters of men," ..."and they took them
wives of all which they chose."

The results of this event beget Lamech (He-. lemekh, meaning
undetermined), father of Noah, based his faith on the promised
deliverance from the Adamic c-rse of G-n. 3:14-19, he foresees,
even if faintly, the coming of One of his seed (cf. 1 Ch-on. 1:3;
L-ke 3:36) who will remove that cur-e (cf. R-m. 8:18-25). Jared
was Enochs' father, who through tradition dictated to his son
about 5800 B.C.
"The Lamentations of Jared" how G-ds came to the earth and led
astray his own tribe of Adam and those tribes of Cain also.
From Adam to Noah there were seven major Patriarchs born,
Noah being the eighth person as shown in 2 P-ter 2:5. Note that
Cain and Abel are not counted for a total of ten, but Seth was
the first.
Uta-Napishtim (Babylonian Noah) was the tenth King of Babylon
before the Flood. The Sumerian King List mentions five cities
existing before the Flood; Eridu, Bad-tinia, Larak, Sippar, and
Shuruppak.

The first king was Alorus, who ruled for 120 sari, or 432,000 years
before the Flood (note 162,000 years).
Abulim reigned for 28,800 years.
Abolga reigned 36,000 years.
Two more kings reigned for 64,800 years. These represented the five
cities.
While in Eridu Kings from He-ven reigned for 64,800 years before the
Flood.
If eight kings ruled for 241,200 years then the last five kings totaled
140,400 years.
A Chaldean priest, Berossos, writing in Greek ca. 289 B.C., reported
that according to Mesopotamian belief 432,000 years elapsed
between the crowning of the first earthly king and the coming of the
deluge.
The early Sumerian king list names eight kings with a total of 241,200
years from the time when "the kingship was lowered from hea-en"
to the time when "the Flood swept" over the land once more "the
kingship was lowered from he-ven" (Thorkild Jacobsen, The
Sumerian King List, 1939, pp. 71, 77).

B-blical analysis of the Masoretic text of the ages of the Patriarchs when
their sons were born shows only 1,656 years passed from the Creation to
Adam's Fall until the Deluge and Shem's fatherhood.
Gene-is 6:4 "There were giants in the earth in those days..., when the sons
of Go- came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them,
the same became mighty men (Nephilim) which were of old, men of renown.

"Sons of -od appears to refer to a-gels (Job 1:6, 2:1 "a day when they came
before the L-rd, and S-tan was among them"): J-b 38:7 "When the
morning stars sang together, and they all shouted for joy"; Psa-ms 89:6 "S
who among them can be likened unto the Lor-?").
G-nesis 6:1-2 may likewise involve ang-ls (in this case they are fallen
ones) or they may be d-mon-possessed individuals, but others view these
"sons of -od" as kings/rulers/princes.
Author W. Raymond Drake states that in the Kabalistic Book of Enoch the
Giants engendered by the Fallen An-els and daughters of men turned
against mankind before the Flood.

Noah and the Giants - Anakim / Anninaki - After the Floods Noah's three
sons may have brought with them wives, who were not pure descendants
of Adam but those of the Anakim (Heb. 'anaqim, sons of Anak, Heb.
'anaq, long-necked) or possibly the Canaanites. Or else after Ham and
Japheth eventually became the ancestors of the "goyim," where they
combined with the Anakim who survived the Flood.
The early Sumerian texts called them Anunaki, "those who came from
hea-en to earth." The Anakim as in Ge-esis 6:4 they are the sons of
the sons of Go-, they are called the Nephilim (uncertain etymology)
or giants (Heb. rapha, raphah, Heb. gibbor, mighty, Rephaim of
Canaan ancestor of Og, king of Bashan, Emims of the Moabites,
Zamzummims of Ammonites, Heb. murmurers, Zuzites (Zuzim) in G-n.
14:5) who were of old, men of renown.
This cross breeding may be the reason why the ancestors believe that
se-ual relations could affect one's health. One might even suspect
that the Anakim were possibly the Greek G-ds of mythology "fallen
ang-ls" the original Hebrew  "Bnai Eloh-m" some who did not survive
the Flood.
Ge-esis and the Talmud both suggest that the Giants, who resented
Go- for destroying their ancestors, meddled in the affairs of mankind.
Eventually Nimrod seen in Ge-esis 10:8-10 "And Cush begat Nimrod: he
began to be a mighty one (first king) in the earth. He was a mighty
hunter before the LO-D: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the
mighty hunter before the LOR-."
Nimrod (Heb. nimrodh, assumed "rebel"), a descendent of Ham, was
responsible for building the city of Babel (Babylon).
This individual was the beginning of the kingdom in Babylonia, and he
became the founder of Nineveh and other cities in Assyria. He became
distinguished as a hunter, ruler, and builder. He lived for an
undetermined amount of centuries after the Flood, and was the
grandson of Ham. He was a bold man, and of great strength of hand.
He persuaded men not to ascribe to -od, in order to bring them into a
constant dependence upon his own power. He swore to build a tower
too high for the waters to be able to reach! Thus avenging himself on
G-d for destroying their forefathers!

Many legends have grown up around the name of Nimrod, some claiming
that he was identical with "Ninus," an early Babylonian king or go- (king
of Assyria, founder of Nineveh, known in history as Shamshi-Adad V of
811 B.C.).
Again, some have associated Nimrod with the building of the Tower of
Babel (-en. 11:1-9).
Others have identified him with the ancient king of Babylonia, Gilgamesh
(Akkadian Epic of Gilgamesh, 5th king of the 1st Dynasty of Erech after
the Flood), but there is no proof that the two were identical. The Talmud
stresses that while Esau spent his days hunting and that an arrow from
his bow ki-led the giant Nimrod (legends of "Ninus" or "Gilgamesh"). Did
Nimrod finally d-e after all this time from Gene-is 10 through 26?
Also attributed to him and his people were the building of Erech, Accad,
and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. Asshur, son of Nimrod, built Nineveh,
Rehaboth, Calah and Resen.

After The Flood
After the Flood in Sumer, Emmerkar, Lugalbanda (Lugulbanda) and
Gilgamesh (estimated at 3,000 B.C.), were among the first kings of the
city of Erech. The second, third, and fifth rulers of the First Dynasty of
Erech, which followed the First Dynasty of Kish, which received the
"kingship" from he-ven immediately after the Flood. Some believe that
this flood occurred in 4,000 B.C. and was a different one than compiled
in the Ge-esis account. Lugalbanda was a g-d and shepherd king of
Uruk (Erech) where he was w-rshipped for over a thousand years.
Possibly the third king of Uruk after the great flood.

Part 3.

John Winston.   johnfw@mlode.com