May 31, 2026

Beyond the Bible: Why the Giants Were Afraid

Beyond the Bible: Why the Giants Were Afraid
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Beyond the Bible: Why the Giants Were Afraid
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In this episode of Broadcasting Seeds, Bennett Tanton goes Beyond the Bible into the mysterious Book of Giants, an ancient text connected to the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Book of Enoch, Genesis 6, the Watchers, and the Nephilim. This episode explores why the giants were afraid, why they sought Enoch, and whether ancient myths may preserve distorted memories of the world before the Flood.

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One of the most terrifying part of the Nephilm story

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is not that the giants were powerful, what if it

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was that they were afraid. Most people know Genesis six

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gives us the Sons of God, the Daughters of Men,

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and the Nephilm, but the ancient texts connected to the

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Anocha tradition gives us something much darker. Giants having dreams

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of judgment, sending for Enoch and trying to understand whether

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Heaven had already sentenced them. That text is called the

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Book of Giants, and it may change the way you

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see the world before the flood. Today we're going to

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beyond the Bible into the Book of Giants, a fragmentary

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ancient texts connected to the Dead Tie scrolls, the Book

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of Enoch, Genesis six, the Watchers, and the Nephilin Now,

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to be clear, the Book of Giants is not biblical canon,

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but it is connected to the Enoki tradition, and it

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gives us a disturbing expansion of the world before the flood.

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By the end of the episode, you'll understand what the

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Book of Giants is, why the giants were afraid, and

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why this ancient warning still matters right now before we

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get into it. Like the episode, share it with someone

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who loves ancient mysteries, biblical strangeness, and forbidden history, and

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leave a review wherever you're listening. That is how broadcasting

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seeds grows, because this story is not just ancient, it

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is a pattern, and once you see the pattern, it

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is hard to unsee. Most people know the basic outline

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from Genesis six. The sons of God saw thes of men,

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they took wives. The nephelm were on the earth in

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those days, and then after as well. But then almost

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immediately the story moves forward towards the flood.

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That's it.

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A few verses, a flash of something absolutely enormous, then

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the waters rise. Huh. But the Book of Giants steps

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into that gap. It expands the story into a world

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where the watchers descend, their offspring become giants, and the

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earth becomes corrupted in a way which writers believed required judgment.

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That is the doorway. Genesis gives us the flash of lightning,

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the Book of Giants lets us hear the thunder. And

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here is the part that matters. This text is not

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mostly mostly interested in how tall the giants were. That

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is where modern people usually get stuck. Okay, they were

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twelve feet, they were fifteen, they're thirty. Where are the bones?

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Did the Smithsonian hide the skeletons in a warehouse next

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to the Ark of the Covenant while some guy in

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a cardigan filed the paperwork? Okay, okay, Look, the Hidden

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History Lane is interesting, and we've talked about it on

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this show. We can talk about that. But the Book

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of Giants is focused on something darker than measurements and

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all the other stuff, the ancient history part. It is

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focused on judgment. The Book of Giants is not a

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complete book by any stretch of the imagination. It's not

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a book that's sitting neatly on a shelf. What survives

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are literally fragments and broken pieces, partial scenes, enough to

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see the shape of the story, but not enough to

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remove all the mystery. Okay, Honestly, that may be part

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of the power of it. A complete story tells you

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exactly what to think. A fragment makes you wonder what

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was lost. Some of these fragments were found among dead

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sea scrolls at Kumran. Later versions in the tradition were

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preserved in Manaseean writings. Manichean however you want to say that.

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So when we talk about the Book of Giants, we

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are talking about a reconstructed ancient tradition, not a complete

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manuscript with every single line intact. And as we know

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this matters, we have to be honest about what we've

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actually got. But what we have is still fascinating to me,

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especially it just is. In this tradition, the sons of

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God from Genesis six are understood as watchers, heavenly beings

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who crossed a forbidden boundary by taking human women. Their

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offspring became giants, and those giants brought violence and corruption

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into the world. This is the same basic worldview found

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in the broader Enochic tradition. The problem before the flood

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was not just ordinary human wickedness. It was something way deeper.

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A spiritual breach had entered the human world, and the

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consequences spread through creation. So here's the question, why would

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ancient writers connect giants, heavenly rebellion, dreams and the flood.

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That questions where the Book the Giants starts to become unsettling,

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because in this story, the giants are not just violent,

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they are troubled because they're receiving dreams that they do

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not understand, and those dreams seem to tell them something

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terrible is coming. That is the turn. The beings that

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terrified the earth now find themselves terrified by heaven. The

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giants were not just big, they were also doomed. That

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is what's separates this from normal giant lore. Modern giant

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stories often become a hunt for physical evidence, with bones

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and caves and old newspaper clippings, red haired cannibals and

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museum rumors, right sealed vaults forbidden archaeology. You can't dig

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in those mounds. Some of that is worth examining, of course,

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and we do, but some of it falls apart if

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you breathe on it too hard. The Book of Giants

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is operating in a different category. This is not just

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ancient monster talk. This is actual. This is the theological horror.

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And the giants receive dreams of judgment. They are disturbed

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by them, and because they cannot understand what the dreams,

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they seek out Enoch himself, the man who walked with God.

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That detail should stop us. The giants are not looking

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for a stronger weapon. They're looking They're not looking for

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another army. They're not looking for a bigger hiding place

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or deeper hiding place. They're straight up looking for interpretation.

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They want to know what Heaven is saying, what does

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that mean when the monsters start having nightmares? That may

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be the most powerful question in the whole episode right there,

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because the Giants give us a strange emotional reversal. The

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giants are still frightening, but now they are frightened. They

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have strength, but they do not have clarity. They are

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men of renown, but they do not have peace enough

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to be afraid, but they do not know enough to

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be saved. That is where this gets under your skin, right.

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Sometimes people do not seek wisdom because they want they

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want to change. Sometimes they seek wisdom because they want

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to be They want to know how bad the consequence

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will be. Huh. Repentance asks how do I turn back?

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It's pretty powerful. Panic asks how much time do I have?

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Wow?

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The giants seem to be in the second category. They

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dreamed of judgment. They sent for Enoch. They wanted, They

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wanted that warning explained understand the warning did not save them.

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That makes the Book of Giants more than ancient weirdness.

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It becomes a mirror. Every generation has warnings every generation

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has signs that something is off, and every generation has

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people who can feel the storm coming. I'm sure some

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of you can, but they still hope someone will explain

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it in a way that does not require them to

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change a folks. That is the danger. The Giants were

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not destroyed because they lacked information. They were destroyed because

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they remained what they were, and that brings in Mahue.

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Mahwue maybe the most cinematic figure in the Book of Giants.

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He gives the story movement right. Giants are troubled by

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the dreams, and MaWei is sent to Enoch to seek interpretation.

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Picture that, for a moment, a messenger connected to the

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Giants moves through the ancient world, caring fear on belief,

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on behalf of beings who were never supposed to exist

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in the first place. He's not going to a king,

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he is not going to a warrior. He's going to Enoch.

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And Enoch is the man who walked with God. That

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contrast is the whole story. In miniature, MaWei represents the

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world after the boundary was crossed, and Enoch represents the

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world still aligned with Heaven and between them since the

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question every age eventually has to ask what does the

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warning mean. This is where the book comes becomes a

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story about interpretation. And the giants have dreams, they have signs.

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They know something is happening, but they do not understand it.

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I mean to me, that should sound familiar, right, it

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does sound familiar. We live in a world full of symptoms.

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People can feel that something is off, but feeling sometimes

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something is off is not the same as understanding what

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it means. The giants felt the tremor. Enoch understood the

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actual quake, and that is the difference. What good is

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power if you still need a righteous man to explain

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your nightmare. That is why Enoch matters so much in

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the story. He does not appear as a He appears

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as a witness. He does not flatter the giants, and

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he does not soften the message. He does not turn

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judgment into a motivational seminar. He tells the truth, and

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that is rare. It was rare then and it's sure

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as rare now. Truth tellers are uncomfortable people. They interrupt

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the official narrative and they say this road has an end. Well,

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everyone else is still enjoying the scenery. Enoch is powerful,

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but not in the way the giants are powerful. He

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is not powerful because he is larger, louder, or more feared.

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He is powerful because he is aligned. That is a different,

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absolutely different kind of strength. The giants are remembered as

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mighty men of renown, but renown only means they were known.

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It does not mean they were good. It does not

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mean haven't approved of them. And sometimes people remember heroes,

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they also remember nightmares. And that idea becomes even more

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interesting when you look at the possible appearances of figures

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like Gilgamesh and Humbabah in the Book of Giants tradition.

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Gilgamesh is one of the great figures of Mesopotamian literature.

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He is the king of Uruk, a warrior, a seeker

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of immortality, and he stands at the center of the

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alp Epic of Gilgamesh, one of the oldest surviving works

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of literature in the world. And somehow that kind of

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figure appears in in the orbit of the Giant tradition.

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Now we need to be careful here. This does not

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automatically prove that every ancient heroic figure was in Nephelim.

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That is where people can get sloppy Okay, so ancient

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cultures borrowed stories, shared symbols, and adapted legends. The ancient

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Near East was full of overlap. But overlap is still fascinating.

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It suggests that ancient writers were not always separating scripture,

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myth history, spirits, kings, monsters, and judgment into neat modern categories.

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They saw reality as layered the visible world and the

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unseen world actually touched to us in this day and age.

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Genesis is in one box Gilgameshes, and another mythology is

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over here, you know, way back here, scriptures over there,

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and the conspiracy crowd is in the back arguing about

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red haired giants over gas station coffee. Okay, but ancient

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people did not always think that way. They saw patterns,

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they saw spiritual meaning behind earthly events, and they remembered

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the pass through story. Maybe that is what the Book

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of Giants preserves, not a clean historical report or archaeological document,

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but a scar. A scar is not the wound itself,

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but it tells you something happened right. That may be

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the best way to understand the connection between giants, watchers, Gilgamesh,

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other heroic myths, and flood traditions. Different cultures may have

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remembered the same ancient terror in different ways. We have

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talked about this in other episodes. Some remembered these figures

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as heroes right, some remembered them as monsters, Some placed

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them under divine judgment. The Book of Giants gives us

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the darker interpretation. Mighty men of old were not necessarily

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noble heroes. They may have been evidence that the world

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had been corrupted. Now again, that does not mean we

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throw scholarship out the window and declare every myth literal

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theory literal history. That is not the move. The grounded

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view is that the Book of Giants is ancient Jewish

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apocalyptic literature, tied to the Innoka tradition, preserved in fragments,

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and shaped by the larger Near Eastern world. But the

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secular broadcasting seeds question is this, what if ancient history?

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What if ancient myths are not always fiction? What if

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they are sometimes distorted memories? That is where the mystery lies,

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not in pretending we have every answer, but in refusing,

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refusing to flatten the question. Maybe later generations turned terror

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into legend because legend is easier to carry than trauma.

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What about that theory?

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That may be why The Book of Giants still bothers

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us because it feels ancient, but the pattern feels absolutely

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current because we are also living in an age obsessed

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with becoming more than human. Mean, come on, we're editing genes,

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building AI, talking about life extension and imagining futures where

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humanity actually redesigns itself. Some of this technology can be

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used for good. Absolutely, Medical breakthroughs can heal, and AI

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can assist genetic research. You know, there's some horrible genetic diseases,

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and genetic research can fight disease. We do not need

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to pretend every tool is evil just because it's powerful.

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That's not realistic and quite naive. But power power always

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asks a question who governs it, who decides where the

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line is? And what happens when the people holding the

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tools no longer believe there is a line at all.

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That's the question. That is where the Watcher story walks

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back into the room. In the Yenoki tradition, the issue

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was not knowledge by itself. The issue was forbidden knowledge

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detached from the divine order. Because power without humility eventually

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becomes corruption. How do we not see this? Think about

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it in current context?

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Right?

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The Watcher's rebellion did not stay private. It changed the

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conditions of the entire world. The giants became the visible

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evidence of an invisible breach. Modern corruption can work the

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same way. It begins quietly and you know, don't look

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at that. Then it becomes normal and by the time

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the average person notices the giants already walking around, they're

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already here, right, Not literal giants, necessarily folks, but things

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too large to challenge, too powerful, too big to fail.

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How many times have we heard that, too powerful to ignore,

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too embedded to remove without shaking the ground. That's what

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we're talking about here. That is why this book still

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has teeth. It asks a question bigger than archaeology. What

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giants are we building?

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Now?

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Every generation has its version of version of the Watcher's bargain.

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Every generations offered knowledge with the wisdom and power without accountability.

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Every generation is told the old boundaries are outdated, the

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old warnings man, those are primitive, and the old stories

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are just myth. Right, And then the dreams start, maybe

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an ancient dream vision carved into fragments, maybe anxiety, collapse

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or confusion, a culture that cannot sleep, a society that

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knows something is wrong but does not know how to

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name it. Can mankind become more than human without becoming

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less than human? The Watchers tradition suggests the answer is no,

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not if the project is rooted in rebellion. Right, the

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giants were more than ordinary men in one sense, stronger, greater,

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more feared, absolutely, But they were also less than human

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in another sense, distorted and violent and cut off from righteousness,

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born from a breach. That is the tragedy, and maybe

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that is why their fear matters. The giants dreamed of

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judgment because deep down, even corrupted power knows that it knows,

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it is accountable. So where does the Book of Giants

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leave us? As usual? Not with a clean answer. It

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leaves us with fragments, names, half preserved dreams, half remembered

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a world before the flood that seemed darker and more

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spiritually complicated than most people were ever taught. And this

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was never only about whetherlients existed. The question matters, and

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it is fascinating. But the deeper question is why ancient

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people believe the world before the flood had become so

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corrupted that judgment was necessary. Where these stories just mythology,

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or can mythology sometimes preserve the emotional shape of something real.

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Maybe not a newspaper report, maybe not a lab document,

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maybe not a clean historical record, but a scar, a memory,

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an actual warning. And that is where this book becomes uncomfortable.

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In the present, we are still tempted by the same

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old promise. Become more than you are. Take the build

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the system, ignore those warnings, and worry about the consequences later.

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Let the other people, Let the later generations do that.

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We still build giants folks, we just do not always

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call them that. Sometimes they are institutions too large to challenge.

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Sometimes their technology is too powerful to restrain. Sometimes their

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private sins that grow until they dominated life, or a

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family or a nation. And sometimes the giant is not

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out there somewhere. Sometimes it is the thing inside us

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that keeps reaching for power without surrender. That may be

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the part nobody wants on a thumbnail, but it may

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be the most important part. This book reminds us that

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knowledge without wisdom is dangerous, and power without righteousness is dangerous.

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Crossing boundaries without repentance is more than dangerous. The giants

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were mighty, they were feared, but they were not free

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and standing in contrast to all of them. Is Enoch

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not a giant, not a king, not a conqueror. He's

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like us, a man who walked with God. That phrase

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should cut through this entire story. It probably won't with

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a lot of people, though, in a world of corruption,

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Enoch walked with God, and maybe that is the real answer.

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Not obsession, not fear, not endless rabbit holes with no floor,

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actual discernment and alignment, walking.

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With God.

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In an age that keeps building giants and calling them progress.

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So I'll leave you with this question, if you've gotten

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this for if the ancient world was judged because it

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crossed boundaries it was never meant to cross. What boundaries

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are we crossing now? And more personally, what warning have

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we already received that we keep trying to explain instead

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of actually just obey. That might be the real terror

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of the Book of Giants. Not that giants dreamed but

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they understood too late in this episode. If this episode

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The Book of Giants it survives in fragments, and maybe

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that is fitting because sometimes one broken piece is enough

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to tell you an entire world was lost, and sometimes,

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if we are paying attention, one fragment is enough to

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keep us from repeating the same mistake.

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Have a great Sunday.

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Stoneheads cover ancient dies.

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Thundon to crawling through the guises. They were born were haven, broke, blood,

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and dash beneath.

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The smoke, old names coming, broken clay, warnings.

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Buried far away in the dark before the.

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Rain, giants woke in size and pain because.

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They saw the was rise, they.

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Heard the sentence fall.

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The mighty men of Ah were not miny after all

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the giant stream of floods. They know the and his knee.

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They are beneath them shakes.

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And Heaven smells.

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Their bed, the giant stream of floods, no thrown, no crown,

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no no gray.

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When judgment calls them names, no master can be saved.

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My way across the wasted land with never trembling.

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In his hands seeking.

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He knock in the night for a word from Holy lie.

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Tell us what the vicious man?

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Tell us, what the watcher thing?

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My crows came down like iron ray, no escape from me,

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and shades.

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They saw the was rise, they heard the sentence fall.

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The mighty men of all were not mine after sunchiant

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stream of floods they know, and.

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They beneath them, shades and Heaven smells their fear.

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The giant stream of floods.

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No frown, no crown, no grave. When judge and called

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their names, no monster can be saved.

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You crossed the line, you took the fire, You fed

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the world a dead desire. You wore your names like

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gods of dust, But all your strength right, Dora, What

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good is power when the dream turns black? What good

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is glory? When Heaven answers back the flood is not

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a story.

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The flood is not a miss.

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It is the sound of judgment with water rent. The

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giants dream of floods, say nobody, end.

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Is near the ima and shakes, and Heaven smells their fears.

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The giant dream of floods.

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No throw, no crown, no grave. One judgment calls their names,

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no monster cany saying a walk.

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The giants fell.

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Through the spoken ancient hell.

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One man heard what he says, while the mighty dreams

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of the giants dream of floods. The giants dream of floods.

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A giant strain mothers, and.

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The rain begins to come.

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