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Year Joe, straight from the broadcast studio, and then the
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static This ain't no pret sound story. So as prophetic
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encrypt the signals from the saddles of the party, we
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did where the trot got secret, snow parted, microphone alchemists
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scriptures with a twist, peep the frequency seeds in the
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midst We dropped fast like plagues revelations in the catus,
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broadcasting truth while they trapped in surveillans wisdom with a
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watchman's blade forth whatsund while your whole system faid blood
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moons that for love echoes in the pond sasqus sompen
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through the fault lines of time. We ain't mainstream, we
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ain't just stream safer with the prophets to code the dreams,
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so with you throw them in better guards of mind
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as broadcasting seeds and were breaking the design of Then yeah,
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yeh yo yo, straight from the broadcast sad.
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I am bet, And tonight we are opening a book
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most people think they know, not the sweet felt board
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version with smiling animals and a fruit bowl. I am
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talking about the first pages of Genesis, the place where
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reality feels more like a border town. After midnight, there
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is a garden with a trespasser that talks. There are
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celestial beings who climb the fence and take what is
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not theirs. There are giants and a tower that tries
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to muscle into the sky. There is a man sleeping
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on stone who witnesses traffic between worlds. Genesis is not
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a children's book. Genesis is the pilot episode for a
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supernatural war story that runs through every page that follows.
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If you have been with me for a while, you
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know that the no the rules. We go through a story,
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We go where the story leads. We respect scripture, We
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interrogate tradition, and we peek into the places most Sunday
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services tiptoe past. We are not here to dunk on faith.
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We are here to look the weird right in the
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eye and ask where or ask why it is there.
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Because the strange stuff is not fringe, it is the scaffolding.
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Strip it away and the whole structure starts to wobble.
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So picture of the scene. Eden is not a mythic
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petting zoo. It is a sacred zone with a perimeter.
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A voice slips in and whispers the oldest sales pitch
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on Earth. You can be like God. A few chapters later,
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the pitch changes sons of Heaven spot daughters of Earth
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and decide the rules are for other people. Violent spikes,
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giants stride into the frame, then vanish in a flood
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and leave a rumor behind. Humanity crawls out of the mud,
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decides to unite, and starts stacking bricks into a tower
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that looks suspiciously like a stairway for the gods. The
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language scrambles, tribes scatter, the world fractures into a map
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of rival powers. Then a fugitive named Jacob lays his
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head on a rock, dreams of a ladder that touches Heaven,
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and wakes up terrified because the ground under his feet
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is not ordinary soil, It is a gait. This episode
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is a field rations meal, no silverware, no white tablecloth.
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We are going to eat with our hands and sort
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out the bones. I will give you the lay of
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the land right now, so that you can track the route.
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So First, the serpent, not a cartoon snake, but a
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supernatural rebel whose words still echo in every temptation that
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says take the shortcut, skip the cross, and grab the crown. Second,
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the watchers and the nephelum. That short, disturbing poreograph most
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people skim. That might be the key to why the
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world gets so dark, so fast, all right? Third, The
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Tower of Babel, not much architecture but ritual technology, a
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human attempt to hack the firewall between realms. And Then
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fourth Jacob's Ladder, a vision a portal at thin place
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where traffic is moving both directions, and a man realizes
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he is camped on the front porch of heaven. Fifth,
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we zoom out Genesis as prologue to a conflict that
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is still live. If this is your first time here,
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Welcome to broadcasting Seeds. We chase the intersections cryptids and scripture,
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conspiracy and history, government programs and angelology. What I'll say,
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we do not chase clicks. We chase coherence. We chase
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the that explains why the modern world keeps tripping over
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the ancient one. You will hear me ask hard questions,
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and you will hear me say I don't know when
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I don't know. You will also hear me call things
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what they are. Evil is real, Good is stronger, and
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the war is older than our headlines and closer than
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our phones. Quick housekeeping. While the coffee is still hot.
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If you get value from the show, hit like share,
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share it with a friend who lives for the weird,
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and drop a review on your podcast app. That single
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act moves the show further than an algorithm hack I
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could pull. It tells the platform that long form, thoughtful,
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supernatural content deserves a seat at the table. If you
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want to go deeper, the links are in the description.
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You know the drill. So all right, grab your pack,
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lace your boots. We are walking back into the first pages,
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where the footprints are still fresh, the dust from a
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shattered tower is still in the air, the stones of
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a ladder still hum under a desert sky. And if
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you're willing to look at Genesis as a crime scene
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and a battlefield, then the rest of the Bible stops
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feeling like a collection of nice quotes and starts reading
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like an after actions report. So let's start with the serpent.
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The serpent in the garden more than just a snake.
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Most of us screw up with them of a garden,
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some fruit, a smooth talking snake. Cute for Sunday school.
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But let's be honest, if that's all it was, Genesis
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would have read like a fairy tale. So the serpent
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in the garden of Eden wasn't just a reptile with
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a speech problem. What slithered into Eden was something older, smarter,
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and far more dangerous. The Hebrew word used is nahash. Now,
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depending on which scholar you asked, nahash doesn't just mean snake.
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It can mean a shining one and enchanter, a bringer
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of forbidden knowledge. Some ancient commentators believe this wasn't a
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common animal, but a divine rebel, one of the celestial
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beings we later see show up in Genesis six. Think
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less national geographic and more cosmic intelligence with an agenda.
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And here's where it gets eerie. In the ancient Near East,
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serpents were more than pests. They were symbols of chaos, wisdom,
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and immortality. The Mesopotamians, the Canonites, even Egypt they all
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had serpent gods. Sometimes they represented healing in life, but
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sometimes they represented death and destruction. So the Biblical writer
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dropping a serpent in Eden wasn't random. It was a
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deliberate way of saying chaos has breached the perimeter. Now
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picture Eden not as a greenhouse, but as a as
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sacred ground God's temple on Earth, a place where heaven
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and Earth overlapped. The serpent wasn't supposed to even be there.
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Imagine sneaking into the Pentagon with a grin and a pitch. Hey,
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you can run this place better than the guy upstairs.
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That's what's happening. The serpent's words weren't just temptation, they
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were treason. The offer was simple, skip the obedience, grab
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the godhood, and run the show yourselves. And Adam and Eve,
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well they fell for it. But here's the kicker. This
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isn't just about two ancient people munching on fruit. The
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serpent's whisper is the same whisper that shows up in
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your life and mine. You deserve it. Take the shortcut.
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No one will know you can be like God. It's
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the same line recycled for millennium. Fast forward and scripture
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starts tying this Edenic serpent to someone bigger, the adversary,
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the Satan, the dragon of revelation. And by the time
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you hit the New Testament, the serpent in eden isn't
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just a snake. It's the opening move of a cosmic villain.
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The Bible ties the first temptation in the garden. No
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matter what it is, whether it's fruit, whether it's a
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seed being sewn. I have some friends that believe that
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it's just the opening move of the cosmic villain. The
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Bible ties the first temptation in the garden to the
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last showdown in Revelation, like bookends, holding together this entire story.
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So we laugh off Eden as primitive myth. We missed
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the point. This wasn't a snake bite. It was a
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declaration of war. Humanity's fall wasn't about produce. It was
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about allegiance. Who do you trust the creator or the
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whisperer at the edge of the sacred ground. Let's not
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sugarcoat it. Eden was the first battlefield in a war
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that's still raging, or at least in the Bible, every decision,
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every temptation, every compromise is a ripple from that moment.
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The serpent's victory was temporary, but it rewrote the human story.
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Now the watchers and the nephluin heaven breaks the rules.
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So fast forward to Genesis six. Four little verses, and
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if they packed more supernatural dynamite than most of the
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Bible's longer books, it's like the writer dropped a grenade
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in the text and just walked away. Let's read it straight.
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The sons of God saw that the daughters of men
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were beautiful, and they took wives for themselves, whomever they choose.
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The Nephlium were on the earth in those days, and
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also afterwards, when the sons of God went to the
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daughters of men and had children by them, they were
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the heroes of old, men of renowned. Now, depending on
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your church upbringing, you either heard this explained as angels
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gone rogue or just some sons of Seth marrying daughters king.
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But let's see blunt. The Sethite view feels like theological
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duct tate slapped over a supernatural problem. Because the earliest
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Jewish and Christian traditions didn't water this down. They read
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this as what it was. Divine beings sometimes called the Watchers,
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came down, crossed the line and fathered hybrid offspring with
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human women. Those offspring the Nephelin giants, monsters, warriors with
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reputations so legendary that even Israelite spies later trembled at
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the thought of them. That's from numbers thirteen thirty three.
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If that sounds like mythology, remember mythology is often history.
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With a hangover. The Greeks talked about demigods, the Mesopotamians
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wrote about Abcalu, sages who crossed the boundaries between human
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and divine. The Bible isn't out on a limb here.
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It's calling out a very old pattern. And when divine
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beings break ranks and mess with humanity, chaos follows. So
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enter the Book of Enoch, one of those texts that
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didn't make the final canon but influenced a ton of
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early Christians. Fills in the gaps. It names these watchers,
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says they taught forbidden knowledge like sorcery, weapons making, astrology, cosmetics,
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even root cutting, basically witchcraft and pharmacology folks. In other words,
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it wasn't just sex. It was a full on corruption
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package downloaded right into humanity. Just like, Yeah, you can
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see echoes of this in our tech obsession today. It's weird, right, Ever,
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wonder why so many breakthroughs feel like they're racing ahead
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without the ethics to match, same pattern, forbidden knowledge without
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wisdom to handle it, and God's response. Basically the flood,
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It wasn't just a cosmic clean up your room. It
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was triage. Humanity had become so corrupted violence was so
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widespread that God said reset button, start over with Noah,
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a man described as blameless in his generations, which might
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mean more than just morally upright. Some scholars argue it
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hints that Noah's bloodline hadn't been tampered with. He was
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still fully human in a world that was becoming something else.
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Here's the chilling phrase. And also afterward, the nephelms show
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up again. Think Goliath, Think King og of Bashian with
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his mathist, with his massive iron iron bed. Think of
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Israel's enemies who weren't just militarily strong, but freakishly superhuman.
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It's as if the infection never fully went away, like
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a virus, lying dormant until the time was right. And
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here's where modern conspiracies creep in. Ancient genetic manipulation sounds
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a lot like the language used today around crisper transhumanism
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and designer DNA. Are we replaying Genesis six in lab
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coats instead of robes? Have we just swapped fallen angels
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for scientists who can't resist playing God? But this section
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isn't about scaring you with bedtime monster stories. It's about
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recognizing Genesis six as a template the watchers cross the line.
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Humanity embraced the knowledge, and the result was chaos. Every
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generation faces the same temptation to merge heaven and Earth
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on our terms, not God's, and the Nephlum are the recipients.
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That's the watchers and the Nephilm. Genesis is dark invasion.
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So next up we'll climb the world's first skyscraper, the
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Tower of Babel. But don't expect bricks and mortar. Expect
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ritual technology, rebellion in plain sight, and the moment God
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himself stepped in to scatter Humanity's plans the Tower of Babel.
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Humanity is cosmic revolt. If Eden was the first's first
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breach and Genesis six was the second, then Babel was
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humanity's full on mutiny. Genesis eleven starts so small. The
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whole earth had one language and a common speech. Everyone
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could talk, trade, build, and dream without barriers. Sounds nice, right,
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Unity progress the kind of thing globalists give Ted talks about.
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But the Bible's telling unity without obedience isn't utopia, it's
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gasoline next to a match. They said, come, let us
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build ourselves a city with the tower that reaches to
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the heavens, so that we may make a name for
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ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the
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whole earth. Now stop, This wasn't just a vanity project,
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like Dubai putting a hotel in the clouds. In the
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ancient Near East, towers were ziggurats, stairstepped temples meant to
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bridge the human and divine realms. They weren't trying to
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climb into heaven like construction workers gone rogue. They were
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building a ritual machine, a cosmic elevator away to summon
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gods down and project themselves up. The goal make a
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name for them. In Hebrew, that word name shem is loaded.
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It's about authority, reputation, power. They weren't content to live
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under God's name. They wanted their own. The Babbel project
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wasn't about height, it was about autonomy. They wanted to
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storm the heavens with human ambition and spiritual technology and
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God's reaction. It wasn't just Ah, look at these little
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silly humans stacking bricks. No, He came down, took one
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look and said, if as one people speaking the same