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The Blaze Media podcast Strange Encounters recently dove into a subject that should unsettle every believer and sober-minded American: the Nephilim, fallen angels, and the spiritual corruption recorded in Scripture. Hosts like Rick Burgess and guests such as Tom DiMarco bring the Bible back into a culture that wants to pretend religious truth is optional, reminding listeners that these are not merely bedtime myths but passages that shaped ancient history and Christian doctrine. When conservative voices keep talking about spiritual reality, we reclaim a piece of our moral heritage that the leftist elites would rather erase.
Genesis itself tells a short, stark story: men multiplied, the “sons of God” took the daughters of men, and the Nephilim—mighty men, men of renown—appeared on the earth just before God’s judgment by flood. This text confronts readers with a literal account of spiritual boundaries violated and human society corrupted, a warning that moral degradation has cosmic consequences. For those who still believe the Bible matters, this is not esoteric trivia; it is a sermon in narrative form about what lawlessness looks like at scale.
Jewish intertestamental literature, notably the Book of Enoch, amplifies what Genesis sketches: angels called the Watchers descended, taught forbidden arts, and fathered monstrous offspring who ravaged the world—setting the stage for God’s decisive intervention. Whether one treats Enoch as canonical or supplementary, the fact that ancient communities took these episodes seriously should make modern skeptics pause; our forebears saw spiritual warfare as real and immediate. Conservatives who defend tradition understand that wisdom passed down for millennia deserves more respect than trendy academic dismissals.
The Bible doesn’t stop with one mysterious episode; later books—Numbers, Deuteronomy, and the historical accounts—echo the presence of giant lineages: the Anakim, the terrifying Goliath figure, and Og king of Bashan whose enormous bed is recorded in the text as a relic of the Rephaim. These repeated references show a continuity of threat and a God who ultimately delivers His people despite monstrous odds. The story of David standing firm against Goliath is the same moral: faith defeats fear, and God’s people must refuse to bow to intimidation, physical or ideological.
The New Testament writers were not silent on the issue: Jude and Peter both point to angels who sinned and are held in chains awaiting judgment, tying the Genesis account to a larger theology of rebellion and restraint. Those passages remind us that God’s justice is patient but certain, and that there are spiritual realities beyond the secular newsroom’s comfortable headlines. If our public life forgets sin’s seriousness and the reality of spiritual enemies, we impoverish our understanding of justice and prepare a nation for decline.
Patriots and parents should hear this as both warning and call to action: reclaim Scripture’s place in our homes, teach children to recognize the spiritual dimension of right and wrong, and resist the fashionable amnesia that says history and holiness don’t matter. The story of the Nephilim is a dramatic example of what happens when boundaries are ignored—spiritual, moral, and civic—and conservatives must be the ones to insist that truth still matters in public life. Stand firm, pray boldly, and remember that a free republic depends on people who will not be cowed by giants, literal or ideological.
