Troublesome Topic: WHAT IS HE LORD OVER AND WHAT ARE THEY LORD OVER?

God is Lord over:

Time

Life and death

Rain, thunder, lightning, childbirth, fertility of the soil

The sea

The mountains

Health and sickness

The spirit realm

The Nephilim are supposedly over:

The nations they have been given by the Creator God.

GOD IS LORD OVER THE NATIONS, NOT THE NEPHILIM

But God did not give lesser gods something to rule over; demons pretend to be gods the people desire and pretend to have authority over those nations.

According to Heiser and the 1 Enoch, they started from a union of angels and humans, both of which are lower in supposed rank and authority than the Nephilim ended up with. Thus, the only way they could become more powerful than normal messenger angels would be for God to give them that rank and the greater authority to go with it.

The Bible never states that God gave the nations to other gods and walked away from them, abandoning them. That is an assumption on Heiser’s part which he needs to make in order for his worldview fit together.

Nephilim is only used 3 times in the Bible, Gen 6 and Numbers 13:33 x 2. One would think that if this were a key theme in the Bible, the word Nephilim would appear more than 3 times.

Ps 22:28 says “dominion belongs to the Lord, and he rules over the nations.” Rule is exactly what Heiser says the lesser gods have over the nations, but here it clearly states that the one who rules over them is the Lord.

The next lesson is on NUMBERS 13:33.