Ancient Mesopotamian civilizations spoke of various giant-like beings called Anunaki and Rapiu. These same terms (Anakim and Rephaim) are found in the Torah, also in reference to ancient giants. Where did they come from, and where are they now? What is their connection to angels, Nephilim, and the Bnei Elohim mentioned in multiple places in Tanakh? Find out in this mind-blowing class where we also explore UFOs and UAPs, God’s Divine Chariot, and the prophetic experiences of Ezekiel, Enoch, Isaiah, Eliyahu, and others.
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Metatron & the Book of Enoch
What really happened to Enoch when God “took him”? Who is the mysterious angel Metatron? And why did Rabbi Elisha ben Avuya become a heretic after seeing him in Heaven? Find out in the class below, where we also compare the three Books of Enoch, discuss Azazel and the Watchers, and uncover the true identity of the Biblical “Son of Man”. Also: who was the teacher of Moses and how did Joseph know 70 languages?
For lots more on the Four Who Entered Pardes and a different interpretation of Elisha’s vision of Metatron, see here.
See also ‘Who is Metatron?’
For part one of the series on the Apocrypha, see here.
For the class on the Watchers and the Book of Jubilees, see here.
Anunaki: Giants and Aliens in the Torah
In this week’s parasha, Devarim, Moses recounts the journeys and battles of the Israelites and mentions a number of mysterious peoples:
The Emim dwelled there previously, a great and numerous and tall people, like the Anakim. They are also considered Rephaim, like the Anakim, and the Moabites called them Emim… Rephaim dwelled there formerly, and the Ammonites called them Zamzumim. A great and numerous and tall people, like the Anakim, but God exterminated them… For only Og, the king of Bashan, was left from the remnant of the Rephaim. His bed was a bed of iron… nine cubits was its length and four cubits its width… (Deuteronomy 2:10-11, 20-21, 3:11)
Moses is apparently describing a race of giants, “great and tall”, of whom only one remained—Og (of whom we’re written in the past)—whose bed was nine cubits long, or approximately 18 feet! Who were these Rephaim, and how are they different from Anakim? What do they have to do with the Nephilim of Genesis, who are also thought to be giants?