How Did the Nephilim Return After the Flood?

## How Did the Nephilim Return After the Flood?

Noah’s family line was clean, yet Nephilim stood in Canaan centuries later. The Watchers Fallen explains the return as a second incursion of fallen angels.

Nephilim: the offspring of the sons of God and the daughters of men in Genesis 6:4, from the Hebrew root naphal, “to fall.”

Second Incursion: the return of fallen angels to earth after the Flood, which the book holds explains the Nephilim in Canaan.

Tamim: the Hebrew word in Genesis 6:9 meaning complete, whole, or without blemish, used of Noah as “perfect in his generations.”

## How Did the Nephilim Return After the Flood?

The Watchers Fallen answers that fallen angels came down a second time after the Flood. Noah’s line was clean, no Nephilim blood was on the ark, and yet the spies found Nephilim descendants in Canaan. The book calls this the second incursion.

## The Spies’ Report

"And there we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, which come of the Nephilim: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight." (Numbers 13:33, KJV)

That verse makes two claims. The Anakim, who held Hebron and the hill country, are sons of Anak. And Anak is tied directly to the Nephilim, the same word Genesis 6:4 uses. Moses writes the claim down without correcting it. God punished the ten spies for their unbelief, not for their facts.

## Moses Confirms It

Forty years later Moses spoke to a new generation about “a people great and tall, the children of the Anakims” (Deuteronomy 9:2). The fear was gone. He still described them with the same weight.

## The Question

If the Flood killed every Nephilim, where did the Anakim come from? Some readers soften the word Nephilim in Numbers 13 to mean merely tall. The verse uses genealogical language, the same kind Scripture uses to trace descent elsewhere. Others keep Nephilim blood alive on the ark. That creates a worse problem.

## Noah’s Clean Line

Genesis 6:9 calls Noah tamim in his generations. The book reads that as a statement about lineage. God chose Noah because the bloodline itself was clean. Eight people entered the ark, and the LORD shut the door (Genesis 7:13). If Nephilim blood had ridden through the Flood in Noah’s family, tamim would lose its meaning. The book concludes that there was no bad blood on the ark.

## And Also After That

Only one explanation fits both facts: the line through Noah stayed clean, and the Nephilim still appear after the Flood. The Watchers came down again. Genesis 6:4 leaves room for it:

“There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.”

The writer included “and also after that” to mark a second occurrence. Jude 6 describes the original two hundred as bound for judgment. A second group repeating the same sin generations later fits the pattern Scripture already set.

## Where the Second Contact Began

The book places the start of the second contact in Shinar, the region of Babel in Genesis 11. The pattern it describes runs in three steps: conversation, then unions, then Nephilim.

## What Follows From It

Jesus compared the days before His return to the days of Noah. The book says that comparison points at something with a shape, and Numbers 13 shows that shape returned at least once. If the incursion happened twice, and Scripture gives no sign that it could not happen a third time, the door the book describes was never permanently shut.

## Keep Reading

Read the story: The Giant’s Shadow, Book One of Sons of the Flood: The Deliverance Chronicles, follows deliverance minister Nathaniel Cross as he faces a giant from the Book of Giants tradition.

Go deeper: The Watchers Fallen: They Were Not Supposed to Walk Among Us, by CK Quarterman.