Question: Who were the Watchers? - Dr. Larry Ollison (December 10, 2023)
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Am gonna start always watching videos likes these on Sundays and more! I hope my father in heaven blesses this man!
Thank you sir. 👍💪🙏
Amen. Thank you pastor Larry. God bless you.
There's been a lot of family death in recent years, this year for Christmas I've ordered copies of your book "A Place Called Heaven" to share with family.
Glory to God Hallelujah.
They were created to watch us. As in the days of Noah. They see all...A.I. is their tool....they are back!
I first understood what the Watchers were was from the Book of Enoch
Just research Baalbek Lebanon, ive been there twice you really cant understand until you're standing before this colossal construction! Humans did not lift these incredible heavy blocks! Hes a 💯 correct!
Exactly!! They truly screwed up " their assignment " BY THE HOLY FATHER . ..& got hell to pay.
Jude speaks about this in the New Testament .
Exactly what it says they are watching man very closely for the opportunity when man sins to reek havik in their lives. Sin is a highway and given the opportunity will ride you all nite long!
The term Grigori is not found in Scripture. But watcher angels are mentioned in three verses of the Bible, each in a vision that King Nebuchadnezzar had (Daniel 4:13, 17, 23). Not all translations use the term watcher angels. The ESV, CEV, and KJV speak of “a watcher” in Daniel 4:13, and the NASB calls it “an angelic watcher,” but the NIV simply calls this being “a messenger” from heaven. The NET says that Nebuchadnezzar sees “a sentinel.” These watcher angels are supernatural, celestial beings or “holy ones” who come down from heaven with authority to speak for God.
The Hebrew word translated “watcher” in Daniel 4 comes from a root word meaning “wakeful one” and thus can mean “watcher,” “sentinel,” or “guardian.” The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia describes watcher angels as servants of God who “possess a certain joint authority to speak the decrees of God, and apparently form a heavenly council who listen to God’s word and then act as divine messengers to bring these commands and revelations to human beings” (vol. 4, p. 1024).
Noncanonical literature elaborates in detail regarding the watcher angels. According to the books of Enoch, watcher angels can be either fallen angels or holy angels. These watcher angels take a particular interest in the earthly affairs of human beings, “watching” them, and, at times, even interfering in or controlling situations that concern people. The fall of the watcher angels unfolds in the apocryphal book of 1 Enoch. Part of Enoch’s mission is to pronounce God’s judgment on the fallen watcher angels who supposedly dwelled in the fifth heaven where their fall took place.
Grigori is the name Enoch assigns to these fallen watcher angels in the book of 2 Enoch. The English word Grigori is simply a transliteration of the Greek word for “watcher,” used in the Septuagint. According to the account, the watcher angels are sent down to earth to look after humans. They soon develop an unnatural lust for the beautiful women of earth. A large group of rebellious watchers, the Grigori, seduce the women of earth and impregnate them with a race of hybrid giants who violently raid the earth and threaten humanity.
Another noncanonical book, Jubilees, also speaks of heavenly watchers who violate their ordained nature by lusting after and having sexual relations with human women. The offspring of their unnatural unions are monstrous giants who corrupt the children of earth and prompt the flood of Noah’s time.
These extrabiblical writings seem to provide an explanation for the creatures mentioned in Genesis 6:1-4 called Nephilim. The Bible tells us that Nephilim were the result of sexual relations between “the sons of God” and “the daughters of men” (verse 2). Much debate exists regarding the true identity and origin of the Nephilim. The only solid information we can gather from Scripture is that the Nephilim are the offspring of the sons of God and human women and are described as “heroes of old” and “men of renown” (verse 4). Numbers 13:33 suggests that the Nephilim were a people of extraordinary size, possibly associating them with giants.
Substantial debate also surrounds the nature of the “sons of God” who fathered the Nephilim. Were they fallen watcher angels or Grigori? Does the biblical book of Jude provide a clue: “And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their proper dwelling-these he has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great Day” (Jude 1:6)? For now, we can only speculate. The Bible does not provide us with clear answers; therefore, we must be content with uncertainty.
We are wise to be extra cautious about giving serious weight to the ideas found in extrabiblical sources. Nevertheless, Scripture does affirm the concept of heavenly beings who watch the earth (Ezekiel 1:15-20) and are interested in the affairs of humans: “This Good News has been announced to you by those who preached in the power of the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. It is all so wonderful that even the angels are eagerly watching these things happen” (1 Peter 1:12, NLT).
Since God’s purpose is to use the church to display His wisdom to rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms (Ephesians 3:10), then the idea of attentive watcher angels or guardians is biblically sound. Likewise, the Bible confirms the presence of angels who guard and protect humans: “The angel of the LORD encamps around those who fear him, and he delivers them” (Psalm 34:7; see also Matthew 18:10; Acts 12:9-15).
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Angels: Elect & Evil by C. Fred Dickason
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Only if you are in the spiritual will you understand this type of supernatural happenings. If your in the natural, you will obviously not understand spiritual things.
I drove my car 80kms from a remote location with E Fuel tank. How it happened? I prayed in tongues all the eay from that location, arrived at the fuel station, and the engibe dies a few metres from the pump. Now, thats a supernatural intervention. There are others like Ricks testimony,bit ill leave it for another time 😊♥️
The questions nobody asks...
Why would you put male beings, obviously capable of lust, and rape, to watch over women who are defenseless against them? The same thing goes on with humans, in women's prisons and it never goes well.
God knows the end from the beginning. Therefore He knew what would happen. Also, why would God make angels, which most Bible teachers declare are "only male" with the ability to copulate? What are they supposed to copulate with?
But does He know everything that's going to happen after the beginning and before the end? Why did He have "watchers" in the first place? To report back to Him???
Can Angels still rebel against God? December?
Yes the could but they wouldn’t because they already know Satan lost and they battle against Satan every day
I don’t think any thing has changed they could decide to but I doubt it since the penalty is so severe. Revelation 19 : 13-17
They're what people now adays call E T'S, they lost their Angelic State, and peole call them Extra Terrestrial 😮
It's very simple Jesus said it himself, that his Kingdom is not from this World. Everything in the Bible is out of this world. 😮
Who built the pyramids
Israelites that’s why the Egyptian had them prisoner because they were very good builders
Enoch and 200 sons of God that were studying after Enoch on how to be Holy and righteous. And when I say sons of God I mean Adam and Eve's Descendants the children that they had before they fell and their children's children. That's all I can say.
Humans and what resources they had at the time. They had natural resources:sun, wind, water, etc. along with man made resources. There were also animal power. Who’s to say there was not some dinosaurs back then to move such large blocks?
Probably pre-Adamic angelic beings, or pre flood nephelim or the Watchers themselves.
The word Nephilim (נְפִילִים) is not the Hebrew word "nephal". Let's set the record straight:
The late Dr. Michael S. Heiser, as a scholar in the fields of biblical studies and the ancient Near East, did extensive research on the Nephilim. According to him, the term "Nephilim" does not come from the Hebrew verb "naphal" which means "to fall," but rather from the Aramaic noun "naphiyla," which means "giant."
Dr. Heiser's research provides a different perspective on the interpretation of the term "Nephilim." Traditional interpretations have often linked the term "Nephilim" to the Hebrew verb "naphal," which translates to "to fall." This has led to interpretations of the Nephilim as "fallen ones," often associated with fallen angels or spiritually fallen humans.
However, Dr. Heiser suggests that the term "Nephilim" is derived from the Aramaic noun "naphiyla," which translates to "giant." This interpretation aligns with some biblical descriptions of the Nephilim. For instance, in Numbers 13:33, the Nephilim are described as physically large beings, which fits the "giant" interpretation.
This interpretation shifts the understanding of the Nephilim from a spiritual or moral fall, to a literal, physical description. It suggests that the Nephilim were not necessarily fallen in a spiritual sense, but were rather distinguished by their giant stature.
You can find more on this in his book: The Unseen Realm on
PS: It is for precisely this reason that the LXX translates the word as giant (gigantes) and not "fallen ones" as they translated Hebrew to Greek.
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One of the great debates over Genesis 6:1-4 is the meaning of the word nephilim. We’ve seen from the Mesopotamian context that the apkallus were divine, mated with human women, and produced giant offspring. We’ve also seen that Jewish thinkers in the Second Temple period viewed the offspring of Genesis 6:1-4 in the same way-as giants. Any analysis of the term nephilim must account for, not ignore or violate, these contexts. Interpretation of the term nephilim must also account for another Jewish phenomenon between the testaments-translation of the Old Testament into Greek. I speak here of the Septuagint. The word nephilim occurs twice in the Hebrew Bible (Gen 6:4; Num 13:33). In both cases the Septuagint translated the term with gigas (“giant”).
Heiser, Michael S.. The Unseen Realm: Recovering the Supernatural Worldview of the Bible (p. 105). Lexham Press. Kindle Edition.
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The spelling of the word nephilim provides a clue to what root word the term is derived from. Nephilim is spelled two different ways in the Hebrew Bible: nephilim and nephiylim. The difference between them is the “y” in the second spelling. Hebrew originally had no vowels. All words were written with consonants only. As time went on, Hebrew scribes started to use some of the consonants to mark long vowel sounds. English does this with the “y” consonant-sometimes it’s a vowel. Hebrew does that with its “y” letter, too (the yod). The takeaway is that the second spelling (nephiylim) tells us that the root behind the term had a long-i (y) in it before the plural ending (-im) was added. That in turn helps us determine that the word does not mean “those who fall.” If that were the case, the word would have been spelled nophelim. A translation of “fallen” from the verb naphal is also weakened by the “y” spelling form. If the word came from the verb naphal, we’d expect a spelling of nephulim for “fallen.” However, there’s another possible defense for the meaning “fallen.” Instead of coming from the verb naphal, the word might come from a noun that has a long-i vowel in the second syllable. This kind of noun is called a qatiyl noun. Although there is no such noun as naphiyl in the Hebrew Bible, the hypothetical plural form would be nephiylim, which is the long spelling we see in Numbers 13:33. This option solves the spelling problem, but it fails to explain everything else: the Mesopotamian context, the Second Temple Jewish recognition of that context, the connection of the term to Anakim giants (Num 13:33; Deut 2-3), and the fact that the Septuagint translators interpreted the word as “giants.” So where does the spelling nephiylim come from? Is there an answer that would simultaneously explain why the translators were consistently thinking “giants”? There is indeed. Recall that the Old Testament tells us that Jewish intellectuals were taken to Babylon. During those seventy years, the Jews learned to speak Aramaic. They later brought it back to Judah. This is how Aramaic became the primary language in Judea by the time of Jesus. The point of Genesis 6:1-4 was to express contempt for the divine Mesopotamian apkallus and their giant offspring. Biblical writers had an easy choice of vocabulary for divine beings: sons of God. Their readers would know that the phrase pointed to divine beings, and other passages in the Torah (Deut 32:17) labeled other divine beings as demons (shedim). But these writers needed a good word to villainize the giant offspring. “Fallen ones” doesn’t telegraph giantism, so that didn’t help them make the point. My view is that, to solve this messaging problem, the Jewish scribes adopted an Aramaic noun: naphiyla-which means “giant.” When you import that word and pluralize it for Hebrew, you get nephiylim, just what we see in Numbers 13:33. This is the only explanation to the meaning of the word that accounts for all the contexts and all the details.
Heiser, Michael S.. The Unseen Realm: Recovering the Supernatural Worldview of the Bible (pp. 106-107). Lexham Press. Kindle Edition.
Outstanding information, the late Dr Heiser, revealed so so much from past translation efforts, it makes so much sense when you have the correct translation, gives me goosebumps constantly, have a blessed Christmas
What about the phrase " angels that left their first estate"