Show Notes
What happened to the Nephilim after the Flood?
Genesis 6 describes one of the strangest events in Scripture: the “sons of God” taking human women and producing the Nephilim. Then comes the Flood.
But the story of giants—and the supernatural rebellion surrounding them—doesn't appear to end there.
In this episode of The Berean Files, we sit down with Bennett Tanton of Broadcasting Seeds to explore the research behind his new book, The Second Incursion: Fallen Beings, Giants, and What Walks Among Us Still.
Bennett makes the case that Genesis 6 isn't just a bizarre footnote in the story of Noah. It may be an important piece of the Bible's larger supernatural worldview—and understanding what happened before the Flood raises an even stranger question: Did it happen again?
We explore the Watchers, Nephilim, Rephaim, the giant clans of Canaan, the divine council, Deuteronomy 32, Babel, territorial spiritual powers, Second Temple literature, ancient mythology, and the biblical evidence for supernatural rebellion continuing into the post-Flood world.
Then things get even stranger.
Could this same biblical framework help us make sense of ancient stories about hybrid beings, goat-demons and wilderness entities—and even some of the cryptid and supernatural encounter reports that continue into the modern world?
This isn't about automatically believing every monster story, legend, or strange encounter. It's about asking whether Scripture gives us a supernatural framework big enough to investigate these claims without immediately dismissing them.
Did the Flood really end the war?
Where did the post-Flood giants come from?
What exactly was the "second incursion"?
And could the consequences of that ancient rebellion still be with us?
Bennett Tanton's new book: The Second Incursion: Fallen Beings, Giants, and What Walks Among Us Still
Available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Second-Incursion-Fallen-Beings-Giants/dp/B0H825D7L1
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