I never stop being fascinated by this whole thing about pre-Flood fallen angels who came down to earth to fornicate with women, producing offspring of giant men.

When I wrote about this supernatural phenomenon the first time (To read, click on “Back Issues” and scroll down to “Big Problems,” Feb. 12, 2006), I had a friend comment that the information I’d presented about the giants from Genesis 6 and the epistle of Jude was “waaay out there,” meaning, I take it, “That’s too much for me to believe!”

Recently, while flipping through my Barnes & Noble general educational book on Greek and Roman mythology, “Titans & Olympians,” I found this gem under a segment on the battles of the gods: “Zeus had two more contests to face before he could confidently assert his authority over the world. The first was the Gigantomachy, the war against the Giants, which was one of the most popular myths in ancient Greece.”

As I just pointed out in my June 9 piece, entitled “Closet Organizer,” renowned 1^st Century Jewish historian Flavius Josephus wrote about how “many angels of God accompanied with women, and begat sons that proved unjust, and despisers of all that was good, on account of the confidence they had in their own strength; for the tradition is, That these men did what resembled the acts of those whom the Grecians call giants.”

In a sermon not long ago, my pastor, Richard Jordan of Shorewood Bible Church, Rolling Meadows, Ill. (www.graceimpact.org), pointed out how the genetic aberration producing the giants didn’t completely die out until the times of David in I and II Samuel.

“In King David’s day the last five of the giants in the earth lived and David killed one of them, Goliath, and his mighty men killed the others—Goliath’s brothers and so forth,” says Jordan. “And that’s how the post-Flood giants were destroyed.”

Now, as we’re told in Genesis 6, these giants were not only abnormally large in physical stature, they also possessed superior might and intellect.

So think about this in connection with such mysteries as the erection of the Great Pyramid around 2,700 B.C., or several hundred years before the Flood:

“Have you ever watched the History Channel where they’ve tried to explain how nobody can figure out how they built the Pyramids?” says Jordan. “How the Great Pyramid has all the astrological measurements of the heavens that man didn’t know about until the 20^th Century? How it sights off of the North Star, how whoever built it was a geometrically advanced mind and that the laws of physics—the laws of astro-physics and the laws algebra and geometry—had to have been second nature to whoever designed it because of the way the thing is built. And then you get those big old building blocks and watch where they’re trying to explain how they put the capstone on top. . . Maybe, just perhaps, there’s an explanation for some of that. . .

“I know what people say. They say the same thing people said in Christopher Columbus’ day: ‘If you go out there far enough you’re going to fall off the end of the world. And there are dragons out there who’ll eat you up; that’s why you never come back.’

“And they quoted Scripture to talk about the dragons in the sea. The problem was the sea that the verse they used (Psalm 74:13) was talking about wasn’t the Mediterranean or the Atlantic; it was out there in the heavens and the dragon was in the heavens. It wasn’t a physical one, it was a spiritual one—in Satan. And so now today we say, ‘Well, that’s all mythology.’ I read these things and say, ‘Hmm, maybe it isn’t all mythology.’ ”