But the fact is, they're all the spirits of the giants who were killed in the flood And they're all evil.

And the thing that I found really startling almost 10 years ago when I stumbled on this in reading in the poem by Hesiod, who was a Greek poet, roughly contemporary with Isaiah, 8th century, 7th century B.C., is that the word, in fact, this is also true of Homer in his epic poems, Iliad and Odyssey.

The term that they use for the demigod heroes of long ago, whose spirits became daemons upon death, is a phrase that is based on the same root word, the same Semitic root word, not Indo-European, the same Semitic root from which we get the word Rephaim, which is the term used in the Bible for the spirits of those giants post-flood.

In other words, the Greeks knew who the Rephaim were.

Hercules, Theseus, Perseus, Bellerophon, Cadmus, all of their demigod heroes knew became these, what they called Morapes Anthropoi, and that word Morapes derives from the same Semitic root as the word Rephaim.

That blew me away.

It's like, wait a minute.

there's a concrete answer to that

So where, where do you believe demons come from?

The belief of the early Church, and, uh, this is a, uh, theory that, uh, works for me because I presume that the, uh, the apostles had a pretty good background in theology, learned at the right hand of, you know, at the feet of Jesus for three and a half years.

But the early Church for the first 400 years after the resurrection, it was commonly understood, it was Christianity 101.

Demons were the spirits of the giants destroyed in the flood of Noah.

And because they were hybrid, they were neither flesh nor spirit, they were a, an unholy mixture of both.

They were, th- they were barred from the places that spirits normally go when they're separated from flesh.

They did not go to, uh, Sheol, which was the understanding of the, uh, Hebrews, uh, after death, like human spirits do.

The disembodied spirits of the Nephilim, yeah

And I think this piece of information will be very enlightening and hopefully to those willing to listen and hear, uh, change their mind.

mind.Yeah, and we're, we're talking about the USS Liberty incident, uh, Ju- which happened on, uh, June 8th of 1967.

This is when, um, Israeli war planes and torpedo boats attacked a USS Navy ship in the Med- Eastern Mediterranean about 12 miles off the coast of Gaza, and left 34 US sailors dead and 171 injured out of crew of 234.

Um, so for people looking at the, uh, the relationship between the US and Israel, it is not uncommon, uh, lately because Candace Owens has m- has, uh, made this, uh, an issue.

Uh, Sean Ryan just brought this up in his podcast again within the last couple weeks, uh, as we're recording this.

And, um, the, the story that they are putting out there is the one is, is based on what is of- the official narrative.

The official story that was put out there almost immediately by the governments of Israel and the United States is that it was a case of mistaken identity, that, uh, the USS Liberty was mistaken for an Egyptian ship by, um, Israeli pilots and then the torpedo boats, and that, uh, subsequent US investigations by the government, the, uh, the, uh, the Navy, the CIA, the Joint Chiefs of Staff all said, "Yep, it was a case of mistaken identity." Israel apologized almost immediately.

That same day?