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Then Satan answered Yahweh and said, “From roaming about on the earth and walking around on
it.”

Do you perceive a harmony here with what is recorded in Genesis 6? Satan is chief of the Nephilim,
the fallen ones. On a certain day the angelic hosts come before Yahweh to present themselves, and
Satan is with them. Satan’s presence among the “bene ha Elohim” is not an aberration, for he too is
one of them. What could be more natural than to state that the sons of God appeared before Yahweh
on a certain day and Satan was with them?

Satan responds to Yahweh’s question by announcing that he has been “roaming about on the earth
and walking around on it.” This was obviously Satan’s habit in those days, for the very same words
are repeated in the following chapter of Job when Satan appears once more before Yahweh. It may
seem odd to us today to think of Satan and his angels walking about openly on the earth, even being
seen of men and interacting with them, but this is what the Bible declares to have occurred.

Genesis 6:4
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in
to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old,
men of renown.

There is a perfect harmony between the testimony of Genesis chapter six and the book of Job. Both
reveal that the fallen angels walked upon the earth in the days before and after the flood of Noah.
Much could be written about the corroborating testimony of other peoples and nations regarding this
matter. In the mythology and religions of many cultures there are stories of the gods coming down
from the heavens, espying some beautiful woman, and taking her for a wife. In these stories, the
offspring from these unions are mighty men, and famous, matching perfectly the testimony of
Genesis. Those whom the Greeks, Romans, and other cultures called “gods” were actually fallen
angels. They were Nephilim. When they took wives from among the daughters of men, their offspring
were “mighty men of old, men of renown.”

Perseus, the first of the Greek heroes is an example of such a tale. He was reputed to be the son of
Zeus and the maiden Danae. His exploits are legendary. He fits the description of a mighty man of
old, and a man of great renown.

Perseus