Giant appetites ahead in 2017

“No Chianti, but Plenty to Chew On,” reads a briefs headline inside Wednesday’s Food Section of the New York Times. An accompanying photo of Dr. Hannibal Lector has a caption about how the immortalized movie cannibalist would approve of the new book, “Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History.”

The book, out next month, is written by Bill Schutt, a college biology professor who is also a researcher at the American Museum of Natural History, where he will lecture on the cannibalism for $15 a ticket (students and members get in free).

“According to cannibalism researcher Bill Schutt, the idea of people eating people is always lurking somewhere in the collective Western id, one of those tops-all taboos that manages to revolt and captivate in equal measure,” writes Libby Copeland in an article by Slate Book Review. “I’d argue it’s more horrifying a concept than incest, bestiality, ritual dismemberment, and that thing called coprophilia where people are really into poop. Our collective push-pull response to cannibalism explains our fascination with Jeffrey Dahmer, Schutt says, and also why Hannibal Lector is considered one of the greatest screen villains in movie history. We can’t look away, even when we want to.”

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An online essay connects today’s interest in cannibalism with the movie industry’s ever-increasing love affair with giants (or monsters, beasts, dragons, etc.). Peter Cetera writes, “Giants, now a popular topic in books, films and television shows, and conspiracy theories, have been a part of many cultures since at least the beginning of writing.  In many mythological tales, giants are obstacles that represent evil that the hero has to overcome.

“Interestingly, giants are often associated with cannibalism. Cannibalism is derived from ‘Carib,’ the natives that Columbus discovered in Cuba who were thought to be ‘man-eater’ (Lukaschek 2001:3). Stories of cannibalistic giants are known from Europe, the Middle East, and North America. Giants and cannibalism are entangled in Greek, Jewish, and Native American mythologies, possibly telling us something about how people viewed cannibalism.”

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After Satan convinces Eve to eat of the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden, Genesis 3:14 reports, “And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life.”

A passage giving a picture-type of the Antichrist in Job, the oldest book of the Bible, reveals: [15] Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.
[16] Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.

Preacher Richard Jordan explains, “When it refers to ‘the navel of his belly,’ that’s saying his strength and his force is in the desire-oriented nature, meaning you’re driven by your own appetites. The psalms describe it as being like a brute beast.

The passage in Job 40 continues: [17] He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.
[18] His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.
[19] He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him.

“When it says ‘he is the chief of the ways of God,’ that’s saying this guy’s going to be controlling,” says Jordan. “He’s that wicked prince who’s going to control the rulers of the earth.

“The good news is it says ‘he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him.’ That’s the little ray of sunlight in the passage. Nobody can deal with this guy except God, his Maker, and His Word.

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As we know from Genesis 6, angels took wives of "the daughters of men" and impregnated these human women to produce physical giants on the earth.

Cain is the original type of the seed of the serpent. I John 3:12 says. [12] Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

“Notice he was ‘of that wicked one,’ ” says Jordan. “When Eve was pregnant and had that little boy, she said, ‘We’ve got a man from the Lord!’ She thought he was going to be the Redeemer. She thought, ‘Here’s the seed of the woman who’s going to win and take us back to the Garden.’

“When Abel came along, he was just a red-headed step-child, so to speak. They put all their hope in Cain, but he was ‘of that wicked one.’

"By the way, that doesn’t mean he was conceived. There’s an old heresy that says that the original sin Eve committed was she had a sexual relationship with Satan in the Garden and ‘The Original Sin’ was her selling herself to Satan, and that’s why prostitution is called ‘the world’s oldest profession.’

“That’s all nonsense, but that verse in I John 3:12 is where it comes from. When he says he’s ‘of that wicked one,’ that’s what Jesus told the Pharisees in John 8:44: ‘Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.’

“Cain never trusted God’s Word; he always trusted himself. You go to Matthew 23 when Jesus talks to the Pharisees and He says, ‘All the righteous blood that you guys have shed in the earth, beginning with Abel all the way to Zachariah, is going to be held accountable to you in the day of judgment.’

“Jesus, in essence, is saying, ‘You Pharisees killed Abel,’ which would mean that Cain was really the first Pharisee. He was the first one to buy in to the satanic policy of evil that eventually became what the Pharisees who crucified Christ manifested. And that’s how Cain’s the picture--the type of the seed of the serpent. He’s a murderer.

“And by the way, he had a mark. You remember the mark of Cain? Genesis 4:15: ‘And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.’

“It’s just like the Antichrist, who has a mark. He’s a murderer, just like Satan is a murderer and just like the Antichrist will be a murderer.

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“So Cain is the first type of the Antichrist and then there’s Nimrod. Genesis 10:8 says, ‘And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.’ The name Nimrod means ‘the rebel.’ Some translate it as a verb phrase, ‘Let us rebel.’ Nimrod is the great rebel in the earth.

“That’s an interesting verse. It’s that trans-human genetic engineering, where they literally take non-human forms, grafting them in genetically to human cells. They’ve got all these things they’re doing today.

“I told somebody the other day, I remember in 1970 the Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia had an annual supplement with a beautiful full-color transparent overlay of the first fatherless frog. They were doing genetic engineering and had produced a totally viable frog without a daddy, and I wrote an article about how they finally figured out how to do a ‘virginless birth.’

“With this trans-human stuff, you’re not using human parts. They replaced my heart valve with a cow valve. We’re talking about mechanical stuff.

“When he says ‘Cush begat Nimrod and he began to be a mighty one,’ a 'mighty one' in Scripture is not simply somebody who’s politically powerful. That’s a reference to something very specific.

“Genesis 6:4 says, [4] There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

“Notice it says ‘the same BECAME mighty men.’ It’s like they’re born, they function, and then a switch gets turned on and they transition into something more. There’s stuff going on with Nimrod like that. It’s like he’s got some of that and the verse says these men were after the Flood, not just before, and Nimrod has some of that genetic makeup in him.

“Genesis 10:9 says, [9] He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.

“Nimrod goes out and he’s in the land of Shinar (modern-day Iraq). Nimrod is the one who’s leading the whole earth in Genesis 11. The chapter begins, [1] And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
[2] And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.

“It’s Nimrod leading them into the land of Shinar. It’s Nimrod leading the world to become this one-world language, one-world government, one-world religion. He’s this mighty one in the earth and he’s connected with all this angelic involvement.

“Nimrod, the great apostate, the hunter of the souls of men, the founder of idolatrous Babylon . . . He, by the way, is the 13^th from Adam and he’s the builder of that one-world empire. All of that parallels with what the Antichrist will be and you see the connections here.”