Live Bible Reading Genesis 28, Jacob's Ladder. Then Talking About Giants.

On this Episode Trevor does a live Bible Reading of Genesis 28 and then talks About Giants.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:08

Alright. Um, it's just gonna be me. Um, I'm just gonna do Bowl reading Genesis twenty-eight, and then I thought I might talk a little bit about giants and mostly today's giants, not really history giants, historical giants. But I found a few accounts of like encounters with giants. I'm just gonna read about that, and then I'll just end it. So uh I won't be on long. But uh I'm just gonna get it started. So here we go, Genesis 28. And Isaac called Jacob and blessed him and charged him and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan. Arise, go to Patenerum to the house of Bethuel, thy mother's father, and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban, thy mother's brother, and God almighty bless thee and make thee fruitful and multiply thee, and thou mayest be a multitude of people and give thee the blessing of Abraham to thee and to thy seed with thee, and that thou mayest inherit the land, wherein thou art a stranger which God gave unto Abraham. And Isaac sent away Jacob, and he went to Padenerum unto Lavan, son of Bethel, the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother. When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Padenerum to take him a wife from thence, and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan, and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother and was gone to Padenerum. And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father, then went Esau unto Ishmael and took unto the wives which he had Malhalath, the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, the sister of Nabajoth to be his wife. And Jacob went out from Beersheba and went towards Haran, and he lighted upon a certain place and tarried there all night because the sun was set, and he took the stones of that place and put them for his pillows, and laid lay down in that place to sleep. I would like pillows or uh rocks to sleep on for pillows. That'd be nice. Maybe not. I don't know. Maybe I should try that. And he dreamed and behold a ladder set upon the earth and the top of it reached to heaven. Looks like a whole dream. So that's the ladder of Jacob. I think there's a song about that. And behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it. And behold the Lord stood above it and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac, the land whereon thou liest, to thee I will I give it, will I give it, and to thy seed. And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east and to the north and to the south, and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of earth be blessed, and behold I am with thee and will keep thee in all places, whither thou goest and will bring thee again into this land, for I will not leave thee until I have done that which I have spoken to thee to thee of Sometimes God sounds like Yoda. Is that just me? I don't know. And Jacob awakened out of his sleep and he said, Surely the Lord is in this place, and I knew it not. That makes no sense. Wait. And Jacob awakened out of his sleep and he said, Surely the Lord is in this place and I knew it not. I really need Gary to explain that part to me. That's a little confusing. He didn't know that he was Oh, he's saying that he didn't know he was in the land of the Lord. Okay. So he fell asleep in the land of the Lord, I guess. And he was afraid and said How dreadful is this place? If it's the land of the Lord, why would it be dreadful? This is none other but the house of God and this is the gate of heaven. And Jacob rose up early in the morning and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and he set it up for a pillar and poured oil upon the top of it, and he called the name of that place Bethel. But the name of that city was called Luz or Luz at the first. So it was a city called Luz before it was Bethel. And Jacob vowed a vow saying, If God be with me and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat and raiment to put on, so that I come again to my father's house in peace, then shall the Lord be my God. And this stone which I have set for a pillar shall be God's house, and all of that thou shalt give me I will surely give tenth unto thee. Wow. So he had a dream of the the ladder of Jacob and he woke up and was like, This is the place of God. So he made a a rock pillar, and he uh called it God's house, and all that thou shalt give me, I will surely give the tenth unto thee. So he's gonna give him ten percent back. So whatever God gives him, he'll give ten percent back. That's nice. Okay, so this next part I thought I would talk about um giants. Um they're all over the Bible. And um they're they're all around us today too. And uh I was just gonna read some spots in the Bible where giants are or were and um anyway, so the there's Genesis 6.4. There were giants in the earth in those days. And also after that, when the sons of God came into in unto the daughters of men, and they built bare children to them. The same became mighty men which were of old men of renown. So there's a lot of people that say that uh giants were the Nephilim I don't know. Sometimes I believe it, sometimes I don't. I believe Nephilim Nephilim were angels and then the angels Nephilim slept with the daughters of man, and then that created giants. So personally I think giants might just be big people. Um, but that's just me. There's really big people. Were there eagle giants? Oh yeah, you got David and Goliath. Goliath was not a good person, and he was considered a giant. Uh then you got Numbers 1333, and there we saw the giants, the sons of Enoch, which come of the giants. Deuteronomy 211. So there's a lot of different accounts of giants in the Bible, which you can you can get on uh Biblegateway.com and you can pick any version of the Bible you want. So I I usually just do King James version because it's this is one of the main ones that people like. Uh I really like the New Living International. I think the NLT translation it's easier to read for me, understand, but it it didn't have all the uh verses in it that the King James has. Um, but anyways, then you got you know there's the account of David and Goliath, Goliath being a giant. That's in 1 Samuel 17. And now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle, and saw and the men of Israel were gathered together. And Philistines stood on a mountain on one side, and Israel stood on them on the other side, and there was a valley between them. And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines named Goliath of Gath. So Goliath was from Gath, and he was a Philistine. And it it wasn't just the Philistines who had giants, there were probably several other different uh origins of giants, which I'm not real sure. I haven't really looked into it. I probably should, huh? And uh he had a an helmet of brass upon his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail, and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass. Oh my missus part. Uh he also weighed his height was six cubits and a span. So I actually looked up how much is a cubit. So a cubit is one and a half feet. So if you take a ruler, that's one foot. So a ruler and a half. That's a cubit. So I'm not sure exactly how tall that is. It's about eight nine feet, I guess. So he Goliath was eight to nine feet. And uh anyways, so um I thought I'd read some newer accounts of giants, uh, more recent. But um you got the Arizona Giant. These are accounts of giants in North America, and this is from Bibbil Bib Biblio T C A Capades dot net. I just found it. Um anyways, in eighteen ninety-one at Cretinda Cretenden, Arizona, some workers digging the foundation for a new building struck at a depth of eight feet.

unknown 14:14

Woo.

SPEAKER_02 14:15

So they dug down eight feet, a huge stone sarcophagus. So they found a sarcophagus eight feet under. When they were able to open the lid, they saw inside the remains of a nine foot giant. That's a big dude. So this was in 1991 they found a nine-foot guy. About the same as Goliath. So Goliath was way before Jesus, uh during David's time, and this guy they found in Arizona in 1891 was about the same size, which is interesting to me. We have giants walking among us today. Same giants as in biblical times. Um here's California Giants in 1833, some soldiers digging a pit at Lompoc Rancho, California, unearthed a twelve foot giant with a double row of teeth, both uppers and lowers. That's that's creepy. So the giant this giant had two rows of teeth. The Lompox the Lompox giant's teeth, while unusual, were not unique, for another ancient skeleton later found on Santa Rosa Island off the California coast, show the same dental peculiarity. Also in 1888, in a burial mound near Clearwater, Minnesota, seven skeletons with skulls containing double rows of teeth were dug up, but they were not giants. So I guess regular people can have double teeth. I mean especially when back in that day when they probably didn't have the dentals stuff that we have these days.

SPEAKER_04 16:38

Um excuse me for a second, I gotta take a drink.

SPEAKER_02 16:52

Um let's see. There's a lot more uh accounts of giants. Then there's the um this one I wanted to get into. This is the most recent one that I've heard of. Um this was in 2002. Uh this is on the all that's interesting.com website, and this is the Kandahar Giant. And uh basically the US military came across this guy. The real story of the Kandahar Giant, the 13 foot cryptid purportedly killed by US special ops. This is an article by Bernadette Giasamazo. I'm sorry for butchering that. Edited by Don John Karoski. Published September 4th, 23, updated May 27, 25. So this is the most recent story that I personally have heard of of a giant. In 2002, an elite tactical team was said to have killed the Kandahar giant, and I'm sure a lot of people have come across this story. A thirteen foot tall beast with flaming red hair, six fingers on each hand and two sets of teeth. Wow. Thirteen feet. It's a tall dude and red hair, so I'm sure he had a temper on him. In August 2016, a YouTuber posted a lengthy interview with military contractor. I looked for it, I couldn't find it. Um but I didn't look very hard, I didn't dig very deep, but I couldn't find it. In an interview, Mr. K claimed to have been present during the brutal slaughter of a killer he called the Kandahar Giant. The killing of the giant he said took place during the height of Operation Enduring Freedom in 2002 when the military was engaged in fierce battles with Taliban in their de facto capital in Kandahar Province during the US invasion of Afghanistan. But this was no human fighter. Uh that's a picture of a US Special Forces soldier on patrol in Kandahar province. Staff Sergeant Bertha A. Flores, U.S. Army. Thank you for your service. Uh the Kandahar giant, Mr. K said, was 13 feet tall with fire red hair, six fingers, and two sets of teeth. It even killed one of the special forces soldiers with a spear before the rest of the unit brought it down with 30 seconds of sustained gunfire. So everything happened within like a minute, I guess. Didn't take very long. But could you imagine the spear of a giant that big? Phew. After and after they radioed it in, the army took away its corpse and has hidden it ever since. Why would they why would they hide that? I don't understand why they would they would just hide it. Unless they thought it might creep people out. I don't know. So this is, I guess, Kandahar City pictured in 2015 with mountains rising to the north. So if we're standing at a south peak, look at overlooking the city here, it's Kandahar City in 2015. So those were the mountains that the military was in fighting, and they came across this giant. So they went missing in the mountains back here in 2002, south of Afghanistan, and when they failed to make radio contact, the military sent in a special ops unit to investigate, though the branch of the armed forces they belonged to was never confirmed. So it was like a secret service type mission to go look for their group of missing soldiers. Then high up in the mountains, the unit came across a cave with scattered army equipment around, but no sign of the missing soldiers, and that's when they chanced upon the Kandahar Giant. Though the tale grows with the telling, with some reports suggesting that the humanoid grew as tall as fifteen feet. Wow. I was able to find a cool picture though. Um let's see how there it is. So I'm imagining it's a dude probably about that tall. Which would be insane. That'd be crazy. Seeing a dude that tall come out of come out of a cave. I couldn't imagine. You know, full full red hair. Huge hands with a spear. You know, as tall as him, probably. Wow. So though the tail grows though the tail grows with the telling, some with some reports suggesting that the humanoid grew as tall as 15 feet. The red-headed giant with six digits leather moccasins and smelling like dead bodies suddenly emerged from the cave and impaled one of the soldiers with a spear and that's when the soldiers opened fire ultimately filling the giant with 30 seconds of continuous fire. So they shot at him for 30 seconds before he finally went down. So giant comes out of the cave will they find what I assume remains of the missing uh military personnel. And uh then this giant comes out at him with a spear and kills one of 'em. Well Yeah and uh impaled one of 'em. It just says impaled. I'm sure he killed him. So they fired at him and it took thirty seconds of continuous fire to bring him down. But anyways, I thought this was an interesting story. Between them the squad was armed with full auto M4 carbines, recon carvings, semi-automatic and M107 Barrett anti material rifles firing 50 BMG. This much firepower concentrate concentrated on one target for one second let alone 30 would be extremely destructive. Yes it would be after the troops killed the giant they loaded it onto a Chinook helicopter so in the movies the helicopter with the double blades I think that's a Chinook. I could be wrong. Don't let me do that where no one ever saw it again. It's probably I don't know I don't know where it's at but no one's seen it since I guess the soldiers were forced to sign a non-disclosure agreement so the government could keep them all quiet. Of course don't say anything about your encounter so but eventually the soldiers broke their silence because as one of the men would later say the people have a right to know the truth and the truth will set you free. So um if you want to keep reading this uh it's on all that's interesting.com uh backslash candle hard giant so I thought also maybe I'd look into um oh crap my battery's dying come on computer plug it in now it's working don't die on me so anyways I thought that was interesting and I kind of looked for another story of an encounter with a giant and I came across oh let's get led by the Holy Ghost fast and where they go to pray.

SPEAKER_00 26:35

And so I went footprints with hold on let me get back to my spot I had my spot saved.

SPEAKER_02 26:41

I had been at the pyramid yes there was pornography involved yes there was all those things involved but there's also two unbelievably horrible things that have to do with their blood and have to do with um even at the hotel we stay at I had been at the pyramid um I had okay so this is Troy Brewer um he was on the um Katie Souza podcast Faith with Katie talking about he saw a giant while rescuing trafficked children um that's what he was talking about was um he was trying to find uh uh child trafficking stuff and he gives an account of a giant that he sees and I was just gonna see if we could listen to his story without being um you know hit for copyright stuff had been there um but uh even even at the hotel we stay at there's a giant rock that has a giant's footprint in it and it's part of the floor of the of the actual hotel where we stay at there's giant sidings around there there's there's giant footprints within the rocks there's megalithic structures and it's just part of the local culture down there and the mythos of the narrative down there is that there are giants here.

SPEAKER_00 28:18

And I I had really thought that most of that was just you know myth and things like that until I actually saw one and that changes things.

SPEAKER_03 28:27

I guess so um for me if I would have been in the hotel that was bit built on the rock with the giant's footprint I would have been fighting giants all night. Yeah so uh what happened that day do the setup for us.

SPEAKER_00 28:39

Okay so the setup is I was invited by an apostle down there who we work with and he invited his everybody within his whole apostolic organization had come together. They were fasting and they were praying for us. And so they have a place that they call prayer mountain and they own this mountaintop and it is a prayer garden is where they go to fast and where they go to pray. And so I went up there and there's I don't know 20 or 30 maybe even more people up there waiting. They're fasting and praying they sit me down in a chair we're outside and when these people start praying for you it's not going to be a polite American prayer. It's going to be every one of them is going to pray for probably 20 minutes and lose their minds. And so you spend the day just sitting in a chair and I don't hardly speak Spanish. And so uh they're praying for me and after you know the first couple hours I'm not don't don't get me wrong man the power of God is moving and it was a great privilege but there's nothing to do because you don't speak the language and you just get in the spirit and you see things you hear things and you just pray and you just do that. I'm sitting in this chair. Well in Chiapas the Chiapas mountains down there Katie are huge and uh they're 1800 feet tall and so the the the mountains the biggest mountains within the United States is 1400 feet. So these things are 4,000 feet bigger than the Rocky Mountains and and it's crazy. And they're just so beautiful. It's such an incredibly beautiful place. And I'm sitting there and I'm looking over the ridge and I'm thinking I might go get I might have somebody bring me a notebook and I might start drawing because God's God will prophetically give me pictures and stuff and I like to draw and I like to do stuff like that. And so I was looking at this bald ridge which was the next ridge over from us and there was this one big lone tree. And I thought that's odd that there's only one big tree there. And I thought okay if I drew that how would I draw it and in my mind I'm processing like yeah I think I will draw that and maybe if I I'll draw this and draw that and so I'm really looking in detail okay just kind of bored uh I'm in the Holy Ghost and I'm just you know trying to occupy myself for this four hour long prayer okay and so I'm just sitting there yes Lord yes Lord you know and you pray in the Holy Ghost a little bit and you just say yes Lord but they're still speaking in Spanish. I looked around for a little while longer and then I looked back and that same bald ridge where there had been one tree now there was two trees there. What? And I thought there's no way that there's two trees there. Like I know I looked at it for a long time and there was only one tree there and I'm like what the heck how did I not how how did I not see the other tree I'm like that's crazy. Like I know for a fact there was only one tree there. And as I was looking at it and as I was pondering it this second tree a big giant tree on the top of this ball otherwise bald ridge except for this one tree beside it all of a sudden it's transformed and two arms came out of the side of it and two legs appeared and and it turned into a being and it made a couple of moves and then it turned back into a tree again oh my god could you imagine seeing that that'd be crazy that'd be crazy to see a couple trees and then one of them just move and I'm just standing there and I'm looking at I'm like what in the wide wide world of sports did I just see and I'm sitting there going what in the heck and so I get to look in and I'm I'm eyeballing it and I'm eyeballing it and then all of a sudden it does the same thing and it shoulders appear arms come out shoulders appear two legs appear and it kind of gets situated you know and and and then it kind of leans forward a little bit it stays he he saw uh an int from Lord of the rings it wasn't no tree it was it was a Lord of the rings int. Some people believe trees do move around but I don't know I would rather believe it's a giant in this in this humanoid form and it leans in and I can tell it's listening and then it just gets real still and it turns back into this tree. That is a regional entity that is a regional little g god that is the giant that they've been talking about. This thing had a physicality about it. It wasn't a poof Katie even though it could transform and it could shape shift it wasn't a poof kind of demon it had a true physicality about it. And whenever it would turn back into a tree it would move exactly the way that the tree next to it moved exactly. Oh man and then when it would turn back into this this humanoid type person he would make several he would move or he would get closer or at one at one point he even switched sides but the last time that I saw him do that he leaned forward and I could tell he was listening and I thought that demon from hell is listening to this prayer that is going on on this mountain. And I was sitting there looking at him going oh my gosh and so I thought if it can hear this prayer it can hear me. And so I leaned forward and I said I see you devil wow and I don't know what you got away with down here for so long but you're not getting away with it anymore. I am here in the name of King Jesus and we're gonna rescue so many kids and there's nothing you can do about it. And when I said that it changed into a very scary form and he didn't care speak the power of Jesus over your enemies and they'll either get mad or they'll leave um I'm glad he stood up to him though but that's crazy how he couldn't hear he could hear him across you know across however far he was who saw him after that because I told him I saw him and he started swaying back and forth he started rocking back and forth like you know I'm gonna beat your eyes shut you know and he started making all these gestures and rocking back and forth and like going up and and and I like okay well I see you is what he said and I was sitting there and I was just like nope in the name of Jesus you're defeated there's a new sheriff in town we have authority here we were invited by the indigenous people here the people that love King Jesus we're not stepping into some other territory we're stepping into kingdom territory and we're bringing the kingdom with us we are going to rescue children here. Your days of getting away with this is done and there's nothing you can do about it. Light make it manifest you're gonna be known everywhere we're at and it's also going to be known that you are defeated in the name of King Jesus and I was talking and it was just it was just dude its head like this and it was man it was getting so mad and I was sitting there and I was just watching this thing and I'm talking to it. Well as I'm getting fervent in my declarations against this demonic manifestation they the people that are praying for me who do not speak English they're just getting really hopped up because they're praying and I'm yelling this thing and my son Ben was I don't know he's 30 yards away from me and he just heard me get a little bit loud and he was listening to me and he goes who are you talking to dad and I said I said I said come here and he and he comes over to me and I said Ben turn around and tell me what you see up there on top of that ridge and Ben turned around and he looked up there at Katie and he said it's a freaking giant oh and I said yes sir wow it's a freaking giant man how crazy would it be just to encounter something like that a giant sure is and and Ben said wow and I said I said pray with me against this thing and so Ben put his hand on my shoulder and we just started going we rebuke you in the name of Jesus we have generations of generational promise here the spirit of the Lord is here. God Almighty is rescuing children here and my son started prophesying against it. So Jerry Sellers who is my executive pastor he's off wandering around praying somewhere and I yelled at him I said Jerry come here and so Jerry comes up there he said yes sir I said now look now don't panic and don't freak out but turn around and tell me what you see on that mountain up there and he turned around he's like where and I said up on the top up there and he goes oh my God it's a giant when he said that oh when he said that this kind of this thing kind of went like this and it turned around and as it took it took like three strides and it was over the face and as it did it it changed back and forth from a tree to a person a tree to a person as it was going off.

SPEAKER_02 37:49

So they can transfigure and uh there's plenty of accounts of in the Bible of angels possibly transfiguring so why not you know demons or giants or an ephalum or whatever you want to call so they weren't human giants they were definitely demonic and I went yeah that thing can camouflage somehow and we're like wow so then the people they're looking at what we're looking at and they don't see it now because it's gone and they're like what's going on Capasa and I said guys does anybody here ever tell y'all that there's a giant in this region and all the pastors went yeah there's one that lives on top of that mountain right up there oh my gosh wow you got like five or six or more people confirming Wow so if you believe him he he kind of confirmed it by telling all the other guys about it and they was like yeah there's giants right up on that other mountain over there confirmation well uh anyway so if you want to watch the rest of that uh he goes into um talking about uh uh rescuing children from Mexico uh which is where it was and again it was on uh Faith with Katie as her podcast Katie Sosa um and then his his ministry is Troy Bebre Ministries if you want to look into more of his encounters and stories and um but uh the rest of the video he gets kind of graphic about um um trafficking children he he's he rescues trafficking children for like that's what he does and he's saved thousands of children uh through his ministry so go check him out check out her podcast it's really interesting um then I came across you know this picture uh that I showed you earlier and then I was like I wonder if there's you know there are giants today that live amongst us and so I was just kind of looking into it and wanted to just kind of find something on modern giants that walk amongst us people and uh this video popped um I'm not gonna play it because there's a lot of music and stuff but it it talks about um it's on YouTube and this was the picture they this is their picture it's from the channel so it it has Andre the Giant um it's got so brother just tall people there was uh the guy that played as um this guy from Harry Potter um I keep wanting to say Gandalf that's from Lord of the Rings it's not Gandolf Haggard that's Hagrid the guy that plays as Hagrid uh he's re he recently passed away the the actor um but there's lots of other accounts on here um there's too much music so I can't really play the video but it was really interesting uh it's from MoTech it's called Real Life Human Giants Still Exists Today it's from two years ago and it talks about different giants that live amongst us and it it it just they're really tall people some of them almost eight feet and anyways so I guess that's all I have for this evening. Um maybe maybe this week Gary and I'll come up with something else and Gary will run the show again um but we'll see this is all I I've got for the evening um thank you so much for watching and I will see you probably Monday night. We'll probably uh stream again. I know Gary was wanting to do something about uh Melania and Trump Donald Trump so we'll probably go over that because that's uh that's updated news then we're trying to do like a little news segment keep up with the local news because it it's very important these days so thank you so much for watching and I will catch you on the next one. Bye

SPEAKER_01 44:01

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