Today's Verse: Numbers 13:33 (NIV) - We saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them.” After the spies went out to reconnoiter the land of Canaan, they tried to turn the Israelites against launching an attack by instilling fear into them.

Today's Comments: It is interesting to read information about this race of giants. Wikipedia provides what appears to be a fairly decent explanation about them. There is also a U-Tube video that sites evidence for them. Part 2 of this video is also available on U-Tube. While accuracy of this information is definitely questionable, it certainly is interesting, especially to science fiction fans like me. And there are some great shots of some old movies, as well.

In any case, it was not just the fear of these great beings, but it was the purposeful deception that the spies went to that angered God and placed the Israelites in their forty year exile, to wander until a new generation would cross over the River Jordan into the land of milk and honey that God gave to them. And it would be the great king David, who as a shepherd boy with a sling, would slay the last of those giants, Goliath, and whose line would survive, as God promised, when the prophets foretold the birth of the Messiah, Jesus Christ.