Prophecy in the Spotlight with Dan Goodwin What Is In Genesis 6: The Sons Of God And The Truth About The Nephilim Dan Goodwin and Dr. Charles Hiltibidal spend the broadcast on Genesis 6, arguing from Matthew, Luke, Jude, and Ephesians that the "sons of God" are not fallen angels, and that the popular Nephilim theory is a modern distraction from the chapter's real message about man's wickedness, Noah's righteousness, and God's plan of redemption. Reading Genesis 6 And The Nephilim Distraction Dan Goodwin opens the broadcast alone, reading the opening verses of Genesis 6 and pointing out that the text says "men," plural, multiplying on the earth, not fallen angels or Nephilim. He tells viewers the passage contains nothing about angelic offspring or UFOs, calling that reading "nonsense" that is "not even possible." Goodwin introduces his book, The Great End Time Distraction, describing its three parts: what he calls the Nephilim crowd's teachings quoted from their own writings, a method for studying the question honestly, and what he believes the Bible actually says. He reads a passage from the book warning that confusion over the "sons of God" in Genesis 6 has spread through prophecy ministries for decades, with some teachers claiming that offspring of angels and human women cannot be saved. He previews the day's topic, "What Is In Genesis 6," promising slides from Dr. Charles Hiltibidal once the show returns from its opening break. A Ministry Kept On The Air By Viewers Back from the break, Goodwin thanks viewers for keeping the program on television and YouTube for more than six years, noting that neither he nor Dr. Charles Hiltibidal draws a salary from the ministry and that donations pay for staying on multiple networks. He walks through the ways to give, an 800 number, a website, a phone line staffed by "the ladies," and the option to talk with him or Hiltibidal directly before donating. The two men grow personal, with Hiltibidal describing the two-hour drive he makes each way to reach the studio, the technology his wife maintains, and the building and taxes he is still paying on, while Goodwin says he would quit if he did not believe the work was making a difference. Hiltibidal adds that a woman texts him weekly asking whether something she has heard "sounds right," proof, he says, that people genuinely want the truth. Goodwin lightens the mood by asking, half-joking, whether the angels supposedly flying UFOs use a steering wheel or a joystick. Debunking The Fallen Angel Theory Hiltibidal explains that the day's slides come from his weekly podcast, Walk Through Time with Doc, where he devoted an earlier session to what is not in Genesis 6 before turning to what is. He recaps that the chapter never mentions angels leaving their "first estate," developing physical bodies, or fathering children, and traces the popular fallen-angel reading to the book of Enoch, which he says arose during the four hundred silent years when God gave no open revelation. He and Goodwin walk through Matthew's and Luke's statement that the days before Christ's return will mirror the days of Noah, people eating, marrying, and building homes with no concern for God, and Luke's parallel reference to the days of Lot. Hiltibidal challenges the claim that Jude's "strange flesh" describes fallen angels, asking how a spirit being could create a body it was never given, and Goodwin cites Ephesians 6 that "we wrestle not against flesh and blood" since angels have neither. Hiltibidal notes that the Hebrew word rendered "giants" in Genesis 6 is nephel, not Nephilim, calling the substitution dishonest. Laws Of Interpretation And The Sons Of God Hiltibidal lays out what he calls the laws of Bible interpretation: keeping a verse in its context, the law of consistency, since he says God does not use a term differently in different places, and the law of first mention, how God's earliest use of a word or phrase governs its meaning throughout scripture. Goodwin compares the last principle to a courtroom lawyer citing an 1892 precedent to argue how a case should be decided today. Hiltibidal pushes back on the common claim that "sons of God" means angels in the Old Testament but believers in the New, insisting God would not use a phrase that inconsistently. Goodwin says his own book devotes a chapter to the exact phrase, counting eleven uses of "sons of God" in the Bible, ten referring to believers and one, in Job 38, functioning as a metaphor within a chapter he calls entirely figurative. Hiltibidal returns to Genesis 6:5, reading that every imagination of man's heart was "evil only continually," and calls it an exact description of today's world. From Eden's Accountability To Noah's Generations Goodwin turns to Genesis 3, recalling how God calls out to Adam after the fall, not because he does not know where Adam is, but to give him a chance to confess, and how Adam, Eve, and the serpent are each in turn held accountable for the sin. He contrasts that with Genesis 6, where no fallen angel is ever named or blamed, evidence, he argues, that none were involved. Hiltibidal turns to verse 9, "Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations," and ties it to chapters 4 and 5, which he says run together over roughly sixteen hundred years, chapter 4 tracing Cain's ungodly line and chapter 5 the line of Seth, from whom Noah descends. He argues the verse points less to Noah's ancestry than to his spiritual standing, since only God can declare a person just, and that no one is made righteous by covering, like Adam's fig-leaf apron, but only through faith in the shedding of innocent blood for a guilty sinner. The Ark, Redemption, And A Final Appeal Hiltibidal corrects a popular idea that Noah's ark pictures the Rapture, arguing that a true rapture picture would end in heaven, not back on the earth; instead he calls the ark a picture of Israel, preserved through judgment into the Millennial Reign. He traces the flood's purpose to the redemption promised in Genesis 3, carried through the covenants with Noah, Abraham, and David to Christ, quoting Galatians 4:4 that "in the fulness of time God sent forth his Son," and notes that Noah's grandfather Methuselah, also a preacher of righteousness, died the very year of the flood. Goodwin asks Hiltibidal about his podcast, Walk Through Time with Doc, produced with his grandson Jacob and currently working through Genesis 10 and 11, before turning the discussion toward salvation, asking listeners whether they have been "redeemed" and know for certain they are heaven bound. He closes the broadcast, thanking viewers for their support and sending them off with the program's familiar sign-off, telling them to keep their eyes on the skies.
