Aliens, Demons, Nephilim

(or Extra Terrestrials/Dimensionals)

There has been massive dissemination of information over the past 15 years concerning aliens, and angels. I have watched countless hours of televised accounts of alien encounters and spacecraft, abductions, and direct contact by angels. Most preachers do not talk about this issue for fear of being ridiculed, rejected as heretics or if they mention it, people believe they have crossed set conservative theological or doctrinal boundaries, yet I believe they are just not doing their homework. Chuck Missler and Benny Hinn have come to the forefront on this issue and have come up with some very interesting scriptural clues. This article deals with their findings and some scriptural basis for the existence of non-human beings on our planet. You may not believe in aliens, but there is something unquestionably up there. (Also see Pre-Adamic Race). The Bible deals with major prophetic themes on the following topics; 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Israel Jerusalem Temple Babylon Russia (Magog) The rise of China 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. The decline of the USA The European super-state Global government A one world ecumenical religion The rise of the occult & UFOs

UFO Sightings:
On June 18, 1997 the USA Today reported on an event which occurred 3 months prior to the news story which was a report concerning a close encounter of the 3rd kind which happened during the evening hours over Phoenix, Arizona. Literally thousands of people witnessed a UFO shaped like a giant V overhead in a fixed and hovering position. UFOs have been recorded historically in Egyptian hieroglyphics, cave murals, famous paintings and they are reported in the ship logs of Christopher Columbus, and in the journals of Alexander the Great. The commencement of numerous recent sightings began on July 4th, 1947 in Roswell, New Mexico. Even the U.S. Army issued a press release advising that a UFO had crash-landed, but the Army later rescinded that report and declared that it was just a downed weather balloon. The best evidence came to light recently when researcher, David Rudiak was able to identify two key phrases from a photograph taken July 8, 1947 in Ft. Worth, Texas, by James Johnson of the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram. His photograph of General Ramey during the second press briefing, showed him clutching a communiqu to Washington, D.C. while he was displaying a deflated weather balloon just hours after Army officers in Roswell had reported a UFO crash. Utilizing a digital photo scanner and a computer program designed for digital enhancement and analysis, he was able to enhance and enlarge the words printed on the folded communiqu, held by General Ramey which said, the victims of the wreck and in the disc they will ship. On July 5th, 1953, Washington D.C. had numerous sightings at times, wherein jet fighters were deployed to investigate and the sightings caused major concerns in our capital. In Mexico City in 1993, massive sightings were reported of numerous objects in the sky and a large cigar shaped UFO was televised for 10 minutes over Seoul, Korea on November 23, 1996. Astronauts Jim Lovell and Frank Borman saw a UFO from Gemini 7 in December 1965. Gordon Cooper saw a UFO, May 15, 1963, tracked simultaneously by an Australian radar station. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin witnessed lights on July 21, 1969 in a moon crater, and two large objects were hovering and observing their spacecraft. Ed White, James McDivitt (from Gemini), Walter Shirra, Gordon Cooper and Donald Slayton (Mercury), Ed Mitchell and Eugene Cernan (Apollo), Major Robert White and Joseph Walker (X-15 pilots), Scott Carpenter and John Blaha (NASA and Discovery) have also reported seeing UFOs. John Blaha said from 168

flight, March 24th 1989, Houston, this is Discovery. We still have the alien spacecraft under observation. There exist over 6,000 professional publications and 2,200 foreign professional publications; 1,350 UFO periodicals, 700 books written between 1650 and 1945, and 300 books written prior to 1650. In recent polls, it was determined that; 57% of Americans believe in UFOs. 15% have seen one. 2% have been abducted by aliens. Many UFOs have been seen and plotted on multiple radars, and have left evidence on the ground such as radiation and unusual marks in the soil, and of course, they have been filmed and photographed. Their speeds have been recorded in excess of 6,000 mph without creating sonic booms, they make right angle turns while moving at over 16,000 mph, and they materialize and dematerialize, instantly. It is possible that crop circles are a type of communication; a preparation for, and introduction to, the antichrist. Luke writes, and there will be fearful sights and great signs from heaven. Lk. 22:11and there will be signs in the sun, in the moon, and in the stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity Lk. 22:25.

4th Dimensional Parallel World:

Is it possible that these creatures could be traveling in and out of hyperspace, a 4th dimensional parallel world? Einstein developed his theory of special relativity in 1905, stating that length, mass, velocity and time are relative to the velocity of the observer. His general relativity theory printed in 1915, said that there was no distinction between time and space. This concludes that there is a 4th dimension continuum, now widely accepted by physicists including that time varies with mass, acceleration, and gravity and time itself is a physical property, a theory gaining some favorable international momentum.

Aliens-The fallen ones of old:

Fallen Angels (NEPHILIM); Ungodly genealogy:
Are they fallen angels (not demons) or a hybrid mix, a race of human/fallen angels? Revelation speaks of strange signs in the sky and that even the elect may be deceived. The Bible says, For the mystery of the lawlessness is already at work; only He (Holy Spirit) who now restrains will do so until He (Holy Spirit) is taken out of the way. And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming. The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this reason God will send them strong delusion that they should believe the lie that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness. 2 Thes. 7-11. And David writesWhy do the nations rage and people plot a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD and against His Anointed, saying, Let us break Their (the Trinitys) bonds in pieces and cast away Their cords from us. Ps. 2:1-3; Acts 4:25. What does Paul mean when he says, all unrighteous deception?and why did he say the lie instead of a lie? Even Jesus said, For false Christs and false prophets will arise and show great signs and wonders to deceive if possible even the elect. Mt. 24:24

Dead Sea Scroll reference to Nephilim:

Manuscript fragments from the Dead Sea Scrolls, discovered in 1947 contained in cave 4, up to 11 copies of the Book of Giants, a literary work concerned with Enoch. The book refers to the Nephilim, who are also called the Watchers. In fragments 1-6 of 4Q532 the preserved but broken text reads; with fleshallthe Nephilimwill bethey were rising upPious Knowledgeso that whenthe earthMighty Oneswere firmly decidedAnd I(they) will beby the Eternal Watchers(in the end) he will perish and die. And.who.allowed He(aven).Lord of Lords.between.on the earth among all fl(esh)in Heaven. Andthen there will not.and gr(eat) Knowledge.and the stro(ng) will be bound.and in the same cave in 169

Pseudo Jubilees, 4Q227, fragment 2(E)noch after we instructed himsix Jubilees of years(ea)rth among all mankind and he witnessed against them alland also against the Watchers. And he wrote down all the (the) heavens and all the paths of their hosts (ie. The heavenly bodies) all (the mon)ths(in whi)ch the Rig(hteous) have not erred. Watcher vocabulary appears in the Testament of Amram 4Q543, 545-548. In line 13 of manuscript B, the Enochic Watchers are identified with the serpent with the visage of a viper. Do the giants watch from above? They were rising up with Pious Knowledge (capitalized) and were witnessed against by righteous Enoch (who was taken up by God and was no more). Consider other scripture. Matthew wrote, But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. Mat. 24:37. Moses wrote, Now it came to pass, when men began to multiple on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose. Gen. 6:1-2. The phrase sons of God is Bene HaElohim, which is Hebrew for angels. This word is used in the Old Testament exclusively, for angels. See Job 1:6, 2:1, 38:7; Luke 21:36. Daughters of men, in Hebrew is translated daughters of Adam. Gen. 6:4 reads, There were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came into the daughters of men and they bore children to them. It is generally believed that these giant-like mighty men, were the offspring of demonic tyrants (fallen angels) who filled the earth with violence. (See Gen. 6:11). The word in Hebrew is Nephilim and its root word naphal means fallen ones; to fall away; cast down. Why was there no record of women of renown? Were women babies not born, or were they killed at birth? And they gave the Children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature. There we saw the giants (the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight. Num. 13:32-33. (see also Ezek. 32:20-28). Therefore Holy Scripture plainly declares that angels fell down from heaven and procreated with women who gave birth to the Nephilim. Remember. God said, I will put enmity between your and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed. Gen. 3:3:15. I believe God refers here to physical DNA strands, not just spiritual seed because the womans seed is capitalized meaning it was the Seed of Jesus, himself.

Passages from the Book of Enoch:

The apocryphal book of Enoch is not found included in the approved canons of scripture, however, it is found in the Dead Sea Scrolls and it is referred to and quoted from our bibles Book of Jude. Jude 14-15. And all the others together with them took unto themselves wives, and each chose for himself one, and they began to go in unto them and to defile themselves with them, and they taught them charms acquainted with plants. And they became pregnant and they bare great giants whose height was three thousand ells who consumed all the acquisitions of men. And when men could no longer sustain them, the giants turned against them and devoured mankind. And they began to devour one anothers flesh and drink the blood. Then the earth laid accusation against the lawless ones. Book of Enoch VII 1-6. And Azazel taught men to make swords and knives and shields and breastplates and made known to them the metals and the art of working them and bracelets and ornaments and the use of antimony and the beautifying of the eyelids and all kinds of costly stones and all coloring tinctures. And there arose much godlessness and they committed fornication and they were led astray and became corrupt in all their ways. Semjaza taught enchantments and root cuttings, Armaros the resolving of enchantments, Baraqijal astrology, Kobabel the constellations, Ezeqeel the knowledge of the clouds, Araziel the signs of the earth, Shamsiel the signs of the sun and Sariel the course of the moon. Enoch VIII 1-4. And then Michal, Uriel, Raphael and Gabriel looked down from heaven and saw much blood being shed upon the earth and all lawlessness being wrought upon the earth. And they said to the Lord of Ages, Thou seest what Azazel hath done and hath taught all unrighteousness on earth, and revealed the eternal secrets which were preserved in heaven which men were striving to learn. And they have gone to the daughters of men upon the earth and have slept with the women and have defiled themselves and revealed to them all kinds of sin. The 170

women have borne giants, the whole earth has been filled with blood and unrighteousness. Enoch IX 1-11. And the Lord said unto Michael, Go bind Semjaza and his associates who have united themselves with women so as to have defiled themselves with them in all their uncleanness. In those days they shall be led off to the abyss of fire and to torment and the prison in which they shall be confined forever. And destroy all the spirits of the reprobate and the children of the Watchers, because they have wronged mankind. Enoch X 4-15. And I saw a deep abyss with columns of heavenly fire. I saw there seven stars like great burning mountains, and to me, when I inquired regarding them, the angel said: This place is the end of Heaven and Earth: this has become a prison for the stars and the host of heaven. And the stars roll over the fire and they which have transgressed the commandment of the Lord in the beginning of their rising, because they did not come forth at their appointed times. And He was wroth with them and bounded them till the time when their guilt should be consummated (even) for ten thousand years. And Uriel said to me: Here shall stand the angels who have connected themselves with women, and their spirits, assuming many different forms, are defiling mankind, and shall lead them astray into sacrificing to demons till the day of the great judgment in which they shall be judged till they are made an end of. And the women also of the angels who went astray shall become sirens. Enoch XXVII 11.

A Great Clue: why did Jehovah God say: Kill every Man, Woman and Nursing Child?
Jude 6,7 reveals, And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day; as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. Peter writes, For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to Hell (Heb. Tartarus)and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight peoplebringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly, and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly 2 Pet. 2:4-5. What was happening here was that all mankind, save for Noah and his family, was possibly of a corrupt genealogy and was totally Godless. Thats why Moses said, So God looked upon the earth, and indeed it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth. God wanted all of the corrupted seed destroyed. Here is Samuels word to Saul, from the Lord; Now go and attack Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and do not spare them. But kill both man, woman, infant and nursing child 1 Samuel 15:3, and again But of these cities of these peoples which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance, you shall let nothing that breathes remain alive, but you shall utterly destroy them; the Hittite and the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, just as the LORD your God has commanded you, lest they teach you to do according to all their abominations which they have done for their gods Gen 20:16-18. And by the orders of God, Joshua, utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and oldwith the edge of the sword. Josh. 6:21. Also, Joshua and his armies defeated the 60 great (nephilim) cities of Bashan and their king, Og. (See Post Flood Nephilim, infra).

Angels who sinned; To Tartarus:

In Greek mythology, Homer referred to an underground holding place for the giants which rebelled against the Greek God, Zeus. He called this place, Tartarus, and this same Greek word appears only once in scriptures. For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell (Tartarus) and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment, and did not spare the ancient world2 Pet. 2:4-5.

Secular historians writings of giants:

Pliny the Elder, 23-79 A.D., wrote; It is a matter of observation that the stature of the entire human race is becoming smallerwhen a mountain in Crete was cleft by an earthquake a skeleton 46 cubits long was found, which some people thought must be that of Orion and others (the young giant) Otus. The records attest that the skeleton of Orestes dug up at the command of the oracle measured 7 cubits. Moreover the famous Homer, nearly 1,000 years ago never ceased to 171

lament that mortals were of smaller stature than in the old days. (Natural History 7.73-75).

Godly Genealogy:
Back to Gen. 6:9. This is the genealogy of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations. The Hebrew word for perfect is tamiym, without blemish, unimpaired. Noahs genealogy (apparently alone) was not contaminated. It is probable that the contamination which existed was the hybrid mix of fallen angels and humans, but what made Noahs genealogy so distinctive is that God had to retain a special lineage for Christ. The fallen angel view referred to in the above scripture verses is supported by: 1. The Book of Enoch. 2. Flavius Joseph 3. Traditional Rabbinical literature. 4. Septuagint translators. 5. Most early church fathers such as Philo of Alexandria, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Athenagores, Tertullian, Lactantius, Amrose, and Julian. Well know modern theologians who hold this position, are A.W. Pink, Donald Barnhouse, G.H. Pember, Hal Lindsay and Chuck Smith.

Who or What, are the Nephilim and Post Flood Nephilim?

Did these beings continue after the flood until today? God said, My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years. (This means that God knew He would wipe out an impure and evil race and would provide a great flood to accomplish this purification). There were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward Gen. 6:3-4. This probably means that some of the Nephilim either survived the flood and others were born after the flood again parenting with human women, ie., Rephaim, Emim, Horim, Zamzummim, Gen. 14,15; Arba, Anak (the Anakim) and his 7 sons, Num. 13:33; and Og, king of Bashan, Deut. 3:11, Josh. 12, Goliath and his four brothers. 1 Sam. 17:4; 2 Sam. 21:16-22. Moses wrote, The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature. There we saw the giants (Nephilim) (the descendants of Anak came from the giants) and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight. Num. 13:32-33. When God revealed to Abraham that the land of Canaan was to given to him, Satan had 400 hundred years to plant and seed his mine field with Nephilim to thwart Gods promise. The Hebrews fear of these great creatures resulted in their being relegated to wandering in the wilderness for 38 years and when Joshua and Israel entered the land of Canaan, they were then instructed to kill all the Nephilim inhabitants. This scripture verse indicates to me that there had existed an abominable gene pool problem in the eyes of God, which for mans sake, had to be eradiated. All humans are directly related to Noah, however, his son Ham and his line of descendants were cursed by Noah. Cursed by Canaan; a servant of servants he shall be to his brethren. Gen. 9:25. Ham was cursed by God and I believe that his descendants mixed with fallen angels to become a tribe of Nephilim. His descendants included the notorious Nimrod Cush begot Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one on the earth. Gen. 10:8. (The phrase began to be and similar phrases, are used in scripture to mark important historical developments) Nimrod built Babel and Nineveh and Hams descendants occupied Sodom and Gomorrah and they included Aram, Amorites, Canaanites and the Philistines. Genesis 10. It is interesting to note that Abraham polluted the pure Hebrew genealogy by taking Hagar the Egyptian slave as his wife and fathering Ishmael. Ishmael is the father of the Arabs and the Muslim faith. Hagar was from Hams descendants. Sarah, Abrahams wife was responsible for seducing Abraham to sin by having him father Ishmael through Hagar, as Eve was responsible in the Garden of Eden in seducing Adam to eat from the forbidden tree.

The Angels that did not keep their own estate: Genetic splicing:
And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, He has reserved in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great day. Jude 6,7. Interestingly, the Greek word for 172

habitation or abode is oiketerion (spiritual body) and it is only used in this verse and in 2 Cor. 5:2, and it refers to the spiritual body. I believe that these fallen angels were the angels cast out of heaven by the curse of God which left their spiritual bodies subsequent to their ascent into heaven to war against God and His Kingdom and became stripped of all power and eventually transformed into early physical flesh bodies (cavemen) which could procreate and eventually copulate with human women and produce Nephilim. These were the fallen sons of God described in this article and scripture says that they did in fact copulate with human women both before and after the Noahic flood. Isaiah reported that Lucifer said, I will ascend into heavenI will sit on the mount of the congregationI will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High. Isa. 14:12-14. Moreover, they were cursed with physical flesh bodies and they were given the ability to reproduce and with it, attempt to destroy or seriously disrupt Gods plan for humanity. Even today, many scientists have an aversion to genetic splicing and cloning, a way of playing God. As with the Great Sphinx in Egypt, there are many other remaining ancient archeological symbols of half-man/half-animal. Is this the Nephilims way of reminding us that there was a sexual joining of angel-kind to mankind through the woman? These half-breeds intended to rule the world through this evil mix and not only do we see this avidly in Egyptian culture but through most ancient cultures and this is an important feature or doctrine in present-day Satanism. The minotaur was portrayed as the body of a man and the head of a bull, while the centaur was the body of a horse and the head of a man and the Greek God Pan, was half man and half goat.

Satans Nephilim mimics the 12 tribes of Judah (always a sign of Satan)

Throughout scripture, Satan attempts to govern by mimicking the ways of God because it is said that there is always a grain of truth in all that Satan offers humans. By mimicking Gods ways, it brings a sense of credibility to the devils evil ways because it is aligned to the Lords thinking and procedure, however, it is always established on the dark side for evil purposes and every plan engineered by Satan is a lie, a fabrication and it leads to destruction. The 12 tribes of the Nephilim (the giants) (a play on the 12 tribes of Israel) which surrounded Jerusalem 436 years after the Nohaic flood, are called the 1) Rephaims; 2) Canaanites; 3) Zuzims; 4) Zamzummims: 5) Jebusites; 6) Hittites; 7) Perizzites; 8) Emims; 9) Avims; 10) Anakims; 11) Amorites; 12) Horims. The Bible refers to the Rephaims, and in Hebrew, Rapha means giant or fearful one. Emmim is translated terrible ones; Anak, means long-neck; giant; Anak was the son of Arba, which means strength of Baal. The book of Deuteronomy also makes reference to the Emimsa people great and many and tall as the Anakims, which also were accounted giants as the Anakims, but the Moabites call them Emims. Deut. 2:8-11. It is very interesting to note that Moses sent out 12 spies to spy on the land of Cannan. Also, the Horim tribe in Hebrew is Troglodyte, which means cave dwellers, or cavemen and this tribe (related to the Rephaim and Emim) dwelt at Mount Seir and they built in sandstone cliffs and the mountains of Edom, and Petra.

Satans attempt to disrupt the Messianic Line:

Satan tried repeatedly to disrupt the Messianic Seed by: 1 2 3 4 5 6 Corruption of Adams line Gen. 6 Corruption of Adams seed. Gen. 12:20 Death by famine. Gen. 50 Destruction of male line Exod. 1 Pharaohs pursuit. Exod. 14 Repopulating of Canaan 7 8 9 10 11 12 Two storms on the sea. Mk. 4; Lk. 8 Attempted stoning of Christ. Temptation of Christ Inspiring Herods attempt to murder Him Lk. 4 The Cross Attacking Davids line. 2 Sam. 7:2; Chron. 21:22; Isa 36:38; Esther 3

ALIENS; ABDUCTIONS:
Some estimates indicate that approximately 2% (around 6 million people) of the U.S. population have reported having been abducted by alien life forms. The abductors seem interested in harvesting male sperm, and implanting or harvesting human fetuses. This thought takes us back to scripture indicating that fallen angels copulate with (non-Godly) women or at least are interested in propagating the corrupted Nephilim line, in order 173

to repopulate the earth. Are abductions a repetition of the bizarre events spoken of in Genesis 6? In theory at least, demons may be the souls of the deceased Nephilim and fallen angels and demons may work together to come against Gods Kingdom and His elect. The abductee's; 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. UFO Occupants are identified as:

Show a high degree of consistency 1. Greys (diminutive beings) Have absence of psychiatric illness 2. Human like Show physical changes and lesions 3. Reptilian like (see Rev. 16:13-14 Abductions are witnessed by others while abductions occur Include small children

SIGNS FROM THE STARS AND THINGS COMING ON THE EARTH

Jesus said, There will be signs in the sun, in the moon, and in the stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring; mens hearts failing them for fear and the expectation of those things which are coming on the earth, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken. Luke 21: 25-26.

DEMONS:
Demons seek embodiment but fallen angels have bodies of their own (from creation) and they do not seek embodiment. Therefore, demons (or evil spirits) may be the offspring of the Nephilim, and/or the offspring of the fallen angels and women. There is nothing in scripture to suggest that a fallen angel is the same thing as a demon. For Satan to create a better and bigger army, he needed a way to create evil beings. He has 1/3rd of the heavenly host already (fallen angels), but he can add countless soldiers to his camp with the creation of a demon (corrupted soul and corrupted genealogy) from the fallen angel/human mix. These beings at death are not eligible for salvation. It has been reported that Christian women have not been subjected to abduction and genetic mingling, unless they have given the grays permission. Why are Christians not subjected to aliens? This is a very important point, which leads me to believe that these are Biblical spiritual events, and not aliens from another world. Isaiah said, O Lord our God, masters besides You have had dominion over us; But by You only we make mention of Your Name. They are dead, they will not livethey are deceased, they will not rise. Isa. 26:14. The Seed of the woman in Genesis (Seed is capitalized) is direct reference to Jesus Christ. But what about the seed of the serpent? Could this be a Nephilim line including Satan (the Red Dragon) who fathers the son of Satan (the Antichrist) and the false prophet? At the end times, many false Christs will arise which come from a corrupted genealogy. What did Jesus mean when he said, For false Christs and false prophets will arise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect? Mt. 24:24

ANGELS: Angels in scripture;

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Appear in human form, at Sodom and Gomorrah Were at the tomb of Jesus and at His ascension Spoke to men, took men by the hand and ate meals with men Were involved in the Passover in Egypt Do not marry (in heaven) Fought battles against Gods enemies on the earth Daniel had been interdicted by the Prince of Persia, an evil being, for 21 days.

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