Planet X: God's Conflict with the Dragon in the Sea
December 02, 2010
by Douglas A. Elwell
When writing my book "Planet X, the Sign of the Son of Man, and the End of the Age", instead of leaping right into an analysis of the possible existence of Planet X from the astronomical, mythological and biblical perspectives, I thought it wise to first do a thorough analysis of the biblical concept of the Creation, set in the context of ancient Near Eastern concepts of the Creation, to ensure that the concept of God using another planet in our solar system to (re)create Earth fit into the biblical Creation paradigm.
During my thorough study of the Creation references throughout the Bible, I found that the majority of the references to the Creation in the Bible are not in the Book of Genesis, but are actually spread out throughout many of the books of the Bible, particularly Isaiah, the Psalms and Job. And in many of these references, God is described as doing battle with a "dragon", from whose body He created heaven and Earth.
For example, Psalm 74 (KJV) describes God doing battle with a dragon named "Leviathan", which He defeated and broke into pieces. The defeat of the dragon is then immediately followed by a Creation passage that describes how God set Earth's axial tilt, rotation rate and orbit to their current state. Psalm 89:10 also describes God's creation battle with the dragon, named "Rahab" in this psalm, where God is once again described as breaking the dragon into pieces, followed in verse 11 by a reference to the creation of the heavens and Earth. Isaiah 51:9 describes how God "cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon", verse 13 then describing God as the one who "hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth". Job 26:12 (NIV) once again mentions God cutting Rahab the dragon into pieces as part of an entire chapter devoted to describing the specifics of the Creation, and Job 9:13 talks about how the cohorts of Rahab cowered at God's feet, once again in the context of Creation. Every time God is described as defeating a dragon in the Bible, it is always described in the context of the creation of the heavens and Earth.
During my time at Wheaton College Graduate School, I had access to one of the best theological libraries in the world. And in this library, I was able to find, or locate via interlibrary loan, numerous books and articles that covered the subject of the God-dragon creation combat theme found throughout the Old Testament. Such scholars as Hermann Gunkel, Mary K. Wakeman, John Day, and numerous others, surprised me with the level of information regarding the Creation that has to do with the God-dragon creation theme in the Old Testament ─ even more than I had found in my own research.
These scholars also compared the biblical Creation material to that found in many other ancient Near Eastern countries, particularly ancient Babylon. The Babylonian creation story, Enuma Elish (lit., "When on High"), like the Bible, also details a creation battle between the chief deity of their pantheon, in this case, a false idol named "Marduk", and a dragon-goddess named "Tiamat". In the Babylonian Creation Epic, Marduk also defeats the dragon and creates heaven and Earth from her broken body, just as God is described as defeating the dragon Leviathan and creating heaven and Earth from her body. A such, this "divine conflict creation theme" appears to have been the dominant Creation paradigm throughout the ancient Near East for thousands of years.
Planet X, the Annunaki and the Nephilim
In chapter II of my book Planet X, the Sign of the Son of Man, and the End of the Age, I discuss how astral worship, the worship of the stars, and particularly the planets, was the basis of ancient Near Eastern religion. To the ancient mind, every heavenly body has a divine origin and destiny, and this was particularly true for the planets, which were seen as the greatest of all the gods in heaven.
In very ancient times, the ancients also believed that "the gods" came down from the heavens and mingled themselves with the seed of mankind, creating a royal class of demigods whom they equipped and empowered to rule over the world. These deities who came down from heaven to Earth were known to the ancient Sumerians as the Annunaki, literally, "those who came down from heaven to earth", and their offspring were the giants of old - men and women of renown whose great strength, wicked intelligence and titanic arrogance made them feared among the nations.
These beings were also described in the Bible as the Nephilim, literally, "those who came down". The Bible describes how the Nephilim mingled themselves with the seed of mankind and created the giants, who sprang from the line of Cain. This warlike and destructive breed took as many wives as they wished, outpropagating and outconsuming the children of Seth, their wars of conquest all but wiping out the descendants of Seth, the chosen line through whom the Messiah would eventually be born. However, God saved eight of the line of Seth in the ark: Noah, his wife, his three sons and their wives, sending the Flood to wipe out all of the giants and their works (though some of the ancient megalithic structures to be found around the world may actually be remnants of the ancient Annunaki civilization of the world before the Flood).
But where did the Annunaki/Nephilim come from? Their ability to interbreed with mankind, either directly or using in vitro fertilization (literally, "test tube babies"), indicates that they had physical bodies comprised of cells, cells that had DNA that was compatible with our own. This is a requirement for any sort of interbreeding. And if they had bodies, then they needed to have a physical location within three-dimensional space to live in.
As we shall see in Planet X, the Sign of the Son of Man, and the End of the Age, the end times will be a final confrontation between the forces of the Nephilim, described as the "dragon" in the New Testament, and the forces loyal to God, the Elohim. This confrontation will take place not only between the warring armies of the loyal angels and the rebels, between the Elohim and the Nephilim, but also between the two planets that each faction controls: The Nephilim, the Earth, and the Elohim, Planet X. And in the end, there can be only one.
Realizing that I had stumbled upon an ancient, grand truth about the Creation that had been largely forgotten, a truth that modern astronomy is only now beginning to rediscover, I requested an Independent Study with one of my professors that would prove to be the genesis of the creation of a book that would astonish the world.
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Doug Elwell is the publisher of Mysterious World (http://www.mysteriousworld.com), an online journal dedicated to travel, history and ancient mysteries of the world. Doug has master's degrees in Biblical & Ancient Near Eastern Studies and Marketing Communications from Wheaton College Graduate School, and voluminous amounts of experience in researching and writing articles on religion, history, mythology and travel. His first book, Mysterious World: Ireland, received critical acclaim.
Planet X, the Sign of the Son of Man, and the End of the Age will be available for purchasing just in time for Christmas, 2010. Planet Xegesis©™ name, concept and related concepts and materials are all copyright and trademark Douglas A. Elwell. All rights reserved.
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