Answers to Giant Questions: How Understanding the Biblical Nephilim Will Enlarge Your Faith

by T.J. Steadman

In Habakkuk’s prayer, he recounts the Exodus and the triumphant march of Yahweh from the south (Egypt) up into Canaan via Edom and Moab, represented by the borders of Midian (Teman and Paran). And Habakkuk speaks of plague and pestilence accompanying Yahweh like some sort of entourage, a concept common in the ancient world.[lix] This makes a lot more sense when we remember that God has lesser gods (`elohiym) subservient to Him, and that in ancient Canaan, there were gods venerated by the indigenous inhabitants of the land, who went by the names of Resheph and Deber; literally Plague and Pestilence. These two lesser gods, according to Habakkuk, were called upon by Yahweh to serve His purposes in delivering Israel into their land.