Angels and the Nephilim — front cover Angels are big business. For a fee, someone will tell you your angel’s name. Card decks promise messages from them, therapists channel them, preachers teach you to command them — and somewhere underneath it all, the Nephilim have become an industry of their own, complete with giant skeletons that always vanish before anyone can check. But what does the Bible actually say an angel is? Angels and Their Worship, now in preparation, puts the whole subject on the audit table in seventeen chapters and three parts, and it starts with a surprise: in the text, “angel” is a job description, not a species name.

Part I asks what the Bible actually says. The honest inventory of heaven’s ranks is set against the famous nine choirs — and the reader can watch where the nine came from, and when. The named ones get their own examination: Gabriel the announcing angel, Michael the warring prince, and the “only three” rule the tradition built around them. Then a chapter on what angels are not: humans do not become angels when they die; cherubs are not chubby babies; “a third of the angels fell” turns out to be tradition’s arithmetic, not the text’s; and Satan was never called an archangel in Scripture at all. A chapter on what Christians actually believe — pew against pulpit, across a 1,600-year round trip — shows how far the folk doctrine has drifted from the passages it claims.

Part II walks the thin line of angel worship itself. It opens in Colossae, with the prohibition Paul pronounced, and at the feet of the angel who rebuked John — twice — for falling down before him: “See thou do it not… worship God.” The council that said no gets its hearing (Canon 35), and the medieval answer — latria versus dulia — is stated from both sides, honestly. Then the modern version: angel therapy and card decks, the angel who never convicts, commanding angels, and the one famous teacher who walked away from the whole business. The part closes with testing the spirits — the biblical discernment pattern — and with the Angel of the LORD, the classic disputed standing open where the evidence leaves it.

Part III takes up the Nephilim. Genesis 6:1–4 is read word by word; the three serious readings — angelic, Sethite, and royal-dynastic — are laid side by side with an honest scorecard; the giant clans and the Watchers follow; and today’s noise is audited claim by claim, from the Smithsonian’s supposedly destroyed skeletons to Sitchin, demolished. The skeptics get their best case at full strength before the book closes on what remains open, with every rating gathered in one place. The charter is the Press’s charter: the text first, the strongest opposing case heard fairly, and nothing — not even the angels — worshipped in place of God.

In preparation at Latter Rain Ministry Press.