Question: What is the difference between Canaanites and Israelites?
They are clearly not Israelites!
Zech.14:21.
Some opinion is that it is a collective name for Nephilim, which is why the Jews were forbidden to mix with them in marriage.
That has some veracity, as it is known that some of the Pharisees did mix, and they became the dominant ruling group in Israel!
The main purpose of the Nephilim was to corrupt the seed of Adam/Eve, to stop the birth of “the 2nd. Adam” (Gen.3:15) & (1Cor.15:45–47).
Discussions are conducted occasionally, however quite infrequently, on the subject of Nephilim. Usually, the subject is raised by a new Christian (Christ-One), after coming across the subject of giants in Scripture, and seeing the references in Genesis 6:2-4, and also others in the Old Testament, (OT).
In Gen.15, Abram is told by Almighty God the lands He will give to him and his seed. Some or all of the people named in verses 18 to 21 are considered Nephilim and had to be displaced by Israel at a later date, when they took possession of those lands under the leadership of Joshua.
To treat the subject seriously, three main questions need to be addressed.
1) Who were they?
2) How and why were they produced?
3) Are they still on Earth?
See: Nephilim, who were they, and why?
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