Part III: The Remnants — Echoes of the Old World

After the Flood, humanity expands again, but Genesis 11 describes another division. At Babel, people who share one language attempt to establish their own greatness, and God confuses their speech and scatters them. One humanity becomes many peoples, languages, and cultures. Yet Scripture eventually presents a reversal of this pattern. At Pentecost, people from different nations hear the same gospel in their own languages, and Revelation ultimately shows every nation, tribe, people, and language gathered before God. Diversity remains, but division does not.

Part III also addresses one of the book's central mysteries: giant-associated peoples appear again after the Flood. Numbers describes the Anakim and connects them with the Nephilim; Deuteronomy mentions the Rephaim; later Scripture introduces Og of Bashan, Goliath, and a small number of unusual Philistine warriors. One Tree sees a progression in these accounts: populations become regional groups, groups become families, families become isolated individuals, and eventually the references disappear. The book proposes a post-Flood recurrence of the Genesis 6 event as one possible explanation, drawing attention to Genesis 6:4's phrase “and also afterward.”

Genetics provides an interesting structural comparison. Ancient DNA demonstrates that distinct archaic populations interacted more than once. The individual known as Denny had a Neanderthal mother and Denisovan father, while her Denisovan father already carried earlier Neanderthal ancestry. Ancient branches separated, interacted, and sometimes interacted again. This does not prove that archaic hominins were biblical Nephilim, but it demonstrates that repeated admixture among distinguishable ancient populations was biologically possible.

Over generations, inherited DNA becomes fragmented through recombination. A population can disappear while portions of its genetic contribution remain within later descendants. One Tree compares this with the biblical movement from large giant-associated populations to increasingly rare individuals. Eventually, however, the focus shifts away from these physical lineages. Abraham enters the story, and God's attention turns toward a promise that will ultimately reach every family on earth.

References: 

Finding Truth Ministry. (2026). One tree: From many branches to one family in Christ (1st ed.). 

Slon, V., et al. (2018). Nature, 561, 113–116. 

The Holy Bible, New International Version. (2011). Zondervan.

Scripture Referenced: 

Genesis 6:4; 11:1–9; 12:3

Numbers 13:33

Deuteronomy 3:11

1 Samuel 17

2 Samuel 21:15–22

Acts 2:1–11

Revelation 7:9