Yahweh knew the Gerash family of nephilim on Gorpai remained faithful to Koth, but Koth had changed the original human stock to produce the nephilim and it was not known if the older type of human beings would prove to be so obedient.
Yahweh said:
I will call to myself a unique people and if they listen to me, I will give them a Blessing, and they will be a light to all the other humans of Earth, just as family Gerash is a light to all the other nephilim of Gorpai.
And Koth said:
Family Gerash remains faithful to me because I speak to them directly from time to time. Yet if I were to turn away from them for only a short span, they would soon dwindle in unbelief.
So Yahweh said:
Then this shall be the manner by which the humans of Earth are tested. Release three nephilim servants to be instructed by myself, and these servants in turn will bring my commandments to the humans while I remain aloof from them.
Koth said it would be a good test and did as Yahweh asked.
Now in the second Deluge none of the water was transferred to Earth by tunnel, and the impacting comet added much water to Gorpai. When the habitable zone thawed again it was only three hundred miles wide, and the northern and southern ice sheets formed three bridges of ice rather than a single bridge.
A full generation of nephilim lived trapped in the ice in arks or in caves, feeding on stored provisions. When the thaw came Gorpai had been greatly changed. The ocean was divided into three smaller seas, fed by three shorter rivers through three separate lands along the equator, walled by miles of ice cliffs on every side.
The ones who survived among family Antero and family Bellon settled in one land, while the remnants of family Sala and family Larund settled a second land. Family Gerash, which was undiminished by the catastrophe, came out of their cities of ice and settled the third land, but there were also Gerash colonies in the other two lands.
All three families maintained supplies and caves in the ice against the next large impact. After two world-floods the people of Gorpai had a renewed respect for the divine oracles of Koth.
On Earth the religion of the Egyptians was transformed somewhat. The tunnel endpoint was moved from the temples of the Nile delta to Lake Tana, in Ethiopia, near the source of the Blue Nile river. Yahweh sharply curtailed her interaction with the priests there. In the absence of a constant, firm hand of guidance, false Egyptian deities multiplied, although a vestige of sun worship remained with their devotion to Ra.
It never rained in Egypt. Reward for faithfulness was doled out solely through the amount of water that was transferred from Gorpai to Lake Tana through the tunnel. Punishment for disobedience resulted in the transfer of water from Lake Tana back to Gorpai. This directly affected the crops in Egypt. If the Nile did not inundate the fields along its banks before planting, there would be famine.
Yahweh enlisted the aid of three nephilim agents selected by Koth. One was a full-grown yang named Turel, which means The Rock of God. Turel stood a full cubit again over the stature of a tall man of Earth. He had a mane of long gray hair and a gray beard with roots covering much of his face. And Turel carried a golden weapon fashioned by Binah himself, the likes of which had never been seen on Earth nor on Gorpai.
Accompanying Turel were a pair of young teen-aged boys, which among the nephilim were called dirks. They were less than four cubits tall and had no facial hair, so they could pass as adult human men. One of the dirks was named Zophiel, which means God's Spy and the other was named Kemuel, which means Helper of God.
They emerged from the mouth of the tunnel under the surface of Lake Tana with all their supplies packaged in a way to keep them dry. After pulling these goods through the tunnel like a string of beads the nephilim decanted them on the shore of the lake and stored them aboard their raft. Among their supplies was a quantity of gold for the nephilim to trade for other things they needed.
From the mouth of the lake it was thirty miles to the Blue Nile falls, which were sufficiently high to force the nephilim to make portage around them by lowering the raft with ropes. After that, they ran the rapids of the upper Blue Nile gorge, which men have always called unrunnable.
After that, Turel and his servants Zophiel and Kemuel sat in the raft and drifted through deserts with no water except the river they floated on. They passed hippos and human onlookers who dared not approach.
At length they floated into the place where the Blue Nile merged with the White Nile to become the Nile river proper. It was much warmer here than on icy Gorpai, and it took many days for the nephilim to become acclimated to the heat.
In a city on the lower Nile delta they traded their raft for camels and supplies to make an overland journey. Their destination was the land of Chaldea in the marshy lands far to the east were the Euphrates and Tigris rivers joined together before flowing to the sea. The people there still spoke of the tongue of ancient Shinar, spoken by all of the nephilim on Gorpai, but few in Egypt still understood it.
Rather than taking a direct path across arid lands, Turel journeyed north-east through the fields and cities of the Fertile Crescent until he reached the place where the Damascus road forked with the road to Nineveh. This was the town of Harran, in modern day Turkey.
In the marketplace of Harran the nephilim encountered a Chaldean who had grown disgusted with the variety of religious practices in his home city of Ur. The man's name was Abram, and he was in a loud argument with his father Terah. By overhearing their argument, Turel learned much about these two men.
Abram, it seemed was a successful sheep and cattle rancher who lived a nomadic life on the rangelands around Harran, while his father lived in the town itself and ran this shop selling items associated with worship. Terah sold carved idols for dozens of different gods which Abram complained were meaningless to him.
Abram said to Terah, "Father, you cut down cedars and oaks which the Creator planted and sent the rain to grow. You grow cold, so with part of your wood you make a fire to warm yourself and bake bread, and from the other part you make a god, then fall down before it and say, 'Rescue me from this weather, for you are my god.' And it never crosses your mind that this deaf and mute block of wood you carved with your own hands is a complete fraud!"
Turel was interested in this exchange, so he entered the shop and began to inspect the rack of idols on display. The angry words of father and son dwindled to silence, because Turel was a tall and striking figure, and there was an otherworldliness about him that went far beyond mere stranger.
After he had made a complete tour of the idolatry shop, Turel commanded his dirk assistants to begin unpacking their gold on the edge of the shop facing the street, as though he were preparing to buy out Terah's entire stock. As Turel anticipated, this soon drew the attention of five armed robbers who approached with swords drawn. They demanded the gold be handed over to them.
At this time the weapon fashioned by Binah, which would later be called the Golden Gift, made its first appearance in history. The Golden Gift was the size and shape of any normal sword hilt. But when it was squeezed firmly in Turel's full-grown nephilim hands, which were half again the size of a man's hands, a hissing purple shaft emerged from it about the thickness of a spear. The harder Turel squeezed, the longer the purple beam grew, and whatever it touched simply disappeared. Indeed, the reason it made a loud hiss was that air disappeared into it all along the length of the beam.
One of the thieves Turel judged to be the leader was cut into two equal pieces starting from the top of his head. Another thief was decapitated. This was sufficient to convince the other three robbers to flee. It was not Turel's purpose to kill them, only to establish his credentials with Abram and Terah.
Abram came before the three nephilim and sank to his knees. Zophiel said to him, "Abram, son of Terah, go forth from your father's house and from your kinfolk to the land of Canaan."
Then Kemuel said also, "There I will make of you a nation, and bless you, and your name will be great among men."
And Turel added, "I will bless those who bless you, and curse those who curse you, and all the Earth shall find blessing in you. These are the words of Yahweh the Most High God, Lord of Heaven and Earth. What say you to these things, Abram of Harran?"
And Abram lifted his eyes to him and said, firmly, "No."
It took Turel a moment to register what Abram said. Then Turel asked, "What do you mean, 'no' ?"
Abram rose to his feet then and walked over to his father, where he took him gently by the arms. He said, "My father is crippled. He does not earn enough at his livelihood to support himself. We do not always agree, but as I love my life, I can never turn aside from my own father for all the days he is a wayfarer in this world."
Then Abram fulfilled the purpose of his visit, and delivered to his father two living lambs from his own flocks, one to kill and eat, and the other to sell for a little money to buy the things he needed until the next time Abram came in from the open range and visited him.
Turel understood. He had his dirks re-stow the gold and they quietly left the shop, careful not to tread on the fortress of human dignity that Abram had asserted with his refusal.
The nephilim quickly departed Harran and took the left-hand fork to Nineveh, and thence by stages to Sumeria, even to the largest city in the world, Ur, at the mouth of the Euphrates, with a population of nearly seventy thousand souls. But in all their travels on Earth the nephilim never met anyone like Abram.
When Terah was full of years he died and was buried by his son in a tomb Abram built with his own hands on land he purchased in Harran. Then Abram took Sarai his beautiful wife, his nephew Lot, all the livestock they had raised, and all the people from Harran who put themselves under Abram's leadership, and they went southwest to the land of Canaan. Abram and his people tarried there for a number of years, but they were ever on the move, because grazing animals always needed fresh pasture.
At this time a nephilim agent named Melchizedek was dispatched to Earth to intervene in human history in a more direct way than Turel. He became an advisor to the king of Salem, the ancient city-state that would someday be known as Jerusalem. As the years rolled on, Melchizedek the advisor would cause himself to be anointed as the king, but for now he piled up political power. In Salem Melchizedek received the wandering Turel, Kemuel and Zophiel of the first team.
Melchizedek had come into the world by the same Blue Nile route, and like Turel he also had two dirks with him. One was Iofiel, which means Beauty of God. The other was Guriel, which means Whelp of God.
Melchizedek saw that Turel's assistants Kemuel and Zophiel had passed to adulthood. They were taller and were now fully yang, or adult male nephilim. Melchizedek said to them, "Your term of responsibility here is complete. Return to the other world by the way you came, and may Yahweh go with you."
Of Turel he asked if he had found a candidate according to the specifications of Yahweh. Turel said to him, "I have, but he refused the offer. His loyalty to his own father exceeded his loyalty to an unknown God."
Melchizedek asked, "Are there no others?"
Turel said, "None in all the lands we have visited, but I wish to make the offer to Abram once more. I suspect his father has gone the way of all flesh by now, and Abram may reconsider the calling."
Melchizedek said, "Then proceed as you say, and accept Guriel and Iofiel as your new subordinates."
Turel returned to the town of Harran with his new dirks, but Terah was no longer operating his shop in the market. Turel made some inquiries, and discovered that the old man was indeed dead, and his son Abram was seen no longer in Harran. Turel went abroad and made more inquiries for the whereabouts of Abram, and this led him at length to the vicinity of Shechem in the land of Canaan.
It seemed that Abram had obeyed the call of Yahweh after all, but on his own timetable. Abram recognized Turel, who told him, "I was sent by the one you seek, the Most High God. To you, Yahweh has said, 'I will give this land to your descendants.'"
Abram was moved by a religious impulse entirely of his own, and built an altar of stones in that place. He consecrated it by burning the best animals of his flock in the presence of Turel and Iofiel and Guriel. Then Abram journeyed to the hill country near Beth-el, and pitched his tent west of Ai.
The three nephilim accompanied him on this journey and told Abram all that he could bear. Knowing that Abram was immersed in a patriarchal society, they did not mention that Yahweh was actually female among the elohim. They also did not mention the existence of other elohim at all, because they knew he was disgusted with the polytheism of the wider culture he lived in.
Again in Beth-el Abram built an altar, and invoked the Lord by the sacred name of Yahweh. Turel took his leave of Abram at that time and departed, while Abram journeyed with his wife, his nephew, his flocks, and his people into the Negev desert.
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