Unraveling Revelation: The Assyrian
References in the books of Isaiah, Ezekiel, and Micah to a mysterious character called “the Assyrian” are far more important than we realize.Continue Reading
References in the books of Isaiah, Ezekiel, and Micah to a mysterious character called “the Assyrian” are far more important than we realize.Continue Reading
Prophecy teachers typically focus on the unimaginable scale of the slaughter when Gog of Magog is destroyed. The phrase “block the travelers” in Ezekiel 39:11 is usually taken to mean that “the Valley of the Travelers, east of the [Dead] sea,” is choked with corpses. This interpretation misses the spiritual context. Ezekiel’s prophecy actually describes an army that’s possessed by the demonic spirits of the Rephaim, the semi-divine children of Shemihazah/Saturn and his co-conspirators. The forces of the Gog–the Antichrist–will literally be an army of the evil dead. Armageddon will be, in a real sense, the ultimate zombie apocalypse.Continue Reading
The long war by the Fallen against their Creator is for control of God’s har môʿēd, His mount of assembly, Zion. That’s His prize jewel, and that’s why Saturn wants it. Armageddon is the battle for control of the har môʿēd—Zion, God’s mount of assembly. The final conflict of the age will be fought at Jerusalem.Continue Reading
We continue with Ezekiel’s tour of the underworld and explain why the “mighty chiefs” in the midst of Sheol are the Nephilim, the giants of Genesis 6.
Ezekiel gives us the most detailed description of Sheol, the Hebrew term for the underworld.Continue Reading
Enlil was the chief god of Mesopotamia for more than a thousand years. His “reign” began with the rise of the Akkadian empire in the twenty-fourth century BC. But if we look farther back in history, we may find another hint at this god’s arrogance and a very clear message from God that he will not be allowed out of the abyss before the appointed time.Continue Reading
THE DESTRUCTION of ancient Sodom, which is in the news thanks to a new academic paper, is connected to the promise God made to Abraham and to the battle of Armageddon.Continue Reading
LUCIFER WASN’T born, he was created—by the early church. We continue our study of Satan and explain how early church theologians, beginning with Ignatius of Antioch in the early 2nd century through Augustine in the early 5th, transformed “the adversary” of the Old Testament into Lucifer and shaped our modernContinue Reading
The Day of the Lord is referenced dozens of times in scripture. It describes a “great and terrible day” when the wrath of God is poured out upon an unrepentant world.Continue Reading
Ezekiel made a point of singling out “the Travelers” in his prophecy of the war of Gog and Magog. This week, we explain why and identify where the army of Gog will fall.Continue Reading
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