All Souls’ Day
2024-11-02
A TRADITIONAL celebration intended to honor the spirits of dead ancestors has its roots in Canaanite and Amorite veneration of the Rephaim—the spirits of the giants destroyed in the Flood.Continue Reading
Shedding the Blood of Man
2024-10-28
IT WAS a common practice in the ancient world. Sadly, it’s still practiced today—and closer to us than we’d think.Continue Reading
Iron and Myth 34: Gods of Greece in the Bible
2024-10-21
OLYMPIANS, Titans, and demigod heroes in the Bible? Yes, and the Jews of Jesus’ day knew it.Continue Reading
Iron and Myth 33 – Mount Hermon: Mountain of Gods
2024-09-16
WHAT’S THE DEAL with Mount Hermon? Why has it been sacred to pagan religions for more than 4,000 years? And why did Jesus make it a focal point of his ministry?Continue Reading
He Comes With the Myriads of His Holy Ones
2024-08-25
THE BOOK OF 1 ENOCH has become a source of controversy among Christians. Regardless of your view of the book, it’s undeniable that it was known to the apostles and the early church, who generally had a favorable view of it.Continue Reading
Iron and Myth 31: The Nephilim
2024-07-22
“THERE WERE GIANTS in the earth in those days.” Those nine words are among the most controversial in the entire Bible.Continue Reading
Wisdom is Not a Goddess or Yahweh’s Wife
2024-05-19
WISDOM IS NOT a female deity who’s been written out of Jewish and Christian theology over the last 3,000 years.Continue Reading
The Genesis 6 Conspiracy Part 2
2024-05-06
YOU CANNOT understand the supernatural conflict described in the Bible if you don’t understand what happened in Genesis 6:1–4.Continue Reading
Her House Sinks Down to Death
2024-04-21
WE RETURN to our regularly scheduled reading this week with proverbs that are paternal calls for wisdom–and a warning against communing with spirits of the dead.Continue Reading
Mingled with the Seed of Men
2024-03-11
KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR saw a vision that disturbed him so much that he ordered his sorcerers, enchanters, and magicians to tell him what he’d dreamed and its interpretation—on pain of death.Continue Reading