Mothers of the Nephilim
WERE THE fertility goddesses of the ancient world the women who’d been taken as wives by the rebel Watchers?Continue Reading
WERE THE fertility goddesses of the ancient world the women who’d been taken as wives by the rebel Watchers?Continue Reading
OUR DETOUR through Nahum, Isaiah, and Ezekiel finally takes us back to Isaiah 14, the chapter with the famous verse, “How art thou fallen from heaven, o Lucifer, son of the morning.”Continue Reading
THE REBEL in Isaiah 14 is described as having been “brought down to Sheol, to the far reaches of the pit.” This is the same fate suffered by Assur, the “Assyrian Enlil,” in Ezekiel 32—and it’s another reason we connect this entity to the angel of the bottomless pit in Revelation 9:11.Continue Reading
WHEN IS an idol not an idol? When it’s the demonic minion of a fallen angel. We move from Nahum’s condemnation of Nineveh, and by extension Assyria, to the judgment decreed against Assyria by God through the prophet Isaiah. This week, we look at a fascinating passage in Isaiah 10,Continue Reading
GOD CONDEMNED the ruling nobility of Assyria in the Book of Nahum—or did He?Continue Reading
IT COULD BE the most controversial passage in the Bible: The Nephilim [or giants] were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them.Continue Reading
What’s the difference between angels, cherubim, and seraphim? Who are the Watchers, and can a messenger angel, a malak, be promoted to the rank of Watcher?Continue Reading
THE NEPHILIM were on the earth in those days, and also afterward. In fact, the spiritual descendants of the Nephilim are still at work in the world today.Continue Reading
The weird parts of the Bible are important! So says scholar Dr. Michael Heiser, author of The Unseen Realm, Angels, Demons, and Reversing Hermon.Continue Reading
GIANTS OF MYTH are described in surprisingly similar terms all over the world, from Mesopotamia to Mesoamerica. There is a reason for that.Continue Reading
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