Jesus descended into the abyss to declare victory over the spirits who disobeyed “in the days of Noah,” a reference to the “sons of God” from Genesis 6.Continue Reading
WE CONTINUE our deep dive into the leader of the Genesis 6 rebellion, who we believe is “the angel of the bottomless pit” (Rev. 9:11), Apollyon/Abaddon.Continue Reading
THE RELIGIONS of the ancient Near East, Greece, and Rome are essentially “fake news” versions of what we read in the Bible.Continue Reading
The identity of Abaddon and Apollyon in Revelation 9:11, the angel of the bottomless pit, is Saturn—the Watcher chief Shemihazah. The opening of the bottomless pit marks his literal return to earth. Saturn’s Golden Age may last only five months—the time he and his colleagues are allowed to torment humanity. It’s possible Saturn/Shemihazah knows this and doesn’t care.Continue Reading
The early Christian church was nearly unanimous in the belief that the gods of the Greeks and Romans were not imaginary. They, like the Jewish scholars a few hundred years earlier, understood that the Olympians, Titans, Gigantes, heroes, and daimones of the pagans were supernatural beings called “angels,” “Watchers,” “sons of God,” “Nephilim,” “Rephaim,” and “demons.” In fact, the second-century theologian Irenaeus of Lyon, a student of Polycarp (who was a disciple of the apostle John), connected the Titans to end-times prophecy.Continue Reading
The last section of Isaiah 14 appears to refer to nation-states, specifically Babylon and Assyria. What I propose is something new: The entire chapter is directed at the entity worshiped as the father of their gods. Not Satan–Saturn.Continue Reading
We look ahead to the year 2100 and see radical life extension, the changes it will have on human behavior, and the potential problems with not being able to die even when you want to (think Revelation 9:6).
SPIRITUAL WARFARE and the sin of the Watchers are the focus of this week’s New Testament study. Peter and Jude were in accord with the letters we read this week, and there is a lot of meat in these four short chapters.Continue Reading
FROM THE Nephilim to the Large Hadron Collider, reality has always been a lot stranger than most of us imagine. In this wide-ranging conversation, we bring together for the first time all four co-authors of the new book Revising Reality: Anthony Patch, Gonz Shimura, Josh Peck, and Doug Woodward.Continue Reading