The chief god of Mesopotamia before the political rise of Babylon was the deity called the “Great Mountain,” Enlil. He was simply “the” god, his name deriving from a doubling of the Semitic word ilu (“god”): il + ilû, meaning “god of gods,” or “god of all the gods.”Continue Reading
Psalm 82 may depict Yahweh appearing in the middle of El’s infernal council to pass sentence on rebellious fallen angels! And Psalm 68 may record a battle at Mount Hermon around that time—an action that ended with God taking away “a host of captives.”Continue Reading
“Bull El” occupied the same place in the Canaanite cosmic hierarchy as Kumarbi did for the Hurrians. By erecting the golden calves, Jeroboam drew the northern tribes into the worship of a god whose rebellion introduced the pre-Flood world to the occult knowledge that Babylon was so proud of preserving.Continue Reading
WE’RE ALL familiar with the story of Moses, but we don’t know the whole story. Brian Godawa discusses his new novel, Moses Against the Gods of Egypt.Continue Reading
From the place of His birth to the manner of His death (and, of course, His resurrection), the prophecies of Messiah were miraculously fulfilled in the person of Jesus of Nazareth.
The origin of the term for “king” or “ruler” in languages from Western Europe to East Asia is a word used by our distant ancestors for the pre-Flood god-kings, the Rephaim. And it was carried across the continents by the descendants of Noah as they spread out from the Ararat Plain.Continue Reading
In Ugaritic texts, the Rephaim were summoned through a necromancy ritual to the “threshing-floor” of the Canaanite creator-god El. After two days of riding, the Rephaim arrived at the threshing-floor “after sunrise on the third.” The purpose of the ritual was nothing less than the resurrection of the Rephaim.Continue Reading
There is a cave underneath the Dome of the Rock, directly below the Foundation Stone. Since the Middle Ages it’s been called the Well of Souls.Continue Reading
CONTRARY TO what we’ve been told, there is physical evidence for the Israelite sojourn in Egypt. Dr. Douglas Petrovich discusses his new book Origins of the Hebrews and startling proof of the Hebrew presence in Egypt from Joseph to Moses.Continue Reading
Bible scholars have identified at least 300, and as many as 574, prophecies fulfilled by the birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. Of all of the mysteries in the Bible, that one is the most profound!