The Apotheosis of Washington depicts the man called the “father of our nation” as Saturn, who led America into a Golden Age that is destined to return. And the Capitol makes a clear statement: America is politically, militarily, and spiritually Rome.Continue Reading
Virgil’s poem refers to the return to an age that ended before Jupiter dethroned Saturn—or, in biblical terms, when God sent the Flood. The new Golden Age would be ushered in by a messianic figure, a child who would become divine and rule over a world at peace. To those familiar with Genesis 6, the influence of the Watchers/Titans and the Nephilim/“heroes” on Greek and Roman religion, and the role of Saturn/Shemihazah in leading the Watchers’ rebellion, Virgil’s poem is startling.Continue Reading
It’s widely believed that the date for celebrating Christmas was chosen by the early church to “Christianize” Saturnalia. That was not the case, but it’s indicative of the hubris of the king-god: Under his influence, many Christians have been convinced that Saturn, not Jesus, is the reason we celebrate Christmas. And because that wasn’t enough, most of the Western world now calls God’s divinely ordained day of rest “Saturn’s Day.”Continue Reading
The Carthaginians believed their military defeat in 310 BC was punishment for failing to provide the required sacrifices to their chief god, Baal Hammon. To atone, the city slaughtered some five hundred of its children. The evidence of history leads to this conclusion: The Watchers and/or the demon spirits of their dead children, the Nephilim, lured the pagans of the ancient world into burning their sons and daughters as sacrificial offerings to gods of the dead.Continue Reading
The Phoenicians are remembered as the sailors par excellence of late antiquity. Their ships circumnavigated Africa, reached Britain, and may even have traveled as far as the Americas. Less well known is that the Phoenicians continued the horrific practice of child sacrifice into the Christian era. There was even a black-market trade in children who were bought and sold to sacrifice as offerings to their chief god, Baal Hammon.Continue Reading
I was the guest of David “Nino” Rodriguez yesterday to talk about my new book The Second Coming of Saturn. We had a great discussion that was probably the first of at least a few more.Continue Reading
The Titans can be identified as the Watchers who defied their Creator in the distant past on Mount Hermon. This is consistent with evidence from the myths of later civilizations. Over time, the influence of these old gods spread west and they were adopted into the religion of the Greeks as the Titans, a name that reflects the bull-like appearance of these entities, who may be, like the divine rebel from Eden, rebellious cherubim who thought they could overthrow their Creator.Continue Reading
I am remiss in not sharing this sooner. I was honored to be the guest of Dr. Michael Lake and Dr. Mike Spaulding last week on their program, Kingdom War Room. We discussed my new book The Second Coming of Saturn.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
We all know the basics of the story of Abraham. What we haven’t been taught is the cultural context behind his distress at reaching old age without a son and heir.Continue Reading