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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

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ON THE surface, the song of Deborah and Barak in Judges 5 is a celebration of a miraculous military victory over a superior enemy. It is that, but it’s much more.Continue Reading

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Prophecy teachers typically focus on the unimaginable scale of the slaughter when Gog of Magog is destroyed. The phrase “block the travelers” in Ezekiel 39:11 is usually taken to mean that “the Valley of the Travelers, east of the [Dead] sea,” is choked with corpses. This interpretation misses the spiritual context. Ezekiel’s prophecy actually describes an army that’s possessed by the demonic spirits of the Rephaim, the semi-divine children of Shemihazah/Saturn and his co-conspirators. The forces of the Gog–the Antichrist–will literally be an army of the evil dead. Armageddon will be, in a real sense, the ultimate zombie apocalypse.Continue Reading