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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

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It’s a virtual roundtable this week as we’re joined by three men who have invested a lot of time and energy into untangling scripture from myths and legends of the ancient world to understand why the Hebrew prophets and apostles were led to include giants in the Bible.Continue Reading

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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