Unraveling Revelation

Revelation 8 introduces us to “the seven angels who stand before God,” who blow the trumpets heralding a new set of judgments to come upon the earth. We speculate that these angels may be the seven archangels named in the Book of 1 Enoch, representing the belief of Jews during the Second Temple period. Then we begin our study of the first trumpet judgment of hail and fire mixed with blood. This ec...

We dig deeper into the exclusion of Dan from the list of twelve tribes in Revelation 7, and we note that a belief that the Antichrist would come from Dan dates back to within two generations of the apostle John. (Note: The excerpt Derek read was from the Treatise on Christ and Antichrist by Hippolytus, a student of Irenaeus. While Irenaeus also wrote that the Antichrist might come from Dan, what D...

After the earthquake that accompanies the opening of the sixth seal, four angels are directed to hold back the winds and refrain from harming the earth until the servants of God are sealed with the Father’s name on their foreheads. We discuss the 144,000 from the twelve tribes of Israel who will be sealed, whose role is further explained later in Revelation, and why the tribes of Ephraim and Dan a...

We discuss the souls under the altar and the connection between the opening of the sixth seal, the Day of the Lord, geological evidence that the earth literally split in the distant past, and divine judgment that literally divides the earth.

We finish our recap of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and explain why we think the riders are working to bring in a new world order.

As we prepare to unpack the sixth and seventh seals of the scroll, moving from history to future, we recap the reasons why we believe the first three riders of Revelation 6 are Apollo, Ares/Mars, and Hermes/Mercury.

We discuss Chaos as an entity, rather than a concept, which is how it’s described in the Bible. Leviathan, Rahab, and “the sea” refer to this ancient enemy of God, and the riders of Revelation 6 appear to serve as its agents.

The first five seals of the Book of Revelation are already open, and we’re living in the middle of unfolding end times prophecy. Prophecy expert David W. Lowe joins us for the second half of our exclusive interview about his excellent book Earthquake Resurrection.

Could the devastating earthquake that accompanies the opening of the sixth seal in Revelation 6 be caused by the power of billions of Christians being resurrected all at once? David W. Lowe, author of Earthquake Resurrection, explains why Matthew 28 and the mysterious Shroud of Turin may point to the answer.

We discuss the imagery of the four beasts of Daniel’s vision (Daniel 7:1-8), compare it to Nebuchadnezzar’s dream of the “great image” (Daniel 2), and show how the “little horn” of Daniel 7 connects the terrifying fourth beast to God’s long war against Leviathan—chaos.

We dig deeper into the prophecy of Daniel’s seventy weeks, drawing on the book The Coming Prince by Sir Robert Anderson (who Sharon has decided to include as a character in her next installment of The Redwing Saga). Anderson, who was Assistant Superintendent of Scotland Yard during the Jack the Ripper murders as well as a theologian, calculated that the prophecy foretold the arrival of the Messiah...

A prophecy given to Daniel by the angel Gabriel underlies the timeline of the Apocalypse. We introduce the seventy “weeks” decreed for the Jews and Jerusalem in Daniel 9:21-27, and how they connect to the Book of Revelation.

Earthquakes are sometimes connected to God’s judgment, especially in the book of Revelation. However, we also find them connected to the act of resurrection—for example, in Matthew 27:52 and 28:2, and when the two witnesses are taken up into heaven in Revelation 11:13. This is why we believe the “great earthquake” of Revelation 6:13 will be the result of the resurrection of the dead in Christ desc...

This week we discuss the souls of the martyrs beneath the altar in the throne room of God. Then we analyze the great earthquake that follows the opening of the sixth seal: It’s more than plate tectonics; it may be the energy released by the resurrection of those who have accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. For more on that idea, we recommend the excellent book Earthquake Resurrection by Davi...

Before we return to Revelation 6 and pick up with the fifth seal, we take a brief look at horses in the Bible. In the cultures around ancient Israel, horses were animals of war. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are certainly riding to war, but the rider on a white horse called Faithful and True will put an end to their reign of terror at Armageddon.

As we celebrate the Resurrection, we discuss the messianic prophecy of Psalm 22 and how David foresaw the gloating spirits around the cross (the “bulls of Bashan”). But those fallen entities know that their doom has also been foretold, and we summarize the last war of the age, Armageddon, and the ultimate end of those who have rebelled against God in the lake of fire.

We continue our comparison of the horsemen of the Book of Zechariah and find a fascinating link between the Old Testament and a popular story from ancient Babylon, the Erra Epic. Erra was a warlike and violent deity, also a god of plagues. He was identified with the god Nergal, which means he was known to the Canaanites as Resheph and to the Greeks and Romans as Apollo. We explain how the Erra Epi...

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse bear a striking similarity to four chariots in Zechariah 6 pulled by white, red, black, and dappled horses. We discuss those chariots and the mountains of bronze from which they emerged and how they connect to the riders in Revelation 6. Then we bring in context from Psalm 68, the “many-peaked mountain of Bashan,” and Isaiah 14:19, contrasting the Branch of Zech...

This week’s program is eerily appropriate as the world grapples with a viral pandemic that has infected more than a quarter-million people in less than two months and shows no sign of slowing down. We discuss the pale horse rider, Thanatos, explain why Hades is a Greek version of the Canaanite death-god, Mot, and connect Revelation’s riders of the Apocalypse to the judgment God decreed against Jud...

The Third Horseman of the Apocalypse carries scales, representing trade and commerce, but the Greek word is translated elsewhere in the New Testament as “yoke,” a symbol of slavery and oppression. We connect the economic system of the Antichrist to the first global government, Nimrod’s kingdom of Uruk, and explain why we believe the rider on the black horse was the Babylonian god Nabu—better known...

The Second Horseman of the Apocalypse plainly represents war and bloodshed. But, as you might guess based on our recent books, we believe the rider on the red horse is a literal entity well known in the ancient world. Watch to find out why we argue that the rider called forth when the second seal is opened is the ancient war-god Chemosh—and the gender-fluid war god/dess Inanna.

The first of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse is the topic this week. We explain why believe the first seal of the seven-sealed scroll was opened by the Lamb (Jesus) shortly after the Resurrection, and we speculate that the the rider may be the ancient god known as Nergal in Babylon, Resheph in Canaan, and Apollo in Greece and Rome.

John was taken up to heaven, where he saw “Him who was seated on the throne” holding out a scroll that was sealed with seven seals, but no one on heaven, on the earth, or—significantly—under the earth was worthy to open it. Then appeared the Lamb with seven horns and seven eyes. We discuss the symbolism of the Lamb’s appearance and why John was shown every creature “under the earth and in the sea”...

The rapidly spreading coronavirus outbreak is just the latest sign that the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are riding the earth—and have been since the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

We continue our study Revelation 4 and the throne room of God. We discuss the similarities between John’s vision and Baal’s palace in The Baal Cycle, the reason the 24 elders cast their crowns before the throne, and why the living creatures around the throne are cherubim—which are most certainly not chubby babies with wings.