Unraveling Revelation

OUR DETOUR through Nahum, Isaiah, and Ezekiel finally takes us back to Isaiah 14, the chapter with the famous verse, “How art thou fallen from heaven, o Lucifer, son of the morning.” While most read it as either a condemnation of the king of Babylon or “Lucifer,” it is also a prophecy of the future destruction of the rebellious “sons of God” from Genesis 6:1–4. The entity called “Lucifer,” Enlil (...

OSIRIS ISN’T mentioned in the Bible—at least, not directly. However, a loanword in Isaiah 14:19 suggests that the prophet Isaiah had the Egyptian god of the underworld in mind. The verse, as it’s translated into English, is confusing: “[B]ut you are cast out, away from your grave, like a loathed branch…” It’s assumed that the word netser, meaning “branch,” was what Isaiah wrote. However, scholar C...

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. We continue our study of Isaiah 14 and its links to the Book of Ezekiel, but this week, instead of chapter 28 (the...

ISAIAH 14 is comprised of multiple sections. The first three appear to address the king of Babylon, “Lucifer,” and “the Assyrian.” We think those sections, Isaiah 14:1–27, are directed at a single entity—and it’s not Satan. We continue our prelude to the study of “Mystery Babylon” in Revelation 17. We show the connections between the melek babel, “king of the god-gate,” and the chief deity of Assy...

Who is Lucifer? Most of us have been taught it’s Satan, but evidence in the Bible suggests otherwise. We continue laying the groundwork for our upcoming study of Babylon the Great by showing the connections between Babylon, Babel, and the chief god of Assyria. Assur was the Assyrian form of Enlil, whose name in Akkadian was Ellil. As we showed last week, Ellil/Enlil was the name from which the pro...

WHEN IS an idol not an idol? When it’s the demonic minion of a fallen angel. We move from Nahum’s condemnation of Nineveh, and by extension Assyria, to the judgment decreed against Assyria by God through the prophet Isaiah. This week, we look at a fascinating passage in Isaiah 10, where a word translated “idols” (and elsewhere in the Old Testament as “worthless idols”; see Psalm 97:7), the Hebrew...

GOD CONDEMNED the ruling nobility of Assyria in the Book of Nahum—or did He? We continue our study of Nahum and the links between Assyria and Babylon, especially at the supernatural level. Our theory is that Assur, translated “Assyria” in our Bible, may refer to Assur, the chief deity of the Assyrians—a god equated with Enlil of Babylon and El of Canaan. The Hebrew word translated “nobles” or “off...

THE HEBREW phrase that literally means “sons of Belial” is usually translated into English as “worthless fellows.” We’ve encountered Belial in the Book of Nahum as we continue our look at his prophecy of the destruction of Nineveh. While scholars disagree as to whether Belial was the name of an entity in the Old Testament, it was definitely used as such during the Second Temple period, including i...

THE DESTRUCTION of Nineveh, capital of Assyria, was prophesied by Nahum about a century after the city was spared in the days of Jonah. However, its ultimate destruction may be linked to the fate of Mystery Babylon in the last days. This week, we begin a detour through the short book of Nahum, inspired by Jesus’ decision to base his ministry in Capernaum (Hebrew kfar nahum: “village of Nahum”) and...

Who or what was the synagogue of Satan? It’s mentioned twice in Revelation, connected to the churches of Smyrna and Philadelphia. It’s been misused through the ages to justify anti-Semitism on the grounds that the Jews of today are not “real Jews.” Dr. Mike Spaulding, author of Letters from Jesus, joins us to discuss the letters to the churches of Philadelphia and Laodicea, and he explains that “t...

THE CHURCHES of Asia we discuss this week had serious problems. Jesus had nothing good to say about one of them, and the other had apparently followed a so-called prophetess into satanic sexual immorality. Dr. Mike Spaulding, author of Letters from Jesus, discusses our Lord’s messages to the churches of Thyatira and Sardis, and explains why the church of Sardis, despite having a reputation for doi...

The churches of Smyrna and Pergamum were about as different as could be, judging by Jesus’ letters: He had no criticism at all for Smyrna, while Jesus said Pergamum was “where Satan dwells.” Dr. Mike Spaulding, author of Letters from Jesus, joins us to discuss Revelation 2:8–17—the letters to Smyrna and Philadelphia and what we can learn from them today.

Jesus dictated a series of seven letters to the churches of Asia 2,000 years ago, but there are lessons for us. Dr. Mike Spaulding, author of Letters from Jesus, joins us to explain why those letters are relevant today.

Our recent tour of Israel featured a visit to Gilgal Refaim, the “Wheel of the Giants” on the Golan Heights. Why did we go there, and why is it relevant to our study of end times prophecy? We share video of our visit to this fascinating site that some call “Israel’s Stonehenge.” That really does Gilgal Refaim a disservice, because it’s much bigger and much older than Britain’s famous megalith. The...

A coalition of Israel’s neighbors may be led into war in a deception to convince Jews to accept the Antichrist as their Messiah. This week, we connect Ezekiel 38 and 39, Psalm 83, and Daniel 11 to Revelation 19 to present a controversial end times scenario that accounts Islam’s 1.7 billion adherents.

Contrary to what many prophecy teachers believe, Russia is not the head of the confederation of Gog of Magog. This week, we did into Ezekiel 38 and 39 to explain why Russia is not part of the prophecy. Magog, and all of the nations mentioned in the northern coalition, were located in what is modern-day Turkey. More important, however, is the Hebrew phrase translated “the uttermost parts of the nor...

The death of the pagan gods has been decreed. End times prophecy is about how that sentence will be carried out. Dr. Michael Heiser, a good friend and excellent scholar who passed into glory February 20, 2023, joined us in the summer of 2021 to discuss the divine council—what it is, where we find it in scripture, and why Psalm 82, contrary to the interpretation of most Bible teachers, is a courtro...

Verses mentioning Mount Hermon and the land of Bashan are sprinkled throughout the Bible. To Israelites during the Biblical Period, they were obvious references to the land of the dead. Bible scholar Dr. Michael Heiser, who sadly passed away February 20, 2023 at the age of 60, joined us for an interview in 2021 and explained why Bashan and Hermon were important, and why Jesus deliberately traveled...

Jesus descended into the abyss to declare victory over the spirits who disobeyed “in the days of Noah” (1 Pt. 3:20), a reference to the “sons of God” from Genesis 6. Bible scholar Dr. Michael Heiser, in an interview recorded in July 2021, explains why this passage in 1 Peter 3 is so profound, why the apostle connected it to baptism, and how it was influenced by the Book of 1 Enoch.

The weird parts of the Bible are important! So says scholar Dr. Michael Heiser, author of The Unseen Realm, Angels, Demons, and Reversing Hermon. We’ll feature Mike over the next four weeks in an interview recorded in July of 2021. This week, Mike discusses the controversial passages in Genesis 6:1–4 and explains why they weren’t controversial at all 2,000 years ago. Jews of the Second Temple peri...

One of the most enduring mysteries of the Bible is the identity of the Great Prostitute, or the whore of Babylon. It will take us several episodes to get through this section of Revelation. This week, we begin to unpack the characteristics of Babylon the Great.

Those words are spoken by God Himself when the seventh and final bowl of His wrath is poured out on the earth. We discuss the identity of “the great city” that is split into three parts at that point in the end times, a question that scholars have debated for 2,000 years. Is it Jerusalem, Rome, or, as Sharon suggests, a world system that is yet to emerge—something suggested by the present-day marc...

A globalist group that’s been around since 2007 finally emerged from the shadows last month to proclaim our imminent doom. We’re talking about The Elders, ten politicians from around the world who shared a stage with the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists to declare that the time on the Doomsday Clock has moved forward ten seconds to 23:58:30—or 90 seconds until global annihilation. Who are The Elders,...

A statue unveiled in New York City last month is supposed to be a tribute to the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. We suggest it represents something else—something ancient and very dark. We explain why the symbolism of the statue represents the gender-fluid Sumerian deity Inanna, the goddess of carnal sex and mindless violence. And in the weeks ahead, we’ll explain why we believe Inanna is Myster...

What was it about the Amorites that connects Abraham, the sojourn of Israel in Egypt, and the end times? The practice of worshiping “the dead,” who were in fact the spirits of the Nephilim destroyed in the Flood, was spread throughout the ancient Near East by the Amorites. There is a strange connection between the Amorites and one of its most ancient tribes, the Tidanu, and the old gods of the Gre...