The Bible's Greatest Mysteries
Exploring Mysteries in the Word of God!
Cult of the Watchers at Gobekli Tepe!
February 7, 2025 • Dr. Aaron Judkins, Dr. Judd Burton
WHAT DID the Watchers look like? Is it possible they resembled the animal-human hybrids depicted on some of the inscriptions at Göbekli Tepe? Archaeologists Dr. Aaron Judkins and Dr. Judd Burton, authors of the new book Decoding Göbekli Tepe, share their exciting new discovery that connects iconography at “the world’s oldest temple” and the Bronze Age culture of the Luwian people of Anatolia (modern Türkiye)—across a gap of at least 6,000 years!
The Watchers and Göbekli Tepe
January 31, 2025 • Dr. Judd Burton, Dr. Aaron Judkins
IT’S BEEN CALLED the world’s oldest temple. But who—or what—was worshipped there? Archaeologists Dr. Aaron Judkins and Dr. Judd Burton, authors of the new book Decoding Göbekli Tepe, join us to discuss the mysterious site in southern Türkiye, why a Stone Age culture was inspired to build it, and why Christians should care.
Why the Watchers Rebelled
January 24, 2025 • Rick Renner
YOU HAVE to wonder what the rebellious “sons of God” in Genesis 6 were thinking. Rick Renner (http://renner.org/), author of Fallen Angels, Giants, Monsters, and the World Before the Flood, explains that these spirit beings—not the righteous sons of Seth, the third son of Adam and Eve—decided to corrupt humanity, it was a deliberate attempt to fill the earth with their monstrous progeny. Rick explains that this transgression—which is a word that means an action that’s even worse than a sin—was premeditated disobedience, since they’d been tasked by the Lord with shepherding humanity in its post-Edenic, fallen state. Instead, they and their children tried to eliminate the human race. Dr. Renner also shares with us additional evidence that the Durupinar site on Mount Judi in southeastern Türkiye is the resting place of Noah’s ark: Giant drogue stones, that were used in the ancient world to stabilize seagoing ships, have been found in the valley below the location of the ark. Needless to say, southeast Türkiye is a very long way from the sea—at least, it is today.
Found: Noah’s Ark and Noah’s Altar!
January 17, 2025 • Rick Renner
ON THE lower slopes of Mount Judi in eastern Türkiye, there is growing consensus that the remains of Noah’s ark have been found. Rick Renner (http://renner.org), author of Fallen Angels, Giants, Monsters, and the World Before the Flood, joins us to explain why the Durupinar site, close to the border with Iran and about 18 miles south of the summit of Greater Mount Ararat, is where the remains of Noah’s ark now rests. And what’s more, Rick tells us that an ancient altar near the site of the ark is almost certainly where Noah offered a sacrifice of thanks to the Lord when the ark finally settled on dry land.
‘Thus Says YHWH to His Anointed, to Cyrus’
January 10, 2025
WE’VE ALL heard how the Persian King Cyrus allowed the Jews to return to Jerusalem. But the story isn’t quite what you’ve been told. Ancient texts confirm that the last king of Babylon, Nabonidus, moved the idols of most of the gods of Mesopotamia and the priests needed to care for them into Babylon ahead of the Medo-Persian invasion. Nabonidus believed this would bring Babylon under the protection of the gods. Obviously, the plan failed. When Cyrus took over the Neo-Babylonian empire, he realized that many of his new subjects felt that they’d been stripped of their patron deities, leaving their cities without divine protection. Being a savvy politician, wanting to avoid political unrest in his newly enlarged kingdom, Cyrus decreed that the gods—which he said Nabonidus had brought to Babylon against their will!—would be returned to their home cities. So, to Cyrus, the Jews weren’t returning home; Yahweh was being allowed to return to His temple in Jerusalem! However, that doesn’t change the fact that God revealed to the prophet Isaiah that Cyrus, whom He called “His anointed” (His messiah!), would do this at least 140 years, and as much as 200 years, before the fact.
The Writing on the Wall (Part 2)
November 8, 2024 • Daniel 5
GOD DELIVERED a message of doom to the regent of Babylon, Belshazzar. And He did it in a way everyone in Babylon would understand. We continue our analysis of Daniel 5 and the writing on the wall, an episode so famous that it’s become a catchphrase for something so obvious that it can’t be missed. Last week, we explained how God’s divine intervention of Belshazzar’s drunken feast was not only directed at the rulers of Babylon, but at the moon-god Sîn, who was the patron deity of Babylon’s last king, Nabonidus. This week, we explore another aspect of the supernatural handwriting on the wall of Belshazzar’s palace. One of the two most important deities in Babylon in the 6th century BC was Nabû, the patron deity of scribes. Most people in Babylonia were illiterate, so when one needed to draw up a contract, make out a will, or even write a letter, a scribe was hired. Scribes were a special class, essential to the government, temples, merchants, and financiers. In short, Nabû was the god of lawyers, bankers, and priests—more or less the people who still run the world today. So, when a hand materialized and began to write on the wall, Belshazzar and his nobles may have thought it was one of their chief gods appearing before their eyes. In truth, it was Yahweh, the Creator, using Nabû’s best-known characteristic to tell Belshazzar that his gods—Nabû, Marduk, Ishtar, and Sîn—had failed him. And is it possible that the fall of Babylon in 539 BC is a template for the World Economic Forum’s Great Reset?
The Writing on the Wall (Part 1)
November 1, 2024 • Daniel 5
THERE IS MORE to the story of the supernatural writing on the wall of the king of Babylon’s palace than you’ve been told. This week, we begin examining one of the most mysterious and spectacular events of the Old Testament—the message from God to the regent of Babylon, Belshazzar. According to ancient records, Babylon was captured by Cyrus II, king of the Medes and Persians, in 539 BC on the eve of the 17th of Tashritu on the Babylonian calendar. Belshazzar’s father, King Nabonidus, had ruled Babylon for about seventeen years. Unlike Nebuchadnezzar, who died in 562 BC, Nabonidus was not Chaldean. He was an Assyrian from the northern Mesopotamian city of Harran who’d seized the throne in 556 BC. More important, Nabonidus was a devotee of the moon-god Sîn. Historical records suggest that he wanted to elevate Sîn to the top spot in the Babylonian pantheon, replacing the chief god Marduk and overturning about 600 years of religious tradition. The drunken feast held by Belshazzar described in chapter 5 of the Book of Daniel is usually described as evidence of the decadence of Babylon, and that the kingdom’s fall to the Medes and Persians was a just reward for the sinful ways of the Chaldeans. It certainly was that—but it was much more. The army of Cyrus had defeated Nabonidus at the Battle of Opis, about sixty miles from Babylon, about two weeks before Belshazzar’s feast. The regent must have known that Cyrus was outside the walls of the city. The timing of the feast coincided with an annual festival in honor of the moon-god held in Nabonidus’s home city of Harran, where his mother was a priestess of Sîn. The 17th of Tashritu falls during the Hunter’s Moon or Harvest Moon, two of the brightest full moons of the year. So, it’s possible that Belshazzar and his nobles weren’t recklessly partying while the Persians were at the gates of Babylon—they may have been trying to summon the protection of the moon-god when he was at full power. But Belshazzar made a fatal mistake. He “commanded that the vessels of gold and of silver that Nebuchadnezzar his father [meaning his predecessor on the throne of Babylon] had taken out of the temple in Jerusalem be brought, that the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines might drink from them.” (Dan. 5:2, ESV) The real significance of the writing on the wall is this: the 17th of Tashritu is 17 Tishri on the Hebrew calendar. That’s second day of the most important feast of Yahweh, Sukkot, or the Feast of Tabernacles. And during this time sacred to God, Belshazzar ordered that vessels sacred to Yahweh be used in a ritual meal for the moon-god, Sîn. Boom. Babylon fell that very night.
Technology Fulfilling Prophecy
October 25, 2024 • Carl Gallups
Proof that we live in the most prophetic time since the first coming of Jesus may be something in your hand or pocket right now. Pastor Carl Gallups, best-selling author of Eyes to See and The Yeshua Protocol, explains how the explosion in human knowledge and our ability to travel was foreseen by a prophet in the heart of the Babylonian empire more than 2,500 years ago.
David’s Vision of the Crucifixion
October 18, 2024 • Carl Gallups
David described the Crucifixion is startling detail a thousand years before it happened—and saw spirits at the foot of the cross from the land believed to be the entrance to the netherworld. Carl Gallups , author of The Yeshua Protocol and Eyes to See, joins us to explain the connections between David’s messianic prophecy in Psalm 22, which Jesus quoted from the cross, the “forbidden chapters” of Isaiah (52 and 53), and the future revelation of the Messiah to the House of David in Zechariah 12. Carl also reveals the symbolic meaning of the Paleo-Hebrew letters in Jesus’ name and how they’re quoted in a messianic prophecy in Isaiah 52:10. Finally, we discuss modern technology and how things we take for granted, like live-streamed video, may fulfill prophecies written two thousand years ago.
The Crucifixion Encoded in Genesis 1:1!
October 11, 2024 • Carl Gallups
IT’S SOMETHING no rabbi would ever have done, and it almost certainly never occurred to Moses, either. Pastor Carl Gallups (http://carlgallups.com), author of The Yeshua Protocol and Eyes to See, explains how the hidden imagery of the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet embeds a picture of the three crosses on Calvary, representing Jesus and the two men crucified on either side of him, in the very first verse of the Bible.
The Alpha and Omega - in Genesis 1:1!
October 4, 2024 • Carl Gallups
JESUS CALLED HIMSELF “the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.” That title is encoded right in the middle of the first verse of the Bible. Pastor Carl Gallups (http://carlgallups.com/) joins us to share a remarkable discovery he included in his book The Yeshua Protocol: Not only are the alpha and omega (Hebrew aleph and tau) embedded in the center of Genesis 1:1, the meaning of the characters in the ancient Paleo-Hebraic script is stunning.
The Divine Council
April 8, 2022 • Dr. Michael Heiser
One of the most fascinating chapters in the Bible is Psalm 82, which reads like a courtroom scene in heaven. Dr. Michael Heiser, author of A Companion to the Book of Enoch, Vols. 1 & 2, identifies the “gods” whose deaths are decreed by God, explains the divine council concept and what it does, and why Jesus wasn’t talking about humans when he quoted Psalm 82:6 in John 10:34. Then the Gilberts explain why Psalm 82 can also be read as God invading a meeting of fallen angels—an “infernal council”—and how the psalm may have been a prophecy of the Transfiguration of Jesus Christ on Mount Hermon.
Mountain of the Gods
April 1, 2022 • Dr. Michael Heiser
Mount Hermon in northern Israel was known throughout the ancient Near East as the abode of the gods. Why? What made it so special? Dr. Michael Heiser, author of A Companion to the Book of Enoch, Vols. 1 & 2, describes the importance of Hermon as a sacred site from ancient times through the Christian era, and shares the biblical evidence that God Himself understood the significance of that mountain to the fallen realm.
Why We Baptize
March 25, 2022 • Dr. Michael Heiser
Baptism is a declaration of victory over the “sons of God” who rebelled before the Flood. Dr. Michael Heiser, author of A Companion to the Book of Enoch, Vols. 1 & 2, explains why Peter connected the practice of baptism to Jesus’ descent to the netherworld and the rebellious elohim who commingled with women and produced the monstrous giants of the pre-Flood world.
Giants in the Bible
March 18, 2022 • Dr. Michael Heiser
If it’s in the Bible and it’s weird, it’s important. So says Bible scholar Dr. Michael Heiser, who joins us this week to tackle a giant question: Were the giants of the Old Testament real? If so, how did the Hebrew prophets and the early church understand those weird passages of scripture?