Gilbert House Fellowship #435: Ecclesiastes 5–6
CHASING WEALTH for its own sake does not bring happiness. Continue Reading
Connecting to the Netherworld
The central feature of the temple at Urkesh was a deep pit dug into the earth used to summon deities from the netherworld.Continue Reading
Gilbert House Fellowship #434: Ecclesiastes 1–4
LIFE IS SHORT and then you die. That’s the surface-level interpretation of the opening chapters of the Book of Ecclesiastes. Continue Reading
The Lord of Urkesh
In 1984, husband and wife archaeologists discovered a link between the earliest post-Flood civilizations, the mysterious “sons of God” mentioned in Genesis chapter 6, and the myths of Greece and Rome.Continue Reading
Gilbert House Fellowship #433: 1 Enoch 9–11
The author(s) of the Book of the Watchers saw the punishment of the rebellious Watchers resulting from the intercession of the four archangels.Continue Reading
Kumarbi: Would-be Ruler of Creation
The first identity of this rebellious Watcher to appear in the historical record is not Saturn or his Greek analogue, Kronos. The Titan king and his Phoenician equivalent, Baal Hammon, don’t appear until the first millennium BC. Enlil of Akkad and Sumer appears in the written record around the endContinue Reading