Gilbert House Fellowship #438: Proverbs 30
THE WORDS of Agur son of Jakeh include a prayer to be given just enough to get by.Continue Reading
Threshing Floors and Portals
The origin of the term for “king” or “ruler” in languages from Western Europe to East Asia is a word used by our distant ancestors for the pre-Flood god-kings, the Rephaim.Continue Reading
Gilbert House Fellowship #437: 1 Kings 10–11; 2 Chronicles 9
FOR ALL of Solomon’s vaunted wisdom, he failed in the thing that mattered most.Continue Reading
Ritual Pits and Rephaim
In Ugaritic texts, the Rephaim were summoned through a necromancy ritual to the “threshing-floor” of the Canaanite creator-god El–the summit of Mount Hermon.Continue Reading
The Well of Souls
A cave under the Dome of the Rock, directly below the Foundation Stone, has been called the Well of Souls since at least the Middle Ages.Continue Reading
Gilbert House Fellowship #436: Ecclesiastes 7–8
Wisdom is gained through suffering.Continue Reading