Messiah and the Sons of Sheth
Scholars have argued for literally thousands of years about the exact meaning of the prophecy of Balaam in Numbers 24. Allow us to put forward two possibilities you probably haven’t heard before.Continue Reading
The Second Coming of Hercules
Zeus, Hercules, the Olympians, and the Titans are real. They hate us, they want to kill us, and they have a plan.Continue Reading
Gilbert House Fellowship #380: 2 Samuel 14–15
TALK ABOUT ingratitude: David’s son Absalom, who’d fled to his grandfather’s kingdom of Geshur, returned to Jerusalem after a two-year exile and apparently began scheming to remove David from the throne as soon as he came home.Continue Reading
Satan: From Storm-god to Superhero
Two thousand years ago, Jesus called this creature the Father of Lies. Today, he’s a wisecracking superhero in Hollywood blockbusters.Continue Reading
Gilbert House Fellowship #379: Psalms 32, 51, 86, 122; 2 Sam. 13
THE PSALMS this week follow our chronological reading order, meaning they were written by David after he was confronted by the prophet Nathan for conspiring to kill Uriah the Hittite so that David could take his wife, Bathsheba.Continue Reading
Storm-god Rising
Baal (properly spelled Baʿal) was the main enemy of Yahweh in the Old Testament. One could argue that he was even more of a villain than Satan–except that Jesus equated Baal with Satan during a confrontation with the Pharisees.Continue Reading