The Baal
2024-08-21
It’s not clear why a god who was worshiped in Syria and Iraq should become the most prominent god in Mecca, or why Allah later overtook Hubal as chief of the Meccan pantheon by the time of Muhammad.Continue Reading
Lord of the Cube
2024-07-10
Petra, a center of religion and trade just one hundred miles from Jerusalem, was a perfect location for the Fallen to launch their new cult.Continue Reading
A Waterless Place
2024-06-26
The gods of the ancient world, stunned and alarmed by the Resurrection, withdrew, like the unclean spirit of Matthew 12:43–45, to a waterless place—Arabia.Continue Reading
Gilbert House Fellowship #314: Deuteronomy 1:1-3:11
2021-08-01
THE REPHAIM were remembered by Israel as giants, or at least as people who venerated the giants of the pre-Flood world. That’s why God marked them for destruction before Israel entered the Promised Land.Continue Reading
Gilbert House Fellowship #306: Numbers 20-21
2021-05-02
ANOTHER SQUABBLE over water points to the location of Mount Sinai being farther north than many think.
Gilbert House Fellowship #305: Numbers 16-19
2021-04-25
WE HUMANS are blinded by sight. That is, our natural senses often prevent us from seeing what’s really going on around us in the spirit realm.