Just Five Things You Should Know About… the Anakim!
2026-07-20
Why was defeating them Joshua’s military objective during the conquest of Canaan?Continue Reading
Gilbert House Fellowship #472: Isaiah 8
2026-02-08
They Shall Curse by Molech ISAIAH REPEATEDLY condemned the practice of summoning spirits from the netherworld. It’s not always apparent because translators often didn’t have an understanding of the cult of the dead that surrounded ancient Israel, and the impact it had on the Israelites. After prophesying the imminent destructionContinue Reading
Gilbert House Fellowship #455: 2 Kings 1–2
2025-08-10
THE PASSING of the mantle from Elijah to Elisha was spectacular: A fiery chariot pulled by horses of fire in a whirlwind carried the elder prophet to heaven.Continue Reading
Gilbert House Fellowship #445: 2 Chronicles 16–17; 1 Kings 16
2025-05-11
THE NORTHERN KINGDOM of Israel changed hands twice in a week. And more often than not, succession in Israel involved a sword.Continue Reading
Threshing Floors and Portals
2025-03-05
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
Ritual Pits and Rephaim
2025-02-26
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