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The Bible Has a Séance in It

Allie Beth Stuckey says Christians shouldn't be horror fans because Scripture keeps saying do not fear. I'm in the middle of a 31-movie October, so I went and read what that phrase is doing.

Guess My Names: Satan, the Nachash, Lucifer, and the Devil

Ask most Christians who the devil is and you get one composite figure built from five or six passages that were never written about the same thing, plus a costume from medieval art and nineteenth-century opera. Here is what each name actually is.

The Tree of Knowledge and the Transfer of Dominion

The world was good, not perfect. The tree gave something Genesis never names, and I had to throw out my own best guess at it. What survives is a chain: dominion given, lost, claimed, and taken back at the cross.

Reversing Hermon: The Watchers and the Mission of Jesus

Genesis 6 gets hurried past. The New Testament writers did not hurry past it. A chapter-by-chapter guide to Heiser’s Reversing Hermon and the Book of Enoch underneath it.

The Book of the Watchers: 1 Enoch 1–36, Read Aloud

1 Enoch chapters one through thirty-six, the Book of the Watchers, in the R. H. Charles 1917 translation. Not a summary and not commentary, just the book itself, formatted to be listened to straight through in five movements.

The Ten Plagues of Egypt

The plagues weren't weather events or just political pressure. Heiser reads Exodus 7-12 as a divine-council confrontation, with Yahweh dismantling the religious order of Egypt and exposing its gods as powerless, judgment building toward the final Passover night.

Divine Council Inventory: Heavenly Beings and Fallen Entities

The Old Testament presents a populated heavenly realm: beings of various ranks, roles, and alignments operating within Yahweh's cosmic order. In Heiser's divine council framework, these are real entities with assigned functions, some faithful, some in rebellion.

Judges 17–18: Micah, Dan, and the Idol

Idolatry in Judges 17-18 starts in one man's house with stolen silver, moves into the priesthood when a Levite takes a paycheck, and ends with a whole tribe running a rival shrine at Dan. A study of the appendix to Judges, read with Block and the divine council framework.

What Is a King? Will You Bow Now? (6 of 6)

Five sections of preparation, one question. We are between the two stages right now. The cross is past. The conquering King is future. The position you take now is the position you keep.

What Is a King? The Room Defines the King (1 of 6)

Kingliness is not generated by the king. It is generated by the room. The bowing, the lowered eyes, the held breath, the way bodies rearrange in space. A 2026 American has nothing to fill the word with, and that is the problem.