ABSTRACT Examines the many false doctrines flooding into the Church by leading prophecy ‘experts’ who are mingling apocryphal books, pagan mythology, UFO lore, occult writings, human speculation & imagination, et al, with Genesis 6 and other obscure biblical passages, in order to concoct strange and bizarre end-time scenarios that mimic science fiction.
Sarah Leslie & Gaylene Goodroad
THE RISE OF ENDTIME OCCULTISM In the Church
The authors expose the various unbiblical tenets of the Postmodern Prophecy Paradigm (PPP) teachers who are leading the church into end-time apostasy.
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM Contents Part 1: HOMO NEPHILUS: Explaining Extraterrestrials, Noah’s Flood, Pseudo-Humans, Pseudoscience, Nephilim, and Space Alien DNA ..........................................................................2 Part 2: The "Return" of the Alien Super Soldier: Awaiting the 2nd Coming of the Nephilim: Transhumanist Alien Super Soldiers— “as in the days of Noah” ...................................................................................19 Part 3: Techno-Dimensional Prayer Combat: Promoting New Methods of Hyper-Spiritual Warfare Devised to Combat the Nephilim, Pagan Gods, Dark Angels, Extraterrestrials, & Transhumanist Monsters ..............................................................................37 Part 4: The Second Coming of Apollo: Awaiting the Return of the Pagan God Apollo (Nimrod/Apollyon/Antichrist) ......64 Part 5: Nephilim are from Mars—Fallen Angels are from Krypton Using Pseudoscience/the Gap to Place Satan & the Nephilim on Mars ...............86 Part 6: Metaphysical Mysticism Masquerading as Science .............................117 Embracing Quantum Mysticism to Explain the Nephilim, Conscious Reality, & the Paranormal, and to Shift the Biblical Worldview to the Postmodern Prophecy Paradigm Part 7: The Resurrection of Pagan Gods .........................................................143 Mingling Pagan Mythology and Extra-Biblical Sources to God’s Truth *Part 8: Transhumanism: A Posthuman Paradigm Shift? End-Time Scenarios of the New Alchemists........................................................................................171 Analyzing how ancient occult beliefs are altering evangelical thinking and endtime eschatology ENDNOTES …………….………………………………………………………………………….…….……. 194
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HOMO NEPHILUS: Explaining Extraterrestrials, Noah’s Flood, Pseudo-Humans, Pseudoscience, Nephilim, and Space Alien DNA by Sarah Leslie “[God] hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation (Acts 17:26).”
In whom we have redemption through His blood, even the forgiveness of sins: Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: For by Him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by Him, and for Him (Col. 1:14-16).”
Exhibit: Prophecy in the News magazine cover, April 2013 1 2|P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM People often ask why we spend so much time in the discussion of bizarre topics, like UFOs and hybrid giants. They wonder why prophecy studies give any time at all to weird subjects like mystery lights in the sky, aerial trumpets and explosions, “alien implants” and “the nephilim.” They wonder why some opt for prophetic sensationalism, rather than focusing on the Gospel, or maturing the saints with the Word of God through traditional Bible study.2 ~ Gary Stearman, "The Dark Side of Bible Prophecy"
Many evangelicals now believe that God sent Noah’s Flood to stop the Nephilim corruption of human DNA. From the plain truth of Scripture it is very evident that the “wickedness of man” was very great on the face of the earth before the Flood: “And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually... The LORD said, "I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them (Genesis 6:5, 7).” [bold added]
Noah’s Flood was God’s judgment for the sinful unrighteous behavior of mankind. This is taught in both the Old and New Testaments (i.e., Ezek. 14:20, Heb. 11:7). The Lord Jesus Christ warned us explicitly that before His Second Coming sin would be so extant, and people so preoccupied with daily life, that His return would be like a thief in the night (Matthew 24:36-44) and catch people unawares (see also 1 Thess. 5:2-4). But evangelical Postmodern Prophecy Paradigm (PPP) teachers have been teaching that God judged Noah’s world because human DNA had gotten corrupted. They also teach that this corrupted DNA is why God will need to judge the world again. This concept is problematic at many levels, both biblically and scientifically. It ignores the problem of sin that leads to judgment (i.e., Heb. 10:2627; 1 Pet. 4:17-18; 2 Pet. 2; Rev. 17:1; 20:4).
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM The Postmodern Prophecy Paradigm leaders teach that corrupted human DNA continued AFTER the Flood. No matter what one believes happened with the “sons of God” and “daughters of men” (Genesis 6) before the Flood—and there are many varying theological opinions—this teaching is aberrant. Various versions of the post-Flood story even claim that fallen angels and/or “Watchers” are extraterrestrial beings (i.e., space aliens) who have mated with human women. Their supposed offspring are said to have created branches of the human race whose DNA is tainted with alien and/or fallen angel blood. Some even talk about “another race of beings;”3 i.e., not human. This subhuman race is said to become an “antichrist” race that will give rise to the “beast” of Revelation. 4 Many are now teaching that pre-Flood Nephilim weren’t really destroyed, that they must have somehow left planet earth or become disembodied spirits, and that somehow they managed to come back to continue corrupting mankind’s bloodline after Noah's Flood. How these Nephilim have left and returned has been a subject of great speculation that reads like science fiction—everything from UFOs to hyper-dimensional physics has been suggested.5 The ramifications of these false teachings are staggering—they profoundly alter not only the entirety of Scripture, but especially the message of Redemption found in the Gospel of Jesus Christ and His shed blood on the Cross for our sins. The Prophecy in the News magazine cover illustration on the cover of this booklet, with the quote by Gary Stearman beneath, is indicative of the occult nature of the postmodern prophecy teachings. This book segment is an in-depth analysis of just one controversial aspect of this emerging prophecy paradigm.
Before and After Noah’s Flood: Science and Scripture Before examining the new paradigm prophecy teachings,6 we want to first point out that many of the heresies surrounding Noah’s Flood have already been refuted in previous articles posted on Ken Ham’s Answers in Genesis (AIG) website. Devoted to both literal biblical creationism and historical accuracy, and also to scientific scholarly research, this website contains much helpful apologetics information for believers who are searching for truth. Many of these articles refute pseudoscience, that is “science falsely so-called” (1 Tim. 6:20), including Darwinism and Social Darwinism. 7 4|P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM An excellent article that reviews the many biblical views about the ancient Nephilim can be found on the Answers in Genesis website.8 The author of this article warns that “there is a popular unbiblical view that the Nephilim are space aliens. Of course, most creationists rightly reject this particular view for multiple reasons...” The author goes on to recount the inherent problems for biblical creationists with a post-Flood “fallen angels” view of the Nephilim.
Yes! There were giants! Homo Sapiens! Another article on the AIG website answers many questions about “Giants in the Old Testament.”9 This fascinating in-depth article delves into the historical lineages of the various giants mentioned in the Bible, and cites the many passages of Scripture that actually recount their human family tree. Interestingly, the Bible refers to them as “men” – and there is not one instance where the Bible (as opposed to extra-biblical sources) warns us that giants are related to space aliens who corrupted human DNA.10 In fact, there is a very thorough scientific and medical article posted at Answers in Genesis that explains how human male and female DNA works, particularly concerning aberrations in Noah’s post-Flood family tree. This article explains the mitochondrial genes that account for striking genetic variations, including the giants. Stating the traditional Bible view, the article concludes: Biologically speaking, humans (and just about everything else) went through a ‘bottleneck’ at the Flood. This means that the human population was reduced from millions to just eight. Most of the genetic diversity from before the Flood was lost. The new human race descended from Noah and his family, who carried all the genes that were eventually passed down to us. 11 “And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation (Acts 17:26).” [bold added] Exhibit: 8’11” tall Robert Wadlow with his mother and brother in 193512
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM Answers in Genesis warns that belief in UFOs is interconnected with evolution. There are direct historical linkages between Darwinism, Theosophy and modern UFO Lore.13 In UFO lore, it is commonly taught that life on our planet was “seeded” by space aliens. This is an alternative evolutionary view that negates the Biblical creation account of Genesis 1. This worldview is problematic for those who hold to Scripture as the only source for Truth about human origins: The idea of extraterrestrial life stems largely from a belief in evolution. Recall that in the evolutionary view, the earth is “just another planet”—one where the conditions just happened to be right for life to form and evolve. If there are countless billions of other planets in our galaxy, then surely at least a handful of these worlds have also had the right conditions. Extraterrestrial life is almost inevitable in an evolutionary worldview… 14
The evolutionists claim that mankind evolved from apes, or a common apelike ancestor. Racial prejudice, based on the idea that mankind descended from apes, was used as justification for genocide of so-called “inferior races.” The pseudoscience analysis of skull anatomy, facial characteristics, skin color, the shape of the ears, and other profiling and testing was used by Social Darwinists, including Hitler’s staff, to “prove” inferior racial DNA. This resulted in the Holocaust, forced sterilizations and other terrible crimes against humanity. While on the one hand denouncing such blatant evolutionist teachings, the postmodern prophecy teachers similarly argue that there is a corrupted bloodline resulting in distorted racial characteristics. Here is just one offensive example: The world must know the truth about “The Days of Noah.” See the skulls for yourself in On the Trail of the Nephilim—elongated, distorted skulls with massive eye sockets, bizarre jaw lines, and red hair! Simply put, these skulls are not human! DNA testing is pending!15 [bold added] Exhibit: Marzulli promotes book on the Gnostic Warrior radio program in 201416
Previously we have written about the heresy known as “serpent seed” and how it has been re-entering the church via these postmodern prophecy teachers. 17 They claim that the Nephilim (demigod giants who are the offspring of fallen angels and human women) proliferated at such a rate during Noah’s day that it resulted in an 6|P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM almost complete destruction of the human race. This demon/alien seed corruption of the human race, they say, rather than profound sinful human behavior, provoked the Lord’s anger into sending the Flood. 18 Apparently the Lord was powerless to stop the intergalactic mating going on so He had to intervene with a Flood. Here are examples of what is being taught about corrupted DNA causing Noah’s Flood:
That God had to send such a universal fiat [sic] illustrates how widespread the altered dna [sic] eventually became. In fact, the Bible says in Genesis 6:9 that only Noah—and by extension, his children—were found “perfect” in their generation... The meaning was not that Noah was morally perfect, but that his physical makeup—his dna [sic]—had not been contaminated with Nephilim descent, as apparently the rest of the world had become.19 [bold added] ~ Tom Horn, Christian author, radio host, and conference speaker
Commentators too numerous to mention have seen in this passage the miserable story of a humanity corrupted by dark forces of spiritual wickedness in the heavens. They broke God's law by descending into this dimension to mate with humans, producing a mutant race called, "giants." These were the nephilim, [sic] Hebrew for "the fallen ones." They were unclean and genetically corrupt creatures whose total preoccupation was evil in all imaginable forms. God determined that they were irredeemable; they had to be destroyed. "But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD." These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his and (genealogically and genetically) perfect. The Lord brought him through the judgment flood to start a new race.20 [bold added] ~ Gary Stearman, Christian author, syndicated TV host, and conference speaker
Satan has tried many times throughout history to mingle his seed with men. He started in the Days of Noah, which resulted in God destroying the demon-human hybrids (Nephilim) in the Flood (Genesis 6) …21 [bold added] ~ Douglas Hamp, Christian pastor, author, and lecturer
Most people, including serious students of the Bible, are unaware of the peculiar circumstances that led to the Flood of Noah. This has been widely misunderstood (and mistaught) for centuries… This term [“perfect” used in Gen. 6:9 to describe Noah] is used of physical blemishes, suggesting that Noah’s genealogy was not tarnished by this intrusion of the fallen angels. It seems that this adulteration of the human gene pool was a major problem on the planet Earth, and apparently Noah was among the few left who were not thus contaminated.22 [bold added] ~ Chuck Missler, Christian author, popular Bible teacher, and conference speaker
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Before many generations, the human race was being polluted by this abominable union with demons…It was specifically because of this ultimate sin that God brought about a deluge of such magnitude that man and beast were drowned from the face of the Earth.23 [bold added] ~ I.D.E. Thomas, Christian preacher, author, and professor 24
They [fallen angels] crossbred with humanity resulting in the hybrid known as the Nephilim! This was the reason for the flood, which by the way is recorded in cultures around the globe.25 [bold added] ~ L.A. Marzulli, Christian author, filmmaker, and conference speaker 26
Exhibit: Poster of 2015 ‘Watchers’ Conference 27
In the more specific sense, however, “corruption” of a supernaturally inflicted sort afflicted the very genetic makeup—the DNA—of humankind when the “sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare [sic] children to them.” The sexual unions produced “giants.” The scriptural record couldn’t be clearer. Corruption of human genetics, then, apparently was a key reason the earth dwellers were beyond redemption, thus had to be destroyed by the worldwide Flood. 28 [bold added] ~ Terry James, Christian author and conference speaker
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The old world of Noah was destroyed precisely because of such genetic tampering.29 [bold added] ~ Gary Stearman, noted evangelical prophecy leader
It seems that these fallen angels (the Nephilim) contaminated almost all life on earth. We do not know how many people were contaminated, but we are told that at least Noah’s family remained genetically pure. For that reason, God destroyed the world with a Flood.30 [bold added] ~ J.R. Church, the late founder of Prophecy in the News
DNA Corruption AFTER Noah’s Flood? These same prophecy leaders of the new paradigm also teach that human DNA was corrupted AFTER Noah’s Flood. Worse, many teach this corruption was the result of mating between Space Aliens (Extraterrestrials – E.T.s) and human beings! Are space aliens abducting people and inseminating them? Below are some examples of this popular teaching: Exhibit: Graphic depiction of so-called alien DNA corruption31
SHARON GILBERT: The genetic manipulation that began in Mesopotamia’s earliest days not only precipitated the Flood of Noah’s time, but it continued afterward… …But, remember, Genesis tells us that the mingling of angelic DNA and human DNA began before the flood, but it continued “after.” Noah’s perfect DNA grew corrupt in most lines, but God preserved a “perfect,” kingly line that ended with Mary and her miraculous Son, Jesus Christ.
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM … some unlucky humans have seen what may be one modern version of the ancient “dragon.” To these contactees, the skies sometimes reveal terrifying, shining crafts [UFOs, ed.] bearing unearthly occupants whose singular purpose is to breed with mankind. Yes, it might be debated whether these abductions involve aliens from beyond our stars, aliens from beneath our oceans, demons pretending to be one or both, or even the lies of our own government, but this matters not. Whether alien, demons, or government shadows, people are being contacted and convinced that their DNA is extracted and used in breeding experimentation. … whatever the source of these encounters, they are part of an overarching spiritual war. Demonic entities and fallen angels are still attempting to tweak mankind’s DNA…. Once their bodies died, the Nephilims’ spirits did not go to sheol… it appears. Instead, they attached themselves to the earth, waiting for flesh to inhabit. When we read that angelic hybridization returned after the flood, then it could be that angels continued to fall (for those pre-Flood fallen angels had been chained for their sins), and/or that the spirits of the Nephilim (demons) now plagued mankind, not only by inhabiting him (possession) but also by re-creating him through genetic manipulation! 32 [bold and italics added]
J.R. CHURCH: Those fallen angels who descended to Mount Hermon introduced the “seed of the serpent” into the human race. Evidently, after the Flood, they consorted with members of the tribe of Dan, mixing the “seed of the serpent” into the human genome once again. The first time it happened, God judged the world with water. The next time, it will be by fire.33 [bold added]
TOM HORN: One of the more disturbing aspects of the “beings who breach the gate”, is “abduction”, which continues to be reported around the world. This [sic] is visitations by small, typically Grey creatures, who supposedly pilot UFOs and conduct various experiments on unwilling abductees. Such activity is seen as the malevolent relationship between certain humans and these “gods” of creation. Radical aspects of their procedures can include impregnating abductees and later removing hybrid embryos. The ancient astronaut theory and the teaching of theologians alike look to the prehistoric legend of Watchers (mysterious beings who first appeared in the early cultures of the Middle East) to discuss the Anunnaki (Sumerian Gods), Nephilim (giants referenced in Gen. 6.4), and the creation of mutant DNA following earth visitation by “gods.”34 [bold added]
TOM HORN: Today, what some call “alien abduction,” in which a breeding program allegedly exists resulting in alien/human hybrids, seems but a contemporary retelling of similar DNA harvesting and genetic manipulation by those mysterious beings called “Watchers” whose genetic modification activities we have discussed...35 [bold added]
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Exhibit: Illustration of an alien abduction36
RON SKIBA (book description): Who or what is an Archon? What is "The Genesis Six Experiment?" Who were the Nephilim? How did they return both before and after the Flood? What differentiates the days of Noah from the days of Jared? Were there female Nephilim? Could the giants reproduce? Why should we be concerned about the act of mixing animal and human DNA? Why did Jesus say the Last Days would be like the days of Noah?37 [bold added]
CRIS PUTNAM & TOM HORN: Unnatural forms of life first sprang up in ancient days and, according to the Bible, this is a repeatable phenomenon—that is, human hybridization not only happened in the earliest of times, but was followed by at least a second wave during the days of Abraham, Moses, and the Davidic kingdom, and, more importantly, was prophesied to erupt once more in the latter days. Therefore, we shall show unequivocally that the question is not whether humans were, can be, or are being hybridized, but whether alien/demon agencies are involved in the process. If so, does this imply something very uncomfortable, which most of us do not want to think about-that a form of "human" exists that quite possibly cannot be redeemed? 38 [bold added, italics in original]
CRIS PUTNAM & TOM HORN: Indeed, almost immediately following the Great Flood, Scripture confirms the return of hybrid humans, including Og, the King of Bashan, whose bed was approximately fourteen feet long by six feet wide: Anak and his Anakim;
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM and other beings among the tribes of Emim, Horim, and Zamsumim...Does this suggest that the Nephilim offspring were intentionally being bred down in size with each generation, thus allowing for eventual seamless, secret integration among human societies of pseudo-humans with "corrupted" genetic code?39 [ bold added]
TOM HORN QUOTING J.R. CHURCH: … [W]e should not be surprised that “a humanoidtype reptilian race could cohabit with human women and produce a race of giants.”40 [bold added]
From the aberrant teachings above one can see just how far UFO Lore has penetrated biblical prophecy, giving room for the New Age cult heresy that space aliens seeded the human race.41 Much more could be said on this disturbing subject, but that is a topic for future examination.
When and Where Was Noah’s Flood? One of the most perplexing aspects of this post-Flood Nephilim theory lies in the various contradictory accounts of the supposed Nephilim evidence. Much of the “evidence” is shrouded in ancient pagan mythological accounts. There is a serious lack of scholarly scientific evidence. Some even claim that there are visible remnants of a Nephilim culture before the Flood still extant on earth today. Questions must be raised. Do these prophecy teachers believe that there actually was a worldwide deluge that covered the mountains and wiped out all traces of mankind, leaving only fossil remains? Or are they, like many of the New Age cults,42 teaching that the Flood was only partial or localized in Mesopotamia, less than disastrous, leaving behind human relics, monuments, skeletons and “megalithic structures” (that strangely bear no evidence of being under water or surviving a global deluge), as “evidence of Nephilim architecture”? (see Part 5)43 For example: ...[T]he Fallen One has been tampering with the gene pool since the days of Noah and continues to do so today. He wants to create man in his own image... The Nephilim were here and also after when the sons of God came into the daughters of men. Hundreds of excavated graves scattered throughout the world provide evidence of their genetic abomination—the product of the breeding of heavenly angels with the women of Earth during the days of Noah. These ancient builders left behind evidence of their
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM supernatural strength and technological know-how. Their massive, megalithic structures are legendary and evidence of Nephilim architecture abounds worldwide. Marzulli and a team of scientists, archaeologists and scholars traveled to the jungles of a foreign land, perhaps the only place where they could gain access to the unspoiled evidence of this genetic manipulation—PERU—toppling perhaps the greatest cover-up in mankind’s bizarre history. Crawling through caves deep in the Peruvian jungle, accompanied by a private native guide, they discovered the remains of an ancient civilization, a shocking find that left the team in awe. As they held these strange, ancient skulls in their hands, the team knew that this was a story that must be be [sic] told. The world must know the truth about “The Days of Noah.” See the skulls for yourself in On the Trail of the Nephilim—elongated, distorted skulls with massive eye sockets, bizarre jaw lines, and red hair! Simply put, these skulls are not human! DNA testing is pending!44 [bold added, italics in original]
From a scholarly, purely scientific point of view certain questions must be asked: What is the baseline DNA sample for a fallen angel/Watcher? Where is there a DNA sample of a proven Nephilim? An Extraterrestrial? A human hybrid? The fact is, there are none.
“O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called (1 Tim. 6:20).”
Just like the evolutionists who are continually searching for their “missing link,” these new prophecy paradigm leaders cannot produce extraterrestrialcontaminated DNA. They have to resort to wild claims of conspiracies and coverups, mythological stories and ancient pagan legends to justify their claims. Even their conspiracy theories are difficult to document with hard evidence. In fact, it is very easy to simply state that everything they postulate is part of a massive government cover-up and has been secret and hidden (see Part 5). These claims conveniently give them the ability to disregard the standard rules of scientific inquiry and proof. So what is really going on with this purported DNA testing? It is apparent that there is an active attempt to try to gather DNA. Below is yet another example from L.A. Marzulli, with some of the text below it:
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM Exhibit: Here is one skull which we handled, weighed and photographed while in Paracas, Peru. We are doing DNA testing on the hair sample we were allowed to take, and so far the results have been very interesting.45 [Ed. note: It must be pointed out that the postmodern prophecy teachers are denying that these skeletons they are looking at in this hemisphere are Native American. They are claiming instead that these are evidences of Nephilim DNA contamination. They also claim that Nephilim giants built the Native American Indian mounds in America, a controversial and potentially offensive position that is at variance with scholarly investigations.]
A Limited Plan of Redemption? Most disturbing of all in these postmodern prophecy teachings is a comment made by Gary Stearman, formerly of Prophecy in the News,46 who wrote in its April 2013 magazine article "The Dark Side of Bible Prophecy," concerning the verses Daniel 2:42-43 that it is clear from this prophecy that there will be another, latter-day attempt by the mysterious “they” to infiltrate the genome of mankind. They know that if human seed can be corrupted, it will render God’s plan of redemption null and void.47
Is Stearman actually saying that God’s “plan of redemption” can be “rendered null and void”? Is that what these other prophecy teachers are saying (in many of the quotes above)? This assertion runs totally contrary to Scripture! Over and over again, Scripture assures us the Truth about redemption: “That we should be to the praise of His glory, who first trusted in Christ. In Whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the Word of Truth, the Gospel of your salvation: in Whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of His glory (Eph. 1:11-14).” [bold added] 14 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM “Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by His own blood He entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us… And for this cause He is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance… So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for Him shall He appear the second time without sin unto salvation (Heb. 9: 12,15, 28).” [bold added]
Stearman continues with his version of the Nephilim story, which he says will “create a race of beings” that are not human: When did this happen the first time, and who did it? The clear answer is given in Genesis, Chapter Six, in the record of the fallen angels who mingled their seed with the seed of mankind, resulting in a societal monstrosity that God was forced to destroy in the Flood of Noah. There is growing historical evidence that the entire creation – human and animal – was tainted. Daniel’s prophecy tells us that just before the giant statue’s iron legs crumble (in the days of the Great Tribulation), fallen angels will descend openly to Earth once again. Then, they will repeat their evil work… [T]hose with eyes to see can understand that an alien force is now infiltrating the human race, with the express purpose of creating human-alien hybrids, some of which are indistinguishable from pure human beings. In other articles, we have documented the abduction phenomenon in explicit detail. And why would they do this? To create a race of beings from which the Antichrist will emerge. In Revelation, he is called the “beast.” A beast is not a human being. We have arrived at the heart of this “unmentionable” topic: human/alien hybridization.48 [bold and italics added]
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Exhibit: DVD jacket for Nephilim/Hybrid teaching 49
Conclusion Answers in Genesis reminds us gently and patiently that “Humans are humans and have been so since the beginning.”50 Furthermore, they address the multitude of biblical problems with claiming that space aliens corrupted the human race: Problems are multiplied when we consider the possibility of intelligent alien life. Science fiction programming abounds with races of people who evolved on other worlds. We see examples of Vulcans and Klingons—pseudohumans similar to us in most respects but different in others. As a plot device, these races allow the exploration of the human condition from the perspective of an outsider. Although very entertaining, such alien races are theologically problematic. Intelligent alien beings cannot be redeemed. God’s plan of redemption is for human beings: those descended from Adam… Christ is a blood relative of ours since He is descended from Adam as are we; all human beings are of “one blood” ( Acts 17:26). Furthermore, since Christ is also God, His life is of infinite value, and thus, His death can pay for all the sins of all people. That is why only the Lord Himself could be our Savior (Isaiah 45:21). Therefore, Christ died once for all (Hebrews 10:10).51 The Redemption of ET? When we consider how the salvation plan might apply to any hypothetical extraterrestrial (but otherwise human-like) beings, we are presented with a problem. If there were Vulcans or Klingons out there, how would they be saved? They are not blood relatives of Jesus, and so 16 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM Christ’s shed blood cannot pay for their sin. One might at first suppose that Christ also visited their world, lived there, and died there as well, but this is anti-biblical. Christ died once for all (1 Peter 3:18; Hebrews 9:27–28, Hebrews 10:10). Jesus is now and forever both God and man; but He is not an alien. One might suppose that alien beings have never sinned, in which case they would not need to be redeemed. But then another problem emerges: they suffer the effects of sin, despite having never sinned. Adam’s sin has affected all of creation— not just mankind. Romans 8:20–22 makes it clear that the entirety of creation suffers under the bondage of corruption. These kinds of issues highlight the problem of attempting to incorporate an anti-biblical notion into the Christian worldview.52
Postmodern prophecy teachers overlook the seriousness of mankind’s sin against a holy God and place the focus upon an outside enemy: half demon, half human creatures—hell-bent on destroying the human race by corrupting our DNA. The far-reaching consequences of these teachings could result in a horrific new form of racism on earth, one endorsed and sanctioned by church leaders. Rather than warning about end-time apostasy, these teachers actually seem to be creating it! Their message is seductive and full of potent and scary imagery. It is based on a corruption of Scripture mixed with ancient and New Age occult teachings. It seems plausible, but when one begins to ask the hard scientific and biblical questions, it begins to look more like its close cousin—science fiction. The Lord Jesus Christ paid the ultimate sacrifice on the Cross to deal with mankind’s sin once for all. His payment for our sin forms the backbone of the Gospel. There is no salvation apart from God’s dealing with our sin problem and our recognition and surrender to that vital truth, as Ken Ham reminds us: People often ask the question: ‘If there is so much evidence that God created the world and sent a global cataclysmic flood called Noah’s Flood, then surely all scientists would believe this?’ The answer is given here in 2 Peter 3. It is simply not a matter of evidence to convince people, for people don’t want to be convinced. We read in Romans 1:20 that there is enough evidence to convince everyone that God is Creator, so much so that we are condemned for not believing. Furthermore, Romans 1:18 also tells us that men ‘suppress the truth in unrighteousness’. Again, the Bible is telling us that it is not a matter of there not being enough evidence to convince people that the Bible is true, since they don’t want to believe the Bible anyway. The reason for this is obvious. If people believed in the God of the Bible, then they would have to submit themselves to His authority and obey the rules He has laid down. However, every human being suffers from the same problem, the sin which Adam committed back there in the Garden of Eden, a ‘disease’ which we all inherit. Adam’s sin was rebellion 17 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM against God’s authority. Likewise, people everywhere today are in rebellion against God, so to admit that the Bible is true would be an admission of their own sinful and rebellious nature, and of their need to be born again by cleansing through the blood of Christ. 53
“For yet a little while, and He that shall come will come, and will not tarry (Heb. 10:37).”
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The "Return" of the Alien Super Soldier Awaiting the 2nd Coming of the Nephilim: Transhumanist Alien Super Soldiers— “as in the days of Noah” by Gaylene Goodroad
Exhibit: Image on L.A. Marzulli’s blog with caption: “UFO News: Alien Soldiers...”54
… “alien” and/or animal characteristics will be introduced to the human gene pool and spread through intermarriage, altering the human genetic code and eventually eliminating humanity as we know it. According to many theologians, this is what happened before the Great Flood, allowing for Nephilim incarnation and perhaps has been the whole idea for the end times as well—to create a generation of genetically altered “fit extensions” for the resurrection of underworld Nephilim hordes in preparation of Armageddon.55 —Tom Horn [bold, underscore added]
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM Homo Nephilus Returns In Part 1 of this book, “Homo Nephilus,” we reported that the emerging Postmodern Prophecy Paradigm (PPP) leaders have corrupted the key biblical doctrines directly tied to the Gospel of salvation, beginning with the idea that the Lord God sent the Flood of Noah—not because of mankind’s sin and wickedness—but in order to stop the corruption of the human gene pool from Nephilim DNA contamination. The PPP teachers contend that these demonhuman hybrids threatened to wipe out humanity in Noah's day, beckoning God’s intervention to save mankind through the Deluge. 56 The Postmodern Prophecy Paradigm (PPP) leaders also teach that space alien Nephilim creatures will be returning to earth “as in the days of Noah” to mate again with human beings and extend their own race, thus threatening the existence of mankind once again. This corruption of Scripture’s plain meaning invents a new prophecy focus in the evangelical world – that of an impending invasion by monstrous space alien soldiers! According to the theories of these PPP teachers, God Almighty sent Noah's Flood upon the earth—not because of the inherent sinfulness and wickedness of mankind—but because the human gene pool (genome) had been corrupted by “Watchers” (fallen angels/extraterrestrials/pagan gods) who mated with human women, producing an evil, mutant race of giant hybrids (demigods) called “Nephilim.” Only Noah and his family remained genetically unstained by this celestial interbreeding with mankind. These PPP teachers further claim that Jesus’s prophecy: “as it was in the days of Noah” (Matt. 24:37), really means that the “Watchers” (parents of the Nephilim/alien life) will be returning to earth through multi/hyper-dimensional portals/stargates to repeat the events in Genesis 6—ultimately threatening to wipe out humanity as we know it. Twisting and turning the Scripture upside down, modern Nephilim aficionados are preparing their students and readers for the return of the Nephilim—not the return of the Lord Jesus Christ. Extra-biblical mythology and occult lore are quickly supplanting true Bible study and holy living. Speculation and supposition are rapidly rising, replacing proper biblical exegesis.57 Instead of looking for the soon return of the Lord Jesus Christ with a charge to holy living, PPP adherents exhort 20 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM Christians to look for signs of these dark, mutant creatures, and make plans to engage them, if necessary (see Part 3).58 It is astonishing how Jesus’s words are wrenched and contorted out of their biblical context to fit these emerging PPP false doctrines. According to some espousing this dark fable, the “they” Jesus pointed to in Matthew and Luke were not people—but Nephilim! In a previous article, “The Rise of Apocalyptic Paganism: Biblical Prophecy in Crisis,” we cited an interview between L.A. Marzulli and Derek Gilbert, both high-profile PPP teachers, who admit they are twisting Scripture: GILBERT: Jesus didn’t specifically mention the Nephilim return…. He didn’t specifically say, ‘just as it was when the giants were roaming the land,’… He seems to indicate, and there are those who will interpret it this way, that what He meant was people just weren’t paying attention. They were running about, doing their thing, not paying attention to spiritual matters and suddenly, destruction comes down… So what then is it about Matthew 24 and Luke 17 that convinces you that what Jesus really meant was something He didn’t specifically say—was talking about the presence of Nephilim in the land in those days? MARZULLI: Well, the question is, when in that passage, who is ‘the they’? Who is ‘the they’ that are eating and drinking?... When we read in Genesis 6, ‘the they’ are not human beings. It says, ‘the sons of God saw the daughters of man,’ it’s referring to the B’nai HaElohim—which are the fallen angels! ‘They’ were eating and drinking and given in marriage. And that’s why I believe this is, this is what’s coming. This is what’s coming on the earth. In fact in some ways, it’s already here.59 [bold added]
“But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be (Matt. 24:37-39).” [bold added]
The Alien Super Soldiers Are Coming! Who is the “they”? The answer is shocking! L.A. Marzulli gives other clues as to who he considers the nonhuman “they” from Matthew 24 might be in an article he posted on his blog in October 2012, entitled, “UFO News: Alien Soldiers? You be the Judge…” (It included the graphic at the top of this segment). In his blog 21 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM post, Marzulli cites the claims of a UFO expert, Gary McKinnon, and republished portions of an article, “Presidential Election: Alien Soldiers exist says Gary McKinnon.” Marzulli gives full credence to this report, and then comments: As U.S. Presidential candidates debated, UFO Sightings Daily reported that Gary McKinnon “discovered files about twenty to thirty non-terrestrial officers (off world).” Mr. Waring elaborates on 16 October 2012 that Mr. McKinnon “saw their ranks, and ship to ship transfers off world.” [underscore added] This is an interesting bit of video in that it may expose what some of us have been saying for over a decade. ET is here and is part of the Military/Industrial complex. Gary McKinnon who is the UK hacker the US has been trying to extradite to stand trial, announced in this video, Alien soldiers exist. This may be a stretch for some of us, but I have heard reports of this ever since I began researching Nephilim in the late 80′s.60 Exhibit: Hacker McKinnon says ‘warships already in space’ 61
Who is Gary McKinnon, and is he a reliable and credible expert? Hardly! According to newspaper accounts, Gary McKinnon is a computer hacker who was indicted by a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia for seven counts of computer-related crime, each of which carried a potential ten-year jail sentence.62 McKinnon “admitted he accessed US government computers” when he “was looking for evidence of UFOs.”63 He claims that he “found a log that listed nonterrestrial officers” (i.e., space aliens) and that the “US military has a secret battalion in space.” Unfortunately, Mr. McKinnon also admitted that “he was usually smoking pot when he hacked, so that prevented him from remembering the names” of these spaceships.64 The McKinnon article, cited by Marzulli as his source for information, claims that the Office of the President of the U.S. acts under the direction of “the controllers” who are “Archons.” It cites well-known New Age leader John Lash and his documentation on metahistory.org as the source of that revelation! Marzulli seizes upon the last line of the article as proof of his own theories, and postulates 22 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM that because Archon is the Greek word for principality, therefore it must mean that “they” are Nephilim – “Alien Super soldiers”: Is there a connection between principalities or, Arche/Archon’s and the realm of the Fallen Angels? In my opinion there is and this is part of the coming great deception I have written about for over a decade now. If McKinnon is giving us credible information, then it is ground breaking and creates a link to the fallen angels openly manifesting on the earth. Jesus warns us it will be like the days of Noah when he returns. What differentiates those days is the presence of the fallen angels on the earth. If McKinnon’s information is true, and there’s no way to vet it, then we’re not in Kansas anymore. …I think we do ourselves a great injustice when we underestimate what this might mean. Alien Super soldiers? Nephilim hybrids? If McKinnon’s story is true we’re in for some interesting days in the future.65 [bold, underscore added]
Note again that Marzulli did not derive his ideas about “Alien Super Solders”, “non-terrestrial officers,” and “Archons” from Ephesians 6—but from “ancient pagan Gnostics” and a United Kingdom hacker fighting extradition to the United States! Furthermore, note that his whole premise is founded upon UFO conspiracy theories which are not provable but based on virulent speculation.
The Alien “Archon” Invasion This claim of “Alien Super Soldiers” is just one of several evocative terms used by PPP adherents to describe hideous entities that are apparently synonymous (in their minds) with the Nephilim hordes and other nefarious hybrid creatures and pagan entities purportedly created by mixing human and demon DNA. “Archon” is just another term they like to bandy about. PPP aficionado, Rob Skiba, wrote a book with a sensational title, The Archon Invasion and the Return of the Nephilim, and eerie book cover. Here is a description of this book from Skiba’s website: Who or what is an Archon? What was "The Genesis Six Experiment" about? Who were the Nephilim? How did they return both before and after the Flood? What differentiates the days of Noah from the days of Jared? Were there female Nephilim? Could the giants reproduce? Why should we be concerned about the act of mixing animal and human DNA? Exhibit: Skiba’s 2012 book66 23 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM Why did Jesus say the Last Days would be like the days of Noah? Find out in this information packed 366 page [sic] book by Rob Skiba!67 [bold added]
Such end-time PPP plots continue to sell books, DVDs, and unbiblical notions.
Transhuman Soldiers: A ‘New Breed’? As if demonic tinkering with human DNA was not fantastic enough, some have further imagined and speculated that the so-called “Watchers” might need some human help in fulfilling these scary scenarios. Human beings may be creating Frankenstein-type creatures (see Part 8). This is based on claims that mutant humanoids can be (or are already being) created via DNA tinkering. Leading the pack in this sensational layer of apostasy is Tom Horn, who wrote and published Forbidden Gates: How Genetics, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Synthetic Biology, Nanotechnology and Human Enhancement Herald the Dawn of TechnoDimensional Spiritual Warfare. Horn piggybacks his PPP Nephilim False Eschatology onto the transhumanism movement in order to arrive at places never envisioned by Gene Roddenberry or Rod Serling.
Exhibit: DVD of Horn’s video - Inhuman68
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM Horn posted an open letter on his former Raiders News Update69 website on September 14, 2010, entitled: “Open Letter to Christian Leaders on Biotechnology and the Future of Man.” Note his tone and urgency in the Foreword to this letter: In recent years, astonishing technological developments have pushed the frontiers of humanity toward far-reaching morphological transformation that promises in the very near future to redefine what it means to be human. An international, intellectual, and fast-growing cultural movement known as transhumanism, whose vision is supported by a growing list of U.S. military advisors, bioethicists, law professors, and academics, intends the use of biotechnology, genetic engineering, nanotechnology, cybernetics, and artificial intelligence as tools that will radically redesign our minds, our memories, our physiology, our offspring, and even perhaps—as Joel Garreau, in his bestselling book Radical Evolution, claims—our very souls. The technological, cultural and metaphysical shift now underway unapologetically forecasts a future dominated by this new species of unrecognizably superior humans…. The issues raised by human-transforming science must be addressed by Christian leaders in a serious national conversation. To fail in this responsibility may lead to the question “what does it mean to be human” being abdicated to a frightening transhuman vision.70 [bold, underscore added]
Transhumanism is a high-tech, bio-tech concept is working to create a physical "new breed" of man. There is also a mystical component to it that comes from Hermeticism and Theosophy (see Part 8). Mysticism plus science results in an emerging pseudoscience which is very popular in the New Age Movement (see Part 6). It is also increasingly gaining credence in the emerging evangelical Postmodern Prophecy Paradigm movement. An international Christian expert on the ethical implications of nanotechnology, Dr. Martin Erdmann, warned us about the mystical component of transhumanism ideology in his Herescope article, “Creatures in Pursuit of Autonomous Perfection”: Transhumanism takes human enhancement further, in morphing the vision of perfect man into a human-machine complex properly called “posthuman”… The actual work of transhumanism involves technologies such as brain-computer interfaces, neuropharmacology, and perhaps most notably, nanotechnology. Nanotechnology is a molecular science, whose other pursuits range from alternative energy to cancer cures... Yet rather than confining itself to “simple” goals of healing cancer or even restoring sight, transhumanism posits that men are in an early stage of evolution, and pushes to enhance fundamentally humanity through nanotechnology and other sciences... Despite transhumanist rejection of supernatural force, its philosophy mirrors mysticism…71 [bold added]
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM When Horn’s fanciful concoctions of “a new species of unrecognizably superior humans” are married to end-times biblical prophecy they become a seductively potent deception, full of ancient occult spirituality mixed with New Age UFO mysticism. But Horn is not alone in his transhuman gene-tampering ideas. Douglas Hamp,72 a PPP leader who is a former assistant Pastor at Calvary Chapel, Costa Mesa, and author of Corrupting the Image: Angels, Aliens, and the Antichrist Revealed, appeared on Coast to Coast AM with George Noory in 2012. Coast to Coast radio has a long history, going back to its days with host Art Bell, as being one of the chief purveyors of occult, paranormal, New Age, Bigfoot, UFOs, and other wild conspiracy theories. Nevertheless, many of the PPP leaders have been recurring guests on this program. In his radio interview, Hamp proposes that there is a Satanic army being created “to fight Jesus upon his return” and connects this Satanic army to the Nephilim: Hebrew scholar and expert in biblical prophecy, Douglas Hamp, warned that we're entering into an era of genetic manipulation that will set the stage for celestial intervention into the affairs of mankind. He predicted that within the next ten years a major disclosure event will take place which will convince the public to cooperate with aliens (who are actually demons rather than ETs) to participate in the next level of evolution. These aliens are using a hybridization program, mixing human genetics with the Satanic, in order to create an army to fight Jesus upon his return, he postulated. Further, he suggested that the hybrids might be currently kept in underground facilities. [bold, underscore added] He correlated such beings with biblical accounts, in which the Nephilim or fallen angels, mated with human females, and had offspring, some of whom were said to be giants. Scientific tampering with the genetic code, such as with recombinant DNA, may lead to the possibility that people will be offered genetic enhancements, and if they accept them they'll be turned into Satanic hybrids, akin to the Bible's 'mark of the beast,' Hamp commented.73 [bold added]
Unfortunately, these statements diminish Jesus Christ, our resurrected Savior, who is King of Kings and Lord of Lords, and who shall "overcome" by the sword which "proceeded out of His mouth" (Rev. 17: 14; 19:13-16). Hamp's remarks sound more like a Hollywood science fiction movie than what Jesus actually tells us in Scripture about the last days. These terrifying mythical ideas were further embellished by Hamp when he spoke at the 2012 Prophecy Summit in Branson, Missouri. During a roundtable discussion with L.A. Marzulli, Rob Skiba and Derek Gilbert (all PPP leaders). Doug 26 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM Hamp included space aliens in his science fiction view of the Lord’s return. In his discussion of Revelation 19, notice how boldly he tosses in a few new doctrines to create an apocalyptic scenario involving physical warfare: HAMP: I actually think it’s going to be something like this: that we’re going to have sort of a good alien and bad alien kind of thing. And the so-called good aliens will be those that will get there first, and they’re saying, ‘you know what, people of the world? You should be glad that we got here first. Cause there’s a hostile alien force that’s hot on our tracks. They’re going to be here in about seven years. And if we get busy, and, ah, get to work, and start making you guys into Nephilim, then we can overcome them. And, uh, so you need to be changed, because when they come, they’re going to try to take away your way of life. They’re going to try to stop you from having all that fun. And we can overcome them together.’74 [bold, underscore added]
Note the remarks about “we can overcome them together.” Are these men implying that Christians must use spiritual warfare, technological warfare, or some combination thereof, in order assist Jesus when He returns to earth? Are they saying the humankind on earth must fight off these enemy (space alien/Nephilim) combatants? This is a disturbing scenario that runs totally contrary to Scripture. Unfortunately, it fits in all too well with the aberrant teachings of the New Apostolic Reformation and also the New Age Movement.75
Armageddon’s Super Soldier—Homo Nephilus According to the PPP mindset, earth needs to be prepared to be invaded by genetically mutated Nephilim. In creating these scenarios, their imagination has no limits. Consider these excerpts from a recent NewsWithViews article written by Tom Horn. Everything is based on wild speculations. Horn is relying upon undocumented pseudoscience, conspiracy theories, and an unholy mixture of myths with Scripture in order to raise the following hypothetical questions:
Given advances in Grin technology, transhumanist aspirations, and the admitted new arms race of human enhancement discussed in previous entries, imagine the staggering spiritual warfare implications of such science if dead Nephilim tissue were discovered with intact dna [sic] and a government somewhere was willing to clone or mingle the extracted organisms for use in (re)creating the ultimate super soldier—HomoNephilim. If one accepts the biblical story of Nephilim as real [Ed. note: Horn's version of this story relies on extra-biblical sources], such discovery could actually be made someday—or perhaps already has been and was covered up. [bold, underscore added]
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The ramifications of using science to revive extinct animals or Nephilim could extend beyond cloning to include a mysterious germ-line connection with the armies of Armageddon and the kingdom of Antichrist. This is because as interbreeding begins between transgenic animals, genetically modified humans, and species as God made them, the altered dna [sic] will quickly migrate into the natural environment. When that happens (as is already occurring among genetically modified plants and animals), “alien” and/or animal characteristics will be introduced to the human gene pool and spread through intermarriage, altering the human genetic code and eventually eliminating humanity as we know it. According to many theologians, this is what happened before the Great Flood, allowing for Nephilim incarnation and perhaps has been the whole idea for the end times as well—to create a generation of genetically altered “fit extensions” for the resurrection of underworld Nephilim hordes in preparation of Armageddon. [bold, underscore added]
Exhibit: Cover of the Horns’ 2010 book76
Noting that Isaiah ties the destruction of Iraq/Babylon with the reappearance of gibborim in this way, we recall how thousands of U.S. troops, on invading Iraq during the Bush administration, admittedly filled U.S. containers with archaeological materials, including what some have speculated to be cuneiform tablets pointing to the location of pure-blooded Nephilim buried in underground caves. This is exactly where Enoch said the dead antediluvian Nephilim are, and raises fascinating questions: Would agencies like Darpa have interest in studying or cloning the extinct beings if they were,
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM or have been, found? Could man in his arrogance revive ancient dna [sic], revitalizing or blending it with other living organisms in a way similar to what the Watchers did in making the first Nephilim? Is the factual reappearance on earth of such legendary beings verified by Isaiah, who also foresaw transhuman creatures such as satyrs (transgenic half-men, half-goats) accompanying the return of giants in the end times, or why other apocryphal books like 2 Esdras 5:8 prophesy the birth of “monsters” for the same period of time? [bold added] (see Part 7)
The ancient Book of Jubilees—another apocryphal text—considers the same time frame and verifies contemporaneous Nephilim resurrection. The familiar word “corruption” turns up again in association with these beings, insinuating an end-times repeat of what the Watchers did by corrupting human dna [sic] and blending it with animals to retrofit human bodies for Nephilim incarnation.
The well-known prophecy in the second chapter of the book of Joel also includes reference to returning gibborim (giants, Nephilim offspring). Though expositors tend to view Joel describing an army of locusts, he includes gibborim in his descriptions in the phrase “they shall run like mighty men [gibborim].” Does this mean something besides the fact that grasshoppers will be involved in Joel’s end-times army? [bold, underscore added]
To “mingle” nonhuman seed with Homo sapiens through altering human dna [sic] while simultaneously returning Nephilim to earth has been the inspiration of the spirit of Antichrist ever since God halted the practice during the Great Flood.77 [bold added]
Notice that when Jesus spoke about the last days before His return, He never mentioned an end-time army of Nephilim hordes. Horn’s fantastic and faulty premise hinges on unbridled speculations that phantom alien soldiers— “Homo Nephilim”—may be somehow connected to the undisclosed findings in the desert during the Gulf War. This undocumented scenario is further advanced by Christian PPP author Steve Quayle. Note his description of these creatures (purportedly from recent true events) that formed the basis of his fictional book, LongWalkers: Since my new book "Longwalkers - The Return of the Nephilim" is written in a fictional format, derived from my movie script - I have included the personal letter that I received from the pilot who flew a 12-foot tall, dead, cannibalistic giant out of the Middle East after destroying a Special Forces group hunting the Taliban in 2005. The giant had six fingers and six toes and the Longwalkers book cover is a VERY accurate artistic representation of the actual event. The pilot related to me in our subsequent phone call certain things that only someone who actually observed the giant could have possibly known. I suggest those of you who know what "The Days of Noah" really means, prepare accordingly!78 [bold added] 29 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM Note the gruesome illustration. It is curious, considering the number of so-called witnesses to this “six-fingered cannibalistic giant,” that no one had the inclination to snap a photograph of the monster—especially if it was killed and bound in the way depicted on the book’s cover. But the unscholarly and unethical lack of documentation runs rampant
Exhibit: Disturbing cover for Quayle’s book 79
throughout the PPP conspiracy theory literature.
The Rise of the Satanic Super Soldier The outrageous plot of the fictional LongWalkers, however, pales in comparison to the dark ideas espoused by Pastor Russ Dizdar, author of Black Awakening: The Rise of the Satanic Super Soldier. Dizdar’s occult end-time scenario was profiled in an article with the same title written by Sue Bradley (now deceased). It was posted on Derek and Sharon Gilbert’s P.I.D. (Peering into the Darkness) website in 2008. Indeed, this subject an appalling peering into the darkness. Note Bradley’s introduction of Dizdar and his teaching methods: The Black Awakening has nothing to do with a specific human race. The Black Awakening does however have everything to do with another race. But what race? Pastor Russ Dizdar is all about spiritual warfare: studying, exposing, warning and teaching. For over thirty years and from thousands of hours of prayer and experience, his remarkable insight has led to an understanding of which most of us have never known…80 [bold added]
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM soon reignite a spark to light the torch of the ancient Black Flame? What is going on? The chaos is increasing.81 [bold added]
What “Black Flame” is the author referring to that might be “reignited” in the near future? One certainly can’t find it in the Bible! Nor can one find it in scholarly archeological publications. After highlighting a few of the dark machinations of the Third Reich, Bradley continues with her futuristic conspiracy theory: But the strange exploration was not limited to bloodlines. A driving search for ancient technology or information was of equal if not greater importance. Expeditions to Tibet, present day Iraq, Iran and other Middle East venues were undertaken for the purpose of acquiring knowledge or artifacts that might have been of enormous value in the development of sophisticated weapons systems. Is it possible, that with this advanced knowledge, these highly trained scientists and industrialists, while providing direction and continued development to their respective ‘adopted’ scientific and intelligence programs, also maintained inner communication? That while ironically and strategically ensconced in every continent on the Earth and beyond, they continued their horrific, ancient quest, generously funded by possibly complicit ‘host’ governors and their unsuspecting dependents?82 [bold added]
To answer this question concerning this “horrific ancient quest,” Sue Bradley alludes to future “horrific possibilities,” and then quotes Pastor Dizdar regarding “A pre-apocalyptic counterfeit of Genesis 1:2” and the “weaponization of the satanic powers.” This dark and foreboding horror story has absolutely nothing to do with Scripture. Rather this is a story that is designed to frighten the reader: “The weaponization of the satanic powers is not a bizarre movie idea. Its [sic] something that military leaders are convinced they will need. Mil-science has been and is invaded, someone is looking over their shoulders and it is not human. The dark powers have and are supervising the development of a technology that will ensure the control of the mind along with the supernatural enhancement of fierce soldiers. “There has been and is ongoing, a weaponization of demonic ideology and power for the alteration of the human will and ability. Could this be the power of the blood of Nephilim? The weaponization of Nephilim blood. Did they [the Third Reich, ed.] find the Aryan pure blood? The blood with the genetics of the demon gods?” … “We are seeing the preparation for the most advanced, supernatural military system in the history of the world: empowered, enlarged, enlightened, transmuted, with a raging insatiabl e and demonic agenda. And nothing we are seeing now can prepare us for the next few years.
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM “The goal? To create massive anarchy and chaos for the purpose of collapsing the current structures to be replaced with the New World Order. They have been “creating” the Chosen Ones for over sixty years for the creation of the Master Race to be used in service for a 1,000 year Fourth Reich.” “Most don’t know that it is predicted that an army will surface such as the world has never seen. An army whose leaders and soldiers will be the most fierce and evil ever. Many of them shall be birthed in satanic powers, bathed in satanic secrecy and will demonstrate supernatural strength and abilities. Forged in hell,” says Pastor Dizdar.83 [bold, underscore added] Exhibit: Alarming cover of Pastor Dizdar’s book84
Sue Bradley then records Tom Horn’s analysis of Dizdar’s terrifying end-time scenario involving a future mechanized supernatural army made up of fierce demonic super soldiers— “the creation of the Master Race to be used in service for a 1,000 year Fourth Reich.” Bradley quotes Tom Horn: “Of course one might argue that this could be a gradual process. This is a tragic assumption. In fact, the process will be rapid, undertaken with surprise attacks employing plagues and hi -tech, microscopic nanomachines designed to bring about the demise of its host. This won’t be a process in which one race replaces another, slowly and peacefully, even if that is the misrepresentation that most people receive. It will be violent, bloody conflict. “What is planned is a quick change, a coup d’état where mankind is there one day, and in mass graves the next. The goal is to replace mankind.”85 [bold added]
Satan’s goal has NEVER been to “replace mankind”— but to deceive mankind—to keep people from believing the Gospel of salvation (Jn. 8:44; Eph. 6:11; 1 Pet. 5:8; Rev. 12:9). If this is so, and the Bible says that it is, then neither would any hybrid creatures, supposedly harvested from the devil’s seed or manipulated from his DNA, desire to replace man either! These fantastic fables are in fact delusions that will draw souls away from the solace of Truth found ONLY in Scripture. The Lord Jesus Christ came to destroy the works of the devil (1 Jn. 3:8). Yet, Sue Bradley summarizes these dire apocalyptic forecasts not found anywhere in the Word of God and hints at a foreboding future filled with terrifying implications: 32 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM These Satanic Super Soldiers, bred to breed and raised to raze, await the clandestine trigger for “Activation.” Is it possible that the Fourth Reich could be a prelude to the Fourth Beast from the sea? Is the black boot polished and ready to fall? Or has it already?86 [bold, underscore added] Exhibit: Screenshot from Dizdar’s video87
Tom Horn collaborated with Steve Quayle and Sue Bradley in other projects that explore similar sinister end-time scenarios. Horn first shared these ideas in the first part of his provocative article series-turned-book, “Zenith 2016: Did Something Begin in 2012…That Will Zenith in 2016?” 88 The series was incorporated into a book by the same title in 2013. Zenith 2016 was actually the revised and expanded version of Horn’s 2009 book, Apollyon Rising 2012: The Lost Symbol Found and the Final Mystery of the Great Seal Revealed. Since the pagan god Apollyon (Apollo) did not materialize in 2012 (nor any of the other doomsday predictions found in his book), Horn apparently gave the pagan deity four more years to make an appearance, as well as time to sell more books on these horrific topics (see Part 4). The reader can be assured Horn’s pagan entity will not appear in 2016 either. Instead of preparing the flock of God for the return of the Lord Jesus Christ, these PPP leaders instead have concocted sensational, seductive, and satanic fables focused upon envisioned horrific hybrid combat solders. These stories are not founded nor grounded in Scripture. “And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables (2 Tim. 4:4).”
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM THE TRUTH: This end-time Nephilim return scenario negates the Lord’s admonition to readiness and godly living—with a view to His soon Second Coming (1 John 2:28; 1 Thess. 1:10; 2:19; 3:13; 4:1-18; 5:23). Note that none of the PPP myths can be clearly found in the Bible text itself. These PPP teachers rely on extreme extrabiblical and occult sources in order to construct their fantastic end-time scenarios.89 If the foundation laid by God in Genesis 6 is shifted away from personal sin to supposed invading gods and demonic DNA, then likewise Christ’s prophecy concerning “the days of Noah” is altered to fit the Nephilim scenario. Under the false emerging Nephilim eschatologies taught by these PPP leaders, mankind doesn't need to be worried about sin before the Lord's impending judgment; rather, men only need to be worried about invading hordes of Alien Nephilim! This is a serious corruption of the Truth found in Scripture! Note the Lord’s actual teaching: “And just as it happened in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man: they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all (Luke 17:26-27).” For the coming of the Son of Man will be just like the days of Noah. For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and they did not understand until the flood came and took them all away; so will the coming of the Son of Man be (Matt. 24:37-39).” [bold added]
The Scripture mentions four things that will be taking place on the earth prior to His return: mankind will be “eating,” “drinking,” “marrying,” and “being given in marriage.” It is obvious that this passage is talking about men. There is NO mention of an outside demonic horde planning to corrupt the human gene pool by sexual and reproductive means! The clear implication of these sobering passages is that people—sinners—will be doing normal things up until the time judgment comes. They won’t be prepared for what happens very quickly—like the flood waters that overtook the men and women of Noah’s day. The details for this judgment are found in the Book of Revelation—and the Nephilim are conspicuously absent from all twenty-two chapters! 34 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM That fact is that Jesus did not mention the Nephilim, or such a scenario, in even one of the 51 verses in Matthew 24. The context in this passage is the judgment of mankind. Plain Scripture teaches that when the Lord Jesus returns, “all the tribes of earth mourn” (v. 30), because He’s coming in judgment—a judgment which will be swift and cataclysmic, “until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be” (Matt. 24: 38-39). Those outside of Noah’s ark (mankind) were all “taken away” in judgment. Understanding that the Lord Jesus Christ said He would return should put our focus on spreading the Gospel of Salvation to those who are unsaved.
“For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty (2 Peter 1:16).” “Of His own will begat He us with the Word of Truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.... Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted Word, which is able to save your souls (James 1:18, 21).”
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Techno-Dimensional Prayer Combat Promoting New Methods of Hyper-Spiritual Warfare Devised to Combat the Nephilim, Pagan Gods, Dark Angels, Extraterrestrials, & Transhumanist Monsters by Gaylene Goodroad
Exhibit: TheElijahList, June 3, 201390
… it's the responsibility of the Church to be the gateway where Heaven touches earth. We are to be the instruments that not only bring Heaven to earth but also establish and advance the Kingdom of Heaven on this earth. The spirit of the warrior is coming upon the Church… ~ Ryan Wyatt, Identity Network91 [bold added]
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM Militant Cosmic Warfare In Part 2 of this book, “The Return of the Alien Super Soldiers,” we demonstrated how the Postmodern Prophecy Paradigm (PPP) leaders have concocted unbiblical doctrines concerning the supposed soon return of other-worldly creatures— Nephilim, ETs, pagan gods (Apollo), demonic hybrids, and transhumanist (chimera) soldiers. They claim this is what is meant by the Scripture “as in the days of Noah.” Rather than “looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ” (Titus 2:13), these PPP teachers are alerting the Christian troops to prepare for a coming cosmic war. PPP leaders believe the Church must wrest dominion from the devilish realm utilizing their own brand of Techno-Dimensional Prayer Combat. To accommodate this emerging false eschatology,92 these leaders have also devised new spiritual warfare methodologies they believe will protect the flock of God from the returning militant mutant-hybrid hordes.93 Even more alarmingly, the PPP leaders are now converging with the leadership of the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR). What is the New Apostolic Reformation? Amy Spreeman briefly profiles this global dominionist movement, whose practices are steeped in mysticism, and gives us an ominous inkling into this PPP/NAR convergence: The New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) is a dominionist movement which asserts that God is restoring the lost offices of church governance, namely the offices of Prophet and Apostle. Leading figures in this seemingly loosely organized movement claim that these prophets and apostles alone have the power and authority to execute God’s plans and purposes on earth . They believe they are laying the foundation for a global church, governed by them. They place a greater emphasis on dreams, visions and extra-biblical revelation than they do on the Bible, claiming that their revealed teachings and reported experiences (e.g. trips to heaven, face-to-face conversations with Jesus, visits by angels) cannot be proven by the ‘old’ Scripture. (Source) Rather than preach the Gospel of the cross, Apostolic leaders are working to bring the Gospel of the Kingdom of Heaven to Earth. They do this by taking dominion of earthly kingdoms or “mountains” of government, media, entertainment, education, business, family, and religion. Leaders often talk of city building and organize prayer walks to pray against demonic strongholds. They often speak of being mission-focused rather than being Christ-centered… Though members are not always charismatic, they frequently emphasize a manifestation of “Glory” and “God’s presence,” and often have a special anointing to receive direct revelation 37 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM from God, perform healings and other signs and wonders. They teach that our purpose is to achieve our dream destiny so that we can change the world.94 [bold added]
For many years the NAR leaders have been preaching about bringing heaven to earth95 and warning about preparing for spiritual battles in the heavenlies. The NAR has taught that the Church is facing an “unfolding war that lies ahead in both the natural and the spiritual realms.”96 They believe they can open portals (or gates) to the heavenlies that will facilitate their 7 mountain kingdom expansion program here on earth. For example, note the purpose of a 2008 NAR event: We see this as a time to pull Heaven down and establish the Kingdom of God with every step that you take as the revival breakthrough angel is displacing spiritual forces over this region.97 [bold added] Exhibit: Nephilim book by Randy DeMain (NAR) 98
The Postmodern Prophecy Paradigm (PPP) leadership is now co-mingling with NAR leaders. Although the event was postponed, PPP leader LA Marzulli was scheduled to be a featured speaker at a NAR gathering in Sedona, Arizona in 2013, called “Resurgence Awakening: Thriving Amidst Supernatural Convergence” (see graphic at top of this segment). This NAR event was advertised by TheElijahList in June of that year, and the topics under discussion included, the Nephilim/UFO phenomena, learning how to operate in the supernatural realm, and “receiving downloads from Heaven”: Purpose Do you want to know the keys to thriving in the middle of every circumstance? Are you ready to get out of the daily routine to hear from God? For those of you who want to spend a weekend in the Glory, being prepared and equipped to walk in the supernatural in the days ahead, you won't want to miss this event. *
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Join David & Stephanie Herzog, Randy Demain, L.A. Marzulli and worship by Sevenshine in beautiful Sedona, Arizona. Set aside this time to encounter God and be changed forever!!99 [bold added]
In other words, the NAR was to glean from Marzulli’s bizarre teachings about the Nephilim, UFOs, and pagan-style spiritual warfare—and vice versa. This collusion will surely add more fuel to the already volatile “Forerunner Eschatology” of the NAR, which teaches that the bride of Christ must take control (via spiritual and/or physical warfare) of the earth before Jesus can return. 100 Presumably they will at some point add in the PPP’s cosmic combat elements to their already brutal101 end-time scenarios involving the Lord’s Bride.
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM Mystical Significance of Sedona To put this into the entire NAR Dominionism context, note that previously a “Passover Glory Festival” was also held on April 5-7, 2012 in Sedona, AZ featuring Randy DeMain and Lance Wallnau (of the 7 Mountain of Dominionism fame).103 Randy DeMain (NAR) is also well known in the PPP leadership. 104 This Latter Rainstyle Passover was being celebrated with the promise that “the Heavens open up and the Spirit comes down with clear prophetic direction while healing, miracles and signs follow” as well as promises of “miracles, healing” and “Passing over into Your Destiny.”105 [bold added]
Exhibit: DeMain (NAR) & Marzulli (PPP) together again in 2012106
The other keynotes were David and Stephanie Herzog whose ministries are also headquartered in Sedona.107 David Herzog is a high profile leader in the New Apostolic Reformation.108 The Herzogs frequently hold Latter Rain versions of celebrations of Jewish feasts in Sedona, which is located in the mountains, where it was claimed participants could “Tap into an open Heaven window.” 109 (Keep in mind that in the New Age UFO lore, 110 Sedona is claimed to have “mysterious powers at one or other vortex there”111 and it appears that the NAR also believes that it is a hyper-dimensional portal.)
Techno-Dimensional Spiritual Warfare In a previous Herescope article describing the emergence of “Militant Prayer,” we also noticed that the new PPP battle-ready spiritual warfare concoctions are simply revamped and repackaged Latter Rain deceptions that are part of the New
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM Apostolic Reformation’s teachings. In particular we focused on Tom Horn, one of the leaders of the PPP. In that article I wrote: Prayer Warfare methodologies conceived and borne out of the Latter Rain Movement and nurtured under the New Apostolic Reformation are going mainstream. Twenty years ago, Chief NAR apostle, C. Peter Wagner, applied his Church Growth teachings to the spirit realm in what he termed Strategic Level Spiritual Warfare (SLSW). The plan calls for identifying “territorial spirits” (demons) of a geographic locality, then devising practices (such as militant intercession and fasting) and techniques to defeat these unseen foes so that cities, nations, and beyond will respond to the Gospel. Sadly, this heresy is creeping into conservative Christian forums unawares through various prophetic ministries concerned about the eschatological implications of transhumanism and loosely related subjects. While attending a conservative Bible and prophecy conference several months ago, I noticed that one of the speakers introduced the audience to a new book by Christian authors Tom and Nita Horn, called: Forbidden Gates: How Genetics, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Synthetic Biology, Nanotechnology, And Human Enhancement [GRIN] Herald the Dawn of Techno-Dimensional Spiritual Warfare [bold added]. Intrigued by this title, I bought the book to learn more about this new thing called “Techno-Dimensional Spiritual Warfare.” I didn’t get beyond the book’s Preface before my curious anticipation turned to alarm: "Facing godlike machines and man’s willingness to cross over species and extra-dimensional barriers put in place by God, traditional methods of spiritual warfare—which Christian institutions have relied on for the last century—will soon be monumentally impacted in nontraditional ways and insufficient when approaching this threshold."112 [bold, underscore added] “Traditional” methods of spiritual warfare such as simple reliance upon God, His Word, and the indwelling Spirit will soon be insufficient? When did God change His plan? Clearly this new insight did not come from the Scriptures. I kept reading for clarification. 113
Note Tom Horn’s negation of the God’s biblical prescription for spiritual warfare— saying that those “traditional methods” put in place by the Lord (as in Ephesians 6) will not be sufficient to withstand the horrible “godlike machines” coming upon the earth. That is why the PPP leaders, like Horn, must rely on extra-biblical prescriptions. Horn’s “techno-dimensional spiritual warfare” (that he dubbed, “Militant Prayer”) correlates decisively with NAR apostle C. Peter Wagner’s “strategic-level spiritual warfare” heresies (that he called “Warfare Prayer”). But with Horn’s introduction of exotic new monsters – demonic, transhuman, Nephilim, space alien-type creatures – suddenly spiritual warfare takes on a potent new “dimension” going into quantum spirituality (see Part 6).114 41 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM The ‘GASKET HEAVEN’ – A Satanic War Zone? To further illustrate Tom Horn’s apparent Latter Rain roots, note his beliefs and teachings about this unbiblical form of militant cosmic warfare prayer in his book Spiritual Warfare: The Invisible Invasion—in a chapter subtitled: “Invading Satan’s Headquarters through Militant Prayer”: Between the first heaven where the birds fly and the third heaven “where dwells the throne room of God” was a war zone called the second heaven. This was the kosmos—the Hebrew equivalent of the Persian Arhiman-abad—the place where Satan abides as the prince of the power of the “air” (aer, the lower air, circumambient), a sort of gasket heaven, the domain of Satan encompassing the surface of the earth. From here kosmokrators could overshadow cities, intrude upon, and attempt to influence the affairs and governments of men. Exhibit: Horn’s 1998 book115 It was believed that the kosmos not only influenced earth’s governments and puppeted human counterparts, but that Satan’s minions sought to close the heavens above the city so that God’s blessing could not flow into it. Later, it was believed that when saints bent their knees in prayer, they had to pray through walls of opposition contained within this gasket heaven. The level of spiritual opposition to the saints’ prayers depended on how far the city had fallen under Satan’s control. This continues today. When our prayers leave our lips they go upward through the devil’s domain to the throne of God. If Satan considers the prayers significant, he rises up to oppose them, both going to and coming from the throne of God. Therefore, the second heaven is considered a war zone for our prayer life and the residence of the power of the air. 116 [bold, underscore added]
These false teachings are nowhere to be found in Scripture! Horn’s belief in a “gasket heaven”— “the second heaven” that is considered “a war zone for our prayer life” does NOT come from the Bible—but rather from pagan mythology (see Part 7). The idea that Satan has the ability to rise up and oppose prayer “both going to and coming from the throne of God” is patently heretical. Satan is NOT
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM God and he does not have the power to intercept prayer, nor do his evil emissaries. Pastor Anton Bosch, in a brief informal critique of these Horn assertions, pointed out that:
Kosmos is not a Hebrew word, it is Greek and it refers primarily to the world and its systems, as in “love not the world,” also in John 3:16;
There is not a single Scripture that says that Satan lives in the second heaven. All the biblical references are to Satan on the earth or before God;
All this is based on Daniel, which does not say where the prince of Persia was; and
Clearly Horn teaches a different god than the God of the Bible who is present with us and who hears our prayers without interference – this god of Horn’s is an idol who is located in a single place and who is not omnipotent nor omniscient.117
All of this spiritual warfare rhetoric obviously has Dominionist implications. For example, note the NAR-type militancy of Horn’s teachings on spiritual warfare on page 288 of his book Forbidden Gates: God has given the church what the U.S. government refused to give McArthur during the Korean War: the power to move beyond the protective bridges of our enemy’s stronghold. God allows the contrite believer to invade the opponent’s headquarters through the power of prayer, to identify and bind the ruling prince through the authority of Jesus’ name, and to permanently destroy the fortress wall of nefarious warlords; or, as the military would say, “to offer them no quarter.” 118 [bold added]
Believers can be assured that God alone is omnipresent, omniscient, and omnipotent. He hears the cries and petitions of His people (see Prov. 15:29; Jn. 9:31; Ps. 34:15-18; 66:16-20; 145:18-19; Jas. 5:16; Matt. 6:8-9). “The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and His ears are open unto their cry. The face of the LORD is against them that do evil… The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles. The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit (Psalm 35:15-18).”
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM Preparing to Engage Quetzalcoatl in Battle Exhibit: June 2012 advertisement of Mayan trip on Marzulli’s blog: Chitzen [sic] Itza Trip! Sign up now as I will be speaking on December 21, 2012 at the Mayan Temple! We are raising money to get Russ Dizdar and Richard Grund on the Trip. Over the weekend we had some people donate to the Chitzen [sic] Itza trip! Thanks to you all! We now have $8,450.00 our goal is $12,000. Donate now by going to the right side of this page and clicking DONATION. I won’t go alone on this trip! L.A. [bold/red in original] L. A. Marzulli will be speaking: “Exploring the meaning and relevance of two myths and their relevance in this time of transition in 2012; the stories of the “watcher gods” in the first century text, “The Gospel of Enoch”, and the prophecy of the return of Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent-god of the Aztecs. [bold added here] We will be examining correlations between these two in light of our contemporary times.” 119
An unsettling illustration of these unbiblical prayer warfare strategies unfolded during the months prior to the hysterical countdown to the failed 2012 Mayan doomsday prophecies, which Herescope documented in detail, including in the article “12-21-12: Evangelical Christians Believing Mayan Prophecies.” 120 Tom Horn even included a lengthy and grisly fictional account of this “returning god” in his “nonfictional” Nephilim Stargates: The Return of the Watchers and the Year 2012, a manipulative, yet clever literary tactic of his (see Part 5). 121 L.A. Marzulli, cited earlier as a PPP adherent with Latter Rain roots, 122 posted a 5minute video on his blog in August 2012, appealing for funds ($12,000) from his flock,123 so that he could travel with his entourage to the Mayan Pyramids in Chichen Itza, Mexico on December 21, 2012 (the Winter Solstice) 124 —in order to do battle with the pagan god Quetzalcoatl who was expected to manifest on that date—“sort of like Elijah against the prophets of Baal.”125 Calling Chichen Itza a “power place,” “ground zero,” and “the belly of the beast” with regard to its “open portals” of demonic activity, Marzulli enlisted the company of Russ Dizdar (author of The Black Awakening: Rise of the Satanic Super Soldier cited in Part 2),126 Richard Grund (Director/Team Leader the Supernatural Response Team (SRT),127 Larry Barrett, and Watchers videographer, Richard Shaw, to document the event. 44 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM The team, according to Marzulli, was needed to “assist in the spiritual warfare we expect to happen there…”128 Marzulli went on to explain his intended warfare: This is an amazing opportunity to represent the kingdom of God—to stand in the way of or possibly to confront what may manifest there on December 21st—the socalled return of the Mayan god, Quetzalcoatl… We feel that something is going to happen there. Hopefully, nothing will happen there. If it does, we’re going to engage in warfare and shut this thing down.129 [bold added] Exhibit: artist’s depiction of pagan god Quetzalcoatl 130
Although he initially assured potential Chichen Itza donors that God was leading the effort to send out this spiritual warfare team, just days before he was set to fly into “the belly of beast,” Marzulli abruptly aborted the mission. In a December 14 notice on his website, entitled “A Redirect from the Captain of the Hosts,” Marzulli reported that his daughter had been given a disturbing “prophetic dream” that revealed his kidnapping and murder by Mexican cartels. “She awoke from her dream and was greatly disturbed. She prayed and went back to sleep. Then another dream occurred. In it she saw a burst of light followed by a voice that instructed, Don’t go!”131 Marzulli and his PPP spiritual warfare team never made it to the Mayan Pyramids. The $14,000 raised by his flock was lost to Power Places Tours, 132 not to mention the loss of biblical discernment for all those involved with this ungodly endeavor. While it may seem quite bizarre that an evangelical prophecy leader would actually believe in a literal, physical return of an ancient mythological creature – to the extent that he and his friends intended to go and actually CONFRONT this pagan deity (see Part 7) – this is not strange thinking in the NAR. For example, many of the “prophets” and “apostles” who lead the NAR were engaged in a similarly strange spiritual warfare133 over the past few years with the ancient pagan deity Baal, especially by participating in rituals of America “divorcing Baal (see Jer. 10:2-5; Rev. 9:20; Ezek. 14:3-6).”134 45 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM Doing Supernatural Battle with Shofars The New Apostolic Reformation teaches the heresy “that Jesus Christ did not defeat Satan at the Cross, but rather the Church must accomplish this for Him on earth.”135 The NAR believes that “the Church must do the work in defeating Satan on earth.”136 This heresy assumes that Jesus’s shed blood was insufficient and that the Church on earth must therefore finish Satan off via spiritual warfare, and conducting cultural social and global transformation – especially via Dominion. As a result, the focus of the church switches over to doing constant spiritual warfare battle against Satan and his minions wherever and whatever the NAR teachers claim they may be. Most of the Postmodern Prophecy Paradigm leaders also seem to believe this heresy. It is therefore not surprising to learn that L.A. Marzulli wrote the Foreword to and promoted a 300-page book, The Supernatural Battle: A Field Manual, written by his associate, Richard Grund. 137 Here is a snippet of the book according to Grund’s website: We are engaged in a supernatural battle raging for thousands of years on a cluttered, uneven battlefield against a merciless enemy. A Divine decree declared that there would be a perpetual enmity between the two sides. Although defeated on a hill in Jerusalem almost 2,000 years ago this supernatural enemy refuses to surrender. An army was left behind to keep that enemy in subjection when the King returned to His Throne. Their efforts began in earnest but through overconfidence and poor leadership has waned. Ground once taken has been lost and enemy strongholds were rebuilt. The final campaign in this supernatural battle for the fate of mankind began in 1948. Plundered, broken and embarrassed by their defeat this supernatural enemy is enraged and fights with reckless abandon. Blitzkrieg has been declared to initiate the final devastating assault against the King’s people. A battle cry goes out in the spirit with the clarion warfare call of the Shofar. Who in the Kingdom will answer this call? Who will step out on to the supernatural battlefield? If you are one of those who will say “here I am, send me” this book is a field manual for The Supernatural Battle138 [bold and underscore added]
The NAR and many prophecy leaders do not believe a literal Colossians 2:15, that our risen Saviour, Jesus Christ, “having spoiled principalities and powers, He made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it (see Hebrews 9:26-28).”
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Exhibit: Grund’s book with a Foreword by Marzulli 139
In Richard Grund’s book synopsis, he says that God’s troops are being summoned to the “supernatural battlefield” in this hour: “a battle cry goes out in the spirit with the clarion warfare call of the Shofar.” Again, notice the similarities of the PPP doctrines to that of the NAR – the overlapping language, collaborations, and hyper warfare prayer practices they have in common. While there is a rich symbolism regarding the Shofar (ram’s horn) in the Bible, the NAR apostles have taken it to literal extremes in their hyper-spiritual warfare practices—sanctioning its blast as a weapon in the spiritual warfare arsenal. Here is an example from a Dominionist article titled “BLOWING THE SHOFAR - A SPIRITUAL WEAPON WITH UNLIMITED POWER”: We believe at Kingdom Builders Christian Ministries, that God has given us a revelation that we wish to share with the Body of Christ. We believe this will add a new dimension to your intercessory prayer and spiritual warfare. The Lord has revealed the spiritual dynamics of the use of the SHOFAR or Ram's Horn as used by the Israelites in the Old Testament times… we don't fully understand the power of it, why or how it works - but ... IT WORKS!140 [bold added]
The article goes on to claim that the reason Gideon’s army won the battle was because “the 300 blew their SHOFARS in unity,” and also claims that Joshua “won
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM the war by blowing the SHOFAR.” The authors assert that blowing the shofar has supernatural power to bring about “an open heaven” or portal: Over our meetings, over our buildings and over our cities, there is opposition in the heavenlies. We believe that blowing the SHOFAR during prayer, intercession and worship times causes disturbance and confusion to the spirit realm above us, thus dispersing the opposition and bringing about an open heaven for the glory, power and presence of God to fall. 141 [bold added]
The NAR’s media outlet, TheElijahList, published the NAR's belief that “the breath of God is released as the shofar is blown.” Critiquing this practice, The Berean Call, remarked: Mr. Yount teaches that blowing the shofar operates according to scientific and spiritual ‘laws’ so that the physical properties of sound has a profound heavenly impact, which in turn releases favor and God's "breath" upon the earth. In contrast to Scripture or early church practice, no such tools or methods are taught in God's Word. 142
Nonetheless, this futile practice is growing among hyper-spiritual warfare camps. Lou Engle, NAR founder of TheCall, continues to fill stadiums with young people— thousands of them blowing the Shofar—in a tragically misguided attempt to transform the world.143 The idea that these Shofar blasts or other sounds have the power to exact changes in the spirit realm is a deep deception. Gideon and Joshua were not victorious because of the Shofar, but because of their faith— which manifested itself in obedience to God (Heb. 11: 30, 32-33). The Lord used them to “wield His sword of judgment” against the enemies of Exhibit: TheCall youth blasting shofars on 7-7-07144
Israel (Jud. 7:18, 20) in the Old Testament. God’s plan was already won! Neither God nor His Word has changed. The Lord Jesus Christ Himself will be coming again in judgment—not the Latter Rain NAR church—and He (NOT His church!) will have “a two-edged sword” coming out of His mouth (Rev. 1:16; 2:12) and He alone will 48 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM slay the Man of Sin with the “breath of his mouth” (2 Thess. 2:8). Billions of Shofar blasts by spiritual warriors on earth will never alter this truth (See Heb. 4:12; 1 Thess. 1:5).
Wresting Authority from the Captain of the Hosts Additional commentary about this “supernatural war” by Richard Grund again reveals the extent to which these PPP teachers are basing their emerging eschatological ideology on the NAR’s entire faulty premise of “spiritual warfare”: Anyone who has suddenly awakened to the need for spiritual warfare will find the information in this book new, challenging and inspiring. If your spiritual eyes are opening to the dark spiritual clouds building overhead you will know something is different about this impending storm. Knowing that there is a problem should lead to wanting to know what the solution is. For too long many who sit in pews every Sunday have ignored the supernatural war raging all around them. The world has changed. The deep darkness talked about in Isaiah 60 is creeping over the land and a deeper darkness over (and into) the people. That darkness can only mean one thing – we are at the time of the end and the powers of darkness are making their final move against the Kingdom of Heaven. In accordance with the prophecy in Isaiah 60 it’s our time to take a stand and shine the Light of the Lord into, and against, that darkness. Although defeated on Calvary the powers of darkness have refused to submit and must be brought into submission by those delegated with the authority to do so – the church of the Living God.145 [bold added]
Like Tom Horn’s denial of the sufficiency of the Word of God in order to inculcate believers in his cosmic militant warfare, Grund denies the sufficiency of Christ’s finished work to defeat “the powers of darkness.” Parroting Latter Rain and NAR heresy, Grund says that the Church—not Christ—has been delegated with the authority to bring these dark powers under submission. In the context of the PPP false doctrine, this would include battling the Nephilim, pagan deities, extraterrestrials, transhumanist chimeras, alien super soldiers, black-eyed space aliens, and even demons! L.A. Marzulli’s Foreword to Grund’s book reiterates his own belief that the church must engage in supernatural warfare: Richard Grund has written what I would consider a must read for any serious student of Biblical, spiritual warfare. The book not only will equip the reader with the tools that are needed to fight the war that all Christians are called to, but will provided real life cases, where Richard deals with demonic, supernatural manifestations… drawing on decades of personal experience in dealing with the occult, the demonic, fallen angels and full blown possession, to give us a cogent overview of what the ongoing heavenly war that both he and I believe is 49 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM ramping up for the final battle, which the Bible refers to as the last days or Armageddon… Learn how to walk in the full armor of God and know that all of us have the authority in Him who first loved us, to destroy the works of the Fallen One, the devil. Bravo Richard, well done brother! ~ L.A. Marzulli 146 [bold added]
Note: Christians were NOT given the authority “to destroy the works of the Fallen One, the devil.” That authority belongs to the Lord Jesus Christ ALONE. The Apostle John reminds us that “…the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that HE might destroy the works of the devil” (1 Jn. 3:8). The Son of God won our victory at the Cross. We put our trust in Him. We pray to Him. We walk in Him. We rest in Him. The Lord Jesus Christ is our Protector. “I will say of the LORD, [He is] my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust (Ps. 91:2).”
Astral Combat – Closing Trans-Dimensional Portals Much of this “spiritual warfare” material in the emerging Postmodern Prophecy Paradigm movement is disturbing, sinister, and most obviously comes directly out of the occult and New Age. It is difficult to study this darkly ominous material because so much of it steeped in the imagery of the demonic (see Part 7). Nevertheless, these teachers are rapidly gaining in popularity, even among socalled “conservative” evangelicals. There appears to be a vast and growing desensitization going on, searing the tender consciences of sincere believers who end up accepting a mythology-infused, foreboding end time that has no joy, peace, or light (see: 1 Tim. 4:1-2). A case in point is another Marzulli compatriot, Russ Dizdar, who also aborted his 2012 “spiritual warfare” mission to the Mayan Pyramids of Chichen Itza. Dizdar is an author who promotes these same hyper-spiritual warfare methodologies (see Part 2). His website is devoted to these teachings, and he even offers an online study course. 147 Dizdar and Marzulli were both scheduled to report on their Mayan Pyramids trip at the 2013 Future Congress (FC2) conference in Dallas. Here is Dizdar’s proposed presentation synopsis that was posted on the FC2 website before their plans so abruptly changed. Note its extreme occult influences: 1. GATEWAYS OF DEMONIC MANIFESTATION; past present and the emerging future. How Chichen Itza and other ancient satanic ritual sites operated, embedded 50 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM demonic/nephilim-civilization [sic]. How the re-opening of these ancient sites are by design, are empowered by demonic synchronicity and how they will contribute to the end time luciferic globalism (the new order). Back from his December 2012 visit of Chichen Itza, Russ will share news from that site where over 100, 000 people have come to open the doors to the beckoning dark spirits. Russ will share information from the night in the main temple on solstice December 21st where new gateways opened and…did new levels of demonic agenda emerge? 2. OBJECTS AND WEAPONIZATION OF DEMONIC POWER: Past present and in the emerging future. How objects can be demonized and used to influence, deceive or harm others. How demonic presence and power are attached to physical objects. What are and why ‘objects and demonic presence can be used for global seduction, control and spiritually empowered war. Russ will seek to answer the question…are the ‘crystal skulls’ precursors to the image of the beast?
3. HIDDEN AGENDA HIDDEN STATISTICS BUT NOT FOR LONG: There is a real emerging conspiracy, its [sic] by design, it has supra human power and its emerging before our very eyes. Its call [sic] a ‘MUSTERION’ and most of it is cloaked in supernatural and physical super secrecy. How the future is present among us and preparing to unleash. Russ will look at the satanic agenda exposed by Biblical Prophecy, the statistics of satanic rituals (500 million plus) what are for [sic] and the stats on the coming troops of antichrist (40 million worldwide). Russ will seek to answer…are ‘they’ among us right now148. [bold added]
Note the emphatic unholy emphasis on satanic themes in Dizdar's comments. All of these teachings are foreign to the Bible. This is because the Bible is not the source of the PPP's cosmic warfare doctrines—including the teaching that hyper-dimensional beings (the Nephilim, extra-terrestrials, pagan gods, and transhuman monsters) have the ability to open “portals,” “gateways,” or “dimensional doorways”—that must be closed by prayer combat techniques. Both the NAR and the occult world teach that certain geographical sites possess spiritual power.149 The end-time teaching that Christians have a fearful future, and must engage the demonic powers of Antichrist is very disturbing. We know that days of tribulation lie ahead, but the Lord in His Word has exhorted us—not to look deeper into the darkest recesses of luciferin shenanigans and try to glean ways to combat them—but rather joyfully and with great anticipation “look up… for your redemption draweth nigh (Luke 21:28).”
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Exhibit: Heiser’s The Divine Council 150
But according to these PPP leaders, Christ gave the authority and responsibility to us to conquer, defeat, and reclaim full dominion from the sinister forces of the dark realm. This false teaching is directly connected to another PPP teaching: The Divine Council.151 Not only is Christ’s sovereignty diminished in this heresy, but it is actually ascribed to Satan and his minions! These particular leaders say that God actually gave His authority over the earth to the pagan gods (“divine council”) after the Tower of Babel! This dark cabal includes demons, pagan deities, extraterrestrials (space aliens), the Nephilim, the Watchers, and the like. Note the striking parallel to the NAR dominionists whose heretical teachings replace the Lord Jesus Christ with His Bride—saying that Christ’s Church will gain earthly dominion, instead of waiting for King Jesus to return and set up His kingdom. In this case, the PPP leaders believe the Church must wrest dominion from the devilish realm utilizing PPP TechnoDimensional Prayer Combat.152 Of course, Christians must go to these leaders in order to be armed and ready for this spiritual war campaign, which inevitably costs money. The Bible is completely silent about such intricate and elaborate warfare prayer prescriptions and preparations. But the PPP leaders gain adherents because they claim to possess the secrets, the hidden codes, unlocking ancient mysteries, and interpreting antiquated pagan myths. Others, such as NAR leaders, claim to possess superior spiritual powers to engage in these battles with demonic forces. The PPP advocates continue to spread these false teachings throughout the country. Among the numerous scheduled events, Marzulli, Dizdar, and Grund 52 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM were presenters at the “Nephilim Mounds” conference near Newark, OH in 2013, promoting Nephilim False Eschatology.153 Marzulli and Dizdar also appeared in Knoxville, KY in June of that year with NAR apostle Randy DeMain154 for the “Nephilim Agenda 2 Conference.” Marzulli was promoting his book On the Trail of the Nephilim. 155
Exhibit: DeMain (NAR) & Marzulli (PPP) together again in 2015156
Dizdar also headlined with Marzulli at the November 2012 “Chicago Summit #2” conference, entitled: “At the Tip of the End of History – Are You Ready?”157 The conference flier described the Militant Prayer emphasis of the event, including “ritual and astral spiritual warfare”:
Deeper aspects of end of days spiritual deception and aspects of spiritual warfare
How to do deliverance, how to do Spirit led prayer mapping
Learning about ritual and astral spiritual warfare...
Spiritual discernment for teens and aspects of spiritual warfare for young people
A spiritual analysis test for each person for overall spiritual development. 158 [bold added]
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM followers of the NAR apostles. Of course, ASTRAL 160 activities can be found in the New Age and satanic writings, and this is one of the most alarming examples of the obvious carry-over between New Age and New Apostolic Reformation teachings.
The Fourth Dimensional DNA War DNA plays a big part of their coming cosmic battle. Human DNA. Corrupted human DNA. LA Marzulli and Dizdar joined up in April 2013 to take part in the Chicago Summit #3 conference to talk about “DNA and the Physics of God: The Design, the Corruption, and the Future of Human DNA.” Other speakers included a popular cast of PPP prophecy mongers: Doug Woodward, Rob Skiba, Derek & Sharon Gilbert, and Doug Hamp.161 Exhibit: Dizdar’s Workbook for Physics of God Summit162
The subject of human DNA corruption by fallen angels resulting in Nephilim hybrids is intricately linked to the entire end-time Techno-Dimensional Combat scenario. It was also addressed by Christian speaker, author, and PPP adherent Paul McGuire163 in a 2013 NewsWithViews article entitled, “Lucifer, Nephilim and the Fourth Dimensional DNA War.” In the excerpt below, note McGuire’s repeated reference to “the Fourth Dimension”—a New Age philosophy adopted by David (Paul) Yonggi Cho—author of the heretical book The Fourth Dimension published in 1979.164 McGuire also connects the idea of a Fourth Dimension to the Nephilim in a preposterous New Age scenario that involves, ominously, corrupted human DNA:
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Exhibit: Yonggi Cho’s mystical 1979 book165 Going back to the highly advanced civilizations before the Flood, beings descended upon the Earth from the Fourth Dimension to have sexual relations with human women, which produced the hybrid race of the Nephilim. Human beings, who originally inhabited planet Earth as it was intended, were immortal and lived in Paradise. They were created from the substance of the Earth based on original-source programming which was imbedded in their DNA by the Infinite Personal Living God the Universe. However, the first man and woman chose to shatter their perfect world. Then they allowed their DNA code to be deconstructed by Fourth Dimensional energies and began to experience a brand new reality… death. Additionally, they opened a portal into the Fourth Dimension which allowed the sons of God to enter the physical world. These sons of God, the B’nai Elohim, began mating with human women and producing a race of god men called the Nephilim. This interbreeding re-programmed the DNA code of Mankind and a kind of DNA War began. The cosmic war between God and Lucifer that started in the Fourth Dimension was now being fought on Earth. The Flood of Noah was a pre-emptive strike by God to destroy the reprogrammed DNA code. But the sons of God returned to the Earth and the sexual relations with human women began again, bringing the return of the Nephilim, who currently walk among us, and the DNA war continues.166 [bold added]
“Wherefore, as by one man [Adam] sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned (Rom. 5:12)”
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM This “Fourth Dimensional DNA” teaching is totally foreign to the Word of God. It actually belongs to the New Age realm of Quantum Mysticism.167 The occult concept of a “fourth dimension” is defined as an “astral plane” where one can access the realms of the paranormal and do “astral travel”!168 Note that the word “sin” does not appear in McGuire’s teaching on Adam and Eve. Instead, he says that our first parents “opened a portal” for unseen cosmic warriors to invade the earth when their DNA was “re-programmed” by the “interbreeding” that went on with “Fourth Exhibit: McGuire’s 2014 book169
Dimensional” beings. This is pure heresy. These ideas not only sound like a Hollywood sci-fi script, but destroy the foundation of the Gospel of salvation (Rom. 5:12-14). McGuire offers more clues to how mortal believers engage the unseen forces in this “Fourth Dimensional war” in a NewWithViews article about “cosmic warfare” entitled, “The Future of America: Cosmic Warfare, Parallel Universes, and the Matrix.” As you read these excerpts note the urgent, militant, and mystical tone. Note its focus on spiritual “forces” and “energies,” and its many parallels to the mystical “Quantum Spirituality”170 taught by many New Age and NAR leaders:
Everything we see in our nation and world is the product of information from an invisible realm or parallel universe. What happens in the invisible realm produces, whether good or bad, the reality we see… when you look closely at the top of the Luciferian pyramid you see that it extends way beyond the present dimension in which we live into the invisible realm or parallel universe.
If you don’t like what you see in reality, then you must learn how to enter this invisible realm and access what some call the “Keys of the Kingdom.” These keys are spiritual mechanisms for changing reality. They are also referred to as spiritual weapons. They are the fastest, most efficient and powerful way to release power into the earth that can change reality!
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Think of the keys as a way to release the most powerful force in the universe into our reality. Currently, our world is filled with chaos and upheaval. There appears to be an opposing force at work that is composed of Luciferian energy. Through Bible prophecy we know what the great plan is and what this force intends to do with humanity and the world.
…Jesus Christ clearly taught “Occupy until I come.”
…see the massive supernatural armies of the Lord. Jesus Christ taught all those who follow His teachings how to use the supernatural keys of the kingdom which can change reality in the physical realm. This is no peripheral issue with Christ… it is central. He has restored both authority and dominion to those who are synchronized with His Word.
Mankind throughout history has used science and technology to harness power… Many of the men like Einstein, Tesla and Edison did not come up with inventions and sources of power… [I]f you read about their lives you will see that all of these men had to develop methodologies that allowed them to access information supernaturally from another dimension. It is possible to access on a personal level, a societal level, and a global level the most powerful force in the Universe. It is not until men and women begin to learn how to access and direct that power that there can be change on a national, global and cosmic level. All of this works within the framework of the prophetic plan of God, for that is one of the laws regarding its use.171 [bold added]
The Bible does not direct believers to “access information supernaturally from another dimension” in order to “access” the “Keys of the Kingdom” so that they can “change reality in the physical realm”—or to take control over foreboding forces penetrating hyper-dimensional portals. Shamans have attempted to do these things for centuries—unholy underworld activities that are forbidden to Christians (Deut. 18:10; Rev. 9:21). This description of “powerful forces” reminds one of Daniel’s description of the Antichrist's “god of forces” (Dan. 11:38). It sounds like “the Force” of Star Wars! Besides appearing to be the writing of some sort of an occult manual for witches, shamans, or sorcerers, McGuire wrests Jesus’ words, “Occupy until I come,” out of context and meaning. Luke 19:13 actually reads, “And he [the Lord Jesus] called his ten servants, and delivered them ten pounds, and said unto them, ‘Occupy till I come’ [KJV].” Or, as the NASB reads, “'Do business with this until I come back.'” In the context of this passage, the Lord Jesus was giving the disciples a parable because they thought that He was going to set up His Kingdom immediately. Jesus 57 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM was simply saying to them that He was going to have to go away first, but that He would return at a later time. In His absence, the Lord expected His servants to “occupy”—that is—to “carry on business” as good stewards of the resources He left them—until He came back. There is NO mention here of “cosmic warfare” or wielding “powerful forces,” or other such things. Nevertheless, this verse is a popular one in the NAR, and used to further the doctrines of Dominionism. Despite these—and other unbiblical teachings—McGuire has shockingly gained an acceptance among other evangelicals. He was a featured speaker at the Red River Valley Bible and Prophecy Conference in Fargo-Moorhead in 2013, alongside Eric Barger, Carl Teichrib, and Mike Hoggard, and again in 2015 with Joe Schimmel, Roger Oakland, & Mike Hoggard, and in 2016 with Carl Teichrib, Chris Pinto, & Mike Hoggard.172 McGuire also joined the speaking platform at the 2013, 2014, 2015 & 2016 Pike’s Peak Prophecy Summit in Colorado Springs, CO with several Postmodern Prophecy Paradigm (PPP) adherents, including the usual suspects: Tom Horn, Chuck Missler, Cris Putnam, L.A. Marzulli, Gary Stearman, Jonathan Cahn, Joseph Farah, Douglas Woodward, Derek & Sharon Gilbert, Rob Skiba, et al.173 He was also featured at the 2014 Orlando Summit which boasted a massive cast of PPP teachers. Note the presentation themes of this popular event: 2,000 excited prophecy lovers jammed into the Renaissance Seaworld Hotel in Orlando, Florida from March 28-30, 2014 to hear 24 of the leading voices in Bible prophecy share 63 phenomenal messages, interviews and Q & A’s. Subjects listed below include the rapture; the Nephilim; the battle for the Land of Israel; UFOs; the Illuminati; end-times financial planning; spiritual warfare; DNA and transhumanism; the Shroud of Turin; the secrets of the Hebrew alphabet; the pre-Adamic earth; and the ancient secrets of the planet Mars. 174 [bold added]
McGuire has also been a professor at Jack Hayford’s King’s College and Seminary.175 Through the multi-faceted works of these notable leaders, and many more, this PPP deception continues to grow exponentially. And with the emerging convergence with the NAR, there is evidence that this cosmic militant warfare rhetoric will increase.
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM What the Bible Says About Spiritual Warfare THE TRUTH: “Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high [places]. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints (Eph. 6:10-18).” [bold added]
Exhibit: The Word of God is a Christian’s armor and defense 176 59 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM It is important to first know the truth from the Word of God and how it instructs Christians to fight against the world, the flesh and the devil. In a previous article, “Militant Prayer: Taking Dominion over Dark Angels,” 177 we explained the true spiritual “battle” faced by believers according to Scripture: What is the truth? The Bible does teach us about spiritual warfare, but not as [C. Peter] Wagner, [Cindy] Jacobs, [Lou] Engle, [Ed] Silvoso, [Mike] Bickle, and [Tom] Horn do. They base many of their false doctrines on their fanciful interpretations of Ephesians 6:10-17. Ephesians 6:12 says "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places." This passage does teach about how to war with Satan and his demons, but it pertains to our ongoing battle against the temptations to sin. This passage does not instruct Christians in “strategiclevel” or “techno-dimensional” warfare; it teaches us to rely upon the Lord in our daily walk with Him. “The armor of God” in verses 13-17 is a picture of God’s Word lived out. We are able to “put on/take up the full armor (given by God)” and to “stand firm” in “resisting the devil’s schemes” in God’s strength and might, not our own (vs. 10-14). The sword is not primarily an offensive weapon. The sword (in both the natural and spiritual) is primarily a defensive weapon. Watch people who fence. They spend 95% of their time parrying or deflecting the blows of the opponent and only the occasional lunge is an attack. Notice at how Jesus used the Word against Satan during His temptation in the wilderness. Jesus never went over to the attack. He simply defended the Truth by saying “it is written.” The Bible is only used in an "offensive" way to preach the Gospel and the Truth, which is primarily a defensive, an apologetic act. The entire weapon system of the believer described in Ephesians 6 is defensive. This goes to the heart of the issue. We are not equipped to take the battle to the devil. But he will bring the battle to us. Three times in this passage it is emphasized that we need the weapons in order to STAND - not to attack, retreat or pursue, but to stand (verses 11, 13, 14). A fourth time Paul uses the word "withstand" (vs. 13). It is abundantly clear that Ephesians 6 teaches us to stand on the victory already gained and completed at the cross (Col. 2:15: “And having spoiled principalities and powers, He [Jesus Christ] made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it”). The battle is not about gaining new ground, and we are not taught to go in pursuit of the devil. We have the victory—it was gained by Jesus at the cross. Satan wants to rob and kill and destroy us (John 10:10). But all we have to do is take on the whole armor and stand. A careful examination of 2 Corinthians 10:4-5, which is also frequently cited to justify this hyper-spiritual warfare, will reveal that “strongholds” (fortresses) are “speculations” and “thoughts” that come against God’s Truth and which lead us into disobedience and sin. We “destroy” these by knowing God’s Word, and obeying it through the power of the indwelling Spirit of God, not by exercising authority over demons. This “taking on the devil” mentality via 60 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM Strategic Level (Warfare Prayer) and Techno-Dimensional Spiritual Warfare (Militant Prayer) negates the Lord’s sovereignty. Furthermore, when Satan and his emissaries are blamed for all ills plaguing a fallen world and mankind— “the devil/demons made me do it”—there is a profound diminishing of the Gospel message of Salvation. 178 [bold added]
Mike Oppenheimer of Let Us Reason ministry wrote an insightful article on this false Latter Rain doctrine in 2009 called, “Do We Have ALL Authority?” In it, he pointed to the inherent pride resident in those seeking the authority and power that belongs to Christ: The Apostles never taught or practiced things that we hear of today. Furthermore God never put in His word of our taking authority over the spiritual realm, binding devils over cities, or even Satan. Scripture teaches that there were demons so powerful that the Apostles could not cast them out. Paul an apostle was unable to heal all—even he suffered with an affliction. Certainly they did not have all authority. They had to sometimes ask in prayer, not take authority by prayer. Humility is what Christ taught and true humility means to rely on someone who is greater, real humility is to know your position and enjoy it.179 [bold added]
He adds a chilling warning for those caught up in such aberrant spiritual warfare techniques: He [the Antichrist] was able to deceive by his authority (power). If you wonder whom the Christians are that Jesus warned about the deception in the end, it will be the ones who look for authority, power in miracles and signs as the proof that something is of God. 180 [bold added]
Oppenheimer concludes his insightful analysis of true biblical authority—by redirecting the focus back to the Lord Jesus Christ—and by underscoring the believer’s role in serving Him: It was only Jesus who was given all authority. Nowhere does it say we were given all authority in the New Testament. Matt 28:18-20 “And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.” So he tells the apostles and us “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, “teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen. The word for authority is power. If one has all power they have all authority. It is not the church that has all authority, we need to be under Jesus’ authority just as he was under the Father when he came as a servant. Leadership in the church is about being a servant. Only Jesus can have all authority for the simple reason he is sinless and can rule perfectly, the church is not sinless and can never be trusted with all authority. Yes we as the church have some authority, but not all authority...181 [bold added; underscore in original]
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM “He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler. Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day; Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday. A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee (Psalm 91: 1-7).” [bold added]
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The Second Coming of Apollo Awaiting the Return of the Pagan God Apollo (Nimrod/Apollyon/Antichrist) by Gaylene Goodroad
Exhibit: Artist’s depiction of pagan god Apollyon (Apollo) 182
“And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar (Gen. 10:8-10).”
One of the strangest tenets being taught by the Postmodern Prophecy Paradigm (PPP) leaders is that of a resurrection of the mythological god Apollo. In their emerging eschatology scenarios, the ancient god Apollo (a.k.a. Apollyon, Osiris or Nimrod) will resurrect from the dead, via satanic genetic tampering, and morph into the one-world dictator that the Bible calls the Antichrist. In this fanciful scenario—based solely on extra-biblical illumination, occult lore and human speculation—this “Man of Sin” will be much more than a mere man energized by 63 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM Satan. He will be the king of the Nephilim (ancient “Nimrod”): part man, part devil (the literal offspring of Satan). A plain reading of Scripture records that “Cush begat Nimrod.” (Gen. 10:8; repeated in 1 Chron. 1:10.) No frills, no embellishments, just a simple statement of fact: Nimrod was the literal descendent of Cush; the grandson of Ham and the great-grandson of Noah. He was a man, NOT a Nephilim, nor a pagan god. 183 He was certainly NOT a pagan god that will resurrect from the grave in the last days in order to become the Antichrist. The Bible speaks nothing about this scenario. Nonetheless, this dark myth is currently being perpetrated on unsuspecting Christians by many PPP leaders. In order to establish the claim that the mythological god Apollo will rise again (which requires the presuppositions that Apollo was also the man Nimrod who also had to be a Nephilim), the PPP teachers borrow heavily from some of the blackest Satanic sources including The Egyptian Book of the Dead, the psychic Edgar Cayce, the occultist Manly Hall, leading Theosophist (Anthroposophist) Rudolf Steiner, Freemasonry, ancient myths from heathen idolatry (see Part 7), astrology, and non-Canonical, Gnostic and apocryphal sources. Rejecting these occult teachings outright should be a no-brainer! But the fact is that these PPP leaders are very popular, and very few, if any, evangelical leaders are raising the necessary serious questions. Exhibit: The Egyptian Book of the Dead184
The Reincarnation of Nimrod? To repeat—these sensationally seductive ideas do not come from the Word of God, but from troublesome outside sources that are tragically gaining popularity in recent times—within the evangelical church. A vivid example of these falsehoods pertaining to ancient Nimrod comes from PPP adherent and author, Rob Skiba. The inspiration for his fantastic speculations of Nimrod come from the apocryphal book of Jasher, not the Bible.185 This Jasher-inspired story deviates far
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM from anything you’ve ever read in Scripture. Yet note that Skiba states that Genesis 25 doesn't make any sense without it: In the context of the Jasher account, that story makes a whole lot more now sense [sic] doesn't it? I mean think about it. Without Jasher, the story in Genesis 25 makes no sense at all.... After reading Jasher, you now completely understand what is going on and why. Esau had just killed the king of the world! Exhibit: The Apocryphal Book of Jasher186 By the way, the "valuable garments" that Nimrod had, "with which he prevailed over the whole land" were the original garments God made for Adam and Eve back in the garden... so here Esau has chopped off Nimrod's head and stolen his "magic garments." The rest of Nimrod's "mighty men" were after him now. Esau came home famished from a very busy day! So, when Jacob says he wants his birthright, Esau basically said, "Look. What do I care about my birthright? I just killed King Nimrod! I'm a dead man. His warriors are probably coming for me as we speak. Just give me something to eat!" Esau was extremely vulnerable here and Jacob totally took advantage of the situation for his own selfish gain... The Fifth Trumpet blows, and the spirit of Apollyon (Apollo) ascends back into its former host body - Nimrod. Thus, empowered by the dragon himself, the Anti-Christ will rise. And his first order of business will be to kill the Two Witnesses! (p. 135, 258) 187 [bold added]
Note Skiba’s stunning conclusion: that Apollo will enter into the “host body” of Nimrod and become the Antichrist!
“Cush was the father of Nimrod, who became a mighty warrior on earth (1 Chron. 1:10).” [bold added]
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Exhibit: Horn’s 2009 book188
Tom Horn, a PPP leader with similarly outrageous heretical teachings, detailed his own fantasy about Genesis 10—and revision of Nimrod’s origins—in a 2009 book he wrote and published called, Apollyon Rising 2012: The Lost Symbol Found and the Final Mystery of the Great Seal Revealed.189 Horn claims Nimrod is a “biblical” example of a Nephilim “reincarnation” based on his theories about “Watchers” “from nearby planets and/or dimensions” that invaded earth and engaged in experiments resulting in a race of mutant offspring 190: If indeed the activity of Watchers was the use of biotechnology to produce exotic bodies of flesh for beings that have the ability under extraordinary circumstances to reincarnate after physical death, would the method of their returning from the grave likewise be an advanced form of science? I believe this could be the case, and the Bible may actually provide a record of this occurring. The story is doubly important to our book because it centers around Nimrod, the original character who later was mythologized as the god prophesied by the apostle Paul in the New Testament and by the occult elite in the Great Seal of the United States as the ancient spirit that will return to earth to rule the novus ordo seclorum—Apollo/Osiris.191 [bold added]
Horn ties ancient Nimrod to the pagan god Apollo and explains his reincarnation theory—a thoroughly New Age concept192 —by rewriting the Scripture. Note the elaborate semantic gymnastics that Horn must resort to in order to make his case that Nimrod “began to change genetically”: Earlier we pointed out how Apollo is reanimated on earth in the end times when “the Beast” ascends from the bottomless pit and goes “into perdition” (into Apolia, Apollo. See Revelation 66 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM 17:8). The story of Nimrod (Gilgamesh/Apollo/Osiris) in the book of Genesis may illustrate how this could happen through genetic influence or a retrovirus of demonic design that integrates with a host’s genome and rewrites the living specimen’s DNA, thus making it a “fit extension” for infection by the entity. Genesis 10:8 says about Nimrod: “And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.” Three sections in this unprecedented verse indicate something very peculiar had happened to Nimrod. First, note where the text says, “he began to be.” In Hebrew, this is chalal, which means “to become profaned, defiled, polluted, or desecrated ritually, sexually or genetically.” Second, this verse tells us exactly what Nimrod began to be— “a mighty one” (gibbowr, gibborim), one of the offspring of nephilim… And the third part of this text says the change to Nimrod started while he was on “earth.” Therefore, in modern language, this text could accurately be translated to say: And Nimrod began to change genetically, becoming a gibborim, the offspring of watchers on earth.193 [bold added]
By thus twisting Scripture, and with a hefty admixture of extra-biblical sources, Horn has changed the humble origins of Nimrod to that of a genetic mutant (Nephilim) spawned of demon DNA! This new doctrine, of course, is needed to facilitate Nimrod’s “reanimation” (i.e., reincarnation) in the end time. Not one recognized Bible translation translates Genesis 10:8 like Tom Horn has done:
KJV: “And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.”
NKJV: “Cush begot Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one on the earth.”
NIV: “Cush was the father of Nimrod, who became a mighty warrior on the earth.”
NASB: “Now Cush became the father of Nimrod; he became a mighty one on the earth.”
The Bible states simply and clearly that Nimrod was a human descendant of Cush who became a powerful man. He was NOT a Nephilim, not a genetic mutant, and he WAS NOT/IS NOT the reincarnation of the pagan deity, Apollo! Yet, this repeated assertion does raise some disturbing questions about why it becomes so necessary for the PPP to reinvent Nimrod. One possible answer may be that it serves as the foundational doctrine in their revisionist end-time eschatology—an eschatology which is far more occult than Christian. 194
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM Apollo: The “Masonic ‘Messiah’”? Horn continues his rewriting of Scripture by weaving his own fantasies into the text, along with heavy doses of pagan mythology, Freemasonry, and other extrabiblical sources. He goes through great contortions to “prove” that Nimrod morphed into the god Apollo—and will return as the Antichrist—even citing hidden codes in the Great Seal of the United States as evidence. Notice Horn’s unorthodox method of interpreting Scripture: In the New Testament, the identity of the god Apollo, repeat-coded in the Great Seal of the United States as the Masonic “messiah” who returns to rule the earth, is the same spirit— verified by the same name—that will inhabit the political leader of the end-times New World Order. According to a key prophecy in the book of 2 Thessalonians, the Antichrist will be the progeny or incarnation of the ancient spirit, Apollo. Second Thessalonians 2:3 warns: “Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition [Apoleia, Apollyon, Apollo].” Numerous scholarly and classical works identify “Apollyon” as the god “Apollo”—the Greek deity “of death and pestilence,” and Webster’s Dictionary points out that “Apollyon” was a common variant of “Apollo” until recent history… Accordingly, the name Apollo turns up in ancient literature with the verb apollymi or apollyo (destroy), and scholars including W. R. F. Browning believe the apostle Paul may have identified the god Apollo as the “spirit of Antichrist” operating behind the persecuting Roman emperor, Domitian, who wanted to be recognized as “Apollo incarnate” in his day.195 [bold added]
Horn not only embellishes the Scripture, but does so by putting false prophecies in the mouth of the Apostle Paul. Paul was NOT “identifying the pagan god Apollo” in 2 Thessalonians 2:3 and was NOT recording a “key prophecy” saying that the Antichrist “will be the progeny or incarnation of the ancient spirit, Apollo.” Paul was simply using the Greek work for “perdition” (apoleia), which means “destruction.” The “man of sin” will be the son of “destruction” (perdition). There is no secret code language in operation here. But PPP leaders love to rely on hidden biblical codes, of which they claim to have secret or expert knowledge for interpretation. In his book, Decoding Doomsday: The 2012 Prophecies, the Apocalypse, and the Perilous Days Ahead, Doug Woodward, quoting Horn, asserts that the coming Antichrist is not only going to be a resurrected “Apollo [Osiris/Nimrod],” but a “Masonic Messiah” from America!196 He writes: “…let’s consider Tom Horn’s worthy analysis. To break the code, apparently, we must return to The Great 68 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM Seal—the “Trestle-Board” for the Great Work…”197 Horn couples the Great Seal’s date of 1776 with the end date of the Mayan calendar to arrive at the year 2012, the beginning of the Tribulation period. Riding on the doomsday date set by leading New Agers,198 and cinching Horn’s deductions, Woodward continues describing their occult sources: Horn’s attempts to strengthen his assertion that the Masonic Messiah debuts during this 2012-2016 period, through an elaborate analysis of the Freemasons’ 1st Degree Tracing Board, (which is different than a trestle board...). Horn contends that the astronomical positions of the sun, moon, and the Pleiades… are as they will be in December 21, 2012. At the Winter Solstice, the sun at its Zenith will be directly in front of the seven (visible) stars of the Pleiades…199 [bold added] Exhibit: Woodward’s 2010 book200
Of course, none of these predictions for December 21, 2012 came about, but that has not stopped PPP leaders from continuing to rely upon pagan astrology and Freemasonry to source their subsequent false prophecies.
Apoleia = Apollo? Apolia=Apollo? Fellow PPP advocate, Doug Hamp, agrees with Tom Horn and other PPP leaders who teach these things about a reincarnated Apollo: End times researcher Tom Horn reaches a similar conclusion [as Hamp, ed.] that the Antichrist/Beast will be the progeny of the demonic realm based on his reading of 2 Thessalonians 2:3. “Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition [apoleia],” (2 Thessalonians 2:3). He notes that Greek word apoleia (perdition) is the same root as Apollyon/Apollo all of which mean “perdition” or “destruction.” Horn states: Antichrist will be the progeny or incarnation of the ancient spirit, “Apollo.” Numerous scholarly and classical works identify “Apollyon” as the god “Apollo”—the Greek deity “of death and pestilence,” and Webster’s Dictionary points out that “Apollyon” was a common variant of “Apollo” until recent history.
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM Revelation 17:8 also ties the coming of Antichrist with Apollo, revealing that the ‘Beast’ shall ascend from the bottomless pit and enter him. “The Beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the Bottomless Pit, and go into perdition [Apolia, Apollo...] Abaddon is another name for Apollo (Rev. 9:11), identified historically as the king of demonic “locusts” (Revelation 9:1-11). This means among other things that Apollo is the end-times angel or “King of the Abyss” that opens the bottomless pit, out of which an army of transgenic locusts erupts upon earth. Horn’s idea has tremendous merit and would appear to corroborate the evidence that we have examined concerning Genesis 3:15. Thus, if the linguistic connection is correct, then the Holy Spirit inspired Paul to confirm the Genesis 3:15 prophecy, thereby further substantiating that the Antichrist/Beast will be a hybrid or the ultimate Nephilim.201 [bold added]
All of these linguistic gyrations result in the conclusion that the Antichrist will be “the ultimate hybrid Nephilim”. Hamp’s opinion carries weight in PPP circles, because he is a former assistant pastor for Calvary Chapel, Costa Mesa, and is a specialist in ancient languages.202 In sync with Hamp, and exercising the same flagrant eisegesis done to 2 Thessalonians 2 [perdition/Apoleia = Apollo] in his book Apollyon Rising 2012, Tom Horn also relies on Revelation 17:8 (dealing with the Beast that rises from the pit to go to perdition [Apolia=Apollo]) and Revelation 9:11 (that mentions the angel/king of the bottomless pit [Apollyon/Abaddon = Apollo]) in an attempt to further prove that the Bible “prophesies” the return of this mythological entity as the biblical Antichrist (Nimrod/Osiris/Apollo). “But,” you are probably protesting by now, “Apollo was a mythological creature, not a real being. How can a fictitious false god rise again?” As an astute reader, you will also question how this preposterous-sounding proposal could be even remotely scriptural. You may be thinking, “How can Satan have the power to generate a resurrection? Satan can do nothing without God’s permission! Doesn’t this claim impugn God’s sovereignty? His omnipotence? His omniscience?” Good questions! Read on… Exhibit: Statue of pagan god Apollo203
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM Apollo: Son of Zeus These Apollo mutations require an extensive knowledge of ancient pagan mythology (see Part 7), including the storied lineages of Greek and Roman gods and goddesses. It has been said that the humanistic Greeks “made their gods in their own image.”204 Likewise, the resurrection of these ancient myths and fables puts the focus on man, not God Almighty. The ancient city of Athens in Greece was filled with temples devoted to their Greek pantheon of gods and goddesses, mythological deities. Notice that the Apostle Paul was utterly grieved by the idolatry he saw in the city of Athens: “Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry” (Acts 17:16). Christians are therefore warned to “flee from idolatry” (1 Cor. 10:14). Pagan myths are a form of idolatry that corrupt the truth when added to the Scriptures (i.e., Prov. 25:25; Matt. 7:18; 2 Cor. 2:17; Gal. 5:20; Col. 3:5). Nevertheless, Tom Horn even goes so far as to insert the ancient Greek god Zeus into the book of Revelation: In view of this text [Rev. 9:1-11], we recall how Zeus—the Greek identity for the father of Apollo—was acknowledged as Satan in Revelation 2:12-13. The fallen angel, Apollo, who unlocks the bottomless pit and unleashes the thunderous hoards [sic] of Great Tribulation locusts, is therefore none other than the son of Satan and the spirit that will inhabit Antichrist.205 [bold added]
Horn then issues a word of warning for those who deny that the Antichrist will be a reincarnation of the pagan god Apollo/Osiris/Nimrod. His warning is based on the secret coded Masonic prophecy said to be embedded in the Great Seal of the United States: Not to put too fine a point on it, but if the reader doubts the authority of the Scriptures cited above concerning the coming of Apollo as Antichrist or the dedication of the occult hierarchy to bring the prophecy on the Great Seal about, the “illuminated ones” have you right where they want you.206 [bold added]
However, be aware that Revelation 22 contains its own serious warnings for anyone who would dare to tamper with its words of end-time prophecy by adding to them or taking away from them: “For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: 71 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book (Rev. 22:18-19).” [bold, underscore added]
Despite this serious warning, Horn persistently mixes God’s Word with speculation, pagan lore, and occult revelation—polluting the truth of God into an outright lie. The Bible DOES NOT teach “the coming of Apollo as Antichrist”; Horn does. Unfortunately, so do other emerging PPP authors.
Mixing “Hellenistic Theology” With Scripture Rob Skiba, quoted earlier in this article, concurs with Horn and incorporates his own mythological revelations with additional wild surmisings. Based on “Hellenistic Theology,” which is another term for Greek mythology, Skiba makes the case for a resurrection of Apollo. In this excerpt notice how these ancient gods of myth and fable are considered to be real creatures: In his book Ancient Myths and the Bible, King Wells… makes a solid case for the Apollyon/Apollo/Nimrod connection: The scriptures tell us that in the Greek, this angel [of Revelation 9:11] goes by the name of Apollyon. Apollyon is the Greek god Apollo. According to Webster's, Apollyon is a common misspelling of Apollo. - Ancient Myths and the Bible, by King Wells (page 34) … Exhibit: A source of truth for Skiba207 In Hellenistic theology, [Ed. note: i.e., Greek mythology] Apollo is generally depicted as a very benevolent god, representative of poetry, music and the arts. However, he is also known as the sender and stayer of pestilence. As a son of Zeus this would certainly fit - especially if my thesis is true that Zeus is Lucifer - a being who loves to appear as an angel of light and goodness, but in fact is the harbinger of plague, pestilence and death. Considering the fact that the Fifth Trumpet releases the plague of locusts (which is certainly a pestilence), the idea that Apollo (Apollyon) is directly referred to as "the king [that rules] over them" truly fits! King Wells goes on to say:
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM Thus, Apollo will have the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit and return with a horde of demonic warriors who have been bound in the Abyss for centuries. Rudolf Steiner, the author of "Egyptian Myths and Mysteries," written in 1908, states that the Greeks realized that the Egyptian god Osiris is the same as the Greek god Apollo. Steiner: The Greeks experienced this also, and as they became acquanted [sic] with the Egyptian mysteries they recognized that Osiris was the same as the god whom they called Apollo. They said that the Egyptian Osiris was Apollo, and that, like Osiris, Apollo worked upon the nerves so as to achieve a soul-life within man. Ancient Myths and the Bible, by King Wells (page 35) King later comes to the same conclusion that Tom Horn, myself and many others have come to believe: Exhibit: Another source of truth for Skiba208 The Anti-Christ is the return of Apollo/Osiris and probably the return of other prophesied gods, such as Quetzacoatl [sic] of the Mayans and Baal of the Canaanites. Both of which are sky gods like Apollo. - Ancient Myths and the Bible, by King Wells (page 37) ... The Fifth Trumpet blows, and the spirit of Apollyon (Apollo) ascends back into its former host body - Nimrod. Thus, empowered by the dragon himself, the Anti-Christ will rise. And his first order of business will be to kill the Two Witnesses! And when they [the Two Witnesses] shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them. - Revelation 11:7 (KJV)209 [italics/underscore in original; bold added; hyperlinks removed]
Most alarmingly, Skiba (above) quotes from Rudolf Steiner as if he were a credible source of prophetic information. Rudolf Steiner?! He was the founder and leader of an occult spiritual movement, Anthroposophy, which was closely connected with the Luciferian Theosophists (who gave rise to the modern-day New Age movement).210 Steiner had his own version of end-time eschatology, and it helped to form the foundation of New Age thought!211 Steiner’s occult work, Egyptian Myths and Mysteries, cited by Skiba, appears to parallel some of the PPP teachings in its reliance upon mystical mythology for reshaping end times (see Part 7).
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM For example, Steiner taught that: Through true imagination, we have the task of renewing human knowledge of the creative forces in nature, as the Egyptians attempted through the Osiris-Isis myth, and the Greeks through the myth of Demeter.212 [bold added]
Note also that Skiba has connected Nimrod/Apollo/Osiris/Antichrist to another pagan deity, the Mayan god Quetzalcoatl (Kukulkan). Belief in the reality of this false god led PPP adherents like L.A. Marzulli, Richard Grund, and Russ Dizdar to plan a trip (which was abruptly aborted) to the Mayan Pyramids during the Winter Solstice in 2012—to engage in militant spiritual warfare with this pagan deity who was expected to make a dramatic appearance (Quetzalcoatl was a noshow). This was documented in Part 3 of this book, “Techno-Dimensional Prayer Combat,” as well as a number of earlier Herescope articles on the topic.213 All this emphasis on ancient pagan mythology brings to mind the Scripture in Jeremiah 51 warning about the dire effects on those who engage in idolatry: “Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish (Jer. 51:17-18).”
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM A 2ND COMING of the Antichrist? According to these PPP leaders, it is the Antichrist who is coming again. Their focus is not on the Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. One seldom hears anything about our risen, resurrected Savior. Rather, these collaborators have an intensive fascination with darkness, including the Antichrist, embodied in the mythological deity of Apollo or Osiris, who they claim is really Nimrod, who is going to be “reanimated.” (If you are having difficulty following this convoluted logic, rest assured that you are not alone.) With Tom Horn’s leadership and assistance, this heresy about Apollo’s return continues to make traction in prophecy circles. Each new writer picks up the theme and transmits it with new sensational twists. Horn not only published, but wrote the Foreword to Peter Goodgame’s sacrilegious The Second Coming of the Antichrist. In this Foreword, Horn elaborates on the same themes promoted by both authors, including referring to the offensive and racist “serpent seed” doctrine215: MOST PROPHECY EXPERTS today believe the Man of Sin spoken of in Scripture will soon emerge on the world scene as a savior... the source of his profound comprehension and irresistible presence will be the result of an invisible network of thousands of years of collective knowledge stemming from his embodiment of a very old, super-intelligent spirit. As Jesus Christ was the “seed of the woman” (Genesis 3:15), he will be the “seed of the serpent.” And though his arrival in the form of a man was foretold by numerous Scriptures, the broad masses will not immediately recognize him for what he actually is—paganism’s ultimate incarnation: the “beast” of Revelation 13:1.216 [bold added] This is where the very title of Peter Goodgame’s fascinating new book, The Second Coming of the Antichrist, introduces an intriguing hypothesis—that Satan’s seed was manifest once before in history and is now poised to return again in bodily form. People not familiar with biblical eschatology may find this idea fantastic, that the being who becomes the Antichrist was once alive, then was dead, and returns from the grave to rule the world in the end times… 217 [bold added] This entity—identified in the Greek New Testament as Apollo—was known to the Egyptians as Osiris, the same deity by different names according to numerous scholars, including Plutarch, the ancient Roman historian... 218 [bold added] But in identifying the ancient spirit that will be revived in the end-times Antichrist, the rabbit hole goes deeper. Convincing evidence exists farther back in time that the historical figure upon 75 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM whom these myths were based was the legendary King Enmerkar of Uruk, known in the Bible as Nimrod...219 [bold added] According to a key prophecy in the book of 2 Thessalonians, the Antichrist will be the progeny or incarnation of the ancient spirit, Apollo. Second Thessalonians 2:3 warns: “Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition [Apoleia; Apollo]”.220 [bold added]
Horn and Goodgame are not alone in their outlandish speculations about a “second coming” of Nimrod (a.k.a. Antichrist/Apollyon/Apollo). This teaching is so unorthodox that it requires many “prophecy experts” to back up its preposterous claims. The more proponents, the merrier. Name-dropping other PPP leaders gives the illusion of agreement, credibility and scholarship. For example, in his Foreword to Goodgame’s book, Horn cites “well-known researcher” Chuck Missler and “nationally recognized prophecy expert” Gary Stearman—popular Christian authors and PPP adherents who have also suggested that the Antichrist will be a “return of Nimrod”: Not long ago, well-known researcher and leader of the Koinonia Institute, Dr. Chuck Missler, in an online article raised the appropriate question about this text and the connection between Antichrist and the spirit of Apollo/Nimrod when he asked, “Could it be that this final world dictator will be, in some sense, a return of Nimrod?”221 [bold added] Nationally recognized prophecy expert Gary Stearman believes this is more than a possibility. Over the years, Stearman has written extensively about Nimrod and the connection this historical figure has with Babylonian Mystery Religion, Watchers, Nephilim, the spirit of the end-times Antichrist, and revival of paganism. He thinks that, in fact, the coming of Antichrist could represent a return of Nimrod…222 [bold added]
Tom Horn also cited Gary Stearman as a fellow “biblical scholar” concerning “a return of Nimrod” in a 2009 NewsWithViews article series called “Read It Before Its Banned by The Government – Part 23”: Over the years, biblical scholar Gary Stearman has written extensively about Nimrod (Apollo/Osiris/Gilgamesh) and the connection this historical figure has with Babylonian Mystery Religion, Watchers, Nephilim (including their resurrection), and the spirit of the endtimes Antichrist and revival of paganism. He too appears to believe the coming of Antichrist represents a return of Nimrod. "But who is this Assyrian," he asked in the July 2001 Prophecy in the News Magazine, "He is none other than the spiritual inheritor of the first great post-Flood religious apostasy. He is the keeper of the great heritage that began at the Assyrian capital, Nineveh. Its founder was Nimrod…. He is the Antichrist, the future despot who comes in the name of the ancient mystery religion." 76 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM A year earlier, in June of 2000, Stearman had written in Prophecy in the News concerning Nimrod: "He was a rebel who allowed himself to be worshipped as a god. After the Flood, his rebellion became the foundation of mankind’s greatest religious apostasy. Down through the generations, this system of false worship became known simply as the "Babylonian Mystery Religion." Its basis is quite clear. It attempts to channel the power of the ancient gods through the figure of one, powerful man. Nimrod became that god…"223 [bold added]
Exhibit: Historical depiction of ancient Nimrod—the man224
As we mentioned earlier, the Bible does not say that Nimrod “allowed himself to be worshipped as a god.” This is pure conjecture. Also note: Horn seems to be invoking the New Age practice of “channeling” in his attempt to describe how Nimrod became a god. Once again, an occult practice (or source) is being used to determine end-time prophecy. Yet Horn then reiterates this mythological “prophecy” as though it was biblically credible: Consequently, if the Antichrist is the resurrection of the demon Apollo/Osiris/Nimrod as prophesied by the apostle Paul, not only will he be the exact opposite of Jesus (Son of God), but the forerunner of the return of the nephilim. In The Second Coming of the Antichrist, Peter Goodgame employs his finely honed skills as a researcher to magnificently interpret the ancient history that evolved around these events as well as eschatological concepts in line with the Hebrew Bible, Greek, and Semitic languages that vividly warn how this offspring of fallen angels and humans may not remain a thing of the past; that in fact a repeat of the activity that
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM gave rise to the ancient despot popularly known as Apollo, Osiris, and Nimrod was prophesied to return in the end of times in the personage of Antichrist.225 [bold added]
Horn accurately recaps Goodgame’s unbiblical end-times scenario in his Foreword. Here we have caught a glimpse into the putrid bowels of this particular PPP false doctrine and book, but there is more… It gets worse...
Apollo/Osiris: Seed of Satan Goodgame takes the Apollo/Nimrod myth to new depths in his book The Second Coming of the Antichrist, adding a new twist to the old William Branham “Serpent Seed” heresy which says that Satan has physical, literal “seed” in order to produce physical, literal descendants or offspring. 226 In this case, Goodgame believes that the Antichrist is the actual physical procreation of the devil (again, ancient Nimrod/Apollo) who—as “the original Dying God”—will resurrect at the proper time in order to fulfill prophecy. Note these disturbing excerpts from Goodgame’s book:
“It is well known that the prophecy of the ‘seed of the woman’ was the very first Messianic prophecy in the Bible. God was saying that one day a human being would be born, descended from Eve, who would ‘bruise the head’ of Satan the serpent. However, God was also predicting that the serpent would produce a ‘seed’ who would be an enemy of the ‘seed of the woman.’
“The ‘seed of the woman’ was fulfilled by Jesus Christ, the literal Son of God; whereas the ‘seed of the serpent’ was to be fulfilled by the Antichrist, the literal son of Satan.
“What this means is that the Antichrist has to be a Nephilim, just like the Nephilim described in Genesis 6 who were the offspring of fallen angels who had mated with human women. If Nimrod is indeed the Antichrist, then Satan has to be his genetic father, and therefore he [Nimrod] must be a Nephilim.”227 [bold added, italics in original]
“Nimrod was raised as the son and heir of Cush, but there was something very special about him that caused him to be called a gibbor. I believe his father was in fact Satan, the chief of the fallen angels, and Nimrod himself was a Nephilim, a throwback to the days before the Flood.” [bold added] [SCA, pg. 66]
“… let’s look again at God’s prophecy against the serpent in Genesis 3. God was predicting that one day Satan (identified as the serpent in Revelation 12:9) would take
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM for himself a human wife and produce a seed who would be an enemy of the seed of Eve, the woman whom the serpent has just deceived… after the Garden of Eden and up to the Flood there were many fallen angels who took human women for wives and produced Nephilim. These Nephilim ruled over and ravaged the earth for a long period of time before God finally wiped the slate clean by bringing the Flood. The Book of Enoch describes their violence and even their cannibalism that filled the earth with wickedness. The Flood destroyed the Nephilim and cleaned up the wickedness on the earth…” [bold added] [SCA, pp. 66-67]
Note once again that in order to create this end-time prophecy, all sorts of monkey business is done with the first few chapters of Genesis, including the strange claim that Satan took a wife. Goodgame also relies upon the ancient apocryphal Book of Enoch, which proves to be a main source of polluting God’s Word in these chapters. In the words below, note how far from God’s Word these teachings can deviate: Goodgame actually asserts that Lucifer is not Satan! Exhibit: PPP DVD on the Book of Enoch228 “Note that Lucifer is not Satan. Lucifer is merely another name for Asshur, the King of Babylon. He is a Nephilim King…” [bold added] [SCA, pg. 207] “The King of Babylon is the evil seed. He is the seed of the serpent whose birth was predicted in Genesis 3:15, who stands opposed to Jesus, the seed of the woman.” [bold added] [SCA, pg. 213] “'The Assyrian’ is Asshur the King of Babylon. He is Nimrod, the historical figure who became worshiped as Asshur the Assyrian god.” [bold added, italics in original] [SCA, pg. 214]
Furthermore, Goodgames asserts that the Egyptians are a source of “absolute truth” particularly regarding the mummification of Osiris [i.e., Apollo/Nimrod], who will experience a “resurrection”: “Yes, this is the absolute truth: according to the Egyptians, Osiris was the world’s very first mummy. For a specific reason, which is clear to us now that we recognize him as the once and future Antichrist king, the Egyptians wanted to make sure that the body of Osiris would remain preserved and intact. Osiris was the original case of mummification after death… Those closest to Osiris knew that he would one day need to use his body again when he returned to the land of the living…” [bold/underscore added, italics in original] [SCA, pp. 272-273] 79 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM “One way or another, the legendary origins of Freemasonry all point back to Egypt, to the Great Pyramid, and to Osiris—the Egyptian version of Nimrod the Nephilim King. He is the original Dying God whose death brought about the era of the pagan gods, and whose resurrection will be accompanied by their return.” [SCA, pg. 329] [bold added]
Not only is the contention that Antichrist will be a reincarnated” Egyptian mummy” ridiculous and absurd, but Goodgame’s identification of this fictitious Nephilim King (Nimrod) as “the original Dying God” (note the capital “G” in his quote) is patently blasphemous—bumping Jesus Christ into “second place” and minimizing His unique resurrection. Relying upon the “legendary origins of Freemasonry” and “Great Pyramid” symbology, Goodgame sadly reveals the extent to which he will resort to borrowing from occult sources to prop up his Apollo thesis. Exhibit: An Egyptian mummy229 These pagan myths not only distort the Scripture out of all proportion, but in doing so, overshadow the first mention of the Gospel in the Bible by downgrading the primacy of Christ (Gen. 3:15). They usurp the unique testimony of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, born of a virgin, who defeated Satan on the Cross.
Reliance Upon Occult Sources The flagrant usage of occult source material for constructing end-time prophecy seems to be boundless. It only gets worse. Doug Woodward, PPP leader and author of Decoding Doomsday: The 2012 Prophecies, the Apocalypse, and the Perilous Days Ahead, a book published by Horn, (and mentioned above) cites The Egyptian Book of the Dead, Manly Hall and Edgar Cayce as though they were credible sources for his end-time prophecy support: The Egyptian Book of the Dead quotes Osiris (Apollo) saying, “I am Yesterday and I am Today; and I have the power to be born a second time.” Manly P. Hall proclaims, “Osiris will rise in splendor from the dead and rule the world through those sages and philosophers in whom wisdom has become incarnate.” Additionally, [Tom] Horn quotes Hall from The Secret Teachings of the Ages, in which he says, “The Dying God shall rise again! The secret room in 80 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM the House of the Hidden Places shall be rediscovered. The Pyramid again shall stand as the ideal emblem of solidarity, inspiration, aspiration, resurrection, and regeneration.” Interestingly, Edgar Cayce, the Sleeping Prophet, predicted in the 1930’s that a secret room known as the Hall of Records would be discovered within the Egyptian Sphinx. This room would provide proof of the Antediluvian civilization of Atlantis and provide the history of the world before the Flood of Noah. So far, it remains undiscovered although Egyptian archeologists are slowly probing for it. Given that it ruins the notion the Egyptians built their own pyramids, we can assume the Egyptians may continue to drag their feet. Does the Bible confirm that Osiris (Apollo) shall rise again? The answer appears to be yes. This resurrection is spoken of in Revelation Chapter 17:1-13. It’s part of the passage describing Mystery Babylon. 230 [bold added]
Exhibit: Graphic depicting Cayce’s psychic powers 231
Reality check time. What do we know about these sources?
The Egyptian Book of the Dead 232 is one of the darkest Satanic books in the world. It is filled with black magic, spells, rituals, incantations, reincarnations, etc. No Christian believer should ever entertain any of its subjects. It is a dangerous and demonic book!233
Manly Hall was the author of The Secret Teachings of All Ages, a dark and mysterious compendium of occult and freemasonic lore. He delved into the Kabbalah, Hermeticism, Gnosticism and Rosicrucianism, as well as other ancient occult teachings.234
Edgar Cayce was a false prophet and psychic. 100 years ago he was a celebrity because he would go into trances to give readings as well as deliver “unorthodox answers on religious matters such as reincarnation and
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM Akashic records.” He had many reported psychic abilities and is definitely not a recommended source of truth for Christians.235 Nonetheless, Woodward cites these blatant occult sources as credible wells of prophetic information for the end times. Not only does Woodward concur with the notion that ‘the god Apollo will rise again’ as Horn and Goodgame teach, but that America is this “Babylon” of Revelation (For further reading, see: “The Rise of Apocalyptic Paganism in the Church”). 236
Exhibit: Depiction of Manly Hall from an esoteric website237
Drawing from Other Tainted Wells There are many other troubling aspects forming the backdrop of Goodgame’s aberrant PPP doctrines and his increasing influence in evangelical circles—namely Latter Rain cult and Dominionists roots. On page 361 of The Second Coming of Antichrist, he acknowledges John and Linda Keough, directors of Healing Rooms Honolulu and regional directors of Healing Rooms Hawaii. On their website, the Keough’s state their ministry’s mission: "Perpetuating the Vision of John G. Lake."238 Lake was a Latter Rain faith healer in the vein of William Branham and A.A. Allen—he was a forerunner to the modern-day “apostles” of the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR). 239 It should therefore be a concern to readers to learn that Goodgame and his wife, Lori, have their own Healing Rooms chapter in Kaneohe, HI: Kahuhipa Healing Rooms is a healing ministry based in Kaneohe, Hawaii, that is led by Peter and Lori Goodgame. We are a part of the International Association of Healing Rooms (IAHR) and are connected with Healing Rooms Hawaii led by John and Linda Keough. 240 [bold added] 82 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM Based on these disclosures (and others not presented here), 241 it is disturbing that any evangelical would promote Goodgame and his heretical PPP ideas—especially in publishing his unbiblical book propagating the 2nd coming of Osiris/Nimrod/Apollo—the Nephilim King—the offspring of Satan (see our article about the Serpent Seed heresy).242 Goodgame was a presenter at Future Congress 2 (FC2) 243 in Dallas in 2013, alongside Gary Stearman, Hal Lindsey, L.A. Marzulli, Rob Skiba, Doug Hamp, Douglas Woodward, Jim Fletcher, Terry James, Bill Salus, Russ Dizdar, et al. 244 FC2 was an event that was publicly supported by WND (formerly WorldNetDaily), 245 Rapture Ready Radio,246 and Olive Tree Ministries (Jan Markell). 247 We fervently pray that these evangelical prophecy leaders would dissociate themselves from these heretical and occult teachings and return to the pure Word of God.248 Most of the men cited in this article also appeared together at the Pike’s Peak Prophecy Summit in Colorado Springs every year from 2013-2016.249 The list includes: Tom Horn, Chuck Missler, Gary Stearman, Rob Skiba, Doug Hamp, Doug Woodward, L.A. Marzulli, Mark Biltz, Jonathan Cahn, Joseph Farah, Bill Koenig, Paul McGuire, Cris Putnam, Bill Salus, Derek & Sharon Gilbert, and many others. 250 With his new book and hearty endorsements from others in this camp, Goodgame appears to be gaining popularity and credibility among them—especially in light of the fact that chief PPP leader Tom Horn not only published his book, but heartily endorsed his work with a personal Foreward to it.
Exhibit: Goodgame discusses his Horn book on Canary Cry Radio251
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM grieved at the extent to which these leaders have brought black satanic and terrifying occult teachings into the evangelical church world.
The Truth: In his 1992 landmark book, The Gnostic Empire Strikes Back: An Old Heresy for the New Age, Dr. Peter Jones warned the evangelical church about the rise of ancient Gnosticism and idolatry. Twenty years ago it would have seemed incredulous to believe that evangelicals would one day soon actually be teaching about ancient mythological gods as if they were real beings and part of end-time Scripture, but that is indeed what is happening today. Read Dr. Jones's sober admonition: We stand again on Mars Hill [in Athens, ed.], surrounded by a host of unfamiliar and doubtless unfriendly gods. At some time in the future, perhaps more quickly than we think, true Christianity could well be reduced to a small minority. Christian ministry in the New Age of Aquarius will not be for the fainthearted. The defeat of ancient pagan Gnosticism and its socalled Christian counterpart was only gained by deep spirituality, hard theological work, and often physical martyrdom. But those called by Christ must stand, for they can do no other, even if it does involve similar kinds of personal sacrifice. The orthodox Christian church needs courageous leaders, not clerics of leisure and compromise. Without an extraordinary degree of prophetic commitment and self-sacrifice from a new generation of leaders, the church of Jesus Christ is no doubt headed for a period of significant persecution. If we do not speak out now, speaking out later promises to be very costly! Discerning, decimated leaders are essential for the church in the Age of Aquarius. But not only leaders. At every level, Christians need to understand what is going on and carry that understanding to every corner of life. The world needs strong believers as never before, who will refuse to buy into the spirit of compromise that often unwittingly helps promote the New Age Agenda. 252 [bold added]
At what cost will this false teaching be destructive in the church? How much longer can evangelical leaders continue to be silent in the face of this growing apostasy? Where are the courageous leaders to speak out, even if it costs them their reputation and fortune? “For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty… And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount. We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost (2 Peter 1:16, 18-21).” 84 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM Part 5
Nephilim are from Mars—Fallen Angels are from Krypton Using Pseudoscience/the Gap to place Satan & Nephilim on Mars by Gaylene Goodroad & Sarah Leslie
"An 1893 soap ad playing on the popular idea that Mars was populated." 253 On July 25, 1976 the Viking I probe sent the shocking image of a Face on Mars back to earth. [David] Flynn called it a monument, although NASA tried to explain it away as a trick of shadows. The main trouble with the space agency’s explanation is that it fails to account for a nearby collection of apparent pyramid-like structures oriented in much the same way as pyramids in Egypt… [T]he fall of satan [sic] and other wicked angels… was from a destroyed planet — alternatively named Rhab, Asteria and Krypton — and from its closest planetary neighbor — Mars.254 [bold added]
“What if Jesus were a spaceman?” —L.A. Marzulli255 85 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM Postmodern Eschatology Pseudoscience In the last four installments of this book, we explored several key tenets of the Postmodern Prophecy Paradigm (PPP). All of these unbiblical PPP teachings share the shifting foundation of an emerging False Nephilim Eschatology—the invention of a new end-time prophecy scenario relying upon an unlimited variety of extrabiblical sources, past and present, even including ancient mythology. Modern science fiction and pop-culture conspiracy theories are also not off limits, both which form the foundation for the PPP teachers’ incredible thesis that the planet Mars has been an off-site staging area for Nephilim invading the earth! 256 “O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called (1 Tim. 6:20).”
Besides the obvious heretical and unbiblical foundations for these postmodern prophecy teachings, these wild conjectures are also undergirded by false science. This is what the Bible calls “science falsely so called.”257 Or, in plain English, pseudoscience.258 What is pseudoscience? It is a system of theories or assertions about the natural world that claim or appear to be scientific but that, in fact, are not. For example, astronomy is a science, but astrology is generally viewed as a pseudoscience. 259 Pseudoscience is a claim, belief, or practice which is presented as scientific, but does not adhere to a valid scientific method, lacks supporting evidence or plausibility, cannot be reliably tested, or otherwise lacks scientific status. Pseudoscience is often characterized by the use of vague, contradictory, exaggerated or unprovable claims… Science is also distinguishable from revelation, theology, or spirituality in that it offers insight into the physical world obtained by empirical research and testing. Commonly held beliefs in popular science may not meet the criteria of science. "Pop science" may blur the divide between science and pseudoscience among the general public, and may also involve science fiction.260 [bold in original]
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM metaphysics. Metaphysics is a term “applied widely and very loosely to anything having to do with the spiritual, occult, esoteric, Hermetic, mystical, paranormal, or supernatural…”261 The mixture of faulty science with metaphysics is a characteristic of the occult world, especially including Theosophy and its offspring, the New Age Movement. Many beliefs characterized as pseudoscience are also well-known metaphysical philosophies.262 For example, in “Esoteric Cosmology,” which is an “occult system of thought,” Theosophists and others teach that there are “hierarchies of spiritual beings” and “cosmic cycles” in the universe that require mankind to engage in spiritual disciplines for “psychospiritual transformation.”263
Exhibit: Mars – The Red Planet264
In light of this, what does the planet MARS have to do with the Gospel of salvation message? Absolutely nothing. But the PPP teachers particularly rely on both pseudoscience and metaphysics to make their case for space alien creatures invading the earth to create an end-time ruckus. PPP teachers possess that unique evolutionary mindset that can also be found in both UFOlogy 265 and Theosophy – that man was “seeded” by alien DNA at some point in his early history and that mankind is now reaching the point of crisis where this corruption will wreak havoc on his future. Thus, PPP teachers spend an inordinate amount of time in the early chapters of Genesis re-working man’s earliest history. And likewise they expend a considerable effort developing alternative future scenarios where this alien DNA corruption crisis reaches galactic proportions (see Part 2). 87 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM Although they do not necessarily claim to be evolutionists, the PPP leaders’ ideas are founded upon esoteric evolutionary ideology. As one critic of this pseudoscience/metaphysical evolutionary mindset has aptly noted: Many who believe in extraterrestrial life do so because of evolutionary presuppositions that life could evolve anywhere conditions are right… [They] look to outer space for the biological and technological underpinnings of the human race. Yet, aside from their lack of credible evidence for the existence of these alien forefathers, they still offer no explanation for the origin of the aliens. If human origins are a puzzle, then alien origins become a matter of the wildest conjecture.266
This section will examine how the PPP leaders alter the early chapters of Genesis, and how they connect this revised history to their end-time space alien/Nephilim hybrid scenarios.
GAP THEORY – A Gaping Chasm Understanding Gap Theory is important because some PPP leaders teach strange things like this: Before the creation of Adam, the civilizations of angels existed on the terrestrial planets. Throughout scripture there is a consistent reference to the first dwelling places of some of the ancient sons of God. These angels created habitations on the Earth, Mars, "Astera" the Fifth Planet, the Moon.267 [bold, underscore added]
Scripture says nothing about these things. What does God’s Word plainly teach? “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep… And God saw every thing that He had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day. Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which He had made. These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens (Gen. 1:1-2; 2:1-2, 4).”
God—the Creator—made everything out of nothing by speaking it into being (Ex. 20:11; Ps. 33:6, 9; Isa. 45:12). The finished product was “very good”—because the Lord God had made it! The Bible states that from Genesis 1:1 to Genesis 2:4, Elohim, the Creator, “created,” “said,” “saw,” “divided,” “called,” “set,” “blessed,” and then “ended His work” and “rested on the seventh day” (the end of one week) because His great and good work was completed, done, finished. According to 88 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM this passage, in plain straightforward language, the Lord God created the days, nights, sky, land, sea, sun, moon, stars, creatures, etc., to accommodate mankind who would inhabit the earth. Mankind was created for the purpose of serving, obeying, and worshiping his Creator. This is the context for the opening passages of the Bible. Note that God did not furnish any specifics regarding the angelic realm because they are NOT the subject and thrust of these Scriptures. God has spoken and has given us in His Word what we are to know. Those who choose to go beyond the parameters set by God, in order to discover things that He has not clearly written, do so at their own peril. Why is the Gap Theory such a pivotal issue? Many of the PPP leaders have embraced the Gap Theory in an attempt to prop up their false Nephilim eschatology—specifically in nailing down the time frame of Satan’s fall and the socalled first appearance of Nephilim creatures. The Gap is no longer recognizable. The Gap has now become a gaping chasm into which PPP teachers pour an incredibly diverse array of extra-biblical speculations. Pastor Larry DeBruyn published a detailed critique of this theory in “The Gap Theory – From Cosmos to Chaos, and Cosmos Again.” Here is how he defined the theory and explained how it came about: The Gap Theory, as known amongst and designated by Bible teachers, students and some scholars, proposes that an indeterminate period of real time, constituted of millions, if not billions of years, existed between Genesis 1 verse 1, and Genesis 1 verse 2. Many Biblebelieving Christians have held to this theory of the Genesis creation account. As paleontological science began to assert itself upon the understanding of human origins during the early 1800s, a science that proposed millions, if not billions, of years for the development of life on this planet, Christian scholars and teachers began to propose different ways of looking at the Genesis account. First, they offered the idea of progressive creation; that is, that one day in the Genesis account equaled an age of millions of years. Such a theory, and those like it, is obviously at odds with the plain language of Genesis’ opening chapter (i.e., days one, two, three, etc., solar days after the fourth day, and the Sabbath day). But second, other fundamental Christians, in order to reconcile the presumably immense periods of time inferred from earth’s geological strata and the death indicated by the fossil record, suggested the novel idea that between the Bible’s two opening verses a unspecified period of time existed, a “gap” that could accommodate the fossil and geological evidence. 268 [bold added]
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM time: paleontology.269 They imposed Darwinian science upon the Bible, and not the other way around. After a careful examination of the Genesis text, Pastor DeBruyn draws a firm conclusion regarding the veracity of the Gap Theory: As Genesis 1 verse 2 states, Elohim did not create earth, unlike other bodies in our solar system, to be uninhabited. So subsequently God created plant, ocean, animal and human life to inhabit earth. In straightforward language, this is what the opening of Genesis states. Insertion of a chaotic time period between Genesis verse 1 and verse 2 to accommodate the geological ages of evolutionary science, explain the ruin of this planet by Satan and his hoard of fallen angels, and account for the rise of ancient mythologies is arbitrary. In short, the grammar does not support the gap. Genesis’ six days of creation is not a record of God’s “make over” of a previously ruined creation.270 [bold added]
Most PPP leaders, however, have placed a “gap” between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2 in order to accommodate the origins of the Watchers (fallen angels) who fathered the Nephilim (by human mothers), and to pinpoint the satanic rebellion of the fallen angelic realm. L.A. Marzulli, popular PPP author and speaker, explains these beliefs: In the book I’m working on The Cosmic Chess Match, I propose that the universe is much older than 6,000 years. What we see in the first verses of Genesis, seems to indicate that there was a nasty, cataclysmic, event that left: the earth without form and void and in darkness. The Hebrew word for form is tohuw. It can mean: formlessness, confusion, unreality, emptiness. Void, can be translated: emptiness, void, waste. I believe this points to a recreation of the earth! Rabbi’s [sic] and Biblical scholars have pondered the opening sentence from Genesis, for centuries. Here’s what I believe. There was a war in heaven and the anointed Cherub, Satan, rebelled and dragged one-third of the angels with him. It is possible that this rebellion happened aeons ago and if we are intellectually honest, we will admit that no one knows when this rebellion occurred. This rebellion may have been responsible for the chaotic earth. On that basis, I look at the Genesis 1, as a recreation of the earth and there are others who hold this view as well. (G. H. Pember, Clarence Larkin. I. D. E. Thomas. M. K. DeHaan). 271 [bold in original, underscore added]
But the Scripture does not teach “a re-creation of the earth” as Pastor Larry has shown in his careful analysis of this issue. The fact that many other notable Christians past and present believe this error does not make it biblically true. Nonetheless, besides Marzulli, both Tom Horn and Gary Stearman also promote the idea that the Gap Theory is a viable teaching. This is because it forms a necessary foundation for their emerging end-time eschatology. During an interview with Horn on a Prophecy in the News (PITN) broadcast in 2013 90 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM (formerly hosted by Gary Stearman),272 both authors affirmed the possibility that the earth was “re-created”—after the fall of Satan and before the Watchers (fallen angels) came down to produce the Nephilim by mating with human women.273 Although calling the Gap Theory “highly speculative, “controversial,” and “provocative,” PPP adherent Chuck Missler also made great allowances for it in a ten-minute YouTube video clip in 2008. 274 In explaining the language used in Genesis 1:1-2 (“without form and void”), Missler cites Jeremiah 4:24-25 to support a purported gap between the first two verses of Genesis Chapter One, “…I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD…” Pointing out that the barren wilderness that Jeremiah was describing was at one time “inhabited” (like the earth in Gen. 1:1), he adds, “Some suspect that maybe Jeremiah is getting a glimpse of a judgment that preceded Genesis verse two.” But as Pastor DeBruyn so carefully explained in his analysis of the Genesis 1:2 grammar (above), the “straightforward language” in this text teaches that Elohim (the Creator) “did not create the earth… to be uninhabited.” Clearly, Missler has misapplied the passage in Jeremiah to squeeze it into the Gap Theory. After listing various Christian proponents of this theory, Missler repeats its controversial nature and then adds, “It [Gap Theory] does seem to link a lot of different passages.”275 In the video clip, Missler finishes his teaching by offering several conjectures regarding the timing of Satan’s fall—hinting that it took place between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2. It seems that Missler also needs the Gap Theory in order to prop up his similar end-time eschatologies, as shall be shown.
“For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; He hath established it, He created it not in vain, He formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else (Isa. 45:18).” [bold added]
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM Falling Through the Martian GAP The late David Flynn, PPP leader and author, was also a proponent of the Gap Theory. Since his untimely death in 2012,276 Tom Horn has published a collection of his works.277 Here is how one reviewer, friendly toward Flynn, described one of the books in this collection, Flynn’s Cydonia: The Secret Chronicles of Mars: Flynn was an advocate of the Gap Theory, a school of interpretation that sees a gap in time between God’s original act of creation in Genesis 1:1 and a continuation of Exhibit: Flynn’s 2002 book278 the process in succeeding verses. It was popular in the late 1800s because it accommodated science’s geologic age scale nicely. While that doesn’t seem to be Flynn’s primary justification for the theory, it does provide a convenient place to assign the fall of satan [sic] and other wicked angels. Now we come to the second shocking interpretation. That fall was from a destroyed planet — alternatively named Rhab, Asteria and Krypton — and from its closest planetary neighbor — Mars. The theory of a doomed planet that exploded, resulting in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter has been around for a while, but Flynn is one of the first to identify it as an abode of angels.279 [bold added]
Reality check: Do fallen angels live on Mars!? The Gap Theory became a huge gaping abyss for Flynn to pour in all sorts of suppositions and conjectures—such as Satan falling from “a destroyed planet—alternatively name Rahab, Asteria and Krypton.” DC Comics fans will recognize that Superman originated from the planet Krypton, a “fictional planet in the DC Universe”!280 According to Flynn, not only did Satan reign over the planets of our solar system (which was inhabited by “civilizations of pre-rebellion angels”)—before the creation of Adam—but that there is evidence today of that civilization on Mars: When Satan rebelled, God cast him as profane from the height of heaven. Because of his rebellion, Satan was destroyed from the midst of the "stones of fire", the planets, where he had reigned over literal material kingdoms [pre-Adam]. Evidence of the civilization on Mars can still be seen, while another civilization of B'nai ha Elohim was destroyed thoroughly, becoming the asteroid belt... Our studies of scripture have lead [sic] us to the controversial view 92 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM that civilizations of pre-rebellion angels lived on the planets of our solar system before the creation of Adam...281 [bold added]
It wasn’t Flynn’s “studies of Scripture” that led him to these bizarre false teachings. These teachings come from such polluted sources as UFO lore, occult pseudoscience and pagan mythology. Furthermore, Flynn has taught a version of the Gap Theory about the planet Mars that also has no credible scientific underpinnings:
When Satan and his angels rebelled, God destroyed their literal dwelling places. According to scripture this destruction was swift and decisive. The fifth terrestrial planet which God calls "Rahab" (boaster, pride), was obliterated.
God brought a fire out of Satan's midst, in the center of his greatest planetary kingdom. The planet Rahab exploded sending pieces of itself into the orbits of the interior terrestrial worlds. Asteroid impacts on the surface of mars [sic] rocked the planet, oceans washed over its dry land. The martian [sic] atmosphere was blasted into space.
On earth virtually the same catastrophes took place -- DESTROYING CITIES CREATED ON EARTH BEFORE THERE WERE EVEN ADAMS 282 [bold added]
Note that Flynn refers to “Adams” (plural) rather than Adam (singular), thus betraying that he did not believe in the literal creation of Adam and Eve in Genesis. Michael Heiser (mentioned in Part 3) similarly waffles on the literal Adam.283 Flynn is not alone in enlarging the Gap Theory wide enough to accommodate truckloads of additional extra-biblical and pseudoscience beliefs, including alien beings living on Mars. Others also use the Gap for trafficking their own novel eschatological ideas.
Lucifer Lives on Cydonia’s Face? Tom Horn and Steve Quayle, both leading PPP adherents, promoted Flynn’s book and strange teachings about Mars in a 2008 radio broadcast. Exhibit: Flynn’s work published by Horn in 2012284
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM Among the outlandish themes explored, was Horn’s contention that “Satan fell from a star system—a planetoid” and that Mars was a possible “prison” or “outpost” for fallen angels, or Watchers.285 These incredible fables were incorporated into Horn’s fictional book, The Ahriman Gate,286 where he spun even more sensational themes. 287 Note, then, how Horn included hearty excerpts of this fictional book into his 2007 “nonfictional” book, Nephilim Stargates: The Year 2012 and the Return of the Watchers—mixing in these fanciful concoctions about Mars and the Gap Theory—duping his readers into believing that he was instead presenting biblical truth. In this excerpt notice the subtle psychological manipulation by using fiction to change a person's worldview: Where did Lucifer fall from? Some suggest the original domain of Lucifer was among the celestial bodies and that he literally fell “from the heavens.” We fictionalized this belief in our novel, The Ahriman Gate: As it turned out, Renaldo believed Ezekiel’s citation of Lucifer moving “up and down amidst the stones of fire” was a reference to the once-glorious being’s dominion of the planetary belt, including Mars. He had long thought the Cydonia Face and pyramidal structures near it were curious, potentially illustrating a past Martian civilization that, if proven, would provide physical support for the Bible’s account of prehistoric war and the subsequent expulsion of Lucifer and his angels “from the heavens.” “Keep in mind,” Renaldo shared over the phone, “Such evidence might also provide background for the building of the pyramids and similar structures on Earth—those monuments whose technical requirements seem far in advance of ancient man’s comprehension, the physical construction of which may predate Adam and Eve. The astronomical features built into the Great Pyramid alone are startling: how the four corners face true north, south, east, and west; how the antechamber points to the center of the universe; and so on.” Jones, a history scholar in his own right, was fully aware of the pyramid’s enigmas, yet now as he listened, he learned something he didn’t know.288 [bold, underscore added]
Not only did Jones “learn something he didn’t know,” concerning these sensational unbiblical accounts of Lucifer holding “dominion over the planetary belt”, “a past Martian civilization,” and Lucifer’s pyramid construction projects in Mars and Egypt—but so do all of Horn’s readers.
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Exhibit: Horn’s “fictional” book quoted in his so-called “nonfictional” book289
This teaching—that physical monuments such as the pyramids, were built by an earlier civilization that pre-dates the biblical Adam or modern man—can be traced to Theosophical cosmology. The Theosophists taught the very offensive “Root Race” mysticism which credited early earth civilizations, such as the Lemurians (Third Race), with building “stone edifices” and “monumental images,” such as the pyramids in Egypt. The Theosophists connect the Egyptian pyramids in many arcane ways to the planet Mars. 290 Throughout the remainder of this book section note how many times Mars is similarly connected to Egypt in the quotes by the PPP leaders. Why are they teaching this? The pregnant assumption by the PPP leaders of course is that the hybrid Nephilim creatures (conceived by fallen angels mating with human women) created these purported architectural structures (i.e., the pyramids, etc.) in Egypt—and on Mars. In the Herescope article, “The Rise of Apocalyptic Paganism in the Church: Bible Prophecy in Crisis” we cited Horn’s “nonfiction” book (pictured on the right above) regarding even more outlandish teachings and wrenching of Scripture involving the Nephilim and the Egyptian pyramids:
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM Tom Horn relies heavily on additions to Scripture, reinterpreting God’s Word to fit his extreme end-time notions. In his book, Nephilim Stargates: The Year 2012 and the Return of the Watchers, Horn explains a supposed end-times prophecy and “sign unto the Lord” regarding the return of the fearsome “Nephilim.” Note how Horn borrows from occult sources for information about the Great Pyramid, and see how far these conclusions veer away from the plain Scripture in Rev. 21:16 [and Isaiah 19:19]: Not long ago a man whom I have come to know as a friend wrote a book called The Nephilim and the Pyramid of the Apocalypse. Patrick Heron published his study after delving into the history of the pyramids, seeking to explain who built the structures, how they acquired such mathematical and astronomical knowledge, and what advanced technology was used in the construction. The answer he came up with was astonishing: the pyramids were built by the Nephilim… The Great Pyramid was the only “pillar” standing on the border dividing Lower and Upper Egypt in Isaiah’s [Isa. 19:19] day, but why would the prophet point to it as a Last Days sign unto the Lord? Patrick answered me with the “shape” of things to come. He believes New Jerusalem is pyramidal, as opposed to cubic in shape, and that Watchers conveyed this design to the Nephilim following what they had seen in heaven. [bold added]291
Exhibit: Supposed Xenoarcheological structures on Mars & in Egypt292
In order to convey these arcane ideas concerning Mars and Egypt, many other PPP leaders resort to fiction, speculation and imagination. This is because openly teaching beliefs found in Theosophy would be too obvious. For example, Horn elaborately speculates about pyramids and cities built on Mars during this ‘Gap’ in creation. In order to bolster his case, he relies on a potent mixture of beguiling fiction and fascinating pseudoscience:
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM “Close to the Cydonia Face on Mars is a similar five-sided pyramid with detailed buttressing suspiciously positioned at 1/360th of the Martian polar diameter from the Face. In the same area, other structures form a perfect equilateral triangle in what some experts at NASA are now calling ‘the city complex.’” Copiously scribbling the Bishop’s thoughts as he spoke, Jones said, “I wasn’t aware of the city complex, but the qualities of the enormous face are astonishing. Eyebrows over eye sockets with pupils. A parted mouth with lips and teeth. A nose tapered back toward the forehead. A crown strikingly similar to those worn by Egyptian and Mayan royalty.” Jones had done his homework before calling the scholar. Renaldo agreed. “Indeed, Mathematicians have postulated the chances of the face arising by chance at a thousand billion, billion to one, so it is significant.” “Significant enough to convince you it’s real?” Jones had asked. “In my opinion, if what we are seeing in NASA’s photos represent intelligent engineering, not a trick of shadows and light, we may have no other alternative.” “But isn’t that anathema? A challenge to biblical history?” Clearing his throat, Renaldo had said, “Not really. In fact the answer to this riddle is found in the Bible, I’m sure of it, in such places as the book of Job, where the old prophet tells us that God destroyed the literal dwelling places of the angels that made insurrection against Him. Job specifically mentions the destruction of Rahab, a planetary body also known as ‘Pride,’ from which God drove ‘the fugitive snake.’” “So you believe, tenuously I take it, that cities on Mars might actually have existed, and that these were abandoned during a pre-Genesis war between Good and Evil?” “I’d go a step further. If pyramids on Mars are confirmed in my lifetime, disclosed by reputable governments and scientific institutions, mind you, I’ll present it to the Vatican as possible proof of such a war.” Jones considered the far-reaching ramifications of that comment, the reiterated, “Not to belabor the point, but wouldn’t questions about the central doctrines of Christianity arise during such a discovery? Especially if the Martian buildings match the architecture of structures in Egypt?” “Satan will use it to his benefit, undoubtedly,” Renaldo confirmed. “People will point to Mars and then to the Egyptian desert and say, See! Here’s proof! We came from aliens! The Bible is a hoax!’ This could even be part of the strong delusion prophesied for the End Times.” Having agreed with this and other assessments made by the Bishop, Jones hung up and painstakingly reconstructed each element of the conversation before drawing his own conclusions. (Horn, quoting the Ahriman Gate, pp. 109-111) Though fiction, the above dialogue is based on accepted theology concerning Lucifer and the possibility that the location from which he fell was a star system or planetoid. Later on in The Ahriman Gate we dramatize Mars as having become a prison planet, in which the rebel angels are bound… (Horn, summarizing the fictional narrative above in Nephilim Stargates, pp. 51-52.)293 [bold, underscore added] 97 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM Take note of Horn’s deceptive disclaimer to the reader following his fictional detour through The Ahriman Gate (via Nephilim Stargates): “Though fiction, the above dialogue is based on accepted theology concerning Lucifer and the possibility that the location from which he fell was a star system or planetoid.” This so-called “accepted theology” was part and parcel of the fiction he just presented in the preceding narrative! Also key is the fact that Horn does not cite any biblical text here, nor does he offer any footnoting in any of the 232 pages of his so-called “nonfictional” book. In the back of Nephilim Stargates, on page 228, Horn includes Flynn’s Cydonia: The Secret Chronicles of Mars as one of the works that inspired his ideas, but offers no specific citations of Flynn’s work.294 The Ahriman Gate itself begins with a “Note to the Reader” on page 7: While the story you are about to read is fictional, the technology and prophetic speculations presented in this book describe factual advancing sciences and future possibilities as foretold in the Bible for the Last Days. 295 [bold added]
One of the features of pseudoscience is that the lines between fact and fiction become blurred. Clearly, the references to Krypton, a purely fictional creation in the DC Comics “Universe” (and Hollywood), indicates how far from reality these PPP teachers will veer. But what about Cydonia? What is it?
Cydonia’s Face: Science vs. Pseudoscience Here is a brief science lesson. To the left is the image of the “Face on Mars” that has so much esoteric significance to Flynn and Horn, et al. This is a “cropped version of the original batchprocessed image (#035A72)” taken by Viking 1 on July 25, 1976 depicting the 1.2 mile-long Cydonian mesa, situated at 40.75° north latitude and 9.46° west longitude. “A second image, (#070A13) also showed this face at a different sun-angle.” These images taken in 1976 had poor resolutions (pixels) by modern standards. Exhibit” Cydonia's "Face" (Mars) 296 98 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM UFO speculators have engaged in many wild theories about the early Martian landscape photos that came via Viking 1. Several decades later, other spacecraft explored Mars and took new photos, including the Mars Global Surveyor, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and the European Space Agency’s Mars Express. New photos were taken with higher resolution and it was ultimately concluded that “a detailed analysis of multiple images of this feature reveals a natural looking Martian hill whose illusory facelike appearance depends on the viewing angle and the angle of illumination.” 297 Nevertheless, despite these factual scientific documentations of the actual land feature on Mars, there are prominent individuals and organizations interested in extraterrestrials (ETs, space aliens) who still insist that this “Face on Mars” is evidence of a long-lost Martian civilization, including pyramids and a ruined city. This idea is primarily attributed to Richard C. Hoagland, who developed many conspiracy theories about NASA and lost civilizations on the Moon and Mars, including his claims of an on-going massive government cover-up.298 Hoagland has been a major influence on the PPP teachers, as will be seen later in this book segment. Like the PPP teachers, Hoagland also seems to espouse the belief in embedded esoteric mathematical codes and occult “sacred geometry” 299: Hoagland claims the "Face on Mars" is part of a city built on Cydonia Planitia consisting of very large pyramids and mounds arranged in a geometric pattern, with the ratios between measured angles roughly equaling mathematical constants such as pi (π), e, as well as the square root of 2 (√2), the square root of 3 (√3), and the number 3. He states that the ratio between the surface area of a sphere and the surface area of the tetrahedron inscribed within it, ≈2.720699, which is π × (√3)/2, is an approximation of e that he refers to as e'. Since e'/π = (√3)/2 = ≈0.866, he speculates that the primary meaning of the geometry of Cydonia is to emphasize the ratio of the sphere and circumscribed tetrahedron. To Hoagland, this is evidence that an advanced civilization might once have existed on Mars, and that NASA is suppressing the evidence…300 [bold added]
Of course, when the higher-resolution Mars mission scientific photos were released, disproving the “Face on Mars” theory, Hoagland at first accused space officials of fraud. Later, he resorted to claiming that it wasn’t natural geology. No matter what scientific proof came forth, it became part of Hoagland’s conspiracy theory about a cover-up. Hoagland’s bio on Wikipedia has a very long list of his deviant pseudoscience beliefs, much of which he has popularized via alternative 99 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM media outlets such as Coast to Coast radio. 301 Hoagland is so noted for his bizarre pseudoscience theories that he has even been the subject of satire and parodies.302 Nevertheless, Hoagland is treated as though he were a credible authority, and he seems to have inspired many of the space alien and government cover-up conspiracy theories touted by Tom Horn and his fellow PPP teachers. Here is a tip: next time you read about a massive government cover-up from one of these sources, start asking questions about its validity. There are indeed government cover-ups—no one doubts this—just read the current news! But here we are talking about the act of CLAIMING a cover-up, which can also SERVE as a cover-up! Asserting that there is a cover-up can serve as a way to avoid having to deal with real facts, true science and documentable proof. Anyone can state anything based on the “massive government cover-up” assertion. For instance, we could insist that “little pink elves live on Pluto and NASA isn’t telling us” – and how could it be disproven? It can’t! Yet, it also can’t be proven. 303 Beware: conspiracy theories gain the most traction when there is a bit of truth mixed with the error! As one writer has so aptly noted: Idols are not made from scratch. It involves the distortion of already present truth. The truth is changed into a lie. The lie depends upon the truth it is distorting for its power, just as the counterfeit depends upon the authentic for its value. Our idols of God contain truths within them, making them all the more seductive to us. 304
Likewise, the manipulative tactics of inserting niggling doubts into people’s minds, or suggesting remotely plausible concepts, or mixing up fact and fiction, is how these PPP leaders gain so much momentum with their pseudoscience. Many of them simply use the well-worn tactic of asking lots of loaded questions. That way they can have deniability— “Hey! I was just asking the questions,” they will protest when challenged. Nevertheless, if the PPP teachers were really interested in true science, they’d tell you the factual information about the Mars images of Cydonia’s Face. However, in a surprising twist, Michael Heiser (one of the PPP teachers cited in Part 3), after the new images of Cydonia were released, appealed to Richard Hoagland, a major advocate of the Mars conspiracy theories,305 to drop his ‘Face on Mars’ assertions in light of the factual science: With respect to Richard, it will be painful if Richard goes the denial route — the notion that the new image isn’t real, or is doctored, or (worse) still shows a face. He will cross into the realm of the comical if he does that, so I hope he doesn’t… My hope is that Richard will do what a 100 | P a g e
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But then in a convoluted attempt to rescue David Flynn and his related Mars theories, Heiser recognized how the ‘Face on Mars’ “had an impact on his eschatology” and wrote that Flynn should spend his time more profitably by teaching Christians things of the ancient occult: I think the new Cydonia photo might be more serious for David Flynn since he had attached a few theological ideas to the “face” (but it doesn’t need to be). Dave is very gifted and, in my judgment, a valuable resource as a thinker… My hope for Dave is that he will be willing to dispense with the “face” and focus on what I’ve always wished he’d focus on: occult history and — more importantly — doing what is necessary to teach that history to a popular audience… I’d love to see Dave do more in regard to teaching the principles of sacred geometry, gematria, numerology, and occult history, especially to a Christian (yes, I said Christian) audience. Why? Because the thoughts Dave thinks were the thoughts of very important “schools” in the ancient world — schools that produced their own “occult hermeneutic” for the Bible and biblical theology. Dave is one of the few people who speak that language today. 307 [bold added]
The implication of Heiser's remarks is that the occult world has something to teach Christians—that we should be referring to an occult hermeneutic and sacred geometry in order to decode Scripture! This morbid fascination with the occult is becoming the operating system for the PPP teachers. Indeed, among Heiser’s books are: The Invisible Realm, Supernatural (both nonfiction), The Façade & The Portent (both fiction); all dealing with the demonic realm, the Nephilim, UFOs and occult mythologies. 308
MISSLER’s Metaphysical MARS Chuck Missler also entertains a similar Martian theology based upon the presupposition of the Gap Theory. On his 66/40 radio broadcast, “The Red Planet and the God of War - The Mysteries of the Planet Mars,” Missler opens wide the door to considering these far-fetched teachings. Missler engaged the Cydonian pseudoscience about Mars being a “staging base to plant life on the earth,” but not for the purpose of disputing it; rather, to give it credence:
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM But I wanna—since we’re on the planet Mars, I wanna share some things with you that you might find interesting and maybe this is old news for you. This is a blow up of something that occurred on, uh, Viking 1, orbit number 35. It encountered on a large, flat plain—this peculiar structure. It’s called, ‘the face on Mars’. It’s a structure that’s about a mile across. It’s a structure that is possibly, many people argue, is just a strange aberration by just the accident of meteor hits or whatever. But more and more people who have studied it are bothered by that—for, cause it has some strange features… Now, as they study this thing, this thing has been analyzed and analyzed and analyzed… they see, perhaps the most disturbing aspect of these many analyses that you see on the screen, the geometry and the composition so forth is the symmetry! Random hits of a meteor or something rarely result in symmetrical designs. The symmetry is one of its disturbing features. This structure is located in what’s called the Cydonia region of Mars... Exhibit: One of Missler's teachings on Mars309 And you can get all carried away with the mathematics and the ratios and so forth. Some people have. People seem to fall into two camps: those that believe that this is all just much ado about nothing, those that are convinced that these are fabricated monuments by people, or some kind of personages that inhabited Mars… Now, one of the things that, uh, comes up in all of this is, were there beings on Mars? They are quick to jump to the idea that Mars may have been a staging base to plant life on the earth.310 [bold added]
Note that Missler is citing the conspiratorial theories of Richard Hoagland, complete with the metaphysical mathematical calculations. In fact, he mentions Hoagland by name, stating that NASA was going to study these Mars features but had not included Hoagland as part of their team: “NASA regards him, I think, as causing too much commotion and stirring up trouble wherever he goes.” 311 Missler continues by resorting to science fiction and guided imagery in order to describe his pseudoscience version of Mars and its supposed Nephilim inhabitants who “may have built these structures” such as Cydonia’s Face: If you can imagine putting on your science fiction hat for the moment, that you’re part of an inter-galactic mission, you’ve been travelling for light years with no gravity or artificial gravity, if any. And you are coming into our solar system. The outer planets are gaseous and, uh, not firm. The inter planet Mercury is 900 degrees Fahrenheit it’s a cool day. It’s not very hospitable. Venus has its problem being mostly, uh, ammonia, methane and, uh, it’s not a very hospitable 102 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM place. The place that’s most desirable—which has the richest array of elements in free supply on the planet is the planet earth. But it’s got a substantial gravity. And so the hypothesis is that such a mission would probably land on Mars despite the fact it’s an arid desert with nothing but UV radiation—and extreme temperature changes. Very inhospitable in many ways, it could be a place to get used to a gravitational environment about a third that of the earth before going to the earth. And around this kind of a possibility arise a number of conjectures that generally are under the category of what’s called panspermia—the idea that this kind of a venture is what originally seeded the earth with its present inhabitants. A very popular theme among New Agers—very popular theme among those who are fanciful in this area. There is an alternative possibility, of course, not that Mars seeded the earth, but maybe the earth seeded Mars. There are some that also, just as off the wall in their conjectures, is that the Nephilim of Genesis 6 may have built these structures—if it turns out indeed those structures were built… These conjectures go on and on and on.312 [bold added]
Like Horn, who imbeds many of his fantastically false ideas into his best-selling books via fictional fantasizing, Missler utilizes the “conjecturing” method to introduce all sorts of heretical doctrines and strange ideas—like the possibility that “the earth seeded Mars”—into his teaching! He is not refuting panspermia, he is entertaining it! Note how Missler cleverly weaves these Cydonian heresies into his classic 535page book, Cosmic Codes: Hidden Messages from the Edge of Eternity, a Koinonia Institute textbook in which Missler smuggled in large portions of plagiarized material from New Age author, Michael Talbot (more on Missler in Part 6).313 Missler opens Chapter 2 with this provocative statement: The ultimate challenge for the cryptologist is the message from an unknown culture. These can include records left by a lost civilization or a message from a world beyond our own.314 [bold added]
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM to be poured upon the water and set ablaze. Charles Cros in France suggested the idea of a huge mirror to reflect sunlight, like a giant heliograph, toward Mars. Some believe that the structures on the Planet Mars, photographed by Viking 1 in 1976, are just such structures. The controversial, but intriguing mile-wide “face” is among the anticipated resolutions expected from the current Mars missions. Some of the recent returns seem to indicate that the structures are, in fact, natural; however, there are still many enthusiasts that insist that there is more there to be discovered.315 [bold added]
In other words, the Word of God is insufficient to furnish us with the truth about God’s Creation of the cosmos—including mankind and the angelic realm. We must instead turn to cosmology “cryptologists” like Chuck Missler 316 in order to interpret secret coded “records left by lost civilizations”—like perhaps the fallen angels or their offspring who left archeological ruins on the planet Mars! To add weight to his contention that “a pictorial approach has the appeal of concreteness,” Missler includes the now debunked “Cydonia Face” photo (taken from the 1976 Viking 1 spacecraft) pictured above, on page 35 of Cosmic Codes. “Fascination with Mars” is another title of an article posted on Missler’s Koinonia House website, which articulates similar views about Mars. Dolphin Lambert, the author, speculates that some of the features on Mars may be indicative of “some ancient civilization on Mars” and bear “muted evidence that intelligent beings once lived there.”317 In conclusion, despite the overwhelming scientific evidence about Mars, PPP leader Chuck Missler is still perpetuating—rather than debunking—the pseudoscience and conspiracy theories.
“[Christ] Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: For by Him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by Him, and for Him: And He is before all things, and by Him all things consist. And He is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things He might have the preeminence. For it pleased the Father that in Him should all fulness dwell; And, having made peace through the blood of His cross, by Him to reconcile all things unto Himself; by Him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven (Col. 1: 15-20).”
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Exhibit: 2000 Mission to Mars movie318
Xenoarchaeology & the Mission to Mars In the case of Tom Horn and his co-author Cris Putnam, Hollywood movies can also be used to perpetrate these seductively false Martian cosmologies on unsuspecting Christians. In their best-selling book, Exo-Vaticana,319 the authors not only give credence to the myth that fallen angels once lived on planets in the solar system—with Satan serving as a one-time intergalactic ruler—but also give credibility to supposed alien structures on the Cydonian face on Mars. Despite the current scientific evidence, these teachers are still perpetuating unscientific frauds. Note also that Missler wrote the Introduction to Exo-Vaticana (see book image below). Chapter 17 of Exo-Vaticana is entitled: “If Artificial Structures Are Found on Another Planet (Xenoarchaeology), Will You Lose Your Religion?” Did you catch that impressive scientific-sounding term, Xenoarchaeology, in parentheses? Here is the definition: “Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain. Therefore let no man glory in men (1 Cor. 3:18-21).”
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM Xenoarchaeology is a hypothetical form of archaeology that exists mainly in the works of science fiction. The field is concerned with the study of material remains to reconstruct and interpret past life-ways of alien civilization. Xenoarchaeology is not currently practiced by mainstream archaeologists due to the current lack of any material for the discipline to study.320 [bold, underlining added]
In other words, “Xenoarchaeology” is a pseudoscience “that exists mainly in the works of science fiction.” It is a fitting word for the chapter which opens with a full-page DVD graphic of the Disney movie Mission to Mars starring popular actors Gary Sinise and Tim Robbins. Exhibit: Horn & Putnam’s 2013 book321
Here is how this chapter opens on pages 467 and 468 of Horn & Putnam's ExoVaticana: In 2000, a movie directed by Brian De Palma titled Mission to Mars was released to theaters. It… depicted a NASA commander…who, together with a crew of four astronauts, lands on the red planet. While exploring parts of the infamous “Cydonia” region, the “truth” about the Face on Mars as a genuine artificial structure is discovered together with remnants of advanced alien technology… The film inferred that when we do set foot on Mars, the remains of pyramids, city structures, and past alien presence could be made near the sphinx-like “face” and anomalous shapes photographed by the Viking Mars probe. [bold added]
With these sci-fi myths already laid out as truth in subsequent pages, Horn and Putnam then reinforce their fable by “exposing” one small layer of the supposed “cover-up of global proportions” over this Martian chronicle—with a dramatic showdown between NASA and Disney: In the lead-up to the release of Mission to Mars, Disney had worked with an army of NASA scientists, astronauts, and technicians to produce the script for the film. Soon after, a row reportedly took place between NASA and Disney, as it seemed the space agency didn’t like what the film was set to insinuate: that a discovery had been made of past alien presence on Mars, that an artificial, sphinx-like “face” and pyramidal shapes near it (photographed by the Viking Mars probe) had actually been discovered, and that a twenty-five-year cover-up was
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Apparently, according to the authors, Disney gave in to NASA and became part of the so-called conspiratorial cover-up—along with “NASA and the US government in collusion with other world powers” (including the Vatican) who together await “a mysterious ‘right time’ to disclose the findings.” These conspiracy theories are spiraling catastrophically, pumping more exciting and elaborate crises — all serving as fodder for PPP news updates, conferences, and book releases (see 2 Tim. 3:7). Not one of these contrived Martian civilization scenarios, purported Xenoarcheology evidence, nor Hollywood film plots can be supported with Scripture alone. That is why the authors must rewrite the Genesis record in a precarious effort to make their Martian myths and other false extraterrestrial teachings seem Biblical. They must also resort to conspiracy mongering to hide these facts while at the same distracting their audience with sensational and titillating fodder. While these worldly tactics may sell movies, books, and false ideas—and enhance monetary gain—they turn the truth of God upside down (see Romans 1:25). It gets worse. Much worse...
Mainstreaming Metaphysics into the Church Below is a photo showing David Flynn (left) with Dr. Michael Heiser (center) and Richard Hoagland (right) taken at the 2003 Ancient of Day’s Conference in Roswell, New Mexico, home of the infamous 1947 UFO incident.323 The text that accompanies this photo mentions the connection of alien life to the Hermetic324 belief in “as above, so below” and links this idea to the trio’s Mars fabrications: “Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else (Deut. 4:39).” [bold added]
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Exhibit: Flynn, Heiser, & Hoagland at Ancient of Days Conference 325 David Flynn's book Cydonia: The Secret Chronicles of Mars has a different take on the masonic hermetic credo "As above, so below", discussing among other things, the beyond-coincidental re-occurrence of Sidonia/Cydonia references in ancient science and mythology. Richard Hoagland was among the first to read "Cydonia", and praised Flynn's research at the Roswell UFOs & the Bible conference in 2003 (with Mike Heiser & Hoagland, DVD lectures available…). Richard Hoagland comments on Flynn research in COAST [to Coast radio] hour 3 saying: "David has found extraordinary evidence which he's laid out both in his presentation in Wisconsin and in his own book... okay, not only is there quite likely stuff on mars [sic], but that stuff was built by somebody who has some connection to us, somehow came here, somehow imbued our culture, our most ancient cultures, with their presence, their philosophy, their universal view, and left us with a legacy which demands we find out ultimately what it means." 326 [bold added]
Note that “as above, so below (a monistic belief),” is also an integral part of the cosmogony327 of Theosophy, and was written about in The Secret Doctrine by occultist Madame Blavatsky.328 Note also that Hoagland’s inspiration includes astronaut Brian O’Leary, who was trained as a scientist but broke away into the New Age movement after remote viewing, near death, and healing experiences. O'Leary's books Exploring Inner and Outer Space and The Second Coming of Science discuss UFOS, and “the Face of Mars (popularized by Richard Hoagland), crop circles, near death experiences, reincarnation, healing, psychokinesis, mind over matter, Earth energies and the latest theories on physics and consciousness.”329 This is troubling because many of the items on this occult list are also taught by the PPP leaders, which raises further disturbing questions about where they are getting their information. 108 | P a g e
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Exhibit: Hoagland's God, Man, and E.T. Conference 330
In 2003, besides appearing together at the Ancient of Days conference in Roswell, NM, Hoagland, Heiser, and Flynn also teamed together with other “scholars, theologians, and philosophers” in Kenosha WI—for a conference called “God, Man, and E.T.: The Question of Other Worlds in Science, Theology and Mythology.” (Note the blasphemous graphic in the alien imagery above.) The speakers seriously explored the feasibility of “an ancient civilization on Mars.” Here is Hoagland’s description of what transpired: After much discussion (especially re the overwhelming religious implications of such evidence…) we decided the research was mature enough (after over 20 years…) to gather a number of other scholars together—ranging from mainstream theologians to philosophers, and even a fundamentalist Christian mythologist [Flynn]!—and spend an entire day presenting to and discussing with each other… not only the very robust evidence now existing for “a former, ancient, ET civilization on the planet Mars… which may somehow be connected directly to the human race…”—but also the larger possibilities (and greater implications) surrounding the existence of past and/or present ET civilizations far beyond the solar system.331 [bold added]
Note Hoagland’s reference to Flynn as “a fundamentalist Christian mythologist.” This is an oxymoron! He can either be either a fundamentalist Christian or a mythologist (i.e., “an expert in mythology”) 332, but not both. Mythology is idolatry
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM according to Scripture (i.e., Acts 17:16). Here is how Flynn is listed in an ad for the 6-DVD set of the God, Man & ET conference: Dave Flynn - "The Mars/Earth Connection: Cydonia in Ancient Science and Mythology." Dave Flynn, well-known mythologist in the Christian community, and expert on Cydonia / Mars anomalies and Biblical teachings, occult mythology, and zodiacal and processional phenomena. Author of "Cydonia and the Mysteries of Mars"333 [bold added]
Christianity is totally incompatible with “occult mythology and zodiacal and processional phenomena (i.e., astrology)”—which the Bible declares are forbidden realms to the Christian (Deut. 18:10-12; 29:29; Isa. 47:12-14; 1 Tim. 1:4; 2 Tim. 4:4). Sadly, Flynn, also a Gap Theory proponent, could have only become an “expert” in such strange “anomalies” by departing from the Scripture and devoting himself to the study of arcane and occult phenomena—themes which have permeated his writings and pollute the Word of God. 334 These PPP teachers admit that they are going outside of Scripture for their source material. They are borrowing heavily from some of the blackest occult resources. In fact, one of the most important aspects of widening the gap in the Gap Theory is the subtle synthesis of Theosophy (and other evolutionary occult religions) with Christianity. This synthesis permits a new eschatology to be birthed (see Part 6), one which is perfectly compatible with all of the world religions. While protesting to be biblical, the PPP teachers add in pseudoscience, metaphysics—specifically the cosmology of Theosophy.
Theosophy & the Martians In an article subtitled “The Pyramids of Mars and Egypt Linked?” Doug Woodward, a leading PPP teacher (cited in Part 4), cleverly asked provocative questions concerning the beliefs of Richard Hoagland while challenging the biblical worldview by suggesting there are connections between Mars, the Egyptian pyramids, and a pre-Adamic race. At stake for those who hold to the Biblical worldview is simply this: if intelligent life could be discovered on Mars, what would it infer about how life originated on earth? Was life here seeded by Martians? Or is the reverse true? Did an ancient race (perhaps a civilization destroyed at least 12,000 years ago) achieve vast knowledge of the cosmos, travel to Mars, and seed life there? Is this the connection to the Egyptian pyramids and the ‘City’ on Mars?
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM Would the Bible allow that a pre-Adamic race once existed prior to Genesis 1:2 and was responsible for the signs of ancient civilization on earth and Mars? 335 [bold added]
Woodward’s Gap-dependent insinuation, “Was life here seeded by Martians? Or is the reverse true?” hearkens back to Missler’s loaded conjecture: “There is an alternative possibility, of course, not that Mars seeded the earth, but maybe the earth seeded Mars,” quoted earlier. All of these unbiblical ideas help to further their False Nephilim Eschatology. Another similarity between them is that reading Woodward is a lot like reading Missler. He hints and dodges, and rather than stating his views outright, you have to read through his litany of "expert" finds to encounter a clue. He also supplies a boatload of government conspiracy "facts" mingled with an array of occult methodologies—without outright condemnation—such as spy-like "remote viewing", “astral projection”, and “synchronicities”: Indeed, while there are strengths in Hoagland’s NASA conspiracy theory (that many find persuasive including this author), his supposition that ‘the Face’ evinces life on Mars begins to stretch the credulity of even the most enthusiastic believer in ‘intelligent life on other planets’. Indeed, perhaps the greatest support for the ancient existence of Martian intelligence comes from the military’s remote viewers who frequently visit Mars, vis-a-vis via astral projection, confounded by what they ‘see’. If the reader regards their witness as worthy evidence, Hoagland’s Martian theory becomes especially compelling. On the other hand, although Hoagland’s Martian theory is extreme in the author’s opinion, his conspiracy theory (that NASA has since inception chosen arcane flight times and landing locations on the moon and Mars – an agenda influenced by Nazi and Freemason connections within NASA) aka his ‘ritual alignment model’, appears substantiated by repeating ‘coincidences’. In other words, a pattern of repeating ‘synchronicities’ seen in historical events strongly suggests we are dealing with intention and not coincidence. 336 [bold added]
Note also the suggestive “IF the reader…” phrase. But even if these accounts are not true, then there is always conspiracy theory and secret hidden coded information to fall back on for evidence. Woodward implies an unseen hand orchestrating “intention”. Relying heavily upon such NASA cover-up conspiracies, Woodward also discusses Hoagland’s assertion that “Cydonia is linked with the civilizations of ancient Egypt.”337 but where did Hoagland get his ideas? One obvious answer is that this Mars-Egypt connection can be found in Theosophy’s cosmology—that even teaches about the return of Nephilim!338 One of the leading early Theosophists, C.W. Leadbeater, wrote prolifically about “Mars & Its Inhabitants,” stating that it 111 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM evolved in a manner similar to earth and that “Martian history in the remote past was not unlike our own.” He claimed: The great system of canals which has been observed by terrestrial astronomers was constructed by the second order of moon-men when they last occupied the planet… On every hand one sees signs of a very old civilization, for the inhabitants have preserved the tradition of all that was known when the great life-wave of humanity occupied the planet…339 [Bold added]
Leadbeater believed that the Martians “joined themselves together in a secret brotherhood” and existed in a “super-physical” world (what the modern PPP advocates refer to as hyper-dimensional physics).340 These Martians, said Leadbeater, “took up the study of mesmerism and spiritualism, and many of them developed a good deal of power”: Some at least of the members of the secret society have learnt how to cross without great difficulty the space which separates us from Mars, and have therefore at various times tried to manifest themselves through mediums at spiritualist seances, or have been able, by the methods which they have learnt, to impress their ideas upon poets and novelists.341 [bold added] Exhibit: Occultist C.W. Leadbeater 342
Leadbeater further claimed that his observations were based on “inquiry and during various visits to the planet.”343 Note that he actually says he visited Mars (perhaps through what Woodward described as, “remote viewing… vis-a-vis via astral projection”). Leadbeater was a very unsavory character who engaged in pederasty, and who was very high up in the Theosophy leadership with Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. He and Annie Besant “reputedly made ‘...occult investigations together into the cosmos, the beginnings of mankind, chemistry and the constitution of the elements, as well as frequently visiting the Masters together in their astral bodies’.”344 Leadbeater, like many of the other Theosophists at his time, claimed clairvoyant and psychic abilities, including the ability to engage in celestial travel and receive channeled transmissions from higher beings. This is how he says he obtained his information for his book “The Inner Life, in which he wrote that there is a population of human-like beings on the planet Mars.”345 In fact, much of the 112 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM information about these arcane landforms on Mars come via occult channeled transmissions. That doesn't appear to stop the PPP leaders from using this information and treating it as though it were a credible source of factual information. Again, pseudoscience and metaphysics blend seamlessly together. One of the footnotes in Woodward’s article, mentioned above, references James Hurtak: an assistant to Andrija Puharich when The Nine was getting revved up in the 1950s, has become a leading authority on the connections between Mars and Egypt. Prior to the photographic evidence for a face on Mars, Hurtak remote viewed the face, declaring its presence and evidence for intelligent life on the Red Planet.346 [bold added]
What or who is “The Nine” referring to? According to a May 27, 2012 San Jose Mercury News article, it is “a reference to the so-called nine extraterrestrials from the star Sirius that British psychic Jenny O’Connor said she ‘channeled.’” 347 And who is Hurtak? He is a later proponent of the same theosophical theories about the connection between Mars and Egypt, described as a “Social scientist, futurist and remote sensing specialist.”348 Here is yet another man who claims psychic abilities for remote viewing of extraterrestrials on other planets. He referenced the Enoch theories early on, even claiming a visitation from Enoch! Dr. Hurtak is best known for his book published in the early 1970s entitled The Book of Knowledge: The Keys of Enoch where he claimed to receive knowledge from a visitation from Enoch, where he pointed out the apparently unusual relationship of the star shafts in the Great Pyramid with the "Belt" of Orion, and where he claims that pyramids were built on Mars for artificial intelligences to gather intelligence.349 [bold mine]
This background raises more unsettling questions. To what extent have his writings influenced the postmodern prophecy teachers? Following the rabbit trails in researching the roots of these strange and unbiblical PPP teachings about Mars leads into some very dark, scary and sinister places. We seldom, if ever, find any references about Jesus Christ and His Saving Grace for lost souls in any of this horrid material. Where is the Lord Jesus? Where is mention of his glorious Second Coming? Where are the calls to share the Gospel before He returns in judgment? This flagrant omission (or demotion in emphasis) should be a huge waving red flag. “So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for Him shall He appear the second time without sin unto salvation (Heb. 9:28).”
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM Cultivating A Cosmic Worldview There seems to be another agenda at work in the PPP emerging prophecies— shifting your worldview. L.A. Marzulli (cited in Part 3), introducing himself as “a Sci-Fi writer” while talking about the images on the Martian landscape, concludes: The implications are clear, intelligent life, perhaps from a civilization that existed long ago, is responsible for the artifact…350 [bold added]
But then Marzulli goes on to ask the key questions—questions that we find over and over again in the PPP literature (including many examples in the quotes in this book segment)— questions that are designed to change your worldview, to raise those niggling doubts about your end-time eschatology and your faith: The site is one of many that deal with the possibility of alien artifacts being found on the Martian surface. How would such a discovery affect you? How would it change or reshape your world view? If you are a religious person, would this challenge your belief system?351 [bold added]
This is precisely the same question that Tom Horn and Cris Putnam asked in Chapter 17 of Exo-Vaticana: “If Artificial Structures Are Found on Another Planet (Xenoarchaeology), Will You Lose Your Religion?” So that’s what this is all about! Changing our belief system and worldview (see Part 6). Believers beware!
The Truth: The Ever-Expanding Gap As has been demonstrated in this book segment, the Gap Theory has become so broad, so wide, that these teachers are driving every sort of heresy through its ‘broad way’ opening. The emerging eschatology versions of the expanded Gap Theory accommodates all sorts of wild suppositions regarding Satan’s fall, the Watchers, and the Nephilim, to include elaborate speculations about an alien outpost on the planet Mars. Not one of these things, however, are found in the Word of God. These teachings can, however, be found in Theosophical and occult religions. Metaphysics, pseudoscience, and wild unprovable conspiracy theories are being emptied into the ever-widening chasm of The Gap at an accelerating rate. These heresies are pouring through that Gap and coming into the church like a raging flood—virtually unopposed. The Postmodern Prophecy Paradigm (PPP) teachers rely on their “secret opinions” and “hidden meanings” to build their case that there is a scary emerging eschatology for the church world, one that focuses more on space aliens than 114 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM Jesus Christ and His salvation for a lost world. They give equal prominence to their extra-biblical sources, believing that these additional teachings are revealing hidden things in God's Word. But we don't need to run to the occult to get spiritual answers. Since when are demonic channelings truthful sources of information?! Rather, such communication is emphatically condemned by God (Deut. 18:11; Lev. 19:31; 20:6, 27; Isa. 8:19). The questions then become quite obvious: How far can the Gap Theory expand to accommodate all of the extra-biblical metaphysics and pseudoscience yet still retain its former respectability? How far are evangelical leaders willing to go in tolerating this extreme sort of heresy? When is it time to biblically separate from these PPP teachers, deeming them false, and warning others? Unhindered and unopposed, these PPP leaders will continue their speculations to bizarre extremes. 1 Timothy 6:4 uses the words “evil surmisings” which seems illustrative of the zany speculations and conspiratorial conjectures engaged in continually by PPP teachers. What are evil surmisings? The Greek indicates: hyponoeŒoµ, hypoŒnoia. The verb means "to think in secret," "to suspect," or, more generally, "to conjecture." In the NT only Acts uses it, and with no theological significance. It means "to suppose" in 13:25, "to suspect" in 27:18, and "to conjecture" in 27:27. The noun has such senses as "secret opinion," "conjecture," "illusion," and "hidden meaning" (e.g., of metaphors or allegories). In 1 Tim. 6:4, which depicts the liking of false teachers for wars of words, the reference is to the wicked suspicions or insinuations with which they try to discredit those who oppose them.352 [bold added]
The Bible has a strong word of advice for those who find themselves under the corrupt teachers who engage in end-time evil surmisings:
“If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself (1 Timothy 6:3-5).” [bold, underscore added]
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM Part 6
Metaphysical Mysticism Masquerading as Science Embracing Quantum Mysticism to Explain the Nephilim, Conscious Reality, and the Paranormal, and to Shift the Biblical Worldview to the Postmodern Prophecy Paradigm by Gaylene Goodroad
Exhibit: Quote from a notable quantum physicist353
Non-locality refers to the quantum mechanics notion that objects that are far apart in space have connections (or communicate) and can instantaneously affect each other. Einstein himself called non-locality "spooky action at a distance." Fritjof Capra, author of the Tao of Physics, states that "At the instant we perform our measurement on particle 1, particle 2, which may be thousands of miles away, will acquire a definite spin along the chosen axis. How does par ticle 2 know which axis we have chosen?" Spooky indeed …The purpose of understanding these Quantum Physics ideas is twofold. First, they will help shift your conscious or non-conscious perception of the world as a cause and effect Newtonian model to a world of unlimited potential. Second, you can embolden your Law of Attraction efforts with your new quantum understanding of how vibrational energy is in everything. There is no such thing as empty space but rather infinite vibrational energy everywhere. The stars, humans and even rocks are in a state of constant vibration. So we are always co-creating with our environment.354 [bold added] 116 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM The essence of quantum weirdness can be summed up in the statement that quantum systems—typically, photons and electrons, things smaller than an atom—exhibit ''nonlocal'' behavior. In all previous scientific investigations, nature acts locally. For a cause here to produce an effect over there, an intervening mechanism must link the two. Such a mechanism is ''local'' in that you can identify it here and now; the waves that make a skiff bob in its moorings can be traced to a passing ship. If no waves or other mechanisms could be found connecting the ship to the skiff, we would have nonlocal behavior, which seems as inexplicable as if a car were to continue accelerating down the road after losing its drive shaft. 355 [bold added] IT SOUNDS like science fiction. Or possibly like something from the New Age movement. Discoveries from the world of physics make it appear that the universe is a lot less “real” than we think. And yet a careful analysis suggests that it’s all part of an elegant and unimaginably complex design. Chuck Missler, president of Koinonia Institute, discussed how modern physics, while perhaps shattering our traditional understanding of the material universe, actually points to the Creator of the universe, the One who spoke it into existence: Yahweh, the God of the Bible. (If it all sounds too weird, maybe it’s because physics is weird.)356 [bold added]
“Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ” (Colossians 2:8)”
Exhibit: Notable ‘nonlocality’ quote that Bible teacher Chuck Missler lifted from New Age author Michael Talbot357 117 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM New Age Metaphysics Supplanting the Bible In Part 4 of our book review series, “A New Cosmology for the Church,” we examined the “Quantum Metaphysics” teachings found in Chuck Missler’s 1997 book Alien Encounters.358 In this segment, we will briefly provide an overview of a particular pseudoscience directly undergirding many Postmodern Prophecy Paradigm (PPP) teachers’ errant doctrines: i.e., New Age physics or Metaphysics— relying upon postmodern quantum theories to explain the spiritual realm, and vice versa.359 The quotations at the top of this post are indicative of the nature of the problem. The issue is not the scientific physics concept of “nonlocality.” Our concern is how “nonlocality” lends itself to the eastern mystical worldview of the New Age, and how this metaphysical worldview is now being brought into the evangelical church world, especially via the PPP leaders. This is an issue that is increasingly a concern as it arises from many quadrants that infect the church. As a matter of background information, the Discernment Research team spent nearly 18 months documenting the PPP teachers’ integration of New Age Physics with pagan mysticism, especially in a 9-part series about “Quantum Mysticism” that was titled “Cosms, Codes, and Cryptologies.”360 We even sponsored a Discernment Ministries conference in June of 2012 entitled, “QUANTUM MYSTICISM 2012 & BEYOND: Understanding the Deception,” 361 to profile our research. Here is a simple definition of “Quantum Mysticism”: Quantum mysticism is a term that has been used to refer to a set of metaphysical beliefs and associated practices that seek to relate consciousness, intelligence, or mystical world-views to the ideas of quantum mechanics and its interpretations. It is considered pseudoscience by mainstream scientists.362 [bold added, hyperlinks removed]
It’s important to note here that “mainstream scientists” consider the marriage of “metaphysical beliefs” to quantum mechanics (also called “quantum physics”) to be a “pseudoscience” or false science. According to the definition above, an integral component of Quantum Mysticism is derived from quantum mechanics. Here is a brief description of quantum mechanics from a science dictionary:
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM quantum mechanics A fundamental theory of matter and energy that explains facts that previous physical theories were unable to account for, in particular the fact that energy is absorbed and released in small, discrete quantities (quanta), and that all matter displays both wavelike and particlelike properties, especially when viewed at atomic and subatomic scales. Quantum mechanics suggests that the behavior of matter and energy is inherently probabilistic and that the effect of the observer on the physical system being observed must be understood as a part of that system. Also called quantum physics, quantum theory...363 [bold, underscore added]
It is this aspect of the science of quantum physics— “the physical system being observed must be understood as a part of that system”—that lends itself to the pseudoscience of Quantum Mysticism. It can fit into a monistic worldview that is at odds with the transcendent, all-powerful God of the Bible Who is separate and distinct from His creation. It can comfortably merge with the New Age worldview “all is One” or “God is One”—that everything is God (pantheism) or that God is in all things (panentheism). Pastor Larry DeBruyn has eloquently described it this way: Deriving spirituality from quantum science obliterates distinction between the Creator and His creation. Upon the altar of idolatrous immanence, the transcendent and Holy God is sacrificed. Instead of worshipping the Creator, quantum spiritualists venerate the creation… 364
A Quantum Metaphysics Revolution This metaphysics worldview is increasingly popular in the mainstream culture. One example of these monistic teachings (taken from Hinduism and other Eastern religions) was showcased in a documentary based on information channeled365 by a demonic entity: The 2004 film What the Bleep Do We Know!? dealt with a range of New Age ideas in relation to physics. It was produced by the Ramtha School of Enlightenment, founded by J.Z. Knight, who claimed her teachings were based on a discourse with a 35,000-year-old disembodied entity named Ramtha. It made controversial use of some aspects of quantum mechanics—including the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle and the observer effect—as well as biology and medicine. Numerous critics dismissed the film as pseudoscience.366 [bold added, hyperlinks removed] Exhibit: 2004 documentary367 119 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM One “expert” appearing in this overtly New Age film, Dr. Amit Goswami, PhD, not only authored numerous textbooks on quantum mechanics and New Age “science,” but has also produced an award-winning video called The Quantum Activist.368 Note Dr. Goswami’s anti-biblical monistic worldview and how it is tied to global ecumenical unity goals: Join the revolution going on in science. A genuine paradigm shift. While mainstream science remains materialist, a substantial number of scientists are supporting and developing a paradigm based on the primacy of consciousness. Dr. Amit Goswami, Ph.D, a pioneer of this revolutionary new perspective within science shares with us his vision of the unlimited potential of consciousness as the ground of all being, and how this revelation can actually help us to live better. The Quantum Activist tells the story of a man who challenges us to rethink our very notions of existence and reality, with a force and scope not felt since Einstein. This film bridges the gap between God and Science. The work of Goswami, with stunning precision and without straying from the rigors of quantum mechanics, reveals the overarching unity inherent in the worlds [sic] major religions and mystical traditions.369 [colored text removed, bold added] Exhibit: New Age film 370
It’s interesting that the word “revolution” was highlighted bright red on Dr. Goswami’s website. A revolution is an organized revolt against the established order to enforce new rules or laws—or in this case—to ‘shift the paradigm’ to Quantum Mysticism. Goswami’s stated goal is to “bridge the gap between God and Science.” To this end, he has indeed “obliterated the distinction between the Creator and His creation.”371 In order to ‘shift the paradigm’, the God of the Bible must be eliminated and replaced with a New Age, “all is One” god: “the ground of all being” that Dr. Goswami cited. Christian author Warren B. Smith, who has a powerful testimony of coming out of the New Age movement,372 described this false god—a divinized creation—in his critique of a bestselling Christian fiction book, The Shack:
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM However, the author’s [Wm. P. Young] use of poetic license to convey his highly subjective, and often unbiblical, spiritual views becomes increasingly problematic as the story line develops. This is most apparent when he uses the person of “Jesus” to suddenly introduce the foundational teaching of the New Spirituality/New World Religion — God is “in” everything. Using the New Age term “ground of being” to describe “God,” the “Jesus” of The Shack states: “God, who is the ground of all being, dwells in, around, and through all things…” (p. 112) This false teaching about a “God” who “dwells in, around, and through all things” is the kind of New Age leaven that left unchallenged could leaven the church into the New Age/New Spirituality of the proposed New World Religion… 373 [bold added]
This paradigm shift in thinking about the nature of reality is an essential feature of New Age eastern mysticism. Marilyn Ferguson, like Dr. Goswami, described this New Age “paradigm shift” as a “revolution” in perception and thinking about reality in her groundbreaking book The Aquarian Conspiracy that launched the New Age as a formidable movement.374 She made the sweeping assertion that her Aquarian conspiracy would destroy the old beliefs and inaugurate a New Age revolution: The Aquarian Conspiracy is using its widespread outposts of influence to focus on the dangerous myths and mystiques of the old paradigm, to attack obsolete ideas and practices… We can conspire against the old, deadly assumptions… [A] revolution in understanding [is] how revolutions begin…375 The graphic symbol on this book cover represents a 6-6-6376
We already know that the old paradigm she is referring to, the one she says needs to be attacked as obsolete and dangerous, is the biblical worldview. Replacing it will be a revolution in understanding; a paradigm shift to an eastern mystical worldview. In this New Age eastern worldview there is no reality.
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM the evangelical mainstream through pseudo-scientific theory, speculation and vain imagination. We prominently cited popular Bible teacher and author Chuck Missler as one who consistently has admonished readers to unlearn what they know to be true so that he can introduce them to “new truths” 377 about a metaphysical “reality.” Missler has said: This field of study is called “Quantum Physics” and its philosophical implications can be shattering to our presuppositions about our “reality.” We now discover that the physical reality that surrounds us is only a virtual simulated reality—made up of indivisible, electrically charged particles: in fact, we exist within a digital electrical simulation!... Before we attempt to explore the fringes—and beyond—of our understanding of the physical universe (ghosts, aliens, vampires, etc.), it is of paramount importance to dispose of the baggage of our misconceptions and the mythology of what we have been erroneously taught in this age of deceit. The puncturing of our delusions…is absolutely vital for well-being, and a prerequisite for maturity. Much of what we have been taught is error… 378 [bold added]
These are bold and presumptuous statements. Let’s recap Missler’s dialectical statements above which are designed to prompt readers to rethink or abandon biblical truth in order to embrace his metaphysical worldview:
“Quantum Physics” and its philosophical implications can be “shattering to our presuppositions about our reality”
We can “explore the fringes—and beyond—of our understanding of the physical universe (ghosts, aliens, vampires, etc.)”
We must “dispose of the baggage of our misconceptions and the mythology of what we have been erroneously taught”
“The puncturing of our delusions” … is absolutely vital for well-being, and a prerequisite for maturity
“Much of what we have been taught is error” … [bold added]
Let that last statement sink in for a moment: “much of what we have been taught is error…” By making this confident assertion, Missler has just appointed himself to be a teacher of new truths about our physical reality. But first we must let go of old scientifically verified facts (and biblical constraints). After “our presuppositions about our reality” have been “shattered,” “the baggage of our misconceptions and the mythology of what we have been erroneously taught” 122 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM has been “disposed” of, and our “delusions punctured,” we’re ready to move into this new level of mystical illumination. Because this statement mixes science with religion, the implication is that the old truths (or understandings) found in Scripture must be discarded. And note that he is saying that “fringes” of our physical universe includes the paranormal, i.e., the occult “(ghosts, aliens, vampires, etc.).” Notice how Missler needs to cloak his metaphysical mysticism beneath a cleverly constructed “science” mask to pull it off: “We now discover that the physical reality that surrounds us is only a virtual simulated reality—made up of indivisible, electrically charged particles: in fact, we exist within a digital electrical simulation!...” Where are these strange illusory notions in the Bible? They are not there, but found in Hindu sacred writings. 379 Now compare Missler’s statements to similar contentions of New Age mystic Dr. Goswami from the pseudo-scientific and New Age-themed films, The Quantum Activist and What the Bleep do We Know. Goswami was described as …a man who challenges us to rethink our very notions of existence and reality…380
Both men direct listeners and readers to empty their minds and place trust them in order to be re-educated (indoctrinated, i.e., “rethink”) with new truth; both men rely on New Age Metaphysics—and NOT the written Word of God. If these men were simply talking about factual and scholarly science they would not need to engage in these clever and deceptive psychological methods of manipulation to change people’s beliefs. But, as shall be seen, this sort of mind change is actually an essential part of the emerging Quantum Metaphysics that is being taught.
Quantum ‘Omnijective’ Reality & ‘ALL IS ONE’ Upturning centuries of empirical science and biblical truth, Chuck Missler is helping to bring the church into the postmodern age of abstract new (but old) mystical revelations co-opted from Hinduism and the New Age. In his Introduction to a Tom Horn collaborative book called God’s Ghostbusters, Missler wrote: As we explore further the nature of the tiny particles that create the illusion of our reality, it gets worse… If we take any length [and divide it] … we would discover that when we reach a defining minimum—known as the “Planck length” 10-33 cm.—we would encounter any attempts to divide that remainder would result in a property known as “non-locality”: being 123 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM connected to everywhere at once! …all “non-local” particles throughout our apparent universe are somehow intimately, directly, connected simultaneously…381 [bold, italics added]
Note that Missler's discussion of nonlocality is in the context of the paranormal, i.e., Horn's book about ghostbusters. Is our “reality” (dare we say consciousness) an “illusion”!? Pastor Larry DeBruyn explains the implications of Missler’s universal, quantum, interconnected (“nonlocal”) system: Exhibit: Horn’ collaborative 2011 book382 A quantum physical worldview theorizes that the universe is all there is (a solitary system), and that its unity consists of a composite of parts and events where every function (or malfunction) of the smallest part (the microcosm) can affect the function of the whole (the macrocosm). As such, quantum theorists postulate that a butterfly flapping its wings in the Congo might stimulate a hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean. Welcome to Chaos Theory 101.383 [bold added]
This is the never-never land of the quantum metaphysical mystics. If “a butterfly flapping its wings in the Congo is able to stimulate a hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean” [i.e., the ‘butterfly effect’], then what harm might a human being be capable of doing as part of the same interconnected quantum ecosystem? Where does the God who created the butterfly, the human being—and the entire universe that these beings inhabit—fit into this non-personal mystical system? How does the Lord God factor into this quantum spirituality worldview? How can Elohim (the Creator) exist in this “nonlocal,” “all is One” philosophical system? He doesn't. “Above and below” become ‘One’ in the metaphysical quantum world. The transcendent God of the Bible and the impersonal god of New Age Metaphysics are polar opposites. That is why it is so disturbing that Missler, in his book Cosmic Codes, reiterates the mystical version of “nonlocality” from the teachings of David Bohm, a physicist deeply influenced by the Hindu philosopher Jiddu Kristnamurti384 : [David] Bohm’s interpretation of quantum physics indicated that at the subquantum level location ceased to exist. All points in space become equal to all other points in space, and it
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM was meaningless to speak of anything as being separate from anything else. Physicists call this property “nonlocality.”385 [bold added]
Exhibit: Missler smuggled extensive quantum mystical material into his 1999 ‘Christian’ book that was taken from Talbot’s 1991 New Age book386
A troubling clue to this mystery comes to light when we discover that Missler’s adoption and citation of Bohm’s metaphysical “nonlocal” ideas in the above quote (and many others) were actually directly lifted from the late New Age author Michael Talbot’s work The Holographic Universe (page 41), without citing proper attribution.387 Since the publication of our article “Without Attribution: Purloining New Age Ideas,” Missler has publicly acknowledged that Talbot’s words and ideas were incorporated into his best-selling book Cosmic Codes: Hidden Messages from the Edge of Eternity.388 Keep in mind that Talbot was NOT a science author, nor a Christian author—but a New Age author! This is a significant and sobering disclosure.
“But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies… (2 Pet. 2:1)”
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Exhibit: Missler DVD cover with Talbot’s book title 389
In 1981, Talbot published another book (republished in 1993), Mysticism and the New Physics.390 In this book he uses the term “omnijective” to expound on the Hindu concept of maya—a New Age view that he directly ties to The Holographic Universe: …the pre-eminent Argentinian writer Borges presents a view normally held by mystics and ‘idealists’: that is, the hallucinatory nature of the world. We have dreamed it, Borges states simply. In an article published in 1976 I suggested that persistent reports from various peoples throughout history of encounters with supernatural beings—folkloric personages, UFO entities, appearances of the Virgin, and so forth—forces us to reach a similar conclusion… In the article I suggested that such phenomena cannot be understood as either purely objective or subjective events. Rather they are somehow both, or ‘omnijective’. Furthermore, their existence suggests that in the universe at large there is also ultimately no division between mind and reality. Despite its apparent materiality the physical world is also omnijective. I discuss this idea at length in my book The Holographic Universe… An omnijective concept of the universe is by no means new. Over two thousand years ago the Hindu Tantric tradition postulated a similar philosophy. According to Tantra, reality is illusion, or maya. The major error we commit in not perceiving this maya, say the Tantras, is that we perceive ourselves as separate from our environment. The Tantras are very explicit on this point. The observer and objective reality are one.391 [bold added]
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM In other words, Talbot’s “omnijective” or holographic universe is as the Hindus teach: one integrated “nonlocal” reality. In light of Missler’s reliance upon Talbot’s work, note the sober implications of Talbot’s overtly New Age “omnijective” concepts. The back cover of Mysticism and the New Physics states: Nowhere is the ‘paradigm shift’—the radical change of perspective that is sweeping the Western world— advancing so rapidly as in physics…
Exhibit: Talbot’s 1993 book392 The new physicists state that reality is a combination of the laws of the physical world, quantifiable and unequivocal, and the subjective viewpoint of the observer. This ‘omnijective view’ of the universe challenges all our most deeply held scientific beliefs and could radically change the way we view reality in the future. As our constructs are amended to this shift in approach, we can anticipate monumental changes in Western thought.393 [bold added]
In The Holographic Universe, Talbot, based on his first-person communication with theoretical physicists David Bohm and Karl Pribram—and New Age promoter Marilyn Ferguson—favorably explored other spooky phenomena associated with the occult and paranormal realm including telepathy, psychokinesis, out-of-body experiences (OBEs), phantom apparitions, shamanic travel, and Jungian synchronicities. Talbot also related these metaphysical concepts to Hinduism, Buddhism, Native American mysticism, and ancient Hermeticism. Note how far from science this metaphysics has deviated. Exhibit: Another purported Missler quote actually belonging to Talbot394
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM A sobering question for the reader is to ask why Missler would surreptitiously import such “nonlocal,” “holographic” and “omnijective” ideas, directly connected to these occult notions, into his book—and by extension into the church?
Paradigm-Shifting into the New Age There are even more disturbing connections to these mystical ideas posing at true science. Another author, favorable to Bohm’s (and Talbot’s) metaphysics, parallels his “nonlocal” ideas to another New Age author Gary Zukav: …mystical and spiritual teachings down through the ages have also spoken about the fundamental interconnectedness of all things. If Bohm's physics, or one similar to it, Gary Zukav writes in his popular New Age book The Dancing Wu Li Masters (1979), should become the main thrust of physics in the future, the dances of East and West could blend in exquisite harmony. Do not be surprised if physics curricula of the twenty-first century include classes in meditation. With the model of the holographic brain, the holographic universe, and Quantum Physics, we could speculate that all that we hold as real is nothing more than the playful dance of light, light that has no dimension and limitless dimension.395 [bold added]
Note the Zen Buddhist unsolvable riddle (koan) that the author used to describe this theoretical quantum model of reality: “…all that we hold as real is nothing more than the playful dance of light, light that has no dimension and limitless dimension.” These self-contradictory realities, i.e., possessing “no dimension and limitless dimension” simultaneously, are not only common illogicalities posed within these quantum mystical theories—but also in Far Eastern religions. The Buddhists use them to facilitate Zen meditation and altered states of consciousness: ko·an noun \kō-än\ : a paradox to be meditated upon that is used to train Zen Buddhist monks to abandon ultimate dependence on reason and to force them into gaining sudden intuitive enlightenment. 396
Another purpose in introducing these mystical pseudo-scientific theories into the mainstream mindset was presented in the opening quote of this article: to “help shift your conscious or non-conscious perception of the world as a cause and effect Newtonian model to a world of unlimited potential.” 397 In other words, the reader is told to forget reason and truth and instead trust intuition and feelings.
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM Note the last part of this quote from David Thimme's article on the "Law of Attraction and Quantum Physics" (appearing at the very top of this segment): Second, you can embolden your Law of Attraction efforts with your new quantum understanding of how vibrational energy is in everything. There is no such thing as empty space but rather infinite vibrational energy everywhere. The stars, humans and even rocks are in a state of constant vibration. So we are always co-creating with our environment. [bold added]
Exhibit: The quantum mystical ‘Law of Attraction’ 398
The “Law of Attraction,” a Theosophical concoction (also called New Thought), postulates that humans can control reality with thoughts of the mind.399 It is based on the idea that everything in the universe (including thoughts) is an expression of “vibrational energy everywhere.” This is part and parcel of the “nonlocality” principle of New Age metaphysics which states that everything— including human thought—is interconnected in cosmic oneness;400 i.e., “as above, so below.” This sort of “oneness” is the goal of esoteric evolution, and teaches that we will all evolve to become part of a divinized cosmic whole. Dr. Janeen Detrick, an “Energy Medicine modalities” master (New Age doctor), explains how the “Law of Attraction” operates through New Age metaphysics. Note the “nonlocal” pseudoscientific principle inherent in her explanation: Science now realizes that in every cell, inside everything, even inanimate objects, there are strings of energy that wobble and wave and vibrate in different patterns, and these strings of energy make up the protons and neutrons of every nucleus… So, literally, your strings obey your thoughts, and fly out to attract strings that are wobbling and wiggling in the same 129 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM pattern! Other strings that are wobbling and wiggling in the same frequency and pattern will flock, like a magnet, to coagulate with the other similar strings! Once there is a critical mass of vibrationally matching strings of energy, “it”, whatever it was you were intending, manifests! THIS is how your reality manifests! THIS is how the Law of Attraction works! These strings of energy is how it can be said that “God is in everything and everyplace, all at the same time”, and that “We are all connected”!401 [bold added]
Besides earning her doctorate in Metaphysical Sciences, Dr. Detrick operates a healing clinic in Utah utilizing these New Age practices which include Quantum Touch, The “Laying On Of Hands” Blessing, Quantum Healing, Meridian Clearing, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Hypnosis, Homeopathy, Healing Gemstones as Medicine, Ayurveda, Nutritive Emotional Clearing, Biofeedback, Essential Oils, Theta Healing, Theta Yogic Breathing, Reiki, Flower Remedies, and Perspective Flipping for Emotional Clearing. 402 Again, note that none of this has anything to do with scientific physics.
Exhibit: Missler’s PPP teachings connected to Quantum Mysticism403
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM these same quantum metaphysics theories in order to explain his own suppositions and conjectures regarding UFOs, aliens, Nephilim, and other dark entities. In our comprehensive book review of Missler and Eastman’s landmark book, Alien Encounters: The Secret Behind the UFO Phenomenon, we documented how far into the paranormal and occult this sort of metaphysics can lead.404 Missler’s sources for his hyper-dimensional theories even included Nachmonides and the Kabbalah. Note how Missler jumps from scientific physics to metaphysics in the following quotation: Exhibit: Missler & Eastman’s 1997/2003 landmark book405 The 10-Dimensional Metacosm Both the astrophysicists and the quantum physicists now tell us that we apparently live in a hyperspace of more than four dimensions—ten is a current estimate… Of the ostensible ten dimensions we now know exist, only four are directly perceptible by our current technologies. The remaining six are “curled” (to use the nomenclature of metric tensors) in less than 10-33 cm. (smaller than the wavelength of light) and thus are not directly discernible by current methodologies. It is also interesting that the Hebrew sage known as Nachmonides, writing in the 13th century, concluded from his study of the Book of Genesis that the universe has ten dimensions, but only four of them are “knowable” by man. It appears that many millions of dollars have been spent on atomic accelerators only to learn what Nachmonides concluded from his study of the text of Genesis!... It would seem that the domain of the “Metacosm”—which includes the elusive six dimensions—is the realm of the transdimensional phenomena such as angels, demons, and, perhaps, UFOs and other paranormal phenomena.406 [bold added] Exhibit: Jewish sage Nachmonides407
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM Chapter 4 of Missler’s Alien Encounters is titled “Reality’s Twilight Zone.” It opens with the quote from physicist Niels Bohr cited in the graphic image at the beginning of this book segment: “Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory does not understand it.”408 As we documented previously, Niels Bohr was a physicist who had designed a coat of arms featuring a yin-yang symbol,409 and whose existential ideas emphasized “the role of the observer in creating reality.”410
Exhibit: Neils Bohr and his yin-yang coat of arms found in Capra's The Tao of Physics411
Thus Alien Encounters has been instrumental in catapulting these Far Eastern metaphysical, paranormal, and occult concepts into the evangelical church. Why has it been so necessary to introduce these eastern mystical concepts to the evangelical church—especially in the guise of science? Because it has facilitated the introduction of an entirely new eschatology. The current PPP leadership, inspired by Missler’s metaphysical teachings, have concocted a bizarre, false endtime eschatology involving space aliens and corrupted DNA—themes dramatically embellished and proliferated by other PPP leaders. 412 A common thread tying these strange new myths together is New Age occult ideas masquerading as legitimate science. As we explained previously:
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM Once again, while reading Chapter 4, I discovered that I had a prior familiarity with the topics that Missler is addressing. I was first taught this new mystical physics – not in science classes – but in educational psychology classes in the 1970s. One of my professors came out of Stanford University where he had frequent ongoing contact. I was also taught consciousness as part of holistic education – that the nature of reality is in our mind, that to transcend our limitations we need expand our minds and experience a deep inner paradigm shift, that we are not separate but all interconnected to the whole, and that our minds can change the cosmos. It wasn’t until the 1980s that I first read Marilyn Ferguson’s book launching the New Age movement, The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s. After reading her book I finally understood that the strange “physics” that I had been taught in college wasn’t just eastern mysticism, it was also New Age metaphysics.413 [bold added]
BEYOND PERCEPTION & Into Metaphysical Mysticism Despite its Hindu, New Age, and occult moorings, Missler has continued to peddle these mystical physics ideas to the Church. In a highly technical briefing package produced by Koinonia House in 2010 called Beyond Perception, Missler reiterates all of these New Age metaphysics teachings—and even more. Much of it is well beyond the grasp of lay persons, which adds to its deceptive snare. Most Christians listening to Missler’s audio files or reading the supplemental notes, loaded with complex mathematical graphics and technical jargon, are conditioned to trust his analysis of these complicated theories. But even the scientific theorists he cites can’t agree upon these things. Question: If these quantum particles are ‘beyond [human] perception’, how then can they be verified? How can they be tested? The answer is, they can’t. This is one reason why certain quantum theories lend themselves easily to the metaphysical worldview.
Exhibit: More of Missler’s quantum mystical teachings
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM intractable information in Beyond Perception, here is one familiar teaching from page 6 of the teaching notes: The World of Quantum Physics It is non-causal and non-deterministic: Everything is probabilistic in some very strange ways. Nothing is real; we cannot say anything about what things are doing when we are not looking at them. Reality is non-local: every particle in the universe is somehow connected.414 [bold added]
As we noted earlier, the idea that nothing is real is a central tenet of all eastern mysticism. But we know from Scripture that there is a reality that Jesus died for our sins on the cross in physical space and time, that Jesus is the way, the truth and the life (John 14:6). To say that nothing is real is to change the truth of God into a lie (Romans 1:25). A June 4th 2013 electronic news alert from Missler’s Koinonia House featured an article entitled “Ignore the Man Behind the Curtain” which highlights this “nonlocality” property: Ever since the birth of Quantum Theory there has been speculation—some privately held, some very public—of what the implications of the existence of quanta really means. As measuring devices improved dramatically, they provided more clarity to the issue. Today it is an accepted “truth” that everything is quantized. Energy (as well as length, time, and mass) exists in discrete quantities, divisions if you will. There are also other side-effects to this discovery. Everything is “connected.” All particles on the quantum level know what the other particles are doing, regardless of distance, instantaneously. Let that sink in. Also, there is a size at which, when dividing the particle in half, it becomes “non-local.” It is nowhere and everywhere. Every measurement of the universe in which we reside has a “quantum limitation.”415 [bold added]
RaidersNewsUpdate, the former website of Tom Horn, re-published an excerpt of this same Koinonia House article with the re-phrased title: “Ignore The HyperDimensional Man Behind the Curtain,” featuring the DVD graphic from the sci-fi movie The Thirteenth Floor. It echoes Missler’s belief that “'Quantum Physics'” and its philosophical implications can be shattering to our presuppositions about our “reality’”:
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Exhibit: Movie graphic from The Thirteenth Floor 416 Ignore The Hyper-Dimensional Man Behind the Curtain There is a movie from a few years back (The Thirteenth Floor) in which the simulated characters of a simulated world are confronted with the fundamental limitations of their “ reality.” Because of the limitations of structure, they were forced to conclude they were living within a “program” created by an outside source. Ironically, this is where the physicists of our time find themselves…417 [bold added]
Why do these men prolifically market this sort of physics? Is it to transform the evangelical worldview from a foundation of absolute truth to one of non-reality? This is precisely what the eastern mystics attempt to do! New Age metaphysicists, and those who follow them, inevitably end up in the occult realm. Compare Missler’s “nonlocality” quantum mystical teachings with those of Noel Huntley, PhD—a New Ager and quantum physicist: In holistic systems, all parts are in resonance or coherence, which quantum regenerates the whole… We are familiar with the philosophical statement, ‘As above, so below’ which is based on the axiom of Hermeticism, ‘What is here is everywhere; What is not here is nowhere’. This again is the holographic property… Leading physicist David Bohm stresses quantum interconnectedness and unbroken wholeness…”418 [bold added]
Clearly Chuck Missler’s false teachings on “nonlocality” are derived from Eastern Mysticism, not true biblical Christianity. “For You [the Lord] have abandoned Your people, the house of Jacob, Because they are filled with influences from the east… (Isaiah 2:6)”
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM The TAO of PHYSICS & Eastern Mind Change In 1975, Fritjof Capra—a research physicist and Eastern mystic—wrote The Tao of Physics (TOP): An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism419 which went on to become a New Age classic.420
Exhibit: Capra’s 1975 landmark New Age book421
To underscore the seriousness of this matter, compare the following excerpts from Capra’s book with Missler’s teachings on “nonlocality”:
Although the various schools of Eastern mysticism differ in many details, they all emphasize the basic unity of the universe which is the central feature of their teachings. The highest aim for their followers—whether they are Hindus, Buddhists or Taoists—is to become aware of the unity and mutual interrelation of all things, to transcend the notion of an isolated individual self and to identify themselves with the ultimate reality. (TOP, pg. 24) [bold added]
The further we penetrate into the submicroscopic world, the more we shall realize how the modern physicist, like the Eastern mystic, has come to see the world as a system of inseparable, interacting and ever-moving components with man being an integral part of this system. (TOP, pg. 25) [bold added]
The most important characteristic of the Eastern world view—one could almost say the essence of it—is the awareness of the unity and mutual interrelation of all things and
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM events, the experience of all phenomena in the world as manifestations of a basic oneness. All things are seen as interdependent and inseparable parts of this cosmic whole; as different manifestations of the same ultimate reality. (TOP, pg. 130) [bold added]
As we study the various models of subatomic physics we shall see that they express again and again, in different ways, the same insight—that the constituents of matter and the basic phenomena involving them are all interconnected, interrelated and interdependent; that they cannot be understood as isolated entities, but only as integrated parts of the whole. (TOP, pg. 131) [bold added]
Quantum theory forces us to see the universe not as a collection of physical objects, but rather as a complicated web of relations between the various parts of a unified whole. This, however, is the way in which Eastern mystics have experienced the world, and some of them have expressed their experience in words which are almost identical with those used by atomic physicists. (TOP, pg. 138) [bold added]
Quantum theory has abolished the notion of fundamentally separated objects, has introduced the concept of the participator to replace that of the observer, and may even find it necessary to include the human consciousness in its description of the world. It has come to see the universe as an interconnected web of physical and mental relations whose parts are only defined through their connections to the whole. (TOP, pg. 142) [bold added]
Thus the mystic and the physicist arrive at the same conclusion; one starting from the inner realm, the other from the outer world. The harmony between their views confirms the ancient Indian wisdom that Brahman, the ultimate reality without, is identical to Atman, the reality within. (TOP, pg. 305) [bold added]
Note Capra’s conclusion again: “Thus the mystic and the physicist arrive at the same conclusion; one starting from the inner realm, the other from the outer world. The harmony between their views confirms the ancient Indian wisdom that Brahman, the ultimate reality without, is identical to Atman, the reality within.” This is Hinduism. This is New Age. This is occult mysticism. To accentuate this point, it must be pointed out that Marilyn Ferguson discussed Capra’s ideas as integral to providing a framework for the New Age paradigm shift in worldview: Our discoveries about the startling nature of reality are a major force for change, undermining common-sense ideas and old institutional philosophies. “The 1980s will be a revolutionary time,” said physicist Fritjof Capra, “because the whole structure of our society does not correspond with the world-view of emerging scientific thought.” 422 [bold added] 137 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM Ferguson gushed enthusiastically about how Capra’s “new scientific knowledge” could “revise the very data base on which we have built our assumptions, our institutions, our life.” She predicted his views of “interconnected reality” would become “the medium of our transformation.”423 Indeed, Capra’s work is now recognized as foundational to the entire New Age eastern mindset. And now this same New Age worldview has come into the Christian church world. Ferguson also cites New Age leader Gary Zukav and his book The Dancing Wu Li Masters as exemplifying the “emerging paradigm of physics.” According to Ferguson, it is this “role of the mind in constructing reality” that spells the death knell for Western rational science, which needs a “blood transfusion from Eastern thought.”424 She wrote that Zukav’s book takes its title from the Chinese expression for physics, wu li, which he translates as “patterns of organic energy.” Exhibit: Zukav’s 1979 book425 …Zukav said, we may be approaching “the end of science. Even as we continue to seek understanding, we are learning to accept the limits of our reductionist methods. Only direct experience can give a sense of this nonlocal universe, this realm of connectedness. Enlarged awareness—as in meditation—may carry us past limits of our logic to more complete knowledge. The end of conventional science may mean “the coming of Western civilization, in its own time and in its own way, into the higher dimensions of human experience.”426 [bold added]
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM Hermeticism & Metaphysics These quantum mystical false teachings shared by Missler, Goswami, Talbot, Bohm, Huntley, Capra, Ferguson, Zukav, and many others, are virtually identical because they are drawn from the same Hermetic well (see Part 8). They are not found in the Holy Scriptures. As Dr. Huntley admitted in his statements cited earlier, these pseudo-scientific metaphysical teachings are totally unbiblical; they are rooted in ancient Hermeticism428 and have shoots which lead into the New Age, the occult, Hinduism, Zen Buddhism, Taoism, and the I-Ching (Chinese book of divination). This “nonlocal” New Age Metaphysics property—where nothing in the universe is separate, but interconnected—is the essence of the monistic, occult maxim: “as above, so below”; all is One (divine). It also includes many other seductive quantum teachings such as hologram realities (explored in Talbot’s The Holographic Universe), and fractals429 —which are fractured parts of the whole that cannot be separated from the “nonlocal” system: all is One (i.e., god). For example, note once again Missler’s adaptation of David’s Bohm’s views in his Beyond Perception briefing package: One of Bohm’s most startling suggestions is that the tangible reality of our everyday lives is really a kind of illusion, like a holographic image. Underlying it is a deeper order of existence, a vast and more primary level of reality that gives birth to all the objects and appearances of our physical world in much the same way that a piece of holographic film gives birth to a hologram. Bohm calls this deeper level of reality the implicate (“enfolded”) order, and he refers to our level of existence as the explicate (unfolded) order. [pg. 21, bold added] Exhibit: Bohm’s ‘nonlocality’ principle & the ‘Butterfly Effect’ 430
This passage is also found in Missler’s Cosmic Codes on page 340. Sadly, the identical, word-for-word text was actually plagiarized from Talbot’s The Holographic Universe on page 46.
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM New Age author Michael Talbot, from whom Missler extracted his Bohm quotes and ideas, adds this unsettling insight (conspicuously not mentioned by Missler) regarding Bohm and his “nonlocal” and “holographic” ideas: Numerous ancient thinkers also appear to have recognized, or at least intuited, this aspect of reality [Bohm’s nonlocal/holographic beliefs] … After a shamanic vision of the subtler levels of reality the semimythical ancient Egyptian prophet Hermes Trismegistus employed a slightly different phrasing and said that one of the main keys to knowledge was the understanding that “the without is like the within of things; the small is like the large.” The medieval alchemists, for whom Hermes Trismegistus became a kind of patron saint, distilled the sentiment into the motto “As above, so below.” In talking about the same macrocosm equals microcosm idea the Hindu Visvasara Tantra uses somewhat cruder terms and states simply, “What is here is everywhere.”431 [bold added]
Talbot recorded these ideas above from two other sources he cited in The Holographic Universe: Brian Brown’s The Wisdom of the Egyptians and John Woodruffe’s Serpent Power—hardly Christian themes. Christian author Warren B. Smith underscores how these deceptive teachings are integral to the damnable heresies of New Age Movement: Through his questionable paraphrasing of the Bible, [Eugene] Peterson had already aligned himself in a number of areas with New Age/New Spirituality teachings. One obvious example was where he translated a key verse in the Lord’s Prayer to read “as above, so below” rather than “in earth, as it is in heaven.” “As above, so below” was a term that I was very familiar with from my previous involvement in the New Age Movement. This esoteric saying has been an occult centerpiece for nearly five thousand years. It is alleged by New Age metaphysicians to be the key to all magic and all mysteries. It means that God is not only transcendent — “out there”— but He is also immanent — “in” everyone and everything.432 [bold added]
Smith also linked this occult maxim with the same type of New Age Metaphysics espoused by Missler and other PPP adherents: It seems clear to me that quantum physics, the “new” biology, and the “new” math of fractal geometry are being used to provide a seemingly scientific basis for “proving” the “as above, so below” contention that God is “in” everything. We are being asked to believe that all of creation is an interconnected quantum field of energy and “oneness” that is “God.” 433 [bold added]
Pastor Larry DeBruyn concurs with Smith and further connects these quantum mysticism tenets to the occult realm:
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM This worldview assumes that reality, both immediate and ultimate, is oneness and love—one soul, one world, as above, so below. Author Graham Hancock explains the latter concept: “There seems to have been an ancient idea, as above, so below, to bring down the perfections of the heavens to earth, and in someway [sic] unite heavens and earth.” According to Magee, this Hermetic assumption is “the central tenet of Western occultism.” It is pantheistic monism, a belief system which identifies the divine and nature to be one essence. In other words, to a pantheist if the universe did not exist, God would not exist. So Alexander views that Einstein and Jesus, though from different perspectives, function as revealers of a pantheistic reality of oneness and love. This quantum-spiritual worldview is not Christian for in merging heaven and earth, it denies the separateness of God from nature. Furthermore, in such a quantum-love worldview mysticism becomes the only spirituality by which people can experience oneness with nature.434 [bold added]
Pastor DeBruyn further exposes this esoteric “science” being employed by the PPP leaders to redefine reality, the spiritual realm—and the Scripture: In fact, and though they may be running ahead of themselves, New Age spiritualists have already merged science and spirituality. The New Spirituality is taking the quantum leap from physics to metaphysics, from what is below to what is above. 435 [bold added]
THE TRUTH: New Age physics is metaphysics, and thus a “false science.” It is not based upon objective analysis, but on the subjective and sensate. It interprets scientific physics with its own metaphysical view of reality. It is an approach to truth that is at odds with the definitive, declarative, and revealed Word of God. It is in fact a rival, even a replacement, to the Bible that attempts to pry open the closed canon to mystical revelations that lead only into occult realms. Besides relying on corrupt writings for support (to be discussed in Part 7), PPP adherents consistently rely upon New Age Metaphysics to explain and accommodate their popular new eschatology – False Nephilim Eschatology, Militant Prayer, and Quantum Mysticism—all of which encompasses hyperdimensional “star-gate portals,” pagan demonology (mythology), prophetic divination (geomancy), Gnostic revelation, and other occult-related concepts contrary to Scripture. The PPP false doctrines are firmly undergirded with dark and forbidden lore and mystical pseudoscience posing as biblically substantiated truth.436
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM Pastor Larry DeBruyn has continued to warn against the same New Age Physics promoted by Emergent leaders. His admonishment extends to the Metaphysical (Quantum) Mysticism taught by PPP leaders. It attempts to point those caught up in these end-time deceptions back to the Lord Jesus Christ: Scripture warns believers against the veneration of the creation, against allowing a philosophy of human consciousness to intrude upon the worship of the Christ. To the Colossians Paul wrote: Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments (Greek, stoicheia) of the world, and not after Christ. (Emphasis Mine, Colossians 2:8, KJV) …Thus, one scholar understands that “rudiments” can philosophically and spiritually refer to “the veneration of the divinized elements....” If this be the case, then Paul is warning Christian believers not to allow something like a quantum physical worldview to corrupt their worship of Christ, Who is the One who created everything in the past, and Who is the One who controls everything in the present (Colossians 1:16-17). As to both its origin and endurance, the universe depends upon the Christ of God who “upholds all things by the word of His power” (Hebrews 1:3). So the apostle might be paraphrased to be warning, “Beware lest any man take you captive after the elementary particles of the world, and not after Christ.” Christian spirituality should be based upon the Word, not upon the world; upon Christ, not quarks.437 [bold added]
“And He [Christ] was saying to them, "You are from below, I am from above; you are of this world, I am not of this world” (John 8:23)” [bold added]
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM Part 7
The Resurrection of Pagan Gods Mingling Pagan Mythology and Extra-Biblical Sources with God’s Truth by Gaylene Goodroad & Sarah H. Leslie
Exhibit: Egyptian gods Osiris and Isis438 “Then the proconsul pronounced the sentence of death, which was as follows: ‘I command, that Maximus be stoned to death, as an example and terror to other Christians; because he would not submit to the [Roman] laws, and sacrifice to the great Diana [goddess] of Ephesus.’… ‘And presently this faithful champion of Christ was taken away by the servants of Satan, brought without the city walls, and stoned. While he was being led away, and stoned, he thanked God with his heart, who had made him worthy to overcome the devil in the conflict; and thus committed his soul into the hands of his Lord Jesus Christ.” ~ the fate of a “certain pious Christian, called Maximus, a citizen of Ephesus” in the year 255 A.D.439
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM “Ye shall not add unto the Word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you (Deut. 4:2).” [bold added]
A New Old Syncretism Who would have ever thought that the evangelical world would come to this? Dabbling in the occult and being entertained by images and idols? The very sins that the ancient Hebrews were severely charged by God to avoid, are now rushing into the church at breakneck speed. As in the days of the Old Testament, the creeping gradualism of accommodating small concessions to idolatrous practices (New Age meditation, yoga, & the martial arts, etc.) and has grown and expanded now to welcome the wholesale introduction of an ancient pantheon of gods and goddesses from every heathen culture since ancient Babylon. These old idols, to which the ancient Roman world had dedicated so many temples,440 are now being revivified by their reintroduction in our modern era. This has come into the culture via New Age astrology and science fiction. These spectacular stories have been widely promulgated through comic books and entertainment media for many decades. But now they are coming into the church in the guise of an elaborately constructed end-time eschatology.441 This eschatology claims to be superior to the old models because it is based on gleanings from so-called sacred knowledge found in pagan myths and ancient writings. This reinvigorated ancient mythological idolatry is being marketed to the evangelical world as a new and exciting eschatology by a group we have called the Postmodern Prophecy Paradigm (PPP) teachers. Endemic to their fabricated eschatology is the staunchly forbidden and unwise practice of seeking illumination outside of Holy Scripture. These teachers are now attempting to merge pagan mythology with the Bible.442 They have not only sought counsel from pagan and occult sources, but have also turned faulty proof-texting into a refined art, creating an erratic, erotic, and exotic mixture of blended spiritualities.
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM Across our culture, and now in the church, mythology is being dished up on a new platter of high-tech and graphic imagery. The old lifeless wooden and stone statues (images/idols) are being re-cast into a new mold. Can these “gods” talk? The surprising answer is “yes” – thanks to Hollywood acting, film photography and digitalized imagery. It makes these images/idols more “potent,” especially in the imagination. This quality doesn’t make them “real,” yet some prophecy teachers are claiming that they are real. And it is this very claim, that they exist in real time, that classifies them as pagan deities. As you read the following account of how evangelicals are now adopting ancient pagan mythology and attempting to incorporate it into biblical eschatology, consider the following sober Scriptural warning about staying away from these mythological gods and their images: “Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, ‘How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.’ Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which He hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods (Deut. 12:30-31).”
Adopting Pagan Mythology It is impossible to get to the end of a Tom Horn book without being inundated with the sordid lifestyles of the fabled ancient Greek and Roman deities—whom Horn claims exist today as real live creatures. On page 9 of his 2007 book, Nephilim Stargates: The Year 2012 and the Return of the Watchers, Horn begins, “In Hesiod’s Theogony we learn…” 145 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM Exhibit: Horn’s 2007 book 443 He goes on to name these mythological deities, along with their numerous exploits and sordid sinful activities. Here are a few he lists:
The Titans
Gaia
Uranus
Oceanus
Tethys
Mnemosyne
Themis
Hyperion
Iapetus
Atlas
Chronus
Aphrodite
Rhea
Hestia
Demeter
Hera
Hades
Poseidon
Zeus
Exhibit: Artist’s depiction of the god Apollo444
Exhibit: Statue of god Poseidon445
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM repeated in the mythos and holy books of cultures around the world, including, as we shall see later, the Bible.446 [bold added]
Horn does not start with the Bible. He begins his book with pagan mythology. Furthermore, the Bible does not teach that mythological “gods” even exist as real creatures, let alone that they “use the earth as a mutual gathering ground, door, or path between dimensional realities.” This is a heathen belief. Note this description of Hesiod’s Theogony, the original source of Horn’s lineage of multiple pagan “gods” purportedly in existence today: The Theogony (Greek: Θεογονία, Theogonía, pronounced [tʰeoɡonía], i.e. "the genealogy or birth of the gods") is a poem by Hesiod (8th – 7th century BC) describing the origins and genealogies of Greek polytheism, composed circa 700 BC. It is written in the Epic dialect of Homeric Greek. Hesiod's Theogony is a large-scale synthesis of a vast variety of local Greek traditions concerning the gods, organized as a narrative that tells how they came to be and how they established permanent control over the cosmos. It is the first Greek mythical cosmogony. The initial state of the universe is chaos, a dark indefinite void considered as a divine primordial condition from which everything else appeared. Theogony is a part of Greek mythology which embodies the desire to articulate reality as a whole; this universalizing impulse was fundamental for the first later projects of speculative theorizing.447 [bold added; italics in original; links removed]
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM “Speculative theorizing” describes exactly what Horn does in Nephilim Stargates. But these mythical ideas did not come from God’s Word. Note the emboldened sentence from the description of Hesiod’s Theogony above— “a narrative that tells how they [the “gods”] came to be and how they established permanent control over the cosmos.” Horn is leading readers headlong into ancient mythology—including Greek, Roman, Babylonian, and Egyptian. He has given heed to pagan myths just as the Bible warns of in the last days (1 Tim. 1:4; 2 Tim. 4:4). Note how Horn incorporates heathen mythology and other ancient occult writings into his science fictionalized eschatology: Something alarming has been happening since the dawn of time, which has been recorded in the history, holy books, and mythos of every great civilization. Ancient rabbinical authorities including Septuagint translators and early church fathers understood it. Sumerians, Assyrians, Egyptians, Greeks, the Hindus, the American Indians, and virtually all other civilizations throughout history believed it. Beings of super intelligence sometimes referred to as “gods” have since time immemorial descended through openings of sky, earth, and sea to interact with this planet’s creatures. The behavior of these “unknowns” is recurrent and seems to revolve around the need to harvest or manipulate molecular matter, especially human and animal...449 [bold added]
Much of these mythological speculations about ancient astral visitors to earth originated from Erich von Daniken and his notorious pseudoscience book Chariots of the Gods. It was Chuck Missler who first popularized von Daniken’s discredited theories in the evangelical church, re-writing them into his own end-time prophecy scenarios in Alien Encounters.450 These unorthodox theories – popular in UFO lore – teach that the ancient “gods” were space alien/fallen angels who visited earth and inseminated it with their DNA, thus corrupting the human race in the past, the present, and will do so again in the future. Missler attempted to re-cast von Daniken’s space alien theories into a biblical mold by claiming that these were responsible for the ancient “Nephilim” giants of Genesis 6. 451 By thus corrupting Scripture we now have science fictionalized god-creatures roaming about seeking to wreak havoc on end-time earthlings. This is the gist of the new end-time prophecy teachings. “For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty (2 Pet. 1:16).”
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM Chuck Missler also brings in ancient Greek mythology to re-interpret 2 Peter 2:45, verses dealing with God’s judgment upon the sinful angels who were “cast down to hell.” He begins by what seems to be a scholarly exposition of Scripture: …[Peter] ties that event to ‘the days of Noah.’ He not only confirms Genesis 6, but links it to ‘the days of Noah.’ The word Tartarus deserves some comment. The problem with this word is it doesn’t appear anywhere else in the bible—but it does appear in the Greek literature. It’s the Greek term for the dark abode of woe. It is the pit of darkness in the unseen world. It shows up for example in Homer’s Iliad where Tartarus is ‘as far below Hades as the earth is below heaven…’452 [bold added]
But what starts out as a Bible study based on Scripture quickly degenerates into the study of a pagan myth: Now if you study Greek—classic Greek mythology, you run into the Titans, these creatures in the legends and myths. [Titans] were partly terrestrial; partly celestial. They rebelled against their Father Uranus, and after a prolonged contest were defeated by Zeus and condemned— where? Into Tartarus.453 [bold added]
Continuing in his talk, notice how Missler makes the startling claim that these legends “embody the truth.” The truth?! He jumps from Scripture into the ancient gods “Atlas and Hercules,” then turns around and suggests they were “Nephilim” – and then he makes an incredible leap into UFO lore’s “Star People.”
Exhibit: Movie poster of Wrath of the Titans featuring the god Kronos454
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM Do you see a parallel brewing here? I’m going to suggest to you that the legends of the ancient Greeks embody the truth of what really happened in the past; that there were these strange creatures generating hybrids that the Greeks called Titans. And we see Zeus in many forms. We see Atlas and Hercules. Atlas and Hercules from Greek mythology were what would be called in the Hebrew: Nephilim. Offering of an intermarriage between a god and a woman, and, um, so these legends we obviously seen in the Sumer culture… [slide showing pagan mythologies: Assyria, Egypt, Incas, Mayan, Gilgamesh, Persian, Greece, India, Bolivia, South Sea Islands, American Indians] Every one of these cultures… have legends on the Star People—these people that came, these gods or demigods—whatever—came and cohabitated with women and produced hybrids.455 [bold added]
Exhibit: Graphic depiction of ‘Star People’ legend456
So, according to this esteemed Bible teacher, the Greek Titans were real? Is he asking his Christian followers to believe that these “part terrestrial, part celestial” mythological figures were really the Nephilim— “gods or demigods [who] came and cohabitated with women and produced hybrids”? Astonishingly, YES! With an updated science fiction twist! The adoption of these pagan sources – combined with wild speculations, hidden secret codes that only the elite can unlock, science fiction and UFO lore, and the hyping of crisis-ridden current events – has led Horn and Missler, along with their other PPP adherents, further into this end-time fantasyland. How far out can it go? These teachers actually birthed a modern mythology that claims a space alien outpost exists on the planet Mars, a fact which we documented in Part 5 of this 150 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM book, titled “Nephilim are from Mars: Fallen Angels are from Krypton.” 457 Horn's Nephilim Stargates actually proposes: …Beings of super intelligence sometimes referred to as “gods” have since time immemorial descended through openings of sky, earth, and sea to interact with this planet’s creatures. The behavior of these “unknowns” is recurrent and seems to revolve around the need to harvest or manipulate molecular matter, especially human and animal. The unknowns appear to come to us from nearby planets and/or dimensions and may actually be represented by the Watchers of Apocryphal texts. As mankind expands beyond earth, eons-old ruins of artificial structures or active sites belonging to these ultraterrestrials could be discovered. Such is rumored to exist on Mars and on the dark side of the moon…458 [bold added]
Related to this discussion, we raise a question: Is it just a coincidence that Microsoft co-founder and billionaire Bill Gates has included Hesiod’s Theogony in a nationalized high school curriculum he’s funding called Common Core? 459 The timing seems significant. The study of mythology has been part of a Classical Education for thousands of years, especially to understand Western civilization, the arts and sciences. But since the education reform agenda was launched several decades ago, there has been an effort to reintroduce ancient pagan mythology to children as an actual religion.460 Will children be taught to believe that these ancient gods and goddesses are REAL creatures?461 We note that the later Roman empire was characterized by an “allegoric interpretation of the ancient mythology which undeified the greater part of the heathen Pantheon.” 462 In other words, stories of the gods and goddesses became like fairy tales – the gods were no longer worshipped as deities; they were just stories. Except to the genuine pagans who still kept up their idolatrous rites and rituals. However, the Roman emperor known as “Julian the Apostate” attempted to reintroduce paganism to the Roman world after Christianity had become widespread. Julian tried to bring the gods back to life and re-instituted ancient rituals, rites and sacrifices to the gods across the empire. One historian noted that Julian's resultant spiritual mixture created a hybrid “eclectic paganism”463 based on “high speculative and imaginative doctrines,” 464 all leading to a gradual degradation of Christianity into “superstition.” He described in vivid detail the demonic basis of this syncretism and how it compromised the Christian faith: The heathen Theurgy,465 even in its purest form its dreamy intercourse with the intermediate race of dæmons, was poor and ineffective compared with the diabolic and angelic agency which became more and more mingled up with Christianity. Where these subordinate dæmons were 151 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM considered by the more philosophic pagan to have been the older deities of the popular faith, it was rather a degradation of the ancient worship; where this was not the case, this fine perception of the spiritual world was the secret of the initiate few rather than the all-pervading superstition of the many. The Christian dæmonology, on the other hand, which began to be heightened and multiplied by the fantastic imagination of the monks brooding in their solitudes, seemed at least to grow naturally out of the religious system. The gradual darkening into superstition was altogether imperceptible, and harmonized entirely with the general feelings of the time. Christianity was a living plant, which imparted its vitality to the foreign suckers grafted upon it; the dead and sapless trunk of paganism withered even the living boughs which were blended with it by its own inevitable decay. 466
Evangelical postmodern prophecy leaders are promoting this very same mixture. They want people to think these ancient pagan gods and goddesses are real living creatures. Pagan demonology and heightened fantastic imaginations contribute to give their syncretistic eschatology some extra pizzazz.
THE DIVINE COUNCIL—PPP Style
[The Divine Council is] the heavenly host, the pantheon of divine beings who administer the affairs of the cosmos. All ancient Mediterranean cultures had some conception of a divine council. The divine council of Israelite religion, known primarily through the psalms, was distinct in important ways. ~ Michael S. Heiser 467
“The Divine Council” 468
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM and teach false doctrines such as ‘The Divine Council’ – a concept which has been popularized and perpetuated by Dr. Michael Heiser, Christian author, conference speaker, and scholar of ancient languages (see Part 3 & Part 5).469 Contorting the Scripture and greatly diminishing God’s sovereignty, this false teaching says that after the Tower of Babel, the Lord God gave His sovereignty over to “divine beings” who now rule the world or cosmos. (This is why hyper-spiritual warfare prayer strategies have been concocted to battle these unseen deities (see Part 3).470 The ancient pagans also taught this spirit world theology, especially in the context of occult divination and astrology: Below this primal Deity and his glorious image [the Sun, ed.] there was room for the whole Pantheon of subordinate deities, of whom, in like manner, the stars were the material representatives, but who possessed invisible powers, and manifested themselves in various ways, in dreams and visions, through prodigies and oracles, the flights of birds, and the signs in the sacrificial victims.471 [bold added]
Tom Horn’s book, Zenith 2016: Did Something Begin in the Year 2012 that will Reach its Apex in 2016? is a repackaging of his old 2009 book Apollyon Rising 2012. The book was reissued and updated because the pagan god Apollo failed to materialize as Horn predicted (prophesied?) in 2012. Horn’s explanation of “The Divine Council” from this book sheds further light on his adoption and promotion of ancient mythology: In the study of the Divine Council—the pantheon of divine beings or angels who currently administer the affairs of heaven and earth—experts typically agree that, beginning at the Tower of Babel, the world and its inhabitants were disinherited by the sovereign God of Israel and placed under the authority of lesser divine beings that became corrupt and disloyal to God in their administration of those nations (Psalm 82). According to the theory, these beings quickly became worshipped on earth as gods following Babel, and because these angels, unlike their human admirers, would continue on earth until the end of time, each “spirit” behind the pagan attributions was known at miscellaneous times in history and to various cultures by various names. This certainly agrees with the biblical definition of idolatry as the worship of fallen angels, and means the characterization of such spirits as Jupiter, Justice, Osiris, and Isis can be correctly understood to be titles ascribed to distinct and individual supernaturalism. The spirit behind Apollo was thus a real personality; Osiris actually lived, and still does…472 [bold added]
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Exhibit: Horn’s 2013 book473
Notice that Horn claims that Apollo was “a real personality” and that “Osiris actually lived, and still does (see Part 4).” Does Horn actually believe that these ancient mythological idols are real and still alive?! The supposed “experts that typically agree” with this extreme adoption of pagan mythology – especially in their attempt to make it seem compatible with Christian orthodoxy – are not mentioned here. However, Horn does cite Heiser as a source of this teaching in his other writings.474 Reality check: Angels are NOT “gods” or “divine beings.” They are the heavenly hosts—messengers of Elohim Who created them to serve Him and humanity (Gen. 19:15; 32:1; Isa. 37:16; Ps. 78:25; 78:49; 91:11; 103:20; 104:4; Matt. 24:31; 25:31; 26:53; Mk. 1:13; 1 Pet. 3:22; Heb. 1:6-7; 1:14; 2:2; 2:5; 12:22; 13:2, etc.). In the end, God alone will deal with the angels that rebelled against His authority. (As a side note, it is interesting that PPP leader Chuck Missler is on the Board of Directors of the International Standard Version (ISV) of the Bible in conjunction with his business partner William Welty. Coincidently, the ISV translates the “sons of God” in Genesis 6:2 and 6:4 as “divine beings”475). Fellow PPP guide Gary Stearman, author and host of Prophecy Watchers (formerly of Prophecy in the News), is also perpetuating these same teachings. By twisting 154 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM certain Bible verses and engaging in imaginative speculation, Stearman tries to make the case that “Zeus” and “Apollo” are “real.” Note that he even refers to “modern stories” as a source for his fantasy. Modern stories?! What could these stories be other than science fiction tales? Myths, legends and modern stories all testify that upon this earth, there were once powerful and evil superhuman beings who took great pleasure in tormenting mankind. They were the old gods of tradition and folklore, Zeus, Apollo and their ilk. Were they merely figments of human imagination, or were they real? Are these the entities the Bible identifies as fallen angels? Many Christians do not want to believe that these demigods of old were real. With the development of the early church, pagan deities faded into the forgotten pages of folklore. Yet the Bible refers to "sons of God," "fallen angels," and other demonic creatures who once tried to subvert humanity. They perfectly fit the description of the old demigods. Perhaps they were real, and are now either locked up or restrained. Will these fallen angels return? The Bible says that in the tumultuous days of the Tribulation Period, they will return. 476 [bold added]
And so these deceptions proliferate through popular authors, speakers, radio and television hosts, and Bible teachers. Like unwanted dandelions in an untreated lawn, their ugly roots spread throughout the yard in a seemingly bright array of yellow—until the flower fades revealing an ominous sea of feathery white seeds that are cast by the wind to perpetuate the unrelenting cycle of mass deception. In similar manner, the mythology craze in Christendom is carried on by new growth. New faces are beginning to pop up in the marketplace in order to pass on these deceptions to the next generation. For example, newcomer Christian author and speaker, Peter D. Goodgame, incorporates this intoxicating mythological “Divine Council” heresy into a 363page book (published by Tom Horn), The Second Coming of the Antichrist (SCA)—a book that promotes the return of the reincarnated pagan god Apollo (aka Nimrod/Osiris/Nephilim) as the biblical Antichrist (see Part 4)477: When God decided to intervene at the Tower of Babel, He did so in agreement with a group of beings that surrounded Him: “And the Lord said…Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech” (Genesis 11:6-7). Who was God speaking to? The extra-biblical book of Jasher explains that God was speaking to a particular group of angels who surrounded Him: …What we see is that the decision to break up Nimrod’s empire was made in a ‘divine council’ setting, which included God and this group of angels who were part of God’s chain of command that was particularly responsible for watching over the earth... God descended to the earth to break up Nimrod’s empire along with 155 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM this specific group of seventy angels…478 [bold added; underscore and italics in original] (SCA, pp. 108-109)
Note in the above example that Goodgame resorts to using the extra-biblical Book of Jasher (like fellow PPP author Rob Skiba in Part 4) to prop up his speculations about a “divine council” of “seventy angels.” Below Goodgame further embellishes his story, by claiming that the ancient “gods” were “real”: At the Tower of Babel, the entirely of humanity was divided up into tribes and eventually seventy tribes emerged who were ‘allotted’ into the hands of seventy angels. These are the ‘sons of God’ who Deuteronomy refers to as the ‘foreign gods’ who are distinct from the ‘Most High,’ who Himself chose Israel as His own nation. The ‘gods’ of the pagan nations that surrounded Israel were real. The Tower of Babel event did not just mark the emergence of different languages; it also marked the very beginning of polytheistic paganism as the dominant form of worship throughout the world.479 [bold added, italics in original] (SCA, pp. 110-112)
Exhibit: Artist’s depiction of the Tower of Babel 480
Employing the corrupted DNA thesis of the PPP teachers, Goodgame then says that ancient Nimrod was a “half-god.” The word apotheosis means ‘to become a god.’ We already know that the seventy angels who descended at the Tower of Babel became worshipped as the ‘gods’ of the Gentile nations. We have also identified the god Enki as the historical Satan, the ultimate leader of these angels. If Nimrod was the son of Satan/Enki then this means that he was ‘half-god’ through his genetic 156 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM father. So from the very beginning, due to his size, strength, cunning, and influence, Nimrod was undoubtedly worshiped as a “god.” 481 [bold added, italics in original] (SCA, pg. 155)
Notice above that none of this teaching came from the story about the Tower of Babel is recorded in God's Word, the Bible. By twisting still more Scripture, these men also claim that the Garden of Eden was [is?] a meeting place for this imaginary “divine council.” Observe how God is degraded to a mere co-ruler. Isn't this fact alone a dead giveaway that something is very amiss in these teachings? In Ezekiel 31, Asshur is portrayed as a great cedar of Lebanon that is even greater than the “trees of Eden, in the garden of God.” The Garden of Eden, as Michael S. Heiser has shown... was also the “meeting place of the divine council” where God would meet with the other “sons of God” who participated with Him in ruling over the earth…482 [bold added] (SCA, pp. 263264)
Next, apparently based on the wacky and pseudoscientific theories that the Great Pyramid of Giza was built with the help of space aliens (see Part 5), Goodgame surmises that it was constructed by “seventy Kosmokrator angels” as “portrayed in Masonic representations”: So, once again we are brought back to the Great Pyramid of Giza… that was designed according to the layout of the constellation Orion, the Great Hunter in the sky. As we have endeavored to show, Osiris is none other than the biblical Nimrod, the “mighty hunter before the Lord,” whose death brought about the division of his global empire into the hands of the seventy Kosmokrator angels who descended from heaven to begin their era of authority over mankind. The seventy angelic “world powers” eventually came to be understood as seventy-two, which is the number of “conspirators” who aided Set/Typhon in the murder of Osiris. It is also the number of angels associated with the Kabbalistic Shem ha Mephoresh, and the number of stones portrayed in Masonic representations of the Great Pyramid. 483 [bold added, italics in original] (SCA, pg. 326)
Besides occult Freemasonry, Goodgame has also tied his teaching of the Divine Council to Jewish mysticism, which he reveals in a separate lengthy online article written in 2004, “The Divine Council and the Kabbalah.” 484 The PPP inspiration for Goodgame’s mythological soup includes both Horn and Heiser—who trace their teachings back to the ancient pantheon of gods and goddesses.
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM THE DIVINE COUNCIL—Pagan Style Heiser’s “Divine Council,” wholeheartedly embraced by PPP leaders, is actually a modern twist to ancient pagan myths. Heiser simply dresses it up in biblical attire.485 What is The Divine Council? A Divine Council is an assembly of deities over which a higher-level god presides… The concept of a divine Council of gods before the Deluge 486 assembly (or council) is attested in the archaic Sumerian, Akkadian, Old Babylonian, Ancient Egyptian, Babylonian, Caananite, Israelite, Celtic, Ancient Greek and Ancient Roman and Nordic pantheons. Ancient Egyptian literature reveals the existence of a “synod of the gods”. Some of our most complete descriptions of the activities of the divine assembly are found in the literature from Mesopotamia. Their assembly of the gods, headed by the high god Anu, would meet to address various concerns. The term used in Sumerian to describe this concept was Ukkin, and in later Akkadian and Aramaic was puhru.487 [bold added; other formatting removed]
As King Solomon wisely admonished, “There is nothing new under the sun” (Ecc. 1:9-10). These Divine Council concoctions have very old pagan roots – roots not generated from the Christian God or the Holy Bible. In order to understand this concept of the “divine council” evangelicals are finding themselves lured into deeper and deeper occult lore. This dark world of the occult is a never-ending spiral of decoding mysteries and unlocking secret hidden messages. It is a shrouded path that promises deeper and more enhanced spiritual “knowledge.” Taking this spiritual journey does not lead to redemption by the shed blood of Jesus Christ on the Cross. It is a false way, not the true Way of Jesus, who said “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me (John 14:6).” "Through Thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way (Psalm 119:104).”
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM "For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no shepherd (Zech. 10:2).”
Compounding the deception is the sad fact that these idolatrous myths have now been adapted and tweaked to satisfy modern carnal appetites. We shouldn’t be surprised. The original tales about gods and goddesses were lewd, lascivious, incestuous, and carnal. Their worship was accompanied by pagan rituals such as animal or human sacrifices, chantings, repetitive prayers, expiations, lustrations, severe trials, fastings, purifications, and rites of initiation too gruesome and vulgar to discuss.488 Our postmodern church age is characterized by bringing back these pagan practices.
THE DIVINE COUNCIL—Marvel Comics Style The PPP teachers have been accommodating popular culture’s thirst for all things pagan. These leaders have tragically missed a great chance to share the Gospel of salvation message, telling the world about Jesus Christ Who defeated Satan at the cross — the real Son of God Who is quickly coming back to earth in the clouds with great power and glory! (Mark 13:26). Instead the prophecy leaders' mythological cocktails teach a nearly identical message to what Hollywood is dishing up. Here is once such Hollywood's concoction: Exhibit: the 2013 movie Thor489 The Nordic god Thor was featured in a Hollywood action movie sequel in 2013, acted by an all-star cast.490 It is a perfect example of the new “eclectic paganism”491 invading our culture (and the church). It might surprise some that Marvel Comics creators have their own version of The Divine Council: 159 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM The Council of Godheads, also known as the Council Elite, represents a union of the leaders (or their delegates) of the various pantheons of gods on Earth. There are over twenty separate tribes or races (pantheons) of superhuman beings associated with Earth claiming to be gods. The vast majority of these pantheons trace their origins back to Gaea, one of the Elder Gods (such as Chthon and Set) who materialized on Earth before any other life had appeared there. The other Elder Gods degenerated into demons, preying upon each other.492 [bold added]
Given the immense creative license and profit incentive involved here, there are no limits or boundaries to contain these pagan legends to their ancient moorings. Note these telling observations from the Marvel Comics Wikipedia page on “The Council of Godheads”: Each member of the Council possesses magical and cosmic power on a scale comparable to even the Elder Gods and certain cosmic beings, far dwarfing that of a Sorcerer Supreme’s might. The Abrahamic God seems to be absent either because He is omnipotent, omniscience [sic], and omnipresent and frightens the others or because He refuses to ‘play ball’ with the other gods.493 [bold added]
In this same vein, the PPP promoters of these same dark myths betray a complete lack of regard for the sovereign God of the Bible. They have invented their own science fiction pantheon of mythological demi-god figures that battle with each other in the Nephilim multiverse (holographic universe). 494 Believing these godcreatures possess elite knowledge and special powers, they teach that these deities need to come to the aid of an inept God, who has apparently lost control of the cosmos and needs help from them. In these sorry teachings, the PPP adherents are not really looking for Christ to return—but instead they are watching the skies for the return of the Greek god Apollo (Nimrod/Osiris/ Apollyon).495 (See Part 4). Yet the Scriptures do not urge us to look for an ancient god, nor the Antichrist, nor sci-fi heroes, but instead warn us that Christ will appear on a day that we are not looking for Him (Matthew 24:50), and says we should be “looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ (Titus 2:13).”
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM be titillated with exotic sci-fi scenarios. But recent sci-fi thrillers such as The Avengers series (originating again from the Marvel Comics genre) include these mythological gods as main characters. For example, as seen in the movie poster of Thor in the subsection above, these films treat the old Nordic god as though he is a real extraterrestrial god with superhuman powers.
Exhibit: Rob Skiba's DVD jacket496
Christian filmmakers have been quick to leap onto this bandwagon. They have now brought these pagan myths to the movie and DVD marketplace. One of the up-and-comers is Rob Skiba, author of Babylon Rising: and the First Shall be the Last, The Archon Invasion: the Rise, Fall and Return of the Nephilim, and creator of the film Seed the Series. Skiba is a script writer, director, producer, camera man, editor, and actor.497 He has also produced a DVD presentation called “Mythology and the Coming Great Deception” which was reviewed by Prophecy in the News (PITN) writer Bob Ulrich. Note how Ulrich talks enthusiastically about the Hollywood “buzz” in bringing back this ancient “Greek Mythology”: Christmas arrived early for me this year in the form of two thought provoking DVDs from Christian filmmaker Rob Skiba. We first met Rob at Future Congress in Branson; Tom Horn’s spectacular prophecy conference, and we were impressed. As a professional filmmaker, Rob’s material was a pleasure to watch; chock full of graphics, film clips and images that bri ng his 161 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM presentations to life. 180 minutes of pure excitement on 2 enlightening DVDs! I felt like the proverbial “kid on Christmas morning” as I carefully unwrapped these discs. Our ancient past holds many secrets that seem to be coming to light in our day; subjects hinted at in the Bible, but not fully revealed. How can anyone understand the Bible without a working knowledge of Genesis 6, the real reason for Noah’s Flood? How can you understand the Antichrist if you don’t understand his connection to Nimrod and Greek Mythology? Was Nimrod a Nephilim? ...Did he physically alter his DNA?... Hollywood is all a buzz these days, creating superheroes and bringing comic book titans back to life. No doubt some of these “bigger-than-life” hybrids walked our planet many years ago. Rob’s Mythology and the Coming Great Deception takes us back to the roots of Greek Mythology... Centaurs and satyrs? 28-foot Canaanite giants? Creatures like Horus, who had a human body and a falcon’s head? Skiba even discusses whether Thor’s hammer actually existed!...498 [bold added]
Centaurs and satyrs? Creatures like Horus? Thor’s hammer? Connecting these pagan myths to the Nephilim? By now it is becoming quite evident that the Nephilim giants, which Chuck Missler reinvented as space aliens in his 1997 UFO book Alien Encounters, have become an integral part of this whole end-time pagan sci-fi mythological scenario.
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM It appears as though Skiba is indeed “creating superheroes and bringing comic book titans back to life” ala Hollywood. Notice how all of this is turned into a mythologized modern-day science fiction. Fellow PPP author L.A. Marzulli, creator of the Watchers DVD series, teaches similar ideas: Centaurs, minotaurs, nymphs, fawns, are all familiar images from Greek mythology, but was it just mythos? Were these so-called fictious creatures in fact the by-product of the fallen angels who created the Nephilim, by cohabiting with the women of earth?500 [bold added]
Below are other recent Skiba video documentaries with similar UFO, Nephilim and mythologized science fiction themes:
The Mount Hermon – Roswell Connection
Archon Invasion: And the Return of the Nephilim (Part 1)
Archon Invasion: And the Return of the Nephilim (Part 2)
Archon Invasion: 2045 and the Quest for Immortality
Babylon Rising: 322, Tetrads and the Time of Jacob's Trouble501
There is nothing remotely edifying or trustworthy in these heathen tales and myths. These are not taught in the Scriptures. Horn, Missler, Heiser, Stearman, Skiba, Marzulli, and many others who heed these Greek and Roman myths veer further and further from the Word of God which warns believers to flee from these deceptions. Sadly, like other PPP leaders, Skiba has also demonstrated his low view of Scripture in favor of apocryphal and even occult writings (see Part 4).502 Tragically, like the Marvel Comics creators, these prophecy paradigm leaders continue to build upon their mythological ideas and extra-biblical gleanings— including the purported ability of these evil demigods to tamper with human DNA (see Part 8).503 Tom Horn first marketed these captivating deceptions to the evangelical world through his prolific writings, especially his 2010 book, Forbidden Gates. Notice the common themes: Besides apocryphal, pseudepigraphic, and Jewish traditions related to the legend of the Watchers and the “mighty men” born of their union with humans, mythologized accounts tell the stories of “gods” using humans and animals to produce heroes or demigods (half-gods). When the ancient Greek version of the Hebrew Old Testament (the LXX or Septuagint) was made, the word “Nephilim”—referring to the part-human offspring of the Watchers—was 163 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM translated gegenes, a word implying “earth born.” This same terminology was used to descri be the Greek Titans and other legendary heroes of part-celestial and part-terrestrial origin, such as Hercules (born of Zeus and the mortal Alcmena), Achilles (the Trojan hero son of Thetis and Peleus), and Gilgamesh (the two-thirds god and one-third human child of Lugalbanda and Ninsun). These demigods were likewise accompanied in texts and idol representation by halfanimal and half-human creatures like centaurs (the part-human, part-horse offspring of Apollo’s son, Centaurus), chimeras, furies, satyrs, gorgons, nymphs, Minotaurs, and other genetic aberrations. All of this seems to indicate that the Watchers not only modified human dna [sic] during the construction of Nephilim, but that of animals as well, a point the Book of Enoch supports, saying in the seventh chapter that the fallen angels “sinned” against animals as well as humans.504 [bold added]
Exhibit: Example of a mythological Minotaur (hybrid creature) 505
Stop for a moment and think about what you just read. The sources for this new interesting information come straight out of the occult! Notice the tactic of taking a mythological account, or an ancient apocryphal book like the Book of Enoch, and subtly trying to incorporate it into the Scripture. The leaven of mythology is being mixed into the dough of prophecy. Absolutely none of these sensationalized claims can be supported by the truth of plain Scripture. These are heathen fables being brought in to corrupt God’s Word and deceive followers. And yet these teachers are asserting that their syncretic teachings are “new truth” about the last days.
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM Should we be surprised that both Hollywood and Christian filmmakers are lured into this captivating imagery and seeking a market to expand these fabricated and energized mythological tales? We know from warnings in Scripture that idolatry is a powerful addictive force. Guard your heart and your mind carefully so you are not lured into these seductive fantasies! “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind (Mark 22:37).” No wonder so many believe that these ancient pagan gods are “real.” This use of film imagery, based on the high tech computerized visual enhancements developed by Hollywood, have created a genre of science fiction that is becoming a virtual reality for many. It creates a parallel spiritual reality, an alternative past and future eschatological scenario, in which powerful god-creatures can roam in and out of our universe at will, wreaking havoc on the plain simplicity of the Gospel message with their dark and violent crimes. In other words, this visual imagery of ancient mythological gods becomes both a tool and a vehicle of great deception.
Entertaining Carnal Myths Intrigued by an interview he did with Tom Horn on Forbidden Gates, J. Michael Bennett, Ph.D, former host of the radio program Future Quake,506 wrote a 58-page chapter for Horn’s 2011 book Pandemonium’s Engine titled, “Nimrod: The First (and Future) Transhuman ‘Super Soldier’ (see Part 2).”507 Horn’s book title and jacket was adopted from the ancient erotic Greek god, renowned for his sexual prowess, Pan.508 Pan served as the inspiration for the original New Age Harmonic Convergence in 1987 which celebrated the supposed return of the spirits of all of the ancient gods and goddesses.509 Exhibit: A depiction of the Greek god Pan on Horn’s book cover 510
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM Bennett, like Horn, turns his readers away from God’s truth and headlong into “the Myth of Isis and Osiris” (depicted in Horn’s offensive graphic below)511: Let’s briefly depart from the Biblical record, and consider details of the most famous myth in all of recorded history—the Myth of Isis and Osiris. Many of such ancient myths incorporate superstitions, fables, and exaggerations, with conflicting and contradictory details that reflect political realities at a given time and place. They also often provide a “devil’s view” of history, where the perspectives and roles of God and the Adversary, and their spiritual and human henchmen are reversed in their roles or motives, going back to the actions of the gods Enki and Enlil in ancient Sumeria. However, they [ancient myths] can also preserve nuggets of ancient knowledge and history, even if distorted by time and other causes, as well as give perspectives of world events different from those expressed in the Bible, and even shed light on the agenda of Satan himself.512 [bold added]
In other words, according to Bennett, the Bible is not sufficient. It must be supplemented with pagan mythology in order to extract “nuggets of ancient knowledge and history” not found in the Word of God—including new insights “on the agenda of Satan himself.” Is it remotely possible that he or anyone else can separate the “conflicting and contradictory details” of these tantalizing tales from truth, including the “devil’s view” of history, apart from the Scripture? No! These deceptive ideas lure countless souls into the Gnostic and occult realms, not into God’s light.
Exhibit: Graphic from Raiders News Update e-alert, July 28, 2013513
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM Take careful note of Bennett’s fatal departure from Scripture in order to extract “ancient knowledge” from lascivious myths—a practice admittedly inspired by Tom Horn: This ancient story revolves around a number of godlike siblings—Isis, Osiris, and Set (alternatively spelled as “Seth”). Set is often described as being sterile or generally infertile, necessitating his wife Nephthys to disguise herself as Osiris’ sister/wife Isis, to become impregnated by him. Once discovered by Set, in rage he set a trap by inviting Osiris to a banquet with seventy-two other gods as guests, who trick him into “test-fitting” a coffin-like container given to him there as a gift, who then subsequently seal him inside, and drop him into the sea. His wife, Isis, the goddess of magic, frantically searches for him, and finds his remains and sarcophagus in the Phoenician city of Byblos, in Lebanon. After returning with his remains, they are taken again by Set, who cuts them into fourteen or more pieces…, and disperses them throughout the world. Again, she faithfully reclaims these pieces, gathering all of them except his reproductive phallus, which had been swallowed by a fish. Undaunted, she fashions an artificial replacement phallus from gold, and conceives with him by hovering over his corpse as a vulture or kite, as Osiris becomes the Lord of the Underworld… 514 [bold added]
Another troubling earmark of the current PPP heresies is an increasing fixation on depraved, lewd, and debauched sexual themes as though they were cleverly imbedded in Scripture by God and suitable for Christian consumption. Many of the graphic images of the myriad of gods and mutant creatures examined in this book—all readily available on the Internet—were either too violently explicit or obscene to print here. Perverse immorality is central to their end-time occult false eschatology, which the Bible calls idolatry (Col. 3:5). And, as we have noted previously, it is a key characteristic of ancient pagan practices connected with the worship based on mythology. “Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen (1 Jn. 5:21).”
The Truth About Idolatry It was precisely this form of idolatry – Greek and Roman mythology merged with eclectic paganism – that clashed with Christianity in the early church. Early Christians saw mythology for what it truly is – idolatry. Many Roman emperors sought to compel Christians to sacrifice to the ancient gods and goddesses on altars in their temples. For refusing to perform these pagan rites, thousands of believers lost their lives, and many were hideously tortured first. 515 167 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM Yet we now see these same idols, the fabled Greek and Roman and other ancient gods and goddesses, brought into the church as though they are real live creatures! Early Christians took the Bible’s warnings seriously to flee the sins of idolatry. They willingly forfeited their earthly lives rather than have any appearance of evil compromise with idolatry. How tempting it must have been for Maximus (whose story is at the top of this book segment) to simply offer a sacrifice to the mythological Diana of Ephesus rather than be beaten with sticks and then stoned to death! Scripture is filled with warnings that these idolatrous images are not real! In fact, they are lies! But they do distort man’s thinking:
“Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them (Jeremiah 10:14).”
“What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols? Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it (Habakkuk 2:18-19).”
Old Bible commentators urged Christians to still beware of all these idols, myths, legends, fables and images. Matthew Poole, remarking on the Hababbuk verses, noticed that idols are “a teacher of lies” in whom there is “no breath at all”: [W]hether graven or molten, yet all such images are but teachers of lies, Jer. 10:1,14. They withdraw the mind from God, our true and only helper, and bewitch men to trust to idols, in which there is no help, which ever proved lies to all that trusted on them…
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The Apostle Paul’s dying charge to Timothy was to “preach the word.” His urgent command to his faithful son in Christ warned of a time after his earthly departure when many would “turn away their ears from the truth” and “turn aside to myths.” Surely that time has come. “I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths. But you, be sober in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry (2 Timothy 4:3-4).”
Matthew Henry, writing in the 1700s, commented on these 2 Timothy verses: People will turn away from the truth, they will grow weary of the plain gospel of Christ, they will be greedy of fables [myths], and take pleasure in them. People do so when they will not endure that preaching which is searching, plain, and to the purpose. Those who love souls must be ever watchful, must venture and bear all the painful effects of their faithfulness, and take all opportunities of making known the pure Gospel. 517 [bold added] Because that, when they knew God, they glorified Him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the Truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, Who is blessed for ever. Amen (Romans 1:21-25).”
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM *Part 8
Transhumanism: A Posthuman Paradigm Shift? End-Time Scenarios of the New Alchemists Analyzing how ancient posthuman beliefs are altering evangelical thinking and end-time eschatology
by Gaylene Goodroad, Sarah Leslie, & Dr. Martin Erdmann
“But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, Who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the Gospel (2 Tim. 1:10).” [bold added]
Exhibit: Graphic depiction of Transhumanism/Posthumanism518
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM THE RESURRECTION OF ANCIENT ALCHEMY Since Satan’s great fall, man too has attempted to become like God Most High. Down through the centuries rebellious men have stiffened their necks in defiance to the Creator and have devised various methods and religious pathways in vain attempts to morph themselves into immortal or divine beings—apart from the Gospel of Salvation. All of them—from the ancient alchemists to the modern-day Mormons, Masons, and Transhumanists—have failed (and will fail) miserably because the God of the Bible has chosen only one way for sinful mankind to achieve true immortality: through faith in the death, burial and resurrection of His Son the Lord Jesus Christ. In contradiction to the saving Gospel of Jesus Christ, the “Postmodern Prophecy Paradigm” (PPP) leaders (our term) have given hearty heed to these rebellious ideologues. By giving credence to these machinations to undo the curse of sin, these PPP teachers peddle new eschatology scenarios to unsuspecting Christians under the guise of a postmodern scientific alchemical concoction: Transhumanism (or Posthumanism). The PPP proponents have capitalized on the foreboding and sensational elements of the Posthuman movement by stirring up fear and dread with unbiblical teachings that say the Transhumanists will not only succeed in their God-defying schemes, but in doing so will threaten the extinction of the human race. This faulty idea is found nowhere in Scripture. While on the one hand the PPP-collaborators have loudly and publicly denounced Transhumanism as wicked and unbiblical, on the other they’ve piggybacked their own preposterous speculations, imaginations, suppositions, and conjectures onto the Transhumanist movement to arrive at bizarre doctrines that are foreign to the Scriptures. In so doing they give unintentional validity and credibility to the Posthumanist’s ill-fated plots. They have mingled the immortal visions of the Transhumanists with their own contorted false Nephilim doctrines and apocalyptic end-time scenarios—which perilously do an end-run around the Book of Revelation (not that they could ever succeed in undoing the truths of the divine revelations in this book). These end-time teachers seem to be attempting to rewrite the future (eschatology), and in the process they are abandoning, ignoring and contorting God's Word. 171 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM This segment will first examine Trans/Posthuman teachings and then analyze how these popular teachers are altering evangelical beliefs and eschatology.
TRANSHUMANISM AS RELIGION Dr. Martin Erdmann, who was a Senior Scientist at the University Hospital in Basel, Switzerland, researching the ethical implications of Nanotechnology and Transhumanism, explains this movement: Transhumanist philosophy promotes the idea of human enhancement by technological means. In its extremes, futuristic concepts like intelligence enhancement (up to "superintelligence") using techniques like genetic engineering, psychopharmacology, anti -aging therapies, neural interfaces, wearable/implantable computers, long-lasting internal organ replacement, mental uploading and so forth are propagated from prominent positions like the US Nanotechnology Initiative and the Oxford University philosophy department. Today, the Oxonian don Nick Bostrom, the co-founder of the World Transhumanist Association, advocates the “possibility” and even “desirability” of developing technology for the purpose of seeking immortality and improving current mortal existence by enhancing “intellectual, physical, and psychological capacities”. In order to make these revolutionary alterations, essentially mechanizing the human species, transhumanists urge the human race to seize control of its destiny, casting off the restrictive and pernicious dogmas of bygone eras, as they see it. It is “a way of thinking about the future that is based on the premise that the human species in its current form does not represent the end of our development but rather a comparatively early phase.”519 [bold added]
This generation has seen the burgeoning advances in technological medical treatment—designed to save human life—or to allow individuals with catastrophic injuries to see, hear, or become mobile again. Heart patients can live longer with implanted devices and remote technologies that monitor both patient and device from a medical center, electrodes can be implanted in the human brain to treat epilepsy, and even the human face can now be transplanted on gunshot victims. Scientists have created robotic limbs, synthetic knee and hip joints, and have done experimentation with human DNA (genetics) to treat disease. But none of these medical treatments will create a soulless human or even a posthuman species. Leaping from the purely medical, scientific, and technological enhancements mentioned above to the belief that mankind will no longer be human or even immortal is to move into the realm of science fiction and false religion.
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM Before proceeding, a key distinction must be made. Behind the term “enhancement” stands the Transhumanist assumption and aspiration, that humans are generally defective and thus it is imperative for them to be improved by technological gadgetry in order to advance in their evolutionary development, ultimately to the point of giving up their humanness altogether. Providing a person who has lost a limb to get a prosthetic arm or leg is not “enhancing” but merely allowing him to live a more normal life. This is entirely different from what is being done to healthy soldiers by altering their human constitution in such a way that they will be able to hear and see much better than they could without technological devices which have been implanted in their bodies. Thus, in order to be able to differentiate between “enhancement” and “healing” a basic question needs to be asked: Is the technological improvement done for “enhancing” a perfectly healthy human being with a purpose which goes beyond leading a normal human existence? Or is it being done to “heal” a disease or to help an amputee to walk again? In his insightful essay, “The Emerging Galactic Religion,” Dr. Erdmann briefly sums up the intentions of those actively involved in this movement: “Transhumanism takes human enhancement further, in morphing the vision of perfect man into a human-machine complex properly called ‘posthuman’.”520 [bold added] In the quest for perfection and immortality, devised on human terms, Dr. Erdmann also pinpoints the ancient false religious resurgence cloaked in modernday Posthumanism: In accord with age-long mystical quests, Transhumanists would argue that human beings can loosen the chains of a mortal existence. Their religion is a new incarnation of Hermeticism. The organic constitution of the human body is viewed as something to get rid of by merging it with a machine. Katherine Haynes, a professor at the University of California in Los Angeles, states, “Humans can either go gently into that good night, joining the dinosaurs as a species that once ruled the earth but now is obsolete, or hang on for a while longer by becoming machines themselves. In either case … the age of the humans is drawing to a close.” Stripped of its pessimistic tone, Hayes' statement expresses the identical aspiration of Chinese alchemists in their search for the “divine cinnabar,” or drinkable gold, which would produce eternal life. The “Philosopher's Stone” was always seen as the elixir of immortal youth. 521 [bold added]
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM man in defiance of the Lord God. For some it includes the establishment of an earthly utopia. As Dr. Erdmann documents the frenetic efforts of those who are orchestrating the Posthumanism movement, he firmly concludes that their evil plotting is hopelessly futile in light of God’s Word: Considering all the odds, it is rather doubtful, if transhumanism will finally succeed in its stated objectives to overcome human frailty and achieve paradise on earth. As a matter of fact, viewed from a premillennial perspective, Christians know that the very opposite will happen. The Bible calls the seven year period preceding Christ’s Second Coming “the Great Tribulation”.522 [bold added]
In light of God’s sovereignty and human history, Dr. Erdmann offers this admonishment: In conclusion, we have shown that the concept of human enhancement by technological means is not primarily a technological issue, but rather the newest incarnation of the ancient, deeply religious endeavor “to become like God” – infinitely wise, omnipotent, autonomous, and immortal. In view of the failure of mysticism (in the ancient and modern variations of Hermeticism, Gnosticism, Neoplatonism, and Alchemy) to reach its goal of transcending human nature, we should carefully examine the philosophical underpinnings of the transhumanist religion. We should ask ourselves if we really agree with its understanding of human nature, before we subscribe to its technical promises and accept the fundamental paradigm shift implied by the concept of human enhancement technologies.523 [bold added]
In other words, Christians ought to shun the “paradigm shift implied” by “transhumanist religion” because its “goal of transcending human nature” is a flagrant rebellion against God that conflicts with His eternal plan of salvation. The pro-Posthuman alchemists will NOT succeed with their evil plans because God will not allow it. Thus neither will the PPP proponents succeed if they follow in the footsteps of these Transhumanists, whether intentionally or not. The Christian response to these errors is not to entertain, embrace, or heed their wicked schemes—but soundly rebuke them in light of the Gospel: Transhumanism calls for vigorous response from the church, though that response is currently lacking. The critical realization is that while transhumanism aims at posthuman perfection through technology, it misses the true nature of moral “perfection” (progressive sanctification) in its rebellion against God. The transformation Christians should be seeking is not the physical or psychological enhancement found in science, reason, or technology, but rather the transforming work found only in God’s supernatural work through His Spirit (2 Corinthians 174 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM 3:18). Romans 12:2 says, “And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.” This is the ultimate kind of transformation; and the only kind that can be truly attained with God’s help in this world. The goal is the ultimate (post-judgment) attainment of perfect humanity in heaven, not the attainment of full technological perfection on earth, as a quasi divine being (Phil. 3:20-21).524 [bold and italic added]
“A MORPHOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATION/ METAPHYSICAL SHIFT” The main evangelical leader promoting the assumption that the Transhumanists are right in their prognostications regarding the future, and even able to pull them off, is best-selling Christian author and publisher Tom Horn. Horn assumes Transhumanists will succeed in bringing to reality their futuristic scenarios if not opposed. He takes the Transhumanists at their word, as if they tell the truth about the future (this is the same frame of mind he exhibits in dealing with the pronouncements of the esoterists; see Part 7). Horn opposes their objectives, but gives credence to them as if they are true, by believing they are achievable if not opposed. And thus he thinks the danger is real. In 2010, Horn posted an “An Open Letter to Christian Leaders on Biotechnology and the Future of Man” on his website. Note the “prophecy mongering” prevalent in his introduction: In recent years, astonishing technological developments have pushed the frontiers of humanity toward far-reaching morphological transformation that promises in the very near future to redefine what it means to be human. An international, intellectual, and fast-growing cultural movement known as transhumanism, whose vision is supported by a growing list of U.S. military advisors, bioethicists, law professors, and academics, intends the use of biotechnology, genetic engineering, nanotechnology, cybernetics, and artificial intelligence as tools that will radically redesign our minds, our memories, our physiology, our offspring, and even perhaps— as Joel Garreau, in his bestselling book Radical Evolution, claims—our very souls. The technological, cultural, and metaphysical shift now underway unapologetically forecasts a future dominated by this new species of unrecognizably superior humans, and applications under study now to make this dream a reality are being funded by thousands of government and private research facilities around the world. The issues raised by human-transforming science must be addressed by Christian leaders in a serious national conversation. To fail in this responsibility may lead to the question "what does it mean to be human" being abdicated to a frightening transhuman vision.525 [bold added] 175 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM There are dangers lurking behind Transhumanism for sure, but they are of a different kind. If Horn were to take the Bible seriously, he would know that some—perhaps even many—of the imaginary projections of the Transhumanists will never be realized, no matter how much technology advances. The threat of Transhumanism is only real to Horn because he buys into the lies of its proponents. The whole dynamic of Horn's fear-mongering hinges on his assumption and emphatic portrayal of the truthfulness of what Transhumanists say. What if they are wrong? His whole argument would fall to pieces. There would be no push behind his assertion that the forecasts of the Transhumanists will come to pass; that it will be “a future dominated by this new species of unrecognizably superior humans.” Take another look at what Horn is saying in the quotation above:
astonishing technological developments have pushed the frontiers of humanity
far-reaching morphological transformation will redefine what it means to be human.
Transhumanism will radically redesign our minds, our memories, our physiology, our offspring—our very souls.
a metaphysical shift now underway forecasts a future dominated by this new species of unrecognizable humans
human-transforming science must be addressed by Christian leaders in a serious national conversation
failing this responsibility may abdicate to a frightening transhuman vision.
If this “metaphysical shift” that Horn claims is now underway—the “paradigm shift” that the quantum mystics and New Agers also predict—then the unbiblical idea will be realized; that at some magic moment a radical change in reality will take place on planet earth that will “shift the paradigm” and usher in an upward evolution of man as well as the en masse acceptance of an entirely new belief system divorced from biblical Christianity. 526 Look at point 3 above. Horn seems quite certain of it. He doesn’t use the word “might” but says “will.” And he certainly doesn’t hint that this idea is so far out there that it is highly unlikely to 176 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM become reality. Nor does he point to the Scriptures to state unequivocally that it WON’T happen, at least not in its ultimate intent. This end-time whopper that “forecasts a future dominated by this new species of unrecognizably superior humans” (who may not even possess human souls)— propagated by this influential Christian author (who is also his own publisher)—is not to be found anywhere in the Word of God. These teachings serve only to put a scare in those who listen to these false notions, turning them away from the truth. Seriously, considering the offensive subhuman tenets taught by the PPP leaders—subhuman “offspring” (i.e., children!) of space aliens who mate with human women exist on earth today—do you want them representing Christianity in a global debate about what it means to be human?!
Horn’s Forbidden Gates book and Teacher’s Guide527
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM The need to parse information is changing so rapidly that we expect to hit the knee of the techno-info curve sometime around the year 2012, followed by Singularity and critical mass. As a result, the authors of this book have teamed with a group of ministries and intellectuals and are currently organizing a new national conference, the World Congress on Emerging Threats and Challenges (tentative conference title), the first of which is to be held on the third week of July 2011 in Branson, Missouri. [bold added]
Exhibit: Graphic depiction of Horn’s teachings529
According to the Horns, the Transhumanist threats are so great as to produce a technological “Singularity”530—something big and terrible was supposed to occur suddenly “around the year 2012”—something so massive that it would reach “critical mass” and shift the paradigm into their predicted dark and foreboding posthuman future. The New Agers have taught these same things.531 These far-flung ideas birthed the Future Congress events. The first one was held in 2011 (as Horn noted); the second in Dallas in January of 2013. The “ministries and intellectuals” seemingly on board with these “emerging threats and challenges” included Tom Horn, Chuck Missler, Gary Stearman, Terry James, Jim Fletcher, Doug Woodward, L.A. Marzulli, Rob Skiba, Hal Lindsey, Doug Hamp, Bill Salus, Cris Putnam, Chris Pinto, Russ Dizdar, Peter Goodgame, et al. 532 Many of these same speakers gathered at the annual Pike’s Peak Prophecy Summit in Colorado Springs and at an Orlando Prophecy Summit—alongside Rabbi Jonathan Cahn, Joseph Farah, Paul McGuire, and others. 533
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM It should be obvious by now that none of the predicted doomsday disasters anticipated by the Horns (and many others) occurred in 2012—nor anything coming close. To obscure this end-time dating failure, Horn published Zenith 2016 in 2013—which extends the 2012 end date by four years. 534 In light of this, it’s appalling that other PPP-connected leaders are joining him in this 2016 hype. “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves (Matt. 7:15).”
“Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD (Jer. 23:16).”
THE HUMAN ENHANCEMENT REVOLUTION (HER) One of several new books published by Tom Horn (Defender Publishing) in time to be sold at the first Future Congress was a collaborative book with a very long title: Pandemonium’s Engine: How the End of the Church Age, the Rise of Transhumanism, and the Coming of the Übermensch (Overman) Herald Satan’s Imminent and Final Assault on the Creation of God.535 Horn wrote the 71-page first chapter entitled, “Pandemonium and ‘Her’ Children.” Here is the opening paragraph of chapter one: Exhibit: Horn’s 2011 book Unbeknownst to most, a technological revolution is quietly developing in which mankind either will soon experience utopian physical and spiritual transformation, or a dystopian nightmare resulting in Armageddon. This is not “preacher” talk. [bold added] (PE, pg. 1)
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM has come to be known as the “Human Enhancement Revolution” will begin (behind which I see a demonic spirit in the form of a technocratic goddess [i.e., the acronym for “Human Enhancement Revolution” is “HER”]), quickly resulting in a technological, cultural, and metaphysical shift dominated by a new species of unrecognizably superior humans—those born of HER.[bold, red added] (PE, page. 1)
Again, Horn’s “Human Enhancement Revolution (HER)”—a “metaphysical shift” dominated by a new species of unrecognizably superior humans”—is a sensationally fabricated myth. This idea is totally absent from the Scriptures. The remainder of this lengthy first chapter in Pandemonium’s Engine was a paper that Horn submitted to the American Academy of Religion in 2011, a paper filled with Horn’s dire prognosis for humanity and Nephilim False Eschatology. 536 Other contributing authors for this book include: Gary Stearman, Noah Hutchings, Chuck Missler, Sharon Gilbert, Carl Teichrib, Doug Woodward, Douglas Hamp, and Cris Putnam. Putnam co-authored three best-selling books, Petrus Romanus, ExoVaticana, and The Final Roman Emperor, with publisher Tom Horn.537 On the heels of the first Future Congress event in 2011, Gary Stearman, who was the Prophecy in the News host at the time, interviewed Doug Woodward on the subject of Transhumanism. Both authors shared insights from their writing contributions to Horn’s book Pandemonium’s Engine. In this brief exchange, quoted below, note how they twist the Genesis record to say that “the oldest prophecy in the bible” involved Satan’s attempt to destroy the human genome. Totally absent from the discussion is Christ’s victory over sin and the devil— and the redemption of mankind through “the Seed of the woman”: Exhibit: Horn audio series based on Pandemonium’s Engine538 STEARMAN: “I think transhumanism goes back to Genesis 3:15 where God is having a conversation with the man, the woman, and the serpent. And He says to the serpent, ‘I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his heel.’ This has been called the oldest prophecy in the bible. And 180 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM what’s the subject of that prophecy? Genome—a seed. It’s a battle of the human genome. The battle is to preserve the human genome which Satan, the serpent, would like to destroy.” WOODWARD: “As you point out in the book [Pandemonium’s Engine], when Satan, uh, or human kind began to traffick in the possibility of manipulating, ah, the, not just the creation but specifically the human genome, ah, it appears to draw special attention from God—whether we’re talking about the Flood of Noah or Sodom and Gomorrah—which I think most of our viewers might be surprised about—but as you point out, that as well was a unique opportunity in which God brought a specific judgment about as a result.” 539 [bold added]
Genesis 3:15 is talking about the virgin-born Son of God who was “bruised on the heel” at Calvary to redeem a sinful humanity (Gal. 3:16). When the Lord Jesus Christ went to the Cross, He crushed Satan’s head, bringing an end to his authority and power over believers (1 Jn. 3:8). But both of these men are teaching a form of the “serpent seed” heresy that we have written about previously. 540 In essence, they are saying that Satan has the power to produce literal “seed” or physical offspring. This Satanic DNA, they say, will thoroughly corrupt the human genome inviting God’s judgment (i.e., like Noah’s Flood). They do not mention the sinful human heart which is the reason the Bible gives for Noah's Flood: “God saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.” (Gen. 6:5)541 The teachings of the PPP leaders are often very sensational, but they go astray from the simplicity of the Gospel message of salvation. The old Bible commentator, Matthew Henry, eloquently explained the proper teaching of Genesis 3:15—giving Christ the praise and glory that’s due Him: 3:14,15 - God passes sentence; and he begins where the sin began, with the serpent. The devil's instruments must share in the devil's punishments. Under the cover of the serpent, the devil is sentenced to be degraded and accursed of God; detested and abhorred of all mankind: also to be destroyed and ruined at last by the great Redeemer, signified by the breaking of his head. War is proclaimed between the Seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent. It is the fruit of this enmity, that there is a continual warfare between grace and corruption, in the hearts of God's people. Satan, by their corruptions, buffets them, sifts them, and seeks to devour them. Heaven and hell can never be reconciled, nor light and darkness; no more can Satan and a sanctified soul. Also, there is a continual struggle between the wicked and the godly in this world. A gracious promise is here made of Christ, as the Deliverer of fallen man from the power of Satan. Here was the drawn of the Gospel day: no sooner was the wound given, than the remedy was provided and revealed. This gracious revelation of a Saviour came 181 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM unasked, and unlooked for. Without a revelation of mercy, giving some hope of forgiveness, the convinced sinner would sink into despair, and be hardened. By faith in this promise, our first parents, and the patriarchs before the flood, were justified and saved. [bold added]
Matthew Henry continues. Notice is given concerning Jesus Christ: 1. His incarnation, or coming in the flesh. It speaks great encouragement to sinners, that their Saviour is the Seed of the woman, bone of our bone, Heb 2:11,14. 2. His sufferings and death; pointed at in Satan's bruising his heel, that is, his human nature. And Christ's sufferings are continued in the sufferings of the saints for His name. The devil tempts them, persecutes and slays them; and so bruises the heel of Christ, who is afflicted in their afflictions. But while the heel is bruised on earth, the Head is in heaven. 3. His victory over Satan thereby. Christ baffled Satan's temptations, rescued souls out of his hands. By His death he gave a fatal blow to the devil's kingdom, a wound to the head of this serpent that cannot be healed. As the Gospel gains ground, Satan falls. [bold added]542
A NEW PARADIGM: THE HYBRID AGE Another prominent Horn collaboration is The Hybrid Age DVD with Chuck Missler. The disc jacket features a digitized six-fingered hand symbolizing a Nephilim hybrid—signifying their belief in an evil angel/human entity. Note the description of this DVD package which is available in Tom Horn’s SurvivorMall.com: In recent years, astonishing technological developments have pushed the frontiers of humanity toward a far-reaching transformation that promises in the very near future to redefine what it means to be human. Exhibit: Horn & Missler’s Hybrid Age543 As a result, new modes of perception between things visible and invisible are expected to challenge the Church in ways that are unprecedented. The destiny of each individual – as well as the future of the family – will depend on the knowledge of this new paradigm and our preparedness to face it head-on.544 [bold added] 182 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM Did you catch that last sentence? “The destiny of each individual—as well as the future of the family—will depend on the knowledge of this new paradigm …” This is a thorough-going dystopian and earthbound horror script that is fully at odds with the Bible. The “destiny of each individual” is contingent upon whether or not they believe the saving Gospel of Jesus Christ, not whether or not they are prepared to slay modern-day dragons in posthuman form. The believer’s destiny should be focused upon heaven, not earth—regardless of what transpires in the future. Rather than flocking to the experts of “this new paradigm” readers should instead flee to the refuge of the Lord God and to His Word. Horn has produced a subsequent movie documentary to promote “this new paradigm” featuring a video with Missler listed as one of its experts. The video caption announces, “Inhuman: The Next and Final Phase of Man is Here.” Yet, what does Scripture teach about this? Is mankind “evolving” upward—or inviting God’s judgment due to sin and unbelief?
Exhibit: DVD of Horn’s Inhuman video545
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM “For by Him [Christ] were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by Him, and for Him: And He is before all things, and by Him all things consist (Col. 1:16-17)”
DNA WARFARE AND IMMORTALITY
Exhibit: DNA & the Physics of God 2013 summit546
The “Postmodern Prophecy Paradigm” teachers predict that this “inhuman next and final phase of man” is already underway—being cooked up in medical laboratories worldwide—orchestrated by demonic entities. Those who buy into these diabolical and conspiratorial ideas would have to assume that the Lord God has been impotent, unable to contain and squelch this pervasively sinister endtime plan—and that He forgot to write about it in Scripture. Prominent PPP leaders gathered at the third annual Chicago Summit in 2013 to discuss these socalled evil plots in a forum called, “DNA Warfare & the Nephilim: The Search for Immortality.” Bob Ulrich, formerly of Prophecy in the News, wrote a glowing review of this conference, signaling to his readers that even the Bible prophets missed the gravity of the current hour: The safe, comfortable world of biblical eschatology has entered uncharted waters. While we still rely on the writings of the prophets as our guidebook to the future, things are changing rapidly in our 21st century world. The ancient prophecies still capture our attention, but there are unsettling things taking place in laboratories and research centers all over the world. Shocking things you just can’t imagine. 547 [bold added] 184 | P a g e
THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM An online advertisement for the Chicago Summit reads like a ramped-up re-make version of the old Frankenstein horror movie, not what you'd expect from a panel of supposedly credible Bible experts: The DNA of mankind is under attack like never before. “Made in the Image of God” may soon be a thing of the past as scientists race to improve upon God’s Creation in laboratories and universities across the world. Exhibit: Chicago Summit DVD 548 This one-of-a-kind Prophecy Conference includes 14 soul-stirring messages on 8 DVDs from some of today's top bible prophecy speakers - they’ve come loaded with the latest info on transhumanism, the Nephilim, Facebook, the future superman, DNA enhancement, super soldiers, cloning, hybrids, and ultimately, Satan’s plan for a man made in his own image, not God’s! … Enjoy 14 messages from some of the world’s brightest Christian and scientific minds, espousing the concepts and secret plans that once filled the pages of science fiction books. Prepare to be amazed at just how far scientists are pushing the DNA envelope in a quest for man's immortality. No God? No problem! Who needs God when we can live forever? Yes, the world is in for a big shock! The Days of Noah have arrived. 549
But this is hardly “soul-stirring” information. It is grievous. This PPP leaders' sci-fi scenario is NOT “the Days of Noah” that Jesus referred to in Matthew 24 and Luke 17—a future time when the utter depravity of mankind’s rebellion toward God will render it ripe for the judgments recorded in the Book of Revelation—just like when God flooded the ungodly world of Noah’s day. We have discussed these sci-fi heresies at length in previous articles. 550 Rather than point readers, listeners, and viewers back to Jesus Christ our Savior, these prophecy-mongers continue to twist Scripture, modern science, and credulity in order to spread their seductively corrupt teachings. The Chicago Summit list of “the world’s brightest Christian and scientific minds espousing the concepts and secret plans that once filled the pages of science fiction books” include a now familiar cast: L. A. Marzulli, Doug Hamp, Russ Dizdar, Rob Skiba, Doug Woodward, and Derek and Sharon Gilbert. 185 | P a g e
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Exhibit: Shelley’s Frankenstein – Hollywood’s 1931 version551
TRANSHUMANISM GOES TO CHURCH We have documented these Transhumanism heresies elsewhere, 552 but will recap some of the most outrageous false teachings from these prominent PPP leaders in the following excerpts. Note also the close connection to PPP leader Tom Horn. As you read these scary snippets below, note the utter lack of biblical support for their assertions, rampant extra-biblical speculation, and the familiar fear-evoking false idea that “superhuman” “nonhuman” and “synthetic deities” will soon arise on the scene to alter human DNA (thus reaching immortality in a “soulless” state thereby separating themselves from God forever)—as though man or Satan can create any new being apart from God (see Col. 1:16-17):
Are we being blindly led over a cliff? Have we opened a sealed door, a kind of Pandora’s Box, that was never intended to be opened? Behind closed doors scientists have breached the genetic codes that separate the individuality of animal and plant species. In the area of food production, new hybrid plant species have been scientifically engineered, with their derivative products commonly appearing on our supermarket shelves. But quietly, for two decades, scientists have taken the knowledge of genetic engineering to a frightening new level, merging animal DNA with human DNA, creating the potential and unthinkable reality of superhuman, nonhuman entities. [bold added]
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM ~ Ken Klein DVD description (WND) with Tom Horn, “Trans-Humanism: Destroying the Barriers” 553 [Ed. note: This synopsis sounds like a 1960s B-rated horror movie! Human scientists may tinker with animal and human DNA, but they will NEVER be able to “create” “superhuman” or “nonhuman entities.” Only God can create new life.]
In the latter half of the show, researcher Tom Horn discussed the blistering pace of genetics and transhumanism, and how the technology could usher in a new genetic arms race. Over the last 2 years, statements by the Pentagon have described the "human enhancement revolution" as being right around the corner. He expressed concern over how biotech and robotics are transforming today's military, comparing the development to a new era of the Nephilim—the beings written about in the Bible, who were involved in what he called the "contamination of human genetics." Horn cited the work of the late Terence McKenna who foresaw a technological singularity in which human brains would be altered, creating a permanent pathway for contact with otherdimensional beings. A war is coming between "a new species of unrecognizably superior humans" and the current humans, as well as havoc created by the building of synthetic deities, known as artilects, he added. [bold added] ~ Coast to Coast radio interview with Tom Horn by George Noory554
[Ed. note: It’s unconscionable that a Christian author would give credence to a New Ager immersed in hallucinogenic drugs and shamanism (McKenna). The “coming war” that Horn predicts between “a new species of unrecognizably superior humans” and “current humans”— as well as the “building of synthetic deities” is pure science fiction. The Book of Revelation speaks only of a final battle on earth between Antichrist and the Lord Jesus at His coming.]
In recent years, astonishing technological developments have pushed the frontiers of humanity toward far-reaching morphological transformation that promises in the very near future to redefine what it means to be human. What science has already done with genetically modifying plants and animals will soon apply to Homo sapiens. An international, intellectual, and fast-growing cultural movement known as transhumanism supports this vision, as does a flourishing list of U.S. military advisors, bioethicists, law professors, and academics, which intend the use of genetics, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology and synthetic biology (Grins technologies) as tools that will radically redesign our minds, our memories, our physiology, our offspring, and even perhaps—as Joel Garreau, in his bestselling book Radical Evolution, claims— our very souls. [bold added] ~ Thomas R. Horn, “The Hybrid Age,” featured in the 2012 Personal Update magazine of Koinonia House (Chuck Missler) 555
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM [Ed. note: Transhumanists of all stripes will no doubt continue their radical and sometimes unethical experimentation—as did their alchemist forebears before them—but the fact remains that no man, and no devil, will be able to breach the life boundary that God has put firmly into place.]
Lucifer holds a special contempt for mankind, God's unique creation. Once again he's making another attempt to pollute the human genome and destroy everything God has declared to be "good." Tom Horn returns to the set to talk about the shocking advances being made in the twisted field of transhumanism. Are we the last generation of humans[?] [bold added] ~ YouTube promo for Tom Horn & Gary Stearman (formerly of Prophecy in the News), video on Transhumanism 556
[Ed. note: We may be the last generation before the Lord returns. If so, we should be preaching the Gospel of Salvation to those who are lost. That should be the burden of our hearts. The Bible says that Satan destroys life through death, tempts mankind to sin, and savagely persecutes believers (1 Pet. 5:8; Lk. 4:13; Rev. 12:9; Jn. 8:44; Acts 10:38; Heb. 2:14). He does NOT possess literal “seed” with which to corrupt the human gene pool, but he comes "to steal, and to kill, and to destroy." (John 10:10)]
What I find interesting about all of the above passages taken from Isaiah concerning satyrs and dragons is that they are connected both to Babylon and to the "Day of the Lord" which represents the Last Days. So, could it be that we will see these creatures again? Recall again the words of Jesus in Matthew 24:37: "As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be at the coming of the Son of man." Noah lived for 950 years - 600 years prior to the Flood and 350 years after it. So, as we are now seeing, the "days of Noah" were filled with all sorts of strange and terrifying creatures. In those days, God's "very good" creation was corrupted by man and Fallen Angel (Watchers). Today, modern science is doing the exact same thing! Manipulating, distorting and corrupting God's "very good" Creation. Scientists started by creating genetically modified food. And now they are working on splicing genes between animals, humans and plants… The implications of this type of science are indeed terrifying: …How tempting do you think it is for the military to create Super-Soldiers? Men that can run like horses, hunt like tigers, see like eagles, hear like dogs. And why stop there? What if a man could have the radar of a bat or the sonar of a dolphin? Think I'm kidding? Think again. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has plans for an Extended Performance War Fighter that is nothing short of shocking. Like something out of a sci-fi series. Make no mistake, Transhumanism is here and it's here to stay… read Tom Horn's Open Letter To Christian Leaders on this issue. Also, be sure to check out his new book, Forbidden Gates, which goes into a lot more detail on all of this. This is an issue that we simply can not [sic] afford to ignore. The lines are very quickly going to become blurred. Soon, "normal humans" will be replaced by "super-humans" that will be so far advanced that they
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM would be considered gods by comparison. Through Transhumanism, we have been and are creating animal-human hybrids, just like the Watchers and Nephilim did in the days of Noah! [bold, red added] ~ Rob Skiba, Christian author/filmmaker 557 [Ed. note: This is an example of where this extreme mythical speculation is heading. Skiba's Horn-inspired prediction that “soon, ‘normal humans’ will be replaced by ‘super-humans’ that are “so far advanced” as to “be considered gods” is a sensational fairy tale, Hollywood science fiction, but not biblical prophecy.]
Man now possesses the power, via transgenics and transhumanism to direct his own evolution. Tinkering with his code at the genetic level (DNA) is not only possible, but is currently being done. Strange animal hybrids are being made in the laboratory and even humans and animals are being experimented with; man is certainly open to improving himself in any way possible. From all of the testimony that we have seen, we know that transhumanism is of course not the real goal. For the very concept of it is “trans” – that is, to be transhuman – to go beyond being human. The mixing of human seed with animals is merely a stepping stone to something far more sinister that Satan has been planning for a very long time, and in fact, has already attempted several times. Daniel 2:43 predicts that such a scenario is going to happen again and we saw that it has already begun. Thus, man mingling himself with animals is detestable, but not the deal breaker. Transhumanist activity is only the stepping stone to an even grander deception. We have noted that after the rapture, the Enemy will have a counter explanation and the “aliens” will take credit for it. The Bible tells us that a man with fierce countenance will arise and he will have all the power, authority and working signs of Satan to deceive the world and to cause them to take on his mark. Could the science of transhumanism and transgenics play a role in the rise of the Antichrist and the Mark of the Beast? Could technology allow Satan to create one from his own seed as Genesis 3:15 predicts? Satan’s end game has been in the making now for many decades and will very soon be put into play. [bold added] ~ Doug Hamp, Christian author 558
[Ed. note: Man has never been given the power to “direct his own evolution.” This is a New Age heresy. Man is a sinner in need of a Savior. Daniel 2:43 does not predict a future transhuman nightmare. In this verse, the prophet Daniel is interpreting the dream of the statue’s ten-toed feet. He said that in the last days, this end-time kingdom will not hold together like iron when it is mixed with clay. It will be a time when kingdoms will attempt to strengthen political power by forming alliances through intermarriage.]
There is more to worshipping the image of the Beast, than meets the eye. The demonic creatures and strange armies that fight at Armageddon are not human. They are creatures from the Abyss and some are genetically engineered super soldiers of
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM Cyborgs. This is just the tip of the iceberg of what is happening now. In this powerful MP3 series, Paul explains how it is possible that genetically modified human beings and Nephilim are walking among us. Paul connects the secret meaning of the all-seeing eye of Lucifer on the back of U.S. dollar and how the Egyptian pyramid may represent, a genetically enhanced elite. Nephilim may rule the masses with a microchip implant after the Rapture. The architecture in Washington D.C. was designed by the Freemasons and pointed towards America being the New Atlantis or Babylon. Prepar e to hear Paul teach Bible prophecy that is integrated with new scientific technologies that most people do not even know exist.… [bold added] ~ MP3 description for “A Transhuman Replicant Future” by Paul McGuire, Christian author [The jacket graphic for this MP3 is depicted below.]559 [Ed. note: McGuire mixes occult lore, Freemasonry, and science fiction to rewrite Scripture when he states that the “strange armies that fight at Armageddon are not human.” He is claiming they are “genetically engineered super soldiers of Cyborgs.” The term “Cyborg” is certainly not in the Bible. Here is in fact what the Word of God says: “For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty… And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.” (Rev. 16:14, 16) While they will be indeed inspired by demons, the armies that gather at Armageddon are human men; the “kings of the earth.” (See Part 2)]
Exhibit: Graphic from Paul McGuire’s MP3 series: “America in Prophecy – A Transhuman Replicant Future” 560
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM All of these sensationally frightful teachings are contrary to Scripture and devoid of the true Gospel. Mankind’s greatest enemy is his own sin—not posthuman hybrid creatures or mythological monsters poised to corrupt and/or exterminate the human race. Dr. Erdmann points us back to Christ: The response to human mortality that has been made by Christianity is to point to the source of the imperfection – ethical rebellion of human beings against their creator God. The natural decay of every complex structures in the universe is attributable to God’s curse on this ethical rebellion, and the promise of external restoration goes with the promise of internal regeneration (Romans 8:18-23). The core problem of individual human beings lies, therefore, in their autonomous dispositions. Human beings must be conformed ethically to the image of Jesus Christ, the perfectly human and divine Son of God. To achieve this goal, each person requires unconditional grace from God (Romans 8:29; Eph. 2:8-9), which involves not only forgiveness, but also the means of progressive sanctification: the comprehensive submission to God’s sovereign rule (Phil. 3:14). The goal is the ultimate (post-judgment) attainment of perfect humanity, not the attainment of full technological perfection, as a quasi-divine being (Phil. 3:20-21).561 [bold added]
THE TRUTH: The Postmodern Prophecy Paradigm (PPP) elite—who have concocted and promulgated a multi-faceted, metaphysical shift beyond credulity via conjecture, Scripture wresting, and pseudoscience—are luring God’s flock through perilous pastures and into the dark abyss by posing as enlightened shepherds. The only remedy is for those who’ve wandered into the PPP fold to return to the Good Shepherd and His Word which alone can light the pathway home. Over 60 years ago A.W. Tozer exhorted the brethren to test everything with the written Word of God. We would do well to heed his wise words that apply even clearer today as we see that day approaching: “But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies... (2 Pet. 2:1).”
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM Whatever it may be in our Christian experience that originates outside of Scriptures should, for that very reason, be suspect until it can be shown to be in accord with them. If it should be found to be contrary to the Word of revealed truth no true Christian will accept it as being from God. However high the emotional content, no experience can be proved to be genuine unless we can find chapter and verse authority for it in Scriptures. "To the word and to the testimony" must always be the last and final proof. Whatever is new or singular should also be viewed with caution until it can furnish scriptural proof of its validity. Throughout the twentieth century quite a number of unscriptural notions have gained acceptance among Christians by claiming that they were among truths that were to be revealed in the last days. The truth is that the Bible does not teach that there will be new light and advanced spiritual experiences in the latter days; it teaches the exact opposite! Nothing in Daniel or the New Testament epistles can be tortured into advocating the idea that we of the end of the Christian era shall enjoy light that was not known at its beginning. Beware of any man who claims to be wiser than the apostles or holier than the martyrs of the Early Church. The best way to deal with him is to rise and leave his presence! 562 [bold added]
“The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have [it] more abundantly. I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep (John 10:10-12).”
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Herescope Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. (1 John 4:1)
Note to the reader: This e-book was updated and adapted from a seven-part article series, “The Rise of End-time Occultism,” first posted on Herescope in May through April of 2013. Herescope is an online journal published several times a week by Discernment Ministries, Inc., revealing heresies and false teachings affecting the Church today. Copyright 2005-2016 Discernment Ministries unless otherwise noted. For more articles, books, and newsletters go to http://www.discernmentministries.org. E-mail:
[email protected]. *Note: Part 8 of this book segment was not part of the original “Rise of End-time Occultism” series, as it was written several months after the original series was posted, but its contents fit in perfectly with the major tenets of the Postmodern Prophecy Paradigm teachings and should be included. 1
Graphic taken: http://www.omagdigital.com/publication/?i=150950&p=2. Gary Stearman, “The Dark Side of Bible Prophecy: Why We Must Discuss the Strange and Supernatural,” Prophecy in the News, March 30, 2013, http://www.prophecyinthenews.com/the-dark-side-of-bible-prophecy/. (Ed. Note: This link is no longer available since Stearman left Prophecy in the News to found the Prophecy Watchers ministry. A video of Stearman discussing this PITN issue can be seen here: https://twelvebooks.wordpress.com/2013/04/14/the-dark-side-of-prophecy-by-mr-gary-stearman-april-14-2013/. This quote also can be found in the May 9, 2015 article by Stearman with the same title on his new website: https://prophecywatchers.com/the-dark-side-of-bible-prophecy/, as well as on page 3 of the PITN online issue: http://www.omagdigital.com/publication/?i=150950&p=2.) 2
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LA Marzulli, “On The Trail of the Nephilim! Review by Bob Ulrich!” April 26, 2013, http://lamarzulli.wordpress.com/2013/04/26/on-the-trail-of-the-nephilim-review-by-bob-ulrich/. 4
This suggestion can be found in a quote by Gary Stearman in his article “The Dark Side of Bible Prophecy,” that the Antichrist “must be something other than human … a semi-human creature spawned by the mysterious ‘they’ of Daniel’s earlier vision.” 5
Chuck Missler speculates on these very things in his article “Post-Flood Nephilim,” http://www.khouse.org/articles/2003/462/. The reader is advised to read “Giants in the Old Testament” by Tim Chaffey, posted at Answers In Genesis, for a more scientific and biblically accurate account: http://www.answersingenesis.org/ar ticles/aid/v7/n1/ot-giants.
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The Discernment Research Group that publishes the Herescope blog has been doing ongoing research and writing into the new paradigm prophecy movement that is emerging in the evangelical church. There are many previous articles on this topic. See the bottom of our 4/2/13 post "101 Questions about the Nephilim" for a list of previous posts. 7
Tim Chaffey, “Giants in the Old Testament,” http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/aid/v7/n1/ot-giants. Also see the footnotes 6 through 9 directly below. 8
Bodie Hodge, “Who Were the Nephilim? Genesis 6 and Numbers 13—a fresh look,” http://www.answersingenesis.org/ar ticles/aid/v2/n1/who-were-the-nephilim. 9
Tim Chaffey, “Giants in the Old Testament,” http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/aid/v7/n1/ot-giants. To see the many distortions about giants, keeping in mind that this is highly questionable and unscholarly science, see http://genesis6giants.com/; http://gianthumanskeletons.blogspot.com; http://lamarzulli.wordpress.com/2012/09/, http://lamarzulli.wordpress.com/2013/03/27/nephilim-mounds-bobulrich-reviews-giants-hiding-in-plain-sight/. For fascinating biblical and anthropological information see: http://www.answersingenesis.org/ar ticles/aid/v7/n1/ot-giants. 10
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Dr. Todd Charles Wood, “Four Women, a Boat, and Lots of Kids,” http://www.answersingenesis.org/ar ticles/am/v3/n2/four-women-boat-kids. 12
Photo taken from: Alex Q. Arbuckle, “1918-1940 - The tallest man in history,” Imagno/Austrian Archives/Getty Images; see: http://mashable.com/2015/07/27/tallest-man-in-history/#mGdk7cyoakqq. 13
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO_religion, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UFO_r eligions , and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_astronauts. Follow the links. 14
Jason Lisle, “Are ETs & UFOs Real? http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/nab/ar e-ets-and-ufos-real.
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LA Marzulli, “On The Trail of the Nephilim! Review by Bob Ulrich!” April 26, 2013 , http://lamarzulli.wordpress.com/2013/04/26/on-the-trail-of-the-nephilim-review-by-bob-ulrich/. 16
Graphic taken from Gnostic Warrior website; see: http://gnosticwarrior.com/la-marzulli-interview.html.
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“The Serpent Seed & The Nephilim: Nephilim Eschatology, Part 2: A Crash Course in the Emerging Endtime Prophesy Heresy,” Herescope, July 21, 2012, http://herescope.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-serpent-seednephilim.html. 18
See: Gaylene Goodroad, “Nephilim Eschatology: A Crash Course in the Emerging Endtime Prophecy Heresy Pt. 1: Nephilim-induced Human DNA Corruption,” Herescope, July 10, 2012; See: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2012/07/nephilim-eschatology.html. 19
Thomas R. Horn, NewsWithViews.com, FORBIDDEN GATES (PART 18), “They Shall Mingle Themselves with the Seed of Men,” Nov. 11, 2010; http://www.newswithviews.com/Horn/thomas154.htm. 20
Gary Stearman, Prophecy in the News, “The Ghastly Truth about the Days of Noah,” reprinted in RaidersNewsUpdate, May 1, 2011; http://www.raidersnewsupdate.com/ghastlyufos.htm. (Ed. note: this link is no longer viable. The article is archived on Contending for Truth.com, “Preparation for the Alien / UFO Deception in High Gear--Parts 1-4”, pp. 15-30; see: http://www.contendingfortruth.com/wp-content/uploads2/Preparation-ofthe-Alien-UFO-Deception-Par ts-1-4.pdf.) 21
Thomas Horn, Pandemonium’s Engine, Ch 7, Douglas Hamp, “Man Becomming [sic] His Own God?”, Defender, Crane, MO, 2011, pg. 247.
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Chuck Missler and Mark Eastman, Alien Encounters: the Secret Behind the UFO Phenomenon, Koinonia House, Coeur d’ Alene, 1997, pp. 204, 207. 23
I.D.E. Thomas, The Omega Conspiracy: Satan’s Last Assault on God’s Kingdom, Growth Publishing, Herndon, VA, 1986, pg. 99. Note: Thomas awarded author and publisher Tom Horn an honorary doctorate in 2007 (see bio on page 66 of Horn’s book, Pandemonium’s Engine). 24
Tom Horn credits I.D.E. Thomas with awarding him an honorary doctorate degree; Pandemonium’s Engine, pg. 66. 25 L.A. Marzulli blog article, “Fallen Angels – The Answer to the Mystery that is Ignored!” Feb. 27, 2012; http://lamarzulli.wordpress.com/2012/02/27/fallen-angels-the-answer-to-the-mystery-that-is-ignored/. 26
L.A. Marzulli received an honorary doctorate degree from Pacific International University, the same unaccredited online university where I.D.E. Thomas was a professor. See: http://www.lamarzulli.net/about_lynn_marzulli.htm, http://baptistsearch.blogspot.com/2008/04/conspiracytheory.html, and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_International_University#Alumni. 27
Graphic taken from Marzulli’s blog; see: https://lamarzulli.wordpress.com/tag/watchers-conference/. Tom and Nita Horn, Forbidden Gates: How Genetics, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Synthetic Biology, Nanotechnology, and Human Enhancement Herald the Dawn of Techno-Dimensional Spiritual Warfare, Defender Publishing, Crane, MO 2010, Terry James, Foreward, pp. xi-xiii. 28
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Stearman, “The Dark Side of Bible Prophecy,” Ibid.
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J.R. Church, “Mount Hermon: Gate of the Fallen Angels,”
http://www.prophecyinthenews.com/mount-hermon-gate-of-the-fallen-angels/. (Ed. note: this link is no longer viable. The article is archived on Contending for Truth.com, “The Antichrist & The Tribe of Dan, Mount Hermon, FallenAngels & The Giants/Nephilum [sic]”; see: http://www.contendingfortruth.com/wpcontent/uploads2/Antichrist-The-Tribe-of-Dan-Mount-Her mon-Fallen-Angels-The-Giants-Nephilum-.pdf.) 31
Graphic taken from the back cover of Stephen Quayle's book Angels & Fallen Angels - Offspring of the Gods: the Sexual Corruption of the Human Race as depicted on Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/Aliens-Fallen-AngelsOffspring-Corruption/dp/B0014ZYHJA/ref=pd_sim_b_4http://www.amazon.com/Aliens-Fallen-Angels-OffspringCorruption/dp/B0014ZYHJA/ref=pd_sim_b_4 (front cover) and http://www.amazon.com/gp/customermedia/product-gallery/B0014ZYHJA/ref=cm_ciu_pdp_images_1?ie=UTF8&index =1 (back cover). Quayle is among the leaders of the "new prophetic paradigm." For context see: HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE & HERE. 32 Sharon K. Gilbert, “Dragon’s Breath,” http://raidersnewsupdate.com/pember9.htm. This link is no longer viable. Gilbert’s article became Chapter 12 of Pandemonium’s Engine: How the End of the Church Age, the Rise of Transhumanism, and the Coming of the Ubermensch (Overman) Herald Satan’s Imminent and Final Assault on the Creation of God, Defender Publishing (Tom Horn), Crane, MO, 2011, pp. 345-370. 33
Ibid. J.R. Church, “Mount Hermon: Gate of the Fallen Angels,”
http://www.prophecyinthenews.com/mount-hermon-gate-of-the-fallen-angels/. 34
Tom Horn, excerpted from Nephilim Stargates and The Return of The Watchers,” http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/vida_ali en/alien_watchers21.htm, on the topic of alien abduction, which is a widely prevalent report in UFO lore, which the prophecy men have previously written extensively. 35
Tom Horn & Cris Putnam, “Incubi, Succubi, Daemons, and Elementals,” Part 6 of Exo-Vaticana; http://www.raidersnewsupdate.com/vaticana6.htm. The reader should beware that much of this reading delves into horrific matters of the occult world, and those with tender or susceptible consciences and new believers should definitely NOT read this report. Sadly, this is not even remotely connected to the doctrine of Christ and His
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM salvation. (Ed. Note: this link is no longer viable. The article is archived on News With Views.com: http://www.newswithviews.com/Horn/thomas190.htm .) 36
Graphic taken from Official Disclosure Magazine: Biblical Perspectives on the Paranormal, Anomalous Publishing (Tom Horn), Gresham, OR, 2006, pg. 30; see: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B75yD6eRzQEZm42TkdOSjRkLUU/view?usp=sharing . 37
Description of Rob Skiba’s book Archon Invasion: The Rise, Fall and Return of the Nephilim (Volume 1) found on Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/Archon-Invasion-Rise-ReturnNephilim/dp/0985098171/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1367268815&sr=1-1. 38
Exo-Vaticana: Petrus Romanus, Project L.U.C.I.F.E.R., and the Vatican's Astonishing Plan for the Arrival of an Alien Savior, Cris Putnam & Thomas Horn, Defender Publishing, Crane, MO, 2013, pp. 86 -87; see: http://www.raidersnewsupdate.com/vaticana4.htm. (Ed. note: this is no longer viable. The article in available online on the News With Views archive page: http://www.newswithviews.com/Horn/thomas188.htm.) 39
Ibid, p. 109.
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Ibid. Exo-Vatican: http://www.raidersnewsupdate.com/vaticana4.htm. Note that we covered this "serpent seed" reptilian heresy in our Herescope post: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-serpent-seed-nephilim.html. (Ed note: the Raiders News Update link is no longer viable. The article is archived on News With Views.com: http://www.newswithviews.com/Horn/thomas188.htm .) 41
Several basic descriptions of this “seeding” teaching can be found on Wikipedia, which factually describes the various New Age cults that have proliferated around these teachings, including Ashtar Command and the Raelians. Much of this information was received by channeled demonic transmissions. See, for example: UFO religion, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO_religion ; list of UFO religions, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UFO _religions ; Raelism, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raelians , Ashtar (exterrestrial being), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashtar_(extraterrestrial_being) , and Erich von Daniken, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Daniken. 42
See “Ancient Astronauts” for the many parallels: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_astronauts; and also Erich von Daniken: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Daniken. 43
LA Marzulli, “On The Trail of the Nephilim! Review by Bob Ulrich!” April 26, 2013; http://lamarzulli.wordpress.com/2013/04/26/on-the-trail-of-the-nephilim-review-by-bob-ulrich/. 44
LA Marzulli, “On The Trail of the Nephilim! Review by Bob Ulrich!” April 26, 2013; http://lamarzulli.wordpress.com/2013/04/26/on-the-trail-of-the-nephilim-review-by-bob-ulrich/. 45
LA Marzulli, “The Coming Great Deception… Wake Up!” April 12, 2013; http://lamarzulli.wordpress.com/2013/04/12/the-coming-gr eat-deception-wake-up/. Marzulli also writes that “It would appear there was another race of beings that predated what we would call Native Americans,” http://lamarzulli.wordpress.com/2013/04/30/on-the-trail-of-the-nephilim-chapter-2/. 46
Gary Stearman has left PITN since this was first posted. He is now the CEO of Prophecy Watchers; see: https://prophecywatchers.com/who-we-are/. 47
Ibid. Dark Side of Prophecy; See page 5: http://www.omagdigital.com/publication/?i=150950&p=2.
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Stearman, “The Dark Side of Bible Prophecy,” Ibid. Graphic taken from online Christian book store: http://store.vision.org.au/bible-studies/the-hybrid-age-chuckmissler-and-tom-horn-dvd/11470dvd-5944885.html. 49
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Roger Patterson, Evolution Exposed, Chapter 10: The Origin of Humans,” http://www.answersingenesis.org/ar ticles/ee/origin-of-humans. 51
Dr. Jason Lisle, “Are ETs & UFOs Real?,” AIG, December 6, 2007; last featured October 9, 2015; see: https://answersingenesis.org/astronomy/alien-life/are-ets-ufos-real/. 52
Jason Lisle, “Are ETs & UFOs Real? See: http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/nab/are-ets-and-ufos-r eal.
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Ken Ham, “Creation, Flood and Coming Fire,” http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/cm/v8/n2/flood. Graphic image taken from Marzulli’s blog, October 17, 2012, UFO News: Alien Soldiers? You be the Judge…”; see: http://lamarzulli.wordpress.com/2012/10/17/ufo-news-alien-soldiers-you-be-the-judge/. This article was embellished with satire by Pastor Ken Silva in “Alien Nephilim Soldiers Are Spotted”; http://apprising.org/2012/10/17/alien-nephilim-soldiers-are-spotted/. 55 Thomas R. Horn, “Forbidden Gates – Part 18”, NewsWithViews.com, November 11, 2010; http://www.newswithviews.com/Horn/thomas154.htm . Horn ‘s article series was incorporated into his book with the same name in 2010. One can only wonder who the theologians are that Horn is citing as experts on this DNA alteration, since these false doctrines are foreign to the Scriptures. 56 See Part 1. Also: “Homo Nephilus: The Rise of Endtime Occultism Part 1,” Herescope, May 1, 2013, http://herescope.blogspot.com/2013/05/homo-nephilus_6651.html. 57 Ibid, “Nephilim Eschatology: A Crash Course in the Emerging Endtime Prophecy Heresy Pt. 1”. 58 This unbiblical brand of spiritual warfare will be addressed in Part 3 of this booklet. See also our Sept 3, 2011 article, “Militant Prayer: Taking Spiritual Dominion Over Dark Angels,” http://herescope.blogspot.com/2011/09/militant-prayer .html. 59 See: “Apocalyptic Paganism in the Church: Bible Prophecy in Crisis," Herescope, March 7, 2012; http://herescope.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-rise-of-apocalyptic-paganism-in.html. 60 The Canadian, “Presidential Election: Alien Soldiers exist says Gary McKinnon,”October, 21, 2012, http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/news/headline_news/2012/10/17/4602.html. [Ed. note: this link is no longer viable, but the information can be found on Ancient Code.com; see: http://www.ancient-code.com/nasa-hacker-ifound-evidence-america-has-deep-space-warships/.] 61 Photo montage taken from Your Newswire.com; see: http://yournewswire.com/nasa-hacker-gary-mckinnonsays-war-ships-are-already-in-space/. 54
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See Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_McKinnon . Rob Williams, “Computer hacker Gary McKinnon will face no further action says CPS: Mr McKinnon, 46, admitted he accessed US government computers but says he was looking for evidence of UFOs,” 12/14/12, http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/computer-hacker-gary-mckinnon-will-face-no-further-action-sayscps-8417875.html. 64 Alejandro Roja, April 15, 2010, “What did UFO hacker really find?” http://www.openminds.tv/what-did-ufohacker-really-find/. 65 See: Marzulli’s blog, October 17, 2012, UFO News: Alien Soldiers? You be the Judge…”; http://lamarzulli.wordpress.com/2012/10/17/ufo-news-alien-soldiers-you-be-the-judge/. This article was embellished with satire by Pastor Ken Silva in “Alien Nephilim Soldiers Are Spotted”; http://apprising.org/2012/10/17/alien-nephilim-soldiers-are-spotted/. 66 Book cover image taken from Rob Skiba’s website; see: http://www.babylonrisingbooks.com. 67 See: Skiba’s website: http://www.babylonrisingbooks.com/book2/index.html . 68 DVD graphic taken from Horn’s website: http://www.skywatchtvstor e.com/Inhuman-FG-PAND-p/inhmn-fgpand.htm. 63
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Horn has a new website entity called SkyWatchTv; see: http://skywatchtv.com/7-fold-skywatch-tv-vision/.
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The quote was excerpted from Tom Horn’s former website, Raiders News Update, which has now been removed along with the original link: http://www.raidersnewsupdate.com/leadstory94.htm. The quotes can also be found on Christian Newswire.com; see: http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/6677314961.html.
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See: Gaylene Goodroad, “Doomsday Datesetters 2012: Apocalypse, Planetary Birth or Deception, Pt. 1”; “The New Age and 2012: A Planetary Birth, Pt. 2”; and “Afterword by Dr. Martin Erdmann”; Herescope, June 10, 2011; http://herescope.blogspot.com/2011/06/doomsday-datesetters-2012.html; For additional insight and perspective into to these rapidly rising deceptions, See Dr. Martin Erdmann’s “The Emerging Galactic Religion,” Herescope, Feb. 28, 2013; http://herescope.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-emerging-galactic-religion.html. 72 For more information on Hamp, see: “The Serpent Seed & the Nephilim: Nephilim Eschatology, Pt. 2,” Herescope, July 21, 2012; http://herescope.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-serpent-seed-nephilim.html. 73 See: YouTube interview on Coast to Coast AM with George Noory and Douglas Hamp, “The Nephilim, Genetic Manipulation & Prophecy”; originally aired 2/20/2012; posted 3/8, 2012; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gr9OoqxbwHQ. [Ed. note: this video has been removed from YouTube, but can be accessed at the Coast to Coast AM website: http://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2012/02/20.] 74 See: “Apocalyptic Paganism in the Church: Bible Prophecy in Crisis," Herescope, March 7, 2012; http://herescope.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-rise-of-apocalyptic-paganism-in.html. 75 As an ominous example, see “First Earth Battalion”: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Earth_Battalion. New Age leader Barbara Marx Hubbard is rumored to have had a lot to do with the publication of the First Earth Battalion manual. See: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2005/09/barbara-marx-hubbard-willis-harman-and.html and http://arcturus.org/field_manual.pdf. 76 Book graphic taken from Horn’s website: http://www.skywatchtvstore.com/Inhuman-FG-PAND-p/inhmn-fgpand.htm. See also the book video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDBkpIU9UMM. 77 Thomas R. Horn, “Forbidden Gates – Part 18,” NewsWithViews.com, November 11, 2010; http://www.newswithviews.com/Horn/thomas154.htm . Horn ‘s article series was incorporated into his book with the same name in 2010. See Herescope article “Doomsday Datesetters 2012” for more information on Horn’s book: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2011/06/doomsday-datesetters-2012.html. 78 See: Steve Quayle’s website: http://www.stevequayle.com/index.php?s=90. 79 See: Richard Stevens, "Fallen Angels, Nephilim, Transhumanism and Alien Deception Resources," May 4, 2012, graphic posted at Koinonia House Tennessee Regional website: http://kiregional.com/fallen-angels-nephilimtranshumanism-and-alien-deception-resources. [Ed. note: the Koinonia House Tennessee Regional website has been taken down]. Another version of this graphic is posted at Steve Quayle's website Genesis 6 Giants http://www.stevequayle.com/index.php?s =90. See also http://www.genesis6giants.com/index .php?s=595. 80 See: Sue Bradley, “Secrets of the Black Awakening – Part One”, P.I.D. website, August 11, 2008; http://www.pidnews.com/2008/08/11/secrets-of-the-black-awakening-part-one/. See also Russ Dizdar’s website; http://www.shatterthedarkness.net/ and http://www.shatterthedarkness.net/theblackawakening/. 81 Ibid, Bradley. 82 Ibid, Bradley. 83 Ibid, Bradley. 84 Book cover image taken from Russ Dizdar’s website: http://www.theblackawakening.com. 85 Ibid, Bradley. 86 Ibid, Bradley. 87 Screenshot taken from Dizdar YouTube video, “The Devil and Dark Technologies,”; see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUmPtQWT6f0. 88 See: Tom Horn’s website, Raiders News Update (RNU), “Zenith 2016: Did Something Begin in 2012…That Will Zenith in 2016?- Part One: The Fourth Turning”, April 30, 2013; http://www.raidersnewsupdate.com/Zenith1.htm. [Ed. note: the RNU link is no longer viable, but the document can be accessed on his NewsWithViews archive; see: http://www.newswithviews.com/Horn/thomas202.htm.] Zenith 2016 [The Revised & Expanded Edition of Apollyon Rising 2012] was published by Tom Horn in 2013, Defender Publishing, Crane, MO after the pagan god Apollyon failed to material in 2012 as Horn had predicted. 89 See: Gaylene Goodroad, “Quantum Prophecy: Codes, Cosms and Cryptologies, Part 7”, Herescope, May 30, 2012; See: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2012/05/quantum-prophecy.html. 90 Graphic taken from the David Herzog Ministries website; see: https://www.z2systems.com/np/clients/dhm/event.jsp?event=193. 91 Ryan Wyatt, a well-known leader of the NAR, in "A NOW WORD--IT'S TIME FOR THE PROPHETIC TO BE EARTHED AND THE KINGDOM OF GOD ESTABLISHED, Identity Network; see: http://www.elijahlist.com/words/display_word/5067. Cited on Herescope as an example of “Part 1: The Doctrines
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"Che Ahn, James & Michal Ann Goll, Charles & Anne Stock, Georgian & Winnie Banov, Jeff Jansen, John Crowder, and David Ruis: 'FIRESTORM' March 6-9, 2008; Harrisburg, PA," The Elijah List, 12/21/07; see: http://injesus.com/message-archives/prophetic/elijahlist/che-ahn-james-michal-ann-goll-charles-anne-2. Cited on Herescope, “2008: The year of the ‘Great Shift’?” Dec. 31, 2007; see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2007/12/2008-year-of-great-shift.html/. This is but one of many examples of such NAR events. 98 Book image taken from TheElijahList website; see: http://www.elijahshopper.com/the-nephilim-agendaexposing-the-ultimate-last-days-deception-by-randy-demain/. 97
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TheElijahList advertisement, June 3, 2013, “Thriving Amidst Supernatural Convergence,” for “Resurgence Awakening, July 18-20, 2013 in Sedona, Arizona, featuring LA Marzulli, Randy DeMain, David and Stephanie Herzog. See also: http://injesus.com/message-archives/christian-living/DavidHerzogMinistries/join-us-in-july-forresurgence-awakening-randy-demain. Note that the online conference cancellation notice conspicuously omits the topic heading of UFOs, Nephilim, and alien phenomena; see: https://www.z2systems.com/np/clients/dhm/event.jsp?event=193. 100 For a description, see the article “Forerunner Eschatology: Mike Bickle’s End-Time Teaching and the International House of Prayer,” by Andrew Jackson, but note that there have now been many permutations and expansions to the basic eschatology that extend far into the realm of conducting cosmic battles with space creatures while also taking command of the earth; see: http://www.equip.org/article/for erunner-eschatology/. 101
See “Back to Genesis: Laying a False Foundation,” Berean Call, June 5, 2012, http://www.thebereancall.org/content/back-genesis-laying-false-foundation. See also our previous articles on the heretical “serpent seed” doctrine: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-serpent-seed-nephilim.html and http://herescope.blogspot.com/2012/07/nephilim-eschatology.html. 102 DVD graphic taken from Heavenly Cruises.com; see: http://heavenlycruises.com/?s=la+marzulli. 103
See the following Herescope posts, “Mainstreaming Dominionism,” May 18, 2010: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2010/05/mainstr eaming-dominionism.html. Follow the many hyperlinks to more articles, especially to: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2010/06/seven-mountains.html. Also see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2010/08/next-great-awakening.html, http://herescope.blogspot.com/2011/07/ihop-nar.html, http://herescope.blogspot.com/2010/06/other-side-ofemergent.html, http://herescope.blogspot.com/2010/04/coalescing-of-christian-right-with.html, and, http://herescope.blogspot.com/2010/09/next-great-awakening.html. 104 A previous Herescope article, “Quantum Prophecy,” details Randy DeMain’s connections to the NAR. We wrote about DeMain’s connections to the Extreme Prophetic (XP) “prophetess Patricia King, David Van Koevering, and JoAnn McFatter, who along with Chuck Missler, who spoke at a “Quantum Leap 2 Conference”; see:
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM http://herescope.blogspot.com/2012/05/quantum-prophecy.html. Also view DeMain’s strange interview with Patricia King; see: http://www.digitalpodcast.com/items/18725487. 105 This event was advertised on TheElijahList, March , 2012, “Passover NOW: Wallnau, DeMain & Herzogs,” as the “Passover Glory Festival: Take the Land,” which has obvious Dominionist connotations; see: http://www.elijahlist.com/words/display_word.html?ID=10774. 106 Conference advertisement taken from Marzulli’s blog; see: https://lamarzulli.wordpress.com/tag/randydemain/. 107
See: http://www.thegloryzone.org, and Herzog’s other site, www.sedonanaturals.com, sells health food. In a September 7, 2012 ElijahList advertisement, Sedona Naturals was listed as a place to obtain emergency food supplies for the coming crisis; see: http://www.elijahlist.com/words/display_word.html?ID=11351. Charisma also sent out an advertisement on January 3, 2012, “Food Shortage? NEW Biggest Bargain 2012,” for the Herzog’s “Emergency Food Supply” site. 108 For example, Herzog was one of the featured speakers at the May-24-27 “Celebrate Pentecost!” held at NAR dominionist "apostle" Chuck Pierce’s Global Spheres Center in Corinth, Texas, along with C. Peter Wagner, Jay Swallow, Pat Francis, Barbara Wentroble, John Eckhardt, and Robert Heidler. This event was advertised on TheElijahList on May 9, 2012, “Promised Glory-Unveiled”; see: https://www.gloryofzion.org/docs/4-2412_Pentecost.pdf. 109
For example, the “Come up to the Mountain: New Beginnings Festival” held on September 13 -16, 2012, featuring Sid Roth and Chuck Pierce with the Herzogs, advertised by TheElijahList on June 29, 2012; see: https://www.davidherzogstore.com/product_p/cs12-newbeginningsfestival-cd.htm. 110 PPP author Cris Putnam posted a photo of a triangle UFO on his website in 2015 as a teaser to his book Supernatural Worldview; see: http://www.supernaturalworldview.com/2015/03/22/triangle-ufo-photographednear-sedona-arizona/. 111 Richard Boylan, “SERI-Worldwide”; see: http://www.seri-worldwide.org/id162.html. This is a horrible occult article, but this man is one of the “credible experts” cited by Chuck Missler in his book Alien Encounters. 112 Tom and Nita Horn, Forbidden Gates: How Genetics, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Synthetic Biology, Nanotechnology, and Human Enhancement Herald the Dawn of Techno -Dimensional Spiritual Warfare, Defender Publishing, Crane, MO 2010, pg. xvii. For more examples of this dark teaching, go to the Tom Ho rn article archive at NewsWithViews.com; scroll down to the “Forbidden Gates” listing; see: http://www.newswithviews.com/Horn/thomasA.htm. 113 Ibid. “Militant Prayer”. 114 Herescope has dealt extensively with this topic. For example, see the 2009 article “Quantum Eschatology Part 7 – The Emerging Church”: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2009/07/quantum-eschatology.html; and the 2012 article “Cosms, Codes, & Cryptologies Part 8 - The Quantum Christ”; see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2012/06/quantum-cosmic-christ.html. See also Pastor Larry DeBruyn’s excellent 12-part book review of The Physics of Heaven: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2016/09/quantum-charismaticsand-popping-qwiffs.html. 115 Book graphic taken from Amazon.com; see: https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Warfare-Invisible-ThomasHorn/dp/1563841290. 116
Ibid. “Militant Prayer.” See also Thomas R. Horn, Spiritual Warfare: The Invisible Invasion, Huntington House, LaFayette, LA, 1998, pp. 14-142; also Thomas R. Horn, Nephilim Stargates: The Year 2012 and the Return of the Watchers, Anomalos Publishing, Crane, MO, 2007, pp. 17-19. 117 Personal correspondence via e-mail with Pastor Anton Bosch, May 8, 2013. 118 Ibid. Forbidden Gates, p. 288. 119 Graphic and copy taken from Marzulli’s blog, June 29, 2012; see: https://lamarzulli.wordpress.com/2012/06/29/12038/. 120
See “12-21-12: Evangelical Christians Believing Mayan Prophecies,” Herescope, Dec. 6, 2012; see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2012/12/12-21-12.html.
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Ibid. Nephilim Stargates, pp. 108-115. Note: Marzulli has also been a musician, composer, and worship director at a Vineyard Church in California with connections to the late John Wimber. Note this insightful bio posted under Marzulli’s interview, “L.A. Marzulli on UFO Deception”, on Cursed Net Radio.com in 2008: “L.A. Marzulli, author, composer and researcher had no use for God after the age of 13, when he stopped attending the Catholic church of his parents. When he was 18, his 16 year-old girlfriend was killed in an accident. Deeply affected by this, he felt there was no God whatsoever. To ease the pain, he sought relief from many sources including drugs. By the age of 21, Marzulli moved into an ashram. Though he’d left the church, he found himself drawn to other spiritual expressions, especially the New Age movement. His fascination with unusual phenomena drew him deeper and deeper into the supernatural and occultist world. [bold added] By age 30, however, he realized something crucial: that none of his experiences did a thing to change what was on the inside... [ellipses in original] He now believes in God [Ed. Note: which ‘God’? There is no mention here of the Lord Jesus Christ or His saving Gospel] and sees the current fascination with UFOs and other unusual phenomena as tools that the enemy is using to deceive people. It bothered him that Satan was deceiving so many, just as he’d been deceived. He wanted to warn others as to what was really happening, and equip other believers to share their faith with those who were caught up in supernatural phenomena”; see: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/cursednet/2008/11/12/la-marzulli-on-ufo-deception. See also Marzulli’s blog: http://lamarzulli.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/he-has-risen-3/. 123 In light of the aborted Chichen-Itza mission, it is not surprising that the video requesting these funds was removed from Marzulli’s website. Pastor Ken Silva captured it before it was pulled and included it in a satirical posting, “Alien-Nephilim Soldiers Are Spotted,” Apprising Ministries, Oct. 17, 2012; see: http://apprising.org/2012/10/17/alien-nephilim-soldiers-are-spotted/. 124 See the Power Places Tour flier for “Maya 2012: Transform at the Source,” listing L.A. Marzulli as a presenter: http://powerplaces.org/emailpromo/yucatan_main2012/index5.html . [Ed. Note: the flier has been removed, but the information was archived in the July 2012 issue of Marzulli’s Politics, Prophecy, & the Supernatural (P.P. & S.) Newsletter, pg. 14; see: http://www.lamarzulli.net/July_2012.pdf.] 125 See Marzulli's video captured on Ken Silva’s website, between the 1:13 and 2:11 -minute mark; see: http://apprising.org/2012/10/17/alien-nephilim-soldiers-are-spotted/. 126 See Dizdar’s website: http://www.shatterthedarkness.net/ ; and also the website devoted to his book: http://www.theblackawakening.com/ . 127 See Grund’s Supernatural Response Team (SRT) website: http://supernaturalresponse.net/ . See also pg. 29 of the Jan. 2013 Issue of P.P. & S: http://www.lamarzulli.net/January-2013. See also Marzulli’s December 2012 newsletter for Grund’s report on the scheduled trip to the Mayan Pyramids, pp. 16, 29 -33: http://www.lamarzulli.net/December-2012.pdf. 128 See Marzulli video captured on Ken Silva’s website, between the 1:13 and 3:19 -minute mark; http://apprising.org/2012/10/17/alien-nephilim-soldiers-are-spotted/. 129 See Marzulli video captured on Ken Silva’s website, between the 3:40 and 4:50 -minute mark; http://apprising.org/2012/10/17/alien-nephilim-soldiers-are-spotted/. 130 Image taken from: http://endoftheage.blogspot.com/2013/10/americaamaruca-land-of-plumed-serpent.html. 122
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM speaker my trip cost less. 3. Power Places Tours makes it clear in their contract that the money is not refu ndable in case someone backs out, so we can’t get the money back.” Posted at: https://lamarzulli.wordpress.com/2012/12/17/round-up-all-the-knives-the-absurdity-of-gun-control/. 133 For history on this aberrant teaching, see “Prayer Warfare Evangelism,” Herescope, July 23, 2011; see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2011/07/prayer-warfare-evangelism.html. 134
See our Herescope articles: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2011/07/divorcing-baal.html, http://herescope.blogspot.com/2011/07/divorcing-baal-for-dominion.html, and http://herescope.blogspot.com/2011/08/baal-covenant.html. 135 See the Herescope article, “The ‘Cultural Mandate’: The Doctrines of Dominionism: Part 4,” July 23, 2007; see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2007/07/cultural-mandate.html. 136
A rather hideous example of this Latter Rain combat bride can be viewed at http://herescope.blogspot.com/2011/09/dominique.html. The quote is from, “The Warrior Bride,” Herescope, April 3, 2007; see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2007/04/warrior-bride.html. 137 See the e-book listing for Grund’s book on Amazon.com: https://www.amazon.com/Supernatural-BattleRichard-J-Grund-ebook/dp/B00BQGGN5S. Marzulli’s Foreward to the book can be read in the online book preview. 138 See Grund’s website store: http://supernaturalresponse.net/the-supernatural-battle.html. 139 Book image taken from Amazon.com: https://www.amazon.com/Supernatural-Battle-Richard-J-Grundebook/dp/B00BQGGN5S. 140 See the Kingdom Builders Christian Ministries website; http://kingdombuilderschristianministries.org/blowing_the_shofar. 141 Ibid. Kingdom Builders. 142 This is quoted in the 2007 subsection on the Deception in the Church website, citing the original article by Bill Young on TheElijahList on May 12, 2007, “THE YEAR OF THE PRISON BREAKER ANOINTING—MANY JOSEPHS ARE BEING SUMMONED BY THE KING!”; see: http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/elijahlist.html. Originally published at http://www.elijahlist.com/words/display_word_pf.html?ID=5273. The Berean Call commentary cited was published on June 11, 2007, “In the past, individuals such as Benny Hinn have made numerous false prophecies”; see: http://www.thebereancall.org/node/5432. 143 See: YouTube - TheCall youth rally 07.07.07: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEC4A20979Q. See also: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2008/07/gods-dream.html, http://herescope.blogspot.com/2012/11/12-1212.html, and http://herescope.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-significance-of-youth-filled.html. 144 Screenshot taken from TheCall Nashville YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udfeKqS-y_E. 145
Ibid, Grund. See: Marzulli’s Foreword to Grund’s book on the online preview: http://www.amazon.com/The-SupernaturalBattle-ebook/dp/B00BQGGN5S/ref=sr_1 _1?ie=UTF8&qid=1369533549&sr=8 1&keywords=richard+j+grund#reader_B00BQGGN5S . 147 See: Russ Dizdar’s spiritual warfare study course: http://www.spiritualwarfar etoday.com/; and also Dizdar’s main website: http://www.shatterthedarkness.net/. 148 Note: the Future Congress website has been removed. The author archived Dizdar’s Presentation description. The original link was http://futurecongress.com/speakers-3/russ-dizdar. 149 Herescope has written several exposes of these specific NAR sacred space heresies; see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2006/02/new-doctrines-of-land.html and 146
http://herescope.blogspot.com/2006/02/geographical-heresies-of-new-apostolic.html. 150 Graphic taken from Heiser’s website: http://drmsh.michaelsheiser.com/ . 151
Ibid, “Militant Prayer.” Note: The Divine Council is a prominent tenet of Dr. Michael Heiser; see Heiser’s website: http://thedivinecouncil.com/ . See also: http://www.thedivinecouncil.com/DivineCouncil LBD.pdf. 152 See this Herescope article, for example: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2012/05/quantum-geomancy-andcryptic-mystic.html.
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See: the Nephilim Mounds website: http://www.nephilimmounds3.com/. A DVD set of the event is available on Marzulli’s website: http://www.lamarzulli.net/. Note: Marzulli and his associates claim that the ancient Native American burial mounds in North America are actually “Nephilim” graves. In his new book, On the Trail of the Nephilim, Marzulli also claims to have found DNA evidence of such from elongated skulls found in Peru. See Part 1 of this booklet. See also: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2013/05/homo-nephilus_6651.html. 154 See: Gaylene Goodroad, “Quantum Prophecy: Cosms, Codes, and Cryptologies - Part 7”, Herescope, May 30, 2012: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2012/05/quantum-prophecy.html. 155 See: Marzulli’s website; http://lamarzulli.wordpress.com/2013/05/25/the-nephilim-agenda-2-conference/. 156 Conference poster taken from the Lionheart Restoration Ministries website; see: http://lionheartministries.org/cart/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=410 . 157
See: Marzulli’s website, posted Nov. 8, 2012: http://lamarzulli.wordpress.com/2012/11/08/off-to-chicago/. Note: the flier is no longer posted on the Chicago Summit website, but the author archived the bulleted points. 159 See Herescope posts: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2006/02/george-otis-transformation-spiritual.html and http://herescope.blogspot.com/2006/02/george-otiss-geographical-her esies.html. These heresies have become 158
integral to the NAR, but also have entered mainstream evangelicaldom via the global mission movement. 160 See the occult writing, “Astral Plane: It's Scenery, Inhabitants and Phenomena,” by theosophist C.W. Leadbeater: http://www.anandgholap.net/Astral_Plane-CW L.htm. 161 See the View from the Bunker (VFTB) podcast, Feb. 24, 2013: http://www.vftb.net/?p=4687. 162
Dizdar’s book image taken from: http://www.lulu.com/shop/russ-dizdar/chicago-summit-3-dna-physics-ofgod/paperback/product-20950635.html. 163
Dave James, “Petrus Romanus,” Herescope, Mar. 26, 2013; see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2013/03/petrus-romanus.html. James discusses the July 2013 Pike’s Peak Prophecy Summit that includes PPP leaders, their supporters, and those who apparently have no qualms about openly associating with them and their heretical doctrines. The list includes: Cris Putnam, Jonathan Cahn, Joseph Farah, Gary Stearman, Chuck Missler, LA Marzulli, Mark Blitz, Lennart Moller, Bill Koenig, Ken Johnson, Paul McGuire, Jerry Robinson, Stan Monteith, Doug Woodward, Bob Cornuke, Barrie Schwortz, Doug Hamp, Bill Salus, David Olander, Samuel Hoyt, Doc Marquis, Derek Gilbert and David Brennan. 164 See: Cho’s book on Amazon.com; https://www.amazon.com/Fourth-Dimension-David-YonggiCho/dp/0882703803. 165 Book graphic taken from Amazon.com; see: https://www.amazon.com/Fourth-Dimension-David-YonggiCho/dp/0882703803. Note that the late New Thought pastor, Robert Schuller, wrote the Foreward to Yonggi Cho’s book. 166 See: Paul McGuire, “Lucifer, Nephilim and the Fourth Dimensional DNA War”, NewsWithViews.com, Mar. 19, 2013: http://www.newswithviews.com/McGuire/paul165.htm. 167 McGuire’s New Age views are reflected in his strange Tranhumanism teachings profiled in the Nov. 1, 2014 Herescope article, “Transhumanism: A Posthuman Paradigm Shift? - End-Time Scenarios of the New Alchemists; see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2014/11/transhumanism-posthuman-paradigm-shift.html. See also these Herescope articles on the topic: Part 1: QUANTUM MYSTICISM IN THE CHURCH Part 2: COSMIC CRYPTOLOGY IN THE CHURCH Part 3: The Emerging ENIGMA Bible Part 4: False Eschatology Arising! Part 5: Quantum Teleporting Through Time Part 6: Quantum Geomancy and Cryptic Mystic Math Part 7: Quantum Prophecy Part 8: A Quantum Cosmic Christ Part 9: Quantum Mysticism Goes to Market
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John Lash, The Seeker’s Handbook: The Complete Guide to Spiritual Pathfinding (Harmony, 1990), pp. 229-230. This book is a dictionary of the New Age occult. Note that this author, John Lash, is mentioned in Part 2 of this booklet because LA Marzulli listed him as a credible source information about "archons." 169 Book graphic taken from McGuire’s website: http://www.paulmcguir e.com/standing_down_goliath.htm. 170
See “A Quantum Cosmic Christ,” Herescope, and follow the many links: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2012/06/quantum-cosmic-christ.html. 171
Paul McGuire, “The Future of America: Cosmic Warfare, Parallel Universes, and the Matrix ”, NewsWithViews.com, January 28, 2013; see: http://www.newswithviews.com/McGuire/paul158.htm. Note: this brief, but insightful testimony, appears at the bottom of McGuire’s article: “At fifteen years old, Paul was demonstrating with radical activist Abbie Hoffman and made an honorary member of the Black Panther Party. However, while studying “Altered States of Consciousness” at the University of Missouri, Paul had a miraculous experience hitchhiking in a remote area similar to the movie “Field of Dreams.” Paul re-thought his socialist and humanist world view and rejected it as completely false. Paul has devoted his life to communicating truth to people”; see his website: PaulMcGuire.org. 172 See the Red River Bible and Prophecy Conference website 2013 schedule: http://www.titus213hope.com/page32.php. Note: Chuck Missler was scheduled to speak at this event, but according to a notice on the website, cancelled March 9 due to a family medical emergency. For McGuire’s participation in the 2015 & 2016 Red River Prophecy Conferences see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBBkVoPFvHU and http://www.titus213hope.com/schedule/. 173
See: Prophecy in the News (PITN) website; http://www.prophecyinthenews.com/the-pikes-peak-prophecysummit/. [Ed. Note: the website has been removed, but the DVDs (and description) are available on the PITN website: https://prophecyinthenews.com/bookstore/pikes-peak-prophecy-summit-2013/.] See links for McGuire’s Pike’s Peak conferences: (2014) http://paulmcguire.us/pikes-peak-2014.html, (2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayCV0pmkqKM, and (2016) https://www.facebook.com/notes/prophecy-inthe-news/pikes-peak-prophecy-summit-the-great-rapture-debate-june-17-19-2016/1103106073063468. 174
See the PITN bookstore: https://prophecyinthenews.com/bookstore/orlando-prophecy-confer ence-2014/.
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Note: McGuire teaches and unbiblical eclectic mix of ideas and doctrines regarding biblical prophecy and appears to have a wide influence in the evangelical world. An MP3 description on his website is an illustration: “As such, Paul has been able to analyze from the Word of God teaching and trends especially as they relate to prophecy in the local church. Among the leaders Paul has met, worked with or interviewed on a personal level are leaders like Jack Hayford, Tim LaHaye, Chuck Smith, David Hocking, Pat Robertson, James Dobson, Rick Warren, the late Dr. D. James Kennedy, Charles Stanley, John McArthur, Dave Hunt, Rick Joyner, Jacob Prasch, Hank Hannegraff, Benny Hinn, General Shimon Erem, Joel Rosenberg, Waleed Shoebat, Jack Hibbs, Ed Hindson, Mark Hitchcock, Che Ahn, Hal Lindsey, Lou Engle Chuck Missler, the late Dr. Bill Bright, the Francis Schaeffer Edith Schaeffer and numerous other leaders. An intensive study of God's W ord, along with a formative theology shaped by Francis Schaeffer and Jack Hayford, have given Paul a unique understanding of "Prophecy In The Local Church"; see: http://www.paulmcguire.com/prophecylocalchurch.htm. 176 Graphic taken from: http://www.lagosicc.org/2016/06/09/examine-the-evidence-of-the-holy-bible/. 177
Gaylene Goodroad and The Discernment Research Group, “Militant Prayer: Taking Spiritual Dominion over Dark Angels”, Herescope, Sept. 23, 2011; see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2011/09/militant-prayer.html. 178 179
Ibid. “Militant Prayer”. See: Mike Oppenheimer, “Do We Have ALL Authority?”; Let Us Reason Ministries, 2009;
http://www.letusreason.org/Latrain16.htm. 180 181
Ibid, Oppenheimer. Ibid, Oppenheimer.
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Graphic image taken from: http://www.sodahead.com/fun/who-is-your-favorite-greek-god/question3621959/?link=ibaf&q=&imgurl=http://caravanofdreams.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/apollo.jpg . [Ed. note: the image of Apollyon has been removed from the website]. 183 It must be noted that Alexander Hislop in his classic work, The Two Babylons: Or the Papal Worship Proved to be the Worship of Nimrod and His Wife, (Loizeaux Brothers, 1916, 1959), proposed that that the deeds of Nimrod, the man, were turned into ancient mythological stories that were embellished upon with much occult symbology, and later became embedded within Roman Catholicism. 184 Book graphic taken: http://www.ebreggae.com/Reggae/Books/47415/Book-Egyptian-Book-Of-The-Dead-TheGreat-Awakening.html. 185
On the subject of PPP leaders using extra-biblical sources to create new biblical doctrine, see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2016/01/millennial-eschatology.html; http://herescope.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-rise-of-apocalyptic-paganism-in.html, and http://herescope.blogspot.com/2013/01/babylon-rising-and-canon-in-crisis.html. 186
Book graphic taken: http://macquirelatory.com/Kodesh%20Index.htm.
187
Rob Skiba, Babylon Rising e-book; see: http://babylonrisingblog.com/PDF/Babylonrising.pdf. See also: “Apocalyptic Paganism in the Church: Bible Prophecy in Crisis; Herescope, March 7, 2012; see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-rise-of-apocalyptic-paganism-in.html. 188 Book graphic taken from the PITN website: https://prophecyinthenews.com/bookstore/apollyon-rising-2012/. 189
Horn republished this book with a few adaptations in 2013 titled, Zenith 2016: Did Something Begin in 2012 that Will Reach its Apex in 2016?, after the pagan god Apollyon failed to make an appearance in 2012 as he had predicted. 190 Thomas R. Horn, Nephilim Stargates: The Year 2012 and the Return of the Watchers, Anomalos Publishing House, Crane, MO, 2007 (Introduction), p. 1 and p. 24. See our previous article, “Doomsday Datesetters 2012” for further explanation on this topic: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2011/06/doomsday-datesetters-2012.html. 191 Thomas Horn, Apollyon Rising 2012: The Lost Symbol Found and the Final Mystery of the Great Seal Revealed , Defender Publishing, Crane, MO, 2009, pg. 193. See also: Donna Anderson, “Why Are There Domes, Obelisks, And Magic Squares In Washington, D.C.”, Raiders News Update (RNU), February 27, 2011; http://www.raidersnewsupdate.com/leadstory70.htm. Anderson provides a synopsis to Horn’s Apollyon Rising 2012. [Ed. note: this link has been removed, but the article can be accessed here: http://rainhadocanto10evangelicalchristian.blogspot.com/2011/05/why-are-ther e-domes-obelisks-and-magic.html.] 192
See Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reincarnation. Ibid. Apollyon Rising, pp. 193-194. 194 We delved into this issue in our article, “Nephilim Eschatology,” http://herescope.blogspot.com/2012/07/nephilim-eschatology.html, and its sequel “The Serpent Seed & the Nephilim,” http://herescope.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-serpent-seed-nephilim.html. 195 Ibid. Apollyon Rising, pp. 139-140. Note that this Webster’s Dictionary citation is mentioned time and again by the PPP leaders, but we checked a 1956 college library edition of more than 2500 pages, and could find no reference to this Apollyon/Apollo claim. 196 S. Douglas Woodward, Decoding Doomsday: The 2012 Prophecies, the Apocalypse, and the Perilous Days Ahead , Defender Publishing Group, Crane, MO, 2010, pp. 226-229. 193
197 198
Ibid. Woodward, pp. 228-229. For fascinating historical documentation on this point, see “New Age Date Setting” on Herescope:
http://herescope.blogspot.com/2011/06/new-age-date-setting.html. 199 Ibid. Decoding Doomsday, pp. 231-232. 200 Book graphic taken: http://www.armageddonbooks.com/2012.html.
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Douglas Hamp, “How the Mark of the Beast Will Rewrite the Human Genome (part two) - Corrupting the Image,” April 18, 2012; see: http://www.douglashamp.com/how-the-mark-of-the-beast-will-rewrite-the-humangenome-part-two-corrupting-the-image/. 202 See Hamp’s bio on his website: http://www.douglashamp.com/about-douglas/. We wrote about Hamp in our series dealing with False Nephilim Eschatology. See: Gaylene Goodroad, “Serpent Seed & the Nephilim: Nephilim Eschatology – Part 2”, Herescope, July 21, 2012; see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-serpent-seednephilim.html. 203 Statue image taken from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo. 204 See Edith Hamilton's classic work on mythology: Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes (Mentor Books, 1940, 1942), p. 16. 205 Ibid. Apollyon Rising, pg. 142. 206
Ibid. Apollyon Rising, pg. 142. Book graphic taken: http://www.lulu.com/shop/king-wells-jr/ancient-myths-and-the-bible/paperback/product6178513.html. 207
208
Book graphic taken from Amazon.com; see: https://www.amazon.com/Egyptian-Myths-Mysteries-RudolfSteiner/dp/0880101989. 209
Excerpts taken from Rob Skiba’s e-book series: “The Seven Year Tribulation Period”, BABYLON RISING: And The First Shall Be The Last; see: http://www.babylonrisingblog.com/BR405.html. 210 One need only read the report on Rudolf Steiner posted at Wikipedia to learn of his overwhelming connections to Luciferianism (Theosophy): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Steiner. 211 Ibid. See subsection “Convergence from Conventional Christian Thought.” Of course there are many other sources for this information, including the warnings issued by Constance Cumbey about Steiner in her books Hidden Danger of the Rainbow and A Planned Deception. 212 See the Amazon book description for Rudolf Steiner’s Egyptian Myths and Mysteries [paperback] and also read the reviews: http://www.amazon.com/Egyptian-Myths-Mysteries-RudolfSteiner/dp/0880101989/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1370983737&sr=1 1&keywords=Egyptian+Myths+and+Mysteries . 213
See: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2013/06/techno-dimensional-prayer-combat.html. See also: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2011/06/new-age-date-setting.html; http://herescope.blogspot.com/2012/12/2012-new-agers-mayan-prophecies.html; http://herescope.blogspot.com/2012/12/12-21-12.html, and http://herescope.blogspot.com/2012/11/12-1212.html. 214 Book graphic taken from Amazon.com; see: https://www.amazon.com/Second-Coming-Antichrist-PeterGoodgame/dp/0985604514. 215
We discussed the “serpent seed” heresy in our article, “The Serpent Seed & the Nephilim”; see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-serpent-seed-nephilim.html. 216 Peter D. Goodgame, The Second Coming of the Antichrist, Defense Publishing (a division of Defender Publishing), Crane, MO, 2012 [a Tom Horn Publication], Foreword, written by Thomas R. Horn, pg. ix. 217 Ibid. Goodgame, pp. ix, x. 218 Ibid. Goodgame, pg. x. 219 Ibid. Goodgame, pp. x-xi. 220 Ibid. Goodgame, pg. xi. 221 Ibid. Goodgame, pg. xii; See also: Chuck Missler, “An Alternative View: The Return of Nimrod?”, Koinonia House; see: http://www.khouse.org/articles/2002/433/. 222
Ibid. Goodgame, pg. xiii. See: Thomas R. Horn, NewsWithViews.com, “Read It Before It’s Banned By The Government – (Part 23) ‘Opening Pandora’s Box?’”, September 15, 2009; see: http://www.newswithviews.com/Horn/thomas122.htm . 223
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Artwork taken from: http://lux-os.com/en/coward-nimrod-coward-governments/.
225
Ibid. Goodgame, pp. xvi, xvii. William Branham was a Latter Rain faith healer who taught that Eve had sexual relations with the Serpent (Satan) producing Cain. See: Sandy Simpson’s extensive report on Branham; Deception in the Church (DITC): http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/williambranham1.html. See also: “The Serpent Seed & the Nephilim: Nephilim Eschatology, Pt. 2,” Herescope, July 21, 2012; see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-serpentseed-nephilim.html. Note: teaching that Satan had physical relations with a human woman to produce the Antichrist is not much of a change in this false doctrine, but it is a sensational enhancement. 226
227
Ibid. Goodgame, Foreword, written by Thomas R. Horn, pg. 65. DVD graphic taken from Doug Woodward’s website; see: http://faith-happens.com/enoch-the-first-apocalypticprophet/. 228
229
Mummy image taken from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy .
230
Doug Woodward, Decoding Doomsday: The 2012 Prophecies, the Apocalypse, and the Perilous Days Ahead , Defender Publishing, Crane, MO, 2010, pg. 262. See this issue discussed in our article “Doomsday Datesetters 2012”; see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2011/06/doomsday-datesetters-2012.html. 231 Graphic taken from a New Age website; see: http://www.crystalinks.com/edgar _cayce.html. 232
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Egyptian_Book_of_the_Dead. Some of us in the Discernment Research Group have had prior experiences with these sources, having been born again in Christ from our former occult way of life. We can attest personally to the dark, demonic and Satanic nature of these sources and urge all believers to stay away from them! We are grieved to realize that esteemed prophecy teachers are actually introducing these deadly teachings into the church. At what terrible cost?! 234 See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manly_Hall . 235 See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar _Cayce. 236 “The Rise of Apocalyptic Paganism in the Church”; Herescope, March 7, 2013; see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-rise-of-apocalyptic-paganism-in.html. See also: S. Douglas Woodward, Power Quest Book Two: The Ascendancy of Antichrist in America, Prologue: “America’s Role Eschatology—Rethinking the Standard Scenario,” Faith Happens Publishing, Woodinville, WA , 2012, pp. xvi-xli; 358-375. 237 Graphic taken from the Evolve and Ascend website; see: http://www.evolveandascend.com/2016/03/01/listenheres-10-illuminating-manly-p-hall-talks/. 233
238
See: John and Linda Keough, Healing Rooms Hawaii website; https://healingrooms.com/?page_id=356. See also the Keough’s teaching DVDs on the Identity Network (NAR) website: http://www.identitynetwork.org/apps/store/default.asp?view=profile&itemid=50337 . 239
See: Christ Lawson’s website, the Spiritual Research Network (SRN) which hosts an archive of Mike Oppenheimer’s articles dealing with Lake’s numerous false teachings; see: http://www.spiritual-researchnetwork.com/healingrooms.html. 240 See: Peter and Lori Goodgame’s Kahuhipa Healing Rooms website; see: http://healingrooms.com/?src=local&l=US1632. 241
On his website, Peter Goodgame promotes dominionist David Bercot and his book, The Kingdom that Turned the World Upside Down; see: http://www.redmoonrising.com/radicaltruth.htm. Sarah Leslie documents Bercot’s kingdom dominionist teachings in an article that was published on Pastor Ken Silva’s website, Apprising Ministries; See: http://apprising.org/2011/01/26/what-is-dominionism/. Parroting Bercot’s dominionist theology in his article, “The High Cost of Salvation,” Goodgame writes, "The primary emphasis in the teachings of Jesus was not salvation, but the Kingdom of Heaven. It was not primarily what to believe; it was instructions on how we are to live. Jesus didn’t die just to bring a new “belief system,” but to offer the world a new “life system” that began at Pentecost
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See: Gaylene Goodroad, “The Serpent Seed & the Nephilim - Nephilim Eschatology, Pt. 2: A Crash Course in the Emerging Endtime Prophecy Heresy,” Herescope, July 21, 2012; see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2012/07/theserpent-seed-nephilim.html. 243 Note: Goodgame’s bio was removed from the Future Congress website, but the author cached the information. Note the former link: http://futurecongress.com/workshops/peter-goodgame/. The first Future Congress event in Branson in 2011 featured Tom Horn, Chuck Missler, Cris Putnam, Gary Stearman, Doug Woodward, Jim Fletcher, Chris Pinto, L.A. Marzulli, Russ Dizdar, Terry James, Rob Skiba, and Noah Hutchings. Note: The original details concerning this conference have been changed, but the DVDs are still pictured; see: https://futurecongress.com/category/stor e/dvd/. 244
Note: The Future Congress 2 schedule was removed from the FC2 website, but the author cached the information. The former link was http://futurecongress.com/schedule-2/. The DVD package is available on Amazon.com; see: https://www.amazon.com/Future-Congr ess-2013-Emerging-Challenges/dp/1620220601. 245 “Return of father of modern prophecy movement,” a WND promotion article of FC2 published Dec. 1, 2012; see: http://www.wnd.com/2012/12/return-of-father-of-modern-prophecy-movement/. 246 See: Rapture Ready Radio events page promoting FC2 (RRR hosted live broadcasts from Dallas Jan. 4 -6, 2013); see: http://www.rapturereadyradio.com/after-glow. 247 Jan Markell, author and radio host of Olive Tree Ministries, listed FC2 link as “a recommended conference” at the bottom of her Dec. 17, 2012 E-alert newsletter (received by the author); see: http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs138/1101818841456/archive/1111808874674.html . 248 In the introduction to the last article in our “Cosms, Codes, and Cryptologies” series documenting the rise of Quantum Mysticism in these prophecy leaders, we wrote the following admonition, which is still pertinent: STOP! before you rush to condemn someone for showing up on the exhaustive lists on this post! Do not employ the faulty and unethical technique of “guilt by association.” Please do not rush to judge! We urge you to kindly ask people to read this series, and discuss it with them, in the gentle spirit of Paul in Acts 20:31: ‘Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.’ We plead with folks reading this – many of whom have been unawares before – now that you know more of the story, to please jump off this Quantum Mysticism bandwagon and get back to the Bible. Our ardent prayers are that you will seriously consider these admonitions and warnings; see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2012/06/quantummysticism-goes-to-market.html. 249 See: The Prophecy in the News (PITN) and Prophecy Depot websites; see: (2013) https://prophecyinthenews.com/bookstor e/pikes-peak-prophecy-summit-2013/; (2014) https://prophecyinthenews.com/bookstor e/pikes-peak-ii-summit-2014/; (2015) , http://www.prophecydepotministries.net/2015/aug-6-8-2015-pikes-peak-prophecy-conference/, and (2016) https://prophecyinthenews.com/bookstor e/2016-pikes-peak-prophecy-summit-dvd-set/. 250
See remarks from footnote #52.
251
Graphic taken from the Canary Cry Radio website; see: http://www.canarycryradio.com/2012/08/27/ccr-024peter-goodgame-interview/. The interview was also posted on YouTube; see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JXhbGzsqKo. Goodgame also was a recent guest on the Caravan to Midnight radio program with John B. Wells; see: http://caravantomidnight.com/episode-276-peter-goodgame/. 252
Dr. Peter Jones, The Gnostic Empire Strikes Back: An Old Heresy for the New Age (P&R Publishing, 1992), pp. 95-
96. 253
Graphic image taken from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars (in the subheading "Intelligent 'Martians'" explaining the popularity of belief in Martians during the late 1800s through the 20th century); see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kirks_Soap_Yerkes_Mars.jpg.
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Steve Eastman, “A Review of David Flynn’s ‘Cydonia: The Secret Chronicles of Mars’,” Faith Issues, 2012; see: http://www.faithissues.com/page/478170653. 255 This is the incredible concluding statement made by L.A. Marzulli, “Life On Mars… What Are We Dealing With?” Aug. 4, 2008; see: https://lamarzulli.wordpress.com/2008/08/04/life-on-mars-what-are-we-dealing-with/. Note how far the speculations can go, and how they greatly diminish our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. 256 This particular thesis of the PPP teachers has been satirized at Pastor Ken Silva’s website apprising.org with the hijinks and adventures of Nephy Lim, who at the present moment is stuck on Mars since he was unable to conquer Earth on 12-21-12. See, for example: http://apprising.org/2012/12/24/nephy-lim-reports-in-finally-from-mars/. Follow the links to other satires such as: http://apprising.org/2012/12/18/nephy-lim-stuck-in-outer-space-trappedin-a-wormholeportal/ and http://apprising.org/2012/12/21/nephy-lim-still-hasnt-arrived/. Pastor Ken, who died after enduring a lengthy and debilitating illness in 2014, was a dear friend of the Discernment Group and will be greatly missed; see: http://standupforthetruth.com/2014/10/online-memorial-pastor-ken-silva-10614/. 257
The Greek word gnosis is the word “science” in this verse, meaning “knowledge, intelligence, understanding”; see: http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=G1108&t=KJV. “False so called” is derived from pseudonymos, from which we get the English word pseudonym, interpreted literally “falsely named”; see: http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=G5581&t=KJV. 258 This word pseudoscience is derived from the Greek “combining form of pseudḗs false, pseûdos falsehood,” and Latin “scientia knowledge,” http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pseudo- and http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/science. 259 From: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pseudoscience?s=t; subsection “Cultural Dictionary.” Hyperlinks removed. 260 Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudo-science. 261 John Lash, The Seeker’s Handbook: The Complete Guide to Spiritual Pathfinding (Harmony, 1990), pp. 321. This book is a dictionary of the New Age occult. Note that this author, John Lash, is mentioned in Part 2 of this book because L.A. Marzulli listed him as a credible source information about "archons." 262 See the published list on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_topics_characterized_as_pseudoscience ; and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoscience. Unfortunately, creation science is included in this list, even though creation scientists adhere to the rules of established science for their research. “Examples of pseudoscience concepts, proposed as scientific when they are not scientific, are creation science, intelligent design, orgone energy, cold fusion, N-rays, ch'i, Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard's engram theory, enneagram, iridology, New Age psychotherapies (e.g., rebirthing therapy), reflexology, applied kinesiology, astrology, biorhythms, facilitated communication, paranormal plant perception, neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), extrasensory perception (ESP), Velikovsky's ideas, ancient astronauts, craniometry, graphology, metoposcopy, personology, physiognomy, acupuncture, alchemy, cellular memory, Lysenkoism, naturopathy, reiki, Rolfing, therapeutic touch, ayurvedic medicine, Oyagaku, and homeopathy.” Hyperlinks removed. 263 Esoteric Cosmology defined on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esoteric_cosmology . 264
Mars image taken from: http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/04/23/planning-trip-mars-heres-needknow/#gref. 265
UFOlogy is the study of UFOs; see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ufology. Dr. Elizabeth Mitchel, “Feedback: Starchild—Alien-human Hybrid?”, Answers In Genesis, June 29, 2012; see: http://www.answersingenesis.org/ar ticles/2012/06/29/feedback-starchild-alien-human-hybrid. 267 David Flynn, “Asteroids, Comets, Rahab & Mars, Cherubim & the Megaliths of Cydonia, the ‘Stones of Fire’ and Pre-Adamite Civilization,” http://www.mt.net/~watcher/luciferandmars.html . [Ed. note: Flynn’s ‘Watchers’ website has been removed since his untimely death in 2012. His article can be accessed here: http://hisheavenlyarmies.com/cherubim-the-megaliths-of-cydonia/.] See also the Herescope article: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2012/05/quantum-geomancy-and-cryptic-mystic.html. 268 Pastor Larry DeBruyn, “The Gap Theory: A Review and Grammatical Critique – From Cosmos to Chaos, and 266
Cosmos Again”, Herescope, Feb. 22, 2013; see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-gap-theory.html.
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See Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gap_cr eationism and follow the many links to Thomas Chalmers, William Buckland, etc. Unfortunately, the Gap Theory was most notably popularized by its inclusion in the Scofield Reference Bible. 270 Ibid. DeBruyn. 271 Marzulli’s blog, “Sunday Go to Meeting Bun: Jesus would believe in Evolution? I think not!”, April 10, 2011; see: http://lamarzulli.wordpress.com/tag/giberson/. 272 Stearman is now host of ProphecyWatchers.com. 273 See YouTube video of the PITN broadcast with Horn & Stearman, “Earth’s Earliest Ages”, Sept. 26, 2012 (from the 6:12-7:11 and from the 22:50-23:40 minute marks): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFtf3umqgz0. 274
See Chuck Missler teaching video on YouTube, “Gap Theory, Fall of Satan – Part 2 of 4”, Sept. 28, 2008 (about the 00:45 minute mark): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjtr TGYqimo . 275
Ibid. Quote about the 3:05 minute mark). David Flynn died January 22, 2012 at age 49, after a short bout with brain cancer. See: http://www.redicecreations.com/article.php?id=18326. 277 Flynn’s Cydonia: The Secret Chronicles of Mars was recently republished as part of The David Flynn Collection by Tom Horn’s Defense Publishing. See Amazon.com (Horn also wrote the Foreword): http://www.amazon.com/TheDavid-Flynn-Collection-ebook/dp/B008K50ZDO. See also Amazon.com for Flynn’s Cydonia book; http://www.amazon.com/dp/0972134719. Herescope examined another heretical Flynn book in 2012, Temple at the Center of Time, in “Quantum Geomancy and Cryptic Mystic Math - COSMS, CODES, AND CRYPTOLOGIES, Part 6”; see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2012/05/quantum-geomancy-and-cryptic-mystic.html. 276
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Book cover taken from Steve Quayle’s (PPP) website: http://www.stevequayle.com/index.php?s=306.
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See Steve Eastman, “A Review of David Flynn’s ‘Cydonia: The Secret Chronicles of Mars’”, Faith Issues, 2012: http://www.faithissues.com/page/478170653. 280 See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krypton_(planet) . Pastor Ken Silva posted a satirical article on Flynn’s teachings on Mars/Krypton; See: http://apprising.org/2012/08/29/oncydonia-the-secret-chronicles-of-mars/. 281 See David & Mark Flynn’s website: “Asteroids, Comets, Rahab & Mars, Cherubim & the Megaliths of Cydonia, The "Stones of Fire " and Pre-Adamite Civilizations, and Satan's Secret History and the Monuments of Mars; http://www.mt.net/~watcher/luciferandmars.html. [Ed. note: Flynn’s ‘Watchers’ website has been removed since his untimely death in 2012. His article can be accessed here: http://hisheavenlyarmies.com/cherubim-themegaliths-of-cydonia/.] David’s twin brother, Mark, has continued in his brother’s footsteps. Tom Horn published his 2014 book Forbidden Secrets of the Labyrinth. See Mark’s esoteric website here: http://siriustwins.com/#theLabyr-section. 282
Ibid. David Flynn, “Asteroids, Comets, Rahab & Mars.”
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For example, see these posts from Heiser’s blog: http://drmsh.com/evolution-adam-additional-thoughts/ and http://drmsh.com/genesis-13-face-compatible-genome-research/. 284 Book cover taken from Amazon.com: https://www.amazon.com/David-FlynnCollection/dp/0985604506/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1474946395&sr=1 1&keywords=david+flynn+collection . 285
See 10-minute audio clip of Tom Horn & Steve Quayle on Quayle’s radio program (The Q -Factor), “Dark Deception”, Quayle 6/6, Vol. 3 of 5, Sept. 10, 2008: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVoaNl_DPyM. 286 Tom & Nita Horn, The Ahriman Gate, Musterion Press (a division of VMI Publishers), Sisters, OR, 2005. 287
See Thomas Horn, “Has Outpost Alpha from The Ahriman Gate Been Discovered?” Raiders News Update (RNU), June 9, 2011: http://www.raidersnewsupdate.com/outpostalpha.htm. [Ed. note: Horn’s RNU website has been
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Ibid. Thomas Horn. Book covers taken from Amazon.com; see: https://www.amazon.com/Ahriman-Gate-Gates-ShouldOpened/dp/1933204001 and https://www.amazon.com/Nephilim-Stargates-Year-ReturnWatchers/dp/0978845315. 289
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This was the topic of an article published in the Theosophist Magazine by Walter Owen titled, “The Pyramids and Ancient Monuments,” reproduced on page 291 in The Theosophists: A Magazine of Brotherhood, Oriental Philosophy, Art, Literature and Occultism, edited by Annie Besant, Vol. XLIV, Part 11, April to September, 1923. This rare reprint was republished by Kessinger Publishing. See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemuria_(continent) and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_races . Note that there are many variations on this Theosophical cosmic theme. 291 See: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-rise-of-apocalyptic-paganism-in.html. The Irish PPP author, Patrick Heron, died in 2014; see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Heron_(author). 292
Photos taken from: http://enkispeaks.com/2013/11/mars-rover-found-ancient-black-egyptian-pharaohsintaglio-on-web-radio-whistleblower-reveals-observations-he-and-obama-made-on-mars-secret-u-s-info-forsecret-transporter-couriers/. See footnote #316. 293
Thomas R. Horn, Nephilim Stargates : the Year 2012 and the Return of the Watchers, Anomalos Publishing, Crane, MO, 2007, excerpts from Chapter 4, pp. 48-52; “Fallen Angels, Ancient Mythology.” 294
Ibid. Nephilim Stargates. See the listing as it appears in back of the book: David Flynn, Cydonia: The Secret Chronicles of Mars, Bozeman, MT: End Time Thunder Publishers, 2002. – E-mail to Tom Horn, 2005. 295 Ibid. Thomas and Nita Horn, The Ahriman Gate. 296
From Wikipedia page describing Cydonia (region of Mars): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cydonia_(r egion_of_Mars) . 297 See Cydonia (region of Mars) on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cydonia_(region_of_Mars). Britt, Robert Roy (March 18, 2004), "Scientist attacks alien claims on Mars". CNN. SPACE.com. Retrieved October 12, 2007. 298 See Wikipedia entry Richard C. Hoagland: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_C._Hoagland . 299
See Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_geometry. Ibid. Hoagland. 301 See the Coast to Coast archive page for Richard Hoagland: http://www.coasttocoastam.com/guest/hoaglandrichard-c/5605. 302 Ibid. Hoagland. See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cydonia_(region_of_Mars). Pastor Ken Silva posted a satirical article on Flynn’s teachings on Mars/Krypton that includes Hoagland: http://apprising.org/2012/08/29/oncydonia-the-secret-chronicles-of-mars/. 303 See, for example, the “Little Green Men” entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Men. 304 R.C. Sproul, “Moving Evangelicals Beyond Idolatry,” June 2, 2013; see: http://www.desiringgod.org/blog/posts/moving-evangelicals-beyond-idolatry. 305 See Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_C._Hoagland and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cydonia_(r egion_of_Mars). 306 Michael Heiser, “New Face on Mars Photo,” Aug. 3, 2010; see: http://drmsh.com/new-face-on-mars-photo/. 300
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Ibid. Heiser. See Heiser’s website: http://drmsh.com/books/. 309 CD graphic taken from Missler’s Koinonia House: https://resources.khouse.org/index.php?p=catalog&mode=search&search_in=all&search_str=mars. 308
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See Missler’s Koinonia House 66/40 Radio Broadcast on YouTube, “The Red Planet and the God of War - The Mysteries of the Planet Mars – Part 5” (from the 9:00 to the 14:15 minute mark); see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vED5CpKe-O Y. 311 Ibid. Missler Mars video. 312 Ibid. Missler Mars video. 313 This teaching on Mars is still offered as a resource at Missler’s Koinonia House. See the ministry Resource Center website: https://resources.khouse.org/index.php?p=catalog&mode=search&search_in=all&search_str=mars. Note: While helping to research another article involving Missler, the author found substantial portions of Cosmic Codes had been plagiarized. This troubling discovery casts a dark shadow over the scholarship and sourcing of Missler’s other writings. The documentation was published in August of 2013, in an article titled, “Without Attribution: Purloining New Age ideas”; see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2013/08/without-attribution.html. 314
Dr. Chuck Missler, Cosmic Codes: Hidden Messages from the Edge of Eternity, Koinonia House, Coeur d’Alene, ID, 1999 (Revised Ed. 2004), pg. 27. Note that Missler expands on all of these UFO and Nephilim themes in his 1997 influential book Alien Encounters. Sarah Leslie published a 6-part article series reviewing Alien Encounters, titled “A New Cosmology for the Church”: Part 1: Alien Encounters Part 2: Ancient Astronauts & Star Children Part 3: Flying Saucers and “Interdimensional Visitors” Part 4: Quantum Metaphysics Part 5: Entertaining ET Part 6: Nephilim Subhumans 315 Ibid. Missler’s Cosmic Codes, pp. 34-35. 316 We have examined Missler’s unbiblical teaching of cryptology in our Quantum Mysticism series. See Gaylene Goodroad, Cosmic Cryptology in the Church: Cosms, Codes, and Cryptologies, Part 2, Herescope, May 14, 2012; see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2012/05/cosmic-cryptology-in-church.html. 317 Lambert Dolphin, “Fascination With Mars”; see: http://www.khouse.org/articles/1998/164/. Much more could be written on Lambert’s strange and controversial history, which includes his background with the Stanford Research Institute, which was operated by leading Theosophist Willis Harman. Harman has been the subject of many Herescope articles because of his influence over key evangelical leaders in the late 1970s for the purpose of assisting them with altering their eschatology and adopting his Noetic Sciences (Gnosticism). For example, see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2005/09/willis-harman-consults-with.html, http://herescope.blogspot.com/2005/09/barbara-marx-hubbard-willis-har man-and.html, http://herescope.blogspot.com/2006/07/willis-harmans-global-mind-change.html and http://herescope.blogspot.com/2005/09/willis-harman-speaks-to-evangelicals.html. See also the very disturbing information in this article: http://robertbauval.co.uk/articles/articles/sc_chapt9.html written by Robert Bauval in his book Secret Chamber: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rober t_Bauval . 318 DVD graphic taken from: http://moviescreenshots.blogspot.com/2010/11/mission-to-mars-2000.html. 319 Cris Putnam and Thomas Horn, Exo-Vaticana: Petrus Romanus, Project L.U.C.I.F.E.R., and the Vatican’s Astonishing Plan for the Arrival of an Alien Savior, Defender Publishing, Crane, MO, 2013. 320 See Wikipedia entry for Xenoarchaeology: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenoarchaeology . 321 Book cover taken from Amazon.com: https://www.amazon.com/Exo-Vaticana-L-U-C-I-F-R-VaticansAstonishing/dp/0984825630. 322
Ibid. Exo-Vaticana, pg. 480. The Ancient of Days Conference, 2003, Roswell, New Mexico: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZpQW _aWQcA. This photo was published by Tom Horn’s www.RaidersNewsUpdate.com August 29, 2012 under the title “A Review of One of the Books in The New David Flynn Collection – Cydonia: The Secret Chronicles of Mars," but the website has since been removed. This photo was archived in a satire piece at Pastor Ken Silva’s Apprising Ministries website: 323
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See Part 8. Herescope has published many articles about this rising heresy from Heremeticism, including articles such as: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2007/07/as-in-heaven-so-on-earth.html, http://herescope.blogspot.com/2008/06/shack-its-new-age-leaven.html, http://herescope.blogspot.com/2010/10/force-be-with-you.html, http://herescope.blogspot.com/2010/11/quantum-consciousness.html, http://herescope.blogspot.com/2012/05/quantum-geomancy-and-cryptic-mystic.html. 325 Flynn, Heiser, and Hoagland photo image can be found in many locations including: http://www.mt.net/~watcher/contact.html [Ed. note: Flynn website/link now removed], http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZpQW _aWQcA, and satirically at http://apprising.org/2012/08/29/oncydonia-the-secret-chronicles-of-mars/. It was also widely distributed via Tom Horn's Raiders News Network [Ed. note: RNU has also been taken down] during August 2012 under the heading "A Review Of One Of The Books In The New David Flynn Collection - Cydonia: The Secret Chronicles of Mars" which Horn marketed. 326 Posted on Flynn’s Watcher’s website before it was taken down: http://www.mt.net/~watcher/contact.html, errors in the original. See also: http://apprising.org/2012/08/29/on-cydonia-the-secr et-chronicles-of-mars/. 327
Cosmogony might actually be a more precise word to use than cosmology when describing these occult worldviews. It is defined as “a theory or story of the origin and development of the universe, the solar system, or the earth-moon system”; see: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cosmogony?s=t. 328
See Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blavatsky ; and the subsection “Law of correspondences.” “Free Energy: An Astronaut's Perspective”; see: http://www.newenergymovement.org/emergings5.php. Note that O’Leary’s “New Science” can be connected to Willis Harman Noetic Sciences (Gnostic science); see: http://www.hinduismtoday.com/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=778 . See also Chuck Missler’s book Alien Encounters positively cited by O’Leary at a conference in Ft. Collins called the International Forum on New Science (footnote 39, chapter 1). This is now part of Internet UFO Lore. In the filmed interview archived on this website, Dr. Leary indicates his New Age belief in contacting extraterrestrials via “consciousness” (i.e., meditation, channeling, etc.). “Civilizations have been visiting us for a very long time. Their appearance is bizarre… they use the technologies of consciousness… They can manipulate time and space locally…”; see: http://lifebeyondus.wordpress.com/tag/brian-oleary/. O’Leary was the co-founder of the International Association for New Science, and his definition of “New Science” included “topics and phenomena which cannot be explained by traditional science and yet may have the potential for significant benefit to the health and conditions for humanity and the planet Earth”; see: http://www.newphysics.se/archives/keelynet/contact/ians93.txt. 330 This conference is discussed on this webpage: http://www.enterprisemission.com/IntelligentDesignandGodMan-and-ET.htm. See also: "GOD, Man & ET: The Question of Other Worlds in Science, Theology, and Mythology 6 DVD Set"; see: http://www.newscienceideas.com/page/UT/PROD/new-r eleases/K552. 329
331
See Hoagland’s synopsis: http://www.enterprisemission.com/IntelligentDesignandGod-Man-and-ET.htm.
332
See definition of “mythologist” on Dictionary.com: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/mythologist. See the God, Man & ET conference advertisement featuring Flynn, et al: http://www.newscienceideas.com/page/UT/PROD/new-r eleases/K552. 334 Gaylene Goodroad, “Quantum Geomancy and Cryptic Math - Cosms, Codes, and Cryptologies Part 6,” Herescope, May 26, 2012; see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2012/05/quantum-geomancy-and-crypticmystic.html; “Quantum Prophecy Part 7”, May 30, 2012; http://herescope.blogspot.com/2012/05/quantumprophecy.html; and “Quantum Mysticism Goes to Market Conclusion,” June 5, 2012; http://herescope.blogspot.com/2012/05/quantum-prophecy.html. 335 Doug Woodward, “Mars Revisited: The Red Planet and the Final Great Deception: The Pyramids of Mars and Egypt Linked?” Nov. 7, 2012, http://faith-happens.com/?p=407 [Ed. note: this article is no posted, but Woodward quotes the cited article in “Seeing Things on Mars”: http://faith-happens.com/seeing-things-on-mars/. The author also cached Woodward’s article.] Woodward is also changing the name of his website to “DoomsdayDoug.com”. 333
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Ibid. Woodward. Ibid. Woodward. 338 This was the topic of an article published in the Theosophist Magazine by Walter Owen titled “The Pyramids and Ancient Monuments,” reproduced on page 291 in The Theosophists: A Magazine of Brotherhood, Oriental Philosophy, Art, Literature and Occultism, edited by Annie Besant, Vol. XLIV, Part 11, April to September, 1923. This rare reprint was republished by Kessinger Publishing. Another related article in this periodical, on the Nephilim (past and also their return) was authored by Leonard Bosman, “Occultism: ‘There Were Giants in the Earth in Those Days.” 339 “C.W. Leadbeater & H.P Blavatsky about Life on Mars and Other Planets,” published by the Blavatsky Study Center, 2004; see: http://blavatskyarchives.com/leadbeatermars.htm. See also the THEOSOPHICAL TALKS AT ADYAR, The Inner Life (Second Series) by C. W. Leadbeater, Volume II, SECOND EDITION, 1912 [Section 6; beginning at paragraph 722]; see: http://www.anandgholap.net/Inner_Life_Vol_II-CW L.htm. 337
340
Ibid. Leadbeater. Ibid. Leadbeater. 342 Photo taken from the Blavatsky archives: http://blavatskyarchives.com/leadbeater2.htm. 341
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Ibid. Leadbeater. See Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Webster_Leadbeater. 345 Ibid. Leadbeater. 346 Ibid. Woodward. For information on the psychic Andrija Puharich see: http://www.puharich.nl, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrija_Puharich , and http://www.sirbacon.org/4 membersonly/puharich.htm. See also: http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/council_of_nine_fortean.htm. It should be noted that Woodward suggests near the end of this very speculative piece that all of this is a “myth.” Yet, one does not find any evidence that he believes it is a myth while reading the article. 344
347
Julia Prodis Sulke, “Bad Karma in Big Sur: New Agers wage war for soul of Esalen,” San Jose Mercury News eEdition article, May 25, 2012, page A01. This fascinating article delves into the New Age history of Esalen Institute. This quote is referring to the controversy that erupted when Esalen hired this psychic channeler in 1979 to contact extraterrestrials for advice on reorganizing management. 348 See Dr. J.J. Hurak, International Consultant: http://www.gizapyramid.com/bio-hurtak.htm. 349 See Wikipedia: http://www.thefullwiki.org/James_Hurtak . 350 Ibid. L.A. Marzulli. 351 Ibid. L.A. Marzulli. 352 Geoffrey W. Bromiley, Theological Dictionary of the New Testament: Abridged in One Volume (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1985), pg. 644. A special thanks to Pastor Larry DeBruyn for assistance with this point. 353 Image taken from: https://mysticscientist.wordpress.com/tag/god/. Text added to graphic. 354
David Thimme, “Law of Attraction and Quantum Physics - 4 Keys to Proper Manifesting”; see: http://EzineArticles.com/4726258 and http://ezinearticles.com/?Law-of-Attraction-and-Quantum-Physics---4Keys-to-Proper-Manifesting&id=4726258. Thimme is a holistic health and self-improvement author for EzineArticles.com. 355 Timothy Ferris, “Weirdness Makes Sense,” NYTimes.Com, Sept. 29, 1996; see: http://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/29/magazine/weirdness-makes-sense.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm. Ferris was professor emeritus of journalism at the University of California at Berkeley at the time this article was written. 356 P.I.D. Radio website, Oct. 3, 2012, “Prophecy Summit: Chuck Missler”; see: http://www.pidradio.com/2012/10/03/p-i-d-radio-at-prophecy-summit-chuck-missler/. Peering in the Darkness (P.I.D.) Radio is founded/hosted by Derek and Sharon Gilbert, who are now hosts of Tom Horn’s SkyWatchTv; see: http://skywatchtv.com/about/.
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Graphic taken from: http://i.quoteaddicts.com/media/q3/972225.png & http://quoteaddicts.com/tags/physicist/3. The quote (passage) is printed on page 339 of Missler’s Cosmic Codes (1999) without proper attribution, as if it is the intellectual work of Missler. The exact wording of the quote comes from page 41 of the late Michael Talbot’s The Holographic Universe (1991). Missler plagiarized extensive material from Talbot’s book. These facts are documented in, “Without Attribution: Purloining New Age Ideas”; see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2013/08/without-attribution.html. 358
Sarah H. Leslie, “Quantum Metaphysics: A New Cosmology for the Church, Part 4, Alien Encounters: A Book Review,” Herescope, July 30, 2013; see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2013/07/quantum-metaphysics.html. See: Chuck Missler and Mark Eastman, Alien Encounters: The Secret Behind the UFO Phenomenon, Koinonia House, 1997. 359
Ankerberg & Weldon describe New Age physics as “Quantum physics adopted in support of New Age beliefs or Eastern mysticism”. See: John Ankerberg & John Weldon, Encyclopedia of New Age Beliefs, Harvest House, Eugene, OR 1996, pg. 509. 360 Here is a listing of the articles in the Herescope series: “COSMS, CODES, AND CRYPTOLOGIES”: Part 1: QUANTUM MYSTICISM IN THE CHURCH
Part 2: COSMIC CRYPTOLOGY IN THE CHURCH
Part 3: The Emerging ENIGMA Bible
Part 4: False Eschatology Arising!
Part 5: Quantum Teleporting Through Time
Part 6: Quantum Geomancy and Cryptic Mystic Math
Part 7: Quantum Prophecy
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See: “False Eschatology Arising! – Cosms, Codes, and Cryptologies, Pt. 4, Herescope, May 19, 2012; see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2012/05/false-eschatology-arising.html. 362 See Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mysticism. 363 The Free Dictionary online, The American Heritage Science Dictionary, copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company; see: http://www.thefr eedictionary.com/quantum+mechanics. 364 Pastor Larry DeBruyn, “Emergent Metaphysics - Part 6: FROM COSMOS, TO CHAOS, TO CONSCIOUSNESS”, Herescope, Nov. 3, 2010; see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2010/11/emergent-metaphysics.html. 365 For a description of what “channeling” is, see the Herescope article “Entertaining ET,” the last subsection “Seducing Spirits and Doctrines of Devils,” http://herescope.blogspot.com/2013/08/entertaining-et.html. 366 Ibid. Wikipedia, Quantum Mysticism. 367 DVD graphic taken from Amazon.com: https://www.amazon.com/What-Bleep-Do-W e-Know/dp/B0006UEVQ8. 368
See the Quantum Activist website: http://www.quantumactivist.com/. Ibid. Quantum Activist. 370 DVD cover taken from: https://www.quantumactivist.com/. 369
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A reference to Pastor Larry’s earlier quotation; see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2010/11/emergentmetaphysics.html. 372 Warren Smith, The Light That Was Dark: From New Age to Amazing Grace (Mountain Stream Press, 2005). 373 Warren B. Smith, “The Shack & it’s New Age Leaven: God IN Everything?”, Herescope, June 21, 2008; see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2008/06/shack-its-new-age-leaven.html. 374
Marilyn Ferguson, The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s (J.P. Tarcher, 1980). See especially Chapter 1, “The Conspiracy”, which explains this use of language. See also our “Quantum Metaphysics” article on Herescope, subheading “Paranormal Psychotechnologies”; see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2013/07/quantum-metaphysics.html.
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Ibid. The Aquarian Conspiracy, pp. 34, 35, 37. On page 38 Ferguson has an extended discussion about this New Age “revolution” that will be a “Social, scientific, and political” event creating a “new social order.” 376 The triquetra symbol predates Christianity. Sadly, naïve Christians have attempted to rehabilitate its occult meaning in associate it with the Trinity. It has been used as a pagan Wiccan symbol for centuries; see: http://paganwiccan.about.com/od/bookofshadows/ig/Pagan-and-Wiccan-Symbols/Triquetra.htm. See also: http://www.crossroad.to/Books/symbols1.html. 377
Note: Sarah Leslie analyzes Missler’s dialectical transformation techniques in her sobering article: “Nephilim Subhumans: A New Cosmology for the Church, Part 6” (Alien Encounters Book Review), subheading “The Madness is in the Method,” Herescope, Aug. 23, 2013; see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2013/08/nephilimsubhumans.html. 378 Thomas Horn, God’s Ghostbusters: Vampires? Ghosts? Aliens? Werewolves? Creatures of the Night Beware!, Chuck Missler Introduction, Defender Publishing, Crane, MO, 2011, pp. 1, 11 -12. 379 Note: This is an excerpt from a Wikipedia entry on the Hindu Vedas: “Maya is often translated as 'illusion', since our minds construct a subjective experience, which we are in peril of interpreting as reality. Māyā is the principal deity that manifests, perpetuates, and governs the illusion and dream of duality in the phenomenal Universe. For some mystics, this manifestation is real. Each person, each physical object, from the perspective of eternity, is like a brief, disturbed drop of water from an unbounded ocean. The goal of enlightenment is to understand this—more precisely, to experience this: to see that the distinction between the self and the Universe is a false dichotomy. The distinction between consciousness and physical matter, between mind and body (refer bodymind), is the result of an unenlightened perspective.” See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_(illusion). 380
See the Quantum Activist website: http://www.quantumactivist.com/ . Ibid. God’s Ghostbusters, pg. 11. See also: Gaylene Goodroad, “Quantum Mysticism in the Church - COSMS, CODES, AND CRYPTOLOGIES PART 1: Crossing the Boundaries of Reality and Scripture”, Herescope, May 12, 2012; see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2012/05/quantum-mysticism-in-church.html. 382 Book cover taken from Amazon.com: https://www.amazon.com/Gods-Ghostbusters-Vampires-W erewolvesCreatures/dp/0983621659. 381
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Pastor Larry DeBruyn, “’My Proof of Heaven’: A Review and Theological Commentary”; see: http://guardinghisflock.com/2012/11/22/the-proof-of-heaven-a-theological-r eview-and-commentary/. 384
Note: Missler was heavily influenced by Bohm’s teachings (via Talbot’s writings); Bohm was heavily influenced by Hindu teachings. Bohm had extensive dialogues with noted Hindu, J. Kristnamurti. See: “The Bohm-Kristnamurti Project: Exploring the Legacy of the David Bohm and Jiddu Kristnamurti Relationship”; see: http://bohmkrishnamurti.com/. See also: Gaylene Goodroad, “Doomsday Datesetters 2012,” Herescope, June 10, 2011; see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2011/06/doomsday-datesetters-2012.html and also: Gaylene Goodroad, “Quantum Mysticism in the Church - Cosms, Codes, & Cryptologies Part 1: Crossing the Boundaries of Reality and Scripture”, Herescope, May 12, 2012; see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2012/05/quantummysticism-in-church.html. 385 Chuck Missler, Cosmic Codes, Hidden Messages from the Edge of Eternity, Koinonia House, Coeur d’Alene, ID, 1999 (Revised 2004), pg. 339. Note: this quote actually belongs to Michael Talbot, The Holographic Universe, HarperCollins Publishers, New York, NY, 1991 (soft cover ed. 1992), pg. 41. Missler used Talbot’s work without citing proper attribution, giving readers the impression that he was the original author/researcher of these ideas. This is fully documented in the article cited in footnote below. 386
Book covers taken from Amazon.com: https://www.amazon.com/Cosmic-Codes-Hidden-Messages-Eternityebook/dp/B00CB3CRP0 (1999 book) and Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/16184879885135292/ (1991 book). 387
Gaylene Goodroad, “Without Attribution: Purloining New Age Ideas,” Herescope, August 7, 2013; see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2013/08/without-attribution.html. Note: For background and analysis to the
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Part 1: Alien Encounters Part 2: Ancient Astronauts & Star Children Part 3: Flying Saucers and “Interdimensional Visitors” Part 4: Quantum Metaphysics Part 5: Entertaining ET Part 6: Nephilim Subhumans
See also: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2013/07/quantum-metaphysics.html. 388
Chuck Missler, YouTube video, “Missing Attributions in Cosmic Codes”, Lyonshead Media Ltd., August 20, 2013; see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgUsbk9AqZ8&feature=player_embedded. Note: Missler imported several extensive passages from Talbot’s book, including a prominent hologram graphic without proper attribution. Most of the 17 exhibits documented in the “Without Attribution” article record word -for-word and line-by-line excerpts, with others bearing slight modifications from Talbot’s original writing (see the article in the above footnote for full documentation). Missler also copied Talbot’s exact footnote sourcing in the back of his own book. It does not seem probable, given the sheer volume of “missing attributions” (and past history), that these massive omissions could have transpired by accidental or “sloppy” scholarship as Mr. Missler insinuates in his video. Nevertheless, it is commendable that he has publicly acknowledged incorporating Talbot’s writings and ideas into his own published book, Cosmic Codes: Messages from the Edge of Eternity. Our hope is that Missler would completely revise Cosmic Codes to correct all of the missing attributions with proper citations and footnoting, including Talbot’s original source work. 389 DVD graphic taken from: http://www.khouseafrica.com/Space%20&%20Science%20Trends.html . 390
Talbot died of Leukemia at the age of 38 in 1992—the same year The Holographic Universe was published. See Talbot’s bio on Amazon.com: https://www.amazon.com/Michael-Talbot/e/B001HCWNFK/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0. 391
Michael Talbot, Mysticism and the New Physics, first Published by Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981, revised and updated edition published by Arkana 1993, printed and bound by Anthony Rowe Ltd., Chippenham, Wiltshire, Great Britain (Penguin/Arkana publishers, London, New York, Victoria Australia, Ontario, Auckland, New Zealand, Middlesex, Great Britain), Introduction, pp. 1-2. 392 Book cover taken from Amazon.com: https://www.amazon.com/Mysticism-Physics-Compass-MichaelTalbot/dp/0140193286 (1993). 393
Ibid. Talbot, Mysticism and the New Physics, back cover.
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Graphic image/quote taken from: http://i.quoteaddicts.com/media/q2/1485805.png & http://quoteaddicts.com/author/chuck-missler. The “ghostly images” quote is NOT Missler’s, but Talbot’s. See pg. 1 of The Holographic Universe - 1991 (Talbot) and pg. 338 of Cosmic Codes - 1999 (Missler). 395
Geoff Haselhurst, On Truth & Reality – The Wave Structure of Matter (WSM) in Space” and “Essay on Life & Ideas of David Bohm”; see: http://www.spaceandmotion.com/Physics-David-Bohm-Holographic-Universe.htm. 396 See “koan” in Merriam-Webster online dictionary: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/koan. See also note in Concise Encyclopedia: “In ZEN Buddhism, a brief paradoxical statement or question used as a discipline in MEDITATION. The effort to solve a koan is designed to exhaust the analytic intellect and the will, leaving the mind open for response on an intuitive level. There are about 1,700 traditional koans, which are based on anecdotes from ancient Zen masters. They include the well-known example “When both hands are clapped a sound is produced; listen to the sound of one hand clapping”. 397 Ibid. David Thimme. 398 Graphic taken: http://www.seekwithinyou.com/blogs/111-what-is-the-law-of-attraction.
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See Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_attr action. For an in-depth look at this subject, note this technical paper written by engineer, researcher, and occultist, Rinaldo Lampis, “Quantum Mechanics, Non-locality and the Structure of the Invisible World [A]: The Physics of Mind as the Basis of Reality”; see: http://blog.hasslberger.com/QuantumMechanics-Nonlocality-Lampis.pdf. Also 400
note Mr. Lampis’ bio: http://www.spiritaction.net/. 401
Janeen Detrick, PhD, “The Science Behind How the Law Of Attraction Works: Quantum Physics, Quantum Mechanics, and String Theory”, June 18, 2011; see: http://www.goodvibesclinic.com/the-science-behind-the-lawof-attraction/. Note Dr. Detrick’s bio: "Janeen Detrick is a Personal Development Coach through Prosper, Inc., in Provo, Utah, where she helps people all over the world to clear their blocks so they can create miracles in their lives! She has a 30 year career as a real estate investor and real estate broker. Janeen studied theology at Baptist Bible College in Springfield, Missouri, and received her Bachelor and Master of Sciences degrees through the University of Metaphysical Sciences. She obtained her Doctorate through Minnesota University’s School of Metaphysical Sciences, earning her PhD in Transpersonal Counseling. Magnifying her gifts of teaching and healing, Janeen owns Good Vibrations Energy Clinic, LLC., where she utilizes her training in a myriad of holistic healing modalities through distance healing sessions with clients internationally." Note: New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) author, inventor, and quantum physicist, David van Koevering, teaches similar ideas. See his article, “Keys to Taking Your Quantum Leap”, that was published in the August 2007 issue of ElijahRain Magazine (Missler is mentioned); See: http://www.elijahlist.com/words/display_word/6762. See also Pastor Larry DeBruyn’s 12-part article series (book review) of the Physics of Heaven; see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2016/09/quantum-charismatics-andpopping-qwiffs.html. 402 403
Ibid. Dr. Detrick. CD graphic taken from: https://uk.pinterest.com/pin/23643966770957726/.
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Chuck Missler and Mark Eastman, Alien Encounters: The Secret Behind the UFO Phenomenon Koinonia House, Coeur d’Alene, ID, 1997 (Sixth Printing, 2009). See also an online version (missing the footnotes); http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/Alien%20Encounters.pdf; and Sarah Leslie, “Quantum Metaphysics: A New Cosmology for the Church, Part 4” (Alien Encounters Book Review), Herescope, July 30, 2013; see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2013/07/quantum-metaphysics.html. 405 Book cover taken from Amazon.com: https://www.amazon.com/Alien-Encounters-Secret-Behind-Ph enomenon/dp/1578212057. 406
Chuck Missler, “The Realm of Angels,” http://www.khouse.org/articles/2012/1044/print/. Herescope previously published something about this article in “Quantum Prophecy”; see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2012/05/quantum-prophecy.html. 407
Artwork taken from Jewish History Lectures.org: https://jewishhistorylectur es.org/2013/12/29/nahmanidesrabbi-moshe-ben-nahman/. 408
Ibid. Alien Encounters, pg. 83. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yin_yang . See also: Gaylene Goodroad, My Life in “The Way’; see: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B75yD6e-RzQEeDkwUXA1UEZMeWM/edit. 409
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Sarah Leslie, “Quantum Metaphysics: A New Cosmology for the Church,” Part 4 (Alien Encounters Book Review), Herescope, July 30, 2013; see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2013/07/quantum-metaphysics.html. See a full discussion of Neils Bohr, with graphic illustrations, under the subheading “’Ghostly Images’ of Un -Reality.” Note that Marilyn Ferguson cites Bohr, as does Talbot, as one whose ideas provided a foundation to New Age metaphysics. 411 Photo taken from: http://blog.naver.com/PostView.nhn?blogId=bjgim21&logNo=130177895058&redirect=Dlog&widget TypeCall=tru e.
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The Discernment Research Group has written extensively on this topic. See: “Nephilim Eschatology, Parts 1 & 2”, July 10 & 21, 2012; see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-serpent-seed-nephilim.html and http://herescope.blogspot.com/2012/07/nephilim-eschatology.html. See also Part 1 of this book. 413 Sarah Leslie, “Quantum Metaphysics: A New Cosmology for the Church,” Part 4 (Alien Encounters Book Review), Herescope, July 30, 2013; see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2013/07/quantum-metaphysics.html. 414 Missler’s Supplemental Notes for his Beyond Perception Briefing Package; see: http://nicolepark.info/sites/default/files/chuckMissler/Beyond_Perception_Notes.pdf. See also: KHouse 66/40 radio broadcast, “Beyond Perception” on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0TKtwjUG9 M and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=748lremC-ks. 415
K-House eNews for June 4, 2013, “Ignore the Man Behind the Curtain”; http://www.khouse.org/enews_article/2013/2092/print/. 416 RaidersNewsUpdate (RNU) June 8, 2013; see: http://www.raidersnewsupdate.com/ . [Ed. note: Horn’s RNU website was taken down after this article was published and is no longer posted. The author cached the information on a personal device]. 417
Graphic taken from: http://www.oocities.org/eventmovies/13thfloor.htm. Noel Huntley, PhD, “A Holographic Universe?” August 2003; see: http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~noelh/Holographic_universe.htm. See also, “A Fractal Matrix”: http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/ ~noelh/BasicModel_Part%20I.htm. 419 Fritjof Capra, The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism, Shambhala Publications, Inc., Boulder, CO, 1975. 418
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Note: I first became aware of Capra’s mystical New Age philosophy during my years of martial arts training. Later as an instructor, I unfortunately taught these deceptions to others. After my conversion, I renounced both of my black belts, left the combat arts, and wrote an e-book about these false teachings that not only fail to line up with Scripture, but tragically lead followers away from Christ. To access this free online booklet, “My Life in the Way: from the Broad Way of the East to the Narrow Way of Christ”; see: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B75yD6e-RzQEeDkwUXA1UEZMeWM/edit. More information about these Taoist teachings are on my blog: http://www.mylifeintheway.blogspot.com. 421 Book cover taken from: https://thedailyomnivore.net/?s=Pseudoscience. 422
Ibid. Ferguson, pg. 145. Ibid. Ferguson, pg. 145. 424 Ibid. Ferguson, pp. 172-3. The quotation about “blood transfusion” is attributed to Erwin Schrodinger. 425 Book cover taken from Amazon.com: https://www.amazon.com/Dancing-Wu-Li-MastersOverview/dp/0060959681/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8 (1979). 423
426
Ibid. Ferguson, pg. 172. See our article titled, “Mainstreaming Mystic Mindedness” which deals with Eastern meditation: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2015/11/mainstr eaming-mystic-mindedness.html. 427
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See Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermeticism. Ibid. Huntley’s “A Fractal Matrix.” Note: Gary Stearman and the late J.R. Church were featured in a video published on YouTube May 24, 2013 from a January 2009 broadcast of the Prophecy in the News (PITN) TV program called, “Fractals, God's Intelligent Design” in which they give credence to these New Age notions as though they were sound, biblical concepts; see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vS4ZuFqRxdo. The program was based on an article written by Stearman (who is now with Prophecy Watchers.com) for PITN Magazine that year which is no longer available in print, but is excerpted online. See: Gary Stearman, “Fractals: The Intelligence of God’s Design Is Creation A Series Of Divine Algorithms?” January 5, 2009; see: http://www.bibleprophecyblog.com/2009/01/fractals-intelligence-of-gods-design-is.html#. 430 Graphic taken from: https://thedailyomnivore.net/?s=Pseudoscience. 429
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Ibid. Talbot, The Holographic Universe, pp. 290, 326. See God’s Ghostbusters, pg. 11. See also: Gaylene Goodroad, “Quantum Mysticism in the Church - COSMS, CODES, AND CRYPTOLOGIES PART 1: Crossing the Boundaries of Reality and Scripture”, Herescope, May 12, 2012; see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2012/05/quantum-mysticism-in-church.html. 432 Gaylene Goodroad, “Quantum Mysticism in the Church - Cosms, Codes, and Cryptologies, Pt. 1: Crossing the Boundaries of Reality and Scripture”, Herescope, May 12, 2012; see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2012/05/quantum-mysticism-in-church.html. 433
Ibid. Warren Smith critique on The Shack. Ibid. Pastor Larry DeBruyn, “My Proof of Heaven”. 435 Pastor Larry DeBruyn, “Quantum Physics and the New Spirituality - From Cosmos, to Chaos, to Consciousness: Pt. 1”, Herescope, Oct. 22, 2010; see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2010/10/quantum-physics-and-newspirituality.html. 436 See: “12-21-12: Evangelical Christians Believing Mayan Prophecies,” Herescope, Dec. 6, 2012; see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2012/12/12-21-12.html. In the Spring of 2012 we wrote a lengthy series of articles looking at this whole issue in-depth. Again, we hoped that calling attention to such wild and zany misapplications of biblical prophecy that perhaps people would come to their senses and recognize that there was a real problem. We warned that there was an entirely new ESCHATOLOGY (last-days scenarios) arising that blended the Bible with these pagan sources. Below is a list of articles that detail the evangelical leaders caught up in this prophecy heresy: Part 1: QUANTUM MYSTICISM IN THE CHURCH
Part 2: COSMIC CRYPTOLOGY IN THE CHURCH
Part 3: The Emerging ENIGMA Bible
Part 4: False Eschatology Arising!
Part 5: Quantum Teleporting Through Time
Part 6: Quantum Geomancy and Cryptic Mystic Math
Part 7: Quantum Prophecy
Part 8: A Quantum Cosmic Christ
Part 9: Quantum Mysticism Goes to Market
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See: Pastor Larry DeBruyn, “Emergent Metaphysics: From Cosmos, to Chaos, to Consciousness,” Herescope, Nov. 3, 2010; see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2010/11/emergent-metaphysics.html. For other articles on these topics, see the following selection: * New Age Date Setting * Doomsday Datesetters 2012 * Militant Prayer: Taking Spiritual Dominion Over Dark Angels
"Nephilim Eschatology: A Crash Course in the Emerging Endtime Prophecy Heresy" * Part 1: Nephilim-induced Human DNA Corruption * Part 2: The Serpent Seed & the Nephilim * 12-12-12: NAR Date Setting
* 12-21-12: Evangelical Christians Believing Mayan Prophecies * 2012 & Fantasy-Driven Faith
2012: New Agers & Mayan Prophecies * “Babylon Rising” and Canon in Crisis: Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, Fresh Revelations, and an “Open” Canon * The Emerging Galactic Religion: Science Fiction and the Rise of Technocratic Posthumanism * The Rise of Apocalyptic Paganism in the Church: Bible Prophecy in Crisis * “In the Days of Noah”—What Scripture teaches about Noah & Enoch * Prophecy Mongering: Profiting from the Promulgation of End-Time CRI$I$ Scenarios * 101 Questions about "the Nephilim": The New Prophetic Paradigm: Questions 8 * Regarding Genesis 6 and Matthew 24 * Add-Ons: Augmenting Scripture With Diverse and Strange Doctrines
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM * A New Cosmology for the Church: Alien Encounters: A Book Review by Sarah H. Leslie · Part 1: Alien Encounters · Part 2: Ancient Astronauts & Star Children · Part 3: Flying Saucers and “Interdimensional Visitors” · Part 4: Quantum Metaphysics · Part 5: Entertaining ET · Part 6: Nephilim Subhumans * Without Attribution: Purloining New Age Ideas by Gaylene Goodroad. * With Attributions: Some Thoughts on Chuck Missler’s “You Tube” Apology by Pastor Larry DeBruyn * Doctrines of Demons by Pastor Anton Bosch * The Supreme Supremacy of the Lord Jesus Christ: Christ Before Cosmos by Pastor Larry DeBruyn * The Gap Theory: A Review and Grammatical Critique: From Cosmos to Chaos, and Cosmos Again by Pastor Larry DeBruyn * RAPTURE ALREADY: Apocalyptic Visitations to the Afterlife and Visions of the End by Pastor Larry DeBruyn * Babylonianism at the Gates: Christians and the Encircling World of the Occult by Pastor Larry DeBruyn * “Deliteralizing” the Bible: from Plato to Peterson: Scripture amidst the Shadows by Pastor Larry DeBruyn 438
See Sacred Texts.com: http://www.sacred-tex ts.com/etc/omw/omw21.htm. Martyrs Mirror, compiled by Theileman J. van Braght, (Mennonite Publishing House, Scottdale, PA, 1951), p. 136. The complete title of this historical compendium of martyrs who died for Christ is titled The Bloody Theater of Martyrs Mirror of the Defenseless Christians Who Baptized Only Upon Confession of Faith, and Who Suffered and Died for the Testimony of Jesus, Their Saviour, From the Time of Christ to the Year A.D. 1660. 440 The ancient Romans adapted and accommodated their own Roman pantheon of gods to the cultures they conquered, building many temples for all of the native and local pagan deities in the surrounding Mediterranean area. This topic is discussed at considerable length in Henry Hart Milman’s The History of Christianity from the Birth of Christ to the Abolition of Paganism in the Roman Empire (Harper & Brothers, 1841). 441 See the 6-part book review of Alien Encounters: The Secret Behind the UFO Phenomenon by Chuck Missler and Mark Eastman on Herescope titled, “A New Cosmology for the Church.” Part 1: Alien Encounters Part 2: Ancient Astronauts & Star Children Part 3: Flying Saucers and “Interdimensional Visitors” Part 4: Quantum Metaphysics Part 5: Entertaining ET 439
Part 6: Nephilim Subhumans 442 See the article by Gaylene Goodroad, “The Second Coming of Apollo, The Rise of End-Time Occultism Part 4,” Herescope, June 12, 2013; http://herescope.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-second-coming-of-apollo.html. Note: This article has been updated and adapted to Part 4 of this book. 443 Book cover taken from Amazon.com: https://www.amazon.com/Nephilim-Stargates-Year-ReturnWatchers/dp/0978845315. 444 Image taken from: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/304204149808339697/. 445 Photo taken from: http://www.gods-and-monsters.com/poseidon-greek-god.html. 446 Thomas R. Horn, Nephilim Stargates: The Year 2012 and the Return of the Watchers, Anomalos Publishing, Crane, MO, 2007, pg. 9. 447 See: Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theogony. 448 Book cover taken from: http://www.bentonhouse.org/blog/2013/12/23/book-of-the-moment-hesiodstheogony. 449 Ibid. Nephilim Stargates, Introduction, pg. 1. 450 See Sarah Leslie’s 6-part series reviewing Alien Encounters, titled “A New Cosmology for the Church”. Cited in footnote #441.
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See for example the 6-part book review of Missler’s Alien Encounters cited in footnote #441. Part 3 especially talks about the extraterrestrial hypothesis; see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2013/07/ancient-astronauts-starchildren.html. 452 See Chuck Missler YouTube video, “Rebels Among the Watchers – Part 2” (from the 3:34 to the 6:37 minute mark); see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpqmfpykEWI . [Ed. note: this video has been removed from YouTube, but the author has a transcription of the message. A similar teaching can be found in a more recent video, “Reality of Legend in 2011 Movie IMMORTALS - Titans Tartarus etc.”; see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEbm9VeQ4Eg]. 453 Ibid. Missler’s ‘Rebels’ video. [Ed. note: this video has been removed from YouTube, but the author has a transcription of the message. A similar teaching can be found in a more recent video, “Reality of Legend in 2011 Movie IMMORTALS - Titans Tartarus etc.”; see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEbm9 VeQ4 Eg]. 454 Graphic taken from: http://www.wallpapersonly.net/view/kronos-greek-mythology-1280x800.html. 455 Ibid. Missler’s ‘Rebels’ video. Similar teachings can be found in Alien Encounters, pp. 45, 50, & 206. 456 Graphic image taken from: http://ufosightingshotspot.blogspot.com/2015/11/et-origins-tribal-elders-speakout-on.html. 457 See Part 5 of this book. The original article can be found on Herescope; see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2013/06/nephilim-ar e-from-mars.html. 458 Ibid. Nephilim Stargates, Introduction, pg. 1. 459 Stephen Beale, “History Curriculum Closes Young Minds to God,” Crisis Magazine, July 24, 2013; see: http://www.crisismagazine.com/2013/new-gates-history-curriculum-closes-young-minds-to-god. 460 There was a deliberate attempt to include paganism into public school curriculum, especially including “global education” based on Lovelock’s Gaia hypothesis that the earth is a living entity and deity. See, for example, the charts and description posted here: http://www.crossroad.to/charts/new-story.htm. For more of this story, see pages 275-277 of Charlotte Iserbyt’s book the deliberate dumbing down of america (Conscience Press, 1999), available as a free download at www.deliberatedumbingdown.com. 461 We note that author Berit Kjos, who has consistently warned about the influence of pagan spirituality on children has republished her original book Your Child and the New Age. It is now updated and available from Lighthouse Trails Publishing under the title How to Protect Your Child from the New Age & Spiritual Deception. Her website contains many helpful articles on pagan spirituality and its influence on children; see: www.crossroad.to. 462 Henry Hart Milman’s The History of Christianity from the Birth of Christ to the Abolition of Paganism in the Roman Empire (Harper & Brothers, 1841), pg. 346. See also the context of the entire Chapter V, “Christianity Under the Sons of Constantine,” and Chapter VI about Julian the Apostate's attempt to revivify the ancient world's dark and occult paganism. 463 Ibid. Milman, pg. 351. 464 Ibid. Milman, pp. 349-350. 465 Milman defines it as “the awful and sublime communion of the mind with the spiritual world” on page 346. See another definition on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theurgy. 466 Ibid. Milman, pp. 346-347. Note the key role that contemplative meditation played in this merger, in the reference to the monks brooding. 467 Quote taken from Michael Heiser’s website: http://www.thedivinecouncil.com/. Dictionary of the Old Testament: Wisdom, Poetry, & Writings; ed. Tremper Longman and Peter Enns, InterVarsity Press, 2008. 468 This graphic used to be on Heiser’s website, but it has now been removed. The image can be found: http://arts.in.ua/classics/gustav e_dor e/. 469
See Heiser’s bio on his website: http://drmsh.com/about. “My name is Mike Heiser, and I’m a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (M.A., Ancient History) and the University of Wisconsin- Madison (M.A., Ph.D., Hebrew Bible and Semitic Studies). I have a dozen years of classroom teaching experience on the college level and another ten in distance education. I’m currently a Scholar-in-Residence at Logos Bible Software, a company that produces ancient text databases and other digital resources for study of the ancient world and biblical studies. You can get a more detailed answer to my academic background by reading through my CV… I write at the Naked Bible blog and teach through the Naked Bible Podcast with you in mind. You’re also the person I had in view when I wrote The Unseen Realm: Recovering the Supernatural Worldview of the Bible… Our culture is fascinated by ghosts, psychic
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM phenomena, near death experiences, UFOs and extraterrestrials, and conspiracy theories. Movies featuring superheros, vampires, artificial intelligence, and mutants are the rage. Why? They constitute an alternative to theism and Christianity. Science fiction and the paranormal capture the imagination by offering a means to our own divinity and glimpses of other realities. Space is heaven without the biblical God. The paranormal offers an escape from deterministic materialism and spirituality without centralized authority. It all satisfies the yearning for the transcendent and a destiny of becoming more than human, whether by modifying our bodies (transhumanism) or evolving with supernatural assistance that isn’t an angry deity. The message is simple and ancient: we will be as gods. Rather than belittle those who have rejected Christianity in favor of this new religion or denying someone’s anomalous experience, my goal is to help people consider that perhaps the problem isn’t the Bible, but the in sidethe-box (or head-in-the-sand) thinking that often characterizes Christian approaches to these subjects. This is why I blog at UFO Religions, speak at UFO conferences, write sci-fi paranormal thrillers (The Facade, The Portent), and host the Peeranormal podcast.” Heiser has an article featured in Horn’s 2006 magazine, Official Disclosure, “Christian Theology and the ET Reality.” He has also written a paranormal thriller, The Façade, which involves ET life & UFO phenomenon. See also: “On the Road to Roswell 2007: A Discussion with Dr. Mike Heiser”; see: http://stevemchenry.blogspot.com/2007/06/partnine-on-road-to-roswell-2007.html. 470
Gaylene Goodroad & the Discernment Group, “Militant Prayer: Taking Spiritual Dominion over Dark Angels,” Herescope, Sept. 23, 2011; see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2011/09/militant-prayer.html. See also Part 3 of this book. See the original article, “Techno-Dimensional Prayer Combat: The Rise of End-Time Occultism Part 3,” Herescope, June 6, 2013; see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2013/06/techno-dimensional-pr ayer-combat.html. 471 Ibid. Milman, pg. 351, in his chapter about Julian the Apostate. Note that the reference to the stars is referring to astrology. This is documented on pg. 352 in a footnote to a quote of Julian's: “This…refers no doubt, to astrology and divination.” 472 Thomas Horn, Zenith 2016: Did Something begin in 2012 that will reach its Apex in 2016?, Defender Publishing, Crane, MO, pg. 160. 473 Book cover from Amazon.com: https://www.amazon.com/Zenith-2016-Something-BeginReach/dp/0984825657. 474 Ibid. Nephilim Stargates, bibliography, pg. 229. See also Forbidden Gates, pp. 18-19. Note pg. 4 of the Forbidden Gates Study Guide - 1C: “On page 33, the authors briefly mention “the divine council.” If you are not familiar with this theology (which some connect to the origin of demons) and want to include it in this class, we recommend the study by Dr. Michael Heiser on his website here: www.thedivinecouncil.com.” 475 See the ISV website: https://www.isv.org/bible/about-us/. This version was downloaded onto a personal device in order to substantiate the translation in Genesis 6. 476 Gary Stearman, “Mystery of the Fallen Angels”; see: https://www.worthychristianforums.com/topic/7-othergods/. 477
Peter Goodgame incorporates this mythological “Divine Council” heresy into his recent book, The Second Coming of the Antichrist, Defense Publishing (a division of Defender Publishing), Crane, MO, 2012. This book was not only published by Tom Horn, but the Foreword was also written by Horn. To read more about Goodgame’s book see Part 4 of this book. The original article, “The Second Coming of Apollo,” can be found on Herescope, June 12, 2013; see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-second-coming-of-apollo.html. 478 Ibid. Peter Goodgame. The ellipses is footnote #80 which states: “We can’t spend a great deal of time explaining and defending the doctrine and theology of this truly biblical ‘divine council’ concept, which is an area of biblical research led by Dr. Michael S. Heiser, whose writings can be accessed at www.michaelsheiser.com/ and www.thedivinecouncil.com/ .” 479 Ibid. Goodgame. 480 Drawing taken from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babel . 481
Ibid. Goodgame.
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Ibid. The ellipsis is footnote #164 which states: “See ‘The Meeting Place of the Divine Council,’ by Heiser located at http://www.thedivinecouncil.com/MeetingPlaceDivineCouncil.pdf . Also see ‘God’s Home Address,’ at http://www.thedivinecouncil.com/GodsAddress.pdf. 483 Ibid. Goodgame. 484 See Goodgame’s website: http://redmoonrising.com/agenda.htm. Note: This extensive writing also betrays Goodgame’s dominionist leanings documented in the original article, “The Second Coming of Apollo,” Herescope, June 12, 2013; see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-second-coming-of-apollo.html; footnote #45. See also Part 4 of this book. See footnote #241. 485 Pastor Larry DeBruyn, “Did Jesus Teach the Deity of Humanity,” Guarding His Flock Ministries; see: http://guardinghisflock.com/2010/08/03/did-jesus-teach-the-divinity-of-humanity/. See also: Gaylene Goodroad & the Discernment Group, “Militant Prayer: Taking Spiritual Dominion over Dark Angels,” Herescope, Sept. 23, 2011; see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2011/09/militant-prayer.html, and also the original article, “TechnoDimensional Prayer Combat,” Herescope, June 6, 2013; http://herescope.blogspot.com/2013/06/technodimensional-prayer-combat.html. See also Part 3 of this book. 486
See Wikipedia page on The Divine Council: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_Council . Titled: Council of gods before the Deluge. Graphic taken from an engraving by Virgil Solis for Ovid’s Metamorphoses Book I, 162 -208. Fol. 4v, image 7. 487 Ibid. Wikipedia page on The Divine Council. 488 Ibid. This list comes via Milman, who documents Julian the Apostate’s attempts to become more pagan by practicing these rituals, pp. 353-354. For related articles, see “Resurrecting Pagan Rites,” at the Discernment website: http://www.discernment-ministries.org/Articles/ResurrectingPaganRites.pdf. 489
Movie poster taken from: http://www.apnatimepass.com/thor-the-dark-world-movie-poster-3.php. See the Thor Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor:_The_Dark_World. See also: http://www.fandango.com/thor :thedarkworld_149455/movieoverview. The original movie Thor and its similarities, and those of The Avengers series, to the PPP teachings was examined by Sarah Leslie at the “Quantum Mysticism: 2012 & Beyond” Discernment Ministries conference in Niles, Michigan in July 2012. 490
http://home.etcable.net/hestervanboven/Conferences.htm. 491 Ibid. This term used by Milman, pg. 351. 492 See the Marvel Directory: http://www.marveldirectory.com/groupsandteams/councilofgodheads.htm. 493
See note section: http://marvel.wikia.com/Council_of_Godheads_(Ear th-616). Chuck Missler lifted the notion of a Holographic Universe from the late New Age author, Michael Talbot, smuggling this concept into the evangelical church through his own writings. See: Gaylene Goodroad, “Without Attribution: Purloining New Age Ideas,” Herescope, Aug. 7, 2013; see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2013/08/without-attribution.html. 495 See the original article, “The Second Coming of Apollo,” Herescope, June 12, 2013; see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-second-coming-of-apollo.html. See also Part 4 of this book. 496 DVD cover taken from Skiba’s website: http://www.babylonrisingblog.com/images/covers/MythologyDVD.jpg . 497 See Skiba’s website: http://babylonrisingbooks.com/. Skiba and his wife have also launched The Virtual House Church, on online “church” community steeped in Hebrew Roots teachings: http://www.virtualhousechurch.com/home. For Skiba's in-depth filmmaking bio, see his Revolutionary Film Project website: http://therevolutionaryfilmproject.com/Rob. 498 Bob Ulrich, “Bob’s Review: The Rob Skiba Package,” Prophecy in the News (PITN), October 30, 2011; see: http://www.prophecyinthenews.com/bobs-review-the-rob-skiba-package/. [Ed. note: this link has been removed, but the information can be found: https://twelvebooks.wordpress.com/2011/11/12/.] 494
499
http://www.propagander.com.au/prop_hire_per th/prop_hire_perth_backdrops.html. See Marzulli’s blog, “Hybrids—Nephilim and the End Times,” May 28, 2010: http://lamarzulli.wordpress.com/2010/05/28/hybrids-nephilim-and-the-end-times/. 501 See Skiba’s film listings on IMDB.Com: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3277328/. 500
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Pastor Larry DeBruyn, “’Babylon Rising’ and Canon in Crisis: Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, Fresh Revelations, and an ‘Open Canon’”, Herescope, Jan. 28, 2013; see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2013/01/babylon-rising-andcanon-in-crisis.html. Note: For additional background on how the PPP leaders (like Skiba) use these extra-biblical sources to alter true end-times eschatology see: “The Rise of Apocalyptic Paganism in the Church: Bible Prophecy in Crisis,” Herescope, March 7, 2013; see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-rise-of-apocalypticpaganism-in.html. 503
Pastor Larry DeBruyn, “Demons, Daughters & DNA,” Herescope, June 22, 2011; see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2011/06/demons-daughters-and-dna.html; Sarah Leslie, “Nephilim Subhumans,” Herescope, Aug. 23, 2013: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2013/08/nephilim-subhumans.html; Gaylene Goodroad, “The ‘Return’ of the Alien Super Soldier,” Herescope, June 1 2013: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-return-of-alien-super-soldier.html (Part 2 of this book); Gaylene Goodroad, “Nephilim Eschatology,” Herescope, July 10, 2012: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2012/07/nephilimeschatology.html; and Gaylene Goodroad, “The Serpent Seed & the Nephilim,” Herescope, July 21, 2012: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-serpent-seed-nephilim.html. 504 Tom and Nita Horn, Forbidden Gates: How Genetics, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Synthetic Biology, Nanotechnology, and Human Enhancement Herald the Dawn of Techno -Dimensional Spiritual Warfare, Defender Publishing, Crane, MO, 2010, pp. 181-182. 505 Image taken from: https://www.haikudeck.com/greek-mythology-uncategorized-presentationmuCPbQm6jg#slide59. 506 Bennett ended his radio broadcasts in February of 2012; see the Future Quake website: http://futurequake.com/. 507 Thomas Horn, Pandemonium’s Engine: How the End of the Church Age, the Rise of Transhumanism, and the Coming of the Ubermensch (Overman) Herald Satan’s Imminent and Final Assault on the Creation of God, Defender Publishing, Crane, MO, pp. 73-74. 508 See Wikipedia page on Pan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_(god) . Note this quote: “Pan is famous for his sexual powers, and is often depicted with a phallus. Diogenes of Sinope, speaking in jest, related a myth of Pan learning masturbation from his father, Hermes, and teaching the habit to shepherds.” Pan, a horned god, is also identified with Satan. See also a description of Horn’s book listed in the WND Superstore: http://superstore.wnd.com/books/Current-Affairs/Pandemoniums-Engine-Satans-Imminent-and-Final-Assault-onthe-Creation-of-God-Paperback. 509 See Herescope post “New Age Date Setting”: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2011/06/new-age-datesetting.html. See also the series of posts we wrote leading up to 2012: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2012/12/2012-new-agers-mayan-prophecies.html, http://herescope.blogspot.com/2012/12/2012-fantasy-driven-faith.html, and http://herescope.blogspot.com/2012/12/12-21-12.html. 510 Book cover taken from Amazon.com: https://www.amazon.com/Pandemoniums-Engine-Transhumanism%C3%9Cbermensch-Imminent/dp/0983621616. 511 To understand this offensive graphic, Tom Horn explains, “In Egyptian mythology, the sun represented Osiris while the star Sirius symbolized Isis, and thirteen was the number of pieces of Osiris that Isis was able to find after Seth, his evil brother, murdered and threw fourteen pieces of him into the Nile. Isis searched the riverbank until she recovered every piece, except for his genitals, which had been swallowed by a fish. Isis replaced the missing organ with an Obelisk and magically impregnated herself with Horus. Therefore, in Masonic as well as in ancient Egyptian mythology, the number thirteen—used a total of thirteen times on the Great Seal, counting front and back—is the number that represents the return or resurrection of Osiris.” Thomas Horn, Zenith 2016: Did Something Begin in the Year 2012 that will Reach it’s Apex in 2016?, Defender Publishing, Crane, MO, 2013, pg. 294. See also, Thomas R. Horn, “Zenith 2016: Did Something Begin in 2012 Part 5,” NewsWithViews, June 28, 2013; http://www.newswithviews.com/Horn/thomas206.htm . The sordid Osiris myth is recounted in Zenith 2016, pp. 293-294. 512 Ibid. Pandemonium’s Engine, pp. 81-82. 513 See: http://e2.ma/message/ekhhg/ekl8jq. [Ed. note: this link was removed, but the information is cached]. 514 Ibid. Pandemonium’s Engine, pg. 83. See footnote #510 for a description of Horn’s offensive graphic.
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See The Bloody Theater or Martyrs Mirror of the Defenseless Christians, compiled by Thieleman J. van Braght; translated from the original Dutch writings of 1660 by Joseph F. Sohm; see: http://www.zsezse.com/pdfs/romanism/Martyrs%20Mirror.pdf. See also the Wikipedia page on the Persecution of Christians In the Roman Empire: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Christians_in_the_Roman_Empir e. 516 Matthew Poole, A Commentary on the Holy Bible, Vol. II: Psalms – Malachi, (Hendrickson, p. 972). 517 See BibleHub.com: http://biblehub.com/2_timothy/4-3.htm. 518 Graphic image taken from: https://steemit.com/science/@dahaz159/future-concepts-explored-part-2transhumanism-neural-implants-and-the-future-of-cybernetic-augmentation. 519
Dr. Martin Erdmann, “Salvation through Technology: Creating a Posthuman New Breed,” Herescope, April 23, 2011; see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2011/04/salvation-through-technology.html. Note also what is general knowledge: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transhumanism. 520
Dr. Martin Erdmann, “The Emerging Galactic Religion: Science Fiction and the Rise of Technocratic Posthumanism”, Herescope, February 28, 2013; see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-emerginggalactic-religion.html. 521 Ibid. Erdmann, “Salvation through Technology”. 522 Ibid. Dr. Erdmann, “The Emerging Galactic Religion”. 523 524
Ibid. Dr. Erdmann, “Salvation through Technology”. Dr. Martin Erdmann, “The Brave New Breed: Creatures in Pursuit of Autonomous Perfection,” Herescope,
February 10, 2006; see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2006/02/brave-new-breed-cr eatur es-in-pursuit.html. 525 Thomas R. Horn, RaidersNewsNetwork.com, AN OPEN LETTER TO CHRISTIAN LEADERS ON BIOTECHNOLOGY AND THE FUTURE OF MAN Time running out to influence debate on transhumanism, September 14, 2010; http://www.raidersnewsupdate.com/leadstory94.htm. [Ed. Note: The quote was excerpted from Tom Horn’s former website, Raiders News Update, which has now been removed along with the original link. The quotes can also be found on Christian Newswire.com; see: http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/6677314961.html. 526
See Berit Kjos’ examination of Marilyn Ferguson’s 1980 classic New Age book, The Aquarian Conspiracy, “The Paradigm Shift”: http://www.crossroad.to/Quotes/paradigm-shift/aquarian-conspiracy.htm. See also the dictionary definition: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/paradigm_shift, and an ad for a biology seminar speaking about the quantum theories of physicist Niels Bohr: http://www.imcb.a-star.edu.sg/bseminars/20130514a.pdf. 527 Both book covers taken from Horn’s SurvivorMall.com: https://www.survivormall.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=FG-AR-A G-PDF. 528 Tom and Nita Horn, Forbidden Gates: How Genetics, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Synthetic Biology, Nanotechnology, and Human Enhancement Herald the Dawn of Techno -Dimensional Spiritual Warfare, Defender Publishing, Crane, MO, 2010. 529 Graphic taken from: https://allstaractivist.com/2016/03/28/do-you-think-there-is-any-humanity-in-heaven/. 530 See common knowledge definition of technological singularity: “The technological singularity, often colloquially called the singularity, is a theoretical point in time when human technology (and, particularly, technological intelligence) will have so rapidly progressed that, ultimately, a greater-than-human intelligence will emerge, which will ‘radically change human civilization, and perhaps even human nature itself’”: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity . 531 Note: Many of Horn’s ideas are similar to New Age visionary, Barbara Marx Hubbard. See the description for the Tipping Point Prophets Conference 2012, especially the New Ager’s view of “critical mass”: http://www.greatmystery.org/nl/vancouver2012barbara.html . 532 The Future Congress website has been taken down, but some of the information is still online: http://www.raidersnewsnetwork.com/leadstory69.ht m. 533
Many of the Pike’s Peak links about the conference, especially from Prophecy in the News (PITN) are no longer available, but a few still exist. See: https://prophecyinthenews.com/bookstor e/pikes-peak-prophecy-summit-
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Thomas Horn, Zenith 2016: Did Something Begin in the Year 2012 that Will Reach its Zenith in 2016?, the Revised and Expanded Edition of Apollyon Rising 2012, Defender Publishing, Crane, MO 2013 (AR-2012, 2009). Note: the most notable adjustments to Horn’s 2012 date adjustments are found in Chapter 20:12. In Apollyon Rising 2012 the chapter title reads, “Final Part of the Last Mystery of the Great Seal: When”. In Zenith 2016, the same chapter title has this not-so-subtle alteration, “Final Part of the Last Mystery: 2012-2016, 2019, and the End?” Also note a major change to the chapter 20:12 subtitle: from “Deeper Secrets: Maya, Watchers, and the 2012 Return” (AR-2012, pg. 316) to “Deeper Secrets: The Watchers and 33, 2012, 2016 (Z-2016, pg. 382). Here is the boast from the back cover of Z-2016, “What even the best researchers of the Illuminati and veiled fraternities such as the Freemasons were never able to fully decipher is spelled out her ein for the first time. The power at work behind global affairs and why current planetary powers are hurriedly aligning for a New Order from Chaos is exposed. Most incredibly, one learns how ancient prophets foresaw and forewarned of this time.” Note that the “ancient prophets” cited here are primarily extra-biblical. See also the bulleted excerpts from the back of this book: • Unveiled! It started in 2012—the secret Freemasonic countdown for a Global World Leader circa 2016. • Disclosed! How recent US Presidents and other global leaders are—and have been—deeply involved in the scheme to enthrone the Man of Sin. • Found! The hidden connection between the years 2012, 2014, 2015, and 2019. Is it really the End!?” • Revealed! What the world has never heard about the End of the Mayan Calendar. • The role that Pope Francis—the FINAL POPE—may play in the year 2016 during the installation of the King of the NWO. • The eight-hundred-year-old prophecy of Rabbi Judah Ben Samuel and what it says about the timeframe 20122016. • What Protestant Reformers believed about the years 2012-2016. Discover what they expected to happen…and predicted. • Blood Moons and 2014, 2015, Feast days, and the Comet of the Century. Is God, Himself, preparing to light the first real candle of Chanukah!? • The return of the Watchers and the mysterious, worldwide connection between these angelic NEPHILIM creators and the numbers 33, 2012, and 2016. Also from the back cover: “Internationally acclaimed investigative author Thomas Horn uncovers what you can expect to unfold in the coming days, and, more importantly, what you can do to be prepared for the arrival of the kingdom of Antichrist.” 535 Thomas Horn, Pandemonium’s Engine: How the End of the Church Age, the Rise of Transhumanism, an d the Coming of the Übermensch (Overman) Herald Satan’s Imminent and Final Assault on the Creation of God , Defender Publishing, Crane, MO, 2011. Joseph Farah also offers a Horn/Missler video that he helped produce called, Transhumanism-Recreating Humanity, on his website: http://superstore.wnd.com/Transhumanism-Recr eatingHumanity-DVD. 536
See previous Herescope posts: Gaylene Goodroad, “Nephilim Eschatology – A Crash Course in Emerging Endtime Prophecy Heresy Part 1: Nephilim-Induced Human DNA Corruption”, July 10, 2012; see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2012/07/nephilim-eschatology.html and “The Serpent Seed & the Nephilim, Part 2”, July 21, 2012; see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-serpent-seed-nephilim.html. 537 See the SkyWatchTv online bookstore: http://www.skywatchtvstore.com/. 538
CD cover taken from Horn’s SurvivorMall.com website: https://www.survivormall.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=STrans-Pand. Note this excerpt from the product description: “In this six CD audio series something Transhumanism This Way Comes: Genetic Engineering and the ubermenchen (Super Men) of Tomorrow, leading national and international researchers, scholars, authors, and speakers share their specialized knowledge about what you can expect in the coming days, and more importantly, what you can do to be prepared for it.
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM This audio series is based on research in the new book, Pandemonium's Engine:How the End of the Church Age, the Rise of Transhumanism, and the Coming of the Ubermenchen (Overman) Herald Satan's Imminent and Final Assault on the Creation of God. Guests include Noah Hutchings, Dr. Thomas Horn, Sharon Gilbert, Chuck Missler, Jerry Guiltner, Gary Stearman, and Doug Hamp.” 539
See: Prophecy in the News Daily Update – August 1, 2011. Gary Stearman interviews Doug Woodward on the topic of Transhumanism; see video: http://vimeo.com/26980022; (Gary’s comments from the 6:9-6:46 minute mark; Doug’s comments from the 6:46-7:26 minute mark). 540 The following two articles detail this "serpent seed" heresy: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2012/07/nephilimeschatology.html and http://herescope.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-serpent-seed-nephilim.html. Then follow these teachings to their logical horrific conclusion: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2013/04/101-questions-aboutnephilim.html and http://herescope.blogspot.com/2013/08/nephilim-subhumans.html. 541 The following Herescope articles explain what the Bible actually teaches: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2013/09/in-days-of-noah.html and http://herescope.blogspot.com/2013/05/homo-nephilus_6651.html. 542 From Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary: BibleHub.com and http://biblehub.com/genesis/3-15.htm. 543 DVD cover taken from: http://store.vision.org.au/bible-studies/the-hybrid-age-chuck-missler-and-tom-horndvd/11470dvd-5944885.html. 544
See Horn’s SurvivorMall.com website: http://www.survivormall.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=978%2D1%2D57821%2D087%2D1 . See Horn’s article on The Hybrid Age on Missler’s Koinonia House website: http://khouse.org/articles/2012/1039/. 545
DVD cover taken from Stearman’s Prophecy Watchers website: https://prophecywatchers.com/product/thepandemoniuee-inhuman-dvd/. 546
Poster taken from: http://jcourt.net/2013/04/page/5/.
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Bob Ulrich, Prophecy in the News (PITN), “Bob’s Review of the 2013 Chicago Summit”, Aug. 5, 2012; http://www.prophecyinthenews.com/bobs-review-of-the-2013-chicago-summit/. [Ed. note: this link has been removed, but the information has been cached.] 548 DVD cover taken from Stearman’s Prophecy Watchers website: https://prophecywatchers.com/product/chicago-prophecy-summit-dna-warfar e-the-search-for-immortality/. 549
See L.A. Marzulli’s website for the advertisement for the Chicago Summit 2013 – 8 DVD set, “DNA Warfare & Transhumanism: The Search for Immortality”; see: http://lamarzulli.net/nephilim-mounds-3-chicago-summit.php. 550 See: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2013/09/in-days-of-noah.html and http://herescope.blogspot.com/2014/07/a-recurrence-of-times-of-noah-and-lot.html. 551 Graphic taken from: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Franchise/Frankenstein?from=M ain.Frankenstein . 552
Dr. Martin Erdmann, “Technocracy & Transhumanism,” Herescope, March 8, 2011; see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2011/03/technocracy-transhumanism.html. See also: Gaylene Goodroad, “Doomsday Datesetters 2012,” Herescope, June 10th 2011; see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2011/06/doomsday-datesetters-2012.html and the original article, “The ‘Return’ of the Alien Super Solder: Awaiting the 2nd Coming of the Nephilim: Transhumanist Alien Super Soldiers—‘as in the days of Noah’”, Herescope, June 1, 2013; see: http://herescope.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-return-of-aliensuper-soldier.html. See Part 2 of this book. 553 See WND website, by Ken Klein Productions with Thomas Horn, Trans-Humanism: Destroying the Barriers (DVD) description: http://superstore.wnd.com/video/Trans-Humanism-Destroying-The-Barriers-DVD. [Ed. note: the DVD is no longer available, but Joseph Farah’s article promoting the video is: http://www.wnd.com/2011/08/338217/.] 554
See Coast to Coast AM program description, “New Lifeforms/Transhumanism” with George Noory; 2nd hour segment with Tom Horn, December 2, 2010; see: http://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2010/12/02. See also
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THE RISE OF END-TIME OCCULTISM Horn’s NewsWithViews article promoting these false ideas, Forbidden Gates Part 13, October 16, 2010; see: http://www.newswithviews.com/Horn/thomas149.htm . 555 See: Missler’s website; Dr. Thomas R. Horn, “The Hybrid Age”; http://www.khouse.org/articles/2012/1039/. Note: this article was originally published in the February 2012 Personal Update magazine put out by Koinonia House. Missler and Horn also produced a DVD together by the same title available at the above link. 556
See YouTube, “Tom Horn & Gary Stearman Discuss Transhumanism,” Uploaded February 24, 2011 (originally aired on PITN): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoD6v6D5nAs. 557 See: Rob Skiba’s e-book series, Babylon Rising: And The First Shall Be The Last, “The Days of Noah”: http://www.babylonrisingblog.com/Godvsgod1.html . 558 See Doug Hamp’s website, “Part Sixteen: Man Becoming His Own God Via Transhumanism”: http://www.douglashamp.com/man-becoming-his-own-god-via-transhumanism/. 559 See Paul McGuire’s website, “America in Prophecy – A Transhuman Replicant Future”, MP3 Series: http://paulmcguireblog.blogspot.com/2012_05_01_ar chive.html. See also: http://paulmcguireblog.blogspot.com/2012_05_01_ar chive.html. 560 Ibid. McGuire. 561 Ibid. Dr. Erdmann, “Salvation through Technology.” 562 See: Sandy Simpson’s website, A.W. Tozer, “Spiritual Authority: The Word and the Testimony,” 1950. Taken from a daily devotional, “Renewed Day by Day”; compiled by G.B. Smith, 1980; see: http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/tozer.html. See also: DeceptionintheChurch.com.
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