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The Great Inception: Satan's Psyops from Eden to Armageddon
You stand on a battlefield, surrounded by an enemy that youve been told doesnt exist. This is a classic example of a PSYOPa psychological operation, a mission to change what you believe by feeding you information that is inaccurate, incomplete, or an outright lie. This PSYOP is one of many by entities whove been at war with God since the Garden of Eden. The Bible calls them gods. God Himself calls them gods. But weve been taught that theyre imaginary, so we stumble around the battlefield completely unprepared to defend ourselves and the ones we love. In The Great Inception, you will learn how we know the war between God and the gods is real; the importance of mountainsand the holy mountain where the final battle will be fought; why the Tower of Babel was not in Babylon and the real reason God stopped it; where God led His heavenly army to battle the chief god of the Canaanites; the true identities of Satan and Apollyon, king of the demons in the abyss; the mystery behind what God meant when He told Abraham about the sin of the Amorites; why the Red Sea crossing was a literal battle between God and Baal (and why a Canaanite god was in Egypt in the first place); the startling connections between the Titans of Greek mythology, the Nephilim of Genesis 6, and the people who fought Israel from the time of Moses to the present day; where Jesus did battle with the rebel gods; how the moon-god of ancient Babylon is still influencing world events today; where Armageddon will be fought (and why its not where you think; and a possible end-times scenario that includes the most diabolical double-cross in history. Combining research from scholars of ancient history, languages, archaeology, and Bible prophecy, Derek P. Gilbert shows that the Bible is anything but a boring list of thou-shalt-nots; its an
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Derek P. Gilbert
16 books99 followersDerek P. Gilbert hosts SkyWatchTV and co-hosts SciFriday, a weekly television program that looks at science news with his wife, author and analyst Sharon K. Gilbert. He’s been interviewing guests for his podcast, A View from the Bunker, since 2009.
Derek is a Christian, a husband and father, and the author of the groundbreaking books The Great Inception and Last Clash of the Titans.
He’s also the co-author with Josh Peck of a book about the occult origins of the modern UFO phenomenon, The Day the Earth Stands Still. Derek’s forthcoming book, Bad Moon Rising (fall 2019), analyzes the spiritual forces behind Islam.
Derek is a popular speaker at churches and conferences in recent years on topics such as Dominion theology, Transhumanism, and his mind-blowing research connecting the ancient Canaanites to the Nephilim, the Watchers of the Bible, and the old gods of the Greek pantheon, the Titans.
Derek is a lifelong fan of the Chicago Cubs, prefers glasses to contacts, and he’s been known to sing the high part in barbershop and gospel quartets.
Derek is a Christian, a husband and father, and the author of the groundbreaking books The Great Inception and Last Clash of the Titans.
He’s also the co-author with Josh Peck of a book about the occult origins of the modern UFO phenomenon, The Day the Earth Stands Still. Derek’s forthcoming book, Bad Moon Rising (fall 2019), analyzes the spiritual forces behind Islam.
Derek is a popular speaker at churches and conferences in recent years on topics such as Dominion theology, Transhumanism, and his mind-blowing research connecting the ancient Canaanites to the Nephilim, the Watchers of the Bible, and the old gods of the Greek pantheon, the Titans.
Derek is a lifelong fan of the Chicago Cubs, prefers glasses to contacts, and he’s been known to sing the high part in barbershop and gospel quartets.
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March 20, 2018
This book surprised me. I wondered how sophisticated it would be. It impressed. I do feel like some arguments could have been expanded, but overall Gilbert made a reasonably strong case, one that I find convincing. Please check out his website here.
and here: http://www.derekpgilbert.com/the-grea...
The argument: Yahweh’s war against the Watchers takes place on a set of mountains, beginning in Eden.
Following Heiser he suggests that the serpent in Genesis 3 was actually a serpentine being (following the fluidity of nachash) rather than Sneaky Snake.
He says Nachash can also mean “one who practices divination” (Gilbert 9). I don’t disagree, but he doesn’t cite any lexical sources.
But if Lucifer is an angel, and angels do have a shining appearance, then it might work.
Who was “Satan?” He never appears by that name early on. But if we take Isaiah 14 and Ezek. 28 as referring to the garden, then we can infer:
He was an anointed cherub
He walked on stones of fire
Nephilim
It means giants (33). We need to get clear on something: the Nephilim are the descendants (or some of them, anyway) from the intermarriages. They are not the sires. Gilbert argues, and I think he is correct, that the Watchers, or other ביני ילוהימ, mated with humans and produced Nephilim.
How likely is it that all the Sethite men were good and all the Cainanite women were bad?
Does this mean that Caininite women never married Sethite men?
Why would this union produce Nephilim, understood by Jews and Christians to be giants?
Why would this union lead to wickedness so great that God destroys the planet?
Every other use of bene elohim means divine beings (34).
Objection: But angels can’t reproduce!
But I answer: That was not the presumption of the men of Sodom. I suppose we can advance the argument. Who said the Watchers or the ביני ילוהימ were angels in the sense you are thinking of? I simply deny that premise.
Babel
Gilbert advances the argument that Babel wasn’t Babylon (as Babylon wouldn’t have existed then). Nor was God freaked out that somebody would have built a really big Ziggurat. What is neat is comparing this with other ANE legends (Satan’s psyops). Nimrod was lord of the abzu, the abyss. The tower of Bab-el would have been built on the abzu (59). And Bab-el meant gate of the god(s). So the gate of the gods would have been built on the abyss.
Gilbert asks the question that bourgeois commentators do not: could Nimrod have succeeded? It was serious enough that Yahweh personally intervened.
The gods of the nations
This is where it gets neat. We are familiar with the story that the people spread out. Part of the punishment was that the people (70 nations) were given to the lordship of the bene elohim-ביני ילוהימ (also 70).
God writes (Dt. 32),
When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance,
when he divided mankind,
he fixed the borders[a] of the peoples
according to the number of the sons of God (bene elohim; ביני ילוהימ).
It makes no sense whatsoever to say that God fixed the numbers according to the nation of Israel, which didn’t yet exist. Yet, if we read this as “sons of God,” assuming they are beings which have some kind of hypostatic existence, then other passages in Deuteronomy start to make sense:
And beware lest you raise your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, you be drawn away and bow down to them and serve them, things that the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven. 20 But the Lord has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace (Dt. 4)
Why would God alot other nations to do idolatry? It’s not so much that he wanted them to do that, but that he gave them over to the gods of those nations.
But would Yahweh allot nations to evil beings? Well, yes. Think of it as the Romans 1 moment of the Old Testament. And it is no more “mean” of God to do this than to give people up to sinful passions.
It is because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt, 26 and went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods whom they had not known and whom he had not allotted to them (Dt 29).
In short, these are territorial spirits. And this makes sense of obscure passages in Daniel, where Daniel learns of the war between the princes of Persia, Greece, and Michael.
Sinai
Who was Ba’al Zephon (Ex. 14:3)? Zaphon was the name of Ba’al’s mountain in Egypt.
At Mt. Sinai Yahweh demands that 70 elders approach with Moses and Aaron. Gilbert concludes, noting the parallels between the 70 elders and the 70 bene elohim, “A day is coming when my (Yahweh’s) people will again take their place in the divine council” (96).
The Typhon Connection
Set was often equated with Ba’al, but he was also identified with Typhon (99). And when you transpose this onto the Crowley-Lovecraft mythos, you see that the Great Old Ones are prominent, and they could be the bene elohim.
Zaphon
Tie-in with other gods
Gilbert connects the dots between pagan mythologies and biblical demonology, and the list is quite startling:
“Reseph” in the bible is mentioned as plague, and for the Amorites he was a god who spread both healing and disease with his arrows (115). In Babylon he was called Nergal, and by the time Greece emerged as a power, he was depicted as an archer and god of medicine and healing. His name, obviously, was Apollo. And he has a role to play in Eschatology (Rev. 9:1-11). He is Lord of the Abyss.
And when we tie all this together, we see Reseph (similar root structure to seraph, burning one) = Nergal, Lord of the Underworld = Apollo, demon of the Abyss.
Other patterns:
Zeus = Ba’al (lightning, storm connection)
Venus = Aphrodite = Astarte = Ishtar
Who are the Rephaim (Dt. 2:2-5; 8b-12; 18-23).
They are connected with Og and Sihon, giants whom Moses deliberately targeted (they weren’t on the planned invasion route). Hesiod and Enoch (1 Enoch 15:8-12) connect the meropes anthropoi with the Nephilim, children of the Fallen Watchers (157). Upon their death they would have become spirits/demons, the Council of the Didanu.
Carmel
Angels fought against Jabin (Judg. 5:19-22).
Onto Mt. Carmel:
If our earlier reading is correct, and Yahweh did indeed divide the people into 70 nations (with 70 gods; Dt 32:8-9, using the ESV). If this reading is wrong, then Paul was wrong to warn against elemental spirits, thrones, demons, principalities.
Amorite spiritual context: the Rephaim/Nephilim, children of Titans, represented forbidden knowledge (sorcery, necromancy, etc. 197).
Zion
Jesus’s transfiguration took place near Mt Hermon. There were other watchers besides the disciples. He was sending a message (208-209). This was the realm of Pan (Paneas = Caesarea Phillipi). Pan is a goat demon alluded to in the Old Testament (Lev. 17:1-7, which is the same word used in Isaiah 13:19-21). Azazel in Leviticus 16:6-12 is also connected with goats.
Pan is also related to Aegipan, sometimes connected with the Constellation Capricorn
In his response to the Pharisees Christ links Satan with Ba’al, the storm God. This means Satan is also linked with Zeus, Thor, and Perrun.
Satan = Ba’al = Zeus = Thor = Perrun.
I’m not quite ready to make that connection, but it is worth considering.
Recap
200 supernatural beings (Watchers, from the book of Enoch) established a rebellion on Mt Hermon. Their breeding with women in Genesis 6 produced the Nephilim. They also taught forbidden knowledge. In response God chained them in darkness (Jude, 2 Peter).
Gilbert brings home Dr Heiser’s arguments and they are strongly worth considering. If we don’t take the supernatural seriously, we have a flattened ontology and are incapable of dealing with both the bible and the hard facts of reality.
Key resources:
Annus, Amar. 1999. “Are there Greek Rephaim? On the Etymology of Greek Meropes and Titanes.” Ugarit-Forschungen 31:13-30.
–. 2010. “On the Origin of Watchers: A comparative study of the antediluvian wisdom in Mesopotamian and Jewish Traditions.” Journal for the Study of Pseudipigrapha 19 (4): 277-320.
Toon, K. van der. “Nimrod Before and After the bible.” Harvard Theological Review 83: 1-29.
and here: http://www.derekpgilbert.com/the-grea...
The argument: Yahweh’s war against the Watchers takes place on a set of mountains, beginning in Eden.
Following Heiser he suggests that the serpent in Genesis 3 was actually a serpentine being (following the fluidity of nachash) rather than Sneaky Snake.
He says Nachash can also mean “one who practices divination” (Gilbert 9). I don’t disagree, but he doesn’t cite any lexical sources.
But if Lucifer is an angel, and angels do have a shining appearance, then it might work.
Who was “Satan?” He never appears by that name early on. But if we take Isaiah 14 and Ezek. 28 as referring to the garden, then we can infer:
He was an anointed cherub
He walked on stones of fire
Nephilim
It means giants (33). We need to get clear on something: the Nephilim are the descendants (or some of them, anyway) from the intermarriages. They are not the sires. Gilbert argues, and I think he is correct, that the Watchers, or other ביני ילוהימ, mated with humans and produced Nephilim.
How likely is it that all the Sethite men were good and all the Cainanite women were bad?
Does this mean that Caininite women never married Sethite men?
Why would this union produce Nephilim, understood by Jews and Christians to be giants?
Why would this union lead to wickedness so great that God destroys the planet?
Every other use of bene elohim means divine beings (34).
Objection: But angels can’t reproduce!
But I answer: That was not the presumption of the men of Sodom. I suppose we can advance the argument. Who said the Watchers or the ביני ילוהימ were angels in the sense you are thinking of? I simply deny that premise.
Babel
Gilbert advances the argument that Babel wasn’t Babylon (as Babylon wouldn’t have existed then). Nor was God freaked out that somebody would have built a really big Ziggurat. What is neat is comparing this with other ANE legends (Satan’s psyops). Nimrod was lord of the abzu, the abyss. The tower of Bab-el would have been built on the abzu (59). And Bab-el meant gate of the god(s). So the gate of the gods would have been built on the abyss.
Gilbert asks the question that bourgeois commentators do not: could Nimrod have succeeded? It was serious enough that Yahweh personally intervened.
The gods of the nations
This is where it gets neat. We are familiar with the story that the people spread out. Part of the punishment was that the people (70 nations) were given to the lordship of the bene elohim-ביני ילוהימ (also 70).
God writes (Dt. 32),
When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance,
when he divided mankind,
he fixed the borders[a] of the peoples
according to the number of the sons of God (bene elohim; ביני ילוהימ).
It makes no sense whatsoever to say that God fixed the numbers according to the nation of Israel, which didn’t yet exist. Yet, if we read this as “sons of God,” assuming they are beings which have some kind of hypostatic existence, then other passages in Deuteronomy start to make sense:
And beware lest you raise your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, you be drawn away and bow down to them and serve them, things that the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven. 20 But the Lord has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace (Dt. 4)
Why would God alot other nations to do idolatry? It’s not so much that he wanted them to do that, but that he gave them over to the gods of those nations.
But would Yahweh allot nations to evil beings? Well, yes. Think of it as the Romans 1 moment of the Old Testament. And it is no more “mean” of God to do this than to give people up to sinful passions.
It is because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt, 26 and went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods whom they had not known and whom he had not allotted to them (Dt 29).
In short, these are territorial spirits. And this makes sense of obscure passages in Daniel, where Daniel learns of the war between the princes of Persia, Greece, and Michael.
Sinai
Who was Ba’al Zephon (Ex. 14:3)? Zaphon was the name of Ba’al’s mountain in Egypt.
At Mt. Sinai Yahweh demands that 70 elders approach with Moses and Aaron. Gilbert concludes, noting the parallels between the 70 elders and the 70 bene elohim, “A day is coming when my (Yahweh’s) people will again take their place in the divine council” (96).
The Typhon Connection
Set was often equated with Ba’al, but he was also identified with Typhon (99). And when you transpose this onto the Crowley-Lovecraft mythos, you see that the Great Old Ones are prominent, and they could be the bene elohim.
Zaphon
Tie-in with other gods
Gilbert connects the dots between pagan mythologies and biblical demonology, and the list is quite startling:
“Reseph” in the bible is mentioned as plague, and for the Amorites he was a god who spread both healing and disease with his arrows (115). In Babylon he was called Nergal, and by the time Greece emerged as a power, he was depicted as an archer and god of medicine and healing. His name, obviously, was Apollo. And he has a role to play in Eschatology (Rev. 9:1-11). He is Lord of the Abyss.
And when we tie all this together, we see Reseph (similar root structure to seraph, burning one) = Nergal, Lord of the Underworld = Apollo, demon of the Abyss.
Other patterns:
Zeus = Ba’al (lightning, storm connection)
Venus = Aphrodite = Astarte = Ishtar
Who are the Rephaim (Dt. 2:2-5; 8b-12; 18-23).
They are connected with Og and Sihon, giants whom Moses deliberately targeted (they weren’t on the planned invasion route). Hesiod and Enoch (1 Enoch 15:8-12) connect the meropes anthropoi with the Nephilim, children of the Fallen Watchers (157). Upon their death they would have become spirits/demons, the Council of the Didanu.
Carmel
Angels fought against Jabin (Judg. 5:19-22).
Onto Mt. Carmel:
If our earlier reading is correct, and Yahweh did indeed divide the people into 70 nations (with 70 gods; Dt 32:8-9, using the ESV). If this reading is wrong, then Paul was wrong to warn against elemental spirits, thrones, demons, principalities.
Amorite spiritual context: the Rephaim/Nephilim, children of Titans, represented forbidden knowledge (sorcery, necromancy, etc. 197).
Zion
Jesus’s transfiguration took place near Mt Hermon. There were other watchers besides the disciples. He was sending a message (208-209). This was the realm of Pan (Paneas = Caesarea Phillipi). Pan is a goat demon alluded to in the Old Testament (Lev. 17:1-7, which is the same word used in Isaiah 13:19-21). Azazel in Leviticus 16:6-12 is also connected with goats.
Pan is also related to Aegipan, sometimes connected with the Constellation Capricorn
In his response to the Pharisees Christ links Satan with Ba’al, the storm God. This means Satan is also linked with Zeus, Thor, and Perrun.
Satan = Ba’al = Zeus = Thor = Perrun.
I’m not quite ready to make that connection, but it is worth considering.
Recap
200 supernatural beings (Watchers, from the book of Enoch) established a rebellion on Mt Hermon. Their breeding with women in Genesis 6 produced the Nephilim. They also taught forbidden knowledge. In response God chained them in darkness (Jude, 2 Peter).
Gilbert brings home Dr Heiser’s arguments and they are strongly worth considering. If we don’t take the supernatural seriously, we have a flattened ontology and are incapable of dealing with both the bible and the hard facts of reality.
Key resources:
Annus, Amar. 1999. “Are there Greek Rephaim? On the Etymology of Greek Meropes and Titanes.” Ugarit-Forschungen 31:13-30.
–. 2010. “On the Origin of Watchers: A comparative study of the antediluvian wisdom in Mesopotamian and Jewish Traditions.” Journal for the Study of Pseudipigrapha 19 (4): 277-320.
Toon, K. van der. “Nimrod Before and After the bible.” Harvard Theological Review 83: 1-29.
May 19, 2017
This is a well-researched and written, as-well-as engaging off-the-grid Bible study directed towards understanding the roots of the present tumult and clamor found in today's news i.e. an investigation into Bible statements about an invisible war which are skimmed over and not addressed in today's Christian churches--yet which are found in everyday translations of books of the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, verses which most Bible-literate Christians encounter daily.
Here are two examples I have chosen: Ephesians 6:12 "For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms." And Jude 9 and 10, "But even the archangel Michael, when he was disputing with the devil about the body of Moses, did not dare to bring a slanderous accusation against him, but said, 'The Lord rebuke you!' Yet these men speak abusively against whatever they do not understand; and what things they do understand by instinct, like unreasoning animals—these are the very things that destroy them."
These two quotes are merely a sample from hundreds of similar verses throughout the Bible, which speak about an invisible and long-standing war waged around us, and against us, a war so important to understand that Jude warns us that those who underestimate or misspeak about it are in real danger: "these are the very things that destroy them."
Now, all Christians have at least a sense that something they can't see is causing the present global rush to over-the-top evil behavior--and students of history are well aware that this has been the case since our first records of mankind's deeds.
Derek P. Gilbert has done the research to make this invisible warfare very clear to us, in an easy-to-read and friendly style, and I highly recommend this book to Christians and non-Christians alike.
Here are two examples I have chosen: Ephesians 6:12 "For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms." And Jude 9 and 10, "But even the archangel Michael, when he was disputing with the devil about the body of Moses, did not dare to bring a slanderous accusation against him, but said, 'The Lord rebuke you!' Yet these men speak abusively against whatever they do not understand; and what things they do understand by instinct, like unreasoning animals—these are the very things that destroy them."
These two quotes are merely a sample from hundreds of similar verses throughout the Bible, which speak about an invisible and long-standing war waged around us, and against us, a war so important to understand that Jude warns us that those who underestimate or misspeak about it are in real danger: "these are the very things that destroy them."
Now, all Christians have at least a sense that something they can't see is causing the present global rush to over-the-top evil behavior--and students of history are well aware that this has been the case since our first records of mankind's deeds.
Derek P. Gilbert has done the research to make this invisible warfare very clear to us, in an easy-to-read and friendly style, and I highly recommend this book to Christians and non-Christians alike.
February 21, 2018
It was the reference in this book to Heiser's 'The Unseem Realm' that started me down the rabbit hole of archaeospirituality. (I think I invented a word there.) Or should I say the Yggdrasil of ancient theology, and man's relationship to the divine as he was able to understand it.
Gilber tracks the impact of a series of mountains in Scripture, a fascinating string of events and their repercussions on the ongoing 'war in Heaven', as it bleeds over and ripples across our time and history.
He re-grounds our understanding of the events around these mountains within the spiritual panoply and reality of the ancient gods. He makes fresh sense of the theological dust up that started with mountains like Sinai.
I was thoroughly blown away by his considerations on the location of Christ's Transfiguration, moving it from Tabor to Hermon (I believe), and the impact that it had not just on the apostles but on the gods. Instead of being a really random event that the apostles had to cover up for a year, it becomes something else entirely.
It's 'the beacons are lit' from Lord of the Rings', the clarion call against all the evil gods that the mask is coming off. And it makes sense in terms of what happens next; Christ's final year is a pulling off of the gloves, and clear testimonials to divinity. I can't help but smile at the mental image of him re-staking his claim on the world by cresting the most ritually sacred mountain of the ancient world, and kicking them in the Baals.
They've never recuperated since.
Gilber tracks the impact of a series of mountains in Scripture, a fascinating string of events and their repercussions on the ongoing 'war in Heaven', as it bleeds over and ripples across our time and history.
He re-grounds our understanding of the events around these mountains within the spiritual panoply and reality of the ancient gods. He makes fresh sense of the theological dust up that started with mountains like Sinai.
I was thoroughly blown away by his considerations on the location of Christ's Transfiguration, moving it from Tabor to Hermon (I believe), and the impact that it had not just on the apostles but on the gods. Instead of being a really random event that the apostles had to cover up for a year, it becomes something else entirely.
It's 'the beacons are lit' from Lord of the Rings', the clarion call against all the evil gods that the mask is coming off. And it makes sense in terms of what happens next; Christ's final year is a pulling off of the gloves, and clear testimonials to divinity. I can't help but smile at the mental image of him re-staking his claim on the world by cresting the most ritually sacred mountain of the ancient world, and kicking them in the Baals.
They've never recuperated since.
March 29, 2024
WILL THE END TIMES BE A ‘DOUBLE-CROSS/PSYOP’?
Author Derek P. Gilbert wrote in the Introduction to this 2017 book, “Mountains are sacred because the original location of the divine council was on a mountain. The original home of humankind was also on that mountain. After rebellion broke out, the Fallen chose other mountains to call their own. And all of history is a chronicle of the long war that broke out on the original cosmic mountain. The purpose of this book is to show that the accounts of this war aren’t just contained in the Bible. Secular history records important information about this conflict, although most scholars don’t see it for what it is. The war between God and the gods has been fought in the supernatural realm an in our time-space domain by human agents of the warring parties… There are links between the Titans of Greek mythology, ancient Egypt, Babylon, and Canaan, and the prophesied Babylon the Great… we’ll present what we think is a plausible scenario for the end times that’s best described as a cosmic double-cross, a PSYOP that exploits our human biases and weaknesses… This is based on documented history, theology, and linguistics. No fringe research here and only a little speculation, although the scholars whose work we’ve used would probably disagree with our conclusions… If you read the Bible with your spiritual eyes open, you’ll see stories you’ve known since Sunday School a whole new way.” (Pg. 4-5)
He explains, “The Annunaki were the seven chief gods of the Sumerian pantheon… The name ‘Hermon’ … is often translated into English as ‘under the ban.’ … But this condemnation … wasn’t just invoked against disobedient Israelites. Some of the inhabitants of Canaan were also declared to be [under the ban] by Yahweh---specifically those who were known to be giants, or at least descended from giants. A curious episode is recorded in the first four verses of Genesis chapter 6… the term ‘Nephilim’ comes from a Hebrew root… meaning … literally, ‘fallen ones.’ … the Jewish scholars who translated the Old Testament into Greek … clearly understood that the Nephilim were giants, not just men who ‘fell away’ from God.” (Pg. 31-33)
Later, he adds, “The extrabiblical books of Enoch and Jubilees expand … adding detail and context that’s not in the Bible. Mount Hermon is where two hundred Watchers, a class of angelic beings mentioned in chapter 4 of the book of Daniel… From those unions came the Nephilim, and giants of Genesis 6.” (Pg. 35-36) He continues, “Mount Hermon… was the site of a key development in the long war by the gods against Yahweh. Some two hundred Watchers… agreed to take wives from among human women. The Watchers seem to have traded forbidden knowledge to humanity for access to women, introducing sorcery, astrology, and the arts of war.” (Pg. 49-50)
He clarifies, “a key difference between Yahweh and the small-G gods ignored by many scholars and skeptics: They are fallible, capricious, and subject to the same petty emotions that govern us mortals. None of them were created with creating the universe and all that’s in it. Yahweh is just the opposite.” (Pg. 112)
He states, “It would appear---and this is just speculation by the author---that the Fallen took a binary view of the cosmos, good (El/Yahweh) vs. evil (the moon-god?), and twisted it---a classic PSYOP… By the time Joshua led the Israelites into Canaan, El had been transformed into an almost buffoonish character.” (Pg. 142)
He states, “The Amorites occupied the Holy Land and stood in opposition to the Israelites specifically because they were the agents of spiritual forces that wanted to keep Yahweh and His people away from His holy mountain, Zion.” (Pg. 165)
He recounts, “Elijah did spiritual battle with 450 prophets of Ba’al and smoked them---literally… this story… had been drained of much of the supernatural element by our churches today… That’s where we need to correct the record. Those supernatural entities do exist… Look if this worldview is incorrect, then the apostle Paul was either lying or badly misinformed when he repeatedly warned us against principalities, powers, thrones, dominions, rulers, and the elemental spirits of the world.” (Pg. 180-181)
He notes, “the very mountain where the Watchers/Titans descended and made a pact to corrupt humanity was where Jesus was transfigured into a being of light before the eyes of Peter, James, and John. Coincidence? Not on your life! Jesus knew EXACTLY what He was doing. This was a cosmic poke in the eye, a declaration to the Fallen that the Second Power in Heaven had arrived in the flesh…” (Pg. 208-209)
He observes, “Would it surprise you to learn that the Great Altar of Pergamon, that ancient monument to Zeus, was disassembled by German archaeologists and reconstructed at a museum in Berlin in 1930? You get the significance. Satan’s swat was brought to the capital city of the Weimar Republic just before the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. Coincidence?” (Pg. 221)
He argues, “there is a fundamental problem with placing the Battle of Armageddon at Megiddo: There is no mountain at Megiddo. It’s a valley… reading Armageddon as … the mount of assembly, makes a lot more sense… The battle that’s become a byword for the most destructive event humans can imagine… will be fought at Jerusalem for control of the Temple Mount.” (Pg. 224-225)
He asserts, “Even Muslim scholars… admit that Uthman corrupted the Islamic holy book… the fundamental difference between the Quran and the Bible is that there is no comparison between the two when it comes to the quantity and quality of the source material. We take no joy in saying so. Literally billions of humans will pay the ultimate price for the supernatural deception worked on a charismatic Arab trader fourteen centuries ago. And billions more will be destroyed in the cataclysmic final battle…” (Pg. 229)
He states, “Yahweh deliberately obscured the prophecies of Messiah’s first coming so that the Fallen wouldn’t understand why Jesus was here… remember, Jesus warmed us about a deception that will lead astray even the elect… Don’t you think prophecy will play a role in the deception?... with all due respect to the many learned men and women who have studied eschatology for years, we do not fully understand the prophecies of Christ’s return… If end-timed prophecies were absolutely clear, we’d all agree on that they mean. And the Enemy could fabricate and absolutely convincing lie… And most of us are stumbling toward the Apocalypse like blind men in a minefield…” (Pg. 238-239)
He continues, “Therein lies the seed of a great deception. It could be the greatest PYOP in history, one that lures millions of Jews and Christians into welcoming the Antichrist when he appears on the world stage. It is the belief of this author that the rebellious gods have set in motion a brilliant deception that will convince many the Antichrist is, in fact, the Messiah.” (Pg. 240-241)
He contends, “To be blunt, Dominion theology is a classic Enemy PSYOP. It twists Scripture to justify Christian jihad… this new teaching about the end times is so far removed from what’s in the Bible that it’s not even accurate to call it an interpretation of Scripture.” (Pg. 264-265)
He says, “With all due respect to those who hold to the popular Islamic Antichrist theory, they would be wrong… a dynamic leader, the ‘he’ of Daniel 11:36-45, will emerge … to crush Israel’s traditional enemies. He will be welcomed as a savior by Israelis… This man will, in fact, be the prophesied Antichrist. And he will be an Israeli who presents himself to the world as a Jew… The concept of a Jewish Antichrist---to be clear, Jewish in name only---isn’t a new idea. In fact, it’s a very old interpretation…” (Pg. 279)
This book will interest some Evangelicals studying biblical prophecy.
Author Derek P. Gilbert wrote in the Introduction to this 2017 book, “Mountains are sacred because the original location of the divine council was on a mountain. The original home of humankind was also on that mountain. After rebellion broke out, the Fallen chose other mountains to call their own. And all of history is a chronicle of the long war that broke out on the original cosmic mountain. The purpose of this book is to show that the accounts of this war aren’t just contained in the Bible. Secular history records important information about this conflict, although most scholars don’t see it for what it is. The war between God and the gods has been fought in the supernatural realm an in our time-space domain by human agents of the warring parties… There are links between the Titans of Greek mythology, ancient Egypt, Babylon, and Canaan, and the prophesied Babylon the Great… we’ll present what we think is a plausible scenario for the end times that’s best described as a cosmic double-cross, a PSYOP that exploits our human biases and weaknesses… This is based on documented history, theology, and linguistics. No fringe research here and only a little speculation, although the scholars whose work we’ve used would probably disagree with our conclusions… If you read the Bible with your spiritual eyes open, you’ll see stories you’ve known since Sunday School a whole new way.” (Pg. 4-5)
He explains, “The Annunaki were the seven chief gods of the Sumerian pantheon… The name ‘Hermon’ … is often translated into English as ‘under the ban.’ … But this condemnation … wasn’t just invoked against disobedient Israelites. Some of the inhabitants of Canaan were also declared to be [under the ban] by Yahweh---specifically those who were known to be giants, or at least descended from giants. A curious episode is recorded in the first four verses of Genesis chapter 6… the term ‘Nephilim’ comes from a Hebrew root… meaning … literally, ‘fallen ones.’ … the Jewish scholars who translated the Old Testament into Greek … clearly understood that the Nephilim were giants, not just men who ‘fell away’ from God.” (Pg. 31-33)
Later, he adds, “The extrabiblical books of Enoch and Jubilees expand … adding detail and context that’s not in the Bible. Mount Hermon is where two hundred Watchers, a class of angelic beings mentioned in chapter 4 of the book of Daniel… From those unions came the Nephilim, and giants of Genesis 6.” (Pg. 35-36) He continues, “Mount Hermon… was the site of a key development in the long war by the gods against Yahweh. Some two hundred Watchers… agreed to take wives from among human women. The Watchers seem to have traded forbidden knowledge to humanity for access to women, introducing sorcery, astrology, and the arts of war.” (Pg. 49-50)
He clarifies, “a key difference between Yahweh and the small-G gods ignored by many scholars and skeptics: They are fallible, capricious, and subject to the same petty emotions that govern us mortals. None of them were created with creating the universe and all that’s in it. Yahweh is just the opposite.” (Pg. 112)
He states, “It would appear---and this is just speculation by the author---that the Fallen took a binary view of the cosmos, good (El/Yahweh) vs. evil (the moon-god?), and twisted it---a classic PSYOP… By the time Joshua led the Israelites into Canaan, El had been transformed into an almost buffoonish character.” (Pg. 142)
He states, “The Amorites occupied the Holy Land and stood in opposition to the Israelites specifically because they were the agents of spiritual forces that wanted to keep Yahweh and His people away from His holy mountain, Zion.” (Pg. 165)
He recounts, “Elijah did spiritual battle with 450 prophets of Ba’al and smoked them---literally… this story… had been drained of much of the supernatural element by our churches today… That’s where we need to correct the record. Those supernatural entities do exist… Look if this worldview is incorrect, then the apostle Paul was either lying or badly misinformed when he repeatedly warned us against principalities, powers, thrones, dominions, rulers, and the elemental spirits of the world.” (Pg. 180-181)
He notes, “the very mountain where the Watchers/Titans descended and made a pact to corrupt humanity was where Jesus was transfigured into a being of light before the eyes of Peter, James, and John. Coincidence? Not on your life! Jesus knew EXACTLY what He was doing. This was a cosmic poke in the eye, a declaration to the Fallen that the Second Power in Heaven had arrived in the flesh…” (Pg. 208-209)
He observes, “Would it surprise you to learn that the Great Altar of Pergamon, that ancient monument to Zeus, was disassembled by German archaeologists and reconstructed at a museum in Berlin in 1930? You get the significance. Satan’s swat was brought to the capital city of the Weimar Republic just before the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. Coincidence?” (Pg. 221)
He argues, “there is a fundamental problem with placing the Battle of Armageddon at Megiddo: There is no mountain at Megiddo. It’s a valley… reading Armageddon as … the mount of assembly, makes a lot more sense… The battle that’s become a byword for the most destructive event humans can imagine… will be fought at Jerusalem for control of the Temple Mount.” (Pg. 224-225)
He asserts, “Even Muslim scholars… admit that Uthman corrupted the Islamic holy book… the fundamental difference between the Quran and the Bible is that there is no comparison between the two when it comes to the quantity and quality of the source material. We take no joy in saying so. Literally billions of humans will pay the ultimate price for the supernatural deception worked on a charismatic Arab trader fourteen centuries ago. And billions more will be destroyed in the cataclysmic final battle…” (Pg. 229)
He states, “Yahweh deliberately obscured the prophecies of Messiah’s first coming so that the Fallen wouldn’t understand why Jesus was here… remember, Jesus warmed us about a deception that will lead astray even the elect… Don’t you think prophecy will play a role in the deception?... with all due respect to the many learned men and women who have studied eschatology for years, we do not fully understand the prophecies of Christ’s return… If end-timed prophecies were absolutely clear, we’d all agree on that they mean. And the Enemy could fabricate and absolutely convincing lie… And most of us are stumbling toward the Apocalypse like blind men in a minefield…” (Pg. 238-239)
He continues, “Therein lies the seed of a great deception. It could be the greatest PYOP in history, one that lures millions of Jews and Christians into welcoming the Antichrist when he appears on the world stage. It is the belief of this author that the rebellious gods have set in motion a brilliant deception that will convince many the Antichrist is, in fact, the Messiah.” (Pg. 240-241)
He contends, “To be blunt, Dominion theology is a classic Enemy PSYOP. It twists Scripture to justify Christian jihad… this new teaching about the end times is so far removed from what’s in the Bible that it’s not even accurate to call it an interpretation of Scripture.” (Pg. 264-265)
He says, “With all due respect to those who hold to the popular Islamic Antichrist theory, they would be wrong… a dynamic leader, the ‘he’ of Daniel 11:36-45, will emerge … to crush Israel’s traditional enemies. He will be welcomed as a savior by Israelis… This man will, in fact, be the prophesied Antichrist. And he will be an Israeli who presents himself to the world as a Jew… The concept of a Jewish Antichrist---to be clear, Jewish in name only---isn’t a new idea. In fact, it’s a very old interpretation…” (Pg. 279)
This book will interest some Evangelicals studying biblical prophecy.
March 19, 2021
The author take a look at and discusses the significance of various mountains or mounts mentioned in the Bible. Discusses Muslim and Christian views of the end times & what they could look like in each of their beliefs. You find out what the Great Inception is which includes Satan up to his father of lies nature. It is also a story of God in battle with gods who seek to deceive.
September 20, 2017
A book dedicated to the focus of holy mountains as key conflict areas between the true God and the fallen gods. While putting the supernatural back into the biblical accounts of clashes that have been discounted as fanciful, to fully demonstrate the real truth of what has been going on for ages.
You will be astonished by how much propaganda has been methodically clothed as truth to destroy the human race at all cost. This text is eye opening and requires some serious contemplation while and after reading it.
You will be astonished by how much propaganda has been methodically clothed as truth to destroy the human race at all cost. This text is eye opening and requires some serious contemplation while and after reading it.
May 19, 2019
Fantastic book about the spiritual links between the Bible's and mythology of ancient civilizations and how they have all played a role in shaping history and the world as we know of today. Judging this book from the cover, one might percieve that this as some looney doomsday prophesy book but it is backed by much research and study of ancient text. The author writes very humbly and is spirit lead in all his writing and doesn't make any claims which cannot be backed up by scripture. Highly recommend this book for any Christian or anyone that is intrigued by the study of ancient civilizations.
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September 13, 2018
Scholarly and well written
Certainly better than other e-books on the subject, but I feel that maybe the author goes into too much detail for the casual reader. I was also a little disappointed by the ending of the book: instead of developing the more interesting pagan themes like the meropes anthropoi and the return of Saturn's reign and connecting those to the the end times, the author leaps into pure speculation, leaving many threads left hanging.
Certainly better than other e-books on the subject, but I feel that maybe the author goes into too much detail for the casual reader. I was also a little disappointed by the ending of the book: instead of developing the more interesting pagan themes like the meropes anthropoi and the return of Saturn's reign and connecting those to the the end times, the author leaps into pure speculation, leaving many threads left hanging.
April 14, 2025
4 stars is relative. It is 4 stars compared to all the 5 stars that Derek and his wife normally get. Well informed, hes got the recipts. An academic tome disguised as an easy read. Very easy to understand
Grab your bible and prepare for Paradigm shifting information within. Want to start gaining knowledge into the insight of our creator or learn things that you WILL NOT learn anywhere else. Start reading today. A+
Grab your bible and prepare for Paradigm shifting information within. Want to start gaining knowledge into the insight of our creator or learn things that you WILL NOT learn anywhere else. Start reading today. A+
November 22, 2017
There is more to the story
Reading your Bible is great, but there is much more going on. We must not lose the supernatural perspective. As a layman, Mr Gilbert lays out truth from the scriptures and then support from history and scholarly works. Well written and easy to read, but don't read it in a hurry. I got much more the second time through.
Reading your Bible is great, but there is much more going on. We must not lose the supernatural perspective. As a layman, Mr Gilbert lays out truth from the scriptures and then support from history and scholarly works. Well written and easy to read, but don't read it in a hurry. I got much more the second time through.
October 23, 2023
Timely given current events in Gaza
Easy reading. Quick study on the different aspects of Sunni vs Shia Muslim view of end times. I think it could be discussed here that the Quran supports the diety of Christ but is diminished by Islamic mysticism. Interesting theories of eschatology for all believers.
Easy reading. Quick study on the different aspects of Sunni vs Shia Muslim view of end times. I think it could be discussed here that the Quran supports the diety of Christ but is diminished by Islamic mysticism. Interesting theories of eschatology for all believers.
August 7, 2017
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this was a great read and will hold a special place on my shelf of books to reference from time to time. It gives the reader the BIG PICTURE view of why we are here on this planet and what is our role -
this was a great read and will hold a special place on my shelf of books to reference from time to time. It gives the reader the BIG PICTURE view of why we are here on this planet and what is our role -
August 14, 2017
Well written and researched.
An easy read to follow and understand. I recommend you follow up with the bibliographical works. This will provide an introduction to make them less daunting.
An easy read to follow and understand. I recommend you follow up with the bibliographical works. This will provide an introduction to make them less daunting.
December 16, 2017
Very well researched
He does a good job of showing the connections between the pantheons of near eastern and Mediterranean cultures. Are there real entities behind these various gods? The Old Testament makes a lot more sense if so.
He does a good job of showing the connections between the pantheons of near eastern and Mediterranean cultures. Are there real entities behind these various gods? The Old Testament makes a lot more sense if so.
June 29, 2020
I’ve never read a book so jammed pack full of history. I learned so much from it. I even learned more about the general beliefs that differ from the 3 major religions of today. It’s an important read for anyone seeking meat to understand a bigger picture.
May 4, 2017
This book is excellent! Everyone needs to read this; it is powerful, insightful, and for me, quite educational!
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August 24, 2020Gilbert is a serious scholar on spiritual warfare. His books are detailed but interesting.
July 8, 2017
Derek Gilbert covers a multitude of ancient gods from nations formed after the flood. Many of those gods have been adopted and renamed by those nations and are still influencing the world today. It is difficult to take in all the various cults and practices that are so demonic in practice. There is an anti christian and anti Judaism force in the world today since Satan knows his time is coming to an end. Christians need to know our enemy and avail ourselves with God's armor provisions and power of God the Holy Spirit. It is time to shine as light in a dark world, it is time to keep on the firing line following Jesus and procaiming salvation to the world. This book will help us know the enemy.
January 7, 2018
Great book. I learned a lot. This is a book you will want to read over again and again.
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