The “uttermost north,” Hebrew yarkete tsaphon, refers to a specific mountain, Mount Zaphon, famous for being sacred to the storm-god, Baal. And we know exactly where it is.Continue Reading

When Israel captured the Temple Mount in 1967, the geopolitical fallout of taking control of the site was considered so dangerous that Moshe Dayan ordered his troops to take down the Israeli flag his paratroopers had raised over the mount.Continue Reading

The Mahdi, Islam’s messiah, was invented after Muhammad’s death in response to the Final Roman Emperor, who was created after Islam’s invasion of Christendom by an unnamed Christian cleric in northern Syria. In other words, it’s a false prophecy inspired by a false prophecy.Continue Reading

The late Michael Heiser and his teachings recently came under fire by a group of folks who released a 2.5 hour video making erroneous assertions about him and his teachings.Continue Reading

In an earlier article we described the akiti festival at ancient Ur, a festival that involved ritual circumambulation of the fields. This practice dates to at least 2500 BC. We speculated that it may have originated even earlier than that, based on the spiral wall around the summit of Mount Hermon.Continue Reading