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Where do demons come from? Demons show up all through the Gospels, but the Bible never directly addresses their origin. One explanation, held by Second Temple Jewish writers and revived in recent years by the late Old Testament scholar Dr. Michael Heiser, connects them to the Nephilim of Genesis 6. Were the spirits Jesus cast out once the giants of the ancient world?

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ABOUT THE EPISODE:
Josh, Michael, and Michael take up the question of whether demons are the disembodied spirits of the Nephilim. Genesis 6:1–4 describes the sons of God taking human wives, and the Nephilim appear in the same passage. Later Jewish writings, including 1 Enoch and Jubilees, taught that when the giants died, their spirits stayed on the earth as evil spirits. Some early church writers held the same view.

Heiser wrote about this in The Unseen Realm, Reversing Hermon, and Demons, and for many believers his books were their first introduction to the idea. Scripture is clear that demons are real and that Jesus has authority over them, but it doesn’t say how they came to exist. So we have to ask how much Genesis 6 can tell us and how much weight to give books that aren’t part of the canon.

We'll explore what the Bible says about demons and fallen angels and talk through which conclusions the text supports.

0:00 – Introduction
2:42 – Genesis 6 Ben Elohim
8:38 – Ancient Near Eastern Giants
19:24 – Book of Enoch's Authority
22:38 – 1 Enoch on Demons
25:46 – Heiser on Unclean Spirits
32:37 – Jubilees 10 and Mastema
35:34 – Revelation 9 Demonic Release
45:15 – Defining Rephaim and Watchers
48:13 – Church Fathers on Nephilim
54:04 – Rephaim in Isaiah, Ezekiel
1:11:56 – Bible Reigns Supreme

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Revelation 20 is supposed to be the premillennialist’s strongest chapter. For Michael Rowntree, it’s the chapter that ended his premillennialism.

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This is part two of our conversation on the millennium, and we'll focus on the thousand years, the binding of Satan, the first resurrection, and a final battle John calls Gog and Magog.

Josh and Michael work through the chapter most often used to argue for a future thousand-year reign. Revelation 19 ends with Jesus returning, and Revelation 20 opens with Satan bound for a thousand years, so most readers assume one follows the other. Michael read it that way for a long time until details in the text started pulling him toward a different view.

Josh hasn’t settled the question himself, and he pushes back where he thinks the argument needs more support. His biggest question: If Satan is bound so he can’t deceive the nations (Revelation 20:3), why does deception seem to be everywhere?

They also get into how to tell when Revelation is moving forward in time and when it’s circling back to cover the same ground. Michael explains what he thinks John means by the first resurrection and why Gog and Magog show up more than once in the book. He leans on John 12:31 and Deuteronomy 32:8–9 to explain how he reads the binding of Satan.

0:00 – Introduction
2:05 – Millennium Views Recap
4:28 – Is Revelation 20 Chronological?
12:12 – The First Resurrection
18:43 – Gog and Magog
23:16 – Binding of Satan
26:57 – Heiser's Deuteronomy 32 Worldview
37:51 – Are Nations Still Deceived?
44:03 – Who Survives Armageddon?
48:36 – Abyss Release Callbacks
56:12 – Why Release Satan?
1:01:38 – Gospel Age Encouragement

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RESOURCES MENTIONED:
- The Resurrection of the Son of God by N.T. Wright: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0800636155
- The Book of Revelation (NIGTC) by G.K. Beale: https://www.amazon.com/dp/080282174X
- Demons: What the Bible Really Says About the Powers of Darkness by Michael S. Heiser: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1683592891
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Was someone living on this planet before Adam? Timothy Alberino thinks so. In Birthright, he argues an alien race was here first, until a cosmic war left the earth “without form and void” (Genesis 1:2).

ABOUT THIS EPISODE:
We’re reviewing Timothy Alberino’s Birthright: The Coming Posthuman Apocalypse and the Usurpation of Adam’s Dominion on Planet Earth. The book covers a lot of supernatural Christianity worldview: the Book of Enoch, the Watchers, the Nephilim, UFOs, transhumanism. We’ll touch on some of it. But most of our time will focus on one claim: that a race of beings lived on earth before Adam and Eve.

Josh, Michael, and Michael put Alberino's book and the Bible side by side. What do Genesis 1:1–2 actually say, and what don’t they? Where did the gap theory come from? And if Paul calls Adam “the first man” (1 Corinthians 15:45) and says death entered the world through him (Romans 5:12), what do we make of a race that lived and died before him?

0:00 – Introduction
1:55 – Who Is Timothy Alberino?
7:12 – Birthright: Angels as Extraterrestrials
12:53 – Are Angels Really Aliens?
19:46 – Female Angels, Zechariah 5
24:46 – Bene Elohim: Sons of God
29:45 – Genesis 1:2 Gap Theory
34:37 – Hayah: Was or Became?
40:40 – Revelation 12: Satan’s Fall
48:56 – Rahab, Edom, and Mars
53:38 – Rahab Refers to Egypt
1:05:05 – Closing Thoughts

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Michael Rowntree held to premillennialism for years, mostly by default because nearly everyone he knew was premill. Then he preached through the book of Revelation and hit Chapter 20. 

In the first of two episodes on Revelation 20, Josh sits down with Michael to talk about the thousand-year reign of Christ and what the rest of the New Testament says will happen when Jesus returns.

ABOUT THE EPISODE
Josh and Michael begin by walking through premillennialism, postmillennialism, and amillennialism, including the different branches within each. They also look at how Christians have held these views over the centuries, from Justin Martyr and Augustine to Luther and Calvin, and into the nineteenth century, when dispensationalism took hold. Michael then turns to the New Testament passages that speak most clearly about Christ’s return, including John 5:28–29, 2 Thessalonians 1:9–10, 1 Corinthians 15, and Romans 8. He explores what they say about the resurrection, the final judgment, the end of death, and the renewal of creation. Josh raises the hard questions each view has to answer, Ezekiel’s temple among them.

This is a secondary issue, and we want to talk about it like one. Michael makes his case, but he holds it with an open hand, and he’s clear that believers who land elsewhere are still his brothers and sisters in Christ.

0:00 – Introduction
1:10 – The World Made Right
3:06 – Defining the Millennium
4:31 – Premillennialism Explained
8:40 – Postmillennialism Explained
11:22 – Amillennialism Explained
19:00 – Millennialism in Church History
24:54 – Events at Christ's Return
38:31 – Death Swallowed Up Forever
45:25 – Romans 8 Creation Renewal
53:57 – Challenges for Premillennialism

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RESOURCES MENTIONED:
- Regnum Caelorum, Charles E. Hill (Eerdmans): https://faithlife.com/store/product/158143
- Finding the Right Hills to Die On, Gavin Ortlund (Crossway): https://www.crossway.org/books/finding-the-right-hills-to-die-on-tpb/
- Kingdom Come: The Amillennial Alternative, Sam Storms (Christian Focus): https://www.christianfocus.com/products/1564/kingdom-come
- Westminster Confession of Faith, 1.9: https://westminsterreformedchurch.org/LogicPDFs/WCF.1-10.pdf
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Python, Leviathan, Rahab, the Greek sea god Triton, and even a squid. Jennifer LeClaire’s The Spiritual Warrior’s Guide to Defeating Water Spirits names them all as marine demons working near bodies of water. What does Scripture actually say about these figures?

ABOUT THIS EPISODE
At The Remnant Radio, Josh, Michael, and Michael take the demonic seriously. We pray for people and cast out demons, and we do it biblically. That’s why sensational spiritual warfare teaching bothers us. People end up more afraid of the enemy than confident in Christ.

In this live review, we take LeClaire’s water spirits book back to Scripture and weigh its claims against the text. Bring your questions to the chat as we talk through how to tell sound teaching on the demonic from hype, and what deliverance ministry looks like when it starts with the text rather than the thrill.

0:00 – Introduction
2:40 – Jennifer LeClaire's Water Spirits
11:53 – Biblical Chaos Water Imagery
15:51 – Leviathan in Job 41
22:00 – Serpent Imagery Hermeneutic
27:16 – Behemoth in Job 40
30:42 – Acts 16 Python Spirit
34:11 – Deuteronomy 32:30 Misused
36:56 – Jonah, Job, and Leviathan
49:19 – Rahab and Isaiah 51
1:00:07 – Sneaky Squid Spirit
1:12:14 – Test the Spirits

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