The Bible’s Greatest Mysteries

Satan and his demonic minions take every opportunity to deceive us. So how can we tell when a near-death experience (NDE) is real?Shaun Tabatt, author of The NDE Conspiracy, shares his nine-point list of criteria for determining when an NDE is real and not just an illusion or a vivid dream. He also tells us the difference between an NDE and a shared death experience, how false memories of past lives can draw people into bad theology, and why he calls NDEs “love letters from God.”

THE SUBJECT of NDEs (Near-Death Experiences) is controversial for Christians who—at least in the West—have been conditioned to avoid talking about the paranormal.Shaun Tabatt has been researching NDEs for years and his new book, The NDE Conspiracy, confronts the topic from a biblical worldview. He explains how the field of NDE research, which was founded by medical doctors, is now dominated by New Agers, psychics, and mediums, how educated people like the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, can be drawn into false beliefs by grief and personal trauma, and how Shaun’s research into NDEs helped his late wife, Lynette, prepare for her transition to the afterlife.

Sodom appears to have been the center of an ancient cult that venerated the dead.Dr. Steven Collins, author of Discovering the City of Sodom, explains that there were an estimated 1,500 dolmens, megalithic monuments to the dead, at the base of Tall el-Hammam, the site of Sodom. This is the tightest cluster of dolmens in the Levant, which is home to the densest concentration of dolmens on Earth.He also shared that his team was the first to excavate dolmens that had escaped “night diggers,” the archaeologists’ term for tomb raiders and treasure hunters who follow professional digs to hunt for artifacts to sell on the black market. According to Dr. Collins, one of the dolmens they excavated appears to have been in uninterrupted use for the cult of the dead from about 4000 BC down to the time of Sodom’s destruction in the Middle Bronze Age, a period of about 2,300 years!

Sodom has been found.The evidence is compelling: The location, evidence, and timing of the ruined city found by Dr. Steven Collins some 25 years ago all fit the biblical clues for the identification of the city.In an interview recorded at the International Symposium on Archaeology and the Bible in August of 2022, Dr. Collins, author of Discovering the City of Sodom, explained how political unrest in Israel compelled him to look for a new project and why he turned to a hill in Jordan that had been overlooked by archaeologists for more than a century.

GOD CONDEMNED high places because that’s where pagans in the ancient world contacted their gods. But when mountains weren’t nearby, humans built artificial ones.Micah Van Huss, author of ‘Ancient Cities and the Gods Who Built Them,’ shows us the parallels between stories of the Greek gods and the Bible, and where the fallen elohim may have taught our distant ancestors things we weren’t supposed to know—like writing!

THERE IS more truth in our myths than we’d like to admit.Mysterious cities of antiquity, including Babylon, Babel, and even Atlantis, contain some truth drawn from the Bible. Micah Van Huss, host of Marginal Mysteries (MarginalMysteries.com) and author of Ancient Cities and the Gods Who Built Them, shares some intriguing stories drawn from Greek, Jewish, and Babylonian myth to show how they draw from events recorded in the Bible.Micah Van Huss is one of the featured speakers along with the Gilberts, Carl Gallups, Pastor Mike Hoggard, and Mack Dominick June 13 and 14, 2025 in Carmel (Indianapolis), Indiana. Information and registration at MarginalMysteries.com.

WHAT DID the Watchers look like? Is it possible they resembled the animal-human hybrids depicted on some of the inscriptions at Göbekli Tepe?Archaeologists Dr. Aaron Judkins and Dr. Judd Burton, authors of the new book Decoding Göbekli Tepe, share their exciting new discovery that connects iconography at “the world’s oldest temple” and the Bronze Age culture of the Luwian people of Anatolia (modern Türkiye)—across a gap of at least 6,000 years!

IT’S BEEN CALLED the world’s oldest temple. But who—or what—was worshipped there?Archaeologists Dr. Aaron Judkins and Dr. Judd Burton, authors of the new book Decoding Göbekli Tepe, join us to discuss the mysterious site in southern Türkiye, why a Stone Age culture was inspired to build it, and why Christians should care.

YOU HAVE to wonder what the rebellious “sons of God” in Genesis 6 were thinking.Rick Renner (renner.org), author of Fallen Angels, Giants, Monsters, and the World Before the Flood, explains that these spirit beings—not the righteous sons of Seth, the third son of Adam and Eve—decided to corrupt humanity, it was a deliberate attempt to fill the earth with their monstrous progeny.Rick explains that this transgression—which is a word that means an action that’s even worse than a sin—was premeditated disobedience, since they’d been tasked by the Lord with shepherding humanity in its post-Edenic, fallen state. Instead, they and their children tried to eliminate the human race.Dr. Renner also shares with us additional evidence that the Durupinar site on Mount Judi in southeastern Türkiye is the resting place of Noah’s ark: Giant drogue stones, that were used in the ancient world to stabilize seagoing ships, have been found in the valley below the location of the ark. Needless to say, southeast Türkiye is a very long way from the sea—at least, it is today.

ON THE lower slopes of Mount Judi in eastern Türkiye, there is growing consensus that the remains of Noah’s ark have been found.Rick Renner (renner.org), author of Fallen Angels, Giants, Monsters, and the World Before the Flood, joins us to explain why the Durupinar site, close to the border with Iran and about 18 miles south of the summit of Greater Mount Ararat, is where the remains of Noah’s ark now rests.And what’s more, Rick tells us that an ancient altar near the site of the ark is almost certainly where Noah offered a sacrifice of thanks to the Lord when the ark finally settled on dry land.

WE’VE ALL heard how the Persian King Cyrus allowed the Jews to return to Jerusalem. But the story isn’t quite what you’ve been told.Ancient texts confirm that the last king of Babylon, Nabonidus, moved the idols of most of the gods of Mesopotamia and the priests needed to care for them into Babylon ahead of the Medo-Persian invasion. Nabonidus believed this would bring Babylon under the protection of the gods. Obviously, the plan failed.When Cyrus took over the Neo-Babylonian empire, he realized that many of his new subjects felt that they’d been stripped of their patron deities, leaving their cities without divine protection. Being a savvy politician, wanting to avoid political unrest in his newly enlarged kingdom, Cyrus decreed that the gods—which he said Nabonidus had brought to Babylon against their will!—would be returned to their home cities.So, to Cyrus, the Jews weren’t returning home; Yahweh was being allowed to return to His temple in Jerusalem!However, that doesn’t change the fact that God revealed to the prophet Isaiah that Cyrus, whom He called “His anointed” (His messiah!), would do this at least 140 years, and as much as 200 years, before the fact.

GOD DELIVERED a message of doom to the regent of Babylon, Belshazzar. And He did it in a way everyone in Babylon would understand.We continue our analysis of Daniel 5 and the writing on the wall, an episode so famous that it’s become a catchphrase for something so obvious that it can’t be missed. Last week, we explained how God’s divine intervention of Belshazzar’s drunken feast was not only directed at the rulers of Babylon, but at the moon-god Sîn, who was the patron deity of Babylon’s last king, Nabonidus.This week, we explore another aspect of the supernatural handwriting on the wall of Belshazzar’s palace. One of the two most important deities in Babylon in the 6th century BC was Nabû, the patron deity of scribes. Most people in Babylonia were illiterate, so when one needed to draw up a contract, make out a will, or even write a letter, a scribe was hired. Scribes were a special class, essential to the government, temples, merchants, and financiers.In short, Nabû was the god of lawyers, bankers, and priests—more or less the people who still run the world today.So, when a hand materialized and began to write on the wall, Belshazzar and his nobles may have thought it was one of their chief gods appearing before their eyes. In truth, it was Yahweh, the Creator, using Nabû’s best-known characteristic to tell Belshazzar that his gods—Nabû, Marduk, Ishtar, and Sîn—had failed him.And is it possible that the fall of Babylon in 539 BC is a template for the World Economic Forum’s Great Reset?

THERE IS MORE to the story of the supernatural writing on the wall of the king of Babylon’s palace than you’ve been told.This week, we begin examining one of the most mysterious and spectacular events of the Old Testament—the message from God to the regent of Babylon, Belshazzar.According to ancient records, Babylon was captured by Cyrus II, king of the Medes and Persians, in 539 BC on the eve of the 17th of Tashritu on the Babylonian calendar. Belshazzar’s father, King Nabonidus, had ruled Babylon for about seventeen years. Unlike Nebuchadnezzar, who died in 562 BC, Nabonidus was not Chaldean. He was an Assyrian from the northern Mesopotamian city of Harran who’d seized the throne in 556 BC.More important, Nabonidus was a devotee of the moon-god Sîn. Historical records suggest that he wanted to elevate Sîn to the top spot in the Babylonian pantheon, replacing the chief god Marduk and overturning about 600 years of religious tradition.The drunken feast held by Belshazzar described in chapter 5 of the Book of Daniel is usually described as evidence of the decadence of Babylon, and that the kingdom’s fall to the Medes and Persians was a just reward for the sinful ways of the Chaldeans. It certainly was that—but it was much more.The army of Cyrus had defeated Nabonidus at the Battle of Opis, about sixty miles from Babylon, about two weeks before Belshazzar’s feast. The regent must have known that Cyrus was outside the walls of the city. The timing of the feast coincided with an annual festival in honor of the moon-god held in Nabonidus’s home city of Harran, where his mother was a priestess of Sîn. The 17th of Tashritu falls during the Hunter’s Moon or Harvest Moon, two of the brightest full moons of the year.So, it’s possible that Belshazzar and his nobles weren’t recklessly partying while the Persians were at the gates of Babylon—they may have been trying to summon the protection of the moon-god when he was at full power.But Belshazzar made a fatal mistake. He “commanded that the vessels of gold and of silver that Nebuchadnezzar his father [meaning his predecessor on the throne of Babylon] had taken out of the temple in Jerusalem be brought, that the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines might drink from them.” (Dan. 5:2, ESV)The real significance of the writing on the wall is this: the 17th of Tashritu is 17 Tishri on the Hebrew calendar. That’s second day of the most important feast of Yahweh, Sukkot, or the Feast of Tabernacles. And during this time sacred to God, Belshazzar ordered that vessels sacred to Yahweh be used in a ritual meal for the moon-god, Sîn.Boom. Babylon fell that very night.

Proof that we live in the most prophetic time since the first coming of Jesus may be something in your hand or pocket right now.Pastor Carl Gallups, best-selling author of Eyes to See and The Yeshua Protocol, explains how the explosion in human knowledge and our ability to travel was foreseen by a prophet in the heart of the Babylonian empire more than 2,500 years ago.

David described the Crucifixion is startling detail a thousand years before it happened—and saw spirits at the foot of the cross from the land believed to be the entrance to the netherworld.Carl Gallups , author of The Yeshua Protocol and Eyes to See, joins us to explain the connections between David’s messianic prophecy in Psalm 22, which Jesus quoted from the cross, the “forbidden chapters” of Isaiah (52 and 53), and the future revelation of the Messiah to the House of David in Zechariah 12.Carl also reveals the symbolic meaning of the Paleo-Hebrew letters in Jesus’ name and how they’re quoted in a messianic prophecy in Isaiah 52:10.Finally, we discuss modern technology and how things we take for granted, like live-streamed video, may fulfill prophecies written two thousand years ago.

IT’S SOMETHING no rabbi would ever have done, and it almost certainly never occurred to Moses, either.Pastor Carl Gallups (CarlGallups.com), author of The Yeshua Protocol and Eyes to See, explains how the hidden imagery of the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet embeds a picture of the three crosses on Calvary, representing Jesus and the two men crucified on either side of him, in the very first verse of the Bible.

JESUS CALLED HIMSELF “the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.” That title is encoded right in the middle of the first verse of the Bible.Pastor Carl Gallups (CarlGallups.com) joins us to share a remarkable discovery he included in his book The Yeshua Protocol: Not only are the alpha and omega (Hebrew aleph and tau) embedded in the center of Genesis 1:1, the meaning of the characters in the ancient Paleo-Hebraic script is stunning.

One of the most fascinating chapters in the Bible is Psalm 82, which reads like a courtroom scene in heaven.Dr. Michael Heiser, author of A Companion to the Book of Enoch, Vols. 1 & 2, identifies the “gods” whose deaths are decreed by God, explains the divine council concept and what it does, and why Jesus wasn’t talking about humans when he quoted Psalm 82:6 in John 10:34.Then the Gilberts explain why Psalm 82 can also be read as God invading a meeting of fallen angels—an “infernal council”—and how the psalm may have been a prophecy of the Transfiguration of Jesus Christ on Mount Hermon.

Mount Hermon in northern Israel was known throughout the ancient Near East as the abode of the gods. Why? What made it so special?Dr. Michael Heiser, author of A Companion to the Book of Enoch, Vols. 1 & 2, describes the importance of Hermon as a sacred site from ancient times through the Christian era, and shares the biblical evidence that God Himself understood the significance of that mountain to the fallen realm.

Baptism is a declaration of victory over the “sons of God” who rebelled before the Flood.Dr. Michael Heiser, author of A Companion to the Book of Enoch, Vols. 1 & 2, explains why Peter connected the practice of baptism to Jesus’ descent to the netherworld and the rebellious elohim who commingled with women and produced the monstrous giants of the pre-Flood world.