The Black Swan Rising Podcast

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Why An All-Knowing God Would Create Lucifer

2026-10-3038:35

Send us Fan Mail If God knows the end from the beginning, why would He ever create Lucifer? I take a listener’s question seriously and push back on the hidden assumption behind it: that every intelligence in creation must want the same thing, or that God only creates beings who will choose the light. What if the universe is radically diverse, and what if agency is so sacred that God protects it even when He can see the consequences ahead of time? We talk through the difference between forekn...

The Lifeguard Is Waving And Nobody Hears It

2026-10-0215:52

Send us Fan Mail The stock market looks like a party, but the bond market is acting like a lifeguard waving both arms. That contrast is what makes us uneasy right now, because when US Treasury yields surge day after day while equities sit near record highs, something is off. We walk through why that relationship matters, what it can signal about stress in the financial system, and why “everything is awesome” can be the most dangerous mood in markets. We also dig into bond volatility in plain...

32) The Maybe Table Is Full Of Aliens

2026-09-2552:52

Send us Fan Mail A sitting congressman repeats a briefing he says came from a uniformed Army insider: secret locations, “non-human biologics,” and hybrid breeding programs. That claim sounds outrageous on its face, so we do what we always do here we slow down, compare sources, and ask what kind of world would have to exist for stories like this to keep surfacing. My guest, author Phil Wright (Return From RISA), helps me connect the dots between modern whistleblower narratives and long-runnin...

31 - The Ensign From Far Away

2026-09-1840:01

Send us Fan Mail Isaiah doesn’t describe the gathering of Israel like a gentle parade. He describes an ensign lifted up “from far,” a force that moves fast, doesn’t tire, and leaves the ashes of the wicked its wake, and that should make any serious reader of the Book of Mormon stop and reread the chapter. We walk through 2 Nephi 15 (Isaiah 5) and 2 Nephi 23 (Isaiah 13) to show a consistent theme: covenant restoration is paired with a purging day of the Lord. Then we widen the lens to Joel’s ...

30) When Angels Show Up And Ruin Everything

2026-09-1145:09

Send us Fan Mail The Watchers in the Book of Enoch are a deal-breaker for a lot of readers, not because the story is complicated, but because it sounds impossible: “angels” descend to Earth, corruption explodes, and giants appear. If your brain has ever hit the eject button on Enoch, I get it. So we slow way down and do something most people do not do: we let restored scripture define the terms and we follow the footnotes where they actually lead. We start in the Pearl of Great Price with Mo...

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