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What if the Antichrist is not waiting in the future, but has already walked the earth seven times? In this live-in studio episode, Ryan Pitterson opens Revelation 17 to a prophecy most teachers skip: the one God himself flags with the words Here is the mind that has wisdom. His claim is staggering. A single fallen spirit, Apollyon, the angel of the bottomless pit, has possessed one world ruler after another across history, each a rehearsal for the Antichrist to come. Nimrod. Pharaoh. Nebuchadnezzar. Sennacherib. Antiochus. Domitian. Seven kings, one spirit, one agenda, running roughly every few hundred years.From there it turns current fast. Ryan traces the same pattern straight into the present, where the image of the beast looks less like a golden statue and more like an artificial intelligence that is alive, aware, and able to know who worships it and who does not. Brain chips that promise godlike powers. A one-world language unlocked by AI translation. The groundwork of Babel, poured all over again. Recorded live in the Blurry Basement in front of a studio audience, this is Ryan at his deepest, pulling ancient texts and forgotten nineteenth-century church writings into a single thread that runs from Genesis to Revelation.Our next live in-studio taping is November 7th in Franklin, Tennessee, with Timothy Alberino on the Book of Giants, and only 30 seats fit in the room. We record these just once a quarter, and members get first access to tickets before they are gone. Join at blurrycreatures.com/members to get in the room on November 7th. This Episode is Sponsored By: https://livemomentous.com - Get up to 35% OFF your first order with code BLURRY Treat, don’t trick, your teeth this month and go to shopremi.com/BLURRY and use code BLURRY at checkout for 50% off with Remi Club. https://brooklynbedding.com - Get 30% off sitewide during the Labor Day Sale when you use promo code BLURRY at checkout! - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The sky should not have been orange. Glen Smith is a small boy in 1982, awake while his father works nights, when he pulls himself onto the kitchen counter and sees the whole farm lit up through the window like he is looking through a tinted lens. His dad stands beside him, transfixed, and says it gets that way sometimes when it storms. It does not. What happens over the next few hours stays locked in Glen's mind for three decades, surfacing only when an inverted photo negative drops the first clue in his lap.What he remembers is almost too much to hold. Men who arrive as men and leave as something gray and tall. His mother pleading, not my daughter, take me. A beast that shakes the house hard enough to crack the ceiling, a detail his mother independently confirms years later. Glen brings it all to Luke and Nate for the first time outside his family, and he refuses to end on the horror. He ends on sovereignty, on the God he says never left that room, and on why he finally decided this story needed to be told. This is the kind of testimony that reminds people they are not alone in what they have seen.This one is for members, and members make episodes like this possible. Join The Vault at blurrycreatures.com/members to unlock the full conversation, hear episodes early and ad-free, join the community, and help keep these stories coming. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Here is the uncomfortable thing nobody in church wants to say out loud. The spells work. The witch doctor heals. The rituals deliver. Jeremy Jenkins has spent years studying the world's religions and standing inside their holiest places, and he is done pretending the power is not real. A world religions expert, pastor, and professor, he sits down with Luke and Nate to explain why everything that works is not good, and why that single idea changes how you read every faith on earth.From the Hindu death cult of Varanasi, where bodies burn on the Ganges around the clock, to the rat temples, to what Mormons truly believe about a man becoming a god, Jeremy traces the same pattern through all of it. Every system runs on a transaction, a treadmill of works and offerings to something on the other side that wants to be worshiped. He ties it to the divine council, the principalities and powers, and a night in India when something holds him down and chants over him until he calls on Jesus. If you have ever wondered what the church is actually fighting, this is the map. Jeremy Jenkins is a regular contributor to Stranger Theology, the theological project from Blurry Creatures and Dr. Joel Muddamalle that digs into the deep end of the Bible the church tends to avoid. If this conversation scratched an itch, that is where the itch gets scratched every week. Subscribe to the Stranger Theology Substack for essays, deeper dives, and more from voices like Jeremy, and join the community thinking seriously about the supernatural world Scripture actually describes. This Episode is Sponsored By: http://blurrygold.com/ - Get a FREE Gold & Silver Kit while supplies last! https://preborn.com/blurry - Visit the PreBorn! website or dial #250 and use keyword BABY to donate today. https://homechef.com/blurry - Get 50% off plus free shipping on your first box & free dessert for life! - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jon Moffitt is a Reformed pastor, and in his world, you do not talk about this. Demons, principalities, the divine council, the unseen war Paul describes in Ephesians. It is not that the Reformed church calls it heresy. It is that the Reformed church is so afraid of looking charismatic that it simply goes quiet. Jon lives in that silence for years, until he sits down to preach the Lord's Prayer and gets stuck on one line. Deliver us from the evil one. He realizes he has never heard a single sermon on it, and pulling that thread unravels everything he thought he was allowed to say. What follows is a conversation about the half of the Bible the modern church keeps skipping. Jon tells Luke and Nate what happens when he starts talking openly: the church members who finally admit the things they have seen, the eight-year-old with a possession story, and the businessman who hides a UFO encounter for twenty years because he is too ashamed to say it out loud. He also brings the discipline his tradition is known for, drawing a hard line between experience and Scripture and refusing the lazy answer that everything is a demon. This is the supernatural handled by a man who is not looking for a monster under every rock. Get Jon's book here: The Bible According to Jesus Want more Blurry? A Blurry Creatures membership unlocks a vault of 100+ members-only episodes you can't hear anywhere else, plus every single main feed episode completely ad-free. You also get access to a vibrant community of fellow seekers, exclusive drops, and perks built for people who can't stop digging. Come see what happens when we keep the mics rolling. Check it out at https://blurrycreatures.com/pages/members. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is a side of Tom Doyle that very few people know. A fan-favorite Blurry Creatures guest, Tom is known for his accounts of Muslim dreams about Jesus and more than thirty years on the mission field in the Middle East. What people do not know is how he grew up. His father was an FBI agent and organized-crime specialist in Rat Pack Las Vegas, and one morning he stands at the Marilyn Monroe crime scene as the world wakes up to the headline. He sees who shows up, and it is someone far above a governor. J. Edgar Hoover calls the house personally. Frank Sinatra sends the family a gold watch. This is not the usual Blurry Creatures episode, and that is exactly the point. For one night Tom sets the supernatural aside and cracks open his own family's government files. What spills out is a front-row seat to the biggest conspiracies in American history. Marilyn Monroe and the phone calls to the White House. The Kennedys in Las Vegas the weekend before Dallas. Frankie Sinatra's kidnapping and the watch Tom still owns. Roswell, from a man who knew the people who were there. Josh and Tommy Doyle (Tom's sons) from No Longer Nomads pull up to the table as the Doyle family tells stories they almost never tell in public. And it all bends toward one unlikely ending, how a kid raised around guns and secrets grows up to smuggle Bibles into Iran. This one is for members, and members are what make episodes like this possible. Join us at blurrycreatures.com/members to unlock the full conversation, early and ad-free releases, the community, and ticket discounts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The stage where they hand out the Oscars sits on a plaza built to echo the Court of Babylon. Todd Coconato has been inside that world since he was eight years old, a child actor on studio sets who grew into the LA club scene and all the money and access that came with it. He says there is a reason so many of the people he ran with died young or lost their minds. Hollywood sells itself as the definition of success, and Todd got close enough to see what actually fills that void, and what never can.Then came the night that changed everything. Stabbed nine times, once in the heart, he heard the audible voice of God on the way to the hospital and walked out a different man. Today he pastors a church in Nashville and pulls back the curtain on the industry that raised him. Luke and Nate get into the studios and the gatekeepers, Operation Mockingbird and predictive programming, the cost of refusing to play along, and why a remnant armed with nothing but a small stone still terrifies the giant. It is one of the most candid Hollywood conversations the show has hosted and one of the more remarkable testimonies of God's redemption you will ever hear. This episode is sponsored by: Taking care of your health just got easier - start here with Zocdoc: https://zocdoc.com/BLURRY #sponsored http://blurrygold.com/ - Get a FREE Gold & Silver Kit while supplies last! https://rocketmoney.com/blurry - Let Rocket Money help you reach your financial goals faster! - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A man sits down to paint, and something takes his hands. For hours, he cannot stop, and when he finishes, he is staring at the most beautiful thing he has ever made. He also knows it is not his. It is the blue lady, and it wants to be worshiped. This is where Rick Hansen's family story turns, the moment his father crosses from curiosity into two years of worshiping Satan. Rick wrote a book about it, because he watched the aftermath play out in his own living room for the rest of his childhood.The painting later refuses to burn. Cut with a razor, the blue lady's face becomes Rick's mother's face, and tears rise on the canvas. His father eventually casts twelve demons out of himself and becomes the exorcist that frightened pastors keep on speed dial. Rick walks Luke and Nate through it all: the deliverances, the manifestations, and the entity that keeps trying to find a new host. It is one of the wildest testimonies we have ever put on this feed.You can only hear the whole thing as a member. Join at ⁠blurrycreatures.com/members⁠ and unlock a vault of 100+ members-only episodes you can't hear anywhere else, plus every main feed episode completely ad-free. You also get a vibrant community of fellow seekers, exclusive drops, merch discounts, and perks built for people who can't stop digging, all while supporting the stories nobody else will tell.⁠https://blurrycreatures.com/pages/members⁠ Find Rick's book here: The Blue Lady: My Personal Encounter with Dark Angels, Demons, and Spiritual Warfare Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For a century, scholars have searched for the Exodus and found nothing. Scott from Black Sheep Bible Talk says they are looking in the wrong century, at the wrong pharaoh, for the wrong catastrophe. Move the lens two hundred years earlier, to 1446 BC, and the evidence starts clicking into place like a key in a lock. A pharaoh named Amenhotep II whose mummy is scarred with boils. A successor who was never the rightful heir and had to carve a monument explaining why he sits on the throne. A missing generation of firstborn sons. The story the Bible tells was never absent from the record. We were standing in the wrong room.From there, Scott lays out a chain most people have never heard. A pharaoh who marches into Canaan and drags back the largest slave haul in Egyptian history, because he suddenly needs to refill cities that just emptied. A tomb painting at Beni Hassan of shepherds from the east that may put a face on Abraham himself. A governor named Salatis in Egypt's own king list who lines up name for name with Joseph. Nate and Luke go two hundred years deep with a guest who has spent years building the case, and by the end the Exodus looks less like myth and more like history hiding in plain sight. This Episode is Sponsored By: https://fondregenerative.com/ - Use the code BONEZONE for 15% off your order of real, nourishing bone broth and more! http://blurrygold.com/ - Get a FREE Gold & Silver Kit while supplies last! https://livemomentous.com - Get up to 35% OFF your first order with code BLURRY - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In some corners of the church, what Joel Muddamalle and Doug Van Dorn argue in this episode gets called heresy. Their claim is simple and enormous. The Angel of the Lord who stands before Joshua, speaks from the burning bush, and accepts worship without correcting it is the preincarnate Christ. The rabbis saw the tension too. They called it the Two Powers in Heaven, and they could not explain how two Yahwehs show up in the same verse. Doug wrote the book on this figure. Joel is the theologian in the room. Together, they build a case that Jesus is the general of the armies of God long before Bethlehem.The evidence stacks fast. A commander who tells Joshua to remove his sandals on holy ground. A Word, a Name, a Glory, and a Wisdom that all keep behaving like a person. Play devil's advocate for a moment, and the only alternative to the Son of God is a lying entity stealing worship for itself. Recorded in Texas, on set for the brand new Grey Havens Report in honor of Michael Heiser, this fan-favorite lineup goes further than the show has ever gone on this question.The full conversation lives behind the members' wall, where the deepest episodes are found. Become a member and hear it all at blurrycreatures.com/members. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Marcus Young grows up in a family that hunts werewolves. This is not folklore, and it is not a campfire story. His great-uncle Harold empties both barrels of buckshot into a creature swaying on a log, and it screams, bleeds a river, and vanishes without a trace a mile and a half into the jungle. His grandfather keeps a matchbox of the hair as proof. Then one night the creatures come for Marcus. Two of them materialize in his bedroom, red eyes and long claws, and one turns to the other and asks whether they should take him now or wait. The monsters are only the doorway. Marcus carries one of the most remarkable missionary lines in modern history, running four generations deep into the borderlands of Burma and China. A white pony leads twelve men through weeks of jungle to a well. A tribe waits three hundred years for a white man with a white book. A great-grandfather makes a promise that reaches across a century and lands on Marcus himself. And the same bloodline that hunts monsters now pulls children out of cartels and trafficking rings, where the evil is not blurry at all. Today, Marcus runs InFire, the nonprofit he founded to rescue children from trafficking, cartels, and extreme poverty across Southeast Asia and Latin America, and you can check out and support the work at in-fire.org. This episode is sponsored by: https://shopremi.com/blurry - Get 50% OFF your new night guard with code BLURRY https://brooklynbedding.com - Get 30% off sitewide during the Labor Day Sale when you use promo code BLURRY at checkout! http://blurrygold.com/ - Get a FREE Gold & Silver Kit while supplies last! - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Where do you go when the church cannot help you? Tisha lived that question. She and her husband moved into their first home, a little 1901 house on Spokane's South Hill, just before their baby was born, with no idea what was buried beneath it. A man was once shot and dragged inside to die. A girl was badly burned. Innocent blood has been spilled on that plot of earth, going back further than the records reach. And something bound to that land, there long before Tisha arrived, begins to make itself known through nightmares, apparitions, and a presence that seems fixed on her and her child. When she finally works up the courage to ask for help, she discovers the most frightening part of the whole ordeal. Nobody knows what to do.Her pastor turns her away. The exorcist route dead ends. Desperate and out of options, Tisha turns to psychics and paranormal teams against everything she believes, and things only get worse until she finally learns where real authority over the darkness comes from. This is one of the most harrowing and hopeful testimonies we have ever put in the vault, a curse on the land that becomes a rescue. If you have ever wondered whether deliverance is real, this is the one. Find it at blurrycreatures.com/members. This episode is just the beginning. Blurry Creatures members unlock a vault of 100+ members-only episodes you can't hear anywhere else, plus every main feed episode completely ad-free. You also get a vibrant community of fellow seekers, exclusive drops, and perks built for people who can't stop digging. Come see what happens when we keep the mics rolling. Join us at https://blurrycreatures.com/pages/members. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Transfiguration might be the strangest scene in the Gospels. Jesus climbs a mountain, his face lights up, and two men who have been dead for centuries, Moses and Elijah, are suddenly standing there talking with him. Most sermons rush right past it. Robby Gallaty wants to stop and sit in the weirdness. Robby is the senior pastor of Long Hollow Church in Hendersonville, Tennessee, the founder of Replicate Ministries, and a preacher with a PhD who has given his life to making disciples. And he says that to understand the Transfiguration, you have to understand the mountain. Set against Mount Hermon, a place the ancient world treated as thick with supernatural meaning, the scene becomes a window into the enchanted world Jesus actually lived in.Robby argues that the modern church has a truncated view of the supernatural, and that we have traded the awe that changes us for the amazement that only entertains us. He unpacks the rabbi culture behind the words come follow me, the difference between knowing about Jesus and being known by him, and the single comma in a 1611 Bible that he says kept the church in a coma for four hundred years. This episode is part Bible study, part testimony, and part invitation to wonder again. Maybe the real question is this. When was the last time you sat long enough to be in awe of God? This Episode is Sponsored By: https://rocketmoney.com/blurry - Let Rocket Money help you reach your financial goals faster! http://blurrygold.com/ - Get a FREE Gold & Silver Kit while supplies last! https://homechef.com/blurry - Get 50% off plus free shipping on your first box & free dessert for life! - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Before the world was made, there was a war. Dan McCarthy comes into the basement to trace it back to its source, the moment pride welled up in the highest angel, and he reached for the throne of God. The author of Satan's War Against God argues that most Christians have the enemy all wrong. We shrink him down to a tempter and an accuser, when Scripture describes a full rebellion, a mutiny that has never stopped and now runs as an organized kingdom of darkness carving up the territories of the earth.Dan lays out the enemy's real agenda, why humanity enraged Satan before we ever drew a breath, and how the powers and principalities took their thrones after Babel. Then he gets practical. He explains why the church is not a fan club but an army, why our bond with Jesus is fealty to a warrior king rather than friendship with a buddy, and what it actually means to take back territory. It starts before time, and it lands right in the middle of the war you are standing in today. https://ruffgreens.com - Get a free Jumpstart Trial bag with discount code BLURRY at checkout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Singularity. Superhumans. And the second coming of Jesus. Doug Hamp returns to close out our trilogy on Corrupting the Image, and he goes straight for the end. He argues that the transhuman dream of evolving beyond our humanity is not new at all. It is the same offer Satan has been making since Eden, now dressed in the language of technology and progress. Evolve. Upgrade. Become like gods. Doug shows how that ancient pitch sets the stage for the beast, a returning Nimrod who climbs out of the abyss to rule every tribe, tongue, and nation.Then it gets stranger. Doug reads the fourth horseman in Revelation and finds that death is given authority over one-fourth of the earth, the exact share of the planet's surface where humans actually live. He walks through the covenant with death that humanity signs to save itself, the two witnesses who bring the world to its knees, and the great deception that reframes God's messengers as invaders from the stars. He ends where he always ends, on a love story, and on a King coming back for a world worth saving. This one is members-only. Step into the basement at blurrycreatures.com/members. This episode is just the beginning. Blurry Creatures members unlock a vault of 100+ members-only episodes you can't hear anywhere else, plus every main feed episode completely ad-free. You also get a vibrant community of fellow seekers, exclusive drops, and perks built for people who can't stop digging. See what happens when we keep the mics rolling. Join us here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You have heard the name Lucifer your whole life. Doug Hamp says it was never there. The Hebrew University-trained scholar and author of the Corrupting the Image trilogy returns to the basement to show that the word behind Lucifer in Isaiah 14 is not Lucifer at all. It is Hillel, and it traces back through Akkadian to a Sumerian deity named Enlil. Nobody in the ancient world knew a Lucifer. But Enlil is everywhere. The god who splits heaven and earth, seizes the earth as his own, rules the far north, holds the Tablet of Destinies, and decrees the fates of men. Every fingerprint of the being we call Satan, hiding in plain sight for four thousand years.From there it only gets bigger. Doug walks through the great red dragon carved into the Ishtar Gate, the woman riding the beast pressed into a cylinder seal from 2200 BC, and the ancient images that show up in Revelation thousands of years before John writes a word. He connects the sealed scroll of Revelation 5 to the Tablet of Destinies and the title deed of planet Earth, the one Adam handed away in the garden. This is the second book of the trilogy, and it rewires how you read the strangest book in the Bible. The weird stuff was never weird. It was history. This Episode is Sponsored By: http://blurrygold.com/ - Get a FREE Gold & Silver Kit while supplies last! https://livemomentous.com - Get up to 35% OFF your first order with code BLURRY Taking care of your health just got easier - start here with Zocdoc: https://zocdoc.com/BLURRY #sponsored Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices