Government Handlers, Puppet Masters & End Times: A Biblical Breakdown (Week in Review)

Government Handlers, Puppet Masters & End Times: A Biblical Breakdown (Week in Review)

Sixty million Christians were genocided before the Holocaust. Your history class skipped it. Leah and Malaine unpack a week that felt like a decade, from America's 250th anniversary and its Masonic founding blueprint to the propaganda machine running "ceasefire persists despite missile attacks" as a real headline in 2026. They confront the Ohio trafficking horror where eighteen children were found in a single room, question the "bless Israel" narrative in the face of active genocide, and trace the handler and puppet infrastructure behind every government stage straight back to the kingdom of darkness. The episode closes with a call for the body of Christ to pursue covenant over brand and to stay anchored in prayer over man-made end times doctrine. JOIN THE FRINGE ON FACEBOOK HERE: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thefringeonfb [https://www.facebook.com/groups/thefringeonfb] > "It is about the kingdom of darkness versus the kingdom of heaven, the end. It is about people whose intention is to steal, kill, and destroy you and your family by any means necessary." > > -Leah Steele Barnett Key Takeaways * America was founded by Freemasons in 1776, the same year the Illuminati was formed. Understanding the inconvenient truth of the founding requires repentance on your bloodline, especially as a disciple of Jesus Christ. * The news published "ceasefire persists despite missile attacks" as a real headline about Israel and Lebanon. The propaganda machine from 2020 is still running in 2026. * Eighteen children were found in a ten by ten room in Ohio. The woman at the center was taken from her family at thirteen and kept pregnant for years. The body of Christ has a responsibility to see what is happening and to call it out. * Sixty million Christians were genocided in the Bolshevik revolution before the Holocaust, and most Americans have never heard of it. The question of why that history was erased from every textbook deserves an honest answer. * Every person on the world stage is either a handler or being handled. The puppet masters remain unnamed, and the infrastructure traces back to the kingdom of darkness partnering with a Nephilim agenda that predates Genesis 6. Featured Scripture > Ephesians 6:12 > > "For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places." Application: Every manufactured headline, every scripted political performance, and every carefully engineered distraction keeps your eyes locked on flesh and blood. Paul told the Ephesian church that the war behind all of it is cosmic: rulers, authorities, cosmic powers, and spiritual forces of evil in heavenly places. When Leah says the only real conflict is the kingdom of darkness versus the kingdom of heaven, this is the verse she's standing on. And it still applies to the body of Christ in 2026. Timestamps 00:00 - Intro: Faith on the Fringe & the chaos  01:15 - America's 250th: founded by Freemasons  03:03 - The Secret Founding & the Illuminati  06:17 - Breaking the veil of indoctrination  09:06 - Propaganda, perspectives & emotional walls  11:38 - New Zealand's COVID deception playbook  14:58 - Iran war: ceasefire despite missiles  17:37 - 18 children trafficking horrors in Ohio  22:39 - The "bless Israel" narrative questioned  28:01 - Bolshevik genocide of 60 million Christians  31:02 - Japanese internment & Pearl Harbor truth  34:00 - Handlers, puppets & the kingdom of darkness  37:30 - The responsibility to call out injustice  39:29 - Zelensky: actor on the world stage  40:58 - Coccini, Welsh feud & biblical archetypes  49:20 - Bad behavior in the body of Christ  55:41 - Covenant vs. brand relationships  58:29 - Prayer over doctrine & Genesis 11 study Resources and Connect Some links below are affiliate links. We may earn a small commission at no cost to you. All books mentioned in this episode are available in the Faith on the Fringe Amazon Bookshop: https://amzn.to/3WscgNe [https://amzn.to/3WscgNe] The Secret Founding of America by Nicholas Hagar Trance Formation of America by Cathy O'Brien To Tell the Truth by Hope Beryl-Green Candace Owens on the Sean Ryan Show: https://youtu.be/3p_hlY6Ewfo?si=xd9yDvzyLVmLoqhA [https://youtu.be/3p_hlY6Ewfo?si=xd9yDvzyLVmLoqhA] Taylor Welsh, "The 12 Bloodlines of Human Nature": https://youtu.be/hVYLpAPe_40?si=4N0LcI8gsPMlps_w [https://youtu.be/hVYLpAPe_40?si=4N0LcI8gsPMlps_w] Supernatural Bible Sessions (Monthly Bible Study): https://www.supernaturalbible.live [https://www.supernaturalbible.live] Next session: July 15, 2026 (Genesis 11: Babel, Nimrod)   Faith on the Fringe: Substack: https://faithonthefringe.substack.com [https://faithonthefringe.substack.com] Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/faithonthefringepodcast [https://www.instagram.com/faithonthefringepodcast] Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/faithonthefringepodcast [https://www.facebook.com/faithonthefringepodcast] YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FaithontheFringe [https://www.youtube.com/@FaithontheFringe] Email: help@faithonthefringepodcast.com [help@faithonthefringepodcast.com] Scriptures for Further Study Ephesians 6:12. The real war is against spiritual forces of evil in heavenly places, and believers must identify the actual enemy behind every earthly distraction. John 10:10. The thief comes to steal, kill, and destroy; Jesus came to give life abundantly. Genesis 6:1-4. The sons of God took human wives and produced the Nephilim, the supernatural corruption event that connects to the kingdom of darkness agenda still operating today. Share this with someone who still thinks the news is telling them the whole story. One share might crack the first piece of the veil. Subscribe to our Substack at https://faithonthefringe.substack.com [https://faithonthefringe.substack.com] for the expanded teaching, community, and deeper dives into the things the world stage tries to hide. #FaithOnTheFringe #SupernaturalBiblicalTheology #KingdomTheology #Propaganda #SpiritualWarfare #HiddenHistory #KingdomOfDarkness See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

The Devil, Satan & the Adversary: What the New Testament Actually Says (Part 2B of The Enemy Series)

The word "devil" doesn't appear once in the Hebrew Bible. Not once. What happened between the Old and New Testaments changed everything. When 70 Jewish scholars translated their scriptures into Greek for the Septuagint, they made a choice - "ha-satan" became "ho diabolos." The neutral Hebrew title "the accuser" picked up a moral charge it never carried before. A job description became an identity. In Part 2B of our Enemy series, we trace how the New Testament writers inherited this Greek translation and what they did with it. We walk through 1 John and John 8 that confirm a personal being with agency, then follow the thread to Revelation 12:9 where four names collapse into one. The Dead Sea Scrolls show us that Second Temple Judaism understood this hierarchy, the divine council, the Watchers, the kingdom of darkness operating with structure and strategy. What the Western church flattened into "the devil made me do it" was once a far more layered and dangerous reality. This is the origin of evil traced through translation choices that shaped 2,000 years of spiritual warfare theology, and the spiritual deception that followed when the Hebrew context was lost. > "The devil you think you've been reading about your whole life got handed to you by a translation team." > > -Leah Steele Barnett Key Takeaways * The word "devil" never appears in the Hebrew Bible. It entered through the Septuagint, when translators rendered ha-satan, the neutral "accuser," as ho diabolos, the "slanderer," adding a moral charge the Hebrew never carried. * Jesus is the most prolific speaker about the adversary in Scripture, roughly 35 to 40 references across the four Gospels, and he uses the terms three ways: a specific personal being, a functional role, and human beings opposing God. * Jesus calls Peter "Satan" in Matthew 16:23 and Judas "a devil" in John 6:70. Neither was possessed. Both were named for the adversary role they were playing in that moment. * Two Greek grammar proofs, ho poneros (the evil one, masculine singular) in 1 John 5:18-19 and the personal-agent language of John 8:44, confirm a real personal being with agency rather than a metaphor for evil. What the grammar does not settle is how many. * Revelation 12:9 collapses four names, dragon, ancient serpent, devil, and Satan, into one being, and Lucifer is absent, confirming it was never part of the New Testament's vocabulary for the adversary. Featured Scripture > Revelation 12:9 > > "And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels with him." Application: four names collapse into one being here, and Lucifer is conspicuously missing. If it had been a real biblical name for the adversary, John would have included it alongside every other one. Timestamps 00:48 No word for 'devil' in Hebrew text 03:24 Greek bridge text between covenants 06:43 'Slanderer': the moral charge in Greek 12:52 NT writers quoting the Greek translation 16:35 Legal opponent & hostile enemy in Greek 20:14 Is the enemy a real being or a concept? 24:18 John 8:44: Jesus' biography of the enemy 29:12 Luke 10:18: 'the accuser' is still a title 34:26 Jesus' 3 categories for naming the enemy 35:45 Peter called out as the opposer 38:08 Judas named an accuser in John 6:70 42:24 Four names, one being: Revelation 12:9 Resources and Connect Some links below are affiliate links. We may earn a small commission at no cost to you. Books mentioned (the Book of Enoch, which Malaine reads from on-air), in the Exploring Faith & Jesus section of Leah's Amazon shop: https://amzn.to/3WscgNe [https://amzn.to/3WscgNe] The Fringe on Facebook (the growing research document for this series lives here): https://www.facebook.com/groups/thefringeonfb [https://www.facebook.com/groups/thefringeonfb] Faith on the Fringe: Substack: https://faithonthefringe.substack.com [https://faithonthefringe.substack.com] Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/faithonthefringepodcast [https://www.instagram.com/faithonthefringepodcast] Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/faithonthefringepodcast [https://www.facebook.com/faithonthefringepodcast] YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FaithontheFringe [https://www.youtube.com/@FaithontheFringe] Email: help@faithonthefringepodcast.com [help@faithonthefringepodcast.com] People and Texts Referenced The Septuagint (LXX). The Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible made by about 70 scholars in the third to second centuries BC. The version Jesus and the apostles most often read and quoted, and the text that first rendered ha-satan as ho diabolos. Ho diabolos. The Greek word behind "devil," meaning slanderer or false accuser, from a verb root meaning to throw across. It carries a moral charge the Hebrew ha-satan did not. The four Greek terms for the adversary. Diabolos (slanderer), antidikos (legal opponent, 1 Peter 5:8), ho antikeimenos (the one who opposes, 1 Timothy 5:14), and echthros (hostile enemy, Matthew 13). Ho poneros. The masculine singular "evil one" in 1 John 5:18-19, distinct from the neuter to poneron, which would mean abstract evil. Jerome and the Latin Vulgate (around 400 AD). Dropped the definite article from "the Satan," which is where Satan hardened into a proper name in the West. Book of Enoch. Read from on-air, including the passage on wisdom and iniquity as beings, evidence of a fuller divine-council world. John Milton (next episode). The poet who gave Christians the pitchfork, horns, and hellfire image of Satan, none of which is in the Bible. Augustine of Hippo (next episode). The bishop who systemized the privation theory of evil, pushed Enoch out of the Western canon, and promoted the Sethite reading of Genesis 6. Scriptures for Further Study Zechariah 3:1. In Hebrew ha-satan, but the Septuagint renders it ho diabolos, "the devil" standing at Joshua's right hand. 1 Peter 5:8. Your adversary (antidikos) the devil (diabolos) prowls like a roaring lion. 1 Timothy 5:14. Give the adversary (ho antikeimenos) no occasion for slander. Matthew 13:24-39. In the parable of the weeds, the enemy (echthros) who sowed them is the devil. 1 John 5:18-19. The whole world lies in the power of the evil one, ho poneros, a personal being. John 8:44. Jesus' fullest description of the adversary, a father, a murderer from the beginning, a liar. Luke 10:18. I saw the Satan (tan satanan, with the article, still a title) fall like lightning. Matthew 16:23 and Mark 8:33. Jesus calls Peter "Satan," the vocative satana, adversary. John 6:70. One of you is a devil (diabolos, no article), spoken of Judas. John 13:27. Later, Satan enters Judas, showing role and indwelling as separate things. Revelation 12:9. Dragon, ancient serpent, devil, and Satan collapse into one being. Revelation 1:18. I am the living one. I have the keys of death and Hades. The verdict that does not move. Hosea 4:6. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge, the show's standing anchor. Romans 8:19-22. Creation groans, waiting for the revealing of the sons of God. Deuteronomy 28. Blessings and curses set before the people, with heaven and earth as witness. 2 Timothy 1:7. God gave us a spirit of power, love, and a sound mind. Ephesians 6:10-18. The full armor of God for standing in spiritual warfare. Jonah 3. God sends Jonah to Nineveh to offer them an option before judgment. Call to Action Get into your prayer closet, not on your keyboard. Open your Bible and read 1 John 5, John 8:44, Matthew 16:23 where Jesus calls Peter Satan, and Revelation 12:9 where Lucifer is nowhere to be found. Sit with it, then get closer to Jesus. #FaithOnTheFringe #SupernaturalBiblicalTheology #KingdomTheology #TheDevil #Septuagint #OriginOfEvil #SpiritualWarfare See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

Lucifer, Satan & the Kingdom of Darkness: What the Church Got Wrong About the Enemy (Part 2A of The Enemy Series)

What if everything you were taught about the enemy was built on a translation error? The word Lucifer appears four times in the Bible, and three of those times it refers to Jesus Christ. This is Part 2A of a four-part series, focused on the Old Testament. Leah and Malaine deconstruct centuries of spiritual warfare theology that collapsed the entire kingdom of darkness into a single figure and blurred what Scripture actually says about the adversary. They trace the word Lucifer back to Jerome's Latin Vulgate rendering of the Hebrew halel, the shining one, the morning star, and unpack how a title that belongs to Jesus got reassigned to a being the Bible never names that way. From there they dig into the fall of Lucifer narrative most Christians accept without question, walk Isaiah 14 as a taunt against the king of Babylon, and show that ha-satan is a title meaning the accuser rather than a personal name. Along the way they cover Michael Heiser's Canaanite myth reading, the divine council scene in Job, Persian Zoroastrian influence after the exile, the Dead Sea Scrolls' Sons of Light and Sons of Darkness, and the biblical mysteries the Western church buried that Eastern Christian tradition never adopted. > "If Lucifer is Christ in three out of four uses in the Bible, then what in the literal hell have we been preaching for sixteen hundred years?" > > -Leah Steele Barnett Key Takeaways * The word Lucifer appears four times in the Latin Vulgate, and three of them refer to Jesus Christ. The fourth is the king of Babylon. None refers to Satan. * The Hebrew halel that became "Lucifer" reads as a verb meaning to howl or wail everywhere else it appears, in Zechariah 11:2, Ezekiel 21:12, and Jeremiah 47:2. The noun reading exists in a single verse. * Ha-satan in the Hebrew Bible is a title, the accuser, not a personal name, and it is applied to humans, to the angel of the Lord, and to a courtroom role in the divine council, never to a being who deceives on his own. * The Old Testament shows a scattered, organized opposition of many named adversaries, watchers, and territorial spirits, which the Western church later collapsed into one figure called Satan. * The morning-star title belongs to Christ in Revelation 22:16, which raises the question of whether the kingdom of darkness exploited the church's misidentification to gain legal ground in believers' lives. Featured Scripture > Revelation 22:16 > > "I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify to you about these things for the churches. I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star." Application: the morning-star title the Western church reassigned to "Lucifer" is one Jesus claims for Himself. Reading Isaiah 14 in its own context keeps that title where the text actually puts it. 00:00 Intro: fringe theology & the margins of faith  01:45 The complex hierarchy of dark powers 03:55 Hosea 4:6: destroyed for lack of knowledge 06:50 Salvation vs equipping for deliverance 09:30 How words get manipulated in culture 14:00 Jerome's Vulgate & the morning star origin 18:55 Halel as a verb: howl, lament, wail 23:30 Do demons use names in deliverance ministry? 26:10 Isaiah 14: King of Babylon & Canaanite myth 32:30 Morning star: the title Jesus claimed 42:00 Ha-Satan: a title, not a personal name 48:30 Divine council, Job & Persian influence Resources and Connect Some links below are affiliate links. We may earn a small commission at no cost to you. Books mentioned (Michael Heiser's work and the Book of Enoch), in the Exploring Faith & Jesus section of Leah's Amazon shop: https://amzn.to/3WscgNe [https://amzn.to/3WscgNe] The Fringe on Facebook (the 52-page research document Leah is building for this series lives here): https://www.facebook.com/groups/thefringeonfb [https://www.facebook.com/groups/thefringeonfb] Faith on the Fringe: Substack: https://faithonthefringe.substack.com [https://faithonthefringe.substack.com] Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/faithonthefringepodcast [https://www.instagram.com/faithonthefringepodcast] Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/faithonthefringepodcast [https://www.facebook.com/faithonthefringepodcast] YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FaithontheFringe [https://www.youtube.com/@FaithontheFringe] Email: help@faithonthefringepodcast.com [help@faithonthefringepodcast.com] People and Texts Referenced Jerome and the Latin Vulgate (around 400 AD). Rendered halel in Isaiah 14:12 as "Lucifer," the lowercase Latin word for the morning star (Venus), and used the same word for Christ three times, including 2 Peter 1:19. Aquila of Sinope (second century AD). Jewish convert to Christianity whose Greek translation read halel as the verb to lament, describing a mourning being rather than a shining angel. Syriac Peshitta. Eastern Christian translation that kept the verb reading (howl, wail) and never produced a being named Lucifer. Michael Heiser. Cited for the reading that Isaiah 14 draws on a Canaanite myth, the god Athtar failing to ascend the throne of Baal, and for reconciling the 1 Chronicles 21 and 2 Samuel 24 parallel. Tertullian (Against Marcion), Origen, Augustine, and Aquinas. The chain that built and systemized the cosmic Lucifer reading from the second century through the thirteenth. Zoroastrianism. Persian cosmic dualism (Ahura Mazda and Angra Mainyu) that paralleled categories developing in Jewish theology after about 200 years of Persian rule. Dead Sea Scrolls, the War Scroll. Uses Sons of Light versus Sons of Darkness language close to the Persian framework. Book of Enoch. Names beings with specific jobs and histories, unlike the single collapsed figure the Western church handed down. Strong's 7854. The Hebrew satan, a common noun meaning adversary, accuser, or opposer. Scriptures for Further Study Isaiah 14:4. The Lord tells Isaiah to take up this taunt against the king of Babylon, naming the subject of the passage. Isaiah 14:12. The single verse where halel (Lucifer, morning star) is read as a noun. Isaiah 14:13-14. The cosmic-sounding language of ascending above the stars and the mount of assembly. Isaiah 14:16. Calls the subject a man, the Hebrew anosh, a mortal. 2 Peter 1:19. The Vulgate uses Lucifer here for Christ, the morning star rising in the heart. Revelation 22:16. Jesus calls Himself the bright morning star. Zechariah 11:2. Halal as a verb, howl, fir tree, for the cedar has fallen. Ezekiel 21:12. Cry out and wail, son of man, the same verb root. Jeremiah 47:2. The inhabitants of the land howl, the same spelling that became Lucifer. Hosea 4:6. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge, the show's standing anchor. 1 Samuel 29:4. The Philistines fear David will become a satan, an adversary, to them. 1 Kings 11:14. Hadad the Edomite is raised up as a satan against Solomon. Numbers 22:22. The angel of the Lord stands in the road as a satan to Balaam, an agent of God doing the adversary job. Job 1:6. Ha-satan comes among the sons of God in the divine council and reports to Yahweh. Job 1 and 2. The accuser acts only with God's permission and within set limits. Zechariah 3:1-2. Ha-satan stands to accuse Joshua the high priest and is rebuked by the Lord. 1 Chronicles 21:1. Satan, without the article, incites David to number Israel. 2 Samuel 24:1. The older parallel says the Lord incited David, the same census story. 1 Samuel 16:14. A harmful spirit from the Lord torments Saul, coming upon him, not entering him. 1 Samuel 26:21. Saul repents, marking sin rather than possession. Genesis 11. The plural "let us go down" at Babel and the dispersing of the nations. Deuteronomy 32:8. Yahweh apportions the nations to the Bene Elohim, the sons of God. Judges 6. Gideon asks God for confirmation through the fleece. Matthew 18:21-35. The parable of the unforgiving servant and the tormentors sent by the master. Call to Action Go open your Bible and get in your prayer closet. Read Job 1 and 2, Zechariah 3, and Numbers 22, and sit with the idea that the satan in those stories is doing a job, not wearing a name. Take it to your prayer closet, not to your keyboard. Then come back for Part 2B. #FaithOnTheFringe #SupernaturalBiblicalTheology #KingdomTheology #Lucifer #HaSatan #DivineCouncil #FallenAngels See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

The Judas Spirit in the Church: Slander, Rebukes & Biblical Reconciliation - Week in Review

When the body of Christ starts eating its own, something darker is always at work. In this weekly update, Leah and Malaine break down the chaos tearing through online Christian spaces right now: public rebukes, slander, and a defamation campaign dressed up as discernment ministry. This is a blueprint for spiritual deception, and if you cannot recognize the fruit, you will get caught in the crossfire. They walk through the Cocchini and Taylor Welch conflict, Mike Winger's videos, and the defamation series against Dan Duval, applying godly discernment to what is really happening beneath the surface. When christian teaching gives way to name-calling, offense, and public shaming, the body of Christ bleeds, and spiritual warfare stops being theory and starts playing out in real time on podcasts and in comment sections. > "It is a Judas spirit. And it absolutely believes that it is doing the right thing by the body of Christ. These people are deceived." > > -Leah Steele Barnett Key Takeaways * The biblical reconciliation process in Matthew 18, go to your brother privately first, then bring trusted witnesses, then the church, is the step almost everyone skips before going public. * A Judas spirit can operate in someone fully convinced they are defending the body of Christ. Deception, not open malice, is what makes it so dangerous. * The test for any online ministry is fruit: the posture, the tone, and whether compassion or vindictiveness is driving the rebuke. * There is a real watchman calling and a place for biblical exposure done right. Mike Winger offering to fund an independent investigation and to publicly repent if he is wrong is the model, because it follows the process and protects people instead of chasing a takedown. * A check in your spirit is enough. You can stop watching content mid-stream without needing a reason, and a 70/30 rule lets you receive someone's good fruit without endorsing all of their theology. Featured Scripture > Matthew 18:15 > > "If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother." Application: the entire episode hinges on this one skipped step. Reconciliation is meant to begin privately, face to face, long before anyone reaches for a platform. 00:00 Intro: fringe theology & weird rabbit holes 01:20 Accusations & name-calling among believers 05:38 Offense spirit vs New Age conflict patterns 08:08 Greg Locke repentance vs callout culture 11:34 Michael Cocchini & Taylor Welch conflict context  16:20 Taylor Welch callout: a letter from God 20:59 Mike Winger video & Dan Duval's response 26:25 Discerning the fruit of online ministries 33:49 Biblical exposure ministry done right 43:08 Defamation series against Dan Duval  50:41 Watchman calling & checks in the spirit 57:27 Trusting God's guidance & 80/20 theology Resources and Connect Faith on the Fringe: Substack: https://faithonthefringe.substack.com [https://faithonthefringe.substack.com] Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/faithonthefringepodcast [https://www.instagram.com/faithonthefringepodcast] Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/faithonthefringepodcast [https://www.facebook.com/faithonthefringepodcast] YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FaithontheFringe [https://www.youtube.com/@FaithontheFringe] Email: help@faithonthefringepodcast.com [help@faithonthefringepodcast.com] People and Ministries Referenced Taylor Welch. Host of The Deep End podcast and founder of The Wealthy Consultant. Cited as a pioneer in the supernatural-Bible space and the subject of the public rebuke discussed. Michael Cocchini. Pastor of ALTARED who returned to the online scene and posted a public rebuke of his church, then of Taylor Welch. Leah and Malaine say they are praying for him as a brother in Christ. Mike Winger. Former pastor who runs BibleThinker and is known for documented discernment work. Cited as the model for biblical exposure done with a solution and a willingness to repent. Dan Duval. Founder of BRIDE Ministries International and its School of Inner Healing and Deliverance, host of Discovering Truth with Dan Duval, working with survivors of SRA and DID. Malaine studies in his school. Honored on-air and named as the target of a separate defamation series. Greg Locke. Pastor of Global Vision Bible Church in Lebanon, Tennessee, who recently lost his 20-year-old son Evan. Cited for publicly repenting and honoring a former friend. Marcus Rogers. Online minister cited as carrying a genuine watchman calling whose track record has borne fruit over time. John Bevere. Referenced for a story about an evangelist who called God's exposure of his financial sin a gift that restored his fear of the Lord. Scriptures for Further Study Matthew 18:15-17. The process for confronting a brother: privately first, then with witnesses, then before the church. Matthew 5:23-24. Leave your gift at the altar and be reconciled to your brother first. Psalm 139:23-24. Search me and see if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. Proverbs 6:16-19. The things the Lord hates, including the one who sows discord among brothers. Matthew 22:37-39. Love the Lord your God, and love your neighbor as yourself. Galatians 5:22-23. The fruit of the Spirit, the measure the hosts return to again and again. Matthew 7:16-20. By their fruit you will know them. 1 John 4:1. Test the spirits to see whether they are from God. Call to Action If God highlighted a name to you while you listened, do not let more time pass. Forgive that person, release the offense, and go reconcile the relationship. Healthy boundaries are still allowed, but no one has ever regretted forgiving, releasing offense, or making peace. #FaithOnTheFringe #SupernaturalBiblicalTheology #KingdomTheology #JudasSpirit #SpiritualDiscernment #CalloutCulture #BiblicalReconciliation See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

Everything You Were Taught About Satan Isn't In The Bible

The demons tormenting people aren't fallen angels. They're the ghosts of dead giants. And that's the least shocking thing in this episode. This is Part 1 of a four-part series where Leah and Malaine dive deep into who is really running the kingdom of darkness and who the enemy actually is. It opens with the question of where the kingdom of darkness even came from, and the answer is messier than anything you were preached. They show that Lucifer is a Latin word for the morning star that the Bible also uses for Christ, that Satan is a title and not a personal name, and that the pride-fall origin story most Christians believe was assembled from texts outside the canon. Then they walk seven competing Jewish accounts of the fall, from 1 Enoch and the Watchers to Jubilees, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Testament of Solomon, and ask why one fourth-century bishop named Augustine got to pick the version we all inherited. JOIN THE FRINGE ON FACEBOOK HERE: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thefringeonfb [https://www.facebook.com/groups/thefringeonfb] (Leah is dropping her full 52-page research paper from this episode in the group.) > "The whole shining one fell from heaven mythology that we've been taught is actually just a translation artifact." > > -Leah Steele Barnett Key Takeaways * Lucifer appears once in the Protestant Bible, in Isaiah 14:12, and the Hebrew behind it means morning star, the same title Revelation 22:16 gives to Christ. * Satan in the Hebrew Bible is almost always ha-satan, the accuser, a title and job description rather than a personal name, a point even Michael Heiser concedes. * The Bible is uncharacteristically quiet on the origin of evil, and the Second Temple Jewish world filled that silence with at least seven contradicting accounts. * The pride-fall story preached for 1600 years was the minority position, elevated to orthodoxy by Augustine in the fourth century and carried through Aquinas, Milton, Luther, and Calvin. * What counts as evidence shifts by tradition: the Catholic canon names the devil directly in Tobit and Wisdom of Solomon, where the Protestant canon does not. Featured Scripture > Proverbs 25:2 > > "It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the honor of kings is to search out a matter." Application: the silence of Scripture on the origin of evil is not a gap to fear, it is an invitation to dig. This whole episode is that search. Timestamps 02:00 - Isaiah 14 Names the King of Babylon 20:20 - Four Questions the Church Won't Answer 27:53 - Lucifer Appears Once in the Bible 31:24 - Lucifer Is Also a Name for Christ 36:27 - Satan Means Accuser, Not a Name 44:38 - Revelation 12:9 Merges the Names 48:53 - 1 Enoch, the Watchers, Mount Hermon 57:41 - Satan Refuses to Bow in Adam and Eve 1:01:29 - Jubilees: Demons Are Dead Nephilim 1:04:17 - Belial in the Dead Sea Scrolls 1:14:10 - Why Augustine's Minority View Won 1:17:30 - The Catholic Canon Changes Everything Resources and Connect Some links below are affiliate links. We may earn a small commission at no cost to you. Books mentioned, all in the Exploring Faith & Jesus section of Leah's Amazon shop: https://amzn.to/3WscgNe [https://amzn.to/3WscgNe] The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch). Leah says go get a copy and read it. Troy Brewer, "Looking Up." Michael Heiser, "The Unseen Realm," "Supernatural," and "Demons: What the Bible Really Says About the Powers of Darkness." Michael Heiser, the "Demons" documentary (Faithlife Original, the one Leah watched): https://faithlifetv.com/demons [https://faithlifetv.com/demons] The Bible Project, "The Satan and Demons" (the short explainer Malaine points to; Michael Heiser consulted on the series): https://bibleproject.com/videos/satan-demons/ [https://bibleproject.com/videos/satan-demons/] The Bible Project, full "Spiritual Beings" series: https://bibleproject.com/explore/category/spiritual-beings-series/ [https://bibleproject.com/explore/category/spiritual-beings-series/] Mount Hermon blog (Faith on the Fringe Substack), referenced at story six: https://faithonthefringe.substack.com/p/mount-hermon-is-the-most-important [https://faithonthefringe.substack.com/p/mount-hermon-is-the-most-important] Faith on the Fringe: Substack: https://faithonthefringe.substack.com [https://faithonthefringe.substack.com] Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/faithonthefringepodcast [https://www.instagram.com/faithonthefringepodcast] Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/faithonthefringepodcast [https://www.facebook.com/faithonthefringepodcast] YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FaithontheFringe [https://www.youtube.com/@FaithontheFringe] Email: help@faithonthefringepodcast.com [help@faithonthefringepodcast.com] Historical and Theological References Augustine of Hippo (354 to 430 AD). North African bishop, ex-Manichaean, systematized the pride-fall of Satan and pushed the Watchers out of the canon. Source of the Sethite view. Manichaeism. Persian dualist religion Augustine followed for nine years before converting to Christianity. Aquinas, Luther, Calvin, and Milton. Carried Augustine's pride-fall view forward. Luther was an Augustinian monk, Calvin built directly on Augustine, and Milton's Paradise Lost dramatized it in the 1600s. Jerome and the Latin Vulgate (around 400 AD). Translated Isaiah 14:12 with the Latin word Lucifer, meaning the morning star, and used the same word for Christ in 2 Peter 1:19. Syriac Peshitta. Eastern translation that read the Hebrew word as a verb, to howl or wail, not as a name. 1 Enoch (third century BC). 200 Watchers descend on Mount Hermon, led by Semjaza, and father the Nephilim. Quoted directly in Jude 1:14. 2 Enoch (Slavonic Enoch, first century AD). Satanael, chief of the Watchers (the Egregoroi), falls by pride trying to set his throne above the clouds. Life of Adam and Eve (first century AD). Satan refuses to bow to Adam and is expelled, then comes for revenge. Source of the Quranic Iblis story. Jubilees (second century BC). Demons are the disembodied spirits of the dead Nephilim. Their chief is Mastema. Dead Sea Scrolls and Qumran. In the Community Rule and its Treatise of the Two Spirits, Belial is created by God as the leader of darkness, not fallen. Cosmic dualism with Persian roots. Apocalypse of Abraham (first to second century AD). Identifies Azazel, one of the Watchers, as the serpent in Eden. Testament of Solomon (first to third century AD). A catalog of demons with mixed origins and no single fall story. Ascension of Isaiah and the Sibylline Oracles. Named as further Second Temple texts carrying their own fall and adversary traditions, beyond the seven walked through tonight. Early church fathers (Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Tertullian, Clement of Alexandria, Origen). Held the supernatural Genesis 6 reading for the first three centuries before it was set aside. Michael Heiser. Scholar who argued for a personal cosmic adversary yet conceded that zero Old Testament verses use Satan as a personal name. Catholic Deuterocanon. Tobit (the demon Asmodeus) and Wisdom of Solomon 2:24 name the devil directly. Both are absent from the Protestant canon. Pope Francis and the Catholic office of exorcism. Cited as affirming the devil is a real personal being, not a metaphor, with the church still keeping an active, trained office of exorcism. Scriptures for Further Study Isaiah 14:4. Names the king of Babylon as the subject of the taunt, framing the whole Lucifer passage. Isaiah 14:12. The single verse where Lucifer appears in the KJV; the Hebrew Helel ben Shachar means shining one, son of the dawn, or morning star. Isaiah 14:16. Calls the subject a man, the Hebrew anosh, identifying him as a human being. 2 Peter 1:19. The Vulgate uses Lucifer here for Christ, the rising morning star in the heart. Revelation 22:16. Jesus calls Himself the bright morning star, the same imagery as Isaiah 14. 1 Kings 11:14. Hadad the Edomite is called a satan, an adversary, to Solomon, a human opponent. Job 1 and 2. Ha-satan, the accuser, operates in the divine council with God's permission, not as a rogue. Zechariah 3:1. Ha-satan stands to accuse the high priest, again a courtroom role. 1 Chronicles 21:1. A satan incites David to number Israel, debated as title or being. 1 Peter 5:8. The adversary, antidikos, a legal opponent, is equated with the devil. Matthew 13:24-39. In the parable of the weeds, Jesus names the enemy, the Greek echthros, as the devil. Revelation 12:9. The dragon, the ancient serpent, the devil (Greek diabolos), and Satan are collapsed into one being. Jude 1:6. Angels who left their proper dwelling are kept in eternal chains under darkness. Jude 1:14. Quotes 1 Enoch by name as prophecy. 2 Peter 2:4. God cast the sinning angels into chains of gloomy darkness, the framework of 1 Enoch. Genesis 6:1-4. The sons of God, the daughters of men, and the Nephilim, the root of the Watchers tradition. Leviticus 16:8-10. The scapegoat is sent to Azazel in the wilderness on the Day of Atonement. Hosea 4:6. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge, the show's standing anchor. Wisdom of Solomon 2:24. Through the devil's envy death entered the world, the closest canonical fall reference, in the Catholic Bible only. Call to Action Take it to the prayer closet, not the keyboard. Go read 2 Peter 2:4 and Jude 6, notice they lead back to Enoch, then read Genesis 6 and Isaiah 14 again with fresh eyes. Don't take our word for it. 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