In this episode, we discuss the disappearance of the ancient city of Atlantis, and the theories about where it is now. We also discuss the history of the city and its connection to the rest of the world, and whether or not it is even possible to find it.
00:09:34.460But going back, the king, his 10 sons, five sets of twins.
00:09:38.160And I'm going to say, with this whole idea of Elohim and lowercase g gods and divine counsel, some of this is Heiser-related themes, we're saying that it's at least possible that this Poseidon-type king of Atlantis was not a Nephilim himself, but he would have been a fallen angel.
00:10:00.560Yeah, it's really important that we define terms, and this really gets into a deeper issue of why we do the show at all, but the reason that we would say that with a straight face, that actually maybe Plato was not only right in saying that Atlantis existed, but he was right in talking about how Poseidon ruled it, is because Genesis 6-4 exists, and we know that there was some angelic rebellion.
00:10:25.100We can all agree on that, and Satan was the leader of the charge. But we also get many other
00:10:31.720passages in Scripture that seem to indicate that giants roamed the earth, and so we have to ask,
00:10:37.120well, where did the giants come from? Well, it seems to me like it's quite clear that they came
00:10:42.600from the fallen angels taking for themselves daughters of men. And the important thing is that
00:10:47.900we know what happened to the fallen angels because of Jude and Peter. We know that they were bound
00:12:37.060But the true story as it went out into the world and was garbled in sinful peoples and cultures, especially after Babel, was I think certainly you see the seed of it in all these cultures.0.86
00:12:48.440And we're just saying, our modern, this really gets to the heart of the show.0.63
00:12:52.620Our modern discipleship has led us to at least have a knee-jerk instinct to want to Neil deGrasse Tyson everything.
00:13:03.660Which is, you know, Neil deGrasse Tyson is, you know, someone will say, you know, shoot for the moon, and if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
00:13:10.300And he's like, well, actually, the moon is, you know, only this many miles away, and you could never reach the stars.
00:15:10.440But what Enoch talks about, and again, take it with a grain of salt, but what he talks about is what about these women, daughters of Cain, the human women who chose to engage in this unholy union, is there a consequence, a judgment for them?1.00
00:16:03.300Here's why I hate one takeaway from it is that people read that
00:16:07.440and they say, well, I mean, Jude references Enoch, so it must be true.
00:16:11.200And I'd say, no, that doesn't then follow,
00:16:14.380because that would mean that Enoch is canon and it's not.
00:16:17.360And Paul references philosophers and poets that he does not endorse every word they ever read.
00:16:21.480Exactly, and Peter does the same thing.
00:16:24.160So I would say that you can't just say, well, since Enoch says it, it's true.
00:16:27.860But the thing I think is compelling is that the authors of 1 Enoch,
00:16:32.620or the author had a category in their mind for a siren they had room in their mind for a place
00:16:41.200in creation that the siren occupies and the sign being a mermaid the siren being in in one side
00:16:47.520the mermaid but the greeks also said that it was like a human bird hybrid a woman bird hybrid so
00:16:52.280it's either a mermaid or this really creepy bird lady uh which that brings up lilith motifs yeah
00:16:59.680on its own succubus motifs and things like that just real quick so lilith is i mean in jewish
00:17:06.720mythology lilith was adam's first wife who rejected adam's authority and then also uh spoke the
00:17:13.500unspeakable name of god and was condemned and as she was being taken to be to be drowned she pled
00:17:20.440with the lord to and this is where it gets really interesting not that it wasn't already crazy
00:17:25.300Exactly. Yeah. Not that this, yeah. Please, Lord, let me just live forever. And I'll tell you what,
00:17:31.280in return for you letting me do that, I will terrorize new mothers and steal their children.0.99
00:17:36.200And in this myth, God says, okay. So that's not how it went down. But we do have references to0.89
00:17:45.800Lilith in the scriptures, Isaiah 34, 13, I believe, references Lilith as a being who would dwell in
00:17:52.960Edom, once Edom is destroyed by the judgment of God. Our modern translation is translated into
00:17:58.940ostrich or a jackal sometimes, mostly ostrich. And they actually do the same thing with the one,
00:18:07.260or there's several, but the one place that I know of in the Septuagint that the Greek writers said
00:18:14.180was referring to a siren. And that I believe is in Isaiah 44, but I could be getting that wrong.
00:18:19.040but it's talking about the destroyed Babylon and how it too is going to become a haunt of jackals
00:18:24.520and all these things. And in the Septuagint, it says that the sirens will dwell there.
00:18:30.500Now, the Greek word used is siren. The oldest Hebrew text that we have seems to be this strange
00:18:39.680phrase that we don't fully understand the meaning of, but that can most likely be taken to mean the
00:18:46.060daughters of Nema. And if anyone is really good with their Old Testament genealogy, you know that
00:18:51.500Nema was the daughter or sister of Tubal-Cain, who was the maker of the weapons and the instruments
00:18:58.580and things like that. And there is this idea that Nema, the daughter of Tubal-Cain, was one of the
00:19:05.100chief seductresses of the fallen angels, and so she became the mother of the demons. That was this0.94
00:19:12.380idea, because the Nephilim eventually became the demons. We can talk about that if we want to.0.98
00:19:18.360Now, again, I don't think that any of that is necessarily true or historically accurate,
00:19:22.220because the Bible doesn't say that. But what we can again say is, why was there a category in
00:19:28.900their mind? What was that doing there? And so I think that we have a lot of reason to believe
00:19:35.300from that, and also from just historical theology and natural theology even, that there very well
00:19:42.160might be a category in creation that a mermaid fits nicely into. And this is also, just for the
00:19:48.100record, if you've read in The Magician's Nephew about Jadis of Charn, the wicked empress of Charn,
00:19:57.020and then in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, which was written first, when the beavers are
00:20:01.140explaining to the Pevensey children where did Jadis come from, Lewis writes into that story,
00:20:07.660Oh, she came of Lilith, Adam's first wife.
00:20:11.200So if you've ever been confused by that, when you read through that whole mythological arc or that idea is where Lewis got this steeped in the mythology of some of these stories.
00:20:21.720To me, just to piggyback off that, I think that Lilith came probably of the same origin of the mermaids.
00:20:29.480and I would look to Babylonian and Mesopotamian myth
00:20:33.500to inform us a little bit as to how that may have happened
00:20:36.380where Gilgamesh was said to be the daughter of a Lilithu
00:20:39.620and Lilith was a Babylonian demon goddess
00:20:55.860And I would just say that I would not put my hat on the hook of she used to be a human.
00:21:03.100I wouldn't do that at all because we know what happens to the human when they die.
00:21:06.720But I would say that there was something that took place in that whole Genesis 6-4 mix-up
00:21:12.560that could help us explain the actual creation of these beings and how they came to be
00:21:19.580and then how they spread from there and started to wreak havoc on all cultures in the entire world.
00:21:25.860Every ancient civilization and most pre-modern and modern, like non-first world civilizations have a category for this Lilith witch vampiric demon.0.54
00:21:37.560Right. And for the record, not just before the flood, but I think all three of us would agree in terms of our theory of Nephilim after the flood that we would, you know, it's possible, but I think we would lean towards, I'll speak for myself, leaning towards one fall in terms of chronological order or events, timing, that there was one fall of these angels, you know, that chose to rebel against God, swept out of the sky.
00:22:03.240And this was pre-flood, but not all of the fallen angels, although you have, so the picture is like there's a primary group and then a subgroup of that.
00:22:12.600So there's one primary group of these angels that fell from heaven, but not all of them took the daughters of men in marriage and trying to, multiple purposes.
00:22:23.860I think one is to corrupt the Messianic line.
00:22:44.080He knows it's the seed of the woman that's going to crush his head.0.63
00:22:46.700So he's got a multiple-pronged strategy to try to stop it.0.77
00:22:51.120And so, one, these fallen angels are trying to corrupt the messianic line from whom the Christ would come, the seed of the woman.
00:22:58.180And so that's part of the reason why they're taking the daughters of men.
00:23:00.540And then also, I think, with angels, you know, Ben and I have talked about there's no federal headship with angels.
00:23:05.880Human beings are unique in the sense that, you know, there's an argument to be made.
00:23:09.640I'm not saying this is definitive or objective, but you can argue, I believe, from the Scripture that both men and angels are made in the image of God.
00:23:18.280so that it's not just unique to humanity.
00:27:23.640I don't think it's the 10 spies are lying.
00:27:26.300I think the indictment of the 10 spies
00:27:28.500is not that they bring a lying report,
00:27:30.420a false report, but they bring a bad report.
00:27:32.880And the bad report is not that they tell something that's untrue, but the fact that they're fearful, that there are Nephilim among, you know, the inhabitants of Jericho and the land of Canaan.
00:27:42.160And these are not just giants that are, you know, could play in the NBA.
00:44:06.860You need Christ to come, not just for us to tell you the true history that you're twisting and mythologizing with all of the paganism and false spirituality and demonic spirituality and human sacrifice and all these things that are just roaring back to life.
00:44:33.480But non-Christians email us all the time.0.67
00:44:35.560And people who are not Christians are listening and being compelled, and I think the Lord is using it to actually reach non-Christians with the gospel because of this exact pattern that you're talking about.
00:44:49.940Yeah, and one of the things that we really believe is that people are compelled by story.
00:44:56.480People are compelled by things that are good, true, and beautiful, and story encapsulates those three things really effectively when it's done well.
00:45:05.460And so it's no secret that one of the aspects of the world that we focus on heavily on Haunted
00:45:12.860Cosmos is the darker thing. We do think that Christians ought to be interested so far as is0.69
00:45:20.340appropriate in the things that are a little bit scary, the things that are sad, the things that
00:45:25.380are tragic, because those things are real, because they're real in the world. And it's the world that
00:45:32.560God made, and it's the story he's telling. So we have to be interested. We have to read. We have
00:45:37.820to understand the story that we're in. So yeah, we focus on that a lot, but the main tenor and
00:45:43.080thrust of the show that we hope comes through is that those things are only so dark because there
00:45:48.840is real light that's there. There's real glory that's there. We've just been blind to it. You
00:45:54.900know, our eyes have become like unto our hearts, hardened, crusted over. And so we need them to
00:46:00.100have the scales removed once again, and see the glorious light for what it is. But in order to do
00:46:05.420that, especially when you're talking to a world that's been so catechized by materialism, is to
00:46:10.220show them, like, look how ugly. Look how scary. Yeah, sometimes it's entertaining. Sometimes,
00:46:15.100you know, Bigfoot stories are goofy. But yeah, look how ugly that is. Look how beautiful that is.
00:46:22.020Sometimes it is, I mean, the scriptures do this all the time. Sometimes the threat is effective.
00:46:27.300sometimes the threat of judgment the Westminster says we should tremble at the threats of apostasy
00:46:33.240and what comes from that why so that we can better appreciate the blessings we should tremble at the
00:46:39.160threats of the darkness so that we can better relish in the safety and security and the peace
00:46:43.840of the living God and the light that he gives us because we only see light through his light
00:46:48.700because he is light so you have to show the the world what you're going to get when you get out
00:46:56.000of his life. And that's not just atheism, and that's not just, it's not merely killing children.
00:47:02.980It is that. It's certainly not less than that, but it's sacrificing children to a demon god.0.92
00:47:49.060Of Ungoliant, he doesn't just whitewash0.90
00:47:52.260over all of the vomit of her darkness, right?0.87
00:47:54.580In order for the Christian story to be fully told, it's also a story that includes deep, deep darkness, something I talked about in the talk yesterday that the scriptures plumb the depths of death and darkness.0.97
00:48:08.640And they do so so that Jesus Christ can stride in to Israel, which has become like an Egypt, overrun with unclean spirits and worshiping false gods and demanding the blood of children, which all that's true.0.98
00:48:22.000Jesus can stride in and he can send them into the abyss and he can clean the land he can bring1.00
00:48:28.500healing from all the death and he can truly conquer right so that God can show off the only0.80
00:48:34.140way that God gets to show off his left hook you know is is if he uses his right arm to hold up
00:48:40.680his opponent right when you're infinite and all of your enemies are like grasshoppers that you
00:48:47.980You know, like when we think of Yahweh, the triune God, the God of Israel, we think of his majesty and his power, we think of the God who parted the Red Sea.
00:49:01.040The only reason we have ten is because God is throwing out plague after plague with one hand and having to supernaturally hold up Pharaoh with the other so that he doesn't tap out after one plague.
00:49:12.360You know, like that's this idea of him supernaturally hardening Pharaoh's heart.
00:49:16.140It required a divine miracle just to get a guy to be stubborn enough to say, hit me again.
00:49:23.800You know, like, so that's, you know, so anyways.
00:49:27.780But all that being said with the, you know, the world is not just stuff and the world wanting to re-enchant itself to put it, you know, to bring it home a little bit more for us.
00:49:35.960I think that the reformed world has been particularly bad at this.0.99
00:49:39.700like I think Christians maybe in general
00:54:17.900And I mean, it's impressive when you really think of it,
00:54:20.740but the reformed people have found a way to fail at both simultaneously.
00:54:25.360We failed with the world being stuff and the world not being stuff.
00:54:28.520And so what we want to say is it's both. It is this physical world that God has made.
00:54:33.020There's a spiritual reality, and the idea that the two shall never meet, that is not biblical.
00:54:39.460In the physical, you were trying to obey the nature as God wrote it.
00:54:45.840Men, you were made for strength. Be strong.
00:54:49.320Women, you were made for glorious fruitfulness. Be fruitful, right?1.00
00:54:54.000In the supernatural world, we're testing the spirits, we're testing the spirits, and so that we can see through the deception of even the spiritual powers that would appear as angel of light.
00:55:05.940And that's another thing we're trying to do here is demonstrate the banality of demons, that alien abductions, Bigfoot stories, and many other ghost and ghost stories all share these commonalities because they're often the same deception wearing a different mask.0.75
00:55:29.020And so Christians need to be able to see through that, test the spirit, say, ah, that's a deception.0.89
00:55:33.680I can tell you what kind of deception it is and tell their neighbor the answer isn't to be taken0.98
00:55:38.860in by that deception. It's to worship Christ. Amen. My family's been in and out right now.
00:55:44.640My oldest is still here. The little ones are doing nap time. But my oldest, Olive, is over there with
00:55:50.860Nana. Olive, did you know that four weeks ago, remember when dad was in the studio all day long
00:55:55.900and I told you I was working? Did you know dad has work that week was talking about mermaids for 12
00:56:01.000hours it's pretty cool huh good job your dad has a cool job um so all right so uh all that being
00:56:07.860said we you know a promise is a promise i i feel like you know we can land the plane with some
00:56:12.460primary water primary water we gotta do primary water so back to atlantis and these fountains
00:56:16.740coming from the center and there's these three concentric you know circles i've been out from
00:56:21.740that ben do you want to go first and then i'll give my thoughts too but what what is if you could
00:56:26.460give a basic, I know it's my thing, but you're smarter than me. What is simple definition,
00:56:31.840primary water? Okay, you're too kind. Okay, so my understanding is that the largely accepted view
00:56:41.400as it stands now of the origin of water on the earth is the atmospheric view. So we have the
00:56:47.500water cycle, you know, evaporation, and then condensation, precipitation, and it just recycles
00:56:52.520itself so you have really really old water it's all been here for a really long time if we ever
00:56:57.140need or if we ever get new water it has to come from off world an asteroid lands it's full of ice
00:57:03.740we get more water um or or some other weird event some other act of god fills the ocean over
00:57:09.380billions of years yeah exactly but uh the view that primary water posits is what if that's not
00:57:15.360true what if we're actually having new water made in the earth on the earth and in the earth all the
00:57:21.020time. So the massive amounts of heat and pressure that are found underneath the earth's surface and
00:57:27.920closer to its center, mixing with all the minerals and the elements that we find and granite and
00:57:33.280nice and basalt and all this stuff can actually create water as a chemical deposit that then
00:57:40.800fills caverns that are in the earth. And then when tectonic plates shift or when there's an
00:57:47.040existing shaft that goes up to the earth's surface and there's a critical mass of water within it,
00:57:52.100it shoots up to the surface and we get new water. So the idea with this is that like where it lands
00:57:58.860is that yes, we'd be constantly making new water on the earth. But why that's important is because
00:58:05.040instead of drinking water that's 5,000 years old, you'd be drinking water that's six days old.
00:58:41.580But then the other is elongated life, the fountain of youth.
00:58:45.240And so in a biblical perspective, fountain of youth, right?
00:58:48.580So in a biblical perspective, think of Isaiah 65.
00:58:51.660And so within the framework of a hopeful post-millennial eschatology, Isaiah 65 is such a great passage because it talks about how at that time the youth shall die at 100.
00:59:03.580and no longer shall anyone, you know, any child die in infancy, which you just, if you're taking
00:59:09.740God at his word there, that's not just diseases where a child would die in infancy, but that would
00:59:15.420eradicate all miscarriages, and that certainly would include all abortion. So a time would come
00:59:20.680where abortion actually is abolished completely, and not just some rhino Republican saying there's0.81
00:59:28.140no more abortion in our state. Meanwhile, you know, women are taking potions and pills, but0.96
00:59:34.220And not only just premeditated murder, which is what abortion is,
00:59:37.540but also disease and miscarriage and these kinds of things, which is incredible.
00:59:42.420But not just the infancy thing, but back to the youth shall die at 100.
00:59:46.180You think of the way that lifespans have already increased, you know,
00:59:49.040just in the last few hundred years, where there was a time not that long ago
00:59:53.760in the big scope of things where people, you know, if somebody died at 50,
00:59:57.620you know, people would say, wow, he lived a long life.
00:59:59.640You know, whereas if somebody dies at 50 years old today, we would say, you know, man, they were so young, right?
01:00:06.040And in a sense, you know, to paraphrase that, we would say he was just a youth, right?
01:00:10.080So when Isaiah 65 is saying the youth shall die at 100, what it's saying is that if someone dies at 100, that person, relatively speaking, is young, which presupposes the idea that, you know, like a Ricky Bobby kind of situation.
01:00:22.360You know, nobody lives forever, but, you know, 250, 265, you know, with my high-level income.
01:00:27.320Anyways, so some of you don't get the quote
01:02:53.580In the West, Christians have paved the way for medicine.0.95
01:02:56.640But with our apostasy and turning our back on Christ, so too there has been an apostasy.0.78
01:03:02.660And if you turn your back on Christ, then you're going to pervert everything else.
01:03:07.600And so medicine these days, you can't just take it for granted.
01:03:14.500A lot of medicine today is corrupt, and a lot of it is just, it's really just trade-offs.0.96
01:03:20.360It's, okay, you'll live longer here, but we're going to, you know, kill you over here.
01:03:27.600You know, like, medicine helps, and also medicine is hurting us at the very same time.
01:03:32.220And so the idea that I like about primary water is it's not saying that people would live for, you know,
01:03:37.520hundreds of years because of medicine, especially the medicine over the past recent decades
01:03:43.720And the way that we think of it today, you know, this pharmaceutical, you know, kind of like, you know, pharmakeia, almost witchcraft in some cases, straight up is.
01:03:53.660But no, we're saying through natural means, through natural means, the Christian worldview winning the day and making discoveries of what God has already baked into the fabric of his creation, something as simple as water, but new water.
01:04:06.460and that what if the secret is not taking 47 pills a day but the secret is just a nice glass
01:04:13.540of water and you could live to be a thousand years old because the water you're drinking is
01:04:17.800not a thousand years old or six thousand years old because up until now that's been the main
01:04:22.300conception is the hydrological cycle that all we have is recycled old water and this is new would
01:04:28.000be new water that water is being made and the other thing that that would eradicate in terms
01:04:31.840of bad worldviews is that you would have new water and more water because that's another thing
01:04:37.040that science you know science tm you know alleged science has told us is that we have not only old
01:04:43.900recycled water we can never get new water but we also have a finite amount of it and so you know
01:04:49.440we're very concerned about overpopulation and this would just if it's true would just completely
01:04:53.960debunk the overpopulation myth the primary water thing for me all everything you said about fountain
01:05:00.580of youth, I would say, wow, that's a really interesting idea. And footnote or like, what's
01:05:07.700the word? My sources? I made it up. We're excited. We're excited. I made it up. But for me, the most
01:05:15.800important reason I think this is really fascinating question is that. It's this idea of, did God make
01:05:21.780a world where it's just, there's this thing that you absolutely is required for life. And then he
01:05:27.660also just gave this very scarce amount of it or or did god make a world where through magmatic
01:05:33.140processes deep in the earth water i think this is also similar to the abiotic theory of oil
01:05:37.860which is another interesting theory maybe some of you have looked into that oil is not really
01:05:42.000dinosaurs and trees that have fallen down a million billion years ago but but as an abiotic
01:05:47.400product that's made through geologic processes in the earth these are kind of similar to me