THE FRIDAY SPECIAL - The Biblical Case For The Existence of Mermaids ｜ Episode 7 w @hauntedcosmos_
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In this episode, we discuss the Russian myth of the Rusalka, the women who dwell at the bottom of the rivers and lakes, who are scorned in life, and who are therefore cursed to take the souls of others in their death.
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There was a young woman in Russia who loved a young man who she met often in the woods at night.
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She didn't tell her mother of these rendezvous, but she loved them nonetheless.
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The young man promised her his hand in marriage and told her that he was leaving for Moscow
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to tell his father of his new bride so that he might come back and take her with him.
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The young woman ran to her mother and excitedly told her the news,
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but the old woman warned her daughter not to trust a promise from a man who left
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and eventually the young woman was in sorrow because the man never returned
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the young man who had promised marriage to the girl for his part was found again someday
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he was found dead by the banks of the river he was covered in water and had been drug back to
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the surface though clearly he had fallen in he was the victim of russia's first rusalka the
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lifeless women who dwell at the bottom of the rivers and lakes,
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who are scorned in life and who are therefore cursed
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So that is, we're going to talk about a few theories of mermaids.
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mermaids 100 not that they did exist they do exist and we know their exact location you'll
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have to stick around to the end of the video to find that out wait a minute it's a big promise
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i'm sticking around but i got a theory um but what we want to do for at least you know the
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opening portion of this is just say there's a lot of conceptions of mermaids i mean this is a
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universal myth legend for a very long time and you've given us one and it was great for a cold
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open to just grab the listeners the but the one that you provided for us is dark you vary but to
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be fair they're all pretty dark they're all dark yeah mermaids and that's why i was obviously i i
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thought it was going to be funny you guys i think were terrified the my i didn't catch on to it
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until you started saying i was so confused i've never in my life been more confused life is much
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better than when joel did that yeah so that's the lie that they tell the rouselks exactly well that's
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that's why i was saying no but seriously um a lot of little girls today are being indoctrinated and
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there's a fascination with mermaids and it's always in this positive light mermaids are great
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right go back to hans christian anderson we need to go back to if you're a mermaid you're in hell
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you don't want to be like these girls yeah you're in hell of sorts now um and then you'll either
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cease to exist an annihilation kind of thing or you will be in hell later um but let's real quick
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let's get some theories so one is the rusaka yeah the rusaka it's like a woman scorned who dies for
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some reason the the subtext is that she kills herself in the river and since she died in such
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scorn or she was drowned in the river yeah or she was drowned in the river by the by the sorcerer
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and she's now forced to take the lives of others by the same means so she hunts men and usually
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yeah usually men usually men yes right so that one is a revenge so that's the russian myth yep
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And that's a revenge story that these are women who were once,
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they were once human, they lost their lives unfairly,
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or they made a deal with the devil, some sorcerer, a coven,
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I'm pretty sure I'm familiar with at least one story where,
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where some men took these women and robbed them and drowned them in the river.
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And then later on, those same men come back and are seduced.
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they see these women who are bathing naked in the nude in the river
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Oh, come, come, you know, and they come and then they drown.
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If you ever come across a nude, I'm just going to say person,
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but especially lady, and she's beckoning you into the woods,
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the ocean, off of your boat, if she's singing to you,
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what you want to do is say, that's the demon's house
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not to be enticed by the demon mermaid ladies.
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that's right. So Rusalka, revenge. That's what that is. It's a revenge story and they're,
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they're plaguing men. And these are common, common mythological tropes. Many, many various
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mythologies will have some kind of wrong that's done, a life that's wrongly taken. And, uh, and
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so then that, that spirit of that person, uh, you know, becomes a haunting entity and ultimately
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seeks for justice. I think the human desire for these sources, some of these mythological
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foundations really come back to our desire for justice and our understanding that justice isn't
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perfect in this life. And so rather than believing the gospel that God is going to accomplish perfect
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eternal justice, we mythologize justice in the form of the vengeful spirit. So you see this,
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I mean, this permeates mythology and on many, many levels. The Chinese, the hungry ghosts.
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that's within the mealing in i think scandinavian of the the child that was born out of wedlock
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and the mother killed the child and now the child comes right black-eyed kids yeah right
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that's related to the black even changelings and some right yeah very very common thread that runs
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through a lot of these so brian real quick tell us uh about um because you let's just be honest
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you're useless in this episode you told us by your own admission i i'm i'm i'm utterly i'm
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virtually useless you're utterly useless i said you're going to contribute humor yeah i'm going
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to contribute i'm gonna i'm gonna make fun of you guys for saying you believe in mermaids
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if i feel like it if i choose it convenient to also believe in mermaids at some point
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it will no longer be cringe it will actually be really cool but one thing that i was gonna say
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you can contribute is um like the disney movie based off of the hans christian anderson original
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yes give us a little bit of his conception of what were mermaids his conception is much more
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dark that they're all dark it's wrong for her to it's a tale about escaping the boundaries
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of your given domain right which is again i mean it's gonna come up in many things that we talk
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when you desire wrongly to go outside of your creational bounds and you attempt to do that
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only death results and so at the end of the tale the the mermaid lady that wants to become the man
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for the sailor who's you know handsome and whatnot she ends up in constant pain and you know knives
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There's the feeling of the earth under her feet like knives.
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And so part of his conception was there's a reason.
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She sees this dude and is dissatisfied with the mermen down below.
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Part of it is in his conception, mermaids live.
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difference is that when the human dies that they
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Ariel is red-headed. Gingers have no souls.
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Gingers don't have souls. And also Nephilim.
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Just for the record, there's a reason that
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i'm more comfortable with this with some sort of sentient being that's soulless than i am with a
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person whose soul is lingering yeah right exactly and to go back to the you know um the little
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mermaid the actual you know little mermaid 1.0 before disney you know made it happy and you know
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all those it uh what i was gonna say is only a 300 year lifespan he actually says they become
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the green glowing you know seafoam once they die their soul doesn't go anywhere they just
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meld into the ocean but also the reason why she wanted to fall in love is it wasn't because she
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couldn't find an underwater suitor but the only hope so she actually has this mermaid has a
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discourse with one of the sirens they're different they're like basically you know um uh sirens of
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the sky wind you know with wings and she has a discourse with one of them and they say well the
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only way that you would have any hope of regaining a soul um is that you would have to make a um a
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soul being a human being that has a soul fall in love with you and you could share in his and so
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that's that's part of the motivation is not just finding um a partner for erotic you know romantic
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reasons the siren trying to become uh souls and therefore immortal and so that's so that's one
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conception so you have the rusaka you have that that little mermaid you know the famous one but
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the dark version the original version um there's also enox yes you want to tell us about that one
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of vitality yeah it's very vampiric actually yeah anyway so enox so enox conception and i like this
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one because it makes a little bit more sense of like where you know what's the origin where did
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they come from um so enox says that you know that it's not just that the watchers these fallen
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angels that see the daughters of men that they are lovely and come into them take them as wives
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that it's not uh that it's it's not like genghis kong style it's not that these fallen watchers
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that they forcibly take human women as a harem of wives but that these daughters of Cain right
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so there's this godly line of Seth so naturally we'd assume that the women who actually
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would actually join in marriage with these watchers who are in rebellion against God
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would be worldly and carnal and rebellious women daughters of Cain but that they're not forced
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into the marriage covenant but they actually do so willingly they're actually attracted because
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they're carnal sinful human women and therefore attracted to rebellious angelic fallen creatures
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and so they um and and these for the record these watchers are not they don't look like um
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they don't look like ogres think thor yeah so these are are uh but but think thor in in two
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instances one um attractive glorious strong majestic magical supernatural but also think
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Like I think of even the Psalms that ultimately is a messianic prophecy
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speaking of the Christ and the author to the Hebrews,
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who of course is the Apostle Paul, he makes that clear.
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But in the Psalms, you made man just a little lower than the angels, right?
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but the son of man that you should care for him.
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there's a debate to be had about cherubim and seraphim
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that actually have earthly visitations look a lot like us.
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Every description that we have of them, they look a lot like us.
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Higher beings, attractive beings like the men of Sodom
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want these angels for nefarious, crude purposes.
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So they're more attractive than your average human,
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that people don't think that they're human at all.
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Well, it's part of why it's so easy for the Greek gods
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to get human women in all of the Greek myths.
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And they're close enough to men in terms of genetic relation
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you know that maybe we'll make that a bonus episode um in fact i think we will i think you
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know just if you become a patreon supporter uh you can have access to some of the bonus material and
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uh part of that is in-depth analysis and some theory and history of hollow earth theory
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but we'll probably throw an angel episode we'll argue about angels yeah we'll argue about angels
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how physical how spiritual we'll just throw down yeah we're actually going to move the chairs how
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virile are they it's just gonna be just be a wrestling match where we'll each dress up in a
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costume that demonstrates our our favorite conception of what an angel might be dibs on
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smeagol yeah brian's gonna dress in a costume covered with eyes and six wings personally if
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i had to jump off the top of the bookshelf yeah just completely to be clear it's like me and ben
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verse you because you're kind of you're tall okay that's what me and ben we actually we're about to
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so i need a tall guy it's really that you're like eight-year-old boys we stood back to back
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dude you're so by comparison short king thank you so okay so i appreciate the point is the point is
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this angels being close can procreate the women are volitional and that this is a first they're
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already of the line of cain and rebelled against god in in one degree but now this is just full
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sinned like there's no coming back we hate god um and they know they're not tricked they know that
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these are rebellious watchers fallen angels um and they willingly they're not taken captive but
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willingly join a marriage and that the offspring of this unholy union is the nephilim um and then
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from the nephilim descend giants uh but it's not just the watchers have sinned they're then locked
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in gloomy dungeons that's their punishment uh the nephilim are the product of this sin and they're
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wicked and sinister, and monsters of sort. But then no one ever talks about what happens to the
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women. Well, except Enoch. Except Enoch. And Enoch says that the women's curse is that they became
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sirens. And he uses the word sirens. They become mermaids and are banished to the sea. And in
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biblical terms, the sea is often, heaven won't have a sea. Because the sea often is referred to
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as a place of the debt, that the sea is, it's a barren place. It's a place of lost souls. Um,
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So Joel, in this conception, if I'm not mistaken, there's an element where the theory is that in some way,
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giving way to these beings is a seeding of their soul.
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In the sense that some portion of their soul has been consumed or taken from them.
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Yes, and in this theory, the mermaids themselves as physical creatures becoming mermaids may have died off, may no longer exist.
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But think like Michael Heiser, Nephilim kind of thing.
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That Jesus, you know, when he cast out Legion, it goes into the pigs, you know,
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or a demon when it's displaced goes through arid, waterless places until it can find a host.
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In Michael Heiser's conception, his scheme, you know, which I think is absolutely plausible,
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these are not fallen angels or rebellious angels,
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and then maybe the mermaids eventually died off,
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not going below uh no more soul and so they too like the nephilim are disembodied spirits but in
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the water kingdom that is interesting because if you yeah i mean i guess no one talks about the
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ladies you know they don't really talk about yeah because every other party gets a really clear
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punishment yeah the angels the watches except the women the nephilim do the giants do that's
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interesting so do you like do you buy that no okay i was gonna say i think it's possible so
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hollow earth man you guys heard that episode oh yeah i was i was like on board with you're like
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a solid 40 percent of like the crazy idea yeah because we weren't even talking about the later
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conceptions of that we think are absolutely you know but uh i specifically said so i have no one
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to blame but myself but i said the the uh the king kong godzilla version of hollow earth and i put it
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at a 40 with creatures ecosystems i stand by it large reptiles and dragons and sea monsters and
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So, what's the percent on Enoch's view of the mermaids?
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So, this one, I'm going to put it between 10% to 20%.
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Because what I like is the idea of the women being punished.
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I know it sounds bad, but honestly, we do live in a world that is the divine feminine
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Whether it's abortion, whatever it is, they're always the victim.
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And often, our own actions rise up and become a punishment for us.
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So it's like, what's crazy about it is the whole idea.
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But what's at least in terms of the patterns interesting
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is that that would align the natural consequence
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and you stabbed your boyfriend 57 times, you know?
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he's in the great cloud of witnesses right now.
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So another thing that I do like about Enoch's thing
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But what I like about it in terms of reconciling mythology
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You know, that there are these creatures in the water
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who will entice you in this this transcends cultures this goes oceanic lakes rivers this is
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anywhere you find bodies of water this kind of mythology really does attend so similar to some
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of the other topics that we've dealt with on haunted cosmos with ghost stories and with dragon
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stories and with um giants you do have to do something with the question of where did these
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stories come they come so universally and and we and we don't ever adhere to the answer of well
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So we know that there's different angelic types.
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You know, you have the seraph and the cherubim.
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But I think that it's not outside the realm of possibility, given texts like Daniel 10 and Daniel 12, where you have the prince of Persia resisting the angel sent to Daniel.
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And he needed the archangel Michael to help him, which is awesome, by the way.
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But so you have a prince that is an angelic prince that's put in authority over a dominion of men, Persia.
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Right. And presumably it's a fallen principality, which is, this would be Calvin's view that God
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put a fallen principality over a fallen people, Persia. Oh, I'm saying the region is the
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principality, the prince, fallen prince over reason, uh, fallen principality. But I was saying
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that, that what if like a dominion or principality, sure, could, could be not bound to groups of
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people, but to geographies, to certain geographies. I don't think this is outside the realm of
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possibility because we know that the acts- We're excited, emphatic truth. Well, yeah. Well, no. So
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we know that the acts in the unseen realm affect the seen realm. We know that the angels blowing
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trumpets in heaven make earthquakes on the earth. This is a one-to-one thing. I don't understand
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the mechanics and I'm not going to pretend to explain the mechanics, but we know that that
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does happen. So you could have, in my idea, you could have angelic type entities, whether fallen
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or not over geographic realms. And they govern the natural processes of those realms to some degree
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to carry out God's decree. Very medieval. Right. It's very medieval, but I love it. And if you
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want to call it a fairy, you can do that. It's fine, but it's not technically a fairy. And so
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in this way, not only does this answer the possibility of mermaids, because you can have
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some of these things falling into sin. And so therefore creating particularly stormy seas
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or rugged waters or rugged wilderness or a desert or a forest that's very dark,
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that's easy to get lost in like the Japanese suicide forest, clearly overseen by a fallen
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geographic angel, obviously. But then this also allows you to answer the positive side,
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where you have river daughters in folkloric myths
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and the old man Willow, who's very good and kind to people
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It allows you to have a Narnian conception of nymphs
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but that actually maybe some of the nymphs do dance with Christ, with Aslan,
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and they help bring about his dominion on the earth.
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even if they think that they're going against it
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And ultimately these mermaids are physical representations
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of something that's supposed to give life, taking it.
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right and and we know that that's not supposed to be and so i that that's my uh i like my idea
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no that's great i like that conception because again i do think that from that you can derive
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an origin story because that's one like where do they come from and so if you have watchers and
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they're falling and then you know in and being fallen each one is appointed within the sovereignty
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of god uh you know appointed over a particular principality thinking of the prince is the watcher
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the principality being the region uh but that some of these regions they're geographic they're
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not just cities where people dwell but geographic a mountain um a um a river a ocean a desert um
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and this is why every religion has a holy mountain right because there's a being on the mountain and
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then and take exactly but then in falling and being assigned to a particular region um that
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they took on certain attributes in the physical of of that region then okay like so where that
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gets me is okay um poseidon dagon right so the philistines one of their chief gods was dagon
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the fish god what if he what if dagon is a watcher right fallen and but over the region of the water
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and then in terms of supernatural power just just for the record remember in in the book of job just
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And God says, you know, from where have you come?
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within God's sovereign plan, but he does have power.
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Later on, he allows Satan to afflict Job's body with sores.
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But before that, the boundaries that God sets is you cannot touch his flesh.
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And during that, one of the things that Satan does,
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besides just stirring up the evil intentions of the Chaldeans to rob Job and these things,
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is that Satan actually goes and has power over the wind
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and causes a great wind to blow so that the house of Job's children
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capsizes and collapses upon them and kills them.
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who's to say that there wasn't some kind of demonic power
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trying to capsize the boat where the Son of God is?
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who is this who has power over the wind and waves?
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Well, we know from Job that Satan had power over the wind.
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Right. So it's not that God, God is not superior in the sense that he has exclusive, he's the only one that has, but he has the greater power. So even dominating Moses, dominating each of the different gods, real gods, not just smoke and mirror, but real gods in Egypt, they're able, the magicians can cast down their staffs. They too actually turn into snakes.
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But what's superior about Yahweh is that Moses, his serpent, swallows up the others.
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And so Jesus calming the wind and waves, what if it's, it's not that he has power over the wind and waves and that Satan didn't,
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but that Satan is actually trying to capsize, he's stirring up a storm on the water, the Sea of Galilee,
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but Jesus, when he gives his command, it's the superior command.
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And then even Jesus walking on the waters, turbulent waters, again, in the midst of a rough sea,
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It's exercising and symbolizing Christ's dominion
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I mean, to go back to my classic haunted cosmos conclusion
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that these also just can't be a demonic phenomena.
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who are engaged in trickery for all those purposes
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because we know that demonic powers when they were oppressing or possessing a person could
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affect their physical health as well it could give them like basically epileptic seizures
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throwing them into a fire like all of these different assaults on the physical there's
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some mechanism that we don't understand by which the spiritual enemy can afflict the physical
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and bring power to bear in the physical realm so i actually think that there's another possibility
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here without positing a new type of soulless 300-year-old woman or even an elemental spirit
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type of category where you can also say, look, if you're not down with any of that and that's
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too far off the reservation for you, if it's real, it absolutely could be demonic powers.
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He was probably a cherubim because of Ezekiel 28,
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you had multiple different ranks of angels falling.
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them remaining ordered as a reflection of them remaining under God's sovereign decree and over
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his power. And so they don't fall out of their role. They just fall into a twisting of their
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role. And then Calvin talks about this in his commentary on Genesis at length, actually. He
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talks about how a fallen angel, like a messenger, would take on a twisted version of the same role.
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So they would visit you while you're on DMT trips, for example.
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A fallen principality becomes the prince of Persia,
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and they lead Persia further into their sin.
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A fallen elemental would become, for example,
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Who in the first plague, God kills and fills the Nile with his blood.
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So the Egyptian sorcerers are able to do the serpent thing,
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They're not able to do anything else after that.
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To me, that's actually a melding of all of these.
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When we say god, we don't mean there's only one true, capital G, god.
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So this is just when people colloquially say demon.
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What you're saying is actually basically the same thing I'm saying.
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There's just different categories of spiritual being that fell.
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And within the realm that God gave them, they fell.
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But they're fallen now, and they do fallen stuff.
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and then some of them have been locked in gloomy dungeons,
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particularly for the sin of procreating with the daughters of men
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I think that the sin of the watchers who fell and did that
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was so grievous that they are locked in gloomy dungeons.
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The disembodied spirits of the Nephilim, I believe,
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But I also think that other angelic categories could have fallen.
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he delights to see them used against their will to achieve his ends.
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Right. I mean, yeah, God uses death to destroy death on the cross.
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We've talked about this already is that God loves to do that.
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God doesn't, you guys know what deus ex machina type,
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Where you have a plot and a story, and then all of a sudden, just by magic, everything's fixed.
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And you're looking at the story, and you're like, that's not that satisfying.
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Because you can't really see how the resolution came about.
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It's much better, like Frodo and Smeagol and Gollum, you know, Smeagol Gollum and the ring,
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that Smeagol, through his slavery to the ring, Sauron's will to dominate would end up dominating a character
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And he swore by the precious and then broke the vow.
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And then in breaking the vow, he condemned the ring itself.
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This is the cringiest thing I'll do this whole series.
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But is that more cringy than it's like the Avengers?
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I want to make this point because she just ripped off the Christian gospel
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when she made Horcruxes where the soul of the serpent enemy.
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he becomes sin is killed by the serpent but then because he gave his life for his friends rises and
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they are protected by his death for them in the resurrection and the the serpent ends up devouring
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itself through his even in the final battle where harry potter destroys voldemort he doesn't cast a
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killing spell he casts a disarming spell and voldemort cast a killing spell that rebounds on
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himself right so rolling just stole all of this from you know i'm not putting in the same league
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as tolkien just for the for the record thank you at all not even but it is good i like her but she
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stole that story and not stole this is how good storytellers work it's not deus ex machina it's
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god uses means so some people i think when they come to the story of redemption and how it works
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itself out in creation we really want to simplify it down to a deus ex machina thing where it's like
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All of a sudden, everything's just, boom, fixed.
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But God really does like to use the serpent to kill the serpent,
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which is his sovereign decree from eternity past.
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And most of that sovereign decree is carried out in a system
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that he delights to use that we can also understand,
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And through that, what seems to us a very slow process,
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I think this is what we have so far for the listener.
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Now they're still within their role, giving messages,
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So one conception of mermaids is it's all a lie,
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And these messenger, well, you know, fallen angels,
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messenger angels, and people have sightings of them.
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you know that these messenger angels may appear like to have a tail and jump out of the ocean or
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communicate with them so that's one is just to fascinate people to distract people to twist and
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pervert truth take them away from christ that's one conception another is uh that there was
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actually a punishment for the women who engaged with uh the fallen angels fallen watchers um
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and so it's not just their children cursed the nephilim and not just uh the watchers cursed who
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did that and you know going to gloomy dungeons but the women became sirens that's enoch's version
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uh and then uh the other one that you're saying is that uh that each of these angels that fell
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some of them being watchers some of them being messenger angels some of them maybe a cherubim
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like like lucifer uh fell and had different regions and different roles and took on certain
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physical uh uh physical aspects of their region their geographic region and so those who were
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over water or oceans or these kinds of things became known as fish gods like Dagon or within
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you know Greek and Roman mythology you know like Poseidon and and that they might have also
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it's possible taken daughters of men and that maybe the Nephilim version of a fallen angel
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who was over a water arena and took on physical aspects maybe that hybrid conception is a mermaid
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Whereas a hybrid, you know, if it's, I know this sounds a little bit ridiculous, hear me out, but if it's a fallen angel that had a land role and went to a land principality region, and then human women who live on land, it's a Nephilim that's a land creature, but unhinged.
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Whereas if it's a, you know, water type angel over a water region, still land women, but then it's half human, half fishtail mermaid.
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but someone would joel would someone who really loves i'm not saying i i'm saying i'm not saying
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that that's what happened but i'm just saying that's another yeah it could be a way to conceptualize
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it i basically if i were to put my idea in a sentence it would be that there is such a thing
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as an elemental spirit and some of them may have fallen thus creating evil rivers evil forests
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evil mountains and and therefore mermaids old man willows and and the mountain you know the
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third man of the mountain who who kills you or something and the mermaids but in that conception
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what what is a mermaid yeah okay so i would say that in that conception you can have a physical
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manifestation of the spirit that's over that area that lures you to your death for this not even for
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deception because they hate the image of god right and so they want to see it dead right and so that
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and so they do what they can to kill it but it's not real it's it's a physical it's an apparition
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right it's real i would i would say that it's real but it's not physical it's real it is physical
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i was just it can be it can manifest as physical because the angels that appear before lot and
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they they have physical form they're able to eat and they interact abraham you know they're you
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touch them it is a real thing but that doesn't follow from that that that is its permanent
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form right it could also be that they have the capability of taking on temporarily this form
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man in christ then is following after the lord the same way that the armies of david followed
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after david are to go out and wage war spiritual battle against the powers and principalities that
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are in principle defeated and being driven out entirely so everywhere christians go there should
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no longer be a haunted mountain let me give you hey let me give you an example of this river
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river anymore. So St. Columba was an Irish monk who was a missionary to the Scottish people of
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his day. And I can't remember the date, but it was before St. Brendan. And the legend says that one
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day he was standing on the shores of Loch Ness and he was trying to think of a way to get to the
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other side of the river that flows out of the loch, which is just another word for lake. And he's
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thinking, he's like, I don't know, it looks kind of dangerous. All of his buddies are behind him
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as other monks. And he sees down the way a little bit, a collection of the people that he's actually
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trying to convert. And so he goes over to them and he sees that they're in the midst of burying one
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of their fellow men who had just died because he got into the lake and was attacked by the monster
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that lives in Lake Loch Ness. And so Columba says, okay, here's what we'll do. I'll revive this guy.
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He stretches his staff over the man's chest, and he comes back to life, and all is made well.
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But then he says, I'm going to go a step further, and I'm going to show you not only that the God
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of the Christians has sovereignty over life, but also over this monster that you're so afraid of
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dealing you death. And so he tells one of his monk fellows to swim across Loch Ness to get the little
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boat that's on the other side and to come back to him. And so this young man, without any hesitation,
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people start to see the big ripples of the monster.
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And the monster lifts its mouth above the surface
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And right when he is about to clamp down his jaws on the man,
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St. Columba commands him to stop in the name of Christ.
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as if he's yanked back by ropes from a mighty ship.
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And the man swims across, gets the boat and swims back.
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