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Fallen angels cut a deal on Mount Hermon, and the divine council of 70 gods it created is one of the strangest patterns in the ancient world. Three separate cultures, the Canaanites, the Amorites, and the Hebrews, all built their sacrifices around the exact same number. Derek Gilbert breaks down how this cross-cultural fingerprint points back to the fallen Watchers on that mountain and a hidden hierarchy of spiritual powers the Bible calls the gods of the nations, powers that never left.
The Canaanites said their creator god El held court on Mount Hermon with his 70 sons. In the Syrian city of Emar, priests sacrificed 70 lambs to Dagon every spring, two weeks before Passover. Then God gave Moses the Feast of Tabernacles, seven days of sacrifice counting down from 13 bulls to 7, totaling exactly 70 bulls. The same number, the same idea, appearing everywhere in the ancient Near East, where 70 always meant the complete set with not one left out.
This is what Paul meant by principalities and powers, and why spiritual warfare begins on our knees rather than against other people. The real enemy was never flesh and blood. Watch to the end for how the 70 elders on Mount Sinai and the parable of the prodigal son reveal what God is actually planning for humanity.
00:00 Fallen angels vs demons
01:00 What spiritual warfare actually is (Ephesians 6)
03:20 Principalities, powers, and the real enemy
04:50 Why God forbade contacting the spirit realm
06:20 The number 70 and the divine council
07:40 The 70 sons of El on Mount Hermon
08:40 Emar's 70 lambs for Dagon
09:40 70 bulls at the Feast of Tabernacles
10:40 Humanity's restoration to the divine council
Sources:
Deuteronomy 32:8-9, Genesis 6, Genesis 10, Exodus 24, Ephesians 6, Psalm 82
The Unseen Realm, Michael S. Heiser
Emar ritual tablets, Aleppo / northern Syria excavations
#AncientHistory #AncientNearEast #ArchaeologicalDiscovery #DocumentaryInvestigation #AncientMysteries
Fallen angels cut a deal on Mount Hermon, and the divine council of 70 gods it created is one of the strangest patterns in the ancient world. Three separate cultures, the Canaanites, the Amorites, and the Hebrews, all built their sacrifices around the exact same number. Derek Gilbert breaks down how this cross-cultural fingerprint points back to the fallen Watchers on that mountain and a hidden hierarchy of spiritual powers the Bible calls the gods of the nations, powers that never left.
The Canaanites said their creator god El held court on Mount Hermon with his 70 sons. In the Syrian city of Emar, priests sacrificed 70 lambs to Dagon every spring, two weeks before Passover. Then God gave Moses the Feast of Tabernacles, seven days of sacrifice counting down from 13 bulls to 7, totaling exactly 70 bulls. The same number, the same idea, appearing everywhere in the ancient Near East, where 70 always meant the complete set with not one left out.
This is what Paul meant by principalities and powers, and why spiritual warfare begins on our knees rather than against other people. The real enemy was never flesh and blood. Watch to the end for how the 70 elders on Mount Sinai and the parable of the prodigal son reveal what God is actually planning for humanity.
00:00 Fallen angels vs demons
01:00 What spiritual warfare actually is (Ephesians 6)
03:20 Principalities, powers, and the real enemy
04:50 Why God forbade contacting the spirit realm
06:20 The number 70 and the divine council
07:40 The 70 sons of El on Mount Hermon
08:40 Emar's 70 lambs for Dagon
09:40 70 bulls at the Feast of Tabernacles
10:40 Humanity's restoration to the divine council
Sources:
Deuteronomy 32:8-9, Genesis 6, Genesis 10, Exodus 24, Ephesians 6, Psalm 82
The Unseen Realm, Michael S. Heiser
Emar ritual tablets, Aleppo / northern Syria excavations
#AncientHistory #AncientNearEast #ArchaeologicalDiscovery #DocumentaryInvestigation #AncientMysteries
