Cause Before Symptom

If I had jumped directly from Part 1 into presidents, Congress, wealthy donors and international institutions, I think I would have made a serious mistake. I would have been looking at relationships without understanding the belief system behind them. A photograph can tell me that two people met, and a government record can tell me that somebody gained access, but neither one tells me why a religious movement would want that access...

Every once in a while, somebody sends me something that immediately makes me think, “Here we go again.” If you have spent any amount of time investigating secret societies, powerful families, banking dynasties, intelligence networks and the people supposedly operating behind governments, you have heard almost every theory imaginable. I certainly have. I have spent years digging through claims about the thirteen Illumina...

In Part Fifty of our continuing examination of the Ethiopian Tewahedo Orthodox Bible alongside the 1611 King James Bible, we examine 1 and 2 Thessalonians together. These two letters contain some of Paul's most important teachings about the return of Jesus, the resurrection of the dead, believers being caught up to meet Him, the Day of the Lord, coming wrath, the falling away, the man of sin, the restrainer, and strong delusion.

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In Part Forty Nine of our continuing examination of the Ethiopian Tewahedo Orthodox Bible alongside the King James Bible, we turn to Paul's letter to the Colossians. This time our investigation will remain centered on the purpose of this series: placing the Ethiopian translation beside the King James, rendered into modern English, and asking what the texts actually say. Where the wording agrees, we will establish that and move forw...

Did God Warn Jamie Walden About September 2026? The Prophecy I Couldn't Ignore

On January 23, 2026, Christian minister Jamie Walden says he was praying and meditating on Psalm 7 when he received a disturbing message: “This is the year.” What followed was an extraordinary series of words and images involving Russia, China, European and Latin American leaders, a major blow to American power in Eastern Europe, civil unres...

For eighteen episodes, I have followed one question through Scripture: Why did God choose blood? What began as a question about sacrifice led us somewhere much deeper. We followed blood back to life, life back to breath, sacrifice back to relationship, and finally the entire silhouette toward Jesus. Now, in Part 19, the investigation reaches its end. It is time to stop collecting evidence and deliver the verdict.

But one major que...

For seventeen episodes, we have followed the trail of blood through Scripture, refusing to settle for the simple answer that blood matters only because “the life is in the blood.” That statement is true, but it has continually opened another question: if blood represents life, then what kind of life was God ultimately looking for? Part 18 finally places Jesus inside the silhouette we have been constructing and asks whet...

For sixteen episodes, we have been building a silhouette without naming the person standing inside it. We began with breath, followed life into blood, blood into sacrifice, sacrifice into covenant, and covenant into the promise of a righteous human representative. Now, in Part 17, we finally turn on the light and ask whether Jesus of Nazareth actually fits what the Old Testament had already drawn.

The evidence points to something ...

Why did the story of blood eventually have to become the story of a human being? In Part 16, we return to the beginning and discover that blood was never actually where the story started. Breath was. Genesis says God formed Adam from dust and breathed into him the breath of life. Humanity's first moment was therefore an act of receiving. Life came from God before humanity could ever offer anything back to Him.

That gives us a new ...

Throughout this investigation, the question has usually been what humanity must bring to God. An animal. An offering. Blood. Obedience. Repentance. But Isaiah forces us to turn the question around. What if the deeper story has always been about what God brings to us?

Isaiah 40–55 reveals a remarkable pattern. God comforts His people, calls them by name, carries them, gathers them, leads them, redeems them, remembers them whe...

Part 13 moved the investigation from the altar into the human heart. We discovered that God promised something repeated animal sacrifice could never accomplish by itself. He would circumcise the heart, write His Law within His people, cleanse them, give them a new heart and spirit, and ultimately place His own Spirit within them. Jeremiah called this coming restoration a new covenant, and Part 14 asks why covenant and blood belong ...

Part 12 brought this investigation to an extraordinary turning point. God had commanded sacrifice, yet the prophets revealed that blood could never become a substitute for obedience, mercy, justice, righteousness, humility, or surrender. Then Isaiah showed us something different. Instead of another person bringing another animal, the righteous servant himself became associated with the offering. The sacrifice and the obedient serva...

In Part 11, the Day of Atonement showed us blood associated with life moving inward toward God's presence while confessed sin moved outward into the wilderness. God had provided a way to deal with what separated Him from His people so that He could continue dwelling among them. But as we move deeper into the Old Testament, something unexpected happens. The same God who commanded sacrifice begins rejecting the sacrifices His people ...

Why Did God Choose Blood? Part 11 of 19 – The Day of Atonement: How Far Will God Go to Remove the Distance Between Us?

In Part 10, the investigation reached one of the clearest statements God gives about blood: “the life of the flesh is in the blood.” Even more importantly, God said, “I have given it to you” upon the altar for atonement. Blood was not something humanity invented to satisfy a God deman...

For nine episodes, I have followed the trail of blood through Scripture without assuming the answer to one central question: Why did God choose blood? Now, in Part 10, Leviticus finally brings us to a passage where God begins explaining the blood Himself. “For the life of the flesh is in the blood,” God says, before adding something easy to overlook: “I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for ...

Part 8 ended with an extraordinary scene. Israel had been delivered from Egypt, brought to Mount Sinai, entered into covenant with God, and received what Moses called “the blood of the covenant.” Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy elders then ascended the mountain, encountered the God of Israel, survived His presence, and ate and drank before Him. The movement seemed complete. God had brought Israel out of slavery ...

In Part 7, blood was placed on a door. An animal died, its blood became God's appointed sign, judgment passed through Egypt, and the firstborn behind that blood lived. But after Israel escapes Egypt and arrives at Mount Sinai, something changes. God does not tell Moses to put blood on another doorway. This time, Moses puts blood on the people.

Why? Israel has already been delivered. These are not people waiting for rescue from Pha...

For six parts, I have followed the trail of blood without jumping ahead to the verses Christians already know. We have watched blood represent life, testify to death, carry accountability for another person's life, appear within covenant, accompany substitution, and finally appear beside threatened death and release in the mysterious Bridegroom of Blood encounter. Now we have finally reached the night when God Himself commands bloo...

In Part 5, the investigation reached Mount Moriah, where God stopped Abraham from killing Isaac and provided a ram to be offered “instead of his son.” For the first time, the biblical story gave us an unmistakable picture of substitution: one life was given while another life was allowed to live. But the ram’s blood was not emphasized, collected, applied, or described as making atonement. So before moving directly...