Genesis 6 describes the Nephilim as demonic hybrids who occupy positions of authority in human society. They’re entirely real, says Father Stephen De Young.
0:00 What Are the Nephilim?
3:40 The Advanced Civilization Before the Flood
12:14 Was Human Lifespan Longer Before the Flood Than It Is Now?
15:55 Was Technology Given to Us by Demons?
22:53 How Does Someone Become Demonized?
26:37 Gilgamesh and the Book of the Giants
36:38 Is Japan Still Producing Nephilim?
42:19 Why Did God Create Humanity?
46:09 Are the Nephilim Still Among Us?
53:36 The Ongoing Ritual of Human Sacrifice
59:11 Is There Fossil Evidence of Giants?
1:00:20 Who Is Goliath?
1:09:48 Epstein, AI, and the Destruction of the Earth
1:11:31 When Will Christ Return?
1:19:33 Why Every Civilization Is Centered Around Religion
1:21:40 The Gods of War and Money
1:23:08 How Should Christians Respond to War?
1:30:02 The Failures of Evangelical Christian Leadership
1:31:24 What Does It Mean to Truly Experience God's Work?
1:35:42 The Evils of Pornography
1:43:13 The One Unforgivable Sin
@IanCarrollShow@JFGariepy Ian - we’re in the little season of Revelation 20. It’s really the carpet that ties the room together as the dude would say. You should bring this to your large audience. Truly, the mother of all conspiracies.
Allow me to translate this letter from eBay for those who don’t speak legalese:
Ryan,
We got your unsolicited offer to buy eBay for $125/share (half cash, half stock) supported by your 5% economic interest in eBay.
Our board, backed by the usual crew of bankers and lawyers who get paid either way, “thoroughly reviewed” it.
We’re rejecting it. Not because the math doesn’t work. Not because the highly confident letter from TD Securities for up to $20B on top of your $9B+ cash pile is fake. None of that.
We’re rejecting it because your entire approach to running a company is an existential threat to how we like to operate here.
Here are the reasons we feel this way, and the things we considered before paying consultants to write this:
1) We’d rather keep milking eBay as a “standalone” cash cow than let you turn it into something bigger and better.
2) Sure, you’ve got real financing lined up and you “know people” with deep pockets, but we’re going to call it “uncertain” anyway so we don’t have to engage.
3) Your plan would actually force real long-term growth and profitability changes we’d rather not be held accountable for.
4) The debt we pretended you can’t even obtain, the operational integration and focus on seller satisfaction, and most importantly, putting someone like you in charge of the combined entity all sound like a nightmare for our current leadership structure because all of us would have zero job security.
5) The valuation math only looks bad if you ignore the 46% premium you’re offering our shareholders and the upside from fixing eBay the way you fixed GameStop, which we are choosing to do and hoping nobody notices.
6) And I hope we buried the lede far enough here: Your governance and executive incentives are completely incompatible with ours. You and your board take zero cash, no salary, no bonuses, no golden parachutes. You buy shares with your own money and only get paid if shareholders win. We, on the other hand, like our nice, reliable annual payouts regardless of whether the stock is flat or the company is just coasting. We’re not about to hand over our golden goose to a guy who eats only what he kills.
Look, eBay is “strong” and “resilient” in the way every entrenched public company says it is while handing out eight-figure checks and perks to the C-suite. We’ve done the usual incremental stuff: tweaked the marketplace a bit, returned some capital, and we’d like to keep doing that without any cowboy from GameStop coming in and demanding actual skin-in-the-game accountability. Can you just leave us alone?
Our team remains focused on protecting the current regime and delivering “value”… mostly to ourselves and our consultants.
Thanks, but no thanks,
Paul S. Pressler Chairman of the Board, eBay (And proud beneficiary of the status quo)
Seriously? A picture of Jonah just chilling in the belly of the great fish like it was some luxury boat cruise?
Looks like ur the one who needs to grow up and stop reading the Bible like a childrens picture book flipping past the cute illustrations.
If youre gonna mock it at least get the story right.
The text doesnt say Jonah survived in the great fish…it wasnt a refuge; it was a tomb.
You atheists love to pretend that Jonah was just hanging out in the fish….maybe even taking a nap or two to pass the time.
Utter nonsense. Jonah prayed while he was still on the boat, as the sailors threw him overboard and he continued praying from inside the belly of the fish…until he drowned.
Read his own prayer from inside the fish:
“I called out to the Lord, out of my distress…
From the belly of Sheol I cried and you heard my voice…
The waters closed in over me to the point of death;
the flood surrounded me; seaweed was wrapped around my head;
I went down to the roots of the mountains;
the earth with its bars closed upon me forever…
Yet you brought up my life from the pit, O Lord my God.” (Jonah 2:2–6)
He prays from Sheol….the Old Testament place of the dead. He says the waters took him “to the point of death.”
Seaweed wrapped around his head and the earth barred him in forever.
Thats not a guy whos just uncomfortable….thats a man describing his own death.
So yes…..Jonah died in the belly of the great fish.
The miracle wasnt that he survived underwater for three days.
The miracle was that God raised him from the dead after the fish vomited his dead body onto dry land.
And thats exactly the sign Jesus pointed to:
“But He answered and said to them, “An evil and adulterous generation craves a sign; and so no sign will be given to it except the SIGN OF JONAH the prophet; For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.” (Matt 12:39-40)
Jesus didnt say “as Jonah lived in the fish…”
He pointed to Jonahs death and resurrection as a sign of His own.
Jonah died. God raised him.
Jesus died. God raised Him.
Thats the parallel…not a three day aquarium stay.
The sign of Jonah isnt survival.
Its resurrection. Full stop.
The Geneva Bible confirms Jesus’s second coming had already come to pass, and that we are in the time of Satan.
Honestly, where are we really when it comes to the timeline? What year is it in reality?