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Doug Hamp discusses the true origins of the name Lucifer and its connections to ancient deities and biblical texts.

You have heard the name Lucifer your whole life. Doug Hamp says it was never there. The Hebrew University-trained scholar and author of the Corrupting the Image trilogy returns to the basement to show that the word behind Lucifer in Isaiah 14 is not Lucifer at all. It is Hillel, and it traces back through Akkadian to a Sumerian deity named Enlil. Nobody in the ancient world knew a Lucifer. But Enlil is everywhere. The god who splits heaven and earth, seizes the earth as his own, rules the far north, holds the Tablet of Destinies, and decrees the fates of men. Every fingerprint of the being we call Satan, hiding in plain sight for four thousand years.From there it only gets bigger. Doug walks through the great red dragon carved into the Ishtar Gate, the woman riding the beast pressed into a cylinder seal from 2200 BC, and the ancient images that show up in Revelation thousands of years before John writes a word. He connects the sealed scroll of Revelation 5 to the Tablet of Destinies and the title deed of planet Earth, the one Adam handed away in the garden. This is the second book of the trilogy, and it rewires how you read the strangest book in the Bible. The weird…

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