Ancient Babylon’s Playbook in Modern Culture (Daniel’s Warning) - Troy Black

About this episode

Ryan interviews Troy Black to explore the connections between the biblical concept of Mystery Babylon and modern cultural phenomena.

Click here to send Ryan a text message! Ep. #387 Ryan interviews Christian YouTuber Troy Black to unpack Mystery of the New Babylon in modern culture today and the biblical “Mystery Babylon” theme from Revelation 17. They discuss secret-knowledge temptation (gnostic thinking), modern “pyramids” like trans-humanism and the pursuit of immortality, and how internet culture can mirror Babylon’s patterns—good mixed with evil, counterfeit justice, sexualized portals, and distraction-as-idolat...

People in this episode

Host: Ryan

Guest: Troy Black

Topics covered

• Ancient Babylon
• modern culture
• Christianity
• Revelation 17
• gnostic thinking
• trans-humanism
• immortality
• internet culture

Keywords

• Mystery of the New Babylon
• secret-knowledge temptation
• counterfeit justice
• sexualized portals
• distraction-as-idolat

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Ancient Babylon’s Playbook, Daniel’s Warning, Mystery of the New Babylon, Mystery Babylon, Revelation 17

Places: Babylon

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