Consider some of the ideas that were proposed to address world financial instabilities following the Asian crisis of 1997-1998. It proved to be a major crisis that had destabilizing knock-on effects on all financial markets around the world. At the time, a number of Asian countries succumbed to some steep financial and economic declines. Russia’s markets also collapsed. The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund were called upon to extend enormous bailout and emergency financing programs at that time. All in all, the crisis was chilling enough that many new initiatives were suggested to “fix the global financial architecture.” A United Nations (UN) report on this subject listed the need for “a world financial authority… that would set policies for all financial institutions in the world…

As one might expect, the Enochian story of the transgression of the Watchers is operating in the background of certain points of New Testament eschatology. There is no direct claim in 1 Enoch or the New Testament that the Antichrist would be a descendant of the Nephilim or an incarnation of a Watcher or Satan. There are, however, a number of indications that Second Temple Jews had an “Antichrist theology” before the time of Jesus that had clear conceptual links to the sin of the Watchers and the giants…

Baptism is one of the most familiar practices in the local church. It’s so familiar, in fact, that it’s routine. The early church, however, associated it with the epic struggle between the children of God and the forces of darkness. This is why early baptismal formulas included a renunciation of Satan and his angels. For early believers, baptism was spiritual warfare. The backdrop for this notion is the story of the sin of the Watchers in 1 Enoch. Perhaps that’s the reason baptism isn’t taught with this ancient perspective in mind…

As you’ve probably been hearing in light of Biden’s induced inflation and bank bailouts, during the great systemic financial crisis of 2007 and 2008 many financial institutions around the world had already either collapsed, disappeared, or required a government bailout. Shockingly, some of these were very large and recognizable companies with global franchises, such as Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, and AIG. Other troubled entities were swallowed up or merged, including such major…