TESTAMENT OF REUBEN The First-Born Son of Jacob and Leah. CHAPTER 1 Reuben, the first-born son of Jacob and Leah. The man of experience counsels against fornication and points out the ways in. which men are most apt to fall into error. THE COPY OF THE TESTAMENT OF...
IT'S OFFICIAL! I don't have to keep it a secret anymore! After long discussions with Robbie Davidson, I'm thrilled to be included in the third annual Flat Earth International Conference in Dallas, Texas. And I'll be bringing the whole family too. As always, my...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahTtDTW4vU8&t=171s THIS PARTICULAR INTERVIEW WAS CONDUCTED in a 17th century barn in Normandy, France. It was the dark before the dawn. During the commercial break, I went on a bug killing spree. Meanwhile, Robbie Davidson was stuck...
For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. Matthew 12:34 17 THE BEGINNING IS THE END I HAVE A CONFESSION TO MAKE. I’ve always wanted to be interviewed by Patricia Steere. Ever since coming over to the flat earth community in its toddler months,...
“Their weapons were ready, the mockers were trained, the prowlers were waiting.” Tom Gordon, Space Prison. 1 ONCE THE DEVIL “ROB SKIBA IS THE DEVIL,” my friend said. Bunyan. For the remainder of this article, that’s what we’ll call him—Bunyan (though I...
IF THERE WAS EVER A TIME AND PLACE to pick up a book, it was the 1960’s in Greenwich Village. Joe Taylor grew up on the Bible. His dad was a minister, and his grandfathers were deacons, the results of which garnished him with a thorough New and Old Testament...
THIRTY THOUSAND YEARS AGO CRO-MAGNON MAN made the final move from our treetop origins to live in caves, and though we coldly refer to them today in bland stepping stone terms, seeing as how the barbecue wasn’t invented yet, even going so far as to name our granddaddy...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6BTfOZi81k&fbclid=IwAR3kPVrCbg0pnFat9NqwBDx7uo5PIko6JeMlMPt68ntus1HcnDI8q3qBOjk I WAS THRILLED TO BE INVITED BY ROB SKIBA onto Revolutionary Radio to discuss my book, WORTHLESS MYSTERIES. Years in the making, it's 700 pages of...
I THINK I’VE DECIDED THAT “GETTING WOKE” is the essential equivalent for Millennial's of what "being cool" was back in the day. As a Generation X-er, I have these distinct memories of turtleneck sweaters, mullets, slap bracelets, and Birkenstock sandals with...
JESUS APPARENTLY COULDN'T DO OR SAY ANYTHING RIGHT. Whether teaching the thirsty or healing the indisposed, it seems like His entire ministry was hamstrung by the bureaucracy of religious allegation and pleas for messianic impeachment. The scribes and the Pharisees,...
Part 1 They Ate Passover with Their Shoes On (and Buried the Lamb of God in Haste) THE MAN NAMED Joseph of Arimathea could not have possibly slowed his stride to mull over the fragrant herbs and wildflowers presently dressing the outskirts of the road,...
THE OCCASION BY WHICH JESUS MOUNTED upon the foal of a donkey and descended down the southeastern slope of the Mount of Olives was no ordinary day. It was the tenth of Nissan, a Sabbath—or Saturday, April 21, 31 AD by the Gregorian calendar. We can quickly deduce that...
THE URGE TO INTERRUPT THE PATRIARCH OF ISRAEL from his deathbed, after he called all twelve sons round about him, and protest his prophetic prognosis for each and every one of them, must have been overwhelming for some—particularly Dan. “Assemble yourselves, that I...
WHY EMPEROR Maxentius chose to meet Constantine in open battle, rather than endure a siege in Rome, is a question best relegated to histories prodigious book of blunders. Rome was undoubtedly stockpiled for such an event. Evidence points to the fact that both Valerius...
THERE IS A SCENE IN DISNEY’S THE LION KING in which Simba, Timon, and Pumbaa are lying on their backs, having nestled into a soft bed of grass, and presently gazing, with philosophically wonder, at the stars in the firmament above. The warthog, they call him Mister...
THE KIDS CALL THEM "UNBOXING PARTIES," I THINK. Whatever, it was a box on my doorstep, and we were all eager to discover what was inside. My twin sons ceremoniously took part in the opening. But for four-year olds, pomp and circumstance can be attributed to tying...
THE ANSWER TO ISRAEL’S PROBLEM RELIES ON THE SIMPLE FACT that Jesus Christ, Yeshua HaMashiach, is the good shepherd whom King David and the Prophets spoke of. He is the angel of Yahweh who stood before Moses in the burning bush—the pillar of cloud who led Israel by...
THE SEVENTY SHEPHERDS WERE LIKELY REJOICING from the frosty, windswept slopes of the Golan Heights, hungry and salivating for a scattered flock, the very day when the last prophet of Israel took unto himself a wife of whoredoms. The word of Yahweh had come unto Hosea....
I FEEL BAD. LATE LAST NIGHT I CONTACTED ROBBIE DAVIDSON—asked if we could talk. Davidson, promoter of the International Flat Earth conferences, promptly called this morning, and I told him how I felt—bad. It's been pressing upon my soul for several months. I didn't...
THE MAN WHO MENTORED ME WAS A MISSIONARY TO JAPAN. Some years ago my wife and I had the privilege of accompanying him on a trip to Tokyo. In as little as two weeks we observed the ins and outs that he had committed himself tirelessly and thanklessly to for well over a...
BY CLAIMING THAT HE HAD KILLED A LION and a bear, the shepherd boy David was making an astonishing connection. The giant Goliath, he told King Saul, might as well have been a wolf, a bear, a lion, a desert jackal, tiger, a Congolese ape, or an east African...
Part 1 Judah & Israel — A House Divided Cannot Stand THE BOOKS of Moses ended with a curse. If the children of Abraham did not hearken unto the voice of Yahweh, if they did not observe His commandments, then curses would be their lot....
THE SCENE was Sotheby's Auction House in London. It was just after luncheon on July 13, 1936. The clock struck one. Bidding began. If appetites were not yet assuaged by the food and drink presently settling in their bellies, it is simply because the item before them...
THOUGH IT is true that there is much we do not know of the past, the same can be said of the ancients—there is much they did not know of themselves. While the Macedonian king advanced towards ancient Babylon, he couldn’t have possibly comprehended that time as we know...
THE AGE OF HELLENISM INEVITABLY BROUGHT the cult of Demeter at Eleusis to international fame. The Eleusinian mysteries were so well-financed and world renowned that other religions explicitly rebranded themselves through the efforts of her initiates. This is of course...
ROME WAS LITTLE MORE THAN A VILLAGE when Philip II of Macedonia went to war with the Persians. The year was 336 BC. In turn, Darius III had the king of Macedonia assassinated. He would come to regret that decision. At just twenty years of age, his son began the most...
“The living are ruled by the dead” — Elysian Neophyte SHE WAS MINDING HER OWN BUSINESS, PICKING FLOWERS on a spring day, when the young Persephone was brutally raped and abducted by a god. When she didn’t return home, her mother went looking for her. She too...
Visions of Homer, the Blind Bard of Ionia HIS OWN precious copy of Homer was safely locked in a golden casket, which he furthermore clutched between his fingers, when Alexander the Great stood along the Egyptian shore. Alexander had in mind a grand city which...
NOT A SINGLE COPY OF CELSUS’ BOOK SURVIVES. This is due to the astonishing fact that Christian emperor Valentinian III, tag-teaming with Archbishop Theodosius, ordered in 448, and successfully saw to it, that every copy of The True Doctrine was destroyed. Then again,...
THE DAWN OF YET ANOTHER CENTURY WAS ALREADY AFOOT, and what better way to celebrate it than with a high tide of persecutions against the superstitious faith? The year was 202 when Emperor Severus’ orders found their way to the doorstep of Origen’s childhood home. The...