Something old is hiding in the text—older than creeds, louder than tradition, and it doesn’t like the light. Our returning guest slips us a trail of clues through Genesis 6, Psalm 82, and Deuteronomy 32, pointing to quiet edits, missing words, and a council in the shadows. If those changes are real, they don’t just touch giants—they press on the very name “Son of God.” The story widens: rabbis, translators, and empires trying to hush a supernatural thread that keeps resurfacing. And for reasons that feel uncomfortably current, that thread pulls on politics, bloodlines, and the way nations are discipled. We don’t exactly solve the mystery—but we hand you some compelling evidence with a map.

Timestamps

 00:57 Brandon’s wrestling-style intro 
 02:10 Why he wrote his new paper
 03:17 Pushback against the Nephilim worldview
 05:33 How rabbis altered texts in the 2nd century
 07:56 Augustine and Chrysostom’s naturalistic shift
 10:21 Two Powers in Heaven and early Jewish thought
 12:41 Jesus quoting Psalm 82 and its implications
 15:00 Masoretic vs Septuagint vs Dead Sea Scrolls
 17:21 Deliberate changes in Deuteronomy 32 and Psalm 82
 19:43 New Greek translations to counter the Septuagint
 22:10 Early church fathers’ awareness of text changes
 24:30 Speculation about anti-supernatural agendas
 26:56 Islam, henotheism, and Gnostic influence
 29:15 Jewish fables, genealogies, and textual variants
 31:44 Melchizedek, Shem, and genealogy manipulation
 34:04 Psalm 110 and begotten-before-the-dawn language
 36:32 Connections to Hebrews and Jesus as Melchizedek
 38:51 Why the Nephilim worldview faces modern resistance
 41:09 Tradition vs biblical interpretation in Reformed circles
 43:27 Augustine’s overwhelming influence
 45:32 Quickfire speculative questions for Doug
 47:57 Demythologizing scripture and politics
 50:23 Dispensationalism, Zionism, and modern Israel
 52:32 A biblical chiasm of 1–12–70–nations
 54:50 Paul before the Sanhedrin and watcher parallels
 57:15 Great Commission as discipling nations
 59:40 Two Israels, replacement theology debates