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The word "devil" doesn't appear once in the Hebrew Bible. Not once.

What happened between the Old and New Testaments changed everything. When 70 Jewish scholars translated their scriptures into Greek for the Septuagint, they made a choice - "ha-satan" became "ho diabolos." The neutral Hebrew title "the accuser" picked up a moral charge it never carried before. A job description became an identity.

In Part 2B of our Enemy series, we trace how the New Testament writers inherited this Greek translation and what they did with it. We walk through 1 John and John 8 that confirm a personal being with agency, then follow the thread to Revelation 12:9 where four names collapse into one. The Dead Sea Scrolls show us that Second Temple Judaism understood this hierarchy, the divine council, the Watchers, the kingdom of darkness operating with structure and strategy. What the Western church flattened into "the devil made me do it" was once a far more layered and dangerous reality.

This is the origin of evil traced through translation choices that shaped 2,000 years of spiritual warfare theology, and the spiritual deception that followed when the Hebrew context was lost.

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"The devil you think you've been reading about your whole life got handed to you by a translation team."

-Leah Steele Barnett

Key Takeaways

• The word "devil" never appears in the Hebrew Bible. It entered through the Septuagint, when translators rendered ha-satan, the neutral "accuser," as ho diabolos, the "slanderer," adding a moral charge the Hebrew never carried.
• Jesus is the most prolific speaker about the adversary in Scripture, roughly 35 to 40 references across the four Gospels, and he uses the terms three ways: a specific personal being, a functional role, and human beings opposing God.
• Jesus calls Peter "Satan" in Matthew 16:23 and Judas "a devil" in John 6:70. Neither was possessed. Both were named for the adversary role they were playing in that moment.
• Two Greek grammar proofs, ho poneros (the evil one, masculine singular) in 1 John 5:18-19 and the personal-agent language of John 8:44, confirm a real personal being with agency rather than a metaphor for evil. What the grammar does not settle is how many.
• Revelation 12:9 collapses four names, dragon, ancient serpent, devil, and Satan, into one being, and Lucifer is absent, confirming it was never part of the New Testament's vocabulary for the adversary.

Featured Scripture

Revelation 12:9

"And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels with him."

Application: four names collapse into one being here, and Lucifer is conspicuously missing. If it had been a real biblical name for the adversary, John would have included it alongside every other one.

Timestamps
00:48 No word for 'devil' in Hebrew text
03:24 Greek bridge text between covenants
06:43 'Slanderer': the moral charge in Greek
12:52 NT writers quoting the Greek translation
16:35 Legal opponent & hostile enemy in Greek
20:14 Is the enemy a real being or a concept?
24:18 John 8:44: Jesus' biography of the enemy
29:12 Luke 10:18: 'the accuser' is still a title
34:26 Jesus' 3 categories for naming the enemy
35:45 Peter called out as the opposer
38:08 Judas named an accuser in John 6:70
42:24 Four names, one being: Revelation 12:9

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People and Texts Referenced

The Septuagint (LXX). The Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible made by about 70 scholars in the third to second centuries BC. The version Jesus and the apostles most often read and quoted, and the text that first rendered ha-satan as ho diabolos.

Ho diabolos. The Greek word behind "devil," meaning slanderer or false accuser, from a verb root meaning to throw across. It carries a moral charge the Hebrew ha-satan did not.

The four Greek terms for the adversary. Diabolos (slanderer), antidikos (legal opponent, 1 Peter 5:8), ho antikeimenos (the one who opposes, 1 Timothy 5:14), and echthros (hostile enemy, Matthew 13).

Ho poneros. The masculine singular "evil one" in 1 John 5:18-19, distinct from the neuter to poneron, which would mean abstract evil.

Jerome and the Latin Vulgate (around 400 AD). Dropped the definite article from "the Satan," which is where Satan hardened into a proper name in the West.

Book of Enoch. Read from on-air, including the passage on wisdom and iniquity as beings, evidence of a fuller divine-council world.

John Milton (next episode). The poet who gave Christians the pitchfork, horns, and hellfire image of Satan, none of which is in the Bible.

Augustine of Hippo (next episode). The bishop who systemized the privation theory of evil, pushed Enoch out of the Western canon, and promoted the Sethite reading of Genesis 6.

Scriptures for Further Study

Zechariah 3:1. In Hebrew ha-satan, but the Septuagint renders it ho diabolos, "the devil" standing at Joshua's right hand.

1 Peter 5:8. Your adversary (antidikos) the devil (diabolos) prowls like a roaring lion.

1 Timothy 5:14. Give the adversary (ho antikeimenos) no occasion for slander.

Matthew 13:24-39. In the parable of the weeds, the enemy (echthros) who sowed them is the devil.

1 John 5:18-19. The whole world lies in the power of the evil one, ho poneros, a personal being.

John 8:44. Jesus' fullest description of the adversary, a father, a murderer from the beginning, a liar.

Luke 10:18. I saw the Satan (tan satanan, with the article, still a title) fall like lightning.

Matthew 16:23 and Mark 8:33. Jesus calls Peter "Satan," the vocative satana, adversary.

John 6:70. One of you is a devil (diabolos, no article), spoken of Judas.

John 13:27. Later, Satan enters Judas, showing role and indwelling as separate things.

Revelation 12:9. Dragon, ancient serpent, devil, and Satan collapse into one being.

Revelation 1:18. I am the living one. I have the keys of death and Hades. The verdict that does not move.

Hosea 4:6. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge, the show's standing anchor.

Romans 8:19-22. Creation groans, waiting for the revealing of the sons of God.

Deuteronomy 28. Blessings and curses set before the people, with heaven and earth as witness.

2 Timothy 1:7. God gave us a spirit of power, love, and a sound mind.

Ephesians 6:10-18. The full armor of God for standing in spiritual warfare.

Jonah 3. God sends Jonah to Nineveh to offer them an option before judgment.

Call to Action

Get into your prayer closet, not on your keyboard. Open your Bible and read 1 John 5, John 8:44, Matthew 16:23 where Jesus calls Peter Satan, and Revelation 12:9 where Lucifer is nowhere to be found. Sit with it, then get closer to Jesus.

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What if everything you were taught about the enemy was built on a translation error? The word Lucifer appears four times in the Bible, and three of those times it refers to Jesus Christ.

This is Part 2A of a four-part series, focused on the Old Testament. Leah and Malaine deconstruct centuries of spiritual warfare theology that collapsed the entire kingdom of darkness into a single figure and blurred what Scripture actually says about the adversary. They trace the word Lucifer back to Jerome's Latin Vulgate rendering of the Hebrew halel, the shining one, the morning star, and unpack how a title that belongs to Jesus got reassigned to a being the Bible never names that way. From there they dig into the fall of Lucifer narrative most Christians accept without question, walk Isaiah 14 as a taunt against the king of Babylon, and show that ha-satan is a title meaning the accuser rather than a personal name. Along the way they cover Michael Heiser's Canaanite myth reading, the divine council scene in Job, Persian Zoroastrian influence after the exile, the Dead Sea Scrolls' Sons of Light and Sons of Darkness, and the biblical mysteries the Western church buried that Eastern Christian tradition never adopted.

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"If Lucifer is Christ in three out of four uses in the Bible, then what in the literal hell have we been preaching for sixteen hundred years?"

-Leah Steele Barnett

Key Takeaways

• The word Lucifer appears four times in the Latin Vulgate, and three of them refer to Jesus Christ. The fourth is the king of Babylon. None refers to Satan.
• The Hebrew halel that became "Lucifer" reads as a verb meaning to howl or wail everywhere else it appears, in Zechariah 11:2, Ezekiel 21:12, and Jeremiah 47:2. The noun reading exists in a single verse.
• Ha-satan in the Hebrew Bible is a title, the accuser, not a personal name, and it is applied to humans, to the angel of the Lord, and to a courtroom role in the divine council, never to a being who deceives on his own.
• The Old Testament shows a scattered, organized opposition of many named adversaries, watchers, and territorial spirits, which the Western church later collapsed into one figure called Satan.
• The morning-star title belongs to Christ in Revelation 22:16, which raises the question of whether the kingdom of darkness exploited the church's misidentification to gain legal ground in believers' lives.

Featured Scripture

Revelation 22:16

"I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify to you about these things for the churches. I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star."

Application: the morning-star title the Western church reassigned to "Lucifer" is one Jesus claims for Himself. Reading Isaiah 14 in its own context keeps that title where the text actually puts it.

00:00 Intro: fringe theology & the margins of faith 
01:45 The complex hierarchy of dark powers
03:55 Hosea 4:6: destroyed for lack of knowledge
06:50 Salvation vs equipping for deliverance
09:30 How words get manipulated in culture
14:00 Jerome's Vulgate & the morning star origin
18:55 Halel as a verb: howl, lament, wail
23:30 Do demons use names in deliverance ministry?
26:10 Isaiah 14: King of Babylon & Canaanite myth
32:30 Morning star: the title Jesus claimed
42:00 Ha-Satan: a title, not a personal name
48:30 Divine council, Job & Persian influence

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People and Texts Referenced

Jerome and the Latin Vulgate (around 400 AD). Rendered halel in Isaiah 14:12 as "Lucifer," the lowercase Latin word for the morning star (Venus), and used the same word for Christ three times, including 2 Peter 1:19.

Aquila of Sinope (second century AD). Jewish convert to Christianity whose Greek translation read halel as the verb to lament, describing a mourning being rather than a shining angel.

Syriac Peshitta. Eastern Christian translation that kept the verb reading (howl, wail) and never produced a being named Lucifer.

Michael Heiser. Cited for the reading that Isaiah 14 draws on a Canaanite myth, the god Athtar failing to ascend the throne of Baal, and for reconciling the 1 Chronicles 21 and 2 Samuel 24 parallel.

Tertullian (Against Marcion), Origen, Augustine, and Aquinas. The chain that built and systemized the cosmic Lucifer reading from the second century through the thirteenth.

Zoroastrianism. Persian cosmic dualism (Ahura Mazda and Angra Mainyu) that paralleled categories developing in Jewish theology after about 200 years of Persian rule.

Dead Sea Scrolls, the War Scroll. Uses Sons of Light versus Sons of Darkness language close to the Persian framework.

Book of Enoch. Names beings with specific jobs and histories, unlike the single collapsed figure the Western church handed down.

Strong's 7854. The Hebrew satan, a common noun meaning adversary, accuser, or opposer.

Scriptures for Further Study

Isaiah 14:4. The Lord tells Isaiah to take up this taunt against the king of Babylon, naming the subject of the passage.

Isaiah 14:12. The single verse where halel (Lucifer, morning star) is read as a noun.

Isaiah 14:13-14. The cosmic-sounding language of ascending above the stars and the mount of assembly.

Isaiah 14:16. Calls the subject a man, the Hebrew anosh, a mortal.

2 Peter 1:19. The Vulgate uses Lucifer here for Christ, the morning star rising in the heart.

Revelation 22:16. Jesus calls Himself the bright morning star.

Zechariah 11:2. Halal as a verb, howl, fir tree, for the cedar has fallen.

Ezekiel 21:12. Cry out and wail, son of man, the same verb root.

Jeremiah 47:2. The inhabitants of the land howl, the same spelling that became Lucifer.

Hosea 4:6. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge, the show's standing anchor.

1 Samuel 29:4. The Philistines fear David will become a satan, an adversary, to them.

1 Kings 11:14. Hadad the Edomite is raised up as a satan against Solomon.

Numbers 22:22. The angel of the Lord stands in the road as a satan to Balaam, an agent of God doing the adversary job.

Job 1:6. Ha-satan comes among the sons of God in the divine council and reports to Yahweh.

Job 1 and 2. The accuser acts only with God's permission and within set limits.

Zechariah 3:1-2. Ha-satan stands to accuse Joshua the high priest and is rebuked by the Lord.

1 Chronicles 21:1. Satan, without the article, incites David to number Israel.

2 Samuel 24:1. The older parallel says the Lord incited David, the same census story.

1 Samuel 16:14. A harmful spirit from the Lord torments Saul, coming upon him, not entering him.

1 Samuel 26:21. Saul repents, marking sin rather than possession.

Genesis 11. The plural "let us go down" at Babel and the dispersing of the nations.

Deuteronomy 32:8. Yahweh apportions the nations to the Bene Elohim, the sons of God.

Judges 6. Gideon asks God for confirmation through the fleece.

Matthew 18:21-35. The parable of the unforgiving servant and the tormentors sent by the master.

Call to Action

Go open your Bible and get in your prayer closet. Read Job 1 and 2, Zechariah 3, and Numbers 22, and sit with the idea that the satan in those stories is doing a job, not wearing a name. Take it to your prayer closet, not to your keyboard. Then come back for Part 2B.

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When the body of Christ starts eating its own, something darker is always at work.

In this episode of The Fringe Files, Leah and Malaine break down the chaos tearing through online Christian spaces right now: public rebukes, slander, and a defamation campaign dressed up as discernment ministry. This is a blueprint for spiritual deception, and if you cannot recognize the fruit, you will get caught in the crossfire. They walk through the Cocchini and Taylor Welch conflict, Mike Winger's videos, and the defamation series against Dan Duval, applying godly discernment to what is really happening beneath the surface. When christian teaching gives way to name-calling, offense, and public shaming, the body of Christ bleeds, and spiritual warfare stops being theory and starts playing out in real time on podcasts and in comment sections.

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"It is a Judas spirit. And it absolutely believes that it is doing the right thing by the body of Christ. These people are deceived."

-Leah Steele Barnett

Key Takeaways

• The biblical reconciliation process in Matthew 18, go to your brother privately first, then bring trusted witnesses, then the church, is the step almost everyone skips before going public.
• A Judas spirit can operate in someone fully convinced they are defending the body of Christ. Deception, not open malice, is what makes it so dangerous.
• The test for any online ministry is fruit: the posture, the tone, and whether compassion or vindictiveness is driving the rebuke.
• There is a real watchman calling and a place for biblical exposure done right. Mike Winger offering to fund an independent investigation and to publicly repent if he is wrong is the model, because it follows the process and protects people instead of chasing a takedown.
• A check in your spirit is enough. You can stop watching content mid-stream without needing a reason, and a 70/30 rule lets you receive someone's good fruit without endorsing all of their theology.

Featured Scripture

Matthew 18:15

"If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother."

Application: the entire episode hinges on this one skipped step. Reconciliation is meant to begin privately, face to face, long before anyone reaches for a platform.

00:00 Intro: fringe theology & weird rabbit holes
01:20 Accusations & name-calling among believers
05:38 Offense spirit vs New Age conflict patterns
08:08 Greg Locke repentance vs callout culture
11:34 Michael Cocchini & Taylor Welch conflict context 
16:20 Taylor Welch callout: a letter from God
20:59 Mike Winger video & Dan Duval's response
26:25 Discerning the fruit of online ministries
33:49 Biblical exposure ministry done right
43:08 Defamation series against Dan Duval 
50:41 Watchman calling & checks in the spirit
57:27 Trusting God's guidance & 80/20 theology

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People and Ministries Referenced

Taylor Welch. Host of The Deep End podcast and founder of The Wealthy Consultant. Cited as a pioneer in the supernatural-Bible space and the subject of the public rebuke discussed.

Michael Cocchini. Pastor of ALTARED who returned to the online scene and posted a public rebuke of his church, then of Taylor Welch. Leah and Malaine say they are praying for him as a brother in Christ.

Mike Winger. Former pastor who runs BibleThinker and is known for documented discernment work. Cited as the model for biblical exposure done with a solution and a willingness to repent.

Dan Duval. Founder of BRIDE Ministries International and its School of Inner Healing and Deliverance, host of Discovering Truth with Dan Duval, working with survivors of SRA and DID. Malaine studies in his school. Honored on-air and named as the target of a separate defamation series.

Greg Locke. Pastor of Global Vision Bible Church in Lebanon, Tennessee, who recently lost his 20-year-old son Evan. Cited for publicly repenting and honoring a former friend.

Marcus Rogers. Online minister cited as carrying a genuine watchman calling whose track record has borne fruit over time.

John Bevere. Referenced for a story about an evangelist who called God's exposure of his financial sin a gift that restored his fear of the Lord.

Scriptures for Further Study

Matthew 18:15-17. The process for confronting a brother: privately first, then with witnesses, then before the church.

Matthew 5:23-24. Leave your gift at the altar and be reconciled to your brother first.

Psalm 139:23-24. Search me and see if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

Proverbs 6:16-19. The things the Lord hates, including the one who sows discord among brothers.

Matthew 22:37-39. Love the Lord your God, and love your neighbor as yourself.

Galatians 5:22-23. The fruit of the Spirit, the measure the hosts return to again and again.

Matthew 7:16-20. By their fruit you will know them.

1 John 4:1. Test the spirits to see whether they are from God.

Call to Action

If God highlighted a name to you while you listened, do not let more time pass. Forgive that person, release the offense, and go reconcile the relationship. Healthy boundaries are still allowed, but no one has ever regretted forgiving, releasing offense, or making peace.

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The demons tormenting people aren't fallen angels. They're the ghosts of dead giants. And that's the least shocking thing in this episode.

This is Part 1 of a four-part series where Leah and Malaine dive deep into who is really running the kingdom of darkness and who the enemy actually is. It opens with the question of where the kingdom of darkness even came from, and the answer is messier than anything you were preached. They show that Lucifer is a Latin word for the morning star that the Bible also uses for Christ, that Satan is a title and not a personal name, and that the pride-fall origin story most Christians believe was assembled from texts outside the canon. Then they walk seven competing Jewish accounts of the fall, from 1 Enoch and the Watchers to Jubilees, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Testament of Solomon, and ask why one fourth-century bishop named Augustine got to pick the version we all inherited.

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"The whole shining one fell from heaven mythology that we've been taught is actually just a translation artifact."

-Leah Steele Barnett

Key Takeaways

• Lucifer appears once in the Protestant Bible, in Isaiah 14:12, and the Hebrew behind it means morning star, the same title Revelation 22:16 gives to Christ.
• Satan in the Hebrew Bible is almost always ha-satan, the accuser, a title and job description rather than a personal name, a point even Michael Heiser concedes.
• The Bible is uncharacteristically quiet on the origin of evil, and the Second Temple Jewish world filled that silence with at least seven contradicting accounts.
• The pride-fall story preached for 1600 years was the minority position, elevated to orthodoxy by Augustine in the fourth century and carried through Aquinas, Milton, Luther, and Calvin.
• What counts as evidence shifts by tradition: the Catholic canon names the devil directly in Tobit and Wisdom of Solomon, where the Protestant canon does not.

Featured Scripture

Proverbs 25:2

"It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the honor of kings is to search out a matter."

Application: the silence of Scripture on the origin of evil is not a gap to fear, it is an invitation to dig. This whole episode is that search.

Timestamps

02:00 - Isaiah 14 Names the King of Babylon
20:20 - Four Questions the Church Won't Answer
27:53 - Lucifer Appears Once in the Bible
31:24 - Lucifer Is Also a Name for Christ
36:27 - Satan Means Accuser, Not a Name
44:38 - Revelation 12:9 Merges the Names
48:53 - 1 Enoch, the Watchers, Mount Hermon
57:41 - Satan Refuses to Bow in Adam and Eve
1:01:29 - Jubilees: Demons Are Dead Nephilim
1:04:17 - Belial in the Dead Sea Scrolls
1:14:10 - Why Augustine's Minority View Won
1:17:30 - The Catholic Canon Changes Everything

Resources and Connect

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The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch). Leah says go get a copy and read it.

Troy Brewer, "Looking Up."

Michael Heiser, "The Unseen Realm," "Supernatural," and "Demons: What the Bible Really Says About the Powers of Darkness."

Michael Heiser, the "Demons" documentary (Faithlife Original, the one Leah watched): https://faithlifetv.com/demons

The Bible Project, "The Satan and Demons" (the short explainer Malaine points to; Michael Heiser consulted on the series): https://bibleproject.com/videos/satan-demons/

The Bible Project, full "Spiritual Beings" series: https://bibleproject.com/explore/category/spiritual-beings-series/

Mount Hermon blog (Faith on the Fringe Substack), referenced at story six: https://faithonthefringe.substack.com/p/mount-hermon-is-the-most-important

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Historical and Theological References

Augustine of Hippo (354 to 430 AD). North African bishop, ex-Manichaean, systematized the pride-fall of Satan and pushed the Watchers out of the canon. Source of the Sethite view.

Manichaeism. Persian dualist religion Augustine followed for nine years before converting to Christianity.

Aquinas, Luther, Calvin, and Milton. Carried Augustine's pride-fall view forward. Luther was an Augustinian monk, Calvin built directly on Augustine, and Milton's Paradise Lost dramatized it in the 1600s.

Jerome and the Latin Vulgate (around 400 AD). Translated Isaiah 14:12 with the Latin word Lucifer, meaning the morning star, and used the same word for Christ in 2 Peter 1:19.

Syriac Peshitta. Eastern translation that read the Hebrew word as a verb, to howl or wail, not as a name.

1 Enoch (third century BC). 200 Watchers descend on Mount Hermon, led by Semjaza, and father the Nephilim. Quoted directly in Jude 1:14.

2 Enoch (Slavonic Enoch, first century AD). Satanael, chief of the Watchers (the Egregoroi), falls by pride trying to set his throne above the clouds.

Life of Adam and Eve (first century AD). Satan refuses to bow to Adam and is expelled, then comes for revenge. Source of the Quranic Iblis story.

Jubilees (second century BC). Demons are the disembodied spirits of the dead Nephilim. Their chief is Mastema.

Dead Sea Scrolls and Qumran. In the Community Rule and its Treatise of the Two Spirits, Belial is created by God as the leader of darkness, not fallen. Cosmic dualism with Persian roots.

Apocalypse of Abraham (first to second century AD). Identifies Azazel, one of the Watchers, as the serpent in Eden.

Testament of Solomon (first to third century AD). A catalog of demons with mixed origins and no single fall story.

Ascension of Isaiah and the Sibylline Oracles. Named as further Second Temple texts carrying their own fall and adversary traditions, beyond the seven walked through tonight.

Early church fathers (Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Tertullian, Clement of Alexandria, Origen). Held the supernatural Genesis 6 reading for the first three centuries before it was set aside.

Michael Heiser. Scholar who argued for a personal cosmic adversary yet conceded that zero Old Testament verses use Satan as a personal name.

Catholic Deuterocanon. Tobit (the demon Asmodeus) and Wisdom of Solomon 2:24 name the devil directly. Both are absent from the Protestant canon.

Pope Francis and the Catholic office of exorcism. Cited as affirming the devil is a real personal being, not a metaphor, with the church still keeping an active, trained office of exorcism.

Scriptures for Further Study

Isaiah 14:4. Names the king of Babylon as the subject of the taunt, framing the whole Lucifer passage.

Isaiah 14:12. The single verse where Lucifer appears in the KJV; the Hebrew Helel ben Shachar means shining one, son of the dawn, or morning star.

Isaiah 14:16. Calls the subject a man, the Hebrew anosh, identifying him as a human being.

2 Peter 1:19. The Vulgate uses Lucifer here for Christ, the rising morning star in the heart.

Revelation 22:16. Jesus calls Himself the bright morning star, the same imagery as Isaiah 14.

1 Kings 11:14. Hadad the Edomite is called a satan, an adversary, to Solomon, a human opponent.

Job 1 and 2. Ha-satan, the accuser, operates in the divine council with God's permission, not as a rogue.

Zechariah 3:1. Ha-satan stands to accuse the high priest, again a courtroom role.

1 Chronicles 21:1. A satan incites David to number Israel, debated as title or being.

1 Peter 5:8. The adversary, antidikos, a legal opponent, is equated with the devil.

Matthew 13:24-39. In the parable of the weeds, Jesus names the enemy, the Greek echthros, as the devil.

Revelation 12:9. The dragon, the ancient serpent, the devil (Greek diabolos), and Satan are collapsed into one being.

Jude 1:6. Angels who left their proper dwelling are kept in eternal chains under darkness.

Jude 1:14. Quotes 1 Enoch by name as prophecy.

2 Peter 2:4. God cast the sinning angels into chains of gloomy darkness, the framework of 1 Enoch.

Genesis 6:1-4. The sons of God, the daughters of men, and the Nephilim, the root of the Watchers tradition.

Leviticus 16:8-10. The scapegoat is sent to Azazel in the wilderness on the Day of Atonement.

Hosea 4:6. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge, the show's standing anchor.

Wisdom of Solomon 2:24. Through the devil's envy death entered the world, the closest canonical fall reference, in the Catholic Bible only.

Call to Action

Take it to the prayer closet, not the keyboard. Go read 2 Peter 2:4 and Jude 6, notice they lead back to Enoch, then read Genesis 6 and Isaiah 14 again with fresh eyes. Don't take our word for it. Ask the Holy Spirit to show you what you were never taught to see.

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In Part 3 of the UFO Disclosure series, Leah, Malaine, and Apostle Jenny Embrey dig into what the government, the military, and the Vatican are doing with non-human intelligence behind closed doors: private vaults, strategic file drops, and the systematic removal of anyone who names the spiritual reality behind it.

David Grusch told Congress there are multiple kinds of non-human intelligence. The AARO says there is no evidence. A 19-year exorcist called UFO encounters demonic and was removed in five days. This episode maps seven rooms where nobody agrees. They unpack the PURSUE program's second file batch, MITRE's compliance with a 10-page congressional demand for records back to 1930, Lue Elizondo buried at the back of a Chris Cuomo broadcast, and the death of Melissa Casias at Los Alamos. Jenny brings the fear of the Lord. Leah closes with Colossians 1: whatever is in those files, visible and invisible, it answers to Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

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-Apostle Jenny Embrey

Key Takeaways

• Why David Grusch's Congressional testimony about multiple kinds of non-human intelligence matters and what it means that government insiders are now openly categorizing beings Scripture has always named.
• How the PURSUE program's strategic file drops and AARO's contradictions reveal seven different rooms saying seven different things about what is real, and why none of them agree.
• Why Monsignor Stephen Rossetti, a 19-year exorcist with 148,000 Instagram followers, was removed by Cardinal Robert McElroy within five days of publicly calling UFO encounters demonic.
• How FFRDCs like MITRE and RAND function as private vaults that dodge congressional oversight, and what Rep. Eric Burlison's 10-page demand for records back to 1930 reveals about what has been hidden.
• Why the St. Anne's Parish lecture on UFOs was a local parish event that media outlets inflated into "the Vatican opens to UFOs," and what that kind of framing does to believers who are genuinely trying to discern.

Featured Scripture

Hosea 4:6

"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge."

Application: God already gave His people the framework. Principalities, powers, thrones, dominions, visible and invisible beings created by Christ and for Christ. The categories are in the text. The passages are in the Bible. Most believers were simply never taught to read them seriously, and the institutions that should be equipping them are actively silencing the people who do. That is what Hosea 4:6 looks like in 2025.

Timestamps

00:52 - David Grusch's Capitol Hill Bombshell
05:07 - Aliens.gov: ICE Dashboard Bait and Switch
08:24 - Hosea 4:6 & Spiritual Discernment
11:15 - End Times Propaganda & Cognitive Dissonance
14:45 - Pursue Program: Strategic UAP File Drops
21:18 - Desensitization: The Numbing of Believers
27:04 - AARO: No Extraterrestrial Evidence Found
33:14 - FFRDCs: Who's Hiding Crash Evidence?
37:32 - Melissa Cassis: Missing Scientist Found Dead
43:47 - Spiritual Warfare Behind the Cover-Up
50:59 - Vatican: The Parish Lecture That Wasn't
1:16:37 - Rossetti Silenced by Cardinal McElroy

Resources and Connect - 

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Owen Benjamin, "How to Slay a Wizard" (also available on Audible):

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Owen Benjamin on Tucker Carlson:

https://youtu.be/sDJmvLrWcRc

Guy Consolmagno, "Would You Baptize an Extraterrestrial?":

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AARO (All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office):

https://www.aaro.mil

PURSUE Program UAP File Releases:

https://war.gov/UFO

Vatican Observatory, "Are UFOs a Substitute Religion?" (May 11):

https://www.vaticanobservatory.org/press/are-ufos-a-substitute-religion-the-vatican-astronomer-on-aliens-space-and-the-crisis-of-meaning/

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Historical and Theological References

David Grusch. Testified before Congress on June 9th claiming knowledge of multiple kinds of non-human intelligence and government crash retrieval programs operating outside congressional oversight. Named the 1996 Varginha incident in Brazil from the Capitol steps.

Lue Elizondo. Former head of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP). Referenced via a Chris Cuomo broadcast clip. Key whistleblower in the UAP disclosure timeline.

Rep. Eric Burlison. Republican congressman from Missouri who issued a 10-page demand to MITRE requiring records back to 1930. MITRE confirmed compliance.

PURSUE Program and AARO. PURSUE dropped its second batch of 64 declassified UAP files on May 22nd (war.gov/UFO). AARO (All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, aaro.mil) maintains in its 2024 report that no evidence of extraterrestrial beings, activity, or technology has been found.

FFRDCs. Federally Funded Research and Development Centers like MITRE and RAND. Identified by whistleblowers as custodians of crash retrieval evidence operating outside congressional oversight.

Melissa Casias. Administrative assistant at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Went missing and was later found dead. Part of a broader pattern documented in Leah's Missing 11 list.

Monsignor Stephen Rossetti. Catholic exorcist of 19 years, head of St. Michael Center for Spiritual Renewal. Posted a video on May 29th calling UFO encounters demonic. Removed by Cardinal Robert McElroy on June 3rd. Made the video private that same day.

Brother Guy Consolmagno. Vatican astronomer, author of "Would You Baptize an Extraterrestrial?" Dismissed the UFO subject as a "substitute religion" in a May 11th Vatican Observatory piece.

St. Anne's Parish. Vladimiro Bibolotti delivered a UFO talk on April 29th as part of the parish's "Cultural Wednesdays" series. Media inflated it into "Holy See Opens to UFOs." It was a local parish lecture, not a Vatican initiative.

Varginha Incident (1996). UFO incident in Varginha, Brazil. Named by David Grusch from the Capitol steps.

Edward Bernays. Father of modern propaganda and public relations. Leah directs listeners to research him by name.

aliens.gov. Redirects to an ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) dashboard. Referenced as an example of controlled misdirection.

Scriptures for Further Study

Colossians 1:16. By Him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities. All things were created through Him and for Him.

Philippians 2:10. At the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, things in earth, and things under the earth.

Matthew 6:33. Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.

Jeremiah 33:3. Call unto Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things which you do not know.

James 1:5. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it shall be given to him.

Jude 1:3-4. Contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints. Certain men have crept in unnoticed who turn the grace of God into lewdness and deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ.

This episode covered seven rooms and none of them agreed with each other. If that does not tell you to stop outsourcing your discernment, nothing will. Go read the Book of Jude. Read it with an open mind. Ask the Holy Spirit to reveal what you have not been shown before. Leah calls it the book for this hour. It is short, it is sharp, and it will cut straight through every layer of confusion this conversation just unpacked.

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The days of Noah have nothing on 2026.

This is the first episode of a new segment - The Fringe Files. Leah and Malaine break down the christian current events, bible mysteries, and spiritual warfare playing out in real time, and why none of it surprises anyone who has actually read Genesis 6. The fallen angels, the Genesis 6 giants, the nephilim agenda: this is not ancient history. It is in the headlines. And the demonic influence behind what is unfolding in the world and in the body of Christ right now requires christian discernment that most Sunday morning services are not equipping people to have.

From the Department of War slashing its recognized churches list to a Christian influencer couple publicly aborting their baby at 20 weeks, from the body of Christ melting down over anyone questioning the Apostle Paul to voter fraud in the LA mayor's race, this episode covers what the church should be talking about and is not. They dig into Owen Benjamin's book on words as spells and the fallen technologies of the Watchers, what Kingdom authority actually requires, and why the Book of Enoch, the nephilim explained through Scripture, and bible prophecy unfolding in 2026 matter more right now than most believers realize.

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"We are in a time of major unveiling and revealing. And that is going to require major deconstruction. It's also going to require that the only rock you stand on is Jesus Christ of Nazareth."

-Malaine Lea Butler

Key Takeaways

• Why the Department of War's decision to slash recognized churches from over 200 to 31 and exclude the Mormon Church feels less like policy and more like a power play.
• How a Christian influencer couple's public abortion at 20 weeks mirrors the same sacrifice to Moloch that corrupted the pre-flood world, and why the reaction may be more orchestrated than it appears.
• Why the body of Christ's emotional meltdown over anyone questioning the Apostle Paul reveals more about biblical illiteracy than it does about Paul himself.
• How Owen Benjamin's book on words as spells connects the fallen technologies of the Watchers to the corruption of language in modern culture.
• What Peter's shadow healing the sick in Acts 5 reveals about the relationship between spiritual maturity and Kingdom authority.
• Why every act of chaos, distraction, and hopelessness in 2026 is designed to keep you out of your prayer closet, and why the solution is community, not commentary.

Featured Scripture

2 Timothy 1:7

"For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind."

Application: Leah and Malaine close this episode with this verse because it is the antidote to everything they just spent an hour unpacking. The world is loud. The distractions are layered. The chaos is designed to produce fear, confusion, and hopelessness. And God says: I did not give you that spirit. What He gave is power, love, and a sound mind. The call for the believer in 2026 is to stop letting the noise dictate the posture. Get in your prayer closet. Seek Him first. And then go make a difference in your community, your home, and the lives of the people He has placed under your stewardship.

Timestamps:

00:02 — Intro & Welcome 
02:59 — DoD Slashes Recognized Churches List
05:21 — Mormon Church Wealth & Political Power
21:30 — Christian Influencers & Public Abortion
30:00 — Genesis 6 Playing Out Right Now
34:00 — Owen Benjamin & Words as Spells
39:40 — Walking in Kingdom Authority
44:00 — Christians Questioning Apostle Paul
01:03:00 — LA Mayor Race & Voter Fraud
01:15:58 — Final Thoughts & Closing

Resources and Connect

Owen Benjamin, "How to Slay a Wizard":

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Bev Tucker, "You Can Change the World by Speaking It":

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Owen Benjamin on Tucker Carlson:

https://youtu.be/sDJmvLrWcRc

Aaron Abke's Response Video to Angela Scafidi:

https://youtu.be/7loPosZWi-E

Hunter Biden on Candace:

https://youtu.be/Ux1kzgQxkws

Otha Turnbough / Lionheart Church:

https://www.youtube.com/@LionheartChurch

Dan Duval / Bride Ministries:

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The Religion Business:

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Historical and Theological References

The Mormon Church (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints). Holds the world's largest liquid religious wealth with estimates between 265 and 400 billion dollars, funded by a highly centralized tithing system and a massive investment portfolio overseen from Salt Lake City, Utah. The Department of War's June 2026 decision to slash its recognized Christian church designations from over 200 to 31 excluded the LDS Church entirely. Leah, who was born and raised in Salt Lake City, notes there is no real separation of church and state in Utah and frames the exclusion as a political power play rather than a theological determination.

Sacrifice to Moloch. The ancient Canaanite practice of offering firstborn children to the god Moloch in exchange for prosperity, wealth, and a better life. Referenced throughout the Old Testament as one of the abominations that provoked God's judgment. Leah draws a direct line from this practice to modern abortion, noting that the justifications are functionally identical: the sacrifice of children for the promise of a better quality of life.

The Fallen Technologies of the Watchers. Referenced in the Book of Enoch, the Watchers were angelic beings who descended and gave humanity heavenly technologies that were then corrupted and used outside of God's design. Leah connects this to Owen Benjamin's framework on words as spells, language as technology, and the question of whether corrupted heavenly technologies can be restored to the purposes God originally intended.

Scriptures for Further Study

Genesis 6:5. The wickedness of man was great in the earth and every intention of his heart was only evil continually.

2 Timothy 1:7. God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

Matthew 6:33. Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.

Ecclesiastes 1:9. There is nothing new under the sun.

Galatians 1:11-12. Paul declares his gospel came by direct revelation from Jesus Christ, not from any human source.

Acts 5:15. The sick were carried into the streets so that Peter's shadow might fall on them and they would be healed.

Genesis 4:10. The voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the ground.

If this episode stirred something in you and you are tired of a church that skips what is actually happening in the world, start where Leah and Malaine close: get in your prayer closet. Seek Jesus first. Then go make a difference in your community. Coach the team. Check on the single mom. Prayer walk the school. The world changes when believers stop spectating and start stewarding what is right in front of them.

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Human Design was channeled from a non-human voice over eight days in 1987.

Leah and Malaine were both deep in Human Design. They built platforms around it, had spiritual entities feeding them information beyond what any chart could show, and walked away from all of it. In this episode, they reveal the origin story most practitioners were never taught: a man named Alan Robert Krakower contacted by a disembodied voice on the island of Ibiza, eight days and nights of continuous transmission, and a name change to Ra Uru Hu, a demigod from the kingdom of darkness.

They break down the four ancient systems stacked underneath every body graph (astrology, the Hindu chakra system, the I Ching, and the Kabbalistic Tree of Life), walk through Deuteronomy 18 and 1 John 4:1, and close with a prayer of repentance and renunciation for anyone ready to put the chart down and pick up Psalm 139.

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"I don't need a chart to tell me who I am. Psalm 139 says that God formed your innermost being. He knit you together in your mother's womb. And he tells you that you are fearfully and wonderfully made."

-Leah Steele Barnett

Key Takeaways

• Why two former Human Design practitioners who built their platforms around it walked away from the entire system after encountering Jesus.
• What actually happened in January 1987 when a non-human voice contacted Alan Robert Krakower for eight days straight and gave him the Human Design system.
• How the 64 gates on every Human Design chart map directly to the 64 hexagrams of the I Ching, an ancient Chinese divination oracle that Deuteronomy 18 calls detestable to the Lord.
• Why prophetic people are especially drawn to these systems and how the kingdom of darkness uses accuracy as the bait for obsession.
• What the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, the Hindu chakra system, and Western occult orders have to do with the body graph sitting in your phone right now.
• Why Gene Keys is the same ancient technology in softer language and how it leads to the same place.

Featured Scripture

1 John 4:1

"Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world."

Application: A non-human voice dictated a system for eight days. The man who received it changed his name to a demigod. The system runs on a divination oracle, a mystical map of God you cannot reach, and the planetary machinery of astrology. And believers all over the world have their chart saved in their phone and have never once tested the spirit behind it. John tells us to test every spirit. That includes the one behind a system that feels helpful, delivers accurate information, and answers the deepest question of your identity.

Timestamps

00:48 — The Man Behind Human Design
02:24 — We Were Human Design Practitioners
03:35 — Deep Dive into Human Design
06:31 — Why Prophetic People Are Drawn to It
08:54 — Downloads and the Golden Codex
11:19 — When Christian Clients Got Upset
16:32 — The Ra Uru Hu Origin Story
21:08 — Inside a Human Design Body Graph
42:57 — Divination and Deuteronomy 18
01:01:40 — The Voice That Spoke to Ra Uru Hu
01:07:22 — The Quiet Gospel of the New Age
01:14:18 — Prayer to Renounce Human Design

Resources and Connect

Malaine's Reconsciliation and Renunciation prayer from the episode - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TtALLw_QFUOnPvxl3d9oECAaQQ-VmZEHiXwwrDH739k/edit?usp=sharing

Bride Ministries: Freedom from the Kabbalistic Tree Prayer - https://deliverance.bridemovement.com/freedom-from-the-kabbalah-tree/

Bride Ministries: Exposing Kabbalah Series - https://youtu.be/ADArguwLbeY?si=t170W7dmuwwvdjPQ

Troy Brewer, "Looking Up": https://amzn.to/4uZy81o

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Historical and Theological References

Ra Uru Hu (Alan Robert Krakower). A Canadian-born man living on the island of Ibiza who, in January 1987, reported being contacted by a non-human intelligence he called "the Voice." The transmission lasted eight continuous days and nights. From it, he synthesized the Human Design system by stacking four existing frameworks: Western astrology, the Hindu chakra system, the I Ching, and the Kabbalistic Tree of Life. He subsequently changed his name to Ra Uru Hu. Ra is the name of an ancient demigod associated with sun worship in the kingdom of darkness.

The I Ching (Yi Jing). An ancient Chinese divination manual, the Book of Changes, and one of the oldest texts still in daily use. Its 64 hexagrams, built from combinations of solid (yang) and broken (yin) lines, each carry an oracle text. The 64 gates on every Human Design chart map directly to these 64 hexagrams. Historically, practitioners cast yarrow stalks or coins to land on a hexagram by chance, a practice that functionally constitutes casting lots for supernatural guidance.

The Zohar and Kabbalah. The primary text of Kabbalistic mysticism, credited to a second-century rabbi but traced by scholars to Moses de Leon in 13th-century Spain. The Kabbalistic Tree of Life with its ten Sephiroth and connecting paths is the direct architectural ancestor of the Human Design body graph. Western occult orders (including the Golden Dawn) later stripped the Jewish devotion from Kabbalah, retained the machinery, and mapped it onto Tarot and ceremonial magic. That lineage leads to Aleister Crowley and filters down through esoteric teaching into modern new age systems.

Scriptures for Further Study

Deuteronomy 18:10-12. God lists divination, fortune-telling, spell-casting, and consulting spirits as detestable. The Hebrew here draws a hard line. The 64 hexagrams of the I Ching, a divination oracle, sit in the gates of every Human Design chart ever generated.

1 John 4:1. Test the spirits to see whether they are from God. A non-human voice that dictates a system for eight days, builds it on divination, and leads people into identity displacement outside of Christ requires testing.

Acts 16:16-18. The girl at Philippi had a Python spirit and spoke accurate information about Paul. Paul cast it out because accuracy from the wrong source is still counterfeit. Human Design readings can be accurate because the technology works. The source is still defiled.

Genesis 3:1-5. The serpent in the garden: "Did God really say?" The same voice that promised Eve hidden knowledge she could access outside of God's timing is the same voice behind every system that promises to tell you who you are apart from your Creator.

Psalm 139:13-14. God formed your innermost being and knit you together in your mother's womb. You are fearfully and wonderfully made. The identity question that every personality system attempts to answer already has an Author, and He wrote the answer before you were born.

Jeremiah 29:11. God already has plans to prosper and give you a future and a hope. He has destiny books written for you. The blueprint for your life was authored by the one who made you, and it requires relationship with Him to access.

Ecclesiastes 1:9. Nothing new under the sun. The Human Design system synthesized four existing ancient technologies. The enemy recycles architecture, redecorates, and calls it new. The scheme from the garden is the same scheme behind every system that promises hidden knowledge outside of God.

Ephesians 6:12. We wrestle against principalities, powers, and rulers of darkness. The spiritual entities that steered both Leah and Malaine deeper into these systems were real. They operated from the kingdom of darkness. And they required deliverance to be removed.

If you still have your Human Design chart saved in your phone, if you know your type faster than you know your own phone number, and something in this episode stirred conviction in your spirit, today is the day. Malaine prayed a prayer of repentance and renunciation at the end of this episode. Go back and listen to it. Come into agreement. And then delete the chart, close the tab, and pick up Psalm 139 instead. The one who knit you together already wrote who you are. You just have to ask Him.

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Jesus held it against an entire church because they tolerated this spirit. And the body of Christ is still tolerating it today.

In this episode, Leah, Malaine, and returning guest Apostle Jenny Embrey go deep into the Jezebel spirit: how it shows up in leadership, in relationships, and across entire generations. They unpack what happened when Malaine was personally delivered from this spirit, what Jesus actually says about it in Revelation 2, and why the Ahab spirit that enables Jezebel is just as dangerous as the one it serves. From the cultural pipeline that opened the door for Jezebel to operate at a societal level to the Hebrew and Greek roots of these principalities, this conversation names what most churches refuse to touch.

Leah traces the line from feminism to emasculation to the degenderizing movement and shows how the Jezebel playbook from 1 Kings is repeating in real time. Jenny brings Revelation 2:18-23 to the table and reads what Jesus himself says about the church that tolerates this spirit. And Malaine walks you through what to actually do when you are in relationship with someone operating under this principality, including the boundaries most believers have been told are un-Christlike.

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"This spirit wants to dismantle anything pure. And it will stop at nothing unless it is dealt with."

-Apostle Jenny Embrey

Key Takeaways

• Why the Jezebel spirit functions as a gatekeeping principality that opens the door for higher-ranking demons to flood in behind it.
• What actually happened when Malaine was delivered from the Jezebel spirit and how her husband was delivered from the Ahab spirit months later.
• What Jesus says directly to the church in Revelation 2:18-23 about tolerating this spirit and why he calls it "the deep things of Satan."
• How feminism functioned as the cultural gateway for the Jezebel spirit to operate at a generational and societal level.
• Why the Ahab spirit is just as sinister as Jezebel and what the emasculation of an entire generation of men has to do with it.
• How to identify this spirit in your own life, your relationships, and your church, and the practical steps to navigate it without trying to fight it in your own strength.

Featured Scripture

Revelation 2:20

"I have this against you, that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and she teaches and leads my bondservants astray so that they commit sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols."

Application: Jesus is speaking directly to the church here, and he holds it against them. The church at Thyatira was doing good deeds, walking in love and faith and service. And Jesus still held it against them because they tolerated this spirit. He threatens to throw her on a bed of sickness, kill her children with plague, and bring great tribulation on everyone who comes into agreement with her deeds. Tolerating the Jezebel spirit has never been compassion. It has always been rebellion. The call for the believer is to stop tolerating the spirit: in your home, in your church, and in your own life.

Timestamps

0:00 — Welcome to Faith on the Fringe
0:48 — Introducing Jenny Embrey, first return guest
8:13 — The Jezebel spirit: not the person, the principality
10:33 — Deliverance from Jezebel and Ahab 
19:31 — Revelation 2: what Jesus says about tolerating Jezebel
31:06 — Feminism, emasculation, and the cultural gateway
47:18 — How to deal with the Jezebel spirit in relationships
1:03:24 — John 10: Jesus is the door to freedom

Resources and Connect

The Deliverance Institute For Women

https://thedeliveranceinstitute.com/

Bride Ministries: Freedom from Fallen Heavenly Powers Prayer: https://deliverance.bridemovement.com/freedom-from-fallen-heavenly-powers/

Jenny Embrey:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jennyembrey
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jenny.goncher
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@jennygoncher

Faith on the Fringe:

Substack: https://faithonthefringe.substack.com
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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FaithontheFringe
Email: [email protected]

Leah Steele Barnett:

The Cul✞ure Cast Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-culture-cast/id1797035500 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theleahsteele
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leah_steele_barnett
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/leahsteeleofficial

Malaine Lea Butler:

Kingdom Talk Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kingdom-talk-podcast-with-malaine/id1813854951
Eden House: https://www.theedenhouse.co
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/malaine_lea_butler
Eden House IG: https://www.instagram.com/xoedenhouse
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/15kz1zU1XL/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Historical and Theological References

Queen Jezebel. A Phoenician princess who married King Ahab of the northern kingdom of Israel in the ninth century BC. She did not assimilate into Israel's covenant but instead established state-sponsored idolatry, placing 850 false prophets of Baal and Asherah on the royal payroll while hunting down and killing the prophets of Yahweh. She weaponized legal and religious systems against righteous people, fabricated charges, and seized land through murder. Her death was prophesied: she was thrown from a window by her own eunuchs, trampled by horses, and devoured by dogs until nothing remained but her skull, her feet, and the palms of her hands. The spirit that operated through her continues to function as a gatekeeping principality that opens the door for higher-ranking demonic powers to enter.

The Ahab Spirit. The counterpart to the Jezebel spirit, operating through passivity, abdication of authority, and emasculation. In the biblical narrative, Ahab was king but Jezebel functioned as both queen and king because he refused to step into his God-given role. When Elijah confronted Ahab, Ahab called Elijah "the troubler of Israel." Elijah responded that it was Ahab and his father's house who troubled Israel because they abdicated their role as men of God. The Ahab spirit enables the Jezebel spirit to thrive by refusing to confront it.

Scriptures for Further Study

1 Kings 16:29-33. The introduction of Ahab as king of Israel and his marriage to Jezebel. Ahab did more evil in the sight of the Lord than all who were before him, and Jezebel's influence brought Baal worship into the heart of Israel.

1 Kings 18:17-18. Ahab calls Elijah the troubler of Israel. Elijah responds that Ahab and his father's house are the troublers because they forsook the commandments of the Lord and followed the Baals.

2 Kings 9:30-37. The death of Jezebel as prophesied. Jehu commands her eunuchs to throw her from the window. When they return to bury her, only her skull, her feet, and the palms of her hands remain.

Revelation 2:18-23. Jesus addresses the church at Thyatira. He commends their deeds but holds it against them that they tolerate the woman Jezebel. He threatens to throw her on a bed of sickness and kill her children with plague so that all the churches will know he searches minds and hearts.

Revelation 2:24. Jesus calls the teachings of this spirit "the deep things of Satan." Reserved for the most dangerous category of deception.

John 10:7-10. Jesus declares he is the door of the sheep. The thief comes to steal, kill, and destroy. He came that they would have life and have it abundantly. The only door to freedom from every spirit.

Luke 10:19. Jesus gives his disciples authority to trample on serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy. The authority to overcome belongs to Jesus alone, delegated to those who are submitted to him.

Ephesians 6:12. We wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Psalm 91. The shelter of the Most High. The promise of protection for those who dwell in the secret place. Referenced as a first-line prayer for anyone navigating the Jezebel spirit.

If you listened to this episode and recognized this spirit in your own life, do not let the conviction pass. Today is the day. Submit yourself to Jesus, repent for anything known or unknown that has allowed you to partner with this spirit, and then set the boundary you have been avoiding. Tolerating this spirit is exactly what Jesus held against the church. Go read Revelation 2:18-23 until the weight of it settles. Then take it to the Lord and ask him to fight the battle for you.

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The church has a blind spot - and it's costing souls.

When someone walks in carrying the wounds of satanic ritual abuse, government mind control programs, or advanced demonic oppression, most deliverance ministers don't just fail to help. They re-traumatize.

In this episode, Malaine returns from Dan Duval's advanced deliverance training in Texas and unpacks what the body of Christ refuses to confront: soul fracturing, trauma-based mind control, and the spiritual legalities most leaders won't touch. If you've ever wondered why your deliverance didn't stick — or why the church can't handle cases this severe — this conversation is for you.

Leah and Malaine go deep into:
• Dan Duval's approach to deliverance and why it's different
• What soul fracturing is - and why you can't cast out a soul part
• Leviathan and Python spirits operating in church leadership
• Sleep paralysis: spiritual causes beyond simple demonic oppression
• The danger of "loyalty no matter what" in the body of Christ

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"Imagine going through the most traumatic event of your life, and then someone telling you you're a liar and it didn't actually happen. You're now re-traumatizing the person. Now imagine going to a deliverance minister that is screaming in your face, re-traumatizing you all over again."

-Malaine Lea Butler

Featured Scripture

Hosea 4:6

"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge."

Application: This entire episode exists because of what this verse warns against. The kingdom of darkness has advanced its technology, its systems, and its methods of binding people, but the body of Christ is still operating with an outdated understanding of spiritual warfare. Pastors are turning away SRA survivors because they do not know what soul fracturing is. Deliverance ministers are trying to cast out soul parts because they cannot distinguish between a demon and a piece of a broken person. The lack of knowledge is not neutral. It is costing the kingdom souls. And the call is not to wait until the church feels ready. The call is to get equipped now, because the people who need advanced deliverance are already sitting in your congregation.

Timestamps

00:48 — Welcome to Faith on the Fringe
02:30 — Malaine attends Dan Duval's training
03:48 — Discovering Dan Duval & Bride Ministries
09:10 — Dan Duval's humble authority
16:26 — Church blind spot: advanced warfare
21:09 — Charismatic churches under fire
26:08 — What is soul fracturing?
28:32 — Sleep paralysis: spiritual causes
31:47 — Leviathan & Python spirits exposed
33:34 — Discerning the Holy Spirit's voice
40:29 — Leviathan spirit & gaslighting
44:52 — Why Faith on the Fringe exists

Resources and Connect

Dan Duval / Bride Ministries:

Website: https://church.bridemovement.com/
Deliverance Training Info: https://www.bridemovement.com/institute

Faith on the Fringe:

Substack: https://faithonthefringe.substack.com

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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/faithonthefringepodcast 

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FaithontheFringe
Email: [email protected]

Leah Steele Barnett:

The Cul✞ure Cast Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-culture-cast/id1797035500 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theleahsteele
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leah_steele_barnett
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/leahsteeleofficial

Malaine Lea Butler:

Kingdom Talk Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kingdom-talk-podcast-with-malaine/id1813854951
Eden House: https://www.theedenhouse.co
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/malaine_lea_butler
Eden House IG: https://www.instagram.com/xoedenhouse
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/15kz1zU1XL/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Historical and Theological References

Soul Fracturing. A trauma-based condition in which the human soul splinters into separate parts as a result of severe abuse, ritual trauma, or mind control programming. Unlike demonic entities, soul parts cannot be cast out because they are pieces of the person, not foreign spirits. They require healing and integration, not expulsion. Attempting to cast out a soul part re-traumatizes the individual. Isaiah 61:1 speaks of binding up the brokenhearted, and Psalm 23:3 declares "He restores my soul," both indicating that the soul can be fractured and that restoration is part of God's design.

Spiritual Legalities in Deliverance. Dan Duval's framework operates on the principle that the spirit realm functions under a legal system. Demons maintain access through legal rights, agreements, bloodline covenants, and trauma bonds. His prayers address these legalities specifically, revoking agreements and closing legal doors rather than relying solely on authority commands. This approach has produced breakthrough in cases that resisted traditional deliverance methods.

Scriptures for Further Study

Hosea 4:6. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. The anchor verse for why the church must stop gatekeeping advanced deliverance training and start equipping believers to handle what is already showing up in their congregations.

Isaiah 61:1. The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because He has anointed me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives. The mandate for deliverance ministry and the biblical acknowledgment that hearts (and souls) can be broken and need binding up.

Psalm 23:3. He restores my soul. If the soul can be restored, the soul can be fractured. Scripture acknowledges that the soul is not always whole and that God's design includes a process of restoration.

John 10:10. The thief comes to steal, kill, and destroy. The enemy's agenda is not passive. He is actively using advanced systems, technologies, and structures to bind humanity in ways the church has not yet learned to address.

1 Peter 5:8. Be sober, be vigilant, because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour. The warning that vulnerability, trauma, and ignorance create access points for the enemy.

James 1:8. A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways. When loyalty to a leader or system trumps obedience to God, double-mindedness enters and discernment is compromised.

If you have been told by a minister that what happened to you is not real, or if you have sat in a deliverance session that felt more like an assault than a rescue, hear this: the problem was never you. The problem is a body of Christ that has not yet been equipped to handle what you are carrying. There are people being trained right now to meet you where you actually are. And the God who restores souls has not forgotten yours. Take it to Him. He already knows.

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God does not waste commandments on things that are not real.

He forbids necromancy, mediumship, divination, and every form of spirit communication because it actually works, and because what responds when you try to contact the dead is almost never who you think it is. In this episode, Leah and Malaine go into the Hebrew of Deuteronomy 18 and pull apart the nine practices God named as an abomination, word by word. What they find hiding inside the original language, connections to the serpent in Genesis, the true meaning of "familiar spirit," and a link between channeling and biblical meditation that uses the exact same Hebrew word, will change how you read these passages permanently.

The centerpiece is 1 Samuel 28 and King Saul's encounter with the witch of Endor. A desperate king, a medium who screamed when something showed up that was above her pay grade, and a word of judgment that came true the next day. Both hosts also share personal testimony from their own time in the New Age and the occult, including Malaine seeking a medium after her son's death and Leah unknowingly naming herself after the exact Hebrew word for what a medium is. This is spiritual warfare, spiritual deception, and biblical truth taught by two women who walked the new age to Christianity road and came out the other side with receipts.

If you or someone you love has been involved in channeling spirits, consulting mediums, séances, or any form of contact with the dead, this episode covers what was actually operating behind it, what it costs, and what deliverance and freedom look like on the other side.

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The Bible doesn't say you can't communicate with the dead. The Bible says God forbids it. And those are two entirely different things. One says it's impossible. The other says it's real enough to be dangerous, real enough to defile you, real enough for God to call it an abomination, and real enough that a king of Israel lost his life over it."
— Leah Steele Barnett

Featured Scripture

"Should not a people seek unto their God? For the living to the dead?"
— Isaiah 8:19 (KJV)

Key Takeaways

• Why God forbids necromancy, and why "He forbids it" and "it's not real" are two very different statements
• What the Hebrew word for enchanter has in common with the serpent in Genesis 3
• What "familiar spirit" actually means in the original language (it is not what you think)
• How familiar spirits gather information across generations and why the medium's accuracy is the bait
• The connection between King Saul, the witch of Endor, and why God killed a king over this
• What the Hebrew word for "mutter" in Isaiah 8:19 has in common with "meditate" in Joshua 1:8
• Both hosts' personal experiences with channeling, mediumship, and spirit communication in the New Age
• What freedom and deliverance look like for women coming out of the occult

Timestamps: 

0:00 Welcome to Faith on the Fringe 

0:48 Can You Actually Talk to the Dead? The Bible's Real Answer

1:52 New Age Testimony: From Channeling to Christ

16:20 When a Medium Came Into Our Home: The Portal That Opened

20:24 Deuteronomy 18: Nine Practices God Calls Abomination

29:20 Menakesh: The Serpent Root Behind Every Enchantment

32:40 How 98% Truth With 2% Poison Gets Past Your Discernment

36:20 Acts 16 and the Python Spirit: Source Over Accuracy

40:43 Ba'alat Ove: What "Familiar Spirit" Actually Means in Hebrew

47:55 1 Samuel 28: What Appeared When Saul Called Up Samuel

53:13 How Familiar Spirits Monitor Your Bloodline for Generations

1:06:14 Freedom From Mediumship: Repentance and Restoration in Christ

Resources:

The Hebrew & Greek companion document for this episode:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AwMjoJG0p87FS8MF-KA480Phu9jmQq4aQNI0-cd5pSM/edit?usp=sharing

RENUNCIATION PRAYER: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1umE9b-X_o_3l77iB_9zoxe_hpp2OS57MaNIRd57YIiY/edit?usp=sharing

Connect: 

Faith on the Fringe:

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The Fring on Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thefringeonfb
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Leah Steele Barnett:

The Cul✞ure Cast Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-culture-cast/id1797035500
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theleahsteele
A House of Health: https://www.instagram.com/ahouseofhealth
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X: https://x.com/theleahsteele

Malaine Lea Butler:

Kingdom Talk Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kingdom-talk-podcast-with-malaine/id1813854951
Eden House: https://www.theedenhouse.co
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/malaine_lea_butler
Eden House IG: https://www.instagram.com/xoedenhouse
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/15kz1zU1XL/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Historical and Theological References

Ba'alat Ove. The Hebrew title given to the Witch of Endor in 1 Samuel 28. Ba'alat means "mistress" (feminine form of master). Ove means "wineskin" or "hollow vessel," referring to the medium as a container that a spirit fills and speaks through. The Septuagint translators rendered ove as angastrimythos, meaning "ventriloquist" or "one who speaks from the belly," connecting the practice to subterranean spirit communication.

Menakesh (Enchanter). The Hebrew word for enchanter in Deuteronomy 18. Its root word Nakesh is the same word used for the serpent in Genesis 3. It means to hiss, to whisper, and to enchant through a low sound. All enchantment linguistically traces back to the serpent in the garden.

The Tememteo Cave. An archaeological site in the Jerusalem hills identified as a necromancy site from the late Roman period. Researchers found a 21-meter shaft believed to function as a ritual pit for summoning subterranean spirits, corresponding to the Hebrew concept of the ove as a portal to the underworld.

Scriptures for Further Study

Deuteronomy 18:10-12. God names nine forbidden practices including divination, enchantment, witchcraft, charming, consulting familiar spirits, wizardry, and necromancy. All are called to'eba (abomination), the same word used for the practices that caused God to drive out entire nations.

Leviticus 20:27. Prescribes the death penalty for anyone who has a familiar spirit or is a wizard. Capital punishment by stoning as a community-wide act of purging.

Leviticus 19:31. Engaging with familiar spirits defiles a person. The Hebrew word tame means to become ritually and spiritually unclean, unfit for the presence of the Lord.

2 Corinthians 11:14. Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. The counterfeit feels like warmth, love, and light because the enemy knows how to replicate proximity to the divine.

Acts 16:16. The girl at Philippi had a Pneuma Pythona (spirit of Python), named after the serpent spirit that guarded the Oracle at Delphi. Luke names the entity behind divination as a serpent spirit, connecting to the Nakesh of Genesis 3.

1 Samuel 28:7-20. King Saul consults the Witch of Endor to call up the prophet Samuel. The medium sees Elohim (plural spiritual beings) ascending from the earth and screams because what appeared exceeded her familiar spirit's authority.

1 Chronicles 10:13. Names necromancy as the direct cause of Saul's death. He died for his transgression against the Lord, specifically for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit.

Isaiah 8:19. The call to seek God rather than mediums who "peep and mutter." The word for seek (Daraash) is the same verb used for seeking the Lord throughout the Old Testament.

Isaiah 29:4. Describes the voice of familiar spirits as whispering out of the dust, out of the ground, connecting to the ove concept of subterranean spirit communication.

Luke 16:26. Jesus confirms a great gulf fixed between the living and the dead, a boundary that God established. What crosses that boundary in a seance is not what it claims to be.

Ecclesiastes 9:5. The dead do not know anything. Solomon writes from the perspective of life under the sun, meaning the participation of the dead in the earthly realm has been terminated by God's design.

Hosea 4:6. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. The warning that ignorance among believers serves the enemy's agenda.

2 Corinthians 5:17. Old things are passed away, all things become new. The promise for anyone who has been the ove: when you invite Jesus in, you are no longer that old wineskin. You are a temple of the Holy Spirit and no familiar spirit has jurisdiction over a house that belongs to the living God.

Jeremiah 29:11. God's plans to prosper and not to harm. The gifts and calling the enemy perverted in the new age were always meant for the kingdom of heaven. God restores what was stolen.

 

If you have been the hollow vessel, if you opened yourself up to channeling or mediumship or sat across from someone who claimed to have a message from your dead, hear this: you are one act of repentance away from being clean. The same God who killed a king over this practice is also the God who sent His Son so that you could be washed from it. Confess it. Name it. Renounce every invitation and every agreement. Plead the blood of Jesus Christ of Nazareth over yourself and over your bloodline. And then go read 2 Corinthians 5:17 until it lands in your bones. You are not the old wineskin anymore.

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