Show Notes
Is the New Age behind Christian conspiracy content?
Stephen DeMatties of The Biblical Hitmen thinks a lot of it follows the New Age "Plan."
In this episode of The Berean Files, Zack Killey and Jason Kempf sit down with Stephen for a long, honest conversation about Theosophy, the New Age and "conspiracy land."
Stephen traces "the Plan" from Helena Blavatsky to Alice Bailey's The Externalization of the Hierarchy, and he argues it's walking Christians toward a one-world, all-paths religion.
We test his case against Scripture.
We agree on a lot: Jesus first, Scripture interprets Scripture, the Book of Enoch isn't canon, and chasing hidden knowledge is the same temptation as the fruit in the Garden.
We also push back.
We defend Michael Heiser's divine council work (while granting he leans on Enoch too much), we share how the Nephilim story became a gospel bridge with a Nordic deist at a bar, and we don't think Satan is running one master plan.
He isn't all-knowing. He has one game plan, and he just keeps rebranding the same lie from the Garden.
Then Stephen walks through Barbara Marx Hubbard's New Age reading of the four horsemen of Revelation 6, where the people who won't "shift" are labeled "defective seeds."
To us, that sounds a lot like the parable of the four soils turned upside down.
Topics include: • Terence McKenna, Blavatsky, Theosophy and "the Shift" • Alice Bailey, the Lucis Trust and the New Age "Plan" • Who is the Harlot of Revelation 17? (Stephen's view) • The NAR, the Seven Mountain Mandate and a Jehu/Jezebel theory (Stephen's speculation, not a conclusion) • Star Wars, false light and the good-vs-evil trap • Perennial philosophy, the Nephilim and the Michael Heiser debate • The Essenes, Pythagoras and the Dead Sea Scrolls • Gnosticism and framing God as the villain • False prophets, Deuteronomy 13 and Chris Bledsoe's Oct. 7 prediction • "Defective seeds" and the upside-down four soils • Stephen's problems with the Book of Enoch • The gospel: the wages of sin is death, and Jesus paid it (Romans 6:23) "For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 6:23 (ESV)
What should you do after the craziest conspiracy video you've ever heard?
Go open your Bible, love your neighbor, and tell somebody about Jesus.
Stephen DeMatties, The Biblical Hitmen: https://www.youtube.com/@TheBiblicalHitmen
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