EP: 384 Decoding the Star: How Pagan Astrologers Found the Jewish Messiah *members only trailer
Blurry Creatures25 Joulu 2025

EP: 384 Decoding the Star: How Pagan Astrologers Found the Jewish Messiah *members only trailer

The Magi weren't reading Daniel. They weren't studying the prophets. They were reading the sky.In our Members-Only Part 2 of our Christmas deep dive into the Star of Bethlehem, Caleb Jones returns to answer the question everyone's been asking: Why did the Magi know to come? What did they actually see in that chart that made them pack up and travel for months?Using ancient sources—Ptolemy, Manilius, Vettius Valens—Caleb reconstructs what an astrological reading of August 12, 3 BC would have looked like. The verdict? A heaven-blessed birth in Palestine. Incredible fortune. Warfare and a sword in his future. Someone who would overcome great danger through Jupiter and Venus.But this episode goes deeper than astronomy. Caleb traces how the Bible itself addresses astrology—not as fake, but as a rival way of knowing that God told Israel not to pursue because He would speak to them directly. When Israel rebelled and looked to the stars anyway, God wove their disobedience into His plan: He would use pagan astrologers to announce His Son and shame His people who should have known better.From Deuteronomy to Isaiah to Romans, the threads converge. The Magi weren't reading Daniel. They were reading the sky. And God met them there.The Christmas story is stranger than you thought. Not a member yet? Right now, we are running our biggest sale of the year with 20% OFF all memberships until the end of the year. Head over to https://blurrycreatures.com/pages/members to check it out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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EP: 398 Phobetron and The Age of Monsters with Dr. Judd Burton & Doug Van Dorn

EP: 398 Phobetron and The Age of Monsters with Dr. Judd Burton & Doug Van Dorn

What if the writers of the New Testament were intentionally hijacking the greatest myths of the ancient world to tell the true story of Jesus? Doug Van Dorn and Dr. Judd Burton return to break down th...

12 Helmi 1h 20min

EP: 397 Project Monarch, Montauk & Mind Control: A Psychologist's Journey into SRA with Dr. Robin Perry Braun

EP: 397 Project Monarch, Montauk & Mind Control: A Psychologist's Journey into SRA with Dr. Robin Perry Braun

Dr. Robin Perry Braun never wanted to work with satanic ritual abuse survivors; it seemed too dark, too slow, too brutal. But God kept bringing them to her holistic psychology practice. In 2021, she f...

10 Helmi 1h 48min

EP: 396 The Curse of the Cradleboard *members only trailer

EP: 396 The Curse of the Cradleboard *members only trailer

What happens when a young family with almost no biblical training gets dropped into one of the most spiritually active places on the planet? Darcy and her daughter Kristen share their firsthand accoun...

5 Helmi 13min

EP: 395 Bending the Continuum: Time Travel with Troy Brewer

EP: 395 Bending the Continuum: Time Travel with Troy Brewer

Pastor, author, and child rescuer Troy Brewer joins us to explore one of the most mind-bending topics in Scripture—time travel and the redemption of your timeline. Troy walks us through the biblical f...

3 Helmi 1h 35min

EP: 394 Canada's Worst Demonic Possession Case: A Survivor's Story with Michael Gagliardi *members only trailer

EP: 394 Canada's Worst Demonic Possession Case: A Survivor's Story with Michael Gagliardi *members only trailer

Michael Gagliardi joins us in the basement to share his harrowing true story of growing up with a demonically possessed mother in a small town in Ontario, Canada. From age three, Michael witnessed his...

29 Tammi 20min

EP: 393 The True Story Behind The Conjuring with Chad Hayes

EP: 393 The True Story Behind The Conjuring with Chad Hayes

Chad Hayes and his brother Carey wrote The Conjuring—a film with no sex, no blood, and two Christians as the heroes. It became one of the highest-grossing horror films of all time. What most people do...

27 Tammi 1h 35min

EP: 392 Hooded Figures on the Blue Ridge *members only trailer

EP: 392 Hooded Figures on the Blue Ridge *members only trailer

Halloween night, 2001. A blue moon hangs over Virginia, a celestial event so rare it only occurs a handful of times per century. Seth, a young man wrestling with his faith and freshly removed from Lib...

23 Tammi 14min

EP: 391 The Age of Disclosure with Timothy Alberino

EP: 391 The Age of Disclosure with Timothy Alberino

Timothy Alberino is back in the basement, and this time the conversation is pointed. With the release of the documentary Age of Disclosure and a Spielberg film on the horizon, the UFO topic is no long...

20 Tammi 1h 34min

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