Indeed, the English still use the timeworn phrase: “the king is dead, long live the king” to announce the unbroken progression of rule as the father “lives again” through his son. Although most do not know it, this was directly copied from the “gods” – ancient flesh-and-blood beings of advanced technology who, in antiquity, the Sotho-Tswana called “ma’Loi”: “wizards” – Eloi’m (Elohim) in Hebrew syntax. As such, for readers to properly understand Revelation, I find it necessary to briefly retrace their ancient, convoluted and often unseen hand in the affairs of humankind.
As Sumerian legend exposes, two mighty clans of Elohim – the Enlilites and the Enkiites – have ruled mankind from time immemorial. Enlilites favoured apartheid (Genesis 3:22-24) while Enkiites (the “serpent”) advocated greater equality (Gen. 3:2-5). Exactly how Enlil became “God” and Enki “the Devil” is a long and elaborate story covered in much detail in prior articles. Their ideological war for the hearts and minds of people reached fever pitch in two main periods; in the time of Daniel around BC 562 and in AD 1844 – the “End Time” revealed to him.
