Baal, Nephilim Weather Gods & Elijah’s Mount Carmel Challenge (1 Kings) | Faith vs False Power

The episode explores research for a second volume on recurring “clown-like” features in global depictions of spirits, demons, and gods, focusing on Northern Africa and the Levant and the weather-and-fertility deity Baal. It speculates that Baal may have been a deified antediluvian Nephilim king whose iconography includes elongated features, a conical hat, and lightning symbolism, and argues that similar rain-and-storm-controlling entities appear across cultures (including Native American, Romanian, Australian, Indian, and Japanese traditions). The script revisits 1 Kings’ account of Elijah challenging Baal’s prophets on Mount Carmel, emphasising Baal’s failure, God’s fire consuming a drenched altar, the return of rain, and a call to boldly moc ...