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Is it possible that entities we have known as “gods of the ancient world” have come back?
Could their existence explain everything that is now transforming our culture, our families, our children, our businesses, our government, our technology?
And have they returned to exact vengeance and dominion upon Christians, seeking retribution against those who had cast them out and sent them into exile in ancient times?
The answers to these chilling questions and more are revealed in Jonathan Cahn’s latest mindblowing book, “The Return of the Gods,” published by Charisma Media and released September 2022. Those who have seen advance copies of “The Return of the Gods” are calling it his most important book ever.
In this riveting book, Cahn reveals how evil gods of the ancient mystery were cast out with the coming of Christianity, but as our culture has turned away from God, the gods have returned to our world with a vengeance. He outlines just how they came back, and specifically how the dark trinity—three specific gods—have changed our culture and are working in all that is taking place around us, from initiating social upheavals and cultural revolutions to maneuvering politics and world events.
Casting Out Christianity
One of the most arresting questions Cahn asks in “The Return of the Gods” is this: If these gods—who were cast out in ancient times with the coming of Christianity—were to return, would they not come back with a vengeance focused on those who cast them out? Are these gods out to destroy Christians and Christianity?
“As the gods had thrived in a pre-Christian age, they would now seek to usher in a post-Christian age,” writes Cahn. “And if the entrance of Christianity brought about the casting out of the gods from Western civilization, then upon their reentering, they would seek to bring about the casting out of Christianity from Western civilization.”
Cahn points out that these ancient gods could only return by casting out that by which they had themselves been cast out: the Spirit of God. He warns that these spirits would wage war against that which had waged war against them: the Spirit of God, the Word of God, the ways of God, the house of God, and the people of God.
“As the gods had been driven out of the mainstream of culture of the ancient world, they would now seek to drive God and those who followed Him out of the mainstream of modern culture,” Cahn writes. “As the gods had once been driven to the margins and shadows of their culture, they would now seek to drive Christians to the margins, to the shadows, to the closets and catacombs of modern culture.”
The gods had once been silenced by the Word of God, says Cahn, so now they would seek to silence the Word of God and the Christians who upheld it. They would work to drive the Word out of Western culture just as the Word had once driven them out.
Children of the Gods
Cahn notes that it was ultimately the young who originally undid the gods in ancient times. The children of the late Roman Empire were taught of the new faith of Christianity and no longer effectively indoctrinated into paganism.
So upon their return in modern times, Cahn says, the gods would seek to undo their undoing. He cites the removal of prayer and Scripture from America’s schools as only the beginning. “They would seek to gain control of the young,” Cahn writes. “And they would do so through the media, television, the internet, and the classroom.”
He notes that the children would increasingly be taught to reject Christianity and despise biblical values. They would be indoctrinated into the gods’ ways, into pagan values, so that the ways of God would become alien to them.
“At the same time,” Cahn writes, “the gods would attack the transmission of the Christian faith from parent to child and from teacher to student in Christian schools and universities. As they had once been cut off from influencing the young and cast out by a new generation, the gods would now seek to cut off the young from the Christian faith and to use the new generation to cast out the Christian faith and bring Judeo-Christian civilization to an end.”
Laws Against Christians
When the historic and biblical definition of marriage was struck down by the Supreme Court in June of 2015, many saw it as a watermark not only in the history of America but in that of Western civilization.
“Age-old biblical standards and values concerning sexuality, marriage, and gender were discarded and replaced overnight with pagan ones,” Cahn writes. “Christians were now told that they would have to comply with the new morality, its tenets and acts, to endorse them and propagate them, by force of social or economic pressure or by force of law.
“If they refused or voiced disagreement,” he continues, “they would now be subject to serious consequences: the loss of their jobs, the boycotting of their businesses, deplatforming, defunding, prosecution, or other punishments.”
Cahn notes that as Western civilization began de-Christianizing and re-paganizing, the gods could again begin depicting Christians as different, alien, foreign, and a danger to society.
“They could begin setting the culture to war against them,” says Cahn of the gods. “Again they could incite a generation to fear and hate them. And now the gods had powers unavailable to them in ancient times—mass media, social media, the World Wide Web. And as in the days of Rome, they could portray Christian dissent from sin as intolerance and hatemongering and the speaking of God’s Word as a blasphemy, an act of criminality.”
Cahn reminds readers that in an earlier day, the values upheld by Christians would have been lauded as virtues. But now they would be despised. The Christians had not changed, but the culture around them had. It had been transformed so totally that it could not even remember ever being otherwise—that it had once been Christian.
So for the first time in two thousand years, Cahn says, believers find themselves in the midst of a pagan civilization. And just as it had two thousand years earlier, it would mean persecution.
Cahn says the gods had an ancient score to settle with their enemies. “They would now make up for lost time,” he writes. “They were dangerous. The danger they posed could not be measured by anything seen thus far, for it was tied to how much power they possessed. And their power was continually increasing—so too the danger.”
Against the Throne of God
“The Return of the Gods” mentions several prevalent current symbols seen in America and the modern world that lie behind a dark and ancient mystery. The rainbow is one of those symbols, and Cahn writes that the gods would link it to vengeance. But this time it would be directed against believers. Behind its colors were centuries of pent-up fury.
“It was, as well, a sign of war against God,” Cahn writes. “The rainbow belonged to God. It is described in Scripture as being part of the glory that surrounds His throne. It was also the sign of His mercy in the wake of judgment. But the gods had transformed the sign of God into a sign of defiance against the ways of God—it was a banner of war. Those who joined in its display had no idea what they were doing or that they were being drawn into an ancient war against the throne of God.”
Where Will it Lead?
The gods had been expelled, and they had now returned, says Cahn—they had come back not only to exact vengeance but for dominion. They had returned to reign.
“They would seek retribution against those who had cast them out and sent them into exile,” he writes. “In ancient times, their fury was so fierce that it caused the Christians to be led into the arenas to be devoured by wild animals to the cheers of the Roman masses.”
To what would it lead now? And how can Christians stand against these gods? Find the answer to those questions and more in “The Return of the Gods.” {eoa}
The preceding was excerpted from Jonathan Cahn’s New York Times best-selling book, “The Return of the Gods” (Frontline, 2022). For more information, or to order the book, visit BooksByJonathanCahn.com.
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