Apollyon is not Rising in 2012. You are being Hornswoggled.

Some in Christian media have been doing interviews with Thomas Horn so I decided to read a couple of his books. I recently read “Apollyon rising 2012” and I will soon read his latest book “Petrus Romanus”, which God willing, I will comment on sometime in the future. The title “Apollyon Rising 2012”, implies that Apollyon of Revelation 9:11 will be rising in 2012 but If you believe that you probably already have been hornswoggled.

First let me say that there are quite a few errors and shoehorning of scripture as well as some hornswoggling in Tom Horn’s book. Dr. Cathy Burns points out many of the problems in her critique of Tom’s Horn’s Apollyon Rising: 2012. In addition to most of what Dr. Burns mentions in her article, my problem with “Apollyon Rising 2012” is that the major concepts within the book are really built on the foundations of pagan beliefs and myths.

It seems to me that some Christians are peddling Tom Horn’s conjectures as if what Tom Horn extracted from these extra-biblical books and pagan beliefs enhances God-given Bible prophecy. Never mind that Horn also shoehorned some of the pagan data to make it fit his own Apollyon rising theory.

I did think that the preface in the book by Christian J. Pinto was very good. I can’t say that everything Pinto said is correct because I am no expert on Freemasonry or American history. However, this preface by Pinto does seem to document the case that many of our forefathers and the founding of this country were heavily influenced by Freemasonry. Much of the theory in the book is based on Freemasonry in America so Pinto’s preface lays the necessary foundation for the book theory.

After reading the first chapter I had already surmised that Thomas Horn was reading his own Illuminati conspiratorial views into President George Bush’s speeches. I think if one has expectations to find double hidden occult meanings in speeches by George Bush or most anyone, conspiratorial theorists probably will be able to find fitting candidates. Later in the book Horn does the same thing with President Obama. I am not saying that what Tom Horn conjectured about our presidents is necessarily wrong but even Tom Horn cannot be sure he is right about Bush or Obama choosing certain words or phrases for occult purposes.

Who really writes the presidents’ speeches anyway? Perhaps it is more likely that certain speech writers are influenced by elite Masons that want their own occult beliefs fulfilled through the presidents’ words. It even could be that some writer is being paid off by a conspiratorial writer to use certain words. Hey, it sells books. Perhaps the ghost of a former Mason president haunts the White House and gets modern presidents to say things with masonic meanings? I could go on, but the point is that coming up with conjectures for the use of certain words in a speech is easy, coming up with proof that there was actually intended double meanings by the speaker is difficult.

I also saw in the first chapter that Horn had his own interpretation of the Iraq war and he even backed it up with scripture that had nothing to do with that Iraq war at all. After reading what he had to say on Bush and the war, I realized that Horn is one of those people who shoehorns brief biblical verses any which way that he wants to make it seem like scripture is supporting what he says. Thomas Horn’s conjecture about George Bush and staff and the Iraq War seemed more than a bit contrived to me.

Along with Freemasonry much of the rest of the book is based on Horn’s interpretation of apocryphal, pseudepigraphal books, Jewish traditions and ancient myths. One of the major problems with the whole book is that he attempts to interpret scripture through non-scripture. Horn’s theories are almost entirely based on Horn’s interpretation of books that have been rejected from the Jewish and Christian Canon. I would venture to say Horn did not leave a note unturned while blasting through ancient extra-biblical sources to try to support his strange conjectures.

There is major fundamental error in logic and Christian thinking in Horn’s book. For example, the book conveys the idea that pagan humans can bind and loose demons (who the book claims are the spirits of 72 rebellious angels). The book gives the false belief that pagan humans can bind or loose demonic angelic beings through ritual, words, numbers, symbols etc. Are we to believe that human sorcery actually makes angels dance on the head of a pin? I am sure that pagan sorcerers or witch doctors would like to believe that they gain power over the spirits but I do not see that concept in scripture. Scripture and logic teaches quite the opposite. Unregenerate humans are like earth worms or natural beasts and when they get into the occult they can be manipulated or possessed by supernatural lying spirits.

Horn seems to convey in his book that these fallen angel beings are sort of locked up in stone images or some other dimension just waiting around for man to bring them back into the natural through man’s powerful sorcery. It seems to me that Horn has the cart before the horse. The angels have the supernatural power. Natural humans do not have power over the supernatural. The thinking of those into the occult seems to be that man can control the spiritual realm. That is why the so-called illuminated or high degree Freemasons put meanings on rituals, symbols and everything else. Nevertheless, they are in error. Natural man has no control over the angels apart from the power given to those that are in Christ Jesus.

The book of Revelation clearly says that there will be war in Heaven and Satan and his angels will be booted out of the heavens unto the earth by other angels that are following God. Then woe to the people living on the earth because Satan will know he has only a short time to deceive humans into taking part in his rebellion against God. Horn conveys the erroneous belief that man is the powerful being and the fallen angels are just waiting for man to come up with some occult method to loose them from their bondage, but Revelation 12:12 says quite the opposite. When Satan and his angels find themselves confined to the earth they will control humans through supernatural forces out of the abyss or bottomless pit. Apollyon is the king and angel that rules the abyss. When the hindrance is taken out of the way, Apollyon is allowed to unleash demonic beings out of the abyss to torment and control humans (Rev 9: 1-12, Rev 11:7, Rev 13: 13-17).

Horn makes another big time fundamental error in Christian thinking in his theory. He seems to think that Satan is in control of the timing of the Antichrist. He obviously thinks that by knowing what the elite occult are planning that you can know the time of the coming of the Antichrist. However Satan cannot determine the time of the end of this Age of Grace. Only the Father knows when that will happen. Satan’s man of perdition has been hindered from coming for nearly two thousand years (2 Th 2:7). and he will continue to be hindered until the fullness of the Gentiles comes in and the bride of Christ is complete.

It is not logical that Freemasons living hundreds of years ago would be setting up the sorcery to bring up the gods for people living hundreds of years in the future. I am sure most of these elite Freemasons thought that their occultism would bring in the new age or new world order in their own time. For hundreds of years their expectations did not happen so the Freemason expectations keep getting kicked further down the road. Satan may have an agenda somewhat like Horn implies but Satan is not in control of the timing of it, and neither are the Freemasons.

The 2012 date that Thomas Horn came up with comes from what appears to be shoehorned data. Horn obviously thinks the Antichrist will rise in America but much of his theory is founded on Masonic occultism and Mayan conjecture rather than the Bible. Anyone can look for things to fit their date theory and cherry pick data to support it. We see that in all date setting schemes.

Horn claims that demonic angels will arise and pose as gods. I do not disagree with that view. I have said that I think the Beast that comes out of the pit and incarnates a man will claim to be Zeus/Jupiter and that he sets up an image of himself in the Jewish temple. Tom Horn claims that this being will claim to be Apollo/Osiris/the sun-god who was the son of Zeus and that he will set up an image of his father (Zeus) in the Temple. I think Horn might even be correct here about who the Antichrist will claim to be. Nevertheless, Apollyon in the Bible does not mean Apollo even though the word sounds like it. Apollyon really means destruction or the destroyer.

I do think that it is quite likely that when Satan is cast out of Heaven with his angels that they will claim to be these ancient mythological gods or Alien beings. We are set up for this deception with mythology and UFO-ology. I also think that it is likely that they will offer humans the means to change their DNA if they take the mark. Those taking the mark of the Beast and changing their DNA would no longer be Adamic beings made in the image of God. They would be in the image of the Beast and of their father the devil and that is why nobody that takes the mark can be saved.

So I agree with Horn on the general end time concept of angels posing as gods but not on the timing. I also do not agree with Horn’s concept that America is the land that will bring in the Antichrist. America’s role in Freemason new world order expectations was most likely influenced by the wishful thinking of high level American Freemasons that came out of Europe. So they moved a copy of their occultism here but the seat of power of this mystery religion still is in Europe. Even Thomas Horn makes the Roman Vatican connection. What we have here among our founding father Masons may just be a copy just like the Mormon’s are a copy of a copy. The main demonic occultism has been entrenched in Rome.

Horn spends a whole chapter expounding on actions and words of Obama as if he may be the Antichrist. However, like many satanic world leaders set up before him, Obama will not meet the expectations of elitists. The latest American prototype for the “One” the American satanic elite promoted to rule the world may have been Obama but I am sure they are quite aware by now that even with all their occultism and promoting they did not stop this man from screwing up and exhibiting his very human flaws. I think they are now looking for someone else. By the way, all promoted by the demonic controlled world elite will fail until God allows the Son of Perdition to rise.

Thomas Horn clearly said in this book that 2012 will either be the start of the tribulation or the start of the great tribulation. He will be proven wrong on both counts. Had the last seven years started in 2009 we would be aware of the two prophets so that is already proven wrong. If the final seven years starts in 2012, with all that remains to be fulfilled I will gladly eat his book in front of Jesus.

This is not a book that I could recommend for most. It certainly is not for those not well grounded in the Bible. I can see them going directly from this book into end time conspiracy sites and being further mislead. This book does give food for thought and some of Horn’s views might even make sense to those that believe the great deception is demons posing as aliens or gods.

I think the last chapter that covers his dating scheme for 2012 is about as reliable as the Harold Camping formulas. I don’t know why Horn believes that demons would know the date that the hinderer would be taken out-of-the-way so that Apollyon can unleash the beings that come out of the pit.

The only Bible based views on the timing that are not based on smoke and mirrors is the 70 year generation from the contemporary classic 1948 erroneous interpretation of the fig tree parable. I covered why I believe that theory is incorrect elsewhere on this blog so I won’t get into that here (see sidebar).

Horn also liked to quote the late J.R. Church as a supporting authority but J.R. Church was also into certain date setting. For example, his “Hidden Prophecies in the Psalms” book pretty much set the date of the Lord’s return at the end of the twenty century. Each of the first one hundred psalms was said to be a description of what happened or would happen in that particular year in the 20th century. 😆

In the last chapter Horn seems to make a strong case for 2012 from extra biblical sources but I believe he just found everything from any source that he could possibly shoehorn into his 2012 conjecture and he ignored whatever would not support his 2012 conjecture. Like I said, cherry picking is the universal truth of all date setting schemes. Of course Horn says he is not a date setter. I am sure that Horn will emphasize that more in the future when 2012 comes and goes without Apollyon rising?

I do not recommend the book for most, but I feel secure enough in my own knowledge of the scriptures that I know Horn’s hornswoggling would have no negative effect on my own beliefs. I actually liked the book because it was thought-provoking and It did have some useful information. Horn obviously does a lot of research even if he sometimes shoehorns the information that he finds. The book does give inquiring minds information about mythologies and ancient pagan practices and worship and the book give a lot of information about Freemasonry in the United States.

There is much more said in this book that I cannot cover here. I think some of the book is convoluted and not worth the effort to sort it out. Let’s just say that it seems to me that the book covers a jumble of conjectures that just do not quite fit together under a single theory under close scrutiny. Read Dr. Burns critique of the book in the link near the top of this article for the more obvious scriptural problems and some of Horn’s contradictions. The bottom line that I want to convey is that I think quite a bit of Apollyon Rising 2012 is Horn hornswoggling those that are looking for an immediate Antichrist.

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12 thoughts on “Apollyon is not Rising in 2012. You are being Hornswoggled.

  1. Hi Charles,

    I really have not read his works. I understand that he comes from the alien deception angle. Some of that very likely could have a role in the time of the Antichrist but most of this conjecture comes from searching ancient pagan writings to try to support a preconceived premise. It sells books, but I really do not see why the Church needs to know what God choose not to tell us about the past or the future? So are we now going to find the truth that God choose not to explain to the Church in these fringe speculations? I think the conjectures can be interesting and entertaining as late night Coast-to-Coast theater if you’re into grand conspiracies and nightly goosebumps. However, I know that all this conjectures will not change my Christian life one iota. And no, I am not expecting to be here when Satan and his angels are booted out of the heavens and find themselves confined to the earth.

  2. The problem is not Horns but yours. As a ufo researcher fir 35 years ans an ancient text scholar, many of what Marzulli,Horn and Skeba speak of sync with what we know of the phenomena. You do however need a 360 understanding of UFO’s….which you do not

  3. Dave,

    You are quite wrong. I have studied teachings on this stuff for more than forty years. I do not deny that there is a demonic/alien connection and that there will be some end time deception related to that. What I deny is Horn’s timing that he gets from occult sources that cannot possibly know the time of the end..

    Before Tom Horn, there were other Masonic experts that claimed to be insiders that said all that Horn talks about would be fulfilled before the year 2000. Obviously, they were wrong and obviously Tom Horn is wrong. Apollyon did not rise in 2012 like he so clearly stated in this book. Now he is spinning the timing, but it is not going to work out that the last 3.5 years a.k.a the Great tribulation with the Antichrist will be playing out by 2016 either.

  4. Some years ago a chap who was picked out as an authority on UFOs, (along with showing many ‘badly out of focus’ photographs as proof) told his interviewer that he had seen thousands of them.

    It seemed ‘strange’ to me then that one individual could see thousands of UFOs when thousands had not seen even one.

    I am not a total sceptic for what is an unidentified flying object other than something moving in the sky that has not been identified?

    In most serious cases however I think perhaps it is something ‘flying’ in a man’s mind. And for those who would pick me up as not having a 360 understanding I would agree, but I have read good articles by men who relate much of the phenomenon to the use of hallucinogens – and that use goes way back.

  5. Brian,

    I am sure some of that has to do with the use of hallucinogens or the occult but what do those activities really do but open a portal into the demonic. Just about any Christian writer would say that these alien sightings have a demonic or angelic connection.

    According to the Bible there are demons and angels that we usually cannot see. Obviously God’s angels and even Satan’s angels are not earth bound yet. So some might even call these beings aliens or unidentified flying objects. Keep in mind that Jacob saw angels ascending and descending from heaven to earth in some kind of portal that is named Jacob’s ladder. Israel also followed an angel of the Lord in the sky for forty years. There are other examples, so I would not discount all these sightings.

  6. As I said Don I am not a total sceptic and I accept what you say as a reasonable and scriptural view. I also believe sane men have seen unidentifiable objects moving over the ground or through the air (I have spoken to one such man), but in today’s drug culture my overall take on the subject of UFOs remains; that it is predominantly brought about by witchcraft (pharmakeia) – drug induced demonic activity.

  7. Hi Brian, I’m not making any speculations about what UFO’S are or are not but there have been many reputable people who saw “something.” The list is long but here are a few names. Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Gordon Cooper, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, Christopher Columbus and Alexander the Great.
    March 13, 1997 thousands of people , including the Arizona governor, witnessed strange lights in the sky over Phoenix. These lights were seen from Nevada to Tucson.
    Dec. 9, 2005 thousands witnessed lights over Norway. Coincidentally it was the same date and place where Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize.
    UFO sightings have also been reported by airplane pilots, police officers, cosmonauts and mountain climbers.
    I don’t know what it was I saw from I40 about 100 mi east of Albuquerque but I promise you I hadn’t taken anything stronger than Excedrin.

  8. I read his book Zenith 2016 and I am currently reading Petrus Romanus. Most of what he wrote in Zenith 2016 I can agree with. Sometimes it is good to get information about things we do not like to hear or even agree with so you can use it to your advantage and prepare accordingly. There were two parts I did not agree with though with his Zenith book ( I have not finished the second book mentioned above). He mentioned Enoch and I have read the book of Enoch because Jesus himself quoted from that book. And also the Old testament mentioned Enoch as the one who walked with God and then he was no more for God took him up.

    Horn goes on to mention some pyramid he links to Enoch and the pillars of Enoch that the Masons use in their whatever it is they do. Well, the book of Enoch does not mention any sort of thing as that. He was taken up and faithfully records what he sees. It goes into great detail about the Watchers (fallen Nephilim) and what they did and what they taught the humans to do. But he has nothing to do with any magic or Mason rituals at all. If he had been doing any kind of magic well then he would not have walked with God and God would not have taken him up.

    Then the next thing I disagree with was the way he describes the Mayans as a bunch of people who honored the sun. As if they were some kind of pagan demon people. What a coincidence that they were all slaughtered by the Spanish Conquistadors and all their land and gold was taken from them and they were seen no more. And their calendar only states that the end of the age 2012, only starts another and never claimed it was the end of the world only the end of one Katun and another would start. Also the Native Americans were considered as some kind of heathen devils that needed to be saved by the so-called Christians who were hell bent to exterminate them and take their lands and gold and their way of live.

    So I do agree with Horn on most of the rest of his book but these two issues mentioned above. When Jesus left this earth his followers spread his good news and also the other side went to work to corrupt it as fast as they could and always had the plan to control the world. So the followers of Jesus should do as he taught and have no part of all this hate and wars done in the name of Christians as if this is being one of his followers. For Jesus and his angels will bring the battle to them.

    And yes, all the so called UFO and New Age crap is part of the deception. These are the ones the bible warns you about. That is why Jesus mentioned the Book of Enoch so you could be informed of the deception. As in the days of Noah, so it will be in the last days. Well, that is why the flood came…to rid the earth of the giants (Nephlim the children of fallen angels who mingled with the daughters of earth)

    God Bless all and take care and keep the faith.

  9. Barbara,

    I do not agree with all of your points but I see no point in getting into your own interpretations and historical revisionism.

  10. A non-religious non-bible reading (until lately) had visions beginning in July 2013 which occurred while out alone in isolated spots photographing deep sky. At the time ISON disappeared behind the Sun (early Dec 2013 I believe) one vision was incredible and I believe showed me the pit,all of its beings and the opening thereof… since then, I have had numerous experiences and a giant being with a dog who I believe was incarnated as many including Thor and Enki I see and he knows me and watches. Another is Anu and another is ISIS they are here no doubt…

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