Purity/Purification Episodes
Dec. 5, 2025
Between Glory and Ashes 4: Refined, Not Consumed - Episode 156
In this episode, Carey continues the fire in Scripture series by following the holy fire of God into the furnace—where His presence purifies without consuming. We trace how Isaiah and Daniel picture God’s burning holiness as ...
Nov. 28, 2025
Between Glory and Ashes 3: Authorized Fire vs. Zeal - Episode 155
What if fire really does fall from heaven…and the nation still doesn’t change? In this episode, Carey walks through Elijah’s showdown with Baal, the prophetic lawsuit pattern, Psalm 82, and how Jesus redirects our zeal so we ...
Nov. 21, 2025
Between Glory and Ashes 2: God Is a Consuming Fire - Episode 154
In this episode of Genesis Marks the Spot , Carey continues tracing the theme of fire through Scripture—this time by pairing it with the biblical theme of glory and the language of God as a “consuming fire” and “jealous God.”...
Nov. 14, 2025
Between Glory and Ashes: Fire at the Boundary - Episode 153
This episode launches a new mini-series on the theme of fire in Scripture and how it works as more than just a judgment or “end times” metaphor. Fire marks boundaries, tests fitness for nearness, guards holy space, and signal...
Nov. 7, 2025
From Magic to Presence: Prayer, Baptism, and Protection - Episode 152
In this sweeping synthesis episode, Carey zooms out from Mesopotamian exorcism texts to contrast ancient magic/technique with the Bible’s holiness/presence frame. We explore how Scripture attributes sickness and calamity to G...
Oct. 31, 2025
Purity before Sinai 3: One Goat to Clean Them All - Episode 151
Concluding the mini-series reading from Udug-hul (Udug-hul) Tablet 12 , a Mesopotamian exorcism/purification text, and tracing how a single goat in this ritual ends up doing several jobs—substitute, container of breath, apotr...
Oct. 24, 2025
Purity before Sinai 2: Sacred Technology of Cosmic Repair - Episode 150
This episode continues last week’s deep dive (Ep. 149) into Udug-hul Tablet 12 , exploring how ancient Mesopotamians understood purity, sacred space, demons, and ritual —and how that compares (and collides) with the Bible’s w...
Oct. 17, 2025
Purity Before Sinai: Subverting Storm Demons - Episode 149
Today we step before Leviticus into Sumerian and Akkadian worlds to see how ancient people thought about purity, danger, and the sacred—and how Israel both echoes and upends that world. We sample Udug-hul exorcism tablets (in...
Oct. 3, 2025
Purity Before Holiness: Reading Toward Christ - Episode 147
Continuing the water series by framing purification and holiness through an ancient Near Eastern lens and a Christotelic (telos-aimed) reading of Scripture. We contrast Christocentric “reading back” with Christotelic “reading...