Feb 12 2025 16 mins 3
JESUS CHALLENGED the goat-demon Pan right in front of the gates of Hell!
What’s more, our friend Dr. Judd Burton (BurtonBeyond.net) believes Jesus timed his trip to Caesarea Philippi and the Grotto of Pan to coincide with Lupercalia, a religious festival devoted to Pan and his Roman equivalent Faunus.
This festival fell on February 15, right in the middle of the nine-day celebration called Paternalia, devoted to the spirits of deceased ancestors—spirits that were, in fact, demons, the spirits of the giant Nephilim destroyed in the Flood.
Then Jesus climbed “a very high mountain,” which could only have been Mount Hermon (the only “very high mountain” near Caesarea Philippi), for the Transfiguration, essentially declaring his divinity on the Canaanite equivalent of Mount Olympus—the “mount of assembly” for the gods of Israel’s pagan neighbors.
