The Return of the Gods – Chapter 02

Is it possible that behind what is taking place in America and the world lies a mystery that goes back to the gods of the ancient world…and that they now have returned?
The Return of the Gods is the most explosive book Jonathan Cahn has ever written. It is so explosive and so revealing that no description here could do it justice. Jonathan Cahn is known for revealing the stunning mysteries, many from ancient times, that lie behind and are playing out in the events of our times. But with The Return of the Gods , Cahn takes this to an entirely new level and dimension.
The Return of the Gods , Cahn takes the reader on a journey from an ancient parable, the ancient inscriptions in Sumer, Assyria, and Babylonia that become the puzzle pieces behind what is taking place in our world to this day, specifically in America. Is it possible that what we in the modern world take as nothing more than ancient mythology could actually possess a reality beyond our fathoming?

Chapter two, the return of the gods, the gods have returned.
They had been away for ages. The ancients had exiled them.
They wandered the barren and desolate places, the deserts and wildernesses, the alleyways and ruins, the graves and sepulchers.
They haunted the underground, the dark realms of the forbidden, the taboo and the dead.
They inhabited the shadows of the outer darkness in their days of glory.
They had reigned over tribes and nations, kingdoms and empires.
They had subjugated cultures and mastered civilizations, infusing them with their spirits, saturating them with their images, possessing them.
They sat enthroned in marble temples and shrines of wood and stone by hallowed trees and rivers in sacred groves and in mountain top sanctuaries, their statues and carved images looked down at their worshipers who approached their altars with offerings and tributes, sacrifices and blood, even human victims.
Kings bowed down before them. Priests sang their praises and performed their rituals.
Armies set off to war and laid cities to waste in their names and Children, the rich and the poor, the free and the slave alike exalted them, worshiped them and treated their favor.
Invoked their powers, danced to the drumbeat of their festivals, dreamed of them, loved them, served them dreaded, them became entranced and seized by them.
But the days of their Dominion came to an end, they were expelled from the high places, banished from the palaces of kings, driven out of the public squares, cast out of their temples and removed from the lives of their subjects.
Their groves were neglected, their shrines abandoned their altars left in disrepair and their sanctuaries in ruins no longer were they worshiped or feared?
No longer were their hymns sung their festivals partaken in or their holy days observed?
No longer were they believed in. The gods were sent into exile in time.
They became memories, echoes and phantoms and then they were forgotten in the days of their absence.
Kingdoms had risen and fallen nations had disappeared, an empire had collapsed and a new civilization had been born, the world they had left had disappeared in its place had risen.
Another that was altogether foreign to them.
In their absence, man had charted the earth vanquished nature, dissected the fabric of life and codified the universe.

The forests were no longer enchanted. The shrines were no longer sacred and nature was no longer magical.
The scientist now wore the mantle of the prophet and the garments of the priest had been replaced by lab coats.
The world had been disenchanted. It was then having demystified the earth and awash in his newfound powers that man decided he had no need of any God.
And it was then, and by that, that the ancient door was set ajar, the long locked portal of the gods was reopened.
Thus, was their conjuring their invocation and their return.
And so it began, they came back from the desolate places and from the dark and forbidden realms, they came up from the underground and from the dwelling places of the dead, they stepped out from the shadows.
They came slowly at first as the door had, at first only been slightly opened, had their entrance been too rapid.
It would have been repelled and the door would have closed.
But by entering with measured steps, they were able to keep the door ajar and then open it still wider.
And as the shock that followed each of their steps dissipated, the resistance to their return would be overcome.
The world they now entered was unlike the one they had left in the former world.
Cities glowed with the light of oil lamps and walls were adorned with carved images.
But in the world, they entered cities were illuminated with electrical currents and images of light moved across billboards and movie screens, television sets and computer monitors.
The gods could not rule over the modern world as they had over the ancient, not in the same way, but they would rule over it.
They would not return to the high places and groves or to their ancient shrines and temples they would inhabit the new seats of power by which the modern world was led and make of them their Thrones.
They would come upon the movers and influencers of modern culture and make of them their instruments to gain Dominion over the modern world.
They could not appear as they had in ancient times though there was still a remnant of those who worshiped them and who called them by name.
They were of the French to the modern mind.
The gods did not exist and few would serve them if they believed they did.
So the gods came back in disguise. They altered their appearances.
They took on new identities and gave themselves new names. They came as spirits of enlightenment, freedom and power.
They came as secular gods, new gods, alternate gods, gods that granted godhood, gods that denied that they were gods and gods that declared that there were no gods.
They came as gods of the modern world.
And so the gods returned and having returned, they began working their dark magic prodding and impelling, tempting and seducing, drawing away Uprooting what was planted and planting what was not overturning, transforming, moving the ancient markers, breaking down the ancient hedges and forcing open the ancient gates.
And as the seeds of their planting came to fruition and their spirits infused more and more of the modern world.
They grew still more powerful. And so the gods now dwell among us.
They inhabit our institutions, walk the halls of our governments cast votes in our legislatures guide our corporations gaze out from our skyscrapers, perform on our stages and teach in our universities.
They saturate our media direct. Our news cycles inspire our entertainments and give voices to our songs.
They perform on our stages in our theaters and stadiums.
They light up our television sets and computer screens, they incite new movements and ideologies and convert others to their ends.
They instruct our Children and initiate them into their ways. They incite the multitudes.
They drive otherwise rational people into irrationality and some into frenzies.
Just as they had done in ancient times, they demand our worship, our veneration, our submission and our sacrifices.
The gods are everywhere. They have permeated our culture, they have mastered our civilization.
The gods are here to begin the mystery of the gods.
We must go back to ancient times and to the entities known as the shade.