by Brian Shilhavy

As we come to the end of 2025, the United States still leads the world in several notorious categories.

We are the #1 destination for pedophiles and child sex trafficking, we are the world leaders in technology and AI, we are the world center for Freemasonry which controls the worldwide financial system, and the United States is also home to the richest billionaire Zionists who sit at the top of the Freemason pyramid.

Those who desire hope in 2026 by looking for change in politics or religion, will continue to follow false hopes that will never affect real change in modern-day American culture.

As I have reported for the past few years, America is fulfilling her destiny, as the United States of America was founded by Freemasons to create a “New World Order” as is plainly stated on our national seal, which is also printed into our currency. See:

Was the U.S. Constitution Written to Protect “We the People” or “We the Globalists”? Were the Founding Fathers Godly Men or Servants of Satan?

We are not without hope, however.

But the hope of true change is not a popular message today, because it is much easier to trust in our idols instead.

The true message of the Gospel, the “Good News” of Jesus Christ, is that the power of God can invade earth and Satan’s domain, and defeat his power base, which is the financial system.

It has happened before.

So in this article I want to look at one time this happened in the recorded history of the New Testament, where the power of God inhabited true believers, Jewish believers who were re-born by the power of the Spirit of Jesus, and how they destroyed the economy of one of the most influential and powerful economic centers of Satan’s domain, by exhibiting a superior power than Satan’s power.

When the Gospel of Jesus Christ Invaded Ephesus and the Temple of Artemis

The story of how the Gospel of Jesus Christ invaded the center of the Roman Province of Asia, which was in the city of Ephesus (modern day Turkey) is mostly recorded in Acts chapter 19.

But to setup the story and who the main characters were in Acts 19, we need to start in Acts chapter 18, where the apostle Paul made a brief stop in Ephesus just after he had spent a year and a half in the Roman city of Corinth.

After this, Paul left Athens and went to Corinth.

There he met a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome.

Paul went to see them, and because he was a tentmaker as they were, he stayed and worked with them.

Paul stayed on in Corinth for some time.

Then he left the brothers and sailed for Syria, accompanied by Priscilla and Aquila.

Before he sailed, he had his hair cut off at Cenchrea because of a vow he had taken.

They arrived at Ephesus, where Paul left Priscilla and Aquila. He himself went into the synagogue and reasoned with the Jews.

When they asked him to spend more time with them, he declined. But as he left, he promised,

“I will come back if it is God’s will.”

Then he set sail from Ephesus. (Acts 18)

While Paul did not stay in Ephesus on this brief visit, two believing Jews he met in Corinth did, Aquila and his wife Priscilla.

Like many characters in the New Testament writings, modern day Christians almost always refer to the Jewish believers as “Christians,” including Aquila and Priscilla.

But the actual text of the New Testament clearly identifies them as “Jews”, not “Christians.”

Notice also that they escaped from Rome before coming to Corinth where they met Paul, because the Roman Emperor “Claudius had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome.”

And of course Paul ALWAYS referred to himself as a Jew, and in this text we see him even practicing the Jewish faith, by keeping the Nazirite Vow regarding the cutting of his hair.

As I have recently written, “Christian” was a term used only for Gentile believers from Antioch in the New Testament, and was never a term that the believing Jews used of themselves in the New Testament. See:

Jesus’ Disciples who Changed the World After His Death were All Jews, NOT Christians

The top right image in the featured image I created for this article is a copy of the famous painting titled “The Christian Martyrs’ Last Prayer” by Jean-Léon Gérôme in the 1800s, which would have been during the time of the “Great Reformation” in Europe.

But the historical records, including this reference in Acts 18, clearly show that JEWS were the ones being persecuted in Rome, as Christianity did not become a religion until a few hundred years later.

So Aquila and Priscilla were believing Jews from the sect called “The Way” who were forced to leave Rome.

At the end of Acts chapter 18, we see another believer end up in the city of Ephesus.

Meanwhile a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, came to Ephesus. He was a learned man, with a thorough knowledge of the Scriptures.

He had been instructed in the way of the Lord, and he spoke with great fervor and taught about Jesus accurately, though he knew only the baptism of John. He began to speak boldly in the synagogue.

When Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they invited him to their home and explained to him the way of God more adequately.
(Acts 18:24-26)

Again, in modern times Apollos is also referred to as a “Christian,” but the actual text in the New Testament manuscripts clearly refers to him as a “Jew,” another believing Jew who was a part of the Jewish sect referred to as “The Way.”

So we have at least 3 believing Jews who were in Ephesus before Paul comes back on the scene, as recorded in Acts 19.

I am going to pick up the story from Acts 19 verse 8, which gives a summary of Paul’s time in Ephesus:

Paul entered the synagogue and spoke boldly there for three months, arguing persuasively about the kingdom of God. But some of them became obstinate; they refused to believe and publicly maligned the Way.

So Paul left them.

He took the disciples with him and had discussions daily in the lecture hall of Tyrannus. This went on for two years, so that all the Jews and Greeks who lived in the province of Asia heard the word of the Lord. (Acts 19:8-10)

So after 2 years in Ephesus, “all the Jews and Greeks who lived in the province of Asia” heard the Gospel of Jesus Christ!

And this all happened from the most well-known city in Asia at that time, whose culture and fame were centered around the great Temple of Artemis, a temple that reportedly took 200 years to build, and was considered one of the “7 Wonders of the World.”

Now, let’s look at some of the details that happened during those two years, to see how this came about.

God did extraordinary miracles through Paul, so that even handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched him were taken to the sick, and their illnesses were cured and the evil spirits left them.

Some Jews who went around driving out evil spirits tried to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who were demon-possessed.

They would say,

“In the name of Jesus, whom Paul preaches, I command you to come out.”

Seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, were doing this.

One day the evil spirit answered them,

“Jesus I know, and I know about Paul, but who are you?”

Then the man who had the evil spirit jumped on them and overpowered them all. He gave them such a beating that they ran out of the house naked and bleeding.

When this became known to the Jews and Greeks living in Ephesus, they were all seized with fear, and the name of the Lord Jesus was held in high honor. (Acts 19:11-17)

Now we have the second group of characters appear in this story, the Satanic Jews. They are described here as “Jews who went around driving out evil spirits“. The older King James version uses the term “vagabond Jews“.

So they apparently did not live there, but they apparently made money from an itinerant ministry practicing something that is probably closely related to the modern day Kabbalah Jewish religion.

The believing Jews from The Way were demonstrating superior power than them, as the text states that “God did extraordinary miracles through Paul, so that even handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched him were taken to the sick, and their illnesses were cured and the evil spirits left them.”

These Satanic Jews undoubtedly lost a good business model that was bringing them income, because they were no match for the power of the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ who resided with the Godly Jews.

They were publicly humiliated, and this became very well known throughout the region.

This leads us to the third group of people in the story, the Gentile Freemasons (and also the ancient “technocrats”) who earned tremendous income from the Temple of Artemis, where witchcraft, healing, and temple prostitution were undoubtedly practiced and were a huge part of the city’s economic system, much like they are today in the United States.

A number who had practiced sorcery brought their scrolls together and burned them publicly. When they calculated the value of the scrolls, the total came to fifty thousand drachmas.

In this way the word of the Lord spread widely and grew in power.

About that time there arose a great disturbance about the Way.

A silversmith named Demetrius, who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought in no little business for the craftsmen. He called them together, along with the workmen in related trades, and said:

“Men, you know we receive a good income from this business. And you see and hear how this fellow Paul has convinced and led astray large numbers of people here in Ephesus and in practically the whole province of Asia.

He says that man-made gods are no gods at all.

There is danger not only that our trade will lose its good name, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be discredited, and the goddess herself, who is worshiped throughout the province of Asia and the world, will be robbed of her divine majesty.”

When they heard this, they were furious and began shouting:

“Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”

Soon the whole city was in an uproar.

The people seized Gaius and Aristarchus, Paul’s traveling companions from Macedonia, and rushed as one man into the theater.

Paul wanted to appear before the crowd, but the disciples would not let him. Even some of the officials of the province, friends of Paul, sent him a message begging him not to venture into the theater.

The assembly was in confusion: Some were shouting one thing, some another. Most of the people did not even know why they were there.

The Jews pushed Alexander to the front, and some of the crowd shouted instructions to him. He motioned for silence in order to make a defense before the people.

But when they realized he was a Jew, they all shouted in unison for about two hours:

“Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”

The city clerk quieted the crowd and said:

“Men of Ephesus, doesn’t all the world know that the city of Ephesus is the guardian of the temple of the great Artemis and of her image, which fell from heaven?

Therefore, since these facts are undeniable, you ought to be quiet and not do anything rash. You have brought these men here, though they have neither robbed temples nor blasphemed our goddess.

If, then, Demetrius and his fellow craftsmen have a grievance against anybody, the courts are open and there are proconsuls.

They can press charges. If there is anything further you want to bring up, it must be settled in a legal assembly. As it is, we are in danger of being charged with rioting because of today’s events. In that case we would not be able to account for this commotion, since there is no reason for it.”

After he had said this, he dismissed the assembly. (Acts 19:19-41)

Ancient Masons and Technologists

Since we are dependent upon the English translations of this passage, I am sure some are now wondering how I can use the term “Freemason” and “Technocrats” to refer to these businessmen who made their living from the Great Temple of Artemis,

This first thing I want to point out about the biases of the English translations of the Bible, starting with the Government-approved King James Version from the 1600s, is that word “assembly” used here twice of the angry mob in Ephesus is ekklesia, the same word that is mostly translated as “church” in the rest of the New Testament.

Why didn’t they use the English word “church” here, I wonder?

Next, let’s look at the English word “craftsmen” that is used here to refer to Demetrius and the others.

The word in the original Greek texts is τεχνίτης – technitēs.

This is the word group that we get our English words “tech”, “technology”, “technologists”, etc. from.

In classical secular Greek, it meant “craftsman or builder in wood, stone, or metal“.

It is also used in the Greek translation of the Old Testament, such as in this verse describing the building of Solomon’s temple:

You have many workmen: stonecutters, masons and carpenters, as well as men skilled in every kind of work.
(1 Chronicles 22:15)

Another Greek word from this word group in Greek is tektōn, which is used of Jesus in Mark 6:3:

Isn’t this the carpenter? Isn’t this Mary’s son and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?” And they took offense at him. (Mark 6:3)

All the English translations I have, which is over a dozen, including the KJV, ALL translate this word as “carpenter.”

This is what the New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology by Collin Brown, Volume 1 published in 1967 (originally published in German), on page 279 states regarding tektōn:

tektōn appears only in the identification of Jesus by the people of Nazareth as “the carpenter” (Mark 6:3), “the carpenter’s son” (Matthew 13:33).

Though “carpenter” is the common rendering here, tektōn could equally mean “mason” or “smith” (as indeed some of the Fathers took it) or it could mean that Joseph and Jesus were builders, so that both carpentry and masonry would have been among their skills.

This was a new revelation to me as I studied Acts 19 today in preparation for writing this article, and the Holy Spirit prompted me to look up the original word in the original texts for “craftsmen”.

And of course it makes a lot of sense and correlates with many other passages in the Bible that refer to Jesus as a builder of stone.

Jesus is also referred to as the “cornerstone.”

As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

For it stands in Scripture:

“Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious, and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.”

So the honor is for you who believe, but for those who do not believe,

“The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,” and

“A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense.”

They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. (1 Peter 2:4-9)

So should we really be calling Jesus a “carpenter” or a “mason”?

I did a search to see if there were others had studied and discovered this, and of course there are.

Here is one video I found that confirms this. Note: I don’t know the person in this video and I know nothing about his other teachings, just what he describes in this video which confirms my own study on this.

Applications for Today

The equivalent of the “craftsmen” of today who are similar to the the “craftsmen” we meet in Ephesus in Acts 19, seem to obviously be the Freemasons and Technocrats who function much in the same capacity today that Demetrius and his fellow businessmen did back in the First Century.

They make a lot of money from the things they “craft”, but they are not simply physical buildings today, but also digital fortresses such as their AI models which are quickly becoming idols and, at least at this point, are making them a ton of money.

They are also idolaters, and just as the Freemasons and Satanic Jews made money off of religion in Acts 19, they are doing the same thing today.

Christianity is a multi-trillion dollar industry in the U.S., and they are not opposing the Satanic culture as the Godly Jews were in Ephesus. They are participating in it, including the demonic medical system, and are well-connected to Satan’s systems as Freemasons, engaged in sexual perversion and tainted money built upon the Jeffrey Epstein financial system.

The biggest threats I see in American culture heading into 2026, are Zionism, the worship of LLM AI, and the “temples” they plan to build in 2026 called “data centers,” and of course the demonic medical system which is referred to as “witchcraft” in the Bible “pharmakeia“.

How do we oppose them?

The same way the believers did in Acts 19, by displaying a SUPERIOR power source through the Holy Spirit of God, and offering the masses alternatives.

That power was mainly displayed through miraculous healings and the casting out of demons, that JESUS did through his disciples.

If your belief system does not allow for God to work miracles through you, then he won’t.

I have seen God work many miracles in my own life through the years, and I can testify to the fact that all of the miraculous gifts of the Holy Spirit are just as available to us today, as they were back in the First Century.

Without the power of the Holy Spirit in our lives, there is not much of a chance of seeing a repeat of Acts 19 in the U.S. today.

And for that to happen, we need to follow the same path of the apostle Paul, who after trying to share the Good News to the believers in the churches (synagogues) of his day, LEFT them when they rejected him, and shook the dust off of his feet as he left.

And after he left the assemblies of the unbelieving Jews, THEN the power of God took over to destroy the strongholds of Satan.

I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better.

I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and his incomparably great power for us who believe.

That power (greater than electricity and data centers!!)is like the working of his mighty strength, which he exerted in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms, far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every title that can be given, not only in the present age but also in the one to come.
(Ephesians 1:17-21)

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This article was written by Human Superior Intelligence (HSI)

See Also:

Understand the Times We are Currently Living Through

The Demonic Roots of Christianity: The Christians Jesus Said He Hated

Who are God’s “Chosen People”?

Life in the Spirit versus the Religious Life in the Flesh

KABBALAH: The Anti-Christ Religion of Satan that Controls the World Today

Christian Teaching on Sex and Marriage vs. The Actual Biblical Teaching

Exposing the Christian Zionism Cult

The Bewitching of America with the Evil Eye and the Mark of the Beast

Jesus Christ’s Opposition to the Jewish State: Lessons for Today

Identifying the Luciferian Globalists Implementing the New World Order – Who are the “Jews”?

The Brain Myth: Your Intellect and Thoughts Originate in Your Heart, Not Your Brain