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OT Echoes in the Resurrection

Re: Naked Bible 95: David Burnett — Resurrection and the Death of the Gods – On the podcast, Heiser features a PhD student sharing a paper he was preparing for presentation at a scholarly conference. His thesis is that Paul’s … Continue reading →

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Random Photos 21

On a day it was closed, I managed to capture this glimpse through the cage barrier of the south entrance to the Bricktown Ballpark. Being no fan of baseball, I’ve never been inside, so this is as close as I’m … Continue reading →

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Galatians 3-4 and the Watchers

This is based on combining two Naked Bible podcasts – Naked Bible 93: The Book of Enoch in the Early Church and Naked Bible 94: The Sin of the Watchers and Galatians 3-4. The first is a fuller explanation of … Continue reading →

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It’s Rolling Already

We don’t engage in political activity outside the Covenant. It’s not God’s work. All of it is under the Devil’s control, though not always directly so. His allies on the Elohim Council do a lot of his dirty work, as … Continue reading →

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You Must Die

It’s both doctrine and pragmatism that we are utterly dependent on the Holy Spirit’s Presence. Without Him, the Covenant of Christ is merely law. Everything we teach is utterly impossible without that divine power. In His Presence, any biblical law … Continue reading →

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Working Assumptions

We’ve mentioned before that we tend to favor annihilationism. That’s the notion that Hell/the Abyss is not eternal, and that everyone already there or going there will be annihilated at Judgment Day. Nobody roasts in Hell eternally. But as Catacomb … Continue reading →

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Sin and Covenant

Once again, I’m going to ask you to think about the Bible as a whole as we look at some problems we face in getting our message across. I’ve said this before: the biblical concept of covenant is not the … Continue reading →

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The Book of Life

Ref: Naked Bible Podcast #89 The concept of “books” in Heaven is borrowed from Sumer and Mesopotamia. The more ancient concept is “tablets of destinies”. Heiser approaches the question of just how much of our existence is predestined under the … Continue reading →

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Glad of That

Why do we bother to share the prophetic word? It is not to prove that God knows the future. The whole point is to warn people that the path they tread leads to sorrow. It’s virtually always a call to … Continue reading →

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Whence Deliverance?

In the 87th episode of Heiser’s Nake Bible Podcast he explores how the OT Messianic profile included the business of delivering people from demon possession. (Get the transcript here.) If you examine the OT in most English translations, you will … Continue reading →

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