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More Than a Conspiracy
Re: Naked Bible 149: Q&A with Fern, Audrey, and Beth As Heiser warns up front, this is not a model for ministry. Rather, this interview aims to answer basic questions about how the Enemy and his allies operate. What is … Continue reading
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Tagged deliverance, demons, elohim, Elohim Council, idolatry, Nephilim, psychology, redemption, Rephaim, Three Rebellions, Unseen Realm, Watchers
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Spiritual Graduation
Sorry, but I don’t have the footnotes for this tidbit from way back in my college days: I recall reading somewhere about an exchange between Hebrew and Greek philosophers. This was before Alexander the Great. In their discussion, the Hebrew … Continue reading
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Tagged ANE, bible, Biblical Mysticism, binary logic, Covenant of Christ, faith, feudalism, Hebrew expression, Hellenism, kingdom of heaven, Michael S. Heiser, parables, theology, western epistemology
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Watchmen, Not Watchers Part 2
While it’s unlikely that the 144,000 of Revelation 14 are solely responsible as watchmen over the slumbering ruins of spiritual Jerusalem, they are part of the team God addresses in the plural call in Isaiah 40:1-2. With the historical Restoration … Continue reading
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Tagged eschatology, Garden of Eden, Jesus the Messiah, Pentecost, Prophet Ezekiel, prophet isaiah, revelation
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Jesus’ Birthday
Ref: Naked Bible 138: What Day was Jesus Born? The solution requires you first understand the Three Rebellions: the Fall, the descent of the Watchers, and the elohim betrayal of their commission in the division of nations at Babel. We’ll … Continue reading
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Tagged ANE, astrology, astronomy, calendar, Feast of Trumpets, gospel of jesus christ, Jesus Christ, Jesus the Messiah, Masoretic Text, Michael S. Heiser, Nephilim, Septuagint, Son of David, the Fall, Watchers
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His One Law
In Acts 1, the resurrected Jesus warned His followers that they were not going to hear from God about specific human political changes, because those issues didn’t matter to His Kingdom. He wanted them to focus on spiritual power for … Continue reading
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Tagged Christian Law, covenant community of faith, economic troubles, Elohim Council, human conflict, Nephilim, politics, sacrificial love, the Devil, Three Rebellions, Unseen Realm, Watchers
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Clarification: Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28
Short answer — most people read this backwards. They insist that the text points to something else, when it is that something else is pointing back to the text. In your mind, envision an oral body of lore about the … Continue reading
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Tagged ANE, arrogance, Hebrew oral lore, Prophet Ezekiel, prophet isaiah, Satan, the Devil
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Latter Day Idolatry
I’m not dead; I’ve just been busy. My biking blog will eventually explain in detail. In the Bible, the crux of sin was not in the actions you took. The matter of disobedience was itself secondary. The central core issue … Continue reading
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Tagged faith, idolatry, King David, love, Michael S. Heiser, Nehushtan, personal loyalty, sin, submission to God, the Spirit Realm, Unseen Realm
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Getting Words Right
Re: Naked Bible 131: Conference Interviews Part 4 Let’s talk about terminology. This is no different than anything we’ve said before; it’s just another person expressing the same thing when Heiser interviewed NT Wright. The Kingdom of God is what … Continue reading
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Tagged covenant identity, Covenant of Christ, divine election, ethnic identity, Hellenism, mortality, old testament, spiritual redemption, the Cross, theology
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Symbols and Icons
Re: Naked Bible 130: Conference Interviews Part 3 Heiser interviews David Burnett regarding his paper, “Death, Resurrection, and Transformation in Scripture in 1 Corinthians 15”. This has to do mostly with how the Septuagint and New Testament documents interplay via … Continue reading
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Tagged elohim, eternal nature, idolatry, Michael S. Heiser, mortality, NT, OT, resurrection, symbolic references, Unseen Realm
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Conscience and Conviction
We can say that your conscience is your capacity to read your convictions. Conscience is the interface between your conscious mind and your convictions. But the conscience needs training; the convictions do not. The convictions are not developed but discovered. … Continue reading
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Tagged conscience, conviction, divine revelation, Hebrew epistemology, Hebrew language, Hellenism, sin, the Cross, Western mythology
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