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The Evil Eye
Re: Naked Bible 162: The Evil Eye The notion that one can bring about harm to something or someone through a nasty expression on the face while gazing at the object is perhaps the most universal superstition across every human … Continue reading
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Tagged ancient hebrew culture, ancient magic, figures of speech, New Testament, old testament
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Three Small Issues
Re: Naked Bible 158: The Fate of the Ark of the Covenant The Ark of the Covenant required ritually prepared priests to move it. Anyone else who touched it risked dying. It didn’t happen 100% of the time, but close … Continue reading
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Tagged Ark of Covenant, blasphemy, Canaan, curses and blessings, Holy Spirit, kingdom of heaven is at hand, Noah
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The Coming Shock: Coda
Yesterday’s Bible lesson was already a bit long, but I need to add something that may not be obvious. In 2 Thessalonians 2, Paul quotes from Daniel’s description of a type of Antichrist. Daniel does the same thing we saw … Continue reading
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Tagged Antichrist, Antiochus IV, apostasy, covenant, Divided Kingdom, divine election, Elijah, eschatology, faith community, Gentiles, Law of Moses, letters to the thessalonians, Maccabees, Romans, the Devil
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The Coming Shock
(I’m drawing here from both Heiser and Moreau, and they don’t precisely agree.) In Romans 11, Paul says “all Israel” will be saved. We’ve established in a past lesson that this had a specific meaning in Paul’s day, referring not … Continue reading
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Tagged Antichrist, covenant of abraham, eschatology, evangelism, faith, Gentiles, Israel, Jews
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Ezekiel’s Final Vision
Re: Naked Bible 156: Ezekiel 40-48 Part 1 and Naked Bible 157: Ezekiel 40-48 Part 2 If you think of Ezekiel’s vision in chapters 40-48 as something more or less literal, you will miss the point entirely. Heiser punches another … Continue reading
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Tagged Dispensationalism, eschatology, Garden of Eden, literalism, millennium, parable, Prophet Ezekiel, revelation, symbolic references
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Violating the Boundaries
Ezekiel mentions how the final end of the Dark Army of Gog will be in the Valley of Travelers (Ezekiel 39:11-16). Given the context, we know that this location is somewhere east of the Transjordan Ridge above the Dead Sea. … Continue reading
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Tagged Conquest, Jude, King David, Nephilim, Prophet Ezekiel, Sodom and Gomorrah, the Flood, the Spirit Realm, Unseen Realm, Watchers
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The Gog and Magog Delusion
Re: Naked Bible 152: Ezekiel 38-39 Part 1 and Naked Bible 153: Ezekiel 38-39 Part 2 We could spend weeks trying to counter the nonsense of Dispensationalism, but for just one lesson, we will look at Ezekiel 38-39 for a … Continue reading
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Tagged Dispensationalism, eschatology, Hebrew language, Nephilim, OT, prophecy, Prophet Ezekiel, Rephaim, revelation, symbolic references, Watchers
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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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