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An Issue with Ezekiel 14
Re: Naked Bible 122: Ezekiel 14-15 Right in the middle of this podcast, roughly the 20:00 mark, Heiser begins talking about Ezekiel 14. Later at the 30:00 mark he raises a couple of small issues that I want to address. … Continue reading
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Tagged ancient babylon, babylonian exile, biblical scholarship, Hebrew oral lore, Job, Prophet Daniel, Prophet Ezekiel
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Who Will Be Spared?
Re: Naked Bible 117: Ezekiel 8-9 This will be short and simple. Heiser’s lesson on these two chapters is one thing. While listening to it, I was struck by something related for us today. Ezekiel has a vision of all … Continue reading
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Tagged Babylon, babylonian exile, destruction of jerusalem, faith community, idolatry, Prophet Ezekiel, tribulation
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Not Flying Saucers
Ref: Naked Bible 112: Ezekiel 1 & Ezekiel 1 PDF I assure you that this really does require the companion PDF from Heiser. This is an academic study on the imagery of the Ancient Near East (ANE) in general and … Continue reading
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Tagged antiquities, archeology, babylonian exile, covenant, dreams and visions, Hebrew epistemology, prophecy, Prophet Ezekiel, symbolic communication, Temple, Three Rebellions
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Psalm 137
Western Christianity, with its odd mixture of pagan and secular moral values, struggles to understand the moral content of this psalm. This psalm is a good test of whether one can grasp the Ancient Hebrew outlook that is at the … Continue reading
And We Ain’t
Israel was taken into exile because of idolatry. Granted, part of the problem was how very similar the rituals of Temple worship were to those for the various Baals. In the mind of too many Israelis, it was a case … Continue reading
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Tagged babylonian exile, bible, idolatry, tribulation, western civilization, western epistemology
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Psalm 29
In Israel, politics was never just politics. The Covenant was a suzerain-vassal treaty, a very personal covenant, making Israel in effect a tributary to Jehovah Himself. Idolatry was treason, and very often treason arose from idolatry. It has been widely … Continue reading
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Tagged babylonian exile, idolatry, Israel, King David, politics, Psalms, religion, superstition
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Zechariah 7
Based on the Old Testament calendar, this message is dated December 518 BC. There came a delegation of folks from Bethel, 10 miles (16km) to the north and bit east. We recall a significant number of people escaped the Babylonian … Continue reading
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Tagged babylonian exile, destruction of jerusalem, history, law, religion, ritual observances, survival
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The Great Swap
Re: Naked Bible 102: What does “All Israel will be saved” Mean? Church folks who ignore the Second Temple literature, particularly how it interprets the OT, will build a theology that is utterly rootless and alien to the New Testament. … Continue reading →