Tag Archives: Three Rebellions

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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Escaping the Empire

There were three rebellions in the Unseen Realm: the Fall in the Garden, the Watchers before the Flood, and the betrayal after the Tower of Babel. The Cross addressed all three. NT evangelism should also address all three. Churches today … Continue reading

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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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The Days of Noah

Let’s review the Three Rebellions: The Fall in the Garden, the descent of the Watchers, and the rise of idolatry after the Tower of Babel. The Fall brought mortality; that’s what the Fall and the symbol of Adam is all … 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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Already Provided

God set His humans in the Garden to manage things for Him and His glory. They were imbued with a native understanding of what He required of them. No one had to tell them where the boundaries of moral action … Continue reading

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Telling the Story Again, Part 2

Let’s review what we gain from Heiser’s thesis. As always, it’s not simply his thesis; he brought together a vast body of scholarly work and presented it to church folks who rarely hear anything about it. The huge gulf in … Continue reading

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Refugees from All Nations

Dr. Heiser mentions [YouTube] that there were three different times members of God’s divine host rebelled. The first was in Eden; the Devil slipped into the Garden and tempted Adam and Eve away from their reliance on God’s Word, and … Continue reading

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