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Re: Ancient Unexplained Discoveries | Nephilim | Giants | Archae
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By: patrick jane Date: May 30, 2020, 10:49 am
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The Truth About Angels and Demons Is Staring Us in the Face
Michael Heiser’s books cut through the myths and legends
surrounding these supernatural beings.
M. Night Shyamalan’s film The Sixth Sense catapulted the
director to overnight stardom. Most people who saw the film will
never forget the shock they felt when the trick ending was
revealed and they were forced to reassess the meaning of each
and every scene they had just witnessed. In the flash of an eye,
it became a very different movie, far richer and far stranger
than they had first imagined.
If I may leap from the secular to the sacred, from pop culture
to inspired Scripture, I suppose the two travelers on the road
to Emmaus must have felt the same way when Jesus opened up the
Old Testament to them (Luke 24:27). So, they must have thought
to themselves, that’s what Moses really meant—and David and
Isaiah and Ezekiel and Daniel! How could we have missed it when
the truth was staring us in the face all these years?
It is as if the viewers of the film and the travelers to Emmaus
were trying to put together a thousand-piece puzzle without
having been shown a picture of what the finished puzzle looks
like. Only when the director of the film, or the gospel,
revealed that picture were they able to use it as a key for
assembling the pieces into a coherent image and narrative. I
felt something of that sense of revelation when I happened upon
Michael Heiser’s book The Unseen Realm: Recovering the
Supernatural Worldview of the Bible, first published in 2015.
Heiser, who holds a PhD in Hebrew Bible and Semitic languages
and is the executive director of the School of Theology at
Celebration Church in Jacksonville, Florida, has devoted his
career to expanding the horizons of Bible-believing Christians
who have never known what to make of Scripture’s frequent
references to “gods” and “sons of God.” Using Psalm 82 as his
starting point, Heiser argues that God chose to work through a
divine council of supernatural beings whom he created and over
whom he holds full sovereignty. He intended for his council to
also include human representatives who would meet at Eden,
itself a nexus point between heaven and earth.
But man, tempted by a rebellious member of the council, sinned
and lost Eden. Things devolved further when a series of
supernatural beings assumed bodies and mated with human women to
produce a race of giants, the Nephilim (Gen. 6:1–4). The evil of
this race furthered the wickedness of men and led to the Flood,
but even that event did not put an end to human and divine
wickedness. The campaign to build the Tower of Babel showed that
evil and rebellion were still rampant among men and gods alike.
As a result of that rebellion, God portioned the land and turned
over those portions to the control of supernatural members of
his council (Deut. 32:8–9), leaving Israel for himself as a
remaining plot of holy land to be inhabited by the descendants
of Abraham, whom he called for that purpose. But the
supernatural guardians of those portions turned, one by one, to
evil, causing God to judge and curse them, as recorded in Psalm
82. Worse yet, the descendants of Abraham turned to evil and
began to worship the rebellious gods of the other nations,
causing God to exile them to Babylon, the very land where the
Tower of Babel had been built.
Angelic Ministry
Since the publication of The Unseen Realm, Heiser has continued
to flesh out the supernatural worldview of the Bible with two
recent books on the nature, origin, and functions of angels and
demons. Cutting through the myths and legends that have
surrounded these divine beings, Heiser allows us to see them
through the eyes of the writers of the Old and New Testament as
well as the Jewish and Greek writers who lived in the
intertestamental period.
Although Heiser presents his case and offers his conclusions in
an accessible manner, his points are backed up by a mountain of
textual, historical, anthropological, and linguistic research.
Indeed, one of Heiser’s great strengths is taking findings from
esoteric, highly academic papers and helping ordinary,
non-specialist readers understand their relevance for
interpreting the Bible and seeing the overall shape of God’s
work in human history.
In his 2018 book Angels: What the Bible Really Says About God’s
Heavenly Host, Heiser explains that message-bearing (what the
word angel means in Greek) marks only one of the many functions
performed by the supernatural, non-physical beings that God
created. Angels also act as ministers of God’s will, watchers
who are ever vigilant, soldiers in God’s heavenly host (or
army), interpreters to men of God’s messages, protectors of
God’s holiness, executors of God’s divine judgment, and members
of God’s council who participate in and bear witness to God’s
sovereign decisions and decrees.
Heiser presents a dynamic picture of God holding session with
his divine council, but he also lays down biblical limits for
angelic authority and advice. One of the best examples in
Scripture of God convening his council is 1 Kings 22:19–23, when
he asks how the wicked king Ahab might be defeated. After
performing a close analysis on the passage, Heiser concludes
that the “text presents us with a clear instance where God has
sovereignly decided to act but allows his lesser, intelligent
servants to participate in how his decision is carried out. God
wasn’t searching for ideas, as though he couldn’t conceive of a
plan. He allowed those who serve him the latitude to propose
options.”
In his overview of the study of angels between the period of
Exile and the ministry of Christ, Heiser marshals his prodigious
research to dispel two popular myths. First, he demonstrates
that Second Temple Jewish writers, including the translators of
the Septuagint (the Greek Old Testament) and the Qumran
community that wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls, did not eliminate the
language of angels as sons of god out of a fear of promoting
polytheism. Their writing shows quite the opposite: a clear
understanding that Yahweh is the only God but that he is
surrounded by a divine council of supernatural beings who are
often called gods. Second, he shows that the Dead Sea Scrolls do
not embody a dualistic vision of good and evil as equal and
opposite forces, but of angelic warfare between beings created
by the omnipotent and always-benevolent Yahweh.
Whereas the Old Testament speaks of the angel of the Lord
carrying out the judgment of God, the New Testament, written
after God became man, no longer mentions the Angel of the
Lord—because judgment has been “entrusted” to Christ (John
5:22). Angels are described as exacting God’s vengeance in the
apocalyptic book of Revelation, but in the rest of the New
Testament, they are usually seen as ministering to believers.
Some have argued that Christ’s death on the cross redeemed
fallen angels as well as fallen human beings, Heiser refutes
this theory, making it clear that “the sacrifice of Jesus does
not help angels. It helps believers—the children of Abraham by
faith.”
Demonic Rebellion
In his most recent book, Demons: What the Bible Really Says
About the Powers of Darkness, Heiser takes up the story of those
fallen angels whom even the death of Christ could not redeem.
The book dispels the myth, popularized in John Milton’s classic
poem Paradise Lost, of a single rebellion against God led by
Satan before the world was created, a myth that has little
actual scriptural support. Instead, Heiser defines demons, or
evil spirits, as “members of God’s heavenly host who have chosen
to rebel against his will.” Rather than taking place once, as it
does in Paradise Lost, this rebellion (as noted earlier in this
review) took different forms at different times: the serpent in
Eden, the sons of God who slept with the daughters of men, and
the disobedient sons of god Yahweh put in charge of the nations
after the Tower of Babel.
Still, despite their rebellion, the evil spirits continued to be
spirits living in a spiritual realm. As Heiser observes, “Their
rebellion did not mean they were no longer part of that world or
that they became something other than what they were. They are
still spiritual beings. Rather, rebellion affected (and still
characterizes) their disposition toward, and relationship to,
Yahweh.” As for the demons described in the Old Testament,
Heiser explains that some are “associated with the realm of the
dead and its inhabitants,” some are linked to specific
geographical locations opposed to God’s rule, and some are
“preternatural creatures associated with idolatry and unholy
ground.”
Regarding the third kind, Heiser notes that, while in theory any
ground “not occupied by the presence of God” could be considered
unholy, all places outside Jerusalem were not therefore places
of spiritual danger. Nevertheless, Heiser writes, “forbidding,
uninhabitable places in lands associated with other gods were
unholy in the sense of sinister and evil. This was especially
true of the desert wilderness, whether literal or used
metaphorically to describe places ravaged by divine judgment.”
It was into that wilderness that the scapegoat was sent on the
Day of Atonement (Lev. 16), a wilderness quite literally viewed
as a locus of “a cosmic struggle involving the spiritual world.”
Many modern readers, even if they believe in biblical inerrancy,
will find these themes unsettling, but they are attested to in
the Old Testament, carried forward into the Second Temple period
after Israel’s exile, and glimpsed in the exorcisms performed by
Jesus in the New Testament.
What Heiser has to say about Satan will be familiar to many, but
perhaps not his argument that the demons who seek to tempt,
subvert, and possess human beings were believed to have their
origin in the hybrid Nephilim that were born to the sons of god
and daughters of men. When those Nephilim died, Heiser claims,
their disembodied spirits became demons. Another unfamiliar
theme concerns the origin of the cosmic, political-territorial
spiritual warfare we discover in the Bible. Heiser says it began
not in a primeval rebellion by Satan and his minions, but
instead when “the sons of god [to whom God had apportioned the
nations] transgressed Yahweh’s desire for earthly order and just
rule of his human imagers, sowing chaos in the nations.”
But we need not fear, Heiser assures us; after Christ defeated
the power of Satan, he opened the way to a reclamation of the
demon-controlled nations. This reclamation took place at
Pentecost (Acts 2), when the gospel was carried to all those
lands previously ruled by the rebellious sons of god. Good
Friday, Easter, and Pentecost together healed the division begun
by Babel, making it possible for the Gentiles to free themselves
from false gods and embrace Jesus as Lord.
Breaking Down the Darkness
Though many readers might trip over the technical aspects of
Angels and Demons, with their lengthy charts and heavy emphasis
on the parsing of Hebrew and Greek terms, Heiser keeps things
moving and skillfully sums up his main points. I do wish,
however, that he had been more sympathetic to modern
spiritual-warfare advocates who share Heiser’s concept of cosmic
strife that includes a strong territorial element. Though I
agree with Heiser that the fallen sons of god were disinherited
by the Cross, the Resurrection, and the spreading of the gospel,
it’s hard to deny that certain areas of the globe remain
immersed in spiritual darkness.
Spiritual-warfare advocates have located just such an area in a
rectangle that stretches from the 10th to the 40th latitude
north of the equator. This “10/40 window,” as missions
strategists sometimes call it, encompasses North Africa, the
Middle East, China, Pakistan, and India. Given that the vast
majority of unreached people groups live in this window and that
persecution of the church is strongest there, it does not seem
unreasonable to suggest that a territorial reign of evil (or
stronghold) exists in that area of the globe, and that intense
prayer on the part of believers may help break down demonic
communication.
I believe Heiser’s books can inspire that needed movement of
prayer just as they have illuminated the full meaning and extent
of spiritual warfare in the pages of God’s Word.
Louis Markos is professor in English and scholar in residence at
Houston Baptist University and holds the Robert H. Ray Chair in
Humanities. His books include Heaven and Hell: Visions of the
Afterlife in the Western Poetic Tradition (Cascade Books).
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Re: Ancient Unexplained Discoveries | Nephilim | Giants | Archae
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By: patrick jane Date: July 30, 2020, 11:51 pm
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Cool
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Re: Ancient Unexplained Discoveries | Nephilim | Giants | Archae
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Re: Ancient Unexplained Discoveries | Nephilim | Giants | Archae
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By: patrick jane Date: September 1, 2020, 9:07 am
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Hurstwic: Occult Archaeology - magic and runes in continuum
Occult Archaeology is a presentation by Teresa Dröfn Freysdóttir
Njarðvík at a meeting of the Hurstwic Heathen study group.
1 hour
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Re: Ancient Unexplained Discoveries | Nephilim | Giants | Archae
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By: guest73 Date: September 2, 2020, 8:42 am
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Interesting
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Re: Ancient Unexplained Discoveries | Nephilim | Giants | Archae
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By: patrick jane Date: September 5, 2020, 11:22 am
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Good video
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Re: Ancient Unexplained Discoveries | Nephilim | Giants | Archae
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Re: Ancient Unexplained Discoveries | Nephilim | Giants | Archae
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