Unseen Realm: Michael Heiser Part 1

 God has been showing me a couple different things from this book called Unseen Real: Recovering the Supernatural Worldview of the Bible.   The book shown the clear verses and passages that detailed the Supernatural Real working against us.   Also,  the book also explained certain well known passages in the Bible such as Genesis 3 and Job 1-2.   The book explains why Israel faced giants such as goliath and his origins.   Lastly,  it gives you the passages for origins of the spiritual worldview in Psalm 82 and it helps you understand God and his Word.  

The concepts discussed in this book are never described in the church.   Heiser does a great job of developing and helping the reader understand that God did have divine beings on this divine council that rebelled against him; Psalm 82 and Job 1-2.    Also,  Heiser helps the reader understand the "Satan" is not a serpent but a divine being that was on God's divine council but rebelled.   In Job 1-2,  "Satan" is shown as arbiter or judge in the story of Job.  Heiser reveals that there are multiple rebellions that took place in the Old Testament: Genesis 3, Genesis 6,  and the tower of Babel in Genesis 11.  

These "sons of god," rebelled against God in the passages of Genesis 6 and Psalm 82.  These "sons of god" are referred to as elohim similar to God but in lower than God. Their descendants would end up becoming the Anakim and Repalim.  Their descendants were the Nephalim during the time of the flood.   Their future descendants would become the giants as Moses sent out Joshua and Caleb to spy out the land.  This is also where the offspring of Goliath and his clan of giants would come from.   Lastly,  they would end up becoming a type of demonic forces during the time of Jesus' ministry.  

Another important concept is the Deuteronomy 32:8-9 worldview,  which describes how God disinherited the "sons of god," to the other surrounding nations.    He sent them out from Israel's midst because they disobeyed God and his commands.   This worldview shows how Israel was battling these nations throughout the whole Old Testament.   It helps you understand the Old Testament more clearly.  Lastly,  this worldview helps shape how we see the Supernatural Worldview of the Bible.  

I will be posting a part two soon.  There is so much in this book to detail and discuss in length.  I will have to review and do another post this weekend.   There will be another update when I finish this book.    God is calling me to do multiple reviews of this life changing book.