TRUSTING IN other people will usually disappoint. This week’s reading in Psalms is timely, giving that we’re less than three weeks away from electing a new president in the United States.Continue Reading
THE PSALMS are often polemics directed at the gods of the pagan nations around Israel. Case in point is the subject of this month’s Iron and Myth roundtable, Psalm 29.Continue Reading
PRAISE AND THANKSGIVING is at the heart of this week’s collection of psalms.Continue Reading
DAVID KNEW that God had a divine council comprised of supernatural beings. We see more confirmation of that in this week’s study.Continue Reading
Renowned Bible scholar, author, friend, and mentor Dr. Michael S. Heiser stepped into eternity Monday, February 20, 2023. All of us owe Mike a debt.Continue Reading
TERRITORIAL SPIRITS have influenced human politics for millennia. The princes of Persia and Greece are explicitly mentioned in theBook of Daniel, but it was understood in the ancient Near East that every city-state or tribal territory had its patron god.Continue Reading
One of the most fascinating chapters in the Bible is Psalm 82, which reads like a courtroom scene in heaven.Continue Reading
Psalm 82 may depict Yahweh appearing in the middle of El’s infernal council to pass sentence on rebellious fallen angels! And Psalm 68 may record a battle at Mount Hermon around that time—an action that ended with God taking away “a host of captives.”Continue Reading
JOB CONTINUES his lament this week, openly wishing that he could hide in Sheol until God’s anger was past. In response, Eliphaz the Temanite accuses Job of guilt, asserting that God only punishes the wicked — something that we know is true, but judgment doesn’t always happen when we want it.
WE SEE the divine council worldview in the ongoing discourse of Eliphaz the Temanite, as he mentions the “Holy Ones,” an epithet used elsewhere in the Old Testament for the Watchers (Daniel 4:13, 17).