This essay on the Federalist will be of interest to those who follow my work and have read The Unseen Realm: Why We Should Question God in Response to Evil and Tragedy The essay is by Aaron Gleason. He's familiar with the divine council and the sorts of things I write...
Unseen Realm
DNA, Canaanites, and the Biblically-Illiterate Media
By now I've probably received a heads up on the story about Canaanite DNA disproving the biblical conquest narrative a dozen times. Here's my own heads-up: If you see some "news" about the Bible in mass media, you can presume it's click-bait archaeoporn that will...
The Cosmic Mountain and Trees In Old Testament Theology
In a couple of weeks I'll be filming three courses for Faithlife (my employer; aka Logos Bible Software) that revolve around content threads in my book The Unseen Realm: Recovering the Supernatural Worldview of the Bible. The idea is not to go through the book...
Reversing Hermon: “A Fantastic Follow-Up to Unseen Realm”
That's the opinion of early reviewers. Reversing Hermon isn't my planned sequel to The Unseen Realm, but it does continue the conversation. I'll take it! Hope you'll read it!
Mike’s World
A bit of a personal aside for this post. Most readers know I'm busy (that word actually doesn't begin to describe the situation). But I sometimes get asked why I don't do certain things. For example ... Mike, why don't you / won't you: answer my email? spend time on...
The Unseen Realm and the Mission of the Cross (the Church): A Common but Significant Question
This may be controversial in terms of the illustration I'll use, but I find the illustration has explanatory power. I think our real problem isn't how darkness has adapted, but how believers have changed (i.e., their thinking). I'll try and explain. I just posted this...
Naked Bible Podcast Episode 145: Ezekiel 31 and the Cosmic Tree
Ezekiel 31 is part of the prophet’s oracles against Egypt (chs. 29-32). The chapter strikes an analogy between the mighty nation of Egypt and a great cedar tree in Eden, the envy of other glorious trees in the garden of God. The symbol of the “world tree” or “cosmic...
My New Book Reversing Hermon is Now Available for Pre-Order
Someone sent me an email a week ago that my new book, Reversing Hermon: Enoch, the Watchers, and the Forgotten Mission of Jesus Christ, was available for pre-order. Sorry I forgot to blog it then. It's been number 1 in the angels and demons new releases category since...
Did Yahweh Demand Blood for a True Relationship with Him? Part 3: Bloodless Atonement and New Testament Justification
[MSH: When readers finish this essay, they will recognize its internal consistency with my argument in The Unseen Realm that salvation was the same across the board in both testaments. The issue was believing loyalty to Yahweh. Dr. Johnson raises the question of how...
Mike’s ETS Paper Now on Kindle
I posted my ETS paper ("The Divine Council in the Pentateuch") in PDF form a few days ago. It's now available in Kindle format.
Mike Heiser’s ETS Paper: The Divine Council in the Pentateuch
A week ago I presented this invited paper in the ETS Pentateuch section: ets-2016-divine-council-in-the-pentateuch The paper isn't an academic work per se. It's more conversational. I took that route because of the time limitation. However, it does have some different...
Parts 2 through 9 of Ben Witherington’s Review of The Unseen Realm
Yes, you read that correctly - 9 parts. I've been out of commission for about a week with grading, travel time, and now in an intensive teaching week with "Fern and Audrey" and a dozen other folks. So ... I fell behind keeping track of these. But here they are: Review...
Ben Witherington Review of The Unseen Realm, Part 1
I'm grateful that Dr. Ben Witherington has taken the time to not only read my book, The Unseen Realm, but also to blog about it. Here is the first installment of his review, which took the form of an interview/exchange with me. Ben is a well-known New Testament...
Blog Review of Supernatural
Thanks are due to Spencer Robinson for this extended and thoughtful review of my book Supernatural: What the Bible Teaches About the Unseen World and Why it Matters (Lexham, 2015). This is the "lite" version of Unseen Realm.
Recent Interview on Revolution Radio (UK) – Divine Council, Gnosticism, and More!
Here's the interview on YouTube, send to me by the host, Paul Stevenson: