Thanks again everyone for your prayers and for your patience. December and January have been quite the blur! But here we are, with tornados and covid behind us. What’s ahead of us? Well, following our conversations about world-views and about creation we now turn our attention specifically to the two realms and the kingdoms. Where to start? I think a great place to start is to piggy-back off our last podcast concerning the spiritual realm and the creation of spiritual beings.
You’ve probably noticed that I reference these spiritual beings as “elohim” - a word that most Christians consider simply a name for God. This is for good reason, but as you’ll see in today’s episode, this understanding risks being woefully inadequate and downplays the existence of other spiritual beings. This conversation about “elohim” will help begin to inform our understanding of their roles, and their activities in the two kingdoms (the Kingdom of Light, and the Kingdom of Darkness).
This podcast is an introduction to these topics, so I would highly encourage looking at these additional resources for further study:
BibleProject Podcast - “God” - first few episodes in particular
“Unseen Realm” written by Dr. Michael Heiser - written by an evangelical OT theologian; it can be a bit academic, but there’s another book called “Supernatural” that’s for laymen
Dr. Michael Heiser’s website - links to academic papers, his podcast, blog posts, etc. To get a taste of his work, you can read this post by him over on the LOGOS website - https://blog.logos.com/who-are-elohim/
The next episode we will dive deeper specifically into the Divine Council idea and look at passages like Psalm 82, Job 1 and 2, etc.
Then, we begin a new series of podcasts hitting on these topics, centered on the various elohim of the Kingdom of Darkness:
The Enemy, “the Satan”, the dragon, etc
The Fallen “Sons of God”, Genesis 6, Deut 32, the gods of the nations
Demons and Evil Spirits, their creation, role, etc
After these topics, we’ll turn to the Kingdom of Light:
YHWH revisited, His desires and covenant demands
The “Two Powers in Heaven” - The Angel of the Lord, binitarianism in Judaism and the foundation of the Trinity in the NT
Jesus, the promised messiah
The Holy Spirit, our counselor
Looking forward to also inviting others into the conversation. Between these episodes, I’ll be recording and posting conversations with other pastors and friends about navigating some of these topics as well as just pursuing Christ in daily living.
Now for a little “elohim” humor….
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