The Unseen Realm

Extremes

Psalm 82

Psalm 82:1 LEB

God stands in the divine assembly; he administers judgment in the midst of the gods.

God presides over the courts of powers, principalities and rulers that Satan copied when he set up the darkness.

v1: Note the same word is translated God, and gods.

v6-7: You are gods, but you will die like men?

Thoughts

Two extremes have faults: We Christians say we believe in the supernatural world, but doubt most any contact or action. One reason is we have been indoctrinated into our modern worldview. Our culture has trained us to dismiss any experience with the spiritual world.

The Charismatic movement believes in Spiritual experiences over what Scripture teaches.

One side consigns the spiritual world to theological abstracts, while the other is obsessed seeking spiritual interaction.

We do not understand the worldview the writers/audience shared by which to frame what was written.

Spiritual Beings

Ancients believed any beings not living on the surface here with us are divine beings. They considered the forbearing mountains to be the god’s, because people could not get up there readily, and they go up to the sky. Garden settings is where gods would live.

These beings have a hierarchy. Very powerful down to less so. God likes to delegate responsibilities to those that can do it. The host is doing things as they were instructed to.

Morning Stars

Ancient people thought the stars were living entities. (How else could they move around?)

The word ‘In’ could be translated ‘as’. In that context, being created ‘as’ God’s image gives each of us the status as God’s representative on earth. We were created to subdue and rule over this planet to God’s glory.

Psalm 82:1 LEB

God stands in the divine assembly; he administers judgment in the midst of the gods.

God presides over the courts of powers, principalities and rulers that Satan copied when he set up the darkness.

v1: Note the same word is translated God, and gods.

v6-7: You are gods, but you will die like men?

This section puts the assembly in the sky/heaven?

, 2:1

The host have to report in regularly.

There were sons of God to witness creation.

These are the host of heaven? God’s hierarchy. (that Satan mimicked)

Deuteronomy

To the mentality of the ancients, angels and demons were gods. When you worship anything other than God, you worship a demon.

Physical idols are likely nothing, but there is always that chance it is associated with a real demon.

This is Ezekiel speaking to the prince of Tyrus.

Verse 11 starts with ‘Moreover’ and really sounds like he talking about Satan from that point.

Could the stones discussed be the radiance of one of the heavenly host?

The language here closely resembles Ezekiel 28.