The Unseen Realm
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The Unseen Realm
The Unseen Realm
There is a lot to be seen when it comes the unseen realm.
The Bible asks us to believe a lot of strange things about the spiritual world. Much of what we think we know about the unseen realm is wrong. Angels don’t have wings, nor are they angels.
At Caesarea Phillipi, , the authors of the Scriptures believed the gods of the nations are real.
A psalm of Asaph. God takes His stand in the assembly of God. He judges among the ‘gods’: “How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah
A psalm of Asaph. God takes His stand in the assembly of God. He judges among the ‘gods’:
has Elohim in both cases.
Elohim is not about a set of unique attributes. Elohim is simply a word used to describe a super-natural being. It is used for angels, gods of nations, or even the dis-embodied dead.
YHWH is called Elohim and none of the others are like him.
Micaiah then continued, “Therefore hear the word of Adonai. I saw Adonai sitting on His throne, with all the hosts of heaven standing by Him on His right hand and on His left. Then Adonai said, ‘Who will entice Ahab to go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?’ One suggested this and another that, until a certain spirit came forward and stood before Adonai and said, ‘I will entice him.’ So Adonai asked him, ‘How?’ And he said: ‘I will go and be a deceiving spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ Then He said: ‘You shall entice him and shall prevail also—go and do so.’ Now therefore, behold, Adonai has put a deceiving spirit in the mouth of all these prophets of yours, and Adonai has decreed evil upon you.”
YHWH the God of Israel is an Elohim but no other Elohim is Him.
I said: ‘You are ‘gods’, and you are all sons of Elyon,
Who are these “sons of Elyon?” The answer is found in places like
“For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
He is unique because He is the one uncreated God in the flesh. The sonship language is important because it reminds us that God wants a family in the unseen realm and in the seen realm.
God addressed his council in the beginning:
God created humankind in His image, in the image of God He created him, male and female He created them.
“Where were you when I laid the foundations of earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding.
when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Dr. Heisler places the divine council at the creation of mankind. That, God is speaking, to the unseen realm of divine beings when he created Adam.
Imaging God is a status not a specific ability. We bear that status from conception to death. God shares his attributes with us so we can image him. All of human life is sacred, racism is not tolerated, injustice cannot rule the day.
One of the attributes God shared with his children is “free will.” Having freedom meant God’s children could choose to submit or rebel. We choose the later.
If He puts no trust in His holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in His eyes,
God does not trust His holy ones. One family member did not like God’s plans.
Why a serpent? We don’t get it? The ancients would understand this. A serpent is a sign of rebellion. Isaiah understand this
You said in your heart: “I will ascend to heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God. I will sit upon the mount of meeting, in the uttermost parts of the north. I will ascend above the high places of the clouds— I will make myself like Elyon.”
In Ezekial a guardian cherub is kicked out
You were an anointed guardian cheruv. I placed you on the holy mountain of God. You walked among stones of fire.
Ancient Mediterranean stone cherubs describe cherubs as snakes and other creatures. The ancients would have understood as an antagonist rebel.
There were two more supernatural rebellions other than Eden. describes the second super-natural rebellion.
then the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were good and they took for themselves wives, any they chose.
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, whenever the sons of God came to the daughters of men, and gave birth to them. Those were the mighty men of old, men of renown.
For God did not spare angels when they sinned, but threw them into Sheol. He put them in chains of gloomy darkness, to be held until the judgment. He did not spare the ancient world. He preserved only Noah, a proclaimer of righteousness, along with seven others, when He brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly. He devastated the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, reducing them to ashes—making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly.
Now I wish to remind you—though you have come to know all things—that the Lord, once having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe. And the angels—who did not keep their own position of authority but deserted their proper place—He has kept in everlasting shackles under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great Day.
The fallen sons of God went to Tartarus, the realm of the dead, until the day of judgment. The rebels of are imprisoned. They are not demons but they are something else.
Moses and Joshua fought against the descendants of the Nephilim. Extra biblical Jewish writers thought the demons were the dis-embodied spirits of the descendants of the Nephilim.
It is fascinating to discover that the conquest of Canaan actually begins with the Giants, the Anakiim. The Giants were a focal point from the beginning point of the conquest effort. Amos describes
“I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like cedars and as strong as oaks— yes, I destroyed his fruit from above and his roots from beneath.
the people Moses destroyed. The places designated for total destruction were those where the giants lived. The descendants of the Nephilim were the primary target of God’s sword. The story is cast as an epic battle of good and evil.
This is why when Joshua described victory he described it in terms of destroying the giants. Some, did escape, David seems to destroy the final descendants when he kills Goliath.
The Anakim, descendants of a rival god, would stop at nothing to prevent the spread of Eden.
The third rebellion
Genesis 11:
Then they said, “Come! Let’s build ourselves a city, with a tower whose top reaches into heaven. So let’s make a name for ourselves, or else we will be scattered over the face of the whole land.”
Adonai said, “Look, the people are one and all of them have the same language. So this is what they have begun to do. Now, nothing they plan to do will be impossible. Come! Let Us go down and confuse their language there, so that they will not understand each other’s language.”
This is why it is named Babel, because Adonai confused the languages of the entire world there, and from there Adonai scattered them over the face of the entire world.
The version of the tower of Babel in Deuteronomy 32:8-9
When Elyon gave nations their heritage, when He separated the sons of man, He set boundaries for the people by the number of Bnei-Yisrael. But Adonai’s portion is His people— Jacob is the share of His inheritance.
God decided to let the members of his divine council rule the nations after the tower of Babel. but they failed at their job
A psalm of Asaph. God takes His stand in the assembly of God. He judges among the ‘gods’: “How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah
but they failed
I said: ‘You are ‘gods’, and you are all sons of Elyon, yet you will die like men, and will fall like any of the princes.’ ”
God is so angry with his corrupt heavily sons that he is going to destroy them. This then is taking place at the end of times.
Each will be like a refuge from the wind and a shelter from the storm, like streams of water in a dry place, like the shade of a massive rock in a weary land.
The heart of the hasty will understand knowledge, and the tongue of stammerers will speak fluently, clearly.
It will come about in that day, Adonai will punish the host of heaven on high, and the kings of the earth on the earth.
The nations have supernatural princes that influence the geo-political structure of the world.
Evil
However, the prince of the kingdom of Persia resisted me for 21 days, but behold Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me because I had been detained there with the kings of Persia.
Naaman’s interesting request.
So Naaman said, “If not, then please, let your servant be given two mule loads of soil, for your servant will no longer offer burnt offering or sacrifice to any other god, except Adonai.
“Then he said: ‘Do you understand why I have come to you? Now I must return to fight against the prince of Persia! When I go, behold, the prince of Greece will come. But first, I will tell you what is recorded in the writing of truth.’ (No one strengthened me against these, except Michael your prince.
“In his place will arise one who will dispatch a tax collector to extract tribute for royal glory, but within a few days he will be destroyed, though not in anger or battle. “Then in his place will arise a despicable person, on whom royal honor has not been conferred. He will come in a time of tranquility, and seize the kingdom through intrigue.
He wants dirt form Israel because the dirt represented Holy Ground. Cosmic geography is about holy ground.
After Babel, God had no way to connect to humanity. He decided to create a family through Abraham. God appears in the Old Testament as the Angel of the Lord. He is not just an invisible voice but is visible. He stands, sits, walks, and eats.
Then he blessed Joseph and said, “The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, The God who has shepherded me throughout my life to this day, The Angel who redeemed me from all evil, May He bless the boys, and may they be called by my name, and by the name of my fathers, Abraham and Isaac. May they multiply to a multitude in the midst of the land.”
The angel of the Lord becomes a way of referring to YHWH.
He is also called “the name.” by saying his name is in the angel, that means he is in the angel.
“Behold, I am sending an angel before you, to guard you on the way and to bring you into the place that I have prepared. Watch for Him and listen to His voice. Do not rebel against Him because He will not pardon your transgression, for My Name is in Him.
Look, Adonai’s Name comes from afar, burning with His anger, in thick rising smoke, His lips full of indignation, His tongue like a consuming fire,
the name functions like a person.
Now Moses was tending the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. So he led the flock to the farthest end of the wilderness, coming to the mountain of God, Horeb. Then the angel of Adonai appeared to him in a flame of fire from within a bush. So he looked and saw the bush burning with fire, yet it was not consumed.
When Adonai saw that he turned to look, He called to him out of the midst of the bush and said, “Moses, Moses!” So he answered, “Hineni.”
“I have made Your name known to the men of this world that You gave Me. They were Yours; You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word.
Jesus was saying that He had manifested his name to the Jewish nation in .
We must believe the god of all gods became flesh, died for us, and rose again. Our trust must be in Yeshua and no other god. The space that God occupies is sacred space,
The ritual laws taught people that God’s space was different from their space.
Sacred space is about where YHWH dwells and others do not. Sacred space was a reminder of Eden. The design of the golden lampstand was to be a reminded of the tree of life in Eden. The Ark’s lid was a throne for God.
Bashan and Mt. Hermon were ground zero for the dark cosmic world.
Mighty bulls of bashan is a metaphoric way of referring to demons.