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A Video Course in
“Divine Council” Theology
Disclaimer: Dr. Michael S. Heiser, of blessed memory (Feb. 14, 1963 – Feb.
20, 2023). I only became aware of Dr. Heiser’s “Divine Council” theology after his leaving
the earthly realm, and as yet I am not sure how much (if any) of his teaching I fully agree
with. In all fairness, those of you have spent any time on this website know there are very
few (if any) people with whom I agree completely, and I do not expect anyone to fully
agree with me. However, I do find his viewpoint very interesting, well articulated,
worthy of further investigation, and possibly even compelling. So, I have included many of
his teaching videos — most of which are quite lengthy — as part of my website. If you would
like a more systematic and “bite-size” way of discovering what “Divine Council” theology is
all about, I refer you to his “NakedBible Podcast,” the
Divine Council
Worldview Facebook Group, and his website at drmsh.com. BUT BE WARNED:
Once you are familiar with his teaching, you will see the Divine Council throughout the Tanakh;
once you have seen it, it is impossible to un-see. Whether or not you accept his teaching,
you will never read your Bible the same way again.
These three videos provide an excellent overview of “Divine Council” Theology, specifically the theology of “the unseen realm.” They will also give you several important principles of Bible interpretation that you would not usually hear taught in your seminary class in Biblical Theology. It should be noted that Dr. Heiser’s academic background is in biblical languages and not specifically in systematic theology. Although he approaches the text with the idea of “think like an Israelite,” his theology is clearly gentile Christian and not Messianic Jewish. If you have been a theologian (as defined here) for very long, you will recognize that what Dr. Heiser teaches in these videos isn’t like what most other teachers propose. You are under no obligagion to agree with him. I personally do not agree with everything he teaches. But if you are going to be an honest theologian you need to keep an open mind and hear him out. It’s perfectly OK for him to have an opinion that does not agree with yours and/or mine. At least you will know what he thinks and you can agree to disagree.
If you get nothing else from these videos, you will at least come away with an understanding of what Dr. Heiser calls “biblical imagry,” the “thought pictures” that were likely in the minds of the Bible writers, and the “cosmic geography” of the region, both of which are so critical to developing the Eastern mindset necessary for a correct understanding of what those writers were most likely thinking. After all, how can we correctly understand the text if we do not first correctly understand the worldview of the writers?
And please do not even think about watching all these videos in one sitting. Think of them as the content for an entire school term (27 classroom hours, a full academic quarter, or three months) in “Biblical Theology of the Unseen Realm.” So when he takes a break, you should also. (I would recommend that you don’t try to watch more than a couple of hours a day, because your brain simply will not be able to absorb more than that. If it takes you three months to go through all three videos, you would be on track for the classroom session.)
By way of a disclaimer, I would feel much more comfortable if Dr. Heiser had said “Yeshua-follower” instead of “Christian” in these videos, because when Jewish unbelievers become Yeshua-followers, they do not become Gentile Christians; they retain their Jewish identity and simply become “Jewish followers of the Jewish Messiah.”
You will also notice a bit of replacement theology in his teaching, though not a lot. Don’t let that put you off. Just remember that when he speaks about “Israel morphing into the Church” he just has it backwards, because we know that the born-again, blood-bought Gentile (non-Jewish) followers of Yeshua are grafted (not morphed) into the Commonwealth of Israel (Romans 11:17-24). He would be much more accurate (again, in my opinion) if he were to speak in terms of “the remnant,” which includes both Jews and non-Jews. Nevertheless, I sincerely hope that you will find his videos very interesting.
The content of these three videos is of critical
importance in developing the
Ancient Israelite world view
that is essential for the correct understanding of
both the Tanakh
and the Apostolic Writings.
From Chaos to Restoration - Part 1 (ft.
@DRMSH)[GN]
Media Disclaimer: Presence of video or audio recordings on this website does not
(12 hours)
From Chaos to Restoration - Part 2 (ft.
@DRMSH)[GN]
(3 hours)
Biblical Theology of the Spiritual World
at Knox Theological Seminary (ft.
@DRMSH)[GN]
(12 hours)
As nearly as I can tell, the textbook for this 12-hour
course is Dr. Heiser’s
The Unseen Realm
necessarily indicate agreement with all (or any) of the speaker’s theological position.
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