Fifteen years ago, Michael Heiser was a grad student in biblical languages when a classmate handed him a Hebrew Bible, pointed out Psalm 82:1, and said, “Read this.” Michael did. And his understanding of how the bible communicates its truth to us – particularly its truth about the supernatural world, the world of the Trinity, of angels and demons, of the gods of the Old Testament and the Nephilim and Eden’s serpent – changed forever.
The Bible’s teaching on the world of the supernatural often occurs in difficult or troublesome passages that many Bible teachers ignore or skip over because their literal meaning doesn’t fit into our neat and tidy systems. To Dr. Heiser, the more puzzling a passage is, the more important it’s likely to be.
In Supernatural, Dr. Heiser, now the scholar-in-residence at Logos Bible Software, shines a light on that supernatural world – not a new light, but rather the same light the original, ancient readers – and writers – of Scripture would have seen it in. Supernatural is a condensed version, written for the layman, of the material found in Dr. Heiser’s academic work The Unseen Realm.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Believing the Bible
Chapter 2: The Unseen Realm: God and the gods
Chapter 3: Once and Future Kings
Chapter 4: Divine Rebellions
Chapter 5: Cosmic Geography
Chapter 6: The Word, the Name, and the Angel
Chapter 7: Rules of Engagement
Chapter 8: Sacred Space
Chapter 9: Holy War
Chapter 10: Hidden in Plain Sight
Chapter 11: Supernatural Intent
Chapter 12: The Could Rider
Chapter 13: The Great Reversal
Chapter 14: Not of This World
Chapter 15: Partakers of the Divine Nature
Chapter 16: Ruling over Angels
Conclusion
