Here’s the thing with this book. We want to reach a lot of people with the gospel, right? Well there are some people (especially todays young people) that are interested in spirituality but really are looking in the wrong places. This kind of information could be a way in to talk to these people. Things like other realms and even paranormal things can really be explained in a way that makes them take the rest of the Bible more seriously. I don’t know, but when I prayed about ways to reach some people I know, I was led to Michael Heiser. And it’s really helped.

Great video, but the audio sound like it was taken from a tin can on a piece of string.

Are we ever going to talk about how my favorite KZfaqr (you) disappeared for 18 months and has now suddenly reappeared with wider shoulders and a beard? Did you go on an epic quest?

The book is so good. I remember not wanting to finish it because it was fun reading it

I enjoy your videos. Thank for posting reviews again.

Really appreciate your work! You are a gifted teacher - very clear and concise, without an ounce of dryness! :)

Thrilled to see you making videos again!

Accurate assessment, Great Job !!!...Thanks...cool to see someone who catches what Michael is throwing.

17:08 your thoughts are SO valid and insightful, glad you shared.

YOU'RE BACK! YAY!

Excellent review and many great points. Thank you!

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Excellent book review! Thanks for sharing

Great summary. You don't know how many articles I've read that get the ideas entirely wrong and clearly haven't actually read the book. Especially the monotheism aspect. Unseen Realm changed the way I read the Bible.

My friend, it is so good to see that you're back making videos. Is there another place where we can follow? Instagram? Facebook? I find your takes insightful and very helpful. May the Lord continue to bless you my man!

RIP Michael Heiser.

I care about your opinion. That’s why I listen to your podcasts.

excellent summary. thank u

Great video, really interesting topic!

Thanks for the summary. One of the many on my kindle backlog

First. Intriguing review - I'll definitely order the book. Definitely would love your thoughts on The Brothers Karamazov.

Oof the transition music wow.😭✨

haha, I love that, "... even the weird parts."

I REALLY want this book and will order it today online. I've recently finished reading Revelation of the Unknowable God by Karen L. King. This book greatly inspired me as a Christian. It gave me an inkling, a sense of how different conceptually they viewed God and the spiritual ascent. I love this book. Maybe some day you can make a video about it? There's a lot in it that I still don't understand. I think maybe the author wrote it primarily for other scholars, but just broadened the marketting base to the general public without adding explanations for technical terms, footnote excerpts in German, French, etc., etc.. I would love to hear your perspective and feelings regarding this wonderful book which was one of the texts in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Thank you so much for this video!

Thanks for these great videos Caleb! Really helpful. You mentioned your wife is with Lexham, Are you in the Bellingham, WA area?

I need to get this book. Also all of his other books. LOL

Great book.

I have read the book. It has COMPLETLY changed my view on Bible- no in a umbilical way, but stories(especially in OT) make sense now.

LOVE DR HEISER

Dr. Heiser is about to join the unseen realm. We should pray for him and his family.

Fyi, Regarding the audio. KZfaq uses a LUFS loudness calculation, when you add sound effects and the loudness doesn't match the voice loudness it can squash the voice. One way to fix this is to use a LUFS audio meter in your editor and then appropriately mix the audio levels. Another way is only ever use the voice channel and youtube will usually get it correct.

Great basis for infant baptism.

Sadly the obsessing is on every discovery point in case seasoned calvanist call the stage of discovery the cage stage as it turns one into a know it all that some suggest one enters no discussions at this stage, sadly this can escalate into what is called hyper calvinism where theological and biblical balance is lost.

I would like to see a resurrection of the writings of Nicholai Berdyaev 1874 - 1948. He was once regarded as one of the greatest Christian philosophers of the 20th century by some. I am still trying to work out why no one seems to have heard of him. He was called the philosopher of freedom and was accused by many more conservative theologians of being a gnostic and universalist which he denied. Whether he was a heretic or not I nevertheless still came to appreciate his courage in tackling the issues of theodicy in his own unique way. I was wondering if perhaps you could review his book, "The Destiny of Man".

Something the church needs to get over is thinking everything worth learning in the Bible or about the Bible needs to have application. Just my 2 cents.

Excellent. Thanks. See parable of Blindmen and Elephant. Buddhist.

Hello, God Bless you. I was watching some videos in your channel. But I'd like to know if you are a calvinist cause' I think that.

I like your posts and follow you often for N.T. Wright reviews. I think one thing that you missed in this one is the point of the footnotes. You were very close to it when you started out stating his goal is to get you in the mindset of the biblical worldview of the ancient cultures. The point of the footnotes is not factoids, but pieces of the larger puzzle that completes the mosaic. The factoids help us read the Old Testament on context so that we get the pop culture references in the New Testament. I used to discount Dr. Heiser on theological issues too but often when listening a year or two later, I am forced to see the deeper wisdom that I initially missed.

This review is a 6.9 out of 10 because there are some important facts left out. A more readable book, called Supernatural, was written because The Unseen Realm is a published thesis, and so it reads a little too dry or detailed. I read Supernatural and loved it. I would also mention that Heiser is a very prolific youtube lecturer with opinions that hit hard against Calvinist predestination, so Heiser's thoughts on many biblical doctrines are extremely important to his overall general contribution to biblical studies. Such that, Heiser's exegesis of Hebrews 6 on apostasy is so fresh and important that I would rank Heiser as one of the best preachers on the internet. Also, Heiser's other books are extremely timely, written on the back of Unseen Realm, it is recommended that if you liked it, you would also enjoy Reversing Hermon or any number of his other books. What I love about Heiser is that the criticism is that he is "too dry or too academic" which makes him MORE credible because he does not sensationalize the biblical text, the way Hal Lindsay did in the 1970's with similar popular apocalyptic material. Lastly, another standout point in Heiser's favor is that he does not obsess over apocalypticism and the Book of Revelation. We've all heard way too many crazy theories, and Heiser must have too, so he generally tries not to play in that sand box. Finally, I'm a little scared off by gemmatria, so when Heiser starts in on astral theology, the magi, and the alpha numeric stuff, my eyes glaze over because, as one teacher once told me, that is a rabbit hole that you will never reach the bottom of, so when I hear it, I think it's all crazy talk, but Heiser is very credible, so I wish it made more sense to me. The kabbalistic stuff in general seems a little too freemasonry'ish to me, like conspiracies and numbers and 666 multiplied by 3.14 and bla bla bla.

Good job on the book review. Don’t agree with you about the distinction between believers who latched on to it and Heiser. That’s a natural reaction when a believer discovers something they were missing, and this (Heiser’s books/ministry) is a big one.

Heiser's "divine council" theology is flawed because he twisted or otherwise distorted key passages, such as Psalm 82, Deuteronomy 32:8, 4:19, and others. Psalm 82 is about human judges, not alleged and speculative "divine beings," since we have no Scripture showing "divine beings" engaging in judging human activity as shown in verses 2-4. It's human judges who have been guilty of what verses 2-4 claim. I recommend reading the book "The Unbiblical Realm: Refuting the Divine Council of Michael Heiser’s Deuteronomy 32 Worldview" by Heath Henning. Those interested in videos on this topic can check out my series called "The UnBiblical Realm: Refuting Michael Heiser's Divine Council w/Heath Henning. Heiser used his liberal education and imported the "divine council" idea into his evangelical views, and has duped the evangelical world into accepting liberal theology cloaked in evangelical garb.

Amazing how many Christians miss the point that God is a spirit and the real realm is spiritual. We live in a floppy disc environment and heaven is the hard drive.

If he's dry I never noticed because I only care about content, content, content!

Great summary...but... What is up with your crazy rating system?!?!

Please do Kingdom Prologue!

The Nephilim were the offspring of fallen angels and humans. Demons were the spirits of the Nephilim that died. Especially in the flood.

I only say this to help understand demons and angels, which Heiser has books on, a little more. Angels/watchers created Nephelim. Demons are disembodied Nephelim. Check out Logos Bible Software's KZfaq video called The Unseen Realm and here Heiser's explanations from his own mouth. Also pray for him, he is battling pancreatic cancer.

Do you have any thoughts on the idea that many of the early New P on Paul theologians didn't accept all Paul's letters? Also the idea that you said Sanders' goal was to destroy Justification viewpoint, you said you agree 80% or something with the book, but you are reformed?

There's something wrong with the audio.

The Jewish word view of spirits (angels, demons) fits with Paul's powers and principalities language and with Christus Victor theories of the atonement. It is very in step with the Mesopotamian, Greek, Roman, Egyptian mythologies and religions. Tolkien's Silmarillion was very in line with these stories too, imaginatively: Eru and the Ainur are like God and the angels. My question, as a questioning Christian, is: how literally we are supposed to take the biblical mythos? You can have spiritual readings like the church fathers (allegorial, tropological; Origen et al.) and psychological readings like the Jungian Jordan Peterson. By principles, myths, metaphors, and similies the bible can tell us about ourselves and perhaps about God. But how directly and completely does the ancient judaism of the Tanak reflect the revealed nature of God and his creation? The two questions are: What is in bible? and In what sense (or to what extent) is it true? Heisler at least guides us in the first question. Anyone else thinking along these lines?

Now explain what Gal 4:26 means: "But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all"

The thing I really like about Heiser is that he is a Hebrew scholar. What you missed in the intro regarding why he wrote the book is his friend challe him to read Psalm 83 in Hebrew text. That’s what makes it Really interesting to me. I’ve heard his lectures and they are very interesting and I’ve really learned a lot from because he goes back to the original Hebrew words and what would have most likely be the relevant knowledge of the recipient’s of God’s words at that time period.

Ugh. My problem is that Michael Heiser is starting to feel like a crypto-Mormon. He claims that his talk of angels and humans being gods and divine multiplicity & councils is different from Mormonism because God is the only uncreated one, while Mormons believe all intelligent beings are uncreated and deny creation ex Nihilo. But then Heiser elsewhere claims that creation ex nihilo isn't biblical. I have seen at least one family become mormons influenced by his work. Regardless of his accuracy or intentions, I think he's doing more harm than good.

Not much of a Heiser person, but would love for you to read Dr. John Walton's Demons and Spirits!!!

I can't shake the feeling that Heiser's approach to the spiritual realm is kind of shady. Im not saying he's wrong, Im saying his thesis COULD at certain point be misleading, getting us to focus on the ocult rather than the light. Isnt gematria part of the ocult? Isn't greek mythology still pagan beliefs? If The Bible spends just 39 verses on the topic I think its definitely not the focus of the book, like GOD doesn't want us to get stuck on that. I rather see the spritual realm as a complex topic that we should be aware of but thats out of our reach and understanding (and we should better leave it that way). Anyway, I hope the best for Heiser and his health. GOD bless him!

Positing that "elohim" means any being living in the unseen realm seems like a strange way of putting it, to me. Why not just say that "elohim" means spirit. A person is a centre of consciousness who thinks and feels and decides; a spirit is a person without a body; elohim is the hebrew word for spirt. God is spirit, "gods" of any kind, including angels and demons are spirits, the divine council are spirits, God is a spirit.

Very good content in this video, but the audio is terrible, too distracting. Get a new mic, and keep on doing your great work!

Keep up the good work! Eventually, you will find that the Hindu mythology, Pagan Mythology, Dao, and Abrahamic systems all correspond to the same elemental forces of the unified-verse.

Really good discussion. I am a Jehovah's Witness. It takes a bit of a faith leap, but it correlates with a lot of my personal studies. They're almost Jewish in their interpretation, and are really God-centric. Very few Jesus references. Strange view that there is no hell, 144 in actual heaven next to Jehovah and Jesus, and an earthly paradise where you see everyone you loved even if they weren't baptized or even offed themselves. Plus they are very nice people and never ask for money.

I don’t know who Michael Heiser and his work……..however with your summary is truly mind blowing lay crazy………I honestly think that Mr. Heiser is not the Christian Leander like pastor Jeffry’s………..with that said, I think it is just too much for me to understand his work as literally like the Bible……I think his book is WEIRD. But I hope he us with God now with no pain.

Sorry but any book that purports ancient or special knowledge is just modern day Gnosticism. This book is very suspect.

Elohim means God.