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Core Ideas in The Unseen Realm
1. Divine council
- God’s family; God’s administration
- God desires his divine and human imagers to together enjoy his presence, and he theirs.
- God desires his divine and human imagers to obediently administer his affairs in their respective realms.
2. Divine imaging
- What it is; its intrinsic meaning
3. Free-will rebellions by God’s imagers
Genesis 3
- divine and human rebellion, leading to council expulsion and loss of human terrestrial immortality (=death)
- divine rebellion that leads to (not causes) human corruption
- Human rebellion that leads to (not causes) divine corruption
4. Edenic Cost/ Loss
- Halted the spread of Eden to all the earth (i.e., earth’s good but imperfect state not made Edenic; “chaos” not perfected)1
- Human immortality in God’s Edenic world
- Harmony between the seen and unseen realms / divine imagers
- Human membership in God’s home / administration (his council)
5. Reversing the Effects of Free-Will Rebellions
Eden / Genesis 3
- Divine presence returning to earth to dwell with God’s elect people
- election is not a synonym for salvation
- This is where the idea of restoring a divine, earthly kingdom must begin
- Overcome the power of the original rebel (lord of the death); restore human immortality in God’s Edenic world
Genesis 6
- Eradicate the hostile seed that arose because of the rebellion of the sons of God, which will stand against kingdom restoration
- Restrain the spread of evil catalyzed by this event2
- Cf. Jewish theology of human depravity
- Galatians 3:19ff
. and the Law
Genesis 11 / Deut 32:8-9
- Bless the nations that were disinherited
- Claim human council members / believers from among the disinherited nations
- Reclaim those nations under the authority of new sons of God (believers)
- Destroy the gods of the nations who became rebellious and corrupt
6. Ultimate Source for All These Points
Jesus Christ
- Covenant maker (Word; Gen 15)
- Law giver (Gal. 3:19 et al)
- Key to secret messianic plan of redemption
- Gospel to Gentiles / Pentecost
- Our resurrection
- Our perfect imager
- Our brother-presenter in the council (Heb 2)
- Judge of the gods at Day of the Lord
- This latter idea — chaos and the original imperfection of the earth — is not developed in the book. It was something introduced in the original draft. It will get a lot of attention in a follow-up volume. ↩
- This item isn’t developed in the book; it will be in a follow-up volume. The best development of this I’ve seen is that found in the SBL paper I blogged about last November / December. ↩
Link to Dr. Heiser’s website…
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