Good indexed overview interview of Michael Heiser on his book Unseen Realm

This interview is helpful to get an overview of Michael Heiser's Unseen Realm. Click 'show more' under the video to see a very helpful contents list by time mark.

Michael Heiser on current world events regarding spiritual geography

This is a good example of what can be found of value in Michael Heiser: https://youtu.be/o5eapEWFnBQ

It's ten mins. long talking about some of the spiritual geography aspects of what is going on in the world today.

The whole thing should be watched for context, but how he states the matter at the 5:20 mark is the sober take that I find valuable in Heiser and his book Unseen Realm.

General response to a comment regarding spiritual warfare

My history with spiritual warfare involves doing a teaching called the Fourth Way which puts a person whether they know it or not on the spiritual battlefield. It puts them in conflict with themselves (their fallen nature) and with the world around them (and, yes, with the Devil and his forces). Doing this made me realize I needed the armor of God.

Eph. 6:10-18 is the famous armor of God passage in the Bible.

The main insight is to realize that *doctrine itself* is armor of God. Pure, unwatered-down biblical doctrine is the true armor of God. And on a battlefield you want real armor.

A soldier on a real battlefield has no use for fake armor, i.e. doctrine that has been watered down or negotiated down to please fallen man's desires and demands. Only a Christian in the comforts of the world and going with the current of the world would settle for such a thing.

So, actual biblical doctrine insults our fallen nature and notions of what is right and wrong or good and bad or just and unjust. So when we are able to see and understand and *accept* true biblical doctrine (five solas, doctrines of grace, i.e. TULIP, classical - federal - covenant theology) it changes us inwardly. It re-orientates us inwardly from being man centered to being God centered, and from self-will to God's will.

All that *hard doctrine* that Arminians, for instance, refuse to give in to. It is actual armor of God.

Or like when people say, "It's not fair that I should have original sin just because of something Adam did in the Garden." But when you accept that Adam was our federal head (our King) and his act effected us (just as if the American President declares war citizens have to be at war whether we like it or not) it's an example of accepting hard truth biblical doctrine. Of course then you realize that Jesus becomes our new federal head (King) when we have faith in Him and His work, and we don't have a problem with *that.* We like receiving from Jesus what we couldn't do ourselves.

Another example is accepting that God is sovereign and is the first cause of everything that happens, yet we are also responsible for our own actions and thoughts and words. That is an example of accepting hard truth biblical doctrine. You can philosophically iron all that out, but ultimately it really is a matter of God says it, I believe and accept it. I'm a soldier on the spiritual battlefield. I don't have a problem with difficult to accept biblical doctrine because it is my armor, and I know it changes me internally to being, or conforming, to Christ, the ultimate soldier and King.

The spiritual landscape and battlefield

A big part of life for me as a Christian - that is not such a big thing seemingly for other Christians - is what I refer to as the spiritual battlefield.

When I say that other Christians will be stung and will say they too experience the, uh, spriteful battlefield, or, uh, what'd you say there wacko? spiritual - yes - spiritual battlefield! Been there, done, uh, that, got the tee-shirt.

Only the average Christian knows nothing of the spiritual battlefield because the average Christian, what I generally refer to as the church Christian, or churchian, is always pretty much going with the current of the world. And inside their church as much as anywhere else.

Being separated out from the world puts you in a world of friction and conflict with the current of the world and into a world of spiritual warfare.

In that world you begin to see and experience things like spiritual geography. Also how the invisible world acts on the visible. Also how what happens here 'under the sun' has an analogue in the spiritual realm.

It's in this context that I recommend Michael Heiser's book Unseen Realm. Though his doctrine overall is not up to the biblical and Holy Spirit discerned standards of Dutch Puritanism...nevertheless what he contributes with his parts in relation to the biblical whole insights on the subject of spiritual warfare is unique and special.

The Unseen Realm

[originally an email]

Michael Heiser's the Unseen Realm is a new book I've mentioned before. I feel I made a mistake in highlighting too strongly his liberal(ish) theology, because what he offers is so unique and valuable you can look beyond the weak doctrine.

His chapter 32 is epic and causes many dots to be connected regarding spiritual warfare realities, individual, political, world level, etc.

A big theme in his book is how the Bible describes spiritual or cosmic geography and how that explains so many events. The general scene-setting is God gave up the nations to individual gods, or angels, and kept Israel as His portion. Part of what Jesus was doing was taking back all the geography from the gods of the darkness. Which is a spiritual battle.

You can see this play out in history. Jews *reclaimed* the land of Israel in 1948. Islam, whose dark god is Allah, had taken possession of that land and had it for centuries. Its meaning now is more symbolic, but it IS the original land of God's portion. The hatred towards Jews and Israel is based on this. Spiritual battle and dominion over geography. 

The dark gods' - ultimately Satan's - hatred of Western Europe and the United States is different. These lands have been strongholds for followers of Jesus. God's people. We see now these evil hordes flowing into these heretofore off-limits lands.

I also had the thought reading the book that classical music in a real way does battle with dark forces within us. Beethoven's 3rd Symphony, for instance, is a warlike rush of force that goes through us and reclaims parts of our soul perhaps being occupied by dark spirits. This is why we can actually feel healthier and more clear and awake when we are making the effort to hear such higher music rather than the easier to hear lower forms of music that trigger lower thoughts and fantasy and lower emotions and so on. 

Of recent books this one by Heiser - Unseen Realm - is standing out as unique and special. He has a presence on the internet with material that adds to the book as well. His Divine Council material at the early parts of the book can be overstated and even make it seem like he is bringing God down to the level of the creation, in various ways, but getting through that and then seeing the overall themes he is uniquely bringing to light make it all more than worth the time and effort. Talk about the mysteries playing out within us and around us, it is obviously worth the time and effort. - C.

The color of cucks

Cucks aren't white, they aren't black. Cucks are the color of other people's money. Cucks commit treason for their thirty pieces of silver.

How do you identify cucks? Cucks want status quo. Cucks attack anything that threatens status quo. They claim a motive of principled conservatism, but conservatism has only ever been cover for the cuck. They no more want the principles of conservatism than they want the status quo upset. Their history is: conservative, except when it matters.

Love seeing the shake-out

The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Truth and Discernment, and I'm not seeing it in these church Christians re this current political season. Here you have a church Christian comically explaining the Trump phenomenon as "folk Marxism."

First of all the notion of folk Marxism, coming from an obvious establishment dhimmi, is mere name calling. The church Christian establishment dhimmis fancy themselves conservatives but couldn't even define that at this point. They know Marxism is bad though. So, despite last week they were calling us fascists and calling Trump Hitler, now we're motivated by Marxism.

Second, this religious cuck wouldn't know Marxism if it had him by his throat (which it does in the form of cultural Marxism). And I forget, he also says we are white supremacists because only white supremacists invoke the term 'cultural Marxism.' This, too, is the establishment dhimmi cuck spinning his airy head trying desperately to maintain his self-image as a conservative, which he can't even define.

Third, read the comments to the post. Immediately upon posting his nonsense several people calmly, slowly, hilariously set the idiot straight. Though it's most likely gone over his head.

I hate churchians and establishment cucks like I hate Satan. Think of it this way: we know our enemies and we can deal with our enemies; but it's the traitors who do the serious damage. Church Christians are not just shallow and unconsciously in the thrall of cultural Marxism, indoctrinated like feckless souls in their universities and seminaries, but they are wicked souls. That they side with a political establishment that is coordinating and carrying through the biblical fate of the Devil and his Army (angelic and human dhimmi) thus showing what side of the divide they reside on (clue: not the Jesus side) makes them more than just naive or ignorant dupes: it makes them wicked as hell.

Angry hornets

The powers that be - Satan and his deputy types - are obviously not happy with this Trump turn of events.

Jesus, all we can say is...come quickly

Nothing has exposed the astonishing number of devils in church christianity than this current political season. We're not just seeing naivete towards the Devil's plans as they play out, but we are seeing active, fervent working against anything that would expose or confront the Devil. Open borders is Satanic. Globalism is Satanic. As biblically evil as anything God tells us will happen. And, needless to say, church christians, we are not supposed to enable the Satanic program. We are supposed to confront the Devil. Something you've never been taught in your culturally Marxist seminaries or your churches run by feckless graduates of those worthless institutions.

Satan's army is on the march, with little resistance from anyone. Least of which the useless, Satanic church christians.

When I first encountered Christians after being regenerated by the word and the Spirit it was like having walked onto an island of zombies. The leaders and educators being the most dead. I put it down to mere shallowness, but now see it is the spirit of evil that is being indulged willfully, as much as one can use the word will to describe such mechanical evil.

More naivete from the Christian version of neocon cuckism

David ****** 3/07/2016 2:21 AM☍

Jason, there is an argument that I haven't seen being made, that ought to be relevant to professing evangelical supporters of Trump. I have seen Trump describe himself emphatically as a Christian multiple times now during this election cycle. His policies aside, this ought to be deeply offensive to any follower of Christ. There is no evidence whatsoever that he is a Christian in any meaningful sense of the word, indeed there is a mountain of evidence to the contrary. I need not rehearse that evidence. Labeling Trump a Christian is a preposterous, laughable proposition to anyone with a speck of discernment. So he is dragging the fair name of our Savior through the mud in his quest to become President. He has merited the just contempt of true Christians, not their votes or support, regardless of the merits or demerits of his policies.

One could object that most recent presidential candidates have identified themselves as Christian. Romney, Obama, O'Malley, Rubio, Christie, and others. For the Democrats on the list, I would just add their false (or at least dubious) confessions to a long list of reason not to vote for them. Regarding those who identify with sects (Romanists) or cults (Mornonism), I would regard those self-identifications as unfortunate and detrimental to Christ's name, but at least as honest identifications considered on their own terms. Romney does not have the true Christ, and Rubio doesn't have the true Gospel, but they are moral and devout by the terms of their respective religions. Unlike Trump, they actually attend their churches. More importantly, they are decent and honorable men, though we may differ on policy. Trump has no semblance of Christian morality. He uses the name of Christ for self-gain, pure and simple. His profession of faith is far less credible than even Obama's.

The Holy Spirit slams people who talk like this.

Email exchange on cucks, treason, long memory, pay back, send them down to hell in glory, skinned and on fire

This guy is interesting because he's raw and unselfconsciouly honest. I probably used to be where he was ten years or so ago. I would not have been "on to" the deception of the cuck class, for instance. I bought the argument that if you make one country in the middle east free all of them would want the same, blah, blah. No, Islam was, is the problem. I was truly naive like many. Now you can see that in many ways these overseas engagements are mere money laundering operations. Recently 5 billion was sent to Iraq to train up an Iraqi army. We find now that FIVE soldiers were actually trained. That money was laundered through Iraq, most likely back into the pockets of Washington insiders and globalists around the world. These money laundering schemes are myriad. Pouring scores of millions into failed businesses. They return the money as campaign contributions. Looting tax dollars. Also, stealing in the form of debt, which loots future generations.

The fierce, Beast-like response to Trump by the establishment is more than a small part motivated by the cucks not wanting to be prosecuted. They're doing evil in the dark, and so they rage against the light. - C.

http://www.galganov.com/editorials/3-1-2016/archives/i-hate-defending-trump--but/#.Vta7tkXEiJK