Iām nearly home from being away for two weeks at the annual meetings of the Evangelical Theological Society, Society of Biblical Literature, and the American Academy of Religion (and some family reunion time). I’ll be blogging about some of what I heard and experienced soon.
For those who have followed my work on the divine council, I have a prayer request. I have an important meeting on Friday, Dec 6 in relation to that work appearing in print. That’s all I can say now. Pray that everyone involved will have complete clarity of thought as to what we discuss.
In a related matter, I’d like any of you who are in the ministry (any sort of pastoral or chaplaincy position) who have been blessed by the divine council work to email me. I’m especially interested in hearing from those of you who have tried to teach the divine council material in your ministry in any way. I’ll give you details and an explanation in a reply. My email address can be found under “About”.
You’re in my prayers certainly. I don’t deal directly with the divine council in my own profession, but your work on it has certainly changed my faith for the better.
God bless.
I will be praying for you Michael and most certainly hope everything turns out well.
On another topic,when will your book “The Myth That Is True” be completed? I’m really looking forward to the finished product.
God Bless you.
I will be praying for you Dr. Heiser. Thank you for the monumental job you continue to do for all of us. I am currently listening to your podcasts and I find them extremely good and helpful, and necesary really in my opinion. My wife however finds them interesting enough to fall asleep while listening. Keep up the great work, again my prayers are with you, your family and your work.
Regards,
-Hector
fall asleep while listening?! Oh, well.
Thanks!
You’ve got mail, per your request. š
thanks again!
I finished Peter Goodgame’s book recently and was compelled to send him an email because I thought he did an excellent job with his theory. In it he employs your divine council view, I was surprised but I really don’t know why, and in the email I mentioned that it was refreshing to see your interpretation being employed in such research. Good luck tomorrow and the Lord be with you.
Definitely looking forward to hearing some of the results of ministers teaching about the divine council. It’s definitely influenced a lot of my teaching/discussions in AWANA, Bible study, etc.–as all your work has, frankly–but not something I’ve said much about explicitly.
I make a point of mentioning it when Genesis 6 comes up but other than that I’ve been hesitant. It’s one of those things that I’d love to discuss with other Christians but I wouldn’t know where to begin because there’s so much groundwork and the “clues” are so scattered in the Bible that it’s hard to explain.
When people ask about Genesis 6 at least I know they are already curious and I feel obligated to say something about the divine council before they discover Sitchen and get all kinds of confused. š
wow – AWANA?! Amazing.
Just in the way it frames my approach. I try to stick to concepts in AWANA for the most part. But it seems like every time there is a hard question, it ends up relating to your work in some way.
Wow! I wish I learned about the Divine Council when I was going through AWANA. This is a great example of how useful a book on the Divine Council could be, especially for the lay person (like myself) to share with their church’s respective leadership.
I hope this is brought to fruition, my fiance and I have been praying as such; as well as always keeping you in our prayers.
I work as a chaplain, and your work definitely impacts and influences how I teach people, at least informally. I’ll have to send an email as well. It helps make things a bit more coherent, not to mention biblical.
thanks!