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August 20 - September 2, 2017
if it’s weird, it’s important.
stars.” That same description is found outside the Bible in ancient texts from the biblical world.
The point is that the Old Testament does not distinguish between soul and spirit.
Eden is described in Ezekiel 28:2 as the “seat of the gods.”
Yahweh’s council. When Yahweh asks the satan where he has been, we learn that his job involves investigating what is happening on earth
Rather, he’s an anonymous prosecutor, as it were, fulfilling a role in Yahweh’s council—bringing an accusatory report.
doesn’t work. There are two alternatives for explaining the presence of giants after the flood who descended from the giant Nephilim: (1) the flood of Genesis 6–8 was a regional, not global, catastrophe; (2) the same kind of behavior described in Genesis 6:1–4 happened again (or continued to happen) after the flood, producing other Nephilim, from whom the giant clans descended.
Others might be killed in warfare, but their lives were not required by the supernatural-theological orientation that is telegraphed in Num 13:26–33, Deut 2–3, and Josh 11:21–23.
As Israel reached the final stages of failure, God announced through the prophets that plans had changed.
, which informed us that the eradication of the Anakim had not been total.
