Continuing on from last week. And again, this is just... If you have, some of you may have had the Logos software, if you had the word search now it's Logos. If you have it, I mean this is not, I mean it's not like do away with it or get rid of it necessarily, it's just a matter of discernment over what they stand for, they are a business and what they promote. and who they promote and things like that. And, you know, obviously there's some good material on there. I mean, there's, you know, you can build up quite a significant database of some decent material, but they also promote some, you know, some not so decent material. And that's something that you need to be discerning over. This is why God's given you me to help you, and the Holy Spirit above all, above me, I should say that, he's given you a pastor to help, but above all he's given you the Holy Spirit. And He gave some apostles and some prophets and some evangelists and some pastors and teachers. This is the reason for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ. Perfecting of the saints is the maturing of the saints, of course. For the work of the ministry is service, and for the edifying of the body of Christ is the building up of the body. And obviously I'm here, you know, the Lord's raised up a pastor, and you men and you ladies too have, I do believe, I do, in general, a very keen sense of discernment from what I gather, and that's a good thing. A good thing. We must be Bereans. Heavenly Father, we give thee thanks, Lord, for the blessing of thy word. Lord, I pray, Lord, for the unction to preach and to teach tonight, Lord, and I just pray, Lord, may this be a blessing to thy people. In Jesus' name, Amen. Continuing on, we're looking at Logos' promotion of modernist theologians, men who rely more on tradition, ancient tradition, right, ancient Near Eastern tradition, and they put more stock in that. And although it's, you know, the manners and customs of the Oriental world or the Middle Eastern world there, it is important to study that, and it does provide context, certainly when it comes to studying the Bible and reading the Bible and that, but not to take precedence over what the Holy Spirit has taught us when he's revealed and what he's actually saying. What can happen with that is, is that when you put too much stock into that, then you can just brush certain portions of Scripture, certain parts or certain areas of Scripture, portions of Scripture aside, saying, well, that was for a particular group at this time. You know, that doesn't apply to us today and things like that. And of course, that may be true to a sense that it was to that particular group, but it can equally apply to us and we can make application. And that's where you have to be careful and guard against. And all these men, like, you know, they're basically, you know, they're, quote unquote, scholars, theologians. So people put their stock in them. Right? And as if they're the know-it-alls, they're the go-to sources, and you've got to be careful about that. And as I mentioned earlier, actually, God's given you a Holy Spirit, and he's revealed himself through his Word, right? Or he's going to teach you through the Word, the written Word that he's penned. And of course he's raised up a pastor in that, to preach it and teach it and to shepherd, right? Nevertheless, of course, it's incumbent on you to study the Word yourself. Don't take my word for it. You know, I have no problem saying that. Dr. Lamont used to say, don't take my word for it, study it. In fact, if you'd ever asked Dr. Lamont, what does this passage mean? All right, study it out. He used to say, right? All right, well, there's a study for you. There you go. You come back and you tell me what it's about. Amen. So Logos, Bibles, Bible studies, and Factbook. All right, continue on with the modernism here. In the Logos Factbook, they offer this as a definition of modernism. Quote, a complex concept characterized by a shift away from traditional religious authority and towards rationalism, empiricism, and scientific inquiry. So Logos are guilty of that very mindset. The materials produced by Logos follow right along with the modernistic view that Moses did not author the Pentateuch in the way that the Bible describes. On the first page of the Faith Life Study Bible, we see this, by the way, that's tied in with the Logos brand. We see this, and this is what it says here on the first page. The name Genesis comes from the Greek word meaning origins. But there is great debate about the book's origins and the rest of the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Bible. That's what the Pentateuch is, by the way. While the text of Genesis does not identify its author, Jewish and Christian traditions ascribe the book to Moses. Right? Well, it's not that. Jesus did. Let's turn to Luke 24 and 44. It's not just, it's not Jewish and Christian traditions. Jesus ascribed those books, right? I mean, the savior of mankind, Luke 24 and verse 44. You got to be careful how the, you know, these are very deceptive. It's like very wolfish wording. 24. It's a tradition. Jesus actually put a stamp of authority. He says Moses wrote this. But, you know, if Jesus says it, then we don't need to be, you know, theorizing or, you know, OK, did it have five authors? How many authors were there? You know, they have all these different And he said, and Jesus that is, and he said unto them, these are the words which I spake unto you while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the law of Moses. There you go. I can now safely say that Moses wrote the first five books of the Bible there. And in the prophets and in the Psalms concerning me, so he's covered the whole Old Testament here, all right? Wow. Jesus said it, so that settles it. Amen? All right. This does not necessarily mean Moses himself wrote the Pentateuch. It may simply be in the tradition of Moses, the first known writing prophet. That is what they say. The Pentateuch may use multiple sources or multiple people may have added to it and edited it over time. No, Jesus said the law of Moses. See, I'm a very simple man. If it says the law of Moses, I have to take it as what it says. I'm not going to read into it. I'm not going to try and, you know, I don't know. Let me go down here, I've lost my spot here So multiple people may have added to it and edited it over time with it reaching its final form in the 5th century BC Even if Moses had a major hand in shaping this material, certain passages such as the record of his death in Deuteronomy 34 verses 1 to 12 indicate that it underwent at least some editorial revision. That's John D. Barry et al., Faith Study Bible, Bellingham, Washington. Lexham Press. When a Bible study undermines the veracity of Scripture in its opening statement, the wise person will immediately assign that book to the heresy heap. Faith Life and Logos teach that the foundational writings of Scripture are rooted in the ancient pagan nations around them, as do virtually all evangelical scholars. You hear that? Think about it. You know, these people are no different than the atheists. You realize that? Looking at the flood account in Genesis chapter 7, the Faith Life Study Bible says this, says, quote, This description presumes an ancient Near Eastern cosmology worldview. This worldview included a domed firmament, or vault, no, I don't know if I read this, but I'm going to go over it again anyway, or vault above the visible sky that held back waters that were above the firmament and below the earth. The waters were called the Great Deep. It was believed that the waters came to earth when it rained through gaps in the firmament. The Windows and Doors of Heaven, compare 1-6 and note. John D. Barry et al., Faith Life Study Bible. Well, to be honest with you, I believe that, actually. That there was a domed firmament and all that. When we talk about flat earth and all that, that's not something that's just recent. That's something that's been believed for... The current biblical cosmology that's been kind of laid upon us, if you will, or foisted upon us, is relatively new when you think about it. Relatively new. But anyway, I'm not getting into that. That'll be another study sometime down the road. But it's interesting that he says that. He recognizes that. Continue on. Again, we see that the scholarship that produced these resources accepts the view that the Israelites were merely adapting the legends of the tribes around them. According to Logos and their scholars, the Bible is made up of myths which found their way into the pages of the Bible. That's very dangerous. That's why you need to be very discerning. Again, in terms of just cataloging a digital library, obviously they've got some good materials on there. You do understand that. But beware of what they do promote, because I do read what they do promote. I get emails from them and everything, and I do read, and I do wonder, hmm. And then there's some things that have nothing to do with the Bible whatsoever that they're promoting, and I'm thinking, hmm. One last example of how modernism has become the standard for evangelical scholarship is the New International Commentary on the Old Testament and the New Testament. These commentaries are promoted on the Logos website with this statement. Faithful, critical, reputable. Think about that. Many of these volumes are ranked first or second on bestcommentaries.com for a reason. They are faithfully critical. Beware of the wording. Faithfully critical. Critical of what? The Word of God? They are faithful in that they regard scripture as God's divinely inspired word. They are critical in that they apply the methods of modern scholarship for a thorough, careful examination of scripture. And as such, they have drawn the praise of scholars and organizations like D.A. Carson, Walter C. Kaiser Jr., Thomas Schreiner, all of these beware of, by the way. Tremper Longman III, by the way, anyone with the third behind, you know, the title, I very... Gordon J. Wenham, and there's a whole list here. David Dockery, Bill T. Arnold, which we quoted last week. Bruce M. Metzger, which Dr. Lamour wrote extensively on, tons of, yeah. many others here, I'm not going to go through all of them. Bill T. Arnold, who was mentioned earlier, is the author of the commentary on the book of Deuteronomy from the NIC commentary, the New International commentary on the Old Testament and the New Testament commentary series. And this is what one reviewer said, quote, Arnold takes a moderately critical stance on Deuteronomy. He argues the book should not be defined narrowly by mosaic authorship, quote-unquote. but by Mosaic origin. This means that Moses' voice lies behind the book, not Moses' pen. You know what, doesn't that sound like those, the proponents of the modern versions, right? You think about those, for instance, the NIV, right? Moses' voice contains the words of God, but it isn't the word of God type of thing, right? It's the same kind of language, if you ask me. Rather, in keeping with Arnold's understanding of ancient composition techniques, the book resulted from numerous conflations, compilations, and expansions. The commentary is a welcome and enhanced update to Craigie's earlier work. The main strength of the commentary is this detailed exegesis with numerous background insights from the ancient Near East to elucidate the meaning of the text. See, they rely on the tradition of man rather than the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Right? His discussion of the main themes of the book is also significant. One criticism would be his tendency to minimize Moses' role in the production of the book. Scripture indicates more involvement on Moses' part than merely as a voice or shadowy figure behind the discourses. Kyle C. Dunham, Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary. Moving forward. In 1896, Charles Augustus Briggs was brought to trial on charges of heresy by the Presbyterians. One of the chief charges against him was that he taught that Moses was not the author of the Pentateuch. What was heresy only a hundred years ago is now the widespread belief of the quote-unquote evangelical scholars. By the way, again, that term evangelical is vacuous. It means nothing. Call me evangelical, it means nothing. Now, Michael Heiser, any of you heard of Michael Heiser? Well, he's passed on, I don't know if he's with the Lord or not. If he was born again, he is. And he's got some things that may agree with him, but some things, I don't know, he's just off on the deep end. Michael Heiser. By the way, they've heavily promoted him. By the way, when we get to the King James, where he deals with the King James, how Logos in the King James Bible, we're going to be dealing with Michael J. Ward, and I'm going to be adding to that as well. You saw, I played a video not too long ago with him. So Michael Heiser, the culture of faith life Logos drifts into things that are downright strange and unsettling, he says. Like their appointment of Dr. Michael Heiser as a scholar in residence. He died in February of 2023, and he was a scholar in residence until 2019, and he died of pancreatic cancer. He was a supposed expert on UFO sightings. Now, again, when it comes to UFO sightings, I believe every UFO sighting, any kind of abduction, all that, is supernatural, right? And they're fallen angels, is basically what they are, right? They're not extraterrestrial beings, but they're just basically Some people call it interdimensional, but they're just basically, they're fallen angels, and that's what they're experiencing. And often I wonder what these people have been into themselves to open themselves up to that, because I don't believe any of you are going to have an issue if you're born again with viewing some kind of alien or gray or whatever, right? And having that kind of encounter. By the way, these beings have been known to flee at the name of Jesus. So here's a supposed expert on UFO sightings. He is in good company with evangelical scholars who believe that the Bible can only be understood if we understand the cultural melee that it was written in. That being the ancient Near East, so everything's, you know, if you understand the culture, now again, I do agree, you do need to have an understanding of the culture, right? But again, it can be used as an excuse to explain away scriptures or just kind of dismiss scripture and not apply it, or appropriately apply it. Heizer specifically believed that understanding the Ugarit culture of Syria is vital to understanding the Bible, as he claimed that many Bible concepts were derived from this pagan culture. I think he's got a mixture. Don't you think he's got it twisted a little bit, inverted? I think we need to flip it, right? Maybe some of these pagan concepts or they've adopted some of what the Bible teaches. I like to think in those terms, of course. Now, quote, so what he says here, like everyone whose doctorate work is in Semitics, I took Ugaritic during graduate school. It was a life-changing course, he says. Why? Because it opened up the Hebrew text and Israelite religion to me in so many ways, Dr. Michael S. Heiser. Wow. He goes on to say here, it is often said that one of the most important principles of interpretation is to put every text into its proper context. That is, to read the text to be interpreted in place with its surroundings, the surrounding text as well as the social, historical, cultural, literary traditions of the world in which it was produced. The texts recovered at Ugarit provide a key piece of literary, social, and religious context for certain passages of the Old Testament. What's Ugaritic got to do with anything? Dr. Michael S. Heiser. That's what it's called. That's one of his articles. So according to Heiser, the Bible is not a supernatural book in the way that we think about it. It is a man-made book based on pagan ideas. By the way, you hear it from the heathen that You know, when they contest us, even on the Doctrine of the Trinity, they'll look at the, you know, the pagan, what do you call it, triads, or, what do you call it, what do you call it, we have the three, anyway, my brain has kind of lost a little bit of, but you understand what I mean, that, you know, You've had that concept well before the Trinity was revealed in the New Testament, although we see it in the Old Testament, but clearly revealed in the New. Continue on here. Heizer's most significant contribution was his teaching on the divine counsel. You have to listen to this, this is important, this is very dangerous here. A view that Yahweh, quote-unquote Yahweh, presided over a heavenly world of lesser gods. All right? He bases his interpretation on several passages of scripture, including Genesis 1 verse 26. Let's go to some of these scriptures. By the way, we know Genesis 1 verse 26, right? This is very dangerous, and this is where you need to exercise some discernment here. So we're dealing with henotheism here, or a henotheistic view. Where am I here? I've lost my... All right, we're going to go to a few verses. And God said, let us make man in our image, after our likeness, and let them have dominion over the over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image and the image of God created him male and female. So our image, let us, let us. Psalm 82 in verse one. And I'm gonna touch on this one. All right, God standeth in the congregation of the mighty, he judgeth among the gods, small g. Now, I'm going to park on that for a bit, a little bit later, because this is where we get into dangerous, dangerous territory, and you need to exercise some discernment here. So it continues on here. So he bases his interpretation on several passages of scripture, including, and he gives a whole list of scripture here, and others, and the definition of many gods is polytheism. Based on Genesis 1 and verse 26, and God said, let us make man in our image after our likeness, Heizer taught that God is actually talking to a council of gods, not to the other members of the Trinitarian godhead. See? Very dangerous. Let us is not to a council. Where do you read that in Scripture? It's very clear. It's talking about the Trinity, the triune God. Let us, right? Because you know what's dangerous about that is that let us make man in our image. So are you saying that you've got God and then you've got this whole council of lesser gods that created man? Think about it, right? Not to the other members of Trinitarian Godhead, so... Of course, there's more of this doctrine that's posted on their webpage. Now, the Tower of Babel story. What really happened? Quote, that's what it says here. As odd as it sounds, the rest of the nations were placed under the authority of members of Yahweh's divine council. So this is really dangerous. Beware of Michael Heizer. Now he's dead now, he's not going to be writing any more books, and he knows better now. If he's truly saved, he certainly knows better now. Whereas in Deuteronomy 32 verses 8-9, God apportioned or handed out the nations to the sons of God, Here we are told God allotted the small g gods to those nations. God decreed in the wake of Babel that the other nations he had forsaken would have other gods beside himself to worship. Well, these are just devils. These are demons. Right? Those are the devils, the fallen angels that fell with Satan. Lucifer became Satan. The other nations were assigned these lesser gods as a judgment from the Most High, Yahweh. Notice how he uses Yahweh. It is as though God was saying, if you don't want to obey me, I'm not interested in being your God, small g God, by the way, I'll match you up with some other God, small g. That's very dangerous. And that's from their article, What Really Happened, Tower of Babel. However scripture is plain, Isaiah 44 verse 8 says this, is there a God beside me? Yea, there is no God. I know not any. There is no God, I know not any. There's only one God. In the Dictionary of the Old Testament, which was edited by Tremper Longman III and Peter Enns, Heiser declares, quote, Psalm 82 in verse 1, God has taken his place in the divine council. In the midst of the small g-gods, he holds judgment. The term divine council is used by Hebrew and Semitic scholars to refer to the heavenly host, the pantheon of divine beings who administer the affairs of the cosmos. All ancient Mediterranean cultures had some conception of a divine council. The divine council of Israelite religion, known primarily through the Psalms, was distinct in important ways. That's very important. By the way, This counsel here, if you read Psalm 82, God standeth in the congregation of the mighty, he judgeth among the gods, right? How long will you judge unjustly and accept the persons of the wicked, Selah? defend the poor and the fatherless, do justice to the afflicted and needy, deliver the poor and needy, rid them out of the hand of the wicked. They know not, neither will they understand. They walk on in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are out of course. I have said, ye are gods, and all of you are children of the Most High." These are men. Of course, Jesus referred to this verse, right? In John chapter 10, when he was talking to the Jewish rulers of the day, he's talking about the rulers of the people. That's what the small g gods are here. It's not talking about any kind of deity. It's talking about those who are ruling over the people in this sense. If you go over to John chapter 10 here, it's very clear what that means. It's not some kind of divine heavenly council. Right? John 10 and verse 34, Jesus answered them, right? Right? And these are the religious leaders who he was answering. Jesus answered him, or answered them rather. Is it not written in your law, right? I said, ye are gods. If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, the scripture cannot be broken. These are people, right? This would be like a sign, what would be known as a Sanhedrin council, right? The rulers of the people. That's who he's referring to, not some kind of heavenly divine council. It goes on to say here, It goes on to say here, this is Pastor Joshua Sommer, that's what he says, incursions of henotheistic thought, by the way, henotheism is basically you have a supreme God ruling over lesser gods. So you have a supreme deity ruling over lesser deities. Whereas in the many polytheistic cultures like Hinduism that you have deities that are pretty much on par with each other, right? Here you have a supreme deity ruling over lesser deities. So it goes, incursions of henotheistic thought have made their way into churches, seminaries, and theological resources in recent decades. Hedotheism is a species of polytheism, where many gods, small g that is, are said to be subject to one principal deity or supreme being. Rather than being entirely equal, as with many Eastern polytheisms, Hedotheism teaches a hierarchy in the divine nature. Proponents of Hedotheism include the ancient Greeks, Romans, and Norse peoples. More recently, however, the late Dr. Michael Heiser has imbibed henotheistic thought. While maintaining monotheism in principle, Heiser defines monotheism as the belief in a species' unique deity that presides over other divine beings or gods. In my opinion, this is virtually indistinguishable from the Greeks and Romans who saw Zeus or Jupiter respectively as the king-gods who maintained sway over subjugated divine powers such as Ares, Athena, or Mars. To adopt this position is to inadvertently drink from the fountain of a fundamental metaphysical compromise, that is, the expansion of divine nature to more than one being. That was from Pastor Joshua Sommer, TheBaptistBroadcast.com I'll continue on here, it says this, Heizer who denies that Isaiah ben Amos wrote the book of Isaiah, who denies Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch, who clearly believes Daniel was written hundreds of years after the actual Daniel lived, and who more than hints that he doesn't believe in a worldwide universal flood or much of any of the historicity of Genesis 1-11 for that matter, represents a practical rejection of New Testament statements about the Old Testament, its prophets and prophecies. He certainly doesn't believe the text to be God-breathed, and thus it has to be said that his concept of inspiration is radically different from what traditional theological conservatives have argued. Now the visibility provided to him through Logos allowed him to have a tremendous audience, and he has actually quite a wide audience. I've read a lot of his articles, so I know. And his views on the Divine Council have spread widely and have been widely accepted by a huge cross-section of evangelical readers and scholars. Now, John Piper's website ran an article that was a full-orbed acceptance of Heizer's teachings. By the way, beware of John Piper. Beware. Quote, several biblical passages speak of what some theologians call a divine council, an assembly of heavenly beings or gods. For Israel's neighbors in the ancient Near East, such councils reflected polytheistic worldviews, where rival gods vied for power and supremacy. For Israel, however, the members of the Divine Council, though heavenly and supernatural, remained subject to the providence and decrees of the one Creator God." Where do you get that in the Bible? Obviously, there is a heavenly host. We understand that. But where is His divine counsel? Furthermore, God disarmed all these malevolent spiritual powers at the cross of Christ. And one day He will strip them of all authority entirely. That's from DesiringGod.com. That's John Piper's website. Now, the article on Piper's website goes on to Paradhisor's Doctrine and Errors. Heizer's most popular book is entitled, The Unseen Realm Recovering the Supernatural Worldview of the Bible which promotes weird and unconventional doctrine regarding supernatural subjects Now on the Amazon page for this book This is a summary and endorsement that you'll find. Quote, why wasn't Eve surprised when the serpent spoke to her? How did descendants of the Nephilim survive the flood? Why did Jacob fuse Yahweh and his angel together in his prayer? Who are the assembly of divine beings that God presides over? In what way do those beings participate in God's decisions? Why do Peter and Jude promote belief in imprisoned spirits? Why does Paul describe evil spirits in terms of geographical rulership? Who are the quote-unquote glorious ones that even angels dare not rebuke? After reading this book, you may never read your Bible the same way again. You have to be careful of that when you read that. You know, something new there. You have to be careful with what... Like I do believe that the sons of God came down to the daughters of men. I don't know if that was a sexual relationship. I don't necessarily hold to that. But I do believe there was an offspring there. But you don't... I mean... You've got to be careful how far you take that. Because God has chosen not to reveal. Like He's revealed just what He wants us to know. See what happens with that too is that, and I've actually talked to men. You're a street preacher and someone asks you, you talk about preaching the Nephilim, right? So you can understand where we're getting at there. Some people actually park on that and just stay there. That's why God didn't reveal it to him. He just chose to reveal what he wanted to reveal and not to dig into the point where we're actually now kind of concocting our own ideas about what really happened. I have my beliefs, but I base it on scripture. Right? You know, the Bible talks about angels leaving the first estate. Right? And in the context of going after strange flesh, too. I mean, you could compare scripture to scripture, but you don't go beyond that. For instance, I have a hard time believing that, and I used to believe this, that, you know, the devils spoken of in the New Testament are merely are merely disembodied spirits of the Nephilim, right? But the Bible doesn't really bear that out. They're just fallen angels. But the book of Enoch bears that out. So why would you want to go to the book of Enoch as an authority to gain your doctrine? You wouldn't. You understand where I'm getting at? Let's see where I am here. Yeah, so the unseen realm seeks to amass this world. Heizer shows how important it is to understand this world and appreciate how its contribution helps to make sense of scripture. The book is clear and well done, treating many ideas and themes that often go unseen themselves. With this book, such themes will no longer be neglected. So read it and discover a new realm for reflection about what the scripture teaches. You have to be very careful because they're placing this man in a position where he's the Holy Spirit. Beware of reading anything that's just new and out there and you've not heard before. Just beware of that. You question that. You be a Berean. Now, Daniel L. Bach, Executive Director for Cultural Engagement, Senior Research Professor of New Testament Studies, Howard G. Hendricks, Center for Christian Leadership and Cultural Engagement, Blah, blah, blah. Let's see what we have here. So that quote I just read, that was from them. So Faithlife produced a documentary based on his book, The Unseen Realm. By the way, they have a YouTube link here. I can probably send it to you if you want to watch it. Which merely highlights their endorsement of this very confused man. Heizer also wrote, The World Turned Upside Down, Finding the Gospel in Stranger Things, which is featured on the Logos website. Stranger Things, what does that mean? I know, I would be shaking my head too when I read that. Hmm. It's one of those things that make you go, hmm. Finding the Gospel in Stranger Things, what a weird title. It's just something, it's very, I don't know, it's very esoteric, if you will. So Netflix series Stranger Things includes paranormal activity, loads of profanity, sexual content, and demons. Quote, some characters get overtaken by an interdimensional creature known as the mind flayer, which makes them act in ways that are contrary to their personality and gives this creature more power. Now in its third season, most viewers of Stranger Things won't be surprised by the amount of swearing in the series. However, Christians will be surprised to know that many of the expletives come from the mouths of children. Wow. Another quote here. In The World Turned Upside Down, Heiser draws on this supernatural worldview to help us think about the story of Jesus and discover glimpses of the gospel in the upside down. In the upside down. Upside down, inverted. He argues that this celebrated series helps us understand the gospel in unique and overlooked ways. You know what? The gospel is very simple. We don't need any different way, it's very simple, the Gospel is simple. The spiritual questions and crisis raised by Stranger Things are addressed in the same way they are in the Gospel, with mystery and transcendent power. That sounds like the occult. If you ask me, you wonder if these guys are Masons, really, I wonder. Can't help but think about that. And that's a promotional statement on Amazon for his book. Quote, for Michael Heiser, Stranger Things, is the perfect marriage of his interest in popular culture and the paranormal. In the unseen realm, he opened the eyes of thousands, helping readers understand the supernatural worldview of the Bible. Now he turns his attention to the worldwide television phenomenon, exploring how Stranger Things relates to Christian theology and the Christian life. And that is a promotional statement on the Logos website itself. Now, Heizer's book, Reversing Hermann, Mount Hermann, Enoch, the Watchers, and the Forgotten Mission of Jesus Christ. See, this sounds very like some kind of esoteric Gnostic work, if you will, Gnostic gospel. Right, the Forgotten Mission of Jesus Christ. Okay, I'm going to... Years ago, before I got saved, This is like about four years before I got saved. So we're going back, how many years now? 24 years. I used to, in Bathurst there, right by Bathurst and Bloor, I don't know if that bookstore still exists, but there was an occult bookstore. And I don't know why I went in there. I mean, this stuff had some heavy stuff. You're talking about like on Kabbalah, like some of the heaviest, heaviest stuff in there. It was dark. It was dark. I was just saying, God have mercy on my soul. But out of that, believe it or not, the books I bought were Grand Jeffrey books on prophecy and things. I was an unsaved Christian. And I remember the bookstore owner there, he says, he would never recommend that book, you know, because he would see what I would buy. He says, why don't you buy David Icke's books? I said, no, I don't want that, I want this one. I don't know, because my mom had given me some books by Grant Jeffery, and I was interested in the Bible prophecy and all that, and I wanted that. One of them was Surveillance Society. Right? And things like that. So I believe the Lord, even though as an unsaved man, was protecting me from a lot of the garbage that was in there. But within that bookstore, you had like Jesus from India, like Jesus, you know, the silent years in India and all that, you know, all these other occult works or Gnostic works that they have there. And you have, or out of India, books like that, you know, or Jesus, you know, from 12 years of age to 30, and that he went to the masters of, or he went into the Himalayas and all that, and then India and all that, and things like that. So that's, this is what this sounds like, okay, when you think about it. Again, reversing Hermann is a groundbreaking work. It unveils what most in the modern church have never heard regarding how the story of the sin of the Watchers in 1 Enoch 6-16 helped frame the mission of Jesus, the Messiah. Jews of the first century expected the Messiah to reverse the impact of the Watchers' transgression. For Jews of Jesus' day, the Watchers were part of the explanation for why the world was so profoundly depraved. The Messiah would not just provoke the claim of Satan on human souls and estrangement from God, solving the predicament of the fall. He would also not only bring the nations back into relationship with the true God by defeating the principalities and powers that governed them. Jews also believe that the Messiah would rescue humanity from self-destruction, the catalyst for which was the sin of the watchers, and the influence of what they had taught humankind. The role of Enoch's retelling of Genesis 6, verses 1 through 4, and how New Testament writers wrote of Jesus and the cross has been largely lost to a modern audience. Reversing Hermann rectifies that situation. That's a description on Amazon. You have to be very careful. See, notice there's an emphasis on Enoch here and that. And it focuses on the sin of these fallen angels, or of these nephilim, or the fallen angels, more than the sin of man. The gospel's all about our sin. You know, Jesus didn't bleed and die, right? He didn't shed his precious blood on Calvary's cross for any fallen angel, or for Satan and his legion of fallen angels. There's no redemption available to them. Continuing on here, with the help and support of Faithlife logos, Heizer has influenced thousands of people toward his heretical view of the Godhead and his weird unscriptural views on a host of things. The very idea that a Bible scholar would feast on the wicked production Stranger Things and attempt to find spiritual truths in a vile and profane show like that ought to be a warning about his mindset. By the way, if you're sitting there and drawing from a Netflix series that's heavy on profanity, that's going to affect your heart. You allow filth in, filth is going to come out. Absolutely. Thousands of positive comments on his articles and videos reveals how popular he has become through Logos, and I know he's popular, I've read. Because it came to my attention, so obviously anything that peaks my attention, I'm going to read. There's always a check in your spirit, there's something off here, there's just something off. And especially when they purport to bring something new. Right? New. Never spoken of before. What the Bible really says. What this verse really teaches. Right? You got to be careful with that. Recent comments on one of his books. Here's one. Dr. Heizer's work in bringing out scholarship to the day-to-day folk who are just interested in reading and discerning the Word of God is phenomenal. God used him in a profound way in helping many of us to not only see Scripture for what it is, but also avoid misconceptions unduly placed on the Bible. He was a brilliant scholar and his works continue to enlighten a lot of people. The books are really good, a must-have for any scholar and Christian. Through Logos, Heizer has been able to influence conservative and fundamental Baptists. Tri-City Baptist Church of Forest City, North Carolina, was a traditional fundamental Baptist King James Bible-believing church. In 2019, the church used Heizer's book, The Unseen Realm, as the basis for a series of Sunday school classes. They have recently also moved from the KJV church to the NKJV. By the way, beware, a lot of these Independent Baptists now are shifting. Beware of that. How the shift begins is correcting, right? or using the Greek to correct the King James Bible, right? That's what you need to be aware of. You're going to go visit a church this weekend, hopefully. I mean, a statement of faith is quite orthodox, right? I read a couple of his articles there. They're pretty good articles, so we'll see. You may just get some, but just kind of listen out for subtleties in that. I'd like to be wrong, but just listen out. I don't know the church, I don't know the pastor, but you're going to be away in Montreal, so that's where I was born. Born in Montreal. After Heizer died in 2023, Kevin T. Bauder, Research Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology at Central Baptist Theological Seminary, eulogized Heizer in glowing terms, particularly noting how influential he had been on the doctrinal issues he promoted. Quote, most of all, Heizer's legacy rests upon his single-minded focus. Starting from his advocacy of the divine counsel theory, he developed related theories of biblical angelology and demonology, an understanding of the development and role of nations in the plan of God, and ultimately an overarching storyline for the outworking of God's plan. The result was an integrated system that reflected a comprehensive biblical theology. By continuously publishing the elements of this theory through a variety of scholarly and popular venues, Heizer was able to advance his view significantly within the evangelical world. In 2019, Heizer left Logos and moved to Florida to become executive director at Awakening School of Theology and Ministry. Awakening. Awakening. Think about that. The following year, while the rest of the world was panicking about COVID, he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. The cancer took his life in February of 2023. He says this year was 2023. Michael Heiser was just 60 years old. Heiser was a true scholar. He was a true gentleman, he was a true man of God and a faithful witness for Jesus Christ, but he was also unique in his interests and in his passion to communicate them. We shall not look upon his like again." And that was a statement from centralseminary.edu. That's their eulogy. Bauder said that Heiser was a true scholar, but in reality he was a dangerous and deceptive false teacher. The very second that you attribute the right... I don't know why I got YouTube. It's a good laugh, I know. I don't know, I just... I'm seeing things on the page here, brother. The very second that you attribute the writings of Moses to pagan nations, you have failed the test of true biblical scholarship. And I say that, to me, to that I say, Amen. And next week, we're going to look at how they deal with the KJV. Heavenly Father, we give Thee thanks for the blessing, Lord, for Thy Word above all, Lord, and the truth Thy Word, Lord. May the Holy Spirit, may we allow the Holy Spirit to teach us all things, Lord, and to guide us and lead us, Lord, primarily. Yes, we look to commentaries and other works of men that Thou hast raised up, Lord, but we must understand that these are the words of men, Lord, the comments of men. So may we be a discerning people, Lord, when we read these works, Lord, and again, Lord, above all, for those of us who are born again, we have the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in us, and the Holy Spirit teach us, teach us thy word, and lead us. Trust, Lord, that what has been discussed tonight, Lord, has been a blessing, rather, Lord, to thy people. In Jesus' precious name I pray, amen, amen.