Thoughts on "Supernatural" by Michael S Heiser - Chapters 10 and 11

 Chapter 10 - Holy War

Like most people, I am uncomfortable with the total annihilation plan God handed down to the Israelites to thoroughly destroy the people who inhabited the land God set aside for them - especially the children and livestock. However, I guess I kind of see the point. The children could grow up to extract revenge and the livestock may be tainted by belonging to the people who were ruled by God's enemies (those who rebelled against him) and he wouldn't want them to be sacrificed to him at any point. Perhaps they were considered "unclean" and no longer fit for consumption by the Israelites.

God's plan for the salvation of the human race being kept secret is also an interesting idea. I hadn't given it much thought before. 

Chapter 11 - Hidden in Plain Sight

What I found most memorable in this chapter is how cryptic God's plan with Jesus as the messiah to remove the curse of sin and death is in the Old Testament. We can read it today and see it, but it was there for centuries without being spotted. When Jesus rose from the dead, he had to open the minds of his disciples and show them what had been there all along. 

Passages Read - Genesis 12 & 13; 1 Corinthians 2



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