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Lesser Gods of the Old Testament Pagan Deities
The Old Testament names dozens of rival gods — Baal, Asherah, Molech, Dagon, the Queen of Heaven, the host of heaven. A tiered reference to who they were and what each claimed authority over, read through the Divine Council framework.
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How I Study the Bible
I am not a seminary graduate. What I have is a large library, years of reading, and forty years of wrestling with a God I could not fully explain. Here is how the work actually gets done.
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The Tool Takes the Shape of the Hand
Socrates refused to write because he feared writing would let us stop remembering. Plato wrote anyway. We barely know Socrates because of it. The same argument is happening again with AI.
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WHAT IS A KING–EPLILOGUE
When I stepped back and read the finished series, the first thing I felt was that there was no way I produced it. The fraud feeling assumes the wrong frame. The *doulos* frame says otherwise.
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Divine Council Inventory Heavenly Beings and Fallen Entities
The Old Testament presents a populated heavenly realm — beings of various ranks, roles, and alignments operating within Yahweh’s cosmic order. In Heiser’s divine council framework, these aren’t poetic metaphors. They’re real entities with real functions, some faithful, some in rebellion.
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WHAT IS A KING–WILL YOU BOW NOW? 6 of 6
Five sections of preparation, one question. We are between the two stages right now. The cross is past. The conquering King is future. The position you take now is the position you keep.
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JUDGES 17-18 MICAH AND THE IDOL
Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.” Judges 17–18 traces idolatry spreading through three levels — household, priesthood, tribe — until the grandson of Moses is founding priest at Dan’s idol shrine.
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WHAT IS A KING–THE WITNESS AND THE UNVEILING 5 of 6
You are responsible for the witness. You are not responsible for the unveiling. The weight modern American Christianity transfers onto the witness was never Scripture’s to give.
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DON’T GET LOST IN OTHER PEOPLE’S MINDS
Marcus catches something most self-help spends hundreds of pages circling: we say we love ourselves but spend our energy managing what other people think of us.
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WHAT IS A KING–THE COUNTERFEIT KING 4 of 6
The serpent does not need to convince you the gospel is false. That is too obvious. What he can do is fake the recognition just well enough that you bow to something that looks almost right.