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b'Welcome to Day 1436 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.I am Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to WisdomBiblical Foundations \\u2013 Elohim and the Supernatural Worldview \\u2013 Worldview WednesdayWisdom - the final frontier to true knowledge.\\xa0Welcome to Wisdom-Trek! Where our mission is to create a legacy of wisdom, to seek out discernment and insights, to boldly grow where few have chosen to grow before. Hello, my friend, I am Guthrie Chamberlain, your captain on our journey to increase Wisdom and Create a Living Legacy.\\xa0Thank you for joining us today as we explore wisdom on our 2nd millennium of podcasts. Today is Day 1436 of our Trek, and it is Worldview Wednesday.\\xa0Creating a Biblical Worldview is essential to have a proper perspective on today\\u2019s current events.\\xa0To establish a Biblical Worldview, you must have a proper understanding of God and His Word.\\xa0This week, on our Worldview Wednesday episode, we will continue with a new study, based on a course I recently completed taught by Dr. Michael Heiser. Our study is titled \\u201cSons and Daughters of God: The Believer\\u2019s Identity, Calling, and Destiny\\u201d Throughout this multi-week course we will demonstrate that, in the Old Testament, \\u201csons of God\\u201d and \\u201choly ones\\u201d refers to supernatural beings whose Father is God and who work with God to carry out His will and that this divine family was present before humanity. By fully engaging with biblical texts such as Psalm 82; Psalm 89, and Deuteronomy 32:8\\u20139, our study will show that this divine family functions as a template for God\\u2019s human family. God desires of humans, as His imagers, to participate in His council. This study addresses issues such as polytheism, the nature of the (little \\u2018g\\u2019) \\u201cgods,\\u201d and the uniqueness of Yahweh. Within this study, we will apply insights to the New Testament texts and shows how the metaphor of being in God\\u2019s family informs our sense of identity and mission as believers.


Biblical Foundations\\xb7\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0Segment 3: Crucial PassagesGetting Comfortable with a Supernatural Worldview


Now, if we\\u2019re honest, we have to admit we aren\\u2019t used to thinking about our own identity and our calling and our destiny against the backdrop of the heavenly host, God\\u2019s divine family. Some of that is due to sort of neglect of the patterns. Even though the patterns are there, a lot of people are never discovering them, or never taught them, but they are actually important, and I think we will be able to see that in the course of our course using this trajectory.


Sometimes there is a fear of the supernatural Worldview. There are some passages that we\\u2019re going to look at that are controversial, where people actually try to explain the supernatural elements away. That\\u2019s a mistake; it\\u2019s a mistake to demythologize passages that actually help us think as the ancient writers think and, in this case, actually help us discover a template that helps us discern what God wanted to do with humanity from the very beginning in terms of family relationships and calling and destiny.


Elohim in Psalm 82


Let\\u2019s start with Psalm 82. In the very first verse, we read, \\u201cGod [and that\\u2019s the Hebrew word elohim] has taken his place in the divine council; in the midst of the gods he holds judgment.\\u201d That second word, \\u201cgods\\u201d with an s on the end of it, is also the word elohim. We have elohim occurring two times in the same verse, and because of reasons of Hebrew grammar, the first one is singular, and the second one is plural.


Now, we know that the second one is plural as well from verse 6 in the same psalm. God is speaking to the members of His divine council, this heavenly host, and He says, \\u201cI said, \\u2018You are gods [the word elohim again], sons [plural] of the Most High, all of you.\\u2019\\xa0\\u201d Now \\u201csons of the Most High\\u201d is obviously plural. That means the elohim of Psa 82:6, which refers back to Psa 82:1, is also plural. Sons of God are derivative from members of lesser beings in God\\u2019s...'