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Welcome to Day 1456 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.I am Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to WisdomAdditional Objections To The Heavenly Council \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 1456 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 our 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.
Additional Objections To The Heavenly Council\xb7\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0Segment 10: Are References Just People or Specifically Jews?Who Comprises the Heavenly Council?
In previous weeks we explored if the council of God referred to the trinity or idols.\xa0Neither of those options were logical or based on Scripture.\xa0One of the other options when people raise the following questions, \u201cWell, maybe these plural elohim aren\u2019t really divine beings; they\u2019re not really gods.\u201d\xa0\u201cMaybe they are something else. Maybe they are people.\u201d \u201cMaybe Psalm 82 has God talking to a council of leaders, Jewish leaders, elders, Israelites, you know, some human beings here.\u201d
Coming from the Spiritual World
Now, we\u2019ve already seen specific arguments in addressing other questions that are going to make this option very troublesome. Frankly, making this option impossible. In Psalm 89, the council of God, the council of His sons. In Psalm 82:6, the sons of God, the sons of the Most High. Those two psalms using sonship language very plainly\u2014this council of God\u2019s children in Psalm 89 is in the skies; it\u2019s in the heavenly realms, the spiritual realm.
First Kings 22: Micaiah is looking into the throne room of God. Micaiah sees a vision of the spiritual world. It\u2019s the same thing with Daniel 4 and Daniel 7. In these passages, these beings come from the spiritual world, not earth. That alone would rule out the trajectory that God is really talking to people here.
Dominant View: Humans
You can read your Bible from cover to cover, and you\u2019re never going to come up with a group of Jewish people ruling with God in the skies. It just doesn\u2019t make any sense. There is a reason behind why I am bringing this up because this is actually, believe it or not\u2014even though after the little bit we have discussed here, it sounds a bit absurd\u2014this is actually kind of a dominant view in commentaries and other sources for Psalm 82.
Again, it\u2019s because people are troubled by having multiple elohim in the spiritual world. You might be listening to that and...