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Welcome to Day 1481 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.I am Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to WisdomFamily Terminology and Heavenly Host \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 1481 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 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.
Family Terminology and Heavenly Host\xb7\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0Segment 20: Family Terminology Is Intentional
Introduction
We\u2019ve spent a lot of time talking about the sons of God in the Old Testament. We had telegraphed at the beginning of the course that we are paying attention to this family terminology because it\u2019s going to provide a useful, intentional template for us to understand how God looks at His human family, His human sons, and His human daughters. They\u2019re going to provide the sons of God, the supernatural ones, sort of a framework for us to think well theologically about ourselves.
We have already talked about the family terminology; we\u2019ve talked about that there is a functional or a participatory idea with these supernatural sons of God in the Old Testament, and they participate with God in carrying out His will. So we\u2019ve already learned things about their identity, their purpose. So we\u2019re going to learn something about our identity and our purpose, our calling, and finally, our destiny.\xa0We will understand how we realize these things, how our status will lead somewhere ultimately, and how we fulfill our calling. Lastly, how we will fulfill the purpose for which we have been made in the future. Think back about the references to the sons of God in the Old Testament. We must think of them as a family and as coworkers to completely understand this point.
Yahweh Decides to Add Humans to His Family
Let\u2019s go back to Genesis, because if we have these concepts in our mind when we read some key passages beginning in the garden of Eden, our relationship to them starts to come into focus. This concept will be part of the foundation for later as sons and daughters, children of God-language in the New Testament. Back in Genesis 1, in the very famous passage about human creation Genesis 1:26\u201328 (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+1%3A26%E2%80%9328&version=NLT), we read this:
Then God said, \u201cLet us make human beings\xa0in our image, to be like us. They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds...