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25/08/2026

📖 Why Ancient Context Matters When Reading the Bible

One of Michael Heiser’s biggest points was simple: the biblical writers lived in a world of their own, not ours.

They knew the literature, stories, symbols, and terminology of their culture. New Testament writers were familiar with material found in 1 Enoch, while Old Testament writers used imagery and language that also appears in ancient texts such as the Baal Cycle.

That doesn't make those books Scripture. 📜

Think about how we communicate today.

If I said someone was offered “the red pill or the blue pill,” many people immediately think of The Matrix. 💊

If I said, “We're not in Kansas anymore,” you probably know I'm referencing The Wizard of Oz. 🌪️👠

I don't have to believe The Matrix or The Wizard of Oz actually happened. I'm using a familiar story to communicate an idea because my audience understands the reference.

We do this constantly with movies, songs, books, memes, sports, politics, and popular sayings.

The biblical writers could do the same thing.

So when Jude uses material associated with 1 Enoch, that doesn't automatically mean Jude is declaring the entire Book of Enoch inspired Scripture.

And when an Old Testament writer uses imagery also found in Canaanite literature, that doesn't mean he's worshiping Baal! Sometimes the biblical writer may actually be turning that imagery against the pagan worldview and declaring that Yahweh—not Baal—is the true God. ⚔️

That's why studying things like 1 Enoch, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Ugaritic texts, and the Baal Cycle can be helpful.

We're not reading them instead of the Bible.

We're reading them to better understand what the Bible's original audience already knew. 🏺🔍

Michael Heiser's approach in The Unseen Realm was to interpret the biblical text within the ancient worldview that produced it—not force our modern worldview onto it.

Sometimes we're confused by a biblical reference simply because we're 2,000–3,000 years late to the conversation.

Learn their terminology.
Learn their cultural references.
Learn their worldview.

Then go back and read the Bible again. 📖🔥

You might finally understand why Heiser loved saying we need to “read th

25/08/2026

Word of the day
2nd Kings 5:13-14
And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?
Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
You can never go wrong with God. It may not be logical, it may look senseless, but the way of the Lord is the way of life. Trust Him.
I pray for you, pride and logic will not cheat you out of your destiny in the name of Jesus Christ.

24/08/2026

Why Using the Word “Supernatural” Can Be a Disinheritance to God 🌎👑🔥

The word “supernatural” can unintentionally make us think of God as though He exists somewhere outside reality—far away in a separate spiritual dimension—and occasionally breaks into the natural world to perform a miracle.

But that isn’t really how the biblical writers understood reality.

“For by Him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible.” — Colossians 1:16 🌌

For the biblical writers, the seen and unseen realms were both real. Heaven wasn’t imaginary and the spiritual realm wasn’t an optional add-on to the “real” physical world. God created and rules ALL of it.

So when we treat God as merely a “supernatural being,” we can unintentionally disinherit Him from His own creation—as though the physical world belongs to “nature,” while God belongs somewhere else.

But Scripture says:

“The earth is the LORD’s and the fullness thereof.” — Psalm 24:1 🌎👑

And this makes the biblical idea of GLORY even more powerful.

The Hebrew kavod (כָּבוֹד), translated glory, is connected to the idea of weight, heaviness, honor, and significance.

So giving God glory doesn't mean we're adding something to God that He didn't already possess. We are recognizing the weight of who He already is—His worth, majesty, authority, significance, and presence. 🔥

“Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; the whole earth is full of His glory!” — Isaiah 6:3

Put these two ideas together:

God isn't some distant “supernatural” visitor occasionally entering our reality.

This is His reality.

Visible and invisible.
Heaven and earth.
Physical and spiritual.

It ALL belongs to Him. 🌎🌌👑

And His glory is the immeasurable weight and significance of who He is throughout all of it.

“In Him we live and move and have our being.” — Acts 17:28 🔥

Sometimes understanding Scripture means recovering the categories of the biblical writers instead of forcing our modern categories onto their world. 📖👀

23/08/2026

Glory!

Lift up your heads, O gates! And lift them up, O ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in. Who is this King of glory? The Lord of hosts, he is the King of glory! Selah

23/08/2026

King of Glory!!!!

Encouraging and challenging you to seek intimacy with God every day.

21/08/2026

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Follow original, reference-based study paths through the Bible's supernatural and first-century worldview. Read cited passages in your own Bible, reflect, and continue learning.

20/08/2026

Happy birthday to my treasure ❤️ "The man who finds a wife finds a treasure, and he receives favor from the LORD" Proverbs 18:22 #ʙɪʀᴛʜᴅᴀʏɢɪʀʟ

18/08/2026

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18/08/2026

This guy Spencer Smith is just sad wrong about so much

Here is a concise context and fact-check of the Scriptures cited in that comment:
1. Romans 16:17 & Theological Triage (Gal 1:6–9, 1 Tim 1:3, 2 Pet 2:1, 1 John 2:22, 2 John 7)
* Scripture Check: Accurate in context.
* Details: In the New Testament, apostolic warnings to sever fellowship or label someone "anathema" specifically target foundational departures: preaching a works-based justification (Gal 1), introducing Gnostic/destructive Christological heresies (2 Pet 2, 1 John 2, 2 John 7), or actively promoting factional divisions (Rom 16:17). The comment correctly notes that secondary associations or prudential mistakes are not categorized alongside fundamental apostasy.
2. Women in Ministry (1 Tim 3:1–7, Titus 1:5–9 vs. 1 Cor 11:5, Acts 18:26, Acts 21:9)
* Scripture Check: Accurate in context.
* Details: 1 Timothy 3 and Titus 1 specifically delineate elder/overseer qualifications within a local congregation. Meanwhile, 1 Corinthians 11:5, Acts 18:26 (Priscilla instructing Apollos), and Acts 21:9 (Philip’s prophesying daughters) document active female participation in prayer, prophecy, and instruction. Evaluating a guest speaking event requires weighing all of these texts; conflating a guest speaker with a formal rejection of pastoral qualifications is an exegetical leap.
3. False Teachers & Hospitality (2 John 7, 10–11)
* Scripture Check: Accurate in context.
* Details: 2 John 10–11 instructs believers not to receive or bid Godspeed to those who "do not bring this teaching." Verse 7 explicitly defines "this teaching" as the incarnation and person of Christ ("those who do not confess the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh"). Extending this to mean that having a conversation or personal rapport with someone of unorthodox theology instantly transfers their doctrinal guilt misapplies the historical and textual intent of the epistle.
4. Repentance, Cohabitation & Corinth (1 Cor 6:9–11, Gal 2:11–14)
* Scripture Check: Accurate in context.
* Details:
* 1 Corinthians 6:9–11: Paul lists severe sexual and moral sins, immediately followed by "and such were some of you." Shepherding individuals toward covenant marriage aligns with the biblical trajectory of repentance, not apostasy.
* Galatians 2:11–14: Peter's withdrawal from Gentiles due to peer pressure was a serious public failure requiring direct confrontation, yet Paul did not excommunicate or "mark and avoid" him as a false apostle.
5. Kingdom Theology & Cosmic Gospel (1 Cor 15:20, 2 Cor 5:17, Col 2:15, Eph 1:20–23, Matt 28:18–20)
* Scripture Check: Accurate in context and scholarly representation.
* Details: These passages form the backbone of apostolic Christology—Christ’s bodily resurrection, the defeat of demonic principalities (Col 2:15), the inauguration of the new creation (2 Cor 5:17), and the cosmic reclamation of the nations. This matches Michael Heiser’s framework in The Unseen Realm (Part 7), contrasting an expansive apostolic mission with rigid, sub-cultural separationism.
Summary Verdict
The scriptural references are used accurately according to their grammatical, historical, and immediate textual contexts. The comment correctly demonstrates that the New Testament distinguishes between heresy/false gospel, moral/leadership failure, and secondary disputable matters.

smith joker lol 📖 Copy this comment into AI and ask it to fact-check the Scriptures in context. Don’t take my word for it—or Spencer’s. The central ...