What are Angels? | Dr. Michael Heiser

Dr. Heiser is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (M.A., Ancient History) and the University of Wisconsin- Madison (M.A., Ph.D., Hebrew Bible and Semitic Studies). he has a dozen years of classroom teaching experience on the college level and another ten in distance education. He\’s currently a Scholar-in-Residence at Logos Bible Software.  

In short, he\’s pretty much one of the smartest Christians living today.

Dr. Heiser is here today to talk about his new book Angels. What the Bible really says about angels is overlooked or filtered through popular myths. He wrote this book to help change that. It\’s about the loyal members of God\’s heavenly host, and while most people associate them with the word \”angel,\” that\’s just one of many terms the Bible uses for supernatural beings.

His study is grounded in the terms the Bible itself uses to describe members of God\’s heavenly host; he examines the terms in their biblical context while drawing on insights from the wider context of the ancient Near Eastern world.

Most people presume all there is to know about angels is what has been passed on in Christian tradition, but in reality, that tradition is quite incomplete and often inaccurate.