Is Michael Heiser's interpretation in The Unseen Realm correct?
A viewer asks whether the understanding presented in Michael Heiser's The Unseen Realm is correct.
Answer
No. Almost everything Michael Heiser teaches is wrong. He's dead now. He was a semi-liberal exegete, not Catholic, a Protestant, who knows the Hebrew pretty well, but who distorts the Hebrew to his own advantage. And he has this penchant that the book of Enoch is just as viable a source of truth as any other book of the Bible. See, he's of this liberal level where they don't hold biblical inspiration as much as their Protestant brethren from the previous century, who to a man believed Scripture was inspired word for word by God, and only the canonical Scriptures had all the truth, and the book of Enoch was not among them. And both are going to be distorted, because the first goes by Anne Catherine Emmerich, who had her understanding of the Gospel all distorted by her visions that nobody verified. And second, now Gibson is going to go to the book of Enoch for his truth about what occurred when Jesus died on the cross. And the book of Enoch is not a canonical book. That is, the Church says that it has not been inspired by the Holy Spirit. But nevertheless, Gibson, who really doesn't follow the Church, only when it appeals to him, that's when he follows it, has got his own church there in California. He's had it for years. He knows all the truth and you can't tell him anything because his pride is so thick you could cut it with a knife. But he believes the book of Enoch has the truth, and so that's what he's going to put into his movie about the resurrection. And it has a whole genre of things about demons and giants and all this stuff. That's because that's what you're reading in the book of Enoch. And all that is fake, what you're reading in the book of Enoch. It never happened. It's somebody's dream that they wrote down, like a nightmare. Don't ever get caught up in that. Somebody might say, well, the book of Revelation has some fantastic things, like a dragon with three frogs jumping out of it and all that stuff. Yes. They symbolize something, and that's what we can look for. They're not real. That's what the Revelation does. That's the difference. So stay away from all those, and stay away from anything that Michael Heiser interprets, because he's going to make it something that's not what the text says in Genesis. That's what he's out to do. These guys all reach a point where they're just tired of reading the literal stories in Genesis, and somehow they want to make it more exciting, or they want to put themselves higher than somebody else who doesn't make up stories as well as Michael Heiser does. And so he gets a name for himself, and everybody follows him and says, well, listen to Michael Heiser, he's got some new interpretations of how this all fits together, stuff that we've been missing for years. Well, there's a reason we've been missing it for years: because the Church told us not to go after it and read it. That's why. So stay away from Michael Heiser.