Welcome to Blurret Creatures, it's your first time listening.

We're doing something different this week.

One of our friends, a monumental man in the paranormal space and the fringe community.

He's a superstar, Michael Heiser is no longer with us.

He passed away yesterday.

And Luke, he's the reason Blurret Creatures is what it is.

I can confidently say that, you know, without Mike Heiser and his work, I don't think this podcast would have gone this direction or even happened, you know.

Because it was sort of his, when he kind of came into my sort of just sphere of understanding it.

He made sense of a lot of things and sort of let a fire like this is what this podcast needs to be about.

Yeah, it's funny how things go.

But you were really into Heiser's work and into his way of teaching and reading the Bible.

And it was new to me coming into Blurret Creatures.

And so, you know, the funny even the first time we interviewed Mike, I didn't really have a lot of context for it.

And we got to grow a friendship with this man who, you know, since then, have read, reversing Herman and the Unseen Realm, which are just really parent, I'm shifting and changing.

The way that he approaches the Bible and the way that he takes everything back to the original language and context.

It opened up the Bible in a new and fascinating way and a way that was very much tied to what the words actually say.

And that for me was so important.

And over the last few years, getting to know Mike and even his things as crazy as just talking football and fantasy football, which he was such a big sports fan, which is the irony of someone who is so academic, I think, in his space.

It was really cool to develop a friendship with Dr. Michael Heiser.

And so, yeah, this is a hard week. Mike got promoted in a lot of ways. He's now walking with Jesus.

For someone that was very much about the Divine Council and in his writing, he's a chance to sit with the Council.

And it's heartbreaking this side of eternity. And I know what God greaves with us, but at the same time, he took Mike home.

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