Naked Bible 329: Binding and Loosing

The Naked Bible Podcast

Dr. Michael S. Heiser

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

In Matthew 16:19; 18:18 Jesus tells the disciples they have the authority to “bind” and “loose” in heaven and on earth. What does this language mean? What is being bound or loosed? In what way does the “binding” and “loosing” operate? Is “heaven” the afterlife residence of believers or something else? This episode of the podcast explores these passages with the help of parallels from the Bible and Second Temple Period Jewish literature and reaches a fascinating conclusion: Binding and Loosing refers to exorcism and authority over supernatural powers of darkness.

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0:26.3	Welcome to the NakedBible Podcast, episode 329, binding and loosening.
0:31.1	I'm Lehman, Tray Strickland and he's the scholar, Dr. Buckweiser.
0:34.6	Hey Mike, how you doing?
0:38.0	Pretty good.
0:39.0	I'm still waiting for, there's still a sports gap going on in my life, Tray.
0:45.9	You and me both.
0:47.9	So, you know, you should be watching the NBA playoffs right now, but I'm not.
0:53.2	Yeah, well, I wouldn't watch those anyway, but it's the baseball and the football, you
0:57.1	know, I'm wanting football.
0:58.7	So, you know, any one of those will scratch the edge, but here we are.
1:04.5	What can you say?
1:05.5	Not much, not much to say, other than everything else is going crazy out there in the world,
1:11.8	but at least everybody has the podcast to listen to to help make their lives easier.
1:16.9	There you go.
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1:19.6	That's the one thing we can hold on to, you're bringing some order to the chaos that everybody's
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1:28.0	Yeah, well, you know, I have pugs too, so they don't seem to be bothered by any of it.
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