Naked Bible 340: The Cloud of Witnesses in Hebrews 12

The Naked Bible Podcast

Dr. Michael S. Heiser

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 5 September 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Hebrews 12:1 opens with a familiar exhortation: “Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us. . . .” Most discussion in church and Bible studies focuses on the struggle with sin, with the “cloud of witnesses” is usually interpreted as the believers in the preceding chapter. This episode of the podcast explores contextual clues in Hebrews 2 and 12, and the Old Testament context of Psalm 89 to support the conclusion that there’s much more going on in Heb 12:1, specifically with respect to the biblical theology of the divine council.

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0:26.3	Welcome to the Naked Bible Podcast, episode 340, the cloud witnesses in Hebrews 12.
0:32.5	I'm the layman, Tray Strickland and he's the scholar, Dr. Michael Heiser.
0:35.8	Hey Mike, how are you doing this week?
0:38.5	Pretty good.
0:39.5	I was more interested to hear how you were doing because there was just a hurricane, Louisiana.
0:46.4	I know you're not Louisiana, but just wondering if you got hit by any of that at all.
0:51.0	You know, as it moved around.
0:52.4	No, I'm in West Texas.
0:54.0	So we're too far north and west to get any kind of that blowback from the hurricanes.
0:59.9	But yeah, we have a lot of people who listen in Louisiana, specifically even in the New
1:07.4	Orleans area.
1:08.4	So I'm sure it was again a big deal there, traumatic.
1:14.7	Yeah, we pray everybody safe for sure.
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1:19.4	Mike, something fun.
1:21.3	We could talk about the switch gears here.
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