Video: Was There REALLY a War in Heaven Before Creation?

Let’s do a third day-in-a-row of short clips concerning the nature and history of heaven. Here, Dr. Heiser says he’s not “Batman”, but excoriates Biblical scholars who declare that a third of the angels fell from heaven after battle as Biblical.

Dr. Michael S. Heiser: Do we ever, through our tradition, take things out of context? I mean, we ignore context a lot, and sometimes our out-of-context stuff becomes doctrine. My favorite example is this one, «A third of the angels rebel.» You can easily find it if you just Google “a third of the angels rebellion” or something like that. You’re going to get stories about how Satan took a third of the angels with him before the fall or maybe before creation, or before this or that. Something primeval. Well, the problem is, there isn’t a single verse in Scripture that actually says that. Check this out!