You said — “Yep, not sure where he gets that “council of gods” stuff. Sounds like vivid imagination or reading between the lines...or a little of both.”
The posters over at Chuck Missler’s member’s forum discuss this quite a bit. And, apparently, Mike Heiser, is held in high regard. He does have something to do with a popular computer program, too — Bible software (can’t remember the name of it now).
And a lot of people seem to have “bought into it” without any problem, over at Chuck Missler’s forum site.
I will say this, that Mike Heiser doesn’t apparently just pull this “out of his hat” like a rabbit trick, out of nothing. He’s apparently done a lot of research on the matter and has presented “papers” on it, and a lot of it is far beyond what I can really get into.
I just feel that I don’t have the *complete grasp* of where he’s going with this idea, so I’m reluctant to “buy into it” at the present time...
I don't think he would draw such conclusions without substantial effort. That said, I personally know nothing of that subject.
Let me know if remember the name of that computer software that Heiser is working with. I would be interested in digging into it.