Excerpts from The Unseen Realm (Expanded Edition Content Only) (2025) by Michael S. Heiser:
Chapter 38 [of The Unseen Realm]:
The focus of this [chapter 38] was baptism (as it relates to 1 Pet 3:14–22) and the Lord’s Supper (as it relates primarily to 1 Cor 10:20–21). The chapter proposed that baptism was a spiritual warfare event—essentially, a loyalty oath. Choosing Christ was to break free from the spiritual forces of darkness. Baptism is, in that context, a ritual reenactment of our union to (choice of) Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection—during which he descended to the realm of the dead and announced his victory over the imprisoned spirits, the offending sons of God of Genesis 6 infamy. ...
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