Demons Are Like Puppies: They Come When They're Called – Michael Heiser

Video from John 14:6

Demons Are Like Puppies: They Come When They're Called – Michael Heiser

"Dr. Michael Heiser elucidates a hierarchical structure in the unseen spiritual realm, drawing from biblical texts like Jude, 2 Peter, Psalm 82, Deuteronomy 32:17 (quoted in 1 Corinthians 10:20-22), Daniel 10, and Job, where a divine pecking order emerges among celestial beings: at the top sits the triune God as judge in a cosmic courtroom motif akin to ancient Near Eastern lawsuit genres and royal households; beneath are "sons of God" or elohim—high-ranking divine council members tasked with governing nations' territories, including fallen ones like Satan (a fallen son of God, not a demon) and principalities, powers, thrones, dominions, and rulers—who outrank lower entities and wield free will, capable of rebellion as seen in Genesis 3 (serpent), Genesis 6 (offending sons of God), Babel (disloyal sons), and potentially ongoing per Job's warnings that Yahweh doesn't fully trust even his holy ones; demons, by contrast, are distinct as disembodied spirits of the giant Rephaim clans or Nephilim offspring from Genesis 6, bound in chains in hell (Tartarus) yet able to roam, functioning as subordinate "puppies" that come when called—echoed in Heiser's novel The Portent where a villain boasts of commanding them while higher entities like watchers act independently; even archangels like Michael defer to this rank, refusing railing accusations against Satan over Moses' body (Jude) and instead invoking "The Lord rebuke you," a pattern real-life deliverance ministers (like Fern and Audrey) confirmed through experience, where improper engagement invited retribution under an inferred cosmic legal framework, emphasizing believers' reliance on divine authority rather than personal power, as "greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world," while cautioning against solo confrontations." from the video introduction

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