I'm aware of Heiser, he is the only person I looked into regarding this lesser gods/elohim translation idea, because he seems to be the main voice of the opinion and I can't find anything else to compare or fact check with. Heiser is a very cocky and arrogant critic of flat earth and he also is a science fiction author of books about "alien" contact. I severely question his judgement and intentions because of this. So I'm currently looking for more information on the matter to test his claims, and if I can't find any I have to dismiss it.
Another issue I have is that the beliefs of most ancient civilizations, greek and rome, modern hindu and the overall majority had multiple gods. If there was more evidence of cultures run by distinct monotheistic gods I would be more receptive to this. But from what I can tell we have the opposite, separate polytheistic religions where some of the gods seem comparable in personality or symbolism with another separate nations god or gods. It looks like attempts to explain the natural world, science, religion, philosophy all in one. Archetypes for the citizens to follow and seek guidance from in their decisions. A reflection of there culture itself, rather than an entity that dictated it.
Let's say I'm in charge of the norse people, if I want to create a war like society where the average citizen is tough and we are always ready to raid and pillage and steal and fight, I will create gods of war and battle and fill the average citizen's mind with these stories. It's like getting kids to play military violent videogames and then they joing the military, you tell them their gods are warriors and set this up to be the hero and arch-typical man to either become, respect, or serve. Whatever the rulers want becomes the religion and its reflected in the effect it will give off to their pawns.
If a human was named in charge of 1 of the 70 tribes by God and was able to essentially create the religion of his people and determine everything about the "spirit" of the people, I would have to compare his position to being a god too. Now I'm not saying I won't continue to explore the possibility of angel or demon involvement, but the religions don't look like they were operated by such an entity. They look like modern Hinduism and man-made false science origin stories of the world.
Another thing about heiser is that he is an open critic of one of the ufo guys; heiser created his own website zachariasitcheniswrong.com to accomplish this. So this heiser guy to me is a business man trying to capture a market and be one of these "mystic/prophetic" public figures and speakers that have all the answers to our questions about heaven, hell, aliens, angels, everything we are left with more questions about. I know for a "fact" or for myself david icke zach citchen anyone talking planet x or ancient aliens is full of it, so this guy criticizing them isn't incriminating in itself, but to do it and also be a science fiction writer with his own fringe theories in this area, I have many red flags about it.
Currently I see him as a man who had a P.H.D in theology and a passion to write sci-fi, who was searching for a way to become a writer people would want books from to pay his college loans and start getting return on his investment. He saw these ancient alien shills and regular guys making all of this money and getting this huge following in an area he also has interest in religion and sci-fi. So he attacks the shill because his evidence and arguments is ridiculous to prop himself up, and with this attention he presents his own niche theory and captures some of his market. He has a visceral reaction to flat earth because he doesn't want to become a flat earther and hurt his image or have his works influenced by it's implications. I understand he doesn't know it all either and we can't dismiss him because he's a glober, but his perspective on that issue seems relevant to me for putting faith in his judgement and claims. His reaction to it as well is not one of someone I would consider wise or humble:
Christians Who Believe the Earth is Really Flat — Does It Get Any Dumber Than This? | Dr. Michael Heiser
I have not heard of Joe Taylor but will look into him tonight.
Yeah I always wonder how it must have been when people were smarter and lived 200 years or more. Much more wisdom, culture, observance, heritage, and a watchful eye on the young and foolish in the world. I want to live in a time period where everything just stood still for like 200 years with no major developments, issues, wars, or changes to the way of life, culture, or environment. Just a slow, boring, no-pressure, relaxing world without this fast overwhelming "global" list of woes, terrors, misfortunes, and personal failures.
I read about those egyptian caves, and if I remember correctly the items went "missing" and the initial source was somehow discredited or something, but it was on display for a time or something too? And they covered up the cave too right? I believe all of it despite it kind of being one of those claims you here repeated word for word the same way from the off source. Native americans displayed hebrew writing as well and there may have been a tribe that came over here,the israelites were black in appearance like the egyptians.
There are also very impressive ancient structures like this cut into the side of rocks
I'd like to know how we were here in the recent past, Christ came, and this old world was lost while the new world rose and covered up and destroyed it's existence.
I have to imagine that power and cult worship to maintain control over the people isn't just a modern practice. I don't believe the owl idol at bohemian grove is real god, I don't believe the freemason baphomet is a real god, yet they are worshiped by our politicians and public figures who are given earthly power in return. Saturn is another object of their worship. I don't believe in lesser gods influencing our world now, but I believe all that cult worship and forced public exposure to it effects the cultists and the public. So is this "the gods" influencing them and attacking us? Or this this a bunch of old men in robe and pajamas conducting routine ritualistic idol worship to achieve certain states of mind and effects on the spirit?
The fear they put into the world on 9/11 with their "spell", that wasn't a divine act but it achieved a spiritual effect on us and they knew it would do this to us beforehand so they had rituals to bring it on, symbolize it, and honor it afterwards. Attributing the state of fear and confusion and hate to the work of their "god". To me it's just as pathetic as it appears, fools propping up a doll and committing atrocities because it told them to and feeling justified in their actions. Removing themselves from the implications of what they are doing and attributing the effects elsewhere, it provides structure and a false sense of divine purpose to the deceived and guilty. The truly depraved are probably trusted to record the mind of their god, just as we trust our righteous to record ours. They then carry our the will and plans and ride the worldy rewards it reaps them until they trigger the end times and are sentenced to the lowest parts of hell.
I'll keep looking into this topic and report back here, please let me know anything else you have or found. I literally just started researching all of this like 2 weeks ago so this is good timing.