The Unseen Battle: Spiritual Warfare, the Three Rebellions, and Christ’s Victory Over Dark Powers (by Joel Muddamalle)
In his book, The Unseen Battle, Joel Muddamalle develops the concept of spiritual warfare through the Bible’s supernatural worldview. The book explains why the world looks spiritually fractured, politically chaotic, and morally contested. The book is a biblical-theological work, solidly grounded in Scripture and the Ancient Near Eastern (ANE) context. Muddamalle organizes the story of spiritual warfare around a supernatural framework of God’s supernatural and human families. He further explores how the relationship between these two households informs the narrative of conflict, rebellion, and redemption in the biblical text. The goal of The Unseen Battle is to bring understanding of the powers at work in the world and to highlight the order brought through Christ’s victory over all things.
Gods, Demons, or Angels? Who are the divine beings who rival Yahweh?
You may or may not be aware of the recent debate between some classically Reformed voices and some of the more ‘fringe’ or DCW (Divine Council Worldview) voices regarding how we should speak about spiritual beings described in Scripture. The debate seems esoteric to many, but to others it's a significant argument as it touches on fundamental questions in orthodox Christianity about biblical interpretation and the nature of God. More importantly, this is a conversation where both sides share far more common ground than the dogmatic exchanges suggest.