SKYWATCH TV STAFF TRIBUTE TO DR. MICHAEL S. HEISER

FROM THOMAS HORN

When I first heard the news over a year ago about Dr. Michael S. Heiser’s pancreatic cancer prognosis I cannot tell you how much my heart was broken for him, his family, and for the world. He was such a huge blessing to me, my kids, and the SkyWatch family as wells as countless others worldwide over the years.

His time was short, but I assured him while he was still alive that his tremendous legacy work will live on in the hearts, minds, and theology of believers internationally as well as in his family into the distant future until we meet again in heaven. His efforts and abilities to parse out meaty theology and to make it comprehensible to what he called “Christian middle earthers” (laypeople that exist between academia and religious loonies) made him unequal in modern times.

And I am speaking personally.

From the days we first met around the time we were all going to Roswell NM with friends like David Flynn and Guy Malone 25-years ago, Mike quickly became one of my favorite thinkers and Bible scholars.

Of course, he was aware of that, because of the many times I came to him over the years with questions about Bible claims being made by others that sometimes I wished were true but relied on him to verify or debunk. He was always willing to help me in such important moments and I grew to trust him as one of my highest academic resources.

Who would have known years later that I would be privileged to produce what I esteem two of the most important works my Defender Publishing House has ever published—Mike’s masterpieces Reversing Hermon as well as his two-volume Companion to the Book of Enoch.