Architecture of Grace

The Unseen Realm

Enoch, the Watchers, angels, demons and the mission of Jesus, read from the ancient documents with the scholars who study them, K–12.

  • 17units
  • 34chapters
  • 355lessons
  • 5grade bands
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Grades K–2

3 units · 6 chapters · 44 lessons

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Unit 1

Beginnings

God's Family in Heaven

  1. Who Lives in the Unseen World?
  2. A Garden Home

2 chapters · 14 lessons

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Unit 2

Genesis 6–11

Big Choices Go Wrong

  1. Noah and the Rainbow Promise
  2. The Tall Tower and Many Nations

2 chapters · 16 lessons

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Unit 3

Promise Kept

Everyone Invited Home

  1. The Messenger Who Came Close
  2. Good News for Every Nation

2 chapters · 14 lessons

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Grades 3–5

4 units · 8 chapters · 86 lessons

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Unit 4

Sources and the Divine Council

Old Books and God's Council

  1. How We Know: Old Books and Those Who Study Them
  2. God's Council in Heaven

2 chapters · 21 lessons

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Unit 5

Genesis 3, 6 and 11

Three Rebellions

  1. Eden and the Shining One
  2. The Sons of God and the Flood

2 chapters · 22 lessons

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Unit 6

The Third Rebellion

Babel and the Nations

  1. The Tower and the Gods of the Nations
  2. Abraham and God's Own Portion

2 chapters · 21 lessons

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Unit 7

Messengers

Angels and the Angel of the LORD

  1. What Angels Are and What They Do
  2. The Angel of the LORD

2 chapters · 22 lessons

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Grades 6–8

4 units · 8 chapters · 89 lessons

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Unit 8

1 Enoch

Enoch and the Watchers

  1. Who Was Enoch, and What Is 1 Enoch?
  2. The Book of the Watchers

2 chapters · 22 lessons

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Unit 9

Nephilim to Goliath

Giants in the Land

  1. Nephilim, Anakim and Rephaim
  2. Bashan, Hermon and the Conquest

2 chapters · 21 lessons

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Unit 10

The Deuteronomy 32 Worldview

The Gods of the Nations

  1. Deuteronomy 32 and the Dead Sea Scrolls
  2. Princes, Gods and Holy Ground

2 chapters · 24 lessons

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Unit 11

Dark Powers in the Texts

The Satan, Demons and Dark Powers

  1. The Satan, the Serpent and the Devil
  2. Where Do Demons Come From?

2 chapters · 22 lessons

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Grades 9–10

3 units · 6 chapters · 65 lessons

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Unit 12

Hermon in the Gospels

Reversing Hermon: The Forgotten Mission

  1. Caesarea Philippi and the Mountain
  2. Pentecost, the Nations and Paul's Road to Spain

2 chapters · 22 lessons

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Unit 13

The Watchers Remembered

Enoch in the New Testament

  1. Jude, Peter and the Spirits in Prison
  2. Paul's Powers and Principalities

2 chapters · 22 lessons

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Unit 14

Angels in the Texts

Angels Up Close

  1. Names, Ranks and Roles
  2. Angels in Worship, Law and Story

2 chapters · 21 lessons

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Grades 11–12

3 units · 6 chapters · 71 lessons

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Unit 15

Sources

The Primary Documents and the Scholars

  1. The Documents: Enoch, Jubilees, the Scrolls and Their Neighbors
  2. Scholars in Conversation

2 chapters · 24 lessons

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Unit 16

Endgame

Destiny: God's Family and the Nations Restored

  1. Believers as God's Family
  2. Har Magedon and the New Eden

2 chapters · 24 lessons

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Unit 17

Reception and Capstone

How the Story Was Received, and Capstone

  1. From the Scrolls to the Church Fathers and the Rabbis
  2. Capstone: An Argument from the Texts

2 chapters · 23 lessons

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Ten short lines a day: key words, passages and quick questions from the course.

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What the course covers

The course studies the Bible’s unseen world from the primary documents: God’s heavenly family, Eden, Noah and Babel told gently for the youngest readers; old books and how we know them, the divine council, the three rebellions, angels and the Angel of the LORD in 3–5; 1 Enoch and the Watchers, the giant clans, Deuteronomy 32 and the Dead Sea Scrolls, the satan and demons in 6–8; the mission Michael Heiser called “reversing Hermon”, Enoch in the New Testament and angels up close in 9–10; the documents and the scholars side by side, the end of the story, and how the Watchers story was received from the church fathers and the rabbis to today in 11–12. Heiser leads a conversation that includes Nickelsburg, VanderKam, Stuckenbruck, Reed and others. Every reading is attributed and described, never taught as true or false; passages come from public-domain translations; every lesson ends with three checks answerable from its reading.

Sources

Every lesson starts from an ancient text: the Bible, 1 Enoch, Jubilees, the Dead Sea Scrolls and others, quoted from public-domain translations or retold. Scholars’ ideas, Michael Heiser’s and others’, are told in our own words and named as theirs. Everything else is original text written for this course.

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