Michael Heiser — Old Testament scholar and author of The Unseen Realm, whose deep reading of Isaiah's cosmology and resurrection hope illuminates this extraordinary promise centuries before the New Testament articulates it.

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Michael Heiser

OT scholar; author of The Unseen Realm; 1963–2023

Eight centuries before Paul wrote 1 Corinthians 15, Isaiah announced: your dead shall live, their bodies shall rise, those dwelling in the dust shall awake and sing for joy. The resurrection hope is not a late theological development—it is woven into the prophetic imagination of Israel from ancient times.

Heiser shows that Isaiah's cosmic vision of renewal includes bodily resurrection as a central element, not a peripheral afterthought. The 'dew of light'—the vivifying presence of God—will cause the earth itself to give birth to the dead. Today, let this ancient promise strengthen the same hope the New Testament declares: the dead in Christ shall rise.