Bibleline Radio Show – 2009-02-26

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So cherish the old again, close, Till my true peace and best thy leader. Welcome to Bibleline with Dr. Hank Lindstrom, a ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida. Florida, declaring God’s love through radio and television, providing real answers to an ever-searching world to reach Bibleline and pledge your support to keep Bibleline on the air in your community. Dial toll-free 1-800-576-3771. That’s 1-800-576-3771. Now here’s a re-broadcast of Dr. Hank Lindstrom, host of Bibleline. Hi, this is Tom Perry for Bibleline Ministries.

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That’s 1-800-576-3771. Once again, we would like to thank you, the listener, for your prayers and support for Bibleline Ministries. God bless you. Well, good morning and welcome to Bibleline Drickety with you today. Thanks for tuning into the broadcast. We look forward to being with you each and every day Monday through Friday as we come to you from our studios right here at Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida, where I’m the pastor. And we hope that you enjoy today’s program and listen now the rest of the week.

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You can call our Resource Center 1-800-576-3771. That’s 1-800-576-3771. What is interesting today is that we are really under, I think, full assault as Christians. know the Bible tells us that this would be the case and look at what’s happening where Jesus Christ is under attack. Yesterday, of course, the big news was supposedly the discovery of the tomb of Christ and there was this whole family all buried together. That’s awfully, obviously another Jesus. It tells us in 2 Corinthians chapter 11 to watch out for Satan.

It says there I fear, lest by any means as the serpent that Satan beguiled Eve, that was Mrs. Adam, through his subtlety. So your mind should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. And then the next verse begins by saying, for if he that cometh preached another Jesus. Well, obviously this Jesus is being presented in the Da Vinci Code and And now this latest so-called thing which is really part of a movie that they found the Tomb of Christ and there was Mary Magdalene and his son all buried together with him.

That is absolutely nonsense and that is another Jesus. All the cults present another Jesus. The Jesus of Mormonism is not the Jesus of the Bible. The Jesus of the Jehovah’s Witnesses is not the Jesus of the Bible. The Jesus of the Christian scientists is not the Jesus of the Bible. And many are really being presented with a Jesus that’s not the Jesus of the Bible. I was raised in a Protestant church and yet I never knew that Jesus was God in flesh.

Jesus that I always was presented was a weakling, a coward, a Mr. Milk Toast type of person, and that was kind of at least the impression I got. And when I finally was presented with the scriptures, I saw that Jesus Christ was God Himself, and He is the God-man who came in order that He He might become our Savior, and He came in person to rescue us. And the prophets are very clear that, as it says in Isaiah 9, 6, this child that would be born told to us about 740 years in advance in that passage in Isaiah 9, 6, his name would be called Wonderful Counselor, the mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace.

Well, I have on my many trips to Israel visited the real tomb of Christ and it’s empty. There are no bones. He’s gone. He ascended bodily according to the Bible up to heaven and he didn’t leave any grave behind. He didn’t leave any bones behind. He didn’t leave any flesh behind. He physically ascended in heaven. You know, you need to read the scriptures. And if you’re not in the Bible, you’re going to be confused, no doubt about it. And the author of confusion according to the Bible is none other than Satan himself.

If you read in I chapter 1 verse 9, the scripture is quite clear. It says, and when he had spoken these things, it says, while they beheld, he was taken up and a cloud received him out of their sight. And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven, as he went up, the old two men stood by them in white apparel, we believe they’re angels, which also said, you men of Galilee, why stand you gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus which is taken up from you into heaven shall so come in like manner as you’ve seen him go into heaven.

I witnesses that watched him go back up into heaven. They watched him ascend when he had bodily left the planet to go back to heaven, and the same Jesus in the same body is going to come back at the second coming to rule and reign on this planet. And the devil, it warned us, we just read it a moment ago, that somebody might come along and present to you a different Jesus and you might buy into it. And it’s the same devil that deceived Eve in the garden and it says with all of his subtlety, that he would attempt to do the same thing to you today.

Well, wake up Christians, you need to be in your Bible more than ever. We are under direct assault. Also, Islam, the major religion, over a billion in Islam, believe the nonsense of the Quran that somebody who looked like Jesus was crucified and that when they thought he had been raised from the dead, they actually saw Jesus come back to town and they thought he had been resurrected, but it was only because somebody who looked like Jesus was crucified and Jesus came back from the dead in the sense that they saw him alive because he never did die.

This is an attack on the death of the burial of the resurrection of Christ, which is the heart of Christianity. And apparently these people involved with this are saying this just absolutely destroys Christianity, well obviously, guess what? No one is going to be able to put out the fires of hell. No one is going to be able to do away with Jesus. It’s been tried in the past. And you know, his word stands and will abide forever. Jesus said in Matthew 24 35, heaven and earth will pass away, but my words shall never pass away.

And he says to us plainly in John 5, that his words are the words of God and that they bring life to those that believe them. I love John 524. Jesus said, barely, I say unto you, he that heareth my words and believeth on him that sent me, has everlasting life, shall not come into condemnation, but is passed from death unto life. Jesus Christ came back from the dead, my friend, he did did not leave any bones, he did not leave a grave, and he did not have a family, and obviously Christianity is under attack.

Anyway, I hope that you don’t buy into any of that, and you don’t have to, and the scriptures are an amazing record. You know the… The disciples who were cowards the night of the betrayal. And Peter even denied the Lord three times. And the disciples running and hiding out in fear later become bold. Proclaimers of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Why? Because they had seen him. At the end of the first century is John the Apostle writes. He tells us in one of his wonderful epistles, First John, he tells us there that he was an eyewitness and says, that which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon or gazed upon and our hands have handled of the word of life.

Jesus Christ, they were eyewitnesses, they touched him, they saw him. Can you imagine what it was like for them after the resurrection to gaze upon him and see him alive after they had seen him crucified and placed in that cold tomb and there the body lay for three days and three nights and then Christ comes back from the dead. He He showed himself alive for forty days, and they have heard John writes, this one which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, and our eyes have gazed upon him, and our hands have handled of the word of life.

For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and show unto you that eternal life. You know, John had it right. Eternal life. Jesus Christ is God and He is eternal life, and He is life, and He said it, of course Himself, where Christ said, I am the resurrection and the life. He the belief in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. Boy, am I ever glad that I got to hear this message explained as a teenager, and I trusted Jesus Christ as my savior.

And you know, all of this will blow away. And one day, all those that have trusted Christ as Savior will live in eternity with Him. And all those that have rejected Christ will spend all eternity in the eternal lake of fire. And those, by the way, who have opposed Christianity, and I think some of them have a real agenda, will be the worst punished according to the Bible in hell. That’s right. spiritual sin sometimes are the worst sins and obviously the unpardonable sin is not lying or cheating or stealing or murdering those are physical sins but the unpardonable sin is that of unbelief.

Jesus said it numerous places but in John 3 18 he said he didn’t believe if not is condemned already because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten son of God. In other words, it’s unbelief. That’s the unpardonable sin. And those who hinder others from believing will receive a much greater degree of punishment in hell, according to the Bible. Did you know that? That there are degrees of punishment in hell. Matthew 23, Jesus comes down hard on the religious leaders of his time, the Pharisees and the scribes and so on.

And he said, you’re not only not going to heaven yourself, but you’re preventing those who would want to go to heaven from going because you’re misleading them. Therefore, he says you’re going to receive the greater damnation, the greater degree of punishment and hell. You know, believers are going to have degrees of reward and heaven based upon our works. Unbelievers will have a degree of punishment and hell based upon their works. But destination is determined by whether or not you trust Christ as your Savior.

In John 14, 6th Christ said, I am the way, the truth and the life, and no man cometh unto the Father but by me. No man, woman, or child, can interheaven apart from Christ. He is the only Savior, the only way, and you must trust Him if you’re at inner heaven. I’m Dr. Hank Pinst from This is Bible and I hope you’ve trusted Christ as your Savior. It’s the most important decision that you’ll ever make in your life. If you want to call the phone numbers 1-800-576-3771, 1-800-576-3771.

And this is Bible and again I’m Dr. Englund’s room and we’re going to go right now to Mobile, Alabama. And we’re going to talk to Roger and Roger, we welcome you to Bible and this morning. Yes, I’ve got two and a half year old grandchildren, I said them before the And the other night they were watching your Easter study with you live on the screen there or you aren’t live but you are on the screen. And they call you Uncle Hank, you don’t mind it.

No I don’t. I’m flattered. Yeah, I put a little bottle of lotion and I put a little dot on each of their hands to keep them interested and they sit and listen to you. I’ve got, what I was meditating on this morning was the cross purposes of God. I guess that’s the only one. only way I could explain it, you take a whale, it originally wasn’t designed for a man, but God put Joan and Nabeli the whale and used it to turn him around.

And then Ezekiel and how God told him to eat dung, you know, that originally wasn’t designed for that purpose. Of course, it can be used for gardening, fine. I was just meditating on that. I come up with a scripture that is a little bit off topic. It has to be with God, so I create evil. I create evil. I was wondering if you just comment on God using unorthodox methods. might say Jesus spat on the ground and healed of me.

I’m not worried. Yeah. Yeah. And it was just rather interesting to me this morning the Holy Spirit kind of had me on that topic called God. God can use things that He created for one purpose and use them for something else. Well, exactly. He certainly used the donkey. He did need to speak to Balaam in the Old Testament. a way when it says he creates evil, it doesn’t really mean that it means he, the word evil there means adversity or trials or really consequences for sin.

God is not the author of sin. Satan is the one that brought sin into the universe when he rebelled against the Lord and led his rebellion against God and taking a third of the angels with him. that God is the one who creates the consequences for evil, and that’s really what that verse is all about. It’s in Isaiah chapter 45, a favorite chapter in the mind. It says in verse 7, I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create evil.

And the Hebrew word is translated sorrow, wretchedness, adversity, affliction, calamity, and so on, but it’s never translated sin. So God created evil only in the sense that He created sorrow, wretchedness, adversity and so on to be the fruits of sin or the consequences of sin. But it’s a good point. But, you know, God, for example, used the staff that Moses used as a shepherd to part the Red Sea and to bring the judgments upon Egypt. And He He used the stones of David to bring down Goliath.

And certainly he uses us who are sinners, saved by grace, to bring the vessels that will bring the wonderful message of life to those that are lost and unsaved. And definitely God, I think the lights in using the small things or the insignificant things to bring to not things which are of great consequence. I think that’s what we see there, but that’s an interesting thought. Well, St. Paul said sin was a mystery. And surely you have to agree with me that God allowed sin to come in.

Well, of course, he made creatures of choice because, and he knew when he did that, that there would be those who would choose to violate it. Exactly. to create the evil he allowed a choice and that would brought it well that didn’t bring evil into the universe. Yeah exactly well I appreciate your your program and I love listening to you. Alright we’ll tell those children hi and I’m glad that they’re watching the program. Thank you. Alright thank you so much and that was Roger in Mobile in the program.

The phone number is 1-800-576-3771. We’re going to go to Arthur now and he’s in Belglades, Florida down near Lake of Kachobe and Arthur. Welcome to Bibleline You’re on the end. Yeah, how are you doing Pastor? Good. I’m like the ice chicken. You give me two skits of one in the old and one in the new to you, and I’m sure you can. Well, I sure can. And one of those is right here close to where I met here in Isaiah.

You have all three members of the Godhead here in chapter 48 of Isaiah. verse 16 it says, come ye near unto me. Here ye this. I have not spoken in secret from the beginning from the time that it was there. Am I? And now the Lord God that is in the Hebrew is. Adonoy, Yahweh, that’s God the Father and His Spirit, that’s the second member of the Godhead, has sent me and the me as Jesus. So there you have all three in one wonderful verse.

Then you have in John’s Gospel, quite a number of them, but we have, for example, in John 1416, Jesus says, and I, that’s Jesus, the second eternal member of the Godhead, will pray the Father, there’s God the Father the first member of the eternal Godhead, and He shall give you another comforter that He may abide with you forever, even the Spirit of truth. That’s the Holy Spirit. So there you have all three, and I hope that helps you. There’s a lot more, but that’s the beginning.

Okay, well, can I ask you something? If I wanted to witness to a deal with witness, what would be a good script with Josh, what do you think they would do it? I think it would be good. I like John 824. They don’t have a good answer for that. And John 824 Christ says that I am, unless you believe it. I am your die and your sins. And I am as the title or name of God that God used when he appeared to Moses at the burning bush.

So Jesus is claiming to be the very God of the Old Testament, the God who appeared to Moses, the God that led the children of Israel out of Egypt, that he is that very same God revealed in human flesh over there in John 824. Okay, thank you very much, Pastor. You’re sure welcome, Arthur, and we pray for those witnesses that need to be witness to. They’re claiming that they’re witnessing for Jehovah, but they’re not. They need us to tell them about the God that they don’t know who he really is.

Because the God of the Old Testament is the same God that is Jesus who is God revealed in flesh. The Bible says that whosoever denyeth the Son, the same hath not the Father. So if you reject Christ, you don’t have the Father. And so the witnesses don’t have God in the Father, they don’t have Yahweh, they don’t have Jehovah, they simply are lost and they certainly need our prayers. We have Frank and he’s in Clearwater, Florida and Frank, welcome to Bibleline you’re on the air.

Good morning, is this Pastor Lynch from? Yes it is. Yes, this is Frank. I heard you commenting on the attack against Christ and it really is so. and also the comment you made about uh… believe it needed to study the scriptures i mean uh… there is so many out there who are taking the name of christen seems like there to me they are obviously uh… angels of that devil you know transforming themselves as ministers of light well it’s all over the place and christ predicted that there would be many that would uh…

uh… come and claim that the Christ, down in Miami, there’s a guy that says he’s Jesus. And he’s got lots of followers and you can actually go down and meet him. I can’t believe it. I really appreciate you a stand that you’re taking your boldness because with all of these that I hear, I hear so many on the radio and they’re so wishy-washy and watering down the truth. We really appreciate those of us who love a lot, appreciate your stand and boldness.

And also, this fella that came on, I just happened to get up early this morning, I put the news on it. The first thing I saw, and he makes a comment that history never verified that there was a literal Jesus Christ historically, and that’s a lie to begin with. I mean, it verified there’s so many things, unbiblical statements in history that proved. It’s not a better shadow without that Jesus Christ was there, Josephus and all these other people so they cannot make these blatant statements and they must know their lives they are lies and you know even today’s date verifies the fact that crisis here two thousand years ago i mean it’s two thousand years from what uh…

exactly from jesus uh… he changed the impacted the whole world with the with his coming into this world of no doubt about it but i mean those of us who love the lot uh… we can rest in the insurance that uh… as the scriptures say that uh… god will laugh he said let me be the heathen’s rage and imagine strange thing but i will have them in the region even if we have this we have the scriptures and and uh…

the gates of hell will not prevail against us women well i should be uh… Appreciate you, Frank. Thanks for calling in. One more statement. One more statement. I have that CD that you have on presenting the gospel. And I just think it’s a fantastic tool. I’m going to offer some more to give out the people that you’ve already spoken to about the Lord. It’s just carries on. It’s a wonderful tool. Well, thank you. Thank you very much. Enjoy your God bless.

He’s talking about the CD. We have one that’s just incredible and God is blessing it and bringing about great results how permanent is your salvation and you can order that and many give it out like a track and are success rate and people getting saved that listen to it is phenomenal. It really is great. We’ve got to go to our second half of Bible and so we’re going to go to break. So keep your radio dial tuned right where it is.

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Something’s going to happen there, I think, very shortly. And this is a part of the End Times. I ran with… …the facilities and Israel. Threatened by that is apparently going to take action. And this is amazing events that the Bible foretold thousands of years ago. We’re really watching it all unfold. Are you on your tippy toes? Are you ready to be caught up? You know the Lord could come this year I’m not a date setter But I’m telling you as I read the headlines and look at the attacksRomney By goodness this latest one Judaica now about supposedly they found the tomb of Christ and his wife supposedly Mary Magdalene and Their son was buried all together their bones are all together and same place that is absolutely nonsense.

Jesus Christ ascended with his body. He didn’t leave it behind in a grave. My goodness, my goodness, my goodness. And there’s this attack after attack after attack. The Da Vinci Code was saying that Jesus is married to Mary Magdalene. Now this latest thing says that Mary Magdalene was his wife and he had kids and they’re all buried together. Absolutely a direct attack upon the heartbeat of the Bible, the message of the death of the barrel, the resurrection of Christ.

You know, even if you didn’t have the New Testament, the whole story is told in advance in the Old Testament that it would be God who would come and take on human flesh. It would be God who would come in a human body to die on the cross of Calvary. Psalm 22, how his hands in his feet would be pierced and how he would die as a substitutionary payment, Isaiah 53 5 saying he was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities.

The chastisement of our peace was upon him and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray, we’ve turned everyone to his own way and the Lord laid on him. Jesus, the iniquity of us all. Wow! The Bible is incredible. We are living right now where Christians are under attack. Christianity is under attack. Christ is the target. Boy, they’re firing away with movies and books that debunk Christianity, but they can’t get rid of it. Jesus is going to be around forever.

His words will be around forever. As he said in Matthew 24, 35, heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall never pass away. Who side are you on? Are you standing up for the truth in these days? This is a time when we need to really pull together. And I hope that you would stand with us and pray for us here at Bibleline, pray for me and pray for the fact that we’d like to get this message out and help us if you can help us financially to pay these bills so that we can go further and reach out more with this wonderful message.

We are in the last days and it may be that we may not have another year. Israel just got permission to fly over Iraq. That is significant. Something’s going to happen. We’ve got several battle groups over there, aircraft carriers and everything else, submarines and destroyers, parked off of Iran, something’s in the wind, something’s happening, and it’s all a part of the end times. When the Bible says the world will actually wind up coming to war in the Middle East.

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That’s for sure. He came out of that grave and he took that body up to heaven and the Bible says in Acts 1 and 11 he’s going to come back in the same body. That’s right. At the second coming and next time around he’s going to rule over this earth as King of Kings and Lord of Lords. No one who rejects Christ will be able to escape hell. Because there’s no other remedy for our sin other than Christ. Jesus is the only Savior.

That’s for sure. We got lots of people patiently waiting. We have Robert in clear water. I think Bob has been waiting long as he’s heading. We’re gonna go to Bob. He’s been waiting forever Bob. Thank you be for being some patience. You’re on the Richmond, Virginia Turn your radio down Bob and we’re up on the air Hello sir. Hello Bob Interesting program today. I’ve got a situation. I’d like your opinion on it. We were going through Hebrew chapter 11 in Sunday school class last couple weeks and And SetTextColor at one point, they said, read a verse and turned on.

One of them read a verse. Now it’s verse 11. I was looking at my Bible and I said, OK, it doesn’t have anything about Abraham in there. So I turned to the Greek New Testament that I carry with me. And it didn’t mention Abraham. didn’t have any very reading in any of the manuscripts for Abraham and the puzzling part is where it says that to face the sorrow is able to conceive the Greek there is capital A in spearmatops which is a technical term for a male seminal emission.

Now we know that women do not have male seminal emissions and So I was wondering your perspective on that. Well, first of all, Abraham is mentioned, if you read over to verse 17, it says, by faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac. And so very definitely. And then verse 8, by faith Abraham, when he was called to go into a place where half Lord he should receive inheritance, he obeyed. And then in verse 11, which is the one you’re referring to, through faith also, Sarah herself received strength to conceive, she was old and she delivered a child when she was past age because she judged him faithful which had promised.

The Bible tells the same wonderful story that we read about in Genesis that God allowed Abraham and Sarah to have children when heGoaled beyond 100 and she was at least 90 and beyond childbearing age and so God miraculously intervened here. And it was a picture of course of God providing Jesus as Abraham’s only son that was born of Sarah miraculously. As Jesus was miraculously born, of course he was virgin born, became the savior and of course that was the picture being given here.

But it was actually certainly Abraham’s seed that caused that conception, which is what we know clearly from the text here. But the miracle here was that she received strength and her body became capable of carrying that baby as she was very old at the time of the birth. Well, what I’m looking at though is that Greek says that she was by faith was able to have a seminal emission. I’ll have to look up that word. I’m not familiar with that at all.

Bob, I’ll have to get back with you on that because I haven’t looked that up. So we’ll make a note of that and try to look it up. Maybe we’ll come in on that tomorrow. But I haven’t picked up on that ever before. So I’ll get back to you tomorrow. We’ll try to do that on the air tomorrow, Bob, and thank you for that call. We’ll go now to Robert in Clearwater, Florida, and Robert, welcome to my blind year on the air.

Yes, good morning, Dr. Hank, how are you? Hello? Yes, right here. Yes, Dr. Hank, I just wanted to make a comment before I ask my questions. I know that you have an idea of how close you are when you said that Jesus can come back any time I was watching a major news channel here a couple of days ago, and they were talking about the illegal alien problem and the senator that was under the well-known senator he uh… suggested that uh…

the government could put a stamp on people to uh… see if they’re legal or not and it’s an in order to a buyer selling it in the state have to show their stamp so you can see They’re starting to suggest that on mainstream TV, so you’re very, very close. Oh, I agree. The market is right down the road here. My wife says it’s scary. I’m like, honey, it’s not scary. It’s a good time. We have to make sure we’re ready.

I have two questions for you. I’ll hang up and listen here. Number one, why did God hide the truth from some people by using prophecy Jesus’ hide the truth, by using parables so they wouldn’t be saved? He says that, he says that, you know, he’s incredible so you cannot be saved. I thought it was God’s will that everybody be saved. That’s my first question. Then the second question after Jesus was again, he told the disciples to touch him not because he hadn’t yet ascended to the Father.

But then when Thomas came, Jesus invited him to touch his skin to prove that where the what is the, not the contradiction, but no Jesus doesn’t contradict himself, but the two-perbit just there, what’s the difference? Well, in John 17, that one is chapter 20 verse 17. It’s about the fact that he had not yet taken his blood up to heaven, I believe, in Hebrews 9, 12, it says that, needed by the blood of bulls or goats and cows, but by his own blood.

He entered once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. Now we believe that he took his blood up to heaven and placed it on the mercy seat, and he had not yet ascended. So had Mary touched him at that point, she perhaps sort of contaminated his incorruptible blood. That had to be taken to heaven. If you read on in Matthew, in He was 9 verse 24. It tells us he did not enter into a temple here on this earth with your figures of the true but into heaven itself where he took his blood.

So obviously after he had done that he came back and people were invited to touch him and so on. Okay. And then what about my first question? No, I repeat that again. I forgot what it was now. How come God hid the truth from some people by using parables? If he wants everybody to be saved and we know he does, why use parables to confuse them? The answer to that is that he, heanamo hides truth from those who really don’t wantJoined YEARS notoraghd to know theTriviabris.___ If you don’t want to know the truth, then you’re going to be blinded to the truth.iership That’s a principle that God gives throughout the Bible in Romans chapter 1.

Clearly God wants people to be saved and it begins in this little dissertation in Romans 1 and verse 19 that God places within every individual a knowledge that He exists and as a result they become responsible. Verse 20 says that they are without excuse. So never be able to say hey I didn’t know that there was a God and that I was responsible and if they seek you’ll find it. If they don’t seek they won’t. But then it says in verse 21 because that when When they knew God, they didn’t glorify him as God.

Neither were they thankful, but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. And that’s the key. So, as you don’t want to acknowledge God and are not thankful that he created you and so on, and you move away from the truth, you go further into darkness, and parables are part of that. So, if you don’t want to know the truth, you’re not going to get the truth and you’ll be blinded but if you want to know the truth you can be a child and you can understand the wonderful gospel and and trust Christ and become same.

So hopefully that answers the question for you. It’s a matter of seeking or wanting to know the truth or not and we do thank you for your call and we’re now going to go to Angel in Tampa, Florida. Angel welcome to Bibleline you. morning pastor God bless you thank you I have been trying to help you will little be here little bit like the gators what can I like being a Friday for Jesus I’m almost at the end I started the book of Revelation Ammon chapter 7 and I just want to ask you and I hang out why is the he why see in the 12,000 but not then and I just can you explain that to me because I can be not the son of Jacob was a woman but…

I don’t see that. I went back and kind of confused and just pointed out for me I had no reason to use it. Sure. Dan, if you read Genesis chapter 49, Isaac pronounces a blessing upon his or Jacob, rather pronounces Isaac. I mean, Israel or Jacob pronounces a blessing on his 12 sons. And Dan apparently is the one out of which, out of which the serpent will try to strike at Christ. And apparently the picture is that maybe the Antichrist comes out of the tribe of Dan.

Of course, in the Tribulation period, therefore God is not going to use Dan as one of the witnessing tribes in the Tribulation period because of that. So the Antichrist apparently might have some blood in him from the tribe of Dan. And I think that’s the answer. but yet during the millennium Dan is restored and Dan has a portion of the land during the millennial kingdom. But I think that’s the answer and hopefully that helps get that answered for you.

We have a question here. Off here Brian in Tampa, Florida asks the question about Proverbs 26 and he says, is there a mistranslation or is this a contradiction or what? And you’re not the first person to say that. But here it is in Proverbs 26 verses 4 and 5. It says in verse 4, answer not a fool according to his folly. Thus thou also be like unto him. In verse 5 says, answer a fool according to his folly. And the question is, does this is a contradiction?

And it seems to say in one verse, answer not a The next one says answer full according to his folly. And I think the answer is clear. In verse 6 it says don’t answer him according to his folly. So you don’t want to pay back and do the same thing that he does or did to you. But yet it does say you do have to answer the fool because otherwise he’ll be wise in his own conceits and he has to be dealt with.

you don’t deal with him by coming back at him in the same way he came at you. So it’s not kind of addiction at all. And that’s an excellent question. We now have, I believe, Keith in Richmond, Virginia, and Keith, welcome to Bibleline you’re on the air. Hello, Dr. Mancent. I have a question for you. What do you think of the Ministry of John Piper? Not true for me, but I think he’s probably pretty solid. I haven’t heard anything about his uh…

except i think he probably is a Calvinist and and i would uh… disagree in that area if he is i’m not sure i haven’t followed much of his teachings all cuz i have i looked at money well then uh… i would not go on with him at all then i know that i didn’t know that i’ll have to check up on that but thanks for letting me know right if he believes you can lose it then obviously he’s not a a good teacher at all Thank you, Keith, and we’ll have to keep our eyes open whenever we’re listening to anybody to see if they’re in line with Scripture.

And if you’re in line with Scripture, then obviously you have to reject their teaching because the Bible is the sole authority. We have Mike in Seminole, Florida, who leaves an unfair question. I’ll go ahead and take aisSpecial couple of these real quick ifENDED. In Romans, as I asked the question, explain 1122. In Romans 1122 it says, Behold, therefore the goodness and severity of God on them which toile severity, but toward the goodness. If thou continue in his goodness, otherwise thou also shall be cut off.”

This is talking about the Jews and the Gentiles and how that God was severe on Israel because he rejected the Savior, put on the the sideline on a bench for the past 2000 years. But he’s been good to us Gentiles and that we have been given the privilege of being the ambassadors for Christ and witnesses of his But it’s saying here that we need to be Alert here that we don’t depart as it says in verse 23 from belief That we would be cut off as well and it’s not talking about individually here But this is talking about corporately that the nation of Israel was set aside in God turn to the Gentiles I’m”:[{“.

I’m not going to say that. I’m not going to sayrazil. I’mpeat. Gentle age, look at the apostasy in the church today, and that’s another sign that we’re at the very end and he is going to rapture the church out and then he’ll go back and deal with Israel again. So we’re going to be done as far as our ministry because we have basically dropped the ball here at the end of the age. It says in 2 Timothy chapter 4, as the time will come and I think it has, that we would not see people enduring sound doctrine, but they would just want to be entertained.

And isn’t that the way it’s going nowadays? How do they attract a crowd today? It’s all with entertainment. It’s not the word of God that is promoted as the attraction, but the attraction is the music or the other things and then many of God is not even used or is not even necessary. Nowhere does the Bible say if you read the book of Acts that the early Christians came together for praise and worship then say that anywhere. That’s something that’s brand new here is that the in-time churches are entertaining people.

The early church says they continue to sit fastly in the apostle’s doctrine. So it seems to me that they came together to hear what the apostles had to say and what the word of God had to say. And today that’s not true. If you offer entertainment, that’s where the crowd goes. But if you’re offering the word of God, the crowd isn’t going there today. That’s the sign of the end times and I believe we’re in it and that’s a fact.

And then the devil is really working today isn’t he? To assault the Bible with all the new translations many of which really delete many many words and verses of scripture from the Bible and it’s scary. We have this book here called New Age Bible Versions in our Resource Center that is excellent, that will help you in that area. We also have the NIV quiz. You know the NIV, the new international version, drops 44 verses in their entirety. They’re gone.

Look for Acts 8, 37, if you have an NIV. It’s not there. One of the key verses there in the Gospels. Also, So when you have the temptation of Christ in the New American Standard, you’ll find that when Christ says, get behind me Satan, it’s gone. It’s not there. The whole thing is gone. And one of the most significant ones I think is in one of my favorite salvation verses, John 647, it says, very, very last hand you, he that believeth on me has everlasting life.

In the New American Standard it says,Dat he who believes has eternal life. It doesn’t say on whom you are to believe. The key part of that verse is he to believe on me. The on me is gone from the New American Standard. These little o Mechdragonons, unless you’re paying attention, you won’t even know. We have Stephen in Largo, Florida calls in. He says in 1631 it says, and I house. Does this mean since I believe that my family will be saved also in the answer?

answers no. If you read the context, it’s meaning that if your household or your family believes they’ll also be saved. And in the case of the Philippian jailer, you’ll notice in verse and verses, it will point out that not only did the Philippian jailer believe, but his family did as well. His house also got saved. So they have to also trust Christ. We have from Utica, New York, twin eagle calling him. He says, if you make a pledge to the Lord and do not keep it, and use it for something else, will the Lord punish you?

Well, when you talk about pledges or vows, you need to read Ezekiel 5 and it says, if you make a vow or promise and you don’t keep it, then God will hold you accountable. So you might want to read Ecclesiastes chapter 5 about making vows. And Carl and Lakeland calls in, who are the sons of God and Genesis 6? They’re believers. Nowhere did God ever call an angel his son? Hebrews 1 5 says… On the witch of the angels that got it and he saved our my son he never did.

God never called Occupations his son. These are believers and Carl and hopefully that will answeriterator but that’s the caseccording we’ve got a run it’s the end of the program and we’ll be back tomorrow. And otherwise join us on the radio tomorrow. Don’t forget on the Internet you can catch us 24 seven. Got a run keep looking up. Jesus is comingusal listening to Bible proble of,nown, a presentation of Bible lineiscons},{“selves conflic,conom, pursu, in the ministries of Tampa, Florida. Now more than ever, your regular monthly donations to Bibleline make it possible for this ministry to continue in your area.

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