Bibleline Radio Show – 2009-06-18

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We pray that you will come to trust Jesus as your Savior and be saved to the glory of God. We hope that you’ll plan to open your Bible and join us for this verse by verse study of the book of Revelation. You might be familiar with some of the favorite topics from the book of Revelation, such as the messages to the seven churches, the seven trumpets, and the New Heavens and the New Earth. Throughout this series, these topics and more will be explored.

Please tell your friends and family about Bibleline. If Bibleline is not being broadcast in their area, then ask them to visit our website at BibleLineMinistries.org. If you missed some of the teachings in this series, then call our Resource Center at 1-800-576-3771. Now please open your Bible to the Book of Revelation chapter 16 and join us as we begin Dr. Lynchroom’s teaching for today. We’re not privy to the tune, so I couldn’t sing it for you. But that is the song of the Lamb, and it’s a song like the song of Moses.

of a victory over Satan, and here in this case over the Antichrist, as back then it was a victory over Pharaoh, a type of the Antichrist. Verse 5, after this I looked and behold the temple of the Tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened. So we have the scene in heaven. The seven angels came out of the temple, having the seven plagues, clothed in pure and white linen, having their breasts girded about with golden girdles. of the four living creatures gave unto the seven angels, seven golden vials full of the wrath of God who liveth forever and ever.

And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from his power, and no man was able to enter into the temple till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled. So here we have an introduction now to the last plagues of the tribulation period, chapter 16 verse 1. I heard a great voice out of the temple saying unto the seven angels, go your ways and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.

And the first went and poured out his vial upon the earth and there fell a noisim and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast and upon them which worshipped his image. So notice this particular sore that comes and apparently it’s a grievous sore, probably pus and putrefrying and just an esti sore that they have on their body, a grievous sore upon the men who had the mark of the beast. So it comes only on the unsaved.

We’re at different speculations about this sore and some suspect that it might even be connected with the mark because maybe there’s a chemical reaction with receiving that microchip in your skin and after a while it creates a sore. What a sore happens where the chip is, I don’t know, But I’ve heard lots of different theories of what people have speculated about and all we know is that unsaved people will get it, those who have received the mark get it.

So maybe it could be connected with the mark and be some type of a biological reaction to the chip that they’ll take into their body. Verse 3, the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea. I believe it’s the Mediterranean sea and it became as the blood of a dead man and every living soul died in the sea. Now, before we saw a meteor striking the Mediterranean in a third of the life dying, but now the whole sea becomes like dead man’s blood and everything dies in the Mediterranean Sea.

Verse 4, And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and the fountains of waters and they became blood. And I heard the angel of the water saying, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and which wasst and shalt be, because Thou hast judged thus, for they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and Thou hast given them the blood of the saints. and thou hast given them blood to drink, for they are worthy. And I heard another out of the altar say, even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgment.

So here, notice the waters all turn to blood, and they are now going to drink blood as they have shed blood. Verse eight and nine, the fourth vial. The fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun. Power was given unto him to scorch men with fire, and men were scorched with great heat, blaspheme the name of God which had power over these plagues and they did not change their mind. They did not repent to give Him glory. I really don’t believe that there’s any evangelism in the second half of the tribulation period.

It appears that all these judgments, even though they are severe, men don’t seem to change their mind and recognize their need of the Lord. What is interesting here is that this is one of the judgments that affects our son and recently I read an article a number of years ago now in the science digest that said our son is not as constant as has been thought. They are measuring the reaction within the center of the sun by measuring the neutrinos that come out of the sun and the neutrinos or atomic particles that they seem to be able to capture, believe it or not, in dry cleaning fluid.

They have some salt mines in South Dakota that they have filled with dry cleaning fluid and they can measure the interior activity of the sun by measuring the numbers of neutrinos that are coming and they say it is decreasing which is a sign that something is happening within the core of our sun. Now at the same time they’re measuring the luminosity of our sun by capturing the reflected light back from the planet Uranus and they say it has increased by 5%.

And so our sun seems to be increasing a little bit in brightness. Now keep this in mind what you just read here and let’s turn back to Isaiah chapter 30 and maybe we’re seeing a pattern of what the Bible is saying will take place. In Isaiah 30 page 7, 39, we read about what happens at the end of the tribulation period, this is Isaiah 30, page 739, it says in verse 26, Moreover, the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun.

Notice the moon being reflective body will obviously reflect greater light if the sun becomes brighter or lesser light if the sun becomes darker. So the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold as the light of seven days in the day when the Lord bindeth up the breach of his people and heal the stroke of their wound. So there’s a time coming in the tribulation period when the sun will become exceedingly bright and as we read unto the fourth vile judgment, become exceedingly hot.

And men will be scorched and the light will be so bright that at night the reflective light from the sun off the moon will light up the heavens like it is daytime. That’s what it’s saying here. light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun. So you’re at night, you’re looking at the moon and this is bright as the sun. The whole earth is lit up just like it is daytime. And during the daytime it’s going to extremely bright and extremely hot and then will be scorched all around the earth by this extreme heat.

Now scientists tell us that they observe around 13 or 14 novas in our universe every year. A nova is an experience that a star like our star, our sun, goes through where it seems to regenerate itself somehow and there’s activity within the center of the sun that changes and all of a sudden the sun becomes extremely bright for two weeks and then it becomes darkened for two weeks and then it seems to go on as it always had. And could it be that this will be a nova experience for our sun and that we’re already seeing that subtle changes that scientists are observing that says the Son is not as constant as we may have thought.

Look at what it says in Matthew 24 in verse 29, page 1034, and then we’ll go back to Revelation and see what you think. Immediately after the tribulation of those days, shall the Son be what? Darken. We just saw it become extremely bright. We saw under the fourth mild judgment that it becomes extremely hot and scorches men. Now it says in Matthew 24, 29, immediately after the tribulation of those days shall suddenly be darkened and then what happens with the moon?

The moon shall not give her light. So when the sun becomes dark and the moon gives very little light or no light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, the powers of the heavens shall be shaken, then shall appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven, so Christ returns. Well, here is a period of light and then here we notice a period of darkness. And now back in Revelation 16, if you’ll take a look, here in verses 89 we find the sun becomes exceedingly hot and scorches men.

And then look at verse 10. And the fifth angel poured out his vile upon him. on the seat or the throne of the Antichrist, and his kingdom was full of what? Darkness. So all of a sudden the earth becomes dark. After becoming very bright and very hot. Could be, there’s a connection, but definitely somehow our son will be impacted and maybe it will be something that we can explain like a Nova experience. Thank you for joining us. You were listening to Bibleline with your host, Dr.

Hank Lindstrom. Bibleline is a teaching ministry that is dedicated to reaching out to people with the truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ. There are many resources available at Bibleline, such as Dr. Lindstrom’s DVD teachings on the topics of predestination, false gospels, and is Lordship Salvation to counterfeit gospel? In addition to many others, please contact our Resource Center at 1-800-576-3771. Now please join us for a segment featuring Dr. Lindstrom answering questions from callers. We have Jack in Tampa, Florida.

Jack, welcome to the Bible and you’re on the earth. Hello. The church I go to has women, masons, and striners as elders and deocchodas. They are all great people and there’s nothing wrong with them. They don’t say, you know, they don’t preach another way to heaven. They all agree. My comment or if you could talk on it is their reasoning. Well, for the masons, it’s their own choice and they cite the Baptist thing that they did that the Baptist did say it’s your own conscience.

And then the other, as far as the women being the elders, the archonists or deacons, deacons is the two women that were that think Paul and that’s how they justify it. Well, you know, I know that they can wiggle around on these things and of course Paul was talking about women who are servants, so where Deacon means a servant means a table waiter. The position of being a Deacon is clearly outlined in 1st Timothy chapter 3 in Titus chapter 1 and obviously there’s no allowance there for women to be Deacons.

In a sense, serving in a servants, servants, everybody is a table waiter and everybody ought to be a servant of Christ. So women and men alike should serve Jesus and live for Him. But the position of leadership within the church is a different ballgame. And I think that that’s what we’re talking about there. And obviously, if you’re going to be a Mason or a Shrinar, you have to ask yourself, are you compromising your belief in the Bible? Because the God of both of those can be Jehovah, it can be any God in the world, because that G that they have on their little rings and on their time clips and everything else can stand for any God.

And it’s not exclusive of the God of the Bible, nor are those groups telling us that salvation is only through the blood of Jesus, butrequency they are attempting to be saved by their works. So if they believe in their life during the taboola that you’re saved by works and then you go to church on Sunday and say, well, we believe that you’re saved by faith. they’re certainly being inconsistent. And if they’re, believe it the same way, then they’re obviously compromising.

By the Bible says that we’re not to be unequally yoked with people or organizations or those who deny the doctrines of the Bible and salvation by faith. So once you become a member of these other organizations that deny the truth, then you’re gonna be compromising your faith. I think that somehow they need to get off the tightrope and choose which side you’re on back in the Old Testament. Moses said, who are you gonna serve? Sir, here’s the line, I’m drawing it in the line.

All those who are on the Lord’s side come over here and the ones that aren’t get on the other side. And on Joshua the same way, he said, who’s going to be one who will be the Lord? And it’s your choice. Choose you to stay who you shall serve. Elijah gave the challenge when there were the prophets of Baal. And he said, who is the true living God? And he brought fire down. And as he prayed, God brought fire down upon the altar.

And they discovered that the true living God was clearly, clearly, the Baal. killed all the profits of bail. They got rid of them. And Elijah obviously restored true worship back to Israel as a result. I don’t know what to say. People have to make their own choices. I know that I don’t want to compromise what I believe by giving credibility to those who teach opposite of what the Bible teaches by being a member of it. I really don’t want to find another church because I’m comfortable where I’m at.

I guess that’s the key word. I’m comfortable. I like the people. And maybe in me I’m kind of emotional. My nephew says it’s best. You can tickle him with a feather or hit him with a sledgehammer. And I’ll tickle you for a second if I get no response, I’ll bring out the sledgehammer. And that’s kind of my reputation. All I can say is that, you know, I mean, there’s wonderful people in every organization, but the Bible teaches that we have to take a stand on God’s Word.

So you have to say, you know, am I going to walk according to the Scriptures or not? And that’s the key. So you have to ask yourself, am I compromising myself? You know, if you read verses like Ephesians 5, 11 says, have no fellowship within fruitful works of darkness. Romans chapter 16 verse 17 says, mark those which have doctrines contrary to the Bible and avoid them. 2nd Corinthians chapter 6 says, don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers or those who don’t hold to the truths of God’s word.

Revelation chapter 18 verse 4 says, come out from among them and be separate. 2nd John verse 11 says, if you bid them Godspeed, you become a partaker of their evil deeds. And so do a good Bible study and say, you know, do you stand for God in His Word or do you stand in the middle of the road and say, I just we like each other and we’re just going to get along even though we aren’t on the same path here.

I think you have to just, you know, walk according to the Bible. I know that sometimes that means sometimes we separate from people that we like, you know. And I think when you do, you are a great witness for Christ because they begin to say, Wow, you know, maybe he’s got a point there because you know, he’s in love You just have to march according to the drumbeat that Christ drums out We don’t want to march according to the world because there’s a lot of nice people in the world But they may not be marching according to the Bible Right.

Okay. Well, thank you for your time We don’t have David in St. Petersburg David. Welcome to Bibleline you’re on there. Yes, pastor if you someone gave me a CD at work of some guy he’s raving about on TV his name’s dave jere mine get great hair they didn’t look too old david jere mine is a good preacher as he uh… preacher you can lose walk away from salvation no i don’t think so not david jeremyam well i have a cd i didn’t finish listening to us on a weekend fair shake some of road to salvation and all this well i heard of one of the cd’s and i’d figure out what i don’t i certainly wouldn’t believe that he would believe that way.

He seems to be very sound every time I’ve heard him and believes salvation by grace. If you find something different on that CD, make me a copy. Yeah, I stopped there. So maybe I’m missing something there. So I can be fair. Yeah, I don’t think so. David Jeremiah is a good preacher. Hey, on the same subject, these people that think that it’s great, and I see if we have to add to grace, than how it’s a great anymore and they look at me like dear stuck at antlers and how the expression goes they say well wait a minute if it’s partly works and partly jesus what part is it and doesn’t fluctuate and number two when you rate your goodness i mean forget jesus for a second how do you rate your goodness like for a a mormon who doesn’t go out and do drugs sits at home

or a job or in a sit at home Regent Bible treats his wife doesn’t slap her around you know just does all the thoughts every tea crosses every eye. I got that backwards But he has the gospel all wrong. I mean, how do you relate to that? How do you relate your goodness exactly whether you qualify for goodness or anymore? Well, the purity doesn’t make it right. You know they’re missing the fundamentals because Romans 3 10 says as it is written There is none righteous No, not one.

Romans 3, 12 says, there’s none that doeth good. No, not one. So obviously, as sinful people, everything we do is tainted by sin. Even our best works. God says on Isaiah 64, 6 are filthy rags. So the best we have to offer God has been contaminated and is filthy rags and certainly cannot bring any merit for us to deserve salvation. Christ had to pay it all, and he did pay for it all so that salvation could be given to us a gift.

Otherwise, no one would be able to enter heaven. And the Bible very clearly tells us that works have nothing to do with it whatsoever. Romans 4.5 says to him that does not work, but would believe on Christ who justifies the end godly, his faith in Christ is counted for righteousness. I love that verse Romans 4.5. You know when people call up and some of them say to you something to the contrary, Well, if people keep living a certain way.

I noticed people like that they seem to be blind to their own sin and like their own sin doesn’t smell so bad or it’s not it or middle class values doesn’t value like like for instance if they’re shacking you know living with somebody yes that doesn’t seem like the smell so bad is that someone else is going out there part of a har hop and you know you know party and I said what’s the difference you just trade for one girl and you’re having premarital sex and you’re having a lot of different girls but see society looks at one not as bad as quite as the other and so the other is not as bad as the other.

instead of the years you’re not using the Bible for standard, using middle class values or an else also depends on the zip code, you know, some places you can be considered married if you live long enough with someone like in New York or something. David, you know, the Bible says one sin would be enough to keep you out of heaven. That’s what scared life out of me when I was 18 and I saw Revelation 21, 27 that said and there’s no wise entering into heaven anything that the Father neither whatsoever work with abomination or makeeth a lie.

And when I saw that one lie, a lie would be enough to exclude me from heaven. I panicked and I really began to listen carefully to see what the Bible had to say. And of course, we need Christ’s righteousness. And when we trust Him, He gives us His very own righteousness. Sure, thank you for calling in. I understand what you’re saying. It’s frustrating. Sometimes when people don’t seem to get the point that we’re all sinners and unable to save ourselves and we need a Savior.

Thank you, David. we’re going to Tony in Daytona Beach, Florida and Tony. Welcome to Bibleline good morning doctor Hank. Good morning. I want to ask a question about book a little curse chapter verse five, the via and I understand about the eight courses of service of course of eight I understand that my question is what what reference are you using what point of the county where that start at It starts, if you read Exodus, chapter 12, it says, this shall be the first month of the year unto you.

When they came out of Egypt, and we know they came out when they had offered up the Passover lamb. They offered up the lamb, they put the blood on the doorpost, the angel of the Lord came through at midnight, killed the firstborn and all the families that had not applied the blood. The next morning they were on their way. They were moving out and they crossed, of course, the Red Sea into the wilderness and finally into the Promised Land.

So we know that’s in the spring, and so that’s probably somewhere between March and April. It slides back and forth with the lunar month that the Jewish people use. And so if you count from about March 21st or so, somewhere in there, that would be the beginning of the first of the two week courses. And the 8th course would probably put us to the last two weeks of July. Oh, okay, because I saw in the concordance that they had two, I guess, one civil calendar, and then they had a- Right, when they went into the Babylonian captivity, they began to follow the New Year beginning with Rosh Hashanah.

And it’s kind of interesting because obviously when Jesus comes back, that will probably start another New Year for everybody because everything will be counted from when He comes back. And He comes back for us at the Rapture, and then I think seven years later, the Second coming it’ll be seven years later so it’ll also be probably on russia shana so christ will come back and that’ll be the new year which are already starting their count of the new year from that date so they’re all set to go for the second coming okay so david yeah because i went back into uh…

first chronicles uh… i guess chapter twenty four yes where where he uh… divided the twenty four well you’re on the right track and uh… and obviously You can keep working on it, but the real year, the religious year was when they came out of Egypt, that’s in the spring. The time of the Passover. Okay, so that’s the reference point I can use. That’s it. Okay, and that lines up actually with the civil calendar. Yep. All right, thank you. All right, thank you, sir.

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When we return, we will continue this question and answer segment and then hear more Bible teaching from Dr. Hank Lindstrom. Don’t go away. Bibleline will be back in a moment. To pledge your support for Bibleline, give us a call at 1-800-576-3771. That’s 1-800-576-3771. Alright, we’re going to get into the Bible. If you have your Bible, get it open and please study along with us. And if you have your Bible open there, turn it to the book of Matthew. We had somebody bring up a letter about the ten virgins and they said that basically that not all would go up in the rapture.

5 would be left behind, and obviously they don’t know much about the Scripture, because this is not talking about the Rapture. It’s talking about the Second Coming. You have to be able to rightly divide the Word and be able to separate between the Rapture and the Second Coming. They are totally two different events. At the Rapture, Christ is not coming as a king, but he comes as the head of the church and will catch the believers up to himself to meet us in the air.

And then God will begin the seven-year tribulation period, which will be a period of preparing Israel to receive her king. And when the bridegroom comes at the end of that seven-year period, that’s of course when the second coming will occur at the end of the tribulation period. So let’s go over to Matthew 25. What is interesting here that you can get right to the point as you go to the end of this particular parable, and we find that Jesus says to the five foolish virgins in verse 12, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.

That means that we’re never saved. I know you not. The Bible is very clear in 1 Timothy chapter 1 verse 19, or chapter 2 verse 19, he says, the Lord knows those that are his. The foundation of the Lord stands sure that he knows those that are his. So if you are saved, once you become born again, once you trust the Lord of Savior, the Lord knows those that are his. You become his, he’s bought you, he’s paid for you, you’re saved, you’re saved forever.

And so whenever he says, I know you not, that means you would never saved. And these five foolish virgins were never saved. It’s talking about the second coming. And we find here that the marriage and the celebration that follows is what’s is being booked about here, and that’s the Millennium. The marriage suffer of the Lamb is a thousand years celebration. Well, the whole earth will be at peace, and the animals at the peace, the nations will learn more and more.

And the whole earth will celebrate the marriage of Christ to his Lamb, to rather to his bride. And as he comes back, Israel will receive Christ as their King, and the Kingdom will be gone. So here the five foolish virgins were never saved to begin with. They never did know the Lord a Savior. And obviously, therefore, they’re not going to enter in. In Matthew 7, we have something similar where we have people that claim to be Christians and they preach in the name of Christ and they heal in the name of Christ, and they do wonderful works in the name of Christ.

And Jesus says to them, I never knew you. I never knew you. So obviously they were not saved and lost. He never knew them. And you either are saved or you are lost. And when you trust Christ, you become saved and saved eternally from that moment on. Once you become saved, it is irreversible. Let me just quote some great verses that you need to write down someplace. John 637, Jesus says, Him that cometh to me, I will in no wise cast out.

That means for no reason or no instance will Christ ever cast out a believer, one who has come to him. And better than that, in verse 39, where he says, he would not lose one. Not one would ever be lost. Let me quote it. It says, this is the Father’s will which has sent me. And of all which you have given me, I should lose none, not one. Not one would ever be lost. Think about this. If one person wherever lost in all of history that had come to Christ.

Jesus would be a liar. He promised he would not lose one. How do you get around that? Jesus would not lose one. You know, if it said he would lose one, all of my life had to worry. Maybe I’m the one he’s going to lose. Oh, panic, panic. All my life had to panic and be living in fear that I might be the very one that he would lose. It’s so great to see that Christ said he would not lose one.

Not one would be lost. Write those down. John 637. Him that come to me I will know why’s cast out. He’ll never cast out anyone who has come to him. And secondly, he says he would not lose one. Anyway, we are going to go back into the second half hour and survive one. So. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Please make plans to join us and open your Bible as we also present in-depth studies covering a variety of biblical topics. Now let’s return to our question and answer segment and then we’ll hear more Bible teaching from Dr. Hank Lindstrom. We now have Adam and Tampa. Adam, welcome to Bibleline you’re on the air. It’s about your teaching on Angel. Go ahead. question is in 38, Job 38 verse 7. He talks about the sons of God singing, but it’s not talking about angels.

It’s while morning stars sing together and all angels shouted for joy. Let me go back there in my Bible too, that verse first of all. And I’m almost there in the book of Job, which is easy to find us right before the Psalms. you’re in chapter 38. It says here, when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy. Now the sons of God here are the stars. You know, we know that today stars do emit sounds.

And so we have radio telescopes that can detect those sounds and they each have their own tune, you might say that they talk about and among astronomers the music of the stars. But we know that that’s the correct interpretation because you read further down in the chapter and it says in verse 31 for example, can’t stop buying the sweet influences of plaities or loose the bands of Orion, can’t stop, bring forth Masseroth in his season or can’t stop guide Arcturus with his son.

So look at that phrase there, can’t stop guide Arcturus with his son. So here’s a star system and the stars associated with it, star system or call his sons. And the sons of God here are the morning stars. They are, in Hebrew, they generally will have two phrases. One will reinforce the other and the morning stars singing are the stars at the creation. And these sons of God, sons of these stars, and the stars associated with different star systems shouted for joy and their music still is out there.

it’s a really quite interesting to listen to the sounds that come in for a matter of space and their programs you can look forward to to hear some of that music of the stars that comes in from the radio telescopes it’s a little bit of a different there with the angels shouted it doesn’t i don’t want translation you have but the king james as sons of god and the bible says in hebers one five that got never called an angel his son this is not talking about angels what translation are you reading from it’s the NIV, but I want to go to Revelation 5, Revelation 5.11.

And in the voice of many angels? Uh-huh. Let me turn over to Revelation 11.5. The NIV is terrible. I’m not no wonder it puts that as angels. They just don’t get much right at all. And that’s why you don’t want to have a Bible like that because it puts angels where angels don’t belong. In Revelation 5, what is it? It’s 5.11, verse 11. It says here in verse 11 it says I beheld and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and The beast and the elders and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand and thousands of thousands So what’s the what’s the question or point about the verse?

No doesn’t say sing in the King James in fact the Greek word doesn’t mean sing There’s no verse anywhere that angels sing and again you’re reading from a bad translation the enemy The NIV is almost equivalent of the Jehovah’s Witness Bible. It drops the same 44 verses, it has the same emissions, has the same attack on the doctrine of hell, and there’s just tons of flaws about the NIV that are just too numerable to talk about in this program.

But I have a sheet that you ought to get, it’s called the NIV quiz, that hopefully would be something that would cause you to reconsider whether you continue. But think about the title, New International Version. What did Jehovah’s Witnesses call their Bible? New world translation. Word for Word is the same. New and new translation and version is the same in world and so on. The titles are even the same. I think it’s the worst Bible out there. And again, when we have sometimes controversy, just like now, a difference of opinion here, people are reading from a bad translation.

We just slide you over a couple of notches away from the truth. And angels just don’t sing, and they just never call the sons of God. And of course, they read the word sing in there because that’s what people have always heard. And I guess those translators didn’t know a whole lot. and they just put sing instead of what it says. Hearing your voice is different than hearing their singing, they don’t sing. In church, I know that in the songs they say that angels sing as well too, you sing a lot.

You know, every Christmas, we just re-edit those songs. For example, Hark the Herald Angels Sing, we just change it to Hark the Herald Angels Say. And it’s a very simple editing change. And then we said the acquires of angels say, And if you read Luke 2, when the heavenly host appeared, they said in unison, glory to God in the highest and on Derath-P-Sgoodwill toward men. Doesn’t say that there was a chorus singing. In fact, it doesn’t even use the word chorus.

It just says it was a multitude of the heavenly hosts saying glory to God in the highest and on Derath-P-Sgoodwill toward men. So there’s no verse anywhere in the Bible that says sing. And of course, the Greek words wouldn’t support that. And the NIV just goes out there where, apparently they don’t care about adding to or taking away from the Bible which really brings God’s condemnation upon the translators of that version. In fact, if you read some of the history of the translators here as of late, five of them have lost their hearing and have had other disaster things happen in their lives.

I think God is already striking their families and their lives for what they’ve done in putting that translation out. We have literature in our resource center that will tell you about the persons who are involved and what’s happened in their lives since they made that translation. I wouldn’t want to stand too close to them or live in their neighborhood when there’s the lightning strikes upon these people that they’re a tam toileter when God says you’re not to add to nor take away from his word.

Thank you for your call. We’re going to go to Todd and Tampa. Todd, welcome to Bibleline hi Hank. Good morning. Good morning. I wasBrexit. I was going to call in this about Galatian five and then you guys start talking about it. about it. When Paul addressed them about the works of the flesh as far as an essential nature, do you think he was addressing them as a warning not to commit these things that they would face the judgment of God?

Well, really what he’s saying here is that they had believed a false message that false prophets had crept in unawares into the church not revealing who they really were, what their agenda was, and they were adding works to salvation and trying to get them to go back and observe the commandments. It says here in verse 9 of chapter 4, now after you have known God after you have been saved. It says you turn again to the weak and beggarly elements where unto you desire again to be in bondage.

You observe days and months and times and years and so on. And these were all things that were under the Old Testament law. He’s saying, that’s wrong. You’re not saved by works. Although these people were saved and would continue to be saved because once you’re saved you’re saved forever. They had slipped into error and they were somehow putting themselves back under the law and under bondage when they were set free from that by Christ. In Galatians 5 he goes on and says, stand fast therefore in the liberty where with Christ death made us free and do not be entangled again with the yoke of bondage which was the Old Testament law.

But when you mentioned the work for the different sense, emulation, and… Oh, yeah, I tried to find the fruit of the spirit versus the fruit of the flesh as a believer. If we walk after our flesh, we’re going to have the fruit of the flesh. If we walk after the spirit, we’ll have the fruit of the spirit. And the fruit of the flesh is here’s what you’re going to have. If you do what feels good to you, then you’ll have what?

Adultery, fornication, unclean, this, lascivius, this and so on. But if you do what God wants you to do and yield to his spirit, you’ll have love, love, and joy and peace and so on. It’s not talking here about how to be saved there. It’s talking about how that results you’ll have in your Christian life are based upon which direction you choose to go after you become saved. And here it says that they weren’t in danger of losing their salvation.

They were in danger of losing reward and in danger of following a course that would bring heartache into their life, envy, strife, murder, drunkenness, and so on and so on and so on. And he’s saying you need to walk in the Spirit and then you’ll not fulfill the lust of the flesh and the fruit in your life will be the fruit of the Spirit, love, joy, peace, happiness, and so on. Which is what everybody is really seeking after, but the way to get that is for Christ after your same.

Good morning, Mr. Hank. You had a question about the first gen. All right. I know verse seven is talking about the Trinity, but I don’t understand what verse you know, you know, I’m lean. I’m but I’m confused about that verse. All right, I’m working my way over there right now in my Bible, and almost there, but first John chapter 5 in verse 8, it says, there are three that witness in the earth, the spirit and the water and the blood, these three agree in one.

There’s different views on all of this, but apparently the water and the blood He probably referred to when Christ died, he really did die as the solid parts of the blood separated out from the plasma part. And this was a witness that Christ did die to pay for our sins on the cross, that he fully died and then he was buried and came back again from the dead. But it’s not real clear and so there’s no need to panic.

But this is a… I was just wondering about it because it was just unique, I guess, and I was kind of wondering what that verse was talking about. I think it’s really talking about Christ, death and that the water and the blood probably, you read over there in John’s gospel that when the soldier appears to spear up into the side of Jesus, John remember first John, but he also wrote the gospel of John. And it would probably be an allusion to that event where it says that water and the blood poured out, which was medically, that’s a confirmation that death is set in when the blood separates out from the liquid and the solid parts of the blood.

So that’s, I think, what it’s referring to. It says in John’s Gospel, chapter 19, verse 34, but one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side and four with came out blood and water. And then, of course, the Holy Spirit gives testimony to that as a proof that this is what happened. It says he that sought bear record and his record is true and he know that he sayeth true that you might believe. So Christ truly died to pay for our sins.

Okay. I’d just also like to say thank you for recently purchased some of your tracks in the midst of using them for my girlfriend in California in her church. They’re a great %”church that believes in that they can lose their salvation. And I just read these tracks and they’re just so wonderful. They present the gospel very clear. They really work. And it also says, and there that Christ will never cast you out. You’ll never lose you. I love it.

It’s right in there, and the fact that there’s a written guarantee verse on the end that’s quoted in full that you can actually know that you have eternal life. It’s not temporary life, but it’s eternal. It’s really great. That track really works. and everybody tells us that it makes it so easy to lead someone to Christ when you’re using that particular track. That’s the best in the world I think. Yeah, well, thank you Pastor Hink and God bless you.

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Lindstrom’s audio CDs on the books of Ephesians or James, plus many others. Join us now as we continue today’s teaching series from Dr. Hank Lindstrom. Could be, there’s a connection, but definitely somehow our sun will be impacted, and maybe it will be something that we can explain like a Nova experience. In any case, this fourth vile judgment will cause the sun to be extremely bright, extremely hot as we saw in Isaiah. And here we find it becoming darkened as we found in Matthew 24.

And then it says, the people on the earth will blaspheme the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores. And of course the pains is from the scorching and the sunburn. You imagine the burning of their skin and the pain that they have if you’ve ever been sunburned. You know how painful I could be and those again, they repented not which means they did not change their mind of their deeds. So apparently none of these judgments bring about any decision to come to know God or Christ.

Then verse 12 we have the sixth bold judgment which has to do with the Battle of Armageddon. The sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates. We talked about that last week. The river Euphrates beginning in Turkey, flowing down through Syria, down through Iraq, out into the Persian Gulf, and that this river will dry up. Look at what it says here. The water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.

So China will march into the Middle East for the Battle of Armageddon when the river Euphrates dries up. We found in chapter nine of the book Revelation under the sixth trumpet judgment, that the Chinese will have an army of 200 million. We said good of the internet, look up the CIA fact book, and that the CIA fact book says that China has an army of 200 million, the very number, the book of Revelation mentions in chapter nine. Then it says here in verse 13, I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.

These are demons, Satan’s angels. And notice here, Satan’s Trinity, the dragon being Satan the anti-type of God, the beast being the anti-Christ, the anti-type of Christ, and the false prophet the anti-type of Holy Spirit. And you’re going to see several verses now where Satan’s Trinity is actively working. And notice verse 14, it says these spirits are the spirits of devils. It should read demons. There’s only one devil at Satan, but many demons which are his fallen angels. Notice working miracles which go forth under the kings of the earth and of the whole world to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.

So Satan rounds up his demons to go out and bring the nations into the Middle East. And it’s interesting how that demonic activity among political leaders. No one in the Bible tells us where to pray for presidents and for kings and for those in authority because there’s demonic activity to mislead them and misguide them. And apparently they do that. know that that’s happened in our own past administrations. Apparently, Reagan’s wife would plan his schedule based on an astrologer that she was consulting.

So she planned out his schedule. Lyndon B. Johnson apparently saw angels appear at the end of his bed and he got instructions about how to run the Vietnam War from those angels, probably again demons. We have Hillary Clinton supposedly having visits from past presidents’ wives, including Martha Washington giving instructions as to how she could be a good first lady in the White House. And other experiences in the White House are kind of scary when you think of governmental leaders appealing to the occult.

But it’s nothing new. You see that in the book of Daniel with the leaders of that time where they would consult with the magicians and the astrologers and these others that would give them advice as to what to do, whether to make war or not make war and what decisions they ought to make in their kingdom. And so the demons are active and we find that they will be active in the tribulation period and lead our nations around the world’s leaders to come into the Middle East.

Verse 15, God says here, Christ says, behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he or happy as he that watcheth and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked and they see his shame, talking to believers in the tribulation now about the second coming. 16 says he gathers them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon. This is the only place in the Bible where the word Armageddon occurs. Armageddon is actually a city on the edge of the valley of Jezreel in northern Israel.

This is a city that was at a strategic point where caravans would go through taxes and be collected. fought, the city was destroyed numerous times, and if you go there today they would build on the ruins of ancient cities and so it became a very high hill. In Hebrew the word for hill is har, H-A-R, and in English we don’t pronounce the H sound so we say R instead of har, R-Migiddo or R-Migeddon, and it’s this place where apparently World War III, Armageddon we call it, we’ll take place.

What’s it all about? Well, right now Israel has all their nuclear weapons, their military, their jets and everything, all are right there in this valley. That comes from Haifa on the Mediterranean all the way over to the Sea of Galilee. And I believe when the Antichrist takes over Israel, That he will probably be fed up at, of course, the Western leaders’ military power will be in that valley at Megiddo. So when Russia comes against the Antichrist and triggers off the Battle of Armageddon, this will be like the Pearl Harbor of World War II.

When they struck Pearl Harbor, that’s set off the war. And when Russia strikes at the military might of the Antichrist at Megiddo, then everybody will push their buttons and their missiles will be released and the whole war will be underway and over in one hour. Wow. And that’s what it says here is going to happen. Turn if you will to Jeremiah chapter 50 for just a moment. Let’s go there for a little step. And in Jeremiah chapter 50, it describes what will happen when that takes place, when When Russia strikes Israel and apparently with a nuclear hit, the buttons will be pushed and we can strike Russia in 30 minutes from the United States with our nuclear intercontinental ballistic missilescli.

And according to the book of Ezekiel 5, 6 of Russia will be destroyed in only a sixth part up in the eastern part to the north in Siberia, to survive. Verse 9 of Jeremiah 50, Jeremiah 50 page 827, it says in verse 9, for loah will raise and cause to come up against Babylon. And when you see Babylon here, you have to think beyond the city and beyond the ancient empire of Babylon to the extension of it, which includes all the following world powers Daniel tells us about, which is the Babylonian Empire, the Middle Persian Empire, the Greek Empire, the Roman Empire, and now the extension of it, where it spread all the way over to America as we are the outgrowth of this world empire.

And so all of that territory will be under the control of the Antichrist. The Antichrist, I believe, will come out of this country, he’ll control Europe and the core countries of the Middle East. And look at what it says here. I will raise and cause to come up against the Western Empire, which is Europe, America, and the core countries of the Middle East, an assembly of great nations from what? The North Country. If you look directly north of Jerusalem, you have Russia.

And what will happen here? They shall set themselves in a ray against the Western nations. From thence, the Western nations shall be taken. Their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man, and notice what it says here, none shall return in vain. Now how would you describe an intercontinental ballistic missile? Thanks for listening to Bibleline with Dr. Hank Lindstrom. We’d like to continue with Dr. Lindstrom’s teaching, but we are out of time for today. We hope that you’ve enjoyed today’s program and that you are learning from it.

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Or visit Bibleline Online and BibleLineMinistries.org. Be sure to tune in to another edition of Bibleline from Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida. And secondly, he says he would not lose one. That means you’re not keeping your salvation. You are not keeping your salvation. God is keeping you saved. We are kept saved by the power of God. And Jesus is actually holding you. He’s keeping you saved according to the Bible. And so I hope that you will just take those verses and write them down and memorize them.

And, and I hope that you will be able to do that. Obviously, this is the assurance that we can have as believers. In Hebrews chapter 13 and verse 5, it says there, and this is the words of Christ. He says, I will never leave thee, and I will never forsake thee. Now, never means never. Jesus says, I’ll never leave thee. Think about this scenario. Let’s say you did lose your salvation and you went to hell. Jesus would have to go to hell with you.

He said, I will never leave you. That’ll never happen. Jesus will never go to hell. And obviously, if Jesus makes the promise, I will never leave you. And I will never forsake you. How can you ever wind up in hell? How can you ever become lost once you become saved? He says, I will never leave you. I’ll never forsake you. Unbelievable. But it’s amazing what people believe. And if you believe you can lose it, you really don’t have much right because you don’t have salvation right, which is the foundation.

And if you believe you can lose it, you’re really saying you have to do something to get it or keep it. And if you are saying that, then you’re trusting in your works for your salvation. And my friend, you’re not saved. I’ll never forget a young man I talked to years ago. And I asked him where he’d go when he died and he said, Heaven. I said, how do you know? He says, I’ve trusted Jesus Christ as my Savior.

I asked him the question. I said, well, what if you don’t read your Bible anymore? What if you don’t go to church anymore? What if you backslide and you die? What would happen then? Oh, he said, I’d go to hell. I said, you’re not saved. He said, yes, I am. I said, no, you’re not. He said, yes, I am. I said, no, you’re not. I said, the reason why you’re not saved is because you’re trusting in your works. He said, no, I’m not.

I said, yes, you are. He said, no, I’m not. I said, yes, you are. And I said, let me just explain it this way. And maybe I’ve got it wrong. Let’s just ask you the question here. Are you telling me that from this moment on if you lived a Christian life successfully and you die, that you would go to heaven and he said, yeah, that is exactly right. I said, but are you telling me that from this moment on if you do not live the Christian life successfully and you backslide and quit serving the Lord and then you will go to hell?

He said, yeah, that is exactly what I am saying. Don’t you see what you are saying? You are saying that from this point until when you die what you do whether you serve the Lord or whether you do not serve the Lord or whether backslider when you don’t backslide is what determines what you’re going to go to heaven. That’s works! You’re trusting in your works! And I said, you’re lost. You’re not saved. And anyway, the next day I saw him again and he said, you know, I couldn’t sleep all last night and I thought about what you said and I realized you were right.

And somewhere during the middle of the night he got saved. He trusted Jesus Christ alone realizing it was not based on his works, what he did in the past or what he’s doing in the present or what he’ll do in the future, but it’s what Christ did for him at the cross that would save him. He says, but I’ve got a big problem. I said, what’s your big problem? He says, I need to tell my dad. I said, well, what’s the problem with telling your dad?

He says, well, my dad is a preacher. He’s the one that taught me the other way. I said, well, I understand. But I said, would you do the same thing that I did with you with your dad? Say, dad, is this what you teach? That if I live the Christian life from this point on faithfully, till I die, that I’ll go to heaven. But Dad, if I don’t live the Christian life successfully and I backslide and die, I’ll go to hell.

Dad, that’s works. Because that is what I’m doing from now till death that determines my salvation. It makes me the Savior not Christ and I’m not going to be saved according to the Bible. If I’m trusting in what I’m going to do or not going to do, if I’m trusting in how I live my life to save me. That’s works and you’ll not be safe. Again, we have to run. God bless. Keep looking up. Jesus is coming and we believe He’s coming soon.

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