Bibleline Radio Show – 2008-04-18

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The church we all know we can’t afford To fight through all these earths that’s the nature of all Welcome to Bibleline with Dr. Hank Lindstrom Coming to you from Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida Declaring God’s love through radio and television, providing real answers to an ever-searching world. Got a question? Dial toll free at 1-800-576-3771. That’s 1-800-576-3771. Now here’s the host of Bibleline, Dr. Hank Lindstrom. Well, good morning and welcome to Bibleline great to be with you and thanks for tuning in the broadcast as we come to you live from Tampa, Florida from our studios right here at the Calvary Community Church where I’m the pastor and this is Friday.

It’s great to be with you. This program is right now being streamed to the Internet just go to BibleLineMinistries.org. Click on the spending globe and you’ll get it. This is the third Sunday weekend and we’re having a dinner this Sunday right after the morning worship. You’re welcome to come and visit us if you’re coming from a distance. It’s a great Sunday to visit. You can come at 915, join my adult class and then you can come at 1030 for the worship service and you can stay then for the wonderful lunch dinner that we’ll have right after the worship service in our educational building.

You’re welcome to come. We’d love to have you be my guest. Bring your family, your friends, your Bible, your appetite and be here at 1030 for the morning worship and then stay for the wonderful lunch. Be my guest and enjoy. This coming Tuesday we’ll be teaching second Peter classes. Let’s see it’ll be class 7-8 and then the following week 9 and 10 and we’ll finish all 10 hours of our class on the the book of second Peter. We’ve already finished first Peter that’s available.

You can call in order first Peter on CD or DVD and then you can call down and get the second Peter set that will be finished after two more Tuesdays. So this coming Tuesday, you’re welcome to come out and sit in the classroom and if you don’t live close enough to do that, you can order the CDs or DVDs of our teaching on the second Peter. Again, it’s Friday. This is the third Sunday weekend, so we will have a dinner this Sunday.

You’re welcome to come and be a part of that. Also on our Israel trip, it looks like if you’re We’re going to take the extension, which is the part to Egypt and Eilat and Petra. We would leave February 11th, and then if you’re going to do only the Israel portion, you’d leave on the Monday following that. And of course, we’ll all return on February 25th. So if you want to go, if you’re interested, you can call in now and get some more details.

We hope that you’ll think about doing that. Again, we’re going to get into the Bible for a few minutes and then we’ll be talking about your questions you can call in at 1-800-576-3771. That’s 1-800-576-3771. Give us a call and we’ll put you up on the air and we’ll try to answer your questions. It was just the very interesting day I was looking on the internet yesterday and I pulled up 10 websites that all talk about U.S. May and May and Iran and it might happen in the next couple of weeks.

That is very interesting, especially in a lot of Bible prophecy as we know that the nations of the world will focus on the Middle East and obviously Jerusalem will become the ultimate focal point as we head toward the second coming of Christ. But before that, of course, we have the Rapture. And the Rapture, of course, is the event when all believers are caught up to meet the Lord in the air. That could happen at any time, but we believe that whatever year it happens, it will happen on the Feast of Trumpets.

This year, the Feast of Trumpets will be on the very end of September, I think, September 29th and 30th. And so if the Lord comes this year, that’s about how much time you have left. Isn’t that something to think about? Whenever the Lord comes, we’ll be snatched out, meet the Lord in the year, and whatever we’re going to do for Christ, we need to do before the Rapture. And it becomes this year, and I don’t know what year he’s coming, but it would be on the Feast of Trumpets, which is Rosh Hashanah.

That’ll be September 29th and 30th of this year. So that’s how many months you have left until the award comes if If he comes this year, I didn’t say that he would. And we know that because of the feast days that God gave the Israel. You know, seven feast days picture the two comings of Christ. And Jesus died as the Passover lamb on the Passover was buried during the feast of first fruits. Rather unleavened bread was raised from the dead on the feast of first fruits and Pentecost, which began this age, happened on Pentecost the feast day, which was the fourth feast exactly on the day.

Of course, the next piece which concludes this age will be the Feast of Trumpets, and that happens in the fall, and this year occurs September 29th and 30th. Hopefully you’re ready. If you’ve trusted Christ as your Savior, then you are indeed ready, and all believers are going to go up to meet the Lord in the air. Let me quote that passage for you. It says in 1 Thessalonians chapter 4 that we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

That’s 1 Thessalonians 4 17. Some people say, well the word rapture doesn’t occur in your Bible, that’s correct. In the English it doesn’t occur, but the Greek word, it’s translated caught up. And guess what? The word Rapture means caught up, so you could put that word right in the text if you wanted to. I prefer it to be as it is because a lot of people don’t know what the word Rapture means, but everybody does know what it means to be caught up.

It says, we, which are alive and remain, shall be caught up. The word Rapture means caught up. So put it in there if you want. We’ll be caught up with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so shall we ever be with the Lord. What an exciting event that’s There is going to be a large group of people that will be exempted from death that will never die. It will be caught up while they are alive in their bodies and be transformed into their new bodies on the way up.

We could be all of us in that group if you are a believer. If you are a unbeliever, you will be left behind for the darkest hours that will ever occur on the earth. in chapter 5 that when this event takes place, that sudden destruction will come upon the world as prevailed upon a woman with child, and they shall not escape. But if you notice there is four, it says, but you brethren are not in darkness that that they should overtake you as a thief.

In other words, we really shouldn’t even be caught by surprise. We should be watching and looking for the return of Christ, and we’re children of the day and of the light and it says here that we are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you. That is the believers as a thief in the night. You are all children of the light, children of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness. So we should be obviously when the Lord comes and say, wow, we’ve been waiting for this day.

We’ve been looking for you, Lord. We’ve been expecting that you would come and catch us out and we expect that will now be with you forever and ever and ever and ever. Well, I hope you’re a believer because if you are, then you’ll be in this event. Verse 14 says, If we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep, in Jesus, will God bring with him? In other words, the key to being in this event is trusting Christ.

If you believe that is if you trust that Christ died and rose again, that’s the gospel message, then it says those which have already died in Christ will God bring with him so the dead that have died in Christ are already with the Lord absent from the body, present with the Lord, and they will be coming back with Jesus. They will be given their new bodies a split second before we are given hours, and then we which are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

And of course verse 18 gives us one of the great reasons why God gives prophecy. It says, wherefore comfort one another with these words. These are comforting words, aren’t they? To know that we’re going to go to be with the Lord and nothing’s going to undo that or stop that. If you’ve trusted Christ, you’re saved forever. He’ll never cast you out. He’ll never lose you. You are saved forever and ever and ever. I’m not trying to answer. We’re going to go to the phone numbers or the phone callers.

And if you want to call in that number is 1-800-576-3771, 1-800-576-3771. You’re welcome to call and we’ll try to get your question up on the air. We’re going to Seminole, Florida first and we have Keith on the air. Keith, welcome to Bibleline you’re on the Bible and program. Thank you, churches. We’re studying in my church and you’ve talked about how he had something in favor of the churches and something against them. Well, you know those seven churches, there were seven literal churches that did exist.

As John the Apostle wrote around AB 96 as Christ gave him a message for each of those seven churches. But also they are representative of seven different types of churches and we have churches around like each of those today. But the bigger picture is it’s a prophetic picture of church history over the past 2000 years. And the church of Ephesus represented the first century church. The church at Smyrna represented the second and third century church. The church of Pargamists represented the church from the fourth century till about the eighth century.

The Church of Thyra-Tir are represented in the dark ages there from about the 800s on the up to about the time of the Reformation. The Church of Sardis represented the Reformation period and we find that the Church of Philadelphia represented the great time of evangelism of about the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th. And then the last Church of Laedicea represents the lukewarm church of today where not a whole lot is getting done and got his kind of disappointed in fact he says this church of the last days makes him want to throw up so uh…

he’s not too pleased and obviously the church uh… is based more upon materialism and spiritual things and so he says that they think that they’re rich but actually they’re poor spiritually and naked and blind and he counsels them to have rewards in heaven by coming back and serving him and living for him and buying up gold that will be with him forever in heaven. And so it’s a beautiful picture and obviously we are in the Laodicean church age right now and you can look back over church history and you can see how it fits like a glove.

I have a 12 hour teaching on Revelation verse by verse and we go through all of this and point out church history and its correlation to the seven churches and it’s really quite an amazing look at how this last church at the end of it, in chapter 4 verse 1 of Revelation we have a picture of the Rapture where John says he hears a voice and it’s of course the voice of Christ. He says come up, Hiller and John is caught up and he’s then shown the things that are going to happen after this present church age, the things which must be here after according to chapter 4 verse 1 of the book of Revelation.

The church is no longer mentioned in the book of Revelation from that point on. The church has been raptured out chapter 4 verse 1 and then you’re in the tribulation period between chapters 4 and 19. And in chapter 20 is the Millennium Kingdom. Six times it mentions a thousand year Kingdom. Chapters 21 and 22, Brendan, take us into eternity. We have a new heavens and a new earth and that’s kind of a real brief outline of the book of Revelation.

Okay great thanks very much for your help. You’re welcome Keith and it’s a great study when you get into that book. Go down about it, God promises a blessing to those that read and take heed to the things that are taught in that book. Alright thank you. Thank you Keith and that was Keith calling in from Seminole Florida and the book of Revelation is an exciting study. You might want to get my CD series which has been helpful. Many many Bible studies have used that as a teaching tool and had students listen to a half hour or so of the teaching, throw by CDs and then had group discussion and then of course, had refreshments or however they conclude their class.

We now have Adam out in Denver, Colorado and Adam, welcome to Bibleline you’re on the air. Dr. Lister, when I found interest, it is not once through this whole week that I heard, I heard the name Jesus Christ mentioned in its book, the funny how these people look up to this person and know where have I ever heard of Jesus mentioned or the Savior? It’s funny and I just wanted your thoughts on that. Well, you’re very observant to catch that, and that’s absolutely true.

And it’s interesting to me, I think this is a really prophecy being fulfilled as the Bible talks about… A church that would be the in-time church that other churches would come under its umbrella. Yesterday the moped moped met with a room full of representatives from all the different world religions. And obviously they’re trying to bring them all under the umbrella of the Roman Catholic Church. And the Bible talks about this system that is present in the Roman Catholic Church that dates back all the way to ancient Babylon on and the Tower of Babel back there in Genesis 10 and 11.

And obviously this church system will help the Antichrist rise to power. And I believe the Antichrist comes out of the United States of America. So it’s very interesting here how we have this connection with the Pope meeting with the President here. And it could be the very end time events that the Bible speaks about where it says in Revelation 17, woman, which is the Roman Catholic Church, will ride the beast that’s the Antichrist, and they will work together. And obviously the woman will control the Antichrist and help him and aid him to his rise to power.

And then of course it tells us that the beast will turn on the woman and destroy the Roman Catholic Church. So we are really watching some amazing things, and it’s quite an amazing chapter. It tells us there that the woman is a city, chapter 17 in Revelation verse 18, in verse 9 it tells us the city is built upon seven hills. And even in my Roman Catholic translation that I have here in the notes it says this is talking about Rome.

So even the Catholic Church acknowledges that, but they have a historic view. They are preterists and they believe that Revelation has already been fulfilled. Therefore, they don’t see any prophecy then about them in this present age, but it’s really talking about the future And you know that for sure because in that chapter it talks about Jesus coming back and destroying Intendations that come against Israel and that hasn’t happened yet my history book It’s still obviously still future. Hope that helps a little bit there, but we are living in a 10 when prophecy is being fulfilled and this church does not really focus on Christ but on the church itself and the pope is considered to be the vicar of Christ or he’s Christ here in Christ’s place here on the earth and the church is the means of salvation not Christ according to Roman Catholic

Caligene. Well thank you. Okay, Adam, Adam and Denver, Colorado, we now have Linda in Oldsmar, Florida, and Linda, welcome to Bibleline you’re on there. Good morning, Pastor. This is Linda. And due to Bibleline is how I got saved and I thank you for your ministry, Pastor. My question is that I’ve been ill and a friend of mine has been praying for me. And my question is, he keeps saying we must pray for the Kingdom. I don’t understand what he’s trying to say.

So do you have any idea what he’s talking about or if this is correct? Well he’s wrong. We’re not praying for the kingdom. The kingdom is the thousand year reign of Christ. And right now we as Christians in this age which began at Pentecostal in the Rapture of the Church age are looking for Christ who is the head of the church to come and snatch us out. that the king is Christ and the kingdom is the kingdom that he will establish where the Jewish people will be the head nation on the earth.

The Lord’s Prayer, for example, really isn’t to be prayed now. It’s about that kingdom. It says, Our Father which art in heaven, how will be thy name, thy kingdom come? It’s prayer for the kingdom. Then he goes on to tell us about that kingdom. It says, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Kingdom Millennium. Christ will be here and will come back with Christ the rule of the reign and the heavens will rule over the earth and that is the Kingdom.

So a lot of people have their theology mixed up and they talked about the Kingdom when the Kingdom is really for Israel and it’s not for us in this present time if you are a believer we are looking for Christ who is not the King of the Church but the head of the Church but Christ is the King of Israel And when he comes at the second coming seven years after the rapture, he’ll establish that Kingdom. And so we’re not to be praying for the Kingdom now.

We don’t recite the Lord’s Prayer here because it’s not to be prayed until after the Rapture. And during the Tribulation Prayer it will be prayed again. Well, that’s what I thought, Pastor, because, you know, I do attend your church and I listen to Bibleline, and that’s what I, you know, was led to believe what you just said. And he’s telling me that this pastor, they’re studying this and he couldn’t explain it all, but I’m thinking something wasn’t, didn’t feel right.

And I didn’t want to say to him, I’m sorry, but, you know, you’re wrong or because he was praying for my health. But if I talk to him again, what should I tell him pastor? They wouldn’t be anything, you know, that would hurt him or that encourage him to know the truth. Well, I hope you could help him. But basically it’s called rightly dividing the word of truth. You have to separate between the first coming of Christ, the second coming of Christ.

You have to separate between the rapture and the second coming, which are not the same. Now you see you have to separate between the Church, which is the body of Christ, the believers included in that are those from Pentecostal or Rapture, and you have to separate between that and Israel, a nation that still has earthly promises that are going to be fulfilled for them, and then separating from that from the Gentiles. So there are three particular bodies. In 1st Corinthians chapter 10 and verse 31 it says that there are those three, the Gentiles, the church and then there are the Jews.

And so those are three peoples that you have to separate out what God’s program is for each. Romans 9, 10 and 11 are pretty good at showing God’s plan for the Gentiles, God’s plan for Israel and God’s plan for the church. And obviously they are different and you have to pay attention. But of course salvation is always the same. It’s just by Faith alone and Christ alone. And Linda, I’d have to recommend probably the Scofield Bible to him, which would be a great help because it rightly divides and separates those things out.

Thank you for your call and we’ll pray for you. We’re now going to go to Armando in St. Petersburg. Armando, welcome to Bibleline you’re on the air. Good morning, Dr. Langstrom. Good morning. I wanted to ask you, do you know anything about the adopting of the Scientologists? Know something about them? Well, Scientologists, you don’t have to believe in God, you don’t have to believe in Hell, you don’t have to believe in Heaven, you don’t have to believe in anything.

It’s really not a religion technically because it’s not a thing based on faith. They basically are working with your mind and it’s a psychological type thing. These brainwashing, they first like to give you a psychological test and that’s the way they hook you and they have all these crazy teachings of Ron L. Hubbard and they are a cult and they’re a mind control group and you don’t want to get near them and there are books written to help expose that to you but they’re not Christian and they’re not really even a faith that has a destiny, heaven, hell and believe in God.

It’s all about here and control of people and getting your money. So stay away from the Scientologists. Thank you so much Armando and now we’re going to go to Daisy in Bill Glades, Florida. Daisy, welcome to Bibleline. You’re on there. Yes. My question is, what came to mind his sister or was the people of another nation or the village from which he saw her out? Good question. Good question. That was his sister. We find that the murder took place when Cain and Abel were about 125 years of age and so they weren’t kids out back in the sandbox behind the house.

And by that time it’s estimated there must have been about a hundred or two hundred thousand people on the earth by that time. Lots of time had taken place there and we find that he married one of the sisters. In fact, Kane said when he was banished to the land of Nod, everyone would find a financial slimy. So there was a lot of people around and he took his wife with him. He was already married but he knew her in the land of Nod that spoke about sexual intercourse and she conceived and bear children there in the land of Nod.

I want to say goodbye to you folks out of Miami. Again, we are grateful to be on the air in Miami and we hope that you continue to listen. Pray for us and if you can help support by the line and keep us on the air down there, that would be great. Give us a call. We’ll tell you how over the phone when you call our 800 number. We’re back now to our other callers and we have have people from all over calling in.

We have Eugene and he is in Tampa, Florida. Eugene, welcome to Bibleignor on the Earth. Hello. Hello Eugene, you’re on the Earth. Eugene? I think I lost Eugene, and so we’ll have Eugene call back. We have Claude in Toronto, Canada. Claude, welcome to Bibleignor on the Earth. Good morning, my friend. Well, to be able to make Catholic Church a saved if they trust Christ alone is the only means of their salvation, but that’s not what the Catholic Church teaches them.

The Catholic Church teaches that the Church is the Savior, and by keeping the seven sacraments that the Church offers that you can earn your way to heaven. So it’s really a false plan of salvation. And if they believe what the Church teaches them, they will not be saved. But there are many within the Catholic Church that, in spite of everything, have simply trusted Christ, I believe, and will go to heaven. I would say if you’re a believer, you would need to come out of that church and find the church that teaches God’s Word.

So what about the church? The church is like I was I was telling from the forest bar as a seven-year agenda, but I’m no longer that believe it. But they believe that like the 10 nations that you’re talking about are separated from Rome and the church is during the Reformation. They will eventually come back under the umbrella of the chariot church. Well, we’re seeing that happen. I’m not. I’m out of time here Claude, but absolutely we see this merger that’s happening right now and we’re I think very close to the Lord’s return.

We’re going to take a break. We’re going to come back and do a second half hour Bible and so don’t go away. I’ll be right back and we’ll take more questions and you might want to call in and ask yours Bibleline will be back in a moment give us a call at 1-800-576-3771 That’s 1-800-576-3771 All right, I’m Dr. Englunds from us great to be with you today. Thanks for tuning into the broadcast We appreciate you and all of our listeners and we hope that you’re enjoying the program every day This is Friday and that means We will be back live on the radio till Monday.

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Those then that would want to go just on the Israel portion, you would leave on Monday, the following Monday after the 11th of February. I forget that date, but it’ll be then 10 days exclusively in Israel. So you can do all of the trip 15 days or you can do just the Israel alone portion. If you want to call each of your name on the list, we’ll send you a brochure as we should be getting those printed shortly and within the next several weeks we’ll have a brochure to mail to you about the 2009 trip leaving for the extension on Wednesday the 11th of February and those going just for Israel only would leave on Monday following that and be it is referred.

A full ten days and then we’ll all come back together. Well, we’re going to rejoin the stations that have been on break into the second half hour Bible and so keep you ready to right where it is. Here we begin part two. Would you like to call Bibleline and ask Dr. Lindstrom a question? You can. Just pick up your phone and dial 1-800-576-3771. That’s 1-800-576-3771. here again is Dr. Hank Lynch from all right we’re through that break and we’re back and this is the second half hour of Bible and we’re coming to you from Tampa, Florida.

We’re coming to you from our studios right here at the Calvary Community Church where I’m the pastor. It’s Friday and we won’t be back on the radio live until Monday but guess what? If you’re in driving distance you can come out this Sunday. If the third Sunday will have of our dinner. You can come at 9.15 if you like, join my adult Bible class. You can come at 10.30 and join the worship service and then stay for the lunch dinner in our educational building as soon as the worship service ends.

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And we hope that you’ll take advantage. 2nd Peter has been a wonderful study. We’ve already finished first Peter. That’s available right now if you want to call and get it. Second Peter will be finished after the coming next two Tuesdays. And you’re welcome if you’re driving distance to come sit in the class. We had a fellow come all the way over from Deltona, Florida on the east coast of Florida, and join our classes this past Tuesday. And you’re welcome of course to come and sit in as well.

as well, no matter where you are, if you get into Tampa, come by and see us, and you can join our worship services, visit our resource center and come by and see us. We’d love to have you do that. We’re ready to go back to the phone lines. That phone number is 1-800-576-3771, and we’re gonna go to Geno in Tampa, Florida. Geno, welcome to Bibleline, and you’re on the air. Yes, I know it. Yeah. I’m calling about a hundred-year-old man a few days ago about the Black Church.

You know, a lot of women are in the church, of course, that’s true. A lot of Black women are in the church, more than Black men. But he spoke of power. He spoke of power. about the young blacks that come on the ones that are teenagers or young 20s from come. They’re just sitting in the self. Where would they actually go? What I mean by that is that not the place for them to be to actually turn their life around and not to be they haven’t accepted the Lord.

But to turn their life around, wouldn’t that be the place for them to go? Actually, two turns and I’m going to hang up on Well, absolutely, Gino, and that’s what should be happening, but I’m afraid the churches today are not really doing much in the way of teaching the Word of God, and they have gotten more into the music, the entertainment, the tickling of the ears, and making people feel good, and like he was saying, they wear all their bling and all their fancy clothes, and it’s more of a social gathering rather than a time of being instructed in God’s Word.

for the churches and that was Brother Atwell that called in and shared that from his church experience where he attends. And we need to pray for America and pray for our churches to be strong and to go back to the Word of God and to be proclaiming it and especially with our young people for sure. We’re going to go down to John and John is in use this Florida and John welcome to Bibleline you are on the air. Good morning.

This program truly is a light in a dark world. I like that. It makes it comment if I make. My comment is that whenever you see a show on TV about Jesus, they always show him with long hair. If that be the case, he would be violating his own work. I agree with you. One hundred percent. First Corinthians 1114 says does not even nature. It’s a shame for a man to have long hair. I believe Christ had short hair and did not have long hair, but so much today.

People are not checking out what they believe or what they are taught against the scriptures, which are the authority. And as a result, we just swallow whatever we’re taught. And many people have been taken on a path that leads them far from the Bible. Yes, and you know also like that to that, that a lot of times they show him as being a very good looking person. I believe he was very average looking. If he was good looking, I believe some people would have followed just because of his looks.

Well, that’s possibly true and I really don’t know because we don’t have any photographs, but I know in the crucifixion that he was made to be very ugly. It says that his image was marred so that he didn’t even look human after he’d been beaten up by the soldiers and nailed it across. He, I’m sure, had his face kind of cut and was bleeding and was puffed up and distorted from the swelling, from the blows to the face by the soldiers.

So obviously it says his visage was so marred that he didn’t even look like a human being when he was on the cross. there was no beauty there at the cross for sure but it is earthly life we will just have to wait and see what he looks like. Amen but I just want to say thank you for your program because it truly is a light and I thank you for it. Okay thank you John and you just Florida calling in and we now have Mike in Seminole Florida and Mike welcome to Bibleline you’re on the air.

Oh hi Pastor how are you today? Good. I have a couple of questions for you. I’ve heard you mention about the American Antichrist. What are the verses there for that please? And one other question. I’ve heard you mention about in the past, Jehovahless Witnesses. There was a verse that referred to that. Can you give me those? those please? The American Andy Christ and the Jiffel Velas with us please. You guys. I’ve been listening to you on the radio. Okay Mike.

Daniel 7 verse 8 says that there would be 10 horns in the last days. 10 horns, there being 10 nations we believe that would come up of the ancient Roman Empire and obviously I think we’ve seen that being fulfilled here in the European common market. But then talks about another horn, a little horn, another. And another means 11. That means an 11th nation. And it says a young or little horn, so I believe that is a country that is younger than.

And notice it comes up out of the 10, so it’s spawned by or birthed by Europe. And we’re the only country in the world that means that description. The 11th country, I think, has to be the United States of America. all of our people came from Europe and we were birthed by Europe. We’re younger than stronger than Europe. And the Bible of course says that that man who leads that country is also called the little horn in that very same burst.

So I believe the little horn is the 11th country which is the United States has been birthed by Europe as only a couple hundred years old compared to the couple thousand year history of the countries of Europe. the leader of it being also the one who speaks for that country being the little horn as well. So I think that helps clarify that and there are many of the verses we could turn to. But also if you go to 1 John 2 23 about the Jehovah’s Witnesses it says, Who’s Whoever Denyeth the Son?

And the Jehovah’s Witnesses do not acknowledge that Jesus Christ is the second eternal member of the Godhead. They reject his deity. And it says in 1 John 2, 23, who’s over denied the Son, the same hath not the Father. So here we have a verse where the Jehovah’s Witnesses deny the Son, therefore they don’t have Jehovah or the Father. And so they’re Jehovahless. The Jehovah’s Witnesses are Jehovahless. They reject the Son. You cannot be saved if you reject Christ.

On 14-6 Christ said I am the way, the truth and the life, and no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. In John 824 Jesus said, If you don’t believe that I am. He shall die in your sins. Well, I am is the name that God gave when he appeared to Moses at the burning bush and Jesus is his same God that was the God that appeared to Moses but also then stated to him that he was the same God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob that lived hundreds of years before that.

So he’s the god of the Bible, the god of creation and Jesus Christ says I am that very same God that appeared to Moses and if you don’t believe that he says you will die in your sins. The Jehovah’s Witnesses do not believe that. that so they will die in their sins. That means they’ll wind up in hell. And obviously they are without the Father because they denied the Son first on to 23. Mike, thanks for calling. I hope that helps.

And we appreciate your calling in. We have Jack in Lakeland, Florida. And he says, in regard to Matthew 2435, please explain why heaven passes away. Also, who are the saints that rise up from the graves and appear in the city? Well, I think we’ve got two different questions going on here in Matthew 24.35. Jesus said, Heaven and Earth will pass away, but my words shall never pass away. So we know that the universe is not eternal, but God is eternal, and His words are eternal.

So He’s referring to that. And you know, that’s a fact. The universe is getting older and it tells us in the scriptures that the universe is growing older, but God does not age. God does not have a clock on him and he will abide forever and ever. And Jesus said his words, which are God’s words because Christ is gone, will abide forever and ever. Matthew 24, 35. The Saints that rise up from the graves appear in the city, that’s in 1927, where it says that after Christ came back from the dead, he had a number of the Old Testament Saints that rose up with him and were given their resurrection bodies and they walked into the city of Jerusalem and appeared.

And these are those Old Testament saints that were a sampling of the resurrection of the believers that will happen at the Second Coming of Christ. The Feast of First Fruits Day, which was the day that Christ rose from the dead, was a day in the Old Testament when they would take a sampling of the harvest. They would go out in the fields and grab handfuls of grain, bring it before the priest and wave it as a sampling of the harvest that was become.

It was a picture of the resurrection, and Christ here gave a sampling of the resurrection by giving the resurrection bodies to a number of the Old Testament believers, and they walked into Jerusalem and appeared in the city, and that was a sample of what will happen at the Second Coming of Christ when the dead will be given their resurrection bodies at that time. We now have Jim, and he’s in and Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Jim, welcome to Bibleline You’re On The Line here.

Thank you very much. You’ve really gotten my attention. I’m sure you’ve gotten a lot A lot of people attention and what I was going to ask if you could do would be elaborate further the best you can in regard to the current events that are facing us globally as far as all the issues that are on the… on the table as far as the economy, the Pope’s shell, and what you know in prophecy. And I just really think that this is just a wake-up call.

Start taking this more seriously and talking about it but i just but if only just wish that you do that for a while we’ll do a little bit here you know at this morning there was an earthquake in indiana five point two magnitude and uh… there’s earthquakes in diverse places i think yesterday we mentioned that off the course book course uh… cost of or god that there were six hundred earthquakes in the past ten days and uh… so there’s earthquakes and diverse places just like christ said in that twenty four but in the end times if you read the book of revelation there will be a world church uh…

that is called the woman the woman the woman the woman the woman and uh… there’s only one church in the world if you had no knowledge of anything that is also woman to the very top and that’s the roman catholic church that is all to marry right to the very top where a few years ago they were talking about actually petitioning the pope Pope John at that time to actually use his papal powers as a pope to decree that Mary would be the fourth member of the Trinity.

And so instead of the Holy Trinity, there would have been the Holy Quartet. And that was real. And I think that they received millions of these petitions signed by personers asking the pope to do that. Of course he never did that, which would have been a terrible mistake. But Mary is elevated to the very top of the Church in Catholicism. Pope John, at his death, said that he was counting on Mary to guide him into his eternal future. And he had a big M carved into that wooden casket that he was buried in.

And inside his robe, as he came forth in those final days, he had a big M em blazed inside the his robe wherever he went. He obviously believed in his prayers to Mary would help him and was trusting in Mary, not Jesus, to get him to heaven. Unfortunately, this is a deception and this church is called the mother of harlots and is emblazoned with the title according to Revelation, Babylon, Mystery Babylon, the mother of harlots and these ancient mysteries.

Well, that takes us all the way back to Genesis chapter 10, and the worship of a mother and her son. And when Constantine came along, that mother and son became Mary and Jesus. And we see them obviously in the way that they were presented by this ancient system where the mother was dominant, the child was somewhat silent, and you were to listen to Mary and pray to Mary, and Jesus became a lower entity in the whole mix. In any case, we see that happening, as it says in Revelation 17, that the woman will ride the beast.

The beast is the antichrist. And we mentioned earlier in this program about how he’ll come out of this country. And here we have the woman and the president of our country coming together this week. And I think it’s the beginning of what will happen in the tribulation period after the rapture. will have a merger of Catholic power and the political power of the United States. The Antichrist will be aided in his rise to power by the Catholic Church. We also see the fact that there would be war and rumors of war and the fact that the Middle East would be the focus of the world.

And if you’re reading on the Internet and you just look up war in the Middle East, you’ll get dozens of sites that say the United States is ready to attack Iran. We don’t hear it in our local news here. In fact, people say, where do you get this support for? Well, you can look at nearly every website that’s out there, and they’re all talking about it on WorldNet Daily and on CNN.com, and everything is talking about the U.S. is ready to attack Iran.

And probably they say between May 1st and the end of June of this year. So that means in the next week or two we could be at war in the Middle East. We also know financially the Bible says that there’s going to be a financial collapse typically and we can see our dollar hit a downward and it’s going to become virtually worthless and we find that people are beginning to realize that and they see the price of boil the pump and they see the prices in the grocery store and everywhere rising and we’re headed toward we believe and newscasters are now starting to gently use the D word rather than the R word and that is depression that we might experience a tremendous financial collapse in this country and in the world and it’s a global thing just go on the internet and do some googling around

and you’ll find that the world is concerned, the whole world economy is ready for a deep plunge. And so we’re headed for the events, I believe, of the tribulation period, and I’m leaving it to Rapture. As every believer will be snatched out of this world and meet the Lord in the air, and I think we’re getting very, very close to those events. Plus, we have the incurable diseases that Christ spoke about in Matthew 24, for and they’ve got this new one now in Texas where people feel like they got worms crawling under their skin and they break out into lesions and out of these lesions come fibers that are actually manufactured within the human body.

Doctors are totally puzzled. They have no clue as to what is going on. This is just one of the, it’s called, Mortellus and you can look up on the internet and see to see the video of the newscasters talking about it with doctors showing you the pictures of this fiber that is manufactured within the body of these people who have this disease. and in a You might want to take a look at it too. I believe it’s spelled M-O-R-G-L-L-A-N-S.

More gelans. And you can catch it on the Google and see video footage of it. And it’s scary. Along with, of course, AIDS and Ebola virus and the West Nile virus and the Asian bird virus and a host of other things and all the STDs and other sexually transmitted diseases today. Today it’s really a world of incurable diseases that are out there and we’re I think very definitely living in the last days. Jim, I thank you for your call and I hope that that’s helped a little bit.

There’s so much that we couldn’t even touch it in one broadcast, but the Scriptures are clear that the darkest hour of human history is yet ahead. Jesus said in Matthew 24, and you might want to look at this verse, it says that this tribulation period that we talk about, he says then shall be great tribulation, verse 21 of Matthew 24, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no nor shall ever be. In other words, there will never be a time as bad as what is coming up.

Again, in the future after it happens, nor has there ever been in the past. And if you look at the darkest hours of history in the past, as you read your history books, the time ahead is going to be worse than that. And so I’m glad I’m leaving it to Rapture and I’m sure you are too. And I think people need to wake up to these signs and realize it’s time to trust the Lord if they haven’t, because without Christ they’ll never make heaven.

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satan and as angels are cast in uh… right after the thousand year and of crisis over so satan will be cast in according to revelation twenty verse ten and his angels will follow and then verses eleven to fifteen it talks about the unsaved dead who are now presently waiting in haities in a flame and torment the heart of the earth will be brought up out of haities judge according to their works out of the books at a sign degree of punishment in hell and then be cast into that lake of fire, the eternal hell.

So there’s nobody in hell yet. And so those who talk about experiences are going to hell are crazy because the Bible teaches there’s nobody there and nobody’s going to go there because it was a creative or Satan and his angels and they get to be first. The other comment I have is I went to a series of lectures that the Seventh-day Adventist Church had just to see what they one of the things that really floored me was and they didn’t take any questions keepers.

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