Bibleline Radio Show – 2007-01-18

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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 today. Thanks for tuning into the broadcast. We look forward to being with you each and every day, Monday through Friday and thank you for tuning in today.

The Bible and 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 we look forward to being with you every day Monday through Friday. You’re always welcome to come by and visit with us. We’d love to have you do that. Sunday would be a great Sunday to come by because we have that wonderful dinner lunch right after the morning service. Come at 1030, be my guest, stay for the worship service and then stay for a wonderful dinner, some of the best home cooked food in all the world.

And a great time of fellowship. I get a chance to meet you and talk with you. I think it’ll be great. I’d love to have you come by. This is the best Sunday to come when we have the dinner so that you can have some time to actually sit down and relax and get to meet one another and be a part of it. So come on by it. During the week, our Resource Center has opened every day till about 4.30 and that’s Eastern time and we’ve been welcoming you to come by and take a look at our Resource Center and get a chance for us to meet you and you to meet us and we would love to have you do that.

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to have you come by. We’re going to turn to our Bibles for a few minutes and then we’ll go ahead and take the callers today. We have a lot of all fair questions and people are beginning to call in and we’d like to hear from you. You’re welcome to call us at 1-800-576-3771. It’s 1-800-576-3771. We’re going to turn to the book of Daniel, Daniel chapter 9, what an exciting chapter this one is. It actually gives the very date that Christ would come and die on the cross of Calvary hundreds and hundreds of years in advance of its happening.

It is a vision that God gave the Daniel in chapter 9 where he’s told that there would be 490 years or 17 weeks of year, 70 times 7, that would really fulfill all of prophecy. That this included of course the two comings of Christ and it splits after the 69th week of years or 483 years into the prophecy, Christ would die. He is the death of Christ that is a significant event. When you believe on Christ death that he died for your sins, and by his death and shed blood paid for your sins, on the cross was buried and rose again from the dead God saves you.

And here in Daniel it gives a start date. The Temple in Jerusalem, built by Solomon, was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar. And now God is telling Daniel that that temple will be rebuilt along with the city of Jerusalem. And when the commandment is given to allow that to be rebuilt, start counting, God tells Daniel. In Daniel chapter 9 in verse 25, he says, no therefore to understand it from the going fourth of the commandment to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Messiah will be.

And it says here, seven weeks and three is born two weeks at 69 weeks of years or 483 years. And you know my friend, it turned out to the very day. Jesus Christ came and died exactly 483 years after that commandment was given. There are numerous books you can read about all the calculations and if you have the old Scofield Reference Bible it gives you a synopsis of the calculations. There’s one book I like called The Coming Prince written by Sir Robert Anderson who was a former head of Scotland Yard in England and this was written a long time ago and he He used the royal astronomers of England to determine the start date of that commandment to restore and rebuild Jerusalem and counted until Jesus came and died and it turns out to be to the very day.

Isn’t that amazing? I mean that alone would cause me as a skeptic to believe the Bible. If the Bible could predict accurately to the day exactly when Christ would come and die Starting with a commandment given by a secular unbelieving king to allow for that Rebuilding of Jerusalem in restoration of Jerusalem to happen that would be incredible Then it tells us after these 69 weeks of years Selamisiah verse 26 be cut off speaking of him dying He is being cut off out of the land of the living as Isaiah says and then the next phrase says but not for himself You see, Christ didn’t die for himself.

He died to pay for the sins of the world. He died for your sins. He died for my sins. He paid for them completely by his death. And so this amazing prophecy tells us that after 483 years, 69 weeks of years, 69 times seven is 483 years and then Christ will be cut off, but not for himself. And then it tells us, guess what? That the city of Jerusalem would be destroyed again the second time. And the temple that had been rebuilt would be destroyed again.

That happened in AD 70. Now I love this because you know, it shows that Jesus has already been here. Many Jewish people say he hasn’t come yet the first time and they’re still looking for the first coming of the Messiah. And here Daniel tells us that the Messiah would come, he’d be killed, he’d be cut off, and then, and then, the city of Jerusalem would be destroyed. Now every Jewish person knows that their temple doesn’t exist today. It was destroyed in 8070 by the Romans when General Titus led his legions against Jerusalem and against Israel.

the city of Jerusalem and the temple was destroyed and that was predicted back here in Daniel’s prophecy. Now the Messiah had to be here before that. So I love in witnessing the Jewish people, asked them who could have possibly been the Messiah that was here before AD 70 because Daniel your prophet, one of the Jewish These prophets said the Messiah would come and be killed, and then the city of Jerusalem and the temple destroyed that happened in 80-70. Can you give me a guess?

Who do you think might possibly have been your Messiah? He’s already been here. According to Daniel’s prophecy, he would be here before the destruction of Jerusalem. I give a little drum roll, and I give him a few seconds like all those PB quiz shows. And you know it’s interesting. There are a lot of choices. There’s really one choice. And the answer is Jesus. He came. He was cut off. He died to pay for sins. And then the city of Jerusalem and the temple was destroyed a second time.

Nebuchadnezzar had destroyed it. Then God said, count when the commandments given to allow it to be rebuilt again. It was then rebuilt. In the Bible, he said after the 483 year period from the giving of the commandment to restore that city of Jerusalem in the temple that the Messiah would die and be cut off but not for himself. And then the city of Jerusalem and the temple would be destroyed again. That happened in 8070. The Messiah has already been here the first time.

Wow, what a powerful, powerful, powerful witness to Jewish people who still think that Christ has yet to come. He is coming again, he’s coming a second time, but here Daniel’s prophecy not only tells us 483 years plus in advance because the prophecy was given before that commandment was given. So about 500 years minimum before Christ ever came the first time, a prophecy was given that tells us the exact time when Christ would come and die on the cross of Calvary.

That gives me chill bumps on my arm. That gives me all I need to say this Bible has to be the word of God This Bible has to be written by God Only God can tell the future and here he accurately foretells it and then amazingly The destruction of Jerusalem and the temple is foretold and we know that the Romans are the ones who did that And guess what? We have a tip off here as to the Antichrist identity.

It says, in the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the temple. And we know that that people was the Romans that came under General Titus. In fact, I’ve been to Rome numerous times and you’ll see there the the Arch of Titus, this huge arch with all kinds of reliefs on the arch that depict the victories of General Titus over the Jews in Israel. So it’s a well established fact and the amazing prophecy this is.

But we believe that the Antichrist will come from the people that were a part of the ancient Roman Empire. Now I personally believe the Antichrist comes out of the United States and we are Roman. That’s right. Right now we are obviously a country that has pretty much been birthed by Europe or by what was ancient Rome and we are an 11th country in the mix that the Bible gives. 11 countries total under the control of the Antichrist who will come I believe out of the the United States of America.

My friend, have you trusted Christ as your Savior if you haven’t? The Bible has overwhelming evidence that this is God’s Word. There’s no book like this. No book like this. No book that can tell the future like the Bible does and amazingly quite specific and right on target. Can you imagine? Very specific here is exactly when Christ would come and die, when he would be cut off, not when he’d be born, and it’s Back to the day according to Sir Robert Anderson and the calculations by whoever you read.

It all comes out nice and neat. This is an incredible book. I believe it. I’m Dr. Engman from Mrs. Bibleline. I pray that you have trusted Jesus as your Savior and if you haven’t, you need to do that. So please, please, please, please, please, please. I hope you’ll trust the Lord as your Savior. Alrighty, we have a number of all-fare questions. We’ll try to catch those as quickly as we can. We have a live caller down in Eden, down in Eden.

In Port Charlotte, Florida, Eden is on the line and we’ll catch him right now because he’s on his cell phone. Eden, welcome to Bibleline your own ear. Yes, good morning. I was reading the Bible between angel of Moses body and the second one is what would What would be the last sign appear before price come in the third one? On the third revelation, 22nd. That one’s reading and adding the understanding. All right. Well, the first question is about Jude verse nine where the Lord Michael the Archangel had a dispute with Satan over the body of Moses and he said the Lord rebuke me.

Satan is calling foul because although Moses died, he is going to come back in that same physical body that he had once before and he will preach during the first three and a half years after the rapture and so Moses is coming back and we find that Satan doesn’t think that’s fair. So there was a dispute over his body. Although Moses died, there is no burial place and we don’t know where his body is, but the Bible apparently teaches or implies that it’s been preserved for him to come back during the tribulation period.

Elijah’s coming back too, but he never died. He was caught up in the fiery chariot by the Elijah’s coming back. If you read the last two verses of the Old Testament in Malachi, it tells us Behold, I will send you Elijah before the Great and Dreadful Day of the Lord. Elijah will come back before the last three and a half years of the Tribulation period called the Great and Dreadful Day of the Lord, and he will preach alongside of Moses during the first three and a half years.

Isn’t that interesting? You know, and even the Jewish people, when they observe the Passover, they leave the door to their home partially cracked and they place an extra seat and place setting at the table. Should Elijah come, he would be welcome to join him at the Passover Seder. And so it’s interesting that the Jewish people still look for Elijah to come to precede Christ. And of course now we’re talking about the second coming when Christ will come back at the internet seven years in all of his power and all his glory to rule and reign over this earth as king and he will rule for a thousand years.

This is called the millennium, a thousand year earthly reign where Christ will rule on this earth bringing peace on earth good will toward men. So I hope that answers the first one and the second question was what Did Eden leave me? I think he did. Alright, he gave me three and I didn’t write him down. So we’ll have to have Eden call back to catch the other two. I thought he was going to stay on the line with me.

We now have Betty in Beverly Hills, Florida. Betty, welcome to Bible and you’re on the air. Yes, good morning, Brother Lindstrom. I have a couple of questions for you the following, well I’ll just tell you. Our last night we were in Bible study and there was revelations was being taught by the pastor. We were in revelations one and birth 13 is my question. One like the son of man of clothes with a garment down to the feet, excuse me, wrist forward team.

His hair was white like wool and white as snow and his eyes like a flame of fire. And I have always cross-referenced that with Daniel chapter 7 and verse 13. And that says, I was watching in the night visions and behold one like the son of man coming with clouds of heaven. And he came to the ancient of days and they brought him near before him. my objection or my confusion is that uh… the description of the son of man in revelation is one like the description of the father and uh…

daniel chapter seven because it says uh… the ancient of days was seated and uh… one like the son of man came to the ancient of days and i understood that to be the father well i think you’re right in the obviously christ when he comes back coming in all this power law is gory the white hair speaks of his wisdom and uh… he turned out he has affected his eternal say is he’s got it so i think the description fits both uh…

and obviously that would be uh… in line with what we know about the godhead that uh… god the father got the eternal son god the holy eternal’s only spirit all uh… the same god over the existence of three separate eternal persons so i think we just have to live with that i don’t know of a a better answer they both are described here alike yeah uh… my i guess my question to you is when it is being taught to the distinction be made from it in other words when we’re explaining daniel seven that the front of man is approaching this is the court scene of course in the future and he’s approaching the ancient of days which there seems to represent God the Father.

So, the distinction be made. Oh, absolutely. That definitely, we have the Godhead and you have to separate. It’s very clear wherever you go that God is a plurality and he obviously exists as three eternal separate persons. In Daniel 7, it’s really talking, I believe, about how the way will be prepared for Christ to come back and take over this earth. And so notice in verse 14 of Daniel 7 there was given unto him a kingdom. And that kingdom is the thousand year reign of Christ.

He I think it’s the I agree with you. I just think it was not being made in Daniel chapter 7 which I didn’t say anything or be disruptive but it did make me unsettled. Also I have another question that is really upsetting me and I know how you feel about women teaching. I don’t even know whom I’m going to be teaching. I’ve been half to teacher vandalism and they’ve given material, this is Southern Baptist, and I see that for salvation they’re saying you must trust Christ, repent of sins, meaning be sorry of your sins and change your ways, and then make him Lord of your life.

And I find this to be a works gospel. Well, absolutely right. And you just have to confront them and say that you can’t teach that, but you will teach evangelism from the Bible for sure. Yes, I’ve made lessons up over the last 30 years and they’re not of this nature and this is new to me but by God’s grace I thank you that you’ve been explaining the methanol. I have that big green for it. Yes, exactly. So do you think that I’m right in objecting?

Oh absolutely you can’t teach a false gospel or God is going to come down on you so you need to point that out and if you have it in access you can download all my articles on repentance and I will. And the one on contemporary terms which are not the gospel is very good because you don’t want to use terms which many are using which are really not the gospel at all. We are to put our trust in the finished work of Christ and His shed bud is the only means of our salvation and when you add anything else to that you’ve corrupted the gospel and that is under a curse and the person teaching it is also a curse the Bible says.

Yes, because you’re making, well, you’re leading people to a false understanding and they’re not really safe Pastor I Want to know how do we sign up for the Tuesday class should I call Donna? You should get told down that she can play exactly what to do Donna being my secretary I’ve met Donna. This is Betty from up north. No, you are but our audience doesn’t know who Donna is so I’m sorry. Okay. Let me explain to you that. All right.

Keep up the good work. All right. You’re welcome. All right. I knew our audience who Donna was. We now have Eden back and Eden. Welcome to Bibleline You’re on the air. Yes, Dr. I don’t know what goes down. So help me out. Question number two. The question number two was what would be the last sign appear before the coming of Christ? Alright, the answer is the return of the Jew back in the state of Israel, that’s already happened, so we’re ready for Christ to return.

The Revelation 22, I was reading and I couldn’t understand it. The whole chapter? Yes, if you can give just a little bit of a deep thought about it. Alright, I’ll share to you that. Revelation 22, the final chapter of the Bible, of course, we see Jesus as the Bible, and Jesus and we find that He gives the final invitation for salvation. He invites, you know, obviously God’s heart is for everyone to be saved and He gives an invitation there.

He says, and the Spirit and the bride say, come and let Him that is, that hear say come and let Him that is the thirst come and His whoever will let Him take up the water of life free. All you have to do is come to be saved. There’s no works. We simply receive the finished work of Christ and become saved. Verse 18 and 19 are a warning that we’re not to change that message by adding to it or taking away from it, that it’s Christ alone plus or minus nothing.

And if you take away from it, you won’t be saved because you’re altering God’s plan of salvation. And then of course John says that Christ said he would surely come quickly and John responds and said come on, even so come, Lord Jesus, and then he gives us the benediction to the book. So it’s basically a summary there of what’s going to happen. In chapter 22 at the beginning it gives you a little bit of description of life in the New Jerusalem where we’re going to live.

the tree of life, there’s the water of life, and only believers are there and will enjoy a wonderful eternity in fellowship with the Lord Himself. Thank you, Eden, and we hope that that helped. The Bibleline is the first time we’ve been able to get to the Bibleline. We’re coming to a close. We’ll try to get Harold here. Harold, welcome to Bibleline. We don’t have much time here before the break, but go ahead and give it your question. Good morning, sir.

It’s always a pleasure. I was talking to a seven-day event and one of the phrases they use that you know the truth and you refuse to obey it. And the truth that they are, I guess they’re saying, is to observe the Sabbath in order to be safe and I’m going to go out of wait and answer. Alright, thank you. Thank you. You know, the Seventh Edmonds just are hung up big time on the Saturday Sabbath. They say that the mark of the beast is the worship on Sunday, and that the mark of the true living God is the worship on Saturday.

I’ll pick up on the Sabbath question right after the break, and we’ll talk about that in the second half of Bibleline. So Harold, just keep listening, and we’ll cover that for you as soon as I get back from this break. Right where you are, don’t change that dial. We’ve got to go to break no doubt about it, but we will be right back. Don’t go away. Bibleline will be back in a moment. Give us a call at 1-800-576-3771. That’s 1-800-576-3771.

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We have a question remaining over from the previous half hour if you’re just tuning in. The question was from Harold and Camp and he asked about the Sabbath. Those who are seven day Adventists make this a big point and they obviously are attempting to be saved by works. If you have to observe the Sabbath to be saved, then that’s works. If you have to keep it at commandments to be saved, that’s works. And of course, they are works-oriented. And if that be the case, then I believe we all ought to pray for the Sabbath because it will not make heaven.

If you are trusting in any works to be saved, then you will not. Go to heaven. And those that got saved in the churches of Galatia, Paul writes to them and he asked them, why do they want to go back to being under the law that they had been set free from? He said, why do you want to go back and observe days and times and seasons which were all under the law and Christ, of course, paid for those things at the cross.

and he nailed them to his cross and took them out of the way. In the book of Colossians, and this is the great verse, because Christ totally paid for our sins and he took the law that was contrary to us and nailed it to his cross and took it out of the way. The Bible tells us that no man in Colossians 2 16, and this is a great verse, therefore let no man judge you in meat. That means the dietary laws of the Old Testament as to what you eat, which the seven-day Adventists pretty much are vegetarians and they try to follow the dietary laws, but also in drink or in respect of a holy day, and it says here, or of the new moon, or of the Sabbath.

And so it tells you here don’t want anybody to judge you concerning the Sabbath because Those were all a picture of future things that they represented prophetically and has nothing to do with our salvation. So don’t let anybody fool you. When they say that you have to believe the truth, there is truth concerning salvation, and Christ himself is the truth. He says in John 14, 6, I am the way. I am the truth. I am the life. And so when you believe the truth, you’re believing on Christ.

And when you believe on Christ, he is the way to heaven and nobody can come to the Father but by him. So if you’re trying to get to heaven through the Sabbath, you won’t make it. If you’re trying to get to heaven through the commandments, you won’t make it. The Christ says, I am the way. I am the truth. And he says, by me, if any man enter in, he shall be saved. So when you trust Christ, who is the truth, you’ll be saved.

So you need to believe on the truth or believe on Christ, and John 14, 6 would be a great verse. Harold, it’s tough. You just have to keep chipping away. The seven-dad Venice are obviously condemning themselves when the Bible says, cursed is everyone that is attempting to be saved by the law. Galatians 3, 10. You cannot be saved. The Bible says no flesh will be justified in God’s sight by the law, but we are justified by faith in Jesus Christ.

We have Jack up in Richmond, Virginia and Jack, welcome to Bibleline you are on the air. Okay, Dr. Ashford, Mr. and Mrs. Jack for Richmond. My question is I will hang up after asking you. I know the rapture is coming soon and anytime now I would like to know what else needs to be completed before Jesus comes back. If what will happen before Jesus comes back? Yeah well I mean he’s not back yet so I figured he’s not ready yet but I’m sure there’s gotta be something else that needs to be done before he comes back.

Well I don’t know what it is because you know Jesus Christ is going to come and snatch out the believers and we see everything in place. There are signs for the Rapture which I always taught that there weren’t but certainly tells us about the conditions in the world in 2 Timothy chapter 3 that this would be the way the world would be seen as we see Christ coming back and it says in 2 Timothy 3 1 that there would be perilous times and boy So we’re living today in perilous times, we can see it on the horizon.

And then also we see the apostasy, the departure from the Word of God today, 2 Timothy chapter 4 verse 3 and 4 says they would not endure sound doctrine and we see all of that. And so at any moment Christ could come, maybe this will be the year, but there’s nothing left to be done. It’s just a matter of God’s timetable and and we know the fact that we’re close But we don’t know a date and we’re obviously not to set a date.

So Sure do thank you for calling and I hope that answered your question Thank you. All right Jack Jack in Richmond, Virginia. We now have Keith in Richmond, Virginia and Keith welcome to Bibleline you’re on the air Yes, Dr. Lindstrom. Yes. Well, you know, Joel Osteen, if you saw the Larry King live interview, he said, I don’t know how many times on that show. I don’t know. I don’t know. Some of the questions that Larry King asked were very powerful.

And he said, you know, if a person dies without Christ would be good to hell. And Joel Osteen says, I don’t know. Well, that is so basic and so fundamental. The Bible says definitely. person dies without Christ, they will go to hell. Peter says in Acts 4, 12, neither is their salvation in any other, for there’s none other name under heaven given to a man whereby we must be saved. Joel Osteen apparently is pretty much just a motivational speaker, and apparently he doesn’t rely on the Bible and use the Bible much, and he claims that obviously he doesn’t even try to do that.

He doesn’t know what the Bible has to say by his own admission. I liked Dave newsletter I received from Dave Hunt who after that program was over, listed in the Bible all these times that Joel Osteen said I don’t know another King live and then he listed a whole list of verses in the Bible where it says you can know, you can know, you can know, whereas Joel says you can’t know and so the Bible says you can know.

You can know repudial life, you can know the people without Christ are going to help. very, very clear. Joyce Meyer is obviously doing things and preaching things that are not biblical anymore. The whole healing and tongues thing is dead and her gospel is flawed and so I would be very careful about watching that. And Hank Hinnigraft is a lot of good stuff I like, but he is one who believes that Christ The crisis already returned in AD 70 and he argues that all the time it seems like it’s a passion here lately.

I’ve got his book The Last Disciple which is an argument for an early authorship of the book Revelation. So, they can say that the Second Coming was actually fulfilled in 8070. The Christ came back in all this power and glory, but nobody saw it. So, obviously, that just messes up the whole prophetic program. If you believe Christ has already been, that really leaves you in kind of a quagmire. But basically, if you took the Bible literally, you can’t come up with those conclusions.

So thank you very much, Keith, and that was Keith up in Richmond, Virginia. We’re now going to Bob in Bradenton, Florida. Bob, welcome to Bob on you on there. Hi, Bob. Yes, I need to think to find out the two angels that are coming back was Elijah and Moses. Well there are two witnesses. as it does as they angels. They are not angels coming back. Two human beings are coming back. Two Old Testament prophets and I believe they are Moses and Elijah.

Talk about Moses. Well, we are back. Revelation chapter 11 talks about these two witnesses who will witness once the temple has been rebuilt in Jerusalem which will happen right after the Rapture and it says the witness for three and a half years, forty-two months and they will the Old Testament prophets and it says that one will be able to have the power to pray and shut up the heavens so it will not rain, Elijah is the one who did that in the Old Testament and the other one will have power to turn the water to blood and smite the earth with plagues, that was Moses.

So I think it’s pretty clear that the two prophets are identified there as being Moses in Elijah. Okay, so Revelation 11. Yep. Okay, thanks sir. You’re sure, welcome. That was Bob down in Bradenton, Florida. And now we have Tony in Richmond, Virginia. And Tony, welcome to the Bible and you’re on the air. Good morning, Dr. Hank. How are you today? Good. I wanted to share a testimony with you. I’ve been listening to your program for about a year now.

And I’m so grateful for a Bibleline that I did not understand what salvation was in The first couple of programs I heard you talking on, I was so taken a gas by it and went, wow, we’re not saved by our work that couldn’t be. That’s so what I wasn’t taught. And when you, through the Word of God, open my eyes, wow, what a powerful thing. And I just want to thank you for that. Wow. We’ll follow you for sharing it.

God bless you. And I like the way that you do it. I hear so many callers that and you’re just consistently doing what the Bible says you’re giving them the word You are literally giving them the word in the scriptures and what the Spirit of God has said about these things. And you just keep your consistent with it and it’s so great. I just have two questions. One is when Jesus in the book of Matthew or I think after He said, hey this is going to happen.

He said this is when it’s not going to happen first. He said when you see these things, that’s not happen. But when this gospel of the kingdom has been preached to all nations, there’s a witness coming of the Son of Man and be. And I also remember vaguely something about when Jesus said, he said, after my man will be, my question is, is the rapture and Jesus is second coming to separate events? And then since everybody’s asking about people, what do you think of them and you’re so true to the word?

I would like to know, the only other person that I’ve ever listened to that’s wrong with me, his name is Dr. Fred Casey Price. If you know anything about him, great. If you don’t, that’s great too. Rapture, second comment is a piece of a thing. All right. The Rapture is, of course, different than the second coming. At the Rapture, Christ comes by Himself. And shouts, and up we go and we meet Him in the air. The second coming, Christ comes in all of His power and all of His glory.

And the Bible says every eye on the earth will see Him as He lights up the heavens. the rapture. Nobody sees them except those that are caught up. At the rapture we’re given our resurrection bodies at the Second Coming. Jesus Christ comes back and takes over the earth away from Satan and becomes king over the earth and establishes a thousand year rule. I have on my website one of my sheets that I’ve written there are articles list about 20 the contrast between the rapture and the sick coming there and not the same event.

The sick coming occurs after the tribulation period as you said correctly, but the rapture happens before the tribulation period and initiates the seven years that will follow and then seven years later Christ comes back and all of his power and all of his glory to rule and reign forever and ever. You were asking about Frederick Price, he’s very entertaining, but we have a book by Hank Hennigraft, which we just mentioned a moment ago, called Christianity in Cryses, which identifies the doctrines of Frederick Price, and you’ll be surprised how really doctorately unsound he is.

you might want to get the book by Hank Hennigraff. He lists a lot of the so-called faith ministers who seem to be good at inventing doctrines rather than cleaning them from the Word of God. And I would recommend that book. We have it. I think it’s for about, I don’t know, $15 or so. But that’s Hank Hennigraff. It’s called Christianity and Crizzies. And you You can call a note of that. I think it will be helpful. So that’s hopefully the questions that you’ve asked and thank you for calling in.

We now have Terry from North Carolina, but he happens to be in the Tampa Bay area today. So Terry, welcome to by my own ear. Thank you, Dr. Listen. My question was about a follow-up and I believe it was Harold that had asked and I just happened to hear it in the Santa area. And it had to do with work. If the fourth commandment, then all of the rest would be worked. Would that be correct? That’s right. Then you’re saying that we shouldn’t follow any of the commandment?

No, it doesn’t say that. It says you’re not saved by them. If you’re attempting to be saved by keeping commandments, then you’re not going to make heaven. You have to be saved by trusting Christ. But no, we’re not to violate as far as murdering somebody or committing adultery with someone. All those things are forbidden. But yet, we’re not saved by the commandments. In fact, Christ says now the commandments have been taken out of the way and we’re not under the law, but we’re under grace.

And basically, now we are under what is called the law of love or the law of liberty, where we do it from the heart. In other words, if you love the Lord and you love your neighbor as yourself, which Christ would be the highest commandment. Then you’re not going to steal from your neighbor if you love him as yourself and you’re not going to murder your neighbor if you love him and you’re not going to lie to him and so on and so on.

So basically the law is kept from a different perspective. We keep it because we love the Lord and we because we are to love our neighbor, but we don’t do it because we’re obligated now, so not so not so mad. It’s a different perspective, but we’re not to violate them and we’re not to be law breakers, but we’re not in the law. of the law at all. So the law is not what governs our life. We’re now governed by the law of love.

Let me ask you this, Ben, on a follow-up. Christ said that you did not come to change the law but to fulfill it. Right. Now that’s talking about the scriptures. The scriptures are called the law of the Lord. And so he’s talking about… And what he did… And what as well? Well, he kept the law in that way that he never broke… he never sinned. But he’s really referring there in Matthew 5 17 that you are referring to the Word of God that he came in fulfillment of that.

And in the book of Matthew in particular it talks about scriptures that it quotes and how he fulfilled them. So he came to fulfill the law and it said for example that of herds and we can see the marathon and it says that the scripture might be fulfilled which said and it quotes the Old Testament scriptures which are called the law of the Lord. And then it says that he went down into Egypt and it quotes the scripture where it says, out of Egypt, I called my son and it was a prophecy about Christ.

Then it talked about the killing of all the babies by Herod and how it quotes from Jeremiah saying there would be this terrible cry of lamentation that would occur because of the killing of the innocent children there in all the areas around Bethlehem and so on. And it goes on and on and talks about how they came back in settled in Nazareth and how that that was a prophecy fulfilled. So Christ fulfilled the Old Testament, but of course He also kept, He’s the only one who ever kept the law.

No one else has. Christ said, you know, in John 17 verse 19, He said, did not Moses give you the law and yet none of you have kept it. No one has been able to live up to the standard of the law, but when we trust Christ, His His very righteousness is imputed to our account, and so God sees the believer as righteous. Then I guess I will keep or keep the seventh day based on love. Thank you very much.

You want to, sure, but keeping the seventh day doesn’t get you to heaven. But the Bible says it doesn’t matter if you want to worship on another day, but to insist as the Seventh Adventist do, that if you worship on Sunday that you have the mark of the beast, it’s the mark of the Antichrist, and that’s totally wrong. And Claus in the two sixties is let them in judge you in respect of the Sabbath. Well very good we have Ron now in Seminole Florida, and Ron welcome to Bibleline your own year.

question and answer please to Matthew 11 11 I can’t understand it up ready to view time just every time I come across it I can’t understand it it’s short says about Elijah John the Baptist yes and basically what it’s saying is if they had received the kingdom if they’d received Christ at that point then he would have been the fulfillment of the prophecy about the coming of Elijah and he would have been Elijah but they rejected him and Elijah is still yet future to come.

So it says basically in verse 14, if you receive it, that is the kingdom, then this is Elias, which was for to come. But he had spiritual ears to hear, let him hear. But they rejected him, and of course Elijah still got in his $4 to do that. And John the Baptist was the equivalent of Elijah, and he prepared the way but was rejected, and he was killed. And then Christ was rejected and he was killed. And so the future promise of the Elijah coming and preparing the way in Christ being received and becoming king is still ahead of us.

So you need to read verse 14 very carefully. If you will receive it, then he is Elijah, but they didn’t receive it. And so he’s not Elijah. And you asked John the Baptist in John chapter 1, are you Elijah? And he said, no. He says, I’m not. So he says it plainly in several places when they asked the question, are you Elijah? He said, no, I’m not Elijah. I’m John the Baptist. I’m the one that Isaiah spoke about in Isaiah chapter 40, the one crying in the wilderness and came to prepare the way of the Lord.

But he would have been the fulfillment of the prophecy about Elijah had they received the kingdom. But that’s just a hypothetical point because obviously God is a four-knowledge journey. Wouldn’t. And this was a bona fide offer by God of that kingdom. he knew it was $4 that they were rejecting and so John the Baptist really played the role. But would have been if they had accepted the kingdom he would have been Elijah the fulfillment of it. Okay, you have to think about it Ron and it’s a good question and thank you for calling in today.

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