Bibleline Radio Show – 2007-02-05 – Seeing By Faith

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Welcome to Bibleline with Dr. Hank Lindstrom. Coming to you from Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida declaring God, GodDue 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 every day Monday through Friday as we come to you live from Tampa, Florida From our studios right here at the Calvary Community Church where I’m the pastor We’d look forward to meeting you sometime if you can come by and be with us We would love to see you and we hope that you will do that sometime You can come by during the week and visit our resource center or you can come by

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I have a new track that I have produced that I’ve written called Am I Going to Heaven? It has 20 questions on here that deal with the current terms that are being used today, and it’s really one that is very effective, I think, in leading people to Christ. I shared this track with a young lady last week, and as she read over, I said all 20 of those that are offered their fee to check as to what you think you might have to do heaven are wrong.

Is it wrong to follow Jesus? That was one of the choices. I said no, it’s not wrong to follow Jesus, but you don’t get to heaven by following Jesus, you get to heaven by trusting Jesus. Anyway, we have an answer why each of these terms are wrong, including let Jesus into your heart or commit your life to Jesus Christ or get your life turned around or surrender your life or make Christ the Lord of your life. All of those terms are used in this tract.

It’s a wonderful tract to really bring clarification to somebody who’s already saved and also, of course, bring the gospel to somebody who is lost. We offer these in our resource center. You can get them and use them in your evangelism. We also have several other tracts. It’s really terrific. We also have a track here called New Eye Opener and this one will send out a one free copy to you if you’d like for you to look at and if you call it you can get it.

But it takes 24 Bible versions of the current ones and it shows you of By the way, it lists 200 of the most significant emissions from many of the newer translations, and it tells you which one of your favorite new translations, how many emissions they have. For example, the new international of the 200 that they list, it has 195 of those emissions in the new international. No surprise. That’s probably one of the worst bibles out there, the NIV. But you’re welcome to call and get one of these tracks.

We’ll send it out, call the new eye opener. And it’s all about versions. And it gives you a list of 200 very significant omissions from most of the more modern translations. Good to be with you. We have a lot of offer questions going here. We also have people calling in and wanting to get up on the air, and we’d love to have you up on the air today. Welcome to all of you that are listening from all over the country.

And thanks for tuning into Bibleline today. If you have your Bible, get it out and we’ll take a look at the scriptures for a few minutes. And then of course we’ll answer the questions that you call in with and take colors up on the air. In Romans 4 in verse 1 it says, What shall we say then that Abraham, our Father, has pertaining to the flesh hath found? This is an amazing passage because here you have one of the great heroes of the Bible.

One of those that is revered perhaps above almost all of the heroes of the Bible. And what did it say in the Bible concerning what Abraham found concerning his works? Well it says in verse 2, If Abraham were justified by works, he would have wear of the glory, but not before God. In other words, Abraham by his works would have glory before men, but not before God. Amazing! Numbers are works, won’t get us anywhere with God as far as our salvation is concerned.

And I love that phrase in Romans 4, 2, where it says, but not before God, but not before God, but not before God. Abraham’s works would get him glory before men, but not before God, but not before God. Verse 3 says, what’s saved the Scripture? That’s always the final authority. We should always be saying, chapter and verse please, can you support that with scripture? Because most people cannot. They just cannot support it. And doctrines like, for example, purgatory, can’t be supported by the Bible.

It’s just a man invented doctrine. Limbo can’t be supported by scripture. It’s just not in anybody’s Bible. And you can’t find any scriptural support for that. Infant baptism, not in anybody’s Bible. It’s just not there. There are so many things that are taught by many today that are just not in the Bible, just not there. Well what does the scripture say? Well here in Romans chapter 4 it quotes from Genesis 15, 6 and it says Abraham believed God and it was Canada to him for righteousness.

So Abraham simply believed what God told him. He doesn’t say he believed in God, which he did. He says he believed God, which meant he believed what God told him. And if you read Genesis 15, God had told him about the Savior, Jesus, the coming seed that would bring about salvation for all men. And Abraham believed that promise about Jesus. And the Bible says it was Canada and him for righteousness. So Abraham was made righteous based upon his belief or trust in Christ that God had spoken to him about in Genesis 15.

And Genesis 15 is a very, very important verse. It’s quoted three times in the New Testament. It’s quoted here by Paul in Romans 4, where in verse 3 he quotes it, proving again that Abraham was saved by faith without works. He also quotes it again in Galatians chapter 3, where he again demonstrates that Abraham was saved by faith and not by works, and certainly not by the works of the law. And then of all places which you would never expect it to be quoted, it’s quoted in James 2.

And it shows there that James also recognized that Abraham was saved and made righteous by faith without works. He quotes and says the scripture was fulfilled which says that Abraham believed God and it was kind to him for righteousness. James focuses on an event that took place 40 years later. When Abraham was saved, he didn’t even have a son. Abraham was justified by works before men. When, and that’s the key word if you read over there in James 2 22, it says, when, when, when, when, when, when he offered up his son Isaac.

When he offered up Isaac, people knew that Abraham really believed God because he dearly loved Isaac. He’d waited a lifetime for him and got his child in a miraculous way because he and Sarah both were beyond childbearing. And here God answers his promise to Abraham by giving him that son Isaac, which he dearly loved, and he was willing to offer him up because God had asked him to. And it showed or demonstrated before men that he believed God all along.

And James points out that Abraham was saved and made righteous by faith without works. Forty years earlier in his life, read James more carefully and you’ll see it’s not talking about people getting saved, is talking about believers earning rewards and being justified before men, which that’s before men for works and rewards that will come as a result of our living the Christian life. Then it says here in Romans chapter 4 and verse 4, now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace but of debt.

What it’s saying here in Romans 4, 4, as long as you try to work your way to heaven, you won’t make heaven. That’s right. If you are working to go to heaven, then you’ll receive no grace. If you receive no grace, you’ll go to hell. Grace means mercy, unmerited favor. And in order to be able to enter heaven, you have to be saved by God’s grace or by God’s mercy. If you’ve got what you deserved, if I got what I deserved, we’d all go to hell.

Some people think they deserved to go to heaven. There’s nobody that deserves to go to heaven. Every one of us deserved to go to hell. We’re all condemned. We’re all sinners. And so we need God’s mercy. His grace in order to be saved. It reminds me of that story where the lady went to the photographer and she got her picture taken and she got the proofs back in the mail and she saw them and she was irate. She storms back down to the photographer’s studio and slams them on the desk and hollers at the poor photographer and says, these pictures don’t do me justice.

And she was just absolutely livid and she was angry. And the photographer said, lady, you don’t need justice. You need mercy. Well, that’s the case for all of us because we all need mercy. If we got justice, we’d go to hell. And certainly that is something that you need to really think about because if you say, I want justice, you’re going to be in trouble because justice would demand your death and separation from God. But God’s mercy provided a Savior in Jesus Christ and all those that would put their trust in Him would be eternally saved.

So let’s go on to verse 5 now in Romans 4, 5, one of my favorite verses, it says, but to Him that worketh not, but to Him that worketh not, but to Him that worketh not. What does that mean to the person who does not work, who doesn’t do anything? But believeth on Him that is on Christ that justify at the end Godly, who are the end Godly? We are. Who is the one that justifies the end Godly? It’s Jesus.

How did he do that by his death on the cross of Calvary in our place? And the Bible says here to the one who does not work at all, but would believe on Christ who justifies the ungodly, that person’s faith in Christ is counted for righteousness. So if you’re a believer, if you place your faith in Christ, the one who justifies the ungodly, God counts your faith in Christ for righteousness, just like with Abraham. That’s what Paul is saying here in Romans 4, Abraham believed God and it was Canada and for righteousness.

Abraham believed the coming promise of the Savior Jesus and when he believed on Christ Abraham was saved. And then how wonderful it is here in Romans 4, 6, it tells us about David, the prophet, David the King, David the shepherd that killed Goliath with his slingshot. It says in verse 6 here, even as David also described with the blessedness, the happiness of the man under whom God imputed righteousness. It says without works, without works, without works, without works. Boy, a lot of people out there want to work their way to heaven and I’m afraid they’re not going to make it.

They’re not going to make it. There are whole denominations that are facing their hopes on works to get them into heaven. I was raised in a church like that part of a denomination that they all were basing their hopes for heaven on their works. I was always led to believe I was gaining new heights every day as I was on my upward way. I was always led to believe there was a scale one day that would be pulled out and my works would be weighed in the balances of that great scale.

And if I had more good works and bad works I’d get into heaven. If I had more bad works and good works I’d go to hell. I was frightened. I really was very concerned that I wasn’t going to make it. And you know, when I saw in the Bible that salvation was a gift, that it was paid for by Christ, that it was offered free to whosoever would believe or trust Christ. That was great news for me. I said, wow, this means I could go to heaven.

And I trusted Christ as my savior and received the gift of everlasting life. Thank you for listening. I’m Dr. Englinschner and this is my blind. We’re going to go right down to the phone lines in just a moment. The phone number is 1-800-576-3771. We want you to give us a call 1-800-576-3771. Give us a call right now and we’ll get you up on the air and answer your question. Let me first take Tony in Plant City. He leaves an offer a question he just called a moment He said, can you explain what the Seventh day Adventist believe?

What is their religion based on? From the Seventh day Adventist believe that you have to worship on Saturday. And they say that worshiping on Saturday is the mark of the living God. They teach that worshiping on Sunday is the mark of the beast. So basically anybody who worships on Sunday is lost according to the Seven Adventists. You must worship on Saturday. That’s not true. They are totally wrong. And obviously they believe many other things that are wrong. They believe there is no hell.

They believe in soul sleep. They believe in works for salvation. You have to keep the commandments to be saved and on and on and on we go. And it’s all because they read the Bible through the lenses of LNGY. LNGY didn’t get it right. And as long as they read her books in order to interpret the Bible, she is the infallible interpreter for the seven dead minutes. They’ll never come clean until they do that. But they don’t realize that the Bible teaches that we’re not saved by works.

saved by faith in Christ alone. Colossians 2 16 says that Christ took the law and nailed it to his cross and took it out of the way. It says, therefore let no man, therefore judge you in respect of the holy days or of a new moon or of the Sabbath. The Sabbath is not to be an issue because it was part of the Old Testament law that Christ died for. The seven And Adventists need to repute their false teachings and simply trust Christ if they’re to enter heaven.

And we need to pray for them. So very dear people are seven Adventists, but they have been blinded by LNG white. That’s a cult and a false system of belief. We now have Adam in Tampa, Florida, and Adam, welcome to Bibleline you’re on the air. The question is, can you explain to everybody about the coming of the Messiah in the Old Testament? Where exactly does it give a description of the coming of the Messiah? the first and second time.

Alright sure. The first coming of Jesus is described almost everywhere. Micah 5.2 tells us the city in which the Messiah would be taking on human flesh. It says, Thou Bethlehem Ephrata, though Thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of these shall come forth unto me the one that is to be ruler in Israel, whose whose going forth have been from a bold, even from everlasting. Talking about this one who is God, from everlasting, who would actually come and take on human flesh in the city of Bethlehem.

That was literally fulfilled. What is interesting to me is that there are two Bethlehem’s in Israel, and God names the very Bethlehem that Christ would be born in. I have been to Bethlehem many, many, many times, and I’ve been out there and walked in the the Shepherd’s Fields where the Shepherd’s probably We’re standing somewhere nearby when the angel made the announcement that unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior which is Christ the Lord.

Isaiah 714 tells us that Christ would be born of a virgin. Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign. Behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a son and shall… and shall call his name Emmanuel. Isaiah 9 and 6 tell us a child would be born that would be God. His name would be called Wonderful, Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. What a wonderful and grand verse that is. Psalms 22 tells us in verse 16, a thousand years before it ever takes place, that the Messiah’s hands and his feet would be pierced as he would die to pay for your sin and mine.

Psalm 22 18, a thousand years before it ever takes place, tells about how they would gamble at the foot of the cross for his cloak. Today of 53 is a whole chapter that talks about Christ coming into this world, the virgin birth, his substitutionary death. I love verse 5 and 6. He was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace was upon Him and with His stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray.

We’ve turned everyone to His own His own way and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. These are grand and wonderful verses and it goes on down to tell how he would be silent before his accusers, how that he would be crucified with transgressors or two thieves, how that he would forgive those that had transgressed against him. and we just gave you a few. If you want to get a good listing, there are a number of wonderful books out.

We have a book here called Evidence that Demands Averdict. It’s the latest edition, and that one has a lot of great evidence, and some of that is prophecy. And there’s a pretty good long list in there of the prophecies of the first coming of the Messiah. of the first coming of the Messiah. Thank you, Adam, for that call, and I hope that helps with those people you’re witnessing too. Bob in Chester, Virginia, welcome to Bible and you’re on the air.

Yes. I’ve got a question that somebody has presented me with and I’d like to show it your answer would be to it. Go for it. Okay, it’s in Exodus 6 verses 2 and 3 where God also spoke to Moses and he told Moses, okay, I am the Lord. I appeared to your Father’s Abraham Isaac Jacob and God Almighty, but by his name Yahweh or the Lord he didn’t make himself known to them. And yet in Genesis 15, 7 and 8 it says that he did make himself known.

identify himself as Yahweh to Abraham and then Genesis 28, 10 through 17 that shows that he made himself known as Yahweh to Jacob. And yet in Exodus it says no I haven’t made myself known to them by that name. Well obviously Israel didn’t begin as a nation until you know until Abraham and then of course they when they went on to Egypt, they had pretty much, I think, not heard that name, so he readresses it. I think he, right from the get-go, was known as Yahweh or Jehovah.

Let me just, I’ll have to take a look at it again. I know I’ve been over that before and I’ll try to come up with a better answer for you, but I think Scofield also has a good note on that back in that passage. Because my concern is if he tells Moses that he didn’t lose God didn’t lose his memory So why would he tell Moses that if in fact the Bible said earlier that God did introduce himself to both Abraham and Jacob as that name and then tells Moses later hundreds of years later Oh, I didn’t mention my name to anybody.

I don’t think it’s saying that but he says that he wasn’t known to them by that name I think they were just calling him by that name, but they do here. Let me just go back at that and readdress it maybe in the second half of the show. I’ll have an answer for you. Okay, thank you very much. All right, that was Bob and good question. And now we’re going to go to Walter in Safety Harbor. Walter, welcome to Bibleline.

Hello. Hi, Walter. Dr. Lindstrom, I want to ask you, when you die, I know he talks about, you know that, and the breath of life goes back to God. The body goes back to the death where it came from. So what happened to us? What do we mean in the grave until judgment day? Our bodies do, but our soul goes to be with the Lord at the moment of death. to have someone in the body present with the Lord, second Corinthians 5, 8, the body is spoken of his sleeping in the grave and tell the resurrection.

So when Christ comes back, that’s when you’ll get your new body that’ll rise up from the earth or if you’re living, you’ll be just transformed on your way up this body you’re in now will be transformed. So you say, I was so able to be with him. Right, immediately you’re conscious and everything else. You just don’t get your new body to tell the resurrection. The body of sleeps, not the soul. I’m really, you know, really, I’m coming. We’ve got to go to break and stay there.

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hello are you there yes so we’re asking about your home what is your question my question was uh… you know where you go and you were there for that for me or doing a break yeah okay i’m going to read from the james of possible commentary this is a lot you know the understanding sir alright can you hear me now not not no better alright you listen to the phone on the radio on the phone part of the i can’t pick up your station here in safe honor oh i’m so sorry well this is where my car to pick up the station you know i’ll always all right well i’m going to try to just give you the answer over the phone here but anyway in the jameson uh…

faucet brown uh… it gives here it says uh… but by my name it says rather interactively by my name jahova was i not known to them am i not the almighty god who pledge my honor for the fulfillment of the covenant, also the self-existent God who lived to accomplish it. Rest assured, therefore, that it is I that will bring it to pass and the passage as it caused a lot of discussion is alleged by many that the occurrence of the name Jehovah in the earlier portions of history was really added in later.

It has been thought to intimate that as the name Jehovah he was not known to the patriarchs and so on and so on. But this view certainly is opposed by many many other verses from other parts of the scripture. And what it’s saying here is that the use of the name Jehovah now by God himself in so special a manner must be considered with reverence to the national covenant into which he was about to enter into with Israel. So I think that is what he’s talking about here, that this is the first time that he’s known by that name to the nation as he enters into a covenant with him at Mount Sinai, the dispensation of law begins, and now this is the way that he would address himself to that nation from now on in a covenantal way.

I think the note is very good and I recommend the Jameson Foset Brown commentary. It usually has a great discussion on almost every verse of the Bible. And we have that for a special gift. Good morning Dr. Lindstrom. My question is about in the book of Ezekiel, they use Lord God two different ways. One is all in capitals and the other is just a capital, all in a capital G is all in capital. This is a distinction between God the Father and God the Son.

Absolutely. The word Lord in small letters, capital, little O, little R, little D, the translators of letting us know it comes from the Hebrew word, adenoi, which means Lord or Master. Lord in all capitals and God in all capitals comes from God’s personal name, the four consonants, YHWH, which is pronounced either Jehovah or Yahweh. And then the word God in small letters, capital G, little O, little D, comes from the word Elohim, which denotes the office of God. So you read it basically knowing that and it really helps.

The Schofield Bible really does help with all of the names of God and the different combinations of words and how they come together to give us a greater picture of who God is and His majesty. But that’s exactly what’s going on in Ezekiel. So if you had Lord God, it might be, you know, which one are you referring to? With all capital LORD? Yes. And then what is it? A little G? I mean a big G little O.D. one to all in capital send the other one is capital L small O R D and a capital G O D.

Okay well that would be auto noi yaw way so that is a picture of God the Father for sure. Okay well thank you very much. All right thank you for calling in and the Schilfjel Bible has especially in the book of Genesis a whole lot of notes on the names of God and the Hebrew words for which they come and how the translators let us know without any real knowledge of the language by the way they capitalized them or didn’t capitalize the names.

We have Barbara in the Bahamas and Barbara, welcome to Bibleline. Good morning. This is Sandra. Sandra, okay. Where are you calling from? I’m calling from Tampa. Okay. I am calling because I’ve been listening to this program ever so long. I even listen to the reruns. And I’m gone again and I trust and God a lot. He’s my only source of sustenance. At least I’ve been going through some really harsh experiences. And I’m wondering if it’s the enemy coming against me?

I know man has no authority over God and I know before anybody can hurt me they have to kill God first and I know that’s impossible. But I was listening in September when you said that they were right around the time and Christ would have been coming any moment and I was so prepared for that and I was ready to go right then. know how do we know when this occurrence will come again because you had predicted a date?

Well, I didn’t predict a date, but I do know that whatever year Christ comes, it’ll probably come on the Feast of Trumpets, which usually occurs in late September or October every year. It shifts with the Jewish calendar. They go by the lunar month, but the Feast of Trumpets is the feast day that pictures the return of Christ at the rapture. The first four feasts that preceded it were all pictures of the first coming events and they were all fulfilled literally on the day.

That’s why I believe that the rapture probably happened right on that feast day. Christ died on the feast of Passover exactly as Israel was offering up their Passover land. the Feast of Unleavened Bread pictured his burial and he was buried during that feast. Then he rose from the dead on the Feast of First Fruits Day, which was the picture of the resurrection. Then Pentecost came on the Feast of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit came on that day and that was right on the day.

I think that whatever your Christ returns, it’ll probably be in the fall. It really doesn’t matter when it comes to me. I would like to be prepared any day. It’s like just want to be prepared. Well, as far as salvation is concerned, you’re prepared when you trust Him as your Savior. You’re saved forever. And you will be in the Rapture. But as far as meeting Him, as far as evaluating our lives for reward, we need to live daily so that we find Him approving ofYang how we have conducted our lives every day.

I’m determined to call on it. I just need you to pray for them. All right. Well, we sure will, Sandra. Yes. Thank you very much. Thank you so much for calling in. All right. And we go through trials and troubles here, and that’s really a par for the course. The Bible tells us that believers will suffer persecution. I like 2 Timothy 3 where it says, all those that will live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution. You’re going to have to expect that.

And it’s part of what the Christian will go through. This philosophy that everything is going to be nice and perfect and will be healthy and wealthy and wise is not biblical. We can have God’s wisdom, and we have His protection, but He doesn’t promise that we’re not going to have any trials or tribulations. If you read the New Testament, is full of passages that talk about believers going through trials. And of course the book of Job is a great book to read to get, to get some perspective on’,” it’s a very wonderful book to read.

We’re now going to go to Benjamin in Clearwater. Benjamin, welcome to Bible Life. Good morning, Dr. Hank. talk about the paralyzed person and how Jesus healed this person. But then in just fine hand in the temple, and Jesus said to him, look, you was healed, don’t seem no more. I want to avoid something worse. Look like me. Look to me that the DDC came because the person is senior or practice is a senior. I would like to use plain to me if people think they can get sick because it’s practicing they are doing the same.

Thank you. Alright, and certainly illness can come as a result of sin and The Bible slowly teaches up, but there’s a lot of different reasons for illness. I have listed in my studies over the years about 10 or 12. I forget how many I came up with different reasons in John 9 you have a man that’s blind from birth and And the disciples began to say, who sinned his parents or did this man sin that he should be born blind?

And Christ said, neither. He was born blind for the glory of God that Christ might heal him and demonstrate that he is God, that Jesus is God. And so in this particular case, he’s warning him about the potential. And certainly we know that there are sins that can be contracted because of sexual activity that’s outside of the will of God. We’ve seen a tremendous number of people in the world become afflicted with AIDS and millions have died. Millions have died in just the country of Africa because of AIDS and it seems to be spreading around the world and it takes a long time to incubate.

So sometimes it’s many, many years later when death finally occurs. But all of these are potentially true. So we have a great book in our Resource Center here called None of These Diseases, which is written by a medical doctor and there have been, I don’t know how many million copies sold, but it really is a wake up. tells you that if we were only to follow the rules of the Bible that we would live much healthier lives and we as the title of the book comes right out of the book of Exodus, God promised Israel that if they would follow His rules that they would have none of the diseases come upon them that were afflicting the people in Egypt where they’d come out of.

It’s really quite an eye-opener about how you can live a longer, healthier life by simply following the promises. The Bible predates modern medical science by about 3000 years plus. That’s exciting. We have Ken in Decatur, Illinois. And Ken, welcome to the program from Decatur. Let’s comment on that end of question on the chapter 6 of Exodus where they’re talking about by the name of God Almighty that he was known to Jacob by the name of God Almighty. And then it goes on to say, but my name Jehovah was I not known.

Well, back in Genesis, you know, you can chase down these names of God and spend the rest of your life almost doing it. back in Genesis chapter 2 verse 4 it talks about in the earth when everything was created in that day the Lord God made the earth and heavens. Okay, well the Lord God is Jesus, Jehovah the God I am that spoke to Moses in the burning Bush. And then you go back to John chapter 8, 858. And then back here it says in here, Jesus said unto them, Verily, Verily, I say unto you before Abraham was, I am.

Well, it seems to me that, you know, if you go back and exit us when he was speaking to them, and he said by this name, I was not known. It was because of the relationship with that name to Jesus in the deliverer and the Savior in that respect he was not known by that name Jehovah in that aspect of that name. I mean that stuff gets so complicated and it just trouble me when I heard that because what I do when I run into stuff like that I just by faith understand that there’s so much here that I don’t know and I never question what that word says because you can get into that stuff and you can start saying aha here’s the mistake well every word that bible is true and if you did you find something you think not sure you better believe it’s true until you find out

until god himself speaks to you and say i made a mistake but that happened where the one is wrong well you’re absolutely right and i thank you for those comments i was very was very helpful. Okay, thank you for that. Actually, you know, and Schofield has a note here back in Genesis and you, and Ken is exactly right. You see the name Yahweh or Jehovah throughout even the second chapter of Genesis in verse after verse. But it says in the Schofield note there that the Jehovah or Yahweh is the distinctive name of deity as in covenant with Israel.

So when you get over to Exodus, that’s the way he was to be known in his covenant relationship with Israel. So that was a distinctive name and it wasn’t that it wasn’t revealed before. It just simply wasn’t the distinctive name by which he would be known or called. So I hope that helps clarify all of that. We got into a great discussion on that. We have Kareem in Tampa, Florida. Kareem, welcome revival and go on the air. Good morning.

How you doing? Good. Hey, I got a question. I’m not sure I’m a little confused on when Jesus comes back. Does he, you say he’s appear? Does he, when he comes back, does he rapture out then? And we see him then and then he He goes back and then he comes back and then he goes back and then he comes back and defeats Satan. Well here’s the order. The next event on God’s program is the Rapture when Christ will come back part way to the earth and shout and up we’re going to come to meet him in the air and he goes back to heaven with us and then seven years later at the end of the seven years of tribulation it will come here on the earth.

He will return all the way to the earth, physically touching down on the earth and ruling over the earth from Jerusalem. It says in Zechariah 14, 4, his feet will touch down on the Mount of Olives at the second coming seven years after the Rapture and the mountain will split in half. In Ezekiel 44, it tells us, chapter 43 and 44 of Ezekiel how that he would plant the souls of his feet right there in the temple that will be rebuilt after the rapture during the tribulation period and he will rule the earth from Jerusalem as the world’s capital and his feet will be right here on the earth as he will rule from that temple in Jerusalem.

And so then after the thousand year earthly your earthly reign. The76561 Christ will destroy this earth and create a new heavens and new earth and then will be into eternity with the Lord. But basically the raptureCrime is not the same events. They are separated by seven years. The rapture is the conclusion of this Gentile age that we are in right now where God has turned to the Gentiles. As soon as the rapt This promise is to Israel, and we believe because they’re in the land right now that we’re getting close to when Jesus will come back.

And it’s interesting to me that Israel is so teeny and yet they command so much of the news all the time. It’s a country that’s smaller than the state of Rhode Island. And yet the news you would think it was a huge… huge country and it’s just a teeny country and yet it commands so much news and that’s because it’s all part of God’s plan that Christ would come back and that the Jewish people would be hated of all nations but he will come back and he will deliver them and set them up as the head nation and Christ himself will rule over them from the throne there in Jerusalem.

So when he actually come one was seeing on earth at that time. Exactly. That will be the second coming seven years after the rapture. Every eye will see him. And people will still be lost after they see him? Well, the millennium, the thousand year reign begins with all believers because Christ will destroy everybody that’s not a believer at the end of the tribulation period. But they will have children and their children will grow up and marry and have children.

And apparently many of those will not believe. And it just tells us how wicked the human heart is. It says in Jeremiah 17, 9, the heart is desperately wicked. And obviously that’s our human nature that we have inherited from Adam. So in spite of the fact that Christ is here visibly seen and the knowledge of the Lord covers the earth, there will be people who will reject Wow, you cleared that up. I really appreciate it. Thank you, Kareem. That was Kareem in Tampa, Florida.

You’re welcome to call in if you like. The phone number is 1-800-576-3771. Please explain. Joanne in Tampa calls in and she wants to have us explain binding the spirits and so on and can a person bind the spirits. There’s a lot of people that have just gone overboard with that. board with that. They see demons everywhere, but it is possible for someone who is unsaved to become demon in dwelt. In that case, we have the power. I believe in the name of Christ to cast that demon out.

But that is only a very temporary measure. I’ve had some encounters over my years of experience. In dealing with people, I’ve felt that we’re truly demon in twelfth and they couldn’t hear the gospel because the demons would stop their ears and totally distract them so that they wouldn’t be able to listen and they would speak in a different voice. It was not their normal voice and they would be very easily agitated and have seemingly very superhuman strength, powers and so on.

It’s kind of a scary experience. I don’t go looking for those kinds of events, but I rememberanwhile, in one video of a case, I just asked whatever demon was in there to be cast out or to be silenced. I had about five minutes where this person could actually hear the gospel. Then you have a window of opportunity to lead them to Christ, and if they trust the Lord, then the demon never comes back. But if you don’t, the Bible talks about demons can come back and they bring other demons with them.

So the latter state is worse than at the beginning. So obviously this is a whole realm that you don’t really want totry to get into. But if it comes your way binding spirits and demons is a If you’re a believer you don’t have to worry about being deemed and dwelter. It says first down 4-4 four, here Kevin Beaure mosquit- If you’re a believer, you don’t have to worry about being deemed and dwelter. It says in first down 4-4 four, you’re second down 4-7 You’re second down 4-7 If you’re third down 4-7 The people we hang out with with us, but we can never be given a call.

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