Can a person who has been saved lose his salvation? This question has been a perplexing question to many. Maybe you have been questioning the genuineness of your salvation. Are you really saved? Are you really sure?
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Welcome to Bibleline with Dr. Hank Lindstrom. Coming to you from Calbary 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 in to the broadcast We look forward to being with you every day and thanks for tuning in today We’re on Monday through Friday and this is Friday and we’re excited about being with you today We’re coming to you live from our studios right here in Tampa, Florida at the Calvary Community Church We’re on the pastor you’re welcome to come by and visit our resource center open every day till about about 4.30 Monday through Friday and also you can come by on a worship day and this
Sunday would be a great Sunday to come by. We’re having a dinner. It’s the third Sunday and we’re going to have a wonderful dinner right after the morning worship. Come at 9.15, join my adult class, come at 10.30, join the morning worship service and then stay and be my guest for our lunch, dinner, some of the best cooked home cooked food in the world and we’ll have a great time of food and fellowship and get to know each other.
So come on out. If you’re in driving distance, if you’re not, if you’re in any other city, you can actually go to the internet and catch our morning worship service live as we put it up on the website. And of course, there it will be seen throughout the coming months and you can go back and catch it anytime you want. We would love to have you join us this weekend. Just bring your Bible, your family, your appetite and be my guest for the morning worship and the dinner that will follow.
The third Sunday is a nice one. If you live at a distance and you’d like to come, some people come the third Sunday because they can catch a 915 Bible study that I teach. They can catch the morning worship service and I’ll be preaching this Sunday. Then they can stay for the dinner and it makes it kind of like a day where they can just enjoy a couple of hours of Bible and also a wonderful dinner. You’re welcome to come.
By the way, we’re getting excited about Tuesday night classes beginning again. The 24th of April, we’re going to start a brand new class called End-Time Controversy all about the coming of Christ. Some are teaching. There is no rapture, that there is no tribulation period. And they just wrongly divide the Bible. And we’re going to talk about methods of interpretation. We’re going to talk about why this is so wrong and so distorted and is a terrible controversy to have occurred.
And Peter predicts it in 2 Peter chapter 3, it says in verse 3, people will say in the last days, where is the promise of His coming? And they’ll deny it. And Peter warns about that 2,000 years ago, we’re seeing it happen before our very eyes. This is a part, I believe, of the apostasy of the last days where people would depart from the truth of the Scriptures and they would be turned unto fables or lies or stories that are made up that are not scriptural.
We’ll be taking 10 weeks to study this. That will be the 24th on Tuesday night for 2 hours for 5 weeks and we hope that you can come inside of it and be a part of it. You’re going to offer a special offer if you want to take it by way of internet and you sign up and there’s a $50 fee that will help Bibleines stay on the air. You will not only be able to get the passcode to watch the classes on the internet but will also send you the 10 CDs when the classes are completed which would cost you the 50 all by itself.
If you will sign up in advance, you can call in and get your passcode and be ready to watch the class in time controversies and that will begin on the 24th and you can watch them live and also at your leisure, whatever you choose to, and as often as you like. In addition, we’re going to send you the 10 CDs when the class is completed. Call our 800 number and get signed up and if you can, we’d love to have you come of Of course, in person, there’s nothing like sitting in the actual classroom.
We’d love to have you be a part of our class coming up called In Time Controversy. And I think you’re going to really enjoy these 10 weeks of teaching. Not only will you be submitted in your mind as to when… What happens when Christ returns? I believe we’re getting close, but you’ll also be able to defend your position. You’ll know what the Bible says and how to interpret it and how to explain or defend when people criticize and say there is no rapture.
Welcome to Bibleline today. We’re so glad to have you listening in. Our Resource Center has got some new things in there. We have some new laminated pamphlets on the Jehovah’s Witnesses, on the Mormons. We have some other books that are brand new that are going to be helpful and we’re adding little bits here and there. We also have some wonderful evangelistic tools. We have that book, handbook, the Personal Evangelism, which is probably the greatest book ever written on that topic.
It covers the one-on-one and it tells you how to talk to a Roman Catholic, how to talk to a Protestant, how to talk to an atheist, an agnostic, an evolutionist, a cult member, the Jehovah’s Witnesses, how to talk to them, how to talk to the Mormons, whatever, and it will be so helpful to you because it imagines the conversation. What you’ll say, what they’ll say, what they’ll say and makes it so easy to be able to talk to someone one on one and lead them to Christ.
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Do you have your Bible? Get it out. We’re going to take a look at the Bible and then we’ve got lots of offer questions and I’m sure a lot of you want to call in and be live today. was at 1-800-576-377-1, 1-800-576-3771. Okay, we wanted to say a word about 1 John 5, verse 13. This is a verse I call the written guarantee. Do you ever hear doubts about your salvation? Well, this is a verse I recommend you read over and over again.
That says these things, God says, have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God? So if you are a believer, if you believe or trust that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, that He is the Savior, that He did come and die and shed His blood and paid for your sin debt in full on the cross, well, I hope that you will take the heart with this verse It’s written to you that believe that you may know that you H-A-V-E have everlasting life.
In other words, present tense right now you can actually know that you have eternal life. I saw that verse the night I got saved. I was 18. I trusted Christ. I left that meeting knowing that if I should die, I would go to heaven. That was so clear to me. The Bible was very clear that night to me and I had never heard the gospel explained until that night. But this verse was so clear to me, it says these things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God, that you may know K-N-O-W, that you have H-A-V-E, present tense right now everlasting life.
And by the way, if you have everlasting life right now at the present moment, which is what this verse is saying, you can know you have it. Do you know you have it because God says so? God doesn’t lie in fact it says in Titus 1 2 God cannot lie God’s not gonna trick you. He’s not gonna mislead you He is the truth, you know Christ said I’m the way the truth and the life and no man can come under the Father But by me he’s not gonna trick you he’s not gonna lie to you Here you have God’s wonderful promise.
He says I’ve written this to you that believe on the name of the Son of God 1 John 5 13 I’ve written this to you so that you may know KNOW that you have eternal life. Well, I sure appreciate the fact that God put it in writing for me because I have never doubted ever since. If God says it and you believe it, my friend, that settles it. It’s settled. Isn’t that great news? Well, I hope you’ve trusted Christ as your Savior.
And if you have, then you can actually know and be assured from the moment you believe you had me turn it off. I first found 513 writing it down and I call it the written guarantee where God actually puts it in writing. He says I’ve written this to you that believe so that you may know that you have eternal life. Well, I want to throw it open to the questions now. If you want to call in the phone number here is 1-800-576-3771, 1-800-576-3771.
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We have Jean calling in from Winterhaven, Florida. All fair, she leaves this question, could you post the Resurrection Week timeline on the internet? Well, she says, I know you referred to it during your sermons on the webcast. I would love to see it. And here’s the answer, Jean. It’s already there. But you need to look under Crucifixion Week. When you go to my articles on my website, don’t look up Resurrection. up Crucifixion Week you’ll find the chart is already there, it’s been there and obviously I’m sorry that you didn’t find it.
We probably ought to listen under both things so that people can get it. But my Crucifixion chart is on the website, it’s under Crucifixion Week and Gene thank you for that call and we appreciate you listening over there in Winter Haven. We also have Mike in Brandon, Florida, leaving an all fair question. He says, how could the women circumvent the Roman guards and get the stone rolled away from the tomb? The answers they couldn’t. They couldn’t. That’s why God intervened and an earthquake occurred and the angels came and they rolled the stones away and the guards obviously faded at the sight of the angels and so there was no problem.
God took care of it. We’re going to go to Nashville, Tennessee. We have Jimmy waiting and Jimmy, welcome to Bible Island. It’s great to hear from you. How are you doing Dr. Hank? Good. Dr. Hank, I want to know if you can talk about the Nazarene Church and what the doctrine and beliefs are. All right. The Nazarene Church believes that you can lose your salvation. That’s a major, major doctrinal error. And so if you believe you can lose it, you’re really saying that you have to work to get it and keep it.
And that is wrong. Just ask anybody, can you lose your salvation? they say yes, then ask them, are you saying that between now and when you die, that if you live the Christian life faithfully and die, you’ll go to heaven. Is that correct? You’ll say yes. Then let me ask again and see if I got this right. Are you saying that if I, from this point on, till I die, don’t live the Christian life and I backslide and What would happen?
Oh, I’d go to hell. Then you’re trusting in what you do between now and death and That means you’re trusting in your works. It also makes you the Savior not Christ because Ultimately whether you make heaven or not is dependent upon what you do or what you do not do salvation is based totally on what Christ did Our works are important, but they bring about blessings and rewards But never do they affect our salvation. I hope that helps Okay, so would you put the Nazarene Church in with like the County Councils and stuff like that they believe that you can?
Yeah, any with all the churches that believe you can lose it Nazarene’s are right there with the ball. Okay, then thanks a lot Dr. Alright, that was Jimmy in Nashville, Tennessee. And if your church teaches that you could lose your salvation. That’s a major area because that means Christ is part of the plan, but you’re the other major ingredient that you have to live your life in a certain way and then it will be determined whether you make heaven or not.
That is not what the Bible teaches. The Bible teaches that Christ died for all of your sins, past, present and future, and He gives eternal life to you at the moment you believe and you possess it forever and thereafter. That’s what we just covered in 1 John 5, 13. He’s written to those that believe on the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have presently possessed. He’ll be turning live next week. It’ll be eternal life 10 years from now.
It’ll be eternal life a 1000 years from now a million years from now, and forever and ever and ever. No doubt about it. All right. We have Brian in Table four calling in and Brian says in judges chapter 20 verse 16 It says what was the reason for only choosing left handed men to sling stones? All right. Yeah, the book. Let’s go. Come on. That’s a good question and I don’t know the answer. Maybe somebody can help me figure that out.
But I don’t know an answer why they chose left-handed men to use their slingshots. Apparently they were pretty accurate, though, since they didn’t miss. These guys can really wield the stone. But I don’t know why they chose left-handed men to do that. Maybe somebody can find something I sure don’t have an answer for that one. And thanks for that question. Offair, Rick calls in from Tampa, Florida, and he says, was the apostle Peter buried in Jerusalem or in Rome?
And do you or does the Bible give you the evidence that Peter visited Rome and the answer is no. Now that we know Paul was in Rome, remember he booked passage there, he appealed to Caesar, and there I’ve been to Rome numerous times, I’ve been to the Mamertinian prison where they say Paul was in prisons. Paul wrote many letters from Rome while he was in prison there. And Paul was executed in Rome, but I don’t know that Peter ever made it to Rome.
It’s interesting though that Peter uses a special code word in his first epistle when talking about Rome, he calls Rome Babylon. Isn’t that interesting? And of course Babylon is one day to be judged. And in the book of Revelation, see chapters 17 and 18 talk about the ultimate judgment of Babylon. And Peter uses that code word because apparently Rome was the Babylon that the Bible talks about, the commercial system that moved around and began in Babylon, but moved down to the world and is now seen in all the Western nations.
I don’t believe Peter ever went to Rome, but I’ve been to St. Peter’s Cathedral or Basilica in Rome, and supposedly he is buried in the bottom in the basement of the…and I’ve been down below and I’ve been where they say his bones are, but I don’t know that that’s really true. I don’t see any dental records that prove this was Peter’s body and his teeth and so on. But I personally don’t believe Peter ever went to Rome, but a lot of people have been told that he was and that he died and that big church there in Rome, St.
Peter’s Basilica was built over the burial place of Peter. I don’t believe that, but many obviously do. We’re now going to give us more live calls. We have Kenneth in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Kenneth, thanks for calling in today from Chattanooga. Thank you sir. How are you doing? I’m doing good. How’s the weather up there in Chattanooga? I think the weather is doing pretty good. I’ll just give it some storms later on. Okay. I got a question for you. I was wondering what the Bible really means by blasphemy.
Like where it talks about blasphemy, blasphemy the Holy Ghost. That would be the unforgivable sin. I was wondering, is there not several ways to do that or what does that define? I’ll be happy to talk about it. If you read the passage in Mark 3, it’s the clearest Christ had healed a man that was blind and dumb so that he both spake and saw. The religious leaders couldn’t deny that the miracle had taken place. What they did was, they said, yes, he does miracles, but he’s not the Savior.
He’s not the Son of God, he’s not the Messiah. They rejected Christ as being the Savior. And so they said, he heals, but he does it by Satan’s power. The Azel bulb or the prince of the demons, Satan, is the one that he heals by Satan’s power. And so Jesus goes on in verse 28 and he says, all manner of sins and all manner of blasphemies shall be forgiven under the sons of men. In other words, Christ died to pay for every sin that you would ever commit past, present, future in your life.
But he says in verse 29, there is one sin that is not forgivable, and that is the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. And we find that if you look at that passage carefully there, you find that in verse 30 you You have the answer. It says because because. Because that’s the answer because they said he Christ has an unclean spirit in other words if you say Christ is an imposter? He’s a fraud account of it in other words if you reject Christ that is the blasphemy there because they were saying Christ wasn’t imposter and That yes, he did heal we can’t deny it, but the healings really were done by Satan’s power So it’s the same as not trusting Christ as their Savior and that’s the only way it can be interpreted That helps a lot.
Thank you very much. You’re so welcome Kenneth and keep listening up there in Chattanooga Tennessee I think we’re on the three times a day in Chattanooga, which is exciting we have Adam in Tampa, Florida and Adam welcome to Bibleline you’re on the air Yeah, I have a two-part question It’s about my kid my kid of that he’s he’s a type of Christ, but he’s he is Christ There’s no doubt about it. It says in Hebrews chapter 7 that he doesn’t have a father Doesn’t have a mother Doesn’t have a beginning of days nor does he have an end of days and then it says quite plainly He’s made like under the son of man So I believe that he is Jesus and Jesus appears in the Old Testament in fact in John chapter 8 Jesus says that he appeared to Abraham and Abraham saw him and rejoiced to see.
So obviously in Abraham’s life Abraham saw Jesus and probably it was the Melchizedek experience. Okay, and my second part of the question is with Psalms 110. What is the Hebrew, writer of Hebrews referring to Psalms 110? I mean, I don’t see how that has to do with Kraskid. You explain that part to me? I’ll go right back and take a look at it. Let’s take a look here. Psalm 110 and it says here and I’m almost there in my Bible.
and be patient. My pages are sticking together here. John, Psalm 110, of course, there’s only six verses in Psalm 1. So you must be referring to Psalm 2. Is that the verse that you’re thinking about there Adam? One Ten and they talk about kids with that. I mean, David is right. How does that matter? Psalm 110. Yeah, oh I was looking in Psalm 1 there’s only six verses that I said how in world can you do that well obviously Jesus is a priest after that type in other words Melchizedek met Abraham and was a high priest and Of course because Christ is eternal His priesthood will continue on for eternity and Melchizedek was a type of that all the other priests of Israel came of the tribal Levi and they died and their work was never done.
So Melchizedek just intercepts time. He appears to Abraham, ministers to him and then he leaves and we believe it was Christ. And so he’s that kind of priest. He’s not of the Levitical order coming of the tribe of Levi and one of the priests that would die and of course then he’d be replaced by a new generation of priests that would follow after so that’s a good answer and we thank you for your call and thank you for calling to bible and today we uh…
are now calling rather excuse me i think uh… let’s see here we have uh… uh… edger in uh… petersberg uh… let’s see here petersberg virginia uh… edger welcome to buy one year on the air heyacebook is more about that I need to content funny and I’m just trying to you know just be funny with you but anyway and uh… And of the speech this morning about eternal salvation you said that if God said it and I believe it that’s so does it well It’s a lot of people that don’t believe the truth that in God’s words and you know a lot of people would disagree with that So I say if God said it and whether I believe it or not that’s so does it Good point and you’re right on hahaha alright but uh but uh No, that’s not necessarily so.
The Holy Spirit will definitely be involved in evangelism and will be a part of bringing them to Christ, but not in an indwelling force. You know in the Old Testament, only a few people were indwelled. And the prophets were and others were empowered by the Holy Spirit coming upon them. But that was usually temporary. It wasn’t permanent. Saul had the Holy Spirit, but then the Holy Spirit was taken. from him. David prayed, Lord, don’t take your Holy Spirit from me.
So in the Old Testament, the Holy Spirit could come and go. But in this age, he permanently involves the believer and the tribulation will be back to where we were in the Old Testament. Because I believe the tribulation period is the last seven years of the Old Testament. It still has to take off the clock. Okay. Now, in showing the great tribulation and then when speaking about it. Bible, we’ve got to get a break. Give us a call at 1-800-576-7771.
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It’s 1-800-576-3771. Now here again is Dr. Hank Lindstrom. All right, we’re back from that break. This is Bible and we’re coming to you live from Tampa, Florida, from our studios right here at the Calvary Community Church where I am the pastor. And we’d love to have you come by and visit us. And our resource centers open every day till about 4.30 in the afternoon. And then… Of course you can always come by on a worship day. This Sunday would be a great Sunday to come, especially if you live in a distance.
Why we’re having a dinner. Every third Sunday we have a dinner right after the service. And you’re welcome to be my guest. If you want to come at 9.15 you can join me for my adult class. If you want to come at 10.30 you can join us for the worship service. I hope you’ll do both. and then stay for lunch and eat some great food and have some great fellowship and then kind of make it a day. And many people choose that third Sunday to visit if they live at a distance and we love to have you do that also.
I’d love to have you come sit with me and have lunch and we’ll talk and get to know one another. It would be great. So come and you can just be my guest for lunch. How about just bring your family, your appetite, your Bible. Join us if you can at 915 and then you get two hours of teaching or get the Sunday School Adult Class that I teach and also the worship service. We have classes for the children and for there are other adult classes you can take but we’d love to have you join us in for the worship service and then when the service ends we go back to our educational building and there we’ll have a wonderful time of fellowship and good food and you’re invited to to be a part of that this Sunday the 15th of April.
Wow, this is a great month. We’re starting a brand new class April 24th Tuesday night, two hours for five Tuesdays. That’s 10 hours of teaching. And we’d love to have you be a part of this new one called End-Time Controversies all over this big controversy. Isn’t that a rapture? A lot of people are saying no, and some big hitters out there are saying that there is no tribulation period, there is no rapture. It’s already happened in AD 70, and it’s passed.
And predarism means it’s already passed. And that’s what positioned a lot of churches hold, that we’re already in the Kingdom, that Christ has already returned and the book of Revelation is fulfilled already. Well, I don’t believe that and we’re going to talk about why that’s so wrong and why people are falling for this and are being deceived. And it’s a lot of trickery, I think, of the devil to get your mind confused and mixed up and rob you of the blessed assurance and the blessed hope of Christ returning for at the Rapture and catching us out to be with himself.
In any case, we have a special going on. If you sign up in advance to take the class over the Internet, there will be a charge of $50, but we’re going to give you, at the end of the course, all 10 CDs of the classes in addition for free. So if you sign up, you’ll get a passcode where you can watch the classes when they’re given live and also go back and catch them in the archive section later. And then when the classes are over after the five weeks of teaching, ten hours of teaching, you’ll get the CDs to be able to review them until the Lord comes back.
And so that’s a pretty good deal. Actually, that would be $100 if you paid for the class, and if you paid for the CDs, it would be $100. But for $50 you’ll get to take the class on the Internet and you’ll get to see these. And that’s a good deal. You might want to call in and sign up in advance. You can do that today or you can do it the early part of next week. And in the following week, the 24th we will begin those classes.
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That would really help us. And we want to thank in advance and say, God bless you. Absolutely. And I know he will. Not only here, but in eternity. And we’re reaching out. This may be the last year we have. Jesus could come this year. Certainly, there’s every reason to believe that Christ could come at any time. And we’re looking forward to that day. you hear me say that often as we conclude the program, keep looking up. Jesus is coming, and I believe he’s coming soon.
We’re going to go back to the phone lines here. We still have Edgar holding in Petersburg, Virginia, and apparently we have an unfinished question there. So Edgar, I’m back with you. Okay, all of the believing saints who have not been in good with the Holy Spirit, but they at any time received the Holy Spirit, whether it’s in the millennium or at the judgment seat of Christ. people in the Old Testament, very few received the oldest part. Same with the will return the Tribulation period and so the answer is no.
They will not receive the Holy Spirit. Now those who enter the millennium from the Tribulation period in their physical bodies, Christ will come back at the Second Coming in flaming fire. The Bible says He will kill and destroy every unbeliever on the earth. So if people have not trusted the Lord by the time in the rapture, they’ll be left behind. Then they get seven more years to get saved. If they don’t get saved by then, then Christ will destroy them.
But everybody left will receive the Holy Spirit. Joel 2, 28 says that he will pour out his Spirit upon all flesh. A-L-L. That hasn’t happened yet. But during the millennium, everybody who’s stolen their physical body will enter the millennium and receive the Holy Spirit as that thousand year rain begins. So hopefully that helps answer that question. Yes sir, yes sir. Okay, thank you Dr. Hayte. You’re sure welcome. That was Edgar in Petersburg, Virginia. We don’t have Brad in Clearwater, Florida.
Brad, welcome to Bible India. Good morning Pastor Lindstrom. I have a question for you. I was wondering if escorting employees out there on their last day of work i was wondering if that’s uh… government uh… company i worked for doesn’t do that anyway i’ll hang up by radio well you know i think the whole uh… thing of uh… credit cards and uh… you know uh… a cashless types of society coming down the pike uh… israeli the prelude right now you go to the gas pump you can use your credit card uh…
right now uh… you can go to a little corner market store and use your credit card. I was able to use my credit card over in Israel. You can use it anywhere in the world. And that’s the marvel of the end times. And of course the end of Christ will use that to his advantage. So absolutely, I believe all those things are a part of exactly what you are saying. It says in, here’s a question by the way, off air Annie in Tampa, Florida calls in.
A caller called recently and said, we don’t know what Jesus looks like. Please explain Revelation. Well, there is a description of Christ as he will be in his second coming, but we don’t have a physical description of Christ in his first coming. And so you’re absolutely right. There you see Christ in all of his glory in chapter one of Revelation, he’s described, and we can read how he will look when we will see him when he comes a second time.
Doris, in Bradenton, Florida calls in and leaves this off her question. She says, have you studied in the Bible that when babies and children die, they go to heaven. Where in the Bible does it tell us that? Well, my favorite on that is 2 Samuel 1223. Write that down, Doris. 2 Samuel 1223, their David had a baby. by Bathsheba and the baby was ill and after seven days the baby died and David says that the baby will not return back to me but I’m going to be with that baby.
Now we know David went to heaven in the 23rd Psalm David said surely goodness mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and I will Well in the house of the Lord forever. So David knew he was going to heaven and he knew he would see that baby again. So children below the age of accountability, if they should die, will definitely go to heaven. The verse again doors 2 Samuel 12 23. We have Laurie in Newport Richie calls in and she says believers who have fallen away are not walking with Christ.
Are they going to be left behind after the rapture? And the answer is no. Every believer, whether you’re living for Christ or not living for Christ, will be raptured out. Let me take you to 1 Thessalonians chapter 5 and it says in verse 9, God has not appointed us to wrath. That’s the tribulation period. But to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, 1 Thessalonians 5, 10 says, who died for us that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him.
And they are sleeping there as referring to being a sleep as a Christian not aware of your responsibilities and not living for Christ. And so whether you are awake or whether you are a sleeping Christian, you are going to be raptured out. No believer will be left behind. Only unbelievers will be left behind. First Thessalonians 4, 14 says, if we believe that Jesus died in you’re going to be not only saved but you’re going to be in the rapture.
Laurie I hope that helps Newport Richie. We have Darrell calling from Yiddickah, New York and Darrell welcome to Bibleline you’re on the earth. Hi, I’m Darrell. I have a couple questions for you. My first question is who is Melchizedek? Excuse me, Melchizedek met Abraham chapter 14 of Genesis after Abraham had defeated the kings of the Sodom Valley and rescued his nephew lot. According to Hebrews 7, I believe he is a pre-incarnate appearance of Jesus Christ. Christ actually appeared in Abraham and administered to him and was a priest to him.
Jesus of course said he is forever a priest after that order. He is not of the Levitical priesthood. Christ priesthood is an eternal priesthood. Hebrews 7 says he doesn’t have a father, doesn’t have a mother, he doesn’t have a beginning of days, he doesn’t have an end of days. That can only apply to God. And then it says he’s made like into the Son of God. So I believe Hebrews 7 tells us very clearly that Jesus is God and that God appeared to Abraham in the person of Melchizedek, which his very name Melchizedek means king of peace and king of righteousness and those are titles of price as well.
So this was Jesus, I believe. And also you said I can find that in Hebrew 7? That’s correct. That’s correct. Okay. My second question was, okay, there was king and Abel and then a champion Abel who was drawn out to be a vagabond and then it says and came and took upon a wife. Who was the wife and where she came from? First of all, he took his wife with him. It says if you read carefully, Cain knew his wife in the land of Nod.
That talks about a sexual relationship and conception follows. So he had kids, but he always married. Who was his wife, one of his sisters? That was no problem at the very beginning. Even if you believed in evolution, you have to believe that there was one perfectly develop male, one perfectly developed female, and they had the mate and then their offspring had the mate, and so you have intermarriage at the very beginning of the case. In this case we have Adam and Eve perfectly created no gene defects, no problems of birth defects, and so this was the way it all began, but it wasn’t until Moses that God said this is wrong and no longer were you allowed to marry brothers or sisters or cousins and so on.
But look at what’s happened to the human race since then. Now you don’t even have to marry somebody even related to you at all and the potential for birth defects is greater and greater all the time. That’s because we’re going downhill because of the sin of the human race and hopefully a little come before we find it getting worse than it is now. Okay, so it was a sister and I was like in the beginning. That’s right. And it was not a problem.
And you know God forbade it then and made it wrong later at the time of Moses because of the potential for as the human race degenerates, we’re not evoluting and getting better. the human race is degenerating the most perfect man was Adam and look at his mental capacity he had never Obviously, read a dictionary, go on to school or anything else. Yet God had him name all the animals. Can you imagine the creativeness of Adam’s mind? I have people in my church that they’re going to have a baby that takes nine months to have that baby and they still have difficulty finding a name for that one child.
Right. You know, I think boy Adam had a really creative mind. They seem only using about 5% of our minds today. And I think Adam probably was using 100%. He was pretty smart. Okay. Well, thank you, brother, Hank. You’ve been very helpful. You’re very welcome. And thank you for that call to Bible Land. We have Randy in the need in Florida. The last call was Darrell from Utiquet, New York. And we are glad that we’re on up there every day.
And now we have Randy in the need in Florida. Randy, welcome to Bibleline you’re on the air. Randy, are you there? Somehow, I don’t know what happened, I think I lost Randy too. We’ll try to get him in a minute. We have a lot of off-air questions. Let me grab a few more of these real quickly here. We have Bill in Pinellas, Taney, Florida saying, you say all of our past, present, and future sins are forgiven. Where in the Bible does it say our future sins are forgiven?
He said, or Bill said he was in a Bible study where they said there is no scripture to back this up. Well guess what? Bill, we have a serious problem if that’s not true because when Christ died, you weren’t born. So would you tell me were your sins that you’ve committed in your lifetime now, future from Christ or where they passed? Obviously, he paid for every sin you would ever commit in your whole lifetime. And so he did for everyone else who has ever lived on this planet.
So obviously, he died for you, Bill, before you ever born. He saw every sin that you would ever commit in your whole lifetime. And the Bible says that he declares you righteous forever. Let me give you a great verse in Hebrews chapter 10, where it says in verse 14, by one offering, He hath perfected forever. By one offering, he hath perfected forever them that are sanctified. By one offering, Hebrews 1014, he hath perfected forever them that are sanctified. So it’s clear that he paid for all of your sins past, present, and future that one offering that he made perfected you eternally and forever.
And I hope that answers your question. Bill in Pinellas County. Wherever you go in the Bible study, please give him that verse. and we can produce more if you need more backup. Give us a call. We have a number of callers here and a number of all-fare questions. We’re going to try to catch them these all-fare questions if we can. We had lost Randy, but he’s back. Randy from Dunedin, Florida. Welcome to the Bible. Hi Dr. Hank. You would take a moment to contrast Shiel and Hell, their location for God to be present there.
I’ll hang up a lesson. Sure. Okay. Shiel is a Hebrew word and it is completely equivalent to the Greek word Hades and refers to a place in the heart of the earth where prior to Christ death all the dead went, saved and lost. There were two compartments and the lost went to a place of flame and torment. The saved went to what was called paradise and a place of comfort. If you read Luke 16, beginning in verse 19 to the end of the chapter, Christ pulls back the curtain on the unseen world and we see two men.
One is lost, a rich man and another man who is saved, Lazarus a beggar and they both die. One is found next scene with Abraham in a heart of the earth in paradise and the other the rich man is seen in Hades or Shiel in Flamin torment. They can see each other, they can, they’re conscious, they have memory, they can talk and the rich man cries out and asks for Lazarus to bring a drop of water to cool his tongue because he was tormented.
And Abraham says that that was impossible because there was an impassable gulf so that those on one side could not pass through the other and vice versa. So basically when Christ died he went down into paradise. He told the dying thief today that’s what me with me in paradise, Luke 23, 43. And we find that he emptied the place out, Ephesians 4, 8 through 10 says that Christ, and he has said it. Let a group captive up to heaven.
We believe that’s all the Old Testament saints that we’re waiting for salvation to be paid for. Verse 9 of Ephesians 4 says, what is it that he that ascended first descended into the lower parts of the earth? We know Christ went into paradise in the heart of the earth and took those people out of there. Paradise is no longer in the earth in the heart of the earth, but it’s in heaven. Second Corinthians 12, 3, tells us that paradise is now in heaven.
We’re going to be in heaven. God is a soul. This side of the cross now we as believers when we die were absent from the body and present with the Lord. Hell is existent but nobody is in hell yet. It awaits Satan. Matthew 2541 says, depart from me he cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels. So we know that hell is prepared for the devil and his angels. They get to be first in Revelation 20 verse 10 says, Satan’s cast in.
Then we have As Angels cast in. Then we have all the lost of the human race brought up out of Hades or Sheol. And the judge, according to their works, assigned a degree of punishment and cast into hell with Satan and His angels, which will be first in. Hope that helps and thank you for that call. We’re now going to go to Steve in Tampa, Florida and Steve. Welcome to Bibleline You’re On The Air. Good morning Hank. This is concerning Hank Hanegrapp’s view and his I can’t bring up his view.
I think you really misunderstand him. When he talks about, for example, coming in the clouds, he’s referring back to, if you look in the Old Testament example, it would be Daniel 713 where I saw the night vision. and behold, one like the Son of Man came with a clouds of heaven and came to the ancient days and they brought him near before him. When he’s talking about when, and Matthew, I think it is, when Jesus is referring to him coming back at the judgment language.
And I think you really misunderstand him because he also, I listen to you and him both, and I agree with you majority of the time compared to him, but he doesn’t believe that prices are returned. He’s talking about in judgment only when the 70 AD, when the temple was destroyed, and basically that’s what he’s saying, and that he believes that in the future, in the second coming, and he talks about on his program all the time that he believes in the second coming and and he’s waiting for a second coming he just doesn’t believe that uh…
that revelation is in in the future he believe that’s all in the past and that that occurred in seventy a d but he does believe that there will be a coming time when jesus will come back well of course and that’s uh… uh… there are four different views of praderism And obviously I’ll believe that after the church which is replaced Israel brings peace on earth and Christ will come back and say good job boys and clap his hands and applaud them.
But it’s not the same as what the Bible teaches where Christ will come back and restore the nation of Israel which he rejects and that there will be an earthly kingdom of a thousand years literally that Christ will rule here on this earth. I think that Daniel seven passages literal he tries to spiritualize or say that this is all metaphorical and not the real thing and and there’s a lot of folks out there that do that with many different subjects in the Bible including hell uh…
even billy graham claims that hell is metaphorical it doesn’t mean the real place of literal fire and i disagree i think hell is literal in is a place of fire and people will be cast in and there’ll be weeping and gnashing of teeth and they’ll be there forever and i think when it says that Christ comes back with the clouds of heaven, he will literally do that. And he’ll literally rule on the earth. And when he comes, he’s going to destroy all the unbelievers on the earth.
And only those that are believers will live into that thousand-year kingdom, which I believe is still future. Anyway, we’ll have to talk about the different forms of predarism and which one hand-cantograph is sometime. But I believe the Bible to be literal. I think that’s what God intended. I think he meant what he said and said what he meant. We are out of time. So keep looking up. Jesus is coming and I believe very soon. Come out this Sunday. We’re having a dinner.
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