Bibleline Radio Show – 2007-11-20

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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. Now here’s the host of Bibleline, Dr. Hank Lindstrom. Well, good morning and welcome to Bibleline Greek 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 we’re glad to be with you today as we come to you live from our studios here in Tampa, Florida, the Calvary Community Church.

We’re from the pastor. You’re always invited to come by and say hi during the week. Our resource center is open till about 430 every day. Come by and say hi, knock on the door and take a look at our resource center while you’re at it. We’re also welcome to come on a worship day. We would love to have you and you’ll be made to feel right at home. We’re going to Israel, that’ll be February 25th, if you want to get that information.

You can call us and we’ll explain everything and we can see that a brochure is mailed out to you. Also, you can go to the website, Bibleline Ministries, click on the homepage on Bible Line News. When you do, it will come up with some information about the trip. And then if you notice right in the middle of the page, it says Israel Tour Bro Short. Click on that link and you will have the entire information. If you register with your deposit by December 10th, you will save $100.

If you wait until December 11th or later, you can still sign up, but it will cost you $100 more. I hope you will go. It will be a wonderful trip. 12 full days in Israel. It will be trip number 15 for me. We’ll be studying the Bible and enjoying it. It’s going to be a wonderful time. Don’t forget that it’s Thanksgiving Thursday and we want to wish you a very happy and safe Thanksgiving. Hopefully you’ll take advantage to give thanks to God and also maybe use it as an opportunity to win friends and family to Christ that maybe you won’t see except at this holiday.

So if you have that opportunity, Please take advantage in telling about Jesus Christ and what He did for them and share your testimony. We also want you to know that our Resource Center is open on the Internet 24-7. You can always go there to get things and we hope that you will. Christmas is coming up soon and you might want to get things and we might run out. We hope that we don’t but I would recommend that you shop early and it will help Bible and also you can get that old school field maybe for somebody.

Plus we have the two larger specials that are out there. We have the Zondervin-Tictoral Bible Encyclopedia. That’s big books. I’ll tell you, 18 pounds is what the set weighs and we have that for a gift of $110. Normally that sells for 200 I think. And we also have Shafers, Lewis-Pairshafers, systematic theology excellent excellent for somebody who’s a serious student covering all the doctrines of the Bible Really great and it is also for gift of a hundred and ten dollars.

It normally retails for around 180 and that’ll help by blind and also be a wonderful gift to somebody who’s Waiting for something this Christmas that would if they’re a Christian and they want to study the Bible These will be great gifts. Many more things, of course, are things that are very inexpensive from about $5 right on up. So you might want to take a look online or call, ask for a resource sheet to be sent, or talk to our operators about what you’re looking for and they can usually give you good advice.

This is Thanksgiving weekend, or it says Tuesday, and we’re glad to have you on board with us. We’re going to turn to the scriptures, and then we’ll take our callers. If you want to call us, the number is 1-800-576-3771-1800-576- 1 Corinthians 15 is an incredible chapter. It is the chapter about the resurrection of Christ. And in order to be in the resurrection as a saved person, you must believe the gospel. And we find here one of the most concise definitions of the gospel found anywhere in the word of God.

I find here that Paul the Apostle says in verse 1, more over brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you. And then we find he defines it in verses 3 and 4 as he says, I delivered unto you, first of all, that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures. Notice the Gospel message is a message about the death, the barrel, the resurrection of Christ. It’s the good news that Christ in His death delivered us from death, the second death to be cast into the everlasting lake of fire.

So let me go back and review verse 1. Moreover brethren, I declare unto you the Gospel which I preached unto you. 3. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures. That means Christ’s death was foretold. The Scriptures here are the Old Testament Scriptures and obviously the New Testament at this point wasn’t yet written and here we have him referring to the Old Testament telling in advance the death of Jesus Christ on the cross of Calvary.

It’s incredible. Really. And I was just amazed when I first saw these verses in the Old Testament when I got saved and I just was saying to myself, this has to be the Word of God because there’s no possible way this could happen unless God was the author. The Book of Daniel, for example, in chapter 9 gives us a prophecy they were to start counting from the commandment given to restore and rebuild Jerusalem after the Babylonian captivity. Guess what?

In the news just last week they discovered Nehemiah’s wall. You know right at the end of the Babylonian captivity a Persian prince gave a decree to allow Nehemiah and others to go back to Jerusalem and rebuild the wall and rebuild the temple. they were doing an accidental, really an emergency dig in Israel and accidentally discovered as they were shoring up the foundations of this tower that was about ready to fall. They found the wall of Nehemiah. Amazing! And in the scriptures and wow!

And boy, wouldn’t have been a job to be embarrassed. I don’t know if he’s paying attention to the news. But one of his ancestors, You know Persia changed her name to Iran. One of these ancient Iranians or Persians actually is the one that allowed Israel to become reestablished back in the land after the Babylonian captivity. They were in Iraq and here they go back and rebuild the temple and they discovered, you know, archaeology is just this demonstrating every day the accuracy of this book.

And every time they seem to uncover a stone in Israel, it brings back the truth of the past. And you can read the book of Deimiah and read about exactly what we’re talking about. But in any case, in Daniel chapter 9, God talks about that Persian decree for the Jews to go back and rebuild the temple, and He says, start counting. And if they were to count 483 years, it would take you right to the death of Christ. It says when those 483 years would be completed that the Messiah would be cut off, but not for himself.

That turns out my friend to be to the day. This is not incredible. The death of Christ was foretold. And here, that’s just one of many. But here we have Paul the Apostle saying, I delivered unto you first of all, that which which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures. Daniel told the very year and the very day that Christ would die 483 years earlier. They were to count and it would turn out to be exact.

Amazing! In fact, it tells right after Christ would die in that prophecy in Daniel 9 that the The city of Jerusalem would again be destroyed and the temple again would be destroyed. And that happened in maybe 70. But I love to ask Jewish people is. Since Daniel, your prophet, the Old Testament, told that Messiah would come and die. And then Jerusalem would be destroyed and the temple would be destroyed. When did that happen? They all know it’s 80-70. The Romans did that.

Then who is your Messiah? Because Daniel is saying the Messiah would be here before the destruction of Jerusalem in the 80s, 70, before the destruction of the temple in 80s, 70. I usually do a little drum roll and a little bit of humming in the background and give them a few seconds to think. My friend, there’s only one. There’s only one that could meet that description. Jesus Christ is the only one that could meet that description who died for our sins and then Jerusalem was destroyed.

There’s no doubt about there’s no argument here that Jewish people Have to concede if you use their scriptures that Jesus has already been here You know most Jewish people say they’re still looking for the Messiah that he’s coming the first time. They’re totally wrong He’s been here once and they missed him first Corinthians 15 verse 3 I delivered unto you first of all that Which I also received how that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures. Then verse 4 says, and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the Scriptures.

The resurrection, the burial, all of that was foretold. Christ was crucified, buried, and resurrected according to the Old Testament Scriptures. I don’t know about you, but I get excited because I know that this confirms that the story is true, that God is the author of the Bible that the Bible is never wrong and that what we put our trust in here is sure. You know the Bible tells us in Peter, Peter tells us that the Word of God liveeth and abided forever.

That tells us, we know this earth is going to be destroyed. The Bible tells us it will be destroyed by fire. And this is the Word of God liveeth and abided forever and ever. That tells us that it’s going to be around long after the planet earth has gone. Wow! Think about it. So really, the Bible, the Bible is more sure than the earth you’re standing on. Think about it. The Bible is more sure than the ground you’re standing on.

Because the Bible is going to be around long beyond the planet earth and it’s being here. Think about that. Jesus said it in Matthew 24, heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall never pass away. Wow, heaven and earth will pass away, but my words shall never pass away. Think about it. He never wrote anything himself except we know that in John 8 he wrote something in the sand when I told what it was when the woman was caught in the act of adultery.

But he said heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away. Wow. If I said that, you’d laugh. Everybody would laugh. If you said it, I would laugh. But when Jesus said it, nobody’s laughing. His words are still exist in 2000 years later. My friend, his words will carry out their into eternity future heaven and earth will pass away. that by words will never, never pass away. You better take note, if you haven’t trusted Christ the Savior, I wouldn’t waste another minute.

I wouldn’t waste another day. I would put my trust in Christ the Savior right now. Don’t gamble on the fact that you’ll live a lot longer and you’ll have opportunity to trust Christ in the future. You need to do it while you’re confronted with it. And if you have never trusted Christ, would you do it right now? Just tell a Lord, Lord, I’m a sinner. I don’t understand much about the the Bible, but I believe Jesus Christ died for me, paid for my sins, in full by his death and shed blood was buried and rose again from the dead.

I trust Jesus Christ right now to save me, to give me the gift of everlasting life. And you know the moment you do that God saves you, it’s really incredible. But the Bible says, who’s whoever, anyone, all in the human race are invited to believe trust in Christ and if they do they’ll not perish, but they’ll have everlasting life.

I’m Dr. Hank Lindstrom and this is Bibleline and Thanksgiving is coming right on up. What should we thank God for? Well, we find it says in this very chapter that thanks be to God, verse 57. Thanks be to God which give us the believer, the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ, the victory over death, the victory over the grave, the victory over hell, has been Well, we find it says in this very chapter that thanks be to God, verse 57, thanks be to God which give us the believer, the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ, the victory over death, the victory over the grave, the victory over hell has been given to us by God the Father through Jesus Christ and His death at the cross.

This Gospel message at 1 Corinthians 15 unveils is the means by which we obtain the victory over sin, over death, over the grave, over hell. Thanks be unto God. 1 Corinthians 1557. Thanks be to God which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Thanks for tuning in today. I’m Dr. Englunds from the Bible. This is my one. We’re gonna go to the phone lines. People are beginning to call in 1-800-576-3771, 1-800-576-3771.

And we hope you’ll call. We have all four questions. We’ll try to get to some of those. We’ll also take the live callers, and we hope that you’re one of those. And we hope that you’ll have a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday. and we invite you to, of course, listen to Bibleline throughout the whole week, and anytime of the day or night as we stream live to the internet. And that’s, you just go to Bibleline Ministries, not ORG. Click on the spinning globe, you’ll get our radio programs, click on the TV set, you’ll get our TV programs, click on the camera, you’ll get our worship services, We now have Sunday’s message up there.

54 sermons are sitting there. That’ll keep you busy. Most of them are 45 minutes long to almost an hour so you can really listen or watch our worship services for 54 hours if you went nonstop. Give it a try. Anyway, we are gonna take our first caller, anonymous, from Tampa and Mr. Anonymous or Ms. Anonymous. Welcome to Bibleline you’re on the air. Anyway, I’ve got a question. I’m almost embarrassed to ask. I am born again and I have trusted the Lord Jesus as my personal Savior and I happen for some time.

I’ve trusted what he has done on the cross for me. But I have these things that come in my mind sometimes of, you know, it says that we’re going to be greatly deceived by when it comes into the world. I know Christ is who he is, but yet how are we to know for a fact that Christ is the one and not the great deceiver that is supposed to become into us? Is it a spend for that to become enough into my head?

Because when it does, I push it out thinking I know that Satan tried to deceive me because I trust that Christ is going to finish work on the cross. Sure. Well, you know, that’s your natural. I think everybody has them and Satan certainly wants us to doubt and doubt is the opposite of faith. We shouldn’t stay in our doubts. As we go back to the Word of God, the Bible says faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God.

The more you’re in the Scriptures, the more your doubts will disappear. I’ve been studying the Bible now for all of my life. The more trust I have in this book and the more confidence I have that we really have the the truth here. This is not being disillusioned by what I read. I’m being confirmed even as we spoke today. This is an amazing book that tells the life of Christ before he overcame and only one could have met that description.

So the true Jesus has already been here once because he had to come according to Daniel 9 before the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem in 8070 and before the destruction of the temple there in 8070, nobody else really could meet that description. He had to die to pay for the sins of the world. Nobody else has ever even attempted to do that. You know, Mohammed didn’t die to pay for anybody’s sins. Confucius didn’t die to pay for anybody’s sins.

Jesus is the only one that really openly stated that he was coming to be the lamb that would be slain to pay for our sins. And he went through that experience and came back from the dead to declare that he was indeed that that’s a year and he showed himself alive for forty days after his resurrection and obviously uh… his disciples were so convinced that these He said that the disciples were afraid and even as Peter denied that he even knew the Lord three times in Christ and four, that he didn’t now become brave enough to be martyred for their faith.

They wouldn’t die for something they believed was alive. They obviously were very convinced. And the resurrection of Christ thoroughly convinced them and we have such an incredible Bible here that we can turn to, that we can trust what it says. We believe it is. it is infallible that it is God’s very own word. I believe in Christ, and I have a firm salvation because before, if people listened to you two years ago, I used to think, oh gosh, what if I’m wrong, what if I can lose my salvation?

But I know now it’s not my work that’s by what Christ is fully on that cross, it’s by our faith and our trust in Him. But then sometimes these things pop into my head and I push it out saying no. I know this is Satan trying to deceive me and I’m thinking I’m like, gosh, am I sending him my, and I’m just stuck in my salvation in Christ. And then I think, well, what’s to keep me from asking this question?

I’m sure that maybe other people are thinking this too. I mean, the Jews don’t think Christ is our true savior, but I believe that he is. So why am I thinking it comes in? Well, the devil will always try to throw down at you. And again, the opposite of faith is down. and to rid yourself of doubt you need to get into the Bible on a regular basis. The more you take God’s Word in, the more faith or trust you’re going to have in God’s Word, and you’ll be more assured every day as you get into the Bible and read it regularly.

It’s necessary. It’s just like our food the Bible says, and if we don’t eat, we become weak, don’t we? So if you go several days without eating, you’re going to be pretty weak. And spiritually, the same thing happens if we go a week in a time between looking at our Bible. We’re probably not going to be very strong as a Christian. We need to get in daily. And I want to thank you for the service that you have provided.

You have changed my life. You’ve changed my whole outlook. I’ve been to your church. I told you once before, when I first started listening to you, I was used to preachers basically entertaining. But you have taught me and gave me faith in preachers and pastors that are out there, that they are still true. And your knowledge of the Bible has changed my whole faith and outlook. And I appreciate what you’ve done for it. Well, that’s wonderful, Tina. We’ll be praying for you and don’t feel badly.

Just get back into the Bible every time the devil makes you doubt. Say okay devil I mean we go back and be reassured from God’s word Thank you doctor Hank I greatly appreciate it. You’re very welcome. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving Okay, we’re gonna go down to James in Virginia and he’s in Hampton Virginia James welcome to Bibleline you’re on the air Yes, sir God bless you about as it can repack up And Genesis 25-19 says, and the Lord said, two nations are in that womb and two men are of people shall be separated from that vow.

And the one people shall be stronger than the other people, and the elder shall serve the younger. My question is, is there any way that you know in scripture where the elder serve the younger? Well, several times things got kind of turned backward. I think the same was true of Manasseh in Ephraim and I think there’s several other illustrations and the firstborn is a title of of that firstborn’s privilege to be the spiritual head of the of the family of the children that are born and all the Abraham for was the head of his family spiritually and over the ascents that came under him and so on and so on And sometimes the second born became the first born in the sense that they had that title and And Jesus is called the first born of all creation because he is the one who Has that title?

Being the spiritual head over all of us and so he also is called the first born, but he obviously is God and and certainly He never was born as far as his Godhood, but the flesh was born, but yet he’s not the first one who had flesh Adam was, and yet he’s the first born of the spiritual creation. He’s head over everything.

Okay, thank you so much for calling in today. We are excited about the Thanksgiving holiday. I hope you’ll have a wonderful and safe Thanksgiving holiday. We had a great celebration here in our church on Sunday and we hope that you’ll all have a safe and wonderful holiday. And we’re excited about going to Israel and it’s now time for somebody to start making up their mind. If you want to get a brochure, call us and we’ll just get your brochure out.

You can take a look at it. If you want to look at that early, go to the website, BibleLineMinistries.org, and click on Bibleline News, and you’ll find a page coming up all about the trip. And then in the middle, you’ll see a link. It says Israel Trip brochure. Click on that, and you’ll have a full-color brochure on the same that we would mail out to you. And you can start reading and digesting. You need to make a decision by December 10th, if you want to save $100.

You can still sign up as long as we have space right up until we leave. But remember, you have to get a passport. You have to kind of get things in order. And the sooner the better. And you’ll save a little bit of money if you do that early. So let me encourage you to get your reservation in. You have to make it a deposit of $300. And I hope you’ll be planning to go with me. It’ll be trip number 15.

It’s going to be a wonderful, wonderful time. And we have folks from all over that want to go. I hope you’ll be one of them. We will of course be doing a second half hour Bible and here we’re going to be coming up on our break so we’re going to go ahead and hold any calls till after the break. But if you would stay with us and if you would like to listen on the internet you can do that, go to Bibleinemindustries.org click on that spinning globe and you can hear today’s program live on the internet.

And then of course for the next year you’ll be able to hear this program any other program as we keep them in our time. Got to take a break but we’ll be back so stay tuned and I’ll be right back here for this short break. Go away Bibleline we’ll be back in a moment. Give us a call at 1-800-576-3771. That’s 1-800-576-3771. All right we’re back from that break and we are able to chat for a few minutes here before we actually begin the second half hour of the Bible But again, I want to just chat with you and say how much we appreciate all of you.

Our listeners are the ones who I think are the driving force behind Bible and because you’re the ones who pray for us. And we believe that certainly God is answering your prayers as you pray for us. And we also know that you’re the financial backing because we don’t have any other means of support of this program. We count on you, the listener, and your gifts are what pay the bills and allow us to pay the radio time and the other expenses to be on the radio.

We thank God for you because we never know how it’s going to happen, but every month is different. We appreciate every one of you that are regular and consistent every month. Your gifts really are the foundation. of you that give are obviously another real part of making sure that my one stays on the air. Hope you’ll help us. Maybe you might want to give something here special during Thanksgiving and help us out through the holidays to make sure that we’re caught up with all of our bills and we hope that you will definitely be a part of Bible and over the holidays as you listen, as you pray, as you give as your real part of the program.

We’re excited about Israel. We’d love to have you go. I’ll tell you, there’s nothing like it. It’ll change your life. You’ll come back and you’ll visualize the Bible because you will see Jerusalem in your mind. You’ll see the different places and cities in your mind and the scriptures will become alive to you in a way that they never have before. You really can’t put a dollar amount on it. It’s really so worthwhile. And you can go with it. It’s 2650 round trip if you sign up before December 11th.

But if you sign up on the 11th and December it will cost you $27.50. Thank you for that advantage of that discount. Sign up early. And if you want to call the travel, call here first and we’ll give you the number to call. And also we can make sure that you get a brochure sent to you, but you can also look at that brochure on the internet. Go to Bibleline Ministries. On the home page, click on By Blind News and up it will come information and right there there is a link that says Israel Tour brochure.

Take a look at that, click on that and you will see all the information you want to see. Thanks again for being there for us. As you pray for us and give the Bibleline and if you want to give a gift today you can call and give it by a credit card over the phone or call and ask for an envelope to be set with our address on it and we will be glad to send that out. We’re about ready to do the second.

The second half hour Bibleline, so keep your radio tuned right where it is. And here we go. Would you like to call Bibleline and ask Dr. Lindstrom a question? You can. Just pick up your phone and dial 1-800-576-3771. That’s 1-800-576-3771. Now here again is Dr. Hank Lindstrom. Alright we’re back to that break and this is Bibleline. Come and be alive from Tampa, Florida from our studios here at the Calvary Community Church. And we’re excited about being with you each and every day Monday through Friday as we come to you live from our studios here in Tampa at the Calvary Community Church.

And we always invite you to come by. This is our resource center. Come by and say hello. We have many people that come by every day. And we’re excited when you come. And we love to meet you and greet you and hopefully make you feel right at home. I was talking to a couple this morning from South Florida and they said that when they came up here to visit, that they were felt to feel so much at home. And they really, really did appreciate the way they were treated when they visited us.

And that’s exciting to hear. And so hopefully you’ll come by sometime and we’ll get a chance to meet with you and say high to you and hopefully you’ll take us up on that. If you can’t, then you can go to the Internet, you can join our worship services on Sunday at 11 live and also watch them at your pleasure throughout the week, anytime of day or night on the Internet. As you have time, go ahead and watch a sermon and join us if you will.

You can be joining our Resource Center. You can go ahead and take a look at everything we’ve got right there on the Internet. So the internet makes it really nice and you can feel really connected with us. And again, we are excited about going to Israel. We want you to go with us. That will be leaving on a Monday, February 25th, returning on a Friday, March 7th. It will be a wonderful trip. We’re going to fly with the Israeli airline, El Al.

They’re always very safe. You never hear about an incident and we’ll fly nonstop from Newark, New Jersey, right to Tel Aviv. And we’ll just be off and running. We’ll arrive there actually at 7 a.m. Having slept on the flight overseas and being awakened in the morning to have a nice breakfast on the airplane, we’ll step off all fed, ready to go. Our big bus will meet us and we’ll head off toward the north, going along the Seacoast route, stopping its accessory of going along there and as beginning to climb into the mountains of Carmel where Elijah spent his life and we’ll see actually where Elijah challenged the profits of Bail and this is an exciting day as we head our way to Galilee where we’ll spend our first night in a beautiful hotel overlooking the Sea of Galilee.

We’re just going to have a great time and I’d love to have you on board with us when we get a chance to talk about it, give me a call, we’ll try to answer any questions you might have, and we’ll probably do a webcast for all those that are going to go, talking about packing and everything so you can ask questions and see it on your computer as we discuss what you need to do and not do the do plus we’ll give it out in print.

So give us a call here if you like and the number is 1-800-576-3771. That’s 1-800-576-3771. Alright we have a number of offer questions. We’ll try to take a few of those as we can. And also of course we want you to dial in and be alive, call or with us. We have Kelly in Sarasota, Florida calls in and says, how are those that believe during the tribulation be a part of the first resurrection? Good question, Kelly. We find that the first resurrection is really technically the resurrection of all the Old Testament Saints.

And all the tribulation saints. The resurrection of those of the church age between Pentecost and the Rapture are really a separate group all under themselves. Sometimes Bible teachers categorize them as being in the first resurrection. But technically we are a special resurrection. We are a special group of people. We are the bride of Christ. we are all of those who have accepted Christ’s Savior between Pentecost and the Rapture, who are placed into the body of Christ, which is called the Church.

So we are going to be receiving our resurrection bodies at the event of the Rapture. But then at the end of the Tribulation period, all the Old Testament saints and all the Tribulation saints will be receiving their resurrection bodies. According to Revelation 20 verses 4 through 6, these are those that are called the ones that are resurrected in the first resurrection. The second resurrection is the resurrection of the unsaved dead and the Bible says in Revelation 20 verse 5 that the rest of the dead, the unsaved dead did not live again until a thousand years were finished and then their resurrected to sign an agree of punishment in hell and cast into the eternal lake of fire.

Kelly, I hope that helps and hopefully that answers the question for you. We want you to call the number is 1-800-576-3771, 1-800-576-3771. We’re going to Tampa and we have a caller here and this is Nicky and Mickey, welcome to Bibleline you’re on the air. It’s so nice to hear your voice again. Calling about the new heaven and the earth and the new earth, if you can elaborate a little bit about what’s going to happen to the heaven and the earth today and then what’s it going to be like with the new heaven and the new earth and I’d like to hang up and listen to your answer.

All right, we’ll do that. In 21, it begins that portion of the future where it says, I John saw a new heavens and a new earth for the first heavens and the first earth were passed away and there was no more sea. Then I John saw the New Jerusalem coming down from heaven adorned as a bride. This is of course what happens after Christ has ruled for a thousand years. That’s coming up. We believe the next order in events here is the Rapture.

Then seven years of tribulation will follow on the earth, the darkest and worst that men have ever seen. Then we have in that time the Antichrist rising to power a man that Satan will use to try unite the world under one world government and one world religion and one world language. We can see it in the news, can’t we? Everybody’s talking about a new world order or a world global economy or government and so on. We’re headed rapidly toward it, and I believe any day the Lord could come and snatch us out and the tribulation period would be underway.

We find that the nations will wind up in battle at the end of that seven years, the Battle of Armageddon, and it will take place worldwide, but it will be initiated in the Middle East at Armageddon, which is really in the Valley of Just Real in Israel, as we find that the Antichrist will be living in Israel, and the nations of Russia and China and so on will attack Israel and set off a nuclear exchange that will destroy one-third of all the people on the planet Earth.

Christ will return at that time and he’ll defeat the armies of this world and set up a kingdom where there will never be war again. Peace on Earth, good will toward man, as the angel announced at his first coming that has been postponed but will be fully a reality when Christ comes at the second coming. that thousand years there will be absolute peace on the earth. The earth will be a wonderful place to live. But at the end of that he will destroy this earth by fire and there will be a new heavens and a new earth and on that new earth there will be absolutely perfection, no sin.

There will be animals I believe and pristine beaches and the oceans will be clean and it will be just a marvelous place to enjoy. But our actual residence will be the New Jerusalem, which is going to be, I think, an orbiting body above the earth. Some of you once calculated the size of that place. You know, if you read Revelation 21, it tells us the dimensions. The city is a cube in shape, 1500 miles wide, 1500 miles deep, and 1500 miles high.

That’s a pretty big cube. And I personally believe it will orbit the planet. And if you want to think about how big that is, if you were to create a sphere that would hold that cube, it would have a diameter of 2,600 miles. Now to kind of get a concept in your mind, conceptualize this whole thing, the moon right right now that you look up at the sky at night and sea, has a diameter of 2160 miles. Think about it.

The sphere that would hold the New Jerusalem would have a diameter of 2,600 miles. In other words, it’s going to be significantly larger than the moon. This is a pretty big city and it will orbit the Earth. Can you imagine what a beautiful thing this will be? sparkle like a diamond. And that’s really going to be our home. The gates are 12 and we’ll be able to enter in day or night. I think we’ll go down and be able to enjoy the new Earth.

Can you imagine walking down a seashore that has not been contaminated? There is no trash and or maybe canoeing down a beautiful clear stream. You can see the bottom, you can see the fish and you won’t see cans discarded on the bottom and it will be just a pristine earth, it will be a beautiful thing. So in any case, once that happens the Bible says there will be no more sin. Satan and his angels in all the lost will be cast into the eternal lake of fire where there will be forever and ever and ever and ever.

So we’ll never be in the environment of sin ever again once we enter that time period after the thousand year reign of Christ. So this earth will be around for at least a thousand and seven more years, the seven years of tribulation and the thousand year reign of Christ. But then it will be destroyed and there will be a new heavens in a new earth. You can also read that in 2 Peter chapter 3 verse 13 says, nevertheless according to We are looking for a new heavens and a new earth which will be a perfect pristine earth.

I am looking forward to those wonderful days ahead for us who are believers. We have a great future planned by God Himself. Mickey, I hope that helps. Thank you for that call. And again, the phone number here is 1-800-576-3771. Samantha in Lutz, Florida, calls in with this offer question. She says, does the book of 1 Timothy, chapter 6, describe the prosperity preachers? Well, I don’t know, because I think a lot of the prosperity preachers aren’t even saved. And this is a book that’s written to save people.

And most of those that preach the prosperity gospel believe you can lose your salvation. They believe you have to work to be saved. And sadly, these people will not make heaven at all. So we’re really looking at something that’s totally false, something that’s a terrible deception. And people are falling for it because of their own desire to become rich. And the Bible warns about that, that the desire to be rich and things of greed will actually destroy a person.

But obviously, the believer is never expected to necessarily be rich. Yet, there are those who are rich, and there’s nothing wrong with being rich, nothing wrong with it at all. And we find here the Apostle tells those that are rich to be careful because they need to be rich in the things which are spiritual. Let me just go ahead and read 1st Timothy 6, verse 17, it says, charge those that are rich in this world, that they be not high-minded nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God who has given us richly all things to enjoy.

But they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate, laying up in store for themselves a good foundation for eternity. In other words, they need to be investing wisely. He said that he is a false movement. But no one is wrong to be rich but to promise that everybody is going to be rich. This prosperity movement is a false movement. Most generally, I don’t know if any of them have a correct gospel or gospel.

It is fun. It is usually a work-based, lose your salvation gospel when you are in a church. that teaches that, you really ought to find a new church. And a lot of them don’t come right up and say it. We believe you can lose your salvation. It’s kind of hidden. You have to ask the right questions. And a great question to ask is, can you lose your salvation? I was talking to some people this morning, long distance, and they were telling me about the church they attended.

And I said, well, that doctrine is very wrong. They believe in the church you’re attending. You can lose your salvation. weren’t aware of that. And I said, go back and ask. If you ask, I’m sure they’re going to tell you, they just don’t announce it and broadcast that they believe they can lose it, but they do. And so you have to watch out and be careful. But this is talking to believers in Timothy about using whatever God has blessed you with for God’s glory.

And wow, if we all did that? I think we could reach this world and tremendously for Christ. We have Peggy in Pinellas Park and Peggy, welcome to Bibleline you’re on the air. Yes, I understand that the rapture is going to occur before the Antichrist takes power. Is that true? That is correct. Will we recognize who the Antichrist is going to be before the Rapture? Will that become obvious? We may, but the Bible says he really isn’t revealed as the Antichrist till after the Rapture.

So it says, once the departure of the Church takes place, 2nd Thessalonians chapter 2, it says, then that wicked one will be revealed. So he’s not really revealed. we can guess this side and we might be right but we really won’t know so we just might as well be very careful because it will not be until after we’re gone that he’ll be revealed. Yeah, okay. All right. Thank you very much. You’re very welcome and thank you Peggy for calling in to Bible and we have Lewis in Tampa and Lewis welcome to Bibleline you’re on the air.

Lewis are you there? Morning Dr. Hank. My question is, actually I need to hear coming from you about this new movement of the state, the planet. Even there’s some people out there worshiping the planet. I like to listen. You’re coming about this matter. Okay. And you know, I think they’re crying out for what the Bible says will take place in Christ. They want to save the rainforest, save the manatee, save the resources, save the rainforest. And basically it’s a cry for Jesus and they don’t even realize it.

Because when Jesus comes, this planet will be restored, the deserts will blossom as a rose and the earth will flourish and become fruitful and it’s going to be marvelous. What people want to see take place, they’re looking for it in all the wrong ways, and it’s not going to happen through man. It’ll happen through Christ. And you know it even says it back in the Old Testament how that one day the desire of all nations will come. The desire of all nations ultimately would be peace, prosperity and all these things, and when Christ comes, He is the one that will establish it.

So it won’t come through the United Nations, it won’t come through diplomacy or talks at some peace table. It’s only going to come through Jesus and he’s the one that will bring about a perfect earth and we’re looking forward to when he comes to deliver us. So these are the cries of people. I tell them, you know, what you’re looking for is you’re looking in the wrong place. Jesus is the answer. you’re really crying out for the one who will bring the restoration of the planet and that’s Christ himself so you need to trust in him and maybe you can use it as a witnessing tool.

Thank you, Luis. We now have Benjamin in Clearwater. Benjamin, welcome to Bible Good morning. I’m fine. Thank you, Benjamin. Okay. I have over here in Colosian, chapter 3. You die and your life is hiding. Right in God. I believe in eternal salvation. Can you explain to me that verse, please? This is Colossians 3-3. You got that? Yeah, I’m turning there right now. Colossians 3 is say 3 or 3. I’m not too sure what verse, but I’m almost there and we’ll find out.

Colossians chapter 3 in verse 3 Here it says you are dead and that of course refers to the fact that as a believer we have Been identified with Christ death and as far as God is concerned we have died and as a result Our sins have been paid for because God saw us in Christ when he hung on the cross God saw us in in Christ’s body on the cross and that we died there to pay for sin, therefore we are saved.

And now it says your life is hid with Christ in God. The Bible says that we are seen as in the body of Christ. Now Christ is in heaven today and according to the Bible positionally we are seen right now in heaven in Christ. Ephesians 2, 6 says that we have been raised up together with Christ and made to sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. So right now, although I am here on the planet, God sees me already in heaven seated there in Christ.

So I am eternally saved and this is my position. And then it says when Christ verse 4, who is our life, shall appear, then shall you appear with him in glory. So right now we’re here on the earth, but when Christ does appear and that’s at the event of the Rapture, we’re going to appear with him and then obviously we’ll be taken to heaven and actually be there in the presence of the Lord. But right now, positionally, we’re seen by God as though we were already there.

I hope that helps a little bit and we sure thank you Benjamin for that call from Clearwater, Florida. You want to call in again the numbers 1-800-576-3771. Let’s see here. Ken, in Tampa, Florida calls him, shouldn’t there be at least some evidence that someone has placed their trust in Jesus Christ for salvation? Well, not as far as God is concerned, but as far as we’re concerned, if I don’t see any evidence, I will approach somebody as though they’re lost.

And I’ll just keep hammering away until I’m assured that I know that they’re saved and going to heaven. But God doesn’t need any evidence because He sees the heart. The Bible tells us that the Lord sees the heart, but man looks on the outward appearance. So man looks for evidence. God doesn’t need any evidence. He knows those that have trusted Christ and they’re eternally saved. And for me, I was a secret believer for a whole year. knew I was saved here on this earth.

Nobody saw any evidence in my life, but I was saved. I knew I was. Jonah was a missionary, a prophet of God, running away from God. Nobody knew on that ship that he was the cause of their problems, but until he finally told them that hey, the reason why they had that big storm at sea was because he was running from God. God was really bringing that judgment upon all of them because of him and he says, just cast me overboard and the seal become calm.

You know, it’s a beautiful picture of redemption by a substitution I sacrificed. You know, it’s the picture of Christ. Christ had to die so that we might be lifted out of the judgment of God to be able to be delivered from that in good of heaven. And when Jonah was cast over and died, then the people on the ship were spared. And by the way, Jonah did die. And he was in the Fish’s Valley and died and went into shield in the heart of the earth.

But after three days and three nights, Jonah was resurrected from the dead place back into that body inside the Fish’s Valley and then the fish drove him to shore and vomit and amount and Jonah went about his ministry but Jonah actually died, was buried in the fish’s belly and came back from the dead after 72 hours. Hopefully that answers your question and thank you. If I don’t see evidence then I will, my job is to say, well I need to make sure.

So I will go at them as though they’re lost. if they are genuinely safe, God knows. He doesn’t need any evidence. First Corinthians, in I Corinthians chapter 3, verse 15, talks about the judgment seat of Christ. It implies here that a person can live out their life and do nothing, zero. Yet they’re still saved, but they’ll have no rewards. It says in 1 Corinthians 3, 15, if any man’s works shall be burned. That’s at the judgment seat of Christ.

He shall suffer the loss of reward, but he himself shall be saved. Yes, was by fire. He had nothing worthy of reward that everything he did was burnt up in 1 Corinthians 3, 15. He still saved. He suffers the loss of reward, but he still saved. He’ll still be with the Lord. This has been great to be with you today. Today is Tuesday and hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving. Thanks be unto God, which gives us the victory through Jesus Christ, our Lord.

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