Bibleline Radio Show – 2008-03-04

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Welcome to Bibleline with Dr. Hank Lindstrom. Coming to you from Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida. Declaring God’s love through radio and television. Providing real answers to an ever-searching world. Got a question? Dial toll free at 1-800-576-3771. That’s 1-800-576-3771. Now here’s the host of Bibleline, Dr. Hank Lindstrom. Good morning and welcome to Bible Eye. We’re coming new live from Jerusalem and the least. Now, people enjoy this series of broadcasts as we come to you from our hotel in Jerusalem.

What a beautiful place and we’ve had a wonderful time and we wish that you were with us, but the best we can do is share some of our adventures by sharing what we’ve been doing here on the the Bible and radio show. Welcome to Bibleline if you want to call in and leave a question off here you can by calling 1-800-576-3771, 1-800-576-3771. Also this radio broadcast is going up on the internet. You can go to BibleLineMinistries.org, click on the Spinning Globe and catch this program right now.

And you can also of course go back and archive and catch all the programs for the past two years. But you can also review some of these programs that we’re bringing to you here from Israel. So all week long you’ll hear reports as we tell you what we’re experiencing, what we’re doing here in Israel. I hope you will tell your friends to tune in this week to the Bible and program. Again, our calling numbers 1-800-576-3771, 1-800-576-3771. And also, by the way, you can go online to BibleLineMinistries.org, and if you click on the spinning globe, you’ll not only get our radio programs, but you’ll get the radio page where you can type in your question, hit submit, and we’ll get that here in Jerusalem and be able to answer any questions you might have.

We’re having a great time, a safe time, and our group is enjoying every minute of this trip and we’d like to have you be here. But you could go on the next trip if you want to call and leave your information. We’ll try to include you on the next trip and like to hear where you might like to go in addition to Israel as we’re considering other countries like maybe Greece or Egypt or Petra in Southern Jordan and we want to get your input also as the time of year which would be best for you and what you’re looking for and we’ll try to plan the trip to include your desires.

It’s great to be with you. We’re looking forward to being with you every day this week so I hope you’ll be tuning in and listening. Today we got off to an early start and we went to the Temple Mount. right here in Jerusalem, 35 acres where the ancient Jewish temple once stood. And that temple was the second temple. The first temple was built by Solomon and was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar in BC 606. The Jewish people were here to a captive to Babylon for 70 years.

This is often known as the exile. And after the exile, the Jewish people were allowed to come back and rebuild Jerusalem and rebuild the temple. And that second temple is the temple that was standing when Jesus came 2000 years ago. That temple was refurbished and made beautiful by Herod, who was an incredible builder and architect. Herod’s temple was spectacular and it was destroyed in 8070, about 40 years after Christ was rejected. And Jesus predicted that destruction of the temple and of the city of Jerusalem.

And he said that not one stone would be left standing upon another where the ancient temple stood. And that’s true, and today you can look at the stones as they fell, lying exactly as they fell 2,000 years ago as the Romans destroyed that temple and pushed the huge multi-ton stones down to the valley below, and the stones still lie there. The Bible is a great example of the Bible. We believe that we are very close to the rebuilding of a third temple.

A temple that will be standing when Christ returns. When you read the prophecies of the Bible, we find that Christ will come back to a rebuilt temple. There are numerous references. know that there will be somebody else who will visit that temple that’s an interesting person and that is the Antichrist. The Bible tells us that the Antichrist will come to that temple and best- hydrate it and proclaim from that temple that he’s God, demand to be worship and places image in that temple which will be lifelike and will be seen apparently by people around the world and only the technology of today would allow for that to happen where people would be able to see him by satellite television in that image, which may be some kind of an image that is operated by computers and speaks multiple languages and gives the appearance that the

Enterprise is all knowing and is certainly able to be alert and awake everything that’s happening 24-7. In any case, we have seen the man who has been building the stones or cutting the stones. He’s had come to our church at Bible and headquarters at Calvary Community Church on three different occasions. And things are ready. We’ve seen the menorah that will be put in that temple. Some of the implements for sacrifice, as all these things have really been done in anticipation of a temple being built.

Let me just go to the book of Revelation with you because in the book of Revelation We find that it says in chapter 11 as John was caught into the future He was caught into the tribulation period that will begin right after the rapture and it says there was given Under me a read like unto our rod and the angels stood saying rise and measure the temple of God Well, there is no temple right now But right after we leave at the Rapture, which could be at any time, obviously we don’t know the date, but we know that it’s got to be near.

Things in this world are moving quickly toward that event. And it says, your rise and measure the Temple of God and the altar and them that worship their end. So there will be Temple worship in the future. There will be a third Temple. And certainly all the Bibles in agreement with that. But then it says to John, but the court that is without the temple leave out and measure it not, for it is given unto the Gentiles, and the holy city shall lay tread under foot 40 and 2 months.

So we know that John was instructed not to measure the rest of the temple courtyard. Why? Because there are two Arab mosques that sit on the temple mount to the south of where the ancient temple used to stand. One is the Oskah Mosque and that’s E L A S K A Mosque and that mosque is of course the very significant mosque on the Mount and just north of it is a golden dome mosque called the Dome of the Rock and both of these mosques make this place sacred to the Muslim and it is the place that is of third importance in the Muslim world.

Number one being Mecca, number two being Medina, number three being Jerusalem. Now what this is all about is supposedly, Mohammed took a ride at midnight on his flying horse and his flying horse took him to the Temple Mount and there his horse landed and the place where he landed is marked by this mosque, the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Al-Aqsa in Arabic means for the most point. So this is the furthest that Muhammad ever traveled, although I don’t believe he traveled anywhere on a flying horse.

But supposedly, mosque commemorates where he landed and then he took off on his flying horse from the Dome of the Rock. And so these two must commemorate his landing and his departure. Winning landed, he had of course a flying horse and he tied it up because if you don’t tie your flying horse up you may not have a ride home. So he tied his horse to the whaling wall, which that wall is to this very day by the Arabs called El Borach the name of the flying horse.

So the name of the whaling wall in Arabic is Elborok, the name of Muhammad Slyhors. Of course we don’t believe that this adventure ever took place at all, but it is in the Quran. And some Arab scholars are saying that it couldn’t have been Jerusalem, but they’re a vast majority, a minority because they say that according to the Quran, he flew to a city where there were worshipers and there was an established mosque. that therefore couldn’t have been Jerusalem when the Islam says that he arrived on his flying horse because there were no worshipers and no mosque here at that time.

These mosques that are here were built after that and so it probably was more likely referring to Medina but again I don’t believe he had a flying horse and I don’t believe Muhammad flew anywhere at midnight on a flying horse as the story goes. In any case, it becomes very, very important, therefore, to the Muslim community. But we know that a third temple will be rebuilt. In some say, well, both the two mosques have to be destroyed before the temple can be rebuilt.

And the answer is no. By the way, this is Bible and a Doctrine and Instrumenter, broadcasting from Jerusalem, from our hotel. And we hope that you’ll catch all of this week as we talk about events and things that are happening in our world and describe to you things that we are seeing and doing here on our trip. If you’d like to get in on the next trip, please call and leave your name and information so we can get your input and make a decision that would make it a trip that you would like to be on and that we would like to take you on.

I’m going to go into Ezekiel 42 and in verse 20 it says here he measured it by the four sides. It had a wall round about 500 reads long and 500 broad to make a separation between the sanctuary. Now the sanctuary is a reference here to that third temple that will be rebuilt after the rapture and it says to make a separation between the sanctuary or the temple and the profane place. So here’s an interesting reference that talks about the third temple that we keep talking about here as having to be rebuilt after the rapture and the must evidently don’t have to come down because there will be a wall of separation.

It says here 500 reads long, 500 broad to make a separation between the third temple, the sanctuary and the profane place, which is the area where the two Muslim mosques are the Al-Aqsa mosque and the Dome of the Rock mosque will probably stay right until Jesus comes back. And then he will of course clean the Temple Mount platform. This is exciting stuff. And we walked over to the area north of the Aloxamask, north of the Doma of the Rock Mosque, and we stood in an open area that was directly in line with the Eastern Gate.

We briefly mentioned on yesterday’s radio show the Eastern Gate, a gate that is walled up and will not be opened up again until Jesus comes back. So when Christ comes back he’ll come to the eastern gate and he will enter into the temple area and he will come according to the Prophet Malachi to a standing temple. There is no temple there right now but we believe the third temple will be rebuilt right after the rapture. Gershan Solomon, head of the Temple Mount Institute, who has been cutting the stones since the Six-Day War told me that it could be erected in about 48 hours.

It’s a simple building and it’s just a matter of laying the stones one another and if they get a crane and bring these stones on up by truck, they can lay them on top of one another and in a very short time the third temple will be underway. And we believe that therefore we are probably living pretty close to when this will take place. But in the case, as we stood there and we looked over toward the Mount of Olives, we could see the spire that marks the place of Christ’s ascension and also the place where He will return.

And we could see the golden gate which if you come down the slopes of the Mallarage. You’re looking straight up at that gate that Christ will enter through and right in line with that is where the ancient temple stood. And we saw that when we saw a model of the city of Jerusalem as it was in the time of Christ. And you can see the Eastern Gate, you can see the temple directly in line behind that gate. And we stood right there probably where the Third Temple will be placed.

And guess what? When Jesus comes back at his second coming, seven years after the rapture, he will enter that temple and fill it with his glory. And this is the place where Christ will rule the world as King of Kings and Lord of Lords for that thousand years that the earth will be at peace and delivered from the curse. So it’s very exciting and we were probably standing right there where the new temple, the third temple will be, right where the ancient temple used to stand and we are going to be going through a tunnel underneath the city today along the edge of the western retaining wall.

We’re actually going to see the bedrock and the foundation stones of the western wall that lead all along the whole western side and that is of course the road which Christ was taken on his way to Pilate in order to be sentenced to death. And so we’re going to truly one more time as we have many times now walked where Jesus will walk. We’re going to walk where he walked when he was headed to be judged by Pilate. But in any case down below and I’ve walked through this tunnel before There is a place that the rabbis all agree is directly in line with the holy of holies and guess what is directly in line if we were to go above to this to the platform of a temple mount in line with the Eastern Gate and That’s where the temple will be built right now.

That’s an open courtyard and that’s where it will be built at according to Ezekiel 42 20. A wall of separation will be built around that temple to separate it from the profane areas which are the areas in the Book of Revelation chapter 11 verse 2. We will be trodden down by the Gentiles or by the pagans or by the nations and those that are not Jewish believers. So it’s exciting and we were able to walk today on those very stones.

I’m Dr. Englister, and this is my blend. We’d sure love to hear from you. If you’d like to call in with a question or comment, we’ll be glad to try to take those. I hope that you’re enjoying these comments. We’ve seen a lot today and it was really exciting to see those things. We’ll tell you about our tunnel journey, which is very exciting. I won’t tell you anymore about it because I want to keep you waiting to hear it when we actually do it and then we’ll tell you what we have experienced.

But that was one of the highlights that we had today. We also got to see the pools of Bethesda. You read in John 5 about a man that lay impotent for 38 years, never being able to walk. He lay by these pools hoping that somebody would help him into the water so that he might be healed. And Christ comes along and tells him, arise and walk, and he gets up and takes up his bed and walks. And guess what?

It happened on the Sabbath. And the religious leaders wanted to cite him with a traffic ticket for violating the Sabbath. This sad. Amazing. They overlooked the magnitude of the miracle and simply wanted to arrest the man for doing this. And of course, they came on to Christ and wanted to kill him because they said he had broken the Sabbath. Of course, he didn’t break the Sabbath. He broke their tradition concerning the Sabbath, which was wrong. But what to throw these are real places that you can actually see.

This is not a fairy tale. Many religious people have religious books that are filled with fairy tales, and there are no real places to go and look at and see with your eye. But here we can see exactly what the Bible said, and it’s very, very real, and we saw that. Of course, that was, of course, a place of water supply next of the temple, a place where the Jewish people would gather water and we saw those wonderful We’ll be listening all this week to hear the comments about our trip that we’ll share with you.

This is Bibleline. I’m Dr. Hank Lindstrom and we’re going to be here throughout the week. Next week we’ll be back live in the States, but I hope you’ll be listening all this week to hear the comments about our trip that we’ll share with you. We find here in Vine in Inglewood, Florida calls in, leaves this question about about Revelation 1119. It says there was seen the Ark of his Testament. Is this referring to the Ark of the Covenant? And yes, the answer is correct.

The word covenant, the word testament are equivalent and the Ark of the Testament and the Ark of the Covenant are the same. That was a piece of furniture that Moses was to build that was a picture of Christ. It was made of wood which spoke of Christ’s humanity, he was overlaid with gold which spoke of his deity, and inside the Word of God was to be placed, including the Ten Commandments of two tablets of the law. And of course all of us have sinned, and all of us have come short of the glory of God, and therefore we have broken the law and are found guilty by the law.

But on the top of the mercy of the Ark of Covenant was what we call the Mercy Seat. And there the High Priest would come in every year into the temple and sprinkle blood on the Mercy Seat. And the blood would satisfy the law and it was the picture of how our sins would be forgiven as Christ would sprinkle His blood upon the Mercy Seat in heaven on the real Ark of the Covenant or Testament and that’s how we’re saved.

So when you trust Christ, you are saved because He took and satisfied the law that was contained in the Ark of the Covenant or Testament by His blood that was sprinkled on the mercy seat above it. Thank you for that question and by and keep listening down there in Englewood and we hope you’re enjoying the program. We also have a caller named Mike, he calls in from St. Petersburg and he says a question Matthew 665. I’m going to turn over there to take a look at it.

Does this verse support predestination? If not, please explain. Alright, let’s go to Matthew 665. Well, there is no such verse. You must be talking about John, because I don’t know of another chapter that long, except in John’s Gospel, chapter 6 is longer than that, so I’m turning there right now. So let’s see if this is the verse you might be speaking about. In verse 65 of John’s Gospel, he said, therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me except it were given him of my father.”

Well, it’s an interesting question. Does this first support predestination? What it’s saying here is really that if you are seeking, if you are looking, then the Lord will reveal himself to you either by having a believer come across your past or to have you cross the path of a believer who will share with you the gospel and that is really by the hand of God. I don’t believe we are connecting even today by accident. If you’re listening to this program, I believe that God has probably brought you to see this flower find us and listen so you can hear the gospel and learn how to be saved.

We’re broadcasting from Jerusalem and I want to say hi to you folks down in Miami and everybody listening on the east coast of Florida out of the M.C.U. 1080 on the AM dial. Thank you for tuning in. I know you sign off early so I want to say goodbye to you all and Miami and thank you for tuning in and catch the rest of this week’s programs if you can as we talk about our trip here in Israel. God bless you and we’ll talk to you tomorrow.

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We have seen so many things. And wow, can you imagine walking where Jesus walked. And today we walked on top of the Temple Mount, the place where Jesus obviously walked 2000 years ago. And when that third temple is erected he will come back and put his feet there on that temple mount and that’s where he will rule the world from as King of Kings and Lord of Lords. And we’re excited about being able to have been there. We saw the Eastern Gate which is walled up as the Bible predicted in Ezekiel chapter 44 the Messiah would enter in by that gate.

It actually says the Lord God of Israel entered in by that gate. When did that happen? Well when Christ was here the first time that was the gate by which Christ would enter the temple area and He did it many times. But the Bible says in Ezekiel 44 that it would then be shut, walled up and not opened again until the Lord to come back. I remember when I was in college I had a Jewish roommate and I learned a lot from him.

He was very helpful as for a whole year I grilled him and learned a lot about the practices of the Jewish people and also of course I shared with him proofs because he didn’t believe much of any of it and I said you know there is a gate in the eastern wall that sealed up according to prophecy and will not be opened up until the Bible comes back. If somebody could blow that gate up and open it up, then the Bible would be wrong and you could light a match to it.

Well guess what? And by the way, he was well, he is dad-owned 70 hotels in Miami Beach. He got a brand new car over here for just maintaining a day average and that was my wonderful roommate. Well anyway, he disappeared and nobody knew. The campus police and the state police came by and interviewed me. He’s my roommate. Did I know where he was? Well, I didn’t. And finally it appears that he was going to go to Israel and try to blow up the gate to disprove the Bible in that sum.

And boy, I had his parents mad at me and everybody else and I didn’t think he’d ever try to make a venture like that. But you know he came back and then he says look at all the trouble I caused. And I said look, I said you weren’t able to blow up the gate were you? You weren’t even able to get there. That much so I’d blow it up. That gate is still going to be sealed up until Jesus comes back.

Well who would have ever dreamed he would take off on such a venture but he had the money and he had to wear a towel. He just didn’t like school anyway, so he decided he’d go over here to blow up the gate. But anyway, those are things that happened. We laugh now, but at the time I was pretty concerned about it because nobody knew, didn’t tell anybody where he’d gone. He just disappeared. His parents were worried and they had the campus police and the former police, state police looking to me to find out some answers.

I have no clue where he is, and then I found out what he finally returned. In any case, that gate is walled up and it will remain sealed all the way until Jesus comes back. That means at the end of the tribulation, seven years after the rapture, that gate is going to remain walled up. Well, we got a chance to look at the interior of that gate from inside the temple mount area, which is an area of 35 acres where there are presently two-hour musts.

the eloxa mosque and the dome of the rock mosque which both really commemorate at fantasy of midnight ride by mohamad on his flying horse. Supposedly he got on his mounted horse. And his horse flew him from Mecca to Jerusalem, and he landed on the spot of the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Of course, the mosque wasn’t there. The mosque was built to commemorate the furthest place where Muhammad ever traveled. Al-Aqsa in Arabic means, for the most point. And that’s where supposedly he landed.

Then when he left Jerusalem, he ascended on his flying horse from the Dome of the Rock. And obviously I don’t buy into any of it. I don’t take you out of flying horse and I don’t believe he traveled to Jerusalem ever But that is of course what the Muslims believe some of the Muslim clerics today Spall a number of them out of Egypt. I was reading recently we’re disputing that story saying that The story tells that he would come to a city where there was an established mosque and worshipers of Muhammad and that couldn’t have been Jerusalem at the time the fight was supposed to have taken place.

So it must have been Medina. But again, I don’t believe the flying horse story. I don’t believe he flew anywhere. So the whole story in my mind is not anything but a fairy tale. In any case, this temple that was there 2,000 years ago that Jesus came to was on this mount. That’s not a fairy tale. That’s history. That temple was destroyed just like Jesus predicted it would be in Matthew 24 saying that all of those buildings of the temple would be destroyed.

That one stone would be left standing upon another and obviously that has been literally fulfilled. There is no temple there right now. Yet, we find that Jesus tells us about a third temple, a temple that he would return to and the Jewish people today are back in the state of Israel after being dispersed for 2000 years and there is a real desire here in Israel to get that third temple up. As we were walking through the Jewish quarters today, we saw a store window and they had a model of the temple.

It says, by this temple now, before the third temple is rebuilt and the prices go up. You can see the Jewish humor but also the fact that people here are looking to rebuild temple and offer sacrifices again. The Bible says that when that third temple is built, Jesus will come back and the Jewish people can read that just as much as you can read that in your Bible. They believe if they can get that temple rebuilt, it will speed the return of the Messiah because the Book of Malachi and other passages tell us that he will come back to a standing temple.

Right now there is no temple. So the second coming can’t happen right now. Now the rapture can, which is when all of us of the church age are caught out to meet the Lord in the air, but the second coming really can’t happen, according to prophecy, because Christ will come back to the standing temple. There is no temple. So it is important that that temple be built and all the stones have been cut and I know that the implements from worship have been made, the garments of the priesthood have been made, and everything is ready.

All we need is a political decision to allow the rebellion of the Third Temple, and it can be erected rather quickly. And then, of course, we believe that will happen right after the rapture. So once we go, if you see the temple being built tomorrow, I think I’d get up on my dining room table or try to come up on the roof of my house, house because I’m teasing you of course but I think you’re close to the wards coming so much so that you wouldn’t have much time much at all if they started building it before the rapture.

So I don’t believe that will happen. I really believe it will happen. Probably the day after we leave it will be erected rather quickly and Christ of course will return at the end of that seven years to that third temple. Let me share with you a very interesting passage. By the way, this is Bibleline. If you want to call in, the number is 1-800-576-3771, 1-800-576-3771. I’m Dr. Ring Vinstrem. And this week we’ll be talking to you about our trip here in Israel.

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Okay, I’m going to go down to 2 Thessalonians chapter 2 and here it talks about the Antichrist. The Antichrist will come prior to Christ’s mercurant of the Second Coming. He’ll come… Now what? Look at verse 4, if you will. In 2 Thessalonians chapter 2, verse 4. He opposes and exalteth himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped so that he has God, citizen the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. What a verse. So we find the Antichrist, theukaic So look at verse 4, if you will, in 2 Thessalonians chapter 2, verse 4.

He opposes and exalted himself above all that is called God, or that it is so that he has God, citizen the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. What a verse. So we find the Antichrist, identified in the in the previous verse 2 Thessalonians 2-3 as the man of sin and also as the son of hell, the son of tradition. The Antichrist, this evil man that will be entwelt and empowered by Satan himself, who opposes and exultives himself above all that is called God, verse 4, or that is worshiped so that he, as God, sineth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.

That could not happen today. There is no temple. The temple has been destroyed in 1870. But immediately following the rapture, we believe that temple will be built. The Antichrist mid-way to the tribulation, three and a half years into it, will walk into that temple, desecrate it, and proclaim to the world that he is God, demand to be worship, and place an image of himself in that temple that will be lifelike. I believe we’ve seen on television around the world that can speak and make orders or decrees as the book of Revelation says in chapter 13 of the book of Revelation.

Exciting stuff! And we believe today we stood right where that Third Temple will go. It’s north of the two mosques, the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Doma-the-Rakh Mosque, and it’s It’s easy to figure out where it’s going to be because it’s clear that it was right in line with the Eastern Gate, the Golden Gate, the gate that led in from the Kidron Valley into the Temple area and it was directly in line with it. We saw the model yesterday in the city of Jerusalem as it was 2000 years ago.

All kinds of experts were consulted in the building of that and they have the Temple standing back on the Temple Mount directly in line with the Eastern Gate. And so when you line up yourself as we did today on the Temple Mount in line with the Eastern Gate, we found ourselves in an open area north of both of the mosques. And we believe that that’s where it’s going to be built. Therefore, we believe that the mosques don’t have to come down, that they will remain because Ezekiel says, and we told about it last half hour, that in Ezekiel 42-20 that there would be a wall of separation built around the third temple that will separate the sanctuary, the temple from the profane place, which is the area of the two mosques.

So we’re excited. We believe that we’re close. The preparations have been made for the third temple. The time is getting more and more ripe when a political decision will be made. More and more Jewish people are aware of their need of the temple and their desire to build it is great. And so as soon as a political decision is made to allow them to build it, it will be built. And then we’re on a collision course with the Antichrist coming to proclaim that he’s God.

It tells us in verse 8 of 2 Thessalonians 2, and then shall that wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the Spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming. So he is talking about the Antichrist, the wicked one being revealed in the tribulation after the rapture, and this one will be destroyed by the Lord himself with the Spirit of his and he will destroy him with the brightness of his coming, first thine the Santa Christ even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan, with all power and signs and lying wonders.

So the antichrist will come and be able to do miracles, great miracles, as Satan has the power to do miracles, and he will deceive people on the earth by the powers that he has and the miracles he is able to do, and this man will actually walk into that third temple and proclaim to be God. So at the end of the tribulation when Christ returns, he will defeat the Antichrist and then Christ himself will enter that temple and fill it with his glory and the kingdom age will begin a thousand year day called the day of the Lord where the earth will be at peace and it’s going to be a grand time for the world to enjoy.

Well, I’m Bibleline. This is Bibleline. I’m Dr. Inchwinds. It’s great to be with you. We have some questions here that are left from the affair. We’re going to try to take some of these down. What in plant city Florida calls in he says after the resurrection of Jesus when did the concept of the Trinity become accepted and do the churches reject this concept I’m thinking about the Jehovah’s Witnesses. Thank you. Well the Trinity has been around since the beginning of the Bible.

If you read Genesis 1 1 it says in the beginning God The word God in the Hebrew there is the word Elohim. Elohim is a plural form for the word God. The I am ending in the Old Testament, always let you know that a word has the plural ending. Now you say, well plural is just two, no, not in Hebrew. In Hebrew, plural is three. In the Hebrew language they have words that are singular that only mean one. And then they have words that are dual that mean two, and plural begins with three.

So really it says in Genesis 1-1 that the Trinity, the Godhead working together in concert, God the eternal Father, God the eternal Son, and God the eternal Spirit created the heavens in the earth. Then in verse 2 you have the Holy Spirit, Roger. It says there in the Spirit of God, moved upon the face of the waters. Later in verse 26, Elohim, or the plurality of God being displayed there, said, Let us create man in our image after our likeness.

It’s all plural because in the Hebrews, plural, it means three or more. So you have the whole of God in it. And numerous two Testament verses bear out the same concept. When Jesus was telling us the great commission, he said, baptized them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. In Matthew chapter 28 verse 20. And there, of course, it says, baptized them in the name singular. One God, but three separate persons. He exists as three separate eternal persons that God had his one.

So hopefully that helps, Roger. It’s been around forever. Old Testament passages many show the tri unity of God and certainly the New Testament teaches it throughout. Okay, we have a question here that came in from Joe down in South Florida in Pimbroke Pines. He says, how do we explain Romans 2-7 and 2-13? I consider you as a mentor]).I thank God for your ministry. By grace we are saved, God bless you. We will thank you, Jo, Dan, and Pimbroke Pines, and we are going to turn to Romans now and try to answer that question for you.

Romans chapter 2, and we find here, it says here in verse 7, to them who by patient, continuance, and well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality eternal life. Then you mentioned verse 13, where he says this first one first, because it’s here that those who, by patient, continue in while doing the keyword here is seek. If you seek the Lord, you’ll find him. We find that it was true of Cornelius. He did good works. He was a devout man.

He prayed. He gave alms to the poor. God heard his prayer and gave him instructions to find Peter. Peter told him how to be saved. He believed on Christ and was saved. So here’s talking about that God will get the gospel to the one who is seeking and they will find immortality and eternal life. Now in Romans 2, 13 it says, for not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

But the problem is that no one has ever kept the law. There are no doers of the law that have kept all the law. So it’s really talking here about the futility of the law as a means of salvation. And he goes on to say that people are going to be judged according to the gospel in verse 16. And of course the gospel is the message of the death, the barrel, and the resurrection of Christ. Romans 1 16 it says, I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, for if the Gospel is the power of God and the salvation to everyone that believes it.

So when you believe the Gospel you become saved. If you don’t believe the Gospel you are going to remain lost and if you die not having believed the Gospel you will go to hell for all eternity. Thank you Joe. you’ve answered the question for you and we appreciate your calls. Let’s see here. We have another question here that’s coming off the Internet. I think we’ve already answered that one as adherent. We’ll try to catch these as quickly as we can.

Again, we thank you for tuning in. This is Bibleline and Dr. Hank Lindstrom, and we’re here in Jerusalem. We’re at our hotel and bringing this broadcast to you. I hope you’ll listen all this week and kind of keep up with us as we move about. We’ve got some exciting things ahead of us. We’ll be sharing all of these experiences with you when we get the chance to do so here on the radio. That’s exciting. If you want to call in the numbers 1-800-576-3771, 1-800-576-3771, you can also go online and go to BibleLineMinistries.org.

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And a lot of people, when they come by to visit, they say, we just don’t understand how you’re able to be out reaching so far and doing so much when it’s really a few string operation. And we don’t have the big jets to fly around in. In the sight that we don’t have any airplane to fly in. We just do the best we can. Thank God we were able to buy a ticket on aircraft to get here to Israel and back.

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Here’s where we’re here in Israel right now and if you have any questions about anything call in, leave it on our 800 number with our operators 1-800-576-3771 and we’ll get that message as though email it to us and we’ll be able to read your question over the air from Jerusalem and answer your question on the air here on Bibleline. I hope and pray that everybody listening is trusted Christ as Savior, you can’t get to heaven any other way. No one will enter heaven that has not trusted Jesus Christ as Savior.

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And especially this week, I hope you’ll have them tune in to the reports about our trip here in Israel. Again, you can call 800 number anytime you want. You can also go to our website, BibleLineMinistries.org. And also, you can click there on our camera on the homepage and touch our worship services 24-7. That’s exciting. We’ve got to run, but we’ll be back tomorrow. We want you in the meantime to keep looking up. We believe Christ’s return has got to be soon.

I think it’s right around the corner. Just read the news and look at your Bible and you’ll find out that I think without a doubt we’re in the last days. Keep looking up Jesus is coming and we’ll be looking forward to being with you again tomorrow here on Bible. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a presentation of Bibleline Ministries of Tampa, Florida. For donation to Bibleline makes it possible for this ministry to continue in your area. Bibleline’s address is 4811 George Road, Tampa, Florida, 33634.

Or visit Bibleline Online at BibleLineMinistries.com. Be sure to tune in for another edition of Bibleline from Calvary Community Church of Tampa, Florida. We have time being with you today and I hope you’ve enjoyed the program as we’re coming to you from Israel. Isn’t that amazing? we can do that and we’re excited about bringing these programs to you that will give you a little bit of an insight into what we’re experiencing on our trip. Obviously we can’t tell you everything we did all day long or we’d be on the air eight hours or nine hours telling you our experiences.

But we can tell you some of the highlights and some of the exciting things that we’re seeing and experiencing here in the Middle East. We are really living where Jesus lived and where he died. And obviously when he died, he died to pay for the sins of the world. Right now, our hotel is located very, very close to the hill of Calvary. Wow! Can you imagine the very place where Jesus died to pay for the sins of every man, woman, and child that would ever live from Adam to the last man is born and dies at the end of the Millennial Kingdom.

And so this is the place where God provided redemption for the human race. No other city is like this one. And this is the place where Jesus will rule and bring peace to the earth during the Millennial Kingdom. A thousand years of peace on earth can wilt to have been. Really exciting and we’re here and we are enjoying just great whether great hotels, great meals, and we feel perfectly safe and we’re glad to be able to come to you every day from over here in the Middle East.

Right to us, call us, let us know what you’re thinking. If you have any questions, you can call them in and leave them. We’ll be getting those questions and we’ll be answering them on the air for you, so don’t hesitate to call with whatever your question might be. It doesn’t have to be out about Israel. Bible question, we’ll be glad to talk about it and discuss it here on the air. We’ve got a run but we’ll be back tomorrow.

In the meantime, keep looking up. Jesus is coming. If you’re watching the news, it’s really getting close to when Jesus will come back. So keep your eyes looking for Christ and we’ll be back with you Lord willing tomorrow and I hope you’ll join me for Bible and not tomorrow when you come back. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a presentation of Bibleline Ministries of Tampa, Florida. Your donation to Bibleline makes it possible for this ministry to continue in your area.

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