Bibleline Radio Show – 2009-05-01

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So cherish the old God and God. Till my trophies and last night made us. Welcome to Bibleline with Dr. Hank Lindstrom, a ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida. Declaring God’s love through radio and the internet. Providing real answers to an ever-searching world. To reach Bibleline and pledge your support to keep Bibleline on the air in your community, dial toll-free 1-800-576-3771. That’s 1-800-576-3771. Hi, this is Tom Perry for Bibleline Ministries. Thank you for joining us here today, and we trust that you have your Bible handy.

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We hope that you will plan to join us and open your Bible for this verse by verse study of the Book of Daniel. You might be familiar with some of the favorite topics from the Book of Daniel, such as Nebuchadnezzar dream, the fiery furnace, the handwriting on the wall, the lion’s den, the visions of Daniel and their interpretations. Throughout this series, all of these topics and more will be explored. Please tell your friends and family about Bibleline. If Bibleline isn’t being broadcast in their area, then please ask them to visit our website at BibleLineMinistries.org.

If you’ve missed any of the teachings in this series, or if you’d like to have Dr. Lynch in the book of Daniel to add to your personal study library. Please call our resource center at 1-800-576-3771. Now, if you can, please open your Bible to the Book of Daniel, chapter 7, and join us for Dr. Lindstrom’s teaching for today. So we have here the Ten Horns out of this kingdom, or Ten Kings that shall arise. Another shall arise after them.

He shall be diverse from the first. First he shall subdue three kings. I believe that three countries in Europe that will be taken over by the Antichrist. And that could happen in a heartbeat. How long do you think it would take for our military to take over the three countries where they’re strongest in Europe? I mean overnight. And then Europe is under our control. No doubt about it. And we can see how rapidly that could happen. Then it says the Antichrist will speak great words against God in heaven, against the Most High.

He’s obviously going to be Satan’s man. Maybe he doesn’t even realize he is, but he will be Satan’s man. And he will speak against God and shall wear out the saints of the Most High. If you look up the phrase, wear out in your concordance, it means to brainwash. And that’s exactly what will happen. to beat the Christians down. And aren’t we being beaten down even now, trying to get us to shut our little mouths, not carry our Bibles or pray in public, and not want to fight for our symbols, the Ten Commandments and other symbols in our society.

They want to remove all of that from us. And we’re being beaten down now and brainwashed, but even more so in the tribulation period. And then they’ll think to change times and laws, and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and dividing of time. Boy, aren’t we changing things in our society? No longer is there a break that commemorates the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, but now it’s called spring break. And in the winter, do we have any type of celebration of the birth of Christ, which has been around in our country since the beginning?

No, it’s a winter festival or whatever. And Christian names and Christian terminology are being plucked out of our society and away from us. And all of a sudden we’re going to become in a more secular world that just pulls away the 10 commandments, pulls away the Bible and our influence. And it’s happening rapidly. And notice they shall be given into the Antichrist’s hand until when a time and a times and times and dividing a time occurs. The book of Revelation makes that equivalent to three and a half years.

So now we know the meaning. It means three and a half years. Time was one year. Times is two years. One plus two is three. A half a time is a half a year. So three and a half years the Antichrist, the last three and a half years are the seven years tribulation. Antichrist will control the Western world. But then what? The judgment so sit and they shall take away his dominion to consume and destroy it under the end.

So the Antichrist will be defeated by Christ and his kingdom will be taken away from him. And verse 27, what replaces it? It says, and the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven. This is the phrase that’s made popular in the book of Matthew, where the heavens rule over the earth. It’s called the kingdom of the heavens, where the heavens rule over the earth. Daniel is talking about it, where the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, where the heavens are ruling now over the earth, and there’s going to be peace on us, good will toward men.

Shall be given to what? The believers, as the Millennium begins, it begins with all saved, doesn’t it? All unsaved will be killed, and only believers will enter into the thousand-year rule of Christ. And notice it will be given to the saints of the Most High, whose kingdom is what? An everlasting kingdom and all dominion shall serve in obey Christ. So this is an everlasting kingdom. It’ll last for a thousand years and then be challenged by Satan, but Satan will lose his final attempt in Revelation 20 verses 7 through 10, and then he’s cast into the lake of fire, and then we see it in New Heavens and New Earth, and the kingdom continues on into eternity.

Then it says in verse 28, Hitherto is the end of the matter. for me, Daniel, my cogitations much troubled me, and my countenance changed in me, but I kept the matter in my heart. It troubled him as he saw what would happen in the future, with all these rural powers and this awful evil man to be ahead of this eleventh nation, and how that he would make war against believers, and how he would challenge God himself and speak words against the Most High until the judgment sits and takes it away from him, and Christ who has the kingdom that he receives from the hand of the Father comes back, takes away this other guy, sets up his kingdom, which is an everlasting kingdom.

In chapter 7 we saw, of course, I believe a wonderful passage that lets us know that The United States plays a major role in in-time prophecy that I believe we are the 11th nation. We will see, or maybe we won’t see, because we’re leaving at the Rapture, but out of this country I believe the Antichrist will rise up and he’ll be somebody that’s high up in office that will be the President when it all happens because he’ll have the authority then to control people.

And we’re seeing those things happening right now, things that the Antichrist will do. We know that he will control everybody’s buying and selling. In Revelation 13 it talks about a mark. And that will allow for you to be scanned. And all your buying and selling controlled. And you won’t have to carry your wallet if you’re living in the tribulation period because all of your transactions will be done electronically. And you can leave your wallet at home. And it’s interesting how the people are seeing advantages in that, and of course also you’ll be tracked.

And some parents feel that it’s very valuable that their children can be tracked and they can know where their children are or if they’re kidnapped they wouldn’t be able to find them. And so on. So there are positive reasons to get the mark, but obviously we know there’s going to be an evil use of that mark that will control your buying and selling work. The technology here is what we’re saying right now for these things to be fulfilled in our time and kind of scary.

So I’m just going to remind you of Daniel 7 verse 8 one more time and it talks here about 10 horns which represent 10 nations that were a part of the ancient Roman Empire and And how these ten will spawn a younger nation, another nation, a little horn that will become stronger than, a more powerful than, and there’s no doubt we are it. There’s only one nation in the world that can meet that description that has really come forth out of Europe and become a younger nation stronger than Europe.

And according to this verse, the Antichrist himself will be so identified with this nation that he’ll be also called the little horn. And we find that he will apparently militarily take over Europe, and that’ll be easy for a president to do with our military already present there. And you could probably figure out which three countries… The first one is the one. In fact, it’s interesting, although we have the European Common Market. There are three nations, Germany, France, and England, that are spoken of as a trilogy within the common market.

Isn’t that interesting? Those are probably the three that will go down because our military is right there. And so the rest of Europe will immediately come under the Antichrist control. And then the Antichrist will leave, of course, already I think it’s happening. To take over the middle, East and the oil and I believe the oil is the hook that draws the nations into the Middle East because that’s where all this oil is underneath the desert sand. And I think we’re watching these things happen.

Thank you for joining us. We hope that you’re enjoying today’s teaching on the book of Daniel. You are listening to Bibleline with your host, Dr. Hank Lindstrom. Bibleline is a teaching ministry that is dedicated to reaching out to people with the truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ. If you have not trusted Jesus as your Savior, we encourage you to do so. Please visit our website at BibleLineMinistries.org for information that could change your eternity. We pray that you will come to trust Jesus as your Savior and be saved to the glory of God.

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Yes, I had a question. I just wanted to know, could you clarify it or try to get a idea of what it is? Sure, I’ll be happy to. The Rapture is described in 1 Thessalonians chapter 4 verses 13 through 18. And there it talks about a group of people that will be living when Christ returns, that will never experience death, they’ll simply be caught up to meet the Lord in the air. And it says it in verse 17 of 1st Thessalonians chapter 4.

It says that we which remain in our lives. So you’re still alive in your body when Christ comes and shouts in the upper atmosphere. And it says those of us which remain in our lives will be caught up in the the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. The word caught up or the phrase caught up is the meaning of the word rapture. The word rapture does not occur in your Bible, but I think it’s better than it doesn’t because most people don’t know what the word rapture means and they’d have to go to the dictionary and look it up.

But it means caught up. Here the Bible says it will be caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. So it’s pretty clear that a group of people will meet the Lord in the air. It’s when we get our brand new bodies and it says from that point we’ll ever be with the Lord. And these are words of comfort to believers who are living in this world that we could be caught up to meet the Lord in the air, but in any case the previous verse says if we’ve already died as a believer we’re going to get our resurrection bodies at that event.

But there will be a group right at the very end of the age which could happen at any time. I think we’re very close. We’ll meet the Lord up in the air. Hope that helps. Yeah, and you say what chapter was it first the salonians for? 13 through 18 You got 13 chapter 4 versus 13 through 18 first that’s a lot of months Okay, thank you very much. You’re welcome Patrick. Thank you so very much. Okay. We now have John and Chesterfield Virginia and John welcome to Bibleline your own here Hey Pastor Hank yeah, and one they want to ask you this question for months but could never get time to call you and you got your Bible handy.

I do. All right. Chapter 13 in the book of Luke verse 4 of those 18 upon whom the tower in Shalom fell and slew them. Thank you that they were sinners above all men that dwell in Jerusalem. Is he saying those 18 were all saved? Oh, no, not at all. But what he’s talking about there is that the people who had read about that terrible tragedy where the tower fell upon him, he says in the middle of the verse, think ye…

Think ye, think ye that they were sinners above all men and their thinking was wrong. So he tells them to repent which means to change your mind and realize that they weren’t. In other words, the people that were reading that were self-righteous and saying, I’m a good person and I wasn’t there when that tower fell and I wasn’t killed by it because I’m a good person. But those people probably were nasty dirty sinners and got allowed that tower to fall on them because they got what they deserved.

And here Christ is speaking to religious self-righteous people and said you need to repent or change your mind and realize that you’re also a sinner equally deserving of punishment and unless you change your mind and recognize that you’re a sinner you will also perish. We need to recognize that we need a Savior and change your mind about our condition that we are not eligible to enter heaven by anything that we do but we need a Savior we need Christ and he’s telling us to change our minds just as he told those people who are thinking was wrong.

Do you think that they were sinners above all men? The answer is no. He says, I tell you nay and except you change your mind and recognize your own true condition before signification. You will obviously perish. So when the world traits on a fail and all those 3,000 people were killed, we don’t know whether they were saved or sinners, right? No, we don’t, not at all. But I’m sure there were many of those that were believers and are there with the Lord today and tragically for those who died without Christ they’re forever lost.

Right. Right. Thank you so much for answering that question. Alright. Good morning my man for months. Okay. Well, glad you called in. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Okay. And that was from Chesterfield, Virginia. That was John. We now are going to go to Charles in St. Petersburg. Charles, welcome to Bibleline you’re on the line. Charles, you’re on the air. Okay, my question is please explain for me chapter of Matthew Matthew 24 Okay 15 and 16 The whole chapter Alright, well Matthew 24 we have Christ being asked the question What is coming any outlines a number of things that will happen after the rapture during the tribulation?

that precede his second coming. The rapture and the second coming are not the same event, and the rapture is when Christ catches us out and ends the church age which began at Pentecost, and then the seven years there are the last seven years of the Old Testament that when concluded will bring about Christ’s return out of heaven to actually rule physically on this earth as king from Jerusalem. And during the tribulation period, it says in verse 14, and this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached.

Now the gospel of the kingdom is not the message that I’m preaching right now. The message of the gospel of the great is what we are to be preaching, that’s the message of salvation from hell to heaven, but the gospel of the kingdom is the good news that the kingdom is about to be established. That message was preached when Christ was here the first time and was a message that the kingdom was at hand, that it could have been established at any time if the Jewish people had only accepted Christ as their king.

But we find that Christ was rejected and that message was abandoned and it will not be preached again till the tribulation period. And we know that many millions of Jews will trust Christ as their savior and they will accept him as their king and he’ll come back and set up his kingdom here on the earth. Verse 15 is talking about the antichrist when he goes into the third temple that will be rebuilt right after the rapture and he desecrates the temple, stops the sacrifices that will have been resumed and places his image in the temple.

It’s called the abomination of desolation and it’s a warning here to those Jews that are living in the tribulation period that they are to flee, run from the mountains, to get out of Jerusalem and that’s because the antichrist will turn against the Jews and try to kill as many as he possibly can. And we believe that Jews will flee over into the country of Jordan, to the Rock City of Petra, where they’ll be safe during the last three and a half years of the tribulation period until Christ comes back and then he’ll gather them and lead them out of there back to Israel.

Hope that helps a little bit. Did I miss anything? And I think he must have hung up. Hopefully that helps a little bit. And thank you for that call. And we now are going to George in St. Petersburg. George, welcome to Bibleline You’re On The Year. Yes, I’ve wanted to be connected to the pain of a woman being. Well, obviously the Bible teaches that women are not to usurp the authority over the man in the spiritual matters, and it tells us that in First Timothy, if you have your Bible there, you can look it up for yourself.

But in First Timothy chapter 1, and let me, chapter 2, rather, it is a great clear passage about this whole thing. It says in my Bible, in years as well, I’m sure, verse 11, let the women learn in silence with all subjections, verse 12 says, but I suffer or allow not a woman to teach nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. So it’s quite clear here that the woman is not to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.

So I believe that women preachers and women elders and deacons are all forbidden in the Bible that God could have chosen six women apostles, but He didn’t. He chose twelve men as apostles. The first deacons that were chosen in Acts 6 were all men. He didn’t choose three women and four men or four women and three men. all seven deacons there chosen that were men. And throughout the Bible, this is God’s intention. And there are two reasons why given here, and it says in verse 13, 1 Timothy chapter 2, for Adam was first formed a Neve.

So that was the first reason God’s order was that he created Adam first. So Adam was given the spiritual headship and responsibility, not Eve. Secondly, says here Eve was deceived, Adam was not deceived back there in the garden. So women apparently as they are made differently than men think more emotionally, men think more factually. And so women therefore are more easily deceived as they think more emotionally. You’ll see that with a number of the cults being started by women.

The seven-day Adventist with LNG white, obviously they think with their heart and they just can’t imagine a hell. So L.M.G. White said there is no hell. You’ll find that Mary Baker Eddie of the Christian scientists, she said there’s no hell. She couldn’t imagine that. So in her book, The Key to Science and Health in the Scriptures, she says that that’s an error in the Bible. That’s you’re not to believe that, that there is a hell. I just got a letter this morning from a list around in California and he says that God has redeemed all of us.

Do not promote the pagan hell. Hades is right out of the Egyptian mythology. We do not choose to go there like so many teach. If you’re teaching hell, I would ask you to stop dragging God’s love through the mud. Be blessed to know that he has gone even over theology and garbage that is being taught. So here’s a man named Gary out in California who tells me that everybody is going to be saved and nobody is going to go to hell that there is no hell and I need to stop preaching on hell.

Well obviously the Bible teaches hell and it predates everything else. So obviously from the very beginning of the Bible the Bible talks about an eternity in hell for those that are lost and the Bible teaches in the Old Testament that the soul would never die and the fire would never be quenched and Jesus says the same thing in the New Testament about those who die without Christ they’ll be forever lost. And so obviously we have to appeal to the scriptures which we believe our gods were.

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That’s 1-800-576-3771. The Bible says in 2 Timothy 2.15 study to show myself approved on the God as a workman that needed not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. Now, obviously, it tells us that we’re to study our Bible, and that in pli is a little more effort and a little more concentration than just to read the Bible. A lot of people say they’ve read the Bible through, but have you ever taken time to study? Then it says there to study to show yourself approved.

The approval that is talking about in 2 Timothy 2, 15 is approval before God at the judgment seed of Christ, where all believers one day will give an account for what they have done since they have been saved as to the degree of reward or loss of reward they will have as they enter heaven. Salvation is a gift. It is received when you trust Christ as your Savior. But every believer one day give an account for rewards and their works will be judged to determine the degree of reward or loss of reward as they enter heaven.

So as a believer, you want to find yourself approved. And in order to do that, you need to study the Word of God to find out what God wants you to do and how He wants you to do it. And to follow the pattern, the blueprint that’s in the Bible will allow you to be a workman that will be approved one day for rewards and God’s blessing in eternity as well as blessings here and now. 2 Timothy 2 15 is the verse we’re talking about study to show thyself Approved not for salvation and it says there as a workman Obviously, we don’t study the Bible to become a bookworm.

I had a wrong impression as a child that Christians like to just become bookworms But we don’t study to be a bookworm We study to be a workman in other words the whole purpose is that we’re going to serve we’re going to be living for Christ and accomplishing his purposes and the Bible tells us what we ought to do and how we ought to do it. And so you need to study so you could be a workman and then it goes on to say that does not need to be ashamed.

There will be believers ashamed at the Judge of the City of Christ. That’s what James is warning his readers about in James chapter 2. When he talks about Faith without Works’ dead, he’s talking about Christians who have no works, will have no rewards. And as a consequence, they will suffer the loss of reward, and there will be regret, sorrow, tears, and a shame-ness. And this verse tells us that if you study to be approved for that judgment when we stand before the Lord, as a workman, you will not have to be ashamed.

God will bless you and reward you for your faithful service, and a Christian does not have to be ashamed. So that’s what James is warning about. James is talking to Christians about getting off their blessed assurance and doing something significant for God. And if as we do that according to the Bible and following the orders and the instructions given in God’s Word, then we’ll be able to have rewards. Then it says in the last phrase, the 2 Timothy 2 5 2 15, rightly dividing the word of truth.

This is where many go wrong and obviously rightly dividing means that we take the Word of God and we divide it correctly, rightly dividing it. And that is we separate doctrines so that we don’t mix things up. There’s a tremendous difference between the first coming and the second coming of Christ. There’s a tremendous difference between the rapture and the second coming of Christ. obviously a difference between what happens to the believer and what happens to the unbeliever. And also there are two separate judgments, one for the believer that will determine the degree of reward or loss of reward in heaven, called the Judgement of Christ described in 1 Corinthians chapter 3 verses 11 through 15.

But there’s another judgment for unbelievers where the unbelievers will have their works examined to determine the degree of punishment Hell described in Revelation chapter 20 verses 11 through 15. So you’ll find that if you’re a believer you’re not going to be at the Great Wytherin Judgment, you’re going to be at the Judgment State of Christ. If you’re an unbeliever, you’re not going to be at the Judgment State of Christ, you’re going to be at the Great Wytherin Judgment. You have to be able to separate out.

You have to separate between salvation and the Christian life. So many preachers mix it all together in one great big mixing bowl and leave you and me mixed up if we listen to them because there’s a difference between being saved and a difference between that and being a servant of Christ or a follower of Christ. Anyway, we are going to go back and do the second half hour of Bible. And so here we go. We’re going to do Bible and the second half hour right now.

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We hope that you will plan to join us and open your Bible for our verse by verse study of the Book of Daniel. If you have missed any of the teachings in this series, please call our Resource Center at 1-800-576-3771. Now please join us as we return to our question and answer segment and then we’ll return to more Bibleline teaching from Dr. Hank Lynch. We have a couple of offers here. We have Steve in Largo, Florida. explain Matthew 7, 13, and 14, and in Matthew 7, Jesus is talking here about false teachers, and He tells us that narrow is the way that leads unto life, and broad is the way that leads to destruction.

And He tells us that few find the narrow way, but many try to enter through the broad way and will actually go to hell. And what he’s saying there is that Jesus is exclusively the only way to heaven. Narrow means there’s only one way and you have to go through that one way which is Jesus to go to heaven and there are many ways to go to hell. Now O for a win for you right now is teaching that there are many ways to go to heaven.

That is the broad way, the popular way and most people are going to try those many different ways and guess what? They’re not going to be able to enter heaven. Christ said in John 14, 6, I am the way, the truth in the life, and no man cometh unto the Father but by me. Now what is so sad is that the NIV translation, the new King James translation, and numerous other ones changed the word narrow and translated hard. That’s a totally different concept.

And it’s not hard, it’s narrow. means that there’s only one way Christ is exclusively the way to heaven. I’ve had people over the years tell me, boy you’re narrow-minded. You mean that only that those who trust Christ will go to heaven and all those in the world that don’t trust Christ that believe in some other way are going to go to hell? Well yeah that’s what the Bible says and if you want to call me narrow-minded then go ahead.

I didn’t write the Bible. I’m just telling you what the Bible says and so it It is narrow, but it isn’t hard because Jesus made it easy. Jesus paid the penalty for your sin, and if you’d only trust Him, you would be saved. But unfortunately, most people are trying another way to have an other than Christ alone, and they will not be saved. Well, I hope that answers a question for you. That was Steve in Largo, Florida. We have Ryan in Tampa, Florida.

He calls in Job, where does it say that God will keep you alive through sickness and disease in order for you to hear the Gospel? That’s in Job chapter 33 and there God tells us that a person who is seeking, God will keep them alive until they hear the Gospel and God will bring a messenger to them that will tell them about how they can be saved. And so if you’re a seeking person, God guarantees that you’ll find him.

I love Jeremiah 29 verse 13 where it says, and you shall seek me and find me when you shall search for me with all your heart. So obviously we ought to recognize we have to seek the Lord and if we do, God will see that the message will get to us. Either we will bump into a witness in Christian or a witness in Christian will bump into us, but God will arrange a meeting with somebody who will share the gospel with you.

We’re now going to go to Floyd in New River, Florida. And Floyd, welcome to my blind. You’re on the air. How are you doing, Pastor? Good. I’m calling for my different location here. I would listen to you five years. You still standing for him or what you believe, huh? Absolutely. And I will for the next eternity. Now, new Christians are sure to know about who are not that knowledgeable of the Bible and stuff. And I know everybody. We want to get deeper in God’s word and stuff like that there.

You basically know a lot of things about the Bible and stuff like that there. But in Revelation 3, 20 years coming to do it not. You were right about that that was speaking of a church. But yeah, there’s a lot of things that Revelation is like a popular tradition speaking of one thing, but meaning something else. And you could understatement say the same thing about Jesus coming to you, how this whole, he dwells inside you, his spirit dwells in you, and the spirit have to be somewhere, you know what I’m saying?

So I don’t think we should be through a rock, that hurt a minister who is using that. I don’t think that’s something that’s your middle. I mean, we try to save all souls and stuff like that and trying to keep people from stealing and killing and stuff like thatntax. You’re like turning pranselvation into a science project. Oh, I wanted to shift. Wait a minute. I think that you’re missing the point here. I was in a church that did that and I was lost.

I would have gone to hell if I had not had somebody intercept my course and tell me that that was not how you get saved. You’re saved when you trust in the death and shed blood of Christ. And that is not what I was taught. I was taught that I had to invite Christ into my harder life. Now, Christ does come in and dwell the believer, but it’s a consequence of our salvation. In other words, you are getting it twisted around where you think that maybe you could ask for a consequence and be saved.

But when we trust Christ, then I have a sheet that I’ve written an article and I’ve written 39 things that happened at the moment you believe. the moment you believe one of those things is that Christ does come in and dwell in your body, and yes, He does live in you. And there are more than 39 things that happen, but they’re all consequences. You can ask for a consequence and not be safe. For example, one of the consequences of salvation is that you won’t go to hell.

So you can ask God all day long. I don’t want to go to hell. Please don’t send me any help. Please, God, don’t let me ever go to hell. And you can do that all your life and go to hell. Because unless you trust Christ, you will not get the consequence of trusting Christ and not go to hell. You can say to God, I want to go to heaven. That’s a consequence of salvation. I want to go to heaven.

I want to go to heaven. I want to go to heaven every day. Lord, I want to go to heaven and say, please Lord, let me go to heaven and you’ll go to hell. Because unless you trust Christ and His death and shed blood, you’ll not go to heaven. So this is not a side point. This is a major point. This is the difference between going to heaven or hell. And it’s very important that a person understand that. We are excited about the fact that we can explain and make clear what the Bible really does say because the devil is in the business of blinding people so they…

important. people don’t realize that what we’re talking about here is the difference between whether you’re saved or lost. And as I said just a moment ago, if you go to our car dealership and you tell the dealership give me that car, I’m asking you for that car. I want that car. He’s not going to give me the car unless you pay for it. And the same thing is true. And you can ask God for salvation, but unless you trust Christ and the payment that He made for you at the cross, you’re not going to get it.

You’re not going to get salvation. You will go to hell. And boy. I sure don’t want people’s blood on my hands. I want to share with them the truth so that when they die, they’ll wind up in heaven and be there with me. You know, when a surgeon malpractices, the patient dies, and that’s a tragedy. But when we as Christians malpractice, the person goes to hell. That’s far worse. And I think most Christians are malpracticing. They’re not careful. see that they have to be skillful like a surgeon and give a correct message out and that unless they do the people will perish.

We have Dave in Plant City, Florida and Dave Good morning Dr. Hank, I appreciate you taking my call today and how are you? Good. I know Hebrews one tells us that God called no man or no angel or nothing. The son, could you explain to me in Genesis 6 to what they mean by sons of God? Well absolutely Dave. Dave and he does call men sons of God. John 1 12 tells us to as many as received Christ to them God gave or granted authority for them to become the sons of God to those that believe on his name.

So the new birth occurs when you trust Jesus Christ as your only hope of heaven. And there we have the believers of Noah’s day. He’s called the sons of God and they married unbelieving women that were called the daughters of men. When you have that expression, sons of men or daughters of men, it always refers to unsaved people, people that are in their natural state without Christ that have not been born again. But when you read about the sons of God or daughters of God, it’s talking about those who have been born again.

Now in God’s family by the new birth. And what happened there in Genesis 6 and verse 2 is that believers were marrying unbelievers, What happened? and as a result the gospel was not passed down to the children and the whole world in that day got corrupted and it’s happening again today in our world as we have people that are marrying unbelievers. And obviously when it comes to the children when they come along they can’t agree and the children generally don’t get any Bible education at all and we’re raising up a whole generation that are lost today that do not know the Lord.

But it’s true in Hebrews 1 5 God never ever called an angel his son. So angels are not the sons of God and it’s talking there about believers and I hope that helps. That’s great. Cain he ended it. His lineage all ended at the flood. They all died. Everybody, there’s nobody around today that’s of the lineage of Cain. They all died. Right. One quick question. When it talks about Seth being born, I think Adam lived 130 years and it mentions Cain and Abel and nothing in between there.

Adam had other children in between there. They just didn’t get mentioned. Is that correct? That is correct. That is correct. There was a lot of kids in chapter 5, it tells us they’d get sons and daughters. But what we have there is the genealogy of Christ and God was going to have the Messiah, I think, come through Abel. But Satan was able to take and use Cain. The Bible says in 1 John that he was of that wicked one or Satan.

And so Satan had him kill able to prevent the Messiah from coming. And then of course God raised up, wanted to replace him. And so the lineage of Christ goes from Adam to Seth and on down till finally we have Jesus born directly related back to Adam and also back to King David and also of course Abraham. He came of the lineage of Abraham and was actually a Jew taking on flesh out of the tribe of Judah. Jesus all came through Adam.

Not the whole human race, but definitely the Messiah did. That’s why it doesn’t… That’s why it doesn’t… That’s why it doesn’t… No. Well, I mean, for the most part, we probably did, but it already reduces back to Noah, because Noah’s world died and everybody on the planet is a direct descendant of Noah. Okay, thank you so much and have a great day. I’m so enlightened. Okay, thank you, Dave, and Plant City, Florida. This wraps up today’s question and answer segment about the Bible, featuring Dr.

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And I think we’re watching these things happen. Let’s, before we get into chapter 8, turn to Revelation 13 for just one moment because look at the qualities of the Antichrist. In Revelation 13… It tells us about him and it says in verse 4 that they people around the world will worship the dragon. We see Satan worship increasing around the world and demon worship. And we see that that will continue to apparently to increase, especially after the rapture. They worship the dragon, verse 4 of chapter 13, page 1342, and it says, which gave power unto the beast, that’s the antichrist, and they worship the beast or the antichrist, saying, who is like unto the beast, who is able to make war with him?

And don’t we sovereignt right now, where the United States and our president kind of tells nations, here’s where you need to behave and here’s what you need to do and they’re starting to conform and they’re afraid of a military confrontation with us. We’ve already shown that we’re willing to go after the enemy and we’ve gone into Afghanistan, we’ve gone into Iraq and right now Syria is kind of backing down for the first time in all these many years where she’s occupied Lebanon.

Egypt is apparently talking about more democratic type of elections and things. And it’s interesting to watch what’s happening is that this man will have a great deal of power. And we’re already seeing that happening in this country through our president and the Antichrist will be a very powerful, powerful man. They’re going to say who’s able to make more with him. Obviously, we have the most sophisticated weapons in all the world. And if you’re a smaller nation, you don’t want to engage the United States in war.

They’ve all seen how we’ve been able to take down Afghanistan and Iraq and we obviously have a powerful nation, the only remaining superpower on the earth. And then also it says in verse 5, there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies and power was given to him to continue 40 and 2 months. So he rises the power during the first 3 and a half years and then he remains in power the last 3 and a half years.

And it’s interesting, it talks as we’ll see in coming chapters that in many times he takes over countries peaceably. And it’s interesting that we see somewhat of that now where we have nations afraid of is where we may not have to go to war with them to actually have them come under our control and the Antichrites will be able to do that. Alright, let’s move now over to chapter 8. It says here now in the third year, the reign of King Belchasar, a vision appeared under me, even under me Daniel, after that which appeared under me at the first.

I saw in a vision and it came to pass what I saw that I was in Shushan in the palace, which is in the province of Elam, and I saw vision and I was by the river Yulai. Then I lifted up my eyes and saw and behold, there stood before the river a ram, which had two horns. And the two horns were high, but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last. I saw the ram pushing westward and northward and southward so that no beast might stand before him.

Neither was there any that could deliver out of his hand, but he did according to his will and became great. Now I want you to leap ahead because I know like I am, I’m always curious who is this talking about? Well in the interpretation in verse 20 it says, the ram which thou saw is having two horns are the kings of media and Persia. Now this was a vision that he saw during the reign of King Belchasar which is still the Babylonian Empire.

before the Medo-Persian Empire took over Babylon. You remember it happened on that banquet night when Belt Chasar was having this big banquet. So everything’s not in chronological order here, but we find that back then before that banquet got it already shown Daniel that the Medo-Persian Empire would conquer the Babylonian Empire. And then we have a He-go that comes up in verse five, but let’s go ahead and look at it while we’re here. In verse 21 it says, the rough goat is the king of what?

Grecia or Greece. So here in advance, The Medo-Persian Empire is forecast as being the one that would follow the Babylonian Empire. And then the Grecian Empire, the one that would follow the Medo-Persian Empire, and hear that prophecy is given to Daniel before it ever happens. Quite fascinating. So here he’s seeing the world powers as they unfold, and these are Gentile world powers. And this is the only book that really where God takes and unfolds God’s plan for the Gentile world powers.

alongside of God’s plan for Israel. Most all the rest of the Bible deals with Israel and what’s going to happen, but this one in particular names the world ruling powers. So beginning with Babylon, and then the Mediparasian Empire, the Grecian Empire, the Roman Empire, and then the end form of Rome coming back to life in the ten horns or ten toes that will come back together in the last days. Then there is an 11th nation that rises up and that will be, of course, the Antichrist.

And he will control the other ten and they will then, in turn, take over the Middle East. I’m going to have you go all the way over to the Book of Revelation because we’ll see that the Book of Revelation also encompasses all these world powers. But also we find that it jumps back even further and gives us a total picture of the world powers as they affected Israel and have a part of God’s overall plan for the world. Let’s go to chapter 13 again.

We were there just a moment ago. If you’ll notice here, when it talks about the Antichrist and his kingdom, which we’ve said would be the 11th nation, page 1341. It says here in verse 1, I stood upon the sand of the sea, and I believe the sea is the Mediterranean where these empires have risen up. And I saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.

That is the kingdom of the Antichrist, rising up out of what was ancient Rome. Notice verse 2, and the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard. Thanks for listening to Bibleline with Dr. Hank Lindstrom. That wraps up another edition for today. Please be sure to tune in again next time as we continue our teaching series on the book of Daniel. We’ve enjoyed being with you today and hope that you are following along with us in your Bible.

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Our time is up for today, but we look forward to you being with us again for another edition of Bible ign. Until next time, this has been Tom Perry for Bibleline Ministries, and as Dr. Hank Like to say, and we know it to be true, keep looking up. Jesus is coming. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a presentation of Bibleline Ministries of Tampa, Florida. Your regular monthly donations to Bibleline make it possible for this ministry to continue in your area and on the Internet.

Please contact us today and lend your prayerful and financial support. Bibleline’s address is 4811 George Road, Tampa, Florida, 336-34. Or visit Bibleline Online and BibleLineMinistries.org. Be sure to tune in to another edition of Bibleline from Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida. So many preachers mix it all together in one great big mixing bowl and leave you and me mixed up if we listen to them because there’s a difference between being saved and a difference between that and being a servant of Christ or a follower of Christ.

After we become saved then we are to become followers of Christ and when we follow Christ Matthew 4 19 says, follow me and I will make you fishers of men. Follow me and I’ll make you fishers of men. So a disciple is one who pursues following Christ in order to become a fisher of men. But to be saved you simply come to Christ and trust in the finished work that Christ accomplished for us on the cross of Calvary. So many times believers are confused because preachers use terms that are related to discipleship for salvation.

For example, how many times have you possibly heard a preacher say, I want you to follow Christ today. I want you to take up his cross and follow Christ for sake all and make him the Lord of your life. Well, everything I just said now has nothing to do with salvation. That has to do with the Christian life. And yet, people don’t rightly divide and preachers don’t even rightly divide. Let me just quote to you from Luke 14 verse 27, where it says, Whosoever doth not bear his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.

Let’s just say you can’t be saved. It says you cannot be my disciple. There’s a difference between being saved and being in the cycle. That’s called rightly dividing the word of truth is to be able to separate that out. It says a little bit later here in verse 33 of Luke 14. So, likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsakeeth not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple. So, it doesn’t say you can’t be saved, but to be a disciple, you have to be willing to forsake all that you have.

You have to be willing to take up Christ’s cross. You have to be willing to follow him and come after him. And all of these are requisites for being a disciple, not for being saved. To be saved, we come just as we are, lost and headed for hell, and just simply trust in the finished work of Christ at the cross. I hope you’ve done that, and unless you’ve trusted Christ and Christ alone, apart from all human works, you’ll not be saved.

You know, as believers, we need to write and divide, and that will enable us to be clear in our presentation. Christians are not clear. They’re not able to present a clear presentation on how to be saved. And they’re all over the place. And many preachers the same way. We’ll tell you that salvation is by grace. But then you have to go to mass. You have to do penance. You have to go to confession. You have to turn over your life to Christ.

You have to give Him your heart and all kinds of things which are some of them unbiblical, not even Christian. And yet we’re told to do those things in order to go to heaven. That’s why you’ve got to get into your Bible study, 2 Timothy 2, 15, to show thyself approved unto God as a workman that needeth not to be ashamed rightly divided into order of truth. 2 Timothy 2, 15 is talking the Christian now, and it’s a discipleship verse.

It’s a Christian life verse, and it’s a verse where we’re told as believers to study to show ourselves approved one day when we stand at the Judge of the City of Christ as workmen that don’t have to be ashamed, but will be rewarded for our faithful service because we have rightly divided the word of truth. We have separated the doctrines and made clear the distinction between salvation and discipleship, between the first coming and the second coming, between the rapture and the second coming, between heaven and hell.

And the many different doctrines of the Bible that we need to separate out and make it very, very clear. I’m Dr. Inclins from Mrs. Bibleline. Keep looking up. Jesus is coming, and we believe He’s coming soon. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a presentation of Bibleline ministries of Tampa, Florida. Your regular monthly donations to Bibleline make it possible for this ministry to continue in your area and on the internet. Please contact us today and lend your prayerful and financial support.

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