January 1, 2026 • 28 mins
On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (01/01/26), we continue Hank’s message from Colonial Presbyterian Church in Kansas City, Missouri on the art and science of biblical interpretation.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Welcome to a special New Year's Day encore edition of
the Bible answer Man Broadcast with your host, Hank Hannigraph.
On today's special edition of the Bible answer Man Broadcast
will continue Hank's riveting message how to Mind the Bible
for all its wealth, in which he lays out essential
principles every Christian needs to know in order to interpret
(00:28):
the Bible properly. And now here's the President of the
Christian Research Institute, Hank Annigraph.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
We shouldn't be surprised that the basic principles of language
that we unconsciously absorb in early childhood and consciously internalized
from grade school onward are foundational to the grammatical principle
of Biblical interpretation. Let me talk about just a few
of them. One semantics. Semantics is the meaning semantics has
(01:03):
the power to fuel some of the most pernicious cults
in history, including the Jehovah's Witnesses. They look at a
word like firstborn and they reinterpret it. Why because they
are reading a meaning into it that is completely foreign
(01:25):
from the Word of God itself. And so they say
firstborn Jesus is the first born of God. Therefore he
is the first creation.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Of God.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
God created him, and he becomes a junior partner in
the creation of all other things. But that's not what
Paul says in Colossians chapter one. He is the image
of the invisible God, the firstborn overall creation. For by
him all things were created, not all other things, but
all things were created, things in heaven and on earth,
(02:02):
visible and invisible, whether thrones or rulers, or powers or authorities,
all things were created by him.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
And for him He is.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Before all things, and in him all things hold together.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
The context lets us know.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
The meaning, which is not that Jesus is the first
one created or the first one born, but rather that
he is the pre eminent one, very much like David.
He wasn't the first of Jesse's sons. He was the
last of Jesse's sons, and yet he was pre eminent,
(02:42):
Israel's quintessential king.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Metaphor. We have to understand metaphor.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
In fact, perhaps perceived that all language is a dead
wreath of metaphor, and the Bible is no exception. Unless
and until we understand its metaphors, we are bound to
mistake its meanings. When the Bible speaks of God's throne,
(03:11):
flaming with fire, we intuitively recognize that an implied comparison
is in view. Likewise, when we read in Revelation of
the lamps of fire before God's Throne, we apprehend that
there's more going on than mere fire. In fact, as
(03:32):
John explains, the lamps of fire are the seven spirits
of God even that requires interpretation, or the golden bulls
full of incense. John says, they are the prayers of
the saints, or the golden lamp stands.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
They are the churches, the fine linen, bright and clean.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
They are the righteous acts of the saints. And similar fashion,
the images of pure gold and pearlygates are majestic metaphors
describing a far more intoxicating reality. We must ever be
mindful of this reality. The Bible is not a mere
(04:21):
book of riddles perfectly suited for a shallow post Christian mind.
It is a book of symbols that are deeply rooted
in scripture. The reason we have difficulty understanding them is
we simply don't know our Bibles. Instead of interpreting scripture
in light of scripture, we go off on subjective flights
(04:44):
of fancy. As John reminds us, repeatedly. His prophetic words
are in keeping with the words of the Old Testament prophets.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Much more could be said.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Let me move on to the fourth basic Biblical interpretation.
It is known as the historical principle. Unless we understand
the historical context of any given book of the Bible,
we have little hope of grasping its meaning. John wrote
the book of Revelation that I was quoting from in
(05:17):
a particular historical context. We must, ever, be mindful of
the fact that John says that this is the revelation
of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his
servants what must soon take place. He made it known
by sending his angel to a servant John, who testifies
(05:42):
to everything that he wrote. And then the text says this,
blessed is the one who reads the words of this prophecy,
and blessed are those ultimately who understand it and take
it to heart. Why because says John, the time is near.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
It is.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Absolutely unconscionable to take the words soon and near and
render them as meaning anything else.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
This is the prologue to his letter.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Just as we would be woefully misinformed to take a
number like thousand and read it in a wooden, literalistic fashion.
Why because if you interpret scripture in light a scripture,
we see that thousand as a whole number is used
over and over again and always symbolically. God owns the
(06:45):
cattle on a thousand hills. God shows his loving kindness
to a thousand generations. God says to the Israelites, I
will increase your number a thousand times, and time permitting,
I could give you a thousand more examples. So if
(07:08):
we're interpreting scripture in lightest scripture, we recognize that Revelation
was written to seven churches in the epicenter of a
Caesar cult.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
They're told to be faithful and fruitful.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
They're going to suffer for ten days, but their vindication
is going to be an eternal, an everlasting vindication. And
like Revelation, Ezekiel was written within a particular historical context.
To miss that, well, it's to miss its meaning. Ezekiel
(07:45):
was prophesying from the dusty environs of a refugee camp
in the south of Babylon, near the Keebar River, and
from there the prophet looked into the eastern sky and.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
He longed for the glory of God. To return to.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
A temple that had vanished into the rocks that surrounded it.
The point here is that we must not presume that
Ezekiel longed for a third or even a fourth temple
when a second temple had not even arisen from the
ashes of the first. In similar fashion, if we will
(08:27):
become familiar with the historical context of all of the
books of the Bible, along with some plain old common sense,
we will be able to more aptly mine the Bible
for all its wealth. And yet, as significant as the
historical context is in reading the Bible for all its worth,
(08:50):
we continue ascending the glorious mountain of biblical interpretation to
grasp the lofty ledge of biblical type topology. You want
to read about typology, you want to read has God spoken?
Speaker 3 (09:06):
I've got a section in there that I.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Can't touch on now just because of time, but it
is on typological prophecy, and it will open your eyes.
Biblical typology is, without a doubt, one of the most
significant principles that we must master if the Bible is
(09:32):
to open up tw us like a fragrant rose, a
type of course, as a person. It's a place in
redemptive history that prefigures the corresponding but greater reality. The
greater reality in which it finds its fulfillment is referred
to as the anti type. So by way of illustration,
(09:52):
the majestic temple would be the type, the master teacher
would be the antetype. This is what happened in the
first century Milieu. They had a temple of glistening gold
and luminous limestone, and the master was teaching in its shadow.
(10:14):
They didn't want the Master, they wanted the temple. They
didn't realize that the temple had arrived in their midst
And once the temple comes, the temple not built by
human hands, there is no need for the one that was.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
In the Book of Hebrews.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
As in the rest of the New Testament, the Old
Testament history of Israel is interpreted as a succession of
types that find ultimate fulfillment.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
In the life, the death, the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
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(11:11):
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Speaker 1 (15:07):
On this special edition of the Bible answer Man Broadcast
with Hank Cannigraph, We're bringing to you an evening with
Hank how to mind the Bible for all its wealth,
an event that took place at Colonial Presbyterian Church in
Kansas City. Once again, here's Hank canigraph.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
The relationship between the Testaments is typological. It is not
simply that Jesus replaces the Temple as a new but
equal substitute. No, Jesus is far greater than the Temple.
It is not as though the New Covenant replaces the
Old as a more modern but equivalent alternative. No, the
(15:47):
New Covenant is far greater than the Old Covenant, a
better covenant, rendering, as Hebrews puts it, the old one obsolete.
The type is so heightened, it is so intense in
the antetype, that by contrast, it loses its own significance.
(16:07):
All the types, all the shadows of the Old Covenant,
including the Holy Land of Israel, the Holy City Jerusalem,
the Holy Temple of God, have been fulfilled in a
holy Christ.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
It is Paradise, a new Heaven, a.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
New Earth for which our hearts now yearn It is
the Master Teacher. It is not a majestic temple that
forever satisfies our deepest longings.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
And while as.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Yet we have but scratched the surface of biblical typology.
I now ascend to the apex of the art and
science of Biblical interpretation to a principle known as scriptural synergy.
Dubbed the principle imperative and the Art and Science of
(17:01):
Biblical interpretation simply stated, the principle of synergy deems the
whole a scripture greater than the sum of its individual passages.
You can't comprehend the Bible as a whole without comprehending
its individual passages, nor its individual passages without comprehending.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
The Bible as a whole.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
The principle of scriptural synergy underscores the need to grasp
the essence of Scripture's grand meta narrative, the box top
the big picture, a meta narrative that is as multifaceted
as it is majestic. Adam falls into a life of
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perpetual sin. He's banished from paradise. He's relegated to restlessness, wanderings,
separated from intimacy and fellowship with his creater. But the
very chapter that references the fall records the divine plan
of restoration, a plan that takes on definition with God's
(18:10):
promise to make Abram a great nation through which all
peoples on earth will be blessed. Abraham's call therefore constitutes
the divine antidote to Adam's fall. God would make Abram
not just the father of a nation, but the father
of many nations, through whom all the peoples on earth
(18:31):
would be blessed. For God promised Abram a royal seed
who would lead saved humanity into paradise restored. A microcosm
of the grand metanarrative is encapsulated in Genesis chapter twenty two,
where the Father of Faith is instructed to sacrifice the
son of the promise, not a notion that is conjured
(18:55):
up by the child's sacrifices of pagan Canaanites, but a
direct command from the Father above to the Father of Faith,
who reasoned that God could raise the dead. And therefore
Abraham left Bearsheba. He took a three day journey to
the place in Jerusalem where a temple would one day stand.
(19:18):
Whether Jehovah Jirah would allow a human sacrifice was forever
settled by the rustling of a ram in the thicket.
Animal sacrifices, not human sacrifice, would point towards the divine sacrifice,
who three days later would raise himself from the dead,
(19:41):
and in doing that he would become the earnest of
all who will one.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Day rise from the dead.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
As Jesus said, do not be amazed at this. A
time is coming when all who in the graves will
come out. Some will rise to live, and some will
rise to be condemned. The point hearest underscore the need
to apprehend the synergy of a biblical worldview. Apart from that,
we may well miss the import of the Biblical narrative.
(20:11):
President Obama, forty fourth President of the United States provides
the classic case in point, for from his perspective, the
Genesis narrative might be well spiritually sublime, but it is
nonetheless publicly pernicious.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
As Obama put it in.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
His best seller Audacity of Hope and I quote, it
is fair to say that if any of us saw
a twenty first century Abraham raising the knife in the
roof of his apartment building, we would call the police.
We would wrestle him down. Even if we saw him
(20:55):
lower the knife at the last minute, we would expect
the Department of Children and Family Services to take Isaac
away and charge Abraham with child abuse. What he seems
blithely unaware of is that the Biblical narrative can hardly
(21:16):
be recast in twenty first century vernacular. To anachronistically rip
a narrative out of his ancient Near Eastern context and
then use it as a demonstration of well, the superiority
of modern pluralist assumptions is at best misguided.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Not only so, but who today.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Can miss the irony of a twenty first century politician
who thinks it enlightened to allow an abortionist to plunge
the knife into the most innocent among us, and yet
smugly raise his eyebrows, raise his eyebrows at an ancient
(22:11):
who puts away the knife at the command of the Almighty,
who will not abide human sacrifice. President Obama says, the
problem is, and I quote again, folks haven't been reading
their Bibles. I suspect a greater problem is at hand.
(22:31):
Progressives have little concept of the synergy principle of Biblical interpretation,
and as such have failed to mine the Bible for
all its wealth. That you and I not follow in
their train. From this day forth, may you and I
put our hands to the plow, mastering the fundamentals of
(22:55):
biblical interpretation, never looking back until our eyes have seen
the Holy City Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God.
Speaker 5 (23:04):
I close with the words of Solomon. Wisdom shouts in
the streets. She lifts her voice in the square, at
the head of the noisy street, she cries out. At
the entrance of the gates of the city, she lifts
her voice. How long, oh naive ones, will you love
(23:30):
simplicity and scoffers delight themselves in scoffing, and fools hate knowledge.
Turn to my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my
spirit on you.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
I will make my words known to you. Because I
called and you refused.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
I stretched out by hands and no one paid attention.
I'll even laugh at your calmity a mock when your
dread comes, When your dread comes like a storm, and
calamity comes on like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish
come on you. Then they will call on me, but
(24:10):
I will not answer. They will seek me diligently.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
But they will not find me, because they hated wisdom
and did not choose the fear of the Lord Ah.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Dear saints, we are those headed for the new Jerusalem
and God has left us here for a reason. Is
not the past time. It's to make a difference. Only
one life soon twill be pasted. Only what's done for
(24:46):
Christ will last. John saw the river the water of life,
as clear as crystal, flowing from the Throne of God
of the Lamb down the middle of the great street
of the city. On each side of the river stood
the tree of Life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding
its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree
(25:07):
are for the healing of the nations. No longer will
there be any curse. The throne of God and of
the Lamb will be in that city, and his servants
will serve him. They will see his face, and his
name will be on their foreheads. There be no more Knight,
Because we will live in the presence of God. Forever.
(25:30):
Sacred space will invade our place. The veil between the
habitation of God and the habitation of humanity will soon
be removed.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
If that then is so, how then.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Shall we live?
Speaker 1 (25:50):
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(27:08):
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they in fact the very words of God himself? Three
years in the making and based on two decades of
research and reflection, Hank Henagraph's monumental book, Has God Spoken
answers what is surely the most important question facing our world.
In Has God Spoken? Memorable proofs of the Bible's divine inspiration.
(27:32):
Hank counters the contentions of the Bible attackers and clearly
shows that belief in the Holy Scriptures is not a
guess or wishful thinking. It is the only logical conclusion
after an honest examination of overwhelming evidence. Ordered Has God spoken?
From the Christian Research Institute by calling eighty eight seven
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(27:57):
dot org
Welcome to a special New Year's Day encore edition of
the Bible answer Man Broadcast with your host, Hank Hannigraph.
On today's special edition of the Bible answer Man Broadcast
will continue Hank's riveting message how to Mind the Bible
for all its wealth, in which he lays out essential
principles every Christian needs to know in order to interpret
(00:28):
the Bible properly. And now here's the President of the
Christian Research Institute, Hank Annigraph.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
We shouldn't be surprised that the basic principles of language
that we unconsciously absorb in early childhood and consciously internalized
from grade school onward are foundational to the grammatical principle
of Biblical interpretation. Let me talk about just a few
of them. One semantics. Semantics is the meaning semantics has
(01:03):
the power to fuel some of the most pernicious cults
in history, including the Jehovah's Witnesses. They look at a
word like firstborn and they reinterpret it. Why because they
are reading a meaning into it that is completely foreign
(01:25):
from the Word of God itself. And so they say
firstborn Jesus is the first born of God. Therefore he
is the first creation.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Of God.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
God created him, and he becomes a junior partner in
the creation of all other things. But that's not what
Paul says in Colossians chapter one. He is the image
of the invisible God, the firstborn overall creation. For by
him all things were created, not all other things, but
all things were created, things in heaven and on earth,
(02:02):
visible and invisible, whether thrones or rulers, or powers or authorities,
all things were created by him.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
And for him He is.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Before all things, and in him all things hold together.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
The context lets us know.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
The meaning, which is not that Jesus is the first
one created or the first one born, but rather that
he is the pre eminent one, very much like David.
He wasn't the first of Jesse's sons. He was the
last of Jesse's sons, and yet he was pre eminent,
(02:42):
Israel's quintessential king.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Metaphor. We have to understand metaphor.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
In fact, perhaps perceived that all language is a dead
wreath of metaphor, and the Bible is no exception. Unless
and until we understand its metaphors, we are bound to
mistake its meanings. When the Bible speaks of God's throne,
(03:11):
flaming with fire, we intuitively recognize that an implied comparison
is in view. Likewise, when we read in Revelation of
the lamps of fire before God's Throne, we apprehend that
there's more going on than mere fire. In fact, as
(03:32):
John explains, the lamps of fire are the seven spirits
of God even that requires interpretation, or the golden bulls
full of incense. John says, they are the prayers of
the saints, or the golden lamp stands.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
They are the churches, the fine linen, bright and clean.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
They are the righteous acts of the saints. And similar fashion,
the images of pure gold and pearlygates are majestic metaphors
describing a far more intoxicating reality. We must ever be
mindful of this reality. The Bible is not a mere
(04:21):
book of riddles perfectly suited for a shallow post Christian mind.
It is a book of symbols that are deeply rooted
in scripture. The reason we have difficulty understanding them is
we simply don't know our Bibles. Instead of interpreting scripture
in light of scripture, we go off on subjective flights
(04:44):
of fancy. As John reminds us, repeatedly. His prophetic words
are in keeping with the words of the Old Testament prophets.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Much more could be said.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Let me move on to the fourth basic Biblical interpretation.
It is known as the historical principle. Unless we understand
the historical context of any given book of the Bible,
we have little hope of grasping its meaning. John wrote
the book of Revelation that I was quoting from in
(05:17):
a particular historical context. We must, ever, be mindful of
the fact that John says that this is the revelation
of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his
servants what must soon take place. He made it known
by sending his angel to a servant John, who testifies
(05:42):
to everything that he wrote. And then the text says this,
blessed is the one who reads the words of this prophecy,
and blessed are those ultimately who understand it and take
it to heart. Why because says John, the time is near.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
It is.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Absolutely unconscionable to take the words soon and near and
render them as meaning anything else.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
This is the prologue to his letter.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Just as we would be woefully misinformed to take a
number like thousand and read it in a wooden, literalistic fashion.
Why because if you interpret scripture in light a scripture,
we see that thousand as a whole number is used
over and over again and always symbolically. God owns the
(06:45):
cattle on a thousand hills. God shows his loving kindness
to a thousand generations. God says to the Israelites, I
will increase your number a thousand times, and time permitting,
I could give you a thousand more examples. So if
(07:08):
we're interpreting scripture in lightest scripture, we recognize that Revelation
was written to seven churches in the epicenter of a
Caesar cult.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
They're told to be faithful and fruitful.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
They're going to suffer for ten days, but their vindication
is going to be an eternal, an everlasting vindication. And
like Revelation, Ezekiel was written within a particular historical context.
To miss that, well, it's to miss its meaning. Ezekiel
(07:45):
was prophesying from the dusty environs of a refugee camp
in the south of Babylon, near the Keebar River, and
from there the prophet looked into the eastern sky and.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
He longed for the glory of God. To return to.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
A temple that had vanished into the rocks that surrounded it.
The point here is that we must not presume that
Ezekiel longed for a third or even a fourth temple
when a second temple had not even arisen from the
ashes of the first. In similar fashion, if we will
(08:27):
become familiar with the historical context of all of the
books of the Bible, along with some plain old common sense,
we will be able to more aptly mine the Bible
for all its wealth. And yet, as significant as the
historical context is in reading the Bible for all its worth,
(08:50):
we continue ascending the glorious mountain of biblical interpretation to
grasp the lofty ledge of biblical type topology. You want
to read about typology, you want to read has God spoken?
Speaker 3 (09:06):
I've got a section in there that I.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Can't touch on now just because of time, but it
is on typological prophecy, and it will open your eyes.
Biblical typology is, without a doubt, one of the most
significant principles that we must master if the Bible is
(09:32):
to open up tw us like a fragrant rose, a
type of course, as a person. It's a place in
redemptive history that prefigures the corresponding but greater reality. The
greater reality in which it finds its fulfillment is referred
to as the anti type. So by way of illustration,
(09:52):
the majestic temple would be the type, the master teacher
would be the antetype. This is what happened in the
first century Milieu. They had a temple of glistening gold
and luminous limestone, and the master was teaching in its shadow.
(10:14):
They didn't want the Master, they wanted the temple. They
didn't realize that the temple had arrived in their midst
And once the temple comes, the temple not built by
human hands, there is no need for the one that was.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
In the Book of Hebrews.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
As in the rest of the New Testament, the Old
Testament history of Israel is interpreted as a succession of
types that find ultimate fulfillment.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
In the life, the death, the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Don't tune out, We'll rejoin an evening with hank cantigraph
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just a few moments. In the Lord of the Ringsilkin's
character Ferimir voices the thoughts of countless soldiers throughout history.
War must be while we defend our lives against a
destroyer who would devour all. But I do not love
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On this special edition of the Bible answer Man Broadcast
with Hank Cannigraph, We're bringing to you an evening with
Hank how to mind the Bible for all its wealth,
an event that took place at Colonial Presbyterian Church in
Kansas City. Once again, here's Hank canigraph.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
The relationship between the Testaments is typological. It is not
simply that Jesus replaces the Temple as a new but
equal substitute. No, Jesus is far greater than the Temple.
It is not as though the New Covenant replaces the
Old as a more modern but equivalent alternative. No, the
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New Covenant is far greater than the Old Covenant, a
better covenant, rendering, as Hebrews puts it, the old one obsolete.
The type is so heightened, it is so intense in
the antetype, that by contrast, it loses its own significance.
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All the types, all the shadows of the Old Covenant,
including the Holy Land of Israel, the Holy City Jerusalem,
the Holy Temple of God, have been fulfilled in a
holy Christ.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
It is Paradise, a new Heaven, a.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
New Earth for which our hearts now yearn It is
the Master Teacher. It is not a majestic temple that
forever satisfies our deepest longings.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
And while as.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Yet we have but scratched the surface of biblical typology.
I now ascend to the apex of the art and
science of Biblical interpretation to a principle known as scriptural synergy.
Dubbed the principle imperative and the Art and Science of
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Biblical interpretation simply stated, the principle of synergy deems the
whole a scripture greater than the sum of its individual passages.
You can't comprehend the Bible as a whole without comprehending
its individual passages, nor its individual passages without comprehending.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
The Bible as a whole.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
The principle of scriptural synergy underscores the need to grasp
the essence of Scripture's grand meta narrative, the box top
the big picture, a meta narrative that is as multifaceted
as it is majestic. Adam falls into a life of
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perpetual sin. He's banished from paradise. He's relegated to restlessness, wanderings,
separated from intimacy and fellowship with his creater. But the
very chapter that references the fall records the divine plan
of restoration, a plan that takes on definition with God's
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promise to make Abram a great nation through which all
peoples on earth will be blessed. Abraham's call therefore constitutes
the divine antidote to Adam's fall. God would make Abram
not just the father of a nation, but the father
of many nations, through whom all the peoples on earth
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would be blessed. For God promised Abram a royal seed
who would lead saved humanity into paradise restored. A microcosm
of the grand metanarrative is encapsulated in Genesis chapter twenty two,
where the Father of Faith is instructed to sacrifice the
son of the promise, not a notion that is conjured
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up by the child's sacrifices of pagan Canaanites, but a
direct command from the Father above to the Father of Faith,
who reasoned that God could raise the dead. And therefore
Abraham left Bearsheba. He took a three day journey to
the place in Jerusalem where a temple would one day stand.
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Whether Jehovah Jirah would allow a human sacrifice was forever
settled by the rustling of a ram in the thicket.
Animal sacrifices, not human sacrifice, would point towards the divine sacrifice,
who three days later would raise himself from the dead,
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and in doing that he would become the earnest of
all who will one.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Day rise from the dead.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
As Jesus said, do not be amazed at this. A
time is coming when all who in the graves will
come out. Some will rise to live, and some will
rise to be condemned. The point hearest underscore the need
to apprehend the synergy of a biblical worldview. Apart from that,
we may well miss the import of the Biblical narrative.
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President Obama, forty fourth President of the United States provides
the classic case in point, for from his perspective, the
Genesis narrative might be well spiritually sublime, but it is
nonetheless publicly pernicious.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
As Obama put it in.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
His best seller Audacity of Hope and I quote, it
is fair to say that if any of us saw
a twenty first century Abraham raising the knife in the
roof of his apartment building, we would call the police.
We would wrestle him down. Even if we saw him
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lower the knife at the last minute, we would expect
the Department of Children and Family Services to take Isaac
away and charge Abraham with child abuse. What he seems
blithely unaware of is that the Biblical narrative can hardly
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be recast in twenty first century vernacular. To anachronistically rip
a narrative out of his ancient Near Eastern context and
then use it as a demonstration of well, the superiority
of modern pluralist assumptions is at best misguided.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Not only so, but who today.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Can miss the irony of a twenty first century politician
who thinks it enlightened to allow an abortionist to plunge
the knife into the most innocent among us, and yet
smugly raise his eyebrows, raise his eyebrows at an ancient
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who puts away the knife at the command of the Almighty,
who will not abide human sacrifice. President Obama says, the
problem is, and I quote again, folks haven't been reading
their Bibles. I suspect a greater problem is at hand.
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Progressives have little concept of the synergy principle of Biblical interpretation,
and as such have failed to mine the Bible for
all its wealth. That you and I not follow in
their train. From this day forth, may you and I
put our hands to the plow, mastering the fundamentals of
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biblical interpretation, never looking back until our eyes have seen
the Holy City Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God.
Speaker 5 (23:04):
I close with the words of Solomon. Wisdom shouts in
the streets. She lifts her voice in the square, at
the head of the noisy street, she cries out. At
the entrance of the gates of the city, she lifts
her voice. How long, oh naive ones, will you love
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simplicity and scoffers delight themselves in scoffing, and fools hate knowledge.
Turn to my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my
spirit on you.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
I will make my words known to you. Because I
called and you refused.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
I stretched out by hands and no one paid attention.
I'll even laugh at your calmity a mock when your
dread comes, When your dread comes like a storm, and
calamity comes on like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish
come on you. Then they will call on me, but
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I will not answer. They will seek me diligently.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
But they will not find me, because they hated wisdom
and did not choose the fear of the Lord Ah.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Dear saints, we are those headed for the new Jerusalem
and God has left us here for a reason. Is
not the past time. It's to make a difference. Only
one life soon twill be pasted. Only what's done for
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Christ will last. John saw the river the water of life,
as clear as crystal, flowing from the Throne of God
of the Lamb down the middle of the great street
of the city. On each side of the river stood
the tree of Life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding
its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree
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are for the healing of the nations. No longer will
there be any curse. The throne of God and of
the Lamb will be in that city, and his servants
will serve him. They will see his face, and his
name will be on their foreheads. There be no more Knight,
Because we will live in the presence of God. Forever.
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Sacred space will invade our place. The veil between the
habitation of God and the habitation of humanity will soon
be removed.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
If that then is so, how then.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Shall we live?
Speaker 1 (25:50):
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