November 8, 2025 • 28 mins
On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast, Hank discusses the way God used Israel as the axe of His judgment against Canaan, and the question of whether the Israelites who survived the forty years of wilderness wanderings would also survive the prosperity in the land of promise.
Hank also answers the following questions:
My grandmother was Aboriginal, and she believed in the native ways. Did she go to hell when she died? Winston - Calgary, AB (6:49)
Are there any extrabiblical historical records to support the miraculous plagues on Egypt? Jim - TX (15:13)
Can you explain the parable of the fig tree in Mark 13? Dorothy - West Plains, MO (18:40)
How can we be overcomers as Christians when we continue to do the same thing over and over again? Geraldine - St. Louis, MO (23:43)
Hank also answers the following questions:
My grandmother was Aboriginal, and she believed in the native ways. Did she go to hell when she died? Winston - Calgary, AB (6:49)
Are there any extrabiblical historical records to support the miraculous plagues on Egypt? Jim - TX (15:13)
Can you explain the parable of the fig tree in Mark 13? Dorothy - West Plains, MO (18:40)
How can we be overcomers as Christians when we continue to do the same thing over and over again? Geraldine - St. Louis, MO (23:43)
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
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(00:29):
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The following program was prerecorded, and now to begin today's
this broadcast, here's Hank Hanagraph.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Than thought you, Randy. It is always a sobering thing
to read the Bible and to recognize that God used
Israel as the axe of his judgment against Canaan. The
Israelites had survived forty years of wilderness wanderings. The question
was would they also survive prosperity in the Land of Promise,
(01:27):
and if so, adherence to the laws of Yahweh would
be crucial. Israeli course was in transition from the edge
to entry into the land of Promise, and just over
that border, wickedness was reaching its full measure as parents
(01:47):
sacrificed their sons and daughters to Molik. Molik was a
bullheaded deity with a human body and a belly that
burned like the horrors of hell. Children as old as
four were placed in the white hot arms of that monster,
(02:08):
and as the flame would burn the child and surround
the body, the limbs would shrivel up, and the mouth
would actually appear to grin, as if laughing, until it
shrunk enough to slip into the cauldron. The land of
Canaan was at the point of no return, and Israel
(02:32):
would be the acts of her judgment. For four hundred years,
God showed mercy. Now judgment was on the border. Those
who imagine that God was precipitous in his judgment need
only think back on the judgment of Sodom. For ten
(02:53):
righteous people, God would have spared that city, but there
were none. Far be it from you, said Abraham, to
kill the righteous with the wicked. Treating the righteous and
the wicked alike, Far be it from you, will not
the judge of the earth do right. So we see
(03:16):
God's martial instructions qualified by his moral intentions to spare
the repentant, and the author of Hebrews makes that plain
when he notes that by faith the prostitute Rahab, because
she welcomed the spies, was not killed with those who
were disobedient. Not only were she and her family spared,
(03:41):
she was reckoned as true Israel and came to hold
a privileged position in the lineage of Jesus Christ himself. Ironically, today,
the loudest protests against God's judgment on the Canaanites come
from those who clamor for the right determinate the lives
of the unborn children living in the warmth of their
(04:03):
mother's wombs. Today, while the very thought causes the faithful
to recoil in horror and disbelief, they are no longer
located on the border of Canaanite country. We're in the USA,
and nor are we governed by the laws of an
ancient theocratic kingdom. Now the weapons we fight with are
(04:26):
not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they
have divine power to demolish stronghold says Paul. And how
do we do it well? We demolish arguments in every
pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God
by being equipped believers, ready always to give an answer
(04:49):
or reason for the hope that lies within us, with
gentleness and with respect. If it is not for you
as so fault and light in our nation, the nation
will continue to corrupt and corrode. You are called to
be that leavening force. But Jesus said, if the salt
(05:12):
loses itsaulting us, how's it going to be made salting?
And it's no longer good for anything said to be
thrown out and trampled by men. All of that to
say that you have an opportunity to make a difference,
a difference. While there is yet time when I ask
people to support this ministry, it's not for any other
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reason than to build the body of Christ, to equip
God's body to give answers, and use those answers to
reach people with a message. That message doesn't save them
in America. It saves them in more than that. It
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saves them in an eternal sense. It's not just to
give us a better, more prosperous country. It's about the
country that Abram only saw from Afar, a country whose
builder an architect as God. I'm talking about the new
Heaven and the new Earth where indwells righteous as That's
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Winston in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. High Winston. We're going good
her you.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
It's it's all scary. I'm going back into believing in Christ.
I grew up in a Christian home. I'm an Aberginal Natives,
and as growing up I got to know my grandma.
She had a wonderful woman and she taught me the
native ways, respect and all that. And I guess I
just turned my back on God. And I just because
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it did. I thought to myself, if God made me
a natove and gave me this culture, why can't I
practice it? And I did with my grandma, And as
I grew up, I didn't really understand. I'm going back
into believe. The only question I have is my grandma
passed away when I was born. She wasn't saved, but
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she always believed in the Natives way. Because forgive me
for saying this, but she just did not. Back in
the days it was hard for Natives and she did
not trust the white man. Does that mean she's going
to help?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Well, what I can say is this, whether your grandmother,
you mean anyone else. According to the Bible, we all
have the light of creation, which is to say, when
we look at created things, we know that there is
a creator, and we intuitively know that we should worship
the Creator as opposed to worshiping created things. Furthermore, we
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have the knowledge of God written upon the canvass of
our consciousness, and therefore, no matter where we are, we
can receive the light of Christ in any epic of
time and in any place in time. And Paul makes
that clear on Mars Hill when he says from one man.
God made every nation of men that they should inhabit
(08:41):
the whole earth. He determined the exact time and places
that they should live. God did this so that men
might reach out for him and find him, though he
is not far from each one of us. Therefore we
know that your grandmother will be justly judged. All those
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who want a relationship with God can have that relationship.
It's only those who do not want that relationship with
God that will not have it. And remember, it's not
the absence of knowledge that damns, it's the despising of
knowledge that damns. And therefore I would be the last
to sit in judgment on your grandmother. I don't know.
(09:26):
I simply don't know. I know this that if she
responded to the light of creation and the light of conscience,
she could be saved through Christ.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Okay, thank you very much. I appreciate this. And you
know I came across your like I said, I just
got back into believing it, and I thought, I'm not
going to run from what I was brought into. And
your station just came home by accident, and just as
you were answering questions, because I have so many questions
and a lot of questions that I hear on your
(09:59):
broadcast of some same questions I have. And I believe
that I was brought to listen to that radio station
at one moment, and I listened to it every folk box.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Well, bless you, Winston. May you grow the grace and
knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ, and may use you
as a sharp tool in the hands of the Holy
Spirit in touching other people. Remember you're going to touch
people within your sphere of influence that I can't touch.
So get equipped, be faithful, be fruitful. God has a
plan for your life. I appreciate you.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Calling very much for taking a call.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
You got it.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
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Speaker 2 (15:12):
Thank you very much, Randy. Let's go right back to
our phone callers. Next up is Jim listening in Texas.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
Hi, Jim, Hi, Hey, my question is there any extra
goal historical maybe secular records or accounts of supernatural plagues
that brought the Egyptian nations to its knees.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Well, a couple of things. There's not necessarily in Egyptian
archives that have been discovered through archaeology and the like
evidence for this. What you have is biblical evidence for this,
and there's a lot that you can go to. For example,
no nation would be likely to invent for itself and
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then transmit century after or millennium after millennium, this inglorious,
inconvenient tradition unless it had of being enslaved by the Egyptians.
Of course, unless it had an authentic historical core. So
it's as unlikely that the Jews invented the Exodus as
it was that they invented the Holocaust. But there's also
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some tangential evidence that points to this, which is to say,
the Mernefte steel was uncovered. It's a seven and one
half foot black granite stone slab, and it was inscribed
in Egyptian hieroglyphics, and there you have Pharaoh Mernefta boasting
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that Israel is wasted, that she's bear of seed, and
the metaphor implies that Israel's store of grain was destroyed
and they no longer posed a military threat. Well, the
Mernepta steel was inscribed shortly before twelve hundred BC in
a demos that is, of twelve thirty BC. Israel was
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already in the land of promise as a significant socio
ethnic entity, meriting the attention of the mighty Mernefta or
pherom Mernefta. So there is tangential evidence that points to
the Exodus, that points to the truth of what the
Bible's communicating, that this is a core historical reality buttressed
(17:25):
by fact. But I don't think you're going to have
the Egyptians pointing to one of the most inglorious moments
in their history and memorializing that in some way to
point out, look, we just got the heck beat out
of us, you know. But again tangentle evidence.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
Yes, well, you have like historians, you know, who are
really passionate about recording events, you know that from their perspective,
because they've got it that historical event, like Josephus Ambassadas.
So that was that was all I was wondering.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Yeah, and again that's what I'm pointing to. I'm saying
that there is all kinds of tangentile evidence. In fact,
I lay a lot of it out in my book.
Has God spoken particularly with respect to the enslavement of
the Israelites under the Egyptians. So this is not without
historical precedent. And certainly there's also a great and grand
(18:23):
case to be made that the Bible's divine is opposed
to merely human in origin. Then therefore what you have
in terms of the actual historical record that you have
in the bible's trustworthy as well.
Speaker 6 (18:37):
Oh you got it.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Thank you for your call back to the phone lines.
Let's talk to Dorothy. She's listening in West Plains, Missouri. Hi, Dorothy.
Speaker 6 (18:45):
I think my question is in regards to the parable
of the fig tree, and I don't know the exact
definition as a parable of the big tree. Is it
in relation to the rebirth of Israel?
Speaker 2 (19:05):
And now are you talking about Mark thirteen?
Speaker 6 (19:07):
I'm talking about Mark thirteen.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Yees, yeah, well, yeah, well that's what Jesus says there.
He says, learn this lesson from the fig tree. As
soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out,
you know that summer is near. Even so, when you
see all these things happening, you know that it is near, right,
at the door. So what is the lesson of the
fig tree. It's not really about the fig tree. It's
about the leaves of the fig tree, right, And in fact,
(19:32):
to see that for certain, just look at Luke's rendition
where Luke says, look at the fig tree and all
the other trees. As soon as they sprout leaves, you
know that summer is near. So this is a lesson
that Jesus Christ is giving. An object lesson. So you
can see that the generation will not pass until all
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the things he's talked about in the all of a
disc world come to be, and that is Jerusalem and
the Temple will be destroyed. And Jesus makes no equivocation here,
He's not unclear. He says this generation will not pass away.
Had that generation passed away, Jesus would legitimately be counted
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as a false prophet. But all the things that Jesus
Christ described did happen within that generation exactly as he
said they would.
Speaker 6 (20:27):
That's the point, okay, So it has nothing. What prompted
my question was a minister on TV made the statement
that those who were alive and saw the rebirth of
Israel in nineteen forty eight, they would also see the
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Son of Man coming. And I have really done a
lot of searching in the Bible, and this was the
closest thing I could find of what he said.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Yeah, well, of course the all of a discourse isn't
dealing directly and specifically with the second coming of Christ,
but Christ's coming in judgment, so context becomes determinative. And
these kinds of televangelists and their proclamations haven't worked out
very well. First it was nineteen forty eight, and then
they added forty years to that a generation, subtracted seven
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for a tribulation, and came up with nineteen eighty one.
That didn't work out very well. So then they said, well,
it's not actually when Israel became a nation, it's actually
where Israel, modern Israel takes over Jerusalem. And so that
was nineteen sixty seven. Then they added forty years to that,
subtracted seven years for the tribulation, came over the year
two thousand. That didn't work out well. Then they started
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fudging around with how long a generation was. Maybe it's
not forty years, and on and on it goes. But
one thing these modern televangelists have in common is there
one hundred percent wrong, one hundred percent of the time.
They simply don't know how to read the text for
all its worth. Now, not all televangelists believe the same
thing in this regard. Some suggest that the fig tree
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represents the restoration of modern Israel, but there are others
who say that the fig tree is used as an
illustration for the nearness of the second Coming of Christ.
John Walford was an example of that. In reality, what
Jesus Christ is doing is dealing specifically and directly with
judgment that is going to befall Jerusalem in the Temple
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within a generation. And in fact, you can look at
the illustrations that Jesus Christ uses, he's using language of
the Old Testament prophets and then directly and specifically associating
that language, that judgment language, to what's going to happen Jerusalem.
So the problem with the televangelists is they don't know
how to read the Bible for all it's worth, and
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they're joined with modern fundamentals from the left, people like
Barti Irmann, who try to make Jesus a als apocalyptic prophet,
and they take the language the sun, moon and star.
You know, the sun will be darkened, the moon will
not show its light, and the stars will fall from
the sky and so forth. They don't realize that the
exact language is used in the Old Testament with respect
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to judgment on nations, and therefore they don't see how
Jesus Christ is using it. But it's just biblical illiteracy.
It has nothing to do with the Second Coming, has
nothing to do with the restoration of Israel as a
nation under Christian and secular Zionism.
Speaker 6 (23:30):
Thank you for your answer.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
You got it.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
I lay all of this out in great detail again
in my book The Apocalypse Code. Find out what the
Bible really says about the end times and why it
matters today. Back to the phone lines, talk to Gerald
Deane and Saint Louis Missouri. Hi, Geraldine, Hi, Hank.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
How can we be how can we be overcomers? As Christians?
Two things that we've asked God and aid for God
to give us deliverance and help, and yet we continue
to do the same thing over and over again. And
(24:11):
what is the solution to that?
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Well, first of all, keep confessing your sin, because He
is faithful in just and He will forgive your sin
and cleanse you of all and righteouses. But secondly, partake
of the means of grace and also exercise the spiritual disciplines.
Christ modeled that during his earthly sojourn we should partake
of spiritual disciplines, and that also comes with some practical application,
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and that there should be a system of accountability. The
church is that system. Within the church. There should be
some accountability. Because many logs burning together will burn brightly,
but a log that falls off to the side, the
embers quickly die out. You need the body of Christ,
you need accountability, you need help from other believers. Paul
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depicts that in very precise language in Romans chapter twelve.
So partake of the means of grace and the spiritual
disciplines that are offered to you in scripture, prayer, Bible reading,
participation in a healthy, well balanced church. And there are
other spiritual disciplines that are mentioned in scripture as well
that I lay out in my book The Covering.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
Okay, well, thank you very much, you got it.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
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(27:31):
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Welcome to the best of the Bible answer Man Broadcast
with your host, Hank Hanagraph. Our mission is to equip
you with answers to share the hope that you have
within you because life and truth matter. Why because being
armed with truth will equip you to counter the corrosive
worldviews at work in our world today, while experiencing the
(00:29):
authentic Christian life will make you a winsome witness of
the purpose of life, which is to experience union with
God and Christ, both for today and for all eternity.
Our phone number is eight eight eight seven thousand CRI.
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The following program was prerecorded, and now to begin today's
this broadcast, here's Hank Hanagraph.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Than thought you, Randy. It is always a sobering thing
to read the Bible and to recognize that God used
Israel as the axe of his judgment against Canaan. The
Israelites had survived forty years of wilderness wanderings. The question
was would they also survive prosperity in the Land of Promise,
(01:27):
and if so, adherence to the laws of Yahweh would
be crucial. Israeli course was in transition from the edge
to entry into the land of Promise, and just over
that border, wickedness was reaching its full measure as parents
(01:47):
sacrificed their sons and daughters to Molik. Molik was a
bullheaded deity with a human body and a belly that
burned like the horrors of hell. Children as old as
four were placed in the white hot arms of that monster,
(02:08):
and as the flame would burn the child and surround
the body, the limbs would shrivel up, and the mouth
would actually appear to grin, as if laughing, until it
shrunk enough to slip into the cauldron. The land of
Canaan was at the point of no return, and Israel
(02:32):
would be the acts of her judgment. For four hundred years,
God showed mercy. Now judgment was on the border. Those
who imagine that God was precipitous in his judgment need
only think back on the judgment of Sodom. For ten
(02:53):
righteous people, God would have spared that city, but there
were none. Far be it from you, said Abraham, to
kill the righteous with the wicked. Treating the righteous and
the wicked alike, Far be it from you, will not
the judge of the earth do right. So we see
(03:16):
God's martial instructions qualified by his moral intentions to spare
the repentant, and the author of Hebrews makes that plain
when he notes that by faith the prostitute Rahab, because
she welcomed the spies, was not killed with those who
were disobedient. Not only were she and her family spared,
(03:41):
she was reckoned as true Israel and came to hold
a privileged position in the lineage of Jesus Christ himself. Ironically, today,
the loudest protests against God's judgment on the Canaanites come
from those who clamor for the right determinate the lives
of the unborn children living in the warmth of their
(04:03):
mother's wombs. Today, while the very thought causes the faithful
to recoil in horror and disbelief, they are no longer
located on the border of Canaanite country. We're in the USA,
and nor are we governed by the laws of an
ancient theocratic kingdom. Now the weapons we fight with are
(04:26):
not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they
have divine power to demolish stronghold says Paul. And how
do we do it well? We demolish arguments in every
pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God
by being equipped believers, ready always to give an answer
(04:49):
or reason for the hope that lies within us, with
gentleness and with respect. If it is not for you
as so fault and light in our nation, the nation
will continue to corrupt and corrode. You are called to
be that leavening force. But Jesus said, if the salt
(05:12):
loses itsaulting us, how's it going to be made salting?
And it's no longer good for anything said to be
thrown out and trampled by men. All of that to
say that you have an opportunity to make a difference,
a difference. While there is yet time when I ask
people to support this ministry, it's not for any other
(05:34):
reason than to build the body of Christ, to equip
God's body to give answers, and use those answers to
reach people with a message. That message doesn't save them
in America. It saves them in more than that. It
(05:57):
saves them in an eternal sense. It's not just to
give us a better, more prosperous country. It's about the
country that Abram only saw from Afar, a country whose
builder an architect as God. I'm talking about the new
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her you.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
It's it's all scary. I'm going back into believing in Christ.
I grew up in a Christian home. I'm an Aberginal Natives,
and as growing up I got to know my grandma.
She had a wonderful woman and she taught me the
native ways, respect and all that. And I guess I
just turned my back on God. And I just because
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it did. I thought to myself, if God made me
a natove and gave me this culture, why can't I
practice it? And I did with my grandma, And as
I grew up, I didn't really understand. I'm going back
into believe. The only question I have is my grandma
passed away when I was born. She wasn't saved, but
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she always believed in the Natives way. Because forgive me
for saying this, but she just did not. Back in
the days it was hard for Natives and she did
not trust the white man. Does that mean she's going
to help?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Well, what I can say is this, whether your grandmother,
you mean anyone else. According to the Bible, we all
have the light of creation, which is to say, when
we look at created things, we know that there is
a creator, and we intuitively know that we should worship
the Creator as opposed to worshiping created things. Furthermore, we
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have the knowledge of God written upon the canvass of
our consciousness, and therefore, no matter where we are, we
can receive the light of Christ in any epic of
time and in any place in time. And Paul makes
that clear on Mars Hill when he says from one man.
God made every nation of men that they should inhabit
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the whole earth. He determined the exact time and places
that they should live. God did this so that men
might reach out for him and find him, though he
is not far from each one of us. Therefore we
know that your grandmother will be justly judged. All those
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who want a relationship with God can have that relationship.
It's only those who do not want that relationship with
God that will not have it. And remember, it's not
the absence of knowledge that damns, it's the despising of
knowledge that damns. And therefore I would be the last
to sit in judgment on your grandmother. I don't know.
(09:26):
I simply don't know. I know this that if she
responded to the light of creation and the light of conscience,
she could be saved through Christ.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Okay, thank you very much. I appreciate this. And you
know I came across your like I said, I just
got back into believing it, and I thought, I'm not
going to run from what I was brought into. And
your station just came home by accident, and just as
you were answering questions, because I have so many questions
and a lot of questions that I hear on your
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broadcast of some same questions I have. And I believe
that I was brought to listen to that radio station
at one moment, and I listened to it every folk box.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Well, bless you, Winston. May you grow the grace and
knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ, and may use you
as a sharp tool in the hands of the Holy
Spirit in touching other people. Remember you're going to touch
people within your sphere of influence that I can't touch.
So get equipped, be faithful, be fruitful. God has a
plan for your life. I appreciate you.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Calling very much for taking a call.
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Speaker 2 (15:12):
Thank you very much, Randy. Let's go right back to
our phone callers. Next up is Jim listening in Texas.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
Hi, Jim, Hi, Hey, my question is there any extra
goal historical maybe secular records or accounts of supernatural plagues
that brought the Egyptian nations to its knees.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Well, a couple of things. There's not necessarily in Egyptian
archives that have been discovered through archaeology and the like
evidence for this. What you have is biblical evidence for this,
and there's a lot that you can go to. For example,
no nation would be likely to invent for itself and
(15:56):
then transmit century after or millennium after millennium, this inglorious,
inconvenient tradition unless it had of being enslaved by the Egyptians.
Of course, unless it had an authentic historical core. So
it's as unlikely that the Jews invented the Exodus as
it was that they invented the Holocaust. But there's also
(16:20):
some tangential evidence that points to this, which is to say,
the Mernefte steel was uncovered. It's a seven and one
half foot black granite stone slab, and it was inscribed
in Egyptian hieroglyphics, and there you have Pharaoh Mernefta boasting
(16:43):
that Israel is wasted, that she's bear of seed, and
the metaphor implies that Israel's store of grain was destroyed
and they no longer posed a military threat. Well, the
Mernepta steel was inscribed shortly before twelve hundred BC in
a demos that is, of twelve thirty BC. Israel was
(17:03):
already in the land of promise as a significant socio
ethnic entity, meriting the attention of the mighty Mernefta or
pherom Mernefta. So there is tangential evidence that points to
the Exodus, that points to the truth of what the
Bible's communicating, that this is a core historical reality buttressed
(17:25):
by fact. But I don't think you're going to have
the Egyptians pointing to one of the most inglorious moments
in their history and memorializing that in some way to
point out, look, we just got the heck beat out
of us, you know. But again tangentle evidence.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
Yes, well, you have like historians, you know, who are
really passionate about recording events, you know that from their perspective,
because they've got it that historical event, like Josephus Ambassadas.
So that was that was all I was wondering.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Yeah, and again that's what I'm pointing to. I'm saying
that there is all kinds of tangentile evidence. In fact,
I lay a lot of it out in my book.
Has God spoken particularly with respect to the enslavement of
the Israelites under the Egyptians. So this is not without
historical precedent. And certainly there's also a great and grand
(18:23):
case to be made that the Bible's divine is opposed
to merely human in origin. Then therefore what you have
in terms of the actual historical record that you have
in the bible's trustworthy as well.
Speaker 6 (18:37):
Oh you got it.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Thank you for your call back to the phone lines.
Let's talk to Dorothy. She's listening in West Plains, Missouri. Hi, Dorothy.
Speaker 6 (18:45):
I think my question is in regards to the parable
of the fig tree, and I don't know the exact
definition as a parable of the big tree. Is it
in relation to the rebirth of Israel?
Speaker 2 (19:05):
And now are you talking about Mark thirteen?
Speaker 6 (19:07):
I'm talking about Mark thirteen.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Yees, yeah, well, yeah, well that's what Jesus says there.
He says, learn this lesson from the fig tree. As
soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out,
you know that summer is near. Even so, when you
see all these things happening, you know that it is near, right,
at the door. So what is the lesson of the
fig tree. It's not really about the fig tree. It's
about the leaves of the fig tree, right, And in fact,
(19:32):
to see that for certain, just look at Luke's rendition
where Luke says, look at the fig tree and all
the other trees. As soon as they sprout leaves, you
know that summer is near. So this is a lesson
that Jesus Christ is giving. An object lesson. So you
can see that the generation will not pass until all
(19:57):
the things he's talked about in the all of a
disc world come to be, and that is Jerusalem and
the Temple will be destroyed. And Jesus makes no equivocation here,
He's not unclear. He says this generation will not pass away.
Had that generation passed away, Jesus would legitimately be counted
(20:18):
as a false prophet. But all the things that Jesus
Christ described did happen within that generation exactly as he
said they would.
Speaker 6 (20:27):
That's the point, okay, So it has nothing. What prompted
my question was a minister on TV made the statement
that those who were alive and saw the rebirth of
Israel in nineteen forty eight, they would also see the
(20:50):
Son of Man coming. And I have really done a
lot of searching in the Bible, and this was the
closest thing I could find of what he said.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Yeah, well, of course the all of a discourse isn't
dealing directly and specifically with the second coming of Christ,
but Christ's coming in judgment, so context becomes determinative. And
these kinds of televangelists and their proclamations haven't worked out
very well. First it was nineteen forty eight, and then
they added forty years to that a generation, subtracted seven
(21:26):
for a tribulation, and came up with nineteen eighty one.
That didn't work out very well. So then they said, well,
it's not actually when Israel became a nation, it's actually
where Israel, modern Israel takes over Jerusalem. And so that
was nineteen sixty seven. Then they added forty years to that,
subtracted seven years for the tribulation, came over the year
two thousand. That didn't work out well. Then they started
(21:48):
fudging around with how long a generation was. Maybe it's
not forty years, and on and on it goes. But
one thing these modern televangelists have in common is there
one hundred percent wrong, one hundred percent of the time.
They simply don't know how to read the text for
all its worth. Now, not all televangelists believe the same
thing in this regard. Some suggest that the fig tree
(22:09):
represents the restoration of modern Israel, but there are others
who say that the fig tree is used as an
illustration for the nearness of the second Coming of Christ.
John Walford was an example of that. In reality, what
Jesus Christ is doing is dealing specifically and directly with
judgment that is going to befall Jerusalem in the Temple
(22:31):
within a generation. And in fact, you can look at
the illustrations that Jesus Christ uses, he's using language of
the Old Testament prophets and then directly and specifically associating
that language, that judgment language, to what's going to happen Jerusalem.
So the problem with the televangelists is they don't know
how to read the Bible for all it's worth, and
(22:52):
they're joined with modern fundamentals from the left, people like
Barti Irmann, who try to make Jesus a als apocalyptic prophet,
and they take the language the sun, moon and star.
You know, the sun will be darkened, the moon will
not show its light, and the stars will fall from
the sky and so forth. They don't realize that the
exact language is used in the Old Testament with respect
(23:13):
to judgment on nations, and therefore they don't see how
Jesus Christ is using it. But it's just biblical illiteracy.
It has nothing to do with the Second Coming, has
nothing to do with the restoration of Israel as a
nation under Christian and secular Zionism.
Speaker 6 (23:30):
Thank you for your answer.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
You got it.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
I lay all of this out in great detail again
in my book The Apocalypse Code. Find out what the
Bible really says about the end times and why it
matters today. Back to the phone lines, talk to Gerald
Deane and Saint Louis Missouri. Hi, Geraldine, Hi, Hank.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
How can we be how can we be overcomers? As Christians?
Two things that we've asked God and aid for God
to give us deliverance and help, and yet we continue
to do the same thing over and over again. And
(24:11):
what is the solution to that?
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Well, first of all, keep confessing your sin, because He
is faithful in just and He will forgive your sin
and cleanse you of all and righteouses. But secondly, partake
of the means of grace and also exercise the spiritual disciplines.
Christ modeled that during his earthly sojourn we should partake
of spiritual disciplines, and that also comes with some practical application,
(24:40):
and that there should be a system of accountability. The
church is that system. Within the church. There should be
some accountability. Because many logs burning together will burn brightly,
but a log that falls off to the side, the
embers quickly die out. You need the body of Christ,
you need accountability, you need help from other believers. Paul
(25:01):
depicts that in very precise language in Romans chapter twelve.
So partake of the means of grace and the spiritual
disciplines that are offered to you in scripture, prayer, Bible reading,
participation in a healthy, well balanced church. And there are
other spiritual disciplines that are mentioned in scripture as well
that I lay out in my book The Covering.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
Okay, well, thank you very much, you got it.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Appreciate your call. We are at a time for this
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