October 18, 2025 • 28 mins
On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast, Hank answers the following questions:
Are natural disasters a sign of the end times? Ben - St. Louis, MO (0:52)
Do you believe in the Rapture? Richard - Aurora, CO (3:37)
Must we confess sins that we commit in our dreams? John - Topeka, KS (5:17)
What is the origin of the races? Michael - Calgary, AB (6:58)
What is the biblical view of predestination? Is it based on God’s foreknowledge? Wes - Memphis, TN (15:13)
Will all our prayers be answered if we have enough faith? Madison - Columbia, MD (19:32)
Are natural disasters a sign of the end times? Ben - St. Louis, MO (0:52)
Do you believe in the Rapture? Richard - Aurora, CO (3:37)
Must we confess sins that we commit in our dreams? John - Topeka, KS (5:17)
What is the origin of the races? Michael - Calgary, AB (6:58)
What is the biblical view of predestination? Is it based on God’s foreknowledge? Wes - Memphis, TN (15:13)
Will all our prayers be answered if we have enough faith? Madison - Columbia, MD (19:32)
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
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The following program was pre recorded. Now here's the President
of the Christian Research Institute, Hank Canagraph.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Thank you much, Randy, and we'll go over to our
phone callers for step today. Then Saint Louis, Missouri, hie Ben.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Hi Heank, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
You're welcome.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
I just had very a quick question kind of about
something that I've been reading. I'm not even sure the passage.
I couldn't remember it off hand, but it has to
do with signs in the heavens and the earth, to
do with changes in weather patterns, increases in earthquakes. I
just wanted to get your take on it, to see
if you think what has been happening recently, you know,
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within the past few years, is a sign of something
to come, or you know, what's your opinion on that
would be well.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
First of all, the signs delineated in the all of
the discourse by Jesus Christ have nothing whatsoever to do
with the present day. And secondly, I don't think you'd
want to use earthquakes as a barometer, because according to
all the evidence that has extent today, earthquakes of magnitude
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seven point zero or greater have remained fairly constant in
our time. In fact, there are some fairly compelling arguments
that earthquake activity has actually decreased in the last century.
As far as global warming is concerned, I think as
students of the Bible and students of modern culture, we
should learn to ask the right questions and ask them
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in the right order. So if we asked the question,
is global warming or reality? The answer is a qualified yes.
But the operative word here is qualified. What we're experiencing
is a slight warming trend. But we have to exercise
extreme caution in the extrapolation of trends. For example, if
you go back to the first Earth Day, which was
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in the seventies, it was observed amid the specter of
illoming ice age. In fact, four years after the first
Earth day, Time magazine pontificated that the telltale signs of
an ice age were evident everywhere. So I think it's
really important, especially for Christians, not to fall for sophistry
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and sloppy journalism. We should be arbiters of that which
corresponds to reality or that which is indeed, verifiably true.
As far as the Bible is concerned, it doesn't give
us any clue as to when Jesus Christ is going
to return or a peer a second time, only that
he will appear a second time, and therefore we have
to be faithful and fruitful in the meantime. We need
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to be prepared as though he might come in the
next millisecond, and prepare as though his coming is a
long way off. That's the attitude we should have.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Okay, Well, that actually was a very good answer, and
that really it really does help me out a lot.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
I appreciate that you got it.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Ben, Thank you for your callback to the phone line's
Richard next Aurora, Colorado. Hi, Richard, how you doing good?
Thank you?
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Are you believe it a rapture?
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Well, It depends on what you mean by rapture. If
you mean a pre tribulational rapture, no, I do not.
I think that's reading into First Thessalonians chapter four or
John fourteen a paradigm which doesn't have any basis in reality,
a paradigm in which two thirds of the Jewish people
will shortly be eradicated in the Holocaust massacre while Jesus'
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people relax and heavenly mansions. I think that's a frightful
imposition on the integrity of Our Savior in the scriptures.
And neither Paul's portrait of Paradise nor Our Savior's mentioned
metaphor is intended to convey a temporary safe haven in
heaven away from a seven year holocaust on Earth. Rather,
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they represent a glorious picture of a new heaven and
a new Earth in which the dwelling of God is
with men and He will live with them. Not only that,
I think when Jesus says, do not be amazed at
this the time it's coming, when all who in the
graces will come out, some will rise to live, and
some will rise to be condemned, I think that that
is a very clear, clear passage of scripture. It's unambiguous,
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and we should always interpret the cloudy in scripture if
it's cloudy for you in light of this, which is clear.
So short answer, no, I don't hold to a pre
tribulational rapture.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Oh God, bless God, bless you.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Thank you for your call. I've written about this on
the Apocalypse Code. Find out what the Bible really says
about the end times and why it matters today. Let's
go back to the phone lines. We'll talk to John
and Topeka, Kansas.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Hi.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
John, Hello, Hank, glad to be on and thanks for
taking my call.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
You're welcome.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
I just had a question, and I was with some
brothers at a Bible study recently and we got on
the subject of dreams and such. And my question was,
if you have a dream and you commit a sin
in your dream, say you have a nasty argument with
your boss or something. Now, I know, you know, if
you actually do that, that's sin and you need to repent.
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If you actually think that, you know it's also a sin.
You need to repent. But you know, how is your
dream life factor into that kind of thing? Would that
be considered sin or just is that out the realm
of that.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Well, it really depends. But let me say this that
what we do at our conscious waking hours oftentimes affects
what we dream about. And so what I would do
is simply confess my sin, because I recognize that there
are all kinds of sins I commit every single day
that I'm completely unaware of. In that sense, there are
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not only sins of comission, but there are also sins
of omissions. So there are all kinds of things that
I could do that I failed to do, and therefore
I confess my sin. I can't remember or account for
every one of them, but I confess my sins. Those
that I'm particularly concerned about that God brings to my
remembrance I confess verbally. But there are a lot of
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other sins. I say, Lord, I'm a sinner. Please forgive
me and help me conform me more and more to
the image of my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. I
want to go back to the phone lines and talk
to Mike. He's listening in Calgary, Alberta. Hi, Michael, Yes, well,
mister hand He.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
First of all, I'd like to really thank you for
your ministry. I just wanted to quickly let you know
that you know your faith and and and submission to
God has has helped me through some very difficult times
in my life. And and and you've really helped to
strengthen my face. And and I just I love you
and and and God.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Bless you, Thank you so much. Bless you, Thank you.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
Think and I'd like to ask a good question. I've
been asked this by by a couple of different people,
and I really just don't know how to answer it.
It's just the origin of man after after the flood,
you know, since you know noah family was the only
one that survived. You know, how come we have you know,
different races, and we have black people, we have Asian people,
and and you know there's people all over the world
post flood. I really don't know how to even approach
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that question.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Well, I think the first thing that you should always
make clear whenever you approach this particular question is that
in a biblical world view, we see people as people.
We have different genetic proclivities, but we're all people. But
in terms of why we have different genetic proclivities, think
Tower of Babel, which caused different people to be scattered
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all over the world and therefore draw on a fraction
of the gene pool. Geneticists often call this the founder principle.
So groups isolated because of the confusion of their languages,
they only draw upon a fraction of the total gene pool.
So that's one of the explanations. Of course, evolutionists believe
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that this is a function of the evolutionary process, that
some races are headed for extinction, as only the strong survive.
And that's why you had Thomas Huxley, who was Darwin's bulldog, say,
no rational man, cognizant of the facts, believes that the
average negro is the equal, still less the superior the
white man. And then he went on to say it's
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it's simply incredible to think that he'd be able to
compete successfully with his bigger brain, smaller jud rival in
a contest carried on my thoughts and not by bites.
So the evolutionary paradigm say survival of the fittest in
the struggle for existence. So there's a hierarchy of races.
But that's not the biblical worldview. We're just all people
in a biblical worldview, and in the biblical worldview there
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are changes within kinds. But there aren't changes from one
kind to another kind, So a monkey doesn't become a man,
and a lower race doesn't evolve into a higher race.
That's part of the evolutionary paradigm, has no basis whatsoever
in reality, and certainly no part of a Christian worldview.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
So basically, I'm just just looking at a babbel. I mean,
that's that's kind of when people got scattered and how
they kind of, I guess got used to in their
own environment. I guess would that be a good way
to Well.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
They get isolated, and as a result of being isolated
in groups, they only draw upon a fraction of the
gene pool. I mean, that's a theory by geneticis I mean,
I can't say that with one hundred percent certainty, but
that is one of the theories. What I'm saying, however,
is that the changes within humankind are changes that are
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horizontal and not vertical, so that we don't change from
one race into another race. But there are changes within people,
but we're still all people, and therefore all people made
in the image of God should be afforded the same
worth in our view. But again, there are various views
on this. The Biblical worldview is people are just people
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and the genetic distinctions or a function of what happened
to the Tower of Babel. That's at least one explanation.
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Speaker 2 (15:12):
Back to the phone lines. We'll talk next to Wes
listening in Memphis, Tennessee. Hi, Wes.
Speaker 6 (15:18):
Thank I'm a longtime listener, a first time caller, and
a financial supporter of your ministry. I want to thank
you so much for all you do well.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Thank you for your support.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
My question is regarding predestination. I'm in a vigorous debate
with my sister and I've heard you talk on this before,
and I believe that the Bible teaches that salvation is
offered to everyone, and the basis for predestination is God's
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foreknowledge of whether or not we will accept Christ as savior.
While my sister believes that salvation is only offered to
the elect. And I've heard you describe these two beliefs,
but I don't believe i've ever heard you say which
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side you come down on, And I was wondering your thoughts.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Yeah. Well, first of all, I think it's important to
recognize that all Christians believe in predestination. Predestination is a
biblical word, it is a biblical concept. But you're right
in pointing out in the prolog to your question that
the issue is not the word. The issue is the
meaning that you pour into the word, and I think
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in this case it is a very significant issue. Now,
it's never a deal breaker because there are believers who
hold to circumstantial or compatibilistic freedom who are within the
pale of orthodoxy. There are also believers who hold to
what's called libertarian freedom, who are within the pale of
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worth the doxy. But within that debate, which is a
debate within the body of Christ, there are very significant ramifications,
and you've again outlined them in the prolog to your question.
The issue is simply this, can everyone respond to the
wooing of the Holy Spirit. My answer to that question
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is yes, the Holy Spirit woos we can respond we
can either reject the wooing of the Holy Spirit, or
we can respond to the wooing of the Holy Spirit.
Those who believe in circumstantial or compatibilistic freedom, which are
synonymous ideas. Roughly speaking, a hold that God creates everyone
in such a way that they cannot respond to the
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wooing of the Holy Spirit. In other words, everyone is
created so that they cannot respond. But then God regenerates
or if you will, rewires those who are the elect,
and now they have ears to hear, they can respond.
But everyone that God does not regenerate or rewire, they
don't have ears to hear, and therefore, just as a
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cow can't fly, they can't respond to the Gospel. I
don't hold to that position, but I do contend that
that position is acceptable within the pale of Orthodoxy. And
what we've done in this regard, and I think this
is extraordinarily helpful, is we have provided a debate in
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the Christian Research Journal, And what we've done in this
regard is provided a Calvinist and a non Calvinist, and that,
by the way, is a very important distinction. A lot
of people think if you're not Calvinist you're an Arminian,
and that's not the case either. So we've presented the
viewpoint of a very articulate Calvinist and then the counterpoint
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from a very articulate non Calvinist. They debate this in print,
and what you were able to do when you read
that article is you're able to test their arguments in
light of scripture and then hold fast to the good.
So that's what I recommend you do. Hang on. I'll
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send you that article or you can get it on
the web at equipped dot org, and then you can
look at the arguments and see which arguments hold water
when you test them and light to scripture and hold
fast to the good.
Speaker 6 (19:22):
Okay, that would be That would be awesome. I would
really appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
My pleasure. Hang on. Okay, thank you for your support
and your encouragement. Thank you, Hank, God bless you. Madison.
Next Medisine is listening in Columbia, Maryland on the Worldwide Web. Hi,
Hi Medicine.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Hello.
Speaker 7 (19:41):
First of all, I just wanted to say that I
really love your ministry and I'd love to listen and
thank you so much for what you do.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
You got it, Madison.
Speaker 7 (19:51):
I have a question Matthew, I think it's Matthew nine
twenty nine says, according to your faith, it will be
done into you. Why don't believe that if I ask
go to do something, I try or ask God to
do something, but he'll necessarily do it if I believe
it'll happen. But then if that's so, then what does
that verse mean? Can you explain that?
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Yeah? I think what's really important is to get the
basis here of what's going on when we talk about faith,
because faith is only as good medicine as the object
in whom it is placed. So if we have faith
in our own faith, that's misplaced faith. But if we
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have faith in our God, then that's well placed faith. So, ultimately,
as I've said on the Bible answer Man broadcast many times, medicine,
faith is a channel of living trust between a person
and their God. Faith is only as good then as
the object in whom it is placed, and again repeating
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that for a reason, if it's placed in your own faith,
it's misplaced. If it's placed in God, it's well placed faith.
Now how that makes a difference is God sees the
whole of your life. We see just snapshots, so a
lot of times we ask for things in faith that
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we would really like to see happen. But God, who
loves us more than a father loves a child on earth,
he loves us perfectly. He oftentimes knows that what we
want is not really what we need, and therefore he
doesn't grant us through his grace what we're asking for,
because he knows it'll only harm us. And that's why
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our faith should always be augmented with the words, if
it be Thy will, if it's God's will for something
to happen, then it will happen, and it will happen
in accordance with His providence and plan for our life.
So when you go to the passage in Matthew chapter
nine Medicine, then he touched their eyes and said, according
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to your faith, will it be done to you, and
their sight was restored. Now, Jesus in this passage is
the object of their faith, and it was Christ's will
that they be healed. And thus they were healed according
to God's will. But that's not always God's will for us.
God's will for us is not to save us from
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the difficulties of life. It's not even to give us
a panacea it's to give us peace in the midst
of the storm. So Jesus made clear, in this world
you'll have trouble, but take heart, I've overcome the world.
So he teaches us to look beyond the present to
full restoration in a new heaven and a new earth
wherein dwells righteousness.
Speaker 7 (22:49):
You were talking about like putting your faith in Jesus
or putting your faith in your own faith. What is
putting your faith in your own faith?
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Yeah, that's a really good question. Medicine. Okay. There are
people who teach in the Christian Church today that faith
is a force, that words are the containers of the force,
and that through the force of faith one can create
their own reality. So what they do is they try
to conjure up this force of faith, and if I
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have enough of it, then I'm going to have health,
and I'm going to have wealth, and everything will be fine.
That's what I call putting your faith in your own
faith as opposed to putting your faith in God and
recognizing that God can do all things in accordance with
his will, and what he does he does perfectly. So
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again we see a snapshot of our life. He sees
the total of our life. And so if we put
our faith in him, it's not going to preserve us
from difficulty, and it's not always going to give us
a healing, but it will provide us what all of
us long for, and that is peace in the midst
of life's difficulties and turmoil.
Speaker 7 (24:05):
So is putting your faith in yourself basically just declaring
anything into your future and assuming it'll happen.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
It's very much like that. Yes, that's exactly right.
Speaker 7 (24:17):
What exactly would be putting your face in God as well?
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Well, think about it this way, Madison. If I'm in
an airplane and you're flying it, and I have faith
that the airplane is going to make it to California,
that's probably misplaced faith because you've probably never flown an airplane.
So that wouldn't be a smart use of my faith. Right,
I'm putting my faith in something that's not faithful, because
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if you have been trained to fly an airplane, putting
my faith in you to get me to California in
the airplane, it's probably going to cause me to be
in a wreck somewhere in Texas. But if I put
my faith in an airline pilot who has been trained
and no how to deliver the goods the people that
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are on the plane to the place that the plane
is going. Then that's well placed faith. And that's sort
of a small analogy to what it means to place
your faith in God. Now, no airplane pilot is perfect,
but God is perfect, our perfect heavenly Father. If we
place our faith in him, that's well placed faith. But
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if we place our faith in other people or in
our own faith, that's just credulity. Good question. We're at
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Are the words of Scripture merely human in origin? Or
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Three years in the making and based on two decades
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Spoken answers what is surely the most important question facing
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(27:31):
Bible's Divine inspiration, 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,
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dot org. Equip dot org
You're just in time for the best of the Bible
answer Man broadcast with Hank Canagraph, the radio outreach of
the Christian Research Institute. Our purpose here at CRII is
to equip Christians to pursue sound doctrine, to discern truth
and error, and to become faithful disciples of Christ because
life and truth matter. For more information, to order resources
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or donate, call eight eight eight seven thousand CROI, or
go online to equip dot org. That's equip dot org.
The following program was pre recorded. Now here's the President
of the Christian Research Institute, Hank Canagraph.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Thank you much, Randy, and we'll go over to our
phone callers for step today. Then Saint Louis, Missouri, hie Ben.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Hi Heank, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
You're welcome.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
I just had very a quick question kind of about
something that I've been reading. I'm not even sure the passage.
I couldn't remember it off hand, but it has to
do with signs in the heavens and the earth, to
do with changes in weather patterns, increases in earthquakes. I
just wanted to get your take on it, to see
if you think what has been happening recently, you know,
(01:24):
within the past few years, is a sign of something
to come, or you know, what's your opinion on that
would be well.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
First of all, the signs delineated in the all of
the discourse by Jesus Christ have nothing whatsoever to do
with the present day. And secondly, I don't think you'd
want to use earthquakes as a barometer, because according to
all the evidence that has extent today, earthquakes of magnitude
(01:51):
seven point zero or greater have remained fairly constant in
our time. In fact, there are some fairly compelling arguments
that earthquake activity has actually decreased in the last century.
As far as global warming is concerned, I think as
students of the Bible and students of modern culture, we
should learn to ask the right questions and ask them
(02:15):
in the right order. So if we asked the question,
is global warming or reality? The answer is a qualified yes.
But the operative word here is qualified. What we're experiencing
is a slight warming trend. But we have to exercise
extreme caution in the extrapolation of trends. For example, if
you go back to the first Earth Day, which was
(02:36):
in the seventies, it was observed amid the specter of
illoming ice age. In fact, four years after the first
Earth day, Time magazine pontificated that the telltale signs of
an ice age were evident everywhere. So I think it's
really important, especially for Christians, not to fall for sophistry
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and sloppy journalism. We should be arbiters of that which
corresponds to reality or that which is indeed, verifiably true.
As far as the Bible is concerned, it doesn't give
us any clue as to when Jesus Christ is going
to return or a peer a second time, only that
he will appear a second time, and therefore we have
to be faithful and fruitful in the meantime. We need
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to be prepared as though he might come in the
next millisecond, and prepare as though his coming is a
long way off. That's the attitude we should have.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Okay, Well, that actually was a very good answer, and
that really it really does help me out a lot.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
I appreciate that you got it.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Ben, Thank you for your callback to the phone line's
Richard next Aurora, Colorado. Hi, Richard, how you doing good?
Thank you?
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Are you believe it a rapture?
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Well, It depends on what you mean by rapture. If
you mean a pre tribulational rapture, no, I do not.
I think that's reading into First Thessalonians chapter four or
John fourteen a paradigm which doesn't have any basis in reality,
a paradigm in which two thirds of the Jewish people
will shortly be eradicated in the Holocaust massacre while Jesus'
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people relax and heavenly mansions. I think that's a frightful
imposition on the integrity of Our Savior in the scriptures.
And neither Paul's portrait of Paradise nor Our Savior's mentioned
metaphor is intended to convey a temporary safe haven in
heaven away from a seven year holocaust on Earth. Rather,
(04:32):
they represent a glorious picture of a new heaven and
a new Earth in which the dwelling of God is
with men and He will live with them. Not only that,
I think when Jesus says, do not be amazed at
this the time it's coming, when all who in the
graces will come out, some will rise to live, and
some will rise to be condemned, I think that that
is a very clear, clear passage of scripture. It's unambiguous,
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and we should always interpret the cloudy in scripture if
it's cloudy for you in light of this, which is clear.
So short answer, no, I don't hold to a pre
tribulational rapture.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Oh God, bless God, bless you.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Thank you for your call. I've written about this on
the Apocalypse Code. Find out what the Bible really says
about the end times and why it matters today. Let's
go back to the phone lines. We'll talk to John
and Topeka, Kansas.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Hi.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
John, Hello, Hank, glad to be on and thanks for
taking my call.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
You're welcome.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
I just had a question, and I was with some
brothers at a Bible study recently and we got on
the subject of dreams and such. And my question was,
if you have a dream and you commit a sin
in your dream, say you have a nasty argument with
your boss or something. Now, I know, you know, if
you actually do that, that's sin and you need to repent.
(05:49):
If you actually think that, you know it's also a sin.
You need to repent. But you know, how is your
dream life factor into that kind of thing? Would that
be considered sin or just is that out the realm
of that.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Well, it really depends. But let me say this that
what we do at our conscious waking hours oftentimes affects
what we dream about. And so what I would do
is simply confess my sin, because I recognize that there
are all kinds of sins I commit every single day
that I'm completely unaware of. In that sense, there are
(06:24):
not only sins of comission, but there are also sins
of omissions. So there are all kinds of things that
I could do that I failed to do, and therefore
I confess my sin. I can't remember or account for
every one of them, but I confess my sins. Those
that I'm particularly concerned about that God brings to my
remembrance I confess verbally. But there are a lot of
(06:48):
other sins. I say, Lord, I'm a sinner. Please forgive
me and help me conform me more and more to
the image of my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. I
want to go back to the phone lines and talk
to Mike. He's listening in Calgary, Alberta. Hi, Michael, Yes, well,
mister hand He.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
First of all, I'd like to really thank you for
your ministry. I just wanted to quickly let you know
that you know your faith and and and submission to
God has has helped me through some very difficult times
in my life. And and and you've really helped to
strengthen my face. And and I just I love you
and and and God.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Bless you, Thank you so much. Bless you, Thank you.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
Think and I'd like to ask a good question. I've
been asked this by by a couple of different people,
and I really just don't know how to answer it.
It's just the origin of man after after the flood,
you know, since you know noah family was the only
one that survived. You know, how come we have you know,
different races, and we have black people, we have Asian people,
and and you know there's people all over the world
post flood. I really don't know how to even approach
(07:45):
that question.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Well, I think the first thing that you should always
make clear whenever you approach this particular question is that
in a biblical world view, we see people as people.
We have different genetic proclivities, but we're all people. But
in terms of why we have different genetic proclivities, think
Tower of Babel, which caused different people to be scattered
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all over the world and therefore draw on a fraction
of the gene pool. Geneticists often call this the founder principle.
So groups isolated because of the confusion of their languages,
they only draw upon a fraction of the total gene pool.
So that's one of the explanations. Of course, evolutionists believe
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that this is a function of the evolutionary process, that
some races are headed for extinction, as only the strong survive.
And that's why you had Thomas Huxley, who was Darwin's bulldog, say,
no rational man, cognizant of the facts, believes that the
average negro is the equal, still less the superior the
white man. And then he went on to say it's
(08:52):
it's simply incredible to think that he'd be able to
compete successfully with his bigger brain, smaller jud rival in
a contest carried on my thoughts and not by bites.
So the evolutionary paradigm say survival of the fittest in
the struggle for existence. So there's a hierarchy of races.
But that's not the biblical worldview. We're just all people
in a biblical worldview, and in the biblical worldview there
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are changes within kinds. But there aren't changes from one
kind to another kind, So a monkey doesn't become a man,
and a lower race doesn't evolve into a higher race.
That's part of the evolutionary paradigm, has no basis whatsoever
in reality, and certainly no part of a Christian worldview.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
So basically, I'm just just looking at a babbel. I mean,
that's that's kind of when people got scattered and how
they kind of, I guess got used to in their
own environment. I guess would that be a good way
to Well.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
They get isolated, and as a result of being isolated
in groups, they only draw upon a fraction of the
gene pool. I mean, that's a theory by geneticis I mean,
I can't say that with one hundred percent certainty, but
that is one of the theories. What I'm saying, however,
is that the changes within humankind are changes that are
(10:08):
horizontal and not vertical, so that we don't change from
one race into another race. But there are changes within people,
but we're still all people, and therefore all people made
in the image of God should be afforded the same
worth in our view. But again, there are various views
on this. The Biblical worldview is people are just people
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and the genetic distinctions or a function of what happened
to the Tower of Babel. That's at least one explanation.
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Speaker 2 (15:12):
Back to the phone lines. We'll talk next to Wes
listening in Memphis, Tennessee. Hi, Wes.
Speaker 6 (15:18):
Thank I'm a longtime listener, a first time caller, and
a financial supporter of your ministry. I want to thank
you so much for all you do well.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Thank you for your support.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
My question is regarding predestination. I'm in a vigorous debate
with my sister and I've heard you talk on this before,
and I believe that the Bible teaches that salvation is
offered to everyone, and the basis for predestination is God's
(15:50):
foreknowledge of whether or not we will accept Christ as savior.
While my sister believes that salvation is only offered to
the elect. And I've heard you describe these two beliefs,
but I don't believe i've ever heard you say which
(16:12):
side you come down on, And I was wondering your thoughts.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Yeah. Well, first of all, I think it's important to
recognize that all Christians believe in predestination. Predestination is a
biblical word, it is a biblical concept. But you're right
in pointing out in the prolog to your question that
the issue is not the word. The issue is the
meaning that you pour into the word, and I think
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in this case it is a very significant issue. Now,
it's never a deal breaker because there are believers who
hold to circumstantial or compatibilistic freedom who are within the
pale of orthodoxy. There are also believers who hold to
what's called libertarian freedom, who are within the pale of
(16:59):
worth the doxy. But within that debate, which is a
debate within the body of Christ, there are very significant ramifications,
and you've again outlined them in the prolog to your question.
The issue is simply this, can everyone respond to the
wooing of the Holy Spirit. My answer to that question
(17:21):
is yes, the Holy Spirit woos we can respond we
can either reject the wooing of the Holy Spirit, or
we can respond to the wooing of the Holy Spirit.
Those who believe in circumstantial or compatibilistic freedom, which are
synonymous ideas. Roughly speaking, a hold that God creates everyone
in such a way that they cannot respond to the
(17:42):
wooing of the Holy Spirit. In other words, everyone is
created so that they cannot respond. But then God regenerates
or if you will, rewires those who are the elect,
and now they have ears to hear, they can respond.
But everyone that God does not regenerate or rewire, they
don't have ears to hear, and therefore, just as a
(18:04):
cow can't fly, they can't respond to the Gospel. I
don't hold to that position, but I do contend that
that position is acceptable within the pale of Orthodoxy. And
what we've done in this regard, and I think this
is extraordinarily helpful, is we have provided a debate in
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the Christian Research Journal, And what we've done in this
regard is provided a Calvinist and a non Calvinist, and that,
by the way, is a very important distinction. A lot
of people think if you're not Calvinist you're an Arminian,
and that's not the case either. So we've presented the
viewpoint of a very articulate Calvinist and then the counterpoint
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from a very articulate non Calvinist. They debate this in print,
and what you were able to do when you read
that article is you're able to test their arguments in
light of scripture and then hold fast to the good.
So that's what I recommend you do. Hang on. I'll
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send you that article or you can get it on
the web at equipped dot org, and then you can
look at the arguments and see which arguments hold water
when you test them and light to scripture and hold
fast to the good.
Speaker 6 (19:22):
Okay, that would be That would be awesome. I would
really appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
My pleasure. Hang on. Okay, thank you for your support
and your encouragement. Thank you, Hank, God bless you. Madison.
Next Medisine is listening in Columbia, Maryland on the Worldwide Web. Hi,
Hi Medicine.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Hello.
Speaker 7 (19:41):
First of all, I just wanted to say that I
really love your ministry and I'd love to listen and
thank you so much for what you do.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
You got it, Madison.
Speaker 7 (19:51):
I have a question Matthew, I think it's Matthew nine
twenty nine says, according to your faith, it will be
done into you. Why don't believe that if I ask
go to do something, I try or ask God to
do something, but he'll necessarily do it if I believe
it'll happen. But then if that's so, then what does
that verse mean? Can you explain that?
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Yeah? I think what's really important is to get the
basis here of what's going on when we talk about faith,
because faith is only as good medicine as the object
in whom it is placed. So if we have faith
in our own faith, that's misplaced faith. But if we
(20:32):
have faith in our God, then that's well placed faith. So, ultimately,
as I've said on the Bible answer Man broadcast many times, medicine,
faith is a channel of living trust between a person
and their God. Faith is only as good then as
the object in whom it is placed, and again repeating
(20:54):
that for a reason, if it's placed in your own faith,
it's misplaced. If it's placed in God, it's well placed faith.
Now how that makes a difference is God sees the
whole of your life. We see just snapshots, so a
lot of times we ask for things in faith that
(21:16):
we would really like to see happen. But God, who
loves us more than a father loves a child on earth,
he loves us perfectly. He oftentimes knows that what we
want is not really what we need, and therefore he
doesn't grant us through his grace what we're asking for,
because he knows it'll only harm us. And that's why
(21:40):
our faith should always be augmented with the words, if
it be Thy will, if it's God's will for something
to happen, then it will happen, and it will happen
in accordance with His providence and plan for our life.
So when you go to the passage in Matthew chapter
nine Medicine, then he touched their eyes and said, according
(22:04):
to your faith, will it be done to you, and
their sight was restored. Now, Jesus in this passage is
the object of their faith, and it was Christ's will
that they be healed. And thus they were healed according
to God's will. But that's not always God's will for us.
God's will for us is not to save us from
(22:27):
the difficulties of life. It's not even to give us
a panacea it's to give us peace in the midst
of the storm. So Jesus made clear, in this world
you'll have trouble, but take heart, I've overcome the world.
So he teaches us to look beyond the present to
full restoration in a new heaven and a new earth
wherein dwells righteousness.
Speaker 7 (22:49):
You were talking about like putting your faith in Jesus
or putting your faith in your own faith. What is
putting your faith in your own faith?
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Yeah, that's a really good question. Medicine. Okay. There are
people who teach in the Christian Church today that faith
is a force, that words are the containers of the force,
and that through the force of faith one can create
their own reality. So what they do is they try
to conjure up this force of faith, and if I
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have enough of it, then I'm going to have health,
and I'm going to have wealth, and everything will be fine.
That's what I call putting your faith in your own
faith as opposed to putting your faith in God and
recognizing that God can do all things in accordance with
his will, and what he does he does perfectly. So
(23:43):
again we see a snapshot of our life. He sees
the total of our life. And so if we put
our faith in him, it's not going to preserve us
from difficulty, and it's not always going to give us
a healing, but it will provide us what all of
us long for, and that is peace in the midst
of life's difficulties and turmoil.
Speaker 7 (24:05):
So is putting your faith in yourself basically just declaring
anything into your future and assuming it'll happen.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
It's very much like that. Yes, that's exactly right.
Speaker 7 (24:17):
What exactly would be putting your face in God as well?
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Well, think about it this way, Madison. If I'm in
an airplane and you're flying it, and I have faith
that the airplane is going to make it to California,
that's probably misplaced faith because you've probably never flown an airplane.
So that wouldn't be a smart use of my faith. Right,
I'm putting my faith in something that's not faithful, because
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if you have been trained to fly an airplane, putting
my faith in you to get me to California in
the airplane, it's probably going to cause me to be
in a wreck somewhere in Texas. But if I put
my faith in an airline pilot who has been trained
and no how to deliver the goods the people that
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are on the plane to the place that the plane
is going. Then that's well placed faith. And that's sort
of a small analogy to what it means to place
your faith in God. Now, no airplane pilot is perfect,
but God is perfect, our perfect heavenly Father. If we
place our faith in him, that's well placed faith. But
(25:23):
if we place our faith in other people or in
our own faith, that's just credulity. Good question. We're at
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