November 21, 2025 • 28 mins
On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (11/21/25), Hank answers the question, “Has God spoken?” Muslims answer by pointing to the Qur’an as God’s only credible, uncorrupted revelation. Mormons are certain that God has spoken through a revelation called the Book of Mormon. But God has not spoken through the Qur’an, nor the Book of Mormon. He has, however, spoken through the Bible, as Hank demonstrates in his book Has God Spoken?: Proof of the Bible’s Divine Inspiration.
Hank also answers the following questions:
What is a good Bible translation in English? Tashay - MD (2:52)
What does the Bible say about the physical appearance of Jesus? Tashay - MD (5:24)
What is your view of speaking in tongues? Is it forbidden? Tashay - MD (9:32)
Is saying “Jeepers” the sin of using the Lord’s name in vain? Mary Lou - Davison, MI (15:12)
Answering a skeptic who rejects the faith because he does not believe Noah lived to 600 years old? Judy - St. Louis, MO (22:07)
Hank also answers the following questions:
What is a good Bible translation in English? Tashay - MD (2:52)
What does the Bible say about the physical appearance of Jesus? Tashay - MD (5:24)
What is your view of speaking in tongues? Is it forbidden? Tashay - MD (9:32)
Is saying “Jeepers” the sin of using the Lord’s name in vain? Mary Lou - Davison, MI (15:12)
Answering a skeptic who rejects the faith because he does not believe Noah lived to 600 years old? Judy - St. Louis, MO (22:07)
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
From the Christian Research Institute in Charlotte, North Carolina. You're
listening to the Bible answer Man broadcast with Hank Canagraph.
We're on the air because life and truth matter. The
mission of the Christian Research Institute is to equip believers
to answer life's essential questions soundly and persuasively, and to
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give the reason for the hope that you have with
gentleness and respect. For more information, go online to equip
dot org. The following program was pre recorded and now
here's Bible answer Man host Hank Canagraph.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Has God spoken?
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Well, if there's a more significant question, I am wholly
unaware of what it might be. Of course, Muslim's answer
by pointing to the Quran is God's only credible, uncorrupted revelation,
and from their respective God spoke through the angel Gabriel,
who dictated the Koran to Muhammad over a period of
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twenty three years. Mormons, just like Muslims, are certain that
God has spoken through a revelation called the Book of Mormon,
which their prophet called the most correct of any book
on earth and the keystone to our religion. But God
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has not spoken through the Koran. He has not spoken
through the Book of Mormon. He has, however, spoken through
the Bible, as I demonstrate beyond the shadow of a
doubt in my.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Book has God spoken?
Speaker 3 (01:44):
That book counters all contentions to the contrary and builds
a cumuative case for the absolute authority of the Word
of God. It answers the question has God spoken in
the affirmative and demonstrates beyond a reasonable doubt that the
Bible is divine rather than merely human in origin. Is
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that important, of course, because without such assurance, Christianity would
have no more authority for faith in practice than does Islam, Mormonism,
or a host of other misguided movements. I focus in
this book on presenting you memorable proofs for the Bible's
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divine inspiration. It is available for your gift, the ongoing
work of the Christian Research Institute. You can check it
out online at equipped dot org. You can write me
at box eighty five hundred, Charlotte, North Carolina, zip code
two eight two seven one, or as always, talk to
our resource consultants triple eight seven thousand, and the letters CRI.
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Let's go right to the phone lines. Taesha first listening
on the web in Maryland, Hi, Hi, I'm so clod.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
That I want to go through. This is Oh, this
is still sound true for me. I didn't know I'm
going to get through to you today. Even though I
didn't prepare my question much. I wanted to tell you
that each time I listened to you or I see
you on on your website, and you remind me of
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my dad a long time ago, who was who was
oppressed and Orthodox Church in Ethiopia.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Well, thank you for that compliment.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Thank you. Everything you do, like your humbleness and how
you handle yourself and everything. It's it's really reminds me
of of him, how great he was and how he
was really serving that church. Now, my question to you
is when I was little, I used to go to
church with him, like read a Bible with him, and
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he used to show me stuff and the song and
the church and every stuff. But what is really a
good bible to apollow? Nowadays it's like whenever I see
like a Bible, I read it in Numaharic and also
I read it in English, So what is really a
good Bible? I used to read the one with Old
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Testament and New Testament together, so I couldn't find any
bible either it's mixed up or I have to send
someone to get me from Ethiopia about the Almaharic one.
But what is the good one?
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Well, the New King James Version of the Bible is
a wonderful version of the Bible that retains the majesty
of the English language and yet is understandable. It takes
connotative language and it communicates it in the language of
today so that you can understand it. And so it's
accurately communicated from the original text in the context of
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today's language, in this case English. Also, the New International
Version is a wonderful version of the Bible that takes
into account all of the best manuscript evidence that's available today,
so that you can trust it to be accurate, communicating
thought for thought from the original languages, the Hebrew, the Greek,
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and the Aramaic into the language of today. So both
are great translations, okay.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
And also my quick questions to you, what is Jesus's
description on the Bible and how do you describe that in.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
His physical appearance?
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Yes, yeah, the Bible doesn't give us any information about
the physical appearance of Jesus Christ. We would imagine that
he had a Semitic appearance, but we don't know because
the Bible simply does not tell us.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
So everything that.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Is indicated in some pictorial fashion is an idea that
someone would have that's not based on any evidence whatsoever.
One thing we know from Scripture is what Isaiah prophesied
about the coming Jesus. And what Isaiah said is this,
he grew up before him like a tender shoot, and
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like a root out of dry ground. He had no
beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in
his appearance that we should desire him. And then Isaiah
goes on to say he was despised and rejected by men,
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a man of sorrows and familiar with suffering, like one
from whom men hide their faces. He was despised, and
we esteemed him not so from that we might have
some indication that he didn't look like Charlton Heston or
some icon in our culture, And certainly, as he's often
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depicted with blue eyes and long blonde hair, that wouldn't
apply either. He was likely semitic appearance, and there was
nothing to attract us to him by his appearance. Everything
to attract us to him by his message, his manner,
his love, his compassion and the fact that he ultimately
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demonstrated that he was God in human flesh.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Okay, So when it says like some places, I don't
know what places really described them in the Bible, as
he's here is like a wall and stuff like that,
where does that come from?
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Yeah, well, that's interesting, and I'm glad you brought that up.
That's a very good point. In Revelation, you have a
depiction of Jesus Christ where John is looking at seven
golden lamp stands, and then among the lamp stands he
sees someone like a son of Man. He's dressed in
a robe, reaching down to his feet. He has a
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golden sash around his chest. And then John says his
head and hair were white lines wool, as white as snow.
His eyes were like blazing fire, his feet like bronze
glowing in a furnace, his voice like the sound of
rushing waters. Out of his mouth came a sharp, double
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edged sword, and his face was like the sun, shining
in all of its brilliance. Now, this is not a
description of what Jesus Christ looks like, but rather a
description of what Jesus is like. In other words, all
of these characteristics point to characteristics of Jesus Christ as
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described in the Bible, not in terms of his physical appearance,
but rather what he is like. He is the one
to whom all power is ascribed, and that is personified
by the robe reaching down to his feet, with the
golden sash around his chest. His eyes like blazing fire
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would be an image of the fact that he discerns
between wheat and chaff, and that all in righteousness will
be burned in his presence. So there are indications of
what he is like, of his character, of his nature,
not of his appearance, Okay, not his physical being, yes, yeah,
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I mean he doesn't have a mouth and a tongue
that looks like a sword.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Yeah, okay, And what do you think of like a
speaking in tongue is really is it forbidden or is
it like I know, it says something on a second
Quarantians fourteen. If I'm not mistaken, it says, and they're like,
he prefers us to do prophecy instead of speaking in tongue.
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Speaking in tongue doesn't teach the congregation? So what do
you think can you just allow it a little bit?
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Yeah? If tongue are spoken and correctly.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
As you point out in First Corinthians chapter fourteen, there
has to be an interpretation absolutely, and I would say
furthermore that tongues are not normative. Although prophesying is prophesying, however,
as used in First Corinthians chapter fourteen, is not foretelling
the future, but forth telling in terms of encouragement, exhortation, edification,
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so that the body of Christ might be equipped as
a body to minister to one another and to be
a voice to the world. I'm gonna have to leave
it at that te It was good talking to.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
You, a good talk an. I'm so thrilled you have
no idea. God bless you, and I would love to
donate to your ministry. I'll get in touch.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Thank you so much, and you welcome plain ye right.
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Speaker 2 (15:12):
We'll go back to the phone lines.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Now talk next to Mary Lou she's listening in Davison, Michigan.
Hi Mary Lou, Hi, good to talk to you.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Nice to talk to you as well.
Speaker 6 (15:22):
Listen, Hank, I've been a Christian for a long time
and it saddens me to have to ask you this question.
But my grandson, who has grown in the Lord and
wants to become a pastor, and I were having a
discussion and he said that when people say and when
I say g or jeepers creepers or gosh that Miriam
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Webster describes it as a euphemism for God or Jesus
Christ and that it is terribly wrong. I was shocked
because I've been guilty of doing this.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
What's your opinion, Well, I think I'm glad that you're shocked,
which is to say that you certainly were not meaning
it in that sense. And I think that's important to
recognize that you were not willfully partaking in using the
name of the Lord in a profane or disrespectful fashion.
Speaker 6 (16:18):
Not at all, so my heart.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Yeah, So I think we should be cautious about the
kind of language that we use. Sometimes we're all too coarse,
and we use language which is a thinly veiled way
of saying the same thing but just changing it a
little bit. So I think we do need to be
careful about that on the one hand, and I'm glad
he's sensitive to those issues. But I don't think we
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want to make this legalistic prescriptions where we stick the
finger in someone's face and saying, oh, you just took
the Lord's name in vain, because that may not have
been their intent. But I do think it's good when
we have the opportunity with gentleness and with respect to
say that what we say matter said to counsel people
in areas like this.
Speaker 6 (17:02):
Right, Oh, I feel better. I've prayed about this and said,
then this is a sin rather than a transgression. When
I would willfully know something I had no idea. I
never intended that, and I felt terrible for having uttered
those words.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Well, you have a very sensitive spirit, and I think
that is a blessing to the Lord and a dishonoring
to his name as well.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
Well. I appreciate it. I wanted your opinion. We decided
that he would accept whatever you said because he listens
to you all the time, and I appreciate your response.
But I will also try not to do that again.
I don't want anyone to think I'm thinking something that
I'm not.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Bless you, Mary Lou, You're an example.
Speaker 6 (17:53):
I hope so only with the Lord's help.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Amen, that is truth for all, And thank you so
much for our call. As always, we appreciate people who
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to know the truth. We need to rightly interpret the
Word of truth. And one of the problems we have
today in the Christian Church is that people simply do
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not know how to rightly divide the Word of truth.
And therefore you have people in the modern day church
trying to identify the two Witnesses of Revelation chapter eleven,
and they do so in such a way that does
not correspond to reality. Why because they don't have the
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best background music of the Old Testament coursing through their minds.
The two witnesses are a metaphorical reference to who well
to Moses and Elijah. The Old Testament jurisprudence mandated at
least two witnesses to convict of a crime, and in
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the case that we have laid out in Revelation, the
two witnesses accuse Israel of apostasy. Like Moses, the witnesses
have power to turn water into blood, and like Elijah,
they have power to call down fire from heaven, to
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consume their enemies, and to shut up the sky so
that it will not rain for three and a half years.
And of course, like Jesus, they're sacrificial lambs, and therefore
their corpses litter the streets of Erusalem, the very city
in which their lord was crucified. Their resurrection after three
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and a half days, of course, parallels the resurrection of
Christ in much the same way that that three and
a half year ministry mirrors that of Messiah. And therefore
we should know that the two witnesses form a composite
image of the Law and the prophets, culminating in the life, death, resurrection,
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and ascension of a prophet and priest who is the
earnest of all, who are his witnesses, all who will
reign with him in a new Jerusalem wherein dwells righteousness?
And therefore what do we get out of this will?
In light of biblical imagery, the two witnesses are revealed
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not as to literal people, not as a future reincarnation
of Moses and Elijah, but rather as literary characters. In
John's apocalyptic narrative. They represent the entire line of Hebrew
prophets in testifying against Israel and warning of the soon
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coming judgment of God on Jerusalem. Again, the point of
laying this out is to say that people have come
up with sensationalistic interpretations of the Book of Revelation because
they don't have the background music of the Old Testament
coursing through their minds. We need to remedy that woeful condition.
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thousand CR. I let's go make the phone lines. Talk
to Judy. She's listening in Saint Louis, Missouri.
Speaker 7 (22:10):
Hi, Judy, Hi, Hank. I have a quick question, and
it is a man that I know is using Noah's
age as a reason not to believe the Bible literally
because he asked me how old he was at the
time that he built the art, and I looked in
my Bible and it said six hundred years. Well, he's saying,
how can a man live to be six hundred years
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and not knowing what to say in him being a
totally secular person whom I just came up with. Well,
back then there were no carcinogens. It was close to paradise.
I mean, there weren't as many contaminants and pollutants, and
our bodies would probably do fairly well too if we
were living back then. And I don't know, I mean
I didn't know what to say.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Well, I think you did a very good job if
you didn't know what to say. I think those are
very good reasons that we can give. Imperfections accumulated over time,
and therefore there had to be prescriptions in biblical narrative
about what you could or could not do after prescribed
period of time. That's why, for example, at the time
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of Moses you had levitical laws that come into vogue
which deal with incest. At the very beginning, it wasn't
necessary so Cain could marry a sister or a niece,
because again, genetic imperfections had not accumulated, and therefore it
was not necessary to make particular laws until particular times.
Speaker 7 (23:33):
All right, would those times have been, I mean Noah's
in Genesis, So would you say, how close? Not knowing
you know.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Yeah, the time of Noah is long before the time
of Moses, and therefore at the time of Noah, there's
no reason why we cannot believe that Noah lived to
be six hundred years of age, or in fact more
than six hundred years of age, or that Adam lived
almost a thousand years. We also know that there came
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a time in which we recognize that the age of
human beings was not as long. That the average age,
as recorded in the Bible is three score and ten years,
or if by reason to strength for score, a score
is twenty years. So seventy or eighty years is the
average life spent. As some people live to be one hundred,
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some people live less. But that's the average, and so
the Bible correctly communicates that as well.
Speaker 7 (24:31):
Okay, so how close to Adam and Eve would you
say Noah was in terms of years?
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Well, remember, if you look at the Book of Genesis,
you can remember the outline of the Book of Genesis
with your ten fingers. You have primordial or primeval history
on one hand and the patriarchs on the other. So
the way that Moses laid out the Book of Genesis
is first he gives you a history of Creation. Then
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he gives you a history of Adam. Then after Adam,
he gives you Noah, and after Noah, he gives you
a history of Noah's sons, And then he gives you,
in particular an outline of the life of Shechem, who
is the father of Near Eastern culture. Then he goes
on to Terra, who's the father of Abraham the Great Patriarch.
Speaker 7 (25:21):
Then you go, generations are between Adam and Eve and Noah.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Well, I don't know exactly how many generations, and there's
a reason for that. A lot of people have tried
to determine the exact frame based on the genealogy, such
that they come up with four thousand and four years
between Adam and Jesus. But they do that by making
the generation sequential, and the generations that are given to
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us are not sequential.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
There are names missing in it.
Speaker 7 (25:50):
Consideration. All right, I really do appreciate this answer.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
You got it, Judy, Thank you so much for your call. Ed.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
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Spoken answers what is surely the most important question facing
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(27:31):
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attackers and clearly shows that belief in the Holy Scriptures
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From the Christian Research Institute in Charlotte, North Carolina. You're
listening to the Bible answer Man broadcast with Hank Canagraph.
We're on the air because life and truth matter. The
mission of the Christian Research Institute is to equip believers
to answer life's essential questions soundly and persuasively, and to
(00:27):
give the reason for the hope that you have with
gentleness and respect. For more information, go online to equip
dot org. The following program was pre recorded and now
here's Bible answer Man host Hank Canagraph.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Has God spoken?
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Well, if there's a more significant question, I am wholly
unaware of what it might be. Of course, Muslim's answer
by pointing to the Quran is God's only credible, uncorrupted revelation,
and from their respective God spoke through the angel Gabriel,
who dictated the Koran to Muhammad over a period of
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twenty three years. Mormons, just like Muslims, are certain that
God has spoken through a revelation called the Book of Mormon,
which their prophet called the most correct of any book
on earth and the keystone to our religion. But God
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has not spoken through the Koran. He has not spoken
through the Book of Mormon. He has, however, spoken through
the Bible, as I demonstrate beyond the shadow of a
doubt in my.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Book has God spoken?
Speaker 3 (01:44):
That book counters all contentions to the contrary and builds
a cumuative case for the absolute authority of the Word
of God. It answers the question has God spoken in
the affirmative and demonstrates beyond a reasonable doubt that the
Bible is divine rather than merely human in origin. Is
(02:10):
that important, of course, because without such assurance, Christianity would
have no more authority for faith in practice than does Islam, Mormonism,
or a host of other misguided movements. I focus in
this book on presenting you memorable proofs for the Bible's
(02:30):
divine inspiration. It is available for your gift, the ongoing
work of the Christian Research Institute. You can check it
out online at equipped dot org. You can write me
at box eighty five hundred, Charlotte, North Carolina, zip code
two eight two seven one, or as always, talk to
our resource consultants triple eight seven thousand, and the letters CRI.
(02:52):
Let's go right to the phone lines. Taesha first listening
on the web in Maryland, Hi, Hi, I'm so clod.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
That I want to go through. This is Oh, this
is still sound true for me. I didn't know I'm
going to get through to you today. Even though I
didn't prepare my question much. I wanted to tell you
that each time I listened to you or I see
you on on your website, and you remind me of
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my dad a long time ago, who was who was
oppressed and Orthodox Church in Ethiopia.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Well, thank you for that compliment.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Thank you. Everything you do, like your humbleness and how
you handle yourself and everything. It's it's really reminds me
of of him, how great he was and how he
was really serving that church. Now, my question to you
is when I was little, I used to go to
church with him, like read a Bible with him, and
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he used to show me stuff and the song and
the church and every stuff. But what is really a
good bible to apollow? Nowadays it's like whenever I see
like a Bible, I read it in Numaharic and also
I read it in English, So what is really a
good Bible? I used to read the one with Old
(04:15):
Testament and New Testament together, so I couldn't find any
bible either it's mixed up or I have to send
someone to get me from Ethiopia about the Almaharic one.
But what is the good one?
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Well, the New King James Version of the Bible is
a wonderful version of the Bible that retains the majesty
of the English language and yet is understandable. It takes
connotative language and it communicates it in the language of
today so that you can understand it. And so it's
accurately communicated from the original text in the context of
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today's language, in this case English. Also, the New International
Version is a wonderful version of the Bible that takes
into account all of the best manuscript evidence that's available today,
so that you can trust it to be accurate, communicating
thought for thought from the original languages, the Hebrew, the Greek,
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and the Aramaic into the language of today. So both
are great translations, okay.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
And also my quick questions to you, what is Jesus's
description on the Bible and how do you describe that in.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
His physical appearance?
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Yes, yeah, the Bible doesn't give us any information about
the physical appearance of Jesus Christ. We would imagine that
he had a Semitic appearance, but we don't know because
the Bible simply does not tell us.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
So everything that.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Is indicated in some pictorial fashion is an idea that
someone would have that's not based on any evidence whatsoever.
One thing we know from Scripture is what Isaiah prophesied
about the coming Jesus. And what Isaiah said is this,
he grew up before him like a tender shoot, and
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like a root out of dry ground. He had no
beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in
his appearance that we should desire him. And then Isaiah
goes on to say he was despised and rejected by men,
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a man of sorrows and familiar with suffering, like one
from whom men hide their faces. He was despised, and
we esteemed him not so from that we might have
some indication that he didn't look like Charlton Heston or
some icon in our culture, And certainly, as he's often
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depicted with blue eyes and long blonde hair, that wouldn't
apply either. He was likely semitic appearance, and there was
nothing to attract us to him by his appearance. Everything
to attract us to him by his message, his manner,
his love, his compassion and the fact that he ultimately
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demonstrated that he was God in human flesh.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Okay, So when it says like some places, I don't
know what places really described them in the Bible, as
he's here is like a wall and stuff like that,
where does that come from?
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Yeah, well, that's interesting, and I'm glad you brought that up.
That's a very good point. In Revelation, you have a
depiction of Jesus Christ where John is looking at seven
golden lamp stands, and then among the lamp stands he
sees someone like a son of Man. He's dressed in
a robe, reaching down to his feet. He has a
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golden sash around his chest. And then John says his
head and hair were white lines wool, as white as snow.
His eyes were like blazing fire, his feet like bronze
glowing in a furnace, his voice like the sound of
rushing waters. Out of his mouth came a sharp, double
(08:15):
edged sword, and his face was like the sun, shining
in all of its brilliance. Now, this is not a
description of what Jesus Christ looks like, but rather a
description of what Jesus is like. In other words, all
of these characteristics point to characteristics of Jesus Christ as
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described in the Bible, not in terms of his physical appearance,
but rather what he is like. He is the one
to whom all power is ascribed, and that is personified
by the robe reaching down to his feet, with the
golden sash around his chest. His eyes like blazing fire
(09:01):
would be an image of the fact that he discerns
between wheat and chaff, and that all in righteousness will
be burned in his presence. So there are indications of
what he is like, of his character, of his nature,
not of his appearance, Okay, not his physical being, yes, yeah,
(09:25):
I mean he doesn't have a mouth and a tongue
that looks like a sword.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Yeah, okay, And what do you think of like a
speaking in tongue is really is it forbidden or is
it like I know, it says something on a second
Quarantians fourteen. If I'm not mistaken, it says, and they're like,
he prefers us to do prophecy instead of speaking in tongue.
(09:52):
Speaking in tongue doesn't teach the congregation? So what do
you think can you just allow it a little bit?
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Yeah? If tongue are spoken and correctly.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
As you point out in First Corinthians chapter fourteen, there
has to be an interpretation absolutely, and I would say
furthermore that tongues are not normative. Although prophesying is prophesying, however,
as used in First Corinthians chapter fourteen, is not foretelling
the future, but forth telling in terms of encouragement, exhortation, edification,
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so that the body of Christ might be equipped as
a body to minister to one another and to be
a voice to the world. I'm gonna have to leave
it at that te It was good talking to.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
You, a good talk an. I'm so thrilled you have
no idea. God bless you, and I would love to
donate to your ministry. I'll get in touch.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Thank you so much, and you welcome plain ye right.
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Speaker 2 (15:12):
We'll go back to the phone lines.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Now talk next to Mary Lou she's listening in Davison, Michigan.
Hi Mary Lou, Hi, good to talk to you.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Nice to talk to you as well.
Speaker 6 (15:22):
Listen, Hank, I've been a Christian for a long time
and it saddens me to have to ask you this question.
But my grandson, who has grown in the Lord and
wants to become a pastor, and I were having a
discussion and he said that when people say and when
I say g or jeepers creepers or gosh that Miriam
(15:46):
Webster describes it as a euphemism for God or Jesus
Christ and that it is terribly wrong. I was shocked
because I've been guilty of doing this.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
What's your opinion, Well, I think I'm glad that you're shocked,
which is to say that you certainly were not meaning
it in that sense. And I think that's important to
recognize that you were not willfully partaking in using the
name of the Lord in a profane or disrespectful fashion.
Speaker 6 (16:18):
Not at all, so my heart.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Yeah, So I think we should be cautious about the
kind of language that we use. Sometimes we're all too coarse,
and we use language which is a thinly veiled way
of saying the same thing but just changing it a
little bit. So I think we do need to be
careful about that on the one hand, and I'm glad
he's sensitive to those issues. But I don't think we
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want to make this legalistic prescriptions where we stick the
finger in someone's face and saying, oh, you just took
the Lord's name in vain, because that may not have
been their intent. But I do think it's good when
we have the opportunity with gentleness and with respect to
say that what we say matter said to counsel people
in areas like this.
Speaker 6 (17:02):
Right, Oh, I feel better. I've prayed about this and said,
then this is a sin rather than a transgression. When
I would willfully know something I had no idea. I
never intended that, and I felt terrible for having uttered
those words.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Well, you have a very sensitive spirit, and I think
that is a blessing to the Lord and a dishonoring
to his name as well.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
Well. I appreciate it. I wanted your opinion. We decided
that he would accept whatever you said because he listens
to you all the time, and I appreciate your response.
But I will also try not to do that again.
I don't want anyone to think I'm thinking something that
I'm not.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Bless you, Mary Lou, You're an example.
Speaker 6 (17:53):
I hope so only with the Lord's help.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Amen, that is truth for all, And thank you so
much for our call. As always, we appreciate people who
stand with this ministry prayerfully and financially. We're able to
give answers. Because people stand with us, we're able to
tell it like it is. Because people stand with us,
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we're able to do what we do because people genuinely
believe that truth matters, and truth does matter. We need
to know the truth. We need to rightly interpret the
Word of truth. And one of the problems we have
today in the Christian Church is that people simply do
(18:37):
not know how to rightly divide the Word of truth.
And therefore you have people in the modern day church
trying to identify the two Witnesses of Revelation chapter eleven,
and they do so in such a way that does
not correspond to reality. Why because they don't have the
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best background music of the Old Testament coursing through their minds.
The two witnesses are a metaphorical reference to who well
to Moses and Elijah. The Old Testament jurisprudence mandated at
least two witnesses to convict of a crime, and in
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the case that we have laid out in Revelation, the
two witnesses accuse Israel of apostasy. Like Moses, the witnesses
have power to turn water into blood, and like Elijah,
they have power to call down fire from heaven, to
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consume their enemies, and to shut up the sky so
that it will not rain for three and a half years.
And of course, like Jesus, they're sacrificial lambs, and therefore
their corpses litter the streets of Erusalem, the very city
in which their lord was crucified. Their resurrection after three
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and a half days, of course, parallels the resurrection of
Christ in much the same way that that three and
a half year ministry mirrors that of Messiah. And therefore
we should know that the two witnesses form a composite
image of the Law and the prophets, culminating in the life, death, resurrection,
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and ascension of a prophet and priest who is the
earnest of all, who are his witnesses, all who will
reign with him in a new Jerusalem wherein dwells righteousness?
And therefore what do we get out of this will?
In light of biblical imagery, the two witnesses are revealed
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not as to literal people, not as a future reincarnation
of Moses and Elijah, but rather as literary characters. In
John's apocalyptic narrative. They represent the entire line of Hebrew
prophets in testifying against Israel and warning of the soon
(21:12):
coming judgment of God on Jerusalem. Again, the point of
laying this out is to say that people have come
up with sensationalistic interpretations of the Book of Revelation because
they don't have the background music of the Old Testament
coursing through their minds. We need to remedy that woeful condition.
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It's one of the reasons that I produced the Apocalypse Code.
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thousand CR. I let's go make the phone lines. Talk
to Judy. She's listening in Saint Louis, Missouri.
Speaker 7 (22:10):
Hi, Judy, Hi, Hank. I have a quick question, and
it is a man that I know is using Noah's
age as a reason not to believe the Bible literally
because he asked me how old he was at the
time that he built the art, and I looked in
my Bible and it said six hundred years. Well, he's saying,
how can a man live to be six hundred years
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and not knowing what to say in him being a
totally secular person whom I just came up with. Well,
back then there were no carcinogens. It was close to paradise.
I mean, there weren't as many contaminants and pollutants, and
our bodies would probably do fairly well too if we
were living back then. And I don't know, I mean
I didn't know what to say.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Well, I think you did a very good job if
you didn't know what to say. I think those are
very good reasons that we can give. Imperfections accumulated over time,
and therefore there had to be prescriptions in biblical narrative
about what you could or could not do after prescribed
period of time. That's why, for example, at the time
(23:13):
of Moses you had levitical laws that come into vogue
which deal with incest. At the very beginning, it wasn't
necessary so Cain could marry a sister or a niece,
because again, genetic imperfections had not accumulated, and therefore it
was not necessary to make particular laws until particular times.
Speaker 7 (23:33):
All right, would those times have been, I mean Noah's
in Genesis, So would you say, how close? Not knowing
you know.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Yeah, the time of Noah is long before the time
of Moses, and therefore at the time of Noah, there's
no reason why we cannot believe that Noah lived to
be six hundred years of age, or in fact more
than six hundred years of age, or that Adam lived
almost a thousand years. We also know that there came
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a time in which we recognize that the age of
human beings was not as long. That the average age,
as recorded in the Bible is three score and ten years,
or if by reason to strength for score, a score
is twenty years. So seventy or eighty years is the
average life spent. As some people live to be one hundred,
(24:25):
some people live less. But that's the average, and so
the Bible correctly communicates that as well.
Speaker 7 (24:31):
Okay, so how close to Adam and Eve would you
say Noah was in terms of years?
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Well, remember, if you look at the Book of Genesis,
you can remember the outline of the Book of Genesis
with your ten fingers. You have primordial or primeval history
on one hand and the patriarchs on the other. So
the way that Moses laid out the Book of Genesis
is first he gives you a history of Creation. Then
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he gives you a history of Adam. Then after Adam,
he gives you Noah, and after Noah, he gives you
a history of Noah's sons, And then he gives you,
in particular an outline of the life of Shechem, who
is the father of Near Eastern culture. Then he goes
on to Terra, who's the father of Abraham the Great Patriarch.
Speaker 7 (25:21):
Then you go, generations are between Adam and Eve and Noah.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Well, I don't know exactly how many generations, and there's
a reason for that. A lot of people have tried
to determine the exact frame based on the genealogy, such
that they come up with four thousand and four years
between Adam and Jesus. But they do that by making
the generation sequential, and the generations that are given to
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us are not sequential.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
There are names missing in it.
Speaker 7 (25:50):
Consideration. All right, I really do appreciate this answer.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
You got it, Judy, Thank you so much for your call. Ed.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
We are at a time for this edition of the
Bible inster Men brought pod. Thanks for tuning in see
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