God’s Judgement Against Canaan, and Q&A

On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (10/27/25), 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 (6:48)
Is the English Standard Version of the Bible a good translation? Andre - Clearwater, FL (15:11)
Can you explain why God asked Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job?” in Job chapter 1? Henry - Peace River, AB (17:27)
How does a Christian use discernment in judging? Shouldn’t there be a change of behavior in the lives of believers? Chad - Salem, VA (19:57)
Is it acceptable biblically for an older woman to date or marry a younger man? Kay - TN (23:52)

Episode Transcript

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Speaker 2 (01:00):
They fought 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,

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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

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sacrificed their sons and daughters to Molik. Molik was a
bull headed deity with a human body and a belly
that burned like the horrors of hell. Children as old
as foour were placed in the white hot arms of
that monster, and as the flame would burn the child

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and surround the body, the limbs would shrivel up, and
the mouth would actually appear to grin, as if laughing,
until it had shrunk enough to slip into the cauldron.
The land of Canaan was at the point of no return,
and Israel would be the acts of her judgment for

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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 righteous people, God would have spared that city,

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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 God's martial instructions qualified by his moral intentions to

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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,
she was reckoned as true Israel and came to hold

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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 to terminate the
lives of the unborn children and living in the warmth
of their mother's wombs. Today, while the very thought causes

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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 not the weapons of the world. On

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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

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will continue to corrupt and corrode. You are called to
be that leavening force. But Jesus said, if the salt

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give us a better way prosperous country. It's about the
country that Abram only saw from Afar, a country whose
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Winston in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. High Winston. We're going good
her you.

Speaker 3 (06:57):
It's it's all scary going back into believing in Christ.
I grew up in a Christian home. I'm an Aberginal
Native 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 Nato 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 hell?

Speaker 2 (07:54):
Well, what I can say is this, whether your grandmother,
you me, or any way. 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,

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we 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

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should inhabit 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 just judged.

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All those 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

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don't know. 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 stations 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 flour book.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
We'll bless you, Winston. May you grow in 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 calling very much

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And now here's Hank Canagraph.

Speaker 2 (15:09):
Thank you very much, Randy, and let's go right back
to our phone callers. Andrea is next listening in clear Water, Florida. Hi, Andre, Hi, Hang.

Speaker 4 (15:17):
It is a pleasure to speak with EA likewise, my
question is in regards to the ESV translation of the Bible,
and if you could just share your opinion in general
on the reliability.

Speaker 2 (15:31):
Yeah, I think it is a good translation of the Bible,
the English Standard version. It emphasizes word for word accuracy.
Literarily speaking, it's quite good. It's very trustworthy, it's accurate,
it's understandable. So I think it's a wonderful translation.

Speaker 4 (15:47):
Oh okay, thank you very much that answered it.

Speaker 2 (15:50):
Yeah, and let me say for everybody listening in that
the King James version of the Bible would likely have
remained pre eminent among English Bible translations of it. We're
not for three factors. The first was the evolution of language.
Language changes over time, and therefore there are words that

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you hear in Elizabethan English that make no sense today.
For example, prevent meant to go before or proceed leasing
meant falsehood. We wouldn't understand those things today unless the
newer translations rendered them in the denotative meaning of today's

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English language. The second is the progress in our knowledge
and understanding of original Biblical languages. Because of archaeological discoveries,
there are more accurate renderings of Hebrew into the receptor language,
the English language. And then the third thing was the

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discovery of earlier and better manuscripts. And those kinds of
manuscripts demonstrate conclusively that certain inclusions of the King James
version were unwarranted, including the Kama yohoneium he had first
John five to seven. It's manifestly true, but it wasn't
part of the autographer. So those factors that have caused
a plethora of new translations to come out, some thought

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for thought, dynamic equivalencies, some word for word formal equivalencies,
but all good translations are reliable. I want to go
back to the phone lines. We'll talk next to Henry
listening in peace, River, Alberta. Hi, Henry, Hi, thank.

Speaker 5 (17:33):
You for taking my call, my pleasure. I have a
question about the Book of Job where Satan and the
children of God to present themselves before the Lord, and
the God is asking Satan, have you considered my servant's
h old. I'm just I'm strggling to understand what God
means with that or why does he ask him that?

Speaker 2 (17:52):
Well, I mean, you haven't scripture a heavenly condescension, which
is to say that there are a lot of things
you read in scripture, they're so we get the point
when God asks Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden,
where are you? It doesn't mean that God suddenly lost
his omniscience and didn't know where they were. It's a
way of communicating that Adam and Eve had hidden from

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the presence of God. And so in the storyline of Job,
the same thing is going on. It's a heavenly condescension
to tell the story of a real man who was
going to be afflicted by Satan and yet maintain his
integrity in trusting God and serving him forever. So within

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that story there are heavenly condescensions, so we get the story.
God uses physical realities to communicate metaphysical realities, spiritual realities,
things that happen in the heavenlys, and he uses heavenly
condescension language that we can grasp in order to communicate

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the narrative.

Speaker 5 (18:56):
Okay, And also, I have been told that these things
happen to Joe because of his fear. Is that true?

Speaker 2 (19:02):
No, Job is called the most righteous and he is blameless,
So it's not because of his fear. It is to
demonstrate his trust in God. Now, Job does make some mistakes.
I mean, he's a human being. And one of the
things you see towards the end of Job is that
Job wants to understand why he's suffering. And of course
the Bible never answers the why question. What it does

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is teaches us to trust God in the midst of
our wise And so you have God thunder back through
the storm and say to Job, you don't even know
how to create a small drop of dew, much less
can you understand what is going on in the heavenly is.
Trying to explain me to you is like trying to
explain Einstein to a small neckclam. You wouldn't get it.
So we have to learn to trust God in the

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midst of our wives. God doesn't always explain the why
that'll unfold an eternity.

Speaker 5 (19:52):
Okay, all right, well, thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (19:56):
Hey, you got I appreciate your call. I want to
go back to the phone line. Doctor Chad listening in
se Virginia.

Speaker 6 (20:01):
Hi, Chad, Hi, Hank, how are you good?

Speaker 2 (20:04):
How are you?

Speaker 6 (20:05):
I'm doing great? Hey? I had a question as a Christian,
how am I to use discernment far as judging? For instance,
I'm a truck driver you know, I drive eighteen will
earn and I notice lately, you know, a lot of
people just drive really erratic around me. People cut me
off for no reason. So my question is, how do

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I use discernments. Should I assume the people that do
that they are not Christians and I should pray for them,
you know, and continue to witness to them.

Speaker 2 (20:36):
Well, I think you want to pray for others and
witness to them. I mean, the whole idea of judging
and discernment is a very important thing. You have to
use discernment, you have to use proper judgments, and you
want to be continually a witness for the Lord. I
don't know that you can tell by erratic driving whether
someone is a believer or not a believer. That may
go beyond my discernment capabilities. But I do think there's

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an important point to be learned in terms of judgment.
We are called to judge, but when we judge, we
are to judge by a right standard. Jesus said, stop
judging by mere appearances and make a right judgment. Of course,
Jesus in the Sermon of the Mount also points out
that there are people who judge hypocritically and self righteously.

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That's not how we are to judge. We're not to
be self righteous, we're not to be hypocritical. But when
we judge, we have to make a proper judgment and
judge by a right standard. And the Bible gives us
that standard.

Speaker 6 (21:37):
Right. And a scripture comes to my mind when Jesus says,
you know, no good treating very bad truth. No bad
treat can very good truth. So you know, when people
drive a rag, obviously they don't care about their lives
that much, and they don't care about my life. So
you know, is it safe to say that they're really
not a Christian?

Speaker 2 (21:55):
Because well, we live in a fallen world and even
Christians do bad things.

Speaker 6 (22:00):
Yeah, but you know one Christians five seventeen. You know,
for whoever is in Christ is a new creation. The
whole old things have passed away to hold all things
to come to.

Speaker 2 (22:11):
Yeah, that's true, that's true. We are a new creation
in Christ. But we're still sinners. I mean, if you
want to see an example of that, go to Romans
Romans chapter seven and read about the apostle Paul. The
apostle Paul is an exemplar to us, and yet he says,
I know that nothing good lives in me, that is

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in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to
do what is good, but I can't carry it out.
For what I do is not the good I want
to do, know the evil. I don't want to do this,
I keep on doing so. Even Paul recognizes that he's
a sinner saved by grace.

Speaker 6 (22:52):
Right, let's see for my own testimony. Before I was
a Christian, I really didn't care about people that much.
But now that I've been saved by the Great a God,
you know, I now I practice righteousness. I mean not
that I'm perfect, you know, and I messed up on
a daily basis, but I have a desire in my
heart to want to do what's trying and to treat
people with respect and be kind and courteous. So there

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is a change.

Speaker 2 (23:15):
Oh, absolutely, absolutely. Yeah. In fact, you're being daily conformed
at the merger of Christ. You're becoming more and more
christ Like. But it is a progression. So you might
have seen the bumper sticker while you're driving your chuck.
Be patient with me, Becau's not done with.

Speaker 6 (23:29):
Me yet, right under construction, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (23:32):
Under construction, that's right, Thank you. Hey, you got it.
Thank you so much for your call. I appreciate everybody
that calls into the Bible linesman broadcast with their question.
We're answering questions so that you can use answers as
springboards or opportunities for sharing the grace and truth and
love that only the resurrected Christ can bring to the
human heart. Back to the phone lines, we'll talk next

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to Kay in Tennessee.

Speaker 7 (23:56):
Hi, k Hi, how are you doing.

Speaker 2 (23:59):
I'm doing.

Speaker 7 (24:01):
I am good, I'm good. Thank you so much for
taking my calls. I am calling just to ask a
question about older women dating younger men. I am actually
dating someone that is a little bit younger than me
by four years. And I've actually been reading the Old Testament,

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trying to actually read through the Bible, and I've read
a few stories, not purposely, but just you know, just
reading through. And I've stumbled up on many cases where
the husband, well actually every single case that I read,
the husband is actually older than the woman. And I'm

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the only example that I've seen where there was a
possibility that a marriage is going to take place where
the woman was older was the story of I do
not remember the lady's name, but she was married to
a son and he died, and then she married one
of his other brothers, and then he died, and so

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eventually she was supposed to actually marry I think the
younger brother, but that didn't actually end up happening. I
don't know if you know what story i'm taping.

Speaker 2 (25:12):
Yeah, I do know the story. But those are all descriptive,
they're not prescriptive. So there's nothing in the Bible whatsoever
that prescribes that a woman has to marry an older man.
It doesn't really matter. I mean, my wife six years
younger than I am, But if it was vice versa,
I don't think there'd be any problem.

Speaker 7 (25:33):
Okay, okay, And I haven't found that example anywhere. But
I want to make sure in whenever I am ready
to get married or whenever I am asked, I want
to make sure that it is definitely in the will
of God.

Speaker 2 (25:46):
So, yeah, you want to be equally yoked. I mean,
that's the big thing. It's not the age factor. That's
artificial barrier. The real issue is are you equally yoked?
Are your hearts yoked together in the service of the king.

Speaker 7 (26:01):
Okay, great, well, thank you so much.

Speaker 5 (26:04):
I really appreciate it, Oh, you get it?

Speaker 2 (26:06):
My pleasures. A lot of these kinds of questions answered
in the Complete Bible answer Book Collector's Edition. Thanks for
tuning in to this edition of the Bible Answerment Broadcast.
Look forward to seeing you next time with more of
the show.

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