October 14, 2025 • 28 mins
On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (10/14/25), Hank talks about prophecy pundits in the church who claim to know the time of Christ’s return and the end of the world.
Hank also answers the following questions:
How can I be freed from the sin of lust? Richard - Aurora, CO (6:24)
Is Andrew Wommack a good biblical teacher? What about Joseph Prince? David - Louisville, KY (8:39)
Is Daniel 9:26 referring to future events? Leigh - Mission, BC (16:08)
Why do you put date setters like Jack Van Impe and dispensationalists in the same category? Daniel - Seattle, WA (21:38)
Did God create evil according to Isaiah 45:7? Rick - Davenport, IA (25:09)
Hank also answers the following questions:
How can I be freed from the sin of lust? Richard - Aurora, CO (6:24)
Is Andrew Wommack a good biblical teacher? What about Joseph Prince? David - Louisville, KY (8:39)
Is Daniel 9:26 referring to future events? Leigh - Mission, BC (16:08)
Why do you put date setters like Jack Van Impe and dispensationalists in the same category? Daniel - Seattle, WA (21:38)
Did God create evil according to Isaiah 45:7? Rick - Davenport, IA (25:09)
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
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Speaker 2 (00:46):
Thank very much. Ready, we begin the broadcast today with
the words of Isaiah, who said, present your case, set
forth your arguments, says Jacobs King, bringing your idols to
tell us what is going on to happen. Tell us
what the former things were so that we may consider
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them and know their final outcome, or declare to us
the things to come. Tell us what the future holds,
so that we may know that you are gods. And
the reason I bring up these words by the prophet
Isaiah is there are all kinds of prophecy pundits today
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in the Christian Church who are telling us that they
know what the future holds. In fact, some go as
far as to say that they know precisely when the
end of the world will come, or when our Lord
will return. It used to be May fourteenth, nineteen forty eight.
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That was the pivotal date for date setters. The return
of the Jews to Palestine, of course, provided the basis
for determining the exact timing of the return of Christ
and the end of the world. Is how Lindsey explained
in The Late Great Planet Earth. When the Jewish people
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become a nation again in nineteen forty eight, the fig
tree put forth its leaves. Jesus said, truly, I say
to you, this generation will not pass away until all
these things take place. A generation in the Bible is
forty years. Therefore, Christ's secret return was projected to take
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place in nineteen eighty one, and his second coming seven
years later in nineteen eighty eight. Now, if Lindsay was
reading the scripture rightly, our Lord had to be mistaken
respecting his own return. Of course, people have short memories,
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so it wasn't all that long until June tenth, nineteen
sixty seven, replaced May fourteen, nineteen forty eight, as the
quintessential day in end time speculations, and this time the
math was downright magical, because you'd add forty to nineteen
sixty seven, you subtract seven, and two thousand emerged as
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the new date, pretending the coming of Jesus and of
course the carnage of the Jews. However, once again the
stars failed to align. But prophetic superstar Jack van Impi
was an innovator, and he was able to hold false
prophecy charges at bay by recalibrating a generation at fifty years,
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in fact, fifty one point two years, to be exact,
said van Impy. If you divide seventy seven generations into
four thousand years from Adam to Christ, that comes out
to fifty one point two and if you add the
extra six months because the Sixth Day War took place
in June, you're almost at fifty two years. He goes
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on to say, ad fifty two to nineteen sixty seven,
subtract seven years from that for the tribulation, and we're
talking about twenty twelve. And then van Impi found confirmation
in the Mayan calendar. One more in a long litany
of failed prophecies. Scripture is not intended to tell us
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when Christ to a return, but that he will return
and When he does, the eternal state will finally become reality.
Christ will fully resolve the problem of sin and Satan.
He will separate and judge the wheat from the tears.
He will resurrect the dead. He will recreate the universe
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without the stain of disease and destruction, decay and death.
The point, quite simply is this biblical prophecy is not
designed to help us pin the tale on the Antichrist
or to pin down a future tribut Prophetic stars in
the constellation of biblical prophecy are powerful proofs that God
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has spoken that the Bible is divine rather than merely
human in origin. In the words of God himself, I
told you these things long ago, before they happened. I
announced them to you so that you could not say
my idols, did them my wooden image, my metal God
ordained them. Or in the words of Jesus Christ himself,
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I have told you now before it happened, so that
when it does happen, you will believe. Counterfeit prophecy stars
like Jack van Impi have one thing in common. They
are consistently wrong. In illumined contrast, a genuine prophecy is
infallibly correct, and unlike the pretender's, biblical prophecy cannot be
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pawned off to good luck or to good guessing, or
even to deliberate deceit. Neither Jack van Impi or any
of the other prophecy pumpents that become so popular in
the church today we'll find out again, over and over
again that they really don't know how to read the
Bible for all it's worth. And that's the systemic problem.
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It's not just the false prophecy, but the greater problem
of not being able to interpret rightly the word of God.
A lot of you hanging on will go right to
the phone lines. First up today is Richard. He's listening
in Aurora, Colorado, listening on the web.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Hi Richard, Hello, Hi, how kind of a question for you?
How do you get around lost?
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Well, the answer to that question is that a lot
of people think you get around the problem of lust
with a magic bullet, and that simply is not true.
In fact, the tragedy today is that multitudes are saying
that righteousness can be achieved through deliverance rather than through discipleship,
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and therefore Christians who struggle with lust are said to
be possessed by the demon of lust, and deliverance is
said to be the key tomorrow and psychological redemption. Again,
that simply is false. If you want to deal with
these issues in your life, you have to embrace the
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very spiritual disciplines that Jesus Christ modeled during his earthly sojourn.
In other words, we have to become christ Like, and
spiritual disciplines are in fact spiritual exercises. Just as the
physical disciplines of weightlifting and running promote strength and stamina,
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so the spiritual disciplines promote righteousness. I like to quote
Tom Landry. He was one of my favorite NFL football coaches.
He coached for the Dallas Cowboys, and he used to say,
the job of a good football coach is to make
men do what they don't want to do in order
they can achieve what they've always wanted to achieve. And
Christians are called to do the same, to do what
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they would naturally do, in other words, pursue spiritual discipline
so that they could be what they've always wanted to
be christ Like. The problem therefore, for most contemporary Christians
is that a vast majority of them have never made
the transition from declaration to discipleship. I explain all of
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this in my book The Covering, God's plan to protect
you from evil that includes the world, the flesh, and
the devil. The Covering can be found on the web
at equipped dot or back to the phone lines. Talk
to David and Louisville, Kentucky listening in the web.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Hi David, Hey, Heny, care are you today?
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Good?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Thank you?
Speaker 4 (08:46):
I have a question about Andrew Womack. I read a
book of his called Grace the Power of the Gospel,
and I didn't notice it being all that was out
of kilter. But he made a comment that there are
many people who are against his teaching and attack him,
which made me wonder if he's teaching some false teaching. No,
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just haven't come in contact with yet.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Well, he's a classic Word of faith teacher. He teaches,
for example, that sickness occurs when people allow it in
their lives, either through rebellion or ignorance. The reality is
that sickness is part of a cursed creation, and therefore
we all get sick and eventually we all die. The
death rate is one per person. We're all going to
make it. So. His Word of Faith theology, which is
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essentially that faith is a force. Words are the containers
of the force, and through the force of faith one
can create their own reality. Is not only flawed, not
only unbiblical, but is decidedly dangerous.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Also, there's somebody else that I've read a few books
on one or if he is in the same vein
as Joseph Prince.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Yeah, Joseph Prince, another false teacher who embraces the word
of faith theology. In fact, I listened to a whole
a message by Joseph Prince, which was a very painful
thing to do. He was talking about communion and how
by taking communion over and over again as many times
as you have to a day, a week, a month,
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you can create healing in your own body. It was
a pathetic twisting of scripture. And I've often talked about
his word of faith fallacies, but when I listened to
that sermon, I was horrified by his twisting a scripture.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
So are these just two people that I should just
pretty much stay away from their teaching?
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Absolutely, yes, Hoki Doki. Well, and this is not about
attacking them. I mean, this is the old thing. They
turn this into an attack, and it's not an attack
at all. If you have tailanol that is laced with
cyanide on store shelves and you don't warn people about it,
you are doing people a disservice, and what they are
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doing is communicating spiritual cyanide over the airwaves. Megadoses very
very dangerous to people, and that's why we warned people
about their false teachings. We'll be right back on the
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Speaker 2 (16:07):
You much for any of Let's go right back to
our phone callers. Next step is Lee Listening and Mission
British Columbia candidate highly.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
Hey, good afternoon, Hank. I have a very unique question
for you. I've been looking into the Jehovah Witness Bible
and looking how they butcher John one one. But if
I take the same system and go to Daniel nine
twenty six, I think it is I see a miss
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translation in most of the translations available to us, and
that's where they capitalize anointed or throw in Messiah. I
think that misleads us to have a futuristic response or
interpretation of the seventy weeks right.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Yeah, I couldn't agree with you more. And of course
it is futuristic, but not to our time. Daniel's looking
down the corridor of time four hundred years hence when
Antika is the fourth Epiphanes comes on the scene, and
that's what consumes him with dread and fear about what
the future pretends. And it was December fourteen one, sixty four,
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seven years after Antikus had celebrated the murder of Anaias
in exactly three years after he had desecrated the temple
fortress and abolished the Daily sacrifice and set up an
abomination that causes desolation, that the temple was rededicated and
that the Daily sacrifice was restored. In fact, this is
the very thing that Jews celebrate at Hanukkah. Freedom for
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the Jews. Under Judas Maccabeus, and of course is prophesied
by Daniel and Taykus, the Antichrist of the Old Testament
was finally dead in terms of the prophetic outworking of this,
destroyed not by human power but by the power of God.
And then the text goes on to tell us that
the death of the Syrian Beast may well have been
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in view when Daniel was prophesying. Blessed is the one
who waits for and reaches the end of the one thousand,
three hundred and thirty five days. So yeah, this has
to do with something that is in the future, but
it's four hundred years in the future. It has nothing
to do with what's going on in the twenty first century.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
I totally agree, and also I've been looking into it.
You know how a lot of people will have a
start date and they try to fit four hundred ninety
years in over five hundred and fifty or five hundred
and sixty years or so. But I don't see Jesus,
for the apostles seizing upon the sixty nine weeks in
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his birth, death, or baptism or ministry.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Yeah, and that's exactly right. I mean, that's such a
great point to make. If this really had to do,
we have, pretending the exact date the Gjesus Christ is
going to write into Jerusalem on a donkey. Don't you
think that the biblical prophets and apostles would have seized
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on the fulfillment of this, But they don't.
Speaker 5 (19:12):
Yeah. And even the anointed, if I use it in
the Old Testament, I see it as either a king
or a high priest anointed by an approved prophet.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Yeah, high priest, of course. And again Jesus, the disciples,
the early Christian Church, they're writers in the early centuries,
never cited the seventy weeks prophecy as proof that Jesus
would arrive at a specific time in history. And of course,
as you also allude to in the prolog to your question,
there's little agreement among commentators concerning the seventy weeks prophecy,
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and you read the various versions, including the Revised Standard version,
and they're markedly different from the NIV reading. So this
is a very difficult passage of scripture at any rate,
and that's why it's so important to read the whole
of Daniel in context and recognize what he's shooting at.
I think that people even get it wrong in terms
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of their suggestion with respect to the four kingdoms that
are primary concern to Daniel. Not only so, but Daniel
is only alluding to Jesus Christ in the ultimate sense
that the mountain that fills the earth starts with a
stone cut out of the mountain is a picture of
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a kingdom that will come with the inauguration of Jesus Christ.
That inaugurates the kingdom that will fill the whole earth.
And Jesus comes, and that kingdom is inaugurated and one
day will be consummated.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
I agree. There's a few tough passages though, like because
I think it's in Daniel too where he says you'll
usher in a kingdom within the secession of kingdoms that
will never end. I'm kind of stuck on that too.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Well. Again, I think that's the whole point. I think
think that Daniel is looking at the kingdoms of this earth,
and he is able through his prophetic prowess, because he
is a true spokesman for God to give a succession
of nations ending with in Taike as the fourth Epiphanes,
but then looking forward to a kingdom that comes, which
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is a kingdom that is not established by human hands,
but a kingdom that is established by God himself. If
you want to get a full understanding of my interpretation
of Daniel in this regard, I've written about this in
pretty good detail in my book Has God Spoken? Good?
Talking to you? Let's go right back to the phone lines.
Talk to Daniel in Seattle, Washington.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
Hi, Daniel, heynk you.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
I'm good.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (21:45):
I'm good.
Speaker 6 (21:46):
I have one question. I know when I was saying
at the beginning of the broadcast, you mentioned Van Empey
about the prophecy, about specifically his date setting, Yes, which
I agree is off. But now one thing I questioned about, Hey, uh,
what's his name? Harold Camping also did some date setting
as well, and that was false an issue. What I'm
seeing here is a straw man argument of Therefore, so
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the Van IMPI tries to. You know, he has his
pre date setting and that's wrong, But then you include dispensationalism. Therefore,
I'll straw man that end and I'll include that as
false as well. But the thing is, the issue is
more of the date setting, you know, And because I
know of different whether you call them dissensationalists or different
variations where they don't predict the future. They just might
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see things in the future whether they'll happen or not.
So I'm just wondering why you would include that in
there and just just say that he's just wrong with
the dates.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Well, first of all, let me say that I'm not
strawming in to the extent that I would be. I'd
be the first I want to apologize for that. What
I'm pointing out is that people early on in the
dispensational scheme of things, and I didn't even mention dispensationalism,
but a lot of dispensationalists like hell Lindsey and others
who bear the mantle of dispensationalism in our time, they
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made the Red Letter Day initially nineteen forty eight, and
then when that didn't work out, then they made the
Red Letter Day nineteen sixty seven, there were charts in
the back of their Sunday school classes that cooperated all
this date setting. That was part of the dispensational scheme.
But again I didn't mention dispensationalism. I only mentioned the
basic criteria that people who are date setting use and
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where they are consistently wrong because they're applying a wrong
hermeneutic to interpret scripture. And so Jack Finnimpi has made
many prophecies over the years, and you're right. Harold Camping
did the same thing. And he finally, to his credit,
after upsetting the lives of thousands and thousands of people,
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but to his credit, he finally said, you know what,
I guess I don't know how to interpret the scripture.
I mean, that's essentially what he was saying.
Speaker 6 (23:58):
Oh okay, now, thank you so much explaining that. That's
good clarifying that, but not just thinktu're not all dispensationalists
do that with the date setting. With that Israel, some
of you don't know some of them mainly, I think
I've seen some say issue as apostasy of Israel or
jew at some point, kind of like using in Abraham's
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time when he was told about the amorite the Nia
becomes full, and therefore that's when that happens. But again
I think, like.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Well, and you're making a good point. I want to
commend you for the point. It's a point that I
wholly agree with. There are dispensationalists who have a view
with respect to the timing of the tribulation or the
meaning of the millennium that I would disagree with, but
they're not date setters, and they are not setting specific dates.
They have a paradigm through which they view the scripture.
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I happen to disagree with it, but this is a
paradigm that is perfectly acceptable within the pale of Orthodoxy.
So we can debate these things as brothers in the
Lord and learn from one another. And I think that
point that you're making should be underscored and read. It's
an important point and I'm glad you brought it up.
Speaker 6 (25:05):
Okay, thank you, Heck you.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Got it, my friend. Appreciate your call. Back to the
phone lines, let's talk to Rick and Devenport Iowa. Hi, Rick, Hey,
how you doing good?
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Thanks lout having to take my call. I got a question.
It's in Isaiah forty five. It says I formed the
light and create darkness. I make peace and create evil.
I Lord do all these things. Is it correct to
say that God created evil?
Speaker 2 (25:27):
No, of course not.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
How do you take this passage?
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Well, it's an antithetical parallelism in terms of its construction.
So light is contrasted with darkness, and peace is contrasted
with its opposite, which is variously rendered evil or calamity
or disaster, which ultimately is judgment in response to sin
in the context of Isaiah. But even further, think about
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this logically, Obviously, God does not create moral evil. Evil
is not even a substance. It's a lack of good.
It's not something in its self. So to suggest, as
some people do, that somehow or other, on the base
of this passage, God is the creator of evil, it's
a frightful misinterpretation of the scripture, as you can hear
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from the music. We're out of time for this edition
of the Bible Inesman Broadcast. Thanks for tuning in. We'll
see you next time with more of the show.
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Speaker 2 (00:46):
Thank very much. Ready, we begin the broadcast today with
the words of Isaiah, who said, present your case, set
forth your arguments, says Jacobs King, bringing your idols to
tell us what is going on to happen. Tell us
what the former things were so that we may consider
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them and know their final outcome, or declare to us
the things to come. Tell us what the future holds,
so that we may know that you are gods. And
the reason I bring up these words by the prophet
Isaiah is there are all kinds of prophecy pundits today
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in the Christian Church who are telling us that they
know what the future holds. In fact, some go as
far as to say that they know precisely when the
end of the world will come, or when our Lord
will return. It used to be May fourteenth, nineteen forty eight.
(01:47):
That was the pivotal date for date setters. The return
of the Jews to Palestine, of course, provided the basis
for determining the exact timing of the return of Christ
and the end of the world. Is how Lindsey explained
in The Late Great Planet Earth. When the Jewish people
(02:08):
become a nation again in nineteen forty eight, the fig
tree put forth its leaves. Jesus said, truly, I say
to you, this generation will not pass away until all
these things take place. A generation in the Bible is
forty years. Therefore, Christ's secret return was projected to take
(02:30):
place in nineteen eighty one, and his second coming seven
years later in nineteen eighty eight. Now, if Lindsay was
reading the scripture rightly, our Lord had to be mistaken
respecting his own return. Of course, people have short memories,
(02:50):
so it wasn't all that long until June tenth, nineteen
sixty seven, replaced May fourteen, nineteen forty eight, as the
quintessential day in end time speculations, and this time the
math was downright magical, because you'd add forty to nineteen
sixty seven, you subtract seven, and two thousand emerged as
(03:13):
the new date, pretending the coming of Jesus and of
course the carnage of the Jews. However, once again the
stars failed to align. But prophetic superstar Jack van Impi
was an innovator, and he was able to hold false
prophecy charges at bay by recalibrating a generation at fifty years,
(03:36):
in fact, fifty one point two years, to be exact,
said van Impy. If you divide seventy seven generations into
four thousand years from Adam to Christ, that comes out
to fifty one point two and if you add the
extra six months because the Sixth Day War took place
in June, you're almost at fifty two years. He goes
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on to say, ad fifty two to nineteen sixty seven,
subtract seven years from that for the tribulation, and we're
talking about twenty twelve. And then van Impi found confirmation
in the Mayan calendar. One more in a long litany
of failed prophecies. Scripture is not intended to tell us
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when Christ to a return, but that he will return
and When he does, the eternal state will finally become reality.
Christ will fully resolve the problem of sin and Satan.
He will separate and judge the wheat from the tears.
He will resurrect the dead. He will recreate the universe
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without the stain of disease and destruction, decay and death.
The point, quite simply is this biblical prophecy is not
designed to help us pin the tale on the Antichrist
or to pin down a future tribut Prophetic stars in
the constellation of biblical prophecy are powerful proofs that God
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has spoken that the Bible is divine rather than merely
human in origin. In the words of God himself, I
told you these things long ago, before they happened. I
announced them to you so that you could not say
my idols, did them my wooden image, my metal God
ordained them. Or in the words of Jesus Christ himself,
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I have told you now before it happened, so that
when it does happen, you will believe. Counterfeit prophecy stars
like Jack van Impi have one thing in common. They
are consistently wrong. In illumined contrast, a genuine prophecy is
infallibly correct, and unlike the pretender's, biblical prophecy cannot be
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pawned off to good luck or to good guessing, or
even to deliberate deceit. Neither Jack van Impi or any
of the other prophecy pumpents that become so popular in
the church today we'll find out again, over and over
again that they really don't know how to read the
Bible for all it's worth. And that's the systemic problem.
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It's not just the false prophecy, but the greater problem
of not being able to interpret rightly the word of God.
A lot of you hanging on will go right to
the phone lines. First up today is Richard. He's listening
in Aurora, Colorado, listening on the web.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Hi Richard, Hello, Hi, how kind of a question for you?
How do you get around lost?
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Well, the answer to that question is that a lot
of people think you get around the problem of lust
with a magic bullet, and that simply is not true.
In fact, the tragedy today is that multitudes are saying
that righteousness can be achieved through deliverance rather than through discipleship,
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and therefore Christians who struggle with lust are said to
be possessed by the demon of lust, and deliverance is
said to be the key tomorrow and psychological redemption. Again,
that simply is false. If you want to deal with
these issues in your life, you have to embrace the
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very spiritual disciplines that Jesus Christ modeled during his earthly sojourn.
In other words, we have to become christ Like, and
spiritual disciplines are in fact spiritual exercises. Just as the
physical disciplines of weightlifting and running promote strength and stamina,
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so the spiritual disciplines promote righteousness. I like to quote
Tom Landry. He was one of my favorite NFL football coaches.
He coached for the Dallas Cowboys, and he used to say,
the job of a good football coach is to make
men do what they don't want to do in order
they can achieve what they've always wanted to achieve. And
Christians are called to do the same, to do what
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they would naturally do, in other words, pursue spiritual discipline
so that they could be what they've always wanted to
be christ Like. The problem therefore, for most contemporary Christians
is that a vast majority of them have never made
the transition from declaration to discipleship. I explain all of
(08:27):
this in my book The Covering, God's plan to protect
you from evil that includes the world, the flesh, and
the devil. The Covering can be found on the web
at equipped dot or back to the phone lines. Talk
to David and Louisville, Kentucky listening in the web.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Hi David, Hey, Heny, care are you today?
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Good?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Thank you?
Speaker 4 (08:46):
I have a question about Andrew Womack. I read a
book of his called Grace the Power of the Gospel,
and I didn't notice it being all that was out
of kilter. But he made a comment that there are
many people who are against his teaching and attack him,
which made me wonder if he's teaching some false teaching. No,
(09:07):
just haven't come in contact with yet.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Well, he's a classic Word of faith teacher. He teaches,
for example, that sickness occurs when people allow it in
their lives, either through rebellion or ignorance. The reality is
that sickness is part of a cursed creation, and therefore
we all get sick and eventually we all die. The
death rate is one per person. We're all going to
make it. So. His Word of Faith theology, which is
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essentially that faith is a force. Words are the containers
of the force, and through the force of faith one
can create their own reality. Is not only flawed, not
only unbiblical, but is decidedly dangerous.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Also, there's somebody else that I've read a few books
on one or if he is in the same vein
as Joseph Prince.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Yeah, Joseph Prince, another false teacher who embraces the word
of faith theology. In fact, I listened to a whole
a message by Joseph Prince, which was a very painful
thing to do. He was talking about communion and how
by taking communion over and over again as many times
as you have to a day, a week, a month,
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you can create healing in your own body. It was
a pathetic twisting of scripture. And I've often talked about
his word of faith fallacies, but when I listened to
that sermon, I was horrified by his twisting a scripture.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
So are these just two people that I should just
pretty much stay away from their teaching?
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Absolutely, yes, Hoki Doki. Well, and this is not about
attacking them. I mean, this is the old thing. They
turn this into an attack, and it's not an attack
at all. If you have tailanol that is laced with
cyanide on store shelves and you don't warn people about it,
you are doing people a disservice, and what they are
(10:54):
doing is communicating spiritual cyanide over the airwaves. Megadoses very
very dangerous to people, and that's why we warned people
about their false teachings. We'll be right back on the
other side of the break with more answers to your
questions right here on the Bible answer Man broadcast. Please
stay tuned for that.
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You much for any of Let's go right back to
our phone callers. Next step is Lee Listening and Mission
British Columbia candidate highly.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
Hey, good afternoon, Hank. I have a very unique question
for you. I've been looking into the Jehovah Witness Bible
and looking how they butcher John one one. But if
I take the same system and go to Daniel nine
twenty six, I think it is I see a miss
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translation in most of the translations available to us, and
that's where they capitalize anointed or throw in Messiah. I
think that misleads us to have a futuristic response or
interpretation of the seventy weeks right.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Yeah, I couldn't agree with you more. And of course
it is futuristic, but not to our time. Daniel's looking
down the corridor of time four hundred years hence when
Antika is the fourth Epiphanes comes on the scene, and
that's what consumes him with dread and fear about what
the future pretends. And it was December fourteen one, sixty four,
(17:20):
seven years after Antikus had celebrated the murder of Anaias
in exactly three years after he had desecrated the temple
fortress and abolished the Daily sacrifice and set up an
abomination that causes desolation, that the temple was rededicated and
that the Daily sacrifice was restored. In fact, this is
the very thing that Jews celebrate at Hanukkah. Freedom for
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the Jews. Under Judas Maccabeus, and of course is prophesied
by Daniel and Taykus, the Antichrist of the Old Testament
was finally dead in terms of the prophetic outworking of this,
destroyed not by human power but by the power of God.
And then the text goes on to tell us that
the death of the Syrian Beast may well have been
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in view when Daniel was prophesying. Blessed is the one
who waits for and reaches the end of the one thousand,
three hundred and thirty five days. So yeah, this has
to do with something that is in the future, but
it's four hundred years in the future. It has nothing
to do with what's going on in the twenty first century.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
I totally agree, and also I've been looking into it.
You know how a lot of people will have a
start date and they try to fit four hundred ninety
years in over five hundred and fifty or five hundred
and sixty years or so. But I don't see Jesus,
for the apostles seizing upon the sixty nine weeks in
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his birth, death, or baptism or ministry.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Yeah, and that's exactly right. I mean, that's such a
great point to make. If this really had to do,
we have, pretending the exact date the Gjesus Christ is
going to write into Jerusalem on a donkey. Don't you
think that the biblical prophets and apostles would have seized
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on the fulfillment of this, But they don't.
Speaker 5 (19:12):
Yeah. And even the anointed, if I use it in
the Old Testament, I see it as either a king
or a high priest anointed by an approved prophet.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Yeah, high priest, of course. And again Jesus, the disciples,
the early Christian Church, they're writers in the early centuries,
never cited the seventy weeks prophecy as proof that Jesus
would arrive at a specific time in history. And of course,
as you also allude to in the prolog to your question,
there's little agreement among commentators concerning the seventy weeks prophecy,
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and you read the various versions, including the Revised Standard version,
and they're markedly different from the NIV reading. So this
is a very difficult passage of scripture at any rate,
and that's why it's so important to read the whole
of Daniel in context and recognize what he's shooting at.
I think that people even get it wrong in terms
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of their suggestion with respect to the four kingdoms that
are primary concern to Daniel. Not only so, but Daniel
is only alluding to Jesus Christ in the ultimate sense
that the mountain that fills the earth starts with a
stone cut out of the mountain is a picture of
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a kingdom that will come with the inauguration of Jesus Christ.
That inaugurates the kingdom that will fill the whole earth.
And Jesus comes, and that kingdom is inaugurated and one
day will be consummated.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
I agree. There's a few tough passages though, like because
I think it's in Daniel too where he says you'll
usher in a kingdom within the secession of kingdoms that
will never end. I'm kind of stuck on that too.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Well. Again, I think that's the whole point. I think
think that Daniel is looking at the kingdoms of this earth,
and he is able through his prophetic prowess, because he
is a true spokesman for God to give a succession
of nations ending with in Taike as the fourth Epiphanes,
but then looking forward to a kingdom that comes, which
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is a kingdom that is not established by human hands,
but a kingdom that is established by God himself. If
you want to get a full understanding of my interpretation
of Daniel in this regard, I've written about this in
pretty good detail in my book Has God Spoken? Good?
Talking to you? Let's go right back to the phone lines.
Talk to Daniel in Seattle, Washington.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
Hi, Daniel, heynk you.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
I'm good.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (21:45):
I'm good.
Speaker 6 (21:46):
I have one question. I know when I was saying
at the beginning of the broadcast, you mentioned Van Empey
about the prophecy, about specifically his date setting, Yes, which
I agree is off. But now one thing I questioned about, Hey, uh,
what's his name? Harold Camping also did some date setting
as well, and that was false an issue. What I'm
seeing here is a straw man argument of Therefore, so
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the Van IMPI tries to. You know, he has his
pre date setting and that's wrong, But then you include dispensationalism. Therefore,
I'll straw man that end and I'll include that as
false as well. But the thing is, the issue is
more of the date setting, you know, And because I
know of different whether you call them dissensationalists or different
variations where they don't predict the future. They just might
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see things in the future whether they'll happen or not.
So I'm just wondering why you would include that in
there and just just say that he's just wrong with
the dates.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Well, first of all, let me say that I'm not
strawming in to the extent that I would be. I'd
be the first I want to apologize for that. What
I'm pointing out is that people early on in the
dispensational scheme of things, and I didn't even mention dispensationalism,
but a lot of dispensationalists like hell Lindsey and others
who bear the mantle of dispensationalism in our time, they
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made the Red Letter Day initially nineteen forty eight, and
then when that didn't work out, then they made the
Red Letter Day nineteen sixty seven, there were charts in
the back of their Sunday school classes that cooperated all
this date setting. That was part of the dispensational scheme.
But again I didn't mention dispensationalism. I only mentioned the
basic criteria that people who are date setting use and
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where they are consistently wrong because they're applying a wrong
hermeneutic to interpret scripture. And so Jack Finnimpi has made
many prophecies over the years, and you're right. Harold Camping
did the same thing. And he finally, to his credit,
after upsetting the lives of thousands and thousands of people,
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but to his credit, he finally said, you know what,
I guess I don't know how to interpret the scripture.
I mean, that's essentially what he was saying.
Speaker 6 (23:58):
Oh okay, now, thank you so much explaining that. That's
good clarifying that, but not just thinktu're not all dispensationalists
do that with the date setting. With that Israel, some
of you don't know some of them mainly, I think
I've seen some say issue as apostasy of Israel or
jew at some point, kind of like using in Abraham's
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time when he was told about the amorite the Nia
becomes full, and therefore that's when that happens. But again
I think, like.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Well, and you're making a good point. I want to
commend you for the point. It's a point that I
wholly agree with. There are dispensationalists who have a view
with respect to the timing of the tribulation or the
meaning of the millennium that I would disagree with, but
they're not date setters, and they are not setting specific dates.
They have a paradigm through which they view the scripture.
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I happen to disagree with it, but this is a
paradigm that is perfectly acceptable within the pale of Orthodoxy.
So we can debate these things as brothers in the
Lord and learn from one another. And I think that
point that you're making should be underscored and read. It's
an important point and I'm glad you brought it up.
Speaker 6 (25:05):
Okay, thank you, Heck you.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Got it, my friend. Appreciate your call. Back to the
phone lines, let's talk to Rick and Devenport Iowa. Hi, Rick, Hey,
how you doing good?
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Thanks lout having to take my call. I got a question.
It's in Isaiah forty five. It says I formed the
light and create darkness. I make peace and create evil.
I Lord do all these things. Is it correct to
say that God created evil?
Speaker 2 (25:27):
No, of course not.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
How do you take this passage?
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Well, it's an antithetical parallelism in terms of its construction.
So light is contrasted with darkness, and peace is contrasted
with its opposite, which is variously rendered evil or calamity
or disaster, which ultimately is judgment in response to sin
in the context of Isaiah. But even further, think about
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this logically, Obviously, God does not create moral evil. Evil
is not even a substance. It's a lack of good.
It's not something in its self. So to suggest, as
some people do, that somehow or other, on the base
of this passage, God is the creator of evil, it's
a frightful misinterpretation of the scripture, as you can hear
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from the music. We're out of time for this edition
of the Bible Inesman Broadcast. Thanks for tuning in. We'll
see you next time with more of the show.
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