August 20, 2025 • 28 mins
On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (08/20/25), Hank answers the following questions:
Is there a correlation between the Word of Faith movement and the Church of God in Christ? Jonathan - Wichita, KS (1:00)
Was Antipas martyred during the reign of Domitian? If so, how does this affect the dating of Revelation? Steven - Grand Rapids, MI (2:25)
Do we pay for the sins of our fathers? Jason - St. Clair, MO (7:37)
Is it okay to file a restraining order against a family member? Peggy - Oklahoma City, OK (8:39)
Do you know anything about Project Blue Beam? Babet - Fresno, CA (15:40)
What are your thoughts on The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins? I found this book in my granddaughter’s room. Linda - Seattle, WA (16:58)
What do Mormons see as wrong with historic Christianity? Why would they want to convert me? David - Springfield, MO (22:13)
Do you have any information on Mike Bickle and the International House of Prayer? Rick - Bloomington, IL (25:28)
Is there a correlation between the Word of Faith movement and the Church of God in Christ? Jonathan - Wichita, KS (1:00)
Was Antipas martyred during the reign of Domitian? If so, how does this affect the dating of Revelation? Steven - Grand Rapids, MI (2:25)
Do we pay for the sins of our fathers? Jason - St. Clair, MO (7:37)
Is it okay to file a restraining order against a family member? Peggy - Oklahoma City, OK (8:39)
Do you know anything about Project Blue Beam? Babet - Fresno, CA (15:40)
What are your thoughts on The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins? I found this book in my granddaughter’s room. Linda - Seattle, WA (16:58)
What do Mormons see as wrong with historic Christianity? Why would they want to convert me? David - Springfield, MO (22:13)
Do you have any information on Mike Bickle and the International House of Prayer? Rick - Bloomington, IL (25:28)
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Welcome to the Bible answer Man broadcast with Christian Research
Institute President Hank Canagraph. Our mission at CRII is not
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here's Hank Canagraph.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Thank you very much for rendian to our phone callers.
The first st up is Jonathan listening in Wichita, Kansas. Hi, Jonathan,
how are you doing right?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
I have a question, It's really a two part question.
I would listening to a podcast and I heard you
talking about as a commercial that played. Actually I heard
the voice of Miles Monroe and it was dealing with
the false teachings of a Word of Faith teachings, and
on another podcast I heard you talking about the Church
of God, and I just wanted to know if there
is any kind of correlation between the Word of Faith
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teachings and the Church of God in Christ, which is
a different denomination. But if you know anything about that,
could you tell me that.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Yeah, Well, first of all, the Church of God in
Christ is not a word faith denomination. Now, it is
certainly possible that the church has faith teachers that are
allowed in the pulpit. That's something that individual pastors make
individual decisions on. And I've found over and over again
that the Pentecostal movement in general has been a platform
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from time did time in various churches for men like
Kenneth Copeland and Benny Hinn and the like. But I
think it's very important that we don't broad brush the
denomination because the denomination itself has done some pretty courageous
things in its history, including standing against one to Pentecostalism.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Okay, okay, I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Time you get it. Thank you so much for your call.
Let's go back to the phone lines. Doc Dude, Stephen
grin Rapids, Michigan, Steven's listening on the web. Hi Stephen, Hey, Thanks.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
First off, I've a seen you for a while, and
i just want to let you know I'm speechless and
how humble you are as a teacher, and I'm ultimately
astounded that I have encountered such an epic steward of
our Lord Jesus Christ. The position that the Lord has
given you and bestowed upon you has not only edified
my spirit, it's momentarily quenches my infinite thirst for the Lord.
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So thank you so much for your ministry and what
you do.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
My question, my question today comes from Revelation two thirteen.
I've been utilizing the principles that you teach and I've
ran into this. Bear with me. It's kind of a
long question. According to many Christian traditions, Antipas was a
Christian martyr who had been martyred earlier in Pergamum during
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the reign of the Mission eighty eighty one through ninety six.
My question is that, if Revelation was indeed written in
eighty seventy, why is John utilizing a past reference of
a martyr that's said to be from eighty one through
ninety six to delineate holding firm during previous times.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Of persecution, or is this a case.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Where texts triumphed tradition and that which is cloudy the
traditional date is demolished by that which is clear, which
it's that a man named Antipas was martyred in the
first century and no further information is provided. If you
could just provide me with correction or insight.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Yeah, well, I think that you put your finger on
the real issue, and that is in this particular situation,
I think you have some traditions that are oftentimes touted
as proof positive that the Book of Revelation was written
after the fall of Jerusalem. But the truth of the
matter is there is tradition about Antipes, but there's no
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firm information that he was the bishop of the Church
and was burned alive in a heated metal image of
a bull during the days of dimsicion. I think is
a legend that appeared in the tenth century. In fact,
if you go to a commentary by R. H. Lensky,
you can find some further information on that. But I
remember when I was writing my book The Apocalypse Code,
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I encountered that particular objection to the notion that the
Book of Revelation was written prior to the destruction of Jerusalem.
What's interesting to me today, however, is that there are
many people who are dispensational in terms of their eschatology
who are now redating the Book of Revelation. Let me
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read to you a quote by Josh McDowell who says
most liberal scholars are being forced to consider earlier dates
for the New Testament. Doctor John A. T. Robinson comes
to some startling conclusions in his groundbreaking book Redating the
New Testament. His research has led to his conviction that
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the whole of the New Testament was written before the
fall of Jerusalem in eighty seventy. That's, by the way,
in his Evidence for Christianity Historical Evidences for the Christian Faith,
page eight. So that's an interesting comment. And there are
many other dispensationalists that have said that all of the
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New Testament was written and prior to eighty seventy. And
many scholars are rethinking their dating of the Book of
Revelation because even that dating seems to be more traditional
than based on reason. If indeed the apostle John were
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writing in eighty ninety five, it seems incredible that he
would make no mention whatsoever of the most apocalyptic event
in Jewish history. And I think even more to the point,
you have perhaps the most amazing prophecy that Jesus Christ
ever made, apart from his own resurrection. He now says
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that the Temple in Jerusalem will be destroyed within a generation,
and that prophecy comes to pass precisely as Jesus said
it would. The pattern of the prophets is always to
call attention to fulfilled prophecy, and it seems, as I
just mentioned, incredible to think that John would not do
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the same thing with respect to the prophecy of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Well, that that about does it. You never cease to
amaze me, sir. We listen to you every day at work. Yeah,
you just You're awesome, man. It's it's just epic to
listen to you. It's epic to take a take a
look at things from your understanding. As I like to
tell some of my army buddies, you are the reconnaissance
of the Christian army. Well, thank you for your site
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that's far above and behind enemy lines in the battlefield
and sending them back to us so we can continue
to fight the good fight.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Thank you very much, sir, you got it.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
More compliments than I deserve. Back to the phone lines.
Talk to Jason and Saint Clair, Missouri. Hi, Jason, Hey, good,
how are.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
You done good?
Speaker 4 (07:45):
They had a question. You know, how your parents can
their actions can punish you for generations.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
No, the Bible makes it very clear and passages like
Ezekiel chapter eighteen that the son is not responsible for
the sin of the father or vice versa. However, it
is correct to say that the consequences of sin passed
down through the generations. So for example, if you have
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an alcoholic father, there are consequences to the family, and
so I think that consequences, as opposed to curses, passed
down to the generation.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Okay, because I was going to ask if that if
we have for forgiveness, how will we still be punished
for generations? But that now makes atal sense.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Well, I appreciate it, you got it.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Thank you so much for your call. Let's go right
back to the phone lines. We'll talk next to Peggy
listening in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
Hi, Hank, thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
You're welcome.
Speaker 6 (08:48):
I think I have a situation in my family that
I'd like to get a petl call view on because
that's where I take my life these days, and I
want to it's God's view on how I should handle
the situation. Just a little bit of background. I have
a sister in law that used to be married to
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my brother. I take care of my brother now he's disable.
My sister in law has never been kind or said
kind words to people in my family. She claims to
be a Christian, but she's proven false to its teaching.
So but that's between her and God. My point is
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that we've never had a good relationship. She's been asked
by family members not to visit their homes and not
to call because we just don't have that kind of
relationship with her. Just this past weekend, she comes by
my house uninvited. Now, I don't wish to take a
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hard line with her. The first thing I thought about
was having a restraining order through the courts. But again,
I want to take the Bible's view on how to
cancel something like this without her thinking that she can
just come in and do as she wishes.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Well, Peggy, it'd sorry to cut you off because I'm
almost at a station right But the Biblical view is
to seek for reconciliation and always have that door open
for reconciliation. Sometimes, however, there are considerations in terms of
whether there's danger lurking around the event where a restraining
owner is warranted. But the basic fundamental biblical principle as
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we are to seek reconciliation at all times, and of
course that takes two parties. It takes someone wanting to
be forgiven and someone willing to forgive, and when both
of those are in place, true reconciliation can take place
as well.
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Thank you much for Indian. Let's go right back to
the phone lines. Talk to Bevitt in Fresno, California.
Speaker 7 (15:43):
Hi, Hi, Hank. I just want to thank you for,
you know, all the years that you've put, you know,
this effort in and my sister and I started listening
to you about fifteen years ago. I gut may may
have been that long, but anyway, I just want to
thank you. I have a question regarding the Blue Beam project. Yeah,
can you give me any information?
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Yeah, I actually can. It's a conspiracy theory, so it's
a hope it is. Yeah, it is a great, big hoax. Monasked.
He died in nineteen ninety six and the conspiracy theory
really took off after he died. But he believed that
Nassau conspired to implement the New Age religion with the
Anti Christ at its head, which was a foundational peace
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of artificially created earthquakes and a big space show in
the sky with technologically sophisticated three dimensional optical holograms and
laser productions and the like and sounds to portray Jesus
and God and mind control through technology and on. There's
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a big conspiracy theory. It's a hoax. As you properly.
Speaker 7 (16:52):
Labeled it, all right, I kind of figured that. Thank
you so much for your answer, you got it.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Thank you for your call back to the phone lines.
We'll talk next to Ada and Seattle, Washington by Linda Hi.
Speaker 8 (17:05):
Thank you for taking my call, my pleasure. I just
found a book in my granddaughter's room. She just ran
in and ran out and apparently left this book on
her dresser. It's a book by Richard Dawkins called The
God Delusion, And right now I'm sitting with it under
my foot because I think that's where it belongs. I mean,
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I'd like to burn it up right now, but I
don't want to cause any kind of Well, I want
to be effective in my approach to my granddaughter about this,
so I don't want to alienate her by destroying the book.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Yeah. Well, I think you are very wise to not
destroy the book, but rather to prepare yourself to use
the deviations communicated by Dawkins's opportunities to share the truth
and life and love that only Jesus Christ can bring
to the human heart. Dawkins unfortunately lives in an age
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of scientific enlightenment. But though he lives in this age
of enlightenment, he continues being a rutweiler for Charles Darwin,
who was a nineteenth century scientist, and unfortunately for him,
he is therefore embracing scientific paradigms that are out of date.
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They simply don't pass muster in an age of scientific enlightenment.
And of course the evolutionary paradigm that he embraces is
simply an obscurantist paradigm. He has to believe that nothing
created everything, that life came from non life, and that
the life that came from non life produced morals. And
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you see the kind of tortured things that he has
to do to support his mentor, as it were, Charles Darwood,
although obviously it wasn't a direct mentorship. But he's the
guy that Dawkins lots. The problem with that is that
Charles Darwin was a sexist and a racist. Of course,
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his magnum opus was subtitled the Preservation of Favored Races
in the Struggle for Life, and is Darwin put it,
the more civilized so called Caucasian races have beaten Turkish
hollow in the struggle for existence. And then he said,
looking at the world at no very distant date, an
endless number of lower races will have been eliminated by
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the higher civilized races throughout the world. And incredibly, what
Dawkins tries to do is absolve his exemplar from overt racism.
And the way that he does that is he says, well, well,
my exemplar, Darwin wasn't really talking about races. What he
was really talking about was individuals within races. But all
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you have to do is read the corpus of Darwin's
work to recognize that his preservation of favor races and
the struggle for life hypothesis clearly involves races and not
merely individuals within races. And therefore, to excuse the overt
racism and sexism in Darwin's writings is itself inexcusable, particularly
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when these excuses flow from the pen of a man
who has the temerity to castigate those who believe in
the creation model and disbelieve his evolutionary hypothesis. He calls
them ignorant, stupid, insane, wicked, tormented, bullied, or brainwashed. And
I would say, instead of using all kinds of ad
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hominem attacks, it would be good for Dawkins to learn
to think clearly incredibly in an age of scientific enlightenment.
Speaker 8 (20:52):
What could I use biblically or just on an intellectual
level to dilate my grand from this avenue?
Speaker 2 (21:01):
The chiefs well, I mean, I think you want to
reason with her because the same will that gets her
into this mindset has to be the same will that
gets her out of it. But that's the reason I've written,
for example, the Creation answer Book. It counters the contentions
of men like Richard Dawkins, so don't be afraid of
letting her read it. Even his fellow atheists are embarrassed
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by dawkins poor reasoning in the book, and dawkins impoverished
training in naturalistic science has rendered him incapable of intelligently
contributing to any meaningful dialogue on religion, or theology or philosophy.
So there are many well argued refutations of his arguments,
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and I think that is a wonderful thing, is look
take the deviation or the bad argument and use it
as an opportunity. By the way, there's a book that
is a direct counter to Richard Dawkins, the God Delusion.
It's called the Dawkin's Dilution, So that might be helpful
to you as well, where you may even want to
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get a copy of it and say here, you may
want to read this as well.
Speaker 8 (22:10):
Okay, thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
You got it back the full lines. Talk to David
in Springfield, Missouri.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
Hi, David, Hello, third, how are you today? I'm doing well, well, good, good.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Hey.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
You do a very good job of outlining the Mormon
belief system and the differences and concerns with that belief system.
My question is kind of it flips that when a
Mormon comes and witnesses evangelizes to me from the Mormon viewpoint,
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what is it about my belief system as a Christian
that puts me in eternal peril? What do they see
that is fundamentally wrong with the Christian viewpoint?
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Well, I think that's a really good question, and I
would say this that they don't think that you are
in peril. And the reason they do not think that
you are in peril is because they have a number
of different heavens in their view. Murderers, unrepentant hormongers, the
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world's vilest people. They make it into a heaven called
the celestial Heaven, and then lukewarm Mormons, religious people and
those who accept the Mormon Gospel in the spirit world
enter the terrestrial heaven, and then temple Mormons make it
to the celestial heaven. But only those who are sealed
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in secret temple rituals get to the third level of
the celestial Kingdom and become gods of their own planets.
So I don't think they think that you are in
peril unless you are a son of perdition, and very
few people in their view qualify for that.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
So why would they want me to convert?
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Well, because they believe that they have the only true,
uncorruptible revelation, which they hold to be the Book of Mormon.
They hold it to be the most correct of any
book on earth, their words and the keystone to their religion.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
So if I convert and I will just get a
better level, a higher level, that it will still be
an eternal reward.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Yeah. Well, remember the whole idea behind Mormonism was Joseph
Smith got a vision, and in that vision, two celestial
personages claimed to Joseph Smith that all existing churches were wrong,
and that all their creeds were an abomination, and that
all their professors were corrupt. And according to these personages,
Smith had been chosen to restore, not reform, but restore
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a church that had disappeared from the face of the earth.
And then, of course the doctrines that evolved from that
vision ended up compromising all of the historic Christian faith,
from the nature of God to the authority of Scripture
to the way of salvation that we just discussed.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Okay, okay, Well, I appreciate you taking the time to
answer that because I had never stopped to ask, you know,
someone that came to my door that. So I appreciate
you you helping me that you got it.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
And in response to that call as well, let me
mention that we do have the Mormon mirage flip chart
available to the Ministry of the Christian Research and so
let's go next to Rick in Bloomington, Illinois. Hi.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
Rick, I, Hey, thank you for taking my call pleasure.
I wonder if you are familiar with the IHOP ministry
out of Kansas under Mike Bickell.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Yeah, we're very familiar with Mike Bickell, and we did
an article in the Christian Research Journal which deals head
on with Mike Bickell and the International House of Prayer
as well. I wrote about Mike Bickell in my book
Counterfeit Revival Looking for God in All the Wrong Places?
Speaker 5 (25:57):
Okay, So are there archives of the Christian Research Institute.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Oh yeah, the journal is zarkived in. We can send
the article out to you and you can find it
at equipped dot org.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
Wonderful. All right, thank you sir, you got it.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Thank you so much for your call. Be right back
here tomorrow with more of the Bible Instrument Broadcast.
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Speaker 2 (00:58):
Thank you very much for rendian to our phone callers.
The first st up is Jonathan listening in Wichita, Kansas. Hi, Jonathan,
how are you doing right?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
I have a question, It's really a two part question.
I would listening to a podcast and I heard you
talking about as a commercial that played. Actually I heard
the voice of Miles Monroe and it was dealing with
the false teachings of a Word of Faith teachings, and
on another podcast I heard you talking about the Church
of God, and I just wanted to know if there
is any kind of correlation between the Word of Faith
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teachings and the Church of God in Christ, which is
a different denomination. But if you know anything about that,
could you tell me that.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Yeah, Well, first of all, the Church of God in
Christ is not a word faith denomination. Now, it is
certainly possible that the church has faith teachers that are
allowed in the pulpit. That's something that individual pastors make
individual decisions on. And I've found over and over again
that the Pentecostal movement in general has been a platform
(01:59):
from time did time in various churches for men like
Kenneth Copeland and Benny Hinn and the like. But I
think it's very important that we don't broad brush the
denomination because the denomination itself has done some pretty courageous
things in its history, including standing against one to Pentecostalism.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Okay, okay, I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Time you get it. Thank you so much for your call.
Let's go back to the phone lines. Doc Dude, Stephen
grin Rapids, Michigan, Steven's listening on the web. Hi Stephen, Hey, Thanks.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
First off, I've a seen you for a while, and
i just want to let you know I'm speechless and
how humble you are as a teacher, and I'm ultimately
astounded that I have encountered such an epic steward of
our Lord Jesus Christ. The position that the Lord has
given you and bestowed upon you has not only edified
my spirit, it's momentarily quenches my infinite thirst for the Lord.
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So thank you so much for your ministry and what
you do.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
My question, my question today comes from Revelation two thirteen.
I've been utilizing the principles that you teach and I've
ran into this. Bear with me. It's kind of a
long question. According to many Christian traditions, Antipas was a
Christian martyr who had been martyred earlier in Pergamum during
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the reign of the Mission eighty eighty one through ninety six.
My question is that, if Revelation was indeed written in
eighty seventy, why is John utilizing a past reference of
a martyr that's said to be from eighty one through
ninety six to delineate holding firm during previous times.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Of persecution, or is this a case.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Where texts triumphed tradition and that which is cloudy the
traditional date is demolished by that which is clear, which
it's that a man named Antipas was martyred in the
first century and no further information is provided. If you
could just provide me with correction or insight.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Yeah, well, I think that you put your finger on
the real issue, and that is in this particular situation,
I think you have some traditions that are oftentimes touted
as proof positive that the Book of Revelation was written
after the fall of Jerusalem. But the truth of the
matter is there is tradition about Antipes, but there's no
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firm information that he was the bishop of the Church
and was burned alive in a heated metal image of
a bull during the days of dimsicion. I think is
a legend that appeared in the tenth century. In fact,
if you go to a commentary by R. H. Lensky,
you can find some further information on that. But I
remember when I was writing my book The Apocalypse Code,
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I encountered that particular objection to the notion that the
Book of Revelation was written prior to the destruction of Jerusalem.
What's interesting to me today, however, is that there are
many people who are dispensational in terms of their eschatology
who are now redating the Book of Revelation. Let me
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read to you a quote by Josh McDowell who says
most liberal scholars are being forced to consider earlier dates
for the New Testament. Doctor John A. T. Robinson comes
to some startling conclusions in his groundbreaking book Redating the
New Testament. His research has led to his conviction that
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the whole of the New Testament was written before the
fall of Jerusalem in eighty seventy. That's, by the way,
in his Evidence for Christianity Historical Evidences for the Christian Faith,
page eight. So that's an interesting comment. And there are
many other dispensationalists that have said that all of the
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New Testament was written and prior to eighty seventy. And
many scholars are rethinking their dating of the Book of
Revelation because even that dating seems to be more traditional
than based on reason. If indeed the apostle John were
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writing in eighty ninety five, it seems incredible that he
would make no mention whatsoever of the most apocalyptic event
in Jewish history. And I think even more to the point,
you have perhaps the most amazing prophecy that Jesus Christ
ever made, apart from his own resurrection. He now says
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that the Temple in Jerusalem will be destroyed within a generation,
and that prophecy comes to pass precisely as Jesus said
it would. The pattern of the prophets is always to
call attention to fulfilled prophecy, and it seems, as I
just mentioned, incredible to think that John would not do
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the same thing with respect to the prophecy of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Well, that that about does it. You never cease to
amaze me, sir. We listen to you every day at work. Yeah,
you just You're awesome, man. It's it's just epic to
listen to you. It's epic to take a take a
look at things from your understanding. As I like to
tell some of my army buddies, you are the reconnaissance
of the Christian army. Well, thank you for your site
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that's far above and behind enemy lines in the battlefield
and sending them back to us so we can continue
to fight the good fight.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Thank you very much, sir, you got it.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
More compliments than I deserve. Back to the phone lines.
Talk to Jason and Saint Clair, Missouri. Hi, Jason, Hey, good,
how are.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
You done good?
Speaker 4 (07:45):
They had a question. You know, how your parents can
their actions can punish you for generations.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
No, the Bible makes it very clear and passages like
Ezekiel chapter eighteen that the son is not responsible for
the sin of the father or vice versa. However, it
is correct to say that the consequences of sin passed
down through the generations. So for example, if you have
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an alcoholic father, there are consequences to the family, and
so I think that consequences, as opposed to curses, passed
down to the generation.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Okay, because I was going to ask if that if
we have for forgiveness, how will we still be punished
for generations? But that now makes atal sense.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Well, I appreciate it, you got it.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Thank you so much for your call. Let's go right
back to the phone lines. We'll talk next to Peggy
listening in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
Hi, Hank, thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
You're welcome.
Speaker 6 (08:48):
I think I have a situation in my family that
I'd like to get a petl call view on because
that's where I take my life these days, and I
want to it's God's view on how I should handle
the situation. Just a little bit of background. I have
a sister in law that used to be married to
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my brother. I take care of my brother now he's disable.
My sister in law has never been kind or said
kind words to people in my family. She claims to
be a Christian, but she's proven false to its teaching.
So but that's between her and God. My point is
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that we've never had a good relationship. She's been asked
by family members not to visit their homes and not
to call because we just don't have that kind of
relationship with her. Just this past weekend, she comes by
my house uninvited. Now, I don't wish to take a
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was having a restraining order through the courts. But again,
I want to take the Bible's view on how to
cancel something like this without her thinking that she can
just come in and do as she wishes.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Well, Peggy, it'd sorry to cut you off because I'm
almost at a station right But the Biblical view is
to seek for reconciliation and always have that door open
for reconciliation. Sometimes, however, there are considerations in terms of
whether there's danger lurking around the event where a restraining
owner is warranted. But the basic fundamental biblical principle as
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be forgiven and someone willing to forgive, and when both
of those are in place, true reconciliation can take place
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Thank you much for Indian. Let's go right back to
the phone lines. Talk to Bevitt in Fresno, California.
Speaker 7 (15:43):
Hi, Hi, Hank. I just want to thank you for,
you know, all the years that you've put, you know,
this effort in and my sister and I started listening
to you about fifteen years ago. I gut may may
have been that long, but anyway, I just want to
thank you. I have a question regarding the Blue Beam project. Yeah,
can you give me any information?
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Yeah, I actually can. It's a conspiracy theory, so it's
a hope it is. Yeah, it is a great, big hoax. Monasked.
He died in nineteen ninety six and the conspiracy theory
really took off after he died. But he believed that
Nassau conspired to implement the New Age religion with the
Anti Christ at its head, which was a foundational peace
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a big conspiracy theory. It's a hoax. As you properly.
Speaker 7 (16:52):
Labeled it, all right, I kind of figured that. Thank
you so much for your answer, you got it.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Thank you for your call back to the phone lines.
We'll talk next to Ada and Seattle, Washington by Linda Hi.
Speaker 8 (17:05):
Thank you for taking my call, my pleasure. I just
found a book in my granddaughter's room. She just ran
in and ran out and apparently left this book on
her dresser. It's a book by Richard Dawkins called The
God Delusion, And right now I'm sitting with it under
my foot because I think that's where it belongs. I mean,
(17:27):
I'd like to burn it up right now, but I
don't want to cause any kind of Well, I want
to be effective in my approach to my granddaughter about this,
so I don't want to alienate her by destroying the book.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Yeah. Well, I think you are very wise to not
destroy the book, but rather to prepare yourself to use
the deviations communicated by Dawkins's opportunities to share the truth
and life and love that only Jesus Christ can bring
to the human heart. Dawkins unfortunately lives in an age
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of scientific enlightenment. But though he lives in this age
of enlightenment, he continues being a rutweiler for Charles Darwin,
who was a nineteenth century scientist, and unfortunately for him,
he is therefore embracing scientific paradigms that are out of date.
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They simply don't pass muster in an age of scientific enlightenment.
And of course the evolutionary paradigm that he embraces is
simply an obscurantist paradigm. He has to believe that nothing
created everything, that life came from non life, and that
the life that came from non life produced morals. And
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you see the kind of tortured things that he has
to do to support his mentor, as it were, Charles Darwood,
although obviously it wasn't a direct mentorship. But he's the
guy that Dawkins lots. The problem with that is that
Charles Darwin was a sexist and a racist. Of course,
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his magnum opus was subtitled the Preservation of Favored Races
in the Struggle for Life, and is Darwin put it,
the more civilized so called Caucasian races have beaten Turkish
hollow in the struggle for existence. And then he said,
looking at the world at no very distant date, an
endless number of lower races will have been eliminated by
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the higher civilized races throughout the world. And incredibly, what
Dawkins tries to do is absolve his exemplar from overt racism.
And the way that he does that is he says, well, well,
my exemplar, Darwin wasn't really talking about races. What he
was really talking about was individuals within races. But all
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you have to do is read the corpus of Darwin's
work to recognize that his preservation of favor races and
the struggle for life hypothesis clearly involves races and not
merely individuals within races. And therefore, to excuse the overt
racism and sexism in Darwin's writings is itself inexcusable, particularly
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when these excuses flow from the pen of a man
who has the temerity to castigate those who believe in
the creation model and disbelieve his evolutionary hypothesis. He calls
them ignorant, stupid, insane, wicked, tormented, bullied, or brainwashed. And
I would say, instead of using all kinds of ad
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hominem attacks, it would be good for Dawkins to learn
to think clearly incredibly in an age of scientific enlightenment.
Speaker 8 (20:52):
What could I use biblically or just on an intellectual
level to dilate my grand from this avenue?
Speaker 2 (21:01):
The chiefs well, I mean, I think you want to
reason with her because the same will that gets her
into this mindset has to be the same will that
gets her out of it. But that's the reason I've written,
for example, the Creation answer Book. It counters the contentions
of men like Richard Dawkins, so don't be afraid of
letting her read it. Even his fellow atheists are embarrassed
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by dawkins poor reasoning in the book, and dawkins impoverished
training in naturalistic science has rendered him incapable of intelligently
contributing to any meaningful dialogue on religion, or theology or philosophy.
So there are many well argued refutations of his arguments,
(21:43):
and I think that is a wonderful thing, is look
take the deviation or the bad argument and use it
as an opportunity. By the way, there's a book that
is a direct counter to Richard Dawkins, the God Delusion.
It's called the Dawkin's Dilution, So that might be helpful
to you as well, where you may even want to
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get a copy of it and say here, you may
want to read this as well.
Speaker 8 (22:10):
Okay, thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
You got it back the full lines. Talk to David
in Springfield, Missouri.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
Hi, David, Hello, third, how are you today? I'm doing well, well, good, good.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Hey.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
You do a very good job of outlining the Mormon
belief system and the differences and concerns with that belief system.
My question is kind of it flips that when a
Mormon comes and witnesses evangelizes to me from the Mormon viewpoint,
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what is it about my belief system as a Christian
that puts me in eternal peril? What do they see
that is fundamentally wrong with the Christian viewpoint?
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Well, I think that's a really good question, and I
would say this that they don't think that you are
in peril. And the reason they do not think that
you are in peril is because they have a number
of different heavens in their view. Murderers, unrepentant hormongers, the
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world's vilest people. They make it into a heaven called
the celestial Heaven, and then lukewarm Mormons, religious people and
those who accept the Mormon Gospel in the spirit world
enter the terrestrial heaven, and then temple Mormons make it
to the celestial heaven. But only those who are sealed
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in secret temple rituals get to the third level of
the celestial Kingdom and become gods of their own planets.
So I don't think they think that you are in
peril unless you are a son of perdition, and very
few people in their view qualify for that.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
So why would they want me to convert?
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Well, because they believe that they have the only true,
uncorruptible revelation, which they hold to be the Book of Mormon.
They hold it to be the most correct of any
book on earth, their words and the keystone to their religion.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
So if I convert and I will just get a
better level, a higher level, that it will still be
an eternal reward.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Yeah. Well, remember the whole idea behind Mormonism was Joseph
Smith got a vision, and in that vision, two celestial
personages claimed to Joseph Smith that all existing churches were wrong,
and that all their creeds were an abomination, and that
all their professors were corrupt. And according to these personages,
Smith had been chosen to restore, not reform, but restore
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a church that had disappeared from the face of the earth.
And then, of course the doctrines that evolved from that
vision ended up compromising all of the historic Christian faith,
from the nature of God to the authority of Scripture
to the way of salvation that we just discussed.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Okay, okay, Well, I appreciate you taking the time to
answer that because I had never stopped to ask, you know,
someone that came to my door that. So I appreciate
you you helping me that you got it.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
And in response to that call as well, let me
mention that we do have the Mormon mirage flip chart
available to the Ministry of the Christian Research and so
let's go next to Rick in Bloomington, Illinois. Hi.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
Rick, I, Hey, thank you for taking my call pleasure.
I wonder if you are familiar with the IHOP ministry
out of Kansas under Mike Bickell.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Yeah, we're very familiar with Mike Bickell, and we did
an article in the Christian Research Journal which deals head
on with Mike Bickell and the International House of Prayer
as well. I wrote about Mike Bickell in my book
Counterfeit Revival Looking for God in All the Wrong Places?
Speaker 5 (25:57):
Okay, So are there archives of the Christian Research Institute.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Oh yeah, the journal is zarkived in. We can send
the article out to you and you can find it
at equipped dot org.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
Wonderful. All right, thank you sir, you got it.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Thank you so much for your call. Be right back
here tomorrow with more of the Bible Instrument Broadcast.
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