October 15, 2025 • 28 mins
On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (10/15/25), Hank answers the following questions:
Is living less than 70 years a judgment for past sins according to Psalm 90:10? Maurine - San Antonio, TX (0:55)
How should we interpret Matt 6:1-2? Should our good deeds be public or private? Casey - Springdale, AR (5:00)
Can you help me understand how to read and understand prophecy? Jeff - Hartford, CT (6:51)
Are microchips the mark of the Beast? Andrea - Charlotte, NC (9:25)
Is the long ending of Mark supposed to be in the Bible? Bill - Houston, TX (15:10)
What is the importance and meaning of fasting, and how do you properly fast? Brian - Cleveland, OH (22:44)
What is your opinion of Derek Prince? Charles - Kansas City, MO (24:12)
Is living less than 70 years a judgment for past sins according to Psalm 90:10? Maurine - San Antonio, TX (0:55)
How should we interpret Matt 6:1-2? Should our good deeds be public or private? Casey - Springdale, AR (5:00)
Can you help me understand how to read and understand prophecy? Jeff - Hartford, CT (6:51)
Are microchips the mark of the Beast? Andrea - Charlotte, NC (9:25)
Is the long ending of Mark supposed to be in the Bible? Bill - Houston, TX (15:10)
What is the importance and meaning of fasting, and how do you properly fast? Brian - Cleveland, OH (22:44)
What is your opinion of Derek Prince? Charles - Kansas City, MO (24:12)
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
From Charlotte, North Carolina. You're listening to the Bible answer
Man broadcast with Hank Hanagraph, president of the Christian Research Institute.
The reason the Bible answer Man is on the air
is to defend the Christian faith, proclaim the gospel of
our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and to teach discipleship
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That's equip dot org. The following program was pre recorded,
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and now here's your host, Hank Hanagraph.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Sank for a bunch for Andy, a lot of you
hanging on. We're direct to the phone lines of First
Marine Listening in San Antonio, Tech SI Marine.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Hi, Hie, thanks for taking my call. Been listening to
for just about a year now, And just let you
know I agree with you on a wide range of
things such as state setters to reconciliation, which is a
two way street. I like how you've worded that, and also,
you know, just down to the faith healing movement. So
there's so many things that I've gotten and learned from
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your program over this year. And my question is about
the length of days. And you know, people like to,
in my opinion, like to really read into Psalm ninety,
which talks about the length of your days, you know,
seventy years or eighty if we have the strength yet
their span is but trouble and sorrow, or they quickly
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passingly fly away. I noticed that people like to really
read into that and make more out of it and
suggest that, well, if you someone doesn't make it to
seventy it might be because you know, they disobeyed their
parents when they were a kid or something. And I
don't know about that. I think maybe people shouldn't be
so presumptuous and just say to themselves and correct me
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if I'm wrong, But maybe just say to themselves, nobody
knows that the God ordained days of one's life. Correct,
Am I wrong?
Speaker 2 (02:17):
You're not wrong. In fact, everything you have said is
spot on, it is correct, and it is presumptuous, just
as you allude to for someone to suggest that this
passage means that if you were to die in the
flower of your youth, that somehow or other, it is
because of some secret sin in your life, or because
you didn't know how to exercise enough faith. No, this
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is just a passage that is telling us that the
average lifespan of a person is seventy or eighty years.
It's threescore and ten or by reason of strength four score.
A score is twenty years, so it's seventy to eighty
years is the average life spot. That's all the passages
telling us, and therefore we need to make our lives
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count while there is time. But if that's an average,
some people die young, some people live a lot longer.
George Burns would be a great example of that. Though
he smoked cigars, he lived a long time. But the
point is not that if you die early, this is
a result of sin in your life. So I do
think that using your word, it is presumptuous to say so, oh.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Thank you, Hank, and amen to that, because I just
want a lot of people out there to realize that
whatever a person's you know, lifespan, it's got ordained, and
I don't think it's fair of anyone to assume anything
more out of it.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Well, that's right, you know, this is the kind of
anks that is heaped on people who are suffering and
they get a disease, and now not only are they
suffering of the disease, and instead of Christians coming around
and rallying to their support, they're coming around saying, if
you had enough faith, you would have the disease in
the first place. So it's adding insult to injury.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Yeah, it's hurtful, and it really does cause a lot
of problems in your mind, wondering, my God, am I
a good enough Christian? Was I good enough when I
was a kid? You know? Did I disobey my mom
or dad or something? You know, somebody dies like my
father did at a young age of forty nine. I'd
never assumed when I was sixteen when he died that
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it was all because, you know, somehow he was a
you know this or that, or it came back to
bite him in the butt or anything. No, I just
think it was an unfortunate passing. He died of a
grandma seizure due to a blood clot on his brain.
It was an accident, There was not. I mean things
like that. You just can't presume.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Well, you have said it well, and I appreciate you
not only listening for the last year, but for your
kind words and for you're corrective right here on the
Bible answer Man broadcast, your words were the most significant.
Thank you so much, Marine, Thank you, God bless you.
And let's go right back to our phone callers. Next
up as Casey listening in Springdale, Arkansas. Hi, Casey.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
I think my question is I was reading Matthew last night,
and in chapter five it says, don't hide your light,
let it shine for all. Let your good deeds glow
for all to sea, so that they will praise your
heavenly Father. And then in the very first part of
chapter six says, don't do your good deeds publicly to
be admired, for then you will lose your reward in heaven.
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So are we I like doing random acts of kindness
and not telling people that it was me, But should
I be doing it not anonymously? And like when people say, oh,
thank you, thank you, or whatever? The should I say? No,
don't think me. You need to thank God.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Well, a couple of things. First of all, when Jesus
says you are the salt of the earth, but if
the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made
salty again? And later on then goes on to say,
you're at the light of the world. The city on
the hill cannot be hidden. Neither do men light a
lamp and put it under all. Instead they put it
on standings, liked everyone in the house. In the same way,
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Let your light shine before men, so they may see
your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven. The
point is that without us, as believers, being salt and
light in the world, making our message plain to the world,
being ambassadors for Jesus Christ, the world will continue to
corrupt and corrode. That's the point there. But later on,
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when Jesus is talking about giving or praying, he's saying,
don't do it in a self righteous manner, don't do
it to be seen by men, but do it because
you genuinely love God. So you want a reward from God,
not a reward from men. And that's the point of
the passage.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Okay, all right, thanks for your answer, you got it.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Thank you so much for your callback to the phone lines,
and we'll talk next to Jeff in Hartford, Connecticut.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Hi, Jeff, Hi, hank, a pleasure to speak with you.
I have a question about prophecy. Your scholarship has allowed
me to kind of let loose some of my previous
notions of dispensationalism and specifically the rapture. But I would
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like to know how to read prophecy, especially in Isaiah,
with the fall of Satan, etc. Specifically the telescope nature
of prophecy. In other words, is there a three stage
nature to some prophecy where you could read the past
into it, the near future, and then the far future,
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specifically such as the abomination of desolation. And I do
have one specific question for you, and do you feel
that there will be a man of lawlessness to be revealed?
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Well, I think there's always a man of lawlessness, and
it could be an institution, an individual, anyone who denies
that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh. But as
far as the abomination of desolation is concerned, is very
clear that Jesus is pointing back to something that happened
in the past. He says, when you see standing in
the Holy Place, the abomination of desolation. Let the reader
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understand he talks about this abomination of desolation that's spoken
of by the prophet Daniel. Daniel foretold four hundred years
ahead of time that there would become a man of lawlessness,
an abomination of desolation. That prophecy was fulfilled within taig
As the Fourth Epiphanies, and of course there was freedom
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of the Jews under Judas Maccabeus, and this is still
celebrated at Hanukkah. Jesus now points to what Daniel experienced
and prophesied to prophesy that forty years hence there would
be an abomination of desolation, and of course that was
fulfilled with the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem. There's
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no reason whatsoever, however, to suppose that there's going to
be a future abomination of desolation, because there's no warrant
for believing that there's going to be a future temple
where the doom of the Rock now stands. I actually
lay all of this out in my book Has God
Spoken in three very distinct sections, so you can look
it up there. Back to the phone lines under your
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next listening in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Speaker 6 (09:28):
High Undrea, thank you for taking my call, my pleasure.
I wanted to find out your opinion on the microchips,
and I wanted to find out if you thought that
that was the mark of the beast, because my understanding
had always been that the market of the beast occurred
after the rapture.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Well, whatever the timing happens to be, this has nothing
to do with the mark of the beast. The mark
of the beast biblically is a parody of the mark
of the Lamb. So just as the mark on the
foreheads of the one hundred and forty four thousand Relation
Chapter fourteen symbolize identity with the Lamb, so the mark
and Revelation thirteen symbolizes identity with the beast. So when
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Jesus says that on him who overcomes, I will write
the name of my God and the name of the
city of my God. I will also write on him
my new name, we intuitively realize he does not have
a magic marker in mind. Not only that, but the
forehead and the hands of Old Testament saints symbolize their
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belief and behavior, and we see that in many passages
throughout the Old Testament. In other words, what they believe in,
how they behave mark them as either belonging to God
or belonging to Satan. And so if you look at
John's reference to the mark of the beast in Revelation
it's securely tethered to scripture, but the notion that the
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mark of the beast is Sunday worship or a Social
Security card or a sol lic on microchip that has
no biblical basis whatsoever. I've written about that in various places,
including the Complete Bible answer Book, available through the Ministry
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Speaker 1 (11:14):
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Speaker 2 (15:09):
Back to the phone lines. We'll talk to Bill and Texas.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Hi.
Speaker 7 (15:12):
Bill, Hey, Hank. Great to get a chance to talk
to you and listen to your radio show all the time.
The interesting the question that I came up with the
other day, and I've done some research on equip dot
org to try and kind of resolve this has to
do around Mark sixteen specifically versus seventeen through twenty, where
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they're talking about science following believers and that kind of thing.
And the person that I was discussing all this with
was admant about everything from the snake handling to drinking
poisons and all that kind of stuff, And so I'm
trying to do some research to really get a better
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handle and understanding both from where he's coming from and
kind of what we see in the world today. Kind
of fell short trying to really grapple with this and
come up with a reasonable interpretation.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Yeah. Well, I think what's important for us is to
recognize what the science of textual criticism is. It is
a way through which, through the tenacity of the text,
the autographs or the original writings emerge unscathed. And I
explained this in my book, has God spoken in very
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clear prose, so you can understand exactly how it works
and how through the science and textual criticism you get
to the core. You get to the autographs, you get
to the original writings, and that which is a gloss,
a mistake, something added, something subtracted. All these things emerge
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again through the science and textual criticism. As far as
the long ending of Mark, my personal opinion is very
much as what you will find in the notes that
most of the translations insert between verse eight and verse nine,
that the most reliable early manuscripts and other ancient witnesses
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do not have the long ending to Mark. So again,
for that reason and for other reasons, I think it's interesting.
I think that it could cohere with scripture in terms
of what has already happened, but it certainly wouldn't be
a pretext for handling snakes in our epic of time.
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And I think the statistical and linguistic analysis of these
verses calls into question. These verses is consistent with the
rest of Mark's Gospel. It's also difficult to harmonize those verses,
as you alluded to, with the rest of scripture. In
other words Jesus appears in a different form, the idea
of drinking deadly poison, and so forth. So I think
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there are a lot of reasons whereby we can legitimately
say that this long ending doesn't really belong there, that
it is appended to Mark rather than being part of
Mark's original gospel.
Speaker 7 (18:10):
Okay, so firm that kind of brings into brings up
the I guess the question of so it's insertion into
you know, so many of the translations, and based on
the fact that it's it is in the from the
biblical text, it becomes a question of Okay, so now
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you're saying that portions of the Bible, specifically this passage
doesn't belong in the Bible, or.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Well, it's not that I'm now saying it. It is
that there are passages of the Bible that you'll find,
for example, the come of Yohonium in the King James
version of the Bible. But if you look at the
history behind the coma Yohonium, you'll find out that this
is a scribal insertion, that it is not found in
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the most reliable manuscripts. So remember that our translations are
not autographs. We hold to the infallible inspired Word of God.
But when we're talking about that, we're not talking about
translations of the Bible. We're talking about the autographs themselves.
And through the science a textual criticism, the autographs emerge unscathed,
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so we can have absolute certainty that the Bible is
clear and consistent with itself. And when there are scribal
insertions or glosses that have been discovered through the science
of textual criticism, that's pointed out. I mean, if you
look at translations like the King James version in sixteen eleven,
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there are all kinds of mistakes. For example, if you
would read Matthew twenty six in the original King James
sixteen eleven version, it read then cometh Judith, when it
should read then cometh Jesus. And the seventh Commendment read
thou shalt commit adultery instead of thou shalt not commit adultery.
So these kinds of errors are human errors. Now they're
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not errors in the autographs or the originals, but they
are in translations of the Bible that come as a
result of the autographs themselves.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
Okay, good to understand. That's something I hadn't really gone
through before.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
I lay all this out in a lot of detail,
and has God spoken? In fact, you'll get a sense
of exactly how the Bible came to be good.
Speaker 7 (20:33):
I'm gonna have to look for that then that kind
of I know you're you're a very prolific writer, and
I'm a very slow reader. Yeah, you need to pick
and choose what I read.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
But sure, well this is important, this is very important.
Speaker 7 (20:47):
Okay, has God spoken? I appreciate it. Thank you very much, sir,
you got it.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
And by the way, just to follow up on that,
and demonstrating that extent manuscript copies faithfully preserve the words
of the autographs. You have to look at the copy
of themselves, who, constrained by the command do not add
to it or take away from it, fulfilled their task
with meticulous zeal. Now they weren't preprogrammed automatons, but they
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were rather subject to all the frailties they are part
and partially human condition, and therefore the copies they produced
were good, but they are hardly perfect. I think it's
outrageous to suppose that any fallible human being, no matter
how disciplined and dedicated, could avoid minor mistakes such as
misspelling names or misstating numbers. But the beautiful thing that
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we have is, as I mentioned, the science of textual criticism.
Not only are the details and descriptions encountered in your
journey through the Biblical text buttressed by credible external evidences,
but by textual criticism. And through textual criticism, we could
be absolutely certain of the Biblical text authentically re capitulates
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the words of the original writers. That's what textual critics do.
They compare known manuscripts in an effort to trace the
history of variations so as to discover the authentic wording
of the autographs or the originals. And the beauty from
a biblical perspective is that we have a wealth of
Biblical manuscripts and that empowers textual critics to credibly sort
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out copyist errors so that the autograph can emerge unscathed.
We can be certain that no essential of the Biblical
message has been compromised, and non essential copyist errors are
resolved through manuscript comparisons, consideration of context, and of course,
plain common sense. Back to the phone lines, we'll talk
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next to Brian in Cleveland, Ohio. Hi, Brian, how.
Speaker 8 (22:49):
You doing, Hank, appreciate your ministry and hard work you
put into doing what you do in a.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
Passion at you show thank you.
Speaker 8 (22:55):
I have a question on fast and I want to
know how important is it.
Speaker 7 (22:59):
To fast as a belief in Jesus?
Speaker 8 (23:00):
What is the spiritual meaning of fasting?
Speaker 7 (23:03):
And how do you properly fast?
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Well, there's no guideline in terms of fasting, except that
you don't want to do it as the hypocrites do,
which is to say fast to be seen by men,
or to act more spiritual. When you fast, it's a
way of withdrawing from the invasive sounds and temptations of
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the world and to build your relationship with the lover
of your soul. So when you do it, I think
you want to follow prudent guidelines. In other words, if
you've never fasted before, don't suddenly decide you're going to
go on a forty day fast. You may want to
set aside a day in which you only drink water,
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and then you can begin to build on that foundation
where the next time you might fast for a longer
period of time. But again, the idea is to withdraw
from the appetites of this world and developed your spiritual appetite.
That's the real thing going on with fasting.
Speaker 7 (24:06):
Okay, good, that answers my question.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Thank you, Hey, thank you so much for your call.
Let's go back to the phone lines and we'll talk
to Charles in Kansas City, Missouri next. Hi, Charles, Hey,
how you doing, Hank, appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
I got a question.
Speaker 8 (24:21):
I got familiar with this guy named Derek Prince. I
think he died a few years ago, but I've seen
a couple of YouTube videos of his and he's real
big on demons hounding Christians and demons of tooth decay
and demons of depression. And I just want to know
if you're familiar.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
With his very much so. In fact, I actually on
several occasions went to hear Derek Prince and watch his
deliverance shenanigans. Quite frankly, he'd have someone who had a
demon and they'd say, I see the demon coming out.
It looks like the pills, very dough boy, and the
demon would come out. It could be a demo of
lust or demon of Neicantine, just a false paradigm spiritual warfare.
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And in fact, I note this in a book that
I wrote called The Covering Gods planned to protect you
from evil. Unfortunately, there's all kinds of sensationalism in the
Church today and as there were in the time when
Prince was alive, and the deliverance model of spiritual warfare
that these kinds of men present to the public is
just ill fated. It's wrong. And the right way of
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spiritual warfare is given to us in the Bible, and
that's why we're called to put on the firm of
God so that we can take our stand against principalities
and powers of darkness. And of course, you know the
problem with that warfare model is that what would happen
is someone would have the demon of lust, and the
demon of lust would come out looking like the Pillsbury
doughboy his description on mine. And now the person who
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had lust supposedly is cured to their lust. Well, it
doesn't happen that way. If you want to be cured
of issues in your life, it's going to be cured
because you follow the same kinds of spiritual disciplines that
the Bible from Oats in fact exhorts us to follow.
So a better paradigm spiritual warfare is found in the Bible.
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And again I've written about that in the covering. Thanks
for tuning in. Look forward to seeing you next time
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the words of Scripture merely human in origin? Or are
they in fact the very words of God himself? Three
years in the making and based on two decades of
research and reflection, Hank Henagraph's monumental book Has God Spoken
answers what is surely the most important question facing our world?
In Has God Spoken? Memorable proofs of the Bible's Divine inspiration,
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Hank counters the contentions of the Bible attackers and clearly
shows that belief in the Holy Scriptures is not a
guess or wishful thinking. It is the only logical conclusion
after an honest examination of overwhelming evidence ordered Has God spoken?
From the Christian Research Institute by calling eighty eight seven
thousand CRII, or go online to equip dot org. Equip
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dot org
From Charlotte, North Carolina. You're listening to the Bible answer
Man broadcast with Hank Hanagraph, president of the Christian Research Institute.
The reason the Bible answer Man is on the air
is to defend the Christian faith, proclaim the gospel of
our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and to teach discipleship
to his followers, because life and truth matter. For more
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That's equip dot org. The following program was pre recorded,
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and now here's your host, Hank Hanagraph.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Sank for a bunch for Andy, a lot of you
hanging on. We're direct to the phone lines of First
Marine Listening in San Antonio, Tech SI Marine.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Hi, Hie, thanks for taking my call. Been listening to
for just about a year now, And just let you
know I agree with you on a wide range of
things such as state setters to reconciliation, which is a
two way street. I like how you've worded that, and also,
you know, just down to the faith healing movement. So
there's so many things that I've gotten and learned from
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your program over this year. And my question is about
the length of days. And you know, people like to,
in my opinion, like to really read into Psalm ninety,
which talks about the length of your days, you know,
seventy years or eighty if we have the strength yet
their span is but trouble and sorrow, or they quickly
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passingly fly away. I noticed that people like to really
read into that and make more out of it and
suggest that, well, if you someone doesn't make it to
seventy it might be because you know, they disobeyed their
parents when they were a kid or something. And I
don't know about that. I think maybe people shouldn't be
so presumptuous and just say to themselves and correct me
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if I'm wrong, But maybe just say to themselves, nobody
knows that the God ordained days of one's life. Correct,
Am I wrong?
Speaker 2 (02:17):
You're not wrong. In fact, everything you have said is
spot on, it is correct, and it is presumptuous, just
as you allude to for someone to suggest that this
passage means that if you were to die in the
flower of your youth, that somehow or other, it is
because of some secret sin in your life, or because
you didn't know how to exercise enough faith. No, this
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is just a passage that is telling us that the
average lifespan of a person is seventy or eighty years.
It's threescore and ten or by reason of strength four score.
A score is twenty years, so it's seventy to eighty
years is the average life spot. That's all the passages
telling us, and therefore we need to make our lives
(03:00):
count while there is time. But if that's an average,
some people die young, some people live a lot longer.
George Burns would be a great example of that. Though
he smoked cigars, he lived a long time. But the
point is not that if you die early, this is
a result of sin in your life. So I do
think that using your word, it is presumptuous to say so, oh.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Thank you, Hank, and amen to that, because I just
want a lot of people out there to realize that
whatever a person's you know, lifespan, it's got ordained, and
I don't think it's fair of anyone to assume anything
more out of it.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Well, that's right, you know, this is the kind of
anks that is heaped on people who are suffering and
they get a disease, and now not only are they
suffering of the disease, and instead of Christians coming around
and rallying to their support, they're coming around saying, if
you had enough faith, you would have the disease in
the first place. So it's adding insult to injury.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Yeah, it's hurtful, and it really does cause a lot
of problems in your mind, wondering, my God, am I
a good enough Christian? Was I good enough when I
was a kid? You know? Did I disobey my mom
or dad or something? You know, somebody dies like my
father did at a young age of forty nine. I'd
never assumed when I was sixteen when he died that
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it was all because, you know, somehow he was a
you know this or that, or it came back to
bite him in the butt or anything. No, I just
think it was an unfortunate passing. He died of a
grandma seizure due to a blood clot on his brain.
It was an accident, There was not. I mean things
like that. You just can't presume.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Well, you have said it well, and I appreciate you
not only listening for the last year, but for your
kind words and for you're corrective right here on the
Bible answer Man broadcast, your words were the most significant.
Thank you so much, Marine, Thank you, God bless you.
And let's go right back to our phone callers. Next
up as Casey listening in Springdale, Arkansas. Hi, Casey.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
I think my question is I was reading Matthew last night,
and in chapter five it says, don't hide your light,
let it shine for all. Let your good deeds glow
for all to sea, so that they will praise your
heavenly Father. And then in the very first part of
chapter six says, don't do your good deeds publicly to
be admired, for then you will lose your reward in heaven.
(05:28):
So are we I like doing random acts of kindness
and not telling people that it was me, But should
I be doing it not anonymously? And like when people say, oh,
thank you, thank you, or whatever? The should I say? No,
don't think me. You need to thank God.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Well, a couple of things. First of all, when Jesus
says you are the salt of the earth, but if
the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made
salty again? And later on then goes on to say,
you're at the light of the world. The city on
the hill cannot be hidden. Neither do men light a
lamp and put it under all. Instead they put it
on standings, liked everyone in the house. In the same way,
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Let your light shine before men, so they may see
your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven. The
point is that without us, as believers, being salt and
light in the world, making our message plain to the world,
being ambassadors for Jesus Christ, the world will continue to
corrupt and corrode. That's the point there. But later on,
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when Jesus is talking about giving or praying, he's saying,
don't do it in a self righteous manner, don't do
it to be seen by men, but do it because
you genuinely love God. So you want a reward from God,
not a reward from men. And that's the point of
the passage.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Okay, all right, thanks for your answer, you got it.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Thank you so much for your callback to the phone lines,
and we'll talk next to Jeff in Hartford, Connecticut.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Hi, Jeff, Hi, hank, a pleasure to speak with you.
I have a question about prophecy. Your scholarship has allowed
me to kind of let loose some of my previous
notions of dispensationalism and specifically the rapture. But I would
(07:21):
like to know how to read prophecy, especially in Isaiah,
with the fall of Satan, etc. Specifically the telescope nature
of prophecy. In other words, is there a three stage
nature to some prophecy where you could read the past
into it, the near future, and then the far future,
(07:44):
specifically such as the abomination of desolation. And I do
have one specific question for you, and do you feel
that there will be a man of lawlessness to be revealed?
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Well, I think there's always a man of lawlessness, and
it could be an institution, an individual, anyone who denies
that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh. But as
far as the abomination of desolation is concerned, is very
clear that Jesus is pointing back to something that happened
in the past. He says, when you see standing in
the Holy Place, the abomination of desolation. Let the reader
(08:21):
understand he talks about this abomination of desolation that's spoken
of by the prophet Daniel. Daniel foretold four hundred years
ahead of time that there would become a man of lawlessness,
an abomination of desolation. That prophecy was fulfilled within taig
As the Fourth Epiphanies, and of course there was freedom
(08:41):
of the Jews under Judas Maccabeus, and this is still
celebrated at Hanukkah. Jesus now points to what Daniel experienced
and prophesied to prophesy that forty years hence there would
be an abomination of desolation, and of course that was
fulfilled with the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem. There's
(09:04):
no reason whatsoever, however, to suppose that there's going to
be a future abomination of desolation, because there's no warrant
for believing that there's going to be a future temple
where the doom of the Rock now stands. I actually
lay all of this out in my book Has God
Spoken in three very distinct sections, so you can look
it up there. Back to the phone lines under your
(09:26):
next listening in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Speaker 6 (09:28):
High Undrea, thank you for taking my call, my pleasure.
I wanted to find out your opinion on the microchips,
and I wanted to find out if you thought that
that was the mark of the beast, because my understanding
had always been that the market of the beast occurred
after the rapture.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Well, whatever the timing happens to be, this has nothing
to do with the mark of the beast. The mark
of the beast biblically is a parody of the mark
of the Lamb. So just as the mark on the
foreheads of the one hundred and forty four thousand Relation
Chapter fourteen symbolize identity with the Lamb, so the mark
and Revelation thirteen symbolizes identity with the beast. So when
(10:10):
Jesus says that on him who overcomes, I will write
the name of my God and the name of the
city of my God. I will also write on him
my new name, we intuitively realize he does not have
a magic marker in mind. Not only that, but the
forehead and the hands of Old Testament saints symbolize their
(10:31):
belief and behavior, and we see that in many passages
throughout the Old Testament. In other words, what they believe in,
how they behave mark them as either belonging to God
or belonging to Satan. And so if you look at
John's reference to the mark of the beast in Revelation
it's securely tethered to scripture, but the notion that the
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mark of the beast is Sunday worship or a Social
Security card or a sol lic on microchip that has
no biblical basis whatsoever. I've written about that in various places,
including the Complete Bible answer Book, available through the Ministry
of the Christian Research Institute. For your gift, be right
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Speaker 1 (11:14):
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Speaker 2 (15:09):
Back to the phone lines. We'll talk to Bill and Texas.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Hi.
Speaker 7 (15:12):
Bill, Hey, Hank. Great to get a chance to talk
to you and listen to your radio show all the time.
The interesting the question that I came up with the
other day, and I've done some research on equip dot
org to try and kind of resolve this has to
do around Mark sixteen specifically versus seventeen through twenty, where
(15:34):
they're talking about science following believers and that kind of thing.
And the person that I was discussing all this with
was admant about everything from the snake handling to drinking
poisons and all that kind of stuff, And so I'm
trying to do some research to really get a better
(15:54):
handle and understanding both from where he's coming from and
kind of what we see in the world today. Kind
of fell short trying to really grapple with this and
come up with a reasonable interpretation.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Yeah. Well, I think what's important for us is to
recognize what the science of textual criticism is. It is
a way through which, through the tenacity of the text,
the autographs or the original writings emerge unscathed. And I
explained this in my book, has God spoken in very
(16:30):
clear prose, so you can understand exactly how it works
and how through the science and textual criticism you get
to the core. You get to the autographs, you get
to the original writings, and that which is a gloss,
a mistake, something added, something subtracted. All these things emerge
(16:53):
again through the science and textual criticism. As far as
the long ending of Mark, my personal opinion is very
much as what you will find in the notes that
most of the translations insert between verse eight and verse nine,
that the most reliable early manuscripts and other ancient witnesses
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do not have the long ending to Mark. So again,
for that reason and for other reasons, I think it's interesting.
I think that it could cohere with scripture in terms
of what has already happened, but it certainly wouldn't be
a pretext for handling snakes in our epic of time.
(17:35):
And I think the statistical and linguistic analysis of these
verses calls into question. These verses is consistent with the
rest of Mark's Gospel. It's also difficult to harmonize those verses,
as you alluded to, with the rest of scripture. In
other words Jesus appears in a different form, the idea
of drinking deadly poison, and so forth. So I think
(17:56):
there are a lot of reasons whereby we can legitimately
say that this long ending doesn't really belong there, that
it is appended to Mark rather than being part of
Mark's original gospel.
Speaker 7 (18:10):
Okay, so firm that kind of brings into brings up
the I guess the question of so it's insertion into
you know, so many of the translations, and based on
the fact that it's it is in the from the
biblical text, it becomes a question of Okay, so now
(18:31):
you're saying that portions of the Bible, specifically this passage
doesn't belong in the Bible, or.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Well, it's not that I'm now saying it. It is
that there are passages of the Bible that you'll find,
for example, the come of Yohonium in the King James
version of the Bible. But if you look at the
history behind the coma Yohonium, you'll find out that this
is a scribal insertion, that it is not found in
(19:02):
the most reliable manuscripts. So remember that our translations are
not autographs. We hold to the infallible inspired Word of God.
But when we're talking about that, we're not talking about
translations of the Bible. We're talking about the autographs themselves.
And through the science a textual criticism, the autographs emerge unscathed,
(19:25):
so we can have absolute certainty that the Bible is
clear and consistent with itself. And when there are scribal
insertions or glosses that have been discovered through the science
of textual criticism, that's pointed out. I mean, if you
look at translations like the King James version in sixteen eleven,
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there are all kinds of mistakes. For example, if you
would read Matthew twenty six in the original King James
sixteen eleven version, it read then cometh Judith, when it
should read then cometh Jesus. And the seventh Commendment read
thou shalt commit adultery instead of thou shalt not commit adultery.
So these kinds of errors are human errors. Now they're
(20:10):
not errors in the autographs or the originals, but they
are in translations of the Bible that come as a
result of the autographs themselves.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
Okay, good to understand. That's something I hadn't really gone
through before.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
I lay all this out in a lot of detail,
and has God spoken? In fact, you'll get a sense
of exactly how the Bible came to be good.
Speaker 7 (20:33):
I'm gonna have to look for that then that kind
of I know you're you're a very prolific writer, and
I'm a very slow reader. Yeah, you need to pick
and choose what I read.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
But sure, well this is important, this is very important.
Speaker 7 (20:47):
Okay, has God spoken? I appreciate it. Thank you very much, sir,
you got it.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
And by the way, just to follow up on that,
and demonstrating that extent manuscript copies faithfully preserve the words
of the autographs. You have to look at the copy
of themselves, who, constrained by the command do not add
to it or take away from it, fulfilled their task
with meticulous zeal. Now they weren't preprogrammed automatons, but they
(21:14):
were rather subject to all the frailties they are part
and partially human condition, and therefore the copies they produced
were good, but they are hardly perfect. I think it's
outrageous to suppose that any fallible human being, no matter
how disciplined and dedicated, could avoid minor mistakes such as
misspelling names or misstating numbers. But the beautiful thing that
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we have is, as I mentioned, the science of textual criticism.
Not only are the details and descriptions encountered in your
journey through the Biblical text buttressed by credible external evidences,
but by textual criticism. And through textual criticism, we could
be absolutely certain of the Biblical text authentically re capitulates
(22:00):
the words of the original writers. That's what textual critics do.
They compare known manuscripts in an effort to trace the
history of variations so as to discover the authentic wording
of the autographs or the originals. And the beauty from
a biblical perspective is that we have a wealth of
Biblical manuscripts and that empowers textual critics to credibly sort
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out copyist errors so that the autograph can emerge unscathed.
We can be certain that no essential of the Biblical
message has been compromised, and non essential copyist errors are
resolved through manuscript comparisons, consideration of context, and of course,
plain common sense. Back to the phone lines, we'll talk
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next to Brian in Cleveland, Ohio. Hi, Brian, how.
Speaker 8 (22:49):
You doing, Hank, appreciate your ministry and hard work you
put into doing what you do in a.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
Passion at you show thank you.
Speaker 8 (22:55):
I have a question on fast and I want to
know how important is it.
Speaker 7 (22:59):
To fast as a belief in Jesus?
Speaker 8 (23:00):
What is the spiritual meaning of fasting?
Speaker 7 (23:03):
And how do you properly fast?
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Well, there's no guideline in terms of fasting, except that
you don't want to do it as the hypocrites do,
which is to say fast to be seen by men,
or to act more spiritual. When you fast, it's a
way of withdrawing from the invasive sounds and temptations of
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the world and to build your relationship with the lover
of your soul. So when you do it, I think
you want to follow prudent guidelines. In other words, if
you've never fasted before, don't suddenly decide you're going to
go on a forty day fast. You may want to
set aside a day in which you only drink water,
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and then you can begin to build on that foundation
where the next time you might fast for a longer
period of time. But again, the idea is to withdraw
from the appetites of this world and developed your spiritual appetite.
That's the real thing going on with fasting.
Speaker 7 (24:06):
Okay, good, that answers my question.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Thank you, Hey, thank you so much for your call.
Let's go back to the phone lines and we'll talk
to Charles in Kansas City, Missouri next. Hi, Charles, Hey,
how you doing, Hank, appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
I got a question.
Speaker 8 (24:21):
I got familiar with this guy named Derek Prince. I
think he died a few years ago, but I've seen
a couple of YouTube videos of his and he's real
big on demons hounding Christians and demons of tooth decay
and demons of depression. And I just want to know
if you're familiar.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
With his very much so. In fact, I actually on
several occasions went to hear Derek Prince and watch his
deliverance shenanigans. Quite frankly, he'd have someone who had a
demon and they'd say, I see the demon coming out.
It looks like the pills, very dough boy, and the
demon would come out. It could be a demo of
lust or demon of Neicantine, just a false paradigm spiritual warfare.
(25:01):
And in fact, I note this in a book that
I wrote called The Covering Gods planned to protect you
from evil. Unfortunately, there's all kinds of sensationalism in the
Church today and as there were in the time when
Prince was alive, and the deliverance model of spiritual warfare
that these kinds of men present to the public is
just ill fated. It's wrong. And the right way of
(25:24):
spiritual warfare is given to us in the Bible, and
that's why we're called to put on the firm of
God so that we can take our stand against principalities
and powers of darkness. And of course, you know the
problem with that warfare model is that what would happen
is someone would have the demon of lust, and the
demon of lust would come out looking like the Pillsbury
doughboy his description on mine. And now the person who
(25:46):
had lust supposedly is cured to their lust. Well, it
doesn't happen that way. If you want to be cured
of issues in your life, it's going to be cured
because you follow the same kinds of spiritual disciplines that
the Bible from Oats in fact exhorts us to follow.
So a better paradigm spiritual warfare is found in the Bible.
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And again I've written about that in the covering. Thanks
for tuning in. Look forward to seeing you next time
with more the Bible answer Man Broadcast.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
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answers what is surely the most important question facing our world?
In Has God Spoken? Memorable proofs of the Bible's Divine inspiration,
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From the Christian Research Institute by calling eighty eight seven
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