July 30, 2025 • 28 mins
On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (07/30/25), Hank answers the following questions:
Is Yahweh the correct name for God? Is it appropriate to address the members of the Trinity as Yahweh? Josh - Bakersfield, CA (0:54)
Are the days of creation in Genesis literal 24-hour days? Neil - Lethbridge, AB (4:43)
Is interracial marriage biblical? David - Fresno, CA (7:41)
Does Revelation 21:22 mean that there will be no future temple? Robert - Plano, TX (16:01)
Sometimes I get paid in cash. Do I need to report these earnings? Susan - Kearney, MO (22:06)
Does the Bible say that the U.S. should support Israel? Beatrice - Chicago, IL (24:03)
Is Yahweh the correct name for God? Is it appropriate to address the members of the Trinity as Yahweh? Josh - Bakersfield, CA (0:54)
Are the days of creation in Genesis literal 24-hour days? Neil - Lethbridge, AB (4:43)
Is interracial marriage biblical? David - Fresno, CA (7:41)
Does Revelation 21:22 mean that there will be no future temple? Robert - Plano, TX (16:01)
Sometimes I get paid in cash. Do I need to report these earnings? Susan - Kearney, MO (22:06)
Does the Bible say that the U.S. should support Israel? Beatrice - Chicago, IL (24:03)
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
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Speaker 2 (00:51):
A lot of you hanging on. We'll go right to
our phone callers. First up is Josh and Bakersfield, California,
listing on the web.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Hi Josh, Hi, thanks for having me on your show.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
You're welcome.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
My My question centers around the what I what I
understand to be the proper name of God and the
also I think it's referred to as the tetragrammatan or
the why h W H I think it is And
I'll just I'll say I know it's unpronounceable, but I'll
say Yahweh. I guess for for the sake of you know,
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that's quicker and easier to say. I was curious about
that my understand well, and if you could, if you
could correct my understanding or confirm my understanding. As I
was thinking this over and kind of mulling it over,
I wasn't sure if I had this right. But my
understanding was that it's appropriate to refer to Jesus, you know,
the Son as Yahweh, the Father is Yahweh, and the
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Holy Spirit is Yahweh. Or if maybe Yahweh is you know,
a combination of the three persons that are the one God. Uh,
So if when we say Yahweh, if it would be
appropriate to refer to each of the persons of the
God had as Yahweh, or if it's only appropriate to
refer to the three persons together, and then also I
guess as I'm kind of mulling that over, or or
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if also I guess another option, if if it's only
appropriate to refer to the Father as Yahweh. And some
of the questions I had that were attached to that were, uh,
the Old Testament phrase or term the Angel of Yahweh,
I know is is often thought to be possibly a
pre incarnate Jesus Christ. He's the messenger of Yahweh, and
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not not not in the sense of like the Jeovah's witnesses,
as they'd say, you know, an angel, but just in
the sense that he's the messenger of Yahweh. And I
could see even if the Son is Yahweh or the
three together a Yahweh, that he could still be the
representative or the voice of Yahweh and also be Yahweh.
And then also I guess the passage and it saw
one ten where it says it says the Lord said
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to my Lord, or Yahweh said to my Adam. And
I it's where he says, he said, in my right hand,
till I make your enemies your foot school. What is
it that we're seeing there is that's Yahweh the Godhead
or Yahweh the Father speaking to the son. So how
do make sense.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Out of all that?
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Yeah, well, I think that sort of in the prolog
to your question, you've made sense out of all of
that in that it is absolutely true, first of all
that in the Old Testament, the Angel of Yahweh is
a representation or a way of speaking of a pre
incarnate appearance of Jesus Christ. But further in Romans ten thirteen,
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calling on Yahweh and calling on Jesus Christ are equated,
which of course demonstrates that Jesus Christ is God. What's
also interesting is that, as you have pointed out, these
are unspeakable for letters because this is the name of
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God that he applies to himself. We have names for God,
but this is God's name for himself, and it was
the unspeakable for letters or tetragrammaton because of the reverence
people afforded God. We've sort of lost a concept of
the holiness of God in our epic of time. And
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you also mention the Psalm and in the Psalm Ada
and I Adam I is not the name of God.
Adam I is a title for God, Lord of Lords,
King of kings. So this is God's name, God's holy
name for himself. Only God can say I am that
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I am. We do have some literature available with the
Christian Research Institute in this regard. We'll go back to
the phone lines. Talk to Neil and Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Neil, Hi, I just want to say, what a pleasure
to talk to you well. Likewise, so I'm just have
a little discussion with a cousin of mine.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Last night.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
We were.
Speaker 6 (04:59):
Discussing creation and the seventy's creation, if that was a
literal twenty four hour day or if that was something else.
We're both listening right now, so it's going to hang
up and listening response.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
I think you got it. Well, you know I've talked
about this. There are various views within the pale of
Orthodoxy on this question. The popular twenty four hour view
posits that God created the heavens in the earth in
six sequential literal days, and a majority in this camp
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view the universe to be approximately well six thousand years old,
and they consider all death, including animal death, to be
a direct function of Adam's fall. Then there's another perspective,
often referred to as the day age perspective, which suggests
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that God created the heavens and the earth in six
long sequential days, with each day totaling billions of years. So,
in contrast to the twenty four hour perspective, the day
age perspective holds that humans and animals, in their suffering
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and death, are all part of God's very good creation
prior to Adam's fall into a life of perpetual sin
terminated by death. And then there's what's called the framework perspective,
and this is an idea that says the seven days
of creation are non literal, non sequential, but nonetheless historical.
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So in concert with the day age perspective, the framework
perspective views animal death before the fall as consistent with
the goodness of God's creation and believes that the age
question is settled by natural revelation, other words, by a
fair and a competent reading of the Book of Nature,
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rather than my special revelation, which of course refers to
the infallible, repository, redemptive revelation or the Bible. It's my
view that the literary framework interpretation most closely corresponds to reality,
although I personally cannot abide animal death prior to the
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fall as consistent with a very good creation, and therefore
I've given a different explanation, although I do hold that
moral and physical evil in the universe is a result
of adam sin. We'll go right back to our phone
callers next up as David and Fresno, California.
Speaker 7 (07:45):
Hi David, Hello, First, I will like to say I
love your show, Oh thank you. My question is this.
I was at a church, me and a friend, and
he brought his wife into the church, and the church
told him that him and his wife had to leave
because they were different races, and they were saying that
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it was just the way God made it. Now, I
was under the impression that church was for everybody, regardless
of race, color, and creed, and God loved you no
matter what you look like. But when they said what
they said, it hurt him, and now he refuses to
go back to the church. So my question is, is
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racism and racial separation based on is it God's will?
If you marry somebody that's not your ethnicity, do you
go to ail?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Well, first of all, let me say that it is
good that he never enters that church again, because that
is the quintessential definition of a very unhealthy church. In Christianity,
we do not see each other in terms of racial distinctions.
We see each other as human beings. And the evolutionary hierarchy,
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there is a gradation of races, and therefore you have,
in Darwinian terms, different races in different categories, and one
race ends up beating the other race hollow in the
struggle for existence. But that is not part of the
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biblical paradigm. In the biblical paradigm, we speak of race
as in to run the race. But if we don't
think of race in terms of personal distinctions. You have
more pigmentation in your skin than I do. We have
different color eyes and the like. So there's no problem
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whatsoever to marry anyone. The real issue is that you
don't want to be unequally yoked. That's not a function
of race. That's a function of relationship. You want to
marry a person that has a relationship with the Lord
if you have a relationship with the Lord. Otherwise you're
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going to be pulling the cart in two different directions.
And when that happens, the cart disintegrates.
Speaker 7 (10:08):
Okay, thank you very much. Oh and one of the questions,
how do I after that happened? My friend he refuses
the step into any church.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Well, I mean, that's that's unfortunate, because I mean, this
is like blackballing everyone for the sins of a particular
group of racist people. That's not fair either for him
to say, now because there were some people that took
on the name of Christ and they were racist that
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now I'm going to impugne all Christians. That in itself
is an unfortunate thing, and I think you should explain
it to him. I mean, this does not represent the
views of Christianity. It doesn't represent the views of most Christians.
This is an aberration and you can't judge the whole
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by an admiration.
Speaker 7 (11:02):
I see. Okay, Thank you Hank, and God bless you
and keep up the good work.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Thank you, David. Appreciate your cold. We'll be back in
just a few moments with more answers to your questions
right here. Stay tuned for that.
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Speaker 2 (16:00):
Back to the phone lines. We'll talk next to Robert
in Texas.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
Hi, Robert, Hey, Hey, how you doing.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
I'm doing good? Are you hey?
Speaker 4 (16:08):
I'm fine. My question is is I was I was
having a conversation with a friend there and they were
telling me about how they're really big into the end times,
and they were talking about the temple, and I was like, okay,
here we go. And I was listening to him and
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I was like, well, I said, I don't know, but
in Revelation twenty one, verse twenty two, it says that
I saw no temple therein for the Lord God and
the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple.
And then they were like, well in Revolution eleven and
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I'm reading it now, and it says, you know, they
were given to me a read like i'to a rod,
and the angels stood saying, rise and measure the temple.
So we kind of they had like a little impath there,
and I was wondering, like, how do I talk to
them and converse with them about how in the Old
Testament that was that the way they measured how big
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that temple was going to be, or the like the
tabernacle first and then the temple were the same measurements
or I don't know, always just trying to see what
you thought about it.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Yeah, well, this is a very difficult thing to unpack
unless you have a good understanding of the Old Testament.
But let me just say a couple of things about this.
First of all, the very fact that you find a
temple in Revelation chapter eleven lends credence, although there's a
cumulative argument you can make which is a whole lot
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stronger than this, but it certainly lends credence to the
notion that Revelation was written while the temple was still standing.
But Revelation twenty one, as you accurately have pointed out,
notates that there's no need for a temple whatsoever in
the new Jerusalem. Why because the Lord God Almighty of
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the Lamb are its temple. And this also underscores a
greater point, and that is, once Jesus Christ came, there
is no longer need for temple priest or sacrifice. In fact,
I would suggest that it is an abomination to communicate
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that there's going to be a millennial temple that Jesus
reigns over, in which animal sacrifices take place, and in
which those animal sacrifices atone for sin, the sin of
ceremonial and cleanness, which there are many people today in
the evangelical world actually say takes place. In other words,
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in the future, there will be a temple there will
be animal slaughter, and through that animals slaughter, there will
be atonement for ceremonial uncleanness. Now drawn to its logical conclusion,
if that is true, the death of Jesus Christ did
not atone for all sin. So that's a very serious notion,
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and I think it also is a notion that is
spoken to in Principle and Hebrews, the point being that
if we go back to animal sacrifices when Jesus Christ
has sacrificed once for all, then we are trampling upon
the sacred blood of Jesus Christ. So it's a serious
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question that you ask. And if you want some good
ammunition or information, I've presented this in two different places.
One place you can find this will be in the
Apocalypse Code, find out what the Bible really says about
the end times and why it matters today. And then
also there's a section on this very question in my
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book Has God Spoken, So you can find an answer
both places.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
Okay, great, that's great. I can't wait to start reading those.
I'm going to go get one of them right now
and start reading.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Well, let me know what you think.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
I will. I appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Appreciate you as well. Thank you so much for your call.
And despite the fact that Jesus has forever dispensed with
the need for temple, priests and sacrifice, and that's been
two thousand years ago, you have Zionists today bent on
stoking the embers of armageddon by scheming the construction of
yet another temple, another temple, not just anywhere, but where
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the Dome of the Rock now stands. And they believe
that resistance to this is going to lead to the
greatest holocaust in Jewish history. But that entire scenario rests
on little more than inference, and that is inference from
the faulty assumption that Jesus, in the space of several
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sentences within the all of a discourse, predicts not simply
the destruction of a second temple, but the desecration of
a third temple as well. And not only is the
notion of a third temple an inference imposed on the Bible,
but the New Testament warns that to revert back to
types and shadows is sheer apostasy. We no longer sacrifice
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cows or lambs. We celebrate holy communion in remembrance of Christ,
and scripture forbids Christians to partake in to encourage the
building of a third Temple, which would occasion the trampling
of the Holy Son of God underfoot, as Hebrews Tan
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puts it, by counting the blood of the covenant a
common thing through the offering of unholy animal sacrifices, which
would be precisely what animal sacrifices in the present would
amount to. Back to the phone lines, we'll talk to
Susan in Carnie, Missouri.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
Hi, Susan, Hi, Hey, how are you?
Speaker 2 (22:12):
I'm well? Thank you.
Speaker 8 (22:15):
My question is one it doesn't sound nearly as important
as everyone else's what I do for a living. Sometimes
I get paid in cash, and I am just at
such a dilemma. It seems like, as to should I
report this income? Am I not obeying God when I
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just accept as cash and don't claim it as income.
I don't know what to do.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Well, this is a matter of conscience for you, Susan.
But ultimately I think that the principle is is that
we have to render unto Caesar that which is Caesar,
and unto God that which is God's. And therefore, if
we are due to pay a certain portion depending on
your tax rate, to the government. If you are called
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to do that, as I'm called to do that, then
whether it's money that they know about or money that
they don't know about, we have an obligation. But this
is a matter of conscience for you. Can you and
good conscience withhold this money from the government because they
wouldn't know about it? And the answer is probably know.
I think that you would have a hard time justifying that.
Speaker 8 (23:27):
Okay, all right, well, that was my question. And is
that the scripture or are there more that I can
look up in reference to that?
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Well? I think it is the scripture. It comes from
the mouth of Jesus Christ, and the principle is pretty clear,
which is that we have an obligation to do that
which is right and just. And of course there's the
passage in Romans chapter thirteen as well that lays this
out in terms of paradigm and principle.
Speaker 8 (23:57):
Okay, all right, well, thank you for your help.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
You got it, Susan. Let's go back to the phone lines.
We'll talk to Beatrice next in Chicago, Illinois.
Speaker 9 (24:07):
High Yes, Hello, how are you?
Speaker 2 (24:10):
I'm good? Thank you?
Speaker 1 (24:12):
That is good to hear. This is my question.
Speaker 9 (24:16):
Is it written in the Bible, that or anything that
implies that the United States should support Israel revocably, well.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Of course not. I mean, as Christians, we are called
to be those who support righteousness and justice and equity.
So if an American rapes someone, we can't say, well,
that person is in America, and therefore we are going
to support that person. The same thing is true with
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a country. If a country is involved in moral evil,
then we cannot stand lockstep and support that moral evil.
So we can support nations that do what is right
and just. And that's why I've oftentimes said that God
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is not pro jew God is pro justice, nor is
he pro Palestinian. He's pro peace. So we have to
stand for the things that God stands for. We can
support nations as they conduct themselves in concert with the
principles laid down within the context of a biblical worldview.
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And by the way, the reason that we have difficulties
in our culture today, we can point the finger at
Pagan's but that's not the problem. The problem is Christians
who are not ambassadors for Jesus Christ. They're secret agents.
They've never blown their cover before the unregenerate world. We're
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Revelation has become an international obsession, the result has been
rampant misreading of scripture, bad theology, and even bad politics
and foreign policy. In the Apocalypse Code, find out what
the Bible really says about the end times and why
it matters today. Hank Canagraph argues that the key to
understanding the Last Book of the Bible is the other
(27:25):
sixty five books of the Bible, not current events or
recent history. The Apocalypse Code offers sane answers to some
very controversial questions, such as what does it mean to
take the Book of Revelation literally, who are the Antichrist
and the Great Horror of Babylon? And what is the
real meaning of six hundred and sixty six. Order The
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Hank as President of the Christian Research Institute at CRI.
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now here's Hank Canagraph.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
A lot of you hanging on. We'll go right to
our phone callers. First up is Josh and Bakersfield, California,
listing on the web.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Hi Josh, Hi, thanks for having me on your show.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
You're welcome.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
My My question centers around the what I what I
understand to be the proper name of God and the
also I think it's referred to as the tetragrammatan or
the why h W H I think it is And
I'll just I'll say I know it's unpronounceable, but I'll
say Yahweh. I guess for for the sake of you know,
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that's quicker and easier to say. I was curious about
that my understand well, and if you could, if you
could correct my understanding or confirm my understanding. As I
was thinking this over and kind of mulling it over,
I wasn't sure if I had this right. But my
understanding was that it's appropriate to refer to Jesus, you know,
the Son as Yahweh, the Father is Yahweh, and the
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Holy Spirit is Yahweh. Or if maybe Yahweh is you know,
a combination of the three persons that are the one God. Uh,
So if when we say Yahweh, if it would be
appropriate to refer to each of the persons of the
God had as Yahweh, or if it's only appropriate to
refer to the three persons together, and then also I
guess as I'm kind of mulling that over, or or
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if also I guess another option, if if it's only
appropriate to refer to the Father as Yahweh. And some
of the questions I had that were attached to that were, uh,
the Old Testament phrase or term the Angel of Yahweh,
I know is is often thought to be possibly a
pre incarnate Jesus Christ. He's the messenger of Yahweh, and
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not not not in the sense of like the Jeovah's witnesses,
as they'd say, you know, an angel, but just in
the sense that he's the messenger of Yahweh. And I
could see even if the Son is Yahweh or the
three together a Yahweh, that he could still be the
representative or the voice of Yahweh and also be Yahweh.
And then also I guess the passage and it saw
one ten where it says it says the Lord said
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to my Lord, or Yahweh said to my Adam. And
I it's where he says, he said, in my right hand,
till I make your enemies your foot school. What is
it that we're seeing there is that's Yahweh the Godhead
or Yahweh the Father speaking to the son. So how
do make sense.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Out of all that?
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Yeah, well, I think that sort of in the prolog
to your question, you've made sense out of all of
that in that it is absolutely true, first of all
that in the Old Testament, the Angel of Yahweh is
a representation or a way of speaking of a pre
incarnate appearance of Jesus Christ. But further in Romans ten thirteen,
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calling on Yahweh and calling on Jesus Christ are equated,
which of course demonstrates that Jesus Christ is God. What's
also interesting is that, as you have pointed out, these
are unspeakable for letters because this is the name of
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God that he applies to himself. We have names for God,
but this is God's name for himself, and it was
the unspeakable for letters or tetragrammaton because of the reverence
people afforded God. We've sort of lost a concept of
the holiness of God in our epic of time. And
(04:16):
you also mention the Psalm and in the Psalm Ada
and I Adam I is not the name of God.
Adam I is a title for God, Lord of Lords,
King of kings. So this is God's name, God's holy
name for himself. Only God can say I am that
(04:37):
I am. We do have some literature available with the
Christian Research Institute in this regard. We'll go back to
the phone lines. Talk to Neil and Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Neil, Hi, I just want to say, what a pleasure
to talk to you well. Likewise, so I'm just have
a little discussion with a cousin of mine.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Last night.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
We were.
Speaker 6 (04:59):
Discussing creation and the seventy's creation, if that was a
literal twenty four hour day or if that was something else.
We're both listening right now, so it's going to hang
up and listening response.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
I think you got it. Well, you know I've talked
about this. There are various views within the pale of
Orthodoxy on this question. The popular twenty four hour view
posits that God created the heavens in the earth in
six sequential literal days, and a majority in this camp
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view the universe to be approximately well six thousand years old,
and they consider all death, including animal death, to be
a direct function of Adam's fall. Then there's another perspective,
often referred to as the day age perspective, which suggests
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that God created the heavens and the earth in six
long sequential days, with each day totaling billions of years. So,
in contrast to the twenty four hour perspective, the day
age perspective holds that humans and animals, in their suffering
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and death, are all part of God's very good creation
prior to Adam's fall into a life of perpetual sin
terminated by death. And then there's what's called the framework perspective,
and this is an idea that says the seven days
of creation are non literal, non sequential, but nonetheless historical.
(06:43):
So in concert with the day age perspective, the framework
perspective views animal death before the fall as consistent with
the goodness of God's creation and believes that the age
question is settled by natural revelation, other words, by a
fair and a competent reading of the Book of Nature,
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rather than my special revelation, which of course refers to
the infallible, repository, redemptive revelation or the Bible. It's my
view that the literary framework interpretation most closely corresponds to reality,
although I personally cannot abide animal death prior to the
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fall as consistent with a very good creation, and therefore
I've given a different explanation, although I do hold that
moral and physical evil in the universe is a result
of adam sin. We'll go right back to our phone
callers next up as David and Fresno, California.
Speaker 7 (07:45):
Hi David, Hello, First, I will like to say I
love your show, Oh thank you. My question is this.
I was at a church, me and a friend, and
he brought his wife into the church, and the church
told him that him and his wife had to leave
because they were different races, and they were saying that
(08:07):
it was just the way God made it. Now, I
was under the impression that church was for everybody, regardless
of race, color, and creed, and God loved you no
matter what you look like. But when they said what
they said, it hurt him, and now he refuses to
go back to the church. So my question is, is
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racism and racial separation based on is it God's will?
If you marry somebody that's not your ethnicity, do you
go to ail?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Well, first of all, let me say that it is
good that he never enters that church again, because that
is the quintessential definition of a very unhealthy church. In Christianity,
we do not see each other in terms of racial distinctions.
We see each other as human beings. And the evolutionary hierarchy,
(08:58):
there is a gradation of races, and therefore you have,
in Darwinian terms, different races in different categories, and one
race ends up beating the other race hollow in the
struggle for existence. But that is not part of the
(09:19):
biblical paradigm. In the biblical paradigm, we speak of race
as in to run the race. But if we don't
think of race in terms of personal distinctions. You have
more pigmentation in your skin than I do. We have
different color eyes and the like. So there's no problem
(09:41):
whatsoever to marry anyone. The real issue is that you
don't want to be unequally yoked. That's not a function
of race. That's a function of relationship. You want to
marry a person that has a relationship with the Lord
if you have a relationship with the Lord. Otherwise you're
(10:02):
going to be pulling the cart in two different directions.
And when that happens, the cart disintegrates.
Speaker 7 (10:08):
Okay, thank you very much. Oh and one of the questions,
how do I after that happened? My friend he refuses
the step into any church.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Well, I mean, that's that's unfortunate, because I mean, this
is like blackballing everyone for the sins of a particular
group of racist people. That's not fair either for him
to say, now because there were some people that took
on the name of Christ and they were racist that
(10:40):
now I'm going to impugne all Christians. That in itself
is an unfortunate thing, and I think you should explain
it to him. I mean, this does not represent the
views of Christianity. It doesn't represent the views of most Christians.
This is an aberration and you can't judge the whole
(11:00):
by an admiration.
Speaker 7 (11:02):
I see. Okay, Thank you Hank, and God bless you
and keep up the good work.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Thank you, David. Appreciate your cold. We'll be back in
just a few moments with more answers to your questions
right here. Stay tuned for that.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
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Speaker 2 (16:00):
Back to the phone lines. We'll talk next to Robert
in Texas.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
Hi, Robert, Hey, Hey, how you doing.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
I'm doing good? Are you hey?
Speaker 4 (16:08):
I'm fine. My question is is I was I was
having a conversation with a friend there and they were
telling me about how they're really big into the end times,
and they were talking about the temple, and I was like, okay,
here we go. And I was listening to him and
(16:30):
I was like, well, I said, I don't know, but
in Revelation twenty one, verse twenty two, it says that
I saw no temple therein for the Lord God and
the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple.
And then they were like, well in Revolution eleven and
(16:50):
I'm reading it now, and it says, you know, they
were given to me a read like i'to a rod,
and the angels stood saying, rise and measure the temple.
So we kind of they had like a little impath there,
and I was wondering, like, how do I talk to
them and converse with them about how in the Old
Testament that was that the way they measured how big
(17:15):
that temple was going to be, or the like the
tabernacle first and then the temple were the same measurements
or I don't know, always just trying to see what
you thought about it.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Yeah, well, this is a very difficult thing to unpack
unless you have a good understanding of the Old Testament.
But let me just say a couple of things about this.
First of all, the very fact that you find a
temple in Revelation chapter eleven lends credence, although there's a
cumulative argument you can make which is a whole lot
(17:46):
stronger than this, but it certainly lends credence to the
notion that Revelation was written while the temple was still standing.
But Revelation twenty one, as you accurately have pointed out,
notates that there's no need for a temple whatsoever in
the new Jerusalem. Why because the Lord God Almighty of
(18:06):
the Lamb are its temple. And this also underscores a
greater point, and that is, once Jesus Christ came, there
is no longer need for temple priest or sacrifice. In fact,
I would suggest that it is an abomination to communicate
(18:28):
that there's going to be a millennial temple that Jesus
reigns over, in which animal sacrifices take place, and in
which those animal sacrifices atone for sin, the sin of
ceremonial and cleanness, which there are many people today in
the evangelical world actually say takes place. In other words,
(18:51):
in the future, there will be a temple there will
be animal slaughter, and through that animals slaughter, there will
be atonement for ceremonial uncleanness. Now drawn to its logical conclusion,
if that is true, the death of Jesus Christ did
not atone for all sin. So that's a very serious notion,
(19:15):
and I think it also is a notion that is
spoken to in Principle and Hebrews, the point being that
if we go back to animal sacrifices when Jesus Christ
has sacrificed once for all, then we are trampling upon
the sacred blood of Jesus Christ. So it's a serious
(19:37):
question that you ask. And if you want some good
ammunition or information, I've presented this in two different places.
One place you can find this will be in the
Apocalypse Code, find out what the Bible really says about
the end times and why it matters today. And then
also there's a section on this very question in my
(19:59):
book Has God Spoken, So you can find an answer
both places.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
Okay, great, that's great. I can't wait to start reading those.
I'm going to go get one of them right now
and start reading.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Well, let me know what you think.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
I will. I appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Appreciate you as well. Thank you so much for your call.
And despite the fact that Jesus has forever dispensed with
the need for temple, priests and sacrifice, and that's been
two thousand years ago, you have Zionists today bent on
stoking the embers of armageddon by scheming the construction of
yet another temple, another temple, not just anywhere, but where
(20:38):
the Dome of the Rock now stands. And they believe
that resistance to this is going to lead to the
greatest holocaust in Jewish history. But that entire scenario rests
on little more than inference, and that is inference from
the faulty assumption that Jesus, in the space of several
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sentences within the all of a discourse, predicts not simply
the destruction of a second temple, but the desecration of
a third temple as well. And not only is the
notion of a third temple an inference imposed on the Bible,
but the New Testament warns that to revert back to
types and shadows is sheer apostasy. We no longer sacrifice
(21:28):
cows or lambs. We celebrate holy communion in remembrance of Christ,
and scripture forbids Christians to partake in to encourage the
building of a third Temple, which would occasion the trampling
of the Holy Son of God underfoot, as Hebrews Tan
(21:49):
puts it, by counting the blood of the covenant a
common thing through the offering of unholy animal sacrifices, which
would be precisely what animal sacrifices in the present would
amount to. Back to the phone lines, we'll talk to
Susan in Carnie, Missouri.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
Hi, Susan, Hi, Hey, how are you?
Speaker 2 (22:12):
I'm well? Thank you.
Speaker 8 (22:15):
My question is one it doesn't sound nearly as important
as everyone else's what I do for a living. Sometimes
I get paid in cash, and I am just at
such a dilemma. It seems like, as to should I
report this income? Am I not obeying God when I
(22:38):
just accept as cash and don't claim it as income.
I don't know what to do.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Well, this is a matter of conscience for you, Susan.
But ultimately I think that the principle is is that
we have to render unto Caesar that which is Caesar,
and unto God that which is God's. And therefore, if
we are due to pay a certain portion depending on
your tax rate, to the government. If you are called
(23:06):
to do that, as I'm called to do that, then
whether it's money that they know about or money that
they don't know about, we have an obligation. But this
is a matter of conscience for you. Can you and
good conscience withhold this money from the government because they
wouldn't know about it? And the answer is probably know.
I think that you would have a hard time justifying that.
Speaker 8 (23:27):
Okay, all right, well, that was my question. And is
that the scripture or are there more that I can
look up in reference to that?
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Well? I think it is the scripture. It comes from
the mouth of Jesus Christ, and the principle is pretty clear,
which is that we have an obligation to do that
which is right and just. And of course there's the
passage in Romans chapter thirteen as well that lays this
out in terms of paradigm and principle.
Speaker 8 (23:57):
Okay, all right, well, thank you for your help.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
You got it, Susan. Let's go back to the phone lines.
We'll talk to Beatrice next in Chicago, Illinois.
Speaker 9 (24:07):
High Yes, Hello, how are you?
Speaker 2 (24:10):
I'm good? Thank you?
Speaker 1 (24:12):
That is good to hear. This is my question.
Speaker 9 (24:16):
Is it written in the Bible, that or anything that
implies that the United States should support Israel revocably, well.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Of course not. I mean, as Christians, we are called
to be those who support righteousness and justice and equity.
So if an American rapes someone, we can't say, well,
that person is in America, and therefore we are going
to support that person. The same thing is true with
(24:47):
a country. If a country is involved in moral evil,
then we cannot stand lockstep and support that moral evil.
So we can support nations that do what is right
and just. And that's why I've oftentimes said that God
(25:08):
is not pro jew God is pro justice, nor is
he pro Palestinian. He's pro peace. So we have to
stand for the things that God stands for. We can
support nations as they conduct themselves in concert with the
principles laid down within the context of a biblical worldview.
(25:29):
And by the way, the reason that we have difficulties
in our culture today, we can point the finger at
Pagan's but that's not the problem. The problem is Christians
who are not ambassadors for Jesus Christ. They're secret agents.
They've never blown their cover before the unregenerate world. We're
(25:52):
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