October 8, 2025 • 28 mins
On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (10/08/25), Hank answers the following questions:
Are natural disasters a sign of the end times? Ben - St. Louis, MO (0:52)
Do you believe in the Rapture? Richard - Aurora, CO (3:36)
Must we confess sins that we commit in our dreams? John - Topeka, KS (5:17)
What is the origin of the races? Michael - Calgary, AB (6:58)
What is the Leviathan mentioned in Job 41? Joe - Oklahoma City, OK (15:11)
Could you explain the Islamic view of the Mahdi? Cole - Lincoln, NE (18:44)
What happens to unbelieving Jews? Is there going to be a time when they are all going to be saved? Harry - Leewood, KS (23:29)
Are natural disasters a sign of the end times? Ben - St. Louis, MO (0:52)
Do you believe in the Rapture? Richard - Aurora, CO (3:36)
Must we confess sins that we commit in our dreams? John - Topeka, KS (5:17)
What is the origin of the races? Michael - Calgary, AB (6:58)
What is the Leviathan mentioned in Job 41? Joe - Oklahoma City, OK (15:11)
Could you explain the Islamic view of the Mahdi? Cole - Lincoln, NE (18:44)
What happens to unbelieving Jews? Is there going to be a time when they are all going to be saved? Harry - Leewood, KS (23:29)
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
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now here's Hank Hanagraph.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Thank you much. Randy in we'll govern to our phone
callers for step today. Ben Saint Louis, Missouri.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Hi, Ben, Hi, Heank, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
You're welcome.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
I just had a quick question kind of about something
that I've been reading. I'm not even sure the passage.
I couldn't remember it off hand, but it has to
do with signs in the heavens and the earth, to
do with changes in weather patterns, increases in earthquakes. I
just wanted to get your take on it, to see
if you think what has been happening recently, you know,
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within the past few years, is a sign of something
to come or you know, what's your opinion on that
would be well.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
First of all, the signs delineated in the all of
the discourse by Jesus Christ have nothing whatsoever to do
with the present day. And secondly, I don't think you'd
want to use earthquakes as a barometer, because according to
all the evidence that has extent today, earthquakes of magnitude
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seven point zero or greater have remained fairly constant in
our time. In fact, there are some fairly compelling arguments
that earthquaketivity has actually decreased in the last century. As
far as global warming is concerned, I think as students
of the Bible and students of modern culture, we should
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learn to ask the right questions and ask them in
the right order. So if we asked the question, is
global warming or reality? The answer is a qualified yes.
But the operative word here is qualified. What we're experiencing
is a slight warming trend. But we have to exercise
extreme caution in the extrapolation of trends. For example, if
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you go back to the first earth Day, which was
in the seventies it was observed amid the specter of
illoming ice age. In fact, four years after the first
Earth Day, Time magazine pontificated that the telltale signs of
an ice age were evident everywhere. So I think it's
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really important, especially for Christians, not to fall for sophistry
and sloppy journalism. We should be arbiters of that which
corresponds to reality or that which is indeed, verifiably true.
As far as the Bible is concerned, it doesn't give
us any clue as to when Jesus Christ is going
to return or a peer a second time, only that
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he will appear a second time, and therefore we have
to be faithful and fruitful in the meantime. We need
to be prepared as though he might come in the
next millisecond, and prepare as though his coming is a
long way off. That's the attitude we should have.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Okay, Well, that actually was a very good answer, and
that really it really does help me out a lot.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
I appreciate that you got it.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Ben. Thank you for your callback to the phone line's
Richard next Aurora, Colorado.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
Hi, Richard, how you doing good?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Thank you?
Speaker 5 (03:44):
H are you believe it a rapture.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Well, it depends on what you mean by rapture. If
you mean a pre tribulational rapture, no, I do not.
I think that's reading into first Thessalonian's Chapter four or
John fourteen, a paradigm which doesn't have any basis in reality,
a paradigm in which two thirds of the Jewish people
will shortly be eradicated in the Holocaust massacre while Jesus'
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people relax and heavenly mantions. I think that's a frightful
imposition on the integrity of Our Savior in the scriptures.
And neither Paul's portrait of Paradise nor Our Savior's mentioned
metaphor is intended to convey a temporary safe haven in
heaven away from a seven year holocaust on Earth. Rather,
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they represent a glorious picture of a new heaven and
a new Earth in which the dwelling of God is
with men and He will live with them. Not only that,
I think when Jesus says, do not be amazed at
this the time it's coming, when all who in the
graces will come out, some will rise to live, and
some will rise to be condemned. I think that that
is a very clear, clear passage of scripture. It's unambiguous,
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and we should always interpret the cloudy in scripture if
it's cloudy for you in light of that, which is
so short answer, No, I don't hold to a pre
tribulational rapture.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
Oh God, bless God, bless you.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Thank you for your call. I've written about this on
the Apocalypse Code. Find out what the Bible really says
about the end times and why it matters today. Let's
go back to the phone lines. We'll talk to John
and Topeka, Kansas.
Speaker 7 (05:21):
Hi.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
John, Hello, Hank, glad to be on and thanks for
taking my call.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
You're welcome.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
I just had a question. I was with some brothers
at a Bible study recently and we got on the
subject of dreams and such, and my question was, if
you have a dream and you commit a sin in
your dream, say you have a nasty argument with your
boss or something. Now, I know, you know, if you
actually do that, that's sin and you need to repent.
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If you actually think that, you know it's also a sin.
You need to repent. But you know, how is your
dream life factor into that kind of thing? Would that
be considered sin or just is that outside the that well,
it really depends.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
But let me say this that what we do at
our conscious waking hours oftentimes affects what we dream about.
And so what I would do is simply confess my sin,
because I recognize that there are all kinds of sins
I commit every single day that I'm completely unaware of.
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In that sense, there are not only sins of comission,
but there are also sins of omissions. So there are
all kinds of things that I could do that I
failed to do, and therefore I confess my sin. I
can't remember or account for every one of them, but
I confess my sins. Those that I'm particularly concerned about
that God brings to my remembrance, I confess verbally. But
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there are a lot of other sins. I say, Lord,
I'm a sinner. Please forgive me and help me conform
me more and more to the image of my Lord
and Savior Jesus Christ. I want to go back to
the phone lines and talk to Michael listening in Calgary, Alberta.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Hi, Michael, Yes, oh, mister hand Graf.
Speaker 7 (07:05):
He First of all, I'd like to really thank you
for your ministry. I just wanted to quickly let you
know that you know your faith and and and submission
to God has has helped me through some very difficult
times in my life. And and you've really helped to
strengthen my face. And and I just I love you
and and and God.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Bless you, Thank you so much. Bless you, thank you.
Speaker 7 (07:23):
Think and I'd like to ask a good question. I've
been asked this by by a couple of different people,
and I really just don't know how to answer it.
It's just the origin of man after the flood, you know,
since you know Noah Samily was the only one that survived,
you know, how come we have you know, different races,
and we have black people, we have Asian people, and
and you know there's people all over the world post flood.
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I really don't know how to even approach that question.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Well, I think the first thing that you should always
make clear whenever you approach this particular question is that
in a biblical worldview, we see people as people. We
have different genetic proclivities, but we're all just people. But
in terms of why we have different genetic proclivities, think
Tower of Babel, which caused different people to be scattered
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all over the world and therefore draw on a fraction
of the gene pool. Geneticists often call this the founder principle.
So groups isolated because of the confusion of their languages,
they only draw upon a fraction of the total gene pool.
So that's one of the explanations. Of course, evolutionists believe
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that this is a function of the evolutionary process, that
some races are headed for extinction, as only the strong survive.
And that's why you had Thomas Huxley, who was Darwin's bulldog, say,
no rational man, cognizant of the facts, believes that the
average Negro is the equal, still less the superior the
white man. And then he went on to say it's
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it's simply incredible to think that he'd be able to
compete successfully with his bigger brain, smaller jod rival in
a contest carried on by thoughts and not by bites.
So the evolutionary paradigm say survival of the fittest in
the struggle for existence. So there's a hierarchy of races.
But that's not the biblical worldview. We're just all people
in a biblical worldview, and in the biblical worldview, there
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are changes within kinds, but there aren't changes from one
kind to another kind. So a monkey doesn't become a man,
and a lower race doesn't evolve into a higher race.
That's part of the evolutionary paradigm, has no basis whatsoever
in reality, and certainly no part of a Christian worldview.
Speaker 7 (09:32):
So basically, I'm just just looking at a babbel. I mean,
that's that's kind of when people got scattered, and how
they kind of I guess got used to in their
own environment I guess would be a good way.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
To Well, they get isolated, and as a result of
being isolated in groups, they only draw upon a fraction
of the gene pool. I mean, that's a theory by geneticists.
I mean, I can't say that with one hundred percent certainty,
but that is one of the theories I'm saying, however,
is that the changes within humankind are changes that are
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horizontal and not vertical, so that we don't change from
one race into another race. But there are changes within people,
but we're still all people, and therefore all people made
in the image of God should be afforded the same
worth in our view. But again, there are various views
on this. The biblical worldview is people are just people
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and the genetic distinctions or a function of what happened
to the Tower of Babel. That's at least one explanation
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Speaker 2 (15:09):
Thank very much, Randians, go right back to the phone lines.
Next up is Joe listening in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Hi, Joe, Yeah,
My question is the.
Speaker 8 (15:17):
Last chapter of Job, who is Leviathan?
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Well, I think what's important if you're looking at either
Behemoth or Leviathan is to note the literary progression of
the Book of Job. That literary progression moves from creation
to creatures, to the cherub, who once ranked first in
the order of creation, of course, that is Satan, and
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to Job the primal monster of the land, like the
primal monster of the sea. In other words, Leviathan and
Behemoth were mere pets on a divine leash, and so
in the literary progression of the Bible, the monster is vanquished,
very much like what Isaiah says Leviathan the gliding serpent,
Leviathan the coiling serpent. God will slay the monster of
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the sea. And I think that's precisely what's going on
in job. In interpreting scripture and light of scripture, the
literary personification of Satan becomes readily apparent.
Speaker 8 (16:15):
So that doesn't mean there was some literal sea serpent
that existed back then, doesn't.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
No, this is a personification of Satan. And I say
that because I think that there's ample warrant for that
when you interpret scripture in light of scripture. So in Genesis,
for example, he's presented as an alluring serpent that tempts
humanity to fall into lies of perpetual sin, terminated by death.
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In the Psalms, he's portrayed as a multi headed monster
opposing the purposes of God. In Isaiah, which I just mentioned,
he's a coiling serpent emerging out of the primal waters.
In Revelation, he's a red dragon that personifies the extremities
of evil. So Leviathan and Behemoth are not dinosaurs, as
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some suppose, but there are personifications that illustrate a metaphysical reality,
and that metaphysical reality is Satan. Who's a very real being,
albeit a spiritual being. So there are personifications of him
in many different ways, as just mentioned in various passages
in the Bible, and the personification as Leviathan has ample
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warrant throughout Biblical literature, including the passages that I mentioned
in Isaiah and certainly in the Book of Job.
Speaker 8 (17:34):
Okay, that makes sense. It's kind of what I thought. Also,
real quick, when did all the different nationalities come out,
like American, Indians and you know, people that live in
other islands. Did that happen at the Tower of Babel?
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Again, as I said to the earlier caller, the differences
in terms of genetic makeup are the changes within humankind
still keep us all as people a just different genetic proclivities.
And the actual genesis of that, if you will, for
many is what happened with the diffusion of languages that
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happened at the Tower of Babel. That's often, as I
mentioned earlier, spoken about as the founder principle. So people
draw on a portion of the gene pool and therefore
have different genetic proclivities, and from that we have the
differences in people. I don't even like to use the
word race. By the way. My sense is that we
can use biblically the word race in terms of running
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the race. But I like to think of people as
just people. Some have blonde hair, some have blue eyes,
some have brown hair, brown eyes, different pigmentation, but we're
all just people. Let's go back to the phone lines
and talk next to Cole listening in Lincoln, Nebraska, Pi Cole, Hi.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
Hank, I really appreciate your program. I do have a
question and this sort of an issue. And you know
how sometimes some sty'll be on the back burner, you've
never heard of it, and all of a sudden, it
just is everywhere. My friend, who's a great resource person,
he's been talking about the I believe it is pronounced
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who is a God of Allah or a son of
Allah who is supposed to return? Are you familiar with that?
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Yeah. I spoke of the University of Tehran in Iran,
and there are a lot of sites there and they
believe in the twelve Verse. They recognize twelve moms in
their history, the last of whom disappeared in eight seventy three,
and it's believed that this twelfth Imam has continued to
live until the present day in a state of hiddenness,
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and one day he's going to return as the Mahdi,
the Guided One, and inaugurate a period of righteousness prior
to the last judgment. And during that long period of
hiddenness preceding his return, religious scholars have been left to
provide guidance to the people in regard to law and doctrine.
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So their view is that the twelfth Imam is going
to return and what he does is going to put
all things to write.
Speaker 6 (20:11):
Yes, And my friend said that in looking at revelation
and what they believe, it's like right across the board.
If you look at what Revelation says and what hide
is going to bring about, it's just like right down
the line in order, kind of like Domino's. What's going
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to happen for Christians? What's going to happen on the
other side for the anti christ.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Well, let me tell you the problem with that. If
you look at the Book of Revelation, you recognize immediately
that it was written to seven churches in the epicenter
of a Caesar cult, and that the Book of Revelation
is the revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him
to show his servants what must soon take place. That's
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precisely what the first verse of Revelation says, soon means soon.
And then of course John goes on to write he
made it known by sending his angel to a servant
John who testifies to everything he saw. That is the
word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ. Blessed
is the one who reads the words of this prophecy,
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and blessed are those who hear it and take to
heart what is written in it. Because the time is near,
and just as soon means soon, near means near. So
when Jesus says that the looming apocalypse of the Revelation
will soon take place and that the time is near,
it's contrary to all decency, to all propriety to dogmatically
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declare that his words are meant to convey an event
that's going to happen in the far future or in
our time. So I think we need to be very
careful that we don't take the words of the Master
and twist them way, because these are not just ordinary words.
These are the words of Jesus Christ himself, and Jesus
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Christ is not linguistically challenged. So when he says soon
or near that's precisely what he means. If he was
talking about something that was going to happen in the
twenty first century, he would make that abundantly clear, just
as he makes abundantly clear at the end of the
Book of Revelation when he talks about the eternal state,
the new Jerusalem, coming down of heaven prepared as a bride,
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beautifully adorned for a husband. So what happens in the
Book of Revelation in terms of dealing with the near
future also cascades into the eternal state, as do all
the books of the Bible.
Speaker 6 (22:42):
Yeah, think and absolutely I believe that I'm a Christian.
I am ready. But the thing is, why are all
of these people all of a sudden just saying, you know,
this Habi is going to come and bring everything to
write business or to bear, to make everything good again
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in the world, end up bringing so many people in.
I guess that's just what is going to happen at
the end of time anyway or not.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Well, Sure, Satan packages and repackages a lie odd nauseum
on infinitum, And this is what the Twelvers believe, and
it is a very common belief amongst Muslims. But it
certainly has nothing to do with what the Book of
Revelation is dealing with, except in principle. Want to go
back to the phone lines. Let's talk to Harry and Leewood, Kansas.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
Hi, Harry, Hi, Hey. First of all, I really appreciate
your show. It's just fantastic.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
What's gonna happen to my Julie sprints when they pass away?
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Well, it has nothing to do with her. Someone is
a Jew or someone is a gentile, whether someone's Greek
or Dutch, doesn't have anything to do with whether you're
male or female, whether you're slave or free. As Paul
puts it in Glatians chapter three, Abraham only had one
royal seat, and that royal seat is Gjesus Christ. And
if we are in Jesus Christ, we are the seat
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of Abraham and heirs according to the promise, whether we're
Jew or Greek, slaver, free, male or female. And his
point is simply this. It has nothing to do with gender,
has nothing to do with genealogy, has nothing to do
with whether you're rich or poor, or what your station
in life in is. It has everything to do with
whether or not you are in Christ. Jesus. That's the
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point got you.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
I Quite some time ago, my mom clipped something out
of the paper for me. I had a very close
Jewish friend, and it said in that clipping that they
were going to have a special time or something where
they were going to have a second chance to come
to Christ.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Well, no, I mean, there's no special dispensation for anyone.
God's not a racist. He doesn't divide people into races.
That's the evolutionary paradigm, and then choose one race over
another race. No. You know, if you look, for example,
in the Old Testament, you have people from Egypt who
are considered true Israel. You have people like Rahab considered
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true Israel. You have people like Ruth, who was a Moabite,
the arch enemy of Israel, considered true Israel. Why because
they believed in Yahweh, the God of Israel. So it's
never a matter of race, It's always a matter of relationship,
and God does not show favoritism. In fact, this is
the beauty of what Peter discovered when he was shown
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a vision, and at the end of seeing the vision
and understanding its import he goes ah, Now I finally
understand that God does not show favoritism. So he accepts
all men who love him and do his will. So
it's not a matter of showing one group of people
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favoritism over another group of people based on genealogy. True Israel,
one chosen people, one covenant community always is connected by
the cross. On both sides of the cross, you have
true Israel. And if we are in Christ, we are
the seat of Abraham airs according to the promise. That's
the promise that we find in Galatians chapter three, a
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chapter worth reading very carefully. We're out of time. We
look forward to seeing you next time with more of
the show.
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Speaker 2 (00:50):
Thank you much. Randy in we'll govern to our phone
callers for step today. Ben Saint Louis, Missouri.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Hi, Ben, Hi, Heank, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
You're welcome.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
I just had a quick question kind of about something
that I've been reading. I'm not even sure the passage.
I couldn't remember it off hand, but it has to
do with signs in the heavens and the earth, to
do with changes in weather patterns, increases in earthquakes. I
just wanted to get your take on it, to see
if you think what has been happening recently, you know,
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within the past few years, is a sign of something
to come or you know, what's your opinion on that
would be well.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
First of all, the signs delineated in the all of
the discourse by Jesus Christ have nothing whatsoever to do
with the present day. And secondly, I don't think you'd
want to use earthquakes as a barometer, because according to
all the evidence that has extent today, earthquakes of magnitude
(01:51):
seven point zero or greater have remained fairly constant in
our time. In fact, there are some fairly compelling arguments
that earthquaketivity has actually decreased in the last century. As
far as global warming is concerned, I think as students
of the Bible and students of modern culture, we should
(02:11):
learn to ask the right questions and ask them in
the right order. So if we asked the question, is
global warming or reality? The answer is a qualified yes.
But the operative word here is qualified. What we're experiencing
is a slight warming trend. But we have to exercise
extreme caution in the extrapolation of trends. For example, if
(02:34):
you go back to the first earth Day, which was
in the seventies it was observed amid the specter of
illoming ice age. In fact, four years after the first
Earth Day, Time magazine pontificated that the telltale signs of
an ice age were evident everywhere. So I think it's
(02:54):
really important, especially for Christians, not to fall for sophistry
and sloppy journalism. We should be arbiters of that which
corresponds to reality or that which is indeed, verifiably true.
As far as the Bible is concerned, it doesn't give
us any clue as to when Jesus Christ is going
to return or a peer a second time, only that
(03:14):
he will appear a second time, and therefore we have
to be faithful and fruitful in the meantime. We need
to be prepared as though he might come in the
next millisecond, and prepare as though his coming is a
long way off. That's the attitude we should have.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Okay, Well, that actually was a very good answer, and
that really it really does help me out a lot.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
I appreciate that you got it.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Ben. Thank you for your callback to the phone line's
Richard next Aurora, Colorado.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
Hi, Richard, how you doing good?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Thank you?
Speaker 5 (03:44):
H are you believe it a rapture.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Well, it depends on what you mean by rapture. If
you mean a pre tribulational rapture, no, I do not.
I think that's reading into first Thessalonian's Chapter four or
John fourteen, a paradigm which doesn't have any basis in reality,
a paradigm in which two thirds of the Jewish people
will shortly be eradicated in the Holocaust massacre while Jesus'
(04:11):
people relax and heavenly mantions. I think that's a frightful
imposition on the integrity of Our Savior in the scriptures.
And neither Paul's portrait of Paradise nor Our Savior's mentioned
metaphor is intended to convey a temporary safe haven in
heaven away from a seven year holocaust on Earth. Rather,
(04:32):
they represent a glorious picture of a new heaven and
a new Earth in which the dwelling of God is
with men and He will live with them. Not only that,
I think when Jesus says, do not be amazed at
this the time it's coming, when all who in the
graces will come out, some will rise to live, and
some will rise to be condemned. I think that that
is a very clear, clear passage of scripture. It's unambiguous,
(04:53):
and we should always interpret the cloudy in scripture if
it's cloudy for you in light of that, which is
so short answer, No, I don't hold to a pre
tribulational rapture.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
Oh God, bless God, bless you.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Thank you for your call. I've written about this on
the Apocalypse Code. Find out what the Bible really says
about the end times and why it matters today. Let's
go back to the phone lines. We'll talk to John
and Topeka, Kansas.
Speaker 7 (05:21):
Hi.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
John, Hello, Hank, glad to be on and thanks for
taking my call.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
You're welcome.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
I just had a question. I was with some brothers
at a Bible study recently and we got on the
subject of dreams and such, and my question was, if
you have a dream and you commit a sin in
your dream, say you have a nasty argument with your
boss or something. Now, I know, you know, if you
actually do that, that's sin and you need to repent.
(05:49):
If you actually think that, you know it's also a sin.
You need to repent. But you know, how is your
dream life factor into that kind of thing? Would that
be considered sin or just is that outside the that well,
it really depends.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
But let me say this that what we do at
our conscious waking hours oftentimes affects what we dream about.
And so what I would do is simply confess my sin,
because I recognize that there are all kinds of sins
I commit every single day that I'm completely unaware of.
(06:23):
In that sense, there are not only sins of comission,
but there are also sins of omissions. So there are
all kinds of things that I could do that I
failed to do, and therefore I confess my sin. I
can't remember or account for every one of them, but
I confess my sins. Those that I'm particularly concerned about
that God brings to my remembrance, I confess verbally. But
(06:47):
there are a lot of other sins. I say, Lord,
I'm a sinner. Please forgive me and help me conform
me more and more to the image of my Lord
and Savior Jesus Christ. I want to go back to
the phone lines and talk to Michael listening in Calgary, Alberta.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Hi, Michael, Yes, oh, mister hand Graf.
Speaker 7 (07:05):
He First of all, I'd like to really thank you
for your ministry. I just wanted to quickly let you
know that you know your faith and and and submission
to God has has helped me through some very difficult
times in my life. And and you've really helped to
strengthen my face. And and I just I love you
and and and God.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Bless you, Thank you so much. Bless you, thank you.
Speaker 7 (07:23):
Think and I'd like to ask a good question. I've
been asked this by by a couple of different people,
and I really just don't know how to answer it.
It's just the origin of man after the flood, you know,
since you know Noah Samily was the only one that survived,
you know, how come we have you know, different races,
and we have black people, we have Asian people, and
and you know there's people all over the world post flood.
(07:43):
I really don't know how to even approach that question.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Well, I think the first thing that you should always
make clear whenever you approach this particular question is that
in a biblical worldview, we see people as people. We
have different genetic proclivities, but we're all just people. But
in terms of why we have different genetic proclivities, think
Tower of Babel, which caused different people to be scattered
(08:09):
all over the world and therefore draw on a fraction
of the gene pool. Geneticists often call this the founder principle.
So groups isolated because of the confusion of their languages,
they only draw upon a fraction of the total gene pool.
So that's one of the explanations. Of course, evolutionists believe
(08:30):
that this is a function of the evolutionary process, that
some races are headed for extinction, as only the strong survive.
And that's why you had Thomas Huxley, who was Darwin's bulldog, say,
no rational man, cognizant of the facts, believes that the
average Negro is the equal, still less the superior the
white man. And then he went on to say it's
(08:52):
it's simply incredible to think that he'd be able to
compete successfully with his bigger brain, smaller jod rival in
a contest carried on by thoughts and not by bites.
So the evolutionary paradigm say survival of the fittest in
the struggle for existence. So there's a hierarchy of races.
But that's not the biblical worldview. We're just all people
in a biblical worldview, and in the biblical worldview, there
(09:14):
are changes within kinds, but there aren't changes from one
kind to another kind. So a monkey doesn't become a man,
and a lower race doesn't evolve into a higher race.
That's part of the evolutionary paradigm, has no basis whatsoever
in reality, and certainly no part of a Christian worldview.
Speaker 7 (09:32):
So basically, I'm just just looking at a babbel. I mean,
that's that's kind of when people got scattered, and how
they kind of I guess got used to in their
own environment I guess would be a good way.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
To Well, they get isolated, and as a result of
being isolated in groups, they only draw upon a fraction
of the gene pool. I mean, that's a theory by geneticists.
I mean, I can't say that with one hundred percent certainty,
but that is one of the theories I'm saying, however,
is that the changes within humankind are changes that are
(10:08):
horizontal and not vertical, so that we don't change from
one race into another race. But there are changes within people,
but we're still all people, and therefore all people made
in the image of God should be afforded the same
worth in our view. But again, there are various views
on this. The biblical worldview is people are just people
(10:31):
and the genetic distinctions or a function of what happened
to the Tower of Babel. That's at least one explanation
coming to the station break. We were right back in
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Speaker 2 (15:09):
Thank very much, Randians, go right back to the phone lines.
Next up is Joe listening in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Hi, Joe, Yeah,
My question is the.
Speaker 8 (15:17):
Last chapter of Job, who is Leviathan?
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Well, I think what's important if you're looking at either
Behemoth or Leviathan is to note the literary progression of
the Book of Job. That literary progression moves from creation
to creatures, to the cherub, who once ranked first in
the order of creation, of course, that is Satan, and
(15:41):
to Job the primal monster of the land, like the
primal monster of the sea. In other words, Leviathan and
Behemoth were mere pets on a divine leash, and so
in the literary progression of the Bible, the monster is vanquished,
very much like what Isaiah says Leviathan the gliding serpent,
Leviathan the coiling serpent. God will slay the monster of
(16:05):
the sea. And I think that's precisely what's going on
in job. In interpreting scripture and light of scripture, the
literary personification of Satan becomes readily apparent.
Speaker 8 (16:15):
So that doesn't mean there was some literal sea serpent
that existed back then, doesn't.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
No, this is a personification of Satan. And I say
that because I think that there's ample warrant for that
when you interpret scripture in light of scripture. So in Genesis,
for example, he's presented as an alluring serpent that tempts
humanity to fall into lies of perpetual sin, terminated by death.
(16:40):
In the Psalms, he's portrayed as a multi headed monster
opposing the purposes of God. In Isaiah, which I just mentioned,
he's a coiling serpent emerging out of the primal waters.
In Revelation, he's a red dragon that personifies the extremities
of evil. So Leviathan and Behemoth are not dinosaurs, as
(17:02):
some suppose, but there are personifications that illustrate a metaphysical reality,
and that metaphysical reality is Satan. Who's a very real being,
albeit a spiritual being. So there are personifications of him
in many different ways, as just mentioned in various passages
in the Bible, and the personification as Leviathan has ample
(17:26):
warrant throughout Biblical literature, including the passages that I mentioned
in Isaiah and certainly in the Book of Job.
Speaker 8 (17:34):
Okay, that makes sense. It's kind of what I thought. Also,
real quick, when did all the different nationalities come out,
like American, Indians and you know, people that live in
other islands. Did that happen at the Tower of Babel?
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Again, as I said to the earlier caller, the differences
in terms of genetic makeup are the changes within humankind
still keep us all as people a just different genetic proclivities.
And the actual genesis of that, if you will, for
many is what happened with the diffusion of languages that
(18:10):
happened at the Tower of Babel. That's often, as I
mentioned earlier, spoken about as the founder principle. So people
draw on a portion of the gene pool and therefore
have different genetic proclivities, and from that we have the
differences in people. I don't even like to use the
word race. By the way. My sense is that we
can use biblically the word race in terms of running
(18:31):
the race. But I like to think of people as
just people. Some have blonde hair, some have blue eyes,
some have brown hair, brown eyes, different pigmentation, but we're
all just people. Let's go back to the phone lines
and talk next to Cole listening in Lincoln, Nebraska, Pi Cole, Hi.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
Hank, I really appreciate your program. I do have a
question and this sort of an issue. And you know
how sometimes some sty'll be on the back burner, you've
never heard of it, and all of a sudden, it
just is everywhere. My friend, who's a great resource person,
he's been talking about the I believe it is pronounced
(19:11):
who is a God of Allah or a son of
Allah who is supposed to return? Are you familiar with that?
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Yeah. I spoke of the University of Tehran in Iran,
and there are a lot of sites there and they
believe in the twelve Verse. They recognize twelve moms in
their history, the last of whom disappeared in eight seventy three,
and it's believed that this twelfth Imam has continued to
live until the present day in a state of hiddenness,
(19:43):
and one day he's going to return as the Mahdi,
the Guided One, and inaugurate a period of righteousness prior
to the last judgment. And during that long period of
hiddenness preceding his return, religious scholars have been left to
provide guidance to the people in regard to law and doctrine.
(20:03):
So their view is that the twelfth Imam is going
to return and what he does is going to put
all things to write.
Speaker 6 (20:11):
Yes, And my friend said that in looking at revelation
and what they believe, it's like right across the board.
If you look at what Revelation says and what hide
is going to bring about, it's just like right down
the line in order, kind of like Domino's. What's going
(20:33):
to happen for Christians? What's going to happen on the
other side for the anti christ.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Well, let me tell you the problem with that. If
you look at the Book of Revelation, you recognize immediately
that it was written to seven churches in the epicenter
of a Caesar cult, and that the Book of Revelation
is the revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him
to show his servants what must soon take place. That's
(20:58):
precisely what the first verse of Revelation says, soon means soon.
And then of course John goes on to write he
made it known by sending his angel to a servant
John who testifies to everything he saw. That is the
word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ. Blessed
is the one who reads the words of this prophecy,
(21:20):
and blessed are those who hear it and take to
heart what is written in it. Because the time is near,
and just as soon means soon, near means near. So
when Jesus says that the looming apocalypse of the Revelation
will soon take place and that the time is near,
it's contrary to all decency, to all propriety to dogmatically
(21:45):
declare that his words are meant to convey an event
that's going to happen in the far future or in
our time. So I think we need to be very
careful that we don't take the words of the Master
and twist them way, because these are not just ordinary words.
These are the words of Jesus Christ himself, and Jesus
(22:05):
Christ is not linguistically challenged. So when he says soon
or near that's precisely what he means. If he was
talking about something that was going to happen in the
twenty first century, he would make that abundantly clear, just
as he makes abundantly clear at the end of the
Book of Revelation when he talks about the eternal state,
the new Jerusalem, coming down of heaven prepared as a bride,
(22:27):
beautifully adorned for a husband. So what happens in the
Book of Revelation in terms of dealing with the near
future also cascades into the eternal state, as do all
the books of the Bible.
Speaker 6 (22:42):
Yeah, think and absolutely I believe that I'm a Christian.
I am ready. But the thing is, why are all
of these people all of a sudden just saying, you know,
this Habi is going to come and bring everything to
write business or to bear, to make everything good again
(23:03):
in the world, end up bringing so many people in.
I guess that's just what is going to happen at
the end of time anyway or not.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Well, Sure, Satan packages and repackages a lie odd nauseum
on infinitum, And this is what the Twelvers believe, and
it is a very common belief amongst Muslims. But it
certainly has nothing to do with what the Book of
Revelation is dealing with, except in principle. Want to go
back to the phone lines. Let's talk to Harry and Leewood, Kansas.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
Hi, Harry, Hi, Hey. First of all, I really appreciate
your show. It's just fantastic.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
What's gonna happen to my Julie sprints when they pass away?
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Well, it has nothing to do with her. Someone is
a Jew or someone is a gentile, whether someone's Greek
or Dutch, doesn't have anything to do with whether you're
male or female, whether you're slave or free. As Paul
puts it in Glatians chapter three, Abraham only had one
royal seat, and that royal seat is Gjesus Christ. And
if we are in Jesus Christ, we are the seat
(24:02):
of Abraham and heirs according to the promise, whether we're
Jew or Greek, slaver, free, male or female. And his
point is simply this. It has nothing to do with gender,
has nothing to do with genealogy, has nothing to do
with whether you're rich or poor, or what your station
in life in is. It has everything to do with
whether or not you are in Christ. Jesus. That's the
(24:23):
point got you.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
I Quite some time ago, my mom clipped something out
of the paper for me. I had a very close
Jewish friend, and it said in that clipping that they
were going to have a special time or something where
they were going to have a second chance to come
to Christ.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Well, no, I mean, there's no special dispensation for anyone.
God's not a racist. He doesn't divide people into races.
That's the evolutionary paradigm, and then choose one race over
another race. No. You know, if you look, for example,
in the Old Testament, you have people from Egypt who
are considered true Israel. You have people like Rahab considered
(25:03):
true Israel. You have people like Ruth, who was a Moabite,
the arch enemy of Israel, considered true Israel. Why because
they believed in Yahweh, the God of Israel. So it's
never a matter of race, It's always a matter of relationship,
and God does not show favoritism. In fact, this is
the beauty of what Peter discovered when he was shown
(25:25):
a vision, and at the end of seeing the vision
and understanding its import he goes ah, Now I finally
understand that God does not show favoritism. So he accepts
all men who love him and do his will. So
it's not a matter of showing one group of people
(25:47):
favoritism over another group of people based on genealogy. True Israel,
one chosen people, one covenant community always is connected by
the cross. On both sides of the cross, you have
true Israel. And if we are in Christ, we are
the seat of Abraham airs according to the promise. That's
the promise that we find in Galatians chapter three, a
(26:10):
chapter worth reading very carefully. We're out of time. We
look forward to seeing you next time with more of
the show.
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