October 28, 2025 • 28 mins
On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (10/28/25), Hank answers the following questions:
I am trying to understand spiritual warfare. How much can demons affect believers in comparison to unbelievers? Jimmy - IL (0:52)
Can Satan and demons cause believers to experience physical illness? Justin - St. Louis, MO (2:45)
Can you address Matthew 17:14-21 regarding demon possession? Can possession cause seizures, cuts, and sores? Chris - Tyler, TX (6:44)
Can you address the Seventh-day Adventist criticism against Sunday as the Sabbath? Chris - Tyler, TX (9:05)
Are there any extrabiblical historical records to support the miraculous plagues on Egypt? Jim - TX (15:13)
Can you explain the parable of the fig tree in Mark 13? Dorothy - West Plains, MO (18:40)
How can we be overcomers as Christians when we continue to do the same thing over and over again? Geraldine - St. Louis, MO (23:43)
I am trying to understand spiritual warfare. How much can demons affect believers in comparison to unbelievers? Jimmy - IL (0:52)
Can Satan and demons cause believers to experience physical illness? Justin - St. Louis, MO (2:45)
Can you address Matthew 17:14-21 regarding demon possession? Can possession cause seizures, cuts, and sores? Chris - Tyler, TX (6:44)
Can you address the Seventh-day Adventist criticism against Sunday as the Sabbath? Chris - Tyler, TX (9:05)
Are there any extrabiblical historical records to support the miraculous plagues on Egypt? Jim - TX (15:13)
Can you explain the parable of the fig tree in Mark 13? Dorothy - West Plains, MO (18:40)
How can we be overcomers as Christians when we continue to do the same thing over and over again? Geraldine - St. Louis, MO (23:43)
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
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now here's Hank Hanagraph.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Thank you very much. Randy.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Right to our callers. First up as Jimmy listening in Illinois. Hi, Jimmy, Hey,
I'm doing well.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
How are you.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
I'm doing good. I've been in a discussion with some
pig about spiritual warfare and how much the money books
can do to saints versus what they can do to
the non believer. Yes, could you help me out with
how far they can go with the non believer? I
understand it ain't nothing they can do to the believer,
but to the non believer, how much access do we
have to them.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Well, you know, Satan again operates in mind to mind communication,
and through that a person can be under the possession
of the evil one. But Satan, while he has access
to our minds, he can't do things like read our minds.
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He can influence our thoughts, and that's why the Bible
instructs us to put on the form of God so
that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes.
So Satan is limited in what he can do even
with a non believers, in that he cannot take a
non believer and cause that unbeliever to suddenly get whipped
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by his demons or bitten by his demons, or have
his demons cause the person to levitate or anything like that.
He can't operate in the physical realm, but through mind
to mind communication, he can certainly cause physical effects in
that person, and that's the thing we have to understand.
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But as far as believers, we know that he can't
bite us, he can't physically violate us, but he can
tempt us to cheat or steal or lie. And that
is why the apostle Paul tells us to put on
the full arm of God so that we can take
our stand against the devil's schemes.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Okay, all right, thank you.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
You gotta want to go back the phone lines. Talk
to Justin Saint Louis, Missouri.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
Hi, Justin, Hey, Hank, I.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
Really appreciate your ministry. Thanks for all that you do.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 6 (02:53):
So kind of along those lines of the question I
was just asked, in regards to physical sickness, is there
a biblical precedent for saman or demons influencing someone in
such a way that they can be physically ill.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Well, here's the principle. Scripture makes it clear that Satan
is often the agent of sickness, but he is not
always the author of sickness. Sometimes God is. For example,
if you look at Exodus chapter four, God himself asked
a rhetorical question, who gave man his mouth? Who makes
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him deaf? Who makes them dumb? Who gives them sight?
Who makes them blind? Is it not I?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
The Lord?
Speaker 3 (03:35):
And there are many direct anecdotes in the Bible that
you can read cases where someone was directly afflicted by
God with the sickness. But not only that. We live
in a chursed creation in which aging is the primary
sickness of humanity. And therefore when we fell into sin,
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it is our fall rather than Satan that is the
primary cause of sickness that ensues. And as we get older,
now we all get wrinkles, and some of us need glasses,
and our muscles get shorter, and of course we all
eventually die. That's a function of the fall. It's also
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crucial to note that this world is under the sovereign
control of God, not Satan, and therefore we can rest
assured that even in sickness and suffering, all things work
together for good to those who love God and are
the called according to His purpose. Now, that is not
to say that if you give yourself over to Satan
there are not attendant consequences in the physical realm. There
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are the mind to mind communication that a person under
the control of Satan experiences certainly has physical ramifications in
his body as well.
Speaker 6 (04:52):
So I guess a follow a question to that. I
would agree with you that the two great errors we
make is either too trust this spiritual warfare or demonic
too much or too little.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
So I guess here's the question, Well, overestimate or underestimate?
Speaker 6 (05:07):
Yes, yeah, yeah, overestimate underestimate. Do you think Christians who
overestimate potentially bring badness onto themselves, you know, by being
too hyperly involved with it or anything.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Well, I think certainly, in some sense, if you overestimate
the power of Satan, then all kinds of serious consequences
can come out of that. For example, a person who
supposedly is possessed by Satan and isn't really possessed by Satan,
but has some kind of a physiological or psychological problem.
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If you misdiagnose that, there are all kinds of tended
consequences that come along with that misdiagnosis. So the basic
issue here is that ideas do have consequences.
Speaker 6 (05:54):
Okay, well, thank you very much for your time. We
have some family members who are going through some stuff
right now, and we are just trying to navigate the
best way to minister to them in the midst of
some potential sickness and illness, and wanting to present the
most biblical case and love them as best we can.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
So right, and remember, though the sequence of argumentation, maybe
live in a fallen world and therefore sickness is a
natural consequence of living in a fallen world. And also
the fact that sometimes an affliction can be by the
hand of God, so it's not always a function of
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someone's interaction with the evil one. I've laid this out
in various places, including my book that covering God's plan
to protect you from evil.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
That would be a helpful resource.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
Okay, I'll have to check that out.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Appreciate your call. When to go back to the phone lines,
talk to Chris and Tyler Texas.
Speaker 7 (06:46):
Hi, Chris Well, I thank God, bless you, thank you
for your ministry. I enjoy listening to you.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Thank you.
Speaker 7 (06:54):
Along again along the same lines of even position, I
wondered if you would address Matthew seventeen fourteen through twenty one,
where the Father evidently comes in kneeling before Jesus and
he says that to have mercy on my son, for
he's a lunatic and he's sore vexed, and he oftentimes
falls into the fire and opts them into the water.
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And then Jesus in verse eighteen rebukes the devil.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
No, that's a great example of what I was talking
about here. You have a person that's under the mental
control of the demon and thus acting out in a
physical way as a result. So the metaphysical interaction has
a physical consequence, which was precisely what I was alluding
to earlier.
Speaker 7 (07:38):
Okay, So in that case, being demon possessed, I mean,
that's an actual, real thing that can happen. It can
actually affect you physically as far as sores and as
far as I guess cazures. That's what it seems like
to be in this passage or something.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Well. Remember, there are physical consequences to what happens in
the metaphysical realm, and that's the point. Someone under bondage
or control or possession of the evil one has the
consequence of something happening physically in their body, including seizures.
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But we don't want to make the attendant problem worse
by suggesting that everyone that has a seizure is demon possessed.
It may be a different problem. It could be a
psychological problem. There are a lot of other possibilities in
terms of what the problem is, and that's why proper
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diagnosis is critical. I give an example in my book
the Covering of a person named Edwin Fabian. The person
that ended up killing him was misdiagnosed by a lot
of people, and as a result, there are all kinds
of consequences and actually misdiagnosed by a Christian psychologist. So
there's some real significant issues that are attendant to this
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and therefore you can't get it wrong.
Speaker 7 (09:02):
Okay, well, thank you and thank you for pairing up
a subject on that. I have another kind of unrelated
question if you don't mind, Yeah, go ahead. I've done
some research into some doctrine like on the Seventh day Adventist. Yes,
and I would like to know like where they are,
where the doctrine came from for meeting on Sunday, Like,
can you give me some specific passages to look up
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on that?
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Yeah. I think what's important with respect to Sabbath worship
is to recognize that in Christ we have our Sabbath rest.
One of the reasons that the Church in its infancy
turned to Sunday as the day of worship was because
resurrection is the ultimate or the apex of understanding the
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rest we have in Jesus Christ. So Scripture provides us
with reasons behind the symbol of the Sabbath. In Genesis,
the Sabbath was a celebra of God's work in creation.
After the Exodus, the Sabbath expanded to a celebration of
God's deliverance from oppression in Egypt, and then as a
result of the Resurrection, the Sabbath is shifted to the
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celebration of rest. We have through Christ who delivers us
from sin and the grave, as we see in Hebrews
chapter four. So for the emerging Christian Church, and the
most dangerous snare was a failure to recognize that Jesus
was the substance that fulfilled the symbol of the Sabbath.
And that's why we're no longer slavishly bound to Sabbatarian laws.
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If we were, of course, we'd have to put someone
to death if they did some work on the Sabbath
according to Mozaic law.
Speaker 7 (10:41):
Well, thank you so much, Hank. I appreciate what you're doing,
and God bless you.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
God bless you as well. I've read about this in
various places.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
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Speaker 3 (15:12):
Thank you very much for Randy. Let's go right back
to our phone callers. Next up is Jim listening in Texas.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
Hi, Jim, Hi, Hey, my question is there any extra
goal historical maybe secular records or accounts of supernatural plagues
that brought the Egyptian nations to its knees.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Well, a couple of things. There's not necessarily in Egyptian
archives that have been discovered through archaeology and the like
evidence for this. What you have is biblical evidence for this,
and there's a lot that you can go to. For example,
no nation would be likely to invent for itself and
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then transmit century after or millennium after millennium, this inglorious,
inconvenient tradition unless it had of being enslaved by the Egyptians.
Of course, unless it had an authentic historical core. So
it's as unlikely that the Jews invented the Exodus as
it was that they invented the Holocaust. But there's also
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some tangential evidence that points to this, which is to say,
the Mernefte steel was uncovered. It's a seven and one
half foot black granite stone slab, and it was inscribed
in Egyptian hieroglyphics, and there you have Pharaoh Mernefta boasting
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that Israel is wasted, that she's bear of seed, and
the metaphor implies that Israel's store of grain was destroyed
and they no longer posed a military threat. Well, the
merneft Steel was inscribed shortly before twelve hundred BC in
a dems that is of twelve thirty BC. Israel was
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already in the land of Promise as a significant socio
ethnic entity, meriting the attention of the mighty Mirnefta or
pherom Mernefta. So there is tangential evidence that points to
the exodus, that points to the truth of what the
Bible's communicating, that this is a core historical reality buttressed
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by fact. But I don't think you're going to have
the Egyptians pointing to one of the most inglorious moments
in their history and memorializing that in some way to
point out, look, we just got the heck beat out
of it, you know. But again tangentle evidence.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
Yes, well, you have like historians, you know, who are
really passionate about recording events, you know that from their perspective,
because they've got it as that historical event, like Josephus Ambassidas.
So that was that was all I was wondering.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Yeah, and again that's what I'm pointing to. I'm saying
that there is all kinds of tangentile evidence. In fact,
I lay a lot of it out in my book.
Has God spoken, particularly with respect to the enslavement of
the Israelites under the Egyptians. So this is not without
historical precedent. And certainly there's also a great and grand
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case to be made that the Bible's divine as opposed
to merely human in origin. Then therefore what you have
in terms of the actual historical record that you have
in the bible's trustworthy as well.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
Oh you got it.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Thank you for your call. Back to the phone lines.
Let's talk to Dorothy. She's listening in West Plains, Missouri.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Hi, Dorothy.
Speaker 8 (18:45):
I think my question is in regards to the parable
of the fig tree. And I don't know the exact
definition of the parable of the big tree. Is it
in relation to the rebirth of Israel?
Speaker 2 (19:05):
And now are you talking about Mark thirteen?
Speaker 8 (19:07):
I'm talking about Mark thirteen.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Yees yeah, well yeah, well that's what Jesus says there.
He says, learn this lesson from the fig tree. As
soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out,
you know that summer is near. Even so, when you
see all these things happening, you know that it is near,
right at the door. So what is the lesson of
the fig tree. It's not really about the fig tree.
It's about the leaves of the fig tree, right. And
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in fact, to see that for certain, just look at
Luke's rendition where Luke says, look at the fig tree
and all the other trees. As soon as they sprout leaves,
you know that summer is near. So this is a
lesson that Jesus Christ is giving. An object lesson. So
you can see that the generation will not pass until
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all the things he's talked about in the All of
a Discord come to be, and that is Jerusalem and
the Temple will be destroyed. And Jesus makes no equivocation here,
He's not unclear. He says this generation will not pass away.
Had that generation passed away, Jesus would legitimately be counted
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as a false prophet. But all the things that Jesus
Christ described did happen within that generation exactly as he
said they would.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
That's the point, okay, So.
Speaker 8 (20:30):
It has nothing. What prompted my question was a minister
on TV made the statement that those who were alive
and saw the rebirth of Israel in nineteen forty eight,
they would also see the Son of Man coming. And
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I have really done a lot of searching in the
Bible and what and this was the closest thing I
could find of what he said.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Yeah, well, of course the all of a discourse isn't
dealing directly and specifically with the second coming of Christ,
but Christ's coming in judgment. So context becomes determinative. And
these kinds of televangelists and their proclamations haven't worked out
very well. First it was nineteen forty eight, and then
they added forty years to that a generation, subtracted seven
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for a tribulation, and came up with nineteen eighty one.
That didn't work out very well. So then they said, well,
it's not actually when Israel became a nation, it's actually
where Israel, modern Israel takes over Jerusalem.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
And so that was nineteen sixty seven.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Then they added forty years to that, subtracted seven years
for the tribulation, came over the year two thousand. That
didn't work out well. Then they started fudging around with
how long a generation was. Maybe it's not forty years,
and on and on it goes. But one thing, these
modern televangelists have in common is there are one hundred
percent wrong one hundred percent of the time. They simply
don't know how to read the text for all its worth. Now,
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not all televangelists believe the same thing in this regard.
Some suggest that the fig tree represents the restoration of
modern Israel, but there are others who say that the
fig tree is used as an illustration for the nearness
of the second coming of Christ. John Walford was an
example of that. In reality, what Jesus Christ is doing
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is dealing specifically and directly with judgment that is going
to befall Jerusalem in the Temple within a generation. And
in fact, you can look at the illustrations that Jesus
Christ uses, He's using language of the Old Testament prophets
and then directly and specifically associating that language, that judgment language,
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to what's going to happen Jerusalem. So the problem with
the televangelists is they don't know how to read the
Bible for all it's worth, and they're joined with modern
fundamentals from the left, people like Barti Irmin, who try
to make Jesus a false apocalyptic prophet, and they take
the language the sun, moon and star.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
You know, the sun will be darkened.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
The moon will not show its light, and the stars
will fall from the sky and so forth. They don't
realize that the exact language is used in the Old
Testament with respect to judgment on nations, and therefore they
don't see how Jesus Christ is using it. But it's
just biblical illiteracy. It has nothing to do with the
Second Coming, has nothing to do with the restoration of
Israel as a nation under Christian and secular Zionism.
Speaker 8 (23:30):
Thank you for your answer.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
You got it.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
I lay all of this out in great detail again
in my book The Apocalypse Code. Find out what the
Bible really says about the end times and why it
matters today. Back to the phone lines, talk to Gerald
Deane and Saint Louis Missouri.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Hi, Geraldine, Hi, Hank.
Speaker 9 (23:49):
How can we be? How can we be overcomers? As Christians?
Two things that we've asked God and aid for God
to give us deliverance and help, and yet we continue
to do the same thing over and over again. And
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what is the solution to that?
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Well, first of all, keep confessing your sin, because He
is faithful in just and He will forgive your sin
and cleanse you of all and righteouses. But secondly, partake
of the means of grace and also exercise the spiritual disciplines.
Christ modeled that during his earthly sojourn we should partake
of spiritual disciplines, and that also comes with some practical application,
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and that there should be a system of accountability. The
church is that system. Within the church. There should be
some accountability. Because many logs burning together will burn brightly,
but a log that falls off to the side, the
embres quickly die out. You need the body of Christ,
you need accountability, you need help from other believers. Paul
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depicts that in very precise language in Romans chapter twelve.
So partake of the means of grace and the spiritual
disciplines that are offered to you in scripture, prayer, Bible reading,
participation in a healthy, well balanced church. And there are
other spiritual disciplines that are mentioned in scripture as well
that I lay out in my book The Covering.
Speaker 9 (25:24):
Okay, well, thank you very much, you got it.
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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 sixty five books of
the Bible, not current events or recent history. The Apocalypse
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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
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Cantigraph Today, available in softcover, MP three, CD or MP
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now here's Hank Hanagraph.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Thank you very much. Randy.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Right to our callers. First up as Jimmy listening in Illinois. Hi, Jimmy, Hey,
I'm doing well.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
How are you.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
I'm doing good. I've been in a discussion with some
pig about spiritual warfare and how much the money books
can do to saints versus what they can do to
the non believer. Yes, could you help me out with
how far they can go with the non believer? I
understand it ain't nothing they can do to the believer,
but to the non believer, how much access do we
have to them.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Well, you know, Satan again operates in mind to mind communication,
and through that a person can be under the possession
of the evil one. But Satan, while he has access
to our minds, he can't do things like read our minds.
(01:41):
He can influence our thoughts, and that's why the Bible
instructs us to put on the form of God so
that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes.
So Satan is limited in what he can do even
with a non believers, in that he cannot take a
non believer and cause that unbeliever to suddenly get whipped
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by his demons or bitten by his demons, or have
his demons cause the person to levitate or anything like that.
He can't operate in the physical realm, but through mind
to mind communication, he can certainly cause physical effects in
that person, and that's the thing we have to understand.
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But as far as believers, we know that he can't
bite us, he can't physically violate us, but he can
tempt us to cheat or steal or lie. And that
is why the apostle Paul tells us to put on
the full arm of God so that we can take
our stand against the devil's schemes.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Okay, all right, thank you.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
You gotta want to go back the phone lines. Talk
to Justin Saint Louis, Missouri.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
Hi, Justin, Hey, Hank, I.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
Really appreciate your ministry. Thanks for all that you do.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 6 (02:53):
So kind of along those lines of the question I
was just asked, in regards to physical sickness, is there
a biblical precedent for saman or demons influencing someone in
such a way that they can be physically ill.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Well, here's the principle. Scripture makes it clear that Satan
is often the agent of sickness, but he is not
always the author of sickness. Sometimes God is. For example,
if you look at Exodus chapter four, God himself asked
a rhetorical question, who gave man his mouth? Who makes
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him deaf? Who makes them dumb? Who gives them sight?
Who makes them blind? Is it not I?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
The Lord?
Speaker 3 (03:35):
And there are many direct anecdotes in the Bible that
you can read cases where someone was directly afflicted by
God with the sickness. But not only that. We live
in a chursed creation in which aging is the primary
sickness of humanity. And therefore when we fell into sin,
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it is our fall rather than Satan that is the
primary cause of sickness that ensues. And as we get older,
now we all get wrinkles, and some of us need glasses,
and our muscles get shorter, and of course we all
eventually die. That's a function of the fall. It's also
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crucial to note that this world is under the sovereign
control of God, not Satan, and therefore we can rest
assured that even in sickness and suffering, all things work
together for good to those who love God and are
the called according to His purpose. Now, that is not
to say that if you give yourself over to Satan
there are not attendant consequences in the physical realm. There
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are the mind to mind communication that a person under
the control of Satan experiences certainly has physical ramifications in
his body as well.
Speaker 6 (04:52):
So I guess a follow a question to that. I
would agree with you that the two great errors we
make is either too trust this spiritual warfare or demonic
too much or too little.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
So I guess here's the question, Well, overestimate or underestimate?
Speaker 6 (05:07):
Yes, yeah, yeah, overestimate underestimate. Do you think Christians who
overestimate potentially bring badness onto themselves, you know, by being
too hyperly involved with it or anything.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Well, I think certainly, in some sense, if you overestimate
the power of Satan, then all kinds of serious consequences
can come out of that. For example, a person who
supposedly is possessed by Satan and isn't really possessed by Satan,
but has some kind of a physiological or psychological problem.
(05:41):
If you misdiagnose that, there are all kinds of tended
consequences that come along with that misdiagnosis. So the basic
issue here is that ideas do have consequences.
Speaker 6 (05:54):
Okay, well, thank you very much for your time. We
have some family members who are going through some stuff
right now, and we are just trying to navigate the
best way to minister to them in the midst of
some potential sickness and illness, and wanting to present the
most biblical case and love them as best we can.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
So right, and remember, though the sequence of argumentation, maybe
live in a fallen world and therefore sickness is a
natural consequence of living in a fallen world. And also
the fact that sometimes an affliction can be by the
hand of God, so it's not always a function of
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someone's interaction with the evil one. I've laid this out
in various places, including my book that covering God's plan
to protect you from evil.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
That would be a helpful resource.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
Okay, I'll have to check that out.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Appreciate your call. When to go back to the phone lines,
talk to Chris and Tyler Texas.
Speaker 7 (06:46):
Hi, Chris Well, I thank God, bless you, thank you
for your ministry. I enjoy listening to you.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Thank you.
Speaker 7 (06:54):
Along again along the same lines of even position, I
wondered if you would address Matthew seventeen fourteen through twenty one,
where the Father evidently comes in kneeling before Jesus and
he says that to have mercy on my son, for
he's a lunatic and he's sore vexed, and he oftentimes
falls into the fire and opts them into the water.
(07:15):
And then Jesus in verse eighteen rebukes the devil.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
No, that's a great example of what I was talking
about here. You have a person that's under the mental
control of the demon and thus acting out in a
physical way as a result. So the metaphysical interaction has
a physical consequence, which was precisely what I was alluding
to earlier.
Speaker 7 (07:38):
Okay, So in that case, being demon possessed, I mean,
that's an actual, real thing that can happen. It can
actually affect you physically as far as sores and as
far as I guess cazures. That's what it seems like
to be in this passage or something.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Well. Remember, there are physical consequences to what happens in
the metaphysical realm, and that's the point. Someone under bondage
or control or possession of the evil one has the
consequence of something happening physically in their body, including seizures.
(08:15):
But we don't want to make the attendant problem worse
by suggesting that everyone that has a seizure is demon possessed.
It may be a different problem. It could be a
psychological problem. There are a lot of other possibilities in
terms of what the problem is, and that's why proper
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diagnosis is critical. I give an example in my book
the Covering of a person named Edwin Fabian. The person
that ended up killing him was misdiagnosed by a lot
of people, and as a result, there are all kinds
of consequences and actually misdiagnosed by a Christian psychologist. So
there's some real significant issues that are attendant to this
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and therefore you can't get it wrong.
Speaker 7 (09:02):
Okay, well, thank you and thank you for pairing up
a subject on that. I have another kind of unrelated
question if you don't mind, Yeah, go ahead. I've done
some research into some doctrine like on the Seventh day Adventist. Yes,
and I would like to know like where they are,
where the doctrine came from for meeting on Sunday, Like,
can you give me some specific passages to look up
(09:24):
on that?
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Yeah. I think what's important with respect to Sabbath worship
is to recognize that in Christ we have our Sabbath rest.
One of the reasons that the Church in its infancy
turned to Sunday as the day of worship was because
resurrection is the ultimate or the apex of understanding the
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rest we have in Jesus Christ. So Scripture provides us
with reasons behind the symbol of the Sabbath. In Genesis,
the Sabbath was a celebra of God's work in creation.
After the Exodus, the Sabbath expanded to a celebration of
God's deliverance from oppression in Egypt, and then as a
result of the Resurrection, the Sabbath is shifted to the
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celebration of rest. We have through Christ who delivers us
from sin and the grave, as we see in Hebrews
chapter four. So for the emerging Christian Church, and the
most dangerous snare was a failure to recognize that Jesus
was the substance that fulfilled the symbol of the Sabbath.
And that's why we're no longer slavishly bound to Sabbatarian laws.
(10:35):
If we were, of course, we'd have to put someone
to death if they did some work on the Sabbath
according to Mozaic law.
Speaker 7 (10:41):
Well, thank you so much, Hank. I appreciate what you're doing,
and God bless you.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
God bless you as well. I've read about this in
various places.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Again, one of the places you get a very concise
answer to questions like this is the Complete Bible answer
Book Collector's Edition. You can check it out on the
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Speaker 3 (15:12):
Thank you very much for Randy. Let's go right back
to our phone callers. Next up is Jim listening in Texas.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
Hi, Jim, Hi, Hey, my question is there any extra
goal historical maybe secular records or accounts of supernatural plagues
that brought the Egyptian nations to its knees.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Well, a couple of things. There's not necessarily in Egyptian
archives that have been discovered through archaeology and the like
evidence for this. What you have is biblical evidence for this,
and there's a lot that you can go to. For example,
no nation would be likely to invent for itself and
(15:56):
then transmit century after or millennium after millennium, this inglorious,
inconvenient tradition unless it had of being enslaved by the Egyptians.
Of course, unless it had an authentic historical core. So
it's as unlikely that the Jews invented the Exodus as
it was that they invented the Holocaust. But there's also
(16:20):
some tangential evidence that points to this, which is to say,
the Mernefte steel was uncovered. It's a seven and one
half foot black granite stone slab, and it was inscribed
in Egyptian hieroglyphics, and there you have Pharaoh Mernefta boasting
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that Israel is wasted, that she's bear of seed, and
the metaphor implies that Israel's store of grain was destroyed
and they no longer posed a military threat. Well, the
merneft Steel was inscribed shortly before twelve hundred BC in
a dems that is of twelve thirty BC. Israel was
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already in the land of Promise as a significant socio
ethnic entity, meriting the attention of the mighty Mirnefta or
pherom Mernefta. So there is tangential evidence that points to
the exodus, that points to the truth of what the
Bible's communicating, that this is a core historical reality buttressed
(17:25):
by fact. But I don't think you're going to have
the Egyptians pointing to one of the most inglorious moments
in their history and memorializing that in some way to
point out, look, we just got the heck beat out
of it, you know. But again tangentle evidence.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
Yes, well, you have like historians, you know, who are
really passionate about recording events, you know that from their perspective,
because they've got it as that historical event, like Josephus Ambassidas.
So that was that was all I was wondering.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Yeah, and again that's what I'm pointing to. I'm saying
that there is all kinds of tangentile evidence. In fact,
I lay a lot of it out in my book.
Has God spoken, particularly with respect to the enslavement of
the Israelites under the Egyptians. So this is not without
historical precedent. And certainly there's also a great and grand
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case to be made that the Bible's divine as opposed
to merely human in origin. Then therefore what you have
in terms of the actual historical record that you have
in the bible's trustworthy as well.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
Oh you got it.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Thank you for your call. Back to the phone lines.
Let's talk to Dorothy. She's listening in West Plains, Missouri.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Hi, Dorothy.
Speaker 8 (18:45):
I think my question is in regards to the parable
of the fig tree. And I don't know the exact
definition of the parable of the big tree. Is it
in relation to the rebirth of Israel?
Speaker 2 (19:05):
And now are you talking about Mark thirteen?
Speaker 8 (19:07):
I'm talking about Mark thirteen.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Yees yeah, well yeah, well that's what Jesus says there.
He says, learn this lesson from the fig tree. As
soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out,
you know that summer is near. Even so, when you
see all these things happening, you know that it is near,
right at the door. So what is the lesson of
the fig tree. It's not really about the fig tree.
It's about the leaves of the fig tree, right. And
(19:31):
in fact, to see that for certain, just look at
Luke's rendition where Luke says, look at the fig tree
and all the other trees. As soon as they sprout leaves,
you know that summer is near. So this is a
lesson that Jesus Christ is giving. An object lesson. So
you can see that the generation will not pass until
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all the things he's talked about in the All of
a Discord come to be, and that is Jerusalem and
the Temple will be destroyed. And Jesus makes no equivocation here,
He's not unclear. He says this generation will not pass away.
Had that generation passed away, Jesus would legitimately be counted
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as a false prophet. But all the things that Jesus
Christ described did happen within that generation exactly as he
said they would.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
That's the point, okay, So.
Speaker 8 (20:30):
It has nothing. What prompted my question was a minister
on TV made the statement that those who were alive
and saw the rebirth of Israel in nineteen forty eight,
they would also see the Son of Man coming. And
(20:54):
I have really done a lot of searching in the
Bible and what and this was the closest thing I
could find of what he said.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Yeah, well, of course the all of a discourse isn't
dealing directly and specifically with the second coming of Christ,
but Christ's coming in judgment. So context becomes determinative. And
these kinds of televangelists and their proclamations haven't worked out
very well. First it was nineteen forty eight, and then
they added forty years to that a generation, subtracted seven
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for a tribulation, and came up with nineteen eighty one.
That didn't work out very well. So then they said, well,
it's not actually when Israel became a nation, it's actually
where Israel, modern Israel takes over Jerusalem.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
And so that was nineteen sixty seven.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Then they added forty years to that, subtracted seven years
for the tribulation, came over the year two thousand. That
didn't work out well. Then they started fudging around with
how long a generation was. Maybe it's not forty years,
and on and on it goes. But one thing, these
modern televangelists have in common is there are one hundred
percent wrong one hundred percent of the time. They simply
don't know how to read the text for all its worth. Now,
(22:04):
not all televangelists believe the same thing in this regard.
Some suggest that the fig tree represents the restoration of
modern Israel, but there are others who say that the
fig tree is used as an illustration for the nearness
of the second coming of Christ. John Walford was an
example of that. In reality, what Jesus Christ is doing
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is dealing specifically and directly with judgment that is going
to befall Jerusalem in the Temple within a generation. And
in fact, you can look at the illustrations that Jesus
Christ uses, He's using language of the Old Testament prophets
and then directly and specifically associating that language, that judgment language,
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to what's going to happen Jerusalem. So the problem with
the televangelists is they don't know how to read the
Bible for all it's worth, and they're joined with modern
fundamentals from the left, people like Barti Irmin, who try
to make Jesus a false apocalyptic prophet, and they take
the language the sun, moon and star.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
You know, the sun will be darkened.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
The moon will not show its light, and the stars
will fall from the sky and so forth. They don't
realize that the exact language is used in the Old
Testament with respect to judgment on nations, and therefore they
don't see how Jesus Christ is using it. But it's
just biblical illiteracy. It has nothing to do with the
Second Coming, has nothing to do with the restoration of
Israel as a nation under Christian and secular Zionism.
Speaker 8 (23:30):
Thank you for your answer.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
You got it.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
I lay all of this out in great detail again
in my book The Apocalypse Code. Find out what the
Bible really says about the end times and why it
matters today. Back to the phone lines, talk to Gerald
Deane and Saint Louis Missouri.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Hi, Geraldine, Hi, Hank.
Speaker 9 (23:49):
How can we be? How can we be overcomers? As Christians?
Two things that we've asked God and aid for God
to give us deliverance and help, and yet we continue
to do the same thing over and over again. And
(24:11):
what is the solution to that?
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Well, first of all, keep confessing your sin, because He
is faithful in just and He will forgive your sin
and cleanse you of all and righteouses. But secondly, partake
of the means of grace and also exercise the spiritual disciplines.
Christ modeled that during his earthly sojourn we should partake
of spiritual disciplines, and that also comes with some practical application,
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and that there should be a system of accountability. The
church is that system. Within the church. There should be
some accountability. Because many logs burning together will burn brightly,
but a log that falls off to the side, the
embres quickly die out. You need the body of Christ,
you need accountability, you need help from other believers. Paul
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depicts that in very precise language in Romans chapter twelve.
So partake of the means of grace and the spiritual
disciplines that are offered to you in scripture, prayer, Bible reading,
participation in a healthy, well balanced church. And there are
other spiritual disciplines that are mentioned in scripture as well
that I lay out in my book The Covering.
Speaker 9 (25:24):
Okay, well, thank you very much, you got it.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Appreciate your call. We are at a time for this
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