January 7, 2026 • 28 mins
On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (01/07/26), Hank answers the following questions:
What is the difference between being filled with the Holy Spirit and being baptized in the Holy Spirit? Michael - Kansas City, KS (0:45)
Is there going to be death in the Millennium? Chris - Reading, PA (2:23)
I was taught the last prophet was John the Baptist. A coworker told me prophets come to her church regularly. Are there modern-day prophets? Andre - NM (7:22)
Were the curses on the Israelites in the Old Testament fulfilled, and are modern-day Jews real Jews according to Revelation 2:9? Julia - Orange Park, FL (15:11)
Is the pre-tribulation rapture taught in the Bible? Fred - Springfield, TN (22:36)
What is the difference between being filled with the Holy Spirit and being baptized in the Holy Spirit? Michael - Kansas City, KS (0:45)
Is there going to be death in the Millennium? Chris - Reading, PA (2:23)
I was taught the last prophet was John the Baptist. A coworker told me prophets come to her church regularly. Are there modern-day prophets? Andre - NM (7:22)
Were the curses on the Israelites in the Old Testament fulfilled, and are modern-day Jews real Jews according to Revelation 2:9? Julia - Orange Park, FL (15:11)
Is the pre-tribulation rapture taught in the Bible? Fred - Springfield, TN (22:36)
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
From the Christian Research Institute and Charlotte, North Carolina. You're
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Speaker 2 (00:43):
Thanks very much for Randy, a lot of you hanging on.
We'll go right to the phone calls. First up as
Michael listening in Kansas City, Kansas. H'm Michael, how are
you doing.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Hank?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
I'm good.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Nice talking to you well, listen to you all the time.
I have two questions. First question is what is the
difference from being filled with the Holy Ghost and then
baptized in the only ghosts.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Well, remember, is a believer, you are sealed by the
Spirit of God. Therefore you are his and He is yours.
That promise is sealed by the Holy Spirit, and so
you already have an earnest of what will be so
every single believer is in dwelt by the Spirit of God.
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Your temple is the temple of the Holy Spirit. To
be infilled is to be empowered for service. And that
is not just a baptism of the Holy Spirit, as
though it's an event. It's an ongoing promise that whenever
you work in the service of the Master, he is
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going to infill you or empower you for service. And therefore,
every time I get on the Bible answer Man broadcast,
I pray Lord, not by might nor by power, but
by your spirit. I ask him to in fill me afresh.
It's not that I don't already have the Holy Spirit
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as an in dwelling reality. It's that I want to
be empowered for service. And that's the difference between the
infilling and the in dwelling of the Holy Spirit. Want
to go back to the phone lines, doctor Chris. He's
listening on serious radio and reading Pennsylvania.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Hi, Chris, My wife attends a National Bible study that
has some notes that have essentially assumed the millennial reign
of Christ.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
And then they are also saying that there's death during
this millennial reign of Christ. And I want to find out.
Speaker 6 (02:49):
You know, I have the.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
Apocalypse Code the book. This year they're studying Isaiah, and
I just want to find out what's the truth or
what's the real angle here, because it's confusing. I thought,
you know, it was Paradise loss, Paradise restored. I thought
that was you know, if you look at that, there's
no death before the fall, So why would there be
death after Jesus coming back. I'm just confused.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Well, yeah, in a couple of things. Is prologue to
my answer, the meaning of the millennium or the timing
of the tribulation. These are issues that Christians can debate vigorously.
We don't have to divide over. But from my perspective,
you're absolutely right in that there's no biblical warrant for
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death after the second coming of Jesus Christ. There's no
biblical warrant for people being saved after the second coming
of Jesus Christ. There's no biblical warrant for a semi
golden age in which there's a rebuilt temple with reinstituted
temple sacrifices over which Jesus Christ himself presides. There's no
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warrant for believing that those sacrifices are efficacious to atone
for sin on the cross. Jesus paid it all all
to him, I owe. Therefore there's no further debt that
remains to be paid. There's no warrant for believing that
there's going to be a great apostasy that takes place
at the end of the millennium before Jesus Christ comes
back permanently to establish a new heaven and a new earth.
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In fact, what does Jesus Christ say, Do not be
amazed at this The time is coming when all who
in the grace will come out. Some will rise to live,
and some will rise to be eternally condemned, which is
to say, when Jesus Christ returns, or he appears a
second time, not a second and a third time. But
when he appears a second time, what he will do
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at that point is put all things to write, which
is to say that he will deal irrevocably with the
problem of sin and satan, with death, mourning, crying, or pain,
and he will establish the eternal kingdom. Or, as you
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mentioned in the prologue to your question, Paradise lost will
become paradise restored. So I don't see a real warrant
for believing that there is a thousand year semi golden age.
I think it's a theological deduction that's unwarranted. I think
if we are to interpret that which is cloudy in
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terms of that which is clear, we would say that
when Jesus Christ returns, he will establish the Eternal Kingdom,
Paradise lost will become paradise restored. Again. This is a
secondary issue. We can debate it vigorously. Ultimately we don't
have to divide over it. But I do think it
has real ramifications. If the view is true that there's
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death after the second coming of Jesus Christ, if it
is true that there are going to be temple sacrifices,
if it is true that there's going to be sinned,
if it's true that's to be a great apostasy that
takes place before the eternal Kingdom is inherited. Than my dad,
who died in nineteen ninety seven, when he is resurrected,
is going to be resurrected to a semi golden age.
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Not a perfect age, a better age than the present age,
but nonetheless an age in which corruption still prevails. And
I don't believe that that is what the Bible teaches.
The Bible rather teaches that when the Lord Jesus Christ
comes back, the dead in Christ will rise, which is
to say that my dad's soul will return to his body,
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and that body will be resurrected, imperishable, immortal, incorruptible. He
will be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of
an eye. And unfortunately, I think that the great and
glorious passages that underscore that truth, the glorious truth or resurrection,
have been misused to communicate this notion that there's going
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to be a secret coming and then a second and
coming followed by a semi golden age and apostasy and
then the eternal kingdom. I don't think that that is
what the Bible teaches, but again, just to be fair
when underscore that, while I am convicted in my belief
that that is the plain and main teaching of Scripture,
there are others that disagree with that. Back to the
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phone lines, we'll talk next to Andre in New Mexico. Hi, Andre,
how are you doing good?
Speaker 6 (07:31):
How are you good?
Speaker 7 (07:33):
Good? I had a question because there's a lady at
work and we were talking about profits and whatnot and
what we were taught in our church was that the
last prophet was John the Baptist. And she was saying, no, no,
that's not true. You know, she said, we had four
prophets come to our church, and so that kind of like,
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you know, I'm barely beginning, you know, in the you know,
I'm barely beginning to live righteous and so I'm kind
of a little confused. I don't know who's telling the truth.
But every time I listen to your show, I ask God.
I pray to God and I ask him, I, you know,
in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, you know,
give me discernment and everything that you have been teaching me.
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You know, when I talk to the pastor about it,
it's you know, he's like, oh, yes, yes, and then
you know, and everything he's saying is what you're saying too.
But I was just kind of I was like, well,
who's right and who's on you? I want to know
the truth.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Yeah, Well the truth is simply this. There are no
more profits in the sense of biblical profits. The biblical
profits gave us the Bible, which becomes the basis by
which we can test all things. Hold faster that which
is good so there are no more profets giving special revelation.
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The revelation has been given to us. Now you can
say that there is a prophet in some sense, not
synonymous with the first century apostle John or the Old
Testament prophet Jeremiah, not even with John the Baptist, but
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people who's authority can be questioned, people who must be
tested in light a scripture, so that we can hold
fast to that which is good.
Speaker 7 (09:30):
I had another quick question. There's been like three evangelists
that have came to the church, and you know, we've
you know, one day, one pulled me to the front,
and I mean there was no possible way he could
know anything that had happened in my life. You know,
there was a couple of times I almost got killed,
I got hit in the back of the head with
a sledgehammer and whatnot. And I mean he was telling
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me all that, and I was like, oh my god,
you know, how is this guy gonna know this about me?
You know, I mean, I know God uses them, you know,
they're his, you know his.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Well, let me answer that really quickly because we're going
to break. But I want to tell you that this
is done through a process that is called cold reading.
A good stage hypnotist can do it. It is done
all the time, whether you're in Vegas or in a church.
It's done through what's called cold reading. And I've actually
explained how this process, a social psychological manipulation, takes place
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in a book that I wrote called Counterfeit Revival, And
just for the fun of it, I've actually had a
friend of mine who's a good stage hypnotist, work this
cold reading process on some of my kids and totally
baffled them. How could they know this? Well, there's an explanation.
It is not supernatural. It is quite natural. And this
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does not establish the person as a prophet of God,
but rather someone that's using sleight of hand and slight
of mind. Will be right back with more of your questions.
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Thanks for idea. Right back to our phone callers. Next
up is Julia listening in Orange Park, Florida.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Hi, Julia, I Hank.
Speaker 9 (15:17):
My question for you is the curses that you re
surrouse the Old Testament, like in Deuteronomy that tells you
that it Israelites we're going to turn away from God,
that God was going to scatter them and do this
and this to them. In the Revelations that also says
in the Temple, there'll, you know, there'll be so called
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Jews living there, calling themselves Jews, but they're really not.
So my question is is the Jews that are calling
themselves they're currently in Jerusalem, are they the real Jews?
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Well, a couple of things. First of all, I think
what you need to get clear in your mind is
that from a biblical perspective, there's Israel and true Israel.
So you rightly point to Revelation, which emphasizes the point
that not all who say they are Jews are Jews,
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but rather they are a synagogue of Satan, which is
to say, they are not true Israel. Why because true
Israel is not determined by being able to trace your genealogy.
True Israel is determined through a relationship with Jesus Christ.
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He is the seed of Abraham. And if you are
in Jesus Christ, you are by virtue of that an
air according to the promise. So it doesn't matter whether
you're Jew or Gentile, or Jew or Greek. It doesn't
matter whether you're male or female. It doesn't have to
do with gender. It doesn't matter what station in life
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you have. If you are in Christ, then you are
the seed of Abraham and an air according to the promise. Remember,
Abram's name was changed from Abram to Abraham, such that
he would be the father of many nations. Now, there
were many people, even in the New Testament times, who
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believed that the Jews were God's favored people. But what
happened was that myth was dispelled by God himself. Peter,
in fact, was one of those who labored under a misconception.
And so there was a vision of unclean food that
Peter experienced in Joppa. And only after he encountered the
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centurion Cornelius, who was a gentile, did hecomprehend the importance
of the vision that God had given him. And then
Peter said, I now realize how true it is is
that God does not show favoritism, but accepts men from
every nation who fear Him and do what is right.
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So I think what I'm trying to say here is
that race is of no consequence in Christ. Not only that,
but land is of no consequence in Christ. Yes, in
the Old Testament, it is true that the prophet said
that if the Jews who inherited the promised land followed
the detestable ways of the pagan nations who were in
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the land before them. Then the land would vomit them out,
just as it had vomited out the pagan nations who
had the land before the Jews got to the land.
And that's precisely what happened. The Assyria invasion of the
Northern Kingdom wiped out ten tribes. In fact, there are
only a few of those ten tribes who are left
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in the land. They intermarried with the Assyrians, and out
of that you have what is referred to in the
New Testament as Samaritans. And the Jews looked down at
them because they were dogs. Jesus didn't because again it
was not a matter of being able to trace your genealogy,
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but rather it was through a relationship in Jesus Christ.
So Abraham was anything but a Zionist. He viewed living
in the Promised Land in the same way that a
stranger would view living in a foreign country, because, as
the writer of Hebrews explain, he was looking forward to
a city with foundations whose architect and builders God. So again,
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race is of no consequence, so too, real estate is
of no consequence. And yet this idea was so ingrained
in the psyches of the disciples that even as Jesus
was about to ascend into heaven, they asked, Lord, are
you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?
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And not only correct this erroneous thinking, but he expands
their horizons from a tiny strip of land on the
east coast of the Mediterranean to the farthest reaches of
the earth. He said, you will receive power when the
Holy Spirit comes on you, and you will be my
witnesses in Jerusalem, in Judea, in Samaria, to the ends
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of the world. In effect, Jesus left his disciples with
instructions to exit Jerusalem, to embrace the earth, and never
again entertain the thought of establishing an earthly kingdom, because
if they did, they were like Hagar. They were in bondage.
Read Galatians chapter four. The Jerusalem that is above is free,
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and she is our mother, says Paul. So rather than
being in bondage, we need to be liberated, not with
unearthly Jerusalem that was called not the Holy City but
the Harlot City by the Old Testament prophets, but with
the Jerusalem that is above, who is free, she is
our mother. Thank you so much, for you are so welcome.
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You know, the Disciples were no longer permitted to view
Israel and exclusivistic patriarchal categories. They couldn't be parochial in
their view. Their sites had to be elevated, elevated to
an inclusive Israel. That's why Paul the Book of Romans says,
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not all who are descended from Israel are Israel. Nor
because they are his descendants, are they all Abraham's children.
True Israel consists of people from every tribe in language
and people and nation. In fact, this is interesting and
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it's often misunderstood. At the Jerusalem Council. James identifies this
new Covenant reality as the antotypical fulfillment of the well
known prophecy that God would restore David's fallen tent. Though
Amos's prophecy, of course, was fulfilled in the for future
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when a remnant of Israel was restored to the land,
James interprets the fulfillment is a type that finds its
ultimate resolution not in a future restoration of national Israel
to the land, but in the exclusion of both Jews
and Gentiles in the church. I want to go back
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to the phone lines, Doctor Fred listening in Springfield, Tennessee. Hi, Fred, Hello,
how are.
Speaker 6 (22:41):
You question turns the rapture? Yeah, all of my friends,
all of them have told me about a rapture, and
I've just recently, in the last six months or so,
I started really reading my Bible and the preachers that
I hear my friends, when I ask them about the rapture,
they can't point any specific scripture that tells them there
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will be a pre tribulation rapture. Yet when I read
the Bible, it seems like Christ is going to come
back right before the bolt of wrapper for it out.
And I'm just I'm looking for the validation of what
they're telling me, other than just being that's what they've
been always taught.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Well, I can't give you any validation for what they're
telling you, because I would say this, the Bible doesn't
teach a pro tribulational rapture. Now, remember that in saying this,
we're talking about a secondary issue. So the timing of
the tribulation or the meaning of the millennium is something
that we can debate vigorously. But from my perspective, the
passages that are used to forward the notion of a
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pro tribulational rapture simply don't do the job. For example,
one of the primary passages is First Thessalonians, chapter four,
But nowhere in that passage do you see Jesus coming
in a secret rapture where he reverses his direction and
takes people up to heaven for seven years. In fact,
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it's a great and glorious passage on resurrection that I
think has been improperly used to forward the notion of
per tribulational rapture. Another passage would be Revelation chapter three.
The Church at Philadelphia. Since you have kept my command,
says Jesus to endure patiently, I will also keep you
from the hour of trial that is going to come
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upon the whole world to test those who live on
the earth. Now this text says nothing about the Second
Coming or the rapture. It is impossible to suppose that
Jesus here is promising to protect the church in Philadelphia
from something that's going to occur two thousand years later.
He's talking to them. It's a letter to the church
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in Philadelphia that's in view here. So this passage does
make the point. Either. People like Tim Lahay will tell
you the primary passage is John chapter fourteen. But go
to John chapter fourteen. It has absolutely nothing whatsoever to
say about a pre tribulational rapture. It's hard to imagine
how someone can even read that into the passage. But
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these are the kinds of things that are forwarded. And
I'd simply say, test all things in light a scripture,
hold fast to that which is good. And on top
of that, when you have the debate, do it with
gentleness and with respect, recognizing that, after all, it is
a secondary issue. That doesn't mean it's not important, but
it's not a deal breaker in terms of fellowship. The
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deal breakers are essential Christian doctrine, and they're the line
of demarcation between the Kingdom of Christ and the Kingdom
of the cults. Thank you so much for tuning in.
We'll see next time with more of the show.
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If the Book of Revelation has become an international obsession,
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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 sixty five books of the Bible, not
(27:28):
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 Apocalypse Code by Hank Cantigraph today available
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From the Christian Research Institute and Charlotte, North Carolina. You're
listening to the Bible answer Man broadcast with Hank Canagraph.
We're on the air because life and truth matter. The
mission of the Christian Research Institute is to equip believers
to answer life's essential questions soundly and persuasively, and to
(00:27):
give the reason for the hope that you have with
gentleness and respect. For more information, go online to equip
dot org. The following program was pre recorded and now
here's Bible answer Man host Hank Canagraph.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Thanks very much for Randy, a lot of you hanging on.
We'll go right to the phone calls. First up as
Michael listening in Kansas City, Kansas. H'm Michael, how are
you doing.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Hank?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
I'm good.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Nice talking to you well, listen to you all the time.
I have two questions. First question is what is the
difference from being filled with the Holy Ghost and then
baptized in the only ghosts.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Well, remember, is a believer, you are sealed by the
Spirit of God. Therefore you are his and He is yours.
That promise is sealed by the Holy Spirit, and so
you already have an earnest of what will be so
every single believer is in dwelt by the Spirit of God.
(01:30):
Your temple is the temple of the Holy Spirit. To
be infilled is to be empowered for service. And that
is not just a baptism of the Holy Spirit, as
though it's an event. It's an ongoing promise that whenever
you work in the service of the Master, he is
(01:53):
going to infill you or empower you for service. And therefore,
every time I get on the Bible answer Man broadcast,
I pray Lord, not by might nor by power, but
by your spirit. I ask him to in fill me afresh.
It's not that I don't already have the Holy Spirit
(02:14):
as an in dwelling reality. It's that I want to
be empowered for service. And that's the difference between the
infilling and the in dwelling of the Holy Spirit. Want
to go back to the phone lines, doctor Chris. He's
listening on serious radio and reading Pennsylvania.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Hi, Chris, My wife attends a National Bible study that
has some notes that have essentially assumed the millennial reign
of Christ.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
And then they are also saying that there's death during
this millennial reign of Christ. And I want to find out.
Speaker 6 (02:49):
You know, I have the.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
Apocalypse Code the book. This year they're studying Isaiah, and
I just want to find out what's the truth or
what's the real angle here, because it's confusing. I thought,
you know, it was Paradise loss, Paradise restored. I thought
that was you know, if you look at that, there's
no death before the fall, So why would there be
death after Jesus coming back. I'm just confused.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Well, yeah, in a couple of things. Is prologue to
my answer, the meaning of the millennium or the timing
of the tribulation. These are issues that Christians can debate vigorously.
We don't have to divide over. But from my perspective,
you're absolutely right in that there's no biblical warrant for
(03:34):
death after the second coming of Jesus Christ. There's no
biblical warrant for people being saved after the second coming
of Jesus Christ. There's no biblical warrant for a semi
golden age in which there's a rebuilt temple with reinstituted
temple sacrifices over which Jesus Christ himself presides. There's no
(03:55):
warrant for believing that those sacrifices are efficacious to atone
for sin on the cross. Jesus paid it all all
to him, I owe. Therefore there's no further debt that
remains to be paid. There's no warrant for believing that
there's going to be a great apostasy that takes place
at the end of the millennium before Jesus Christ comes
back permanently to establish a new heaven and a new earth.
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In fact, what does Jesus Christ say, Do not be
amazed at this The time is coming when all who
in the grace will come out. Some will rise to live,
and some will rise to be eternally condemned, which is
to say, when Jesus Christ returns, or he appears a
second time, not a second and a third time. But
when he appears a second time, what he will do
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at that point is put all things to write, which
is to say that he will deal irrevocably with the
problem of sin and satan, with death, mourning, crying, or pain,
and he will establish the eternal kingdom. Or, as you
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mentioned in the prologue to your question, Paradise lost will
become paradise restored. So I don't see a real warrant
for believing that there is a thousand year semi golden age.
I think it's a theological deduction that's unwarranted. I think
if we are to interpret that which is cloudy in
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terms of that which is clear, we would say that
when Jesus Christ returns, he will establish the Eternal Kingdom,
Paradise lost will become paradise restored. Again. This is a
secondary issue. We can debate it vigorously. Ultimately we don't
have to divide over it. But I do think it
has real ramifications. If the view is true that there's
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death after the second coming of Jesus Christ, if it
is true that there are going to be temple sacrifices,
if it is true that there's going to be sinned,
if it's true that's to be a great apostasy that
takes place before the eternal Kingdom is inherited. Than my dad,
who died in nineteen ninety seven, when he is resurrected,
is going to be resurrected to a semi golden age.
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Not a perfect age, a better age than the present age,
but nonetheless an age in which corruption still prevails. And
I don't believe that that is what the Bible teaches.
The Bible rather teaches that when the Lord Jesus Christ
comes back, the dead in Christ will rise, which is
to say that my dad's soul will return to his body,
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and that body will be resurrected, imperishable, immortal, incorruptible. He
will be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of
an eye. And unfortunately, I think that the great and
glorious passages that underscore that truth, the glorious truth or resurrection,
have been misused to communicate this notion that there's going
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to be a secret coming and then a second and
coming followed by a semi golden age and apostasy and
then the eternal kingdom. I don't think that that is
what the Bible teaches, but again, just to be fair
when underscore that, while I am convicted in my belief
that that is the plain and main teaching of Scripture,
there are others that disagree with that. Back to the
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phone lines, we'll talk next to Andre in New Mexico. Hi, Andre,
how are you doing good?
Speaker 6 (07:31):
How are you good?
Speaker 7 (07:33):
Good? I had a question because there's a lady at
work and we were talking about profits and whatnot and
what we were taught in our church was that the
last prophet was John the Baptist. And she was saying, no, no,
that's not true. You know, she said, we had four
prophets come to our church, and so that kind of like,
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you know, I'm barely beginning, you know, in the you know,
I'm barely beginning to live righteous and so I'm kind
of a little confused. I don't know who's telling the truth.
But every time I listen to your show, I ask God.
I pray to God and I ask him, I, you know,
in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, you know,
give me discernment and everything that you have been teaching me.
(08:17):
You know, when I talk to the pastor about it,
it's you know, he's like, oh, yes, yes, and then
you know, and everything he's saying is what you're saying too.
But I was just kind of I was like, well,
who's right and who's on you? I want to know
the truth.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Yeah, Well the truth is simply this. There are no
more profits in the sense of biblical profits. The biblical
profits gave us the Bible, which becomes the basis by
which we can test all things. Hold faster that which
is good so there are no more profets giving special revelation.
(08:56):
The revelation has been given to us. Now you can
say that there is a prophet in some sense, not
synonymous with the first century apostle John or the Old
Testament prophet Jeremiah, not even with John the Baptist, but
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people who's authority can be questioned, people who must be
tested in light a scripture, so that we can hold
fast to that which is good.
Speaker 7 (09:30):
I had another quick question. There's been like three evangelists
that have came to the church, and you know, we've
you know, one day, one pulled me to the front,
and I mean there was no possible way he could
know anything that had happened in my life. You know,
there was a couple of times I almost got killed,
I got hit in the back of the head with
a sledgehammer and whatnot. And I mean he was telling
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me all that, and I was like, oh my god,
you know, how is this guy gonna know this about me?
You know, I mean, I know God uses them, you know,
they're his, you know his.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Well, let me answer that really quickly because we're going
to break. But I want to tell you that this
is done through a process that is called cold reading.
A good stage hypnotist can do it. It is done
all the time, whether you're in Vegas or in a church.
It's done through what's called cold reading. And I've actually
explained how this process, a social psychological manipulation, takes place
(10:28):
in a book that I wrote called Counterfeit Revival, And
just for the fun of it, I've actually had a
friend of mine who's a good stage hypnotist, work this
cold reading process on some of my kids and totally
baffled them. How could they know this? Well, there's an explanation.
It is not supernatural. It is quite natural. And this
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does not establish the person as a prophet of God,
but rather someone that's using sleight of hand and slight
of mind. Will be right back with more of your questions.
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And now here's Hank Cantagraph.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Thanks for idea. Right back to our phone callers. Next
up is Julia listening in Orange Park, Florida.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Hi, Julia, I Hank.
Speaker 9 (15:17):
My question for you is the curses that you re
surrouse the Old Testament, like in Deuteronomy that tells you
that it Israelites we're going to turn away from God,
that God was going to scatter them and do this
and this to them. In the Revelations that also says
in the Temple, there'll, you know, there'll be so called
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Jews living there, calling themselves Jews, but they're really not.
So my question is is the Jews that are calling
themselves they're currently in Jerusalem, are they the real Jews?
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Well, a couple of things. First of all, I think
what you need to get clear in your mind is
that from a biblical perspective, there's Israel and true Israel.
So you rightly point to Revelation, which emphasizes the point
that not all who say they are Jews are Jews,
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but rather they are a synagogue of Satan, which is
to say, they are not true Israel. Why because true
Israel is not determined by being able to trace your genealogy.
True Israel is determined through a relationship with Jesus Christ.
(16:39):
He is the seed of Abraham. And if you are
in Jesus Christ, you are by virtue of that an
air according to the promise. So it doesn't matter whether
you're Jew or Gentile, or Jew or Greek. It doesn't
matter whether you're male or female. It doesn't have to
do with gender. It doesn't matter what station in life
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you have. If you are in Christ, then you are
the seed of Abraham and an air according to the promise. Remember,
Abram's name was changed from Abram to Abraham, such that
he would be the father of many nations. Now, there
were many people, even in the New Testament times, who
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believed that the Jews were God's favored people. But what
happened was that myth was dispelled by God himself. Peter,
in fact, was one of those who labored under a misconception.
And so there was a vision of unclean food that
Peter experienced in Joppa. And only after he encountered the
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centurion Cornelius, who was a gentile, did hecomprehend the importance
of the vision that God had given him. And then
Peter said, I now realize how true it is is
that God does not show favoritism, but accepts men from
every nation who fear Him and do what is right.
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So I think what I'm trying to say here is
that race is of no consequence in Christ. Not only that,
but land is of no consequence in Christ. Yes, in
the Old Testament, it is true that the prophet said
that if the Jews who inherited the promised land followed
the detestable ways of the pagan nations who were in
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the land before them. Then the land would vomit them out,
just as it had vomited out the pagan nations who
had the land before the Jews got to the land.
And that's precisely what happened. The Assyria invasion of the
Northern Kingdom wiped out ten tribes. In fact, there are
only a few of those ten tribes who are left
(18:52):
in the land. They intermarried with the Assyrians, and out
of that you have what is referred to in the
New Testament as Samaritans. And the Jews looked down at
them because they were dogs. Jesus didn't because again it
was not a matter of being able to trace your genealogy,
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but rather it was through a relationship in Jesus Christ.
So Abraham was anything but a Zionist. He viewed living
in the Promised Land in the same way that a
stranger would view living in a foreign country, because, as
the writer of Hebrews explain, he was looking forward to
a city with foundations whose architect and builders God. So again,
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race is of no consequence, so too, real estate is
of no consequence. And yet this idea was so ingrained
in the psyches of the disciples that even as Jesus
was about to ascend into heaven, they asked, Lord, are
you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?
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And not only correct this erroneous thinking, but he expands
their horizons from a tiny strip of land on the
east coast of the Mediterranean to the farthest reaches of
the earth. He said, you will receive power when the
Holy Spirit comes on you, and you will be my
witnesses in Jerusalem, in Judea, in Samaria, to the ends
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of the world. In effect, Jesus left his disciples with
instructions to exit Jerusalem, to embrace the earth, and never
again entertain the thought of establishing an earthly kingdom, because
if they did, they were like Hagar. They were in bondage.
Read Galatians chapter four. The Jerusalem that is above is free,
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and she is our mother, says Paul. So rather than
being in bondage, we need to be liberated, not with
unearthly Jerusalem that was called not the Holy City but
the Harlot City by the Old Testament prophets, but with
the Jerusalem that is above, who is free, she is
our mother. Thank you so much, for you are so welcome.
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You know, the Disciples were no longer permitted to view
Israel and exclusivistic patriarchal categories. They couldn't be parochial in
their view. Their sites had to be elevated, elevated to
an inclusive Israel. That's why Paul the Book of Romans says,
(21:33):
not all who are descended from Israel are Israel. Nor
because they are his descendants, are they all Abraham's children.
True Israel consists of people from every tribe in language
and people and nation. In fact, this is interesting and
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it's often misunderstood. At the Jerusalem Council. James identifies this
new Covenant reality as the antotypical fulfillment of the well
known prophecy that God would restore David's fallen tent. Though
Amos's prophecy, of course, was fulfilled in the for future
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when a remnant of Israel was restored to the land,
James interprets the fulfillment is a type that finds its
ultimate resolution not in a future restoration of national Israel
to the land, but in the exclusion of both Jews
and Gentiles in the church. I want to go back
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to the phone lines, Doctor Fred listening in Springfield, Tennessee. Hi, Fred, Hello,
how are.
Speaker 6 (22:41):
You question turns the rapture? Yeah, all of my friends,
all of them have told me about a rapture, and
I've just recently, in the last six months or so,
I started really reading my Bible and the preachers that
I hear my friends, when I ask them about the rapture,
they can't point any specific scripture that tells them there
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will be a pre tribulation rapture. Yet when I read
the Bible, it seems like Christ is going to come
back right before the bolt of wrapper for it out.
And I'm just I'm looking for the validation of what
they're telling me, other than just being that's what they've
been always taught.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Well, I can't give you any validation for what they're
telling you, because I would say this, the Bible doesn't
teach a pro tribulational rapture. Now, remember that in saying this,
we're talking about a secondary issue. So the timing of
the tribulation or the meaning of the millennium is something
that we can debate vigorously. But from my perspective, the
passages that are used to forward the notion of a
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pro tribulational rapture simply don't do the job. For example,
one of the primary passages is First Thessalonians, chapter four,
But nowhere in that passage do you see Jesus coming
in a secret rapture where he reverses his direction and
takes people up to heaven for seven years. In fact,
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it's a great and glorious passage on resurrection that I
think has been improperly used to forward the notion of
per tribulational rapture. Another passage would be Revelation chapter three.
The Church at Philadelphia. Since you have kept my command,
says Jesus to endure patiently, I will also keep you
from the hour of trial that is going to come
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upon the whole world to test those who live on
the earth. Now this text says nothing about the Second
Coming or the rapture. It is impossible to suppose that
Jesus here is promising to protect the church in Philadelphia
from something that's going to occur two thousand years later.
He's talking to them. It's a letter to the church
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in Philadelphia that's in view here. So this passage does
make the point. Either. People like Tim Lahay will tell
you the primary passage is John chapter fourteen. But go
to John chapter fourteen. It has absolutely nothing whatsoever to
say about a pre tribulational rapture. It's hard to imagine
how someone can even read that into the passage. But
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these are the kinds of things that are forwarded. And
I'd simply say, test all things in light a scripture,
hold fast to that which is good. And on top
of that, when you have the debate, do it with
gentleness and with respect, recognizing that, after all, it is
a secondary issue. That doesn't mean it's not important, but
it's not a deal breaker in terms of fellowship. The
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deal breakers are essential Christian doctrine, and they're the line
of demarcation between the Kingdom of Christ and the Kingdom
of the cults. Thank you so much for tuning in.
We'll see next time with more of the show.
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