June 13, 2025 • 28 mins
On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (06/13/25), Hank answers the following questions:
My son says the letter “J” was invented later, and Jesus is not the proper pronunciation of the Hebrew. Is Yeshua the proper name of Jesus? Robert - Arlington, TX (0:47)
Are tornadoes, earthquakes, and natural disasters accelerating enough that we can consider them a sign of the end-times? Fred - Fort Wayne, IN (4:03)
How do I address atheists who claim that there is absolute scientific evidence for numerous transitional forms in the fossil record? Walter - Topeka, KS (7:54)
Did the Gospel writers have extensive knowledge of the Old Testament, or were they totally inspired by God? Jim - Shreveport, LA (15:11)
Did the disciples who were fishermen or ordinary men study the Old Testament after they started their mission? Jim - Shreveport, LA (18:12)
My father passed away. He was a believer. Where did he go? Is he “absent from the body…present with the Lord”? Dan - Gig Harbor, WA (20:27)
Is it biblical to be slain in the Spirit, speak in tongues, and receive prophecies? David - San Antonio, TX (21:59)
My son says the letter “J” was invented later, and Jesus is not the proper pronunciation of the Hebrew. Is Yeshua the proper name of Jesus? Robert - Arlington, TX (0:47)
Are tornadoes, earthquakes, and natural disasters accelerating enough that we can consider them a sign of the end-times? Fred - Fort Wayne, IN (4:03)
How do I address atheists who claim that there is absolute scientific evidence for numerous transitional forms in the fossil record? Walter - Topeka, KS (7:54)
Did the Gospel writers have extensive knowledge of the Old Testament, or were they totally inspired by God? Jim - Shreveport, LA (15:11)
Did the disciples who were fishermen or ordinary men study the Old Testament after they started their mission? Jim - Shreveport, LA (18:12)
My father passed away. He was a believer. Where did he go? Is he “absent from the body…present with the Lord”? Dan - Gig Harbor, WA (20:27)
Is it biblical to be slain in the Spirit, speak in tongues, and receive prophecies? David - San Antonio, TX (21:59)
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
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Speaker 2 (00:46):
Let's get right to the phone lines. First up today
Robert and Arlington, Texas listening on the web. Hi Robert,
all right, Oh you doing Hank, I'm doing good. How
are you?
Speaker 3 (00:55):
I'm blessed.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Just thank you for taking my phone call. Always enjoy
your thank you. My question is this My son has
begun research and in his research he's discovered that the
name Jesus at one point was called aosis. He said
that the letter j was either created et cetera, et
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cetera some way through internet or whatever. And now it's
to the point where you really don't want to call
the name Jesus or pray in his name, because as
he called it, the incorrect name. I really want to
get a clear understanding so I can help my son.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Yeah, well, it's just that wrong. Your Shua is Hebrew,
and so in Hebrew, if you were to refer to Jesus,
you would refer to your shoup. Greek could have transliterated
your shua, but Greek did not. The New Testament did
not transliterate the word you shua from the Hebrew that
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it translated Iesus, which is rendered in English as Jesus.
And I think what's important to recognize here is that
languages are different. If I were speaking Dutch, which is
my principal language, I would not say Jesus. I would
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speak the name of Jesus in my mother tongue. And
that is true in every language. So the point really
is not the particular language that is being spoken, whether
it's the Biblical languages or modern languages today. The real
issue is the meaning that is poured into the word.
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So I would be far more concerned that a right
meaning is poured into the word than I am concerned
whether someone uses the the Hebrew permutation or the Greek
permutation or an English permutation. Of the words or any
other permutation of the word.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Okay, that hal Salonik. I really appreciate that this is
some of the things that we try to tell him,
But for some reason there's a passion from the research
that just makes him more or less it's like a
trap to us that the enemy is for.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Sure, it is a trap. It's exactly that. I mean.
It's forgetting the main and the plain thing and being
off on a rabbit trail that really ends up confusing
the issue, because again the real issue is what do
you mean when you say Jesus Christ as a Christian.
When we say Jesus, we're talking about the one who
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spoke in the universe, leapt into existence, also the one
who condescended to cloak himself in human flesh, who came
and lived and moved among us so that we could
know him and have a relationship with him for time
and for eternity. So we need to pour the right
meaning into the word rather than be concerned which language
we're using to identify the name. Thank you so much, Hank,
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You got it, Robert. Back to the phone lines. We'll
talk next to Fred fort Wayne, Indiana.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Hi, Fred, all I I was wondering with all the
natural signs occurring in the heavenly as if you want
to call it that, tornadoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, et cetera, if
they're accelerating enough that it would be placing us more
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rapidly into the end times. You know, the final coming
of Christ, along with wars rumors of wars. What are
practical consequences of that?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
No, not at all, I mean, think about it. Those
have always been with us. It doesn't matter what epic
of time you've lived in. There's always been wars and
rumors of wars. There's always been earthquakes. So these are
the natural conditions that are extant in the fallen world.
Now there are cycles where earthquakes accelerate, and there are
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cycles where earthquakes decelerate. There are times where wars and
rumors of wars accelerate and other times where they're more static.
But that's just the condition of humanity, and it will
ebb and flow like that, like the birth pains of
a woman in labor, until the time that Jesus Christ
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appears a second time. We don't know when that is,
and certainly we can't tell by earthquakes, I mean if
we're using earthquakes. We did a rather comprehensive study on
this in the Christian Research Journal a number of years back.
The scientific data today probably is outdated, but back then
there seemed to be compelling evidence that the cycle had
actually shown less earthquakes than more earthquakes over a fifty
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year period of time in the not too distant past.
Now you also have to recognize that with the kind
of media we have today, where we have twenty four
hour cycles, you can get the news twenty four hours
a day, which is a relatively recent phenomenon. As a
result of that, if there is an earthquake or a
typhoon or some other natural disaster, we know about it
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right away, where that wasn't necessarily the case before. So
I think we have more knowledge of earthquakes now and
news reporting earthquakes and activity around the world in a
much more comprehensive fashion than before. But the cycles are
still the cycles and will always be the cycles until
the time that the Lord appears the second time.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
Already, thanks for your answer on that.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
You got it, and you know the one thing we
know for sure those that try to point to these
signs and wonders in the heavens have been one hundred
percent wrong, one hundred percent of the time, and they
have succeeded in dragging Christ's name through the mud and
their prophecy pontifications. You know, the Jack Vin Impis of
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the world, the tim La Hayes who prophesy way way
back that the terminal generation would start with the people.
I think he said in nineteen fourteen, nineteen eighteen. But
I've got it, my book has Got Spoken. This is
just nonsense, and it always gives Christianity a black eye.
Harold Camping comes to mind looking at the Mayan calendar,
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and on and on it goes, but it ultimately ends
up being a disaster. Remember y two k that was
going to be the singular event. Remember John Hagey pontificating
on this, that was going to be the event. And
as a result of that, we'd have a one world
government and one world currency. On and on it goes.
These kinds of sensationalists and so office again drag Christ's
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name through the mud, and we ought to be weary
of them. The difference between that and true prophecy I've
laid out in my book Has God Spoken, Where you
see true prophetic signs that cannot be denied. Back to
the phone lines, let's talk to Walter and Topeka, Kansas.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
Hi, Walter, Hey, you had a question. You probably have
had a chance to debate people that are, you know, evolutionists,
and my experience with these folks is they'll say things like, well,
there's scientific proof that we have ninety nine different transitional fossils. Well,
I'm pretty sure they're lying about that. But it's really
hard in the debate to proven wrong because they set
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up that if you can't prove that every one of
the ninety nine is wrong, then you lose. Or they'll
say such a scientific group says that scientific consensus is
that evolution is true and creationism is crazy. Do they
make it look like you're arrogant or you know, if
you know, to disagree with the majority of scientific truth,
and I'm just emotionally, I'm not comfortable of being painted
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into those corners. Do you have any suggestions?
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Yeah, pan back to the big picture. The big picture
is that evolution cannot satisfactorily account for the genesis of life.
I mean, an evolutionist has to say that nothing created everything.
That must surely stretch the credulity of the most ardent
atheists beyond the breaking point, at least in their more
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quiet reflective moments. Evolution cannot satisfactorily account for the genetic code.
Evolution cannot satisfactorily account for the ingenious synchronization process needed
to produce life from a single fertilized human egg. Evolution
cannot satisfactorily account for the universe in which we live.
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And more so, they cannot come up with a satisfactory
explanation for how physical processes can produce metaphysical realities, how
physical processes purely physical processes, by the way, can produce
consciousness and spirituality. So they have a lot of explaining
(09:52):
to do. So we shouldn't be on the defensive. They
should be on the defensive, and we should put them
there because the fact of the matter is that the
leap from the ape to man icon to reality is
a leap of faith that is far beyond anything that
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a Christian could imagine. And the reason is we have faith,
not blind faith, but rather faith in irrefutable fact, and
so we have a firm foundation. The evolutionist does not
have a firm foundation at all. And this is why
when they can't find transitional forms, they come up with
ideas like punctuated equilibrium. The basic expansion of the idea
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that a lizard lays an egg and outcomes a bird
fully formed with wings and tail feathers. Why. Well, the
reason is that it's a fallback position. If you don't
have transitions, you've got to come up with a story,
and punctuated equilibrium is a story, and it's being sold
to children in children's books that profess to be scientific
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Speaker 2 (15:09):
Thank you very much, Randy. Let's go right back to
our phone calls. Next step is Jim and Shreveport, Louisiana.
Speaker 8 (15:15):
Hi, Jim, Hey, Hank, I got a question. You know,
I express to people like I'm trying to tell them
that the Bible's the inspired word of God. You know,
I can always, I always reference that. You know, there's
forty or so authors written over you know, fifteen hundred
years or so, and the unity of the of the book.
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But I was wondering if as the Gospel writers referenced
the Old Testament scriptures, and you know, you find the
same scriptures in the Old Testament as they write in
a New Testament. I was wondering if they had any
knowledge of the Old Testament scriptures that they were writing,
or they were just truly inspired by the word of God.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
No, they had intimate knowledge of the Old Testament. They
studied the Old Testament. I mean you look at doctor Luke.
He carefully examined everything. And that was what happened in general,
within the context of what the Ancients did. They had
a cultivated oral tradition. We are people of the printed page.
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Not so the Ancients. They passed information down through the generations,
not only in manuscript copies, but also from one lip
to another lip. We're very good at reading and writing,
but we're not all that good today at memorizing and reciting.
But the Ancients, in a predominantly oral culture, were people
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that practiced the principles of memory, and so learning became
virtually synonymous with memorization. If you look at the Old
Testament prophets like Moses who exhorted the people of God
to impress the words of the Alma upon the tablet
of their consciousness, or Solomon who prayed for a wise
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and discerning heart and then implored his listeners to bind
the word of God around their fingers and their necks,
and to write the word of God on the tablet
of their hearts. Jesus of course entreated his listeners, let
these words sink into your ear. So it wasn't enough
to record the sayings of understanding on tablets. It had
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to be inscribed upon the tablet of one's consciousness. So
if that was true in general, how much more so
would that have been true with those who wrote the
New Testament. And you can see this, by the way,
by just looking at the writing, let's say, of Paul.
If you look at Paul over and over again, you
will see him quoting from the Old Testament. And he
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doesn't quote the Old Testament laboriously, as though he's going
to write down every single word, but he references certain
things so that your mind can flash back to the
Old Testament, because he's assuming that you're doing what he did,
and that is becoming intimately acquainted with the Old Testament,
so you know the context already of what he's talking
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about as you read him.
Speaker 8 (18:12):
As far as the other disciples that were like Saylor,
fishermen or just ordinary men, I guess they studied the
Old Testament afterwards, as you know, once they started their mission, well.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
They were hardly ordinary men. I mean, this is an
argument that is used against the Disciples. They were ordinary men,
and therefore how could they have possibly written the New Testament?
But imagine this. Imagine that you got three years not
at Princeton or Yale, or Stanford or Harvard, but three
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years with the one who spoke in the universe, leapt
into existence, the Word made flesh God in human flesh.
Three years of not just classes for a few hours
a day, but each day, day in day out, walking
with the Master of all teachers. That would be an
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education beyond compare. And that's precisely what happened to the Disciples.
They got an education that was beyond compare by the
one who was the master of all teachers forever will
be the master of all teachers.
Speaker 8 (19:29):
Okay, So basically, they as they walked with Jesus, they
studied the Old Testament with him, you know, so they
knew a lot of the Old Testament scriptures.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Well, not only that, but Jesus was continuously pointing back
to the Old Testament. In fact, Jesus Christ was making
a case. And you can imagine, imagine being James. Jesus
Christ is making the case that he is the only
one that can emerge the doorway of the Old Testament prophets.
You would imagine that James would have gone back to
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see if in fact, the Old Testament prophets were indeed
talking about Jesus, because in the end, James was willing
to die for the notion that Jesus Christ was God.
Speaker 8 (20:14):
Okay, I appreciate all your input, Hanks.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
You got it. I've written about this in my book
has Got spoken.
Speaker 8 (20:21):
Okay, great, thank you very much, thank you.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
You got it. Thank you so much for your call.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Jim.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Back to the phone lines. We'll talk next to Dan.
He's in gig Harbor, Washington, TI.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
Dan.
Speaker 9 (20:32):
Hi, he appreciate your ministry. I was wondering my father
passed away just lately, and I was wondering he was
a believer. Where did he go? You know to the
absence from the body is to be present with the Lord,
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is the present in heaven. Soul sleep puts your take
on that.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Well, he is present in heaven. And that's not a
locational term. It's a relational term. And you've correctly identified
that by saying absent from the body present with the Lord.
So we can speak today of a transitional heaven, which
is to say that heaven is going to be different
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when Jesus appears a second time. Why because then the
soul of the departed will return to a decaying body,
and that body will rise immortal, imperishable, incorruptible. So there's
no such thing as soul sleep. The soul doesn't sleep.
The soul has continuous awareness after the death of the body.
Speaker 9 (21:46):
Right, well, then answers my question.
Speaker 6 (21:49):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Hey, you got it, And there's a lot of biblical
basis for that. I've written about this in various places,
including the Complete Bible answer Book Collectors' Edition. Back to
the phone lines. Talk today, is it in San Antonio, Texas?
Speaker 6 (22:01):
Hi David, Hi Hank.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
My question today is I went to a Bible study
and they were praying for people, and some people, I
guess fell out underneath the power or were slaying in
the spirit. Others were speaking in tongues and praying over
people in tongues with no interpretation. Unfortunately I fell into it,
so I feel tremendously guilty and I ended up speaking
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in tongues of no interpretation. My hands got hot. I
think some ladies said I got to get the healing.
People were giving prophecies like we're going to go through
trials and tests in the future, things of that nature.
And when I got home, something told me to get
the Bible open. So I decided to test my experience
in light of the scriptures and went to First Strengthings
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fourteen read it verse by verse, and by my examination
of scripture, I found out what I did was wrong.
So I did ask God to forgive me. But my
question today is are these things biblical? Was I being
too legalistic or was I doing the right thing. I'm
just a little bit confused, and I'm a little shook
up because I don't know what I encountered because I
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thought it was God, but then it was something else,
And I'm just kind of scared and frightened. This has
emotionally impacted me. It's hard for me to pray now.
And do you know the origin of this? And can
you help me?
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Yes? I can. And you're not confused. You maybe shook up,
but you're clearly not confused, and you did exactly the
right thing. Subjective experiences are notoriously unreliable, and therefore they
have to be tested in light of some kind of
objective framework, and in a Biblical worldview, that objective framework
is the Bible. And while an entire battalion of scripture
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proof texts is enlisted to support the legitimacy of this phenomenon,
the scriptures plainly offer no support for this as something
to be expected in the normal Christian life. Nowhere do
you find Jesus Christ slaying people in the spirit. Nowhere
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do you find this to be a practice among the Apostles.
So there's no normative basis for slain in the spirit
as a phenomenon today. Now, it certainly is true that
you can go to the Bible and find soldiers falling
backwards in the garden of Goodsemine. But this is not
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a practice that we should try to induce. This was
a judgment, and again I would say it's clearly not
normative today. In fact, the experience of being slain in
the spirit can be attributed to mere human manipulation, even
according to what you find in Pentecostal literature itself. In fact,
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in addition to God, the source of the experience can
be purely human response to autosuggestion, to group peer pressure,
or for that matter, simply a desire to experience the phenomenon.
So cynics may write off these uses the uses of
peer pressure or expectations or suggestive power to mirror sociopsychological manipulation.
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But as you have just indicated through your own experience
being discombobulated and even fearful, there's an even more significant
threat here, and that is these are techniques that provide
fertile soil for satanic and spiritual deception. In fact, they
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have more in common with occultism than with a biblical worldview.
I lay all of this out in a book called
Counterfeit Revival, Looking for God in All the Wrong Places.
There's a whole section there on the slain in the
Spirit phenomenon. In fact, I actually explain to readers how
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this is induced, how this actually works from a practical
point of view.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Okay, well, thank you, hank I. I really appreciate that
you got it.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Thank you so much for your call so long for now.
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You're just in time for the Bible answer Man broadcast
with Hank Anagraph, the radio outreach of the Christian Research Institute.
Our purpose here at CRII is to equip Christians to
pursue sound doctrine, to discern truth and error, and to
become faithful disciples of Christ because life and truth matter.
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For more information, to order resources or donate, call eight
eight eight seven thousand CROI or go online to equip
dot org. The following program was pre recorded. Now here's
the President of the Christian Research Institute, Hank Canagraph.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Let's get right to the phone lines. First up today
Robert and Arlington, Texas listening on the web. Hi Robert,
all right, Oh you doing Hank, I'm doing good. How
are you?
Speaker 3 (00:55):
I'm blessed.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Just thank you for taking my phone call. Always enjoy
your thank you. My question is this My son has
begun research and in his research he's discovered that the
name Jesus at one point was called aosis. He said
that the letter j was either created et cetera, et
(01:18):
cetera some way through internet or whatever. And now it's
to the point where you really don't want to call
the name Jesus or pray in his name, because as
he called it, the incorrect name. I really want to
get a clear understanding so I can help my son.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Yeah, well, it's just that wrong. Your Shua is Hebrew,
and so in Hebrew, if you were to refer to Jesus,
you would refer to your shoup. Greek could have transliterated
your shua, but Greek did not. The New Testament did
not transliterate the word you shua from the Hebrew that
(02:00):
it translated Iesus, which is rendered in English as Jesus.
And I think what's important to recognize here is that
languages are different. If I were speaking Dutch, which is
my principal language, I would not say Jesus. I would
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speak the name of Jesus in my mother tongue. And
that is true in every language. So the point really
is not the particular language that is being spoken, whether
it's the Biblical languages or modern languages today. The real
issue is the meaning that is poured into the word.
(02:44):
So I would be far more concerned that a right
meaning is poured into the word than I am concerned
whether someone uses the the Hebrew permutation or the Greek
permutation or an English permutation. Of the words or any
other permutation of the word.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Okay, that hal Salonik. I really appreciate that this is
some of the things that we try to tell him,
But for some reason there's a passion from the research
that just makes him more or less it's like a
trap to us that the enemy is for.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Sure, it is a trap. It's exactly that. I mean.
It's forgetting the main and the plain thing and being
off on a rabbit trail that really ends up confusing
the issue, because again the real issue is what do
you mean when you say Jesus Christ as a Christian.
When we say Jesus, we're talking about the one who
(03:38):
spoke in the universe, leapt into existence, also the one
who condescended to cloak himself in human flesh, who came
and lived and moved among us so that we could
know him and have a relationship with him for time
and for eternity. So we need to pour the right
meaning into the word rather than be concerned which language
we're using to identify the name. Thank you so much, Hank,
(04:02):
You got it, Robert. Back to the phone lines. We'll
talk next to Fred fort Wayne, Indiana.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Hi, Fred, all I I was wondering with all the
natural signs occurring in the heavenly as if you want
to call it that, tornadoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, et cetera, if
they're accelerating enough that it would be placing us more
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rapidly into the end times. You know, the final coming
of Christ, along with wars rumors of wars. What are
practical consequences of that?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
No, not at all, I mean, think about it. Those
have always been with us. It doesn't matter what epic
of time you've lived in. There's always been wars and
rumors of wars. There's always been earthquakes. So these are
the natural conditions that are extant in the fallen world.
Now there are cycles where earthquakes accelerate, and there are
(05:04):
cycles where earthquakes decelerate. There are times where wars and
rumors of wars accelerate and other times where they're more static.
But that's just the condition of humanity, and it will
ebb and flow like that, like the birth pains of
a woman in labor, until the time that Jesus Christ
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appears a second time. We don't know when that is,
and certainly we can't tell by earthquakes, I mean if
we're using earthquakes. We did a rather comprehensive study on
this in the Christian Research Journal a number of years back.
The scientific data today probably is outdated, but back then
there seemed to be compelling evidence that the cycle had
actually shown less earthquakes than more earthquakes over a fifty
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year period of time in the not too distant past.
Now you also have to recognize that with the kind
of media we have today, where we have twenty four
hour cycles, you can get the news twenty four hours
a day, which is a relatively recent phenomenon. As a
result of that, if there is an earthquake or a
typhoon or some other natural disaster, we know about it
(06:12):
right away, where that wasn't necessarily the case before. So
I think we have more knowledge of earthquakes now and
news reporting earthquakes and activity around the world in a
much more comprehensive fashion than before. But the cycles are
still the cycles and will always be the cycles until
the time that the Lord appears the second time.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
Already, thanks for your answer on that.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
You got it, and you know the one thing we
know for sure those that try to point to these
signs and wonders in the heavens have been one hundred
percent wrong, one hundred percent of the time, and they
have succeeded in dragging Christ's name through the mud and
their prophecy pontifications. You know, the Jack Vin Impis of
(06:56):
the world, the tim La Hayes who prophesy way way
back that the terminal generation would start with the people.
I think he said in nineteen fourteen, nineteen eighteen. But
I've got it, my book has Got Spoken. This is
just nonsense, and it always gives Christianity a black eye.
Harold Camping comes to mind looking at the Mayan calendar,
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and on and on it goes, but it ultimately ends
up being a disaster. Remember y two k that was
going to be the singular event. Remember John Hagey pontificating
on this, that was going to be the event. And
as a result of that, we'd have a one world
government and one world currency. On and on it goes.
These kinds of sensationalists and so office again drag Christ's
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name through the mud, and we ought to be weary
of them. The difference between that and true prophecy I've
laid out in my book Has God Spoken, Where you
see true prophetic signs that cannot be denied. Back to
the phone lines, let's talk to Walter and Topeka, Kansas.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
Hi, Walter, Hey, you had a question. You probably have
had a chance to debate people that are, you know, evolutionists,
and my experience with these folks is they'll say things like, well,
there's scientific proof that we have ninety nine different transitional fossils. Well,
I'm pretty sure they're lying about that. But it's really
hard in the debate to proven wrong because they set
(08:20):
up that if you can't prove that every one of
the ninety nine is wrong, then you lose. Or they'll
say such a scientific group says that scientific consensus is
that evolution is true and creationism is crazy. Do they
make it look like you're arrogant or you know, if
you know, to disagree with the majority of scientific truth,
and I'm just emotionally, I'm not comfortable of being painted
(08:41):
into those corners. Do you have any suggestions?
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Yeah, pan back to the big picture. The big picture
is that evolution cannot satisfactorily account for the genesis of life.
I mean, an evolutionist has to say that nothing created everything.
That must surely stretch the credulity of the most ardent
atheists beyond the breaking point, at least in their more
(09:06):
quiet reflective moments. Evolution cannot satisfactorily account for the genetic code.
Evolution cannot satisfactorily account for the ingenious synchronization process needed
to produce life from a single fertilized human egg. Evolution
cannot satisfactorily account for the universe in which we live.
(09:30):
And more so, they cannot come up with a satisfactory
explanation for how physical processes can produce metaphysical realities, how
physical processes purely physical processes, by the way, can produce
consciousness and spirituality. So they have a lot of explaining
(09:52):
to do. So we shouldn't be on the defensive. They
should be on the defensive, and we should put them
there because the fact of the matter is that the
leap from the ape to man icon to reality is
a leap of faith that is far beyond anything that
(10:14):
a Christian could imagine. And the reason is we have faith,
not blind faith, but rather faith in irrefutable fact, and
so we have a firm foundation. The evolutionist does not
have a firm foundation at all. And this is why
when they can't find transitional forms, they come up with
ideas like punctuated equilibrium. The basic expansion of the idea
(10:39):
that a lizard lays an egg and outcomes a bird
fully formed with wings and tail feathers. Why. Well, the
reason is that it's a fallback position. If you don't
have transitions, you've got to come up with a story,
and punctuated equilibrium is a story, and it's being sold
to children in children's books that profess to be scientific
and real or not, We'll be right back with more
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Speaker 2 (15:09):
Thank you very much, Randy. Let's go right back to
our phone calls. Next step is Jim and Shreveport, Louisiana.
Speaker 8 (15:15):
Hi, Jim, Hey, Hank, I got a question. You know,
I express to people like I'm trying to tell them
that the Bible's the inspired word of God. You know,
I can always, I always reference that. You know, there's
forty or so authors written over you know, fifteen hundred
years or so, and the unity of the of the book.
(15:36):
But I was wondering if as the Gospel writers referenced
the Old Testament scriptures, and you know, you find the
same scriptures in the Old Testament as they write in
a New Testament. I was wondering if they had any
knowledge of the Old Testament scriptures that they were writing,
or they were just truly inspired by the word of God.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
No, they had intimate knowledge of the Old Testament. They
studied the Old Testament. I mean you look at doctor Luke.
He carefully examined everything. And that was what happened in general,
within the context of what the Ancients did. They had
a cultivated oral tradition. We are people of the printed page.
(16:21):
Not so the Ancients. They passed information down through the generations,
not only in manuscript copies, but also from one lip
to another lip. We're very good at reading and writing,
but we're not all that good today at memorizing and reciting.
But the Ancients, in a predominantly oral culture, were people
(16:44):
that practiced the principles of memory, and so learning became
virtually synonymous with memorization. If you look at the Old
Testament prophets like Moses who exhorted the people of God
to impress the words of the Alma upon the tablet
of their consciousness, or Solomon who prayed for a wise
(17:05):
and discerning heart and then implored his listeners to bind
the word of God around their fingers and their necks,
and to write the word of God on the tablet
of their hearts. Jesus of course entreated his listeners, let
these words sink into your ear. So it wasn't enough
to record the sayings of understanding on tablets. It had
(17:27):
to be inscribed upon the tablet of one's consciousness. So
if that was true in general, how much more so
would that have been true with those who wrote the
New Testament. And you can see this, by the way,
by just looking at the writing, let's say, of Paul.
If you look at Paul over and over again, you
will see him quoting from the Old Testament. And he
(17:48):
doesn't quote the Old Testament laboriously, as though he's going
to write down every single word, but he references certain
things so that your mind can flash back to the
Old Testament, because he's assuming that you're doing what he did,
and that is becoming intimately acquainted with the Old Testament,
so you know the context already of what he's talking
(18:10):
about as you read him.
Speaker 8 (18:12):
As far as the other disciples that were like Saylor,
fishermen or just ordinary men, I guess they studied the
Old Testament afterwards, as you know, once they started their mission, well.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
They were hardly ordinary men. I mean, this is an
argument that is used against the Disciples. They were ordinary men,
and therefore how could they have possibly written the New Testament?
But imagine this. Imagine that you got three years not
at Princeton or Yale, or Stanford or Harvard, but three
(18:46):
years with the one who spoke in the universe, leapt
into existence, the Word made flesh God in human flesh.
Three years of not just classes for a few hours
a day, but each day, day in day out, walking
with the Master of all teachers. That would be an
(19:09):
education beyond compare. And that's precisely what happened to the Disciples.
They got an education that was beyond compare by the
one who was the master of all teachers forever will
be the master of all teachers.
Speaker 8 (19:29):
Okay, So basically, they as they walked with Jesus, they
studied the Old Testament with him, you know, so they
knew a lot of the Old Testament scriptures.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Well, not only that, but Jesus was continuously pointing back
to the Old Testament. In fact, Jesus Christ was making
a case. And you can imagine, imagine being James. Jesus
Christ is making the case that he is the only
one that can emerge the doorway of the Old Testament prophets.
You would imagine that James would have gone back to
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see if in fact, the Old Testament prophets were indeed
talking about Jesus, because in the end, James was willing
to die for the notion that Jesus Christ was God.
Speaker 8 (20:14):
Okay, I appreciate all your input, Hanks.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
You got it. I've written about this in my book
has Got spoken.
Speaker 8 (20:21):
Okay, great, thank you very much, thank you.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
You got it. Thank you so much for your call.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Jim.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Back to the phone lines. We'll talk next to Dan.
He's in gig Harbor, Washington, TI.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
Dan.
Speaker 9 (20:32):
Hi, he appreciate your ministry. I was wondering my father
passed away just lately, and I was wondering he was
a believer. Where did he go? You know to the
absence from the body is to be present with the Lord,
(20:53):
is the present in heaven. Soul sleep puts your take
on that.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Well, he is present in heaven. And that's not a
locational term. It's a relational term. And you've correctly identified
that by saying absent from the body present with the Lord.
So we can speak today of a transitional heaven, which
is to say that heaven is going to be different
(21:21):
when Jesus appears a second time. Why because then the
soul of the departed will return to a decaying body,
and that body will rise immortal, imperishable, incorruptible. So there's
no such thing as soul sleep. The soul doesn't sleep.
The soul has continuous awareness after the death of the body.
Speaker 9 (21:46):
Right, well, then answers my question.
Speaker 6 (21:49):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Hey, you got it, And there's a lot of biblical
basis for that. I've written about this in various places,
including the Complete Bible answer Book Collectors' Edition. Back to
the phone lines. Talk today, is it in San Antonio, Texas?
Speaker 6 (22:01):
Hi David, Hi Hank.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
My question today is I went to a Bible study
and they were praying for people, and some people, I
guess fell out underneath the power or were slaying in
the spirit. Others were speaking in tongues and praying over
people in tongues with no interpretation. Unfortunately I fell into it,
so I feel tremendously guilty and I ended up speaking
(22:26):
in tongues of no interpretation. My hands got hot. I
think some ladies said I got to get the healing.
People were giving prophecies like we're going to go through
trials and tests in the future, things of that nature.
And when I got home, something told me to get
the Bible open. So I decided to test my experience
in light of the scriptures and went to First Strengthings
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fourteen read it verse by verse, and by my examination
of scripture, I found out what I did was wrong.
So I did ask God to forgive me. But my
question today is are these things biblical? Was I being
too legalistic or was I doing the right thing. I'm
just a little bit confused, and I'm a little shook
up because I don't know what I encountered because I
(23:09):
thought it was God, but then it was something else,
And I'm just kind of scared and frightened. This has
emotionally impacted me. It's hard for me to pray now.
And do you know the origin of this? And can
you help me?
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Yes? I can. And you're not confused. You maybe shook up,
but you're clearly not confused, and you did exactly the
right thing. Subjective experiences are notoriously unreliable, and therefore they
have to be tested in light of some kind of
objective framework, and in a Biblical worldview, that objective framework
is the Bible. And while an entire battalion of scripture
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proof texts is enlisted to support the legitimacy of this phenomenon,
the scriptures plainly offer no support for this as something
to be expected in the normal Christian life. Nowhere do
you find Jesus Christ slaying people in the spirit. Nowhere
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do you find this to be a practice among the Apostles.
So there's no normative basis for slain in the spirit
as a phenomenon today. Now, it certainly is true that
you can go to the Bible and find soldiers falling
backwards in the garden of Goodsemine. But this is not
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a practice that we should try to induce. This was
a judgment, and again I would say it's clearly not
normative today. In fact, the experience of being slain in
the spirit can be attributed to mere human manipulation, even
according to what you find in Pentecostal literature itself. In fact,
(24:54):
in addition to God, the source of the experience can
be purely human response to autosuggestion, to group peer pressure,
or for that matter, simply a desire to experience the phenomenon.
So cynics may write off these uses the uses of
peer pressure or expectations or suggestive power to mirror sociopsychological manipulation.
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But as you have just indicated through your own experience
being discombobulated and even fearful, there's an even more significant
threat here, and that is these are techniques that provide
fertile soil for satanic and spiritual deception. In fact, they
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have more in common with occultism than with a biblical worldview.
I lay all of this out in a book called
Counterfeit Revival, Looking for God in All the Wrong Places.
There's a whole section there on the slain in the
Spirit phenomenon. In fact, I actually explain to readers how
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this is induced, how this actually works from a practical
point of view.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Okay, well, thank you, hank I. I really appreciate that
you got it.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Thank you so much for your call so long for now.
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