December 3, 2025 • 28 mins
On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (12/03/25), Hank talks about what happened as a result of the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Hank also answers the following questions:
Why is it ok to test God in Malachi 3:10, but not in Matthew 4? Jason - IL (5:25)
What’s your view of Francis Collins and theistic evolution? Jody - OK (15:13)
Are Gog and Magog in Revelation literal nations? What do they have to do with Armageddon? Donny - CA (20:12)
Can you explain Esau being unable to find repentance in Hebrews 12? Kevin - KS (21:57)
Hank also answers the following questions:
Why is it ok to test God in Malachi 3:10, but not in Matthew 4? Jason - IL (5:25)
What’s your view of Francis Collins and theistic evolution? Jody - OK (15:13)
Are Gog and Magog in Revelation literal nations? What do they have to do with Armageddon? Donny - CA (20:12)
Can you explain Esau being unable to find repentance in Hebrews 12? Kevin - KS (21:57)
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Heard all across the United States, Canada, and around the world.
This is the Bible answer Man broadcast with Hank Annagraph.
Hank as President of the Christian Research Institute at CRI.
Our desire is to equip you not only to defend
the historic Christian faith, but to become a winsome witness
to a spiritually hungry but skeptical world, because life and
(00:31):
truth matter. To learn more or to find resources to
help you grow in grace, call eight eight eight seven
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now here's Hank Cannagraph.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Say very much, Randy. What happened as a result of
the Resurrection is unprecedented in human history. In the span
of the few hundred years, a small band of seemingly
insignificant believers succeeded in turning an entire empire upside down.
(01:13):
They faced the tyrants, brandish steel, the lion's gory main,
They faced the fires of a thousand deaths. Why because
they were utterly convinced that they, like their master, would
one day rise from their graves in glorified, resurrected bodies.
(01:40):
While it is conceivable that they would have faced torture, vilification,
and even cruel deaths for what they fervently believed to
be true, it is inconceivable that they would have been
(02:00):
willing to die for what they knew to be a lie.
They had seen their Lord, they knew that he had died.
They knew that he had overcome the power of death
(02:21):
through resurrection, and thus they knew they too would rise immortal, imperishable, incorruptible.
And as a result of that, they counted not their
lives worthy even unto death. They lived by an entirely
(02:44):
different standard, and they turned an empire upside down, which,
by the way, is analogous to what I have seen
in China, Christians who genuinely believe in resurrection, turning an
(03:06):
empire upside down, not by might, not by power, but
by the spirit. Literally tens of thousands, now millions coming
to faith in Christ because every believer a reproducing disciple maker,
(03:33):
not left in the hands of the hired guns, but
every believer recognizing their responsibility to make a difference. While
there is yet time, and I think if we would
catch their passion and vision, the willingness to testify in
(03:57):
face of persecution. We could have a significant impact in
the West as well. Instead of being marginalized, we could
turn an empire upside down. So we don't have to
think that it's all over. It's continuing to go in
a bad direction. Politics, preachers, they're all taking the Christian
(04:25):
faith in a bad You don't have to have that
dour outlook on what's going to happen. If you'll take
your responsibility seriously, you can make a difference. One person
can make a difference. Thousands of people listening to my
voice right now. Together we can make a difference. And
(04:47):
that is why we do what we do. It's also
why we ask you to stand with this ministry prayerfully
and financially. We are making a difference, not only in
the East but also in the West. Stand with a
team making a difference for time and for eternity. If
you can join the support team, sign up online at
(05:07):
equipped dot org. You can, of course has always write
me at box eighty five hundred, Charlotte, North Carolina, zip
code two eight two seven to one, and resource consultants
are awaiting your call if you pick up the phone
and dial triple eight seven thousand CRII. Let's go right
to the phone lines. First up as Jason, he's listening
(05:28):
in Illinois. Hi, Jason, Hi, think how you doing good?
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Well? I got a question Malachi three ten and Matthew
chapter four, verse seven on the testing part. In a
way for nonbeliever, it sounds like a contradiction. Can you
help me explain that where it might not.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Yeah. In Malachi, you have God speaking, as it were,
in a heavenly condescension, in language that we can relate to,
and he's saying, in that sense, people of God, you
can do what you already know you are supposed to do,
(06:10):
and when you do, you will recognize that I will
bless you in concert with the principles that I have
already promised based on my nature and character. An entirely
different thing is going on in Matthew chapter four. This
is in essence, not testing God. But this is a
(06:34):
word from God to Satan. Do not tempt the Lord.
Because remember, in this context, Satan is tempting Jesus, and
Jesus is not only the one who took on human flesh,
but the one who spoke and the universe left into existence.
He's the creator of all things. So Jesus is saying,
(06:55):
do not tempt the Lord by doing things you already know, oh,
you're not supposed to do. In other words, deliberately putting
yourself in danger for the sole purpose of testing God's
love and provision. So you got completely different contexts. One
you're not supposed to tempt the Lord, and the other
(07:19):
is you can test God and recognize that leaning on
the arm of God is far more secure than leaning
on the arm of flesh.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Awesome, thank you, I appreciating God, bless your ministry.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Thank you so much, appreciate your call. And of course
this ultimate spiritual battle that Jason was alluding to, which
we find in Matthew chapter four. You see that the
creature was alone and hungry. But this creature was not
(07:54):
a human creature. This was Theanthropist, the god Man, and
the most powerful creature in the universe was poised and
ready to strike. The Creator had fasted forty days and
forty nights. Sensing vulnerability, that tempter seized the moment. If
(08:20):
you are the son of God, tell these stones to
become bred. He hissed, and Jesus might well have responded
by unveiling his divine glory but he didn't. He took
up the sword the Spirit, which is the Word of God.
And then Satan transported Jesus to the pinnacle of the temple.
(08:46):
If you are the son of God, he said, throw
yourself down, for it is written. He will command his
angels concerning you, and they will lift you up in
their hands, so that you will not strike your foot
against a stone. Jesus could have routed Satan with twelve
legions of angels, but he didn't. He took up the
(09:10):
sword of the Spirit. You're starting to hear a familiar
refrain one more time. In desperation, the devil took the
Lord to the summit of a very high mountain and
showed him the kingdoms of the world. He showed him
(09:30):
the splendor of those kingdoms, and I said, all this
I will give you if you bow down and worship me.
The Lord of the universe could have blinded the devil
with the brilliance of his intellect, what he didn't. He
took up the sword of the Spirit. And as Jesus
(09:55):
armed himself with the sword of the Spirit, which is
the word of God, so must we armed with the
puny sword of reason. We're impotent before an arch fiend
who has studied us thoroughly and is intimately acquainted with
all our vulnerabilities. Armed with the sword of the Spirit,
(10:21):
we're a terror to Satan and we can stand strong
in the face of his fiercest temptations. All of that
to say, get into the Word of God, because the
Word of God is the sword of the Spirit. And
if we don't take up the sword of the spiritist believers,
if we don't get into the Word of God and
(10:42):
get the Word of God into us, we are going
to be impotent in spiritual warfare. Be right back with
more of your questions.
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Speaker 2 (15:10):
Thank you very much, Randy, and we'll go right back
to our phone callers. Next up is Jody listening in Oklahoma.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Hi Jodi, Hi, Hank, are you good. My question was
about Francis Collins, and in his book The Language of God,
he speaks about evolution as it was true, as it
was the kind of means for man's existence.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Yeah. Well, I disagree with him, and we did a
review of his book in the Christian Research Journal. I
think it's sad, quite frankly that under the banner of
theistic evolution, a growing number of Christians are maintaining that
God used evolution as his method for creation. And I
think that's the worst of all possibilities. It's one thing
(15:57):
to believe in evolution, it's quite another to blame God
for it. Theistic evolution is a contradiction in terms. It's
like the phrase flaming snowflakes. And if you look at evolutionists,
they themselves recognize that this is an oxymorin. I think
of Jacques Manaut, who said natural selection is the blindest
(16:22):
and most cruel way of evolving a new species. The
struggle for life, the elimination of the weakest, is a
horrible process against which our whole modern ethic revolts, and
then he went on to say that he was surprised
that any Christian would defend the idea that this is
(16:42):
the process which God more or less set up in
order to have evolution. And I think, on top of that,
the Biblical account of creation specifically states that God created
living creatures according to their own kinds, and that's been
confirmed by science. The DNA for a fetus is not
(17:05):
the DNA for a frog, and the DNA for a
frog is not the DNA for a fish. The DNA
for a fetus or a frog or a fish is
uniquely programmed for reproduction after its own kind. So while
the Bible allows for micro evolution transitions within the kinds,
it does not allow for macro evolution. In other words,
(17:28):
it doesn't allow for an amba evolving into an ape
or an ape well, I guess evolving into an astronaut.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
Okay, yeah, that makes a lot of sense. I mean,
I too was surprised. I was kind of on the
impression that the book Language of God would be more
or less affirming using the human genome project more or
less the complexity of life, and you know, kind of
taking the belief out of coincidence, and it kind of
(17:58):
just turned it back into it is what it sounded like.
So I'm just surprised as well.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Yeah, right, And we do have, as I said, a
review in the Christian Research Journal. If you'd like to,
you know, hang on, we can send it out to here.
You can find it on our website at equipped dot org.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Okay, thanks, you got it.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Then I might add a PS to my comments there,
and that is evolutionary biology cannot account from metaphysical realities
that it can't account for ego and ethos, And without
data demonstrating that physical processes can produce metaphysical realities, there's
no warrant for dogmatically declaring that humans evolve from hominids.
(18:42):
An omnipotent omnisi God simply doesn't have to painfully plod
through millions of mistakes and mutations in order to have
fellowship with human beings. The biblical account of creation confirms
he can create humans in instantaneously. And this is a
(19:02):
time in which evolutionism is fighting for its very life,
why because of the advance of science. So rather than
prop it up with theories like theistic evolution, thinking people
everywhere should be on the vanguard of demonstrating its demise
now and saying all of this, I'm not suggesting that
(19:25):
we can't have differences of opinion here. There are Old
Earth creationists, there are Young Earth creationists. That's a very
dynamic debate going on within the Christian Church. I think
both of them are missing the point, but that's a
story for another broadcast. The issue is that there are
certain things that we know from both the Book of
(19:49):
Knowledge and the Book of nature or from the Bible
and science, and they fly to together in the face
of this oxymoron called theistic evolution. And as I say,
that's why I think it is the worst of all possibilities.
(20:11):
Go back to the phone lines. We'll talk to Donnie next.
He's listening in California. Hi, Donnie, Hi, how you doing good?
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Good?
Speaker 5 (20:19):
I was calling. I have a question about Gog and Magog.
I'm not quite sure if those are literal nations, and what,
if anything, do they have to do with Armageddon.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Well, first of all, Gog in Ezekiel. I think it's
Ezekiel thirty eight if I remember correctly, Gog was the
ruler of a territory called Magog. And John is using
a real historical account that is emblazoned on the minds
of his listeners or readers, and he is using that
(20:52):
as an illustration of the forces of evil coming up
against the people of God. So he's taking something that
is emblazoned on the canvas of the consciousness of Israelites
who are listening to him, and he's saying, this is
an illustration of what is going to happen in this
(21:15):
horrific evil that takes place not only by the beast,
but the woman who rides the beast. So the forces
of evil, both from within the Jewish ecclesiastical society and
the Roman government are going to come up against the
people of God. And this is going to be a
(21:38):
horrific event. But if you're faithful and fruitful, the torment
will be short, the vindication will be eternal. That's what's
going on by way of illustration.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
All right, Hank, well, thank you very much, and I
appreciate your ministry.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Thank you so much. Donnie, I appreciate your call. Let's
go right back to the phone lines. We'll talk to
Kevin next. Is listening in Kansas, Hi, Kevin? Yes.
Speaker 6 (22:05):
My question is it's regarding Hebrews chapter twelve, and it
starts in verse sixteen, where Esau is referred to as
seeking repentance but not being able to find it, and
then also too over in Tecod Peter chapter two, verse twenty,
where it talks about people escaping and then being entangled
(22:26):
again in sin. My question is, are these references to
what we would call apostates or these just you know,
believers who have fallen into sin, who's still, by the
grace of God, have the ability to repent and come
to a place of fellowship with the Lord.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Well, when you're looking at Esau specifically, he did give
up his inheritance. But in the providence of God, this
has something to do with the lineage and the purpose
by which we get the Savior through a particular line,
not through Esau, but through his brother who deceived to
get the inheritance. But yet God ultimately is looking at
(23:06):
the heart. And what's going on here with the heart
of Esau is he lost his inheritance, but didn't lose
his ability to receive God and to have a relationship
with God that was never lost, I mean till the
moment that he died. But the writer of Hebrews, he's
holding the magnifying glass up to the Old Testament, and
(23:29):
looking through that magnifying glass, we recognize under inspiration that
Esaw was godless, which is to say, of his volition.
He is turning away not only an inheritance, but turning
away from a living relationship with the Lord. And so
the magnifying glass of the writer of Hebrews is squarely
(23:54):
fixed on what happened in the Old Testament. By reading
the Old Testament, you couldn't know this, but under inspiration
you can know this. So it's not only giving up
a relationship with God, it's also giving up an inheritance.
Why because he thought the things of this world were
far more significant than eternal verities. So this is an
(24:18):
ultimate glimpse through the magnifying glass of the New Testament
into the heart of Esau. We could never make that statement.
I mean, we couldn't make that statement about Judas because
we look at the outward appearance. God looks at the heart.
But Jesus told us that Judas was a devil. He
looked beyond the externalities that we would look at and
(24:39):
saw the heart of the matter.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
I see.
Speaker 6 (24:41):
Okay, And what about tewod Peter where it says that
the people have you know, barely escaped, and that it
would be better for them to have never known the
righteous way than to reject the command to live a
holy life.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
What is that an image of Yeah, well, it's a
great image and a very appropriate New Testament image of
people who know they escape the law, they escape on righteousness,
they escape the evil of the world through a knowledge
of Jesus Christ, but then turn away from it. They
(25:18):
are turning away from something they see and know about.
And this, in my mind is very analogous to what
Satan does. In essence, he knows who Jesus Christ is.
He agrees that Jesus Christ is the Savior of the world.
(25:39):
And yet he is opposed to Jesus Christ. So he
tasted the fruit but turned away from it, the fruit
of the Tree of life, turned away from it, and therefore,
with requisite knowledge, is forever separated from the love and
grace of God. And there are people that do that
(25:59):
same thing, following Satan as their lord as opposed to
following the Savior as their lord. We're out of time
for this edition of the Bible answer Man Broadcast. Look
forward to seeing you right here tomorrow with more of
the show.
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the words of Scripture merely human in origin? Or are they,
in fact the very words of God himself? Three years
in the making and based on two decades of research
and reflection, Hank Henagraph's monumental book Has God Spoken answers
what is surely the most important question facing our world.
In Has God Spoken? Memorable Proofs of the Bible's Divine inspiration,
(27:32):
Hank counters the contentions of the Bible attackers and clearly
shows that belief in the Holy Scriptures is not a
guess or wishful thinking. It is the only logical conclusion
after an honest examination of overwhelming evidence. Ordered Has God
Spoken from the Christian Research Institute by calling eighty eight
seven thousand CRII or go online to equip dot org.
(27:56):
Equip dot Org
Heard all across the United States, Canada, and around the world.
This is the Bible answer Man broadcast with Hank Annagraph.
Hank as President of the Christian Research Institute at CRI.
Our desire is to equip you not only to defend
the historic Christian faith, but to become a winsome witness
to a spiritually hungry but skeptical world, because life and
(00:31):
truth matter. To learn more or to find resources to
help you grow in grace, call eight eight eight seven
thousand CROI or go online to equip dot org. That's
equip dot Org. The following program was pre recorded and
now here's Hank Cannagraph.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Say very much, Randy. What happened as a result of
the Resurrection is unprecedented in human history. In the span
of the few hundred years, a small band of seemingly
insignificant believers succeeded in turning an entire empire upside down.
(01:13):
They faced the tyrants, brandish steel, the lion's gory main,
They faced the fires of a thousand deaths. Why because
they were utterly convinced that they, like their master, would
one day rise from their graves in glorified, resurrected bodies.
(01:40):
While it is conceivable that they would have faced torture, vilification,
and even cruel deaths for what they fervently believed to
be true, it is inconceivable that they would have been
(02:00):
willing to die for what they knew to be a lie.
They had seen their Lord, they knew that he had died.
They knew that he had overcome the power of death
(02:21):
through resurrection, and thus they knew they too would rise immortal, imperishable, incorruptible.
And as a result of that, they counted not their
lives worthy even unto death. They lived by an entirely
(02:44):
different standard, and they turned an empire upside down, which,
by the way, is analogous to what I have seen
in China, Christians who genuinely believe in resurrection, turning an
(03:06):
empire upside down, not by might, not by power, but
by the spirit. Literally tens of thousands, now millions coming
to faith in Christ because every believer a reproducing disciple maker,
(03:33):
not left in the hands of the hired guns, but
every believer recognizing their responsibility to make a difference. While
there is yet time, and I think if we would
catch their passion and vision, the willingness to testify in
(03:57):
face of persecution. We could have a significant impact in
the West as well. Instead of being marginalized, we could
turn an empire upside down. So we don't have to
think that it's all over. It's continuing to go in
a bad direction. Politics, preachers, they're all taking the Christian
(04:25):
faith in a bad You don't have to have that
dour outlook on what's going to happen. If you'll take
your responsibility seriously, you can make a difference. One person
can make a difference. Thousands of people listening to my
voice right now. Together we can make a difference. And
(04:47):
that is why we do what we do. It's also
why we ask you to stand with this ministry prayerfully
and financially. We are making a difference, not only in
the East but also in the West. Stand with a
team making a difference for time and for eternity. If
you can join the support team, sign up online at
(05:07):
equipped dot org. You can, of course has always write
me at box eighty five hundred, Charlotte, North Carolina, zip
code two eight two seven to one, and resource consultants
are awaiting your call if you pick up the phone
and dial triple eight seven thousand CRII. Let's go right
to the phone lines. First up as Jason, he's listening
(05:28):
in Illinois. Hi, Jason, Hi, think how you doing good?
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Well? I got a question Malachi three ten and Matthew
chapter four, verse seven on the testing part. In a
way for nonbeliever, it sounds like a contradiction. Can you
help me explain that where it might not.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Yeah. In Malachi, you have God speaking, as it were,
in a heavenly condescension, in language that we can relate to,
and he's saying, in that sense, people of God, you
can do what you already know you are supposed to do,
(06:10):
and when you do, you will recognize that I will
bless you in concert with the principles that I have
already promised based on my nature and character. An entirely
different thing is going on in Matthew chapter four. This
is in essence, not testing God. But this is a
(06:34):
word from God to Satan. Do not tempt the Lord.
Because remember, in this context, Satan is tempting Jesus, and
Jesus is not only the one who took on human flesh,
but the one who spoke and the universe left into existence.
He's the creator of all things. So Jesus is saying,
(06:55):
do not tempt the Lord by doing things you already know, oh,
you're not supposed to do. In other words, deliberately putting
yourself in danger for the sole purpose of testing God's
love and provision. So you got completely different contexts. One
you're not supposed to tempt the Lord, and the other
(07:19):
is you can test God and recognize that leaning on
the arm of God is far more secure than leaning
on the arm of flesh.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Awesome, thank you, I appreciating God, bless your ministry.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Thank you so much, appreciate your call. And of course
this ultimate spiritual battle that Jason was alluding to, which
we find in Matthew chapter four. You see that the
creature was alone and hungry. But this creature was not
(07:54):
a human creature. This was Theanthropist, the god Man, and
the most powerful creature in the universe was poised and
ready to strike. The Creator had fasted forty days and
forty nights. Sensing vulnerability, that tempter seized the moment. If
(08:20):
you are the son of God, tell these stones to
become bred. He hissed, and Jesus might well have responded
by unveiling his divine glory but he didn't. He took
up the sword the Spirit, which is the Word of God.
And then Satan transported Jesus to the pinnacle of the temple.
(08:46):
If you are the son of God, he said, throw
yourself down, for it is written. He will command his
angels concerning you, and they will lift you up in
their hands, so that you will not strike your foot
against a stone. Jesus could have routed Satan with twelve
legions of angels, but he didn't. He took up the
(09:10):
sword of the Spirit. You're starting to hear a familiar
refrain one more time. In desperation, the devil took the
Lord to the summit of a very high mountain and
showed him the kingdoms of the world. He showed him
(09:30):
the splendor of those kingdoms, and I said, all this
I will give you if you bow down and worship me.
The Lord of the universe could have blinded the devil
with the brilliance of his intellect, what he didn't. He
took up the sword of the Spirit. And as Jesus
(09:55):
armed himself with the sword of the Spirit, which is
the word of God, so must we armed with the
puny sword of reason. We're impotent before an arch fiend
who has studied us thoroughly and is intimately acquainted with
all our vulnerabilities. Armed with the sword of the Spirit,
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we're a terror to Satan and we can stand strong
in the face of his fiercest temptations. All of that
to say, get into the Word of God, because the
Word of God is the sword of the Spirit. And
if we don't take up the sword of the spiritist believers,
if we don't get into the Word of God and
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to be impotent in spiritual warfare. Be right back with
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Speaker 2 (15:10):
Thank you very much, Randy, and we'll go right back
to our phone callers. Next up is Jody listening in Oklahoma.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Hi Jodi, Hi, Hank, are you good. My question was
about Francis Collins, and in his book The Language of God,
he speaks about evolution as it was true, as it
was the kind of means for man's existence.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Yeah. Well, I disagree with him, and we did a
review of his book in the Christian Research Journal. I
think it's sad, quite frankly that under the banner of
theistic evolution, a growing number of Christians are maintaining that
God used evolution as his method for creation. And I
think that's the worst of all possibilities. It's one thing
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to believe in evolution, it's quite another to blame God
for it. Theistic evolution is a contradiction in terms. It's
like the phrase flaming snowflakes. And if you look at evolutionists,
they themselves recognize that this is an oxymorin. I think
of Jacques Manaut, who said natural selection is the blindest
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and most cruel way of evolving a new species. The
struggle for life, the elimination of the weakest, is a
horrible process against which our whole modern ethic revolts, and
then he went on to say that he was surprised
that any Christian would defend the idea that this is
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the process which God more or less set up in
order to have evolution. And I think, on top of that,
the Biblical account of creation specifically states that God created
living creatures according to their own kinds, and that's been
confirmed by science. The DNA for a fetus is not
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the DNA for a frog, and the DNA for a
frog is not the DNA for a fish. The DNA
for a fetus or a frog or a fish is
uniquely programmed for reproduction after its own kind. So while
the Bible allows for micro evolution transitions within the kinds,
it does not allow for macro evolution. In other words,
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it doesn't allow for an amba evolving into an ape
or an ape well, I guess evolving into an astronaut.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
Okay, yeah, that makes a lot of sense. I mean,
I too was surprised. I was kind of on the
impression that the book Language of God would be more
or less affirming using the human genome project more or
less the complexity of life, and you know, kind of
taking the belief out of coincidence, and it kind of
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just turned it back into it is what it sounded like.
So I'm just surprised as well.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Yeah, right, And we do have, as I said, a
review in the Christian Research Journal. If you'd like to,
you know, hang on, we can send it out to here.
You can find it on our website at equipped dot org.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Okay, thanks, you got it.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Then I might add a PS to my comments there,
and that is evolutionary biology cannot account from metaphysical realities
that it can't account for ego and ethos, And without
data demonstrating that physical processes can produce metaphysical realities, there's
no warrant for dogmatically declaring that humans evolve from hominids.
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An omnipotent omnisi God simply doesn't have to painfully plod
through millions of mistakes and mutations in order to have
fellowship with human beings. The biblical account of creation confirms
he can create humans in instantaneously. And this is a
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time in which evolutionism is fighting for its very life,
why because of the advance of science. So rather than
prop it up with theories like theistic evolution, thinking people
everywhere should be on the vanguard of demonstrating its demise
now and saying all of this, I'm not suggesting that
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we can't have differences of opinion here. There are Old
Earth creationists, there are Young Earth creationists. That's a very
dynamic debate going on within the Christian Church. I think
both of them are missing the point, but that's a
story for another broadcast. The issue is that there are
certain things that we know from both the Book of
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Knowledge and the Book of nature or from the Bible
and science, and they fly to together in the face
of this oxymoron called theistic evolution. And as I say,
that's why I think it is the worst of all possibilities.
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Go back to the phone lines. We'll talk to Donnie next.
He's listening in California. Hi, Donnie, Hi, how you doing good?
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Good?
Speaker 5 (20:19):
I was calling. I have a question about Gog and Magog.
I'm not quite sure if those are literal nations, and what,
if anything, do they have to do with Armageddon.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Well, first of all, Gog in Ezekiel. I think it's
Ezekiel thirty eight if I remember correctly, Gog was the
ruler of a territory called Magog. And John is using
a real historical account that is emblazoned on the minds
of his listeners or readers, and he is using that
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as an illustration of the forces of evil coming up
against the people of God. So he's taking something that
is emblazoned on the canvas of the consciousness of Israelites
who are listening to him, and he's saying, this is
an illustration of what is going to happen in this
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horrific evil that takes place not only by the beast,
but the woman who rides the beast. So the forces
of evil, both from within the Jewish ecclesiastical society and
the Roman government are going to come up against the
people of God. And this is going to be a
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horrific event. But if you're faithful and fruitful, the torment
will be short, the vindication will be eternal. That's what's
going on by way of illustration.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
All right, Hank, well, thank you very much, and I
appreciate your ministry.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Thank you so much. Donnie, I appreciate your call. Let's
go right back to the phone lines. We'll talk to
Kevin next. Is listening in Kansas, Hi, Kevin? Yes.
Speaker 6 (22:05):
My question is it's regarding Hebrews chapter twelve, and it
starts in verse sixteen, where Esau is referred to as
seeking repentance but not being able to find it, and
then also too over in Tecod Peter chapter two, verse twenty,
where it talks about people escaping and then being entangled
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again in sin. My question is, are these references to
what we would call apostates or these just you know,
believers who have fallen into sin, who's still, by the
grace of God, have the ability to repent and come
to a place of fellowship with the Lord.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Well, when you're looking at Esau specifically, he did give
up his inheritance. But in the providence of God, this
has something to do with the lineage and the purpose
by which we get the Savior through a particular line,
not through Esau, but through his brother who deceived to
get the inheritance. But yet God ultimately is looking at
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the heart. And what's going on here with the heart
of Esau is he lost his inheritance, but didn't lose
his ability to receive God and to have a relationship
with God that was never lost, I mean till the
moment that he died. But the writer of Hebrews, he's
holding the magnifying glass up to the Old Testament, and
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looking through that magnifying glass, we recognize under inspiration that
Esaw was godless, which is to say, of his volition.
He is turning away not only an inheritance, but turning
away from a living relationship with the Lord. And so
the magnifying glass of the writer of Hebrews is squarely
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fixed on what happened in the Old Testament. By reading
the Old Testament, you couldn't know this, but under inspiration
you can know this. So it's not only giving up
a relationship with God, it's also giving up an inheritance.
Why because he thought the things of this world were
far more significant than eternal verities. So this is an
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ultimate glimpse through the magnifying glass of the New Testament
into the heart of Esau. We could never make that statement.
I mean, we couldn't make that statement about Judas because
we look at the outward appearance. God looks at the heart.
But Jesus told us that Judas was a devil. He
looked beyond the externalities that we would look at and
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saw the heart of the matter.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
I see.
Speaker 6 (24:41):
Okay, And what about tewod Peter where it says that
the people have you know, barely escaped, and that it
would be better for them to have never known the
righteous way than to reject the command to live a
holy life.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
What is that an image of Yeah, well, it's a
great image and a very appropriate New Testament image of
people who know they escape the law, they escape on righteousness,
they escape the evil of the world through a knowledge
of Jesus Christ, but then turn away from it. They
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are turning away from something they see and know about.
And this, in my mind is very analogous to what
Satan does. In essence, he knows who Jesus Christ is.
He agrees that Jesus Christ is the Savior of the world.
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And yet he is opposed to Jesus Christ. So he
tasted the fruit but turned away from it, the fruit
of the Tree of life, turned away from it, and therefore,
with requisite knowledge, is forever separated from the love and
grace of God. And there are people that do that
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same thing, following Satan as their lord as opposed to
following the Savior as their lord. We're out of time
for this edition of the Bible answer Man Broadcast. Look
forward to seeing you right here tomorrow with more of
the show.
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