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Pastor Doug Batchelor.
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Doug Batchelor:
Hello, listening friends.
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Would you like to
hear an amazing fact?
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The largest known
meteorite on earth is the Hoba
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in Namibia, Africa.
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The space rock was discovered
by chance in 1920 when a farmer
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plowing his field with an
ox struck the metallic sounding
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object with his plow.
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Curious, he removed the topsoil
to discover a massive iron rock
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9 feet across.
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Although excavated and declared
to be a national monument, the
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66-ton rectangular meteorite has
never been moved from the spot
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where it landed because of its
immense weight, 132,000 pounds,
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its durability,
and remote sight.
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This fantastic treasure still
remains outdoors, unmoved, in
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its original location.
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And then you got a picture
on the screen for those that are
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watching the video right now.
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That's where it landed.
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That's where it was found.
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Too big to move.
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It's out there in the open,
withstands the elements, makes
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me think of
another immovable rock.
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Jean Ross: That's
right, Pastor Doug.
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I mean, it's
incredible. That's a big meteor.
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We were just
talking before the show.
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You'd think something that
big would have created a massive
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crater, but a little bit of
the research you did, they think
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maybe it kind of bounced or
skipped or maybe hit water prior
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to landing in that spot.
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Doug: Yeah.
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Well, it hit the atmosphere they
think at an angle, which is part
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of the reason it didn't all
burn up, and then it, instead of
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coming down, it kind of skipped
along the earth or something.
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And it was only covered by the
topsoil that would have happened
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through accumulation,
which wasn't very deep.
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But makes me think about a
prophecy in the Bible of another
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stone that flies
through the heavens.
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That is another durable stone.
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And you can read about this,
friends, in Daniel 2, verse 34
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and 35.
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Daniel is explaining this vision
to Nebuchadnezzar: "You watched
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while a stone was cut out
without hands, which struck the
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image on its feet of iron and
clay, and broke them in pieces.
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Then the iron, the clay, the
bronze, the silver, and the gold
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were crushed together,
and became like chaff from the
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summer threshing floors.
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The wind carried them away so
that no trace of them was found.
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And the stone that struck the
image became a great mountain
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and filled the whole earth,"
talks about this stone that is a
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symbol of Christ and His kingdom
coming to pulverize all of the
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pagan kingdoms of the world.
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That stone.
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It's interesting.
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Says, "A stone," Pastor Ross,
"cut without hands" because in
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the Law of Moses, and you and
I are reading--we're on the same
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Bible reading program right now,
said, "If you make an altar, do
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not lift your tool up upon it."
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Because if they were tempted
to carve on it with man's hands,
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then it turned into
an idol pretty soon.
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And they were to take
basic stone, and so this stone
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represents
Christ in His kingdom.
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Jesus said, "These words
that I speak, wise men builds on
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the rock."
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Ten Commandments were written
on a rock, another symbol of
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something that is
immovable and enduring.
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That's why I thought
of this Hoba a meteorite.
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By the way, the word "hoba"
means "a gift" we learned in the
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local native language.
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But there's another immovable
rock of God's Word, His truth,
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His law, and it's the
standard by which all will be
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judged someday.
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Jean: That's right, Pastor Doug.
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It is undoubtedly the most
precious stone on Earth today.
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You know, hidden somewhere in
a golden box there in Jerusalem,
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the Ten Commandments.
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What makes it so special isn't
the stone, but it's the one Who
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wrote on the stone.
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God, of course Himself,
wrote the Ten Commandments.
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Well, are the Ten Commandments
still binding today?
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Well, a number of
Christians say, "Well, no.
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We've done away with this
part of the old covenant."
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Others say, "No, it's
still applicable for us today."
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You know, we have a study
guide called "Written in Stone."
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It's about the Ten Commandments.
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And of course, if you stop and
think for any short period of
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time, you realize that for
Christians, surely God would
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want us not to kill or steal
or commit adultery or bear a
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false witness.
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So, it makes sense that,
no, it's still valid even today.
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Doug: Absolutely.
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Wonder--it makes you wonder, why
people would say that the Ten
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Commandments are part of the old
covenant that we don't need to
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keep anymore?
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Jean: Our study guide is called
"Written in Stone," and we'll be
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happy to send this to
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If you haven't read the study
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The number to
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Well, before we go to the phone
lines as we always do, Pastor
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Doug, we like to
start with prayer.
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Dear Father, we thank You that
we have this time to be able to
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open up Your Word and study.
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Indeed, the Bible is a lamp to
our feet, a light to our path,
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and it leads us to a clear
and full understanding of truth.
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So Lord, we invite Your Spirit
to be with us, be with those who
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are listening, wherever
they might be, in Jesus's name.
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Amen.
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Doug: Amen.
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Jean: First caller that we have
is Jerry, listening in Texas.
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Jerry, welcome to
"Bible Answers Live."
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You are on the air.
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Jerry: Hey,
pastors. Good evening.
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Doug: Hi.
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Jerry: Simple
question tonight, guys.
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Was there a
Sabbath before creation?
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On other worlds, you
know, do they have a Sabbath?
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Doug: Yeah, good question.
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As near as we can tell from
the evidence in the Bible, the
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Sabbath first appears in Genesis
chapter 2, and because it's
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connected with the revolution of
our earth on its axis, and, as
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you know, the planets go around
the sun, I think the Sabbath is
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connected with
timekeeping in our world.
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Now, does God have other times
of rest or holy days on other--
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on fallen worlds?
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The Bible doesn't say.
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But it first appears in
Scripture in connection with the
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creation of our planet and these
creatures made in the image
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of God.
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So it sounds unique to us.
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Jean: And yet, it will continue
throughout all eternity because
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you read about the earth
made new, and it continues.
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Of course, it's our earth
that is recreated, and the New
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Jerusalem comes down.
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And God dwells here
amongst these people.
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So yes, Sabbath
continues for eternity.
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Next caller that we
have is Brittany, listening
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in California.
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Brittany,
welcome to the program.
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Brittany: Hey, hey.
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Doug: Hi, how are you, Brittany?
And your question tonight?
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Brittany: Yeah, my question
is what does the Bible say about
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eating a plant-based diet?
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Doug: Okay, good question.
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You know, sometimes we have to
just defer and say, "Well, the
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Bible doesn't say
anything about that."
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But actually, the Bible does.
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The original diet--now, when you
say "plant-based," friends, that
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doesn't mean
you're just eating leaves.
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A plant-based diet is, you know,
a vegetarian eating vegetables,
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or things that come from plants.
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The original diet from man in
the Garden of Eden was fruits,
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grains, nuts.
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After sin, God added vegetables.
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That would be other parts of the
plant, the stalk and the roots,
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so forth, or the leaves.
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And in the new earth, we're
going to be back to, we believe,
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the original diet.
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So, the doctors actually have
pretty much told us the jury is
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in, and it is a scientific fact
that people that avoid animal
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products will still eventually
get old and die, but they're
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going to have a lot less
disease, and they're going to be
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a lot healthier.
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Your chances of having a longer,
stronger, healthier life with
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more energy are going to be
connected with eating as close
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to the biblical diet as you can.
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We did an interview here with
Dr. Scharfenberg, still going,
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he's 100 and plus years old,
and yeah, he's been a vegetarian
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most of his life.
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Jean: That's right.
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All right, we have a study
guide that talks about health.
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It's called "God's Free Health
Plan," and we'll be happy to
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send this to anyone who wants to
learn more about what the Bible
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says about how
we can be healthy.
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The number is 800-835-6747.
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Ask for the study guide.
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It's called
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You can also dial
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Say, "Bible Answers Live!"
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Thank you, Brittany.
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We got Gary in Illinois.
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Gary, you're on
"Bible Answers Live."
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Gary: Thank you.
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My question comes from Luke 17,
verse 28: "In the days of Lot,
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they ate, they drank, they
bought, they sold, they planted,
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they built; but in the day
that Lot went out from Sodom it
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rained fire and brimstone from
heaven and destroyed them all.
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Even so will it be in
the day when the Son of Man
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is revealed."
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So, my question is, is the world
so big that the tribulation
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takes place even as
things go on as normal?
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Doug: Well, when the great
tribulation comes--by the way,
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friends, when we read where
Jesus says, "There's going to be
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a great time of trouble," and
he mentions this in Matthew 24,
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it's also mentioned in Daniel
chapter 12, you've got sort of
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three phases.
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One, Jesus was telling the Jews
they were facing a big time of
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trouble with the destruction
of Jerusalem and that happened.
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And then he was telling the
church, you're going to face a
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great time of trouble during the
dark age persecution, when the
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church would flee into the
wilderness, and that happened.
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But then, there's a great, great
time of trouble you read of that
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is in the Book of Revelation,
when the seven last plagues
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begin to fall, and I
think that's what Gary is
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talking about.
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That's still future.
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That hasn't--by the time
that time of trouble starts,
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probation is closed, and we
don't think it's going to last
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very long.
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It says in Revelation that all
of her plagues come in a year,
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and a prophetic year is--day,
rather, prophetic day is going
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to be one year.
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Yeah, so it'll be
within that period of time.
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It might be less than a
year, but it's not going to last
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longer than a year.
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So, will people
still be on the earth then?
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Yes.
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Because that's why Jesus said,
"He that endures to the end, the
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same will be saved."
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And the children of Israel, were
they in Egypt when the seven
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plagues fell,
or the ten plagues?
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Yes.
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Did he protect them? Yes.
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So hopefully--we do
have a study guide, Gary,
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if you're interested.
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It's called
"Anything But Secret."
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It talks about the
tribulation in that booklet.
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Jean: The number to
call is 800-835-6747.
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You can ask for the book.
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It's called
"Anything But Secret."
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We'll be happy to send it
to you in Canada or in the U.S.
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You can also get a digital copy
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Say, "Bible Answers Live!"
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And then ask for it.
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The--I forgot the name.
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Doug: "Anything But Secret."
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Jean: "Anything But Secret."
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That's right.
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We've got several
titles, by the way.
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We have another one on
the Second Coming called
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"Ultimate Deliverance."
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Sometimes we get mixed
up, but it's a great book.
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"Anything But Secret."
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I will send that to you.
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It's a digital download
so you can get it right away.
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Thank you, Gary.
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We got, let's see, who else?
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Glenn in Ohio.
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Glenn, welcome to the program.
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Glenn: Good evening, pastors,
and thank you very much for
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taking my call.
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Doug: Yes,
thank you for calling.
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Glenn: Jesus was born
again by a resurrection.
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I think Peter and
Colossians both say so.
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Yet, people are told today they
need to come to the altar, be
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converted, get
saved and born again.
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I'm looking for a Scripture that
says, that validates that being
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born again that one that does
not contradict 1 John 5:18 A.
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Can you help me?
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Doug: All right.
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Well, a person doesn't
necessarily need to come to the
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altar to be born again.
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The apostle Paul went through a
conversion and a new birth, and
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he was on the road to
Damascus, getting ready to
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persecute Christians.
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And he had an
encounter with Jesus.
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He spent three days praying and
fasting, and then Ananias laid
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hands on him.
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And the scales fell from his
eyes, and you can be sure he was
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born again at that time.
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He had a new birth,
and he was a new man.
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And Jesus said, "You'll
know them by their fruits."
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They start doing
something different so--
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Jean: And of course,
the famous passage you find
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in John chapter 3.
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Jesus said, "Except the man be
born of water and of the spirit,
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he cannot see the
Kingdom of Heaven."
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Now, Jesus
didn't have to be born.
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I'm not, I mean, He was born,
but He didn't have to be, as we
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refer today, "born again"
because Christ never sinned.
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So those--everyone else has
sinned, all have sinned, and
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fallen short of the glory
of God, except for Christ.
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So, for everyone else, we got
to be born again, and that is to
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receive Jesus as
our personal Savior.
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Doug: And for some people,
the new birth, like Paul, is a
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dramatic, sudden occurrence, and
they can tell you the date on
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the calendar.
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For other people, in my case,
I sort of read my way into it.
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I think there was a time I
ultimately prayed and officially
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asked God into my heart.
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I don't even remember the date.
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But as far as my mind and heart
being changed, that happened
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over a process while I was
reading so it's hard to fix
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the date.
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That's why Jesus said, "The wind
blows where it will and you hear
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the sound thereof, but you don't
know where it came from and
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where it's going."
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And so sometimes, a
new birth is like that.
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Thanks, Glenn.
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And you know, we've got a book,
"Three Steps to Heaven," that
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talks about the new birth.
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We'd be happy to
send you a free copy.
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Jean: The number
again is 800-835-6747.
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As for the book, it's
called "Three Steps to Heaven."
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Also, you can get a
digital copy by dialing #250 on
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your smartphone.
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All right, we got
Dwinelle listening in Nevada.
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Dwinelle,
welcome to the program.
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Dwinelle: Thank you.
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Thank you, pastor,
for taking my call.
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My question is, I don't eat
unclean meat, but if you look at
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1 Corinthians 10:27 and Luke
10:8--well, 1 Corinthians 10:27,
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it says, "If any of those who
do not believe invites you to
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dinner, and you desire to go,
eat whatever is set before you,
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asking no question
for conscience' sake."
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And Luke 10:8 is similar to that
where it says, "Whatever city
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you enter, and they receive
you, eat such things as our step
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before you."
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So then what do I do? I
mean, if they set, like--
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Doug: Yeah, the context
of those is both different.
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First of all, when Jesus sends
out the 12 apostles, He says,
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"Go not to the Gentiles, go
to the lost sheep of the house
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of Israel."
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So they knew right away they
were going into Jewish homes,
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and Christ is saying, "Don't
be finicky about what you eat."
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They weren't going
to be serving them pork.
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That didn't even come into
anyone's mind at that point
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because they're
going to speak to Jews.
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So He just saying, "You know,
don't say well, I want some of
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this and not that."
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And He said, "Be thankful
for what they give you."
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Paul is a different question.
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Paul is talking about when
believers were buying meat in
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the marketplace, and they were
only buying clean meats because
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they knew what the Law said,
they were concerned, well, was
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it sacrificed to an idol?
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Now, Pastor Ross, there's a
place where he says, "Asking no
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questions for
conscience's sake."
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I'm trying to
remember where that is.
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Jean: Yeah, it refers--well,
it talks about eating it in
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1 Corinthians 10:27.
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The verse we just read where
it talks about "ask no questions
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for conscience'
sake," but that's when
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you're sitting down to eat.
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Doug: Yeah, so, don't ask them,
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"Well, was this
offered to an idol?"
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The question wasn't,
"What kind of meat is this?"
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Or, "What kind of food is this?"
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The question for them was,
is it off offered to an idol?
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Jean: Let me read the next verse
because I think it makes it
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very clear.
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It says, Paul goes on, he says,
"But if anyone says to you,
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'This was offered to idols,' do
not eat it for the sake of the
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one who told you, and for
conscience's sake; for the earth
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is the Lord's, and
all the fullness of it."
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So here, pretty
clear, Paul says,
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"You know, if it's
clean food and they put it in
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front of you, don't ask,
'Was this offered to an idol?'
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But if somebody says, 'Oh,
by the way, do you know that was
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offered to an idol?'"
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Paul says, "Well,
don't eat it then."
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But don't ask. So.
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Doug: And there's another verse
where he says, "Whatever is sold
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in the shambles" in the
King James, it's shambles, it's
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marketplace or something.
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And so, the big question
they grappled with is, were they
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supporting idolatry since
all the Romans and the Greeks
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offered animals to the--I'm
talking about clean animals,
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goats, sheep, chickens.
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They butchered it
in front of an idol.
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Jean: There it is.
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1 Corinthians chapter 10, verse
25: "Eat whatever he sold in the
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meat market, asking no
questions for conscience' sake."
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Doug: So he
wasn't eating any pig.
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He's talking
about the clean meats.
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Jean: All right,
good. Good question.
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Isabella is in North Carolina.
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Isabella,
welcome to the program.
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Isabella: Thank you, guys, for
all you do, first of all, and
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for this life.
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Basically, my question is
for chapter--I mean, Genesis 19,
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chapter 1, if you guys could
elaborate on what's going on and
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the angels, if they're accepting
praise from Lot or not.
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I was curious.
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And thank you for your
"Jesus in the Bible" series.
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Doug: Oh, praise
the Lord. Thank you.
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All right, so, let me
read this for our friends
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that are listening.
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And Genesis 9--19, verse 1,
I believe: "Now the two angels
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came to Sodom in the evening,
and Lot was sitting at the gate
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of Sodom.
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When Lot saw the men, he arose
to meet them, and bowed himself
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with his face
towards the ground."
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You know, that was
actually a custom of greeting.
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It wasn't
talking about worshiping.
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You would also, you know, you go
to Korea, and even today, when I
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meet some of my Korean friends
here in North America, as we
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introduce each other,
they sort of instinctively bow.
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It's kind of
like we shake hands.
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It was just
considered a term of respect.
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And Abraham, Lot, a lot of the
patriarchs, they practiced very
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strong hospitality.
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And when Lot saw these two
dignified gentlemen coming into
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the city, and he knew the
reputation of the city, he
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thought, you know, "I better
invite them home so they don't
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end up in the wrong place."
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And so he approached them right
away and bowed and said, "Let
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me, let me offer you a place."
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They had no hotels back
then, and people would take
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in strangers all the time.
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That's what Paul says
in Hebrews, "entertaining
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strangers, unaware of some
of entertained angels," but no.
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He's not worshiping them.
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Jean: Okay. Very good.
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We've got Ann
listening in Anchorage, Alaska.
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Ann, welcome to the program.
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Ann: Yes, my question is in
Mark 5, where Jesus healed the
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paralytic man.
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My--I'm wondering who it
says that God or that an angel
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stirred the pool occasionally,
and then everybody tried to
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rush in.
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I'm wondering was that an angel
of God or was that an angel
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of Satan?
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Because it seems to me, God
would offer more than just one
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person to be healed.
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Doug: Right. Now,
first, you said Mark.
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I think you mean John chapter
5, where the Waters of Bethesda
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are stirred.
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Yeah, yeah, that is
actually a good question.
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You know, it's hard to picture
that an angel of God is going to
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see all of these sick people
laying around this pool, hoping
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the water will be bubbling or
stirred, and whoever clambers in
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first over the other, all
fighting against each other to
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get in the water
first, is going to be healed.
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That'd be sort
of a pathetic scene.
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I think it's built around a
superstition, and, you know,
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whether it was a natural
phenomenon that water bubbled up
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every now and then,
I've got a spring like that.
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If you keep watching this
one spot, water just keeps
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bubbling up.
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Or, you know, evil angels would
stir it and make the most of it.
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But I don't think
that God was doing that.
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Your thoughts?
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Jean: Yeah. Absolutely.
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I think there's been some
archaeological evidence to
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support the idea that the Pool
of Bethesda was actually built
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close to or over the spring.
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And it's quite possible that
at certain times there was some
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sort of movement of the water
as the spring would kind of, you
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know, bubble up, and people saw
that and maybe at some point in
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time, somebody
happened to be stepping down.
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And of course, they were
all looking for some kind of
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supernatural evidence.
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They're hoping for healing.
00:21:07.73\00:21:09.00
And maybe somebody was,
at least they thought that we
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healed somehow.
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Doug: Could be
the placebo effect.
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Jean: That's right.
And the idea caught on.
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So everyone's waiting
for the moving of the water.
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Doug: Yeah.
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Well, even today, you know,
there are tens of thousands of
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people that make pilgrimages and
go to Lourdes, these different
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Catholic shrines,
hoping to be healed.
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And they say that
some experience miracles.
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So is that Mary doing that?
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Or you got, not only for
the Catholic Church, there are
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people who make pilgrimages
to Buddha statues, and that say
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that they're going to be healed.
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So, I think there's some
counterfeit healings, and
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sometimes, a person
might be healed just because of
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their faith.
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Jesus said many times,
"Your faith has made you whole."
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And maybe God
honored their faith in God.
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It's hard to say, but
they're a good question.
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Jean: All right, we got
Shannon, listening in Georgia.
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Shannon, welcome to the program.
00:21:58.55\00:22:01.72
Shannon: All right. Thank you.
00:22:01.75\00:22:04.42
I'm calling about
Romans 3, verses 19 and 20.
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Could you please explain that?
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Doug: All right, let us
read that for our friends.
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Romans 3:19: "Now we know that
whatever the law says, it says
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to those who are under the law,
that every mouth may be stopped,
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and all the world may
become guilty before God.
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Therefore by the deeds of the
law no flesh will be justified
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in His sight, for by the
law is the knowledge of sin."
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All right, would you like us
to expound on that a little bit?
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Shannon: Yes.
00:22:34.72\00:22:36.02
Doug: Okay,
everybody has broken God's law.
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Sin is the
transgression of the law.
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The Bible tells us in 1
John 4, "Sin is the breaking or
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transgression of God's law."
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"All have sinned," Romans tells
us, "and fallen short of the
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glory of God.
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If we are saved by law
keeping, then we're all doomed."
00:22:53.10\00:22:56.47
It's not that keeping the
law saves anybody, we're saved
00:22:56.50\00:23:00.28
by grace.
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Now, when a person is saved by
grace, do they continue to break
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the law?
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And that's why Paul says in
Romans, I think it's chapter 6.
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Do I continue in sin,
that grace may abound?
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Do I continue breaking the
law, that grace may abound?
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He says, "God forbid, how
shall we, who are dead to sin,
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continue any longer therein?"
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And then you'll also read
in Romans chapter, I think it's
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chapter 2:13.
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He said, "It's not the hearers
of the law that are just before
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God, but the doers of the
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And he's talking about saved
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That's why Jesus said, "If you
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So, is that
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We've got George in Oregon.
George, welcome to the program.
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George: Thank you very
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The question is in Genesis
3:21, the Lord God made tunics.
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Who actually do you
think killed the lamb?
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Was it being shown
to Adam how to kill?
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Or did the Lord kill the lamb?
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Doug: Yeah,
that's a great question.
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But my belief is that God
established the sacrificial
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system, and when Adam saw--and
Eve--these innocent creatures
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that they were originally
designed to name and care for
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dying for their sin,
it broke their hearts.
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I think Adam probably cried when
he saw leaves dying because of
00:25:03.53\00:25:07.24
his sin, this beautiful garden.
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So, God established
a sacrificial system.
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Now, Pastor Ross, in Revelation
says "the Lamb slain from the
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foundation of the world."
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And it says, "God so loved
the world He gave His Son."
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So, I think it makes sense that
in the beginning, God is the one
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Who established a sacrificial
system and showed Adam.
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Jean: I agree.
00:25:28.72\00:25:30.06
I was just going to add a few
more verses where Jesus speaks
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about His crucifixion.
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He says, "Nobody takes My life,
but I lay it down of Myself.
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I have power to lay it
out and take it up again."
00:25:35.56\00:25:37.73
So, Christ is the one.
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God is the one Who
provides the sacrifice.
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And of course, after the
first lamb was sacrificed, then
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throughout the Jewish
system, the high priest would--
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their lamb would be brought,
and the priest would be there.
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The Israelite would lay his
hand on the head of the goat,
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symbolizing the
transfer of sins.
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He'd have to take the life of
the goat because our sins took
00:25:53.95\00:25:57.52
the life of Jesus.
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But Jesus
willingly lay down his life.
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Doug: Yeah.
00:26:00.76\00:26:02.09
So I think Gary is also
wondering, or George, I'm sorry,
00:26:02.12\00:26:03.56
is also wondering, was it
God Who actually cut the lamb's
00:26:03.59\00:26:08.90
throat or did He tell Adam what
he needed to do and Adam had to
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do it?
00:26:11.80\00:26:13.20
Jean: I think the first one,
it says God made coats of skin.
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So you'd assume that God was the
one that--and again, that ties
00:26:15.97\00:26:19.47
in with the idea of
Jesus laying down his life.
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Doug: Yeah, absolutely.
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We're going to go
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00:30:25.99\00:30:27.72
Ryan, welcome to the program.
00:30:27.76\00:30:29.06
Ryan: Hello, guys. Doug: Hi.
00:30:29.09\00:30:31.76
Ryan: My question is, is the
Gregorian calendar that we all
00:30:31.79\00:30:36.36
use today, is it not the beast
power trying to change times
00:30:36.40\00:30:42.14
and laws?
00:30:42.17\00:30:43.47
Is it, you know, because, you
know, we know who the beast is,
00:30:43.51\00:30:49.01
do we not?
00:30:49.04\00:30:50.38
And I don't--I see that
basically the, you know, the
00:30:50.41\00:30:56.45
Pope and the Roman, the Roman,
you know, it's a Roman calendar.
00:30:56.48\00:31:01.56
Doug: Yeah, well, let
me take a stab at that.
00:31:01.59\00:31:04.26
Yeah, no, I think I understand.
00:31:04.29\00:31:06.96
So the prophecy you
quoted is from Daniel 7:25.
00:31:07.00\00:31:09.30
Speaking of the beast's power,
it says he will think to change
00:31:09.33\00:31:12.03
times and laws.
00:31:12.07\00:31:13.87
And, well, the Romans
changing the calendar, that even
00:31:13.90\00:31:17.04
predates Christ.
00:31:17.07\00:31:18.41
It was during the
time of Julius Caesar.
00:31:18.44\00:31:21.11
They had the Julian calendar,
and I think everyone knows that
00:31:21.14\00:31:24.58
the reason we've got a
month called July is because of
00:31:24.61\00:31:27.58
Julius Caesar.
00:31:27.62\00:31:28.95
And the reason we have a month
called August is because of
00:31:28.98\00:31:31.59
Octavian, or Augustus, Caesar.
00:31:31.62\00:31:34.62
And the Roman months
actually were very different.
00:31:34.66\00:31:40.10
October was like octagon, ocho,
that was supposed to be the
00:31:40.13\00:31:45.50
eighth month.
00:31:45.53\00:31:46.84
Well, it's the
10th month for us.
00:31:46.87\00:31:48.17
December, D, decca,
that's like a decade.
00:31:48.20\00:31:51.17
That's supposed
to be the 10th month.
00:31:51.21\00:31:52.51
Well, it's the 12th month.
00:31:52.54\00:31:53.84
So the Romans did a lot of
things that--November, nueve,
00:31:53.88\00:31:56.28
nine is supposed to be
the ninth month, but it's not.
00:31:56.31\00:31:59.85
So, the calendar got changed
a lot by the Romans, and then it
00:31:59.88\00:32:05.15
got changed again.
00:32:05.19\00:32:06.42
The adjustment that was made by
Pope Gregory, or during his time
00:32:06.45\00:32:09.52
anyway, was
actually a good adjustment.
00:32:09.56\00:32:11.86
They were adjusting for not
having the right amount of days
00:32:11.89\00:32:15.86
in the month, and they added,
you know, leap year and adjusted
00:32:15.90\00:32:18.87
it ahead ten days.
00:32:18.90\00:32:20.37
So that was just
modifying things for farming.
00:32:20.40\00:32:23.44
But there are other ways where
they tried to establish feasts
00:32:23.47\00:32:27.68
that are not in the Bible and
ignore the ones that are, the
00:32:27.71\00:32:30.15
holy days and the Sabbath day.
00:32:30.18\00:32:32.35
There's a big effort to
change God's holy times and laws
00:32:32.38\00:32:37.19
separate from the calendar.
00:32:37.22\00:32:39.49
And they did certainly
mess with the calendar.
00:32:39.52\00:32:41.26
Jean: The calendar, as you
mentioned, Pastor Doug, they
00:32:41.29\00:32:43.06
never changed
the days of the week.
00:32:43.09\00:32:45.03
I'm looking at it
here, October the 15th.
00:32:45.06\00:32:48.23
They changed it in AD 1582, and
they had Thursday, October the
00:32:48.26\00:32:52.43
4th followed by
Friday, October the 15th.
00:32:52.47\00:32:55.67
So they just added ten days, but
they didn't change the days of
00:32:55.70\00:32:59.07
the week.
00:32:59.11\00:33:00.58
Doug: Yeah, Thursday was
followed by Friday, as it always
00:33:00.61\00:33:03.28
has been.
00:33:03.31\00:33:04.65
Jean: And the prophecy's
referring to the beast's power
00:33:04.68\00:33:07.15
trying to change the
day of worship, and that's a
00:33:07.18\00:33:09.75
different story.
00:33:09.78\00:33:11.55
Okay, thank you.
00:33:11.59\00:33:14.26
We've got James in Texas.
James, welcome to the program.
00:33:14.29\00:33:16.96
James: Yes, sir.
Thank you for having me.
00:33:16.99\00:33:19.66
My question for the night
is, the time of trouble and the
00:33:19.69\00:33:22.66
great tribulation, is that
that takes place the seven last
00:33:22.70\00:33:27.64
plagues, is that the same
thing, the time of trouble and
00:33:27.67\00:33:30.97
the tribulation?
00:33:31.01\00:33:32.31
Or is that two
different timelines altogether?
00:33:32.34\00:33:34.24
Doug: Well, let's talk
about the final time of trouble.
00:33:34.28\00:33:37.15
And you know, Jesus, he does
reference that in Matthew 24,
00:33:37.18\00:33:41.05
Mark 13, Luke 17, and Luke 21.
00:33:41.08\00:33:45.59
And it's also referenced in
Revelation 15 and 16 when the
00:33:45.62\00:33:49.06
seven last plagues fall out.
00:33:49.09\00:33:50.79
It seems to come in two stages,
where you have what people might
00:33:50.83\00:33:54.20
call the small time of trouble.
00:33:54.23\00:33:56.36
During the small
time of trouble, there's
00:33:56.40\00:33:57.90
great persecution.
00:33:57.93\00:33:59.20
You cannot buy or sell unless
you cooperate with the  beast.
00:33:59.23\00:34:02.17
But during that time,
God's people will still be
00:34:02.20\00:34:04.74
Spirit-filled preaching.
00:34:04.77\00:34:06.07
There'll be many
converts during that time.
00:34:06.11\00:34:08.61
We don't know how long that is.
00:34:08.64\00:34:10.98
But finally, they're going
to have a death decree, and when
00:34:11.01\00:34:14.08
they bring out this death
decree, right then or close to
00:34:14.12\00:34:18.09
that time, we're going to
see the seven last plagues fall.
00:34:18.12\00:34:20.69
Probation will be closed.
00:34:20.72\00:34:22.06
That's called the
"great time of trouble."
00:34:22.09\00:34:24.29
So when you've got the oceans
and the springs turning into
00:34:24.33\00:34:26.73
blood, and men are scorched with
great heat, and they got noisome
00:34:26.76\00:34:29.26
sores, and you just look at the
seven plagues, and it's going to
00:34:29.30\00:34:33.27
be pretty intense, that is the
great time of trouble such as
00:34:33.30\00:34:37.07
there never has
been since origination.
00:34:37.11\00:34:39.64
Jean: And that's
Daniel chapter 12, verse 1?
00:34:39.67\00:34:42.04
So what you're
saying, Pastor Doug,
00:34:42.08\00:34:43.31
is that the time of trouble and
tribulation are just two words,
00:34:43.35\00:34:47.15
but they can
refer to the same thing.
00:34:47.18\00:34:49.12
Doug: Well, every Christian
goes through some tribulation.
00:34:49.15\00:34:51.89
Paul says it is through
many tribulations we enter the
00:34:51.92\00:34:54.89
Kingdom of God.
00:34:54.92\00:34:56.22
So everyone goes through
different kinds of tribulations.
00:34:56.26\00:34:58.89
But the historic great time
of trouble, that's still ahead
00:34:58.93\00:35:02.60
of us.
00:35:02.63\00:35:03.93
Jean: Okay, very good.
00:35:03.97\00:35:05.27
Next order that we
have is Daniel in Michigan.
00:35:05.30\00:35:06.90
Daniel, welcome to
"Bible Answers Live."
00:35:06.94\00:35:09.34
Daniel: Yes, hi, thank
you for taking my call.
00:35:09.37\00:35:13.41
Someone already
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00:35:13.44\00:35:14.74
but I'll ask it anyways.
00:35:14.78\00:35:16.31
So how can you know if you
have been saved or born again?
00:35:16.34\00:35:20.28
I know Jesus says you cannot
enter the Kingdom unless you're
00:35:20.32\00:35:24.35
born again, and I've been kind
of confused about this lately.
00:35:24.39\00:35:28.76
I always thought that if you're
willfully giving into sin, you
00:35:28.79\00:35:33.46
know, you know it's wrong, but
you've given anyways, that's an
00:35:33.50\00:35:35.93
indication that
you're not born again.
00:35:35.96\00:35:38.57
Because 1 John 39 says,
"Everyone who has been born of
00:35:38.60\00:35:41.34
God does not practice sin."
00:35:41.37\00:35:43.77
And sometimes, I fall into that
category for, I don't know, a
00:35:43.81\00:35:46.81
few days, a few weeks.
00:35:46.84\00:35:48.14
And I'm
thinking, am I born again?
00:35:48.18\00:35:50.45
I'm not sure.
00:35:50.48\00:35:52.08
And and then I asked a friend
this, and he said, "Well, you
00:35:52.11\00:35:56.08
can only lose your salvation
if you grieve away the Spirit."
00:35:56.12\00:36:00.56
So I'm like, so you can, like,
practice sin for 10, 20, 30
00:36:00.59\00:36:04.43
years and still be saved?
00:36:04.46\00:36:06.49
He's like, "Well, yeah, as
long as you haven't grieved away
00:36:06.53\00:36:08.30
the Spirit."
00:36:08.33\00:36:09.70
And I'm like, I
don't know if that's right.
00:36:09.73\00:36:11.20
So like, what do you think?
00:36:11.23\00:36:12.87
Doug: That's
yeah, good question.
00:36:12.90\00:36:14.47
You articulated very well
a question many people ask.
00:36:14.50\00:36:18.47
Well, first of all, how do
you know you're born again?
00:36:18.51\00:36:20.78
Who has your heart?
00:36:20.81\00:36:22.84
Who do you like to talk about?
00:36:22.88\00:36:24.38
You can tell when a person loves
football because they're always
00:36:24.41\00:36:26.55
talking about football
or airplanes, whatever is in
00:36:26.58\00:36:28.68
their heart.
00:36:28.72\00:36:30.02
Jesus said, "Out of the
abundance of the heart the mouth
00:36:30.05\00:36:32.59
speaks," and when you receive
Christ in your heart and you
00:36:32.62\00:36:35.86
love him and he's given you a
new life, you're going to want
00:36:35.89\00:36:38.43
to tell other people.
00:36:38.46\00:36:39.76
You're not going to want
to do things that offend him.
00:36:39.79\00:36:41.83
That doesn't mean
it will never happen.
00:36:41.86\00:36:43.97
But that should be the
exception and not the rule.
00:36:44.00\00:36:47.50
So people that are living a life
of sin, they may have been born
00:36:47.54\00:36:51.24
again once, but they're--they
stepped away from it and they
00:36:51.27\00:36:55.71
need to be reconverted.
00:36:55.74\00:36:58.21
You know, I did a sermon, Pastor
Ross, and it's titled "Do You
00:36:58.25\00:37:02.98
Need to be Perfect to be Saved?"
00:37:03.02\00:37:05.29
And I address this, that,
you know, what's the difference
00:37:05.32\00:37:07.99
between falling and, you know,
you slip up, you sin, and living
00:37:08.02\00:37:11.59
a life of sin, and how perfect
do we need to be to be saved?
00:37:11.63\00:37:16.40
So you might want to
look at that, just on YouTube.
00:37:16.43\00:37:18.43
Type in "Doug
Batchelor" and it'll pop up.
00:37:18.47\00:37:22.34
Jean: The apostle Paul says,
speaking of this, "I die daily."
00:37:22.37\00:37:25.37
So this conversion, this
being born again, isn't just a
00:37:25.41\00:37:29.11
one-time thing.
00:37:29.14\00:37:30.48
And then we go on sort of just,
you know, living in a cloud.
00:37:30.51\00:37:32.35
No, Paul says, “I die daily.” In
other words, every day, we need
00:37:32.38\00:37:35.65
to surrender to self.
00:37:35.68\00:37:37.02
Every day, we need to ask the
Lord for the Holy Spirit to give
00:37:37.05\00:37:39.19
us victory and to
sustain us and help us overcome.
00:37:39.22\00:37:42.42
So it's a day by day experience.
00:37:42.46\00:37:43.76
And as long as we are trusting
in the Lord, we are seeking His
00:37:43.79\00:37:46.93
strength and His guidance, we
can have assurance that God is
00:37:46.96\00:37:50.17
going to be with us and He's
going to finish the work that
00:37:50.20\00:37:52.67
He's begun, so
we can take heart.
00:37:52.70\00:37:54.80
Thank you, Daniel.
00:37:54.84\00:37:56.24
We've got Alfred
listening in Canada.
00:37:56.27\00:37:57.81
Alfred, welcome to the program.
00:37:57.84\00:38:00.54
Alfred: Yes, thank
you for taking my call.
00:38:00.58\00:38:03.71
I was wondering why is
Jesus called the Son of David?
00:38:03.75\00:38:09.38
I mean, between David and Jesus,
there's about 1000 years span
00:38:09.42\00:38:11.92
in between there.
00:38:11.95\00:38:13.25
So why was He
called the Son of David?
00:38:13.29\00:38:16.16
Doug: Yeah, great question.
00:38:16.19\00:38:18.86
There's a prophet named Nathan,
and Pastor Ross might find that.
00:38:18.89\00:38:21.66
I think you can find
it in 1 Chronicles 17.
00:38:21.70\00:38:26.30
And Nathan the prophet comes to
David, and he tells David that
00:38:26.33\00:38:30.77
"Your son that will come after
you, he will build me a house
00:38:30.81\00:38:34.84
that will last forever."
00:38:34.88\00:38:36.58
And it's a prophecy.
00:38:36.61\00:38:37.98
It's called a messianic
prophecy that God says.
00:38:38.01\00:38:40.75
Not only would the Messiah come
through the seed of Abraham and
00:38:40.78\00:38:44.09
Isaac and Jacob and Judah,
but then God narrows the focus.
00:38:44.12\00:38:47.72
He says, "And the Messiah would
come through the line of David."
00:38:47.76\00:38:53.09
And you can read one of
the first things it says in the
00:38:53.13\00:38:55.33
New Testament.
00:38:55.36\00:38:56.70
It gives the genealogy of Jesus,
and it traces it back to David.
00:38:56.73\00:39:00.90
So, when--every Jew believed
that when the Messiah came, it
00:39:00.94\00:39:05.24
would be from the line of David,
and that's why they often called
00:39:05.27\00:39:09.61
him the Son of David.
00:39:09.64\00:39:10.98
It was sort of
another title for the Messiah.
00:39:11.01\00:39:13.68
Jean: All right, very good, yes.
00:39:13.72\00:39:15.25
And you of course will read
about that in 1 Kings chapter 5,
00:39:15.28\00:39:17.55
where it talks about
Solomon, who built the house.
00:39:17.59\00:39:20.09
So that's sort of what
you call a dual prophecy.
00:39:20.12\00:39:22.79
You have the literal son of
David, Solomon, who built the
00:39:22.82\00:39:25.43
literal temple.
00:39:25.46\00:39:27.00
But of course, it's in a broader
sense, speaking about Christ and
00:39:27.03\00:39:29.33
the temple that He was
to build was the church.
00:39:29.36\00:39:31.53
So there's some parallels there.
All right, thank you, Alfred.
00:39:31.57\00:39:34.84
We've got Tad,
listening in North Carolina.
00:39:34.87\00:39:37.37
Tad, welcome to the program.
00:39:37.41\00:39:39.31
Tad: Thank you
for taking my call.
00:39:39.34\00:39:40.64
It's my first time
calling. So bear with me.
00:39:40.68\00:39:42.84
Doug: Thank you.
00:39:42.88\00:39:44.38
Tad: The question I have
is it's about the millennium,
00:39:44.41\00:39:47.52
1,000 years.
00:39:47.55\00:39:49.08
And I know that, you know, in
first Thessalonians 4:16 and 17,
00:39:49.12\00:39:52.82
that the righteous will
be caught up to meet the Lord
00:39:52.85\00:39:55.62
in the air.
00:39:55.66\00:39:56.96
And I believe that's the
beginning of the thousand years.
00:39:56.99\00:39:59.69
And but, and then you go
to Revelation chapter 20.
00:39:59.73\00:40:02.63
I've been taught to believe
that, you know, that the earth
00:40:02.66\00:40:06.60
is desolate for
a thousand years.
00:40:06.63\00:40:08.64
There's no one living except for
the devil and his angels during
00:40:08.67\00:40:12.51
that thousand
years on this planet.
00:40:12.54\00:40:14.88
But in Revelation chapter 20,
it seems to elude, let's see, it
00:40:14.91\00:40:22.08
says here in verse 2 of chapter
20, it says, "He laid hold of
00:40:22.12\00:40:28.42
that--the dragon, that serpent
of old, who is the devil and
00:40:28.46\00:40:31.29
Satan, and bound him for a
thousand years; and cast him
00:40:31.33\00:40:34.63
into the bottomless pit, and
shut him up and set a seal on
00:40:34.66\00:40:37.63
him so that he should deceive
the nations no more till a
00:40:37.67\00:40:41.20
thousand years were finished.
00:40:41.24\00:40:43.07
But after these things he must
be released for a little while."
00:40:43.10\00:40:47.61
And then there's an interlude
there about those who were
00:40:47.64\00:40:51.71
beheaded, and then it says,
verse five, "But the rest of the
00:40:51.75\00:40:54.85
dead did not live again until
a thousand years were finished.
00:40:54.88\00:40:57.85
This is the first resurrection."
00:40:57.89\00:40:59.92
And it says, then he's loose
for a little season after the
00:40:59.95\00:41:03.29
thousand years to go out and
deceive the nations that are in
00:41:03.32\00:41:07.03
the four corners of the earth.
00:41:07.03\00:41:08.33
So it see--it sounds like
that these nations are still in
00:41:08.36\00:41:12.63
existence during the
thousand years on Earth.
00:41:12.67\00:41:16.04
Doug: Okay,
let's talk about that.
00:41:16.07\00:41:18.74
So, to specifically answer
the question you're asking.
00:41:18.77\00:41:23.18
When the New Jerusalem comes
down--well, first of all, let's
00:41:23.21\00:41:26.25
do it sequentially.
00:41:26.28\00:41:27.62
So when Jesus
comes, the righteous go up.
00:41:27.65\00:41:30.99
The righteous in
Christ are resurrected.
00:41:31.02\00:41:33.86
The dead in Christ rise.
00:41:33.89\00:41:35.22
All the good go
up when Jesus comes.
00:41:35.26\00:41:38.76
Are we together?
00:41:38.79\00:41:41.50
Tad: How I read it too.
00:41:41.53\00:41:43.47
Doug: Okay, then it says
we live and reign with Christ
00:41:43.50\00:41:45.87
for a thousand
years in Revelation.
00:41:45.90\00:41:47.87
Then you read,
00:41:47.90\00:41:49.37
it says in chapter 21,
the New Jerusalem comes down.
00:41:49.40\00:41:51.27
That means it's somewhere else.
00:41:51.31\00:41:52.64
Now it comes down
from heaven to earth.
00:41:52.67\00:41:55.31
When Christ comes back, the
Bible says in Revelation 20,
00:41:55.34\00:41:59.28
there's two resurrections.
00:41:59.31\00:42:00.72
You got the resurrection of
the just and the resurrection of
00:42:00.75\00:42:02.75
the unjust.
00:42:02.78\00:42:04.59
Christ said the hour is coming
in which all that are in the
00:42:04.62\00:42:06.99
graves will hear His voice.
00:42:07.02\00:42:08.36
They that have done
good, the resurrection of life.
00:42:08.39\00:42:10.59
They that have done evil,
the resurrection of damnation.
00:42:10.63\00:42:12.86
That's the second resurrection.
00:42:12.89\00:42:15.00
That's why it says, "Blessed and
holy is he that has part in the
00:42:15.03\00:42:17.77
first resurrection."
00:42:17.80\00:42:19.10
You don't want to be in
the second resurrection.
00:42:19.13\00:42:21.27
So the second resurrection
takes place at the end of the
00:42:21.30\00:42:23.91
1,000 years.
00:42:23.94\00:42:25.24
This looses
Satan from his prison.
00:42:25.27\00:42:27.98
He now has this vast army.
00:42:28.01\00:42:31.18
They call him Gog and Magog.
00:42:31.21\00:42:32.78
They were the enemies of God's
people in the Old Testament that
00:42:32.81\00:42:35.82
he can attempt to manipulate
to attack the City of God.
00:42:35.85\00:42:39.39
So, that explains why there
are nations alive as they've
00:42:39.42\00:42:43.16
been--it's the wicked of
all ages have been raised.
00:42:43.19\00:42:45.73
So, so far,
does that make sense?
00:42:45.76\00:42:47.50
Even if you don't agree,
does the logic make sense?
00:42:47.50\00:42:50.83
Tad: Yeah. Yeah, that does.
00:42:50.87\00:42:53.54
I mean, it does elude--it seems
to sound like, you know, because
00:42:53.57\00:42:56.17
I've not been raised to believe
that there's any nations alive
00:42:56.20\00:43:01.64
on the earth, but
I've ran into people.
00:43:01.68\00:43:03.68
It's becoming more and
more of a prevalent idea.
00:43:03.71\00:43:07.15
Doug: Well, keep in mind.
00:43:07.18\00:43:08.48
Now, I haven't, I
haven't touched the surface yet.
00:43:08.52\00:43:11.19
You know, I wish I had an hour.
00:43:11.22\00:43:12.99
By the way, I've got a
presentation on this, on the
00:43:13.02\00:43:15.62
thousand years of peace,
that you can watch online.
00:43:15.66\00:43:18.26
But you read in
Jeremiah chapter 4, verse 23.
00:43:18.29\00:43:21.53
Says, "All the cities of the
earth are broken down, and there
00:43:21.56\00:43:24.97
is no man," and they--this is
from the coming of the Lord, by
00:43:25.00\00:43:29.40
His presence and fierce anger.
00:43:29.44\00:43:31.11
You can read in Isaiah where
it says, "I will make the earth
00:43:31.14\00:43:33.54
utterly empty."
00:43:33.58\00:43:34.88
And then Jeremiah says, "The
slain of the Lord will cover the
00:43:34.91\00:43:37.55
earth from one end to another.
00:43:37.58\00:43:39.51
There is nobody to
mourn or bury them."
00:43:39.55\00:43:42.52
Now, those who believe that the
righteous are always alive or
00:43:42.55\00:43:45.22
someone's alive, righteous
or wicked on earth, they can't
00:43:45.25\00:43:48.46
explain these Scriptures that
say the earth is vacated during
00:43:48.49\00:43:51.79
the thousand years.
00:43:51.83\00:43:53.29
So, I think there's a lot of
Scripture to support that we are
00:43:53.33\00:43:57.10
caught up.
00:43:57.13\00:43:58.47
We meet the Lord in the air.
00:43:58.50\00:43:59.80
All the righteous are
gone during the millennium.
00:43:59.83\00:44:01.24
At the end, he comes back.
00:44:01.27\00:44:02.94
The wicked are judged.
00:44:02.97\00:44:04.31
He creates a new
heaven and a new earth.
00:44:04.34\00:44:05.87
Now, we have that
study guide, Pastor Ross.
00:44:05.91\00:44:07.68
Jean: We do.
00:44:07.71\00:44:09.01
It's called a "1000 Years of
Peace," and it goes into great
00:44:09.04\00:44:10.65
detail, gives you all of
the Bible verses, makes it
00:44:10.68\00:44:12.81
very clear.
00:44:12.85\00:44:14.08
So we'll be happy to send this
to anyone who calls and asks.
00:44:14.12\00:44:16.12
The number is 800-835-6747.
00:44:16.15\00:44:19.29
You can ask for the study guide.
00:44:19.32\00:44:20.66
It's called
"1000 Years of Peace."
00:44:20.69\00:44:22.69
You can also dial #250
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00:44:22.72\00:44:26.70
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00:44:26.73\00:44:28.03
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00:44:28.06\00:44:30.50
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00:44:30.53\00:44:33.00
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00:44:33.03\00:44:35.27
Thank you, Tad. Great question.
00:44:35.30\00:44:37.97
We've got Henry in New York.
00:44:38.01\00:44:39.31
Henry, welcome to
"Bible Answers Live."
00:44:39.34\00:44:42.18
Henry: Thank you for having me.
00:44:42.21\00:44:43.55
During Christ's time, what
language did the Romans speak?
00:44:43.58\00:44:48.72
Doug: All right, during the time
of Jesus, what language did the
00:44:48.75\00:44:51.02
Romans speak?
00:44:51.05\00:44:52.39
They spoke Latin and Greek.
00:44:52.42\00:44:54.32
They spoke Latin as their native
language, but many of the Roman
00:44:54.36\00:44:57.43
soldiers, not only came from
Rome, but they would also annex
00:44:57.46\00:45:00.23
soldiers from
different parts of the empire.
00:45:00.26\00:45:02.90
And Greek was sort of the
language like English is the
00:45:02.93\00:45:05.43
international
language for business.
00:45:05.47\00:45:07.30
Greek, because of Alexander the
Great's broad conquest, was sort
00:45:07.34\00:45:11.47
of the language of
learning, writing, and business.
00:45:11.51\00:45:14.28
So everyone spoke some Greek.
00:45:14.31\00:45:16.14
That's why above the head of
Jesus, when they posted why he
00:45:16.18\00:45:19.55
was dying, they had to post that
in three languages: Hebrew for
00:45:19.58\00:45:23.28
the locals, Greek, and Latin.
00:45:23.32\00:45:26.89
Jean: Okay, very good.
00:45:26.92\00:45:29.59
Next caller that we
have is Jay in California.
00:45:29.62\00:45:30.99
Jay, welcome to the program.
00:45:31.03\00:45:32.76
Jay: Thank you,
pastors, for taking my call.
00:45:32.79\00:45:35.00
I had a question, and it's
probably a concern and question,
00:45:35.03\00:45:39.47
but I just wanted to know,
the text, Leviticus 7:26 and 27.
00:45:39.50\00:45:48.78
And I also failed to mention,
I guess, Leviticus 17:13 and 14,
00:45:48.81\00:45:55.72
I would like to know if
those texts are still relevant
00:45:55.75\00:45:58.15
for today.
00:45:58.19\00:45:59.52
The Bible gives the clean
meats to eat, as far as what
00:45:59.55\00:46:03.73
Christians, or His
people, follow, the type of diet
00:46:03.76\00:46:08.06
they follow.
00:46:08.10\00:46:09.33
However, I have very rarely hear
of leaders that, you know, know
00:46:09.36\00:46:14.90
about--that believe, as
Christians, we are to follow a
00:46:14.94\00:46:17.77
healthy lifestyle.
00:46:17.81\00:46:19.44
I very rarely hear anyone speak
about not eating the blood even
00:46:19.47\00:46:25.18
though God does give us the
clean meat that there is to be
00:46:25.21\00:46:31.35
no blood in the
meat if we eat it.
00:46:31.39\00:46:35.26
Because I understand that, even
if it's kosher meat, there's a
00:46:35.29\00:46:37.86
little bit of blood in the
kosher and then the taste is no
00:46:37.89\00:46:41.36
longer in the flesh meat.
00:46:41.40\00:46:43.70
So I just wonder if
those texts are still relevant.
00:46:43.73\00:46:47.54
Doug: First of all, let me
read it for our friends that are
00:46:47.57\00:46:49.40
listening, and I'll actually
go back to, let me see, that's
00:46:49.44\00:46:53.38
Leviticus 7:26, "Moreover, you
shall not eat any blood in any
00:46:53.41\00:46:57.45
of your dwellings,
whether bird or beast.
00:46:57.48\00:46:59.88
Whoever eats any blood,
that person will be cut off from
00:46:59.91\00:47:02.62
his people."
00:47:02.65\00:47:03.99
Not only do you find this in
Leviticus, it mentions this also
00:47:04.02\00:47:06.65
in the New Testament.
00:47:06.69\00:47:08.02
If you go to--some
people say, "Oh, that was an
00:47:08.06\00:47:09.49
Old Testament law."
00:47:09.52\00:47:10.83
Oh no, it wasn't.
00:47:10.86\00:47:12.16
You can read in Acts chapter 15.
00:47:12.19\00:47:13.76
It says you write to the
Gentiles, these are non-Jews,
00:47:13.80\00:47:16.93
who are turning to God that
we write to him to abstain from
00:47:16.97\00:47:20.27
things polluted by idols, from
sexual immorality, from things
00:47:20.30\00:47:23.67
strangled, and blood.
00:47:23.71\00:47:25.04
The reason they said
"things strangled" is because,
00:47:25.07\00:47:27.38
especially with foul, they'd
sometimes strangle it and then
00:47:27.41\00:47:30.48
they butcher it and eat it
without draining the blood.
00:47:30.51\00:47:32.78
Whereas, the Jews would cut the
throat and drain the blood out.
00:47:32.81\00:47:35.92
Now, if a person is eating clean
meat and it's been killed in a
00:47:35.95\00:47:40.92
kosher way, where the
blood is drained out, well, that
00:47:40.96\00:47:43.63
was permissible.
00:47:43.66\00:47:44.96
I'm sure there's still
microscopic parts of the blood
00:47:44.99\00:47:47.50
left, but, you know, the Jews,
they just understood you're
00:47:47.56\00:47:51.83
supposed to
drain out all you can.
00:47:51.87\00:47:53.87
It is a New and an Old Testament
law, and now we know that blood
00:47:53.90\00:47:59.74
can transfer disease
from one animal to another.
00:47:59.77\00:48:03.18
It doesn't have to
be the same species.
00:48:03.21\00:48:05.21
That's why you
got mad cow disease.
00:48:05.25\00:48:07.35
And later they
had mad pig disease.
00:48:07.38\00:48:09.35
And COVID, they believe,
was originally incubated in
00:48:09.38\00:48:13.19
an animal.
00:48:13.22\00:48:14.56
Whether it was a bat or a
pangolin, they don't know.
00:48:14.59\00:48:17.13
But disease does
transfer from animal to animal.
00:48:17.16\00:48:21.16
That's why God said, "Don't
be eating the blood of animals."
00:48:21.20\00:48:24.03
By the way, that
goes back to Genesis.
00:48:24.07\00:48:26.80
It talked about blood too.
00:48:26.84\00:48:28.34
And God's speaking to Noah.
00:48:28.37\00:48:30.57
So, yes, Christians
shouldn't eat blood.
00:48:30.61\00:48:34.81
I remember when I
worked with the Navajo Indians.
00:48:34.84\00:48:36.98
They used to make blood sausage.
00:48:37.01\00:48:38.35
I thought, oh,
that gave me the creeps.
00:48:38.38\00:48:42.42
All right. What's next?
00:48:42.45\00:48:45.12
Jean: We've got
Hector, listening in Florida.
00:48:45.15\00:48:46.45
Hector, welcome to the program.
00:48:46.49\00:48:47.82
Hector: Thank you.
Good evening, pastors.
00:48:47.86\00:48:52.06
Did the falling of Lucifer
take place before or after money
00:48:52.09\00:48:57.70
was created?
00:48:57.73\00:48:59.57
If that's so, if fall after man
was created, how come they allow
00:48:59.60\00:49:06.84
him to turn the man on earth?
00:49:06.88\00:49:09.58
Doug: All right.
00:49:09.61\00:49:10.91
Well, I think that Lucifer
fell before man was created.
00:49:10.95\00:49:14.12
And, you know, in part, part
of the reason God made this new
00:49:14.15\00:49:17.05
world and told the creatures to
be fruitful and multiply is to
00:49:17.09\00:49:21.92
help replace the vacuum of
one third of the angels that had
00:49:21.96\00:49:26.39
been evicted from heaven.
00:49:26.43\00:49:28.23
So, I'm pretty sure that the--we
don't know all the timing of
00:49:28.26\00:49:31.80
everything that happened, but
pretty sure that Lucifer fell
00:49:31.83\00:49:34.74
and the rebellion happened
in heaven before our world
00:49:34.77\00:49:37.84
was made.
00:49:37.87\00:49:39.21
What do you think, Pastor Ross?
00:49:39.24\00:49:40.54
Jean: Yeah, absolutely.
00:49:40.58\00:49:41.91
I mean, if you read the context
just in Genesis chapter 12, it
00:49:41.94\00:49:43.65
talks about this war in heaven
and then the devil, the Lucifer,
00:49:43.68\00:49:46.88
the dragon, is cast out of
heaven, and then it says he's
00:49:46.92\00:49:50.19
cast down at the cross.
00:49:50.22\00:49:51.52
So yeah, it appears
that that appeared sometime.
00:49:51.55\00:49:53.69
But I think he's also--Hector is
also asking that if Lucifer fell
00:49:53.72\00:49:57.43
before the creation of the
world, why did God allow him to
00:49:57.46\00:50:00.36
come tempt Adam and Eve?
00:50:00.40\00:50:02.40
Doug: Well, I think
God allowed Lucifer.
00:50:02.43\00:50:04.50
He gave him enough leash
to share his perspective.
00:50:04.53\00:50:09.47
See, the reason that
these angels followed Lucifer is
00:50:09.50\00:50:12.11
Lucifer was allowed to tell the
angels he would be a better God
00:50:12.14\00:50:16.48
than God.
00:50:16.51\00:50:17.85
He basically was
saying that "God is not fair.
00:50:17.88\00:50:19.55
He's arbitrary. His
laws are unreasonable.
00:50:19.58\00:50:22.25
But if I was in
charge, we'd have great freedom
00:50:22.28\00:50:24.32
and happiness."
00:50:24.35\00:50:25.69
And so God does not
force His creatures.
00:50:25.72\00:50:27.99
He allowed the angels to, the
ones he chose, one third of them
00:50:28.02\00:50:31.79
followed Lucifer, and He allowed
the unfallen worlds to be at
00:50:31.83\00:50:36.13
least tempted with the same
opportunity to doubt God and
00:50:36.16\00:50:40.07
listen to Lucifer.
00:50:40.10\00:50:41.40
That's what Adam and Eve did.
00:50:41.44\00:50:42.77
God said, "Don't eat it."
00:50:42.80\00:50:44.11
Lucifer said, "You'll be like
God if you eat it," which is
00:50:44.14\00:50:46.01
what he wanted.
00:50:46.04\00:50:47.34
And so, yeah, that's
the reason He did it.
00:50:47.38\00:50:51.51
Jean: Okay, very good.
00:50:51.55\00:50:54.22
We've got Carmen,
listening in New York.
00:50:54.25\00:50:55.58
Carmen, welcome to the program.
00:50:55.62\00:50:56.92
Carmen: Good evening, pastors.
00:50:56.95\00:50:58.95
My question is on Revelation
14:6 and 7, but more 7, where it
00:50:58.99\00:51:06.33
says the hour of
His judgment has come.
00:51:06.36\00:51:10.33
My question is, are we
being judged at this moment?
00:51:10.37\00:51:14.47
Doug: Pastor Ross?
00:51:14.50\00:51:15.80
Jean: Yeah, I mean.
Well, first of all, yeah.
00:51:15.84\00:51:18.37
This is God's last warning
message to go to the world.
00:51:18.41\00:51:19.84
Immediately following the
proclamation of the three angels
00:51:19.87\00:51:22.31
messages in verse 14, it
talks about the second coming
00:51:22.34\00:51:25.58
of Christ.
00:51:25.61\00:51:26.95
And part of this threefold
message is the hour of His
00:51:26.98\00:51:29.68
judgment has come.
00:51:29.72\00:51:31.02
And of course, that's the
fulfillment of a prophecy you'll
00:51:31.05\00:51:33.02
find in Daniel chapter 8, verse
14, where it talks about the
00:51:33.05\00:51:35.52
cleansing of the sanctuary.
00:51:35.56\00:51:37.29
So there's different
parts to this judgment.
00:51:37.33\00:51:39.59
It is a judgment, meaning
that truth has been revealed in
00:51:39.63\00:51:42.46
the world.
00:51:42.50\00:51:43.83
And people are making decisions
for that truth, and based upon
00:51:43.87\00:51:47.07
their decision, well, they're
going to be judged either in
00:51:47.10\00:51:50.47
favor at the end.
00:51:50.51\00:51:51.84
They receive the seal of God or
they reject the truth and they
00:51:51.87\00:51:54.08
receive the mark of the beast.
00:51:54.11\00:51:55.64
Is this judgment happening now?
00:51:55.68\00:51:58.01
I believe so. In heaven.
00:51:58.05\00:51:59.71
People are making up their mind.
00:51:59.75\00:52:01.95
That doesn't mean that there's
a certain time when your name
00:52:01.98\00:52:04.29
shows up in the books of heaven.
00:52:04.32\00:52:06.32
It could be tomorrow at
3 o'clock in the afternoon.
00:52:06.35\00:52:09.06
And suddenly,
you're saved or lost
00:52:09.09\00:52:10.83
based upon where you at there.
00:52:10.86\00:52:13.03
I think God looks at our
life as a whole and looks at the
00:52:13.06\00:52:15.13
decisions we are making, but
everybody is making a decision.
00:52:15.16\00:52:18.73
We are settling into the truth,
and it's the little decisions
00:52:18.77\00:52:22.34
that we make every day
that determines what our eternal
00:52:22.37\00:52:25.01
destiny is.
00:52:25.04\00:52:26.27
Once that judgment is finished,
Jesus says, he that is holy, let
00:52:26.31\00:52:29.34
him be holy still.
00:52:29.38\00:52:30.68
He that is filthy,
let him be filthy still.
00:52:30.71\00:52:32.71
Probation closes, seven last
plagues, and then Jesus comes.
00:52:32.75\00:52:37.05
Doug: Absolutely.
00:52:37.09\00:52:38.39
Jean: You know, we have a study
guide called "Angel Messages
00:52:38.42\00:52:41.02
From Space," and it talks
about the three angels messages.
00:52:41.06\00:52:44.63
We'll be happy to send it
to anyone who calls and asks.
00:52:44.66\00:52:46.59
That's 800-835-6747
or you can dial #250.
00:52:46.63\00:52:52.13
Doug: And the lesson on "God
sets a date for the judgment."
00:52:52.17\00:52:55.87
Also dials right in on this.
00:52:55.90\00:52:58.11
Jean: All right.
Maybe time for one more.
00:52:58.14\00:53:00.88
We've got Cammy,
listening in Washington.
00:53:00.91\00:53:02.21
Cammy, welcome to
"Bible Answers Live."
00:53:02.24\00:53:04.55
Cammy: I can't
believe you got me in.
00:53:04.58\00:53:06.18
I was so happy to hear that!
00:53:06.21\00:53:08.08
Doug: I wish we had more time.
00:53:08.12\00:53:10.19
Cammy: I send my--I set
my alarm for this program so
00:53:10.22\00:53:13.19
I don't miss.
00:53:13.22\00:53:14.52
I'm addicted to it.
00:53:14.56\00:53:15.86
Doug: Oh, good. We
hope it's habit forming.
00:53:15.89\00:53:17.43
Cammy: Thank you. My question.
00:53:17.46\00:53:18.86
Now, this is a question
I've had for a long time.
00:53:18.89\00:53:20.50
I've been
wanting to call you guys.
00:53:20.53\00:53:21.83
I finally did
it and got through.
00:53:21.86\00:53:23.63
Did--when Cain killed Abel and
left and took a sister, so they
00:53:23.67\00:53:30.17
really lost three kids that day,
did Adam and Eve go visit him
00:53:30.21\00:53:36.85
and let them
know, "We forgive you.
00:53:36.88\00:53:38.45
We love you.
00:53:38.48\00:53:39.98
We want to stay connected,"
00:53:40.02\00:53:41.62
the way God did with Adam and
Eve, and the way we should with
00:53:41.65\00:53:43.99
our kids?
00:53:44.02\00:53:45.25
Doug: Yeah. It's hard to imagine
that there was no communication
00:53:45.29\00:53:48.69
because, well, there's not
that many people in the world.
00:53:48.72\00:53:51.89
And you do read, when you get to
Genesis chapter 6, that the sons
00:53:51.93\00:53:55.06
of God, meaning the descendants
of Seth and Adam and Eve, saw
00:53:55.10\00:53:58.53
the daughters of men.
00:53:58.57\00:54:00.40
They were the daughters of
Cain, and they took them wives.
00:54:00.44\00:54:03.67
You know, I think they
probably interacted some.
00:54:03.71\00:54:06.34
They had to or that wouldn't
have happened, just like Samson
00:54:06.37\00:54:09.18
interacted with the Philistines.
00:54:09.21\00:54:11.25
I think Adam and Eve
were still in communication.
00:54:11.28\00:54:14.08
Hopefully, they communicated
that Cain could be forgiven if
00:54:14.12\00:54:17.42
he would repent and turn to God.
00:54:17.45\00:54:20.02
There's no record
of that communication
00:54:20.06\00:54:22.56
or of his repentance.
00:54:22.59\00:54:24.06
So, it's--we're hopeful
that they at least reconciled in
00:54:24.09\00:54:29.80
their human relations.
00:54:29.83\00:54:31.27
Jean: You know, so it's
interesting that it mentions
00:54:31.30\00:54:32.73
that Cain moved out.
00:54:32.77\00:54:34.14
He took his wife, and they left.
He went to a different place.
00:54:34.17\00:54:36.91
So it almost--he
wasn't kicked out.
00:54:36.94\00:54:39.31
It was his choice to separate
himself from his parents.
00:54:39.34\00:54:42.34
Doug: That's right.
00:54:42.38\00:54:43.68
And, listening friends,
we're going to sign off here.
00:54:43.71\00:54:46.01
We do this in a couple of
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00:54:46.05\00:54:49.18
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00:54:49.22\00:54:53.39
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00:54:53.42\00:54:55.79
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00:54:57.19\00:54:59.19
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00:55:26.82\00:55:28.12
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Pastor Doug, we have
Coral asking what is the Bible's
00:55:37.23\00:55:41.84
perspective on
the death penalty?
00:55:41.87\00:55:43.91
Doug: Well, you know, God
doesn't want anyone to perish,
00:55:43.94\00:55:47.04
but there is a penalty for death
or for murder, and it was the
00:55:47.08\00:55:52.21
death penalty.
00:55:52.25\00:55:53.55
And you know, God
says, "Eye for eye.
00:55:53.58\00:55:56.12
Tooth for tooth.
00:55:56.15\00:55:57.45
Life for life."
00:55:57.49\00:55:58.82
If someone killed a person
deliberately, as the Bible says,
00:55:58.85\00:56:02.99
with a high hand, the
penalty was execution.
00:56:03.02\00:56:06.33
And so, states and countries
that support capital punishment
00:56:06.36\00:56:11.20
for the highest
crimes that is biblical.
00:56:11.23\00:56:15.30
Jean: Okay.
00:56:15.34\00:56:16.57
Sandra is asking, "I heard that
there will be animal sacrifices
00:56:16.60\00:56:20.91
in the millennial reign
throughout and for all eternity.
00:56:20.94\00:56:24.68
Is this biblical?"
00:56:24.71\00:56:27.28
Doug: No, I think
they're listening to someone who
00:56:27.32\00:56:29.38
believes that the temple is
going to be reinstituted during
00:56:29.42\00:56:31.82
the millennial reign and there's
going to be sacrificing lambs,
00:56:31.85\00:56:34.86
and I think they
misunderstand some Scriptures.
00:56:34.89\00:56:37.59
God's temple, in those passages,
is speaking of His church, and
00:56:37.63\00:56:42.00
we're going to be in heaven
because of the Lamb, the blood
00:56:42.03\00:56:44.80
of Jesus that you see in
Revelation, but that's symbolic.
00:56:44.83\00:56:48.00
There's no death, you
read in Revelation 21.
00:56:48.04\00:56:50.64
When we get to heaven, no more
pain, sorrow, or death, and that
00:56:50.67\00:56:55.01
would include animals's death.
00:56:55.04\00:56:56.91
Nothing's going to die.
00:56:56.95\00:56:58.25
Jean: Okay.
00:56:58.28\00:56:59.61
We have Nisa who's asking:
Should a Christian serve in jury
00:56:59.65\00:57:02.28
duty knowing that their decision
can affect a person's life
00:57:02.32\00:57:06.35
and freedom?
00:57:06.39\00:57:08.19
Jean: Well, there's nothing
immoral with a juror being
00:57:08.22\00:57:14.50
involved in investigating
justice in their community.
00:57:14.56\00:57:18.70
So, I, you know, I've got a
friend that was on--called to be
00:57:18.73\00:57:22.50
on jury duty, and it
was involved with a murder.
00:57:22.54\00:57:24.91
And unfortunately, he had to be
exposed to some awful testimony,
00:57:24.94\00:57:28.94
but there's no sin in that.
00:57:28.98\00:57:31.68
And it's, you know,
considered part of your being
00:57:31.71\00:57:34.62
in a community.
00:57:34.65\00:57:35.98
Part of the Mosaic law said that
there were often trials where
00:57:36.02\00:57:39.92
the elders would listen to the
evidence and they served as the
00:57:39.95\00:57:42.26
jury, and they'd
make a joint decision.
00:57:42.29\00:57:45.79
Even in the time of Christ,
they had a--even though it was a
00:57:45.83\00:57:48.80
kangaroo court, they had the
Sanhedrin, they had a jury, so
00:57:48.83\00:57:51.77
there's no biblical,
moral problem with jury duty.
00:57:51.80\00:57:56.14
I usually have to try and get
out of it because, as a pastor,
00:57:56.17\00:57:58.97
you can't get locked up for
weeks on a trial, and you can't
00:57:59.01\00:58:02.68
minister to people.
00:58:02.71\00:58:04.01
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