WEBVTT - Hour 1: New Year, New Mailbag 0:00:08.840 --> 0:00:12.559 Hello friends, happy New Year and welcome to Open Line 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:15.710 with Doctor Michael Ray Dolnick. My name is Michael Ray Dolnick, 0:00:15.710 --> 0:00:18.410 and I'm the academic dean and professor of Jewish studies 0:00:18.410 --> 0:00:22.070 at Moody Bible Institute. It's time for our Bible study 0:00:22.070 --> 0:00:25.070 across America, and I'm so grateful that you're starting your 0:00:25.070 --> 0:00:28.400 year by joining me around the radio kitchen table. And 0:00:28.400 --> 0:00:30.680 we're going to talk about the questions that you've sent 0:00:30.680 --> 0:00:35.059 in about the Bible, God, and the spiritual life to 0:00:35.090 --> 0:00:38.450 start the New Year. I thought we'd empty the inbox, 0:00:38.450 --> 0:00:42.350 clear the spindle. So today is an all mailbag, all 0:00:42.350 --> 0:00:46.190 the time program. So don't call today. You still can 0:00:46.220 --> 0:00:47.960 send your questions in. All you have to do is 0:00:47.960 --> 0:00:51.200 go to our website, openline radio.org, and you'll see a 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:54.890 link there that says Ask Michael a question. Click over 0:00:54.890 --> 0:00:57.920 there for him will come out. You can send your 0:00:57.920 --> 0:01:00.990 question there and Trish will put it in the mailbag 0:01:00.990 --> 0:01:04.350 for future weeks. But today we're going to answer the 0:01:04.350 --> 0:01:06.810 questions that you've sent in in past weeks. We want 0:01:06.840 --> 0:01:08.940 to get through as many so that we start the 0:01:08.940 --> 0:01:15.209 new year fresh with new questions. And joining me today to, uh, 0:01:15.209 --> 0:01:18.390 deal with all the questions you've mailed in is, first 0:01:18.390 --> 0:01:21.750 of all, Eva. She's my wife. She's also a colleague 0:01:21.750 --> 0:01:25.320 at Moody Bible Institute. She's a co-writer on the Moody 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:29.610 Bible Commentary and the Moody Handbook of Messianic Prophecy. But really, 0:01:29.610 --> 0:01:31.740 she's my favorite Bible teacher. And hey. 0:01:31.770 --> 0:01:32.910 Happy New Year, everybody. 0:01:32.910 --> 0:01:36.419 I'm glad you're here, Eva. And, uh, kind of the 0:01:36.420 --> 0:01:39.270 master of ceremonies, the person, or I should say mistress 0:01:39.270 --> 0:01:42.000 of ceremonies, the person who's in charge, the person who's 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:45.630 going to ask the questions and keep us online here 0:01:45.630 --> 0:01:49.110 to answer your questions, it's Tricia McMillan. She's the producer 0:01:49.110 --> 0:01:51.600 of Open Line. So glad you're here, Tricia. 0:01:51.630 --> 0:01:52.710 Glad to be here. 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:56.910 Yeah. And, uh, Omar Mendoza is our tech guy today. 0:01:56.910 --> 0:01:59.460 Thank you so much, Omar. And again, don't call today. 0:01:59.490 --> 0:02:02.460 Today is a special question. Question and answer program based 0:02:02.460 --> 0:02:07.380 on the Bible questions and spiritual life questions you've sent in. 0:02:07.380 --> 0:02:09.269 And that's what we're going to do. So get ready. 0:02:09.300 --> 0:02:12.090 We're about to study the scriptures together, and I'm going 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:14.100 to turn it right over to Tricia. What have you 0:02:14.130 --> 0:02:15.389 got for us today? 0:02:16.050 --> 0:02:18.900 Well, our first question is from Tom in Illinois. He 0:02:18.900 --> 0:02:21.810 listens to Wmbi, says, I just ordered the Moody Bible 0:02:21.810 --> 0:02:25.350 Commentary to start the New year off right in God's Word. 0:02:25.350 --> 0:02:28.710 And I also plan to buy a new Bible. I've 0:02:28.710 --> 0:02:32.880 heard you mention that you use the Holman Edition, but 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:38.220 do you have a favorite translation? Um, yeah. Well. 0:02:38.910 --> 0:02:45.690 My favorite translation is the original Holman Christian Standard Bible Hcsb. 0:02:45.990 --> 0:02:50.100 It's been revised. I still use the old one. I 0:02:50.100 --> 0:02:54.300 the revision is good, but I think it took away 0:02:54.300 --> 0:02:57.700 some of the distinctives of the Hdssb and they call 0:02:57.700 --> 0:03:01.840 it now the Holman CSB. It's a good one too. 0:03:01.990 --> 0:03:04.269 You have to if you want to get the CSB 0:03:04.300 --> 0:03:06.820 like I have, you can still find them, but you 0:03:06.820 --> 0:03:11.049 buy them on the internet. They're they're sometimes listed as used, 0:03:11.350 --> 0:03:13.870 but then they're actually brand new. There are people who 0:03:13.870 --> 0:03:19.690 got an HSB and and never, uh, and never really 0:03:19.690 --> 0:03:20.170 opened it. 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:21.610 And they don't even write their name in it. You've 0:03:21.610 --> 0:03:22.600 ordered a couple of those, right? 0:03:22.630 --> 0:03:24.760 Yeah, yeah. And I have a stack of them so 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:26.290 that when I wear out a Bible, I've got the 0:03:26.290 --> 0:03:30.880 next one to go. And now, uh, Eva, you have 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:31.989 a different favorite Bible. 0:03:32.020 --> 0:03:35.110 My favorite Bible is the new American Standard Version. I've 0:03:35.110 --> 0:03:36.640 been reading it for a long time. When I was. 0:03:36.670 --> 0:03:39.010 Even thinks that Moses and Paul. 0:03:39.010 --> 0:03:42.070 Wrote that. Autographed by them. Um, when I was a 0:03:42.070 --> 0:03:44.170 moody student, that was the one I studied out of 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:46.480 as a moody student back when I was in Jewish 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:50.290 studies at Moody, but I continued to read it. I've 0:03:50.290 --> 0:03:52.660 done other versions, but I come back to this. It 0:03:52.660 --> 0:03:57.070 is not the smoothest reading. Uh, text not doesn't read 0:03:57.070 --> 0:04:00.520 as smooth as, say, the one that Michael was just mentioning. However, 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:03.580 I like it because it's a more a word for 0:04:03.580 --> 0:04:06.520 word translation, which is why it's kind of bumpy in parts. 0:04:06.520 --> 0:04:08.800 But yeah, I'm used to the bumps, so I like it. 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:13.510 So there's different approaches to translation. There's uh, there's like 0:04:13.510 --> 0:04:17.770 a formal equivalence. That's a word for word translation, like 0:04:17.770 --> 0:04:21.669 the new American standard. And then there's a dynamic equivalence, 0:04:22.810 --> 0:04:27.310 which is much more thought for thought. That would be 0:04:27.310 --> 0:04:32.980 something like the New Living Translation. And then there's what 0:04:32.980 --> 0:04:37.059 the Hcsb tries to be is optimal equivalence, which is 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:40.480 a word for word as much as you can. But 0:04:40.480 --> 0:04:42.580 when it's kind of bumpy because you're going from an 0:04:42.610 --> 0:04:48.159 ancient different language, uh, to a modern language, you need 0:04:48.190 --> 0:04:51.820 to to sometimes smooth it out. And so that's what 0:04:51.820 --> 0:04:55.670 they call optimal equivalence. That's why I like about the HSB. Uh, 0:04:55.670 --> 0:04:59.120 and I use them all. Uh, many people. I recently 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:02.120 had to preach someplace where they only use the ESV 0:05:02.120 --> 0:05:05.000 and the English Standard version, so I happily use that. 0:05:05.029 --> 0:05:06.589 What do you use, Tricia? 0:05:07.490 --> 0:05:11.779 Uh, our church uses the ESV. Um, I memorized verses 0:05:11.779 --> 0:05:15.950 as a kid in either the NIV or NASB. Um, 0:05:15.980 --> 0:05:20.029 because the ESV wasn't created yet. That one, I think, 0:05:20.060 --> 0:05:24.020 was made in like 2000. Like right around 2000 ish. Um, 0:05:24.020 --> 0:05:26.780 and so, so now when my kids are learning their 0:05:26.779 --> 0:05:31.039 verses in Awana, I have to check myself because I'm like, oh, yeah, 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:32.780 you got it right. Oh, no, you missed like four 0:05:32.779 --> 0:05:35.030 words because it's not the shell, it's a will. And 0:05:35.029 --> 0:05:38.540 it's a they're very minor things and they don't change 0:05:38.540 --> 0:05:42.830 the meaning. But but they can make me stumble a 0:05:42.830 --> 0:05:44.750 little bit when I try and say it because I'm like, oh, 0:05:44.779 --> 0:05:47.330 that's not like that's not the right word. Like one 0:05:47.330 --> 0:05:51.229 and only son or only begotten son or only son. 0:05:51.260 --> 0:05:53.669 You know, like those very small changes. 0:05:53.670 --> 0:05:56.400 We use now for your Bible study, like when you 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:57.990 go to or you're reading. 0:05:57.990 --> 0:06:02.370 Use. Yeah, I think it depends on where I am. 0:06:02.370 --> 0:06:05.310 The one on my phone is ESV. So if I'm 0:06:05.310 --> 0:06:08.250 reading on my phone, like because I'm traveling and like 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:11.580 I didn't bring a Bible, it'll be ESV. So it's 0:06:11.580 --> 0:06:12.330 probably you use. 0:06:12.330 --> 0:06:12.870 When you're at home. 0:06:12.900 --> 0:06:16.980 Most of what I use is ESV. Probably the it's 0:06:16.980 --> 0:06:19.500 an ESV, I believe. Yeah. 0:06:19.529 --> 0:06:23.010 Yeah. Well, what I think is interesting is you use 0:06:23.010 --> 0:06:26.010 an hcsb when we're in the studio together. 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:28.140 I do, because I know that's what. That's what I 0:06:28.140 --> 0:06:31.410 use or what you what you read. And so anything 0:06:31.410 --> 0:06:33.179 that I do with the mailbag, when I look up 0:06:33.180 --> 0:06:35.070 the verses and include those, I always make sure I 0:06:35.070 --> 0:06:38.250 have the hcsb. And so I actually have an hcsb 0:06:38.279 --> 0:06:41.070 that I use in the studio. So, so the one 0:06:41.070 --> 0:06:43.409 in my office at work is an Hcsb. So that's 0:06:43.410 --> 0:06:45.150 why I say just to kind of depends on where 0:06:45.150 --> 0:06:45.750 I am. 0:06:45.839 --> 0:06:49.590 Here's the thing I would suggest to Tom, you know, 0:06:49.589 --> 0:06:54.150 get several versions. uh, you know, or online. Check them 0:06:54.150 --> 0:06:57.630 out and read them. Uh, pick one book and read it. 0:06:57.660 --> 0:06:59.760 You know, like a chapter or two in each one 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:02.820 and see which one fits you the best, which which 0:07:02.820 --> 0:07:05.820 you like the best. Uh, and then buy that one. 0:07:05.820 --> 0:07:09.330 The thing I would caution there are some, uh, what 0:07:09.330 --> 0:07:13.320 I would call idiosyncratic translations. Those are translations that are 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:17.700 done by one person. Uh, and I would be careful. Like, 0:07:17.700 --> 0:07:20.370 the message might be interesting to read, but I wouldn't 0:07:20.370 --> 0:07:23.760 use it as a regular Bible. Uh, there's the passion translation, 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:26.010 which is very quirky, and I would say, no, don't 0:07:26.010 --> 0:07:28.440 use that as a regular reading Bible. 0:07:28.470 --> 0:07:30.720 The the the new living though that's the. 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:35.190 New living is, is a dynamic equivalence. And it's very good. Uh, 0:07:35.190 --> 0:07:37.710 but again, you have to read them and decide which 0:07:37.710 --> 0:07:41.160 one fits you the best. But, uh. 0:07:41.610 --> 0:07:43.350 I would say two if you if you grew up 0:07:43.350 --> 0:07:45.720 with the King James and you love it, then try 0:07:45.720 --> 0:07:47.670 the new King James, because it deals with some of 0:07:47.670 --> 0:07:52.090 those phrases that, that we don't use anymore the the 0:07:52.330 --> 0:07:54.520 the original King James and the new King James. 0:07:54.550 --> 0:07:58.090 New King James is a very good translation. However, I 0:07:58.090 --> 0:08:03.370 think the especially the Greek text is somewhat problematic that 0:08:03.370 --> 0:08:05.800 it's based on. And so I, I would, I would 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:08.620 try to go with a more modern translation, even more 0:08:08.650 --> 0:08:10.750 than the new King James. Although if you're really devoted 0:08:10.750 --> 0:08:15.100 to King James, uh, then then fine. Now, the one 0:08:15.100 --> 0:08:17.590 thing that Evo always says about what's the translation you 0:08:17.590 --> 0:08:18.040 should read? 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:21.340 I always say choose the translation that you will read 0:08:21.340 --> 0:08:23.650 the most, the one that you are the most comfortable 0:08:23.650 --> 0:08:25.900 with and understand the best. 0:08:25.930 --> 0:08:29.530 Yeah, because all those translations that we talked about are good. Translation. 0:08:29.530 --> 0:08:31.330 The NIV is a good translation. There are lots of 0:08:31.330 --> 0:08:31.720 good ones. 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:35.290 So the the ones are minor. Mhm. So the most 0:08:35.290 --> 0:08:37.599 important thing right. Read your Bible every day. 0:08:38.140 --> 0:08:43.780 That's right. Alright. Thank you. Brenda in Alabama listens to 0:08:43.809 --> 0:08:47.290 Wmft says I really appreciate you in the program. I 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:50.559 listen to you on Saturday mornings and learn so much. Uh, 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:54.520 you have talked about the acronym specs. S p e 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:58.209 c s that reminds you what to look for when 0:08:58.210 --> 0:09:01.479 you are studying a passage in the Bible. Can you 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:05.170 tell us again what those letters stand for? 0:09:05.500 --> 0:09:07.810 Sure. Now, I just want you to know that I 0:09:07.809 --> 0:09:10.780 never dreamed that this would have people from Open Line 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:13.870 asking me about. I get asked about this all the 0:09:13.870 --> 0:09:17.410 time when I go out and meet with people. Like, 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:22.270 do a live audience, open line. Uh, people will say, 0:09:22.270 --> 0:09:26.380 what's the specs again? I, I was a student in 0:09:26.410 --> 0:09:29.770 Howard Hendricks Bible study methods class, and he showed us specs, 0:09:29.770 --> 0:09:31.300 and I thought, oh, that's good. And I kind of 0:09:31.300 --> 0:09:34.420 tucked it away. And now and now I'm always amazed 0:09:34.420 --> 0:09:38.199 that people really like this. So here's what you put 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:39.760 on your specs when you read the Bible. It's a 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:43.689 way of making the Bible practical. 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:46.330 It's like putting on your glasses to see something more clearly. 0:09:46.450 --> 0:09:47.260 Put on your specs. 0:09:47.300 --> 0:09:49.520 Put on your specs, and so see if there's a 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:54.949 statement of truth to believe. Then there's also a promise 0:09:54.980 --> 0:10:01.670 to claim, an example to follow, a command to obey, 0:10:01.970 --> 0:10:06.830 or a sin to avoid. Those are the specs. Those 0:10:06.830 --> 0:10:11.300 are the the five letters statement of truth. Example to follow. 0:10:11.300 --> 0:10:15.590 Promise to claim, command to obey or sin to avoid. 0:10:15.590 --> 0:10:18.680 And you know you can reverse those S's if you want, 0:10:18.710 --> 0:10:20.839 but you know the sin to avoid at the beginning 0:10:20.840 --> 0:10:23.390 statement of truth to believe. But either way, it's right. 0:10:23.390 --> 0:10:28.280 You got your specs on. And uh uh, Trish, I 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:30.740 think what you need to do is once again. 0:10:31.580 --> 0:10:34.880 Post post the graphic on our Facebook and Instagram pages. 0:10:34.910 --> 0:10:37.970 That's great. So you can see that. Yeah. No, I 0:10:37.970 --> 0:10:41.059 made this fun little graphic like years ago. And so 0:10:41.059 --> 0:10:42.530 I keep bringing it out every once in a while 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:45.590 because I think especially as we begin a new year, uh, 0:10:45.630 --> 0:10:51.449 People are looking for ways to either reignite how they 0:10:51.450 --> 0:10:54.000 study the Bible or they're not sure where to start. 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:57.120 And I think having these questions are just good. So 0:10:57.120 --> 0:11:00.300 can you give me an example of how you would 0:11:00.300 --> 0:11:03.780 use this? Like let's say John one one in the beginning, 0:11:03.809 --> 0:11:05.700 maybe that's not a good verse. In the beginning. 0:11:05.730 --> 0:11:07.080 It's a great word. It's a great. 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:08.490 One. Okay. 0:11:08.550 --> 0:11:09.060 That's a. 0:11:09.059 --> 0:11:09.719 Passage. 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:13.380 God, that's a passage that affirms the deity of the 0:11:13.380 --> 0:11:16.620 Lord Jesus. The word was with God and the word 0:11:16.620 --> 0:11:20.760 was God. And then it says, Then the word became flesh. 0:11:20.790 --> 0:11:21.570 Later on in the. 0:11:21.570 --> 0:11:22.980 Passage, good for Christmas time. 0:11:23.100 --> 0:11:26.910 Yeah. And so here's the thing. That's a statement of truth. 0:11:26.910 --> 0:11:29.310 People often say, do I have to really believe that 0:11:29.309 --> 0:11:32.280 Jesus is fully God? And the answer is yes, that's 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:36.270 a statement of truth to believe. So that's a great example. 0:11:36.270 --> 0:11:40.170 When you read that, it affirms the truth. So yeah, 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:43.350 that's a good example. So another place. Yes. 0:11:44.130 --> 0:11:45.540 Well I was going to say. So. So when we 0:11:45.540 --> 0:11:49.020 do this, we're not looking for all five to no 0:11:49.050 --> 0:11:51.870 to be answered. You're looking for all five? One verse. Yeah. 0:11:51.900 --> 0:11:53.250 One verse might not have all. 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:56.430 Like in that verse. It might not have all five. 0:11:56.460 --> 0:11:58.920 But those are different ways that I can say. Is 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:01.679 there a statement of truth in there? Yes, yes there is. 0:12:01.710 --> 0:12:04.860 I have my radar on for all five of those. Yep. 0:12:04.860 --> 0:12:09.960 But I might only find one. So yeah. That's great. Okay. Uh, no. Okay. Wonderful. 0:12:09.960 --> 0:12:10.710 Thank you. 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:16.620 Uh, we're we're going to take a break here, but I, 0:12:16.650 --> 0:12:18.390 we're going to when we come back, I just want 0:12:18.420 --> 0:12:20.910 to mention that we're supposed to be reading the scriptures. 0:12:20.910 --> 0:12:22.530 I really want to encourage that. We're going to read 0:12:22.530 --> 0:12:25.050 through the Bible. I read through the Bible every year. 0:12:25.050 --> 0:12:30.390 So we're going to talk about that when we come back. Okay, Trish. Okay. Okay. Uh, 0:12:30.390 --> 0:12:32.670 and stay with us. There's a lot more to go 0:12:32.670 --> 0:12:35.640 on this all mailbag, all the time program of Open 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:39.000 Line with Michael Ray Dolnick, Eva Ray Dolnick and Trish McMillan. 0:12:41.970 --> 0:12:44.920 Do you ever feel overwhelmed trying to see how all 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:48.430 27 books of the New Testament fit together? Well, I 0:12:48.460 --> 0:12:51.219 have the perfect resource for you. Survey of the New 0:12:51.220 --> 0:12:54.189 Testament by Paul Benware takes you on a journey from 0:12:54.190 --> 0:12:57.580 Matthew to Revelation, giving you the big picture of God's 0:12:57.580 --> 0:13:01.990 grand story of redemption. 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And we're back 0:13:52.750 --> 0:13:56.290 for this special all mailbag All the time program with me, 0:13:56.290 --> 0:13:58.929 Michael Melnick. Eva Rydell. Nick is joining me. I know 0:13:58.929 --> 0:14:02.830 everyone's happy. Uh, I'm always amazed. Uh, people are like, 0:14:02.950 --> 0:14:05.620 we're we're okay with you, Nick, but wow, we love 0:14:05.620 --> 0:14:08.830 it when Eve is on the program. So. And then 0:14:08.860 --> 0:14:11.200 Tricia McMillan is here and we're going through the mailbag. 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:13.840 But before we hit the mailbag, we talked about posting 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:18.100 last segment, the specs graphic that you created. There's something 0:14:18.100 --> 0:14:21.100 else I think we need to post, and that is 0:14:21.130 --> 0:14:25.270 a read through the Bible in a year program. I 0:14:25.270 --> 0:14:27.700 think it's such a good thing. And we can read 0:14:27.700 --> 0:14:30.190 through the Bible. There's lots of different programs. I really 0:14:30.190 --> 0:14:33.010 want to encourage you to read it by book, not by. 0:14:33.310 --> 0:14:34.330 Uh, chronology. 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:38.620 Chronology. Just but and also read. Why do some Old 0:14:38.650 --> 0:14:41.630 Testament excuse me, uh, do some Old Testament. Do some 0:14:41.630 --> 0:14:44.420 New Testament. Both. I think that would be a really 0:14:44.420 --> 0:14:47.750 big help, uh, to to read, not just start in 0:14:47.750 --> 0:14:50.180 Genesis and work your way through. And so, Tricia, we 0:14:50.180 --> 0:14:53.900 have some, uh, read through the Bible in a year programs, 0:14:53.900 --> 0:14:56.810 or at least one that I really recommend that we 0:14:56.810 --> 0:14:59.960 can post as well. I want to help you do that. 0:14:59.960 --> 0:15:02.720 And if you're getting your your new Bible, your new 0:15:02.870 --> 0:15:06.620 moody Bible commentary, you're all set. Uh, Eva, you've been 0:15:06.620 --> 0:15:08.450 doing this forever. You do lots of different. 0:15:08.450 --> 0:15:10.729 Programs of different ways. I do lots of different ways. 0:15:10.730 --> 0:15:14.240 But one of the things that that you discovered is 0:15:14.240 --> 0:15:16.460 how many chapters a day do you have to read 0:15:16.490 --> 0:15:18.290 to get through the Bible in a year? Oh, I. 0:15:18.290 --> 0:15:20.210 Think you only have to read four chapters a day. 0:15:20.210 --> 0:15:22.520 I think it is. And if you read for 15 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:25.970 minutes a day, just 15 minutes, you can read through 0:15:25.970 --> 0:15:29.600 the whole Old Testament and the New Testament twice, the 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:32.300 Old Testament once, the New Testament, twice in a year, 0:15:32.330 --> 0:15:32.840 15 minutes. 0:15:32.900 --> 0:15:33.170 You think. 0:15:33.170 --> 0:15:37.190 How much time you spend on worthless stuff every. 0:15:37.220 --> 0:15:39.960 Day? Every day? Yeah. So 15 minutes a day is 0:15:39.960 --> 0:15:41.880 all you need. And you get through the Bible, the 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:45.360 Old Testament and the New Testament twice in a year. 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:49.470 Reading at a normal pace. Yeah. You know, so it's 0:15:49.500 --> 0:15:51.570 it's great. And, you know, maybe your church has a, 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:54.750 has a read through the Bible plan that your church. 0:15:54.750 --> 0:15:57.300 I know Mike Faber his church does. So if that 0:15:57.330 --> 0:15:59.160 if they have that do that. So you're so you're 0:15:59.160 --> 0:16:01.140 reading along with what everybody else is reading in your, 0:16:01.170 --> 0:16:04.770 in your congregation. But read it every day. 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:09.150 Yeah. Okay. Uh, so that's I wanted to make sure 0:16:09.150 --> 0:16:16.560 that that, uh, we had that on on tap for us. Okay. Uh, okay. Trish, 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:18.180 let's let's see where we can go with some more 0:16:18.180 --> 0:16:19.380 questions right now. 0:16:20.100 --> 0:16:24.990 Okay. Terry in Florida and Susan in Ohio both have 0:16:24.990 --> 0:16:31.320 a similar question where they are looking at their Bible carefully. And, um, 0:16:31.350 --> 0:16:38.160 in the back in the maps, it has it labeled 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:43.500 as um. It uses the word Palestine to talk about it. 0:16:43.500 --> 0:16:46.590 So expansion of the early Church in Palestine or Palestine 0:16:46.620 --> 0:16:50.550 and New Testament times. What is meant by this? Shouldn't 0:16:50.550 --> 0:16:52.590 it say Israel instead? 0:16:52.830 --> 0:16:53.520 Well, let's. 0:16:53.670 --> 0:16:56.160 Wait. And some apps will even say Palestine in the 0:16:56.160 --> 0:16:57.090 time of Abraham. 0:16:57.120 --> 0:17:00.630 Yeah, some maps on some in some Bibles say that. 0:17:00.630 --> 0:17:03.390 Now here's where the word Palestine came from. It became 0:17:03.390 --> 0:17:07.440 in the Roman period, it became a regional term, a 0:17:07.440 --> 0:17:11.550 term for that region. Uh, but it wasn't really a country. 0:17:11.550 --> 0:17:15.570 And then by the second century, there was a Jewish 0:17:15.570 --> 0:17:21.000 revolt against Rome. And Hadrian. The emperor defeated the Second 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:24.840 Great Jewish Revolt in 135. And he was so annoyed 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:29.010 with this Jewish community that he wanted to wipe out the. 0:17:29.190 --> 0:17:30.090 Memory. 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:33.120 The memory of this being a Jewish land. And he thought, 0:17:33.150 --> 0:17:37.480 who are the ancient enemies of the Jewish people. Well, 0:17:37.480 --> 0:17:39.790 it's the Philistines. So he took that word like. 0:17:39.790 --> 0:17:40.689 Like David and Goliath. 0:17:40.720 --> 0:17:46.270 Yeah. And he said, let's rename the area of Palestine. 0:17:46.270 --> 0:17:50.470 And so they changed the name of Jerusalem to Aelia Capitolina. 0:17:50.500 --> 0:17:53.650 They changed. And the Romans then changed the name of 0:17:53.650 --> 0:17:57.129 the land from Judea to Palestine. And it was in 0:17:57.130 --> 0:17:59.260 the second century. So in the time of Jesus and 0:17:59.260 --> 0:18:01.300 the time of the book of acts, it was always 0:18:01.300 --> 0:18:04.690 called either Judea. The northern part was called Galilee. The 0:18:04.690 --> 0:18:07.690 whole place was called Judea. The the area was still 0:18:07.690 --> 0:18:09.399 in the Bible called the Land of Israel, or the 0:18:09.400 --> 0:18:11.740 land of the Jews. In the New Testament, the word 0:18:11.740 --> 0:18:15.609 Palestine is never found except in the maps. And the 0:18:15.609 --> 0:18:18.700 reason this is significant is now the state of Israel exists, 0:18:18.700 --> 0:18:23.410 and the word Palestine has become a sort of controversial term. 0:18:23.800 --> 0:18:26.800 And so when it's talking about Israel, it's not talking 0:18:26.800 --> 0:18:29.740 about Palestine, it's talking about Israel. And that's the biblical name. 0:18:29.740 --> 0:18:32.560 So much so that I have a radical wife. 0:18:32.590 --> 0:18:34.959 I have a glue stick, and I'll find a little 0:18:34.960 --> 0:18:38.199 print word of Israel, and I'll glue it over the 0:18:38.200 --> 0:18:38.890 word Palestine. 0:18:39.130 --> 0:18:40.150 On her maps in her. 0:18:40.150 --> 0:18:42.280 Bible. So if I if I have a Bible that 0:18:42.280 --> 0:18:45.610 has Palestine on the maps, I, I correct it with 0:18:45.609 --> 0:18:48.220 the word Israel or Judea because I think it is 0:18:48.220 --> 0:18:51.280 so wrong. And like Michael said, it was a regional. 0:18:51.400 --> 0:18:55.990 Initially it was a regional word, like Africa, but it was. 0:18:55.990 --> 0:18:56.770 From the Roman period. 0:18:56.770 --> 0:18:59.020 From the Roman period. And then it was then it 0:18:59.020 --> 0:19:02.590 was like focused in on on Judea. Yeah. And it 0:19:02.590 --> 0:19:03.159 became Palestine. 0:19:03.190 --> 0:19:05.830 Why why is it still on the maps? 0:19:06.640 --> 0:19:07.600 Uh, because. 0:19:07.600 --> 0:19:09.100 The Romans made all the maps. 0:19:09.130 --> 0:19:10.210 Well, begin with. 0:19:10.270 --> 0:19:12.909 Well, no, but in our in our current Bibles that 0:19:12.910 --> 0:19:16.570 are being revised and updated. And why why are those. 0:19:16.600 --> 0:19:20.200 I mean, obviously, everybody knows. I would think that in 0:19:20.200 --> 0:19:23.260 the time of Abraham, it wasn't called that because it. 0:19:23.260 --> 0:19:23.650 Was called. 0:19:23.950 --> 0:19:28.000 Canaan. So. So why doesn't it say Canaan in Abraham's time? 0:19:28.030 --> 0:19:32.170 Or like why? Why are the current Bibles that are 0:19:32.170 --> 0:19:35.480 still being printed and updated. Why do they still have that? 0:19:35.510 --> 0:19:40.700 Well, because it became the term for centuries in in 0:19:40.790 --> 0:19:45.169 scholarly literature. So if you're writing in the 19th century 0:19:45.619 --> 0:19:48.830 that that was the land as it was called then. 0:19:48.830 --> 0:19:51.650 So they didn't use the biblical terms, they used the 0:19:51.650 --> 0:19:54.139 term that was in that time. So in the 18th century, 0:19:54.170 --> 0:19:58.310 19th century, early 20th century scholars always used the term 0:19:58.730 --> 0:20:02.359 that as it was then Palestine for about 1800 years, 0:20:02.390 --> 0:20:08.660 1900 years. And so now they just I don't think 0:20:08.660 --> 0:20:11.240 there's any it's not like there's a political purpose for 0:20:11.240 --> 0:20:14.209 most people. When they do that, they're just keeping up. 0:20:14.300 --> 0:20:14.510 It's a. 0:20:14.510 --> 0:20:14.930 Tradition. 0:20:15.170 --> 0:20:16.700 It's a tradition. It's a tradition. 0:20:16.700 --> 0:20:18.379 And you'll see it. The other place you'll see it too, 0:20:18.410 --> 0:20:20.959 is in Bible dictionaries. Sometimes it'll talk about events that 0:20:20.960 --> 0:20:25.459 happened in Palestine, and, you know, you'll hear it in sermons. 0:20:25.670 --> 0:20:28.609 I was once being interviewed by. This was about 20 0:20:28.609 --> 0:20:33.510 years ago. It was during the time of the Second Intifada, 0:20:33.510 --> 0:20:36.899 when there was a lot of violence and terrorism in Israel, 0:20:36.900 --> 0:20:41.070 people crossing into Israel. And I was being interviewed by 0:20:41.070 --> 0:20:44.190 someone from Moody on Moody Radio and they said, hey, Michael, 0:20:44.340 --> 0:20:47.520 update us on what's going on in Palestine. And I said, 0:20:47.520 --> 0:20:53.070 do you mean Israel? Oh, yeah, I guess so. So yeah. Well, 0:20:53.070 --> 0:20:53.370 I think. 0:20:53.369 --> 0:20:56.400 There's confusion of it. And now with the, um, I 0:20:56.400 --> 0:21:01.380 think politics today has heightened the awareness. 0:21:01.380 --> 0:21:01.740 That the. 0:21:01.740 --> 0:21:05.850 Word is being used or it is being used. Um, 0:21:05.850 --> 0:21:08.670 but I think there's still that confusion over are they 0:21:08.670 --> 0:21:11.100 the same? Where did it come from? You know, these 0:21:11.100 --> 0:21:11.670 kind of things. 0:21:11.670 --> 0:21:14.640 So that's why. And then we find it in our Bibles. 0:21:14.760 --> 0:21:15.270 Yeah. 0:21:15.300 --> 0:21:19.830 I'm revising a book called understanding the Arab-Israeli conflict and 0:21:19.830 --> 0:21:24.570 updating that. And that explains how these terms came to be. So. Okay. 0:21:24.570 --> 0:21:25.379 Wonderful. 0:21:25.590 --> 0:21:27.660 You can still get the old edition, but I'm updating 0:21:27.660 --> 0:21:29.460 the into a new one. Yeah. 0:21:29.490 --> 0:21:32.470 Wonderful. Well, thank you for that. I hope that helps 0:21:32.470 --> 0:21:35.770 clear things up. Terry and Susan Kylie in Indiana listens 0:21:35.770 --> 0:21:40.600 to Wagner, and she's going to take us back to Genesis. 0:21:40.600 --> 0:21:43.300 When God created the earth, he created the sun and 0:21:43.300 --> 0:21:46.540 the moon and the stars to provide light. When you 0:21:46.540 --> 0:21:49.600 get to revelation, John describes the new heaven and a 0:21:49.600 --> 0:21:51.669 new earth and says, there is no need for the 0:21:51.670 --> 0:21:54.940 sun because it will be the light. Why did God 0:21:54.940 --> 0:21:57.910 create the sun for the first creation, if he intended 0:21:57.910 --> 0:22:02.770 to dwell with humanity in the garden? Like, why even 0:22:02.770 --> 0:22:05.860 make the sun if because he it says he walked 0:22:05.859 --> 0:22:08.620 with them in the garden. 0:22:09.340 --> 0:22:11.080 Well, why would I? 0:22:11.260 --> 0:22:12.730 Is that a little different? 0:22:12.760 --> 0:22:18.190 In this creation, God intended to use the sun. Uh, the. 0:22:18.340 --> 0:22:21.429 I don't know that, you know, it's what was God's 0:22:21.430 --> 0:22:25.930 ultimate intention with that, I don't know, uh, but I 0:22:25.930 --> 0:22:28.660 do know that in the new heavens and the new earth, 0:22:28.660 --> 0:22:32.830 that means it's a new creation. It's it's it's a 0:22:32.830 --> 0:22:36.010 new world. I don't know if it's a renovated world. 0:22:36.070 --> 0:22:40.840 This one, uh, when I was the new one. Yeah, yeah. 0:22:40.869 --> 0:22:45.010 Or is it a brand new? Completely never existed before creation. 0:22:45.010 --> 0:22:48.730 I don't know, with the New Jerusalem, but it's. It's 0:22:48.730 --> 0:22:51.310 going to be a new world. And that's why it's 0:22:51.310 --> 0:22:53.890 going to be different. That's that's all I. You know, 0:22:53.920 --> 0:22:56.260 I don't know that God's purpose in the Garden of 0:22:56.260 --> 0:23:00.460 Eden was to provide the light through his own being. 0:23:00.460 --> 0:23:02.320 I don't I don't see that. 0:23:02.410 --> 0:23:05.169 Because he created the sun as the source of the light, 0:23:05.890 --> 0:23:08.560 the greater light and the lesser light. Okay. All right. 0:23:08.859 --> 0:23:18.460 Thank you. Uh, Genesis 3631 Mike writes from Idaho. Seems so. 0:23:18.609 --> 0:23:20.440 We got a couple of things. There seems to have 0:23:20.440 --> 0:23:24.730 been a long time after Moses. 0:23:25.420 --> 0:23:27.010 Genesis 3631. 0:23:27.220 --> 0:23:32.090 Genesis 3631, which happens before Moses. So I will clarify 0:23:32.090 --> 0:23:35.000 that in terms of when Moses shows up. But it says, 0:23:35.000 --> 0:23:37.250 these are the kings who ruled in the land of 0:23:37.369 --> 0:23:41.930 Edom before any king ruled over the Israelites. So after 0:23:41.930 --> 0:23:46.550 meaning there is a reference to future events of these 0:23:46.580 --> 0:23:50.870 Israelite kings, um, which happened after Moses. So I think 0:23:50.869 --> 0:23:56.659 that that's what he means. Um. This doesn't seem to 0:23:56.660 --> 0:23:59.150 make sense, then, that Moses would write that, since that 0:23:59.150 --> 0:24:02.630 would have happened so long after he would have written 0:24:02.660 --> 0:24:06.260 the books in the Pentateuch. Can you address that? 0:24:06.470 --> 0:24:12.080 Yes. Uh, people have used this to attack mosaic authorship 0:24:12.080 --> 0:24:20.930 of the Pentateuch. What they don't realize is that Moses wrote, uh, 0:24:21.710 --> 0:24:27.440 and then it was copied from generation to generation to generation. 0:24:27.770 --> 0:24:32.480 And as they copied it, they updated. It's what Michael 0:24:32.480 --> 0:24:36.619 Grisanti at Master's Seminary calls inspire updates. And there were 0:24:36.619 --> 0:24:40.040 these updates as they copied it. That and they were 0:24:40.040 --> 0:24:43.490 inspired updates right up until the close of the canon. 0:24:43.490 --> 0:24:46.940 In fact, one of those inspired updates is the very 0:24:46.940 --> 0:24:50.810 last chapter of the Pentateuch, where it talks about Moses death. 0:24:50.810 --> 0:24:53.960 And there's no prophet that has arisen like Moses since 0:24:53.960 --> 0:24:54.740 that time. 0:24:54.740 --> 0:24:58.430 So you don't think he wrote this about himself, right? Yeah, right. 0:24:58.460 --> 0:24:59.660 I'm kidding. I don't think he did. 0:24:59.690 --> 0:25:02.300 Right, exactly. And it wasn't written like five minutes after 0:25:02.300 --> 0:25:02.630 he died. 0:25:02.660 --> 0:25:04.790 It was a long time later. So I like to 0:25:04.820 --> 0:25:06.710 call the final version that we have at the close 0:25:06.710 --> 0:25:10.130 of the canon, Torah 2.0, and it has all these updates. 0:25:10.130 --> 0:25:14.990 For example, the city of Laish is, uh, is called 0:25:14.990 --> 0:25:18.169 Dan because later on the Israelites came into the land 0:25:18.170 --> 0:25:23.419 and took Dan. And so what you have is inspired 0:25:23.420 --> 0:25:28.170 updates people like Ezra and others who were doing the updating, 0:25:28.200 --> 0:25:31.500 who were biblical writers. They updated it so that it's 0:25:31.500 --> 0:25:34.290 what we have today. So Moses wrote it. Torah 2.0. 0:25:34.320 --> 0:25:36.840 Let's put that in the hands of Ezra. And and 0:25:36.840 --> 0:25:38.129 that's what we've got today. 0:25:38.130 --> 0:25:39.390 So. All right. Great. 0:25:39.990 --> 0:25:42.720 Hope that helps with that. We're going to come back 0:25:42.720 --> 0:25:45.240 with more of your questions in just a moment. You're 0:25:45.240 --> 0:25:47.430 listening to Open Line with my two guests. Eva. Right. 0:25:47.760 --> 0:25:51.570 Tricia McMillan. And we'll be right back. Stay right there. 0:25:58.650 --> 0:26:01.980 We're so glad that Febc partners with Open Line with 0:26:01.980 --> 0:26:06.120 Doctor Michael Ray Dolnick bringing the Febc mailbag every week. 0:26:06.119 --> 0:26:09.359 Learn how far East Broadcasting Company is taking Christ to 0:26:09.390 --> 0:26:13.710 the world at febc. Org on their weekly podcast. Until 0:26:13.710 --> 0:26:16.470 all have heard with Ed Cannon, you'll hear stories of 0:26:16.470 --> 0:26:20.580 lives changed by Messiah all across the globe. Again, you 0:26:20.580 --> 0:26:24.750 can hear the podcast when you visit febc. Dawg. That's 0:26:24.840 --> 0:26:39.780 fake dawg. Welcome back to Open Line I'm Michael Radonich 0:26:39.780 --> 0:26:44.580 and joining me today is Eva Radonich and Tricia McMillan. What? We're, uh, 0:26:44.580 --> 0:26:47.879 what we're doing today is clearing the spindle. We're emptying 0:26:47.880 --> 0:26:51.300 out the the inbox. We're trying to answer the questions 0:26:51.300 --> 0:26:54.149 that you've sent in that are left over from last year. 0:26:54.150 --> 0:26:57.480 And we're starting the new year off next week with 0:26:57.480 --> 0:27:00.629 new questions that you've mailed in. But today, don't call. 0:27:00.630 --> 0:27:03.420 It's just a time for us to go through the mailbag. 0:27:03.420 --> 0:27:06.179 And I'm so glad that Trish has pulled this together. 0:27:06.180 --> 0:27:07.979 We're going to try and get through as many as 0:27:07.980 --> 0:27:09.450 we can, aren't we, Tricia? 0:27:09.570 --> 0:27:15.540 We are. Okay. Our our next question is from Linda 0:27:15.540 --> 0:27:18.959 in Illinois. Listens to WMP, says I'm reading my Bible 0:27:18.960 --> 0:27:22.260 daily to finish in one year. I'm in acts now 0:27:22.260 --> 0:27:26.530 and today is a reading about Saul or Paul. As 0:27:26.530 --> 0:27:28.629 a side note, the commentator says that there is a 0:27:28.660 --> 0:27:32.470 forbidden chapter in the Tanakh, and rabbis will not allow 0:27:32.500 --> 0:27:35.800 Isaiah 53 to be read in synagogues. I've never heard 0:27:35.800 --> 0:27:37.660 this before. Is this true? 0:27:39.580 --> 0:27:43.840 Uh, no. No. Not true. 0:27:43.869 --> 0:27:50.440 A lot of people misunderstand the reading cycle. Uh, in 0:27:50.440 --> 0:27:53.710 the synagogue. The synagogue. Three times a week. We read 0:27:53.710 --> 0:27:56.800 in the synagogue from the Torah, so that in a 0:27:56.800 --> 0:28:03.250 year we will complete the entire Torah Genesis through Deuteronomy. 0:28:03.580 --> 0:28:07.630 Then there's something called the Haftorah. Uh, and it doesn't 0:28:07.630 --> 0:28:10.090 mean half of the Torah. It's just it's a prophets 0:28:10.119 --> 0:28:16.150 reading and excerpts from the prophets are read as well. 0:28:16.150 --> 0:28:19.390 Not the whole set of the prophets, but excerpts from 0:28:19.390 --> 0:28:24.619 the section called the prophets and sometimes they don't read 0:28:24.619 --> 0:28:29.360 any of it. And Isaiah 5213 through 5312 was not 0:28:29.359 --> 0:28:34.910 included in the prophets readings. Reading. It's not forbidden. It's 0:28:34.910 --> 0:28:39.020 just not in the reading cycle that we have three 0:28:39.020 --> 0:28:43.700 times a week. Uh, just they have excerpts from the prophets, 0:28:43.700 --> 0:28:49.070 but every Hebrew Bible has Isaiah 53 in it. Every Hebrew, uh, 0:28:49.070 --> 0:28:53.750 Bible is you're encouraged to read it. There's no there's 0:28:53.750 --> 0:28:57.710 no forbidden chapter. Now, it may be I wonder why 0:28:57.710 --> 0:29:00.590 they left that one out of all you know, I 0:29:00.590 --> 0:29:04.460 don't know. Uh, but it's not forbidden by any means. 0:29:04.460 --> 0:29:07.310 It's in the Bible. Uh, it's commented on by Jewish 0:29:07.310 --> 0:29:10.250 commentators over and over. I disagree with their comments. Most 0:29:10.250 --> 0:29:15.620 common since the Middle Ages. Most Jewish commentators say it's, uh, 0:29:16.190 --> 0:29:20.360 it's about Israel as the suffering servant, not the Messiah, 0:29:20.360 --> 0:29:24.350 but ancient rabbis said it was the Messiah. But I. 0:29:24.350 --> 0:29:26.780 I think it's wrong to say it's forbidden. 0:29:26.810 --> 0:29:30.950 Yeah, it's it's not a plot. Yeah. To keep Isaiah 0:29:30.980 --> 0:29:33.650 53 from being read. There's a lot of portions that 0:29:33.650 --> 0:29:35.780 aren't read, but but we just happen to know what 0:29:35.780 --> 0:29:38.510 a significant portion that is. Yeah, I'd have. 0:29:38.510 --> 0:29:40.640 Picked it if I had been the rabbi setting the reading. 0:29:40.640 --> 0:29:42.920 Cycle. Yeah, right. But, you know, that was a long 0:29:42.920 --> 0:29:45.260 time ago. We weren't around. Yeah. So. 0:29:45.290 --> 0:29:48.560 Okay. All right. Thank you. Thank you for that clarification. 0:29:48.560 --> 0:29:51.380 And thank you for that question, Linda. Marilyn listens to 0:29:51.410 --> 0:29:54.980 us in Melbourne, Australia on the Moody Radio app. Oh, hooray! 0:29:55.100 --> 0:29:57.680 I'm grateful for you. I know right. I'm grateful for 0:29:57.680 --> 0:30:01.100 your wonderful teaching that has ministered to me through your program. 0:30:01.100 --> 0:30:05.030 I'm doing a devotional that presents Psalm 91 as literal 0:30:05.030 --> 0:30:08.330 promises from God, and I'm having trouble accepting that. Can 0:30:08.330 --> 0:30:12.080 you please explain how we should make sense of Psalm 91, 0:30:12.110 --> 0:30:15.590 the context, meaning, and how to apply it personally in 0:30:15.590 --> 0:30:17.090 our relationship with the Lord? 0:30:17.540 --> 0:30:20.100 Yeah, a lot of people ask me about Psalm 91 0:30:20.100 --> 0:30:24.780 in particular during the Covid pandemic when we were all 0:30:24.780 --> 0:30:30.060 locked down. And the reason for it, uh, it talks 0:30:30.060 --> 0:30:31.950 about the one who lives under the protection of the 0:30:31.950 --> 0:30:35.370 Most High, dwells in the shadow of the Almighty. And 0:30:35.370 --> 0:30:40.080 it says that, uh, because you've made the Lord God 0:30:40.080 --> 0:30:43.620 your refuge, uh, no harm will come to you. No 0:30:43.620 --> 0:30:46.680 plague will come near your tent, for he will give 0:30:46.680 --> 0:30:49.860 his angels orders concerning you, to protect you in all 0:30:49.860 --> 0:30:52.650 your ways. Sounds like nothing could ever make us die. 0:30:52.680 --> 0:30:57.420 Nothing could ever make us, uh, you know, fall into 0:30:57.450 --> 0:31:00.960 any kind of problem. Uh, I think, first of all, 0:31:00.960 --> 0:31:02.580 we need to look at the Book of Psalms as 0:31:02.580 --> 0:31:05.310 the prayer book of the Messiah. As Bonhoeffer called it, 0:31:05.310 --> 0:31:08.460 this is really more about Jesus than it is about us, 0:31:08.460 --> 0:31:12.840 but it's applicable in our lives. And this was quoted 0:31:12.840 --> 0:31:15.270 by the enemy when he said. 0:31:15.570 --> 0:31:18.780 Yeah, when he when he says in the in the wilderness, 0:31:18.810 --> 0:31:22.229 you know, cast yourself down. Nothing can happen to you. Yeah. 0:31:22.260 --> 0:31:24.780 He he'll give his angels charge over you. 0:31:24.810 --> 0:31:25.140 Yeah. 0:31:25.170 --> 0:31:29.550 And he quotes Psalm 91. And the first answer that 0:31:29.550 --> 0:31:32.910 the Lord gave was, uh, don't tempt the Lord your God. 0:31:32.910 --> 0:31:34.050 Don't tempt the Lord your God. Yeah. 0:31:34.080 --> 0:31:35.940 Yeah. You don't. You don't say, oh, nothing's going to 0:31:35.970 --> 0:31:37.440 bad's going to happen to me. So let me I'm 0:31:37.440 --> 0:31:41.730 going to go play in traffic. That's that's not that's 0:31:41.730 --> 0:31:44.940 not what this is teaching. Don't tempt God. Right. Uh, 0:31:44.940 --> 0:31:49.110 the second thing is, what this means is nothing can 0:31:49.110 --> 0:31:53.490 happen to you until God's time. If it meant that 0:31:53.490 --> 0:31:55.620 nothing ever could happen to you, that no one could 0:31:55.620 --> 0:31:58.830 ever die, then this verse, which has its primary sense 0:31:58.830 --> 0:32:03.270 about the Messiah, he would have never died. But it 0:32:03.270 --> 0:32:06.000 was up to God's. Nothing could happen to you apart 0:32:06.000 --> 0:32:09.030 from God's timing. Right. And God's will. 0:32:09.060 --> 0:32:11.190 This is what's so important about how you read all 0:32:11.220 --> 0:32:12.990 of the Bible. You just don't have just. This is my. 0:32:13.020 --> 0:32:14.219 This is all I know of the Bible. I'm just 0:32:14.220 --> 0:32:17.560 going to read this. This this one, one psalm. Whereas 0:32:17.560 --> 0:32:21.100 job said, Though he slay me, yet will I trust him. Yeah. 0:32:21.130 --> 0:32:21.670 You know. 0:32:21.700 --> 0:32:26.140 So the time of it is, I think, here's the 0:32:26.140 --> 0:32:29.830 principle that we can apply in our lives. Nothing bad 0:32:29.830 --> 0:32:32.080 can happen to us or those whom we love if 0:32:32.110 --> 0:32:35.680 we've taken God as our protector. Unless the time is 0:32:35.680 --> 0:32:39.220 right when God allows it. Everyone's going to die. Some 0:32:39.220 --> 0:32:43.690 people die younger. Some people die older. Uh, unless we're 0:32:43.690 --> 0:32:46.540 going to get raptured. But otherwise we're going to die. 0:32:46.630 --> 0:32:49.930 We can't take this verse, say, oh no, nothing bad 0:32:49.930 --> 0:32:54.340 will ever happen to us. You know, that's just not true. Uh, 0:32:54.340 --> 0:32:57.580 but nothing bad will ever happen to us apart from 0:32:57.580 --> 0:33:01.030 God's permission and timing. That's what it's teaching. 0:33:01.840 --> 0:33:04.780 Okay, I think back to the specs that we talked 0:33:04.780 --> 0:33:08.470 about in the first part of the program and the 0:33:08.470 --> 0:33:12.790 the statement of truth about who God is in this 0:33:12.790 --> 0:33:17.870 and what he will do the promise to claim. Um, 0:33:18.080 --> 0:33:19.280 is there a promise to claim? 0:33:19.700 --> 0:33:21.680 Yeah. The promise here that we can claim is that 0:33:21.680 --> 0:33:23.660 nothing bad can happen to us until God's time. 0:33:23.690 --> 0:33:25.940 And we're abiding in the shadow of the Almighty. No 0:33:25.940 --> 0:33:27.050 matter what's happening to us. 0:33:27.080 --> 0:33:30.680 Yeah. Whether we're. We're here or in his presence. You know, 0:33:30.710 --> 0:33:32.840 even I we've thought about this verse quite a bit 0:33:32.840 --> 0:33:36.020 when we became parents, you know. And Trish, you know this. 0:33:36.020 --> 0:33:38.870 How do we worry about our kids? You know that we're. 0:33:39.380 --> 0:33:41.060 In every way you can think. 0:33:41.090 --> 0:33:43.100 Of. Yeah. It goes from is it going to be 0:33:43.100 --> 0:33:46.010 like crib death or run over by a car or 0:33:46.010 --> 0:33:48.920 drown at the pool playing with your friends or making 0:33:48.950 --> 0:33:49.970 terrible choices? 0:33:50.000 --> 0:33:50.780 We're just. 0:33:51.080 --> 0:33:54.590 And I kept thinking, apart from trusting God, I couldn't 0:33:54.590 --> 0:33:57.980 have had kids. I don't know how people who. 0:33:58.010 --> 0:33:59.360 Are parenting without. 0:33:59.420 --> 0:34:02.690 Parenting, without the Lord in their life. I, I don't 0:34:02.720 --> 0:34:04.550 know how they they get up in the morning, you know, 0:34:04.580 --> 0:34:08.390 they because the the anxiety closet would fly open. But 0:34:08.390 --> 0:34:10.400 I trust God he knows what he's doing. 0:34:10.969 --> 0:34:13.609 Yeah, yeah. And even I think the sin to avoid 0:34:13.610 --> 0:34:18.500 in this one. What Jesus said when he refutes Satan 0:34:18.500 --> 0:34:21.380 is don't tempt God, you know, with these things. So? 0:34:21.380 --> 0:34:23.510 So there are lots of ways we can. 0:34:23.690 --> 0:34:27.170 Yeah. Eat healthy, don't play in traffic, you know, do 0:34:27.170 --> 0:34:29.960 the things that you're supposed to do and, you know, 0:34:29.989 --> 0:34:32.060 work out. Do all the stuff that you're supposed to do. 0:34:32.090 --> 0:34:33.560 People say, why should I do that if God knows 0:34:33.560 --> 0:34:35.960 the day of my death? Well, yeah, but he may 0:34:35.960 --> 0:34:38.810 have determined that we work out and eat healthy to, uh, 0:34:38.840 --> 0:34:42.590 to preserve us. So let's let's go ahead and do that. So. 0:34:42.620 --> 0:34:45.109 All right, thank you for that question, Marilyn. And thank 0:34:45.140 --> 0:34:47.420 you for listening to us in Australia. 0:34:48.050 --> 0:34:51.410 Yeah. Yep. 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It's clearing the spindle. We're answering the 0:36:12.780 --> 0:36:15.660 the questions you've mailed in every nick is with me, 0:36:15.660 --> 0:36:18.150 Tricia McMillan. And we're going to go right back to 0:36:18.180 --> 0:36:20.160 the mailbag right now. Tricia. 0:36:20.400 --> 0:36:24.089 All right. Our next question is from a man in 0:36:24.090 --> 0:36:27.120 Illinois who listens to WNBA and says, what is the 0:36:27.120 --> 0:36:31.890 difference in meaning between Savior, Messiah, and Lord? 0:36:33.030 --> 0:36:35.040 Well, they're all three different words. 0:36:35.040 --> 0:36:36.330 Uh, they are. 0:36:36.360 --> 0:36:38.460 Yeah. I mean, they're not they're not. 0:36:38.460 --> 0:36:39.150 Use them. 0:36:39.660 --> 0:36:43.230 Interchangeably. They're all about the same person. We use them 0:36:43.230 --> 0:36:46.170 interchangeably about the same person, but they don't. They're not 0:36:46.170 --> 0:36:51.630 synonyms at all. They're not even they're not related in meaning. Uh, 0:36:51.630 --> 0:36:55.020 I'll start with Savior. Eva. You can take Messiah. 0:36:55.050 --> 0:36:56.069 You bet about that. 0:36:56.400 --> 0:37:00.779 Uh, Savior is the word both in Hebrew and in 0:37:00.780 --> 0:37:04.290 Greek that's used in the Bible. It really means deliverance. 0:37:04.290 --> 0:37:08.400 And it can. The context tells us what kind of 0:37:08.410 --> 0:37:13.209 deliverance it might be, military or physical deliverance that God gives. 0:37:13.210 --> 0:37:16.720 He saves us. Oh, you saved me. You know that 0:37:16.719 --> 0:37:19.390 kind of word. And then, of course, it could be 0:37:19.390 --> 0:37:23.469 used of deliverance from sin, forgiveness of sin. He saved 0:37:23.469 --> 0:37:26.500 me from my sin. And that's how it's used, for example, 0:37:26.500 --> 0:37:31.120 in the message of of the angel that you'll name 0:37:31.120 --> 0:37:36.250 him Jesus. Uh, because that's the Hebrew word in Hebrew, 0:37:36.280 --> 0:37:39.880 the word Jesus is, uh, Yeshua, Yeshua. And it means 0:37:39.880 --> 0:37:42.969 salvation because he will save his people from their sins. 0:37:42.969 --> 0:37:44.380 So that's what Savior means. 0:37:44.380 --> 0:37:47.770 And the word Messiah, as we say it in English, 0:37:47.770 --> 0:37:51.820 actually means Anointed One. And because he was anointed, kings 0:37:51.820 --> 0:37:55.270 were anointed, priests were anointed. And he is the Anointed 0:37:55.270 --> 0:37:57.700 one as our Savior and Redeemer. 0:37:57.940 --> 0:38:01.509 And it came to have a technical sense to have. 0:38:01.510 --> 0:38:05.650 A technical sense specifically to the work of the son. 0:38:05.650 --> 0:38:11.180 And we know it. It translated into English as Christ. 0:38:11.210 --> 0:38:16.340 Christ is the Greek meaning for the Anointed one. Moshiach 0:38:16.370 --> 0:38:20.509 is the Hebrew or Messiah, as in English, so Christ 0:38:20.510 --> 0:38:25.820 and Messiah. Same word. Two languages like water and agua. 0:38:25.850 --> 0:38:27.590 Same word. Two languages. 0:38:27.710 --> 0:38:31.850 Right. So. Okay, so that's it. And it got this 0:38:31.850 --> 0:38:34.850 technical sense of being the future son of David who 0:38:34.850 --> 0:38:38.029 would come and deliver his people. And that's that's how 0:38:38.030 --> 0:38:41.150 it's used when Jesus, when we talk about Jesus the Messiah, 0:38:41.180 --> 0:38:44.870 the last word is Lord. It means master, but it 0:38:44.870 --> 0:38:49.100 is in in Greek. It's got the sense of curiosity 0:38:49.130 --> 0:38:52.730 sometimes can mean sir or master, but sometimes it can 0:38:52.730 --> 0:38:58.609 also mean God. Uh, and so context again declares what 0:38:58.610 --> 0:39:03.290 it is. Uh, and that's what it means. And so when, uh, 0:39:03.290 --> 0:39:06.050 when we use of our Lord, you know, we were 0:39:06.080 --> 0:39:09.200 we know the word Lord, Lord of the manor or 0:39:09.200 --> 0:39:13.819 things like that. Uh, but also we know, Lord God. 0:39:13.820 --> 0:39:16.340 And so context tells us. 0:39:17.330 --> 0:39:17.900 Okay. 0:39:17.960 --> 0:39:22.310 All right. Thank you. Um, I think an interesting verse, 0:39:22.310 --> 0:39:27.259 John 2031 actually uses at least a couple of these. 0:39:27.290 --> 0:39:29.779 These are written that you may believe that Jesus is 0:39:29.780 --> 0:39:32.960 the Christ or the Messiah, the Son of God, and 0:39:32.960 --> 0:39:35.120 that by believing you may have life in his name. 0:39:35.120 --> 0:39:39.830 And so it it it can get, uh, we can 0:39:39.830 --> 0:39:41.960 we can stop trying to figure out, like, what do 0:39:41.960 --> 0:39:44.030 they all mean? Because sometimes they just got get all 0:39:44.060 --> 0:39:48.110 run together, like, that's like, okay, they're just talking about Jesus. Like, yeah, 0:39:48.140 --> 0:39:52.130 you know that they all that John 2031. What? All 0:39:52.130 --> 0:39:56.090 of those individual words have a different meaning. 0:39:56.210 --> 0:40:00.020 So when it says that, uh, that you might believe 0:40:00.020 --> 0:40:05.610 that Jesus, that's his earthly human birth name. Right. So 0:40:05.610 --> 0:40:11.130 that shows he's human is the Messiah. That's, uh, that 0:40:11.130 --> 0:40:13.710 has to do with his royal name. He's the promised 0:40:13.710 --> 0:40:17.850 son of David, the king. Uh, the king of Israel. 0:40:17.850 --> 0:40:20.700 And so that's his royal name. So a human name. 0:40:20.700 --> 0:40:24.509 Royal name, and then a. Royal title. And then that 0:40:24.510 --> 0:40:26.940 he's the Son of God that reflects his deity, his 0:40:26.940 --> 0:40:31.440 god name. His God title. So, uh, in that verse, 0:40:31.440 --> 0:40:38.399 it deals with human humanity, deity and royalty all. Three 0:40:38.400 --> 0:40:39.300 so yeah. 0:40:39.360 --> 0:40:40.560 That's a great verse to bring up. 0:40:40.590 --> 0:40:40.920 Trish. 0:40:41.070 --> 0:40:43.680 Great verse. Does the does the use of Jesus in 0:40:43.710 --> 0:40:48.210 that mean savior then? Yeah. The Yeshua okay. So it's 0:40:48.239 --> 0:40:50.730 actually using Savior and Messiah. 0:40:50.760 --> 0:40:52.410 Yeah. In the same sentence. 0:40:52.440 --> 0:40:54.300 God all in that same sentence. 0:40:54.330 --> 0:40:55.529 Yes. Son of God. Yeah. 0:40:55.830 --> 0:41:00.029 Son of God. But the deity aspect. Yeah. Okay. All right. 0:41:00.030 --> 0:41:02.700 Thank you. Thank you for that. Uh, we actually have 0:41:02.700 --> 0:41:06.690 a question from Judith in Minnesota asking about the phrase 0:41:06.690 --> 0:41:10.080 Son of God. Um, yeah. 0:41:10.110 --> 0:41:11.130 Son of man. 0:41:11.160 --> 0:41:15.690 I'm sorry. Son of man. You're right. Son of man. Um. 0:41:15.960 --> 0:41:20.430 In Ezekiel. Ezekiel himself is called son of man over 0:41:20.430 --> 0:41:25.110 90 times. Jesus uses that term for himself. Um, does 0:41:25.110 --> 0:41:28.140 that mean just that they were the Son of Man, 0:41:28.170 --> 0:41:30.779 thus born from a human talking about that human side? 0:41:30.780 --> 0:41:34.110 Or does it have a greater meaning or a different meaning? 0:41:34.440 --> 0:41:38.730 Well, I don't. Son of man just means humanity. I 0:41:38.730 --> 0:41:42.450 don't believe the Lord Jesus was using it, uh, based 0:41:42.450 --> 0:41:46.410 on how Ezekiel was called human being. You know, that's 0:41:46.410 --> 0:41:50.310 what Son of Man means. Human. Um, he was using 0:41:50.310 --> 0:41:56.759 it based on Daniel seven. And, uh, in Daniel seven, 0:41:57.420 --> 0:42:02.770 there's a vision that Daniel sees of of God. He's 0:42:02.770 --> 0:42:07.630 called the Ancient of Days, the Eternal One, he says, 0:42:07.660 --> 0:42:10.900 as I kept watching in verse nine Daniel seven nine, 0:42:10.900 --> 0:42:13.600 I kept watching. Then it says, and a lot of 0:42:13.600 --> 0:42:18.400 people miss this. It says thrones were set in place, 0:42:18.400 --> 0:42:21.910 and the Ancient of Days took his seat. And then 0:42:21.910 --> 0:42:23.950 it describes what the Ancient of days. Now we can't 0:42:23.950 --> 0:42:27.130 ever see God. This is a vision. So it's. He's 0:42:27.130 --> 0:42:29.920 not actually seeing God. He's seeing a vision of God. 0:42:29.920 --> 0:42:33.160 And he's called the Ancient of Days. But there are 0:42:33.160 --> 0:42:38.049 two thrones. Uh, and I think that's interesting because who 0:42:38.050 --> 0:42:41.470 is the other throne for? It says Thrones, plural, were 0:42:41.469 --> 0:42:47.919 set up, and I watched it says, uh, and it says, 0:42:47.920 --> 0:42:51.610 I saw verse 13. I continued watching in the night visions, 0:42:51.610 --> 0:42:56.560 and I saw one like a son of man. This 0:42:56.560 --> 0:43:02.450 is another a figure that appears to be deity for 0:43:02.450 --> 0:43:05.569 the other throne, and he's like a son of man. 0:43:05.600 --> 0:43:10.190 He appears human, he looks fully human, but he's deity 0:43:10.190 --> 0:43:13.399 and he's coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached 0:43:13.400 --> 0:43:15.560 the Ancient of Days and was escorted before him, and 0:43:15.560 --> 0:43:17.840 he was given authority to rule and glory in a 0:43:17.840 --> 0:43:21.830 kingdom so that every people, nation, language should serve him. 0:43:21.830 --> 0:43:26.029 His dominion is everlasting and will not pass away. His 0:43:26.030 --> 0:43:29.779 kingdom is one that will not be destroyed. Point being, 0:43:29.780 --> 0:43:34.550 there's a divine figure in this passage who is looks 0:43:34.550 --> 0:43:39.260 like a human, a deity figure who looks fully human. 0:43:39.260 --> 0:43:42.980 And this is the passage that when the high priest 0:43:42.980 --> 0:43:48.589 asks the Lord Jesus, you know, are you the Messiah? 0:43:48.980 --> 0:43:52.279 This is in the Gospel of Matthew. Are you the Messiah? 0:43:52.340 --> 0:43:54.950 Uh, in Matthew eight. Is that. No, no. You think 0:43:54.980 --> 0:43:55.940 about Matthew 26. 0:43:55.969 --> 0:43:56.149 Yeah. 0:43:56.180 --> 0:44:00.859 Matthew 26. Uh, he says, are you the Messiah? How does, 0:44:01.190 --> 0:44:06.050 uh how does Jesus answer him? He says, uh. 0:44:07.430 --> 0:44:07.940 Uh, 20. 0:44:07.969 --> 0:44:08.930 27. 0:44:08.960 --> 0:44:09.560 20. 0:44:10.280 --> 0:44:13.280 Uh, he says, are you the Messiah? This is the 0:44:13.280 --> 0:44:15.440 high priest. I'm sorry. Matthew 26. 0:44:15.620 --> 0:44:16.969 2624. Yeah. 0:44:17.000 --> 0:44:17.719 Go ahead and read that. 0:44:17.750 --> 0:44:21.680 It says, um, he says, are you the Messiah? And 0:44:21.680 --> 0:44:25.820 he says, yes. Jesus says, he who the Son of 0:44:25.820 --> 0:44:27.860 Man is going to go just as it is written 0:44:27.890 --> 0:44:29.629 of him. Is that the one you're thinking about? 0:44:29.660 --> 0:44:30.380 No, no. 0:44:30.560 --> 0:44:32.989 There's a I'm looking for it. You hear the pages 0:44:32.989 --> 0:44:34.280 turning here? Oh, oh, here it is. 0:44:34.280 --> 0:44:35.480 64. 64. 0:44:35.510 --> 0:44:36.230 Yeah. 64. 0:44:36.260 --> 0:44:36.770 That's it. 0:44:36.800 --> 0:44:39.620 When he says, are you the Messiah, the Son of God? Said, 0:44:39.620 --> 0:44:42.169 the Son of God. And Jesus said to him, you 0:44:42.170 --> 0:44:46.100 have said it yourself. Nevertheless I tell you that hereafter 0:44:46.100 --> 0:44:48.620 you will see. You will see the Son of Man 0:44:48.650 --> 0:44:51.410 sitting at the right hand of power and coming on 0:44:51.410 --> 0:44:52.460 the clouds of heaven. 0:44:52.640 --> 0:44:55.850 That's a reference right back to Daniel 713 that we 0:44:55.850 --> 0:45:01.169 just read. And. in my opinion, the Lord Jesus uses 0:45:01.170 --> 0:45:05.670 the term Son of Man not to emphasize his humanity, 0:45:05.670 --> 0:45:08.700 as many commentators say, but because he uses it based 0:45:08.700 --> 0:45:11.550 on Daniel seven, it's to emphasize that he is the 0:45:11.580 --> 0:45:14.400 God man. He is that figure that everyone knew. So 0:45:14.400 --> 0:45:16.770 when he calls himself the Son of Man, he is 0:45:16.770 --> 0:45:19.230 doing that. And to show that this is true, when 0:45:19.230 --> 0:45:22.440 he quotes it here with Daniel 713, what does the 0:45:22.440 --> 0:45:25.830 high priest do? He tears his robes and says he's blasphemed. 0:45:26.130 --> 0:45:27.509 Why does he think he's blasphemed? 0:45:27.630 --> 0:45:30.300 If Jesus were just saying I'm a human being like you, 0:45:30.300 --> 0:45:31.530 that wouldn't be blasphemy. 0:45:31.530 --> 0:45:32.430 But by claiming. 0:45:32.460 --> 0:45:34.380 To be the Son of Man in Daniel seven, he's 0:45:34.380 --> 0:45:38.609 claiming deity. And as a result of that, the high 0:45:38.610 --> 0:45:42.779 priest says, oh, that's blasphemy. You can't, you can't say that. 0:45:42.780 --> 0:45:46.560 So when you read the Gospel of Luke and or 0:45:46.560 --> 0:45:54.600 Mark and Jesus favorite self description is that he is deity, 0:45:54.630 --> 0:45:57.960 son of man, he says, the Son of Man, because 0:45:57.960 --> 0:46:03.239 he says that over and over. Well, that's what he's doing. 0:46:03.239 --> 0:46:06.960 He's claiming deity from Daniel seven. I hope that answers 0:46:06.960 --> 0:46:09.570 that for you. 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