WEBVTT - Hour 1: Your Questions Explored 0:00:09.760 --> 0:00:12.960 The mailbag questions have piled up. So we're going to 0:00:12.960 --> 0:00:16.560 empty the inbox today. That's right. It's an all mailbag, 0:00:16.680 --> 0:00:19.120 all the time episode of Open Line. We've got the 0:00:19.120 --> 0:00:22.400 questions you've sent us about the Bible, God and the 0:00:22.400 --> 0:00:25.520 spiritual life, and we're getting ready to address them. So 0:00:25.520 --> 0:00:28.160 hang tight. We're going to get into those in just 0:00:28.160 --> 0:00:31.440 a moment. Hello, everyone. Welcome to Open Line with Michael 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:35.760 Ray Moody Radio's Bible Study Across America. My name is 0:00:35.760 --> 0:00:38.360 Michael Ray. I'm professor of Jewish studies and Bible at 0:00:38.360 --> 0:00:41.520 Moody Bible Institute, also the academic dean here. 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It's great. 0:01:48.020 --> 0:01:51.260 Uh, also joining us is the producer of Open Line. 0:01:51.260 --> 0:01:53.900 The person who makes everything happen and the one who 0:01:53.900 --> 0:01:57.300 put together the mailbag for today. Tricia McMillan. Hey, Tricia. 0:01:57.420 --> 0:01:57.820 Hello. 0:01:58.330 --> 0:02:03.650 Wow. Here we are. This is the famous threesome. Here 0:02:03.650 --> 0:02:07.010 we are. The three of us together, studying the Bible together. 0:02:07.090 --> 0:02:09.650 I think that's just so much fun. Yeah, it's a 0:02:09.650 --> 0:02:10.570 great way to start. 0:02:10.610 --> 0:02:12.850 Great way to start the day. Just a little Bible study. 0:02:13.130 --> 0:02:14.930 And it's also fun. You know, I was out a 0:02:14.930 --> 0:02:18.770 little bit. And so, uh, a number of things have 0:02:18.770 --> 0:02:22.410 come up. Questions have happened, people sent them in. We 0:02:22.410 --> 0:02:25.570 might as well deal with it and try and, you know, 0:02:25.610 --> 0:02:28.570 get the spindle reduced a little bit or empty the 0:02:28.570 --> 0:02:32.210 inbox a little bit, don't you think? Absolutely. So many, 0:02:32.210 --> 0:02:34.889 so many questions. Tricia, how do you keep up with 0:02:34.889 --> 0:02:35.450 all these? 0:02:37.010 --> 0:02:40.250 Not as well as I should. Or as well as 0:02:40.250 --> 0:02:41.970 I wish, I wish I would. 0:02:42.010 --> 0:02:45.130 Wow. Well, you know, these are fun. And they're really. 0:02:45.130 --> 0:02:47.410 Some of them are very unique questions we've never seen before. 0:02:47.530 --> 0:02:49.690 Yeah. I was excited to see some of these and 0:02:49.690 --> 0:02:51.650 the questions that I read them. And I said that's 0:02:51.650 --> 0:02:54.609 a great question. Yeah. That's great. That is that I 0:02:54.610 --> 0:02:58.280 don't know. I can't wait to find out the answer. 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:01.440 Well, good. I'm so glad. Let's. Let's get started. 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:03.480 All right. Okay. We're gonna go right to questions. Our 0:03:03.480 --> 0:03:06.280 first question is from David in Idaho. He listens to 0:03:06.639 --> 0:03:10.920 me and says, I know that repentance is very important, 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:14.079 but if we return to our sinful behavior just once 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:17.279 and even briefly, in spite of our efforts, that doesn't 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:20.720 seem like genuine repentance. Can you please address this? Because 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:22.800 there are some sinful habits that are hard to break? 0:03:24.000 --> 0:03:29.360 Uh, seems to me that it's not just habit that, uh, 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:33.320 we've seen the enemy, and the enemy is us, that 0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:37.280 there's something called the flesh. And that's why we keep 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:40.800 going back to sinful patterns. And that's how the sinful 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:45.560 patterns start. I don't think we can measure repentance by 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:50.520 whether or not we go back to sin. Uh, now, 0:03:50.520 --> 0:03:53.880 I've watched Eva with our kids when they were babies. 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:56.700 I bet you were like this, too. Tricia, what do 0:03:56.700 --> 0:04:02.380 you do? Uh, when your baby messes up? You know, 0:04:02.420 --> 0:04:04.820 you change that diaper. But what happens if they mess 0:04:04.820 --> 0:04:05.860 the diaper again? 0:04:06.580 --> 0:04:11.020 You change it again. You just keep changing it until 0:04:11.020 --> 0:04:15.940 they're potty trained. Even then, you know, there's something else. Well, 0:04:15.940 --> 0:04:18.820 there's a few mess ups potentially there, too, while they learn. 0:04:18.860 --> 0:04:21.659 Well, that's what strikes me in Scripture. Is there a 0:04:21.660 --> 0:04:22.820 scripture that you point to people? 0:04:22.860 --> 0:04:23.700 Well, it seems like. 0:04:24.620 --> 0:04:27.300 That we need to remember that if we confess our sins, 0:04:27.300 --> 0:04:29.820 he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins 0:04:29.820 --> 0:04:32.700 and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. This is not this 0:04:32.700 --> 0:04:36.099 is not a salvation verse so much as it is 0:04:36.100 --> 0:04:37.539 a daily life verse. 0:04:37.660 --> 0:04:38.419 It's a fellowship. 0:04:38.420 --> 0:04:41.020 Verse. It's a fellowship verse. Right? And there's a difference. 0:04:41.060 --> 0:04:43.140 I think that we need to be aware, to be 0:04:43.180 --> 0:04:48.420 keep in mind between our salvation, which is permanent and unchangeable, 0:04:48.540 --> 0:04:53.980 and our fellowship with God, which is prone to to 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:57.440 change depending on our behavior. Not because he changes, but 0:04:57.440 --> 0:04:58.480 because we change. 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:01.600 Yeah. So confession the verse that you cited. First John one. 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:02.520 First John one nine. 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:06.760 Uh, the Greek word there for confess is homologeo. And 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:10.640 what that means is to say the same thing. It 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:14.200 means to agree. And if we agree with God about 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:18.000 our sin, he will cleanse us so that we can 0:05:18.000 --> 0:05:21.600 restore fellowship with him. Uh, that's sort of like the 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:26.520 spiritual diaper change that we need. However, when we sin again, 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:28.839 it's not like we sin with a high hand, demanding 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:35.160 God's grace. As Romans six says, we should not do. However, 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:40.200 God knows we're but dust. He realizes how frail we are. 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:43.640 He paid an infinite price to redeem us. The blood 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:47.040 of the Messiah, Jesus. And he will cleanse us from 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:50.280 all sin and restore fellowship with us. That's the thing 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:53.990 that we need to remember. I think when we see 0:05:53.990 --> 0:05:56.830 the word repentance, by the way, so often repentance is 0:05:56.830 --> 0:06:01.109 really something that has to do with coming to know Jesus. 0:06:01.150 --> 0:06:04.510 And the Bible calls us to have faith in him 0:06:05.390 --> 0:06:09.630 and to repent from our old path, to change our mind. 0:06:09.630 --> 0:06:13.630 That's the word for repentance in in the book of acts, 0:06:13.630 --> 0:06:17.870 and usually in the context there, there are two sides 0:06:17.870 --> 0:06:22.190 of one coin. We change our mind about Jesus. That's repentance, 0:06:22.190 --> 0:06:24.989 and turn and put our trust in him. We stop 0:06:25.029 --> 0:06:27.190 trusting what we used to trust, and we've changed our 0:06:27.190 --> 0:06:30.510 mind about Jesus. And now we've put our trust in him. 0:06:30.510 --> 0:06:33.750 And so then to put that into the first John 0:06:33.750 --> 0:06:37.190 one nine category of fellowship, forgiveness, I think that that's 0:06:37.190 --> 0:06:38.270 what messes us up. 0:06:39.110 --> 0:06:41.710 So how do we not get discouraged if you feel 0:06:41.710 --> 0:06:44.430 like I'm just doing this same sin over and over. 0:06:44.430 --> 0:06:47.350 I would keep reading verses about how God restores us 0:06:47.790 --> 0:06:50.790 as far as the East is from the West. Uh, 0:06:50.790 --> 0:06:53.460 you know what what God does is when he forgives us, 0:06:53.460 --> 0:06:56.900 he forgives us completely. When he restores fellowship, he restores 0:06:56.900 --> 0:07:01.020 fellowship completely. And not that God can actually forget because 0:07:01.020 --> 0:07:05.339 he knows everything, but what he does is that every 0:07:05.380 --> 0:07:07.860 time we sin, even though we keep remembering that we 0:07:07.900 --> 0:07:11.179 sinned this way before, it's it's a fresh start with God. 0:07:11.180 --> 0:07:11.900 It's a new thing. 0:07:12.340 --> 0:07:14.220 So it's and I think that part of it is, 0:07:14.220 --> 0:07:19.420 is practicing our spiritual disciplines for fellowship. It's like practicing 0:07:19.420 --> 0:07:23.980 the piano or any instrument or an exercise regime. You 0:07:23.980 --> 0:07:25.740 may think, well, I just I keep at this and 0:07:25.740 --> 0:07:27.460 I don't see any change and I'm still making the 0:07:27.460 --> 0:07:31.980 same mistakes. Well, quitting doesn't make you better. What you 0:07:31.980 --> 0:07:35.820 need to do is to keep on practicing, keep on exercising, 0:07:36.060 --> 0:07:39.620 keep on playing, and then you really will get better. 0:07:39.620 --> 0:07:41.980 And that's keep on repenting of whatever it is that 0:07:41.980 --> 0:07:45.660 you've is, you're struggling with and also and then move 0:07:45.660 --> 0:07:47.380 forward toward obedience. 0:07:47.420 --> 0:07:50.920 I think crucial I think spiritual disciplines are. I'm glad 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:55.720 you mentioned that. Reading the Bible. Praying. Uh, other spiritual 0:07:55.720 --> 0:08:00.240 disciplines as well. Uh, sometimes choosing not to speak at 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:01.440 a certain setting all the time. 0:08:01.440 --> 0:08:02.480 Turning off Facebook. 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:07.520 Yeah. These are disciplines that we might follow. God uses 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:11.360 disciplines to grow us in those areas. Not discipline, but 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:15.520 spiritual disciplines, spiritual practices that we don't read the Bible 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:17.400 because we get brownie points with God. We read the 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:19.680 Bible because we want to walk closer with him. That's 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:23.400 an important discipline. And what will happen? For example, it 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:26.080 might be a discipline if there's a particular area of sin. 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:30.280 Go find every verse of Scripture about that sin and 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:32.880 memorize them and work on them. And you know what? 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:35.920 God's going to enable us through the power of His Word, 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:39.760 to be transformed so that sin becomes less prevalent, so 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:43.720 that the the turnaround that we wanted is, is going 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:47.719 to actually come about because God's empowering us through those, 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:49.140 those spiritual disciplines. 0:08:49.260 --> 0:08:51.900 Okay. All right. Thank you. I hope that's encouraging. If 0:08:51.900 --> 0:08:54.660 you're out there wondering, you know, thinking, I just don't 0:08:54.660 --> 0:08:57.500 see any change. I hope that's encouraging for you and 0:08:57.500 --> 0:08:59.420 gives you some practical steps on things that you can 0:08:59.420 --> 0:09:03.660 do to continue to grow in your faith in Jesus. Uh, 0:09:03.660 --> 0:09:10.699 next question. We'll go into, like, creation stuff. Um, Jamie 0:09:10.700 --> 0:09:13.980 wrote on Facebook and says, I'm currently studying Genesis. And 0:09:13.980 --> 0:09:17.140 as I reread Adam and Eve's story, the question I 0:09:17.140 --> 0:09:20.420 had was, Did God create Eve to be Adam's wife 0:09:20.700 --> 0:09:24.620 or was she created? Um, I guess just as a helper. 0:09:24.620 --> 0:09:27.460 And then she became Adam's wife. Or was it a 0:09:27.460 --> 0:09:28.260 little of both? 0:09:29.980 --> 0:09:32.260 I'm going to just go right to the text, because 0:09:32.260 --> 0:09:37.459 when it tells the story of the creation of the woman, 0:09:37.460 --> 0:09:42.740 it says that God brought all the animals, uh, before 0:09:42.740 --> 0:09:48.210 him and Adam. And he named him. Right. Uh, which 0:09:48.210 --> 0:09:50.250 always makes me think of the old Bob Dylan song 0:09:50.250 --> 0:09:53.130 God Gave names. Adam. The man gave name to all 0:09:53.130 --> 0:09:58.530 the animals, right? Yes, yes. But but the the reason 0:09:58.530 --> 0:10:02.370 for it is the Lord God said to start that 0:10:02.370 --> 0:10:06.449 whole process. It's not good for the man to be alone. 0:10:06.450 --> 0:10:10.290 I will make a helper to him as his complement, 0:10:10.650 --> 0:10:15.170 someone that's fitting for him. That sounds to me like 0:10:15.450 --> 0:10:20.050 God is saying he needs a spouse, a wife, a 0:10:20.050 --> 0:10:24.610 full partner. And then there's no one found. No helper 0:10:24.610 --> 0:10:28.170 was found among the animals as his complement. I think 0:10:28.170 --> 0:10:31.569 that may have been to show the man. Yeah, it's 0:10:31.570 --> 0:10:34.610 not enough to get a pet, you know. Right. You 0:10:34.610 --> 0:10:40.130 actually need an equal, a full complement, a full partner, 0:10:40.730 --> 0:10:46.040 and then he creates the woman as that partner. Um, 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:49.000 and it says when it says helper. Uh, that's one 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:52.920 of the things that I think people misunderstand, don't you think, Eva? 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:55.640 Yeah. People get all fuzzed up about this saying, oh, 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:59.040 that means, you know, the Bible is anti-woman and it 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:01.960 makes women less than men and blah, blah, blah, and 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:05.040 they get all mad. Obviously, they're getting all mad because 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:09.000 they really haven't read the Bible because the I mean, 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:10.880 they're camping on one verse here, but the. 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:11.560 Word helper, I. 0:11:11.559 --> 0:11:14.719 Mean, well, listen, what it's if you read the scriptures, 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:16.880 who is our helper, really? What is the main way 0:11:16.880 --> 0:11:18.160 that the word helper is used? 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:21.280 Lord is our helper in the Lord. Yes. Psalm 46 one. 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:23.840 Right. Is our helper right? I mean, the predominant way 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:26.160 the word helper is used is in relation to God's 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:29.080 relationship to us. Yeah. And so I think for women 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:32.120 to be called to be, you know, given that role, 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:35.400 doesn't mean that you're inferior, but it means that you're 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:37.040 made exactly to need. 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:38.720 Yeah. It's the one who comes to our. 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:39.360 Aid when he. 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:40.960 Comes to when we need it most, when. 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:41.600 We need it most. 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:44.620 That's a, that's a that's what a helper is. And 0:11:44.620 --> 0:11:49.380 so I like it's the idea of a partner in help. Anyway, 0:11:49.380 --> 0:11:52.060 so I think it's pretty clear that that's the creation 0:11:52.059 --> 0:11:55.100 of marriage, because then it says at the end of it, 0:11:55.100 --> 0:11:58.420 the the writer. I think that's Moses who writes here. 0:11:58.420 --> 0:12:01.820 I believe it's Moses. But at the end, the narrator 0:12:02.140 --> 0:12:06.140 jumps in and describes the creation of marriage. This is 0:12:06.140 --> 0:12:08.339 why a man leaves his father and mother and bonds 0:12:08.340 --> 0:12:12.140 with his wife, and they become one flesh. Both man 0:12:12.140 --> 0:12:15.579 and his wife were naked and yet felt no shame. 0:12:15.780 --> 0:12:19.460 So this clearly is the creation of marriage. That's right 0:12:19.460 --> 0:12:24.180 here in Genesis 224 as the culmination of the story. 0:12:24.179 --> 0:12:28.059 So the answer is pretty simple. Uh, why did God 0:12:28.059 --> 0:12:31.460 create Eve? Yes, to be Adam's wife. That was the intention. 0:12:31.460 --> 0:12:35.900 And it becomes the paradigm, the role model for humanity 0:12:35.900 --> 0:12:37.580 for the rest of time. All right. 0:12:37.620 --> 0:12:39.980 Great. Thank you. Thanks for that question, Jamie. 0:12:41.059 --> 0:12:43.520 Yep. Uh, we're going to take a break here. And 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:47.480 when we come back, we're going to, uh, take more 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:49.680 of your questions that you've sent in. Tricia did a 0:12:49.679 --> 0:12:53.360 great job. We've got about 9000 email questions right here, 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:56.439 and maybe a few less, but a lot of them. 0:12:56.480 --> 0:12:57.800 So we're going to do our best to get through them. 0:12:57.800 --> 0:12:59.760 These are your questions about the Bible God and the 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:02.600 spiritual life. I'm Michael Ray Dolnick. Tricia McMillan is with me. 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:04.880 Everyday is with me. We're going to be right back 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:13.560 with more of your questions in just a moment. Did 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:17.079 you ever feel Christians can't do anything about the growing 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:21.560 anti-Semitism in the world? 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Welcome 0:14:05.790 --> 0:14:09.350 back to this special all mailbag, All the time edition 0:14:09.350 --> 0:14:12.190 of Open Line. No calls today. We're just taking the 0:14:12.190 --> 0:14:15.190 questions you've sent in with me today. I'm Michael Melnick. 0:14:15.190 --> 0:14:17.910 With me today is Tricia McMillan. She's the producer of 0:14:17.910 --> 0:14:20.950 Open Line. She's put the mailbag together. Eva melnick is 0:14:20.950 --> 0:14:24.510 here with me. She's a professor at Moody Bible Institute 0:14:24.550 --> 0:14:29.510 teaching there and also a contributor to the Moody Bible 0:14:29.510 --> 0:14:33.750 Commentary and the Moody Handbook of Messianic Prophecy. But most importantly, 0:14:33.750 --> 0:14:37.510 she's my favorite Bible teacher. We study the Bible together. Now, 0:14:37.510 --> 0:14:38.790 how do we do it? Every day when we read 0:14:38.790 --> 0:14:39.470 the Bible? Eva. 0:14:39.670 --> 0:14:41.660 So it's probably not as formal as some people might 0:14:41.660 --> 0:14:44.700 be picturing. We're sitting around the counter in our kitchen 0:14:45.020 --> 0:14:48.260 drinking coffee, and we're each reading our Bible or whatever 0:14:48.260 --> 0:14:50.780 we're studying at the time. Like, I just finished Second 0:14:50.780 --> 0:14:54.180 Chronicles and you're reading whatever. And then as I read 0:14:54.180 --> 0:14:56.940 and I have some question or something, you know. 0:14:57.340 --> 0:14:58.500 Isaiah, whatever. 0:14:58.500 --> 0:14:59.420 You're reading Isaiah. 0:14:59.580 --> 0:15:02.100 You're reading something different. Yeah, that's what I'm. 0:15:02.100 --> 0:15:02.820 Doing right now. 0:15:02.980 --> 0:15:04.580 And then I'll say, oh, look at this verse or 0:15:04.580 --> 0:15:06.420 what do you think about this? Or sometimes I'll say, 0:15:06.420 --> 0:15:09.900 hey Bible answer guy, what does this mean? So yeah, 0:15:09.900 --> 0:15:11.620 that's how we study. But we do it every day. 0:15:11.660 --> 0:15:14.580 Yeah. Or I'll say, oh, look at this. This is 0:15:14.580 --> 0:15:16.620 kind of interesting. This verse has never been in the 0:15:16.620 --> 0:15:17.740 Bible before. Right. 0:15:19.420 --> 0:15:22.020 How how long? Out of curiosity, how long do you 0:15:22.060 --> 0:15:23.940 guys sit there and study together? 0:15:24.100 --> 0:15:25.380 Oh, it depends on the day. 0:15:25.420 --> 0:15:27.260 Depends on the day. Sometimes. 0:15:27.300 --> 0:15:27.900 Busy day? 0:15:28.060 --> 0:15:29.220 Yeah. Busy day. About an. 0:15:29.220 --> 0:15:31.220 Hour. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. 0:15:31.420 --> 0:15:33.260 And you just work that in in the morning before 0:15:33.260 --> 0:15:34.180 you do everything. 0:15:34.220 --> 0:15:36.140 First thing you do before you open your mail or 0:15:36.140 --> 0:15:39.440 check your messages or anything. Because you know what? Once 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:42.040 you open your mail or you check your messages, it 0:15:42.040 --> 0:15:45.160 just becomes rabbit trails here and there and here and there. 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:46.920 And pretty soon you go, oh, look, it's 9:00. I 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:48.040 haven't gotten anything read. 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:51.400 Yeah. Yeah. So, uh, the thing that I discovered, like, 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:55.160 for today, we had early morning meetings, and I had 0:15:55.160 --> 0:15:59.360 to get up really early to make that happen. So 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:02.360 we were up at about five today. Okay. So that 0:16:02.360 --> 0:16:02.960 we could. 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:03.760 It's like our friend. 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:05.640 We could have our time. Our friend, our friend. 0:16:05.640 --> 0:16:08.360 Larry says, work it back in order to have to 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:10.320 know when you need to get up to read the 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:12.600 Bible every day. So you think about where you have 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:15.760 to leave the house, then work back to what time 0:16:15.760 --> 0:16:17.080 you need to have. Yeah. 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:20.400 It takes to make coffee. Yeah. I need this much 0:16:20.400 --> 0:16:22.080 time to study. And so that's what time I need 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:23.120 to get up. Yeah. 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:25.680 Yeah. Okay. So the reason I wanted to talk about 0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:28.880 that is that's the question. It's not. It's not on 0:16:28.880 --> 0:16:35.520 your list of questions. But when I do live audiences, um, 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:39.660 with them asking the questions, I often will take some questions, 0:16:39.980 --> 0:16:43.180 just people will ask personal questions before the program. 0:16:43.220 --> 0:16:44.940 Right off the air. Yeah, off the air. 0:16:44.940 --> 0:16:47.340 And that's one of the main questions that I get 0:16:47.580 --> 0:16:49.980 is when do you and Eva study together? And I 0:16:49.980 --> 0:16:53.180 think that's kind of interesting that that people want to know. Okay. 0:16:53.180 --> 0:16:54.820 You keep talking about reading the Bible with Eva in 0:16:54.820 --> 0:16:58.460 the morning. We want to know about how you do that. Right. Okay. 0:16:58.500 --> 0:17:00.620 So there you have it. Well, let's let's go back 0:17:00.620 --> 0:17:01.580 to Bible questions. 0:17:01.820 --> 0:17:06.020 All right. Our next question is from Karina on Facebook. 0:17:06.020 --> 0:17:09.219 Did God create other people or did we all descend 0:17:09.220 --> 0:17:12.500 from Adam and Eve? I had a friend who said Cain, 0:17:12.540 --> 0:17:15.620 Abel and Seth did not marry their siblings to procreate. 0:17:16.900 --> 0:17:21.540 Well, well, does the Bible, from what the document says, 0:17:21.740 --> 0:17:24.820 which is, I think, our best, our best documentation. 0:17:25.140 --> 0:17:26.619 That's Eva. Oh, show me the document. 0:17:26.619 --> 0:17:29.179 Show me the document. It says there is no mention 0:17:29.180 --> 0:17:33.980 of creating other people besides Adam and Eve. So I 0:17:33.980 --> 0:17:37.250 would pretty much go with that idea that those are 0:17:37.250 --> 0:17:41.490 the people and, uh, but but they did have other children, 0:17:41.490 --> 0:17:43.490 and I think some of those other children would have 0:17:43.490 --> 0:17:47.810 been ultimately the wives of of the sons that are named. 0:17:48.410 --> 0:17:51.130 And it's not the same as it is today in 0:17:51.130 --> 0:17:54.730 the sense that at that time there was no genetic 0:17:54.730 --> 0:17:59.810 problems from marrying within the family. But later on we 0:17:59.850 --> 0:18:01.810 see that, God forbid that to happen. 0:18:02.050 --> 0:18:05.610 Now, it's interesting in Romans five when, uh, Paul addresses 0:18:05.609 --> 0:18:09.330 the issue of our sinfulness. He says it's through one 0:18:09.330 --> 0:18:13.730 man that sin entered the world. And he seems to 0:18:13.770 --> 0:18:20.889 indicate that, uh, we are all related to Adam. Uh, 0:18:20.890 --> 0:18:24.010 in Romans five, uh, just as sin entered the world 0:18:24.010 --> 0:18:26.409 through one man and death through sin. In this way, 0:18:26.450 --> 0:18:29.730 death spread to all men, because all sinned, we all 0:18:29.730 --> 0:18:31.929 sinned in Adam. Now some people say he was just 0:18:31.930 --> 0:18:35.200 our representative, but it was because he was our father, 0:18:35.840 --> 0:18:38.440 that that we're all descended from him. And that's why 0:18:38.440 --> 0:18:41.919 we all sinned. And therefore death reigned from Adam to 0:18:41.960 --> 0:18:46.679 Moses and so forth. Uh, but he becomes the prototype 0:18:46.680 --> 0:18:50.960 of the coming one. Uh, our we are, as we're 0:18:50.960 --> 0:18:58.040 related to the Messiah. We have new life. Uh, but, uh, nevertheless, uh, 0:18:58.040 --> 0:19:00.520 what we have here is, I think the idea that 0:19:00.520 --> 0:19:04.720 Adam and Eve were the first parents. God created them. Uh, 0:19:04.720 --> 0:19:07.880 then that leads to the problem of. Wait a minute. Uh, 0:19:07.880 --> 0:19:12.119 where did Cain get his wife? Right. Uh, why was 0:19:12.119 --> 0:19:15.760 Cain worried that people would kill him wherever he goes? 0:19:16.960 --> 0:19:19.640 Who are those other people? Well, look at. 0:19:19.680 --> 0:19:23.160 Look at Genesis five four. And then the days of Adam, 0:19:23.160 --> 0:19:26.679 after he became the father of Seth, were 800 years. 0:19:27.119 --> 0:19:29.560 And he had other sons and daughters. Yeah. 0:19:29.960 --> 0:19:33.100 So it seems to me that Cain, he was He 0:19:33.100 --> 0:19:37.139 was concerned about younger siblings coming after him because we 0:19:37.180 --> 0:19:41.300 don't know when this happened or other siblings. Uh, that 0:19:41.300 --> 0:19:44.340 would have been distressed about what Cain did to his 0:19:44.340 --> 0:19:47.020 brother Abel. So I think that's that one. Where did 0:19:47.020 --> 0:19:49.420 Cain find his wife? One of his siblings. Wait, wait, 0:19:49.460 --> 0:19:52.700 what are you saying? That's incest. If if if it's 0:19:52.700 --> 0:19:56.060 one of his siblings. His wife. One of his sisters. Uh, 0:19:56.100 --> 0:19:58.020 I would say that the Bible is pretty clear that 0:19:58.020 --> 0:20:00.860 incest is wrong. You can see that in the book 0:20:00.859 --> 0:20:06.540 of Leviticus. Uh, nevertheless, I would say when you're the 0:20:06.540 --> 0:20:12.060 only ones on Earth that's, uh, there's no other option. 0:20:12.300 --> 0:20:15.780 And there wasn't the kind of genetic disorders that would 0:20:15.780 --> 0:20:19.260 make that problematic. Exactly. Because they're so new. And then 0:20:19.260 --> 0:20:22.940 one other aspect is they need not have been the same, 0:20:22.980 --> 0:20:26.780 exact same age because they if Adam lived that long 0:20:26.780 --> 0:20:29.860 and Eve lived long, then the result would be that 0:20:29.859 --> 0:20:34.800 they would probably from, you know, different ages and would 0:20:34.800 --> 0:20:37.480 not have been raised together as as brother and sister. 0:20:37.600 --> 0:20:40.600 We even see that in really large families in our 0:20:40.600 --> 0:20:44.720 own times. Sometimes families have not incest, but age differences. 0:20:44.760 --> 0:20:48.359 If there's 14 kids in the family and the oldest 0:20:48.359 --> 0:20:50.080 child is 40 years old and the. 0:20:50.080 --> 0:20:50.879 Youngest is 20. 0:20:50.920 --> 0:20:54.200 And and or and or, the youngest is younger than that. 0:20:54.240 --> 0:20:56.920 You know, so they're not even growing up really in 0:20:56.920 --> 0:20:59.080 the same time frame? Yeah. 0:20:59.119 --> 0:21:02.160 Yeah. Would there be to the incest question, would there 0:21:02.200 --> 0:21:06.760 be that that it was not considered incest until it 0:21:06.760 --> 0:21:10.479 was made a law in the law, or was the 0:21:10.480 --> 0:21:14.560 law more things that were already understood to be wrong, 0:21:14.640 --> 0:21:17.080 that were established or kind of a mix of both? 0:21:17.400 --> 0:21:20.200 I don't I don't know. Okay. I think that by 0:21:20.200 --> 0:21:23.080 the time you have people spreading over the earth, it 0:21:23.080 --> 0:21:29.440 became considered inappropriate, wrong or sinful to marry a sibling. Uh, 0:21:29.440 --> 0:21:32.350 but on the other hand, when you're the only ones there, 0:21:32.710 --> 0:21:35.670 you know. Now, that's not the case with Noah and 0:21:35.670 --> 0:21:39.830 his sons, because they already had three families. And so. 0:21:40.430 --> 0:21:43.630 But they would be, you know, their children, that Noah's 0:21:43.630 --> 0:21:48.909 sons children would have probably been marrying cousins. Right. But, 0:21:48.950 --> 0:21:50.030 but but what else have you got? 0:21:50.070 --> 0:21:53.350 But the command that God had given Adam and Eve 0:21:53.350 --> 0:21:53.990 was to. 0:21:55.430 --> 0:21:55.909 Be fruitful. 0:21:55.910 --> 0:21:57.470 And multiply and multiply. 0:21:57.510 --> 0:21:58.150 Yeah, yeah. 0:21:58.190 --> 0:22:00.670 And so that was their command that they were working with. 0:22:00.869 --> 0:22:03.790 They had to do it. Yeah. Okay. Uh, and the 0:22:03.790 --> 0:22:07.470 same command is given to Noah after the flood. Be 0:22:07.470 --> 0:22:11.670 fruitful and multiply. Mm. Uh. Same command. And when you 0:22:11.670 --> 0:22:19.070 look at the laws in Leviticus, uh, the in chapter, 0:22:19.109 --> 0:22:27.150 I believe it's chapter 19 or 18. Uh, yeah. Chapter 18. Uh, 0:22:27.150 --> 0:22:35.300 there are all sorts of law laws opposed to incest. Um, 0:22:35.300 --> 0:22:41.220 and and I think that that very clearly, uh, says, no, 0:22:41.220 --> 0:22:45.139 don't do that. Uh, and that's because I think in 0:22:45.140 --> 0:22:48.859 the ancient world it was not unusual. Uh, in the 0:22:48.859 --> 0:22:53.580 pagan practices of Canaan, it was incest was normative. So 0:22:53.780 --> 0:22:54.139 this is. 0:22:54.140 --> 0:22:55.820 Another way that they're being set apart. 0:22:55.859 --> 0:23:00.379 Yes, yes. And it's if you have a minute, some 0:23:00.380 --> 0:23:04.020 time to, to look at, at Leviticus 18, it really 0:23:04.020 --> 0:23:06.820 gives a lot of different scenarios of don't do this 0:23:06.820 --> 0:23:08.699 with this person and don't do it with that person 0:23:08.700 --> 0:23:10.940 and with the other person and with her or with her. 0:23:10.980 --> 0:23:13.980 Interestingly, I think there must have even, you know, when 0:23:14.020 --> 0:23:16.899 Moses collected the laws, but we don't have every single 0:23:16.900 --> 0:23:21.580 law that Moses received. He gave sampling laws in the Pentateuch. 0:23:21.580 --> 0:23:25.420 And I think it's interesting that there shouldn't be incest 0:23:25.420 --> 0:23:28.520 with a grandparent. But there's nothing said about a father, 0:23:28.520 --> 0:23:31.760 does that mean that with a father, it's okay. But 0:23:31.800 --> 0:23:35.040 of course it's not okay. It's wrong. But Moses, he 0:23:35.080 --> 0:23:39.120 was giving a sampling. And so all incest is forbidden. Is. 0:23:39.160 --> 0:23:42.040 Is what what the point of those laws are. Okay. 0:23:42.080 --> 0:23:46.080 Yeah. All right. Thank you. That kind of went afield. 0:23:46.119 --> 0:23:48.080 A little of your question, Karina, but I was. 0:23:48.080 --> 0:23:49.560 Anticipating the follow. 0:23:49.600 --> 0:23:53.239 Up. Yeah, yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Next question is 0:23:53.240 --> 0:23:56.000 from Catherine, also on Facebook. Do you think that Cain 0:23:56.000 --> 0:24:00.840 was forgiven and that the mark was, um, given and 0:24:00.840 --> 0:24:02.920 suffered the consequences of his sin by being sent from 0:24:02.920 --> 0:24:03.960 the presence of God? 0:24:06.119 --> 0:24:08.400 Well, the mark of Cain, whether he was forgiven or not, 0:24:08.400 --> 0:24:10.240 was the mercy of God, wouldn't you say, Eva? 0:24:10.280 --> 0:24:13.800 Yeah, because. Because he. Really. Can you imagine the outrage 0:24:14.520 --> 0:24:19.240 of the of the siblings that they that he killed Abel, 0:24:19.240 --> 0:24:21.440 who must have been the nicest guy in the family. 0:24:21.760 --> 0:24:23.199 Right. You killed our favorite brother. 0:24:23.240 --> 0:24:25.160 He killed our favorite brother. That's right. Yeah. 0:24:25.920 --> 0:24:28.340 Now, the strange thing about this is I don't think 0:24:28.340 --> 0:24:31.300 the question is, was he forgiven? Was the real question 0:24:31.300 --> 0:24:36.219 we should be asking? Was he penitent? And because if 0:24:36.220 --> 0:24:39.060 he wasn't, then we know he wasn't forgiven. If he 0:24:39.060 --> 0:24:42.460 had been penitent, I believe he would have been forgiven. 0:24:42.500 --> 0:24:43.179 Are there clues? 0:24:43.180 --> 0:24:47.580 There are clues. The clue to me is that he 0:24:47.580 --> 0:24:53.780 was not penitent. And here's why. When God disciplines him, 0:24:53.780 --> 0:25:00.020 he says, uh, that you are to wander the earth. Okay. 0:25:00.619 --> 0:25:02.659 That's what he tells him to do. He's supposed to 0:25:02.700 --> 0:25:06.260 wander the earth. And this is all in Genesis four. 0:25:06.260 --> 0:25:08.100 And he says, I want to kill me. So he 0:25:08.100 --> 0:25:11.739 put the, uh, the mark of Cain on him, and 0:25:11.740 --> 0:25:13.459 he went out from the Lord's presence and lived in 0:25:13.460 --> 0:25:16.219 the land of nod, East of Eden. And then what 0:25:16.220 --> 0:25:18.900 did he do? Cain became the builder of a city 0:25:19.060 --> 0:25:22.219 and named the city Enoch after his son. Uh, and 0:25:22.220 --> 0:25:26.210 it says that he went eastward and And he went 0:25:26.210 --> 0:25:29.890 to the East of Eden. Why is this important? Because, 0:25:29.930 --> 0:25:32.570 first of all, he built a city. He didn't wander, 0:25:32.650 --> 0:25:36.170 so he didn't obey the command. And secondly, he went eastward. 0:25:36.369 --> 0:25:39.170 And every time in the early chapters of Genesis, when 0:25:39.170 --> 0:25:41.850 someone goes eastward, they're acting in rebellion to God, like 0:25:41.850 --> 0:25:44.410 in Genesis 11, they go eastward and build the Tower 0:25:44.410 --> 0:25:47.369 of Babel. So he did not repent, and so therefore 0:25:47.369 --> 0:25:49.850 he was not forgiven. We'll be back with more of 0:25:49.850 --> 0:25:53.210 your questions in just a moment. You're listening to Open 0:25:53.210 --> 0:25:56.570 Line with Michael Ray Melnick, Eva Ray Melnick, and Tricia McMillan. 0:25:58.970 --> 0:26:02.090 We're so glad that Febc partners with Open Line with 0:26:02.090 --> 0:26:06.730 Doctor Michael Ray, bringing the Febc mailbag every week. Learn 0:26:06.730 --> 0:26:09.609 how Far East Broadcasting Company is taking Christ to the 0:26:09.609 --> 0:26:14.090 world at febc. Org on their weekly podcast. Until all 0:26:14.090 --> 0:26:17.010 have heard with Ed Cannon. You'll hear stories of lives 0:26:17.010 --> 0:26:20.810 changed by Messiah all across the globe. Again, you can 0:26:20.810 --> 0:26:33.840 hear the podcast when you visit febc. That's febc.org. Welcome 0:26:33.840 --> 0:26:36.960 back to the special all mailbag all the time edition 0:26:36.960 --> 0:26:39.040 of Open Line. Everyday Dolnick is here with me. So 0:26:39.080 --> 0:26:42.200 is Tricia McMillan. And we're going through the questions you've 0:26:42.200 --> 0:26:45.719 sent in. You know, I love this because this is teamwork. 0:26:46.560 --> 0:26:48.959 You know Trish put the questions together. Part of the 0:26:48.960 --> 0:26:52.120 team was the people who sent in questions. I love 0:26:52.119 --> 0:26:57.280 that teamwork. Uh, Tricia, you. How many hours does it 0:26:57.280 --> 0:26:57.920 take for you to put. 0:26:57.920 --> 0:27:00.080 This whole thing? I don't know. A long. 0:27:00.080 --> 0:27:03.000 Time. That's teamwork, though. I appreciate it so much that 0:27:03.000 --> 0:27:06.560 I don't have to do it. Uh, and then, of course, Eva. 0:27:06.640 --> 0:27:08.840 She's the one that tells me what the answers are. 0:27:08.840 --> 0:27:11.720 And so that's teamwork, too. Even when I do. Mailbag. 0:27:11.720 --> 0:27:14.000 When you're not with me. Eva, I know you've looked 0:27:14.000 --> 0:27:16.000 at them first and said, this is how you should 0:27:16.000 --> 0:27:18.760 answer this one, and this is what you should. But 0:27:18.800 --> 0:27:21.120 and I'm part of the team too. And everyone that's 0:27:21.119 --> 0:27:23.419 listening is part of the team. I really appreciate that. 0:27:23.420 --> 0:27:27.260 But there's special team members that I think are crucial, 0:27:27.460 --> 0:27:30.380 and those are our kitchen table partners. 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Our next question is from Andrew in Minnesota. 0:28:43.320 --> 0:28:47.840 Listens to Ktis. Why did God choose the Jewish people 0:28:47.840 --> 0:28:50.880 as his chosen people? Weren't there other nations around at 0:28:50.880 --> 0:28:51.640 the same time? 0:28:52.360 --> 0:28:55.959 Yeah. You know, uh, it seems like one of the 0:28:55.960 --> 0:28:59.280 problems that the other nations had is that they were 0:28:59.280 --> 0:29:01.720 running away from God. You know, I mean, you just 0:29:01.720 --> 0:29:04.520 look at it. When does the choice of Israel actually begin? 0:29:05.040 --> 0:29:08.960 It begins with Abraham. And what do you have? That's 0:29:08.960 --> 0:29:13.360 in chapter 12, Genesis of Genesis. And in chapter 11, 0:29:13.880 --> 0:29:18.680 what you have are the nations refusing to obey God 0:29:18.720 --> 0:29:21.110 and spread across the earth. So they go to the 0:29:21.110 --> 0:29:24.070 plain of Shinar, which is in Babylon, the great rebellious city. 0:29:24.150 --> 0:29:25.870 That's the beginning of it. They build the city of 0:29:25.870 --> 0:29:29.750 Babylon with its tower, and they are saying, we're just 0:29:29.750 --> 0:29:31.710 not going to listen to God about spreading over the earth. 0:29:31.870 --> 0:29:34.070 So what does he do? He confuses their language, sends 0:29:34.070 --> 0:29:38.470 them all out. That's Babylon. And then in Genesis 12, 0:29:38.470 --> 0:29:42.790 what happens with Moses? With Abraham, he, uh, he calls 0:29:42.790 --> 0:29:46.030 him out of ur of the chaldees, which is in Babylonia, 0:29:47.070 --> 0:29:50.790 and brings him to the land of Israel, Zion, and says, 0:29:50.790 --> 0:29:52.630 this is the nation I'm going to build from. And 0:29:52.630 --> 0:29:55.150 then Isaac and Jacob. And that's where the Jewish people 0:29:55.150 --> 0:29:57.470 come from. So what he was trying to do was 0:29:57.470 --> 0:30:00.390 choose one nation that was not going to shake their 0:30:00.390 --> 0:30:04.790 fist at God and instead. Now, unfortunately, we Jewish people, 0:30:04.790 --> 0:30:08.110 we recognize we haven't done a great job, but the 0:30:08.110 --> 0:30:10.790 idea was to take the the light of God and 0:30:10.790 --> 0:30:14.470 bring it to the nations through the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, 0:30:14.470 --> 0:30:16.030 and Jacob. But in. 0:30:16.030 --> 0:30:16.750 Uh, there's. 0:30:16.790 --> 0:30:17.790 A. 0:30:17.790 --> 0:30:20.140 There's a great verse, I think, that tells us why 0:30:20.180 --> 0:30:23.940 God chose the Jewish people. Yeah, it's in Deuteronomy. It's 0:30:23.980 --> 0:30:26.100 in verse seven. It says, the Lord did not set 0:30:26.100 --> 0:30:29.060 his love on you, nor choose you, because you were 0:30:29.060 --> 0:30:32.020 more in number than all the peoples. For you were 0:30:32.020 --> 0:30:35.380 the fewest of all the peoples. But because the Lord 0:30:35.380 --> 0:30:38.220 loved you, and kept his oath, which he swore to 0:30:38.260 --> 0:30:42.220 your forefathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the Lord brought you 0:30:42.220 --> 0:30:45.540 out and and delivered you the Lord your God. He 0:30:45.540 --> 0:30:48.660 is God, faithful to his covenant. So why did he 0:30:48.660 --> 0:30:51.780 choose the Jewish people? Not because they were more or 0:30:51.780 --> 0:30:54.820 because they were better. It was because he loved them. 0:30:54.900 --> 0:30:56.700 It was his sovereign choice. 0:30:57.580 --> 0:30:58.620 What verses were those? 0:30:59.180 --> 0:31:01.460 Deuteronomy seven seven and eight. 0:31:01.500 --> 0:31:01.900 Okay. 0:31:02.420 --> 0:31:05.940 So Deuteronomy seven seven and eight. That's God's call of 0:31:05.940 --> 0:31:09.220 Israel after Egypt and his special. 0:31:09.260 --> 0:31:09.900 He's reviewing. 0:31:09.900 --> 0:31:14.780 He's reviewing. Reviewing. Yeah. So that's that's it. Uh, it's 0:31:14.780 --> 0:31:21.400 it's here's what it is. God's sovereign choice. God's grace. 0:31:21.640 --> 0:31:22.280 That's what it is. 0:31:22.400 --> 0:31:23.960 Yeah, yeah. Which is. 0:31:23.960 --> 0:31:24.600 Amazing. 0:31:24.760 --> 0:31:26.959 Kind of the same. Now, when he chooses those to 0:31:27.000 --> 0:31:27.560 follow him. 0:31:27.680 --> 0:31:31.080 Yeah. When if you become a believer, you know, we're saying, oh, 0:31:31.120 --> 0:31:33.800 whosoever will may come and we look at the, the 0:31:33.800 --> 0:31:36.040 sign over the, the door that says that we enter 0:31:36.040 --> 0:31:38.080 the door and it looks you look back at the 0:31:38.080 --> 0:31:40.640 door and it says chosen before the foundation of the 0:31:40.640 --> 0:31:43.880 world for salvation. And so those of us who know 0:31:43.880 --> 0:31:46.600 the Lord, whether Jewish or Gentile, if we've been chosen 0:31:46.600 --> 0:31:49.960 for salvation, we think we made the choice till we're in. 0:31:49.960 --> 0:31:51.800 Then we know it was God who made the choice. 0:31:52.360 --> 0:31:56.120 Yeah. Um, do does that mean Adam and Eve were 0:31:56.120 --> 0:31:56.840 not Jewish? 0:31:58.000 --> 0:31:59.240 Not Jewish, not Jewish. 0:31:59.520 --> 0:32:01.320 So Abraham was the first Jewish person? 0:32:01.320 --> 0:32:03.200 Yeah. Not Noah. 0:32:03.240 --> 0:32:04.200 Mhm. Huh. 0:32:04.240 --> 0:32:08.240 Okay. Yeah. You know, you just assume things as a kid, 0:32:08.280 --> 0:32:08.520 as a. 0:32:08.520 --> 0:32:11.440 Kid going to Sunday school, you think everybody was Jewish? Yeah. 0:32:11.480 --> 0:32:13.800 Yeah, yeah. If they're in the Bible, they were Jewish. Right, right. 0:32:13.800 --> 0:32:14.760 In the Old Testament. 0:32:14.800 --> 0:32:18.260 Adam and Eve, not Jewish. Noah not Jewish. You know, 0:32:18.700 --> 0:32:21.300 the Mel Brooks the comedian used to do the 2000 0:32:21.340 --> 0:32:24.220 year old man, and he would talk about being around 0:32:24.220 --> 0:32:26.940 with Noah, you know, and he'd use and he would 0:32:26.940 --> 0:32:30.900 talk with Noah. He'd use a Yiddish accent. Probably not accurate. 0:32:30.900 --> 0:32:31.380 Probably not. 0:32:31.380 --> 0:32:31.860 Accurate. 0:32:32.460 --> 0:32:36.660 Okay. All right. Well, thank you for that question, Andrew. Um, 0:32:36.700 --> 0:32:40.500 Francis wrote us on Facebook and wants to know when 0:32:40.500 --> 0:32:43.900 the Israelites were crossing the desert during the Exodus, were 0:32:43.900 --> 0:32:47.620 the Israelites covered by the cloud of God's presence? 0:32:48.300 --> 0:32:52.820 I think she must be concerned about sunburn. Why? 0:32:52.860 --> 0:32:53.620 I don't know. 0:32:56.060 --> 0:32:57.979 You know, it's hot walking in the desert. Maybe they 0:32:57.980 --> 0:33:00.580 should have the cloud of God's presence over them. But 0:33:00.580 --> 0:33:03.980 I think maybe she's thinking about something else. What is 14? 0:33:04.540 --> 0:33:05.940 Exodus 14. 0:33:06.300 --> 0:33:08.460 1314 2122. 0:33:08.500 --> 0:33:13.020 Yeah. Okay. Exodus 13 and 14 both talk about it. Uh, 0:33:13.020 --> 0:33:17.850 the The the point of it is that, uh, it 0:33:17.850 --> 0:33:21.930 says they set out from Succoth and camped at, uh, 0:33:21.970 --> 0:33:25.050 Etam on the edge of the wilderness. Now, verse 21, 0:33:25.050 --> 0:33:27.330 the Lord went ahead of them in a pillar of 0:33:27.330 --> 0:33:30.210 cloud to lead them on their way during the day, 0:33:30.210 --> 0:33:32.050 and in a pillar of fire, to give them light 0:33:32.090 --> 0:33:35.530 at night so they could travel day or night. The 0:33:35.530 --> 0:33:37.570 pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire 0:33:37.570 --> 0:33:41.130 by night never left its place in front of the people. 0:33:41.290 --> 0:33:44.330 So there wasn't a cloud cover. It was a cloud 0:33:44.330 --> 0:33:49.570 that led them. Okay. Not not not not covering them. 0:33:49.570 --> 0:33:54.610 Okay, so if the fire is, um, is giving them light, 0:33:55.970 --> 0:33:59.170 from what I understand, there were lots and lots of people. 0:33:59.370 --> 0:34:01.450 So is this fire really big? Is it really high 0:34:01.450 --> 0:34:03.290 in the sky, or is it really only giving light 0:34:03.330 --> 0:34:05.290 to those front ones who are, and the rest are 0:34:05.290 --> 0:34:07.370 just following in the dark? Do you know? I mean, 0:34:07.370 --> 0:34:09.810 I realize we don't know, but I'm trying to. 0:34:09.810 --> 0:34:12.370 Picture I think it was a, it was a, it 0:34:12.370 --> 0:34:14.200 was a sign in the sky. It was a pillar 0:34:14.200 --> 0:34:17.360 of fire. And and you could see it. You know. 0:34:17.480 --> 0:34:19.960 I kind of picture it like lightning. You have a 0:34:19.960 --> 0:34:22.720 big group of people. Everybody can see the lightning. 0:34:22.880 --> 0:34:24.800 Yeah. Yeah. Okay. 0:34:24.840 --> 0:34:27.560 Or like fireworks at a great big event? Yeah. You 0:34:27.560 --> 0:34:29.680 can all see the fireworks. It's kind of like that. 0:34:29.680 --> 0:34:31.120 And the point was, it was to show them which 0:34:31.120 --> 0:34:32.440 way they were. I think it was to show them 0:34:32.440 --> 0:34:34.880 which way they were supposed to go. Not to prevent 0:34:34.880 --> 0:34:38.800 them from falling over rocks and stones on the path. 0:34:38.840 --> 0:34:42.320 Right. It's more. You are going the right direction. Follow me. Right. 0:34:42.360 --> 0:34:44.560 And I'm going to lead you where you need to go. 0:34:44.600 --> 0:34:45.600 Exactly the same. 0:34:45.600 --> 0:34:46.440 Thing with the with. 0:34:46.440 --> 0:34:47.080 The cloud that. 0:34:47.080 --> 0:34:48.960 They would have all been able to see that they 0:34:48.960 --> 0:34:52.439 weren't just following the person wandering and following the person 0:34:52.440 --> 0:34:54.479 in front of them, but they also could see, oh, yeah, 0:34:54.480 --> 0:34:56.120 we're all going the right direction. Yeah. 0:34:56.120 --> 0:35:00.000 Which it really does negate the old, uh, joke that 0:35:00.000 --> 0:35:02.480 we make about Moses not willing being willing to ask 0:35:02.480 --> 0:35:05.200 for directions. So we ended up wandering the wilderness for 0:35:05.200 --> 0:35:07.600 40 years. No, we knew where to go. It's just 0:35:07.600 --> 0:35:11.620 that our disobedience kept us from from entering. Right. Uh, 0:35:11.620 --> 0:35:15.420 and so but they when they wandered, they were wandering 0:35:15.420 --> 0:35:19.140 with God's direction. Right. So. Yeah. So anyway, we're going 0:35:19.140 --> 0:35:21.100 to take a break here. And when we come back, 0:35:21.460 --> 0:35:26.220 we'll take more of the questions that you've sent in. 0:35:26.380 --> 0:35:28.299 My name is Michael. I don't think that was ever 0:35:28.300 --> 0:35:31.259 I don't think also and Tricia McMillan. And it's an 0:35:31.260 --> 0:35:34.779 all mailbag, all the time program. So don't call. We're 0:35:34.780 --> 0:35:37.900 going to answer the questions you've sent us and hopefully 0:35:37.940 --> 0:35:39.980 turn you right back to the scriptures to see where 0:35:39.980 --> 0:35:43.140 the answers are coming from. This is open, and we'll 0:35:43.140 --> 0:35:52.980 be right back. Don't go away. 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Tricia McMillan is with me. Eva is 0:36:39.640 --> 0:36:42.080 with me. We're doing our best. Tricia, let's let's go 0:36:42.080 --> 0:36:43.160 right back to questions. 0:36:43.200 --> 0:36:46.080 All right. Next question is from Tim on Facebook. How 0:36:46.200 --> 0:36:52.080 should YHWH be pronounced? Is it Jehovah or Yahweh or 0:36:52.080 --> 0:36:52.960 something else? 0:36:54.000 --> 0:36:56.440 It's not supposed to be pronounced. It's the unpronounceable name 0:36:56.440 --> 0:37:00.040 of God, according to Jewish tradition. And that's why when 0:37:00.239 --> 0:37:05.520 those Hebrew letters vav were found, or why YHWH. Yeah. 0:37:05.560 --> 0:37:06.120 Say again. 0:37:07.160 --> 0:37:08.040 Hey, vav. 0:37:08.910 --> 0:37:09.270 Okay. 0:37:09.830 --> 0:37:12.950 Uh, when they're in Scripture, at the youngest age, I 0:37:12.950 --> 0:37:17.310 was taught to say Adonai, which means Lord. So when 0:37:17.310 --> 0:37:21.030 you see that, you just say Adonai, which is. And then. 0:37:21.030 --> 0:37:24.069 And then when you're reading Hebrew, unless you mean it, 0:37:24.070 --> 0:37:27.430 if you're just practicing when you see the word Adonai 0:37:27.430 --> 0:37:32.150 or udei vav, uh, you're you're just working on something, 0:37:32.150 --> 0:37:38.310 but you're not actually praying, then you're supposed to say, uh, 0:37:38.350 --> 0:37:39.430 something like Hashem. 0:37:40.830 --> 0:37:41.950 Which just means the name. 0:37:41.950 --> 0:37:47.589 The name. That's that's what you're supposed to do. Uh, and. 0:37:47.590 --> 0:37:48.590 Uh. 0:37:48.590 --> 0:37:53.430 Now, here's the thing. Uh, the the unpronounceable name of 0:37:53.430 --> 0:38:00.030 God vav. Many scholars today say it's pronounced Yahweh, and 0:38:00.550 --> 0:38:03.710 but we're not sure, because that presumes the vowels we're 0:38:03.710 --> 0:38:09.420 putting in and also the, the word, the w. That's 0:38:09.460 --> 0:38:14.020 actually just a transliteration of the Hebrew vav, which is 0:38:14.020 --> 0:38:17.819 really pronounced like a v, not a w. So maybe 0:38:17.860 --> 0:38:22.540 it would be yahveh, but we're not sure. And, uh, 0:38:22.540 --> 0:38:26.020 I guess I just like it that in most Bibles 0:38:26.020 --> 0:38:30.819 it has the Lord with, uh, caps. Small caps. Okay. 0:38:30.860 --> 0:38:32.739 When you see your baby. 0:38:33.140 --> 0:38:35.460 Okay. Like or like like all caps. L o r 0:38:35.460 --> 0:38:36.899 d that, you know, capitalized. 0:38:36.940 --> 0:38:40.100 Yes. They have l and then ored in small caps 0:38:40.100 --> 0:38:41.180 in most Bibles. Yeah. 0:38:41.219 --> 0:38:45.100 Okay. So so when we were talking about the Exodus, um, 0:38:45.100 --> 0:38:49.300 in the last segment, um, just flipping through these, um, 0:38:49.300 --> 0:38:53.980 pages of Exodus, it has Yahweh in various places all over, but. 0:38:53.980 --> 0:38:55.660 Also because you're looking at CSB. 0:38:55.700 --> 0:38:57.620 Bible, I am, I am, but it also has Lord 0:38:57.620 --> 0:39:01.500 with the capitals. Yeah, in the same section. So which 0:39:01.500 --> 0:39:02.299 of those is. 0:39:02.300 --> 0:39:03.899 The not so consistent, which. 0:39:03.900 --> 0:39:06.200 Is the is it both. Any use. 0:39:06.200 --> 0:39:08.080 Of. Let me just say this would be the only 0:39:08.080 --> 0:39:09.440 one that does. It is the. 0:39:10.040 --> 0:39:11.960 One that happened to be the one I brought today and. 0:39:11.960 --> 0:39:15.719 The CSB also. Okay. Doesn't do it as much when 0:39:15.719 --> 0:39:18.320 they revise it. And it's actually one of the things 0:39:18.320 --> 0:39:21.560 I was on the translation team and my friend and 0:39:21.560 --> 0:39:25.960 former professor and I mean very close friend, Edwin Bloom 0:39:25.960 --> 0:39:29.640 was the general editor of that translation, and he really 0:39:29.640 --> 0:39:32.320 wanted to make it all your way wherever it was. 0:39:32.320 --> 0:39:35.359 And there was some pushback. So it's mixed and it 0:39:35.360 --> 0:39:37.879 was very inconsistent. Sometimes it was if it talked about 0:39:37.880 --> 0:39:42.839 the name of God, it used Yahweh. Okay, uh, I'm 0:39:42.840 --> 0:39:45.960 telling you, I laughed with him quite a bit about 0:39:45.960 --> 0:39:49.439 saying I really disagree with this. I wanted it to be, uh. 0:39:49.440 --> 0:39:51.160 He says, oh, that's because you're Jewish, and that's how 0:39:51.160 --> 0:39:53.480 you were raised. And I said, yeah, but that's how 0:39:53.480 --> 0:39:55.800 Bibles have been done. It helps people understand. 0:39:55.800 --> 0:39:59.920 So if it says Yahweh or if it says Lord 0:39:59.960 --> 0:40:03.720 with the capitals, the small caps. Yeah, they are both, um, 0:40:03.760 --> 0:40:07.620 translating the same letters. Yeah, the four. 0:40:07.620 --> 0:40:10.540 Letters and a few places in the Bible. It'll have. 0:40:10.580 --> 0:40:14.980 It'll say the Lord, which is actually the word Adonai, God. 0:40:15.260 --> 0:40:17.339 You know where it says the Lord God. And what? 0:40:17.340 --> 0:40:21.140 That is the Lord Yahweh. And so God is pronounced 0:40:21.180 --> 0:40:25.060 is written g small caps o d o. 0:40:25.100 --> 0:40:27.339 And you might have an older translation that would then 0:40:27.380 --> 0:40:30.500 use the word Jehovah. Yeah. Okay. Where the word. 0:40:31.100 --> 0:40:33.020 So any of those, any of those that we see 0:40:33.020 --> 0:40:36.540 would be in place of the four letters? Yeah. Right. 0:40:36.620 --> 0:40:38.580 The YHWH. Okay. 0:40:38.620 --> 0:40:42.420 It's it's called the Tetragrammaton if you want to be. Oh, yeah. 0:40:43.180 --> 0:40:45.500 It always makes me think of when I was in seminary, 0:40:45.739 --> 0:40:47.700 there was a friend of ours, Bob Hicks, who one 0:40:47.700 --> 0:40:52.020 day I heard him walking down the hallway singing every 0:40:52.060 --> 0:40:56.100 day with the Tetragrammaton sweeter than the. And I just 0:40:56.100 --> 0:40:57.300 thought it was just so funny. 0:40:57.340 --> 0:40:58.140 Yeah. That's right. 0:40:58.660 --> 0:40:59.300 In the him. 0:40:59.739 --> 0:41:00.259 Yeah. That's right. 0:41:00.460 --> 0:41:00.739 That's right. 0:41:00.780 --> 0:41:02.420 And there is no J in Hebrew. 0:41:03.090 --> 0:41:05.370 So that Jehovah would not be. 0:41:05.410 --> 0:41:06.770 It would have to be a why? Okay. 0:41:06.810 --> 0:41:10.250 So be Jehovah. Jehovah who? Okay. These are all those 0:41:10.250 --> 0:41:12.450 translation things that we don't know, and we just see 0:41:12.450 --> 0:41:15.169 them in our Bible and say, what is that? Yeah. 0:41:15.210 --> 0:41:18.410 But I will say as a little Bible study tip, 0:41:18.969 --> 0:41:23.090 usually this might be true, I think, across the board. But, um, 0:41:23.170 --> 0:41:26.250 at the beginning of the Bible, in those notes, at 0:41:26.250 --> 0:41:30.170 the very beginning, it explains, yes, we have translated this 0:41:30.170 --> 0:41:32.649 this way and this is what it means. And so 0:41:32.650 --> 0:41:35.290 often you will find those notes in the very beginning, 0:41:35.330 --> 0:41:36.169 if there are any, that. 0:41:36.170 --> 0:41:36.970 No one reads. 0:41:37.210 --> 0:41:38.129 Yeah, I. 0:41:38.130 --> 0:41:39.930 Have, but most people don't read. 0:41:39.930 --> 0:41:42.210 Those. I'm also the one who read a dictionary. As 0:41:42.210 --> 0:41:44.890 a child, I thought that was fun. I did too. 0:41:44.890 --> 0:41:46.690 I did too. Tricia. We're twins. 0:41:46.810 --> 0:41:51.130 Yes, yes. Okay, well, thank you for that thorough explanation 0:41:51.210 --> 0:41:53.930 that went beyond, um, so hopefully, Tim, you did say, 0:41:53.930 --> 0:41:56.049 can you dive into this? And we definitely did. So 0:41:56.050 --> 0:42:00.650 hopefully that answers your question. Um, next question is from 0:42:00.650 --> 0:42:04.440 Jeannie on Facebook. She is looking at a couple of 0:42:04.440 --> 0:42:08.359 psalms where David makes reference to the Lord's house or 0:42:08.360 --> 0:42:13.359 the temple. But it wasn't built until after David died. 0:42:13.600 --> 0:42:15.920 So what is he referring to? The specific one she 0:42:15.920 --> 0:42:19.200 mentions are Psalms five seven, where it says, but I 0:42:19.280 --> 0:42:21.920 enter your house by the abundance of your faithful love. 0:42:22.160 --> 0:42:25.200 I bow down toward your holy temple in reverential awe 0:42:25.239 --> 0:42:28.600 of you. In Psalm 23 six references I will dwell 0:42:28.600 --> 0:42:30.960 in the house of the Lord. So what is he 0:42:30.960 --> 0:42:31.640 referring to? 0:42:31.680 --> 0:42:35.920 Yeah, I believe it or not. I recently was reading, 0:42:36.080 --> 0:42:40.920 I think, Psalm 30, and it's a Psalm of David. 0:42:40.960 --> 0:42:42.840 Let's see if I can find it just so I can. 0:42:42.840 --> 0:42:46.120 This is not so unusual. Uh, let me see if 0:42:46.120 --> 0:42:50.759 I can find it real quick. Uh. Psalm 30. I'm 0:42:50.760 --> 0:42:53.960 turning pages. Turning pages. Here we go. It's a psalm. 0:42:54.680 --> 0:42:58.240 A dedication song for the house. 0:42:58.280 --> 0:43:01.500 Mhm. Is that referring to the house the prescription. 0:43:01.540 --> 0:43:02.100 And then it says. 0:43:02.100 --> 0:43:02.580 Davidic. 0:43:03.060 --> 0:43:06.299 Or of David. Okay. And so what house is he 0:43:06.300 --> 0:43:14.060 talking about? There's three possibilities. One, he's talking about the tabernacle. Two, 0:43:14.340 --> 0:43:16.180 he's speaking as a prophet that there will be a 0:43:16.180 --> 0:43:21.300 temple or something that he anticipates his son Solomon to build. 0:43:22.980 --> 0:43:28.100 And or the third possibility. And this is something that 0:43:28.100 --> 0:43:29.540 we have to understand. How do we get the book 0:43:29.540 --> 0:43:33.580 of Psalms? It's not like very often when people think 0:43:33.580 --> 0:43:36.100 of how the Book of Psalms came to be. It's 0:43:36.100 --> 0:43:40.580 sort of like when I was in high school, I 0:43:40.700 --> 0:43:43.300 came to faith, had a Bible study in my home, 0:43:43.300 --> 0:43:45.620 and we all thought we were songwriters. We went through 0:43:45.620 --> 0:43:48.180 the Psalms and everyone had guitars and we. 0:43:48.180 --> 0:43:48.779 All made up some. 0:43:48.780 --> 0:43:50.940 Tunes. Yeah, we made up some tunes, you know, blessed 0:43:50.940 --> 0:43:53.700 be the Lord God and all this. And what we 0:43:53.700 --> 0:43:56.980 would do is we would then, uh, what was that 0:43:56.980 --> 0:44:01.600 blue stuff called again? Uh, Mimeograph, mimeograph them, and we 0:44:01.600 --> 0:44:03.640 put them in these little binders we had and just 0:44:03.680 --> 0:44:06.160 add them. We would add the songs every week into 0:44:06.160 --> 0:44:08.280 it and like it was just as they were written, 0:44:08.360 --> 0:44:10.880 they were put in there. That's not how the songs 0:44:10.880 --> 0:44:15.840 came to be. Uh, for example, we have Psalms by Moses. 0:44:16.160 --> 0:44:20.719 Psalm 90. Right. We have Psalms by Solomon. Uh, Psalm 72. 0:44:21.040 --> 0:44:25.040 They're not in chronological order. Uh, no. Uh, there there 0:44:25.040 --> 0:44:29.240 are actually five books within five volumes within the Psalms 0:44:29.239 --> 0:44:33.400 to match the five volumes of the Torah. Uh, there 0:44:33.400 --> 0:44:37.160 was an editor, and now we know that the it 0:44:37.160 --> 0:44:42.560 was put together not gradually or chronologically, but they were 0:44:42.680 --> 0:44:45.480 it was edited and put together into a final book. 0:44:46.120 --> 0:44:51.440 After Israel's exile. The exile takes place in 586 BC. 0:44:51.920 --> 0:44:54.520 And this is Post-exilic. How do we know? One of 0:44:54.520 --> 0:44:56.839 the Psalms. Well, first of all, you've got exilic Psalms. 0:44:57.000 --> 0:44:57.440 Like. 0:44:58.150 --> 0:45:01.589 Psalm 137, about by the waters of Babylon. There we 0:45:01.590 --> 0:45:05.070 lay down and wept. For thee Zion. Right. So obviously 0:45:05.070 --> 0:45:09.950 that's the psalm that was written in, uh, in Babylon. 0:45:10.110 --> 0:45:12.870 And then you have Psalm 126, when the Lord brought 0:45:12.870 --> 0:45:15.669 back the captive ones to Zion, we were like those 0:45:15.670 --> 0:45:19.509 who dreamed. Right. So it's it's the return from captivity. 0:45:20.510 --> 0:45:23.549 What does this tell us? That the Psalms as a book, 0:45:23.550 --> 0:45:27.270 although David wrote 73 of them, it's marked the Psalms 0:45:27.270 --> 0:45:30.590 as a book is a book that was put together. 0:45:30.590 --> 0:45:35.069 It was like a hymn book put together after the exile. 0:45:35.750 --> 0:45:39.590 Why is this important? The editor of the Psalms will 0:45:39.590 --> 0:45:48.670 frequently have little, uh, adaptations, uh, things. Editorial comments. Someone 0:45:48.670 --> 0:45:52.870 might call it a gloss. Uh, whoever that biblical writer 0:45:52.870 --> 0:45:55.310 was after the exile who was putting the whole book 0:45:55.310 --> 0:45:57.859 of Psalms together. He's putting some things in. And so, 0:45:57.860 --> 0:46:00.500 like in Psalm 30, the one I just mentioned, uh, 0:46:00.500 --> 0:46:02.620 he says, oh, this is the psalm that was read. 0:46:02.980 --> 0:46:05.460 David wrote it, but it was read with a dedicated 0:46:05.460 --> 0:46:09.660 The temple. And so he puts that there in the superscript, 0:46:09.660 --> 0:46:13.420 sometimes even in the text, biblical explanations like that. 0:46:13.460 --> 0:46:16.940 Okay. So the house of the Lord was a, was a, 0:46:16.940 --> 0:46:19.820 the editor pointing toward. 0:46:20.380 --> 0:46:24.260 Could be in some cases sometimes it's David. Okay. So 0:46:24.340 --> 0:46:26.299 talking about the tabernacle okay. 0:46:26.340 --> 0:46:27.540 So could be tabernacle. 0:46:27.540 --> 0:46:30.060 All right. Well that's that's the first hour. I can't 0:46:30.060 --> 0:46:32.900 believe how fast it went. We're going to come back 0:46:32.900 --> 0:46:37.339 with a another hour of all questions all the time, 0:46:37.340 --> 0:46:39.819 all mailbag. We're going to come right back. Check out 0:46:39.820 --> 0:46:43.700 our mail. Our website. During the break. Open line radio.org. 0:46:43.700 --> 0:46:45.780 We're going to be right back. Keep keep your Bible 0:46:45.780 --> 0:46:48.259 open because we're going to study it. Open line with 0:46:48.260 --> 0:46:51.100 Doctor Michael Dolnick is a production of Moody Radio, a 0:46:51.100 --> 0:46:53.540 ministry of Moody Bible Institute.