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The following program is recorded content created by the Truth Network Matt slick. Why is the founder and president of the listed apologetics research what is found online or you have questions about Bible doctrine. Why Matt slick and it was the mess look like a miracle going to do was wait 772072276 last four numbers spell see ARM on your dial so you CPUC want to give the medical and see the frontline so that's good.

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Teaching theology and asking and answering questions from people interested takes about 20 minutes to cook again that'll be at 9 PM Eastern time is for sale goes on a weekly basis as people call us to come on the mic and then ask questions, do some teaching and things like that so there you go seek real quick and slick my sleazy all right when we just jump on the phone with Anthony from Virginia Anthony welcome you on here and talk with you about Matthew 24 and 36 where talking about his return anything about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the time, but only the father so my question is why is it that the findings doesn't know something. The father knows this is an allusion to the wedding feast and I did need to explain historical context to understand what is being said and what he saying it that way. So a some parents would arrange the wedding back in that day and so there will be a groom and a man, woman, they will be betrothed for a year and during that year. The sun was supposed to build an addition onto the house that they were living on because he's gonna go get his bride and bring her back at the wedding feast and stuff they would live there if they had a different kind of us living situation is to build abode for her. So this took a period of time and it was also necessary for this time so that the people who were relatives who might've moved away you hundred miles away in Israel.

Of 50 miles away could then make plans to travel in that year. Time before the end of edible plants in order to attend the wedding. All right. During this time.

Like I said the sun would be building a room or in addition onto the abode of the father's house.

The family house so they would know the almost exact day when it was scheduled for the groom to go get the bride blacked not always, you had to get the wine ready.

It took months to format you had to get the calf ready for a feast of the wedding was a feast time so the people knew when to show up at the site was September 1. Let's say much of a couple of days before the skit wedding might be officially scheduled for the first but might be a delay in the my doing.

The second might do a day early and so this kind of thing was in place when the groom's not here we go. When the grooms buddies would say, what was the father was your father going to tell you to look at the bride he would save. No one knows the date of the arc of the father along and it was an expression used, to designate the sovereignty and majesty of the father in that family relationship.

They knew pretty much the time in the hour, but not necessarily the minute because the father might be stalling for a half-hour hours just to say go get your bride and then what would happen as the trumpeters who were there, they do hire trumpeters, musicians, unless a family member to be do this and they would go with the, the groom, towards the location where the bride was at that point, it could be that they had to move her there, or share temporary abode of where she was. In order for him with the trumpeters and the wedding feast guests to go to walk where she was to grab her narrative and in 1/2 with the go-getter and then come back and was a procession when I was in Jerusalem I saw this and we saw part of it. Oh, we are near the Wailing Wall and I heard this music was going on and on.

It was just just kind of nice music and end up as I went and I left my group girl standing there looking at her stuff and I went over and watched and it was the wedding feast with the putting fees for the wedding procession. There was a groom and the bride and her being there walking around walking and it's a bunch of people around him and had musical instruments and they were progressing through the crowd and the crowd would parts as they would come through and cheer and clap. It was up joyous thing and they were just full of smiles and this went on and I got to see it I just I was tickled. It was this kind of thing that that is from that time and place. So when he says with that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels and of heaven, nor the son with the father alone. This is one of the ways to understand it in its cultural context, that that is what he saying furthermore, if we were to say hold the commitment. If we were to say that all that the son did not know that there's a problem here. For one thing, Jesus has two natures, a divine and the human and biological necessity. All the attributes of divinity are ascribed to the single person has all those attributes, omissions being one of them. So in that sense he would have to know. Otherwise, he could not be God in flesh of a kind of a breakoff on that's a kind of break off in a theological perspective is dealing with. It was called gnosis in Philippians 2, five through eight where Jesus was cooperating with limitations of being a Mansell, one of the theories is that he could've. In this context when possible inflammation is. He could have just not known by choice to not know that that future that they are some issues with that. That's one of the things the other thing is that if you go to Revelation 1912. Read this in the talk about it they will all be conquered is that of an exclamation here. Revelation 1912 talk about Jesus, his eyes are a flame of fire, and on his head are many diadem's ideas a name written on him which no one knows except himself. Wait a minute, that can't be true because that would mean, for example, father the Holy Spirit wouldn't know. So what's going on. It looks like in the culture there is a sense of exaggeration that would go on in the Jewish way of speaking truly, truly, truly, I say to you, no one knows the day nor the hour except no one knows his name is himself and it isn't necessarily a logically precise theological statement, but as it could also be an expression of exaggeration which is relevant and prevalent in many of the Jewish writings culture okay so there you go.

There are three possible I have a question for you. So are you on the opinion that really got it now or do you believe he doesn't know what you think he doesn't know what it what is your opinion on my thinking is that he's were simply reciting the issue of the wedding feast idiomatic expression because he says for right after thing to come of this email because I days of Noah, so there could be at a double meaning here. You could be saying by that expression, it would draw the attention of the culturally familiar people right then and there to the wedding feast. I remember Jesus says that he goes to prepare a place for you, and that the wood when he comes back with the trumpet of God. In Philippians 1st decile is to be for subtleties for 16 and in Matthew 24. It also talks with the trumpets and so there are some hints here of the wedding feast, cultural norms, so when he saying it. It may not be we can of exact sure. It may not be that he did not know that's only if we were discussed the issue, the emptying of the can gnosis and that's a bit of discussion in the other option here, I think, is that what he's doing is making a statement in submission to the father where it's possible he may not have known if he has chosen to not know because he could do that because he has two nature divine and human is one possibility chose just to ignore that knowledge or to suppress it, but it was certainly accessible to him because he's got in flesh or the other thing is that he's just simply giving the idiomatic expression so that it would draw the attention of the people to the idea of the wedding feast and cause him to see other things and then when he goes on he says no man knows the day nor the hour and two men in the field one is taken, but the interesting thing here that the bewildering kind of a thing is that the ones who were taken there are the wicked not the good. So the wedding feast is concomitant with the return of Christ, which looks like a new heavens and new work, the consummation of all things in the wedding feast with the bright so I think it's very eschatological and does not necessitate at all that he did not know okay well I have more comment about RA on it and any theory that claims either didn't actually know clear that either didn't know, but that he didn't know is making deals out to be a liar because he's saying something that's not true. Which means you thinning okay so if I were to say to you that I beat my neighbor to those black and blue and the need to look at him and you know he's not black or blue talking about you slide is that a answer is no because L&I's intention to deceive and are certain expressions that you can use that are understood to be general and when they can be cited are not technically accurate. They carry the meaning and it's not a lie.

Okay well all of the all that cultural context you provided found nowhere in the Bible thought to be foaming at the game. Not without any evidence to you have no idea what you're talking about.

Okay, I just want to understand you don't know you to go study the stuff this is not in the Bible is a cultural context. Did you know they were certain kind of clothing.

Okay, the cultural context but not in the Bible where where is this theory in the Bible while okay did you not hear me tell you about the wedding feast and how it was done back then and it was in that context that Jesus lived and he spoke did I not tell you that yeah but you can you tell you're making it a theme could argue that you claiming the very opposite of what is actually saying you cultural context that with any of the worth of you this. Do you know the culture, nothing else. You know the cultural context or develop a theory with it. There are no no no no you can go do research about this. I talked about this over the years and to Jews who'd are Christians who studied their ancient history study stuff said two of them said that to to Jews critical become completed use tell me they're very surprised that I knew that we elect by learning from more than it looks. Many books of red rice had not been people know this but it's true has given you cross-references about the issues of the wedding feast. The trumpeters, the arrangement of the wedding which is by predestination election. All of this is reminiscent he goes to prepare a place for you when he returns he will come and gather you to himself. This is all wedding feast culture. I thought so.

If the break forth realizing 772-0776 max Y call 77077 charismatic slave back to the show three lines 877-2076. There their airmen are no match. Did you want a cultural norm to be written down in Scripture. Well, it doesn't matter by any of the D clearly related to the passage in question. So I don't think any relation to the social and Luke 1452 24's the great banquets of parables going great banquet in a bunch of people were there and were invited as banquet and when Jesus is talking.

He said he invited different people, but they all alike began to make excuses. The first one said to him, I bought a piece of land that I need to go out and look at it please consider me excused. You know the cultural significance of that statement that he is a plan is a good look at a man, probably not well at the dollar would well I guess it's not in the Bible God not will hold on if it's not written in the Scriptures is why that statement is made mostly what is her in a minute, then you could minister the parable well here's my problem is that there is a maximum explain it's a lie because you don't buy land and then go see it you see it you consider it you look at it, then you buy it is common sense you another springs and wells and trees in which audit yielded by something like, I can look at the land. It's a double delivered insult my succinct.

I have bought five yoke of oxen need to go try them out. How come you buy without trying about his lame excuses you wouldn't really know that unless you knew the culture, the prodigal son and the father ran to the sun, the men of stature did not run was a sign of immaturity.

The good Samaritan who was naked or who found the guy who was naked and making unconscious reason that's important is because you couldn't tell who he was, by his speech or his clothing, because in the culture people's clothing told where they were from, you would know that we see what you're saying is, unless it's written in the Scriptures all the details then forget it, but how about this with a woman who had the issue of blood for 12 years reached and touched the hem of Jesus garment. She was healed. We didn't know that the tub leads and seat seat were the patterns of knots that were tied into the ends of the garments that a teacher would wear symbolizing the 613 laws of the Old Testament.

She reached down to force her way down and reached for it and touched it and she was healed he wouldn't know that unless you knew that that's what they did with those garments okay there. I will yes I am okay. The problem I have here is all we have in the gospel is this statement and where you think cultural context to indicate that either quit saying something that wasn't true so I don't understand how you mean he would thinning which means he cannot be the perfect sacrifice so diverse of Jesus as a Jew for the Trinity by nations. Me, you affirm or deny the doctrine of the Trinity when God is resisting simultaneous cultural persons question that to be honest okay with talk before you leave your Christian we talk with them before I said you guys ever insinuated you the liar Jeep. I haven't either explained it to the cultural context to deny it, but this would Jesus admit look 27 all things and then handed over to me by my father and no one knows the son except the father, nor does anyone know the father took the son does that mean the Holy Spirit is know the father the son doesn't mean that that I had, I would say not, will know by their old SON Jesus telling you call Jesus a liar.

Now what I'm saying is that I we hold another notice not what we're aiming to Trinity there for one thing and that is the Holy Spirit does Holy Spirit know the father and the son.

Well, there are those who say that the Holy Spirit evidently the emanation of God the father. So again you're getting into the area take that seriously.

We talked over the months, and I've repeatedly had to correct you one thing and you seem to call out for one reason, and to deny Christ truly is. This is what I just noticed with you. I've been very patient with you and try to explain things to you and explain things you have noticed a pattern you tend to just reject the explanations which are problem, but the only Bible do you believe that Jesus is God in flesh would not what I wanted to be convincing. Here the other side of the night are going to be able to be convinced that because I've told this before so I asked the question the Bible says in the beginning was the word word was with God the Word was God's Word became flesh and dwelt among us. That's God becoming flesh as Jesus, you affirm that Jesus is God in flesh error is a yes or no metaphorical met metaphorical allegorical tax with some out of the fire identical to the father. The father said of the sun in Hebrews 18 thy throne of God is for ever and ever is the father father calling Jesus God according Old Testament passage, word for word and in the original Old Testament had the word of God is there with leftover as part of the quote unit in the New Testament is though is is God the father calling Jesus God in the text of Hebrews 18 will know you and your family. If you understand that the quotation all so the quotation where his name is Ronald $0.45 insult 45 six which says that God is our throne of God, which is attributed by the New Testament writer to Jesus seat.

I'm just proving to you to others that you're not submitting yourself to the word of God.

You were caught either you you work hard at denying the Scriptures when you say, neither are you. You are including me in your error. But what you're doing and that is admitting you don't do it as my signal neither to get major admitting you don't do it. But then accusingly felt like I do submit myself to the word of God. I'm telling you, after decades of study I give you answers the stuff you're never satisfied with those answers. And the reason I believe is because you don't have the spirit of Christ in you, you look for ways to deny who he is now asking to tell you that the spirit of antichrist, liar you are, because when Matthew, now 27, and I read it and he says no one knows aesthetics of the father was a father to son. He said it wasn't true and when I explained to you. Matthew 24, 36 and when the vomiting or the hour in the cold, and I gave you three possible escalation of the Symmetricom Lark. You you needs it to you really need to do some serious study and you need to do's and a reflection of what your motives are reported. Is there any turtle father in history, folks, let's all get a break from time to get the Rudolph's next trip to open lines 87720776 Rybak Van Slyke why call 770727 charismatic slave back to the show on the air with Rudolph from Raleigh will welcome your web good lot. We knew that. Let me know that God is eternally greedy yet know how we are out of town you created that validated lack we believe that life he hit the designated time for light life out of me if you think that to be Wednesday, use the as the one day when we that put that on the shredder center Trinity question is not quite the you know when God stated that when they that have value when it airs every now and there you don't think that I know that is that thousand four different thing. I'm on for four you know, because God eternally eclipsed that bad that he did you it seemed like he that gripped airport time is given in the locality for that one day I gotcha's expression and generally speaking the word thousand when it's used as often and it's very definitive context and you know so for example, Revelation 1420 of my dear verse, like okay God owns the cattle and the thousand Hills and one days as a thousand years. The word thousand is often used. The way we kind of use were a billion. It just means a big number. That's all it meant to them in some contexts, so what he saying that one days a thousand or thousand today. He's just using it and that it's one days I could billion years ago. They liquidated him. It's that nondescript of precise phrase used just to convey the idea of a sense of timelessness. Notable people start talk about that with God nasty about God's timelessness.

I just tell him pretty quickly. I don't know what it means to be timeless so I don't have much of an answer for you to point people tell me will guide us at a time right Isaac. I don't know what it means to be outside of time.

I can't tell you.

And so I don't have answers, questions because I don't have any any anchor that tells me what a particular concept in a statement is so that I can therefore comment on that concept but understand what it means. Guess at a time I make a comment on capacity to get the Excel okay okay after that. But thank you, thank you for now pleasure to act like that. All right. God bless, okay. Hey listen the phone with Martin from Virginia Martin welcome here on the air. Hey Matt, thanks again for your ministry. I just got one at back on that.

I think an earlier caller about the what they spend and Jesus response about, you know, I note the time, but the father I'm kind of I called I called up you doesn't even last year about this note think they are but I'm not and I'm not a thing mindset of that earlier caller and in no way do I think you is capable door with the intent that land wired obvious and yes I'm I'm pregnant Of that, but I just can't find scripturally anywhere where it has anything to the wedding feast what you contractually absolute. I only follow your line of reasoning there but scripturally I really think that Jesus was actually referring to the father owned the father. Note that the actual path and I think logically and reasonably they could follow that that Jesus did not now support for the as you. I think you diluted to work going to chose not to know that that point time it is one of the possibilities were discussing some of the issues that relate to this is when we understand the hypostatic union and that is the teaching that the single person of Jesus has two natures, a divine nature and human nature. Some people will say that he laid aside the attributes of his divinity in order to become a man that's not possible illustration I give this to say there's a circle and you're looking at the circus to a square has four corners and four sides and a square that is there has certain characteristics. If we were to say that the nature of the squares to have four sides and we took away four sides are one of those sides is no longer a square because the right. The properties and the essence are essentially identical here.

So if Jesus is two natures is God in flesh by logical necessity. You must possess omniscience.

There's another Dr. document related to this called the commune to cut to it. You will not with the attributes of both natures are ascribed to the single person so Jesus said, I'll be with you always. 2020, which is a declaration of his omniscient omnipresence. And yet he said I'm thirsty across and solicit declaration admission of his humanity.

So the one person had the attributes of both natures. Having said that, when we discussed the issue of this essay. He didn't know. It's not possible for him not to know in the divine nature is not a possibility because we can't say that he laid aside the attribute of omniscience because any would no longer be divine week might be able to say he cooperated with limitations of being a man, and what is that mean and that in itself is another issue discussion is that's why said in the second option that some people have offered is that he was cooperating that limit sense and chose not to know because he was able to that's true or not true is worth a discussion. So this is it, difficult issue, but we do know it is part yes it is part of the cultural norm for the wedding feast. We know that is the case that's that's just historical context it was written, but is it all that it is. That's the question I would say six I think it definitely is reflective of the wedding feast, but is also a statement about his relationship with the father because it could be that in his incarnation made under the law. Galatians 44 cooperating with limitations being a man that there was a condition which it could allow that particular ignorance to occur as an honor to the father.

Is it possible I don't know logically necessary.

I don't know in your difficulties with that position as well. So this is not a didn't want to answer. You know you're right, it is difficult. I think if you get it right. In the spirit, Christ our Savior and God the father is that the vision separateness, the oneness, but separateness that one asked you not expect really deeply hard to dissect that out in Scripture I'm so funny I I'm not. I personally, I don't find any proof that it wedding) I think truly Christ. The thing that God only God knows. And I also believe that yes it I meet with with with that the bright may not now, not being born to be aware that multiline scripturally was what you're saying but it might be it that I consider saying that it might also be finished in the cultural context that you did know he was simply saying what he was saying to bring another truth in these are this is something as we started looking the text where the gentleman in the text as it still is a wooden tradition of the father called for the exact date of the wedding in the Middle East. Cultures says he met a guy from Saudi Arabia. It where he is waiting for his father to do just that. The cultural norms are still there to Middle East. But here's something here's a visioning you don't, you know, Matthew 710 you have anything you ask for what man is her money when he is son is nine. Ask for a loaf of bread when I give him a stone. Why would Jesus say that while loaf of bread compared to stone or as for official give mistake around on God by Martin without the context of culturally you wouldn't understand what he's talking about is real simple in that culture. When you baked bread you break think it was rounds made round they put it into an oven and it would turn into a flat kind of thing that have much yeast and it was resembling a certain kind of stone construction out there that was can a natural, it resembled a stone in the sea of Galilee. There's a fish that's super long skinny yes for official give mistake. These are things that were culturally normative culture cannot be excused or dismissed from hold the break yet got a hold that will go okay. Hey, folks. Be right back after these messages to open lines give a call 87720776 mass Y call 77077 charismatic slave back to the show with Québec: Mark question yet yet when political and about every night every year to August, but this dog show trial turn on the back and I thought testimony all I guess a coworker I'm not sure who she was I that she reported that truck with the rest of the cartographic driver during the January they know that right me to the capital but in retrospect it looks like that you actual folks that were there people that were first and are we refuting and and if they know before you have a nice ride yet.

What a get well I'm really at trial if not show thank way will put people that want but not but when you watch her. She actually talked underwrote as if she was there and she made a comment that that describe trump reaching to the front and doing something that only a first-person with no no question in your in your opinion, is that someone that would be better a liar. I guess we have no current and, obviously, but which you lie and will not help.

I can see anything that if you haven't seen exactly what's happened since I watched it so careful not to because of the life I don't have have not have seen Nashua. She said how was the context of what I can tell you.you wanted just had this kind disturbed with with the way out of the left believes that truth as well as lies are equally valid right you are thinking that God bless others a good teacher slogan.

The left believes both truth and lies are equally valuable. Let's get to go to Illinois really lost and now will will go over to let's see, Paul Pickett is from Virginia Republican think I heard the report recently that valid, but I would get. To be about 48 week United States. Diesel shortages sorted out completely mouthwatering nail that hurt this creek I have any validity. I do know I've heard that there are rumors that there's gonna be some of course the last quarter of the year. They can be some serious fuel shortages. I just heard people say they've set it or heard it and it's just that I haven't heard directly from any officials but I think something about Biden saying something in a column present in the column by so I think you mentioned some elected and B can trust what he says disease is not mentally there so if there is good be something like this. We need to be very very careful because it will destroy our economy and the crisis created by the left will then require that the left come and tell us how to solve the problem and that will be to give up more rights and give them more power. So good at this. The problem is solvable when trump left office. Your energy independent had gas prices are going down. Biden gets in the first sink when the first thing he does is to close down the sources of our fuel development for yes and why would he do that but when you do that this is working with foreign entities in order to destroy the economy. What we can and put us on the road to dependence of others that that's at and is far as I'm concerned, I think there's a whole lot of them out of the front upon on charges and there should be independent of trials on one see how much their uphold the Constitution that are sworn to do and related. The last caller comment that not all that scripted but other than that it had looked scripted today, but I don't but I was wondering why I have one in Congress that it or the health why target brought up pre-because the correct people are in control. Okay to correct is not enough good people in office to do what needs to be done is not enough good men good women out there to. But I'm of the opinion that the mentor wants you to stand more than the women so chauvinistic I don't care. I believe men have spiritual responsibilities for the fact of his being male and that we are called to take greater risks than most others. I think those people in those positions of authority is particularly both male and female. I think they they because their position.

They need to do what is necessary to get our country back because I'm not saying anything new to me and you listen to commentaries from varying sources of personal trustee. The election past or the future. I don't trust our government. I don't trust what's happening.

I don't trust the FBI in my black you think with your opinion.

I was already aware of corruption that very covert situation really woke awakened me out with her stuff I've known about for years and years from different sources over the years how the Masons are heavily involved in varying organizations and how there are others.

A shadow government going with connections to other powers and so this kind of stuff is there, and I believe it is proof is your proof, the growth on the East Coast people study that there's a lot of this is going on the demonic forces are very effective in Daniel nine and 10 last night and I talked with the Prince of Persia. The demonic forces and that there's two of them and that tells me that there are demonic forces assigned geographically and I wouldn't have any problem with saying demonic forces assigned to political leaders mean why do they fail, they go so bad why they didn't they work so hard to destroy our country quietly close down fuel lines and then open the borders all over and say come in and what they want this when they want abortion which is violence when they wanted to occur with the people here in America and then open the borders to nonnatural who don't have our culture and our language who believe in socialist ideologies could accompany socialist countries and failed, but they don't know and they come in and they want to bring in socialist ideas in if you want to destroy our culture and our country. You do exactly what's being done to infiltrate the schools and he brainwashed the children into socialism. You infiltrate the media and you get leftist theology. This theology, leftist political thought pushed you close our sources of independence and make us dependent upon others. You allow foreign governments to come in the high up our resources and our companies.

You open the borders to non-Americans and have them invade and then fly them out throughout our country and then you say we need to have abortion in our country.

Think about this.

The people who come into the desert countries, particularly Latin American countries of the Roman Catholic perspective, they don't believe in abortion to come here and have lots of children and I got stories iced up the written registrar at the hospital emergency room in San Diego and I not speak enough Spanish to do all that and I can tell you I can tell you that the families would come across the border and it would show up there in Escondido which is hidden in Spanish. We want to go to hide and the families with children different fathers pregnant and not married, that he was speak English and on and asked him how long you been here eight years. You speak English now if markets yes your husband don't know. And so they I saw this firsthand. So this is part and parcel how you destroyer country then wanted the guns away and we can't fight back. The reason the second moment is there is to stop an oppressive government. That's the primary reason for the try to take away because we have an oppressive government taxation without representation we have for the government promoting immorality, promoting homosexuality, promoting the death of the unborn, penalizing those who say I don't want to support homosexuality they penalizing for you. Gotta go to these indoctrination things at work. Learn how to be sensitive, but is never sensitive to Christianity or the Christians.

It's always towards evil as our country is in bad shape but I must say this to say this if you are in a large area.

Let's say you're in a factory or a big warehouse.

There's nothing this warehouse assisted 500 feet across his a few pillars to hold up the roof and you go in and you turn out the light.

You can't see anything but some could be at the opposite end of that thing turn on just light a match.

You'll see it even at that distance the spondylitis. It is as the darkness increases the light of the gospel will be all the more visible in the darkness. This is the time for us Christians to preach the gospel message that God is alive. He is true he's absolute that there are consequences to rebellion against him, and at eternal judgments, and that Jesus resurrection is the proof that what Jesus said was true and that he said the judgments coming will escape the judgment you trust in him to turn away from darkness to that very light. People love living that darkness and that one like that's there if they prefer to darkness signifying that light and destroy. We had to stand strong as Christians and preach the gospel and in so doing, God will arrange and God will open people's hearts to the gospel message. That's what I say all of right okay thank you very much very much mythically projecting question.

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Go to John chapter 1 to start reading in him was life and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, the darkness did not comprehend John one versus 45 Weber there's a music may have a good evening tonight if I God's grace back on your tomorrow will talk to you then must powered by the Truth Network