Dr. Brown Helps Solve Your Bible Problems

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866-34-TRUTH 87884 before we go to the phones. I was in prayer. Early this afternoon and I just said Lord if you can say one thing all of America today, what would it be now. Of course it's a big question, and of course God speaks in many different ways.

At the same time and is it the church of America is that the world is it hurting people's arrogant people are there million different audiences or tens of millions of different audiences and I was presumptuous enough to think that I was in of the message but I was praying. What what word from Scripture, would you speak and course God's word is always relevant because words always now.

But I was struck by this verse from the words of Jesus in Luke 13 and this was immediately what came to mind as I prayed, strive to enter through the narrow door for many I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able strive to enter through the narrow door for many I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able a sobering word today when we have reached such a soft gospel for so long.

I just filled out a questionnaire. I responded to a lengthy email from a major ministry, and in Hungary the largest mega church in all of Europe are very influential ministry there in Hungary that I work with over the years they had a bunch of questions for me about Pres. Trump about the political scene in America etc. and ask about cultural issues in the churches voice and homosexuality and reaching out those were hurting and I said look, this is the culmination of decades of a soft compromise gospel where churches were afraid to address controversial issues were more concerned with offending people in offending God. That's why when the crisis rented a good news is the gospel is to answer the bad news is we dug ourselves a pretty deep hole, 86634 and we go straight to the phones with John in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Welcome to the line of fire.

I talked about our doing very well thank you point out here on the deuterocanonical books Bible. Are they valid or invalid. But Holy Spirit inspired right sir. My understanding and you would call it a historic Protestant understanding traditional Jewish understanding is that these books are of great value. They are edifying. There is often important history in them, or spiritual insights, but they are not to be taken on the poor was Scripture not a Catholic argument would be this, that the Septuagint which was the Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures done before the the time of Jesus, so this is by the Jewish community in Alexandria, Egypt, that the Septuagint also includes these various books, the what we recall the apocryphal or deuterocanonical canonical books. They would claim that there are allusions to these books are references to these books on some level in the New Testament itself, and that the church fathers recognize these books as Scripture as well, and that even at the time of the Reformation, they would be printed in between the old and New Testament in and Protestant Bibles but they were simply not used for public preaching or teaching, etc. my answer to that would be that there is not a single reference ever in the New Testament to any apocryphal book as Scripture. Nowhere is it ever quoted as the word of God as Scripture. Under no circumstances and that from all reports that we have when the Jewish community was agreeing on the canon of Scripture for the Old Testament. Not long after the time of Jesus that they only recognize the same books that we have is the Old Testament book so I would encourage folks to read them as somewhere in between a really good book, and the Bible, but absolutely not on the poor was Scripture not divinely inspired in the same way and not the place were we go for our doctrine. Okay, okay, it would certainly they they shouldn't be avoided as if there's something wrong with them. Like I said there there on a plane similar between a really good book in the Bible, but absolutely not. The Bible, 866342 aliskiren Nathan and Kansas. Welcome to the line of fire.

I recently visited a church and they're talking about the book of Joe and he sat there were when Josette got it the way it said that Joe didn't have right theology week that that is the devil comes to steal, kill and destroy.

Got to take away like that.

And so I've never heard that interpretation. I didn't know your thoughts. Monitor resources on your offer you, Joe sure. So if it was a year from now.

I would tell you to get my Job commentary which is due out late late October of the next year.

In fact, it would've been out by now, but we did a complete rewrite of it to make it more accessible to a popular audience so that it wouldn't get bogged down distant and academic circles so that perspective that you heard from us pastor you would hear that word of faith, churches that there would be an emphasis on God is the healer and it's Satan, the one who destroys the gauze and giver of life.

And Satan is the murderer and I appreciate a lot of that theology, I believe that God in his nature is is a healer and a life giver and that judgment comes not because God is vindictive, but God judges to punish sin and to deal with iniquity, and to demonstrate his righteousness, but let's start here from the perspective of Job, even though it was Satan who did what he did. From the perspective of Job. He didn't know that Satan existed. That's the first thing the second thing is he hundred words of great faith that the Lord gave in the Koi and the third thing is that not only the other words of great faith.

Not only did he not know about the devil but God gave permission to Satan to do these things. So yes, it is not in God's nature to smite and attack an innocent person like Job from God commended for his righteousness. So it was Satan who did that dirty work, but Job fully understood that the one who is ultimately responsible was God and that therefore his words in the Lord gave, and the Lord took away 100% accurate and right, and therefore commanded by God in the next chapter, God commands Job speaking those things now here's where you could have a valid discussion. You could say should believe or say that today when anything goes wrong. In other words, let's say a guy gets depressed, gets drunk a believer right gets depressed, gets drunk gets into a car accident totaled his car and and God forbid he hits another car and some was killed would be right for him to say, will the Lord gives and the Lord takes away all element God didn't do that. He did that and he's responsible for, or if I I open the door to the enemy or on the cussing me out. I want to put this on facility 60 some person, a married believer right opens the door to the enemy he starts playing around with pornography. He starts getting involved in these online relationships. His wife ends up divorcing enemies as well.

The Lord gave the Lord took what no I wouldn't say that in that context. Okay so I think there has to be a right context for but ultimately if it's an expression of faith that we honor God as the God of all, and that ultimately were to worship him no matter what. That's the key thing force the matter what happens on the worship God as good even if I don't know why this happened was in an attack from the devil was it something a blind spot my own life. Is it God refining me I don't know why this happened but to worship God, the Lord your good I worship you I praise you no matter what that would be a good contemporary application of Job spirit Job's faith are accursed sure thing and hopefully will module commentary comes out that will be a blessing to you and many others as well. 86634 we go to Indiana Rebecca, welcome to the line of fire near Eric where what can I tell that artillery on talking and he said I am who I am, who I had an appellate attic and they say that we are getting it all wrong that Everett can plan it and I will be who I will be in the company can clear that for me yeah yeah of course soaps. The first thing is the translation I am that I am or I am who I am as is commonly found among Jewish scholars as well and the. The Hebrew if it was modern Hebrew and yet share a yeah. That would mean I will be what I will be or I will be who I will be bright and biblical Hebrew. Typical Hebrew. It could just as well mean I am that I am, it could mean I am who I will be.

It could mean I will be who I am. It's it's a very rich and yet mysterious saying that could be interpreted in different ways.

Now that being said, when sometimes you just have a yeah by itself that the first word by itself, and that's normally translated as I am in context, though God is revealing his nature, and what he will do for Israel as well so it is a statement of who he is and it is a statement of what he will do that if I was translating it I would translated as someone with the scholarship energy.

I am who I am, with the implication, though I will do what I promise. I thank you for the call. The line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown get into the line of fire now by calling 866. Here again is Dr. Michael Brown thanks friends for joining us on the line of fire earlier in the week, I interviewed the celebrity publicist who interviewed Lauren Daigle and asked about homosexuality Christian contemporary Christian music artist Lauren Daigle and we dialogued about the authority of Scripture and how we know the Bible is the word of God. We have some differences there. So the last segment of that interview, which was on Wednesday show. I did a short teaching 1112 minutes long on on how we got our books of the Bible. Why we believe that the Bible is truly God's authoritative word so we have that video now just that last segment is a standalone video you can watch it on the S. Dr. Brown.org website on a digital library who decided what books are in the Bible. I also highly recommend to you or show yesterday way or instrument interviewed Oxford professor Spencer Craven on his Isaiah translation in translating the Bible some great resources we have for you on video 866-34-TRUTH was go to Indiana verse John, welcome to the modifier. Hello Dr. Brown, membership of the will bless you a question and in a comment Mark 14 verse eight about the woman knowing Jesus body founders right now currently does longline and how to read the Bible in context with good hermeneutics and all that I learned no adherence to this question that you can refer to me to start on that journey of reading the Bible context but anyway Jesus said that the where the gospel is preached throughout the world what the woman has done to him will also be told in memory of her. So what is that where the context of that obviously is not like you know so Michael and preach the gospel in ailments and hard and they're not following you working on Main felt the same and is even more simple is even more simple in your thinking.

It's is included in the Gospels, the Gospels tell the story. So, when anyone is reading the gospel of Mark.

When the reading Matthew where you're the reason Luther, there is every bit as you read the story is this woman, this obscure woman that you never would've known her name and should be lost to history and she does the three sacrificial thing for Jesus and very generous thing for Jesus.

That's not part of the gospel account so the fact that that you just read it now. The fact that were talking about on the radio. The fact that every New Testament prints around the world has that account in it. The fact that the story circulated in the Gospels from early in church history is exactly what Jesus said it's it's part of the story so doesn't mean when you get up and preach the gospel you have to say all and by the way, there was this woman just mean Gaia is a writer for mom. I know I got out of the flight on doesn't really reading your reading the Gospel of Matthew in the gospel of Mark during the Gospels of the gospel of John Senior your reading the gospel.

So, wherever this gospel is preached your reading at their are stories told a version there's there's a book that's been a classic book for for many years a call.

How to read the Bible for all it's worth.

How to read the Bible for all it's worth thereto to authors. The DK student Gordon fee and it's it's it's a book that anyone who revisits a serious book so check that out of there may be newer books that are even better, but that's been a classic for many years been updated several times how to read the Bible for all its worth. Right check that out. I think you'll find it very helpful if any discussion is a little dense just move past that to others that seem more applicable 86634. Let's go over to North Carolina. Joshua, welcome to the line of fire and doing work around doing well. Thanks. Yeah, my question was about the wrath of God and just having a pure good, how you think people could have a clear understanding of Depakote. Note in our world with the anger and a lot of growing up with angry dad, angry people in our lives and in so what are the pure understanding of the wrath of God. Yes, thank you for asking about that because it's not something we often think about it Scripture speaks often of wrath. In fact Owen the early 90s I did a study of of every time God said I will pour out in the Bible and you think I will pour out my spirit will brought my blessing upon my rain.

The majority were all pour out my wrath. So the first thing we have to do is recognize this is a perfect expression of a perfect God is a perfectly holy expression.

A perfectly good expression expression that rightly understood should draw worship and adoration from God's people, even in the midst of trembling that it is just as much who God is, as is love.

In fact sometimes is his love that inspires his wrath. Our problem is that when a perfect our problem is that our anger can be mixed with hostility with jealousy, with being short tempered with being vengeful in a carnal way worse. God's justice and God's wrath is perfect so let's look at it first in a in a non-spiritual nonpersonal way right with let's say that you had termites devouring a hospital that had just been built somewhere right so with the termites and juries is pure evil.

In that respect them and they're just doing what they do.

So when someone comes and exterminates them. They're doing a good thing right now it's pretty over to the human body that that there is a cancer spreading through that body and there's something that's going to be put into that body that's going to drive out the cancer and destroy it to bring health right in the same way God's wrath is poured out on that which is destructive that which is ugly and what boggles my mind. The more I look at human sin is is that God does import his wrath even more quickly. I was writing a chapter for a book to come out next year and in this chapter I was doing with the plague of pornography and then I mentioned human trafficking and then I mentioned children sold into sex trafficking and according to this one website. I was on it said that this happens about 17,000 children a year in America or four bucks a day and if you think like in the Midwest. Your average class size could be 23 students in the class that it's two classes wiped out the day and then most of them are excellent forced labor but into sex slavery and and then reading about the perversions of child porn and violent porn in children as young as three. I'm thinking how could God even let us breathe another breath. How could God not just part of his wrath on the whole human race because there's so much corruption in the world so you realize that that God is slow to anger and graded mercy and the scribes are really great great in anger and soda mercy will be destroyed so I look at it as the absolute perfection of God and his holy love being poured out on sinful people in a sinful earth and it is ultimately for the good of the human race and for the glory of God. It is destruction for the wicked, and those who refuse to repent. But for others it is an incentive to repent a recognition of the ugliness of sin. It's worse than cancer it's worse than termites. In that respect it in your in every way deserves to be purged out and that's why the book of Revelation. In the 16th chapter, you have the wrath of God being poured out from heaven with judgment us on the earth and and I think we've gone to a point where we forgotten the judgment is part of justice and that it's good. Nancy and I were talking sometime back in talking about and say the time of the flood or the conquest of Canaan was the population was like ISIS worth they were doing those types of murderous horrific things and and Joshua Ito. Yes, of Revelation 60 look at the text are in a loud voice from the temple saying to the seven angels going pour out on the earth, the seven bowls of God's wrath that comes from God's heavenly presence, so let's say that there were ISIS terrorists who were about to burn a group of Christian schoolchildren alive and suddenly lightning came from heaven wipe that all wipe them out and the children. You know what route were set free. We all praise God, if we were standing there watching from a distance or four hands were tied. We were next, we would praise God and say righteous and true are your judgments. I think Joshua in that respect. A reading through the book of Revelation. Our knees, regardless of how we interpret past present future.

All of the above that that would be a real eye-opening life-changing experience.

A thank you for the question sir, 866-34-TRUTH of RIT what let's see James in Phoenix than Bob in Tennessee Don Concorde Nathaniel argon Oregon Oregon excuse me Oregon one mispronounce your state. There will begin to end that order. But since we just got a minute before the break. Let me say something may be very surprising.

We leave for Israel in six weeks every first through 10th. We leave for Israel in six weeks. Really, the trip of a lifetime full holy fire in the holy land with not only amazing tour by day, but special meetings with me will be together in one capacity or another every single night of the tour was surprising is not really been six weeks, but we've open things up and there's still room to be got it signed up and painful today. I and once you see the whole package of the hotels listed in everything in the quality towards its is a great package, but maybe you love one that wants to send you as a holiday gift or something you been your anniversary been playing for years and years so there's still time to register my team reminded me Dr. Brown tell the folks there still tussled together. Now, though, as we leave in six weeks, so asked Dr. Brown the Lord ask if your brother was right on the homepage. You see better come up for Israel holy. For the whole and click on it. I love to see you there holding a radio broadcast from there as well. Some of night gobbling together. Yeah all right right back with your request. The line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown voice of moral cultural and spiritual revolution. Here again is Dr. Michael Brown thanks for joining us on the line for you a question God answers and I'm going straight to the phones, 866-34-TRUTH starting in Phoenix with James welcome to the line of fire around my call again not welcome. I had a question I was reading your book, you do it while you will regarding the garage Over and and make yourself up and about. You know better. Other Maverick tech specs translated I will look for him whom their peers. No different from the matter at that that we have right now. On the one on the Internet correctly. Yes, 606 and Zechariah 1210 the is is not measuring text translating differently. But having a different Hebrew text so that the deceiver is so Goss is a pour out the spirit of grace and supplication on the house of David, have a subject of Jerusalem. He beat to a life assured Zaccaro the soft do all of so it it says they will look to me whom they pierced. But then they will mourn for him for soft. Do all law of so a lie to me a love to him. So if the. The first text said he beat to a love and they will look to him whom they pierced and mourn for him that would read more naturally.

Or it could be Goss in the look to me whom they fear speaking of the sun and will mourn for him. That just shifts from first person the third and that can happen in Hebrew.

You can make that that shift you are some of the text go from first person the third person and etc., but here there are some manuscripts again. It's you get thousands of manuscripts and it's a small minority.

There are some Hebrew manuscripts that read a law of to him as opposed to a lie to me so I'm assuming that would have been in volume 3 of answering Jewish objections to Jesus right treat. Zechariah 1210 is part of the messianic prophecy so it just a very minor difference in in the Hebrew text and and often you have those kind of variance with evolve and a good small letters that that can be confused or an addition or subtraction. You have a lot of the marginal readings in the book of Proverbs. For example, the Masoretic text that you have these different readings with the same letter so it it could happen there but either either reading works fine knew the godsend a look to me whom they pierced and mourn for him focusing on the sun or the look to to him whom they pierced and mourn for him, which is grammatical exam there but has less textual support in Hebrew.

Okay okay okay will real quick on the public regularly know how you are. Other manuscript quickly that what yeah how do you get experts believe government directly like never bear to grow the great yeah so so so so okay. One thing you can do is always look in the footnotes to your translation so if you reading a modern translation. It might tell you is, different manuscripts say certain things. That's one thing you're you're not going to get the actual collection of Masoretic manuscripts you have to go to some academic library to do that and then you have to be looking through thousands to find what you're looking for what what is critical scholars would use is an addition of the Bible the Hebrew Bible, called bibliography breaker it's come out in numerous additions. There is a new addition coming out now and in biblically breaker it has these footnotes.

It uses a manuscript that was housed in a Russian library Leningrad manuscript that that is famous from there and it is it is has notes that the editors put together with the circuit.

The Septuagint reads this, the Dead Sea Scrolls read this for several measures. Metric manuscript see this or just at that. You just glance down. I've got one sitting just out of my reach here and you just glance down at at the bottom of the text.

In fact, really do something here. I normally that I'd say what were rather have someone crawl on their knees and try to have something to me. Just during the break. I'll take a look with but that's what you find measures. It was one of the place to go. Okay, if you go just type in NET Bible and ET all right. You'll find NET Bible.org right and if if you go there say to susu look for Zechariah 1210.

I'll just type it in here this.

What's nice about this is it has tens of thousands of translation notes okay and it'll get into all kinds of things in depth so wise, translated a certain way why certain words were used. It's it sometimes can be technical, and you have to have a certain understanding there, but that is the simplest resource for someone to use online that's free. NET is doing translation and ET Bible.org and then you just look at the notes on the side soul yet here we are just looking at on the screen here and then if I'm looking at verse 10.

Some of the relevant notes settee and is a translated note so you will have that in in-depth there is a lengthy note to this very subject. So that's a good place to go. You find it very helpful. All right James, thank you sir for the question, 866-34-TRUTH of this kebab in Tennessee. Welcome to the line of fire Michael out to warm up.

I worked show your diameter to get Strohmeyer wanted called and said something about the reading and revelation of Deanna manuscript 21. I would be no night and heaven either heaven or the new Jerusalem where there's a difference in that maybe you could elaborate on that at the end of your answer to my question but you were saying it all together there just to go midnight. Even though the revelations are there will be a nod to God luminary uses only others. My heaven will be, like the garden division but an enhanced version any center there would be night and it would be the sun and it says that there is no need for the sun and also always find a brother of the I guess it was effective. They wouldn't they would always be daylight there were in being in my den back in his undeliverable know this is not salvific or anything, but not a liberal take on Shippensburg again this is pretty thing to me Bob, this okay let's let's say that we can debate is it in a literal city with literal dimensions is giving us a spiritual picture we could debate that, but what is what we are told and this is the eternal city. This is the in the new Jerusalem, coming down onto the earth, so that is not that we go to heaven forever. But God's heavenly presence in heavenly city comes down on the earth is a new heavens and a new earth, and righteousness dwells.

Their second Peter three. There's no more send this number doubled is no temptation. The only ones and there are are the righteous, the redeemed and and yet the same.

Revelation 22. There's there's knocking to be any need for the sun that though the Lord himself is going to be the light verse five, Revelation 20. Tonight shall be so more be no more people have no need for Lamplighter sunlight for auto model, whom the Lord God will shine on them and they shall reign forever and ever. So I don't know where he'd be getting information contrary to this, that in the eternal city that there would be day and night that the eternal city. There would be darkness that is in God's eternal city were will be with him forever and ever and ever. That distances can be sleep, for that matter right there that's just something that we minister in this world. So I see nothing in Scripture that would support what he say about the night was like a Hebrew idiom that they were just to understand our universe just landed in all the Jewish adopted nighttime brought back kind of bad things happen in life today one to be taken live on. You get in trouble you might determine through Jesus for you everything under the text in Theravada tech ideas. Yes, I'm also recognizing the spiritual dimensions of darkness of night. I'm all for understanding the spiritual dimensions of the sea which stands for chaos, which also tells us that it won't be in the new Jerusalem, but also believe that it will be in the new Jerusalem.

It other words it initially got God himself is like, so the mystery is why is there any darkness in the universe. Why was there darkness in Genesis 1.

What he got.

Have to say, let there be light, but in the final redeemed were all know it's it's light only its day only. So yeah why the person said this, I don't know with a crime really sophisticated. They find some of the Scripture that supported but I see nothing whatsoever to support that I'm totally with you on that ball but I wonder why the person would say that the very curious. You're right it's not salvific but it does does make you wonder 866-34-TRUTH I we go over the Concorde North Carolina Dawn, welcome to the line of fire on them about only hearing I probably ought at it. In out in mind that it might and every meeting in time.

I at 2020 is that it read and type of light that yes course and that's it, question every good questions. We know that the Holy Spirit was present among believers before that time, we know that the Holy Spirit spoke to the prophets and the Holy Spirit led the people of Israel to the Holy Spirit is active in the Old Testament, and yet Joel 228 and following speaks of an outpouring that's going to come on all flesh in significantly in John 739 when Jesus talks about rivers of living water will flow from our bellies. It says he spoke this of the Holy Spirit who was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified. So certainly has to be post-resurrection which the accounting John is and you could read it. One of two ways. One would be that he does say to them, receive the spirit in the breeze on them and it happens right then and they are now indwelt by the Spirit, and then at Pentecost.

There's an outpouring and they are endued with power. They are closed with power so that would be one way reading it just like the moment you were born again you are indwelt by the Holy Spirit that many believe you need to have a subsequent external inducement. That's one way to read it. They receive the spirit internally. Then and then they were empowered by the spirit asked you a way to read it is that Jesus was speaking prophetically breeze on them receive the spirit and just a few days later at Pentecost, they receive the spirit either of those two a good sense to me. In either of those two are acceptable, that make sense when you're boring you have carried the boy again to the moment you're born again are indwelt by the Holy Spirit, but I believe that there was a subsequent and powering of the spirit you meant of the spirit that we should pray for as believers all right. Thank you. It's the line of fire with your host activist, author, international speaker and theologian Dr. Michael Brown voice of more cultural and spiritual revolution get into the light of fire now by calling 6643 here again is Dr. Michael Brown thanks for joining us on the line of fire. 864 truth you've got questions, we, God answers, I wanted to get into this yesterday but didn't have time and thoroughly Jewish Thursday, but just another reminder of the evil of Hamas. Hamas a terrorist organization is and what any person is file them well. On the one hand, they do a lot of humanitarian work so they have you humanitarian wing that supports and helps the people and then those Palestinians who feel beaten down and depressed and well the Hamas is fighting Esther enemies the Israelis with let's recognize the how evil Hamas is so it was on Sunday Hamas terrorist shot seven Israelis and this is in cold blood, including a father, mother and baby in the womb. She was 30 weeks pregnant. She did not receive life-threatening injuries. The mother was shot in the stomach brought to the hospital, bleeding heavily, the baby delivered prematurely. So, at 30 weeks of the mother has survived the father has survived the baby passed away this week after valiant efforts from Israeli doctors and has been very so it's it's a poignantly tragic scene (Rabbi truly seen some of his interaction with family because the father of the daughter is a longtime friend of his and some also celebrated the act and call the heroic praised the murderer and call the act heroic so you so you you slaughter a baby in the womb in cold blood, trying to kill the mother try to kill the father of the succeeding, the baby.

This is heroic is the evil of Hamas evil of the UN that they would not agree together to condemn Hamas. That's reality, friends who fail to write about that over the weekend. 866-34-TRUTH all right we go to Nathaniel in Oregon. Welcome to the line of fire. I do them well. You have me on speakerphone.

The no I am all right will wait for you and will have had better little bit you have a go-ahead go-ahead yeah I would carry MIR interview on Calvinism versus Arminianism because I know in a Roman 829 and talk a little bit about that predestination, but I know that people ultimately have pretty well, and thought I was wondering what your thoughts were on shore.

So, of course, lots of discussion and debate about this Nathaniel on the Calvinist basher. I was a Calvinist myself from 77 to 82 and appreciate the Calvinistic emphasis on the sovereignty of God and us being accountable to God. I think I'll be accountable to us, but of course I do different with Calvinist interpretation of Scripture, including the passage that you just mentioned and what I'd encourage you to do. Nathaniel is go to my website. Asked Dr. Brown.org go there. Esther Brown.org and type in Calvinism.

You'll see short statements or just typing Calvin seated Calvin Calvinist Calvinism, while not a Calvinist. Just a short video about that but what I really recommend is that you watch the debates that I've had with Calvinist so watch my debate with Dr. James White on our website. Instructor Brown.org to just typing Brown White you'll get it within a few but there is there is a good two hour one we did some evangelical seminary type in Bennett BEN and ETT a thing is to tease to ends Bruce Bennett past resplendent TNI do debate on Calvinism. So those you can watch.

You can hear the Calvinist side.

You can hear my side and get the full perspective, but you can you can understand predestination as before the foundation of the world, God says Nathaniel your saved and Joe, your lost and that's just what happens. So God predestines your life for that outcome or you can understand predestination as the work that God does for all of his people in Christ that this is the starting point. This is the endpoint you can look at it that for example it's it's a boat that's gonna take you across the ocean, but someone can jump off the boat.

This is simply we start here and you and hereby God splendid there different ways to read that are all faithful to the to the Greek or the Hebrew and honoring of the text, but grandma was sinister to Brown.org typing. Calvin you could see my statements on that some radio shows have done on it and then best thing watch the debates with Dr. White with Pastor Bennett and this we can hear both sides presented arguments. See what arguments seem stronger or weaker and comes your own conclusions before the Lord. Yes. So there. Thank you sir, I'm just looking. There's an interview I did with some of that was in Calvinism and left reflections on the Calvinist debate with James White. Let's see here year of a few other suitable you'll find them there, as well as our YouTube channel asked Dr. Brown thank you sir for the call. One thing sometimes our Arminians in reaction to Calvinism could overemphasize man's will is if God is impotent and sometimes Calvinists in reaction to Arminianism could present, God is almost a heartless monster turns into robots. Either way, their extremes to be avoided.

All right 866-34-TRUTH, let's go to Jim and Greensboro Norcal and thanks for holding welcome to the modifier of break your partnership and the call dark brown. I've always been intrigued by the name given in particular, the unusual name will go particular than they made the webinar paranoid behavior that made about whether that is up. The act, and he became known that day so so there's three options here. Okay you gave us the first two that the parents name their child love all fool.

What should we name of let's name them full so that's that's highly unlikely right so now you come to choice, to which is a great suggestion that because he acted like a fool just like you know kids get all kinds of nicknames there.

There was there was a boxer named Chuck Chuck Demetrius chop chop Corley using chop chop. That's because he really punches are no because when we eat like the chop his food or have big pieces of food so you got that nickname was a little boy unrelated to boxing so you never know where the nicknames come from. So that's a second option which is a great option. The third option is that the Hebrew word love. All can have more than one meaning and in principle.

Is this a verbal root related to it. That has to do with with with fading or or or becoming weaker something like that so it's possible that the word had other meanings, but because it was spelled the same way, just like you have the bank of the river and the bank where you put your money is spelled the same way sound the same but the two totally different words with two different meanings that could be the other thing that there was a Holman and there's another word pronounced the same way but with a different meaning. So ironically, they they called him. That is like your name is Frank you're really Frank you tell the truth as it is your Frank. But it's all Frank means or your Frank is like the frankfurters so it's the same thing with the name Jacob that with the parents name him deceiver.

No not likely okay, next thing is was. He called that because he was an ankle grabber could be the text indicates that or is that a play on words will call him Jacob and he is grabbing the ache have. He's an ankle grabber.

From what we know from the Semitic languages that root may have meant something like Chrissy protects so it could have been a name like God protects or Yahweh protects but that same name Yaakov could also relate to ankle or could also relate to deceiver and when he acted deceptively just like say man you're really Frank or Mike they call you Mike because you always talk behind the mic.

It's the same word right when people call me Mike, and I think of a microphone. But then they could joke as I know you call Michael's rows behind the mic while here it could have been your name is not all which had a totally different meaning perfectly good meaning of your name is not all, but you really are, and of all you really are a fool. That's that's how these names can will come about that. They have different meanings. We only know one or two of the now they may have more multiple meanings in biblical days and that's why you could name your kid, it'll recall your gym could always work out the gym. Jim read Jim Wright same same deal. There would work make sense.

All right, Douglas. I appreciate it all right 866-34-TRUTH do I have time.

No, I okay, let's try to do this really fast down in Richmond Virginia. Can you ask your question in a matter of seconds.

Yeah, I've been up 33 verse 19 your products or okay 3319 and I know the passage there okay alright so I Isaiah 33 it's it's starting with its amazing passage very interesting passage where it talks about who can dwell with the everlasting burnings and things like that and you think is summit held know someone who can live in the presence of God and it says in verse 15. The ones who live righteously and speak righteously, etc. verse 17. Your eyes will see the king this beauty.

Your mind will meditate on the pastor where's the account you no longer see the barbarians of people who speech is difficult, premised on the line was not understood. So it's talking about when God comes with his beautiful kingdom and when the righteous are preserved in it that their enemies who were known for speaking in foreign languages enemies in your midst, you hear that anymore and I can hear the terror of these oppressive people on the outside of the mochas got us judge them as the ruling in raining and that's what you focus on the in the end of the chapter verse 24.

Those really sick is the people there have been forgiven of the said back with you on Monday. Friends