WWUTT 2135 Q&A Signs of the End, Biblical Inerrancy, The Apocrypha

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April 12, 2024

Responding to questions from listeners about how eclipses are not signs of the end, dating the writings of New Testament books, is it necessary to believe in biblical inerrancy, and whether there's any value in studying the Apocrypha. Visit wwutt.com for all our videos!

00:00: How can we know that eclipses are not signs of the end times? Is it necessary for us to know that the
00:08: Bible is inerrant, and is there any value to reading the Apocrypha? The answers to these questions and others, when we understand the text.
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00:32: Lord. Tell your friends about our ministry at www .utt .com. Here once again is
00:38: Pastor Gabe. Thank you, Becky, and greetings, everyone. Becky is not with me this week, and I'll explain why here in just a moment.
00:45: But I'll also do part two of that Steve Cioccolanti video that I did last week. That's coming up.
00:51: But first, let me begin with the scriptures. Out of Psalm 16, I'm reading from the
00:57: Legacy Standard Bible. Hear the word of the Lord. Keep me, O God, for I take refuge in you.
01:05: O my soul, you have said to Yahweh, You are my Lord. I have no good without you.
01:11: As for the saints who are in the earth, they are the majestic ones in whom is all my delight.
01:17: The pains of those who have bartered for another god will be multiplied. I shall not pour out their drink offerings of blood, nor will
01:25: I take their names upon my lips. Yahweh is the portion of my inheritance and my cup.
01:33: You support my lot. The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places.
01:39: Indeed, my inheritance is beautiful to me. I will bless Yahweh, who has counseled me.
01:46: Indeed, my mind instructs me in the night. I have set Yahweh continually before me, because he is at my right hand.
01:53: I will not be shaken. Therefore, my heart is glad and my glory rejoices.
01:59: My flesh also will dwell securely, for you will not forsake my soul to Sheol. You will not give your
02:06: Holy One over to see corruption. You will make known to me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy.
02:14: In your right hand, there are pleasures forevermore. That is a favorite psalm of Becky's, in fact, because she likes that portion there in the middle.
02:24: Verses five and six, Yahweh is the portion of my inheritance and my cup.
02:30: You support my lot. The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places.
02:35: Indeed, my inheritance is beautiful to me, because my wife and I like to look at the way that God has blessed us, the wonderful church family we have, the kids that he has given to us.
02:47: We surely can say that our lines have fallen in pleasant places and we have a beautiful inheritance.
02:55: But of course, what is mentioned here about this beautiful inheritance that we have been given is the kingdom of God, the promise of everlasting life with him forever in glory.
03:08: This would be in reference to my lines have fallen in pleasant places.
03:14: You support my lot. Indeed, my inheritance is beautiful. This would have been in reference to the land allotment that the children of Israel received when they inherited the promised land, that land that is flowing with milk and honey.
03:27: So the concept here, as these appointments of land were given by lot, then the lot has been supported by Yahweh.
03:39: You support my lot. So as the lot has fallen and I've received this allotment of land, this is all by the providence of God.
03:47: He controlled how the lot would fall for me. And so the lines have fallen to me in pleasant places, the lines that have been drawn as for the land that I am going to receive.
03:58: Indeed, my inheritance is beautiful. So that's that would be the literalness of what is being said here.
04:04: But the application being much greater than that, of course, that it would be something beyond a promised land inheritance, but even a heavenly one.
04:14: Consider this from Hebrews 11, beginning in verse 14. Those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own.
04:24: And indeed, if they had been remembering that country from which they went out, they would have had opportunity to return.
04:29: But now they aspire to a better country that is a heavenly one.
04:35: Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he prepared a city for them.
04:40: And speaking of a heavenly city, the new Jerusalem. So how that would apply to us as we read that in Psalm 16 is that the inheritance we are promised is the heavenly kingdom of God.
04:53: And we receive that inheritance through Jesus Christ, he who died for us, rose again from the dead, ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of God.
05:04: Whoever believes in him, our sins are forgiven and we have everlasting life. In fact, as said in Revelation three, he says,
05:12: I will give to him the place to sit with me on my throne and we will reign forever with him in glory.
05:21: That is the beautiful inheritance that we are promised in Christ. Amen. All right.
05:28: So this being the Friday edition of the broadcast, we take questions from the listeners and you can submit those questions to when we understand the text at gmail .com.
05:38: This first question comes from Austin. He says, Pastor Gabe, I haven't heard a new sermon lately, knowing that you just finished first Timothy.
05:47: Have you started second Timothy yet or did I miss it? No, I haven't started second
05:53: Timothy. So I finished up first Timothy. I did an Easter sermon this last Sunday. I was gone.
05:58: We were in East Texas, like I mentioned. And so I'm going to do an introduction to second Timothy this coming
06:04: Sunday. That episode though, that sermon won't end up on the podcast until the next week.
06:12: So this coming Sunday is April the 14th. It'll be the 21st before you hear the next sermon or the introduction to second
06:21: Timothy. Now there is a way for you to hear those sermons earlier than that. If you really can't wait and you love keeping up with our sermon series, then you have to go to my church's website, providencecasagrand .com
06:33: and click on sermons and you'll have all the sermons there the day that I do them.
06:39: So when service is over, the person that's been running sound will upload it right to the website and it'll be available.
06:47: Of course, you know, you got to think of Arizona being in Pacific time because we don't do daylight saving time.
06:53: Arizona ignores the time change thing, which I love. I think it's great that we don't do the time change.
06:58: But you have to think of Arizona being in Pacific time. So wherever you live, whatever time it would be, 1230 in Arizona, that's about the time that the podcast is going to end up being uploaded to our website.
07:11: So you can hear it earlier than that. Catch it Monday morning if you want to, or just wait for when it shows up on the podcast.
07:17: They're always about a week back, but I've got that second Timothy sermon, an introduction to second Timothy coming up on the 21st.
07:24: And then I think the way that I have second Timothy plotted out that will spend
07:30: April, May, June and finish up like right at the start of July in that series is about three months or something like that.
07:38: And then we'll do Titus and we'll spend the rest of the summer in the book of Titus. That's the way those series are coming up.
07:44: But thank you for inquiring. So like I said, this past Sunday we were gone. We were in East Texas.
07:49: We visited our old church family out there and got to see the solar eclipse, which was just a beautiful spectacle.
07:56: By the way. I've seen two solar eclipses now for the one that went through in 2017, went over the
08:02: Northeast part of Kansas. We were living in Kansas at the time. Only was like an hour's drive for us to see it in totality.
08:08: So we drove up, saw the total solar eclipse, man, that was incredible. It was much better than I thought it was going to be.
08:15: I'd never seen a total solar eclipse before. It was a completely clear day, not a cloud in the sky.
08:22: But as long as the eclipse lasted, it was only like 30 or 40 seconds or something. It wasn't very long at all.
08:27: Now this one was over three minutes, but we only saw it for about 20 seconds because then a cloud covered it.
08:34: We still got to see it and you're still like in the moon shadow and everything. But unfortunately it wasn't three minutes of being able to look at the
08:41: Corona around the moon. If we had stayed where our cabin was, we stayed in a cabin while we were there.
08:49: And by the way, wonderful love out to Ken Calvert, a brother of ours who let us stay in his cabin.
08:55: We were so blessed by his hospitality. Thank you so much, Ken. But if we had stayed with Ken, if we had stayed with our cabin, it would have been clear enough for us to see the entire eclipse.
09:05: We should have stayed there, but we went into town instead and got the cloud cover and we're only able to see the eclipse for about 20 seconds or something.
09:14: But nonetheless, it was still incredible. It was just as beautiful as the first time
09:19: I saw it. My kids are a little older now, seven years, uh, Mariah was just a baby at the time.
09:25: So now she got to see the eclipse and was able to remember this. So it was totally worth the trip.
09:32: And if there was going to be another one, I would travel to go see it. But the next solar eclipse won't be visible on earth until 2026,
09:44: I think was, I think was the year. And then it's only visible like in Greenland and Iceland for the total eclipse and partially visible in places like Russia and Portugal.
09:53: So yeah, we're not going to see another total solar eclipse in North America for another 20 years.
10:02: And there won't be a solar eclipse that will travel across the United States like the last two have for more than a hundred years.
10:11: So for a lot of people, this really was a once in a lifetime opportunity on, and I'm blessed that I got to see it twice and it was worth it both times.
10:18: It was definitely worth the travel. We got to see friends anyway, so it wasn't going to be like that trip was going to be bust if the day was going to be cloudy.
10:26: But I'm still grateful to God that by his providence, we were able to see the solar eclipse.
10:32: It was a beautiful thing. Now that drive is 16 hours, at least the way that you bring it up on a map.
10:39: It tells you it'd be about 15 to 16 hours takes us about 18 because we've got five kids in the vehicle.
10:45: So it takes a little bit longer. We did that trip both ways without stopping. So on our way to East Texas and then on our way back to Arizona, we never stopped in a hotel.
10:54: We just drove straight through. So that has thrown Becky sleep schedule and mine completely off and we're not on the same schedule at all.
11:03: I'm awake. She's asleep. Then when I go to bed, she's waking up. We have not yet matched our sleeping schedules up again.
11:10: So that's why she's not on the broadcast with me this week. God willing, she'll be back on next week.
11:16: I did wake her up and I said, do you want to record with me? And at first she was like, yeah, totally.
11:21: And then she fell right back to sleep and I wasn't going to bother her. I was going to I was going to let her sleep. She sends you her love.
11:28: I even had her listen to the episode that I did last week and the response that I made to Steve Chialcolanti sermon because I wanted her to catch up on that since we were going to play the last part of it in this episode.
11:41: This next email comes from Greg. He says, Greetings, Pastor Gabe. After you played Steve Chialcolanti prophecy about the eclipses,
11:49: I was curious where he was going with that. But you didn't finish the video. I know
11:55: I probably shouldn't care. The guy is a false prophet, but I still wanted to know what the payoff was.
12:01: Since he claimed that the annular solar eclipse was a sign of Islam and the two eclipses crossing one another was a sign of judgment, was he concluding or was his conclusion rather going to be that America would be judged by Muslims?
12:18: No, Greg. It's really a lot more ridiculous than that. The payoff of the whole thing, he didn't even really get to that, that like Islam was going to come and strike
12:27: America and he never really got to that. The payoff was a lot more silly.
12:32: So let me come to that part. I think it was the section where he said we still win in the end, which of course
12:38: I agree with. I just don't agree with where he's going with any of this. So let me play that part again.
12:44: I'm picking up where he says Jesus wins and we're all going to win. And we're all going to be victorious in the end and then we'll keep going from there.
12:50: So this is Steve Cioccolanti and the false prophecy that he was making about these solar eclipses.
12:59: Not only that, the three solar eclipses spell two Hebrew alphabets, the Aleph, the first one and the
13:05: Taf, the last one. This is the ancient way of writing it. Aleph Taf means the completed alphabet.
13:13: Now I've seen several prophets do this, several false prophets, I should say. I've seen several of these guys do this where they say like the path of the eclipse spells these letters.
13:24: There's the Aleph and there's the Taf. The Taf is not an X. So I don't know why they keep saying this, why they keep coming to that.
13:34: But you know, it would have made more sense if they would have said something like the Greek letter
13:41: Chi is an X. Why not? So you have the Aleph and you have the Chi, which
13:47: Chi is the sign of the cross or something. I don't know why they keep saying that it's this other
13:52: Hebrew letter that it's not. But anyway, this is the way they have to twist things in order to make their prophecy work.
14:00: It's prophegesis. You know, you've heard of eisegesis where you're imposing your intended meaning onto the text.
14:08: Well, this is prophegesis where he's already got a prophecy in his head. He already knows what he wants to say, and he's going to impose that onto everything.
14:16: He imposes it not only on the text of Scripture, but he's imposing it on the shapes that are made by the moon shadow crossing the
14:23: United States. He's imposing it on the Hebrew alphabet and so on and so forth. So his claim is that the paths that are made by these eclipses across North America are spelling out these two
14:37: Hebrew letters. So going on from there. Everything's included. Everything's included. Completed alphabet. How long does it take for God to draw this over the
14:44: United States? Imagine taking seven years to draw one letter. God is super patient. It took seven years to draw one letter.
14:51: Seven is the number of completion. So what does this mean? I would say that this seems to indicate what
14:58: God's been giving me with President Trump's unfinished business and my message on biblical justice.
15:04: It looks like it's a confirmation of a great reset is coming. A great reason we've completed it.
15:11: So so yeah, there's the payoff. So what's coming now? You would think that with what we read last week, remember, he said that the annular eclipse was the sign of Islam, which it's not still prophet
15:22: Jesus. He's reading that into both the the the symbol on the flag on the
15:28: Islamic flag or the symbol that they'll have on top of their mosques or anything else. He's reading that into the appearance of the eclipse, where it crossed over and all this kind of stuff.
15:39: So he claims that the annual annular eclipse, that partial eclipse didn't quite black out the sun, but the moon was set in the sun, which was seen in the southwest part of the
15:52: United States back in October. So that's a sign of Islam, he says. And then he says the other two eclipses, the one in 2017 and the one in 2024, are a sign of judgment.
16:03: And they make an X where God has X out the United States and saying that he has signed it for judgment and all this kind of stuff.
16:10: So you would think where he was going with that is like maybe the invasion of illegal immigration that is happening at the southern border is going to result in all these
16:20: Muslims that are going to pour into the United States and God is going to bring judgment on the US through them.
16:25: You know, that's a that is a possibility. And you could just read the signs of the times and come up with something like that.
16:34: It wouldn't be the eclipses that would tell you that. But just knowing that we were basically in the
16:39: United States of America under an invasion right now, with all this immigration that is coming in to the
16:45: United States, illegal immigration, you've probably seen the stories, the uptick in crime and in murders that have happened at the hands of these people who have no respect for America's laws and things of this nature.
16:57: So you would think that that's where he is going with that. And it's a reasonable prophecy. It's enough for people to turn their heads and go, hmm, that's a possibility.
17:06: Again, I think you could just read the signs of the times and come up with something like that. It's not going to be in the eclipses, but that's not where he goes with it.
17:14: He claims that God is going to do a great reset. Which what is that?
17:20: What was the whole thing with the sign of Islam anyway? If that doesn't even have to do with the payoff that he's making here with regards to what
17:28: God is doing in the United States anyway. So let's continue on. The great reset that he's talking about here is not even the great reset that you might have heard about regarding the the new world, what was it, the new economic or the
17:40: World Economic Forum. That's what it is. W .E .F. It's not even the World Economic Forum's great reset.
17:47: It's God's great reset. So let's continue. We've completed in time. We've completed in in the way we've done things, and it ain't working as much as we glorify the founding fathers and our
17:59: Constitution. It ain't working right now. So what's going to happen? I don't propose any violence, any revolution, but something is going to happen that's going to shock us.
18:10: And so he's he's saying there's not going to be any violence. We have an invasion that's happening at the southern border.
18:19: He makes this reference to Islam, which, you know, these these charismatic guys tend to use
18:27: Islam as as this is the scary one. He had previously called it the Antichrist religion.
18:32: So the Muslims are going to come against us. But yet he's saying there's not going to be any violence here, that God is going to do something different than that.
18:39: It's going to be the opportunity not for Klaus Schwab and Yuval Noah Harari to do their great reset of super control of replacing our system with Marxism.
18:51: No, it's going to be an opportunity for God's reset. Now, see, that's another thing that these prophets do.
19:00: It's never negative. They really don't ever prophesy great judgment that is coming.
19:06: As much as Steve Giocolanti had talked about, you know, these these eclipses are marking out the
19:14: United States for judgment. No, that's not where this goes, because he doesn't want to leave the people walking out of that room going, oh, how sad the
19:22: United States is going to be destroyed. No, he wants to give them a message of hope. He wants to he wants to make them feel good so that they will pay money into his ministry.
19:32: Nobody sad is going to give him money. But if they feel hopeful about the future, well, maybe they'll give him more money and he's going to sell his merchandise coming up here in just a moment.
19:41: So that's where this is all going. They always want to end on something positive, and the positive is never something like we're all going to be together with God forever in glory, even though he made that statement that I ended on last week about Christ wins.
19:57: We all win together in the end. It's not about the heavenly reward that we receive.
20:02: It's that there's going to be some sort of of earthly gain. So him right there saying a great reset is going to happen, but it's not going to be
20:11: Schwab's reset. It's not going to be the World Economic Forum. It's going to be God's great reset. And everybody applauds at that.
20:17: So as much as he might talk about judgment, he's not going to end on that, on saying that judgment is coming to America.
20:24: It's not even a call to repentance. There's not even a call for anybody who is listening or who is there to turn from their sin to the
20:31: Lord Jesus Christ or you will perish in judgment. None of that even comes up in his message. If I'm going to talk about something like that, if I'm going to talk about God's judgment coming upon America, which it will, then the only way to be saved is to turn from your sin to the
20:48: Lord Jesus Christ. Judgment will be poured out on this nation. It might be tomorrow. It could be a hundred years from now.
20:55: But everyone will stand before God in judgment. Everyone will have to answer for the things that he did.
21:02: And how will you be able to escape the judgment of God that will come against all the wickedness and unrighteousness that man has done?
21:10: And everybody is guilty, right? Romans 3, 23, all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.
21:18: So how can you be saved on that day when judgment comes? The only way to be saved is to have had put your faith in the
21:26: Lord Jesus Christ, who by his death on the cross has atoned for your sins by his resurrection from the grave, gives you everlasting life only for those who believe in him.
21:37: The only way to escape the judgment that is coming is to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. That's where these prophets should go when they give this stuff like this.
21:47: Again, it's false prophets. So of course, they're not even going to share the gospel when it comes to this kind of stuff. They're sharing these false prophecies.
21:54: They never even point to the gospel. It's all about this earthly gain that we will receive.
22:00: And of course, Steve will receive his earthly gain when you buy his merchandise. So let me finish this up here.
22:07: So I would tell people about it, especially before it happens. You know, I don't know if you can tell all that, but what my family and I are going to do, we're going to wear our faith on our sleeves.
22:17: We made this. So, you know, if you don't want it, it's okay. But I made this for my family. I'm going to be wearing this on the day of the eclipse.
22:24: So it's the t -shirt is the t -shirt that shows the graphics that he's just been showing in this demonstration, like the
22:31: United States, the path that the eclipses make and how they make these Hebrew symbols.
22:37: And he's got this caption underneath it. It's the final warning. And then we're going to wear this shirt so that we can tell people about it.
22:43: Tell people about what? Like he's never really even said anything about the judgment that is coming and for what reason it's coming.
22:51: He's not even said anything like that. There's been no call to repentance, to trust in Christ so that you can escape the judgment of God.
22:58: And like I said last week, the message that Paul preached at the Areopagus in Acts 17 is every bit as relevant to our present day.
23:08: God commands all people everywhere to repent. You don't even you don't even find that in these guys messages.
23:15: So selling their products, making money off of this in Texas as a t -shirt to say final one.
23:22: Anyway, backing up a little bit. So he said he was in Texas. I never saw him. I don't know where he went in Texas.
23:29: Texas is a big state. But yeah, so apparently he was in Texas for this, this whole eclipse thing, just like we went to Texas for it.
23:37: You know, if you don't want it, it's OK. But I made this for my family. I'm going to be wearing this on the day of the eclipse.
23:43: I'm going to be in Texas as a t -shirt to say final warning because you got a lot of new agers and people, they just love eclipses.
23:50: They know about it. I'll walk into restaurants and I'll try to, you know, evangelize and say, do you know the eclipse is coming?
23:56: They're like, oh, yeah, April 8th. I'm going to be here. I'm going to be there. They know it more than the church seems to know it. I'm going to go into these restaurants and evangelize.
24:04: And I'm going to say, do you know that the eclipse is coming? Where does Christ fit into any of this?
24:12: So if you like it, I know that, you know, it's a conversation started for only about a month.
24:17: So if you don't want it, I totally understand. But if you want it, it's at discoverchurch .online slash eclipse.
24:24: And we'll try to get it out to you as fast as we can. And we just got to spread our faith. Whatever opportunity we have, carry books, wear a t -shirt, whatever you can, try to share the gospel now because the time is short.
24:37: And again, he's not given the gospel. So his gospel message is final warning.
24:43: But what does that mean? Final warning to what? What are you talking about? It's been a bunch of mumbo jumbo and some neat pictures that have been thrown up on slides so that you'll look on this and you'll go, oh, these interesting coincidences.
24:59: So that, yeah, that makes the Hebrew letter there. And oh, the sign of Jonah, which was actually an eclipse and an earthquake and all.
25:05: And so this is the sign of Jonah. So this is God's final warning to us. I guess we better do something about it.
25:11: Final warning for what? None of that's ever been said. But no matter what happens, right, no matter what's going to come up here, even in the next year or two,
25:20: Steve Chialcolanti is going to claim he saw it. And this is exactly what he was talking about, because he mentioned this in the clip that we heard last week, when after the 2017 eclipse, there was
25:31: Hurricane Harvey and he was like, see, that was what the eclipse was pointing to. No, it wasn't. The eclipse didn't even go across Texas in 2017.
25:41: So why would that eclipse had been a warning about Hurricane Harvey? These guys are they're quacks.
25:48: They're complete charlatans. They know they're just making this stuff up, but it's, you know, whatever to make a buck.
25:56: Anyway. So, yeah, that was the payoff. That was the conclusion of that message. I guess I should have gone ahead and finished it.
26:01: But I was done and didn't want to play any more of Steve Chialcolanti's ads there.
26:07: But thank you for your question, Greg. Now, I made comments on social media about how this eclipse is not a sign of anything.
26:15: None of these naturally occurring things are signs from God about judgments that are coming. If God is going to give a sign to us about something that is going to take place, it's not going to be something that we were able to predict decades ago, which, as I pointed out in a recent what video, there was a newspaper in Ohio in 1970 that said the next solar eclipse that would pass through the state of Ohio would be on April 8th of 2024.
26:43: That was 54 years ago. And they knew exactly when the next eclipse was going to pass their way.
26:50: The next total solar eclipse. How could they possibly have known that? Because you can chart the path of the sun and the moon and you know exactly when the moon is going to cross this way again.
27:01: And these things work like clockwork, exactly as God has set them to work, that we can calculate out decades in advance when these eclipses are going to happen.
27:13: And NASA is even charted. I think you can go to NASA's website and you can find these solar eclipses charted out for well over 100 years.
27:20: And they could probably do more than that. But you know, what would be the point? So we know when these things are going to happen and where they are going to happen because God has set for them to happen this way.
27:31: So it's never a sign of judgment, never, ever, ever a sign of judgment. It's just a natural marvel.
27:37: And we can look at it and behold the wonder of God and the way that he has designed things.
27:43: Psalm 19, 1, the heavens declare the glory of God, the sky, the work of his hands.
27:50: So you when you see the solar eclipse, that's a fulfillment of Psalm 19, 1. If you want to get terribly prophetic about it.
27:57: But I made a comment on social media about how these statements about eclipses, solar eclipses being a sign of the end.
28:06: I said that's very pagan because that's what pagans would do. They would see a lunar eclipse or a solar eclipse and claim that it was the sign of the end of the world.
28:16: And this fellow named Carlos contacted me and he said, I guess the sign of the star that guided the wise men to Jesus was pagan.
28:24: Also, when darkness fell over the land, when Jesus was crucified, it's not just an eclipse, it's a planetary alignment as well.
28:32: Truth is, you don't know if it's a sign or not. And it takes humility to say that.
28:38: I responded to Carlos and I said, I absolutely 100 % know that the eclipse is not a prophetic sign.
28:47: It is as normal, predictable, and naturally occurring as a sunrise or the phases of the moon.
28:56: Now, the star that led the Magi was prophesied centuries earlier, and that star was not naturally occurring.
29:07: In Numbers 24, 17, this prophecy was made. This was actually Balaam that said this, in fact.
29:14: But anyway, it's in that verse where it says, I see him, but not now. I behold him, but not near.
29:21: A star shall come forth from Jacob. A scepter shall rise from Israel and shall crush through the forehead of Moab and tear down all the sons of Sheth.
29:31: That's a prophecy concerning the coming of Christ and a statement of a star that will come forth from Jacob and a scepter shall rise from Israel, a reference to a king.
29:42: So when the Magi were following the star to what they thought was Jerusalem, they were certain that that star was taking them to a king.
29:51: They had the Hebrew scriptures. After the Babylonian exile, when the Hebrews were exiled into Babylonian captivity, all of their wise men who wrote their scrolls, whether it was in Babylonian exile or when they were with the
30:03: Medes and the Persians. So the wise men had, or the Magi, they had those scrolls that had been written by those
30:11: Hebrew prophets, and they knew about a prophecy concerning a star and a king that that star would be pointing to.
30:20: Now, the star that they followed was not natural. It was not, as some people say, like a conjunction of planets, nor was it a comet, nor was it any other bright astral phenomenon.
30:34: It was a low -hanging star that would not have been that high in the heavens, and we know that it moved because what is said to us in Matthew 2 is that it went ahead of them and even rested over the house where Jesus was.
30:48: So this was a supernatural occurrence. It was not a naturally occurring star.
30:55: Now, the Magi, being star watchers, they were looking for a star to appear that would seem unusual to them.
31:02: And, of course, a supernaturally appearing star would be quite unusual, wouldn't it?
31:08: So it led them to Jerusalem, and then beyond that to Bethlehem, that they would find the exact place, the very house, because the star highlighted it's this house right here, that was where Joseph and Mary and Jesus could be found.
31:25: Carlos was not content with that answer, though. He went on to say, there is no possible way that you know that the star that led the
31:32: Magi was not naturally occurring. After all, stars are a part of nature. Oh, like I said, I know from what the scriptures say that it was not a naturally occurring star because stars don't guide you to people's houses.
31:45: Carlos continues on, maybe the eclipse that coincides with the planetary alignment are not signs.
31:51: Maybe they are, though. You don't 100 % know that's certain. Now, if you have to say let me let me give you like a crash course in false prophecy.
32:01: All right, if a false prophet says to you, maybe it's a sign of something, maybe it's not.
32:07: That is an instant tell that it is not a sign of anything. Because if it's maybe a sign and it's maybe not, then it's not a sign like, how would you know if it was a sign or not?
32:22: Well, it would have to be when it's all said and done. There's a there this could be a sign. Then something happens.
32:29: And now you're looking back going, oh, see? Yeah, it was a sign. Well, if you don't know if it was a sign until after all this stuff happened, then it wasn't a sign because a sign is supposed to tell you that it's coming.
32:40: Not that it happened. You know that it happened. You went through it and it happened. So the sign was irrelevant.
32:47: It could not have told you anything because you didn't even know the thing was a sign until after whatever the sign was pointing to had taken place.
32:54: Does that make sense? So when you hear these prophets that will say things about these eclipses, maybe it's a sign of something.
33:00: Maybe it's not. They're just trying to get your attention and get your money. It is not a sign of anything.
33:07: If they don't know what it's a sign of, then it's not a sign. When God would give signs to his prophets, he would say exactly what those things were pointing to.
33:15: And the solar eclipses are not pointing to anything except for the glory of God's incredible design in the heavens.
33:24: All right. All right. This next question comes from Darren. He says, hey,
33:29: Pastor Gabe, what's up with your Bible reading podcast? Has it died in Leviticus? Like so many other plans,
33:34: I'm enjoying it and love having a well -read audio version of the legacy standard Bible.
33:40: I appreciate your question, Darren. No. So when I went on vacation, I had predated a lot of stuff that was supposed to post while I was gone.
33:49: Somehow I messed that up and I don't know what I did in the automated thing. I didn't even know that it wasn't posting until I got home.
33:57: So I fixed that. The first one that's posted now in my absence is dated for April 11th.
34:05: There should be another one today for April 12th. And then now, hopefully, if the problem is fixed, then it should continue on finishing up the book of Leviticus, and then
34:14: I'll just keep going in order. Numbers would be next and then Deuteronomy. So I apologize for that.
34:20: I did not mean for the podcast to fizzle out like that, but it's still continuing on.
34:26: Like I said, if you're not aware, we have a second podcast that we've added. It's called Hear the Word of the Lord.
34:31: All it is is daily Bible reading. You don't get any commentary, no music, no announcements or anything else, just Bible reading.
34:40: And you can find it now. I've tested it. So just about on every app that I've used that I've done a search for this podcast,
34:47: I've been able to find it. So look for Hear the Word of the Lord, finishing up Leviticus and going on into numbers here in just a few days, just a couple of days.
34:58: It'll go into the next book. Let me bring my questions back up here. By the way, if you want to send a question, the email address is when we understand the text at gmail .com.
35:09: This next comment actually came from a skeptic, but I think it goes well with the study that we just started in the
35:16: Gospel of Mark. So Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday is New Testament study. And as we have just started a study in Mark this past Monday, these questions,
35:25: I think, go well with this. So this person didn't leave a name. It's anonymously submitted. But I know that it came from a critic.
35:32: True or false, the first writings of the New Testament are Paul's letters, approximately 50
35:37: AD. Mark is next, about 20 years later, and he never met Jesus.
35:43: Matthew and Luke, who wrote Acts, follow over the next 10 to 15 years, and they never met
35:48: Jesus. John is 70 years later, after Jesus' death. True or false?
35:55: OK, so there are several claims that he's making there. And let me go through them one at a time. So first of all, true or false, the first writings of the
36:03: New Testament are Paul's letters, approximately 50 AD. The answer? False.
36:08: Paul's first letters, which were either Galatians or 1 Thessalonians. Some scholars will say
36:14: Galatians came first. Others will say 1 Thessalonians. They were written in 48 to 49
36:19: AD at the earliest. Matthew would have already been written and circulated by then.
36:26: Next claim. Mark is next, about 20 years later, and he never met
36:32: Jesus. So that means this fellow's claim would be that Mark was written sometime around AD 70. Answer?
36:38: False. Mark was likely one of Jesus' disciples, not among the 12, but he was a follower of Jesus.
36:46: He may be the young man that is mentioned in Mark 14, 51 to 52. I think
36:52: I mentioned that, didn't I, on Monday's episode? Maybe it was Tuesday when I came back to the identity of who
36:57: Mark is. But it's talked about there, as Jesus is arrested in the garden, there's a young man who runs away from the scene.
37:05: And he runs away so fast that he comes right out of his tunic, out of his robe. And so that could be
37:13: Mark autobiographically referencing himself. He became fearful. He ran away naked.
37:21: We know that Mark was among Peter's missionary brethren. From the beginning of the apostles' ministry, he's mentioned in Acts 12, 12, and also in 1
37:29: Peter 5, 13. So very, very likely, in fact, that Mark did know
37:35: Jesus. He was at least a part of that inner circle of apostolic ministry, being a disciple of Peter's.
37:42: The next claim. Matthew and Luke, who wrote Acts, follow over the next 10 to 15 years, and they never met
37:49: Jesus. Now, you know the answer to this one, right? Of course, that's false. According to Eusebius, Matthew was written about 12 years after Jesus' ascension.
37:59: So it would have been about 42 to 45 AD was when the Gospel of Matthew was written. And Matthew was one of Jesus' disciples, one of the 12.
38:08: He was Levi. He was the tax collector. So he is the author of Matthew's Gospel.
38:14: And he was definitely in Jesus' company, was part of Jesus' ministry for those three years, and then was even commissioned to be the first one to write a book of the
38:25: New Testament, as the Holy Spirit would give to him to write. Luke is the only
38:31: Gospel author of whom it could be said he didn't meet Jesus. There's still a possibility that he did.
38:38: But of any of the four, if it could be said that they didn't meet Jesus, it would be Luke. But he was a contemporary of those things that happened in Jesus' time, certainly those things that happened in the apostolic ministry.
38:51: And he wrote what he wrote according to eyewitness accounts. He says so in Luke 1 -2, that what he is writing down is an account from eyewitnesses of the things that happened pertaining to the ministry of Jesus Christ.
39:03: So now this fellow's last claim, John is 70 years after Jesus' death.
39:10: Now, I would say that it was not that late. It did not come 70 years after Jesus' death.
39:16: That would put it at about 90 AD. And we think that John died around 95. It's unlikely that the book was written that late.
39:25: It's really uncertain as to when John was written. But what difference would it make as to when he wrote that book?
39:32: John is one of Jesus' disciples. In fact, he was one of the inner three.
39:39: He was even closer to Jesus than just the 12. There was Peter, James, and John who were closer to Jesus than the rest.
39:47: John is even referred to as the one whom Jesus loved most. So John had a very close relationship with Jesus.
39:56: And does it matter when he wrote his gospel? It would still have been an eyewitness account. It would still have been something that comes from one of Jesus' closest disciples.
40:06: And what better person to have written it than John? So anyway, debunking all of those claims that were made by that particular skeptic and even gives us a little bit of background and appreciation for what we are reading as we continue through our series in the
40:21: Gospel of Mark. Again, it's on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday that we do our New Testament study. If you've missed any episodes in the introduction to the
40:30: Gospel of Mark, go back and catch what I just did this past week because we're only 15 verses in or something like that.
40:37: And we'll continue on with this great book. I'm enjoying getting through these Gospels.
40:43: We finished up Matthew last week. We started up Mark this week.
40:48: And when I finish Mark, my intention is to go on into Luke. Now, why would I just go successively through the
40:54: Gospels like this and not break them up? You know, we get done with Matthew. Maybe I do a shorter book and then we come back to Mark.
41:00: Well, the reason why I gave this explanation when I started in Matthew, the reason why is because people don't know the
41:08: Gospels. They will claim that they do. They think that they know the basic stories concerning Christ, what happened in his ministry, his basic teachings.
41:17: But they really don't. And instead, they're turning to things like the chosen. And why do so many people love the chosen?
41:24: It's because for them, Scripture is not sufficient. This is better for me. It's easier for me to understand what's going on, so on and so forth.
41:31: Reading the Bible is too hard, whatever excuse they might have. They're just more entertained. I like to be entertained by these things.
41:37: So here I'm getting my fill of Jesus by watching the show, which is only based on Jesus and his disciples by the creator's own admission.
41:47: Ninety five percent of what's in the show is not in the Bible. I would say that's a bigger problem. And then when they do try to include
41:54: Bible things and when they do include Bible things, it's always off. I mean, the show is just incredibly bad at accuracy or portraying the life of Jesus and his message at all.
42:07: I'm thankful that the chosen season four is kind of tied up in litigation right now.
42:13: They're done. They've shown the season in theaters, but you can't watch it on the app or any streaming services because Dallas Jenkins signed a stupid deal with Lionsgate.
42:23: He got greedy and signed a deal with a movie company. And that movie company is not letting him release the episodes for free like he's used to doing, which was which was the very thing that got him to the place where he's at.
42:35: Instead, he ignored the needs of his audience that got him to this place, and he tried to sign bigger deals with bigger people to get more money.
42:45: And now they're messed up in all of this legal stuff right now. But on the plus side, nobody is able to see season four unless you went to go see it in theaters.
42:55: Nobody can see season four right now. It'll they'll get it straightened out eventually. But for the time being, all of that is is kind of tied up.
43:03: And I hope that it costs them a lot of money. And perhaps, God willing, they won't even be able to finish the series.
43:09: But like I said, people will watch it because they don't understand the Gospels. That's why they get into this.
43:14: They don't even read the scriptures, but they'll watch the show because the show is entertaining.
43:20: The show adds stuff that I think, you know, needed to spice up the story a little bit or something like that.
43:25: So this is why I'm going through the Gospels, because people don't understand them. And we will go straight through it like this, finishing up Mark.
43:33: And then, God willing, if it takes us just this year to do Mark, then at the start of 2025, we'll keep right on going into Luke unless there is unless there's a solar eclipse that forecast the end of the world.
43:46: And I'm not able able to make it that far. By the way, if a solar eclipse were to happen that we didn't know it was going to happen just suddenly, the sun is blacked out today.
43:58: That would be a sign of something you can be sure something crazy is going on.
44:05: And I should definitely pay attention to that. But naturally occurring solar eclipses don't communicate anything.
44:11: This next question comes from Juanita. She says, Greetings, can a person be saved if they do not believe in the inerrancy of the
44:19: Bible? There are many denominations who don't. What if you attend such a church?
44:25: Is your salvation in question? Thank you for your ministry. Also, how do we respond to people who ask about the placement of John 8, 2 to 11?
44:35: Can you send me to the video where you discussed this? Thanks so much and blessings to you and to your family.
44:42: So I'll get to that what video in just a moment where I said something about John 8, 2 through 11. But first of all,
44:47: Juanita's first question, can a person be saved if they do not believe in the inerrancy of the Bible? That depends.
44:55: So it is necessary for you to believe that the Bible is God's word.
45:01: Because how else do we know about Jesus or the way of eternal life without it?
45:07: So it is necessary for us to know that the Bible is God's word. This is the way that we know about our sin.
45:14: About how we find a solution to our sin through faith in Jesus Christ, how there's a solution to our death problem, that those who believe in Jesus will not perish but have everlasting life.
45:27: John 3, 16. We learn these things from the scriptures. If you believe that the Bible could be wrong, then what assurance would you have that the words that you're reading are true?
45:38: That this really is the solution to your sin problem, that you really can have your sins forgiven and you can know with confidence that your sins are forgiven and you have fellowship with God.
45:49: The only way we could know that confidently is if we know that the Bible is
45:55: God's word. Now, how necessary is it for you to believe that it is inerrant or therefore without error?
46:03: Well, if you know that God is perfect and holy and true, then you would have to therefore also assume that the
46:12: Bible is without error. Because if it is God's word and God does not err, then the
46:18: Bible does not err. But if it's God's word and the Bible errs, then God errs.
46:23: So you see the problem with the consistency there if you were to believe that the
46:29: Bible could have any mistakes in it. So for the sake of your salvation and for the sake of the assurance of your salvation, it's necessary to believe in the inerrancy of the
46:44: Bible. I don't expect a young believer to understand that perfectly, though.
46:49: So it's not like once you come into an understanding of the inerrancy of the Bible, now you're saved. A young believer may have a very immature concept of that.
46:57: And it may even take years for a person to come to an understanding as they read the Bible and they grow in it and they learn doctrine and things like that.
47:05: Maybe it takes years for them to recognize, oh, this is without error. And now I can know confidently that in my
47:13: Savior, my sins are forgiven and I have nothing to fear of judgment because of what the Bible says.
47:18: Whatever the Bible says, I'm going to believe it. There is no other book in the world that is true as the
47:25: Bible. As a person grows in God's word and comes to appreciate these things more, then even their maturity and their understanding of the word will develop into this recognition of the inerrancy of Scripture.
47:39: Yes, there are many denominations that deny the inerrancy of the Scriptures. They're false denominations.
47:46: And if you know of a church or something that is teaching that Scripture is errant, that it is not inerrant, avoid that church because they are not teaching the truth and they likely err in many other doctrines.
48:01: It's not just that one that they have a problem with. They are full of error in a lot of other places as well.
48:08: So that's one of those doctrines you could certainly use to tell if a church is sound and preaching rightly.
48:14: Is your salvation in question? Well, I think over time, if you show yourself to be a person who doesn't believe in the inerrancy of the
48:22: Bible, yeah, the Bible is full of some myths and speculations and some parts like that. And it's been changed a couple of times over the years and whatnot.
48:30: So it's not really inerrant. Then over time, is that revealing that your faith has never really been genuine, that it's always been circumstantial and it's always been built on a sandy foundation?
48:44: And remember that Jesus said in Matthew chapter 7, whoever hears these words of mine and does them is like the wise man who builds his house upon the rock.
48:53: But whoever hears these words of mine and does not do them is like the foolish man who built his house upon the sand.
49:00: And the storms came and beat upon that house and it fell and great was the fall of it.
49:05: And that's going to be the case with a person who does not understand inerrancy or the inerrancy doctrine that scripture is without error.
49:13: For how can they trust in these words? And therefore, why would they do these words if there's a possibility that these words aren't even true?
49:21: So I hope that's helpful to you, Juanita. Regarding your next question, how do you respond to people who ask about the placement of John 8, 2 through 11?
49:30: So this is the story of the woman that is caught in adultery, what's also referred to as the pericope adultery.
49:38: And it doesn't actually start in John 8, verse 2. It begins in John 7, 53 and goes through John 8, 11.
49:48: The account of the woman caught in adultery is John 8, 2 through 11.
49:53: And as I've taught on this before, we know that this was not written by John.
49:59: In fact, at one point in early manuscripts, it was found in Luke. And if you if you skip this account, if you skip this story and you read from the end of John 7 into John 8, picking up in verse 12, and you just keep on reading, the text makes way more sense.
50:18: Because with this, the pericope adultery inserted in here, it actually shifts to a different day.
50:24: Whereas the teaching that you were reading in chapter 7 on into chapter 8 continues in a proper flow.
50:29: If you ignore the pericope adultery there, try that sometime. It's just kind of interesting to say,
50:35: OK, I see how this text fits a lot better if we don't have the story of the woman caught in adultery.
50:42: So how do you respond to people with regard to this story? If we're going to believe that scripture is inerrant, but this story was not written by John, nor does it belong in John, then aren't we saying that scripture airs?
50:54: No, the fact that we can trace this back and we know exactly. We know that John didn't write this.
51:01: I was going to say we know exactly where it came from. We don't really know where it came from or who wrote it or who put it in there.
51:06: But we know that John didn't write it because from the earliest manuscripts, we can see that this story wasn't there.
51:14: And from the earliest manuscripts, we can even see that at one point it was in Luke. But we know that Luke didn't write it either.
51:19: This was just a story that was kind of floating around looking for a home. And this is where it ended up.
51:25: But the fact that we know that actually testifies to the inerrancy of the scripture, because we have enough manuscripts that we can go back and prove what is authentic and what is not.
51:36: And so this is a more recent invention, and we can make an argument for why it doesn't belong.
51:43: And even its very placement can testify to us about the inerrancy of scripture. So we know what was factually written by John and what was not what was written by those who are blessed with the
51:54: Holy Spirit and those things that did not come from the Holy Spirit. And again, that becomes a good argument for the inerrancy of scripture.
52:03: So here's the what video that I did on this particular account, and then I'll get to my last couple of questions here.
52:13: In John 8, we read the story of a woman caught in the act of adultery, and she was brought before Jesus.
52:18: The Pharisees said, Teacher, Moses commanded us to stone such women. What do you say? They were trying to trap him.
52:25: If he said, let her go, he'd be ignoring the law of Moses. But if he said stone her, he'd be going against Rome, and that would get him in trouble with the
52:31: Romans. Jesus responded by writing on the ground with his finger. When they continued to press him, he stood up and said,
52:37: Let him who's without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her. Upon hearing this, the Pharisees left.
52:43: And Jesus said, Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you? She said, No one, Lord. And he said,
52:48: Neither do I condemn you. Now go and sin no more. This story is commonly used to say, No one is without sin, therefore no one has any right to judge.
52:57: But Jesus just said a few verses before to judge with right judgment. When Jesus said, Let him who is without sin be the first to cast the stone, he was saying,
53:05: Which one among you is the dude she had adultery with? According to Leviticus 20 .10, he's supposed to be stoned with her.
53:11: Having been exposed that they were ignorant of the law, the Pharisees hightailed it out of there. Jesus, the author of the law, represented by him writing on the ground with his finger, forgave the woman and told her not to sin anymore.
53:23: However, there's a problem with this story. John didn't write it. And your Bible will tell you that.
53:28: John 7 .53 through 8 .11 didn't appear in any of the earliest manuscripts, and some put it in the book of Luke.
53:34: It's a nice story, but it doesn't belong in the Bible. The greatest story of love and forgiveness is found at the cross of Christ when we understand the text.
53:43: Now, if you're looking for that video on YouTube, I'm going to include the link in the show notes.
53:50: But you go to YouTube, type in WWUTT. What does it mean to cast the first stone?
53:56: Or if you just type in WWUTT first stone, this video will come up, because that's really the passage that I'm addressing in that particular video.
54:07: Still making the point, though, too, that John was not the original writer of the story of the woman caught in adultery.
54:14: Last couple of questions here. This first one is from Josh. Hey, Pastor Gabe, love your show and the Q &A
54:20: Fridays. On March 29th, you played a recording. Question five was on women assisting her husband in a
54:27: Bible study. Would you say it's OK for her to teach the lesson to a mixed group? Thanks so much.
54:33: I might come back to this question when Becky's on the show with me, so I might hold on to this one until later. But let me just clarify there.
54:39: There were a bunch of things in that question that I answered in that episode.
54:45: It wasn't just a woman helping her husband with a Bible study. It was also what else a woman can do around the church.
54:51: But when I say a woman can help her husband with a Bible study, I'm thinking more in terms of like hospitality.
54:58: So if you host a Bible study at home, the wife is able to help set up chairs, make things accommodating, prepare food or whatever else so that people can come in opening up the home.
55:11: They feel relaxed. They are they're gathered together in good fellowship and are ready to study the
55:17: Bible together. Or if you're doing a Bible study at your church, there's still some hospitality you can do there.
55:24: Maybe the wife's husband is teaching the Sunday school class and she can do some things to make the class be more welcoming.
55:31: She can also speak up every now and then, because in the studies that I host in my home, sometimes my wife has input and there's nothing wrong with that.
55:40: But she's not leading the teaching. And if there was a night when I could not teach, she's not going to grab the
55:47: Bible and stand up and teach in my stead. She wouldn't want to do that anyway. So when
55:52: I say assisting with a Bible study, that's what I mean. I don't mean that she's going to become a teacher there, but she becomes a complement rather to the teaching that is the husband's responsibility if he is one that is leading the
56:06: Bible study. Thank you for your question. And I might get Becky's input on that, saving that question to another week when she can be on with me.
56:15: Last one here from Louie in Northwest Indiana. Hi there, Gabe and Becky.
56:20: I'll pass on your greeting. Thank you so very much for your online ministry. I highly value your teachings and viewpoints.
56:26: Do you think there is any value at all in reading the books of the Apocrypha? I know they are not included as the inspired word of God.
56:34: However, would there still be some benefit from taking the time to study them?
56:41: Thank you. Love from Louie in Northwest Indiana. May grace and peace be yours in abundance. And he also gave a reference to Second Corinthians 517.
56:49: Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature. The old things passed away.
56:56: Behold, new things have come. Amen, Louie. Yes, there can be some benefit in reading the books of the
57:02: Apocrypha. I think as long as you understand that they are not divinely inspired scripture. Again, the books of the
57:07: Apocrypha include Tobit, Judith, Baruch, Sirach, First and Second Maccabees, Wisdom, and then there are also additions to Esther and Daniel.
57:18: Now in the Orthodox churches, I think there's only a few Orthodox churches. I don't think it's every one of them, but they include the book of Enoch as also part of the biblical canon in the in the
57:31: Greek Orthodox churches, Oriental Orthodox Church, Ethiopia. I don't think the Greek or the
57:36: Russian Orthodox Church includes the book of Enoch, but I know a few of them do. They consider that to be divinely inspired scripture.
57:43: And so did Michael Heiser. He also considered the book of Enoch to be divinely inspired, and that led a lot of the things that he wrote with regard to angels and demons and stuff like that.
57:56: To clarify, the book of Enoch is not inspired scripture. True story, when we were driving back from East Texas, I pulled up the book of Enoch and was listening to it on the way.
58:08: I've been thinking about doing a study in that of the book of Enoch and responding to some of the claims that Michael Heiser made.
58:16: I don't know what kind of timetable I'm looking at in doing that work and writing anything on it.
58:24: I'm not sure what that looks like. But I have done some study in that. So all to say to your question,
58:30: Louis, yeah, there's some benefit in reading that, at least becoming familiar with it. And I think in reading it, you'll also recognize why they don't fit the rest of scripture.
58:39: It doesn't quite have the same voice or penmanship that the Old Testament and the New Testament have.
58:45: When I studied them, I was in my 20s when I went through the Apocrypha, but I just remember right away when
58:50: I started reading and I was like, this doesn't sound anything like the rest of the Bible. So it made sense to me just in the hearing of it, why it wasn't included in sacred scripture.
59:01: But the Catholics do consider it a sacred text. And it because of some of the things that are written in there has fed some of their false doctrines.
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01:00:25: Make our faith bold in these days, putting our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Assurance that your word is true.
01:00:33: Assurance of our salvation. Assurance of knowing what it is that pleases
01:00:38: God, because we have your instructions in your word. May we be faithful to do them, growing in holiness and in righteousness, in love for you and for your people, as we long eagerly for that day when we get to be with you forever in glory.
01:00:57: Eclipses and things like that are not signs of the day that is coming. We can look at those things and we can behold the wonder and the majesty of you as creator in the way that you have designed the heavens.
01:01:08: But we have your word that tells us of the judgment that is coming against all the ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who by their unrighteousness have suppressed the truth.
01:01:19: It's through your word also that we know the answer to this, to be saved from the judgment that is coming against these things, and that is to believe in the
01:01:27: Lord Jesus Christ that we may live. Praying with the Apostle John, come quickly,
01:01:33: Lord Jesus. It's in his name that we pray. Amen. This is When We Understand the
01:01:38: Text with Pastor Gabe Hughes. There are lots of great Bible teaching programs on the web, and we thank you for selecting ours.
01:01:45: But this is no replacement for regular fellowship with a church family. Find a good, Gospel -teaching,
01:01:50: Christ -centered church to worship with this weekend, and join us again Monday for more Bible study, When We Understand the