Matt Slick Live: January 7, 2025

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It's Matt Slick Live! Matt is the founder and president of the Christian Apologetics Research Ministry, found online at karm .org. When you have questions about Bible doctrines, turn to Matt Slick Live for answers.

Taking your calls and responding to your questions at 877 -207 -2276. Here's Matt Slick. Hey everybody, welcome to the show. It's me, Matt Slick. You're listening to Matt Slick Live. I hope you're all going to have a good day today.

And if you want to give me a call, it is easy. All you have to do is dial 877 -207 -2276. And also, you can send an email. That's easy. Just direct it to info at karm .org. Info at karm .org. C-A-R-M dot O-R-G.

And put in the subject line, radio comment, radio question. Before we get to the calls, I have a bit of an announcement to make. We are in the market to hire somebody here at the Intergalactic Headquarters of Karm.

What we're looking for is an individual who can be, what we might call, an operations manager. And this person would, if you're interested, pay attention to this. The person, how to describe this, would be doing all kinds of stuff.

You've got to be smart enough to figure things out on your own. But because we're trained, we help as much as we can. And then there's projects and things like this. And the list of things that would probably be, we'd use and work with.

I'm going to get to a little thing here. Let's see. This is some of the stuff that we are looking for. Helping Laura in SEO and coordinate between websites. Take care of the Karm staff, which means finding out what they do, where they're working, the areas and projects they're working on, keeping a record of that.

Provide a list of responsibilities for all the staff. Possible video editing and time stamps for the radio show. Maybe going to conferences. Extracting radio segments for putting on Rumble and or YouTube.

Updating thumbnails on YouTube. Promoting the Karm radio show in different markets. Taking over the weekly newsletter. Looking into monetizing YouTube. Researching how to advertise and things like this in different social media contexts.

Possibly arrange seminars online and in person. Like I said, we've got some other websites. We'd kind of coordinate between those and run. They'd be responsible for all that kind of stuff. Working in the schools to make sure that any technical issues are taken care of.

This is the kind of stuff we're looking for. It'll be a decent pay. If you're interested in something like this, you can send a resume. You can send something like that, csv2info at karm .org. Just put in the subject line, interested in the operations manager position.

Then we can get some more particulars. We would need to know what church you go to. You have to be a Christian. You have to adhere to and acknowledge the Statement of Faith on Karm. You'd be surprised.

A lot of us here are Calvinists who work here. But if you're not, that's okay. That's not a requirement. But you've got to go through the Statement of Faith. You've got to adhere to it. You have to sign a contract.

Things like that. You can be anywhere too. You can work for many places in the country. Stuff like that. This is what we're looking for. We're putting the word out. We've already got it out in a couple of areas.

When we start finding out who and what, then we're going to go that direction. The reason we're able to do that is because an arrangement has been made, let's just say, for the funding of such an individual, so that I can take all this off my plate and start doing the things that I'm supposed to be doing like teaching, preaching, developing work for podcasts.

Another thing we want to do is develop a weekly podcast where I do interviews with people. This person, operations manager, whatever we call it, we don't want to introduce what we're going to call the title right now.

This person would be responsible for setting those up and scheduling them, things like that. If that sounds interesting, info at karm .org. Info at karm .org. Info at karm .org. Just put it in the subject line, inquiring about operations manager.

We will see about that. We're putting the word out. What we're looking for, this is one of the major requirements, is that you have to be able to figure things out on your own. It doesn't mean we're throwing you out to the ocean of the sharks so you're on your own.

That's not it. We train, we get you going as much as possible, and then say, here's something we've got to do. Can you research it and figure it out? Instead of me researching it and figuring it out, you would do that, the person would do that.

That's the kind of thing that we're talking about. There are a lot of people who are smart enough,.

And they may just say, give me an assignment, and they go, I have no idea what it is.

And I'll chuckle and I'll say, well, here's the direction. Research it and get back to me in a few days. Stuff like that. You'd be required to work on your own. We don't micromanage here. We do not micromanage.

So we just say, look, you just tell me how many hours you work, we want you to work 40 hours a week, and up to that if you can. Because it depends, but probably there'd be plenty to do. There always is at this ministry.

And you'd be a person of your word. You'd say, this is what I've been doing, this is not what I've been doing, and things like that. We're going to have checks and balances and some stuff. And that's it.

And then as far as vacation time, we're really flexible. One of the guys that we used to have working with us, he had to go on to another ministry. We'd give him several weeks off each year,.

And he'd say something came up,.

And his wife was in the hospital, actually his kid was in the hospital, and he wanted to know if he could use his vacation time for that. And I said, don't even think about that. That vacation time, just this particular family.

We'll just talk later. Just take care of your family. Be with your kid. Don't eat into your vacation time. That's not how we do it here, because the family's more important. And so he took like two weeks off.

He had to take care of it. It was really important. And that was it. That's just what it is. We go on, we just move forward. So stuff like that. We're really easy here. But putting up with me? That may not be so easy.

Let's see if anybody's going to say amen to that. Because I'm obstreperous sometimes. And I'm autistic and stuff. But there you go. So hey, there you go.

All right. Just see the comments.

Matt gives you a bobber?

What does that mean?

Laura is the brains of the operation.

She is pretty good. Laura is pretty good.

She's got a lot that she can do. She's a smart woman. And we have to hire someone. We can't hire her for that.

There's reasons.

We have reasons. But it's a three-year commitment we've got.

Three years.

You'd be under probation for two or three months. And then once permanent, that's it. We've got a three-year commitment for staffing. So that's just a start. So I'm putting the word out. If that sounds good, let me know.

You want to pray about it. Oh, and here's one more thing. This is no joke. The people who work with this ministry often come under spiritual attack. So if you're married, you can be male or female. We don't care.

If you're married, then you need to let your spouse know. You're interested in doing this and it's for an apologetics ministry, etc., etc. And that you or your spouse, your family, may come under spiritual attack.

It may. I'm not saying it's going to happen. But I like to say to people, you can see what effect it has on you. Just look at my face. And you can see, yep, yep, yep, yep. A lot of problems. That's what the ministry nerd is.

It's evident right there. So you can pray about that and see. And if you have inquiries and stuff like that, we'll let you know.

All right. All right.

Now, we have callers. I'm waiting for them. They're in but not activated. So I'm not sure what to do. We have two open lines, 877 -207 -2276. And if you want, you can email me, info at CARM .org. Info at CARM, C-A-R-M dot O-R-G.

And just put the subject line, radio comment, radio question. Easy peasy. Let's get to Rudolph from Raleigh, North Carolina. Rudolph, welcome.

You're on the air.

Yes, sir. I just want to tell you before I start.

I'm sorry, what?

Any time my friends have questions and I can't answer, I always call you.

Well, good.

Okay. Okay.

Good.

I appreciate that.

Okay.

You're breaking up there. But go ahead.

Is there any reason and false promises? Okay.

I'll tell you what. I can't understand you. You're breaking up a lot. So I'll tell you what. Call back, okay? Get a better connection, okay? Because you're breaking up so much I can't follow you. So just call back, okay, Rudolph?

Okay.

Okay, buddy.

Yes, sir.

All right.

All right. Let's just jump over to Jermaine from California. Jermaine, welcome.

You're on the air.

Well, hey, Matt.

Hey.

What do you got, man?

Hey, so, yeah, I was going over Luke chapter 1, verse 20. And what always struck me about that is how when Angel was talking to Zachariah, or excuse me, you know who I'm talking about. Yeah, he, where he says, you know, because of his, basically his unbelief, how he kind of struck him blind.

But what always got me with that was, was that something from the Lord? I mean, we know ultimately it was, but do certain angels have the authority and the ability to pull off certain acts like that? And I think of the Sodom and Gomorrah situation, but it didn't seem like they elaborated on where that kind of authority came from.

So I just wanted to hear what you had to say about it.

Well, the text says, and behold, you shall be silent and unable to speak. It doesn't say who's performing the action of making him mute. It doesn't say who it is. The angel could simply be reporting what he knows the Lord God is going to do.

That's one explanation possible. Another possible explanation is that the angel has that ability to somehow do that and does. But we don't know. It just says you won't be able to until the day when these things take place because you did not believe my words, which you fulfilled, which will be fulfilled in their proper time.

So, you know, other than that, it doesn't say when you're right, doesn't it? Okay.

Yeah.

I think that's the fairest thing I've heard. I guess there's no elaboration at all. So it's not super important, but it's just one of those intricate details that always kind of stuck out in my mind.

Well, when you come across stuff like that, it's worth looking into. And a lot of times with stuff like this, you might research for a half hour, an hour, two hours, whatever. And you just didn't learn anything about that.

Who, what, when, where, why. But you always learn something else. So things like that are useful for trying to figure out what and why. And I've done it many times. And a lot of times I get no answer.

I can't figure it out. Oh, well. But I always learn in the process.

Right. And that's why I cross-referenced Genesis 19 where it says the angel struck them blind. Or it says they struck them blind, but it just doesn't really elaborate that. Are these like one, two-time events?

Or where the authority came from? So that's what had me kind of curious.

Well, there you go. You know, that's a good point. See Genesis 19, 11. They struck the men who were at the doorway in the house with blindness. So the angels are the one who did that to them. So we could say, well, at least we know that.

I'm more of a logician than a lot of people. And I'll say we know that it says this in Genesis 19, 11 that the angels did.

That.

It doesn't mean that the angels did it or the angel did it to Zacharias. Doesn't necessitate it, but certainly does support the idea. And we could say probably that was the case. Make sense?

Yes, sir. Thank you.

All right, buddy. God bless, man. Talk to you later.

All right.

God bless.

You too.

Everybody, we'll be right back after these messages.

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Let's get on the air with Rudolph. All right, Rudolph, you're back.

Yes, sir. Can you hear me?

Oh, much better.

Much better.

There we go.

Okay. My question is, is the Antichrist and the false prophet humans or demons?

Well, it looks like they're humans. The Antichrist will have an injury on his head and his arm in Zechariah 11 -17. He'll probably be homosexual. No desire for women, Daniel 11 -37. Maybe boastful, combative, Daniel 7 -8 and 21.

So he should be a human. There's debate on what the false prophet is. Some have postulated it's a machine. Some said the Roman Catholic Church. Some said another individual. So I'm not going to give you which one it is, but they're at the very least going to be demonically influenced.

But the Antichrist is definitely going to be a human being. And the false prophet and the Antichrist get thrown into the lake of fire, where they're consciously tormented forever and ever, which refutes annihilationism.

So that's what I would say.

Okay.

Okay. Thank you. God bless you. I appreciate that.

All right, man. God bless, buddy.

Okay.

You know, I wrote an article a while back in July of 24. What political party would the Antichrist belong to? Since I was looking it up on my website for the answer here for the show, I thought I would just go over it really quickly, and then we'll get to the callers.

He's going to be pro-LGBTQ because he's going to be homosexual. He'll be pro-abortion since the Antichrist activity would be in accord with Satan, who's a murderer. He'll support a one-world government.

Which political party does this remind you of?

Pro-LGBTQ, pro-abortion,.

Pro-one-world government, socialistic kind of thing. We'll force compliance with the policies. We'll use deception. Now, that to me is the left. They use deception all the time. And we'll make war with the Christians.

I don't know which political party you think he'd belong to. Hey, let's get on the air here with Mark from Salt Lake City. Mark, welcome.

You're on the air.

Yes.

Hi, Matt.

Can you hear me? Yes, I can. You sound good, man. What do you got, buddy?

Hey, he's going to be a Democrat, no doubt.

At the very least, yeah.

Yeah, that would be my guess. I actually used to call them demon-crats, but now I more affectionately refer to them as demons, straight up. But it's interesting you're talking about the Antichrist. My question was sort of in line with that.

And specifically, where do you think the Antichrist will come from? I've heard it's going to be something along the lines of the revived Roman Empire. And if that's so, is that something that's going to be in the geographical area of Rome, Europe, European Union area?

That's one of the theories. It wouldn't surprise me if the Pope was the Antichrist. It wouldn't surprise me. And it wouldn't surprise me if out of the rebuilt Roman Empire, the Antichrist rises out of all of that.

There's another theory that he might be a Muslim, because there's going to be one real kind of a movement. And the Muslims are intolerant, bigoted, hateful, because that's what the Koran and the Hadith teach.

And so they would only probably accept someone of their own ilk. And in that, they would probably require him to be Muslim of some sort. And so that's a theory that some have postulated as well. So I couldn't tell you who for sure.

All right. Interesting. That almost might help in that sort of that covenant, right? That he's going to be sort of moving forward on with between Israel and the Muslims on where to rebuild the temple?

Yes.

In fact, I've been to Jerusalem. I've been to the Dome of the Rock twice. And if anybody were to just go on the web and look for a picture of the Dome of the Rock, you'll see it's set in the middle of a large area.

And so it's a flat area. It's a football field in these. And so I think it's mostly when you look into the picture. To the right is where they say the temple can be rebuilt, because it's geographically that's it.

And that the Dome of the Rock is in the court of the Gentiles. So there's room for it to be built right there. And that would, boy, talk about tension. But that would be doable.

Right, right. Yeah, that was mainly my question, because I had heard, just going back to the Antichrist, just different things. I've heard the Pope. I've even heard it mentioned that Obama or Donald Trump could have been, which I don't see how the latter would have been.

But I think he did get shot at. And he took an injury. And I believe the Antichrist is supposedly going to be, I think, receive an injury to his head or a wound to his head.

Yes.

And sustain it, and then come back to life, which is interesting.

Yeah, it says, though.

I guess I could write more.

But it says his arm will be totally withered and his right eye will be blind. So that's what's going to happen.

Oh, the right eye. Okay.

Yeah, so his eye will be blind. So he'll receive probably a head injury, and it's going to damage his ability to function physically. Now, Trump got a piece of skin or a little chunk taken out of his ear.

That doesn't qualify because it has to be a head and an eye and arm have to be nonfunctional.

Okay.

That's what I didn't remember that. That's good to know.

Yeah.

And sort of with that, I was also curious if he is going to be. It's kind of strange. I was kind of thinking, is he going to be a man? I'm assuming a man sort of like Judas, who was born of a woman, obviously.

Yeah.

Okay. And then he had the devil come inside of him at some point in time. I know Judas. I think the Bible says that Judas had literally the devil come inside of him. Is that similar to the Antichrist, where he's going to have the devil come inside of him?

He'll be sort of possessed and then sort of ruled by the devil.

Yes, that's what the general theory.

Okay.

As there was a kind of incarnation of Christ, there's going to be kind of incarnation of the devil in the Antichrist. The mimicry.

And maybe you covered this on the previous one. I think I just caught the last end of it. But where you're talking about the beast and the false prophet, is that sort of like that triad? So it'll be the Antichrist.

And then he'll have a helper, sort of a right hand man, so to speak. And then his sort of spiritual oversight and spiritual head as well, sort of that little trifecta.

Right. A mockery of the Trinity. So we have the Trinity, Father, Son, Holy Spirit. We have the Antichrist, false prophets, and the beast. And we have the incarnation of Christ as God. We have the, so to speak, incarnation of the devil.

There's that. And also 666 and 888. You want to hold off after the break? I'll talk about that. Do you want to hold? Because we're on a break here. Hey, folks, be right back after these messages, please.

Stay tuned. It's Matt Slick live, taking your calls at 877 -207 -2276. Here's Matt Slick. All right. Welcome back to the show. Let's get back on with Mark from Salt Lake City. Are you still there?

I'm here.

All right. So I mentioned 888 and 666. A lot of people not familiar.

I've heard of 666, but not 888.

Okay.

Well, 666 being what the number of his name where it's supposed to add up somehow numerically.

Right.

So in Hebrew and in Greek, they have letters. And so the letters are the only set that they have to do both alpha and numeric. We have ABC and 123. We have two sets, one for writing words and one for doing math and writing numbers.

Greek and Hebrew don't have two sets. These same letters are also numbers. So when you write a word in Greek, it has a numeric value. It's called a Gematria. And so that's all it is. Every word has that.

So, for example, in Hebrew, the word for God, the letters add up to 86. Let there be light is 232. Moses is 345.

Okay.

In Greek, the word for cross adds up to 777. And the word for Jesus, which is pronounced Iesus, is 888. Now, 666. Yeah. So Jesus is 888, the word Jesus. So, and Christ is 1286.

All right.

So let's see if I can explain this a little bit more for fun. So the name of the Antichrist, when it's written in Greek, the letters will add up to 666. Man was made on the sixth day. So it's a Trinitarian issue, not a true biblical Trinitarian, but a triad, in this case, of a demonic manifestation.

Because 6 is the number of man, and it's 666. Well, what's 8? 8 is the number of new beginnings. Because a male was circumcised on the eighth day. God made eight covenants with Abraham. There were eight people in Noah's ark.

And we could say Jesus was raised on the eighth day. Because there's seven days in a week, and it ends on the Sabbath, which is Saturday. But he's raised on Sunday, hence the eighth day. You know, it's a little fun with math there.

So that's what's really interesting. Now what's also interesting, the word for fish, ikthus, has a value of 1 ,224. So 1224. 12 and 12 is 24, so 1224. Not a big deal. What's interesting is that 8 divided into the number for fish, 1224, 8 divided in there is 153.

So 8 times 153 is the mathematical value for the word fish. And 153 fish is how many were caught in John 21. When they cast a net on the right side, not the left side, but the right side. Right is salvation, left is damnation, judgment.

The right side of God are the sheep, and the left are the goats. So it's interesting that at the end of the ministry of Christ, he's told... And they went back to fishing after he'd risen from the dead.

He said, cast your net on the right side. They did. They caught 153 fish. So the number of New Beginnings, 8 times 153, is the same number for the word fish, which is how many fish they caught. And what's really interesting is that in the four Gospels, if you remove or don't count the 4 ,000, the 5 ,000, these large generic numbers, how many individuals received a blessing from Jesus?

153 in the four Gospels. So I love that kind of stuff.

Yeah, sorry. I was just kind of thinking that just triggered another thought on my mind where kind of along the same lines as Daniel's prophecies and his 70th week prophecy, it seems like it's amazing.

Like one of the prophecies I talk to people about with sort of giving evidence for the reason why we believe is Daniel's 70th week and just kind of for the fact that it's so... Maybe I'm wrong, but I think it's that from the commandment to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah would be 483 years.

And I think that's obviously a number, and it's a very specific number. And my understanding is that it did occur from our exercise, gave the commandment to restore and rebuild the temple. And then when Jesus came back, I think it was somewhere around April 6, 32 AD, would have been 483 years.

And then my question kind of is, and I always wondered, that's the first part, I think. I think he said there'd be 70 weeks of sevens. That was 69, and then it's going to be one final week of sevens. Is that what we're speaking of then?

That's still to be, still to happen, and that's where the end of Christ is sort of going to come about. I've heard the three-and-a-half middle point where he says, hey, you know, worship me. I guess he creates a covenant.

Yeah, that's what I was wondering. It's Daniel's 70th week. That's where that's coming from. It's still to come then, right?

Yes.

Now just for a little bit more information, it's 173 ,880 days. That's how many days it is of those years in Daniel 7. For the issue of the decree to rebuild Jerusalem, that was March 14, 445 BC. So you add those days from that time on, that's the day that Jesus came into Jerusalem on a donkey.

So, yes, so that's weird. So we know that. That was a specific day and time, a date, which is, I mean, I do. I've heard that there was a book written by Sir Isaac Anderson or someone like that. It was a, I don't know, British guy that wasn't even necessarily a Christian.

And he was curious about that and did the math, and he took into account the different leap years and the different calendars and whatnot. And he came up with something like April 6, 32 AD was when Jesus came riding on a donkey to Jerusalem, which is amazing.

If that's true, yes. And then if that's true, I'm just curious. That last week of 7, I know we're supposed to wait for the period or my understanding is we're supposed to wait for the period of the church.

And then God will be kind of turning his heart back to Israel, and then he's going to work with them on that last 7, specifically on that last week of 7.

Yeah, there's a lot of discussion about it. So the Messiah will be cut off in the midweek of the last week. Three and a half years of his ministry, he was killed. He was cut off. There's three and a half years to come.

And so there's a lot of people who have speculated about what that is, and some say it's the period of judgment, the great tribulation for three and a half years. And this is when Antichrist will be revealed.

Christ will do some pretty heavy stuff.

So sort of I'm just thinking numerically, right? That's 483 years and sets of sixes and sets of eights and 153 fish and whatnot. If that's a week of sevens, we would know, wouldn't we then sort of a number of days on that last, like when that starts?

If it's, let's say the Antichrist comes in and says, hey, worship me, and that's the abomination that causes desolation. And we should know what is it? 1340 days or whatever it is. Three and a half years to the end.

Yes, that would be that final period. And we could almost know when Jesus would come back the second time, right?

Yes. Now there's you're getting. We have nobody waiting right now. We lost one caller. That's OK. But they're getting into a lot of stuff.

And yeah, it's OK.

No, it's OK. So, for example, two men in the field, one is taken, one is left. The wicked are the ones who are taken. And Jesus says that the first ones taken are the wicked. He says so at the end of the age.

Yeah, I believe that.

That's what he said. So what's going on and when's it going to occur? That's the issue. We could get into it if you want. We could talk about some stuff. There's a lot here, you know, and I don't have all the slides.

I know.

And I kind of got confused on some of it. I'm just trying to wrap my mind around some of it. But, you know, there's the Battle of Armageddon. And I'm trying to see what would be the next sort of thing on the prophetic calendar.

Are we looking for the Antichrist to come?

Rebuilding the temple.

Or, yeah, the peace treaty.

But it could be that the Antichrist, theoretically, is alive right now. That would be a fulfillment of his birth. And then he will be manifested later on. And then as he, there's different timelines we could look at.

At the beginning of the tribulation period, he makes a pact with Israel. They rebuild the temple. And then at midpoint, he goes into the temple. Midpoint of the Seventh Tribulation, he goes in there and says he's God.

And it all hits the fan everywhere.

Everywhere. Okay.

The Great Tribulation. But then Jesus says, after the Great Tribulation is when the rapture occurs. That's what he says in Matthew 24. A lot of people don't know that. After the tribulation of those days, the Son will send forth his angels, the great trumpet.

The sound of trumpet. And they will gather the elect. He says after.

Right.

Yeah.

Oh, I know.

I'm a Calvary guy. And I really was, you know, I was convinced that the rapture was going to take place, you know, prior to the tribulation. And it was funny. I used to listen to David Hawking. I don't know if you ever heard of him.

Oh, yeah.

But he would kind of, yeah.

We got a break.

Hold on.

Okay, we got a break. But I'm from Southern California. Chuck Smith baptized my wife and I. She got saved in Big Calvary. We got married by Calvary Chapel pastor. So, yeah, I'm from there, too. But didn't buy into a lot of their stuff.

But they're a good church. Hey, hold on, buddy. We got a break. Folks, we'll be right back after these messages. If you want to give me a call, the number is 877 -207 -2276. It's Matt Slick Live! Taking your calls at 877 -207 -2276.