# Best of BAM Q&A: New Heaven and New Earth, Witnessing to an Evolutionist, and Spirits

An episode of [Bible Answer Man Podcast with Hank Hanegraaff](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/569236334), 6 Jun 2026, 28 min.

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On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast, Hank shares on how nothing compares to the excitement of memorizing God’s Word. God has told us to write His Word on the tablet of our hearts. Hank also answers the following questions: Clarify the New Heaven and New Earth. Will Heaven be on Earth? Tad - Memphis, TN (2:27) Regarding Revelation 3:12, why did Jesus say, “the temple of my God” instead of “my Temple”? Geoff - Calgary, AB (6:38) How do you share your faith with an evolutionist? Alex - Omaha, NE (15:12) I saw spirits at my Aunt’s house, which made me afraid. Can you please help me? Sheila - Honolulu, HI (20:22) How could Jesus eat the Passover on Friday when he was crucified on Friday? Delene - Columbia, MS (22:46)

## Transcript

[0:07] Speaker 1: From the Christian Research Institute in Charlotte, North Carolina. You
[0:11] Speaker 1: are listening to the best of the Bible answer Man
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[0:29] Speaker 1: that you have with gentleness and respect. For more information,
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[0:43] Speaker 1: canagraph Or.
[0:44] Speaker 2: One of the best things that ever happened to me
[0:46] Speaker 2: as a new believer was being told that all Christians
[0:49] Speaker 2: memorize the Bible. By the time I found out that
[0:53] Speaker 2: not all of them did, I was already hooked. Now,
[0:57] Speaker 2: as I look back, I can truthfully say that nothing
[1:00] Speaker 2: compares with the excitement of memorizing the Word of God.
[1:04] Speaker 2: God has told us to write his word on the
[1:07] Speaker 2: tablet of our hearts, and with that call he has
[1:11] Speaker 2: provided the ability. Your mind is like a muscle. If
[1:15] Speaker 2: you exercise it, you will increase its capacity to remember
[1:20] Speaker 2: and recall. If you don't like a muscle, it will atrophy.
[1:24] Speaker 2: There are some practical tips for you to get started
[1:27] Speaker 2: in memory. They are to set goals. I've often said
[1:30] Speaker 2: he wims at nothing invariably hits it. Make those goals attainable.
[1:35] Speaker 2: If your goals are unrealistic, you will undoubtedly become discouraged
[1:39] Speaker 2: and give up. Then memorize with a family member or
[1:42] Speaker 2: a friend. Memorizing with someone else's enjoyable and will also
[1:47] Speaker 2: make you accountable. And then use normally unproductive time to
[1:52] Speaker 2: review what you have memorized, such as while waiting in
[1:56] Speaker 2: a line, perhaps at the airport, or when you're falling asleep.
[2:01] Speaker 2: There's no time like the present to get started, and
[2:04] Speaker 2: a good place to begin is Joshua one to eight.
[2:08] Speaker 2: Do not let this book of the Law depart from
[2:10] Speaker 2: your mouth. Meditate on a day and night so that
[2:15] Speaker 2: you may be careful to do everything written in it.
[2:18] Speaker 2: Then you will be prosperous and successful. If you want
[2:24] Speaker 2: true prosperity, there it is. Let's go right to the
[2:27] Speaker 2: phone calls. First up is Tad in Memphis, Tennessee.
[2:31] Speaker 3: Hi, Tad, Thanks have a relationship with John. Say we'll
[2:35] Speaker 3: be creating New Haven, New Earth. And the neutral signe
[2:38] Speaker 3: comes down from heaven and then the tone of God
[2:41] Speaker 3: also so, and we are teaching to we spend attention
[2:46] Speaker 3: in a heaven, but doesn't say price went back to
[2:50] Speaker 3: have what the sins went back to heaven? So my
[2:54] Speaker 3: question is is heaven will be.
[2:55] Speaker 4: Here on earth?
[2:57] Speaker 1: Well?
[2:57] Speaker 2: Yeah, in this universe itself will be our playground as
[3:01] Speaker 2: it were. And I think that you're right to point
[3:05] Speaker 2: to what the scriptures tell us in Revelation chapter twenty one,
[3:10] Speaker 2: where you see a new heaven and a new Earth,
[3:12] Speaker 2: for the first heaven and first Earth had passed away.
[3:15] Speaker 2: There's no longer any sea. The Holy City, the new Jerusalem,
[3:19] Speaker 2: comes down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride,
[3:23] Speaker 2: beautifully dressed for her husband, and a loud voice from
[3:26] Speaker 2: the throne says, now the dwelling of God is with men,
[3:31] Speaker 2: and he will live with them. They will be as people,
[3:35] Speaker 2: and God himself will be with them and be their God.
[3:38] Speaker 2: And this really conjures up visions of what happened in
[3:43] Speaker 2: Genesis where God creates Adam and Eve, and Adam and
[3:47] Speaker 2: Eve have fellowship with God, which is to say God
[3:51] Speaker 2: himself traverse this planet, that God himself and what oftentimes
[3:58] Speaker 2: is seen as a theophany or christophany was encountering human
[4:04] Speaker 2: beings in the cool of the day. In other words,
[4:09] Speaker 2: all language pointing that God himself dwelt with us. And
[4:13] Speaker 2: that's what we look forward to in a renewed heaven
[4:17] Speaker 2: and a renewed Earth, wherein dwells righteousness, no more death,
[4:21] Speaker 2: no more mourning, no more crying, no more pain, but
[4:23] Speaker 2: a real physical existence in a real physical universe. So
[4:29] Speaker 2: the metaphor of heaven and Earth here is pointing to
[4:35] Speaker 2: what God created, which will be reconstituted, as it were,
[4:42] Speaker 2: without the stain of sin and death. And the question
[4:47] Speaker 2: that you asked there for is not a peripheral kind
[4:50] Speaker 2: of an issue. It's not kind of a titillating question
[4:53] Speaker 2: that might be nice to speculate about, but it speaks
[4:57] Speaker 2: to what all Christians look forward to. We look forward
[5:01] Speaker 2: to the resurrection of the dead. We likewise look forward
[5:10] Speaker 2: to the resurrection of the planet. Indeed, we look forward
[5:16] Speaker 2: to the resurrection of the universe. So we're going to
[5:19] Speaker 2: be changed, and the universe itself will be transformed. Paradise
[5:27] Speaker 2: lost therefore will become paradise restored. And if you can't
[5:33] Speaker 2: get excited about that, pray. Tell what can you get
[5:37] Speaker 2: excited about? We look forward. As mortal humans, our lifespan
[5:44] Speaker 2: is three score plus ten years, or if by reason
[5:51] Speaker 2: to strength, forescore. Now think about that seventy or eighty years.
[5:55] Speaker 2: And if you look through the obituaries, you see a
[5:57] Speaker 2: lot of people dying in their fifties, some of their seventies,
[6:01] Speaker 2: some of their nineties. But the reality is the living
[6:05] Speaker 2: know they will die, that the death right is one
[6:08] Speaker 2: per person. We're all going to make it. And only
[6:11] Speaker 2: in Christianity do we become greater after death than we
[6:17] Speaker 2: were before death. For only in Christianity are mortal bodies
[6:21] Speaker 2: transformed like unto his resurrected body. If you really want
[6:25] Speaker 2: to understand the resurrection and its import for you as
[6:29] Speaker 2: a believer, I wrote a book about this called Resurrection.
[6:34] Speaker 2: You go to the web at equipped dot org and
[6:36] Speaker 2: simply ordered, let's go back to the phone lines. We'll
[6:40] Speaker 2: talk next to Jeff. He's listening on Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
[6:43] Speaker 5: Hi, Jeff, Hey, Hey, how are you, brothers?
[6:45] Speaker 2: I'm good? How are you? Oh?
[6:47] Speaker 5: Well, I'm sitting here trying to well, hoping that Mother
[6:51] Speaker 5: Nature is going to figure out a whist She wants
[6:53] Speaker 5: to make it winter or spring or summer. But I
[6:55] Speaker 5: think I'm doing all right.
[6:56] Speaker 2: Well that's the problem with living in Calgary. But that
[6:59] Speaker 2: is a beautiful play.
[7:00] Speaker 5: Well, I'm glad you think so. But I have a
[7:03] Speaker 5: couple of questions. One of them I've been struggling with
[7:05] Speaker 5: for the past little while. I was confronted by some
[7:08] Speaker 5: Jehovah's witnesses a while ago, and it's in regards to
[7:11] Speaker 5: I think Revelations three twelve, where it says to him
[7:15] Speaker 5: that overcomes, I will build I will write his name
[7:17] Speaker 5: in the temple of my God. Now, and I've asked
[7:21] Speaker 5: so many people, and I haven't been given a straight
[7:23] Speaker 5: answer as to why if it's Christ that is speaking. Now,
[7:27] Speaker 5: I understand that like Christ is God. Everybody knows that.
[7:30] Speaker 5: I mean, there's three who's in one. What now if
[7:33] Speaker 5: Christ is if he's been resurrected and he's been glorified,
[7:37] Speaker 5: and he is equal with God, why is he saying
[7:41] Speaker 5: in the temple of my God instead of my temple?
[7:45] Speaker 2: Right? But remember that the fact that Jesus Christ is
[7:49] Speaker 2: equal to God does not mean that there are not
[7:53] Speaker 2: personal self distinctions within the Godhead.
[7:58] Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, the three who's in one.
[8:00] Speaker 2: Yes. And then also Jesus Christ distinguishes himself from all
[8:06] Speaker 2: other humans. We're sons by adoption. He is the son
[8:13] Speaker 2: by nature. And if you look at the context of
[8:16] Speaker 2: the passage, you see that the Father's name is being
[8:20] Speaker 2: written on the forehead. You see that by comparing scripture
[8:24] Speaker 2: with scripture, go for example, to Revelation chapter fourteen, where
[8:29] Speaker 2: John looks and there before him is a lamb. The
[8:33] Speaker 2: lamb is standing on Mount Zion, and with him one
[8:36] Speaker 2: hundred and forty four thousand who had his name and
[8:41] Speaker 2: his father's name written on their foreheads. And of course
[8:46] Speaker 2: the one hundred and forty four thousand is the full
[8:49] Speaker 2: complement of God's people. The idea is, it's a beautiful
[8:54] Speaker 2: structure that you have in the Book of Revelation, where
[8:57] Speaker 2: you have the twelve apostles of the Lamb, and you
[9:01] Speaker 2: have the twelve tribes of Israel multiplied by thousand, to
[9:06] Speaker 2: give you an idea of the full complement of God's people.
[9:12] Speaker 2: One other point, Jesus Christ is still and will forever
[9:17] Speaker 2: be the god Man. He is our intercessor before the Father,
[9:21] Speaker 2: and will be our intercestor before the Father forever and ever.
[9:28] Speaker 2: And ever that will never change. So Jesus Christ is
[9:32] Speaker 2: never going to change in terms of being one person,
[9:38] Speaker 2: that one person with two natures, one hundred percent human
[9:43] Speaker 2: and one hundred percent divine. So when we.
[9:45] Speaker 5: Encounter Christ eternally God and but he will forever be
[9:49] Speaker 5: since he stepped down from there, he will be eternally
[9:52] Speaker 5: the God Man.
[9:53] Speaker 2: Right, he has been exalted, so he no longer has
[9:58] Speaker 2: limited his prerogative of divinity. In the incarnation, Jesus Christ
[10:02] Speaker 2: voluntarily takes on the limitations of humanity. He doesn't divest
[10:08] Speaker 2: himself of a single attribute of deity, but he voluntarily
[10:13] Speaker 2: becomes a servant. He is now exalted, so he's not
[10:17] Speaker 2: limiting those prerogatives and any sense today. But he is
[10:21] Speaker 2: yet one person with two natures. He's forever theanthropist to
[10:25] Speaker 2: God Man.
[10:26] Speaker 5: Okay, wonderful, and you know, thank you so much. You're
[10:29] Speaker 5: the only person so far that has been able to
[10:31] Speaker 5: answer that in a way that I can understand it,
[10:34] Speaker 5: and that actually makes it. Everybody else they just say, well,
[10:37] Speaker 5: you know, it's the wording of the way scripture is written,
[10:40] Speaker 5: or it's just the way the triunity works, and nobody's
[10:42] Speaker 5: been able to answer that, so thank you, so very
[10:45] Speaker 5: very very much.
[10:46] Speaker 2: You got it.
[10:47] Speaker 5: My next question and it's very very simple, and I
[10:50] Speaker 5: know there's a lot of controversy about him, and the
[10:52] Speaker 5: people are shaking there, you know.
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[10:56] Speaker 2: so you have to hang on to get the last
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[15:12] Speaker 2: to our phone callers. Next up is Alex listening in
[15:15] Speaker 2: oh Mahon, Nebraska.
[15:17] Speaker 4: Hi Alex, Hi, hiks, Great to talk to you.
[15:20] Speaker 2: Nice to talk to you.
[15:21] Speaker 4: I have a question I've I've been talking and preaching
[15:24] Speaker 4: online to people, like especially on YouTube, and I keep
[15:29] Speaker 4: talking with some evolutionists I to rember respect. But one
[15:33] Speaker 4: of my problems is that every time I prove them wrong,
[15:36] Speaker 4: not to win nothing, just to prove that evolution is wrong,
[15:40] Speaker 4: they have like this ability to escape like in like
[15:43] Speaker 4: in such ways like how do we know this is reality?
[15:46] Speaker 4: And stuff like that, like I don't know how to
[15:49] Speaker 4: deal with it, Like they don't change their view no
[15:51] Speaker 4: matter how many evidence I show them proving evolutions that
[15:55] Speaker 4: don't work right and and how much evidence that there
[15:59] Speaker 4: is for Jesus archaeological and historian, by the historians there
[16:04] Speaker 4: was of Jesus and all this, they just don't change
[16:07] Speaker 4: their mind. I don't know what to do when I
[16:09] Speaker 4: talk to them because I feel bad because they're teaching
[16:12] Speaker 4: wrong teachings to young kids on YouTube. You know they're there,
[16:15] Speaker 4: they believe it. You're like, wow, I'm amazed. I can't
[16:18] Speaker 4: believe I was a monkey, you know, or ape like feature.
[16:22] Speaker 4: And it's just sad and I try to and they're
[16:25] Speaker 4: spreading I don't know what to do about it.
[16:27] Speaker 2: Yeah, well, first of all, it's great that you're hanging
[16:30] Speaker 2: out on YouTube and being a witness for Jesus Christ.
[16:32] Speaker 2: You're to be commended for that. But remember that it's
[16:36] Speaker 2: never your province to change anybody's heart. That's the province
[16:41] Speaker 2: of the Holy Spirit. What you want to be doing
[16:44] Speaker 2: is precisely what you are doing, and that is equipping
[16:48] Speaker 2: or preparing yourself to be an ever more effective tool
[16:51] Speaker 2: in the hands of the Holy Spirit in terms of
[16:53] Speaker 2: reaching people. So the results are not what you're after.
[16:58] Speaker 2: What you're after is precisely what you're doing. Always being
[17:02] Speaker 2: ready to give an answer or reason for the hope
[17:04] Speaker 2: that lies within you. With gentleness and with respect. When
[17:07] Speaker 2: I was a person who believed in philosophical naturalism and evolutionism,
[17:12] Speaker 2: I'm sure there were many people who witnessed to me
[17:14] Speaker 2: over the years who probably sighed deeply and thought no
[17:19] Speaker 2: one will ever reach him. But eventually the seeds that
[17:24] Speaker 2: they planted someone else came along and watered, and God
[17:27] Speaker 2: gave the increase, and I was able to take an
[17:30] Speaker 2: objective look at the evidences and recognize that the evolutionary paradigm,
[17:35] Speaker 2: which I once thought made so much sense, makes no
[17:38] Speaker 2: sense whatsoever. You're forced to believe that life came from
[17:44] Speaker 2: non life, that nothing produced everything, and for that matter,
[17:49] Speaker 2: that the life that came from non life produced morals.
[17:52] Speaker 2: I mean, this is a stretch, to say the least. Logically,
[17:56] Speaker 2: we know that every effect has to have a cause
[17:58] Speaker 2: equal to her greater than itself. When you look at
[18:00] Speaker 2: the universe, you must certainly be driven to the notion
[18:04] Speaker 2: that there's an uncaused first cause by which the universe
[18:09] Speaker 2: came into existence. So I think all of the evidence
[18:12] Speaker 2: is on our side of the ledger, and we need
[18:14] Speaker 2: to simply communicate it with gentleness and with respect, but
[18:18] Speaker 2: leave the conversion process in the hands of the Holy Spirit.
[18:22] Speaker 2: We can be an effective tool, but he ultimately is
[18:25] Speaker 2: the one who transforms the heart.
[18:28] Speaker 4: Thank you, Wen. What do you recommend to people that
[18:30] Speaker 4: just keep on going on like you don't listen whatever
[18:32] Speaker 4: you write, I just leave it alone.
[18:34] Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean again, you shouldn't feel the obligation to
[18:39] Speaker 2: do something that you're not obligated to do. What you
[18:41] Speaker 2: are obligated to do is to be an effective witness.
[18:44] Speaker 2: What you are not obligated to do is change anybody's heart.
[18:48] Speaker 4: I thank you. That's the clip that Or you have
[18:50] Speaker 4: resources for evolution like teaching creation, Yeah.
[18:53] Speaker 2: You know. I have a book that I've mentioned on
[18:55] Speaker 2: today's broadcast called the Creation answer Book. In this book,
[18:59] Speaker 2: I basicly go through the evidences against the evolutionary paradigm.
[19:06] Speaker 2: I demonstrate that the whole notion of one kind evolving
[19:12] Speaker 2: into another kind simply does not correspond to reality. Then
[19:16] Speaker 2: I go over the ape men, fiction fantasies, and frauds
[19:20] Speaker 2: that are being taught to young people today in the
[19:23] Speaker 2: classroom and show how they don't correspond to reality. Then
[19:28] Speaker 2: I demonstrate the chance that which happens without cause implies
[19:33] Speaker 2: the absence of both design and a designer. However, all
[19:36] Speaker 2: of the evidence points in a different direction. And then
[19:40] Speaker 2: I point out that the basic laws of science militate
[19:43] Speaker 2: against the evolutionary hypothesis. And therefore, as we move farther
[19:49] Speaker 2: and farther in an age of scientific enlightenment, more and
[19:52] Speaker 2: more evidence comes to light, which causes the evolutionary foundation
[19:58] Speaker 2: to start to crack in such a way that ultimately
[20:00] Speaker 2: it's going to have to completely disintegrate because it's simply
[20:05] Speaker 2: is a theory that people are sort of forced to
[20:08] Speaker 2: communicate and believe, but it has no real basis and evidence.
[20:13] Speaker 2: It is a fairy tale for adults.
[20:15] Speaker 4: Thank you, Hank Minilo Kei. Blessing you for what you're doing.
[20:18] Speaker 4: You're helping millions.
[20:19] Speaker 2: Thank you, Alex. Appreciate your call back to the phone
[20:21] Speaker 2: lines with Sheila, Honolulu, Hawaii.
[20:25] Speaker 5: Hi, Sheila, Hi, thank you for picking a call.
[20:28] Speaker 1: You're welcome to know.
[20:30] Speaker 5: I guess I saw two different spirits at my aunt's
[20:33] Speaker 5: house when I was sleeping over and being a Christian,
[20:36] Speaker 5: I shouldn't be afraid, but I don't know why I'm
[20:39] Speaker 5: seeing it.
[20:40] Speaker 2: Well, Sheila, you have to take your subjective experience and
[20:43] Speaker 2: test it in light of an objective frame of reference,
[20:47] Speaker 2: which is the Word of God. And what we know
[20:50] Speaker 2: for certain about the Word of God is that when
[20:53] Speaker 2: someone dies, they are either in torment, which is to say,
[20:58] Speaker 2: they're away from the loving presence of God, or they
[21:01] Speaker 2: are being comforted in the presence of God. But they
[21:05] Speaker 2: do not and cannot return to this time space continuum
[21:10] Speaker 2: without God's divine prerogative. And God does not do this
[21:15] Speaker 2: in a normal or a normative fashion. Therefore, the subjective
[21:20] Speaker 2: experience of seeing a dead relative is something that does
[21:25] Speaker 2: not correspond to the truth of scripture. Now, it doesn't
[21:28] Speaker 2: mean that you didn't have a real experience and that
[21:31] Speaker 2: you really think that this is true. Of course you do.
[21:35] Speaker 2: But there are many things that we experience subjectively that
[21:40] Speaker 2: objectively are invalidated. And that's why we also have to
[21:43] Speaker 2: test the subjective experience again in light of the Word
[21:48] Speaker 2: of God, which is the final test for faith and practice.
[21:52] Speaker 5: What do you mean by test it because it's not
[21:54] Speaker 5: a relative.
[21:54] Speaker 4: I don't know this person.
[21:55] Speaker 5: I cannot see the faith.
[21:57] Speaker 2: Well, but I'm saying whether it's a relative or any
[22:00] Speaker 2: anyone else. We know that those who have died do
[22:03] Speaker 2: not return to the land the living, but We also
[22:07] Speaker 2: know something to be absolutely true on the basis of scripture,
[22:11] Speaker 2: and that is that Satan will play upon the field
[22:15] Speaker 2: of our imagination and our superstition. And that's why when
[22:20] Speaker 2: you test things in light of scripture, you know it
[22:22] Speaker 2: can't be a ghost or a departed person. But you
[22:26] Speaker 2: can know that why you cannot see Satan, that he
[22:30] Speaker 2: will try to influence your thoughts. And that's why you
[22:34] Speaker 2: have to put on the full armor of God so
[22:36] Speaker 2: you can take your stand against principalities and powers of darkness.
[22:41] Speaker 5: All right, thank you, you.
[22:43] Speaker 2: Got it, Sheilain. I've written about this in a book
[22:45] Speaker 2: called The Covering. Back to the phone lines. We talked
[22:47] Speaker 2: to Deleen in Columbia, Mississippi. Hi.
[22:50] Speaker 6: Deleen, Hi, thank you for taking my call.
[22:53] Speaker 4: You're welcome.
[22:54] Speaker 6: My question is about the passover. So is it just
[22:57] Speaker 6: traditions a man that they call the last for the Passover.
[23:01] Speaker 6: I know in the Gospels it speaks as passover. Peter
[23:05] Speaker 6: and John were instructed to go and prepare for the passover,
[23:08] Speaker 6: but Jesus, being on passover lamb, was crucified at three
[23:12] Speaker 6: pm on the day that they fell the lamb. The
[23:16] Speaker 6: Passover supper is to be eaten that night, which will
[23:18] Speaker 6: be the beginning of the next day, the first day
[23:21] Speaker 6: of eleven Bread. Why does the Bible say that Jesus
[23:26] Speaker 6: ate the Passover Supper with the disciples when it's impossible
[23:30] Speaker 6: he was crucified.
[23:32] Speaker 2: Well, I'm really glad that you're reading your Bible carefully.
[23:35] Speaker 2: One of the things you'll find as you read the
[23:37] Speaker 2: Bible carefully is that Jesus died on Passover Day or Friday,
[23:41] Speaker 2: to fulfill the conditions of being our Passover lamb. So
[23:45] Speaker 2: you're correct in that presupposition. But there's a time difference
[23:50] Speaker 2: between the household observance of the Passover meal on the
[23:57] Speaker 2: evening of the fourteenth of Nissan, which is Thursday evening,
[24:01] Speaker 2: which the Lord celebrated with his disciples as the Lord's Supper,
[24:05] Speaker 2: and the public sacrifice on the altar on behalf of
[24:07] Speaker 2: the nation of Israel on the fifteenth of Nissan. And
[24:11] Speaker 2: I think therein lies the answer to your question.
[24:14] Speaker 6: Well, see, I believe Jesus was in the grade three
[24:17] Speaker 6: days and three nights, because he says Jonah was in
[24:19] Speaker 6: the belly of the fish three days and three nights,
[24:23] Speaker 6: So the son of Man would be in the heart
[24:24] Speaker 6: of the earth three days and three nights.
[24:27] Speaker 2: Yeah, but that doesn't mean seventy two hours.
[24:30] Speaker 6: You can't get three days and three nights out of
[24:32] Speaker 6: Friday afternoon.
[24:33] Speaker 2: But I was just going to explain that to you. Again,
[24:35] Speaker 2: you're correct in the basic idea that you're communicating. The
[24:39] Speaker 2: Gospels say that he died and he was buried the
[24:43] Speaker 2: day before the Sabbath or Friday, and rose on the
[24:46] Speaker 2: day after the Sabbath or on Sunday. And the answer
[24:51] Speaker 2: therefore to the conundrum that you pose is that in
[24:54] Speaker 2: the Jewish mind, part of a day was counted as
[24:59] Speaker 2: an entire day. And that's why it's so important to
[25:03] Speaker 2: learn the idioms or figures of speech that are used
[25:06] Speaker 2: in scripture. And by the way, you know that it
[25:09] Speaker 2: couldn't have been seventy two hours that were in mind,
[25:12] Speaker 2: because Christ rose on the third day, not after three days,
[25:18] Speaker 2: according to Matthew chapter sixteen. So again I think it's
[25:22] Speaker 2: important to understand that part of a day and part
[25:27] Speaker 2: of a night constituted as a day and a night,
[25:30] Speaker 2: and so you don't have to have a full seventy
[25:33] Speaker 2: two hours. Literally, that's not what is in view. In fact,
[25:36] Speaker 2: if you read the text carefully. You know not only
[25:40] Speaker 2: by the function of Jewish idiom that I've just described,
[25:43] Speaker 2: but you know from the text itself that it couldn't
[25:46] Speaker 2: have been a full seventy two hours that are in view.
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