# Knitted Together by God, and Q&A

An episode of [Bible Answer Man Podcast with Hank Hanegraaff](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/569236334), 24 Jun 2026, 28 min.

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On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (06/24/26), Hank says a few words about in vitro fertilization, and how the same God that knit us together in our Mother’s womb also was willing to die so that we might be reconciled to Him for time and for eternity. And that is foremost in Hank’s thinking as he recalls the testimonies he heard firsthand from people who have been impacted by the ministry of the Christian Research Institute, and encourages listeners to give if you can and pray for the ministry during our fiscal year-end. Hank also answers the following questions: Comment on Jesus’ statement about Zechariah, son of Berechiah in Matthew 23. Are there two different prophets named Zechariah? Fred - Orlando, FL (5:59) Is love the sinner, hate the sin biblical? Daniel - Brooklyn, NY (17:09) When Jesus returns, will he write another chapter to the Bible? Will he be born of a woman again? Ray - Chesterfield, MO (20:28) Can you help save my marriage? I am divorced, but I want to reconcile with my former husband. Sandra - Palm Desert, CA (22:28)

## Transcript

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[0:39] Speaker 1: pre recorded to start today's Bible answer Man Broadcast. Here's
[0:44] Speaker 1: your host, Hank Canagraph.
[0:46] Speaker 2: Thank for much. Randian is always great to be in
[0:48] Speaker 2: studio as we answer your questions throughout the United States
[0:51] Speaker 2: and Canada. We'll be going to your calls in just
[0:54] Speaker 2: a few moments. But I do want to talk about
[0:58] Speaker 2: in vitro fertilization and snowflakes. There's a very important article
[1:04] Speaker 2: in the Christian Research Journal on this very topic. And
[1:09] Speaker 2: for me, when I talk about snowflakes, they're not just
[1:13] Speaker 2: words to me, they're actual human beings to me, one
[1:20] Speaker 2: of whom I've actually had in my lap and read
[1:24] Speaker 2: Bible stories too. I want you to remember the words
[1:29] Speaker 2: of Scripture. How precious to me are your thoughts O God,
[1:34] Speaker 2: how vast is the sum of them. Were I to
[1:37] Speaker 2: count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand. When
[1:42] Speaker 2: I awake, I am still with you. And that alludes
[1:46] Speaker 2: to something that David says previously about the fact that
[1:51] Speaker 2: we were knit together in our mother's wombs, and therefore
[1:56] Speaker 2: we can praise God because we are fearfully and wonderfully made.
[2:02] Speaker 2: Your works, Oh God, are wonderful. I know that full well.
[2:08] Speaker 2: My frame was not hidden from you when I was
[2:11] Speaker 2: made in the secret place, when I was woven together
[2:15] Speaker 2: on the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my
[2:19] Speaker 2: unformed body, all the days ordained for me written in
[2:23] Speaker 2: your book, before one of them came to be. That
[2:28] Speaker 2: is a glorious thought. The fact that the creator of
[2:32] Speaker 2: all things spoke and the limitless galaxies leaped into existence.
[2:38] Speaker 2: We know of a hundred billion galaxies, each with a
[2:42] Speaker 2: hundred billion stars. And it is that God that knit
[2:47] Speaker 2: us together in our mother's wombs, and not only did that,
[2:52] Speaker 2: but also was willing to die so that we might
[2:56] Speaker 2: be reconciled to Him for time and eternity. And as
[3:00] Speaker 2: we do the Bible answer man broadcast, that is foremost
[3:04] Speaker 2: in my thinking, and the reason it is is I
[3:06] Speaker 2: was in Modesta, California, had an opportunity to meet literally
[3:11] Speaker 2: thousands of people, and as I was autographing books and
[3:17] Speaker 2: listening to testimonies, I was impressed again with how God
[3:21] Speaker 2: is using the Bible answer Man broadcast in the ministry
[3:25] Speaker 2: of the Christian Research Institute, lives are being transformed. One
[3:32] Speaker 2: man came up to the table and said, I've been
[3:36] Speaker 2: listening to you for twenty five years. Don't ever stop
[3:40] Speaker 2: doing what you're doing. Another man came by and said,
[3:45] Speaker 2: I came out of the Watchtower organization because of the
[3:48] Speaker 2: Christian Research Institute and the Bible answer Man broadcast. Another
[3:53] Speaker 2: said I came to faith in Christ. One testimony after
[3:59] Speaker 2: another of people coming to faith in Christ, coming out
[4:03] Speaker 2: of the Kingdom of the cults, coming out of the
[4:05] Speaker 2: world of the occult, being equipped, exhorted, encouraged, edified. And
[4:14] Speaker 2: that is all made possible by a team. We have
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[6:03] Speaker 2: listening in Orlando, Florida. Hi, Fred, Hey.
[6:06] Speaker 3: Hank, how you doing today. I'm pretty good. I first
[6:11] Speaker 3: want to thank you so much for all your hard
[6:15] Speaker 3: work in scholarship over the years, for you know, standing
[6:20] Speaker 3: up for our final rule of faith, the Holy writ
[6:25] Speaker 3: I believe that it should be our final rule of faith,
[6:29] Speaker 3: as it does pertain to the original text and as
[6:34] Speaker 3: well as it as we hear it by the spirit.
[6:39] Speaker 3: I was reading and I came across I guess I
[6:43] Speaker 3: could only have accepted the Gospel by reading the text.
[6:48] Speaker 3: You know, I must have been so proud. It was
[6:50] Speaker 3: some years ago, back in nineteen eighty three that I
[6:53] Speaker 3: first read the Bible from the cover. And I must
[6:58] Speaker 3: have missed this one, but it was and I just
[7:01] Speaker 3: came across it the other day day. Zachariah, I mean
[7:04] Speaker 3: in Matthew where he talks about the two Zachariah's And
[7:08] Speaker 3: maybe I went too far. I don't think I did.
[7:11] Speaker 3: I think I was satisfied by getting to the Aramaic
[7:15] Speaker 3: pushetta and and and uh. I came up with a
[7:20] Speaker 3: word that was not translated in the Stranglo script and
[7:26] Speaker 3: it said and those so I guess I can feel
[7:30] Speaker 3: that Jesus meant as well as as the Zachariah one one,
[7:35] Speaker 3: it would mean anyone who has lost shed their blood
[7:41] Speaker 3: for the sake of the Gospel.
[7:42] Speaker 2: And now you're you're talking about Matthew twenty three, where
[7:45] Speaker 2: Jesus is talking about Abel, yes.
[7:47] Speaker 3: Sir, where he talks about the Zachariah uh Bekayah. And
[7:54] Speaker 3: the most commentaries I've read a couple of commentaries, and
[7:59] Speaker 3: and some one says, well, they often made a mistake.
[8:02] Speaker 3: Another one refers you to Luke and says, well, he's
[8:06] Speaker 3: talking about the Zachariah, the father of John the Baptist.
[8:11] Speaker 3: And I wonder if you have any other comment on that,
[8:15] Speaker 3: whether it was something that was added later in the Matthew,
[8:21] Speaker 3: or that you feel Jesus was referring to the son
[8:27] Speaker 3: of Beverrakiah, referring to generational all generations.
[8:33] Speaker 2: Yeah, let me cut to the chase real quickly on
[8:35] Speaker 2: this so we don't run at a time. But yeah,
[8:37] Speaker 2: the text says, and so upon you will come all
[8:40] Speaker 2: the righteous blood that has been shed on earth, from
[8:44] Speaker 2: the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah's
[8:48] Speaker 2: son of Berakiah, whom you murdered between the temple and
[8:52] Speaker 2: the altar. And of course the problem here is that
[8:56] Speaker 2: Berekiah is not the one in question. It's not Zachariah
[9:03] Speaker 2: son of Berachiah, but it is said to be Zachariah,
[9:07] Speaker 2: son of Jehoiada who was murdered, And therefore some people
[9:13] Speaker 2: say this could be a copyist error, but we think
[9:17] Speaker 2: that is probably unlikely. Perhaps as well, it could be
[9:23] Speaker 2: that there was a literal Zachariah, son of Berachiah who
[9:27] Speaker 2: was murdered between the temple and the altar in the
[9:30] Speaker 2: early first century, and that murder is left unrecorded, so
[9:33] Speaker 2: we don't know about it. That's also a possibility, But
[9:36] Speaker 2: I think it's more likely that this is a double
[9:39] Speaker 2: in tundra by Jesus Christ. I think people oftentimes make
[9:45] Speaker 2: the mistake of wooden literalistic interpretations, and they're forcing an
[9:51] Speaker 2: interpretation rather than recognizing that the Bible is a literary masterpiece.
[9:58] Speaker 2: So I think it's likely again that this is a
[10:00] Speaker 2: doublin tundra. You are responsible from beginning to end, whether
[10:05] Speaker 2: you count that as a literary end or a literary
[10:09] Speaker 2: book end Zachariah son of Jehoida, who is the first
[10:13] Speaker 2: account of an Old Testament prophet and priest murdered by
[10:17] Speaker 2: the jew Or you count Zachariah son of Berekiah as
[10:21] Speaker 2: a chronological bookend as representative of the last prophet and
[10:26] Speaker 2: priest who was actually murdered by the Jewish leaders, and
[10:31] Speaker 2: I think again much more likely that Jesus is doing
[10:36] Speaker 2: something majestic literarily. As he does he is the heir
[10:41] Speaker 2: to the linguistic riches the Old Testament prophets, and a
[10:44] Speaker 2: greater profit than them all. One would suspect that this
[10:49] Speaker 2: is a literary bookend that takes both into account the
[10:53] Speaker 2: literal and the chronological in terms of the prophets in reference.
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[17:12] Speaker 2: the web in Brooklyn, New York. Hi Daniel, Hi Hank.
[17:16] Speaker 5: How are you doing.
[17:16] Speaker 2: I'm good.
[17:17] Speaker 1: How are you?
[17:18] Speaker 5: I'm doing well. I'm doing well. You got to make
[17:20] Speaker 5: a visit to New York.
[17:21] Speaker 2: Okay, I'm looking forward to going back to New York.
[17:26] Speaker 5: Yes, I have a question. I got into a conversation
[17:30] Speaker 5: with a friend of mine who practiced homosexuality, and he
[17:34] Speaker 5: brought up the fact that Christians should live by the
[17:38] Speaker 5: model love the sinner, hate the sin, and I told
[17:43] Speaker 5: him it wasn't a biblical idea. But I wasn't too
[17:46] Speaker 5: sure of the answer that I gave him. So my
[17:48] Speaker 5: question to you is is the saying hate the sin,
[17:53] Speaker 5: love the ciner biblical?
[17:55] Speaker 2: Well, no, I don't think it's biblical, and I don't
[17:57] Speaker 2: think it's practical either, because you have a hard time
[18:01] Speaker 2: making a dichotomy between sin and a sinner. A sin, remember,
[18:05] Speaker 2: is an abstraction. It's not an ontological entity. In itself.
[18:10] Speaker 2: People who commit sins are inextricably tied to the sin
[18:16] Speaker 2: that they commit, and God hates sin. He wants to
[18:21] Speaker 2: redeem us from sin. He would go, indeed, he did
[18:27] Speaker 2: go to any extent so that we could be utterly
[18:32] Speaker 2: and irrevocably redeemed from sin. So the point I think
[18:38] Speaker 2: that you made is a good point. It's a well
[18:41] Speaker 2: stated point, and it's a correct point. It is a
[18:44] Speaker 2: false dichotomy to make that statement. I mean, Ultimately, God
[18:49] Speaker 2: loves people and he wants to redeem people, and he
[18:54] Speaker 2: sees the devastating impact of people who are bound by
[19:00] Speaker 2: their sin, and he wants to free them from that sin.
[19:03] Speaker 2: And again, going back to my California trip, I saw
[19:07] Speaker 2: so many people that had been set free from sin,
[19:11] Speaker 2: and they were genuinely new creations in Christ. And you
[19:15] Speaker 2: couldn't believe that before if people didn't tell you about it.
[19:21] Speaker 2: My son, Hank Junior, was with me on the trip
[19:24] Speaker 2: and one of the pastors we met told us about
[19:27] Speaker 2: his life before Christ, and my son said to him,
[19:30] Speaker 2: you know, after the trip was over and we're saying goodbye,
[19:35] Speaker 2: he said, you know, if you hadn't told us about
[19:38] Speaker 2: your life before Christ, it's hard to imagine that that
[19:42] Speaker 2: person actually existed. In other words, Christ had radically redeemed
[19:52] Speaker 2: and changed that individual. And what a testimony the grace
[19:55] Speaker 2: of God that person is. And that's the way it
[19:59] Speaker 2: can be for each one of us. So God loves
[20:01] Speaker 2: us enough to redeem us from our sin, but we
[20:05] Speaker 2: are inextricably bound to the sin as sinners. And your
[20:09] Speaker 2: answer is so correct, because again, sin is not an
[20:13] Speaker 2: entity in itself. It's not an ontological entity. It is
[20:17] Speaker 2: the deprivation of good.
[20:20] Speaker 5: All ready, hank I, thank you for your answer, and
[20:23] Speaker 5: thank you for your testimony as well. You have a
[20:25] Speaker 5: good day.
[20:25] Speaker 2: Hey, you too. You got it right. Let's go right
[20:28] Speaker 2: back to our phone callers. Next up is Ray listening
[20:30] Speaker 2: in Chesterfield, Missouri.
[20:32] Speaker 3: Hi.
[20:32] Speaker 6: Ray ahh yeah.
[20:36] Speaker 5: I wanted to know if the Jesus returns, if he's
[20:40] Speaker 5: going to like write another chapter to the Bible, like
[20:42] Speaker 5: to to call it the completed Testament divine principle.
[20:46] Speaker 2: Now, when Jesus Christ returns, we will have direct access
[20:51] Speaker 2: to revelation because Jesus is the supreme creator of all things,
[20:57] Speaker 2: knows all things. And the beauty thing is that, like
[21:02] Speaker 2: his disciples, we will be able to commune with a living,
[21:07] Speaker 2: resurrected Christ, so we will have direct access to direct revelation.
[21:13] Speaker 5: Okay, so he's going to be born of a woman
[21:17] Speaker 5: this time, or he's going to come back in the
[21:20] Speaker 5: manger again.
[21:21] Speaker 2: No, Jesus is resurrected from the dead, so he was
[21:26] Speaker 2: born of a woman in the incarnation. So you have
[21:31] Speaker 2: one person with two natures, one hundred percent divine and
[21:35] Speaker 2: one hundred percent human, and so it forever will be.
[21:39] Speaker 2: The Christian faith is historic and evidential. We know that
[21:42] Speaker 2: God created the universe. That's just common sense. Every effect
[21:47] Speaker 2: has to have a cause greater than or equal to itself.
[21:51] Speaker 2: We know that Jesus Christ rose from the dead, so
[21:54] Speaker 2: he did what no other person can do. Not only so,
[21:57] Speaker 2: but he manifested the credential a sinlessness. And we know
[22:01] Speaker 2: that the Bible, at least we could build a cumuative
[22:04] Speaker 2: case for the fact that the Bible's divine is opposed
[22:06] Speaker 2: to merely human in origin. The Bible says that Jesus
[22:09] Speaker 2: is forever in flesh, and that he will appear a
[22:13] Speaker 2: second time, that the veil between these interlocking, overlapping domains
[22:19] Speaker 2: will disappear, and Christ will appear a second time, and
[22:22] Speaker 2: we will have direct access to them, in other words,
[22:26] Speaker 2: direct revelation. Back to the phone line, Doctor Sandra, Palm Desert, California. Hiandra, Hi, Hank.
[22:35] Speaker 6: Hank, can you help save my marriage?
[22:37] Speaker 2: Well, I'd like to.
[22:39] Speaker 6: Okay, Okay, Well, so I've been married over eighteen years
[22:43] Speaker 6: and got married by church and law, and because of
[22:48] Speaker 6: reasons of finances, especially protecting my mom, who's a widow,
[22:53] Speaker 6: I felt that I needed to go ahead and get
[22:56] Speaker 6: a divorce. Unfortunately, however, I still love my husband very much,
[23:02] Speaker 6: and somehow I feel that I'm bound to him for life,
[23:06] Speaker 6: and I know he loves me too. But he feels rejected,
[23:11] Speaker 6: and he feels that by this divorce, our marriage was terminated.
[23:16] Speaker 6: But we still love each other, and I'm trying to
[23:21] Speaker 6: save this marriage. Do we still have a marriage because
[23:24] Speaker 6: we have been married on the church, and in fact,
[23:29] Speaker 6: he knew that I was going to get this divorce,
[23:32] Speaker 6: and we have both agreed with each other that we
[23:35] Speaker 6: would continue wearing our wedding ring, we would continue being
[23:39] Speaker 6: faithful to each other and be together for life. But
[23:42] Speaker 6: then things went bad and he just, I mean, he
[23:46] Speaker 6: just could not be continued married to me unless we're
[23:50] Speaker 6: married by law as well, and I don't want to
[23:54] Speaker 6: do that because I have to protect my mom as
[23:57] Speaker 6: a widow.
[23:59] Speaker 2: I don't know the ins and outs of how this
[24:01] Speaker 2: protects your mom as a widow, but I do think
[24:03] Speaker 2: that you have everything necessary to build from where you
[24:08] Speaker 2: are right now. Both of you still love one another,
[24:12] Speaker 2: and hopefully love is not defined as a feeling but
[24:15] Speaker 2: as a commitment, and that commitment should be shouted from
[24:18] Speaker 2: the housetops, which is to say that it should be
[24:21] Speaker 2: etched not only in your commitment to one another verbally,
[24:26] Speaker 2: but it should be legally etched as well. And I
[24:31] Speaker 2: think that as long as you have two people, one
[24:34] Speaker 2: willing to forgive and the other wanting to be forgiven,
[24:37] Speaker 2: reconciliation at any level can take place. I don't fully
[24:42] Speaker 2: understand again, how this protects your mother, but the point, ultimately,
[24:47] Speaker 2: I think is that if you have someone in your
[24:51] Speaker 2: community that can meet with you and deal with the
[24:56] Speaker 2: intricacies and the circumstances of what's going on, you can
[24:59] Speaker 2: get the best counsel. I don't just want to presume
[25:03] Speaker 2: as an electronic voice to know the background, but I
[25:07] Speaker 2: do know the principle and the principle is that we
[25:10] Speaker 2: should be bound together not only in the eyes of
[25:14] Speaker 2: the Lord, in the eyes of the Lord's people, but
[25:16] Speaker 2: in the eyes of the world as well. And therefore
[25:19] Speaker 2: I think it's important to be bound together by state
[25:23] Speaker 2: and by church, because this is a commitment that serves
[25:28] Speaker 2: as well as a testimony to the world that as
[25:32] Speaker 2: Christ gave himself for the church. So you have given
[25:38] Speaker 2: yourselves to one another. You've been submitted to one another,
[25:42] Speaker 2: given up one another's rights because of the love that
[25:47] Speaker 2: you have for each other. I'd like to say more.
[25:49] Speaker 2: If there's anything we can do off here, be happy
[25:52] Speaker 2: to try to do that as well. We are at
[25:54] Speaker 2: a time for this edition of the Bible answer Man Broadcast.
[25:57] Speaker 2: The time we went far too quickly today. Apologies to
[26:01] Speaker 2: all the callers I didn't get to but hopefully we'll
[26:03] Speaker 2: get to talk to you on a future edition of
[26:05] Speaker 2: the Bible Answerman Broadcast, maybe even tomorrow. Look forward to
[26:07] Speaker 2: seeing you then. God bless you. Thank you for standing
[26:10] Speaker 2: with us, prayerfully and financially.
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[27:01] Speaker 4: Truth Matters, Life Matters More by Hank Hannigraph is essentially
[27:05] Speaker 4: two books in one. Because Truth Matters. Part one equips
[27:09] Speaker 4: Christians to defend the essential truth of the historic Christian faith.
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