# Q&A: Modern-Day Prophets, Seeing God’s Face, and Destiny

An episode of [Bible Answer Man Podcast with Hank Hanegraaff](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/569236334), 30 Apr 2026, 28 min.

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On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (04/30/26), Hank answers the following questions: My wife and I disagree on the legitimacy of modern-day prophets. Can you advise me? Jim - Charlotte, NC (0:56) How to make sense of not seeing God in 1 John 4:12 and the Exodus account of God placing His hand over Moses’ eyes so that he would not see Him? Andrew - Lubbock, TX (8:01) Can you explain Genesis 31 on Jacob wrestling with God and his seeing God face to face? Andrew - Jacksonville, FL (15:10) What is a good resource on your view of the end-times? Andrew - Jacksonville, FL (19:00) Can people change their destiny? Are we in control of our destiny? Jackie - St. Louis, MO (21:08) Can you address those who say the Bible is old, past, and gone away? Dre - Fresno, CA (23:30)

## Transcript

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[0:50] Speaker 1: Now here's the president of the Christian Research Institute, Hank Canagraph.
[0:55] Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Randy. We'll direct to the phone calls.
[0:58] Speaker 2: First up is gym Listing on the web. He's in Charlotte,
[1:01] Speaker 2: North Carolina.
[1:02] Speaker 3: Hi, Jim, Hey, how you doing, Hank?
[1:04] Speaker 2: I'm good. How are you?
[1:06] Speaker 3: Oh, I'm fine, Hank. Hey, this is my problem. My
[1:09] Speaker 3: wife went to ministry school at Morning Star a few
[1:13] Speaker 3: years back, and that's Rick Joyner's ministry and he like
[1:17] Speaker 3: he also is hand in hand with Todd Bentley and
[1:20] Speaker 3: Bob Jones, and whole slew of others that claim to
[1:24] Speaker 3: be profits, apostles, what have you, and they she keeps
[1:27] Speaker 3: I keep telling her that the only prophets I hear
[1:30] Speaker 3: Christ talking about in the New Testament are false prophets
[1:34] Speaker 3: and to watch out for him. And the only thing
[1:37] Speaker 3: she says is she thinks that I am religious, and
[1:40] Speaker 3: I think God can't talk to people. And that's not
[1:43] Speaker 3: what That's not where argue in the first place. I
[1:45] Speaker 3: just don't think that Rick Joiner, Bob Jones, Todd Bentley,
[1:48] Speaker 3: they're not profits because they what they say doesn't come through.
[1:52] Speaker 3: And why would you need a profit. We have scripture,
[1:54] Speaker 3: it's already written.
[1:55] Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think you've put your finger on the
[1:58] Speaker 2: essence of the issue because is constantly talking about this
[2:03] Speaker 2: great civil war that's going to take place in the church.
[2:08] Speaker 2: It's a civil war between the gray coats from the
[2:11] Speaker 2: South and then you have the blue coats from the north.
[2:15] Speaker 2: The blue coats from the North are motivated by God
[2:18] Speaker 2: and the gray coats from the South are motivated by greed,
[2:23] Speaker 2: and so they're going to have this big civil war.
[2:25] Speaker 2: And what is the civil war all about? Well, it's
[2:28] Speaker 2: a civil war between those who genuinely believe that God
[2:33] Speaker 2: is speaking through modern day prophets, and those who believe
[2:37] Speaker 2: that God has already spoken through the prophets, and that
[2:42] Speaker 2: we have to test people today in light of scripture.
[2:47] Speaker 2: But these people continually come up with new revelations that
[2:51] Speaker 2: are not on par with scripture, in fact, not consistent
[2:55] Speaker 2: with scripture. Rick Joinner is constantly making a false dichotomy
[2:59] Speaker 2: between faith and reason, or I might say, more correctly,
[3:04] Speaker 2: between revelation and reason. And I say it's a false
[3:08] Speaker 2: dichotomy because reason is necessary, as is revelation. If you
[3:17] Speaker 2: go back to the great Greek philosophers who codified the
[3:23] Speaker 2: laws of logic, they had reason, but reason unaided by
[3:30] Speaker 2: revelation always ends up in the blind ditch of ignorance,
[3:37] Speaker 2: which is to say, you can have perfect eyesight, but
[3:43] Speaker 2: if you're sitting in a black, dark cave twenty twenty,
[3:48] Speaker 2: eyesight doesn't aid you. You still can't see. And that
[3:54] Speaker 2: is why Augustine, one of the great luminaries in the
[4:00] Speaker 2: early Christian Church, pointed out the need for revelation, and
[4:08] Speaker 2: that revelation comes to us from nature, it comes to
[4:13] Speaker 2: us from the Bible, it comes to us from the
[4:17] Speaker 2: one Begotten of flesh, and without that revelation we are impotent,
[4:27] Speaker 2: nor do we need further revelation, as though the new
[4:33] Speaker 2: prophets like Rick Joyner are the superstars of such incredible
[4:40] Speaker 2: prophetic prowess that were Moses alive today or the Apostle Paul,
[4:45] Speaker 2: they'd be waiting in line to get his autograph. This
[4:49] Speaker 2: is the kind of thing that we're finding today with
[4:52] Speaker 2: people who say that the great civil war is going
[4:57] Speaker 2: to break out between those who genuinely believe in new
[5:01] Speaker 2: revelation and those who continually point back to the revelation
[5:08] Speaker 2: that we already have. Joyner is convinced that the Grays,
[5:13] Speaker 2: whom he characterizes as spiritually ruthless and cruel, must be
[5:20] Speaker 2: confronted and exposed and either converted or removed from their
[5:26] Speaker 2: place of influence in the church. After the Grays, who
[5:31] Speaker 2: he says constitute nearly half of the believers in the
[5:36] Speaker 2: world today, are defeated, there will be, he says, an
[5:41] Speaker 2: entirely new definition of Christianity, and he declares believers and
[5:47] Speaker 2: unbelievers alike will think that this is the end of
[5:49] Speaker 2: Christianity as we know it, and it will be through
[5:54] Speaker 2: this this bloody civil war, the very definition of Christianity
[6:00] Speaker 2: will be changed for the better. And I would say
[6:05] Speaker 2: that he's dead wrong, He's part of a counterfeit revival
[6:11] Speaker 2: and looking for God in all the wrong places. If anything,
[6:15] Speaker 2: what genuine prophets of God should be telling people today
[6:21] Speaker 2: is to get into the Word of God and get
[6:24] Speaker 2: the Word of God into them, because that is the
[6:28] Speaker 2: infallible repository of redemptive revelation by which all else must
[6:34] Speaker 2: be tested.
[6:37] Speaker 3: Yes, sir, can I get some scripture from you? Because
[6:40] Speaker 3: I keep telling her I read her in what Paul
[6:43] Speaker 3: talks about in Colossians about you know what I mean,
[6:45] Speaker 3: people conjuring prophecy from their deceitful minds, Matthew talking about
[6:50] Speaker 3: when Jesus talks about the false prophets. But she just doesn't.
[6:54] Speaker 3: She keeps using this five full ministry that they're taught
[6:57] Speaker 3: that like the apostle, prophet, teacher, pastor evangelist. And I
[7:01] Speaker 3: keep telling her that that's not that that was before
[7:04] Speaker 3: the Bible was written. But she she wants proof from
[7:07] Speaker 3: the Bible. But none of his, none of any of
[7:10] Speaker 3: these people who go to his ministry school have, like
[7:13] Speaker 3: I'd say, stuff that from the Bible they don't even
[7:15] Speaker 3: know about because they're too busy listened to Rick or
[7:17] Speaker 3: one of his underlings to read the Bible.
[7:20] Speaker 2: Look, I think what would be really helpful to you.
[7:22] Speaker 2: I don't know if you've read this, but I wrote
[7:25] Speaker 2: an entire manual in this It's called Counterfeit Revival Looking
[7:30] Speaker 2: for God in All the Wrong Places Okay, and it's
[7:33] Speaker 2: available in an expanded and updated version through the Ministry
[7:38] Speaker 2: of the Christian Research Institute. Because I think that Rick
[7:41] Speaker 2: Joyner is a classic example of a counterfeit revivalist. It
[7:47] Speaker 2: is one of the reasons that I wrote this book.
[7:50] Speaker 3: Oh okay, because I got your Christianity and Crisis on
[7:53] Speaker 3: the way.
[7:54] Speaker 2: Yeah, well you want to get Counterfeit Revival.
[7:56] Speaker 3: As well, Yes, sir, thank you very much.
[7:59] Speaker 2: Hank hey you got Thank you so much for your call.
[8:01] Speaker 2: I want to go back to the phone lines. We'll
[8:03] Speaker 2: talk to Andrew is listening in Lubbock, Texas. Hi Andrew, Hi, HENK,
[8:09] Speaker 2: how you doing good? How are you not do that?
[8:12] Speaker 4: I was I had a question, but it almost appears
[8:17] Speaker 4: as a contradiction, but I wanted to get your advice
[8:20] Speaker 4: on it. I was reading in first John the other
[8:23] Speaker 4: day that In fact, chapter four, verse twelve, and it
[8:27] Speaker 4: says no one has ever seen God, and it reminded
[8:30] Speaker 4: me of a time when Moses spoke to God.
[8:35] Speaker 5: In Exodus chapter.
[8:36] Speaker 4: Thirty three, it says that Moses spoke to God, or
[8:40] Speaker 4: God spoke to Moses face to face like a man
[8:42] Speaker 4: speaks with his friend. But later on in the same
[8:45] Speaker 4: chapter it says when Moses was up on the mountain
[8:48] Speaker 4: that God had to place his hand over Moses's eyes
[8:52] Speaker 4: so that he would not see his face as he
[8:54] Speaker 4: passed by, otherwise he would die. And I'm just kind
[8:58] Speaker 4: of curious as to did he You know, how exactly
[9:02] Speaker 4: does that work?
[9:03] Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I think certainly under the old Covenant, no
[9:06] Speaker 2: man could see the essence or the fullness of God
[9:09] Speaker 2: and live. And yet under the New Covenant we beheld
[9:13] Speaker 2: His glory in the person and work of Jesus Christ.
[9:17] Speaker 2: But specifically to your point with respect to Moses, Moses
[9:22] Speaker 2: saw not the essence of God, but rather a visual
[9:28] Speaker 2: expression of the glory of God. Moses saw the form
[9:34] Speaker 2: or likeness of God, not the literal essence of God.
[9:39] Speaker 2: So God could be known by the things he has made,
[9:43] Speaker 2: but he cannot be known completely in his essence as spirit.
[9:48] Speaker 2: God can be known in part through his creation, and
[9:52] Speaker 2: he can be known in the incarnation. And I think
[9:56] Speaker 2: that's the real issue that's being discussed in that that's
[10:00] Speaker 2: the essence of why this seems to be a contradiction
[10:03] Speaker 2: but in reality is not.
[10:06] Speaker 4: Uh huh, Okay.
[10:08] Speaker 2: I've written about this in various forums. If you want
[10:11] Speaker 2: to hang on, I can get that information out to
[10:13] Speaker 2: you as well.
[10:15] Speaker 4: Okay, I appreciate it, you get it.
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[15:12] Speaker 2: He's listening to Jacksonville, Florida. Hi, Andrew, how are you
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[15:17] Speaker 5: Her you I'm doing great. I just had a question. Well,
[15:20] Speaker 5: first and foremost, I say thank you for the ministry
[15:22] Speaker 5: you got going on. I love listening to it. Every
[15:24] Speaker 5: time I get a chance, I'll pull over my work
[15:25] Speaker 5: truck and start listening and don't get any work done.
[15:28] Speaker 5: But anyway, I just wanted to ask about you know,
[15:31] Speaker 5: when you were talking with the other caller about am
[15:33] Speaker 5: I seeing God face?
[15:35] Speaker 6: Yeah?
[15:35] Speaker 5: I was reading in Genesis thirty one thirty is it
[15:39] Speaker 5: or thirty two thirty about when Jacob wrestled with God.
[15:43] Speaker 5: Can you explain that when he said, I've seen God
[15:46] Speaker 5: face to face and my life is preserved.
[15:49] Speaker 2: Yeah, it's exactly what it says. I saw God face
[15:53] Speaker 2: to face, and yet my life was spared. When Jacob
[15:57] Speaker 2: saw God face to face, it means that he interacted
[16:03] Speaker 2: with God in an intimate, personal manner, through what's called
[16:08] Speaker 2: a theophany, in which God appears to him. So you
[16:13] Speaker 2: have in the Old Testament Theophanes appearances of God. You
[16:17] Speaker 2: have Christophanes appearances of Jesus Christ. Typically the moniker that
[16:24] Speaker 2: is used is the Angel of Yahweh, and you also
[16:27] Speaker 2: have Angelophanes. Just think back to Abraham when he met
[16:33] Speaker 2: the Lord and two angels on the plains of Mamra.
[16:37] Speaker 2: So the idea in the Old Testament is certainly that God,
[16:42] Speaker 2: in temporary senses took on human flesh, as has Jesus
[16:48] Speaker 2: Christ prior to the incarnation, as have angels. Not fallen
[16:52] Speaker 2: angels because they don't have creative prowess. But certainly God,
[16:56] Speaker 2: by his own creative prowess can allow angels to take
[17:00] Speaker 2: on form, just as He took on form in this
[17:03] Speaker 2: particular example that you cite in Genesis chapter thirty two.
[17:08] Speaker 2: So again, Jacob saw God face to face in the
[17:13] Speaker 2: sense that he interacted with God in an intimate personal
[17:17] Speaker 2: manner through a theophony in which God appears to him.
[17:21] Speaker 2: And remember, God is the invisible, omnipresent source of all things.
[17:28] Speaker 2: He is spirit, not flesh and bone. And yet he
[17:32] Speaker 2: can take on temporary form because of course he is God.
[17:37] Speaker 2: So what we cannot have is unmediated direct communion with
[17:44] Speaker 2: God in our mortal state. We can have this unmediated
[17:52] Speaker 2: direct communion with God in our glorified state in the
[17:57] Speaker 2: new Heaven, New Earth wherein Dwell's righteousness. But right now
[18:01] Speaker 2: we are still sinful, and that's why we cannot have
[18:04] Speaker 2: this unmediated direct communication with God.
[18:08] Speaker 5: Okay, And that makes sense not to take a while
[18:10] Speaker 5: to digest that. So I just wanted to know if
[18:12] Speaker 5: it was like the actual God or a like you said,
[18:14] Speaker 5: a theophany where he made himself a man. I guess,
[18:18] Speaker 5: just like he did when he was born as coming
[18:21] Speaker 5: in as a son.
[18:21] Speaker 2: So well. There are some differences though, because in a
[18:24] Speaker 2: theophony or a Christophany in the Old Testament, it is
[18:27] Speaker 2: a temporary appearance of God in human form. But that
[18:33] Speaker 2: does not suppose in any way that we can understand
[18:37] Speaker 2: in our fallen human state that we can interact with God,
[18:43] Speaker 2: the omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent source of all things that is
[18:49] Speaker 2: yet to come. That's something that will happen when we
[18:52] Speaker 2: meet Him again using the metaphor face to face an
[18:56] Speaker 2: eternal condition.
[18:58] Speaker 5: Amazing, amazing, Okay. I have one of the question about
[19:01] Speaker 5: you know, your end time views compared with others like
[19:03] Speaker 5: I've been reading Left behind with Timothy Lahey and whatnot.
[19:06] Speaker 5: I kind of stopped reading it. I heard, what's your
[19:08] Speaker 5: views were? What would be a good source to get
[19:10] Speaker 5: your view on it?
[19:12] Speaker 2: Well? I wrote a book about this called The Apocalypse Code,
[19:15] Speaker 2: and that book will do a couple of things. Not
[19:17] Speaker 2: only give you my view on eschatology, but it will
[19:21] Speaker 2: also give you a basis by which you can decide
[19:24] Speaker 2: for yourself. In other words, in the book, I present
[19:27] Speaker 2: an acronym by which you can learn to read the
[19:30] Speaker 2: Bible for all its worth. And so the operative question
[19:34] Speaker 2: will become, does God have two distinct people with two
[19:39] Speaker 2: distinct destinies, necessitating two phases of the second Coming? A
[19:44] Speaker 2: secret coming followed seven years later by a second coming.
[19:49] Speaker 2: You'll be able to determine that yourself, because I'll put
[19:51] Speaker 2: the tools in your hands by which you can read
[19:55] Speaker 2: the Bible for all its worth. It's called technically the
[19:58] Speaker 2: art and science a Biblical interpretation. It's an art and
[20:03] Speaker 2: that the more you do it, the better you get
[20:04] Speaker 2: at it. It's a science in that there are principles
[20:10] Speaker 2: that are brought to bear on reading the text for
[20:14] Speaker 2: all its worth. So, for example, what does the literal
[20:17] Speaker 2: principle of biblical interpretation mean, does it mean that you
[20:21] Speaker 2: take things in a wooden literalistic sense, or rather, does
[20:26] Speaker 2: it mean that you take things in the sense in
[20:29] Speaker 2: which they are intended. So, if you have the blood
[20:32] Speaker 2: rising to the horse's bridles, do you take that in
[20:35] Speaker 2: a wooden literal sense you think all of Israel's going
[20:37] Speaker 2: to be covered in blood as high as a horse's bridle.
[20:42] Speaker 2: There isn't that much blood in the universe. Or do
[20:44] Speaker 2: you take that in the sense in which it is
[20:47] Speaker 2: intended as a judgment metaphor. These are the kinds of things,
[20:51] Speaker 2: the principles you learn, and what will happen as a
[20:54] Speaker 2: result of it is the Bible will open up like
[20:57] Speaker 2: a fragrant rose, and you'll be able to enjoy it
[21:02] Speaker 2: in a much more full and fragrant sense.
[21:05] Speaker 5: I'll definitely check that out.
[21:06] Speaker 2: Thank you, you got it. Let's go back to the
[21:08] Speaker 2: phone lines. Talk to Jackie in Saint Louis, Missouri. Hi Jackie, Hi.
[21:12] Speaker 1: Hek, thanks for taking my call pleasure.
[21:14] Speaker 6: My question is can people change their destiny? Are we
[21:19] Speaker 6: in control of our destiny?
[21:22] Speaker 2: Well? Our actions and our thoughts really matter. So we
[21:26] Speaker 2: do not want to start with a premise that we
[21:29] Speaker 2: are fatalistically determined. Now, that's what you have as a
[21:33] Speaker 2: result of philosophical naturalism. Philosophical naturalism says that everything that
[21:39] Speaker 2: we experience is a result of blind natural processes, and
[21:47] Speaker 2: so it embraces fatalistic determinism. So I often quip that
[21:55] Speaker 2: if Madonna is merely a material girl living in a
[21:59] Speaker 2: material world, she does not have free choice. Her choices
[22:03] Speaker 2: are determined fatalistically by brain chemistry and genetics. But not so.
[22:09] Speaker 2: In a biblical worldview. What we do actually matters, and
[22:14] Speaker 2: we must never forget that while God knows the end
[22:18] Speaker 2: from the beginning as the sovereign of the universe, the
[22:22] Speaker 2: fact that he knows does not mean that our choices
[22:26] Speaker 2: don't matter, or that our lives are fatalistically determined. And
[22:31] Speaker 2: we can see this in a faint glimpse as we
[22:35] Speaker 2: look back in our own lives to events that we
[22:40] Speaker 2: know with great precision. And yet the fact that we
[22:44] Speaker 2: know what happened in the past does not presume that
[22:48] Speaker 2: we caused what happened in the past to occur. Now,
[22:54] Speaker 2: with God, we can take this and stretch it out
[22:58] Speaker 2: on both sides. We can only look in the rear
[23:00] Speaker 2: view mirror but God knows all things, and therefore he
[23:03] Speaker 2: knows what will happen. But that does not mean that
[23:06] Speaker 2: your choices are fatalistically determined or that they don't count.
[23:10] Speaker 2: They do. So we must not have a fatalistic worldview
[23:14] Speaker 2: and say, well, no sense in washing my hands today,
[23:17] Speaker 2: because if God wants them to be clean, he'll cause
[23:20] Speaker 2: them to be clean and of themselves. No, we wash
[23:22] Speaker 2: our hands. I mean that action does matter, it does count.
[23:26] Speaker 6: Okay, well, thank you, you got it.
[23:28] Speaker 2: Thank you so much for your call. Want to go
[23:31] Speaker 2: to Drake listening on Fresno, California.
[23:33] Speaker 6: Hi, how are you doing. I have a close friend
[23:35] Speaker 6: of mine and here where I am, and in Fresnoe, California,
[23:38] Speaker 6: I think everyone's on this Holy Spirit hype. So everything
[23:41] Speaker 6: that they do is they will say, okay, well you know, yeah,
[23:43] Speaker 6: the Bible says that. But you know, they say, well,
[23:45] Speaker 6: the Bible says everywhere that precede is out of the
[23:47] Speaker 6: mouth not and they think that the Bible is, you know,
[23:50] Speaker 6: is old and past and is going away. In which
[23:52] Speaker 6: case was as my good friend, He claims that God
[23:54] Speaker 6: gave him a revelation that he should not go to
[23:57] Speaker 6: church anymore as a cocooning process, and I don't know
[24:00] Speaker 6: what to say to him because I feel like he's lost.
[24:02] Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, it's interesting that there are those that
[24:06] Speaker 2: are getting these new revelations, and this is a classic
[24:10] Speaker 2: example of a new revelation which is in conflict with
[24:14] Speaker 2: the revelation that we have received. The biblical revelation is
[24:19] Speaker 2: that when you become a born again believer, which means
[24:24] Speaker 2: that you are born spiritually. You are not born as
[24:28] Speaker 2: a lone ranger Christian that has an individualistic identity, but
[24:34] Speaker 2: you are born into a body. Christ is building a
[24:39] Speaker 2: temple made of spiritual stones. You're part of that temple.
[24:43] Speaker 2: So you're born into the body of Christ, the body
[24:46] Speaker 2: of which Christ is the head. And therefore it's critical
[24:51] Speaker 2: that each person functions within that body, not only in
[24:57] Speaker 2: worshiping God through prayer, praise, and the problem of the Word,
[25:01] Speaker 2: but also in oneness through community and confession and contribution.
[25:08] Speaker 2: Each member of the body is important to all the
[25:12] Speaker 2: other members, so we're not isolated, we're inextricably niche together.
[25:21] Speaker 2: And this is also true because the body not only
[25:26] Speaker 2: functions in worship and oneness, but the body functions in
[25:31] Speaker 2: witness and so we bring people back into the body.
[25:36] Speaker 2: They experience church life. They don't go to church, but
[25:40] Speaker 2: they experience integration into the family of God. And so
[25:45] Speaker 2: anyone getting a new revelation that suggests they don't have
[25:50] Speaker 2: to go to church simply does not understand a biblical worldview,
[25:58] Speaker 2: which necessitates that you test that kind of false revelation
[26:03] Speaker 2: and led to the true revelation, which we have already
[26:05] Speaker 2: received once for all the Bible says it has been
[26:09] Speaker 2: delivered to the saints. I'm out of time for this
[26:11] Speaker 2: edition of the Bible Instrument Broadcast. Right back here answering
[26:14] Speaker 2: your questions tomorrow. Right here on the Bible NSHMN broadcast.
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