# Q&A: Irrational Oaths, Calvinism, and Resurrection

An episode of [Bible Answer Man Podcast with Hank Hanegraaff](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/569236334), 22 Oct 2026, 28 min.

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On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (10/22/26), Hank answers the following questions: Must I keep an irrational oath that I made in the past? Billy - Calgary, AB (0:56) What exactly is it about the five points of Calvinism that you disagree with? Luke - Spokane, WA (4:02) How to answer my teenage son who asked: “If God is real, why did not God mention all the things in the galaxy that we have discovered?” Janice - IL (8:59) Why are there two resurrections separated by a thousand years in Revelation 20? Jim - AR (15:12) Does the sign of the prophet Jonah mean that Jesus was in the tomb for exactly 3 days and 3 nights? David - Paris, TN (18:10) Does Romans chapters 9-11 teach a future messianic Jewish revival? Brandon - Charlotte, NC (21:35)

## Transcript

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[0:50] Speaker 1: Now here's the president of the Christian Research Institute, Hank Hanegraaff.
[0:55] Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Randy. First up today, Billy. He's
[0:57] Speaker 2: listening in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
[0:59] Speaker 3: Hi, Billy.
[1:00] Speaker 4: Hi, I just got a question. It's about irrational oaths.
[1:04] Speaker 4: And just wondering, like, a while back I made an
[1:08] Speaker 4: oath that I would never watch any motion picture. And
[1:12] Speaker 4: not all motion picture is evil, obviously. But even so,
[1:16] Speaker 4: I feel as though that the oath that I had made, like,
[1:20] Speaker 4: I had said I had made it directing it towards
[1:23] Speaker 4: any motion picture. You know, for some reason there was
[1:26] Speaker 4: one preacher who preached a message against the TV, and
[1:28] Speaker 4: so I was just in the heat of the moment.
[1:30] Speaker 4: I'll never watch TV again, Lord, and I'm just wondering
[1:34] Speaker 4: what you think about irrational oaths like that, or what
[1:38] Speaker 4: scriptures you might have about that.
[1:40] Speaker 2: Well, I think if you made an oath never to
[1:42] Speaker 2: share the gospel again, you wouldn't want to keep that
[1:44] Speaker 2: oath either. So as you point out, you made an
[1:47] Speaker 2: irrational oath in the heat of the moment, and you
[1:51] Speaker 2: should take it just as that. What you want to
[1:54] Speaker 2: do is always test all things, hold fast to that
[1:58] Speaker 2: which is good, I think, as you point out correctly,
[2:01] Speaker 2: if you go to a good motion picture, one that's edifying,
[2:05] Speaker 2: one that equips you, you can use that as an
[2:08] Speaker 2: opportunity to learn and grow and be an ever better witness. Obviously,
[2:13] Speaker 2: we don't want to entertain ourselves to death, but there's
[2:15] Speaker 2: nothing wrong with sanctified entertainment either. So I think you
[2:20] Speaker 2: summed it up well in the prologue to the question.
[2:22] Speaker 2: It was an irrational oath made in the heat of
[2:26] Speaker 2: the moment, and I don't think you're bound by that oath.
[2:29] Speaker 4: Okay. So, you know, sometimes people get convicted about things.
[2:34] Speaker 4: I mean, obviously, if a Christian were to steal something,
[2:36] Speaker 4: the Holy Spirit would tell him, no, that's wrong. And so,
[2:40] Speaker 4: for me, I get that same feeling with trying to
[2:43] Speaker 4: keep the oath. You know, like, I mean, I get
[2:46] Speaker 4: that same feeling when I start watching motion picture.
[2:49] Speaker 2: Yeah, well... Again, I don't think that you have to
[2:53] Speaker 2: feel that way. In fact, I would go back to
[2:56] Speaker 2: the presupposition of those in the first place and recall
[3:00] Speaker 2: the words of Jesus Christ in the Sermon on the
[3:02] Speaker 2: Mount where he said, you've heard that it was said
[3:05] Speaker 2: to the people long ago, do not break your oath,
[3:07] Speaker 2: but keep the oaths you've made to the Lord. But
[3:10] Speaker 2: I tell you, do not swear at all, either by
[3:14] Speaker 2: heaven for it's God's throne or by the earth for
[3:17] Speaker 2: it's his footstool or by Jerusalem for it's the city
[3:19] Speaker 2: of the great king. And do not swear by your head,
[3:22] Speaker 2: for you cannot make even one hair white or black.
[3:26] Speaker 2: Simply let your yes be yes and your no, no.
[3:30] Speaker 2: Anything beyond this comes from the evil one. A broken
[3:34] Speaker 2: vow is sin. But if a vow is made rashly,
[3:38] Speaker 2: confess it as sin before the Lord and refrain from
[3:41] Speaker 2: making rash vows in the future.
[3:45] Speaker 4: You think that the actual conviction, like that feeling, do
[3:49] Speaker 4: you think it would just be from the devil?
[3:52] Speaker 2: Well, I really can't psychoanalyze that. I don't know. I
[3:55] Speaker 2: don't know where the feeling comes from. What I do
[3:57] Speaker 2: know is the principle.
[3:59] Speaker 4: Okay, well, thank you very much.
[4:00] Speaker 3: You got it.
[4:00] Speaker 2: I appreciate your call. I want to go back to
[4:02] Speaker 2: the phone lines. We'll talk next to Luke. He's listening
[4:05] Speaker 2: in Spokane, Washington.
[4:06] Speaker 3: Hi, Luke.
[4:08] Speaker 5: Hey, Hank.
[4:09] Speaker 6: I'm fully aware of, like, the debate amongst Christians about
[4:12] Speaker 6: Calvinism and Arminianism or whatever you want.
[4:15] Speaker 7: To call it.
[4:15] Speaker 6: So, you know, I believe that, you know, both people
[4:21] Speaker 6: can still be believers in Christ and have different views
[4:24] Speaker 6: about it because, you know, I believe that the Bible
[4:27] Speaker 6: teaches that both Arminianism, or I mean, both choice and
[4:31] Speaker 6: election are in the Bible. But I just wanted to
[4:33] Speaker 6: know what it is about the five points of Calvinism
[4:36] Speaker 6: that that you personally don't believe are biblical?
[4:41] Speaker 2: Well, I think one of the things that you have
[4:43] Speaker 2: to recognize is something you may have already alluded to
[4:47] Speaker 2: in the prologue to the question, and that is the
[4:49] Speaker 2: five points hold together as a systematic, organized system. So
[4:57] Speaker 2: there are a lot of people that say I'm a
[4:59] Speaker 2: three-point Calvinist or a four-point Calvinist. I think it's a
[5:02] Speaker 2: congruent system, and you either hold to all of it
[5:05] Speaker 2: or you don't. But from my perspective, the reason that
[5:08] Speaker 2: I don't hold to Calvinism, and my dad was a Calvinist,
[5:12] Speaker 2: so I grew up in that tradition. The reason I
[5:14] Speaker 2: don't hold to it is because I do not believe
[5:19] Speaker 2: in circumstantial freedom. I believe in libertarian freedom. So I
[5:23] Speaker 2: reject the notion that God creates everyone in such a
[5:28] Speaker 2: way that they cannot respond to the gospel, and he
[5:31] Speaker 2: only rewires or regenerates the elects of that. they can,
[5:36] Speaker 2: and therefore everyone is created in such a way that
[5:40] Speaker 2: they cannot in any way whatsoever respond to the wooing
[5:43] Speaker 2: of the Holy Spirit. I think the biblical teaching is
[5:46] Speaker 2: other than that, that the biblical teaching is, in my view,
[5:51] Speaker 2: very clear that we can respond in faith to the
[5:55] Speaker 2: wooing of the Holy Spirit. So we are therefore justly
[6:00] Speaker 2: and condignly culpable when we do not respond to God.
[6:05] Speaker 2: when he calls.
[6:07] Speaker 6: So, as far as what I understand about what faith is,
[6:13] Speaker 6: it's not so much the response to our faith that
[6:17] Speaker 6: sets us free from sin, but the belief in Jesus
[6:20] Speaker 6: Christ that sets us free from sin. So it's not
[6:23] Speaker 6: the fact that we follow Jesus Christ and repent that
[6:27] Speaker 6: makes us a Christian and makes us saved from God's wrath.
[6:32] Speaker 6: but the fact that we believe in the saving power
[6:34] Speaker 6: of Jesus Christ, we believe He's King, and we believe
[6:37] Speaker 6: that because of His work on the cross, you know,
[6:40] Speaker 6: we will be saved from the wrath of God. And
[6:42] Speaker 6: so I guess what I'm saying is that, you know,
[6:46] Speaker 6: it seems that when I believed in Jesus Christ, it
[6:49] Speaker 6: didn't seem like it was anything that I had the
[6:51] Speaker 6: power over to do. Like, it wasn't my choice to believe.
[6:56] Speaker 6: And I just want to know, do you think that's biblical?
[6:59] Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I think what you have to keep
[7:01] Speaker 2: in consideration very carefully here is the sovereignty of God,
[7:06] Speaker 2: genuine human culpability for sin, and then the justice of
[7:12] Speaker 2: God as well. But therein lies the issue. I do
[7:15] Speaker 2: think we have choice. Calvin said otherwise. He says that
[7:20] Speaker 2: Paul teaches us that the ruin of the wicked is
[7:22] Speaker 2: not only foreseen by the Lord, but is also ordained
[7:26] Speaker 2: by his counsel himself. and his will, not only a
[7:29] Speaker 2: destruction of the wicked is foreknown, but that the wicked
[7:33] Speaker 2: themselves have been created for this very end, that they
[7:37] Speaker 2: may perish. In other words, people are created, doomed from
[7:43] Speaker 2: the womb to certain destruction. And that's what I take
[7:46] Speaker 2: issue with. But I think you pointed this out clearly
[7:49] Speaker 2: in the prologue to your question. This is something that
[7:51] Speaker 2: people debate vigorously. Ultimately, they don't divide over. I think
[7:54] Speaker 2: it is a very substantial issue. However, And there are
[7:58] Speaker 2: various permutations of this. For example, R.C. Sproul defines hyper-Calvinism
[8:05] Speaker 2: as equal ultimacy, which is based on a concept of symmetry,
[8:10] Speaker 2: complete balance between election and reprobation. Therefore, in his view,
[8:16] Speaker 2: God is not responsible for damnation to the same degree
[8:21] Speaker 2: as he is for salvation. And those who say God
[8:24] Speaker 2: actively wills the salvation of the saved and the damnation
[8:29] Speaker 2: of the lost to the same degree are, according to Sproul,
[8:33] Speaker 2: anti- or even sub-Calvinists. So again, there are a lot
[8:37] Speaker 2: of permutations in the view. We need to take all
[8:40] Speaker 2: of that seriously. I think if you want to study
[8:42] Speaker 2: this more fully, we've done a pretty apt job in
[8:46] Speaker 2: the Christian Research Journal where we have a Calvinist and
[8:48] Speaker 2: a non-Calvinist debating these things and The articles are available.
[8:53] Speaker 2: You can check it out on the web at equip.org.
[8:57] Speaker 2: I want to go back to the phone lines. We'll
[9:00] Speaker 2: talk next to Janice. She's listening in Illinois. Hi, Janice.
[9:05] Speaker 3: Hi, Hank. I just wanted to pose a question to
[9:08] Speaker 3: you to help my son. He's a teenager, newly into college,
[9:13] Speaker 3: and he's kind of quit going to church. And he
[9:16] Speaker 3: asked me a question the other day, and I didn't
[9:19] Speaker 3: really know how to answer it. He said, you know,
[9:21] Speaker 3: if if God is real and the Bible is real,
[9:24] Speaker 3: he said, why didn't God talk about in the beginning
[9:29] Speaker 3: further creation as far as the galaxy and explaining what
[9:35] Speaker 3: we're finding in space? And I just, I don't really
[9:39] Speaker 3: know how to answer that.
[9:40] Speaker 2: Well, I think one of the great things about the
[9:42] Speaker 2: Bible is the heavens declare the glory of God, the
[9:45] Speaker 2: skies proclaim the work of his hands, day after day
[9:48] Speaker 2: they pour forth speech, night after night they proclaim knowledge.
[9:52] Speaker 2: There's no speech or language where their voice is not heard,
[9:55] Speaker 2: their words go out to the ends of the earth.
[9:58] Speaker 2: So we see God's invisible qualities in what he has made.
[10:03] Speaker 2: So we as Christians recognize that we are placed in
[10:07] Speaker 2: a privileged planet. We're in a galaxy, the Milky Way galaxy.
[10:12] Speaker 2: We're in a flattened spiral arm of a flattened spiral galaxy.
[10:16] Speaker 2: We're placed in that galaxy in such a way that
[10:19] Speaker 2: we can observe things about the universe and in the
[10:22] Speaker 2: process see the invisible attributes of God himself, his creative prowess,
[10:29] Speaker 2: not the least of them. So I think that we
[10:33] Speaker 2: have been given two things, according to the Bible, both
[10:36] Speaker 2: the infallible repository of redemptive revelation, which is special revelation,
[10:42] Speaker 2: but also general revelation. And again, we're placed in in
[10:47] Speaker 2: a universe strategically so that we can know something about
[10:51] Speaker 2: the universe in which we are. And we're also called
[10:54] Speaker 2: to do science well. Science is a function that came
[10:58] Speaker 2: about as a result, a distinctive result of a Christian worldview.
[11:04] Speaker 2: A worldview that says that reason apart from revelation always
[11:09] Speaker 2: leads someone to the blind ditch of ignorance.
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[15:14] Speaker 2: listening in Arkansas. Hi, Jim.
[15:16] Speaker 7: Hi, Hank. I want to thank you for your ministry
[15:20] Speaker 7: and just tell you that I listen to you as
[15:22] Speaker 7: much as I can in the evenings on the way home.
[15:24] Speaker 7: I've got a question about the resurrection as it's laid
[15:26] Speaker 7: out in Revelation 20. I understand that when Christ comes
[15:30] Speaker 7: back to judge the living and the dead, that all
[15:33] Speaker 7: that's tied up with it. I'm trying to understand... why
[15:36] Speaker 7: John would specify, he talks about the resurrection occurring and
[15:41] Speaker 7: then the thousand years, which can be understood to be
[15:45] Speaker 7: a long period of time. But then he goes on
[15:50] Speaker 7: to say that the rest of the dead did not
[15:52] Speaker 7: come to life until after the thousand years had ended.
[15:56] Speaker 7: And I was just trying to wrap my mind around
[15:58] Speaker 7: that and hoping you could help out a little bit.
[16:01] Speaker 2: Yeah, I think Revelation chapter 20 has to be understood
[16:06] Speaker 2: within the context of an apocalypse in which you're going
[16:10] Speaker 2: to have people who are faithless and you're going to
[16:15] Speaker 2: have people who are faithful. And in the apocalypse, there's
[16:19] Speaker 2: an exhortation given to God's people to be faithful and fruitful.
[16:25] Speaker 2: They're going to suffer for a short time. Their vindication
[16:28] Speaker 2: is going to be eternal vindication. And I think that
[16:32] Speaker 2: what's going on in terms of the millennium is not
[16:37] Speaker 2: a quantity of time, but a quality of vindication for
[16:41] Speaker 2: the martyrs. And therefore you have to read this passage
[16:45] Speaker 2: in such a way that you make sense of what's
[16:48] Speaker 2: going on within the context. Even when you look at
[16:52] Speaker 2: those who come to life and reign with Christ a
[16:56] Speaker 2: thousand years, and then you have an indication that that's
[17:00] Speaker 2: the first resurrection, it's not as though there are two resurrections,
[17:05] Speaker 2: but the first resurrection in context is contrasted with a
[17:09] Speaker 2: second death. In fact, a first resurrection cannot mean physical
[17:13] Speaker 2: resurrection at the second coming of Christ. Instead, it means
[17:16] Speaker 2: to be made alive in Christ. You were dead in
[17:19] Speaker 2: your transgressions and sin, Paul says, but God made us
[17:23] Speaker 2: alive with Christ. God raised us up or resurrected us
[17:27] Speaker 2: with Christ. So Again, you have to read the text
[17:31] Speaker 2: in the sense in which it's intended. I don't think
[17:34] Speaker 2: there's any way in which you can come up with
[17:37] Speaker 2: a scheme in which this is a long period of time,
[17:41] Speaker 2: either between the first and second comings of Christ, or
[17:45] Speaker 2: is a semi-golden age with a rebuilt temple and reinstituted
[17:49] Speaker 2: temple sacrifices, because that then militates against what the rest
[17:53] Speaker 2: of the Scripture is teaching. So in reading this, interpreting this,
[17:57] Speaker 2: the genre is important to keep careful consideration of. And
[18:02] Speaker 2: I've written about this in terms of my perspective in
[18:05] Speaker 2: my book, The Apocalypse Code, which is available through the
[18:07] Speaker 2: Ministry of the Christian Research Institute. I want to go
[18:10] Speaker 2: back to the phone lines, talk to David in Paris, Tennessee.
[18:13] Speaker 8: Hi, David. Yes, Hank, how are you today?
[18:15] Speaker 2: Good, thank you.
[18:16] Speaker 8: Good, good. Look, I wanted to ask you about the
[18:19] Speaker 8: time that Christ was in the tomb and using a
[18:22] Speaker 8: passage out of Matthew where Jesus spoke to the Pharisees
[18:25] Speaker 8: and the scribes, they were asking for a sign. He said,
[18:28] Speaker 8: There shall not be a sign given unto you except
[18:31] Speaker 8: for the prophet Jonah. In chapter 12, verse 40, the
[18:36] Speaker 8: ending of the chapter, Jesus speaking, says, So shall the
[18:39] Speaker 8: Son of Man be three days and three nights in
[18:43] Speaker 8: the heart of the earth. Now, in your answer book,
[18:46] Speaker 8: I know that you play off of the weekly Sabbath
[18:49] Speaker 8: as the Sabbath you're using is in all the references
[18:53] Speaker 8: about the crucifixion and the burial of Christ. But in
[18:56] Speaker 8: the Jewish times, especially according to the Qumran calendar, the
[18:59] Speaker 8: Lord's Supper, the Passover, was eaten on Tuesday. And then,
[19:04] Speaker 8: of course, Passover itself was on a Wednesday, a weekday
[19:07] Speaker 8: of Wednesday, and it was a high day. I believe
[19:11] Speaker 8: that Jesus myself was crucified on Wednesday, that he was
[19:15] Speaker 8: placed in the tomb, and then he was resurrected, of course,
[19:19] Speaker 8: at the very end of the weekly Sabbath, Saturday, which
[19:22] Speaker 8: would have been sundown, Saturday. Do you have anything to
[19:25] Speaker 8: say about that?
[19:27] Speaker 2: Well, I think if you read my Bible answer book,
[19:29] Speaker 2: you know what I have to say about that. I
[19:30] Speaker 2: think the Gospels unanimously declare that Jesus died on the
[19:34] Speaker 2: day of preparation, that is Friday, the day leading up
[19:37] Speaker 2: to the beginning of the Sabbath or sundown, and that
[19:40] Speaker 2: the Gospel writers demonstrate unanimity regarding the discovery of Christ's
[19:45] Speaker 2: resurrection early in the morning, on the day following the Sabbath,
[19:49] Speaker 2: that is Sunday, the first day of the week. And therefore,
[19:52] Speaker 2: to suggest that he died on Wednesday, I think contradicts
[19:57] Speaker 2: the testimony of all four Gospel writers. So I would
[20:01] Speaker 2: have an honest difference of opinion there. I respect your opinion.
[20:04] Speaker 2: I respect your research. I simply disagree with you. I've
[20:07] Speaker 2: looked into this myself. But in Jewish idiom, any part
[20:10] Speaker 2: of a day counted as a day-night unit. And therefore,
[20:15] Speaker 2: there's no need to literalistically demand that 72 hours be
[20:19] Speaker 2: accounted for. And that's particularly evident in light of Christ's
[20:24] Speaker 2: own contention that he would rise on the third day,
[20:28] Speaker 2: not after the third day at night had ended. And
[20:32] Speaker 2: one of the other points that I make in the
[20:34] Speaker 2: Bible answer book is that once knowledge of ancient culturally
[20:38] Speaker 2: important informed modes of oral and literary expression replace a
[20:43] Speaker 2: naive literalistic interpretation, the majesty and the harmony of the
[20:49] Speaker 2: Bible begins to shine through. Christ's sacrificial death, his miraculous
[20:57] Speaker 2: resurrection on the third day, is a glorious archetypal fulfillment
[21:03] Speaker 2: of Old Testament types, including the type of the Passover lamb.
[21:09] Speaker 2: So Jonah's preservation for three days and three nights and
[21:14] Speaker 2: the restoration of Israel on the third day prophesied by
[21:18] Speaker 2: Hosea are a wonderful type fulfilled in an archetype or
[21:25] Speaker 2: an antitype, that type being Jesus Christ, and more particularly
[21:30] Speaker 2: in his life, death, burial, resurrection, and ascension. I want
[21:35] Speaker 2: to go back to the phone lines, talk to Brandon Smith.
[21:37] Speaker 2: listening in Charlotte, North Carolina.
[21:39] Speaker 5: Hi, Brendan. Hey, Hank. I had a question about Israel
[21:44] Speaker 5: and its relation to the Church, particularly looking at Romans 9-11.
[21:50] Speaker 5: I've been raised in a dispensational-type teaching. I even went
[21:54] Speaker 5: to a dispensational Bible college. I'm not really too comfortable
[21:59] Speaker 5: with the sharp distinction that they draw between ethnic Israel
[22:04] Speaker 5: and the Church. You know, Paul says clearly in Romans
[22:08] Speaker 5: 10 that in Christ there's neither Jew nor Gentile. So
[22:11] Speaker 5: I don't think that in Christ there's a distinction between
[22:15] Speaker 5: ethnic Jews and Christians, not even a distinction between Israel
[22:21] Speaker 5: and the Church. My personal view is that the Church
[22:24] Speaker 5: is Israel, and Israel is the Church. I mean, they
[22:26] Speaker 5: represent the one corporate body of Christ. But when you
[22:30] Speaker 5: get to chapter 11, he talks about Israel being grafted
[22:34] Speaker 5: back in He talks about that God brought salvation to
[22:41] Speaker 5: the Gentiles for the purpose of provoking Israel to jealousy.
[22:44] Speaker 5: And then finally he says that if Israel's rejection meant
[22:48] Speaker 5: salvation for the Gentiles, how much more will their acceptance be?
[22:52] Speaker 5: So it seems like he's teaching there that there is
[22:56] Speaker 5: going to be some revival amongst ethnic Jews before the end.
[23:01] Speaker 5: and even that revival is a pivotal event in Christ returning.
[23:07] Speaker 5: So just wanted to know your thought from that.
[23:09] Speaker 2: Well, I don't think it has anything to do with
[23:11] Speaker 2: ethnic Jews. I think that the Bible doesn't deal with ethnicities.
[23:16] Speaker 2: If you look at the Old Testament, you see that Rahab,
[23:20] Speaker 2: who is a Canaanite, is in the lineage of Jesus Christ.
[23:23] Speaker 2: Same thing with Roth, who is a Moabite, the archenemy
[23:26] Speaker 2: of Israel, in the lineage of Jesus Christ. In Esther,
[23:29] Speaker 2: when the nations look on and see Esther being sovereignly
[23:33] Speaker 2: raised up to save ethnic Jews from certain destruction under Haman,
[23:38] Speaker 2: the text tells us that on that day many people
[23:40] Speaker 2: became Jews. Well, they didn't become Jews because they changed
[23:44] Speaker 2: their ethnicity or changed their birth mother. They became Jews
[23:47] Speaker 2: because they believed in Yahweh, the God of Israel, and
[23:50] Speaker 2: therefore were brought into all the types and shadows pointing
[23:53] Speaker 2: forward to Jesus Christ. Even in the Exodus, you have
[23:56] Speaker 2: Egyptians who leave Egypt and are part of the community
[24:00] Speaker 2: of faith. So I think on both sides of the cross,
[24:03] Speaker 2: what you have is true Israel contrasted with those who
[24:08] Speaker 2: are not true Israel. There certainly is a place for
[24:13] Speaker 2: ethnic Israel in the sense that there is an ethnicity
[24:17] Speaker 2: or a people called Jews, but the idea spiritually is
[24:23] Speaker 2: always about true Israel. And true Israel, again, is made
[24:28] Speaker 2: of people of every tongue and tribe and nation and
[24:32] Speaker 2: people who love and follow God. So the church has
[24:36] Speaker 2: not replaced Israel. The church is part of true Israel,
[24:40] Speaker 2: and I think that's cooperated by what you find in
[24:43] Speaker 2: the biblical text passages like 1 Peter 2, 9 and 10.
[24:47] Speaker 2: So when all Israel is mentioned in Romans chapter 11,
[24:51] Speaker 2: I think it's referring to true Israel. And, of course,
[24:56] Speaker 2: you have many indications that there is a distinction between
[25:00] Speaker 2: an ethnicity and true Israel. In the words of Jesus Christ,
[25:04] Speaker 2: there are those who say they are Jews but are not.
[25:07] Speaker 2: They're a synagogue of Satan. So you're not Abraham's descendant
[25:12] Speaker 2: because of some genealogical relationship to Abraham. You're Abraham's descendant
[25:19] Speaker 2: because you're in Jesus Christ. In fact, Galatians 3 makes
[25:23] Speaker 2: clear that Abraham only had one seed. That seed is
[25:26] Speaker 2: Jesus Christ. So the royal seed of Abraham is Jesus Christ.
[25:30] Speaker 2: And if you're Jesus Christ, if you are in Jesus Christ,
[25:33] Speaker 2: then you're the seed of Abraham. And again, an heir
[25:36] Speaker 2: according to the promise. I could say much more about that.
[25:40] Speaker 2: I've written about this in detail in my book, The
[25:42] Speaker 2: Apocalypse Code. Find out what the Bible really says about
[25:45] Speaker 2: the end times and why it matters today. There's a
[25:47] Speaker 2: chapter on illumination. And in that chapter, I parsed this
[25:51] Speaker 2: out in a lot of detail. Again, that book is available.
[25:54] Speaker 2: You can check it out on the web at equip.org.
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[25:59] Speaker 2: North Carolina, zip code 28271. Or as always, talk to
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