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With that, let us start with Josh in Durham, North Carolina. Welcome to the line of fire. Hi, Dr. Brown. Thanks for taking my call.
You bet. Didn't expect to be so quickly. Yeah, I was just curious, how do you understand people such as Abraham, Moses, David in the Old Testament as to where they are now? Do you believe that they went to heaven after Jesus resurrection or if they're awaiting final judgment to get to go there?
Oh, no, 100% absolutely there with the Lord. Abraham was justified by faith. These were people considered righteous in God's sight. David, a man after his own heart. David says in Psalm 17, you know, basically when I die, I'm going to see your form.
Another way of saying I'm going to be with you. So the only debate to me is, did they die and immediately go into the presence of God in heaven, which is one historic view? Or did they die and they were in Abraham's bosom, Luke 16. They were in like a holding place, but not a place of punishment, waiting for the resurrection of Jesus because Jesus had to cleanse the heavenlies with his own blood that Hebrew speaks of. Some of these mystical things in Hebrews 8, 9, and 10. So I have no question they're together with the Lord, just like those who've died in Jesus now. No question whatsoever. They were believers. They were part of the family. The only debate is whether heaven was fully open before the resurrection of Jesus.
But the fact that they're with him, I don't doubt that for a split second. Okay, awesome. Do you mind if I tack on another one? No, go for it.
Go for it. This is from my daughter. She asked me recently if we'll eat while we're in heaven because eating generally requires the death of something. And I told her I don't remember any scripture that says that we will for sure eat in heaven.
Right, well for sure we do have references to a feast in Isaiah 25, which you could say is in the Millennial Kingdom. But how about this reference for your daughter? How old is your daughter? Twelve. Right, so you just have to tell her in this world system that's the way things work, right?
You know, that's the nature of things here. Revelation 22, so this is the New Jerusalem. Okay, so we're just going to take her to the last chapter of the Bible and ask her to start reading. Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life as clear as crystal, floating from the throne of God and of the Lamb down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations. So this is something that's being produced, twelve crops of fruit. You're obviously eating the fruit. You know, you're partaking there.
It's not just there for appearance sake. Plus Jesus references eating and drinking in the kingdom of God. So for sure, that's part of how we relate and part of the enjoyment of life. The good thing to me is that there's nothing wrong with what we eat. You're not going to have to kill anything to eat it, you know. And even with plants and stuff, they keep reproducing.
You know, they keep reproducing. But when God radically changed my diet a little over ten years ago, and I had to give up foods I'd eaten my whole life, all my favorite foods, and train my taste buds to now like other things, like salads and fruits, I thought, hey, this is for my health now. I'll enjoy this. Plus, the food in Heaven is going to be better than anything with those side effects. So yeah, just look up where Jesus talks about eating and drinking, or I won't drink this with you until I do in the kingdom.
That's a foreshadowing of what's to come, all right? God bless you. Thank you, sir. 866-34-TRUTH. Let's go over to Mike in San Antonio. Welcome to the Line of Fire. Hey, Dr. Brown. Thanks for taking my call.
Good to talk to you again. So I have a two-part question. So I'm going to get an opportunity to speak before a group of people that are held to a belief that I used to hold to and I don't hold to anymore. And because the beliefs are not biblical. And I'm struggling to know whether to speak to them about their belief that they hold that is not biblical or just give a generic kind of message that doesn't kind of ruffle any feathers. And the context of that is typically when I have these conversations personally, one-on-one with people who agree with this non-biblical teaching, they will typically talk about faith by works, Ephesians chapter 2, that no one receives salvation through faith by works. And the typical response will be, well, 1 Corinthians 6, 9 says, these shall not inherit the kingdom of God and it gives a list. So they'll juxtapose that to say, well, see, you believe in works just like I believe in works.
So what's the difference? And so that'll be kind of where the conversation divorces to. They'll just say, well, I have a different work that I believe in, but you have a work you believe in, too, because if someone's a homosexual or on that list, they're not getting in either. And so it wasn't just faith, and so I'm kind of trying to decide how to respond if I even need to say anything to that group at that moment because I may not have another moment, too, or leave it alone. Well, first thing, just because you have a difference with a group doesn't mean you're supposed to address that difference. You know, why are they asking you to speak and what's the Lord laying on your heart to speak?
Those are the bigger questions. So I'm in circles all the time where I disagree with certain points people have or they disagree with me, but I'm not there for that. You know what I'm saying?
So I wouldn't even think of it. In other words, unless the Lord... First, if they're asking me to come in and speak on something else and I want to now change to a controversial issue, I need to tell them, and then they could say, okay, we canceled engagement or go ahead. They give you, you know, so you submit that.
Otherwise, you know, Lord, what are you laying on my heart? And you minister that. If it's something that's going to be controversial or contradict what they believe, then you submit it first.
Like, I had one place that invited me to speak. I said, but I have strong differences, not to the point they weren't saved. I said, I'll only speak if you agree that I can speak on whatever God tells me to. And they said, okay. And it was a pretty heavy message. It was a rebuke, you know. But otherwise, if I'm just going somewhere, you know, I'm just going to minister, be a blessing.
However, to just answer the question, however, if it did come up, right, if it did come up in any way, then, then, the way I would handle it is saying, you know, here's what we should be able to agree on. You might say if someone lives a certain way, they were never truly saved. Because the word's clearly saying, if you are practicing adultery, if you are practicing drunk, if you are practicing this or this or this or this, then, you know, you were never saved. Others say, well, you could be truly saved and then you refuse God's grace, you cast off his grace, you refuse his lordship, you fall back, you lose your salvation. Either way, both agree that people who live like that don't get in.
So, I would say, let's not even debate that. Let's agree that a true believer does not continually practice sin without repentance. If they do, they were either never saved or they forfeited their salvation. But either way, salvation brings about a change. If it doesn't bring about a change, it's not salvation, it's not grace, it's just words.
All right, well, those are my thoughts for you, all right? Okay, so it's not, just the last point, so it's not that they get to say, well, you believe something about how you earned salvation by an external expression. Exactly, so it's not earning, right, it's not earning, it's evidence. It's not earning salvation, it's evidence of salvation. Like James Jacob, the second chapter, you have faith, I have works, show me your faith by your works. Jesus is emphatic, Matthew 7.21, not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only those who do the will of my Father.
So, 1 John 3, whoever continues in sin has not known God or seen God, so either they're lying or they've turned away, but yeah, that's the thing, it's not earning, it's evidence. Thank you for the question, blessings to you. Every step counts because movement is life. I'm Paul, a board certified doctor of holistic health, and I want to introduce you to Trivita's beetroot gummies, rich in nitrates to enhance vasodilation to give you the extra pick-me-up to keep you moving on the go. Each gummy contains the natural power of beetroot, which is known for its incredible ability to support healthy circulation, energy, stamina, and blood pressure. With Trivita's on-the-go beetroot gummies, you can get a natural boost of energy to power through each day. So, whether you're gardening, dancing, or enjoying time outdoors, Trivita's beetroot gummies keep you energized. Remember, movement is life.
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You're very welcome, sir. Cool. So I'm from Radar Apologetics. You know, I've had you on my YouTube channel before, and I saw that this was your last live Q&A call-in, so I had to call in and just drop a question by you for your thoughts. And let me just mention, of course, we're equipped immediately to be doing live Q&A chat.
I hope to be doing that from Kona in Hawaii next week at YWAM, doing some live YouTube chats. But we're just working on how we take calls without a radio, because right now we've got our guys that for 16 years have worked faithfully. In fact, give them a round of applause. Our team, just telling everyone, give them a round of applause. Our Truth team in Winston-Salem in North Carolina that takes the calls, and they've got the system to do that. So we're just looking at the best ways to be able to take calls.
This is something that we do online, et cetera, but certainly in terms of radio, switching just to a pre-recorded show. Yeah, this is part of the historic last day with that. We're just transitioning into other platforms, and always part of our goal is to answer questions. But anyway, back to you, sir. Oh, yeah, yeah, for sure, for sure. Technology changes, things changes. I totally get that.
Yeah. Thank you for all that you do. So I was just thinking, I'm involved with the Messianic movement. I'm ordained as a Messianic rabbi with the IMCS. And the Messianic movement is one small segment of the wider body messiah. And I'm just curious for you as a pioneer, where's the Messianic movement going to be from your perspective in like 20 years, 25 years? We don't have a lot of younger Messianic rabbis, Messianic Jewish life cycle.
Those congregations always really stay pretty small, you know, 50, 60 people. Do you see a boom in that? Do you not see a boom in it? Do you see a separation from some of the Messianic Jewish life cycle stuff to more of a traditional church charismatic expression? You know, just share some of your thoughts. Yeah, it's a great question. And at some of the conferences where I've spoken in the States, it is conspicuously older. You have young people, but not as young as much.
So I'm going to address this more broadly philosophically and then specifically, okay? When I first started hearing about Messianic Jews, because I just know I'm a Jewish follower of Jesus, a Jewish Christian, part of a church, I read about Messianic Jews or celebrating the Sabbath or meeting together on a Saturday. I thought, why are they going backwards?
That's all. It was very foreign to me. It seemed almost heretical.
So that's how foreign it was. And as many times as I'd read the book of Acts, it didn't really dawn on me fully that Paul continued to live as a Jew, you know, or that he said 1 Corinthians 7, if you're called and called to the Lord in salvation, circumcised, don't become uncircumcised. So it threw me, and then it was really in the early 80s that my eyes started to get open.
I remember meeting with a couple from Israel in 84. So this is 13 years into the Lord, teaching, preaching for years at this point. And it was kind of a revelation, like, oh, the first Jewish believers really did live as Jews.
I mean, I kind of knew it on a certain level. So it seems so foreign, whereas now I get debates from people all the time about whether all Christians should keep the Seventh-day Sabbath, you know, and should all Christians be under the law. In other words, there's been a massive turn in perception. So with all the smallness of the Messianic movement, because those who would be part of Messianic congregations are a fraction of Jewish believers worldwide, especially in America. I would imagine that they're less than one-tenth that Jewish believers in America, probably 90% plus, are in churches, not in Messianic congregations. And yet, with a small size, it's helped bring about a massive shift in the concepts of the church, in the recognition of Jewish roots, in the recognition of the validity of Jewish believers living Jewish lives, not for salvation, but out of calling and covenant, out of the whole church recognizing the importance of the feast, etc. So beautiful, amazing changes that have happened in front of my eyes in just a period of decades. That's seismic, and that's the Lord.
That's one thing. Secondly, within Israel, the Messianic movement is growing, because you are a Jew there, and it's just normal lifestyle. The Sabbath is not a work day.
Everything shuts down on Yom Kippur. So that is now growing massively. At the founding of the State of Israel, I understand there were maybe a dozen known Jewish believers. Now it's probably 30,000 plus.
Many have come from Russia, other countries, but 30,000 plus, including several thousand native-born Israeli believers in Yeshua. So that number's growing. I see that growing more and more. I see the closer we get to the end that there'll be a real conflict. It's almost like the Book of Acts and the Gospels again. The Jewish believers versus Jewish leadership that rejects the Messiah.
I see that. As for the specific nature of the Messianic movement in America, that's the challenge, because what does it mean to be Jewish here? Is it Reform? Is it Conservative? Is it Orthodox? To what extent do you take it on?
So I don't know what to expect. If we don't have a real powerful revival among young people in the movement, I don't mean that they're backslidden, but just that you have a swirl of God moving and thank God for all the passionate young Messianic Jews in America, or you have massive salvation of another wave of Jewish people and it's just more natural for them to be Jewish, I'm not really sure where it's going. What I could see is more and more churches becoming sensitive to Jewish believers in their midst and saying, hey, why don't we just host a Messianic service? Or why don't you have a Messianic Bible study? And so it's not a separate thing, but part of a larger congregation. But for sure, there is a role. There is absolutely a role for Messianic Jewish congregations worldwide, because the presence of one Messianic congregation draws more attention to Jews believing in Jesus than thousands of Jews who are attending local churches and are just part of the community there. They're also a witness to the rest of the church about the importance of Jewish roots and a way to connect Jew and Gentile together in a very tangible way for the world to see, hey, we're one body, we work together. So I believe there must be a future, but whether it's larger or not, I'm not sure about. I expect it to grow and flourish in Israel in extraordinary ways and for a witness to remain here in America for sure. But I wouldn't, if God's birthing something, we honor him and we don't struggle to preserve it. And there's a reason we've seen churches with many thousands of people and they have 500 or 1,000 Jewish believers among them, and maybe the largest Messianic congregation in the country, everyone together, Jew and Gentile, is maybe 400?
Is it more than, I don't know, 500? And yeah, maybe Baruch Hashem in Dallas, it's been healthy for so many years. And then your average Messianic congregation outside of major Jewish population centers is probably 80, 90 percent Gentile.
You've got to be in a heavier Jewish population where the numbers are half or higher Jews. So there is a place, it is scriptural, but I wouldn't worry about we have to maintain it, we have to make it happen. Just honor the Lord through what he calls us to do and things fall into place. But it's a great question, I appreciate it. Yeah, I 100 percent agree with that. And I think that revival is the key that you're talking about, and I think that what happens is that there's this, sometimes within the Messianic movement, this deep stigma to be anti-church or traditional church expression, and I believe that sometimes within the Messianic movement and even some of the more fringe expressions of it, there's this desire to preach Messianic Judaism versus focusing on the Messiah in the midst of some of the cultural differences. Oh, no, that's the massive issue. That's the massive hindrance to revival. That's the massive issue I've had forever. As much as I've been part of the movement, that was always my issue. You go down the road, they're just preaching Jesus and people are flocking, and you come on our service and we're preaching being Jewish, and that's not going to save people.
So, yeah, we've got to keep the center where it is. And in that regard, search online for my paper on the place of rabbinic tradition in Messianic Judaism. It should be on our website, the line of fire.
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And this way, every time we put out new material, you'll know about it. All right, with that, let's go over to Joshua in Texas. Welcome to The Line of Fire.
Hey, Dr. Brown, appreciate you. A couple callers ago, kind of touched on this. I agree with you on your position on forfeiting your salvation. I watched your videos actually this morning about being in a plane and trusting the pilot to take you.
You could jump out. And, you know, 1 Corinthians 6, 9. I was talking to someone a couple weeks ago about this, and he presented the argument. I didn't know how to respond about, you know, once you become a new creation in Christ, you know, God is your Father. And then, you know, I know you spoke about, like, several different people that actually, you know, wrote worship songs and preached, and then they walked away from the faith. And so he was saying that, like, you know, once you become a son, how can God, like, unadopt you? And I'm like, no, dude.
Yeah, it's a great question. Does God make and unmake sons? So my meme answer, my soundbite answer is, He doesn't force you to stay in His house.
You can always leave. In other words, if the prodigal left, the prodigal died in his sin, he was outside the Father's house. He had to repent and come back.
The Father ran to welcome him. So if we want to stay, God's not going to push us out, no matter how many struggles we have. If we want to be His children, He may forgive you 20 million times a day.
Oh, God, I'm so weak, I keep falling. But I want, you know, He'll forgive. He's mercy, He's beyond our understanding of mercy, right? However, He doesn't force us. That's my answer. Does He unmake sons?
He doesn't force us to stay in His house. It's that simple. Yeah, I hear you. I'm just thinking about, like, you know, my sons. God forbid, you know, they left me and did their own thing. Like, they would still be my son. Like, I would, you know, pray for them to be reconciled, but they would never stop being my son.
So I just didn't know how to balance the two. Like, oh, that's... Yeah, one thing you could say... I ultimately agree. Yeah, you could say, okay, first, are any of us physical sons of God? No. So we're all adopted sons, right? Is it possible you could adopt a son and then disown them? Is that possible?
You know, could that ever happen? Look, if God could say about His own children, Israel, in the Old Testament, these are not my children, even though they were, if He could say that about them, then what do we say? If He could say, okay, you are my people, lo ami, Hosea 1, not my people. You're not my people. So even though He calls them as people, my people don't know me, like Isaiah 1. Other places, you're not my people. You're not my people. Jesus, the Jewish people, as a nation, were God's firstborn son, but He told those who were in sin, your father is the devil. So you have to just say, okay, you have your little analogy, but are we physical descendants of God?
No. Okay, so then your analogy doesn't work. Let's use biblical, it's a biblical analogy. Let's use biblical language and biblical logic.
And that's what we often, we get caught up with it. It's like, how do I answer that? It's like, well, use the Bible. Use the Bible. So it's a great question, but again, let's use biblical language, biblical logic. So like if we go to Hosea, the first chapter, okay? Hosea chapter, well, we go to the end of the first chapter, beginning of the second. Hang on, I typed in the wrong reference there.
That's why I couldn't get there. So we go to Hosea 1, and okay, so God's going to bring punishment and judgment. So she bears a daughter, and he says, call her Loruchama.
So it means not receiving mercy, not pardoning. And then has another son, Lo Ammi, not my people. Then, look at this, the number of the people of Israel shall be like the sands of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted. And instead of being told, you are not my people, they should be called children of the living God. So Israel was God's son. Yeah, but at that point, they were disowned, and now he says, I'm going to call you children again.
So we use biblical logic for biblical language, not human logic for biblical language. All right? Okay, awesome. Yes, sir, that makes sense. I appreciate you.
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Let's go to Chris in Florida. Welcome to the line of fire. Hey, good afternoon, Dr. Brown. Hey.
So, quick thing here before I ask you a question. I just want to let you know, man, please forgive me. You know, a few years back, I wrote you a letter concerning some of the prophecies with Trump, and I stood with them and figured you were bashing them, but I clung to an untested prophecy.
Yeah, hey, look, it had... Oh, I mean, I don't see everything that comes in, but first, from the heart, forgiven. And second, I understand you really thought God spoke, and I was coming against faith and all of that, you know, and I get it, all good, and everybody learns from it without hearing as many prophecies this time around, hardly any, actually, which is a good thing, you know, even though most didn't repent of the error. And then my issue was not that he'll never be president again.
Actually, I wanted the prophets to be right back then. My issue was, you said eight consecutive years, and Biden will never be in, and that didn't happen. So own it, and then we forgive and learn from it and move forward. All right, but thank you for your integrity, Chris. I appreciate that. Yep, no problem.
Thank you so much. My question was to you there. Yeah, go ahead. Okay, and the question was this. Especially holding a Trinitarian view, I kind of ran into somebody that was dealing with the duality, where they kind of reject the Holy Spirit as divinity, and one of the questions was, and I can't really hit an argument with this, is can the Holy Spirit be worshipped? Right, so let's first ask what the Bible tells us about the Holy Spirit. So the Holy Spirit's mentioned the first time in Genesis 1, verse 2.
So this is right out of the gate. We have reference to the Holy Spirit. Is there anyone eternal other than God?
No. Okay, so Hebrews 9 calls him the eternal spirit. So that's the first thing. He's called the eternal spirit. So if he's not God, then who is he? You say, well, how do you know he's a he? So Hebrews 9 references the eternal spirit.
So that's the first thing. Second thing, we know that this is not just a power because Acts 5, Ananias and Sapphira lie to the Holy Spirit. Now what does it say? You didn't lie to men, you lied to God. Amen.
All right, let's even take it further. How holy is the Holy Spirit? So Mark 3 and the parallels in the gospels. You can be forgiven for every sin spoken against the Father and the Son, but if you blaspheme the Spirit, you'll never be forgiven. So drop the question, can the Spirit be worshipped? Jesus is saying you better treat the Spirit with special reverence and respect.
Amen, amen, amen. So just that puts the argument, it's like forget the question of worship. He has to be revered on an extraordinary level. But his whole job is to draw attention to Jesus and then Jesus to the Father. So that's why the emphasis of worship goes in that direction. He comes alongside of us to turn our hearts to Jesus and then Jesus turns our hearts to the Father and God is worshipped all in all.
So that's his mission, he doesn't draw attention to himself, but he is God, he is eternal, and to blaspheme him is a severe sin. Amen, thank you, Dr. Brown. Thank you for your forgiveness too, man.
Oh, of course, of course. Actually, you know, to be honest with you, when I've had, now we had no running, I didn't know you, we had some battle, you know. But let me just tell you from the heart, if you had posted 20 videos about me, each one of which got a million views, right, and enriched you and tore down my ministry and hurt us, and you came and apologized, I wasn't mad at you in the first place.
You know what I'm saying? I felt bad that you felt like that and you felt the need to do it and I pray for God's best for you, but he's so incredibly merciful to me and kind to me every day of my life that how can I not extend that to others? You know, when you know, just saying it brings tears to my eyes, the depth of his grace and mercy and kindness towards us is such, you know. Amen. But bless you, man, thank you for your integrity, it means a lot. And if I ever meet you face to face, we'll give you a hug, okay? God bless you, Dr. Brown, love you, bro. Love you. 866-344-TRUTH. And yes, we're not going to go our last live radio call day without the voice of a woman.
Thank you, Charlotte from Ohio. Hello, Dr. Brown. I have a question regarding an issue that has been very disturbing and I feel like it is a cult. And this whole ideology, I have seen people question their salvation.
This is very toxic and let's see, where do I begin? Number one, they say that the name Jesus stems from the word Zeus. Yeah, which is as true as that Moses comes from mice.
One million percent ignorance and forgive the technical word, philological, phonetic, it doesn't even work on a linguistic level. Okay, so that is bad error, anyone who holds to that and then that you can't use the name of Jesus. That's a hundred percent cult-like out of the gate.
Okay, back to you. Yes, and they're saying Yahushua is the only real name of Jesus and Yeshua is even wrong. Yeah, so again, all that is is ignorance and if they make that a doctrine and teach it, I would run from it.
I would run from it. I know you do, but I urge others and the responses you'll get, and we're going to talk on the other side of the break, but let me say this before the break. Everybody go to my website, thelineoffire.org, thelineoffire.org and just type in Zeus and you'll see the article where we demolish this nonsense.
Thelineoffire.org, type in Zeus. But the cult-like groups have these little sticking points and if you violate that, like Jehovah's Witness, you can't get a blood transfusion based on a misreading of not eating blood as prohibited in the Old Testament. They have these little things. Oh, the ladies, you have Julie, you're not saved. There's always going to be a little thing here, picked up here, picked up here, picked up there and people come into bondage. All right, we'll come back, get you as many calls as we can on the other side of the break. This is how we rise up. It's all resistance.
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Here again is Dr. Michael Brown. Thanks, friends, for joining us. So back to Charlotte in Ohio.
So we got cut off by the break there. What else did you want to communicate to me? A couple more concerns about this cult. They're saying that all the Jews in Israel are of the synagogue of Satan. And I saw recently a video from a leadership in Iran to a black church in America.
It was a video call. And they're telling this large congregation that they are the true Jews and that all the blacks are the true Jews. And the Jews in Israel are from Satan. And this is something that's like a cancer growing. And it's very disturbing.
I have a friend that's from France, and he's an evangelist, and he's fall prey to this indoctrination. And the woman that is doing this with him, I have been in encounters with her. And I actually had a spiritual dream about the woman. And God showed me it's like a cancer or sores or eating her up, and she had this zombified state of mind.
And this is from the devil, I know. And I just wish I had the expertise, you know, in language like you do to answer this fellow, this fellow Christian. But I see others saying, Oh, I got saved in Jesus' name. I prayed in Jesus' name. They're saying the whole King James Bible.
Yeah, it's all based 100% on lies, misinformation. So a couple things. For everyone that's listening to this right now, I want to encourage you to... Hang on, I just clicked the wrong button here. Let me do this. There we go.
Okay. Go to our YouTube channel, The Line of Fire. Search for Hebrew Israelite. Search for synagogue of Satan.
Search for any of those things. You'll see discussions, even debates. And then, Charlotte, I want to send you as a gift. So, Truth, if you could get Charlotte's mailing address, I want to send you as a gift my book, Our Hands Are Stained with Blood, the new edition, 2019. Our Hands Are Stained with Blood. It'll show you the history of anti-Semitism in the church, as well as the modern manifestations of Jew hatred, including today's Jews are not really Jews and all of that. So Our Hands Are Stained with Blood.
I want to send you that as a gift, and it's going to give you a lot of ammunition. But above all, it's a spiritual deception. And you have to pray that people's hearts and minds are open, because you present them all the facts, and it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. So may God open eyes and hearts.
So Truth, just get Charlotte's info. We'll send you a copy for free of my book, Our Hands Are Stained with Blood. Everybody else, get that book and get Christian anti-Semitism.
Those two, side by side, 2019, new edition of Our Hands Are Stained with Blood, 2020, Christian anti-Semitism. We deal with this nonsense head on, on different levels. All right, let's go to David in Wisconsin. Welcome to the line of fire. Good afternoon, Dr. Brown. It's an honor to be on here.
Thank you. Real quick, so the question I wanted to bring to, I'm having a hard time even wording it. So I grew up, I grew up in the Christian church.
Family was pastoral there, you know, been surrounded by what you would proclaim to be all the right people. And the hard part was I met my wife, and bless her, 30 years. So I found this amazing woman of God, and she challenged me. And so now I've been trying to piece this all together regarding the law.
I'm sure you get this all the time. But the best thing that I've heard so far was looking at the, that we still observe the principles of the law. The law doesn't save us, but it never did. So I'm just, I guess I'm trying to figure out, going through Paul, you know, because I hear Galatians seems to be the hardest one, but like, if you go to Romans, you know, he says it's the doers, it's the, you know, so how do we, I don't know how to ask this, do we look at the principles of every law? Right, right, so let's start here.
Let's start here, okay? Why don't we have, there's a tremendous amount of the law that deals with blood sacrifices, priesthood, and all that. Why don't we have those things now?
Well, because Jesus. Oh, okay. So something changed, correct? Something changed. Very fundamentally, something changed. Hebrews 7 says, under the law to be a priest, you had to be a descendant of Levi. So there must be a change in the law for the high priest to be from Judah, okay? So something changed. Hebrews 8 quotes Jeremiah 31, we are under a new covenant.
So we all acknowledge something changed dramatically. Why aren't we stoning disobedient and rebellious teenagers? Why aren't we burning sorcerers? Why aren't we stoning adulterers?
Because we're not under those laws. In the Old Testament, people would be put to death in the New Testament if they're adulterers, they're excommunicated, right? So, you know, persistent unrepentant sin, excommunicated.
So that's the first thing. The second thing is, the specific aspects of the law, like food laws, Sabbath, that was given to Israel to set Israel apart from the nations. God never laid that on Gentile believers. It's explicit in Acts 15.
He never laid it on them. The Jewish believers who were continuing to live as Jews said to the others, yeah, if through Jesus, a Gentile gets baptized now to keep the whole law, they could have done that before Jesus. If they want to be part of Israel, they could have done that. They could have converted to Judaism and everyone be baptized, men be circumcised, and you're part of Israel.
He said, no, no, you don't have to do that because you're not under that. These were things God gave us as Jewish people, but he didn't give it to everybody, so here are basic principles to live by, and then the rest is filled out in the epistles. You say, but Acts 15 says, in every city Moses is taught.
It's not saying they're going to get it originally. We're telling you that you don't need to keep the Sabbath and the dietary laws that was not laid on the Gentile believers, and every detail of the law is not laid on them. That's why the Gentile believers here, they're rejoicing.
Okay, good, we don't have to come under that. It's not to say, but if you keep listening in the synagogue, you'll do it. No, rather, they're familiar with these things. They've heard these basic things were outlined if they've been in the synagogue, so they've heard it.
They're used to it. In any case, the New Testament, show me one verse in the New Testament that condemns or judges or speaks against a believer, Gentile believer, for not observing the Sabbath or not keeping the dietary laws. They're not there. Show me verses that speak against idolatry, immorality, injustice, rude behavior.
They're all there. So the righteous principles of the law, the standards of the law, the moral high ground is lived out through us, but the things that God gave Israel specifically, they were signs for Israel, and then a whole relationship with the law has changed through the Messiah coming into the world. If you want to study this further, I have a book, 60 Questions Christians Ask About Jewish Beliefs and Practices.
That'd be awesome. 60 questions Christians ask about Jewish beliefs and practices. Are you able to purchase a book? You can afford a book or no? Absolutely. Okay.
Yeah, so the last quarter of the book just deals with Christians and the law. So it's 60 questions. Put in my name, 60 questions. Hey, thank you.
You've asked the same question others have asked, so I appreciate it. Blessings to you. All right, let's see.
Let's go to Adam in North Carolina. Thanks for calling. Hey, how's it going, Dr. Brown? It's going well, thanks. Excellent.
Thank you for bringing me on. So what I wanted to ask you, I've actually talked to you a couple months ago, and I wanted to expand on this same issue of the Mosaic Law, specifically, like, the more challenging laws from a moral perspective in today's standard. Yeah. So I came across, there's a scholar named Joel Kuritko.
I don't know if you know who that is. Okay, yeah. He's more of a more of a Septuagint scholar, and he showed me this verse in Ezekiel that I thought was very interesting.
Usually, I refer to Matthew 19 to show that Jesus is saying, well, the reason that you guys were allowed to divorce, Moses allowed you to divorce is because hearts were hard. Right, right. Right.
And so Joel Kuritko goes further and points to Ezekiel 20, 25, right? I also gave them statutes that were not good. No, back up, read the context. Back up, read the context.
Yeah. Yeah, so it's saying quite the opposite. In other words, he's saying, okay, you rejected my good laws, you rejected my Torah, you rejected everything that's in there.
I'm not going to give you law. Go ahead, do what the nations do. Go ahead, worship their idols. Go ahead, sin. Go ahead.
So it's the exact opposite. It's because you rejected God's good laws and good words that it's just like, fine, you wanted the idols? Go ahead. I'm now appointing you to worship the idols. It's funny because I was just in my, every day to start the day, I'm just listening to three chapters from the word, then do more reading and study later. But it just so happened that I listened to these today and I thought, yeah, people have these kind of questions. I'm looking at the clock ticking as we're about out of time, but it's like the context is saying the opposite.
And that would be a violation of everything else in Ezekiel because what does God judge Israel for but all these other violations that are part of his Torah? Hey, blessings. We continue on in digital form in the days ahead. We'll have best of broadcast next week, some live streams from Kona, Hawaii. Make sure you connect it with us, thelineoffire.org. The best is yet to come.
