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The questions we've got answers. I am so ready. Let's do it is time for the line of fire with your host activist and author, international speaker and theologian Dr. Michael Brown your voice of moral cultural and spiritual revolution Michael Brown is the director of the coalition of conscience and president of fire school of ministry get into the line of fire now by calling 866-34-TRUTH. That's 866-34-TRUTH here again is Dr. Michael Brown welcome welcome to the line of fire. This is Michael Brown I'm coming your way, live from Minnesota here for the weekend for a special Israel conference actually Friday Saturday before preaching in South Carolina on Sunday. If you're anywhere near Minnesota. Join us tonight Friday night all day tomorrow, Saturday night as well go to ask Dr. Brown.org asking your Brown.org for the itinerary there and you'll see exactly where I'm going to be any question that you have of any kind. If it's appropriate for Christian radio.

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I was at the grocery store yesterday buying a few things before flying out to spring a few things home before flying out of town and there's a young man at the checkout counter nest always doing great how are you doing this oh so good. Great, great, so as he's checking me out. He's going to the different items I get a lot of produce all the time and I got the bunch of Fuji organic apples because I've bought them and done self check out many a time I knew the code for them. 941 31 so as he's about to look to see because they're all different kinds apples. You gotta read the label to see which ones these are that he's about to do it as it is 941 31.

He looked up at me with shock is how you know that I said but I buy them a lot. That's the one code I know :-) go on the stick and the broccoli sickness chicken that goes through it. Then, as I'm about to leave. I see his arm and he's got a tattoo on his arm on his right arm and Siebert Mrs. Cesar Dosh so I said to him, Jos� cut Dosh during the new saying your tattoo will now the Fuji Apple thing, surprised, but at least absolutely shocked and said how do you know that I saw a PhD in somatic language.

The receiver is a biblical concept to assist the dusk of the regular thing. Sorry, he's completely shocked. I said why did you put that on your own as well. I'm interning at a church and at in the area. Here in my life is just been so changed being there.

I said which church he told us all yeah I know the past, user-friendly, severe, here's the website.

Come visit self. The Fuji Apple thing surprise them. But what really what really got him was the reading that he recited it was just it was a cute little moment there right I was asked a question by little girl. Maybe she's listening now and other guest speakers at the conference couldn't answer it. So I was asked if she spent eight years old and she she she want to know how could Jesus be in everyone's heart.

At the same time as one person one place so you know answering children's questions different than answering questions at all questions I do with my eyes closed children's questions man those are difficult, I pray for wisdom on those and at this idea came to my noticeable when the rain comes down weeks ago. She said into the ground. A civil if the if it's hard ground if it's hard ground, and the like on the concrete which secure just in a puddle.

She suggested you can touch and feel it's among place accident what happens when the sun comes out. What goes back in the area disappears and it goes everywhere right and she said yeah Jesus is here on the earth in one body, one place, but then said to have any could go everywhere and lo and behold it worked into work that the analogy works. Thank God for his grace and help okay.

I hope you will have questions as hard as that today will do our best to answer you will become back 866348788. The line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown your voice of moral cultural and spiritual revolution.

Here again is Dr. Michael Brown transport seven questions we got answers restart in Neptune New Jersey with Arman. Welcome to the line of fire very well, thank you.

Okay so I am a daily with your pocket third and been blessed by you greatly this year because we need to be praying about anything. Talk about the thing under grateful for you shall will sound very much. Also I like to tell you I haven't bought the book, breaking the stronghold yet, but I will place all the junk in my life with delicious and nutritious food for God-given come on about 33 weeks on, experience incredible result already excellent at all. The good news, news, praise God.

I have a question I've talked to some good brother in the Lord a few passes about the subject. The age of the earth and you know they've been able to give them good good argument for it being only several thousand of your goal. I've always had an inkling I get David a lot older I listen to John Lennox explained his position on why you think that BB earth is a lot older and I know that you hold PhD in medical language is just very interested to hear your insight on on on the age of your yes sir I number number one. I I would say that it is very important that we not divide over this because sometimes the debate gets very intense and I've seen people, especially young nurse creationists say that that others are denying the faith or heading towards apostasy when they question the age of the earth, and things like that and then some older threesomes of the younger theaters are an embarrassment to the gospel with their position because it's on scientific we need to start tone down the rhetoric number one because if if we were living at different different points in history. This wouldn't even be a discussion even if everyone believed the earth was young, or whatever it is just wasn't a part of doctrinal issue doctrinal debate.

Never something that that the church was fighting over in the early centuries you might say yeah well it really wasn't an issue, but everything to be fought over here who Jesus is in the nature of redemption and atonement than a thousand other things so as far as the Hebrew text of Genesis 1 meditating on it several decades ago while doing my PhD work at NYU. What struck me was that was not there to teach a science doesn't mean it's scientifically false. But it wasn't there to teach a science. It was to teach us about who God is. So when I'm reading it. That's what how I'm reading on letting thinking science at all.

It's give me a revelation of the character and nature of God. This God who brings light out of darkness this God who brings order out of chaos. This God who in a systematic way sets up a life producing life-sustaining world with human beings at the pinnacle of his creation reflecting his image and with a mission on this earth and and when I look at the rest of the Bible and how it refers back to this may mention the Lord make inheritance in in six days may reference that send 10 Commandments and things like that but the whole emphasis when you go back and read other passages of Scripture reflecting on these themes.

It's all about who God is. It's all about how he rules and reigns. It's all about his kingship in the earth.

It's all about his pushing back the powers of darkness so the last thing that I want to do based on Genesis 1 is get into a scientific debate. That's number one number two. The Hebrew word day.

Your home is no different than the English word day and that they can refer to daytime versus night time as it does arrange Genesis 1 to have two different meanings. In Genesis 1 right daytime versus nighttime and then day is a 24-hour period, then it can just mean time at the day of the Lord is at a 24 hour day as it appeared of times in a moment of time. It can be used in the same way. In the Hebrew expression Villaume in the day when or in the day of just means when so all throughout Genesis and other books of the Bible you own there in the city him in the day of just means when so based on reading Genesis 1, Hebrew meditating on it in the context of the rest of Scripture.

I I don't think you can date the earth either way.

Now if you want to argue based on the genealogies that would point to a younger earth that if you just trace the genealogies from Adam on out. That would point to a younger earth and less we interpret the genealogies as saying if it says that that Adam had so-and-so as a son that it either means it was his literal song, or that this was the head of the next generation that's going to be looked at in other words, Adam had descendents going all the way down to this person who's the next person we pick up on and he was a son heat so begotten in that sense and it's not uncommon in the ancient genealogies to have large gaps so I'm perfectly fine with some and using the Bible and concluding that the earth is young. I'm perfectly fine with something using above and concluding that the earth is old, I think, based on Scripture alone. It's an open debate and I don't have the scientific acumen to to decide beyond it.

I've had old earth creationists are like, like you, Ross would be the best known and others from from a rhesus to believe and they make brilliant arguments and I sit there and listen and sounds great to me and I've had young earth creationist, Jonathan saw 14 others. Absolutely brilliant men slick Ken ham listed as make sense to me so scientifically. I can target so all I say is based on the Hebrew based on the way things are interpreted throughout the entire Old Testament. Our whole emphasis should be who God is, in creation versus the science of Genesis 1 all that the scientists debate that I'm just looking at it in terms of an exegete and a student of Scripture and the key thing is let us have friendly differences over it. Let us not divide over it or vilify one another over yeah it absolutely is so interesting. I like having a bit yet and it didn't get beat, I'm not needed for my hand because I'm on the same mind you, where you know I'm glad it's not about vacation. Talk about the things and not not divide over and that type of event, but it is II would look at the lunatic when I even know men can be good question. I know but maybe that's a little drunk but but either way, they got it get elected, noted, yeah, I would just say hey just do me a favor let's let's use the New Testament as our guy and please show me where this was ever an issue but the ancient Greeks believed the universe was eternal right and and we say that it had a beginning, God created it so. In the ancient world. There were certainly debates about some of these things not the way they are in the modern world, but see if I was saying based on science. I'm reinterpreting the Bible, then you could question my faithfulness to Scripture.

All right, but I'm not. I don't I from what I understand the scientific consensus is that the earth is old but I respect younger earth scientists. I do and and because this is not my area of expertise. I'll let them know that science is an older sciences battle out those differences and for me, I'm just trying to be faithful to Scripture what I was, not impacted by evolution.

II was never moved by scientific objections to the Bible sets.

This is not an issue for me. It's all a matter what Scripture says, hey, I appreciate the call and the kind words. Keep eating and living healthily and glorify the Lord.

Thanks again, 8663 for 87884. Let's go to Michael and Denver Colorado. Welcome to the line of fire.

Hello Dr. Brown hello hello, my partner in and about. While I was under Dr. Eric debate and pastor pastor brought up back on that none and everything your garden. Yeah, but that out of the word bar and not Hebrew bent and I looked up and liked it either. Electric on an definitive out electronic duck and yeah why is why it are you not been yeah that's it's very simple argument initiates a just explain for our listeners when we called Psalm to kiss the son this to be angry we would quote that with reference to Jesus issue as the Messiah. Now it's not quoted in the New Testament. So our issue is not New Testament citation New Testament elsewhere cites tops on to the issue is not the New Testament citation of some control because it's not in the New Testament, the issue is the translation in most of our Christian translations. Most Jewish translations will read differently now in volume 3 of answering Jewish objections to Jesus.

I have an in-depth explanation of this. So those wanting more information. Volume 3 of answering Jewish objections to Jesus, but earlier in Psalm two. It references the sun and it just uses the Hebrew word then and throughout the Old Testament. The primary word son is been why then use the Aramaic word bar very good reason for not explain it. On the other side of the great River and it's the line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown into the line of fire now by calling 866-34-TRUTH here again is Dr. Michael Brown seven Whitesell Michael back to you. The other question that Toby Singer didn't raise with is the Hebrew nosh coup which would be taken to mean kiss can it mean kiss without a preposition. Following before the object doesn't mean something else.

Some of tried to argue that it means worshiping, purity, and it shouldn't be bar. Their son, but for purity difference because of the different suggestions. I once wrote a very long technical paper on this delivered it on a scholarly conference, but never published the paper. But in any case, the simple answer as to why Aramaic bar is used instead of Hebrew bent, especially when band son was used earlier in the chapter is very very simple bar is used elsewhere in the Old Testament, for example in Proverbs that the 30th chapter 8.

The word is use their and there are even famous rabbinic commentaries. The most famous of all of that sites is being being being given Ezra medieval commentary one is one of the greatest of the of the Jews come to sexy songs.

The beginning of Psalm 31 verse two it mentions son uses son and Aramaic better than Ezra says it means son there.

So there famous Jewish interpreters that understand to mean that, but it's very simple.

He's addressing the nations of the earth there and if you look up Jeremiah chapter 10 verse 11 in your Bible, you'll see that when God addresses the pagan nations. He addresses them in Aramaic because that was the most commonly spoken language for the Semitic nation surrounding Israel at that time. So if you want to speak something that the law understand speak it and Aramaic. So in a Jeremiah chapter 10 verse 11 in the midst of a book which is Hebrew, from beginning to end. That one verse is in Aramaic because God is speaking to the nations here, God is speaking to the nations about his son and therefore uses the Aramaic word son as he speaking to the nation, so a simple answer. Nothing mysterious or difficult about it and again is not quoted in the New Testament, but I believe it is the right translation to say kiss the son go after and why do Singer and other Rabbi playing explanation why do they keep bringing up the question about the Bible and our interpretation of it. Original and true explanation, you keep light kicking the thorn in Army liked what I experienced. If if the rabbi or the County missionary is a person of integrity. They will say now. Christians answer.

With this missing choose answer. With this, but here's why different in they would try to argue grammatically it doesn't work or it's just a stretch in whatever they try to come up with with some explanation. But if you have integrity will say now there is this answer. But here's my fill of fall short. However, if they don't have integrity, even though they know there's an answer. They figure you don't know is also can pull the wool over your eyes so God knows Toby Singer's reason. Okay, God knows. All I know is he's refused to debate me under false pretenses for over 25 years and because he recently put those false pretenses online. I responded with with the truth so my door remains open to debate him in any setting before any audiences losses affair moderated debate, but as to why he doesn't acknowledge that there's an answer either.

He thinks it's such a worthless answer is I can acknowledge it or he doesn't want you to know that there is a good answer and he figures that you probably won't know you may not of read my books or seen other commentaries that explain it and because of that is just happy to gloss over it. I unfortunately I do know of one situation with one of my friends who after he gave a lecture challenged him on a point and he said that's that's a worthy answer was what you just said is a worthy challenge and and I think you've got some some basis for that. My friend was still standing there when someone else came up to speak with him and raise the exact same point but they didn't have the answer my friend had so Toby Singer used the exact same answer that this this other guy had showed him was weak and he agreed there were problems in other words, if that is this person didn't have the answer that he was happy to not Thomasville that I find to be unfortunate and and I hate that's the case because most County missionaries have dealt with in the midst of our differences, I found them to be people of integrity and people of honesty in the midst of our differences. II have honest questions about a rubber Singer and and I hate to say that but that's been my experience all one that clearly.

I got it oral. Their report of an area. However, not very outgoing dialect of elevated and there. How did you don't believe in it. Plurality of God, you are there reports that there's two development there noted that there you have to understand though, that what may strike you as as being a certain singer having certain clarity is is not going to do it when I read it, and in most English translations. This can say thus says the Lord of hosts, the king of Israel, and his redeemer the Lord of hosts, so it's it's just reiterating who he is.

Knows when I'm reading that in Hebrew.

Personally, I'm not seeing that is as to Jehovah's rather if if it was me. This is what Michael Brown is saying yes the manual on the radio. Dr. Brown of that's all. So you may see a certain way, and it may strike you as as clear, but others will see if the similar hate Michael got a break coming up with thank you for the questions and again.

Sometimes a County missionary is not aware of our response, but most of them know my five times, most of them know my material so they are aware of responses and responses. The other others have have brought the ones that I've dealt with that have integrity will say no. Here's the here's the objection we say this and and the missionaries us with the because they say this and here's why believe the wrong and will go back and forth and and again most of the County missionaries have dealt with are found to be honest in that regards associate. Here's how the here's here, the messianic Jews respond. Here's how Dr. Brown response.

Here's why we differ. But others when they don't give the answer said look, I know one guy would not cite my books and what you wrote. And when I asked a friend of mine. What is the site my book 7 lease that he differed in us because he doesn't want others to see the there was if he is writing to traditional Jew he does know you are he would rather not refer to the books on my hands like yeah out our fertile academician or materialism confident put everything on the table.

It's clear from there. All right got around.

Thank you for the call 866-34-TRUTH, we just have one phone line open as a good time to get through on disco take caller after caller today so stay right there and come back on the other side of the break I got an important question for you when we come back and I'm going straight to the phones.

My latest article when a professor justifies and fantasize all yeah absolutely worth reading. Asked Dr. Brown as Katie around the will be right. It's the line of fire with your host activist, author, international speaker and theologian Dr. Michael Brown voice of more cultural and spiritual revolution get into the line of fire now by calling 66343 here again is Dr. Michael Brown 788 okay this new article that I wrote when a professor justifies infanticide. This is a professor Jerry Coyne teaches in the Department of ecology and human evolution at the University of Chicago quote if you're allowed to abort a fetus that has a severe genetic defect microcephaly. Spina bifida, spina bifida or so on, then why aren't you able to euthanize that same fetus just after its born when horror the article friends is chilling now in my new book, saving a sick America that is due out September 26, but hoping it preorder copies to you before that I have two whole chapters that deal with the crisis of our culture of death and God's way to change.

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You can do so and asked Dr. Brown, Don Ward, all right we go to Nashville, Tennessee David, welcome to the line of fire. Dr. Brown writer doing well thank you for your quick question and I want your opinion, what on earth I read an article and it brought to mind that the Old Testament didn't really use the coarctation of evangelical theology and I wonder what he think that it won't. This is this is symptomatic of a larger problem in church history where the Old Testament is either been harder to understand, or harder to apply obviously for traditional Jewish remains of of central importance. I was just reading a book about African Christianity and told her what I knew already that African Christians find the Old Testament much much more understandable than Western Christians. They relate to the tribal mentality they relate to the agricultural mentality they relate to some things about the reality of the spiritual realm and things like that so it it's often somewhat foreign to Christians who read it and use it but find it easier to relate say to the gospel of John than to the book of Leviticus. Understandably so that's 12 is that the centrality of the gospel becomes even clearer in the New Testament. In other words, the law was given by Moses, grace and truth come by. Jesus the Messiah. John 117 because of that the major tenets of Christian theology are going to be based primarily on the New Testament, but a solid systematic theology is the whole Bible. And that's the way it ought to be, but it's understandable that with our greater emphasis on the cross and redemption.

Things like that that we have more clarity in the New Testament will primarily use that file. The line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown get into the minor fire now by calling 866-34-TRUTH here again is Dr. Michael Brown again just just to be clear, David. It is, it is not that theologians use in the Old Testament is not inspired or not important, but if you're majoring on primarily New Testament themes or themes that the Old Testament anticipated and look forward to it's natural that the be more theological expression there just like for traditional Jew will talk about the Messiah, but there many talk about the law and its application to today because that to them is is at the heart of Old Testament revelation with a which is called the tongue off the Hebrew Bible, but to the extent that we as believers let's be practical to the extent that we as believers neglect the foundations of the Old Testament, to the extent that we ignore fundamental truths laid out in the New Testament to that extent we will find ourselves in an error will find ourselves lacking certain foundations will find ourselves having blind spots. Remember, the Bible of the first believers of Jesus and his disciples in the first generation of believers is what we call the Old Testament aright and then is the Gospels were written past on the oral tradition then written that there is up all of the letters written received the Scripture then there was more intuitive to go by with the idea that the Old Testament was somehow secondary would have been completely foreign to the believers that 86634.

I will go back to Nashville, Tennessee. Jessica hey by the way, September 24, which is the last Sunday of September.

I believe I'm scheduled to speak at Grace Chapel in Franklin Tennessee were given to a launch of my book saving a sick America. There, with pastor Steve Berger, so any folks listening and natural that are free that Sunday morning, September 24 will be doing a book launch of saving a sick America at Grace Church and Franklin are Jesse welcome to the broadcast wrong. My parents church before they moved away where they attended 05 America terrific that you yeah and Anna and it after both services will be at the table doing a book signing said by all means combine sick my hand. Okay, great.

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Been going back and forth with a Catholic plan on date Matthew 15 and you charged Peter out. The key to the kingdom and I was wondering if there sort of psychological or other significant that the apostle would've understood that we thought or arm, honoring Ali Hank skipped over that don't have a donkey at me that I do not know what it meant and I was wondering if there's any Old Testament understanding that the apostle had right get the ideas of course that say Catholics understand that better than than Protestants. I certainly I certainly don't don't read it in that in that way, but here are all just in the idea that that Peter is the rock and therefore that there is papal succession apostolic succession of my old friend Leonard Ravenhill died in 1994, but he used to say the only the only proof of apostolic succession is apostolic success to do the same things that the apostles were were doing, but I'll just read to you from Craig Keener's New Testament Bible background commentary on that were there images from the Old Testament or Judaism that people would've understood so will read Matthew 16 universe 17+ the Simon bar Jonah for flesh and what is not revealed this to my father was in heaven, and until you are appearing on this rock I will build my church, my car negation.

The gates of hell shall not prevail against it and I'll give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven. You bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. So Prof. Keener says this and here we go first. 19 the keeper of the keys was one of the most important roles a household servant could hold. See Mark 13, a high official held the keys in a row kingdom.

Isaiah 20 in God's house. The temple keys here refer to the authority to admit into the kingdom.

Matthew 2313 based on the knowledge of the truth about Jesus. Matthew 1616 the Qumran community's of Dead Sea Scrolls community also had officials deciding whether to ask. Admit members.

The decision was made based on the prospective member's acceptance of the community's rule of life than Craig says many Jews felt that the Jewish High Court acted on the authority of God's tribunal heaven in a sense ratifying its decrees binding and loosing also. Matthew 1818 returns regular use for rabbis legislative authority interpreting Scripture prohibiting the permitting and this could apply to judicial suits situations as well. See excuse me, so that's the end of the commenter. So it. In other words, what would Prof. Keener is reminding us up as a keys are keys keys open locks right so outside of the message of the cross. The message of salvation in Jesus there is there is no way to unlock this kingdom door and those keys were given to Peter and to the apostles there is there is nothing that you see in the rest of the book of acts that suggest for a split second that this was uniquely given to Peter we see all the others going out and preaching the same way and people coming to the Lord and then Peter's last words in the book of acts and in acts chapter 15 and from there on the whole focus is on Paul and his ministry as mentioned before that. So Peter's important repeaters. One of a number of important figures and there is no indication anywhere after that in the early church history, and that the opening centuries, the disciples of the disciples that Peter was the man had the authority or that whoever his successor was was the man and had the authority these ideas come about later, and then start to develop and then start to put a cloak of authority on Peter beyond anything that God gave him the keys of the kingdom and that's who gets in who gets out, and that's the preaching of the gospel that is the declaration that salvation is found in Jesus alone, and those who repent and believe. Repent to be baptized will be saved and then those that do are given the confirmation that you are now part of the kingdom of God for the family of God and will be baptized. We make these pronouncements. We are publicly affirming that so that's really all there is to it to it. To read more into it and to make it into succession of faith and so on and is is completely bogus and goes way beyond what Scripture says a lot while I BELONG to my buddy I appreciate your time. Sure thing � I appreciate it. Obviously, Catholics can interpret the differently but if I was Catholic I would but on subscriptions going that way, which is one reason I'm not Catholic 866-34-TRUTH of let's go to Andrew and Alabama. Welcome to the line of fire. Doing very well thank you. I attributed a ministry on some it's a great honor to be show say has after question for you. The first one is interesting to watch a video on YouTube this morning about you talking about the Brownsville revival and MacArthur event is is there anywhere on the planet right now where there is that sort of outpouring going on is Simone gridlock, I'm very desperate. I will literally fly anywhere on the planet as one of the stumpy Nike will be a part of, like right now I'm an obvious mentoring for about where I am always been to Israel, but is there any way that you know it is just like jaw-dropping concerns of the outpouring of the Spirit. Okay, I'm sure that there are places around the world regards moving in extraordinary ways. Much of it is not as public or as localized in a for example there's an amazing harvest of souls in Iran right now. Incredible salvation's and in mind-boggling ways, but for the most part it's it's a matter of of behind the scenes underground church and things like that. I have been in the midst of wonderfully healthy churches that for years have had a steady move of the Spirit and people coming to the Lord in real repentance and high quality discipleship, but not with the singular intensity of a Brownsville where people were standing on line 12 hours to get in the doors. People were getting safe standing in the parking lot of but given either their tribal regions in India was great outpouring where whole regions were unreached 25 years ago and now the whole region has been reached with the gospel.

But again it's it's a very different kind of setting. I know there were some outpourings in West Virginia. Maybe early this year and last year's alloy friends attended and said seemed to be powerful people really getting dramatically saved over that about a couple of the parts of the country by the top my head I I don't know. I don't know. Looks specific place I could point to stay right there were planned by the Expo line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown your voice and more cultural and spiritual revolution. Here again is Dr. Michael Brown six to Andrew to say this, the most important thing you can do at a time like this is go after garlic you've never gone after him before. Do your best to shut out everything else that's a distraction to cut away from everything.

That's not nonessential with personal life and family and to go after God, earnestly with prayer, with fasting, the first great breakthrough that came in my life did not come going somewhere else.

It came through God getting hold of me and then getting and people pray for me of course. But God, getting hold of me bringing me to deep repentance and then outpouring the spirit came through me and touch the church where I was to have jabbed my books. Whatever happened to the power of God and holy fire.

No, I don't okay let let me encourage you to check those books out one skull time for holy fire that is called whatever happened to the power of God. I believe if you read those books your own heart will be stirred fresh and God can meet you right where you are. If something does come to mind right here verifiable reports of that type of revival taking place up. I'll certainly announce it so others can be aware all right grade of the right not to question you about the street revival, but a lot of credit that being in a Bible Belt United. I get from the Baptist Church, which is what I'm familiar with are your thoughts on that where their counterfeit gift amount for that all genuine distorted document revival owes number one. It was a massive move of God that continues to make an impact on the world, to the point that when time magazine in the late 1990s sees me life magazine put out a special book which I I own on the 100 most significant events of the last thousand years. Azusa Street was number 68 this is life magazine. Yeah, because the worldwide Pentecostal movement, which came out of that Pentecostal charismatic movement, which now numbers probably about 600 million people more people save coming to the kingdom through this outpouring which you can largely trace back to Azusa Street than anything in church history. That being said, it was also controversial because whites and Blacks sat next to each other in the same services. The lot of racism and segregation, but without question it had blemishes it either. Even from a distance. We can see some of the misunderstandings in your people just writing out apparent gibberish and thinking they were writing different languages and stuff but with a genuinely filled with the spirit.

Yes, the city genuine holiness movement. Yes, did you generally have an impact around the world that continues to this day. Yes, you. You'll get insight in the holy fiber type really fire. I quote some of the critics of Azusa Street. You'll be amazed at the mockery they had then and how the fruit remains to this day. So it's the standard thing every revival is criticized to the point that Arthur Wallace that if something claims to be revival and it's not spoken against. Check it again to see if it's really revival so yet that's that's the reality.

It's always good to be spoken against, always misunderstood and like anything else that people are involved with it's going to have flaws and blemishes, and revival becomes even more exaggerated. In terms of flaws and blemishes, but look, I would say that those who deny the gifts and power. The spirit for today.

Those who deny or are are in serious error themselves and denying with the spirits doings today and misinterpreting the Bible so happy about that is something that we look at but the time for holy fire will help you and will stir as well and not only so, whatever happened to the power of God. I think will really like to further fire your heart to see God move more deeply, but Azusa Street when you read some of the accounts are out look up Frank Borneman and read some of the stuff minutes during its overwhelming that she praying and wanted to see God move fresh and is no real human explanation for the people involved is did not have the capability that they were not slick, but they were hungry for God so right thank you for the call. Appreciated enter you all right God bless 86634 out. Let's go to Brockton, Massachusetts.

Tom welcome to the line of fire. In Maryland. Thank you, I have one prayer and all art on the church. You often participate and acquire in the morning in the script for the past as well as greater care in a minute. Event other than on the department. So my pastor had asked me to speak on the morning, and without even calling me he had asked him on the common speak and is not the first time he has done something right there under other things also. I got asked him about the area prior asked in an abridged study of the bird that he can contracting pulled when I you on and so the their people in the church will knew that I was supposed but then I figure someone out.

My question is how do I stand good articulation.

I got to get right now my heart out to me. I should Get down a little bit but I don't get it what to do and and Tom, I am just jumping in and I hate to cut you off, but I'm looking at the clock and I want to make sure I can answer you before we run out of time yet. These situations are difficult and you do well to keep your heart pure not become angry or judgmental or bitter is you don't know the whole situation but when I would do. I would immediately ask to make an appointment with the pastor, then I would say pastor of I'm a little confused.

I was scheduled to speak with asked me to speak on this particular Sunday and then others were coming to hear me and then you brought in someone else to speak without letting me note that I do something wrong.

Is there something I'm missing that I miss communication somewhere and held out either be what he talked when III didn't know.

It's next Sunday you're speaking of heat, he had a mixup in his calendar or he sent an email to send data to change the schedule and or someone was supposed to tell you and they never told you or he has an issue with you and has a problem telling you directly. So if it's the last one if it wasn't just a mixup in an innocent mistake, then you just need to say okay please tell me what the issues are and you listen if you feel he has something valid to say so okay great I receive that put Whitney been better for you to come to me and tell me why you replace me with someone else and see see how much integrity has in his response is not the kind of skin to deal directly forthrightly.

This can be very difficult place for you to grow and mature and serve and make progress.

If there are some genuine issues that we need to grow. That's wonderful.

But if you're not satisfied with the conversation feel there is not honesty in a relationship that you have to pray about this is best place we can serve and grow. Hopefully system misunderstanding. This communication is something more serious enough to really pray about your future and that thank you sir. You got questions, we've got answers. I am so ready. Let's do it is time for the line of fire with your host activist and author, international speaker and theologian Dr. Michael Brown your voice of moral cultural and spiritual revolution Michael Brown is the director of the coalition of conscience and president of fire school of ministry get into the line of fire now by calling 866-34-TRUTH that's 866-34-TRUTH air again is Dr. Michael Brown.

Thanks so much for joining us today.

I am coming away live from Minnesota here for Israel conference tonight and tomorrow. If you're anywhere in the area within an hour or two way if you can make it over. That would be awesome.

I'm speaking tonight tomorrow morning.

The great speakers, great worship through the weekend if not more, go to my itinerary Esther Karen ask a DR Brown.org and when you go there you will see at once. Where will be just check the itinerary by the way the calls momentarily. By the way, first on the server happen with me. I went to to get my rental car today picked up the airport last night went to get in the rental car today and low and behold think that opening up with the key with Mark could not in its it's doesn't have actual lock is to key into right just press the button with open with open so I guess they had to come get me a different car.

Pretty crazy. Some is working out for me but anyway this my little adventure so far. They pretty minor. I was starting Germantown, Maryland Michael, welcome to the line of fire around hate have a question on act. Chapter 1 verse 13 and if time permits and another question on a separate subject, but had a question from acts chapter 1 verse 13 is I noticed the end of the various where it Judith, son of James, I noticed that in a lot of modern version that's what it felt. But the King James version.

Judith brother of Jane and I was wondering why that is. Yet there there are two different texts that that are that are being used okay or or excuse me, they are there trying to interpret with the Greek says in the Greek is literally Judas of Jacob or of James. Okay so the Greek text used by all of these different translators is the same text here and in Greek and solidity you DOS Jacob so your kobo so this is literally Judas of James, which is normally taken to mean Judas, the son of James as the is the more logical so the new King James. That's how it reads it.

You'll notice so if you're if you look at a King James it has the words, the brother of has those words in italics.

Meaning they're not there in the original Greek, there being supplied of the new King James has those words in italics, the son of so literally in Greek. It's Judas of James, but noticing of someone does not mean related to his brother, but of meaning that your father so that's why the new King James corrects it to Judas, the son of James, and that's why you see that and all other modern translations okay. All right. Let's go for question two okay question on coinventor on how to talk about a day to day out with my in and day on the first day that have any of the Sabbath have anything to do with that as it pertains to the private starting in the evening and then finishing on the next day as opposed I believe in our culture you know a day with competitor daylight morning dying in the morning and at night is so that the biblical and ancient near Eastern way of looking at a day the evening and morning so the way it's written in Genesis 1. That's the way it was recommended in the ancient world after us with everything being based on on night and think your nightfall and things like that and it could make sense to say today starts with Don right like we do. But yeah that's that's Genesis 1. That's dependence.

False religious Jew there calendar set to start Friday night goes to Saturday sundown and that's how holidays begin start at that night and the next day. Just as in Genesis 1 exactly so all right will be right back in the line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown get into the line of fire now by calling 866-34-TRUTH here again is Dr. Michael Brown for joining us on the line of fire to speak with you today from Minnesota this is Michael Brown 866-34-TRUTH 7884.

Let's go to Kim in Winston-Salem North Carolina. Thanks for calling Dr. Brown Matthew eight with the disciples that Annie told O'Neill rate. But freely you have received, freely give. If you have a path to get to Revelation from the low to identify the body of Christ in any sale for Revelation in a will or DVD or put it on the website, but you have to download to pay for it.

Maybe yes, maybe no. For example, let me let me ask you this who is paying to print the book. Who is paying to edit a book who is having paying to get the book out into people's hands was who's paying for the physical book where's that money coming from those if I publish a book right and you're gonna read it where where's that money coming from to publish the book right right it, and in other words, it costs a lot of money to put out a book. There's a whole process of editing and and setting that that this the book and then physically printing all that.

So if I charge money for a revelation that God has freely given me. I would say that sinful if I put it in a certain form and it requires years of research and writing of work to put it in that form and then money to print and publish that form and people are paying for that that's perfectly understandable if, for example, let's look at this Amman I'm on the radio right so I everything I'm doing is totally free right you are listening freely. You can get the podcast for free. We have over 900 videos on YouTube that are free. I write hundreds of articles every year Under our sincere those are free I preach.

You don't have to pay to come hear me preach. However, it cost us a lot of money to be on the radio so if I don't have funds to be on the radio. I can't be on the radio since they have when I'm writing a book. No one's paying me to write the book you know him say I'm doing that on my time, my effort my energy.

Now we publish the book so I can. I can't take everything the contents of the book and put that on the one message written on a YouTube video so if if I say have got this amazing new revelation to get it in the other way get you to pay for. I have a problem with that if I'm saying if you want to dig deeper. If you want to get more. I put out this form and accosted by the put out this form. So that's why have to charge that's perfectly understandable like different Stu Epperson says who who is head of truth radio that that is a made major syndicator as he always says the gospel is free, but some is good pay for the plumbing, so there are bills associated with your little church service right of who paid for that building who paid for the heating who paid for the air conditioning if that pastors there he expected to be no available 24 hours to date who's paying his salary. That's why we give in the church in that context. So there are some people Kim who are mercenaries there in this for the money they're in this to make a living and they're looking for the latest gimmick to sell you make money. That's corrupt that sinful, but most everybody I know there try to get a message out. Try to get that's really means that they can and some of those means cost money source and hey is a cost involved. Could you help me. That cost your lien. We've given away probably over the years made 100,000 books to people giving them away freely as God supplied, but otherwise we have to charge because they cost us money is the sunset answer question okay yeah but but again Kim, I want to do my best to believe the best about people and not think that they're in it for the money or that this is a cheap gimmick. Unfortunately, there are there are people who are mercenary prophets who are who are charlatans or who who are believers, but have a weak spot here so we do our best to get the message out.

That's why almost all really any gospel preaching church in America you can walk in there right and hear that message free if you go there 10 years and never give a dime you can listen to my radio show for 10 years and never give a dime and were still here.

As long as the money supply were still here but if we put out a particular product.

Work hard on it for years or for months. Work with the team on someone's gotta pay those salaries to make it happen and and almost everything that's done is done, sacrificially.

I know very, very few people that are really making a lot of money selling books or things like that. If you do, but most you do if you have a burden when you get a message out to Kim thank you for the call and the important question 86634 our regular friend Todd in Cedar Grove. Welcome to the line of fire.

I would like Dr. Brown. Plot the book of Jennifer we read about of better war by placing the hand under five and up. The bond at one of the significant areas of doing it that way. Yeah.

For example, you you you might have Genesis that the 24th chapter which is the example at first comes to mind, which normally understood. You can't prove it but which normally understood is by putting the hand under the thigh you are putting the hand close to the individual's private parts. Speaking of reproduction. Speaking of future generations and that's what the oath is being tied in with it is it is again exactly what that signifies can be debated, but for example in Genesis 24. The "o" ties in with finding a wife for Isaac and thus continuing the line of Abraham through Isaac and his offspring. The promised seed.

So this oath than ties in with the seed so it ties in with future generations, and that's why it's done in that way your body all of it. The big library and go elsewhere doing the same way, exactly. Yeah exactly the case it's the other example. Of course that that comes to mind.

You mentioned to their soul yet it's the same thing.

It seems to be speaking of future progeny. It did and so in the context in Genesis 24 that is that is certain as well if if we go to up to the end of the book of Genesis. For example, and where Joseph is is is with his with his father right and this this is the final oath, etc. so he commands him about to be gathered to my people. So on, but the oath taken on the oath of Barry my bones different things like that it's it's all about the future. It's all about progeny.

It's all about future generations and in in that sense, putting a hand under the thigh was symbolic of that, our government, Dr. Braddock really acquired by the quad walk or neglect very much. You bet you bet I 866-34-TRUTH you know we we have a time limit on how soon someone can call.

We don't want same people calling every week, every day, and something I want to talk to people but to give opportunity to others and things like that's what we hear from we are from Todd every few weeks, but always is an interesting question.

So, 866-348-7884. Let's go to Rochester, New Hampshire. Chris just called and just get you right on, go ahead like a brother and I calling the question about first Corinthians 715 that was a possible exception for reading my context. But no, there is an exception for our remarriage when it comes to Matthew 99 with sexual immorality of the Roman government to death of a spouse just wanted to hear your thoughts and that I no longer not under such bondage normally refers to the loss. Those ordering to help a remarriage is also possible, yes or so the question what is Paul mean. Let's say you're married to a nonbeliever and the nonbeliever departs, then you are no longer quote bound what it what is that actually mean that some interpreted to mean that you are not bound to try to preserve the marriage because this person has now left and therefore you are not bound to try to preserve the marriage, but on a certain level, that would seem self-evident. What can you do someone leaves the faith leaves you or maybe you're married, you get saved and then they don't want anything to the gospel. They leave you that you can do to keep that marriage together. In that sense if if they leave and don't want anything to do with you. I understand it, meaning you are not bound, and therefore you can remarry. So I do see this as grounds for remarriage in the New Testament again.

Other say Roman seven that that as long as the original spouse is alive. There is no remarriage and say that's what Jesus teaches elsewhere, but I believe that this does say can remarry.

If you have an unbelieving spouse who leaves you divorces you all give you some evidence for that comeback. The line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown voice aboard cultural and spiritual revolution. Here again is Dr. Michael Brown difference now is a time you have time and of the show as we always get a kick out of it. Our phone lines will be jammed and then maybe open up a little. This we get close to the end we get enough calls for the next two hours we got 10 minutes left. So that's great time to call 866-34-TRUTH 87884 so so Chris again. First Corinthians 715 I had this open earlier so I'll refer back to Prof. Craig Keener's IVP Bible background commentary and Craig says this, Paul addresses the specific situation not address Jesus general principle that he's just cited in verses 10 and 11. The innocent party is free to remarry, not under bondage or not bound alludes to the wording of Jewish divorce documents which told the woman you are free to remarry any man, and further applied to divorce the precise language of freedom from slavery being bound with me that she was still married in God's sight. Not being bound or being free, meant that she was free to remarry. So Chris and Cantor. We have an epidemic of divorce in the body today without any solid scriptural foundation we have an epidemic of no-fault divorce. We have an epidemic of believers divorcing because they they don't get along all kinds of other problems, but at Emma and I tremble for those people that have divorced and remarried without scriptural foundation, because Scripture indicate their living in adultery. As I understand the true repentance would mean the severing of that adulterous relationship in the reconciling with the original spouse.

If that is possible, but there are cases no part, no party is perfect. No individual is perfect, but there are cases where there is an innocent party. You have someone that seeking to follow the Lord in seeking to keep a marriage together, and the other person wants no part of it. They did they leave they divorce you understand in those cases that the believer is free to remarry and I believe first Corinthians 715 supports that okay exception. Another exception other than the one, Matthew 99 that Paul just bring in another exception from another angle on top of juices exception for the sexual immorality that yes sir.

Matthew Matthew five and Matthew 19.

Yes, I would see that and and also almost certainly included in what Jesus say because it's very likely that the person leaving the spouse will now go off of someone else so that there will be no adultery, sexual immorality, etc. but yes it it Jesus is giving clear principles. He's honestly not addressing every specific instance. Paul is giving us another case here and and again you have it, especially in cases where you have a couple that's married one person comes to the Lord and that he resisted not remember what he says elsewhere in the chapter don't leave if they if they don't leave you don't leave it because you may be the one to bring them to the Lord, you might be the voices who knows you might you might save your husband or husband. You might save your wife and what about the kids will call her since the kids are holy through the believer so the kids will view this as holy. Even with one believer in the family question was start sometimes basically situations where nonbeliever desserts believing spouse and I don't know what I counsel them to stay single. In the meantime, unless got no in the meantime, unless that spouse commits adultery. On the other, not freedom or for after three and I context to remarry. Even if the other spouse stay single and doesn't commit sexual relevancy to save your screaming that you might my counsel always is always to to do their best first to seek the Lord earnestly, and to do whatever they can to reconcile and to not not give up quickly right.

I'm sure you feel the same way from rise out of the and and but if if this person has made it clear that there there they want nothing to do with them. They've gone on their life and if less than especially for children involved in things like that then yeah II do believe there is freedom there but let's let's in any case go very slowly because of the sacredness of marriage and the.

The ugliness of divorce in the sight of God. Let's also be compassionate so I seems like you have that heart in your approach Chris appreciated.

Thank you so much Dr. Brown I appreciate your new ministry. God bless you and thank you sir.

God bless 866-34-TRUTH old.

Let's just see here for a moment before I go back to the phones of if you go to Esther to Brown.org, or check this out. You're going to see latest videos for God's will for every sick person to be healed, among others, latest articles and the professor justifies infanticide yes cactus want to punish Christian conservatives are all@askeddr.brown.org check out the resources there right now we go to Adam in Syracuse, Utah. Welcome to line of fire. Thank you very much Dr. Brown good afternoon good afternoon quick question for you. Actually, I have been reading the complete Jewish Bible translation this and I wanted to know your opinion and order or what you knew about it. Sure thing of the translator of the New Testament.

David Stern is a dear friend and elder in the Lord would be interesting for many years with his wife, Martha, David was a PhD in mathematics. I think UCLA got saved, and then learn Greek and did this translation and then for the Old Testament. He took the Jewish publication Society version of 1917, which is in public domain and then he updated it. He went to the Hebrew and and sought to improve the translation at different points and then to give it more of it of a Jewish flavor so Moses would become a shed and things like that so they are complete Jewish Bible is brilliant, what it seeks to do, which is make you realize that this is a Jewish book that these were Jewish authors, they were writing about Jewish issues. It does that very powerfully and often especially in the New Testament, David Stern's coming at things from a little different angle, so his translation often is is unique and beautiful as you may like it or not, were he substitutes trust for faith. It is that is that a good word or bad rebuttal. It will get you thinking.

The then negatives if you criticize it if you're not familiar with a lot of the phrases and names and who the prescient incidents do Cayman different things that you know what's what's he talking about it, it can seem a little dancing to look up in the glossary lot and say, for example, writing to the Corinthian believers either Gentiles are ready to Gentile believers in Thessalonica and is using all these Jewish terms and expressions. It was that the way they would've understood in Greek or the been more easy for them. Notice make it to Jewish but but his whole point was to swing the pendulum back because so much of the Jewishness of the New Testament was was lost in his rendering of the Old Testament, the improving of the 1917 translation. I do believe he's he has improved it many ways so it's great to read as long as you know its purpose. If you'd like something similar, but not as heavily messianic in terms of not as many terms, then you can check out the tree of life version tree of life version if you just go to Bible Bible Gateway.com. Check this out and I participated in translation reflects a complete Jewish Bible is marvelous for what it accomplishes. Check out the tree of life version something dented team effort with a little bit less messianic terminology the same Expo line of fire with your host activist, author, international speaker and theologian Dr. Michael Brown voice of more cultural and spiritual revolution get into the line of fire now by calling 66343 here again is Dr. Michael Brown transport joining us today on the line afar you know when our Friday podcast. You've got questions got answered, 866-348-7884 is the number to call any area of expertise I have any way that I can be of help to you in any way feel free to call 86634.

Truth is, the number will start in Greensboro with Clinton. Welcome to the line of fire codec rep actually a better keep talking. Go ahead yet quickwitted primitive specs which refer to early Lakota.

I don't feel I believe the Bible audibly or should even introduce vocabulary up to believers is not from Scripture but is my question to you know prescriptive talks about believing the part about my question to you is, what if the person that the part is the belief, is a believer to go to church to do the religious thing, but in behavior.

You would think that they're not a Christian has depleted.

How does that affect a person's tried to keep the marriage together, but the other person to part out yet. If yes, the person who departs as I understand Scripture and we've had this conversation many times from different angles and obviously it's very relevant and even earlier today Pastor: with this question so my understanding is this it, regardless of whether this person is a professing believer, but living in San or is not professing to be believer if they leave right and I agree with you to believers that were divorce should never come up. And whatever the problems are they can be fixed if both parties will humble themselves before God and with each other all problems can be fixed in solid marital counts as I know have dealt with all kinds of how the situation still from that of both parties will humble themselves before God and one another, which is the least we can do is believers. Every marital problem can be worked out sort of retirement to people of a rational mind so what if you have a woman's married her husband claims to be a believer but he's his lifestyle denies it.

She leaves her divorces her wants nothing to do with her will not reconcile. Is she able to to remarry, I will. I would say yes. Based on Scripture as I understand either.

He is forsaking her leaving her behind and living as an unbeliever, in which case the principle of first within 715 would apply or he is sleeping with someone else and and guilty of committing adultery and is broken the covenant. In that regard. So you do everything you can to reconcile you do everything you can to pray for restitution. I know some women, some men have just said I don't care what's going on. I'm holding onto God and believing God for restoration, and after years it happened and I know others did everything they could every last door was shut. And then God brought someone else into their lives and they they moved on.

So that's that that's how I would understand that Sir again.

Everyone though has to come to a clear conviction in their own heart. In other words, if someone is in the situation right now.

My heart goes out to you can't act just because I'm saying so you can't take that is is your justification or release to go in pursuing a relationship or relationship comes to you to to be open to it, you must know that you know in your heart before God that this is right or that this is wrong because it's it's not anyone else.

It's can stand with you on that wedding day and tell you doing the right thing or on the day you stand before God and give account to Clinton. I appreciate the question. I will get right to your calls.

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CJ, welcome to the line of fire around a warning if you can help me with contact little understanding about two vertically.

John Matthew 1112 and I wanted it to you. Speaking about an aspect of spiritual warfare with supernatural thing and then also of Revelation 22 two wondering if it either eternity or in the millennial millennial kingdom people not having glorified by yes or so. Matthew 1112 many of us know it from the King James from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence and the violent take it by force. There there is some challenges in interpreting the Greek and what's called the middle tents that can be translated in different ways.

Sometimes hard to render in English. So for example, ESV, the kingdom of heaven has suffered violence violence taken by force. NIV the kingdom of heaven has been subjected to violence advised violent people have been reading it normally we would in his church circles right came to though the faith that the Lord, the violent take it by force that was started met us being spiritually violent against the devil nonviolence against the side, but spiritually evolved against the devil and and taking hold it any cost of most interpreted differently that the kingdom of heaven is experiencing violence attack from the outside and violent ones.

I try to snatch it away. So of the complete Jewish Bible the kingdom of heaven has been suffering violence just violent ones try to snatch away the NET. The king of Hamlet suffered violence and forceful people lay hold of it NLT of the kingdom of heaven has been forcefully advancing and violent people are attacking it so I think the best way to understand it is that the kingdom of heaven, from the days of John on as it's being preached that there is opposition and there is violence attack against us violent people trying to suppress the work of God, which means that we are in a battle is referring to us as the forceful ones of the violent ones who try to call them. It's possible, but most translations and commentaries don't understand it in that way. As for our Revelation chapter 22 verse to Revelation 22. Two.

By the time we get to this portion of Scripture right of a shielding chapter 21st two shielding chapter 22. Typically I get thinking about the tree of life will have got it, think of the nation all clear yet yet so the InContext here. Revelation chapter 22.

This is after the resurrection. Okay so this is in the eternal stage where we have all been resurrected. This is not the millennial kingdom which is spoken of in Revelation 20. This is not a time when people will be physically dying anymore of this is a time when we have a been resurrected to eternal life.

The question would be why then you need the tree of life of the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations will that is a reference directly to Ezekiel 47, which speaks of the river going out for the throne of God and that that the the that the trees on the sides of of the stream have these life-giving leaves in these healing leaves and those who eat of them are healed and live to me, the tree of life in in in in the paradise of God in the world to come in the new Jerusalem that to me would just be something symbolic and beautiful that we get to partake of we were banned from the tree of life while we were on the earth after Adam and he felt driven out from the garden and band for meeting of the tree of life now forever. We get to eat of the tree of life which speaks of our healing and restoration. If you want to take it literally. You know that were being healed at this it makes sense, which is brings validity to your question of what's it therefore. But II take it is in that, since symbolic in meaning going back to Ezekiel 47 and she is quoting that passage there and applying it to the eternal age were as we partake of that tree, there is healing in life and blessing for us forever and ever and ever. I don't look at it that were actually being healed. However, it is it is a ongoing life for us. Let's understand spray question, but I understand more symbolically rather than anything else. Okay great thank you sir. I 866-34-TRUTH let's go to Jerry Kia driving a truck somewhere in Texas. Thanks for calling Dr. Brown very well, thanks to give a shout out to a crack real quick RII read your book, the real culture. Jesus year on the I believe you said, the exaggerated grace and I saw.

I also read year on answering the objection, volume 3 and volume.

Highly recommended anybody to write but will good job thank you so much yes. A good I'm going bring the dog got bless you for writing out great. I saw you walking all make it really quick on my 2:05 questions really really fast on Bill you know on the study below 138 Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, not a problem at two in Joshua chapter about about a cane I ugly bumper.

Note the document by gospel chapter 7 through 20. To be specific. It talked about birth 20 and alkane at been against God by thinking of the accursed being in any go down to me globally down to verse 25 where they stoned him and burned his family, but my question is when you go to Deuteronomy chapter 24 verse 16 that children are not to be put to death of the father for a while. They feel yet it's it's a very intense question.

So a can or us on all he sends note number one is a result of his sin, about 36 Israelites die because we we do affect each other is the body for example if if I was a bus driver and got drunk and crashed others on the bus might die because of my sin. If if I was the watchman watching the city and and I was lazy and and playing video games and fell asleep that city could be attacking others killed so because of his sin. God's grace and protection was not there with the people of Israel and about 36 died, but why would his family die. Why would his children be put to death for parents sent some have tried to read it that only he was killed of the family was worn only he was killed. It doesn't seem to be that natural meaning there. The best explanation would be that they were complicit that they knew that he came into his things and that perhaps they knew what he did and they didn't say anything about it.

Therefore, there were complicit in his scent that would be one! Great question for plan and it's the line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown get into the line of fire now by calling 866-34-TRUTH here again is Dr. Michael Brown the questions we get answers 866-34-TRUTH 780 it will messenger Kia didn't want to be 2416 is referring to or carry out the law and there were abuses you have another ancient law codes were the father sin than the court could put the son to death along with the father.

Even though the sum is not guilty but God could do what he wants God. God can say it's right to wipe out a whole family. If in his knowledge and insight.

That's right or that's the necessary punishment to save an entire nation suffer us to do this is for God to do but again, perhaps with some degree of being complicit, and hence the punishment thank you for find question 86634 let's go to Andy in Burnsville, North Carolina. Welcome to the line of fire or a yes I am very quick question out wondering if you could please explain how or what experience John the Baptist you or if not Elijah, as in Matthew 11, I met everything yes or yeah is a short question, but one that can require a lengthy answers limit we try to give it. In its simplest form number one John did come in the spirit and power of Elijah.

He did have that function as a forerunner of the Lord and did come in the spirit and power of Elijah. That's number one number two Jesus is saying to his Jewish audience. He was alive. If you receive it. Meaning he did function in that way. And if you can recognize that that's who he was, however, does not mean that that exhausts the ministry or calling or type of Elijah the prophet just as Jesus came to earth once he's going to come a second time. Just as there were things that happened at his first coming. Those be things that happen the second coming.

For example, I believe, will be Jewish Jerusalem it with the second coming justices first coming. I believe there will be conflict in attack on Jerusalem as there was a generation.

After his first coming. I believe they'll be in the generation leading up to his second coming, so there will be certain parallels so it could well be that there still is an Elijah type figure that is raised up before they return to lower it could be that the whole body of the believers now function as a prophetic forerunner. It could be that there is a company of people who play an Elijah like role. I don't believe that there is one person on earth who is Elijah the prophet in that sense and I believe that there will ever be one person and in that sense in less Elijah himself comes back literally, which some believe what I don't expect that.

But let's say that actually happened but as far as John.

He functioned in the spirit power of Elijah and to the extent people recognized who he was, they could see all he was doing. Elijah's job of preparing the way for the coming of the Messiah will Elijah himself precede the second coming, something so would be an Elijah type company of profits or the whole body functioning in that way those things can be debated as far as John's role.

I think it's pretty clear.

Not that if you receive it. He would now become that and now you won't need a second coming is everything will happen though I am a look at it like that.

I think that would be a gross misinterpretation. There is no more to it than what I had more yet not not in my view, yet there is a view held to bite by dispensationalism's will to pretrip rapture that some of them would say that that if they had gotten it. Then the kingdom would've been somehow establish then, but that of course is the cross there's no salvation.

But Jesus knew that wouldn't happen. So that's what will I don't see it like that at all and and on about how many dispensations hold to that today but hate. Thank you sir for the call. Looks like we are basically in sync there a let's go to Stuart Virginia Michael, welcome to the line of fire around the male you bet? Walk in the product for years voted in recently. They delegate our church and our district, and I will call about implementing a membership requirement that would need to be not just the leaders in the church but also the light off of membership straining from document that nature and of the calendar year and I want your view all their Dr. Brown been writing about their mental model part of the past couple weeks.

It doesn't just wail with when I read the Scriptures auto. I don't see anything about Fonda membership requirement or documentation or anything like that fellowship.

This is really confusing me. Dr. Brown Malott Burchett yet sure think number one there is nothing explicitly like this. In the New Testament where you would sign on the dotted line to be a member number two, the level of commitment and community and fellowship that the believers had back then in the typical house church setting would be radically deeper than our average churchgoing Sunday morning Christians. In other words, even if you didn't sign a document organically you were much much more involved much, much more a part of things much, much more committed so what I say is this. II been part of congregations that under no circumstances have membership requirements or written documents to sign or anything and they feel it's contrary to the spirit of the New Testament which must be much more organic and are just like your brothers and sisters in the family don't have a contract that we are brothers and sisters of the same parents. They just are organically however I have no problem if this is used for two purposes. If it's used, to draw people together in a serious way and say hey we are really committed.

We agree on these points, we throw ourselves in together on these points, and we are standing together as one. So in that way we are having formal membership.

That's one thing the other saying is that it enables the congregation to know those the leaders to say okay we know those who are truly hours. So for example if someone just showing up on Sunday mornings and on another person's name and are not committed to the body or Saturday morning spinning when you meet there not committed to not really part of things you can't really excommunicate them for center put the matter because there they're not there really and they're not really part but if someone says they were family were in this they have a certain level of expectation that the leaders and others there for them that the body is there for them and they can then be dealt with to help them or if they send to deal with them because they've made that commitment. So I don't see it is explicitly New Testament. I see it is trying to mirror some of the deeper commitment that it would've been common in the New Testament didn't just have people just showing up at mega church services and things like that so it can be helpful, but go by your own conscience here that's most important. Hey, it's been a delight. Take your calls.

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