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You can forgive me and if you haven't received forgiveness from the Savior. He is there ready to forgive, if you cry out from your heart. This is Michael Brown is not thoroughly Jewish Thursday. That was yesterday. It is, it is the line of fire on Friday, which means you've got questions. We got answers any question you want to ask me of any kind in any area of expertise I have is my joy to take your calls. To answer your questions before I get into this. I just want to talk about one item in the news joy grab click number one we normally don't get into news items on Friday but with this. Just happening. I want to address is me address it.

So clip number one and I'll give you my take on this.

I'm announcing today that were ending the ban on transgender Americans in the United States military, effective immediately, transgender Americans may serve openly, yes, I appreciate the fact that individuals who identify as transgender want to serve in our military but since they make up a fraction of 1% of the population, so maybe three people in a thousand matter that how many want to serve in the military you don't turn policies upside down. You don't raise a million new questions for the troops you don't have issues now of male-female distinctives kind of thrown out the window if Bruce Jenner was serving in the military now identifying as a woman, but with mail plumbing but still with mail anatomy.

Where would Bruce Jenner serve obviously as a woman. So how does that work with a woman identifies his Amanda she have to then live by the male standards which basically be unable to live up to and on and on it goes.

You don't turn things upside down and discourage everybody else, or raise questions for everybody else to accommodate the tiniest minuscule percentage of the population gets commendable. They want to serve in the military but the military is not about me and you, the military is about national safety militaries about what's best for the common good. And from what I understand, the more that the military gets aggressively pro-LGBT activists. The less overall positive morale. There is the few that are encouraged or than at the expense of the many who are discouraged a many do not enroll.

Many do not re-enroll or I should say list to reenlist. And those are the consequences and then you have the overt attack on religious liberty such as chaplains, but soldiers and people in the Navy and Air Force, etc. so another sad day in American history as we push for with an irrational, irrational activism, I can say that while caring about all people because the militaries as this is not about me you knew how we feel the returns about what's best for national security.

By the way some people were very happy with my article yesterday while actually rooting for Donald Trump somewhere upset no no you thrown in the time thrown a town, nothing's changed my grave concerns remain the same of God personally endorsed him. His elections were today I'd like to vote for him but I'm hoping that some people close to him, godly leaders who are speaking the word to mom, hoping that he'll listen. I'm hoping that he'll help. Humble himself and listen in God's Redeemer, all things possible that your calls the light a fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown get into the line of fire now by calling 866.

Here again is Dr. Michael Brown transferred joining us on a long far you got questions, got answers, go to the phone. Starting in Hollywood, Florida Isaac, welcome to the line of fire Dr. Brown are you doing very well thank you okay so I have two questions for today. First one of the Internet grows and atheistic ideas spread the youth of America, and upon my own research I've come across numerous objections to the story of Noah. Noah's Ark and the possibility of a worldwide flood.

These include the lack of fossils found in the same layer serving at the animal swam upward in Paris altogether as well. The impossibility of a kangaroo migrating across the ocean to Australia after the flood. What are your opinion in response to the objection, yeah.

Basically, these have been dealt with for decades and you'll have different responses based on those who believe there was a universal flood so if you look at any of the young earth creationist websites that would very strongly argue that that many of the massive changes we see in the world came about because of the cataclysm of the other of those flood then those answers are presented. John would come years back road of major book on those flood that dealt with many of the standard objection so I would say they're not really any new objections being raised just like the, the negative information is out there. The positive information is out there as well on their perfectly valid questions for folks to answer. I have one colleague who wrote a book just on the archaeological issues and geological issues and pointed worldwide to evidence of of a flood of the fact that you have these flood traditions all around the world makes it all the more fascinating.

Where did they come from the each area have its own local flood that then became part of the same worldwide flood traditions or do they go back to the common origins of the human race. But if if you'll if you look say it at a a young earth creationist website like answers in Genesis, they will answers in Genesis.org they will get a view of their approach to that if you look at an old earth creationist website like reasons to believe the reasons.org though to view their approach. There are some biblical scholars who argue for local flood. They claim the language works for local flood that the Hebrew word error it's translated world just means land in that respect and that that's all that. Speaking of, I have a hard time accepting that. Based on that the larger narrative that's being presented that if it's just a local flood. It raises all kinds of other questions, but the bad news is there is all a lot of skepticism and a lot of hostile and even misinforming material that's out on the Internet of the good news is there is there answers to all of the various questions that are being raised. It's a matter of of say okay I'm looking at two different scientists, both with PhD's. Both university professors, both with a peer published scholarly work, and one is saying it's impossible the other singer here, albeit the answers for.

So to me. I have to say okay I have no good reason to dismiss what Scripture says, based on some specifics now II got into some of this many many years ago. As far as this reading that account.

Noah's flood today and thinking of some of the objections that college professors of mine raised you know in the particular animals that need a particular plant that only comes from one particular part of the world and how are they sustained in all those kinds of things that I remember back to when I had looked at them for the answer.

So if if you look into those different sites you'll have different scientists.

Of note, presenting their their arguments and I believe that every arguments that's been raised has a plausible answer and then there are as us and geological arguments archaeological arguments and arguments about folklore tradition that can be raised in favor of the account and then it's a matter of okay. Is there any compelling reason why should not believe what Scripture says about this in my answer would be no okay and my second question revolves around the debate about 13 billion-year-old universe, or a much younger thousand euro universe. What are your opinions what your view and if you alter the latter.

The thousand euro universe if it is proven otherwise. When you change your mind and will it affect your conviction. Yeah those are very fair questions. Isaac number one as my listeners know I do not have much scientific background that is a weakness in terms of my academic studies over the years, and as I've often explained when I started getting into serious high school classes in science.

Those with years of getting higher not paying attention than the next two years work skews me when we had gone on strike in our school and we had 60 or 70 students in the special program with no formal classes that we had to take and was ready to beginning of that that I came to faith and use all the time to be in the wording and studying Scripture extensively ensuring the gospel so I did have really up through high school, a good scientific foundation, and then I took the science classes in college so it's only been over the years that I've tried to fill in blanks and learn learn more and read more so as I see it, as I understand it, it seems to me that the very strong reasons for believing in an old universe, and an old earth as opposed to young University young earth. Now I've had. I've had brilliant scholars on my show who were young earth creationists I've had for example, Jonathan sovereignty on a few times and he sees brilliancy as a scientist tease. He has an academic scientific answer for every question that's raised he knows the biblical text. Well he makes a strong argument that the most natural reading of the biblical text is a literal six days of creation, etc. that they're not gaps in the genealogies and therefore the earth has to be used less than 10,000 years old or something like that and he's brilliant scientists. I've had others on that I can't evaluate their answers because I don't have the scientific information. It seems though that even among Christians who are committed side, committed believers and scientists that the preponderance of evidence would say that the universe is as old rather than new, and that my bigger issue then is, what is the biblical text say and I concluded decades ago while in grad school meditating on Genesis 1. The context of the Scriptures that you could not determine whether this was meant to be six 24-hour days are not, in other words, the biblical text can be read in several different ways.

That's why in Jewish tradition that was brought normally not a major argument even though the, the, the ancient Jewish rabbis think about evolution that didn't exist. That was an issue but it seems that the biblical text was readily through a little bit different lenses so if in fact I held to a 24 hour six-day creation and I was dogmatic about it and then there was compelling, irrefutable scientific evidence that that position was wrong and some would say that is the case right. But if if that was the case that I have two choices.

I would either have to conclude that the Bible was untrue or I would have to conclude that I was misunderstanding the Scripture, but because my understanding of Scripture is that it could go either way. There was on perfectly fine with a young earth based on Scripture and I'm perfectly fine with an older space.based on Scripture. I believe both readings are legitimate and equally plausible so I'm I'm unmoved either way by the arguments. Thank you very much� Really cleared up right here and you're very welcome, sir. God bless you as you continue to grow and move forward in the Lord, 8663 for 87884 number call. The earlier you call in the broadcast. The better chance we have of getting to your call. All right we go to Ames Iowa Robert welcome to the line of fire by Michael Mayer. My question is more of biblical treatment program and my vital daily Bible study and chronic went over the story of Elijah Goodspeed concrete Gertner after you have no confrontation and you know would be a prophet of payroll and look fine. Wondered America.

Nothing happening at other young evangelical like I will be disheartening because a lot of a lot of ministries that are geared toward reaching my generation are afraid of speaking the truth because the term that they are going like we want to be relevant to your generation. They shy away from any of the family standing up for life ending up or as a result of the standing up for truth in general and underfunded unlike was begun at a general meeting.

I was like I did personally crying out for a viable American like the compartmental bunker out to Ardell people will listen. Robert these are very important questions, and you're not the only one asking them. I do want to encourage you with truth very strongly.

So I got a break stay right there right after the break. I'll address this question and to give you an analogy just came to my now maybe write an article around the same, but I wanted. I only give an interesting analogy and ask which of two is relevant to seemingly come back hey friends, this is Michael Brown I would encourage you to join our support team today become a torchbearer. One of our regular monthly support as it enables us to broadcast the line of fire in America and around the world and all. Every month we sold back into and many many different ways join our team become a torture asked Brown a SK ground on click on donate. The line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown voice of moral cultural and spiritual revolution. Here again is Dr. Michael Brown on this Friday broadcast question that answers eight 634-8784 the number to call. Be sure to check out my latest video to Christians and Muslims worship the same God is posted on our digital library and asked her to Brown.org ASKD are Brown.Ward so back to Robert in Ames, Iowa. Yet it's an extraordinary thing Elijah introduced in first Kings 17 suddenly appears tells King Ahab will be no due or rain in Israel except according to his word. God miraculously sustains them than first Kings 18 he calls down fire from heaven, and then kills the false prophets and then prophesies the rain is coming in the rain comes and everything happens as God speaks and then when Jezebel Ahab's godless wife says she's got Kellum assemblies. He's afraid he's discouraged when he does die, so even though everything is gone wonderfully after the mountaintop experience his his courage leaves him and that's something that often happens, especially after major powerful spiritual victory or prophetic confrontation. It seems that there is a fallout. The next night or later that night or the next day I've experienced it several times myself. So that's one thing it's a bit of a separate issue, but I wanted to address it because I think it's relevant to what were talking about Robert, first let me address that the relevant issue right. Let's say they you are a doctor and in your community. There are a bunch of of young people who are all tattooed body piercings and things like that and they one after another start getting very very sick and you decide that you want to be relevant so you now get pierced you now shave your head, you now get all these tattoos and you begin to work among them, and spend time with them, but you don't have any cure for this sickness, none whatsoever is another Dr. suit and tie totally straightlaced.

He looks into why they're sick and realized what the problem is finds the right antibiotic and says come by my clinic. Make an appointment and will get you all curate the question is who's more relevant.

The guy who looks like that with the guy who was secure obviously the guy who is the cure.

That's what the church needs to understand to be relevant. You need to have with people need to get set free and I would encourage you Robert to link together even online with other people. Young people of like mind because everywhere I go I'm working with young and old who are burning bright and on fire. I'm often reminded to my shock that that's that the small minority because I'm surrounded by so much all the people I work with have a mentality of by life or by death. We serve the Lord. The people I work within the states. The people I worked with other states, in particular the young people. So if you're not finding it in your own community around you and you're not aware of any church community where people are burning and and passionate that I'd encourage you to to begin to to hook up with others online. Sure your heart were praying and fasting for revival received noninvasive God, my friend, Lou Engle led a major meeting in a stadium in California in April. I guess it was when they had done of 70 80,000 people there and their mainly young people cry out to God going after God seeking God for revival in the nation, so there is a powerful youth movement. It's just small and then much of the church is his misunderstanding what it means to be relevant but to stay encouraged you keep your heart in a good place with the Lord seeking him earnestly. Robert, I wouldn't be around today if I listen to the naysayers, I would do. I am today able to to touch the people were able to touch if I had listen to all those who were critical and negative in trying to stifle a farce. You learn your humble you seek to gain wisdom you respect your elders but you don't let anyone put the fire out from your heart and then you find others of like heart and like mind.

I think one of the five Gardner actually started an internship to pay with the family leader of Bob Street here in Iowa and I think my concern is like parachurch artillery after doing the job at the church should be doing, but asleep at the wheel like I've never read the Bible, the local or your local Crew or vandalism remembered all be well no go out and make disciples, suggesting that were very passively through third-party ministries that will look at it differently. Robert first.

There are plenty of churches that are doing a great job reaching the lost and making disciples and praying and seeking the face of God that I don't look at an organization that is not directly under local churches parachurch.

I think that's that's a bad term to use wheat we use, and it's been used for decades and not blame you for your just using standard terminology but wasn't parachurch. In other words, if the church is the body of Christ. The body of Messiah, then this is just another expression of Bob Vander Platts I imagine is a home congregation has a pastor that he looks to things like that and he has his own ministry in Amman part of a home congregation part of the leadership team and have my own ministry sought on the doings at school parachurch everything I'm doing is part of the body. I'm part of the body Bob as part of the body are part of the body's whatever we do is the church and if you look at it like that then you realize that this is God-given diversity because a local church can do little in and what about when you want to have a national voice while in a Franklin Graham can speak on a national level right he can get a message out on a national level. Instantly, and it's all how can a local church local church can't that's not it's calling it's it's going to get it's its impact and influence on the local level.

Just like Franklin Graham can't be there 202 visit that that the cancer victim in the hospital enter into and to pray for families could committed suicide.

He can't be there in every state and city doing it that in doing this is nations that's us all the body of Christ. So I look at in a positive way I look at her that this is this is how the body works in the local church has its role and even though I'm not a big denomination person. Denominations can have their role, house churches can have their own mega church can have their own radio ministries can have their role it's it's all part of the body so look at it in that sense that God's work and then just recognize even though you seen stuff that's discouraging Jesus really is building his church and to the extent you can follow. Second Timothy 222 resold to second Timothy 222 of that's great Scripture to to live by chiefly youth loss within you pursue righteousness, faith, life in the spirit together with others of like car. It's a great way to live greatly to bear fruit, and share positive testimonies in the midst of the challenges keep crying out with desperation. God bless you friends God's near 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 6643 here again is Dr. Michael Brown. Let's go straight back to the phone on the line of fire, 866-34-TRUTH is the number to call and will go over to Manassas, Virginia Joseph, welcome to the line of fire traveling you been I have a quick question for you about on the Aaronic benediction and a little Hebrew and Sophie always end with the half pound. The general rule but have heard it the second line and would be met, they didn't know if that was the Masoretic tradition and art that where that came from and why cannot the softer yet that that would've that would have been the assumption when you just hear it especially when you have you've arrested, right] that the answer would be that it's two consecutive coughs with the first one being closed at that at the at the end of the valve so it would be as if it was neck, which just becomes neck, for years I mispronounce that without even realizing it until someone asked me why set like that so that's that's the way it's being Mr. that's the way it's being Miss that's the way it's being understood as if it's a pause and then a car so at the at the end if if it's I don't confuse those that don't know he rather confused ready to sit on the end of which which is fine, but you just try to answer if you and it.

Let's say you had lock right to to you feminine right so you have that block okay let's see you immediately follow that with a cup that would now just be accustomed to not discuss out right so you have you've arrested for it.

If you had give her rest that it would be, in that case shift.

Bless you give arrests give arrests for, but who neck is just taken as is the parcel so why is that this what's the verb that's used in in number six, the great gracious okay so so what's what's in the verb again through an cut it up man okay I think about it. Is there any other option for MN again friends just listening that that might not be might not be getting all this world can Joseph call so remember this together. The root is calm, non-okay it is, on so sometimes the none drops out.

That's what you have when you have the often with the route with us the last two letters are the same. The second and third letters of the root are the same and it can happen with new and in other contexts. So what's happening here is that second none is is gliding in okay SOV who it's as if it's vehicle and then, that's the way it comes out and that's that's why it's again I'm not giving it exactly the RV who neck, it's because there's a none that got absorbed into the cough. That's delegation in the cough. So again, sorry for Perry Ellis but hopefully that makes sense.

It's the none that gets absorbed and that's why it's as if it's a double letter there okay great and that helps a lot.

Thank you. You bet you bet.

Hey listen I know that was a couple minutes of radio time or most are shaking their heads.

But Joseph was helped in these put in the time to study Hebrew right so glad that we could explain it all right Greg, I was your calls and email questions don't go anywhere. Who knows what's coming next. You've got questions, we've got answers right here on the line of fire in the line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown voice of more cultural and spiritual revolution.

Here again is Dr. Michael Brown running us, modifying an answer email ramp with any question you have anything you want to raise if you want to question me on if you differ with me on something you want to probe it. Give me a call 866-34-TRUTH 784 McPherson email questions. Brian Dr. Brown, your fellow town hall writer Wayne Allen root just published an article called the message for Christians about Donald Trump begins by saying I'm a Jew turn evangelical Christian. I'm also passionate support of Donald Trump. He then argues that God can use people.

We don't expect argument there. That is, as I was reading the Bible this morning I found the perfect verse that explains the success of Donald Trump is a 4030 and 31. Even the youths shall faint to be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall there is where the Lord shall renew their strength they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be rude, they shall walk and not faint. It's honestly God created this risk Donald Trump at this moment in history. Root rights goes on to say Trump is our energy companies are strength with comfort up mount with wings like eagles with probably wont run and not weary. Your response to start Brown. Oh, you better believe I have response to that with all respect to a fellow Jewish believer in Jesus all yeah I cite that in my latest article actually why I am rooting for Donald Trump.

You need to read the article before you jump to conclusions about what I am saying but in this in this article I directly. I directly address this article and I said to be perfectly candid.

I have no place whatsoever for some of the evangelical forming fawning over Trump, including this recent article which I then cite some of the very words you cite a reader and I write readers familiar with the scriptural passage will recoil with this interpretation, which replaces the God of Israel with Donald Trump.

This is fawning to the point of near blasphemy. III absolutely reject that. Yes I'm praying that God will get hold of Donald Trump.

You start you pray for Hillary Clinton to yes but right now it seems Donald Trump has opened himself more to godly leaders, some of whom I know are really bringing the gospel to him and I'm hoping that he's listening and I'm hoping that that Hill humbled himself. I have no evidence of it yet. I've heard some reports of something may be going on in his heart that have no idea if it's true will will know by the fruit will know by him being very very change man because of Donald Trump really listens to the Lord and humbles himself he'll be a night and day turned around person and they're still months before the elections, and who knows what would happen if there was a viable third party candidate that rose up now that carried my my values. I'd vote for that person today rather than Donald Trump but I'm hoping that by November. Things may be different, but to to look to him in this way as I say it's near blasphemy. I was shocked by absolutely shocked that I want to write that while LC this law respect Donald Trump is not my energies not renew my strength, amounting up with wings like eagles because of the Lord, not because of him. I'm running a not weary because of the Lord and his grace in my life, not just Donald Trump. Yikes.

Yikes. Converts OS from Oaxaca, Mexico. Have a question regarding numbers 31, nine and 17 through 18, and morality in Scriptures as a student of apologetics to the Muslims often use the words the cross to disprove it is the word of God because the immoral teachings found therein.

For example, a Mohammed allow their followers to take the captive women as their wives and have sexual intercourse with them. That is right after killing the families and destroy the cities. I consider the Scriptures are more perfect forgiven by goblin read passages like the mentioned above. The question is that Elohim allow the Israelites to take the Virgin To Ceridian and marry them, and I can respond to somebody pointed to things like that written Scriptures. An example of immorality. Justice found in the Koran a very fair question actually number one, I'd encourage you to check out a book by David Lam LA MB David Lam.

He was on my show a few weeks back and he's he's written a couple of books one that are relevant to this one is called God, behaving badly.

God behaving badly where he looks at passages in the Old Testament where it seem as if God is doing evil and God is not a good God, and then he has another book called prostitutes and polygamists look at love Old Testament style prostitutes and polygamists of both of those books would be useful especially the second one. David T Lam LA MB prostitutes and polygamists look at love Old Testament style. In short, I would say this you have to look at the overall morality put forth in Scripture and compare that with the overall morality put forth across you have to look at the conclusion of the matter in Jesus as opposed to the conclusion of the matter in Mohammed and ultimately you have the son of God dying for our sins versus Mohammed beheading captives to give the stark contrast there and you have the life of Mohammed were where many moralists would have problems with his behavior or his example as the quote perfect man, I just got a big biography of Mohammed by devout Muslim who thinks obviously that Mohammed was the perfect man and and the whole book is about his perfections sought. I want to look at that and try to better understand the Muslim perspective, but obviously there are enough objectionable things in his behavior and the traditions associated with them. What about a passage like numbers 31, how do we had. We handle that passage and the answer is judgment had to come on the Midianites because of their sin so that that was the reality there was war committee and it sinned against Israel. This was now divine retribution and we read in verse nine and the children of Israel took all the women of Midianite captives and their little ones and took the spoil folder cattle all their flocks and all their goods. There were 17 and 18th Weatherford kill every male among the little ones and to everyone who was know them intimately with people I process all the young girls have not known a man intimately.

It seems absolutely harsh know that about it. Seems cruel, and if if someone told us to do today. We recoil at it. It was something that was done in judgment. The only answer is, it was mercy that some lift that would be the only answer. It was mercy that some live in.

The ones that were spared were female virgins.

Again, it seems tremendously harsh and I believe we have to be fair know it's you make a great point there for your pointer finger while this is wrong across look at what about this in the bottom and I would gladly say there were certain things that happen in certain situations with Mohammed that were repeated and certain things that happened in the Bible that were repeated and that was what happened then and that was justify them but it's not ongoing, however the difference with this law would be Muslims would find it ongoing so Muslims would that this is an ongoing pattern. So yes there are things that that different ones in Scripture and we believe clearly that that this was not just Moses idea Moses is speaking right you can attributed to Moses and say he just did this in his anger. I I don't believe that.

Personally, I believe he was doing this obedience to the Lord. You could say, though, yet he was angry and this is what he said to do, but it wasn't God's will because of similar commands elsewhere in Scripture. I would say this was God's will was severe judgment rather than wiping everyone out, which is what they were supposed to do. God had mercy on a select few within them, so of that self. That's the simple answer. But again, let's be fair.

Let's do this both ways and if someone says well that that discounts in your tech and cross that way that's not my majors withdrawn. This is one moral example here or there. Let's see Ruben. I was reading the Gospel of Matthew in this verse caught my attention. Matthew nine success with so you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to Parkinson's than the passage ends with verse eight. The crowd saw they were afraid and glorify God are given such authority to men.

My question is why is it say that the men have authority and authority to what. Thank you for your time.

Yes, that they were looking at Jesus as a man super actually gifted but still is a man and they were shocked that a man had the power to forgive sins. Obviously with initiative realizes this is more than just a man doing this. That was the whole point when he was forgiving since he was doing it with divine authority.

Okay he was doing that with divine authority because he was the son of God, but with the people's always here is a human being is the Messiah is still human being and they were marveling because they saw the evidence that he had power to forgive sins because the man was healed.

I was demonstrating that his sins were forgiven by healing by doing supernatural work to back what he was saying. But that's what they were marveling at that a man was given authority by God to forgive sins with initiative realizes that this man is more than just a man, 866347. He gets some more emails and possibly some calls as well. On the other side of the break. You've got questions, we've got answers and it's the light a fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown into the line of fire now by calling 866-34-TRUTH here again is Dr. Michael Brown thanks for joining us on the line of fire got to say something that leads into the next question on address and email question when I was in Australia I asked one of the brothers there about the treatment of the aborigines and what was done to them over the years the native peoples.

There and he talked about terrible mistreatment and it's it's only in recent years that the government and try to ask for forgiveness and he began to mention one wrong thing after another. That was done through the decades and anyway it's it's terribly sad to hear that there are plenty of aboriginal believers in in Australia and certain things have been fixed, but many other things as I understand were were never fixed or right. It's well but what about here in America. So here's a question don't have a name did God allow the Indians to be removed from their land because they worship false gods always feel bad about what was done to the my sister said that is why got a lot of it was the white man's greed.

One of the landing just because God allowed it doesn't mean it was right okay so may want to call in with a different perspective on this and raise other issues that are not raising. I do not speak as one with tremendous expertise in the subject, but I believe there are a few things when the first settlers came over. They were not aggressively trying to drive out the native population. In many cases, there were efforts to reach out. There were efforts to extend education and of course to bring the gospel and that was very positive on every level on a certain level. There were hostile attacks against these foreigners these intruders. These invaders their unjustified attack is plenty of room in America for people to have lived at that time.

So on the one hand, the first settlers were were fine in terms of their dealings sought to educate sought to bring the gospel to the native population. It is true that there was some hostilities of the native population against settlers over periods of time.

That certainly would breed bad blood, but then at certain point there.

There was expansionism of of the new American nation as it grew to the Hirsch of the native population that was God judging them because of all their false gods and idolatry. You make a case for that that we've had in the false gods and idolatry as Americans of pulses that that covetousness and greed are idolatry, so we are preeminent nation of our dollars and God hasn't given us out yet. So if you want to hold that judgment over them than what about over us so I'm not discounting divine activity or divine judgment in it, but I would say that everything of course, is a two-way street. But in many ways the Native Americans were mistreated, got the short end of the stick covenants broken and things like that. The idea speaking with a forked tongue that would be the idea it would put that on that the Native American population. They spoke with a forked of course, that was their view of us making covenants and treaties and things like that and I don't believe personally is one is not expert in this I believe personally that that we have made things right with the native population that they ended up with the short end of the stick. And that's just what happened and that whatever we've done to make things right has not been sufficient, and that even at the very least as a church we could be more involved in reaching out and ministering some of our grads minister full-time to Native Americans is really heartbreaking is as they live on the reservations.

There is a tremendous, tremendous depression, drunkenness, suicide, hopelessness, and it's it's tragic to see so again I am not speaking with expertise on this amount buying into the narrative. That is the white invasion was all bad and evil and things like that, though that's not my perspective, but was it simply divine judgment on Native Americans worshiping false gods. I I would. I would not be the one to make that argument and and I would also not make the argument that all the early Americans sinned against the Native American, certainly not, but there has been sin committed. There have been things done wrong, and there have been repercussions that have not been fixed. To this day that I do believe still hang over us. We need to go to the Lord and say how alchemy make things right.

Is it just something that's on the consciousness of the vast majority of believers that I think we could do a better job on right will leave it there and up if you want to write to me and blast me for saying this and understand this and that it's all their fault.

Go ahead and present your position, but that's that's my view on it. Pam wants to know dear Dr. Brown thank you for you to ministering insights for consideration. Why didn't Jesus write anything.

I've never heard this question addressed anywhere ever actually it wasn't the custom of for the teachers and leaders to be writing things in those days of the custom was to be teaching and for things to be passed on through oral tradition still righted anyone right will the ones that Roche with followers.

Was it wrote the records down with followers that the ones that were giving the teaching. The ones that the leader that Rabbi the charismatic teacher. They were not writing things down for the most part that you do have some groups where things were written down, but from what we can tell it's primarily writing down with the leader would say as opposed to the leader doing the writing an essay will help welcome things be preserved today. What if you sign the ABCs in a room with 100 Americans right and you sang it wrong. ABCs EXYJ enslaving the months ahead because everybody was none of us I have to go thresh so things can be passed on in a way that people remember and not only so, in the ancient world memory was much stronger. It was used much more page. Remember the Easter remember things better before we had a cell phone they could destroy everything in their distorted and there may be some really were things were in the Bible better before you could just press a button and find a verse I find my math skills deteriorated because using a calculator. So, in the ancient world and some parts the world today about things being passed on by memories much much much much much more common than when you have many, many people have learned it's been recited. It's been repeated then it's really it's is really locked in there in a very tenacious way, but it would've been surprising if Jesus wrote things down just in terms of that error that would have been surprising if he wrote things down, but with an expected was his followers writing down, which is what happened.

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You know, I've often said by nature I'm a debater by nature. I love to argue points by nature I love to answer questions we were doing my 21st meeting in Australia. It was a Q&A night pastor said let's take an hour. Let's take an hour and and then I I sublimely the longer want one with the water with let's go to another half hour so he said he had a shut down some and I love to do that. And when when I see things online. When I see things online that are attacking me, raising questions, I'll get upset personally I'm very happy to interact, but I'm not able interact with the vast, vast, vast majority obvious to me we can get on our unrest. Dr. Brown page or post can generate as many as 100,000 comments in the week, so I'm not seeing a ton of stuff that's there and they do if I wanted to interact time this permit and then to corn this permit that I get involved in every single conversation so that being said, that being said, I would love to response every challenge.

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You responded to my tweet's excuse for doing live radio right now doing live radio and maybe you've got three twitter followers. Or maybe zero twitter followers so you didn't just open an account in your attacking me and maybe I'm letting us see your tweet at all that I responded to be tweet. That's what I spend most my time doing the first binary Facebook, and I would have enough time to do that but I was get a kick in huggable responding act actually ivory or actually I'm preaching right now in India is little difficult in the middle of preaching in India. There I just tweet out a pray for me about the preacher in India. I'm preaching in the little bit difficult to do that so phone lines are open. Since we come back on and go straight to your calls upon get some email questions as well. 8663 for 87884 is the number to call a look at this just another news item on my Israeli men killed wife unconscious to kids, moderately injured and shooting attack. The current Palestinian license plates overtook the family car the road when individuals inside the overtaking car open fire for what automatic weapons of the family car, and the children let God have mercy God have mercy in the midst of the murder chaos for God lives in the right right back with your calls file 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 line of fire friends questions. We got answers 866-34-TRUTH, Margate, Florida Philip, welcome to the line of fire, call your mom Brown. I'm in the middle reading the book. I'm almost finished with the unfavorable Michael Heiser on what your thoughts on that. All gone and you viewed my own opinion I believe that you did read the book as you had them on the liquid last year sometime you have not actually replayed the.

The interview so let me answer on three levels. First, Michael Heiser is a solid Old Testament Semitic scholar and a lot of what he talks about is commonly known in those circles, and other works that there was a pantheon of gods in the ancient near East and that their biblical text that reflect what would be called manometry more than monotheism analogy being that God is supreme among the gods.

Exodus 1511 who is like the among the gods. Oh Lord, right saying verses like that of God stands in the counsel of the gods. We would ultimately say is there not gods in all their created beings that were there were angelic beings, whether they were fallen Angels that it's just to recognize their existence more. But the Bible talks about it quite plainly in different ways. There's only one who's really worthy of being called God, that among these are the so-called divine beings. God rises up and so on that level you would say it's mainstream Old Testament Semitic scholarship. The second thing is that there are aspects of the book that are more controversial. There is a review I just happen to read this in the Journal of the Evangelical theological Society, so if you type in Journal.

Let's see what comes up for the Evangelical theological Society, there we go.

If if you look at that what's it's the abbreviation ETS jets.org so ETS Evangelical theological side ETS jets.org, the most recent issue has a fairly extensive review of Michael Heiser's book, and I think you'll be able to read it online if not immediately then once the next issue comes available. You'll probably be able to read it online. I don't think you have to be a member to do that but it's it's it's a fairly detailed review, and in it, it raises some of the, the more controversial issues and that's my third part. There are things I would differ with. For example, the, the adversary also called hustler Tom.

The adversary in Job 1 into is that Satan of the New Testament, the devil of the New Testament or not there's a debate among scholars about it.

Michael Heiser says no other evangelical scholars say no II believe the answer is yes. It is the same being there there other texts that we would normally say that Satan or Michael has requested that. So on the one hand, it's great reading is very eye-opening. Helps make clear the reality of the spiritual realm that was so commonly understood by people in the ancient world and in in ancient Israel, and in the New Testament church of the New Testament revelation would emphasize all the more that that the hostile powers are demons under Socratic satanic dominion. The Ephesian six minute rest with flesh and blood, but with the principalities, powers was a pretty detailed scheme there of of the of of dark powers and Heiser was criticizing review for not looking at Revelation 12 where does that speak of the fall of one third of the angels and things like that.

On the other hand, demons are never explicitly referred to as fallen Angels in the New Testament. You know their origin is not explicitly stated so it's it's really worth reading. But you have to than cultural conclusions because some of them are controversial.

Now I have another question Dr. Brown about the same thing as one 26 let us make man in our own image God stating that he speaking with the divine counter counsel.

Now, I believe that he speaking at within the Trinity. When evidently you can't be can prove either. In other words, neither varied arguments. Some say it's what's called the plural of guilt that the liberation let's do it there it's it has under the plural. It's just let's do it right. You said it yourself).

Let's not listed other sales the so-called plural of Majesty were the king would say a lot of us. We have decreed today that we will even notice an individual that said, I've said all that, that's not applicable better than others, who said it's it's God conferring with the Angels of the divine counsel. Let us do it let us make man in our image, because he will be in that sense, like the Angels, and like God and others say no that's that's God speaking within himself to give a hint of Trinity and the same thing in the third chapter of Genesis. The mass become like one of us or the 11th chapter of Genesis, let us go down and see what they're doing. The Tower of Babel.

So that's that's one view of among several that can be debated and I when I argue that when Jewish apologetics. I don't press the Trinitarian argument, but as it certainly works for the Trinitarian God, you can make a case for okay great. I very much appreciate the questions and it's a good way to read a book, read, learn what you can but realize ultimately you gotta sift through and see if you agree with the conclusions that the author is presenting 8663 freight 7884 we go to Winston-Salem North Carolina. Tim welcome to modifier Dr. Brown now after seven individual island, I will not. Christians are not able to do wonderful work. Strength checked out Joe and then may the Lord and Christ. He can't get out devils out of think of God. He didn't know these people that were doing and you also see that Satan but, just say so.

He would just out of the question would be why they were able to do that. But Jeter did no, that is a very logical good questions so there there two possible answers. Okay.

One is that was just their claim that was that was that was their claim that they did it, but they didn't really do it okay if they were they were self deceived PEOPLE are self deceived. The other is that there was a Jewish excommunication formula when you were cutting some often excommunicating them percent you would say I never knew you. So even though you had known them when you were cutting them off the formula would be. I never knew you.

So, some believe that Jesus is just using a Jewish excommunication formula there and saying I never knew you, and they once did these things, but they had turned away.

They had ceased to obey the will of God. They had they had gotten out of the things of the spirit and without living in the flesh in rebellion and deception anything away from me. I never knew you.

So you say, but that's not really with the words media, but that was a formula that was used so either they were self deceived him because Satan doesn't cast out Satan are absolutely right. If he casts out something is gonna come back worse. One of my friends who minister the lot in Mexico and in the among real rural difficult situations where the only alternative. People have was going to the witch doctor if they were sick and he said he saw people who were healed but they got something worse. He saw people that got delivered but they always got something worse because Satan this drive out Satan, so that it's it's kinda like he'll forgive your hundred dollar debt the country in $1000 debt instead. So again either.

They were self deceived and not really doing it or they had done it.

They then fell into sin, rebellion, and were no longer walking with him, and on that day he's going to say you haven't submitted to me is Lord.

So I never knew you that you have no access your your out and one of those two up because acamprosate casting out Satan, yeah, and by the way, let me just say saying put on an act. And that's how people could be self deceived.

In other words, you could be ministering in fleshly power or demonic power in order demons to leave and this person could shake and how children fall out of the and it's all deception. There is nothing's actually happen sustains an arts deceiver as well. But great question and a logical question as well.

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On the other side of the brakes on will have to cut your question off or cut my answer off but in in my article I wrote yesterday, which is getting moderate century the side of while actually written for Donald Trump.

I explained don't jump to conclusions based on based on the of the title because number one.

I still have my concerns the reduce elections today.

I though I don't know that I could vote for him. Okay if there is a viable other candidate I would've voted for the candidate earlier in the week I had a guest on and asked him why he still never Trump and let him sit. It should it with all my listeners did in the bottom and posted that interview the as I know Donald Trump is a post-Hillary Clinton is gathering around him. A lot of people are solid believers and some have access to mentors bring the gospel to.

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Your voice is more cultural and spiritual revolution. Here again is Dr. Michael Brown what Immaculata fire questions we got in 63487884 we go to Savannah, Georgia Alberto, welcome to the line of fire. Her Christian faith and law about no answer. Christian rely on this world, but thank them all the laws of the world protect the law system is world under the rulership statement with the enemy of your soul Christian rely on the government and out of police report together all the enemy but did not not a majority of� Not�.

They can block all them people like Peter. The Creighton always trust in God and and protect him, so why should he rely on the system and the government doesn't to back him up at the Beverly system yeah yeah got you question other. Thanks. I cursed the first thing our ultimate trust is always in God. If I get on a plane to fly young trusting that the mechanics objective the flight and that the pilots responsible my ultimate trust is is in God when I'm driving down the road. I'm doing my best to to drive wisely and assuming that the people coming the other way I can try to pressure cars, intimate but my ultimate trust and we didn't want to get out of bed is in God.

That being said, Jan the one hand, the world system is under the power of the evil one. First John 519, where God, little children with the whole world is in the control of the evil meaning worldly desires and and things like that.

But Romans 13 tells us that God is one who establishes authority. Romans 13 tells us that God is the one that gives people authority to govern, and that they are appointed as ministers of justice, to fight against evil, and to stand for what is right and to use the sword to fight against evil. So even though United States corrupt in many ways every day.

There are things that law enforcement officers are doing to enforce the law to see that people are not killing each other and stealing from each of their court systems saying that if someone is guilty of a crime to go to jail. Now the systems are imperfect because imperfect people are working them, but if not for law and order being established by God. And if not for people working to protect us and help us. Our military and police sent and others law enforcement there be complete chaos in the streets so I would not have such a dire look that everyone is under the power of Satan. In that respect. And we have Paul using his rights as a Roman citizen enrollment was certainly corrupt Empire.

But in and ask the 21st chapter when their heat he sees about two to suffer pieces it will hang on a Roman citizen in the immediately back off and asked 16, he raises the issue that you arrested and flog some of the Romans.

It Roman citizen next week and realize that so he certainly appeal to that, when it was helpful. And then you had a Roman centurion and asked the 21st chapter, who then helps protect him in another case when when there's a plot to kill Paul a word is sent to two Roman authorities and they find out about it and they get Paul out so certainly I recognize I recognize the the viability of this so yeah, absolutely. That my ultimate trust is in the war but I would trust police to do what's right.

I would trust law enforcement to do it's right.

There are times of chaos when it doesn't happen, but that would be my basic expectation right. Thank you, thank you for the call 866342.

Our friend Elwood in Springfield, Virginia. Welcome to modifier Dr. Brown. My question is extrovert, OR answer. I don't know if you heard about the doctor patient to effectively lift band on transgender in the military you know about him becoming the military now if I remember with everything we had open shower with male and female with aggregate amount. Email and male-female trade differently and things of that nature.

So my question is with America in the military are to become more market, getting worse, becoming think they did things like that in ancient Rome would you recommend a Christian serve in the military where a Christian girl could possibly putting herself in danger of a bank to help shower and how should Christians react yeah it's it's a complete outrage. I dressed it in the first hour that the United States has said that there lifting the ban on transgender serving again. It's commendable that that those with emphasis transgender want to serve in the military.

This is commendable to gays and lesbians want to serve in the military. The question is not what's best for them. But what's best for the military which Mr. overall morale which Mr. standards and especially in some like the military with her so much pressure something like the military were everybody has to conform to certain norms you don't introduce all types of challenging variables. So for example David French were had on earlier in the week. David French has David French has addressed this clearly as as well in terms of the just your engineering it's it's it's just complete social engineering here that's going on. So let's say you have a woman who identifies as a man, what is she then required to do what a man has to do with exercises with carrying certain modes and things like that. We are your average military woman as I can be able to keep up your average military majesties were built differently if the man identifies as a woman.

What if he hasn't completely had sex change surgery other than how does that work you know is is a man with male plumbing sharing shower stalls you know is right next to the two women. What about their embarrassment. What about their discomfort.

Does that factor in a what about the fact that you still have a disproportionate amount of mental health issues reported with those even after sex change surgery. Some would say it doesn't diminish, at all.

Some claimants it's worse but certainly it's a disproportionately high percentage compared to the rest of the population of the government same as long as you have been stable in your new gender identity for at least 18 months and you can serve.

How is a person going to do in the midst of the increase pressure of military and on and on and why would you do something for may be to item a thousand people are 3/1000 people and how it him actually want to serve in the military was one of a thousand. Why would you do something that can potentially negatively affect the other 999 for the sake of the one this. I have the military operates can operate like that. So as for Christians, they just need to use wisdom you honestly want to be witnesses in the midst of things, but in some cases they will be able to serve in good conscience. Chaplains will be able to serve in good conscience because of ongoing restrictions of their freedoms and liberties and there is there is many there are many, many of the questions that come up so we want to be salt and light we want to have an influence, but from what I can tell I don't have deep data on this, but it seems there is discouragement among believers enrolling enlisting in the military so that numbers are going down of for these and many other reasons on the wood you've heard anecdotally but that seems to be the case I don't alter not very well .

Yeah, I mean all this is going to become part of the package is his social military insanity is no basis for there is zero basis. It is an agenda driven thing in the city to repent.

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 6643 here again is Dr. Michael Brown thank you so much for joining us on the line of fire broadcast Michael Brown delighted I'm a great time the last 90 minutes. Take your calls answering your email questions you've got questions, we've got answers and vinyl have the answer will do our best to find it for you to call with your question and if you want to ask me about talk to me about 866-34-TRUTH 87884 phones are wide, wide open on anything under the sun. It's fit for Christian radio. Let's see who can I answer five questions quickly from Jimmy in the UK.

Well, I highly respect Dr. Brown can he help me with five quick questions. Please write only give you five quick answers Jimmy conservatives not baptized in the Holy Spirit operate in spiritual gifts. Theoretically, by faith as a believer you can be used in any gift, but the norm is that this is your power by the spirit to the baptism of the Spirit and then God works through you, but others would say the more safe we have all of the spirit and have and therefore we can operate by faith, but certainly some of you believe God to operate in certain white and the Holy Spirit can work through them. I can you biblically recall filled the street. If you never spoken in tongues.

Yes, but I believe you're full of the spirit can't speak in tongues of quick questions quick answers three white revivals break out when the browser was similar take a decade or two before the genuine one breaks out again.

Often it's not a dictator to its generation or century before they break out revivals break down because human beings are involved. That's what happens revivals break down because human beings are used and human beings are flawed and godlessness is tremendous power and intensity that a certain point human awareness can can commanders Satan can come in, but what you have to look at is this. Would you rather have God move in an extraordinary and supernatural way and in a matter of say five years touch millions of people with multiplied tens of thousands coming to faith and hundreds of thousands coming back to faith, and other millions being inspired to go deeper in God and and then some problems at the end and some difficulties or life as usual. The answer is obvious.

We would trade this for anything we would absolutely not trade this for anything. What we saw what God did, how he did it. If we had to do it all over. Could we avoid in their some of the troubles challenges.

We have the NBS but thankfully I got preserve the saw. We went on the ministry of the steep hills with the Lord now go home with the dying of cancer accomplished years ago, but all the ministers of gone.

John Kilpatrick seen another great move of God. Subsequently, Linda Cooley's church is thriving with a tremendous blessing on our ministry and the school that we found a continued refinement schools in different parts of the world people touched by the revival came up to me. Australia wanted me know how they were prayed for and touched and how the fire God change them at 18 years ago there been the same. But why things take time. That's the unique thing it takes the have to be certain setting at a certain level of hunger, and desperation thirst for God to move that we keep keep praying for an even greater awakening. What is more important character in a Christlike life of the ability to be great so wanted to spite your character old. Certainly, you need character, in Christ likeness of the leisure foundation will fall apart, but if you have Christ likeness will be solar to be solar and into caster your own soul. The goal, but why make it either/or. If you have Christlike character than like him, you will reach the lost one leader said the key is to remember the Savior of the world lives inside of you and Lester. Big churches assign the pastors, small churches on the pastor's article, certainly not the church could be a could be the fruit of some of doing things in a carnal wife and small church could be the result of someone making genuine disciples, but if something's really alive. It will grow something's really alive.

It will grow Italy to grow in numbers, ill it'll grow a death is the maturing power is really alive. One way or another it will for sure larger small inlet itself is right by questions. Five answers will direct technical line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown get into the line of fire now by calling 8663 here again is Dr. Michael Brown thank you for joining us on the line of fire, 866 you've got questions, we've got answers of saved half a little fruitful twitter interaction in the two minute break that I just had now back to the bones in Atwater, California Jacob, welcome to line of fire around my call. My question down, read it off and ordered articulated and speak it as concisely as possible and then do you mind if I did go ahead and get off the line at that point.

Let you go for okay Dr. Brown you would agree that God has spoken clearly in the word on the subject of homosexuality, that those who practice homosexuality will not been detected will not spend eternity with God in heaven if they die and update but will end up in hell for eternity. My question is on the subject of adultery has God spoken unambiguously on adultery and does not mean the hundreds of thousands of remarried couples that remarried without biblical ground are going to hell if they die and update yet.

Thank you for the question Jacob II raise that in my book. It's time to rock the boat in 1993 that there are many in the church with no biblical grounds for their divorce, and no biblical grounds for the remarriage that there's some would argue that there there is never grounds for remarriage as long as the spouse is living and they make a strong New Testament case for that I a differ of her with the literature on it, convinced by it. I know much of church history that was taught in the first century Jewish life that would not have been taught. You can have a context in both ways for either argument, but in short we can all agree that there are people who divorced and remarried without any biblical grounds. You know the guy just got tired of his wife and he soaring compatible and I just don't feel good about this relationship and I'm divorced but honey we remarried in the lowest-cost matter I'm divorcing free divorce and we know what caused it while he was having an affair with a secretary at work in a low proverbial thing that happens all too often, and of they end up now they get married.

Well, as far as I understand it, that is an adulterous marriage that's an adulterous marriage. What happens to them.

Listen, I have grave concerns about that and I spoke it openly over 20 years ago in writing, I have grave concerns, especially if they went on without even any semblance of repentance would be one thing if they got smitten with conviction is to bring sin and they separated and the guy tried to go back and reconcile with his wife, but she was by then remarriage and there was no possible reconciliation and they repented before the Lord and they said Lord will stay single. The rest of our lives and then they felt in order they were counseled know you've repented is nothing you could do now you can go on and in your marriage is valid or something, or if that would've been one thing okay, but in the vast majority of cases, it probably hasn't even happened that some of that them except my second scenario that there could be repentance and then you go on together, but distance don't say in most cases there is not even the semblance of repentance. In most cases there. There is not even an indication that even an indication that that people thought better of it.

Now some live with guilt all the time in the struggle it's probably because the Holy Spirit try to convict them and they're not willing to hear it.

My hope my hope is that sometimes people act during extreme ignorance because of poor teaching in the church that there's more mercy that can be had than we realize that listen if there is some gay couple right. They their newly saved and they're still together in a relationship still sleeping get exactly the fate their brand-new and there in a gay affirming church that tells them it's perfectly fine and then they they died in a car wreck. A month later I damned to hell because there is sleep. Got II hope the guy had mercy on them and their ignorance just had mercy on all of us in our ignorance as new believers sunlight. I'm not the one standing in judgments and you go to hell you go to hell you get it you get it, but I have grave concerns the reason we redressed homosexual issues much worse off because of the actor because of the activism. That's what we been addressed. Just like the transgender is now serving the military or the, the aggressive Obama ministration, pushing things unschooled.

That's what we redressed things.

It's in the news day and night. That's overdressed. I'm not starting the topic that's what's in our faces. That's what were being confronted with constantly through the media through the courts and on and on it goes to detection of religious liberties. But as far as within the church. I'm far more concerned about adultery in the church them about homosexual practice in the church watches the vast majority church is heterosexual just like the vast majority population a much more concerned about no-fault divorce and remarriage in the church them about same-sex marriage in the church. Why, because of the percentage of people involved in the because we have a plague of that I've said for many years that no-fault divorce in the church is the more destroy marriage and WAS combined and I stand by that statement. So, I have grave concerns.

My only hope that this mercy because of ignorance but where there's been willful sin.

I've grave concern. As far as understand that person is in adultery and their living and unrepentant adultery, in which case they will enter the kingdom of heaven, 866342.

Let's go to Des Moines, Iowa, Raleigh.

Welcome to light a fire sure thing will I actually I am no. How big our how to communicate with you know how to communicate our like� Right. Yeah, it's real simple lust of the flesh and and and and in the mind, the heart and in other words, it is not him actively communicating. It's just that that we give way to these things were falling human beings and that's his realm. So for example of credit. For example, if if I have a shop at the airport right and it's, you know, super, super healthy meals coming there there like the healthiest possible meals you could get the cost little bit more. He takes a bit longer to order them and eat them right in there right next to that is some McDonald's or Cinnabon or something like that, you know, war or Ben & Jerry's.

They might do more business just because that's the flesh you know it's easier to sleep in than to get up early. It's easier to eat than to fast it's it's easier to give way the lustful thoughts than to be disciplined. That's human nature to live a sweet tooth, the more they crave unhealthy things as opposed to healthy things so that's the realm that he works in and and therefore you are the prince of the power the air, the prince of this realm is the realm he works and so that's where the appeal comes in it and and and you don't even need the devil to actively do it another which human beings just following their own desires will then do the wrong thing so she's just there to to.

Let's just say make more items for the party. He stressed they are to to to provide more distraction entertainment, but no human nature is to go in that wrong direction.

Because of the fall like communication.

All around right yeah yeah so sought. For example, there are times there are times Raleigh were I've known. The enemy came after me like out of the blue this thought you wanted to go on this website was like what you talk about what we know where that come from. It was just not not in your mind at all, but if if I am if I am checking out of a grocery store right and there. There is no all these scantily clad women. I don't need the devil's luck. I have to consciously say don't look there because it's out there and it is a male Unocal wandering eyes. Note to make sure you don't look over there, because those are wrong images to look at. So there are times when the actively does it but James Jake of the first chapter tells us that were enticed one by our own desire own lustful desire. That's what draws us and then that's what produces sin. And that leads to death a lot worse that the word protect, where I'm going like verbally communicate complicated. It's not just verbally communicating wants to destroy you in a million different ways he won't and PR actually your reader yeah that's that's debatable.

I really had a conversation with with the devil in your mind, and it kinda goes back and forth to notes. It is, it's debatable. Some argue that very, very mature, solid people, some of the wisest people I know believe that and and some some don't, but I might consider letter and let them read my mind was that was a concern that you have cut that the biggest issues is knowing God, but there are a million different ways. There are demons that want to destroy right they want to kill you. That will kill your family and by God's grace were protected and were shielded him so it such as temptation, ascendance of the ways for their attempts to destroy say thank you for the colloquy shift plus the line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown voice of moral cultural and spiritual revolution. Here again is Dr. Michael Brown on a very regular basis. I get asked question today how these things work. What about the objection so I did a special featuring a 30 minute teaching on DVD. It's a video teaching will address these questions and talk about the gifts of the spirit being for today this week when you order my book, authentic fire, which is a response to John MacArthur strange firewood with written with grace written by God's grace intensive three week.

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Here's a question from Joe about Abraham's bosom.

My question is about Abraham's bosom you believe that this was an actual place, as you just say that Lazarus is being held by Abraham, I know the Bible says he led captivity captive, but to me that's no solid proof of a holding place for the Old Testament saints. Also, Enoch and Elijah didn't go to this place. As far as I can see also the Mount of Transfiguration.

Moses was there a glorified state of being.

What was the Jewish belief on destination after death.

Thanks for your time and the love of our father in heaven. Always be upon you to the power of our Lord Jesus soap Joe's asking an excellent question based on Luke 16, where Jesus talks about the rich man and Lazarus. So the rich man goes to Hades and the suffering there, and Lazarus ago's into Abraham's bosom so their separation between the ones in the place of bliss and the other is in a place of torment out was a literal location was that believe that that's where the righteous would go in the Old Testament before the cross when it says in Ephesians 4 led captivity captive. Does that mean that Jesus led to those who have been captive in the solar compartment in the in the netherworld righteous would been captive that he then led them into heaven. No Ephesians 4 deftly doesn't say that Ephesians 411 Dismissed train that struck about demonic powers. It's talk about his triumph over demonic powers as we see in Colossians the second chapter and and when he gave gifts to men. That's those that he set free people that he set free of people like me heroin shooting Alice using hippie rock, he then turns around and gives us his gifts to the body that some of the pray that he gets from his destruction of Satan's power is an and you can make an argument that the hope of the Old Testament where there was a clear expressed hope it was to go and be with the Lord. But as as a Baker encyclopedia of the Bible explains, is this be a fairly standard explanation, Abraham's bosom. That's a figure of speech probably derived from the Roman custom of reclining on one's left sided meals with the guest of honor at the bosom of his host was used by Jesus in the story of Lazarus. This is the description of paradise member in a loop.

23 Jesus says to the thief on the cross today will be with me in paradise is that speaking of Jesus descending into the netherworld, bringing the righteous up with him and declaring his victory over the powers of darkness and hence the thief who repents it would be with him in paradise and then ascend to heaven with him or by paradise did he mean heaven debated rabbinical writings as well as fourth Maccabees 1317.

The just for thought to be welcome to death by Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Jesus probably aware of this was also alluding to the messianic banquet and image use number of times this to calm the godly prayer like Lazarus would not be welcome by Abraham would occupy the place of honor next to him at the banquet.

Such pictures presented by Jesus, in contrast to the torment of the rich man and Hades. In other words, it is simply looked at as a figure of speech. In that respect and not an actual location of just begin to give you ideas of what different scholars who said it conveniently Erdman's Bible dictionary, the reference may be the place next to Abraham at the banquet for the righteous and the world to come, where you have various rabbinic interpretation of certain texts, or it may simply refer to a pleasant place of intimate fellowship with him the location of the space is not specified but a few facts about its relative location can be deduced from the text.

It is adjacent to but not part of Hades at the same time.

It's a long way from Hades. The within shouting distance of what we make of this. I do not believe we can conclusively say that those who died before the cross went to heaven ascended to heaven as the norm turned in terms of the righteous. In terms of believers. Okay, I don't believe that we can absolutely say you can make arguments to that effect that they go media into God's presence. Psalm 17. The psalmist seems to have hope of seeing God's face, his countenance upon death, but can we say it, for sure, no. So either there was a place speaking of paradise that was under the earth in the same way if we talk about spiritual place and spatial definitions right so take that as it is that you could see where that the wicket was suffering but you yourself when a place of comfort and then when Jesus died on the cross. He brought the righteous up into heaven, he had to cleanse the heaven lease before doing that so only select individuals Elijah others that that ascended was that was not the norm or this just a figure of speech to present a picture. And when believers died in the Old Testament, they went straight into God's heavenly presence can be debated. I don't think we can be absolutely dogmatic on it. Either way, and obviously it's it's only looking back now from here on the we know what the answer is interestingly there is rabbinic text that says that when people die. The very few who are perfectly righteous go immediately straight up that the average that the average person tries to good but the debate back and forth. They go down for little while to some level of punishment discipline paying for their sins, but then they go up so there's some punishment, but then they go up and that the perfectly wicket they go down and never come off so in some rabbinic thought.

This is not a major theme rabbinic literature and some rabbinic thought. There is eternal punishment for the preeminently wicket, but that's not normally believe I know it's tangential to what you're asking, but I figured I would mention it I friends July 4 is Monday but we plan to be live here on the line of fire. Maybe you can call in on Monday I am going to talk about things about America's roots and some fascinating things about our independence in the role of the Bible and all of that thought.

I'm on it. I plan to take calls as well.

You never know what will happen with the news and what's happening or what God lays on my heart but I plan on opening the phone lines as well. So maybe you will be working July 4. You'll be able to call in live during the broadcast may be waiting for like eight years to do it.

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