Dr. Brown Tackles Your Toughest Questions Live from Israel

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We are live in Israel. You've got questions. We've got answers. It's time for the Line of Fire with your host, biblical scholar and cultural commentator, Dr. Michael Brown. Your voice for moral sanity and spiritual clarity.

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All right. Now we do have probably folks staying in the room next door. That was great.

We've got about 15 folks in the room today. So they persevered through a full day of touring Israel, which started with an amazing boat ride in the Sea of Galilee. That was special, even with the Israeli dancing at the end.

I didn't expect that. So that full tour day for everybody. Then many of them, most of them came to a message.

I preached probably a full hour message, came straight from there over to radio and it is now a little bit after 10 in the evening here in Israel. But it's Friday, which means you've got questions. We've got answers.

So as always the same number to call 866-34-TRUTH, 866-348-7884. Any question of any kind that has anything to do with anything we ever talk about on the Line of Fire. Bible question, spiritual question, cultural question, political question.

You can ask an Israel question on a Friday too. Any question you have, you want to challenge me on something, you differ with something, by all means give me a call 866-348-7884. I also want to give opportunity to folks in the room here.

So if you have a question you want to ask me, just wave at me for a second. We need some of you to go right ahead and do it. All right, so we'll call you over. Come on over here. All right, so here's what you're going to do. All right, just make sure it's not a bad question or dumb question.

I'm messing with you. Come on, come on over. All right, so just give us first name where you're from and go ahead and ask your question. Get close, get close.

Corey Adams from Nebraska. Go ahead. Yeah, I actually didn't have a question ready. But I'll tell you what, you go back, sit in the back of the room, sit in the back of the class. No, you're okay.

You were trying. All right, come on over, come on over. That's all right.

That's not a problem. The whole world will remember Corey from Nebraska. The whole world will remember. We'll never forget that call. And you'll remember the moment. Okay, go ahead.

Get close. Yes, I'm Mario from London. Dr. Brown, we see some signs of revival in the U.S. However, in Europe, we don't see any of these. I'm from Europe. Especially on the abortion movement, we see obviously people fighting back.

But in Europe, it's like completely apathy. What can we do as Christians? Yeah, so I hear genuine reports. We got something special meeting set up with some Jewish seekers the first night that I arrived before the tour group arrives. But if you're listening to this live on Monday, then just pray, pray for grace on travel for all to go smoothly for our tour group coming over and perhaps a future time.

You can join us in the land as well. All right, so I solicited some questions on Facebook, our Ask Dr. Brown page, ASKDR Brown on Facebook. I solicited some questions saying, hey, maybe you've heard something.

I heard this is true, but it's really true. It's really accurate. So I'm going to answer a lot of these questions today on the broadcast.

I just want to do something special. I thought you would find it enjoyable. All right, Johnny asked this. I've heard that there is a Jewish custom that women were not allowed to cut their hair and that that is reflected in 1 Corinthians 11 6. Is this true? I'm not aware of an ancient Jewish custom that women were not allowed to cut their hair. It was normal for women to not cut their hair. It was cultural for women to have long hair. What Paul speaks of in 1 Corinthians 11 and a woman's hair being her glory.

It was not just something in the city of Corinth that was fairly normal in the ancient world. And even if you think of it to this day male pattern baldness is something that we're used to with men and is not exceptional. But with women, it's more of a shameful thing. If women had severe baldness, then that would be the kind of thing that they'd be more inclined to wear a wig or something like that.

Just in our culture generally speaking. So that being said, I am not aware of ancient Jewish law that is reflected in 1 Corinthians 11 saying that a woman was not allowed to cut her hair. Cynthia, I heard someone say that Adam and Eve went to hell. Is this true?

On what basis could someone say that? How would they know? You're reading the same Bible that I'm reading and it simply doesn't tell us their fate. It doesn't tell us what happens to them after they're driven from the garden.

It doesn't say a word. It gives us no indication either way. So we simply do not know what happened to Adam and Eve. You can speculate all you want, but we simply do not know. And if we don't know, why spend all our time speculating? Alright, now some people are just posting general questions, but I'm not answering just general questions.

It's specifically, hey, I've heard this. Is it true? Well, we're doing our best to separate fact from fiction. Theodore, why do Jews determine Jewishness matrilineally when the Bible always determines things patrilineally? This is established in the table of nations in the book of Numbers.

Okay, I just said I wasn't going to answer general questions like this, but since I read it, I'll answer it. Judaism bases the teaching that Jewish descent is through the mother, primarily based on the passages in Ezra 9 and 10, where the Israelites returning from the Babylonian exile had intermarried with pagan women and the women and their children were sent away, based on which it was understood that because the marriage through the woman was not valid, then the child was not a legitimate Israelite. It would be one thing if the women had become like Ruth, had become converts to Judaism, converts of the ancient Israelite faith, and were practicing that. But that not being the case, then they were just considered women of the foreign nations. There was not to be intermarriage with the women of the foreign nations, and that would be an indication then that things would be traced through the mother in terms of descent. So genealogy would be a different issue. We have the daughters of Selafchad, so as long as there was an inheritance tying in with genealogy, as long as the women married within their tribe, then the inheritance could be passed through the women. So in terms of inheritance and genealogy would work like that, but in terms of Jewishness, descent, that's one of the main passages that has been used by rabbinic tradition.

Let's see here. All right, Jesse has heard about Jewish wedding customs during the time of Christ and how they would relate to the wedding parables in relation to the Lord's end time return. For instance, Jesse said, I've heard the pre-tribulation rapture proponents said that the bridegroom taking away the five wise virgins to the wedding feast and leaving the five foolish virgins behind here is the secret pre-tribulation rapture. Number one, with all respect to my pre-trib friends who love the Lord and look forward to the return of Jesus, I've often heard all these alleged marriage customs, Jewish marriage customs from the first century that really tie in with the pre-trib rapture view in so many different ways. In point of fact, I am not aware, having studied this and researched, that any of those alleged customs actually existed in the first century. So I hate to rain on somebody's parade there, but when people come in and say, oh, there's this, it's amazing and this happened and this happened and this happened, I said, just show me the sources.

Show me the sources that can verifiably be dated or most likely dated to the first century. That's the first problem. Specifically here though, in no way would the parable in Matthew 25 point towards a pre-trib rapture because in point of fact, you could argue it points to a post-trib rapture.

Why? Because the ten virgins go out to meet the bridegroom as he comes in. He's not turning around and going back to where he started, is he?

Right? So the pre-trib rapture would have Jesus come down from heaven and then turn around and bring us back to heaven as opposed to what scripture teaches that we meet him in the air as he's coming back, right? There's only one second coming, as he's coming back and escort him back to the earth together. And so here we were to escort him to the wedding.

And when does the wedding feast take place when the kingdom of God is beautifully and gloriously established on the earth? All right, let's see here. Okay. No, that's just all right. There we go. John. I heard there were three Isaiah's who helped write Isaiah, two Jeremiah's and at least two Daniel's and I don't like that.

LOL. Do the Hebrew scholars believe this to any degree? Generally speaking, if you are a critical scholar, liberal scholar, non-conservative scholar, then you are much more inclined to believe that there are multiple authors involved with different books of the Bible, that there are multiple authors over a period of centuries that wrote the Pentateuch, that there were three primary Isaiah's divided into Isaiah 1 through 39, Isaiah 40 through 55, Isaiah 56 to 66.

So first, second, third Isaiah, or sometimes the second and third would be called Dutro and Trito Isaiah. You might find different Zechariah's, et cetera, several different hands in Jeremiah. And in other words, a critical scholar is not being primarily moved by the attribution that you find in scripture. If scripture says Moses wrote, then we accept Moses wrote, unless we had categorical reason to not accept it, in which case we would question its inscription. But we have good reason to believe if it says Moses wrote, then Moses wrote. Now, we don't know categorical.

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Thanks for joining us on the line of fire. Michael Brown, as we listen, I should be in flight to Israel and, God willing, tomorrow night, I'm going to be being a special Q&A meeting with few seekers who have come from very, very religious backgrounds and are in various parts of their journey. I can't wait for that.

So let me just think. That'll be, oh, when should that be happening? That should be happening kind of like early afternoon Eastern time on Tuesday.

So do pray and I hope to give you some updates on what happens with that. And then the tour group will be arriving. Oh, when's that?

I guess the next day? All right, so we temporarily lost our connection. We are back and thrilled to be with you live from Israel.

These are some of the challenges, but we do our best to broadcast live. All right, I'm going to go straight to the phones. We'll go over to Joseph in Brooklyn, New York.

Welcome to the line of fire. Joseph, are you there? All right, let's hang on. Let's see if we got Joseph over here. Joseph, is that you? Yeah, go ahead.

God has won many debates through you. Okay, my question. Ruth, supposedly today. I never read the story of Ruth, but I heard of her. And today I heard that Ruth wasn't with the great-great-grandmother of King David, but she's not Israeli. And my question is that the line, the line of David, the line of Jesse is the coming Messiah.

Now I thought, you know, with the time of Moses with all the Israeli, that the Messiah is coming through that line, the Israeli line. So now that I know that... In point of fact, this is something that's emphasized.

No. Yeah, in point of fact, this is something that is emphasized in... All right, maybe we're just having a slight problem in our communication here. So in point of fact, this is something that's emphasized at the end of Ruth in the fourth chapter. It's something that's emphasized in Matthew's Gospel as well, that the genealogy of David and the genealogy of the Messiah comes through some interesting paths.

For example, in Ruth, the fourth chapter in the 12th verse, it says that this comes through, it references Tamar, the prayer that the line would be like the children born to Judah and Tamar. Well, that was an illicit relationship. That was a sinful relationship. Judah thought that Tamar was a prostitute. That was his daughter-in-law.

And that's reference to something, may the fruit be like that in some positive way. In Deuteronomy 23, no mole bite can enter the congregation of the Lord up to the tenth generation. So how is it that Ruth enters? Well, the Jewish tradition is that it only applied to males as opposed to males and females. So Ruth can enter as a female. The other answer would be that she converted to the God of Israel and so accepted because of that.

The Bible also mentions Solomon, who is the child of David and Bathsheba, and this was after David committed adultery and killed Bathsheba's husband. So God has brought them a sign to the world in... The line, it comes through a certain line.

So that's what we were always taught. You know, if Ruth is not a part of, you know, the people of Israel, is this a spiritual messianic line and not a physical? First, it is a physical line because it comes through the Father.

That's the first thing. So it is a physical line, and it's also a spiritual line that you could become a member of Israel. In other words, there were many in Israel that were not born in Israel but converted to worship the God of Israel. That's all I understand. It's just very interesting. I didn't know that.

So that's what happened. Yeah, it's very interesting. Yeah, very interesting.

It sounds very, very, very shocking to me when I heard that today. But thank you for answering my question. Yeah, you are very welcome. God bless you.

Appreciate it. And also, Psalm 19.4.5, what's the meaning of it? Does it reflect on the disciples? Psalm 19? No, it's about nature. The heavens declare the glory of God.

The skies claim the work of his hands. Day after day, they pour forth speech. Night after night, they reveal knowledge. They have no speech. They use no words. No sound is heard from them, yet their voice goes out into all the earth. Their words to the ends of the world. So it's talking about how the witness of nature declaring the glory of God has gone out to the entire world. And then, speaking of the sun, declaring God's glory like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, like a champion returning to the earth.

Like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, like a champion rejoicing to run his course. Rises at one hand of the heavens, etc. So it's not talking about the disciples, not their voice.

It's the voice of God testifying through nature. Hey, Joseph, I appreciate the questions. Thank you.

Thank you very much. All right. And as we are having a glorious time from Israel here, what's very interesting is while you are hearing my voice, I am unable to connect with our studio to control our calls or see who is calling. But the good news is we've got an army of people with questions right here in the room with us. So that's what we are doing next.

So who else? All right, come on over. Come on over. So give us your first name, where you're from, and your question.

Victoria is from Arizona. So, Dr. Brown, my question is the majority of my family is all Catholic. And so what is the best way to minister to them? So Catholics make up over a billion people. And because of that, there is going to be a very, very wide range of beliefs and people who have relationships with God and people who don't. The church I came to faith, almost all of them were ex-Catholics. There are people I work with today that are solid believers that are Catholic.

So obviously there's a wide range of people. But if you, through your own experience with God, see and know and understand that they do not have a personal relationship with the Lord, the number one best thing always for everybody is pray. Pray that God opens their hearts. Pray that God opens their minds. Pray that God reveals himself, convicts them of their sin, shows them that no religious tradition of any kind can save, whether it's Christian in name or Jewish in name, only a living relationship with the Lord will do it.

And then secondly, let your life shine. Let them see that there's something different in you. Let them see that when you go to God, when you pray, when you interact with the Lord, that it's different than it is for others. And as they see that, they'll become jealous of what you have. And then, if it's appropriate, you have a conversation.

If it's appropriate and they wanna ask you questions or interact, then you have a question. And it's not to battle about Catholicism, but to say, hey, we agree on the Bible, right? We disagree on certain church traditions, but we agree on the Bible.

What's the Bible say? There were missionaries that we knew of in Guatemala decades ago, and Guatemala's a lot of very strong Catholic tradition, and there was a tremendous veneration of Mary to the point that there was a parade. Some of our students were interning as missionaries there, and they brought back the picture, which I saw with my own eyes. And it was an Easter parade. Walking down the street, they were carrying Jesus in a coffin and Mary on the throne, and it said, Mary the same yesterday, today, and forever, in Spanish. So there's some cases where Mary's venerated in that way. So the missionaries put a track together, quoting from John the second chapter. And in John chapter two, Mary says to the people, do whatever he says. And then the track was just the words of Jesus. So say, well, we agree on that. Let's see if we can leave that out together. And then, you know, the Lord will work. In other words, just patiently pray.

Just getting to endless arguments normally doesn't produce any real fruit. All right, we're gonna take some more questions from the room here in Israel, and maybe some of your calls as well, 866. Three, four, truth. We will be right back. We will be right back. We will be right back. We will be right back.

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They can never have it. This is how we rise up. Let's get to our next question here. First name? Connie.

I'm Connie from Iowa. Go ahead. My question is, when Jesus went to the Decapolis and he delivered the demoniac, what happened to the demons when they went over the cliff with the pigs? How would you expect me to know?

I've been meeting with few seekers who have come from very, very religious backgrounds and are in various parts of their journey. I can't wait for that, so let me just think. That'll be, oh, when should that be happening? That should be happening kind of like early afternoon Eastern time on Tuesday. So do pray, and I hope to give you some updates on what happens with that, and then the tour group will be arriving, oh, when's that?

I guess the next day, later that day. Anyway, those that are traveling, can't wait to see it in the land. All right, I just want to share a really neat opportunity with you. You know that the Lord has given us a mandate now to blanket America with the line of fire broadcast, to get this voice of moral sanity and spiritual clarity out to the nation. We know it is for such a time as this, and listen, I thank God for all the wonderful ministries that are out on radio, for the many voices that God has raised up. I know also that God has given us a very specific purpose at this tremendously critical time in American history to blanket the nation with this message bringing grace and truth together, this message which will not get your blood boiling unless we also get your faith rising. Friends, we have an amazing opportunity now. The door has opened, and next Monday, we launch in a massive station that blankets the city of Chicago.

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Okay, let me go over here. Jadon, is Messiah supposed to be anointed with oil? Mashiach means anointed one, and originally it would have spoken of someone anointed with oil like the king or the high priest. However, the Messiah is understood to be someone anointed by God, even anointed by the Spirit, as in Isaiah 61.1. So hear the word Mashiach, right from the root mashach. I'm going to quote Isaiah 61.1 in Hebrew. Ruach, Adonai, Elohim, Malayah, and mashach.

Did you hear it? Mashach, Adonai, Oti, Levaser, Anavim. The Spirit of the Lord God is on me because the Lord has anointed me, mashach, anointed me to preach good news to the meek, to the poor. So the Messiah will be anointed by God. It is not important for him to be anointed with oil in that same way. Matthew, I've heard it argued that since we're saved by faith and faith alone, then we don't have to be baptized. The idea presented was that this would be adding to salvation. Is this true, possible?

Does this argument have any legs? Well, we know that baptism is required. We know that baptism is not an option, right? So the same God who saves us by faith requires baptism.

Look at it like this. Salvation actually saves. It doesn't just forgive sin and give us a ticket to heaven. It takes us from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of light. It takes us from the kingdom of Satan into the kingdom of God. It takes us from wicked and guilty to declared righteous and justified. And it changes our being, that we are literally born from above, that God gives us a new heart. Yes, we have to renew our mind. We have to crucify our flesh.

Yes, yes to all that. But in point of fact, the gospel saves. It's not just a matter of we go to heaven when we die. The gospel saves.

The gospel transforms. If anyone is in Messiah, if anyone is in Christ, he's a new creation, 2 Corinthians 5.17. And therefore, we consider ourselves dead to sin and alive to God. Romans 6 presupposes that all believers are baptized by saying, don't you know when you were baptized? You were baptized into Messiah's death.

So this is a definite, this is a requirement. So it is not a matter of in order to be saved, you are baptized. But in order to be obedient, you must be baptized.

In order to walk out your salvation, you must be baptized. As the revival scholar James Edwin Orr once said, the only proof of the new birth is the new life. So James, Jacob is saying, okay, you've got faith, show me. Because genuine faith will have works. So it's not the works that save us, but genuine faith will have works. And a genuinely saved person will be baptized and that baptism is integrally related to their salvation. Because you cannot call Jesus Lord and refuse the most fundamental step that must be taken along with our professional faith, which is water baptism.

So the argument really is a self-defeating argument because the scripture doesn't even give that possible option and baptism is required and presupposed throughout all of the New Testament. Just say matching funds or just put Chicago in the note and it will be used for those purposes. And I can't wait to give you the reports and can't wait to launch next week. Friends, we're making an impact. Hearts are being opened, eyes are being opened, encouragement is spreading, faith is rising, hope is rising. I made a comment on the air that I'm not just some smiling life coach and a life coach said, hey, I'm a Christian life coach and it's more than that. Oh, I fully understand that. There is a place for life coaches.

And I would love to have someone just training with me on a regular basis, okay, you can do better, push harder here, do this and that, et cetera, et cetera. By all means, what I was saying was that there are some preachers of the gospel who seem to be no more than life coaches. In other words, they are not bringing the rest of the message of the gospel. So when I talk about faith rising, faith rising, it's not empty. It's not just, oh, happy day, everything's good, everything's great, everybody's smiling. And I know that good life coaches do more than that as well. So, hear me, friends, together we are making a difference.

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Here again is Dr. Michael Brown. Call me a fanatic He is around. And it's also a time when the youth that's been around the world are planning faster for God's hand in this world, for God's intervention. Above all, we're free from the salvation of the lost sheep of the house of Israel. That is one thing we can all agree on, regardless of political or ideological or other theological differences we may have within the Lord. All right. Let me answer a few more things that were posted on Facebook.

I heard this was true, but is it? Joseph of Arimathea is Mary's uncle. I believe he fled to England where he was buried in a church. Forget about it. There's no evidence that Joseph of Arimathea was Mary's uncle in terms of any definitive evidence or anything like that.

He fled to England from Israel to England in the first century and was buried in a church subsequently. Lots of interesting traditions, but in point of fact, very little support for many of them. OK. Let's see. Yeah.

All right. So another question about first century Jewish traditions. I'll read this one. The proposed multiple correlations between first century Jewish wedding customs and Jesus' return are constantly being referred to by our pre-trip friends. However, I've written to a few biblical history professors and those that wrote back say they know of no records related to these traditions. So I addressed that in the first segment.

So once again, I agree that when we're told, oh, there's this amazing scenario, and it lines up with this, and this, and this, and this, and this, and it confirms preacher of rapture teaching. I know of no first century sources that correlate with that in the Jewish world. Is it true that no historical records of first century Jewish wedding customs exist? Well, you would have teachings that are preserved in Jewish literature from centuries after that.

All right? And many of those teachings in the Mishnah and the Talmud, for example, reflect traditions that would have been current in Jesus' day. But otherwise, yeah, it's true. You do not have all kinds of first century records saying, this is how weddings were performed in the first century in Galilee or in Jerusalem or wherever it was. You don't have it preserved from the first century. It would be preserved several centuries later.

And even then, it could reflect things that did happen in Jesus' day. But all the alleged ones I've heard from pre-trip teachers, I just say, show me the sources. Well, I read it online. I heard it from this teacher.

No, no, no. Show me the early Jewish sources. Melissa, I've heard that the vision Peter had of the food coming down three times and God saying not to call things unclean, the is called clean, was only meant to be a way to say Gentiles were no longer unclean, but not also saying that these foods were now clean, that this is too far extended from the purpose of the vision and therefore keeping kosher food lords is still relevant to Messianic Jewish believers. Having been in most Messianic congregations and mainstream Christian churches, there is a difference of opinion there, so I'd love clarity if possible.

Thanks. OK, so Peter's vision in Acts 10 clearly had a purpose, which was not for Peter to go out and start eating pig, for example, or lobster. It was to recognize that Gentiles were no longer considered unclean through the gospel. Now, you have this already in Mark 7 in Matthew 15, where Jesus explains that the food you eat doesn't defile you because it comes through your mouth and processes out of your system. It's what comes out of your heart that defiles you. These are the things that can make someone unclean.

And then he goes from there, travels what, maybe a 60-mile round trip on foot, heals the daughter of a Canaanite woman and comes back. That was a first sign of saying that the food laws are symbolic, all right? But there's no evidence that Peter read more into Acts 10 than what was intended, that he went out and now ate unclean food. Now, you could absolutely argue, based on what Jesus said in Matthew 15 and Mark 7, based on the principle, all right, that what goes in the mouth doesn't defile you spiritually. You could make an argument that it was therefore understood that you could eat whatever food you needed for the gospel. And you could argue that that's reaffirmed in 1 Corinthians 8 and Romans 14, and I would agree with that. So I would say that doing gospel mission, even if you live by kosher law as a Jewish believer in Jesus, you say, hey, that's part of our heritage and it's a reminder to me of my calling to be a covenant member of Israel, et cetera, and a light to the nations, and that's why I keep these, or I just believe in the wisdom of God, there must have been a good reason for it, fine, whatever that might be. The fact of the matter is that you would still have to know that if you are sitting eating with Gentile believers or lost people and they serve you roasted pig, you eat it.

You go ahead and eat it and you will not be defiled by eating it. But Acts 10 in and of itself is not about food laws. It's about Jew and Gentile, all right? So I agree with Messianic believers there. However, I do not believe that it is binding on Jewish believers to observe the dietary laws of scripture, let alone the rabbinic laws that were added in expanding this. But if people feel called to do so, then by all means, let them do so.

Let's see. Joshua, I've heard a lot of talk about the Isaiah 62 prayer call coming from International House of Prayer in Kansas City. Have you addressed this?

Absolutely. You can watch my interview with Pastor Mike Bickel where we discuss these very things in detail. We did, oh, two whole segments just talking about the Isaiah 62 prayer calling.

Rhonda, have heard this from a Messianic Jew in Jerusalem that Shavuot is not celebrated, so the Feast of Weeks, Pentecost, is not celebrated on correct day per Leviticus 23, 15, and 16 after seven Sabbaths then count 50 days, which according to the verse would actually be 100 days out. Forget it. Forget it. Nonsense.

It's 50 days. The traditional Jewish community recognizes that. The Messianic Jewish community recognizes that. Even with its own dating, the church recognizes that.

Forget about it. Sharon, I've heard that Jewish tradition regarding abortion is somewhat more liberal than the traditional Christian view. It is allowed in the early months under some circumstances and sometimes even encouraged. Yes, it is correct that in Jewish tradition, the baby is not called a baby, the fetus is not called a baby or recognized as a child until roughly a month and a half in. So it is not as strict to say that life begins with conception.

So that is true. And it is also true that Judaism historically has not made as many categorical anti-abortion statements as have church leaders from the early church fathers on, equating it with an act of murder. Murdering of the unborn. So it is not as strong, but religious Jews are pro-life.

Religious Jews reject the liberal Jewish culture, which is pro-abortion, just like the liberal Christian culture, pro-abortion meaning pro a women's right to abort. So yes, there is truth to what you heard there. Matthew, I heard that the word apostle was originally a title for a Roman admiral that would be asked to aid in colonizing newly conquered territory. I heard this taught on a couple of occasions, but couldn't find any real sources to confirm it.

Interesting if it is true. So the Greek word apostle is the Greek equivalent of the Hebrew shaliach, which is simply someone sent on a mission. So the verb to send on a mission is understood. Apostle is the noun that relates to that verb.

And in that regard, there is nothing really mysterious about it. So when they were sent out, the New Testament believers were not sent out to colonize. They were not sent out to take over and colonize the way, say, a Roman soldier or admiral might have been. So apostolos in Greek does not have this hidden meaning or something like that in terms of authority to take over. Now, what I'm going to do is just read for a moment from the theological dictionary of C.L.

Speake. He was a tremendous Greek scholar. This was originally in French, then translated into English. He simply says this adjective and noun derives from the verb apostolo, send, dispatch.

And like this verb, it has a large variety of nuances that flow from the context. From Herodotus on, apostolos refers to the bearer of a message, such as the herald sent by Aliatas to Miletus. Verus authorizes a delegation of Jews to Rome. So a delegation is apostolos in the plural. The word means someone sent on a mission out of the country or an expedition or a group of colonists. Beginning in the fourth century, however, apostolos almost always refers to a naval expedition, a fleet, a transport ship. And the papyri is a technical term. The official papers ordering the shipment of grain by boat on the Nile from the public grain of Mr. Alexander. The apostolos is a passport, a safe conduct, so it could be paperwork as well. So bottom line, it could have had that meaning in the ancient Greek world or the ancient Roman world if the context was applicable. Follow?

In other words, if someone was being sent to do that particular thing, to colonize, fine, but that was not the inherent meaning. So when the apostles are sent out, you have to really draw from Old Testament imagery and then they're missing in the New Testament. Hey, friends, one thing accompanying me to Israel on this trip are my Trivita supplements. If you haven't checked them out, it's a great way to add wellness to your life and help us spread the message of the line of fire. So call 800-771-5584. We will feed wellness concentration. 771-5584 or go to trivita.com. Use the code BROWN25 for your 25% discount and tell your friends if you're enjoying the supplement.