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Please feel free to contact me. Yes sir, what is the difference between the lake of fire and hell? Ultimately, it is thrown into the lake of fire and that's cast out of the outer darkness. That's what I understand. I've studied it and it's not an easy thing to say, this is exactly what it is.

Anyway, that's basically what it is. Hell is a bad place and it's going to be cast into the lake of fire and the whole thing is going to go to the outer darkness. Death and Hades, they are, let's see, where are the verses for that? They're cast into the lake of fire. That's in Revelation 19 and 20. The beast sees them, thrown alive into the lake of fire. Verse 14, death and Hades are thrown into the lake of fire.

And they wonder, is it super literal or is it metaphorical? Because if you think about the lake of fire, that's an interesting phrase. And if you can imagine what it is, in fact I've done that for a novel that I wrote called The Influence. And there was a particular scene where a guy, let's just say, visited that place. And I described it, I still remember it very clearly how I described it, but there was an edge, like an edge of a lake in mire and goop that this guy was kneeling in. And he could feel the eyes looking upon him and the people who were in this lake of fire. And the terror was upon him, et cetera, et cetera, it's in my novel, The Influence. And so I took that out of that image and made it more literal, or went with it literally. And is it literal?

I don't know, but there certainly seems to be an indication that it is. It's called the second death. What's that?

Yeah, it's called the second death. Okay. All right. Thank you. All right, ma'am. Well, God bless. All right.

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877-207-2276. Let's just jump on the line with Marie from Indiana. Hey, Marie, welcome.

You're on the air. What do you got, Marie? Hi.

Hi. Well, I have a friend that we talk to all the time, and we talk about the Bible and everything. Well, anyway, she told me about this documentary that she watched on TV today about the Antichrist. And she told me that it isn't what we thought it was. And I said, well, what do you mean it?

And she said, well, you just got to watch it. She said, this guy did studies and talked about the two horns and the seven heads and all this stuff. Anyway, she was going on and on, and she said that the Antichrist is actually the government.

What's your opinion on that? Well, so the Antichrist is said to be the one who opposes, all right, and that no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the apostasy comes first and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God. Now, that's 2 Thessalonians 2, 3, and 4. Now, this is the man who opposes. And also, let's see, Antichrist, I'm trying to find, I've got some, I'll go to my notes on my, I've written an article on this. And I went through, and I'm going to show you some other stuff in there about this, it's a human being, okay, it's not just a government.

Okay. So in Daniel 7, verses 8 and 21, while I was contemplating the horns, behold, another horn, a little one came up upon him, and three of the first horns were pulled out by the roots, and it kept, and behold, this horn possessed eyes like the eyes of a man, mouth uttering boasts. I kept looking, and that horn was waging war with the saints and overpowering them. Now, it means the government, the government's waging a war with the saints, well, that's the case.

The governments are becoming more and more oppressive of Christians. But here's something else, Zechariah 11, 17, it seems to be in reference to him. Woe to the worthless shepherd who leaves the flock. A sword will be on his arm and his right eye. His arm will be totally withered, and his right eye will be blind.

So it looks like that he's going to have an injury, and he will probably be homosexual. Daniel 11, 37, he will show no regard for the gods of his fathers or for the desire of women. So in Revelation 13, and the beast which I saw was like a leopard, his feet were like those of a bear in the mouth, like the mouth of a lion, the dragon gave him his power and his throne and great authority. And I saw one of the heads as it had been slain, and his fatal wound was healed, and the whole earth was amazed and followed after the beast. So notice what it says there in Revelation 13, 3. It says that this person's fatal wound was healed. Well, in Zechariah 11, 17, the worthless shepherd, a sword will be on his arm and his right eye.

His arm will be withered, and his right eye will be blind. And so it looks like it's a repeat of what's going to happen. It's a prophecy of the bad guy, the spirit, the antichrist. So it looks like it's going to be an actual individual.

I do not say it's a governmental system. I think that your friend needs to just be more discerning. Well, I told her, I said she needs to be careful what she watches and who she listens to, that right now, with the way times are now, it's easy for Christians to even be deceived. And I just won't watch things like that. I go right to the Bible, and if I can't find it, then I don't believe it.

Or unless somebody shows me exactly where it's at. But I told her there's a lot of that stuff on YouTube and stuff like that that I refuse to watch, and she just said, well, it's the government, it's this, and I said no. I said, actually, the antichrist, Satan manifested into a man. And am I right on that? I'm sorry, the last sentence doesn't quite follow. So you're saying the antichrist, what was that?

Well, I tried to tell her, yeah. The antichrist, I told her it's going to be a man, it's not going to be the government, and the antichrist is actually Satan manifested into a man. Yeah, a lot of people hold to that position, too.

He'll be indwelt by the devil himself, and have great power and authority, and he'll bring people to the place of unity in the world, and then he turns against the believers, and he claims himself to be God, this is the antichrist. So no, it's not a governmental system, I just don't see that as being it, and your friend needs to do some more homework. And like you said, and very well, is go to the scriptures, see what the scriptures teach, because people can put together videos and take things out of context in the Bible and make it say anything they want when you do that. You can do that with any piece of literature. You take things out of context and put them together in a different sequence, you can make almost anything say anything.

So we don't want to do that with biblical revelation, we want to do it contextually, and as a whole scripture, not just a part of it. Well, I told her, I said, I don't know if I'll watch it or not, but I said I know exactly who I'm going to call, because I got off work, I work for the sheriff's department, and then my radio station stays on this channel, I don't ever listen to anything else. So I knew you were on air, and I said, I know who I'm going to call, and she said, who are you going to call? And I said, I can't remember his name, but I know the number. You can't remember my name.

But anyway, I really appreciate it. My name's real easy to remember. Don't you remember my last name, my real last name? It's Slick. No. Yeah.

Okay. Matt Slick Live. Are you calm? Okay, Matt Slick.

Just give away your age. But it's my real name, Matt Slick, and we call it Matt Slick Live, okay? So no problem. God bless. All right.

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Welcome back, everyone. We have four open lines. Why don't you give me a call? 877-207-2276. Let's get to Carol from Salt Lake City. Welcome.

I was just there a little bit ago. Carol. Hi. Hi. Thanks for taking my call. Sure. Sure.

What do you got? My question is about QAnon and how it's kind of infiltrating the Christian family, and it's kind of divisive in the sense like your family members think if you don't believe in it, then you're not having good godly discernment versus them having discernment over this stuff. It's kind of become frustrating, and I just was wondering what your take on it is. Well, first of all, what is QAnon? It's supposed to be some conspiracy theory, politically motivated, and where there is a group of individuals who are... I got to be careful because there's children in cars listening, a group of people involved in trafficking, et cetera, who are politically involved and are running things behind the scenes and things like this. So, that's the nice way of saying it. When everybody offers me a conspiracy theory, I just say, well, okay, maybe it's true. Maybe it's true.

Maybe it's not true. I just need the evidence. Let me weigh the evidence. So, please, what have you got? What have you got that evidence?

I need to see that. Now, I'm going to tell you a conspiracy theory that is what we call non-falsifiability. Now, it's my favorite of all conspiracy theories. It's the theory that there are reptilian aliens interbreeding with Nazis in underground cities at the poles and that when they get enough population, they're going to surface and take over the earth. Now, I love that theory because I think it's just awesome.

I think it's just what's great. I mean, if you want to talk about an absurd, ridiculous theory, there's a good example of something. Well, it's also non-falsifiable. You can't demonstrate it's true or false.

Back when I was in San Diego and Heaven's Gate cult where they killed themselves, Applegate taught that there was a UFO on the other side of Hillbop Comet and that they had to kill themselves in order to be taken away by this UFO on the other side of the comet. There's no way to verify it. So, this is the problem with a lot of conspiracies. They're non-verifiable. In other words, they're not falsifiable. They can't be demonstrated to be false. Like, you can't falsify the idea of a UFO on the other side of Hillbop Comet when it's passing through. How do you prove it's not there? It's not falsifiable.

How do you prove or disprove the idea of QAnon? So, people will believe things because it fits a certain motif, a certain conspiracy thing. Now, personally, I believe that the election was stolen. I don't believe in the legitimacy of Biden. I don't believe – this is my opinion – I don't believe that our government is on our side.

I believe that there are people behind the scenes that are pulling strings and trying to undermine our autonomy and that are trying to bring this country to destruction. I believe that. Can I prove it? I agree.

Yes, I agree. Okay, a lot of people do. I can't prove a single thing of it. All I can do is look and say, why do these things happen this way? And then draw a conclusion. Is it possible that I'm wrong?

Yeah, it's possible. I don't believe I am. Because you look at Biden, for example, and the idiocy and the stupidity of his position and what he's done to this country and how he's hurt everybody in this country.

How could he possibly get in? Especially when all the fraud occurred in an election. So these are evidences. Is it proof? I wouldn't say it's proof. So do I choose to believe it?

Yeah, I choose to believe it based on what I see. But can I convince anybody else? No. Would I try to? No. Could I be wrong? Absolutely.

It should not divide a family, though. It should not cause anybody to think, you know, this guy's insane. I just say, well, maybe this is my opinion. I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong. I don't know.

That's what I lean towards. And that's fine. That's fine to do that. No, and I appreciate that. I just, you know, this gets confusing sometimes when it's like, when they're watching.

It's not just QAnon. I mean, it goes deeper. People with the different videos of the prophecies and Trump, the 19th president, and he's going to be back in power again, and everybody's houses are going to be paid off, and all these deaths are going to go away, and we're going to have a good time in America. And it's like, what?

It's not going to happen. But then it's like, you're right. And it's like, you want to talk to them about it, but then they shut you out because it's like, well, you're not spiritually on your knees enough to be able to, you know, discern the truth. And it's like, this is not true.

These are videos. Then what you do, what you do, when they say you don't have enough spiritual discernment, you say, you know, it's certainly possible. Maybe I don't have enough spiritual discernment. Maybe you do and I don't. You could pray for me and ask God to open up my heart and my mind for that.

That'd be good. And if you could also present some evidence to me that in the combination of your prayers and the facts, maybe, you know, come to your position. See, what you do when you say something like that, what you're doing is asking them to demonstrate their position is true.

A lot of times when people try to do that, they can't. And if they give you some things that just aren't connected, like for example, there is documentation that there was a lot of fraud going on in the election with the presidential election. That's a fact. Does that prove? Yes. Does it prove that the whole election was stolen? No, it doesn't.

Do I believe it was? I do. Can I prove it? So, you know, I can't prove it to anybody else. I don't have those facts. I don't have all that documentation. So, I'm not going to impose it on anybody else.

I'm not going to say you ought to. And if you don't believe it, you don't have discernment. That's kind of an arrogant thing because they're saying they can see the truth and you can't. That's what cults do. Yeah, and that's where I was saying it's divisive. You know, it starts to pull families into different directions and it's confusing. It's like, well, we all agree who Jesus Christ is, our Lord and Savior and everything.

Where does this other stuff even fit in? You know, I just, as an argument, yeah. Okay.

Yes. Just research the Anunnaki. That's a good one to do. Search, it's a conspiracy in the Anunnaki, the alien connection and things like this. And just start saying, well, I don't know, you know, there might be even a better, I think the aliens might be running everything, you know.

And then just have fun. You know, maybe the aliens, the Anunnaki, you know. And plus it's fun saying Anunnaki. I tell people how to say it properly. You don't say Anunnaki. You say Anunnaki.

You've really got to get into it. It makes it more serious. And so, you know, people are susceptible because they're susceptible to cults and false theologies because of emotional needs. And usually it's an intellectual deficiency. I don't mean an IQ, but I should say a knowledge deficiency is what I should say. I mean, intellectual, it's the thing that you know in your mind. They don't have all the facts or they believe these things.

A lot of times they're so frustrated, they want something that comes along that gives them an excuse to capitulate to conspiracy so that they know they're persecuted, things like that. Okay? It happens. Well, thank you. Thank you. You're welcome. All right, Carol. Okay. God bless. Hey, folks.

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Welcome back to the show, everyone. Do you want to give me a call? 877-207-2276. Give me a call. Alberto from Georgia.

Alberto, welcome. You're on the air. Hello? Hello. Yes? Yes.

You there? Yeah. Okay, Alberto. Yeah, how you doing, Matt?

All right. Yeah, I got a question. It's a big report for a Christian to be a secret agent Christian and not about living but witnessing by their conduct and not never opening their mouth and witnessing Jesus with their mouth. Well, it would depend on the context.

It would depend on the context. I mean, you know, Jesus talks about fleeing to the hills when the Antichrist comes. When you get persecuted, flee to one city to another. He says in Mark 13-14, he says, when you see the abomination of desolation standing where it should not be, let the reader understand that those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains. So they're running.

The Christians are hiding. No, no, no, no, no. You don't understand. You misunderstood my question. No, I got you.

I got you. No, I understood your question. I'm saying there are different situations and different times. There are times when you flee and you don't display your Christian attitude because you can flee. There are Christians who are not under persecution, who don't show their Christianity. Now, that's a problem. Mm-hmm.

That's what I'm talking about. Yeah, they never witness. They never tell nobody about the Lord. So they've been there for years on the job site, and nobody ever knows they're a Christian, and they expect the people to identify them as a Christian just by their conduct, but that's not biblical. Well, like, conduct alone. Well, yeah, they should be able to tell that you're a Christian.

Absolutely. Yeah, I understand your saying, but eventually you get to open your mouth. That's when, like an example, the Bible says be a peaceful old man, right? But to me, that's like a cop-out for dodging persecution, you know what I'm saying? Because when you start talking about the Lord, that's when persecution comes, you know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? Yeah.

Oh, yeah, yeah. Because the people want to be peaceful for all the sinners, and never be offensive to them, and they want to be peaceful and loving, you know, Jesus is love, you know, that was okay, but they don't want to talk about hell, you know, the other part of the scriptures. So they need to repent.

You're talking about timid Christians who really don't display their Christianity very much on a regular basis. Yeah. Yeah. That's a problem.

Yeah. That's happening to them a lot in the Christian realm a lot. Well, yeah, a lot of Christians are just not bold, don't have enough knowledge, aren't sure what to do, don't want to lose their jobs, don't want to be ostracized from their friends, and so they put those things before Christ. A lot of people do that. I understand that. But the thing is, they're bold only when a Christian falls, and they don't want to mock them with other, with the unbelievers.

That's happened to me when I was quiet all the time, but they've been newer Christians because I tell the Lord, but I make a little mistake, and they all start saying, oh, he thinks he's so good, and then they all mock at me with the unbelievers, or people who are so-called Roman Catholics, basically. Hold on, you're all over the map. You're all over the map here. Uh-huh.

So basically what you're talking about is Christians need to be able to demonstrate that they're Christians, in normal circumstances, absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. So when I had done this, I was a computer tech at Hewlett-Packard. And I was working for a company that was working at Hewlett-Packard.

I was a computer tech. And when I first got there, you know, I'm the next pastor, and I never preached. Well, no, I didn't. Never. I did eventually. But I never put my faith upon anybody.

I never even spoke about my faith. I just was what I was. And it took like three months before the people started coming up to me and saying, what is it about you that's different? And so, you see, they noticed there was a difference.

It was done on purpose. I would not preach, but I would exemplify it. And I really did. So a lot of people say, oh, this exemplify won't say anything. Well, my strategy was like that, except when they would tell a bad joke, I would leave.

When they would cuss, I would not. And it came to the point where they then said there's something different. They could see a difference, and that's when I told them. I said, well, I'm an ex-pastor and a seminary graduate, and I love my Lord. And it says, you guys asked me.

That's why. And so, you see, by that time, they wanted to know. There should be a difference in our behavior and our attitude between us and the unbelievers. I never made them feel bad. I never went out there and preached and condemned them, except my friends. They'd go, you're a pagan.

You're on your way. You're going to the dark side. And I would say that it was true, but they knew I was loving on them and joking around and calling them names and stuff like that. You could do that with your friends. But that was the extent of it. But what happened was they started changing their behavior whenever I was around, not because I required it, but because they understood my position and I wouldn't participate in that. And a lot of the guys would start voluntarily apologizing for using the Lord's name in vain. The one thing I did say is, guys, what does bother me is when you use the Lord's name in vain.

I said, you cuss? That's one thing. And so they started to change.

It took about a year. Now, see, there's a time when you don't say anything, you just live it. And that's certainly valid as well. But then there's times when you can't go out with the guys and drinking and carousing and things like that, and you're still a Christian and they can't tell any difference between you and unbelievers. That's a problem.

That's a problem. So what do you think when people say, when you start living like that, right, holy, then they start accusing you, oh, you think you're so righteous. Then if you start sinning, oh, you're a hypocrite.

No, no, no, no. You just say, look, no, I'm no better than you guys. I'm not better. I'm just saved.

I still make mistakes, and you'll see those. But I just rely on my Lord. It's all you say. You're not saying you're better. You tell him you're not. You say, Lord, save me, and that's it. And you'll see me mess up. But that's all.

That's it. It's not a big deal. I know, but in my situation, it was kind of a little bit different than yours.

But mine, people were mocking me and making fun of me. So let them do it. So what? Christian people too.

Christian people were joining with them. I know that. I know that. I know that.

I know that's part of that. Well, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. What do you do when people mock you? Okay, what do you do? You just take it. Say, okay, yeah, you're right. I've got some area.

That's what I did. You say, hold on. You say something to the effect of you're right. You know, I've got some issues I've got to work on.

Thank you for pointing them out. And you move on. They're not going to be able to handle your humility before them and before Christ.

Okay? It's not hard. People might not understand that. But the worst thing is, we're Christian people who claim to be Christian.

They're the ones who are mocking you. That's the worst thing. That's a different issue.

Who were the Christians and who were the... That's another issue because I don't know if they're really Christians. I don't know what the situation is. But when people mock you, there's ways to deal with it. Okay? There is. All right? All right. All right. You know, well, all right. Thank you. All right, I'll keep going. All right, man.

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But we have four open lines, 877-207-2276. Let's get to Bruce from Salt Lake City. Bruce, welcome. You are on the air.

Hey, Matt. I hear on Christian radio references to a prophesied temple to be built in Jerusalem. I never hear anything definitive. What can you tell us about that temple? Is it really underway or who is directing it and what's going to happen in it?

It's not built yet. I've not heard of anything where it is occurring. But there is the prophecy that the rebuilt temple of Jerusalem and the Antichrist will go in and he will commit blasphemies in there.

So I do know that the Jews, or I've heard, let's just say, that Israel has trained priests and they have the implements ready for the rebuilding of the temple and for the practice in it. So are they acting under the auspices of the Antichrist if they're actually working towards that end? No. Okay. No.

Well, who is? Go ahead. Go ahead. Okay.

What's probably going to happen? Who's directing it? Israel. Israel.

Yes. The nation of Israel is going to allow this. I've been to Israel, been to Jerusalem, seen the Dome of the Rock, seen the Wailing Wall, been there, been underground and seen a few things. So there's room for the temple to be rebuilt. What will probably happen, I'm not saying I'm going to die in this hell, but what will probably happen is it will be rebuilt and that the Antichrist will probably facilitate the revival of the temple. He will probably facilitate either the rebuilding or the arrangement of it or after it's rebuilt, he will come into a place of power and authority and the world will be at peace for a while. And then he will go into that very temple and claim himself to be God.

And then it's going to hit the fan. Okay. So the Jews, if the government is allowing it, they are allowing it, but there must be some person directing it. Wait. Well, hold on. It's not logically necessary to say a person. It might be the case, but you don't know if it is the case.

You're just saying the government. But hold on. Okay. Folks, we'll be right back after these messages. Please stay tuned. If you want to give me a call, 877-207-2276. We'll be right back. Welcome back to the show.

We have three open lines. If you want to give me a call, 877-207-2276. Bruce, are you still there?

Yes, I am. I don't want to trigger the question. I read in Breitbart today that Netanyahu may be making a comeback.

That's what triggered the question. So I thought, let's see what you know. Well, he might be making a comeback, and that's certainly possible. But as far as the rebuilding of the temple, it's supposed to happen.

As far as I understand, biblical prophecy is supposed to happen. We'll see what happens when it does. Exactly. And is it one individual in charge of it? That's possible. Will it be the government behind it? That's possible, too.

Will it be a committee? That's possible. Don't know. But eventually it's supposed to be rebuilt. Okay.

Well, I was just curious, because I've been to synagogues, and they sometimes call their synagogues temples, like Temple Beth-El, Temple Shalom, and so forth. And I'm just trying to make heads or tails of it. Yeah, that's all it is. So thank you.

Yeah, that's not a big deal. Okay, but it's coming. And it's going to be bad. I'll watch. Okay. All right, Bruce. God bless, buddy. All right. Hey, we have four open lines. Why don't you give me a call? 8-7-7-2-0-7-2-2-7-6.

Let's get to, let's see, Jose from Texas. Welcome. You're on the air. Hi. How are you doing today? Doing all right, by God's grace.

What do you got, man? Yeah. I was reading in the book of Mark, and I was looking at chapter 16 verse 12, where it says, where it mentioned that Jesus appeared in another form. Kind of throw me off a little bit. I'll see some commentaries, some commentaries say that the longer, I believe chapter 16 is not part of the original manuscript. Can you explain a little bit if, can you say a little bit, I don't know.

I've been looking to you a lot, and coming from you, I think it's great to be here. Here's the thing. There are three main areas in the New Testament that are textually significant that have variance. One is called the common Jehanium, 1 John 5-7, the three to bear witness. It's in the King James. It's not in later manuscripts or the earlier manuscripts and later translations. There's the woman caught in adultery in John chapter 8. It appears in different places in different manuscripts.

So there's some doubt about it for that. So I will preach out of the woman caught in adultery. I will preach out of that. The common Jehanium, I just don't regard it as being authentic, so I don't worry about it. Nor will I preach out of Mark 16, 9 through 20. I refuse to preach out of that.

I don't recognize it as being authentic. And there's three reasons for it. One is what you just, well, there's four reasons.

One is what you just cited. After that, he appeared in a different form. That's not correct. Jesus did not appear in a different form. He appeared in the very same body he died in that was just prophesied, John 2, 19-21, and 1 Corinthians 15, 35-45. He had the same wounds in his hands and his feet during the crucifixion as well as after the resurrection.

It was in his body. And so this is prophesied in John 20, 25-28. So that's a problem, a different form.

Metamorpho, a different form. That's a problem. Luke, Mark 16, 16, many people have said implies that baptism is part of salvation. It's not. And that's just a lesser issue, but there you go. There's, I'll give you two more reasons. One is that there are other endings of Mark, at least two other endings that occur. And they are not as well attested as this, what we call the longer ending.

But there are doubts about the reliability of the longer ending. But here's the thing that really bothers me, is that in the Greek New Testament, or the Gospel of Mark, if you were to take all of the verses in the Gospel of Mark, all of the Greek words, except for these last 11 verses, okay? Sorry, I had to clear my throat.

Okay, sorry about that. So if you were to list out all the words that occur in the Gospel of Mark except for these 11 verses, there you go, you have the list. And then you add in those last 11 verses, suddenly there's 17 new words that appear. All of a sudden, 17 new Greek words appear that don't appear in the rest of the Gospel.

They appear right there. And I remember reading a scholar who said, non-Markan words used in a non-Markan sense. And so that's why I won't preach out of it. I don't believe in its authenticity. This is the biggest problem of the New Testament document reliability issues.

And it's really not that big a deal, because we know what it is, and the sentiment of it is true. So what probably happened, this is what I suspect happened, is a codex is like a book, pages. And so they would write these pages. And so some scholars think that what happened is the final codex page of the original was lost. And a scribe finished it from memory or what he thought what it was actually saying. And this is why this style is slightly different with this error in it of Mark 16, 12.

Okay? So I'm guessing the Greek that was written, as you mentioned earlier, the Greek was a little more modern? No, not more modern. It's just that the scholar, I forgot where I read it, but it was 17 non-Markan words used in a non-Markan sense. That's beyond my ability to discern. So it has to be that somebody else's scholar was saying that. So that's what I understand.

Okay, well, thanks for that. And yeah, I was wondering that word form. I know it appeared in the Philippians 2, 5, or 2, 2. I forgot which expression.

It means mark there, if I'm not mistaken. So I was wondering, you know, did it appear in another different form? Well, yeah, it did not. That's the problem. It's just a problem.

Okay? Right. Actually, it's heteros morphe, actually, the Greek. And this is what's interesting, is different in Greek, I was wrong, it's not metamorpho, it's heteromorphe. And so there are two words in Greek for different. There's alos and heteros. Alos means another of the same kind.

Heteros means another of a different kind. So these two words here, a different form, a different kind of form. And so that's a problem.

Now, we could say that when it says he appeared as a different form, that what it could be understood to mean in his resurrected form. But that's problematic. It's just problematic to say that.

But there's a stretch. Right. Okay?

Hetero morphe. Okay. All right? All right. Thank you, Matt. All right, Matt.

Well, God bless, buddy. All right. Okay.

All right. Let's get to Dawn from Virginia. Dawn, welcome. You're on the air. Hi. How do you do? Thank you for being here, Matt.

I just kind of finally bumped into your online videos, and I'm really happy. Thank you. I had a lot of trepidation and worry for some reason coming over today about this President Zelensky in Ukraine.

I had a really ugly thought. I'm not a biblical, revelationary scholar type. I don't really know that much about the prophecy in Revelation, although I have read it. But I'm just curious to see what your thoughts are.

So my thought on this President is that I'm worried that he's going to become so embittered because of the hesitancy of the West that he could be set up. Maybe is this like an anti-Christ figure? I mean, he has a Jewish background. Is this relation to Russia, the Gog and Magog, and the Revelation? And what are your thoughts on that? Many scholars of prophecy say that anti-Christ is maybe of a Middle Eastern, not so much of that. I'm not sure. I really don't know.

Well, I wouldn't worry about it. What I do know, I'm 65, I've been around and seen a few biblical people say, oh, here we go, this is the anti-Christ coming, and it's failed over and over and over. Right, right, right. Zelensky is not a great guy. He removed opposition forces. He's basically created martial law, not because of the invasion, but other stuff. He's pretty corrupt.

Right. But he is being invaded from another force, and I don't agree with it. That's a good thing.

I don't know all the answers to all that, but from what I can see, I don't think it's good. Is he a form of anti-Christ? No. Well, maybe.

A form of, a type of, sure. Just as Putin is a type of anti-Christ, just as many of the people in our government are anti-Christs. In the sense, as the Bible uses the term anti-Christ, those who deny the Father and the Son, who deny who they really truly are, they give lip service, sure. They quote scripture when it suits them, and then they go on and they violate the word of God in their hypocrisy.

So, biblically speaking, prophetically speaking, I couldn't tell you. I don't believe that they are anti-Christ. Either one of them, I just think it's a stupid thing going on, and that the stupid leftist Democrat system in our country is using it to gain power and get rid of their opponents. Like Biden is blaming Putin for gas prices rising. The stupidity of that is just phenomenal.

I know. There's so much at play, and it's not just a geopolitical skirmish going on, but I can't help the sense of there's also a big, huge, ideal, you know, vlog issue going on, too. And in our life, you know, spiritual things are happening as well.

So, you know, I just had this thought, and I just wanted to approach you to see what you thought about it. I'm just going to continue lifting everything up in heavy prayer, you know, for this nation. That's what you have to do.

The murderous stuff going on over there is terrible, but I was just curious. But I thank you, Matt, for your time. God bless you. Well, no problem at all, and I'm glad you're listening. I appreciate it, all right?

Yes, sir. I do appreciate that. Have a good day. Thank you. You, too.

God bless. All right. Well, you know, we've got about two minutes left on the show. Let's talk about the present situation over there a little bit. You know, it's difficult to know what all the facts are. We have to rely on left-leaning media largely. There are other sources of information out there, and it just takes too much time to go through, at least for me, to find out what the truth is and who says what the truth is. But we know that Putin is invading, and Ukraine is a victim in this sense.

The thing I'm concerned about is how the geopolitical outcome will manifest, because usually it's for the issue of greater control. And in our own country, we can see how the leftist media, which is the lapdog of the evil Democratic Party, and I'll clearly say it again. It's an evil party. The Democratic Party is evil. I've got documentation from its history.

When it's done, it's bad. And how it uses lies a great deal. And they are using this, I believe, to gain more power. So, you know, the leftists never want to use, never let a good crisis go to waste. So how is this prophetically?

What does it mean? It means, just as the Bible says, wars and rumors of wars. We've had World War I, we've had World War II.

And there's going to be more wars to come. Will there be a World War III? I don't know. If there's a World War III, will the Antichrist rise up out of it and bring the earth to peace? Maybe. Maybe not. People could say all kinds of things. I don't know.

I do know this, though. Jesus is my Lord. I will look to him, not to my circumstances, the circumstances of others, but to my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and keep my hope in him, not in how things are politically. May the Lord bless you. By his grace, folks, we'll be back on there tomorrow, and we'll hopefully talk to you then. So have a great evening. God bless you. Bye. Another program powered by the Truth Network.