Matt Slick Live

The following program is recorded content created by the Truth Network. It's Matt Slick live. Matt is the founder and president of the Christian Apologetics Research Ministry found online at karm.org. When you have questions about Bible doctrines, turn to Matt Slick live.

Francis, taking your calls and responding to your questions at 877-207-2276. Here's Matt Slick. All right, everybody. Welcome back to the show.

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Why is that not working? You know, when you do something, when you change a little something, it can be difficult when you're trying to work on eight things at once, which I'm trying to do right now, trying to get it all to work. I'll just continue to do that. At any rate, I want to hear from you. Give me a call.

877-207-2276. All right. Now, recently I was asked to speak at an online conference on Eastern Orthodoxy, Eastern Orthodoxy, and I do plan to do that. I'm going to be speaking on the, I hardly describe it, the sacramental system of salvation and also the priesthood in the Eastern Orthodox Church. So it's going to be, for me, it's going to be a very interesting discussion because the, as you guys know, I really study this stuff a lot and I seek to present, let's see, how do I say this, present the most accurate information I can in order to represent the other side properly.

And I, you know, I try to make sure that I am representing everybody and everything accurately. So one of the things that's come up recently is that I'm going to be meeting with some actual Eastern Orthodox people who defend the Eastern Orthodox faith. And what they're going to do is they're going to talk with me about the certain doctrines.

I said, look, I want to, because they know I'm against Eastern Orthodoxy. And so I said, look, what I'd like to do is just ask you a bunch of questions, just get in and just ask questions. And they've agreed to do that. So I've asked for documentation, I've asked for all kinds of information, and they said they're going to provide this kind of stuff.

So this is what I'm looking for. And I'm hoping that it's going to work out very, very well, very nicely, getting as much information as I can from them. And we'll just see how that goes. So all I can do is try and I'm going to continue to work on that and continue to do that. So there you go for that. Like I said, give me a call, 877-207-2276.

I did download all kinds of new stuff and get things going different ways. I'm going to get the system going today, and I'm still working on trying to make it work. So we'll just see what happens. All right, we've got a caller coming in. And like I said, if you want to give me an email, you can at info at karm.org, info at karm.org. And we can get into the questions that you offer. Now, what I would ask, that if you do that, that you would simply put in the subject line radio comment or radio question, and then we can get to the stuff. That's what we do right there, radio comment or radio question. And that's it.

It's easy to do. All right, all right. So like I said, we have a caller coming in, but it's acting a little bit funny. And I don't know what's going on.

Are they having phone problems? I don't know. Let me just kind of ask.

And this is what happens when you rebuild a system. So, all right. I don't see anything.

We can ask them to see. So what does Eastern Orthodoxy teach? Sacerdotal salvation is something really simple.

I'm going to talk about it. Sacerdotal salvation is the idea that a person is saved by the participation in the sacraments. That as long as you are keeping sacraments, as long as you're doing that kind of thing, communion, baptism, they call it the Eucharist, varying things that their church says you have to do in order to receive the grace by which you are then enabled to have grace change you to make you more like a good Christian. And so in that, you are able to be saved. So that's what they're teaching. And so this, we call it sacramental salvation. And I'll be dealing with that. I'll be going through the East Orthodox sacraments, what they call the sacraments, and analyzing the documentation, analyzing the stuff that people give me on what it is they actually teach.

Let me just tell you again that it's really difficult to get a lot of information from the Eastern Orthodox because they really don't write any official systematics that are officially stated. And because of that, it's difficult or it just makes it more difficult to be able to find out the detailed teachings of their positions. What you have to do instead is read, read, read a lot, and you get a gist of what it is they're saying. And then with that, you posit what it is they mean by it.

And then you hopefully are able to represent them properly. And so it may sound a little bit odd, but that's what they have to do in order to get it to work right, to get them to deal with the, you know, what is it you're saying? That's not what we teach. Well, that's what so-and-so said.

And they say, well, it's not what we mean, things like that. So it gets difficult sometimes, but we'll be working on that. Let's get to Jermaine. I can't activate him. Don't know why, but let's get to Jermaine if the producer can do that. And we will get to him. All right. I can't get him to activate. Jermaine, are you there?

Testing one, two. Oh, he just stepped away really fast. We'll get to him a little bit because the producer had to leave. So we'll work on that in a little bit as well.

All right. Man, this is happening. So, it's after a little salvation, is salvation by works, by ceremonies, by doing the things that you want to do according to their church. This is what really bothers me a lot about different churches, is particularly these what's called apostolic churches.

They claim to be the successors of the apostles. And they will then say that in order for you to be saved, you have to trust in their system. It's a system of salvation. It's not justification by faith. It's a system of salvation. The system is by faith and keeping commandments and participating in sacraments. It's a system. Now, what's really disturbing is that this Eastern Orthodox Church is gaining ground. People are joining it.

This is what I've been hearing, that they're more and more interested in accepting the East Orthodox Church. And it's true. I'm just blown away by that.

I don't see how anybody could do that if they understand what the Bible really is. So, it just doesn't make any sense to me. Hey, Jermaine. Welcome, buddy. You're on the air. All right.

Yes, I'm here. All right, man. So, what do you got, buddy?

What's up? Yeah. I just want to discuss 1 Corinthians 15, verses 55 through 55.

Sure. The verse starts with, O death, where's thy sting? And what brought that to my attention is I see a lot of believers that really do have a fear of death. And I'm just kind of wondering if a lot of the reason for that fear is maybe we don't know as much as we should about what's over there with the Lord, versus over here. And I just kind of want to know, did that verse kind of apply to that fear?

And I want to hear what you have to say about it. Well, yeah, it's a natural phenomenon to be afraid of death. We can have our faith and we do. But it's difficult to, how do I put this, it's difficult to just get rid of all the fears of the process of dying, of increasing pain, of lack of efficiency and darkness overtaking you permanently, so to speak.

So for a lot of people, it can be very difficult. And anybody who is afraid of death, I never look down upon them. I understand it.

I don't look forward to it. I'm trusting my Lord. I know I'll be with him. And that's an issue by faith. So all I can do is trust in him and hope in him. And so when others have that same issue, it's a natural issue. Now, when we come to the scriptures, by faith, we trust. By faith, we believe that we're going to be resurrected, that Jesus rose from the dead. And let's just say nobody has 100% perfect faith so that we do struggle sometimes in varying areas. And it's just a normal thing. Okay.

So that's why people are concerned about dying out of 1st Corinthians 15 and stuff like that. Okay. Okay. Can I ask a quick follow up? Sure. Go ahead. Sure.

Okay. So I've seen some other people who's just the opposite, where they either they were going through an extreme amount of pain mentally, physically, or they were just all like, my grandmother was almost 100. And she was more than ready to go. Like they almost had an excitement about getting out of here and not having to deal with, you know, whatever. Is that an increase in faith or just being wary of the flesh?

Could be. We don't know their hearts, but when I was an assistant pastor at a church, it was a 90 something year old woman that was went to see as part of just, you know, comforting the sick and the ill. And she died two or three weeks after I visited her. And she was a devout Christian. And I just, I'll never forget her saying, I'm looking forward to going home and being with my Lord Jesus. I just never forgot that, you know? And so maybe there's something to the idea that, uh, the closer you get to that, the more, um, I don't know, but the more grace he gives you, I don't know, but it's, you know, it, we just don't know until we're there, you know? Yeah.

Yeah, it makes a lot of sense. All right. Well, thank you, man. I appreciate you. All right, buddy. God bless.

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Just dial 877-207-2276. We just lost the other guy there. So, um, uh, I think it was the question was Adam and Eve, uh, saved where they go to heaven. And the answer is, uh, yeah, they were, they were, they were saved. And the reason we would say that is because the pre-incarnate Christ, as he walked in the garden of Adam and Eve was able to, um, and did, um, cover them with animal skins. Now it does not say that you killed an animal in order to do that, but it does say covered with animal skins. The implication is that an animal was sacrificed.

An animal was killed because wages in his death. And it wasn't until after Adam and Eve sinned that this death then occurred in the world. And I think it's interesting is that, is that, uh, God, it looks like it appears to be that God is the one who, uh, killed someone, something first biologically to actually cease its biological life then and there. Adam and Eve were killed spiritually, but their biological life continued after they sinned. And so immediately what we see is the pre-incarnate Christ in the garden, who it appears to be. The reason I say it appears to be because there's no scripture that definitively says that an animal was killed, but it does say provided with animal skins, that's consistent the shedding of blood for the forgiveness of sins.

It's consistent biblically. So that's why I say it certainly appears to be that the case that an animal was killed, maybe a sheep in order to cover Adam and Eve with these garments. So if this is the case, but think about this, that a garment, a lot of times we think of things in modern terms, a garment like a shirt, a pair of pants, whatever, it's all clean, it's all new.

And so we kind of project the idea that it's new, this new garment's all clean. But if it is the case that an animal was shed, then the skin would have been ripped off, cut off, I don't know, and then applied to Adam and Eve. So was it a bloodied garment or not?

The Bible doesn't say. So I can't say it is, but it would make sense to say that if it was a bloodied garment and that blood touched them, that this is reminiscent, typological of the sacrifice of Christ that was to come. And so by the pre-incarnate Christ shedding blood, he was instituting the sacrificial system that he himself would undergo later on. And what I think is interesting is that it was God who offered the sacrifice and God who took that sacrifice. And he provided for himself the sacrifice. So God went and found an animal, killed that animal, removed the skin, the garment, and then covered them with it in the garden. And Jesus was in the Garden of Gethsemane, which I've been there, it's interesting. And then institute, then he went to the cross where the blood is shed, and the Garden of Gethsemane is really close to Golgotha, the place of the skull. I've seen it really close.

You can walk to it in a minute or two. And so it just all makes sense as you put these things together to see how things work. I like to see the patterns that God has.

I like to see what he does and how wonderful he is in his presentation of the Gospel. All right, let's get to Ray from Virginia. Ray, welcome. You're on the air. Good evening, Matt.

Listen to you often. Always got this query or question or, you know, assumption from people at times. And I wanted to know where I could find or continue to research this, the question of if Adam and Eve were the only ones they had Cain and Abel, and when Cain was exposed, apparently there were other people on the earth. Where can I get some answers on that? Sure. So you're asking, I'm repeating this because we're having a little bit of an audio issue. So you want to know where the other children came from that they married.

All right. So what you do is you go to Genesis 4, I believe it's Genesis 4-1. And there it says, the man had relationship with Eve.

He could see the birth of Cain. And she said, I've got a man child. And where is it? It says, you get a lot of background noise there, but I'll keep going. I'm sorry. It's just my truck.

I'm driving a truck. That's okay. That's all right. It happened. So he said he had other children.

And it actually says so. And other children he had. So that's what's going on is they just had more children. Now, we don't know how long it was before Adam and Eve were alive, before they fell. Personally, I don't think it was very long.

My position was very long at all. So once they had children, they had a lot of children. That's it. That's great. Thank you very much. I'll research that more because I get a lot of folks that kind of pose that question or just try to make it a conversation.

I can't add to it at all. So I thank you very much for clarity on that. I'll research it. Thank you.

Good evening. It's actually, I've got a verse. It's Genesis 5-4.

All right. And it had other sons and daughters. Yeah. So then what's going to happen is people are going to say, well, that's incest. And you say, yes, it was. Their genetic line was perfect.

It was pure. So this could happen. It could marry their sisters and brothers.

They could do that and have children and it wouldn't be genetic deformity. It wasn't until later on that this was forbidden. And that's the case. Okay.

Interesting. Thank you very much for clearing that up. God bless you. God bless. All right. Okay, brother.

All right. If you want to give me a call, we have three open lines. 877-207-2276. Mike from Toledo.

Welcome. You're on the air. Hi, Matt. Can you hear me okay on my rinky dinky government cell phone? I guess I hear you, brother. I hear you. What's up, man?

Okay. I wanted to comment on, I believe it was your male caller. He would now be three or four calls behind where he was talking about people and who are close to death and why are they apprehensive? Is it their faith or is it the fact that they're not, you know, a true believer? And I kind of had a thought when I heard that, that, oh, what's the old adage saying? You're kind of apprehensive to try something new. Yeah. People are still afraid of death because it's, there's no, it's yeah. We live by faith, not by sight. So it's a tough thing, you know, and even Christians can have those moments of, okay, what's really going to happen, but they're trusting anyway. And so this is just normal.

Yes. Well, true, true. But you know, it's like the first time you ever rode your bike, we were a little apprehensive. The first time you ever tried to cook a egg, you know, so I kind of had a laugh about that, but at the same time, yeah, I know what you mean. I'm 65. I've been in and out of the faith.

I guess you could say a lot of the, um, childhood things and growing up in that I had a lot of struggling and emotionally, and now I'm kind of physically disabled in some areas. And, uh, but you know, I listen to the radio. You want to hold on brother? You want to hold on? Okay. Sure. I'll talk to you some more. Thank you.

All right. Hey folks, we'll be right back after these messages. If you want to give me a call, the number is 877-207-2276. We'll be right back. It's Matt Slick live taking your calls at 877-207-2276.

Here's Matt Slick. All right, buddy. Welcome back to the show.

Thanks for waiting and being patient. Let's get back on with Mike from Toledo. Okay. Mike, do you have one more question or anything?

Well, not, not really. Just kind of wanted to mention that, um, you know, uh, I listen to your show off and on when I can get it on. I have like about seven different, uh, religious stations. So I, I kind of flip around like you would with a TV surfing, but I like listening to you. I've heard some interesting callers from you. Well, good. I hope that, uh, some of those aren't Catholic and that you're being seduced by the false teachings of, of Catholic Catholicism because it's bad.

No, no, I get the ones I usually pick up on your station and when I do listen in or people that argue about something and you know, if they just opened up the pages in between the two covers of the hard book, they might actually be able to decipher and discern a little more better than what some of them instead of just getting hot head and going, oh, that's not right. Yeah, that's true. That is true. Well, good. I'm glad that, uh, you know, you're listening. So, uh, keep listening because there's a lot more to say and hopefully by God's grace, God's grace will really be, well, you know, adding stuff, you know? Okay.

Yep. And, uh, I'll tell you what I, I, I heard about you having to, uh, have a little debate with the Eastern Orthodox. I will pray for you on that one. I'm sure that they're going to be challenging. Oh yeah, they are.

They're all challenging. Uh, I think I'll give after you're gone, uh, what I'll do is I will mention one of the things that they do, uh, and it's out of a Mormon actually. They don't do that. Yeah.

How they, they twist things. Yeah. Oh yeah. And just like the Mormons and the Jehovah's and a few other, uh, different, uh, brands out there to claim, you know, Jesus and Satan are twin brothers. Yeah.

Okay. I don't see where that says it in the Bible, but you know, Hey, that's what you want to believe. That's what happens. Mormonism is not Christian. That's for sure.

Even though they say they are. In fact, it reminds me of it going into, um, Instagram and I don't know what happened. I just, I don't go on there and I just started going on to check things out and, uh, just getting flooded with Mormons, uh, posts, how great Mormonism is. So I wrote up a paragraph to put in there, just documented, you know, from Mormon sources, there's many gods, there's a goddess mom, all this weird stuff from Mormonism that just makes it not Christian. And I just paste them in. I just paste it in to these varied things. I don't say they're Christian or not Christian.

I just paste it as what they're teaching. So hopefully we'll cause conversations and people to realize how aberrant, how off the mark the Mormon church is. Oh, it is so bad. Oh yeah.

It's, it's kind of a latch, a last ditch effort to get people, you know, like some of these other ones, uh, kind of like a TV, evaluator, evaluator, I can't even say the word, but TV evangelist that goes, yeah, that go, you know, Hey, um, you know, God will really save you and all this, but you know, I think he needs a small donation first. Uh, okay. Yeah, that's right. Oh yeah. Yeah. And then, and then, you know, they, they act like they're so, um, uh, poor in spirit and, you know, humility and they're so humble, but they've got the yacht and the mansion, you know, a few things that you don't see.

Yeah. It's okay to have those things, but as long as they're not the whole thing, it's just what it does is it uses, it uses Christian words, but it changes the meanings of the words. And then they appeal a great deal of emotion, you know, I feel so wonderful and family forever, and it just sounds so good.

And then they, uh, I've seen a lot of the videos are kind of condescending, uh, when they, they talk about how we, the anti Mormons don't really understand them. And I'm like, yes, we do. You better believe we understand you.

And, uh, it's really kind of interesting. So, okay, buddy, we got some callers going to move along. All right. All right.

You guys take it easy. Be safe wherever you are. All right. Okay. God bless. All right.

Now let's get to next longest waiting is let's see. Uh, let's get to come on. There we go. Mario from North Carolina. Mario, welcome.

You're on the air. Oh, thank you, Matt. God bless you, brother.

Yeah. I have a question regarding your, uh, your take on immigration policy now that, um, a lot of things have been changing lately. I've been noticing, uh, my entire family is, um, you know, I come from a family of pastors, evangelical pastors myself. So I grew up in Christianity, but I have never seen so much hate from, um, the Christian community towards strangers and immigrants. And that's on biblical, um, hatred.

Yes. Even, even from pastors. And how do you define that? How do you define hatred? How do you define hatred?

Hatred. I define it as, uh, closing doors, not being merciful and compassionate about the needs of the poor, the naked and the, uh, let me ask you something. Should we allow, uh, just allow people to just cross the borders from all over and sort of the southern border, just not political math. This is, this is, I'm talking about the Bible and this is not political issue, but the Bible, the Bible also says, I got you. But the Bible also, the Bible also says to submit to the elders in the church and the, um, the government, the rulers and stuff, it says submit to them.

So it, uh, should, I'm just asking you since the, the law of the land is that you come in, just come in, but do it legally. That's all. Would you say that you're making it political and that's contrary to God's word. And no, it's not. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

It's not contrary to speak about politics from the Bible. Yes it is. Okay. Okay. Hold on.

Let me explain. Jesus said, render to Caesar, what is Caesars? If you read Matthew 3, 5, 43 to 46, it's contrary to what you're telling me, Matt.

Mario. So does not Jesus say to render to Caesar, what is Caesars and to God, what is God's? Is that not a political statement about Caesar being in control politically?

Is that not the case? What Jesus himself said? Mario, you need to answer the question.

Mario, you have to answer the question. Is it a political statement Jesus is making when he says render to Caesar what belongs to Caesar? Is it political or not? And what is Caesars in this case? Caesar was the emperor and he was the governmental head in the Roman empire. No, but what does it mean to give Caesar what is Caesar? What do you get from that? It means to submit in taxation in the context.

It means to submit in the rule that was not ungodly to what was going on. So that's it. So what's going on is being unmerciful to your neighbor? Well, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.

Love you God. No, I'm listening to you but you're not listening to me either. Yes I am, but you're not listening. Look, two days ago I'm picking up medicine from my wife and I'm in the first one in line at a pharmacy and in the front, to the left, I could tell he was an illegal alien. I didn't say anything, I didn't do anything.

He's using his phone to get medicine. How do you know he was an illegal alien? Okay Mario, if you don't let me finish talking, I'm not going to have you talk anymore, okay?

All right, go ahead. All right, he didn't speak any English and he was using his phone to try and and communicate. And look, I used to live in San Diego. I know what illegals look like. I know, okay? And I have a friend who's a border patrol.

He taught me all kinds of stuff. Okay, so here we go, we're dropping you because you won't let me finish. You won't let me finish my sentences and you're not listening.

So you're gone, all right? Now what I was going to do was step up and help him get his medicine. I was going to speak Spanish and help him get what he needed so that he could go for whatever need it was. It's not being unmerciful. It's not being unkind. It's being helpful. Now we need as Christians to submit to the laws of the land and the laws of the land say we are to have people come in across our borders legally.

That's all it is. It's not being unmerciful to say, I'm sorry you came in illegally. You broke the law. You need to be gone. That's lawful.

It's law. That's what we should be doing because so many of these people who've come in are murderers and we have terrorists who've come in from China. We know that they are people coming in to steal our secrets. We know people from the Middle East have swarmed in by the thousands.

We got to be careful. We got to get rid of them. I agree and then just have them come in legally.

That's all we're saying and it's not unmerciful. It's not being unkind to do that either. So when I was in San Diego and I used to work at a hospital speaking Spanish to register patients, I could tell when they were newly across the border. I could tell and I never turned them in.

I wasn't going to turn them in. They're there for help. Just show them compassion. They need it and that's what they should be doing. They should be able to be safe, be able to get medicine and help. That's not a problem.

We need to adhere to the laws of the land as much as we can. We'll be on the phone back with Scott after the break. Please stay tuned. It's Matt Slick live taking your calls at 877-207-2276.

Here's Matt Slick. Okay everybody welcome back to the show. Sorry for the tech problems we're having but we are and at least on my end you guys don't hear in the radio area. Let's get to Scott from Spokane.

Scott, welcome. You're on the air buddy. Hey man, how have you been lately?

Super busy. Yeah, same here my friend. Yeah. Man, so yeah it sounds like you just figured that out. I wanted to let you know that on Rumble and on YouTube you can only hear your voice and not the audience but it sounds like you figured that out.

Is that right? Yeah, okay yeah it's just I have to reboot the computer to hopefully activate the new microphone that we put in because I didn't do that before etc etc. As a computer tech sometimes things don't get picked up even though it's dynamic it should be ready but it's a different kind of a setup.

So yeah, I've been rebuilding my computer now for about 24 hours putting stuff together and getting it all ready to go. That's all. Okay? Okay, well good. So I'm glad I got through.

I've been attempting to call for like weeks now and I keep calling at the tail end and not having a thing. Anyway, so I have a couple of really good questions. The first one is in Zechariah chapter 5 and I'm just running this by you. It would appear that I might have found a verse that indicates female angels in verse 9. Yeah, that's one of the places two women are coming out with the wind and their wings. They had wings like wings of a stork and they lifted up the ephod between the earth and the heavens. That's the only place you can go to in the Bible where it might mean something like an angel.

Might. So let's look at verse 5. We have the context. And the angel who was speaking with me went out and said to me lift up now your eyes and see what is going forth.

I said what is it? And he said this is the ephod going forth. Again he said this is their appearance in all the land and behold a lead cover, excuse me, lead cover was lifted up and this is a woman sitting inside the ephod.

So it's a vision that's happening. He said this is wickedness and he threw her down in the middle of the ephod and cast a lead weight on its opening. Then I looked at the eyes and looked there were two women coming out with the wind in their wings and they had wings etc. I said to the angel who was speaking with me where are they taking the ephod? So it doesn't say they're angels. Some could interpret it as angels in a feminine sense and I don't have any problem with that.

That's what the Bible teaches but this is not a very good place or it's not proof that that is the case because it's a vision and don't know what those women represent. Okay okay those are sort of my thoughts also and just a quick question what is an ephod? Oh what's an ephod? An ephod is, let me look, I used to know that, come on what is that an ephod? You know what what is an ephod? So you usually see my notes right there.

Let me try this. I know what an ephod is. An ephod. It is, let's see, I think it's a unit of measurement. An ephod.

That's right it was. So like a certain amount like you know like a bushel and things like that it's what it is. So an ephod that's right. This is the ephod going forth.

This is her appearance and that'd be you know that's really interesting. What is that in light of that? That's a good question. In light of that what's an ephod? Huh this is what's going forth and it's the ephod.

So I'm looking trying to find it in the Hebrew. I can't really find it. Why is this interesting?

This is, oh there it is right there. So I click on that and why is it not opening? Won't open. Huh. Well I had to re-download my program.

I gotta adjust that as well. So that's a good question. And why is it related to that in Zechariah 5?

An ephod is generally speaking a unit of measurement. Right it would beg the question why is it evil also? Yeah well it could represent uh yeah okay all right so it's a measurement of grain and it's personified as wicked. So there's something about the feeding of the grain that goes in that is wicked in it.

So personified as the women inside a measuring basket. Sometimes food grain represents money, power, influence, personal safety, greed. So it'd be interesting to think about that and focus on that as an issue in Zechariah 5 to see what that says.

So you know I think I might look at that. I'm curious about it. That's a good question.

Okay well for now I got another one if we just skip one more chapter ahead in chapter six. I'd like to ask about six eight and specifically who are these of the north and what did they do to calm or arrest Yahweh? That I can't tell at the top of my head don't know. Those who are going to the land of the north have appeased my wrath so I don't know what the antecedent is to the word those and who it is. Good question though I don't know on top of my head. So I can look in my commentaries and see if they have anything really quickly and transplant it to Babylon is one of the things that seems to be hinted at up there.

So that's a good question. Okay you got time for one or two more? Well we got another person waiting so we're gonna get to them. Okay they call back tomorrow all right. Okay buddy.

Okay sounds good thank you. All right man God bless. All right let's get to Jake from North Carolina. Jake welcome you're on the air. Hey Mr. Slick can you uh can you hear me all right? Yes I do hear you.

Thank you. All righty so I agree with your stance on the immigration with that uh that caller but um I was wondering like we fought Britain and we Hitler was a government I mean why did uh why did they not have to you know give to Hitler what is Hitler's I mean Hitler's extreme but you know maybe yes uprisings in certain countries. Yeah what we do is we submit to the because I said to that gentleman I said we submit to the government as long as it's not contradicting scripture that's the key so you know I could tell he was emotionally involved with it just wouldn't hear and he started going and going and I know that the listeners can't really hear at least on a couple of venues we've got right now. We can hear where I was. Yeah you guys could on the radio yeah and so um yeah you know he started becoming emotional and just interrupting constantly and saying uh you know it's not loving and kind merciful well uh we're also supposed to balance that with um with um you know the laws of the land are and is it merciful to encourage people to come over with coyotes who are abusing them a lot of times leaving them in the deserts to die is that what we want to encourage them to do you know and have people invade and so uh yeah great it's a problem and you know I used to live in San Diego and I learned to speak enough Spanish there to have conversations in Spanish and I worked at a hospital I'd help people out and I mean I understand they're just trying to make a better life I don't blame them I don't blame them at all you know yeah came here I've had a few buddies you know just just have another question if you don't mind I hate to interrupt you um I know you're if I hated to interrupt you I wouldn't have done it right um I know that you are a you think we're going to go through the raptures Christians we're going to go through the tribulation raptures after that's right yeah tribulation I'm sorry yes sir tribulation um but I think I've heard you say that you used to be a pre-trib yes yeah so for a little while yeah because when I was first going to church I just believed what they what they said until they started studying and uh no it doesn't work that's all yeah so did you stand on that stance like on your radio show when people would call and no no I asked about never nothing apologetic since 1980 but I was a Christian before that and uh so I learned about pre-trib versus post-trib stuff a few years before it and I wasn't involved in defending the faith it was just whatever and I did a study on it and I said no I'm sorry it just pre-trib just doesn't fit the scriptures and that was it I don't remember exactly what year but that was back in the 80s or maybe late 70s and this has to do with uh the tribulation um so the seven churches and the book of revelation um and I think you you said something about a tour that you want that you went on or something um so we know that we know those we know those churches we know those churches that are locations so some of the stuff that is going to go down we know it's where it's going to go down at yeah I thought there were graphical locations yeah I've been to all all of those twice I thought it was not a fork no no no I don't know I don't know we have to study to see in revelation that it's speaking about those churches though but uh we have the geographical locations of all of them and it's easy to go to you just sign up on a tour you go you go visit them in Turkey so no big deal that's pretty wild that we that we know where where about kind of that stuff is going to go stuff is going to go down in revelation oh when uh yes something's going down that's right uh well you know what I mean like in a certain area yes well armageddon for example right yeah I've seen armageddon valley also and been there and it's it's pretty amazing it's humongous why don't we just go camp out there because it's Israel there's farmers there we just you know we'll get in trouble on their land so okay yeah okay all right well I appreciate you sure man no problem at all all right uh when I was younger when I was younger I used to think that uh it would be cool to live in the end times but the older I get and see the stuff that comes with it and have children I just it's insane it's going to get bad I teach what's called a depressed catology that things are just going to get worse and I guess this is what it was like in during Noah's time yeah and we're having a reprieve with Trump in right now but uh we know that the powers that are working towards evil will not give up and the bible talks about things getting bad so oh yeah for sure radio again yeah it's not it's not uh not easy you know yeah okay all right thank you all right god bless okay okay so we got one minute left in the show let me just make a comment about the immigration thing folks uh I'm for immigration I believe invite people into the country just have them vetted and do it legally that's all if they want to break the law to come in uh then they need to be uh you know told not to do that you know we need people who abide by law not by uh by breaking it uh in so many areas and living in San Diego having lived there for like 15 years I can tell you that uh the the situation with the illegals down there have made things a lot a lot worse a lot more difficult and uh especially when they come in and be there for years and years and not speak English and uh come into the country learn the language become a citizen that's it adapt that's all we're asking become American that's all and uh that's it so do it legally do it right I hope they do we like that we want more people to come in we need it we need a good variety that's for sure may the lord bless you there's a music and by his grace go back on here tomorrow we'll talk to you then okay god bless you another program powered by the truth network