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It's time for The Line of Fire with your host, activist, author, international speaker, and theologian, Dr. Michael Brown, your voice of moral, cultural, and spiritual revolution.

Michael Brown is the director of the Coalition of Conscience and President of Fire School of

Ministry. Get into the line of fire now by calling 86634 Truth. That's 86634 Truth. Here again is Dr. Michael

Brown. So it's really interesting. I'm sitting here with a smile on my face, waiting for the show to start

as we get to the final minute countdown, finishing up the things I'm doing before printing

up some things that I wanted to have in front of me. And just sitting here waiting like,

okay, great, I get to do radio again. You get to call in. I get to find out what's on your mind. I look forward to this with tremendous anticipation. And I am thankful to God for the opportunity to be here on the air, to answer your questions and to discuss areas where we may have some differences.

So the phone lines are wide open. You say how wide? As long as it's appropriate for Christian

radio, the phone lines are that wide open. Or to put a little parameter on it, as long as it's something

that intersects with all that we've covered over the many years on the

line of fire radio broadcast, then the phone lines are that wide open. 866, 34-truth,

866, 348-7-884. Before I go to the phones, let me answer an email question from Aldrich. Hello, Dr. Brown.

What do you make of the story of Jeptha and his daughter? Critical scholars of the Bible view this

episode as hinting Yahweh approving of human sacrifice before being revised into the strict and ethical

monotheism that is so familiar in today's

society. Judges 12, of course, a very difficult passage of scripture, difficult for ethical

reasons. And in point of fact, this has been addressed many times by scholars and many readers wonder, okay, what's going on here?

Jephthah, the somewhat controversial judge of Israel, makes a vow that if God will help him in battle,

that the first thing that comes out of his tent, he'll sacrifice when he returns.

Now, in saying that, you understand that in the tent, you'd have animals going in and out.

I mean, that was normal life. You lived with animals and things like that. So the last thing in

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