Are There Signs of the Second Coming in Today's World?
Core Christianity
Aaron Simon
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🗓️ 24 May 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Episode 973 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions.
Questions in this Episode
1. Are we permitted to translate God's name into our own language?
2. Are there any signs of the second coming occuring now that indicate we are close to the "end times"?
3. My brother is abusive and struggles with narcissism. How can I pray to God to help him?
4. I have a child with my boyfriend and we live together, but I don't want to get married because it would remove me from my parent's insurance. What should I do?
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| 0:00.0 | Are there signs of the second coming in today's world? That's just one of the questions we'll be answering on today's edition of Core Christianity. Well, hi, this is Bill Meyer along with Pastor Adriel Sanchez, and this is the radio program where we answer your questions about the Bible and the |
| 0:21.5 | Christian life every day. If you have a question for us, we'd love to hear from you. Here's our phone number. It's |
| 0:26.1 | 8333-833-843-2673. You can also post your question on our Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter account. |
| 0:35.9 | You can watch us on YouTube, and you can email us your question at questions at |
| 0:41.0 | core Christianity.com. |
| 0:43.3 | First up today, let's go to Bridget calling in from Iowa. |
| 0:46.9 | Bridget, what's your question for Pastor Adriel? |
| 0:49.8 | Hi, thank you for having me. |
| 0:52.4 | Mine's about line upon line and jot upon jot. |
| 0:57.5 | Kind of like a claridine call, God tells us not to change his word |
| 1:01.8 | and to come to his word like a child and to believe in him. |
| 1:07.4 | My question retains to his name. |
| 1:10.6 | Are we permitted from the Messiah being our God? |
| 1:17.6 | Are we permitted to change his name because of a different language? |
| 1:22.0 | Or should we go back to the original text and try to find his true name of what they called him when he died a calumry? |
| 1:33.1 | Hey, Bridget, thank you for that question. |
| 1:35.1 | This is actually a question that has come up many times throughout the history of the church. |
| 1:40.5 | There are even entire movements that have made a big deal about this. |
| 1:43.6 | You think about the Jehovah's Witnesses, for example, who will say, well, you know, we've changed the Bible because |
| 1:50.6 | we're not translating the name of God in scripture. They'll say Jehovah or Yahweh. Now, in the Old |
| 1:57.7 | Testament in the Hebrew Bible, the divine name, we really don't know how to pronounce it, because we don't know what the original sort of vowel points were, but it consisted of four letters or four consonants. And it wasn't even spoken. I mean, there was this great sense of reverence that that the ancient scribes had they wouldn't |
| 2:18.3 | say or pronounce the divine name instead they would just say Lord or Adonai and so you see this |
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