Does Revelation Teach That Christ Is Going To Return Soon?
Core Christianity
Aaron Simon
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🗓️ 3 November 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Episode 1090 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions.
Questions in this Episode
1. Did John the Baptist invent baptism?
2. Why does the Bible use "created" for Adam and "made" for Eve?
3. Does Revelation teach that Christ is going to return soon?
4. How can we heal and move on from a sexually distorted past?
5. Am I sinning if I break the speed limit?
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| 0:00.0 | Does Revelation teach that Christ is going to return soon? That's just one of the questions |
| 0:10.7 | we'll be answering on today's edition of Core Christianity. Well, hi, this is Bill Meyer, |
| 0:15.7 | along with Pastor Adriel Sanchez, and this is the radio program where we answer your questions |
| 0:20.6 | about the Bible and the Christian life every day. Our phone lines are open, and this is the radio program where we answer your questions about the Bible and the |
| 0:21.7 | Christian life every day. Our phone lines are open, and you can call us for the next 25 minutes or so. |
| 0:27.0 | Here's the phone number. It's 833 The Core. Maybe make a note of that. 833-843-243-2673. You can also post your question on one of our social media sites. You can watch |
| 0:40.7 | Adriel live in the studio right now on YouTube, and you can send him a question through our YouTube |
| 0:46.0 | channel, plus you can email us anytime at Questions at Core Christianity.com. First up today, |
| 0:53.2 | here's a voicemail from one of our listeners named |
| 0:55.6 | Cherie. John the Baptist baptized. Jesus disciples baptized. I would like to know where baptism |
| 1:04.7 | came from. If John was the first one, I would like to know that. Thank you so much. |
| 1:14.5 | That's a great question. Did baptism just fall out of thin air in the New Testament? Well, no. There were various types or pictures of |
| 1:22.0 | baptism in the Old Testament, and so I think we can point to some of those. The earliest being in Genesis chapter 6 with the flood. |
| 1:29.6 | And Peter in 1st Peter refers to that as a type of baptism, this picture of salvation through judgment. |
| 1:37.6 | You also have the children of Israel crossing through the Red Sea being delivered from Egypt. |
| 1:43.6 | The Apostle Paul refers to this as a type of baptism in the book of first Corinthians. |
| 1:48.6 | With regard to what John was doing, that activity in the wilderness where he was baptizing |
| 1:54.3 | people for repentance, you know, the crowds were coming to him. |
| 1:57.5 | There are some who will say, well, what was taking place there was a ritual that was |
| 2:02.7 | common among those sort of wilderness dwellers. There was a group known as the Ascines |
| 2:08.4 | around this time in the wilderness. And one of the things that they practiced were purification |
| 2:12.7 | rituals with water. And so some people think, well, maybe John got his idea from them or there's some overlap |
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