Hi, this is Hank Hanegraph, president of the Christian Research Institute and host of the Bible Answer Man broadcast with another Hank Unplug Short.

I don't know how short this one is going to be because the prophecy pundits are added again.

I was flying to Washington, D.C. and I heard the statements of some modern day prophecy pundits with respect to what's happening in the Ukraine.

And as I was listening, I once again recognized how important it is for us to understand the matter of semantics.

Semantics is the science of meaning.

So when Ezekiel mentions the word Rosh, the imaginations of end-time sensationalists, well, they just go wild.

Rush sounds enough like Russia to implicate Russia as the villain in sensationalistic end-time scenarios.

Now, I'm not commenting here on geopolitical realities.

This is not a commentary on what's going on in Ukraine.

My comments are meant to communicate just how horrifying it is to misunderstand the sacred words of

scripture.

And what I'm talking about is nothing new.

Prophecy pundits have been doing this forever.

They have made the word Rosh, meaning in their vernacular, Russia.

They've made this an argument that's become a pillar

and sensationalistic end-time speculation.

I think of Mark Hitchcock.

He interprets Rosh as a proper noun referring to a very specific place, Russia.

But let me put it plainly.

The word Russia is not a derivation of Rosh.

Credible historians and linguists

have for years pointed out the reality

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