Hi, this is Hank Hanegraff, president of the Christian Research Institute and host of the Bible Instrument broadcast with another Hank unplug short.

This morning I read in the newspaper of an event that has a seismic effect on human civilization.

The U.S. government has determined that one can mark their passport with either an M, an F, or an X.

Before I talk about that a little more, let me simply say this, that when I read about this seismic decision, I couldn't help but think of an illustration

that I read in James Mitchner's novel titled Hawaii.

It's a novel about a thousand pages long, and in the novel, Michner chronicles what happened in

Hawaii in 1946. There was a, well, this Alaskan submarine earthquake beneath the ocean that created only a slight swell on the surface of the ocean.

So you have this incredible tumult beneath the surface and only a slight reaction on the ocean water itself.

Had a tanker beneath which the three-inch swell passed

actually noticed what happened deep beneath the ocean?

Catastrophe may have been averted.

Instead, an epic tsunami moved towards the Hawaiian islands at a pace approaching the speed of sound.

And in the end, its connect energy would pile water 70 feet deep on the land before sucking everything from humans to houses back into the ocean with what Michener described as demonic

force.

And ironically, the first sign that a tsunami was approaching was just a few fish floundering about in an empty reef, their tails whipping the water in almost comical fashion.

In other words, the sign didn't seem all that significant.

And that again is an illustration, which I think codifies what happened yesterday.

Again, yesterday, Wednesday, October 27, 2021.

Because prior to yesterday, when a woman, like my daughter-in-law, for example, becomes pregnant

and has an ultrasound and asks, is it a boy or a girl, the answer, well, is objective?

If you ask the ontological question, what is it?

Well, all you have to do is look.

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