Our title of our message is The Amazing Moments from the Book of Revelation, The Battle Armageddon. If you need to write that down, Jeremy, I have to keep it straight for Jeremy. He puts it on sermon audio. I gotta be more refined and less hickified, amen? Tried to, anyway. I listened to myself on there sometime. I go, my soul, I'm so hillbilly, amen? But I can't fix all of it. I've tried to fix some of it, but some of it's just there, amen? I can't do much about that. I want to remind you in the book of Revelation in chapter number one, it talks about this is the book of Revelation of Jesus Christ. This is Jesus's revelation. It's about him, amen? It's about what he's going to do, what he has done. He's gonna redeem this whole world and the judgment of God's gonna be committed unto the son and everything's gonna orchestrate around and through him. But this battle of Armageddon is mentioned in different places. And I'm gonna use some references. I got basically two points, but don't get too relaxed. They're long points. The first point is the fact of Armageddon, some of its history. And so we'll read in chapter 19, in verse 11 of Revelation, as John has seen some things, he writes them down. And I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse. And he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire, on his head were many crowns, and he had a name written that no man knew but he himself. He was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood, and his name is called the Word of God. And the armies which were in heaven followed upon him with white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations. And he shall rule them with a rod of iron, and treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King of kings and Lord of lords. And I saw an angel standing in the sun, and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God, that ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great. And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth, and their armies gathered together to make war against him and against his army. We'll stop there. For sake of time, try to get started here. The fact of Armageddon is references to this valley of Jezreel, this hill area called Megiddo. And there are references in the scripture where it says Josiah came to fight in the valley of Megiddo. Hazia king of Judah fled there when he was wounded by Jehu he died there Deborah and Barak destroyed Caesarea and his host and it was a battle near this that Josiah was slain by Pharaoh Nicode Gideon fought against the Midianites Saul was slain by the Philistines and Hazia was slain by Jehu as I mentioned Turkish Empire fought battles there, Napoleon's army has fought battles there. It's not new to armies and destructions and death. Zechariah 12, 11 said, in that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem as the mourning of Hadrim in the valley of Megiddon. Now, that word mourning not mean good morning to you, that means mourning and sadness and brokenness. The Hebrew word har-megiddo means mountain of Megiddo. It became a proverbial phrase that was established through some of these things I've just read to you because so many battles and instances took place, like the morning of Hadrimon in the Valley of Megiddon, and the future of Armageddon is where I wanna go now, some of his story. So in Revelation 14, you can turn with me there if you'd like, Bible said, I look and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of Man, having on his head a golden crown and a sharp sickle. And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, thrust in the sickle. How many of you know what a sickle is? You think I'm talking about a motorcycle, anybody? A sickle is an old tool used to harvest and thrash the wheat down. And I have used a real sickle that was a handheld large one, had two areas to hold it, and that one was very hard to use. Now, they do have smaller sickles, but this is to cut down the wheat. It's a symbolism, an image given here that God's gonna thrust in the sickle to harvest this battle. Verse 18, Revelation 14, 18, another angel came from the altar, which had power over fire, and a crowd with a loud cried unto him, that had the sharp sickle. Thrust in thy sharp sickle, gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, for her grapes are fully ripe. Verse 19, and the angel thrust in his sickle into earth and gathered the vine of the earth, cast it in the great winepress. Remember that phrase I just read a while ago? The winepress of the fierceness of the wrath of Almighty God. It's referenced again in Revelation 14. Verse 20, and the winepress was trodden without the city. and blood came out of the wine press, even unto the horse's bridles. I have tape on the wall here. I know some of y'all might not have noticed it. You may have thought we were remodeling or something. But I have a purpose for this. This is the image of an average horse's bridle. It could be anywhere from four to six feet, depending on your horse, right? But this is an average area. The blood will be this deep to the horse's bridle in this area of the valley and the area around this battle where it takes place. The Bible says in verse 20 of Revelation 14, the blood came out of the winepress. Whose winepress? Is there grapes in it? No, it's people. It's God pouring out his wrath on the armies that are gathered together to this valley, to this area of Megiddo, what we call Armageddon. And it also says that it will be by the space of 1,600 furlongs. A furlong is an eighth of a mile, and if you do the math there, in most calculations, people determine that to be 200 miles, 200 square mile area, almost like a lake of blood. Millions and millions of people will die, and the average human person has five liters of blood in their body. There's going to be a lot of people dying in these battles. Even the Bible says horses will die. There'll be nothing like it that has ever been seen before on this earth. He said, I just can't comprehend that. I can't believe that. Well, be real careful to err on making everything in the book of Revelation figurative. If you'll go with the literal, you won't be shocked as much as if you go figurative. People try to figurativeize everything in this Bible. I've read so many books, and people just, they use political or religious figurative explanations of things, and they'll even take something like the horse and mean it means something else. Well, I wanna err on the side of making it literal. If it makes more sense to go literal, amen? a good horse sense, amen, to do that. But that's an image of how deep the blood would be. And the Bible says it's going to those 1,600 furlongs, would be about 200 miles. That would be a lot of people. So there's no way that this could happen, Preacher. There's just no way that there'd be that many people. I'm just gonna give you an idea. This is fairly up-to-date stats. Vietnam has, with inactive and active soldiers, 10 million people. North Korea has over 7 million. South Korea has over 6 million. India has over 5 million. And Russia has over 3 million. And the Bible, Bible, help us Lord, amen, get my Bible and my stats together. United States have over 2 million active. I guess there's about a million active. How many do we have? Jerry's my reference there on that. Brazil has over 2 million, Taiwan over almost 2 million, Pakistan 1,400,000. There's a lot of soldiers in the military, and these frogs are gonna come out, these spirits of devils that the Bible says in Revelation 16, 14. They're gonna go forth unto the kings of the earth, and they're gonna gather them to the battle of the great day of God Almighty. And they're gonna find themselves in this battle. There's a lot of focals. focus and focal point around Jerusalem. They're going to attack God's chosen people. Many of them are looking to head on against the Messiah who they believe will come for the first time, which we believe He's already come the first time and He's coming back the second time. Amen? He even says in Revelation 16, Verse 12, he's going to pour out that vial we talked about last week in the great river Euphrates. The water will be dried up to pay the way to the kings of the east. Might be prepared. A lot of people are going to have freeway to ride down into these areas. They're going to be drawn and might not be able to quite understand why they are drawn. And God's going to draw them to this battle of Armageddon. Verse 13, Revelation 16, I saw the unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast. Verse 14, for their spirits are devils working miracles which go forth unto the kings of the earth and the whole world. This is a world war for certain. Not just going to be localized. And there's going to be millions upon millions of people, not just in the armies, but others caught in the crosshairs. So I just can't believe it would be that much blood. Well, I believe the Bible over my opinions. I believe the Bible over my imagination. Some cases my imagination exceeds what the Bible has said, and sometimes it falls greatly short. I can't comprehend this much death, this much blood, this much horror. But the Bible says in verse 16 of Revelation 16, he gathered them together into a place called, in the Hebrew tongue, Armageddon. The world loves to make music and movies about the word Armageddon, but they have no idea what it really is about. It's not about an asteroid coming to hit the earth. It's not about Bruce Willis. Some of y'all don't know what I'm talking about. I hope you stay that way. There's some things I wish I didn't know, amen? But I'm going to promise you this, as we've already covered things in the book of Revelation, there are going to be stars falling from heaven. There's going to be meteorites and maybe comets, and there's going to be battle on the earth. And some say, well, there's no way there'll be horses. We know some of that area in Afghanistan, some of the hillsides, you can't take tanks in there. They have to have boots on the ground. They have to have horses in certain areas. And I believe that there's going to be so much trauma on this earth that I think our military of our world technology is probably going to take a few steps back, and there may be more swords and horses than we really want to admit right now. EMPs can be fired and can eliminate all kind of electronic things to where if it went off, most of our world today wouldn't have a clue what to do. They couldn't tell what time it was. They couldn't look at their phone. They'd be lost, right? Wouldn't be able to use a microwave. They'd starve to death. The world, electronically, if it goes down, people are gonna go back to what they know will work. When it comes to war, I'm gonna go with the scriptures when it describes, behold, Zechariah 14, one, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoils shall be divided in the midst of thee, for I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle. and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished, and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city. Then shall the Lord go forth and fight against those nations, as when He fought in the day of battle." This is a battle between the Lord God Almighty. The Bible teaches us that the Lord Jesus Christ, as the heavens were opened, There's a white horse, and upon him was called faithful and true, and in righteousness he judged and made war. See, this reference here is the future of Armageddon, some of his story concerning the Lord Jesus Christ. There's going to be a battle fought, and even in Revelation 19, it reminds us of all these people coming from all points of the world being gathered together And in Revelation 19, 11, he says, I saw heaven opened. John was able to behold this and he wrote it down for us. Verse number 12, it goes on to say in Revelation 9, his eyes were as a flame of fire. Here's the, we got a lot of unknown things, it's got a name written that no man knew but he himself, I don't know what language it is, it's not Hebrew, it's not Greek, it's not German, it's an unknown language, but it's gonna be written there, it says, but no man knew but he himself. A little small phrase, do you know the names of God as I am? Pretty simple, isn't it? One time he answered it back to those soldiers trying to get him in the Garden of Gethsemane. He said, I am he, and they all fell backwards on the ground. I wonder what it's gonna be like, a name we've never heard before, and a language we've never heard before, but it's explicitly declared to us that it will be written, and no man knew but he himself, and maybe he might use that name on that day. And maybe the armies will just fall backwards at his power. But he's here. In this passage, He's back. Amen? First time you saw Him in the book of Revelation, before when we met Him and know Him in the free part of sin, we know Him as the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world. But now He's the Lion of the tribe of Judah. He's not coming this time to deal with sin, He already did. This time all judgment's coming from the Son. And I know there's a disagreement on this, I got to hurry. He says his vesture's dipped in blood. I don't know if you gather it like I do, but it's describing him as he's coming out of heaven and he's already got his vesture dipped in blood, in my opinion. It's not describing after the battle, after the blood, but it's already dipped in blood. Now, if it was the blood of kings and other people, that wouldn't make sense. How did that come from heaven already? This must be after the battle. I believe I know where the blood came from. I believe it's the blood he shed on the cross of Calvary that was placed at the mercy seat to redeem the sins of all the world who believe and call upon him, and he dips that vesture in blood, because as he comes to this world to fight, It's going to be about the blood. It's going to be about redemption. His blood will win the victory again. Amen. And I got to thinking about the Bible says his banner over me is love. And this blood bought story and references the glory of all ages. We flash back to the book of revelation, chapter five, verse nine. They said they sung a new song. I don't know. He said, what is it? I don't know. It might have more than eight chords or octaves or whatever. I don't know what it is. It might not be an instrument down here and a vocal cord down here and a brain down here that can wrap their mind around this new song yet. But here's what it's gonna sound like. It's gonna say, thou art worthy to take the book, to open the seals thereof, for thou was slain and has redeemed us to God by thy blood. It'll never go outside the borders of the theme of the Lord Jesus Christ, the revelation of Jesus Christ. It'll never cease to be anything other than about the blood of how he redeemed mankind. Revelation 5 12 it says they say with a loud voice worthy is the lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and Blessing and every creature which is in heaven and on the earth under the earth and such are in the sea and all that are in them Johnson heard I say he heard them all if that's crazy. It is pretty crazy And here's what they said, blessing, honor, and glory, and power be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and to the Lamb forever and ever. So Revelation 19.14, it says the armies which were in heaven followed upon white horses. Now, some believe these are angels. I believe these are the redeemed saints of God. He said, well, preacher, you're wrong. Well, I'll be wrong. You can come and get off the horse when I'm riding behind him when we come down. I'll get off. Won't get poochy mouth, won't be mad at all. Say, well, I'm sorry. I thought I was right. I'll get on another horse or do something else. Amen. Won't hurt my feelings at all. But how silly would it be to be angels on these horses when angels have wings? What a waste of wings. ride on the horse and I could just fly amen I don't know I get aggravated at some stuff it's written sometimes I'm sure some people listen to my preaching and get aggravating at me but with wings riding on horses I like this this is the book of Jude verse 14 only one chapter in Jude New Testament it's a reference to Enoch prophesying and there's no other reference to Enoch prophesying this but what Jude says but I still believe what Jude says Enoch, also the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints. I think I'm on one of those horses right there. You say, you're crazy. Well, maybe I am. Verse 15, out of his mouth, it's not about what comes from me or what I do on the horse, it's about what he's doing on the horse. And let his mouth go with a sharp sword, and with it he should smite the nations. This is what's taking place in this Armageddon, in this battle. And he shall rue them with a rod of iron, and he treadeth the winepress of the fiercest of the wrath of God, and he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King of kings and Lord of lords. And then later he talks about, verse 19, I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies to gather together to make war against him that sat on the horse. Can you understand the concept of this? That this world's really going to buy into this thought under the leadership of the beast, the antichrist, the false prophet, under satanic influence. They're going to think they can fight the Lord Jesus Christ when he literally comes out of heaven riding on a white horse, which is already a symbol of victory. and he comes with that vesture dipped in blood, amen, and he's gonna have fire coming out of him, and as the scripture says, flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns because he's the king of kings and lord of lords. And they're gonna fight against him that sat on the horse, not on those who are sitting on the horses. It's not about you and I. He's going to fire the first shot. He's going to fight the battle. In fact, I don't expect to do anything, Brother Jim, but ride the horse. That's all I'm going to do. It's going to look good. He already redeemed me. I don't belong there anyway, but there I am. And I'm just going to, if that's what that scripture means, and I'm part of the 10,000 of His saints and part of that army, He's going to do all the fighting. He's going to do all the protecting there. The Bible says, They're gonna come against him that sat on the horse and against his army. Verse 20, it says, and the beast was taken. Now, I was reading this the other day and I go, wow, that's a quick transition. Here comes the armies, I'm coming against your army, we're coming against you, and the beast was taken. That's how quick, I don't know if it's really gonna be that quick, but that happens pretty quick. The big leader of all this, the beast, the Antichrist, is taken first and foremost, and the next thing you know, the Bible says that he puts the beast on fire. I don't know if that's how the devil thought it was gonna go, but the victory belongs to the Lord Jesus Christ. The beast was taken and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him. All those miracles ain't gonna help him now. And he which deceived them that had received the mark of the beast and all that crowd and all the deception is not gonna help him now. And them that worshiped his image and those that were cast alive, and then they said that these both were cast alive into the lake of fire burning with brimstone. We had a lake that we talked about, an area filled with blood. Now we've got one filled up with fire and brimstone, a lake of fire. I believe the lake of fire is especially a different place than hell itself. I don't know where the lake of fire is located. I believe that hell itself is in the heart of the earth and hell enlarges herself, as the Bible says. I believe hell is a place, the Bible says, was prepared for the devil and his angels. One day all that is in the lake of all this inhale all those that rejected God will all be cast into the lake of fire But these two get to go first They get put in there first And it's amazing That God does it this quickly now verse 21 the remnant were slain with the sword There were others there, other people, kings and leaders. And they were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse. You just can't get away from this guy on the horse. You know who he is, right? It's Jesus Christ. Because this book's about him, Revelation. Revelation, Armageddon, the words the world tries to use maybe to scare people, or they think it's somehow kind of cool and interesting, but they really don't have much clue of what it really is about. And it's about the Lord coming back a second time, and he's going to defeat and subdue the armies of this earth. He's going to take the antichrist and the false prophet, and he's going to cast them alive into the lake of fire. Alive. Jehovah's Witnesses, I believe I'm right on this, they believe in soul annihilation. And they believe that if you go to hell that eventually over so many years that you will annihilate and die. The context of scripture here, later the devil is bound with chains in the bottomless pit for a thousand years. That's a long time. We went from the horse and the army, and here comes the Antichrist. Boom, they're in the lake of fire that quick. But a thousand years goes by, and the devil is put in the bottomless pit. And later, after Satan is loosed, the devil was incarcerated. And the Bible said they cast him into the lake of fire and brimstone. This is Revelation 2010. The devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are. A thousand years later, they're still there. They still exist in eternal punishment. That's what the lake of fire is. That's what hell is about. Eternal punishment and damnation. You don't want to be under the wrath of God. You need to be born again. You need to look unto Jesus as the author and finisher of your faith. This book is not something to look at as end times confusion, don't understand it. You better listen to what the scriptures are teaching us and tell us. He throws him into that lake of fire where the beast lost profit. And the Bible said they shall be tormented day and night, forever and ever. Verse 21, the remnant were slain, the kings. And it says, it was done with those, he that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth and all the fowls. You might know what a fowl is. It's a bird. All the fowls were filled with their flesh, that great supper. The birds were eating the flesh. I know this is kind of gross, but be honest with you, you know, most of this generation now, you've seen way more and read way more and exposed way more than what this will do to your kids and give them nightmares. Now maybe some kids might be a little bit more tender and touching than others. Just take them to the scripture and say, you won't have to worry about that, little Brian. Ain't nobody here named me but me, right? Little brother, you don't have to worry about that. Jesus is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. He already died on the cross for you. If you'll just trust Him as your Savior, He'll be your Savior, your Lamb, your Redeemer. You won't have to worry about Him. He's gonna protect you. He already gave Himself for you. He's gonna fight the bad guys, amen? He's gonna attack Satan himself. But in this scripture, I wanted to give you this little thought as I get ready to close. I'm doing mighty fine. It's not even 12. 12 on the dot. All the sophisticated churches are getting ready to get out. Getting close. So you know you're not sophisticated, that's for you. Help you out, amen. This victory the Lord gets in this valley, and the deceiving beast and the antichrist and the false prophet, it does go back to reference that there's a remnant here that their bodies will be eaten by the fowls that was called to this supper. all these great kings. And I read this little article, and it's kind of old, but it's interesting to understand the mentality of the Russian Communist people, the party. They printed a cartoon of churches being destroyed by the Russian man with a hammer. And he had a ladder going up to heaven with his hammer in his hand to go kill God. And then the caption in the cartoon It said, having destroyed the God business down here on earth, we are going to destroy it in heaven. Now before that person ever wrote that cartoon, God put something in Psalm 2 I thought might be interesting to read to you. Why do the heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against his anointed, saying, let us break their bands asunder, cast away their cords from us. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh. The Lord shall have them in derision. Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath and vex them in his sore displeasure. He says, yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. I will declare the decree and the Lord said unto me, Thou art my son. This day have I begotten thee. Be wise now, therefore, ye kings, be instructed, ye judges of the earth. Serve the Lord with fear and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way when his wrath is kindled. But a little blessed are they that put their trust This is evidently, to me, a reference to Jesus Christ as the Son of God. And that there's going to be a day where he is going, after all this heathen's rage, and they said, we're gonna climb up the ladder and go take care of God's business in heaven. They don't understand that Jesus was sent to this earth to be about his Father's business. And he reconciled man and God together when he died on the cross of Calvary. And God cries out and says, thou art my son. This day have I begotten thee. He's the only begotten Son of God, full of grace and truth. He was born of a virgin. Yes, it's miraculous, but it is the work of God. He was born as the God-man, 100% God, 100% man. And listen, you find in this Bible somewhere, you cut it, you nick it, it's gonna bleed somewhere and remind you of the Son of God and the blood that was shed to redeem you and I. And if you leave this message or one like it, you leave a church service like this, walk away from here, you're gonna stand before God one day at the Great White Throne Judgment, and God's gonna say, you have heard, you do know the truth, it's been pointed at you over and over and over and over again, that the Lord Jesus Christ was coming back, that He was the Son of God, and the judgment upon this world was coming as it was foreseen and prophesied. You could read it for yourself, but you rejected it. I don't want to receive the judgment of God then. I want to receive the grace and the mercy of God now. And I have. And that's why when we have received the mercy and the grace of God, when we gather together like we do, that's why we can That's why they can sing these old songs. I see some of y'all roll your eyes when we sing these songs. Room at the cross for you. I just opened it right there. There's room at the cross for you. That song means something to the saints of God. We know it's the grace of God that brings us into the kingdom of God. Listen, I've been waiting to say this the whole time. I've read the back of the book and we win. This book of Revelation is the last book of the Bible, and it closes out with the end time prophecy of things that are coming, and it'll go, and I'll get to this one of these days, but I get to preach about heaven in this book a little, and it won't be too long, amen? It ain't all horse blood to the bridle and 200 miles of blood and judgment and destruction, but when I see him the next time I see him, I've never seen him one time in my physical eyes, but I'll recognize them whom they have pierced. And I'll know that he died on the cross for my sins. I'm glad Jesus has secured the God business on earth and in heaven. He is the King of kings and Lord of lords. Sister Virginia, if you'll come on for us. He's the way, the truth and the life. And the Bible says, Jesus said it like this. No man cometh unto the father, but by me. This book is about Jesus. This book of Revelation is specific. Some people think somehow maybe they're going to go through the tribulation and they'll not take the mark of the beast and somehow they're going to navigate around where the majority of people are going to die. The exception to the rule would be very few people are going to survive in the time. Hail storms falling out of the skies the size of bicycle tires. and pestilence and diseases like the plagues and way worse than what we've seen with COVID. Diseases and sores and cancerous things coming on people's bodies and fire and brimstone. These things, he said, it's all just figurative. Do you see where that mindset takes you? You think God's teasing. You think God's playing. But when you look at it as literal, you take God seriously. And that's why I want to preach that nature to you. Because if these things unfold like the scripture teaches us, it's worse, it's more severe, it's more horrible and horrendous. I can't even put words around it. There's no way a man could preach it to the degree that it will be revealed to us in that day. I hope that you trust in the Lord Jesus Christ now as today is the day of salvation. Place your faith in Him now. And don't be afraid of what wrath and judgment in this book's gonna come upon you. Understand that the wrath has already fallen, your sin, your judgment has already fallen on the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord laid on him the iniquity of us all. He took my place and my suffering. All I'm gonna have to do when we come back, my plan is just to ride that white horse and just look good riding down as he takes care of business. Amen? Somebody I was talking to, I think it was Annalise, she said she rode a horse and stood up on the horse. I might do that on that horse. I'm afraid of horses. They're a little spooky to me. They're so powerful and big. But that horse there, I might stand up and just shout the victory on the way down, amen? There he is. There he is. That's him. I know him. That's my savior. That's Jesus, the King of kings and the Lord of lords. As she plays, head bow, eye closed, I want to address this to the adults in here. If you know that you're saved, you got saved somewhere along the way, and you made that personal faith, what about your children? We've got a lot of kids in our church that have been raised here, and some are not here this morning, but I think about them. Some of your grandchildren have never made professions of faith. They've never personally trusted in Jesus Christ as their Savior. There is no other name, there is no other way of salvation than through Jesus Christ. To pray for them that they will hear and receive the scriptures. That they would call upon the Lord for salvation. We've had a couple of kids got saved last year and one got saved a couple nights ago. We may be baptizing soon. What a blessing to see people give their heart to Christ, ask the Lord to save them. Believe, believe upon the Lord Jesus Christ. Do you believe what I've preached? Or do you just think, well, I don't believe it, but I know a preacher believes it. Do you believe I'm some old crazy fellow up here just shouting and carrying on about some comical, fictional thing? Or do you believe? I hope you have believed upon the name of the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation. Please don't put it off. Don't wait too late. I don't know how long it's going to be before the Lord comes back. But do you see the wars and rumors of wars around us? Ukraine and Russia, we might be involved in that. These things are around us. Earthquakes in divers' places. I mean, these things are signs for us to pay attention that the Lord is coming back. And the rapture is an imminent thing without warning. He reminds us even in the book of Revelation. Don't you forget, I come as a thief. This world's not going to be ready for him when he comes back. But you can be ready. Because you have his word and you have somebody preaching pointing you to the Lord Jesus Christ. Kiss that son, lest he be angry. Call upon the Lord Jesus Christ. Anybody here, nobody looking right here, preacher pray for me, I'm not saved. If these things unfolded on this world, I'd be left behind, and I know I'd be left to the judgment of God. Anybody here that's a preacher, pray for me. I believe you've got to be under conviction. I believe the Holy Spirit has to draw you. It's much better when He does, I promise you. And if God's speaking to your heart, and you've got a good godly mom and dad or grandma or somebody in your family, and God's convicting you, you go to them, you talk to them about getting saved. You make that call and election sure, you get that thing settled, amen? I'm glad on May the 15th, 1989, I called upon the Lord and asked him to save me and forgive me. He came into my heart, I was born again, he changed my life. I now have the peace of God that passes all understanding. I won't be facing that man on the white horse, I'll be following him. And there's a much different position, having placed my faith in him. rather than facing his wrath. Father, I pray that you'll help our people. Lord, help us as we also know that this goes out, Lord, through different avenues of preaching the word on Facebook and through sermon audio. Lord, may someone hear it and be saved before it's everlasting too late. Help us, God, to prepare our own families, Lord. Help us, God, to understand that the times of these things are approaching around us, and that day of Armageddon, that great day, Lord, that day's coming. Lord, I'm glad I'll be safe, secure. I'll be raptured out, I'll be gone, I'll be with you, absent from the body, present with the Lord, but not everybody's ready to meet you. Now that everybody's saved and ready, Lord, to go, I pray, God, You convict our people, Lord. We don't know who saved all of them, Lord, but we know, God, You know their hearts. I ask You to speak to them, Lord. Get a hold. We got people being invited. Others have been invited, Lord. They keep promising they're coming, and they haven't been yet. Oh, please, God, Holy Spirit, convict them, draw them. Lord, let us not give up on them. Lord, let us be able to see them come and get their hearts right, get saved. Could be one day the last one gets in and will be called home. I pray the Lord that you'll help us touch the many sick in our church family. Lord, help them and heal them in Jesus name.