We're going to get right into what we call Prophecy Focus Global Update. We're going to go through a couple of domestic issues, and then we're going to pop into the international issues. But I wanted to spend a couple of minutes on some things that are taking place right here, and a couple of things that I just got informed about, so hopefully that'll be helpful. As a reminder of kind of our theme verse here, when it comes, one of our theme verses, when it comes to looking at the prophetic scenario, 2 Timothy chapter three, Paul was instructing Timothy, not about the eschatological or the end times, end times, if you will, that we look at in the tribulation. We're looking at things that are happening as we speak. And in 2 Timothy 3, even 2,000 years ago, Paul encouraged Timothy with these issues. He said, but know this, Timothy, that in the last days, perilous, dangerous times or seasons will come. And this really plays into what we're looking at. Men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanders without self-control, brutal, which we, I mean, that's just been, brutality has been the name of the game the last month with what's going on internationally, and despises of good. So it's no surprise what's taking place. And we'll get into Israel in a few minutes. But as I said, I wanna spend a little time on Another issue came out November 6th, and this is a government report. and you're not going to believe what's in this government report. I was shocked to death when I got this, and I'm like, seriously, this actually came out? The weaponization of disinformation, pseudo-experts and bureaucrats, how the federal government partnered with universities to censor Americans' political speech. Did I say this was a government report? I mean, seriously, I mean, and some of you are wondering, what do you mean seriously? Is this good or bad? It's fantastic. I'm like, you know, this is what we've been complaining about year after year after year, and now we got a committee that comes out with this and documents it, and I'm like, Wow, I mean, this one was like amazing. Interim staff report of the Committee on the Judiciary and the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government United States House of Representatives. And I was like, wait a minute, is this AI generated or is this for real? I mean, just. Yeah, there you go. Just the thought of this coming out is amazing. Now what I want to do is go through a couple of these things. And again, we have it's What's the Christian nexus here? Well, the Christian nexus is this is why they've been going after us and trying to silence us. And the documentation is now coming out. So let me just give you a couple of things here that this report comes by an individual, S.A. McCarthy, put out November 9th. A new report is revealing that the federal government partnered with universities and think tanks to censor conservative Americans. Well, folks, this is the hub of conservative Americans is the local New Testament Bible-believing church of which we happen to be one. A document published Monday by the United States House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government details how the government circumvented constitutional protections of free speech. to censor alleged misinformation. Did you catch that? Alleged misinformation online by collaborating with third-party organizations, mostly universities, to police and censor the online speech of American citizens. All right, so this is nothing that we haven't, I mean, we talk about the cancel culture and what's taking place, and it's just difficult, these things that have been happening. But I wanna give you just a little bit more How many have read the report? That's kind of what I figured. I don't see one hand up, so I'll fill you in on a couple of the key things here. Did I say this was put out by the United States government? Oh, OK. The nucleus of the censorship industrial complex, or CIC, was the Election Integrity Partnership, a conglomeration of private and government institutions formed in the summer of 2020 with Stanford University's Stanford Internet Observatory as its flagship. The Stanford Internet Observatory worked closely with the Department of Homeland Security. What? What? They're working closely with the people that are supposed to be protecting us, the Department of Homeland Security. Okay. And a multi-agency state department entity called the Global Engagement Center to monitor and censor Americans' online speech in advance of the 2020 presidential election. Well, boy, there's a shock. Did you see that coming? Right? I still, I'm just like in awe that this got put on paper. By relying on non-government entities like Stanford and other universities, the federal government called launder its censorship activities in hopes of bypassing both the First Amendment and public scrutiny according to the report. Folks, I haven't done it a lot, but I've done it more probably than most preachers because of my government background. Every time I, and I did it just, I was at a couple of secular events I spoke at in the last couple of weeks. And I always start out with one slide, the First Amendment of the Constitution. And there was public officials at the events. And it's like, this is your First Amendment right. Don't you dare let anybody tell you, as a Christian, that you cannot talk or share what you believe. The First Amendment prohibits one thing when it comes to religion. specifically when it comes to religion, it prohibits one thing, and that is Congress shall not make or establish a religion. In other words, if Congress voted today that Baptist is gonna be the worldwide, or is gonna be the United States religion, cannot do that, can't do it. But does that mean that you as citizens of the United States, do you have free speech to share your faith? Well, yeah, you do. You absolutely do. Now, the liberal Supreme Court, the justices, will say, well, you know, if you're an elected official or if you're in government work, then you're basically violating the First Amendment, right? If you share your faith or try to proselytize, well, that's nonsense. It just is. That's not what the Constitution states. It's amazing. Here it is, black and white, regarding what the government had attempted to do, and now they're being called out on it. Just a little bit more on this. I'm the only one that read it according to no hands being raised. If, for example, the EIP found a Facebook post spreading what government agencies reported was misinformation, now that's government agencies saying it's misinformation. In other words, you don't believe our agenda. The organization would search other platforms like Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, et cetera, for the same or similar posts and would then submit those flagged posts to the appropriate tech companies with recommendations on how the tech company should respond, such as, suppressing posts, suspending an account's ability to post content for a given period of time, and outright removing posts. Folks, there are people in this room on a continual basis over the last couple of years, send me things via Facebook, via Messenger, via other apps, And they're like, in fact, just happened a week ago. Another one happened. One of our ladies sent me something. And of course, I go to open it up. And where is it? Is it there? Now if you've done it, you've been there. So you get these conservative things, somebody's trying to send them to you, and man, the algorithms that have been put in place, they ax it immediately. And if it's too egregious, they'll literally pull your account. Ask President Trump about that. So whether you agree, and again, this isn't about a pro or negative comment about the presidency, but I mean, goodnight, they suspended a president's account. Like, serious? What happened to free speech? Say what? Yeah, there you go. One more paragraph. Well, maybe two. The Congressional Report notes, did I say this was written by the US government? Oh yeah, I think I did. Instead of targeting foreign or antithetic accounts, the EIP targeted Americans disproportionately, candidates and commentators with conservative viewpoints. And we're all going like, yeah, no kidding. And despite its stated purpose to combat disinformation, the EIP worked with social media companies to censor true information, jokes and satire, and political opinions. All right, you get the point? The point is, it's nothing we didn't know. We've been dealing with, on the media, and some of us in local churches regarding the cancel culture trying to knock us off the platform. I mean, they want Christianity gone, they want socialism, they want Marxism, they want communism, they want the one world order, and I guess we just don't fit the mold. No, we don't fit the mold. So very interesting. Again, this came, the report was published November 6th, 2023, and the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, sanctioned by the United States House of Representatives. Wow. Sure. In fact, if Yeah, that is simply the article that was written. This report is out there. So yeah, if you email or text me, I'll be happy to send you the link to it. I do have all the information. I actually have the report. I just didn't bring it in here. Print's too small. All right, so this is a piece of that just basically talking about how the federal government used universities and others and big tech basically to keep us quiet the best way they could. And did they do a good job? They did a pretty good job of trying to silence God's people as well as the conservative Governmental type folks and it's gonna happen again. This kind of brought it to the attention Obviously, they're getting spanked right now and oh you can't do that, but it's gonna happen again It just is as we see the end times coming Oh, yeah, second Timothy 3 1 know that in the last days perilous dangerous times and seasons will come One last one on this. Who is being censored? Well, we all know President Trump was tremendously censored, which was one of the things he had been coming out about. And there's a bunch of others up there, a couple you might recognize. Newt Gingrich, Mike Huckabee, who's a SAVE guy. Anybody else worth pointing out? Sean Hannity. who many of you probably listened to on Fox News, James O'Keefe, who basically lost everything. I think that's enough for now. An untold number of everyday Americans of all political affiliations, if you got the wrong statements, the algorithms will pick it up. That's artificial intelligence, by the way, and they use the algorithms, and they will be happy to censor you and block you. All right, why are we interested in all this? Because as we approach the end times, the tribulation, the closer we get, the more dangerous, the more situations are going to come up with where this is just going to be an issue. Okay, this is, why am I bringing up this particular issue? This came out a few months ago, but it's ramping up again. The President of the United States of America basically said he wants to take over airports, or at least part of them, and use them as places to house illegal immigrants. Sound like a good idea? When I was sheriff of Milwaukee County and David Clark, by the way, I saw David Clark a couple weeks ago in an event. He was speaking there. I did the opening prayer. Did he recognize me? I recognized him. No, we recognized each other, had a good time. It was actually good to see him. We had a great conversation and he's still doing his thing. But anyway, when he was sheriff and when I took over after he left, I mean, the airport, you, if some guy, one person walked in and was found loitering around and trying to sleep in the airport, The sheriff's office ran the security for the airport. It was like, no, no, you don't stay here. This isn't a place for camping out. Well, now the president suggested airports should be a place where migrants should come. That's a nice way to say illegal immigrants is really what he's talking about. 10 million illegals. have entered our country. Now, according to the president, I guess you can't call them illegals, because he legalized it, bringing them in, but based on our old definition, it would be people that don't belong here. They're not citizens, they've come through the borders. 10 million, that's all. Let me see, how big's Milwaukee? Not even a, huh? It's just, I'm probably a little shy with the suburbs of, well, I mean, the Milwaukee proper is about a half, but you're looking at a little under a million in Milwaukee County. 10 million, that's 10 Milwaukee counties of folks that have been let in that have no citizenship, including, far be it from me to say this, those that came in through the northern borders from Syria and Damascus, those that are coming in the southern borders from other terrorist groups. And lo and behold, wonder why we have problems here in America today, because it keeps on keeping on. Anyway, IROVER proposal to house migrants at Atlantic City Airport. This is all over. I just took two of them. I mean, the headlines are going crazy with all this stuff. Press release from, and I don't know the guy, but U.S. Congressman Jefferson Van Drew. Congressman Van Drew calls on Governor Murphy to reject Biden's proposal offering Atlantic City Airport to house illegal migrants. So for whatever reason, this ramped up. It started in August. It's ramping up again. It's made some media attention. But this is a result of what? This is a result of what I'm suggesting the unrest, the civil unrest, the lawlessness and the things that happened right before and during the tribulation period, the perilous times that we're now under. And it's no shock as to what taking place based on prophecy. All right, so let's go to... A little bit on the Israel-Hamas situation, what's taking place. And again, this is kind of late-breaking news, even though I pretty much suspected this was coming, and many of you did. How many of you know of the Ali Khomeini? Ali Khamenei, where does he reside and what country does he? Iran, so he's the big guy who runs Iran. Today he came out, Ali, and I say his name, hard for me to pronounce it, but yeah, whatever you said. Ali Khamenei, whatever it is, but you know what I'm talking about. The head of Iran, he came out today and said, hey Hamas, you are on your own. He made it official today. They've been lobbing some missiles and rockets from Syria and Lebanon and Yemen, and basically the big guy said, listen Hamas, You're on your own. We're not coming, we're not gonna do anything. Oh, isn't it amazing that also today, and if you were listening across, Dr. Jim Schneider brought up the thing about billions of dollars that have just been released that America's stopping a sanction that's going to allow billions of dollars to go into Iran. Well, isn't that just amazing that on the same day he released billions of dollars to Iran, all of a sudden they make a statement that they're not going to get involved with the Israel-Hamas war? Now, that could just be coincidence. Or it may not be coincidence. Yeah, it's amazing. The good news is, They're not getting involved. That is good news, regardless of how they came about, regardless of how much money's gonna be dumped into Iran so they can build their, finish getting their energized nuclear weapons going. That part's bad, but at least for now we're averting a third world war, because when Khomeini says no, That means no. Again, for those that may not have been here for a while or are new, the issue is, again, Hamas is Sunni Muslim. Iran, Syria, Lebanon, many of the other places, Yemen, are Shiite Muslim. Again, Shiite and Sunni Muslims very much at odds with each other. And the whole thing boils down to, and we did a session on this a couple weeks ago in this Prophecy Focus. You can find it on sermonaudio.com. But the issue is, it's all regarding one sect says, It has, the leadership has to be a direct descendant of Muhammad. The other section says, no, it doesn't have to be a direct descendant of Muhammad. It just has to be a good Muslim or somebody who is a friend with Muhammad. And literally over that issue, this huge faction hatred has occurred. All right, so here's an interesting statement. Obama, President, past President Obama, Hamas attacks were horrific, but you need to look at unbearable, what's the next word? Occupation. All right, now here, you need to look at the occupation, too. What is the former president talking about when he's talking about the unbearable occupation? Say what? Yeah, he's talking about multiple places, including Gaza, where his, what, and again, he denies that he's a Muslim, even though his name is Barack Hussein Obama. And even though when I went to Egypt, his about 40 foot poster was hanging in the Egypt airport lobby, just coincidence. But the bottom line is regardless of what his religion is, even though I think I have a particular bias based on his demeanor and his beliefs, he looks at Israel as occupying Palestinian land. In other words, everything literally belongs to the Muslims, is what he's saying. And that's a problem because if you believe the Bible, the Bible makes it very clear that Israel belongs to the Jewish people, God owns it, it's the Jewish people's land, and no one else's. It's not the Christian land, so to speak, it's not the, well, it is the Christian land, because everything belongs to Israel. We're gonna be there one day as well during the millennial kingdom ruling and reigning with Christ, but technically it's Jewish land. I mean, technically it belongs to the Jewish people and that's what God made clear. So you see this political persuasion and why we have this issue in our country between pro-Palestinian, pro-Israeli, and it just goes back to Jacob and Esau. Ishmael and Isaac, and these wars have been taking place ever since the early part of Genesis when these relationships blew up. And we're not gonna get into all that, but it's all biblical. It's nothing that is not to be expected. All right, let our people go. Nearly 300,000 rally in Washington for Israel, hostages released. This happened Tuesday or yesterday. Over 300,000, and this is amazing. I mean, they had an equal or more than that showed up for the pro-Palestinian marches, and now this massive amount of people show up yesterday in Washington to support Israel and the Jewish people. Again if you heard crosstalk, I made a couple of maybe I made a couple comments regarding a guy named Chuck Schumer and Mike Johnson was there who of course if you remember he's one that just got elected to what off or just got placed in what office Speaker of the house. He's a he's a solid born again christian Chuck schumer if you know chuck schumer is not exactly on our page. In fact, he's a massive radical leftist but Schumer came out and did a fantastic job of supporting israel and the jewish people and saying america's behind you Well, I'm not so sure he was speaking for all of Americans, but he did speak for me this one time and probably this one time only based on his politics. But it's great, right? So there's some validity here with America supporting the Jewish people. One caller today made the statement, well, what if President Biden would have been there? What would that have done? And I said, well, I mean, my response was, President, there's no way on earth President Biden was gonna go to this, because politically speaking, he's gotta play both sides of the fence. And you just gotta be honest. Nobody likes to be honest on the radio or politics, but you say well, what's the worst they can do to me? I mean, I don't know I'm not getting paid to do it. So you can't take money away You can't fire me from anything because I'm not doing it as an organization. So I don't know but anyway the president did not go at least as far as we know and I He has, of course, been supporting Israel, and of course, a lot of money and weapons have been sent to Israel, so I applaud him for that. But again, what is a politician? And think about this, what is the goal of every politician? to get reelected. That's their goal. I mean, if they don't get reelected, they're out of work. So he's playing the political line. He's made some statements about potentially Israel if they don't shape up and stop pushing so hard in Gaza that maybe their money might be pulled. So he's got to play the game politically to try and keep himself in office. All right, one repeat slide here from last week. Why are we concerned about what took place. And October 7th, well 9,000 rockets were fired from Gaza at Israel. The 1,400 number has been pushed down to 1,200 now based on whatever their count is. They started at 14. By the time the war's over, it's gonna be well over 1,400 casualties. 5,600 is injured and 241 captured. There's still around 240 people that are held hostage in Israel or in I'm sorry Hamas Hamas territory being Gaza All right. How many have heard about the Shifa Hospital going on? Not as many as I thought all right Yeah, this is this is huge last week I showed you a map of of the Shifa Hospital grounds. Now, if you've ever been to Frederick in the Milwaukee area, I mean, it's a huge, massive complex. They have dozens of buildings. And basically, this is kind of the same setup, not quite as big probably. But interspersed between the buildings are buildings that are run by Hamas. So the terrorists are literally, they, live in the medical community there. Why? Because they're guaranteed that no one would be dumb enough to come in and try and blow up their buildings or go to their tunnels or take out terrorists in a hospital. Well, I guess they figured wrong. They definitely figured wrong because what happened? Well, the IDF is invading Shifa Hospital. They came in today. They're shocking of all things. There was gunfire. Well, why was there gunfire? Because the Israel Defense Force was fighting with Hamas operatives, terrorists, who were in the hospital. Shocking. So the bottom line is there's 300 miles, as we've said before, of tunnels that Hamas has built underneath the Gaza, which covers 24 miles and 300 miles of tunnels. Very intricate. Many pictures are starting to come out now as the IDF is getting in and getting pictures. If you go to the, if you look up, if you're interested, and I'm not saying it's a big thing to do, but if you're interested in seeing these things, just go to your browser, ask for Israel Defense Force, and it'll come up with IDF, and then you can go to their site, and all these things are there. The pictures are there. There's a video there of people, Israelis, who speak good English. excellent English, that's better, who speak English and they're down there, they're walking through the tunnels pointing out weapons and one of the video shows, it's a concrete wall yet there's drapery on it down in the basement. Well, what in the world was that there for? And there's a couch and whatever, what was there to stage things for doing video stuff? Like, you know, everything's great and wonderful, but that's going on. Many, many terrorists have been executed, killed, if you will, in battle here. And here's what's going to happen. Now, again, when we get into these things, there's this massive knocking of heads regarding, well, is this right? Is this the humanitarian way to do things? Is it right, is it proper? And so you have the two sides fighting. So Israel's coming in, basically the northern half of Gaza's been, I mean, it's destroyed, obliterated, and the people have been pushed out of, about a million people have been displaced and shooting down to the southern Gaza. Well, my big question has been, and I think probably many of you have been asking the same question, If you're pushing the entire populace down to the southern end, that's only 50% of Gaza. How are you going to get through the other 50%? Well, that's starting to come out now because they're at the halfway point and they're into this hospital. They're evacuating it. So the liberals are saying, well, they're shutting down the hospital and babies are going to die and patients are going to die. And I mean, just making it a gigantic humanitarian issue. Well, if you again, if you watch the things and you decide what you want to believe, but the Israel Defense Force has been basically bringing in incubators to get the babies out of there and and other hospital equipment and medical equipment to Start moving them out because they got to get through that hospital and eliminate the terrorists that are held up there So that's happening. All right. So the next big humanitarian issue that's going to come out that you'll be watching is is they want to start moving the southern people out of the southern area. Well, where are they going to go? What's the country south of Hamas or south of Gaza? Egypt. What is Egypt's position on allowing one person from Gaza into their property? No way, they're not gonna, they won't do it. They literally, they have tanks lined up on the border, and it's like not happening. Now that's pretty strict. Now they have been allowing some with medical conditions to come out and to be taken to places, but Egypt is like, no, we're not bringing those terrorists into our country. That's Egypt. They're a Muslim. And they said, no. Jordan. Has Jordan opened their doors to take them in? No, they closed their doors too. It's like nobody wants these terrorists in their country except us. I mean, I'm sorry. Yeah, in our airports and in our borders. And it's true. And it's like, well, why are we saying this? Why am I saying it? You're not saying it. You might say it, but I'm saying it. The issue being perilous and dangerous times are here. Somebody's got to come and bring common sense to the world. Did you catch what I said? Somebody has got to come and bring somehow Get the world to knock off the nonsense that's taking place and to bring this world back into a one world Order where people behave by the way, that's never gonna happen but there is a leader that's going to come on the scene that you're gonna suck the people in and and we don't know who exactly that's going to be but we know his title and the title is Antichrist Daniel 9 27 the peace treaty that the covenant when the Antichrist comes on the scene with Israel in that shocking Little teeny tiny Israel being bombarded by everybody under the Sun eventually Eventually Iran is going to rise up They are going to get their act together and they are all bringing the entire Muslim world down on Israel Where is that passage found folks? It's in Ezekiel, what chapters? 38 and 39, and it's called what war? Gog Magog War. That is going to happen, but not why I'm down here. Jim Schneider said, well, you know, some people are contemplating thinking that maybe that war's there. So what do you think about it? I said, well, it absolutely isn't happening now. It isn't happening now. It doesn't meet the prophetic scenario. But it could be setting the stage right now for that to take place after the rapture of the church, then the prophetic scenario can kick in, but not before. All right, so a little bit more, 300,000 people basically supporting the Jewish people. And of course, that's a good thing. The one question that Jim asked me, which I, I wish I could have given a different answer, but I have to give a biblical one. And he asked the question, he says, what do you see happening in the future for Israel? And my statement was, because right now, I mean, it's a huge issue. Everybody wants Israel, strike that. The conservative groups, the Christian groups are like, yeah, we want Israel to just to flourish and do great, and they're God's people, and it's wonderful. Yes, but. But here's the problem, folks, and here's why we just had Harvest Gathering Sunday. You can be the best people on earth, you can be the most beloved people on earth, but if you don't know Christ, where are you gonna end up for eternity? I mean, it just is the lake of fire. I mean, we take these things a little bit lightly. It's like, well, you know, everything's gonna be great, Israel's gonna conquer, Israel's, no, they're not. I'm telling you right now, they're not. They may have a temporary win while the church age is still in progress. While we're still here, Israel's going to survive. What's going to happen when the seven year tribulation kicks in, and we're gonna look at it in just a moment? It's not pretty. Israel is going to experience, and I've said this many a time, the worst holocaust of all times is still coming to Israel after me and you are gone. So it's like, I mean, everybody wants to feel good and have a good feeling about Israel. Well, folks, they're there in unbelief right now, the Jewish people. It's not a Christian nation. That means they rejected the Messiah. That's a problem. Ezekiel 37 said the Jewish people would come back. with, I thought somebody was waving, the Jewish people will come back into the land, but without breath. When you don't have breath, what don't you have? Life, you don't have life. So they're spiritually dead. There's no life in them. When do the Jewish people get breath? When do they finally get spiritual life? During what? Nope. What's going to happen, technically, okay, so the first three and a half years of the seven-year tribulation, the scripture is kind of blank on it. The last three and a half years, which is when Israel's gonna be attacked big time, it tells us that two-thirds of all the Jewish people are gonna die at that time. One-third will be saved. They'll be taken to a hiding place. Revelation chapter 12 talks about it. Most conservative, Guys like me believe it's probably, and probably, it's almost guaranteed based on the scenario, it's gonna be Petra where the Jewish people will be hidden, if you will, by God. You say, how do you hide people in today's day and age? If God wants to hide them, he'll hide them. Can you take me to where the Garden of Eden is today? I mean... I know some people have said where they believe it is, but you don't see it. I mean, it's hidden, if you will. So anyway, the bottom line is the Jewish people, why we're here, The tribulation isn't happening yet, so that two thirds of the Jewish people that'll be destroyed according to Zechariah 13, eight and nine, that's not happening why me and you are here, but it is going to happen after the rapture at the latter end of the tribulation period. Something to think about. All right, just a quick little recap then we'll get into the scriptures. Again, we were leaning towards, and I was leaning towards seeing multiple fronts open up. Those fronts are open, but not anywhere near like it would be if Khomeini said game on. He said game off, we're not doing it. So again, Hamas is in Gaza. Hezbollah, just for review, is located in what country? Lebanon which is just the north of Israel and I just brought to the scene about two weeks ago another group called the Houthis another terrorist group. Where do the Houthis reside? Yemen at the south end of Saudi Arabia, about 1,000 miles away from Israel. United States ships have been basically taking out rockets that are being fired by Yemen. So we have been helping the Israeli people with that issue. All right, so again, just a little recap, old slide. Down at the south, you see Yemen at the bottom of Saudi Arabia. Right up, you see the big red. sign there, which is basically Israel, but actually Israel's at the tip of the arrow. That's Israel, the little teeny tiny dot. Egypt, of course, has shut down their gates, if you will, to allowing the terrorists to come out, and even the people of Gaza, they won't let in. Lebanon is where, again, Hezbollah is. Syria, of course, has a lot of Russians involved with them. Iran is Iran. And again, as the big head of the snake there, the big guy says, nope, not doing anything. I was also asked today about Turkey, Erdogan. Erdogan the head of Turkey, what's he doing? Well, he's what we say is saber-rattling in other words. He's shaking his saber. He's threatening With all I know we're gonna rise up. We're gonna kill these he's not gonna do squat. He just didn't Because the big guy says no, but again How do you become a leader? It's politics. So Erdogan's politics, Khamenei is politics, Bashar Assad from the Palestinian Liberation Organization is politics. Everything's politics and money and power. All right, so again, Hezbollah, Hamas, Houthis, mainly though Hamas is on their own for the most part. I didn't put it in this set. As of today, I believe, Since October 7th, there have been 55 hits on United States air bases in Syria and Iraq. And we've done some retaliation strikes. Quite frankly, IDF has done more retaliatory strikes than we have. So there's basically an un... classified war that's taking place between Lebanon and northern Israel as we speak. There's a lot of activity, a lot of people dying up there militarily. They're evacuating parts of Lebanon. and we'll see what happens, but again, the head of Iran said, eh, we're not gonna come out as strong as maybe Hamas was hoping they would. All right, here's the issue, and the slide got a little bit distorted on the software, but one of the big issues that's been coming up, and I wanted to spend a little bit of time on tonight, When, and especially those of you listening to Crosstalk, you'll find a very eclectic audience. And there are many, it's just becoming a very, very strong movement among the Christian people regarding when the rapture's going to take place. And again, I'm extremely strong on the pre-tribulation rapture, and I know how to defend it. And I'm not trying to sound arrogant, even though I might, it's not my intent. I know how to defend the position, and most of our pastors, preachers, and people sitting in the pews do not know how to defend the position. They're doing it wrong, they attack it from the wrong way. This was, and quite frankly, before I took the pastorate at Union Grove Baptist here, my mission was to travel across the country and internationally and do prophecy conferences on this very issue because it's just getting distorted. The Christian community is not getting what the scriptures state when it comes to eschatology or the study of future things. So when I got called here, of course, my focus changed and prophecy focus, instead of being the forerunner, is now a sidekick, if you will, to what we do here at the church. But it's still extremely important and I'm very passionate about it. Some of the most powerful seminaries in our country right now have turned from dispensational colleges and seminaries to covenant. In other words, half of what's in eschatology or the study of the future things, they do not take literal, they allegorize and spiritualize it. Those, and again, there are probably a third of the crowd here listening to Crosstalk today, you heard the questions. One individual calls in and goes to Matthew chapter 24, and he says, well, it says Jesus appears after all the different events in Matthew 24, and then Jesus comes, that's the rapture. And I'm like, no, it's not. It is not the rapture in Matthew chapter 24. Jesus was talking to his disciples about signs of his second coming, not the rapture of the church, and it lines right up with Revelation. So there's a massive, and it is massive, misunderstanding when it comes to interpreting the scriptures. Here's the big issue. Dispensationalist, in other words, and if that's a new term to you, basically it simply means this, and here's how I always explain it. God works with different people at different times. I use the word specific. God works at specific times with specific people in specific ways to accomplish a specific task. In the Old Testament, God dealt with the Jewish people in one way. In the Gospels, we start having a transition, which then leads to what we now know as the Church Age or the Age of Grace. The Old Testament, 90% of it was under Law or Grace. And now under the church, ages of law are grace. It's grace. And unfortunately, there's so many that don't get it. Well, what's the difference between the rapture and the second coming? And of course, in a 30-minute program where only 15 or 20 minutes is questions, you can't get depthy. But the simplicity of this goes to when the rapture takes place, Jesus, does he touch down on the earth? No, and that's why we have the pictures there. The saints go up and meet Jesus where? In the air, in the clouds, 1 Thessalonians 4, 13 to 18. When the second coming happens, he comes, Jesus comes down, Revelation 19, 11 to 21, he swoops down, he wipes out everyone assembled in the Jezreel Valley, or Megiddo, and wipes out all those nations that have come up against him, Zechariah 14, one to four. Totally different scenario. Matthew 24 is not talking about signs of the rapture. There is not one single sign that must occur for the rapture to take place. There's zero. All the signs are referring to the second coming. All the signs that are given are referring to things that will happen during the seven year tribulation period. All right, so one of the questions that was asked, and actually someone who's in here right now brought this up to me in a text, and sent me the link to a program that happened a couple of days ago. And the guest speaker was basically got hammered a bit on the issue of, well, if there's no Holy Spirit, how do you expect people to get saved? So obviously the church has to be here during the tribulation period. Well, that's totally a wrong assumption based on false teaching. And so let's go and look at it. And that's why I wanted to spend some time on this because this boy, this stuff is just so prevalent, you're going to run into it. And you're going to get challenged. And I've had people come to me in our church and say, Listen, you know, man, people are coming up to me, my friends, my people I work with my relatives, and basically saying, I don't know what I'm talking about. And, you know, how do you think you're going to escape the tribulation? And, you know, you guys are just a bunch of you don't get it? Well, Okay, not true, but let's take a look at why. All right, 2 Thessalonians chapter two, let's take a look at the work of the Holy Spirit. Here's the big issue and why I wanna spend some time on it. The Apostle Paul is talking to the church at Thessalonica. The Apostle Paul spent three Sabbaths teaching in Thessalonica. Now folks, we've been teaching on this subject here for off and on for three years. He had three Sabbaths that he's telling the Thessalonians about everything dealing with Christianity, including eschatology or the study of the last things. And they got something messed up here. In other words, they thought they were in the tribulation, just like some of the folks that called in today. They didn't get it. And here's what Paul said. He's being challenged. They're like, we're under persecution. Things aren't going well. Things are going bad. And Paul says, do you not remember that when I was still with you, I told you these things? That's what I wanted to say. I mean, every time I'm in a public venue, I wanna say the same thing. How many times do we have to say this for it to sink in? Well, the problem is, is that there's so many teachers, there's so many pastors that are being improperly trained in Bible schools and seminaries, and they go to their churches and they teach these things. Well, what do you expect's gonna happen? They're gonna follow leadership. And Paul says, wait a second. How about we get it right? Remember what I told you when I first came to visit with you, verse six. And now you know what is restraining. Again, the Thessalonican Christians thought they were in the seven year tribulation. They were suffering, they're being persecuted. It was horrible. Folks, here in America, we don't get it because we're not being persecuted like other countries. Go to Nigeria, go to some of the Asian places, go to China, go to different places. They'll be happy to kill you for your faith and kill you. Here we don't face that. But they were facing it in Thessalonica. So yeah, they were like, what in the world's going on, Paul? I thought we weren't supposed to be in this mess. And he says, now you notice restraining. What do you mean restraining? That he may be revealed in his own time. Masculine pronoun. For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. In other words, things are taking place, there is lawlessness, there is corruption, there is hard times for God's people. It's already at work. Only he, and I like that they capitalized he here, only he who now restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way. All right, so here's the big issue. And here's where one of the callers that attacked the guy a couple of days ago, He's like, all right, here's the issue, sir. When the church leaves, the church is indwelt by whom? Well, the Holy Spirit. So when the church leaves, the Holy Spirit leaves with the church. That's partially true. It's not 100% true. You see, God has attributes. God is all powerful. What do we call that? omnipotent. God is all-knowing. We call that omniscience. God is everywhere. We call that omnipresence. Oh, wait a minute. So the Holy Spirit, if He indwells me in you, that means He doesn't exist outside of our bodies? Is that what we're saying? Well, that's what they're saying. In other words, when the church leaves, the Holy Spirit basically leaves and goes to heaven and he's stuck up there. It's not the way it works. The Holy Spirit is omnipresent, he's omniscient, he's immutable, never changing, and the work of the Holy Spirit does not cease when the church is taken up to heaven. It just doesn't. Now, does God allow evil on this earth? Does God, think about it, does God allow evil to take place on this earth? I mean, you better say yes, because this world is messed up. Again, 2 Corinthians 4, verse 4, who is the small g God of this world? Satan. If God was not allowing Satan to do what he's doing, How come we're so messed up? How come only 4% of the world is following a biblical worldview? How come there's a war in Gaza right now and Ukraine and other places around the world? Wait a minute, is God the author of sin? No, no. Boy, that was a big controversy back in the early centuries about this. Is God the author of sin? Of course not. He didn't, God didn't bring sin into the world. Disobedience by the angelic world and then subsequently the human world, that was free will. We chose to be against him, but God did not author sin. All right, so what's the issue here? The mystery of lawlessness, verse seven, is already at work, only he, the Holy Spirit, who now restrains, will do so until he is taken out of the way. And of course, the dominant opinion is that'll take place at the rapture. And then the lawless one will be revealed, speaking of the Antichrist, whom the Lord will consume with breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming. How long is it going to take before that happens? Seven years, right? Daniel 9.27, seven year period, and it's gone through in multiple places. We'll just leave it at that for now. All right, so let's take a look now in the 15, 20 minutes we have left here. Let's take a look at the Holy Spirit, past, present, and prophetic, and all of a sudden all this starts to make sense. In other words, why do we have the problem? Why do we have the split, if you will, among God's people? It's like everybody thinks they're right, but we got to go to the scripture to determine what is right. So in other words, you don't have to believe a word I say. My encouragement is don't believe this because I'm saying it. And don't believe the other side because one of their top seminary professors is saying it. How about let's go to the word of God, you determine Is what's being said right or wrong? Does the scripture speak for itself? All right? So, 2 Timothy 2.15, study to show yourselves approved unto God, workmen, workwomen, that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly handling, rightly dividing the word of truth. Is that my responsibility, your responsibility, or all our responsibility? I have the privilege of sitting up here and being able to speak to you and share what I strongly believe is God's Word from the right biblical perspective, but you've got to make the decision. The same thing that took place Sunday morning, last Sunday morning, and every other time we give the gospel here, which is every time I talk, but do I make the decision for people to trust Christ in here? No, they gotta make that decision. It's the same with every other God-fearing Christian. You've got to decide what you're going to believe. I simply give, again, what I believe is the right biblical perspective, but I'm not saying you gotta do this or you're not right. I'm not saying that. You figure it out. All right, let's start and see what the Bible says. Numbers 27, 18. Is Numbers New Testament or Old Testament? Is it under the law or under grace? Law, Numbers 27, 18. The Lord said to Moses, take Joshua the son of Nun with you, a man in whom is the spirit, and lay your hand on him. Well, wait a minute. Why is he pointing out that this particular person has the spirit? Stay with me. Judges chapter three, verse 10. The spirit of the Lord did what? We're talking about the judges in Israel, and he judged Israel. He went out to war, and the Lord delivered Cushan Rishathayim, king of Mesopotamia, into his hand, and his hand prevailed again over Cushan Rishathayim. What's he saying here? The Spirit of the Lord came upon him. Wait a minute. Spirit of the Lord came upon him, the Spirit was in him. Keep those in mind. Now we get a little more technical. 1 Samuel 16, 14, Old Testament or New. But the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul. What do you mean the Spirit of the Lord departs? I thought we'd been saying in the Christian circle, once saved, always saved. If you have the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit never leaves. You're sealed by the Holy Spirit. And you know what, you're absolutely right. Not in the Old Testament times. Before Jesus Christ came and the Holy Spirit baptized or placed you, baptism meaning to be placed into, we're not talking about water baptism, but spirit baptism, you were placed into the body of Christ. Old Testament saints did not have that same benefit that we have. The spirit of the Lord departed from Saul and a distressing spirit from the Lord troubled him. Now what's a distressing spirit? Was he depressed or were we talking about a real spirit here? We're talking about demon oppression right here, potentially possession. The spirit departed from him. Let's keep going. How about Psalm 51? David had done horribly wrong. He committed adultery with Bathsheba. They had an illegitimate child. David knew he had done wrong. He had sinned horribly against the Lord. And of course, there was a tremendous punishment based on that and that the Lord took their child from him and Bathsheba. But now David is coming and he's basically, he wants to be right with the Lord. Now listen to what David is saying. Now, wait a second. Is this the words of David, or, it's not meant to be a trick question, but it kinda is. When David is praying this, is this simply David's personal thoughts, or are they God's thoughts? Think about it. When we're reading scripture, whose thoughts are they? It comes from God. Every word is God-breathed, 2 Timothy 3.16. So God will make it very clear contextually if somebody is thinking wrong or right. This is right. Listen to what David says. Purge me, God, with hyssop, and I shall be clean. Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Do you think that's true? I guarantee it's true. Make me hear joy and gladness that the bones you have broken may rejoice. Now you talk about a guy who's got a repentant spirit here. I mean, he is, were his bones literally broken? I don't think so. His spirit, his heart, his, I mean, he's just devastated by the unfortunate choices he made. Verse nine. God, would you please, would you hide your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquities? And he's begging God, I messed up. Would you please, I mean, in our vernacular, he's basically saying, would you forgive me? Would you wipe my slate clean? Verse 10, and these are some of the favorite verses we like to quote. Created me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Now he's not talking about the Holy Spirit yet. He's like, I messed up. I need to be cleansed. I need my life to get right with you. I need to restore my relationship. Verse 11. Do not cast me away from your presence. And here's the operative statement. And do not take your what? Don't take the Holy Spirit from me. Well, David obviously didn't know his theology because you can't take the Holy Spirit from someone. No, David knew his theology and he knew it right well. And David Fullwell knew during the Old Testament times that God at times the Spirit would come upon people just like Saul, and the Spirit would also be taken from people. So, you say, well, wait a minute, I never heard that before. I just read it, so if you read the Old Testament, you heard it before. But anyway, if you're simply reading the New Testament, no, you wouldn't hear it because it's totally different in the New than it was in the Old. Verse 11, do not cast me away from your presence and do not take your Holy Spirit from me. Was the Holy Spirit confined to David's body? Is the Holy Spirit confined to our body? Trick question. Yes and no. The Holy Spirit indwells every believer, but is that, is he simply indwelling our bodies or is he, I mean, this pulls to that as well. Verse 12, what happens when you have the Holy Spirit? Restore to me the joy of your salvation and uphold me by your generous spirit. That's good stuff, that's good preaching. When you're right with God, the Holy Spirit's there and empowering you. Not went the same in the Old Testament as it is in the New. 1 Corinthians chapter three. Now, I left out one verse. Take your Bibles, go there again. 1 Corinthians chapter 12, verse 13, operative, operative verse. And also misunderstood, and especially by some of my Baptist friends. When every time we see the word baptism in the Bible, lots of folks say, well, there's only one baptism and it's water baptism. Not true. There are several baptisms in the scriptures. 1 Corinthians 12, 13, and it defines it. Let's go to verse 12. 1 Corinthians 12, 12. And this is not new to most of you, but if some that are newer to the church, it may be. For as the body is one, what body are we talking about? I mean, we're talking about the body of Christ, and of course, we're talking about, he's comparing it to a physical body. In other words, this is my body. It belongs to me. It's not part here, part there, or part there, unless I get blown up, then that could happen. But a normal body, it's one autonomous body. For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body being many are one body, so also is Christ. For by one spirit, take a look at the word there. By one what? Spirit. Not by one pastor, not by one deacon, not by one priest, not by John the Baptist. It doesn't say that. It says by one what? By one spirit, in other words, the Holy Spirit, we were all placed into, baptized into, immersed into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and have all been made to drink into one spirit, for in fact, the body is not one member, but many. All right, this is the simplicity of this. The moment you play, and we're gonna go to a few other verses here to back this up. The moment you place your faith and trust in Christ, bam, you're immediately placed into, immersed into the body of Christ by the Holy Spirit. In other words, the folks that were, when Dr. Tillotson was looking around and says, look at me if basically you wanna come to Christ or need some more understanding, and the people looked at him. Multiple people looked at him. And if those people that second understood the gospel and received it by faith, at that second, the Holy Spirit came to dwell within them. That's what this verse is saying. It's the same thing, when you place your faith and trust in Christ, trusting that you're a Christian, the second you place your faith in Christ, the Holy Spirit comes to dwell within you. All right, let's go up to the screen then, which I left out 12, 13, but here we know it. 1 Corinthians 3.16, during the church age, do you not know, Christian, that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? I mean, it just does. It's not, oh, please don't take your Holy Spirit from me. I messed up, Lord, so please don't take the Holy Spirit from me. No, God has a different way of dealing with us today. Ephesians 4.30 spells it out. Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God by whom you were what? Sealed for the day of redemption. The Holy Spirit doesn't come and go in the church age. The Holy Spirit indwells every believer and seals you. In other words, we talk about the concept of eternal security. People ask all the time and get confused. It's like, well, if I sin, do I lose my salvation? Do I have to get saved again? The answer is no. It's a one-time event. Behold, now is the accepted time. Behold, today is the day of salvation. The moment you place your faith and trust in Christ, bam, it is done. However, what happens if you sin? What happens if you do wrong? That's the sign I always like to compare because it's a valid comparison because God compare, why did God form the family? Why do we have males and females that get married and have children? It represents God's love for us. God is our what? He's our father. And God's talking about that relationship. So if my child disobeys me, disrespects me, does something horrible, am I gonna be happy about it? No, they're going to do what? They will grieve you as a parent. Does that mean you disown them as a child? I know some people try to do that, but it's, I mean, from God's perspective, you can't. They're your child. That doesn't change. You can't change by definition who mom and dad are. One dad, one mom, one child. I mean, you can't have another dad. Now, of course, he can be adopted and all these other things, but no, you still have one birth dad. You still have one birth mom. And getting away from going into the ad infinitum, God's making it clear. When you place your faith and trust in Christ, you become part of what? His body. You're there and you're sealed. In other words, inside you may be fighting like crazy trying to cause God all sorts of grief, but he's got you and he's not letting go. All right. Does that make sense? So here's the issue. So when the church is raptured at beginning before the tribulation takes place, it's a very false assumption to say, well, seeing the church has been raptured that the Holy Spirit now can't function. That's ridiculous, it's not true. God will continue to function. He's not stuck in our bodies. He's in there, but he's a whole lot of other places too. So it just goes back to the Old Testament concept where once again, God will be doing his work just like he did before the church age. Again, the church age is an interlude. It's a parenthetical time between the Jewish calendar. It stopped at Daniel 9, 26, when the Christ was crucified and the second temple was destroyed. The calendar picks back up after the rapture with what event? Daniel 9, 27, then he, the antichrist, shall confirm a covenant with the many, the Jewish people, for the one week, which is the heptad, or seven years. We're in the middle. We don't belong in the Jewish calendar. You know how hard that is for people to accept? I mean, it's like everything belongs to me. Well, where do we get that idea from? Devil. I guess that's a good answer. Folks, we want everything. And that's what covenant theology is. Everything belongs to me. I'm a church. therefore I get everything." Well, I hate to tell you folks, yes, we do get a whole lot. And yes, the rapture will take us to heaven, which I thought is a pretty good deal. How many of you want to exist through the seven year tribulation period and get your head chopped off for being a believer? Yet the covenant theology, that apparently is the going thing. You know, it's like, do you understand what you're saying here? I mean, it's just ludicrous that when you think about the ramifications of bringing the church through the tribulation time, it just makes no sense. All right, let's go to the last few minutes here. I wanna take you to one other passage, and this came up multiple times on Crosstalk. It came up on this other program a couple of days ago. The Olivet Discourse, and I wrote a book on it. I wrote a commentary on the Olivet Discourse, Jesus' powerful prophetic preaching. I call it Tribulation to Triumph. Three major key passages in the Gospels, record what Jesus' words were. Matthew 24 and 25, which is the most extensive part of the Olivet Discourse, Luke chapter 21, which is what I put on the screen, and Mark chapter 13. Luke is fairly robust on it, Mark 13 is a little bit less, so it's the Matthew section, the Luke section, and Mark in that order as far as the depth of it. All right, very quickly, Luke 21, eight, and he said, Jesus said, take heed that you not be deceived, for many will come in my name saying, I am he, the time is drawn near, therefore do not go after them. In other words, during the beginning of the tribulation, great deception, where people are going to be trying to get people to follow them. But when you hear of wars and commotions, do not be terrified, for these things must come to pass first, but the end will not come immediately. So of course, it's like people are saying, well, there's wars going on, there's war in Hamas, there's war in Ukraine. How about back when the first world war, the second world war? I mean, those were a whole lot bigger than what's taking place right now, but that was not what this is talking about. This is going to be taking place after the rapture, looking towards the second coming of Christ. And that's the thing, again, the church, so many people want everything to belong to us. Not everything belongs to the church age. Then Jesus said to them, nation will rise against nation, kingdom against kingdom. There will be great earthquakes. Who just had 800 earthquakes today? What country? What was it? Iceland. Iceland. 1,400 earthquakes before today, 800 earthquakes in Iceland today. The main streets are buckling under. They think the whole Iceland is potentially going to have a giant volcano go off. Just interesting. Is that the tribulation? look at the earthquakes that are going to take place in Revelation chapter 6 and other places the whole world is going to be shaking, I mean literally. These are nothing compared to what this is talking about. Nation will rise against nation, kingdom against kingdom, there will be great earthquakes in various places, famines and pestilences to the point where people are going to be starving to death all over the world, Revelation chapter 6. Look at the judgments there. One fourth of the world's population will die from these things during the first part of the tribulation period, not happening today. And there will be fearful sights and great signs from heaven. But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and persecute you. Well, folks, Christians have been killed, persecuted, slaughtered, martyred for the last 2,000 years. Look at the disciples and the apostles, martyred, persecuted, killed. So it's like, well, the tribulation must have started 2,000 years ago. No. This is talking about what's going to take place in Revelation chapter 13. when a massive amount of evangelism is going to be taking place, and everyone that's coming to Christ, unless they're able to go underground, they're gonna be martyred for their faith. That's what's coming, we're not there yet. You will be brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake, but it will turn out for you as an occasion for testimony. Therefore, settle it in your hearts not to meditate beforehand on what you will answer. In other words, he's saying you're gonna get arrested during that time. It's just almost inevitable. For I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to contradict or resist. You'll be betrayed even by parents and brothers, relatives and friends, and they will put some of you to death. Folks, when the tribulation comes, and some of you today, you say, well, my loved one doesn't believe, and we have fights, and they get mad, and we sit around the Thanksgiving table, and I start talking about Christ, and they say, would you shut up? That's the last thing I wanna hear about. And all of a sudden, it turns into a near fisticuff at the table, and you start, somebody gets up, gets mad, and walks out. Folks, it happens all the time, and it's unfortunate. By the way, speak the truth in. Don't have a fight. Don't get excited. Don't blow a gasket. Take your time. Be kind. Be courteous if they're not ready. Enjoy the dinner, right? That's what'll happen during the trip, though. People will be betraying one another. Why? They'll be so demonically oppressed. The believers will be trying to do right. They won't be able to hide. They're gonna die. You'll be hated by all for my name's sake, but not a hair of your head shall be lost by your patience. Possess your souls, but here it is now. Catch this and we'll stop with this. But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation is near. In other words, during the tribulation period, During the abomination of desolation, Matthew chapter 24 again, verse 15, The Antichrist comes in, sets up a false image to the Antichrist. The beast sets it up to the Antichrist, also talked about in Revelation 13. He puts that image into the temple, and that's when God tells the people, verse 21, then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, let those who are in the midst of her depart, and let not those who are in the country enter her. What's he saying? This is when that uh, Zechariah 13 8 9 are going to kick in and two-thirds of the jewish people are going to be destroyed in the worst holocaust of all times which is yet to come Timeline we're done Right now we're in the Church Age. The next major event on God's prophetic calendar is the removal or rapture or snatching away or catching up of the Church Age saints into the air. Jesus does not come to this earth. We meet him in the air. Next, the Antichrist comes on the scene, confirms a peace treaty with the Jewish people for seven days. In the midst of that peace treaty, or after three and a half years, Daniel 9.27 says the Antichrist breaks his peace treaty with the Jewish people. That's when all this starts to kick in. Jerusalem will be surrounded. The abomination of desolation will take place. The Jews are told to flee as fast as they can to a place that God will protect them. One third of the Jewish people, Zechariah 13, eight and nine, will flee and all likelihood will be bound up in Petra for the last three and a half years. The other two thirds of the Jewish people will perish. They will die. Folks, that's what's coming. We're not there yet. And I thank God we're not there yet. Here's the answer. When you read the scriptures, instead of doing like the covenant theologians doing, instead of doing like, unfortunately, over 50% of the church is doing across the country and across the world today, we do not spiritualize or allegorize what God says, what God says he meant. And we call that the literal interpretation of scripture. So God meant what he said, he said what he meant, and it's there. Is it a pretty picture? No, it's not. It's a pretty picture for me and you because what's the next major event? We go up to live forever with Jesus and we'll come back and rule and reign with him. That's pretty good. But for those who reject Jesus Christ, it's a horrible, horrible ending. The Bible says we've all sinned and it comes short of the glory of God, Romans 3.23. And because we've sinned, if we got what we deserved, every single one of us would spend eternity in an awful place called the Lake of Fire, Revelation 21.8. Jesus Christ God's Son came down from heaven Died on the cross for our sins was buried in three days later rose from the dead to prove he was God And he made this promise to any single person listening right now And he said, for by grace, God's free unmerited gift are you safe, safe from sin, safe from the penalty of sin. For by grace are you safe through faith. It's not of yourselves, it's the gift of God. None of our works lest any person should boast. If you've never placed your faith in Jesus, you've never received the free gift of eternal life, boy, would you do it tonight? Would you accept it? Those watching on the internet, maybe even in the room tonight, if you've never placed your faith and trust in Jesus, how about accepting