Good morning. Turn to Isaiah 14. What we are kind of doing is we're kind of winding down this course of study. There may be things that come out in the future and we might take a Sunday and say, hey, I found a few more things on this. I'd like to lay it out. We might do that. But we've laid a good foundation in the Word of God starting out with those prepositions of in and at. And the difference between those two, at being a definite point, and in being a more general thing, not quite as easily defined. And we looked at how that in the end of the world is at least 2,000 years, because Christ was manifested to take away sins. And so then we looked at in the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth, and that time period before Genesis 1-2, is that in? And it's in that beginning. We don't know how long that was. We don't have any kind of indication as to how long that could have been. But what we do have and have seen throughout these last few, I think five now, this is the sixth that I've uploaded to the Sermon Audio thing, We've seen that there's a lot that takes place in that time period, before Genesis. And so, a lot that you can't fit, really, anywhere else. But there's certain key words that really connect those things together, and we've seen a lot of that. We looked through Ezekiel 28 and Isaiah 14 at some length, dealing with Satan falling and the fall of Lucifer and all of that. So now we're just kind of closing this thing out, and we're going back through those verses that we examined at the start, all of those dealing with the heavens. Again, that phrase, the heavens, is used 133 times in the King James Bible, and I really only have highlighted here maybe 15 or 20 that we've kind of gone through. There are some that really apply quite well to looking at that new heavens and a new earth and ultimately that's where we're going to end up because that's really where this whole study began, you know, was the idea, okay, we're going to look at that new heavens and new earth. And we just laid a lot of foundation. And so going back over these verses, it's kind of been enlightening seeing, okay, that makes a little more sense now. We're seeing just a little bit broader of the picture. I thank the Lord because the Holy Ghost has just seemed fit to take and turn up the oil in that lamp a little bit more. And we're just able to see the word of God a little bit brighter. A little clarity on some places that have been tough. So, but Isaiah 14. We'll look right at verse 12. It says this, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God. I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation in the sides of the north. I will ascend above the heights of the clouds. I will be like the Most High." And so looking at those things, and honestly, we looked at those things out of Job 26 and Job 22, dealing with the clouds and holding back that sea of glass and all of those things that we examined. I think it was two weeks ago we looked at those things. And, you know, when you see all of that, it kind of brings into a different perspective passages like this. Even so much as to see the mount of the congregation in the sides of the north. And, you know, the light that God gave us there, I think that might have been last week, or maybe that one was two weeks ago too, seeing that Mount Zion. Okay? So when you're seeing those things, there is that earthly Mount Zion, but there's also that heavenly Mount. And that's what is spoken of here. And so when you think of the throne of God, when you think of heaven, when you think of all of that, you don't just picture just a bunch of clouds and a bright throne sitting on it, and it's just a flat plain. No, there's a mountain up there. It is the Mount of God. It's a mountain of God. And you think of those streams that are flowing from the presence of God, they're cascading down that mountain. And things like that, it just gives you a little more clarity. It helps you to picture all of that a little bit more. And I'm telling you, any more that you can see deeper into the Word of God like this, the better you're gonna understand it, okay? And honestly, this study that we've done, it seems to me like it was God had cracked open that door, and I don't believe He shut it. He's left the door open for us, okay? Think of it as such. So let all of these things that we've been studying out and just the different phrases and the different words that God has used to tie all of these scriptures together, keep your eyes open as you're doing your own study, as you're sitting and preaching, whether it be my preaching or Brother Dale's preaching, Brother Mike's preaching, or we go to special meetings and there's somebody else preaching. Keep those things at the forefront of your mind. Leave that door cracked open as long as God leaves that thing open. and let these things be a foundation for what God might show you later on. There might be something even in our spring meetings coming up that God brings out, and there might be a verse that we've gone over that God gave you a little clarity on, and you think, well, I don't know why He showed me that, but okay, I've got that now, I understand that. Something's gonna be preached, maybe, preached in May, that will even just gloss over one of those verses, and it'll hammer home a truth that you never saw before, it'll open up a door in your heart that you never saw before. For those of you who are lost here listening to this stuff, that might be the final thing. That final door of unbelief, and God might use that and turn that key open, and bam, there you are, chained against the dungeon of your own heart. And those chains fall off. And as I diffuse a quickening ray, you wake and you follow them out. And all those things take place. And so, you know, don't toss this stuff aside and just say, okay, wow, that was a really cool study. There's more there, okay? And so just take hold of those things. But the reason why I wanted to start here is because in Matthew, you don't have to turn here, I'm just gonna read it to you. Matthew 24, 35 says, heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. Specifically says heaven and earth. they're going to pass away. We saw these other places where they're going to be rolled back like a scroll and you know all of this is going to take place and when you take into consideration what the universe is laid out as, as what we've studied out and seen how there is the first heaven over our atmosphere, and then the second heaven of space, what we call the universe, and then that third heaven being the throne of God, and that there is the waters above the heavens, and all of those things. And so there is that sea of glass above our universe, and bringing in the spiritual realm into the physical realm, it's a difficult thing, but it's not impossible. Okay? And honestly, any time that we open up the Word of God and preach, that is exactly what we're doing. We're bringing the spiritual realm into the physical. This is eternal, right here, the things that we're reading. And we have just opened up, and I prayed it again this morning, we opened up a portal into the eternal realm. We are seeing, in our mortality, things that are immortal. Right? And so, when we consider all of these things and all of that, that heaven and earth shall pass away. When that happens, it's going to be rolled back as a scroll. It's going to go back to that point of being that there would be the heaven, and then there's the earth. It's the throne of God, and then the earth. No longer the separation of the black vastness of space that the stars are gonna fall. I mean, the whole thing is gonna be different, it's gonna change. The light of God himself is gonna be the light thereof in that city. And it's gonna be no more need for the sun, no more need for the moon to shed their light, okay? And so those things are gonna, it's gonna change. Just as there was a great change after, we're here in the beginning, okay, where the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the earth, and God said, let there be light, and there was light. There was that fixed light that was allowed to come in upon that darkness. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters, okay? And there was that great turmoil after the fall of Satan. And when we think of that fall, I've been meditating on this because the question was brought up as we were going through some of these things. I do believe it was a physical fall because he says, I've got it jotted down right here in Luke 10, 18, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. Okay? And so it was a physical fall. It was an actual fall where he fell. He came and came down and it was a casting down of that thing. But what we also see, he was at a higher place. He was at a higher position and he fell from that. Okay, so it is twofold there, all right? I do believe that both those things fit, okay? And you're able to take that and take all of that and build that doctrine there and be able to get an understanding. Okay, there was a great fall that took place and it was more than physical, right? He fell from a higher plane. And so keeping all those things in mind, that those things are gonna pass away. Go to Job 15, I wanna touch on this again. And then I guess we kind of push forward from here. Job 15 and verse 15 in particular. 14, 15, and 16 tie together, but verse 15 is really what we want to focus on just because of what it says here. Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints, yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight. Okay, so when God looks down upon the heavens, he looks on something that is unclean. That's why it says that he humbles himself to behold the things in heaven and the things on earth. And so it is a humbling thing for God to behold the heavens. It is a humbling thing for him to behold the things on earth, let alone the sons of men who are unclean. Just keep that in mind, that God has to humble himself to look upon you. The next time you ask him, look upon me. And when do you ask that? When you say, God, would you help me in this? You're saying to look upon. Mary said, you know, look upon my handmaid and all of that, right? And so when you're considering all of that, that God has to humble himself, the heavens are not clean. And the question is asked, why? All right, is it just because Adam sinned and the creation was cursed? Well, the earth was cursed, okay? Things were set out of course at the fall of Satan though. Let me pose this question to you. When did sin first enter the realm of creation that we see and know and everything today? When was that? Was it in Genesis 3? Well, wasn't that with Satan? Now, you're talking about the heavens. Now, it mainly came to mind was the other, not just Satan, but the other fallen angels. And tying in those things of the connection between the sons of God and stars and Satan and the angels and all of that that we've studied out too. One second, John. We'll finish this thought out and then I'll call on you. And, you know, those things are absolutely, they pertain to it. Because, you know, a third of those angels fell with him. Right? And so when you consider all of that, and he looks upon the heavens, they're not clean in his sight. It's because Satan was in the heavens when he fell, when he said. Right. Yeah, well, and there's so many times where it's connected in the Word of God with angels and stars. In fact, even in, what is it, Revelation 19, 17, it talks about, and I'll turn to it, I'll just read it to you, and this solidifies it in my heart more than anything else. This was it. You think, I don't know, maybe it's just figurative. I don't know, but look at Revelation 19, verse 17. that for opening statement, and I saw an angel standing in the sun. Right there it is. The sun is a star and there's an angel standing in it. Okay? And so I don't believe that those stars are angels, but his angels are ministers, right? And they are a flaming fire. Okay? So it's, there's that connection. And I'm still, it's like, I can see it. I can see men as trees walking, and that's about it. I've got the form of it, but I don't have the pure clarity to be able to say, this is what it is. But that right there solidifies it, that there is absolutely a connection there. All right? Plus all the other places that we've examined. Now, John, you had? I cannot rule out that it's not speaking of all three. I can't rule that out. Because where was Satan when he fell? He was in the very presence of God. He can still go to and fro before God, as God calls him to come, all right? The angels of God, the sons of God, came and presented themselves before God in Job, right? In chapter one, and then again in chapter two. And so as those things took place, they came, And the unclean angels were there too. And when something unclean touches something clean, that clean thing becomes unclean. That's according to the law. And so when it says heavens, I can't say that heaven that we think of as heaven is a completely clean place at this point. Satan was there, exactly, exactly, and he can still go there until you get into Revelation where he is cast down, and he's no longer able to go. Right. And then you even go into when we were in Genesis chapter 1, and when God made that firmament and separated the waters from below the firmament and the waters above the firmament. And even, man, we were looking at that last week where he gave forth his voice and commanded those waters and they fled. Okay, that's the same thing. That's the only thing, that's the only act in creation in Genesis that he didn't say was good. because the prince of the power of the air. Yeah. Now, I have a question because I'm not sure also on the third heaven or the throne of God, you know, look at it as heaven. There's a temple up there. Yep. They're sacrificing. Is there it most holy place? Yeah. Yep. What is it? The unfilled there? I mean, the filthiness there? I'm not totally sure how I want to answer this question. Think about Hebrews 9. where those things that were done on earth in the tabernacle were patterns of the true, right? The tabernacle in heaven and all of that stuff in heaven, and the things on earth were purged with the blood of goats and of calves and sheep and all of that. How much more shall the heavenly things themselves be purified with that? Oh, hey, I've got it. Hebrews 9.23, I've got it printed out right here. It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these." So that tabernacle, that temple, and all of that, wherein that was unclean, was made clean by the blood of Jesus Christ. But that does not single out No, that's that heavenly tabernacle that's there. We have the pattern of that given in Exodus. We have the pattern of that shown throughout Leviticus and into Deuteronomy. We've got that pattern of that tabernacle shown, but the true tabernacle itself was going to be purified with the blood of Jesus Christ. The heavens themselves are going to pass away. And he's going to purge them with fire this time. They're going to burn up with a fervent heat and a great noise. I can't say that it's not all three Consider this too if I make my bed in hell behold thou art there If I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there." Hell is an unclean place, but God's there. Well, this unpacks a lot of things that you have to know before God, because we're dealing also with a millennial kingdom and lost people coming into it. And so... Yeah, and that's where those things moving forward from this study, This is going to be a good foundation moving forward into looking at that millennial kingdom and those things, those ones that'll survive through the tribulation and all. Yep, so that's good. So those things I really wanted to point out, you know, Ezekiel 28 lays it out that he was there in the garden, he was in the Eden of God and all of that, and he walked up and down the midst of the stones of fire and all of those things. Because of all of that, those things are unclean, and they need to be purged. They need to be purified. Those things were purified by the blood of Christ, but they need to be purged with fire. Fire is a purging thing. You go to Isaiah 6, and you see where the angel of the Lord takes the coals with tongs off the altar. and touches the lips of Isaiah, and this has purged thine iniquity, it says, and thy sin is purged. And also in Zechariah chapter three, yeah, Zechariah three, it's where Joshua, the high priest, is standing before the angel of the Lord. And again, Satan is at his right hand to resist him. And of course, we've studied that out. We know that's Jesus. It's that picture of Jesus there being consecrated to be our high priest so that he can enter into the holy place with his blood. And all of those things that we've studied out in the past, connecting it with Zechariah 6. But when that fire was placed upon him, that sin was purged. It takes fire to burn away sins. It just does. That's why every lamb that was offered, that was a burnt offering, was not completed. It was not an offering until it was an offering made by fire. Has to be there that fire has to be there the blood and that does not take away anything from the blood whatsoever It cannot because you go to Hebrews 13 20 and it shows that he was The God of peace who raised again our Lord Jesus from the dead that great shepherd of the sheep through the blood of the everlasting covenant. So it was through the blood of the everlasting covenant that Jesus was able to be raised from the dead again. He set him forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood. God set him forth, and I think that's in Romans 3, And it shows that he, think verse 26, where he set him forth to be that propitiation, and he did it because God himself had faith in the blood of Jesus Christ, that it was going to be sufficient to be able to raise his son from the dead. Right? And so, you know, all of those things still come into play, and that does not remove anything from the blood. But that sacrifice has to be burned. It has to be burned. There is a purging that takes place in fire. There is a refining that takes place in fire. And, you know, tying all those things together, you can see that. Let's go to Hebrews chapter 11 now. I'm just going to press on from this. That Holy Mount, yep. And that's where he said that Lucifer said that he was going to raise up and he was going to set his throne above the stars of God. Again. Here's God. Here's the angels. Here's men. Lucifer is an angel. He said he was going to set his throne above them. Right and he can only come at his bidding I believe and now when when you also look at this thing to The thick darkness when you study thick darkness and and thick clouds and all of that you see that even in in Oh God leading Israel out of Egypt And he put that thick cloud, that darkness between Israel and Egypt. And Israel had all sorts of light, but the Egyptians that were chasing after him couldn't see. It was because it was a cloud of thick darkness shielding it, okay? We see that same cloud here, okay? Shielding us being able to see into that third heaven. Honestly, we wouldn't be able to handle it, right? To be able to see that In our mortality, we would not be able to handle it. What you see is Paul, and even in John's case, he was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and Paul in the same thing, he was caught up in the Spirit. And his spirit was brought up into the heavens, and he was brought up into the past, the second heaven, and into the third heaven, into the very throne of God. And he saw those things, and he saw things which were not able to be uttered. John saw things that he was told, don't write this. And again, I'm waiting for the Lord to give me the green light on it, because I've got a message out of that about the things which cannot be uttered. And I'm just waiting. And when it comes, we'll get it. But beyond that, okay. Yes, very good. Hebrews chapter 11. No, no, there's a part in the law that points to it. There's something in the law that points to something not being spoken. And Jesus has to fulfill the whole thing. Okay. Not yet. We know it. These things I have not seen, nor ear heard, nor entered into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him. Why? Because He set the world in their heart so that they would not know the end from the beginning. Okay? But God hath revealed them unto us by His Spirit. And so there are things, there's the deep things of God, because the Spirit of God, no man knoweth the Spirit, but the Spirit of man himself, and no man knows the Spirit of God save for the Spirit of God, and the deep things of God are with God, and all of that. And so these things that we call deep, it's not deep for God. You understand that. So as He takes and we're in the Spirit and He opens those things and opens that understanding, He reveals them to us by His Spirit. But that's why flesh and blood can't reveal this stuff. Right? It's got to be the Spirit of God revealing these things. And you may receive my words and you may hear my words and say, oh yeah, that makes an awful lot of sense. But you know the difference. If you've ever experienced it, you know the difference between a man teaching you something and you say, wow, that's really cool. God in his spirit teaching you something and it's just an absolute revelation and it's just wow okay and I'm not afraid of that word revelation I'm really not sure yeah but these things are here for our admonitions and knowledge he does Of course he does. Yeah, he does. Yep. Yeah, all things have been delivered to the Son. Yep, that's right. All right, Hebrews 11, look at verse 9. Well, I'm in chapter 12. I need to be in chapter 11. All right, Hebrews 11, 9. And we're moving on into the study looking at that new heavens and new earth. By faith he sojourned in the land of promises, this is Abraham, as in a strange country dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise. Now it's interesting. This says that Isaac and Jacob were dwelling with Abraham while he was sojourning. You see that? They were there with him. Do you know why? Because God saw them in the loins of Abraham. It's the same way that Levi paid tithes in Abraham to Melchizedek. Why? Because generations, three, four generations before there was Levi, Abraham paid tithes to Melchizedek. And God looked down through the loins of Abraham through the generations that were gonna come through the loins of Abraham and looked upon Levi and said, that counts for that generation. This is the ability of God to look down through the generations, and this is wherein he can say, with being absolutely justified in it, visiting the iniquity upon the fathers to the third and fourth generation of them that hate me, showing mercy unto thousands of them which love me and keep my commandments. He looks generationally down through. You're great. It should should the Lord Terry and not not come and and you know this thing continue on for another 500 years He's he's looking down through your loins here this morning and he's looking through the generations that are gonna come from your loins and he is seeing your grandchildren your great-grandchildren your great-great-grandchildren your great-great-great-grandchildren and the prayers that you have, that you're praying, God, would you move? God, would you do it? He might do it four generations from now because of your prayers. I just can't help but wonder of the people that worked in this box factory that was up here in the hollow, and the people that rode this trolley that gave this Coons Crossing, you know, stopped right there at the Coon Farm, okay, that gave the road its name. How many men of God rode on that thing? maybe even a Methodist circuit rider, rode through here, looked over at this spot of land here in this exact place and said, God, would you do a work there? 200 years ago, 100 years ago. Those things are nothing for God, but it's beyond what we would think in our common day, everyday thought life. No. The prayers of the saints are kept, okay? It doesn't say in a jar. I only say that only because I don't want people to go looking for a jar and then not find a jar. He kept the prayers of Jesus, or the tears of Jesus, in a bottle. It's not our tears he keeps in a bottle. He keeps the tears of his son. It's a messianic psalm that's spoken of, and that keeps my tears in a bottle and all of that. He cares about your tears. He sees them, but he doesn't keep them. But the tears of his son, those cries that he made, they're very precious to him, and he kept those. When you look at our prayers, they are going to be offered up as incense. So they are kept in store for that day. I don't think it specifically says any type of container, but he keeps them, right? Maybe he just keeps them in his heart. I don't know. I can't say. I haven't studied that out fully, but I know just that much of it. But those are those things, you know, looking generationally down through, and we see that same thing here in verse nine, that by faith he sojourned in the land of promise as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob. He dwelt in those tabernacles with them. Okay? Now, continuing on, the heirs with him of the same promise. For he, it doesn't say they, He, we're talking about Abraham, okay? If this was just referring, and I've heard it preached this way, and I'm not criticizing it, I've probably preached it this way too, that Abraham was looking, and he dwelt in Tabernacles, and so then Jacob dwelt in Tabernacles, Isaac dwelt in Tabernacles, and then so Jacob dwelt in Tabernacles. That next verse would say, for they looked for a city, but we're still talking about Abraham. And Isaac and Jacob dwelt with Abraham in tabernacles. And so God looked at Abraham, but he saw the line. He saw every single Jew that there is today alive. And so, continue on down. For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God. He was looking for a city. He was looking for that new Jerusalem, that heavenly Jerusalem. He was looking for that. He dwelt in tabernacles. Isaac and Jacob dwelt in tabernacles with him, but he was looking for a city that hath foundations, plural. Those foundations are those apostles. You see that in Revelation. Right? Where there's those 12 foundations and on them are those 12 names of those apostles and such. And all of that takes place. And then, it's very interesting when you start studying that out even further, there's actually 14 different people who are called apostles in the Bible. Yeah. And so, Maybe we'll get into that later, but we don't have time for it today. All right. Verse 11. We'll look at verse 11 quick. I think that's where I want to be, too. Oh, no. You know what? We needed to stop there at verse 10. Let's move on, then. We've got a couple more minutes here. Look at verse 13, as long as we're right here still. Yeah, verse 13. These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off. Now, where were they when they died? The Bible just told you. They were in faith. Okay? We read over these things and we gloss over them and we think, okay, they had faith when they died, but the Bible says these all died in faith. What faith were they in? Their own faith? No, it's the faith of Christ. Those things that were set forth, that were going to be set forth in the scriptures and all those things that are laid out there, that's the faith that they died in. Okay? If you die in that faith, you think there's anything in this universe that can pull you out of that faith? No. And there is the promise of the resurrection. You're kept in that thing, right? You bring your own faith to God, that thing is weak. That thing is so small. At best, if you had a grain the size of a mustard seed of faith, you could move a mountain, at best. You could talk to a sycamine tree and tell it to be cast into the sea, and it would be, at best. It can't do anything for your soul. You need the faith of Christ. And God builds that faith in you as you see Him in the volume of the book. Faith cometh by hearing, hearing by the Word of God. He gives that to everyone that seeks Him. Anyone that would seek after God, that would desire to know Him, that would labor with Him in the Word of God, that would submit themselves to the preaching because it pleased God through the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. When they do those things, God gives that faith to them. That faith comes to them. It isn't the Calvinist idea that only the elect are gonna have the faith and those that are not of the elect, they're never gonna get that faith and they never can. That's a concept that they've taken and they've built that up as their prime doctrine. And when you do that, when you raise anything like that up as a prime doctrine, it totally cancels out some other scripture and then that doesn't work. If anything that you believe goes contrary to scripture, it's wrong. It's just wrong. There isn't a bit of this Bible that is going to disagree with any other bit of the Bible. Historically, scientifically, doctrinally, there's nothing that's going to conflict. Okay? And so where we do find those conflicts, it's because we have a preconceived notion of what that thing is saying, when honestly, God's trying to teach you, no, it goes beyond that. And so to see whosoever will may come, and then to look and say, oh, well only of the elect are gonna receive the faith of Christ. There's gotta be a balance between those two. And what you find is that whosoever will may come, and that call goes out into all the earth. Their voice went throughout all the earth. That call goes out. Only a select few are listening. And it isn't that God selected this one to listen and this one not to listen. That call is going out in this group of people right here. And if you're willing to listen, He's willing to speak to you, okay? And then faith cometh by hearing. He'll give you that hearing. He'll give you faith. He'll build that in you until you repent and you believe and you're born of God. And that's the process, but they're looking forward to that city. Let's see, where did I need to go to? What did I just read, 13? No, I didn't. I started in 13. These all died in faith, not receiving the promises, but having seen them afar off. How did they see them afar off? Through the prophets, through the prophecies that were given them. They saw those things. God spoke to them. They themselves were prophets. You see Abraham prophesying of Jesus Christ and saying that God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering. And then God gave him a ram. So you know he was prophesying because he didn't get what Abraham said he was going to get. Okay? He was speaking of Jesus being that lamb of God, which takes away the sin of the world. He's going to be that burnt offering, that lamb. And God was going to provide himself a lamb. Not for himself, as the New Bibles put it. He was going to provide himself. He himself was going to be the provision of that lamb. Continuing on though, "...and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. But now they desire a better country." That is, and heavenly, okay? So now we, okay, we're not looking at a physical country, we're looking at something heavenly now. That city that hath foundations is a heavenly city now. This is what they were looking for. This is the things that they saw afar off. Wherefore God is not ashamed to call them their God, to be called their God, for he hath prepared for them a city. And so that city is that heavenly Jerusalem that thing that is going to come that thing that is coming All right, and we're just scratching into this new heaven in new earth new heavens in new earth Scratching into that heavenly Jerusalem and such so we will continue on next week and we'll pick up here probably in Hebrews We'll touch on Hebrews again Chapter 11 and then we'll move on from there any closing thoughts. We've got about a minute and a half that you've got No, all right Dale, why don't you close us in prayer? Thank you. Father, we're thankful for the Word of God, Father, and I pray that us men, Father, would be leaders in our household and taking it upon ourselves to give you in prayer and to study the Word of God, Father, and Lord, that it would enable us to be the men you want us to be. God, we're thankful for this in-depth study of what we're doing on the heavens and earth.