And we're discussing in particular this morning, most recent concerns in the nation of Israel. And I want to just begin by stating something here. We often refer to Israel as being God's children. Israel to bless the other nations. That's part of the Abrahamic covenant. We saw that last night, or last week. So yes, Israel is God's chosen nation, but that statement, that terminology confuses a lot of people. A chosen nation. When we say there is chosen people, I think it sometimes confuses people. Because the church is God's chosen people too. And Jewish people, The promises of the Abrahamic covenant were to the nation. The nation, as we're gonna see, for all practical purposes, came to an end in AD 70. Came back as a nation in 1948. And the promises made to that nation God's gonna bring to fulfillment in the millennium and beyond through only but there will be a vast population of Gentile believers in that kingdom as well, who will also be blessed as a result of God's promises to Israel, which included the blessing of the Gentiles. So, I think it's good for us to kind of have that, because sometimes people hear the term, well, they're God's chosen people, like, well, we're, you know, for all of us. So let's get some historical perspective, and I'm going to fly through this because I'm guessing that you like to study history pretty much about the same level as most people like to study history, which is not. But history is important, and particularly so to our present discussion. We've given you the biblical background. It was last week, the Abrahamic Covenant, the roots of the conflict between the Arabs and Israel. But now we need to kind of pick up and bring it to modern times. Maybe the battery's dead. We'll do it this way. We'll try reloading this thing. because I have no nose. Oh, there it is. Without this, I don't know what I'm doing here. Technology did not help over here. Technology this morning seems to be missing, all I can say. Let's look at a timeline starting back with the Abrahamic covenant. God gave the land of Israel to the descendants of Abraham approximately 4,000 years ago. This is an important figure to keep in mind. The nation of Israel took possession of land in 1406 B.C. after their exodus from Egypt. They actually didn't possess the land until then. Abraham lived there, they resided there, and so on, but they weren't a nation. Number three. The Assyrians took the northern tribes of Israel captive in 722 BC and they never returned. Ten tribes referred to as the Lost Tribes. The Assyrians would take all the important people out of a nation they conquered and move them elsewhere so they would intermarry with other nations and they would leave a representative number where they were at, their homeland, and then they would move other people in, so they would intermarry, and they would destroy nationalities that way. So they wouldn't be, you know, revolt-sittering around, you know, where the people should be here and all that. Now that doesn't mean they're lost to God, obviously, but they've not been a part of what's going on in Israel. They've lost their Jewish heritage. They still exist, and in time, I think God's gonna restore a lot of that in the future. The Babylonians took Judah captive in 586 B.C., but they did return 70 years later under Nehemiah and Ezra, Zerubbabel, and so forth. And so they essentially became a nation again. when they returned, 70 years after the captivity. But they weren't exactly self-governing. This is really strange. Okay, there we go. Upon returning to the land of Israel, Judah existed as a vassal state under the domination of Persia to begin with. This is when Nehemiah and Ezra and all of them came back. They were the empire that kind of was the umbrella over them. And then Greece came along, Alexander the Great, and then after he died, he broke up into four segments under his four generals, and that domination continued down to the time when Rome became the predominant power, the empire, and even the times of Jesus, Israel was there, and they were still worshiping in the temple, they had a national government and all the rest, but they were still dominated by the Romans. A vassal state means that they are under the domination of protection militarily, they pay tribute, and they don't have entire freedom. They lost that national identity in A.D. 70, which is what Jesus talks about in Matthew 24 in the sense of looking forward. Of course, we know what happened in A.D. 70, a rebellion against, tried to throw off all the Roman rule, and I can't remember who the emperor was, but General Titus came in with the Roman legions and destroyed Jerusalem, destroyed the temple, chase the remaining rebels to Masada, where they traditionally all committed suicide rather than fall into the hands of the Romans. After that, Rome just ruled with an iron hand, and they kind of lost that aspect of self-government underneath of Rome. Now here's where things get interesting for present day. Afterwards, the Roman Emperor Hadrian, about 135 A.D., renamed Judea and Galilee. And he incorporated them under the new name of Syria-Palestina. Syria is a name that was used over the Galilean segments and then beyond the confines of Israel as well. And Judea became Palestine. Now, this happened after another revolt around 135 was put down by the Romans. Because the Jews weren't operating nationally, but there was a lot of Jews still living in the land, and they kind of got together. There was another revolt. The Romans crushed that. And then Empress Hadrian said, look, we're going to just Romanize everything. We're going to eradicate all aspects of Judaism. And they built a pagan temple where the Jewish temple was. Jewish worship, all the rest. And so, the final eradication, which began here, took place 135, and Judea was renamed Palestine. Now, this is incredible, but Palestine, number eight, Palestine was the name the Greek writers gave to the land of the ancient Philistines, the ancient enemy of Israel. Goliath, the Philistines, I'll go back to that day, the days of David. I haven't really found this as a historical fact, but some speculate that Hadrian decided he was going to rename the place after their arch enemies. There's another slap in their face, so to speak. Which button will work? Not that one. That one, okay. Now, that was AD 135. Palestine is just, the Roman emperor is just, you're Palestine. You're not Judean, you're not Jewish anymore. You're a Roman province, period. That was 135 A.D. Muhammad died in 632 A.D., about 500 years later. He didn't live a long life, maybe what, 30, 40 years, something like that, I can't remember exactly. Islam had become a functioning religion by the time Muhammad died. 500 years after they became Palestine, but more importantly, 2,000 years after Israel possessed the land back in the 1400s BC. Who was there first? If you want to play that game, you see, from the present day, political and historical background people have. The Palestinians have been there for years, now the Jews come back and they took away their land. You better go back a little further in history. We'll get you back straight on that. After the Roman Empire collapsed, Palestine was controlled by various Arab and Islamic empires. the last being the Ottoman Empire, now you can throw in the Crusaders, they were back and forth and all, but mainly, for all those hundreds of years, Arab Islamic empires ruled over Palestine. The last was the Ottoman Empire, that is an Islamic empire based in Turkey. And they ruled for a long time. And they became an ally of Germany in World War I. So when Germany was defeated in World War I, they had lost all their lands and everything. At that point, Palestine was placed under British control in 1920, later approved by the League of Nations in 1922. This is just all what the Allies imposed upon them. This placing it under British control It's called the British Mandate. There were other countries, other allied countries got other mandates, but the British Mandate, where they were in trouble, included Palestine. It expired in 1948 in Mecca. And when that happened, Israel once again became a I mean, as soon as Israel became a nation in 1948, the Arabs invaded. And they were just this little group of Jewish people that had, I mean, there were several thousand, obviously, but compared to the Arabs, just a little small group, and they successfully defended themselves. That's an absolute miracle that that could have happened. And it's been the same every year. I mean, every war, I should say. They've won, they've won, they've won. There's nine million people living in Israel. You're just dwarfed by the millions of Arabs around them that keeps attacking. So let's talk about the prophetic significance. Now turn to Ezekiel chapter 38. We're gonna jump from 1948 to the future, which is And what we learned basically... In verse 8 of Ezekiel 38, after many days you will be summoned. In the latter years you will come into the land that is restored from the sword, whose inhabitants have been gathered from many nations to the mountains of Israel, which has been a continual waste. But its people were brought out from the nations, and they are living securely, all of them. What we're going to read about in Ezekiel, this invasion, could not have taken place prior to 1948. But we know that now. Obviously back then, I mean, God's, you know, the return of Jesus is imminent. God could have known, I mean, nobody knew when and if Israel was going to become a nation. But just looking at it historically, that's the case. But notice at the beginning verse 8, after many days you will be summoned in the latter years, in times. You go down to verse 16, and it says, and you will come up against my people Israel like a cloud that covers the land. It shall come about in the last days that I will break you against my land. The latter days, the last days, prophetic future. I'll be speaking to a This, in Ezekiel 38, describes a coming invasion of Israel by a northern confederacy, which will include several Arab nations. The leader of this confederacy we find beginning in verse one, and the word of the Lord came to me saying, son of man, set your face king, the dictator, whatever it may be in those days. The man in charge of the country, the one with the most sway, is called Gog, and he is over a land called Magog. He's further described as a prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesied against them. Now, Magog has been identified in the 80s or 1970s, I guess it was, and it was already in print then. And when he identified all this, and he goes back to Josephus and other historians, what do these names in our Bible, in the Hebrew, represent in those days? And they can be directly connected. I'm not gonna try to explain all that to you because I'd probably do an extremely poor job. We don't want to get bogged down there. Magog, specifically by Josephus, identifies the people living in what is now the territory of Russia. Interestingly, Gog the leader, Magog the entire expanse of is country or empire, and then it mentions Rosh, Meshach, and Tubal, and those places have been identified as well as being far west in Russia and stretching down into northern Asia. They're just different areas or sections of Russia. Moving to verse five. He mentions five more countries that will be aligned with Russia. Russia will be the perpetrator, the instigator, the head of all this invasion. Now some nations are mentioned as being aligned with Russia. The first one is Persia. Persia is Iran. The ancient Persia occupied the land where Iran is today. They're Persian. Interestingly, Iran, going back to the Shah, was an ally of the United States until when? 1979, Islamic Revolution. Now they are not at all an ally of the United States. I think that's interesting prophetically. Ethiopia is the next one. Ethiopia is identified with an area of land south of Egypt, northeastern Africa, basically where modern day Ethiopia is. And then in verse five we also have this thing put, and you see it translated put in the New American Standard. Some translations translate it in Libya, but there is No certainty that it's either where modern-day Libya is. It's probably more in another place, and we'll get to that in a minute. And then Gomer, in verse 6, has been identified and is known to be the area of Germany. And finally, Beth Togarmah is ancient Turkey, or that ancient land is now Turkey. member of NATO, an ally of the United States who is just backing away from NATO, United States, and it's just moving back away toward the whole group of Arab Islamic nations. So these are things you can see present day that's starting to line things up. Who is Cush? Like what area? Cush? Cush, yeah. Would that be the same as Ethiopian? Some translations might use Cush. Yeah, my notes said it was Ethiopian. Cushites. Mine says Persia, Cush, and Cush. What translation do you read? Blue International. ancient Egypt as we know it, Kush occupied that land. I don't know, I think that might, that probably is modern Ethiopia, I don't know. Sudan? Sudan's in there, I'm not sure exactly if it's continental modern Ethiopia, but yeah, the Kushite empire kind of preceded the Egyptian empire. You'll find these variations in the English. So this is located on the map. We know where Germany is, we know where Russia is. Now the reason they're in green is because they're not Islamic. But the ones in blue are Islamic, Arabic. Turkey is almost 90 plus percent Islamic. Iran, 98 percent Islamic. Ethiopia, what are they, Ethiopia, Islamic, Libya. The percentage of the Russian population that is Islamic today is about 11%. That comes out to between 14 and 15 million people in Russia that are Islamic. You know what the population of Israel is? Less than that, 9 million. There is more Islamic people in Russia than there are Jews or Arabs or anybody else to the population of Israel. By the way, I just put that there because it was small. I couldn't find Star of David. OK, now we're going to talk about Libya for a minute. Some people think that Libya is the wrong modern-day nation, that it should be a nation over here that was southeast of Iran or Persia. called put. And that is why the New American Standard Translates it that way. So if we take this one out, it looks more like this. I mean, there's no way to be certain about all this. I'm just telling you what I found. Now, look where put is at. A smaller area of the map, bigger, what do you call that? Zoomed in, I zoomed in, okay. And put, here's Iraq, puts down here, what do you find? Yemen. An Islamic group of the Houthi rebels took over Yemen a few years ago. They are aligned with Yassin, Iraq. They don't get along with Saudi Arabia. So keep that in mind. Let's go back to our prophetic implications. The invasion that's going to come, as outlined in Ezekiel 38, will occur at a time called the latter years, the latter days. I've already got ahead of myself in mentioning that, so let's go to number four. The invasion will come at a time when Israel is dwelling securely in the land So let's go back to verse 11, if you've got your Bibles open. The prophet's speaking as if he's speaking to God. And you will say, I will go up against the land of unwalled villages. Well, an unwalled village, from an ancient perspective, is, you don't need walls, right? We also could have built them for defensive purposes. Go up against the land of unwalled villages. I will go against those who are at rest. This is what God is planning. They're at peace, they're at rest. And live securely, all of them, living without walls, having no bars or gates. I'm gonna go over to verse 14. Ezekiel says, therefore prophecy, son of man, and say to God, or the Lord speaking to Ezekiel, the son of man, say to God, thus says the Lord God, on that day when my people Israel are living securely, will you not know it? And then he goes on to talk about the invasion. Prophetically, the only time I know of we can be sure of that that will be the case is during the first half of the Tribulation. The Antichrist will confirm that covenant with many, Daniel, prophecy of the 70 years. He'll confirm that last 70 years with Israel, make a covenant with them. beginning will guarantee the peace and safety of Israel. All the persecution and war against Israel in the second half of the tribulation is a campaign leading up to Armageddon. So let's take a look at our chart. So here's the rapture of the church, the first three and a half years, the second three and a half years. There are two views as to when this battle in Ezekiel 38 will take place, among dispensationalists, among pre-tribulational, pre-millennial groups of people. Some think it will happen prior to the rapture. I'm not saying it can't. I'm just saying it would have to be a time when they're dwelling in the land safely. We don't see that today. So, I mean, could it happen? And then could they go back into conflict again? Anything like that's possible. I think the most probable thing is that it doesn't happen prior to the rapture, but after when we enter into this first three and a half years when the Antichrist and all the nations supporting him guaranteed the peace and the safety of Israel. The Antichrist is a hero at that point. He solved the Arab-Israeli problem. He's brought peace through power, political alignment. By the way, the rider on the first horse, Revelation chapter six, he's on a horse with a bow, doesn't say a word about errors. He conquers peaceably. At that early stage, that's the Antichrist. So I think this is the most probable time. Russia, Iran, Turkey, Germany, the others, you see an unprotected land. They're not militarily engaged, they're safe. And if you read carefully in Ezekiel, they come for spoil. I think that's, they come to take the resources. They see Israel as an easy target at this point. And no doubt, that's Russia, maybe Germany. By the way, we don't know how Germany fits all back into this. But more and more, all the nations of the world have a higher and higher percentage of Islamic population. I said it was about 11%, yeah. Russia, it's about 5% in America. And you take 5% of America's population and compare it to 10% or 11% of Russia's population, there's more Islamic people in America than there is in Russia. And Germany, I guess 5% or so, the Islamic people have spread out through the whole world. Russia is probably looking at financial gain, resources, whatever. But they could be overly influenced by that 10% Islamic people that's within the confines of their country, too. The other Islamic countries, Iran, Turkey, Ethiopia, they're probably more motivated. It's probably not that they were not at all motivated by the resources and the profit of the whole thing. No doubt, their motivation goes back to the historical hatred of Israel by the Arabs. I've read this, and I think it makes sense. If this invasion occurs here, it's gonna be put down by God, not the Antichrist. If you read Ezekiel 38 carefully, The northern invaders are all wiped out. Look what God does to them. the ground. I will call for a sword against him on all my mountains, declares the Lord God. Every man's sword will be against his brother. With pestilence and with blood I will enter into judgment. God's going to bring this about. He mentions a torrential rain of hailstones in verse 22 and fire and brimstone. Now whether God does this directly or some other way, God is the But now, probably, the Antichrist has, I think it's time for me to take a little bit more control in Israel. I don't want this happening again. He moves in, and it all dovetails with everything Satan's doing. He comes in, he declares himself to be God, he sets up himself in the temple of God, and he begins to persecute Jewish believers, and they're chased out to the hiding place in the wilderness, and they're persecuted in that last three and a half, and he becomes the power and the presence militarily for the first time in Israel. That leads then to the whole campaign leading up to Armageddon, which would involve the king of the east, the king of the south, and that whole last battle, the Battle of Armageddon. Some interpreters think this and this are all one and the same, and this should even be over here. That's another interpretation. I've got to run into several of those. All right. Prophetic implications continue. The invasion will occur at a time called the latter days. The invasion will come at a time when Israel is dwelling securely in the land. Prophetically, this fits the first half. And then the invaders will be destroyed by convulsions of nature, it seems, is the description. But it could be more than that. That's what we just looked at. Now let's move on to the seventh prophetic implications. The prophetic significance of current events evolves around Iran, more than anybody else right now. We're coming up time-wise now to the whole Hamas invasion, the day in which we live, this present moment. The prophetic significance that I think is the greatest here is Iran's at the center of all that's going on. And Iran, in the end times, will be right there with Russia from these two other invasion encounters. Iran is providing military support for Hamas in Gaza. Iran has a religious and military connection with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Now, Iran Muslims. Most Muslims are Sunni, 90% or more. Militant Iranian Shia Muslims. This split, kind of into two denominations, goes back to the death of Muhammad in 632 A.D. involving who was the rightful, you know, leader, next leader, and they kind of had a split. They don't get along. This is why Iran and Iraq had a war a number of years ago, partly because they were two different factions of Islam. But now Iran is getting along even with Sunnis. Iraqi, Sunni. Iran, Shia. That war occurred before we got into it over there in the early 90s. Hamas came out of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. They're Sunnis. But now Iran is giving them military support. Why? Because they have a common enemy, Israel. With Hezbollah, though, Hezbollah is like Iran. They are Shia, so they have a religious and a military connection. The Houthi rebels in Yemen also are Shia. They have a religious and military connection as well. And interesting enough, Iran is even providing military support for Russia in the Ukraine. The Iranian drones that are being used, and who knows what else. We've all read about that. Iran's got their hands everywhere. Usually Russia, it seems incredible that Russia could be much of an international power, considering the difficulty they have experienced trying to defeat Ukraine, but remember, they are a nuclear power. So eventually, they'll call the shots, but they're right there with Iran. Now let's put this on the map. Here's Iran. They have a direct connection to Hezbollah and the Houthi rebels, and then Hezbollah the Shia-Muslim connection as well as the military connection, the terroristic philosophy, the whole jihad and all the rest. But they also have a connection with Hamas, the Sunnis, and they also have a military connection with Russia up here in Ukraine. But right now everything that Iran is doing, by the way, the Houthi, the Red Sea, they sent the drones and the U.S. ship kept shooting the drones down. They never inflicted any damage. I think they did do some damage on some merchant ships, but not the destroyer. I can't remember the name of the destroyer, but we had a destroyer here. It was attacked by, why? Well, look at the connections, why? Their standard purpose was, we're going to not let any commerce go through here. It has anything to do with helping Israel. Just looking at that, just, here's a flashing light, here's a billboard alongside the road, you know, Iran, Iran, Iran. Now, does that mean the rapture's gonna occur tomorrow? We don't know. Is it gonna occur? occur a hundred years from now or a thousand years from now, I don't know, it's God's business. And a lot of things can, it looks like it might be lining up prophetically, can look so good and then it can go the other way and come back. Let's give you Russia, for example. All this about Russia and the Northern Invasion was talked about by Bible prophecy scholars back before Ronald Reagan and then the collapse of the Soviet Union. And I remember back at that time thinking, wow, Russia's supposed to be the one that's in this final, this big invasion prophetically, and Russia's just kind of been, but, carry it forward, they still have their nuclear bombs, their missiles, and all the rest, and then arises Putin, who's connected back to USSR, just now called Russia, nothing really's changed. But things like that happen, and current events sometimes make you wonder, well, we can't pinpoint dates and times and moments, or even years. But I think it's reasonable to say, more than any other time in history, we can see happening before our eyes something in the Bible, going back to Ezekiel. So that really, that does produce a lot of excitement. Now there's a lot of people that like to get on the internet and they got all their theories and their ideas and be careful getting zeroed in on one person's opinion of everything. Try to stay with, this is what we know. A lot of people, it's just an exciting subject And sometimes I wonder if certain people get on the internet and they want to teach things that, you know, just get them more subscribers. You know, it's exciting. So just be careful of that. But we do know that's an exciting thing to see unfolding. You may not know the answer, but do we know which faction of Muslims are in Turkey? Are they Sunni or? They're pretty much Sunni, I think. I'm just going where I'm going. But this is interesting to me, how the Sunni and the Shia are coming together when it comes to Israel, right there. You know what I'm saying? They'll put their religion aside when it comes to Israel. And Turkey is in this group. It's gonna come with Russia, Turkey, Germany, Russia, and Israel's gonna be surrounded. Again, remember, there are more Islamic people in Russia today than there is the entire population of Israel. That's how, absolutely, this could possibly unfold, no problem. whether that's the case or not, we don't know, but we do know that Israel's just a little speck of nine million people and it's a little strip of land that by all human understanding shouldn't be there. Even if they became a nation in 1948, nobody would have guessed they would have endured all they've endured and are still all. Thank God. When he brought Israel back in 1948, that's another big flashing billboard. It's now just coming to another step closer. All right, I think that's all I got. But I wanted to leave some time for a little discussion. And we've got a little bit of time. So if you know something that maybe I missed, or you have a question or whatever, I think that's all. So does America get brought into the hate because of our Judeo-Christian things, background, our friendship with Israel, is that part of this? Our Judeo-Christian heritage certainly played into all of our support. given the land to the Jewish people. They recognized, going clear back to the end of World War I, it was recognized by Britain and America and a lot of other nations that it was Israel's land. But today, it's not seen that way by very many people. And unfortunately, American Religiously, I mean, among Christians, there's a lot of Christians who are anti-Semitic. Because they don't... A lot of people just look at the fact that Palestine from 135 to 1948, that is unfair! Israel was there since then. And another thing they don't understand is the Abrahamic covenant and the promises to Israel. Amillennialism and the whole theological thing that's permeated the church has equated what? The church with Israel. So Israel is a major And even people that want to be on the right side and defend the innocent, but we don't know any better, side with us. I think what I'm saying too is, I see where you're saying that this big war from the north will come probably in that first, right at the end of the first three years of the tribulation. But it's like you see the world stage setting for it. And no country will come to Israel's defense at that time. No country. And it's hard right now to think of us not going to their defense. But yet, even politically, you see that happening. You know, our president is initially standing up for Israel, he's backing down at the same time. And I think that, you know, when you look at like even things like the Iran, the whole, when we got rid of our, whatever they call that with Iran, and then Biden reinstated it. So they've become so rich now, able to do the things they're doing. And we see all of, I think you can see it happening. It may not happen. before or after the tribulation. I mean, before or after the wrath. It's obvious to me that the world is setting the stage. I don't see how anyone can not see how it's setting the stage. I mean, I just see it clearly. Although you say we don't know the time. But being able to see it depends on what you understand. True. Because I have a nephew every day who talks about this. And a lot of these people are just fed. Right. He has no faith. He doesn't believe in God. So he doesn't really value this. Right. So, Jay, looking at your map there, looking at the mass, the massive land mass of the Islamic world, and they want to chop up Israel. From that perspective, it's just crazy. And one thing your question evokes is, what about the United States? It's not there. Now, I know there's some Bible teachers do a lot of mental gymnastics to try to find it, there's just nothing there in Scripture. So what does that mean? Well, it could well mean that the United States is aligned with the Antichrist and that ten-nation confederacy that guarantees the peace of Israel. And that's why they're not here. It's not a good place for us to be, but it might be that. Others have speculated the rapture power for a lot of reasons. Israel-Arab conflict, with the Arabs effectively The conflict was there before Islam. I understand that, but we can't disregard China, India. We're talking about another 6 billion people with nuclear capabilities and everything else. So from a prophetic Old Testament, this is a Bible addressed to China. I mean, it's literally talking about the enemies of Israel, which basically comes down to a Muslim versus This, all occurring in the first half of the tribulation, a lot of this is going to be heir to the patron of Israel. God squashes them. If the Antichrist, well we know, for whatever reason, we know the Antichrist is going to come in, set himself up as a god, abomination, desolation, take over the temple, begin to persecute the Jews and occupy their land. The half, probably after this, And then in Revelation 16, it talks about the Euphrates River being dried up as one of the trumpets through, I'm not sure which one, one of the judgments. The Euphrates River is dried up, which is one natural barrier. This is dried up to prepare the way for the kings of the east. That would include probably China, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan. And that's a 200 million man army. So China isn't particularly mentioned as a nation, but you can't help but believe they're, I mean, they're the major power in the East. So if we're, if America's aligned with the Antichrist, it's going to be, they're going to be coming to that Battle of Armageddon, it's going to be that. by the time it's all over you've got Russia, you've got China, you've got all of the Asian countries, you've got the European countries and the Antichrist, you've got Africa, the whole world's gonna need it. By the way, I didn't mention this, but it says in Ezekiel one of the verses in there, that all of you, Russia, Iran, and so on, but it says there are many other nations with it. Those are not named. Islamic-Israeli conflict, Northern Confederation. But that's going to kind of dissipate in some regards, because they're basically all defeated. And then it becomes the Antichrist and the rest of the world. And whatever remnants of that. How much time to go to service? But anybody else have something quick? You just can't wait? You gotta have it. You gotta talk about it.