well that's because there's no women in heaven, that's not true. That poor guy who thought that got himself surrounded by women and he was in a, about to get ripped to shreds almost it seemed like. But J. Vernon McGee, you know, he tried to help bail him out of that precarious situation. But we showed you why we think that there was silence in heaven for about 30 minutes. And it was because of two things. One, nobody was getting saved on the earth at that time for about 30 minutes. And then two, all of heaven seemed to hold its breath for what was about to happen next. And that's what we want to introduce tonight as we continue through our second study in the book of Revelation. I remember the last time we did this, We had 200 lessons. We did it every Sunday evening, and that was for three years, guys. We're not trying to be that detailed, but we're trying to skim the surface to try to maybe even whet your appetite to maybe find out a few other things here and there and yawn about this. So this is what I like to call the warning shot across Earth's bow. So let's take a look at it. Revelation chapter 8, look at verse 2. John says, and I saw thee, notice thee seven angels, which stood before God, and to them were given seven trumpets. I thought, well, let's keep reading. And another angel came and stood at the altar having a golden censer. And there was given unto him much incense that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense which came with the prayers of the saints ascended up before God out of the angel's hand. And the angel took the censer and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it unto the earth. And there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake. And the seven angels, which had the seven trumpets, prepared themselves to sound. Father, we come to you tonight thanking you, Lord, for your many blessings. Lord, I ask now humbly, Lord, that you'll hide me behind the cross as we go through this lesson and this passage of Scripture tonight. Lord, may Jesus be edified, glorified, and magnified in everything said and done. And Lord God, we thank you tonight and we praise you for these that are here tonight. Lord, we just ask that you will just teach us and guide us unto all understanding through the ministry and unction of the Holy Ghost. And Lord, we're just grateful and thankful to be used of thee in Christ's name. Amen. All right, so a lot of debate, a lot of discussion about the seven angels who stand before God. We're just going to let it stand that these are seven angels which stand before God. There's people that say, well, these are special angels. You don't really hear about a lot of angels that stand before God unless you're talking about the four so-called beasts or these seraphim that stand before the Lord singing, holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was and is and is to come. But these seven angels are called out purposely. Now this is not going to be the last time we see these guys either. But these are angels. These are supernatural males and they are created being, as we've been looking at already this evening back in Q&A about Lucifer and so forth. And these, now notice this, they were given seven trumpets. Now a lot of times, guys, when you're dealing with people that believe in what we call the mid-trib rapture viewpoint. That's a $10 phrase right there. Let me explain it. There's about three different basic ways to look at, well, there's actually four. The fourth one says, we don't believe it's going to happen. It's just a fairytale. Okay, they don't count. But there's three basic viewpoints about when the rapture, that is the Lord coming back to take the church, the saved right now, out of this world unto the Father's house, unto heaven. So these three viewpoints are classified as one, pre-trib, that is before the tribulation. By the way, that's where we are. Over here, when we look at the dispensation, which we find ourselves today in the age of grace, I like to think we're about right here, but we might be way back here, I don't know. But this is the rapture, so this is before the tribulation, the seven-year tribulation prophesied in various books of the Bible, including Daniel, which is where we get a lot of our reference. And that'll be right in there, and then the second coming of Christ. So we go up to heaven, the tribulation happens on the earth, and then we come back down. So, that's pre-trib, that's before the tribulation happens. Please note, the tribulation does not begin with the rapture. It will begin with the signing of the seven-year peace treaty between the Antichrist and the nation of Israel. Number two, the second viewpoint is mid-trib rapture. This is, of course, as it says, the middle of the tribulation. Now, typically, adherent to this viewpoint, when they look at these seven angels that are given these seven trumpets, when that seventh angel sounds, there's a voice that cries out, come up hither. And they think that's the rapture. There's a little, well, there's a lot in my understanding, but there's a little problem right here. The Bible teaches us, like in 1 Thessalonians chapter 4, that the trumpet of God will sound. This is the trumpet of an angel. This is not the trumpet of God. So there's a big, big, huge difference. By the way, since I'm on that, I'll go ahead and throw this out, no extra charge. When the last trumpet will sound, 1 Corinthians 15, when did the first trumpet sound? That was in the book of Exodus. when nobody but God was on Mount Sinai and the trumpet sounded and waxed louder and louder. And what that was, that was God blowing that trumpet for one reason, to call his people, Israel, to come together to hear him. Well, the last time that trumpet of God evidently is gonna sound is when God sends forth his son to gather his children to bring them home. Mmm, and hopefully it's gonna happen. My watch is still broke. Hopefully. Oh dear. Thank you, sir He just have to get over it that's all So we can continue on because your time is precious. So it is. The third viewpoint of this is called post-trim. Now to me, this is one of the ones that makes no sense at all, whatsoever, at all, period. And what that is, is it teaches that we're going to go through the entire tribulation for seven years, and then we're going to get caught up, we're going to turn and go right up, and then we're going to make a U-turn and come straight right back down. It makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. Besides the fact in mid-trib and post-trib that God has saved us from wrath. Besides, this tribulation is not for us. It is for the Jews. It is sometimes in the Old Testament called the time of Jacob's trouble. But anyway, we've been over these things. So these angels are coming out. They're giving these seven trumpets. They're going to stand before the altar. But now, notice another angel. Notice this. He says in verse 3, another angel come. He came out and he stood. All right, so remember, when we look several times, we have seen, especially when we study about the tabernacle or the temple, we've seen that God showed Moses the images, what we like to call the blueprints of the heavenly things. So whatever we see on the earth, like, well, hold on, Daddy, can you go, please? I need it now. Can you go grab that, the menorah, please? The good one, thank you. So whenever we see the Ark of the Covenant, that's where God sat. That was his throne on the earth, we are told. Well, in heaven, there's a throne. God has a throne. We looked at that somewhat tonight. We noticed that there's a table of showbread. Well, there must be a table of showbread. I don't recall seeing that inside of Revelation or anywhere, but there must be one. If there's one down here, there's one up there. And then, of course, we see about the altar of incense. Now, this is where we're coming in tonight. This is the altar on the earth that is before the Holy of Holies. That is where the veil is. And so this is where they offer up incense right before. Thank you. And then finally, thanks to Daddy, we have a biblically correct menorah. We have one for Hanukkah, and this one actually was a Hanukkah menorah. They've got eight on there. They've got eight little bowls or lampstands, and then you've got the middle one, which is to shamash the servant lamp. But anyway, this is a biblically correct one because it's seven. It's three here, three here, and then one inside in the middle. And so there was that. And in heaven, that's called the seven spirits of God. Now, don't get this thing confused. There are not seven holy ghosts. You go back to, I think it's Isaiah chapter 11, I think it's verse 1 and verse 2, I believe, that it talks about the seven spirits of God. And what that is, guys, real quick, this is not in my notes, what that is, that is the seven ministries of the Holy Ghost. And whenever someone in the Bible is said to be full of the Holy Ghost, that's what they have. They have all activities, all seven activities, action of the Holy Ghost going on. John the Baptist, guys, was filled with the Holy Ghost from his mother's womb, the Bible says. So don't tell me there's no life inside the womb. There is life. Not just physical life, but there's also spiritual life as well. Alright? And so, when we're filled with the Spirit, we have all seven ministries of the Holy Ghost acting. And that's also why His name, in your King James Bible, is correct. It is the Holy Ghost. And ain't just them being country preachers or whatnot, guys. That's His name. When the Bible refers to Him as the Holy Spirit, that is describing Him at work. That's something that He's involved with, one of those ministries. So tonight we're going to look at this thing here. So this angel This other angel, the separate from the guys that have the seven trumpets, he now has a censer. This is the first time I've been able to bring this out. We just got this a few weeks ago. This is a censer. It's a little bitty one. Typically they're bigger and they're longer and all that. Normally in the Catholic Church you'll see them. They'll come walking down the aisles of this thing and there'll be smoke billowing up out of it and all that. But they got incense in there. I want you to remember this thing. This is going to be the warning shot across Earth's bow. But right now, we're in heaven. Now guys, this is one of the areas where I contend that John is not merely seeing a vision. He's actually there in heaven. If that be the case, remember what I said before. He became a time traveler. He has traveled through time. Now he's there inside of heaven. Alright, so this angel has this sensor and if you'll notice, It says, and the smoke, verse 4, well hold on, verse 3, and there was given unto him much incense that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne and the smoke of the incense which came with, notice, with the prayers of the saints to send it up before God out of the angels hand and then he takes it and he casts it to the earth so in this sensor right here I need to buy some of the stuff I get so what would happen is you have these little coals in here and then you'll take incense and put that on top of it because you don't want to you don't want there to be a fire you want it to smolder and then you're gonna put the lid back on it right there And now it's going to burn the incense and this, of course, is going to smell. The fragrance, the aroma is going to waft out and it's going to smell up the whole room. And it smells good, depending on what most incenses do. And guys, this is historically something that has been used in different religions, not just Like, typically we think of Catholicism. It ain't just that. It's all over the world. And traditionally, historically, incense has represented prayers. Let's clue you in on this. It's one of my favorite songs, but it's dreadfully inaccurate. It's not biblically correct. There were not three wise men. There were not kings. There was not Gaspar. Listen to the third stanza. Notice he's talking about prayer. So prayer and incense have gone together, whatever religion you're dealing with, Christianity, Judaism, whatever. So that's the symbolism. So, back when I was in high school, I was asked a question, because everybody knew I was a preacher, or called to be a preacher. And so, back inside a wood shop, when I was trying to build my stuff, these guys would come over and they'd start asking me all kinds of questions here and there. And one of them asked me a question. He said, well, Craig, If God knows everything, He does know everything, I said, yep, He's omniscient, He knows everything. They said, well, why do I have to pray? If He knows everything, if He knows what I'm going to say before I say it, why bother? Why waste my breath? Well, immediately I said, well, for one, the Bible says pray without ceasing. And guys, it doesn't mean you gotta, Lord, I pray for this, and Lord, I pray for that one, and Lord, I pray, it doesn't mean that. It means like, eh-heh! Eh-heh! It's like you got a hacking cough and that little tickle in the back of your throat and you cough and then about ten minutes later you cough again. And so all throughout the day you've got that nagging, tickling cough and it will not go away. That's the intent of the first century Greek text when it means Pray without ceasing. Without ceasing means with the frequency of a hacking cough. That's literally what it means. But for us it means as you go throughout your day, pray throughout your day. Don't you dare wait till you get home at night and pray before you go to sleep. Because you'll probably say, Lord I want to lift up Sarah and Lord touch her and heal her and Lord be with Jim tonight and Lord be with this. And then you wake up and say, in Jesus' name, amen. I'm sorry I kept you hanging that long, you know. Why give God our leftovers when we need to give him our best? But here's what we see. We need to pray throughout the entire day. And you don't... I don't need to get off on this, but just take a few little tidbits here. You don't have to pray like your Bible. Oh Lord, thou glorious, most high God upon heaven. You don't have to pray in King James English. And I do it too. You don't have to say, Lord, I want to ask that you be with the kids today as they take their final exam. Lord, I just ask that you be with Stacey. And Lord, don't let her clobber anybody at work. Lord, just help us get through this day. So, he knows who you are. He's not saying, well, I don't want to listen to what he's saying. Let me listen to what the president's praying over here, or this queen over here, or this preacher over here. He's not, you have not lost his attention. One of the reasons we do that is because we don't, even if you listen to public speakers, um, hello guys, I'm here, um, we don't want to say um. We don't want to do that. So we got to throw something in there. You don't have to throw anything in there, but that's what we do. We throw Lord, Jesus, God, you know, we throw that in there. Can you imagine how insane we would be? Hello, Stacey. How are you today, Stacey? Stacey, I just came home from work. Stacey, how are you today? Stacey, Stacey, Stacey, blah, blah, blah, blah. You know, and you go, pow! Shut up! Just say it once. Hello, dear. You know. He's not going to lose his attention, I promise you guys. One, okay, let me throw this out here. I'll get there, just bear with me. I won't keep you here all night, I promise. I gotta go to school tomorrow. Anyway, so what happens is, this woman, she got saved. She was an older woman. She got saved, and she went to her preacher, and said, preacher, I don't understand how to pray. He said, well, just talk to him like you're talking to me. That's all you gotta do. He said, but I don't know about it. He said, look, get you a chair. I know people say chair, I say chair, anyway. Get you a chair, put it inside your bedroom. And when you're in bed, just roll over and just talk. Imagine Jesus sitting in this chair. He said, just try it for a week, see how it works. She did. Well, shortly thereafter, she was diagnosed with an aggressive, rapidly spreading cancer. They didn't catch it, and they said, you've probably got about a month or so left. Wow. Talk about getting in right before the end. Thank God. Well, she said it was helping some and she really appreciated that illustration. And so finally the preacher got the phone call and said, well, she's passed on. Would you come be with the family? He came inside and immediately the husband, the kid, said, we don't understand. This is one of the strangest things. Maybe you understand. When he walked in there to her bedroom, She had crawled over, and she was like this. She was halfway on that chair. He started crying, and he said, I know exactly what she did. She crawled in his lap, and put her head in his lap. For heaven's sake, guys, when you pray, you're not talking to the ceiling. You're talking to the God of glory. But the question stood when I was in 10th grade. Why pray? Why bother? And I said, well, he said to pray. For one, that ain't good enough. I want to know why. I said, all right guys, give me a little bit of time and I'll try to figure it out. So I went back in Daniel. It's all where Daniel had been fasting and praying, and he begged God for an interpretation of the vision that he got. And all of a sudden this angel pops up. And he said, look, I've come and I've been held up 21 days. 21 days? Yeah, he was supposed to be there three weeks ago. You know, kind of like the amount of time we spend in revival? Yeah. That's how long that angel was held up bringing the answer to Daniel. And I said, whoa, whoa, what is that? So I started reading, I started researching, then I started using my mind. That can be dangerous sometimes. And so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna try to pack this inside of a nutshell as fast as I can. If you got a handout, a copy of that, it's in there, all of those notes, everything I'm sharing with you is there. And I say that, guys, because the last thing I want you to do is take my word for it. Don't, don't, I mean, I want you to trust what I'm saying, but don't, well, Preacher Craig said, well, yeah, Preacher Craig said what he said, but I'm more interested in what the Bible said. What I'm trying to do is I'm trying to tie all this together to make it make sense. Okay, so here's, here's what I call the doctrine of angelic assistance. The Bible teaches us that we do have a guardian angel, okay? The Bible also shows us in the book of Job that there are times when there are what we could call angelic conventions, angelic convocations, where demons and angels, they gather together. Even Satan goes up there. I mean, Satan's up there now, according to Revelation, accusing us, accusing the brethren. He's not down in hell, guys. I know we get this idea, and he's not down there stoking the fire's veil. If he were in hell, guys, he would be burning. He would be suffering. He would not be, oh, this is wonderful weather. No, that's medieval mythology. That's not Bible. That's not what your Bible teaches. Anyway, so there's even some days that even Satan is up there giving an account. So I want to tell you right now, if we have one of those days and those demons are called up there to give an account for whatever it is that they're doing, that's going to be a great day for you. You're going to have a wonderful day that day. Now, Pastor Craig believes that just like we have a guardian angel, Satan is the great counterfeiter. I think we probably have a guardian demon. I think. That's my opinion. I think that guardian demon's job is twofold. to keep us lost. If he fails, then too, to keep us out of church, out of Bible, out of prayer, so wound up in life and everything coming and going, we don't even have time to think about God. And if he does that, he's doing a pretty good job, if you ask me. Prayerlessness, believe it or not, is a sin according to the Bible, so we need to pray. Look at Jesus' prayer life, then compare ours to that. I think we're suffering quite a bit. That's the Son of God, that's God in the flesh, and He prayed that much, what does that tell you and me right there? But when we pray, I've often told you for 21 years, behind the physical, look for the spiritual. You'll find the answer to a lot of stuff. Why did this happen? Well, look for the spiritual behind it. Alright, now, why should I pray? If God hears, and by the way, let's throw this in there, Psalm 66, 18. David said, if I regard iniquity in my heart, God will not hear me. He will not hear my prayer. So, first thing first, before you utter anything else, you've got to make sure you have confessed your known sin. 1 John 1-9, if we confess our sin, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sin and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Make sure you are confessed your sin. He will hear that, because that'll even be the prayer that He hears of a sinner, of a lost sinner, right? Right. Alright, so, now. You've repented of your sin. You've confessed your sin. The pathway is open. It's time to get down to business. And so, Father, at that very instant, in that moment, God is now listening. My child, you called. What you need? What you want? I'm not going to tell you what to pray. I mean, you can start off with, Lord, I just wanted to say thank you for my breath of air that you give me today. I want to thank you for my brain waves. I want to thank you for my family, for my spouse, for my kids, for my job, for my house, for my blah, blah, blah, you know, the sky's the limit, whatever. So you can pray. You can start praying. A lot of times we just go straight into, Lord, I need this. I want that. Lord, give me this. Lord, help them there. Lord, blah, blah. If that's the emergency, so be it. Whatever. But, you know, it's good to praise Him. It's good to uplift the name of the Lord. Alright, so whatever it is, I want you to think about what's happening. Now, this is my understanding. I can be a little strange, but I ain't never stopped before. I want you to imagine as you're speaking this prayer, I want you to imagine it's like a bubble out here and it's being filled with your words that you're praying. In the physical realm, it's nothing but a bunch of hot air. But in the spiritual realm, it's something. It is a substance. You say, why? Because according to Revelation, that angel taking that censer, he is putting incense in the censer and the prayers of the saints. He can't put something that's not there. So in heaven, our prayers are a substance. It is spiritually made of something. That in turn, I encourage you, go back to Ephesians chapter 6. Go through the armor of God and then where everybody stops, look at that next verse and tell me what that is. I know, Daddy, you could probably hunt it up. Maybe somebody could. If you get the reference, go down that armor of God and then get to that last verse. I can't remember what the verse is, but find that verse and tell me what is being spoken about there. So, let's continue with our illustration. So as you're praying, that prayer is forming right out here. Now, guardian angel. This is Loveless Watcher One coming in to the boss. Yes, report. I got a prayer for me down here. That's all right. The boss knows all about it. We're sending up reinforcement. We're sending in a courier. He'll be there in a minute. Here comes UPS. If you don't like UPS, maybe it's FedEx. Maybe you want UPS and FedEx to merge. Now they'll be fed up. Anyway, maybe you like the United States Postal Service. Maybe you use whatever it is, the big yellow truck, DHL, whatever it is. The courier service come. Speedy delivery. Yep. Preacher Lopez just stopped praying, finally. Here's his prayer. Thank you. Now, in that prayer, I prayed for some people to get saved. The guardian demon, oh, that could be more converts. To the enemy's army. Red Devil One calling to headquarters. Yes, what is it? I need reinforcement over here. There's a prayer about to go up asking the boss up there. to save souls. We need reinvoltment. Don't worry, we will dispatch them immediately. So the courier angel takes off and now he's going and now suddenly there's battle in the heavens. We don't see it, we know nothing about it. But they're trying to hold that prayer back from getting into heaven. And then some other angels come in And they beat back the demons. And now the courier angel goes up. He appears now at the throne, before the throne of God in heaven. There's the altar of incense, the altar of prayer. And now an angel with a censer possibly, just like we read about, has incense. Why in the world is he putting incense there? Because it smells good. And now he's taking the, here's a prayer, boop, he puts the prayer in. Now they dump that prayer and the incense into the altar of incense before God's throne. Why does it matter? Why pray? Here's why. I think, from what I've seen and studied, when God smells that prayer, He acts. He's already heard the prayer. He knows what He's going to do, but it doesn't make sense. Why are they putting the prayers in with the altar of incense? Well, obviously that must be connected to when God smells that prayer. All right, let's send some more unction of the Holy Ghost down. They're going to be in a prayer meeting tonight and it's going to be their day to get saved. So if you have a burden on your heart, And you put it out there for 15,000 people to see, hey guys, will you help me pray about my lost boy, or my lost daughter, or my lost wife, or my lost husband, or my lost mama, or my lost daddy, or we're fixing to go into surgery and we need the doctors to be a successful surgery. Hey, they're gonna go find out about cancer. We need God to heal that cancer and take it out and just eradicate it if it be his will. Wouldn't it make sense? The more people you have praying, the more same topic will burn, and God will smell it maybe faster. Now listen, don't think, guys, that we're trying to tell God what to do. We're petitioning, we're asking Him. We don't influence God to do what we want to do. God is not our servant. Don't get the cart before the horse, don't get it backwards now, okay? God's the king, we're merely sovereign of all the world and the universe, here is our petition. Your will. Remember what Jesus prayed? Thy will not mine be done, right? But we got to believe that he can do whatever he will do. But what if, what if we don't want the enemy to see that prayer go up? Oh, this is where it gets cool. Now this is completely, totally the machinations of my little mind. When I went to the bank today, I'm sorry, credit union today, they get offended when you call it a bank. It ain't a bank, it's a credit union anyway, neither here nor there. I went to the credit union and I had a check from the place where I spoke and preached at last night. I put it in because it ain't no good to me, it's a piece of paper and the money's in the paper. It's in the account, so I need it in my account big time. I need mama dollar and papa dollar to make baby dollars. Anyway, and so there's this little cylinder, and I popped the thing open. I'd already endorsed it, put it in there. Mash the button. There it goes. Pneumatic tube. Away it went. It popped up over there, and I could see it, and there it was. It came into the teller over there at the computer. What about a camouflage prayer? The Holy Ghost is inside of us since we're saved. And there's a verse in scripture that says that the Holy Ghost utters groanings for us, inside of us. So when I'm praying mentally in my mind, the demon may know, he's praying again, but I can't see the prayer. They can't read your mind. So if you're praying mentally, you're giving that prayer directly to the Holy Ghost. And all the Holy Ghost has got to do is pray and it will automatically transmit to God the Father before the throne. And he'll hand that prayer over to the angel because he's got it. The angel will put it in the altar of incense. God will smell it. The demons can't hold up that prayer that they can't see physically in the spirit realm before them. It's a camo prayer. It's like the pneumatic tube having a direct link up to God, the Father, right there. Boom, there it is. The doctrine of angelic assistance. I think that helps explain a little bit, David, if you'll come, why do we need to pray? if God already knows. I think it's because when he smells it, he will act. So what happens? This angel grabs this censer and he flings it down to the earth. And as it goes down, we see there were voices and thunderings and lightnings and an earthquake. In Revelation chapter 4 verses 5-6 it says, and out of the throne proceeding lightnings and thunderings and voices. All of this imagery gives us kind of an idea hearkening back to the fact that God is about to say something. God is about to do something. In other words, it is the thunder, it is the noise, it is the drum roll, and then it stops. And now God is about to do something important. The prayers have been heard. They've been smelled. The incense has burned. The people on earth for 30 minutes weren't being saved. Heaven has held its breath. And now God is about to direct that first angel to put his trumpet to his mouth and blast that blast out. And then we'll see next Wednesday. what is about to befall the people upon the earth. If you thought the seven seals were something, God, we ain't seen nothing yet because the bottom is about to drop out of the entire thing here, God. Because you're going to have fire, you're going to have hail, you're going to have blood, you're going to have the third part of trees burn up and all the grass. How in the world can that happen? Guys, the explanation God laid on my heart when we studied this, it will blow your mind. And trust me guys, this is rooted in the Bible, in the book of Isaiah. Have you ever thought about what would happen if the sun rose in the west and sat in the east? Could that happen? I believe we're going to see it. Not us physically, we'll be in heaven, but we're going to see it in the Bible. And why and how would this fire and hail and even blood, where does that come from? And how can all the green grass burn up? Guys. You don't want to miss next week. It's going to be something. So, next lesson, I think we'll be on lesson 27 out of Revelation, chapter 8, verse 7. The first trumpet will blow. And yes, I will bring my trumpet and I will black that out. I remember the first time I did that, I got my Civil War bugle, and I said, just think about it, guys. The Bible says the trumpet's gonna sound, and we're outta here. I said, let's close our eyes. And I said, just imagine. Listen real hard now. And everybody in the church closed their eyes, and everybody was imagining and thinking about the trumpet, Jerry. And I put that bugle up to my lip, and I, and loud as I could about 12 people popped up like they were about to what it was funny and they jumped out of their seats almost and I said did y'all think the rapture yeah I said I'm so sorry to disappoint you I said y'all are imagining really really good so I didn't want nobody to have a heart attack and after that so I said okay you can keep your eyeballs open now but anyway Oh, mercy me. Well, guys, I hope you all got something out of that tonight. Again, there's some more little nuggets inside of the handout that I gave you. I don't like to read off of papers and just all do that. You have eyeballs. You got a brain. You got the Holy Ghost inside of you. You can read through that. And, guys, a lot of that, I know what I showed you was from my understanding. I try to be very careful with that, and anytime I share that, I try to let you know this is my educated understanding as a pastor, as a student of scripture, this is what makes sense to me. But if I'm wrong, I will be the one to blame, and I will answer for it when I get to heaven. So that's why, guys, anytime a pastor stands before a congregation and teaches and preaches this word, we've got to remember, you will be held accountable once for your life, I will be for mine. But then, we preachers, we pastors, we're going to be going through round two because we have had the authority and the awesome responsibility to teach you this word. And it's not mine to do, it's His. So, you've got to be very, very careful. It ain't my book, it's His. It's really bad when you are wrong and you got to go back and say, well guys, I was wrong about that. Then you got to reteach it all over again.