We will be discussing the book of Job. What I call Job is the first philosophical book of the Bible. Literally, it was the first book actually penned, put on parchment, scrolls, papyrus, paper, whatever medium you want to imagine. It was the first book put down. I find that that astounds many people. They think that because the Bible begins with Genesis, that Genesis must actually be the first book written down. But Job lived in the time of the patriarchs, which meant that he lived around the time of Abraham, about 4,000 years ago. He lived either a little bit before, during, or a little bit after the time of Abraham, depending on whom you read. It's very important that we start off understanding what Job is all about. I've entitled this, How Do We Know What We Think We Know? Because this is really the basis of everything. You know, I've been in the church since I was saved in 1977, thereabouts. And I've heard over and over again, this is the will of God. Satan did this, God did that. And I took up that anthem myself. This must be the hand of God that did this, because good things happen. Or judgment came upon him. They must have been doing things poorly. How do I know? They were bad things. Did I have any real proof of what I was saying? Unfortunately, no. And that's what Job is all about. How do you know what you think you know about God? Because Job is going to have some misfortunes happen to him. And then his three friends are going to come and help him. Now in anesthesia, and that's what I do, I do anesthesia, we have a saying. Those who help you hurt you the most. Well-intended. Sincere. They're really there to try to help you. And they're hurting you. They're getting in the way. They're slowing you down. Or they're doing things that you would not do, or vice versa. And before you know it, things have been done that shouldn't have been done, or things have been forgotten that should have been done. And the anesthesia is not going as smoothly as it should have. Well-intended. And that's what Job's friends were. Very well-intended. Very sincere men. They didn't have a clue what was going on in Job's life. And to be fair to Job, neither did he. Now in the Old Testament, names mean everything. Because we learn about a person through their name. And Job is no exception to that rule. The name Job means hostile to, or the enemy, and can even be stretched to mean the repentant one. And all three of these meanings are applicable to Job. Job was the one who was hostile to God. He didn't mean to be hostile to God, but he was hostile to God. Job was the enemy. He was the enemy to Satan. And in the end, Job is the repentant one. So you're thinking to yourself, so he did do something wrong. He did nothing more wrong than you or I do every day that we take a breath and exist. But we need to get into the book to really discover these things. But before we jump into any book, we have to know who it was written to. We have to know the customs, the context of the book. We can't just jump in there with our 21st century Western mindset and start analyzing it as we would in our own country. Because Job is in a far different country in a far different time period. He is in an oriental context, and many in the West have great difficulty understanding the difference. See, from a Western mindset, we do things analytical. Well, we used to. Sometimes we just kind of just jump around anymore, but we usually go from A to B to C to D, and we usually go from tearing things down, analyzing them. That means tearing apart and then synthesizing them, putting them back together, trying to understand how they work. Oriental mindset is much different. They don't look at things in a timeline. It goes to point A, to point B, to point C in a logical or timely progression. No, they can be conceptually linked, but not time-linked. In other words, something could have happened 50 years ago, but it has great relevance to what is happening right now today, contextually. And I grew up for a while in the Orient and studied their culture. And as a lost individual, I got deeply involved in some of the metaphysical aspects of the Chinese culture. And it is very different. So I want to help you try to understand these things as we go through and look at this book. But I really want to put you into this context, into this culture. Now if you think these four men are ignorant, dirty, bedouin, who are just surrounded by stinky, smelly animals, and they have no more idea of what is going on in the world than the man on the moon, then you have missed the whole point of Job. For these men were very, very well educated. If I was to ask you, where are the Pleiades? How many in this, listening to this, can tell me where they're at? Or even what they are? But these men knew. These men knew about Orion. In fact, in their discussion, they will be bringing to bear examples in nature, proving their points. These are not ignorant men. These are very highly educated men. Just to give you an example, from one of the books that I have called Unwrapping the pharaohs, how Egyptian archeology conforms or confirms the biblical timeline by Ashton and Daud or down, they reach the or postulate the assumption or that Abraham, when he went to Egypt, brought with him Babylonian mathematics. And this is what enabled the Egyptians to perfect the building of the Great Pyramid. Now, if you've ever read books or have ever gone to Egypt, you'll see that they didn't start off from the get-go building pyramids. They built Mustafas. That's kind of like a hologram with rocks piled on top, and that's how the kings were buried. Then they started building step pyramids. That's kind of like two or three Mustafas piled on top of each other in a step-type manner. Then when they started building what would look to us like a pyramid, they just didn't quite get the math right, and they had bent pyramids. They would go up at an angle, and as they got near the top, they would bend in. They would change the angle. They couldn't quite get it right. Then all of a sudden, boom! You have the Great Pyramid. Perfect! Huge structure, but it's perfectly aligned, north, south, east, west, perfectly straight lines, using very crude instruments compared to our instruments today, but not so crude that they could not do it correctly. In fact, if we were to build the Great Pyramid today, we're not sure we could. These were learned men. These men were movers and shakers. These men were the Donald Trumps of their culture. And if you try to pinpoint them on a map, and we will as we go through the book, one man was very wealthy and influential in Canaan, one man in Edom, one man in Aram, one man in the Arabian desert that's nearby. And you see, they kind of, had a relationship because they were the movers and shakers of the cultures in which they lived and networked together. I don't say they were political heads, though anybody with wealth and influence is always political. I'm always amused when someone says I'm apolitical. Well, Unless you're living by yourself and have no interaction with anybody else, you're not apolitical. Because politics is nothing more than human relationships acted out. And on most of our levels, it's very simple. As the structures get more complex, as we get more people involved, certainly The politics or the interrelationships get more complex as you try to meet the needs of more and more people. But I don't want to digress too far off the beaten path here. So what is the main point of the book? Why do bad things happen to people? Why do they happen? This has been the point of Western philosophy since the time of Socrates, Aristotle, and Plato. It was taken up in the medieval prophets with Augustine, who tried to mesh the Bible in to match Aristillian and Platonic thought, thus ignoring the admonition of scripture that said, do not seek worldly things. and all those who followed him in the medieval period continued this trend. But in the modern period, starting with Descartes, they totally threw God out. That's what modern means, without God. I think, therefore I am, that is all that matters. There is no God, there's just me, which means then that you are the God. And indeed, that is what atheism is. It doesn't mean no God, It means I'm going to do it without God. Which means that I am God. Because man is a religious person by nature. Because we are made in God's nature. Maglia Deo. We are made in the image of God. Thus, by nature, we are a people of faith. What do we put our faith in? Well, that's what we're going to look at here in the Book of Job. The Book of Job also debates how God works with men. Does God always punish the evildoer and bless the good guy? Because if that's the case, then Job's friends are right and Job is wrong. But did Job do anything bad to deserve this judgment, if indeed it was judgment. And if he didn't, then his three friends are incorrect, but they're not listening to Job. And indeed, once people get an opinion or conclusion in their mind, it is impossible to get them off that conclusion. After over a quarter of a century in health care, I can tell you that facts do not change minds. Only values changes a person's life. I can give you all the facts. So what? You will put them into a context, into a worldview that is different than the worldview or the context of the facts that I am trying to give you. And that is why people don't stop smoking. That is why people drink and destroy their livers. That's why people do all these things. And we all do them in one degree or another, in one form or another, in one fashion or another. Because that is what sin is. That is what the flesh does. Another thing the book of Job will do is, or not do in fact, it doesn't discuss whether to believe in God or not believe in God. That's not enough for discussion. They all believe in God. Well, I don't believe in God, therefore I don't need to read the book of Job. It doesn't pertain and no one is going to be interested in hearing it because they don't believe in God either. Well, there is no proof, there is no system of postulates There's no argument I could put together, logic or otherwise, that would ever convince you that there is a God. And the Bible does not even try. The Bible starts off, in the beginning, God. That's it. I'm not going to try to prove to you that I exist. I exist. If you do not want to believe that, then you must prove that I do not exist. Thus the weight of the burden of proof is on mankind to prove there is no God. Not to say, put your hand over your eye and say, I don't believe in a God, therefore God doesn't exist. It's like saying, I don't believe in policemen, therefore they do not exist. And I can live as I want to. And the moment you commit crimes, you discover The police do exist. And you have to take that into account. Or if you're the mindset that there's evil in the world and if there is a God and he's allowed evil, he must be an evil God. I don't like God, therefore God does not exist. That's like saying, once again, I don't like cops. I don't like policemen. Therefore, I'm going to live as I want to live. And when you break those laws of your community, you discover to your chagrin that you may not like the police, but that does not negate the fact that they do exist. And this book provides you and me with a glimpse of something that is almost incomprehensible. In Hebrews chapter 11 verse 3, the Bible talks about the things that are visible being made from those things that are invisible. Now we need to understand these terms very clearly so we don't get confused. We are in the flesh. We have physical material bodies. Our bodies have five senses. Sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. That's it. There's no third eye. There's no invisible penile gland someplace that's getting Morse code from the spiritual realm. We have no mechanism other than these five senses. Thus, it is called empiricism or materialism. Now those that believe strictly in evolution and in nature are empiricists. I will believe only what my five senses can perceive. Now there are shortcomings to that viewpoint. Because how do you define good or evil or beauty or morality based on the five senses? And you can't. And the moment that they try, they start floundering. And they've been, this line of thought goes back to about the 17th century, I believe, in England. In fact, John Locke, from whose ideas the founding fathers borrowed to develop the Constitution. He was an empiricist. And this is the problem empiricists have. How do I explain these terms that cannot be perceived with the five senses? What are these terms, then, that are not perceivable to the five senses? We call them metaphysical. physical. They are beyond the physical senses. Now we all believe in these things. I cannot prove to you what beauty is. I cannot define to you what beauty is. But we all agree on general principles of beauty when we see it. A rose is beautiful. Why? I can't tell you. But it is. A broken down busted tree is ugly. Why? I can't tell you what ugly is. I just know it when I see it. Good and evil are other issues that come from within us because we're made, once again, in the image of God. Thus, we are all moral beings. And to deny that God exists means to deny how to explain why all people in all cultures throughout all history have the same basic rules. Like, don't kill. Don't steal. Don't lie. And we want to begin to understand Job. Now this is before the Mosaic Law. There is no Israel. There are no Jews. There are just those people that have come through the flood and they've repopulated the earth. They're in the process of repopulating the earth. And Job comes sometime after the flood, but not so far distant that there is no collective memory of the flood. One of the handouts that I've, well, the graphics I've put in my handout shows you that Job did indeed have witnesses to the flood in the form of Shem. And Shem taught everyone about the flood, why the flood came, and about God. Canaan, probably not so much, since he was not a real believer in God and all of that. And we know that from his sin against his father, and the curse his father laid upon him. And of Japheth, we just don't have any information to draw any conclusions whatsoever. But Shem, and the name in Hebrew, means name. So Shem's name is name. What are you going to name your boy? Name. Now it may come as a shock to you, but I have a cat at home. Well, it's not mine. He just lives in my house. And he has a name. And it's cat. I say, come here, cat. And when it decides to, it comes here. It answers to the name cat when it's not answering to food. Now, the family has a name for the cat, and it'll answer that, but I just call it cat. What do you call your cat? Cat. What do you call your dog? Dog. What if you have two dogs? Dogs. What are you going to name your boy? Name. And that's what they did. And that's his name. But it means that he is carrying forth THE name. The name of God. And there are conclaves of believers. Now we know this because Abraham ran into Melchizedek. He was a priest of the Most High God. He was one who was propagating the knowledge of God. And we can read about that in Genesis. So Job lived around the time of Genesis 12 through 18, somewhere in that time frame. We're going to do that very roughly. Job had knowledge of the flood. And Job was very afraid of the flood. Now what's the take home message of the flood? You do bad and God will kill you. You do bad enough and God will kill everybody. That's the message of the flood. Not much mercy, not much love, not much forgiveness, not much long suffering. You do evil, everyone dies. So what's Job doing? Job's offering sacrifices. He's offering them all the time. He has seven sons. They're holding a feast in their house. One son's house on Monday. Another one on Tuesday. Another one on Wednesday. So on throughout the week. And they invite their sisters. And it's one big happy party. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, etc. And they cycle through again. And Job's getting up every morning and said they were eating and drinking and They might have cursed God. They might have sinned. I'm going to do a burnt offering. I'm going to do a burnt offering for them. Because I don't want God to kill them. I don't want them to die. I don't want bad things to happen to me. Because when you do evil with God, God will punish you. And that's never a good outcome. So Job was constantly offering up these sacrifices. Job was religious. Job was pious. I'm going to take the position that Job was not saved. Every person we see that has a relationship with God and the Bible, and that's what a salvation is, it's a relationship with God, understands God's character in some form or fashion. His character of love, his character of mercy, of forgiveness, of longsuffering. not of a mean, hard-hearted, mean-spirited God who's waiting to punish all the time. Remember the story of the talents? The guy who was given 10 talents, the one who was given 5, the one who was given 1. The guy who had 10 went out and earned 10. The guy who had 5 went out and earned 5. The guy who had 1, he went and buried it. And come time, they had to give an accounting for it. He said, I knew you were mean. I knew you were skin flying. I knew you took what you didn't sow. Now he's calling him a thief. So I buried it, and here it is. I gave it back to you. I didn't lose it. I don't think much of you, but I didn't lose it. What happened? Master took that one talent, gave it to the man who had 10, and that servant went out into outer darkness with his weeping and gnashing of teeth. If that is your view of God, that he's mean, that he's unmerciful, I can't see how you have a relationship with him. Because relationships means you know the person. You know the character. And who wants to be bound together with somebody who's like that? Who can turn on you in an instance, like a mad dog. And while many of the lost see God as a mad dog, I do not see him that way at all. Now, is Job a good father? We don't get much of information about his children, but we're given enough to know that they're doing a lot of partying, not a lot of working. They're not helping their father. They're going through the money fast, but they're not helping to make the money. And they're adults. Why are they not burning their own sacrifices? Yes, Job is the patriarch. Job is the ultimate source of authority for this family group. But aren't each one of us responsible for our own households, for our own individual families, for our own individual selves? Job not teaching his children to do for themselves. Was Job a good parent? There are many like that in the world today who give everything to their children only to discover that their children are giving nothing back. They're not reflecting back love, mercy, long suffering. What they are reflecting back is mean-spirited. If you don't allow me to do what I want, I'll become vile to you. I will curse you. I will throw my temper tantrums and hate you until you allow me to do what I want. Then I will love you again. It goes along with that relationship thing with God that if that's your relationship with God, I want to say that you probably don't have a relationship with God, except in your own mind. And if this is the result of your parenting, you probably don't have a good relationship with your kids no matter what you think. And no matter what their age is, whether they're five years old or 50 years old, this is how they treat you. You don't have the relationship with them you think you do. But it's the one that you've earned because it's the one that you taught them. And what about Job's wife? She's got one line in the whole book. Everyone knows it. Curse God and die. I want to say that Job's wife is probably the most honest character in the scriptures, in this book. Now, when we come to that line in a future lesson, we're going to to go into it a little bit more in detail, but I want to leave you with the thought that she's honest. And in the first couple of chapters, I don't think Job is very honest. And we'll cover that in the next lesson. So Job sounds very pious. He's been talked about for centuries, the patience of Job. But we have a problem with that whole image when we get to chapters 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, all the way up to the end of the 30s there. Well, into the 30s. And all we hear about Job is whining. That sounds like a very patient person to me. Oh, he does in the first couple of chapters here. Now, that's all you ever read about Job. then yes, he's got patience. And you can talk about the righteous patience of Joe. Well, didn't God call him blameless and upright? Indeed, he did. But that's for a future lesson. And we'll discuss in what context that that statement was probably made. Now, there's a drawing in your handout that I have developed over the years. And we're going to spend some time going over this. This is what I call the hagiazo process. Hagiazo is a Greek word that has been translated into English, meaning sanctify. I will sanctify you. You know, and I never could really get a grasp of what is a sanctifying stuff. But when I started learning Greek and I learned what the Greek word for holy was, hageas, I got it. Hageazo is I am making you hageas, holy. I am setting you aside for myself. I am changing you so that you are no longer of this world. I am remaking you in my, not in my image, we already did that, but I'm making you now into the image of Christ, the new covenant, where his spirit is within us. It's Hagia Zola process. And I developed this graphic about 10, 12 years ago. as I was more working on my doctorate and studying the Greek and going through some crisis in my life. And I'd read book, I'd read the book of Job and studied it some years before that. And I just said, you know, why does God give light to a person and then shut them off? Why is this always under stress? Why am I always under stress? Why am, why, why, why? Me, me, me. I, I, I. So if you're under any illusions that I'm not a fleshly person, I want to dispel that right now because I was born of woman. I was born in inequity and sin and I struggle with it like everyone else does. In fact, I am the worst sinner that I know. I wouldn't leave myself unguarded for a heartbeat for fear of where my mind would take me. And we're all made that way in the flesh. Christ knew our natures. He created our flesh. He knows the flesh. He knows how desperately wicked it is. And your heart is more desperately wicked than you can imagine. It's only by the grace of God that you don't experience the depths of how desperately wicked it is. Or if you do get a taste of that, it should make you very afraid. And run to God for salvation, for that relationship, for him to put a hold on that flesh. That's what most of the New Testament is about, being remade into the image of Christ, from the image of flesh. This process is described in Romans chapter five, verses three through five. James chapter 1 verses 2 through 4. As well as in 2 Peter chapter 1 verses 5 through 8. I'll leave you to go and look at those sections of scripture on your own. Romans and James, those verses are what God does for you. What God will do to you. The ones that Peter now are the ones that you're supposed to be doing. If you're maturing in Christ, these are what you are doing. And you need to read them and use those as a blueprint, as a template for how you're going to mature in Christ. Because we do have a part in this. We do have a responsibility in this. I believe in the sovereignty of God. It's in the scriptures. I cannot ignore election. I cannot ignore predestination. But by the same token, I also cannot ignore man's responsibility based upon man's choices. They're not mutually exclusive. They're both at work simultaneously. I think J. Vernon McGee described it best when he said, give the illustration of Ruth. who went out looking for a field to glean in. From God's perspective, she was going to glean in Boaz's field. He had already determined that before he ever made it into heaven and earth, Ephesians chapter 1. From her perspective, she's just walking down the dusty road, looking at the workers, saying, which field can I glean in and not be raped, not be molested? What can return home safely with something so that my mother-in-law and I can eat. Something about that field. I'll choose Boaz's field. She made a choice. But that choice was already God's choice. I can't get into any more detail than that. That's how they mesh together. This is how they work together. And this is how we need to understand this Haggazzo process. Part of it, God has already determined. Part of it, God is already doing. Part of it, We have to do. And they coincide and mesh together in perfect harmony. We see examples of this in the scripture. We see examples of, well, Job. That's why we're studying the book of Job. So we can understand this hyazote process and try to understand our errors of thinking. So that we can have a more clear understanding of what it is we think we know. So we can find the errors in our thinking, the errors in our understanding, and allow the scripture to change them. So we have a better understanding of ourselves and of God. And remove those elements from our thinking that are clouding us. Remember Peter in Luke chapter 22 verses 31 and 32. Christ comes to Peter and says, Peter, Satan has asked to grind you down like wheat, but I have prayed for you. And if I was Peter, I'd be thinking about that time. Good. Missed that one. Christ is praying for me, therefore it's clear sailing. That's not what Jesus said. He said, I have prayed for you, that when you come through it, you'll be a better person. I go, what? What do you mean go through it? How many of us are praying for God, to God, to remove these things in our life that are there as part of the Haggaizo process? to build and develop us, to show us the deceitfulness of the flesh, the weakness of the flesh, so that we can run to the strength of Christ and find refuge. And yet we're asking for Him to remove them so that we don't have to understand our weakness and rely on His strength. You think God's going to be answering those prayers? He didn't prevent Peter from going through it. And it crushed Peter, just like Satan wanted to do. And Christ had to go get him. And tell him, you're still an apostle. I still have a mission for you. But now you're going to not trust you and your strength. You're going to trust me. Even when I'm not here. And how about Paul? He had a revelation from God. Walked in heaven. Yeah. If you are praying to God, show me a revelation. You need to be thinking this one through a little bit better. Because once God gave Paul this revelation up in the third heaven, spiritual heaven, like we're going to peek behind the scenes in the next lesson and get a glimpse of, God said, now I'm going to allow Satan to bother you, to afflict you. So you'll understand that yes, you got to see this. And it's magnificent. But you're still just a man. You don't have any special pull with anybody. And this messenger from Satan is going to reveal to you just how weak in the flesh you actually are. And Paul prayed. Take this thing away. He prayed three times. Finally God said you can stop praying because it's not going anyplace. You're going to have it the rest of your life. So let's get on with the work at hand. Think of Israel on the riverbank wrestling with God. Bless me. You want to be blessed? I'll bless you. You won't limp the rest of your life. With every painful step you take you're going to remember me. and you're going to know that you're weak. And you need my strength. And you're going to rest in me. That's how I'm going to bless you. And he did. So let's look at that drawing. Notice across the top, there are two words that you probably can't read. The top one is thlypsus, thlypsus. It's frequently translated as tribulation. It means pressing down. When you get into a tough situation, you feel the weight of it pressing you down. So much so that you almost can't stand up physically. That's slipsus. The megaslipsus is the great tribulation. And the word beneath that is, Parismai, which means testings, or parismas, which is singular. Sometimes, especially in the old King James, it's translated frequently as temptation. Temptation is a part of being tested, but it's not the end all and be all of being tested. It's a whole process, this testing process. And this is what Job is going through. This is what Peter went through. This is what Paul went through. This is what all his people go through. This testing process, this prismoi, sometimes it's brought on by our own selves. Sometimes it's just brought on, as we're going to discover with Job. It's just going to happen. Like with Peter. Did Peter do anything wrong? Nope. Satan came and asked permission to kick Peter's booty, and he got it. Whoa. Peter didn't do anything. He didn't do good, he didn't do bad, he didn't do anything. And this came to him. Notice, time is what pushes us through this. And Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit are our paracletoi. They are our advocates. They are our barristers, our lawyers, that stand at our sides before the court of the Father. So it's Satan, whose name means accuser, I might add, is accusing us of sin, of being unrighteous, of being fleshly, of being capable of doing these terrible things. And they're all true. It's all right. We don't have to stand there and say, you're right. I'm all those things. I don't deserve anything. And Christ is standing there saying, mine. Holy Spirit's saying, groan. Okay, he groaned, I got it. He really means to say this. And we are able to stand there only because of the righteousness of Christ that covers us. Not because of our own righteousness. But if without this Haggazot process, we stand there and think we're righteous enough to talk to God. Which we're going to discover that Job thought he was righteous enough to go into heaven and talk to God and plead his case. Which shows that Job didn't have a clue about God and His holiness. Or about Job's own sinfulness. He didn't have any understanding of any of that. So how could he be saved? And finally, what I really want us to do is to think. I don't expect you to believe or agree with everything I say, but I want you to think about everything I say. If you disagree with what I say, I don't want to hear I think, or I believe, or I trust. Because I think or I believe carries no more weight coming out of your lips than it does out of my lips. Because opinions are like heads. Everybody's got one. And they don't mean anything. I want to hear what the scriptures say. Can you support what you think out of the scriptures? If you can't, Then you need to go back to the scriptures and read them. And that's a lifelong endeavor. But as people of the book, that's what we're supposed to be doing. So that we understand what God is making us into. Was Job saved at the beginning of the book? I say no. A lot of people say yes. What do you believe? Why do you believe it? Did Job's wife lack faith? Or was she honest in her response? I don't know if she lacked faith. I don't know if she had faith. From one line, from one sentence, it's almost impossible to draw a conclusion about her spiritual condition. But I can tell you this, she said what was on her heart to say. That is the beginning of repentance. is being honest with yourself and being honest with God. Was the death of Job's children unjust? And that's coming in the next lesson. And how do we know when God is moving in our lives and whether he's even answering our prayers? How often do we mistakenly give praise to God for what Satan has done or vice versa? God has blessed America. How do we know? We've prospered. How do we know that's from God? Israel in the book of Hosea was prospering, but God was saying to Hosea to tell him you have missed the mark. All this prosperity has taken you away from me. Who said that prosperity was from God? Can not Satan give you prosperity? Well, I prayed, and God opened the door. How do you know God opened that door? And why are you even praying such a prayer? When you ask for a sign, that, in itself, shows you lack of faith. You have small faith. Like Gideon. Let me ask you a sign. Well, you gave me a sign. Let me ask you another sign. You answered them, too. Let me get, I want another sign. That's just lack of faith. What makes you think, How do you know? That's the challenge. How do you know what you think you know? I've sat in churches for 30 years listening to people tell me what God knew, what God is doing. How did they know? And was it evident in their own life? Is it evident in your life? Because The time to discover this is not when we stand before the BEMA seat and we have to give an account and we can't change it then. The time to do that is now. Thank you.