I just wanted to show, there he is, the young guy going to school for motorcycle work. And I just, I quickly wanted to show him this carbon dioxide stuff, because I know they talk about that and they try and change the whole earth based on carbon dioxide. So I just, I want to teach you real quick some basic science. Liberals are able to confuse people because they make sure they keep basic facts from them. Remember the ozone layer was disappearing years ago, do you remember? People don't even know what ozone is. They don't know where it comes from. They don't know anything. I could teach you that, too. Now the big issue, ozone, we're finished with that. Now we're going to confuse you with carbon dioxide. So let me just show you air. The air that we breathe is a compound made up of many different atoms, many different elements. And the number one element in air is nitrogen. I didn't know if you're aware of that. But the air that you're breathing in this room is 78% nitrogen. and then it is 21% oxygen. So you add those two numbers, that's nine and nine, you got 99% of your air is taken up by these two atoms here, the elements nitrogen and oxygen. There's 1% of air left over with trace elements. The greatest one is argon, which is, there's 1% left, makes up the 0.93, almost 1%, but not quite. That leaves 0.07 percent left. I'm going to show you this in numbers in a moment, because I know percents are confusing. I just want to get the percents up there. And now we've got finally carbon dioxide, which is 0.039 percent. So let me just put this in real numbers for you so you can understand it. Let's take a sample of air with 100,000 molecules in it. We'll convert this to molecules. So if I'm taking a sample with 100,000 in it, Let's take a look. 78% of 100,000 is 78,000. 21% of 100,000 is 21,000. So of the 100,000 molecules, 99,000 is made up of these guys here. leaving 1,000 molecules out of 100,000 leftover of other stuff, of which 930 of the 1,000 leftover is argon. Which means there's 70 trace gases left in the air, of which 39 39 out of 100,000, 39 out of every 100,000 molecules of air on this planet is carbon dioxide. Now, the liberals say man is the problem. Well, let's take a look at that. Of the 39, 37 come from the ocean. The biggest part of planet Earth is ocean. 37 of the 39 carbon dioxide molecules come from the ocean. Man doesn't have a thing to do with it. Of the two left over, one comes from all the other plants and animals on the planet. Man's contribution is one molecule of carbon dioxide for every 100,000 molecules in the air. Now, the liberal who lies, remember liberals lie, Isaiah 32 verse 5, Isaiah 32 verse 5, know that liberals are vile, God says, okay, that's what God calls them, he's right. And we're talking about a scientific liberal, that's a professional, by the way, the first three out of the first four letters of liberal is L, I, and E. That's just a coincidence. No, God wrote the English language. They're liars. They're professional liars. They tell lies. Okay, now, man makes one of the carbon dioxide molecules floating for every 100,000. He mostly does it by breathing. I do not know if you understand the carbon cycle. If you'd like, I will teach you the carbon cycle. Let me teach you this much truth. When God created, back in Genesis 1.1, he created a fixed number of atoms in the universe and they're not disappearing. It's the law of conservation of mass and energy. It's the first law of thermodynamics. There's not one less carbon atom today than there was when God created. There's not one less drop of water on this planet than when God created. There's a water cycle, folks. We're not running out of water. It recycles. The water you're drinking today, God knows where it was six years ago. Go ahead. Okay. How are we running out of earth? The beaches may recede, the water may move this way, sometimes it moves up that way, sometimes it drops into a well, but it circles around the Earth. And we haven't lost one drop of water. It cycles. So does the carbon, whether the carbon is in a carbon dioxide molecule, whether it's in a hydrocarbon, whether it's in a protein structure which has a carbon background to it. As a matter of fact, carbon is the molecule of life. But anyways, it cycles all around. These things all cycle around. But my point is this, man contributes one. Let's say man doubled his carbon dioxide output in a year, and now instead of one, we're contributing two, so this goes from 39 to 40. Let's say we tripled, and we went to three, and now there's 41 carbon dioxide molecules for every 100,000. The question is, would that increase have any impact or effect? The answer is yes, and it's beneficial. because when God first made the garden, the research we're able to do of the few things we're able to get that were pre-flood, when we look into them into the trees, we find there was a higher oxygen ratio and a higher carbon dioxide ratio. These numbers were different pre-flood. As a matter of fact, this number was closer to 30% at that time. That gives you more oxygen. We want to heal wounds. We put people in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber to give more oxygen to them. This was higher. This is why people live to the age of 1,000. This is why back then a runner could run about 150 miles before he got tired. because there was so much oxygen in the air and so much oxygen pumped into his hemoglobin molecules that he didn't wear out. You get tired now when you run, because you run out of oxygen, you go into anaerobic metabolism, you get lactic acid, oh, my side hurts, I can't run anymore. But when you got a hyperbaric, you keep right on running, it doesn't bother you at all, because there's plenty of oxygen. So these numbers were different, and back when the Lord set the thing up in the garden, it was closer to this number. It was almost double what it is here. By the way, that's how he's going to reset it in the millennium. He's going to reset these things in the millennium, and the oxygen will be richer, and there will be more carbon dioxide. It's not bad. It's actually good. Now, if you get beyond this, it can get a little troublesome. When you study science, if you ever study science, if you can never find good science teachers anymore, and you do study science, you will learn that Lord puts systems in place that are like sine waves. They have maximum and minimums, and as long as you're in the middle of the wave, things are okay. You get in trouble when you get beyond the wave or beneath the wave. For example, you go to do a blood test, and they'll look at your hemoglobin, If the hemoglobin is somewhere between, let's say, 11.5 and 14.2, you're okay. But if it gets start below 11.5, then we gotta start worrying about maybe transfusing you, things like this. So God puts things in with boundaries that allow you to move in and out. And it's just the way he makes all of his systems. And he did the same with carbon dioxide. He's got a little bit of a system there. So they're alarming you over nothing. They're idiots. Now, it's one of two things. I think most of the kids at the colleges that come knocking on your door and are environmentally crazy and excited have mostly been taught by a bad teacher and they've never seen this. Just like the kids that used to come tell me the ozone layer was disappearing. They never saw this. I used to ask them, I said, son, do you know what ozone is? Do you know where it comes from? Then how do you know it's disappearing? You don't even know what you're talking about. But they're fed, they're excited, and they go off with a lot of zeal with no knowledge. In case you want to know what ozone is, I told you oxygen is in the atmosphere, right? And when ultraviolet rays come down from the sun, if it hits directly on an oxygen molecule, it will split the thing up into two separate oxygen atoms. Now, ideally those atoms would like to find each other and get back together, but It'd be like if you went to the World's Fair with two of your kids, and it's just loaded with people, thousands of people. There's thousands of oxygen molecules, few atoms around, and all of a sudden the two kids get separated from you. They'd like to find you again, but if they're just blindly holding their hand up and grabbing on. They're likely to grab onto someone else's hand by accident. And what happens is the ultraviolet rays hit this thing, two atoms split up, and instead of getting back together, they join to another O2 and become O3. And O3 is ozone. That's all ozone is. It's O3. And ozone is being formed as long as the sun shines. It's being formed right now. And what happens at night? Well, it's being formed on the other side of the planet. So it's being formed 24 hours a day. The real question is, why aren't we awash in the stuff? And the reason is God set up a cycle. As the ozone is being formed from above, God has a way to break it down from below. And the way he breaks it down from below is he uses chlorine gas. And chlorine gas goes up and it captures that one extra oxygen onto here, makes chloroxide, and turns this back into oxygen. So it's a kind of steady state. The sun is forming it, the chlorine is breaking it up. So they used to say, well, our spray cans are going to ruin the ozone layer. that's a bad theory. Now it is true inside of a spray can there's something called hydrofluorocarbons. They're complex molecules that have a carbon backbone to them and they have some fluorine atoms and they have a couple of chloride atoms. That's true. But they're very heavy and when you spray them they go like this. They fall right back down to the ground. They don't go up. They can't reach the ozone layer which is about 80,000 feet up there. They can't reach it. So the question is, how does ozone get broken down? Where's the chlorine coming from? The ocean. The ocean puts out 600 million tons of chlorine gas a year. The most we ever made in our little cans was 75,000 tons versus 600 million. And that's if they ever got up there. And if they did get up there, this is a very stable bond. It takes chlorine gas, not a hydrofluorochlorocarbon, to break down ozone. You can put them in the same room, they won't talk, they won't kiss, they won't touch. Again, what they count on is your ignorance and stupidity of science, which is a pretty good bet in America. Because there's no good science teachers. And so they can foist anything they want on you and get you worried about it. And I want to tell you, no matter what problem they bring to you, they always have the same solution. It's like the Chinese guy, we need more Kaogang. These guys, you know what their answer is to everything? We need more government. We need more government. That's their answer to everything. We need more government. We need another bureau. We need another agency. We need higher taxes. We need more government. We need higher taxes. We need more socialism. That's their answer to every problem. Have you figured that out? Pay attention to them for a while. Go back and look at all their problems. It's always the same answer. Government is the god of these people. If you're not certain about it, go to the mall and talk to any random person and say, what do you think is the biggest problem in America? And they'll give you whatever. It could be racism. It could be guns. I don't know what they'll, it could be the environment, no matter what it is. And then ask them, say, what do you think we should do to fix it? And they'll say, well, you know, the government ought to, that's their god. So just understand. Okay, so sorry for a little science lesson. I just wanted to clear that up for my friend in the back, because don't worry about carbon dioxide. It's not an issue, okay? It's actually good. It's part of the carbon cycle. It works very well. And we don't need to teach the carbon cycle this morning. All right. What I was gonna show you, if you wanted, was some things on prophecy. But I don't know if anybody's interested. Brother Mike, am I supposed, is there a Sunday school tomorrow? no Sunday school so I'm only teaching the evening then I'm not gonna get I if there were Sunday school is going to teach it if you want I would could show you something some prophecy and if not we can just eat some more with whatever you folks want is fine by me got questions fire away what did you have to teach us what did you have to teach us brother some things on the second coming actually I think that would be blessing because I know Dave was supposed to write down he had more to his question yesterday but he didn't want to monopolize the time and he was talking about and I don't know how this would dovetail in or not but he was talking about the time frames not just not just what we dealt with the marriage supper the lamb he was helped on yesterday said that was great but he was thinking like from the time of the rapture the judgment seat of Christ he was just hoping for a little more detail on all of that time frame and like this scale of events if you if you follow me and i don't know if that would tie in and or not but that seven-year period had even has me confused i was just looking at the at the grouping as to approximately one that the lord uh... might return and um... uh... you know i i i know it is true that he says things uh... in matthew twenty four of that day in that hour no man know if that you're familiar with the passage Let me get my Bible out. I'm working with one hand here. I'll do what I can. Now, you do understand that in that particular passage of Matthew, he was sitting on the Mount of Olives, he was looking at the temple, and he was being asked a question by Jewish men about Jewish times, and he was explaining about that second coming there, and what he's saying in Matthew 24 of 36, of that day and hour, knoweth no man, not the angels of heaven, but my Father, Only he's talking about the actual return of the Lord to land on Mount Zion and to set up his kingdom in Jerusalem he's not talking about the rapture and and the reason he says that particularly is think about this imagine you are saved in the time of the trip and whether you're saved as a Jew or you're saved as a Gentile in the time of the Trib, maybe the first year of the Trib, let's say. And so you get saved, and one of the things you do when you get saved, you start reading the Bible. And so you're looking at the Bible, and you're starting to put all these things together, and you know how much better it is to see through the lens of history than the lens of prophecy, because after all, we know when he came, we know things from the past, we struggle on things in the future. So you get saved a year later, and you go, okay, I get this, I get this, oh, the rapture, That's that event that took place 12 months ago when all them folks disappeared. All right, so I mean now you know the day of the rapture. Then the next thing you're reading through your Bible and you hit Daniel chapter nine and you say, ah, this thing is a week. This thing is seven years. So you say to yourself, seven years from that day is when he returns. And that might be the simplistic thought that would cross your mind in the middle of the trip. And he says, it's not gonna be that easy. Now, the pattern that the Lord had set up for prophecy, there's two patterns that he overlays. The first one is in Job chapter 24. We were in Matthew 24, now we're in Job 24. Tell you those chapter and verse markings, they're inspired. They're no accident. And in Job chapter 24, he asks this question, and he says, why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, Do they that know him not see his days? So let's take a look at the appositive. If you just throw it out, the question is, why do they that know him, the Almighty, not see his days? That's the question they're asking you, the reader. I mean, if you know God, why don't you see his days? He says in the appositive, seeing the times not hidden from the Almighty, he knows his days. Why don't you know his days? Now, So what exactly are you saying here, Lord? Well, his days are a little different than our days. His ways are not as our ways. His days are spelled out in two places, Psalm 90 and 2 Peter 3, and you know where I'm going. They're basically 1,000 years. A day unto the Lord is 1,000 years. And what he's, that's Psalm 90 verse 4, a thousand years are in thy sight are but as yesterday. Be not ignorant of this one thing, beloved, a day with the Lord is as a thousand years. And what he's trying to show you is God's timing, the pattern that he's setting forth is gonna be a seven day pattern, which recurs throughout the scriptures. So on the timeline from the garden until the glorious day of rest, the millennium, when the Lord's setting up, that's day seven, he's got six days of labor. And Jesus said, my father worketh hitherto. And what he means is from the moment Adam and Eve sinned in the garden from the foundation of the world, that's when the world was founded. The foundation of the world was when those two messed up in the garden. This present evil world was founded when they messed up in the garden. Before that, there wasn't a world, okay? There was an earth, there was two people on it, but the world system had not been established till they sinned and this present evil world kicked off. And from that point forward, God the Father and God the Son have been working, trying to redeem it. And the work of redemption is more difficult than the work of creation. taking a lot more time. It took him only six days to create, it's taken him six of his days to recreate. A lot of work on his part. And so, let me see if I can do this. One, two, three, four, okay, yeah, that's close enough for rock and roll. Let's see, right here. When we used to tune up, if you're tuning up for classical, you've got to be precise. When you're tuning up for rock and roll, if you're a half step off, nobody knows. It's fine. All right, and so day number one, day number two, day number three, day number four, and then the Lord comes, does his work, day number five, day number six, and then the return of the Lord, where the father can stop working and the father can rest, because his son's got everything under control. So that's a simple pattern that he's setting up there. That pattern is found in many places in the scriptures, We'll go to a few, you probably know them yourself. Hosea chapter 6, probably your pastors taught you this. I'll show you a few places where this thing is found. Some are like right on the surface, and some of them are like Proverbs 25, it's the glory of God to conceal a thing, an honor of kings to search it out. Some of them are just beneath the surface. But we'll look at the surface one right here. And Hosea chapter six, and Hosea is encouraging, verse one, He will raise us up and we shall live in His sight. So, Hosea looking prophetically at the nation of Israel from the time of the Messiah, knowing that what was going to happen was Israel would be put on the side, something new was going to be happening, and after two days, after day one, after day two, He will raise us up. On the third day, this would be day number three, from that counting standpoint, He'll stand on our sight, and it'll be very early in the day. He's gonna come back early, the sun rises early in the day. And so, there's one portrait of it. I mean, and again, why is this, it's not hidden from God, why would it be hidden from us? We ought to see this. A couple other places, I'll give you three other places where you'll find this laid out in pattern. Go to John chapter 4. John chapter 4. You see the pattern that confirming the whole thing about the day theory is kicked off with Job 24.1. That's your foundation text, and then you gotta run around and do these other things. In John chapter 4, which I think I'll teach tonight, because it's about soul winning, and in the third chapter, he dealt with a Jewish man. In the fourth chapter, he deals with a Gentile woman, okay? And he wins this Gentile woman in the fourth chapter. She's Samaritan. And if she's got Jewish blood in her, it's way less than half. I mean, by that point, hundreds of years later, after the Assyrian kings had brought in those people, and intermarried, intermarried, intermarried, she got a little bit of Jewish blood. She's mostly Gentile. And here he is, and he wins this woman over, and then she runs to get the town folks, verse 39, and many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman which he testified, and she said, he told me all that I ever did. Verse 40, so when the Samaritans were come to him, they besought him that he would tarry with them and he abode there two days. It's a portrait of when God is finished with the Jews like Nicodemus, he moves into Gentile territory and he abides for two days. And for basically two days, the Lord Jesus Christ had been abiding in Gentile territory. And so that's a portrait there, a little just, and he mentions that again, verse 43, and after two days he departed thence. And then he went into Galilee, and he's probably going to, what's gonna actually happen there is in the middle of the trib, he's gonna reveal himself to his people that have fled outside the land, that have obeyed the command, flee from Jerusalem, and they're outside of Jerusalem, and just like Joseph revealed himself, he's gonna reveal himself to the believing Jews at that time. That's the portrait there. But again, after two days, after two days. Let me show you another place where you get the two days. This is a little deeper. Luke chapter 10. And this is really hidden. And there are some things he hides here. Luke chapter 10. It's a common teaching. It's called the Parable of the Good Samaritan. And in the Parable of the Good Samaritan, which is a portrait of salvation. Mike, you've taught them this, right? The Parable of the Good Samaritan is a portrait of salvation. It's a parable about salvation. Yes. Right. I mean, there was a man who went down from Jerusalem to Jericho. And topography, if you ever studied the topography of Israel, Jerusalem is 2,700 feet above sea level. Jericho is 1,300 feet below, 1,300, okay, 1,300 feet below sea level. There was a certain man that went from Jerusalem to Jericho. The mountain with God, that certain man was Adam. Adam was on the mountaintop with God. He went down into the valley of sin. How did that happen to him? Thieves came and stripped him of his raiment and wounded him and left him half dead. And at that point Adam and all of us were half dead. Next, the priest comes by, the Levite comes by. The priest would represent, let's say, religion. And religion can't save you. Levite represents the law. The law can't save you. But then the Then the Good Samaritan came. And again, the Samaritan was, in their time, a half-breed, half-Jew, half-Gentile. Jesus Christ is a half-breed. He's half-man, half-God. I mean, we want to think of that. He's not all earth. He's half-breed. And he comes by, has compassion, binds up the wounds, pours in the oil of the Holy Spirit, the wine of salvation, and sets him on his own beast, and brings him to an inn. That's a local church. And so now the saved person is brought by Jesus to the local church, and verse 35, notice what it says, and on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, gave them to the host, that's the pastor of the church, and said, take care of him, whatsoever thou spendest, when I come again, I will repay thee. Now, a pence, you gotta go back to Matthew 20 to understand what that means. Again, you gotta search these things out, but they're here. In Matthew chapter 20, the Lord Jesus Christ tells a story about a householder that goes out to hire people to work in his vineyard, and he says, I will pay you a penny a day. Two pence. Take care of him. Two days. And when I return, so there again is the two days hidden in the parable of the Good Samaritan. And I'll give you the last one, and the last one's a little deeper, and you gotta track with it. It kind of follows Genesis. Go to John. And you know John is like Genesis, because they both start in the beginning. And I'll show you the last one in Genesis. But John is interesting. In John chapter two, you have this story about Jesus at a wedding. And it says this in John chapter 2, Now if you go back to John chapter 1 very carefully, you'll observe the way this chapter is written, the first 18 verses are a prologue And then from verse 19 it becomes historical, and you begin to get a historical record of Jesus. Now watch this, verse 19. And this is the record of John. And then he tells you what happens on a certain day, and if you skip down to the next paragraph marking, which is verse 29, it says the next day. And then it tells you what happened on that day, and if you skip down to the next paragraph marking, verse 35, again the next day. And then it tells another story what happens that day. And then if you get down to 43, it says the day following. So watch this. I'm gonna put them here for John's gospel. The first one was in verse 19, which is day one. The next one is in verse 29, which is day two. The next one is in verse 35, which is day three. The next one is in verse 43, which is day four. Now comes the second chapter, and the third day there's a wedding. Watch this. After the fourth day, one, two, three, third day there's a wedding. There it is. So God's days are shown to us in the scriptures. So the first thing we know is I sadly hear even some of the best teachers of Christianity on radio in perplexity saying, well, you know, maybe he won't come back for another 500 years. Then it ain't kind of possible. It's not kind of possible. Now I'm gonna take you even deeper and get you closer as to when it's gonna be, because it's in here. And I'll show you some things. But first off, from a day theory, why? Seeing the times, they're not hidden from the Almighty. It's do they that know him not know his days. You got 95% of Christianity, I'm talking evangelical, that's clueless of this stuff. Shame on the Timothys that won't study to show themselves approved. I want to just ask for clarification's sakes that we're all on the same page, which this is great stuff by the way. I know these people get it for sure. We don't believe that you can know the day or the hour. When guys set a date, God always makes fools out of them. This day, it's going to happen. But I do believe that we're supposed to see the signs of the times. Yes, yes. To see the signs of His coming. Yes, the times and the seasons. So in our spirit, and obviously in studying the Word of God, we should recognize that we're getting real close. And I don't see a problem there scripturally saying, hey, within the next, looks like in the next few years it could happen. We know the seasons, correct? but to try to set an accurate date and time. I'm not going to do that, I'm not going to do that. I know you don't, and I wasn't expecting you to, but some people start getting nervous, like, well, no man can know the date. Well, I don't know, we should see the signs of the times. I'll tell you what I'm going to show you. I'm going to show you something God said in his own word that's going to bound him. God's going to set a boundary. I can tell you the year beyond which he cannot not come back. I'm going to show you from the book. He lays it in there. He set the boundaries. Again, it's going to take some study. So we should know though, it's kind of my conviction is that we should know. I'm going to give you a year. I'm going to put on that board beyond a shadow of a doubt that millennial kingdom was set up by that year. Will be set up by that. Has to be. Right. You're not saying that's the year he's coming back. You're saying that's the year. It'll be before that and I'm going to say it. Go ahead. I know that verse that everybody quotes is Matthew 23, Mark 13, Luke 17. It's about his return for the Jews, not the rapture. He doesn't say you can't know that. And I'll get to that later. So let's just look at the return and the setup of the kingdom, because so much is about that. And when I look at the rapture, I'll show you some things in typology in Leviticus 23. And you can pretty much know the day the rapture is going to occur. You just won't know here. But you can pretty much know what day, when the year does come, that it's going to fall on, because he laid that stuff out in terms of pattern. But right now, we're looking at the pattern here. And I showed you some of the prophets. We looked at Hosea. We looked at John. We looked at Luke. We looked at this setup here. Matter of fact, when I was a young Christian, let me show you something about Genesis chapter 1 and 2. That as a young Christian, you know so much you don't understand and you're trying to think through things and Genesis 1, so when you read Genesis 1, it's the story of the restoration, well, the first verse is about the creation, and then from verse three on, it's about the remodeling and restoration of the earth, so human creatures can live on it, because the angels have lost their first estate, and that goes on. And then it ends in verse 31, and God saw everything that he made, and behold, it was very good, and the evening and the morning were the sixth day. And so he describes these six days of labor in chapter one. And then in chapter two, he goes on and explains, and thus the heavens and earth were finished and all the host of them. Verse two, and on the seventh day, God ended his work. which he had made, and rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made, and God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because that in it he rested from all his work which God created and made, period, paragraph marking four. These are the generations of the heavens. And then you get into that, from this point forward in the fourth verse, he's like going back and he's restudying the sixth day. All right, so I'm a young Christian, I'm looking at this and I'm going, You know, Lord, what you probably should have done, this is me. You probably should have put verses one, two, and three back in chapter one, because chapter two is like focusing on the sixth day, and chapter one was about your creation work. Why would you put this on chapter two? See, the day that's in chapter two is the seventh day. And he's sanctifying it, he's setting it apart. Because the seventh day is for his second coming in chapter two. It's for the second coming in chapter two. And so even though it would make sense the way I was talking about from a narrative standpoint, to begin chapter two at verse four, from a sanctifying, putting it, and telling you, hey, second coming, seventh day, you know, second, he did it that way. So I'm telling you, the chapter and verse markings are inspired. Now, we're going to come back to Genesis in a moment, but I just want to get you back to Matthew 24. Matthew is a very important gospel. just as John is a very important Gospel. I would say they're the supremely two important Gospels. I would say the way God wrote the Gospels is He gave a double portion to the Jews. Remember, there's three groups. Do you know the three groups on planet Earth? The Jew, the Gentile, the Church of God. Okay. The Church has its Gospel, that's John. The Gentile got their Gospel, that's Luke. The Jews get two Gospels, Matthew and Mark. The difference is Matthew is written to the lost Jew and Mark's written to the saved Jew. Matthew has all these Old Testament references, talks only about the kingdom of heaven because that's the way a lost Jew thinks. And so the lost Jew needs all this information to get him saved. When he gets to Mark, Mark is the shortest. He talks about the kingdom of God because now you're saved, Jew. And it's work, work, work, work, work, work, work, because now as a saved Jew, you don't need proof anymore. Get out and do your work. And it ends with, go ye into the world, preach gospel to every creature. And all those things you hear at the end, and you can take up the serpents and drink this and all that, that was all for Jewish apostles who were saved because it's to Jews. But Matthew is an important gospel because there's a lot of cross-referencing from the Old Testament in it. And so, in this particular one, of the four discourses that the Lord Jesus Christ taught while he was here, three of them are in Matthew. one of them's in John, zero are in Mark or Luke, just portions, snippets of them. And the discourses were the Sermon on the Mount, the Mystery Parable, that's five, six, and seven, the Mystery Parables Discourse, one of the most difficult chapters in the Bible, understand, Matthew 13, and then the Olivet Discourse, which is what we're in right here, Matthew 24 and 25. And here in the Olivet Discourse, he's looking at the second, his second coming to set up his kingdom. And here, he's, explaining to us that, verse 29, immediately after the tribulation of those days, so we know we're looking after Revelation chapters 14, 15, 16, 17, then the sun's gonna be darkened and not give her light. Verse 30, and then shall appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven. And all the tribes of the earth shall mourn. This is Revelation 1, where every eye will see him. By the way, that's an interesting, ask me that question later. It's got nothing to do with TV. And I'll show you how he's gonna do it. It's got nothing to do with TV. In the tribulation, let me tell you the first thing, one of the first things God's going to do in the tribulation, taking all technology away from these folks. There's going to be no more GPS's, no more cell phones, no more computers. These folks are going to be plunged back into the Stone Age. When he says they're going to be on camels and horseback with spears, he's not kidding. All the nuclear weapons will be shot. I don't know if you know anything about that. Go ahead. I agree, and that's exactly what I thought, but one question my brother actually came up with, nobody's ever thought about it, is that, just like you said, Stone Age, but yet, no man can buy or sell without being able to read that mark. Yeah, that's right. Do you think that's a visible mark, or how else are they going to read that? It's Ezekiel Chapter 8. What's that? It's Ezekiel Chapter 8. The Mark of the Beast is Ezekiel Chapter 8. It's a tattoo. Okay. That's why they're preparing people with tattoos. It's got nothing to do with a chip in your hand. It's a tattoo with ink. But that's another story. I'm gonna leave my dog chip now. No, I'm just kidding. But he's going to destroy the technology. It's the first thing he's going to do. And nuclear weapons won't work, because I don't know if you know how to build a nuclear weapon. But to build a nuclear weapon, whether it's a fission bomb or a fusion bomb, whether it's the standard little bomb they use, like on Hiroshima or Nagasaki, or whether it's a hydrogen bomb, you need a trigger. And the trigger needs uranium or plutonium. And it has to be at a sustainable chain reaction amount, which is like 99 point And here's the point, that stuff naturally degrades. And if you don't restock your bombs like every six months, they're duds, they won't blow up. And we spend all kinds of time and money restocking our bombs. But when that tribulation hits, and the earthquakes hit, and people start dying, and cities are torn apart, our folks are gonna be so busy scurrying about that little by little by little, all the bombs are gonna lose their power, and within six months, there won't be a usable bomb on this planet. And that'll be the end of it. And then once the gas lines run out, because he's gonna fracture the gas lines with it, he knows how to throw an earthquake. I don't know if you remember the earthquake he threw in the 90s to the area where they had the pornographic capital in Los Angeles. All the seismologists were like, that's not even on a fault line. We map all the fault lines here. It's not even on a fault line. And instead of a vertical earthquake, it was horizontal, which blew their brain. We've never seen a horizontal earthquake underground like that. And that was God just letting you know, I can throw one anywhere I want, anytime I want, in any place I want. He'll destroy their pipelines in their oil fields. They're gonna have no oil. They're gonna have no gas. These folks are gonna be on foot in the dark. So anyways, so when they say everybody will see him, they're gonna see him naturally. Ain't gonna be with television. Ain't gonna be no TV. That's the Lord. Man's going to be a beast. You want to live like a beast, you don't have technology. Beasts don't have technology. And that's what's going to happen in the trip. But anyway, so every eye will see him. And I can show you how he's going to do that too, so that every eye can see him, because that's in Revelation buried. But anyway, so here's the thing. Verse 32, now learn a parable of the fig tree. When his branch is tender and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh. One of the things he's going to do, I showed you before about the concentration of oxygen and carbon dioxide. One of the things he's going to do is right now the earth access in relationship to the universe is on a 23 degree angle. 23 in the Bible's the number of death. Now, you talk to a scientist and they realize that as you begin to straighten that angle out, the equatorial zone continues to move up all the way through until at a zero degree angle, you have temperate climate throughout the earth, which is how it was back in the book of Proverbs when I rejoiced with him when he created the earth in the habitable parts of the earth. Everything was habitable back then. but now you've got all these frigid zones and all these hot zones, but once you straighten that thing out again, it's gonna be nice, it's gonna be summer all over the earth. Hopefully low humidity, hopefully not with a lot of bugs, but it's gonna be summer. And this is the millennium he's talking about when he talks about summer, the cross-reference to be Ezekiel 47, verse 12 for that word summer. And you'll know that summer is nigh. Likewise, when you see these things, know that it, that summer, is near. It's even at the doors. Verily I say unto you, this generation shall not pass till all these things be fulfilled. Generation. The word has two aspects to it. One, it has to do with to generate in terms of birth. So, talking about this generation, the Jewish line will not pass. But it also has a time aspect to it. And it has to do with a time aspect. He's talking about his return, and he's talking about judgment. So it's a time aspect for judgment. Now, you've probably heard a generation's 40 years. Or maybe you've heard a generation is 70 or 80 years. And perhaps they are. but not in reference to what he's talking about. He's talking about a generation of judgment. Forty years was them in the wilderness. Seventy to eighty is Psalm 90. It has to do with the length span of a man. But if you want to fix what he means here, go back to Genesis and go back to the first time we see it, which is Genesis chapter 6. And here he's talking about verse one. It came to pass when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them. The sons of God saw the daughters of men. They were fair. They took them wives, all of which they chose. And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh. Yet his days shall be 120 years. And then it talks about the generations and Noah in verse nine. But what he's setting up here is the fact that he's going to bring judgment. And he's setting up a 120-year period of judgment there. And from the time he talks to Noah, 120 years later, at the death of Methuselah, comes the judgment. And so he sets up 120 years of time of judgment. Now, when you know Bible math, it kind of makes sense with God. Twelve is the number of government. Ten is the number of the law. The government of the law. I'll give you 120 years to get straight. Then judgment comes. The next time he does that, Well, he does it a little bit sooner, and I'll show you in Genesis 15, but we'll jump to another portion. Jonah, the prophet Jonah. He goes, he's a Hebrew prophet. God says, go to this Gentile nation and preach judgment unto them. Jonah preaches judgment. They repent. Amen. But you know what happened shortly after the repentance, within about 30, 40 years, they started going back into their sin, falling back into their old ways. And so the sequel to Jonah is Naum, J-O-N-A-H, Jonah, N-A-H-U-M, they kind of share the three letters. Naum is the sequel book to Jonah. I know it's not right after it, there's a book in between, I think Micah. But Naum is, and he sends that guy right back to Nineveh and says, you're dead. And after 120 years, boom, Assyria is dead. And so God, and you're going to find all through history, God kind of uses this 120-year thing. I mean, He'll take a nation like England or France or the United States, He'll send a revival, and about 120 years later, the thing will be a mess. and that's pretty much the way it happens, and that's God's judgment, generation judgment. And if I only had this one verse, it wouldn't be sufficient, but let me give you the second one, and this is really hidden. Genesis 15, the great chapter where Abraham, the friend of God, gets the righteousness, and here it is. And here the Lord, he says, I reveal my secret to my servants, the prophets, and you are my friend if you're a servant of mine. And here's Abraham, a servant of God, and it reveals a deep truth to him. And Abraham says, how am I gonna get this land in verse seven? And the Lord says, Verse 8, how am I gonna inherit the land? And the Lord says, I want you to make this sacrifice to me. And he does what he's supposed to do. Verse 12, and he waits and he waits and he waits. And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. And lo, a horror of great darkness fell upon him. And he, the Lord, said unto Abram, here goes the prophecy. Abram's in a deep sleep. Know of a surety thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs. and shall serve them, and they shall afflict them four hundred years, and also that nation whom they shall serve will I judge, and afterward they, that's your descendants, shall come out with great substance. And by the way, personally for you too, thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace, thou shalt be buried in a good old age. Verse 16, but in the fourth generation they shall come hither again. And there he used the word generation again. Now, if you study this out, Let's see if I can get it up here. And rather than just study it chronologically, I'll give you a verse you can just nail it down. Go to Exodus chapter 12. And this is how you can begin to know certain days. Exodus chapter 12. Exodus chapter 12 verse 40, now the sojourning of the children of Israel in Egypt was 430 years, verse 41, and it came to pass at the end of the 430 years, look at this, in the self same day, it came to pass that all the hosts of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt. So this will help you also in the timing of the rapture. Who cares? But the fact of the matter is, in the book of Leviticus, the way the Lord established his feasts was Passover to Passover is the nation Israel, Pentecost to Pentecost is the birth and the rapture of the church, and Tabernacles to Tabernacles is the first and the second coming of his son. And those are how those feasts are laid out. Now, right here, he told you 430 years. But he said it was 430 years was the sojourning in Egypt and it came to pass that they went out of the land of Egypt at the 430th year. So from the time they entered Egypt in the entry until the time they left Egypt was 430 years. But how long did it take them to get to the promised land? took 40 more. So, you gotta add 40 in here, and then they're wandering in the wilderness, and then they finally enter the promised land at 470 years. Now, back when the Lord gave that prophecy to Abraham, he said that would happen in the fourth generation. So now you've got to do a little factoring and figure out what number fits in there. And if you do the factoring out, the number that factors out beautifully is 120, because 120 would take you from Generation number one would be from 0 to 120. Generation number two would be from 120 to 240. Generation number three would be 240 to 360. And generation number four would be from 360 to 480. And there it's all happening in the fourth generation. There it is. So what God's saying is, 120 is the number I use for judgment. I used it in Genesis 6, I used it here, I used it with Jonah and Nahum, and back to where you were in Matthew 24. Jesus says, verily I say unto you, this generation shall not pass till all these things be fulfilled. One, verse 32, the parable of the fig tree. So now I gotta know what the fig tree is. Now, who defines the fig tree? The best definition is found in the book of Jeremiah. It's found in Jeremiah chapter 24, correct? And there's other places too where you'll find it, you know, occasionally mentioned here and there, but the verse, the foundational one, is Jeremiah 24, the Lord showed me two baskets of figs. And he's talking about, in verse five, thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, these good figs, I acknowledge them, carried away of Judah, captive of Judah, sent out of this place into the land of Chaldeans for their good. The figs and the fig tree represents the nation Israel. So he says, you watch that fig tree. And when that fig tree comes back, and it'll be one generation later, and I guarantee you, I'll have the millennial kingdom set up by the time that thing happens. Now, we were in Matthew 24, correct? What chapter just defined the fig tree? Jeremiah 24. What's 24 plus 24? I think that's an accident. Anybody know what year the nation Israel came back? It was May the 14th, 1948. That's an accident? It isn't. And now he says within a generation. So what's 1948 plus 120? 2068, you can bet everything you've ever made in your life that before that day, the Millennial Kingdom will be set up. It's a good bet. It's a real good bet. And I can go further, but I can't. There's other things I know I just can't share with you. I'm sorry. Can't do it. I learned them in 1996. I haven't been able to tell anyone. I only told one person who begged me, begged me to tell them, begged me. I said, please, please don't. And we prayed. I said, please, please don't. She's an old lady in her 70s, good lady, served the Lord a long time. Please, please. I want to know. I want to know. I said, OK, I'll show you. Five days later, she had a heart attack. I'm not going to tell anybody. Now, if you can find it, God bless you. It's in the book. I promise you, it's all over the book. Once you find the key verse that unlocks it, it's everywhere. But it's in there, just like Daniel. Go back to Luke chapter 2. Luke chapter 2. This is the great chapter where Jesus is born, you know. And then when He's born in verse 21, after eight days, they circumcise Him. And then at verse 22, when the days of the purification, according to the law of Moses, were accomplished, they bring Him to Jerusalem to present Him to the Lord at the temple. So now this would be, I guess, what is it, 33 days? I'm trying to remember. Does anybody remember that? Is it 33 days of purification for a male child? I think it is. And I think it's 66 days for the female. I'm trying to remember. It's back in Leviticus. But anyways, is that correct? Somebody confirming me? I think it's 33 days. So after 33 days, they bring them to the temple, and they're presenting them there, and notice. And behold, verse 25, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. The same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Ghost was upon him, and it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost that he should not see death before he had seen the Lord's Christ. Now, I've done this teaching that took about an hour to do. I'm gonna try and go in time-lapse photography for you. But if you study Daniel 9, 24 through 27, the greatest prophecy in the Bible, It takes hours to study. It took me five hours to teach. It's on our foundation series and DVD. You can watch me at the Blackboard. It's even right down to the very day. Sir Robert Anderson worked it out right to the very day the Messiah comes in and presents himself as the king on Palm Sunday, right from the day of the decree of Artaxerxes to the day. I got that number. It's 173,000 such 880 days or whatever it was. Bang, right to the day. And on that particular thing, here was the only point. If you were a tender-hearted Jew, and you loved God, and you read Daniel, you knew when the first coming of the Lord was. because it was right there. God told you how long it was gonna be. There were no if, ands, or buts about it. And we did a Christmas play at our church, Through the Eyes of Simeon. Now, Simeon is an old man here. He's about 70 or 80, but here's what I believe. When he was a little kid and he used to go to synagogue and read, and then he got a little older as a teenager in his 20s, he started studying Daniel 9 and he said, oh my goodness, I'm on the cusp of the first coming of the Lord. But remember, Daniel's prophecy has to do with him entering on Palm Sunday. And so Simeon is thinking in his mind, he's He literally could figure the years out, whatever the Jewish reckoning is, because they have a different year. They're 240 years. And right now, what's their year? It's 5784, I think the Jewish year is right now. And so here he is reckoning by Jewish time. And he's thinking, I'm just going to miss it. I'm too old. I'm going to miss it. I'm going to miss him coming in for the triumphal entry. It's about 30 years away. He's all upset. And God kinda says, I see your heart and I see for decades you've been waiting to see. And you're true, you're not gonna live long enough, but I'll tell you what I'm gonna do, I'll let you see the baby. And so God, 30 years earlier, lets him see the baby. And he gets a chance to see the baby because he had a heart. He read Daniel. And my only point is, in the Scriptures these things are. Just like the first coming is in there, so is the second coming. It's in there. And we just looked at some of the generalizing of the second coming. But it gets more specific. The truth is this. You saw in Exodus 12 that the nation Israel was from self same day of exile to self same day of deliverance and the day was Passover. The coming of the Lord is tabernacles. Passover falls on a day, but tabernacles falls on a week. It's an eight day period. And so, if I was in the Trib, if we were all in the Trib together, and the rapture took place last year, or let's say it took place six years ago, we could all be sitting around here going, hey folks, next year he comes back to set up the kingdom. Because six years have passed since the rapture, and we're all huddled out somewhere in a cave, and hiding from the Antichrist, and we don't have the tattoo on us, and so we're fine, and we've got a year to go. When's it gonna be? During the Feast of Tabernacles, what day? I don't know, I don't know the day. Because it could be any one of those eight days. I know what week it's going to be. I don't know the day. I can't know the day. I can't know the hour. But I can know what week it is. I'll know the time and the season. For us, the church was birthed on Pentecost. It will go up on Pentecost. So if you can figure out the year, you'll know the day and the year. And it doesn't matter anyway as you're going up whether you figured it out or not. So amen. Amen. It's a win-win situation. By the way, it's depressing to know. When I discovered it in 96, I was very depressed. Folks, we still got some time. I had to listen to people talk about the year 2000. I knew nothing was going to happen in the year 2000. I had to listen to them talk about 2007. I had to hear them rant about 2011. Nothing's going to happen in 2011. I knew that. Next will be 2016. Nothing's going to happen in 2016. We still got a little time. But we're getting close. And we're going to go up. And there's some work to do in the meantime. I don't know, any questions, anything? Go ahead, yes. A few questions, but they all depend on the next question. 1 Thessalonians 4, 16, that's talking about the rapture, correct? It says in the dead in Christ shall rise first. Yes I just heard recently and this is what my question would be first. Do you think? It's when he says the dead in Christ shall rise first. Do you think it's first three seconds later than the rest of us? Or do you think there's going to be a time period? like maybe like a week, you know, like you were saying seven days, if the first day he says the dead in Christ shall rise and then say four or five days later, the rest of us that are living will rise. Do you think that? No, it'll be, we'll all go up on Pentecost. It'll be quick. He, the other passages, first Corinthians 15 and he says, um, uh, I show you a mystery. We'll not all sleep, but we'll all be changed in a moment in the twinkling of an eye. Okay. And that means the people that are going to come up out of this leaf and the people that are going to get changed, it's going to happen so fast, we probably, it'll be imperceptible to us the difference, how quick it'll be. It'll be very quick. Bang, bang, there we go. That's what my thought too was, because if they're around, if they arise, now we have, you know, what the big thing is now, zombies. And my thought is if they're walking around, if people look at their scripture, now they got five days to get saved, you know, if they would want to believe that. But that's kind of, and again, I agree with you. I think it's all, but I, you know, like I said, it was just recently somebody said, well, they might be. walk around for a day or two but again now you're taken away. You know it is a curious thing in that talking about the hearts of unbelievers and I remember when Jesus was teaching one day that story about the rich man and Lazarus and I think it was the rich man said you know send someone to my father's house and he says Father Abraham, if one went unto them from the dead, they would repent. And he said, no, if they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead. And that happened, by the way. Right? Matthew 27. I mean, Matthew 27 was what happened for a couple purposes. One, to prove that it ain't gonna change any hearts. And so when Jesus, it says, let's see, when Jesus arose after His resurrection, the graves were opened and many bodies of the saints which slept arose. And that was part of a prophecy that God had given to Ezekiel. And in Ezekiel, he said, in the valley of dry bones, this was the first part of that prophecy. He said, son of man, these bones are the house of Israel. The bones is dried, therefore prophecy and say unto them, verse 12, thus saith the Lord God, oh my people, I will open your graves and cause you to come out of your graves and bring you into Israel and ye shall know that I am the Lord when I have opened your graves. And so one of the confirmations that God was giving, that Jesus was the Lord, was opening a bunch of graves and letting people come up and stand and walk into the holy city. So it was, number one, it was a confirmation of the prophecy of Ezekiel 37, verses 12 and 13. This is the Lord. He just opened the graves and had people come walk all through the city. And number two, it was a confirmation of the fact that their hearts were so hardened, even with that You didn't hear Pilate getting saved, Herod getting saved, the Pharisees getting saved. What do you think those guys did? They walked around and they probably preached, they probably did like Paul, that's the Messiah, this is the prophecy, that's the Messiah. Oh, I don't believe that. And you got dead people walking around. Well, I mean, so, no, that ain't gonna work. The sad thing is, a heart that's turned is not gonna believe even a miracle. Miracles do not produce faith. So resurrected bodies and glorified bodies are not going to produce faith in these folks. I don't know why. I don't understand the heart, but it is deceitful. Above all, they deceive themselves mostly. And then they're desperately wicked after that. That's really good, brother. It clears up a lot. We heard a teaching recently, a few of us did, that was very intriguing. And there was a lot of substantiating verses. And it was like, this is food for thought. And it was that the rapture, when it occurs, first of all, the bodies of the saints come up first, which are dead in Christ arise first. And that they actually walk around for about 40 days. And they witness and kind of wake up some of the remaining church members, hopefully, and then we go up later. And it was, and there was a lot of, it's a notable teacher in a lot of verses he gave is substantiated, but you have explained, used some of those same verses, and explained them, I think, more accurately in the past, as far as the first translation. It's like he said in Thessalonians, because you started, I think, in Thessalonians, and at one point he talks about, well, I mean, the first, the two books of Thessalonians, the first one he's telling about the rapture, and they get so excited about it, nobody works. So the second book he writes, hey look, just because a rapture's coming doesn't mean you gotta go to work, you know? And then he also tries to straighten out the difference between the fact that the rapture is act one of the second coming, and then the setting up of the kingdom is act two, and there's a separation. He's trying to tell them a little of that. But he does say at one point, the Lord, it's the problem with their heart is they receive not the love of the truth. I mean, God's truth contains his love, and they don't want it. I don't understand it, but they don't. But like we saw with the numbers last night, 93% of them, go spirit, go thy way. When you were showing the elements a little bit earlier in the carbon dioxide thing that you did at the beginning, what was the one that was 93%? One of them was 93%. Oh, oh, you mean 0.93%? 0.93%, I'm sorry, yes. That was argon. Yeah, is there any significance? Do you think there's any connection to that as to the 93% of humanity? Just another fingerprint of God? I never thought about that. I don't think so, because argon is one of the noble gases. I guess not many noble are called. Not many noble are called. See, there it is. I knew it was there, brother. That's the fingerprint of God, man. So maybe for that way, yes. Not many wise, not many noble. OK. Yes, son. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Got to get you recorded. Make you famous. You ready? OK. When Mayhem went to make Nineveh white again, did they turn good again when he came back? They were bad at that point, and they didn't get good like they did with Jonah. It was very sad. At that point, it was like the judge saying, now you have to go to prison. God destroy it this time? Yes, they got destroyed. I've got a question myself. You said that the beast, were you saying he didn't have technology? Is that what you're saying? Pretty much what the Lord is going to do. The Lord says in the Bible that men who reject him are like beasts. And what he's going to do is, I know we have technology today, but he's going to begin to destroy the technology. It'd be very easy to do. One of the first things he's going to do is he's going to use hailstones and asteroids, and he's going to knock out most of their communication satellites. And so, yeah, a lot of technology will be gone. It'll be gone. In the Bible, does it say anywhere, I heard someone talk about a machine that would read people's marks, 666, the beast's marks. Will he have that, or does it say that anywhere in the Bible? Well, he will have a mark, but most likely, remember the devil is an imitator. He imitates what God does. So go to the book of Ezekiel, and you look what God does in the, I think it's the eighth chapter? The seventh chapter, I gotta find it. Let me see, no, the ninth chapter. In Ezekiel chapter nine, and look what God does here, and this is how the devil will try and imitate it. And what God did is it said, behold, six men came from the way of, yeah, verse two, of the higher gate, and it says, and one man among them was clothed with linen, with a writer's ink horn by his side. And they went in and stood beside the brazen altar. And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man clothed with linen, which had the writer's ink horn by his side. And the Lord said, go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof. And then he said to the others, the other five men, he said in mine hearing, go ye after him through the city and smite. Let not your eyes spare, neither have pity, slay utterly old and young, both maids and little children and women, but come not near any man upon whom is the mark. And so what God did in this particular time is God put a tattoo on the foreheads of the men and that marked them out as gods. And then when the destroyers came, they killed everyone that wasn't gods. The devil says, oh, God likes a mark. I'm gonna imitate that. And so then he imitates it and he puts it on his people. Now, I'll tell you something curious. I can't be sure of this, but here's what I think is gonna happen. The 144,000 that you read about in Revelation 7, very likely, the best I can tell, but I can't be certain on this, is the final fulfillment of the prophecy. Many prophecies have two types, a near term and a far term. The near term raising of the Jews was when he raised those guys when Jesus arose, and a few of them went in the city and then they went back in their graves. I think the fulfillment of the prophecy is when God raises up 144,000 Jews, who were faithful Jews through the Old Testament, who loved God's word, from each tribe, and he raises them up, and he sends them out as his street preachers. That's why Paul says, I'm like one born out of due time. Why? I was killed, and I came back and I preached. You know, Paul preached with zeal. Hey, if you've been dead, and you've been to heaven, and you see what it's like, and you come back here, you think anyone's gonna scare you with death? You've already been there, you know what it's like up there, okay? So you've got boldness like you've never seen before, and God's gonna raise 144,000 Jews, and not only that, he's probably gonna put a mark on their head, which means no such thing as an undercover believer in the tribe. Everyone's gonna know you're one of God's people by the mark on your head, and then the beast will try and imitate it with his mark, but I think it's gonna be so open and above board at that time, you couldn't miss, you'll know right away based on what mark you have. I think that's great, brother, because I think it's necessary, you know, the comforter is who we have right now, and I'm really running into more and more Christians, and it's especially the newer ones who've been so confused by these guys on TV and all the rest of this stupidity, that they're just paranoid about everything. It's like the chip in the dog, you know, if you get a dog from a shelter, they all got a chip in them. And it's like constantly, Oh, you know, what's next is a chip in us and your credit cards and your bank account. And, you know, it's just like, come on, man, relax. That's not going to happen. That's when we're gone. It's a tattoo. Technology is gone. I agree a hundred percent. You can't have technology without an electric grid. It's going to be gone. As a matter of fact, you know about SETI? S-E-T-I? SETI started about, I don't know, 20 or so years ago. It stands for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. And there's scientists all over the world using radioscopes and some telescopes, but every way they can to try and detect if there's intelligence out there. because there's none in here for them. So they better be looking out there. But anyways, so they're searching for this thing. And it first started out with a few scientists. Then it picked up a few governments got into it. And then the military started getting into it. And recently, I saw a special with a bunch of military leaders, generals, admirals, from all the four branches of the military. beginning to prepare for war against the extraterrestrials. And I've listened to generals and admirals on this documentary talking about, so we're strategizing how we're going to fight these extraterrestrials. First thing we're trying to strategize is how will they fight us. And so they, and it's brilliant. They're literally talking revelation without reading the book. They said, well, the first thing these guys will probably do if they want to take over our planet, they want the resources and they probably want our buildings, but they want to incapacitate us. The first thing they'll do is they'll take out all our communication satellites and they'll knock out our electricity. So we're scattered and confused. That's exactly what God's going to do. See, they're preparing for the war, Armageddon. They're going to fight that war. What's going to happen is, and you guys already know what's going to happen, Revelation 13, when the devil is given, is it the fourth or fifth? God judges them five times for the five I wills. It might be the fourth judgment. And the fourth judgment is when God removes the devil's ability to fly, and he has to walk like the rest of us, and he can't hide in darkness anymore, he has to be seen. So now the devil and his boys all of a sudden hit planet Earth with boots on the ground, and they walk, they can't fly anymore, they can't do anything, and they hit planet Earth midway through the trip. Well, somebody's gotta explain these guys. So what are they going to do? They're going to go to the SETI guys and say, we're the ones you've been looking for. And yes, we're intelligent. And yes, and we're not here to hurt you. Actually, we're here to help you. As a matter of fact, remember those guys that disappeared three and a half years ago? There's been a war up in heaven. There's a bad, it's like a Captain Kirk type of thing. We're part of the alliance of the good guys. The Klingons took all those people three and a half years ago, and they're gonna come back to take you again in three and a half years, because he knows his time is short. Let me say this about the devil. You probably hear this preaching that the devil knows the book better than you. That's a lie. He doesn't. The reason I can say that with assuredness is 1 Corinthians 2. How does anyone learn what's in the book? By the Spirit of God. He doesn't talk to God. The devil knows this book like a Pharisee or a Roman Catholic does. It's just words on a page. He has no spiritual understanding. If he did, he never would have crucified the Lord of glory. That prophecy was in there. He doesn't know the book spiritually at all. He just knows it like it's dead words on a page to him. But he is smart enough to know. that when he hits the ground, he's got three and a half years. That's on the page. Okay, 1,200 and, I can't remember the number, 80 days or whatever it is. He knows, and at that point, and he also knows when the 1,200 days are up, that the one with the white horse is coming with his armies, and he's gotta prepare the world to join his side to fight them. And so he's getting them ready. And just, just. I don't know. Yes. We're done someday. I'll show you. I don't know. We may be stopping, but I don't know that we're done. Amen. It's good. Is this good stuff folks or what? Isn't this a blessing and brother that helps. I hope you understood what I was saying earlier. I wasn't trying to say you shouldn't. I'm saying we've heard our whole life. No man can know the day or the hour. No man can know the day or the hour. And I just don't think, I think there's a little bit of a point to that, but I don't think that's entirely accurate and I don't want to go too far either way. This is the day, because God's made fools out of lots of guys that way. Can I say one other thing? But we do, we can tell. And I say this, and I believe I do know the year and the day, and who cares? And I hope I'm wrong. And I've hoped it since the day I found it. I hope I'm wrong. I hope it's today. I hope we go up now. Yeah, I hope we go up now. But, and you know, I remember when I kind of found it in the Bible, I had to stand up, I had to walk around to my dining room, my kitchen, back and forth, back and forth, I was all upset. And the Lord, you know, had, trying to calm me down, He says, now listen, son. First off, you're not the only one that knows it. There's other men on the planet that know it. I said, well, thank goodness. He says, but you understand, if I give it to some people, it's more than they could bear. Really, you could put a certain weight on someone and break them. Not only that, I got a lot of people that if you did tell them you know what they're going to do, They're gonna run around and have fun, and three months before I come back, they're gonna shine up their halo. He says, so I know what they're gonna do. So he says, you can't, you just keep it to yourself. If you ever meet a fellow believer in a kitchen table Bible study, he'll show you the same key verse that you have, you'll both know it together and you can pray. He said, and that's it. So the point was this, he kinda knew, he said, I know you're not gonna change what you're gonna do, you're gonna keep serving me, aren't ya? And from that day forward, I went forward and forward and forward and forward, and that's kind of, It didn't change my lifestyle one bit. I continued reading my Bible, praying, giving out tracts, showing up at church, doing whatever I could. It didn't change my lifestyle one bit. Sadly, it probably might change the lifestyle of some Christians. So it's really not needed information. It's not all that important. We know it's going to happen. It's going to happen. It will be before that. I guarantee you. Oh, by the way, one other thing, carefully. If you watch him on that 120-year judgment thing, the first time in Genesis 6, he waited till the last day before he brought the flood. When it came to this one, although he could have done it at 480, he pushed it forward 50 years and moved it. You want to know something? He's excited about coming back, so he'd probably go move it forward, just so you understand. That's perfect. Now, that's it. That's perfect. Did you get that? So that's the... Right, exactly. And that's great. Praise the Lord. I did the math. Uh, minus seven. I think I'm going to be 82. I might not be right on there. Is that what I said? Maybe 82 if that's when he comes back. Uh, that's kind of a bummer. 82 that's, that's kind of old. I hope he comes sooner and get out of here. Amen. Before all those girls get married and I got to pay for all that mess.