I try, I've been teaching the same thing for 30 years, really. The same stories, the same things about the Bible. I don't know, I'm still learning. And I try, how many of you have ever been in the mine, or down by Carleback Caverns or something? Well, you can go down there, I've been there 3 or 4 times, and you go down there, and if you go through it quickly, you just... Just see things a little bit. But now and then you stop and turn a light on and inspect an area. That's the way the Word of God is. You can read through the Word of God a thousand times and not see things. It's so much there that you can pass through that and just keep passing through and never really understand what you're seeing. Well, they are. You're dealing with that system. Anyway, as we study the Word of God, we go back to Genesis. Ken asked me a question this morning. There's a lot of things in the Bible. Sometimes what the Bible doesn't say is very important. Did you know that? What the Bible doesn't say is real important. And what it says is real important. And sometimes you read between the lines, you look at things. For instance, God, I told you a very long time ago, I've said this a long time, but sometimes it just dawns on you. I said for many years that God created Adam. He created Adam not from dust but as dust. And then he placed him in the garden. That created him outside the garden. He placed him in the garden. He created him outside the garden so that Adam could see what was out there in the world that he was supposed to guard the garden against. And then he placed him in this paradise. Alright. And he told him some things. Now, I'm going to drop one more little jewel on you today, okay? Because I think you're ready for this one. Alright? This will give you something to think about for about the next 20 years or something. God placed Adam in that garden. He told him to guard it. And there was two things, two trees in that garden that were very important. Weren't they? Two of them. Two trees that were very important. Who can name the two trees? The tree of life and the tree of knowledge. The tree of life and the tree of knowledge. Now just remember that. The tree of knowledge. One, you can eat it, partake of it, and gain something. And the other one, if you didn't partake of it, you gained it. How much did Adam have? Huh? How much knowledge did Adam have? All of it. A whole lot. If he had not partaken of that tree of the knowledge of knowledge. Let's just call it the tree of knowledge. It's not the knowledge of good and evil. But the tree of knowledge. If he had not partaken of that tree of knowledge, would he have had knowledge? Yes. He was right on the way, wasn't he? All right. He would have had the knowledge of evil. Where was he created? Remember where he was created? Outside the garden, placed in paradise. Well, when he was created outside the garden, do you think that he knew what he was supposed to guard his wife from? And the rest of the universe, really? In all reality? Do you think that he knew what he was supposed to guard from? Did he have knowledge of evil? Yeah, I would have told him. What? Yeah, he did. He had knowledge of evil. He acknowledged that it was there, but he hadn't committed it yet. The command was, do not partake of the knowledge of the tree of knowledge. But by not partaking of the tree of knowledge, he would have had knowledge, but in the right order. That's the difference. And the right perspective. One he was to gain without touching it, without partaking of it. And the other, the tree of life, he was to gain by partaking of it. He would gain the same amount of both things. Does it get better? As you go further in the work of God, does it? Just think about that for a while. Have you ever looked at it that way? Huh? I'll tell you a way to look at it is we criticize Adam for falling, we criticize Eve for falling, we partake of this tree, we picture it as an apple on the tree, but if you picture the garden as our life, and you picture the temptation right in the middle of our lives, and do we partake of it, do we switch on to pornography on the intercom or whatever you call it. But the thing is that this thing is right in the middle of our life, whether it's an aggravation in the traffic thing, it's a temptation. If we don't partake of that, then we will have this knowledge, and if we partake of the things of the Bible, of God's Word, we would have this. Similarly, there are two trees here, but it's not in the middle of the garden, but it's in the middle of our lives. We go through that temptation in all of our lives. Just like Adam did. And many times we succumb to it. But let me tell you this also. If a man could be born and live a perfect life, all his life, would that be enough? No. Why? The original sin, he still heals the others. What is the only payment? Christ. God had to come, become flesh in time and space at a period of time in history. God had to become flesh to redeem us from that death. That's absolutely necessary. To fulfill a timeless return is God's eternal purpose. So fill that. And then, is man related to that redemption? Huh? Is man related? Are you related to the redemption? Yes? Yes. Well, it's like you said, Christ will always be a man. That's right. He was God, but he will always be man. Now, from now on, he will always be man too. Now, just think. Back in the garden. One, go back to the garden, because these trees are going to be there again, aren't they? Yes, don't look at it. Alright, here we have the tree of life again. Adam, the tree of life had fruit on it, didn't it? The book of Revelation tells you about that tree of life. Let's gather up some Bible knowledge here now. the tree of life in Revelation 22. Have you fallen in love today? I haven't. Okay. It has twelve different kinds of fruit. Twelve kinds of fruit. According to the twelve chyros of the year. Not chyros. Caesars. Caesars. Good thing you were there. In each month it produces a different fruit. That's right. And here it is. Now he could have partaken of that fruit in the Garden of Eden. In the paradise of God. The paradise. The heavenly estate. For God and man had communion. Didn't they not? Because of love, a man marries a woman, and they become one, and they have little children of that love, that bonds them closer together. Huh? Okay? That's supposed to go into that way. It happens. And that little child is a product of what? Love. Now, God created man, didn't he? Now, when Adam and Eve had their first child, what did Eve say? By the way, her name means living. Okay? That's what her name means, living. Eve means living. Now, she should have been the mother of all dying souls, or die, but he looked upon her as the mother of the Savior. Okay? So, they have a child, and she said, I have created Or we have created a man like God created us. She was so excited. My wife tells me, her whole desire through life was to get married and have a little baby. And hold this baby in her arms. This is what she wanted in life. She wanted to have a little baby. Little brother. She wanted to create a baby. Now when God created man, He created man out of love. Now when you create Adam and Eve, Eve says, I've created man, and then she says, Eve and the Lord. She thought Cain was a messiah. She thought he was a messiah. I have created man, Eve and the Lord. she had created, and he was in their image, wasn't he? Now, when God created man, guess what he did? Was man a product of God's love? Through mankind, God was going to redeem the universe back to himself. And mankind will have a tremendous part in that redemption. because Christ came to man. God forever is related to man when he became flesh. John 1. I've told you this a thousand times. In the beginning kept on being the word and the word there means Jehovah, he who shall become. And that Jehovah kept on being an inseparable part of the Godhead. That's what the second part of that verse says. And it says, and that word, that Jehovah, kept on being God all the time he was on this earth. And when God became flesh, John 1, verse 14, and the word sarx, flesh, again it's over. He became. That's the fulfillment of that Jehovah title. That word became there, third person singular. That's ends to him too. He became. And it's Aristotelian. What does that mean? You scholars? Pontellier action one time. Alright. Pontellier action. Middle voice. For himself. For himself. He did it for himself. God became flesh for himself. Now, God so loved man, times, and the universe. Now, John 3.16, what does 3.16 say? John 3.16, come on, everybody knows that verse. For God so loved the cosmos, the whole world order, the whole creation, that He gave His only begotten Son, Now God created man. If you go back in the book of Matthew and Luke, you read this here, you find out that Adam, it says that his father was God. He was his maker. Like we make our children. God made us in his image. He loved mankind so much. Before he ever made mankind, he loved mankind so much that he made him in his pre-incarnate image. We studied a lot of things this morning. Alright? God created man on the outside of the garden so he could see the devilment. He placed him in the garden garden and he told him to guard it. All right. He had the tree of knowledge and the tree of life. And we see all of this. It should all come together. The tree of knowledge. He was supposed to gain knowledge by not eating of it. Yes. He was supposed to gain knowledge by not eating of it. And the tree of life. He would partake of that and of the twelve fruits of it. All right, now here we have this beloved, crowning creation of Jehovah God that he made in his image, Aaron. Okay? You bring forth your children. How many of you love your children? I mean, sometimes I'm not very loving, but still. Huh? Husbands aren't lovable sometimes, are they? But you love them. And wives, you know, they're just wonderful all the time. And you love them. Your children sometimes are bad, aren't they? But you always love them. God created mankind, and here is His child, His baby, so to speak. And this baby is made in His image. And through this child, He is going to... I mean, He wasn't a baby when He was born, but I mean, symbolically teaching. And through mankind, God would bring the universe back into unity and harmony with Himself. We've got some goodies over here, by the way. You know, Jim, when you're talking about the unity and harmony of God and God's creation, and when He created us in His image, He created us five or six feet tall. But this has a physics of relation to the entire solar system. If the sun had been larger, if the earth had been greater, a gravitational pull and we could talk a long time on how the order is just so. That's what you call physics. And physics is an absolute law of the universe that God placed. I don't know how a physicist could possibly study physics of what we call physical science and not see the Creator. Because everything that God did, how he created, your eyeballs are just the right size. Do you know that? And your ears, and your feet, and everything about you is just right. And it relates to the whole universe. It does. It relates to the whole... It's not... Man... And just think about it for a minute. Man, what is man that God is mindful of it? That's all I must say. What is man that God would mind that there was a son of man? But through mankind, God was going to bring the whole universe back into harmony with himself, because he would be forever related to man when he would become flesh. Inseparable. Inseparable. Think about that. Look at it. Lee said something a while ago. He said, God wants... Can you repeat that? Because that was worth repeating. God's eternal purpose. But in space and time, God became flesh. And that he will always be part of mankind. Inseparable! Why did you do that? God is Agatheo. Agatheo. He is life. He did that to share the universe with you. That's wonderful. Now God didn't need you, did he? God doesn't need anything to exist. But God in his will, that's the word of the Athenian apostles. Ephesians. It tells, somebody turn to the book of Ephesians, one with me. Ephesians, the first chapter. God created man triune. He created him mind, like himself. He created him In the mind you have reason, too. And He created me in what? In His physical likeness. And what else? He will love us. God, when He creates anything, whatever He does in the universe, it is His what right? Sovereign right. And that He has a will. Thalima. His will. It is His will, and God gave man the absolute dangerous gift of freedom. Let's look at this. Paul was the apostle of Christ Jesus, who did them a lot of things. I'll give us two sentences in that pursuit. That's how it starts off. Paul the apostle, one sent out from God. All right? out an apostle by Jesus Christ through the Thelematos, through the spiritual activating force. That's not that word Thelematos. That's that word will. That's that word volition. What was the spiritual activating force in the creation of man? Love. So he wanted to share. He decided to share the universe with his child. What do you leave in this world when you leave it? Children. That's all. If you have children, you leave children. That's all you leave, isn't it? And God tells us to raise our children in the way that they should go. You're going to turn them loose on the world when you leave. You do, don't you? Good or bad. I used to tell my boys, you don't straighten out a knocky head and make another one. I'm not going to turn you loose on the world like that. You better be good citizens. Well, I wouldn't really have done that, but I wanted to make them think that. Kept them in line a little better. Maybe. God tells us to train our children in the ways that they should know. Because everyone of them has got a few mottos. A spiritual activating force. And sometimes that spiritual activating force comes from the dark region. Have anybody in this room ever not had a bad thought or a bad intuition about to go do something bad? That's the Irish coming out of this one. I don't know why. That's the devil, see what it is. The devil. What is the word? He had a high and holy name to begin with. Lucifer, which meant light carrier in Hebrew. And the Bible calls him Satanos. We get our word Satan from him. What does Satanos mean? To stand against. It calls him Diabolos. Diabolos, that's where we get the word devil, isn't it? What does the word devil mean? To run through? It means to destroy, to kill. It means to cut through, to stab, to murder. Alright. It calls him the liar, Pseudos. The liar. Now all of these things we are related to, aren't we? You get angry. The Bible tells us to be angry, but sin not. Was Jesus angry? Did he ever get real mad? Oh yeah. Did he ever hit anybody? No. This is the home of God in flesh and on earth. Did he get mad? Yes. Did he even make a whip? Who was he striking out against at that moment? Religion. They were administrators in his kingdom and they were doing it wrong. And he had given them plain instructions. Alright, we've heard this story a lot of times, but what he was doing was repeating an ancient custom that they had repeated so many times. The word bank comes, we got our word bankrupt, which means busted. A bank is busted, alright? The bank's busted. But it went back to the pagan temples were places of banking. The priests were, some of them were administrators in this banking system that they had and they were supposed to, people could come and put their money in that pagan temple. We're talking about paganism now. big temples, Jupiter and everything and people could take their money and then entrust their money to that priest and he would be a good administrator of that money and he was representing the whole kingdom and he was supposed to make money with that money and then give these people interest and when they needed that money he was supposed to give it back to them if this priest proved unworthy he was to be publicly whipped And his bank, or his bench, is what it was called, because the bank was a table that was set out in that temple. And that's exactly what the Jews were repeating again. They had brought paganism right square into the temple of God. the temple area, and they were acting like a bunch of pagans out there. So Jesus took a custom that had been repeated all over the known world at that time, and told them, you people are not worthy to be administrators in my kingdom, and I'm going to publicly whip you, and break your, and turn over your viches, and you are bankrupt. Your religion is no good! Come forth! And Jesus told many parables against them, didn't he? The same story. The parable of the landowner. Who owns the universe? God. There was a certain landowner, he says, that had property, and he lent it out to sharecroppers. And the sharecroppers wouldn't pay him what was owed. So he sent his servants down to tell them, give me the money for the landowner. What did they do to them? They beat them. Some of them they killed. So he said, I'll send my only heir. And they said, oh, oh, here comes the heir. Let's kill him. We'll take all the inheritance of God. And what did the Jewish state say about Jesus and his following that he had, his little Ecclesia? that he was calling out in his ministry. What did they say about that? The Jewish faith. This guy is jeopardizing our religion and our status in the government of Rome. Let's kill him. And we know that they knew that he was the Messiah. And what did Jesus say to the certain landowner? This landowner shared his world with these sharecroppers, didn't he? Now we, we're jumping ahead now, we have studied about Old Testament, now we're coming into New Testament time, on your little chart. We come over here and we are coming up to the end of the wall. This is the time that we're talking about, the time where God changed administrators in his kingdom because the old administrator was not worthy. What happened back here in Adam? Adam failed, didn't he? What happened over here when God told man to do good and offer blood sacrifices and they lived under the age of conscience? What did man do there? They failed again, didn't they? What did God do to the world at this period of time? This was universal judgment, wasn't it? Not only individual, but a universal judgment. What happened? The flood of the world. Alright? Now, for hundreds of years, we find out that Enoch was preaching hundreds of years before Noah was. What was he? You know, in verses 14, 15, 16, and several other places, and I can see Enoch's writings throughout the New Testament in many books. He was a preacher of righteousness, wasn't he? What was going on in the world? Wickedness. He said, God's going to judge you. And then there was a son born that met peace and safety. There was also one born named Methuselah. And what did Methuselah mean? When he was dead it was your time to pass. All right. Methuselah. When he was born, he was born to be a Indicator, a sign. When his dad succumbed to Pax, every time he got sick maybe, during his lifetime, it says, "...the very year that Methuselah died." Now, how long did Methuselah live? 969 years. For almost a thousand years, God has been preaching to the same bunch of people. They wouldn't listen. Nine people made it on the other side of that flood, didn't they? Nine people. Eight of them in the ark. One of them on the outside of the ark. That was caught up by Levi. He didn't get killed by the flood either. He was raptured. Because the flood also is a type of loss. It's a type of judgment also, but it's also a type of the return of Christ. Isn't that what the Lord said, He said, as in the days of Noah, so shall ye come to live some life. Alright, we see that. Well, the administration of God's kingdom was going to change. It was time. We go down through here, we saw human government, it failed, God had to divide the earth and confuse the languages to slow man down. Guess what? Where are we in the world today? There's 2,796 different language groupings and 960 basic language groups. And thousands of different language groups. Do you know that in the state of California there were over 3,000 different tribes of Indians? And some of those tribes spoke two languages. One for the male and one for the female. They didn't communicate with each other the same thing. And speak a different language. Have you ever said anything to your wife that said something that she said, absolutely. You know that she didn't hear what you said because she got mad. And wives, how many times have you done that with your husbands? Well, the American Indians here in California, they just decided to have two different languages in these groups and just don't talk to each other. That cut down a lot of strides. But there were 3,000 languages spoken plus the masculine and feminine languages in those tribes. The world was real confused. And the God said, and things appealed. And this is where the word Pharisee comes from, by the way. What does Pharisee mean? Separated and divided from the rest. Alright. Many, many people, you farsen. Remember that in the book of Daniel? Alright. That you farsen means separated, divided. That's the old parodies of that word. God divided the earth. That's how the Indians got over here. That's how the continents were made. As you see here, God divided them. The old continental drift theory, it's true. Except it drifted real fast. And if you find back out in history back then, they were not building big structures at that time. They had built one big structure, hadn't they? By the way, that tower was built and Hebrew was completed. That tower wasn't in process of being made, it was finished and God destroyed. That had divided this earth and nobody lived in houses for a while. Because God told them to do what anyway? Be nomadic. Scatter, put out there. Tread the earth down. Walk it down. That's what he said. Okay. Well, just as it's what we see. God was forcing man to not... God said, He said, we don't do something to these dudes. He said, we're going to have problems with them. They don't tear up the whole world. Guess where we are in time and space right now? Right back where we were here. That's a language problem. One time in history, God undivided the languages at one period of time. He told his little church, he said, you stay right here in Jerusalem until you're endowed with power on high and come back. He said, I can't stay with you because I can't be with every church everywhere and go in the world. But the Holy Spirit will come and I'll be with you through that. You stay here until that comes. And when Peter and those priests over there at Pentecost, what happens? Now think. What happens? Every man heard what they said in their own native language. Now all of them spoke what? One language. The universal language which is Koine Greek. All of them spoke Koine Greek. But in their own countries, in their own districts, in their own Dialects. They were hearing these people speak in their own language. God, unconfused, the language is there. Momentarily, what was that? That was a miracle. That's what it was. There were a whole bunch of people saved, weren't there? Sure were. Well, back over here in this law age, Jesus did everything that He could do. God did everything that was absolutely necessary for Israel to accept their Messiah King. They knew when He was born. Why, even those Magi over there in the schools that Daniel had left behind in Babylon, they knew when the Messiah was going to be born. And they came looking for Him. It was right. It was time. It was the year of the month. It was the time. Israel should have known the same thing. But who was on the throne? Esau. Esau was on the throne, wasn't he? Of Israel. Not Jacob. Not Jacob's line, but Esau's line. That imposter. That Herod know he was an imposter? Do you think every highfalutin pharisee that was on the throne did anything? Do you think they were dummies when it came to lineages? Why, that was one of the favorite things to tell them, to sit around and tell them who you were born from and this and here and so on and so forth. Look at the book of Luke and look at the book of Matthew. All right? You see that. Here we come wandering up here to the New Testament time and the Old Testament, what does that mean? The old contract, the old covenant. Now, by the way, there were a bunch of old covenants, weren't there? Not just one. God made this covenant with Adam, didn't He? Adam broke it. God made a new covenant with his descendants. They broke it. God made another covenant. They made a covenant with Abram. Abram. Exalted Father. That's what his name meant. Exalted. Abraham. Then he changed his name to Abraham. That little eem on the end of that. See that? That eem is part of Hebrew. Plural. Exalted Father of man. OK? And he made an unconditional covenant. All these other ones were conditional covenants, weren't they? They depended on what? What they did. This covenant was an unconditional covenant. And what is an unconditional covenant? Come on, what's an unconditional covenant? One that can't be changed. One that can't be changed. It's what you call an immutable covenant, isn't it? You know why that God is putting up with Israel today? Why, Luther tried to get the whole Jewish race killed. Did you know that? He called for the destruction of all Jews at this time when he started preaching. Luther said that every Jew ought to be put in a concentration camp someplace, every male neutered, and every female not ever to be able to produce a child. because they were the killers of the Messiah and that race of people and God was finished with Israel and he would never deal with them again and they needed to be wiped off the face of this earth. And of course when Hitler came on the scene all he did was just took up with Luther's preaching. How many of you knew that? Because he, his theology wasn't quite right. God does have a purpose. And he had a beautiful contract with this guy, Abram. No matter what those descendants have done, he is going to bring glory through that nation one of these days. And that's the whole idea of the tribulation period is a big damn easy submission. And the only reason why the Jews are in the world in existence today is by the promise of God and His omnipotence. Because Satan, if he could destroy, if he could have used Luther, if Satan could have used Luther to really destroy national Israel, the promises of God would have been nullified. If Hitler could have destroyed all the Jewish people off the face of the earth, He could have proved God a liar, couldn't he? Because God didn't stand behind Abraham's covenant. Now, there is a double part of that covenant. Actually, we're of the seat of Abraham because we're of the seat of the Messiah. But Israel is still there, too. How are they doing out there? They're still busy. They're still busy, huh? They're still preaching. Okay. How many of you put some things together? Is it coming together for you? It makes sense, doesn't it? God is not a God of foolishness, it's a God of... We were talking about physical science. God lays his eternal purposes and they are from eternity to eternity. And there's no mistakes in between. Man has failed God many times, but there's one man that did not fail. The God man. Alright, he showed us how to do it. He is our example. In the law of God, God was appointed, Israel was to be appointed to the coming Messiah King. Wasn't it? Is that enough to go off over? Not yet, almost. Israel was supposed to be appointed to the Messiah King and when he came they were very happy with the religion. Not the common man, did you know that? What was the common man? There was a widow out there that cast in two of the smallest denominations of Israeli coins which was called the mites. It took two of them to make the next smallest one. They were just basically worth nothing. You couldn't buy much with that. Maybe half a slice of stale bread. And Jesus was not a mean man, was he? If he'd have been mean, he wasn't. He would have been undaunted, wouldn't he? Was he perfectly sinless? Did everything he said, did he tell the truth? Well, he said that this woman out there, this widow, and remember, Pharisees were around when he said this, he said, that woman over there gave more than all the rest. She gave more than all the rest. Now what do you think those Pharisees said? I gave $500 today. What do you mean she only gave the two little smallest denominations of gold? What's he talking about? He said because they, over there, gave their excess. Their excess. As a matter of fact, I didn't give my excess here. I had this put in there. They gave of all their, all of them were eating. This woman wasn't eating. She didn't have enough money to buy food. Every one of them had breakfast that day and lunch and they were going to have plans for dinner. But that woman, that money was going to buy the only morsel of food that she had and could eat that dinner. But she put it all in the dinner because that's all she had. That's what you call sacrificial giving. Our church calls us to give sacrificially. No. Is that unreasonable? No. Because we have an example in the Bible. This poor widow. Name will be remembered forever because of what she did. There was a harlot in the Bible called Mary. Mary evidently was lucrative in her business because she had wealth. She had ointment, and she had her tear bottle, and just think about that for a while, what she had given to Jesus. She anointed him with his fragrance, perfume, and she poured her tears on his feet, and dried his feet with her hair, the hair of her head. There was a big space involved in her too. She was probably crying also. But Hebrews are very emotional people. They're what you call of the Eastern thought. And many of those people at that time, or all of the women by the way, and women have got unusual ways don't they? And the women say that about men too. But you know when a woman would go to a wedding or a funeral, they would have a tear bottle with them. And they would catch some of those tears in that tear bottle and they would put it in a bottle and cork it. And when they were buried, all the joys of life and all the sorrows of life were buried with them in the remembrance of their whole life. Many Bible scholars think that Mary took that hair bottle and poured that on His feet. All of everything, all the joys, all the dangers of life, she poured in Jesus' feet. Because He was now her Master. And how many of you know what a hair bowl is? A hair bowl, B-O-W-L. Women used to sit in front of the mirror and they would comb their hair and the hair that would come out of their head, they would put it in a hair bowl. They'd stuff it in this little bowl. If you go into some museums, you'll see a hair bowl set in a long bag like this. And the women would braid their hair and make little cloth placemats. They would braid their hair and make it. And if you watch the Outlaw of Chelsea's Wales, that girl braided a watch fob from her hair and gave it to this man. She was in love with him. And that's what women would do. They would give it and sometimes they would cut gold and silver in these cloths. Maybe Mary took that cloth and wiped his feet with it also with that cloth that meant nothing to her now. The Bibles and customs of matters. You can learn a lot from that. You can't study the Word of God and language or a Hebrew you don't know. You've got to be a student of history to do that. And when you study history, sometimes there is so much more meaning to those things. Then this thought is read on the surface. Remember when we first started this class today, I said, how many of you have read through the whole Bible? It's like passive-minded scriptures and verses, and hearing them, but not hearing them. Hearing them, but not hearing them. And then you turn the light on one word, and you look at it. And you walk all the way around that word, and you look at it. That hair that that woman used to dry Jesus' feet and those tears, I'm sure she was crying too, but I do believe that she broke that tear bottle and put her whole life at His feet and her whole being right there. Because from that time on, that woman was changed. Wasn't she? And what was she? Nothing but a harlot. That's all. Just a harlot. There was another Mary that did the same thing too. I think she copied what the other better did. That was Mary and Martha. There was two of them that did that. That was a double happening. One of them I believe the harlot did. And then I believe Mary did that also. Is that Mary Magdalene? Mary Magdalene. And then Mary. and Martha and Lazarus. They were friends of Jesus that lived in Bethany, remember? Over there. Lazarus was the one that he raised from the dead. And just think about that too. Remember what Jesus said to her when he was speaking to her. If you had been here, my brother-in-law died. And he said, he told her what? What did Jesus dare tell her? Mary mocked him when he was speaking to her. She said, I am the resurrection. And she believed in the resurrection. Because she said, I know that in the last day that he will stand. That's why the prophet is not over here. After this tribulation period. This resurrection of the living dead by the way. Not the phallophos, but the necros. All right, the necros means dead bodies. The phallophos means dead and separated forever. Okay, two different Greek words, two different ideas. Well, I know that it'll stand in the resurrection again. And then Jesus said what? He cried with a loud voice and said, Lazarus, come forth. Come to me. That is the same voice that we're going to hear one of these days when we either are raptured or we come out of our graves. What's going on out there? Is it time yet? They're what? They're still preaching? Are you sure? Has he wound up today, Brother John? Me too. It don't matter, I'll improvise. Anyway, thank you for your attention. I'm going to turn it back over to Brother Greg, so he'll have a few minutes. We've got some prayer requests up here. Thank you. Yes, Brother. We told the lady that she had the Star of David on there. We know where our cross comes from, but where does the Star of David come from? The Star of David comes from the Old Testament. It's really an old signia and it represented at one time the promises of God to David and the Messiah. That represents that also. But it was not so much a star in heaven. But the right time. It was the right time, the right season for him to be born. The stars line up. What do you do with the stars? Tell time and direction. And it was time for the Messiah to be born. The stars were right. That was an insignia. And if you look at the different tribes, they have different, in the four directions from the tabernacle, they have different things. But in different tribes, they have different, in their families, they also have different little things that they handed down. Brother Greg, I'm going to turn to you. Bill, thank you for copying her request. Can we update her? Our first week from last week.