And welcome back this week.
Man, good to be back.
Me sitting in here without a hat for a change.
I look like I got a billboard here on my head.
Normally cut that thing in half of my little cap.
day off uh today in observance for uh martin luther king jr day um i always i always like to
spend that time with my kids and and usually end up getting a few questions i didn't get as many
this year most years they're like hey why are we out of school today and i actually have to kind of
go navigate that conversation that i really don't want to have with kids that young uh but um hey
it was it's a good thing to celebrate and uh you know i think our country's a lot better off because
of the works of Dr. King. He was a good man. Not a perfect man, but a good man. And he did a lot
of good things for us. So I hope you got to enjoy the day. If you got off today, I know a lot of
businesses don't close today. There he goes. I know it's all hung up. It won't come out.
there it is man all right and uh brother dennis how are you doing tonight doing all right man
staying warm i was off today too yeah oh yeah that'd be nice
i've been off for a long time you know what i'm saying yep
off in the head off in the head hey on it on it yeah that's right that's right oh part of it
Well, at least you got to enjoy your day off that was like the previous days off.
Yeah, well, Diane was off, so, you know, we just hung out.
Yeah.
It's a good day.
That's good.
That's always good.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
She gets off for the federal holidays.
You know, they get a number of days and everything.
Everything, yeah.
And how about the hunter over here?
How's Brother Brian doing tonight?
He's doing great.
He's doing good.
Yeah.
I was off today also.
My wife was off.
My oldest daughter was off, so she brought the grandbaby over, so it was a good day.
We hung out.
Awesome.
Yeah.
Oh, that's fantastic.
She's not too far from walking, is she?
No, no.
She's right there.
Yeah.
Pulling up some, and she's standing up a little bit, as long as she's holding on to something.
Uh-huh.
Yeah, I think about another month or so, she'll be walking.
Oh, man.
Lock the doors, the cabinet doors.
We got this little, we got this little Walker.
I couldn't know the name left me for a minute.
Little Walker at the house.
It looks like a Bronco.
Brenna had actually bought it for her for Christmas,
and she's kept it at the house to use.
And she goes crazy in that thing.
I mean, she's all over the place.
You know, she's flying in it.
But she's also, she likes to get into cabinets.
She'll get over there and start trying to open cabinet doors,
that kind of thing.
So, yeah.
Yeah, so you're coming quick to having to do a little bit of baby proofing
and making sure you don't have anything in the cabinets you can get to.
Yeah, I'll be honest.
It was funny because back when my kids were little, I put all that stuff up,
and everybody always talks about, man, I loved it when my kids got big enough
that I didn't have to worry about it and took all that down.
I'm like, took it down?
Keeps me out of stuff.
I'm a little baby drool.
That's right.
It makes me have to think about it.
Do I really want to fight with that thing before open that cabinet?
I'm not walking in a little Debbie in your horse.
I don't know.
I don't have a chance on her getting in there.
Oh, man.
Well, this weekend I got to Friday night, I got to take the kids to watch a movie,
and I don't get to do that with them very often.
We went and watched David, Angel Studios.
It came out back in December, apparently.
It's been out for almost a month,
so it's probably not going to be in the theaters a whole lot longer.
But if you haven't had a chance to go watch it, it's animated.
It's a musical, which I think is very appropriate for David.
But, oh, man, it literally, it is 1 Samuel.
It is from the anointing of David in 1 Samuel all the way to the end of the book,
and it just follows right along.
It doesn't get into David's wives,
and it leaves off the story of the witch of Endor and stuff like that
and some of the really nasty stuff that Saul did.
But outside of that, I mean, you can literally go down through there,
And every few scenes you can look, and the scene matches up with the title of a chapter.
Yeah, I had to say done really well with that.
I hadn't had an opportunity to watch it.
Man, and what was so great about it, well, I'm sitting there in the theater, right,
and there's almost nobody else in the theater.
There were like, I think two other families came in.
One more came in right as the movie was starting.
So there may have been three families in there watching it,
and it gets to the David and Goliath scene, and David's out there.
You know, he's getting his stones out of the river, and I hear my son.
I think, you know, my kid half the time, I think he's not paying a lick of attention to me.
And I hear him in the seat next to me go, five smooth stones.
And I went, you've got to be kidding me.
Just came out of nowhere.
He's like, oh yeah, he's getting his five smooth stones.
And I'm like, you remember that?
Goodness.
So that was, that was a nice, nice little shock there.
But yeah, I highly recommend that one.
Have to brag on that a little bit.
Cause it's not often I get to see something that I can brag on like that in the theaters.
And boy, it was good.
yeah that's something that kind of bothers me about a lot of the productions about jesus life
you know it's like they could make this stuff a lot more literal and old to the bible a lot better
yeah and they just don't for whatever reason they just take this artistic license and run with
weird stuff and yeah and even though even the ones that start off really really that's why i was
fixing to say sometimes they'll start off great and you think oh this is gonna be so good and then
throw some kind of curveball in there it's like that didn't happen where did that come from how
How did they put that in there?
I was a little nervous.
I went and actually checked the Focus on the Family's review of it
when I found out the kids were going to be home this weekend,
snow and ice and stuff over in the other direction.
So I found out they weren't going anywhere,
and I was like, oh, I need to find something for us to do.
And so I go and Focus on the Family's plugged-in website,
and they gave the review and everything.
And it was interesting because the very first line was,
this is a fairly accurate retelling of the story of David.
And I'm like, wow, really?
Nobody does an accurate retelling of it because some of that stuff's a little bit crazy sounding.
Yeah.
Let it be.
You know, it's so weird.
And they did.
I mean, it was spot on.
And even stories I told mom and dad, even some stories I'd forgotten about,
David going off right before Saul and Jonathan die in a battle with the Philistines.
And they didn't show the part where David actually teamed up with the Philistines.
He was actually on their side.
I had to go back, and I was rereading it this weekend.
And I'm like, oh, yeah, I forgot.
He actually had a whole thing with the king of the Philistines where they were actually good friends.
I mean, they became friends for a bit there where David and him got along really well, even after the whole thing with the Goliath.
And he was just like, oh, yeah, you're a good guy, and I don't see any problem with you.
And, you know, Saul's the problem, and I'll gladly help you take him down.
And then right before they go into fight, he's like, you know what?
You and your guys, I really don't want y'all at my back.
Yeah.
And he kicks them out.
And then all the folks that were following David get abducted by these Amicalites.
And I had completely forgotten about this story.
David comes back.
This battle's going on over here with Saul and his army and the Philistines.
And then David and all of his followers, all the able-bodied men went with him.
And when they come back, the town is just in ruins.
And these Amicalites had come in and abducted everybody.
They were slavers.
They were just scavengers, and they took them off.
And David heads off, and half of his soldiers are like,
we can't fight them.
And he's like, God delivered me out of the hands of the bear,
the lion, and Goliath.
Why am I afraid?
And off they go.
And I'm like, no.
And I'm watching it in the movie.
I'm like, that didn't happen.
Yeah, it did.
It actually did.
He takes off with like 600 men.
Half of them end up staying in the desert.
Another half of them drop off before they get there,
and he ends up taking that whole army with like a hundred people and then comes back with the rest
of their families and stuff and everybody's like what happened here and he's just like god's good
so when i talk about david being like god's on heart man that was that is amazing to me to read
that and see and see it played out on screen so i thought that was awesome so if you get a chance
to see it in theaters go see it if you don't buy it when it comes out on dvd i'm hoping they do an
actual DVD release instead of making you subscribe to their stuff to watch it because that's one that
needs to have a little cash thrown at it and support it because it was good. Very, very good.
All right. Well, here we are, Revelation chapter eight. And I think we might have some comments.
I'll make sure the chat's not going too hard tonight. So I'll let you guys get started here.
all right yeah so chapter eight uh we um we had this little pause um in uh chapter seven and and
we see some um god taking care of some things uh taking care of sealing the 144 000 and um and and
just uh a little pause in the in the breaking of the seals there and uh and now in chapter eight
We're about to jump back into it pretty hard, right?
Oh, big time.
Yeah.
This is the seventh seal.
Yeah.
This is where it's going to get hairy.
Seventh seal.
And this is where I think it gets a little confusing,
is that the seventh seal contains seven trumpets and seven bowls.
Yes.
And the whole last trump thing gets, like we were talking about last week,
gets a little bit confusing.
Yeah.
So the seventh seal is the finale.
Yeah.
But it contains seven trumpets.
That's right.
That's right. So, yeah, so it's it's it's it's God revealing from revealing from.
He's he's. Yeah. You open it up and there's more here and there's more here.
So, yeah. Yeah. Peel back the layers and watch it go.
But it's fixing to happen. And and we also find out that, you know, this is the place where where the ladies we find out that there's no females in heaven to start with.
the men
the men go first
so we see that in verse 1
because it says
and when he had opened the seventh seal
it said there was silence
in heaven about the space of a half hour
so y'all were only a half hour
behind us
but
where's the drum roll at
alright
Dennis doesn't have his drums
I should have brought him
We just went from 10 viewers to four.
But no, anyway, just a bad joke.
But the seventh seal is open,
and there's silence in heaven for a span of about a half an hour.
And when the other judgments took place,
there were people who repented during those judgments, right?
But as we see with most people today,
The knee wears off, and they're right back to the old cells again.
They go back to their same lifestyles and the way they were.
God's grace has been lifted on sinful man here in chapter 8.
And now he's going to unleash his judgment.
Isaiah 28, 21.
For the Lord shall rise up as in Mount Parism.
He shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon.
and that he may do his work, his strange work,
and bring to pass his act, his strange act, Isaiah 28, 21.
So a little bit of Isaiah's prophecy there.
He does not enjoy, I want us to understand this,
God doesn't enjoy or take pleasure in destroying his creation.
No, no, no.
He's holding back from it for a long, long time.
Yeah, yeah.
But he is a just God, and he will execute just judgment.
Ezekiel 18, 32,
For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dith, saith the Lord,
wherefore turn yourselves and live ye.
He's like, hey, please, you know, I don't want to do this.
Don't make me do this.
But I think God's desire for all of us is for us to turn from our sins
and to turn to him and live forever.
but the storm of God's wrath is coming.
Amen.
Let us warn you tonight that the storm of God's wrath is coming.
Amen.
Just like the calm before the storm, we've seen that in chapter 7,
and we see it today.
When the silence is over and God's wrath is unleashed,
that 30 minutes, that half hour of silence, and God's wrath is unleashed,
man has never, nor will he ever, seen anything like it before.
Right.
Or to cut.
He just promised that, didn't he?
Yes.
Yeah.
And that reminds me of 2 Peter 3, too.
It says, but do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved,
that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years and a thousand years like one day.
The Lord is not slow about his promises.
Some count slowness, but is patient toward you,
not wishing for any to perish, but for all to come to repentance.
Amen.
He's been holding back on this for a long time,
and only he can know who, you know, the last person that might get saved, right?
Yeah.
And, man, when that happens, it's going to get ugly.
And we see, we've seen a bunch of ugly already,
and it's about to get a whole lot worse.
Yes, it is.
Especially when going to Chapter 9, it's just, oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Ugh.
And one of the things here that's always struck me is, you know,
it doesn't really tell us where the silence came from,
what the silence was about.
It just says that he opened the seal, and all of a sudden, boom,
it's silent for half an hour.
I think it's an awe.
And I think I started to say in all.
And every single being in heaven knows that God has this thing that he does where everything is grouped in sevens.
Everything is, yeah.
And when he's doing a work, he groups it in seven.
He does six.
And then seven.
And on number seven, he's done.
He's stopped.
Not pick seven.
No, not that.
No, no, no.
Seven, eight, nine.
Yeah, yeah.
He worked for six days and rested on the seventh day.
And you have the same thing here where that seventh seal, it's the final seal on this book.
The book itself is about to be open.
And so you have that seal releasing and everybody's like, oh, what's about to happen?
Well, and I think there's probably, you know, here we are, we're the bride of Christ and we're with him.
We're there.
And we talked about before, it says we don't yet know what we're going to be like, but we know we're going to be like him.
So I think we know that something, we may not know the totality of it or the full effect of what he's about to do.
But, boy, we've got an idea that this ain't going to be good.
No.
He's already gave him a chance, and he's already told him.
And it's like, oh, man, people, please.
And like you said, it's an awe moment.
Like the power of God's fixing to be unleashed.
I mean, he's already, what we've already read has been monstrous, right?
I mean, especially what was it, the sixth seal or the fifth seal?
The sixth seal, and it just shakes everything.
Yeah.
Everything.
And then there's that silence.
Right.
Yeah.
Not a good silence.
It's like when you go home and you know you're already in trouble before you get home.
You know, you find out your parents found out something you've done wrong,
and then you get to the house and nobody says anything to you.
and and you walk in your room and you just or your dad says hey go in there and wait
i'll be in there in a minute yeah i'm about to come have a conversation with you
uh-oh and you're in there like oh boy come on in here and get it over with dad please yeah
yeah yeah the worst one's waiting though oh god i need time to think about it yes
all right so we want to do uh i was thinking maybe verses two through six sure um
And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.
Another angel came and stood at the altar, holding a golden censer, and much incense was given to him,
so that he might add it to the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar, which was before the throne.
And the smoke of the incense with the prayers of the saints went up before God out of the angel's hand.
Then the angel took the censer and filled it with the fire of the altar and threw it to the earth,
and there followed peals of thunder and sounds and flashes of lightning in an earthquake.
And the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound them.
So one thing I noticed here that this is, it's seven angels,
but this is not to be confused with the seven spirits of God.
How about seven Spanish?
Seven Spanish.
Oh, man, Willie Nelson's here.
Attaboy, Willie.
Sorry.
But this is not the seven spirits of God, right?
This is seven literal angels that are there with seven trumpets given to them.
Yeah, yeah.
So, I mean, this is a special group of angels, isn't it?
Possibly maybe including Gabriel since he stands before God.
He tells us this in Luke 119.
He announced the birth of John the Baptist to Zacharias.
Luke 119 says,
And the angel answering him said unto him, I am Gabriel that stand in the presence of God,
and I am sent to speak unto thee and to show thee these glad tidings.
So, you know, it could be.
It could be him.
Sound of trumpets have a special meaning to the children of Israel.
And I think we talked a little bit about that last week.
In the book of Numbers, trumpets were used in two ways.
God told Moses to make two trumpets of silver.
They were used to call the assembly together and begin the procession
that would lead the children of Israel into their wilderness march.
He said, this was in Numbers 10 too,
Make these two trumpets of silver and a whole piece,
thou mayest use them and call us to the assembly
and for the journeying of the camps.
And then the second thing, the way that they used them,
when they entered into the land, the trumpets had two other purposes.
So Numbers 10 goes on and describes that.
It says,
If you go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresses you, then you shall blow an alarm with the trumpets, and you shall be remembered before the Lord your God, and you shall be saved from your enemies.
Also in the day of your gladness and your solemn days and in the beginning of your months you shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings, that they may be to you for a memorial before your God.
I am the Lord your God.
So, yeah, it always marks something big.
Yeah.
Big coming.
Right.
And there was even a fall feast, the Feast of Trumpets.
Yeah.
And I just, it just struck me now, you know, a lot of people connect the, it's the first
of the fall festivals and it's one that hasn't been fulfilled yet.
Right.
Prophecy.
Yeah.
And a lot of people connect that with Rapture.
Yeah.
And I kind of get that.
I kind of see that, but what if it's connected with this,
with the beginning of the great tribulation?
Yeah.
Because what we've read so far has been like the first three and a half years,
the tribulation.
Yeah.
What's coming is the great tribulation, the last three and a half years,
which is going to be awful.
And the trumpets signify the start of that.
Yeah.
And I wonder if maybe that's the prophetic trumpet, feast of trumpets.
Absolutely could be.
And on that road, I think it absolutely could be.
But now you've got all these people that are trying to tie that in,
and maybe they're on to something.
You know what I'm saying?
But then they want to try to predict when it's going to happen.
Yeah, it's going to be on the same day.
Yeah, that's where they get off somewhere in the weeds trying to do that.
But, yeah, absolutely, I think it could be.
The trumpet, it talks about 10-4 numbers.
It says, and they blow, but with one trumpet, then the princes,
which are the heads of the thousands of Israel,
shall gather themselves together.
So this is a trumpet that probably corresponds to the last trumpet in 1 Corinthians 15.
This trumpet in Numbers was to bring a certain group of people out of Israel.
The last trump we'll hear will be to bring the redeemed out of the earth, right?
When he says in 1 Corinthians 15,
Behold, I show you a mystery.
We shall not all sleep, but shall all be changed.
In the moment in the twinkling of an eye, the last trump for the trumpet shall sound,
and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
There's a lot of people who like to relate the seventh trumpet in Revelation
to the last trumpet in that verse, but they're not the same thing.
Not the same thing.
Paul says in 1 Thessalonians 4.16,
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout,
with the voice of an archangel, with the trumpet of God,
and the dead in Christ shall rise first.
This shout is the voice of Jesus, isn't it?
So what we hear at the rapture is the voice of Jesus that is like a trumpet,
The voice of an archangel means that his voice is like that of an archangel.
So the trump of God is still his voice, but it's not an actual trumpet.
We look at Revelation 1.10.
I was in the spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a great voice as of a trumpet.
Yeah.
I've always wondered, too.
We talk about that trumpet sound.
It's a spiritual trumpet.
Yeah.
We need to understand it's a spiritual trumpet.
practically you look at it practically that there are people who are deaf yeah not hear a trumpet
in the clouds yeah right or people working in a submarine yeah right and they're gonna get raptured
right right you may not hear that but you'll hear your heart that's it you'll hear in your mind or
your heart or some spiritual way still small voice but it alarms right yeah yeah well probably booming
loud yeah i started to say it's that spiritual thing it's that supernatural thing and i think
it's going to be something that when he when he comes and we all go everyone is going to hear it
whether you're going or not the only difference is some people are going to go what was that
and the rest of us are going to and they're going to look around and go hey whoa where'd they go oh
kind of like uh kind of like when uh what was it uh was it saul on the road to damascus where the
guys that were with him just they just heard something they didn't know what it was said
right yeah they were just hearing noise and they were like what is going on here and some of them
saw the light but they didn't hear anything yeah and it was it was confusing and i think that i've
always just in my mind thought that's how the rapture was going to be christ was going to come
back and be whatever it is that he's saying come with me get up follow me time to go whatever it
is he says come here yeah come on but the only ones that will really speak to is like what you said
is is is those who are saved and we will know what it means and we will know what it says yeah it's
It's like when he called Lazarus out of the grave, right?
I mean, Lazarus come forth.
He had no, he had.
Everybody heard it.
Yeah.
But only Lazarus responded.
Only Lazarus responded.
And listen, he was able to, I think he floated out of there.
You know, we've talked about that before because he was wrapped up mummified.
But yeah, there was no way he could stay in the grave.
There's no way he could stay dead when that happened.
Yeah.
The next part of that was the smoke of the incense.
That's an interesting thing to me,
that the prayers of the saints are represented as incense before the Lord.
And that's symbolic of the Old Testament.
In the tabernacle and temple, that incense was used like that.
It's the prayers of the saints.
And it's not just the prayers.
I believe it's the worship of the saints, the lives of the saints.
It's just the sweet aroma of the things that we do that honor and glorify Him.
Yeah, and we heard the prayers of the saints back in chapter 6, didn't we?
Yeah.
And in Revelation 6 and in verse 9 through 11, if you want to go back and look at that.
But we heard that in chapter 6.
It was when he had opened the fifth seal.
And he said,
He saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God
and the testimony that they held.
And they cried with a loud voice, saying,
How long, O Lord?
holy and true,
as thou judge and avenge our blood and them that dwell on the earth.
And white roads were given unto every one of them.
And it was said unto them,
they should rest yet for a little season unto their fellow servants also,
and their brethren that should be killed as they were,
should be fulfilled.
So now these prayers are being answered,
and Christ is moving in great judgment.
Psalms 141, this is what David said.
He said, Lord, I cry unto thee.
Make haste unto me.
Give ear unto my voice.
When I cry unto thee, let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense,
and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
And he does.
And here's the prayers of his people.
Because of Christ's victory on the cross, that's why he can hear us, right?
Yeah.
We've got a connection with him.
Yeah.
And what's the response to those prayers?
It's verse five.
Angel takes that censer.
Yeah.
Fills it with fire from the altar.
Yeah.
Throws it to the earth.
Yeah.
And that's a response to the prayers of the saints.
That's right.
And judgment's coming.
It is.
Prayers are going up and judgment's coming down.
Yeah.
You know, prayers went up, judgment comes down.
And here's, you know, four things here that we see.
Thunder.
It denotes the approach of God's judgment.
The storm.
There's a storm that's coming.
Yeah.
There's voices, the voice of God's judgment so that no one mistakes.
This is just another storm.
This is not just another storm.
This is God himself.
Lightning, the power of an almighty God being unleashed.
Amen.
And then the earthquake.
This will be the earth's response to the great pressure that's exerted from God's judgment upon man.
Like the earth won't be able to hold itself, right?
It's just going to be, it's going to shake.
You know, and I've always wondered if, from the perspective of the people on the Earth,
they've had all this stuff going on that's already happened, and it's been rough,
and then all of a sudden they look up and this sensor is coming down filled with fire.
They're going to see a meteor coming right towards the Earth just blazing.
You go, uh-oh.
And then the whole planet starts shaking.
I mean, it's not that big.
It's big enough for the angel to pick it up and go, kunk.
I mean, you're talking about something the size of your fist.
And this is not a regional thing.
This is not like you only see this from Alabama.
Right.
It is global.
This is global.
Yeah, absolutely.
Everybody around the world is going to see flashes of lightning and hear thunder.
Can you imagine what this is going to be like?
I mean, good gracious.
There's no movie that could actually capture the greatness of what this is.
The scale.
The scale of it.
Gosh, it's going to be off the scale.
Yeah, I mean, this is going back to Noah's flood kind of stuff.
Yeah.
I've watched some guys. There's this one guy I really like. I can't remember his name on YouTube. He's a physicist. And he starts going through all the evidence for Noah's flood. And he just goes into this super detail on this stuff and plates hit and all these things. And that the earth literally almost exploded when the fountain of the deep broke loose. He said it wasn't about the rain. It was about this. The earth's crust was sitting on a body of water way, way, way underneath the earth.
And when that cracked out, it put a baseball seam all the way around the world.
And he thinks that the meteorites, the meteorite belt out between us and Mars,
it rocks that came out of the earth.
Oh, wow.
And the earth actually shrank in diameter a little bit.
Yeah.
And that's why the prophetic day is 360 days because it goes back before the flood.
Right.
And now it's 365 days and a quarter.
Yeah.
It changed the way the earth rotates around the sun, too.
I mean, it just wrecked the world.
Yeah.
Right.
Absolutely.
And it's really interesting stuff to go back to that, but it's coming again, and it's coming worse.
It is.
It's coming in a greater capacity than we've ever even thought about.
So the half hour of silence is broken.
The trumpets have been handed out.
The prayers of the saints have been heard.
And now the angels are about to blow these trumpets, and that's going to bring on the divine wrath of a sovereign God.
And what's funny is that these ain't the worst of it yet.
No.
These four are not the worst of it yet.
Absolutely not.
No, it keeps getting worse.
It keeps getting worse.
Do we want to look at seven?
Sevens?
Yeah.
Okay.
And the first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire and mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth,
and the third part of the trees was burned up
and all green grass was burned up.
So these are plagues that are, let me be clear,
they're not symbolic.
Right.
Okay, this is not symbolic, but it's very literal.
Just as they were in Egypt.
This is going to destroy one third of all plant life on earth.
As in Noah's day, the earth was destroyed by flood.
Now it's going to be purified by fire.
Sounds like Sodom and Gomorrah.
It does.
Yeah, it does.
Because it was so evil that God said, I'm going to burn this thing up.
So God began with plant life in Genesis 111.
And now it will be the first thing to be destroyed when this happens.
So similar to what happened in Exodus chapter 9, if you go back and you look,
It says,
the Lord among the servants of Pharaoh
made his servants and his cattle flee into the house.
And he that regarded not the word of the Lord
left his servant and the cattle in the field.
And the Lord said unto Moses,
Stretch forth thine hand toward heaven,
that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt
upon man and upon beast
and upon every herb of the field
throughout the land of Egypt.
And Moses stretched forth his rod towards heaven,
and the Lord sent thunder and hail and fire
along upon the ground.
And the Lord rained hail upon the land of Egypt.
So there was hail and fire mingled with the hail,
very grievous, such as there was none like it
in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt
and that was in the field, both man and beast.
And the hail smote every herb of the field
and break every tree of the field.
Only in the land of Goshen,
where the children of Israel were,
Was there no hell?
Oh, you know, God's unleashing on them there.
Yeah.
Crazy.
It's awful.
Awful.
You know, one of the things you have to think about when reading that
and just the level of ecological disaster from that there in Egypt,
and then here we are in Revelation 8,
and this is applied to the earth as a whole.
A third of all trees gone.
all of the grass.
Yeah.
And when it says all the green grass,
it's not just talking about the grass in your yard,
all your wheat, your rye, your things like that.
It's just gone.
And then now you've got a third of the trees.
Do you know what trees do?
They help us.
Well, first of all, they give us food, right?
You have fruit trees and things like that
that give us food to eat.
They also let us breathe.
Yeah.
And we just lost a third of the thing on the planet
that's going to make us be able to breathe.
We'll take care of that so-called carbon problem we have.
Oh, yeah.
You think it's bad now.
Let's take a third of the carbon scrubbers out of the planet.
Where's the oxygen going to come from, right?
It's going to be awful.
And verse 8, the second angel sounded.
And something like a great mountain burning with fire
was thrown into the sea, and a third of the sea became blood,
and a third of the creatures which were in the sea
had life died and a third of the ships were destroyed so again we got to take this literally
yeah we can't we can't put some kind of a metaphor around it it's it it looks like a great mountain
burning with fire it sounds a lot like a meteorite yeah yeah or a meteor yeah yeah it sounds like a
big one sounds like the big one but there's there's more of them coming but uh that's what it sounds
like to me it's something it's something just destroys the ocean yeah yeah that's right yeah
And it does, it looks like a meteor.
And it does say that, you know, as it were,
but we know that something is destroying it here.
Something is, something literal is happening here
and it's unimaginable.
Well, and you got to also take back,
this is one of those places where I think we can look at it
and say, okay, John had the words to express
that he knew in those days.
They didn't have a word for meteor.
So he just saw something the size of them
that looked like a mountain burning
like it was on fire, and it drops into the ocean,
and then a third of the ocean is just gone.
A third of the sea literally becomes blood.
A third of all creatures in the sea literally die,
and because of the impact,
one-third of the ships in the sea are literally destroyed.
Exactly.
Pacific.
It is.
It's very specific.
And, hey, here's the thing.
That one's not even a really difficult one to go,
yeah, no, that makes sense.
you drop something the size of a mountain that's flying at the earth from outer space into the
middle of the ocean it's called do you know what happens all that water goes up a bunch of it boils
off and all the critters there just suddenly get smashed and guess what they do they bleed yeah
yeah and and now you have the water going and this blood pouring out of these creatures so yeah i could
i'm like nope that makes perfect like this is not well you've got the plants in the in the ocean too
that are giving oxygen to.
So, yeah.
So it's destroying it all.
Yeah.
Everything that nature provides for us to survive
is being systematically destroyed here.
Yeah.
Wow.
Verse 10.
Ready to go to that?
And the third of the angel,
and the third angel, excuse me,
I'm used to working with thirds now.
And the third angel sounded,
And there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp.
And it fell upon the third part of the rivers and upon the fountains of the waters.
And the name of the star is called Wormwood.
And the third part of the waters became Wormwood,
and many men died of the waters because they were made bitter.
Wow.
So you got a great, again, probably a meteor, right?
looks like it sounds like here yeah you know and you think about from from the point of view and
it's not a literal star you know we understand little stars are too far away there but something
looks like a star yeah and they're made a gap right something in the sky right yeah but uh if
you look at it from that that thing's perspective it can see about a third of the world when it's
coming in yeah yeah right depending on what part of the world is turning at the time right let's
We'll see about a third of it, and it's going to hit.
Yeah.
And a third's destroyed.
And a third of the freshwater supply, not just saltwater, not just the ocean.
And it's poisoned by this.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, it does.
It poisons one-third of the Earth's freshwater supply.
The name Wormwood in the Old Testament stood for idolatry, calamity, and sorrow, and false judgment.
That's what Wormwood stood for in the Old Testament.
And it says a third part of the waters became wormwood.
So whatever this thing is made of, it just leaches out into those freshwater streams.
And people are dying just from drinking it and from being exposed to it and from being around.
I mean, I don't know if we're talking about something with radiation at this point
or if you're talking about something that's just like some of the various heavy metals that exist out there.
Because some of those things are real dangerous to drink.
And they're just flying around us out in the space out there pretty crazy.
And it's like, oh, yeah, you run into that stuff.
It's dangerous.
It could, I mean, this sounds, I'll be honest, going back with that scientific mind,
this sounds a lot like radiation poisoning to me.
Yeah.
And it's like, we just don't know.
Yeah.
Yep.
Well, 12.
12.
All right.
12 and 13.
Let's see.
The fourth angel sounded.
And a third of the sun and a third of the moon and a third of the stars were struck so that a third of them would be darkened
and the day would not shine for a third of it and the night in the same way then i looked and i heard
an eagle flying in midheaven saying with loud voice woe woe woe to those who dwell on the earth
because of the remaining blasts of the trumpet of the three angels who were about to sound yeah
three woes yeah third here third there yeah three just keep showing up no yes yes yeah yeah yeah uh
this one i i man i got no explanation but i'm gonna take it literally uh you know and can you
imagine a third of the sun going dark um what the temperatures on earth do yeah yeah yeah it's gonna
be cold you're looking at either something between the earth and the sun blocking part of the light
or possibly the earth actually from all these things slamming into it it starts spinning faster
yeah and it's not out of the realm of possibility that god has hit the light switch yeah that's
that's possible too blocks yeah well i mean since we were created since man was created
he's counted on sources of light right the moon the stars the the sun uh they are they are used
for planet growth they're used for warmth they're used for direction uh and and the list goes on but
during this time one-third of them will be cut off and one-third of the earth will be darkened
We'll also see this revealed in Matthew 24 in verse 29.
Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened
and the moon shall not give her light and the stars shall fall from heaven
and the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
So we see that when light goes away, direction goes away.
And the last three judgments, the woe judgments, the intensity of these last three judgments are unimaginable.
I mean, if we have any care and love for fellow man, we will warn them with this woe right now.
We're seeing people and things being destroyed in thirds.
And I ask the question, what can we do about it now?
What can we do about it right now?
And the only thing that I know that we can do about it is to reduce the population that's going to be here during this time.
Right.
We can have a hand in that.
God does the saving, but we can reduce the population of the world right now by sharing the gospel.
Amen.
Yeah.
Amen.
And something sticks out to me, too, in these first four trumpets,
that everything that God created that we take for granted is being taken away.
Look at Romans 1, verse 20.
For since the creation of the world, his invisible attributes,
his eternal power and divine nature have been clearly seen,
being understood through what has been made so that they are without excuse.
Yeah.
And he's taking it all away.
No excuses.
Wow.
Like I say, everything that humans depend on systematically taken away,
the trees, the grass, the oceans, and the life in the oceans,
the fresh water sources are being taken away.
The very light in the sky, a third of it is taken away.
Goodness.
And he's still doing these judgments just metered out, right?
He's not putting it all at once and just wiping it all clean.
People still have a chance to repent.
They do.
And I think that's the reason he's doing it like this.
I mean, when we look back at Pharaoh, when we look back at the children of Egypt or the people in Egypt, that's what he was doing with them.
He's like, look, let them go or this is going to happen.
Yep.
No, we're not going to.
Okay.
It happens.
Let them go where this is going to happen.
He does it again and again and again.
And it just keeps happening.
And he could have just wiped them out all at one time.
But he did.
He gave them an opportunity to let them go, to let them walk out of Egypt and go towards the promised land.
But they were too foolish.
Yeah, and it shows us mercy, don't it?
Yeah.
And they get more and more intense.
Yeah.
More and more intense.
Yeah.
And they let government, the people in Egypt,
they let the government sway them in a way that was evil
to not let the children of Israel go.
And they got caught up in the crossfire, all that, right?
Yeah, they did.
Well, and Pharaoh, I mean, you look back at that,
he was getting fired up, he was ready to let them go,
and then he kept getting talked out of it.
Yeah.
Either his advisors or his wife or his family.
I mean, there were people who kept coming to him talking about it.
It's like, guys, take a hint.
You always got somebody in your ears trying to talk you into not doing the right thing.
And that's the exact same thing you got here.
Yeah.
It's the exact same thing.
You've been talked out of it enough times.
I mean, goodness.
Yeah.
Amen.
Go back to that verse we had at Sunday, just yesterday, that Brother Jake brought for us,
about the king talking to Paul.
And he says, you know, just almost.
You almost persuaded me.
Almost persuaded.
Yeah.
It's like, what do you mean almost?
If you're convinced enough to say it's almost, just take the next step.
There's so many people that won't be persuaded no matter what happens.
And we see that here.
Oh, yeah.
No matter what.
And they're hiding in caves saying, oh, the wrath of the Lamb has come.
Protect us.
Keep us from the wrath.
And we see it.
Right.
Yeah.
Turn away from this stuff.
But they're so blinded.
They're so blinded.
And we know that, you know, the Bible's already told us that unless this time be shortened, right, it would destroy everybody.
And we know that there's a great delusion that has came on them that says that if it were even possible, that the very elect would believe it.
But it's just all the things that are going on here.
And we see those things happening now, not to this category or level,
but we see so much now that we didn't have before.
Again, I know we've talked about this before, but, I mean, we see AI,
so we see how a lot of things are probably going to transpire, take place with AI.
I mean, again, I mean, somebody who's, you've got a 17-year-old kid sitting in his basement
that's making AI videos that look so real that you can't even tell the difference.
Think about what people with technology that the government has
and all the money that somebody like that has to be able to create something
that's going to be such a strong delusion to them,
and people are getting fooled by it.
Just yesterday, the church, I mean, there's persecution going on.
Here in our little part of the world, we're not seeing it yet.
I had a shoe thrown at me.
Yeah, you did. I forgot about that.
yeah all of us but dennis are not seeing a lot of parts but he did have a shoe and then a sock
so yeah kind of went the different direction yeah well he's he's older and have a good aim so yeah
yeah he was trying to throw a stink bomb at you so
but uh but but you know that's um that's that's the place we're in of course i know y'all
Probably seen the news yesterday, church in Minnesota,
that people come in there protesting because they had an ICE agent that went to church there.
And they just interrupt the whole service and come in and start protesting inside during the service.
And then Don Lemon comes in and starts badgering the preacher.
Yes, yeah.
And makes the statement, it shows how smart this Don Lemon guy is.
He comes in and says, well, I mean, you know, he said it's freedom of speech.
No, it's not.
You've crossed the line on freedom of speech.
These people were in here gathered in the freedom of being able to worship.
That first amendment.
That's the first part of it, actually.
You know, and these other people, they weren't standing up there on the sidewalk doing this.
They weren't out there on public property doing this.
They came into the church, disrupted the whole order of things,
and then you had this woman that was leading the whole thing
that said that she was not only a lawyer and a lawyer,
and then she said, I'm also a reverend.
And I'm like, yeah, okay, here's our problem.
Educated into oblivion.
Yeah, yeah.
And I will take that second to remind people that churches are actually private property.
You can be asked to leave.
That's exactly right.
And that's what they were asking them to do, and they wouldn't leave.
I mean, and one of the things I've seen, one of the articles I've seen on it is that any time a church service has been interrupted by someone like that, they've never been on the good side.
It's never been good people come in and done that.
Right.
I saw where the DOJ might be charging them with, especially Don Lemon, with this rule that our law was created for the KKK.
Yeah.
Wow.
That is hilarious and they should do it.
Yeah, that'd be irony.
You know, it's one of those things.
If you're wanting to protest something like that, I promise every single state has right-of-way laws off the street where you can go stand out off the street and you can get off the street, not blocking the street.
That is not legal.
You can stand out of the street and you can protest even in front of a church.
And, hey, you know what?
It would be annoying and it would be frustrating for us.
But as long as they're out here doing it the right way, there's a reason these things exist the way they do.
I think these people, they have a sense of moral superiority, and it goes back to their religion of humanism, which is really the spirit of Babylon.
Yes, it is.
Absolutely.
It makes them feel good.
Right?
Yeah.
And they're all bound together on this thing to protect people who are literally breaking the law by being here.
Absolutely.
We should have all the compassion on these people in the world, but don't let them keep breaking the law and just sucking taxpayers dry of funds.
Get the bad guys.
I understand there are different levels of bad in this thing that are illegal than others.
We're not saying that every single one of them should be round up the scot.
Or have mercy.
But they don't understand the freedom of speech.
They don't understand the freedom of religion.
They overstep their bounds in this.
And you think about, I don't know, of course, who the ICE agent was,
but this guy's just a guy who's out there doing his job.
He's doing what he's told to do.
Trying not to get killed by him.
Yeah.
And he was being stalked.
Yeah, absolutely, absolutely.
They had a raid earlier this week where there was some people,
illegals that were arrested.
and actually ended up knowing one family that a mom got taken
and who had been working her way to become legal
but hadn't done it in a timely manner,
hadn't done it in the space that she was supposed to.
And she got caught up in it.
It's like Nicole and I were talking about.
Everybody was saying, well, they need to go after the bad guys.
They need to go after the ones that are causing problems.
Well, that's what Nacosa said.
That's what they're doing.
They are going after those guys.
And some of these people are collateral damage.
Not that they're innocent because they still are illegal.
You know what I'm saying?
They still broke the law.
But they still broke the law.
It might be somebody that they wouldn't try to go after and say, oh, they're causing issues and problems.
But when you're in the middle of it, in the area that they were in, they raided them.
They stopped her.
She didn't have her paperwork.
She didn't have the proper stuff.
And she got pulled out, too.
And I don't think anybody would argue that the laws need to be changed.
I've known several people in my working career who immigrated here from either Finland or somewhere else in Europe, and it took forever.
It was just a nightmare of paperwork to become a citizen.
Yeah, the time space.
It's often.
It's expensive.
It is.
And they need to find a way to fix that.
I get that.
Goodness gracious, don't just flood the border with illegal people.
And who knows who's come in here.
Well, because we've got all these crime rate that's going up.
And again, there's as many good in them as there is good in us, right?
There's bad that's good in all races.
But the problem is we can't filter that at the border because they're all coming in.
And you've got cartel and all these people coming in.
And so the rapes are going up.
the stealing young girls and children, that's going through the roof.
They're abducting them left and right and putting them in these places for sex slaves
and all those kinds of things.
That's really where a lot of this got started at
and the reason that they started this whole thing.
And again, any time you have something like that happen,
there's going to be some collateral damage.
And I started to say the bad thing is when you're targeting people,
When you're going out of your way to go after those kind of people that are doing those kind of horrible things, if you are crazy enough to put yourself in the middle of it while you are also breaking the law, even if you're not doing any of the other things these people are doing, but you're breaking the law and I see them going after somebody like that, I'm going to go, hey guys, good job.
I'm going to go slowly walk my way over here so hopefully you don't notice me and I'm going to cheer you on while you do it.
I mean, these people have a problem with Christians like us that they want to sit on their moral high horse and say, well, love, love, love, love, love.
Well, God is holy.
He's just.
He's called us to be law-abiding citizens.
Absolutely.
We all ought to be law-abiding citizens where possible where it doesn't interfere with his law.
Absolutely.
And the thing is, you know, that's one of the things that's the beauty of the United States is we have freedom of religion.
We have freedom of speech, freedom of the press.
all the things that we're exercising right now, the ability to do things like this,
that does not exist in most other countries.
It does not exist.
And the sad thing is we have people right here in this country that think it shouldn't exist here.
And they want freedom of speech for their speech, but not for other speech.
And I'm like, come on, guys.
They want freedom of religion for Islam, but they don't want freedom of religion for Christianity.
And I'm like, no, freedom of religion is freedom of religion.
We all are free to worship and we are free and we maintain that freedom as long as we don't interfere with other people.
You will never hear me as a Christian argue that we should round up the Muslims and throw them in jail for their worship.
You will hear me say that if I see them walking down the street with a bomb strapped to their chest, we should make sure they go to jail and hopefully don't explode.
But that has nothing to do with the fact that they happen to be Muslim.
I mean, it's not hard, and I don't understand why so many of these people are so caught up on it.
Because, again, I was horrified to find out that in Texas they have entire communities out there
that are operating with, outside the law, Sharia courts operating in these neighborhoods,
and the courts are accepting the rulings.
And I'm like, I mean, look at New York City.
We've got a new mayor in New York City that is Muslim.
He's Muslim.
And he is not only Muslim.
Openly said he wants to re-law.
Yeah, absolutely.
I mean, he is 100% Muslim, right?
And listen, I'll just be honest with you.
I know that there's peacekeeping Muslims out there.
There's people who follow their religion, and they're not out there causing trouble.
But the religion itself is evil against every other man.
It's true to it.
Kill the infidel, right?
I mean, that's what the Muslim religion is like.
And when we open ourselves up to say, oh, you know, let's accept it.
Look, and again, we've got freedom of religion.
I get that.
But when the line is stepped over and we start letting these people come in
and they take over government and they take over positions.
You have a problem.
I mean, you think about how much power the mayor.
It's not like the mayor of Fort Payne.
Forgive me, mayor of Fort Payne right now.
Brian, you do a good job.
But when you think about the mayor of New York, I mean, that is a high political position with a lot of power and a lot of influence.
And then you've got people out there that are just like, you know, so heavily influenced that whatever he says is whatever they're going to do.
I mean, that's a communist.
Yes, he is a communist.
These people, I worry about the city because these people elected that guy.
I know.
They voted for that guy.
They had horrible choices.
Knowing these things.
I mean, all this stuff was out there.
I'm reading about it much before he even gets elected.
And everything pointed to the fact that this guy was fixing to get elected.
And they did.
They did.
Yeah, and these people have no knowledge of history.
They don't see how communism and socialism wrecked the whole 20th century.
Absolutely.
I mean, millions of people died out of this thing under Lenin and Stalin.
And if this thing could work, Lenin and Stalin would have made it work because they had the power for it.
They don't look at Cuba.
They don't look at Venezuela.
They don't talk to people from Venezuela who have lived under that garbage and eaten out of dumpsters and landfills.
That's right.
Why don't these people understand this stuff and can't get this?
It's universities that have brainwashed these people.
Because like we were talking about earlier, most of these people are very educated.
Yes.
Very educated, but they've been brainwashed.
Yeah, yeah.
Have a conversation sometime with some of the Cuban and Colombian immigrants that we have here in the United States that have legally immigrated.
They're here.
They've become citizens.
Ask some of them sometime if you ever get an opportunity.
Hey, what are your thoughts on the country you came from?
And they will almost universally, those two countries, Colombia and Cuba, are paradises.
Like where they're located, they can grow anything.
They can, well, not just for vacate, like for living there, like as far as like what the land is capable of providing.
You can grow anything.
You can, you have, the wildlife is very mild.
There's not like things that are trying to kill you every time you turn around, like the rest of South America.
Or you go out to Australia, those guys, like, you're careful walking down the street because there are spiders there that will cause your leg to fall off.
And they don't have stuff like that.
It's literally that little section of that part of the ocean is just paradise.
And yet people are fleeing it in droves and will tell you, I never want to go back.
Shark-infested waters in a homemade raft.
Yes.
How bad is it?
They're taking that much of a chance.
You're leaving paradise to come to Florida.
Yeah.
And Venezuela was once one of the richest countries in the world.
They're sitting on the largest oil deposit in the world.
Yes.
Bigger than any of the stuff in the Middle East.
Right.
Yeah.
And they just squandered it.
You know, it goes back to that old communist, what was it, Animal Farm.
We had to read that when we were kids.
Oh, yes.
And one of the leaders said, well, some are more equal than others.
Yeah.
They're talking about equality and all those jokes.
Yeah.
The richest are the government employees at the very top.
Absolutely.
And everybody else is eating out of the landfill.
They're getting scavengers.
It starts out that all animals are equal.
All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.
Four legs good, two legs bad, four legs good, two legs better.
Wait a minute.
What just happened here?
Yeah.
And the sheep just keep chanting the slogans.
But we're going that way in this country.
And this all comes back, and I believe this with all my heart,
that probably 20, 30 years ago, God took his hand of blessing off this country.
I agree.
And I don't know if it's gone away slowly, but right now you see the division in this country
and how we've gone down that Romans 1 pathway.
Absolutely.
And that's the same path that the U.S. is on.
Absolutely.
The things that we adhere to now, the things that we blindly obey and walk into now
are so much different than they were even 50 years ago.
And it's dangerous.
It's very dangerous.
I've heard, you know, do we think that,
I may have mentioned this in here before,
but I heard somebody say,
do you think that AIDS was a punishment for, you know,
us turning away from God and people becoming homosexual?
I mean, I think everything that happened is, I mean, is God taking his hand off of us and just letting things go.
Like, hey, if you want to live like this, then I'll turn you over to a reprobate mind and you can live like this.
And whatever happens after that, you've brought your own punishment on yourself.
Just live that life.
Yeah.
I truly believe that, yes, there are times that God sends a specific punishment for things.
But the vast majority of things that are wrong on the earth today are because God designed the world to work a certain way.
Adam and Eve made a decision, broke things, sent it into the world.
And from there on, God allows it to do what it does because he literally put the rules in place to work the way it works.
And when we reject him and when we reject everything, he just goes, okay, I've been blocking part of these rules.
I've been blocking part of these things that can happen.
I've been blocking the degradation of the DNA so that you're not falling apart left and right.
Okay, I'm going to take my hand off that because you ate of the fruit.
Now you're going to start falling apart and you're aging and dying.
And the telomeres of your DNA are going to break down every time they multiply and every time they replicate within your body.
And you're just getting older and older, whereas you weren't doing that before.
And he removes his hand from it.
the process was already in place and God just went, I'm stopping it.
And now I'm not, and now I'm not.
And so I think a lot of these diseases and stuff are just where God's gone.
Okay.
I'm going to stop blocking this thing from happening because you're making
some really bad decisions.
And at the end of the day, it's your choice.
Right.
Yeah.
And it's, it's clear from scripture that he not only judges individuals,
but he judges nations.
He does.
Yes.
Yeah, absolutely.
Absolutely.
Nations can fall under his judgment.
I think it's here.
Judges nations.
blesses nations right yeah yeah as a whole i think he blessed us so much yeah you know world war ii
and that period after that we became the richest country that's ever existed we still are
but man it's scary considering how far in day we are and then we see the new testament that
he blinded a whole nation right yes israel itself is blinded now that doesn't mean
the thing is when he does that towards nations that there there are individuals that are good
and right and you know in like there's individual um uh men and women of of israel uh yeah like the
guys who went to babylon yeah daniel right yeah yeah that uh that stood up and stood out and
and uh and were were men of god right and women of god so they and today right those individual
people can be saved right but the nation as a whole is still blinded right and i yeah i'm
right there with you. I think God's already taken his hand off and who Lord, when he takes his hand
off the whole world, it gets bad. It gets real bad, real fast. The stars are not going to stay in
place or meteors or anything else when God doesn't, he's like, okay. Yep. You know, there it is.
I mean, yeah, the whole universe at some point is going to be, I mean, when we get to the end of
this, that's what's coming. And everybody talks about, you know, oh, well, you know, everything,
this happened, that happened.
No, it tells us very explicitly how it all ends.
And it is with a great noise and it is with fire
and it is with heat and noise.
And it is a very loud thing.
You know, you're concerned about the Big Bang that started it.
I'm more worried about the Big Bang coming at the end.
Because what do you reckon heat and great noise is?
It's an explosion like nothing the universe has ever seen.
And then on the other side of it is a whole new universe.
I'm going to be standing up there watching it.
Yeah.
I mean, it's going to be, I mean, from, oh yeah,
From our standpoint in heaven, we're going to see a firework.
Yeah.
Boom.
It's all new.
True.
So we wrap up this week.
We're on Revelation 9-1 for next week.
We will pick back up there.
And yeah, this is where it gets rough.
The angel has just told us, whoa, whoa, whoa, because of these trumpets that are about to be blown.
And yeah, it gets rough.
It gets rough really fast.
So maybe if you happen to be with your kids, don't keep tuning in for a little bit.
You might want to, if they're real young, keep them where you listen to this outside of earshot,
because this can get a little bit scary if you're really young.
But hey, if you've got older kids, we are blessed by hearing this.
We are blessed by understanding this and knowing what's coming.
So God gave it to us, and we need to understand it.
So Revelation 9-1 next week, if you want to read ahead, I urge you to read ahead and be prepared for it.
it. Yeah. Buckle up. Buckle up. That's right. All right. And, uh, brother Dennis, I think I'll
turn it over and let you, uh, say the blessing to dismiss us tonight. All right. Father in heaven,
thank you so much for this time together here with my brothers and father. I pray for,
for everyone listening father, that you would pour out your blessings on them, that they might
see you for who you are, that you are so awesome and so beautiful and so wonderful to us. Father,
Your love is unmatched, your peace, your joy that you give us.
And, Father, the promises that you've made to us for eternal life
and that you've gone to prepare a place for us and you're going to bring us to you.
Father, thank you for all these things.
And, Father, I pray for everyone listening that they would hear these warnings
that are being put out out of your word.
Father, that they might repent and turn toward you where life really is.
Father, thank you.
And Father, I lift up this nation.
This nation is divided.
And Father, we pray for a revival.
The likes of which that has never been seen before,
that we would just, so many people would just turn to you
and see your goodness and see your mercy,
experience your mercy in Christ Jesus.
Father, I pray for your protection and your blessings
as we go about our way and come back here next week.
In Jesus' name, amen.
Amen.