Luke chapter 21. We are just flying along almost a year, maybe a year we've been doing the book of Luke. We're coming down to the last chapters. I am going to be teaching this morning, if you've never heard of it, I'm going to be teaching Puffpatat. literally. That is the seven feast days of the nation of Israel. And it's important to know some of this stuff. I mean, you know, you'll have people that you might meet that'll say, oh, we keep the feast days. You know, we got the menorah, you know, all those things. Listen, we are not under the law. And it's important to understand that because when you put yourself in that type of situation where you think that the Old Testament keeping the feast days or things like that make you more spiritual, it's problematic. Because that's not in reality. So I'm going to teach you these just so you know them because it's like in your Bible in Acts chapter 12, the King James Bible mentions Easter. And if you understood why it says Easter, it's Ishtar, Easter, the sun goddess. It is a pagan king wanting to kill Christians and waiting until after his pagan holiday in order to kill a Christian. And so that's the reason your Bible says Easter. It's not Easter is Passover and every other place where you have Pascha, it is the Greek word, it's translated. Let's see if I can get the words right. It's translated Passover, except one time where it's translated Easter. And the reason is Passover had already taken place, the Days of Unleavened Bread, and if you know how it works, I'm going to show you where it is in the Old Testament. It's in Leviticus 23, which we won't go there yet. So it's good to understand these things because if somebody comes up, and it did happen to me, and I've told you the story, I was up in Canada preaching, It was a major conference. I think it was three days long and all day long, teacher after teacher after teacher. The guy knows I'm King James. The people running it are King James. The guy gets up and he says, and I spoke before him, then him, and I was going to speak again, which is a dumb place to be if you're going to say what you say. And he says, well, I wouldn't have any Bible that says Easter in it. And I was just like, oh my goodness. So I'm back there sitting at my table, Judy's there next to me, we got all our books there, and I'm doing PowerPoint, so I just grab my computer and I start pulling in these slides on proving why it was a pagan king that was gonna celebrate his pagan holiday, that's what Easter was in your Bible. And so I put all that in there and I walked up afterwards and I said, listen, I'm sorry that I have to do this. I said, but you just attacked the Word of God. And I said, and he said, you know, I really appreciate your ministry. I said, a little late. And I did. And I said, listen, it's nothing personal. Well, they never asked him back again, because you don't attack the Bible like that. And I had literally, you know, father after father after father, a couple of mothers maybe, but, you know, I had many of the fathers that came up and said, thank you, because I did not want my children to hear that and it not be refuted, that the word of God is perfect. And so I had to do that. And listen, I don't, I don't join. I'm telling you the story, not because I'm proud that I did that. I'm, I'm happy that I knew the answer. That's the key. I could answer this guy and answer him with the truth. And that's what I did. So in Luke 21, talking about the fig tree in verse 29, he spake to them a parable. So a parable, is a story. Behold, a fig tree, Isaiah 5 identifies that as Israel, and all the trees, when they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand. So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand. Verily I say unto you, this generation shall not pass away till all be fulfilled. Now, pass away can mean to die, and that's what it does mean. This generation shall not die, pass away, until all these things be fulfilled. And you go, well, then that must have been the generation of the first century because, you know, it talks about the destruction of Israel and the temple and all that. And that's not it. It's a generation with a similar characteristic. Your Bible actually defines generation that way. And I won't get into all that this morning because I want to make sure I have enough time to get into the Puffpatat. And basically that's just the seven, it's an acronym, you know, for Pentecost and Passover and days of unleavened bread, the U. Tabernacles, which is another one. So it's P-U-F-T-A-B-R-N-A-C-K-E-S. P-T-A-T. And you had to learn that in Bible college, and you got tested on it. So, just so you know, I haven't lost all of my memory yet. But when you look at, this generation shall not pass away till all be fulfilled, let's run a couple of scriptures on this. Look at Matthew chapter 23, because it's one of the more... So it says, shall not pass away, Matthew 24, look at verse 36. 24 verse, well, 30, nah, yeah, 36. Verily I say unto you, this generation, 34, shall not pass away till all these things be fulfilled. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my word shall not pass away. But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels, which be in the heaven, the Father, and so on. So look at verse, 39, and knew not till the flood came and took them all away, that's in death, so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be. Then shall two be in the field, the one shall be taken, the other left. Two shall be grinding at the mill, the one shall be taken in death. And the other left, watch ye therefore for ye know not what hour our Lord doth come. And then it talks about the thief. Now go back to chapter 23 and let's look at this generation thing again. Look at Matthew 23 verse 33. Ye vipers, ye generation of vipers. Can you escape the damnation? That generation of vipers will not pass away or cease to exist until Jesus comes back. You've always had bad people. Verse 36, Verily I say unto you, all these things shall come upon this generation. All of the condemnation mentioned in Matthew 23 is going to come upon this generation, that generation of vipers, that wicked and adulterous generation. So that's why you've got to understand that you can be taught things and they're not right. So verse 32 of Luke 21. Verily I say unto you, this generation shall not pass away till all be fulfilled. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my word shall not pass away. and take heed to yourselves lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, that's overeating, excess, you know, disgust, you know, caused by the overeating and excess, and drunkenness and the cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. Remember Mark 13 32 and elsewhere says that nobody knows the day nor the hour. That's not the rapture. That's the second coming verse 35 for as the snare shall For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the earth on the face of the whole earth watch ye therefore and pray always and that ye may be counted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man. And in the daytime he was teaching in the temple, and at night he went out and abode in the mount that is called the Mount of Olives. And all the people came early in the morning to him in the temple for to hear him." So just telling you some of the story of the fig tree and This generation, and again, I've told you that many a time, but I just want you to understand it's so mistaught that I've got to repeat it. This generation shall not pass. away. Heaven and earth shall pass away. That's talking about ceasing to exist. When Jesus comes back, He's coming back on a white horse. What's He going to do? Destroy all of His enemies. There will be no more generation of vipers. There will be no more wicked and adulterous generation. Why? They will cease to exist. They will be slaughtered by the Lord on His white horse. Chapter 22. Now we get into it. Now the feast of unleavened bread drew nigh, which is called the Passover. And again, I'm going to, I'm going, now it's not, it's called the Passover somewhat incorrectly, because it doesn't say, you know, which is called the Passover, it says that. but Passover's only one part of the Days of Unleavened Bread, and I'll get to that. And the chief priests and scribes sought how they might kill him, for they feared the people. Then entered Satan into Judas, surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of the 12, and he went his way and communed with the chief priests and captains how he might betray him unto them. And they were glad and covenanted to give him money, and he promised and sought opportunity to betray him unto them in the absence of the multitude. Boy, when you find out there's things done in secret, usually is a problem. We have all these secret things being done. It's usually men love darkness because their deeds were evil. You do things in secret many times because your motive is wrong, your method is wrong, what you're doing is wrong. Verse seven, then came the day of unleavened bread when the Passover must be killed. It's the 14th day is Passover in the Days of Unleavened Bread. So, look back at Leviticus chapter 23. And here we go. Leviticus 23 gives you all of these seven feast days. I said Puff Patats, so that'll be Passover, and I'll give these to you a couple of times. Passover, which is the P, U is unleavened bread, that's by the offer of blood. P-U-F, puff, is first fruits, that's symbolic of the resurrection. And then the next one is called weeks, it's also the birth of the church, but it's Pentecost. So you have puff, patat, P-U-F-P, Pentecost. And then it says tat, T-A-T, that's trumpets, atonement, and tabernacles. You have in the spring Passover on lemon bread, firstfruits, and weeks, or Pentecost. And then you have in the fall, you've got trumpets, the day of atonement, and then tabernacles. And all these, you can see the picture. Trumpets is like a picture of the rapture. The atonement is the tribulation, seven years, and then tabernacles is the kingdom or the thousand-year reign of Christ. And that's a little bit deeper than, you know, what I really care to get into, and I'll deal with this as we go on, but looking at chapter 23 of Leviticus, verse 1. The Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feast of the Lord, there's the context, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts. Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of rest and holy convocation. You shall do no work therein. It is the Sabbath of the Lord in all your dwellings. So every week is a Sabbath day. And you might say to me, well, I hear you say you work seven days a week, and I do. I mean, I just, it's just, you go, well, you should take Sunday off. That's what you do. It doesn't work that way. You know, and you say, well, take Saturday off. Are you kidding? Well, I could during football season for sure. But you know, so preachers say, well, I'm off on Monday. I turn my phone off. I can't turn my phone off. I just, I try to say, hey, I'll take Monday off, but I don't. So look, I'm there for you if you need me, period. But you say, well, you should take it. And I probably should. And you know, if you add it up over five years, if you took two days a week off, 50 weeks times 2 is 100, times 5 is 500, so I have 500 days coming to me. In the Air Force, they called it terminal leave. But I don't want to have to die to get it. Just kidding. Just kidding. So as you look at this thing, he said, these are the feasts. Look at verse 5. This is the first one. In the 14th day of the first month at even is the Lord's Passover. You know, and when, you know, Bible says in 1 Corinthians 5, 7, Christ is our Passover. And it's funny, you know, at even, does anybody, everybody know what it even means? Evening time, at evening time? Well, the ESV, it's so good, it says it twilight. You know, I think it was a movie called Twilight or something. Verse 6, and on the 15th day, so now on the 14th day you've got Passover. In the 15th day of the same month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread. On the Lord's seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. In the first day you shall have an holy convocation, you shall do no servile work therein. But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord seven days, and the seventh day is in holy convocation. Ye shall do no servile work therein. Now I've told you I was over in Israel, and you sort of get out of there on the Sabbath day, which is the seventh day, we'd call it Saturday. And you get out of there because you can't do anything in Jerusalem. You know, everything closes. And if you get caught up in it, you can get yourself really in trouble because you can't do any servile work. But they'll say, well, you get on an elevator and every floor is punched on the elevator because you don't want to do the work of punching the button. on the Sabbath day. That's crazy. It says servile work. You see how it's defined? Servant work. So if you had somebody in there running the elevator and they were taking your bags, that's servile work. But to punch your own elevator button, do you really think God meant that you couldn't go in? I mean, you never heard Jesus say anything about an elevator. Point being is you can take things to an extreme and that's what's happened over there. And it's just like the Pharisees. Well, we can't leave them up on the cross because it's gonna be the Sabbath day, so we gotta kill them quick, break his legs. Make sure they die so we can take them off the cross before we celebrate our holy convocation. But it's amazing, the hypocrisy of it all. But I want you to know something else. You have one Sabbath day, a week. But now I just told you about seven more Sabbath days. So what you have when Jesus was crucified, they say, well, he had to be crucified the day before Sabbath day, which means it had to be Friday night. But he spent three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. How do you spend three days and three nights in the heart of the earth if it's Friday? They say, well, it had to be the day before the Sabbath day. Which Sabbath day? And that's where when you look at the whole thing, he was not crucified on Friday, he was probably crucified on Wednesday, and there was a Sabbath on Thursday, and then there was a Sabbath on Saturday, and then he resurrected on Sunday, because there's not just one Sabbath throughout every week. Some weeks had more than one Sabbath day. And it's amazing how simple it is, but people get so confused. And then when you're looking at it and you say, well, then you've just messed up because now there's no longer a good Friday. What's good about the crucifixion on Friday? Resurrection's good. Crucifixion's not. I say he was crucified on Wicked Wednesday. He was put on the cross on Wicked Wednesday. So when you're looking at this thing, it gets much deeper in why it's important to understand that when you're talking about Sabbath days, there can be more than one in a week for the nation of Israel. So then we go on to verse nine. So now we've had the Passover, the P, and then remember verse 6, the days of unleavened bread, puf patat, P-U. So verse 6 has the second one. We're going to look at the third one, puf, P-U-F, so it's going to be firstfruits. Look at verse 9. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, saying to them, When ye become into the land which I give unto you, ye shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest. So the first thing that ripened in your harvest is brought as a sacrifice to the Lord. You give him of the firstfruits, not the leftovers. And that's a spiritual application to us. Verse 11, and he shall wave the sheaf before the Lord to be accepted for you on the morrow after the Sabbath, the priest shall wave it. and ye shall offer that day when ye shall wave the sheath and he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering unto the Lord, and the meat offering thereof shall be two-tenth meals of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto the Lord for a sweet savor, and the drink offering thereof shall be wine, the fourth part of an hen, and ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor eat green ears, on the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God, it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations and all your dwellings." So, you have people that say, well, I'm a Messianic Jew and I keep the law. Just read that, and you realize that, look, you can't just say, well, I keep the Ten Commandments, therefore I keep the law. their specifics as to what. the law entail, and what the offerings entail, and what the feast days and the Sabbath days. I cannot even imagine wanting to put yourself under that burden. We nor our fathers, the Jews said, could keep this thing. They just couldn't do it. Now we get into the pufpatat, P-U-F-P, which is Pentecost. Look at, and this is gonna be a little bit more in depth, because I'm gonna give you several different names for Pentecost in your Bible. Verse 15, And he shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the way of offering, seven sabbaths shall be complete. Even unto the morrow after the seven sabbaths shall ye number fifty days, and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the Lord. Ye shall bring out of your habitations two waveloves of two-tenths meals. They shall be of fine flour, they shall be bacon with leaven, and they are the firstfruits unto the Lord." So that's Pentecost. If you remember the It's Pentecost the first day of the week, so you have seven Sabbaths. That's the weekly Sabbath on Saturday. Pentecost is the 50th day, so if you have 49 plus 1, what do you have? Sunday actually would be the Sabbath that time, along with those seven Saturdays. So again, it gets complicated when you're looking at it and you go, well, you know, Jesus was crucified on Good Friday, the day before Sabbath. Which Sabbath? And all of that is provable. that there was a Sabbath on Thursday of that week and He was crucified on Wednesday, the day before the Sabbath, not on Friday, the day before the Saturday Sabbath. He was resurrected Sunday, spent three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. How you get Him out of the grave on Sunday morning and back up to Saturday morning to Friday night and get three days out of that? And the church has been taught wrong forever on that. And you say, well, it's not a big deal. It is a big deal whenever you realize that whole religions have made this big religious festival. Listen, if you get the day off on Good Friday because you work for a company that says, hey, you get Good Friday off, you know what you need to do? Stand up and say, I'm going to work. He wasn't crucified on Friday. Take the day off. Don't be a nut. Let me be the nut. You can bring me in and I'll go, look, you guys need to quit giving them off Good Friday and everybody in the whole place wants to shoot me. So Pentecost, I want you to realize, listen, there are many names for Pentecost. In Exodus 34, 22, it's called the Feast of Weeks. Pentecost. In Exodus 23, 16, it's called the Feast of the Harvest. In Numbers 28, 26, it's called the Day of Firstfruits for Pentecost. So you see, when you're looking in your Bible, you go, well, there's Pentecost, now there's a Feast of Weeks, a Feast of Harvest, the Day of Firstfruits. Which is it? Yes. They're all one and the same. So, again, you say, well, I don't have to study all that. Well, then I'll just try to teach you. You don't have to study at all. Listen, I've got three degrees in Bible, and I studied, and I worked, and I wanted to know, not so I can come here and teach you or teach anybody for that matter. I wanted to know. I wanted to understand when was Jesus truly put on the cross. How does this time frame work? Well, you've got to study this out to understand that they have many feast days and many Sabbath days, or you'll never get it. And I don't want to be held under somebody's thumb and tell me, you know, well, he was crucified on Friday. And then you get a critic out there, and the critic says, you guys say it's Good Friday. First of all, why is it good if you say your Savior was, you know, put on a cross? And then they say, you know, how do you get three days and three nights out of those days? And you don't have an answer. Well, you do. It wasn't that particular weekly Sabbath. Simple as that. And yet, if I went into almost every church around here, I don't know that one of them could tell me that. And it's not because it's not in the Bible. It is in the Bible. It's because people just accept things and go, look, I don't want to work. I do want to work. Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed. A workman. Do you know what studying your Bible is? It's work. So I read my Bible through. You ought to do more than that. Read your Bible through, study it, and continue to read and study and grow and learn. I've told you this before, I'll tell you again. I believe that the foundation that you build here a good foundation against the time to come. Whatever foundation you learn down here in the Bible be what foundation you start with in heaven. You think God doesn't care about His Word? The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us? That's Jesus Christ. The Word of God is quick and powerful, and sharp as any two-edged sword, piercing even the dividing of sun and soul and spirit, and is the discernment of thoughts and intents of the heart." You don't think he thinks that his Word is important? His Word, all Scripture, is good for doctrine. Doctrine first. Then why do most churches go, well, we don't press doctrine. They don't press doctrine because they want to build numbers. They want to build numbers because that's where the prestige is. Oh man, you got, how many you got? 2,000? You're the fastest growing what in the world? Or in Florida? And then you look at somebody else and go, what? You don't have every pew filled? You're nothing. You know what, I want to be approved unto God. Not approved among men, not approved so, hey, listen, my life doesn't revolve around how people feel about me, what people think about me, because it's easier to make an enemy than it is a friend sometimes. You can spend a lifetime making a friend and enemies made in one statement. Really? So as we look at this thing, it is important for you to at least have... So now you know Leviticus 23. You want to know the seven feast days? They're right there. P-U-F-P, and then we have T-A-T, tat. Let's jump over to verse 23. And I could go through the whole thing, but basically, unless you're going to give an offering today, the bacon with leaven, we probably can skip this over, okay? The purpose isn't for you to follow it, the purpose is for you to have an understanding of it. Verse 23. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month. So now we're at the seventh month, first day of the month. First day of the month, shall ye have a Sabbath, a memorial, a blowing of trumpets, and holy convocation. Ye shall do no servile work therein, but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord. So the fifth one, P-U-F-P-T, is trumpets. And then T-A-T is atonement, the next one. Look at verse 26, and the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Also on the 10th day of this month, there shall be a day of atonement. And that's September, 10th day of the month. It shall be in holy convocation unto you. You shall afflict your souls and offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord. Isaiah 58.5 says fasting afflicts the soul. Fasting afflicts the soul, so you afflict your souls. You shall do no work in the same day, for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement. And that's called Yom Kippur. If you want to know what their names are, that's called Yom Kippur. Back with Pentecost, it's called Shavuot. Back, where's another one? First fruits, Yom Habakkurim. And again, that's why you need to study your own Hebrew if you want to. Let's look at another one. Look at verse 33, it's the last one. And remember, it's Puff Patats, so this is tabernacles. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days unto the Lord. So the Feast of Tabernacles lasts seven days. So you see, when you do a trip, and remember, they're on a lunar calendar, so they're not on our 365-day calendar. They're on 360-day calendar, and then they make it up at different points. But you've got to say, when are the feast days this year coming up? Because they move around. They move around. And you don't want to be over there during a seven-day feast. Everything shuts down, and you can't do anything. You go over there and go, well, I just want to experience the feasts. Can't do any servile work, nobody can help you, nobody can cook for you. Not if they're kosher, not if they follow it. So just realize that, I remember we were coming up on Masada, And there was a bunch of flooding going on. And our tour guide says, we've got to turn around. And he's got a bunch of praying people on this bus. He's not really accustomed, he's used to being around a bunch of people that aren't saved. And so we're looking at him and we go, He goes, well, I've already checked, they're shutting down because tomorrow's the Sabbath day and then we were going into Jordan. And he said, there's no way, they're shutting down, they won't reopen. And we looked at him and said, take us anyway. He said, well, if it floods here and floods here, you're gonna be stuck in between with nowhere, just take us. And we made Him take us. So we get to Masada, and sure enough, it is closed. And they're still there. And they reopened. And they let us go up to Masada. And I'm going to tell you what, we were telling Him we were praying. We were telling Him that we believed God wanted us to go. And that we will take care of everything. If we get stuck, we'll do this, whatever, whatever. We took responsibility for our actions. And lo and behold, we went there, they opened it back up, there we are on the lifts, and it was a great testimony to this lost man. But, you know, I will tell you, if you get over there, make sure you call or you find out, hey, when are there feast days? You do not want to be over there for a whole week of feast days. You say, well, I want to celebrate. You won't. You won't. You will see nothing. So let me look and see if there's anything else I want to give you on this, but that's the seven feasts. These are the holy or high or special Sabbaths. There's seven different ones. Puff Patat, Passover, unleavened bread, first fruits, Pentecost, trumpets, atonement, So, and I could go into a lot more on it, but I don't want to do that. So there it is, Leviticus 23. So when people say to you, well, Jesus was crucified on a Friday, listen, you don't have to correct them, but you have to know yourself that, listen, just because, you know, for 2,000 years or 1,800 years or 1,500 years, however long the error's been going, doesn't make it right. And you go, well, there's major religions that have billions of people in it that say it's Friday that he was crucified. There's a billion misled people. It's just like Jesus. The Bible says that, and there's a certain way it says it, but I'll tell you how it's taught. They say, well, Jesus came out and they put the cross on Him and then He fell down. I forget what they call it. It's the seven stations of the cross, maybe. And Jesus couldn't take it the whole way. and therefore somebody else had to pick it up and finish the thing. That's not true. Your Bible says that as soon as they came out after beating him, they laid the cross and they tell you the guy's name and they laid the cross on him. He carried it until he could carry it no more and then Jesus carried it the rest of the way. You say, well, that's not what I was taught. I'm just telling you, there's Bible on it. And I don't have time to go through it all, but it's there. And if you studied out yourself, look for it. Ask Siri, what's the name of the guy that carried the cross for Jesus? You find that verse, and it'll tell you as soon as they came out, they laid the cross upon Him. Simon the Cyrenian, yes. And thank you, Siri. do one of two things, ask Siri or ask Robert. So that's who carried it. And the Bible is very specific as soon as they came out. So what I'm telling you is, look, it isn't for you to get puffed up. It's just, look, there's more error out there taught than there is truth. And the one will make you free and the other one will keep you in bondage. It doesn't mean that you've got to change everything you do. Listen, there are certain things I believe about Christmas You know, it's Christ Mass. That's what really it stands for. And then people say, well, I just celebrate X-mas. Why don't I like X-mas? Because you have Christ Mass and you X out Christ and you have Xmas. So if you ever write anything and you write, hey, Xmas to me, I'm going to cringe a little bit. I won't correct you necessarily unless I feel like you are an approachable person that really wants truth more than you want to keep your tradition. But it's not a big deal. Again, it's not about being right and everybody else is wrong. It's about what does it do for you. The more truth you know, the more you are able to help others. For example, when was water created in Genesis? When were the angels created? When did Satan fall? When you look at those things and you study Genesis 1, 1, I'll tell you what, we're not going to go back to Luke, we're going to go to Genesis. And I'm going to show you this and then we'll see what happens to all of you and if you come back next week. This is extremely controversial. All right, so I ask people, I almost had a guy wreck his car when he asked me a question about this and I told him what I thought and he goes, why do you believe that? I said, it's true. When does the first day of the week start? Anybody know, because I've taught this, when does the first day of the week start in the book of Genesis chapter one? Evening in the morning, the first day. Good. That's a good answer. What verse of the Bible does it start in? First day of the week. When does it start? It is verse 3 for more than that reason, but it is verse 3. So here we go. Look at verse 1. In the beginning God created the heavens, singular, and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void, and darks upon the face of the deep. The Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." So here's what you have. In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. And then the Bible says the earth is covered by water. Does God create anything that is void and darkness? No. So the whole earth is covered by water. Now let me show you how you know it was covered by water, because he says, let the dry land appear, and that is, not jumping off my page, oh there it is, verse 9. And God said, let the waters under the heavens be gathered together under one place, and let the dry land appear. And it was so. So you have the whole earth covered by water, and then in verse nine he says, let the dry land appear. Why? Because he took the waters back up in the heavens, and whenever the floods came with Noah, where did the water come from? Not our system. There wasn't enough water to cover the earth. The heavens were open, the deep, the water came down from the heavens, and that's how it covered the earth again with water. Now, how do you know that the first day starts in verse three? Well, look at Look at verse 20. It says, and God said. Look at verse 23. And the evening and the morning were the fifth day. So the fifth day ends in verse 23. What are the first three words of 24? And God said. And then you look and see, Verse, that's the sixth day, and then verse 26, and God said, let us make man, this is actually the sixth day, and God said. So go back and look at verse nine, and God said, that's the beginning of the third day. How do you know? Look at verse 8, and the evening and the morning were the second day, and you go back to verse 6, and God said. Go back one verse, and the evening and the morning were the first day. So the first day ends in verse 5, the second day starts, and God said. It ends in verse 8, and the evening and the morning were the second day, and then it starts with, and God said in verse 9. So what, how does each day start with what three words? All right, so go back to verse 3 and tell me when the first day of creation starts. And God said, let there be light, and there was light. So are verses 1 and 2 in the first seven days of creation? No. But in the beginning God created the heaven and the earth, and the earth was without form and void, darks upon the face, deep spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. That happens before the first two days. Why? He creates the heavens later. So when was water created? You don't see it in the seven days, but the whole earth is covered with water. Let the dry land appear. So I have evolutionists. Now look, I believe that Adam and Eve were 6,000 years ago. I can prove it by the genealogical charts in the Bible. No doubt about it. And when God created light, that was 6,000 years ago. But what happened? Why was the earth covered with water? You say, well, And I've taught this too. It says, by one man sin entered the world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men. Why does he say by one man? And sin entered the world, does that mean there was no sin before that? Does that mean that, you know, no, it came in by Adam, because if Eve would have eaten, she would have died, they didn't have any children, that had been it. But because Adam ate, now you have both people in the world sinners, and their offspring are going to be sinners. And that's why it came in by one man. So now let's look at it. Look at Genesis 9, and let's look at what it says about Moses, because there's a similarity in Genesis 9, verse 1. And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth. Why do you have to replenish the earth? Because everybody has been killed except for those eight. So you replenish. You replenish. Genesis 9-1. You can't replenish something that's never been filled, right? Re. Do it again. Now go back to Adam and Eve. And look at Adam and Eve are created in verse 26 of Genesis 1. And God said, let us make man in our image, after our likeness, let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. And God blessed man in his own image, and the image of God created he him, male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it. So what were Adam and Eve told to do? You say, well, that just means fill, because they didn't have that word. Well, look at verse 22. Verse 22, And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let the fowl multiply in the earth. They had that word fill, but they used replenish. Why? That's for you to decide. Something happened. So when an evolutionist says to you, how old's the earth? I tell him, look, it could be 6,000 years. I don't care. Could the earth be older than that? Well, Adam and Eve are 6,000 years ago. Six literal days. He rested on the seventh. But verses one and two are before the first day of the week. Where'd water come from? Where was Satan ever created? When did Satan fall? It doesn't mean there were people here, but the angels could have habitated the earth and God said, he flooded the whole thing. So just realize that, and again, this is a teaching Sunday is what we'll call it. You know, in Sunday school I taught pretty heavy on the dry bones. In this service, you know, we got the puff patat, which is a very deep puff patat. And then this. But I want you to understand every answer you need is in your Bible. So if somebody came up, and listen, I don't believe, I believe the dinosaurs were with man. I do believe that. I believe the fossil record shows that. I don't believe in evolution at all. And the reason this is so controversial is because people say, well, you're using it to justify evolution. And I disagree. I use it because I believe it teaches that the first day didn't start until verse 3, and they were told to replenish the earth, Noah was told to replenish the earth, and then you look at the flood there, the flood here, the earth was covered with water, the dry land appear. God made an earth that was void and darkness upon the face of the deep Spirit of God. Are you kidding me? And there are people that will have, will criticize me for this teaching. Guess what? Who cares? You know what is more important to me than being seen by my peers as, you know, toeing the line, is teaching the truth. So I'll let you fill it in, and listen, I have, I literally have, well here you go. There's Genesis 1-1 through 1-3 in my Bible. And then if you go back further, I have that type stuff. I mean, I have note after note after note. I have said, Lord, if I'm wrong, I want to be right. I want to know. I just want to know. You say, well, you're doing it for the evolution. I don't believe I am. I believe that God created the six days starting in verse 3, but something happened in verses 1 and 2. And if you want to know what it's called, it's called the gap. So there's a gap. I don't want to mess this Bible up. There's a gap there, and there's gaps. Like Isaiah 61, Jesus is coming down to be crucified, and then it says He's going to be king, and there's a gap of 2,000 years in a common one verse. That's why Israel rejected Jesus Christ, because of that gap. All kinds of gaps in there. So when you're reading your Bible, go back and read Genesis 1. and read each day, and then go back and ask yourself, Genesis 1.1 and 1.2, what does that tell me? When did Satan fall? When was he created? When was water created? When were the angels created? And you could enjoy it, or you could hate your preacher. Because I just hiccuped you, but I figured I'd already hiccuped you on the good Friday, so I might as well just sink the ship, you know what I mean? Let's all stand together. I believe truth is the most important thing, okay? Speaking the truth in love, though, so I didn't unlove you by speaking it. Let's pray. Lord, we do thank you for your many blessings, guide, lead, and direct in all things, and we pray this in Jesus' name. With the music playing, God's spoken in some way.