Would you join me and bow your heads in a word of prayer? Mighty Heavenly Father, life is worth the living because you live. We thank you so much for the life that you've given us, Lord, both here and most especially, Lord, eternal life. salvation in Jesus Christ Lord we praise your name we give you all the glory and thank you so much for this time that we can get together gather together in your word Lord would you speak to us Lord and give us a focus on you as pastor delivers the prophecy of the league this morning Lord be with pastor as he shares the word in Jesus name in Jesus name amen and amen and good morning and welcome So glad you're here. You can be seated. Those of you joining us online, we want to welcome you as well. We do have a few announcements, the first of which I'll have Pastor Matt come up for. That's a great picture. Right? Don't even have to say anything, do I? Pitch is worth a thousand words. And these are a thousand amazing words. I'm just so thankful to be able to announce this wonderful, wonderful celebration is happening next Sunday after second service, 1 p.m. here in the sanctuary, where Raymond and Renee will be getting married under the eyes of the truly living God. Right? It's an open invite for the congregation again at one p.m. here, and then afterwards we'll have a small cake cutting ceremony in the fellowship hall. But if you're available and the Lord moves upon your heart to stick around and see this out, please do so. We're so thankful for it. And also it gives those who have been alone for a while hope, hope, because it's not good for man to be alone. Praise God. Look forward to seeing you. Amen. Especially that last part. So one o'clock, right Mac? You're making the assumption that the pastor is not going to go over. What you should have said, better said, is Lord willing, by faith, we'll start at one o'clock. All right. Hey, a couple more things though I want to mention and apprise you of. The first of which is that this Thursday upcoming, instead of our Bible study through Daniel, I'm going to be hosting Dr. Chris Dubuque in a discussion that we've titled A Medical Doctor Speaks the Hard Truth. We're going to start right at 7 p.m. That's an earlier start time for those of you online. Typically the worship starts at seven and then the Bible study starts at 7 30. We're going to get started right at seven and we're going to address what's really happening in today's medical industry. and where everything could soon be heading according to Bible prophecy. So as many of you know, Dr. Chris is a part of our local church, Ohana, with his bride, Laura, and have been a tremendous blessing to us all. So make a note Thursday night, 7 p.m. this upcoming Thursday, and that's the 27th, by the way. Also, secondly, last Thursday, We were in our verse by verse study through Daniel, and we were in Daniel chapter seven, which is the most comprehensive chapter concerning Bible prophecy in the entirety of the Old Testament. And in it we find a record of the prophecies in Daniel's visions of all the world's kingdoms, including now in our day, concerning the Antichrist, which will soon and very soon gloriously end with Jesus Christ. So We're providing a link to this because it comports with today's Prophecy Update, which is this service. And then it also comports with our verse by verse study through Revelation, which is second service. That'll be live streamed at 11 15 a.m. Hawaii time. And today we're going to go through the letter to the church in Smyrna. And our text will be chapter 2 verses 8 through 11, which speaks to the persecution that all of us, though in differing yet increasing measures, are encountering and experiencing in these last days. And what we're going to do is look at practical and biblical ways to navigate the persecution, which I think you would agree is intensifying in this world, not our home that long ago we overstayed our welcome in. So again, that'll be second service 1115 Hawaii time. For those of you online watching by way of YouTube or Facebook, we would really encourage you to go directly to the website JDFarag.org for the uncensored and uninterrupted entirety of today's update as the first part is only streamed on those platforms. So with that, let's get right to it. I want to talk with you today about how and why it is that we, as the Church of Christ, are on the final lap and about to finish the race, ending with the pre-tribulation rapture. There he goes again. You say this every week. I know. I'm using this metaphor for a number of reasons, chief of which is that like with NASCAR racing, we've, in a sense, already seen the solid white flag waved. What does that mean? Well, the solid white flag signals the drivers in the race that the final lap of the race has begun. And I truly believe with all of my heart that that white flag signaling the beginning of this final lap was waved around the year 2020. It should be noted that in keeping with this metaphor, a checkered flag is subsequently waved indicating to those in the race that the race has now ended. Now, why do I point that out? Because we're about to see this checkered flag, as it were, and it's going to be sooner than any of us could possibly expect or even begin to imagine. And I say this by virtue of the fact that the world today is the likes of which we've never seen before, nor will ever see again. Actually, Jesus spoke to this in Matthew's Gospel, Chapter 24. I hope you'll hang in there with me because I've compiled five passages of Scripture all of which speak to this race, except it's going to be in the context of running the race. We affectionately refer to this running the race of and as our Christian faith. And I've taken the time to organize them because things bother me when they're not organized. And my wife knows this, which is why she secretly disorganizes things that I organize, because she knows that it bugs me. So I've organized this in order so as to both demonstrate and illustrate that this race has a beginning and end. and everything in between. Now I know that's a firm grasp of the obvious, but by that I mean there are prerequisites. You know what I mean by prerequisites? Preconditions, if you prefer. In preparing for the beginning of and especially the finishing to the end, now, in this, the final lap. Now I want to say something before we jump in to the first of five, and it's simply this. I know that there are those who would suggest that we still have time. I want you to know, at least for today, that's okay. After today, it will not be okay. But for today, that's okay. And here's why I'm going to address that. In that I want to, from Scripture, explain why it is that this has to be the final half. And we have no more time. And that any time that trumpet is going to sound, and the dead in Christ are going to rise first, and we who are alive and remain will be caught up, raptured up, to meet the Lord in the air along with those loved ones who died in Christ prior, because they're going to get their new bodies first. And then we who were alive at that time, and we're going to talk a little bit about it here shortly, in the twinkling of an eye, not a blank, the twinkling of an eye, are going to be caught up with great force to meet the Lord in the air. And I preface what I'm going to share with you today that because I know there are many that are hurting today and need that encouragement that any day it could be the last day. And all those troubles that you brought the church with you today, no problem. I have no problems in my life right now that the rapture will not solve. No, for real, right? I mean, I better get to it because I got a lot to get to. So let's just start with the first one, the first prerequisite. It's that I count the cost of what must be given up in order that I may finish my race, not just finish my race, but with joy. This is the Apostle Paul, one of my favorite verses in the Book of Acts, Chapter 20, verse 24. Luke is writing by the Holy Spirit, but this is the Apostle Paul who says, but none of these things move me. I'm unfazed. I'm unmoved. They don't even, they don't even affect me. It's like, why don't they affect you, Paul? Because I don't count my life dear to myself. See, if I counted my life dear to myself, these things would be earth shaking and move me and shake me to the core. But they don't anymore. So this is the prerequisite to finishing the race, because Paul goes on to say that none of these things move me, nor do I count my life dear, which is why none of these things move me, so that I may finish my race with joy. I mean, you're not just crossing the finish line by the hair of your chinny chin chin to borrow a nursery rhyme. No, man, you're finishing well. You're finishing strong with joy. And he goes on in the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus to testify to the gospel of the grace of God. Can I just share this? This is something I think of and concerning the Apostle Paul. I just have this impression, picture in my mind, that when Paul walked into a room, people stood to attention. Not out of intimidation, but no, out of admiration and respect for this man of God, mightily used of God, who could say with a holy boldness and a sanctified strength that the things in this life that are against me don't move me. Bring it on. I'm unfazed. I'm unmoved. I see the Apostle Paul as a man of God. I'm sorry if I'm yelling. Let me try to tone it down, which doesn't come easy for me. Would you rather have me say it like this? The Apostle Paul was a... That's what I thought. Okay. So I just picture the Apostle Paul as being a man with unflinching fearlessness. Nothing moved him. The only thing he was concerned with was finishing the race. The second prerequisite is that I'm in it to win it. And by the way, I need to get this off my chest. That didn't, the world didn't come up with that saying. You've heard it before. They got it from the Word of God. They stole it. They hijacked it. Arabs shouldn't use words like hijack. I'll come up with a different one. They basically got it. You know how many sayings that we have in our day that came from Scripture? Well, this is one of them, in it to win it. And it's a prerequisite, and it will be evidenced by how serious I take this race. Listen to what Paul wrote to the Corinthians in his first epistle, chapter nine. I'll begin reading in verse 24. And I like how he begins this because he asks it in the form of a question. Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? And by the way, he's referring to the games at that time in that day that would be known modern day as the Olympic Games. That'll come into clearer focus here in a moment. He goes on, verse 25, Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They take it seriously. They do it to get a crown. Picture the Greek games and those those wreaths that they would put on the winner's head, which now, modern day, it's a gold medal around the winner's neck. But they would just, after all of that, all I get are some leaves on my head. That's what he's saying. That's a pretty liberal paraphrase. But I mean, they go into that strict training for a crown, a wreath that doesn't last. But we do it to get a crown that will last forever. Therefore, and here's the point, Verse 26, I do not run like a man running aimlessly. I do not fight like a man beating the air. No, I beat my body and make it my slave. Please do not go home and start slapping and hitting yourself. He's disciplining his body like we're to discipline our minds. That's what Paul would write to Timothy. God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love, and of a, some translations render it sound mind, but it's better understood as a disciplined mind. Like when parents discipline their Children, so too would we do well as Christians to discipline our mind. Don't let everything come in. I mean, we're so careful about, you know, what we put into our bodies. But yet we'll allow anything into our minds. No, we've got to discipline our minds. Take every thought captive into the obedience of Christ. Not just let it in, set the table, invite it over for dinner. Not so fast. Wait. No, I've got a disciplined mind. So we discipline our bodies. We discipline our minds. so that he says, after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize, which ties into our third prerequisite, which is that I must throw off everything and anything that hinders my race so I can persevere, fixing my eyes on the prize. The prize is Jesus. This is Hebrews 12, first two verses. The writer of Hebrews begins verse one, Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witness, listen, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles us, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter or finisher of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Now picture this with me. Please use your God given imagination. The context is in the metaphor of this race and keeping your eyes on the prize at the finish line of that race. And in running that race, you have to persevere. I'm told, I know nothing of this. This is foreign to me because I don't work out. I eat out when I can, but I don't work out. But I've been told that, you know, with these runners, which, by the way, I have a great admiration for those of you that do do that. I love you. I admire you. In a sanctified way, I'm actually jealous of you. So there, I confessed it. But I'm told by those who are runners, and you're addicted to those endorphins, I guess, right? Isn't that? You're addicts. Because your body releases the endorphins. That high? Runner's high, they call it. I have yet to meet an endorphin. I have never, and I know not what that is. But I'm told that there's a point in the race where you just got to push through in order to persevere and endure to the end, because you just hit this wall of sorts. in the running of that race. And that is what the writer of Hebrews is referring to. But it's even, it gets even better than that. When he says to cast off, throw off anything that's going to weigh you down, you know what he's referring to? I'll try to be as pastoral as I can, but in the games in that day, they would virtually wear nothing. Nowadays, I again, I'll try to be you know, sensitive. But runners have very thin articles of clothing covering the areas that, thank God, they cover. Why? Because they don't want anything that would become a hindrance. Just the slightest thing can be a setback. Some of your translations render it besetting sins. These, those little things, it's just a little thing, but it's entangling you. It's holding you back. It's weighing you down and keeping you from running and winning this race. Could you imagine, you'll forgive the illustration, but I think you'll see why I use it. Could you imagine if, you know, in a Olympic Games or some sort of a running race that you're watching televised, and all the runners are there. You know, they got the shoes that probably, you know, I don't know, they're what, $50,000 for a pair of those things. You know, they're the specific running shoes, and then they've got whatever they're wearing, and they get there, and then they're there at the starting block, and then up walks a guy in a suit. What are you going to say to that guy? I think I think you got the wrong address. No, I'm here to race. Then you need to take off all that weight because you ain't going to win if you're wearing a suit. It's going to weigh you down. And those Florsheim shoes, nice shoes. I don't know what they cost. Don't want to know. But those have to go too. You get the point? There are things in our lives that are bogging us down. keeping us back, taking us down, and are a hindrance, though seemingly small, they become a big problem and can cost us the race, if you will. So whatever it is in your life that becomes that, that hindrance, whatever weight that is, you're in a race. You cannot be weighed down with that thing. Get it off. Take it off. Not necessarily in front of us. Just take it off. Whatever it is. That was too much. I'm sorry. The fourth one is that I stay the course by running a good race and not letting anyone or anything cut me off from finishing well. Listen to the Apostle Paul in Galatians chapter five verse seven. It's a corrective epistle. It's exhortive, an exhortive text. Notice how he frames this question. You were running a good race. Like, dude, what happened? You were doing so well. You were running a good race. Who cut in on you? who cut you off and kept you from obeying the truth because you were doing so well. Something or someone got in the way and took you off course. What is it in your life? I always refer to traffic, and I think you know why. I've confessed my traffic sins. Not all of them, no need. God knows. You know how you're driving and somebody cuts you off? And you know it's deliberate because they go 10 miles an hour below the speed limit, below the speed limit. And they, don't they know that you're in a race, you're in a hurry? And they slow you down. What is it or who is it? And I ask myself these questions. I hope you know when I pose them. What is it or who is it in my life that is slowing me down in this race we call the Christian faith? The fifth and final prerequisite is that I keep fighting the good fight of faith. How? By finishing the race and keeping the faith in my longing for Christ's appearing, not coming, appearing in the pre-tribulation rapture. Now, have you made this connection? If not, let me make it for you as a help to you. My eyes are on the prize. I'm looking up. My eyes are fixed on the Lord. Isaiah says he will keep him in perfect peace. whose mind is stayed on Thee. I got my eyes on the Lord, and I'm watching for His appearing. That's what enables me to finish the race, fight the fight, and keep the faith. Now listen to the Apostle Paul in his second letter to Timothy. chapter four beginning in verse seven. And I want you to pay particular attention to the past tense in which he writes it, because he knows, and he's right by the way, that he's only got maybe a couple of days left before they put him to death. And what does he say to Timothy? I have fought the good fight. Notice he doesn't say I've danced a pretty good dance. I think we do err greatly when we see the Christian walk as being in a playground and not a battleground. We're in a war. This is a fight. It's a good fight, but it's a fight. And then he says again, past tense notice, I have finished the race. And almost as if to say, as a result of having fought the good fight and finishing the race, I've kept the faith. Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that day. And not only to me, but also to all who have longed for His appearing. That's me. That's you. That's us. The same crown that awaited the Apostle Paul awaits us, those of us who long for His appearing, because we're keeping the faith. Why? Because we're keeping our eyes on the prize. That's the only way we're going to finish. You take your eyes off the prize. It's kind of like, you know what, I'm kind of over it. Oh, the fight, you know, you, is this wrestling? You tap out. That's wrestling, right? Can we just use that for today? We don't keep, key word, fighting. We don't, Keep, key word, the faith. Please don't miss this. What got Paul through what Paul went through? And Paul went through so much. We have a list, a grocery list of some of what Paul went through to the church of Corinth in his second letter. But how, what was it that the Apostle Paul was able to make it through the unthinkable trials and suffering and tribulation that he went through? Oh no, he knew what he had to look forward to. And when you know what you have to look forward to, it makes whatever you're going through so much easier to get through because of what you have to look forward to. And this is also why back in Acts, nothing moved him. It's kind of like, yeah, this isn't my final destination. I have a crown waiting for me. And by the way, when you think crown, guys, don't think, you know, the, what do they call the, um, huh? Yeah, tiara? Yeah, that's not, no. We're talking about a king's crown with jewels on it. They're going to be so indescribably magnificent, and we're going to cast them down before Him as we worship Him as the Lamb that was slain. That's chicken skin. Okay, I'm sorry to rain on your parade or your race, but We have a problem and it needs to be resolved. And it's that of, as I mentioned, how many today do not believe that we are actually on this final lap. I mean, come on, Pastor, you've been saying this for how many years now? Please know that I absolutely understand that many have listened to, many like myself, who for years now have been preaching and teaching that this is the last hour, or if you prefer, the final lap. To that, let me humbly say, I get that. However, The recent developments of prophetic significance in the world today rise to the level of all of us, myself included, taking a second look. I don't know if you've noticed, but the world is on fire, quite literally in some places. If you'll kindly allow me to, I want to take that second look with you. as we revisit just some of these unprecedented developments which are taking place, not just at breakneck speed, but simultaneously, all at the same time and fast. And I do so as a reminder of how that this white flag has already been waived. the signaling of the final lap. It's already happened. So that all of us will be readied and steadied for that final checkered flag, which, by the way, is about to be waived at any time. Because we're on the final lap. Actually, this is my excuse for creating another list. Wait for the title. Final lap developments of prophetic significance list. There's 20 of them. Hey, I had 100. Does that make you feel better? So I'll go through them quick. They're not in any particular order, certainly not exhaustive. And these are not necessarily all of the main ones that serve as an indicator that we are indeed, in fact, on that final lap. Number one, COVID-19 and the so-called vaccine. Number two, new cases of these so-called flu viruses. Number three, growing fear of the next pandemic X. Emphasis added. Number four, sudden deaths and mysterious illnesses. Number five, Donald Trump and the upcoming election. Wait. Number six, Joe Biden and the upcoming election, if there is one, which it's not really an election anyway. It's a sealection. Number seven, Israel and the ever-growing anti-Semitism. Number eight, Hamas and the so-called Palestinians. Number nine, the Gaza and West Bank war on and in Israel. Number 10, Russia, Ukraine, China, Iran, Turkey, Saudi Arabia et al. Number 11, protests. This is interesting. about everything and anything. Don't these people have jobs? Number 12, LGBTQ plus and sadly child, child transgenderism. Number 13, social media platforms, particularly TikTok. Number 14, the UN, WEF, CDC, WHO, NIH, et al. Number 15, peculiar and inexplicable electrical and or cellular outages. Number 16, extremely suspicious and never before seen weather anomalies. Number 17, worsening collapsing of the financial markets worldwide. Number 18, unprecedented hyperinflation skyrocketing the cost of living. Number 19, this is heartbreaking, churches splitting and pastors falling and are resigning. And number 20, lastly, conflicting and confusing media reports, especially social media posts. Okay. Again, this list comes nowhere near being exhaustive. I just wanted to provide a thumbnail sketch so as to point to the proverbial bigger picture of Bible prophecy, with all that's on this list being in Bible prophecy. By the way, did you know that, that list of 20, which really I could have done 100 of them, but I condensed it and abbreviated it to 20. Do you realize that all 20 of them and the many more like them are all foretold and prophesied about in the Bible, some with great detail? Every single one of them. In other words, everything happening today we're told in God's Word would happen in the last days. So all one needs to do is just look at what's happening in the world and then have a working knowledge of God's Word and start connecting the two together. Well, that's that. This is this. It's exactly as God's Word said it would be. Huh. I wonder if it's the end. That was snarky. I'm sorry. I want you to know that I'm very thankful for those who stuck with us over the many years that we've done these weekly updates. And I just applaud you because you are able to connect these dots with Bible prophecy. And that blesses my heart. Having had the privilege of being the pastor of this God's church, this, I mean the profound privilege, I've watched you and me with you, by the way, grow in grace. and mature in Christ. And here's what else I've noticed with all of our lives, again, myself included, is doing Bible prophecy updates every week has had this effect of letting go of this world, putting off everything that's in this world, our love for this world, the things of this world. having a very light touch and loose grip on this world, not our home, knowing that this is not our final destination. We're only passing through. We're just renting. Don't start remodeling. It's a rental. You're renting, and it's month to month. You don't even have a lease, man. I used that analogy last week. I thought it was pretty good, actually, if I don't say so myself. So again, it's this connecting of these prophetic dots, if you will, that brings it into clear focus so that one has to conclude, this is it. If this is not it, I don't know what is. again, just hang in there with me for the benefit of those who are relatively new to all of this, which is okay, by the way. Welcome to the world of Bible prophecy. It'll change your life for the better. Some, for some, it brings people to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. You know, people came to Christ because of Bible prophecy. Sadly, nobody talks about that anymore. I think they're afraid to. But I want to, it's okay, it's another excuse for another list. This one is an at a glance quick reference list. It's abbreviated and it comes from the prior one. And what I want to do is sort of help in demonstrating how it is that when you do connect all of those dots, You just have to conclude without question that right now we are on that final lap. There's no question. There's no question. So I'll quickly highlight the main ones on this list. Then I'll expound on specific prophecies that by any stretch of the imagination should leave one hard pressed to come to any other conclusion other than This is how it ends. This is it. Real quick. I've got the Scripture references for you. I would really encourage you. By the way, these are all going to be online in a downloadable PDF form. I know some of you take screenshots. You can do that as well. Number one, the Gaza and the West Bank War in on, I'll add, against Israel. That's, that's the the prophetic clock. You want to know what time it is in Bible prophecy? You look to Israel. Israel is the hour hand, Jerusalem is the minute hand, and the Temple Mount is the second hand on God's prophetic clock. Spoiler alert, we're late. It's getting very late. It's the last hour, the final hour. Number two, LGBTQ plus and even childhood transgenderism. We actually talked about this last week. Remember Lot's wife, as it was in the days of Noah, as it was in the days of Lot. Number three, an allied invasion of Israel led by Russia, Iran and Turkey. Number four, extremely suspicious weather anomalies under the banner of climate change, which we'll talk about more. They're destroying the earth deliberately, because God created the earth, and they're destroying anything that has any hint of God's creation. That's why the enemy comes to steal, kill, and destroy. Hey, here's the truth. Satan wants to destroy your life. Have a nice afternoon. You want to know why? Because you were created in the image of God. Why is the enemy wanting to destroy land, air, and sea? Because God created the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and all that in them is. It's the creation of God. God creates, Satan destroys. Number five, people are, I don't know how else to say it, are sleeping through this one. They're very sleepy when it comes to this. And it's a biggie, and it's happening right now as we speak. This collapsing worldwide of all the financial markets, which is the resulting of this hyperinflation I think I shared last week, you know, I don't get out much, but when I do, you know, I might go buy some spicy ahi poke or whatever. And then they tell me the price, and I'm thinking, you know, I think the guy's having a bad hair day. He misprinted it, or he made a mistake, or I'm paying for somebody else's bill. They didn't put the bar in between on the... Excuse me? What happened? It's four times more than it was not that long ago. And you know, and then I just asked them if they have financing, you know, available. Number six, conflicting and confusing media reporting. This is deception, deception, deception, the number one sign of the end. Jesus Himself said, first and foremost, you'll know it's the end when you see this deception, the likes of which you've never seen before. The Apostle Paul to the Thessalonian church in his second letter says that it is a powerful delusion that God Himself sends. confusion, deception, division, all of the above. Number seven, churches splitting and pastors falling and or resigning. This was all prophesied in the Bible at the time of the end. The judgment of God begins in the house of the Lord with the people of God. Number eight, protests about everything and anything. This is lawlessness. You can't go into a metropolitan city today like you used to not too long ago, prior to 2020. I could name the cities, you would know exactly what I'm talking about. We get online visitors from these areas and they tell us they can't even go into the downtown area anymore. It's so bad. The police don't even go there. Well, again, this is 2 Thessalonians 2. It's this lawlessness that it's all prophesied in the Bible. Here's the last one. COVID-19 and the so-called vaccine with deceptive spreading flu fears. Flu season is here. I have a document. I'm waiting. I'm working on You know, I work on these updates like in advance. I'm already working on the update for the next couple of weeks. If we're still here, I would love nothing more than to not have to do those updates. But I mean, I'm working on some things and I've got this document where they're going to actually force the flu shot with simultaneously a COVID-19 shot. And it will be mandated. And it's so insidious, the way that they, the wording from the CDC. I actually read that stuff. I shouldn't. I'm reading through it. I'm going. I start twitching. My wife has to come up and calm me down, and it's going to be okay. Jesus is coming. I know I've been preaching it every week. It's this last one that I would like to spend the remainder of our time on because if and when understood, it will have this effect of tying everything together. Can I say it like this? The COVID-19 vaccine, so called, is the linchpin. It's what connects everything together. I say this this way because when you peel back all the layers, what you'll see at the core is that this one specific prophecy serves as a catalyst in uniting the entire world. One need look no further than to four years ago when the entire world was united. Never before was that ever seen. I mean, you've got somebody in Iran wearing a mask, and you've got somebody in China wearing a mask, and you've got somebody in town wearing a mask. Notice I didn't say the windward side. And everybody is on the same demonic page. We're going to go ahead at this time and end the live stream. Thank you. Bye. Sorry. I hope you went to the website. You still can, but too late because they already cut me off. I'll start by quoting from a video that Brother Barry Scarborough emailed me on Wednesday. Great brother. I want to give him a shout out. He's been a faithful servant. And it's a recent interview with Naomi Wolf. I've quoted her before. And by way of a preface, she's Jewish. However, her conclusions and statements in this interview should prompt all of us to pray for her that she comes to a saving knowledge of her true Messiah. be that as it may, please listen very carefully to what she had to say in this recent interview that took place in the Netherlands. And this is not a believer. Quote, overnight in the COVID era, the pandemic era, people who were critical thinkers were fine with demonic behavior, like literally satanic behavior. like brutal, cruel behavior. She resides in New York and says in New York City, they were fine with the overnight creation of a discrimination society. That meant that I, as an unvaccinated person, could not enter a restaurant and eat with my family overnight. Something very bad, and again, I think demonic, has happened cognitively since 2020, which is that critical thinkers stopped being willing to look at primary source evidence if it went against the narrative. That's happened over and over. Some of that is probably now due to brain damage from the injection because it breaks through the blood-brain barrier and people have noticed more binary thinking in vaccinated people. We talked about that in an update titled People's Strange Sudden Change. She goes on to say there's a really good book by Dr. Michael Nells, who I quoted in that particular update, called The Indoctrinated Brain that talks about brain damage from the injections. I had to conclude, listen to what she says, that we were seeing, what we were seeing was beyond human capability and that the evil I saw was so magisterial and impressive, rolling out its machinations around the world in exactly simultaneous order. Hang on to that. I had to conclude paradoxically that there must be a God. that I started to believe in more literally than I had, because this great evil, this impressive medical evil, that this human evil must be aimed at something, or better said someone, and it is. She then goes on to say, quite stunningly, I might add, someday you're going to die. And you're going to face God. I do believe that. And you're going to be accountable for your choices. And you will be asked in this time, did you go along with this great evil which killed so many people and led people to die alone, which broke the spirits of Children? And you'll need to give an account for yourself. Would to God. that pastors in the pulpits today would boldly say that which this precious Jew who has yet to know her true Messiah was bold enough to say. But what do we get instead? Crickets, silence. In some cases, I truly believe And I have documentation to support this. They've been bought. Their silence has been bought. For some, they've got something on them and they'll out them if they don't parrot the narrative. But what about the other pastors? You know, they'll target the ones that are famous because they have, you know, so many people that they can influence. So they'll get something on them, threaten them, threaten to kill their family in front of them, make it look like an accident. But what about the other guys? Where are they? So this is why it is, by the way, that I have to quote a non believer. Because I, believe you me, if I could find a quote from a believer, let alone a pastor, I would absolutely quote it. But I can't find any. All right. One more video. It's actually a full feature documentary titled Stakeholder Communism, from which I would like to quickly quote. Quoting, in 2020, G20 leaders, in collusion with other elite World Economic Forum stakeholders, undemocratically enacted a worldwide 10 year transition to an authoritarian political system called stakeholder capitalism. Let's just explain what it really is. It's just communism. from lockdowns, closing businesses, mask mandates, vaccine mandates, vaccine passports, cost of living crisis, recession, name-calling, smearing, cancelling, censoring, chemically castrating children, climate change, pandemics, poverty, hunger, and death. Pastor, where are you going with this? This was all prophesied in the Bible, and it's happening right now on this, the final lap of our race. And I'm sorry if there's a, I think it was A.W. Tozer said, you know, sometimes it's good that a man of God be just a little bit angry with the world. That's my story anyway, and I'm sticking with it. Does that work? It's a righteous anger because it's like the white flag has been waved, but the wool has been pulled over the eyes. That's, I know I'm mixing metaphors. And no wonder they didn't see the white flag because they're blind. How are they going to see the white flag being waved signaling the final lap if they're blind? The wool has been pulled over their eyes. And they go about their lives. This is probably one of the hardest things. In fact, this might be one of the reasons why I don't like to get out much. It's really hard for me to see people just going about their lives as if, oh, happy day, except it's not your happy day. What's the other one? Good happy days. Don't do this song. Happy days are here again. It's going to get stuck in your head. It's like Did they have any idea what's coming? Did they not see the white flag? Don't they know the checkered flag is about to be waived? Don't they realize we're on the final lap? So you know that the final lap ends in the pre tribulation rapture of the church for those of us that are born again, right? I want to take all of this back to the question of how we can know for sure this is for the benefit of, and I say this in love, the skeptic. Okay, well, Pastor, you know, with all due respect, you're presenting quite a compelling case here, but I still have my doubts. Cool. I'm going to undoubt you. And I'm going to do that by appealing to your God given common sense. I'm going to make a suggestion that it would be absurd and ludicrous to think that everything happening in the world today can just be put on pause. No, think that through with me. Can you imagine the momentum already, the demonic momentum? Okay, hold off. Hey, pause. Just kidding. Nothing to see here. Carry on. This is just a cruel joke experiment. Or you know what? We're just going to take a little break, you know, for 20 years, and then we'll start this thing back up. I know I'm being silly, but that's ludicrous, right? That's absurd, isn't it? A pause isn't being pushed. Fast forward is being pushed. And that's biblical too in the Book of Revelation, as we've learned and are learning. Let me say it like this. It just can't not be the final lap for a number of reasons. not the least of which is Satan has been met with a smashing success in gaining unstoppable momentum and getting all the nations on earth in lockstep. Have you ever seen the world, the whole world, all the nations in the world in lockstep? The The narrative, they're reading a script. It's the same exact script. It was already pre planned. And Satan, and when I say smashing success, that's almost an understatement. Here's a question. Why does Satan need to be met with a smashing success in getting everybody united, all the nations on earth in lockstep. Answer, He's not omnipresent. What does that word mean? It means that, that makes me sound like I'm intelligent, went to Bible college. No, it's just very simple. Omnipresent, all present, all places. You realize that only God is omnipresent. Satan can only be one place at a time. That's why I always get a kick. I stopped saying this, by the way, because I was like many of you, you know, man, the devil really attacked me this last week. You're like, wow, you must be a high value target to have the devil himself, because he's not omnipresent. You know, there's demons and a lot of demons. He sends his interns to attack, you know, you got the devil attacking you. Whoa, you must be a formidable threat. So Are you with me on this? He has to centralize everything. He has to bring everything all under the same roof because he's not omnipresent. It has to be centralized and everything has to be in lockstep, simultaneously centralized so he can control it, because he cannot be everywhere at the same time. And again, I I hope you don't tire of me saying this, but this is all prophesied in the pages of our Bibles. It's called Bible prophecy. God told us that this is what it was going to be like. Jesus said, I'm going to tell you what's going to happen before it happens. So when it happens, you'll believe. Wow. Jesus said this was going to happen before it happened. And now it's beginning to happen. It must be true. You think? All right, I'm almost done. There's hope. Listen again to what Naomi Wolf said. I had to conclude that what we were seeing was beyond human capability. That's because it is. This is satanic. This is other world demonic. rolling out its machinations around the world in exactly simultaneous order. No, no, no, that can't happen unless there's other world forces behind it making it happen. And that's what she's saying. Bear with me as I provide a brief summary of what this final lap is already now like and will very soon end like. Demon possessed conspirators, as I call them, are replacing jobs with artificial intelligence, which is actually satanic intelligence, destroying farms, ranches, manufacturing, and businesses under the auspice of climate change, as they've already manipulated the weather controlling and changing the climate so as to destroy production and transfer all the wealth to a select few stakeholders. These stakeholders will in turn force the people they've impoverished into a UBI, universal basic income. vis-a-vis programmable CBDCs, centralized digital bank currency, which, and please listen to this, because you talk about prerequisites, they can't do it yet. You want to know why? Because first it requires a bio digital I.D. That's the only thing holding them back. That's why there's a big push for vaccine passports and a bio digital I.D. That's why Whole Foods doesn't want you to use anything. They just want your palm, the forehand. Well, if it's the prosthetic, they'll put it in your forehead. Hmm. Sounds very familiar to me. So they first need to create and execute, for lack of a better word, a biodigital ID using blockchain technology, which is also satanically downloaded technology that no man could have come up with. And this technology that they have with this biodigital ID will be predicated upon one's social and or carbon credit scores, both of which will be connected to the Internet of Things and the Internet of Bodies. So the entire population will be forced into this above mentioned biodigital identification showing verification of vaccination in order to buy or sell. That's the summary. And everything I just said, by the way, has a prophecy that you can connect to in the Bible. Some of them even with great detail. this is what I mean by it's going to be the vaccination. Are you current with your vaccinations? If you're not current with your, by the way, we're going to see the second service in a very interesting way with the letter to the church in Smyrna. There's an interesting verse, I think it's verse nine, spoiler alert, when John is told to write, And to those who say they are Jews, but are not, but are of the synagogue of Satan, What's that about? Well, I'm going to tell you. You have to come second service for that. Okay, ready for some good news? The good news for born again Christians is this final lap finishes at the pre tribulation rapture of the Church of Jesus Christ via the Gospel of Jesus Christ. And for those who are not born again, good news, you still have time. Not a lot. That checkered flag is about to be waved. But if you are not born again of the Spirit of God, Jesus said you will not enter the kingdom of heaven. And if you'll just let me have a couple minutes, I want to end with the gospel of salvation and really how to be saved by what's known as the ABCs of salvation, which is simply a childlike explanation of the simplicity of salvation. The A is for just simply acknowledging that you're a sinner. This is the first step. Because unless and until you acknowledge that you've sinned, why would you be interested in the Savior? I'm a good person. Well, you might be good, but you're, you'll never be good enough. Romans 3 10 says there's no one good, not one, save one, Jesus the Christ. And Romans 3 23 tells us why. It's because all have sinned. We were all born sinners, which is why we must be born again. We all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. Now, how do you plea? Guilty as charged. What's the sentence? Romans 6 23. It's the death sentence. for the wages of sin is death. But here's the good news. The gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. You are not your own, but purchased with the price. He died for you, paid in full for you, and all of your sins went to His death in your stead with His blood shed. And He purchased the cost, cost them everything to give you this gift of eternal life. The B is very central, and really it's even simpler than ABC. It could be argued that it's just as simple as believe. Believe in your heart that Jesus Christ is Lord, for God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, the most well known verse in all the Bible. that whosoever would believe in Him would not perish, but have everlasting life. And please know that to believe doesn't just mean, well, yeah, I believe in God. No, no, no, no, no. To believe in Him is to put your trust in Him for the forgiveness of sins. Romans 10 9 says, if you believe in your heart that God raised Jesus from the dead, you will be saved. And this dovetails in to the C lastly, which is very simply for call upon the name of the Lord or confess with your mouth. As Romans 10 9 also says, if you confess with your mouth, Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. Here's how it works. Jesus said out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. So if I've got Jesus in my heart, believe in my heart that Jesus is Lord and that God raised Him from the dead. Well, then what's going to come out of my mouth? Jesus Christ is Lord, because out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. Romans 10, 13 is special to me because 42 years ago it was this verse that brought me to my knees when I called upon the name of the Lord and was saved. all who call upon the name of the Lord will be saved. And it wasn't any fancy Nancy prayer. In fact, I'm not proud of this, but I was very intoxicated and high. And I just basically prayed myself to sleep asking God and telling Him that I didn't want to go to hell. I want to go to heaven. I woke up the next morning and I was a new creation in Christ. and old things had passed away, and I had no desire for them. I know it's different for everybody, but for me, all the addictions, that lifestyle, I no longer desired it. I couldn't start my day without it. And I went to reach for it, but now the Holy Spirit's inside of me, because now I'm born again of the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit is like, you don't need that anymore. I'm like, I don't. And I never look back. 42 years. That's the power of the Gospel. And we're ashamed of the Gospel? It's the power to save. All right, I want to end. This will be my final closing with the But God Testimony. I picked this one. I think you'll see why. I love it when God does stuff like this. It comes from Tricia Cornish, who writes, G'day from Australia. I know I probably butchered it, but I love how Australians speak. Pastor JD, firstly, I want to thank you for the exemption letter as I am trying to reenter the workforce after leaving the state government health industry about six years ago due to health and personal issues after over 20 years in the field. I have a big but God testimony. I was so sad that my mind and body let me down so I could no longer do a job I loved. Then the COVID plandemic came. Within a couple of months of this and many years of searching for the truth about God, He saved me mightily and fully, born again with a new understanding and love like I've never known. He delivered me from drugs. I felt clean. So jab mandates came. But because I was not working, no need for jab. She's not local. I added that. Then to help recover. I don't know why. Exercise isn't something I enjoy. a woman after my own heart. But I started going for a walk three times a day along a beach track about one kilometer in distance. It ends with a dead end. Nowhere to go but to turn back the way you came. And at the end is a patch of sand. My friend said to me, we should put a nice message here. Jesus loves you popped into my head and out of my mouth. So that's what we wrote. This morphed over a short time from stick writing to spelling it out in stones. Someone added a heart around it. Oh, it got messed up more times than not, but we would redo it with Jesus loves you every time. Then we started to add the ABCs of salvation on paper next to it. One day there was a note from someone that said, to the person who leaves the messages and note, and it included a phone number. Uh oh, I thought. Okay, now what do I do? But God, when I ring a couple of days later, a young lady about 20 years of age who had been struggling with their faith had cried out to God that if he was real, that he would reveal himself to her because she was really struggling and had come to the end. So She lives more than an hour away, usually visits a different beach, but drove all the way that day on that particular day to this place. Then when she saw the path from the beach and asked where it went, she was told nowhere. It's a dead end. So she turned away, but felt a pull. wonder who that's from, to check it out anyway. So she turns around, she goes on the path, she gets to the end, and she sees Jesus loves you. In foot high stones, she bursts into tears, and now knows God is real, and that God loves her. So another two added to the flock with love from your sister in Christ, Trish. How cool is that? Why don't you stand? I love it when God does that. Oh, what a coincidence. Really? No, it's called providence, the providence of God. Thank you, Lord. You're so good. You direct our steps. You hold our very breath in Your hand. You knew us even before we were formed in our mother's wombs. And You love us more than we could ever know this side of glory. So Lord, thank You. First and foremost, thank You for Your love for us, Your grace to us. and Your mercy on us. Lord, thank You that You weren't playing any guessing games with us concerning the time of the end. Thank You that You want us to know what the end is going to look like. Otherwise, why would we have so much prophecy in our Bibles? You want us ready. So Lord, thank You for telling us in advance ahead of time what that final generation on that final lap would look like and be like, so that when that final generation on that final lap was that final generation on that final lap, they would know that they're on the final lap. That's us. So not much longer. So Lord, especially for those who are hurting and struggling, just encourage them today. Not much longer. Just hang on. I'm coming. I'm coming. I'm coming. Not much longer. I'm going to take you out of this world. I got a place prepared for you in my father's house. If it were not so, I would not have told you. So thank you, Lord. And Jesus, please, please, Mananatha, come quickly, Lord Jesus, we pray in Jesus' name, Amen.