Keeping you updated, that's what we're here for. And now our current events update. Israel at war, 7-23-25. Still 50 hostages, 23 remaining. Donald Trump said there'd be 10 released soon. As the war continues, that began October 7, 2023, there's very little hope of a ceasefire short of the complete destruction of Hamas. Some hope of getting some more hostages out. The Jerusalem Post reported that the folks who are mediating said that Hamas isn't serious. Hostage deal mediators refused to pass Hamas's response on to Israel. It's so ridiculous. And the mediator's message to senior Hamas officials during the meeting was, quote, this is not a serious response. Go back and draft a new one. And any serious response cannot be trusted. So even if they come up with a serious response, this is Hamas we're talking about. What is it called, keffiyeh? Is that what I said it was? It's been a couple, three or four weeks since I mentioned it. They lie. It's a practice, it's a doctrine of Islam that they'll lie any time they need to when they're lying to the non-believer. The same appears true at the northern border of Lebanon dealing with the Hezbollah Islamists. Hezbollah rejects any long-term ceasefire option where they give up their arms. Well, that's the demand that Israel has made. Hezbollah has made it clear that it is not willing to surrender its weapons even if Israel withdraws from southern Lebanon, raising tensions in Lebanon. As we have said and will repeatedly say, there will be no lasting peace until Jesus returns. That's really what that last stanza we sang in Hark the Herald Angels Sing, come desire of nations come. The only reason that applies to Jesus is because He is the Prince of Peace and there will be no peace until He returns. But it's peace that the world wants. So we'll pray for the peace of Jerusalem. They shall prosper that love thee, amen. Psalm 122, six. Other headlines, immediately after the rapture, the churches will be devoid of saved members and the world in complete apostasy. I repeat that because it seems not to have dawned on people I talk to from time to time. The moment after the rapture, there will not be any Christians left on the planet. The entire world will be in a state of apostasy and unbelief. These guys, they've spent a lot of ink and time debating whether the falling away in, I believe it's 2 Thessalonians 3, I think I quote it later, but the falling away referred to, is it the rapture or is it apostasy? It's both, it's both. The rapture, I mean, I think it's referring to the apostasy directly, but it doesn't matter one way or another, because when the rapture happens, that's when the final, total apostasy takes place. Oh, if it was a snake, it would have bit me. 2 Thessalonians 2.3, let no man deceive you by any means, for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first. and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition. The rapture's gonna happen first, which is gonna result in worldwide apostasy, a falling away completely from Christianity on the planet Earth. It'll be the darkest day since the moment before the flood. After God shut that door, there were no believers left on the planet, and he killed them all. Luke 18.8, Jesus says at the end of the verse, nevertheless when the Son of Man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth? He's asking that because after the rapture, there's nobody left that's a believer, and then during the tribulation period, the believers are killed, murdered, martyred, slaughtered. Well, Queen's Chaplain laments apostasy in Anglicanism. He's right, amen? Nothing at the center, he says. The former chaplain to the late Queen Elizabeth II lamented what he described as the apostasy within the Church of England and noted that Anglicanism in the United Kingdom is swiftly dying. Quote, it will become hollowed out with nothing at the center. And because they have six billion pounds investments and our buildings, they will keep a show going in the more dramatic places. Gavin Ashenden, who left Anglicanism in 2019 to join the, and I put question marks, Wait for it, wait for it, because it gets worse. Because the guy talking about Anglicanism going into apostasy is himself an apostate, talking about apostates. Gavin Ashton, who left Anglicanism in 2019 to join the Roman Catholic Church. After serving as the Queen's chaplain from 2008 to 2017. and he's speaking to the EWTN, Roman Catholic TV network. I mean, that's how, it is so bad that a lot of times you turn on preachers and it'll be one guy pointing out the errors of another guy, and if you know anything about that guy, he's as heretical as they come. The apostasy is growing deeper and more vast with each passing day. Hey, that should make you feel good. Why? What? Well, I mean, we're not happy about the apostasy, but it's fulfilling prophecy. It's proving, once again, God's Word is true. He said it would happen, and guess what's happening? Chip and Joanna Gaines, Back to the Frontier, a new show they're producing, sparks backlash from evangelical viewers after featuring a same-sex couple. Anybody in here a fan of this? And a lot of evangelical Christians watch their shows because they're supposed to be wholesome family shows. Many professing Christians do not follow the Bible, certainly not the King James Bible, but follow the cult of celebrity Christianity. And I know people who, I mean, they will get so angry. Well, we talked about it Sunday. That's really what the Billy Graham thing was. Billy Graham became a celebrity, and he became almost a god-like status, and even though he was denying Christ and promoting abortion, with certain exceptions, as I played the video clip Sunday, people would get viciously angry with you for telling them. We've got people right here. I know, I'm pointing around the room, I know you've told people about the Billy Graham Forerunner to Antichrist DVD, or documentary. And some of you have told me what people have said in response. And they would never step foot in this church because we dare say something bad about Billy Graham. Even though what we said was true. Even though what we said was absolute fact. Chip Gaines, the male side of that marriage, Talk, he posted this on X, talk, ask questions, listen, maybe even learn. Too much to ask of modern American Christian culture. Judge first, understand later slash never. That's how, that's manipulation tactics. That's when you catch somebody lying to you and then they'll just turn right around. That's really gaslighting is what it is. He said it's a sad Sunday, the day he posted this. when non-believers have never been confronted with hate or vitriol until they are introduced to a modern American Christian. Chip Gaines is a serpent if he believes what he just said. He's got a satanic spirit about him. Let me tell you something. These people in the so-called gay community, they face hate when they face each other. They hate each other. It is a dog-eat-dog death style. And Chip is being used of Lucifer, Satan, in order to try to convince the world that it's normal and it's decent. I posted, God has spoken, Chip. We follow God, not celebrity apostates. Shame on you. And a word, speaking of, on the passing of the Prince of Darkness, Ozzy Osbourne. I predicted it, not that I'm a prophet, but I just know the age we're living in. And most Christians try to put him in heaven. One of the most satanic rock and roll acts of rock history. Not a single moment of his life did he ever profess to believe the gospel. At no point did he recant or repent of his wicked, wicked life. And yet, this dumbed down, apostate, lukewarm, evangelical plus Christian community we live in are all over social media denouncing anybody who even suggests he wasn't saved. And I'm not gonna show you the screenshots, As I said, I kind of quoted myself already. Yeah, the crazy train. He wrote a tribute to Aleister Crowley, one of the worst occultists, most perverted people. Aleister Crowley was so wicked they nicknamed him the Beast. And Ozzie said he was one of his models. And I could give you go on and on and on and on and on with Ozzy Osbourne. Now we do not celebrate Ozzy passing into a Christless eternity into hell in the lake of fire. Far from it. Full disclosure, I've told you, I listened to Ozzy for a number of years before I became a Christian. Because when I became a Christian, I suddenly had this thing called the spirit of God in me. And when I would hear satanic music, I didn't want to listen to it. But giving his living fans the idea that he went to heaven without evidence of such a conversion is just plain wicked. I'm not telling anybody to dance on the graves of the dead, but what I am telling you is don't give the living the idea that they can live like that, die like that, and not end up in hell. If you love people, you'd never do that to them. Be informed, pray and act accordingly, amen.