All right, good morning and welcome to our weekly Bible prophecy update. We're so glad that you're

joining with us. We know that we have a lot of new people, and for the benefit of those who are new,

we would like to encourage you to also join with us at 11.15 a.m. Hawaii time for our second service. So first service is the prophecy update and then second service is actually the expositional teaching, the Sunday morning sermon. And we're currently in a verse by verse study through First Timothy. And we'd certainly encourage you to join with us for that as well.

Today, I'll be talking about why it is, and it really, again, is one of those days where the

teaching ties into the prophecy update. And I'm going to talk about how and why really we can trust in the Lord to get us through

this global crisis that we're in and facing today.

Very encouraged and really looking forward to what the Lord has for us.

So really encourage you to join with us.

Also, I wanted to thank everyone that reached

out to me after the explosion in my birthplace of Beirut, Lebanon. I do not know if I have any

family currently in Beirut, but we certainly need to pray for the people of Beirut. I don't know if you've

been following this. Even before I left to come to church this morning, the rioting and

the protests are growing in numbers. You have to understand that particularly in Beirut,

but really all over the world. The world is on the brink,

which we talked about last week, on the brink of a complete and total collapse, governmentally,

economically, all of the above. And certainly this is the case in Lebanon, in Israel too. I don't know if you've been

following what's happening in Israel as well. As for those asking about the prophetic

significance of this, there's still so much that we don't know, but it sure does seem to bring Isaiah 171 into focus.

This is a prophecy about the destruction of Damascus, bringing this city to a ruinous heap,

so much so that it's uninhabitable. We've talked in previous updates at length

about this prophecy and the many others like it. And so maybe yet future, Lord willing, we may

revisit those prophecies as well. But for today, we're going to do something different, as I mentioned last

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