Amen and amen and good morning and welcome you can be seated those of you that are joining us online we want to welcome you as well and get right to it if you don't mind this is the first of two services that we have on sunday, which is the weekly Bible prophecy update,

then second service, which for those of you online will be live streamed at 11.15 a.m. Hawaii time

is a sermon. It's actually our verse by verse study through God's Word, which we do on Sunday mornings, Thursday nights as well.

But we're currently in the amazing, and I mean amazing book of Revelation.

And today we're going to begin Lord willing chapter 7.

And our text will be the first eight verses in a teaching that I titled

Doesn't this sound good when God grants us reprieve? How many of you could use just a respite?

I mean I'll take it.

I'll take whatever you can give me.

What we're going to do is look at why it is that God, just in his grace,

may deem it necessary to give us that time of relief and reprieve during those very difficult

chapters in our lives. So that'll be again second service for those of you online and if you're on

YouTube or Facebook we

really encourage you to go directly to the website at JDfrog.org so that it's

not interrupted there you'll find the uncensored entirety of the update all All right. So I just want to share my heart with you again today

this week, like last week, and share with you that as of late, I have grown increasingly convinced, and that's almost

an understatement, in my own time with the Lord, in my own relationship with the Lord,

that the pre-tribulation rapture of the church is so close, even at the door, like never before.

So close is it that a fire like Jeremiah talks about and others has been burning ever so hot in my heart

to get this out now and not take the risk of delaying any longer.

And the purpose in doing so is that all of us, and I always include myself, I hope you know that,

that all of us would acknowledge the urgency of getting Jesus to people and people to Jesus,

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