Amen and amen. Good morning and welcome. You can be seated. So glad you're here. Those of you online, we're glad that you're joining with us as well.

This is the first of our two Sunday morning services that we devote to Bible prophecy and these weekly updates. And then second service, which will be live streamed at 1115 a.m.

Hawaii time is the sermon a verse by verse teaching through God's word.

We made it all the way through to the last book in the New Testament, the book of Revelation. Let me try that again. Yeah, the book of

revelation. Is that better? Effects, emphasis mine. We're going to actually

complete chapter 8 today and our text will be verses 7 through 13

in a teaching that I've titled, how and why God gets my attention. And in it, we're going to look

at the extent to which God will go in order to do whatever

it takes to get one's attention to bring them to salvation and or repentance.

So again, that'll be second service.

For those of you online, 11.15 a.m. Hawaii time.

And we would encourage you to go to jdfrog.org for the entirety of today's live stream,

both first and second service.

Today I want to talk with you about how it seems that everything we're told would happen in our Bibles.

Well, it's happening.

And this on many fronts, worldwide, in every arena, from wars to man-man-man-man-manipulated weather events,

economic woes and uncertainty, and certainly everything in between.

This is why I chose the title of simply it's happening, given that what's happening is unprecedented.

And it's the likes of which we've never seen before,

at least in my lifetime, and I'm no spring chicken, as they say.

By a way of a preface, I'll just humbly ask you for your grace and your patience.

Not that you're not gracious and patient with me, you are, but everything is just revving up.

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