All right, good morning and welcome to our weekly Bible prophecy update. We're so glad that you're joining with us online. We have a lot to get to today, so we're going to get right to it. Before we jump in, I want to begin with a passage of scripture. I've been thinking about recently and the Lord

just kind of reminded me again this morning when I got up concerning the certainty of Bible prophecy.

And it's in 2nd Peter chapter 1. And I want to read verses 16 through 21. I would

encourage you if you have your Bibles to follow along as I read the Apostle Peter is writing

and he says verse 16 for we did not follow cunningly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of His majesty. For he received from God the Father honor and glory,

when such a voice came to him from the excellent glory, this is my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased.

And we heard this voice. In other words, he was there. I witnessed to it. He heard it. We heard this voice which came from heaven

when we were with him on the Holy Mountain. And so, verse 19, we have the prophetic word confirmed.

Some of your translations render it the more sure word of prophecy.

The prophetic word confirmed, which you do well to heed as a light that shines in a dark place.

Until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts, knowing this, verse 21st, that no prophecy of Scripture

is of any private interpretation. For prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.

I have a twofold reason for beginning this way, the first of which is because what I'm going to share

with you today is once again very intense, and it is the prophetic word of God confirmed.

And the second reason is that as Peter writes, we would do well to take heed as the world

gets darker seemingly by the day.

That's what I want to talk about today.

Namely, that of how Bible prophecy tells us what the future holds,

and perhaps more importantly, who holds the future.

And by the way, that's important.

Hear me out, with everything that's going on, as crazy as it is,

never think for a second that God is not in control. I'm going to take it a step further

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