Good morning and welcome. You can be seated. So glad you're here today. I want to welcome those of you

that are joining us online as well. I will be taking time off a couple of weeks. I will, Lord willing,

be back on Sunday, June 26th. In my absence, both Pastor Mack and Pastor Latu will be teaching and I'm not going

anywhere.

I'm just going to spend some time with the Lord and spend some time with my family.

So with that, let's get started.

We have two services on Sunday morning, the first of which

is the prophecy update. And second service is actually the sermon. And currently it's a verse

by verse study through the book of James. Today we're going to look at what I'll call

pre-rapture pre-rapture pre-rapping.

Not what you're thinking. It's not physical pre-prepping, but related to the

exhortations in James that speak to spiritual preparations, especially

in these last days before the seven-year tribulation.

By the way, spoiler alert, the prophecy update today is also about the rapture. Just so happens to be my favorite thing to talk

about if you couldn't tell. So now we did have some problems with our Facebook live stream.

So I don't know that we have Facebook. We don't, right? So sorry about

that. Of course, you're not on Facebook, so you're not hearing that. So if you're on YouTube,

we would encourage you to go directly to our website for the uncensored and uninterrupted entirety of today's update.

So for today's update, I want to answer a question.

And the question is this.

Just how close are we really to the pre-tribulation rapture of the Church of Jesus Christ?

Spent a lot of time this last week, just really seeking the Lord about the update today

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