Amen and amen and good morning and welcome and you can be seated so glad you've come today.

Those of you online that are joining us, we're so glad that you are.

A quick note before I forget because I always forget to remember what I was supposed to remember but forgot.

This Thursday, you're in treat, in store for a real treat.

Pastor Mack will be filling in for me. And he and I were just talking

about what he's going to be talking about this Thursday night and you don't want to miss it.

That's all you're getting out of me. That's all you're getting it.

Why am I not going to be here Thursday?

Because I can already tell.

Some of you are looking at me out of the corner of your eye.

It's my daughter's 18th birthday.

Yeah.

Do you need to write me please excuse Pastor J.D. note? Or so I just want to spend it with my bride and my daughter.

And so Mack has graciously agreed to fill in and God has given him a powerful word and testimony to share which again

you won't want to miss. So we will resume by the way and complete our study in Naum with the third

and final chapter the following Thursday which is the 27th let's get to it now this is the

first of two Sunday morning services as I'm sure many of you know where we

devote the teaching to teaching on the end times by way of these weekly Bible prophecy updates.

And then second service is now the sermon, a verse by verse study through God's Word,

and we've made it all the way through to the last book in God's Word, the Book of Revelation, and we're making our way through it and almost at the end of it.

Not so fast.

So actually we're going to today be in chapter 18 and our text will be verses 9 through 19 in a sermon I titled how I respond to

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