Amen. And amen and good morning and welcome. You can be seated. So glad you're here today.

Those of you joining us online, we're glad that you are as well. If you don't mind, I want to get right to it.

We have two services, the first of which is devoted to end times by way of the weekly Bible prophecy updates. That's now. Then at 1115 a.m.

Hawaii time, for those of you online, we have our second service, and that's the sermon.

It's a verse by verse study through the Word of God. We are in the last book of the Bible, the book of Revelation.

And today, Lord willing, we'll finish chapter 15. Our text will be verses 5 through 8, short chapter, but what what a chapter I titled the sermon we have a

gloriously bright future can I just give you the title again? Just, we have a gloriously bright future.

So what we're going to see is the temple of God and God in all his glory and power in heaven, which is meant to be an encouragement

to us concerning our future while we're still stuck here on earth okay again that'll

be 11.15 a.m. second service those of you here some of which of you choose to stay

for second service we'd certainly encourage you to do so those of you watching by way

online of YouTube or Facebook we'd encourage you to go to the website Jaddyfrog

org actually now like now would be better so with that let's get to it.

After inquiring of the Lord, he led me quite clearly, I might add, to provide some insight

into why it is that 2025 is starting off so ominously. I'm using the word

ominously which originates from the word omen because it carries with it the idea of a sign of that which is yet to come.

Perhaps you've heard it said or even yourself have said, this is an omen, not necessarily in a

paranormal or demonic sense, but this is a sign. That's what ominous is, that's what an

omen is, and that is what Bible prophecy is.

Science.

I think of Jesus the harshest words that ever were uttered by the Savior were reserved for the religious leaders.

And in what is arguably one of the most scathing rebukes recorded in the Gospels,

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