Amen and amen. Good morning and welcome. You can be seated. Thank you. I want to welcome those of you that are joining us online. We're so glad that you are. Before we get started, I want to mention that on Tuesday night, 7 p.m. here in the sanctuary. We're going to have our prayer meeting. We would really encourage you to come and join with us if you're able. And it'll be here in the sanctuary. We're going to have our prayer meeting. We would really encourage you to come

and join with us if you're able. And it'll be here in the sanctuary from 7 to 8.30 p.m.

So we have two services on Sunday morning, as I'm sure you're aware. And the first is the weekly

Bible prophecy update that we've been doing for a number of years. And back in 2020, it's all a blur

now, we started doing the teaching separately for second service, which for those of you online

will be live streamed at 1115 a.m. And this is our verse by verse study through the Bible. We're currently in 1st

John. And today, we're going to look at why it is that we have so many problems on our lives.

Do you have problems in your life? No?

Well, let's just close in prayer then, I guess.

But not only why it is that we have so many problems in our lives, but what Jesus did and is doing to solve those problems in our lives. So that'll be again at 1115

a.m. for those of you online and if you're watching by way of YouTube or Facebook we'd

encourage you to go directly to the website at jd.farag.org. There you'll find the

uncensored and uninterrupted entirety of today's update.

And with that, let's get started. What I want to do today is answer the question of why it is

that everything in the world today seems to be so strange now.

I'll start by giving you the short answer to the question then I'd like to take the time in our time together today to expound on the answer specific to Bible prophecy.

The short answer as to why everything happening in our lives and in the world today is so

strange now is because everything is about to change now.

That's a short answer. Well, I realize saying this in this way may come off as clever,

cute or even cliche, but the truth of the matter is one can't help but notice

just how very strange everything seems to be getting and it seems to be getting stranger

with each passing day. And not only does it seem like everything is getting strange globally,

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