Many churches today have given up the study of Bible prophecy.

We're going to talk about why that's a real mistake.

And we're pleased to have with us today, Pastor Billy Crone.

Billy, good to have you back.

Thank you, Gary. It's always a pleasure to be on.

You know, we're going to talk about my favorite subject today.

Why is it my favorite subject?

Because I look forward to the day when our Lord comes back

to conclude the work that has gone on for all these years. And we're all looking for that

day, that blessed hope. But Billy, you've spent a lot of time preaching. And by the way,

I should mention that Billy is the pastor of Sunrise Baptist Church

in Las Vegas, Nevada, and his preaching and teaching is always put on electronic recordings

of various sorts. We'll talk about those a bit later today, and you can obtain them. And not only

that, but they're carefully edited. And they are terrific witnessing tools.

That's what you do. You teach not only prophecy, not only evangelism, but the whole package.

Yeah. Well, and you really think about it. I mean, that to me is the logical outcome of why should we study prophecy.

You know, many times we'll read through Matthew 24

and the classic signs from Jesus when the disciples ask, how do we know that when you're coming

again and how close it's getting? He gives them the wars and rumors of wars and pestilence and

famine and all the things going on and the persecution and all that stuff. And well, read the very next chapter,

Matthew 25 in context. What's to start talking about? He talks about, okay, yeah, you don't

know the exact date nor the hour. Here's signs that's getting close. Bible prophecy. What's it

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