Good morning and welcome to our first service on Sunday morning. We have two services. The first is devoted to Bible prophecy, where we do our weekly prophecy updates and second service, which will be live streamed at 1115 a.m. Hawaii time is our verse by verse study through the Word of God. And today we're going to be

in Hebrews chapter 3. And Lord willing, I'm going to ask and answer the question of are our Christian

lives really all about Jesus? Kind of a convicting title. So if you're not

here second service, we'll know. Also for those that are watching by way of YouTube or Facebook, we'd really encourage you to go directly to J.D.Farag.org. There, you can watch the update in its uncensored entirety without having to transition there after the introduction.

I hope that those of you that do will be patient with us.

We're still trying to work through some technical difficulties,

and we very much encourage you to pray for us in that regard.

So last week there were some significant prophetic developments

in the Middle East as I'm sure many of you heard specifically in and with Israel.

Yamina leader Naftali Bennett, Lapid, and Ra'am Chairman Mansour Abbas,

signed an agreement at a meeting on Wednesday night in the first coalition deal ever signed by an Arab party. This is unprecedented,

for lack of a better word. Also, many are keeping a close eye on Russia and their military

exercises in international waters, just 13 nautical miles off the island

of Kauai, here in Hawaii. Did you hear about this? Have a nice afternoon. According to this popular mechanics report on Wednesday, two U.S. air defense missiles failed to

intercept a simulated ballistic missile. This is Russia right off Kauai. The Russians had likely been tipped off to the test

by notices of air and sea closures designed to protect civilians from military activity. Certainly they are flexing their muscles.

And they have muscles to flex, by the way. Suffice it to say, things are revving up geopolitically

in their significance prophetically as more and more pieces

of the prophecy puzzle are put in place.

However, after praying and fasting concerning what the Lord would have me to talk about for today's

update, he impressed upon my heart to start with his word to Jeremiah the prophet.

Chapter 1, verse 8 and 9, the lord to the prophet jeremiah said do not be afraid of them

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