Well, good evening and welcome to our midweek Bible study. On Thursday nights we're going through the Bible.

We finished the book of Proverbs a couple of few weeks ago. And tonight we are going to begin our study through the book of Ecclesiastes chapter by chapter verse by verse.

Lord willing, we will get through chapter one tonight.

So you might want to turn there and also want to mention for the benefit of those of you that are online

at the conclusion of our Bible study tonight, we're going to partate together of the communion table.

So if you want, you might want to have the elements ready between now and then.

And so that'll be at the conclusion.

Also, before we get started, I think I would be grossly remiss were I not to at least briefly address the prophetic significance of

the breaking news today. I'm sure you heard, doubtless you heard, about what's being dubbed

as a, quote, historic deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates secured by U.S. President Donald Trump.

This is huge. And what a surprise. I woke up to it this morning, turned on my computers, and everything was blowing up,

you know, because we're so behind in terms of the time zone here in Hawaii and on the mainland.

They're already, you know, halfway through the day. And so we're just starting, you know,

I'm drinking my coffee going, what happened?

There was no indication of this.

I mean, it was just, can I, can I use this word?

Sudden.

It was very sudden.

Just out of nowhere, all of a sudden there's this peace agreement that was not even being

talked about.

It was really under the radar.

We're going to take a in-depth look at this for Sunday's update.

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