Do you all do all do horror movies? I don't really do much in the way of horror movies.

We talked about this a few months ago after I watched midnight mass on Netflix, which I thought was really, really good.

And then I was like, I'm going to go watch some more stuff that guy directed.

Maybe I could watch a horror movie and find value in it.

Nope.

I went watched a couple more and I didn't even make it past the first scene.

This is just not for me. It's too much. I'm weak.

Then I'm absolutely unashamed to admit that weakness in front of you.

But one of the things that I know from my limited amount of horror and suspense watching is that every

now and then we'll be cruising through a scene and I'm like I know what you're

doing with the music I know what you're doing with the pacing and the camera angles.

Ah, I get it. Okay, I'm going to watch this through my fingers.

I cannot tell you exactly when the jump scare is going to happen, but I can tell you all the things that lead right up to the jump scare,

and then I guess only the director knows exactly when the thing's going to pop out and there's going to be the moment,

or it's going to be a, oh, it's just a cat at first, but then it's a monster right after

that's surprise.

That's for the director to know, not for me, but I can give you a pretty good sense even with a scary

movie I've never seen before of what the paces are of building up to that thing.

Likewise in Matthew chapter 24 we just got done looking at a huge chunk of what's

called the Olivet discourse. It's the fifth of the great big speeches around which the book of Matthew is structured,

and it's all prompted by the disciples being like, hey, it sounds like you're going to die and go away,

and we're going to be here, and we're going to have to kind of hold down the fort.

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