All right. So I made the decision early this morning to preempt the teaching in Ephesians.

On Sunday mornings, we are currently going through this epistle to the church in Ephesus,

chapter by chapter and verse by verse, but I sense that the Lord would

have us to devote the entirety of our time today to the Middle East prophecy update, which

we usually do after the teaching in Ephesians.

So today we're going to do it instead of the teaching in Ephesians.

And this for a number of reasons, chief of which is that I woke up a little after 3 a.m.

This morning, as I usually do on Sunday mornings.

I try to go to bed early on Saturday nights, and last night I was able to do that.

So I get up early, and then I wake up to a text from a friend and online member,

Kelly McGuire, who works at Fox News in New York, and she was surprising me of the breaking news

of this Syrian chemical weapons attack near Damascus.

And I decided then at that point to forego Ephesians and talk very candidly today about the significance of this.

And I want to preface it by saying that, and I think you know this about me, at least I hope you do.

I'm always very careful not to come off as being, you know,

sensational or even provocative. And I try to keep, I try to stay calm. I was going to say that,

but that doesn't, that's not really true. I'm not a stay calm. I was going to say that, but that doesn't, that's not really true.

I'm not a very calm person. But I just want to say that in light of everything that has happened

and even now is happening,

this is truly in every sense of the word,

a game changer, and that's almost in a way

an understatement of sorts.

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