All right, pardon me.

Again, I'll try not to let my cold be a distraction.

Appreciate your grace. You are very gracious.

For today's prophecy update, I want to talk about what I would argue the U.S. midterm election

results were actually about. This as even now important races are being contested and votes recounted in Florida, Georgia and also in Arizona.

However, before we get there, I want to first mention a couple of things,

the first of which is, as many of you know, today is not only Veterans Day, it's also the

100-year anniversary of the end of World War I. And every year at this time we take the time to

honor our military and I'm hoping you'll kindly indulge me as I share an email I received

from an online member who is currently deployed in Afghanistan.

He writes, Dear Pastor J.D., I have been an overseas follower of your preaching for several

years now. I met you when I was stationed at MCBH in 2012 after my chief introduced me to you and your wonderful congregation.

I study eschatology and apologetics and your teachings have been a great resource for me,

and I so appreciate how the Lord works for you.

I am currently deployed to Afghanistan and I have been here for what feels

like in eternity. Come this January, after 15 months I will return home to California to be with my

family and meet for the first time my second born daughter. I wanted to share this because he also

included an attachment of a paper he wrote concerning the serving in the military and the

profound sacrifice that's made on the part of those who do serve.

And that's really why I wanted to share this.

But I think you would agree that it's not hyperbole to say that we owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to those who have served and those who are today

serving. And so what I want to do at this time is have everyone who has served or even if you

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