Well, hey, everybody. Welcome to another episode of the Prophecy Prose podcast. And today, Jeff and I are joined by our great friend, Barry Stagner. He's a pastor of Calvary Central O.C in Costa, California. You can go to CalvaryC.org to find out about that. But also, he does a lot of other stuff. He teaches a lot on Bible prophecy.

He's written several books. One of them will highlight today in the context of everything that's

going on in Israel and the signs of the times. But if you want to find out more about Barry,

go to Barry Stagner.com and he can find out all about him, what he does, the different areas he

teaches in related to Bible prophecy,

the books he has, and that kind of thing. Very welcome to the Prophecy Pros podcast.

Thank you guys for having me, really a privilege to be on with you.

Absolutely. And we're, like I said, this whole season, as we've unpacked for our listeners

over the past several episodes, is dedicated to Israel and Bible prophecy.

So we plan that before the events of October 7, but obviously it's becoming more critical since those events.

You recently wrote a book.

I'll go ahead and tease it right at the top of the show, this book here, The Time of the Signs.

I like that spin on it versus the The Signs of the Times. It, the time of the signs. I like that spin on it versus the signs of the

times. It's the time of the sign. So we're going to talk about that today. But tell us a little

bit about that title and why you phrased it that way and what the book is all about.

Well, I like plays on words. And I thought it was interesting if you read what I'd like to call

the preamble to the Eleventh Discourse, Matthew 24, 3 to 8.

Mark tells us there were four inquiring disciples, Peter Andrew, James, and John, who asked

the Lord about the signs of his coming in the end of the age, and basically the title is

kind of a summation of what his answer was.

It's going to be a time of signs. And there are certain things to look for, even surrounding the

unknown day and hour, the rapture of the church, that are things that we can watch and monitor

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