Well, it's great to see all of you here today. Welcome to week number three of a four-part series called

the Second Coming of Christ, and I'll tell you more about that in just a moment, but I always like to begin, of course, looking straight into the camera and saying a big hello to all of our locations.

We are one church that meets all across Alabama and in Columbus, Georgia, and of course we're bringing this and all that we are as a church into more than 20 of Alabama's Department of Corrections facilities.

Love the men and women that are joining us there.

And, of course, there's people watching online and on demand after today.

So, Grantsville, do the best job you ever had.

Come on, say the biggest hello to those that are watching.

God bless you.

Yes, so in this series, really, that began by a survey that we did back at Easter, where we've

asked you, I'll try to do this once a year, ask you, what are some topics that you'd like

to hear about?

And then we work on them into series or messages.

In fact, the next series that we'll do together is going to answer about six or seven of your

top requests in a series that we're calling, you asked for it, so that's what's coming up next.

But the third most requested topic in the survey that we did was on the end times and the last days and the return of Christ.

And I understand why, because, you know, there is a lot of news that is happening that

would make you think, at least that we might be close.

And I'm going to hopefully show you how close I think we are today.

And I realize that.

And, of course, I think a lot of things that are aligning themselves in the news,

align themselves with biblical prophecy. And does anybody know? Well, we'll talk about that today.

But in week number one, I really wanted to bring a message to you to redirect our attention away from

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