Dr. Bernard, thank you for taking a few minutes this morning to do this live podcast recording.

And while they may not be able to hear me, I'd like to thank all of our audience members who have stopped by the booth to watch this recording.

I also would like to say thank you to every person who has stopped

me either while we were in the booth or you've stopped me in the hallways and told me how much

you enjoy this podcast. It's really especially gratifying to hear from pastors and ministry leaders

who tell me that, A, it's helped them personally, but also B, that they've recommended it to their

saints and that it's been a

blessing to them. It's great to hear when people say they share it with new converts. That's why

we do this podcast recording. So that's very gratifying personally. And I know I'm not the person

answering questions, thankfully, but it's great to be part of this. So thank you for giving me

an opportunity to be part of it. Well, I enjoyed. help in all this i want to start with a question that has kind

of come up this week uh obviously you're aware that there was some some folks may be predicting

that the rapture was going to happen earlier this week uh well we'd like to think that that didn't happen. If it did,

I guess we all missed it. But I'd like to get your thoughts on just date setting for the rapture.

Of course, this week, the idea was that Jesus was going to come back during the Feast of Trump.

It's that something that gets a lot of, there's a lot of people that have suggested that. What are your thoughts on that? Well, first of all, I would like to say we definitely believe

in the coming of the Lord. We believe the rapture could take place at any time. That's my personal view.

Others think you would have to wait till the middle or end of the tribulation. But the Apostle,

in his day, said we are, which are are alive and remain will be caught up so he

had an expectation that the Lord could come while he was still alive and I really think that's

God's will that every generation would have that expectation and be waiting but when you read

the Gospels for example Matthew 24 what's called the Olivet discourse,

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