All right. Well, good evening and welcome to our midweek Bible study. We're so glad that you're joining

with us online. I want to welcome you and trust that you'll be blessed that you're watching live. So,

I want to talk with you tonight about something that has been heavy on my heart during these last few months and

what a few months they've been. So on Thursday nights we usually go through the Bible, book

by book, chapter by chapter, verse by verse. Last week we finished the book of proverbs chapter 31 and i just kind of

spent some time seeking the lord about whether or not we should start in ecclesiastes tonight

and in so doing i just sense that the lord would have me to share with you uh about. It's kind of a, how do I say it?

It's, no, just say it. How about that? It's kind of been a real grievous, even heartbreaking. I'll say challenging and I'll add convicting dynamic. And it has to do

with how now like never before the world is watching us as God's people and they want to see how we're going to behave

and how we're going to act in the midst of this crisis that we're in. And it's not that we're just in a crisis, but it seems like that it's getting worse with each passing day.

So much so that if you're anything like me, and I suspect that for the most part you are you you wake up in the morning and it's almost

one of these things of what's going to happen now what's going to happen next what what's going to

happen today and I spent a lot of time just really before the Lord and as I try to keep my finger on the pulse of

current events, especially as it relates to Bible prophecy, it's becoming abundantly clear that we are living in a period of human history that is the likes of which we have never seen before, nor will we ever see

again.

I want to ask you a question rhetorical.

You don't have to respond or anything, obviously.

But have you been like me on the receiving end of phone calls or emails or text messages from people that you

probably haven't heard from in many years because of this crisis. In other words, they

know where you stand. You've made your position clear. they know that you're a believer and so

something like this happens and who do they call who do they turn to who do they

start asking questions of well they start asking questions of the Christians.

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