Heavenly Father, yes, how great is your love for us, that you provide teaching, Lord, that you provided your word.

And as we look to your word and finish up the chapter in Jeremiah, Lord, we thank you for that example.

And in many ways, the book of jeremiah and jeremiah's story lord is very much like today

and your word says that the scoffers will come lord in the end times and it feels like we're here. So, Lord, we thank you, Lord, for the encouragement, the strength that's only found in your word. So would you bless this teaching, Lord? Would you be with Pastor J.D., Lord, and his family? And watch over this church. This is your church, Lord. We thank you for this time together. Here this evening, Lord,

speak to us, we pray. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Amen. Good evening to you. You can be seated.

Thank you. Welcome. How are you doing tonight? Bless? All right. Those of you online, we want

to welcome you as well. And as Capono just prayed,

we are going to finish the book of Jeremiah tonight, chapter 52. So really looking forward

to this most interesting chapter. But before we get started, I would like to take a moment and pray for the

people of Turkey and Syria doubtless you're aware of what happened this major

earthquake major earthquake so I checked my news feed online before the Bible study and it is now

estimated that the death toll has exceeded 21,000 and it continues to go up. So you're day

four heading into day five now with the rescue efforts.

And certainly there are many miracles, but when that much time goes by, it does become increasingly unlikely that you'll find survivors. So, you know, God is able. But one of

the things that sort of hit me today was, and God's been doing a work in my life in this regard

over the years, as I've shared very candidly with you, you know, the thing about Bible prophecy is when you start talking about Syria in Bible

prophecy, Turkey and Bible prophecy, Russia, Iran at all, you tend to disconnect the reality

that these are people because now they're just nations involved in this prophecy

in the end times but but actually these are these are people and when you read a

statistic or hear a number like 21,000 this is a five-digit number but that's 21,000. This is a five-digit number, but that's 21,000 people. These are

sons, daughters, you know, the heartbreaking ones of course are the children. And it's hard

you to see the images when they, you know, get a baby out of there.

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