0:00:00 - 0:00:26 A few years ago, I made a video called When the fig Leaves Sprout Summer is at hand. It is a fairly long presentation of some future predictions. We'll call them. Um It got a lot of views. And if you go back and watch it now, depending on your ability to recall your state of mind that many years ago 0:00:26 - 0:00:50 , you may find that there are many things that were mentioned that seemed quite extreme at the time. And then as uh it occurred, as most of those things now have um the question is how did your perspective change? If you study the scriptures, you'll find that there is a reason that prophecies are given 0:00:49 - 0:01:14 . In fact, there are, there are a collection of reasons among them. One thing is to give us ways that we can prepare for the future beyond what we would do otherwise, another reason is to lend credibility to the person that made the prediction, not for the purpose of amassing a following, but rather 0:01:14 - 0:01:42 to provide concrete evidence that can rationally um increase or let me rephrase that increase the rational belief you have in other things that that person might say And so that's a pretty important purpose of prophecy. That's quite a, an alliteration. Um over the subsequent time frame, the predictions 0:01:41 - 0:02:03 have not stopped occurring to me. But I have chosen to withhold those um in a sincere belief that it would not necessarily help many people and it might even cause more harm than help. So instead of telling you about things that are going to happen, I've been writing them in a very long file, which I 0:02:03 - 0:02:24 have pulled up right here with the intent to take the necessary time to really um go through and process these into one large presentation. It has occurred of me, it has occurred to me lately that that is not the best way forward and that if I keep waiting more and more and more of these things are going 0:02:24 - 0:02:47 to happen while I'm still sitting on these things, I like pretty much everything I do in what one could call ministry. I have to conclude that uh I have sufficient reasons to do this based on my faith and what's possible even if the reasons I'm given in front of my face in terms of what other people 0:02:47 - 0:03:09 are doing about it, uh in reaction to it are insufficient. So, um moving forward, but my intent is when I get a free minute, like right now, I have approximately 20 minutes before my next engagement. Uh and I don't have anything more useful to put in this block at the moment. Um So I can, I can make 0:03:09 - 0:03:29 a quick video uh which this is the introduction and I will put these in a playlist. Um I think I already have one on youtube and I think it's called future predictions. And I like to say words and phrases that I think are more clear than ones that were we use conventionally like prophecy. It's a little 0:03:28 - 0:03:49 sticky, I think. So, future predictions and maybe it'll happen, maybe it won't. But the question is, what will you do if it does? So, uh, I'll put together some of these videos as I have time. I hope you watch them and more than anything. I hope that you look back on them with their time stamps and accurately 0:00:00 - 0:00:26 A few years ago, I made a video called When the fig Leaves Sprout Summer is at hand. It is a fairly long presentation of some future predictions. We'll call them. Um It got a lot of views. And if you go back and watch it now, depending on your ability to recall your state of mind that many years ago 0:00:26 - 0:00:50 , you may find that there are many things that were mentioned that seemed quite extreme at the time. And then as uh it occurred, as most of those things now have um the question is how did your perspective change? If you study the scriptures, you'll find that there is a reason that prophecies are given 0:00:49 - 0:01:14 . In fact, there are, there are a collection of reasons among them. One thing is to give us ways that we can prepare for the future beyond what we would do otherwise, another reason is to lend credibility to the person that made the prediction, not for the purpose of amassing a following, but rather 0:01:14 - 0:01:42 to provide concrete evidence that can rationally um increase or let me rephrase that increase the rational belief you have in other things that that person might say And so that's a pretty important purpose of prophecy. That's quite a, an alliteration. Um over the subsequent time frame, the predictions 0:01:41 - 0:02:03 have not stopped occurring to me. But I have chosen to withhold those um in a sincere belief that it would not necessarily help many people and it might even cause more harm than help. So instead of telling you about things that are going to happen, I've been writing them in a very long file, which I 0:02:03 - 0:02:24 have pulled up right here with the intent to take the necessary time to really um go through and process these into one large presentation. It has occurred of me, it has occurred to me lately that that is not the best way forward and that if I keep waiting more and more and more of these things are going 0:02:24 - 0:02:47 to happen while I'm still sitting on these things, I like pretty much everything I do in what one could call ministry. I have to conclude that uh I have sufficient reasons to do this based on my faith and what's possible even if the reasons I'm given in front of my face in terms of what other people 0:02:47 - 0:03:09 are doing about it, uh in reaction to it are insufficient. So, um moving forward, but my intent is when I get a free minute, like right now, I have approximately 20 minutes before my next engagement. Uh and I don't have anything more useful to put in this block at the moment. Um So I can, I can make 0:03:09 - 0:03:29 a quick video uh which this is the introduction and I will put these in a playlist. Um I think I already have one on youtube and I think it's called future predictions. And I like to say words and phrases that I think are more clear than ones that were we use conventionally like prophecy. It's a little 0:03:28 - 0:03:49 sticky, I think. So, future predictions and maybe it'll happen, maybe it won't. But the question is, what will you do if it does? So, uh, I'll put together some of these videos as I have time. I hope you watch them and more than anything. I hope that you look back on them with their time stamps and accurately 0:03:48 - 0:04:04 recall your state of mind and expectations when you first heard it or when it's first said and, uh, use that to inform your credibility or the, the credibility you find that I have take care.