0:00:00 - 0:00:24 All right, we've got a nice and juicy topic today which is signs in the heavens. This is in the pile of topics that people get excited about. Um But you'll see that I've got some things to say about it that you're probably not expecting me to say. So that's fun. I received an email today. I say I copied 0:00:24 - 0:00:46 it here. I'm preparing a video for Sunday on the topic, whatever his topic was and I ran into your blog post is that the best place to look. Should I search your blog? I couldn't find any details. There, only a few passing scripture references. Um Just in general, the new site is coming out upward thought.org 0:00:45 - 0:01:14 it's, it's, we're testing it and putting the finishing touches on the search feature. Um And that's gonna be a, a rolling uh distribution. We're, we're going to create and push features out to that as we get around to it. But the next version of that, we have the ability to search blog posts and videos 0:01:13 - 0:01:38 . So we've got code on there to transcribe the videos and the books. So you'll be able to search all three sources at once. So that's gonna be interesting. Um If you've used the search feature on youtube, it's pretty decent. It also looks at the transcripts because youtube transcribes everything. But 0:01:37 - 0:02:01 the search feature on the blog is pretty terrible. So I'm pretty excited to move away from the uh blog spot location. I I, I'll probably leave everything up there, but um we'll see, we'll see, but the, the content will be moved over everything that's on the blog is moved over to the new site and you'll 0:02:01 - 0:02:19 see that in the new version. Anyway. So hopefully that will be easier to search and it should kick up some interesting questions. So that'll be exciting. Anyway, this, this guy continues. I found it very interesting. I know I was reading all your stuff back then, but I've forgotten a lot of stuff. It 0:02:19 - 0:02:38 happens to the best of us. Does this still represent your thinking? So I'm gonna show you the post he was referring to. Do you think there's a great meaning with the upcoming solar eclipse as a sign in heaven? This is the second eclipse and the two together draw big X over the USA. Does this tie into 0:02:38 - 0:02:59 end times events? Does a big earthquake and famine follow? All right. So these are the kinds of thoughts that a whole lot of people have as far as end times events. They're, they're looking for the signs and it's an interesting thing and I have a lot to say about it, but I made slides. So I don't say 0:02:59 - 0:03:24 too much about it. I suppose the first thing we should do is go look at these posts he was talking about. Let me bring this over. All right. All right. So, here we're on the blog and this was a repost from 2016. Wow, it's almost this, it's February 28th that we're about a week off from that years ago 0:03:23 - 0:03:45 . So, feels like yesterday. This is a long post and I'm not gonna read it to you. You can go and read it. And also one of the things I hate about blogspot is the format and it's terrible, but you can go and read it and I reread it and because he asked me, does this still reflect your present thoughts 0:03:44 - 0:04:07 ? And there's one thing I changed or added, I should say, which is this sentence I added just to clarify. I don't think it was necessary to add this, but it probably helps. I wasn't making the point that this is what's going to happen just that they could. So, so many years ago, it would have been crazy 0:04:07 - 0:04:27 to think that China and Russia could have literally marched across the country. Uh equipment wise that wouldn't have been feasible, but it's absolutely feasible. Now, China and Russia have had a huge military build up and up until recently. No one shouldn't say no one but very few people are paying attention 0:04:27 - 0:04:49 to it when I started talking about the probability of China and Russia invading. It was basically seen as zero. And so everybody thought that that was pretty crazy. So that's that post and the answer to his question and I won't read that to you, but this is a post that he didn't bring up, although he 0:04:49 - 0:05:10 referred to the idea and that's not his fault. I noticed that it was in the pile of things that I had unpublished and not gotten a chance to get back to. So I got back to it and it's up again now. But this is from 2017 and this is the X that he's talking about. And since then more people have talked 0:05:10 - 0:05:31 about this X, you'll see videos about it from people who have all kinds of ideas about what it might mean. I haven't seen anyone else talk about this though. Um This is an obscure picture I found on some apparently unattributed source and it was so long ago that I can't remember where I found, I guess 0:05:31 - 0:05:51 I could do a Google image search to track it down. But if it's still up, I don't think it was. I, I may have checked that before, but it turns out and I've seen other sources that don't have here that are really, really old publications from geology journals, but they've, they have done research and 0:05:50 - 0:06:13 it turns out that there are massive faults going like this across the United States and obviously these lines are not precise or specific, but in general, there are huge faults that go like this and they cross over right at New Madrid, which is a city right around there. And so that's interesting. Now 0:06:13 - 0:06:35 , if you know your earthquake history, there's a big one here around 1812 and it was so intense that it was, it shook the chimneys in Boston, so way over there. So, so that's something interesting and it just so happens that that pretty much lines up completely with the trajectory of these two eclipses 0:06:34 - 0:07:01 . And so this is just a little piece of information that may or may not be relevant and it fuels all this speculation about what these eclipses may or may not mean. Now, here's some more facts and there's just facts about these two eclipses and referenced here are two other signs in the heavens which 0:07:01 - 0:07:27 is uh what people are calling the revelation 12 sign that happened. This is future tense because I think I wrote it before it happened. But August 21st 2017 was when this eclipse happened. And that was 33 days before this revelation 12 sign. And of course, you can Google that um some celestial events 0:07:27 - 0:07:52 recur or things like them, similar events occur from time to time. But some of these are super rare. And so, you know, while people are talking about all this, it just, it, it, it um it suggests questions that unfortunately, are not explicitly asked and we will ask them in this presentation, I'll give 0:07:52 - 0:08:17 you the answers as far as I've got them questions like that thing. People are calling the revelation 12 sign that happened with the alignments in the planets and stars. How rare was that? And people have gone out and done analysis on that. You can go look at it. Ok. But no one's asked how frequent eclipses 0:08:16 - 0:08:35 are or have there ever been eclipses that corresponded? Like the trajectory of the eclipse corresponded to an event that happened after that or during that, I haven't seen people actually formulate the questions and look up the answers and it's understandable because it's really easy to take four seconds 0:08:35 - 0:08:55 . This generalizes to all end times, prophecy or predictions in general. It takes four seconds to familiarize yourself with some ideas and then just spout out whatever the heck comes to your mind. And of course, it's almost always wrong. It takes a heck of a lot of time to ask all the questions that 0:08:55 - 0:09:16 need to be asked and to go get the answers. Of course, it takes a heck of a lot of effort to repent. And what you'll see is that's the main theme of this presentation. But I guess we'll get to that. So I showed you those two posts and now we'll get down to the nitty gritty of the new stuff. All right 0:09:16 - 0:09:38 , let's start here. What's the deal with Celestial events. What's the purpose and who are they for? I'm not gonna beat around the bush here. I'm just gonna give it to you Genesis 114, the niv says, and, and God said, let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night and let 0:09:38 - 0:10:05 them serve as signs to mark sacred times and days and years. That's the purpose of these signs. What that does not tell us is how often what we see is meant to have meaning. And I'll give you an example. I'm jumping ahead because we're talking about the celestial clock. If you look at the clock on your 0:10:05 - 0:10:30 wall or a watch, let's go with the watch on your wrist and you're staring at, at that thing as life goes by, what you're going to find is that you have a certain degree of resolution there, probably down to the second and everything important that ever happens in your life or in the world, you can tie 0:10:30 - 0:10:58 to a specific time down to the resolution of seconds. That does not mean that that time generated the event. But these things call k right now, I don't want to make this more complicated than it has to be. But it's worth mentioning that our comprehension of time in the modern world, it's, it's completely 0:10:58 - 0:11:20 artificial. It's made up just like whole numbers. That might seem like a crazy thing to say whole numbers don't actually exist. They are inventions that help us deal with a world that's way too complicated to otherwise interact with directly. Every number is actually a decimal number. And even that is 0:11:20 - 0:11:42 made up, every number is a continuous decimal that goes on forever. But that's pretty uncomfortable to think about. And, and you thought regular mass was hard. So we simplify things to get a handle on them. We do that with language too. What I'm saying right now, it's not the full continuous space of 0:11:41 - 0:11:58 ideas. It's very much criticized. It's, it's, it's truncated. We draw boxes around things. So we say anything outside the box and I'm just gonna pretend it doesn't exist because otherwise we'll never get through anything. We'll just be defining terms for the rest of our lives. That's what time is like 0:11:58 - 0:12:22 too. But God's time is different than this because the whole thing is like a machine, the whole thing is the clock. And so it, it, there's not this abstract thing, there's just a process and it's all integrated anyway. We don't really have to get super far down in the philosophy of things. So we'll leave 0:12:22 - 0:12:50 it at that. But there's the scripture, it turns out that these things do matter. But just like the wristwatch analogy, there's no clean way to see when they matter. I mean, the sun's up there right now, the moon's up there right now. Does it matter? And so what we've done as a subset of humans who has 0:12:50 - 0:13:17 an affinity for getting excited about what might be signs of the times we've made this list of things that serves as like a number line or vocabulary if you're writing a paragraph and we've said these things have meaning to us and now we're gonna try to match it to what's actually happening. And that's 0:13:16 - 0:13:34 just like counting the seconds on your wristwatch as you're watching the world go by. I hope that makes sense. Do you see how, what I'm saying about tying those two things together? Now, with the wristwatch, example, everything that's important will happen at a particular second, but there's a whole 0:13:34 - 0:13:55 lot of seconds that don't matter. Now in the grand scheme of things, everything matters because everything is interrelated, but you won't be able to map those things to your watch because in your purview, nothing's happening. That's important. Like if you're a little kid, you probably don't care about 0:13:55 - 0:14:15 any particular day unless there's something special planned or it's your birthday or something. So your vocabulary of days that matter to you, you know, the whole thing could be expressed in just a few days. Out of 365 might be five days you care about as a little kid more than any others. Does this 0:14:15 - 0:14:43 make sense? All right. So if you're dealing in a realm where you're only noting certain high points relative to what you care about, that's very different than understanding everything that's going on from a causal level. So when you're driving your car, you're not intimately acquainted with everything 0:14:43 - 0:15:03 happening at the atomic level inside your engine. You just know the wheels are rolling, right? The engine's humming, the wheels are rolling. Life is good. That's your lens on that slice of reality. But if you wanted to understand everything at a causal level, you'd have to see down to the atoms and understand 0:15:02 - 0:15:29 everything. All right. So my question for you bringing this a little closer is who knew about key events and dates in the past? Who are the signs for? Because the presupposition, this is why we have to formulate and ask questions to better understand things. What people assume is that the signs are for 0:15:29 - 0:15:53 everybody, everybody can look up and see stars. So un unless you live in Utah and the pollution is too bad. So who are the signs for everybody except for the folks that live in Utah? Right? No, that's not the case. There are other polluted places too. Uh No, that's not the case. When was that ever the 0:15:53 - 0:16:20 case? When is that ever the case? So like in Exodus, right? And one of the things we're gonna talk about are the Holy Days Passover didn't exist before Exodus, right? So who, who knew about the significance of that day? Well, God did and he told Moses and this is an interesting question that I've never 0:16:20 - 0:16:48 heard anyone talk about what percentage of the Hebrews went with Moses. People just assume it's 100%. I don't know about you. But my experiences with people lead me to believe it was, it was less than that. How much less, I don't know, but I seriously doubt it was near 100%. So, before that moment, Passover 0:16:47 - 0:17:15 had no meaning there was no day called Passover, there was no date on the calendar and then all of a sudden it meant something, did it mean something to God before then? I don't know. It certainly meant something to him after then. Did it mean something to anyone who wasn't a Hebrew? No. Now, nowadays 0:17:14 - 0:17:40 you got a lot of, they're not Hebrews. So we'll call them Yahoos who get real excited about the Hebrew holy days and maybe they have good reason for that. Some of them definitely don't. So, but it wasn't like that before. No one else cared. What about going back even further? You probably didn't even 0:17:39 - 0:18:08 know that there are significant dates attached to Noah's flood. And I'm pretty sure you didn't know that those things were actually signs of things to come, those specific dates and the events tied to them. Maybe this isn't too hard to believe and we can just keep the claim on the shallow end by pointing 0:18:08 - 0:18:33 to the fact that it rained for 40 days and 40 nights and we know that 40 is a significant number. Uh The Lord was in the wilderness for 40 days. Being tempted, Moses went to heaven for 40 days. He didn't eat for 40 days and so on. So it's a significant number. And again, it becomes a part of the vocabulary 0:18:32 - 0:19:10 of, of how everything works. So there's a divine number line and there's a divine clock. These, if you, if you pull out a tape measure, you'll see tick marks. Now, those are regularly spaced, but there's no reason they have to be. If you think about other societies over time, people had different ways 0:19:09 - 0:19:36 of demarcating time or numbers. And some of these are much more easy to work with than others. You look at Roman numerals, for example, that's a huge headache. Well, God's no different. And so, whereas we think of numbers in terms of a tape measure, for example, when we're trying to measure things, what 0:19:36 - 0:20:07 if, what if God's tape measure has tick marks on uneven spots and without taking that too far, the point is when we see these numbers in scripture or in life, we ought to think twice because these mean something and I'm missing one here. 33 should be on here too and whatever the space is free, we'll 0:20:07 - 0:20:33 throw 30 on there too. Ok. These are meaningful numbers and you could do a study of any of these numbers and learn a whole lot. Now with all of these topics in this presentation and whenever we're talking about future events in general, I just have to keep hammering home. Please do not waste your time 0:20:33 - 0:20:54 on this. If you haven't repented of your sins, studying the significance of the number 30 is not going to get you there. Please do not fall into this trap. You know, there are academics out there who have spent 40 years of their lives studying specific things out of the scriptures and they are no better 0:20:53 - 0:21:17 as people than the most regular atheist you'll meet on the street. That's pathetic. That does not make God happy. Do not waste your time. This is all just trivia to you until you actually repent of your sins. The deeper lessons that are hidden in all this stuff, they only come out when you have the holy 0:21:17 - 0:21:36 ghost and you're not worthy of it. If you're willfully sinning against God, you will not have the depth of understanding that can only come through the quickening power of the holy ghost. So don't even waste your time. The, the point of this presentation is more to take things off the table in terms 0:21:36 - 0:21:54 of helping you not waste time. But I'm gonna give you a whole bunch of stuff that no one's ever told you. I already have, but we'll just keep rolling with it. So that's the divine number line. Now, there's also a divine clock and I I mentioned this before. You may or not, may not know the Hebrew calendar 0:21:53 - 0:22:17 was a lunar calendar. The, the new year there were several new years. That's a bit confusing. But the, the calendar, new year, it, it was to reset everything according to the lunar cycle. And so like a month, didn't begin looking at the calendar to say, oh, it's been this many days, the month began when 0:22:16 - 0:22:46 the moon cycle restarted and they'd have people that it was their job to call that. So, eclipses are part of this calendar now. Now, that's interesting because all of our measures of time are artificial. They're based on counting, but under the covers, they're based on counting some physical event. So 0:22:46 - 0:23:12 even an atomic clock, it's counting the cycles of a specific atomic situation, just glossing over details. So people don't get an upset stomach. So the Hebrew calendar, it accounted the moon. And what's super interesting? I find this super interesting is I told you that God's time, it's a process. It's 0:23:11 - 0:23:31 not about events, it's about processes and the events are just the blips that you can measure in that process. When you're just looking at the moon, you don't care about what, how it got there, how it works, what the orbits are, whatever you have a rule that you can use. That's really simple. You could 0:23:31 - 0:24:00 teach it to a kid to regulate your sense of time down from there because the moon's gonna give you a monthly scope. And if you want to say like I need to be somewhere at 2 p.m. or in the third watch or whatever you'd say, you have to boil it down from there. I don't know. I find that interesting because 0:24:00 - 0:24:26 it ties into so many ideas about scope and God's process and how everything is just sort of a branch off of this main trunk. But anyway, a part of, um, the granularity that God provides, it's not just the monthly intervals, they're also holy days. Now, these holy days are positioned in the calendar according 0:24:26 - 0:24:54 to those lunar cycles. It'll say like on the fourth day of the second month kind of thing that ties the scope to the regulation of the moon. So this is really interesting and important when you look at our calendar, the Gregorian calendar, it's just basically made up, there's a start date and then from 0:24:54 - 0:25:18 that point on, it's the calendar that keeps the time, it's dissociated from God's creation, it becomes ours. And this is really interesting and, and not good, but in the Hebrew world, it doesn't work like that. Everything's tied to the moon. God is in control. It just breaks down from there, boils down 0:25:17 - 0:25:39 , I should say not breaks down, but it filters down from there, but he retains that upper scope. So, and, and this is, I'll just mention this explicitly. This is an interesting point of study when you're, when you're rolling through the scriptures. And it says, like I said, in the second month, on the 0:25:39 - 0:26:03 fourth day, there's a reason they're telling you what day it was. At least sometimes people wouldn't have wasted the ink, maybe they're just keeping a record. But a lot of times you'll find that when the date is mentioned, it matters, you probably never thought of that before. So in Hebrew, the word 0:26:02 - 0:26:25 for the holy days is, is Moed. And we're gonna get into some funky words here and I'm sorry, I'm not a Hebrew scholar, I'm gonna butcher them. And what that means is it's correct to call those festivals, but it also means an appointed time place or meeting. And that's really important. The festivals 0:26:25 - 0:26:49 again in our world, we think of Holy days, Holy days, we think of them as maybe as time to celebrate certain things, but mostly it's just kind of party time and the appointed time and place and meeting is just us getting together as humans. But in ancient times, this was supposed to be in alignment with 0:26:49 - 0:27:17 the heavens, literally, right, literally, because we're counting our time based on celestial signs and we're sup supposed to be meeting with God in some fashion or form. And so I'm not going to take the time to explain what each of the holy days are. It's worth looking into there is definitely important 0:27:16 - 0:27:39 meaning there. So I mentioned that there are multiple New Years in the Hebrew world. The one that, that I think comes most naturally to us is the idea of the calendar, new year because that's all we have, but maybe it's not so foreign. So, if you're in the United States, the fourth of July, it's the 0:27:39 - 0:27:58 birthday of the Nation, right? That's what we're celebrating. And so the Hebrew world has, has equivalencies for that. Uh Well, they're not equivalent at all. They're better because they, they commemorate bigger things that are more important. But the first day on the Hebrew calendar that's associated 0:27:57 - 0:28:26 with the beginning of creation. Then you've got Rosh Hashanah, which is the the commemoration of the birth of mankind because those are not the same creation happened before mankind was created. So the heavens and the earth versus man. So the Lord himself gave Israel uh uh uh a new year of, of sorts 0:28:26 - 0:28:54 . He, he said that Passover marked the beginning of their months in Exodus 12. There's a reason for that. I said the moon demarcates our time on earth, but it's not the end. It can, it can boil down to lower scopes than that. Well, in a covenant relationship, things get reset based on the mediator. So 0:28:53 - 0:29:18 I know a lot of people like to say things like there are no mediators between man and God except Jesus Christ. Actually, Jesus is a pattern and that pattern can boil down to smaller scopes. And if you disagree, you should explain why the age of man is 70 today. And I know you don't know the answer, but 0:29:17 - 0:29:44 the answer is because of Abraham and then I would ask you, why did Abraham live as long as he did? Why did the people in his time live for around 100 and 20 years? And again, you wouldn't know the answer. But the answer is Noah, these things are so integral to reality that God has reset the life of men 0:29:43 - 0:30:20 to commemorate the intercession of certain people. If it weren't for Noah, none of us would be here. And one of the memorials of his service to God and us is, was the life of man, the duration of the life of man because he purchased it. So just to toss out a super deep thing. So that's why Passover marks 0:30:20 - 0:00:00 the beginning of their months. It's a commemoration of Moses. Now that's gonna rub a lot of people the wrong way because you've been taught. The Passover is a commemoration of Jesus and it is, that's the only reason it matters. You know, if some random guy said, hey, let's paint doorways with blood, 0:00:00 - 0:31:09 you know, that's not gonna get you very far. It has to be connected to the source and the source has to be the core and the fulfillment of the meaning. But if it weren't for Moses, the Hebrews would still be slaves and Jesus could not have come. So obviously, Jesus is at the head of all of that and the 0:31:09 - 0:31:30 father above him. So it's, it's, it's, it's silly to get these things to get in a bind about these things. Everything testifies of the way it is. No one gets upset when we glorify the sun. No one gets upset. I shouldn't say no one. Christians don't get upset. They have no problem with us glorifying the 0:31:30 - 0:31:57 sun that doesn't take away from the father. It actually adds to his glory because all the glory comes from him. But if we continue the pattern, people start losing their minds. All right. So continuing on there, there are some, some uh honorable mentions here, but I'm just gonna skip over them for now 0:31:57 - 0:32:15 . Although I'm giving you a clue as to what the 10 means in that divine number line because I wanna get to this. So a couple of years ago and it's kind of embarrassing how many years ago time is flying. My goodness. There were these blood moons and there were all these people out there making cool diagrams 0:32:14 - 0:32:38 that this one's way cooler than one I made and all of us were pinning, it's like pin the tail on the donkey. We're pinning the end times event on the date. And I, I again and fully admit I did this too. There's a lot that I've learned since then and thank God, there's a lot I'm still learning. He hasn't 0:32:38 - 0:33:01 given up on me yet. So you'll see later. I'm gonna have a, a list of no nos in prophecy, but one of them is you don't want to do that. Ok? Everyone got really excited about this. They put the time and the graphic design. And so here's my question. Did, did these blood moons? It's called a tetrad, did 0:33:01 - 0:33:24 the tetrad back in 2015? Did it mean anything? Everybody had a theory about what it meant before it happened and then it happened and then nothing happened seemingly. And oddly enough, all those people just kind of disappeared or started talking about other things. I'm here to tell you. It did mean something 0:33:24 - 0:33:55 just probably not to you. And again, that probably sounds weird. But think back to all the other signs that have been given, who recognized them. The only time anyone saw a comet or an eclipse or a, any of this stuff is having supernatural significance is when God sent a prophet to tell people this idea 0:33:54 - 0:34:20 that you know, any Joe blow can just google something and then know what it means. That's, that's a very new idea. Now, God will tell you anything if you comply with the process required to hear it. But I'm telling you that process is much more than just asking a question. If you haven't repented of 0:34:20 - 0:34:54 your sins, you can forget it. You know, there are mysteries that take 1020 3040 years of pouring out your soul to God. That's the price real intent is non optional and God he's so merciful, but it would hurt you if he just gave you things on the cheap. If you ask to know some deep, deep, deep, deep mystery 0:34:54 - 0:35:21 that he's never revealed to anyone. And you think that he's just going to tell you because you happen to ask in passing one day after you got done looking at porn for the day. Good luck. If you think that's gonna happen and if he did give it to you, it would seriously harm your motivation and ability 0:35:20 - 0:35:51 to repent and it would seriously distort all of the signs and tokens that he gives to certify the channels of revelation that are flowing to earth. If, if it wasn't Elijah who did the, the dance battle between him and the prophets of Baal. It was just some random guy, some random guy that everyone knew 0:35:51 - 0:36:20 was totally normal and there was nothing holy about him and he just strolled up and said, hey, God, I need some fire here right now and it all burned up that would seriously distort the signal, wouldn't it? It would not be helpful. So God will tell, tell anyone pretty much anyone, pretty much everything 0:36:19 - 0:36:41 . There are caveats on that, but we don't need to get into it, but he's not going to tell everyone everything. That's not the way it works. It comes according to heed and diligence, that's all over the scriptures, heed and diligence. If you want to know more than someone else, you have to be better than 0:36:40 - 0:37:03 someone else. That's just the way it is. And we don't like that. We live in the age where you can become an expert on anything you want just with an internet connection. But that's not the way things work in the larger scheme of things. You, you can only do that because of contributions of people who 0:37:03 - 0:37:26 are better than you even with Google. Right. If I dropped you off on a desert island, could you reproduce Wikipedia? No, you could not. That's not the greatest example because that's a very corrupt website. But you get the point. Even if you had all the equipment to build a satellite receiver and a computer 0:37:25 - 0:37:48 from scratch, you still wouldn't be able to do it right? Because you don't have that understanding. So we're on the shoulders of giants all the time. Hollering about how we're all equal. It's ridiculous. All right. Here's some, no nos for prophecy. And this is part of what I've learned in the, in the 0:37:48 - 0:38:10 subsequent time. This, we should not play the game of pin the tail on the prophecy. That's what I call it. OK. It's, and again, I have been guilty of this in the past. I hope I don't do it anymore. I really try hard not to, I talked about this in a video that where the thumbnail is a puzzle. It's a jigsaw 0:38:10 - 0:38:32 puzzle. If you really want to understand something, you really have to understand it, you can't just stay at the surface level and throw random things onto there and understand somehow you got to dig deep, you got to figure out the whole picture. And while part of that is building intermediate models 0:38:31 - 0:38:55 where we're, we're trying to figure it out and put together what we know and fill in the blanks. We should have very little confidence. If we're doing that until we see the whole picture, we should have very little confidence in the particulars. But what people do is they say, well, I've studied this 0:38:55 - 0:39:23 one, very specific thing for 10 years and I can tell you all about it. Ok, like for example, let's suppose that you spent a lot of time becoming scholar on a certain book in the Old Testament. And let's make it one of the prophets. If you can't explain one of the other prophets who's talking about the 0:39:23 - 0:39:49 same exact things in slightly different language, then that implies there's a limit of your understanding compared to what it could or should be in order to really be an authority on that. Do you understand why if you don't um make a run through Jeremiah and Isaiah, and you'll see all these parallels 0:39:48 - 0:40:17 . If you wanted to be an expert in one, you would necessarily have to be an expert in the other right now. This is definitely not the way our world works because we understand that it's really hard to be an expert in a whole bunch of things. Being an expert. You, you have to focus your time and efforts 0:40:17 - 0:40:41 on a specific thing because you don't have infinite time. And so what it does is it shrinks the space of people who could fulfill that role. It becomes really tiny really quickly. And yet that's what it takes because the difference between them is the difference between them. I'm not sure if that makes 0:40:41 - 0:41:07 sense if I'm explaining that well or not. But if you don't have the whole picture figured out. If you're an expert in the second seal, you're not an expert in the second seal. If you're an expert in the Book of Revelation, and you can't bust out the Old Testament and lead us through it and explain things 0:41:06 - 0:41:29 . No one's ever understood. You're not an expert in the Book of Revelation, you get it. So what happens every time Jesus shows up to a person or a place? And we read about it, it says, and angels do this too. They expound the scriptures, they go over all the scriptures and they're like, hey, let me lead 0:41:29 - 0:41:44 you through this. I'm gonna show you a bunch of things that you haven't seen before. And sometimes all they're doing is linking, that they might not even be commenting on the scriptures. They're just linking them together and those links are enough for you to connect things that you never would have 0:41:44 - 0:42:12 connected before. It's like that with end times events as well. So be careful about people who are experts in particular things. That's great if you're a mechanic, not so great. If you're some kind of uh spiritual leader or scriptural authority or whatever. Now, another, no, no. Is, is the fill in the 0:42:12 - 0:42:34 blanks game or what, uh what Gigliotti calls editorializing. And I'm with him 100% on this. It's really not something you should do and when you do it, you should make it really clear. I'm just speculating here. My guess is as good as yours. But here's my guess, guessing is a part of building a model 0:42:33 - 0:42:55 . But what makes a model powerful is the predictions that come out of it. It's the test of the model. And then once you've tested it, it's not about sharing the model with people. It's about sharing the evidence that the model is correct. And I have said this in a, in a different way, but it's the same 0:42:55 - 0:43:17 exact idea. You can tell someone what you believe or you can tell them why they should believe it and most people just do the first one. And that's very frustrating for intelligent people to hear, to have to sit through because what intelligent people want to hear is the reasons you have for believing 0:43:17 - 0:43:37 what you believe or even better, the reasons they should have because you might be persuaded from your perspective. But that doesn't mean that they're going to be persuaded. Maybe they have, they know things that you don't or maybe they don't know things that you do and either way that suggests that 0:43:36 - 0:44:02 you should change what you're sharing and how increasing specifics. Boy, is this a pitfall? Uh This is also something that I've fallen prey to. This is basically, this is a rap sheet for myself, but you've probably done it too. Um But I've definitely done these things. Ok. Increasing specifics. What 0:44:02 - 0:44:29 does that mean? That means for example, that God tells you there's going to be a, a, a plague of some sort. And then an Ebola outbreak happens in the United States and you say this is it, this must be it. So how is that? Increasing specifics? Well, he didn't say it was gonna be Ebola. He didn't say anything 0:44:28 - 0:44:51 about the things that you're mapping it to. You're just creating details that didn't exist there before it turns out from machine learning. It turns out it's much easier to write a program that correct correctly predicts the future if you're predicting something more general than specific. So if I wanted 0:44:51 - 0:00:00 to write a program that would take a picture of you and predict your weight, that's a complicated program. But it's much easier to do that in a range to say you're between this, this £50 interval rather than say you're exactly this many pounds and this many ounces. And that should be obvious, right? 0:00:00 - 0:45:36 As a human, it's much easier to do that as well. If all you need to do is say whether someone's within £50 like your guess only has to be accurate within £50. That's easy. You could say it's a piece of cake. But if you have to be accurate down to the ounce, that's really, really, really, really hard 0:45:35 - 0:46:03 . And so when we are building models of the future and making predictions off of them, we should remember exactly what we learned from God and what our reasons are for believing, what we do. And then if we go off road so to speak, we should leave it blurry because if we don't have the details, we shouldn't 0:46:03 - 0:46:28 just assume that we know them. And this takes a lot of discipline. It really does timeline compression. I I may not have ever done this, but that might be a lie. I don't know. It's not my favorite thing to do. Um This is when someone says, oh, there's an eclipse coming, let's play pin the tail on the 0:46:28 - 0:46:51 prophecy, but also pin as many things as we can on to this one thing. This is when you see this a lot, you're looking at something that might be a sign. And then all these people are like surely the rapture is going to happen at this moment. And let's not get into the rapture, but that's I bring it up 0:46:51 - 0:47:08 because people do this specifically, OK, they're like de well, definitely at this time and date this is going to happen because we know thing is going to happen at some point and now we have a date and we're gonna pay, play pin the tail on the prophecy and now we have to invite all the tail's friends 0:47:08 - 0:00:00 to the party and pin them on too. So, like everything is gonna happen in two weeks. I don't know when the last time you cruised through the end time scriptures are, which that's a lot of scripture to cruise through, but there's a lot going on. There's no way all that's gonna happen in a week or two, 0:00:00 - 0:47:52 right? It's a safe bet that's gonna take longer than that. And people do this all the time. Now, I've, I've had people come to me, there was a guy who was, I don't remember details here, but he was some time away from retiring with his 20 years in the military and he had already gotten the COVID shot 0:47:51 - 0:48:18 and he was telling me why he was thinking about getting out. I said just my opinion here, but I think you're nuts because you're so close and you're still young and that money for the rest of your life, assuming the world doesn't end and assuming they can still print the checks and assuming there's no 0:48:18 - 0:48:37 hyperinflation, you know, but even controlling for all those things, the cost to, to benefit here is pretty obvious. And he said, I'm really surprised to hear you say that with your views on the end times. And I was like, what I have never said that the world's gonna end in a year or two. What, where 0:48:37 - 0:48:58 are you getting this from? And it's timeline compression just because something bad's gonna happen in the near future doesn't mean everything bad is going to happen in the near future. This could go on for a long time, folks. And one reason we do this that I think I figured out is psychologically, it's 0:48:58 - 0:49:18 the band aid. People are much more willing to think about ripping a band aid off all at once than they are pulling a band aid off, stretched over like three years. Right. That's, that's ridiculous. We're even pulling it off a little slowly. And the funny thing is, is most people will pull off a band 0:49:18 - 0:49:38 aid slowly, but they'll think about it in terms of yank it, yanking it off and we just do this. It's like if I have to think about something bad, I'm gonna think about everything bad all at once because somehow psychologically that's less strain than thinking about things being bad over a really long 0:49:38 - 0:50:04 period of time, which I get, but we shouldn't do that. So that's, that's just a bias. That's just an, an automatic thing that we do that we need to think about and control for now. Finally, so many people out there are prophesying, you get these people on the internet and some of them are pretty good 0:50:04 - 0:50:24 . Uh Someone sent me a link to one of them I was like, man, she spot on about this stuff and then I saw she had some videos on some crazy stuff and I was like, all right, what's going on here? And just like the scriptures say, if you pray, the Lord will tell you where are the spirits coming from, so 0:50:24 - 0:50:45 to speak? Right. And so I said, Lord, what's the deal with these people? I mean, they they this specific subset, this kind of person, they got all kinds of goods on things that I know are going to happen because you've told me, but they're so wrong on so many other things. How is this possible? And he 0:50:45 - 0:51:09 said, when did you hear them talking about repenting? I said, I didn't, he said, and that didn't clue you in. And I said, oh yeah. And then he kind of flashed a bunch of stuff that I've done as far as material that I've published. And he's like you see the difference. And I said, yes, I do. So he sent 0:51:09 - 0:51:34 me straight. Some of these people are, I mean, everybody's got different motives, but some of these people are playing for the wrong team. And II I made that rant about trivia. They are more than happy to take up all your time telling you exactly what you want to hear. You know why? Because every minute 0:51:33 - 0:51:57 you hear them talking about, you know, 50 ft demons buried under the river Euphrates and secret soldiers. And you know, wi fi coming out of your wisdom teeth or whatever, you're not repenting and none of that stuff, even if it's true matters until you do. And also you're not gonna have any clue how retarded 0:51:56 - 0:52:21 it is to believe it until you do because the ernment comes from the Holy Ghost and you only have a little bit of it until you repent when we talk about repentance. It's always about you first. It's not about other people. It's about you first. It's the oxygen mask popping out of the plane. You put it 0:52:21 - 0:00:00 on yourself first because you can't help anybody else very much at all. And definitely not for very long unless you have it on yourself first. Now, what does this have to do with prophecy? Well, that's another thing we do. That's a little weird to think about is how we partition gifts of the spirit. 0:00:00 - 0:53:03 You've got evangelicals out there going shoba la la, la la shin da, da, da, da, da, da da. Saying that that's the gift of tongues and lo and behold, they have no other spiritual gifts. They certainly don't have the spiritual gift of discernment, right? And yet we read in third ne 581 and now it came 0:53:03 - 0:53:20 to pass that according to our record and we know our record to be true for behold, it was a just man who did keep the record for. He truly did many miracles in the name of Jesus. And there was not any man who could do a miracle in the name of Jesus, save he were cleansed for every wit from his iniquity 0:53:19 - 0:53:43 . Now, if your daughter just suddenly died and I happened to be in your living room and I walked over and I grabbed her hand and I said in the name of Jesus stand up and she came back to life. You would probably recognize that as a miracle unless you think that polygamy is an abomination. In which case 0:53:42 - 0:54:08 , nothing would convince you of anything. So I got jokes today. Watch out, I'm pointy. Um So however, if you ask me a question that no one on the internet knows the answer to because you looked and you don't know the answer to and you've been fasting and praying for two months and God hasn't told you 0:54:08 - 0:54:29 and I tell you and you know, by the spirit that what I'm telling you is true and it unlocks all these things like a, like a cascading wave through your understanding. You'll probably just act like you put a quarter in a gum ball machine and got some gum and walk away and live your life completely as 0:54:29 - 0:54:56 you were before. But why, why are you treating these two things differently? Is one just as much a miracle as another. That's a good question to take to the scriptures to find the relationship between wisdom and the power of God. It turns out that physical miracles are a thing and they are absolutely 0:54:56 - 0:55:31 part of the dispensation of the spirit. They will always cour wherever the Holy Ghost is. But so will wisdom and wisdom has far less bounds on how it can be used according to the laws of God. There are still bounds, but they're much more relaxed. So my point with all of this is you should absolutely 0:55:30 - 0:55:52 expect to learn more about the end times or have more prophecy come from someone who has actually repented of their sins and who preaches nothing but repentance. Then you would, someone who never talks about that or who goes around saying, oh, we're all in this together. We're all just sinners forever 0:55:52 - 0:56:24 . And because Jesus worried about this, we don't have to, he's going to make us perfect somehow. Uh because I ripped on evangelicals, I'm just gonna go back to that for a second. Look why I said you can't believe that nonsense and also have discernment is that Paul, from whom you derive all your supposed 0:56:23 - 0:56:43 understanding about the gift of tongues. He made very explicit that when that comes from God, it always comes with someone to explain what's being said because the gift is information. It's not fairy dust, it's not holy ghost, fairy dust that when someone starts babbling somehow, the spirit's there and 0:56:43 - 0:57:05 everyone's better off because of the fairy dust, it's about the information of what they say. And so if there's no way to know what's being said. And by the way, language is not repetitive. If I just say the brown cow, the brown cow, the brown cow, all I've said is the brown cow a bunch of times. But 0:57:05 - 0:57:24 if I, if I read this scripture out, it's not the same three words, it's not the same five sounds over and over and over again. If someone's saying something like shim da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da da, they are absolutely positively not speaking by the power of God. Now, does that mean that 0:57:24 - 0:57:44 they can't be feeling the spirit? No, if you sit quietly, you'll feel the spirit. If you say the brown cow over and over again, you'll feel the spirit. If you put classical music on, you might feel the spirit, you could play with music on headphones, there's nothing saying that that won't work, right 0:57:44 - 0:58:09 . It's just not doing what you think it's doing and you have no reason to think it is. You have every reason to know it's not. So stop being so dang goofy because you're causing great harm to Christians everywhere by doing things that any rational person can tell are totally made up. That's not the gospel 0:58:08 - 0:58:29 . So knock it off. All right. So here are some of the questions that I mentioned that people are not formulating and it would be good to. Now, I've looked up a couple of these things. I just don't have the time to do very much more. Right now. I've, I've come to the end of my real intent for the moment 0:58:29 - 0:58:48 where I, I cared enough to spend the time to look. And if you don't have real intent, it's very hard to pray and ask God about things and get an answer because he's most interested in what we care the most about. And so we start getting to the bottom of that list of how much we care, things aren't really 0:58:48 - 0:59:12 gonna move. And that's good dating advice by the way, especially for young ladies who feel like they prepared themselves for quality men, but somehow are just willing to sit at home and expect them to bust into their house. Prince charming style. So here's a question for you. How rare are eclipses? This 0:59:12 - 0:59:35 , this is not good grammar. How, how often do eclipses and Holy Days intersect? I tried to write two different sentences at the same time. That's the question we're gonna look at. OK. So what's the probability of a tetrad, the blood moons? Those happen about every 100 years? Give or take, there's nothing 0:59:34 - 0:59:55 mechanical that forces them to happen that often. But probabilistically, I mean, it's all planned and it's all determined. But I'm saying that doesn't happen every 100 years period. It's, it's uh roughly every 100 years or so. So for example, there were 56 between Abraham and Jesus and 56 between Jesus 0:59:54 - 1:00:18 and now according to wherever I stole that from on the internet. I have not fact checked that. So that could be total bogus. But solar eclipses, on the other hand, they happen about every 18 months. So that's kind of rare, right? Every 100 years, every 18 months, that's kind of rare. Now, lunar eclipses 1:00:17 - 1:00:43 on their own, they happen more often and I didn't really take a look at those on their own. So now the question is, how frequent frequently do they intersect? So what I've got, let's see, how can I find this one second? There it is. What I did was I hit a bunch of NSA websites and whatever. And I, I 1:00:43 - 1:01:14 made this long list of events. And so I looked at Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur and at solar eclipses from 1900 until now. And then I looked at the tetrads and I mapped them together and I mapped them to world events as far as Wikipedia could tell me. So one note in this is that before, let me look at 1:01:14 - 1:01:37 my footnote. Here you go. You can see it too. So I told you a little bit about the Hebrew calendar. When the Popes took over the timekeeping, they had to change things up. And that's the, that's the watered down version of the story, the summed up version of the story. And so all these dates could be 1:01:37 - 1:02:04 off by as many as 10 days and it might be even more than that actually. So for example, if you trace through the Hebrew dates of the story of Noah's flood, it won't map to the modern Hebrew calendar. You're gonna be off by like 30 days or something. And so that it's not, it is not very precise and people 1:02:04 - 1:02:26 like precision, they really do, but you'll find the more you dig into reality that reality is not very precise, at least as far as we can see because our perception is so limited and so things are fuzzy. All right. So what did I come up with here? Um Here are the solar total solar eclipses and then I 1:02:26 - 1:02:45 have partial eclipses on here too. And these are ones that intersect with Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, which Rosh Hashanah first column, Yom Kippur is the second. And what you find is that there just aren't that many, right? There aren't that many. It's a rare thing for a total eclipse. Like there aren't 1:02:45 - 1:03:18 any on this page for a total eclipse to co occur with Rosh Hashanah or Yom Kippur. It's super rare. We've got 123, 456 if I'm counting correctly from 1900 till now. So, but surprisingly, if you're thinking about what's actually happening, that's actually a really frequent thing to happen because it's 1:03:18 - 1:03:37 one or two days a year that they'd have to line up on. So that was a surprise to me to see how often that happens. See, in absolute terms, it doesn't happen too often, but it happens more often than you think because the probability for this, just if my math is wrong here, I apologize. But just roughly 1:03:37 - 1:04:00 throwing some numbers up, it's probably one in 1000 that it's going to happen on Rosh Hashanah in a given year. And yet we've got six examples from 1900 till now if I counted. Right. So that's super interesting. And it's, it's not what you'd expect. What about the tetrads, the blood moons? So this one 1:04:00 - 1:04:23 was really interesting. I went back all the way to 965 and I just conked out at that point. But I went back that far. And my methodology here is that I, because those pre Gregorian dates are a little sloshy. I put some interval on here and I don't remember what it was, but I think it was plus or minus 1:04:23 - 1:04:46 10 days. I counted it. And so all those are starred if I use that interval. But basically, it's super rare to have a tetrad. And when you do, uh I'm sorry, a T a tetrad that lines up with, it's rare to have a tetrad about once every 100 years. And then it's super duper ultra rare to have a tetrad that 1:04:46 - 1:05:08 lines up with the holy days. And when you do something big happens. So this was the first one. So, so when you see things, oh I didn't want to do that when you see things like this with the strike through. It means that one didn't line up that, that this is when the festival was and it didn't line up 1:05:08 - 1:05:29 with the event the, the lunar eclipse. There's too far off to match or bound. But I put it on here anyway, just to get a sense of how many near misses there were. Right. And then if it wasn't even close, it got one of these, that's what you're looking at. So the first one I found that matched was back 1:05:28 - 1:05:53 in 4 28 4, excuse me, 1428 1429. And the only significant thing I could find in world history was that's when the Aztec Empire was formed, which is interesting. Um And there were no corresponding total solar eclipses in those two years. If I looked correctly, all the take all this with a grain of salt 1:05:52 - 1:06:13 because I am not a meticulous person and this is meticulous work. And so there might be a mistake and if you find one, please let me know and just post in the comments and everybody will be better off for it. Ok. So uh the next one was when Christopher Columbus came back from his first voyage and he 1:06:12 - 1:06:39 arrived in Spain. So that's interesting, right? All right. How to give evidence for the book of Mormon without giving evidence for the book of Mormon. I looked for total solar eclipse, but I don't think I found one try to remember. Ok. And then there's a dry spell. Now, check out the next ones. 4950 1:06:37 - 1:07:01 you've got Israel recognized as a nation in 1949. That's when the international community recognized them as a nation. And we've got four of them all four lining up. And then it happened again in 6768. And that's when the six day war was. And that war is really significant because, well, one, it could 1:07:01 - 1:07:26 have been the end of Israel, but they, they won so decisively that they actually doubled their land. They actually got even more land than that, but they gave a bunch of it back. So Israel doubled in size. If I've got my facts right in that war, then we've got the mystery moons of 2014 and 2015 where 1:07:26 - 1:07:47 nothing significant happened on the world stage as far as anyone knows, maybe I missed something, but in case you do, you know, know about something crazy that happened. I don't know, but I didn't notice anything huge on the world stage. So, uh oh, I'm sorry, we're, we're actually looking, I just noticed 1:07:47 - 1:08:14 that we're looking at an outdated version of this. I really apologize. I went back and um cross reference this with the solar eclipses and it's not on this copy. I really apologize for that. Let me paste this on here and we'll go over it very quickly again. Ok. So cruising down here. Uh no, solar here 1:08:14 - 1:08:32 with the Aztecs, there was one with Columbus. Ok? And the first thing I want to show you is I didn't put the locations of the lunar eclipses because I would have taken the rest of my life. All of these eclipses that we're going to see are in random places that have nothing to do with anything as far 1:08:32 - 1:08:57 as we know. So for example, the one that happened April 16th in 1493 you, you'd the world would expect it to be this clear line perfectly tracing Columbus's path back to Spain or something, right? It doesn't, it's just in some random place uh south of Australia between Australia and Antarctica. So what 1:08:57 - 1:09:21 is the significance of that trajectory? I don't know, but I can't make heads or tails of it. It seems like it's just random, right? OK. What about this one? There was one on Rosh Hashanah and these eclipses, like I showed you on Rosh Hashanah, they're rare cross referencing it with the tetrad. It almost 1:09:20 - 1:09:44 never happens. OK? Super, super rare. And again, you'd expect it, it has to do with Israel. So maybe it's over the Middle East or something. No, at the North Pole and in uh part of the sea there, that no one, there's nothing there, there's no land there. OK. What about this one? This one was also on 1:09:44 - 1:10:12 Rosh Hashanah, which is a big deal. I don't remember where it was, but I'm guessing it's some random place, right? So, um, after 24 of 2015, there's really nothing. There's one close on 2032 2033 and that's a very important year. Ok. That no one's, well, I guess there are people talking about this but 1:10:12 - 1:10:40 not many. All right. So we'll put this away. So I think I have a summary slide here. Oh, limits to what I've looked at. I did not take the time to look at the intersection of total solar eclipses and the last day of the Hebrew calendar year, which is obviously important to God. The feast of weeks, also 1:10:40 - 1:11:03 known as Pentecost or Shout, I think said Passover Rosh Hashanah Yom Kippur feast of tabernacles. And these are all just synonyms. If it's on the same line, it's, it's the same thing except for this one. But I like to think of these together because that's how the Lord thinks of them. It's a, there's 1:11:03 - 1:11:34 a 10 day period in the middle of that. It's a time for mercy. OK. So here's my summary of what we just looked at and I guess I don't need to read through this again, but you could look at it. Um I'm just confused by this statement. I'm just fact checking myself quickly. Here, there's a two missing here 1:11:34 - 1:12:01 . There we go. So only half of them line up. It's the second half. So that counts as a near miss. And I think that's that. So there is a pattern here of having a total solar eclipse. That, that one is total um on the last day of the Hebrew calendar year. And so that happened in, in 2015, it's gonna happen 1:12:01 - 1:12:43 again in 2033 now. Yeah. So we talked about this. So the theory that locations matter for the upcoming eclipses. I let's see. Where is the one in 2033? I've got that in my master notes here. Yeah, that one's it basically engulfs the United States from the southern tip and the west coast all the way across 1:12:43 - 1:13:13 past the, a little past the Mississippi and then completely engulfs Alaska and Canada. So that sounds ominous, right? But as far as the past ones go, none of them were connected in obvious ways to the events that happened when this happened. So if locations and events end up being correlated, it's either 1:13:13 - 1:13:42 going to be a new thing for the, the eclipses that are coming and recently occurred in 2015, so 2015 and beyond, or it's something that happened a long time ago, but not in the huge range of dates that I looked at for this, which is basically the last 2000 years. So ways to interpret that if God wanted 1:13:42 - 1:14:02 to send a message and wanted that to be a special message, he could coord uh good grief. I'm just clobbering words together here. He could coordinate the physical location of the trajectory of the eclipse and the thing that's going to happen there. But the point is that's not an established pattern as 1:14:01 - 1:14:29 far as we know. And we have contradictory examples. So that's worth thinking about. Right? And then there was one more thing that I was thinking of when I was reading or, or talking about this that I did not say and I'm trying to remember because I think it was important. Well, maybe not. So we get to 1:14:29 - 1:15:02 the question, we finally get back to the question. Did something happen with the, the prior eclipse from 2017 which I had that picture here. Let's bring that back. Did something happen with this? It did, it did. But do you know about it? Probably not you? Oh jeez. Probably not. OK. So should you think 1:15:01 - 1:15:26 that the next one is going to matter to you in ways that you can do something about? Well, you can always pray about it. Usually that's not a bad idea, but you probably prayed about the last one too. So what's a reasonable thing to do about this, this up and coming eclipse that may or may not be a sign 1:15:26 - 1:15:47 , right? Probably not to freak out about it. Now, I know you're thinking be still my soul. Rob Smith says, don't freak out about something, right? Everybody's out there. Not everybody, there are a lot of people who have called me a fear monger in the past. I'm a, I'm a repentance monger. Actually, there's 1:15:47 - 1:16:11 a, there's a significant difference and that's what I would encourage you to focus on basically as far as you can get with. This is, huh. That seems like it's important. Maybe I should repent. That's basically what you can take away from these things. Now, there may come a day where God pulls back the 1:16:11 - 1:16:45 , the cover and he shows you what's going on. But that might be in a time where your experience will be like ours is when we read about the Exodus, when we read about the flood, not how it was for Noah and his sons or for Moses and his people. And if you don't repent, you won't even get that far. I don't 1:16:45 - 1:17:10 know what kind of newsletter they have in the hereafter and that's how you'll find out about it. Right? And you might be thinking to yourself. Yeah. But I'm not one of those pig headed people that refuses to believe that God talks through people today like he always has, well be that as it may, you should 1:17:10 - 1:17:29 reread your scriptures to check your assumption that all it would take would be someone to tell you about what's going to happen in the future for you to believe it. And then I'll have reason to repent. No, if you're not repenting now, the only thing that's gonna change your mind is probably a whole 1:17:29 - 1:17:51 lot of bashes over the head, a whole lot of pain. And if you don't believe me. Look at your scriptures. There have been so many times where people have said God has sent people to tell folks exactly what was going to happen and nine times out of 10 they get run out of town on a rail and even when people 1:17:50 - 1:18:15 listen, it's usually just a tiny, tiny number of people. So don't be so sure that you're in that group because you've already been given some really good reasons to repent. Arguably better reasons than anyone has ever been given ever. Now, the good news is you're gonna get some more reasons. The bad 1:18:14 - 1:18:37 news is God can't over explain something to you without depriving you of blessings you could have had if you listened when you had all the reason to so repent of your sins because the time is short. Now does the clock run out on April 8th 2024? Should you stop paying your mortgage? Nope. Wouldn't do 1:18:37 - 1:18:48 that. I wouldn't do that. So hopefully this clarifies some things.