Nintendo's trending on Twitter. I wonder what that could be about. Kind of big Switch news, mate. Yeah, oh my gosh! On the way to Nintendo online? That is huge! What a massive get for Nintendo! I'm expecting Switch sales to skyrocket with that kind of NES online goodness. Oh, it'll be fair, it's really not that cool at all. I'm not sure why that of all things got Nintendo trending on Twitter, unless it's not actually that. Something else crazy, like a new Switch model or something. Oh my god! I told you so, although I definitely could say it. You know what? I'm gonna say it. I told you so. Excuse me. So I woke up pretty early to the news that uh, yeah, we're getting a new Switch model. It's a Switch Mini or a Switch Lite. I know y'all got really sick of me making videos about it. I've been making videos about new Switch revisions for like, it seems like two years at this point. It started with a Switch Pro. Obviously pretty quickly went to a Switch Mini, and we've pretty much officially unofficially known that we're getting a miniature version of the Switch sometime this year before Christmas. Not only because of places like Wall Street Journal, who apparently had a lot of people on the inside in regards to new Switch models, and I think it's safe to say it also gives legitimacy to the Pro model. But we talked about all of that in videos, as well as a bunch of other rumors and things that pointed towards a Mini, and then since my last video on this subject, there has been a ton more evidence that has come and gone, and I didn't talk about it, because I said in my last video about the Mini, I would not make another video about this freaking rumor, until Nintendo themselves came along and said, here's the freaking thing, here's when we're releasing it, and here's the price for it. But I bit my tongue, and here we are. The thing is coming September 20th, we have a price point of $200, and I want to talk about the freaking thing, not only because I am obviously excited, but I want to highlight all of its features, and the things that it has, and the things that are lacking, and also I want to talk about all the freaking negativity, like can all of y'all just zip it and be happy for once? No one is ever happy anymore. Like no company can do anything anymore without people being mad about it. It doesn't matter how cool the thing is, there's always going to be that group of people that just want to crap on it. And I do want to talk about that, because I think a lot of Switch owners are very naively just looking at this thing and being like, I don't need this, this is garbage, why is Nintendo doing this? Take this away Nintendo, I already have a Switch. Yeah, that's cool, for you. You already have a Switch, so you don't need to go out and buy another one that's lacking features that yours has. The doi, that's obvious. But there are loads of people out there without a Switch, and now they're eyeing down this $200 Switch model, which is much more affordable to them. Maybe they still have their 3DS, and they're looking to upgrade from that, and they don't want to play games on their TV, maybe they have a freaking CRTV from the 80s, and they just want to play handheld portable games for a couple hundred bucks and motion controllers annoy them. Well, this is perfect. I have more ramblings of this nature, so I'm just going to shut up and kick off into it. To start with, I want to say that the announcement was a little underwhelming, and it's not in any way Nintendo's thought, it's just, again, we've been talking about this for like two years, there's been so many leaks of this thing, and one of them ended up being correct. A leak that we saw months ago at this point was the actual Switch Lite model, and nobody took it seriously because there were so many different leaks, people making 3D mock-up prints of this Switch thing, just to get clicks on their website blogs or whatever, it was hard to actually pinpoint which one could be the one, but this one, to me, the real leak, it always did look like a very real possibility. Because through all the Switch Mini rumors, a ton of us creators obviously made our videos about what we would actually want from a Mini, or we would expect from a Switch Mini, and I guess we should probably start calling it a Switch Lite at this point, but I still prefer the name Switch Mini, to be honest. But anyway, what we expected and wanted from a Switch Lite, and this is essentially it, a Switch unit that's just one unit, kind of like a 3DS, but more like a Vita. You didn't have the removable Joy-Cons because if you're making a smaller Switch, you can't really change the size of the Joy-Cons, and even at that point, they're not really gonna work or cooperate with anything other than the Mini itself, so it just made a lot more sense to streamline it and bang bang boom throw it into one unit. That's what we expected, some of the things we wanted was, hey, if you're doing this, at least give it a better battery life, and apparently they've done that too. An extra 20 to 30% battery life on your games, as you would expect, since it's not having to power as much with all the features that have been removed, but they listened and it's there. And not only that, a D-pad. A D-pad not only is awesome, and I know so many of us wanted this in general, but the reason why the default Switch never had a D-pad was because both Joy-Cons are supposed to be uniform, so that when you switch them on their side and play in two player games, both of you are gaming on a level playing field, you have the exact same Joy-Cons just, you know, switched on its side, and if one person had a D-pad, that could be an advantage or a disadvantage or it's just different. But obviously removing the removable Joy-Cons, there's no reason to not throw a D-pad on their sucker, and it has one, and it looks... I got off topic there because I'm extremely excited, but the point I was trying to make is, yeah, it was a little underwhelming when it was finally announced, because it is everything we expected, and it is everything we guessed it would be. We've even seen the thing without knowing it at some point, as well as a bunch of other leaks. And with all the smoke, we assumed there was a fire coming some point this year, so it's kind of just Nintendo coming out and confirming what we already knew. Maybe I shouldn't speak for everyone, but in my specific case, that was the case. I knew this thing was coming, I pretty much knew this is what it was gonna look like, the only thing that surprised me was the colors because I didn't know the colors. Oh, and this gorgeous Pokémon themed one, which is definitely going in my collection at some point, I'm gonna have to get the normal one as well as this one because the Pokémon one releases in November, but the actual systems release in September, and I can't wait two months. It's kind of my job to have this thing ASAP, so I'm gonna end up with at least two mini switches.  And I'm not trying to be one of those negative people that I called out at the start of this video. I'm not saying that underwhelming announcement wasn't any way negative because what else could Nintendo do? It's not their fault. It's just for me personally. I saw it and I was like, finally. Okay, let's go. Now again, in this video, I'm gonna really quickly go through everything about this new switch, so you have all the information you need without having to go anywhere else. I'm gonna get to that, so hang around, but first up, I wanna talk about the thing that's most important to me, and it's something that they haven't confirmed yet, but Doug Bowser has pretty much confirmed it, and it's really exciting. Earlier, when I said if you already have a switch, this isn't the model for you, but I think for some people, the Switch Mini could be perfect, even if you already have a Switch normal. Ugh, a reason being, this portable lightweight version is obviously much more akin to taking out of the house, whereas my Switch model is my baby. It cost me 300 bucks. I don't wanna get it damaged. I don't really wanna take it portably all that much, and I don't. I mean, when I do, I gotta put it in a bigger, hunking freaking case so that it doesn't get damaged, and then I'm lugging that thing around. It's just a whole hubbub. That's not a word. But what would be really cool, and a little bit extra, is if my Switch I have now could just kind of remain in the house, maybe remain in its dock at all times, and then my portable Switch be just that, my portable Switch, when I'm playing in bed or leaving the house. Now, here's the thing. For that to work efficiently, in my opinion, you would need to have some kind of cloud-save system in place so that if I'm playing Breath of the Wild on my TV Switch, and I wanna pick up my portable Switch, I'm gonna wanna continue on from my save file. I'm not gonna wanna start again. And then throughout my entire Switch library, I don't wanna have to try and remember which games I'm playing through on my mini, and then which games I'm playing through on my normal, because of save files obviously being localized to the console. And I talked about this in one of my many mini Switch rumor videos, but cloud saves seem like a very obvious thing. It's something Nintendo has already dabbled in. They've already implemented in a few of their games just for the Switch. So having it so all of your save files get uploaded to the cloud as you play. So as long as you're playing on your profile, it doesn't matter what Switch you're on, it just remembers where you were at. And again, while they haven't confirmed that is gonna be a feature on this new mini and with the Switches, Doug has said at the end of this article, which I'll leave link down below, yes, you will have the ability to transfer between devices, your gameplay experiences, more to come on there, but that is the intention. Transfer your gaming experiences between devices. If that doesn't mean cloud save and it literally just means taking your cart out from one and playing that game in another one, that's a really weird way to word it and a weird thing to even say in general. Because I'll be honest, I think this little bad boy is cool anyway and I'm definitely gonna pick one or two of them all. But I would game on it so much less if all my current games I've been playing aren't transferable to this new one. I'm not starting all my games again. So sure, moving forward, the newer games that come out, I might pick one, two here or there that I wanna play only portable and in that case, I may as well play on the Switch Lite. But if all my current saves and all my future saves on all Switch games are transferable and playable on both systems, now you really have something. All right, ladies and germs, let's inspect the rest of these Switch specs to see what we can expect when this thing releases in September. So obviously this thing is gonna be a lot lighter. It's been compared to the original Switch minus one Joy-Con. So it's about that in size and probably a little bit shorter. It's gonna be slimmer, meaning slimmer this way, like the Switch went on a diet slimmer. The screen is 5.5 inches and still 720p. For anyone out there thinking to themselves, oh, they couldn't even have made it 1080p. That's not really even something that's worth doing because for a screen this size and now even smaller, 720 is more than enough.   And apparently according to sources that have already played the Switch Lite, the screen actually does look a little bit crisper too, probably because it's a little bit smaller and it's a newer screen. Kind of like with the 2DS XL models, how the colors went a little lighter, these Switch colors are pastel and they feel fresher. The lighter color makes them feel lighter, which this is a Switch Lite, so it makes a lot of sense. So the new model is obviously gonna be cheaper at $200. And I think it's safe to say that this model is going to be the unofficial official replacement from the 3DS. The only hope you have of a successor portable or a successor home console is after this thing has run its course and we're in the next gen and Nintendo decides to move away from the hybrid and go back to doing them separately. But that won't happen until this thing is long gone and not supported anymore. So I honestly feel like a portable cheaper version of this, it just makes so much sense for the people that only like handheld systems like the 3DS. Like there is a whole market of people there that Pokemon Sword and Shield ain't still not convincing them to buy this thing. They just don't care for it and this is the system for them. Like if you're a 3DS fan and you think the 3DS has an insane library of games, you're literally buying into a handheld successor from the 3DS that already has an insane library of games and it's only gonna grow from here for the next two to three years. Internally the Switch Lite is mostly the same as the current Switch. You have the 32GB of storage, the spot for a micro SD card, same volume button layout, a headphone jack, USB-C for charging. It has Wi-Fi, obviously NFC reader and you can still connect extra controllers. And now that is where things start to get a little bit dicey, a little bit weird, a little bit confusing. Nintendo tried to elaborate on it in their announcement video but it's still a little tad bit confusing. So here's what I gathered. Obviously there are certain games that just need the Joy-Cons to work. I don't think anyone's really chomping at the bit to play One 2 Switch anymore, but still it is a game that doesn't really kind of work on the handheld version or a game that people will be more likely trying to play Mario Party. So without the removable Joy-Cons, with them being like slammed into the side here, so you can still connect Joy-Cons to this thing and you can still play the games using the Joy-Cons. But the Switch Lite, it doesn't have a kickstand. So either you're gonna have to have a friend hold it for you or find a way to prop it up against something or buy it. I'm sure they're gonna make third party devices for this. You can get it 3D printed off Etsy. In fact, it's probably gonna open up a whole new world of Nintendo Switch accessory videos from me and Kim to make, which I'm just thinking about that now and yay. And of course you could also play like Smash multiplayer this way.  Again, it's all things you can do and I'm glad they included them. So it's not like it just straight up can't do these things. I just don't think that it's practical or really like the intended purpose of the Switch Mini. I mean at $200 it's pretty much like just double the cost of buying Joy-Cons separately on their own. Like this thing is pretty much just a expensive controller that happens to have a screen on it. So I see it being more useful in that Smash Brothers you're out in public in handheld mode smashing with friends situation as one of your friends already has the traditional Switch and everyone's kind of playing on that gathered around that in tabletop mode and you just happen to have your Switch Mini and you get your own screen which is much nicer than having to crowd around with everyone else but you connect to it that way. Personally, I think that makes a lot more sense than everyone trying to crowd around my Switch Lite. But I mean if you're gaming on a budget if you're the older one in the family and all your siblings want to play Smash Brothers with you and all your family could grab was the Switch Lite. I mean it's an option and kids don't care they'll find a way to make it work. And about all this negativity I wanted to touch on it if you already have a Switch and you love it and it's perfect for what you need then a Switch Lite doesn't make any sense. I get that.  It's essentially like you owning a Nintendo Switch and then going to a GameStop and seeing the Switch you have already on the shelf and thinking man it's so dumb that Nintendo still stocks the Switch. I already have one. Why would I need another one? It does the same stuff mine already does. Yeah, you don't need another one. You already have one. I don't think anyone needs a Switch Lite if they already have the normal Switch. Doesn't that just go without saying? Oh man that logic is so weird to me. There are legitimately people out there that don't have a Switch yet. Like believe it or not while the Switch has sold 34 million units that still leaves approximately like six and a half billion people that don't have a Switch yet. That's a lot of people that maybe haven't bought it because it's just too expensive. The amount of people saying this is a cash grab and Nintendo are just doing this for money. What's this all with? Yeah, every company releasing a new product or a new line of a thing. It's absolutely for money. Like why would they? It is absolutely for money. You know what I see is more of a cash grab than an add-in, a whole new system that provides different features to a different market. It's something like the Pokemon Let's Go Eevee and Pikachu Switches where they essentially just painted it a different color through the game in and charged a little bit more for it. This is manufacturing a whole new system in a whole new warehouse, whole new bits and pieces. Like it's a lot more effort. It's not really a cash grab. It's a company trying to make money, sure. But it's also a company trying to make their system more accessible to everyone. And again, for a lot of people that have a Switch, this thing might still have a purpose. I think that's less likely than someone not having a Switch at all. But me, myself and Irene, great movie by the way, even if I wasn't doing this for a living and I felt like I had to go out and buy this thing, regardless, I probably still would go out and grab it because I am in the market for a Switch that I can more easily take out of the house. I'm very excited. I think the thing looks freaking adorable. It looks sleek, beautiful. I love the colors. I want that Pokemon one. I really want them to figure out cloud saves. And all up, you can obviously expect me to be making a video about this thing when it releases. Nintendo, if you're sending out review copies, hit me up, even though I know you're not watching this. And I already sent you an email earlier today. So that's a better chance I get a reply to that than this. But that's just my thoughts, my opinions, and while they are very strong thoughts and opinions, they are still just mine and I'm not always right. Like no one is 100% right all the time. I'm probably wrong more than I'm right. That's a lie, I'm right all the time. But opinions are opinions and these are just mine. So share yours down below and everyone be nice down below. Whatever your standpoint is, whatever your opinion is, it's Nintendo. It's light, bubbly, Nintendo Pokemon Mario Zelda fun. Let's not take things all too seriously and let's just get excited for a new Switch model unless you're not excited and then just keep playing Switch.  As long as you're smashing like hair flipping all over that subscribe button. I love you all, very excited. I was supposed to have another video up today about eShop games worth buying, so I'm probably gonna have to put that up tomorrow. So hit the notification bell so you don't miss it and please watch it because while I mean it's obvious, I made it and I want you to watch it. Okay, bye.


Y'all welcome to what Chelsea eats. Thank you so much for joining me today. In this video, I am going to share with you how to make an easy vegan gumbo recipe that is going to help you on your fibroid shrinking or on your healing journey. It's good for if you're looking for just some comfort food or something to keep you warm on these cold winter days that we're experiencing right now. This recipe was inspired by one of my clients, Veronica. She asked me for some soup and stew recipes for the winter months. I was trying to get these videos out sooner, but as life has it, it didn't work out so I'm doing it now, so I hope that works for y'all. So now I'm gonna take you into my kitchen so we can make the gumbo. So let's get into this recipe. Everything that I'm using will be listed down in the description box. So the ingredients that I use for this recipe are staple ingredients that I keep in my house, like canned beans and onions and peppers and carrots and celery and diced tomatoes, herbs and spices. The okra that you see there is not something that I keep in my house on a regular basis so I did have to buy that special for this recipe. But everything you see here, I have on hand on a regular basis. All those herbs and spices, it's called stocking your cabinets so that you can pull together healthy recipes as you need them. You first wanna start off with your heavy soup pot. This one is at least six quarts, it may even be eight, but you need a minimum of a six quart pot in order to cook this dish to have plenty of room in the pot so that it's not too much food for the pot. And I'm gonna start off by adding some water to the pot and heating that water up so I can start to get my vegetables sauteed. You guys know I do not cook my food with oil. It is not good for women's health to cook with oil. It's frying your food and we wanna stay away from frying food. First we're gonna add our garlic to the pot. You don't have to use garlic if you don't like garlic but I happen to love garlic so we're gonna add the garlic. I would even add more but I figured this was enough for this dish. You see the water starting to bubble and as the water starts to bubble, you're going to be able to toss the vegetables around in the pan and they are going to saute just like if they were in oil. Next I'm gonna add my onions. I love using yellow onions like fadalia onions because they to me add more flavor and you can use whatever kind of onions you have on hand but the yellow fadalia onions are the ones that I like to use most. Then we're gonna stir those, move them around the pan while they get translucent just like they would if you were cooking them with oil. Next I'm gonna add my mushrooms and today I am using shiitake mushrooms and the reason I'm choosing shiitake mushrooms is because they have great texture. They're almost chewy. They almost make it feel like you're eating meat as far as the texture is concerned. Of course it doesn't have the same texture but it gives you a hearty taste to the soup if you will and you just mix it around, keep on sauteing. The fire I have under the pot is pretty, it's like medium high just to get those vegetables cooked and so that the flavors start to come out and at this point the flavor in the room is starting to smell really yummy. Adding a bit more water so that the food does not stick to the pan. Next I'm gonna add some celery and I chose all these vegetables because I wanted a specific texture for this soup. Give it a bit of a stir to move the vegetables around so that they can cook evenly. Next I'm gonna add green peppers and red peppers. You can use whatever kind of peppers you'd like. And after a bit of a stir we're going to add our next ingredient which is carrots. We'll give this a bit of a stir to make all these flavors come together. We add a bit more water to keep it from sticking. Now it's time to add those spices. There's the Cajun seasoning that gives it that gumbo flavor. We're gonna add the rest of the spices like thyme, Mrs. Dash garlic seasoning, black pepper to taste and we're gonna stir it all together and don't forget that all the herbs and spices that I add to this recipe will be listed below in the description box with the complete recipe. Stir until you have everything well combined. Next you add your diced tomatoes. Stir until well combined. Add your white beans and stir until well combined. And then we're adding our red beans and the key to this recipe is just to keep on stirring after you layer each bit of ingredients in and then you add the water to the pot and then we're going to turn up the fire so we can bring it to a boil. If you add the lid it'll help it come to a boil much quicker. I'm gonna give it a little check and give it a little bit of stir to see if it's almost boiling but it needs another few minutes to come to a boil. As you can see it's simmering so I'm gonna add the okra and I add them at the last minute because I don't want them to be mushy or slimy so I'm just stirring them in there as the pot is simmering. I also added the bay leaf. I must have forgot to record that part but the bay leaf also gives the gumbo a wonderful flavor as well. I'm gonna let the pot simmer for about another five minutes.  Now I'm gonna add my lemon juice. I think this adds a huge flavor boost to the soup. I add lemon to a lot of my soups and I think it is one of the keys to making soups taste really good especially whenever you're trying to transition into this lifestyle and the foods are tasting different for you. Lemon helps your taste buds adjust to the flavorings of healthy food. Only thing left to do is to fish out the bay leaves because you do not want to eat the bay leaves it won't taste very good but it is definitely good for flavor. So now it's time to taste the soup just to make sure that it doesn't need any more spices and it is perfect. I don't know how I do this. I just come up with the combinations of spices and they come out perfectly. The last thing we need to do is serve the soup. I think there is six servings in the soup depending on how much you eat per serving so four to six servings. It really tastes good. It's very flavorful and it has a lot of texture which is what I look for when I'm looking for something that tastes like a comfort food without having to eat things like potatoes and rice and quinoa and all of that stuff. Now quinoa is not too bad to eat. Quinoa would actually be good with this gumbo if you just wanted something extra. So what do you think? Are you going to try the recipe? If you want to know more about what I eat, you can follow me on Instagram. There's all kinds of pictures of the foods that I'm eating from day to day. I've been trying to post a picture at least once a day just so that you guys can see the variety of foods that I eat. I also have a seven day meal plan that you can purchase. It has recipes for foods that you can eat for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snack for seven days. The link is down in the description box below. If you need to know what foods to avoid to help you shrink fibroids, naturally there is a foods to avoid list link down in the description box. It is free, download that. Also, if you're having trouble figuring out what you're supposed to do on this journey, you can also sign up for a free 10 minute session with me. I'd be glad to talk to you to help you. Yeah, at least on the right track or pointed in the right direction as to how to get your health journey kicked off. Well, one more thing before I go, I want to encourage you to continue to work when you're diet. Eat as clean as you possibly can. Follow the guidelines that I present to you each and every week and I'm telling you, if you follow them, you will start to feel better. Some people heal faster than others but keep plugging at it and you will get better. There is, if you're feeding your body with healthy, delicious foods that are as close to the way God made them as possible, your body has no choice but to fall in line with health. So, if you like this video, please give it a thumbs up, share it with a friend and don't forget to subscribe. Until next time, y'all, take care.


Hey, man, so keep your place in Revelation chapter 15. We'll get there in just a few minutes, but we're starting a new sermon series tonight. It's called, the sermon series is called God's Numbers. And in the Mother's Day sermon, we looked at Second Kings chapter four, the story of the Shunamite woman and how the prophet raised up her son from the dead. And Jacob, if you wanna go ahead and turn there, we'll look at that real quickly. And I mentioned during that sermon that it's important to one of the points I made in the sermon is how important it is to sit down and read the Bible with your children.  They have kids have like a pure perspective when it comes to looking at the Bible. So many times they'll ask you questions that you're not ready for. And I got a question that was along those lines. I wasn't ready to answer this whole question. I gave a one sentence answer and then said I would basically start a sermon series about it. But we'll look down at Second Kings chapter four and look at verse number 34. Jacob asked this question about two hours after I preached that sermon. Look at verse number 34 of Second Kings chapter four. This is about Elisha raising up this child of the Shunamite woman from the dead.  Of course, this is the child that died from the farming accident and Elisha, she came to Elisha for help. Then he returned and walked in the house to and fro and went up and stretched himself upon him and the child sneezed seven times and the child opened his eyes. And he called Gahazi and said call this Shunamite. So he called her and when she was come into him, he said, take up thy son. So the question was, actually it was more of a statement, it wasn't, I mean, I was a question, but basically, Jacob asked the question. He said, Dad, I know that everything in the Bible means something and there's nothing in the Bible that's there on accident. So why did the child sneeze seven times? So that's kind of where this sermon series came from, God's number. So I gave him a quick answer and I'm gonna give you just a few minutes on what that seven means, but then I'll kind of dive deeper into the story towards the end of the sermons. We're looking at God's numbers, numbers in the Bible that have meaning for this sermon series. The first number we're gonna look at is the number seven. And the number seven is all over the Bible. The number seven is all over the Bible from Genesis to especially Revelation. It just pops up everywhere. So I'm gonna explain that to you this evening, it's in so many places in the Bible, we literally can't go to all the places in the Bible to look at the number seven. But I'm gonna show you what the number seven means tonight and everywhere you see the number seven, what I tell you tonight will apply. So look at Genesis chapter two, first of all, Genesis chapter two, let's start at the beginning. We'll come back to this story about the Shunemite and what that means a little bit later towards the end, but look at Genesis chapter two. Let's look at the number seven in the Bible and get to the bottom of what this means. So of course, actually go to Genesis chapter two and let's just look at verse number one. We're looking at the number seven and what it means in the Bible. So it's too many times to cover everything in the Bible. So we're gonna look at the beginning of the Bible, look at the end of the Bible. I'll tell you what it means and then we'll go deeper into it in a little bit. Look at verse number one of Genesis chapter two. We're looking at the number seven, all right? Thus the heavens and the earth were finished and all the host of them. And on the seventh day, God ended his work which he had made and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it because that in it, he had rested from all his work which God created and made. So remember, the creation itself, the work was done in six days, all right? And it was on the seventh day that God rested and he sanctified, he sanctified it. He blessed the seventh day, he sanctified it because in it, he rested from all his work. Now go to Revelation chapter 15. I should have told you to keep your place there but the point is the creation, we consider the creation to be seven days including that day of rest on day number seven, all right? So God rested, he sanctified the seventh day and he blessed the seventh day with just resting and looking back at the creation that he had done. Look at Revelation chapter 15, look at verse number one. Now at the end of the Bible, we see the number seven coming up again and again and again. I could have chosen almost any chapter in Revelation but I chose Revelation chapter 15 because it kind of wraps up one of the last things that God uses the number seven for. He says that I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous, seven angels having the seven last plagues. For in them is filled up the wrath of God. So the Bible here is saying is that these angels, they hold the last plagues and in these plagues are the entire wrath of God. All right, the entire wrath of God is contained in how many plagues, in these seven plagues. And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire and then that it had gotten the victory over the beast and over his image and over his mark and over the number of his name. Stand on the sea of glass having the harps of God. So these people are in heaven at this point and they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God and the song of the Lamb saying great and marvelous are thy works, Lord God almighty, just and true are thy ways, thou king of saints. So we're looking at saints that are in heaven at this point and the rapture has already happened in Revelation chapter 14 and we're looking for what comes right after the rapture. It's the pouring out of God's wrath. All right, look at verse number four. Who shall not fear me, O Lord and glorify thy name for thou art only art holy, for all nations shall come in worship before thee for thy judgments are made manifest. And after that I looked and behold the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened and the seven angels came out of the temple having the seven plagues as we just saw in the verse one clothed in purple and white linen and having their breasts girded with golden girdles and one of the four beasts gave unto the seven angels seven golden vials full. So this is how these are the containers that are holding those plagues, holding that plague full of what? Full of the wrath of God who liveth forever and ever and the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from his power and no man was able to enter into the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled. So it wasn't fulfilled, this wasn't over, the wrath of God wasn't over until all seven vials were poured out. All seven plagues were poured out. So we see from creation at the beginning to the wrath of God at the end, the number seven is picturing completeness or perfection. That's what the number seven in the Bible is picturing.  Now that we know that if we look at creation, we look at creation and we see that the seven days of creation included this rest day, included this blessing day to be complete. Look at First Thessalonians chapter five. First Thessalonians chapter five. It's not just six days and then the seventh, it was just like a vacation day. It was like, no, there was a reason for that seventh day, that seventh day was important and we can apply that to ourselves in First Thessalonians chapter five and verse number 18. This is a good lesson for us here as Christians. Look at First Thessalonians chapter five and verse number 18. The Bible says in First Thessalonians 5.18, it says in everything give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. So we can apply that to ourselves in the sense that we need to appreciate our blessings or they are not complete. We need to take time in our lives on a regular basis to be thankful.  Being thankful is, being unthankful is a super serious sin. So we need to take time from our busy lives, our work and this is why Sunday is such a great day. Sunday is such a great day where we can just worship the Lord and fellowship with other believers and then break bread after Sunday night service. It's super important for us to do this and it completes our week. Go to Psalm chapter 12. Let's look at more completeness, more perfection using the number seven in the Bible. Look at verse number six of Psalm chapter 12. So you see that God completed the creation. You know, he took that day to sanctify the whole thing, to bless the whole thing. The whole thing was complete after the seventh day. All right, same thing with the wrath of God. The whole thing was complete after the seventh vile. That's very symbolic and very important. Look at Psalm chapter 12. How about this one that uses the number seven to be complete and perfect? You think about the things that we need to have complete and perfect in our lives. What's the most important thing that we need to have complete and perfect in our lives? It's the Bible. It's the word of God. You say, well, is the word of God complete? Yes, it is. Look at Psalm chapter 12 in verse number six. The Bible says the words of the Lord are pure words. As silver tried in a furnace of earth purified seven times. Now you see how that number seven is important? You see how the number seven is important knowing that seven means completion. Seven means perfection. Because what are we told by a lot of cults and false religions today? I mean, pretty much every cult, I think, is basically coming up with some new revelation. It's some leader or personality that comes out and says, I have a new revelation from God. Or there's extra biblical information put in. It's very easy to just twist what's actually in the Bible because nobody knows what the Bible says anymore. But a very popular and common thing is for some false prophet to try to add to the word of God. I mean, look at Joseph Smith. Joseph Smith, I mean, literally just had, it's literally called, the Book of Mormon is literally called, I think it's called another revelation of Jesus Christ. I mean, that whole church, that whole religion teaches that up until that point where that false prophet found these plates or whatever it was, this extra revelation that Christianity was lost up until that point. But the Bible is saying, I mean, that flies right in the face of Psalm 12-6. God says, as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O Lord. Thou shalt preserve them from what? This generation forever. We're not gonna lose the word of God. And guess what? There's a lot of people that say, you'll take that purified seven times and apply it to the King James Bible and how the King James Bible was developed. And I'm not against that. But the most important thing about this verse is that the Bible is complete and perfect. It is done. There is no other revelation. As a matter of fact, God ends the Bible in Revelation chapter 22 by saying, hey, if you add to it or you take away from it, you're done. You're not going to heaven. You're not gonna be saved. That's how serious God is about it. Look, there is no extra revelation. I mean, that would solve a lot of problems if people knew that today. But that's the importance of that number seven in Psalm chapter 12. It just shows it's complete. It's perfect. It's done. How about Jesus? Go to John chapter six. John chapter six. Jesus in the number seven all over the place. But there's a bigger picture here. So I'll just give you a few of these, these smaller examples of Jesus and the number seven. And then we'll look at like the bigger picture of Jesus and the number seven. In the book of John, there's the I am statements of Jesus.  And there's seven of those statements. There's seven of these statements where Jesus says in John chapter six, 35. He says, I am, Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life. He that cometh to me shall never hunger. He that believeth on me shall never thirst. In John chapter eight, you go to John chapter 10. You go to John chapter 10, I'll read for you John 8, 12. Jesus says, I am the light of the world. In John chapter 10, in verse number seven, Jesus says, I am the door. In John chapter 10, in verse number 11, Jesus says, I am the good shepherd. Matching exactly, Psalm chapter 23, where it says the Lord is my shepherd. John chapter 11, verse 25, you don't have to turn there. He says, I am the resurrection and the life. John 14, 6, I am the way, the truth and the life. And the number seven, I am statement in the Bible is John 15 in chapter, in verse number one, where he says, I am the true vine. So there just happens to be seven of these statements where Jesus says, I am. There's how many statements did Jesus say on the cross? There's seven statements in the Bible with Jesus speaking on the cross. Go to Matthew chapter 15, Matthew chapter 15. So the number seven is all over the Bible and it's all over Jesus' ministry as well. Look at Matthew chapter 15 and verse number 32. Matthew chapter 15 and verse number 32. The Bible says in verse 32, Jesus called his disciples unto them and said, I have compassion on the multitude because they continue with me now three days and they have nothing to eat. And I will not send them away fasting unless they faint in the way. And as disciples say unto him, when should we have not so much bread in the wilderness as to fill so great a multitude? And Jesus said, how many loaves are there? And they said, seven and a few little fishes. And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground and he took the seven loaves and fishes and gave thanks and break it and gave it to his disciples and the disciples to the multitude. And they did all eat and were filled and they took up the broken meat that were left, seven baskets full. And they did eat, were 4,000 men besides women and children. When Jesus fed the 5,000, so this was the feeding of the 4,000. In Luke chapter nine, when he fed the 5,000, there was five loaves and two fishes, seven. Showing just the completeness of what was needed from Jesus. It was complete, it was enough is what the Bible is telling us here. Like I said, Jesus had seven statements on the cross. Now these are just kind of like little examples of the number seven. But what's the big number seven for Jesus? Go to Leviticus chapter 16. So we know from past sermons that the day of atonement, Leviticus chapter 16, it details this great sacrifice that they were to do every year with the day of atonement with the bull and two goats and it's this whole detailed thing.  So the entire day of atonement sacrifice was picturing Jesus, all right? So you say, what part of the day of atonement was Jesus? All of it is the answer, all right? Look at verse number 14 of Leviticus chapter 16. The Bible says in verse number 14, it says he shall take the blood of the bullock. So this is the bullock was for the high priest and the goats were for the people.  Then shall he shall kill the goat of the sin offering that is for the people and bring his blood from within the veil that the blood he did of the blood sprinkled upon the mercy seat and before the mercy seat. And he shall make atonement for the holy place because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel and because of their transgressions and all their sins. So shall he do for the tabernacle of the congregation that remaineth among them in the midst of their uncleanness. Verse 17. And there shall be no man in the tabernacle of the congregation when you have goeth in to make atonement in the holy place until he come out and have made an atonement for himself and for his household and for all the congregation of Israel. He shall go out under the altar that is before the Lord and make an atonement for it and he shall take the blood of the bullock and the blood of the goat and put it upon the horns of the altar round about and he shall sprinkle the blood upon it with his finger seven times and cleanse it and hallow it from the uncleanness of the children of Israel. This is symbolizing, turn to Hebrews chapter 12. This is symbolizing that number seven when he sprinkled the blood on the altar this was symbolizing the completeness of the blood atonement of Jesus Christ. That's what this was picturing. You say why seven times? Because the number seven symbolizes completeness or perfection. Now that, look, that sacrifice in Leviticus chapter 16 was not perfect or complete. It was just a picture of the perfect sacrifice to come. But that's why they did things in such a specific way because they were picturing, they were shadowing what the actual perfect sacrifice was going to be. Look at Hebrews chapter 10 and verse number one, the Bible explains this for us here. It says, for the law having a shadow of good things to come. Meaning Leviticus chapter 16, the law, the Old Testament is shadowing Christ. The whole Old Testament is pointing to Jesus, folks. The shadow of good things to come and not the very image of the things can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers there unto perfect. Those sacrifices only pictured the perfect sacrifice. Those sacrifices didn't save the people, okay? For then they would not have seized to be offered. He's saying, I mean this is such a great picture of eternal salvation and the once sacrifice of Jesus. For then they would not have seized to be offered. He's like, why would they have to do it every year if it was a perfect sacrifice? Because that the worshipers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. But in those sacrifice there is a remembrance, again made of sins every year. For it is not possible, this is really the key right here, it is not possible that the blood, bulls and goats should take away sins. Those sacrifices in Leviticus chapter 16 and all over the Old Testament did not take away the people's sins. Wherefore, when he cometh into the world, he saith, sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me. In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin, thou hast had no pleasure. Then said I, lo, I come in the volume of the book that is written of me, the law, the Old Testament, to do thy will, oh God. Above when he said, sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for the sin, thou wouldest not, neither haths pleasure therein which are offered by the law. Then said he, lo, I come to do thy will, oh God. He taketh away the first that he may establish the second. By the which we are sanctified, this is the New Testament right here. By the which will, we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. So all that stuff did was picture the perfect sacrifice and what a better way to do it than use this number seven that symbolizes completion and perfection. The high priest, they just were just symbolizing this thing that Christ actually accomplished himself through his body. Turn to Revelation chapter one, let's look at another one. Now this one's a little deep, all right? This one's a little deep and there's some weird stuff on this one out there. But it's really not that complicated if we just look at what the Bible says as with most things. Look at Revelation chapter one, let's look at another seven in the Bible, another seven in the Bible. Look at Revelation chapter one, verse number four. The Bible says, John to the seven churches, well first of all, how many letters were there? There were seven. There were seven churches which are in Asia, grace be unto you in peace from him which is and which was and which is to come and from the seven spirits which are before his throne. And from Jesus Christ who is the faithful witness and the first begotten of the dead and the prince of the kings of the earth unto him that loved us and washed us from our sins with his own blood. Go to Revelation chapter three. So there's this mention of these seven spirits of God. So what is that all about? Look at Revelation chapter three and verse number one. Revelation chapter three and verse number one. Now if you have a red letter Bible, the letters to the seven churches are all, I mean Revelation chapter two and Revelation chapter three are all red words if you have a red letter Bible because it's Jesus speaking to the churches. Jesus is literally giving this counsel to these seven churches which means it's pretty good you know complete counsel to these churches. Look at verse number one of Revelation chapter three. And under the angel all that to say that Jesus is the one speaking and under the angel of the church in Sardis right these things sayeth he, so who's saying this? Let's talk about Jesus right here. Okay, these things sayeth he that hath the seven spirits of God and the seven stars I know thy works that thou hast a name that thou livest and art dead. So Jesus is speaking and here the Bible is saying that Jesus hath the seven spirits of God. All right, look at Revelation chapter five. Revelation chapter five. So I mean these seven spirits of God. Look at Revelation chapter five verse number six. Revelation five and verse number six. And I beheld and lo in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts and in the midst of the elders stood a lamb as it had been slain. That's of course Jesus having seven horns and seven eyes which are the seven spirits of God sent forth into all the earth. So the lamb has these seven horns and seven eyes which again it mentions the seven spirits of God. So the Bible here is mentioning that Jesus has these seven spirits of God. So I mean what is this? Is like are we getting rid of the Trinity here and going to like a nine part God here? I mean what's going on? All right, let's look at this. Look at Isaiah chapter 11 to find out what this is all about. I mean it's definitely something. I mean it comes up, you know, talking about these seven spirits in Revelation and that Jesus has them. All right, look at Isaiah. Go to Isaiah chapter 11. Go to Isaiah chapter 11 and we're gonna look at verse, I guess we'll start in verse number one. So Isaiah chapter 11 and the first couple of verses here. So it's clearly a prophecy of Jesus Christ. It's clearly talking about Jesus Christ. All right, so Isaiah chapter 11, look at verse number one and you'll see what I'm talking about. It says in there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse and a branch shall grow out of his roots. So of course Jesse was David's father, David's father and of course we know that Jesus Christ came from the line of David. Fulfilling that messianic prophecy that David was given by the prophet Nathan.  That's that prophecy that was fulfilled through Jesus Christ. But now look at verse number two. The Bible says and the spirit, now it's talking about Jesus, talking about in Isaiah, talking about the coming Messiah. These are, this is a great prophecy about Jesus. It says the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him. Now we'll assume that's the Holy Spirit, right? The spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord. If you count all those things up, including the spirit of the Lord, you're looking at seven things right there. All right, so that is, those are the spirits of God. Now turn to Matthew chapter three. So you say, when did Jesus get this? The Bible says that he's going to get the spirit of the Lord. The spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him and then he's gonna get this spirit of wisdom and understanding and counsel and might and the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord. So that is, look, that is what the seven spirits of God are. What the seven spirits of God are, here's how I kind of look at it. They're like characteristics of God, basically. And look, there's seven of them. It's kind of a, there's seven characteristics or seven attributes of God. That's how I look at the seven spirits of God. It's not like there's, you know, we're not busting up the Trinity here, okay? One of the seven spirits of God that Jesus was gonna get was literally the Holy Spirit is what it talks about here. It says the spirit of the Lord. Look at Matthew chapter three and this is when this happens.  Look at Matthew chapter three and verse 16. So basically, if you wanna think about it this way, the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit is kind of the mechanism that gave Jesus these other, you know, characteristics of God, you know, it's kind of the conduit that God used to give that to Jesus, all right? It's kind of where he received that fullness from. Not that he wasn't God already, okay? Don't get me wrong. He was already God already, but he was kind of filled with these characteristics at this point. Look at verse 16. This is what Isaiah chapter two or 11 verse number two is talking about. It says when Jesus was baptized, he went up straight away out of the water and lo, the heavens were opened up to him and he saw the spirit of God descending like a dove and lighting upon him. And lo, a voice from heaven saying, this is my beloved son and who I'm well pleased. And then of course, what happens right after this? If you look at Matthew chapter four, it says Jesus was what? He was led by the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted. And then of course, right after he was led by the spirit to be tempted 40 days by Satan, what does he do? He starts his ministry and he starts calling disciples. All right, so God basically brought down the seven spirits of God through the conduit of the Holy Spirit onto Jesus so he could start his ministry. Jesus was already God before that. We say, why is there seven? Why is there seven? Go to, actually we'll get to that in just a minute. Actually, go to Colossians chapter two. We almost read this today when we read the whole thing, but go to Colossians chapter two. Go to Colossians chapter two. Let me just complete this idea of these spirits of God. Revelation talks about the seven spirits of God. Jesus having the seven spirits of God. Isaiah chapter 11 says that Jesus is going to get the seven spirits of God. One of those is the spirit of the Lord. In Matthew chapter three, we see Jesus, the Holy Spirit coming down upon Jesus. The seven spirits are just the seven characteristics, or maybe you could call them gifts that came, characteristics or attributes maybe, of God that came upon Jesus before he started his ministry. It's just kind of a complete picture of God. But you're saying, now you say, well, the Trinity, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. It wasn't Jesus just the Son, but see, no, he wasn't. Not in that sense. Look at Colossians chapter two and look at verse number nine. So Jesus was the Son, and the Son is not the Father, and the Son is not the Holy Spirit. As we see the Holy Spirit come upon God. But this is where people get all wacky. But here's what you have to understand about the Trinity. The Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, it's not like that's why anybody that gets up and draws a graph or puts up an egg or something, they're always gonna end up being wrong because there's really no analogy that really covers this well. You can't really take a pie and say, Jesus is the third God and the Father's the third God and the Holy Spirit's a third God because of Colossians chapter two and verse number nine and really because of Isaiah chapter 11 and verse number two and Matthew chapter three. I mean, really, look at verse number two. It says, for in him, talking about Jesus, dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. It's saying Jesus was 100% God. You say, I don't understand that. Here's the thing you have to understand. You don't have to understand everything. I mean, sometimes we just gotta kind of stop and just say, so Jesus was not one third God. Jesus was all God. And that's what it's saying. That's what the Bible is basically saying when it says the seven spirits were given to him, meaning he was the full, he was fully man and he was fully God. But he was just the Son, but he was fully God. I don't understand that. Well, I don't really understand it either, but maybe that's one all tap Jesus on the shoulder and say, hey, what's the mechanics of that when I get to heaven? I don't really have to understand all the complicated things that are beyond human understanding. This is God's stuff. This is like, when we start talking about these types of things, God told us these seven spirits. He told us what the seven spirits were. He told us what Jesus was given in Matthew chapter three. And he started, I mean, it makes sense to me. It makes sense to me if you look at the things that he was given in Isaiah chapter 11. He got a guy that's starting his ministry and he's got wisdom and understanding and counsel and might and knowledge and the fear of the Lord. Those seem like things that would be pretty valuable for someone that's gonna go and do a ministry on earth for three years before they sacrifice themselves on the cross. So it makes sense why those things were given to him. It makes sense that those are kind of a picture of God. Now how the fullness of God was in Jesus and the fullness of God exists in Jesus and the Father and the Holy Spirit.  Let's put it that way. So these three are one and you know, Jesus had the seven spirits and they're listed for us. And it makes sense how those things would be necessary for an earthly ministry. All right, how about this one? Go back to Revelation. Let's go to Revelation chapter six. Revelation chapter six. God's wrath. God's wrath and the book of Revelation regarding God's wrath, the number seven is everywhere.  Right, you got Daniel's 70 weeks of which we are waiting for what? We're somewhere in between the 69th week. We're waiting for the start of the 70th week. Right, in the midst of that 70th week. You know, we've got, well, at the beginning of the 70th week, we've got the seven seals that are open, right? In between the sixth and the seventh seal is gonna be the rapture at that point. And right after that, right after the rapture is when, you know, we see in Revelation chapter six, look at verse 17. It says, for the great day of his wrath is come who shall be able to stand. Talking about this is talking about, you know, God's wrath starting. And then what do we see? We see the seven vials. We see the seven trumpets that basically announce, you know, each vial that the trumpets and the vials match up in the Bible. Then we see the seven spirits of God. We see all these things, you know, in Revelation with the sevens. It just shows you the completion and the perfection of God's wrath. In Romans chapter 12 and verse number nine, I'll just read it for you. It says, dearly beloved, this is why we really don't have to worry. You say, you know, why is it important that God's wrath is complete and it's perfect? Why do I need to know that? You need to know that because in Romans 12, nine, it says, dearly beloved, avenge not yourself. Avenge not yourself, but rather get placed under wrath. For it is written, vengeance is mine, I will repay it, say it to the Lord. You notice how it said the word wrath there. You know what God is saying in Revelation in Revelation 15, Revelation six and seven and all over the Bible when God is pouring out his wrath through the trumpets and the vials and he's telling us in Romans chapter 12 and verse number nine, he's saying, no, no, no. He's like, I literally just talked to a guy out soul winning about this today. It's like, look, we don't have to worry about this stuff. We don't have to worry about who's getting away with what and so and so did something. We don't have to worry about Jeffrey Dahmer getting saved. Okay, I mean, we don't have to worry. Look, a lot of people hung up about this.    It like it hangs people up from getting saved. It hangs people up from the gospel.  No, that's not what the Bible teaches. And that person that did that because look, normal natural people do not struggle with that type of thing. We are all sinners, I told this guy.  I have foolish thoughts all the time. You know, we're gonna be sinners till the day that we die. You know what?  Something has happened there and the Bible tells us what happened in Romans chapter one.  My wrath will be perfect. And that's what he's saying. He's saying avenge not yourselves.  And that's why you see with that wrath, it's seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven everywhere because it's gonna be perfect, it's gonna be complete. God's not gonna, everybody that's got something coming is gonna get theirs. That's what it boils down to. Except us because we're not gonna get ours because we've trusted on Jesus and we are gonna be covered in that once for all perfect, complete sacrifice of Jesus Christ. But everybody else is gonna get what's coming.   But God is just saying, look, it's going to be perfect. It's going to be complete. And look, it's important. It is important that people know that. It is important to know that God has the ball on this one. There's all kinds of other sevens in the Bible. There's seven lamps of fire in Revelation chapter four. Again, there's seven churches in Asia that God's talking to in Revelation chapter two, chapter three, in Genesis chapter seven, there's seven of the clean beasts. It's not just, they weren't just two by two. The clean beasts, there was seven pairs of each kind of animals. Lovediscs chapter 25, seven times seven for the years brought you to the 49th year and into the year of Jubilee, which was to reset things and kind of forgive people their debts. In Job chapter two, this one's interesting. They sat down, it says, Job chapter two, verse 13, I'll just read for you. It says, so they sat down with him upon the ground. Job just lost everything. He just lost everybody, just lost everything. They sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights for his, and none spake a word unto him, for they saw his grief was very great. So he had seven days and seven nights of what? Of mourning. So it took him seven days and seven nights to complete his mourning process. Now go back to 2 Kings chapter four, and we'll finish up here. So we just see that just the Bible, I mean, Jacob was right, Jacob was right. Nothing is in the Bible by accident.  And you just know, just like, what does that mean? You know, what does that mean? And then you start looking into this and you see that it actually meant something. And look, just as the sacrifice, sacrifices of the Old Testament pictured the perfect sacrifice to come. The boy sneezing seven times, it pictures the Messiah to come. It pictures the perfect resurrection is what it pictures. So as this boy, look, this boy being raised from the dead is just, if it was just this boy being raised from the dead and we didn't have this little piece in the Bible, this is the beauty and the infinite nature of the Bible. If we didn't have this detail where it says he sneezed seven times, it'd just be some miracle in the Bible. But instead, he sneezes seven times and he's resurrected and it shows like, oh, here's a resurrection in the Old Testament. But you know what Jesus' resurrection was? It was the perfect resurrection. Because without the resurrection, we have no hope for our resurrection. Because Jesus' perfect resurrection is the first fruits showing that we will be resurrected as well, all right? Without the sneezing, it's just a miracle. That's the depth of the Bible. And that's why we need to look at these things and you know, read the Bible to your kids. Read the Bible to your kids and it's just, it's great the questions that they ask. But the number seven in the Bible, it's everywhere. I feel like I didn't do it justice. It's all over the place. But it just shows you what God is telling us in the Bible in all these places. Instead of saying, hey, I'm gonna preserve my word. He says, no, it's been purified seven times, meaning it's done, it's good, it's perfect, it's complete. Jesus' work, it's once for all, it's perfect, it's complete. My wrath will cover everything, it's perfect, it's complete. The creation, it's perfect, it's complete. By the way, seven, seven days, be thankful for the things that you have. Take a time, you know, take time to take a break and thank God every time that you eat. You know, that's what makes that meal complete. That's what makes that thing perfect when you appreciate and are thankful for the things that God did. So that's the number seven in the Bible. And every single time you read the number seven, that's the picture that God is trying to show you in that part of the Bible. Let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer.


iPhone number is<PHONE_NUMBER>. Give us a call, folks. One note's going on in your world. Let's go over to the world of direction in our man, Mr. Dave Mazza. Dave is the head of product and a managing director at Direction Shares. Dave Mazza, welcome back to TFNN. Hey, happy to be back. Listen, we gotta talk about the bond market and folks inside the bond market. So as you come over to our website at TFNN, you can hit that direction banner, you're gonna bring it up and we're gonna talk about the TMF and the TMV, depending whether you're bullish or bearish. You know, it's pretty amazing, Dave. I mean, this is, you know, we hear everyone talking about that rates are going up and there's no doubt the Fed fund rate has been going up, but the 10-year note has been going down. I mean, we peaked out a 3.4 and we're 2.6 right now. Pretty wild then. So let's talk a little bit about, if you can explain both of these and I've traded both of these. These are great trading vehicles, folks. This is the Direction 20-year plus bear or bull fund. The bear fund is the TMF, the bull fund is TMF, that's what I like now. The bear fund is TMV. So pretty wild, it's pretty diabolical, isn't it, that the Fed's going up and the market's sending the rates down. Yeah, I think what we're seeing from a macro point of view is a pretty difficult environment for rates. That's an insight that is not insightful, but I'm being facetious here because we were in expectation, again, before we had concerns about economic growth, that we were gonna see the Federal Reserve embark on a path of rising interest rates because inflation was higher. Yes. And what that could have done, especially because even if we have the White House set aside politics trying to redefine what recession is, we know we have pretty strong job growth. And of course that could change, but for the time being, we actually could have environment where rates were rising for a good reason. We were out of COVID, there was not fears of the economy being shut down again. But now what we're seeing is rates rising at the same time inflation remains high and economic growth, particularly heading into the back after the year is questionable. And this has hurt banks. A lot of people again came into the year thinking financials were gonna do well. As this yield curve is flattened though, it's created this really interesting trading environment. So as noted, TMF and TMV provide exposure to 20 plus year treasuries in an amplified way. So these are tools for tactical trading. What I find fascinating, but it makes sense, performance-wise, this is one of the only areas where the bear fund, so in this case, TMV, has greater assets than the bull fund, TMF, because they came exactly, they came into the year being relatively similar, but that's changed. So people are really positioned on that bear side. And look, it's been, if we look at the environment, it's an interesting one because you would say, hey, that trade hasn't worked for the most part, but especially late, but starting the year it did. So I think both of the tools are there depending upon what your thoughts are on the long bond here. A great explanation, man. I mean, I think this is the first time, I'm trying to think back that I've ever seen the Fed fund rate going up and the industry is going down. And what I mean specifically, folks, you gotta remember something, the Fed fund rate is bank-to-bank rate and they have raised it and they're gonna raise it more. And what has happened in the marketplace, however, though, is that the marketplace is buying these tens, I mean, these 20s, hand over fist, driving the price down. So it's a couple good trading vehicles there in a huge way. You know, when we look at the broad market, I thought it's so intriguing, Dave, that you were talking about the aspect that the bear fund actually has more than the bull fund because that, folks, is very unusual because the bottom line is that not everyone, I'm just saying in general, if we took a big picture, the bull funds are where it's at because on a long-term basis, gotta remember something, numbers are gonna be higher. I mean, that's what it comes down to. So when we're taking a look at the structures in general, I mean, we have the S&Ps, people can protect themselves with. As you just brought up the FAZ and the FAS when they're looking at the banking structure, that banking structure is gonna get interesting, Dave, right? Because the reality is that these banks still are not paying us any interest, but yet their structure because of the, basically the Fed fund rate, it is, their spread should come up somewhat. Yeah, so you're absolutely right. So I think we haven't seen an environment where the Fed is materially raising rates and the bond market is, at least those trading the long run are saying, nah, we don't believe it. We're already getting, Powell came out a little bit more dovish last week, but we're already getting other governors and folks saying, well, yeah, we're gonna keep raising, but don't worry about 2023. So that has put pressure on the macro side. And yeah, people aren't seeing it in their checking accounts, right? Or saying it in their savings accounts meeting, because much of that is depending upon what the short-term rates are doing. And those are going up, but not enough to offset what's happening on the inflationary side. So I think the TMF and TMB, if those aren't on traders' radars, they really should be because you're amplifying exposure really to what already has long duration. And they're great vehicles, man. Well, listen, we appreciate the update, appreciate the education. You have a great one, safe one. We look forward to speaking to you two weeks from today, Dave. Sounds good, we'll talk soon. Thank you.