This is, of course, Raymond, your host, please come in, won't you? Make yourself comfortable in a gloomy corner. We had intended to have a real surprise for you tonight. Instead of myself, we were going to have a guest-ghost to act as host. But, uh...unfortunately, we're not going to have a guest-ghost. We're going to have a guest-ghost to act as host. But, uh...unfortunately, this real ghost caught pneumonia and he's in a very grave condition. The doctors have given up all hope. He's, uh...going to become alive. Well, Mr. Raymond, I must admit, I'm glad that that ghost couldn't come. It's difficult enough to talk to you, but heavens, I wouldn't know what to say to a ghost. Oh, well, that's simple, Mary. All you have to do is find out whether it's a he-ghost or a she-ghost. And if it's a she?   That's right, Mr. Raymond. The ladies are always interested in something new to wear. And right now, I'm going to tell them about something they'll all want. It's a lovely piece of jewelry, a real sterling silver medallion, about an inch in diameter. It's the kind of jewelry you find at those smart shops on Fifth Avenue in New York. But the only way you can get it is from Lipton's. The medallion is decorated with a Chinese inscription, and it's hung on a narrow black ray on satin ribbon. That's the height of fashion this year, you know. And here's how you get the medallion. Just send 25 cents and the box top from a package of Lipton's, the tea with the brisk flavor, to the Lipton tea people, box 9-2, New York City. Yes, that's box 9-2 in New York City. And now it's time to begin. Our story is called The Black Art. It's an original tale by Milton Lewis, and our star tonight is that glamorous motion picture star, Simone Simone, who'll play the role of Claudine.  You all set?  All right, now let's hear Larry Gifford tell you his story in his own words. We should never heard that scream. I wish I never saw a body lying there. Blood all over the room. The knife on the floor near our throat. I'll never forget it. I'll never forget how I picked up the knife. I'll never forget the sweat that came creeping out all over me when I heard the door slam. Stand where you are.  Don't shoot, copper. Drop that knife. Okay. What's your name? Larry. Larry Gifford. Look, I'm from Chicago. Stranger, huh? Yeah, what of it? What's her name? Her? I, uh, I don't know. I never saw her before. Look, you don't have to fresk me. I haven't got a gun.  Listen, I know it looks bad, but you see my room's downstairs. I heard a scream and I... Give me back that wallet.  We're all papers. Whatever. So I'm an ex-con, so what? You don't know her, huh? No, I don't. I... What... What have you got there? Just a picture I found in your wallet, mister. Picture of her. Larry. Larry. Larry. Larry. Larry. Picture of her. Larry. Larry. Oh, my love, Nancy. I reckon you forgot about this, huh?   I think I heard that scream and came up here. Put out your hands. Sure. You can have them. Come back here. I didn't get far. Crowdless streets, Natalie. The guy that was when I heard the shots and screamed. I was dumped in jail. This was a little bird in the bio-country, not far from New Orleans. I was the biggest thing that hit the town since Ripley's, believe it or not. For them jerks, my trial was the biggest show than Carmen Miranda and Gypsy Rose Lee doing a trapeze act. In no time at all, they sentenced me to be hung. It was the night before they were going to take me to the state pen for the necktie party. I was sleeping, dreaming I was in Africa. They were beating them drums. Tom-toms. Suddenly, I woke up. Moonlight was shining through the bars of myself. Listen, someone was beating like a tom-tom on the wall of my jail. Were you beating on the wall? Yes. What are you doing? Yeah, yeah, I got it. Good job there, Gephard. Oh, nothing. Why? I heard talking. Oh, I... I was talking in my sleep. You never done that before. I never was going to be hung before. What are you holding there? Come here, I'll show you. What's that? A gun. Yeah, and it's got enough bullets to fill your head with lead. Let go of him. Open that door. Open that door. Give a tear between the eyes. Come on. Don't shoot. Okay. Okay, now I'll take your gun. Give me those keys. See how you like it there for a while. Come on. Stop him. He's near the stairs. Told me it was a good joint where they don't ask any questions. It was. I had a few drinks. I was leaning on the bar, looking at a paper. Are you drinking? Scotch. Buy me one. I gave her the one so far. I know something about Dave since she was dynamite with class. She was something. Well? Set up another, Charlie. Cigarette? Yeah. Thank you. It's a nice cigarette holder. Must cost at least a sea. You know I love, don't you? Enough. I know you. Do you? Sure. There's something about. Wait a second. Here. Here in this evening's paper, your picture. It's not a very good picture, is it? After seeing you know. Claudine Lucerne. Recently returned from France. Elected head of art committee. Miss Lucerne, member of one of New Orleans' oldest and wealthiest families. I've read it. Turn the page. Why? I want to show you something. Okay. There. Larry Gissot of Chicago, wanted for murder, is shot by police after sensational Jane Bray. I don't read any more. Why? I feel something against your side. It's a gun. I'm holding it in my pocket. I'm afraid I won't give you away. Got a light? Yeah. What do you want? Listen to that music. That tapping. What about it? The way you're tapping your cigarette holder against your glass. I'm just keeping time to the music. I heard that tapping before. Yeah, sure in the cell. And I heard your voice before. Did you? You gave me the gun. What's that when they hear you? What's this all about? You'll find out. Relax. I can't. I guess I had a few too many. My head, I feel like I'm spinning around. Getting dizzy. Pink with blood around me.  It was the head of a bat. It smiled. It had sharp little bat teeth that had pink on them. There was an ache in my throat. I looked again. It wasn't a bat's face. It was hers. Claudine's. I was dreaming. Larry? Oh, well, where am I? My suite at the hotel. How'd I get here? You passed out at the blue bottle. I brought you here. When? Two hours ago. I must have been sleeping. I had the queerest dream. I thought... What's the matter? My throat. That pain. Like a knife. Those green eyes of yours. That red mouth. Those white teeth. Look, we're going to have a showdown right now. Where's my gun? I took it. Look, what do you want with me? Nothing. You don't want to do yourself. Don't talk in riddles. Have you ever been in love? Sure. Her dames are always forming for me. Why? I guess that's what happened to me. Are you kidding? No. Do you think I'd get you out of jail if I were? I never saw you before. I saw you at the trial. That's where it happened. How can a dame like you go for a guy like me? I don't know. But it happened. I don't believe it. I'm sorry. Come here. Yes?  Larry. Oh, Larry. It's a funny thing to do. Kiss a guy on the neck. Better wipe that lipstick off. Hey. What's the matter? My head shift. That ain't lip rouge on my neck. It's blood. No, you're making a mistake. My neck's bleeding. What kind of a dame are you, anyway? I'm getting off. No, don't. If you go, I'll tell him where you are. Oh, you will. Yes. You won't tell him for a while, baby. Margrady's joint in the old city of New Orleans was just a place. She'd never find me in that dump. Nobody'd ever find you there. I got a room. I went to sleep. I was safe. Then I heard it again. That same rhythm. It woke me up. I heard it, but I couldn't believe it. How could she know I was here? Oh, was it her? There was nobody in the room. I opened the door. Nobody outside. I slammed it. The meeting stopped. I turned around. I was looking into the muscle of a gun. Sit down, Larry. How'd you get here? Margrady ran to the room next to you. There's a connecting door. What's the idea of a gun? Can't you get it?  Maybe. Well, you're going to a lot of trouble to bump off a guy who's going to be hung anyway. Do you want to die? No. Am I coming with me? Yeah. What else have I got to do? Marry me.  You hate me? No. No, I don't.  I'm scared of you. Yeah, I've never been scared of anybody the way I'm scared of you. Scared enough to do as I say? Maybe. I had hoped you would love me. Maybe I do. You're lying. No. No, baby. It's no use. Look, what are you going to do? Kill you? No, put the gun down. Give me a break. Don't... Claudine's a kid of her words. When she tells someone she's going to kill him, she does it. She'd make a wonderful wife of some Frankenstein monster. She's attractive, a good killer, and she has a well-developed taste for blood. Why should I hand her over to some other guy? She's just a girl for me. Nonsense, Mr. Raymond. Why, Mary Bennett, I believe you're jealous. I am not. Yes, you are.   I know they're going to enjoy wearing it because it's made of solid sterling silver, and it's really a fine piece of jewelry. There's a true story behind this medallion, an inspiring story. It seems that the original was given to an American flyer by Chinese gorillas who rescued him after he bailed out over enemy territory. The flyer was told that the Chinese characters on the medallion would identify him and bring him safely through the lines. Well, he did get through, and only then did he learn that the medallion said, good luck in Chinese.  And to get this good luck charm, just like the one the flyer carried, all you have to do is send 25 cents and the box top from a package of Lipton's, the tea with the brisk flavor, to the Lipton tea people, box 9-2. That's box 9-2, New York City. Now, let's get back to our star, Simone Simone, who seems to be making life hard for a guy named Larry. The last time we looked in, she had just shot him. But I've got a tip that that's only the beginning of his troubles. How about it, Larry? What happened then? I went down on a heap when she fired. The bullets caught me in a thigh. I lay there, I made out like I was dead. Larry, Larry. She fell for it. She bent over me. A gun in her hand. Larry, are you... Oh! Take it easy, kid. Let's go with my hands. How do I get that gun? Let's go, let's go! Get that gun if I have to break your arms! No, don't! Okay, I've got it now. You shot me in the leg, but I'm still strong enough to get rid of you. Larry! I know Angel, baby, but you're worse. It's something I heard about, but I never believed. How'd you know I'd be here? How'd you know I'd be in the blue bottle? Go on, answer me. I've got nothing to do with it. No, you don't have to. It was magic. Black magic. Somebody nobody'd believe if I ever told him. It's only one thing to do with you. Yes?  But I ain't taking any chances like you did with me.  Those tom-toms are going to stop forever. You think so, Larry? I know it. Come here. Larry.  No! I knocked her out cold. She lay on the floor. I put the muzzle of a gun to her temple. She was so beautiful, it made you shiver. I pulled the trigger. I looked, but I suddenly made me pass out. A little blue vein in her temple was beating. There wasn't a scratch on her. A little curl of red hair was twisted around her ear. As I see in things, I aimed the gun at her heart. Nothing but a speck of blood. I stuck the muzzle between her eyes. Shot till the gun caught empty. I looked.  Had to get away. Had to the same city where she was. Had to the same state. The same world. The open country. To the bayonets on the river back in the war lanes. My wounds festered as I dragged myself through the swamps. And I got a fever. It was like a nightmare. In my head, I kept shooting with tom-toms. I couldn't take a train or a bus or go to a doctor. I'd be caught. One night, I saw a big house shining in the moonlight. I decided to take a chance. I knocked at the door. What is it? Sorry, miss. I was hunting. I had an accident in my leg. Oh. If you let me come in and call a doctor, I'd be very grateful. You don't want to come into this house. Can't you see I need help? You'll never be helped here. There's nothing good here. Only evil and fear. So go away, please. I'm warning you. Go away before my sister comes out. The matter with you. Don't you see, I can hardly move. Go away while you still have the strength to crawl away. Now, believe me. Come, missy. That voice. That's my sister. Yes, your sister. Claudine, the son. Good evening, Larry. I was wondering when you'd get here. You know him? Yes. Mr. Gifford and I are old friends. Old friends. How can you have a friend? No, Cassie.  You must mind her, Larry. Cassie isn't quite well. I don't know who you are, Mr. Gifford.  Cassie? I knew it would happen on a night like this when the moon was full. She's been preparing for us for months. I've told everyone about it, but no one will believe me. I've told them again and again and they say I'm insane. They think I've lost my mind. But she is going to murder me tonight while the moon is full. She's going to murder me. She's going to murder me. Go to your room, Cassie, immediately. We live here. Come, Larry. You must know by this time that you cannot fight me. Yes, sir. I thought I'd never see you again. I'm not well. I've got a fever. Hey, let Tom Tom be in my brain. I can't stop it. I'm getting louder and louder. I blacked out. When I opened my eyes again, I was in a soft bed with clean sheets. Someone addressed my wounds. The moonlight came into my room like a living yellow ghost. Then I heard it. Just like the one Nancy made when she was killed. I lived out of bed, went to the room next door on the floor, murdered. The knife was still in the neck. Then I heard it again. The Tom Tom. Queer sounding this time. I thought myself beginning to sway to the rhythm like a dancer. Then I did something I couldn't stop myself from doing. I put my hands down throughout the knife.  Suddenly I looked up. She was there. Claudine. Drop the knife, Larry. What? Why have you got your hands? These? These came from the skeleton of someone who was once alive. You're not a woman.   Don't come any closer, Larry.  Just yet? So we're close to the pay-off? Yes. You're trembling, Larry. Who are you? There's no reason why I cannot tell you now. You don't believe, do you, that there are unseen powers that can be controlled by someone who knows how? I can believe anything about you. Thank you, Larry. Your heart is pounding like a throbbing drum, isn't it, Larry? You can feel death close, can't you? What have you got to say to me? I'm going to tell you a story, Larry.   She taught me. Why are you telling me this? What amuses me to watch you murder help us and terrify it. So terrified you can hardly breathe. I find it very exciting. Then it was what I found in my hatchet. Yes. It is one of the ways to gain complete power over a person. In a town town. Not a town to make you do what I want. In the murder of your sister, you want me to be the patsy for that? You're beginning to understand. You see, Cassie and I inherited the estate. That is really not enough for both of us. You tell him I did it. Yes. And then I killed you in self-defense. What are you looking at me that way for? I was remembering something. Remembering? Oh, that kiss, baby, wasn't it?  You didn't forget that kiss, did you? No. Well, what are you going to do? Come here. Closer. Don't move. There. You can let me live. Live?  I'll put that gun down. I'm finished. Please, give me a break. I'm begging you. Begging you? I'll do anything you say. Come, Larry, between your eyes. How do you feel today, Gifford? Much better, officer. The leg's healing fine. We checked that crazy story, you told us. It's all true. Tell me something. How'd you know to come to the Lucerne place when you're dead? You arrived just in time. A second later and she would have killed me. Kathy, her sister phoned us, told us to come out. I came in the room and saw her threatening you with a gun. I shot at her. I had to. Got her in the shoulder. She should have killed her. The state will take care of that. Did you believe the story she told you at first? That I killed her sister and she was killing me in self-defense? No.   The man who did that confessed. That made her whole story false. How did she do it, Captain? How did she find out where I always went? Police psychiatrist did it by post-typnotic suggestion.  But the bullets, when I shot at her and tried to kill her, how'd she do that? It was all carefully planned. The first shot she fired at you were real bullets. The others in the gun were blanks. She wanted to get you so thoroughly under her power that you think she couldn't be killed. You see, all this so-called black magic has an explanation. That's it. I wonder. Black magic. I tell you what I'm going to do. Step right this way, friends, and get yourself a post-typnotic suggestion. Spell it backwards and you get murder. What then?  Talking of luck, Mr. Raymond, I think Larry Gifford was mighty lucky to escape that awful woman. Oh, will you see, ma'am, it's very simple. You probably wore one of your good luck medallions. Oh, now that's plain silly. A man wouldn't wear a medallion on a black ray on satin ribbon. It's the ladies who like jewelry. Yes, that's why I know that they'll appreciate this solid sterling silver medallion that the Lipton people want to send them. And ladies, here's how you get it. Send just 25 cents, which includes tax and postage, with a box top from a package of Lipton's, the tea with the brisk flavor, to the Lipton tea people, box 9-2 in New York City.   By the way, this month's Innocent Mystery Novel is the Red Right Hand by Joel Townsley Rogers.  Next week's story is about a pair of murderers who get scared to death. They're more frightened than the guy they're murdering. So if you hear some static on your radio next Tuesday, it'll just be their knees knocking together. Well, now I guess it's really time to close that squeaking door, so good night for real pleasant dreams. Folks, the next time you send a box of food to your boy overseas, be sure to include a package or two of Lipton's noodle soup mix.  It has the same homemade chickeny taste as the soup you make yourself. The soup your boy's always been so fond of. That's why it's such a thoughtful, welcome little gift to send Lipton's. And as you know yourself, Lipton's noodle soup makes a grand snack. So remember, send a package or two to your boy. And remember to tune in next Tuesday night for another Inner Sanctum Mystery. This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.


What is good, Marvel Squad? It's finally time to introduce to y'all what we've been hiding for the past weeks. Yes, and as you guys read by today's title, the title is freaking true. So we are currently in our car right now. We just got done taking pictures at our lots, at our piece of land, at our piece of dirt, as a lot of people are calling it. The rumors are true for all of y'all that commented down below. Are we building? Yes, we are building a house. Mariah is not pregnant. As we stated, we didn't want to mislead y'all with the pregnancy stuff, but we are currently sitting on our literal lot. I'm looking at it right now. I see the grass, I see the dirt, I see the leaves, I see everything. And by the time y'all are watching this video, we closed on it. Wait, we're closing tomorrow. Closing tomorrow, but we're gonna be closed. We're filming this on Monday right now. We closed on Tuesday. So we closed tomorrow on this lot. So technically we don't own it. So technically we're trespassing right now. Yeah, but we don't own it. But tomorrow we'll own it, yeah. So as you guys know, I don't know if you guys have been following along with us if you guys are new to the channel. We have been wanting to build for the longest time. We moved to Florida. We originally, three years ago, wanted to build, but we needed to get into a house sooner than that, because when it comes to the building process, it could take up to a year, year and a half. Yeah, it takes a long time to build a house because you have to plan it all out, architects. You have to do an architect if you build a custom home. But if you don't, then you can just do a regular plan. But we're probably gonna do an architect which is gonna take another three months to design and blah, blah, blah. Build it, have everything come in, permits, all that stuff. It's gonna be a process. But we have been wanting to do this. I'm not even kidding for the longest time. And I just can't believe that we're finally doing it. How the whole process happened was was we were looking on Zilla. We were trying to find houses because after the wedding, we were planning on moving into our next home. And we told y'all that we were probably gonna live in our house for another year and feel it out. We were maybe in the house buying time in our life again. And we did not know we were gonna build for sure. We've been looking at houses like Mariahs had on Zilla for the past months. Yes. So we were on Zilla. We were finding beautiful, beautiful homes, new construction, but the location was just not it. It was like where we wanted to live. They're starting to build up the area, but it's not quite there yet. It's just like the areas that they were building these nice new houses were on lots that were so far away. And I'm talking about like a half hour, 45 minutes from the water and basically you wanna be closer to the water because- Can they see the water in the background? Maybe. Guys, we're like on the water. No, we're not on the water. We don't have water on our lot. No, but we're behind. Basically like I could throw a rock literally and hit the canal. Yeah, we're right there and the ocean's right there. But yeah, all the houses we were looking at, you know, they were in locations that we weren't super happy about. And then we were looking at like homes that could just need like a little bit of work. And we just wanna honestly, like we just wanna put our all into a house and make it ours and make it how we want it. Because I feel like there's so many things that me and Bill want and a lot of these houses don't have it. And I just don't wanna settle for something. Like I actually just wanna be able to have my walk-in closet, have the bathroom the way we want it, have the bedrooms and the bathrooms, just everything the way we want it. And we were going back and forth. So like she said, we were on Zillow for so long and our realtor was like, these houses are awesome, but it's not worth it. Like you're buying way too expensive in a not so expensive area. And it's like, why would you buy, you know, this price house when the area is not like, there's no comparable houses in the area. It's just honestly gonna be a bad investment. And for what we want, it's actually crazy that it's cheaper to build a better house in a better area than it is to already buy a pre-built expensive house. Which is crazy to think about. Is our neighbor's houses are insane. We have a really good neighborhood here. And it's gonna feel so good knowing like we got good neighbors and like the houses are nice. It just feels very, very, very good over here. And I just can't believe there's like the first property that our realtor sent and we looked and we're like, we want it. We want it. This is the second property. He mentioned one and then he sent us this one like a couple of days later. And literally we like, like within the day we were like, we want it. Like this is like a awesome location.  This feels like home. And the lot is huge. So let me just tell you, this is another bonus out here in Florida. The lot sizes are about 10,000 square foot, which is basically like a hundred foot by 150 feet or something like that. However it's played out a normal lot. It's like 10,000 square feet, which is 0.22 acres. So now I'm in a quarter of an acre. We got so lucky that our lot is literally almost half an acre and it's in a beautiful area. It's 0.44 acres, which is huge considering the location that we're in. And it's bigger than 90% of the lots in the same location. And we got so lucky because these lots are like, I want a lot of space, not to build a big house, but like to have a yard space. Like that's the thing. I want a lot of front yard and a lot of backyard. I want a pool with a nice area that we can, I don't know, have our kids running around one day or utilize the area or maybe even put in a pickleball court. Like- Oh, we want to put in a pickleball court. We are going to put in a pickleball court too. Stuff like that. So we are so lucky that it's huge. And we're looking at it and it seems way bigger in person than it even does when you look at it online. I mean, obviously it doesn't have a house on it right now. It's literally just dirt. But I could kind of picture a house. Can we show them a little sneak peek?  Here's a little sneak peek. There's the dirt. There's the sorrow a lot. It goes back that way and then takes a left. If you guys follow us on Instagram, we're going to be posting photos on there. We just took Instagram photos. So make sure to follow us on Instagram and we are going to be keeping you updated on there as well with the photos and exactly what's going on. And you'll be able to see a little more. Wait, actually Instagram, you could see the whole back of it a lot. You guys, we're going to take you through the whole process. I have dreamt of doing this. Like my mom and dad, when they were together when I was little, they built their house together. And I just remember going there, seeing the process and I've always wanted to build. This is something I've always wanted to do and I can't believe we actually get to do it. Get to build everything that we want for our kids, our future, just everything. I do wish that we had water though. I wish we were on the water. Yeah, we're like right off of it. Like we're almost there. I was going to say, I wonder if that house, cause they just built like almost finished a house right next to our lot. I wonder, see that property that the car's on? Yeah. Like I wonder if they're going to sell that. Yeah, but I wonder, see that tree that's back there? I wonder if we can rip that up and have it go to the nail. It doesn't. Oh. And the property lines won't do that. Oh. Yeah, their yard cuts into it. We literally don't have any. Yeah, that's the only thing. But I wonder if they're going to sell that property. I wonder if that's going to be another one. Like from the pole to the van. I wonder if in the future they'll put that up for sale. If they put it up for sale, we can get it and then we can make it go to the canal right? Cause that'd be sick. Cause like having a canal would be awesome cause then you can have a boat. So we- And it's like golf access right here. We really wanted to be on a canal because in the future we do want to get a boat. Just so we can go boating. I mean we're in Florida. Like if you don't have a boat, doesn't have to be a crazy boat.  But we're going to become good friends with our neighbors and we're going to see if one day we can use their boat dock and put our boat on it. That'd be cool. That'd be sick cause our neighbors right here. Yeah. It doesn't look like they have a boat dock on it but they have a spot to put a boat. So we're going to make good friends with them.  Like this is the most beautiful view and then the ocean view is right. Like we literally look out our window. It's right there. It's beautiful. Like I couldn't have asked for a better location. No, it's crazy. It's awesome. It's insane. I'm not expecting to do this right now because our wedding is coming up literally next week.  It's Monday. So you're seeing this Wednesday? Yeah. So literally our wedding is in three days. No, wedding's on three days. Two days. No, it goes up on Wednesday. It's the next week at Silly Uber. I'm like literally my brain's been falling. Yeah, well because we have so much. So it's a week in two days. Okay. So nine days. Yes. Nine days from the time that you're all seeing this depending on when you see this video we are going to be getting married. So it's crazy that we're going through all this. We just wanted to share the news you guys before the wedding because we're going to have so much wedding content and I just want to be able to get it out there before so you guys can get excited. We're going to bring you along with everything. I do want to do like a sit down Q&A and kind of answer any questions that you guys have and like our ideas are with the house. Just know we're going to build the most dreamiest house. Yes. It's going to be exactly how we want it. How we want it. That's the cool thing about building is like it's going to be a dream because you know our dream is different than your dream and your dream is different than anyone else's dream because like you might want three bathrooms we might want two bathrooms. We might want six bathrooms. You know, three car garage or a one car. Like everyone has a different sense of how it looks. So it's going to be a dream because this is our unique. Hopefully it turns out to be exactly what we want. Like saying this house that store being built and we were just here like a couple weeks ago and they didn't have the roof on it. And I just just knowing that they get to go and see what they've created is so exciting. That one's almost done. That one's probably like a month away. Oh my gosh. I wish I was awesome. I'm so excited. We're like a year and a half year out. So guys, just know it's going to be a process but by next year we should be moved in. Let's see where we're at this time next year. Okay. It is currently February 12th. Let's see if y'all can remind us in one year February 12th. Let's see where we're at and where the house is at. Do the house might be built, roof up, painted and almost ready. Things might go quicker than expected but things also could go a different route and go longer than expected. So we're just kind of playing it out right now. We're hoping we can talk with the builder this week so then we can get plans going. Things rolling because it's going to be a long process. It's going to be a long process. Let us know what you guys want to see and make sure you guys are following us on Snapchat. We have been so active on there. We post behind the scenes things and I feel like especially with this you guys will see so much on Snapchat so make sure you guys are following us on there. It's crazy. I can't wait to just take photos and updated photos of like, oh the foundations in. Oh the framing and the cinder blocks in. Oh the roof's in. Oh the drywall, the electricity, like everything. I can't wait for everything to like start bunching up because we live in Florida and around the area that we're living in we've seen new builds go up every day. In our neighborhood currently there's been 10 houses built since we lived there so we see the process from start to finish. Like a neighbor across the street just built their house and finished it like six months ago so it's crazy that we're gonna be doing it now. And if you've been following along with us you know we've been talking about this for so long. And it's actually a super common thing out here. Like everybody, cause there's so many lots available. I feel like in Chicago not a lot of people build at all. No I mean. Because there's really no lots but the neighborhood they just sell the houses. So guys that's us for our exciting news. Comment down below how excited you guys are. What are your thoughts? What are you feeling? And like Mariah said we are gonna be posting on both of our Instagrams pictures of us on the lot soon. When are we gonna post them? So today. So today or if y'all are watching this after today any time make sure to go check out our Instagram because it'll actually show you 10 times more than we showed you. Just because it faces almost the entire back corner of the lot. So it shows a lot of the lot in the Instagram photos. So you can kind of see exactly what we're working with. And I am so excited. I hope y'all are excited and I hope the anticipation is over. Now we just have our wedding coming up. So now we can actually party. Now we can get all of this out the way and party. No more secrets. And no more secrets with y'all. Okay, exciting secrets. Measure and we're pregnant. We gotta wait three months to tell them. Oh my God.   That's gonna be the only secret that we're gonna have for a couple months. For a couple months, yeah. But that's not gonna happen relatively soon. No, no we're not ready yet. But thank y'all so much for watching. I hope you enjoyed this video. I hope y'all are excited as we are. Leave your comments down below what you think. I wanna heart some of them and comment back to some of you guys to see what you guys are thinking. Like if you guys are excited. And we'll do like an updated Q and A like after the wedding and stuff and kind of discuss more and like go into detail about things. But we got a lot of content coming up. A lot of wedding videos. A lot of behind the scenes. And like we said, make sure to follow us on Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok so you do not miss out on any of the updated videos cause we got a lot coming. Oh a lot coming. Especially this month. Oh yeah. But thank y'all so much for watching. We will see you in the next video. But until then, peace. Love you guys.


Okay, good morning again everyone, I hope you're excited this morning to join class, where you're able to go through what we did in the first class, were you able to look at your notes, were you able to go through what we did in class one, yes, no, no response, which means you didn't have the time to go through, no worries, but it would just be nice if you could, you know, look through your notes, just brush through before you attend the next class. So, you know, if you have any doubts, you can ask and also there'll be a good connectivity you'll be able to understand. Before we begin today's class, can I ask somebody to lead us in prayer, please? Can somebody pray this morning? Anyone would like to lead us in prayer? Okay, thank you.  Father, we come to the throne of grace, thank you for the day, the new day of the blessed Lord. Lord, as we are going to study from your word, Lord, whatever we are going to study about your doctrines, Lord, deal with us and Lord teach us, Lord, we need your wisdom to understand all the things, Lord, all your secrets, Lord. Lord, whatever we will be studying, Lord, it should be stored in our heart and it should be used and should be manifested in our daily lives, Lord. The way we walk, the way we do everything, Lord, the Godly character we should display, Lord. In Jesus' name, we pray, amen. Amen. Thank you, Robert. Okay, so last week, the last, sorry, the last class, we looked at what is theology. We said theology is derived from two words, theos, meaning God and logia, meaning a sayings or utterance or theology is the study or teaching or the utterance about God. And then we looked at the definition of systematic theology, which is very simple, which basically is the study or the answer to the question, what does the whole Bible teach us about a specific topic? Okay, so any topic or any doctrine you like to study, you know, you look at the entire Bible to see what the entire Bible in its wholeness is talking about that specific topic. Then we looked at what is doctrine.  And so in systematic theology, doctrine is what the whole Bible teaches us with prayer, with humility, with reason, you know, with help from others, and also in praise and in worship. We looked at the prominent biblical doctrines. We just went through that. And then we went on to chapter one where we studied the doctrine of God, sorry, the doctrine of the word of God. And we said that this phrase, the word of God has several different meanings in the Bible. And we looked at one meaning, the first one that is the word of God as a person that is Jesus Christ. So the Bible refers to the Son of God, who is Jesus Christ, as the word of God. And we also saw that the word of God is referred to as the speech of God in the Bible. And under this point, the speech of God, we said that it would be a decree of God. A decree is an announcement, a judgment, a declaration that God makes. And we also learned that the word of God is powerful. Whatever God decrees, whatever God speaks, whatever God declares, that will come into existence, that will come into being. So God's word is powerful and the creative words from God is often called God's decrees. And we saw the example in Genesis chapter one, verse three. The second thing under this point that the word of God is a speech of God, we said that God's word, you know, is a personal address. Okay, can also mean God's word, can also mean a personal address, which means God is directly communicating to a person, a man or a woman, a child, a youth. You know, he's communicating what he wants to tell them in a way they will understand the language that they will understand. So these are God's word of personal address. And we saw one example in Genesis chapter two, verses 16 to 17, where we saw God speaking to Adam and Eve. And he commanded them that they can eat from any tree in the garden, but not from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.  So this is what we, you know, looked at in the first class. This is a short recap. And now going forward, the word of God, which is also the speech of God, can also, you know, be something that like a personal address when he's giving laws and commandments to his people. We read in Exodus chapter 20, verses one to three, and God spoke all these words saying, and then he lists out all the commandments to Moses. So this is God speaking the commandments to Moses. And, you know, which he passes on to the people of Israel. Okay, so that is God's decrees. The third thing under God's speech, the first thing we saw was God decrees. Second thing is God's personal address. The third thing is that God's word as speech is through human lips. God putting his words in the mouth of his people, which he wants to communicate his message or his laws, his commandments, or what he wants to say, or even his judgments. He puts his word into the mouths of people. We read in Deuteronomy chapter 18, verses 18 to 20.  Okay, so here God is saying that he will put his words in the mouths of the prophets that he wants to speak through them and he will command them to speak those words. Okay, in Jeremiah chapter 1 verse 9, can somebody turn to Jeremiah chapter 1 verse 9 and somebody else to Numbers chapter 22 verse 38. And can somebody read Jeremiah chapter 1 verse 9 and somebody else can read Numbers chapter 22 verse 38. Anyone can read Jeremiah chapter 1 verse 9. Okay, Jeremiah said, then the Lord put forth his hand and touched my mouth and the Lord said to me, behold, I have put my words in your mouth.  Numbers chapter 22 verse 38, has anyone opened to that? Numbers chapter 22 verse 38. And Balaam said to Balak, look, go ahead Rosalind. And Balaam said to Balak, look, I have come to you, now have I any power at all to say anything, the word that God puts in my mouth that I must speak. Thank you.  He says God has already put the words in his mouth. So when he's going to open his mouth, all he can speak is not what Balak is asking him or requesting him or, you know, going to pay him for, but he can only say what God has put in his mouth. So here God's word can also mean speech through human lips. God basically putting his words in the mouth of his people that he wants to communicate to others or he wants to pass on to others. The fourth thing is we see in God's word that God's word is in written form as well. So God's word is written form in the Bible. So we are looking at, you know, various meanings that God's word means in the Bible. We said God's word means the speech of God. We said that God's word is, you know, the person that is Jesus Christ and God's word is also in written form. Okay. So in written form means that God himself is writing the laws. We read this in a couple of scripture passages in Exodus. Exodus chapter 31 was 18. Exodus chapter 32 was 16. And Exodus chapter 34 versus 1 and 28. In all of these passages, you know, it's talking about God giving the laws, the commandments to Moses. And in Exodus chapter 31 was 18. God is saying here that, you know, we read that after God finishes speaking to Moses at Mount Sinai, he gave him the two tablets of stone written with the finger of God. That means God himself wrote those, you know, commandments engraved it on the stone. In Exodus chapter 32 was 16. It says that, you know, the tablets where the work of God and the writing was the writing of God engraved on the tablets. And in Exodus chapter 34 versus 1 to 28, it says the Lord said to Moses cut two tablets of stone like the first ones that he had cut.  Okay.  Now Moses also writes God's word and we read this in Deuteronomy chapter 31 versus 9 to 13 and versus 24 to 26. Now, we'll not be able to go through all of the scripture passages in class. I would encourage you to take some time to go through your notes to look at all these passages so that you can be benefited and, you know, learn much better. Okay. The first one is where Moses writes God's word. Second one, we also see that Joshua writes God's word. We read about this in Joshua chapter 24 versus 26. Now in Isaiah chapter 30 versus 8 and Jeremiah chapter 30 versus 2, you know, Isaiah and Jeremiah say that, you know, they are being told to write God's word. Now God tells them, communicates them, you know, what he wants the people to know or what the message that he wants to communicate to the others. And Isaiah and Jeremiah say that, you know, they're being told to write God's word. In 1 Corinthians chapter 14 verse 37, Paul is writing the command of the Lord. Paul saying, I'm writing to you the command of the Lord. That means what he's heard, what the Lord has commanded him that he's writing to the church at Corinth. Okay. So even as we see that, you know, Moses, Joshua, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Paul are all writing down what God has communicated to them. You know, we still have to consider these as God's word, even though it has been written by human beings and in human language. Okay.  But even though we see that it's human writing in their own language, but it is still considered to be God's word. And that is why, you know, we say that the Bible is a divine revelation. Now, what do we learn from all of these points that I've just mentioned is that the Bible is a divine revelation. Now, what is revelation? How can you define revelation? Anyone would like to see what is your understanding of revelation? What does revelation mean? Revelation could be what it applies to our life as in God speaks. Okay.  It is an exposure. You said it's an exposure? Yes. Okay. Okay. Thank you, Paul. Yes, Siddhu. Ma'am, I think that the meaning of revelation, which I think personally is that something which is in secret, it is made known to us. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Thank you all. So, yes, go ahead. Abu, how do we pronounce your name? Abu Bakr. Bakr. Okay. Abu Bakr. Sorry. Yes. It's a way of knowing mystery things, to know the mind of God, to know the will of God for our life. Okay. To know the will of God, to know the mind of God. Okay. Thank you. Now, some of these things that I'm mentioning in class today is not there in your notes, so if you can just follow and throw your notes and you just want to make in your own notes, you're welcome to do so. So, revelation can be defined as an act of God, whereby he discloses himself or communicates truth to the mind, whereby he manifests himself to creation. That which could not be known in any other way. I'll just repeat that again. So, revelation is basically an act of God, where he discloses himself or communicates the truth to the mind, whereby he makes himself known or he manifests himself. Manifests means he makes himself known to his creation, to his creatures, to humans, that which could not be known in any other way. Now, this revelation may occur in a single instantaneous act, or it may extend to a long period of time. Okay. And this communication of him and his truth may be perceived by the human mind in various degrees of fullness. So, it's not just something that happens at, it can happen just at one instantaneous moment, but it can also happen through a period of time where God is revealing himself, making known the truth which otherwise is not known. And this is something that can be perceived by the human mind in varying degrees of fullness. Okay. Now, the important emphasis in revelation or this word revelation is that God discloses truth about himself that man would not know otherwise. Okay.  Okay. So, it's given both in event and in word. So, event is through history, through his creation, through that how God discloses himself or reveals himself to the conscience of man, or it can be even through scripture. So, it's given both in event and in word. Okay. So, we see that revelation is both general where God is revealing himself through history and through creation or through his nature. And it can also be special where God is revealing himself through his word that is to scripture and through his son. So, we see revelation is both general and special general because it can, God is revealing himself through history, God is revealing himself through his nature. And it's also special because God is revealing himself through his word scripture and through his son. Okay. So, that is why we say that Bible is of a divine origin or it's a divine revelation, even though it's written by humans, their own way of understanding and through their language. Okay. Now, we see that the Bible is, has a divine origin. You know, some 3800 times in the Bible, it declares God said, or does says the Lord. So, there's some 3800 times in the Bible where there is a declaration that says God said, or does says the Lord. And there are various scripture passages that prove this. And the Bible we see that was, was written by 40 different authors through a varied period of time that is 1500 years in different locations under various different circumstances. By different people who never even met each other because they said it is through a period of time that is more than 1500 years. And but we see that irrespective of this time span and 40 different authors who wrote at different times in history, some never even met each other. But yet we see that, you know, the Bible is one whole, it's a unified whole. Okay. There are no contradictions. There are no inconsistencies within its pages. And so how can we explain this? How can we say that even though the Bible was written by 40 different authors through a whole time span of 1500 years in different points in history, different circumstances, different situations. Yet there is no contradictions. There is no inconsistencies. It is one unified whole. Now, how can we explain this? Anyone would like to answer? How can we explain this? Who do you think is the main author then? Holy Spirit. Thank you, Paul. It's the Holy Spirit. So that's the Holy Spirit is the unifier of the 66 books. And he determines the harmonious consistency and the unified wholeness that is there in the Bible. So it's apparent that no human being or no human beings could have orchestrated this harmony, this perfect unity that is there running through the entire scripture. But it's the divine authority or it's the divine authorship of the Bible that is the Holy Spirit, which is the answer to it being one unified whole. Okay. So even though the Bible is God's word, God's own words written down mostly by human beings in human language, but it is absolutely authoritative. Now, what do I mean when I say it's absolutely authoritative? It's reliable and it's trustworthy and it's absolutely true. Why? Because it is inspired by God or it's, it's God breed. And how do we know this? Which scripture reference says that God's word is inspired or God breed? Second Timothy 316. Thank you, John. Second Timothy 316 says all scripture is given by inspiration of God and it's profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness. So here you see that all scripture is given by inspiration of God. Inspiration is very, very necessary to preserve the revelation of God. If God has revealed himself, but this record of that revelation is not accurately recorded, then the revelation of God is subject to question. So why are we saying that, you know, it's not a recorded exactly because it is through a human beings. It is how the human, the person has understood, has perceived it and how the person is writing. So we're saying that, you know, inspiration is very, very necessary because even though it is, the Bible has the word of God, it's a revelation of God. And if this, if God has revealed himself, but this record of this revelation is not accurately recorded, then this revelation of God is subject to question. And so inspiration is very, very important when we're talking about inspiration. We're talking about the Holy Spirit, you know, inspiring the authors to write exactly what they heard or what God revealed to them. So hence we see that inspiration guarantees the accuracy of the revelation that is written by humans through their heads. Okay, so what is inspiration? Okay, inspiration can be defined as the Holy Spirit, super intending. That means the Holy Spirit directing the Holy Spirit controlling or having a control over the writers. So that while they are writing or recording what they heard, what God revealed to them in their own style, their own personalities, the result was exactly what God had revealed to them. It was God's word written or God's word revealed to them exactly and hence it is authoritative, hence it is trustworthy and it's free from error, from any kind of error in the original autographs. Okay, any questions thus far? Any doubts, anything you all didn't understand? You want me to explain again? Okay, so just say that again. We're saying that, you know, God revealed, you know, or made known things that was not formally known to people.  And so when God reveals it, it's actually and he's telling them to write it down. It's the human being with their own personality, their style and what they've understood and what they've perceived, they're writing God's revelation. Now if they write it and, you know, the record of that revelation is not accurately recorded, then, you know, the whole revelation of God or the whole Bible is subject to question or to doubt. Okay, so we see that inspiration guarantees the accuracy of the revelation. And we said that inspiration is basically the Holy Spirit's superintending that means directing, controlling or having a control over the writers so that they're exactly recording or writing what God has revealed to them, even though they're writing it in their own style and personality, the result is God's word that is written which is authoritative, which is trustworthy, and which is free from any kind of error. Okay, so this brings us to the next topic of canon. Okay, the canonization of scripture. Okay, I'll explain to you what is the meaning of canon or canon and what is the meaning of canonization of scripture. Okay, so if the scriptures are inspired by God, you know, then a significant question arises, which books are inspired and which books are not inspired. Okay, so how do we know that all of the 66 books in the Bible are actually inspired by God, and it's written by authors who have received the revelation and have been inspired by God or that means the Holy Spirit has enabled them. Why are the other books that were written during this time? Why are they not in the Bible? So who made the decision? What was the criteria used to see whether all of these 66 books should be in the Bible or not? Okay, so we look at that in the canon of scripture. Okay, so historically it's important for the people of God to determine which books God had inspired and which were recognized as authoritative. Now, this thing brought about the canonization of scripture. Now, this word canon is used to describe the inspired books. This word comes from the Greek, which is canon, K-A-N-O-N, or also from the Hebrew word, which is kana, which is Q-A-N-A-H, which is basically meaning a measuring rod, okay, or a measuring stick. In terms that canon and canonical thus came to signify the standards by which certain books, the books of the Bible were measured to determine whether or not they were inspired by God and if they should be in the Bible. So basically it's like a measuring stick or a ruler that we use to measure something, to find the accuracy of it. And so this whole canonization of scripture came about to just bring about a measuring stick, a standard to use to see which books should be in the Bible and which shouldn't be. Okay, so we see that even though these things were set up by people, the canonization of scripture, it is not the religious councils, not at any point of time. It was not the religious councils that had the power to determine which books should be in the Bible, which shouldn't be, which books were inspired and which books were not. Rather it's simply recognized that within, that within God, what God had inspired for the exact moment it was written by the authors. So how can we say that, you know, they knew which was inspired or not because these books were already recognized as authoritative. Why? Because it was spoken through prophets. It was spoken through people whom at that point in time in history, the people around them recognized these people as prophets, recognized them as priests, recognized them as scribes, or people who, you know, God revealed through them. Okay, so even as these people wrote, the authors in the Bible wrote, they were already considered as authoritative. The words were considered as authoritative because the people around them already recognized them as authoritative figures because they knew that God was speaking to them because what they were speaking came about. You know, they heard God speaking to them. They knew that God had chosen them as leaders, as prophets and as priests. So these books were already recognized as inspired by God because it was spoken through his people that he had chosen. And it was not by some religious councils that came up later who sat down and, you know, put things into shape or form to determine which books were inspired or not.  So it's the Jews, the early Jews and the, you know, traditional Christians that recognized the 39 books of the Old Testament as inspired. And it was the evangelical Protestants that recognized the 27 books of the New Testament as inspired. So it was, these books were considered as inspired, not based on some religious councils that met and, you know, put down a measuring stick or a measuring rod to measure which was inspired or not. But it was already recognized as inspired, word of God inspired scripture by the people in that time of history because they recognized these prophets, their priests or their leaders as God chosen and hence they speaking God's word or God communicating to them and, you know, they teaching the people of Israel or the people who were there at that time. Any questions so far? Any questions? One question, Pasha. So why is it that maybe through the traditions that we have learned, we have heard the Nicene, another council came up and they decided on... Pasha, can you hear me? Yeah, a little better. Okay. Pasha, my question was why through the history that we have learned that it was through a council, was there a council for the determination of canon or is it inspired only through God? So we're saying that, you know, yes, there were people who came around, you know, to consider, you know, which books were inspired, which books were not. But I'm saying that it was not they who determined whether it was, you know, kind of inspired books because they already considered it as inspired books because of the person who was speaking and the people at that time who recognized, you know, that they were prophets or teachers or scribes or priests. And so it was already considered as authoritative. They just, you know, took it and, you know, just determined that these are the books that were there as a unified whole in the Bible. If you go through the Old Testament canon and the New Testament canon and we see the criteria, then you'll see that, you know, which were the books that were inspired, which books were considered to be in the Bible, which books were not and why they were not considered, then you'll have a better understanding. Sure. Thank you. So what we're saying really is that the religious councils at no point of time had any power to cause books to be inspired. Okay, like there were other books that are not included in the Bible. Okay, they could have chosen those books and said those books are inspired by God and brought in the Bible. And these councils, you know, had no power or had, you know, at any point of time to cause books to be inspired. That is what we are saying. Did you understand now? Yes, thank you. So they had no power to cause books to be inspired. They already considered the books that were inspired to be part of the Bible.  And, you know, hence they were declaring the revelation of God and hence that whole thing that they had written was inspired by God. Is somebody else had a question? Yeah, and I have. Yeah, sure. Yeah, just think about this religious council. How was this constituted? By who was this council's constituted? Okay, so these religious councils basically came up at different times or different points in history to confront or, you know, the false teachings or false declarations that were made against, you know, the Bible or against teachings of the Bible, doctrines that were false doctrines. So these various councils came about at various point of time in history to defend the truth in God's word or to defend the right theology, even about the Son of God. And hence these councils came about and that's when they made creeds, like the Nicene Creed, the Apostolic Creed and all of those creeds. They made it just to, you know, to consolidate or to lay down basic truths that we as Christians believe which are against the wrong teachings or the false doctrines that were prevalent at that time. Did I answer your question? Yeah, I think I'm okay with that. Thank you. Okay, thank you. So we look at the Old Testament, how the canonization of the Old Testament, basically how the books in the Old Testament came into being, how it was formulated, and what was the criteria used to, you know, see whether these books were inspired and whether they should be in the Bible. Now the earliest collections of the written Word of God is the Ten Commandments and we know that it was, and I just said earlier in the class that it was written by God Himself at the finger of God. Okay. And these two tablets that God gave Moses, he was put in the Ark of the Covenant. We read this in Deuteronomy chapter 10, verse 5. And we see that, you know, this was the first basic writing and there was more added to these two tablets. So Moses wrote additional words and he asked the priest to deposit it beside the Ark of the Covenant. And we read this in Deuteronomy chapter 31, verses 24 to 26. It says that when Moses had completed writing the words of this law in a book, when he had finished it, Moses commanded the Levites who bore the Ark of the Covenant saying, take this book of the law and put it beside the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord, your God that it may be there as a witness against you. And of course God wrote those two tablets. They put it in the Ark of the Covenant and then there were not just Ten Commandments that God gave Moses. You know, it says that there are 613 laws that God gave Moses, which he wrote them all down and he gave it to the priest to keep it beside the Ark of the Covenant. Now to this, Joshua added, we read this in Joshua chapter 24, verse 26, then Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God. So he adds more. Now God had earlier given a command to Moses that you shall not add to the word which I command you, nor take from it that you may keep the commandments of the Lord, your God, which I command you. So now for Joshua to add to what Moses had written, you know, if he should have been convinced that he was not taking it upon himself to write something that he thought he heard or he wanted to write, but it was the very words of God and God himself authorizing him to write it. Now later after Moses wrote and Joshua wrote and we see that there were others who were in the office of a prophet or a priest or a leader. They wrote down additional words that they received from God and it was added in. We read in 1 Samuel chapter 10 verse 25 that, you know, Samuel writes down the rights and the duties of kingship. And we see that every king when he comes into his position as a king is supposed to read all of these rules and laws and the things that he has to do as a king. In 2 Chronicles chapter 26 verse 22, we see a reference to Isaiah writing about Uzair. So we see that more and more people were adding to the content that was already there. In Jeremiah chapter 30 verse 2, God instructing Jeremiah to write down his words. And I said earlier also that God tells Isaiah to write down what he has spoken to him. So we see this way the content of the Old Testament canon continued to grow till the end of the writing process with the book of Malachi which is around 435 BC. We'll just end this class. I just list out. It's not there in your notes so you can take it down if you want. Just some specific tests that were considered, you know, which books should be in the Old Testament or the canonical books of the Old Testament. The first thing they looked at was did the book indicate divine authorship? Okay, was the person chosen by God as a priest, as a prophet, as a leader? The second thing is did it reflect God speaking through a mediator? You know, that's why I said people recognize them because they knew that God was speaking to this person. So did it reflect God speaking through a mediator? The third thing was that was the human author a spokesman of God? Okay, did God choose him? Was he speaking for God? Was God revealing things through him? The next thing is was he a prophet or did he have the prophetic gift? Okay, that's quite evident because when they speak, you know, God's word is powerful, is creative. I said in the beginning and last class as well that, you know, it happens, whatever God speaks, it happens. So people were able to see it and testify, yes, this is a prophet and this is a man that God is speaking through. The next thing is was the book historically accurate? Now, when writing all of these revelations or these people were recording it, is that historical accuracy? The next thing is did it reflect a record of actual facts? Okay, did it record the actual facts, the actual events that were happening at that time? The last thing is how was the book received by the Jews? How was this book received by the people? I'll repeat that again. What would a specific test to consider the canonicity of the books of the Old Testament? The first thing is the book indicate divine authorship. The second thing is did it reflect God speaking through a mediator? The third was a human authored a spokesman of God. The fourth is was he a prophet or did he have a prophetic gift? The fifth was the book historically accurate? The sixth, did it reflect a record of actual facts? The seventh is how was the book received by the Jews? Okay, so these are the seven things that were used to determine the inspiration or the accuracy of the books in the Old Testament. And so in summary, the books of the Old Testament were divinely inspired and considered as authoritative the moment they were written, the moment that it was written. Why? Because the people at that time recognized the writers as spokesmen of God or somebody who was a prophet, somebody who God spoke through. Okay, so finally there was a collection of these books into a canon and the Jewish literature that was prevalent around this time, outside the Old Testament, the Romanical literature and other Jewish historians at that point of time testified to the fact that there is no more writings that are treated as the word of God after 435 BC. So it was not just the people at that time, but also people who wrote many Jewish literature outside the Old Testament books, rabbinical literature written by rabbis and also Jewish historians who are living at that time, they testified to this fact that there are no more books that were written that considered to be inspired that had to be in the Bible after 435 BC. Okay, I'll stop here. Any questions? Was it clear where you're able to understand? Yes, no? Yes, Pastor. Okay, go ahead, John, you have to say something. I was saying it is clear. Oh, okay. Okay, thank you everyone. Sorry for the delay in starting today's class. Have a good day and a blessed weekend and I'll see you next week. And please take some time to read your notes so that if you have any doubts, you can ask that next class. Thank you everyone. See you all. Bye. Thank you, Ma. Thank you, Ma. Thank you.


So I think there's still some lifting to do. I mean, obviously the heavy lifting was Aaron Judge. But you need a left fielder. You want a left fielder preferably that's left-handed that can make contact. And Ben and Tendi fits that. Does he want to come back? We will find out. And I think the ink is still very much in on Carlos Rodan. So if you could get Rodan and put him right behind Garrett Cole, it's a pretty good 1-2 punch. And then the rest of the starting rotation works out to be excellent as well. And All-Star would be in number three in Nesta Cortez. And you hope that Frankie Montas comes back. So there's a lot of moving parts I don't think they're done. Yeah, Rodan, to me, is interesting because it seems it could go one of two ways, right? It could be, well, we've got to go big with a second player. We've got to go all in because we're hearing possible six years for him. On the flip side, maybe it's kind of a wait-and-see game with him where it's like, well, we don't think anybody's going to give him six, although pitching is at a premium it seems right now. So maybe we kind of wait and see if we can jump in there for four or five.  So Verlander signed essentially through the age of 43. They gave DeGram a five-year deal at 35, and he can't stay healthy. So six years, $30 million, I don't think really jumps out at you. This guy has had a lot of accomplishments. The last couple of years, he's been great. He's had shoulder surgery already. He's had Tommy John surgery already.