With that said, we're going to begin here in chapter 13 in the Gospel of Mark at verse 14, and we'll get to verse 23, and we're going to be looking at that today. We're looking at what is called the Great Tribulation. So beginning at verse 14, Mark chapter 13, Jesus is speaking, so when you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, let the reader understand, then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Let him who is on the housetop not go down into the house, nor enter to take anything out of his house, and let him who is in the field not go back to get his clothes. But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days. Pray that your flight may not be in winter, for in those days there will be tribulation such as has not been since the beginning of the creation which God created until this time, nor ever shall be. And unless the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh would be saved, but for the elect sake whom he chose, he shortened the days. And if anyone says to you, look, here is the Christ, or look, he's there. Do not believe it, for false Christ and false prophets will rise and show signs and wonders to deceive if possible, even the elect. But take heed, see, I have told you all things beforehand. Now as we're in chapter 13, I have a tendency of giving you a little bit of a reminder. This won't be that long this time. But Jesus is answering a question that he had been asked by his men. He had said that the temple would be destroyed and that had disturbed them. So when you combine the accounts from the Gospel of Mark and Luke and Matthew, we get a more full response. They had asked, when will these things be? And what is the sign when these things will take place and the end of the age? In response, Jesus gave his longest answer recorded in the Gospels and he outlined events that would precede his second coming, precede his return. He had said that there will be spiritual deception, that there will be wars and earthquakes, that there will be famines and plagues and all of this will increase over time. In this chapter in verse 8, he had said these are only what he said is the beginning of sorrows. And I mentioned to you that the word sorrows is a Greek word that speaks of severe agony. This is only the beginning of severe agony is what he's saying. But the word sorrow there in the Greek also speaks concerning birth pains. So wars and earthquakes, famines, plagues, he is saying are only the birth pains. And like birth pains, they're clear indicators that there's more yet to come. Now I mentioned that in our day we are seeing much of what he had prophesied come to pass. These are the things that are indicators that his return is certain and not far off. Now he went on to give more details on the future period called the tribulation. That's a seven year period that God is pouring out his wrath.  You see it and we'll see this in a moment described in more detail in the book of Revelation, the last book of the Bible, chapter 6 through 19. Now in this chapter as we've already seen in verses 9 through 13, Jesus was speaking of a time of persecution. The tribulation will be a time of persecution. And as we looked at those verses, it would be found in four basic sources. There would be religious persecution, governmental persecution. You'll receive persecution from your own family and general societal persecution. And so he mentioned those things and spoke concerning those things and closed in verse 13 with a promise. He had said, He who endures to the end shall be saved. Now the word endure speaks of burying up, holding fast. It speaks of persevering under great pressure and trial. You see a believer's real faith is evidenced by holding fast to the very end no matter what. And so as we're looking at chapter 13, at this point we've arrived at the middle of what is called the tribulation. To set the stage for you a little bit, unbelieving Israel has been deceived by one called the Antichrist. Promises of peace have been made and believed a covenant has been signed. Now we've all heard the name Antichrist. The word Antichrist actually has dual meaning. Antichrist can speak of against Antichrist but it also speaks of instead of Christ. So the Antichrist is instead of Christ and against Christ. And this is a figure that is a coming world ruler. And so Antichrist in Scripture is going to make a covenant, an agreement with the nation of Israel. We've already looked at some of that, I'm just reminding you of that. And as part of the agreement, the covenant he makes will be the rebuilding of the Jewish temple. Now there's a famous rabbinic scholar who lived around 1135 to 1204 AD and he had said that the temple will be built by Messiah himself and that its construction will be one of the signs that he is Messiah. And that may be part of how the Antichrist deceives the nation of Israel. But in the middle of the tribulation Antichrist is going to break this covenant. He's going to demand worship in the temple and he's going to declare himself to be God. In verse 14 it says, when you see the abomination spoken up by Daniel the prophet. Well Daniel the prophet is an Old Testament prophet he obviously wrote the book of Daniel in chapter 9 verse 27. This is what he said, speaking of Antichrist you will confirm a covenant with many for one seven. That word seven speaks of seven years. So he'll confirm a covenant with many for seven years. In the middle of the seven he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And at the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation until the end that is decreed is poured out on him. Well Matthew 24 15 says the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place. So we have a description and a location. So it is standing in the holy place. This is an abomination of desolation. The word abomination speaks of something that is foul something that is hated by God something detestable it can even be used to describe an idol. The word desolation means just that devastation. The abomination that causes devastation is what is being referred to something hated by God. But notice again in Matthew 24 15 it reads that this is standing in the holy place. Now when you're looking at a diagram of the ancient temple it had what is called an outer court it had a bronze basin it had an altar of sacrifice in it was a rectangular building divided into the holy place and the holy of holies. And so the holy place had a table of showbread it was bread that was before it's called also the bread of the presence 12 loaves of bread that are there representing the nation of Israel. It had the lamp stand because the nation of Israel was supposed to be at the light of the world. It had the altar of incense which is speaking of prayer. These things represented Israel as the light of the world as well as prayer. And the temple emphasized the presence of God among his people. The temple was to demonstrate that God was always there and accessible. At the same time the holy place and most holy place emphasized God's holiness and his inaccessibility due to the sins of the people. So there had to be sacrifice. There had to be things done in order for them to be able to enter into some form of relationship with him. But we know that Jesus is the bread of life. We know that he is the light of the world and we know that he is the center of prayer. So by setting his throne in the holy place Antichrist is declaring himself to be God. In 2 Thessalonians chapter 2 verse 4 speaking of the Antichrist he will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worship. So that he sets himself up in God's temple proclaiming himself to be God. So Antichrist will enter the temple. He's going to demand worship and that's going to catch Israel by surprise. You see Israel had been experiencing peace for the first time. Even when you go to Israel to this day they're really always on the alert ready for attack because the nation has to be that way in order to survive. At least that's what they think.  You will go through different places in Israel and you will see young people and they'll be carrying M16s everywhere. On buses everywhere they're there. They're on the constant alert. But when Antichrist sets up this covenant, this agreement they're going to have peace for the first time in many, many years. But the Bible in 1 Thessalonians 5.3 says while people are saying peace and safety destruction will come on them suddenly as labor pains on a pregnant woman they will not escape. The peace will be destroyed. Antichrist is going to declare himself to be God. He will start the second half of the seven year period and that second half, that three and a half years is called great tribulation. The first three and a half years are referred to as tribulation. The second great tribulation. And what it'll do is he's going to initiate persecution against both Jewish and Gentile believers. In Revelation 13.7 and 8 it says it was given power to wage war against God's holy people and to conquer them it was given authority over every tribe. People language and nation. All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast. All whose names have not been written in the Lamb's book of life, the Lamb who is slain from the creation of the world. You see Jesus had said in verse 5, take heed that no one deceives you. Antichrist is going to be a political figure as well as a religious figure and Antichrist is going to have a false prophet, the ultimate false prophet. There are many false prophets you see in the Old Testament, many false prophets that are named and false teachers in the new. But the false prophet at the end is going to be the worst of all of them. His religion, Antichrist religion will be promoted by the most evil false prophet in history. In Revelation 13.11 through 15 John said I saw a second beast coming out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb but it spoke like a dragon. It exercised all the authority of the first beast on its behalf and made the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast whose fatal wound had been healed and it performed great signs even causing fire to come down from heaven to the earth in full view of the people. Because of the signs that was given power to perform on behalf of the first beast, it deceived the inhabitants of the earth. It ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived. The second beast was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed. And so he's describing what has taken place in the second half. Notice in verse 14 how you all of a sudden see the words and parentheses, let the reader understand. That lets us know that what Christ is saying is actually for those who are going to be hearing later on. This is not for his men. If you look at your Bible, perhaps you have what are called red, red letter additions. The words of Christ are in red. If you have that, you'll notice that these words are not in red. They're just regular black. That's what is called an interpolation. That is for Mark as he's writing, by putting in parentheses, he's saying this is for you. This is for you who are reading that let the reader understand. It's obviously not the men he's speaking to who had asked the original question. These, the things he's saying right now are for those who later will read this, which would include us in this room. So let the reader understand. These words are written for you who will read this. It's intended to help us to understand, especially those who are going through this time to endure what is occurring. And so as he's speaking, he says then in verse 14, let those who are in Judea, southern Israel, flee to the mountain. Judea speaks of the southern portion of Israel. You have the northern central and the southern. Judea is in the southern. Judea also is where Jerusalem is. And so he's saying, let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Now those living closest to the temple will be the first targets of anti-Christ persecution. And so the word is flee, run for safety, take flight in order to escape danger. But not every Jew will be successful in escaping persecution. As a matter of fact, the Bible makes it clear very few living in that area will survive. In the Old Testament, because Zechariah 13 verses 8 and 9, it says, in the whole land declares the Lord, two thirds will be struck down and perish. Yet one third will be left in it. This third I will bring into the fire. I will refine them like silver. Test them like gold. They will call on my name. I will answer them. I will say they are my people. They will say the Lord is our God. So those who escape have come to faith in the true Messiah, Jesus. That trial, that time of trial, is going to purge the nation. Zechariah 39 said, this third I will bring into the fire. I'm going to refine them. I'm going to test them. The result is they're going to call on God.  They will call Him their God. Again, in Zechariah 12, 10, God said this, I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and supplication.  Yes, they will mourn for him as one mourns for his only son and grieve for him as one grieves for a firstborn. There was a Bible teacher who was speaking to a former prime minister of the nation of Israel. And he read Zechariah 12, 10 and said, who is speaking here? And the answer from the prime minister was, well, that is God speaking because it says I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and supplication. And so they said, well, that is God. God will pour on the house. So the second question that they asked is this, when it says they will look on me whom they have pierced, when did Israel pierce their God? And the prime minister didn't want to answer why? Because they pierced their God when Jesus was pierced for our transgressions, when Jesus was crucified. The prime minister knew this was God speaking, but the question was asked, when did you pierce God? And they didn't want to answer. The prime minister did not want to answer because it pointed them to Jesus Christ. Those who survive will be purged. They will be what he calls my covenant people. Jeremiah 30 verse 11 says, I am with you, sayeth the Lord, to save you.   The Jews had been scattered at the time of the destruction of the temple. The Jewish people were scattered throughout the world. And you can go to many regions of the world today, and you can, and often do, encounter Jewish believers. It's interesting. There are Jewish believers in China, Jewish believers in India, there are Jewish believers in the African continent, here in the United States. Everywhere, Marie and I, my wife and I, have gone to Israel a number of times, and on one occasion we were in a Megiddo, a place called Megiddo, and as we're in this souvenir shop, that's a form of purgatory for husbands, souvenir shop. But as we're in the shop, my wife comes walking up to me, Marie, and she says, honey, you've got to come over here. And I said, oh no, so I lost my wallet. No, she wasn't asked for that. I said, OK, so I come walk into where she's at, and she's in one of the areas of the shop. And she said, I'd like you to meet so and so, and she introduces, and she says to the man, tell him where you're from. And the man was from Mexico. He's a Mexican Jew. And so we spoke for a while and all, and so the whole thing is, as you will go to Israel, and there are stereotypes that people have. We've had them so many years, caricatures of what a Jewish person looks like. I can tell you, I've seen Jews who are from Africa, from South America, from some of them are blondes with blue eyes, others are very dark skinned, everything in between. And so God has allowed them to be scattered, but he's also regathering them, which is when the fig tree began to blossom. They've returned since 1948, and so they've been coming slowly. They haven't fully come, but they're coming slowly, and the nation is being built up and all, because the Lord did scatter them. But now he's beginning that regathering. Now during this time, many non-Jewish Christians will be killed. It occurs to that ungodly persecution. Mark 1310 had said, the gospel must first be preached to all nations. So believers will be during the tribulation preaching the gospel, and persecution continues to increase, and many will be slaughtered. There'll be those who come to faith in Christ, but many will be slaughtered for their faith in Jesus, who is Messiah. Again, Revelation makes that clear. In Revelation 6, 9, and 10, it says, when he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the Word of God and the testimony they had maintained. They called out in a loud voice, how long, Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood. In Revelation 13, verse 7, it says, Antichrist was given power to make war against the saints and to conquer. That word conquer speaks of overcoming or prevailing, and to conquer them.  So the great tribulation that Jesus is speaking of here in this chapter, you see the great tribulation beginning in the middle of that seven-year period, and he says, when these things are taking place, verse 14, he says, those who are in Judea, flee to the mountains. There's going to be divine help. There will be protection provided for you. Now, he's referring to God, reserving believers. God is going to provide a place of refuge for them. In Revelation 12, verses 1 through 6, as well as verses 13 and 14, there it speaks of Israel fleeing to a place prepared by God. In Revelation 12, verse 6 and verse 14, it says that she's taken care of for three and a half years. In Revelation 12, 14, it also says, the woman, speaking of believers, was given the two wings of a great eagle so that she might fly to the place prepared for her in the wilderness, where she would be taken care of for a time, times, and half a time. That's three and a half years out of the serpent, which is the devil, out of the serpent's reach. Now, many believe that this place that has been prepared for them is a place called Petra, that's in Jordan. In the book of Isaiah, chapters 16, verses 1 through 4, it reads, send the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela, which is Petra, to the wilderness, to the mount of the daughter of Zion. For it shall be a wandering bird thrown out of the nest, so shall be the daughters of Moab. Moab is Jordan, at the fords of the Arnon, which is a river. Take counsel, execute judgment, make your shadow like the night in the middle of the day. Hide the outcast, do not betray him who escapes.  Devastation ceases, the oppressors are consumed out of the land. Now, only a genuine believer in Jesus Christ is gonna take him at his word. A genuine believer listens to what the Lord says, and a genuine Christian obeys. We know here in the United States that there is a large amount of people still to this day professing to be Christians. I was seeing just yesterday in a news report that back in like 1970s, around 90 plus percent of Americans who were polled, concerning the religious faith, would claim themselves to be Christians. It's gone down to the mid 60% in our time. There has been a recession and a regression of those who openly profess Christ, but still the majority in our nation say they are Christian to this day. But only a genuine Christian is obedient to God. Those who profess to be Christians, and when they read something in scripture or hear something they don't like, they reject it. Why? Because they're not really Christians. What they are are people who profess a certain thing, but when it comes down to obedience, they don't do that. You see, Jesus in John 14, 15 said, if you love me, keep my commandments. In John 15, 14, he said, you are my friends, if you do, whatsoever I command you. In the book of Luke chapter 6, 46, why do you call me Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say? So a person who claims Christ as a believer in Christ, very often, are simply saying that because they're not a Muslim or a Hindu or of some other faith. But in fact, a genuine Christian, a real Christian, is somebody who is hungry for the word of God and somebody who's obedient to what it says. You see, we don't take the Bible and take out the portions of it we don't like because we don't agree with that. We take the whole counsel of God, we're to apply those things to our lives because that's how we're transformed. And that's how we demonstrate that we actually know God. There are millions who profess to know Christ who are ignorant of what he says. And when they are informed of what he says, they reject it. They say, oh no, that's just a book. That's just, that's for some other time. That was written for people of another age, but not today. But no, during this time, those who are fleeing the way he says are the genuine deal. They're the ones who are going and protected. The others are going to be slaughtered. Now in verse 15, it says, let him who is on the housetop not go down into the house, nor enter to take anything out of his house. Let him who is in the field not go back to get his clothes. Now when it says, let him who's on the housetop, in other words, it's an outdoor patio. He's got a roof there that he has seated in.  Why? Because no material possession is worth the risk of being caught and killed. You don't want to go back, flee. Don't go back into danger. I was reading about a lady, an older woman who was taking a shower and her house was on fire. And when she could smell the smoke and when she saw the flames and so she just ran out. She didn't even grab a towel. She just ran out straight from the shower into the street and she was standing there on the sidewalk naked. And as she's standing on the sidewalk, people from around were seeing the flames that were starting to come out of her house and she turned and she looked at them and she ran back into the house. And she came running out a minute later but this time she had her false teeth on. Anyway, don't run back. That's actually, I think that's a true story. But notice what it says in verse 17, woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days. Obviously, mamas and pregnant women are not able to move quickly. And because of this, when they're caught, they will be violently murdered. In verse 18, pray that your flight may not be in winter. Again, in Jerusalem and in that surrounding area down there, that's south. Winters are normally fairly mild. The conditions, the temperature and weather conditions in Israel are very similar to here. When we go on trips to Israel, people will say, what should I be dressed like?  Is it gonna be hot? And we always say the same thing. California and Israel, the conditions are generally about the same. So the way you're dressing in California from here, that's pretty much what it'll be like when you're in Israel. But it can get cold. And during the winter, it can be cold. I have a picture of my daughter Anna and me and we're in Jerusalem seated on some steps. And I have this thick sweatshirt and I have my hoodie over me and she's got me by the arm and she's pressed on me. And it was snowing. So it can be severe sometimes. Not always, but sometimes. And so winters can be severe. So pray that you're not fleeing during the winter, but he also speaks of the Sabbath. We're on the Sabbath because there may be some who are legalistic Jewish people who may hinder your flight. He says in verse 19, for in those days, there will be tribulation such as not been, has not been since the beginning of the creation which God created until this time, nor ever shall be in those days. Again, Jesus is describing what Matthew referred to in Matthew 24, 21 as great tribulation. Matthew 24, 21 says, then there will be great tribulation such as not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be. In the Old Testament book of Daniel chapter 12, it says there will be a time of distress such as has not happened from the beginning of nations until then. Now let me give you a little more information on this. The great tribulation is a series of escalating judgments revealing the wrath of God. It's clearly revealed in Revelation 6 through 19 and it has three escalating judgments beginning with the seal judgments that lead to what are called the trumpet judgments which take you to the bowl judgments. And the most intensive of the judgments are called the bowl judgments. You find that in Revelation 16. So there are seven bowls that are poured out containing the wrath of God. The first bowl that is poured out by an angel results in ugly festering sores breaking out on those who have the mark of the beast. The second is the angel turns the sea into blood killing everything. The third is an angel dries up the rivers and rather the rivers and springs due to the angel are turned into blood. Then the sun scorches people with intense heat. The fifth is when antichrist kingdom is plunged into darkness. People are gnawing their tongues in pain. The sixth bowl is the Euphrates River dried up. It prepares for the kings of the east. Demonic spirits are performing signs. They go out to the kings of the world. They gather them for Armageddon. And then the seventh is lightning and thunder. The worst earthquake that has ever been on earth will occur. Cities will collapse. Mountains will move. There'll be a hundred pound hailstones killing people. Babylon will be destroyed. And it ends with Jesus returning. Hundred pound hailstones. We were in Indiana at a pastor's conference and they had a hailstorm. Now we Californians, we have them. And the hailstones I've seen here in California are small. They're not very large, but these were the size of golf golf balls. And it was hitting and denting all the cars that were in the parking lot. And just think about that. They probably weighed a few ounces.  It's gonna be leveling everything. That's the picture. And so what it says, unless those in verse 20, those days were short and no flesh would be saved. But for the elect's sake. Now the elect's sake is both Jewish and Gentile believers. That the earth will not be totally annihilated. God is gonna show mercy to the elect. See the tribulation has a set amount of time and then it comes to a conclusion. In Isaiah one, verse nine, it says, unless the Lord of hosts had left to us a very small remnant, we would have become like Sodom. We would have been made like Gomorrah. In Habakkuk three, verse two. Oh Lord, I have heard your speech and was afraid, oh Lord, revive your work in the midst of the years. In the midst of the years, make it known in wrath. Remember mercy. It's gonna come. It's gonna be terrible. But the cry out is God in your wrath as you're pouring it out. Remember mercy, which the Lord did by sending his son Jesus to set us free from sin and also to remove us from this time that's gonna come. That those who have refused him will go into that. There'll be people who have gone to church just like this. Many churches throughout this land and throughout the world who have preached and shared and said, guys, come to faith in Christ. You need to know him. He'll forgive you of your sins or cleanse you of your unrighteousness. He'll give you hope. He'll give you peace. All you need to do is come to him and you can have joy. We share that because that's what Jesus Christ promised to give us. But people refuse it. They say, no, I'll just wait. I don't believe this is a myth. This is a story. This doesn't make any sense. But we say, well, look around you right now.  You don't see that? No, that's just progressive. No, that's degressive. That's digressive. That's regressive. That's destructive is what it is. But people don't see it, right? So it's no big deal, but it's coming. And it's gonna come in. It's gonna be sudden. I was a little guy, nine or 10 years old. I grew up in Norwalk. And I was on the bunk bed in my bedroom. My brother had the lower bunk. I had the top bunk. And I was just kind of laying there, reading a comic book or something when the whole house shook. It shook so badly that I actually fell off the bed onto the floor. I was knocked off the bed and I hit the floor. So my mother comes running from the front room, which is just right there. She says, David, are you jumping? What are you doing? I said, Mom, I got knocked off the bed. And she's looking at me, come on. Well, what had happened, and some of you, I don't know how many of you would remember this. Perhaps some of you are old enough too. Two planes collided in Norwalk over our house, not directly over, but not a mile away from our house. Two planes had collided and it exploded. And the explosion and all that happened was so severe that the ground actually moved and I fell off the bed. And I went, my father and I stood outside and looked into the sky and we saw a ball of flame that was coming down one of the planes. One of them landed on the sheriff's substation there in Norwalk. A lady had stepped out to look what was going on. And she had been killed. Suddenly, without notice, she stepped out, heard a sound the way I did, the way my dad did, stepped out and she was killed.  You never know, you never know when your moment is. And for those who think that tomorrow is promised to them, they're thinking wrong because you never know. When I was a kid, you know, and I was going into the things of the world drinking and doing the drugs and all of that. What started to wake me up was I started losing friends. One friend got shot in the head, crossed the street from my house. Another friend got stabbed to death and a tasty freeze by Santa Fe High School. Another friend of mine was drinking, taking some drugs, dropped some acid and the thing about him is I had seen him earlier that day, his name was Dave Smith and I was at the tasty freeze across the street from Sierra High School. And he was a friend of mine. We'd known each other through high school. We had graduated, I hadn't seen him for a while. But there he is and I noticed him but didn't say anything and I was walking and about to leave when I still remember Dave's calling out my name. He said, Dave, and I turned in and I looked at him. He said, I'll see you later. And I went like that, yeah, I'll see you later. Well, that night he got on his motorcycle. He was loaded and drunk and he hit the back of a parked pickup truck. His face went into the corrugated bumper and he was killed instantly. I started seeing these things. People that I partied with, people that I was friends with, I used to deliver flowers for a place called Whittier Flores and I would go to Rose Hills and I would take funeral wreaths and place them on caskets. And I still remember reading the name on the card and it was a familiar name but just a week before he and I had been in Quonset hut there in Santa Fe Springs. He and I and a couple of guys, we had been partying, smoking pot and all of that. He's somebody I partied with and I'm looking at his name and I'm saying, oh, that can't be him. He's only 18 years old.  I put them on top of the casket and I look into the face of a friend of mine that just a week before I'd been smoking dope with me. I started seeing these things. So you never know when you're gonna be dying. You don't know when that's gonna happen. You have to be ready. Jesus is repairing. But preparing as he's saying, he's saying you need to understand. People say, no, this ain't, this will never happen. Never happened. It's just a myth. It's just a story. Or really the pestilence that you see today, that's just a story. Yeah, the earthquakes that are growing in numbers and in severity. That's just the plagues that we see, those things and the famines. Those are all things that are just normal. No, those are things that are escalating. Those are things that are waking us up to the fact that Christ is true to his word. And that's why it said, let the reader understand. See, we are living not in that time that's being described here, but the time just prior to that, there's an event gonna take place called the rapture.   We'll be with him. But there'll be people behind, left behind. And they'll be going, I heard this. I went to, I thought that was a joke. It's not a joke. It's a real deal. And that's why the Lord is speaking to that. And God shows mercy in your wrath. He says, remember mercy. He says in verse 21, then if anyone says to you, look, here's the Christ, or look, he's there, do not believe it. For false Christ and false prophets will rise and show signs and wonders to deceive. If possible, even the elect, take heed. See, I have told you all things beforehand. False prophets. Will be on the rise. Many have fled into the mountains while hiding. They hear rumors that Christ has returned. But the false prophets are there, especially this one false prophet. The worst of them all. The false prophet begins to perform miracles in an attempt to draw people out. Revelation 13, 13 and 14 says, he performed great signs even causing fire to come down from heaven to the earth and full view of the people because of the signs that was given power to perform on behalf of the first beast. It deceived the inhabitants of the earth. For those reading this, do not listen, he said, to the false prophets. In 2 Corinthians in chapter 11, verses 13 through 15, Paul said, such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ. And no wonder for Satan himself, transforms himself into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness whose end will be according to their works. You see, under the incredible pressure, they greatly desire to be with Jesus. But this is Satan's last effort to destroy them, but he will fail to deceive the genuine believer. Because notice it says, he says, false Christ and false prophets will rise and show signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect, but the elect will not be deceived. That's how strong the delusion is though. And then he finally says, take heed. See, I have told you all things beforehand. I have prepared you. I have told you beforehand. You are not without warning. Those who know and believe his word are not gonna fall into that trap. Psalm 91 verse two says, I will say to the Lord, he is my refuge and my fortress, my God. In him, I will trust. Psalm 119 verse 50, this is my comfort in my affliction for your word has given me life. A genuine believer in Christ during that day will not be deceived because the truth has set them free. Praise the Lord for that. Amen. But until that moment, the Lord is still calling people out to himself, still calling people to himself. And there may be some in this room are watching online right now who have yet to get right with God. These things are true. If you don't embrace them and say, God, help me to understand these things, you may very well go through those things that are being declared here. It is better for you to say, Jesus, be merciful to me. I am a sinner. Forgive me. I need your help. Perhaps the day is the day you should do that. Our father, we are.


But today I have to tell you about a friend that we all have his name is the Holy Spirit Samson's had Samson had hair the Holy Spirit has power and If we the lads if we are those little children today At the Holy Spirit comes into our life and the Bible says if the spirit of him who raised Christ From the dead lives within us. He is there to give life to our mortal body The Holy Spirit does not just come to stand by the pillars by the problem Spiritual problems in our physical health. He is asking you today.  He was diagnosed for over a year and a half of leukemia His insurance will spend a seven thousand dollars every single month on the medications He already wasn't able to work. He worked in one of the best restaurants in his town He wasn't able to work and when he came to the services that we had in the track four years ago During the service when prayer was being offered and the Holy Spirit was going in the audience and pushing pillars away He started to feel uncomfortable like he wanted to throw up He was brought to the front where he vomited all kinds of things all of that vomiting was simply Holy Spirit Pushing pillars away when he got up from his knees. He said I felt so much better and he went back home He actually didn't even think that he got healed He just thought he got freed from some demonic activities in his life as he went back to the doctor The doctor examined his blood and found out he was a hundred percent cure of leukemia He came back to our church brought his medical report and it's four years And this young man Nabil is completely free from every trace of leukemia in his body Every pillar of sickness has to be brought down today in Jesus name Why because in the Old Testament when Israel traveled to the promised land there was a pillar They had it was the pillar of fire The Holy Spirit is a greater pillar that we have and because the Holy Spirit is on our side Through him every generation occurs can be brought down Every disease and sickness they cannot be cured or explained or there is no connection to it You've lived healthy life. You've disciplined yourself. You ain't right Nobody in your family maybe have had that and it just came out of nowhere. You have a friend His name is the Holy Spirit join hands with the Holy Spirit today. Say Holy Spirit I invite you in my body you live there Let's push away every pillar of arthritis. Let's push away every pillar of diabetes Let's push away every pillar of cancer of growth Let's push away every pillar of every skin disease every blood disease every bone infection every other disease It has no legal place in my body because I'm a friend of the Holy Ghost As somebody say amen, I want you to imagine in your mind right now You're not alone if you are facing a disease if you are facing sickness if you have been diagnosed And you have fought the best.  It's not the preacher It's not a certain charm. It's not a certain chant. It's not a certain word or certain phrase It's a person and his name is the Holy Spirit and he will do what died cannot do He would do what doctors cannot do. He will do what fitness cannot do He can help us in the areas. We are completely helpless Just a few years ago for three years ago There was a mother that came and mother and a father that came with her child from Olympia They had he had asthma for over six years And he was already by been diagnosed and they just said there is nothing we can do the best professionals They took him to the best professionals because the father himself was a doctor and He was completely helpless and when he came to receive prayer during the prayer We were not just praying God heal him We were praying to break every chain of the enemy and these prayers may seem just charismatic Some people may seem like oh, this is a young rustic boys running around here screaming They don't know what they're screaming about. Yes to the extent we might not know what's going on in the spiritual world But the Holy Spirit used Samson used the little boy and the Holy Spirit uses me and you he uses your prayer and my prayer to push Away the pillars when that prayer was being offered. I remember because I was praying for that young man Right here on this side Curly here. I actually thought it was a girl. So when I was praying I said Lord God heal this girl I didn't know as a young man. Not a not a girl Nevertheless in our lack of understanding God still used our prayer six months later We received the message from that family that ever since that prayer the little boy was no longer needing Any other equipment to help him breathe? It's been now three years and they come every single year to our service just to give glory to God and they were Completely completely experienced a miracle in their family. Let's put our hands together for Jesus Christ Less than six months after the boys healing the mother was diagnosed with tuberculosis She was already placed in a different housing. She lost her job and Most of you remember those of you who were here about two and a half years ago when she came She even had a covering over her mouth and she came with faith She says the same Holy Spirit that defeated the spiritual forces in the life of my son He can help me. He says I'm seeking the best physicians and I'm seeking the best therapy But I also know Jesus is the greatest physician He is the best doctor and I came to an appointment with him And when prayer was being offered spiritual forces were pushed down She went back home. Her recovery became miraculous She recovered in two weeks out of that disease in a month or so She was released back got a clean bill of health now. She's working and TB is no longer part of her health to God be the glory


With his faithful Indian companion, Toto, the masked rider of the planes led the fight for law and order in the early western United States. The stories of his strength and courage, his daring and resourcefulness have come down to us through the generations, and nowhere in the pages of history can one find a greater champion of justice. Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear. From out of the past, in the thundering hoofbeats of the great horse, Silver, the Lone Ranger rides again. Dan Reed had left the Lone Ranger and Toto in camp to ride into town for supplies. As he reigned up with the hitch rail before the store, he noticed an excited group of men in front of the cafe across the road. A broad-shouldered, middle-aged man detached himself from the knot and came toward Dan with long strides. The rest of the group followed. Hey there young man, good talk to you. Yes sir. You just came into town didn't you? Yes sir. Speak up son, it's alright. Which way did you come from? Well I came from the south. When you came through Granger's Pass. I came through some sort of pass, sort of a canyon with high sides. That's it. That's Granger's Pass. Well this year's big Jim Granger himself son, don't be afraid of him. I'm not afraid. Now tell me boy, did you meet anyone in the pass? Did you see anything of a horseman? Yes sir. You did? Riding what kind of a horse? What kind son? A palomino. Yes sir, that's what it was. A palomino. That's it. The sneak and skunk that stole my horse's head in the south, I've got to get after it. I can ride out the county seat and get the sheriff Mr. Granger. By the time you get back the thief and buzzer will be in Mexico. I'll go after him myself. Any of you got a horse saddle up there? My horse is lame. Why not borrow the youngster's horse? It's a spry looking crazy. How about that? You want to make ten dollars? Well I can't let anyone borrow Victor. What's the matter, don't you trust me? This is Jim Granger. He's the richest man in the state. Do you think I'll steal your horse? No sir, it isn't that. That palomino you saw belongs to me. He's worth ten ordinary horses. He's been stolen. I've got to get after the thief. I'll pay you twenty dollars. Go on son, let Granger take your horse.  The thief's getting further all the time. Well, all right then. Gordon, what do you call the horse? Victor. Steady there Victor. Now here lad, you take this. Oh I don't want any money. Well take this as a guarantee that I return. Go on, hold it till I come back. Will you saddle horses and follow your Granger? Go father. I'll handle the coyote if I can overtake him. Get up Victor. Get up there. Come on. Today when Dan Reed joined the Lone Ranger in Toronto in their camp a couple of miles south of town, he had an exciting story to tell. And when he came back to town he was riding the palomino and leading Victor. And what do you think he said about Victor? What? Now what do you say Dan? Him like Victor? He said that Victor was the first horse he'd ever ridden that he liked as well as his palomino. It's a mighty fine count from a Dan, especially when it comes from a man like Jim Granger. Do you know him sir? Oh, I know of him. Then he really is a rich man. Yes, he has a big range at the south end of the pass. He didn't catch horse thief? He didn't have much to say about that. He told Pete that the thief would be around in the canyon. Dead. Oh. When I left town the men were getting ready to go for the body. Kimosabe, me hear hook beats. That one's coming this way. I hear him. Oh look. There. The palomino. That's Jim Granger. Why is he coming here? You tell him where we camp? No, Toronto. I didn't tell him a thing. You left a clean track, Dan. He'd easily follow you. Well if he thinks he can buy my horse he's... I'll get back to the brush with me. Ah. Come on, we'll let Granger just mount before he sees us. Hey there, Dan. Meet him and see what he wants. Yes, sir. Oh. Oh there. Oh boy. Mr. Granger. Dan. I followed your tracks. Yes. Yeah, but I'll tell you why. One of the boys in town said he'd seen your partners with you. My partners. The masked man in the red skin. What about it? Oh. There you are. What about Dan's partners? Masked. Just as they told me. Good. I'm glad I found you. Why did you follow Dan? Listen, mister. Did Dan tell you about help of me when I needed help? Yes. Did he tell you that I found the horse thief dead? He said that you reported that the thief was dead. Did you find him that way or kill him? Well, I found him that way. He'd been shot from the rim of Granger's pass. Oh. And the buzzer that shot him done so intended to shoot me. Are you sure of that? If you infer that I'm trying to put the blame on someone after shooting him myself, you're wrong. The critters and own horse thief and the law was after him. Oh. I had to shot him myself. I'd have said so. I'd be proud of having done it. You said the shot that killed him was meant for you. Well, it was. And I know the snake-eyed lizard that done it. But that doesn't explain why you're here. Because I want to hire your guns. Mine? There's a sneak and cat amount that needs killing. He's around here much longer. Either bot, haste, or I will throttle upon it. One of us does it. The law will hang us. Don't you suppose the law would hang me if I did what you want? You good bamoos. I can't because my ranch is here. But I can't because the girl he loves is on my ranch. My daughter Jane. Oh.  How can I prove it? He'll say he recognized a horse that even shot him. Maybe that is the case. I know better. Granger, there might be some other way to accomplish your purpose. Who is this man? He calls himself a count and prattles about his family honor and his castles. Ah, I can't think of the critter without getting the taste of bile. What's he after? He's got my daughter and my wife fair ogle-eyed with his consigned lies. He figures to marry Janey. Oh. And he'll do it, too, unless he's stopped. The buzzard came here to find a wife whose pa was rich. He asked questions until he learned about my money. Then he connived to impress Jane. Where is he now? Where is he? I'll tell you where he is. He's a guest in my own house. Oh, golly. He knows I'm again him. Just the same as he knows that Jane will be a mighty rich girl when I die. He's playing his cards two ways.  And Jane is too moon-eyed that she won't listen to a thing I say. All she does is sit around and listen to that overdressed, underfed gopher. Ah, my lord. Sit here on the veranda with me for a moment. I should see if the cook is gettin' supper, Karen. Oh, but a moment, one little moment. All right. Did you enjoy your ride? Ah, the ride was nice. But I hated every moment that I was away from you. Oh, Karen. I'm miserable when I'm not with you. Really? I saw the sky, but your eyes, they are more blue. I saw the soft clouds, but they could never be so fair, so soft as your cheek. You say the sweetest thing.  For you, there should be castles and palaces, and there shall be when you are my countess. Countess? You shall have the pomp and the gaiety of a royal court. You shall have music and art and servants. As the countess, your gowns will be of the finest silk, and your tiny feet will wear sleepers of the richest brocade. Oh, so beautiful. I can't stand it. Bart Hastings, you've been around the end of the porch, eavesdropping. Those next things. You've been sneaking around, snooping. Listen here, Jane Granger. I came here to have a few words with you, and heard this blister talking. I just stopped for a minute because I didn't want to interrupt. You better calling me names, you are insulting me. You ought to hear what some of the ranch hands around here call you. Mr. Hastings, I'll thank you. Jane, for the love of Mike, wake up. This four-flush and don't want ain't for you. Your tiny feet will wear slippers of brocade. Oh, my aunt, Hannah. Them feet of yours wouldn't feel right and anything, but cowhide boots. Why, you... Silk gowns. Why, you've been brought up in blue jeans. This is your kind of country. If you keep on, I will resent what you say. Oh, if you only would. Take care. I will be forced to make a challenge. Come on. Oh, count. Don't pay any attention to him. He's simply jealous. Don't stop him, Jane. Let him make that their challenge. Oh, God, I... Yeah? I would do it.  If you don't like our laws, why in thunder don't you go back where you came from? He's going to. Yeah? Yeah, and I'm going with him. So there, Mr. Bart, Hastings. Over your old man's dead body. It may interest you to know that we're going to announce our engagement on Saturday evening. Then you'd better put him under glass. If that termite runs around loose, someone's likely to step on him. I've got to go get something to take a bad taste out of my mouth. Oh, boy. Sit up there. Oh, don't pay any attention to him, my little flower. Use the same self-control that I display. We must not let the mouthings of menials annoy us. Oh, how I'd like to tell Bart Hastings where to go? Come, come, sweet lady Jane. Let us go into the house and make plans for the announcement of our engagement on Saturday. Now, see here, Bart. This is the only bottle I got. Fill my glass, Pete. Feet in brocade. Four drinks and a half hours since you've come into the bunkhouse.  Downs of silk. Pete, I sure wish he'd start a duel or something. Instead of sitting around here moping, you'd better figure a way to get that no good count off in this ranch. If you don't, you'll lose your girl for keeps. Wait. Open that door a little wider, Pete. Hey, that's the count leaving Granger's house. Who's that with him, a new cowhand? Yeah, he don't work here. Looks like an Indian. He is an Indian. My sight might be a little blurry, Pete. Are you sure that's the count? I couldn't mistake that skinny knight no matter what the distance. Where are they going? Looks like they're heading for Sugar Boys. Right over there, they're making maples. Pete, you come with me. Where to? We're going to powwow with that count. Oh, no, Bart. He's hankering for a duel, huh? Look, if you mess him up, Jane will be mad at never. She can't be any more mad at me, no matter what I do. Come along. No, Bart. I know what I'm doing. Oh, well, go along just to see that you stop sure to be in Hangman's meat. Tiny feet and brocade slippers. I do not like to walk in the woods. That it may be Snakers. What are you taking me? It only few step more. Who is it that did you talk to me? Him right there. He is mess. Good afternoon, count. Who are you?   This savage. He threw a knife. He forced me to come here. How would you like to hang for murder? What?  Count, you shot the wrong man. I do not know what you mean. Yes, you do. I found the tracks of your horse. I saw where you knelt behind a rock at the rim of Granger's path. No, no. You are a mistake. Don't lie. There's still mud on the knee of your riding britches. I... Prove. Here's the shell from the rifle you used. I... I found this where you wetted an ambush. I deny everything. Oh, don't worry, count. You're not going to hang. Who are you? Why do you come here? What are you after? I can understand why you want Jim Granger out of the way. You're afraid you'll interfere with the wedding. Furthermore, sooner he's dead, the sooner Jane will inherit part of his estate. I know what you want. You want money. Money so you will not go to Lady Jane with the truth. Well, go to her. You cannot prove anything, so she will believe it. Yes, I know that. She's blinded by your flattery. Ha! However, that wasn't my plan. See, you chose the wrong way to keep Granger from interfering. Or a share of what you hope to get. I'll show you the right way. Ha! Ha! Now I understand. Oh. You will pay.  I guarantee that he won't interfere with you. That's all we need to know. Ice your hands! We got the drop on you. Make one move and we'll shoot you now instead of letting the law have you. I'll get your hands up. A curtain falls on the first act of our Lone Ranger story. Before the next exciting scenes, please permit us to pause for just a few moments. How to continue our story. Bart Hastings and the Granger cowhand named Pete kept close enough to hear the last part of a conversation between the Lone Ranger and the Count. Ice your hands! We got the drop on you. Make one move and we'll shoot you now instead of letting the law have you.  Where you come from? We heard of plenty. Eavesdropping against. Snooping.  Just a minute. A minute, my eye. Take the guns, Pete. Keep them covered, bud. You bet. Hold it. Oh, huh? Take a step toward me and you'll be attacked from behind. Oh, pay no attention to him. Take his gun. At them, Silver. Hey! Take them, Colo. Let me fix them. Good. Steady, Silver. Steady, boy. Easy. You won't get away with this. I'll see all three of your hands. I'll rope, Colo. Try to rope me, huh? Me fix them. Me tie them plenty tight. All right. Poor cat. Wait till Jane hears about this. I'll hold you. Colo, you better rope the other one before he regains consciousness. Me fix them. It was good. It was fine work. I am satisfied that you are the man I want. But how you went into action against these two who would make trouble, huh? All right, Count. You dirty, greasy-faced skunk. You've got the top hand now, but you wait. You just wait. Uh, take it easy. You must be Bart Hastings. What if I am? Do you think Jane would believe you? You told her that the Count was plotting the death of her father?  She wouldn't believe a word you'd say. Oh, my head. Is he all right, Tunnel? Yeah. He got rope on him. If it hadn't been for that horse, you'd never have got me. Do you, uh, know these men count? Oh, but yes. Ha! You were right about that one. His name is his Hastings. The other? He's a minion. They work. What you would call a serf name? Call him Paul Kent? He works for Mr. Granger. Can you, uh, think of something to tell Miss Jane to account for the disappearance of these two? Lies come easy to that greasy-faced weasel. Ha, ha, ha. You were disposed of these two, eh? You keep them out of the way. Ah, good. It is good. I will explain to the lady so it is all right. Fine. I will continue where we left off. Good. The point is to be Saturday night, isn't it? That is right. Meet us right here on Saturday at sundown. We'll have everything ready for you. My sweet dog, he knows when he is defeated. It isn't like bar Hastings to run away. I told you, my flower, that I saw him and your cowhandler go away together. But that was two days ago. May they never return. It's four days. Well, I can get along without Pete. Has anyone seen Bart Hastings? Uh, you interested, Jane? No, no. I just thought that maybe Pete was working on Bart's ranch. Bart ain't been near his ranch. Mother, you invited Bart Hastings to the party, didn't you? Of course I did, Jane. But the invitation couldn't be delivered. There was no one at Bart's ranch. He's been gone five days. Do you suppose anything has happened to him? Not that it matters. Here, Jane, you'll have to tie this necktie for me. All right, Dad. Is everything set for the big do-ins? Yes. It's sweet of you to accept the count. I've said all I aim to say about him, Janey. I reckon you know your own mind. Uh-huh. Is Bart Hastings coming to the party? Is he back? No, I don't know, Janey. If he ain't heard from him, I reckon he's still away somewhere. Oh. There you are. Ties, ties. Thanks. Mother wants you to make some punch for refreshment. I figured on it. You keep that count out of my way while I'm doing it. Where's he now? Oh, he's gone for a walk. He wanted to get a little ecstasy. I see. Just a minute, Jane. Stand right there and let me look at you. What's the matter? Purdy is a picture with the setting sun shining on your hair. Purdy is a... a countess.  I am too soon? No, we're ready for your count. Taro has the stuff. Uh-huh. Here in paper. Let me show you. Ha. Looks just like salt. In fact, we'll call it salt. I give these to Granger. If he takes a drink, you might put some of this in his glass. But he may suspect, he may taste it. Here. Put some on your tongue and see if you can taste it. No, no, no, no, no, no. I take your word for it. You have my word that we've planned things, so Granger wanted to fear with your wedding. Oh, uh, better take this bottle with you. Put it in your pocket. What is in your bottle? Use it if the wrong person gets that stuff. Ah, the salt. And what of those others? Bart and Pete. We've taken care of them. I know what you mean. I wonder if you do. Now, as for to paying you, at the moment I am short. Oh, don't worry about it. I'll be around when you're able to pay. Now you'd better get back to the house. The party will start early. Yes, yes, I must go at once. Tonight the party, the announcement of my engagement. Mm-hmm. It's to be an evening you'll never forget. Ah, my sweet, my flower. This is an evening we shall always remember. Are you not happy? Oh, yes. Yes, Count. Of course I'm happy. The faraway loge. Ah, ha, ha, ha, ha. It is perhaps castles in my homeland that fill your mind, eh? What did you say? Jane, my dear, you must come with me. And you too, my dear Count. It is a great moment. Father is about to serve the punch. Come, we must go and be with him when he makes the announcement. Give me your hands, children. I am honored. Isn't it a delightful party? Everyone take a glass of punch. I'm just about to propose a toast. Jane, your father looks positively happy. He's either accepted the situation with good grace or changed his mind about disliking the Count. He looks like a cat with a stolen cream. Here, here, Jane. Take the glass of punch. Oh, thanks. Ma, one for the Count and one for me. Now I'm going to... Look! Go on, it's Bart Hastings. I figured I'd better come to the party. Bart! Evening, Jane. Here, Count, hold my glass a minute. Let me shake hands with Bart for being a good sport and a good loser. Yes, sir. I hope you're not too mad, Jane. No, Bart. Bart, I want you and the Count to shake hands. Here, Count, let me hold them glasses. Shake hands with Bart and everyone be friends. Yes. Yes, I am happy to shake hands. Oh, Jane, isn't this simply perfect? There, that's the ticket. Now the two of you have got to drink to Jane's happiness. Here, Bart, take this. Thank you. Here you are, Count. But... To Jane's happiness. A moment, please, sir. You... you got the glasses mixed. I... what? This is the drink that was to be yours. You gave Bart my glass of poison. Well, what in Sam Hill is the difference? They're like two peas in a pod. Sure thing. Here's your happiness, Jane. Thank you. Say that right, smart punch, Mr. Granger. Well, what's the matter with you, Count?  I... I do not feel well. Oh, that punch will set you up. I never touch fruit mixtures. That is... You'll drink to my toe. I thunder-couch. You're going to drink to Jane's happiness if it kills you. Oh, do, do, drink, Count. What's the matter with you? I refuse. You what? I... I cannot explain.  Bye, darn Bart. That ain't a bad idea. No, no. I got him. Let me go. Open your face. Can you open it, Bart? Same as I would a canned tanker's horse.  Jane... Quiet, ma. I want to hear this. That's it, Bart. It's all in his mouth. Open his face till he swallows it.  He's swallowing? Yep. Yep, it's down. I'm poisoned.  What? Let me out of here. Let me go. You ain't going nowhere. Jane, Jane. Do you hear him? You figured I'd take that drink. Oh, wait, please. Let me... let me take these. Let me take these bottles. Ain't that true? Didn't you put something in Grainger's drink? I must take these. Let me drink it. You'll get to drink it when you confess, not a minute before. Yes, mother. How about trying to shoot me from ambush? Confess to that, too. It is true. It is true. I admit it all. While you're at it, admit that you lied about all those castles in Europe. Let me drink the antidote. Those castles. I lied about them. And those silk gowns and fancy slippers. Tell the truth now, you fake. You ain't got a nickel, have you? No, no, no. I am penniless. I shall die. I shall die. Let him go, Bart. All right. Now you can guzzle the stuff and add their bottle. Go on, drink it. He deserves it. What's the matter? Well, I take nothing but castor oil. No! Castor oil! Now drink the rest of it. Empty that bottle. I cannot. Drink them out. I will, I will. Good work, Bart. Make the foreflusher drain the bottle. No. I cannot drink no more. No. There's a bottle left. Please, I do you aren't yet. Drink it, you white-livered, fancy-talking polecat. Give me that gun, Bart. Sure thing. Thank you. My flower. Don't use any more fancy talk on me.  Yee-hoo! That's Texas-talking jet. Now drink. I drink, I drink, I drink. It is gone. Now let me out of here. Let me out of here. Well, he had it coming, told him.  He might have killed my father. Dad, you all right, aren't you? Sharks, all he had in that drink was plain table salt.  But I don't understand. So, and you, Bart, where have you been? Bart's been spending a few days in hiding with Pete. And we had some mighty good friends in hiding with us. To think that I figured that mask man for a murderer. Mask man? What mask man? It all started, Jane, when I borrowed a horse called Victor. Well, it's too long to tell right now. We've got to announce an engagement. But the count has left. I ain't talking about the count. Am I, Jane? Come on with me, Maul. Jane, you got any objection to letting the party go on? Do you hear me object? 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everyone and welcome. This is Melissa Armel of the Stocks. We're shooting and reviewing NVIDIA. So I called a couple of days ago the NVIDIA calls, the 500 calls, and they went. They went. The stock popped over 500. Had a nice move yesterday. Again, technically, could you still be in this? Yes. But again, during the holidays in the next couple of weeks, it's a time to get the trade, get the move, get out. Get the trade, get the move, get out. I don't think there's anything wrong with that in normal times, but specifically over the holidays, no one should be holding anything to piggy targets. It's not a good idea. The market's low volume. Stocks are low volume. In fact, let's look and see where the market closed today as far as volume-wise. Yeah, that's low for the market. Very, very, very low. So anyways, it was, I think it was Friday. Here. So I called the NVIDIA 500 calls. It went, boop, right there. Friday was the 15th? Yeah, Friday was the 15th. And it went. So it was a nice one. It went in within 24 to 48 hours. And that's usually how I like to do them. But sometimes it takes a couple of days for things to go. In this case here, it went right a ways. And so again, it's funny because I'll go long, I'll go short. I prefer to short for the day trades. But for options, I'll do both. And we have been doing both calls and puts lately. And this was a nice call. Again, holiday week, market closed for only a half day on Friday. Closed next week, good time to just make money in a couple of things here and then relax. We were lucky we had this nice jump up here in the NVIDIA. The stock close here gapped up. Again, had a nice solid, swift move over 500, ran up to 504 and change. And just a really, really nice trade. So again, if you did this trade, you made a more than 100% return investment. I'm trying to get that in every trade I take, even though I think I would have got out of this no matter what, no matter what on Monday because it had booped over the strike. And again, holiday week, but it was a nice, solid trade. Went pretty quickly. And again, anything we can get, we can get a nice move in this week, I'm gonna take. If you're interested in signing up for the Gap Options newsletter, email me and Melissa at thestockswish.com. It's a great time to join. You'll get in now and you can sign up for 12 months for the whole year. You get into all of 2024 and get going with us for next year. Have a great weekend, everyone.


There is one thing of the human that comes to her like a war. I was thinking about Jeanette Avangelie because Jeanette is quite known as a person who is very easy going but she is not travelling the last two years. And let's say the curators that historian and producers are selecting and presenting her works. I would like to show the sensibility of Jeanette Avangelie as a conceptual artist but also the artist who is very aware of the reality and also the past, not just the past as a history but the past as a common sense of collective memory and she is wearing that very well in her works. This power of globalization and the negative and also the positive sense of how we are accepting the globalization let's say the intellectual mind who is not quite powerful to be received from the common people because the common people are much more interested for the easier packed information not this kind of information but this kind of information could be very useful for them. This film, The Judge, was the only film in 59 Mostras in Venice who have been presented in front of the audience in her electronic form. It's on 35 millimeters. Also it happens in the film festival Munich and in the film festival in Thessalonica. That means that the film has some kind of attraction which is quite big and quite interesting for the audience and also for the selectors of the festivals and let's say we did it. After that we presented the film in the festival in Sao Paolo and also in Buenos Aires because we want to be present also in this continent in South America which is quite far away from us of course you know we are always thinking about Europe and United States we are not thinking further than that and I'm sorry to say but this is a very narrow minded conflict of intellectual thinking and we have to think about the world as a world which exists in a map but in this map exists a people who wants to see let's say different art different people, different directions, different reality.


The two men involved in a deadly boating incident on a Cass County Lake have been identified. The man who died has been identified as 69-year-old Ronald Reinhardt of Canton, Georgia, and the boat operator has been identified as 67-year-old James Bifolk of Maplewood, Minnesota. The two men were thrown from their boat last Tuesday. Sheriff Tom Burch says the body of Reinhardt was recovered from Hay Lake, which had located about 15 miles east of Bacchus, last Wednesday around 4.20 in the afternoon. Bifolk was transported to the shore shortly after the incident and suffered only minor injuries.


Welcome to week seven. Today, we will talk about more modern state-of-the-art confnets and transfer learning, two of my favorite topics in deep learning. So let's first talk about what we did last week. We learned how to build a confnet. We learned how to write the neural network itself and how to write the training loops. We learned about convolution layers and max pool layers and dropout layers and how to train with them. We learned about data augmentation and regularization, how useful they are. And we learned a bit about the general domain where confnets are useful. So let us talk a little bit in each of the parts about last week. Talk with the part about what you learned last week. What do you still hope to learn? What is unclear? What was most surprising? So, I hope you'll have a good discussion.


in the cellular respiration after glycolysis, the next step is citric acid cycle or crab cycle. Where is that happening? Inside of the matrix of mitochondria. Remember, glycolysis is happening outside of mitochondria in the cytoplasm. Then through the process of decarboxylation, we have acetylcoenzyme A entering the cycle for each pyruvate. So one molecule of glucose has two cycles of the citric acid cycle or crab cycle. I need you to remember that for each of the steps that are shown here, each step is controlled by the separate enzyme. So citric acid is the first one in this cycle. And through the series of steps, we have release of the NADH and H molecules. NADH is a debit card that is going to be utilized in the process of the oxidative phosphorylation of the electron transport chain. So that's potential. That is a dish that is bringing that energy to the place where it can be harvested and transformed into what we can utilize. One carbon dioxide is lost in the process here between formation of the citric acid and alpha-cataglutarate. The other carbon dioxide is used. Only one ATP molecule is produced from the ADP, adding phosphate group. And we have another enzyme here, which is FADH2 that will also bring that potential to the oxidative phosphorylation and where we can harvest the energy. Overall, CREB cycle is happening for each of the two carbon atoms that are attached to the settle coins I made. It doesn't need to be sugar. Like for instance, fatty acids. Some of them can have 18 or 20 or whichever number of the carbons in them. And every time two are entering the CREB cycle. So that's why the lipids are, especially FADHs, they're actually energy storage. Because there's a tremendous amount of energy that is captured in one molecule. So from glucose, we have two CREB cycle entries through the two pyruvates entering as a settle coenzyme A into the cycle. And we can harvest so much energy. For one molecule of the fatty acids, every time two carbons are entering the process. And you can imagine how much of the high energy is harvested there, how much of the ATPs is harvested. The last, but probably the most important part of the solar respiration is the electron transport chain or the oxidative phosphorylation. All the energy that is released is actually utilizing protons. Here in the inner membrane of the mitochondria, there is a series. There is a cascade of the enzymes that are just bringing to each other molecules that eventually are leading to the high concentration of the H plus or the proton ions outside in between the two membranes. So that eventually it is pretty much like when you have a river dam, there is a huge potential energy, huge power that is on one side of the membrane and the lack of the proton ions on the other side. So that potential is utilized by the proton pump. Proton pump is where ATP, where that energy that is entered through NADH and FADH2, when that is cached into ATP. So 34 ATPs are actually made per one glucose molecule right here and the oxygen is the final acceptor of the potential of the electrons. So one of the major factors here in the electron transport chain is something that you may have heard of, which is called coenzyme Q10 or CoQ10, as you can find. If we don't have that particular molecule, the transport chain is not happening. And the other name for the coenzyme 10 is ubiquinone, which means it's present everywhere. What that means is that it needs energy in order to utilize it. You can think about all the glucose that you can take if you don't have that particular coenzyme Q, which our body can actually make in most of the cases, that can be a trouble. We cannot utilize that energy, which gives the idea about why vitamins are so important because coenzyme Q is vitamin. It is part of the enzyme that is needed in this process. Organs that are working constantly, like our heart, are the ones who are needing energy in the highest amount. And that explains why, for instance, coenzyme Q10 is so-called heart medicine, especially for the people who have weakened heart. Some of the medication that we are taking or some of the environmental pollutants can interfere with the electron transport chain. Some of the major poisons are the ones who are actually acting as blockers in this electron transport chain. That's why they're so dangerous, like cyanide, for instance. It is binding in the electron transport chain place. So how many ATPs are overall released? From one, glucose molecule. We have first investment phase. So four ATPs are released during the glycolysis. So we harvested four ATP, but we gave away two ATPs. And through NADH, when the 3C pyruvate converted into acetyl-coenzyme Q and dichroboxylation happened, that's NADH formation. And inside of the CRAM cycle, we have one ATP per pyruvate, but we also have plenty of NADH and FADH2, which overall leads to 36 ATP molecules, which are built from glucose, one glucose molecule. Again, the number really depends whether it's glucose entering or whether we have fatty acids and so forth. And if you remember from CRAM cycle, this number of the ATP molecules can be huge depending on what was the original input in the cell respiration. We'll talk more about what happens when the oxygen is not present in the next session.


Qigong is the ancient healing and martial arts practice from China and throughout ancient history it was a closely guarded secret that was passed on to only a select few students of the true masters. So in this experiment the Qigong master was instructed to kill the cells in mice. So they had mice that had they had mice that were in the control group and they had mice that were treated by this Qigong master and the results of the experiment were astounding. He was able to just use his mind to send Qi energy to these mice and reduce their Qigong dramatically while the other mice were not affected but that wasn't the shocking part. He wasn't even in the lab when it happened. He did it from 3,000 miles away in another city. Somehow the Qi energy that he sent was able to travel large distances instantly and the effects did not reduce with the increased distance.


What's going on everyone Sam here with late in sports cards we're up in 21 22 Penny select basketball hobby six box half case number 33 pick your team style gonna read off a list of our names and teams We got Adam P with the Suns Alexandros with the Warriors Rockets Antony C bowls Brad R. Nick's KCS Bucks Blazers C Chang with the Grizzlies Chris J. Jazz Christian S. Heath Dane W Spurs Diego I with the Kings Eric a Hornets Harper B Timberwolves Hank B Pacers Jonathan Q. Celtics Jose S. Mavs Raptors Kenny R with the Wizards Luke M. Nuggets that is Matthew C with the Cavaliers and Nets Matthew R with the Hawks Robert S. Lakers Pelicans Robert P with the Magic rookie with the Clippers Scott F with the Pistons Thomas C Thunder and Z John W with the 76ers. Thank you guys again We've got one more PYT after this and it is Just four teams left Like it's Hornets Nuggets Wizards and Jazz I believe So, oh, yeah, let's go Mike So pumped dude got nice 3j McCollum Jersey Auto going to Portland nice cheaper team hit there for KCS That is 299. Nice one there. We've got future Kade Lonzo So pumped Mike so pumped dude There's a Jalen Green base rookie Isaiah Todd got Steph Curry on the blue. That's to 299 82 of 299 nice on their warriors Joshua Primo Scotty Barnes from your level silver Jaren Jackson Jalen Brown and Damon Lillard Tim. Do you take the? Wizards, I'm assuming. Thank you, man. I appreciate that day Ron Sharp to 199 on the RPI congrats on that Brooklyn Chris Paul purple the die cut to 99 Suns Scotty Barnes from your level base Or a rookie Brandon Boston jr. That's the 175 Andre Drummond I was gonna say I was like I scrolled all the way down to the bottom of the list looking for Tim And I was like wait a second, but Kenny sounds good. It's Kenny. Stop Kenny. There's Anthony Simons. He's a such a beast, dude So good Yeah, I know they need to add some pitching I think Mike I think that should be the next plan Kade Cunningham We've got John and coming up going to the Warriors on the Jersey card not numbered congrats Golden State leave that's Alexandros Andrew Wiggins Deandre Aten try color Zaire Williams Andrew Wiggins Zaire Williams is a grizzly Rendon I wouldn't hate that honestly. I think they need to add some starting pitching. Nice. Kade Cunningham Blue to 249 there you go Scott congrats my man Nice one there. Let's go dude. Just throw that in the recap Nice Kade Alex Caruso Zion Her Rodan, uh Carlos Rodan. Yes, not Rendon Rodan Why do I think it was Rendon? Mike threw me off. Thanks Mike.  There's not too many of us in this this community in this place Tech John took the nuggets Barry took the Hornets Thomas Jay with a couple of Almanac spots believe we're down to two to go now on our next select PYT And then all we got to fill up is our flawless mixers for the rest of the night guys That is it that is it that is all for the rest of the night. I appreciate it. It's gonna be fun man Those have some serious potential We've got Enos freedom to 99 for the Celtics nice one there Congrats on that Boston Jay Chantate to 299 Moses Brown. No judge should be a Yankee absolutely quack Colin Sexton's scope for the Cavs Duncan Robinson Usman Garuba the goofy Garuber Christa Warte There's 90 out of 99 Moses moody on the purple nice one there for the Warriors Alexander us again, there's Paul George PG 13 for the Clippers Jalen Johnson Johnson silver cat Devin Booker Evan Mobley Cut nice Luca purple 56 out of 99 for Dallas Congrats Mabs Jalen Brown Josh Gitty D'Angelo Russell try color premier level rookie Kade Cunningham auto Jalen Johnson to 249 for the Hawks Congrats on that Atlanta Nice Jalen Johnson future Jaden Springer. You said that Nurkitsch You said Nurkitsch again this time to 249 Franz Wagner's up KJ Yes, Sarah basketball time. Oh Yeah, it's got squatty bombs I Zire Williams silver premier level and Zire Williams court side rookie Zire Williams pack right there Cheese don't enable it bedside don't enable it Do not enable it go dolphins buddy healed and Shay on the court side nice one there for the thunder. She's having a heck of a year man I think it was under the year thing Yeah, she's so good, dude Kevin Durant scope What a great trade that was to the thunder Restore it say there's a Ricky Rubio to 99 on the Purple Jersey auto Congrats Cleveland Cavaliers There we go. Nice one Cleveland Luca Garza to 299 there you go Scott with the pistons and baby on Mitchell Patrick Williams try color James book night Got Kyrie Irving For the nets on the game use Jersey Guard not numbered Brooklyn Brandon Mosh and Junior Silver where'd he go there Moses Moody going to the Warriors Coming a base rookie Jaden Springer silver Isaiah Todd James Harden Nikhil Alexander Walker premier level Russ Westbrook Russ Franz premiere level or a concourse base Trey young say red Kyrie die cut to 175 going to the Nets and carousel Burt Westbrook. Oh, yeah, we've got nice to 149 Hakeem Elijah one Going to the Rockets Congrats Houston. That's Alexandros. There you go, buddy. Nice dream Hakeem the dream The mellow ball McCall Bridges there's Duncan Robinson Kauai Leonard baby on Mitchell silver Steven Adams courtside Malik Beasley and Chris Paul courtside here guys Caleb Let me see if anything cool comes out next week. I'm actually kind of interested in that release calendar We've got Contenders optic comes out on a week from today then triple threads and top-scroamed black baseball come out on Friday So yeah, pretty big release week next week actually dude get out of here All the sleeves You know a intelligent individual would get the sleeves before we get here Throwing all the brakes off This guy yeah really good releases. I don't want I want I know you're pumped. I'm really excited for triple threads, man I love triple threads That's such a great product. It's really cool booklets in there Like the one-on-ones are really cool. The triple autos are always really good. There's like Thank you chrome dust knees there. I'll tell you after this pack. We've got Jared Butler for the jazz It's a 249 nice one there Atlanta came back nice Evan Mobley, I have no idea to be honest Vaughn Like they always have like multiple like like triple autos of like the same team a lot of times too So like I know like a famous one's always like the Maddox clavin smolts a lot of times a lot of patches out of it So yeah, it's really cool such a good product Josh Giddy There's not even Mitchell to 249.  I think that presents its own problem I say a Jackson for the Pacers to 175 Donovan Mitchell some an animal. It's like yeah, Neeks doesn't play by the rules Neeks writes his own rules Herbert Jones. There's a dirt purple game use Jersey for the Mavericks Victor Oladipa Russell Westbrook. Hey, I'm all in on the ice cream for dinner train Nothing wrong with that There's Kyrie Irving And Kevin Durant see I think we're down to two teams to go on this next one. Yeah, two to go guys. We've got the See Just the Pacers and the Wizards that is it. Well, they're on sale. Ha Yoshida. Woo socks new There's Davion Mitchell nice one there tri-color McCall bridges to the wrong one. Here we go Kaminga rookie Springer, there's Jalen Green going to the Rockets on the draft swatches That's when their rockets Giannis Silver quitting Grimes the wrong tab. There we go. He's three.  Oh boy. You never answered if you did or not I just can't I think you do I think you're I think you're jealous. That's why you keep bringing so much attention I think you are Alphabet into 299 for the Sun's bones Highland Yeah Tie-dye Believe it's gonna be Luca Garza 22 of 25 Nice one there for you Scott. Congrats, man sick Garza To color patch on that one as well Scotty Barnes rookie Jalen Brown Silver GT Thor Felden Johnson Port side All George Ricky Rubio Silver as well Kevin Durant That's for the Nets game use Jersey not number scope Joe Harris Trayum I don't know if I take to Marcus Russell over Baker That's a bit that might be a stretch bedside Suggs concourse rookie James book night tri-color something Robinson They think nice white Evan Mobley 16 out of 149 there you go Cavaliers Grats on that cabs. That's awesome. Well centered on that too Frans premier level Tef Curry People get through their day-to-day lives hurting their hands Scotty Barnes on the Jersey nice one there Raptors John Moran silver premier level There's Cameron Thomas Silver Chris Thornton premier level Cade base rookie There's Devante Graham for the pelicans Devin Booker Tray young premier level nice one there Al Horford, I think I'm a Tom at Jersey right there that same tree on Jersey as on for thirty five dollars I might get it. That's a really cool one city addition from last year. Those are my favorite city additions. They put out Those are the spider-man water bottle for you Evan Mobley Red Jaden spring. I think the second one we pulled so 199 I love her golds coming up here. Good luck everybody. Got a gold David Thompson three of ten going to Denver kind of like a color match there. That's awesome Congrats Nuggets one of the last teams taken There we go Hell yeah, dude Green Alfred Payton to 99 Jared Allen Hey Chad took a spot in flawless Adam took the wizards were down to I believe just one to go on the next one Just the Pacers are left in the next half case And then we've got our flawless that we got to sell out Robert Williams coming up from your level rookie Wallace football Josh Giddy Shry-Caller Lou dork Yeah, oh for sure for sure I know brand new cases on both of them to Joe Weiss camp to 99 Jalen Green Oh, dude, it's been insane Kyle Kuzma Josh Christopher we pulled the one-of-one pretty much every time we've broken it Which is awesome There's Franz Wagner to 49 on the bronze rookie jersey card go into the magic Chris Paul Silver Jaden springer Scotty Barnes rookie got Quinten Grimes on the scope like Beasley Got Cam Thomas to 249 a rookie auto nice one there for Brooklyn Brooklyn with a bunch of hits in this break. How he's Halliburton. Come on to Rosen Franz Wagner rookie full base there Tray Murphy Jaden springer for the Sixers on the scope Brandon Boston, Jr. And last pack of break guys. Good luck. Got Jalen Sugg silver And Pascal Siakam. I'll do it for the break. Do a quick recap here for you guys Got Franz Wagner magic Scotty Barnes Raptors Kevin Durant Nets Jalen Green Rockets Dirk Nowitzki for the Mab's Kyraving Nets Moses Moody Warriors Kade Cunningham blue Dica John and Kominga Warriors Cam Thomas Nets Luca Garza Pistons Jared Butler Jazz Hakeem Elijah on Rockets Ricky Rubio Cavaliers Jalen Johnson Hawks Enos Freedom Celtics Dearon Sharp Nets Cesar McCollum for the Blazers and gold David Thompson Numbered three of ten for the nuggets. Very cool hit there. I'll do it for the break guys Thanks again for the fill next up. We got our second half case with just one spot left