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Good talk about thieves, our own chief of police committed nothing less than loss, and either way he won that last part. Yeah, and having one that I noticed, he's losing no time in making off of the swag. Why don't you boys just break down and admit you don't know how to play like old Professor Scott here? You couldn't win a poker hand if it was on a punch board. It's a good thing he's chief of police. Ah, come on Wally, let's get out of here before these amateurs break my heart. Okay, Scott, anything you say? Where are we heading for, Chief? Just across the street, Wally, Railroad Station. Oh, shucks. Aren't you afraid of the excitement? Don't you think that watching the 211 come in has to be too much for your blood pressure? Well, if it is, Wally, you can always carry on. You've been a fair imitation of an assistant to me for some time now. Yeah? Yeah. If anything happens to me, you'd be chief.  Hi, Elmer. Hi, Elmer. Say, it's kind of late for you beige to be around, isn't it? I don't know, we sort of figured we'd put the town to bed tonight. How's the 211? On time? Right on the nose, Wally, right on the nose. I don't know, she ought to be blowing for the bend in just about three seconds now. By Gally, she fooled me. She's early. That's her now. Why are you expecting anyone on it, Scotty? No, Elmer, I'm not expecting anyone. Well, I just thought we'd mosey over and watch her come in and so on.  Jesse James or Jack the Ripper or even your Aunt Gussie. Yeah, I guess you're right, Wally. Well, here's to me, pardon me, Jesse, but I've got to give you all the wagon out to the station, Scotty. You hold yourself to that freight there. Not much more? No, no. This is the last piece now. Well, there you are, Captain, so all done. Okay, see you tomorrow, Elmer. Hey, Scott, you see what I say? You mean to I see the man who just got off that train? The answer's yes. Well, here's a ringer for the guy we got that circular bomb. That is the guy. Well, then, what do we do now? We take him, Wally, let's go. Whatever you say, Scott. Here he comes, over toward the taxi stand. Driver, I want to go to the Dearwood Hotel. Oh, never mind, I see the hotel sign just a few blocks down the street. Sorry, I'll walk. Hello, Furman. Oh, I don't believe I...  Yes, I am. Philadelphia? Yes. I'm Scott Anderson, Chief of Police here in Dearwood, I am. What's happened to her? Having a who. Oh, no, you don't. You think you can pull that sort of stuff with me? You're very much mistaken. Ah, look. Okay, Scott. You're silly. Let me get a quack at that mug. Wait a minute. Wait a minute, gentlemen. Hold it, Wally, hold it up. Well, Furman. I'm sorry for a moment there. I thought that you weren't really a policeman. Thanks. Guess I look almost human in cities. Until I saw the other gentleman's uniform, I thought you were a hold-up man, Mr. Scott. Never mind the thanks. It was silly of me. I'm sorry. Well, let's get going before anything else happens. Are you taking me to the police headquarters? Mm-hmm. What for? Philadelphia. I... I don't think I understand you. You understand you're wanted in Philadelphia, aren't you? I'm wanted in Philadelphia. Yeah. Got a cigarette? Huh? Oh, yes, of course. What? What am I wanted for? Murder. Here we are. Here's the circular on Lester Furman. It was sent out by the Trans-American Detective Agency in Philadelphia. $1,500 reward for the arrest and conviction of Lester Furman. Alias Lloyd Fields. Alias J.D. Carpenter. For the murder of Paul Frank Dunlap in Philadelphia on December the 8th, 1942. Oh, no. Take a look at it. Well... It's a lie. You're Furman, aren't you? Yes. The photograph reproduced in the circular is a picture of you, isn't it? Yes, yes, it is. But I can't understand you. Here, here, here. You better sit down. I know, I know. What have we got here? I've got Lester Furman. Oh, the Philadelphia. You lucky stiffs. Now you and Wally spent a grand and a half reward, though. I've never seen nothing like it. If it ain't vacations in New York at the city's expense, it's reward, Mueller. Reward, Mueller? Reward someday. If you don't remember you're the jailer around here and not the DA, you're going to be wearing your teeth on the outside of your lip and I'll be the guy who arranged it that way.  Oh, just cause you caught a guy who's hot in Philadelphia. It's a lie. I never killed anybody. I won't be framed. I won't be framed. Oh, shucks. Take it easy, Furman. Save it for the Philadelphia police. We're just holding you for them. If anything wrong, it's there. Not here. But it's not the police. It's the trans-American deti... Listen, I... I suppose you're sure there's nothing I can do. There's nothing anyone can do till morning.  Come along, darling. We ain't had nobody in our little whoosh car for three days running. You'll have it all to yourself, just like a suite at the Ritz. Well, good night and thank you. Make him as comfortable as you can, George. If he wants anything set in, okay. He's valuable, huh? Now, if some bum didn't mean a nickel to you, maybe I ought to take a pillar off my own bed for him. And nuts. He's just like the rest of them to me.  Perhaps you forgot my remark about your teeth a while back, George. Any day now, I'm gonna forget your uncle's county chairman and throw you back in the gutter just to see how high you'll bounce. Remember that.  Oh, shucks. God, George don't mean nothing. He's just money, man. Okay, okay. I'm going home now. If it's anything urgent, I can be reached there. But I don't want to be disturbed unless it's urgent. Hello? Hello? Scott, this is Wally. Yeah, Wally? Oh, what time is it? It's five after six in the morning and you'd better come right down, Scott. That fellow Furman's hugging himself. What? Hug himself? He had by his belt from a window bar. Dead or in a mackerel. I'll be right in, Wally. Phone Ben Camsley tell him I'll pick him up on the way down. Oh, shucks. No doctor's gonna do Furman any good now. Well, I won't have him hurt to have him looked at. You better phone the county court at Douglasville, too, and file a routine report. I already did in person. The DA. I'll be there before you hang up. For Suspense, Roma Wines are bringing you with stars Mr. John Payne and Mr. Frank McHugh, whom you've heard in the first act of Two Sharp Knives by Dashel Hammett, which is Roma Wines' presentation tonight of Suspense. Between the acts of suspense, this is Truman Bradley for Roma Wines. Elsa Maxwell, famed hostess, makes this suggestion for added mealtime enjoyment. It's smart, yet simple, to dress up ordinary meals for a festive note spread your table with a brightly colored cloth, a centerpiece heaped with fresh fruits and nuts, a basket of crispy brown hot rolls, and at each plate, a glistening glassful of golden Roma sautern, well-chilled. A most welcome suggestion for Miss Maxwell. 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He's run up quite a phone bill for us, too. Been calling Philadelphia every couple of minutes since he got here. What cap you're so long? I couldn't get my car started. Well, let's go in. Hello, Ted. Listen, Scott, what is all this? Oh, what? This fiddly D, this hanky-panky. I suppose you mean Furman. Wasn't it suicide? Sure, it was suicide. I just telephoned trans-American dug a guy out of bed there. They phoned me just a few minutes ago and said they'd never sent out any circulars on Furman. They didn't want him for murder or anything else. All they knew about him was he used to be a client of theirs. I don't know what to say, Ted. I don't either. What on earth kept you so long, Scott? Car stall came as quick as I could. Well, what makes you so edgy, Ted? Oh, nothing. I guess it's just the district attorney in me. Oh, shucks. Jants, if you're not careful, you're liable to give the impression that you two don't like each other. OK, OK, well, I'll quit if he will. Tell me what's wrong, Ted. Well, that's plenty wrong, Scott. Everything's wrong. First, that trans-American thing. They never sent out any circulars about Furman. And I'll get this. I talked to the philly police just before you came in. There wasn't any Paul Frank Dunlap murder down there that they know about. They've got no unexplained murder for December 8, 1942. What did you get out of Furman before you let him hang himself? Only, well, that he was innocent. Well, didn't you grill him? Didn't you find out what he was doing in town? Wally, didn't you? Oh, shucks. What for? He admitted his name was Furman. The circular description fitted him. The photograph was him. Trans-American detective agency supposed to be on the level. Philadelphia wanted Furman. No, he didn't. But, Scott. Oh, sure, Ted, sure. If I'd known he was going to hang himself, but then if you're on war pants, you'd be your uncle. You said Furman had been a client of trans-American. Then tell me what kind of a job they were doing for him. Well, his wife left him a couple of years ago, and he had them hunting for for five or six months, but they never found him. They're sending a man up here tonight to look things over. Yeah. Yes. And I might as well tell you, Scott, they're going to raise plenty of trouble over this. Yeah, yeah, I know that, Ted. There usually is trouble when somebody dies in a jail cell. Chief Anderson? Yeah, yeah, come in. They told me I'd find you here. I'm Carl Rising, assistant manager of Trans-American detective agency in Philadelphia. This is Mr. Wheelock, who was Lester Furman's personal attorney. How do you do? Glad to know you're Mr. Rising. Mr. Wheelock, this is Wally Shane, my assistant. How are you? How do you do? I know you gentlemen are already in possession of most of the details concerning Mr. Furman from the time he arrived in Dearwood until the time of his death. But perhaps you don't know that the police of most towns in our corner of the state have also received copies of this reward circular. Hmm? Get it for him, will you Wally? Here you are. Well, this circular is a forgery. Wow. You're sure it's a forgery, Mr. Rising? Oh, yes, yes, there's no doubt about it. And it's an excellent forgery. The paper, style and type are almost exactly like those we use at Trans-America. Almost, but not quite. Wow, what do you know? A forgery. Tell me, Mr. Wheelock, was Mr. Furman a native Philadelphian? Oh, no, yes, he was well-known, respectable, prosperous citizen of Philadelphia. Married, wasn't he? In 1934, he married a 22-year-old girl named Ethel Bryan, daughter of a Philadelphia family. And the Furmans had a child. Isn't that right, Mr. Wheelock? Yes, born in 1936. But the child lived only a few months. Mrs. Furman's wife disappeared after the child's death. What year was it she disappeared? Mr. Rising should remember that. His agency worked on that matter. Yes, I remember it very well. Mrs. Furman disappeared in 1937. We never heard anything of her again, although Furman spent quite a lot of money trying to locate her. Furman never divorced her, huh? No, sir. I should say not. He was very much in love with her. And he seemed to think that the kids dying made her a little scruise so that she didn't know what she was doing. That's right, isn't it, Mr. Wheelock? Well, that is my belief, Mr. Rising. You said Furman had money, Mr. Wheelock. How much did he have, and who gets it? I should say his estate will amount to, perhaps, a half a million dollars left in its entirety to his wife. His wife, huh? Hmm, that's quite a handy sum for anyone to have, huh, Wally? Yeah. Tell me, do either of you know why Furman came to Deerwood? No, I don't. Oh, shucks. You're his attorney, Mr. Wheelock. Don't you know if he told his servants or his office employees or someone why he came here? I know of no one of whom he told, and I can't see that these questions of yours are getting us anywhere. Why do you persist in asking them? Because, Mr. Wheelock, everything shows that somebody framed Furman into the Deerwood jail, and that frame-up drove him to suicide. Nothing shows anything else, and there has to be something else. A lot else. Well, Chief, what do we do now? I'm going across the street to Fritz Undertaking Parlor. Maybe I'll find something else there. You find anything at the Undertaking Parlor, Scott? No, not much. Well, I was over there myself just after you left, and I did. You did? What? Well, I saw these... Save it, Wally. Come in. Anything into anything here? Oh, shucks, no. You know, the coroner's report is always welcome at a time like this, Doc. What's on your mind, Doc? Well, is it all right to talk here? I mean, can anyone hear us? No, no, go ahead, talk. Listen, Scott, two of those bruises showed. What bruises? Furman. Up under the hair, there were two bruises. But why didn't you tell me? I am telling you, Scott, you weren't here when I made my examination.  This is the first time I've seen you since then. But why didn't you spill the stuff about Furman's bruises when you were testifying at the inquest, Ben? I'm a friend of yours, though I want to put you in a spot where people say you drove this fellow to suicide by third degreeing him too rough. Oh, shucks, Doc. You're nuts. How bad was Furman's head? Well, that didn't kill him, if that's what you mean. It was nothing the matter with his skull, just a couple of bruises that nobody would notice unless they parted the hair. It killed him just the same. You and your friendship that... Hello? Yeah, Fritz, a couple of ladies? Who are they? Oh, okay, I'll wait. I've got to run along now, Scott. Okay, I'll see you later. Right. It's Fritz at the undertaking, Paula. A couple of ladies want to see Furman's body. He's going to ask why.  When I was over there, I saw... Hello? Hello? I want to see your Furman's wife. Mrs. Furman, hmm? Oh, then by all means, Ms. Furman, only when you're through over there, I want you to come over to my office. I've got some things I want to ask you. Right. Well, what do you know about that? Furman's wife. That's what I've been trying to tell you. I saw him. And one of them's hot-shot Randall, a babe with a record as long as your arm. She's one of that mob you had me working on in New York last summer. She know you? Sure, but not by my right name. She thinks I'm a Detroit rum runner. No, no, I mean, does she recognize you just now? I don't think she saw me. Anyway, she didn't give me a tumble. Okay, well, I'll stick around a while, but stay out of sight. Maybe I'll be bringing these dolls back with me. Whatever you say, Chief. Come in. Chief Anderson. That's right, Mrs. Furman. Yes. This is my friend, Mrs. Crowder. Mrs. Crowder. What's your name, was Randall. What do you care, Chief? I'm not hurting your town any. Okay. If anybody says anything, I want to tell you something. Furman didn't commit suicide. He was murdered. Murdered. My husband murdered. We've got alibis. We were in New York. We can prove it. You're likely the other chance. How'd you people happen to come down here? Murdered. Who's got a better right to come down here? She was still his wife, wasn't she? She's got a right to look out for her own interest, hasn't she? Yeah, that reminds me of something. Excuse me just a second. I've got to make a phone call in the next room. Oh, take it easy. Hey, Hamill. Yeah, Chief? I want you to have someone get hold of that lawyer, uh, Wheelock, before he leaves town and tell him I want to see him. And, uh, is Wally around? No, he's not here. He said you told him to keep out of sight. I'll find him for you, though. Right. Tell Wally I want him to go to, uh, New York tonight. Send Mason home to get some sleep. He'll have to take over Wally's night trick. Okay.  I don't know, Mrs. Furman. I know he was killed. I also know he left something like half a million. Dollars? Dollars. All right, Chief.  The kid here didn't have a thing to do with whatever you think happened. No. No, no. We read about Lester Frayman committing suicide in yesterday morning's paper. And about there being something funny about it. And I persuaded her she ought to come down to Dearwood and that's all... Mr. Anderson, I wouldn't have done anything to hurt Lester. I left him because I wanted to leave him, but I wouldn't have done anything to him for money or anything else. If I'd wanted money from him, all I had to do would have been to just ask him for it. That's all. Well, he used to put ads in the paper telling me if I wanted anything to let him know, but I never did. You can ask his lawyer, Mr. Whelock. Anybody who knew anything about it can tell you that. Yeah, that's the truth, Chief. For years I've been telling Ethel she was a chump not to tap him, but she never would. I had a hard enough time getting her to come for her share now that he's dead and got nobody else to leave her to. I wouldn't have hurt him. Why did you leave him then? Well, after the baby died, I just... Excuse me. Oh, yeah, Hamill. You gave Wally the message. Yeah, I wanted to go to New York tonight. Okay, where is he, huh? He is home, huh? Okay, thanks. This circulars what got your husband in the jug, Mr. Furman. Did you ever see that picture before? No, I... I... I thought... it can't be. It's a snapshot I had, have. It's an enlargement of it. Who else has one? Nobody that I know of. I don't think anybody else could have one. Have you still got yours? Yes, I... I don't remember whether I've seen it recently. It's with some old papers and things, but I must have it. Oh, Mrs. Furman, it's stuff like this. It's got to be checked up. Neither one of us can dodge it. Now, there's two ways we can play. Yes. I can hold you here on suspicion till I've had time to check things up, or I can send one of my men back to New York I'm willing to do that if you'll speed things up by helping them all you can. And if you'll promise me, you won't try any tricks. I promise I'm as anxious as you are to track this down. All right, all right. How'd you come down? We drove. That's my car, the big green one across the street. Fine. Then my man can ride back with you. But no funny business. Funny shumony. What do you expect, huh? Huh? Oh, send him in. Hello, Mr. Wheelock. Is this really Mrs. Furman? Yes, that's really her, all right. Fine. Mr. Wheelock, I'll be back in a little while.  Where are we going? We're going to solid murder, sister. Who lives here? Wally Shane, my assistant.  All right. Here we are. Wally? Who is it? Scott Wally. Oh, come in. Ladies first. Harry. Harry. Hello, Ethel. You two know each other, huh? Well, shucks. We just sort of... Don't reach for that gun, Wally. I've got you covered. I guess you win, Scott. I guess I do. Why didn't you get out of town, Wally? No, it's Harry. You must have known when you saw these two women... I did. But when Hamel phoned and said you were going to send me to New York, I figured I was getting a break. You fooled me plenty on that one, Scott. Yeah. You're going to come along nice and quiet, Wally. Oh, shucks. Why not? Okay. And I'm afraid I've got a set. All the shame I arrest you for the murder of Lester Furman. You, uh, comfortable in here, Wally? Can't complain. For a sell. Say, Scott... Hmm? You didn't just stumble on all this, did you? Nope. Furman had to be murdered by a copper. Only a copper would know reward circulars well enough to make a good job of forging one.  When you told me you knew the Randall woman, well, there it was. What got you like this, Wally? Oh, shucks. What gets most saps into jams? Again, for easy dough. I'm in New York, see, Scott, working on that dutton job for you. Can I run into this Ethel Furman? And she goes for me like a house of fire. Like her, too, so that's dandy. But one night she tells me about how much dough her husband's got and how it would all come to her if... Well, I got to thinking. Thinking what? I think she's nuts enough about me to marry me. I still think she'd marry me if she didn't know I killed him. So, anyway, I did it. I swiped that snapshot. I sent those circulars out to a lot of places. You know, not wanting to point too much to this one. And when I was ready, I phoned Furman and I told him to come to the Dearwood Hotel that night and some time before the next night he'd hear from his wife, Ethel. I knew he'd fall for any trap that was baited with her. Oh, shucks. Now, I guess I'm not as sharp as I thought I was. Maybe you are, Wally, but that doesn't always help. Old man Kemsley's Ben's father used to have a saying, to a sharp knife comes at tough steak. 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God said in the beginning, let there be light.  God said, let there be light. If you don't shine with the light of Jesus Christ, I want you to know there will be light somewhere. Because when God commanded the light, He has never taken the light away. There is a day when the light is going to go out. Until that time, look at your neighbor and tell them in their face, let there be light. If you believe that, say amen. Father, in the name of Jesus, we thank you for the anointing of God that makes it easy to preach. And I pray that today, not what I say, but what you say will have a profound and eternal effect in the hearts and lives of your people. And we give you glory for it in the mighty name of Jesus. And everybody shout a great big amen. You may be seated in the presence of the Lord. The Bible says in John chapter one, in the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God. The same was in the beginning with God and all things were made by Him and without Him was not anything made that was made. In Him was life. Talking about Jesus, the word, the light. And the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness and the darkness comprehended it not. There was a man sent from God whose name was John. The same came for a witness to bear witness of the light that all men through Him might believe. He was not that light, but was sent to bear witness of that light. That was the true light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. Let there be light. And God spoke into the void, emptiness of darkness in the very beginning. And it is not a coincidence that the first time that the universe heard the voice of the almighty God, the message was not let there be joy. Let there be peace. Let there be love. The first words that you heard, the universe heard was let there be light. Because God always begins by turning the light on. Light requires, life requires light. Faith requires light. We can't deny, ladies and gentlemen, that we are living in dark times right now. The list of sins and immorality are more than what we could ever number. There is no doubt. But when the light stands next to the darkness, according to John chapter one, verse five, the light shines in the darkness, the Jewish Bible says, and the darkness has not suppressed it or overcome it. I want you to know no matter how dark it gets in the world that we're living in right now, the light of Jesus Christ is going to shine somewhere. And my prayer is, is that Pace, Florida, will become a lighthouse and beacon for the glory of God in these last days. If you wanna be a part of that, give the Lord praise right now. Would you do it? So here's a coming phenomenon that's going to take place. It is called the Great North American Eclipse. It's on the screen next year on April the 8th, 2024, you're people across the United States of America. Go ahead and run it. People across the United States of America are going to experience a darkening that will take place all the way from Mexico across the heartland of America and all the way into Canada. For more than four minutes, people are going to experience a blackout, a darkening of the sun. I want you to know that the physical things are only revealed by the spiritual. This hasn't happened in a very long time. As a matter of fact, it has been decades since there has been such a far reaching eclipse effect across the entirety of the North American continent. What's the big deal? The physical, ladies and gentlemen, physical sign is a spiritual reality of where we're living today. That darkness is closing in. Now then, Einstein comes along in his day and gives to us the wisdom of God that God gave him to reveal a truth known in Genesis chapter number one. To prove the existence of everything and anything, there must be the introduction of light. And so he comes up with his equation of E equals MC square, the induction of light that is required to explain anything that exists. Mass, matter, this pulpit, your very body, all of that has to have the induction of light or it does not exist. Without him, Jesus Christ, nothing was made that was made. God is light, the Bible says. And in creation, the triune Godhead was there, the father, the son, the word, the light, and the power of that light through the Holy Spirit, the Holy Ghost, was there in the beginning. And when God spoke, the spirit of God moved and began restraining or pushing back the darkness at that very moment and let there be light came into the world. That was before the sun, moon, and stars that was created on the fourth day. The Hebrews call it the Shekinah, the glory of God. I want you to know what Einstein was figuring out in his equations and all his mathematic, incredible mind that was being poured out to figure out what God said in the very beginning that nothing exists without light. And since God is light, you and I have really no existence until we encounter the light of Jesus Christ. We are at this moment in the place where the Restrainer, that is according to 2 Thessalonians chapter number two, which I believe to be the Holy Spirit working through the church, is in a place where he is about to stop restraining. How can you say that? Bible prophecy proves it over and over again. Here's some things you need to know that are happening right now. There is a population explosion that the Bible said would take place, Revelation nine, Revelation 16. The current population of this planet, Earth is now exceeding eight billion people. And there's whole groups and mindsets of people that are wanting to depopulate so that we can make sure we have enough resources. I want you to know something, my friend. You don't have to worry about what God put in the ground a whole long time ago. The oil will never run out because even in the book of Revelation, he says, don't touch the oil. I can assure you that the climate minds and all those who are so concerned about running out of resources don't have to worry about a thing because the one who created all of the resources is still sitting on the throne this very day. And if he needs something, he speaks it into existence and it comes to pass. This population explosion is a part of Bible prophecy to reveal to us that we're living in the last day. Secondly, the increase of knowledge. Daniel chapter number 12, verse four speaks to us about that. I just checked it out again this morning and according to some of those that run these numbers and try to figure all this out, medical, listen to this, medical knowledge is now doubling every 78 hours. Since COVID, we are now doubling the knowledge of medical science every 78 hours. It is said that we double our own knowledge in a six month period of time. Well, it's hard to be able to wrap your mind around that except to say that every invention that you and I know as modern inventions have been invented by the knowledge that God has given in the past 100 years. You do understand we've gone from the horse and buggy all the way to the space shuttle and beyond, ladies and gentlemen, just in a short period of time, knowledge is increasing. The Bible says in Matthew 24-12 that there would be an increase of violence that would take place in the last days. Daniel 12, four speaks to the increase of transportation, the speeding up of people going here and there. According to the scripture in 2 Timothy chapter three, there would be a rapid disintegration of the society. As a boy, I would read that passage of scripture and think to myself, how in the world and when could this ever be that there would be such a horrible disintegration of society? How could people not love their parents? How could people be so hateful to one another? And on and on it goes, I will tell you we are living in that time right now. Not one of those things is not happening in mass today. And then Jesus speaks in Matthew 24 and eight about birth pains. That is the increase frequency and intensity of what's taking place. That, I think you and I discussed a little bit at the term convergence. It's more than just saying there's an earthquake over here and a tornado over here and this is happening over here. There is and you see it happening constantly. As I speak today, there is a life threatening hurricane that is going to skirt the coast of New England. I want you to know, ladies and gentlemen, these things are not just happening because they're just happening. It is a convergence of things that is taking place like Jesus said in Matthew 24, that would happen prior to his return to this earth. I want you to take a look at this chart, very simple chart that's up on the wall to give you a timeline of what's going to happen and the next great event on the calendar of God. This, ladies and gentlemen, and what you need to know is that Jeff Kenley is a pre-tribulation rapture individual. And so am I. And this church believes in the pre-tribulation rapture. That's the reason why we are here in the present age that we're in and we don't know the moment. It's held in the mind of the Father alone when that is going to take place. When he speaks to his son and says, go get my children, go get my bride. He knows the last soul that's gonna be saved in the altar. He knows the last sermon that's gonna be preached. For all of you that are more concerned about your sporting SEC, I want you to know he knows the last game that's gonna be played. He knows the last winner that's gonna be selected. He knows the last movie that's ever gonna be made. And I can assure you that none of that, ladies and gentlemen, matters more than one soul that he knows is gonna come. And then there will be a return of Jesus Christ. It's called the rapture of the church, the snatching away of the body of Christ off of this people planet. I want you to hear this statement and hear it clear. Five seconds after the rapture takes place, less than that, there will not be one believer left on this planet. Look around you this morning in this very full church on the thousands that are watching online. I want you to understand, if you enjoy the fellowship of other believers and you're walking with them, do not expect it after the rapture takes place.  And if you are sitting in this building or watching online right now and you haven't given your life to Jesus Christ, this message is going to reverberate in your mind over and over again. You'll remember on the 17th day of September in the year of our Lord, 2023, I heard about Jesus coming back, but I never made a move. I want to say to you, if you're not saved, today is the day of salvation. Tomorrow may be too late, Jesus is coming. Now for those of you that are not clapping your hands and looking at me like a cow looking at a new gate, I want to let you know just because you've heard it all of your life doesn't mean that Jesus is delaying his coming. The Bible said in the book of Peter, there will be scoffers in the last day saying where is the promise of his coming? For since our fathers fell asleep, all things continue like they are. I want you to know my father and my mother have fallen asleep and I've laid their body in the sod. But on that great getting up morning with the trumpet of God's sound, there will be a rise of the occasion where the dead in Christ shall rise first and we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together to meet the Lord in the air. If you're not excited about it now, you will be right after it takes place but it'll be too late. Today is the day of salvation. Repent and come to Jesus before it's eternally too late. I want you to ask your neighbor right now on the left and right, are you ready? For Jesus to return. I know you've heard it from this pulpit so much that sometimes it sounds like the teacher on peanuts.  But that's the reason why I brought these prophecy experts in here because what I don't want you to do is let your ears wax gross as the Bible said. That you've heard it so much that you think all things are continuing.  You know what I say in Pace, Florida, in Pensacola and Milton, let there be light. The chart that is on this wall describes to you from the time we are all the way until the new heaven and the new earth. The Bible says that the rapture will take place and the bride of Christ will be ushered into the very presence of God to meet the Lord at the marriage supper, the lamb and the judgment seat of Christ. Seven years of that period taking place.  Only to return back on white horses according to the scripture in Revelation 19 to the very valley of Megeto. I want you to know on my phone as I have it right up here, my screensaver is a picture of Elijah up on that top of Mount Carmel and just over the edge is the valley of Megeto. Napoleon said it's the greatest battlefield that's ever been fought on or will be fought on. He knew what was going to take place and the Bible describes it.   His light is always on and let me tell you, anybody that's around him is reflecting his light always on. You're not a Christian just on Sunday. You better make sure the light is on and let there be light on Tuesday and Thursday and Friday. The Bible says that once that takes place we'll be ushered into a thousand year millennial reign where the lamb will lay down with the lion where Jesus will have walked across the Kidron Valley, been there, seen it, bus through that eastern gate that's been walled up because the Muslims heard the rumor that there's some Messiah coming that's a Jew and we can't let him into the old city of Jerusalem to sit on the throne of his father, David but it will not stop him. He will walk through the Kidron. He'll walk through the gate that has been blocked up with bricks and mortar and assemble his place on the throne of his father, David and of his kingdom there shall be no end. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm not talking about just any God. I'm talking about the God of God, the Lord of Lords and the King of Kings. Thousand year of millennial reign will take place and then I want you to know we sung it for years out of our church hymn book. When we all get to heaven, what a day of rejoicing that's gonna be and we sing that like everybody's going to stay. We're all going but not everybody's going to stay. Those that have rejected Jesus Christ, the wicked dead and living will rise to meet God Almighty at the great white throne judgment. To hear the words if you've rejected him apart from me you worker of iniquity, I never knew you.  When he cleans this earth off, you're not gonna have to worry about climate change. I can assure you Al Gore won't have to worry about a cleanup program. There'll be no ducks that have to be washed off with dawn soap. I'll tell you what's gonna happen. God's gonna set it on fire.  I want you to know as I speak right here just outside the door, many of you don't know, just outside the door on the other side. Years ago a dry cleaning agent, a dry cleaning service was next door and they went out back of that place and poured that dry cleaning solvent all on the ground. It is seeped into the water table and made its way across the parking lot of Pace Assembly all the way down to the sign and down towards the Circle K. Problem, Circle K had a fuel dump that got inside the ground water and started working its way back this way. The property of Pace Assembly has been tested and we can do what we need to do but the ground water is being reclamated out on the other side over there because they found this agent inside.   The dark one, Satan, has tried to put the light out from the beginning. In the garden, he tried to put the light out by speaking into the ears of Eve and Adam. And so God had to remove Adam and Eve out of the garden but the light kept right on burning. He tried to put the light out in society when the violence was taking place and the minds of every person was only evil continually but the Bible said he found a man in his family who had light in him and Noah found favor in the eyes of God. He preserved him by putting him inside of the ark with his family and for those days floating on the tide until once he opened up and there was the sun shining again. I just wanna stop and do a little pastoral care right here. If you're in a dark place right now, if you've been walking through a dark place, whatever you do, don't look out this way, look up this way and you'll see the light of God shining all of the time. He tried to put the light out when Jesus was hanging on the cross. As a matter of fact, the Bible says, and I can see the hand of God reach into the abyss. As Jesus hangs on the cross, drops his head between his shoulders and said, it is finished. The Bible said for three hours, here's the darkness that covers the sky. Darkness cloaked because the light had been put out. They took the light off of that cross and put him inside of a tomb in a dark place. The worst thing you could do is to take a seed, bury the seed, plant the seed, because whether you like it or not, the seed will come back again on the, what was it? World was hopeless without the light. They went back, Peter said, I go a fishing. I'm done with this thing. Two guys on the road of Emmaus are walking all the way down the street to a place that is lonely and despaired and Jesus walks up beside him and says, what y'all talking about boys? He said, what do you mean, what are we talking about? We're talking about the one who we had hope in and we thought he was gonna be the one but they crucified him. We saw it with our own eyes. Saw him put him into the tomb. I want you to know the world was hopeless at that moment. They had no thought that all of the evil that was going on in the world would ever be changed and the darkness would always have its place except for that prophecy that Jesus spoke to his disciples and he said, if you take this temple in three days, if you try to destroy it in three days, I will rebuild, I will come again. Ladies and gentlemen, if Jesus said he would come again after they crucified him, hold on to this truth. He is coming again in a moment in the twinkling of an eye. If you're ready right now, shout, I'm ready. Shout, let there be light. I want you to understand that in the current state of darkness that's closing in, Ephesians 6, verse number 12 becomes even that much more important for we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities. There's principalities, rulers against powers against the rulers of darkness of this world against spiritual wickedness in high places. Ladies and gentlemen, we have not seen the level of spiritual wickedness in our lifetime like we are right now. Pastor Shane was telling me in the park inside of his town witches have set up their place and they're now praying and hexing and when one individual was interviewed about it, they said, well, the leader of our cult, the leader of our wicked, whatever they wanna call it, sent me to this town. Listen as a missionary. Well, Pastor, that's in the park. No, it's in the schools. No, it's in the grocery store. No, it's walking down the street. It's on the news. It's on the movies. It's everywhere. Darkness and gross darkness is coming in and we better wake up and we're not just sitting watching the game. We are in a battle for the very souls of individuals that are sitting on our pews right now. How do you know that, Pastor? I know it because of these things right here. These are the signs of darkness that are taking place. Signs of darkness in the nations where the Bible said wars and rumors of wars would be taking place, that there's a chilling effect that's taking place across our land because we're hearing that Russia continues to say we're gonna send nuclear bombs and the Ukraine is being supplied by your tax dollars, 60 billion plus dollars that's been sent there to prop up what? We're in the middle of a mess that's going on and darkness continues to get darker in the nations. So there's signs in nature, ladies and gentlemen, more signs than I've ever seen as the stars and the moons and the planets. They just reached out. Yesterday was showing a picture of how deep the galaxies are and now telescopes can see in the deep darkness and find the stars that have their own galaxies. Ladies and gentlemen, it's an unprecedented time that we're living in. We're looking at all kinds of darkness that's encroaching by trying to convert climate change into a religion and they've successfully done that. Where people are listening, I'm probably gonna get on some thin ice right here but you know me, I just wanna let you know your animals do not have a soul and when we have elevated animals above human babies in the womb, we are a dark society. Now I appreciate your dogs and your dogs. I'm not much of a cat guy but give me a dog. I appreciate your dogs and your cows and your goats and all that kind of stuff but they do not have a soul. Y'all not hearing what I'm saying or maybe you don't wanna hear what I'm saying. Dogs and animals.    It don't take very much thunkin' to do that, come on somebody. But the tactic of the enemy is to elevate creation, the creator, creation above those that are created fearfully and wonderfully made in the very image and likeness of God. How about the signs that are in the economy? Hey, have you heard the news from Washington? Everything is great, isn't it great? Come on somebody, isn't it wonderful? Isn't it just, I mean people are prospering like never bit, wait a minute. Oh, I'm sorry, it took $125 to fill up your vehicle.  Come on somebody. You went to Chick-fil-A and you thought you were ordering at a gourmet restaurant. What's happening? I'll tell you what's happening. People are ignoring the darkness, turning a blind eye and a deaf ear to it all and dropping their credit card on it to the degree that the debt is going higher and higher every day. Here's my ammunition for you in the economy.  And if you've got to live, come on somebody. Don't you worry about the Lord. He's never seen the righteous forsaken nor his seed pegging bread. Arm and hammer may not have a hot dog to munch on but the righteous will have everything they have need of. Don't make me preach in here. How about the signs in spiritual things that are taking place? Spiritual signs where the pope is embracing everything coming down the pike, including LGBT. What's wrong with what's going on? Look at this, you would think that the movie studios would want to be able to have $150 million as an opening day on the sound of freedom, but oh no, what does that movie do? It pulls the cloak off of the darkness and shares the light on human trafficking.  You're fighting forces, ladies and gentlemen, that are not flesh and blood. Rulers of darkness and principalities. But I came to tell you that greater is he that is in you than he that's in that world. How about the signs of darkness in our society? Society's going crazy, hasn't it? Where we are now ordaining homosexuals and lesbians and drag queens are attending school functions. The other day a drag queen takes out a paddle and paddles the behind of a principal in the school. Are you kidding me?  You're not talking to me. See, I'm sorry, it hadn't happened to your child yet, but let your kid bring that book home from school that says gender changing is okay and my teacher said it's okay. There are whole states and school systems that are saying the parents do not have control over your children. If they come to the school as a boy, we'll send them home as a girl in indoctrination.  You better come out of that kind of thinking and realize that God Almighty gave the gender male and female and society's going crazy. Let's there be light. How about the signs of the time? The sign, the nation of Israel. The nation of Israel is the sign of all signs. And ladies and gentlemen, there we're watching the darkness close in around them every day. It's amazing to me that at the same time that the persecution has come upon a previous president, Mr. Netanyahu is receiving that same kind of pressure in the court system. You wanna know what America's, those in leadership have a thought of today? They're going to invite the president of the Ukraine to the White House, but Mr. Netanyahu will not come to the White House this coming week. He'll meet him in New York.  If you bless them, I will bless you. I want you to know to make sure all of you here and all of you that are watching understand the foundational principle as it relates to the nation of Israel and the Jewish people at Pace Assembly. We will bless them continually as we always have and stand in the guard for the nation of Israel always. Make no mistake about it. I've been to Israel, for all of you that wanna share the argument that the Palestinians are oppressed people and on and on and on. You should take a trip with me to Israel and find out how good and how well they are taking care of by the nation of Israel living on their own property. It is so magnificent as one particular guide showed us and all they want you to see is some great big cement wall that's keeping them out. Well, let me just tell you something, ladies and gentlemen. If people were coming across the border bombing my house with my kids inside of the bus, I'd put a wall up and cards up there too. But that actually is only a short portion of the entirety of that security fence all the way around Israel. Most of it is not a cement wall. You need to understand that they took such great care and meticulous walking that the man who was in charge of all of it, heard it with my own ears, literally walked it out step by step. And if he got to a house where there may have been someone who was not wanting that thing to go through there, they would make a way to go around that, right? You can see it for yourself and they would make a path to go all the way. I want you to know something.  When I walk through the hospital there at the Rambam Hospital in Jerusalem, outside of Jerusalem, it is a trauma center that is set up like none other. And when one of the leaders of Hamas, I believe it was, their daughter had cancer, Israel sent its own ambulance in in the dark of night through the tunnels, brought the girl to the hospital, performed the surgery, got her all healthy and then took her back through the tunnel and gave her to her Hamas daddy. Ladies and gentlemen, it's the same people that's bombing the nation of Israel. And with great restraint, they've got it. But one day very soon, ladies and gentlemen, God is gonna say I've had enough with you trifling with my nation.  Rest assured, you can rest assured the Arab nations and others are gonna find themselves in a mess in the days that are ahead. But Israel, little nine miles wide Israel is still gonna be standing. Let there be light in the nation of Israel. Here's a few things I wanna get to you before we walk out of this place today because whenever light comes, it dispels the darkness. Here's your instruction. In him, there is no darkness at all. Pastor, I have a little bit of darkness. No, you gotta get the darkness out if you're gonna be like Christ. So here's three things for you.   It's time, Roman said it's high time. Well, I'm just gonna tell y'all, as I was growing up, whenever my father said, it's high time for you. It's one of two things that was gonna happen. Either I was gonna get up and start doing what he said and what he wanted me to do or it was high time that I was gonna get my bridges jacked up to the high heavens. High time, come on somebody. And I don't mean time. I'm talking about high time in the mind of God. I needed that for some of you who don't understand what I say. First of all, the thing you've got to do is see the light. Look at somebody tell him I gotta see the light. That's what I'm doing here today. John chapter nine, verse four says, I must work the works of him that sent me, Jesus said, while it is day, the night cometh when no man can work. As long as I'm in the world, I am the light of the world. When he had thus spoken, the Bible said, watch this. He spat on the ground, made some clay of the spittle, anointed the eyes of the blind man with clay and said unto him, go wash at the pool of Siloam. Incidentally, they just uncovered the eight steps that lead up to the pool of Siloam, just to confirm to you that the word of God is continuing to be revealed even as we are watching day by day. He said, go wash in the pool of Siloam, which is by interpretation sent, and he went his way therefore and washed and came seeing. Ladies and gentlemen, when you turn the light on, there's vision. What's happening in our world, too many people, 1% of churches is turning the light on in Bible prophecy. That means that 99% of the others are walking in darkness and gross darkness. I'll tell you what keeps you motivated to be able to serve the Lord. The fact that he could come back at any moment, vision, light is seeing its insight, its foresight. But what's happening in our churches today, like Eli, the high priest, who let his sons be perverted at the very door of the temple, Pastor, that's not happening. Oh, yes it is. When whole denominations are changing their biblical, ground and, listen, Charles and John Wesley would flip in their grave to know what's happening with their Methodist denomination today. But oh, let's not leave it there, ladies and gentlemen. It's happening in every denomination. So you know what you better do? You better turn the light on and relight the lamp inside of your own life, because the Bible said that Eli let the lamp go out in the temple of God. Ladies and gentlemen, when the lights go out, I can assure you you better have and better be the light to lead someone out of that darkness. Eli, the Bible said, let the light go out and he lost his vision to see what was going on. He ignored the sin in his own house, but when Jesus spat on the ground, mixed some clay together, put it in the eyes.  I mean, how are you gonna get me to see by putting dirt in my eyes? I'm glad you asked. This is a scientific message for you this morning. Jesus spat on the ground, did he not? Come on, that's not a trick question. Did Jesus spit on the ground? He spit in the clay, he mixed it up, made a little paste. He took that same spittle in clay. Clay is dirt. It's what man's made of. God spit in the dirt. The light spit in the dirt. They can tell a lot about you today by you spitting in a test tube. Jesus already knew that.  He took the clay and smashed it in his eye and said, go wash at the pool of saloon. And the Bible said, when he washed, he came back seeing and his vision was clear. Oh God, let us see the clarity of the light of God. Do what you've gotta do. Open my eyes to see. Let there be light. It's time to believe the light, number two. Somebody say, believe the light. They doubted that Jesus was who he says he was. When they heard the Son of Man saying he would be lifted up, they looked at him and said, are you talking about you? Here's what Jesus said in John 12. Then Jesus said unto them, yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness come upon you. For he that walketh in darkness, knoweth not whither he goeth. Verse 36, while ye have light, believe in the light. That ye may be the children of light. These things speak Jesus and departed and did, watch this, we learned this yesterday. He did hide himself. If you were here yesterday, you heard Bill Federer talking about, I think it was, hiding himself in the galaxy's beyond. Because if the full glory of God came upon us, we could not stand it. The Bible says verse 37, but though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they believe not on him. This is a time sensitive call for you to believe while you have the light. Third thing, it's time to walk in the light. The Bible says in first John chapter one verse seven, but if you walk in the light as he is the light, we have fellowship one with another. You know what that's saying right there? You cannot get along with your neighbor like you should unless Christ is dwelling on the inside of you and them. How many of you remember several years ago when I brought in here a great big 13 foot cross? And you remember the man who had built that was sitting right over here. Some of you don't, you need to go online, it's on there. That man was a KKK executioner. He was the head of the execution party of the KKK. He had been sent years ago in the 70s to kill Pastor Lowry. Brothers that was in the car, they were gonna push him over the side of the cliffs and the bluffs on scenic highway, but the Holy Ghost led them a different way to come back. Now all these years later, this man lives in Defuniac Springs. He's building crosses now because one day after that incident, he brought his robe and all of his KKK material and laid it down on the altar in that chapel and received Jesus Christ as his personal Lord and Savior. Now he says, I don't burn crosses, I build crosses. Around this church, I've got several of his cedar made crosses. He brought me a 13 foot cross into this place, stood it up right here. And if you were in that service, I had a white man. This was in the middle of CRT and BLM and everything else going on.  Next thing you know, they're embracing one another. We didn't stage that. You know why? Because when the lights in me and the lights in you, we got to get together because it's the same Jesus.  He's Jesus in you and Jesus in me. And if you've got Jesus and I've got Jesus, we've got to love one another. That's the way the Lord said it's gonna be. Well, I wish somebody would give him glory in here. We emit what we absorb. We're born again to absorb and reflect the light of God, filled with the Holy Ghost, the light of God. We are not mirrors, simply reflecting something. We absorb the light. He lives on the inside of me. Are you hearing me? Too many believers are living in the shade. They are experiencing a spiritual eclipse. Here's a question. When was the last person you won to the Lord Jesus Christ? I haven't lost my place. I'm just letting you ponder that. Cause why are you still here? Why weren't you buried during COVID? Why are you still breathing? Why are you still alive? Well, I got my job, I got my business. I got this, I got, you know, I got to go to the game. I got a, I got a vacation coming up. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Let there be light? Well, Pastor, I'm on vacation. I don't, I don't, you know, you're gonna take a vacation from God? I'll ask you a question. I can get no amen's in here, but I ain't looking for none. Let me ask you a question. How would you like it if God took a vacation from you? I'm gonna be gone for seven days. I'll see you when I get back. Let me tell you what happens when God, the restrainer is removed. All you have left is darkness. Did you hear what I said? Second Thessalonians two, I'm hurrying here. So those of you in the back that's got my PowerPoints, I'm free flying now. Second Thessalonians two, the Bible says that when the restrainer, he who now lets, when he moves out of the way, I believe that to be the Holy Ghost functioning through the church. When the church disappears off of this earth, the Holy Ghost is gonna go into the Holy Spirit. His operation, his way of moving is going to change. In the Old Testament, he came upon Simpson. He came upon David. He did not live on the inside of, we have the privilege of having the spirit of God, the same spirit that raised the three day dead body of Jesus Christ dwelling inside of every believer. The light is in you. But things are gonna change when the rapture takes place. The restrainer who is now holding back the darkness. Ladies and gentlemen, when the church leaves, the restrainer is going to back off and darkness is going to cover this earth like we have never seen. The church disappears and the light goes away. Work while it's day, he says. Walk in the light, he says. What do you want me to do, pastor? I want you to let there be light wherever you go. Are you turning the light on in somebody's life because we already know government does not have the answer. Worldly solutions won't work. The darkness won't retreat at more education. The darkness won't retreat with more financial programs. Come on, somebody. We've just about paid everybody into laziness right now. And what's happening? It's having an effect in the church where people don't wanna come to church or they feel like somehow that this whole thing about God's word and Bible prophecy and the Lord coming back, don't worry about it. Go and have a ball. I want you to know something, my dear friend. Don't get caught up in the mindset and the systems of this world. It's darkness that's encroaching and listen to me, being deceived, you don't know that you're deceived when you're deceived. The sheep doesn't run away, he nibbles away. So worldly solutions will not stop the darkness and darkness will not retreat at political power. The darkness won't retreat because of scientific advancements. It's only the overcomer by the blood of the lamb and the word of their testimony that's gonna be able to turn the light on the age that we're in right now. So where is Jesus in relation to the church and believers? Well, Revelation one tells us in Revelation two. What's he doing right now? I'll tell you what he's doing. He's walking among his churches. He's finding out ones that are putting the lights out and those that are turning on the light.  But their light is not burning. Now what's he doing when he's walking around? This is a whole another preaching and teaching. Get his book, you'll find out the whole deal. What is he doing? He's inspecting it. He's wanting to see what influence is the light because if the light is too dim, you're having zero influence and effect in your society. Come on church. What is Jesus doing? He's performing the task of the priest in Revelation one. The very first task of the morning was to come and trim the wicks from everything that had been causing it to dim and lose its light. He was trimming the wicks, he's checking it out. Is the light burning? That's what he's doing right now. He's walking through this place and where you are right now and he's inspecting whether or not you are at full brightness.  Have I got a witness in here? A few of you. Now if I'm sleeping, turn the light off. But I've learned to sleep with the lights on. For those of you that are too young to be able to do this, when you get a little older, here's one of the enjoyable things about being old.  I climb on that plane going to Israel. I got them little things to put over my eyes, put my little ear pods in and I don't hear nobody saying nothing. God is speaking to us and saying, it's amazing. I just changed some bulbs in our house the other day for 12 years, these incandescents have been up there and guess what, they're now LED. They forced me to buy LED and they said on the box, it's a lifetime warranty. Who keeps the receipt for those lifetime warranties? I don't because they said it's gonna last a lifetime. I got incandescent bulbs that are still burning in my house from the day I put them in there 13 years ago. But I put some LEDs in the other day and they lied to me. Next thing I know, I think I'm losing my mind but the LED's going. Jesus, she got some spit, come on now. I gotta change this bulb. I got to change this bulb. Ladies and gentlemen, it's Sunday. You're in this building, you're watching online. It's time to change the bulb. Some of you got saved in 19 whatever that it was but I came to tell you, you need to hone up on it and change the bulb. Jesus is walking among us this morning checking out the influence, he's checking it out.  I've read, I've preached from this before in Matthew 25 of the 10 virgins waiting on the bridegroom to come. And the Bible said all 10 of them had lamps that were burning at one time but because they were waiting and had to wait and some of them said, when's he gonna get here? And some of them said, I can't wait any longer. They started neglecting the light. The only thing that could show, the only thing that could show them the path, thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path. Little by little, their lamps went out, the Bible said. And there they are. They lost the oil. The light would burn if you had the oil. The oil is the Holy Ghost. You've let the spirit of God dissipate from you and not replenished it enough to keep the light burning. Suddenly the things of God are not as important as the things you've got planned. That's what was going on. But here's what really caught me and I've read this, I've studied, I've preached and maybe you had it a long time ago and I just missed it but here's what I found out. The Bible says that five of them were wise because they still had oil and extra oil and their lights were still burning but five of them were foolish because they ran out of oil and begged the other ones to give them some oil so that they would have enough and they said not so, go on to the store, go to Sam's and get you some. Lest we don't have enough. Now that's important, let me stop right here and preach that for 30 seconds. That's so important because you cannot ride on my coattails or anybody else to get to heaven, you gotta have your own oil. But here's what really got me. It's not a matter of them just not having light and them having light. It's the fact that as a last day sign, 50% of the light went out. I said, oh my Lord, half of who should have been brightly burned, I'm not talking about sinners. I'm talking about people who came to church week after week and yet neglected so great a salvation. Half went dark, went out. My friends, it's time for us to let there be light again inside of our hearts because the only way to combat the absence of light is with the presence of light. I need his presence because the only reason, darkness according to scientists and physicists, darkness and light run at the same parallel. So it's not a matter of the darkness not being there because it's always gonna try to be present. But the only reason why it's not encroaching is because there's light that's running enough to keep the darkness back. The loss of illumination allows darkness to grow.  Let me tell you how bright the light's gonna get, Revelation 22. The Bible says that when we finally arrive in that new heaven and new earth, there'll be no need of exterior lights. For Jesus Christ himself will be the light. How many lights are burning bright in here? Let me see your hand. I close with this. The Holy Ghost was dealing with these men yesterday and they trampled all around this and I was thankful that they didn't get on it because this is the hook of my message for you today. Einstein's theory of relativity, put it up there. Einstein's theory of relativity that he studied of course says that the induction of light is what is required for all things to exist, matter, whether it's the chair, the bottle of water, the Bible, you have this microphone, so forth and so on. But Einstein dealt with some other equations and the scientists did and they run equations now and experiments where they've taken the protons and reduced them down to what they call pions and they said we're going to try to speed that up to the speed of light because Einstein said at the speed of light, at the speed of light whatever that matter is, the chair, the person, whoever it may be, decays in less than 28 billionths of a second, 28 billionths of a second. Some smart guy calculated it out to be 1920 feet, approximately a quarter of a mile and so they ran the experiments and they've only been able to get up to 99.99999% because nothing can exceed the speed of light. Nothing can exceed the speed of light. It dissipates, it is no more, it has to change. Are you with me? What happens if you take an object with mass, a person, a chair, whatever, and move it faster and faster? Well, Einstein's thought was that when it gets to the speed of light, the clocks stop, time stops. What do you say it? When time reaches the speed of light, that's called eternity, no time, clocks stop. In fact, he said if you were to push through that, it would literally slow the clock down until it stops. And I sat the other night for your sakes and listened on YouTube to six different physicists tell me about this whole experiment. And when the scientists took the smallest subatomic pion and made it travel up to the speed of light but couldn't get it any further, they concluded not by that experiment but by the experiments that they ran around it, that at the speed of light, clock stops, time stops, the atom is moving, but it moves into eternity where there is no time. And if you were here yesterday, you heard Bill Federer say a day is with the Lord as a thousand years and a thousand years as a day. We're still moving, but it feels like I'm not, but we go into a slow effect, a slow moving effect but we're just moving in a different form. So at the speed of light, mass breaks down and your body cannot survive the speed of light at 186,000 miles per second. Mass cannot pass through the speed of light. At the speed of light, things change. So I say to you again, when time reaches the speed of light, that is eternity. Let me say it a different way. Einstein had no idea that he was speaking something. The scientists who are conducting the experiments don't understand it, they're just doing experiments. But when time, as we know it right now, and some, I just read an article last night where somebody said, have you figured it out that time is moving faster, it feels like? I mean, I hope you all know that 13 weeks from now, I think it is, it's Christmas. Have you bought your gifts yet? Have you opened up an account on Amazon? What are you doing? You better hurry and get it before somebody else does, because it'll be here before you know it. They already have Halloween stuff out. When time, so when time reaches the speed of light, you go into slow motion, it feels, but I'm moving faster than ever before. In fact, light speed, here's what I wanna say. When time reaches the speed of light, that means you've stepped into eternity. Let me say it another way. When time reaches the speed of light, things change. Let me say it another way. When time reaches the speed of light, it is the Einstein explanation of the rapture of the church. Consider this, ladies and gentlemen. Behold, I show you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall be changed in a moment in the twinkling of an eye at the last trump, for the trumpet of God shall sound and the dead in Christ shall rise incorruptible and we shall be changed. For this corruptible, this mass, shall put on incorruption, no mass, and this mortal shall put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall it put on incorruption and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass, to saying death is swallowed up in victory. Oh death, where is I staying?  Ladies and gentlemen, when time reaches the speed of light, we're gonna be gone and it could be any second now. Get on your feet and shall let there be light.


Oh, yeah, I'll get out of your way if nobody wants to. Oh, yeah, how am I gonna get along? Oh, my God. I've never fished with anything like this on the channel. He actually bent out my hook. My fish was flying. There it is. Oh, my God. Before this video gets started, I would like to say I am gonna be giving away all this tackle at the end of the video, but do not skip through. I would like you guys to watch this all the way through. I actually just got done with the challenge and it is a juicy one for sure. Thank you guys so much for clicking on this video. Hey, yo, what's up, people? Welcome to another video. Thank you guys so much for clicking on this one. Let me go through two little quick things. So don't skip through this real quick. First thing I would like to say is I'm actually sick. I'm feeling really bad right now. I might not sound like it. I got like, it's really bad. It's my throat's killing me. I don't know, but I'm popping this video out for you guys. So thank you guys so much for supporting me. I'm always gonna be here for you guys no matter what as well. Second thing, the last video that I uploaded, 30 minutes after I uploaded it, YouTube actually shut down. Like everything on YouTube stopped working. The views are literally down by like 5,000 of what they usually would be right now. And it's actually a really good video. So one view on fishing challenge versus me versus Alan on the kayaks. If you guys wanna go check that one out, I'll link it below.  It's pretty cool. It's pretty neat, something different.  So let's go ahead and go inside. All right, everybody. Just made it inside of Walmart. We're gonna take a look at everything they got right here because we needed to find the cheapest lures that they have in here. I feel like we're gonna pick out three today, maybe four, and that's what we're gonna go with. But let's look at what they have. So coming over to the soft plastics, they usually have some stuff down in this bin down here for the clearance bin, but they currently don't today. I mean, they have a few baits, but nothing much. But moving on over here, we're trying to find the cheapest one that they have. Some zoom baits that are around $2, $3. Power bait, which is like $7. They got some culprit that's like around $4 or $5. Then they got some meon that's around $2. So I feel like that is what we need to go with today. So I know I've used them in the other videos, the old Yumdingers. We're gonna go with these right here, just some regular Junebug worms. $2.96, that's our first lure. You have some old crappie baits right here. And when I look down here, you have these little totally tailed grubs for $2.56, but you actually get seven of them in a pack. So I think we're gonna have to go with these since you can get seven for $2.56. I mean, we can get something over here for like a dollar, but then again, you get seven of these things for $2.56. Hopefully we will not have a hard time with the hook up ratio on these things because I know, you know, it's me for crappie. Just got a really small hook. I don't know if it's gonna be super hard to hook them or not. I guess we'll end up finding out.  So I'm not too worried about it. But let's look for one more lure that we can get. I'm trying to do stuff that's different that I haven't done on the channel like these. I've never fished with anything like this on the channel. On the Sankos, obviously I have, but I feel like I need something that's somewhat decent that I can catch a fish on. So we need to find one more. So one thing that everybody's been commenting in the comment section is jigs. You guys wanna see me fish a jig? Everyone keeps commenting it. And they actually have a jig here for $2. All right, they got the jig here for $2 is by Strike King. So I think I'm gonna get one of these. Let me show you. So these are all the jigs that they actually have. They're pretty much all by Strike King. They got some bitsy bugs right here. I think I'm gonna go with one of these. So get this one right here, this old bad boy. Only $2 and that's our third and final bait. I'm a freaking goober and I left my Texas rig box at the house of my kayak. So that is one thing I need to buy is some bullet weights and then some hooks. So the hooks that I'm gonna get is just some standard old laser sharp ones. These are super cheap, super inexpensive. We're just gonna get these. I'm gonna simply get some one fourth ounce bullet weights. Just gonna keep it super simple, super easy. Let's go check out. Alrighty, so the total price for the lures ended up being around $9 and that or it was like $8. I actually bought some more stuff so I couldn't even look at the receipt and count everything up. So pretty much it came with those little twirl tail little grubs for crappie. That was like seven of them. Then we got the jig and then we got a whole pack of Sankos. So that was only around $8. That's pretty cheap, pretty expensive if you ask me. But we're about to head to the pond, baby and catch some fish. Let's get it. So we have just made it to our first location and obviously the first thing that we need to do is rig up our poles. So I actually have three rods with me today. I'm actually gonna be rigging the baits on three different rods just because I don't feel like retighting on all different poles and that whole deal. So obviously I got an old spinning rod right here that I will be putting that old little crappie twirl tail grub on and then I'll be putting the jig on this old bad boy right here. Got a Concept Z and a Defi by 13 Fishing.  Both of these bait casters have 15 pound Seaguar fluorocarbon and the old spinning rod has a braid to fluorocarbon leader with 10 pound fluorocarbon on it. I just realized I left my pliers in my kayak but I got this old Kanifi right here. So we're about to use it with that boy. But I tied these suckers on. Let me go through what I got real quick. So I have these little Yumdingers right here in Juneboat.  I actually already have a Texas rig on so I probably bought those for no good reason but I'll use them eventually. That's not a big deal. So I have all my baits rigged up. I'm very excited about this little crappie jig head right here because I've yet to even fish for something like that for bass.  I got this jig and then my old Senko. There is a problem about the jig. I don't have a trailer but I believe I might in the back of my truck. I got an old rage tiller right here. I just realized how small that jig is. I did not know it was that small but I can probably bite down this thing and throw it on there. Alrighty, let's get this started. I think I'm gonna start off with the jig real quick. There's a lot of grass in here. It's the only thing I'm worried about. I might have to switch right over to the Senko. But we're gonna start off with this jig and see if we can get a bite. Oh my God, he has it. There's no way first cast.  Freaking first cast on the jig. First cast. Oh my God, one just had it. Look at him right there. There's like three of them. Oh my God. They're small. Oh, there's a fish about to eat it. He took my trailer. That was my only trailer I have with me. I cannot believe that right away. He actually bent out my hook. Oh my gosh. He literally bent out my hook. Are you kidding me? What kind of hook is on this thing? That is unbelievable. I'm gonna pick up something else and see if I can catch him. Oh my God. That was awesome. I literally watched him eat that thing. First freaking fish. There we go, baby. It is not big, but that is one lure off the list. Baby little crappie right there. Let's go, baby. That's nothing much at all. But that is the first fish of the day.  Get back out there. I wanna see if I can catch another one on this thing. Mainly some small ones in this pond. I just wanna start off here to see if I can catch a few. I was kinda rilling this thing at the top of the water and jerking my rod just trying to get a reaction bite out of these fish and not really letting them look at it, dragging it right past them. I mean, it's such a small profile bait that they shouldn't be really finicky about it.  I mean, they're just gonna swat at it and eat it. That's a fish, baby. I know it. It's one in that corner. Yep. That is the smallest bass I think I've ever seen. All right, whatever, I'll take you. Bait's so small. Anything can eat it. That's a bass. Baby, baby. Gosh, guys. D-Ink Nation, man.  Ridiculous, man. I mean, these aren't even like, these are pitiful. What do you expect to catch on this little bad boy right here? All right, I think that's my last cast of this thing. We might pick up that Sanko.  That's just, it's just amazing. I literally hook set them all the way to the bank and I barely even hook set them. Well, there we go. At least we caught something other than bass today. Alrighty, I know you guys are probably tired of seeing me yank on all these dinks. So it is just way too easy. I don't even wanna fish if it's gonna be that easy. We're already pond fishing and pond fishing is just, you know what I mean. There we go. That is a baby freaking fish, but I can tell you one thing. That is, two baits knocked off this list. We're gonna still catch some more on this. Don't worry, but what in the world? Let's move locations. I'm tired of catching these small ones. Not gonna lie, that was kind of fun, but that is not what we're looking for in this video. We're gonna be switching locations now. We're gonna go hunt and try to find some bigger fish and also catch a fish on this old jig. I don't know if you guys can see this, but that hook is clearly bent. I didn't even flip around any cover rather than, you know, some just grass down there. That is insane. I'm gonna have to end up bending that back out on pliers with me. I can probably do it with this knife. Now I'm throwing another Rage Tail on. Alrighty, we're starting off with this little jig. We're gonna see if we can complete this challenge. I'm not gonna end it if I go ahead and complete it this early, but oh my gosh, there's no freakin' way. There's no freakin' way. I cannot believe that, guys. Literally just like that, completed the challenge within 20 minutes, if that. That is insane. I'll see if there's a fish jumping over there. Let's get back in there. Oh my gosh. How'd he miss it? How'd he freakin' miss it? That was the fastest bass I've ever seen in my life. What in the world do you have to have seen me or something? This fish was flying. There he is. Oh my gosh. This is insane. You made my rod whistle like crazy. That's not a bad one. Dude, he hammered that jig, guys. Oh my gosh.  Not a bad one at all. Definitely the biggest one today. It's nothing big, but fighting like crazy. Saw some move off the bank right there. Yep. He just hammered me. He's got it. Small one. Literally just saw this bad boy throw over there. About five, six foot off the bank. He just came right off and ate it. Baby little bass. Yep, he had it, but pulled the little tails off. That's a better one. There we go. That is a better one right there. We're off the end of that pipe. Boom, baby. Just like that little baby bass. That's better than the dinks we were catching at the other pond, that's for sure. Put this jig back in there, see if we can get another one. See me popping that jig right there? Right in the top of his mouth, look at him eat that thing. God, that is the best bite ever is when you're stroking it like that and then you just load up on it. That's literally the best bite ever. These guys are fighting so hard on this thing. It's a lot of fun. It's gonna get me addicted to the jig fishing for sure. I cannot believe it, literally not believe it. I know exactly how to give him the bite now. Exactly. My favorite way to fish a jig too and you guys are about to learn today. I'm about to show you guys a little bit of a secret. So usually I wouldn't do this with a small jig, but since this pond is very, very shallow, it works. I'm simply gonna hang my meat. Like I was showing you guys earlier, I call it hanging my meat, all right?  See that? It just hangs down. Just like that and cast your bait out there. I cannot believe how many fish are right here. Let it hit the bottom and then you start stroking your rod up like this.  I'm telling you, they cannot stand it. The only problem with doing this with a small jig is that usually when they bite it, it's because that jig's dropping super fast. So you're hopping it right off the bottom and with a heavy weight, that jig's gonna drop down right away. With this lighter jig, it's not always gonna do that.  It's kind of more of swim than actually popping that thing off the bottom every single time.  Right now it's more of like you're swimming it. Oh my God. Guys, I was a freaking toad and I just missed it. I just freaking missed a giant. Look at the swirl on the water still. That was a, oh my God. Cannot believe I just missed that fish. That was a big in, I promise you. Looks like I'm about to get kicked out of those. So we're gonna be a little quiet. How you doing? All right. Yeah, I'll get out of your way. I appreciate it, man. A few. It's just hot. Yeah, man. Super hot. All right. Yeah, I'll get out of your way. It's no big deal. All right, brother. You have a good one? Yeah. No, I get it, man. Thank you. Well, I guess we're leaving out of there. That guy was really nice about it though. When he kicked me out, he wasn't, he wasn't really like, dude, it's not my rule. It was like, I just can't. I was like, all right, brother. Yeah, I shouldn't have walked as far as I did anyways. I usually don't walk far that down especially cause they're golfing today. So I tend to not, you know, get in anyone's way. Which I wasn't. I'm like one golfer out here. Like that's why I kind of walked down. I was just getting too carried away with that jig bite. It was just too good. I couldn't stop, but we're gonna head to a new location see if we can catch some more on the other baits. But I do hope you guys enjoyed those little tips I throw in there. If you guys liked the little tips that I throw like inside the video, be sure to pepper that like button and let me know in the comment section below if you guys wanna hear tips along with the challenge. Just got to a new location. We're gonna be throwing the Senko at this one. We're gonna try to focus in on that. I think we only call one fish on it. So I'm gonna throw it around and see if we can catch a lot on it. That is in my opinion, probably the easiest bait to catch fish on.  I mean, that's good as well. But then again, you're gonna catch a lot of small ones. So let's focus in on the Senko on this hole and see if we can catch some fish. There should be some fish in this corner. Looks so good right there. Oh, he just hammered me. He's got it.  Look at that thing. Look at that one. That is the fattest bass I've caught today. Got a little tummy on them. On the old Senko. Nothing big, but gosh, it's a little stubby one. That's awesome. Oh my God, I almost fell. Oh my gosh. I literally almost slipped. I did slip, matter of fact. I slipped on this pine straw. I about went in right there, not gonna lie. I about fell right all in the grass right there. That would have been a good blooper, man. Be a good old blooper. See if we can get him to bite. These Senkos are extra greasy. I don't know why. The dingers are usually not that. Got like a ding. Side of extra grease on them. See right down the pike. I don't know how deep it is out there. Right down the, there he is. Yep. Oh yeah, how am I gonna get him up? He's not as big as I thought. It's a solid pound and a half heavy fish. I thought he was about a three pounder for a second when he came up. He's right where he should have been right down the pipe right there. I'm sure there's a little small drop off on each side. Usually some of these ponds are flat, but there's a reason why he was sitting there. God, I had him good, that's for sure. Pretty little bass, about a pound, and then a quarter pound and a half. He feels like he's about a pound and a half for how thick and heavy he is. He's a heavy fish. Little baby, dude. God, golly, man. Calm down, boy. I'm about to release you. Frickin' baby. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. I'm sorry, fish. Oh no. Gosh, I did not mean to tank him about 10 foot. I was really not expecting to get a bite. I was about to live my bait out of the water and he just had it. There he is. Right where he should have been. That shade right on this bank, got a little bit of cover. Boom. What a fricking fatty, boys.  Simply throwing the sinko out there just like that. Throwing it parallel to all this cover on this bank. There's a lot of shade. Simply throwing it out there and just dragging this thing. Not doing much with it. So I just drag it just like this and just let it sit. Lift back up on my rod, start dragging it again. Let it sit. I'm not sitting here popping this bait like this. Every once in a while I will because I do have a little bit of grass on my bait. So I will kind of pop my rod like this.  But simply dragging this thing around the bottom right where that grass is at. Alrighty, everyone. Sorry, but that is going to conclude this episode. I really hope you guys enjoyed it. But guess what? I'm going to be giving away this tackle. I did it in The Last Fishin' Challenge where it was my chief versus expensive spinner bait. What I pretty much want you guys to do is like this video, hit the subscribe button if you haven't already and turn on post notifications and simply just comment down below that you've turned on post notifications and leave some form of social media whether it's tent, tender. Was I really just about to say tender? Oh my God. Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook. Leave that below so I can contact you guys to get your address to ship it out. I'm gonna be picking one lucky winner to win the stuff that I used in this video. Overall, guys, I hope you guys enjoyed this one. If I could layer it down to my favorite bait out of the three, I really enjoyed catching them on that jig. That was a lot of fun stroking that jig up and they were just loading up on that thing. Also, the Sanko, you know, that's a very reliable bait that can always catch bass if you go out there and throw it in the right location. And with the old crappie bait, I just felt like it was gonna catch a lot of small fish and I really wanted to try to get some big ones in this video. Sadly, I didn't, but I did get a lot of fat bass for you. And yeah, it was a fun challenge. I hope you enjoyed the cheap Walmart fishing challenge. Just heard a fish blow up in the background. Thank you guys so much for this support. Be sure to pepper that like button up and enter the giveaway. I love you guys so much and I'll catch you guys in the next video. I got skylighted by the man. I cracked cars in hella bands. I got a bra from the motherland. I got shooters wins. I get it, get it up anyway. Bro's love's current in the heavy chain. I cracked cars, cook everyday. I get money up everyday. Before this video gets started, I would like to say I am gonna be giving away all this tackle at the end of the video, but do not skip through it. I would like you guys to watch this all the way through. I actually just got done with the challenge and it is a juicy one for sure. Thank you guys so much for clicking on this video.


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