Book of Romans - Unity in the Church | Understanding Spiritual Gifts, Pt. 3 (10/17/2021)

Unity in the Church and the Ceasing of Sign Gifts

All right, so we are in chapter 12 of the book of Romans. Let's see if my clicker is working today. And the whole big idea of it is unity in the church, but there are a lot of little sub points throughout this beautiful chapter.

So we've been talking about it. We had sort of worked our way down to the sixth step of having unity in the church. And it has to do with understanding which gifts have ceased that are listed in the New Testament scriptures and which gifts are still operating in the church.

And then which gifts will be restored again or brought back again, the last three and a half years of the tribulation period. So if you don't understand that, you will have division in the church because you'll have some people who think we still have apostles and prophets, which is not true.

They died, and when they died, they were gone, especially with regard to the apostles. And a prophet is a person who does one of two things or both, and most people don't even know the first meaning of it, which is to speak forth God's word.

That is still operating in the church. That's a preacher. And secondly, to be able to tell the future or tell you something God told that prophet that he didn't tell you, that one has ceased. It no longer is operative in the church.

As a matter of fact, it's been gone for over 1 ,700 years. And the only thing that was left are counterfeits of that where demons mock or mimic the Holy Spirit and make people think that they're doing these things.

So if you don't understand this, and listen, you won't understand it unless you study because it takes a lot of study to understand everything about this. It's not something that's easy. A novice in the scripture would never see it.

But as you study the scripture in context with the Holy Spirit's help, and you study church history, and remember last time we talked about how when Paul was hanging on the dungeon wall, he asked for two things.

He didn't just ask Timothy to bring him a Bible. He asked to bring me the scriptures, but he also said, and my books. So we're supposed to study other books besides the Bible too. We're supposed to study what other, what our brothers and sisters in Christ have thought certain passages meant going all the way back 2000 years of church history.

And there's a lot of that. I don't like, I like to start at least 125 years ago though. I don't read much of the modern stuff because we're in the end times and many false prophets. But if you go back about 100, 125 years, start there and then read things that men and women of God have written about the Bible going back almost 2000 years, it's very beneficial.

And we ought to be doing that. So we will do that today. So let's talk about some of these gifts that no longer are operative. They're not operating. It doesn't mean God can't do these things, but what it means is men can't do them anymore because you have to understand there were things that God allowed the apostles and the early church prophets to do that were miraculous in order to authenticate their message because their message was entirely different than the Jewish mass message, entirely different.

It was built upon it, but it was so different. No Jew would have believed it. You remember the Jew requires a sign. The Gentile requires knowledge. Gentiles are not supposed to have to see a sign to believe.

Jews do though. So the early church was predominantly Jewish for at least 30 or 40 years. And then it became predominantly Gentile until this day didn't, did it not? But the early believers, many of them were Jewish.

They had to see a sign. So you can't have an apostle come up to you or a prophet and say to you, hey, listen, you no longer have to keep the laws of Moses and you're a Jew. Would you believe me if you were a Jew and I'm a Jew and I just tell you that?

And you've been living by that for 4 ,000 years or not quite that, but you know what I'm saying. Would you believe me? Probably not. But if your child got ill and was dying and I came and I laid my hand on that child and he raised up and he was completely well, then you may believe my message.

You see, it's an authentication sign or gift. And we call them the sign gifts. Every single dispensation of time throughout history, when the dispensation changed and God revealed new things to men, he would authenticate the messenger that gave the new message with signs like that.

But then they would pass away. You wouldn't see them again until the next event or the next dispensational change. So quite often that's the case. So people don't understand these things, but they didn't have a New Testament.

You have to think about that too. They didn't have the New Testament. The early church had no New Testament. All they had was Old Testament and that's why they needed to have prophets because a prophet or a person or a man could stand up in the church and say, roughly, for my grace, you're saved through faith in the night of yourselves, it's the gift of God, night of works, lest any man should boast.

That comes out of the epistle to the Ephesians, but the church at Colossae didn't have that scripture yet. So how would they know that truth without a prophet? You see the point? So they needed the gift.

And so those gifts lingered a little while longer even after the apostles died away, but not very much longer. And we can show that through church history and through scripture. So that's what we're doing and have been doing.

So this passage in 1 Corinthians 13, eight, love never fails, but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail. The scripture says they will go away, right? Whether there be tongues, they will cease. The Bible says tongue speaking in the church will stop.

And then whether they be words of knowledge where a person can stand up and say, hey, God told me to tell you this and you don't know it yet, that will stop. When will it stop? When, verse 10, when that which is perfect is come, that's when it will stop.

Now, when you wanna look into that, it's interesting how Greek is, it's not that different than Spanish in a certain way or Latin or French, but it's not so much like English. But in the previous languages that I mentioned, including Greek, you have where the noun has to match the verb with regard to whether it's a masculine, feminine, or neuter.

Neuter means it's neither masculine nor feminine. It's a thing, in other words. Now, sometimes things can be in the masculine or feminine, also, especially in Spanish, we know that, right? So, in Spanish, el means the, but it's masculine, and la means the, but it's feminine, right?

And that would have to match, the verb would also match that. Well, it's kind of similar in Greek. And so a lot of people have tried to say that that which is perfect, which will come, we call it the perfect, in quotes, the perfect, that that is the second coming or Jesus coming back or that's the Holy Spirit or whatever.

Well, the problem with that is that throughout Scripture, the Holy Spirit is masculine, not neuter. And throughout Scripture, where it talks about Jesus coming back at the second coming of the rapture, it's masculine, not neuter.

But when it talks about when that which is perfect has come, it's in the neuter, which means it's a thing. It's definitely a thing. And so you have to ask the question, can you name a thing in this earth that is perfect?

And last Sunday, you guys could only name one, and that was the Bible. And that is what it means. It's a reference to, this was written before it happened, of course, when that comes. So it was future tense when Paul wrote it, because this was, Corinthians was one of the first books written in the New Testament.

First, second Thessalonians were the oldest two, right, Charlotte, we learned that from Dr. Freeman. I checked it out, by the way, he was correct. First and second Thessalonians are the oldest two books in the New Testament.

It's not laid out in chronological order, the way we have it in our Bible, by the way. And then first and second Corinthians were written pretty much next. James was pretty much next that you taught from Sunday school.

And by the time you got to James, which is 60 AD, 30 some odd years after Christ went to heaven, from that point on, it's interesting to see what is mentioned in scripture and what isn't. We'll talk about that in a minute.

Don't want to get ahead of myself. But the point is, when first Corinthians was written, it was one of the earlier books. That church at Corinth did not have the book of Ephesians. They didn't have any of the New Testament books.

They probably didn't have Matthew, Mark and Luke and John or Acts either. So they needed prophets to be able to speak forth God's word without it having been written yet from their viewpoint, you see.

But there came a time when they had everything. I hid that Bible I had up here. They had everything in this one book. That's a little one. Let's get this one. I like this one better. You get to be my age, you need one this size.

That's a big one. So every, all of the entire books of God's word, that's an eternal book that was already in heaven. He gave it down through man over time and it will last in heaven forever. Genesis through revelation.

When all of that was canonized is how they word it. Then at that point we had the perfect. And that is the date by which beyond that, you never had, you didn't have tongue speaking. You didn't have words of knowledge and you didn't have the future telling prophetic role.

You only had the speaking forth of God's of this, this type of prophecy where I speak forth this to you and the preachers do this. And you do it when you witness. But so that's a little knowledge that really helps understand this.

So just in the Greek itself, in the language itself, in the grammar itself, it proves that's not a reference to the second coming. If it were, then those gifts could still be happening. But if you think about it, it wouldn't make sense because as you're gonna see later this morning, the second three and a half years of the book of the tribulation period, which is still in our future, these gifts come back.

So how could they come back if they didn't leave? That's a good logical question, isn't it? If you had them this whole time, then how did they come back? They already, they never went away. Secondly, why would God remove them at the rapture and say that they're gonna cease at all?

Because if they don't cease till the rapture, they never ceased during the church age. Does that make sense? I mean, it just didn't happen. If that means the second coming, then they don't cease. So why would he mention it?

But see, people don't think these things through. They just believe what their preacher tells them. And most preachers don't study enough. I can tell you that. And I don't believe I study enough, but I don't preach anything from here that I haven't studied probably for about 40 years, a lot of these topics.

A lot of the information I'm giving to you today, I wrote when I was in my twenties. And I went back and of course, make sure I still believe that because I do learn more, believe it or not. Don't you guys?

But I didn't find any flaws in this lesson. So I just glued it into PowerPoint, wrote it when I was 20 something. I've known this most of my Christian life. Okay, so last time in Ephesians chapter four, verse one through 13, we talked about that it lists these gifts and in the passage in Romans 12, it lists some gifts is the reason we're talking about this, because we're talking about Romans 12, but it lists those.

And if you see those apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, teachers, some of those were able to do sign gifts until the new Testament was authenticated. And until the perfect was in the earth, the Canon, the whole Bible was in the Canon.

And then at that point, those two were gone. Now the apostles were gone after John went to heaven because he wasn't martyred. John lived a natural life and then died. And when he died and went to heaven, there have not been any apostles since that time.

And that's easily proven. I don't have time in the context of this message to do it, but I've written paper, probably back in my twenties or thirties about what the Bible teaches and the apostle is and the things you have to check off to be one.

And no one has ever been able to check all those off since these men died. Once they died, there were no more apostles. Now there were still some new Testament prophets for a while, but once you get out here, did I have this over here on the left side?

Let me see. See that little part over here on the left. I know that's too little to read, but that's a quote from Josh McDowell, who said that by the end of the fourth century, the Canon, that means the whole Bible that we talked about, was definitely settled and accepted by the church.

And many of the churches had the whole Bible by that time, which was 397 AD. So certainly by that time, those sign gifts had ceased. I believe they ceased before that time and I have evidence of it, but anyway, they certainly are not in the world today, not unless they're counterfeit.

We don't want to have anything to do with counterfeit because when a church begins to believe that the Holy Spirit is doing things that actually the Holy Spirit himself has said, I will not do, then that's demons counterfeiting it.

So you have demonology going on in the church and you don't know it because you think it's God. And if you don't think demons can do that, go back and read your scripture, read book of Acts where this little girl is following Paul down the streets and listen to this man.

He's so great. He's telling you the truth. Paul turned around and rebuked the demon in her and cast the demon out of her. It was a demon saying just the right things. Listen to Paul. He's telling you the truth.

So yeah, demons can mimic the Holy Spirit. They always could and they always can. That's why Paul said there's other Jesus's, there are other spirits, there's other gospels. So you have to try the spirits.

Well, one great way to try the spirits is the Holy Spirit will never contradict himself. He won't lie. He won't say, Hey, I'm gonna remove these. These are gonna cease and then have them still going. He won't say, I no longer speak to you like I did in the old Testament in the time of four time by prophets through dreams and visions.

But now I speak to you through the son of God, which is the written word, the word of God. That's the Bible. And that's what the scripture said. That's what the Holy Spirit said. So in order for him to still be doing these things, he would have to have lied and contradict himself, which he won't do.

And so I can try the spirits that way. I can look at scripture and see what God wrote and see what man is saying he's doing. And if it contradicts that, I know the man is wrong and I know he's been duped.

He thinks he's spiritual and he is spiritual, but it's the wrong spirit. Does that make sense? This is exactly what's happening on and happening in so many of our churches today that are teaching that the sign gifts are still operating because they are operating in their church, but not by the power of the Holy Spirit, by the power of an unclean spirit who is deceiving people into doing things that God says in his word, you're not even supposed to be focusing on anymore.

And so therefore you're not doing the revealed will of God. That's very dangerous. And it can lead to other demonic activities. If they can cause you to think that that is God, they can cause you to think other stuff is God when it's not.

That's exactly what Satan did to Adam and Eve, especially to Eve. Oh, well, God didn't say you should not eat that fruit and you would die. What God says is if you eat it, you'll know good from evil like me and God do.

And surely he wouldn't want to withhold that from you. So he convinced her that God did not mean what he said. So when you look in Hebrews chapter one, one through three, where he says, he no longer speaks to us that way.

And you have millions of people in the American church today saying that he still does. Who are you going to believe? Because if you can believe the demon, when he makes you think he's the Holy spirit, then he can make you think other stuff is true.

That's not true. And he can infiltrate your life and bring all kinds of manifestations you don't want in your home or in your church. And this is why this is an important topic. So those two are no longer operative.

What we still have today in the church, we have evangelists, we have pastors. Remember that pastors can prophesy and using the predominant definition of that word in the Greek New Testament, which means speak forth God's word from the written word.

We can still do that, but we cannot speak outside the written word and say, Hey, God told me this to tell you, because if God wanted you to know that he would tell you, and he wouldn't do it with a voice.

He doesn't speak through audible voices anymore. He would do it through the scripture or through the Holy spirit, enlightening you about the scripture so that you understand or giving you a piece about which house you're supposed to buy.

You say, well, that's not the Bible. Well, actually the Bible does cover it because it says, if you pray about it and spend time with the Lord about it, the Holy spirit will let you know which one, but not with a voice.

He just gives you a piece about it or he'll use circumstances. He'll make it where you can't afford it or he'll make it where someone else bought it before you did or he'll close the door and open the door.

All those things are still operating. But you see, it takes more faith to live that way. Do you understand that it takes more faith to live that way than it does? If God just said, hey, buy that house.

And you heard him, that wouldn't take any faith. That's sight, that's sound. But we live in a dispensation of faith. And once the apostles were gone, and once these gifts ceased, at that point, it's not so much sight as it is faith.

I can't stand up here and have a child that's got a withered arm and me touch it and have that arm grow out like they do on, the evangelists do on TV still to this day. And in these tent meetings where they claim that they still have these gifts, they're lying.

They're doing magic tricks or something. I mean, if I could do that, there's no greater gift I would want them to be able to heal people. I can't do it. So I just have to pray. It takes more faith for me to believe that God will heal them than for me to be able to just touch them and have that arm healed.

Do you agree with that? So if I could do things by sight in this church, do you think we'd be sitting here with 20 people today? I could build this church to 25 ,000 easily, and I'd have almost the entire population, of course, Canada, because it's about 30 ,000.

I'd have 25 ,000 of them sitting in here this morning in a much bigger building if God still had these operating, because no one desires those gifts more than I do. I've had dreams where I was preaching to 500 people in this little building right here, just like this, but I had 500 people in here, and I was able to walk down here and touch the people that were ill and they were immediately healed.

I've never been so happy in my life, and then I woke up. We don't have that gift. We don't have, those have stopped operating where a person is given the power to do that. Now, let me be quick to say this.

I have prayed for a particular woman in this church, probably more than anybody else, and I remember a time when a cancer fell right off of her nose before the doctor could even see it, but I wasn't the only one praying for her.

This whole church body was praying for Sharon when that happened, and Raymond was praying for Sharon, and God just answered our prayers and healed her. That still happens. That's different than the New Testament prophetic gift of faith healing.

That does not still happen. If it did, you could have just come to me, and we wouldn't have to bother everybody else with praying for you, and you could have paid me 1 ,000 bucks, right? You'd have been happy to.

Bible says double honor those that preach, you know, but anyway, see, that gift is no longer operative, but we still have evangelists, pastors, and teachers. Now, if you don't understand that, and you have guys come and join this church, say, look, you guys, I'm an apostle.

You need to let me be an apostle in your church. The scripture says you're supposed to have apostles and prophets, but you don't understand why we don't have them now. Then we would have division in the church, wouldn't we?

Don't you agree? I mean, we could fight over that, and Satan would cause division, but if everybody understands how this works, somebody comes in and tries that here, you just say, you know what? You're probably not in the right local church.

There's plenty of them that don't understand this that would love for you to go over there and be an apostle and pretend that you're an apostle, and that's pretty much how I would say it, and pretend that you're an apostle, because that's what they're doing.

Here's the passage that says God doesn't do things that way anymore. God, who at sundry times and in diverse manners used to speak in time past to the fathers by prophets has in these last days spoken unto us by his son.

So there is a difference in how God operates now, and now it's a faith-based system, not a site-based system. Even Jesus, when they came to him and they said, oh, well, if you'll just do a miracle in front of us, and he said, you're an adulterous and sinful generation, and he said, I'm not gonna give you a sign except my resurrection from the grave.

I'll raise up three days later to be the only sign you get. He wouldn't give them a sign because they were sinful in saying, if you don't give us a sign, we won't believe. Isn't that what the modern church is saying today?

If that preacher can't stand up and say, hey, we're still doing faith healing, we're still prophesying, we've got still words of knowledge, and all over this place, there's people who can tell you what God wants you to do.

If I don't say that, you won't believe. So I would then call you an adulterous and sinful generation is what I would call you, and I'd be right beside Jesus saying it, and he's the one that said it. He would just be saying it through me because I got that from Scripture.

And that's true preaching, that's true prophesying, is when you speak forth God's word. Who's doing it today? Very few people, and the ones that are are not popular. Even the great MacArthur, I'll promise you, his church probably doesn't have as many in attendance as it did when you first started going there.

It might, but I doubt it. It's probably starting to dwindle a little because he speaks too much truth. He does not allow this stuff in his church. So there it is. We got to stick with Scripture. So we've seen, number one, that Scripture teaches that certain sign gifts will stop.

And tells when it will stop. And we have the date is roughly 397, sometime prior to that. Now, it didn't happen in 397. It was already gone by then. Because some of the churches already had many of the New Testament books before that date.

So these gifts, what's interesting, if you look at the Greek on the ceasing and the passing away, we talked about that. I don't want to review it again because I just keep teaching the same stuff over and over.

But the part of it says it just kind of stops, like the tongues just sort of stopped in and of themselves. You know why? Because the church didn't need that anymore. We did not need to authenticate apostles anymore.

It just ceased and died on its own. So Scripture says it'll do that. Now, here's what I want to share with you for a little bit this morning. History says it has already happened. If we just study church history, it will hold up 1 Corinthians 13, eight through 10 perfectly and show that that Scripture is true and has happened and that the perfect has come, the canonization of Scripture has happened.

And so these gifts have ceased. Tongue speaking in particular, words of knowledge and the type of prophesying, the meaning where you can go outside the written word and tell people what God said, those have ceased.

And the Scripture says they would, Paul said they would, and so does church history. So let's go into that. We'll see how far into this we can get. So we've got to lay a little background in Scripture for this, because it also teaches that these gifts will come back and reappear again, three and a half years into the seven year tribulation period.

So we're going to look at that a little bit too, because that in itself is proof that they ceased. They can't come back if they didn't stop. Is that good logic? It's yes or no. I mean, to me it is. All right, so blow you the trumpet in Joel chapter two, verse one, blow you the trumpet in Zion and sound an alarm in my holy mountain.

Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble for the day of the Lord comes for it is nigh at hand. Now, what is it all through Old Testament, New Testament, when the phrase the day of the Lord is at hand or the day of the Lord comes, what reference is that?

What day does it reference? The day of the Lord shall come. Come on. They're typing it in, Ben was back. I think he's with a baby though. If he's back there looking at that computer, you guys are typing in.

So tell me what it is. Second coming, correct. It's when the Messiah comes back to the earth again. When he left in the book of Acts, it records it that you men of Galilee, why do you stand there gazing?

This same Jesus shall come in light manner as you have seen him go. So he will return in the clouds like the lightning from the east to the west and every eye will see him. That is the day of the Lord.

It also includes Armageddon, by the way, the day of the Lord includes Armageddon and those things that happened in the second three and a half years of the tribulation period. So there it speaks of it in the book of Joel in the Old Testament, some 2 ,400 years ago.

A day of darkness and gloominess. So now let's talk about the tribulation period a little bit. This is a prophet prophesying what this will look like. Hasn't happened yet, still in our future. It'll be a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness.

Anyone ever read much about nuclear winter? You might wanna read up on it because that's what this is a reference to, I think. That's my opinion. It is nuclear holocaust where several of the countries who have the nukes shoot them at each other and it's too much for the earth to handle and it creates a cloud of dust that surrounds the entire globe with nuclear material in the dust that's harmful.

And that will keep you from being able to see the sun very well at all. It'll be darkness in the daytime. The moon will appear red because you're looking at it through dust. Just like when it first comes up, it looks red.

That's how it'll look all the time. And all these things are prophesied. I believe that's what causes it, but it could be just something God does. I'm okay with that too. It may not be man that causes it, but I think the prophet is seeing the destruction that man has caused on the earth at the end of time.

Part of it here. A day of cloud. I just can't believe they made all the nukes to never be used. Do you realize how many trillions of dollars have been spent, multiplied trillions to build those? And they're sitting there ready, armed and ready to go.

Can you name any weapon man's ever made that he didn't use eventually to kill another human? Name one. So I believe that's what causes this, in my opinion. A day of clouds and a thick darkness as the morning spread upon the mountains.

A great people, you know, picture the fog coming in over the mountains early in the morning in San Francisco or something. That's what this looks like. A great people and strong. There has not been ever the like of it.

Neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations and we know from the book of Revelation that that's referring to 200 million foot soldiers armed from China, coming across the Euphrates river and marching towards Jerusalem.

Joel prophesied this and saw it. God let him see it and he wrote it for us. Who was it that sent me? One of my kids sent me an interesting clip last week or so. A news clip that said they're very concerned right now in the Middle East because the Euphrates river is drying up.

Did you send it? Emily, of course. She's my conservative daughter. All the rest of them are liberal compared to her. And if you know Katie, you know that's saying a lot. All right. So, wow, there it is.

Verse three, a fire devours before them. It's talking about this army. A fire devours before them. Do you think they're shooting a short range nuclear missiles out in front of them to lay out the groundwork so they don't have to lose as many soldiers?

A fire before them and behind them, a flame burneth. The land is as a garden of Eden in front of them. Listen to this. The middle, Jerusalem, Israel will look like, do you know how many thousands of trees have been being planted in Israel every year by Christians and other people paying for them?

When Rocky Freeman was alive, they already started this program. They've been doing it ever since, which is decades and decades and decades, planting trees all over Israel. So in front of this army, it looks like the garden of Eden, but behind them, a desolate wilderness.

Yea, and nothing will escape them. Anybody got goosebumps besides me? The appearance of them is the appearance of horses and as horsemen, so shall they run. Doesn't say they're riding horses. It says it appears like that.

So they're riding vehicles, perhaps about the size of a horse. You ever thought about that? The earth shall quake before them. The heavens will tremble. What can they do, these men, these 200 million foot soldiers, from the earth that would make the heavens tremble?

They can shoot hypersonic weapons, which they just now are tested. You know, just this week, we didn't see it coming. United States military did not see it coming. They weren't ready for it. China launched a hypersonic missile that went all the way around the earth before it was detected.

And that's different than the old missile systems with the nukes on them. They had to go up into space and come back to hit the target. These can just fly about the height of an airplane. They can't be seen by radar because they're moving so fast and they're so low.

So like, by the time you see it, instead of having, what would it be, Bill, for the old systems, 20 minutes, now you have two minutes or a minute. Or you may not have any time. Like this one, if they'd had something on it, we'd already be hit because we didn't see it coming.

This week, this happened from China. And Bill Clinton gave them the technology to do it. Who knows what Obama may have given them? I don't know. Man, I wouldn't say the Bush senior didn't give them some.

So we felt so sorry for how backwards they were, but why didn't we read the scripture and realize that we're arming them? America is arming them for this moment because our leaders don't have this information.

They don't have the wisdom that comes from this. Neither do our scientists. They could have made a whole lot better vaccine if they'd consulted scripture, but they didn't. Used to, they did. Now they don't.

Some of the greatest scientists that ever lived were Christians. And yet now they don't. Now they mock it. Now look what happens. The heavens tremble when this army comes. The sun and the moon shall become dark and the stars shall withdraw their shining.

You can't see the sky from anywhere. So don't think you're going to go out on your land and plant stuff and live off of it. You got to really think about this as you prepare because the things that we've been thinking we should do are not right.

You see my point? What do we think? We're going to get a couple of milk cows, right? And have a few cattle and some sheep and some chickens and we'll be all right. Well, did you know that you can't grow anything when there's nuclear winter?

Because nothing will grow. And when the rain comes, it's radioactive. Is that right for a while, Bill? Can't drink that water. The oceans and the rivers will be turned red and they're poisonous. You can't drink that water.

So what do you need to do? Well, you need to figure out a way to save water. Water doesn't get old, does it, Bill? Does it go bad? So you got to figure out a way. Maybe if they're in the wrong kind of containers, it might.

But you got to figure out a way to save a bunch of water and a bunch of food that you don't have to grow. So probably what you do is you go out and find these places, man, I'm going to make them have a shortage.

Now I should've got mine first and then told you this, but find those places where you can buy that food that lasts 25 years. I don't even know what you call it, but they sell it. Comes in a little thing and it tastes terrible probably.

But then you don't have to grow stuff and you need to then hide it and have enough weapons to keep other people from getting it from you. So these things, these are the things that are coming. Now we're not there yet.

Jesus said, you're going to hear wars, rumors of wars, rumors of wars and wars. And, you know, don't worry, he said, because the end is not yet. These things must come to pass first. So there's a lot of things that have to come to pass before we get to that place.