Hear Or Forebear — Dan Biser

And so we wanna, I wanna come with a word now, a warning. And Brother Edgar did that this afternoon so well as he preached on repentance and judgment beginning at the house of God. If you take your Bibles and open up and I'll begin here in a moment, Ezekiel chapter two and three, Ezekiel chapter two and three.

And I will turn to that passage and read all of chapter two here in a moment and just the last section of chapter three. But let's just go to the Lord in prayer right now for one, the words that Brother John had presented to us, the prayer points.

Secondly, as well as all the other speakers that have poured out into us this day. And three, that I know that for a lot, you're probably submerged right now with all that was presented. It's been a full day.

I understand that it's taxing mentally and physically. And so it's hard because we're not used to it. But one of the reasons that we decided to do the full weekend was that one of the things that I believe in is that one of the things that I believe is missing from prayer today in the North America churches and individual Christians is that term protracted, stretched out long durations, all night prayer meetings, a whole week, 10 days, like the day of Pentecost.

And one of the things that I had found, when someone says, I remember one such prayer gathering that I went to down in Texas, and they say, oh, we're gonna pray for three days. And I've been looking for protracted meetings.

I've been looking for longevity in that and never was I so disappointed. I went down there, they had a host of speakers. And again, proclamation of the word to me is essential to a solemn assembly. You must know what the word of God says because most are in ignorance or most just do not know.

And most have not studied to show themselves approved. Bring the word and then pray the word. And I believe that they go simultaneously in that. And so I went down there and the speakers spoke and there was good word, good messages.

But what I found was that worship music and fellowship, the prayer time was exactly about 25 of the entire, actually a day and a half was what it ended up. Day and a half of three days that they were touting the prayer.

It was actually a day and a half of meetings and that only 25 of that was spent in prayer. Well over 30 to 40 was music. And then the remaining part of that was preaching or the sharing of testimonies or devotions in that.

And so again, when you go through things, you glean. What is it that agrees with your spirit? And what is it that you say, I just don't agree with that. That doesn't satisfy me with what I'm hungering for.

So again, you go, you learn the goods and the bads with that. When I set up Broken Before the Throne, 14, 15 years ago, the first one that I did up in Hampshire County in Romney, I brought brother T .W. Hunt and Huntley Brown.

And we had a full weekend. We had Friday night, Saturday, Sunday. And oh, we had all these people were gonna come. And so we had that all laid out. I had it set up and brought them in, picked them up, brought them up, housed them, all that went on with that.

And it just wasn't enough. And so I said, well, I can't actually do 10 days like they did for the days of Pentecost in the Book of Acts, but let's do a full week. Saturday is Saturday, Sunday is Sunday.

And that was the first Broken Before the Throne in 2007. We went into that with not knowing how to do it and how that was gonna play out. Many people saying it'll never work, it'll never happen. But again, God met us there.

And what a great testimony come out of that. And we had three sessions a day. Each speaker was given three hours. We did have music, we did have devotions and the revival hymn that I opened up with tonight, segments of that.

So again, it was one of those things of learning. And we patterned that off of the Kissing Convention and the four principles that they have, which again is salvation, consecration. And again, the outpouring of the fullness of the Holy Spirit and confession.

And those four principles of Kissing we introduced into Broken Before the Throne. Silcock Convention under Praying John Hyde, which again was day and night, day and night, that they came together and stayed seeking God and how God blessed them in those conventions.

And the principles that came out of that, of the Punjab prayer meetings, the principles that they ordered in their life. And so those are historical moments that have come and gone. Now there are many Kissing Conventions still going on, but not of the same nature of the spirit in that.

And so somebody says, why me? Somewhere in me, God has birthed that desire for protracted meetings and to get before God and not get up till we prevail. And one of the things of how God started, and you know, a lot of these speakers, when I have the opportunity to talk to them one-on-one, and if you'll just allow for me a moment to share, it was early part of 2000s, 2002, three.

I've always been in, for the ministry and the pastorate, I've been since I was 18 years old. I was taught how to preach, I was taught how to witness and visit. And, you know, I learned piano, so I knew music, I knew hymns, I knew contemporary music, but I was never taught how to pray.

And there was, even though I was given examples, most of the prayer that I heard was the banter that I heard in Baptist churches of the same prayer being prayer over an offitory or opening prayer, closing prayer.

I didn't know what prayer was. And somewhere within me, God, and by biographies, which I love to read, historical accounts of revival that Bob Bakke was talking about, I too have gone and studied and researched all that, love to talk about them, love to share.

But I can't go find those men anymore. I can't go sit down with Ian Bounds. I can't go down and sit with Andrew Murray. I can't sit with Charles Finney and pick his brain and listen to his heart. And I read their books, and these men being dead still speak, praise God for it.

But there was something within me saying, boy, I'm telling you, if we could just have gotten them together and had a prayer meeting, man, what power would have came out of that? What prevailing would have came out of that?

But they're dead and gone. And somewhere in my soul, God spoke. And he said, well, then go get those who have seen revival and bring them together. Well, I didn't know who had experienced revival. And so I went looking for them, and I was taking Henry Blackaby.

And I was supposed to meet him at HeartCry for Revival. And I was supposed to meet Jim Cimbala at that same meeting. And so that was 2004, 2006. That was a protracted meeting. And I went down there, and one day standing in the cafeteria line, standing behind me was, or standing in front of me was Ralph Satare.

Now, I was down there by myself. I didn't know anybody. I didn't know any of the prayer committee or life action or any of that. And Ralph Satare, standing in front of me, turns around to me and introduces himself, but I had no idea who he was.

And I had no idea about the Canadian revival that had taken place. And he took me, took me aside, and began to talk to me. And the conversations of, again, Glennie from, I lost his name, Dennis Kinlaw from Asbury Seminary, and Henry Blackaby, and those ones, again, that have sat through the outpouring of God.

And listen to them. Tell me, how did it happen? Tell me what was in play. And again, from historical accounts to these modern day accounts that, again, 15 years ago, of these men that were living and experienced and were still available and active, all that consisted of one thing.

Somebody prevailed in prayer. God birthed within someone that this dogmatic desire of not being satisfied with anything else, but getting before God, because, again, there's a lot we've preached and presented throughout the last day and a half of the urgency of the hour, and crisis, and someone prayed, someone prevailed, and God honored them.

And I went to these people, and I sat down with them, and I gleaned from them, and I learned from them what they did, how it happened. I talked about their prayer lives. I talked about their walk with God.

And again, I don't agree with everything, but that was akin with my spirit, my soul, what God was doing within me. I took, I've made it my own. That which I don't necessarily understand or agree with, I don't throw it out.

I just, I don't incorporate it into mine. And God takes all of us like that. Almost everyone that I know that's on here, somewhere God has birthed within you this desire to pray and prevail for revival and spiritual awakening.

You have burdens on you. You have a desire of the Holy Spirit within you that just, you are not satisfied with what you see happening. And you know that the one answer that the church has is prayer. It is our weapon of choice, our weapon of warfare.

It's where we wrestle, not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers and the rulers of the darkness of this world, and we prevail. And God has given that to us. Now, how well we wield that sword of prayer, our weapon, it depends on our usage of it.

It's just like any other thing. The more you do it, the better you get at it. And so prayer is much like that. You have a beginning saint who learns the elementaries, you know, again, our father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.

They begin to learn the prayers of the Bible. They begin to learn the prayers. They begin to listen to other people in the prayer meetings and start to gain phrases. And they say, well, I like the way they said that.

I, boy, I agree with that. I want to take that. Boy, I love that verse, that promise verse. You know, Brother John just gave his promise verses. Boy, I always, that's my verse, that's my promise verse.

And they begin to build their prayer line. And so we come to a point like this, where now all that God has given to you, what will you do with it? And we are in such a crisis, such an emergency, that we cannot afford to have anything less than an outpouring of God's spirit.

And so that appeal for a call for a solemn assembly that I make tonight, that the word that I'm going to bring to you tonight, why we did this, why this has happened, why the speakers, all the speakers have the same, same unction within them, the same drive.

And you've heard it consistently, one after another, and all of them from different backgrounds. Many of them don't know each other. Some of them do. Some of them, again, like I said, was with me and broke them before the throne.

Brother John was with me. Brother Sammy was with me. Brother Edgar and Brother David Ford. We've had other experiences together in revival conferences with Greg Gordon, Sermon Index. But again, it is that same thing.

You cannot help but understand that God has orchestrated for his purposes. But there is one of them, I think it was Brother Bob this afternoon presented it. In coming together and praying in unity and having a concert of prayer is that your prayers matter and that God is waiting for our prayers.

And one of the things over these 15 years, 20 years that I've been in this pursuit and broken with the prayer conferences that I've done and been a part of, come back to this question. What is your prayer life like?

Thank you. For the vast majority of the church in North America, for the vast majority of pastors, there is a very, very little prayer life. And that's part of the problem. To answer the question, why have we not seen revival?

Prevailing Prayer and the Need for Revival

Those of you that are invested in prayer, you're what we call the remnant. You are deep seated. God has birthed it within you and you're like me. You are dogmatic and defined. I will not be turned away.

There's a grit of resolve within the mind and the spirit of persevering. Knock me down, I'm gonna get back up. Tell me I can't come, I'm gonna come. Lord, I will not be denied. And so many of you are like that.

You've been at it a long time and praise God for that. It takes all of us. But that voice that prevails, it can be the one, it can be the individual, it can be the dozen. But again, how much more? If we have the hundreds and the thousands coming together as Brother Bob shared with us, is that there were many, many prayer groups that were gathering and petitioning for a long period of time and God honored that, literally saturating the ground.

And God came and did it. And so this is the objective that we're going to. Where you're at, where I'm at, start prayer groups. Cause them to pray for these things that are presented, these prayer points and topics that have been presented by these speakers.

And write them down, hold on to them, don't let go of them. And be consistent and be faithful to it. And some of you are gonna make that, draw that line and say, I tell you, I started, but I faded away.

My heart was there, but over time I've backslidden and I've reclaimed my ground tonight. I am gonna be a man or a woman of prayer. And I'm gonna invest in this thing because my prayer matters. Now they thought about your vote matter.

My prayers matter for the kingdom of God. And it is needful for all the body of Christ to respond. And if all the body of Christ would respond, we would have long ago experienced revival. But the word I'm gonna bring to you tonight is that there is a issue.

There's an issue at hand. And I'm gonna address that tonight. So in the book of Ezekiel, chapter two, chapter three, chapter one, again, for those of you that know your Bibles and you've read through this and the marvel of this, I have never seen or heard a depiction of this in a graphic way.

If you have, tremendous, wonderful. It is a mysterious revealing of God here in Ezekiel chapter one, where Ezekiel the prophet is out and God comes down and you have the angels and what is called as the heavenly creatures and the description of them and the symbolism of them that it says as so often, not able to put it into words, but a description of the angelic host.

And then here comes God, God comes down and there are wheels and there are circles and there is movement and motion that is very descriptive of what God is doing and how God presents himself. Far different from other examples that we see in the scripture that preceded this.

Go back to Genesis, I believe chapter 12, and God spoke to Abraham and later on, and I think in chapter 18, and God came down and visited him. And that that appearance of him was more like a man showing up at the door of a visitation or running into someone because it says, and three men came and yet it was God.

It wasn't men, it was God and two angels. And so this divine visitation in Genesis is there. You have the glory of God that Adam saw in the Garden of Eden in fellowship with God. And again, yet he was hiding in the bushes after sin entered in.

You have Isaiah chapter six where the heavens were open and Isaiah saw the glory of God and cried out that famous verse, woe is me. So we come to this in Ezekiel. It is different by far than anything else.

And then you have over in Revelation chapter one, where the glorified Christ, not the risen Christ, the glorified Christ comes to John on the Island of Patmos and that scripture that John gives us of Christ is unique and exquisite.

And what a vision, what a sight and things that again, perhaps you long for. Lord, let me just see your glory. You know, again, Moses prayed that prayer and we use that in our revival praying, Lord, show us your glory, show us your glory.

And this here in Ezekiel is different, but the word that he gives to Ezekiel is not different. And it is just as true for us today. So I wanna read chapter two is very short. After this divine visitation, this divine appearance, God speaks in chapter two.

And then in chapter three, it is a continuation of this. It is a consistent message that goes forward with that. So take your Bibles right now and let's look at this. Chapter two of Ezekiel, starting in verse one, 10 verses, I wanna read all of them.

And then in chapter three, I wanna jump over to verse 22. Follow with me here as we begin for our last session of the day. And he said unto me, son of man, stand upon your feet and I will speak unto you.

And the spirit entered into me when he spake unto me and he set me upon my feet and I heard him that spake unto me. He said unto me, son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against me.

They and their fathers have transgressed against me, even unto this very day, for they are impudent children, stiff-hearted, and I do send you unto them, and you shall say unto them, thus saith the Lord God.

And they, whether they will hear or whether they will forbear, for they are a rebellious house, and yet shall know that there has been a prophet among them. And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words.

Though briars and thorns be with thee and thou dost dwell among scorpions, do not be afraid of their words nor dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house. Thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear or whether they will forbear, for they are most rebellious.

But thou, son of man, hear what I say unto you. Be not thou rebellious like that rebellious house. Open your mouth and eat that that I give to you. And when I looked, behold, there was a hand sent unto me, and lo, a roll of a book was therein, and he spread it before me, and it was written within and without, and there was written therein, lamentations and mourning and woe.

Now chapter number chapter three, verse 22 to the close of the chapter, only a few more verses. And the hand of the Lord was there upon me. Again, God's hand. You see it outstretched. You see it sitting upon him.

Now, whether again, it was upon his shoulder, upon his head, God's hand stretches out and touches. Again, the imagery of this is so important. His voice sounds a certain way. His appearance is a certain way.

His motion and his activity is a certain way. And we ought to pay attention to this, because again, I believe is that, again, for the fullness of God's revelation to the church in this age, it's gonna be a mirror reflection of this in a lot of ways.

So his hand was outstretched, and there upon me. And he said unto me, arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there, I will talk with you. So then I arose and I went forth into the plain. Did we not see this last night?

Hannah arose and went. The two responses and actions there, arise and go. And she arose and went to the temple when she was vexed. And here is Ezekiel, and he arose and went. Obedience, arise and go to the Lord.

Do what God asked you to do. Go forth into the plain, and behold, the glory of the Lord stood there as the glory which I saw by the river of Chebor, and I fell on my face. And the spirit entered into me, set me upon my feet, spake with me, and said unto me, go, shut yourself within your house.

But thou, O son of man, behold, they shall put bands upon you, and they shall bind you with them, and thou shalt not go out among them. And I will make thy tongue clean to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and you shall not be to them a reprover, for they are a rebellious house.

But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and thou shalt say unto them, thus saith the Lord God, he that hears, let him hear, he that forbears, let him forbear, for they are a rebellious house.

Brothers, sister, I read that word to you, because again, it speaks to me for this hour that we're in. Call for a solemn assembly. Spiritual leaders have been, time and time again, urged, prompted. Again, I've been very dogmatic in my approach to church leaders across Southern Baptist Convention.

Prayer leaders, sat down with them, discontent with response. And again, this whole thing of where we've been coming from for all these years and where we're at now. We've heard a encouraging word from Brother Bill Ellicott this morning about all the prayer activity that Dave Butts is declaring that there are more people praying for a spiritual awakening and revival now than ever before.

I'm not gonna discredit that. I'm not gonna dispute that. Heard from Brother Bob about, again, the things that they are hearing and seeing and rejoicing all of that. Do you know the bottom line of it comes down to these passages that we've looked at tonight?

And it comes down to a response. And again, this is always the way that it is, isn't it? In the times of God appealing to a nation and appealing to his own people and appealing to an individual, God comes and speaks.

Now I saw it twice here, back to back. And there was a consistency in chapter two and chapter three, two separate events, but the same response. And the spirit of the Lord entered into him and he fell flat.

Now this is the one thing that is consistent with revival histories. When God shows up, God's people go down. We see in a day and an age, get up, get up. Everybody stand up, clap your hands, dance around.

That is not the manifest presence of God. Even in that Duncan Campbell is that when the revival and the Holy Spirit came down, people were laid prostrate like they had been killed, slain. Laying there, lamenting, crying out to God for mercy upon them.

Not up dancing around, not up prancing and pacing, prayer walking, not none of that. They were down prostrate. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. We've forgotten that. We've got this connotation in our mind about what we think of approaching God and what we think revival's gonna be looking like and what we think, and God has already declared what it is.

You don't get up, you get in. You don't say a word, he speaks. We listen. Now note the directive here of the response. Hear or forbear. Now I'm King James, read out of King James, I preach out of King James, I'm memorized out of King James, I pray the King James, I will be a King James till the day I die.

But other translations says hear or refuse to hear. That's the other translation. Then there's no biggie here with this, but that word forbear in the King James sticks with me. It's got a little bit of substance there.

You either hear and obey or you will forbear and not obey. Forbear, meaning literally to reject that which has been spoken. And this is a consistent message throughout all the scriptures. You have ears to hear, but you won't listen.

Now Christ comes along and says this repeatedly. Having ears to hear, let him hear what the Spirit is saying. Revelation two and three to the seven churches. Old Testament. Again, when God shows up and he gives a word of warning to the people, it is as to say, I have spoken, I've sent my prophets rising up early and sending them, but you would not listen to them.

You have those conflicts where the prophet speaks and you have the people of God, Israel, standing there just in defiance. You know, you can see them as a defiant little child with their arms crossed and shaking themselves.

I will not listen. I will not listen. And they put their hands upon their ears and they refused to hear the word. Same image in the scripture of what was it? Acts chapter eight, where they stoned Stephen.

And he says, I see the son of God standing at the right hand, waiting for him. It says, and they put their hands over their ears and they trod him down. Stoned him, kicked him, trod him down, bit him because they couldn't stand what they was hearing.

Having he that has ears to hear, let him hear what the spirit is saying or forbear to listen. I want to walk through that tonight, because again, I believe is that when we're talking about prevailing prayer, we're talking about a solemn assembly, proclamation of the word, prevailing prayer, ushered from God's people.

We have this denouncement of God in Ezekiel chapter two and three. You do, you go back. I am always caught up in my word studies and phrases that I have dissected in the scriptures. And the one I'm going through right now, and I'm about 10 days away from finishing my Bible readings.

But this time coming through, one of the word studies that I did was the every word that begins with the letter R. And they speak to, I really get. So I have a royal blue pen and I put a square box around the R and then I write the word out into the side of my Bibles.

Every word that begins with R. Now you go back in chapter two and chapter three, and you put an R, a mark around or underline every time that God said rebellious. I mean, every verse saturated with the rebellion of these people.

For I am sending you to a rebellious people. If they hear or forbear, but they are rebellious house. Over and over God is saying this. Now we are at the point of judgment here. Now, again, the understanding of this, when you look out in our world and our nations tonight, and you see what's happening, not just for the United States.

One of the things about that, we are centered on the United States because many of us live, there are many and brother John, others that are Canadian that have joined us. I don't know whether the people from the Netherlands had joined us or not, but when you internationally looking, it is the same judgment that is happening.

And it's just more severe in the United States right now. With the natural disasters, the drug, alcohol crisis, and these are all the epidemics, the homicides, the murder suicides, the suicides, the death rate, the cases of the COVID -19, on and on you get.

It is happening here in the United States four times more than any other nation in the world. And it is simply because of this message. You have the choice and the option, I'm sending you to them, and whether they will hear or whether they will forbear, they are rebellious house.

Now, looking in the context of this, in Ezekiel chapter two and three, for those of you that wanna be strict and say, well, this is talking about the children of Israel, you're absolutely right. Israel has already been condemned, judged, and sentenced.

And God sent the Assyrians in because of the same thing. They had ears to hear, but they wouldn't hear. And he sent the prophets and they wouldn't listen to them. And so in the early part of, or late part of 700 BC, is that God sent the Assyrians and they ransacked it, and they just decimated.

And they carried the remainder of that remnant into captivity back over in Syria. And they replaced them with the people from their land. And they brought in all their false gods. And it was that because they did not know the Lord God, nor did they respect his promised land that he had given to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Judgment, Rebellion, and the Call to Hear God's Word

Well, here we have our first major technical issue there. So apologize for that, but how to get back underway here and get going as we had to refresh the signal with that. So left off in the middle of that, talking about where God judging Israel and taking them away into the land of Assyria.

And the Assyrians brought back some of their people who brought their false gods and God judged them. He sent lions among them. And so they said, well, bring one of the priests that will teach these people, these heathens, who the Lord God is.

And so it says in the book of Kings, it says they worshiped their false gods. And at the same time, they worshiped the Lord God. And you can't do that. And so again, but they were taught, they had ears to hear the right way, but they forbear because again, it was not suitable to them.

They were not gonna give up their gods. They were not gonna forfeit their way of life. And so they forbear to do that, which God sending his prophets to say is that I will have no other gods. Don't worship any other gods.

Don't make unto me any graven image. Thou shalt worship the Lord God and he alone shalt thou worship. They refused to do that. That was the heath. So now we come 100 years later and here's the children of Judah and here's these kings.

And from right after Josiah had passed away, you have all these descendants of his and they all did evil in the sight of the Lord. And for over 20 years from the death of Josiah to the time that Nebuchadnezzar came in roughly around 603 BC, they did nothing but provoke the Lord to anger.

God sent his prophets, God sent the warnings. You had Isaiah the prophet, you had Ezekiel, you had Jeremiah and they would not listen. He said, whether they hear or whether they forbear, they are a rebellious house.

God knows his children. And this is not the first example. This has always been the way of men. You go clear back to the scripture found in the book of Genesis, where men began to multiply upon the face of the earth.

And you come to the conclusion on that where it says, and they began to call upon the name of the Lord. And a couple of generations go by and it says, I think it's in chapter six, verse nine there, it says, and God looked and he knew because God is omniscient.

He knows all things. And he says, and he knew that the minds of men were continually evil. And God makes a decision. And he says, whether they will hear or whether they forbear, I'm gonna bring judgment on the world because this is my creation.

I agree that I ever made man. And so he finds Noah and Noah found grace in the sight of the Lord. God always looking, finds a man with grace. Ezekiel is our man here that finds the grace of God. Daniel was down in Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.

They had found the grace of God. It's, there are few, and you know that context. You know that scripture, few there be that find it. God finds them and he raises them up and he says, you go speak to them.

Now, whether they hear or whether they forbear, that's upon them, their choice. Choice is all, but they are rebellious house, obstinate in their minds, rejecting in their hearts and rebellious in their souls.

And so here's our predicament. This was the children of Judah. And here is Ezekiel who's sent to them. And he says, I'm not sending you later on in the chapters. I'm not sending you to a people of a strange language that don't know what you're saying.

He said, I'm sending you to your own people. And they know full well what you're saying. And they know full well who I am. But whether they hear or whether they forbear, this is what's going to happen.

And it was set into motion. And in one little portion of scripture in Ezekiel there, it says is that they say, let's go hear what the prophet has to say. Let's be entertained by Ezekiel. We just love to sit and listen to him.

Churches are filled with many people that are like this today. You have many of those that have jammed churches and packed churches. And some of our mega churches in the United States are those who are sitting there tickling the ears, but they are not pronouncing thus sayeth the Lord.

You know, I had a person ask me one time and it wasn't too far away from here. And they said, hey, let me ask you a question. And I always, I almost cringe when I hear that because I know something's coming.

And they said, my mother's going to a church right now and they have a woman pastor and the woman pastor got up and she said that Jesus Christ was not the only way of salvation. What would you tell my mother to do?

I said, I'd stand up and say Ichabod and walk out the door and wouldn't go back until they repented. I just have one quick answer for them, but why would you stay and listen to that when you know it to be directly in conflict of know that it's heresy, know that it's blasphemy.

Why would anybody sit? And I've heard most recently those that were talking about Andy Stanley's comments and those kinds of things. Why would you go sit and listen to that man who says throw away the entire Old Testament, has no reference to us?

Don't listen to these people. Whether they hear or whether they forbear, speak. Thus sayeth the Lord. That's what we need to hear. Many of you search that out. You've looked for that. The commonality of those that are on this call tonight because of this desire that again, we cannot go on without God.

We're not going to survive without God. And God is sending his prophets and saying, whether they hear or whether they forbear, they will know that the prophet has been among them. And so God is speaking loudly to us and he has been speaking to us.

Someone touched on it earlier today, but I resounded again. For the most part, as we've gone over these things for years, God has been speaking to our nation to repent for a long time. We had 1999, our first episode of mass shootings, school shootings in Columbine.

We had 9 -11, Hurricane Katrina. We had episode after episode, the financial crisis in 2007 and eight. 2012, Sandy Hook. You know, again, right on down the line, you can go from the mass shootings in Las Vegas a couple of years ago to all the natural disasters.