Letters to the Churches Bunny Trail Part 3

So let's pray and then we will get started. Eternal God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, grant us your Holy Spirit who writes the preached word into our hearts so that we may receive and believe it and be gladdened and comforted by it in eternity.

Glorify your word in our hearts, make it so bright and warm that we may find pleasure in it and through your inspiration, think what is right. By your power, fulfill the word for the sake of Jesus Christ, your Son, our Lord, amen.

The Caduceus, Pagan Coincidences, and the First Plague as Judgment on False Gods

Okay, so a good question came up and I'll read it out and if you know your medical symbols, my stepfather is an ER doc and my mom was for many years an RN and then she became a nursing professor. And so a medical symbol, caduceus, it's called the staff of Hermes and it's really kind of become the symbol of the Hippocratic Oath but I know many doctors are no longer required to take the Hippocratic Oath, kind of an interesting thing.

But so the question is, is there an influence? And this is where we would have to say if there is an influence, I would say it's a demonic copycat influence because I don't know if you've noticed this about the devil, he's incapable of actually creating anything and the only thing he can do is distort the things that are made.

And so this symbol itself and the belief in Hermes is gonna come after Moses, long after Moses. So the chances that they were influenced by Moses to some degree or another is definitely there as a potential but proving that is a different thing altogether.

So but it's, I always consider this to be kind of one of those pagan coincidences. You know, is it really a coincidence? You know, but you'll note that the pole that they put the serpent on for Moses, that by Moses, that didn't have wings or things like that but you get the idea.

And there was only one.

Yeah, so yeah, but a good question regarding that because definitely there seems like there would be a connection. But let me do this real quick here while we're on the internet. Today we're gonna start getting into the 10 plagues and this is going to give us an opportunity to note that this is another one of those Mount Carmel moments, if you would, the 10 plagues are.

God has this funny way of like taking pagan deities and showing that they are powerless and that they don't exist. And this is an important thing is that in the days before there was NFL. Okay, here in the United States, I saw a map recently that somebody had taken of the United States and showed geographically where people root primarily for particular teams.

So, you know, on the East Coast, you get the New England Patriots, which I don't understand how anybody would actually root for them. Yeah, the buccaneer thing, that didn't count. Okay, you know, so, and then, you know, here in Minnesota, everything's really purple and I feel bad for the purple people because, you know, it seems like a thing in futility.

But you get the idea here. And so I'm at, you know, when I grew up in Southern California, we had the Rams and then the Rams left and then they brought the Raiders and the Raiders left. And so I was an NFL orphan and so when we moved to Indiana, we adopted the Colts and I've been very sad ever since.

But all of that being said, is that you'll note that in different, depending on which region of the country you live in in the United States, that'll oftentimes have a heavy influence in which particular team you root for.

And when we talk about the Christian faith being, okay, I'm gonna use a word that's gonna make everybody nervous, are you ready?

Catholic.

Catholic.

Ah, okay, you used the C word. Yeah, okay, it's small c, small c, Catholic. We mean that it's universal. And so in the ancient world, the fact that Yahweh would kick the tuchus of all of these false deities on their home turf is kind of a big deal.

Because this isn't supposed to happen. You know, this would be like, you know, beating the former New England Patriots in the Super Bowl being played in Baston, you know. Yeah, hang on, no, so when it comes, okay, yeah, so the question was, are you saying that our God is not in favor of diversity?

Not religious diversity. You'll note that belief and worship of other deities is never something that God looks on kindly. It's highly frowned upon and God over and again demonstrates through all kinds of acts that these deities are false.

They cannot hear you, they cannot help you, and God does not consider worship of these other deities to be worship of him via proxy. So if you ever hear somebody say, well, you can worship Allah and also, and that will count as worship towards the one true God, that, no, the first commandment is you will have no other gods, right?

So I understand that our postmodern social justice progressives believe that you can do such things, but that they are lying, okay? So we're gonna note then as we get into this that we'll see some of these deities, and the first plague is the plague of turning the Nile into blood, and this is the deity in question, and the deity is Hapi, who is, apparently Moses made him sad, but Hapi is the Egyptian god of the Nile, and the Nile is not just a river in Egypt, I'm just saying.

So, anyway, I'll be here all week, all right. Everyone here is looking around like they're gonna stone me. All right, so this is the first deity that's, how should we say, going down, all right? And the idea here is that God, through these acts of judgment, you're gonna note that these are specifically spoken by God, and these are the first deities as acts of judgment, and these same types of acts of judgment show up in the book of Revelation, and you're gonna note that what happens to the Egyptians is also one of the themes that we see in Revelation, that despite God causing these calamities, showing the consequences of man's sin and idolatry, that people don't repent.

It makes no sense at all. As Christ said, light has come into the world, and people love darkness, and that is the problem. So now, things are really gonna start warming up. That's the best way to put it, okay, all right.

Let's see here. Rice just said small c, he remembers, oh, good, good, that's, and Louis says, like the giants did, twice, go big blue. Okay, see, I shouldn't have read that out. All right, moving on, Exodus 7.

So, Yahweh said to Moses, see, I have made you, like God, to Pharaoh. You and your brother Aaron shall be your prophet. You shall speak all that I command, and your brother Aaron shall tell Pharaoh to let the people of Israel go out of this land.

I think I pointed this out next week. I'll highlight it again here today, that when, a prophet is one who speaks for God. A prophet is one who speaks for God, and we can see this clearly spelled out for us in the fact that Aaron gets to be Moses' prophet, and Moses gets to be like God.

That actually helps us a lot, because today we got a lot of people proclaiming themselves to be prophets, and everything they say, none of it comes true. You know, they're lying, they're falsely prophesying, they ain't speaking for God.

So here's where, like, at its core, this is just a clear text that shows that a prophet is one who speaks for, or on behalf of God. So you speak all that I command you, and your brother Aaron shall tell Pharaoh to let the people of Israel go out of his land, but I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and though I multiply my signs and wonders in the land, Pharaoh will not listen to you.

And here you're gonna note that Pharaoh, again, is a stand-in for the prince of darkness, the serpent himself. Again, his headdress kind of explains that very clearly. But then you're gonna note that in the same way that Pharaoh hardens his heart, despite the fact that God multiplies his signs, multiplies his judgment, same with people today.

I'm actually quite shocked that there has not been mass repentance on the part of humanity as a result of the COVID pandemic. There's been none of that, none of it.

Did you say mass?

Mass, mass, mass, mass repentance. I've seen mass, mass protests, okay?

Mass, mass.

But the idea here is that you'll note, we're a year into this thing. We are a year into this thing, and maybe there's light at the end of the tunnel. I don't know. It seems like some governments may not ever reopen.

It's just weird. You just have that sinking feeling that nothing's ever gonna be the same. But the reality is that when you read the book of Revelation, the plagues, the pandemics, the illnesses, the diseases are only going to ramp up.

So what we've seen in the pandemic over the last year, this is the warmup act, okay? This is the warmup. Yeah, this is the lesser band. The headliner's still coming. And so you'll note then that despite the fact that God is gonna multiply his signs, Pharaoh ain't gonna listen.

And then I will lay my hand on Egypt, bring my host, my people, the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt, and watch this theme, by great acts of judgment. Wait a second. Isn't God bringing us out of this cursed earth, bringing out his host of believers, resurrecting them from the dead, by great acts of judgment?

You're gonna see. Egypt is like a stand-in in the types and shadows for the sinful world, for the sinful, unbelieving world. And that's where you have the crossover and the overlap. So you have a good understanding of the plagues of Egypt, you'll at least have a very reasonable understanding of what's going on in Revelation.

So the Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh when I stretch out my hand against Egypt and bring out the people of Israel from among them. Yeah, they will know. And same with the people at the end of the age.

While God multiplies his acts of judgment, people will know that he's God, but they will curse him rather than repent. Louis says, why would people repent? Either one, pandemic was God's fault, or two, there's no God anyway.

I considered so far the entire year of the pandemic to be one extended Lenten season, because Christ is so clear in this, that when people came to him and said, they wanted to know his take on those fellows who Pilate had put to death and then taken their blood and mixed it with the sacrifices.

And Jesus wasn't gonna give them the Tucker Carlson op-ed on it. He basically said to them, listen, do you think that they were worse sinners than you are? And you'll all likewise perish if you don't repent.

And that's kind of the thing, all right? So Emmanuel, which is one of the congregations I serve in Radium, Minnesota, last week we lost a fellow to COVID pneumonia. And it's very tragic. It's tragic, and at the same time, he had a good death.

And that's the best way I can put it, because everybody at Emmanuel insisted on continuing having church services, knowing full well that somebody could get COVID and die. And they basically said, and the fellow who died, his attitude was, if I die, I'm gonna be with Christ.

I don't care. Let's keep meeting. He was one of our elders. And so he got, and now he's with Jesus. Dang it, I'm not.

You know?

So kind of a good attitude. But the thing is, is that the whole time, everybody's been feeling antsy. Everybody's feeling locked up. You have all these people who just are going stir crazy. Well, pandemics are in God's hands.

And in situations like this, this calls for us to repent of our own sins. Not for the politicians to repent, for you to repent, for us to repent. And so what have the charismatics done? You just look at the buffoonery of Kenneth Copeland and others who've decreed and declared the pandemic to be over, rather than falling on their knees and saying, God, have mercy on us.

We're sinners, which is what this is calling for. So, all right, we continue. So Moses and Aaron, they did so. They did just as Yahweh commanded. And now Moses was 80 years old. Aaron, 83 years old when they spoke to Pharaoh.

So then Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, when Pharaoh says to you, prove yourselves by working a miracle, then you shall say to Aaron, take your staff, cast it down before Pharaoh so that it may become a serpent.

Moses and Aaron did, went to Pharaoh, and did just as Yahweh commanded. Aaron cast down his staff before Pharaoh and his servants, and it became a serpent. And then Pharaoh summoned his wise men and the sorcerers, and they and the magicians of Egypt did the same by their secret arts.

For each man cast down his staff and they became serpents. But Aaron's staff swallowed up their staffs. You'd think they'd sit there and go, uh-oh, right? But Pharaoh's heart was hardened. He wouldn't listen to them, as Yahweh had said.

Then Yahweh said to Moses, Pharaoh's heart is hardened. He refuses to let the people go. Go to Pharaoh in the morning. As he's going out to the water, stand on the bank of the Nile to meet him and take in your hand the staff that turned into a serpent, and you shall say to him, Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, sent me to you, saying, let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness, but so far you have not obeyed.

Thus says Yahweh. By this you shall know that I am Yahweh. Behold, with the staff that is in my hand, I will strike the water that is in the Nile, and it shall turn into blood. The fish in the Nile shall die, the Nile will stink, and the Egyptians will grow weary of drinking water from the Nile.

And the Lord said to Moses, say to Aaron, take your staff, stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over the rivers, over their canals, over their ponds, over all their pools of water, so that they may become blood, and there shall be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, even in the vessels of wood and in the vessels of stone.

So Moses and Aaron did as Yahweh commanded in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants he lifted up the staff, struck the water in the Nile, and all the water in the Nile turned to blood.

And the fish in the Nile died, the Nile stank, so that the Egyptians could not drink water from the Nile, there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt. But the magicians of Egypt did the same by their secret art, so Pharaoh's heart remained hardened, and he would not listen to them as Yahweh had said.

Pharaoh turned and went into his house, and he did not take even this to heart, and all the Egyptians dug along the Nile for water to drink, for they could not drink the water of the Nile. And then you'll note then in Revelation, let me see if we can pull this in here, so Hopi, the god of, one of the false gods, the god of the Nile, he's gone down, right?

And so here when you look at Revelation 16, the second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, it became like the blood of a corpse, and every living thing died that was in the sea. So here you get the same act of judgment, and this is really talking about, and this is where I wanna be careful so that people do not think that I've somehow become a granola crunching earth muffin or something like that.

But the idea here is that in the days ahead, the complaints that people have regarding so-called global warming are gonna be nothing compared to what's coming. And here's the thing, is that these are gonna be acts of judgment by God.

We're talking about God is going to, as we get closer and closer to the return of Christ, cause mass death in the seas. You know, you guys remember, it wasn't quite a decade ago, but almost, remember that oil rig that the oil was just pouring?

Well, not the Valdez, there was an oil rig offshore in the Gulf, and that thing went on for what, days, weeks, months, you know, before they can get that thing under control. And that's like a picture of what's going on here.

These kinds, the Gulf of Mexico BP oil spill, 2010. So yeah, it was 11 years ago, wow. It doesn't seem like that long ago, but it really was. I mean, that was a complete disaster. And then, was it just recently, was it Indonesia got hit by a big old earthquake and a tsunami?

Yeah? Yeah?

And you'll note, remember when we had that last big tsunami in Southeast Asia? I mean, watching the videos on the internet of people being swept away by this ginormous tsunami surge and how many people lost their lives.

I mean, that was a huge amount of people. And the idea here is that each and every one of these, and you're gonna ever increasing in magnitude disaster. We're on the 10-year anniversary of the big one that hit Japan, you know?

That was a decade ago, too. Yeah, the Fukushima, yeah, I mean. So this is what we're talking about here. We need to see these things through the biblical lens of God's judgment, all right? So when we learn about entire species of particular aquatic animals, whether they be fish or mammal or whatever, being brought to the brink of extinction and beyond, and they cease to exist, of our fisheries in the oceans being depleted and things dying, this is all, that's kind of the whole picture that's being told here.

And it's going to increase and increase and increase and get worse and worse and worse. And so even if we were to manage the earth as best as we can, and I would argue that many people really are committed to doing that and are, despite all of that, God's going to put His finger into the pot and He's going to tip the scales in favor of things going horribly bad as an act of judgment.

So the next time you hear of a ginormous tsunami and earthquake or a major spill or some catastrophe like this, note that the book of Revelations is teaching us that these things increase in frequency and magnitude as we get closer and closer to the return of Christ.

And the response is, Lord, have mercy on me, a sinner. That's our response. It needs to be our response. All right, so Happy bit the dust. Hang on a second here, hang on. So Happy's not happy anymore.

All right, let's see who comes next. Heket, the Egyptian goddess of fertility, water, renewal, Egyptian plague, frogs. All right, okay. So I've heard so many bad sermons on this next text. Okay, we'll talk about, let's read it and then we'll talk about how it's twisted and then take a look what's going on here.

So you'll note that God is totally equal opportunity judger when it comes to either male or female deities. And so we have a female Egyptian goddess who's gonna bite the dust here. So Yahweh said to Moses, go into Pharaoh, say to him, thus says Yahweh, let my people go that they may serve me.

But if you refuse to let them go, behold, I will plague all of your country with frogs. The Nile shall swarm with frogs that shall come up into your house and into your bedroom and onto your beds and into your houses of your servants and your people and into your ovens and into your kneading bowls.

Now this is the days before they figured out that you can fry these things like chicken. So there was, they missed a frog harvest opportunity here. But anyway, so Yahweh said to Moses, say to Aaron, stretch out your hand with your staff over the rivers, over the canals, over the pools and make the frogs come up on the land of Egypt.

So Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt and the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt. But the magicians did the same by their secret arts and made frogs come up on the land of Egypt.

One has to wonder if they weren't just piggybacking on what God was doing here, right? So then Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron said, plead with Yahweh to take the frogs away from me and from my people and I will let the people go to sacrifice to Yahweh.

So apparently this has gotten to the point where he can't just put this out of his mind and he needs some relief from the frogs. I mean, he was knee deep in frogs everywhere, so. No, really?

He's been noisy.

Oh, you guys, your reaction is gonna make me croak. I'm trying too hard.

All right. Yeah, all right.

So Moses said to Pharaoh, be pleased to command me when I am to plead to you for your servants and for your people so that the frogs be cut off from your houses and be left only in the Nile. And he said, tomorrow.

Moses said, be it as you say so that you may know that there is no one like Yahweh our God. The frogs shall go away from you and in your houses and your servants and your people and they shall be left only in the Nile.

So Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh and Moses cried to Yahweh about the frogs as he had agreed with Pharaoh and Yahweh did according to the word of Moses. The frogs died out in the houses, the courtyards and the fields and they gathered them together in heaps and the land stank.

But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his heart and would not listen to them as Yahweh had said. So you're gonna note here, the Egyptian goddess Hekhet is powerless. Yeah, that's kind of a frog lady.

Yeah, that's just weird. Yeah, she was powerless there. But I'm gonna tell you how bad preaching goes on this text while we're here. Have you ever heard the song One More Night with the Frogs? Okay, so the big popular way of teaching this is using a form of scripture twisting that I call Narcissus, where you narcissistically read yourself into the text.

And so the way the sermons usually go, the general outline is that Pharaoh could have chosen any day to, he could have even chosen that exact same day to get relief from the frogs, but he chose for it to happen one more night.

And so what frogs are you putting up with in your life when you can ask God to take those frogs away from you now? And there's a whole song called One More Night with the Frogs that people have to sing in churches.

And it's just horrifyingly bad. The whole point of you picking the time was so that Pharaoh would know that it was Yahweh who did it. That was the whole point. You pick the time so that that's proof that it wasn't just something that happened by coincidence or whatever.

If he had chosen a week from Thursday, the frogs would have stayed until then. That was the whole point. So, and this is not about frogs in your life.

It's just, you know, I don't,.

Well, the text doesn't say why he didn't choose today, okay? And the whole point was you pick the time because that's gonna be proof that Yahweh was the one who was acting. So, all right, now let me go back up into the questions before we get too far here.

Okay, so, oh, good questions here. So God, through pastors, are declaring these judgments. Yes, Carlos, yes, you get it. Okay, so when God acts, a Christian pastor is supposed to go, this is God, pay attention.

This is a call for us all to repent, okay? So Eric says, on the topic of judgment, what's the proper interpretation of judgment must begin in the house of God? Well, we're gonna apply our three rules for exegesis before we go anywhere, and so we're looking at 1 Peter 4, 1 Peter 4, and the three rules are context, context, and context.

All right, so, beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you as though something strange were happening to you. Something strange, all right, well, so a good way to think of it is that, all right, pay attention to what this text is saying.

So are you being persecuted for being a Christian? All right, have you stopped to think yet, that, you know, to kind of figure it out, it just really seems like the days are getting darker, and that the governments are about to pass laws that make Christianity, Christians, guilty of crimes against humanity, all right?

For not embracing sexual diversity or whatever? It's all coming, right? All right, you hear what's going on in Scotland, all right. All of that being said, all right, when these things happen, our reaction shouldn't be going, what's going on?

I never saw this coming, what, huh, huh.

No, it's, no, this is not, this is what we're supposed to expect. So this, when these trials come, nothing strange is happening to you. Instead, rejoice, insofar as you share in Christ's sufferings that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed.

If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. But let none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or as an evildoer or as a meddler.

If anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in that name. For it is time for judgment to begin with the household of God and begins with us. What will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel?

If the righteous is scarcely saved, what will become of the ungodly and the sinner? So you'll note here, kind of the theme of judgment beginning with the household of God.

Is that this is a form,.

The suffering that we go through is we have to consider ourselves to be blessed, but you're gonna note when those types of suffering and persecution show up, then judgment happening in the house of God, you're gonna note that people fall away.

People fall away in the face of persecution and suffering like that, which demonstrates that their faith is, well, let's just say weak, not quite there. Yes, sir. Yes, I saw that. Yes, so there's a Christian Post article about in the state of California, there's a school district requiring kids to take classes that teach that white Christians are evil, and as a counter protest to the evil white Christian patriarchy, they actually in class require kids to chant to the Aztec deities.

That requires human sacrifice.

And the Aztec deities, by the way, do require human sacrifice. I wonder who's gonna be volunteering for that, but that's a different thing altogether. So you'll note that things are warming up, all right?

So the idea that in the face of this kind of suffering, if you adopt and believe what Scripture says rather than feeling like you're cursed, when you are made to suffer, you will recognize that you are blessed.

But those who are in the house of God who don't really believe, or when they face judgment like this, they're out. I would point out that if full-scale persecution were to break out in the United States, if that were to happen, I really truly believe the first people who would fall away, Lakewood would disappear, all right?

Because none of those people are, none of them have signed up to be persecuted or to suffer. They are told that if they can use their faith-filled words to magically create wonderful outcomes in their life, their Christianity is not a real Christianity.

So when these types of persecution comes, it does create a form of judgment in the house of God in the sense that people fall away, whereas those who are true remain and see themselves as blessed in the face of stuff.

That's the context of that text. But Carlos, so is this part of reigning with Christ on earth and therefore executing judgment as his priest? So the idea then, Carlos, is that, kind of coming back to the theme is, is that since Scripture gives us a way of interpreting events like this, and I always find it fascinating that there are people who are Christians who are sketchy, who have a hard time about this.

Well, there was a natural disaster. Should we say it was an act of God?

Yes, we should.

Okay, the book of Revelation says that this is an act of God. And what's the call then?

Repent.

But here's what ends up happening is you get some yahoo on TBN who, when an event happens, they try to pin it to one specific sin. Oh, the reason why this particular earthquake happened is because, and then just fill in the blank, right?

And it's a particular sin. No, this is a result of our collective sin and this is a call for us all to collectively repent of our collective sins. So to somehow pin it on a particular thing. So in the past, I've seen guys who will say, oh, this sin is because America has legalized abortion.

I admit that America has earned the wrath of God because of the millions of children that have been murdered here as a result of abortion. But to say that a specific act of God is a result of a particular sin is kind of missing the whole point, all right?

And not only that, but what we can say is that, yeah, when a disaster like this happens, it should wake us up. I remember the Sunday after the 9 -11 attack. The churches were full and they should have been, and they should have been.

But within three, four weeks, they were back to normal attendance levels, right? So the idea then is that we, Revelation makes it clear, with ever increasing frequency and magnitude, these are the God's judgment on the earth for our sin, our rebellion, our unbelief, and the job of the Christian is to say, yeah, the reason why these things are happening is because of our sin, because of your sin and my sin.

God is telling us to repent. God is calling us to recognize that we have sinned against Him to not harden our heart against Him. All right, Dana says, Matthew 16, but he replied, when it is evening, you say it'll be fair weather, for the sky is red in the morning.

There will be a storm, for the sky is red and threatening. Do you know how to discern the appearance of the sky but cannot discern the sign of the times? Yeah, I think, Dana, that's a relevant text in this regard.

But keep in mind, we've been in the last day since Christ ascended, and have you noticed in our lifetime that things have definitely been ramped up?

They have.

And will they ramp up more?

Yes.

Christ describes what is coming at the end of the earth as birth pains, okay? I remember when Barb was pregnant for the first time, and we didn't know what to expect. I remember all of that, okay? And I remember making some pretty boneheaded statements when she was in labor, okay?

They hooked her up to a Richter scale. I think that's what that was, you know? And so every time she would have a contraption, that's what we called them, contraptions, every time she would have a contraction, I'd look at the Richter scale and watch it peak out and let her know when things were gonna taper off, and one particular contraction, the Richter scale just jumped, the needle jumped, and I said, whoa, here comes a big one.

She goes, I know, you know? And the thing is is that the earth has been in labor since Christ's ascension. I don't know how many centimeters or centimeters we're at right now. I can just tell you the baby's coming, all right?

And as we get closer and closer, the contractions get stronger and they get harder, and that's kind of the point that we're seeing here. We're seeing a redux, a repeat, of some of the earlier judgments that we saw in the book of Revelation, and they're now taken from an intensity from where a third of the earth is impacted.

Now in Revelation 16, all of the sea is impacted. Everything.

Yes. Wow. Yeah.

So the frequency of earthquakes on planet Earth in the last decade has jumped fourfold. Three decades. Three decades, the number of earthquakes, with the same instrumentation. Same instrumentation, it has increased fourfold in three decades.

We don't wanna talk about that because we're kind of downwind from that one. So here in North Dakota, we're not too far from Yellowstone. It's just a few states over. And there's a big old caldera. I always like to think that God's saving that for like the grand finale.

You know how like at a fireworks display, they always save the big fireworks for the end?

For the end of the 1812 Overture.

Yeah, to the 1812 Overture. Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. And there goes the caldera in Yosemite. The idea here then is this. We look at these events through the lens of scripture. These are God's acts of judgment.

And God is saying, repent.

Yes. Yes.

Right, so that's part of the problem here that we're having in our day. Because everybody's saying, oh, the reason why we're having this is because of man-made global warming. I will admit that what's happening is a result of man's activity, sinful activity.

But it's not because of the invention of the automobile. It's not because you aren't driving an electric car. That's not the issue. And I assure you that even if the whole world switches over to electric vehicles, you're still gonna have to make that electricity.

But if the whole world switches over to electric vehicles, things are still going to get worse. Worse. And right now, people are noticing things are getting worse. And they're saying, we've got to become carbon neutral.

Yeah, and make global warming for getting hotter, getting colder.

Yep, yep.

We have to kill him.

Yeah, let's not go there. All right, so coming back then here. So you get the idea. And let me see here. So Tony C says, I'm green with envy after that one. Okay, so Pharaoh's magicians answered to the plague what a frog was to make more frogs.

Yeah, that makes perfect sense. Wouldn't it be to like, you'd think they would've thought, well, let's find a way to get rid of them, right? So it's, okay, so One More Night with the Frogs, apparently a book written by Jesse Duplantis.

Yes, yes.

And I've heard Christine Kane preaching at a passion event using that same thing. Okay, we are ripe in judgment. Yes, that's right. The harvest is ripe, plentiful, the workers are few. Jen and I were just talking about this, but the world calls it global warming.

That's right, they do. All right, yeah, pray for the tenacious faith, believe in patience, endurance, and forgiveness.