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I pray for Pastor Shish Gai who's about to teach Lord that you are at your spirit and as he's teaching Lord that we may be listening and paying attention to what he has to say, God, that we may not just be the person who listens, but be the doors of what he's teaching and who's so Lord that we may share to those who have not heard about it, God, thank you Lord for everything and you may pray in that. Amen. Amen, thank you. Thank you, everyone, for being on the class. So last week, we, in the second lecture, last week, we read through Daniel chapter eight and we just began to kind of, you know, look at the key things in that chapter. So today we will get into the details. Daniel chapter eight, the plan is to also cover Daniel chapter nine. I think we will be able to do both. So if you can do both today, that'll be great, okay? So just to quickly recap a few, you know, where we were, Daniel is recounting another vision or reporting or sharing with us another vision that he had and in this vision, again, he sees images of animals like what he saw in Daniel seven. He saw, you know, he referred to those as beasts, but here in Daniel eight, he sees a ram with two horns and then he sees a goat with one, with one horn. Again, that's a male goat with one horn. That's also very unusual, right? A male goat with just one horn coming up from its front. But anyway, so you have this male and then he sees things happening. He sees these two animals interacting and he kind of describes all of that. And then, and so, you know, so let's get into the details. Now, what we have mentioned earlier is the interpretation is often found within the chapter itself. So when we said, you know, we asked it towards the end of the last class, we asked the question and okay, so what do these animals mean? And that is already pointed out for us in this chapter. So I hope all of us have Daniel chapter eight open in front of us. So, Angel Gabriel comes near to Daniel and he explains to him. He says in verse 20, verses 20 and 21, he says Daniel chapter eight, verses 20 and 21, the ram which you saw having two horns, they are the kings of media and Persia, verse 21. And the male goat is the kingdom of Greece. The large horn that you saw that is between its eyes is the first king, right? So the interpretation is given to us right here. So Gabriel tells Daniel, Daniel, the ram is representing two kingdoms, Medes and Persians. Now, if you look at verse three, Daniel chapter eight was three, the ram had two horns, he saw. One horn was the second horn, the horn that came up later was bigger than the first horn. And verse 20 says they represent two kingdoms, Medes and Persians. And sure enough, the Persian kingdom became more stronger, became more stronger, more powerful than the Medes. So if you look at historically the sequence of events, the Babylonians were replaced by the Medes. The Medes were there for a brief period of time and then they were overtaken by the Persians. So they're from, he said, I saw this ram moving east. So they're coming from, sorry, they're from the east, moving west, north and south, right? So the eastern part basically representing what we know today as Iran, Iran, Persia, Iran. And this kingdom was moving westward. That means they were conquering and they were taking over regions west, north and south. So they were moving westward towards the Mediterranean. And so they conquered the Babylonians and so on. But after them came a goat. And then he says, what is the goat? Verse 21, kingdom of Greece. So on the other side of the Mediterranean Greece comes this goat and the goat is moving eastward. And this goat had, he says in verse five, I saw a male goat. It had a notable horn between his eyes, very big horn. And verse 21 says, this horn that you saw is the first king. So this horn, horns usually represent leadership, kings, leaders, and so on. So this goat was moving eastward. So Alexander the Great, who was the first leader, he moved east and he began to conquer. He began to take over territory. And we know historically, he came all the way to India, you know, the northern part of India, or northwestern part of India. He reached all the way there from Greece, okay? So Daniel saw that in this vision, right? If you see in verse six onwards, he says the ram that had, so this goat came to the ram that had two horns and it confronted the ram. That means the goat, the kingdom of Greece overpowered the Persians. It destroyed it, it cast to the ground, verse eight. Look at verse eight. Then the male goat, which is Greece, kingdom of Greece, grew very great. And that is true. From all the way from Greece, he extended his empire all the way to India. That's a huge territory, right? And says, but when he became strong, I'm looking at verse eight, the large horn was broken. And in its place, four notable ones came up toward the four winds of heaven. So this first horn, this first king, right? As he was becoming strong, suddenly he was broken. And that is so true. Historically, that's what happened. Alexander the Great, he was a great conqueror. He grew very fast, but he also died very young. And that's what he says in verse eight. He became very great. He became strong, he was broken. And then in place of it, I'm looking at verse eight, in place of it, four notable ones came up. And that's exactly what happened. After Alexander the Great suddenly died, he had four generals. So the four generals basically took over parts of the Greek empire, his empire. And we mentioned some of that in the PDF, and maybe the PDF will have some map as well. So it's good to just look at it at this point. Let me go back here. So Daniel eight, right? So he died and four kingdoms came out of his empire. And broadly speaking, those regions covered. So of course, in those days, they were not called Turkey and Syrian Egypt, but they covered regions that today we can say predominantly, not exclusively predominantly, but at least Turkey, Syria, Egypt are part of those empires. Now, I'm showing you this picture. This is not the Greek empire, but it's the Roman empire. But think of it, he was here, right? Somewhere here. And he expanded, Alexander the Great expanded his kingdom all the way across. And he comes all the way through towards Northern part of India, that'll be somewhere here, right? He come all the way through, he comes and he takes over. Now, after he died, parts of his car. So this part, somebody took over. So which would cover major portions of Eastern Europe. And then Turkey, another person, another emperor took over. This part, another person took over, which basically is Syria in that part. And here, this part, Northern Africa, another person took over. So broadly speaking, right? These were the four major divisions of his empire that were taken over by his generals. Now, this map that you're seeing is that of the Roman empire, which came later. But I'm just trying to point out the regions of the Greek empire and how it was taken over, right? So what is amazing is that Daniel saw this while he was in the reign of King Belshazzar, who was the Babylonian empire king, right? So he saw this way before time. And he's speaking, of course, God is revealing and God is helping him understand it. He's speaking and saying, Meads, Persians, Greeks. Daniel is at that moment serving under Belshazzar, the Babylonian empire. So he's looking way into time. But then what is interesting is this. Morshnai. Out of one of them came a little horn. So what sequence? There's this goat representing the Greek empire. The goat had a big horn represented Alexander the Great. The horn became very great, meaning the empire grew very quickly. But then the horn was broken. He died. Then in its place came four notable ones. That means his four generals took over, right? That's end of verse eight. And then verse nine. Out of one of them came a little horn. Now this little horn is a very interesting phrase because we've been seeing it in the past, right? In the previous visions he had. He saw it in Daniel chapter two. He just mentioned 10 kings and then another kingdom being established, the kingdom of heaven. Then in Daniel six, he again sees this little horn who comes up and he speaks pompous things against God. And he overpowers three of the 10 horns. So that was in Daniel seven. Yeah. Right? Yeah. And then in Daniel eight, we're getting some more information. Where does this little horn come from? So Daniel chapter eight, verse nine, he says out of one of them, what is one of them? The four territories or kingdoms that were established or governed by the four generals from the Greek Empire. So this kind of gives us a clue of where the Antichrist is going to come from. Now we don't know precisely or exactly but we have a gentle idea that the Antichrist is coming from one of these four kingdoms or regions that came out of the Greek Empire which was governed by the four generals of Alexander the Great. Because he says very clearly and out of one of them came a little horn. And what did this little, so the question is when did this little horn come? Now, okay, let's kind of just read a few more scriptures. I'm just looking at this from verse nine towards 14. Okay, Daniel eight, nine to 14. So what happened? He says out of one of them came a little horn and he tells us about this little horn. He became extremely great toward the south, toward the east and toward the glorious land. That means this little horn was extending its influence in all of these directions, specifically he also mentions towards the glorious land, the land of Israel. Verse 10, and it grew up to the host of heaven and it cast down some of the hosts or some of the stars to the ground and trampled them. That means he is gaining so much influence that he is beginning to influence those in authority. And those who were in great places of influence. And verse 11, he even exalted himself as high as the prince of the host. That means he's now boasting, this little horn is boasting not only gaining influence, not only on the earth, but it's also speaking against spiritual powers. He's gaining influence. So, you know, the stars and the prince of the host and he's speaking against the Lord himself. Okay, this little horn and verse 11, and by him the daily sacrifices were taken away and the place of a sanctuary was cast down. So now he's talking about daily sacrifices and the place of a sanctuary, that is the temple. So he's saying this little horn is gonna stop sacrifices, daily sacrifices. He's gonna desecrate or damage the place of a sanctuary. That's the temple. Okay, let's read on. Because of transgression and army was given over to the horn, that means he had military power. He had military strength to oppose the daily sacrifices and he cast truth down to the ground. That means there's no respect for law, order, justice. No, he did all this and prospered. All right, so the question is when does this little horn come into play? Now, historically, and I've put this also in the notes, in the PDF, historically, there was a king called, I'm looking at here in the notes, Antiochus Epiphanus. He, and it's in the timeline. He came, you can find his name in the historical timeline of Israel, the Jewish people. So he came, this was after Daniel's time. He came and he actually desecrated the temple, right? But, and so some people think, oh, Antiochus Epiphanus, this was around 171 to 164 BC. Oh, he fulfilled these scriptures. But the timing of the fulfillment of Daniel chapter eight was nine to 12 is given in the same chapter. What is the timing? So you go down to verse 23, right? What do we see there? He says, and in the latter time, so the timing for verse nine is in the latter time. In the latter time of their kingdom, when transgressors have reached their fullness, a king shall arise. So that's the little horn that he's speaking about who understands sinister schemes. His power shall be mighty, but not by his own power. He will destroy fearfully. He will prosper and thrive, will destroy the mighty and also the holy people. Through his cunning, he will cause deceit to prosper under his rule. And he shall exalt himself in his heart and shall destroy many in their prosperity. He shall even rise against the prince of princes, that is the Lord Jesus, but he shall be broken without human means. And the vision of the evenings and mornings which was told is true, seal up the vision for it refers to many days in the future. Okay, so verse 23 gives us the clue for when verse nine is gonna be fulfilled. He says very clearly in the latter times. So it didn't have an immediate fulfillment. It wasn't a near fulfillment. It was, he was speaking of, verse nine is speaking of something way out in the future. Because he's saying, you know, this man who is going to do all these, you know, terrible things, he was gonna himself speak against the prince of the host. He uses the phrase prince of the host in verse 11 and he uses the phrase prince of princes in verse 25. So he says, this man is gonna speak against the prince of the princes. When is he gonna come, verse 23, in the latter time? So this is why, you know, we don't say, well, I mean, we recognize that the Jews have always been persecuted and attacked and, you know, evil has been done against them, the Jewish people. But we don't look back historically and say, hey, that king, you know, whether it was Epiphanes or whether it was some other leader who ill-treated the Jews in terribly, we don't point to them and say, that's the fulfillment. We say, look, he says in verse 23, it's going to be in the latter time. So it's still way out in the future. It's going to happen. Then what is this little horn going to do? Where's the team? He says here, then I heard a holy one speaking and another holy one said to that certain one who was speaking, how long will the vision be concerning the daily sacrifices and the transgression of desolation and the giving of both the sanctuary and the host to be traveled under foot? So he's seeing two angelic beings talking, having a conversation, they're saying, you know, hey, when is this going to happen? Right? Then he hears them talking and it's intensely for Daniel to understand. For 2,300 days, then the sanctuary shall be cleansed. That means he's saying, hey, there's a period of time. For 2,300 days, the sacrifices will be, you know, this whole thing about the sacrifices being stopped and the temple being desecrated. It's going to happen. So he's not saying literally when it's going to happen. He's saying basically how long it's going to happen. For 2,300 days, the sacrifices will be stopped and the temple will be desecrated. That is, the sanctuary will be cast down. Now, he explains this later on, if you look at verse 26, he says, and the vision of the evenings and mornings which was told is true. If you look back at verse 14 in many of our Bibles, the word days will have a little mark and say 2,300 evenings and mornings. So he's talking not days as in, you know, calendar days as we understand it, but he's talking about evenings and mornings. So the Jewish days started in the evening, 6 p.m. and then through the next day, 6 to 6 p.m. So he says evenings and mornings. So you'll have 2,300 evenings and mornings and one of the ways that you look at it is, okay, if there are 2,300 evenings and mornings, you divide it by two so that you get about 1,150 calendar days. If you're counting 2,300 evenings and mornings, of an evening and a morning put together makes up one day. So you divide it by two, you'll get 1,150 days. Now remember, there's a slight difference between the Jewish calendar and the Gregorian calendar, which we are used to. There's a 10-day difference approximately in every year. So the Jewish calendar has 3,553 to 3,555 days in a year. The calendar that we are used to is about 363 to 365 days generally in a year. So there's a 10-day difference. So we're not saying precisely, you know, in our terms, this is what's gonna be, but it roughly works out to about 3.5 years, slightly less than 3.5 years. 3.5 years in our calculation, the Gregorian calculation is 1,277 days. Now this one is 1,150 days. So you're short by about 127 days or something like that. The day difference. But basically it's talking about a period of 3.5 years. 3.5 years when the daily sacrifices will be stopped, the sanctuary will be cast down and there is a transgression of desolation, meaning this man is committing the sin of bringing desolation to the temple and what's happening there. Okay. So the last thing I wanna point out here and then we will take questions is when, this is verse 17, when Gabriel begins to explain it, he says verse 17, understand son of man that the vision refers to the time of the end. That means there is content in this vision that he's showing you, which is referring to the time of the end. So there are two things here, verse 17 and again in verse 23, that kind of that positions things that are happening in this vision for the very end. There are things that happened in the near fulfillment which is represented by the Ram and the goat, the Meads, the Persians and the Greeks. But then there is also things that are given in this vision which happens in the time of the end or in the latter time, which is in the last days to be fulfilled. So part of the vision that Daniel saw has already been fulfilled, the Ram and the goats, that part is already fulfilled. Part of what he saw is yet to be fulfilled, that little horn that came out of one of those four regions and stopped the daily offerings and daily sacrifices and desecrated the sanctuary and cast it down and spoke things against the prince of princes and all of that, that's yet to be fulfilled because he says it's for the time of the end, it's for the latter time, okay? So, did we all understand chapter eight? Any questions? Anyone's okay? Any questions? All right, okay. Asha and Mangi, please go at Asha and then Mangi can ask his question as well. Thank you, sir. I just had a question, where it says that in chapter eight was 72, so he came here, where I stood and he came and I was frightened for a minute please, but he said to me, understand how suddenly that vision is for the time of the end. So, is this about the time where we won't be there? Like, in the book, close to the book of Revelation, how it describes about everything that is, like, so this is a progression for the end time and not now, where it's talking about it, so I'm kind of confused in this passage. Some persons who can explain it. Thank you. Okay, so, remember, so this little horn is speaking about the Antichrist. So, to answer your question, when the Antichrist comes in to visibility, makes himself known, we won't be here. So, Revelation chapter six was one and two. That's when the Antichrist comes into visibility. We have been taken out of the way, the church has been taken out of the way. Revelation chapter four and five, we are in heaven, or you could read it and also in second Thessalonians chapter two, where when he who restrains is taken out of the way, then the man of perdition will be revealed, that is the Antichrist. So, when the Antichrist is revealed, or the Antichrist will be revealed only after we are taken out of the way, the church is taken out of the way. So, to answer your question, we won't be here when the little horn is doing all those things. Now, he's got seven years to do everything. The little horn, that's the Antichrist. The first, so initially he comes as a man of peace. Yeah, he puts in a peace treaty. So, the initial part of what he's doing, like he says he's gaining, he is verse nine, he's growing great towards the south, towards the east, towards the glorious land. So, his influence is increasing. We won't be around, but he is coming forth like a man of peace. But then, in the middle of somewhere in the middle, right, towards the end of the first three and a half years, this is Revelation 11, we will look at it. He breaks his peace treaty and that's when he does all these things that Daniel spoke about. That means he starts blaspheming against the prince of the princes. He starts speaking evil against everyone. He, through his use of military power, this is in verse 12, he stops the sacrifices in the temple and he casts truth to the ground. That means there is no regard for justice and law and he just becomes very powerful. Yes, master. Yes, master. Oh, isn't that told during our devotion time, they're talking about the second. So, just wondering about the antichrist, like, if he can come, is he coming before or like he just, because sadly he doesn't matter what type of gender or anything, but our perspective view, like my side, that in case, we know that Jesus is a man and so I don't think he'll come if he doesn't come because I'm not sure because sometimes he said, yeah. And then the first one is that during the, like once in the book of Matthew or Mark, I'm not sure in one of the gospels, blessed are those who have not seen the dead leaves. So, for those who are still like, you said that we won't be there, right master, for the faith? The church will be taken out of the way, but there will be people who become believers after that. Okay. Yeah, so there will be believers on the earth during the tribulation, right? The church being taken out of the way, will cause a lot of people to be saved, right? They will see this and they will say, hey, these guys were telling us about this all along and it has happened. You know, it is such a sign and a wonder globally. You can imagine, you know, there will be an aftershock for that shakes the world literally. You know, they say, hey, all these Christians, all these believers have gone, disappeared. Everything's gone, you know, everything meaning, I mean, the people have been, so it's gonna shock the people are left behind. Many of them will become believers, you know, and so there will be believers. To answer your question, which is who is the antichrist? Okay, so in the text, in scripture, it always refers to him as a man, right? He speaks, right? He, he, he. So it's almost certain that this antichrist is a man. Now, in what, what is he? He's a man who's empowered by the dragon. That means he's empowered by Satan, right? We will see in the read Revelation 13, that there is this antichrist and then there is also a false prophet, a spiritual leader. Both are empowered by the devil, but they are the two representatives of the devil on the earth who are very powerful during these seven years. So there is the antichrist, there'll also be a false prophet or the Bible calls him the second beast. Sometimes the Bible calls the antichrist as the beast and calls the false prophet as the second beast, but both are empowered by Satan. So they have human beings, the antichrist and the false prophet are human beings, but they're empowered by spiritually by the devil. Thank you, Master. Yeah, all right. Mangi, your question, please. Thank you, sir. We see in Daniel 8, he says that, we say that the Jews will be, will sacrifice again in the temple. Our question is, Jesus made sacrifice once for all and we don't need sacrifice anymore. And here, and in Revelation, we see that God allowed you to sacrifice, to sacrifice animals and it seems like he accept it. And in the old time, in Old Testament, Jews sacrificed animals and other cultures and other people sacrificed animals to God, like Moses's father, Lord, for example, sacrificed, it got to the Lord. So my question, Pastor, is even now, is it wrong for those who sacrifice animals to God to continue sacrificing animals to God because God allows Jews to do it in the future temple. And if us who believe, we say, we want to give God bent offering, can we do it? Can we bend it and say, God, we're sacrificing this animal to you? Just that more questions. Yeah, interesting question. And my response would be, it depends on which covenant we are operating under. So remember right now, there is a covenant that God established with the Jewish people, starting from Abraham on, reinforced through the Mosaic covenant, reaffirmed through his promises to David. That covenant is in force for them, the Jewish people. But then God has established a second covenant, which we know is the new covenant, which we as people who have faith in Jesus Christ are in. So we who believe in Jesus, we are in the new covenant. And God is calling the Jews to believe in his son Jesus Christ and come under the new covenant. And in the new covenant, there is no more sacrifice for sins. But we know there are Jews who still read the law of Moses, they read the scriptures, Genesis to Malachi, and they are, did God hear the people under the old covenant? Of course, he heard them. Who did they worship? They worship Yahweh God, right? The same God that we worship, the God of the Bible. But they were under the old covenant. So today, there are Jews who are under the old, they're still operating under, we call it's a Judaism, today is known as Judaism, right? They're still operating under Judaism. Now, of course, there will be people who are just doing it as a part of their social life or by tradition. But then they are those who are really seeking God. They read the scriptures and they're seeking Yahweh God. So for them, that covenant is still in force, right? For them, not for us. For us, we are in a new covenant. Has God suddenly said, okay, I won't work any longer with the Jewish people? No, no, no. He's still working and you probably learned, I forget when you did the book of Romans last semester or this semester, but you read about it in Romans chapters 9, 10, 11, where Paul just beautifully explains how right now, God is working among the Gentiles to bring us all together so that when the time of the Gentiles is over, then he brings us all together. But he has not given up on the Jewish people, right? Whatever he promised Abraham is still in force and he still cares for them. So will God hear their prayer? Of course, he will. But he's gonna be pointing to Jesus Christ and he say, hey, I've moved on and I've established this new covenant. I need you to come into the new covenant. So that's why, as Paul writes in Ephesians 2, he's bringing both, making them one, Jew and Gentile through the blood of his son, Jesus Christ. So the question that you're asking is, you know, the sacrifices that these people are offering and will be offering, not only here in this third temple, which we call it the tribulation temple, but in the millennial temple, right? So Ezekiel refers to the millennial temple, which is in chapters 40 to 48. That means for a thousand years. Sacrifice is going to be offered in the millennial temple. While Christ himself is seated in Jerusalem and everybody are worshiping Jesus, there's the millennial temple and sacrifice being offered there. Now, for whatever reason, it's not given to us in scripture, why God has instituted that. But we can just say that it will be probably a constant reminder to them that all of these things they are doing is fulfilled in the person of Christ. Maybe that's just something we can think of, right? But it's not given, not written to us. But Ezekiel 40 to 48 clearly tells us there's going to be a millennial temple where sacrifices are being offered. The question is, will those sacrifices be accepted by God? And my thought is because it's put on, it is under the old covenant and God instituted the old covenant. Yes, he's going to look at that and he's going to accept it. But his pointing is always calling them to faith in Jesus Christ. You come to faith in Christ. You come to this Jesus who is a fulfillment of everything and in Jesus you don't need the sacrifices anymore. I hope I answered your question, Maggie. Yes, sir, you did. Thank you so much. Yeah, okay. Christopher, I see your hand, please. Yes, sir. Thank you, Pastor. My question is about the current times where there is a lot of mean fighting right now happening in Israel and with the Palestinians. And right now the main issue is the major threat that is coming or the country that is the major threat to Israel is Iran. And this is a country that possibly could also get nuclear arms and therefore be a force to destroy Israel as well as a lot of the other countries. So is there any sort of reference to that in Daniela revelations with regards to the fighting that is happening and it's been for many years now with the Palestinians and Israel is slowly getting larger and they seem to be taking more and more of the land. But again, the threat is actually coming from Iran. The biggest threat is Iran, for them. So I just wanted to get to understand if there's any sort of reference to that. Yeah, so the answer is yes. And we'll look at Ezekiel chapter 38 verses one through five. So Ezekiel 38 and 39 refer to the final battle of Armageddon and how it builds up. So it is referenced in the book of Revelation, both in Revelation I think it's Revelation 16 and then in Revelation 19, right? So when he talks about the armies from the east coming in and then the build up towards the battle of Armageddon. But to answer your question specifically, in Ezekiel 38, you look at the different tribes and nations being mentioned. So he says in verse two, he says, set your face against Gog of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshach and Tubal. So the prince of Rosh, Meshach and Tubal. And again, I'm not a, I don't, I'm just going by the research that others have done. And you will read that Rosh, Meshach and Tubal are referring to tribes that are actually part of Russia, modern day Russia. So he's speaking, he says, look, the prince of Rosh, Meshach and Tubal. And he says in verse three, I'm against you or Gog. So Gog referring to the leaders from this region, Rosh, Meshach and Tubal. And he says, I will put a hook in your jaws and so on. And if you read the whole chapter, it kind of unfolds what they're going to do. But in verse five, he specifically mentions Persia. Persia in the Bible refers to Iran, right? Persia in Bible times, old times is modern day Iran. So verse five, Iran, Ethiopia and Libya. So what's going to happen? There's coming a time when Russians will invade Israel from the north and he describes, you know, what will happen? It says that these people, you know, let me point to you, point you to, he says, the evil Tubal come into your heart when you will. Yeah. Verse 16, he says, you know, Ezekiel 38, 16, you will come up against my people Israel like a club to cover the land. It will be in the latter days that I will bring you against my land so that the nations may know me when I'm hallowed in you or Gog, before their eyes. Gog referring to the Russia, you know, we would interpret it as the Russians because it refers to the leaders of Rosh Mishai and Tubal tribes of Russia. They're coming against Israel. But whom are they supported by? They are supported by Persia, Ethiopia, Libya, meaning Persia is Iran. So, and you can see this happening, the way Iran, you know, probably, they already have nuclear weapons. They are in alliance with Russia. So you would have read in the news earlier, I mean, in the last recent months when some of the drone attacks that Russia was conducting against Ukraine, those armaments were supplied by Iran. Right, so there is that understanding. Iran, Russia, China, they're not necessarily like great friends, but they're aligned with each other, right? And they're kind of in a quiet way helping each other. So don't say question. Yes, Abish takes question. Is the false prophet from Catholic church because the pope has unified all religions of the world? Is the false prophet from the Catholic church? Now, when we read about the false prophet, Revelation chapter 13, and then later on we read again in Revelation 17, you read about the false prophet. These are the two chapters that doctors about the false prophet in which we will look at when we start going through the book of Revelation. Obviously the Bible doesn't tell us but doesn't give us any indication that the false prophet belongs to, would be the Catholic church or any of that. It doesn't give us. So there are a lot of people through the years who've speculated and tried to point, you know, the false prophet coming from the Catholic church. My answer is we don't know for sure, right? We just know that he's a religious leader who's got great influence and we'll read about it in chapters 13 and 17 and about his influence and so on. But the key thing is he's gonna support the antichrist and he's gonna be hand in hand with the antichrist. So put the Roman Catholic church to such a thing. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. And so I think it's better not to say something like this because it's going to unnecessarily cause ill-will between people, especially when we're not sure about something, right? So better not to speculate like this and just say that, yeah, it is a world religious leader but we don't know exactly who it could be. Yeah, that would be my response. So we'll take a break now. Thank you for your questions. I wanna just come back to chapter eight, quickly review it and over the break time if you have any further questions, please come back after the break and ask them and then we'll quickly review chapter eight then move into chapter nine, okay? Thank you. See you in about 10 minutes. Thank you.