 Good morning, everyone. Welcome to BC 106, our course on interpreting scripture. Thank you for connecting to the class. Let's just join our hearts together and pray. And then we will get our class started. Could one of us, maybe John, could you just please lead us in prayer and then we'll start. Sure. Father, we want to thank you for this morning. Lord, we come before you, your presence as a class. Lord, we pray that as we continue to learn from your scriptures, you speak to us, Lord. Lord, we pray that you will open the eyes of our understanding and we would be able to understand the mysteries of your scripture. Lord, we also thank you for all the class members. Lord, we pray that the rest of us would be able to join soon and also have been passed through your hands. So, Lord, continue to anoint him to reveal your word to us, Lord Jesus. We give you praise in Jesus' name. We pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you. All right. So, over the last couple of weeks, we have been going through various guidelines on how to correctly interpret scripture. And we've been looking at various aspects that go into correctly interpreting scripture. We started with looking at grammar, which means the words and how the sentence is formed and the tense of the word, the meaning or the meanings of the word. We talked about looking at culture. We spoke about culture, grammar. We spoke about figurative language. And then we also spoke about, last week, we spoke about types and shadows. And when talking about types and shadows, we also introduced the idea of illustrations and allegories. So, allegories are man-made. It's things that we make up. They have a place in communication, but we have to be very careful when we use, when we allegorize the Bible. So, we will be addressing that as well. And then we talked about types and shadows and illustrations that are in the Bible. And it's always good to stay within that, you know, stay within using what the Bible brings to us as a type and a shadow. And what the Bible points to us as an illustration, you stay with it. Every time the New Testament points back to something in the Old Testament, we stay with those things. And then we understand the Old Testament, you know, and learn directly from it because it's been given to us, for example. So, we talked about types, shadows, illustrations, allegories. And then we started talking about parables last week. We did not complete that lesson on parables, so we will pick it up from there today and go forward. So, what we're doing is we're just looking at the scriptures from various angles and saying, okay, you know, when you meet this, when you see something like this in the Bible, then this is the correct way to interpret it and avoid doing, avoid some of the mistakes or avoid doing something wrong with the text of the scripture. So, we're giving us ourselves guidelines or we could say we're giving ourselves a framework with which we can use every time we go to study and interpret the scripture for our own benefit and of course, when we preach and teach the Word of God. So, let's continue from where we stopped last week on parables. And as always, please feel free to ask any questions as we go through. Right, so we went through types and shadows and then we started talking about parables. So, just to quickly review, you know, parable, it's a story that's thrown beside or alongside whatever is being taught. And the intent of course is that truth is hidden in the parable and parables are essentially true life stories that are used to eliminate spiritual truth or illustrate or eliminate spiritual truth. And we know that Jesus spoke numerous parables. He used numerous true life, real life illustrations in order to speak to us about the kingdom of God, about God and the way His kingdom works. And, you know, it's fascinating to look into each of these parables and learn lessons, learn spiritual truth from all of these parables. But what we want to do now is just to give ourselves some guidance on how do you work with parables and what not to do with parables. Because even when we're working with parables, we could go, if we don't handle them properly, we could go off and make up a lot of things that Jesus never intended when He gave that, or when He used that parable, gave that illustration. So, some simple guidelines. First of all, when you're working with parables, understand the literal meaning, the natural meaning, right? So every parable is a story from our world, more specifically stories from our world during Bible times, right? So some of these parables may not be exactly the way you and I live life today. For instance, you and I will not be going out and doing farming and putting seed on the ground, but, you know, we understand it because we either see other people doing it or we maybe do a little bit of gardening so you see some of that. You and I may not be doing fishing, but we understand what fishing is, you know, so we have some idea of it. So understand what the natural meaning of the parable is. Secondly, try to understand what prompted the parable. In many cases, the parable was given perhaps in response to a question. You know, a man came to Jesus and he asked, you know, who is my brother? And then Jesus told him the story of the Good Samaritan. Or there was a time when Jesus wanted to illustrate how valuable, how important it is for, how important it is, or let me put it like this, how we should seek the kingdom of God, you know. So he gave the parable of the pearl of great praise where, you know, a man found that, you know, he found just that in the field there was, you know, a great treasure. And so he went and sold all he had. He bought that field just in order to possess that treasure that was hidden in the field. Or how when a shepherd lost one sheep, you know, to talk about the love of God and how God searches for the sinner and how God loves the sinner, he gave parables like the lost sheep, where the shepherd, you know, he lost one sheep. He left the 99 and even looking for that one sheep. Or the woman, you know, who lost one coin, she searched really hard. And when she found the coin, she said, you know, she called all the neighbors and she rejoiced. So like this, usually something prompted that parable, you know, he may have spoken it in response to a question or a request or a complaint or to for a particular purpose. Or maybe he started off by saying, so is the kingdom of God. Maybe to teach us something about the kingdom or to exhort or to communicate a principle or to illustrate a situation. So, you know, you just understand, okay, hey, what prompted this parable? We're just giving you know, many different reasons, but you will find there's something prompted Jesus to use the story, to use this illustration. So that is also important because then you understand, then you stay aligned to the motivation of that parable. Right. So you understand. So first, you understand the natural meaning of the parable. Second, you try to understand what prompted this. What was the reason why he gave. So you stay with that reason. Don't go off that because that's the main purpose. That's the main thing that he's trying to address. Right. Then we say, okay, what is the main truth he's trying to illustrate? Right. So what is the main truth? And stay with that. Stay with the main truth that the Lord is trying to teach us. And don't turn the parable into an allegory. An allegory, what we end up doing is we end up putting in meaning into all parts of the story that actually was not intended by the Lord. You know, of course, if you can understand the parable very clearly and in detail, it's fine. I'm not saying don't get into the details of the story. But don't turn the parable into an allegory that the Lord never intended. You know, example, we all know the story of the prodigal son. And you know, the father was there. He had two sons, the older and the younger, and he had many servants and so on. Now, don't say the father's house is the local church. The father is the pastor. The eldest son represents faithful people. The younger son represents unfaithful church people. And if they go away, they will ruin their lives and they will have to come back to the church. You know, you don't kind of see, suppose somebody preaches a message like that. They take that story, the prodigal son, and they start preaching like that. Then you can say that they are allegorizing that story. That means they are reading into that story, meaning that Jesus never intended. The whole purpose of the prodigal son story was to show, you know, to illustrate the father's heart. And of course, to show that we as people could be like the younger son who wandered away and then he came back. And also to show, and so Jesus, you know, this great rejoicing never know one soul that repents. And also to show us not to be like the elder son who is very judgmental and so on. That's about where we should be going with that prodigal son story. But if we start putting into that story other ideas and that Jesus never intended, his main intent was to show the joy in heaven over one sinner that repents the heart of God. Through that story. But if you start reading other things, then we are allegorizing. You know, we are taking the story into directions that the Lord never intended. So don't allegorize the parable and use only those comparisons that were explicitly pointed out. Use only those comparisons. So in the prodigal son story, the main thing Jesus pointed out is there is great rejoicing in heaven or one soul that repents. That's the main thing. And then of course we can see the heart of the father, how he's waiting for his son to come back and how he goes and embraces his son and how he celebrates the son who came back. And of course we can see how the elder brother behaved and we can draw some lessons from it. But stay with the main thing, the main comparisons which the Lord himself pointed out. Okay. And okay, there's some numbering mistake here should be four and five. The fourth point is we must, you know, what if we teach out of the parable, it should remain consistent with the teaching of the rest of scriptures. Right. So don't start in as long as in our interpretation of the parable. We must align to what the other, what order start in the rest of scripture. So don't start bringing out meaning that is not supported by other parts of the scriptures. Right. So you look at the meaning of the parable in the light of what, what does the scripture say in other places about this subject about this matter. Yeah. So let us not go into wrong things. Example, Jesus spoke about the rich man and Lazarus. And he's just giving an illustration. The rich man died. He went to hell. He had a good life on earth, but, you know, he ended up in hell. The poor man had a very rough, very difficult life on earth, but he ended up in Abraham's bosom. And then Jesus giving a little insight into what happens, you know, okay, the rich man is in torment and he's crying out. Yeah. So we should not, we should not example. We shouldn't say, well, we can speak to the dead. That's not the point of the parable. Right. So Jesus is just giving an example of, and then I say, okay, the rich man cried out and said, you know, oh, please send somebody to go and talk to people in my house and warn them and all of that. The point of the parable is not to say that we can speak with the dead people. No, that's not it. Or we can pray for the dead people. No, that's not it. You know, that's not the point. The parable is just showing us how life on earth could be very different from what happens after we die. And the reality of the two different places that people go to heaven and hell in the reality of it, so on. So we understand even the parable in the light of the rest of scripture. And we shouldn't, you know, come up with other ideas or the dead are praying for us. See the rich man was praying that God would send somebody to go and speak to his people so that dead people, the dead souls are praying for us living souls. That is not, you know, substantiated elsewhere in scripture. So we shouldn't start a doctrine or a teaching like that. And I'm just giving some examples where you can take a story or a parable and then start saying things that are really not supported by the rest of the teaching of scripture. So whatever we are saying from the parable, it should be in line with the rest of the scriptures. Okay. And also very useful would be, you know, what was the response of the hearers. So, you know, when Jesus gave the story, what did the people understand? What did they go away with? Sometimes looking at that also will teach us something, you know, and will show us. Okay. And how did Jesus, you know, interact with that response? So it'll teach us that, okay, that's what Jesus intends for us are from that response. So for example, they came this noble man, he'd lived a very good life. And, you know, and then the Lord told him, you know, he said, how, how it's easier. Oh, sorry. He told him, you know, to go and sell what you have, give to the people, come follow me. And he went everywhere he disappointed. And Jesus turned around to his disciples and he made this comparison. It's not necessarily a parable, but he made this illustration of statement. He said, it's easier for a camel to go to the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. And that's a pretty strong statement. Pretty strong. Okay. Does that mean rich people can never go to heaven? That's not what he's saying. Right. That, that statement, that illustration camel going to the eye of a needle, rich people entering heaven should be understood in the light of what just happened before. What happened before? He was a very good man, but he couldn't, his wealth controlled him, his money controlled him. That was the problem. And it was the problem that Jesus was addressing. He was not addressing just the fact that if you have money, it's bad. No, he was addressing the problem. The problem was the money control the man. And that's where the problem is. And when people are controlled by money, then it's just like this. It's as impossible as a camel going to the eye of a needle. It's as impossible as that because money is controlling. So we shouldn't use that to tell people, you know, you should not be rich or rich people can never go to heaven. No. What we should warn is don't let money control you. Right. Don't let money. Don't let your heart be set on money and those kinds of things. Right. So it always when you understand the story, the response of the people and what happened. Then it said some light on the illustration that was used and how to correctly interpret that illustration, given the response of what happened with the people. So looking at the response of the people will help us as well in understanding the illustration that was given. Okay. So some additional questions that we can ask when you're studying the parable. Basic questions, how was it introduced? Right. So that helps us take care of the, the, the first main point, which is what prompted the parable. Second, who were the heroes. So that helps address, you know, the man natural meaning of the story and what was the. Yeah. So these kind of convey to his heroes and then what is the action of the response. So you can look at the heroes, what they did, what, what we should be doing. Right. So the main thing is if you want to sum this up, understand the literal meaning. Understand the motivation for the parable. Understand the main truths. So these are the main points of spiritual truth that the Lord intended to communicate through the parable and stay with it. Make sure what we are bringing out of the parable is aligned to the rest of the teaching of scripture and also look at the response, the people and what, how, how did Jesus, you know, react to the response. If we do this together, then we will be able to clearly correctly interpret the parable, bring out the real truth that Jesus wanted us to receive through the parable and then apply it into our lives. How does that apply to us in our daytime and situation. Right. So this is how we can work with parables. Any, let me pause here before we go to the next topic. Any questions on this and looking at parables? Any thoughts, any ideas, any questions here on this? Pastor, when Jesus spoke about having faith, which is kind of a mustard seed. So some, some people while preaching, they said, you know mustard seed, even if it is small, it is so thick. So are those also kind of an allegorising or, you know, something trying to bring from the example that the parable that Jesus mentioned. Yes. So when Jesus was using that illustration, the main thing was he was saying, see how small a mustard seed is and how big a mountain is. And he was trying to say, you know, even if you have faith like a mustard seed, the motivation was how small, you know, mustard is very small compared to a mountain, which is like a big thing. And you're showing us how powerful our faith in God is. Even if you have that, that simple little faith in God, and you do what he told us to do with that faith, we can move big things like mountains in the natural. So that's the point. Now, if we go beyond that, like example of what you mentioned, if people start looking into the mustard seed and saying, oh, well, the mustard seed has very thick skin. The mustard seed is this color kind of blackish brownish. Well, the mustard seed is like a creeper. And to get the mustard seed, you have to do this, this, this, you know, and they start going into the process of how a mustard seed is taken out and dried up and all those kinds of things. Then you know that's allegorising, right. That is reading into this illustration more than what Jesus intended. Jesus only intended to draw this comparison, mustard seed versus mountain. That's all, right. If you have faith like a mustard seed, you can move a mountain. That's the purpose. But when we get into more than that, then yes, we are doing, we are getting to allegorising. We're doing things that he never intended for us. Yeah, sure. One more question, please. So sometimes we see one sentence parables, one sentence, kind of, let's say Matthew 13, 52. And he said to them, therefore, every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house who brings out of his treasure both what is new and what is old. But I just want to understand the meaning of this. Yeah. So, so here, Jesus has, you know, just finished giving us the parable of the sova. Then he starts giving us some parables about the kingdom. And then he kind of wraps up his sermon, almost this is like the, you know, the final statement of his old teaching. But even that is very heavy. You know, he closes off with this one verse. I mean, this statement, he says, which is Matthew 15, 15, 13, 52, which you just read. He says, you know, every scribe. So ascribe, of course, was somebody who studied the scriptures, and it was responsible for copying, writing, handling the scriptures. So ascribe, who is taught concerning the kingdom. And he says, he compares him to an householder. Ascribe, who studies, who teaches, explains the scriptures. He compares them to an householder. So he's usually an illustration. He's, you know, he's, you could say a parable or an illustration. He's using something from our world to tell us something about the work of a teacher. And this is a householder who brings from his treasure things new and old. So, so what's the comparison? A man who has a house or householder is in charge of the house. He's got everything in his control. And his treasure, that means in his, you know, in his, if you say, maybe his wealth or what he has collected. There are things new and there are things that are old, but they're all part of the treasure. And he brings it out. He comes and shows it here. I have this, I have that. So what's he saying? He's saying a teacher, a scribe, a teacher, a person is handling the things of God, the scriptures. He can be like this. In his treasure, he has things new and old. That means fresh, new revelation, things that are old things. He may have brought out many times before things from times past, but that's all part of his treasure. And he would bring it out. So we can understand it like, you know, how do we apply it? So if you and I are people who are handling the things concerning the kingdom of heaven, the teaching concerning the kingdom of heaven, we bring forth old and new revelation. That means things that that is well known, things that is fresh. We bring it out and there's nothing wrong with that. A scribe who in those days basically only had the Old Testament. They didn't have it, you know, what we call as a New Testament. They only had the Old Testament. They studied that and they brought forth treasure out of that treasure. They brought forth things that are new and old things that people knew, things that people didn't know. But that's okay. And here Jesus is talking about, sorry, how would we apply it to our lives? The context is a little different because we have both Old and New Testament and we can bring forth revelation concerning the kingdom of heaven, things that are well known and things that may be fresh and new. But none of it is outside scripture, meaning it's contained in scripture. It says that people may not have seen it or we may not have seen it before, but it's there. It's contained in scripture. Is it okay? Yes, thank you. Anything else? Any other questions? Like how do we interpret these parables or true life stories or illustrations that Jesus used from everyday life, the teachers about God, what are things of God? Any other questions? Okay, so we have gone through some guidance on how to interpret parables. How do we correctly make use of, you know, understand parables? So we're going to go forward to the next part of our framework, you know, of understanding and interpreting scripture. And we want to emphasize, we have mentioned this in the last two lessons when we talked about parables, illustrations, allegories, and also interpreting, sorry, when we talked about types and shadows, illustrations and allegories, and also in the previous lesson, we talked about parables. So I kept this chapter here specifically to emphasize that we should avoid allegorising. Okay, what is allegorising? So when somebody, so somebody may read a scripture text, you know, anything, whatever they read a scripture passage, and then they start preaching or teaching or explaining something. And what they are saying is not, there is no correspondence between what they are saying and the actual text. There's no natural correspondence. They may be supposedly using the text, whether it's Old Testament, New Testament text, anything, but there's no natural correspondence. They are forcing a meaning or supposedly bringing out a hidden meaning. Then you're saying, then we can say, okay, they are allegorising it. Then sometimes in this whole process, they're not considering the literal meaning. I mean, hey, the text is talking about something, but they're not paying attention to the literal meaning. Some very often, they are conjuring up hidden ideas. That means they are just making up ideas that are foreign to the text. It is not fulfilling the text. It is the interpreter's imagination. That means they are, their imagination is at work. And it is not specifically mentioned in scripture. Now, allegories are very interesting to listen to. They're very engaging to the audience because, you know, it's like, wow, how is he bringing this out from that passage? It's not there in the passage, but he's coming out with these ideas. So it's the imagination at work. And, you know, we all like stories. We all like things that appeal to our imagination. So when somebody is preaching like that, yes, it does capture our attention because sometimes it can be very interesting. The ideas and the stories that are coming out of that scripture text that you don't find there. So it can be pretty interesting to listen to. But it's not the correct way to handle scripture text. And very often we can end up saying things that are just totally not in the Bible. Or we can end up saying things which God never intended, you know, and we'll come up with our own theories, our own ideas. And sometimes, you know, people who are listening, they may not be able to discern that what he's actually saying is not what, that's not Bible, you know, it's not what God wants. Simple, just, you know, a few examples. It's not all, but just giving some examples is, suppose we take this story of the Good Samaritan that Jesus used. He gave a story. And then we say, well, the inn, you know, where this man carried the good Samaritan, carried the person who was beaten and put him there, is a type of the church. And we should be bringing in all these people who are hurting and dying, and we should be bringing them into the church, so on and so forth. Yeah, just giving one idea. Now, theoretically, this sounds good. And it's, that's nothing, you know, seriously wrong with it, but it is not the right use of the parable. Jesus gave that parable to talk about in response to the question, who is my brother? And he was basically telling us that we should cross these boundary lines of social and cultural divisions, racial divisions, and help somebody who was in need, and engaging in people's lives at that level. That's what shows that we are somebody's brother. That means we are there to help somebody. That's the point that he was trying to get across. He was not talking about the inn being the church and so on and so forth. That was not what is part of the parable. So when somebody starts preaching like that, then, you know, they're allegorizing it, you just enjoy it. But in your mind, you keep, okay, that's not what the Lord Jesus meant when he gave this parable. Okay. Or, you know, somebody might say, you know, there was a lamp stand in the tabernacle. You know, and in the tabernacle, the high priest, the priest would have to go in to the inner court and he would have to trip the lamp. And, you know, he would have to trim the wick and pour the oil and make sure the light is burning bright. And so, you know, to trim the wick, that's representing that you keep cutting off your old sinful nature kind of thing. Again, that's allegorizing. You know, that's nothing like that in Scripture. But you're just putting a meaning that's not intended. That's not even right. There's no other comparison. There's no other Scripture that you can use to draw that kind of comparison. At least we can say bread represents the Word of God. That's there in the Bible. We can say incense represents prayer. That's there in the Bible. We can say the lamp stand represents the believer because that's also there in the Bible. Or the lamp stand represents the church. That's also there in the Bible, Revelation 2 and 3. But those are comparisons that are in the Bible. But there's nothing about, you know, sinful nature, the wick on the lamp stand representing sinful nature in the believer, things like that. We are making up ideas, right? Or think about a story, a historical event in the Bible. What is the event here? Abraham sends his servant, Eliezer, back to his home country to look for a bride for Isaac. So that's a historical event. I mean, that's actually happened. Now I have actually heard sermon, heard somebody preach a sermon saying, Isaac represents Jesus. Eliezer represents the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit has been sent into the world to prepare a bride for Isaac. And Abraham, therefore, represents God the Father. I heard a sermon preached like that. Now, there's nothing technically wrong in the sense that it is true. The Holy Spirit has come to, you know, save souls and the church is being put. Okay, yeah, that is true. But to use that historical event like this and saying, Isaac is a type of Christ and the whole Eliezer, the servant is a type of the Holy Spirit. That is actually incorrect. It's never mentioned anywhere in the Bible. You know, it's not, there is no scripture that can back up such kind of a preaching. So then what you have to say is they're just allegorizing. They're making up some ideas, which may be interesting for people to listen to. But really, it's not correct handling of scripture. So like this, you know, we will find, or we can find several other stories. Example would be, you know, I mean, you'll find many, many stories. You know, many year people preaching, you can recognize these allegories. I'm just giving you an example. Like Moses, he lifted up his hand. That's type of Christ being crucified across. That's never mentioned anywhere in the Bible. You know, the cooking of the grain offering, it's type of Christ being tested by suffering. Samson meeting a lion represents Christ meeting Paul on the Damascus Road. You know, divided hoof and animals is a Christian who is, you know, a spiritual, I mean, who is a carnal and spiritual, etc. It's just different, different things that you would have run into or I'm sure all of us have heard other kinds of things. So the point is, you know, we should avoid allegorizing. Our goal is to stay true to the scripture text. I just want to share this one thought here before we go is that if you are allegorizing, if you are taking a scripture text and you are bringing out ideas that was not intended, then tell the people that's what you're doing. So they know that you're just making up something, but they should focus not on the fiction that you're creating, but they should focus on the spiritual truth that you're bringing out. So you should just tell the people, look, I am using the scripture text in a way I shouldn't be using it, but I know I'm doing that. I'm telling you I'm doing that. But I want you to focus on the truth that comes up because the truth that I might bring out is backed up by scripture. Now I have done, I do one sermon that goes along these lines. For example, it's called The Mary Miracle and it's also in print and maybe a couple of our books as well. So basically what I do there is I, and this is an example of allegorizing where I look at how Jesus was born through the Virgin Mary and how Mary and Joseph had to take care of the baby Jesus. And then so I use that historical event. So that was an historical event. But then I bring out about seven or eight spiritual truths from that. But I tell people, see this, I'm allegorizing now. That means I am bringing out something that was not what God stated in the Bible. I'm using an historical event that's in the Bible, but I'm bringing out spiritual truth that can be backed up by other places in scripture. So for example, I would say these eight points, I would say God chose a virgin. That means God chooses somebody who's inexperienced and God is willing to entrust us with his work. Then I would say things like, you know, the baby was born in Mary's womb purely by the Holy Spirit. So I would say the truth that I would bring out is every work that is released through us should be purely from birthed by the Holy Spirit. Then I would say, you know, but still Mary had to carry the baby for nine months. So that means the truth I would bring out is while God births the work, our cooperation, our human effort is also involved. We have to work hard because Mary did her part. The natural process happened. Then I would, the other part of the whole story is, you know, at the right time, you know, God sent for the Son. So God releases work through us at the right time and the fullness of time. Or Mary and Joseph, they went to Bethlehem to look for an inn. There was no place. Sometimes, you know, we may not find a place to release the work God wants us until we come to the place God has assigned for us. So just like how Jesus was born in a manger. So just because you face closed door or you have to keep moving doesn't mean you're in the wrong place. It doesn't mean what's in you is not of God, but God is moving you to the right place where he can release the work. Then I would say, you know, even after the baby was born, Joseph and Mary had to take care of the baby. So even after God releases a work through you, you have to take care of the work. So here I am allegorizing, meaning I am bringing out meaningless that is not necessarily part of the historical event. But so I tell people I'm doing it, but the spiritual truth I'm bringing out is consistent with the rest of scripture. So this historical event forms and it forms like an illustration to bring out spiritual truth. Even though that was not originally intended in the historical event, you know, certainly looking at it from the surface. But the truth that we brought up is consistent with the rest of scripture. So, you know, it's safe from that perspective, but I do tell people that I'm just using the story of this event as an illustration, so on. So what I want to say is, you know, we avoid allegorizing. But if you're going to allegorize, tell the people is what I'm doing. This is not the actual meaning of the text, but the truth is what I want you to pay attention to, which can be substantiated by other chapters, other scriptures that are in the Bible. Right. So, but when you cannot substantiate like these examples, you cannot substantiate what what we're saying from other scriptures. So then that's completely wrong. We shouldn't be doing it. Right. The last point I'll just mention here is which which is next chapter is that in prophetic inspiration. When you read Bible prophecy, there are a lot of images, a lot of images and and also when God gives you a prophetic word, he may use something from the Bible to inspire a message. And in that case, the you need to present it correctly. Okay, so let me just let's take a break and I'll come back and I'll explain what I would be mean by this about prophetic inspiration. And then we will go into the next lesson is on interpreting how do we interpret Bible prophecy, some guidance to do that. Okay, so we'll take a break, we'll come back and then take any questions if you have so far. And then we will, I will explain the last paragraph and then we will move on into the next lesson. Okay, so let's take a break. We'll be back in 10 minutes. Thank you.