 Okay, recording is on. Welcome back to the second hour on BC 2 on 3, the end times. So we'll get started by having Samuel ask his question. Samuel please. Thank you, Pastor. More of a comment, Pastor, which I experienced from first and second semesters to where, when we learn Holy Spirit and gift of tongues. So we learn something in the class but when I was talking to other people that's when I realized that there are other divisions and some of them don't believe in the gift of tongues and the reason they have. So while you're presenting pre-tribulation, presenting, also spending not much, a little bit of time into why would there be a school of thought that doesn't agree with what you bring upon, what part of the scripture is missing? Oh, Samuel, I kind of couldn't hear everything you said. Let me try to repeat what I was able to get. I think you said that when we talked about in the Holy Spirit course in the first year, we talked about the Holy Spirit speaking in tongues and so on. But then you also found out that there are other views on that. And then what were you saying? I kind of didn't get it clear. Can you hear me? Okay now, Pastor. So in the same context, Pastor, when you present a pre-tribulation theory, I think for me at least, because I don't right now have a particular standing, but probably I was thinking it would be helpful to know why the other school of thought exists, what parts of scripture has been, I think, interpreted differently. So, you know, we go with one understanding, but then only when we encounter someone with a different understanding and they show certain scriptures, it kind of creates a bottleneck confusion. So if there is in the scope of this course to also see why some people wouldn't agree and what would be their statement of confirmation, I think that would also help me understand. Okay, sure. So as we go along in the course, as we progress in the course, I will definitely highlight, you know, why certain people would have a different position based on certain scripture texts and why do we differ from that or differ from that point of view. So I will definitely highlight that, but yeah, but what we won't be able to do is delve in depth, you know, on each of the views, because that will make it like very, very long and also sometimes perhaps very confusing. But I will definitely highlight and say, okay, you know, here's one reason why there are people, somebody would say there's a mid-tribulation fracture instead of pre-tribulation. For example, when you come to Revelation 14, you will find that there's a Jewish people are caught up there into the heavens and they refer to as the first fruits and so some people use that text in Revelation 14 to talk about a mid-tribulation fracture. And then you come back to Revelation 20 and people may use the text over there to talk about that as one of the texts to talk about a post-tribulation. So I'll highlight those things as we go along, but it'll be more comments and passing rather than points of emphasis. Okay, I will do that. Okay, so any other questions before we continue forward? Alright, so let's go back to the PDF that we were looking at. Just to, as we more again, just lay the foundation introduction to this whole thing. So in our approach to studying the end times, as I was mentioning point number three, there is openness, meaning we are aware that there are different positions. But I'm also stating upfront the position that I'm coming from or from which this course is going to be presented because of my own persuasion of it. And but then we are open to listening to other positions and so on. Okay, and so what are the positions? What are the different positions? These are just the main ones. Okay, there's not all that they're just just so many other other kinds of positions people take. Anyway, so the main one. So the dispensational pre-millennium. So it means we are supporting two things. We're supporting a dispensational understanding of scripture, and I will explain that a little later on. That means dispensation simply means ages or time periods. Right, so we are saying that in God in the outworking of God's plan with the human race, there are distinct dispensations or ages or time periods. So for instance, right now, we are in the dispensation of the church or the church age or the time period of the church. That's the meaning of the word dispensational. We explain it a little later on. Okay, and pre-millennialism. That means there is the millennia, the thousand year reign of Christ. We believe in that, a literal thousand year reign of Christ. And we also believe in pre-millennialism. That means before the reign of Christ is going to be the tribulation, but we also believe in a pre-tribulation return of Christ for the church, the rapture of the church. Okay, so that means what we're saying is there's going to be the rapture of the church, then the tribulation, then the thousand year reign of Christ. Right, so that's in summary, disposition, that is dispensational pre-millennialism. Then there is a different position, which has been referred to as historical pre-millennialism because this was a position or held by some of the early church fathers, including Irene's Polycop, Justin Martyr, so on. So what did they think? They understood that the return of Christ would be just before the millennial, the thousand year reign, but it would be at the end of the seven year tribulation. So in modern terms, it would be referred to as post-tribulation pre-millennialism. So historical pre-millennialism is the same as what we would refer to as a post-tribulation. So they understood as the church will go through the seven year tribulation, then Jesus would come and usher in the thousand year reign. So that was the traditional understanding. And so I will explain as we go along why we believe in, why we differ from this. Why do we believe in a pre-tribulation rapture of the church and why we take that position? I will explain that and give you reasons. Then there's another position. Now, don't get confused by all this. It's just that, you know, people have a different understanding of where certain events would take place in the prophetic timeline. And that's why there are these different positions. But generally, we all agree on the coming of Christ on the fact that there is going to be a tribulation. There is going to be a millennial reign. And we all agree with that. The post-millennialism believe that this millennial is not a literal thousand year reign where he will rule, but they believe that it's the gradual, progressive spread of the gospel throughout the earth, which is happening. And then Christ will return at the end of this, you know, this so called, I mean, they don't look at it as a literal thousand year. So we just a millennial. It's thousands of years where the gospel is going to be spreading and the gospel will increase all over the earth. And then Jesus will come and he will, you know, the great white throne judgment will happen. So that's the position of the post-millennialism. So basically, they look at the thousand years, thousand year reign, which Revelation 20 talks about. Not as a literal thousand year reign, but as a time period where the gospel is being extended on the earth into the lives of people. And then after that time period is over, Jesus will return. That's this position. And the last one that just to be aware of is what is referred to as a millennialism. That means it doesn't mean that they don't believe in the millennial reign. What they believe is in enough millennial reign, that means it's happening from the time the church that Jesus defeated, Jesus rose from the dead on. He's reigning, but he's reigning through his church. And then, you know, we just move into this time when Satan will be taken out of the way and we move into the eternal kingdom. So they're looking at it as from the resurrection of Christ on. So it almost, it's like a millennialism, meaning they don't believe in the millennial. But what they are saying is, from the time Christ rose from the dead, his reign began and it will continue. And then he will just usher us into, he will take care of the wicked and he will usher us into the eternity future. So it's in one sense, this whole thousand year reign is, it's like it started off from the resurrection of Christ. And it will continue through till the end of this age and Christ will come, judge of it, all of us and take us into eternal. So that's another position. Now, we, you know, we, we, we respect people who have different positions. It's okay. We're not going to argue and fight with each other on this. But of course, there are certain things we cannot compromise. That means we cannot compromise on the reality of God's kingdom. And so I just listed some other things here, right? See, we cannot compromise on these things. That means there is the nation of Israel. There is the church. There's this covenant of grace. God has this covenant people. We all have one hope, one faith, one Lord, one spirit. Christ will return. That's clearly stated in the Bible. Now, we may differ on when he returns on our understanding of when he returned, but he's going to return. There is going to be the resurrection of the dead. The Bible states that very clearly people are going to be judged. Bible states it very clearly. There are going to be new heavens and new earth, very clear. So these are things we cannot take away. It's there in scripture. Then these things or, you know, the sequence of events people may defer in their views. And as we read scripture, you'll understand why. But the fact is these, the things that are stated are stated and will happen. So we can't do away with that. Christ will return. There will be the judgment. There will be new heavens in the new earth. And also looking back, Jesus is Lord. His work on the cross cannot be negated and people have to receive him as saviour. And there is the responsibility of the great commission. So these are things we cannot compromise. We hold to these as truth, but we will definitely be open to, you know, people who have different views and positions. Now, as I stated earlier, the approach we are coming from our position is dispensational premillennialism. So we're talking about understanding God's working with the human race in terms of ages and dispensations. And we believe in a pre-tribulation rapture of the church. So just to explain to us the dispensation, so we believe that when God's working with the human race, there are ages. There was the time of innocence before the fall. There was a time of conscience until the flood. Then there was human government and the promise given to Abraham, bringing up, taking, going through all the way till Moses came. Then the law was given, Moses to Christ. And Christ came, he assured in grace, what we refer to the age of grace or the church age. And then we also believe in the millennium, the kingdom age, when Christ would rule physically on earth as king. So these are just broadly speaking, broad ages or time periods of God's dealing with man. And we believe in this. So it's called dispensation or dispensational. So we do believe in a literal thousand year reign of Christ. We believe in that. He is actually going to reign on earth for a thousand years and we see that in scripture. So dispensational view, a dispensational view. And then three millennium, that means we believe in the pre-tribulation rapture of the church. A couple of other thoughts to keep in mind as we study Bible prophecy is we will take a complete view of scripture. So when we look at an event, we want to look at all the scriptures that speak about that event, rather than looking at things in isolation. Example, when we talk about the Antichrist entering into the temple, then we need to read what Daniel said about this man, because Daniel wrote about, or Daniel prophesied, Daniel wrote. We need to read what Jesus said about this abomination of desolation, referring to the Antichrist. We need to read what Paul wrote in 2 Thessalonians chapter 1 and 2 about the abomination of desolation and read what John wrote in Revelation about the abomination of desolation. So in trying to understand what the Antichrist, we have to look at all the scriptures that speak about the Antichrist. So we don't just take Revelation in isolation to understand the Antichrist. No, because Daniel spoke about it, Jesus spoke about it, Paul wrote about it, and Revelation, John writes about it. So we put all of that together to understand, okay, here's what the Antichrist will do. Because if you take just any one of these passages in isolation to formulate what the Antichrist will do, then we could go off on a tangent, but we could just say things that may not be in agreement to the entirety of scripture. Very interesting for instance, Daniel pinpoints to us where the Antichrist will come from. You know, he talks about the Roman Empire, which was broken down into, which later on was taken on by the Greek, Alexander the Great, the Greek Empire, which was later on broken down into four parts. And then he says, from one of these four parts comes this little horn who then overpowers the others and becomes the Antichrist. So we can actually look at Daniel's text and narrow it down and say, hey, this was where the Greek Empire was. And sure enough, after Alexander the Great died, whom Daniel prophesied about, his empire was divided into four parts exactly as Daniel prophesied about. And so these are the four parts geographically today from which this Antichrist is going to come from. So we have that information, and then you'll find other things which Jesus spoke about, Paul spoke about, John spoke about, and then we put all together and say, okay, this is what we can say about the Antichrist. So we're going to do that. We're going to take a complete view on scripture as we interpret. Number five is we want to look at both the Old and the New Testament. So end time prophecy should be understood with both the Old and the New together. So we need to keep these together as we study end time prophecy because you'll find not only is Daniel right about it, but there's prophecy in Isaiah, in Jeremiah, in Ezekiel, in Zechariah, in Joel. All these have end time prophecies. And so we need to look at all those scriptures as we understand end time prophecies. Number six, we want to use biblical typology. So I kind of mentioned this earlier that when there are these figures, images important, stay with what the scriptures say about it. So for example, and I may have mentioned this in our course on hermeneutics last, I forget, one of the earliest semesters. For example, Revelation 17 talks about Mystery Babylon, this woman who sits on the waters, on the seas. So it's okay, what is this waters? Then in that same chapter, but in a later verse in verse 15, it says, Well, the waters and the seas represents peoples, multitudes, nations and tongues. So in that same chapter, there's the interpretation of what is the water? Or what is the seas? It is representing nations, people around the world. So we interpret, so we can interpret waters and seas as nations, because it's already interpreted for us in scripture. There's one example, but like this, the typology or the image should be interpreted within the constraints of scripture. Number seven, we also want to recognize that there are different timeframes in a single text, even sometimes in a single verse of scripture. And that means in one verse of scripture, there will be things spoken of in one period of time, something stated, which was supposed to happen in another period of time. A classic example, which we refer to often is Isaiah 9, 6 and 7. You know, unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government will be upon his shoulder. That's going to happen later on, but it's in one verse. So Jesus was born 2000 years ago, but him carrying the government literally on his shoulder will happen in time to come. And we also see, for instance, we will look in Isaiah 65, a very interesting passage. It's talking about new heavens and a new earth, and then it's talking about how things will look in the millennium. So it's all in one passage, but it's talking about two different time periods. It's talking about a time period in the millennium, and it's talking about a time period in the new heavens and the new earth. But it's given as one portion of scripture, and we need to recognize different timeframes. When we see it clearly and we have to interpret it in the rest of scripture along with Revelation. So that's something we must learn to do. Another important thing we have to keep in mind is to recognize near and far fulfillment. So there is an immediate fulfillment, and there is also a future fulfillment of things that will happen. So this example of this would be in Ezekiel, when it's talking about Israel coming back into their own land from captivity. But it's also referring to about a future regathering of Israel as a nation in their own land. And so these are given to us in chapters one alongside each other. And we need to look at it and say, okay, so this is immediate fulfillment. This is future fulfillment for these reasons. So we need to recognize that as well. And lastly, I just want to mention that there could be unexpected ways for fulfillment that God may surprise us that how this is going to be fulfilled. An example would be in Revelation chapter 11. It's talking about the two witnesses whom God will send. And they will be ministering towards the second half of the seven year tribulation. So they come on the scene in Revelation 11 when the temple has been desecrated. And Revelation chapter 11 takes us through the ministry of these two witnesses. And then it says there that when they are killed and their bodies are on the streets in Jerusalem, it says the whole world will see them. Now, maybe 50 years ago, how would that happen? It's like, hey, how can the whole world see two people who are dead in the streets of Jerusalem? But today, not today, but maybe with time, 30 years ago or something like that, with television and subsequently with the internet and so on, and with the communications that we have, sure, if two people are lying dead in Jerusalem, the whole world can see them because of the technology we have. But maybe 50 years ago, 100 years ago, that would not be possible. But now we can see that some of the things stated in Revelation 11 can actually happen in our time. Now, this is an unexpected way, but it actually will be a fulfillment of Bible prophecy. So just keep ourselves, minds open to those things. And lastly, it is true that our understanding of the timing of certain things can change. As things become clearer, they may be possible to change. So I don't want to say that my way is the right way. We don't want to do that, but we want to do it very humbly, respectfully, and say that this is why we believe what we believe things will happen in this sequence of events. Okay. Last two things just before we close up this chapter is some things we don't subscribe to. There is a position, like I said, I may have mentioned this a little earlier. There is a position where pre-terrorism, where they say that all the prophecies concerning the last days were fulfilled in the first century starting on from there. It's all done over. And so we don't subscribe to that, obviously. Otherwise, you know, we won't be looking into the future, looking at how these prophecies could be fulfilled. There's another position, often referred to as Dominion Theology, where they believe that it's kind of a derivative of, you know, some of the earlier positions where they believe that the church is going to be the one taking dominion over the nations. And Jesus is going to rule through the church. And so, you know, when it talks about the Millennial Kingdom, it's really talking about the church being in charge. And so the church must go in and take over all the nations and apostles will govern the nations. So, you know, this more or less has died out, but you might hear about it in some places, but we don't subscribe to that. We believe in Jesus coming back literally to rule and reign on the earth. And he's not going to be, of course, the saints are going to serve under him in the kingdom. But it is Jesus who's going to be here on the earth, rolling and raining. Let me pause here. This may be a little heavy. Are you all with me so far? Don't worry. It's not going to be always this heavy. Everyone's fine? Okay. Yeah, we are with you. Okay. Okay. Thanks. Thanks. Let me look at the questions that have come in. There is Divya's question. So these different views are based on the views regarding the timeline of rapture with regard to the Millennial Rain of Jesus Christ. Is that right? Okay. So for the most part, that is the big difference, Divya. The positioning or the timing of certain events, that's all. So that's why it's called pre-millennial, post-millennial, or pre-trib or mid-trib. It's the slight positioning on when certain events would take place. So based on that, there are these differing views. Generally speaking, that is the main reason for these differing positions. Because like we said, God didn't say, in 80, 20, 40, I will come. And in 80, 20, 70, this will happen. He didn't give us those dates. And that's why there is this room for a differing view. But most people believe in a literal fulfillment of these sequence of events. They believe in the rapture of the church. They believe in Christ coming back. They believe in the resurrection of the dead. They believe in the little reign of Christ. Now some may, like we mentioned today, some may differ in the Millennial Rain. Like we said, some may say, well, it started from his resurrection. Or he's reigning through the church, things like that. But most people believe in a literal thousand-year reign of Christ. Thank you, Christ. Christopher's question. Will there still be a rapture in historical pre-millennialism? The answer is yes, Christopher. The differing part was what they believed was, they believed that the rapture would happen at the end of the tribulation. So that's historical pre-millennialism. It happened at the end of the tribulation before the Millennium. So that's the difference. So the position we are going to be presenting is the rapture takes place before the seven-year tribulation. Historical pre-millennialism believes or believed that the rapture will take place at the end of the tribulation before the Millennium. So that's what their position was. And some people subscribe to that even today. Okay, let's see any more questions. Okay, so Charles, there's, let's say something about replacement theology. So Charles, in a sense, what replacement theology's summary is, the church has replaced Israel. That's in summary. Do we subscribe to it? No. We believe, and Paul brings this out very clearly in Romans chapters 9, 10, 11, that the church has not replaced Israel. But God is working with both the nation of Israel and with the church. And that's why I think in one of the, somewhere in the notes I mentioned that we believe in God is still working with Israel. And God is working with the church, but he's bringing us to become one new man. That means we're all, everyone who's born again, whether you're a Jew or a Gentile, we all are brought into Christ. But we don't believe that God has taken his hands off of Israel and the church has replaced Israel. No, people you've got are still working with both. And Paul states that very clearly in Romans 9, 10, 11. I said, okay, Charles. Another question from Charles. I hear of the sign of two fingers that Jesus flashed as multiples of two. What is your saying? Sorry, Charles, I haven't heard of that. I don't know what this is. You see the people, like I think it's maybe speculation or something like sensational. They flashed two fingers that when Jesus was leaving the apostles, he flashed two fingers, meaning two days, two weeks. So people kept on waiting for him. Three years, 20 years, 200 years, now 2000 things like that. So you have never heard of it. So if they have never then it is no problem. Thank you. Yeah, okay. Yeah, I haven't heard of that. All right, Maggie, what's your question, please? Thank you, sir. The question is on the two witnesses in Jerusalem and the temple. Because it says that when they will be killed, the whole world will see. And that will be after the temple has been discredited. I think that's the right word. The question is if Christ died for us and made the temple useless or unusable, or we don't need the physical temple anymore. So how is it possible that the third temple, that Jewish will build, would be regarded as a holy place by God? And was it, does the Bible here, is using the word temple as a figure or is it literal temple? And secondly, are those two witnesses, are they going to be actually human beings or just another figure of speech that God used to teach us something? Thank you, sir. Okay. All right. So, yeah, this question is really jumping way ahead into the course. And we are going to come to this. We are going to come to it as we go through the sequence of events, we will come to it. But I'll just go ahead and answer your question. So why do we say it's going to be literal temple? Because, okay, let me back up and say this. First of all, Daniel's 70th week. You read about this in Daniel chapter 9, verses 26, 27. Daniel's 70th week, and we will explain this later on when we get into the text of the scripture. The 70th week of Daniel, which is a period of seven weeks or seven years. Daniel's 70th week, period of seven years, deals exclusively with the nation of Israel, or I would say primarily deals with the nation of Israel. So Daniel's 70th week, and as you will read in Daniel chapter 9, verse 26, 27, deals with the nation of Israel. The Bible also calls this the time of Jacob's trouble. That means it's a time, or Jacob, Jacob is Israel, Israel's trouble. So it has to do with the nation of Israel. Now, what happens in the desecration of the temple? Very clearly, Daniel tells us, Jesus tells us, Paul tells us, and Revelation, John tells us. The Antichrist goes into the temple, sets himself up to be worshipped. So it cannot be a figurative thing. It has to be a literal temple. And Daniel specifically says that the sacrifices will be stopped. So that means the sacrifices are going on, and they will be stopped. Revelation 11 again talks about the Gentiles trampling down in the temple. So the Gentiles, the world, people of the world coming in and trampling the temple. So again, there's a literal temple. Plus, when you look past that, when you look into Daniel chapter 12, and also when you look into Ezekiel chapter 40, the last four chapters were Ezekiel. So that is, I think 44 to 48. It talks about this millennial temple, meaning the temple practices are continuing in the millennium. During the thousand-year reign, the temple will be there, and sacrifices will be offered in the temple during the millennium. So it's not only the temple during the tribulation. It has to be a physical temple for these reasons. It has to be desecrated. Sacrifices was being offered. The Gentiles are going to trample down. But you also find the temple in Ezekiel continuing on. Sacrifices continue on during the millennium. So obviously the question is why? Because, like we said earlier, God is working in the church, but he hasn't stopped working with Israel as a nation. And one of the reasons, and Daniel clearly tells us in Daniel 12 about this temple being there, and one of the reasons is the scriptures don't state it, but we can think that probably God is going to use as a constant reminder to the nation of Israel about the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. That's probably a reason why there's going to be a millennial temple with sacrifices continuing during the millennium for this reason. To remind them about the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. So to answer your question, the temple, as we understand it, as we see in the scripture, is a literal temple. The two witnesses are literal people because you find in Revelation 11 describing that they have a ministry that impacts the world. They do signs, wonders and miracles. They are physically killed. The world rejoices at seeing them die. And also because we have other references in Malachi chapter 4 where Malachi says, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great day of the Lord. So we know Malachi said Elijah will come before the coming of the great day of the Lord. And the Lord Jesus also attested to this in Matthew the 17th chapter when he said, Elijah has come and indeed will come. So when he said Elijah has come, he was referring to John the Baptist who came in the spirit and power of Elijah, but he didn't stop there. He said, and he will come. That means Malachi chapter 4 will literally be fulfilled with Elijah coming. So Jesus in Matthew 17 affirmed that Elijah will come. So this has to be the literal Elijah coming back. I hope I answered your question, Maggie. We will look into this as we go forward. Thank you, sir. You answered my question. Thank you, sir. Okay. I think we'll have time for one last question. Divya, what is your question, please? Thank you, Pastor. So it is with regard to Matthew 24, 32 to 35. Here in that reference, the generation that has been mentioned, is it in a different timeframe with respect to what Jesus' time period? Is it an example of a different timeframe or considering the time when Jesus spoke about this? Interesting. Again, we will look at this as one of the signs. And people who study end times like this reference a lot because it kind of gives us some numbers to work with. And I will just put these numbers out for you. I am not telling us to work the math and determine the year, but generally people who study prophecy use this passage to work with numbers. And I'll just tell you what it is. So what Jesus said is he said, when you see the fig tree blossom, the time of the end is near. And that generation will see everything happen. Matthew 24 and we are supposed to, I think we'll read it next week. So the fig tree blossom, fig tree is a symbol of Israel in Bible, in Scripture. So the fig tree blossoming, Israel becoming a nation. So people usually pick one of two dates. Now they either pick the year 1947 or they pick 1967 when Israel recaptured Jerusalem, whatever. So people use either of these two years. And then they add to that one generation, how long is a generation? So some people may say it's 40 years. Some people may say it's 120 years, you know, because of Genesis 6. Okay, whatever. So people play with these numbers, right? So you add 122, 1947, or you had 120 to 1967, or you add 40 years or things like that. And they say, okay, so this is around the time when Christ would come because he said one generation, the generation that sees the fig tree blossom will see everything come to pass. So it is an indicator, you know, to some extent you can play with numbers around that. But we should not get speculative as we mentioned, right? But it's a good indicator that, you know, the generation that sees Israel blossom, that generation will see all these things come to pass. Did I answer your question? Yes, yes. All right. Thank you. Okay. Thanks for question, and we will stop after this. Christopher's question. One of the key sequence of events is the temple being with the Jews, which is now occupied by the Muslims. And then the temple would be desecrated by the Antichrist. This has happened before the rapture. Okay. The answer to this question is we don't know exactly when this will happen. Meaning, so right now we know that in the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, the major part of it is occupied by the Arabs, the Muslims, right? They have the al-Aqsa Mosque that's been built there. And there is the temple dome. The only access the Jews have is to the wall, the western wall, where they can come and pray. But the rest of the Temple Mount is occupied by the Muslims. Now that is where Solomon's temple was. And that is where the third, somewhere there, somewhere there on the Temple Mount, there has to come the third temple. And in that third temple, sacrifices have to restart. And in that third temple, the Antichrist would come and set himself up to be worshiped. So this is a very difficult thing, a very difficult thing. How are the Jews going to have access to the Temple Mount when right now there are two huge monuments belonging to Muslims standing right there? How are they going to get access to it? How is it ever going to be possible? We don't know. But the fact that there is going to be a literal temple, like we just said earlier, is there in Scripture? When exactly is this going to happen? Is it going to happen before the rapture or after the rapture? Again, we don't know. But one thing we do know. As soon as the rapture takes place, Revelation chapter four and five, Revelation chapter six, verse one begins with the emergence of the Antichrist. The first seal that's opened, Revelation six one, is the man riding on a white horse. And that's the Antichrist. So Revelation four and five rapture of the church, Revelation six one, the beginning of the tribulation, the beginning of the seven year. The first thing is the emergence of the Antichrist. Will the temple be in existence at that time? The Bible doesn't tell us clearly. But by the time we reach Revelation 11, the temple is there. Now, one of the things that brings the Antichrist into power is he comes as a man of peace. And he signs a covenant or he signs a treaty of peace. Daniel chapter nine, which means that it is likely that once the Antichrist comes into power, or the thing that brings him to power is his peace treaty. And we don't know what this peace treaty is, but it's something that seems to bring peace to this problem in the Middle East. So we could just speculate or just imagine maybe part of what he does is to facilitate the bringing in of the temple, the restoring of the establishing of the sacrifices. Because it is in his time that the sacrifices are started. And it is three and a half years later in his time that he brings an end to the sacrifices. So we could say that maybe the Antichrist in his emergence to power is somehow instrumental in settling things in some sort of, you know, a seemingly peaceful way between the Jews and the Arabs, which is what brings him into power. But the church has been taken out of the way before that. Right. So my answer to your question, Christopher, is we don't know for sure whether the temple is built before the rapture after the rapture. My guess, it's a guess, it's that it's most likely going to be built after the rapture when the Antichrist comes into power, because he is instrumental in setting up a treaty a covenant of peace and bringing in the sacrifices. So he has a part to play in setting those things up. That's my guess or, you know, my understanding of scripture. Is it okay? All right. We'll pause here for today. We will continue this next week, Charles. I see your question. What is your advice on the temptation of sensationalism and speculation people want to bring? Yeah, just avoid it. You know, study it objectively. Study the scriptures humbly, knowing that we don't know everything. We may not be right on everything, but we are doing our best to understand scripture and intentionally avoid being sensational and speculative on things. Okay. All right, let's pause. Okay. I asked asking question reference for pre-tribulation rapture. So Anita, we will give about 10 references, I think it's coming up in a, in a, in a, in a, in a later chapter. We will go through it in detail. Okay. And I will give you all the notes and references for that. So I tried to prove, prove that. Yeah. Okay. So it'll come up. Let's pause here for today. Please close and prayer and then we will dismiss. Please. Who would like to pray? Well, father, we thank you a lot for today's study. Lord, as we do not know the exact position. What will happen in that time? But we need to come to a best understanding according to the revelation we have received for your word, father. Thank you, Lord, for teaching this, the best understanding for our pastor. Lord, help us to understand in detail in the coming classes about this and time for that. So that we may dwell in the truth of your work. Bless pastor, Lord. I don't think the spirit who teaches rightful. So every one of us may be equipped and have a rightful understanding and best understanding according to scriptures so that we may be established in our faith. And we will have a strong base and a strong conviction, voter about the future events that we will be blessed father in the Assur and we may await your return at all times and watch for your return in this world. In Jesus' name you pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you. Thank you, everyone. Enjoy the rest of your day. That's the afternoon. I'll see you again. God bless. Bye now.