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I and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever and I shall peace at the table spread for he. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days, all the days of my life, all the days, all the days of my life. Sound the battle cry on the first. Sound the battle cry, see the foe is nigh. Raise your standard high for the Lord. Nerd your armor on, stand firm everyone. Rest your cause upon his holy word. Thousand soldiers rally round the banner. Ready, steady, pass the word along. Onward, forward, shout aloud Hosanna. Christ is Captain of the mighty throng. Page 188 on the third. The love of God page 188. On the third. Could we with ink the ocean fill and were the skies of parts been made. Were every stock on earth a quill and every man a scribe by trade. To write the love of God above would drain the ocean dry. Or cut the scroll, contain the whole. They'll stretch from sky to sky. All love of God, how rich and pure. How measureless and strong. It shall forevermore endure the saints and angels song. Page 187, page back. My favorite, Jesus loves me. They are weak but he is strong. Yes, Jesus loves me. Yes, Jesus loves me. Yes, Jesus loves me. The Bible tells me so. Stephen. 449. Dwelling in Beulah land. Page 449. Dwelling in Beulah land. On the first. Far away the noise of strife upon my ear is calling. Then I know the sins of earth be spent on every hand. Doubt and fear and think of earth in vain to me are calling. God of these shall move me on Beulah land. I'm living on the mountain underneath the cloudless sky. Praise God, I'm drinking at the mountain that never shall run dry. Oh yes, I do sing on the manna from a bountiful supply for I am dwelling in Beulah land. No, not one. Page 236. Page 236. No, not one on the first. There's not a friend like the lowly Jesus. No, not one. No, not one. None else could heal all our souls this Jesus. No, not one. No, not one. Jesus knows all about our struggles. He will die till the day is done. There's not a friend like the lowly Jesus. No, not one. No, not one. Last one this evening. Brother Ryan. 24. Page 24. And can it be that I should gain? Page 24. Sing it out on the first. And can it be that I should gain interest in the Savior's blood? Die before me, who causes me, for me to give, to death pursue amazing love? Thou can it be that thou, my God, shouldst die for me? Amazing love, thou can it be that thou, my God, shouldst die for me? The wise God, our Savior, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and forever. Amen. Jude 1.25. Our service times are 10.30 a.m. Sunday morning, 3.30 p.m. Sunday evening. We're in our series pictures of the Antichrist. It'll be part number five tonight. And then Thursday we'll be back in 1 Peter chapter 2. We'll be starting chapter 2. And then our soul winning times are listed below that. And we had soul winning. Brother Steven had a salvation. Anybody else get a salvation today? One over there. All right. God bless you. I see that hand. Anybody else? All right. So two salvations today. So well done, soul winners. You would remember to pray for my wife. She has a procedure tomorrow morning. Really appreciate the prayers. And look down and see the praise report, salvation totals and baptisms and all the church stats there. And our upcoming events is Yakima is the next thing on the calendar, September 28th, Wednesday through Saturday, October 1st. And all the rooms have been purchased. I think there's a couple more people. Brother Bill. Where's Brother Bill? He's back getting coffee. See, I'm preaching against him now. But just kidding. Anyway, I'll just ask him after the service. That's probably a better time. Anyway, so anything that you need, just if you have any questions about the trip, just please don't hesitate to come to me about it. But we're all I think check in times three o'clock. That's what it usually is. But if you want to show up early to go soul winning, if you've already taken the day off, then I think Brother Robert's going to be there a day early. Does anybody else plan on going up a day early? You might be able to get the same room that you're supposed to stay in while you're there. You might just call them and ask them. I think they have everybody's names written down. So you could just call them and say, I'm Robert. I'm going to stay a night early. Excuse me, a night early. And they'll let you know and you can probably get the room a day early. So anyway. Oh, hey, Brother Bill. How you doing? So don't forget that I need to ask you a question after church. OK. So anyway. Yeah. And then Friday night, I'll be preaching at the at the hotel. There's like a or it's like a conference room or something. We'll have Panda Express for dinner in that room. Then I'll be preaching there at six thirty. So if you want to get any convert, bring any converts, I'll be happy to baptize them at the pool. We'll just have like a one shop stop shop center right there preaching organization, soul winning, all that stuff. So anyway, so if you have any questions, don't hesitate to get with me. October 8th is Miss Amy's baby shower. That'll be here at the building at 11 a.m. She's registered on Amazon. October 22nd is our yearly trip to busy farms. Pumpkin patch that's at 11 a.m. And by the way, all of our events that we do are free. So just sign up and make sure that we know that you're going, but you don't have to pay any money to go to the events. All right. And then Pastor Mendez will be preaching for us October 23rd. And that'll be at the 10 30 a.m. service. This whole family will be here. So it'd be nice to get to visit with all of them. And then October 27th, we'll have a preaching service in the Seattle area. Still haven't got the place nailed down yet, but it's Pastor Jones is supposed to preach with me, but he had to request a time off work. So I'm trying to figure all that out. But that's going to be kind of a long weekend type thing. So it'll be Thursday night, Friday and Saturday. And then we'll come home Saturday. And so we'll have a soul winning and blame the next day after the preaching service. The preaching service will be somewhere in Seattle at 7 p.m. So pass the word along to those soul winners up in Seattle. I want to make sure that they all come. If they ever want to church there, they better start showing up to our events. But anyway, no, they do. But anyway, speaking on my mind today, I shouldn't do that. All right. So soul winning and blame Friday, October 28th. Then October 29th is the SFBCN Sure Foundation Baptist Church North anniversary service. That'll be at Peace Arch Park. We've rented the building there. We'll have Pastor Jones preaching at 10 30 a.m. I'll be preaching at 2 p.m. Then we're going to head home the next day. Everybody's going to eat chili after the morning service. So bring your best chili recipe and make sure that there's enough to share. If you want to make cornbread, that's fine or something else. I'm doing Cincinnati chili. Amy's doing Cincinnati chili. Is anybody else doing Cincinnati chili? All right. Well, better make sure that I get some. All right. But Cincinnati chili, spaghetti, chili with no beans, lots of cheese. I mean, how is that not good? That's always good. All right. So then we're going to have. That's it. That's the last of our events. But further on to the future pie social. That'll be on Tuesday. We're going to do it on Tuesday this year. So anyway, that's too much. All right. You're not listening anyway. So all the other stuff, I think I don't think we have any visitors. I'm just going to scan through the rest of it and then make sure you that you congratulate there. Take a family on the birth of their daughter, Solisa, Laurel Ortega. She was seven pounds, three ounces and weighing in at 19 or length is nineteen and a half. Good night. I need to get myself together here. I just had a cup of coffee before I got here. That's that's always a problem. So we saw we wish we're both Ramon. Happy birthday. We'll be singing to him again on Thursday. On Thursday. He's not really 55. All right. I know that it was kind of you guys were like, it's kind of close. But I think he's going to be forty nine. So that's a lot different. So anyway, that's all I got for announcements. Let's sing another song. Let's turn to page three hundred fifty five. Page three fifty five. What a friend we have in Jesus. Page three fifty five. What a friend we have in Jesus. Oh, I see. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, Now turn to Revelation chapter 13 verse 1, Revelation chapter 13 verse 1. The Bible says in Revelation chapter 13 verse 1, and I don't think that this is accidental in the imagery here. Revelation chapter 13 verse 1, so we just read the story of how David killed Goliath. What did he kill first? Before he killed the Philistine, what did he kill first? The bear and the lion, right? So look at Revelation 13 when it says, I saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. What was Goliath doing? Well, he was blaspheming, wasn't he? He was blaspheming God by his gods. And the bear, or excuse me, and the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion, and the dragon gave him his power and his seat and great authority. Who did he give it to? He gave it to a man. Now, this isn't just some normal man. This man is energized by the devil himself, but he has the feet of a bear and the mouth of a lion. Do you think that's accidental according to the story that we just read? I mean, that's specifically what David said he killed, right? And it says, and I saw one of the heads that were wounded to death, and his deadly wound was healed, and all the world wondered after the beast. This is him coming back to life. And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast, and they worshipped the beast saying, who is like unto the beast, and who is able to make war with him? What was the deal with Goliath? Well, he came out and he said, who's able to defeat me? Someone come and fight me. And nobody was able to fight him, and so what are people going to say about the beast in the end times? They're going to say, who is like unto the beast, who is able to make war with him? And see, Goliath was saying basically the same thing, wasn't he? Who's able to fight me? Come on! And then some simple shepherd you know, came and destroyed him and killed him. And Jesus Christ is going to be able to destroy, you know, it's not even a fair fight. It really isn't. It's not a fair fight. Look at verse 5, it says, And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things, and blasphemies and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. And he opened his mouth and blasphemed against God, to blaspheme his name and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven. So, you know, he was the, so the beast in the end time, what's he going to be doing? He's going to be blaspheming the name of Jesus, he's going to be blaspheming the tabernacle where God lives in heaven, and them that dwell in heaven. And what is, what was Goliath doing? He was defying the armies of the living God. Okay, so that's why I think he pictures the Antichrist to some extent. Alright, so I'm going to some of these I'm not going to even go deeply into, but I think personally number 3, Absalom pictures, I think that he does picture the Antichrist in some ways. Why? Because he wants to supplant the true king. So Antichrist means another Christ. It doesn't mean necessarily that he, I think he is against Christ, but the word Antichrist, what that actually means is that he wants to be in the place of Christ. So what did Absalom want? What was his heart's desire? Well, his heart's desire was to replace his dad David, and he was wicked and evil. Right? And so, that's why I believe that he pictures him, and not only that, you know, he plots and plans for years in order to make this accomplishment happen. You know, he's got long hair, he's definitely, he's no David, that's for sure, and that long hair his pride, you know, pictures the pride that he has that every year he'd get a haircut, and it was just so glorious, his hair and all this stuff, you know, and he does rise and rule for a short time, but then, you know, what's funny about Absalom is in the end of his life he pictures Christ. So, figure that out. This book is so layered with so many different things, it's just really awesome. Now, another person who's a contemporary of Absalom is Ahithophel. Now, I preached a sermon the last time we were in this series about Judas picturing the Antichrist, and I believe that Ahithophel also pictures, I think he pictures Judas for sure, and if Judas pictures the Antichrist, then I think Ahithophel pictures Judas, which pictures the Antichrist. So, Ahithophel betrays David like Judas betrays Christ, and what's he end up doing? How does Ahithophel die? Anybody know? Anybody? Huh? He killed himself, just like Judas, he hung himself, he got his house in order, and then he killed himself, alright? Number five, Jeroboam. Now, Jeroboam is definitely, I mean, I don't think the guy was saved, I know that some people think he was, but anyway, God allowed him to take ten parts of the kingdom because Solomon did evil on the side of the Lord, you know, so I believe that he pictures the Antichrist because, you know, he goes, he starts out seemingly good, then he goes into perdition after being made king, and what's he do? He sets up idols for Israel to worship, doesn't he? And he makes priests of the lowest estate to be his priest. And so, what should he have gotten? Well, first of all, I shouldn't have done that in the first place, but if he was going to get priests to worship someplace else, he probably should have got priests that were the ones that were designated to be priests like Levites, but instead, so I mean, I think that probably represents that they are like the children of Belial, they're not saved, you know, because the Levites represent probably saved people, obviously, not all of them were, but that's how, and Jeroboam's sin continued all the way through. It would always say he was like, you know, but they did these sins, but it wasn't as bad as Jeroboam, or whatever, and Jeroboam was mentioned throughout the whole books of the Kings and the Chronicles, and it caused Israel to sin. So, Ahab, I believe, is another person, and, you know, I think he might have been saved, actually. I think it's possible he was, he was pretty evil, and he was worse than all the kings that came before him. It's kind of a, yeah, I'm not sure, but he does humble himself at a certain point, and then God spares, you know, his line from getting killed for a little while because of that. He humbles himself, and, you know, he tries to get right with God, it seems like, but then he just messed up again and gets killed. So, anyway, but he's married to a specific person called Jezebel, and she's definitely not saved. She's a witch, she's a devilish whore of Babylon, well, she's not from Babylon, but she was from one of those wicked kings, and, you know, it's weird, it's funny, but when she's killed, what is she doing? She's painting her face in this tower, and, you know, when the Bible says that Babylon's destroyed, what's it say? Babylon is what? Fallen. And so, you know, if you, Babylon is pictured by this whore, right? So, she's painting her face up in a window, Jehu comes, and he's like, who's on my side? And then, like, the eunuchs throw her out the window, and so she falls out the window and dies, and she never rises again. So, the dogs eat her, and it's a pretty bad mess. It's a pretty hairy sermon, it just, this stuff probably doesn't get preached very much in other churches, I'm sure. But anyway, so, another picture is Haman. Haman, he might even deserve his own sermon, but I'm just done with this series for now. Maybe some other day, I'm not going to go and preach a little sermon about Haman, but I do want you to turn to Esther chapter 9, and we'll look at kind of, something, I mean, because I'm trying to pull out specific some differences, some of the stuff's been a little bit repetitive, but I want to pull out differences that all kind of, in the totality, they all kind of picture these end times, you know, anti-Christ type things. So, anyway, Haman wants to destroy all of God's people. He hates the Jews. At this time, you know, obviously the Jews are God's, still God's chosen people, and so they do represent saved people. Haman hates them. He hates, he hates and persecutes Goodnight, what's his name? Mordecai, thank you. He persecutes Mordecai. Why does he persecute Mordecai? Because he won't bow down to him, right? And he, so he hates him, he plots to kill him, but you know, he doesn't end up getting to get the job done. But look at Esther chapter 9, verse number 10. It says, The ten sons of Haman, the sons of Hamadatha, the enemy of the Jews slew they, but on the spoil they not their hand. And the king said unto Esther the queen, The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in Shushan the palace, and the ten sons of Haman, what have they done in the rest of the king's provinces? Now what is thy petition? And it shall be granted thee, or what is thy request further, and it shall be done. And then said Esther, if it pleased the king, let it be granted to the Jews, which are in Shushan, to do tomorrow also according unto this day's decree, and let Haman's ten sons be hanged upon the gallows. And the king commanded it to be done, so to be done, and the decree was given in Shushan, and they hanged Haman's ten sons. So Haman's ten sons were supposed to rule with him because he thought he was going to be promoted to this position of leadership, and they basically kind of got to rule just really briefly with him, but I think that the ten sons represent the ten kings, and I think obviously Haman represents the Antichrist who rules with the ten kings for one hour. But they don't really get to rule for very long, do they? So I'm sure there's other things about Haman. I think brother Sean was telling me some stuff, some other stuff, but I'll have to ask him about it after the sermon. I want to try to get this done, and not spend too much time on each person, but now Herod the Great is another one. Now we're into what's called the New Testament, but it was still technically in the Old Testament, but Herod the Great is the one that tried to murder baby Jesus, right? So Herod the Great, you know, he acts like he wants to worship Christ. He acts, when the wise men come to him, you know, he's like, well tell, you know, and when you find him, go to him and say, we want to worship him, right? But what's he really want to do? He really wants to murder him, doesn't he? And, you know, he secretly wants to murder him as a child and he ends up murdering a bunch of innocent children in Bethlehem because that's where Jesus was born where Rachel was, close to where Rachel was buried. Anyway, let's look at Matthew chapter 2 verse 16. Matthew chapter 2 verse 16. So I believe, obviously, that Herod represents somebody that the devil has empowered to give power and specifically mentioned in Revelation chapter 12 about how the devil wants to devour the child as soon as it's born. But look at Matthew chapter 2 verse 16, it says, Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wrath, and sent forth and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in the coast thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men. Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying, In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not. Which is obviously a fulfillment of scripture. Now turn to Revelation chapter 12 verse number 3. You're good boys and girls, you might just get out of here early tonight. I better hear some more Amens, some more page turning, no I'm just kidding. Revelation chapter 12 verse number 3, the Bible says, And there appeared another wonder in heaven, and, behold, a great red dragon having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his head. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman, which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born. So, but so we saw who the person was that the devil was influencing to carry this out. The devil knew that, you know, once the Christ is born, he's going to have to try to kill him, right? But obviously God's not going to allow this to happen, and so he rescues him and protects him. And, but, you know, the dragon was there ready to be delivered for to devour her child, which is Jesus, of course, as it was born. And she brought forth a man-child who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron. Her child was caught up unto God, to his throne. The woman fled into the wilderness, where she had the place prepared of God, who should feed her a thousand two hundred and threescore days. Now, Herod the Great, you know, he died, and Jesus was sent to Egypt before he died, and when he died, he came back, but Joseph hesitated to go all the way back to where he was from, where he stayed in Galilee, which also fulfilled another prophecy. But he stayed there, why? Because Herod's son began to rule also. So, I mean, there could be another semblance where Herod, you know, he dies, but then Herod is still, you know, another guy named Herod is still there, so there's another little picture, just a little free nugget in there. But Herod the Tetrarch, which is his son, you know, he likes John's preaching, he seemingly, you know, obviously he's a bad guy, he stole his brother's wife, and she also is kind of a, she's a whorish woman, or Babylon-type woman, right? But she likes, he likes John's preaching, he murders John's preaching, he murders John the Baptist by beheading him, which is a way that people are killed in the tribulation, for preaching against wickedness, so why do they, why are people killed in the tribulation for the testimony that they held, the testimony of Jesus, right? And so, he's preaching against wickedness, he's preaching against the king, and at the request of this whorish woman's request, she lets her daughter play the whor and dance in front of him in order to get him to give up unto the half of his kingdom, is what he says, but what she asks for is John the Baptist's head in a charger, which is like on a silver platter, right? That's where you get that term from. But anyway, so he desires to see Jesus after this, and then when Jesus refuses to even speak with him, then he mocks him and teases him, he puts the robe upon him, they laugh at him, they mock him, and so, like, he starts out maybe not a reprobate, but he definitely ends up as one. And if Jesus won't even talk to him, then he must be already at that point, because Jesus came to seek and save that which was lost, if he was savable, I'm sure Jesus would have said something to him. But, anyway, our brethren, our other brethren would say that that's not true, he, you know, well why didn't Jesus preach on that? Explain that to me. Why didn't he have Abraham go preach to Sodom and Gomorrah? Because they were done, that's why. But they could be saved! So we see his reprobate process take place in the Bible, and I don't have time to turn to all the verses, but I will have you turn to Acts chapter 12. So, you know, he starts really just playing havoc upon the disciples after Jesus has already resurrected them back into heaven, and the disciples, the apostles are going and preaching the word of God, they're being told not to preach in his name, they're beaten and sent away, but they're still just doing it anyway, the church is multiplying, the church is doing great, but, you know, they were supposed to leave Jerusalem. And then this persecution comes upon them, and who's the persecutor? Well, it's the guy that liked to listen to John the Baptist preach. You know, he was sorry that he had to kill John, but he did it anyway. You know, he's willing to keep his word to the half of the kingdom, which meant killing a man that didn't deserve to die. And he martyred John the Baptist, who was the greatest man born among women. Pretty bad guy, it was Jesus' cousin too, by the way. And so, Acts chapter number 12, look at verse number 1. The Bible says, Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hand to vex certain of the church. So now he's full-blown bad guy here. And he killed James the brother of John with the sword, and because he saw it please the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also, then were the days of unleavened bread. Now, I didn't see this when I first looked at it, but, like, I believe that the Antichrist will try to be pleasing the Jews also. They do have a role to play in the end times. But, eventually he's going to turn on them and betray them too. So, anyway, verse number 4 says, And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quantarians of soldiers to keep him. Which, I didn't do the math on that, I'm not sure how many that is, but it sounds like a lot. But anyway, intended after Easter to bring him forth to the people, Peter therefore was kept in prison, but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him. And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers bound with two chains, and the keepers before the door kept the prison. Now, we're going to skip forward to the story here. Now, Peter gets kicked in the ribs, and then he gets up, and he's escaped, he knocks on the door, and people don't believe it's him, and so on and so forth, he's released. But now, look what happens with Herod in verse 20, it says, And Herod was highly displeased with them of Tyre and Sidon, but they came with one accord to him, and having made blastest the king's chamberlain, their friend desired peace, because their country was nourished by the king's country. And upon a set day Herod arrayed in royal apparel set upon his throne, and made oration unto them. So he's making a speech unto them. So remember the Antichrist is a great orator also, and he is very skilled in speaking. So I believe he obviously represents the beast, he's persecuting the church, you know, he seemed like a good guy at first, but then he kills John, he mocks Jesus, he persecutes the church, he seems to want to please the Jews, which you know, that's going to be another thing, but then he gets up, and he he's set to give this speech, he's arrayed in royal apparel, he looks all regal, he's the king, right? And the people gave a shout, saying, It is the voice of a god, and not a man. So what does the Antichrist do when he goes into the temple? He proclaims himself to be god, doesn't he? So now here it is, he's making this great oration, and people are saying that about him. But look at what it says in verse 23, And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory. So he was proud, he was wicked, and look what happened to him, he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost. That's a pretty bad way to go, isn't it? Eaten by worms doesn't fall into my top ten of ways that I'd like to leave this earth, but that's what happened to him, and you know what, he got what was coming to him. And he was a proud person, he was a proud man, but like, that's why I think that he pictures the Antichrist, because the way he persecutes the church, kind of how it all goes down. And then of course he's making this great speech, people are saying he is the voice of a god, he doesn't give God the glory, God smokes him, right? But the word of God grew and multiplied, and Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem when they had fulfilled their ministry, and took with them John, whose surname was Mark. Okay, so that's basically all I have tonight, the dishonorable mentions, and yeah, it is a little bit early, do you guys want me to preach for a little bit longer, or do you guys just want to go home? I'm just kidding. I'm not leaving it up to you, I'm in charge here, no I'm just kidding. But yeah, let's take a vote. Well, and I'm sure like, I know that people are going to come up to me after and say, you forgot about so and so, and that's cool because I think that probably the Bible over and over again, it'll point out how Israel is being replaced. All throughout the New Testament you're going to see that. You're going to see themes repeat themselves and show themselves in different ways, and so maybe you thought about something or a person that pictures these things, and next week I'm going to show you where some of the saved people picture these things, and you might be surprised by some of the people that I put on the list, but anyway, let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer. Heavenly Father, we thank you, Lord, so much for the Bible, and Lord, how you've just proven over and over how powerful and how wonderful it is, Lord, and we thank you so much for just all the great layers that are within the Bible, all the great truths in the Bible, Lord. I pray you'd help us to be people that would study the Word of God like the Bereans, and we would see whether those things were so, and Lord, I pray that you would just help us to understand what's coming for us, Lord, and there's probably things in here that I've missed, I know there's probably things that other people missed, but Lord, help us to be students of the Word and see the Scriptures as you want us to see them, and we pray these things in Jesus' name, Amen. Let's turn to page 452. This is our last song. Page 452, All I Need. Page 452, All I Need. See now, on the first. Jesus Christ is made to me. All I need. All I need. He alone is all my plea. He is all I need. Is the righteousness in Him. Holiness is superior. High redemption, law, and plea. He is all I need. He redeemed me when He died. All I need. All I need. High with Him was crucified. He is all I need. Holiness is superior. High redemption, law, and plea. He is all I need. He's the treasure of my soul. All I need. All I need. He hath blessed and made me whole. He is all I need. Is the righteousness in Him. Holiness is superior. High redemption, law, and plea. He is all I need. Jesus is my all in all. All I need. All I need. While He keeps I cannot call. He is all I need. Is the righteousness in Him. Holiness is superior. High redemption, law, and plea. He is all I need. Worry, glory to the Lamb. All I need. All I need. High His spirit sealed I am. He is all I need. Is the righteousness in Him. Holiness is superior. High redemption, law, and plea. He is all I need. We'll see you back here next Sunday at 10 30 and 3 30. Thank you, brother Bill. Can you end us with a little prayer? . . . . .