A Blossom Bible Podcast
A Blossom Bible Podcast
Mark 13:14-23 Temples, Treaties, and Time's Up: A Crash Course in Eschatology
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What does Jesus mean by the mysterious "abomination of desolation," and why should we care? In this eye-opening exploration of Mark 13:14-23, we unpack one of the Bible's most fascinating prophecies about the end times and what it means for believers today.
The conversation begins with Jesus shocking His disciples by predicting the destruction of Jerusalem's magnificent temple. When they ask for details, Jesus takes them—and us—on a journey through time, pointing to Daniel's remarkable seventy-week prophecy. This prophecy not only predicted Christ's first coming with mathematical precision but also reveals a seven-year period still awaiting fulfillment.
We examine how this final "week" connects to a future world leader known as the Antichrist, who will establish a seven-year covenant before betraying his promises and desecrating a rebuilt temple in Jerusalem. Jesus warns that this act will trigger unprecedented persecution, requiring immediate flight for those in Judea.
But this teaching isn't meant to frighten us. Instead, it creates a powerful tension between continuance (enduring through trials) and imminence (staying ready for Christ's return at any moment). While scholars may disagree about timing and details, the core message remains: our hope isn't in identifying the Antichrist or mastering prophetic timelines, but in focusing on Jesus Himself.
The world desperately seeks solutions in political leaders and human wisdom, but believers find comfort knowing that Jesus will return to establish His kingdom. Our security comes not from understanding every prophetic detail perfectly, but from a simple relationship of trust in what Jesus accomplished on the cross.
Whether you're new to biblical prophecy or have studied it for years, this message will leave you with a renewed focus on what matters most—being ready to meet Jesus face to face, whenever that day may come.
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Speaker 1:Verse 14 is kind of what will be hidden today. Today we hit some eschatology in the book of Mark, things concerning the end times or the last days, and, thinking about it, a couple things here. I think a better way to cover this would be maybe over lunch or coffee and just discuss these things together, where we could ask each other questions and kind of look into it. A lot of things by the end of this may still be a. You realize there's a lot of difference between believers in the time frame of the last days and the goings on of the last days and even though I'll definitely be presenting a certain track here today, it's very possible to differ a lot with other believers in this, and that's okay. It's not an issue of salvation. I think there's a lot of things that will be questioned until we get to heaven and see it all for ourself. So just keep those things in mind. It is in our account here.
Speaker 1:In the Gospel of Mark, the gospel markets, days before the cross, jesus is faced off with the religious establishment. He's made some solid enemies, um, and they're looking to destroy him. Now. Jesus has proclaimed Jerusalem's destruction, the temple's destruction. You remember, right after this face off with the religious leaders, one of his disciples, as they're going out of the temple, in verse one of chapter 13, says teacher, see what manner of stones and buildings are here. And Jesus says you know what? Not one of these buildings, not one stone, will be left upon another. It's all gonna be destroyed. Some heavy conversation there.
Speaker 1:But Jesus goes on up the Mount of Olives, across from the temple, there, the hillside of the Mount of Olives, and as he's there, verse three, opposite the temple, so you can picture it this massive building, this wonder of the ancient world, is right across the way. And Peter, james, john and Andrew, two sets of brothers there, they ask him privately tell us when will these things be number one and what will be the sign when these things will be fulfilled? Matthew, in Matthew 24 adds on there the end of the age. What will be the signs of the end of the age? When will all these things come to pass? And I think Mark realizes, yeah, that's what he means the end of all things. When will the kingdom be established. When will Jesus set up his kingdom on earth? And we hit the first part there.
Speaker 1:As Jesus explains to his disciples, times are going to be hard. There's going to be wars and rumors of wars and earthquakes in various places. But you can't give up. You gotta endure to the end and we talked about that last week. That life involves continuance, that we endure through the trials of life. Jesus will come back, but in our lifetimes maybe he won't. In the disciples' lifetimes they experienced lots of trials and tribulations and they endured through their life and they got to heaven through death that way.
Speaker 1:Now, as we head to verse 14, we see kind of the flip side of this endurance, continuance thing and we see this idea of imminence. We've talked about that Imminence. Is this idea of imminence? We've talked about that Imminence is this idea to be ready. Jesus could come at any time? And we see a lot of words that point to this in this chapter. Jesus says things like take heed. In verse 33. I mean, yeah, verse 33, also in verse 23. Verse 35, he says watch and pray verse 37, watch. And there's this idea, as believers, that we're always watching, always ready for the fact that Jesus could come at any time, and we'll talk more about that. Uh, today. Now, verse 14 is where we pick up, and we're moving to a time that we haven't hit yet, a time that's still future.
Speaker 1:Notice verse 14, and let's just read a section here, verse 14. So when you see the abomination of desolation spoken up by Daniel, the prophet, standing where, it ought not let the reader understand. Let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Let him who is on the house stop, not go down into the house, nor enter or take anything out of his house, and let him who's in the field not go back to get his clothes. But woe to those who are pregnant, those who are nursing babies, in those days, and pray that your flight may not be in winter, for in those days there will be tribulation such as not been since the beginning of creation, which God created until this time, nor ever shall be. And unless the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh would be saved. But for the elect's sake, whom he chose, he shortened the days. Then if anyone says to you, look here is the Christ, or look here he is there, do not believe it, for false Christs and false prophets will rise and show signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. But take heed, see, I have told you all things beforehand.
Speaker 1:So we start here with this idea of the abomination of desolation. There's something you don't say every day Abomination of desolation. And notice Jesus brings this up in verse 14. And it's an obscure passage that would have pointed his disciples to Daniel chapter 9, verse 27. Why don't we, why don't we turn over there? We'll look at that for a second Daniel chapter 9, because Jesus has let the reader understand. We want to understand this For them. It would have been news as of late. You'll remember it was a while ago in our study but Jesus rode down the Mount of Olives into Jerusalem. As he rode down that hillside, the people proclaimed Hosanna, blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. They called him the Messiah. Now Daniel chapter 9 points to that very day.
Speaker 1:Daniel chapter 9, verse 24 is where we'll start. Notice it says this 70 weeks are determined for your people and for your holy city. And it goes on 70 weeks are determined for your people and for your holy city. This prophecy in Daniel chapter 9 is an amazing prophecy. We've covered it a few times but it's still kind of hard to get your head around. It's the 70-week prophecy, as we read there in verse 24. 70 weeks Now, as we consider this, we won't go too in-depth in this, but as you look at this, realize that in the Jewish mind a week could be seven days.
Speaker 1:Seven weeks, seven months, seven years. The context kind of tells us what this means. So, daniel is being told there's 70 weeks of years. The context lets us know 70 weeks of years are determined on your people, that's the Jews, and your holy city, that's Jerusalem. So this prophecy involves 490 years of something going on with the Jews and with Jerusalem. So 490 years Now, imagine this.
Speaker 1:I think this helped me this morning think about this kind of confusing topic. Imagine these weeks of years as coins. Right, just give you tokens, right, token, a token for each group of seven years. Imagine you have 490 coins in front of you and we're ready to spend them. How are we gonna spend them?
Speaker 1:Look at verse 25. Know, therefore, and understand that from the going forth of the command to restore and build Jerusalem until Messiah the prince, there shall be seven weeks and 62 weeks. The streets should be built again and the wall, even in troublesome times. So, right here, we're going to spend some of these tokens. If you're following Some tokens we need to spend seven. Notice, seven weeks and 62 weeks. So we toss over 483 of these seven-year tokens. If you're following right, we push it over, we spend it. Well, what do we get for that? Look at verse 25 again the seven weeks and 62 weeks we're gonna have. The street shall be built again and the wall even in troublesome times. Well, our time starts at the time of Ezra, even a little before that, the time of Zerubbabel, right the time of Nehemiah, and it's the rebuilding of the temple and it's the rebuilding of the wall. Specifically. Now there's a certain date and I think it's in 486 BC. You can look that one up, but that's when the command goes to restore and rebuild Jerusalem. We start at that and the wall gets built in a certain amount of time. But notice what we get as we continue to count on our seven years until Messiah, the Prince. That one's easy. Right.
Speaker 1:As we look at this 483 year period, it ends with Jesus riding down the hillside into Jerusalem. We talked about it. At that point the religious leaders say Master, what are you doing? Your people are saying that you're the messiah, stop them. And jesus says you know, if these people were to be quiet, the rocks would cry why? Well, it's because of daniel, chapter 9. It was bound to happen. Jesus says if they didn't do it, the rocks would do it because the messiah would come. It would be that amount of time till Messiah the Prince.
Speaker 1:Notice verse 26. What else we get for the coins that we've put over the years, that we've given over in this prophecy? And after the 62 weeks, messiah shall be cut off, but not for himself. So Jesus the Messiah was cut off. A week later, less than a week later, jesus goes to the cross and he dies, not for himself, but for us. And we're only a couple days away in our account. But we saw that happen. We see that happen. Jesus dies for us. And it's amazing.
Speaker 1:Now notice, it goes on. And after that amount of time, and the people of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end shall be with a flood. Until the end of the war, desolations are determined. So another thing would happen here. In one sense this refers to the Romans coming in 80, 70. Remember, jesus said not one stone will be left upon another. That happened just less than 40 years after this point. The Romans came and destroyed the city. They destroyed the temple, the sanctuary there. Now there's another sense that this also talks about a point further in the future, and this is where we get that idea. Here, notice, desolations are determined. This is a little hint at what Jesus is talking about, but we'll see it again in verse 27.
Speaker 1:Now, if you'll remember our picture of the coins, we spent 69 of those coins that I have given you, those tokens for the years. You have one little token in front of you. It represents seven years. Seven years have not been spent. Well, we're told in verse 27 what we're going to do with that seven-year period. Look at verse 27. Then he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week. So there's seven years left that have not been spent yet and we're going to spend it on a seven-year covenant.
Speaker 1:Now, look at verse 27, the word then, when we look at the word, then we would talk about. You know, last week I went to lunch, right, and then I went to Walmart. They go well. When did you go to lunch? Well, it was noon. I went to lunch at noon. When did you go to Walmart two days later.
Speaker 1:You know we don't look at these kinds of then things in that way. You don't say I went to lunch and then three years later I ended up going to Walmart. The then doesn't work that way. For us, then is one right after the other. But we've talked about God, that God is eternal. As Peter says 2 Peter 3, 8, a day is like a thousand years and a thousand years is like a day. He's eternal and time doesn't really matter that much to God. He doesn't get impatient. It doesn't seem like a long time because he's not worried about it. We think about it chronological and immediate, but for God it's possible that things could pause. In fact that's what we see between verse 26 and 27. There's a significant pause. How long? About 2,000 year pause between verse 26 and verse 27.
Speaker 1:The clock is paused. It's a time you could call the time of the Gentiles, the church age. You could call it Luke 21, 24,. In Luke's account of this he lets us know this Jerusalem will be trampled by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles is fulfilled. So picture it Jerusalem after AD 70 would be trampled down by the Gentiles. The Romans trampled it down. They were already kind of trampling it down, but they officially trampled it down after AD 70. The Crusaders trampled down Jerusalem and currently the Muslims are trampling down Jerusalem. You can tell because of the building that's on top of the Temple Mount. Right now it's the Dome of the Rock Mosque, right. And so right now we're living in a pause, a pause where the Gentiles, the non-Jews, are trampling down Jerusalem, and the clock has been paused for about 2,000 years.
Speaker 1:But notice, it starts right back up again once we get to verse 27. Then he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week. Who is he Now? Is it the Messiah that we see in verse 25? No. Is it the prince of the people who are to come there in verse 26? Probably not, because he's been long dead. Right, titus the general has been long dead. A new prince we know him as the Antichrist.
Speaker 1:Now, there's a lot you could say about this guy, the Antichrist. It's not really what I want to start our week looking at like the Antichrist. Let's spend an hour talking about the Antichrist. But Daniel, a little bit about this guy. Daniel, in chapter 7, verse 8, calls him a little horn. Read Daniel, chapter 7. It's interesting. He's a little horn with a big mouth and boastful words. We've talked a lot about his characteristic and stuff like that. He's arrogant, he's proud, but he's known as Antichrist.
Speaker 1:Now John, one of the disciples who asked this question to Jesus, john, is the only one who mentions this guy as the Antichrist. In 1 and 2 John, the term Antichrist is used and we look at that and we think, well, antichrist, he's against Jesus. That's his main character. We would think Antichrist and he will be against Jesus in the end. But another way to look at this word Antichrist, this term Antichrist is instead of Christ and because that really is who he is, he's the one that people choose instead of Jesus. We all had the opportunity to accept the real Jesus, but people want someone else and we'll receive him a world leader who will seem to solve their problems.
Speaker 1:Now let's look at what this Antichrist will do in verse 27. Then he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week. So one week, seven years, it's our final coin to give out. Week, seven years, it's our final coin to give out. He causes there to be a covenant, a treaty, an agreement. Those are all words you could use for that. Now imagine if somebody came, a man came negotiating a peace treaty in the Middle East, specifically a seven-year treaty. Whatever happens during that treaty and that covenant, it's for seven years and the clock starts. Peace to include peace between the Jews and everyone else. It might include an agreement between the Muslims and the Jews to allow the rebuilding of the temple we're going to see here. We need a temple for these things to happen as we get through verse 27. But maybe this is the agreement that this Antichrist, this one instead of Christ, puts down.
Speaker 1:Now, interesting in studying this. Did you know? The Muslims are expecting a person that will do these kinds of things? He's known as the Mahdi, the guided one, and it's said in their scripture that he will fill the world with justice and equity. Interesting, he'll be supported by one known as Isa I-S-A, I guess, in our alphabet but considered to be the prophet Jesus. Strange, they're expecting a world leader to come solve their problems who will be supported by Jesus. They don't hate Jesus, they just don't think he's God right, nor the way to salvation. Now check it out. This world leader, in their mind, will establish a global reign of peace.
Speaker 1:There's a certain branch of Muslims that expect this Messiah to bring unification to the monotheistic faith, in other words Jews, christians, muslims, all living together. Now they have other things in mind. Right now they don't care for the Jews, they don't care for Christians, to say the least. They want them all dead. But they believe that this leader will come and bring peace and restore relationship, even between those that are at odds the Jews, the Muslims and the Christians. Now, the reason I say that is because the world is looking for this kind of leader. Even people you don't expect are looking for this kind of leader. They're looking for this kind of leader and he will be received. He'll confirm a covenant with many for seven years.
Speaker 1:Now, notice verse 27,. There in the middle, in the middle of that week, of the week of that seven-year period, he shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering and, on the wing of abomination, shall be one who makes desolate the abomination, desolation even until the consummation which is determined is poured out on the desolate. So here we see, in the middle of this seven-year treaty, this seven-year agreement, he ends sacrifice. Now this means that we need temple worship back. It's not really ever stated anywhere so much that there's going to be a rebuilt temple, but we need a rebuilt temple of some kind for there to be a stopping of the sacrifices and the temple worship. So that's where we get this idea that it's going to be rebuilt because the temple worship is going to be started and stopped. He's going to come into the temple and he will stop the worship.
Speaker 1:Now let's turn back to Mark. We can pick it back up in Mark, verse 14. So, with all that in mind, we, the reader, have wanted to understand when you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Now, interesting, in other translations than King James, like ESV and New Living, it doesn't say it, it says he. When you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet standing where he ought not and there the translators, taking the liberty and it's a good one have said that it's a he that's standing where he ought, not. Matthew, in Matthew 24, says in verse 15, that it'll be in the holy place. So picture it there is one who comes into the temple, stops the sacrifice and stands in the holy place.
Speaker 1:Now Daniel, chapter 11, verse 31, speaks of another event, and I'll turn there. You can turn there. We didn't stay in Mark very long, so hold your place there. I'll just read it to you there. I'll just read it to you.
Speaker 1:Daniel 11, 31 gives us a little more color in this by talking about another event. It says this and forces shall be mustered by him and they shall defile the sanctuary fortress and they shall take away the daily sacrifices and place there the abomination of desolation. So here we see this term again in Daniel, chapter 11, although he's not talking about this seven-year period of time. He's talking about something that's already happened In about 185 BC. We see a guy named Antiochus and he didn't like the Jews. They resisted his authority, and so he comes into Jerusalem after losing a pretty important battle. He comes into Jerusalem and he tells the people there you are not going to worship God anymore, worship God anymore, you're going to worship our gods. He sacrifices a pig on the altar very defiling in the Jewish mind. He causes the priest to drink the pig blood and he goes on to set up statues of Zeus in the temple and there he gives us a little picture of what this abomination that causes desolation might look like. Now that was something that happened in 185 BC, but here, after the fact, jesus mentions it again. So it wasn't just fulfilled there. In 185 BC, jesus says and you look for that again. When you see the abomination that causes desolation, be careful. So it's going to happen again.
Speaker 1:Now, revelation, chapter 13, another chapter you can read on the Antichrist, lets us know that this Antichrist, in this seven-year period, is going to set up an image in the temple. He's going to make it seem to have life we can sort of picture that in our day an image that will appear to have life. He's going to cause all those who dwell on earth to worship it and to worship himself. He's going to insist that, to buy or sell people on earth, get a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, the mark of the beast, and you can't buy or sell without it. Now, part of, though, is worshiping the beast, the Antichrist, in this time. So we're not just talking about a credit card or some new technology, we're talking about worshiping the Antichrist, and anyone who doesn't take it will die. Revelation 20, verse 4, lets us know through beheading, a very Islamic way to die. Not to make them the point of all this, but it would make sense Now.
Speaker 1:Notice in Mark 13,. We're back there in Mark 13, verse 14. We already read it through verse 23. There's a massive Jewish persecution that happens and Jesus makes warnings. Don't go back for your jacket when you see this happen. Don't go back for your jacket. Don't go in from the field. Pray that it's Matthew says. Pray that it's not on the Sabbath, pray that it's not in winter. You want a time when you can just travel freely, and it will be bad Verse 19,. It'll be worse than anything that's been or anything that will ever be after that. So this is what we read is going to happen. This is the warning that Jesus is giving A lot of study to let the reader understand here. But this is what's going to happen. The world is going to fall apart politically through the person that they choose to lead them.
Speaker 1:Now, as we finish up here, what do we need to get to this point? Right, we're going to need a seven-year treaty. That's important. If we see a seven-year treaty in the Middle East, it could be significant. You need a temple, I think, which will likely come through this treaty. You need a temple because a temple has to be defiled. You need a world that's ready to receive this kind of leader. Now, two of those. We're waiting on, one of those. I think we're way ready for the world to receive a leader who can bring this kind of success and peace. But what's holding this guy up?
Speaker 1:Let's turn to 2 Thessalonians, chapter 2. 2 Thessalonians, chapter 2, and we'll be brief here. I hope that didn't sound very good, did it? In 2 Thessalonians, chapter 2, verse 1, paul talks a little bit about this guy and the things of the last days. Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord, jesus Christ, and our gathering together to him, we ask you not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come. Let no one deceive you by any means, for that day will not come unless the falling away comes first and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or is worshipped, so that he sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. Do you remember that when I was still with you, I told you these things?
Speaker 1:So Paul here is talking to his friends in Thessalonica and he's encouraging them because people were coming in and saying you guys missed it. The day of the Lord came, the kingdom's already here and you didn't get to go to heaven. They were being told that they were a little nervous. And Paul says no, no, no, no, there's some things that need to happen first. You remember I told you there's a falling away. Comes first, a man of sin, son of perdition, who opposes God, must be revealed. That's the antichrist we've been talking about. He's still got to exalt himself above all. That is called God, verse 4,. He's got to sit as God in the temple of God and show himself to be God. So there's a few things Paul says that have to happen before the end actually comes.
Speaker 1:Now, track with this. But it hasn't happened yet. Why hasn't it happened? Look at verse 6. And you know what is restraining that he may be revealed in his own time, for the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. Only he who now restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way, and then the lawless one, the Antichrist, will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of his mouth and destroy with the brightness of his coming. Now, and you could read on. But Jesus here says why hasn't the Antichrist been revealed yet? Why hasn't this happened? There's a he in verse 7 that restrains. Notice in verse 7, the he is capitalized. Now that's.
Speaker 1:The translators did that for us because they believe that this he that restrains, is God. The translators think that that God is the one restraining until he is taken out of the way. Now how do you take God out of the way? He's omnipresent. You can't do that. But I suggest the answer is in verse three. I know we're getting close to lunch, but track with verse three. Let no one deceive you. That day will not come unless the falling away comes first.
Speaker 1:The falling away. Now, a good tradition on this phrase falling away, in the Greek it's apostasia. The apostasy has to happen first, and we picture this and we go. Well, then Christianity has to become less popular. People have to turn from the faith. Before the end comes an apostasy, a falling away of faith. And that could be true that I look around in the world and I go yeah, I could see a lot of people falling away from faith, leaving the faith. But it's interesting that word, that word actually could be translated the departure. Same thing, right, falling away, departure.
Speaker 1:We get the same idea, but it's possible that he's talking about something else. He's talking about something that he mentions in his first letter to the Thessalonians, in chapter 4, verse 15. For this we say to you, by the word of the Lord, that those that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep, for the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and the trumpet of God. This is 1 Thessalonians 4, about 16. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead will rise. First, verse 17,. And then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. Thus we shall always be with the Lord, therefore comfort one another with these words. And this, of course, is where we get the idea of the rapture.
Speaker 1:Lots of disagreement in the church of what this is when it happens, but the idea is, there is a point Paul says here, where those who are alive are caught up. It's where we get the word rapture, from Caught up to be violently sneezed, the sneeze, the sneeze, sneezed, seized out of the fire right and then sneezed. But it's this idea of just being taken away in the moment, in the twinkling of an eye, as we read in 1 Corinthians 15, that this event happens in the time it takes to blink, and maybe less than that. What happens? Well, here we see that the church, those who believe, are taken up to meet Jesus in the clouds. What's taken up with them? The Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit's not just with us, he's in us. So in some way, although God is still omnipresent, the church with the Holy Spirit is taken from earth in the rapture.
Speaker 1:And notice there, in 2 Thessalonians, that's the thing I think restrains the Antichrist from coming to power. It's the he, the Holy Spirit in the church. No one left to say this ain't right, that's not God. No one left to really share the truth like that. So perhaps what we need next is the rapture, and this is where we wanna end today. We don't wanna spend our whole time talking about this guy, the Antichrist, instead of Christ, this guy that's gonna persecute the Jews and those that are left behind. It's just gonna wreck havoc. We don't wanna focus on that. We wanna focus on Jesus.
Speaker 1:That's the only thing we're looking forward to, the return of Jesus for the church, and that's the comfort that Paul talks about here in 1 Thessalonians comfort one another with these words what great comfort that this world is not all we got, it's not all we have left, that there's a real eternity, that Jesus is really going to rule and reign and establish his kingdom. How are you part of that? By trusting him. It's not by being good enough, it's not by memorizing enough verses or reading your Bible a ton, it's not by any of that stuff. It's by a simple relationship of trust, by what Jesus did on the cross for us, by trusting him with our sin right, our sin with him. That's the difference maker there.
Speaker 1:And then we just can't wait to see him. We can't wait to be with him. That relationship just goes on and on, and so I think here not much that needs to happen between now and when we might see him. It could be today, right, and that would be just fine with me. So we look forward to that, god. We don't want to look toward an antichrist, someone to solve our problems, because it never happens. All the things that we've thought would make this world a better place. The right government, the right financial situation. None of those things are going to solve our problems, but only you. So, god, I pray that we would look forward to that day. God, I pray that it would just put a smile on our face that one day we'll be with you. And, god, we absolutely can't wait. God, thank you for being so good to us. Thank you again for this time. I pray that you put this on our heart and on our mind today. In Jesus' name, we pray Amen.