First three verses, again, Revelation
7, one through three, and sort of go through this a phrase at
a time, a passage at a time. And after these things, I saw
four angels. Remember the word angels is messengers. These are servants of God. Sometimes
it signifies preachers. Sometimes it signifies the angels
who are of a different nature than we are. The angels of God,
the seraphim and the cherubim. But I believe that's what these
are. They're the angels that the Lord created. He took not
on him the nature of angels, but these angels are perfect
messengers and perfect servants of God. All they care about is
always doing the will of God. And they stood on the four corners
of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the
wind should not blow on the earth nor on the sea, nor on any tree. And I saw another angel ascending
from the east, having the seal of the living God. And he cried
with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given
to hurt the earth and the sea, saying, hurt not the earth. I
believe that's Christ, that angel that has the seal of the living
God. The Lord is called the angel of the covenant, and he's called
an angel in places. I believe that he's the only
one that's got any business telling the angels what to do, you reckon?
I believe that's right. And that's what he does. He tells
them, don't hurt the earth and the sea, saying, hurt not the
earth, neither the sea nor the trees, till we have sealed the
servants of our God in their foreheads. Now, at first glance,
I thought this was referring to the gospel, the winds, these
winds. The Holy Spirit is said in John
3, to blow where it listeth. That's the Holy Spirit. Often
in scripture, the word wind means spirit, but not here. But I thought at first, you know,
that this was the Holy Spirit of God blowing as he pleases.
We know how he regenerate sinners, gives life to sinners. The Holy
Spirit, that's everybody that's born again is born of the Spirit
that way, but by Him going where He wants to and revealing Christ
to sinners, giving them life and faith in Him. And so I thought
this was the preaching of the gospel and they were withholding
that. We know that there's to be a
drought of truth in the last days, in the end times. a drought
of hearing the word of God. And so I thought this is God
withholding his gospel, his spirit from the earth, and that would
certainly be hurting the earth. How are you gonna hurt the earth
anymore than by withholding the truth of Christ from those who
live in the earth? And this angel in verse two ascending
from the east tells the four angels in verse one not to do
that, not to hurt the earth, not to withhold the gospel, I
thought. Until verse 3 all of God's elect
are saved The sealing of his servants, that's it now that's
salvation We'll see that a little bit later, but this word winds
and wind here in verse 1 is Not the word that refers to the Holy
Spirit in John 3 where it says the wind bloweth where it listeth
and And that's typical of the Holy Spirit, who goes where he
pleases. You can see the wind blowing in the trees, you can
see the effects of the Holy Spirit visiting a sinner, but you don't
know where he came from, you don't know where he'll go, and
you can't do anything about it. Just like the wind. But this
word winds and wind here in verse one is not that word. As in John
3, it's a word which the best I can tell, in the New Testament,
it's a Greek word, and the best I can tell, it always refers
to a destructive wind. When this wind here is mentioned
in connection with the Lord's sheep, his disciples, it's always
the enemy. I believe that's right. Listen
to Mark 4.37, and there arose a great storm of wind. And the
waves beat into the ship so that it was now full. And he was in
a hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow. And they awake him
and say unto him, master, carest thou not that we perish? And
he arose and rebuked the wind and said unto the sea, peace,
be still. And the wind ceased and there was a great calm."
That's a picture of us in trouble, dying, hopeless. We're perishing,
but the Lord rebukes. that wind that blows, that would
destroy us. Matthew 7, 24, therefore, whosoever
here at these sayings of mine and doeth him, I will lock him
unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock. And the
rain descended and the floods came and the winds blew and beat
upon that house and it fell not for it was founded upon a rock.
It didn't fall not because it was well-built or a wonderful
house, because of the foundation of the Lord Jesus Christ. So
it wasn't because of the house. That wind would have blown the
house over if not for the rock. How do I know that? Well, everyone
that heareth these sayings of mine and doeth them not shall
be likened unto a foolish man which built his house upon the
sand. The rain descended and the floods came and the winds
blew and beat upon that house and it fell And great was the
fall of it And so there again, that's the same word both of
those passages the same word wind as in our text Ephesians
4 14. This is the same word too That
we henceforth be no more children tossed to and fro and carried
about with every wind of doctrine The wind of this world will blow
you away, blow you off course from the truth of Christ, unless
you're His. And by these rebukes and these
exhortations in the scripture, He keeps us. And by His Spirit,
of course, by faith, by grace through faith. But listen to
Jude 112, same word. These are spots in your feasts
of charity when they feast with you, feeding themselves without
fear, clouds they are without water, carried about of winds. There again, the wind is those
who aren't anchored in Christ, those who haven't built their
house upon the rock, they don't have a chance. And so that's the word. And so
that being the word in our text, I believe what these winds are
that are withheld in our text, it seems to be the destructive
winds of anti-Christ religion. and the false gospel of Antichrist. And think about that. That's
not so specific as it sounds. There's Christ and there's Antichrist.
Everything that's not Christ is Antichrist. I don't care what
they call it. You understand that. I don't care if you call
it Methodism or Catholicism or whatever you call it. If it ain't
Christ, it's Antichrist. And so that's what's being withheld
here until God's not gonna give power to the enemy over this
earth in a great way. He has some power now by the
Lord's ordination and allowing him to power over the reprobate
and such. But I believe that's what's happening
here. He's saying, hold off now. Hold off, you're not gonna be,
they're not gonna be able to deceive everybody just yet now.
There's something that's gotta happen first. The gospel's not
gonna be completely overwhelmed in this earth and forgotten by
men and despised and rejected by everybody until all my sheep
are saved. And that really amounts to the
same thing. The reason I told you what it wasn't, that I thought
maybe it was, it kind of amounts to the same thing, doesn't it?
It's the gospel going forth and antichrist religion being restrained
until, until. And understand this from that,
life and death Destruction and salvation do not hinge upon some
cataclysmic physical disaster that shall befall the earth.
People in religion talk about that. In the end times, there's
gonna be all these physical disasters, you know, that are gonna kill
people and all that. That's not what life and death
hinges on. Life and death hinge upon what you hear and believe.
I know the winds have something to do with that. Because he says,
now once all my sheep are saved, then let them go. Let it go. Let the winds blow. Let the destruction
of the earth take place. But not until. Not until. The way this earth is hurt and
those in it is not by hurricanes and tornadoes and earthquakes.
That's not how you hurt the earth. It's by withholding of the gospel
of God's grace and an unleashing of antichrist error upon this
earth. That's how you heard it. And
that's what God is doing here, but not until the battle is going
on now in churches and false churches. Not with the weather. The battle, it's not an epic
struggle between good and evil. You've heard me say that many
times. People talk about, there's a struggle between good and evil.
No, there's not. God's doing exactly what he wants to do.
He don't struggle with anybody. He don't even have to lift a
finger to destroy Satan and all of his minions and every enemy
that we have. There's no struggle. This is
simply God carrying out his eternal purpose of grace upon his elect,
and God wreaking upon this earth the consequences of denying Christ
and his gospel. And he's gonna do that, but not
in a cataclysmic way until, until, I love that word till, T-I-L-L. God will not allow any harm to
come to his servants, his elect. Not till, it reminds me of Matthew
24, 24. Maybe you thought of this verse
when I said that. For there shall arise false Christs
and false prophets. And that's what this is talking
about in our text now. and shall show great signs and
wonders insomuch that if it were possible, they shall deceive
the very elect, if it were possible." Clearly it's not. And the Lord's
gonna save every one of them. The Lord Jesus said, I'm not
gonna lose a single one of them. I'm gonna raise them up at the
last day. amidst all of the terror and
destruction described in Luke chapter 21. I don't know if you
remember, it hadn't been that long ago since we were in Luke
21. Well, I say not that long, it's probably been a year ago.
But the Lord gives this precious promise to his sheep in the midst
of all of the terrible language of that chapter. Terrible things
are prophesied there by our Lord, but he gives this promise. this precious promise to his
sheep in the midst of all of that chapter, verse 16, and you
shall be betrayed by both parents and brethren and kinsfolks and
friends, and some of you shall they cause to be put to death.
And you shall be hated of all men for my name's sake, but there
shall not a hair of your head perish. Isn't that beautiful?
Not one hair. Wait a minute. How can you be
killed and not a hair of your head? You know the answer to
that, don't you? Whatever the Lord brings our
way in this life, I'm going to have a full head of hair in glory.
And you are too. That's symbolic, of course, of
the fact that you can't hurt us. If you kill us, you've done
us a favor. God's people can't be hurt. Those
angels had power given them by God to hurt the earth, but not
the elect. Religion speaks of this seal
being some kind of an outward mark, you know, in people's foreheads. The seal, remember where we read Hurt not the sea nor the trees. And I think it mentions the sea
and the trees. I'm not sure why specifically
those things are pointed out as don't hurt them until my elect
are saved. You remember that the Lord saving
his elect is pictured by the sea when they cast the nets on
the other side of the ship and they couldn't even haul them
in. Because when the Lord says, go, preach, somebody's going
to be saved somewhere. There's going to be a gathering.
That's what he does. And when we work and do what
we do in the flesh, there's not gonna be any result. But when the Lord commands it
and gives increase, there'll be increase. As many as were
ordained to eternal life belief. But you see how that's the catching
fish out of the sea. He said, I'll make you fishers
of men, fishing in the sea of this world. And so that's a type
of the Lord calling out his elect, saving his elect. And also trees, whereas trees
planted by the rivers of water. And what did he say about a tree
that won't produce anything? That doesn't have any life in
it, no fruit of the spirit. Cut it down and throw it in the
fire. And so I believe that's why those things are mentioned
specifically here. This is all spiritual language
referring to God saving his people. That was the first seal, wasn't
it? And this one here now seems to be, he's gonna wrap this thing
up, but not before. Not before all of his people
are saved. But religion talks about this
seal till they're sealed. It's some kind of an outward
mark that will identify. And it refers to them as being
sealed in their foreheads. And so they say that's some kind
of an actual mark that the people of the Lord will have during
the tribulation, that the enemies of Christ will mark the elect
so they'll know, those who profess Christ. So they'll know, but
this is God sealing them. This is not people. We don't
know who to seal and who not to seal. The enemy wouldn't know
who to seal. There are those who profess Christ who don't
know him. They wouldn't know him if they met him on the street.
So this is God doing this. Only he can seal his people.
They'll be sealed. And the word seal means hidden
or secret. That wouldn't be very well true
if it was right here in your forehead, physically speaking.
It wouldn't be nothing secret about it. So that's just foolish. But it also means sealed for
protection, security. And it also means to confirm
or authenticate. In other words, this is God setting
his seal to his people that we belong to him. We belong to him. We're sealed in so much that
when the angels do hurt the earth, it won't touch us. Remember,
thousand at your left side and a 10,000 at your right hand,
they won't come near you. Now they're given power to hurt,
but not to us, not against the elect. And us being hidden or
secret, in that sense of the word sealed, doesn't mean that
we particularly hide the fact that we belong to him from people.
We're not secret disciples. This is what Paul was talking
about in 1 Corinthians 2.15, this not known. It's secret from the world. He
said, he that is spiritual judgeth all things, Yet he himself is
judged of no man. The spiritual believer, nobody
knows anything about him. Nobody understands that. The
world can't understand it. They don't know the Lord's from
a false professor of Christ, or from anybody else for that
matter. We're sealed in that God foreknew us. He loved us
in eternity and made us his. We're sealed by the precious
blood of Christ as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. And we're also sealed by the
Holy Spirit of God. Ephesians 1.13, in whom also
you trusted after that you heard the word of truth, the gospel
of your salvation. in whom also after that you believed,
you were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise, which is the
earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased
possession unto the praise of his glory. We are redeemed by
the precious blood of Christ, but there's a redemption yet
to occur. That's when the Lord takes possession
of those he bought. Oh my. And until then, we have
the earnest of the inheritance. What's that? We're sealed by
the Holy Spirit of God. And then in verse four, it says, I heard the number of them
which were sealed, and they were sealed in 140 and 4,000 of all
the tribes of the children of Israel. And the next several
verses there, we won't read those again because it's just the 12
tribes mentioned. and how that for every one of
those tribes there were 12,000 making up a total of 144,000. Clearly not a literal number.
Verse 9 refutes the idea that religion has, again, that there's
144,000 that are gonna be sent. I believe it's the Jehovah Witnesses
that are real big on that, the 144,000, you know, we gotta be
one of the 144,000. Well, I'll tell you this, what
we've got to be is one of His. We've got to believe on Christ,
that's what we've got to do. Period. And this is a definite
number signifying the indefinite number described in verse nine,
a number which no man can number. It's the same people, it's the
ones gathered around the throne, sealed by the Holy Spirit of
God, praising and worshiping Him for saving them. It's the
same ones. Remember when we talked about
how they did cast the net, he told them, cast the net on the
other side. And one account of that says they couldn't, they
had no idea how many fish were in there, they just knew the
nets were breaking, they had to get help to bring them in. But in another account of that,
it says there was 153 fish in the net. This reminds me of that. Because there's 140, there's
a definite number, but it's a number which no man can number. It doesn't
say God can't number them, because he has. He does. He knows exactly how many he
redeemed and how many will be praising him for that redeeming
blood. But not us, we can't number that.
So that's what this is talking about. And the fact that it refers
to them being the children of Israel in verse four, 144,000
of all the tribes of the children of Israel. Some people say that's
how many Jews are going to be saved. That's not talking about
earthly Israel. You'd have to just not even read
the New Testament to think that. Israel, the children of Israel,
is not the earthly Jews. This is spiritual Israel, as
Paul described in Romans 9 and in Galatians 3 and other places
in the New Testament. And all through the Old Testament,
the Jews are clearly a picture of God's elect from every nation,
kindred, tongue, and people under heaven. They are not all Israel,
which is of Israel. Those who are Abraham's seed
is those who are Christ's and heirs according to the promise.
That's in Galatians 3. And Romans 9 has some very clear
teaching on that if you want to look at it later. The beautiful
truth here is that God's people cannot be numbered by man, but
God has numbered them. He has saved a definite, specific,
peculiar people. And that word peculiar means
he owns them. He knows every one of them by
name. He said, I know my sheep and
I'm known of my sheep. He knows every last one of them.
That's the priest with the names written on his breastplate. He's our great high priest and
he has our names written down in the Lamb's Book of Life. He
loved and chose this multitude that no man can even number.
And God must have told John that there were 144,000 of those.
You think he sat there and counted them? We couldn't even number
144,000. Much less the number that no
man can number. So that was just a simple, clear
teaching that God knows exactly how many there are, and there's
a completeness in the number 12. I understand that seven is
the number of completion and fulfillment in scripture, but
12 also, the Lord chose 12 disciples. How many tribes of Israel were
there? 12. There's something about that number. It's all of
his children of Israel, spiritual Israel. He loved and chose them from
eternity, redeemed every single one of them on Calvary, every
one of them. There's no way the Lord Jesus
Christ could pay the sin debt of a sinner and that his perfect
righteousness, the spotless lamb was slain. And he go into the
presence of God as their high priest and offer his precious
blood for a sinner, and that sinner be lost. Everyone for
whom he did that, he hath perfected forever, Paul wrote in Hebrews,
them that he sanctified with his precious blood. And that's
everyone, that's who is talked about here in this text. The
Lord Jesus Christ declared, I'm not gonna lose any of them, I'm
gonna raise them up again at the last day. And John saw them,
there they are. Before the throne, and I like
what it says, before the throne and before the lamb. Verse nine. Holy and spotless in their white
robes. That's the only way you can stand
before the lamb is in his righteousness. We stand in him, complete in
him. Spotless, perfect, without blemish
or spot in him. Ephesians chapter one, in him,
in him, in him. Redemption through his blood. And if you want to know what
it means to be sealed by all three of the persons of the Godhead,
Look what these people are saying. This multitude, which can't be
numbered, look what they were saying. Salvation. Salvation
to our God. He saved us. They're attributing
salvation unto God Almighty, verse 10, which sitteth upon
the throne. We never want to miss that. The
only one who can save sinners is the one that's sitting on
the throne. If your savior is not sovereign,
then you don't have a savior. There's only one savior, and
he's sitting on the throne. The significance of lambs all
through the word of God. He is the lamb. They stood before
the throne and before the lamb. Cain and Abel knew the significance
of the lamb. They know why. He's referred
to as the lamb here. Before they understood anything
about what John revealed so many years later here, they knew the
significance of the lamb. God requires a lamb to be offered
for sin. Without the shedding of blood,
there's no remission of sins. On Passover night, a lamb was
to be picked out of the flock. in the prime of its life, and
it was to have no spot or blemish in it. And that lamb was to be slain
and the blood displayed on the door, over the door and on the
sides of the door. And God said, when I see the
blood, I'll pass over you, I won't destroy you, the destroyer. will not visit your house when
I see the blood. So this is talking about the
lamb of God. Not that the blood of animals
could actually take away any sin. Cain and Abel, Abel offered
an actual lamb, a lamb from his flock. It wasn't the blood of
that lamb that was the more excellent sacrifice. When it says that
Abel offered by faith the more excellent sacrifice, it's not
talking about that lamb that he killed. It's talking about
Christ, who is our Passover, Paul said. He is our Passover
lamb. The blood of animals can never
actually take away anybody's sin. The scriptures are clear
about that. Turn with me to Hebrews chapter 10. This is key now,
I wanna talk about the Lamb for a little while because this is
who, we're singing worthy is the Lamb. We're standing before
the throne and the Lamb saying salvation to our God. Hebrews 10, one. For the law, that is the Old
Testament covenant, having a shadow of good things to come and not
the very image of the things, can never, with those sacrifices
which they offered year by year continually, make the comers
thereunto perfect. They can't be made perfect, sinners
can't be made perfect by the offering of animals before God,
although God ordained that. But what is it that makes them
perfect? If it's not that animal then that God ordained that they
offer. Well, verse two, look, for then would they not have
ceased to be offered? If the lamb, if the actual Passover
lamb could have taken away sin, there wouldn't be but one ever
slain. But they were told to observe
this year after year after year. And of course, all of the daily
sacrifices brought to the priests to offer in the tabernacle. Just
thousands upon thousands of lambs and bullocks and goats slain
every year among the people of Israel. But look, the worshipers,
the second part of verse two there, the worshipers once perished
should have had no more conscience of sins. They wouldn't need to
offer any more sacrifice for their sin if the blood of animals
could do that. But in those sacrifices, there
is a remembrance again made of sins every year. For it is not
possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away
sins. Wherefore? Therefore, so then,
when he cometh into the world, he saith, sacrifice an offering
thou wouldest not. Now, wait a minute, God did,
he did want, he wanted them to sacrifice those things, but in
the sense of the context, in the sense that those animals
can't be an atonement for sin, in that sense, he said, sacrifice
an offering thou wouldest not, but a body Has thou prepared
me? The blood of Christ can take
away sin, but he's got to have blood in order to shed it. And so, not taking on him the
nature of angels, he took upon him the nature of sinners. Not
sinfulness, but human nature. A body thou hast prepared me. In burnt offerings and sacrifices
for sin, thou hast had no pleasure. It wasn't those animals that
pleased him back when it was ordained that they be offered.
How was it then that Abel was accepted of God? By faith. He
offered a more excellent sacrifice. That's Christ. There's only one
sacrifice that can be called excellent. That's the Son of
God. The blood of God. You've had no pleasure in that.
So are we goners then? The sacrifices that God ordained
under the old covenant can't take away our sin, we're goners.
No, there's a new covenant. Then, then, who's worthy to open
the book? Who's worthy to fulfill all of
the will of God? Then said I, lo, I come. in the volume of this book, and
in the volume of the book with the seven seals in our text in
Revelation. In the volume of the book, it
is written of me. I come to do thy will, O God. I come. above when he said sacrifice
and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest
not neither hadst pleasure therein which are offered by the law
then said he lo i come to do thy will oh god he taketh away
the first the first covenant that he may establish the second
you remember what the lord jesus said at that last supper when
he He supped with his disciples and he handed them the cup and
he said, this cup is the new covenant in my blood. Not the wine that was in that
cup, but what it represented, the blood of Christ. He taketh
away the first covenant that he may establish the second covenant
by the which will, He fulfilled the will of God. What was the
will of God? That we be sanctified through the offering of the body
of Jesus Christ once for all. So when you see the throne and
the lamb, and you see these standing before the throne and the lamb,
that's what it's talking about. There is a lamb that takes away
sin, the lamb of God. That's what John the Baptist
said. There's God's lamb that takes away sin. First John 3,
5, listen to this. And you know that he was manifested
to take away our sins. And in him is no sin. That's not complicated, is it?
That's not complicated. This explains where we are in
verse nine. He was manifested to take away
our sins, and so we're able to stand before the very throne
of God in robes of white. It explains what we're wearing,
the righteousness of God's Son. And it explains what we're saying
in verse 10, salvation to our God, redeemed by the blood of
God's lamb, salvation. Salvation, listen to the way
he said it. They said it. Salvation to our God, which sitteth
upon the throne and unto the Lamb. Not unto Mary and the apostles
and people that religion pray to, other sinners. Salvation to Him, to God and
the Lamb. in that word and is also often translated even. Which sitteth upon the throne
even unto the Lamb. I pray tonight that like Jonah,
we could start that right now. Attributing salvation unto him
alone, the sovereign, the one that sits on the throne. I'm
saved because he saves who he wants to save. And by his infinite
grace, he wanted to save me. There's no other reason now.
And the way he saved me, this is the will of him who Christ
did the will of. I come to do your will. What
is it? By the witch will, we are sanctified through the offering
of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. Aren't you glad that's
what God wants? That's what his will is, that's
what he wants. Religion talks about, well, God wants to do
this. I don't see that in here. God wants to save you. I don't
know about that. I know this, if he wants to, that's what he'll
do. That's what he'll do. But I pray like Jonah. Remember
what Jonah said? Salvation is of the Lord. Before
he ever stood in white before the throne and before the Lamb,
he was already saying it, wasn't he? Can we do that? Salvation
is of the Lord. Paul said, it is not of him that
willeth nor of him that runneth, but of God. that show us mercy. Salvation is of God, the merciful
God. Moses cried to the people of
Israel, stand still and see the salvation of the Lord. Listen
to 2 Chronicles, we could probably get time, well, listen, let's
turn there if you want to, 2 Chronicles 20.14. I wanna read this scripture in
closing, and what are we talking about? Salvation to our God,
who sitteth upon the throne, and even unto the Lamb, even
unto the Lamb, let's attribute salvation to Him every time we
get together. Let's praise His holy name for
saving us every time we darken this door. Listen to 2 Chronicles
20, 14. Then upon Jehaziel, the son of
Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jehol, the son of
Mataniah, a Levite of the sons of Asaph, came the spirit of
the Lord. On this man called Jehaziel,
the spirit of the Lord came in the midst of the congregation.
And he said, listen to what he said. Hearken ye all Judah and
ye inhabitants of Jerusalem And thou King Jehoshaphat, thus saith
the Lord unto you, be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this
great multitude, for the battle is not yours, but God's. Aren't you glad? This is spiritual
language. Don't be afraid of Satan and
all of the demons of hell. Don't be afraid of them. Just
hide yourself in the rock. It's not your battle. It's his. We go to him, he fights the battle.
For us, he did, he accomplished victory. We have the victory
through Jesus Christ, our Lord. He said, hearken, and he said,
this battle is not yours. Tomorrow go you down against
them, verse 16. Behold, they come up by the cliff
of Ziz, and you shall find them at the end of the brook, before
the wilderness of Jeruel, You shall not need to fight in this
battle. That's what Moses said. Just stand there and watch God
save you. Oh my. Every time we hear the gospel,
we sit and we rest in him, don't we? We hear what he did for us
and we say, well, I'm glad the battle wasn't mine. It wasn't
mine to fight. I don't need to do anything. Aren't you glad? Because without
him, how much can we do? No thing. No thing. That's your part in salvation.
No thing. You shall not need to fight in
this battle. Set yourself, stand ye still, and see the salvation
of the Lord with you. God with us is our salvation. Emmanuel. Oh, Judah and Jerusalem, fear
not nor be dismayed. Tomorrow go out against them
for the Lord will be with you. Well, we don't stand a chance
without Him, do we? What difference does that make?
We're not without Him. The battle is His, the victory
is His, and so the victory is ours. He's the captain of our
salvation. So we attribute and will forever,
I suppose. I guess what we see in our texture,
that's just going to keep happening. There's no time there. Simeon held the son of God in
his arms and looked into his face and said, Lord, now let
us thy servant depart in peace. I'm ready to go. Are you ready
to go? If you could say the rest of
this, you are. For mine eyes have seen thy salvation. Amen.