You know last week I tried to
say a few things about the purpose of the book of Revelation. Tonight
I've got a second introduction to it and I'll try to hopefully say some things about
it. But I do know this, that we need to understand several
things about the Revelation and that's why it says the Revelation
of Jesus Christ. before we ever get into expounding
it and telling what it tells. Now the human author of this
book is John. The same John who wrote the gospel
of John. And wrote the books of little
John. 1, 2, and 3. Now he's 97, 96, 97 years old. He's the human author. He's the
one that God used to write it. But you look in that verse 1,
the real author is God Almighty. The revelation of Jesus Christ
which God gave unto him. God gave it unto him. The real
author is God Almighty. God gave this revelation to the
Lord Jesus Christ. This book, the whole book, the
whole Bible, but the revelation of Jesus Christ is not of human
origin. God didn't, you know, man didn't
come up with it. It's not subject to any error.
I'm one of them fellas that believes if there's any error in the Bible,
then you have to be the judge over it. And I'm certainly not
going to sit in judgment on God's book. Now if there's an error,
it'd be me. I'd be the one reading it wrong.
Because there's no errors in this book. Not one. I have a
little bottle of whiteout. And I didn't have it at church
and I took it home with me and I brought it back. Because I
make a lot of errors, and white out is good. White it out and
start all over again until you get it right. And that's what
I have to do. But God don't have to do that.
God don't use His white out. No, no. There's no errors with
God. But this book is the revelation
of the mind and purpose of God concerning the history of His
people. The history of His church, of
His people. Now I want to just give you kind of a general outline
tonight, just a general outline. And there are seven parallel
passages and sections in this Bible, in the Revelation. Now
let's see if I can explain that. Now you've got a road up here,
and you've got a road here, and you've got a road here, and you've
got seven roads. They all start at the same place.
All seven of these sections start with Jesus Christ and His coming.
And then over here, at the end of every one of the roads, you
have the Lord Jesus Christ coming in judgment. But from the time you get here
to there, every one of these different roads has a different
subject on every one of the roads. It all starts at the same place,
going to end at the same place, but there's a different way to
get there in each one of these sections. And there's in 7, the
word 7, of course, 54 times in the book of Revelation. 54 times. And the first section is this.
Is our Lord Jesus Christ in the middle of the lampstands. In
the middle of these 7 golden candlesticks. And He tells us
what these 7 golden candlesticks are. Right down there in verse
20 chapter 1 he tells us what they are the mystery of the seven
stars which thou sawest in my right hand and the seven golden
candlesticks the seven stars are the angels or the messengers
and then the candlesticks are the seven churches and they're
the seven churches so you see you got seven candlesticks seven
stars seven churches And these seven churches, when you find
the word seven, it always means complete, always means perfection. And you have the entire church
here in these seven churches. The history of the church itself,
and all every church, now listen to me, what I'm going to tell
you here, all seven of these churches are but a type. are
just a type. They don't particularly deal
with any point of history. Now there are some preachers
and some people that teach that this one church that was for
that particular time in history, this church for another particular
time, and you go through and you got seven periods of history.
And then you get down to the Laodicean and they say we're
in the Laodicean age. But that's not true. These churches
are just types. And every congregation, at one
time or another, is typical of these churches. At one time or
another, we all are on fire. One time or another, we all like
the Laodicean. One time or another, we're like
Philadelphia, full of love. We always, they're just hyped
to show us. And they're repeated, and often
times in the same congregation, they're repeated over and over
again in the same congregation. And also, I'll tell you this,
and like I said, every one of these roads, every one of these
sections, starts with Christ, His coming, and His doing His
work, and then going back to glory, and then judgment, bringing
judgment on the world. And here you have His first coming,
and His coming again. Look in verse 5. Here's his first coming. And
from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness and the first
begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth,
unto him that loved us. Now listen, that's what we talked
about this morning. Hath loved us, and one he washed us from
our sins in his own blood. That's when he first came. He
came as a faithful and true witness of God Almighty. He was the first
begotten. And He was the first one to ever
raise from the dead at His own power. And He came and He loved
us. What did He do? Because He loved
us. He washed us. purified us, set us apart, cleansed
us from all of our sins, cleansed us with his blood. He took red
blood and took black-hearted sinners and made them white as
snow in the sight of God. And then look what it says, and
then while he was here, and Peter tells this, and we see it many
times, he made us kings and priests. We reign with Christ now, and
we're priests, and we offer spiritual sacrifices unto God through Christ. And then look what it says then
he has a dominion forever and ever then here he comes again. Here's his left And now he's
done going back to glory and then he comes in verse 7 behold
He comes with clouds and every eye shall see him and they also
which pierced him And all kingdoms of the earth
shall wail because of him even so Amen, he's coming He's saving
us, pulling back to glory, and He's coming again. And that's
what every one of these things does. It talks about He's coming,
His work while He's here, and then He's going back to glory.
And I'll tell you, He comes to judge the nations. You notice
there it says that even the people who pierced Him shall look upon
Him. You know, when our Lord Jesus
Christ, He talked about His He told those Jews, he said, are
you the Christ? Are you really the Christ? And
he said, you'll see me coming. in power and glory. And they
said we don't need no more witnesses. He said we heard out of His own
mouth that we're going to see Him come again. He's going to
come in great power and glory. Well here is what He says. He
comes in power and glory and all the nations of the earth
are going to wail because of Him. And every eye is going to
see Him. You talk about what about the
people that's dead? He's going to raise them all up and they're
all going to face the judgment. Sheep's going to be over here.
Goat's going to be over there. Judgment's going to take about
two or three minutes. It may not even take... God says
He knows everything. He said get over here. Open up
the earth and let the rest of them go down. I don't know how
it's going to be, but it ain't going to be good for them. It's
going to be wonderful for us. Ain't that right? Now here's
the first section. That's the first road. Here's
the second section, the second road. And I go over here in chapter
5, look what it says now. This section starts in chapter
4 and goes all the way through chapter 7. And what it is, it's
a vision of heaven and the seals. John said he looked up and he's
opened up and he was in heaven there in verse 1. Verse 1, He
was taken up to heaven, sat down there and saw a great throne.
And then you have the Lord Jesus Christ. God had a book in His
hand, and that book had seven seals. And I'll tell you, the
4 describes the one who's sitting upon the throne and the worship
of those surrounding the throne. God had in His right hand a book,
sealed with seven seals on the front and the back side of it.
Well he said there ain't nobody able to open this book. The lamb
that was slain. He rushed and got that book.
And you have up until chapter 7 you have him opening the 7
seals of that book. And he opens all seven of those
seals, and when Christ opens those seals, everything that
revealed in those seals, and we'll deal with them one at a
time. And he opens those seals one by one, and between the sixth
seal, And before he opens the 7th seal, he's got 144,000 sealed
standing with him on Mount Zion. Now what does that 144,000 mean? I know one thing, it's not Jehovah's
Witnesses are the ones who are going to get to go. I can tell
you it's not that. I tell you that right now, it's
not that. You know, I heard a fellow tell me one time, and he's dead
and gone now. Here's one of them Jehovah's
Witnesses, and he told me, he said, you know, he said, I don't
care if I'm one of them 144,000 or not. He said, I don't care
to live here. He said, you know, live here
for a thousand years? He said, you know, I'm going
to live where I've always lived. My house won't even get old.
I thought, oh my goodness. But this 144,000 is not that. I can tell you that right now. But between that, he sees this
144,000 that are sealed. And then not only that 144,000,
but he sees a multitude that no man can number with those
144,000. And so this section, like I already
told you, this road, it opens up with the Lord Jesus Christ
coming. He's pictured, first of all,
as the Lamb as it had been slain. There in Revelation 5, that's
where he is, the Lamb that had been slain. And then now he's
ruling from heaven, sitting on the throne, with all the power
to open those books. And I tell you, then he's ruling
from heaven. And then in chapter 6 through
verse... you find the Lord Jesus Christ,
the final judgment coming. And then in chapter 7, you have
the saints rejoicing because Christ is judged and we're with
Him. And we're with Him. That's the
second road. In fact, I can use it that way.
Let me give you the third road. We're going to start at the same
place. We're going to get there a different
way. First, we had Him coming with 7 golden candlesticks. Then
we had Him come with 7 seals. And now we've got seven angels
with seven trumpets and that third section is they're coming
with seven trumpets and these trumpets in chapter 8 and all
the way through verse almost to verse chapter 12 the seven
trumpets This section deals with those seven trumpets and those
trumpets when those angels blow those trumpets. It has to do
with God sending judgment upon the earth. How it will affect
the earth. Those seals has to do with God. It has to do with
Christ and his great accomplishments. But here are those seven trumpets.
They're for judgment. And it happens what happens to
the people on the earth. But also it tells us what happens
to the church. And I tell you God's books, God's
people. So you see this little, this
angel coming with a little book. A little book. And that book represents something
very special. And then you have two witnesses,
two prophets. In chapter 11, you have two prophets.
And they witness. What are those two prophets?
What do they represent? And I tell you what they come
and those two prophets are slain And then three days later they're
up standing on their feet Standing on their feet And then there
comes a time when that when that that the lord jesus christ comes
again He started out as a lamb that hadn't been slain and then
then he comes here And he's a he's raining on heaven and he comes
with a with a judgment again. He comes starting Seven trumpets,
they affect what happens on the earth. And Christ himself comes. And oh my, he comes sitting on
a white horse. Out of his mouth goes a sharp
two-edged sword. On his thighs written the faithful
and true witness. And I'll tell you, when he comes,
everybody bows down. And all I'll tell you, so that's
the third road. That's the third road. But you
start with Christ. His first coming. What happens
in between with those seven trumpets? And then Christ coming to judge
again. Christ coming to judge again. And then here's the fourth
road. Let me give you the fourth road
if I can. This deals with chapter 12 through chapter 14. And I
want you to see this just for a minute. Over here, look over
with me in chapter 12. I want you to see this. Just to give
you some kind of an idea of what's going on. We have the dragon
here. The dragon is the devil, Satan
himself. That's who this is. This dragon
is. He's the devil. He's the devil. And oh, look what it says down
there now in verse 5. And there was a woman getting,
it says in verse 4, talking about that great red dragon and his
tail drew the third part of the stars out of heaven. That means
he took all these demons out of there with him. Cast them
down to the earth and the dragon stood ready before the woman
which was ready to be delivered for to devour her child as soon
as it was born. Now Satan's standing right there
to destroy this woman that's going to bring forth this child.
And then it says in verse 5, and she brought forth a man child.
Now listen to this, it has to be Christ who was to rule all
nations with a rod of iron. And her child was called up to
God and to his throne. And that woman fled into the
wilderness. Now this is this dragon. He's
persecuting. He wants to destroy the Christ. But he can't destroy Christ.
Christ goes back to glory. He goes back to sit on the throne.
It said God took him back up into heaven. But he can't get
Christ. So who does he get? He goes after
his church. He goes after his people. Goes
after his people. And this section here starts
with Christ and goes to the end. Starts with the birth of Christ
here. That woman brings forth a man-child. And you know where
it started out in Genesis where it said, I'll put enmity between
thy seed and the seed of the woman? That enmity has always
been there. And Satan tried his dead-level
best to destroy Christ. When he was born, you remember
how he sent Herod and killed all those children, infants,
children, everything below two years or under, he had them slain.
trying to get Christ, get Christ's child. And then the Lord Jesus
Christ, then he tempted him in the wilderness. Done all things
that he could. He thought he had him whipped
when he put him on the cross. But that's not true. And then
that dragon, he can't hurt that man, child, so he persecutes
the woman. She goes into the wilderness. And we're out here
in the wilderness in this old world. And I tell you by the
very fact that we ain't got this building running over tells us
that people don't want nothing to do with God but you can go
someplace where they ain't talking about God and they ain't talking
about Christ and they ain't talking about sin and they ain't talking
about salvation through the blood of Christ you got people that
just packs it out packs it out and I'll tell you what he uses
the beast this dragon he uses the beast coming up out of the
sea Then he uses the beast coming up out of the earth. And then
there's the great harlot. Babylon and all of these things
they didn't and remember this all of these things that I'm
talking about the trumpets the sails all of those things are
pictures They're just pictures They're not literal when you
find out who the beast is The one that comes out of the sea
and the one that comes out of the earth and you find out who
that great harlot Babylon is you'll find out just exactly
what goes on in this world and And so I'll tell you what, then
it starts with Christ being born, and then it closes with Christ
coming in judgment again. Coming in judgment again. Coming,
what happens while He's gone, and then He comes again. In judgment. So that's every one of this what
I'm talking about. There's different things that
happen on those roads that we go along, but they all start
with Christ. It's coming, living, saving us,
keeping us safe, preserving us until He comes in judgment again.
So it's the gospel over and over and over again. That's what it
amounts to, if I can say it that way. And then here's the fifth
road, the fifth section. They're called the vows, the
seven vows. They're actually bowls, and that
deals with chapter 15 and 16. And these bowls, they're called
the bowls of wrath, vials of wrath. And every one of those
bowls contains wrath. God's wrath. God's wrath. And He's always, the scriptures
tell us He's angry with the wicked every day. God says He hates
the workers of iniquity. And Paul told the Romans, he
said, don't treasure up unto yourself the wrath of God. Oh
my, treasure up the grace of God, the riches of Christ and
the things that He's done. But there's people that just
treasure up and just lay up the wrath of God against themselves.
And they just get meaner and meaner and meaner. And I tell
you something, these beasts and false prophets and all these
that are out here in the world, It's beastly the things that
men say about God and say about Christ. And he said, you know,
that they're doing is just treasuring. Just take treasure of God's wrath
and just pile it on themselves. Well then, sure enough, one of
these days God takes them bowls and starts turning them bowls
out and emptying them bowls out on them. Wrath comes and wrath
comes and wrath comes. And then you have the final judgment.
Again he comes after all of his wrath. Then you know what? They cry, hide us! Hide us from
the face of Him who sits on the throne. Hide us. And listen to
this. They say this, hide us from the face of the Lamb. The Lamb. Hide from a Lamb? From the Lamb
and His wrath. Have you ever seen an angry Lamb? The world is going to see one
one of these days. I'm glad he is the Lamb of God. That he came
as a Lamb to me. Gentle as a Lamb. As a Lamb, he was a Lamb, he
was led to the slaughter. As a Lamb, he kept his mouth
shut. As a Lamb, you know, they'd take
those lambs and slit their throats and the blood would pour out
and they'd put it on the altars. Our Lord Jesus Christ, they led
him as a lamb to the slaughter. And he opened not his mouth.
They took him and I'll tell you as a lamb, he laid on that cross
and they didn't have to hold him down. They didn't have to
struggle. Never even winced. I don't believe
he winced. I know he didn't wince when they
nailed his hands and feet to that cross. That would have been
an imperfection. And there could not have been
an imperfection in Christ. He never winced. He never gritted
his teeth and said, oh, that hurts. No, he is a lamb. But boy, when he comes back,
he was a lamb as it had been slain that opened that book.
He's a lamb that's going to, they said, hide us from the face
of that lamb. And you know what, when we see
that face of that Lamb, it's going to be such joy for us. It will be joy for us. I ain't
going to be crying for nothing to fall on me. You know why?
Because God's love, we sung it tonight. It's well with my soul. He hideth my soul in the cleft
of the rock. He hideth me in the depths of
His love and covers me there with His hand. Oh my! Talking about Him coming in judgment.
I don't have to hide. I'm already hid. Where are you
hid at? With Christ in God. Can you find a better place to
hide? Hide in God? Who can get in there? Hid with God in Christ. That's where we're hid at. They
say mountains fall on us, rocks fall on us, kill us before He
does. And so you have those seven bowls,
that's the wrath of God, the vows of God's judgment, and the
final judgment. And then the sixth section, the
sixth road is the fall of Babylon. You remember Babylon in the Old
Testament. That's where they carried all
of God's children. They carried their princes and
they carried them over there. And they held them in bondage.
Tried to make them learn their languages and everything. Eat
their food and everything. Well Babylon is a great harlot.
She's deceiving. She allures and she entices and
she allures people. Well it talks about Babylon fell
and great was the fall of Babylon. And then God punishes her. Oh
how he punishes her. And then he punishes the beast
and the false prophet. And then our Lord comes again.
Look what he says over here in 1911. Here in chapter 19 and
verse 11. I think this is what I'm on. Oh yeah, yeah, here he comes
again. Here's this beautiful picture of our Lord coming to
judgment again. And I saw heaven open. Oh my. You know, first of all, everybody
says His judgments are righteous and true. And I saw heaven open,
and behold a white horse, and he that sat upon him was called
faithful and true, and in righteousness he doth judge. His eyes were
as a flame of fire, and on His head were many crowns. And His
name, oh everything about Him, He had the armies of heaven.
And He came in the final judgment there, down through this chapter.
And He takes the beast and the false prophet, and He puts them
down, He destroys them. And then the seventh section
is this. This is the most wonderful, most wonderful section. Look
in verse 1 of chapter 21. Oh, this is when it's all over. Oh, Satan's cast into the bottomless
pit and all these things are happening. And he saw an angel
come down from heaven in verse 20 with a key to the bottomless
pit and a great chain in his hand. What does he do? He chains up the devil. He chains up and then he puts
them all in a bottomless pit. The devil's cast down. He's bound
for a thousand years and then he's cast into the bottomless
pit. At the end of that thousand years
he's followed by a little season out of prison for a little season.
Now I don't understand all that but I do know this. A thousand
years is as a day and a day is a thousand years in the eyes
of the Lord. And you know it says that he's on a chain. That
angel had a chain and chained him. and there's nothing this little
season I believe is going on right now maybe but this little
season and that's what God calls just a little season but he cannot
do anything unless he asks Christ to do it you can't find any place
in the Bible where Satan did anything by himself unless God
gave him permission for it you can't do it You can't do it. And I'll tell you what, but anyway,
and then we see his final overthrow and Christ coming in judgment
again in verses 10 and 11. And he saw that great white throne
and Him that sat on it there in verse 20. The earth and the
heaven fled away, and there was found no place for them. Well,
the heaven and the earth both were gone? Yeah. Because down
in verse 21 it said, I saw a new heaven and a new earth. We don't
need that old one. He destroys it. And oh, and he
said, the dead and the great stand before God, and the books
are opened. And oh, the sea gave up the dead. Everybody gave up
the dead. Verse 14, death and hell were cast into the lake
of fire, the second death. And everybody listen to this
now, verse 15, who was not found written in the book of life was
cast into the lake of fire. Ain't you glad that God had that
book written? You know, some people talk about,
I've heard preachers say, you know, said, well, when God saves
you, that's when you write your name in the book. And if you
live right and make it all the way, He'll stay there. But if you don't, He takes it
out. It's called the Lamb's Book of Life. In Revelation 13.8,
the Lamb's Book of Life. Slain from the foundation of
the world. Huh? God put my name in there
before He ever put a star in the sky. Before he ever said, let there
be light, he put my name in that book. And you know what he signed
it with? He put it in blood. The blood
of Christ. Signed it with the precious blood
of his son. Oh my. I didn't even know my name was
in there until I read this blessed book and God showed me. Then
I found out he wrote my name before I ever was. He knew me
when I didn't know him. When he started the beginning
he had my name written in that book of life. I tell you what he wrote, he
wrote down everything about me. And that's what those seven seals
is about and that big book that he takes off the throne of God.
That has to do with the decrees of God and I tell you something. God, He has to do things based
on eternity because He's eternal. He don't do things based on time.
And that's how He can put names in the book of life before the
foundation of the world because He knows the end from the beginning. He knew exactly where I was born,
what I would do, everything about me. My eyes are the color they
are because that's what God said I want his eyes to be that color.
He said I want him to get gray-headed before he gets old. Then I want
him to start losing his hair before he gets old. You know,
I know that sounds ridiculous, but I mean every minute detail
of our lives are dictated by God Almighty. Every single one
of them. You know why you and I are sitting
here breathing and enjoying this service tonight? Because God
said that I'm going to have them at a certain place at a certain
time on November the 15th, and we're going to deal with Revelation,
and they're going to sit there, and I'm going to tell them what
God did for them before the foundation of the world, and they're all
going to say, yes, that's right! If He casts the hairs on your
head, don't you think that He is interested in you before you
got here? I already know my end. I know exactly
what's going to happen before this thing's over. Christ is
going to come and get me. He's going to come get you. And
then He's going to take us to be with Him. And then when He
comes, we'll be in the armies of heaven when He comes to get
the rest of the people. Like I said the other day, whom
he foreknow, them he also called. Them he called, he also justified. Them he justified, he also glorified. And I tell you what, I'm just
waiting for that day of glorification. But just as sure as God's on
His throne, it's going to happen. God's got my time fixed for me.
He got my appointment. You go to the doctor and you
may wait and wait and wait and wait and wait to get to see the
doctor for your appointment. But when God sets your appointment,
you're going to meet that appointment. Oh, bless his holy name. But
oh my. But look what it talks about
here. Now this is the final consummation. There in chapter 21, look what
he says. I saw a new heaven, I mean this,
and a new earth. Why? Because he said the first
earth and the heaven fled away. There's no place found for them.
The first heaven and the first earth were passed away and there's
no more sea. And I saw that holy city coming
down from New Jerusalem. Oh my. Coming down from God out
of heaven prepared as a bride adorned for her host. Oh my. So you see we got, look
what he says down there in verse 5. I love this right here. And
he that sat upon the throne, she said, Behold, I make all
things new. What's new? New heaven. What
else is new? New earth. What else is new? We're all new. We got a new song
to sing. He said, Do I give them a new
song to sing? Oh my. New Jerusalem. Everything's made
new. But every one of these roads, that's what I'm talking about,
parallel roads, all of them run right along beside one another.
And they're all parallel. And when we get into them, just
verse by verse, when we get along into them, we'll find such great
comfort for ourselves, such great comfort for God's people. You
know why? Because it said Christ went forth
conquering and to conquer. And I'll tell you why. And we
know the end. We know the end of this book.
Huh? Oh, John, what do you see? A
new heaven. What's it like? It's new. I see a new earth. What's it like? It's new. Well, what all these people around
here? They're new. Oh my. So remember this. The revelation. The revelation
of the Lord Jesus Christ here. Every section of it spans the
entire dispensation of Christ coming, what happens, and Christ
coming again. Every one of them. We have the
first, you have the book with the seven seals. You have Christ
and the seven churches. You have the seven trumpets of
judgment. Fourth, you have the woman and the man child persecuted
by the dragon and his heifers. Then you have the seven vows
and the bowls of wrath. The fall of Babylon and the beast. And the judgment upon the dragon.
And then followed by a new heaven and a new earth. And so when
we get into these things, a little bit at a time, and when we get
started, you know, you just read a chapter before the one I'm
going to deal with, and then you'll be kind of familiar with
it. But oh my, we have got a gospel. We preach exactly what this book
says. You know what it says? It says Christ came. Christ came. And what did He do when He got
here? He conquered. He conquered death. He conquered hell. He
conquered the grave. He conquered sin. And he has
the keys. And then he loved his people
and washed his people from their sins. He went back and said to
God's right hand. And he's coming again. And ever
I'll see. And that happens over and over
and over again. And in different intervening
times while he's coming and all the things that goes on, different
things he does on this earth and different things he does
for his people. And they all got a different aspect to them.
And God help and I pray that God please help me to deal with
this thing honestly and truly and if I don't know what it means
I'll say well, we'll find out when we get there what that means.
You know? In one of these days, we will
know it all. You know, you hear people say now, you know, boy,
he's a know-it-all. He's a know-it-all. Well, we
will one of these days be know-it-alls. I'm looking forward to it. Ain't
you? The only thing I want to know while I'm here right now
is the Lord Jesus Christ. And when I get to heaven, that's
all we'll know thereto. Whoa. That's all we'll know thereto. Our Father, oh blessed, blessed
Savior, thank you for allowing us to meet here tonight. Thank
you for your precious word. Lord, I tremble in your presence,
tremble when I deal with these things. It makes me shake in
your presence. And Lord, I don't want to be
wrong. I don't want to have the plagues added unto me that's
in this book. because I never dealt with it
correctly and rightly. So you guide us, guide me, direct
my steps, order my thoughts, order my heart, order my study,
so that I'll honor you, be truthful, be honest before you and before
the people. Lord, we need you. You are all
in all. And we look so forward to when
we get to be with you. And truly, truly, you will be
all in all. You're the light of that city.
You're the lamb, the precious lamb of God. Thank you for meeting
with us. God bless these dear saints.
Those who are not with us, Lord bless them. Thank you for this
opportunity to preach. Bless them as they go home. We
ask you to meet their needs for Christ's sake. Amen. Amen. All right. Did you hear what
Jesus said to me? They're all taken away. Your sins are pardoned and you
are free. They're all taken away. They're all taken away, away. They're all taken away, away. They're all taken away, They're
all taken away. They're all taken away. Amen. Amen. See you Wednesday,
guys.