Let's turn to John 14. As we have been waiting on the Lord, realizing that it has been a long time since we have done any teaching, from the eschatological perspective--and realizing that some of our young adults, and a number of our youth, have never really been through a survey of Revelation and some of the basic Scriptures. We are not going into great depth, but in Ezekiel 38 and 39--and, of course, in Daniel 7 through 11, primarily 9 and 11--and a look at some of those passages, as they pertain to the Coming of the Lord, the Day of the Lord, and a look at the Great Tribulation. You know, "Tribulation," the first three and a half years, and the "Great Tribulation," the second three and a half years, of what the Bible refers to as "Daniel's Seventieth Week." When you read the book of Daniel, in Chapters 9 through 11, and look at some of those things, you will see him talking about "weeks," or periods of seven years, and many different, intricate things that are addressed through those passages, that we are not really going to concern ourselves with.

But, realize that God is so specific in everything that is stated... From the time of the decree to go forth and restore Jerusalem, until the coming of Messiah, you can actually figure it out, to the day of Jesus' triumphant entry--phenomenal, over 400 years! Just phenomenal! Specific statements of the prophets as they speak, not only foretelling His first coming, as the prophets spoke--in fact, some of the prophetic utterances--and when you interpret Bible prophecy, there is the principle of biblical hermeneutics. "Hermeneutics" is just the science of Bible study. There is a science to this; there is a proper way to study the Bible. And, prophecy... The study of prophecy, in and of itself, has its' own rules. They are very similar to the basic rules of studying the Scripture, but there are other things, that are in prophecy, that are somewhat unique--in the fact that there are, many times, dual applications to prophecies. Some, that are the same prophecy, are momentarily fulfilled at that moment in time, and also something that is in the future--a lot of the prophecies concerning the coming of the Lord... People were confused on Jesus' first coming, and then, the incarnation of Jesus. The fact that His name would be called Emmanuel... We see the prophetic statement of His birth, and then, of His eternal reign, and of His kingdom, and the angles that spoke and said, "Of his kingdom there shall be no end" (Luke 1:33). And, we see the dual applications many times, in Scripture, that are applied. You can spend your life in it and still not understand it all. So, we are not interested in that. We have other things to do. We want to look at the specifics, the basics...