1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,660 Hello everyone. Welcome to episode number 16 of the Bible Prophecy Masterclass, in which 2 00:00:07,660 --> 00:00:12,620 we will pause to ponder the TBN movie, One Night with the King, a show that was much 3 00:00:12,620 --> 00:00:17,600 lauded when it first aired, having got a fair amount of hype before, during and after its 4 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:20,180 debut some years ago. 5 00:00:20,180 --> 00:00:26,760 As a Pentecostal creation, however, conceived by a Mr. Tommy Tenney, was it justified? 6 00:00:26,760 --> 00:00:31,160 How accurate was Mr. Tenney's handling and his portrayal of the story of Queen Esther 7 00:00:31,160 --> 00:00:33,700 and her uncle Mordecai? 8 00:00:33,700 --> 00:00:39,060 In the grand scheme of things, is this just more hogwash theology? Or, does it actually 9 00:00:39,060 --> 00:00:44,100 bring substantive thinking to the theological bargaining table, in an arena where, critical 10 00:00:44,100 --> 00:00:46,560 thinking is a must? 11 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:51,360 Continuing in and rounding out our discussion of Pentecostalist teachings, let's talk about 12 00:00:51,360 --> 00:00:56,920 it in today's episode number 16 in our multi-part series involving a thorough consideration 13 00:00:56,920 --> 00:01:00,120 of the 18th chapter of the Book of the Revelation. 14 00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:06,840 Again, these readings come from the book, Judgment Day, Volume 1, Prelude to Armageddon, 15 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:12,440 Part 1, The United States in Bible Prophecy, written by Mr. Alvin Mitchell. 16 00:01:12,440 --> 00:01:20,000 I, Carol, will be your host. One Night with the King. The Grand Illusion, of Tommy Tenney, 17 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:21,720 Matt Crouch. 18 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:27,080 Let the Pentecostals tell it, and this, at the time of this writing, new, soon-to-be-released 19 00:01:27,080 --> 00:01:32,600 movie, based upon the book by a pastor named Tommy Tenney, produced by Matt Crouch, son 20 00:01:32,600 --> 00:01:37,280 of Paul and Jan Crouch owners and founders of TBN is the greatest thing ever, for the 21 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:42,960 Christian community, since canned soup, sliced bread or even the birth of the Christ himself. 22 00:01:42,960 --> 00:01:49,480 But, is it? They herald it as being true to Scripture. Is it being largely fiction, by 23 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:55,280 Mr. Tenney's own admission, with key components of the story, including the overall thrust, 24 00:01:55,280 --> 00:02:00,000 being inaccurate, any and every false prophet one can ever hope to encounter will always 25 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:04,080 claim that his point of view is the most scriptural of all. 26 00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:09,800 The day after the premiere, the 11th of October 06, Jan Crouch praised and appraised it not 27 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:12,960 as a movie but as a prophecy from God. 28 00:02:12,960 --> 00:02:18,860 Really? Esther is lauded in all the promotional hype and media bling as a young woman, chosen 29 00:02:18,860 --> 00:02:24,760 of God for her extraordinary role because of her faith. Whom? If there was any faith 30 00:02:24,760 --> 00:02:30,080 to speak of, how did the God of all the universe miss it, when evidently, he saw the whole 31 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:31,720 thing? 32 00:02:31,720 --> 00:02:35,720 Perhaps we should give Mr. Tenney credit for having the guts to admit publicly that his 33 00:02:35,720 --> 00:02:40,820 work, the book, is fictitious. Might that also be an admission that the book is loaded 34 00:02:40,820 --> 00:02:46,560 with doctrinal error, as well? After all, the book and movie cannot be both fiction 35 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:53,400 and true to scripture all at the same time. Can it? Without doubt, this marvelous woman, 36 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:59,960 some say girl, in her mid-teens, was a catalyst, a choice pun, a key player in God's plan, 37 00:02:59,960 --> 00:03:03,880 albeit, she is praised as one who literally changed the world. 38 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:09,920 And, in some sense, it might be argued, she did, but, is that the picture God wanted mankind 39 00:03:09,920 --> 00:03:13,720 to see, when presented with the story of Esther? 40 00:03:13,720 --> 00:03:18,920 What is wrong with this picture, as painted by this son of a holiness preacher? 41 00:03:18,920 --> 00:03:23,920 What exactly did God intend for us to see here? What is the, take away, Esther as a 42 00:03:23,920 --> 00:03:30,160 godly heroine, or, Esther as a witless pun, a pagan Jew in his all-sustaining hand, she 43 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:35,280 did not know him, among a largely faithless people held captive now by choice, the release 44 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:40,660 date of their God-orchestrated foreign incarceration having passed they having refused to leave, 45 00:03:40,660 --> 00:03:44,680 the faithless centerpiece at the very heart of his plan to preserve a fledgling branch 46 00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:49,680 of that faithless people, struggling for survival, being now in the crosshairs of a new threat 47 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:54,040 to that struggle, separated by almost a thousand miles. 48 00:03:54,040 --> 00:04:00,020 Granted, Esther's role in the plan of God for the sustenance of the Jew, saved her people, 49 00:04:00,020 --> 00:04:06,000 who would otherwise have most assuredly been wiped out, kingdom-wide, not just in Persia. 50 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:11,040 The Jew gave us the Christ. And the world has not been the same since no doubt about 51 00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:16,920 it. In all of their praise for the movie, praise for Esther, praise for the producer, 52 00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:22,280 praise for this and praise for that about the movie, have they, has everyone, alas, 53 00:04:22,280 --> 00:04:27,400 missed the point. Realizing that her name according to the Oxford University Press' 54 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:34,040 Schofield KJV reference Bible means, star, who was the actual, star, of the show in, 55 00:04:34,040 --> 00:04:39,360 Esther's, story. If God can do it through Esther, he can do it through anyone, they 56 00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:43,880 chanted over and over again, is what they profess to want the viewers, particularly 57 00:04:43,880 --> 00:04:50,160 young women, to take away with them from the movie. Certainly, this is a very true statement, 58 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:54,280 and it may be an amiable objective, but is that what God intended to be the focus of 59 00:04:54,280 --> 00:05:00,200 our attention? Properly distilled and analyzed, is this a role that any but a fool would wish 60 00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:05,800 upon his daughter, or any young woman? The inference in this line of errant, foolish 61 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:10,880 reasoning is that God will act under similar conditions and situations of duress, if we 62 00:05:10,880 --> 00:05:16,840 create the right set of circumstances. That's odd, is it not? There have been countless 63 00:05:16,840 --> 00:05:21,760 times of stress since those days, when the Jews, having created more and similar trouble 64 00:05:21,760 --> 00:05:26,420 for themselves, could have used any sort of a deliverer, and yet for anyone understanding 65 00:05:26,420 --> 00:05:33,280 the story there has in no case, ever, been another Esther. Which begs another question? 66 00:05:33,280 --> 00:05:40,180 Who then creates the basis upon which Esther's might be born, and or needed? God, or men? 67 00:05:40,180 --> 00:05:44,760 Put another way, what but a fool, knowing that the circumstance that led to, such a 68 00:05:44,760 --> 00:05:50,240 time as this was the sin of rebellion, and, rejection of God, and, knowing that at the 69 00:05:50,240 --> 00:05:56,400 first moment of, such a time as this. The people were still living in sin, denial and 70 00:05:56,400 --> 00:06:01,880 rejection, and, realizing that, such a time as this was ultimately not about the Jews 71 00:06:01,880 --> 00:06:07,080 or the millions with them living in or around Shushan, the Persian palace at all, as rather 72 00:06:07,080 --> 00:06:13,440 the objective was to protect, spare, save and to perpetuate the fifty thousand, plus, 73 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:18,040 living one thousand miles away from the epicenter of the source that spun the immediate danger 74 00:06:18,040 --> 00:06:24,560 that gave birth to, such a time as this. What sensible person, one wonders, would ever stoop 75 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:30,160 to wishing for or leading his daughter along a route that leads to, such a time as this. 76 00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:36,400 Granted, the Magi, who brought rich gifts that made a peasant Messiah, still in diapers, 77 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:41,440 one wealthy toddler, came from the loins of the millions of detainees left in exile following 78 00:06:41,440 --> 00:06:45,760 Cyrus decree permitting the rebuilding of the Jewish homeland, but it was the loins 79 00:06:45,760 --> 00:06:51,280 of the fifty thousand or so riddanees who produced that Messiah. Further, the chances 80 00:06:51,280 --> 00:06:56,480 that she will not only be lost for all eternity, but rejected and or overlooked to boot, are 81 00:06:56,480 --> 00:07:01,280 far greater than that she will ever be selected to the role of an, Esther. 82 00:07:01,280 --> 00:07:05,960 In addition, therefore, consider, there was no Esther to deliver them from the slaughter 83 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:13,080 of the Romans under Titus in 70 AD and in 135 AD, under whomever. No such person arose 84 00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:18,600 during the ravenous rampage of the bloodthirsty Catholic crusaders, who killed Jews at will, 85 00:07:18,600 --> 00:07:24,320 truly for zeal. Nor, was there one to deprive the murderous, monstrous blood baths created 86 00:07:24,320 --> 00:07:29,720 by the Bolsheviks under Lenin and Trotsky, supposedly twenty million, or the Nazis under 87 00:07:29,720 --> 00:07:33,920 Hitler, six million, to drink and slurp Jew blood. 88 00:07:33,920 --> 00:07:39,960 Clearly, in every such circumstance, what we had here was, such a time as this. The 89 00:07:39,960 --> 00:07:46,160 need being for a hero or heroine. The objective, as with Haman, was to kill them all, without 90 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:52,280 cause. As you consider the Crusades, the Inquisition and the Holocaust, and the Esthers needed 91 00:07:52,280 --> 00:07:57,560 but who did not show, consider also the next Holocaust attempt planned by God per Ezekiel 92 00:07:57,560 --> 00:08:03,560 chapter 38 and 39, as well as the future encounter with the Beast per Daniel 7 and Revelation 93 00:08:03,560 --> 00:08:10,100 chapter 13. God knows what is coming. He has choreographed the whole thing. Yet, in no 94 00:08:10,100 --> 00:08:16,760 case is there a role for an Esther scripted in. So, is, One Night with the King, a blessing 95 00:08:16,760 --> 00:08:22,320 and source of biblical encouragement for saints of our day, or is it just more grand entertainment, 96 00:08:22,320 --> 00:08:27,080 bearing a message having little or no real biblical relevance or spiritual significance, 97 00:08:27,080 --> 00:08:32,680 in the end maybe even a curse? It seems that, in typical Pentecostal fashion, 98 00:08:32,680 --> 00:08:37,120 the writer of the book and the producer of this film have each, by an exercise of a want 99 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:41,960 or lack of genuine concern for critical thinking and analysis, missed the point of the story 100 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:48,760 of Esther. In so doing, they have in the finale, missed the real message of the book, over-emphasizing 101 00:08:48,760 --> 00:08:53,780 an individual whose role was at best secondary, and subordinate at every turn, to him who 102 00:08:53,780 --> 00:08:59,320 was indeed the leading character. In God's economy and timing, Esther, fine 103 00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:05,040 young lady, awesome personality and intellectual beauty, though she may well have been, really 104 00:09:05,040 --> 00:09:08,940 was not the young woman these people make her out to be. 105 00:09:08,940 --> 00:09:13,900 The Tenny, Crouch Deception is only one more grand illusion designed for the minds of fools 106 00:09:13,900 --> 00:09:19,160 in the faith who will otherwise not submit to sound doctrine and teaching. 107 00:09:19,160 --> 00:09:24,240 Servants and Chosen, but not Saints. There is no evidence that Esther or her uncle were 108 00:09:24,240 --> 00:09:30,360 ever determined, dedicated servants of God. Intriguingly, whereas they are not condemned 109 00:09:30,360 --> 00:09:35,840 as being worst case, sinful scenarios, one cannot but observe that he is careful to never 110 00:09:35,840 --> 00:09:41,840 hold them up, nor does he ever, in any way, allude to them, anywhere in scripture, as 111 00:09:41,840 --> 00:09:49,000 examples, or as models of faith and or piety. Contrast this fact to the Daniels, the Esras, 112 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:55,000 the Nehemiahs, and certain of the prophets, all like them of Babylonian captivity fame. 113 00:09:55,000 --> 00:10:00,320 Then there's Abraham, visited by God in person and Moses, with whom God talked face to face 114 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:05,720 – and of course, the, sweet Psalmist, man after God's own heart. In the midst of his 115 00:10:05,720 --> 00:10:11,920 highlighting of all their warts, shortcomings and failings, lying, murders, adultery, God 116 00:10:11,920 --> 00:10:18,400 held them up as pillars of faith. Even the womanizing Samson makes the cut. 117 00:10:18,400 --> 00:10:22,480 Demonstrating in the waning moments of his life, a humble and contrite heart not at all 118 00:10:22,480 --> 00:10:26,640 to be frowned upon by him who constantly tries our hearts. 119 00:10:26,640 --> 00:10:32,080 Hence, moreover, not only is there never any mention of God anywhere in the book, there 120 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:37,160 is equally never any calling out to God on the part of either of these, the tales' principal 121 00:10:37,160 --> 00:10:42,280 participants, the undisputed heroine and hero, as with the Israelis at the height of their 122 00:10:42,280 --> 00:10:47,960 Egyptian enslavement, their anguished cries going up to God, while not specifically directed 123 00:10:47,960 --> 00:10:54,020 to him. So likewise, God observes that Mordecai, having symbolically expressed his grief upon 124 00:10:54,020 --> 00:10:58,200 hearing of his impending doom through the cultural custom of donning of sackcloth and 125 00:10:58,200 --> 00:11:05,600 ashes, cried aloud bitterly, albeit, no tear was shed with him in mind, not inconspicuously, 126 00:11:05,600 --> 00:11:11,040 no prayer of theirs was ever intentionally sent his way. 127 00:11:11,040 --> 00:11:15,480 There is not the slightest hint or evidence of faith in God, nor is there any expression 128 00:11:15,480 --> 00:11:20,540 of concern, knowledge and or recollection of his past providence, on their parts not 129 00:11:20,540 --> 00:11:26,120 withstanding the movie depiction, a lie, of both invoking the name of God, Esther speaking 130 00:11:26,120 --> 00:11:31,240 of having read and taught the Torah. The biblical evidence is such that, Mordecai 131 00:11:31,240 --> 00:11:36,600 and his family eschewed their Jewish heritage, publicly, so that no one outside the family 132 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:42,240 knew. Esther for her part, was mindful to insist that all the Jews at Shushan the palace 133 00:11:42,240 --> 00:11:47,620 be gathered together for a three-day period of fasting, before whom, in terms of deity, 134 00:11:47,620 --> 00:11:53,000 is not specified, after which she would present herself with her petition before the king, 135 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:58,080 uninvited, fully expecting that in all likelihood she would be killed, contrast this to her 136 00:11:58,080 --> 00:12:02,800 exiled comrades in the Book of Daniel, who living in enduring trials and times of testing 137 00:12:02,800 --> 00:12:07,760 before her, are always pictured with their eyes and hearts toward heaven. There could 138 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:12,840 never be a shred of doubt as to where they would turn in times of duress. 139 00:12:12,840 --> 00:12:19,240 Their lives were so marked, even in the midst of open hostility. So were Ezra and Nehemiah, 140 00:12:19,240 --> 00:12:25,320 each always mindful of the reality and presence of God. Neither sought advice or wisdom from 141 00:12:25,320 --> 00:12:30,360 the priests or scribes as to how this difficult time should be handled Ezra, having served 142 00:12:30,360 --> 00:12:35,800 in the capacity of both, being the best evidence that they were there and available. 143 00:12:35,800 --> 00:12:40,840 There was no offering of prayers or petitions to Yahweh Elohim, or, at least there is no 144 00:12:40,840 --> 00:12:46,280 evidence or reason to believe that either Mordecai or Esther led therein. But for the 145 00:12:46,280 --> 00:12:51,120 fact that they themselves were careful to remember their roots, behind closed doors, 146 00:12:51,120 --> 00:12:56,880 they were fully assimilated into Babylonian culture. As far as anyone could tell, they 147 00:12:56,880 --> 00:13:02,680 were Babylonians. While they obviously never forgot nor denied their Jewishness, no one 148 00:13:02,680 --> 00:13:08,440 outside the four walls of their home knew that they were in fact Jews. All of this, 149 00:13:08,440 --> 00:13:13,000 in addition to being perhaps most telling, is both fitting and understandable, given 150 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:18,040 that their then-current circumstance and predicament was, as a matter of fact, the product of a 151 00:13:18,040 --> 00:13:22,640 national life of rejection and repudiation of God and of His demands upon them, in the 152 00:13:22,640 --> 00:13:27,480 first place, they wanted to be like all the other nations around them. 153 00:13:27,480 --> 00:13:33,960 The Jew presence in Babylon was not a weekend visit, nor was it a spring vacation. Rather, 154 00:13:33,960 --> 00:13:39,840 the nature of their 70-year stay was punitive, a form of incarceration, one might say, with 155 00:13:39,840 --> 00:13:46,480 the Babylonians doing honors as their jailers. Specifically, among other things, the Jews, 156 00:13:46,480 --> 00:13:52,000 like the ten tribes deported by the Assyrians before them, never to return, were deported, 157 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:56,800 as promised, to Babylon on account of their preference of worship directed to idols and 158 00:13:56,800 --> 00:14:02,280 false gods over the true and living God, who had already demonstrated His reality and viability 159 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:06,600 before the eyes of the then-known world by way of a strong deliverance from their Egyptian 160 00:14:06,600 --> 00:14:08,680 hell on earth. 161 00:14:08,680 --> 00:14:13,360 Despite the accompaniment of a few upright and devout Jews who, throughout the 70 years 162 00:14:13,360 --> 00:14:18,320 in captivity, sought to distinguish themselves as servants of the God who lives, the nation 163 00:14:18,320 --> 00:14:24,320 of Israel as a whole never recanted. They never gave up their preference for idols. 164 00:14:24,320 --> 00:14:30,040 Instead, they joined the more than 95% or so of all the Jews, blending and melding into 165 00:14:30,040 --> 00:14:34,920 the Babylonian culture and lifestyle, to the wholehearted abandonment of their own, that 166 00:14:34,920 --> 00:14:40,200 is what got them there in the first place. Such was the case with Mordecai, Esther's 167 00:14:40,200 --> 00:14:42,840 uncle and father figure. 168 00:14:42,840 --> 00:14:49,200 What's in a name? Mordecai is classified ethnically as a Jew born to a man named Kish, who came 169 00:14:49,200 --> 00:14:54,840 into Babylon among the Jewish captives taken at the time of the Jews' last king, Jeconiah, 170 00:14:54,840 --> 00:15:01,880 a few years after Daniel. It may not be entirely unreasonable to suppose that, in all probability, 171 00:15:01,880 --> 00:15:06,760 he was born sometime early during the latter half of the 70 years of captivity, with Esther 172 00:15:06,760 --> 00:15:10,200 being birthed perhaps in the last ten years. 173 00:15:10,200 --> 00:15:15,920 Nothing is known or said relative to his mother. However, if the name, Mordecai, is in any 174 00:15:15,920 --> 00:15:21,420 wise significant, then she may well have been foreign, although because of her Jewish husband, 175 00:15:21,420 --> 00:15:26,020 she lived and raised her family among the Jews, hanging on to her pagan roots, which 176 00:15:26,020 --> 00:15:31,380 carried greater weight in the shaping of her family's beliefs and values than did Judaism. 177 00:15:31,380 --> 00:15:36,420 This is highly plausible, but not necessary, however, given the Jews' general tendency 178 00:15:36,420 --> 00:15:39,640 to gravitate toward all things pagan. 179 00:15:39,640 --> 00:15:41,260 Anyway. 180 00:15:41,260 --> 00:15:45,980 According to Strong's exhaustive concordance, his name is one of, foreign derivation, which 181 00:15:45,980 --> 00:15:48,680 means it is not a Jewish term. 182 00:15:48,680 --> 00:15:54,680 The Schofield Study Bible, based on the KJV, published by the Oxford University Press, 183 00:15:54,680 --> 00:16:00,040 indicates that Mordecai means, worshiper of Meridach, which was a Babylonian idol, and 184 00:16:00,040 --> 00:16:04,240 their god of war, again, per Strong's exhaustive. 185 00:16:04,240 --> 00:16:09,240 It is highly unlikely, therefore, that any devout, God-fearing Jewish parent would have 186 00:16:09,240 --> 00:16:11,600 so named any child of his. 187 00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:17,480 This, then, gives some indication or tells something of the theological mindset and climate 188 00:16:17,480 --> 00:16:21,560 undergirding the home into which Mordecai was born and raised. 189 00:16:21,560 --> 00:16:26,520 Thus, though he knew very well that he was Jewish, he was never taught all of the Jewish 190 00:16:26,520 --> 00:16:32,680 laws and customs, having been born and reared among the Babylonians, as a Babylonian. 191 00:16:32,680 --> 00:16:37,560 Neither then was Esther, given that she was, in turn, brought up by this man who was her 192 00:16:37,560 --> 00:16:38,560 uncle. 193 00:16:38,560 --> 00:16:43,080 See Sidebar, Mordecai's Background, page 129. 194 00:16:43,080 --> 00:16:49,000 Thus, it seems that, as was the case with Samson, and contrary to his choice of Abraham 195 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:54,400 and David, contrary as well, to the teaching of the Pentecostals and Pastor Tenny, God 196 00:16:54,400 --> 00:16:59,120 was ultimately not looking for faith-filled servants, at that particular juncture, to 197 00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:04,000 fulfill his designs in the face of the pagan Persians, or to carry out his purposes geared 198 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:06,440 to the preservation of his people. 199 00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:12,360 Likewise, he was fully apprised of Israel's wicked bent, and his propensity for rebellion, 200 00:17:12,360 --> 00:17:16,720 when he chose to debut and showcase them before the world as his chosen people. 201 00:17:16,720 --> 00:17:21,920 At that time, their prayers and cries went up to him during their abode among the Egyptians, 202 00:17:21,920 --> 00:17:25,880 although God affirms that he was fully aware that he was not their target, as they were 203 00:17:25,880 --> 00:17:28,200 praying to their idols. 204 00:17:28,200 --> 00:17:32,560 Were this not so, we may rest assured that he would have had no trouble finding faithful 205 00:17:32,560 --> 00:17:37,960 servants in the likes of Ezra and Nehemiah, the priestly scribe and descendant of Aaron, 206 00:17:37,960 --> 00:17:42,320 who devoted himself totally to the pursuit of knowledge according to the law of God, 207 00:17:42,320 --> 00:17:47,480 in hopes that he might teach others, and, the cup-bearer to Artaxerxes son of Xerxes, 208 00:17:47,480 --> 00:17:51,960 to whom Esther was queen always mindful of the hand of God upon him in whatever the affairs 209 00:17:51,960 --> 00:17:57,600 he undertook for his glory, ever desirous that God should remember him, dot for good, 210 00:17:57,600 --> 00:18:02,660 or, with blessing for all his endeavours on behalf of his people. 211 00:18:02,660 --> 00:18:07,240 For this reason, faith on the parts of Esther and Mordecai was non-essential to the cause 212 00:18:07,240 --> 00:18:12,640 at hand, as they were in the final analysis mere tools, unwitting instruments in his plan 213 00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:17,840 to save, not so much their lives, those having chosen to remain still outside the land of 214 00:18:17,840 --> 00:18:22,520 Israel, as to ensure the preservation of those of their countrymen that core group who had 215 00:18:22,520 --> 00:18:27,840 journeyed back to Palestine, whose numbers, there were only around fifty thousand or so, 216 00:18:27,840 --> 00:18:33,040 initially, left them too small and too weak to fend for themselves. 217 00:18:33,040 --> 00:18:37,520 This would be the group from whose loins the world's messiah, Christ would spring, some 218 00:18:37,520 --> 00:18:42,600 four hundred years or so, later, it was for their good and well-being that the evil of 219 00:18:42,600 --> 00:18:45,800 the Haman's of the world had to be blocked. 220 00:18:45,800 --> 00:18:52,320 His plan did not call for such, faith in his, anointed, or deliverer, as, his ultimate objective 221 00:18:52,320 --> 00:18:57,400 was to show himself strong in the performance of his plans and his promises to his servants, 222 00:18:57,400 --> 00:19:01,640 all hammered out in eternity past, through the preservation of his people. 223 00:19:01,640 --> 00:19:06,920 Thus, we may safely conclude then that, this Jewish queen of the Persians and her foster 224 00:19:06,920 --> 00:19:12,440 family were no doubt good, decent, upstanding people in the community, probably therefore 225 00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:17,040 figuring prominently among all who lived on the, up, side of the rebellion neither sold 226 00:19:17,040 --> 00:19:20,120 out altogether to the idolatry of the day. 227 00:19:20,120 --> 00:19:26,400 Although as has been shown, his name implies, idolatry was their preference, yet, consequently, 228 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:30,880 not right with God either, in no way actively seeking his face. 229 00:19:30,880 --> 00:19:36,800 Hence, furthermore, unlike the choicest of his servants, contemporary and past Mordecai, 230 00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:39,760 Esther and family did not know him. 231 00:19:39,760 --> 00:19:44,760 Knowing him, as we do, one might say in addition that, this whole encounter with Haman was 232 00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:50,920 intended to be a wake-up call for them, in a slumber from which they never shook themselves. 233 00:19:50,920 --> 00:19:52,260 Preparing an Esther? 234 00:19:52,260 --> 00:19:57,240 So then, in light of the evident implication behind Mr. Tenney's quote of himself, if 235 00:19:57,240 --> 00:20:02,800 God can use Esther, he can use anybody, is it fair to say that, or to assume that he 236 00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:08,160 will therefore use any young woman today in like manner, if she is properly prepared, 237 00:20:08,160 --> 00:20:12,840 what do we mean by, prepared, and was Esther prepared, she and her family being out of 238 00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:17,080 fellowship with the Lord God Almighty, as they were? 239 00:20:17,080 --> 00:20:22,840 Certainly, the base sentiment of Mr. Tenney's assertion is true, so much so, that it almost 240 00:20:22,840 --> 00:20:26,200 seems ridiculous that he should have voiced it. 241 00:20:26,200 --> 00:20:30,620 It is on the horn of the ramification of that assertion, however, that his ignorance is 242 00:20:30,620 --> 00:20:32,440 laid bare. 243 00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:36,860 In light of the road that got them there as a nation, the path chosen and trod by Esther 244 00:20:36,860 --> 00:20:41,080 and her family up to the point of their need for redemption, is this something that any 245 00:20:41,080 --> 00:20:45,920 Christian should wish for his daughter, as the Pentecostals insist, would any Orthodox 246 00:20:45,920 --> 00:20:48,840 Jew of any understanding do so today? 247 00:20:48,840 --> 00:20:53,560 Remember, they wandered away from, and were therefore out of fellowship with the Lord 248 00:20:53,560 --> 00:20:55,360 their God. 249 00:20:55,360 --> 00:21:00,160 But for a few, die-hard, faithful, few sought God's face or grace throughout the whole 250 00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:05,120 of the Babylonian captivity and beyond, to the coming of the Magi, following the birth 251 00:21:05,120 --> 00:21:08,960 of the Messiah Jesus Christ, Savior of the world. 252 00:21:08,960 --> 00:21:13,920 Thus, not only did they not anticipate the impending need for such preparation as would 253 00:21:13,920 --> 00:21:19,880 be required, they were idolatrous, Hebrew worshippers of Babylonian gods, not God-fearing 254 00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:21,520 Jews. 255 00:21:21,520 --> 00:21:26,200 How then, does one living in these times prepare another for the role of an Esther, when he 256 00:21:26,200 --> 00:21:30,760 is ignorant of the circumstances that forged her, in the first place? 257 00:21:30,760 --> 00:21:32,280 Who prepared Esther? 258 00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:37,200 Mordecai's effort to coax her into action shows that clearly in his estimation, she 259 00:21:37,200 --> 00:21:39,820 was in no wise prepared. 260 00:21:39,820 --> 00:21:44,880 Can that be done, or is it not more safe to say that only a fool, professing faith in 261 00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:47,280 God, might so desire? 262 00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:51,520 Regardless of the beliefs or the theology of some, these people were not walking in 263 00:21:51,520 --> 00:21:55,920 faith or seeking a right relationship, standing with God. 264 00:21:55,920 --> 00:21:59,960 Knowing the conditions and circumstances that shaped the void and gave the world Esther 265 00:21:59,960 --> 00:22:02,040 to drop in as Phil. 266 00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:06,240 Why foolishly lead a woman and her people off the straight and narrow, to ostensibly 267 00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:11,640 prepare her for supposed great things, when leading her in, teaching her and her people, 268 00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:17,360 to choose, the, way of the Lord, would have been a much more honorable and noble goal. 269 00:22:17,360 --> 00:22:22,120 The circumstance or situation that forged the need for Esther was sin and rebellion, 270 00:22:22,120 --> 00:22:26,040 in their homeland, that which came out of the crucible of the captivity to fill the 271 00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:30,800 need was an otherwise beautiful, adorable young woman shaped and prepared by her culture 272 00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:35,440 to continue in a life of sin and rebellion, out of the will of God, not in service to 273 00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:36,900 him. 274 00:22:36,900 --> 00:22:41,880 So then, beginning with Abraham and Sarah living in a culture of rebellion, God reached 275 00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:46,780 down and chose two people to groom and grow into a nation, preserving them through various 276 00:22:46,780 --> 00:22:51,920 stages of development and growth, only to have that nation lapse into sin and rebellion, 277 00:22:51,920 --> 00:22:56,920 in which state it was delivered from a hellish bondage only to persist in its rebellion, 278 00:22:56,920 --> 00:23:00,380 whereupon, as promised he destroyed them. 279 00:23:00,380 --> 00:23:05,200 So likewise, therefore, it should come as no surprise that God would choose a woman 280 00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:11,360 and her family, living out of his will as they surely were, to preserve that same people. 281 00:23:11,360 --> 00:23:16,060 In contra distinction to this new round of errant dogma enthusiastically pandered and 282 00:23:16,060 --> 00:23:22,400 embraced by the holiness, supposed, six hundred million, the fact is, you cannot, prepare, 283 00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:23,980 an Esther. 284 00:23:23,980 --> 00:23:29,040 To the degree that such a person is prepared, to the same degree you no longer have an, 285 00:23:29,040 --> 00:23:34,120 Esther, assuming that by, prepare, one means that the, prepared, is schooled in the things 286 00:23:34,120 --> 00:23:39,680 and laws of God, so that he, she walks in faith, waiting upon him, giving thanks to 287 00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:42,200 him for his provision. 288 00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:47,360 Without controversy, there were no doubt such God-fearing young Jewish women of this type, 289 00:23:47,360 --> 00:23:52,320 schooled in things of the Lord, intelligent and highly attractive, of, Esther, caliber 290 00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:54,300 and or beyond. 291 00:23:54,300 --> 00:23:59,240 By no means would God ever stoop to putting one of his own, faithful and true, into so 292 00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:03,800 vile a position, where she would be deprived of the right and the privilege to serve him 293 00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:08,800 openly and freely particularly when there are plenty of, Esters, who won't bow the 294 00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:13,160 knee or call on his name, even in times of trouble. 295 00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:18,040 The road leading to and mandating the likes of and the services of an Esther, is one of 296 00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:23,600 willful, woeful negligence and aversion to the things of God, as shown already, the, 297 00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:29,700 prepared, i.e., the Ezras, the Nehemiahs, the Daniels, etc., though preferred and highly 298 00:24:29,700 --> 00:24:34,960 favored in other applications may be altogether ignored in this capacity. 299 00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:39,200 Her presence marks the existence of a life among lives still living in that rebellious 300 00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:44,280 state, beyond the seventy years' captivity, well beyond the rise of Medo-Persia and the 301 00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:50,120 fall of Babylon, and thus out of fellowship with its maker, in grave danger of extermination 302 00:24:50,120 --> 00:24:54,440 yet having no manifest desire for reconciliation. 303 00:24:54,440 --> 00:25:00,000 Hence then viewed in proper context hers was in reality not at all an enviable position, 304 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:05,520 nor is it one to be longed for by any godly young woman, as, given the circumstances, 305 00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:11,480 only an idiot, lacking in understanding, would, as we shall see, forthwith. 306 00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:16,320 Furthermore, one should note that Mordecai and family were among that majority of Jews 307 00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:20,960 who chose to remain in Babylon, rather than return to Israel after the seventy years of 308 00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:23,680 captivity had ended. 309 00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:28,040 Except for the families who gave us the likes of Nehemiah and much later the Magi from the 310 00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:32,780 East who in all likelihood were men of Jewish descent there is no historical or biblical 311 00:25:32,780 --> 00:25:37,120 evidence that the masses of those remaining ever attempted in any way to carry on the 312 00:25:37,120 --> 00:25:39,240 Jewish tradition. 313 00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:44,480 To the satisfaction and glory of God, therefore, Esther's life was in fact not one worthy 314 00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:47,800 of emulation, strictly speaking. 315 00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:53,440 In God's economy and in light of his law, Esther was in fact, moreover, a whore, in 316 00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:58,440 that there appears to have been no official wedding between herself and the king, up front, 317 00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:03,200 with whom she slept, supposedly, and shared with other women. 318 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:07,920 Following the advice of her uncle Mordecai, hiding the fact of her Jewishness, she made 319 00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:13,480 no effort to comply with the will or the word of God, in any matter, including marriage, 320 00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:17,840 in hope and trust that she might ultimately sway the palace though she may well have, 321 00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:22,560 given that she was well favored in the king's eyes, right off the bat. 322 00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:26,760 Though she was a very young contemporary to Ezra, and she may have rubbed shoulders with 323 00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:32,320 Nehemiah, Jewish cup-bearer to Artaxerxes Daniel being alive, for perhaps the first 324 00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:37,920 ten years or so of her life, may well have been dead when she achieved recognition. 325 00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:42,800 Arriving at the palace it cannot be said with even modest certainty of either her or Mordecai, 326 00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:47,880 that they shared any such faith and dedication to the things of God, as did these well-known 327 00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:48,880 saints. 328 00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:53,400 Hence, where righteousness was concerned, she was out of the will of God though she 329 00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:56,880 remained an integral part of his plan for preservation. 330 00:26:56,880 --> 00:27:02,760 Tragedy is, unlike the promiscuous, womanizing Samson, who was also a major player in the 331 00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:07,400 plan of God but surrendering only at the very end of his service, she and her uncle never 332 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:08,880 called on his name. 333 00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:11,480 They never humbled themselves before him. 334 00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:17,000 Samson, on the other hand, lived all of his life in a performance according to his plan, 335 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:22,480 yet, out of his will as he was dedicated to the pursuit of pleasure, illicit sexual gratification 336 00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:24,960 and secular interests. 337 00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:30,360 To reiterate then, humanly speaking, you cannot therefore prepare any person to fulfill such 338 00:27:30,360 --> 00:27:32,880 a role as that of Esther. 339 00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:38,520 Her selection was, as it were, from our vantage point, a random act of God, by means of which 340 00:27:38,520 --> 00:27:44,560 he sought only to offset a wicked, satanically-inspired plot hatched and handed off to the lethargic, 341 00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:50,840 detached, unconcerned, non-inquisitive palace by Haman, enemy of all Jews by reverse engineering 342 00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:56,160 a deliverance, right under his nose, from within the apathetic king's own throne room, 343 00:27:56,160 --> 00:27:58,020 so to speak. 344 00:27:58,020 --> 00:28:03,360 That plot left unimpeded, threatened to derail his planned redemption of all mankind. 345 00:28:03,360 --> 00:28:07,380 Loss of the Jews at Shushan and elsewhere throughout the kingdom, but for the likes 346 00:28:07,380 --> 00:28:12,480 of Ezra and Nehemiah whose services were indispensable to the Riddernih survival might otherwise 347 00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:15,040 have been much less of a bother. 348 00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:19,320 Furthermore, not only is it impossible to prepare a person for this kind of work of 349 00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:24,660 God, it is equally impossible to prepare him, her for any work when that person will not 350 00:28:24,660 --> 00:28:29,000 submit to the teaching of the Word and will of God, as is the case with the churches of 351 00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:30,400 our day. 352 00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:35,340 Therefore, we must conclude that should this new effort by the holiness folk fail to ignite 353 00:28:35,340 --> 00:28:39,680 a passion for the written Word of God in its entirety one that was clearly lacking in the 354 00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:44,640 life of Esther, one that might even be missing in theirs it is highly unlikely that anyone 355 00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:49,240 will ever be outfitted for the Master's use, by virtue of either this movie or the book 356 00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:50,960 upon which it is based. 357 00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:56,860 They should, then as they usually do, following any major endeavor on their part, take whatever 358 00:28:56,860 --> 00:29:01,760 money this thing generates, and run, until their next encounter with the spirit of greed 359 00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:03,000 hits them. 360 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:06,280 It appears this may well be the Pentecostal mantra. 361 00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:11,040 And his greed and or need for cash coalesces finding a common outlet, heedless of whatever 362 00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:13,960 he does and says that is right. 363 00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:20,600 And yes, his teaching and preaching do incorporate a lot of biblical truth, albeit used as bait. 364 00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:25,800 His general mindset seems to be, we don't give a damn what the Word of God says, nor 365 00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:32,240 do we care what His will is, we have an itch, and, this itch we will scratch, to our satisfaction, 366 00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:36,080 at His expense, in His name, with His words. 367 00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:37,080 Conclusion 368 00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:43,880 So, by way of reiteration, was Esther's then, in God's eyes, an exemplary life, to be idolized 369 00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:46,140 and envied by all? 370 00:29:46,140 --> 00:29:50,680 She is at this hour a Jewish woman glorified and lifted high before the eyes of all the 371 00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:57,400 world, via the globe-spanning reach of the Pentecostal, holiness TBN TV network. 372 00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:02,840 Yet the reality is, she, whatever the shoe she fills in the plan of God, she is in truth 373 00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:08,720 a fine, beautiful woman who is lost for all eternity, like most, if not all of her peers 374 00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:14,160 and compatriots, born and reared in Babylon, having chosen therefore to stay, when they 375 00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:19,560 could have left to serve and to do homage with pagans to their pagan, man-made gods, 376 00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:23,000 rather than to God, who is indeed God. 377 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:28,560 In truth, where faith and trust are concerned, the lives of Ruth the Moabitess, I go where 378 00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:29,800 you go. 379 00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:31,960 Your people will be my people. 380 00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:34,000 Your God will be my God. 381 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:39,480 And that of Rahab, the whore, of Joshua fame bears greater cause for jubilation. 382 00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:46,280 They turned and trusted in God, their faith being evident, manifest, and without controversy. 383 00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:51,560 Esther was, it appears, at best simply an unwitting, unbelieving Jewish tool, in whom 384 00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:54,800 there was no evident trust in God. 385 00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:59,560 These Gentile women will spend eternity in the presence of their Maker. 386 00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:04,600 After the Jew without a doubt, like Samson, by the grace of God, born for the time in 387 00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:09,120 which she lived along with her family, will instead join Solomon among the ranks of all 388 00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:12,160 who will never set foot upon streets of gold. 389 00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:17,000 Assuming of course, as is likely the case, she and they died like they lived, in the 390 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:21,040 same polytheistic, God-rejecting, mindset. 391 00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:27,040 Thus, in this day and age when the American church's existence among Anglo and African 392 00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:31,400 Christians, bears a remarkable resemblance to that of the apostasy foretold by the Lord 393 00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:37,440 and his apostles a day when men prefer theological, religious lies over sound doctrine, they will 394 00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:40,040 not submit to a thorough teaching of the Bible. 395 00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:44,780 One might conclude that via, one night with the king, Satan and his emissaries have added 396 00:31:44,780 --> 00:31:50,000 one more notch to their belts, having scored another victory, against the Christ, from 397 00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:52,820 within the ranks of his churches. 398 00:31:52,820 --> 00:31:57,100 In like manner as God's saving of Israel from within the courts of the kingdom seeking 399 00:31:57,100 --> 00:32:01,960 its liquidation, or reviving his church from within the ranks of the Roman Catholic system 400 00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:07,920 that smothered it for over one thousand years, tit for tat, the devil seems to be gloating, 401 00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:13,800 I can do to you what you do to me, or, you kick my cat, I shoot your dog. 402 00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:18,640 Like fools, they, and all who will not submit themselves to the teaching of the Bible, will 403 00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:23,880 now march off, ecstatically searching for hope and inspiration in a life in which of itself 404 00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:25,880 there was no hope. 405 00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:30,520 They will effectively completely ignore the hand behind that life, the real star in the 406 00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:35,120 story of Esther, which should have been the focus of Mr. Tenney's attention, and the lives 407 00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:40,440 which were indeed touched, shaped, and cultured by that same unseen hand via his word, so 408 00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:46,840 as to be exemplary, and therefore worthy of all emulation, i.e., the Ezras, the Nehemiahs, 409 00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:52,040 the Daniels and his companions, the Ruths and the Rahabs, etc. 410 00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:57,000 If indeed the works of the Tenney-Crouch coalition are for such a time as this, the weight of 411 00:32:57,000 --> 00:33:03,680 their combined, manifest spiritual, biblical ineptness has most assuredly ruined it. 412 00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:07,880 Similar to King David's mistake of consultation with the wrong people when he sought to return 413 00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:13,000 the Ark of the Covenant to Jerusalem, after the Philistines were forced to disgorge it, 414 00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:18,280 so likewise, similarly, there was no consultation with the priests of God either before Esther's 415 00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:23,120 rendezvous with King Ahasuerus who is Xerxes of Nehemiah, or during the moment of crisis 416 00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:26,240 for all Jews hatched by Haman. 417 00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:31,800 What is more, the Jews did not then, do not now, acknowledge or remember God even in their 418 00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:36,320 Purim feasts, celebrating their victory over Haman. 419 00:33:36,320 --> 00:33:41,240 One night with the King, for such a time as this, oddly, no one appears to have seen fit 420 00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:43,160 to explain this statement. 421 00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:45,560 Hence, what do they mean? 422 00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:49,040 What are they trying to say, or, what's the point? 423 00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:53,800 If this movie is the handiwork of the Almighty, as they claim, then it would have to be so 424 00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:59,040 only in the sense of 2 Thessalonians chapter 2, God's response to a church that will not 425 00:33:59,040 --> 00:34:02,560 otherwise respond to him, according to his word. 426 00:34:02,560 --> 00:34:09,840 Indeed, we among man may, can, and frequently do create the, messes, that demand an Esther. 427 00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:14,600 However, God has only responded once in the history of the world, actually filling the 428 00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:21,440 vacuum with the presence of an, Esther, a young woman of his random choosing, not man's. 429 00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:25,560 There will be needs and dire circumstances in the future, where an Esther would be a 430 00:34:25,560 --> 00:34:31,040 definite plus, albeit none will be sent certainly, none that we prepare. 431 00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:36,480 When we create our life-threatening, messes, today, the only remedy, for such a time as 432 00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:41,560 this, with which God will respond is found at the foot of a cross, bearing his only-born 433 00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:45,280 son, Jesus Christ the Nazarene. 434 00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:49,360 Remain faithful, even though it will cost you your life, Jesus cautioned the faithful 435 00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:51,400 churches of Asia Minor. 436 00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:57,360 Thus, Esther, and any cavalry she could lead to the rescue, is expressly precluded. 437 00:34:57,360 --> 00:35:03,720 And, so thus we conclude this episode of the Bible Prophecy Masterclass. 438 00:35:03,720 --> 00:35:09,040 If you have found this study beneficial, would you please consider hitting that like button? 439 00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:12,760 Thanks and until we meet again for episode number 17. 440 00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:35,120 Have a wonderful day and may God bless you.