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We are aware that Jesus as well as the prophets of the Old Testament under the inspiration of God predicted a time of trouble, a time that would come upon the earth that is known as the time of tribulation. It is a period when God's wrath will be unleashed upon the earth. And the pouring out wrath is going to come in three series of judgments.
There are three series of judgments in the book Revelation that delineate for us the pattern of the tribulation. First are the seals. Beginning in Chapter 6, the Lord Jesus Christ begins to open a scroll that is sealed seven times. And with the breaking of each judgment pours out, war, famine, the death of one-fourth of all people on the earth, the collapse of heaven, the panic if the population of the earth as the Bible says "the kings of the earth and the great men and the rich men and the chief captains and the mighty men and every slave and every free man hide themselves in the rocks and the mountains and cry to the mountains and rocks, fall on us and hide us from the face Him that sitteth upon the upon the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb. For the great day of His wrath has come and who is able to stand."
"The seals are followed immediately by the trumpets, hail and fire mixed with blood cast upon the earth result in one-third of the trees and grass being burnt up. A flaming mountain cast into the sea and one-third of the sea becomes like blood killing one-third of it's creatures and destroying one-third of all the ships. A star called wormwood falls into the fresh water and pollutes one-third of it and many die. One-third of the heavenly bodies go out and the next three trumpets are even worse. Demons arise from the abyss to torment men. And men will seek to die. They will try to commit suicide, but will be unable to die only to bear the terrible torment that comes from demons. A great Army from the east will slaughter one-third of the remaining population of the earth, then will come lightening and thunder and earthquakes and great hail. And the trumpets are followed by the boils that will be poured out at the close of the period known as the tribulation, in which sores will be appear on the bodies of men. And all of the sea will be turned to blood killing every creature in it and all fresh water will be turned to blood and men will be scorched with fire, then will come total darkness. The earth begins to fall apart, hundred pound hail stones begin to fall and this precedes immediately the return of Jesus Christ."
That's a fearful anticipation, isn't it? That is the biblical description of the time known as the tribulation. Now the question which we are facing in this study is will the church go through the tribulation or will the Lord take us out before it begins? Is this something that we need to look forward to or are we going to be delivered from this? Now that's a very practical problem, isn't it?
Because if I am looking forward to the tribulation, that colors everything I do because that's what I need to get ready for. It's pointless for me to be wandering around looking at the sky and thinking Jesus is going to come any minute until I've begun to see these things happen if I'm going through the tribulation. I mean, I've see a little a hail, but I've not seen 100 pound hail stones. And if that's the last thing that's going to happen before Jesus comes, then I know when Jesus is going to come. It removes the eminent return, plus instead of looking for Christ, I'm looking for antichrist.
Now we gave you last week a little bit of a theology lesson and told you that there are three views of the church and the tribulation. There is what is called post-trib, then mid-trib, pre-trib. Remember? Of course you remember. Post-trib says the church goes through the tribulation and is taken out at the end. And you remember up and back again for the kingdom.
Mid-trib says the church goes halfway through the tribulation then leaves. Pre-trib says the church goes before the tribulation and when the church goes the tribulation begins. Now we have committed ourselves to the pre-tribulation view, that the church goes before the tribulation. And really the dominant reason for that is that it allows us to believe in the eminent return of Christ. If we don't go until all these things happen, then we know when Jesus is coming. And if we know when He's coming that violates the promise that no man knows the day nor the hour.
Now the post view that the church goes through time of tribulation is inadequate, because it violates the nature of the church. It violates the nature of the tribulation and it violates the nature of the second coming. It wipes out the eminent return of Christ we're all looking for antichrist. And incidentally, it removes the greatest motive and purity in the Christian life, which is the knowledge that Jesus could come at any moment. "And He that hath hope in himself," what, "purifies himself."
It also ignores the fact that in no mention of the tribulation any where in the Bible is the church ever mentioned. It's never seen in the tribulation. Well, you say, what about the mid-tribulation view. Well, that's only a very, very limited view anyway. Not too many people hold to that view, but it is an interesting one. The problem with it is, it can be supported which is a problem.
It has three basic supports and I'm not even going to give you three, because the other two aren't as good as this one and this one isn't very good, but I'll give you one. Now to get...you have to put your thinking cap on and get a little bit of connection here with some Scriptures.
1 Thessalonians 4 it says, "And at the trumpet," at the last trump, you know and of course 1 Corinthians 15 also, "the trumpet shall sound the dead in Christ rise, the last trump." Now the mid-trib says the last trump then must be equal to the seventh trumpet, which is also the last trumpet in Revelation. So if the last trump is the seventh trumpet we've got to be here for the first six. Well, if we've got to be here for the first six trumpets, we've also got to be here for the first six seals, because that's part of them. And even part of the seventh.
So the church remains during the seals and the final seventh trumpet the church exists, and then the church is gone and then the boil judgments happen. And therefore the church goes halfway in the middle of the tribulation. Dr. Walvoord has a good answer for this. He says at Dallas Seminary there are series of bells and at the time of a class period there is a warning system of several bells and then there is the last bell. And so when the professor says that is the last bell, he does not mean that that is the last bell in all of the world. He does not mean that is all...the last bell of the day. He means it's the last bell in terms of a succession of bells having to do with a specific class. To equate such a statement with ultimate...with an ultimate bell anywhere doesn't make any sense. There can be a last trump for the church, there can be seven trumpets for Israel in the tribulation, and there's no reason to connect them.
There have always been trumpets in connection with God summoning His people. There have been trumpets blown throughout the history of Israel. There will be trumpets blown at the conclusion of the church and there will be trumpets blown in the judgment of the earth. They don't have to be the same trumpets. That's a very arbitrary connection. Let me give you an interesting thing. You say well if I'm mid-trib and I don't go, and incidentally they think that the tribulation is a literal period of seven years, it's just a figurative long, long time. The seven years they just completely discount, but somewhere in the middle of all of this judgment we go when the seventh trump sounds. You say well then, we must be around for the six trumpets. That's right and we must be around for the seals. That's right according to this view.
Well, they say the seals were World War I and the trumpets were World War II, this is according to Harrison's book His Coming. Now they take the phrase Revelation 8:1, this is very interesting, Revelation 8:1 says, you know, it says that phrase about the...there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour which somebody used to prove there weren't any women in heaven, but I don't agree with that.
But anyway, it says...it says there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. And this is what they do with that view. Since according to Peter one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, that would mean a half hour is 1/48th of a day, right? Therefore, since one day is equal to a thousand years, that would be dividing a thousand years down by 1/48th, 20 years and ten months.
Which means that there would be period of 20 years and ten months between the seals and the trumpets. Since the seals were World War I and the trumpets are World War II, there's going to be 20 years and ten months. Interesting, because it's almost accurate. There were 20 years and nine months and 20 days and Hitler jumped the gun by ten days.
And they begin on the armistice of November 11, 1918 and they go to September 11, 1939 and they explain the ten day jump by the fact that the Bible says about the space of half an hour. Of course that is such a concoction, you know, that it's just...it's beggar's language to try to defend such a thing.
It's so arbitrary and, you know, at best you certainly cannot make it literally. If you believe in a literal seven years, it's an impossibility. It's a certainly a scramble to try to figure that kind of thing out and to take Peter's statement today and when the Lord says a thousand years as a literal statement of the definition to be applied to all prophecy is hopeless. It doesn't make sense at all.
Well, that's the best that mid-trib can do is equate those two trumpets. Really when you study it down...I just threw that in for what it was worth. When you study it down carefully, you really must come to the conclusion I'm convinced that you're...that the pre-tribulation view is accurate, that the church has to go before all of this begins. You see then you allow for a literal seven year tribulation.
And I'll show you why I believe a literal seven year tribulation is legitimate in a few minutes. Now we gave you three basic areas of study to show why we believe in a pre-tribulation rapture. One, the nature of the church. The nature of the church. Now this is the very basis. The pre-tribulation rapture, that is the catching away of the church before the time of the tribulation is based on the definition of the church.
Now you watch, in the tribulation there will be saints, right? Israel will be saved, correct? Not only Israel, Revelation 7 says so many Gentiles they won't even be able to be numbered. There are going to be saints in the tribulation. Now if the church and Israel and the tribulation saints are all the same, all the same group, then we have to go through the tribulation, right? If we're all the same group, because He's not going to have a special catching away for the select out of the whole group. If we are one with Israel, one with the tribulation saints, then we're all going together. If they're part of the body, the body stays together.
So you see the very basic point that we must come to is we must verify that the church is distinct from Israel. That God can take out the church and still go back to dealing with Israel, and this we believe is accurate. If the church is a separate unit from the redeemed nation of Israel, though there are certainly Jews and Gentiles in the church now, but in a national sense, Israel is still distinct. If this is true, then it's no problem to have a separate ending to the church.
Why? Because they had a separate beginning. God began the nation of Israel with Abraham in Genesis 12. He began the church where? The day of Pentecost in Acts 2, if they had a separate beginning, why couldn't they have a separate conclusion. Of course, if they're the same, however, as Israel, if it's all been blended into one thing, then we're going to have to go through the tribulation because there are saints there and there's no reason to believe that any of us should get off the hook if we're one with those saints.
So we must prove then that the church is unique, that it is separate from Israel in the past and in the future. Now last week we gave evidence, hopefully, to conclude this. That the church and Israel are not the same. The church is not the new Israel and the distinction clear, I think, in Scripture. God has a very definite plan for Israel and He has a very definite plan for the church.
As we look at the history of Israel, we see that God was working through the nation Israel. And the ultimate design for the nation of Israel was the coming of Messiah to set up a kingdom, right? The Messiah came and what did Israel do? Rejected the Messiah. And when Jesus first came here, remember He was always saying "repent, for the kingdom is at hand." That was His message. His message was to Israel. Some Gentiles even wanted to know the message and He didn't deliver it. It was very Israel. Salvation is first to the Jews. To the Jew first also to the Greek even Paul said.
So basically God was dealing with Israel. Israel was His vehicle to reach the world. God was uniquely working the nation Israel, but they rejected the Messiah. God therefore set them aside and moved toward the Gentiles and began what we call a parenthesis. The church. A body that is not seen in the Old Testament a mystery body He called redeemed. He began them. He will end them, take them out of the earth, go right back to dealing and finish His dealings with Israel.
We are not Israel. We are not the new Israel. We do not receive the promises of Israel. They are still for Israel. If you have the church receiving all the promises for Israel, then God was a liar, because God made promises to Israel which He is not keeping. And so we believe there must be a distinction. The church is unique, it is separate.
Now we saw this last week and I'll just review these by a statement. We saw it from the use of the ekklisia, which is church. We saw it from Jesus' words in Matthew 16:18, remember what He said? "I," which tense, "will build my church." It was a future thing. "And the gates of Hell will not prevail against it," which was an indication again that it wouldn't be in the tribulation either when Satan rules.
We saw last week that the church is distinct from Peter's statement in Acts 11:15. Where Peter talks about the church in Acts 2 and he says "the Gentiles receive the same thing that we received at the beginning." The beginning of what? The beginning of the church. A unique body. We saw from Romans 11 that Israel were the natural branches of the stalk of blessing, unbelief, God cut them off, right? And grafted in the church. Some day God will take the church away, graft in Israel. He makes a clear distinction between the church and Israel.
Now to begin with in your Bibles, look at Ephesians 3. And I just want to start there and picking up from last time. The clear teaching, incidentally, of Ephesians 3:1-12 shows the distinct character of the church. It cannot be Israel. It must be distinct.
Now notice verse 3. Paul's talking here about his calling to the ministry and what he is to proclaim. He says, "How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery." Now what is the mystery? Something hidden in the Old Testament revealed in the New. The church is never seen in the Old Testament. God gave Paul a mystery. "As I wrote before in few words by which when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge and the mystery of Christ."
What is the mystery Paul? Well, it's which in other ages was...ages was not made known under the sons of men as it is now revealed unto His holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit." Well, what is it Paul? What is it? Verse 6, "That the Gentiles should be fellow heirs and of the same body and partakers of His promise in Christ by the gospel." That's the mystery.
And what's another name for verse 6? The church, Jew and Gentile one in the same body. "Partakers of the promise in Christ by the gospel." Now that is the mystery. Now look at verse 9, "And God has called me, Paul, to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the ages hath been," what's the next word, "hidden." The church is not Israel, it is distinct.
And God called upon Paul to reveal the mystery. And the mystery was simply that Jew and Gentile were one in a new body. Never seen in the Old Testament, not connected to Israel, but unique. And the idea of such equality, incidentally, was very foreign to the Jews. They had not such concept of Jew, Gentile equality. Interesting how they looked at the Gentiles and how they saw the Gentiles. And in a sense this is true from a Jewish standpoint. Isaiah 61:5, talking about the kingdom. Isaiah says, "And foreigners shall stand and feed your flocks and the sons of the aliens shall be your plowmen and your vine dressers, but you shall be named the priests of the Lord. Men shall call you the ministers of our God."
In other words, the prophet Isaiah, that's Chapter 61, verses 5-6, saw Israel in the kingdom ruling and Gentiles serving Israel. And so the Gentile never saw equality. The Jew had never saw equality with Gentiles. He never saw that one body concept. He always saw a Jew and Gentile down here in servitude. And so the body is the mystery, the one body. That is something brand new.
In Colossians 1:26, Paul says, "I'm a minister of the mystery which hath been hidden from ages and from generations, but now has made manifest to His saints." And what is the mystery? The end of very 27, "Christ," where, "in you." That was never seen in the Old Testament. The Messiah was never seen as an indwelling presence, only as a political earthly king. And so that's a whole new concept.
John 14, Jesus said to the disciples, "You know about the Holy Spirit, He has been with you, He shall be in you." Something brand new. Brand new. And then in John 17 He prays about this unity. He's one with the Father and the Father's one with Him and the believers are one with Him and thus one with the Father and all this glorious new unity.
And so you see the church is unique in every way. It is a mystery. It does not belong in confusion with Israel. And you see what happens and this is what so many theologians do, they take all of the promises given to Israel and they say when Israel crucified Christ, they disqualified themselves permanently from the promises. God turned to the church and all of the promises are then spiritualized and being fulfilled in the church. They're not literal. And they come up with ah millennialism. There's no literal kingdom.
Well, that's a kind of a tragic thing to be able to announce to the Jews that since they crucified Christ, they forfeited everything and we get it all. And everything literal that God said has now been made figurative and it's all just a different term for spiritual blessing. And when it says "the lion shall lie down with a lamb and the children will play in the snake pit," and all of that is just figurative stuff for a happy go lucky kind of lifestyle. And when you're at peace with God and all of this kind of thing.
And that all there is left...I'll never forget Dr. Feinburg at Jerusalem conference on prophecy after somebody had gotten up and defended the whole ah millennial viewpoint, Dr. Feinburg stood up and said, "well, it's wonderful that we came all the way to Jerusalem to announce to the Jews that the curses are theirs and the blessings are ours."
And Paul in Romans 11 says "Is God finished with Israel, God forbid." God is not finished with Israel. So all Israel shall be saved. The church is a parenthesis. During the time of the blindness of Israel until such a time as they look Him whom they have pierced. And so the church is unique.
Let me show you an interesting footnote that I kind of discovered this week, 1 Thessalonians 5:9. Now, this again, I think is a distinction for the church. Verse 9, 1 Thessalonians 5, "For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain deliverance." Now this I think is a...such an exact statement that the church doesn't go through tribulation from this standpoint. The word appointed means destined. God has not destined the church for wrath.
Who has God destined for His judgment? Israel and the Gentile names that are disobedient. God has not destined the church for wrath. There is no point in the church going through the tribulation. All the wrath that God's judgment could pile on us, has already been piled on whom? Christ at the cross. To admit that we go through the tribulation is to depreciate the work of Christ on the cross and to assume that there needs to be more wrath that we must take ourselves.
God does not will our destruction, but our deliverance. He doesn't make us the subjects of His wrath. He has not point in putting us under punitive action and the sudden destruction. He cherishes no angry purposes toward His church. We're His beloved bride. The one that He wants to whip into believing is Israel, Israel. Wrath you see, mark it friends, wrath is the destiny of unbelievers. When God was going to bring a flood on the earth, who did He remove before the flood? All of those who were His. And Noah and his whole family are a picture of the church. When God is going to bring judgment, He has a way of protecting those that are His.
He cherishes no angry purposes against His church. So we're distinct. Now, I gave you A through E points under number one last time, the nature of the church. Let me give you an F and G. Turn to Ephesians 5 and I'll call this the meaning of Ephesians 5:22-32 is another reason that the church and its distinction cannot be Israel.
And if we aren't Israel, get this now beloved, if we aren't Israel, then we don't have to stick around for the time when God works with Israel, you get it? We can be gone. All right, Ephesians 5, this is a great passage, verse 22. "Wives submit yourselves unto your own husbands as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church and He's the Savior of the body." Now we all know about the passage. It talks about the uniqueness of the body in relation to Christ.
Now go to verse 25, "Husbands love your wives even as Christ also love the church and gave Himself for it." Now why? That's the question that hits me, why did He do that? Why did He give Himself for the church? 26, "That He might sanctify, cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, that He might present it to Himself," watch, "a glorious church not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing but that it should be holy and without blemish."
Now just think with me. Christ called a church and He purified that church so that it would be holy and absolutely without blemish. Listen to this verse, 2 Corinthians 11:2, just listen to it. Paul says, "I am jealous over you with Godly jealousy." Why? "For I have espoused you to one husband." Now watch this one. "That I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ." Now watch. The plan for the church is that the church is presented to Christ at the rapture absolutely chaste, pure, and undefiled.
Now watch, verse 32 of Ephesians 5. "This is a great," what, "mystery. I speak concerning Christ in the church." You say what's the mystery? You mean the mystery is the marriage? You mean, the figure of the marriage is the mystery? Now, well is that new? It's not new is it? The marriage concept was in the Old Testament.
Remember the story of the Old Testament, Israel is seen to be the wife of Jehovah, right? The whole book of Hosea, the whole thing is devoted to a historical allegory of the relationship between God and Israel. Now watch. Israel is seen as God's wife. Well, what kind of wife? Adulteress, untrue, a harlot. And the promise is that the harlot would be restored in the kingdom. Now watch beloved. Israel is a wife, but a harlot. The church is a bride and a virgin. Those are not the same. You got it.
Those cannot be the same. The church is a chaste virgin. That is the mystery. That is the new thing. The new thing is a church presented to Christ sanctified without spot, without blemish, clean and pure that can't be Israel. Israel is still an adulteress wife, fooling around with other gods, committing spiritual adultery and doesn't get restored yet until comes the trouble in the tribulation.
But don't confuse the chaste virgin presented to Christ with Israel, an adulteress, wretched harlot unfaithful to God. That's a pretty powerful point to show the distinction.
All right, the last point under this one is the message is to the church is in Revelation. This is just again a very important point. Revelation 2, now we're still seeking to show you that the church and Israel are different, because if they're different then the church doesn't have to go through the tribulation. We can have a special exit as we had a special beginning.
Well, this is...this is really interesting. Revelation 2:20, now here He's writing to the church at Thyatira and this church was an idolatrous church, verse 20. "Notwithstanding, I have a few things against you. You allow that woman Jezebel," whether that's her real name or just a pseudonym indicating her character we don't know, but "you allow that woman Jezebel who calls herself prophetess to teach and seduce my servants to commit fornication and to eat things sacrificed unto ideals. And I gave her space to repent of her fornication and she repented not. Behold I'll cast her into a bed." Boy can you...just the dripping sarcasm. She likes beds, I'll cast her into a bed. Wait until she's the bed I give her.
"And them that commit adultery with her into great," what, "tribulation." Watch this one, "Except they repent of their deeds." Who goes into great tribulation? False teachers, people who repent of their deeds are accepted. They're exceptions, do you see?
The great tribulation is for false teachers, for sinful people, for idolatrous churches. And He says, "I'll cast her into great tribulation", except they repent. Does repentance excuse us from the great tribulation? I think so. Go to 3:10, let's see another message to the church. This is the church in Philadelphia. Not the Philadelphia that we know. Philadelphia from phileo and aldelphas brotherly love, verse 10. And this is a good church, true church, pure church, lovely church. "Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will," watch it, "keep thee from the hour of temptation which shall come upon all the world to try them that dwell upon the earth." Because you're the true church, I'll keep you from the trial and temptation that's coming on the whole earth. Wow, I don't know what other way we could construe that than to say that's a promise. That's a true church shall be delivered from tribulation. Kept from the hour of temptation. Which hour? The one that's going to come on the whole earth to try them that dwell on the earth. To test them. And that's exactly what the tribulation is.
Now notice this, "them that dwell upon the earth," do you see that phrase? All that upon all the earth? It doesn't refer so much to geographical location as it does to the character of the people. You could probably translate it that shall come upon worldlings or earthlings. People who conform to the system.
A period of testing is coming on worldlings, but I'm going to keep you from it. Now let me show you another one. Go down to verse 15 and 16. This is the church at Laodicea, the apostate church of the last days. Verse 15, "And I know your works, you're neither cold nor hot, I would that you're cold or hot." In other words, you're nauseating. You know, there's one thing about drinking these. You want to...if they're supposed to be hot, you want them hot. There's nothing worse than lukewarm coffee.
I don't drink coffee, but that's what people say. I don't have any conviction, I just don't like the taste of it. And there's nothing worse than lukewarm water. If you want water, you want it cold. If you want coffee, you want it hot. The middle is rather nauseating. And God says to the church at Laodieca, "you are nauseating, because you are lukewarm and neither cold nor hot, I'll spew you out of my mouth."
Laodecia is the last stage of the church, the final apostate church. If you look at these churches chronologically and there certainly is a justification for that at least as one interpretation. Philadelphia, watch this one, we just read about it. Philadelphia was the true church kept from the tribulation.
Laodicea is the false church that'll be vomited by Christ right into the tribulation. Do you know that in the tribulation the church is going to great guns. Why it's just going to dominate everything. Read Revelation 17, the church of the tribulation is going to have a hay day. All the apostates will get together, they'll have a wonderful be ecumenical hash, during the tribulation.
Now watch verse 20, "Behold I stand at the door and knock. If any man hear my voice and open the door, I'll come into him and sup with him and he with me. To him that overcomes will I grant to sit with me in my throne."
He says to the Laodecians get ready I'm coming. I'm knocking. I'm getting read to come. If you don't open great tribulation. If you do open, you will overcome and you'll come and sit with me. That's deliverance. Well the contrast between Philadelphia and Laodecia shows me that the false church will be in the tribulation, but the true church will be kept from the hour.
You see the church is something very distinct, very separated from Israel. God still has national purposes to fulfill with the nation Israel. And I'm so happy to be able to announce that. I was so happy to have a conversation with our guide in Israel that to tell him that God had some wonderful plans for the people of Israel.
And I felt like I had something to say instead of having to say that all Israel would ever have left is the curse. I'm so glad that I believe that when the Bible says the desert will blossom like a rose and that God will then after bringing the people back He'll begin a revival like Ezekiel said and He'll sprinkle clean water upon them and they shall be clean and He'll take the stony heart out and give them a heart of flesh and He'll plant His Spirit within them. And He'll love them and He'll restore them and He'll redeem them. I'm so glad I can say that to Israel.
Well, those are a few basic reasons why I believe initially that the nature of the church indicates we don't through the tribulation. Secondly, the nature of the tribulation also indicates it. The nature of the tribulation. You say what do you mean by that? I mean that that the tribulation was never designed for the church to begin with and the very fact of what it is eliminates us.
Let's begin where we begin. Deuteronomy 4:29, "But if from there thou shalt seek the Lord thy God, thou shalt find Him if thou seek Him with all thy heart and with all thy soul." Now watch, "When thou art in tribulation and all these things are come upon thee," you say oh MacArthur, that's just talking about having trouble. That's not...you can't make that the tribulation. No, that's ridiculous. Listen to the next statement, "even in the latter days." That's exactly what he's talking about.
According to verse 30, who's the tribulation for? Who's it for? Israel. Israel. Well, that's not the only Old Testament indication that tribulation is for Israel. Jeremiah Chapter 30, verse 7, here's a new name for the tribulation, some of you know it, some of you may have not heard it. Jeremiah 30, verse 7, "Alas for that day is great, so that none is like it. It is even the time of," what, "Jacob's trouble." I love this, "But he shall be saved out of it. Who's the tribulation designed for? Jacob.
What name did God give Jacob? Israel. Tribulation's for Israel. The Jews are going to break the Gentile yoke in verse 8 and verse 9, the rule of God's going to come in the kingdom and they're going to have a new David, Messiah, reigning in verse 10, there's going to peace and rest and oh glories.
And you know, you go to the New Testament it confirms it. You read Revelation 6 where the tribulation begins and in Chapter 19 the tribulation ends, and you'll never find one statement about the church. They're not in there, but you know what you will find? You'll find Israel all over the place from 6 to 19. Chapter 7 even delineates 12,000 from every tribe.
They're all there. Let me show you something else kind of exciting. The nature of the tribulation doesn't belong to us, because of what it says in Revelation 4:4. Revelation 4:4, interesting little footnote. Some people say verse 1 is a picture of the rapture, which could be, you know. It's a trumpet again. And it says "come up here." See? And John goes up and he might be a type of the church there. So that could be the rapture there and tribulation doesn't start until Chapter 6.
But basically look at verse 4, John gets up there in his vision and he says, "around about the throne were four and twenty thrones," 24 thrones, "and upon the thrones I saw four and twenty elders sitting clothed in white raiment and they had on their heads crowns of gold."
You say why are you reading that? Because I believe those are representatives of the church and I have much reason to believe that we've covered that in detail in our tape on Revelation 4, but let me just say that I feel that this is the church, because first of all this was promised to the church that the church would reign with Christ, and there would be thrones.
Not only that the whit raiment is definitely the clothes of the redeemed church. It appears as such in several places. The word crowns is not diatomas the crown of king, it is Stephanas the crown of a victor. The same word that is used to speak of the crowns of the church winds here on earth.
There are other reasons. I believe also that 24 is the priestly number from 1 Chronicles, and that we are believer priests and here is the representative of the church...a representation of the church in terms of its priestly character as it ministers before the throne of God. And that's only...there are many, many other little things that can be brought into the discussion to verify that this is indeed the church.
The church then is seen, watch this now, in the vision in heaven in Chapter 4. And Revelation is fairly chronological. The tribulation starts in Chapter 6. The church is in heaven in Chapter 4. We can't be in the tribulation because we've already been in heaven for two chapters.
And then I like what the elders do in verse 10, "The four and twenty elders fell down before Him that's seated on the throne and worshiped Him that liveth forever and ever and they cast their crowns before the throne."
We win a crown for the Lord Jesus Christ and we have the marvelous joy of casting it at His feet. Beloved, I don't think we're going through the tribulation. I see us in heaven as a part of the throne, singing praise to God. John is there and he's perhaps the picture to the church.
When I think about the future, do you know what I think about? I think about the fact that Jesus is coming. And I'm not looking for the tribulation and I'm not looking for the antichrist, I'm looking for Jesus Himself. We believe Jesus is coming and we want to be ready when He gets here. I hope you're ready.
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Q. I had a credit card account that was written off several years ago. I have now received a letter from a debt collector stating that if I don't pay, I will be sued. How do I owe any money if the account was written-off? Should I just ignore this?
A. Basically, when an account is written-off by a creditor, the creditor has made the decision not to take any further efforts to collect. It does not mean, however, that you no longer owe the money. In fact, the account is often transferred to a debt collector who will continue collection efforts. The debt collector can request payment and can file a lawsuit, assuming that the time is within what is called the "statute of limitations." In Texas, the limitations period for filing a lawsuit for a credit card debt is four years from when the account went into default.
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Q. I have a power of attorney for my 87 year-old mother. The nursing home where she is staying has started sending her bills directly to me. Am I responsible for her debts because of the power of attorney?
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Q. My ex has stopped paying child support. Is it true that someone who doesn't pay his child support may lose his driver's license? Do I need an attorney?
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Do you enjoy learning about human interaction, deciphering the meaning behind the message, or discovering new things about media and society? Are you interested in the study of communication but aren't sure which area you'd like to focus on? Communication Studies allows students to learn both human and media communication skills. Students will also learn basic media production skills, such as photography, desktop publishing and Web design.
Students in Communication Studies learns about persuasion, argumentation, legal matters and the sociological aspects of communication. There is a strong rhetorical basis to the program, which includes speech and debate. The Communication Studies program is a good choice for the student who plans to attend graduate school after completing his or her bachelor's degree.
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Each of Evangel's academic programs is made up of a set of core curriculum, program requirements and electives. The courses listed below are just a small sample of courses that might be taken as a part of this specific program.
|Argumentation & Debate
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|Small Group & Organizational Communication
|Combines theory and practice to develop an awareness of group dynamics, and employs small groups in the processes of information-seeking and problem-solving. Also includes a study of the theory and practice of communication in organizations and practical application through the assessment and identification of communication problems in organizations.
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|A study of the statutes and judicial opinion that are the basis for an understanding of freedoms and controls of print and broadcast media. Includes an examination of media ethics from a Christian viewpoint.
Evangel University's world-class faculty is made up of caring, Christian professionals who are distinguished in their fields and dedicated to the development of tomorrow's Christian leaders.
Dr. Cameron Pace: Communication Department chair
Dr. Cameron Pace has been working in media for more than 30 years and has taught most of the electronic media courses that Evangel has offered at some point in his 25-year career as an Evangel professor. He serves as the faculty adviser for EUTV and EU Films, and he is the faculty supervisor of […] read more
Dr. Joy Qualls: Assistant professor of communication
Dr. Joy Qualls has a passion for books, politics and debate, but what really drives her career is her love of people. Dr. Qualls first came to Evangel as an adjunct in 2006, dividing her time between teaching at Evangel and Central Bible College and working for Drury University's Enrollment Marketing program. She is now […] read more
Evangel's academic programs are designed specifically to prepare you for a career in the real world. But it's more than just job preparation; it's preparing you to make a full impact in your profession through the unique combination of faith and learning. Here are some of the professions this degree would prepare you for:
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Joint Educational Partnership for K-12 (coordinated by Ormsbee, Fox, and Harnett in Kentucky). State level outreach activities associated with the project will be coordinated by the Kentucky Water Resources Research Institute (KWRRI, http://www.uky.edu/WaterResources/) and the Montana State Water Center (MWC, http://watercenter.montana.edu/default.asp). Both Centers were established in 1964 as an act of Congress and are part of a national network of 54 Water Centers/Institutes. Both centers have existing outreach, education, communication, and research translation personnel and programs that will be utilized in support of the project. Both the KWRRI and the MWC support several different outreach and research translation activities including a website, a newsletter, and an annual meeting. Each of these venues will be used to help disseminate activities and results of the proposed research.
The educational activities of the MWC are coordinated through the Montana Watercourse Program. The Montana Watercourse is a statewide water education program that supports water resource decision making and stewardship by providing unbiased information, resources, tools and education to all water users. The program supports local educational efforts through an array of resources.
The KWRRI supports educational activities at both the K-12 level as well as the post-secondary education level through the Water Pioneers Program. The Water Pioneers program targets impaired watersheds through engagement with college-bound high school students who reside in impacted areas. Water Pioneers students participate both to raise awareness of water quality challenges and to implement programs designed to directly impact water quality.
One of the unique features of the proposed project will be a joint educational/outreach component. The program will be formally initiated in the second year of the project with the first year dedicated to program development and logistical planning. As presently envisioned, both research centers will work with their own state programs (MWC Watercourse Program and KWRRI Water Pioneers) to select a group of students to educate about sensors and CI and their potential applications. Students will be selected from economically depressed regions of each state: the 30 Appalachian counties in eastern Kentucky and the seven tribal regions of Montana. For the Water Pioneers program, this will be integrated into an existing summer program. A similar program will be implemented by MWC. As part of the program, students will become acquainted with sensor networks and data uploading and acquisition by accessing data from the HBS and FLBS web sites. The students will work with their instructors to select a potential site for installation of a sensor/data logger (e.g., HOBO). After the initial summer program, students will return to their respective communities and along with help from KWRRI or MWC staff, install the sensors. The students will maintain and upload the sensors data to HBS/FLBS sites during the rest of the summer and fall. Data from all student sites will be available in Excel files, and students will learn simple graphing programs and statistics to compare their sites with others. During the fall of their junior years, students will make presentations on their local projects at the annual meetings of each water institute.
Based on these presentations, eight students from each state will be selected to participate in a more advanced program during the summer before their senior year. This program will involve three components: 1) a joint week long experience at the University of Kentucky where students from each state will learn about environmental sensors, 2) a joint week long experience at the Hancock Biological Station, and 3) a joint week long experience at the Flathead Lake Biological Station.
Detailed programming for each week will be developed and implemented by the respective institutes. Students from each state will be paired up to facilitate correspondence during the remainder of the project so as to gain more information about the other state's water issues, the culture, as well as the technologies with the ultimate goal of understanding the various components of watersheds and human impacts. In addition, four separate groups of four students (2 from Kentucky and 2 from Montana) will be paired up with a undergraduate college student and a graduate student who will work with these students to educate them on the development and use of environmental sensors. In turn, the high school students will work with their assigned undergraduate student in the development of his or her project.
Educational Research Program for Underrepresented Undergraduate Students within STEM (coordinated by Harnett, Fox, Ormsbee, and Kipphut in Kentucky). The Diversity Plan provides educational opportunities for underrepresented undergraduate college students in Kentucky and Montana seeking baccalaureate degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The Diversity Plan addresses the national need to increase the number of American scientists and engineers within STEM, particularly within underrepresented groups. Both Kentucky and Montana have communities that classify as underrepresented in STEM including the economically distressed communities in Appalachian Kentucky, where secondary math and science test scores are persistently below state and national averages, and the underrepresented tribal colleges of Montana.
The objective of the Diversity Plan is to engage underrepresented undergraduate students in research programs that focus upon sensor development, testing, and use within the CI framework in order that the students will become excited about the environmental research needs facing the STEM professions. Four underrepresented undergraduate students per year, two students from Kentucky and two students from Montana, will be recruited from state universities and community colleges to participate in an 8-week summer program. Academically talented, underrepresented students who will have completed their junior years in a STEM baccalaureate degree program will be targeted. Most broadly, we hope to engage underrepresented undergraduate students within STEM programs in educational research that contributes to the scientific understanding of global environmental processes. Application of state-of-the-art sensors within a CI framework moves towards this objective in the Kentucky Lake and Flathead Lake settings that integrate biological processing higher in the basin. This broad objective of the RII-2 in general will become specific for the individual student projects that will advance research in areas of 1) environmental sensor design and construction in an electrical engineering laboratory; 2) sensor calibration and testing in the controlled environment of a hydraulics laboratory; and 3) sensor use within a CI framework and application in lake and watershed systems to measure variables critical for the understanding of biological processes.
Students will perform sensor/CI research while teamed with faculty members at the University of Louisville's Micro Nano Research Facility and University of Kentucky's Hydrosystems Laboratory and Environmental Research and Training Laboratory. In addition, students will collaborate with graduate students that are applying the new sensors within the CI framework on Kentucky and Flathead lakes. Throughout the 8-week program, students will interact with each other and other researchers in three ways including 1) weekly meetings in a student research cluster where all four undergraduate students share progress and troubleshoot their projects; 2) group research meetings with graduate students and the faculty member who mentor the students; and 3) one-on-one meetings between the students and their faculty mentors. Further, the undergraduate student program will be integrated with the joint educational/outreach component for high school students, and the undergraduate students will help mentor the high school students, who will come from similar social and economic backgrounds.
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|Hancock Biological Station - David White, Susan Hendricks and George Kipphut met with five engineering students from UK and U of L including Alex Thompson, Bill Ford, Robert Steward, Cory Franklin, and Ben Zinninger. Jimmy Fox accompanied the students. The students learned of the VOEIS infrastructure and future applications. The meeting and outreach experience included: overview of Hancock and its sampling routines; the big-picture aspects of the VOEIS project via a powerpoint presentation; introduction to some new data; overview of the buoy sensors; and a sampling cruise. The trip was an excellent experience.
Susan, David, George, Jimmy and the students also discussed future application of the sensors that the students are building and calibrating. Further, the group discussed ideas for future sensors in watersheds in Kentucky and their cyberinfrastructure in relationship to the buoy sensors.
|Lubrecht Experimental Forest, Missoula, MT - K-12
Dr. Ormsbee's (UK) first VOEIS K-12 activity included two high school students, Stephanie Fawbush and Kenny Craft, who reside in the Appalachian Region of Kentucky. They represented the Water Pioneer Outreach Program at the three-day Montana Water Summit held at Lubrecht Experimental Forest near Missoula, MT, May 3-6, 2010. The students presented their community water quality projects to students and teachers involved in Montana's water quality educational programs, and participated in the workshop's hands-on interactive field instruction.
Stephanie Jenkins (UK) networked with her counterpart in Montana, Kathryn Watson, and planned the future events of collaboration for the Kentucky/Montana students included in the project.
Doug McLaren from the University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service participated in the Montana Water Summit as well as Pam McFarland from the University of Kentucky Robinson Scholars Program. Stephanie Jenkins, Kentucky Water Resources Research Institute Program Manager, and Mr. McLaren presented about the Water Pioneers Water Quality Program. The presentation included a summary of the overall goals and vision of the program as well as the water quality impacts to the Appalachian region of Kentucky.
Barbara Kucera, Kentucky PI, attended to observe and participate, and to collaborate with Dr. Hauer to plan a research field experience for K-12 and undergraduate students to be held in Montana, July 20-28, 2010. She and Dr. Hauer also gave presentations to stimulate the Water Summit workshop students' interest in science and the environment, and the impact they could have on the future.
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As always, this morning's Oscar nominations created a roller coaster of emotion. Shock! Relief! Fury! I should not get so worked up about this.
Really, though, the nods for the 2013 Academy Awards had a few more big surprises than usual—or maybe they were just bigger surprises than usual. Here's a rundown of those shockers, plus the notices that made me happy and sad, along with what statement the Academy seems to be making with all of them.
The 85th Academy Awards will be revealed Feb. 24 on ABC, hosted by Seth MacFarlane.
Kathryn Bigelow, who won Best Director for "The Hurt Locker," misses what many thought to be a guaranteed (and much-deserved!) nomination for "Zero Dark Thirty."
What the Academy's saying: "We know you're good with stories about terrorism. What else ya got?"
Long-believed Best Director nominee Ben Affleck ("Argo") was probably holding a bottle of champagne, but despite the movie's Best Picture nomination, the fizz tastes a little less fizzy for the snubbed director.
What the Academy's saying: "For a while, 'Argo' was cool. Then we were more excited about other movies, and the well-executed tension couldn't compensate for its overdone elements, which felt more like fiction than a true story. Plus …"
Benh Zeitlin ("Beasts of the Southern Wild") snags a Best Director nomination.
What the Academy's saying: "We don't care how many people are surprised. Your movie is a remarkable achievement. Kudos."
Jacki Weaver ("Silver Linings Playbook") slides into the tough-to-predict Best Supporting Actress race.
What the Academy's saying: "We could have gone with someone new, like Samantha Barks for 'Les Miserables,' or someone previously unheralded, like Ann Dowd for 'Compliance.' It was easier to just write Weaver because she was nominated before ('Animal Kingdom') and we had already written 'Silver Linings Playbook' in every other possible category anyway."
Quvenzhane Wallis ("Beasts of the Southern Wild"), the youngest-ever Best Actress nominee, replicates the fiery spirit of her "Beasts" character Hushpuppy by resisting a possible snub and earning the nod (though the same unfortunately didn't happen for her fellow first-time-actor co-star, Dwight Henry).
What the Academy's saying: "The Golden Globes were wrong. Several others were wrong. For an actor of any age and experience, your performance is unforgettable. Welcome to the big show."
Best Actor nominee Joaquin Phoenix (as well as more-assured nominees Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams) recognized for "The Master"
What the Academy's saying: "You said you don't care about the Oscars, but we're big enough to know that all that matters is the work. Well, that's not always the case, but we're going with it this time because you are a fascinating mess in this movie."
"ParaNorman" lands a Best Animated Feature nomination, and "Rise of the Guardians" doesn't
What the Academy's saying: "Not always, but sometimes we really do understand quality. You're welcome!"
Christoph Waltz takes the "Django Unchained" Best Supporting Actor nod instead of Leonardo DiCaprio
What the Academy's saying: "We know the nod for Alan Arkin ('Argo') is goofy, so we'll make sure to get the 'Django' pick right. Waltz has a leading role, but he's far more nuanced than DiCaprio. Take that, advance buzz!"
Paul Thomas Anderson and "The Master" missing out on nods for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay
What the Academy's saying: "Come on, we nominated all of your stars. We didn't get the movie. What do you want from us?"
Matthew McConaughey misses out in the Best Supporting Actor field for "Magic Mike"
What the Academy's saying: "Your abs were distracting. We should've revisited this and seen how good your work was in this unexpectedly great movie, but there were too many obvious 'Oscar' movies and we ran out of time."
Rian Johnson snubbed for a Best Original Screenplay nod for "Looper"
What the Academy's saying: "Your movie was intelligent and creative and exciting. 'Flight,' though, that was another tale about addiction, and on every five pages Denzel Washington's character had a relapse. Clever!"
No Best Picture nod for "Moonrise Kingdom" or "Skyfall"
What the Academy's saying: "Wes Anderson's best movie in years and one of the best James Bond movies ever are nice and all, but did you see all that water in 'Life of Pi'? And all that talking and debateable approach to history in 'Django Unchained'?"
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In July of
2011, my wife, Kristen received a call regarding her cousin, Zachary Amos. Zac
bravely battled Acute Myeloid Leukemia for three years and the doctors said he
would only have 2-4 weeks to live. Zac had to wishes one of which happened to
be to go on a houseboat.
My wife set
out on a mission to fulfill Zac's final wishes. We didn't know anyone who owned
a houseboat or even a cruiser! Through networking and a miracle, we eventually
got connected with an awesome family, Chris and Dessie Bostick who owned a
beautiful Somerset houseboat on Percy Priest
Lake near Nashville, TN.
Inspired by
Zac and our day on the Bostick's boat, Kristen and I decided we wanted a boat
of our own, but neither one of us had ever owned or operated a boat before. We
looked at several web sites with boat listings and were amazed by both the price
range and quality of boats. After viewing a 34' cruiser and considering our two
sons, Connor and Caleb, who were four and three years old at the time, we
determined we needed the space that only a houseboat could provide. We wanted a
relatively newer houseboat since we would not have time for a fixer-upper with
our busy work lives. We looked at a few
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and Center Hill Lake
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The 16'X66'
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with bar and bimini, upper helm controls, jet ski ramp, and a waterslide! What struck us most about this boat was the
very tasteful decorating and use of dark-wood paneling throughout. When Kevin called the boat's broker, the
broker said, it was under contact, but he'd call if something changed. We sadly
thumbed back through the internet, but couldn't find anything like our
boat we had already set our hearts upon. One week later, the broker called back
with great news saying it was back on the market. After being on the boat we
found ourselves putting down the money and a few weeks later we had the keys.To
fulfill the Coast Guard's registration, we were told we needed to name the
boat. The name quickly came to us. "Lake-A-Wish"
after Zac's last wish for a houseboat ride.
We contracted
Sailabration to move Lake-A-Wish from Volunteer Landing to Percy Priest
Lake in Nashville, TN. in September 2011. As the boat
was only twenty minutes from our house, we found ourselves spending most
weekends on the boat.
Since the
first time I stepped aboard the Bostick's houseboat and now every time I'm
aboard my own, I feel relaxed and fulfilled. Worries tend to drift away,
leaving me with pure time to enjoy with my family. Regardless of illness or how
busy everyone is, Lake-
A-Wish brings everyone
together to relax and enjoy each other's company.
Kristen and
I were looking for something to do as a family on the weekends. We looked at
lake houses and we considered a small boat. We never thought of combining the
two together, and we're so glad we did.
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Please add the requested items to the basked. After your have typed your name and address. The system will inform you of possible freight alternatives, as well as cost each type. - Before you proceed to make payment.
No freight cost - collect your order!
You can save freight cost if you collect your order at our boutique in Odense, Denmark. Please call or write us to make an appointment for when to collect your item(s).
Click on the green "Add to basket"-button to add it to your shopping basket.
We will handle your order once you have completed the payment. The order is normally shipped within 1-4 business days.
If you need the item delivered before a specific date please inform us about the wanted delivery date in the comments field before you complete your payment. Then we will try our best to make sure your order reaches the destination on time.
The reason for this can be one of the following:
Delivery time is longer than the normal 1-3 business days
Some items are sold out long or shortly or we order/make only to order.
For such products, our standard delivery time will be 3-6 working days, but sometimes more.
Please feel free to send us an inquiry for the requested items which are shown as not in stock. Whereupon we check delivery options, and by return mail we will let you know availability etc.
The item is sold out and/or is no longer in production
Sold out items appears only in our web shop if there are a possibility that they can be acquired in the future.
If the item is not in stock, we offer to add it to our wanted list, and come back later when / if we are able to deliver. - Of course this is completely optional for you, it's totally free to be written up to an items, and you pay only when we find the item, and you can accept our price.
Of course you are welcome to contact us by phone (+45) 66 18 95 95 Mon-Thursday 08:00 am - 16:00 pm (GMT+1). or by ordinary email to email@example.com
We are looking forward to hearing from you.
Lotte Benter
Lotte Benter was affiliated with Royal Copenhagen from 1911 to 1914, where she modeled the famous Amager Girls.
Safe and Fast Worldwide shipping
In Denmark we mainly send by Post Denmark, GLS or DSV. - Other Countries by FedEx, DSV or GLS.
In Denmark shipping cost are free for orders over DKK.1000 (except furniture etc) - To other countries shipping and insurance costs will be added to the order.
The estimated freight and insurance will be determined and presented before you make any payments. This also applies when you receive an offer from us.
You can also save freight cost by collecting your order at our shop in Odense, Denmark.
Delivery terms
There are 2 types of delivery terms:
Delivery of items in stock
All items currently in stock are items that we currently have stored at our warehouse.
Items in stock are normally shipped immediately (within 1-4 business days). When your payment has been confirmed by us, you will receive an order confirmation.
Should the time of delivery be delayed beyond normal (i.e. orders of large quantity) we will let you know.
Attention! By delivery time we mean the time from the order is confirmed to the order is shipped from DPH Trading. Not the time between the order is made to the time you receive the order.
Delivery of customised/special ordered items and items not in stock
Customised/special ordered items and items not in stock are all items we do not currently store at our warehouse.
We are therefore depending of the various suppliers, dealers and collectors and the time of delivery is only an estimate.
In some situations it can be impossible for DPH Trading to predict the exact time of delivery if the items are specially ordered or customised.
Sometimes the items have to be produced from scratch. If the particular item is of significant age we may have to rely on private collectors who are willing to sell.
All the customised/special ordered items are delivered as close to the agreed delivery date as possible.
DPH Trading could take precautions for the delivery of entire or parts of an order. Part deliveries can occur. We always strive to inform you as quickly and efficiently as possible, should any deliveries change or be divided into separate deliveries.
In extraordinary situations negotiations can be made where the buyer are not responsible for the extra delivery cost in case of part deliveries.
Collect your items at our shop
If you prefer to collect your order at our boutique in Odense, Denmark you very welcome to do so.
You can see our opening hours and contact information at the page top and bottom.
When you collect you order in person at our shop the freight cost is free. A visit to our store also gives you the opportunity to experience our amazing selection of items on display.
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