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Well, it is April 3rd and Donald Trump is still your president! Having been very into the SS lessons last quarter on Daniel, I found the understanding of the 1290 day and 1335 day prophecies very well explained. Unfortunately for you, the 1335 day prophecy was fulfilled approx. 175 years ago. So, I expect you will be disappointed again on 17 May 2020. Unfortunately for you, you reconfirmed my previous opinion that you are a false prophet. For all those who did not bother watching the video you posted, they made a smart move. The new quarter beginning the topic of the lessons will be on reading and interpreting Scripture. You may benefit from studying the lessons. Only problem with that is you previously made a statement that you consider the SS lessons to be wrong. So, seems we (i mean you) are stuck with no place to go except to continue being a false prophet.

Just to be clear: I reviewed much more of your video than the opening few minutes.

Promise Nor forsake thee Deuteronomy 31:6 Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Face to Face After the transgression of Israel in making the golden calf, Moses again goes to plead with God in behalf of his people. . . . He has learned from experience that in order to have an influence with the people he must first have power with God. The Lord reads the sincerity and unselfish purpose of the heart of His servant and condescends to commune with this feeble mortal, face to face, as a man speaks with a friend. Moses casts himself and all his burdens fully upon God and freely pours out his soul before Him. The Lord does not reprove His servant, but stoops to listen to his supplications. . . . The answer comes: "My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest." But Moses does not feel that he can stop here. He has gained much, but he longs to come still nearer to God, to obtain a stronger assurance of His abiding presence. He has carried the burden of Israel; he has borne an overwhelming weight of responsibility; when the people sinned, he suffered keen remorse, as though he himself were guilty; and now there presses upon his soul a sense of the terrible results should God leave Israel to hardness and impenitence of heart. . . . Moses presses his petition with such earnestness and fervency that the answer comes: I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken: for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by name." Now, indeed, we would expect the prophet to cease pleading; but no, emboldened by his success, he ventures to come still nearer to God, with a holy familiarity which is almost beyond our comprehension. He now makes a request which no human being ever made before: "I beseech thee, show me thy glory." What a petition to come from finite, mortal man! But is he repulsed? Does God reprove him for presumption? No; we hear the gracious words: "I will make all my goodness pass before thee."... In the history of Moses we may see what intimate communion with God it is man's privilege to enjoy.

As to the 3 angels: The message of the first angel must be given to each individal before the second and third is given. From that perspective the lastmessage to be given is that of three angels, not just the third.

I have long since wearied of the constant "sign of the end". Why? As I enter my 5th decade on the planet, I've heard the following proclaimed as "signs of the end" The Iran-US hostage crisis; Pope JP II meeting Ronald Reagan; The shooting down of the Korean airliner; The fall of the Berlin Wall; Maastricht Treaty; The US-led coalition's war to evict the Iraqis from Kuwait and George Bush's "New World Order" speech The SF earthquake in '89 interrupting the World Series; The September 2001 terrorist attacks and the ensuing "war on terror" The death of JPII and the election of a "conservative hardline" pope in Benedict XVI The resignation of Benedict XVI and the election of a "liberal non-tradition" Jesuit pope in Francis I The Isis war in Syria It may be that we are in the end times (I sincerely doubt this), and therefore this could be an event happening "in" the end times; but I do not see how it could be a sign "of" the end times. Pestilences have occurred since time immemorial. Modern travel means that unlike the Black Death which took months and years to make its way around Europe, COVID-19 jumped the oceans in a matter of days and weeks, but it's the same idea. Covid-19 won't wipe out a third of the world's population like the Black Death. Covid-19 won't contribute to the wiping out of 90% of the population of a continent (like smallpox, slavery and other diseases and oppression did to the indigenous populations of the Americas). In 50-75 years from now, students of history will read about Covid-19 and it's aftermath. Other scholars, from economists or epidemiologists will study the response and effects of the response for years to come. Depending on how severe the aftermath will be (recession with quick rebound, or depression taking years to recover and fueling extremists political movements), will determine whether or not society in 100 years will be generally aware of Covid-19 like we today are aware of the Great Depression of the 1930s, or if it will be like the depression of the 1870s that none but specialists and history nuts even know about today.

Well, it is now April 3, all over the United States. Pence is not the President. Trump continues to be President. The problem that results in the predictions of HCH being false is not with the Bible. The Bible is true, as correctly understood. The problem is with the understanding that HCH has of the Bible. His approach to the Bible is commonly called eisegesis. A better way to approach the Bible is called exegesis. A brief statement on this may be found at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisegesis This issue is critical. People who continue to engage in eisegesis often become discouraged over the continued failure of their predictions to come true. As a result,, eventually they may decide that the Bible is not true and god is not real. I have seen such happen. I hope that HCH does not decide that the Bible is not true and God does not exist. Rather, I hope that HCH can come to the place where he understands that the problem is with him and his approach to the Bible. It will be a great blessing to him if he can learn what the Bible is actually saying. God has a message in the Bible. That message is also for HCH. I hope that he can come to hear it.

I didn't even bother watching the video. I don't need to see or hear more depressing, erroneous bovine excrement. I'll take God's word over Henry's weird stuff.

5 Things You Didn't Know About '2001: A Space Odyssey' On April 3, 1968, Stanley Kubrick’s science-fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey had its world premiere. Find out five things you didn’t know about one of the most revered films of the 20th century. Kubrick Tried to Buy Alien Insurance Just before NASA’s Mariner 4 spacecraft passed Mars in July 1965, a worried Stanly Kubrick attempted to take out an insurance policy with Lloyd’s of London—in case the discovery of extraterrestrial life ruined the plot he was then working on with science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke. In the end, Mariner’s pictures showed a harsh, cratered, moon-like surface, which immediately tamped down the hope that intelligent life—or indeed, any life—might exist on that planet. The Film Provided an Early Glimpse at Artificial Intelligence At the time the film was made, the internet was still decades away, and the idea that computers could "think" was relegated to the realm of sci-fi. While many of the predictions in the film didn't materialize, the vision of computing as it was portrayed in the film was eerily accurate. In a 1968 interview, Sci-fi novelist Arthur C. Clarke, who co-wrote the screenplay for the film said, "Many computer scientists think that we will develop, before the end of the century, machines which are intelligent by any way you care to define that word. In fact, there are some computers now that can carry on conversations with you over an electric typewriter and people just will not believe they're talking to a machine even though the conversation is limited to rather restricted areas. But many scientists think that in the next century we will have machines which are more intelligent than us, and of course this may be one of the great divides in history." 17 Minutes Of Footage Cut At The Last Minute Was Recently Rediscovered Given how much footage was shot (as much as two hundred times the length of the final cut), it’s unsurprising that enormous amounts were left on the cutting room floor, but it’s unlikely ever to surface: Kubrick always burnt his negatives after a film was finished. But the director did cut nineteen minutes after release, seventeen minutes of which were rediscovered in 2010 in a vault in a Kansas salt mine. It’s yet to see the public light of day. The Book And The Move Were Develped Concurrently Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey came about when director Stanley Kubrick was introduced science fiction author, Arthur C. Clarke. Clarke and Kubrick worked on the book together, but eventually only Clarke ended up as the official author. Although the novel and film were developed simultaneously, the novel follows early drafts of the film, from which the final version of the film deviated. These changes were often for practical reasons relating to what could be filmed economically, and a few were due to differences of opinion between Kubrick and Clarke. Initial Reviews of the Movie Were Devastating When the movie premiered in New York City and Washington, D.C. in April 1968, the initial reviews were so bad they were shocking. In New York, 241 people walked out of the movie, and the terrible reviews left famed science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke in tears halfway through. Despite this, young people loved the movie and went in droves, making it 1968’s highest-grossing film, ranked now as number six of history’s most important films.

5 Outrageous April Fools' Day Hoaxes April 1st is celebrated as April Fools' Day, a time when jokers and pranksters do their best to outdo each other. According to historians, it is believed that April Fools' Day dates back to 1582 when France switched to the Gregorian calendar. Here are 5 outrageous April Fools’ Day hoaxes that are sure to make you laugh. Planting Spaghetti Trees The spaghetti-tree hoax was a three-minute segment broadcast on April Fools' Day by the BBC. The prank purportedly showed a family in southern Switzerland harvesting spaghetti from the family "spaghetti tree". The segment was narrated by a distinguished BBC broadcaster and showed a woman carefully plucking strands of spaghetti from a tree and then laying them in the sun to dry. The station received more than a few calls from excited home cooks and gardeners interested in learning how to grow their own spaghetti tree. Decades later CNN called this broadcast "the biggest hoax that any reputable news establishment ever pulled". Sale of the Liberty Bell In 1996, Taco Bell ran a huge ad in major newspapers saying that the company had purchased the Liberty Bell and intended to rename it the Taco Liberty Bell. So many people thought it was true that the National Park Service and some U.S. Senators got involved to explain that it was all a hoax. After admitting it was a an April Fool’s Day joke, Taco Bell donated $50,000 to help provide care for this American treasure. Toilet Paper for Left-Handers Cottonelle played its own joke in 2015 when it announced it was going to introduce toilet paper for people who were left-handed. Claiming that "America has spoken, and we at Cottonelle have listened," Cottonelle introduced ReverseRipple™ toilet paper, specially designed "for left-handed wipers."Cottonelle didn’t start the “left-handed” joke though because Burger King pulled it in 1998 with their Whopper for left-handed people. The Collapse of the Seattle Space Needle A special report presented by a television channel in Seattle in 1989 announced that the Space Needle had just collapsed, to the horror of viewers. The report was complete with photos, a live interview with someone who saw it start swaying and fall and an announcement that one person had received minor injuries. Although the video ended up explaining that the story was an April Fools’ Day prank, the station was flooded with callers as well as medical personnel and volunteers showing up to help. The Fastest Baseball Pitcher in the World Author and actor George Plimpton wrote a story for Sports Illustrated about an imaginary pitcher for the Mets named Siddhartha “Sidd” Finch, who threw a fastball that clocked in at 168 mph. The story ran in 1985 on April 1, and sharper readers realized that the secondary headline. When strung together, the first letters of each word in the subhead spelled out “Happy April Fools’ Day.” Plimpton used this story later in a novel called “The Curious Case of Sidd Finch: A Novel.”