Nansings (3 Mar 2024)
"Reply to:  Mike P. (02-25-24), Who Is The Bride of Christ + Angels or Saints at Armageddon?"


 
Reply to:  Mike Plunkett (25 Feb 2024), Who Is The Bride of Christ?
 
    As a member of the Bride of Christ, I wish to share with you the following.  I experienced first-hand that I am part of the Bride of Christ during my visit to Heaven with Jesus in 2007.  I had been deeply pondering whether the Bride of Christ was just symbolic (like the disciples who followed Jesus around) or an actual supernatural entity.  If the latter, I wanted to know how men fit into the concept.  I didn't realize the Holy Spirit was intimately tracking me on this.
 
    Then one night thereafter in a dream the Holy Spirit helped me by reducing my questions down to a sentence that lit up and moved, like a ticker tape, defining what I was trying to understand.  As the lit-up sentence moved past my eyes, I suddenly and supernaturally became aware of the enormity of the God who was dealing with me and was amazed at His interest in helping me with this question.
 
    Not long thereafter, in answer to this, one day in 2007 in an open vision, Jesus took my spirit to Heaven and superimposed the Bride of Christ over me while giving me a hug to let me know He can relate to us women and men individually or corporately as His bride.  I was aware of the difference in the Bride of Christ's form versus mine:  She is very full busted, yet very slender from the waist on down.
 
    I am not alone in this experience as there are other accounts given by Christians who were taken to Heaven and Jesus superimposed His bride over them to help straighten out issues they had related to this matter.  One was a minister's wife from Canada whose earthly father raised her to be a 'tom boy.'  She grew up with issues as a result.  Jesus explained to her that He and the Father had always wanted her to be a girl.  So He superimposed the Bride of Christ in a wedding gown over her and loved her as the woman/wife He intended her to be.  Those who are 'born again' in a spiritual rebirth since the crucifixion makes up this Gentile Bride of Christ created to make the Jews jealous (see Romans 11:11 below).
 
    The Bride of Christ - Celebrates in Heaven the Marriage Supper of the Lamb during the 7-year Great Trib on Earth, thus leaving out the Jews as indicated in Isaiah 26:19-21: 
 
Isaiah 26:19-21
 
First the Resurrection of the dead:
19 Thy dead men shall live, together with My dead body shall they arise.  Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
 
Second, the Gentile Bride of Christ is Raptured (a Jewish rabbi pointed out that the "chambers" referred to in this verse below are "bridal chambers.")

20 Come, My people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation (Ed., time of God's wrath) be overpast.

Third comes God's Wrath aka  the Great Tribulation:

21 For, behold, the Lord cometh out of His place to punish the inhabitants of the Earth (i.e., planet) for their iniquity: the earth (i.e., the ground) also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.

For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
    During the Great Tribulation God is going to 'woo' back His divorced Jewish bride.  The last 2,000 years were ordained for creating the Gentile Bride of Christ who were extended God's salvation originally intended for the Jews "to provoke the Jews to jealousy:"
I say then, Have they (Ed., the Jews) stumbled that they should fall?  God forbid: but rather through their (Ed., the Jews) fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them (Ed., the Jews) to jealousy.
    God is removing Christ's bride before the Great Trib because she is a Gentile bride for Jesus that was chosen by God to "provoke the Jews to jealousy."  With that accomplished she is free to escape the wrath of God to come on Satan and his kingdom on the Earth during the Great Trib.  She will be celebrating the marriage to Christ in Heaven at "the Marriage Supper of the Lamb" mentioned in Revelation 19:9:
And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto  the marriage supper of the Lamb.  And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God.
    Since the Great Trib is all about Israel, the Bride of Christ is not needed here and was promised not to be appointed unto God's wrath on unbelievers, which includes the Jews who will not be reconciled with God, like Joseph with his brothers, until the end of the Great Trib, and by then will only be a 1/3rd "remnant" of what was before the Great Trib.
 
    The verse below talks about the Jews fleeing to the mountains in days to come before Jesus returns "and all the saints" with Him.  Angels aren't saints because they aren't "sons of God" who are "heirs to salvation."  The angels never had the sin seed of Adam in them necessary to receive salvation from sin.  Consequently, the angels are curious and would like to look into more about this matter of salvation, per the Bible, since the Bride of Christ will rule over them in the future.  The Bible says, "To those who received Him (Ed., Jesus and His salvation) He (Ed., Jesus) gives the power to become the sons of God, even to them who believe on His name" [John 1:12].  Jesus said that in Heaven we will be like the angels.
Know ye not that we shall judge angels?  How much more things that pertain to this life?
    Zechariah 14:5 below says it is "all the saints" that come with Jesus.  So to debate this  matter is not necessary because whether Jesus says "angels" or "saints' returning with Him, He is  talking about both the "sons of God" who were delivered from the sin seed of Adam and the angels over whom the sons of God will rule someday.
And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the Lord my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.
    A vision of the 2nd Coming (see attached) indicated the saints mounted their horses while the angels stood in ranks on the left, right and at the rear of the "redeemed" troops as they prepared to head for Armageddon.  "They were not mingled among us because they understood that this was something that the Commander-in-Chief had promised us, The Redeemed!" 
    Jesus has confirmed this and revealed it to people via dreams/visions.  Attached "Marriage Supper & 2nd Coming Armageddon Vision," by Bob in 2007, is quite dramatic.  Following is a short extract.  The rest is in the attached document for downloading:

― As we partook of it (communion with Jesus in Heaven), there was something that came into us.. a strength, a stoicness, a warrior‘s spirit.  We immediately, instantaneously and intuitively understood we were about to suit up for battle; or to use military terminology, we were to gear up and saddle up.  And from there, brother, He led us.

― He was on the most beautiful white stallion or steed I have ever seen in my life.  He was in full battle dress.  (Man, like heavenly BDU's)  And He had a crown on His head.  You knew that the man who wore this crown was above everything and everyone that ever was that was, now or ever would be.  You knew He was King of kings, Lord of lords and God of gods and that was it!!!  Said and done.  [Amen!]

 

― I found this interesting...  I‘ve always seen us coming as angels, maybe we will [be] like them, but brother, most [of us] mounted up, if not all, on war steeds, perfectly white war stallions, in full battle dress similar to the cherubim, the warrior angels of God.  Now they [Ed., angels, implied] were not mounted.  They were on our right flank, on our left flank, and they were behind us as our rear guard.  They were not mingled among us because they understood that this was something that the Commander-in-Chief had promised us, The Redeemed!  Do you remember seeing the Lone Ranger‘s white horse rear up? [Yes, Silver]

― We came out of the heavenlies and charged into the midst of a place called Jezreel (Rev. 16:16).  [Hallelujah, Jesus!]  Armageddon!  And His word to us was, "No hold, no quarter, slaughter them all!"  And brother, we waded into it!  It was not long until where the blood -- we were wading through blood.  The horses were having to give that semi-swim, instead of a trot, or a step forward.  It was high, brother (Rev. 14:20)!  He just kept saying, "Press the battle, press the battle.  No holds, no retreats, no surrender.  Slaughter them all!‘  And He meant it, brother.
 

― When it was over, we were the only ones standing on that battlefield -- alive.  He said, "Did I not promise that if you were to reject Me and My offering of My Blood that I would drown you in your own, and cleanse the earth with your own blood?"

--- When He got down off of that stallion, He waded through all of this gore; I mean it was horrific!  Just imagine blood from… human blood, the stench that would make a healthy human being puke right there.  And then you've got the blood of horses and donkeys, dogs and cats and whatever else.

    In the attached account of his vision, Bob elaborates further about Jesus's triumphant entry into Jerusalem and the moving reception Jesus received by all its occupants.  It's well worth taking the time to read it.  I would advise, however, not attempting to discount such visions as mine and this by Bob, due to being supernatural revelations, as they were given to us directly by the Holy Spirit of God.  To try and negate it would leave a person open to angering the Holy Spirit and receiving a reprimand by Him for one's unbelief, either in this life or the next. 


Marriage Supper_2nd Coming_Armageddon Vision_Bob_2007.html

A fascinating account revealing among other things how Jesus wins the final battle, as well as, how Jesus plans to get around the unsanctified graves the Arabs have strategically placed in front of the sealed Golden Gate in Jerusalem hoping to prevent His re-entry, which was prophesied by the ancients to occur at Christ's 2nd Coming.  Also the dramatic way He actually gets through that presently sealed gate.  I would love to be there to see all this great drama of the ages played out!  ;)  Nancy

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Fwd by:  Jan

2nd Coming & Armageddon Vision


(BobŸs March 2007 Vision)

• There is a corridor coming straight up from Planet Earth at the North.  They find no stars, no planets and no galaxies.  There˜s nothing.  He (Ed., Jesus) turned His gaze in that direction and opened the heavens from a distance.  We˜re walking through the cosmos.  They were witnessing what was happening on Planet Earth (i.e., deleted gory portion re invasion/war/Great Tribulation).


--- Everything that had been happening up to that time when this (Ed., the Great Tribulation, inferred) was being unleashed on Planet Earth, and on America (Ed., an invasion by foreign troops), stood still.  You could not even hear the stars giving forth that radio note, so that the stars no longer sang.  The heavens, the universe, the cosmos were absolutely on [one] hundred percent deathly quiet, watching what was happening in judgment.

• And looking into Heaven (Bob weeping¦) there was a table as far as the eye could see in any direction. People were sitting there.. [The Marriage Supper of the Lamb! / Rev. 19:7-9]  Absolutely!  Without a single strand of anything, that transparent white [the marriage supper!].  Hold on¦ those robes glistened with an iridescent golden hue that is so unearthly, there is nothing like it on this planet.


• The tablecloth was of such pure white linen it sparkled; like you would walk out onto a snowy field, in the early morning or the late evening.  In other words, sunrise or sunset.  And every color, pastel and hue glistened from that linen like a diamond!  Faceted in faceted cuts that we on Earth do not even know how to cut yet.  Because it absorbed the light, then radiated the light from the inside out, rather than refracting and reflecting it.  This was from the inside, brother, it soaked it inside and then shattered it out.  It was gorgeous!

• There was really no need then for any light on that table because the linen radiated the light and we were sitting in close proximity to each other.  Every nation, every tribe, every tongue (weeping), every language every dialect was being spoken and yet we understood each other.  It was if that language being spoken across the table was our mother tongue.


• The faces glowed with a healthfulness that no one has ever experienced on this Earth.  They were in perfect health; there were no tears, and no crying in pain.  And oh, how I know that from the multitudes of kidney stones I˜ve had the misfortune of having to pass; or have [had] extracted.

• There was no disease.  There were no t.. (Ed., tears) (weeping).  Everyone was in perfect health.  There were children there who were radiating smiles that their face .. was not big enough for their smile.  They were looking up and chattering with Mommy and Daddy, Grandma and Grandpa, brother, sister and family that they˜d only seen pictures of in the past.


• Every kind of meat imaginable -- and those that we have not even thought of yet -- were there before us, and every vegetable.  It was all seasoned with herbs and spices that would make the most well seasoned meal from the world˜s greatest chefs taste bland; like wet cardboard.  Even the smells of the fragrances would cause your mouth to burst with flavors.

• And the fruits were so sweet and tangy, you would just sit there, take a bite and close your eyes.  Or you would just look towards the end of the table¦ (tears)  Though the table was so far in the distance you could not really see who was sitting at the other end, and yet, you could see as if He (Jesus) was sitting right next to you.  I don˜t know how that is possible, but there it is.  He some[how] folds time and space so that no matter how far something is it can be right next to you.  Eternity past, present and future is right there.  [Ed., God told someone once that He can "split off into infinity."  He is omnipresent -- everywhere at the same time, something Lucifer can't do.  That's why Lucifer has to rely on demons to be his spies for him because he cannot be everywhere at the same time.] 


• Towards the end of this meal (as we understand time) there was still some left.  He broke bread.  There were angels of all different levels of service bringing the broken bread and serving it to us, one on one, looking into our eyes with a wonder that only the angels who have always been there for the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, but yet had never experienced salvation, look into our eyes and wonder with a wonderment that can only come from them -- wondering what it is like to experience salvation.  [Amen..  Hallelujah Jesus!]

• It would be like they would .. give anything to experience what you are [experiencing] at that moment, because from that moment in eternity, they will now serve you.  You will now be their administrator and their head in the coming Kingdom of God.  Throughout not only Planet Earth, but the cosmos; the new heavens and new Earth.

• At that point, Jesus our elder brother stood up and said, "I promised you the Marriage Supper of the Lamb [Hallelujah Jesus], but this is the concluding moment.  These are the concluding moments because we have an appointment where I˜m going to call you forth.  We are about to return to Planet Earth, but before then, I promised you that I would not break bread again until this moment in eternity.Ÿ

• He explained it, and what it cost Him.  And there was just awe and weeping, but it was weeping with joy, and honor, and love that really could not be expressed by some.  The weeping of joy He accepted as worship.  Brother, there was every nation, every tribe, every tongue, every language, every dialect, every people group, every color.  We were sitting there.  [Then] We stood as He said "Partake.˜"  We just simply could not remain seated, as we were honoring Him who was the "Bread of Heaven."

• And then He took the cup.  One single chalice.  It was the most perfect silver, platinum, golden chalice mix.  I do not know how those metals can mix, but it did.  And depending on how He turned it, you could see the silver or the platinum or the gold, but it was not transparent.  And there were..ohhh.. diamonds, rubies, emeralds, sapphires, opals and every other imaginable [jewel]¦ from past history that has been spoken of, to those we do not know anything of until we go home to Heaven.  Priceless jewels were set in that chalice in patterns that were exquisite in their mosaic art work.


• One of them was a shield; a golden shield.  In the midst of that golden shield was the purest silver going from top to bottom, side to side¦.  You˜ve seen these emblems where it goes to a point at the bottom and then at the top it has two.  It goes from side to side up towards a point.  You follow what I˜m saying [Yeh, IŸm trying]  OK.  You might see it in a British or Scottish museum; like an old shield, only this was perfect. There was a perfect silver, pure cross and inlaid into that was what looked like liquid red.  Now whether it was red that represented the Blood of the Lamb I do not know.  In fact it might even have been that part which could be seen inside the chalice; but it was liquid in form and encrusted with these jewels.  That represented the shield of faith, because of the Blood of the Lamb poured out at the cross.  And He poured into smaller chalices, not cups, this fruit of the vine that He promised that He would not drink again until we were together in our Father˜s house.  And He explained it.

The Returning, Conquering Messiah, King of Kings & Lord of Lords


• Now think for a moment.  He served that communion to billions¦ from one single loaf and one solitary chalice.  Brother, that takes us back to when He fed the 5,000.  Al, as we partook of it, there was something that came into us.. a strength, a stoicness, a warrior˜s spirit.  We immediately, instantaneously and intuitively understood we were about to suit up for battle; or to use military terminology, we were to gear up and saddle up.  And from there, brother, He led us.

• He was on the most beautiful white stallion or steed I have ever seen in my life.  He was in full battle dress.  (Man, like heavenly BDUŸs)  And He had a crown on His head.  You knew that the man who wore this crown was above everything and everyone that ever was that was, now or ever would be.  You knew He was King of kings, Lord of lords and God of gods and that was it!!!  Said and done.  [Amen!]


• I found this interesting...  I˜ve always seen us coming as angels, maybe we will [be] like them, but brother, most [of us] mounted up, if not all, on war steeds, perfectly white war stallions, in full battle dress similar to the cherubim, the warrior angels of God.  Now they [Ed., angels, implied] were not mounted. They were on our right flank, on our left flank, and they were behind us as our rear guard.  They were not mingled among us because they understood that this was something that the Commander-in-Chief had promised us, The Redeemed!  Do you remember seeing the Lone Ranger˜s white horse rear up?  [Yes, Silver]


--- œBrother,  He withdrew His war sword from that war scabbard.  Now that sword was of the purest silver IŸve ever seen.  You could see it embedded with whole and crushed jewels.  The hilt and the handle were solid translucent gold.  Same thing..  Inlaid, set inside, as well as, crushed, pure, precious gems.  The scabbard was solid gold on the outside; the same.  Inlaid with, as well as, inside of, precious gems and crushed gems; like diamonds.  I mean that scabbard just glistened almost to the point where you could not look at it when the light would touch it.

• And inside the scabbard there was a sheath that was pure silver.  I˜m beginning to wonder, although I˜ve not studied it, have no Biblical basis for this at this point¦I˜m wondering if that scabbard did not somehow reflect someway, somehow, the tabernacle in the wilderness; and the temple in Jerusalem and the holy of holies, because on the outside you have the gold, and on the inside you have the silver, and each of those represents something.  I do not know that for a fact.  It may not mean a thing, but it was phenomenal to look upon.

• And brother, when He drew that sword which is -- and you could see it written on the blade from both sides 'Word of God™ -- written in blood [Rev. 19:11-21], He caused that stallion to rear up.  And He said, "Now, O˜ God, I take back what the kingdom of darkness stole from us."  And He said one word, and every man woman and child understands this.  He said, "Charge!˜


• We came out of the heavenlies and charged into the midst of a place called Jezreel (Rev. 16:16).  [Hallelujah, Jesus!] Armageddon!  And His word to us was, "No hold, no quarter, slaughter them all!"  And brother, we waded into it!  It was not long until where the blood -- we were wading through blood.  The horses were having to give that semi-swim, instead of a trot, or a step forward.  It was high, brother (Rev. 14:20)!  He just kept saying, "Press the battle, press the battle.  No holds, no retreats, no surrender.  Slaughter them all!˜  And He meant it, brother.

• When it was over, we were the only ones standing on that battlefield -- alive.  He said, "Did I not promise that if you were to reject Me and My offering of My Blood that I would drown you in your own, and cleanse the earth with your own blood?"

--- When He got down off of that stallion, He waded through all of this gore; I mean it was horrific!  Just imagine blood from¦ human blood, the stench that would make a healthy human being puke right there.  And then you've got the blood of horses and donkeys, dogs and cats, and whatever else.

The LORD™S Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives


• He, walking up to the mountain where He shed his Blood on Golgotha, takes His sword.  At first He plunges it into the earth and lifts it skyward and says, "Father, once again I have done your will.  It-is-finished!  [Hallelujah] I take back my kingdom!  From that point forward, brother, the assignments were given over those next 45 days the Bible talks about, for the setting up of His global administration; and His capitol in the city of Jerusalem. [Hallelujah, Jesus!]

• That Eastern Gate¦ (weeping) When He started down off that mountain (the Mount of Olives), He said:  "The graves will not keep me from My inheritance."  [Full of graves up there]  Yes!  And brother, it was like the ground itself moved, and those graves parted so that He could keep the scriptures and not violate the (Jewish-Arabic) law.  There was a way opened for the King of Kings and Lord of Lords that even the dirt of the earth had to obey and open a path.  [Ed., Arabs sealed up the gate and put graves in front of it to try and keep that prophecy of Jesus' return to Jerusalem through that gate from being fulfilled.  However, it won't work!]


• That was not a path, brother, this was wider than the Eastern Gate!  And He pointed His sword, which is the Word of God, at the gate and said (weeping) "I command you by the word of the Living God and the Blood of the Lamb who I AM.. [Whew.. glory!] OPEN!Ÿ  And brother, it was [as] if the gate that had been walled up just simply disintegrated into nothing.  There was nothing there!  It was as though the very atoms disappeared.  And there was an arch there, brother, that˜s never been there before.

• You talk about that one in Paris, France.  What is it?  [Arch de Triumph]  Yes.  That˜s what this became! And brother, He began to walk towards that arch and that gate .. (weeping)  And the very elements that created it began to sing out the honor and the glory and the majesty of welcoming the King of Kings and Lord of Lords into the city of the Great King!  That arch actually began to resonate with music and sound welcoming Him.  [Ed., Awesome, isn't it?!  I want to see that!] 

• And He walked in there with that sword in His hand, [like] when you would see a conquering hero, a conquering general.  It was in His right hand, semi-level with His waist, only it was not pointed at the ground -- it was pointed upwards.  And brother, when He walked into Jerusalem, both old and new, there was not a man or woman or child that was alive, that did not fall to their knees.  [Ed., I'll bet!  After seeing all that supernatural drama take place -- whew!]  Some bowed their forehead to the ground like you would see some of these Muslims praying towards Mecca, only these were saying, "All glory, and honor, and power, and strength to the King, to the LORD, to He who is the Ancient of Days."  Some raised their hands towards him and just worshipped Him.  I˜ve never heard such pure Hebrew like that.. and Arabic.  They knew who He was [Ed., Fulfillment of another prophecy at long last!].  And the children were acting just like children.  They were skipping, hopping and jumping around Him in back of Him and in front of Him.  They were singing, "Hail, hail, hail, hail to the King!  Hail to the LORD!  Hail to the Messiah!"

• They were singing in Hebrew and some in Arabic, and He let them, brother, because He loved them with a love that no parent can ever really understand.  They were singing the anthems of welcoming to the King as He entered Jerusalem.  Brother, there was a throng!


• Front, back, sideways, almost crowded the adults out.  And there was not a hand that restrained them. His thinking was, "Father, I have waited all of My life for this moment, and I˜m going to live every moment of it and savor it, because [of] your promise to Me when I hung on that cross.  When I laid in the grave, You could have left me, but You did not.  And now together, as the resurrection of Your full promise I, We, are going to take our rightful place on the throne of David."

There you have it brother.  From hell to Heaven, but what precedes that glorious moment is so gruesome,  so horrific and so terrible that there was no way I could have shared it all in one session.  Now you do with it brother [I got it] whatever you want.  Whatever you desire. [OK brother,]  There it is.  [Thank you Jesus, we got it.]

• What is going to precipitate that.. this nation is not ready for.  And even this morning and last night He showed people running to the banks.  There is no money in the banks to give these people, which means they do not have the money to buy, nor sell.  It˜s coming brother.  These people had better pay their way out of debt as soon as possible, because otherwise the banks of the New World Order, and that is what they will be, will own you.  And unless you do exactly what they say, you˜ll have no money to provide.


• Al, that coincides this entering into the holy city, the New Jerusalem.  I˜ve never shared it even with my wife.  And that will be part of the book that is going to be written.  When I was twelve, thirteen, fourteen years old, maybe even fifteen, the Father literally taught me.. why He chose this I do not know, except perhaps that He knew that one day it would be my privilege to serve Him in the Gospel, but He gave dreams and visions that at that time I really could not understand literally.  Everything from the new heavens and the new Earth, to those that were left behind.  [bold emphasis and underscores added throughout]

• There were five distinct visions and dreams. When I would wake up, I would still see them.  I try to shake myself awake.  I would try to slap myself awake.  I would slap my thigh.  They would still be in front of me.  I did not understand¦ what is this?  But this latter portion of what was shared with you coincides, I just now realized it, and remembered it, by the Holy Spirit calling it to my remembrance:  "Is not that what I told you in part when you were a teenager?"  And the answer is, "Yes Sir!"

•Brother, if He revisits and reemphasizes, it is not for the person, it is for those who will hear it.  [Uh huh] And those who will read this report.  All I ask is that you keep my identity out of it so that there is no accolade given to me, but that all of it goes to the Father.

• And I˜ve listened to your words and there are two words that stand out.  One, is —warning.˜  And the other is —evangelical.˜  Do with it what you will, brother.  Well, God bless and God love and God keep you.  How long have we been on the phone?  [We've been two hours, twenty-two minutes and twenty-two seconds, according to the phone's timer]

• Al, you˜re kidding me!  [No, that's off the timer!]  Now think of this.. we˜ve been on the phone that long? [Yeah] What will it be like when we˜re •home– and we start sharing together.  It will not be hours and minutes and seconds.  It will be days and weeks and months and years, within the context of man˜s time line.  Only there It˜ll be timeless.  [YeahŸ]  We might pass literally a year, or two, or a hundred years before we realize, well maybe we˜d better walk over here¦.  And you mean to tell me we been talking and sharing about Jesus all this time?  YES!  That excites me.

[Well, there you have it folks.  What can I add?  Not a whole lot.]

Respectfully and humbly submitted, in the Name of the LORD Jesus Christ,

Al