Translation from Spanish
In these times, Satan is sending an army of demons whose power and reach are growing. I see evil spirits, and the Holy Spirit shows me that each one has a certain influence, like a circle around them, up to a limit determined by the power and authority they’ve been given. The Spirit tells me this is a spectrum of influence.
The demons being sent to earth to act mainly against God’s children in these days will be more powerful than before. This is happening because man’s sin is increasing, just like in the days of Noah. The level of sin at the time of the flood wasn’t the same as before, when Noah hadn’t yet walked the earth.
The Holy Spirit says that in these end times, man’s sin is increasing more and more. The type, level, and amount of sin aren’t the same as they were a hundred years ago, for example. Sin and evil are increasing, and this gives the enemy the right to send evil spirits of new levels, who act according to the level of man’s sin.
That’s why the darkness looming over the earth is also continuing to grow. There’s a cloud descending upon the planet, and this darkness is denser than the darkness people lived in before.
The Bible speaks of deep darkness, and the Spirit reveals to me that there are different kinds of darkness and different depths of darkness.
God says that, in these times, man is plunging into a darkness he has never entered before. And this happens, in part, because before, man didn’t have the knowledge he has now.
The book of Daniel says that knowledge would increase, and that word is for this time. We know that since the prophet Daniel walked the earth, knowledge has advanced more and more, but now it’s developing faster than before, just like time itself is, as the Bible says, “the days will be shortened.”
[Daniel 12:4] But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
That’s why everything that happens in man’s life will move at the pace of time in these last days. What used to happen slowly will now begin to happen quickly. The pace at which science and technology advance will accelerate, and what man couldn’t achieve before through science, he’ll now achieve. But with that, he’ll also have more access to new ways of sinning.
The Bible also says that in the last days evil would increase and the love of many would grow cold, and that’s the reality we’re living in now.
Satan is blowing icy winds on hearts to turn them into stone, and the Holy Spirit shows me that this will cause people to feel affinity with machines and to identify with robots. Many will fall in love with machines and leave the man or woman of flesh to join with a machine.
This level of coldness and hardness that hearts are entering, because of their own evil and because they’re moving further and further away from God, for preferring darkness over light, will make people identify more and more with things that once seemed abhorrent to them.
[Matthew 24:12] And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
The way we live is already changing. This new era we’re entering brings a new routine that’s being established on earth, and things that once seemed terrible, unthinkable, and unimaginable will become more and more normal.
Things that once shocked people and made them recoil—like, for example, having relations with animals, with dolls, or with machines—will start to be seen as natural.
The legalization of abortion is only a small step in the enemy’s agenda and will seem minor compared to what will be legalized in the countries of the world.
The Holy Spirit tells me that murders will happen at a level that has never happened before on earth, and I’m not just talking about abortions. The earth is already cursed because of the blood of aborted babies that cries out to God from the ground, but besides abortions, new forms of homicide will arise, which will begin to be legalized and seen as normal.
Any defect a person has before birth and is discovered will have to be erased, eliminated. The Lord tells me that Hitler was the one who started this work for the enemy, a forerunner who opened a huge door in this world to the devil, beginning the elimination of those who don’t fit the standard. Hitler was a pioneer in this kind of genocide.
The Spirit tells me that until recently, most people saw these acts as an atrocity, but as the end draws near, the wicked who choose the left will return to these forms of genocide, though in different ways.
They will say: Everything that’s old is no longer useful, and everything that has any defect must be erased: the deaf, the blind, the paralyzed, those with any organ anomaly, or those with Down syndrome.
Any kind of defect a person has will be looked down on among those who choose darkness. And as these end times go on, we, the Children of God who remain, will feel our hearts faint as we see the terrible things that those who don’t choose the cross will do.
The Holy Spirit tells me that the enemy has planted ideas in man that he must be perfect, and these ideas have come in through vanity and human knowledge. Man must know. Man must be beautiful. Man must be perfect.
There will be a model of how man and woman should be, and if you don’t meet those standards, you’re useless, you’re worthless, and you have no right to live. That’s what the enemy has been putting into the mind of man, doing a subtle work, step by step.
The enemy has been doing this work since the beginning of the fall until today, but in these last days this work will increase. It’s like someone driving a car at a normal speed, but suddenly stepping on the gas as if in a race. That’s how things will go in these last days.
The Spirit says that in these last days those who are of God won’t be left behind. He who is unrighteous will be more unrighteous, and he who is holy will be more holy, because just as in the physical, there are also different kinds of whites and blacks in the spirit. Some children of God shine more than others, and some children of the devil are darker than others.
The Spirit tells me that the children of God who walk carrying their cross, those who leave absolutely everything out of love for God, those who understand that this is a time of surrender and resistance, will shine brighter than the sun, just as the book of Daniel says.
[Daniel 12:3] And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.
While the dark ones become darker, the white ones will shine brighter, but only those who cling to the feet of our Lord Jesus Christ and allow themselves to be refined.
But there will be a price we’ll have to pay to shine more and more. We’ll have to give up what we want. We’ll have to truly make things right with the Lord and clean our house, both literally and metaphorically. We’ll have to choose which path to walk, because only two paths will remain.
The path of decision is a Y-shaped intersection: either you go to the right, or you go to the left. You can’t serve two Lords, and whoever stays in the middle of those two paths, thinking they’re being neutral, will actually be walking on the left.
The Lord will bring the whole world to a point where each person will have to make a decision, because it’s man’s decision that glorifies God. Choosing the Lord Jesus is what gives glory to God. It’s not that He forces you to follow Him that glorifies Him, but that you, by your own will, choose Him.
While all this happens and chaos spreads over the earth, while the unrighteous become more unrighteous and commit ever greater atrocities, we, those who understand that the way is narrow and decide to take up our cross and remain until the end, will shine with a light more intense than before and will shine like the stars.
Moreover, there will be a great battle between the children of darkness and the children of light, a confrontation between spirit and matter like never before seen on earth. In that time, supernatural things will happen that we will see with our own eyes.
The Bible says that the latter glory will be greater than the former, and that we will do greater miracles than those Jesus did. The miracles, signs, and wonders that the children of God will do in that time will surpass even walking on water or raising paralytics. The miracles that we will do will be astonishing.
[Haggai 2:9] The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the LORD of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith the LORD of hosts.
In those days, the powers of Satan will be poured out more and more upon his followers, empowering them and giving them greater authority. As they obey with blood sacrifices, murders, witchcraft, fasting, and other practices, their master rewards them and they walk with more power, even performing miracles.
In the same way, the children of God, as they surrender more, fast more, renounce the things of the world, cleanse themselves and sanctify themselves, their light will grow and the power of the Holy Spirit in them will be manifested with more strength than ever, because everything happens according to the state of man in each time.
The struggle between light and darkness will be so fierce that there will even be street encounters between the children of the devil and the children of God, battles in the streets where the powers of the enemy and those of the eternal God will be manifested.
I know these things are delicate, that they may seem taken from a science fiction movie, but the Lord Jesus Himself said it:
[John 14:12] Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
I myself have seen children of God levitate thanks to these powers that the Lord will give them in the last days. And if you didn’t know, the enemy of souls also causes levitation in his children when they reach a certain level of surrender to the kingdom of darkness.
There are sorcerers who not only do astral travel, leaving their bodies to attack people with witchcraft, but can also levitate. It sounds intense, but I invite you to investigate it for yourself and to read testimonies of sorcerers who served the enemy and later converted to Christianity.
But the power of the enemy does not compare to the power of our God. We serve an absolutely powerful God, whose reach no one can stop. From Him come all things, and nothing happens without His knowledge. Not a leaf falls from a tree without Him knowing it.
He is an almighty God, a God who can do all things, and there is nothing impossible for Him, as the Bible says. God will pour out upon His children a flow of power that will surpass that of the children of the devil.
I am not talking about the lukewarm, those who have one foot in the world and one in Heaven, but about those who have given 100% of their heart to God, those who are trained because they have heeded God’s warnings, those who know the Word and will use it as a double-edged sword.
They will walk in a higher light and will be the vessels where the Lord will pour out this light, which will be manifested through these channels, performing all kinds of miracles, including levitation. I have seen it in visions. I have seen the kind of spiritual warfare that is coming in the last days.
Yes, the powers of the enemy will increase; yes, wickedness will grow; yes, the children of the devil will become very powerful. They will blow in front of a person and that person will fall down dead if he does not have the protection of the Lord Jesus. They will accomplish all of this with just a snap of their fingers.
Legions of demons will be at their disposal to curse entire families. And although these things already happen to a certain extent, in the days to come they will intensify.
The final manifestations, both of the Holy Spirit and of unclean spirits, will be different, because they will correspond to the wickedness or the goodness that is present.
The Holy Spirit shows me and confirms to me visions I have already had before, because the time has come to share them.
I see that the hands of the righteous who walk the earth in those days will be like flames of fire, and when they lay their hands on others, it will have astonishing power. The power of the prayers of God’s children will also increase.
The Bible says that when Peter walked by, people were healed just by his shadow. These things will happen again in these end times. The breath of God’s children will bring someone back to life. The clothing of God’s children will cause healings, because the power of the Spirit manifested in them will be so great.
It’s not that the Spirit of God is more powerful now than before, but rather that in the last days, His manifestation will be seen at a higher level, even astonishing Christians who don’t understand what time they’re living in.
Whoever doesn’t prepare, who doesn’t understand, who doesn’t study, or who doesn’t ask our God for revelation and understanding, won’t be able to process what will happen on the earth.
The Lord tells me that just as people accused Jesus of casting out demons by the prince of demons, in the last days, brothers will turn in other brothers to death because they won’t understand that it’s the Holy Spirit manifesting Himself in these vessels that are willing, surrendered, and prepared to do these things.
The Lord also tells me that the discernment His children will have will be so great that they’ll be able to discern the thoughts of hearts at a level even higher than the gift of discernment Christians have today. Because there are levels within the manifestation of the gifts, and each vessel has its limit.
Just as there are vessels of different capacities in the physical world, says the Lord, I also have vessels with different capacities into which I pour My Spirit.
Noelia: That’s why you see there are different types of prophets and teachers, with different scopes, assignments, and manifestations, because the Spirit operates differently in each one of us.
The Holy Spirit shows me that the vessels of the last days will have greater capacity, so God can pour more of His Spirit into them and they will be able to operate with greater power.
The Holy Spirit keeps speaking to me about the miracles that will happen in the end times and tells me that the sorcerers will no longer hide as before. They will walk the streets, killing people with their words and cursing everyone who comes near them.
Just as Peter walked and people were healed by his shadow, Satan will copy this and his children will also operate with greater power. When they walk the streets, even the dogs will die as they pass by. Children will grow weak and adults will fall apart.
The children of the devil will do these things because the power of the enemy will also be poured out into vessels of iniquity at a higher level than before, and these cursed people will have hearts so hardened that they’ll be like rock.
They won’t even remember what it means to love. They’ll be so identified with their flesh that they’ll forget what they once were. They’ll become walking demons. They’ll be so possessed that their minds will be lost. The mind will be like a castle that once had an owner but was usurped, and its owner is left there as a slave, losing dominion and authority over their own house.
This is what the vessels of hell will be like, vessels that will be occupied by extremely powerful demons that are being sent to the earth and whose power is increasing.
The ones who will be influenced by these enemies that have come up from hell will be those who are far from the Lord, who don’t have the protection of the Almighty or live under the wings of the Omnipotent; those who didn’t keep their lamps full of oil, who never allowed themselves to be set free or healed, who remain bound with chains placed by the enemy.
They never chose the cross or renounced their ego, so they were easy to tempt. They believed the Son of God doesn’t exist and didn’t understand that they needed to surrender at the feet of the Savior to find freedom.
Those are the ones who will fall under the influence of the wicked children of the devil. They will be easy prey for these sorcerers who will walk the earth causing destruction in plain sight.
Evil will become something ordinary, and even now we see this is becoming more and more normal. The Bible says:
[Isaiah 5:20] Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
This is one of the verses that will be most fulfilled in the last days. What was once good, what was in harmony with God’s commandments, what was in people’s conscience and understood without explanation, is now being reversed. This process began a long time ago, but it hasn’t yet reached the extreme it needs to reach for the end of all things to come.
What once seemed an atrocity, something that could never have received the approval of people and rulers, will be seen as normal and acceptable in the times to come. We’re moving toward that point, and what we see now is nothing compared to what’s coming.
We will be tested. And there, in the midst of the trial, our faith will truly be shown in those who decide to keep going after the cross. But the cowards will turn back, and those who said they were with us but never were, will be the murderers of the true ones.
[Matthew 10:21] And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
[1 John 2:19] They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
That’s the process the world is going through now. That’s why the earth suffers and groans. The birth pains are just beginning, and this is only the start. We’re just now entering the lesser contractions.
What was in darkness will come to light. What was hidden will be revealed. What man wants to hide, that’s what God will expose. The Bible says:
[Mark 4:22] For there is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested; neither was any thing kept secret, but that it should come abroad.
This verse fits perfectly for the end times, because what happens when you’re in a dead end? When you’re brought to a point where you absolutely have to make a decision, that’s when the truth is revealed. It’s easy to say like Peter: “I’ll go to the end. I won’t deny You, Lord. I’ll go to death with You, and if necessary, I’ll be a martyr for love of Your name.”
How many of us say that? But it’s very easy to say when we’re comfortable, when we have light, gas, when we’re warm, when our stomachs are full, when we’re not sick, when our own family isn’t persecuting us. It’s easy to say while they’re not yet hunting you down to kill you because you didn’t accept the mark of the beast.
We’ll be there when the mark is revealed in the world and we’ll have to make a decision, and that will be the final test for the Christian.
This is already taking shape. The plans are already being made under the table, and what’s happening now with the pandemic is only a prelude to what’s coming.
The COVID vaccine isn’t the mark of the beast, because the Bible clearly says the mark will be placed on the right hand or on the forehead, and that no one will be able to buy or sell without it. The vaccine doesn’t meet those requirements, so it’s not the mark, but just a prelude.
Everything is already underway. They’re cooking us and there’s no turning back. We’re already entering the final test. The righteous and the unrighteous will be tested together, and they already are.
I don’t know if you’ve noticed that your faith is already being tested at a higher level than before. The things that are happening are no longer so easy to bear, and what’s coming will be harder and harder. There’s still a long way to go, and what’s happening is just preparation.
I’m not saying anything that isn’t written. I’m just reminding you and trying to make you react, shaking you a little so you’ll open your eyes, don’t fall asleep, and understand the time you’re living in, like the tribe of Issachar, because you’ll have to make a decision.
The number of martyrs still needs to be completed, and many of us will die for the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. All these things happen to reveal what is hidden, so you can truly see where you stand, who you are. Are you really what you preach? Are you really what you say you are? Or do you just say it with words, but when the Lord allows you to be tested, your faith falters?
[Revelation 6:11] And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.
The Lord already knows what’s in your heart, but He needs you to see it for yourself. The Lord already knows if you love Him, if you’re determined, even if you fall, even if your knees give way, even if you make mistakes. He already knows if you’ve chosen the right or the left, no matter how hard that narrow road may be.
He doesn’t need you to go through a test to know whether you can endure or not. But He wants you to know for yourself where you stand and to see your own reaction, so you’ll come out of the lie you’re in. The Lord wants you to realize if you really can endure as you say, or if you’ll be like Peter, who said one thing but did another.
God is a God of power, a perfect God, a God who dwells in the past, the present, and the future all at once. He is a God who was never born, but simply is. That’s why He’s called the “I Am.”
God is speaking to you today, and at the same time He’s speaking to your grandparents and also to your grandchildren. He’s an omnipresent God. All things are in Him at the same time. God isn’t in time, but time is in Him, because time is part of His creation. God already knows everything. He is “I Am Who I Am.”
[Exodus 3:14] And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.
The human mind can’t understand who that divine being is who chose to send His only Son, from the place of deity where He was, to reveal Himself in the flesh and experience what we feel, and so be able to understand us.
He, by His own will, gave His life and then took it up again. No one forced Him. It wasn’t that God the Father said to Him, “You’ll do this because I say so,” but He learned obedience through suffering, as the Bible says.
That God who loved us first is the One we follow. How much more, then, should we be willing to go even to death for Him, if necessary?
I know what I’m saying is strong and maybe it shakes you up a bit, but that’s because the Lord loves you and wants you to know the reality of things, so that when they happen they don’t catch you by surprise.
The Bible says that no one knows the day or the hour of the coming of the Lord, but that doesn’t mean the children of God can’t understand what time they’re living in.
Some teach that, since the Bible says no one knows the day or the hour, we also don’t know what time we’re living in. But that’s not true, because the Bible also says:
[1 Thessalonians 5:4-5] But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
Whoever says they don’t need to understand what time they’re living in does so because they choose to be ignorant, because they’re lazy and don’t want to study. God didn’t leave the Bible for nothing, and we, those who belong to the day, have the obligation to study it to know what season we’re in.
The Lord works in cycles, in periods, and in seasons. He moves in different ways, according to the time man is going through. And we’re not in darkness so we don’t know what’s coming; we are children of the light and belong to an organized kingdom, which has an order we must know. In this kingdom there are cycles that open and close, seasons that end and begin, just as in the natural world there are autumn, winter, spring, and summer.
However, many prefer to walk blindly, like someone who could take the blindfold off their eyes but chooses not to. If the sons of Issachar understood the times and weren’t living in the last days, how much more should the vessels prepared for the end times understand them.
Do you have any idea what times we’re living in? Have you understood what the Lord is calling you to do in these last days? Do you know what’s coming? Do you know how many times in Scripture the Lord warns about the last days? Do you know what the world will be like when the Word says it will be as in the days of Noah? Do you know what happened in the days of Noah and why the Lord says these days will be similar?
Did you know that in the days of Noah there were giants on the earth, and that in the end times those things will happen again? Did you know that the level of witchcraft and occultism in the days of Noah was tremendous and kept increasing? Did you know that something similar, and even worse, will happen in these last days?
How many people were saved in the days of Noah? Eight people. Do you want to be inside that ark or would you rather look the other way and have a good time? Don’t get complacent, because you’ll have to make a decision and also prepare yourself in practical ways.
The Lord is good and He will help you. He’ll do His part, but you also have to do yours, because He is a God who likes to have a relationship with His children. And although many times He takes the initiative, we also have to respond to Him. Like in any relationship: if someone calls you, you have to answer.
Some people think having a relationship with God is one-sided, that He’s the only one who has to speak, move, and do everything, and if something goes wrong it’s His fault too. But a relationship takes two.
Everyone living on the earth will be moved from their places, and each one will have to decide whether to rise for good or for evil, to walk in righteousness or in iniquity, to fall or to move forward. Each one will be brought to the limit, where they’ll be invited to choose between white and black.
If they choose white, the Lord will cleanse them, and as they surrender, He’ll lead them to victory. But if they choose black, the enemy will give them the means to reach hell, to become darker and darker.
No one will be left without a chance to choose the Kingdom of Heaven. Everyone will have to show their true face, and that face is revealed when you’re shaken, because that’s human nature. People need to be shaken and brought to the limit in order to react.
It’s easy to talk when you’re comfortable, but when serious things come, that’s when you really decide if you’ll stand firm or not, if you’ll go to the end or not, if you’ll let go and carry your cross or not.
That’s why the shaking will come. The volcanoes will show the wrath of God because of the sin poured out on the earth. The earth will be shaken, bringing down entire cities, because the earthquakes will get stronger. The sea will move out of its place.
Catastrophes will become normal in these last days and will no longer surprise anyone. While a bomb explodes in one place, the sea will rise up in another. While a volcano destroys a town, in another part of the world a war will be raging.
Everything will increase and everything will reach extremes. There will be no more middle ground.
People will be evil, truly evil, or good, truly good. The one who is righteous will be much more righteous than before, because otherwise, he’ll have to cross over to the other side. And the one who is unrighteous will be much more unrighteous than before and will follow the movement of darkness.
In the midst of all this there will be much death. Multitudes will die for different reasons. New types of diseases will arise, not just of the body but also of the mind, along with spirits of madness, and people will behave like stray animals, like rabid dogs, like madmen set loose.
All this will happen on the earth, and it’s already begun. And meanwhile, everyone will have to make a decision.
What will you decide? If you don’t have the power you need to resist and fight back, you won’t survive what’s coming. If you don’t know how to fast, you won’t be able to endure the hunger and scarcity that are on the way. If you don’t know how to strengthen yourself in prayer, your spirit will be weak and you won’t be able to withstand the attacks of the sorcerers and the enemies in this time.
If your sword of the Spirit isn’t sharpened, you won’t be able to fight or cut through what the enemy will speak against your life. If you don’t learn about spiritual warfare, you won’t be a victorious soldier in the war the enemy will wage against you.
If you don’t prepare yourself in every area of life, you won’t be able to withstand what’s coming. We’ll all be shaken so deeply that everyone will have to make a choice. The Lord will do this to refine us like gold.
These strange diseases that are about to come will bring bizarre behaviors, just like when Nebuchadnezzar was sent into the wilderness and acted like an animal. This kind of madness will show up in the last days among those who refuse to be part of the Kingdom of Light.
But the children of God will be equipped to heal these kinds of diseases by laying on hands and through the extraordinary power of the Holy Spirit that will flow from our hands.
The enemy won’t be the only one to go to the extreme, showing even greater power. We won’t be left behind either. Both extremes will intensify, and at the same time, the Word of the Lord will reach the ends of the earth.
The Gospel will be spread abundantly, because the children of God will lose their fear of speaking out, and what they’ll preach will come with power and anointing, with boldness, with words of knowledge, with prophecy, with miracles, signs, and wonders. While the world falls apart, God will support His own.
Resist, little ones, resist, says the Lord, for I am with you. I was and I will be, and I’ve never left your side. I’ll strengthen you when you feel like you’re falling, and I’ll give you power through the Holy Spirit so you can withstand the darts of the enemy, which will grow stronger and more harmful. I’ll go with you to defeat every giant that dares to face My children.
I’m the one who will lift you up when you feel weak, says the Lord. The word that comes from your mouth won’t be yours, but Mine—the word that cuts and destroys the works of the enemy, the double-edged sword spoken of in Revelation.
Prepare yourselves and leave all vanity behind, says the Lord. Stay away from all distractions and fix your eyes on Me. Look at Me, for I’ve already won the victory. Whoever isn’t with Me won’t overcome, and whoever doesn’t gather with Me will scatter.
Many false brothers will appear, and all kinds of false religions will multiply, disguising themselves as something good, but they’ll bring very subtle, harmful, and demonic lies. It’s like when someone gets a surprise and thinks there’s something good inside, but in reality, it’s poison.
Noelia: I see different demons coming to earth and sowing demonic doctrines among people. That’s why there’s so much false religion, so many wrong doctrines, and so much spiritual filth. I see rivers of water flowing, different rivers of doctrines, but they’re rivers of dirty, contaminated, and poisoned water, which destroy and kill those who drink from them.
These are the new currents of doctrine that Satan is gradually bringing upon the earth, and the way is being opened for him because people are becoming so evil that they believe whatever they want and take whatever fits their desires.
You’ll have to be very sharp in the Scriptures, very sanctified, and very close to the Lord Jesus to discern the truth, because the lie will disguise itself so well that those who don’t have developed and active discernment won’t realize what is a lie and will eat any bread that’s sold on the street.
Do not give in to fear, says the Lord. Sanctify yourselves more, and those who have left their cross, pick it up again and follow Me, because we are entering the final stretch.
I love you with a deep love, says the Lord.
Noelia: He keeps speaking and does not leave His people in darkness, but warns about what is to come, confirms what is written, and sheds light on what He has already spoken and on what has already been prophesied before this time.