英语是按照分布面积而言最流行的语言，但母语者数量是世界第三，仅次于汉语、西班牙语。它是学习最广泛的第二语言，是近60个主权国家的官方语言或官方语言之一。与英语为母语的人相比，将其作为第二语言学习的人更多。它是英国、美国、加拿大、澳大利亚、新西兰等国家的母语，在加勒比海、非洲和南亚被广泛使用。它是联合国、欧洲联盟以及许多其他世界和区域国际组织的官方语言之一。

Good to see you this morning,   and I hope you've had a great week, and I'm looking forward   to what God is going to do for us today. Thank you for coming.   Well, I have the Bible. Let's turn to 1 Thessalonians   chapter 5, if you would. 1 Thessalonians chapter 5 is   where we're going to be at this morning. Amen, amen. Let's do pray for our count meeting,   as we have stressed often. Pray for our preachers that'll   be coming in. and God's hand will be upon them in a special   way. All righty. Okey dokey. All righty. Can y'all hear me okay? All righty. 1 Thessalonians chapter number   five. And as most of you know, 1 and   2 Thessalonians deals in a very definite way about the coming   of the Lord Jesus Christ, talks about His second coming. We know He came the first time,   and thank God He came the first time. Amen. And we appreciate   His coming, coming to die on the cross, shed His blood for   us. We thank God for that. But here in I Thessalonians and   II Thessalonians, it talks about the Lord's coming. It talks about the rapture. It talks   about His revelation. And we understand, we that know   our Bibles this morning, we understand that Jesus Christ, He could come   any moment. We don't know when He's going   to come, but we do know He's coming. He's made that clear   in the pages of Scripture, that He's going to come again. And   we have said often that no man knows When that's going to take   place, Brother Tim, there's only one that knows when Jesus is   coming back, and that's the Heavenly Father. I don't know how many   of you remember back in 1988, there was a preacher, so-called   preacher, who wrote a book on 88 reasons why Jesus is going   to come back in 1988.