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Thanks so much for joining me for today's encouraging

word. From my home to yours, God bless you. In these difficult days and certain times,

we're trying to find strength and deepen our faith in the word of God.

We're looking at John 316.

It's like a table of contents of all the great teachings of Scripture.

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son

so that whoever believes in him will not perish, but have everlasting or eternal life.

Now, just that phrase, eternal life, warms our heart, doesn't it?

You see, the Bible is a future-facing book.

And through the Bible, God urges us not to have fear about the future, but to have hope

and confidence.

He talks to us about the end of times, and he equips us to face the future of the future, but to have hope and confidence. He talks to us about the end of times,

and he equips us to face the future by telling us what's going to happen. One of the topics he

reveals, or two topics he reveals, Antichrist and Rapture, or two of the most interesting topics in

Scripture. Antichrist is the name most commonly

used to describe this Satan-filled individual who will oppose God in attempt to take the place of God.

Now, to be clear, some Bible students, even Bible scholars, don't take references to him as a literal person.

I happen to do so.

But I'm not worried about him.

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