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Here is Grace to you Bible teacher John MacArthur.

Now, as you know, last Sunday we began to look at the book of Revelation, and the reason

I felt urgency to do this is because there seems to be so much confusion in our world about

the future and it seems to be so ominous. The powers that be in our country and I think

elsewhere in the world are trying to do everything they can to frighten people about the future so they

can exercise certain control over them, and I think that will continue to escalate.

They are not in charge of the future by any stretch of the imagination.

The environmentalists are not in charge of the future, nor are the polluters in charge

of the future. No human beingers in charge of the future.

No human being is in charge of the future.

That belongs to God and God alone.

And to have that perspective, that is the divine perspective, you have to go to the Word of God

and no better place in the book of Revelation.

Now as we come to the second part of chapter one, just to kind of introduce it in the framework

of what we've been doing over the last couple of months, I did some sermons on the life

of the church.

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