Maybe you need to know that he is still God over your was because he has no time restraints.

And he is God of my is, the God of my was and the God of everything that is to come.

He's at corporately.

He's at universally.

But the challenge in the Book of Revelation is that it could be going back and forth at any time between those time frames.

You may be seated.

You're opened with me to Revelation chapter 7, and I want to give a little bit of background

for anybody that might be with us who has very little familiarity with the book.

Without a doubt, it is the one that if you don't have much familiarity with the scriptures,

you are the most frightened of.

Or it could be that you have a lot of familiarity with the scriptures,

and you're still frightened half to death of it.

Whatever it may be, I want you to look with me in these pages, understand with me if you look if you put something right here in revelation chapter 7 for just a moment go to revelation one and I want

you to see where the title for the book comes from look in that prologue revelation chapter 1 I want to

show you a couple of things there.

The title, Revelation, is coming from the very first word in the Greek,

and that is the word apocalypsis.

And it is a term that means what many of you think it means,

a revealing, an unveiling, a disclosing of some kind. And it says immediately, we're told from the very

beginning, if you're wondering, what is being revealed Jesus Christ? It says it from the top,

1-1, the revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave him to show his servants what must soon take place. So the revelation is of him himself. I want you to look at

19. So Revelation 1, verse 19, and it tells us this. So these are the words of Christ speaking to John,

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