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We have a lot of things we're going to be doing. We're going to be worshiping. We're going to be learning. We're going to be serving the Lord.

This is the day when the last I found. This is the day for a moment beginning.

Amazing grace, I've reached the throne.

Can you hear the only action for seeing it?

This is the day that's been with us again.

It's interesting that some people find revelation a challenge to understand.

The symbolism is so rich and unusual. But at the same time, some wonder if it's going to be a boring existence.

Well, if it's such a spectacle that it's a challenge to explain, how could it be boring?

Today on a new beginning, Pastor Greg Lory takes us to the final book in the New Testament

and one of the most descriptive discussions of what we'll see and what we'll do when we enter eternity.

We're back here now in the book of Revelation chapter 4.

Again, to review, chapter 1 is a revelation of the glorified Christ.

Chapters 2 to 3 is a flyover of church history. Chapters 4 and 5 were taken up into heaven in the rapture.

Chapter 6 to 19, we have the great tribulation period that will last for seven years.

Chapter 20, we have the millennium.

Chapters 21 to 22, we have the new heavens and the new earth.

So let's talk about the next event on the prophetic calendar. I already mentioned it. It's called the rapture.

Look at what John writes in verse 1.

The first voice which I heard was like a trumpet.

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