This book, beloved, will give to the one who loves us and the one who released us from

our sins by his blood, the one who made us into a kingdom and made us priests before God.

This book will give to him the glory and the dominion that he deserves forever and ever.

Welcome to Grace to you with John MacArthur. I'm your host, Phil Johnson. For four weeks now,

we have been bringing you a collection of landmark sermons from John MacArthur's 53 years of

pulpit ministry. We call this series the New Testament beginning to end, and today you'll hear

the compelling concluding message taken from Revelation 1 titled Back to the Future.

Now, the book of Revelation is difficult for many people, so difficult that lots of people abandon

it altogether. Perhaps you've neglected it yourself. Well, today John's going to show you the

incredible blessing that comes from studying Revelation and the future riches that await every

believer. So, here what today's lesson is John MacArthur. And now we have that great privilege of

going back to the future in our study of Revelation. Now, no book in the Bible reveals more of the

glory of God or more of the splendor of Jesus Christ than this book. And though it is so

singularly blessed, it is still misunderstood, misinterpreted, and neglected more than any other

book in the New Testament surely. Too many it is a closed book, it is a sealed book, and that is

exactly what God wanted it not to be. Now, to help us in our orientation in the book, I have tried

to break this introductory section from verses 1 through 6 into several component parts.

I'm not really struggling here to make a memorable, homiletic outline, but just to

sort of segment these things so that we can grasp them and the richness of them piece by piece.

So, what are we learning in this wonderful opening section? 1. The essential nature of the book,

the central theme, the divine source, the specific recipients, and the prophetic character.

Let's look at a sixth point, all right? Let's call it the supernatural delivery, the supernatural

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