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Welcome to talking

talking scripture. I'm Mike and I'm Bryce and today we are going to be doing the

book of revelation. This is our third podcast in a series of podcasts that cover revelation.

So if you're just now visiting us for the first time,

know that we had an introductory podcast

to the Book of Revelation, and then in our second we covered

Revelation chapter one so if you're just now visiting this podcast you might want to go

back at least to the introduction because I think we cover some ground there Bryce that really helps

us understand these chapters. We're probably going to be doing the messages to the seven

churches which is the second and third chapter of revelation today. Is that sound about right?

Yep.

Okay, so with that in mind, Bryce,

let's start off with big picture.

What is the overall message and why is it important?

Okay, there's a great pattern here. I'm going to start with the introduction. Go back to chapter

one, but the JST of chapter one, Joseph makes some inspired changes in the JST. And so if you'll pull

up JST, revelation 1 through 8, notice verse 4, now this is the testimony of

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