Everybody, what is going on? You know what time it is. You're listening to join the Journey podcast

with your host, Emma Daughter. Thanks for joining and Merry Christmas. Before we dive in, I want to

make sure we cover two announcements. Number one, next year, 2023, we will be walking through a new

Bible reading plan entitled from Genesis to Jesus, which means we will be walking through a new Bible reading plan entitled from Genesis to Jesus,

which means we will be reading through the Old Testament historical narrative books.

Those are the ones that move the story forward.

So we're skipping things like Leviticus.

And along the way, we'll tackle a little bit of prophecy and some New Testament as we discover

how the Bible

is all one story from cover to cover. And don't worry, it's the same thing as this year,

one to two chapters a day, Monday through Friday, leaving you the weekends to catch up if you

fall behind. And announcement number two, if you have not heard, we've got new and improved guided journals in

2023 full color thicker pages additional resources and more space to write you can get your copy

on sunday at watermark or on amazon and we'll put the links in the description but want you to know

that on amazon we're also offering a black and white

version. So if the price is an obstacle for you and you can't come talk to us on a Sunday,

we've got a black and white, more affordable version on Amazon in addition to the color.

Those are the announcements. All right, Revelation 6, what in the world is going on, and what could this possibly have to do with Christmas?

Let me set it up for us. Nancy Guthrie, a commentator, she puts it like this.

Through the record of John's vision, recorded in chapters four and five, we saw Jesus as the

lamb who was slain, standing in the heavenly throne room

and taking the scroll with seven seals from the right hand of the father as he's the only one

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