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. Today, we're reading Revelation 17, and I think we just need to ask a simple question.

What in the world is going on in today's chapter? But before we jump in, I want to take a second

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when they search for it. But that's enough housekeeping. Revelation 17. What in the world is going on?

Today's Devo, written by Watermark member Ethan Howard, helps us understand

this chapter so well. He writes, as we come near the end of our time reading through the

book of Revelation in the New Testament, I want to take a moment to seek refuge in the Lord and the

promises he has given us. I want to remember the fact that we have an all-powerful,

all-loving, and ever-present father. A father who loves us so much, he would send his only son

to earth as a baby to then grow up and die for us so that we might have right standing with him.

Right-standing that would allow us to be united with

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