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Revelation chapter 13, verse 10. Here is a call for the endurance and faith of the saints.

What a simple verse, actually the end of a verse in Revelation chapter 13, verse 10, that reminds us of part of the purpose of the book of Revelation.

So if we're not careful, we can get caught up and reading through Revelation and all the different

imagery and symbolism about the future and start to wonder and even debate, what does this

mean or that mean, or when is this or that going to happen?

And those are good questions to ask, but we need to remember that the people who were reading

the book of Revelation or hearing it read in the first century were walking through

major challenges as followers of Jesus. They were facing persecution all around them.

They were facing temptations to give in and compromise their faith in order to save their jobs, in order to save their lives, their families.

And this letter was written, not just to help them come up with charts about what the future is going to look like.

This letter was written to them to encourage them to endure, to hold fast. This is Revelation 1310. Here is a call for the endurance and faith of the saints. And so I want to, based on this first, pray for each one of us today for exactly that. I know that there are people listening to this right now

who are struggling in faith, who are walking through challenges of all kinds in your lives,

in your families, in your work, in your church, in the world as you work to spread the gospel. And there are challenges, temptations,

to sin, there are trials you're walking through. And Revelation 1310 is a call for the endurance

and faith of the saints. For endurance and faith in your life.

And I just want to pray that over.

Each one of us, oh God, we pray for endurance, even as we were praying through Revelation

chapter 1 and 2, and we've seen the phrase over and over again in Revelation for patient

endurance. God, I don't presume to know what every single person listen to this right now

is walking through, but I know you know. You are intimately aware with all the details of what

different brothers and sisters are walking through right now. And you know those details even better

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