Amen. Good morning and welcome. You can be seated. Those of you online

joining us, we want to welcome you as well. So glad that you are. Special day

today. Do you want to know why? Oh good. See you asked why. We are going to finish

the seven-year tribulation today. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Oh, by the way, it's going to end very dramatically.

I'm just, so you're not blindsided.

Those of you who don't read ahead to stay ahead to know what's ahead, I mean, talk about a dramatic ending. This is pretty dramatic. So,

but at least it's ending. I mean, I know we're not going to be here for it, but it feels

like we had to go through it by proxy from chapter 6 through 19,

which is a marker, a division of sorts,

in the divine outline that God gave to John

in the first chapter and the 19th verse,

where he's told to write that which he has seen, past tense,

that which is now present tense,

and that which is to come hereafter,

metatata in the Greek, after these things,

future tense.

There's your divine outline. So past tense, what did John

see, eyewitness of Jesus Christ crucified, resurrected, and glorified. Chapter 1. What is now?

Chapters 2 and 3, the church age, represented by the seven literal churches

and the letters that Jesus had John write to them.

And each of those seven churches has a prophetic picture that is painted on the canvas of the end times.

So chapter 4 verse 1, my favorite verse in Revelation, okay, along with the other favorite verses in Revelation. But chapter 4 verse 1 marks the divider, where John hears the trumpet and the call of God to come up here.

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