Amen and amen and good morning and welcome so glad you're here you can be seated those of you

online we're glad that you're joining with us as well before we jump in I want to mention that

our all church prayer meeting is this Tuesday upcoming July 1st the start time, especially those of you online,

of 7 p.m. here in the sanctuary. And I want to kick it off, kick off the prayer meeting

with a message about those times in our lives when, from our perspective,

God seemingly and even unnecessarily delays only to them miraculously answer my prayers.

So we'd encourage you to make plans to come or watch online. Now today, we're going to finish Lord willing chapter 20, which is a real turning point, for lack of a better word, such that it marks the end of this divine outline we have in Revelation chapter 1, verse 19, where John is told to write that which he has seen, that which is now, and that which is to come after these things,

metatata in the Greek. So in other words, to simplify, John is told John 119, at Revelation 119,

given this divine outline, as it's affectionately been referred to, to write that which is past,

that which is present, and that which is future. And here's what's cool. Chapter one passed.

John was an eyewitness of Jesus Christ, crucified, buried, resurrected, glorified, seated

the right hand of the Father chapters 2 and

3 present we're at the end of chapter 3 we're the last drop about to drip

you like that in chapter, which is the church age, the seven letters to the seven churches, literal churches in Asia Minor then, now modern day Turkey, ironically.

And these seven churches are representative and prophetic

pictures of the church age. And interesting, the seventh church was the last day's

lukewarm Laudician church.

And chapter 4 verse 1, boom.

John, here's a trumpet and is told to come up hither, come up here. And he's raptured. Chapter 4, verse 1.

And that's the pre-tribulation rapture, because see, in chapters 1 through 3, the churches

mentioned 19 times. In chapter 4 and 5, the church is in heaven.

In chapter 6 through 19, which we finished. Thank you, Jesus. Hallelujah.

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