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And now, unleashing God's truth one verse at a time, here is

Grace to you Bible teacher John MacArthur. Well, we return now to the book of Revelation,

and we're coming to chapter 7 this morning, and this introduces us to a very important part of redemptive history.

I want to help you to understand that before we head into the seventh chapter of Revelation.

I want to take you back into the Old Testament to a couple of prophecies.

Go back to Jeremiah 31. Jeremiah 31. These are epic, significant prophecies,

because they prophesy something that is so specific, it cannot be ignored. Jeremiah 31, verse 31, Behold, days are coming,

declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house

of Judah, not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them

by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant which they broke, although I was a husband

to them, declares the Lord. But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel

after those days, declares the Lord. I will put my law within them, and on their heart I will write it, and I will

be their God, and they shall be my people.

They will not teach again each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, know

the Lord, for they will all know me, from the least of them

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