When you think your life is random, think again.

We are moving through life precisely as God planned it.

So what you are going through is not only known by your sovereign God,

it's being directed by him, according to the very hour and day and month of the year he planned. land.

Sometimes it appears that God spun the earth into space and then disappeared into the heavens never to look back again.

But according to the Bible, that notion doesn't reflect the God we love.

Today on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall continues our study in the Book of Revelation.

We've come to a portion of scripture that celebrates the glory of God's sovereign control.

For those who follow him, this is good news.

For those who defy it, this is good news. For those who defy it, this is bad news because judgment is coming.

Chuck titled his message,

More demons, more deaths, more Defiance.

If you're new with us, you would not know that we are working our way through the last book of the Bible,

a book that has been really overlooked for, I would say, decades.

When I was just a little boy,

it wasn't uncommon to hear people preaching from revelation. But I'm honest I rarely, if ever hear of that going on and I honestly

never hear of someone going through it verse by verse.

You'll see why this morning,

as we were in Revelation chapter 9,

not a happy theme, not an easy kind of message and certainly not one that is that is

very friendly at least in in first look but it is a part of the truth of God and we we uphold it and we believe

in it and therefore as we get to this 13th verse we don't hesitate from

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