In uncertain days, it is important to remember that our world is getting ready to meet God.

We are all getting ready to meet Him.

The King is coming.

Today, we join Scott Pauli in walking through the final book of the Bible, the revelation of Jesus Christ.

In our world today, so many people are looking for some escape from reality.

That is why so many distractions and entertainment and things abound to give people some ability to step into a make-believe world.

But I want you to know, we are real people, and we are living in a real world, and we have

real needs.

And I'm very glad to tell you today that our God understands all of that perfectly.

In fact, he understands us better than we understand us.

He understands the real needs that we have, and he speaks to those needs.

You see, God deals in realities.

People may deal in a figment of the imagination.

God always deals in realities.

Now, why is that important?

We're beginning today, our study in Revelation chapter 2 and Revelation

Chapter 3 of these seven churches. churches now there's no question that

there are prophetic elements here and there are lots of people who see in these in these seven

churches and in these letters the prophecy the the timeline if you will of the church age leading up

to the return of the lord Jesus Christ. And while I believe

there is great truth in that, I just want to remind you, first of all, of the most obvious,

literal thing. And it is this, these were real churches. These were real pastors. These were real

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