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priest serving at Archangel Gabriel Orthodox Church in Lafayette, Louisiana.

Okay. We'll go ahead and get started.

When we get started, in just a moment, we'll be picking up in the Revelation of St. John

Chapter 11, verse 1.

So we're sort of smack in the middle of the apocalypse.

I know it feels that way lately, but actually in this case, I'm talking about the book,

The Apocalypse of St. John.

And it's been a while here in real time since we got together and had a Bible study.

So to kind of catch us up, as we mentioned, all of St. John's writings, but this is very

visible in the Book of Revelation, are written in this sort of cyclical pattern where

he'll sort of introduce ideas and then return to them and expand on them

right and then move to another idea they sort of spiral forward right it's not a complete circle but

sort of a spiral um and this is very visible as i said in the book of Revelation because we have these sets of sevens.

So we already had the seven seals, right?

And then we had, we're sort of toward the end of the seven trumpets.

We had six of the seven trumpets.

And then we sort of had this break, right?

And we've had some other things going on in the last chapter, in chapter 10.

It sort of broke that pattern, but we'll get back to it.

The seventh trumpet is coming up.

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