How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord is laid for your faith in his excellent word.

Welcome to Through the Bible.

We're traveling through the book of Revelation in our five-year study of the Word of God.

And this time our teacher, Dr. J. Vernon McGee, is going to introduce the final series of judgments during the period of the Great Tribulation.

I'm Steve Sweets, your host, and I'm glad that you're on the Bible bus with us.

Now, as you find your spot in Revelation chapter 14 verse 9, Greg Harris is here,

and we've got some good stories about the impact of God's word being heard and believed in

Egypt. Yes, a place we have traveled together and climbed up into the pyramid together. And

we've met listeners and TV viewers in Egypt and it's an amazing place. We're so

grateful for a couple of partnerships in the Arabic-speaking world. Of course, there's our

partnership with our satellite TV ministry. Yes. And Dura International. And then we're

working with TWR on some digital distribution of

our radio programs so we're trying to reach the arabic speaking world yeah here this first

letters from a young guy named asaph in cairo i'm 18 years old and i come from a broken family

for a long time i felt like life had no. I tried to end my life more than once,

and I turned to addiction, hoping it would numb the pain. But it only pulled me deeper into

darkness and loneliness. While I was losing everything through online gambling, something

unexpected happened. I contacted someone by mistake. But now I know it wasn't a coincidence.

It was God reaching out to me, even in the middle of my despair, leading me toward the light.

Over the course of 11 days of talking, I could feel my inner struggle growing stronger,

and so did my hidden desire to be free.

We arranged to meet in person, and we spent the entire day talking. By the end of that day,

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