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

Are the four horsemen of the apocalypse getting ready to ride?

Are we getting near the end?

Well, maybe so.

But we'll learn on through the Bible that it won't happen until the church is taken out of the world.

Dr. J. Vernon McGee, our teacher, will tell us more in this brief introduction.

Let's listen.

We have come now actually to that part that is beyond the rapture of the church, and since we're on this side of the rapture of the church, this is the things that are yet future,

and we'll be dealing with the things that pertain to the great tribulation period.

To attempt to fit anything from Revelation 6 on into current events or to history is, to my judgment, ridiculous, and we're going to see why when we come to our study.

And we've set aside as much time as we possibly could for the

book of Revelation to conclude our five-year program. And the reason for that is that we're living

at a time when there's a great interest in prophecy. And there's great uncertainty in the world. No one ever dreamed that events would take

place that are taking place today, and the scripture seems to be giving an indication that

God is moving according to a pattern. And then there are very many wild and weird things being said by prophetic

teachers. Some of it is way out in left field, and we want to try to follow a pattern that is

consistent with the rest of Scripture and conforms to the pattern that John has given to us here.

And you can't avoid the sensational because John is sensational in many places as we'll move

along through this area. And we're living at a time when there's this great interest in prophecy,

and it does make the study of revelation extremely interesting at this particular time.

The good news is that God's word is reaching people all across the world, including countries

that were essentially closed back when Dr. McGee first recorded these studies.

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