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

Drug abuse, robbery, sexual exploitation.

These are some of the greatest problems in our world,

but you know that they will still be problems only increasingly more so during the Great Tribulation?

Welcome, I'm Steve Schwetz, your host on Through the Bible, a five-year journey through God's entire word. In this study, our teacher, Dr. J. Vernon McGee takes us through

Revelation Chapter 9, where we'll learn how the Antichrist will use our sins to bring mankind into

total bondage to himself. To be sure, the world has terrifying times ahead, and that's why we're

urgent about our mission to reach the whole world with the whole word of

God. And because his words going out, many are turning to Jesus, including people who think

they're going to heaven, but need to hear the truth. A listener wrote through the Bible about this

some years ago. Dr. McGee's going to read the letter. A letter from Bellevue, Washington.

It says you will never know what you have done for me.

For years, I felt I was saved, but I was mistaken.

When I first heard you years ago, you made the Bible come alive.

And thanks to God and so on, a very wonderful letter.

But the thing that makes it especially wonderful is, she is 98 years old. Don't tell me that folk when they reach a ripe old age can't make a

decision for christ this dear lady has and we're grateful to continue to get letters like this from a fellow Bible bus passenger in South Korea who writes,

faith grows stronger when we trust the word and act upon it.

As I desire to live each day clothed in Jesus' mercy, I experience the Lord's love through McGee's Bible study once again.

And when I listen, I know the Lord's grace and mercy

continue to heal and restore someone wounded somewhere in the world. May our lives reflect

total trust in the Word of God and His goodness shine towards our neighbors. I love that.

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