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

It's a momentous day here on Through the Bible, so welcome.

Today, we begin a new study in the book of Revelation, the final book in the Word of God.

In this series, our teacher, Dr. J. Vernon McGee, focuses our attention on our Savior Jesus Christ

and his place in the whole plan of God.

How appropriate that our thoughts center on him on this first day of the new year. Happy New Year,

by the way. Dr. McGee was a bit excited when he first recorded this Revelation study, so let's hear

about it. Straight from him. I'm coming to this book with mingle feelings. And when I say mingle feelings, I mean that. And I'm going to emphasize the fact that I

actually am running scared as we come to this great book. I think one of the great books of the

Word of God. But very candidly, I must also say that it's with great joy that we come to this book.

And I'd like to explain to you why I say that. It has always been my interest as a time of relaxation to read a mystery story, a detective story.

And the more gory it is, why, the more I enjoy it.

And I have done that for years.

Now, that's a confession that I'm making to you, that this has been more or less of a hobby

of mine over the years.

I do not read much of Agatha Christie today for the very simple reason.

I've read so many of hers that I can pretty much figure out who the killer really was,

who did the murder.

Now I read Dorothy Sayer, and by the way,

she's a Christian, and she gets a great deal into her books that the unsaved are not even aware of

it. They're reading the Bible without knowing it. But anyway, I've always enjoyed reading them, and when I was single and started the ministry,

on Sunday night, after I got into bed, I would relax by reading one of these mystery stories.

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