Welcome to Studies with Stearman.

Join us as we look deeper into the Bible.

Strengthen your faith with us, even as we see the day approaching.

And now, here's Gary.

We are in Revelation, and today I want to continue to stress that the book of Revelation is a Jewish book.

And we're going to see just how Jewish it is today.

We have stressed the fact over the past couple of weeks that we live in the age of the church.

I am a dispensationalist, and I believe that God works in various ways at various times to achieve certain goals.

And right now, and since the resurrection and ascension of Christ, we've been living in the age

of the church.

But the age of the church is finite.

Now, finite means finite.

There will be a time when the church comes to an end.

This single point is the focal point, of a great discussion, a great argument.

There really are two schools of thought within the church.

One school of thought says the church was raised up after the resurrection of Christ

to gain control over the world and to build a church

kingdom or church empire. The other school of thought understands that the church is not here

to fix everything that's wrong with the world or to make the world a wonderful place.

The church is here as a called out body of believers to send forth the message of the gospel

during a certain time period.

But the apostles were very clear that the end of that time period, there would not be peace on

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