Have you ever wondered what it would be like to meet Jesus? I mean face to face what would he look like what would he do? How would he impact you?

If you wondered what it would be like to meet him I got news you're gonna learn that today stay with me

welcome to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram.

The mission of these daily programs is to intentionally disciple Christians

through the Bible teaching of Chip Ingram.

Thanks for joining us as we wind down our newest Christians through the Bible teaching of Chip Ingram.

Thanks for joining us as we wind down our newest series,

trusting Jesus no matter what.

For these last two programs, Chip will be in the book of revelation

describing the glorious encounter the apostle John had with

the risen Jesus and why that experience matters to our faith now.

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Well if you're ready here's Chip for his talk the

Alpha and the omega. You know I didn't grow up as a Christian and I've never opened

the Bible before and I remember the first time I read through the New Testament and I got

to revelation and I read that first chapter and it was like oh my this is just like weird so

here's what I want to do I want to give you the context of when it was written and sort of what's happening and then I want you to listen yes for what it says

But I want you also to think about what are the parallels to today.

Here's the historical context. It's about AD 95.

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