The following sermon is by John MacArthur, pastor, author, and Bible teacher with Grace to You.

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And now unleashing God's truth one verse at a time.

Here is Grace to you Bible teacher John MacArthur.

As we open the scriptures this morning, I want to draw your attention back to the book of

Revelation, back of the Bible at the very end

of the New Testament, is the book of Revelation, and with this book, we go back to the future.

We go back to an ancient book that depicts in detail the future.

Obviously, divinely inspired by God, we read in this incredible book the features that are going to occur at the end of human history when

the wrath of God is released and Christ returns to earth. In this particular section of Revelation,

starting in chapter 6, where we are now, we come to

the great body of this book running all the way to chapter 18.

And all of this is about final wrath.

It is about the final wrath of God on the world.

This is after the church age, which was basically the subject of chapters one to three.

It is after chapters four and 5 where you have the church raptured and taken to heaven to join with

the spirits of just men made perfect from redemptive history along with the holy angels

and in chapters 4 and 5 they are surrounding the throne of God in worship. So,

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