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As we opened 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 1 to 3.

It is after chapters 4 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 four and five they are surrounding the

throne of God in worship. So the Book of revelation starts on the earth with the church, moves to

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