All of these things that are happening are happening at the command of God.

It was God who allowed the false peace.

It is God who starts the wars.

I don't know how it happens, but just when everybody's sort of breathing in the air of euphoria,

war is going to start to break out and it's going to escalate all over every place.

Welcome to Grace to You with John MacArthur.

I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

In a world of widespread tragedy and strife, it's hard to imagine that there ever could be a time of

worldwide peace, this side of heaven. And yet for a time, there will be a sort of worldwide harmony.

And yet it's merely a brief stop on the path toward ultimate judgment. You could say it's simply the beginning of the end.

That happens to be the title of John MacArthur's current study here on, Grace to You,

The Beginning of the End. It's a compelling look at world history. That is, history that's

yet to happen. But these events will happen, and learning what God's word says about them

does more than simply satisfy curiosity. It compels you to warn those in danger of the wrath to come.

So mark your place in Revelation 6 as John begins the lesson.

Revelation Chapter 6 is a very important scripture and one which will speak to us profoundly

and even shockingly as we go through it.

Man's world faces an inevitable death.

Sin is taking a fearsome toll that all of that ultimately ends up in the judgment of God.

Every dimension of our culture, every dimension of our society is escalating on the downslide,

being devastated by depravity, more and more given over to lust and pride and self-indulgence, immorality, and rejection of God

and Christ and the truth of Scripture. And thus man is sentenced, his whole world is sentenced

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