We live anticipating that Jesus will return, that with him he will bring his reward to give to those who are faithful.

We look to the coming of Jesus Christ because we know that it also relates to the reign and the dominion of Jesus Christ whom we love and serve

and to the bringing in of eternal righteousness in an environment in which sin is forever absent.

Welcome to Grace to you with John MacArthur. I'm your host, Phil Johnson. If you regularly

follow the news, know that, generally speaking, things aren't

much different now than they were 10 years ago. One politician criticizes another. The stock

market goes up and then it goes down. There are natural disasters and wars and threats of

wars, and it seems that life is largely the same year after year,

which raises the question, is this all there is? Is history just a recurring sequence of events

with no ending point? Consider that with John MacArthur as he begins a look at biblical prophecy

that he calls, where in the world is history headed.

Now, you know, John, I imagine that our listeners are primed for this series. It's easy for people,

even Christians, to get caught up in the here and now, and maybe sense that there's no real

end to all of this, and that somehow God has backed away from human history.

These next several broadcasts are going to be a good reminder that history indeed is headed

somewhere.

Yeah, and it all seems to be so bad. The news is never good. It's always bad.

And it's always almost hopelessly bleak as we look into the future. The fabric of our society is disintegrating like a rotten garment. We see that. And sometimes we get caught up in the politics of it. We get caught up in the social and civil causes of all of that. And it's easy to

become discouraged and get your focus on those kinds of things. But if it's any help to you,

I don't care what the human institution is. It is crumbling. The whole world is crumbling. Evil men are

getting worse and worse. The Bible promises us that. But on the other hand, that being what

it is, history will always cycle through the same process of nations developing and dying,

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