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 you know, we are currently in a series in the book of Revelation.

And I would invite you to turn in your Bible to Chapter

8, Revelation Chapter 8. You may have noticed the title of the message today, and it's a pretty

dramatic title, but it is far short of the drama that this text will unfold for us.

I googled this week, Save the Earth, Save the Planet, and I found an endless array of ways to do just that.

Five ways to save the planet, ten ways to save the planet, 15 ways, 25 ways, 50 ways,

100 ways to save the planet, all the while realizing that God is about to destroy it.

And that is absolutely certain.

And while we will do well to be stewards of the planet, the purpose for our stewardship

is to preserve the treasures that God has built into this planet. And he put them there to enrich the life of humanity so that

mankind would give him thanks and give him glory. We are basically given this planet as a treasure house, as a storehouse, as a reservoir

of all kinds of marvelous things which we now experience in this particular generation.

And at the same time that we have discovered all of these things, there are people

who believe that the planet somehow is God. The planet is sacred, strange kind of thinking.

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