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My heart has just been warmed personally and pastorally in unusual wonderful ways over the last three months and frankly I don't want this book to end.

But isn't that the beauty of the book of revelation?

That yes, this is the end, but it's the end of the beginning.

I love the way C.S it his last paragraph in the last book of the Narnia

series he wrote the things that began to happen after that were so great and

beautiful that I cannot write them.

And for us, this is the end of all the stories.

And we can most truly say that they all lived happily ever after.

But for them, it was only the beginning of the real story.

All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page.

Now at last they were beginning chapter one of the great story

which no one on earth has read which goes on forever in which every chapter is

better than the one before.

The end of revelation is only the beginning of a story

where every single chapter will be better than the one before.

So in a sense, this is the whole point of revelation.

If we read and study this book rightly, it will inevitably leave us longing for more.

So what I want to do today is what this text does.

These final verses in chapter 22 summarize the themes and major truths that we've seen all over revelation in a pretty

pointed fashion.

So I want to recap all that we've seen in this book.

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