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And now unleashing God's truth one verse at a time. Here is Grace to you Bible teacher

John MacArthur.

Now I want to go back to the Book of Revelation this morning.

We're going to be working through the Book of Revelation.

And I want to come to chapters two and three.

So just in that broad sense, I'll try to give you an overview of these two chapters.

In years past, I have gone through Revelation 2 and 3 in detail. I think there are probably

20 or more sermons on just these two chapters.

If you want the worm's eye view, if you want the detail,

it's available.

And we have a commentary on revelation and a book called Because the Time is Near to

give you more detail. But for our encouragement and our help today I want us to look at these two chapters in an overall sense

because I think they are so very instructive when considered that way. Now

Revelation two and three are letters to seven churches. Actual

churches back in chapter 1 verse 11, John is told to write in a book what you see and send it to the 7

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