The following sermon is by John MacArthur, Bible teacher with Grace to you.

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We are going through the book of Revelation, and I invite you to turn to Chapter 9. Revelation

Chapter 9. Revelation Chapter 9.

This is a series we've been in for many months, and for those of you who haven't been with us,

you can always download the sermons in the past from Gty.org if that would help you catch up.

Otherwise, you're going to have to accept the fact that we're jumping in midstream here a little bit.

But I think the text itself will speak in a powerful way.

And I say that because this has to be one of the most sobering passages of

Scripture, certainly in the New Testament, for that matter, all of Scripture.

It is a breathtaking look at a level of divine vengeance that is beyond anything we have seen yet

in the book of Revelation, and we have seen a lot about divine judgment.

But this exceeds everything that we have seen.

So just to set the stage a little bit, as we approach this ninth chapter,

we remember that the book of Revelation is a series of prophetic visions given to the Apostle John

at the end of the first century and written down for our blessing and edification. This

book of Revelation takes us back to take us forward. It is back to the future. Most of the book of Revelation

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