Amen and amen and good morning and welcome you can be seated good to see you

how you doing today okay that's funny those of you online I can't hear you but

how are you doing?

Anyway, welcome. So glad you're here joining with us.

As you know, second service is the sermon,

a verse by verse study through the Word of God.

And we're currently in this amazing book of Revelation,

the only book in all of the Bible that promises a blessing to those

who read it, hear it, and take it to heart. And certainly, heretofore, it has been such a blessing.

And today is no exception. Our text is going to be chapter 7 as we begin this chapter the first eight verses i'll ask you to stand

if you're able if not uh where you're seated is fine uh just follow along as i read the apostle john

now is continuing to write that which he is seeing

and describing for us what he's saying.

And I don't, you know, we're in the tribulation, not literally.

We started, the tribulation started a couple weeks ago in chapter 6 and we're going to be

in the tribulation if we're still here which would be great if we weren't all the

way through to chapter 19.

Because chapter 6 through 19 are all about the tribulation, the seven year tribulation,

and the wrath of God, the judgment of God that is being poured out on a Christ rejecting

world.

Now up to this point, we have seen the trumpet judgments. And as we start now in

chapter seven, we we turn a corner. And John writes, after this, speaking of the sixth trumpet, or pardon me not trumpet, seal

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