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Today on a new beginning, Pastor Greg Laurie presents a new series in Revelation.

It's authorship, it's message, and it's relevant to the times in which we live.

The Apostle John wrote the book of Revelation.

John was one of the apostles that walked with Jesus Christ.

In fact, in his gospel, he described himself as the disciple that Jesus loved.

He outlived all the other disciples, and they tried to put him to death according to church

tradition and a pot of boiling oil.

But John would not die.

So instead, they banished him to the distant island of Patmosen.

Isolated little island out in the middle of nowhere.

He was put on his ship, probably in chains.

And when he was placed on that island, no one ever thought that they would hear from John again.

Maybe even John felt abandoned by God.

I don't know.

But I know this much.

Jesus Christ came to the Apostle John on the island of Patmos.

And the Lord took John into the future, sort of catapulted him into the next dimension.

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