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Let's pick up in verse 9 where we left off last week.

I John your brother and fellow partaker in the tribulation and Kingdom and perseverance, which are in Jesus was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.

I was in the spirit on the Lord's day and I heard behind me, a loud voice, like the sound of a trumpet saying, write in a book, what you see, and send it to the seven churches to Ephesus to Smyrna, to pergamum to Thai Thai, rest, Thai, Star diss to Philadelphia and Toledo to see you.

Then.

I turned to see the voice speaking with me and having turned, I saw seven golden lamp stands.

And in the midst of the lamp stands, I saw one like a son of man.

Fulton Road reaching to the feet and girded across his chest with a golden sash.

His head and his hair were white like white wool, like snow.

And his eyes were like a flame of fire.

His feet were like burnished bronze when it had been made to Glow in a furnace.

His voice was like the sound of many Waters in his right hand.

He held Seven Stars and out of his mouth.

Came a sharp two-edged sword and its face was like the sun shining and its strength when I saw him.

I fell at his feet like a dead man, and he placed his right hand on me saying, do not be afraid.

I am the first and the last and the living one, and I was dead and behold.

I am alive for Evermore.

I don't have the keys of death and of Haiti's.

Therefore, write the things which you have seen and the things which are and the things which will take place after these things.

As for the mystery of the Seven Stars, what you saw in my right hand and the Seven golden lamp stands.

The Seven Stars are the Angels of the seven churches and the Seven land stands are the seven churches only.

Father.

We thank you this morning that we can be together.

Lord.

We don't take this time for granted as our brothers and sisters around the world are not able to meet openly like this not only around the world.

All right.

Here are our neighbors in Canada.

They're not allowed to me openly like this.

Oh so Lord.

I Thank you that we still have this this opportunity and we don't we don't take it lightly Lord, but we we come and we're glad we can come and worship you and open your word and this morning.

Lord.

We pray that you would speak to us, become expecting to hear from you.

And Lord.

We just pray that you would speak and have your way in our hearts this morning.

We pray in Jesus name.

Amen.

So just a quick reminder to get us up to speed here.

It's a revelation of Jesus Christ.

Write this is all about Jesus, first and foremost.

And so we want to keep that in mind as we go through this, the outline of the of the book, we will put this up quite often so that you can kind of see where we are and what we're doing as we go through this and I want you to be so familiar with the book.

You kind of know it inside out and backwards.

So you'll see that quite a bit and then of course, let's not get too carried away.

I mean that he is that we're studying.

At a particular way.

We have a particular view, but we want to be charitable to those who might see the Book of Revelation in a different way, might have a different eschatology concerning, geology concerning the book.

Basically, we fellowship with people, even right here in our town that have a different theological views.

End Time stuff than we do.

But ultimately, they're still looking for, Christ's return, right?

So that's what matters, right.

It doesn't matter.

If you're premillennial, post-millennial, pretribulational, doesn't matter if you're looking for Christ's return.

Now, there is a a branch of Christianity that has gotten off track in there.

They don't believe that Jesus is returning.

They don't believe in the person of Jesus is going to return.

And with them.

We have a problem, right?

Because the Bible is clear.

Jesus said, I'm coming back and so that's the only place only time but that's a small group.

So for the most part we can fellowship and have good fellowship with Christians who may believe completely different than us.

So with all things charity, right?

But the reason we study this book primarily is to know Jesus and receive the blessing.

That is Promised, when we read it, we hear it.

And we actually keep it when we prepare our hearts accordingly, right?

That's the whole point of the blessing, right?

You drop blessed.

If you only read it, you're not blessed if you just hear it, but it's all three have to do all three.

You been.

Okay.

So review real quick.

When was the book written?

And why is it important?

95-96 80 right in there.

I think last week, if you need to go back and listen to that.

It's out online.

I spent a lot of time laying out a good case for the later, date of 95-96 80 and why it's important.

Now, it's not as crucial to our view of eschatology, that it be a later date.

And when I say a later date, it's that, that date opposed to preet before 70 AD.

When the temple was destroyed, our view is not Tendon on the later date, but the other views of eschatology, primarily omelet in the end of all millennialism or postmillennialism are dependent on the, the early date, prior to 7084, their view to have any parents, right?

So, and so, I think I last week I showed pretty clearly that all the evidence primarily points to this date, right?

Of of the 95-96 ad simply based on the the dating that the people who were around at the time said, right?

They said this is what it was written.

So why should we change that way to make it some other time?

Right?

So,

And this is why.

And then it does affect how you interpret this in which case we interpreted literally, if it was written after the temple was destroyed.

We can't make any of the things that happened in the book.

Be about the temple being destroyed.

And that's what many have tried to do is, like, we'll all these things are talking about when the temple was destroyed, and Andrew slim with Siege.

And the fact is, it was written long after that.

So he can't be about that because it's a book of Prophecy, right?

And so are, we will study it in the literal sense, taking into account, you know, contacts and just follow the Golden Rule and interpretation and and then the two views mainvue, just keep it in your mind is preterism.

Are those people who think that every most everything in the Book of Revelation has already taken place 70 AD in earlier and then futuris, which is the majority of you still in Christiana.

We all do, it's losing ground to the preterist view, because they are pretty adamant about it.

And they're, they're working hard to get people to change, but the primary view of a scripture of the Book of Revelation is still that most of it is yet to come, right?

That it's not been fulfilled.

And so that's how we are looking at it.

Because I believe that the Book of Revelation is meant for us to understand and that it was given for us to, to get it.

And so, he didn't hide a bunch of messages in some esoteric imagery that we can't decipher write.

This, it says what it says.

And it means what it says, and that's how we're going to interpret interpret it and we saw that Jesus introduced himself.