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Could you open your Bibles to the book of Revelation?
If you were in church 2,000 years ago (or perhaps 1800 and some years ago when the book of Revelation was penned and the inspiration of God’s Spirit by the Apostle John), you would not have had the luxury of holding a copy with bonded leather on the outside and all the excellent typesetting.
You would have sat in an assembly much like you are this morning, perhaps packed into a wealthy person’s home. That’s where the church usually met, and there were many very, very godly, and yet very wealthy Christians in the 1st century who had great courtyards or inner rooms in their homes where as many as several hundred people could meet for a service.
You would sit there closely packed together, awaiting someone to read the Word of God, and so this morning.
Listen to the very first two verses of this book because Revelation is not a book to write charts about it’s not a book to pin down with with pinpoint laser-guided smart bomb guidance systems all the future events.
The primary reason for this book you’re going to see is in those first two verses–to reveal to us the Lord Jesus Christ. Listen like you were in the first-century Church to the first two verses of this book