God protects His Church as she bears witness to Christ to a world that seeks to kill her.

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God gives John the Law and the Gospel to proclaim to all nations.

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God's judgment continues in the fifth and sixth trumpets, leaving people with an opportunity to repent of their sins.  But, they don't.

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The second of three cycles begins, as we see the seven angels blowing the seven trumpets.

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· After the faithless cower in fear at the judgment of God and ask a theoretically rhetorical question, "who can stand?" God answers the question by giving John a beautiful vision of all of those whom He has and is saving, who are forgiven in Christ, and will get to stand before Him not just on Judgment Day, but every day forevermore!

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Jesus breaks the seven seals, and we learn of the suffering mankind will cause for one another in the time between His cross and Second Coming.

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Praising God for His salvation.

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We praise God for His creation.

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We hear the remaining 3 of the opening letters to the 7 churches.

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We cover four of the seven introductory letters to the churches.  This episode runs a little long.  I will have to be diligent these three weeks to prevent this from happening regularly with this book!

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