Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear and obey what is written in it, because the time is near.Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and keep the things that are written in it, for the time is near.Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of the prophecy, and keep the things that are written therein: for the time is at hand.
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… ones coming out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the lamb. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear and those who keep what is written in it for the time is near. And all God's people said, amen, amen. You may be seated. You may be seated. How many Mission Impossible fans do we have out there? Raise your hand. Mission Impossible fans. I have always loved Tom Cruise in those movies. He is no Nicolas Cage, but he at least gets an honorable mention from me. Each one of the 422 two Mission Impossible movies, basically starts the same. Ethan Hunt, played by Tom Cruise, of course, opens a suspicious-looking package that contains an invitation to save humanity from some sinister villain hell-bent on a global catastrophe. It is never an easy mission, of course. Otherwise, the movie series would have been called entirely possible and only mildly interesting missions. …
… Jesus's purpose for giving us the book of Revelation to give us a revelation of things that must soon take place. Revelation one verse three. And that revelation starts with the revealing of a mysterious scroll that is sealed with seven judgments. Before John tells us what those judgments are, however, he wants to show us what is happening in heaven as these judgments are unveiled on earth. And so he invites us to come up to heaven and take a look. And when we walk through heaven's door, we walk in on a worship service. Chapter four, verse six, look in your Bible. the participants in this worship service are the 24 elders, which Pastor Curtis told us last weekend most likely represent the 12 tribes of Israel and the 12 apostles, symbolizing the totality of the people of God from both the Old and New Testaments. 12 tribes of Israel, that of course would be Old Testament. The 12 apostles, that would be New Testament. In other words, John is seeing the whole united, redeemed people of God from both Old and New Testaments worshiping together. And y'all, what a moment that will be, right? I mean, can you imagine what it's going to be like worshiping with King David and Samson and Ruth on your right hand and Adoniram Judson and Corey Tim Boom and Tim Keller on your left hand? The other participants in this worship service, John tells us, are the four living creatures. Also, verse six, scholars tell us that …
… I wanna highlight for you verse three, which says this. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy. And blessed are those who hear and who keep what is written in it for the time is near. Y'all, this is the only place in the Bible I know of where a promise like this is made, specifically a blessing promise to the one who reads this book aloud and a blessing on those who listen to that person. So we're gonna try to honor this as literally as possible and as often as we can in this series. We are going to just read the text aloud and listen. We're not gonna do it the same way every week, but at least for chapter one, can we do it this way? Can I have you stand as I read chapter one over you? But keep your Bible in your hand and I want you to stand. Revelation chapter one, verse one says this. the revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his servants the things that must soon take place. …
… listen to this verse blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy. And blessed are those who hear and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. See what he says about the book of Revelation? Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy. at our gathering last week at my house we just started reading through the book of Revelation because the Bible says blessed is the person who reads it out loud yet how many of us have ever read the book of Revelation out loud or the word of God says that blessed is the one who reads it out loud and blessed are the ones who hear the words of this book don't you see how satan gets into our head like i can't understand revelation yeah let's just stay away from it there's so many different views and i don't know what view to take well how about we just don't take any views and just start reading it out loud you know because the bible says we'll be blessed as we read it and so this morning i'm just gonna have my wife come up here and just start reading some chapters in Revelation. And because we've got to become people who don't just love it when a person preaches in a way that they like. We're supposed to be people of the book. …