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The Revelation of Jesus Christ chapters. Chapters five and six have to do with the seven sealed book and the opening of the seven seals: chapters eight, n-ine, and part of eleven, with the seven trumpets; chap ters twelve and thirteen, with the seven personages; chapters fifteen and sixteen, with the seven vials of the wrath of God; while chapters seven, ten, part of eleven and all of fourteen have to do with highly significant events, treated here in a parenthetical way. Chapters seventeen and eighteen describe the terrible doom of apostate Christendom during the tribula tion period. Chapter nineteen pictures the triumphant return of Christ in glory with His saints, to rule upon the earth. Chapter twenty outlines the thousand years' reign of Christ, the doom of Satan and the wicked dead; while chapters twenty-one and twenty-two give us a beautiful picture of the new heaven and the new earth and the eternal state of the redeemed. In brief, these are "the things which shall be hereafter," following the translation of the church, which is His bride. They occupy the time designated in prophecy as "the seven tieth week of Daniel," the millennial reign of Christ, and the judgment of Satan and all his followers. They give us also a foreview of the eternal bliss of the saints in glory. Before we attempt to study this section of the book of Revelation in detail, let us read it repeatedly, prayerfully, fixing in our minds these outline facts. And as we read, surely we shall thank God that we shall be with Him before the terrific judg ments of "the great tribulation" begin to fall upon a godless world. Surely we shall take courage also, even in our own day of apostasy, as we meditate upon the joys .of heaven-"the things which God hath prepared for them that love him." . Now let us turn back to chapter four, which pictures the church translated, "round about the throne." We have seen from our previous study that all indications seem to point to the fact that !~~- church i_s no~_ _i,~ _the_Laodicean period. The ?POstasy,_whicli began early in the history of the church, is growing by leaps and bounds; and ~a~y a so-called Chri~Jian church has shut its doors in the face of the risen Christ, leaving Him standing outside of the very church which bears His name. Beginning with chapter four, the scene changes. We are ,_
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