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When it comes to the Christmas story certain passages are considered “flyover country.” One of those passages is the genealogy of Jesus. The other part is the women in the story. Today we are covering both.

You can’t blame her. How could you? After all she never asked to be put into the situation she found herself in. Young, pregnant from another woman’s husband, abused by that same woman, and ignored by the father of the baby she was carrying.

"I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, and the bright Morning Star."

Then I saw "a new heaven and a new earth," for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea.

And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown.

It is real. It is coming in the future. It is described dozens of places in the Bible.

The second coming of Jesus

Revelation chapters 17 and 18, and the Fall of Babylon, an event that happens during the 2nd half of the tribulation.

The dragon stood on the shore of the sea. And I saw a beast coming out of the sea. It had ten horns and seven heads, with ten crowns on its horns, and on each head a blasphemous name.

A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth. Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on its heads.

All of heaven sits in amazement, along with the author of Revelation, John, to see what will unfold after Jesus opened the seals on the scroll.

In the book of John, he saw Jesus and pointed him out. "Behold, the lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world."

Have you ever wondered what Heaven will be like? Revelation chapter 4 gives us a vivid description.

What God is doing through missions work and stories from the mission field with international worker, Carey.

The rapture, the second coming of Jesus, and much more in this timeline of events that will play out in the end times.

I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth.

The introduction to the Revelation series.

Why are we beginning a series on Revelation? Because if you will let it, it will change your life. You will begin to live with expectancy. You will invest your life in different things. You will talk different. You will love more. You will focus on God and have a bigger picture of him. You will align your life purpose with his world purpose.

10 I rejoiced greatly in the Lord that at last you renewed your concern for me. Indeed, you were concerned, but you had no opportunity to show it. 11 I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. 12 I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. 13 I can do all this through him who gives me strength.