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Christian’s view of the future is not a spectacular dreamed up by science or
the brainstorm of secular historians. He gets it from an old, old book written
by a solitary exile on a lonely rock in a restless sea. The Apocalypse is
laughed at by this world and discredited even by some churchmen but it is
precious to all strangers in modern Babylon who are looking for the City that’s
soon coming down. Its strange, mysterious characters make more sense every day
as the seven-sealed book opens the meaning of God’s history within history and
the stage is set for the last chapters in the drama of this age. He does not
argue with the wise-acres of this world, for that would be casting pearls
before swine. Blind eyes cannot see this vision nor can dead men understand
Scripture until they are born again. God goes His quiet way and lets the panels
discuss and symposiums debate current events in all their learned ignorance.
Headlines mean something entirely different to Him and newscasts tell another
story to His ears. Blessed is the man whose vantage point is Patmos!
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