Summary
If you go to Revelation the first chapter, so it's the last book in the Bible, Revelation first chapter where where Jesus is revealing this to John, we'll look at we'll look at first verse 8 where Jesus tells John, I am the Alpha and the Omega, says the Lord God who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty, then let's jump down to 17. The section here then, starting in Isaiah 9, so let's find that first, Isaiah chapter 9, when you pick up in verse 8, it really extends here this section into chapter 10, verse 4. So as we're going through, there are so many things that are symbolic and some of the things I know I've said we're going to come back, we're going to come back to the throne room. And so we're going to come back and we're going to study the seven trumpets today and we're going to look at the seven bowls or the seven sensors and that's all over the same period of time. I don't know that it's a saying anymore, but but when one person would make a covenant to another where they would say, my word is my bond and that could be trusted or perhaps a covenant to deal is made with a hand shake, a firm hand shake and it's known that because of the person shaking my hand, I can trust the promise being made. Every week we come here and we come to the table and we pray and we make a contract with God that we repent of our sins, we make a contract that we're going to do better, that we're going to be better, that we're going to try harder, but we're just making a contract because we leave the doors and we enter into our daily lives and we find that that contract to repent, to do better, to be better, to try harder, well it's changeable.
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