Father in heaven, we have just sung what a friend, a Savior, Your Son is to us, so we pray now in His name that You would help us. I need Your help to speak clearly and boldly and helpfully and we need Your assistance that we might listen and understand in this difficult and in some ways alarming passage that You might speak to us just the word we need to hear, that we would be safe and we would be saved.
Please turn in your Bibles to Revelation chapter Revelation is the very last book in the Bible. There are 22 chapters and we have been going through this book for a year now and we are in Revelation Actually, I think of the chapters left, this one and then parts of chapter 20 about the millennium are really the heavy lifting.
Now everything is heavy, but are going to take a lot of work to understand what this is about. Look at verse 14 before we go any farther. See verse This is the most important point in the whole chapter, Revelation — They will make war on the Lamb and the Lamb will conquer them for He is Lord of lords and King of kings and those with Him are called and chosen and faithful. There is a lot in this chapter that will be hard to understand, but this verse is easy to understand. The Lamb wins.
And if you want to be on the winning side in this cosmic conflict, you must be one of those followers that are called and chosen and faithful. But before landing there, we have a lot of ground to cover in these verses. Now I hope that this is not a bad sermon. This is a confusing passage and I think the most helpful thing I can do is to lead us slowly walking through this rather than read it all and go back explain it all.
Work through it verse by verse, paragraph by paragraph, sometimes phrase by phrase. The sermon will be almost done when we get through the whole text. So I understand that. Just to orient you to what is in this chapter. There are two main characters in this chapter.
