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Day 364, or December the 30th. The Guaranteed

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Perfect Experience. Our thoughts today are from

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Revelation chapter 19, verse 6. Then I heard

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what sounded like a great multitude, like the

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roar of rushing waters, and like loud peals of

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thunder, shouting, Hallelujah, for our Lord God

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Almighty reigns! And now the big picture surrounding

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this verse. John's writings about judgment are

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followed by details of the second coming of Jesus.

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This glorious final act by God will crown and

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complete all that Jesus accomplished on the cross.

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To the early church, undergoing many trials and

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savage persecution, these words from Jesus, which

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he related to John, must have sounded too good

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to be true. Too difficult to imagine, but coming

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from someone completely trustworthy, so it had

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to be true. Everything will finally be just as

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God always planned it, and all believers are

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included and invited to the marriage supper.

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See you there. And now, our action step for today.

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can you remember watching an olympic opening

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or closing ceremony on tv or maybe you were able

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to get a ticket and experience it live with the

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entire surrounding atmosphere on the other hand

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you may have attended an fa cup final or world

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cup final and can still feel the tingling in

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your spine even now after many years have passed

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These experiences will pale into insignificance

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when compared with the second coming of Jesus

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Christ. John must have felt the hair on the back

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of his head bristle even as he wrote this portion

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of Revelation. He must have gone to his death

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really looking forward to this climax of history.

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Well, he's still waiting for it, and so am I,

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and so are all other believers. We are 2 ,000

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years closer to it than John was, and I'm convinced

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the waiting will be worth it. Of course, some

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of us may still be alive when it happens. Wow!

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This isn't instead of a meaningful life on earth,

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it's as well as. Be sure to enjoy each day as

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it comes, but never forget what is promised,

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and it could be tomorrow.