The book of Revelation displays chaos and confusion at the end of time. Our world is groaning from political and natural calamities. Where can we go to have safety. Where can we go to have peace and rest. In the video Pastor Mark Finley will study Revelation’s three safest places.

<p>The book of Revelation displays chaos and confusion at the end of time. Our world is groaning from political and natural calamities. Where can we go to have safety. Where can we go to have peace and rest. In the video Pastor Mark Finley will study Revelation’s three safest places.</p>

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Mark Finley

Revelation’s Three Safest Places

Where can we find safety in a time when the world is tragically unsafe?

Pestilences and strange diseases afflict many.

Many of our friends tonight are on ventilators in hospitals suffering.

And we ask ourselves, where can we find safety?

Where can we find safety when there's an economic collapse?

Where can we find safety when there's political disaster all around us?

Where can we find safety in an insecure world that is very, very unsafe?

It appears today that there is really no safe place on earth.

COVID-19 is ravaging the globe, not only America, but internationally.

Fires are burning out of control in California.

Floods have deluged cities, if you've been watching the news at all this week, in the South and even in the Northwest.

You look at New Jersey where we wouldn't expect it.

I mean, New York had more rain in 1 hour than they have had for many, many weeks and months.

Subways were flooded, people trapped in the subways.

To add to that, the water falls in the east, but there's a critical water shortage in the West.

Hurricane Ida devastated Louisiana, tornadoes destroying large amounts of housing in the Southwest.

Haiti is struck with a major earthquake, leading political commentators to say, we've never seen anything like this before.

But you add to that, that Afghanistan is ravaged with chaos and strife and we see on the TV screens and over the news media that 13 servicemen have been killed in a terrorist explosion.

You add to that that Iran and Iraq are developing nuclear weaponry.

India and Kashmir are locked in a battle over territorial rights.

The Israelis and the Palestinians are constantly, constantly in conflict and Africa has not been spared from poverty, disease, and conflict.

Many South Americans are facing, and many South American countries are facing, tremendous uncertainty today.

I was interested in the comment of 1 news commentator this week as I caught a brief glimpse of the news.

Other commentators say we've never seen anything like this before in the history of the world, but 1 commentator borrowed a phrase from scripture and this commentator said, this is apocalyptic.

Now you recall of course that the book of revelation is called the Apocalypse.

Now the crisis of our times raises some fundamental questions.

In a time when the world is tragically unsafe, natural disasters strike, pestilences and strange diseases afflict many.

The book of Revelation provides an answer.

When John is exiled on the island of Patmos by the Roman emperor Domitian, the aged apostle writes in Revelation chapter 4, we look to the word of God to get a word of hope from the scriptures.

And the message of scriptures comes echoing and re-echoing down the corridors of time and speaks to us at this time in this generation.

Revelation Chapter 4, we're looking at verse 1.

John lonely on the island of Patmos, separated from family and friends.

And John says, after these things I looked, and behold a door was standing open in heaven, and the first voice which I heard was like a trumpet speaking with me, saying, come up here and I'll show you things which must take place after this.

Verse 2, immediately I was in the spirit and behold a throne set in heaven and 1 sat upon the throne.

John says, and his message comes echoing and re-echoing down the corridors of time, John speaks to us, he says above the chaos and the calamities and confusion and conflicts, God still sits enthroned.

He's still working out the affairs of this earth to accomplish his purposes.

Although Satan may be the prince of this world, God is still the king of the universe.

In prophetic vision, John looks and there's a door open in heaven.

Getting a glimpse of the eternal calms our spirits.

We look up through that open door in heaven.

There's 1 crisis after the other, but there still is a door opened in heaven.

And looking up through that open door, we see Jesus sitting upon his throne.

My topic today is Revelation's 3 safest places.

We live on earth, but our hearts and minds are in heaven.

Reminded me of a story that I heard about a preacher called Bob Harrington.

Bob Harrington was called the preacher of Bourbon Street.

He would go down to Bourbon Street in New Orleans and preach.

1 time he was preaching and a guy came along half drunk and poured a mug of beer over his head.

Well That didn't faze Bob Harrington at all.

Another time he was preaching and a guy came along half drunk and ripped out the pages in his Bible.

Harrington knew them by memory, kept preaching.

Another time, Bob Harrington was walking through New Orleans, walking down Bourbon Street.

And somebody said, hey, Bob, where you going today, preacher Bob?

And he said, I'm going to heaven, but I'm just passing through town.

We are going to heaven but just passing through town.

And John says amidst the calamity, amidst the confusion, amidst the heartache and difficulty, amidst the sickness, look through the open door in heaven and there find confidence.

Well what do we see when we look through that open door?

And we're looking there at verse 9 through 14.

The 3 safest places to be in a time of chaos, confusion and calamity.

We start there with verse 9, And after this I beheld, and lo, a great multitude which no man could number, of all nations and kindreds and people and tongues stood before the throne, and before the lamb clothed with white robes and palms in their hands." Now notice what John sees.

When we look at that verse, we see that John sees a great multitude.

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