Grace Communion Melbourne Fellowship Group
Melbourne, Florida

 Dear Church Family,

  Last week in worship we heard from Dr. Dan Rogers as we turned to the book of Revelation chapter 5 and saw with John this panoramic vision of God’s throne room. We observed the central act of worship that was being offered by three concentric circles of worshipers: the twenty-four elders, the four creatures, and the multitude of angels. We took note that the first two circles were praising the Father. And with the addition of the angels, this same worship was attributed to Jesus, the One who was found worthy to open the scroll. After this, another circle was added that was made up of “every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all that is in them”.  

We will continue in the book of Revelation tomorrow picking up the text in chapter 7, verses 9-17.

Revelation 7:9-17 NRSVUE

⁹ After this I looked, and there was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, robed in white, with palm branches in their hands. ¹⁰ They cried out in a loud voice, saying, “Salvation belongs to our God who is seated on the throne and to the Lamb!”¹¹ And all the angels stood around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, ¹² singing, Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever! Amen.” ¹³ Then one of the elders addressed me, saying, “Who are these, robed in white, and where have they come from?” ¹⁴ I said to him, “Sir, you are the one who knows.” Then he said to me, “These are they who have come out of the great ordeal; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. ¹⁵ For this reason they are before the throne of God and worship him day and night within his temple, and the one who is seated on the throne will shelter them. ¹⁶ They will hunger no more and thirst no more; the sun will not strike them down nor scorching heat, ¹⁷ for the Lamb at the center of the throne will be their shepherd, and he will guide them to springs of the water of life and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”

Sermon Title:  Clothed in White Robes  

Your pastor & brother,

Steve Schantz

Grace Communion Melbourne Fellowship Group – 1^st, 3^rd, and 4^th Sundays at 2:30 p.m.

2^nd Sundays Potluck & Bible Study 1:30 p.m.

Meeting @ Pineda Presbyterian Church 5650 N. Wickham Rd

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