Video from Grace to You
The History of the Future - John MacArthur
"Such a wonderful theme in the music this morning, everything about the Lord being our refuge and our security and our Savior and our leader—all wonderful, comforting realities. We’ve all, as believers, experienced that, of course, and it’s along that line that I want to take you to what I believe may be the most comforting book in the New Testament, and that is the book of Revelation. And I say that because it tells you the future. And for those who belong to Christ, the blessed and the forgiven, the future is all-glorious.
Why am I going to spend some time in Revelation? Well, one reason is to help you understand the future so that we can set aside some of the insanity going on in the world about climate change and global warming and all of the things that are being said in a very destructive way. The story of the earth is really a story of God’s goodness. He’s filled the earth with good things, good things. We are to be fruitful and multiply, not stop having children because we think the climate is going to wipe us out. We are to give Him thanks for all the common graces. And at this particular point in civilized history, we’re the beneficiaries of a massive amount of advances that have made life so much better, so much richer, so much easier. That is common grace...from the transcript