Believers troubled by intense persecution – which was only going to get much worse – are encouraged to understand that “the time (of the end is) near” (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

While suffering his own persecution on the penal island of Patmos, John writes to encourage the churches to patiently endure the pressures that they were experiencing (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jesus tells the church at Ephesus that, despite all their good works, they have left their first love (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jesus tells the persecuted church in Smyrna the blunt truth that they can expect their suffering to get much worse, including a period of time He calls “tribulation [for] ten days” (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jesus gives the believers in Pergamos a glimpse into their spiritual warfare when He tells them that Satan has his throne in their city (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jesus warns the church in Thyatira that those who follow the teachings of a false prophetess He calls “Jezebel” can expect to be “killed with death” (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jesus describes the majority of the believers in Sardis by saying they have a name that they are alive, but they are really dead (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jesus tells the believers in Philadelphia that they are serving Him exactly the way He wants them to (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jesus tells the Laodiceans He will vomit them out of His mouth unless they acquire from Him certain priceless spiritual resources (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

The twenty-four elders around the throne of God worship Him and toss their crowns at His feet (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

The call goes out in Heaven for the only One worthy to take the scroll from the right hand of God and finish history as it is pre-written (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

The Tribulation begins as four colorful horses are sent galloping out of Heaven (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

The 144,000 are sealed by God to survive the Tribulation while sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Dreadful judgments fall from the sky upon earth as a final warning for sinners to repent and be saved (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Two terrifying demon armies are unleashed upon the inhabitants of earth in an effort to lead men to turn to God from idols (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

John is told that the mystery of God He had declared to the prophets will be finished (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

The whole world celebrates the antichrist’s killing of God’s two witnesses by watching the events live from Jerusalem (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

After he is thrown out of Heaven down to earth, the devil goes about in a murderous rage seeking whom he may devour (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Nonbelievers suffering in the Tribulation will wonder after two charismatic men, but we read that they are energized by Satan and are therefore more like two beasts (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

In the middle of the Tribulation, God sends an angel into the earth’s atmosphere to preach the everlasting Gospel to every nation, tribe, tongue, and people (Pastor Gene Pensiero)