Eternal God, unchanging, mysterious, and unknown
Your boundless love, unfailing grace and mercy shown
Bright seraphim in ceaseless flight around your glorious throne
They raise their voices day and night in praise to you alone

Hallelujah! Glory be to our great God!
Hallelujah! Glory be to our great God!

Lord we are weak and frail, helpless in the storm
Surround us with your angels, hold us in your arms
Our cold and ruthless enemy, his pleasure is our harm
Rise up, O Lord, and he will flee before our sovereign God

Let every creature in the sea and every flying bird
Let every mountain every field and valley of the earth
Let all the moons and all the stars in all the universe
Sing praises to the living God who rules them by his Word

I wanna be close, close to Your side
So Heaven is real and death is a lie
I wanna hear voices of angels above
Singing as one

Hallelujah, holy, holy
God Almighty, Great I Am
Who is worthy? None beside Thee
God Almighty, Great I Am

I wanna be near, near to Your heart
Loving the world, hating the dark
I wanna see dry bones living again
Singing as one

The Great I Am

The mountains shake before You
The demons run and flee
At the mention of Your name
King of majesty
There is no pow’r in hell
Or any who can stand
Before the power and the presence
Of the great I Am

There’s no one like you Lord

Holy, holy

Everything we need
Is here in your presence
Everything we need
Is here in your presence, Jesus

My Healer, Provider
My Savior is here
Sustainer, Redeemer
Jesus is here

There’s no place like your presence Lord
No place we’d rather be in

Meet every need unspoken
Heal every broken heart
Lift every burden
In Your presence Jesus

Restore what has been stolen
Speak peace to every storm
Let there be freedom
In your presence, Jesus

I call you faithful
For the promises you’ve kept
And ev’ry need you’ve met
Lord I’m so grateful
You were with me every step
And I never will forget

When I think of how you’ve blessed me
How your hand has never
Let me go, never let me go

You have been so good to me
God I can’t believe
How you love me
What a friend You have been
So good to me
God I can’t believe how you love me
What a friend you have been

I call you Savior, for the blood
that washed me clean
For the wrongs that you redeemed
I know you’re able
And my eyes don’t have to see
One more reason to believe

When I think of how you’ve blessed me
How your hand has never
Let me go, never let me go

You have been so good to me
God I can’t
Believe how you love me
What a friend You have been
So good to me
God I can’t
Believe how you love me
What a friend you have been

For every morning
For every open door
I call you faithful
And I just wanna thank you Lord
For every mountain
For every time you brought me through
I call you faithful
And I just wanna thank you Lord

For your forgiveness
for how you never turned away
I call you faithful
And I just wanna thank you Lord
For your salvation
You paid the price I couldn’t pay
I call you faithful
And I just wanna thank you Lord

Oh, oh
I just wanna thank you, Lord
Oh, oh
what a friend you have been

When the alarm sounds

Jamaal Williams

8 When he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.
2 Then I saw the seven angels who stand in the presence of God; seven trumpets were given to them.
3 Another angel, with a golden incense burner, came and stood at the altar. He was given a large amount of incense to offer with the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar in front of the throne.
4 The smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, went up in the presence of God from the angel’s hand.
5 The angel took the incense burner, filled it with fire from the altar, and hurled it to the earth; there were peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning, and an earthquake.
6 And the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared to blow them.
7 The first angel blew his trumpet, and hail and fire, mixed with blood, were hurled to the earth. So a third of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.
8 The second angel blew his trumpet, and something like a great mountain ablaze with fire was hurled into the sea. So a third of the sea became blood,
9 a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.
10 The third angel blew his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from heaven. It fell on a third of the rivers and springs of water.
11 The name of the star is Wormwood, and a third of the waters became wormwood. So, many of the people died from the waters, because they had been made bitter.
12 The fourth angel blew his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them were darkened. A third of the day was without light and also a third of the night.
13 I looked and heard an eagle flying high overhead, crying out in a loud voice, “Woe! Woe! Woe to those who live on the earth, because of the remaining trumpet blasts that the three angels are about to sound!”

9 The fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from heaven to earth. The key for the shaft to the abyss was given to him.
2 He opened the shaft to the abyss, and smoke came up out of the shaft like smoke from a great furnace so that the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke from the shaft.
3 Then locusts came out of the smoke on to the earth, and power was given to them like the power that scorpions have on the earth.
4 They were told not to harm the grass of the earth, or any green plant, or any tree, but only those people who do not have God’s seal on their foreheads. 5 They were not permitted to kill them but were to torment them for five months; their torment is like the torment caused by a scorpion when it stings someone.
6 In those days people will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, but death will flee from them.
7 The appearance of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle. Something like golden crowns was on their heads; their faces were like human faces;
8 they had hair like women’s hair; their teeth were like lions’ teeth;
9 they had chests like iron breastplates; the sound of their wings was like the sound of many chariots with horses rushing into battle;
10 and they had tails with stingers like scorpions, so that with their tails they had the power to harm people for five months.
11 They had as their king the angel of the abyss; his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek he has the name Apollyon.
12 The first woe has passed. There are still two more woes to come after this.
13 The sixth angel blew his trumpet. From the four horns of the golden altar that is before God, I heard a voice
14 say to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels bound at the great river Euphrates.”
15 So the four angels who were prepared for the hour, day, month, and year were released to kill a third of the human race.
16 The number of mounted troops was two hundred million; I heard their number.
17 This is how I saw the horses and their riders in the vision: They had breastplates that were fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulfur yellow. The heads of the horses were like the heads of lions, and from their mouths came fire, smoke, and sulfur.
18 A third of the human race was killed by these three plagues—by the fire, the smoke, and the sulfur that came from their mouths.
19 For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails, because their tails, which resemble snakes, have heads that inflict injury.
20 The rest of the people, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands to stop worshiping demons and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which cannot see, hear, or walk. 21 And they did not repent of their murders, their sorceries, their sexual immorality, or their thefts.

10 Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven, wrapped in a cloud, with a rainbow over his head. His face was like the sun, his legs were like pillars of fire,
2 and he held a little scroll opened in his hand. He put his right foot on the sea, his left on the land,
3 and he called out with a loud voice like a roaring lion. When he cried out, the seven thunders raised their voices.
4 And when the seven thunders spoke, I was about to write, but I heard a voice from heaven, saying, “Seal up what the seven thunders said, and do not write it down!”
5 Then the angel that I had seen standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand to heaven.
6 He swore by the one who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and what is in it, the earth and what is in it, and the sea and what is in it, “There will no longer be a delay,
7 but in the days when the seventh angel will blow his trumpet, then the mystery of God will be completed, as he announced to his servants the prophets.”
8 Then the voice that I heard from heaven spoke to me again and said, “Go, take the scroll that lies open in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land.”
9 So I went to the angel and asked him to give me the little scroll. He said to me, “Take and eat it; it will be bitter in your stomach, but it will be as sweet as honey in your mouth.”
10 Then I took the little scroll from the angel’s hand and ate it. It was as sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I ate it, my stomach became bitter.
11 And they said to me, “You must prophesy again about many peoples, nations, languages, and kings.”

11 Then I was given a measuring reed like a rod, with these words: “Go and measure the temple of God and the altar, and count those who worship there. 2 But exclude the courtyard outside the temple. Don’t measure it, because it is given to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months. 3 I will grant my two witnesses authority to prophesy for 1,260 days, dressed in sackcloth.”
4 These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth.
5 If anyone wants to harm them, fire comes from their mouths and consumes their enemies; if anyone wants to harm them, he must be killed in this way.
6 They have authority to close up the sky so that it does not rain during the days of their prophecy. They also have power over the waters to turn them into blood and to strike the earth with every plague whenever they want.
7 When they finish their testimony, the beast that comes up out of the abyss will make war on them, conquer them, and kill them.
8 Their dead bodies will lie in the main street of the great city, which figuratively is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.
9 And some of the peoples, tribes, languages, and nations will view their bodies for three and a half days and not permit their bodies to be put into a tomb.
10 Those who live on the earth will gloat over them and celebrate and send gifts to one another because these two prophets had tormented those who live on the earth.
11 But after three and a half days, the breath of life from God entered them, and they stood on their feet. Great fear fell on those who saw them.
12 Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here.” They went up to heaven in a cloud, while their enemies watched them.
13 At that moment a violent earthquake took place, a tenth of the city fell, and seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake. The survivors were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.
14 The second woe has passed. Take note: The third woe is coming soon!
15 The seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven saying,

The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom

of our Lord and of his Christ,

and he will reign forever and ever.

16 The twenty-four elders, who were seated before God on their thrones, fell facedown and worshiped God, 17 saying,

We give you thanks, Lord God, the Almighty,

who is and who was,

because you have taken your great power

and have begun to reign.

18 The nations were angry,

but your wrath has come.

The time has come

for the dead to be judged

and to give the reward

to your servants the prophets,

to the saints, and to those who fear your name,

both small and great,

and the time has come to destroy

those who destroy the earth.

19 Then the temple of God in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant appeared in his temple. There were flashes of lightning, rumblings and peals of thunder, an earthquake, and severe hail.

Revelation 8-11

Big Idea: When God sounds the alarm, his church must bear witness.

1. Prayers rise (Revelation 8:1-5)
2. Trumpets sound (Revelation 8:6-9:21)
3. Witnesses speak (Revelation 10-11)
4. The King reigns

• The first six trumpets sound the alarm. The seventh announces the King.

There is no other so sure and steady
My hope is held in your hand
When castles crumble
And breath is fleeting
Upon this Rock I will stand

Glory, glory, we have no other king
But Jesus Lord of all
Raise the anthem, our loudest praises ring
We crown him Lord of all

Your kindly rule has shattered and broken
The curse of sin’s tyranny
My life is hidden ’neath heaven’s shadow
Your crimson flood covers me

In all my sorrows, Jesus is better
Make my heart believe
In every victory, Jesus is better
Make my heart believe
Than any comfort, Jesus is better
Make my heart believe
More than all riches, Jesus is better
Make my heart believe
Our souls declaring, Jesus is better
Make my heart believe
Our song eternal, Jesus is better,
Make my heart believe