There was a lot that I cut out from my sermon Sunday because I ran out of time.  But in this post you get to read them.  The two I want to point out are two quotes that I was going to close with.  The first from Warren Wiersbe says, “Each generation of believers must keep itself pure from the pollution of both the ‘harlot’ and ‘Babylon'”.  Applying the message of Revelation is not just for end time believers but for us today.  And finally from Craig Keener, “All Rome’s successors, all the evil empires of history who repress God’s people, will be dust and ashes, but God’s kingdom will no fail!  Empires rise and fall, and our own early lives persih with the passing of generations. We must rest our confidence not in the short-term troubles that we read in the news headlines, but in God’s long-range purposes in history.”  Both are good reminders as we enter into this election season.