The Sixth Trumpet Judgment (Rev. 9:13-15)

SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 07/04/2005

 

My Worship Time                                          Focus:  The Sixth Trumpet Judgment

 

Bible Reading & Meditation             Reference:  Revelations 9:13-15

 

            Message of the verse:  “13 Then the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, 14 one saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, ‘Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.’  15 And the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, were released, so that they would kill a third of mankind.”

            John said that when the sixth trumpet sounded, showing that the next judgment was ready to take place, a voice came from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God.  This altar is the altar of incense, which is where the prayers of the saints go up before the Lord God who sits on His throne in heaven. 

            This judgment is letting loose of four angels who are bound at the Euphrates river, and if they are bound then this would indicate that they are not good, but evil angels, for good angels would not have to be bound.  John tells his readers that these angels have been prepared for this very time to kill one third of the earth’s population.  John will go on with this judgment in the succeeding verses.  In Revelations 6:8 we read that one fourth of the earths population have already been killed by that judgment and now in this judgment one third of the earth’s population is killed so that means that there have been on half killed and one half left, so there is only one out of two people left on earth who were alive when the tribulation started, and when it started the people of the world had such great hope that peace had finally came, yet there is no peace unless it comes from the Prince of Peace. 

 

            Spiritual meaning for my life today:  I think that from seeing things like killings and other sinful activities on TV, both in fictional and real settings that come from the news, this kind of desensitizes me from really grasping all these judgments that will go on during this time of judgment that will come upon the whole world.  Late last year a great tidal wave killed many, many people in Indonesia, and other countries in the far east, and this will be like a Sunday school picnic compared to these judgments that will send millions of people to there final place of judgment and I would pray that God would allow me to give out the Word to the ones that He brings my way so that they can be saved and not have to go through this awful period of time full of God’s judgments.

 

The Word of God has brought conviction to my heart as I read it this morning.

 

My Steps of Faith Today:  I trust that the Lord will give me more opportunities to give out His Word so people can be saved.