PT-2 "It is Done" (Rev. 16:19-21)

SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 09/21/2005

 

My Worship Time                                          Focus:  The rest of the last vial judgment

 

Bible Reading & Meditation             Reference:  Revelation 16:19-21

 

            Message of the verse:  “19  The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. Babylon the great was remembered before God, to give her the cup of the wine of His fierce wrath.  20  And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.  21  And huge hailstones, about one hundred pounds each, came down from heaven upon men; and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, because its plague was extremely severe.”

            As stated in the last SD it is sometimes difficult to determine the time table of how all of this fits together, but looking at the end of verse nineteen and then looking forward to chapters seventeen and eighteen this to me, is a preview to what will be written about there when John will give more detail to the destruction of Babylon, both the government side of it and also the religious side.  Back to  verse nineteen where the first part of it is describing the city of Jerusalem and what these earthquakes will do to it.  The city is split into three parts and from earlier studies of Revelation I have learned that this could be the time when all Israel will be saved for this earthquake could be what the Lord uses to separate the believing Jews from the non believing Jews. 

            I am not sure if John is using hyperbole in verse twenty-one when he writes that every island fled and the mountains were not found, because this was the same type of statement that was made in an earlier judgment and the commentary on that verse that I read said John was using hyperbole, at any rate this will surely be a big mess on earth during this last judgment.  In verse twenty one Joh writes of giant hailstones falling on people and even throughout all of this awful judgment people will still blaspheme God and not turn to Him for forgiveness. 

 

            Spiritual meaning for my life today:  These verses make me think about what Paul wrote to the Galatians when he said, “God is not mocked, for what so ever a man sows that is what he will reap.”  These earth-dwellers were surely not sowing righteous acts, in fact they were sowing unrighteous acts and not were reaping the fruit of them.  God does not always pay His bills at the end of the week, for He is gracious and kind, waiting for men to repent, but God always pay His bills, and I need to remember this for sure as I live out my life in His service here on planet earth.

 

The Word of God has been challenging to my heart as I read and studied it this morning.

 

My Steps of Faith Today:  Continue to trust the Lord through the trials and stress that I am going through, for His Word has promised that He is in complete control and will work out things for my good and for His glory even if it is not the script that I would have chosen for Him to follow.  

 

 

 

Memory verses for the week:  Psalm 27:1-4

 

The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?

The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

 

When evildoers assail me to eat up my flesh, my adversaries and foes, it is they who will stumble and fall.

 

Though an army encamp against me, my heart shall not fear;

Though war arise against me, yet I will be confident.

 

One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I see after:

That I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life,

To gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in His temple.