Babylon Pays For Her Sins (Rev. 18:6-8).

SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 10/17/2005

 

My Worship Time                                                      Focus:  Babylon Pays For Her Sins

 

Bible Reading & Meditation                         Reference:  Revelation 18:6-8

 

            Message of the verse:  “6 Do to her as she has done to your people. Give her a double penalty for all her evil deeds. She brewed a cup of terror for others, so give her twice as much as she gave out.  7 She has lived in luxury and pleasure, so match it now with torments and sorrows. She boasts, ‘I am queen on my throne. I am no helpless widow. I will not experience sorrow.’  8 Therefore, the sorrows of death and mourning and famine will overtake her in a single day. She will be utterly consumed by fire, for the Lord God who judges her is mighty.”’

            God is now going to judge Babylon for her sins and these verses describe some of the sins that she committed.  Before God judges Babylon He calls His people out of her.

            God hates pride, for pride was probably the first sin that was ever committed in that Lucifer, who is now called Satan said five “I wills” which were all prideful statements against God.  Babylon has also seduced the nations that were around her to be just like her.  A third sin is her love for luxury and pleasure, for she worshiped these pleasurable things and all the while there were very poor people around her that she would not help.  In verse eight God promises to judge Babylon in a single day.

            One of God’s attributes is that of judgment, for God will always judge in righteousness, and He never does things to get even, but has great patience in His judgment, waiting for the people to repent of their sins, but in this case they would not even though they had seen all of the judgments that God has sent upon the whole world.

 

            Spiritual meaning for my life today:  One of the things that speaks to me from these verses is that I must never let the things that God has given me to own me, and I am never to brag about the blessings that God has given me as if I had something to do with them.  I have done this in the past with our investment and now I do not have it at this time, but hopefully because of this trial God has taught me this lesson and will someday soon trust me with these funds again knowing that they have always been a gift from Him and He can remove them from me at any time for in reality all that I have is His especially me.

 

The Word of God has brought conviction to my heart as I studied His Word this morning.

 

My Steps of Faith Today:  Continue to trust the Lord in all of these trials that we our going through, that He will see us through to the other side of them and we will both be different when we arrive there.