The Celebration Continues (Rev. 19:3-4)

SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 10/31/2005

 

My Worship Time                                                      Focus:  The Celebration Continues

 

Bible Reading & Meditation                         Reference:  Revelation 19:3-4

 

            Message of the verse:  “3 Again and again their voices rang, ‘Hallelujah! The smoke from that city ascends forever and forever!’4 Then the twenty-four elders and the four living beings fell down and worshiped God, who was sitting on the throne. They cried out, ‘Amen! Hallelujah!’”

            The celebration continues in heaven over the destruction of Babylon, and as I mentioned in yesterday’s SD I do believe that this celebration is about both types of Babylon’s that are mentioned in the Scripture, and not just the political type.  I do not disagree with Dr. Wiersbe on many occasions, but this time I do as he stated in his book that he felt that this celebration was just over the political type of Babylon.

            Also as I mentioned in a number of previous SD’s that both of these types of Babylon’s have been around since the early writings of Genesis, so with that being said I believe that the reason as to why this celebration is so large in heaven after Babylon has been destroyed is because that was the end of it and it will never come back again.  This is so real that some of the Bible commentators have already written years ago that the old Roman Empire was the fulfillment of this, but in fact it was only a type of what will come in the future, and the way things are looking, the not to distance future.

 

              Spiritual meaning for my life today:  I want to live my life in the control of God’s Holy Spirit so that I can see things the way that God sees things.  I want to feel about sin the same way that God feels about sin, and celebrate when God judges sin as seen in this passage.  There are some sins I would celebrate being judged, but there are some sins at this time in my life when I would not celebrate over them being judged, and that is not right.

 

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

 

My Steps of Faith Today:  As God continues to lead me through the trials and tests He is sending me through, I would continually ask Him for grace and mercy and also ask Him to open my mind and my eyes so that I can understand what it is that He wants me to learn as I go through these trials.