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When the Lamb opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of everyone who had been killed for speaking God's message and telling about their faith.
They shouted, “Master, you are holy and faithful! How long will it be before you judge and punish the people of this earth who killed us?”
Then each of those who had been killed was given a white robe and told to rest for a little while. They had to wait until the complete number of the Lord's other servants and followers would be killed.
When I saw the Lamb open the sixth seal, I looked and saw a great earthquake. The sun turned as dark as sackcloth, and the moon became red as blood. The stars in the sky fell to earth, just like figs shaken loose by a windstorm.
Then the sky was rolled up like a scroll, and all mountains and islands were moved from their places.
The kings of the earth, its famous people, and its military leaders hid in caves or behind rocks on the mountains. They hid there together with the rich and the powerful and with all the slaves and free people. Then they shouted to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us! Hide us from the one who sits on the throne and from the anger of the Lamb. That terrible day has come! God and the Lamb will show their anger, and who can face it?”
Revelation 6:9-17
When I see a cloudy sky I am reminded that Jesus will come with the clouds. Whenever I hear of a great earthquake I am also reminded that such an earthquake will be the beginning of the end!
But instead of looking forward to the will of God being done of this earth, even many Christians are hoping God delays the end of all things at least until we have lived out our lives here on earth.
What "on earth" are you waiting for? Are you waiting for things to get better. Are you hoping for human solutions to all the turmoil around the globe? Are you hoping that "freedom" instead of slavery can be restored and men can once again pursue their dreams in peace.
Do you believe that if we can just defeat terrorism in all of it's forms and spread democracy around the world then we can all go back to living in peace?
The problem with such hope is that it leaves out the God Factor. We are not free to decide how things in the world should go. God has mapped out a course for human history and all humanity will conform itself to His plan. He will use the righteous and the unrighteous to accomplish His purposes for planet earth and it's inhabitants.
My job is not to change the future, but to do the will of God. There is not one prophecy in the Bible that I can change by human will.
"Lord help me to trust You completely in the storms of this life and obey your every Word. And put my hope totally in You and not in the world! Amen."
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