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Today’s Scriptures
Today’s Bible reading plans include:
Ready – Revelation 14:6-20
Set – Revelation 14
Go! – Revelation 10-14
Revelation 14:6-20
6 I saw another messenger flying through midheaven. He carried an eternal gospel, bringing good news to all the citizens of the earth—every ethnicity, nation, language, and people.
Heavenly Messenger (with a loud voice): 7 Fear God. Give Him glory, for the time of judgment has arrived. Worship the One who fashioned heaven and earth and created the seas and the springs.
8 Another messenger, a second, came along.
Second Messenger: Fallen, fallen is Babylon, the great city! She has intoxicated all the nations with the wine of the wrath of her sexual perversion.
9 Another messenger, a third, followed.
Third Messenger (with a loud voice): Those who worship the beast and its image, and all who receive its mark on their foreheads or on their hands, 10 will be forced to drink the wine of God’s wrath, poured out undiluted into the cup of God’s anger. And they will face the torment of fire and the agony of sulfurous flames before the holy messengers and the Lamb. 11 The smoke of their torment will rise throughout the ages for eternity. Day and night will come and go without pause or cessation. There will be no end to the torture experienced by those who worship the beast and its image and by those who receive the mark of its name.
12 Here is the patient endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and remain faithful to Jesus.
13 Then I heard a voice call out from heaven.
A Voice: Record this: “Blessed are the dead who have died in the Lord from now until the end.”
Spirit: Yes, they will rest from their labors because their deeds remain with them.
14 Then I saw a white cloud, and seated on the cloud was one like the Son of Man, a golden wreath atop His head and a sharp sickle in His hand. 15 Another messenger proceeded from the temple and called with a loud voice to the One who sat on the cloud.
Heavenly Messenger: Take Your sickle and reap the harvest, because the harvest of the earth is full and ripe and because the time to harvest has come.
16 Then the One seated on the cloud swung His sickle over the earth, and the earth gave up its harvest.
17 Just then another messenger proceeded out of the heavenly temple. He also had a sharp sickle. 18 Then another messenger (the one with authority over fire) came out from the altar, and he called with a loud voice to the one who had the sharp sickle.
Messenger of Fire: Take your sharp sickle and gather together the clusters of grapes from the vines of the earth, for the grapes are ripe and ready for harvest.
19 So the heavenly messenger swung his sickle over the earth, gathered the fruit of the vine from the earth, and threw it into the great winepress, which is the wrath of God. 20 And the winepress was trampled outside of the city, and blood flowed from the winepress. The blood ran deep. It reached as high as the bridle on a horse and ran for the distance of about 185 miles.
Today’s Devotional
From today’s background scripture God might say:
Have you thought much about the wrath of the Father when He finally comes to take His faithful home? That last verse you heard today is an indication of just terrifying and how terrible His wrath will be for those who decide to go their own way. When I return to harvest the earth, I will do so as swiftly as a sickle cuts a swath through wheat. One pass and everything in its path is gone.
John saw the results of that harvest. The blood of the guilt poured from the metaphoric winepress he saw in his vision. The blood ran at the depth of a horse’s bridle for 185 miles. Did you ever think about how much blood that was or how many people that might represent?
If the river was only ten feet wide and the bridle was about six feet high, the volume of blood from just the city of Babylon, the great city of God’s wrath represents more than 150,000,000 people. That will be the first city of all the cities on earth that will feel the wrath of the Father when He sends Me to bring My followers home. It will be an awful day for those not protected by the blood of My forgiveness.
I’ve told you that narrow is the path that leads to eternal life and few find it. Not because the Father and I don’t want you to find it. I make it plain for all to see. Few find it because few are willing to sacrifice their selfish desires for My will in their life. The narrow path to eternal life with Me means obedience to Me, not the cry of the world. It means staying focused on Me. Listening to that still, small voice Elijah heard. Walking in the light I give you each day. Living for Me instead of yourself. It’s contradictory to the path the world tells you to walk, but that’s why so few follow it.
Are you ready for My final harvest? Follow Me and you will be.
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