REVELATIONS 15: 1

“Then I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous:  Seven angels having the seven last plagues, for in them the wrath of God is complete.”

Chapter 15 introduces the 7 bowls of wrath which are the worst of the seven plagues.  God is about to wound the earth for the last time before the final judgment.  Each bowl of judgments will come in a rapid-fire, staccato fashion, and each one worse in intensity and this will end the 7 year Tribulation period.

Right now the reality is our world is not in a good place.  However, what is fearful, frightening and serious about the future is really nothing that man will do, but it is what God will do.  It is the final destiny of the soul and humankind and then the wrath of God that ends human history that is on the horizon.

If we go back to the initial introduction of the oldest part of the Old Testament and trek our way throughout the inevitable coming wrath of God, there is a strange paradox.  That strange paradox is this: All the way through the expression of God’s wrath up until His ultimate final and eternal wrath, God is busily working to save sinners from His own wrath.

He is always calling people to be delivered from the wrath which He himself will inflict.  In fact, as wrath escalates in the period of the time called the tribulation, evangelism escalates as well.  AND you have the greatest harvest of souls in human history. 

Therein lies the marvelous reality of the nature of God that encompasses both righteousness and holiness alongside mercy and grace that makes justice and judgment the twin of love and kindness.

Let us pray:  Lord, we pray You will help us live in the light of this reality and to do those things which will bring people to the knowledge of Christ before the end days.  We thank You that You saved us from the wrath to come and we give You praise in Christ’s name.  Amen and Amen.