In love, the truth is we don’t live in a Christian nation. Yes, there are people who follow Christ who live in America. Yet on a national level sin isn’t being called sin, people are lovers of self rather than lovers of God, and people are pursuing indulgences rather than holiness. That’s said in love and in truth.
We now come to John seeing the vision of the two witnesses prophesying over the world. Remember, any prophesy includes a way to come to the Lord. The Lord never speaks a word for someone to be farther from Him, it’s always for drawing closer to Him. With truth always comes a way to Jesus. Reconciliation, redemption, and salvation is a part of the prophetic. The witnesses soon die and look how people respond to the witnesses of the Truth, “Those from the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations will look at their dead bodies for three and a half days, and will not permit their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb. And those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them and celebrate; and they will send gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth.” Revelation 11:9-10
Their response is telling; they leave them dead in public and celebrate their death. Sobering to say at the least. I love writing about the good things of the Lord: redemption, reconciliation, and salvation. On the opposite side of those things are judgment for unrepentant sin, selfishness, and corruption. Jesus is love but what makes His love pure is justice. I pray you’ve chosen Jesus. I pray that reading Revelation has emboldened you to share Jesus with others who may not know Him.
- To Know Jesus. To Live on Mission.