SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 3/28/2015
8:47 AM
My Worship Time Focus: The Promise
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Revelation
6:11
Message of the
verse: “11 And there was given to each of them a white
robe; and they were told that they should rest for a little while longer, until
the number of their fellow servants and their brethren who were to be killed
even as they had been, would be completed also.”
I wrote the following on May 12, 2005: “It may seem from this verse that patience
has to be exercised in heaven too. This
verse also speaks of these martyred believers receiving a white robe, which
speaks of righteousness, and also means that they have a body in order to put
this robe on. The last part of this
verse shows, like many other places in the Bible, that God has a plan and
nothing will be able to stop this plan, and part of that plan is that there
will be a number of believers who will die for the cause of Jesus Christ, and
when that final number is complete then God’s plan will be complete and His
wrath will be satisfied, and justice will be served by Him.”
In Revelation 6:9-11 we have been looking at the prayers
of the saints who have been transported to heaven because they have died for
the cause of Christ. There prayer is
that God would bring about vengeance upon those who have been committing these
crimes. In today’s SD we will look at
the promise that God gives to these saints.
I spoke of these saints has having a body, and I do believe that when a
believer dies that they will receive a body, but not the type of body that they
will receive at the rapture which will be like the glorified body that Christ
now has.
Now as for the gift that God gives to each of these believers
it is a white robe and John MacArthur writes the following about it. “The gift that was given to each of them by
God as they arrived in heaven was a white robe (stole; a long robe flowing to
the feet).” Now we have learned earlier
that this white robe symbolizes righteousness, eternal righteousness.
Next we see that God tells them to rest for a little
while longer, and this certainly is not a rebuke from the Lord to them for
being impatience for these saints are now perfect and cannot sin. God wants them to trust Him and His plan to
care for the judgment that the evil men on earth deserve and to just stop and
enjoy heaven. We know that it will not
be too long before God does exercise judgment on these men. In the tenth chapter of Revelation and verse
six we read “there will be delay no longer,” so this must mean that the waiting
of these saints is over. God tells them
that others will be killed for the cause of Christ and He had to wait for that
to happen. MacArthur writes “God sovereignty
predetermined the exact number of those who would be killed. The petitioners were told to enjoy heaven’s
rest until that number had been reached.
Robert L. Thomas notes: ‘The word
to the souls under the altar gives them reassurance that God will eventually avenge
their blood, but the time for the culmination of that vengeance has not yet
arrived. One feature that must yet transpire
beforehand is the increase of their number through additional martyrdom. The earth dwellers under the dawning
leadership of the beast from the sea will take an even greater toll of human
lives before Christ finally intervenes through His personal arrival back on
earth. Until then, they already martyred
are told to rest and enjoy their state of blessedness already attained.’”
Now as far as the “fellow servants and brethren,” they
are two different classes of people. The
fellow servants may or may not die for the cause of Christ, but the brethren are
the ones who will die for the cause of Christ.
The world today seems to forget the things that are right
and wrong. Our parents fought in WWII
against a demon possessed Hitler who was trying to kill all of the Jews and
thus what came out of it was the Jews were brought into their land and given a
nation in May of 1948. Now we see that
our government is trying to distance themselves from the very people that our
parents died to save. Is it so hard to
believe that we will go through the same type of thing that Hitler was trying
to accomplish in the Tribulation period?
Spiritual meaning
for my life today: What I can learn
from this is that God surely does answer prayers in His own time when He is
ready, and that God has a plan and nothing will stop it.
My Steps of Faith for Today: To love the Lord with all of my heart, soul,
mind, and strength, and also to live in the love that the Lord has for me. To better understand that love.
Answer to yesterday’s Bible
question: “The first day” (Luke 24:1).
Today’s Bible
question: “Who said ‘If it be so, our
God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace?’”
Answer in our next SD.
3/28/2015 9:19 AM
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