SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 4/2/2015
8:38 AM
My Worship Time Focus: The Reason
for Fear PT-3
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Revelation
6:12-14
Message of the
verses: “12 I looked when He broke
the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as
sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became like blood; 13 and the stars
of the sky fell to the earth, as a fig tree casts its unripe figs when shaken
by a great wind. 14 The sky was split apart like a scroll when it is rolled up,
and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.”
We want to begin this SD by focusing in on the later part
of verse twelve where we read “and the whole moon became like blood.” We have been hearing a lot about “blood moons”
in recent times and what we see in verse twelve seems to be the moon looking
like blood because of the results of the earthquakes which caused volcanic
eruptions and with that different types of gasses coming out of the earth which
will be an environmentalist nightmare. I
remember ten years ago when we were living in Aruba and I was working at a
refinery which had very little if any pollution controls intact. We lived fairly close to the plant and in the
evening when the sun was about to go down we saw some of the strangest, but
most beautiful sunsets because of the pollution that came from those
smokestacks. Pollution in the air can
cause dramatic effects on what the sun and moon look like. Isaiah 13:10 reads “For the stars of heaven
and their constellations Will not flash forth their light; The sun will be dark
when it rises And the moon will not shed its light.” Joel writes “the sun and the moon grow dark”
(Joel 2:10). When all of this happens it
will have a dramatic effect on many things on the earth including the tides and
also cycles of light which will effect plant life and food supply, which will
cause a great deal of panic.
Next we look at what verse thirteen says “and the stars
of the sky fell to the earth.” John
MacArthur writes “Asteres (stars) can
refer to actual stars, but can also describe any heavenly body other than the
sun and the moon. Obviously, in this
context it does not refer to actual stars, since they are far too large to fall
on the earth and would incinerate it long before striking it.” Since this earthquake which we have been
looking at could cause problems in the universe what we may be looking at here
is meteorites or let me also think about something else that this could be and
that is rockets coming out of some type of satellite from the sky. I remember a long time ago when I was
studying a book written by Hal Lindsey on psychics who would get information from strange places like demons and a woman
got information about what was called MIRV which was a Russian Satellite that
would have multiple war heads with nuclear bombs on it that could be fired at
the earth. I am not saying that this is
what we are looking at in this verse, but man does have the technology to do
something like what is described in this verse and we must also remember that
John was using first century language to describe what was going on in perhaps
the 21st century or even later.
John later in this verse writes that the result of these “stars” coming
from outer space would be like “a fig tree that casts its unripe figs when
shaken by a great wind.” MacArthur
writes “With the whole earth being pummeled by fiery balls plunging out of the
blackness there will be nowhere for people to flee, nowhere for them to hide.”
Now as we look at verse fourteen I want to quote my
former Spiritual Diary from May 14, 2005 in which I again go back to some
things I learned when I first began to study Revelations much earlier than
2005: “As I look at verse 14 it makes me
go back to the very early times of my Christian life when most all the time I
would be reading Hal Lindsey’s books on prophecy, because that is what the Lord
used to draw me to Himself. In his books
and tapes he often said that this verse was a good description from the 1st
century of a modern day atomic bomb, and as you read this verse and then think
of pictures of an atomic bomb with the large mushroom cloud it does makes you
think that this could be true. At any
rate this future earthquake will cause a lot of damage on this world as it will
level the mountains and it will cause islands to disappear.”
Now as we look at the section from verse fourteen which
reads “every mountain and island were moved out of their places” I want to
quote again from who John MacArthur quotes in his commentary, Dr. Henry M.
Morris who writes “The earth’s crust, highly unstable since the great Flood,
will be so disturbed by the impacting asteroids, the volcanic explosions, and
the worldwide earthquakes, that great segments of it will actually begin to
slip and slide over the earth’s deep plastic mantle. Geophysicists for many years have been
fascinated with the idea of ‘continental drift’ (although strong evidence has
been accumulating against any such phenomenon occurring in the present
age). Several have published theories of
a past naturalistic catastrophism involving what they call ‘the earth’s
shifting crust.’ Some such phenomenon my
actually be triggered under this judgment of the sixth seal, dwarfing the
damage occasioned by the mighty earthquake of the past.”
Well we have looked at a lot of possibilities of how this
sixth seal will happen and perhaps none of what we looked at will be the way
that it does happen, but one thing for sure it will happen and another thing
for sure it will bring great fear to those living on planet earth at this
time. So what is the best thing a person
can do now? Make sure that you get your
ticket out of here before all of this happens.
How do you do that? Receive the
Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior and Lord?
How do you do that? First of all
you must admit that you are a sinner, that you have offended God because of
this sin, and then confess this to the Lord.
Then pray to the Lord saying something like “I know that I have offended
you with my sinfulness which I confess to you at this time. I truly believe that when Jesus Christ died
on the cross that He died in my place and I want to receive His forgiveness and
exchange my sin for His righteousness.”
2 Corinthians 5:21 says “He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our
behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.”
Spiritual meaning
for my life today: I am thankful
that the certainty of the Word of God shows me that all of these terrible
things that perhaps are not too far off, that I will not have to go through
them because God said in Revelation 3:10 “Because you have kept the word of My
perseverance, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, that hour which is
about to come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.”
My Steps of Faith for Today: To love the Lord with all of my heart, soul,
mind, and strength, and to live in the love that Christ has for me.
Answer to yesterday’s Bible
question: “Samuel, Saul, and David.”
Today’s Bible
question: “The word ‘gerah,’ the
smallest of the Hebrew weights, signifies what?”
Answer in our Next SD.
4/2/2015 9:33 AM
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