The Lamb's Wrath
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· 8 viewsA day is coming where the Lamb's wrath will be poured out on His enemies. We are to remain faithful until then.
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ME: Oxymoron - Renaissance Man
ME: Oxymoron - Renaissance Man
What was everyone’s favorite subject in school growing up?
What about everyone’s least favorite?
For me, it was English.
I remember my senior project was a ten page paper,
And that felt like the longest and worst assignment I could ever imagine.
But not only that, English felt so abstract,
And I struggled to be able to comprehend these abstract principles.
I remember trying to learn literary devices and sentence structure and things like that.
You know: verbs, adjectives, nouns, things like that.
As they got more complex, we had things like similes and metaphors.
I felt like the military students in the old movie, Renaissance Man.
Do any of you remember that movie?
Danny DeVito is a teacher at an army barracks.
There is a scene where he is trying to teach these English principles.
I’d like to share that clip with you this morning;
This morning we continue our True Story study through Revelation with an oxymoron,
The Story of the Lamb’s Wrath in Revelation 6:9-17.
We will start looking at vs. 9, where we see that we must Anticipate Suffering.
Next, in vs. 10-11, we will see that it is According to God’s Sovereignty.
Vs. 12-14 reveals what All Will See.
And we will conclude in vs. 15-17, looking at the Lamb’s Wrath of Absolute Severity.
This phrase, the Lamb’s wrath is greatly ironic and unexpected.
There are not many animals that I would consider less threatening than a lamb.
So, the thought of experiencing the wrath of a lamb would not normally strike much concern.
But the Lamb in our passage this morning is no ordinary lamb.
We were introduced to this Lamb back in Rev. 5.
He is a Lamb that was slain, but is now standing.
A Lamb who is also a Lion.
This Lamb then, pours out His wrath on a sinful and rebellious humanity that has rejected His gracious offer of forgiveness and salvation.
There has been a trend in our culture that emphasizes the meekness of Jesus so much that it neglects His just wrath.
Now, it is important we recognize Christ is still the Lamb,
Which means He is gentle and compassionate and gracious.
So, we are cautious not to neglect these qualities by emphasizing the the wrath of Jesus solely.
Jesus is meek and lowly.
But He also condemns hypocrisy with zeal,
And speaks of a place reserved for the eternal burning of His judgment.
We must balance the tension of Christ’s love and Christ’s holiness,
Christ’s compassion and Christ’s justice,
Christ’s grace and Christ’s righteousness,
Christ’s mercy and Christ’s judgment.
Christ the Lamb and His Wrath.
The wrath of God is a recurring theme throughout Revelation.
Looking ahead to Rev. 11:18; 14:10; 16:19; 19:15 we see God’s wrath again and again;
The nations raged, but your wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, and for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints, and those who fear your name, both small and great, and for destroying the destroyers of the earth.”
he also will drink the wine of God’s wrath, poured full strength into the cup of his anger, and he will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.
The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell, and God remembered Babylon the great, to make her drain the cup of the wine of the fury of his wrath.
From his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and he will rule them with a rod of iron. He will tread the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty.
Warren Wiersbe summarizes the wrath of God well;
“If men and women will not yield to the love of God, and be changed by the grace of God, then there is no way for them to escape the wrath of God.”
As people of God, we must prepare for the Lamb’s Wrath.
WE: Anticipate Suffering (vs. 9)
WE: Anticipate Suffering (vs. 9)
This begins with us need to Anticipate Suffering,
We see this in Rev. 6:9;
When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the witness they had borne.
This seal is different from the first four seals we looked at last week.
There is no mention of a horse being summoned.
Instead we see an altar.
The inclusion of the altar brings to mind the sacrificial blood that was poured out at the altar in Exodus 29:12;
and shall take part of the blood of the bull and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger, and the rest of the blood you shall pour out at the base of the altar.
This allusion then, communicates something sacrificial in this verse.
That Christians are to anticipate suffering.
But this is not ordinary suffering, there is talk of slaughter in this verse.
So, the fifth seal is talking about those who belong to God being put to death because of their allegiance to Christ.
Because they refused to compromise the Word of God, it cost them their lives.
Not only do we see an altar instead of a horse here,
But we see “the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the witness they had borne.”
By describing these people as souls, it tells us that the resurrection has not yet happened.
This phrase could possibly refer to believers who died during the first four seals that we looked at last week.
Or what is more likely, and what most people believe, is that this phrase refers to martyrs.
Described in Rev. 18:24 as the blood of prophets and saints, of all who have been slain on earth.
They are followers of Christ whose life and sacrifices for the message of God are their testimony.
This Gospel-centered testimony is the reason why they were slaughtered.
It is the same reason John gave for his imprisonment on the island of Patmos back in Rev. 1:9.
We get the term martyr from the Greek word for witness, martys.
In the early centuries (the time Rev. was written) it became associated with believers who chose to remain a witness for their faith instead of renouncing their faith,
and were slaughtered as a result.
Martyrdom was not specific to Christianity.
But since the early church, Christians have been slain because of their commitment to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Jesus foretold believers to anticipate this level of suffering.
In fact, he describes it as a blessing in Matt 5:10-12;
“Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
But it wasn’t only Jesus that taught on this, persecution is littered throughout the NT:
1 Thess 2:14-16;
For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea. For you suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they did from the Jews, who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and oppose all mankind by hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they might be saved—so as always to fill up the measure of their sins. But wrath has come upon them at last!
Heb 12:1-3;
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted.
1 Pet 2:19-24; 3:14-18;
For this is a gracious thing, when, mindful of God, one endures sorrows while suffering unjustly. For what credit is it if, when you sin and are beaten for it, you endure? But if when you do good and suffer for it you endure, this is a gracious thing in the sight of God. For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps. He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth. When he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but continued entrusting himself to him who judges justly. He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.
But even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you will be blessed. Have no fear of them, nor be troubled, but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect, having a good conscience, so that, when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame. For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God’s will, than for doing evil. For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,
I want to share about four souls that are numbered among the martyrs.
In 2014, four Iraqi Christian children were martyred by ISIS militants.
Here is their story:
“The Rev. Canon Andrew White revealed in a recent interview…ISIS turned up and they said to the children, ‘You say the words that you will follow Muhammad.’ The children, all under 15, four of them, they said, ‘No, we love Yasua [Jesus]. We have always loved Yasua. We have always followed Yasua. Yasua has always been with us,’ White said. ‘ [The militants] said, ‘Say the words!’ [The children] said, ‘No, we can’t do that.’”
Immediately after, the ISIS militants beheaded these four children.
This is not the last we will see of these martyrs.
In Rev. 20:4, we see;
Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
Church, as Christians we must anticipate suffering.
Although it is unlikely in your present context,
The reality is that we could find ourselves sharing in the fate of martyrs.
As 2 Tim. 3:12 declares;
Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,
For some, this anticipation includes suffering to the point of death.
This verse focuses on the actions of believers devoted to Christ.
GOD: According to God’s Sovereignty (vs. 10-11)
GOD: According to God’s Sovereignty (vs. 10-11)
Our next section highlights the longing in the hearts of believers devoted to Christ
But as Pastor Adrian Rogers has been quoted saying;
“God is never early and He is never late. He is always right on time.”
We know this to be true, though in times of suffering, it is a struggle to believe it.
But in those times, what should we do?
Look with me Rev. 6:10-11, where we can rest assured that those times are According to God’s Sovereignty;
They cried out with a loud voice, “O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long before you will judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?” Then they were each given a white robe and told to rest a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brothers should be complete, who were to be killed as they themselves had been.
Christ is addressed as O Sovereign Lord, which is actually the same word used for slave owners.
It is an emphasis of Christ’s absolute authority and power.
These martyred saints cry out for justice,
Praying that God will vindicate their death.
This vindication is due punishment.
But it is not immediate.
They are crying out, “how long?” because the vindication has not yet come.
But this is not a selfishly motivated cry,
Nor is it this vindictive rage.
It is not sinful in any way, in fact, it is righteous.
It is a cry that aligns with God’s just nature.
It is a desire to see the full manifestation of God’s justice.
This desire is reflective in a variety of both OT and NT passages.
I list a variety of examples here and I encourage you to look into them in your personal study this week:
Deut 32:35; Ps 64:7-9; 79:10; 94:1-2, 23; Mal. 4:1-2; Luke 21:22; Rom 1:18; 12:19-20; and Heb 10:30.
Then, time and time again throughout Revelation, John affirms the rightness of God’s judgment on the wicked.
The blood of God’s children have been spilled.
These are people whom love God and whom God loves.
God promises that He will address this evil,
That justice will be done.
God will not allow evil to remain unchecked.
So, these souls long for that justice to come.
Their question is a model of a prayer of lament.
As Danny Akin notes;
“The prayer of these martyrs is a heartfelt, sincere, and biblically grounded. They do not cry out for personal revenge or vengeance but for divine justice.”
Their prayer is a genuine expression of how they feel,
But they are leaving it up to the sovereign One who enforces justice,
To the One Who is holy and cannot tolerate evil,
To the One Who is true and will be faithful to fairness.
The answer to their question plays out from Rev. 16:4-19:2.
{PAUSE}
We see in the Bible two kinds of people in this world.
The people of God whose, as Phil. 3:20 says, citizenship is in heaven;
And the second are the people who rebel against God,
Described throughout Revelation as those who dwell on earth.
Their descriptions are not good descriptions.
Rev. 8:13; 11:10; 13:8, 14; 17:2, 8
Then I looked, and I heard an eagle crying with a loud voice as it flew directly overhead, “Woe, woe, woe to those who dwell on the earth, at the blasts of the other trumpets that the three angels are about to blow!”
and those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them and make merry and exchange presents, because these two prophets had been a torment to those who dwell on the earth.
and all who dwell on earth will worship it, everyone whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slain.
and by the signs that it is allowed to work in the presence of the beast it deceives those who dwell on earth, telling them to make an image for the beast that was wounded by the sword and yet lived.
with whom the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality, and with the wine of whose sexual immorality the dwellers on earth have become drunk.”
The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to rise from the bottomless pit and go to destruction. And the dwellers on earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel to see the beast, because it was and is not and is to come.
The justice that awaits these earth-dwellers is a form of divine punishment.
While vs. 11 demonstrates God’s care for those whose citizenship is in heaven.
We see the martyrs are given a white robe,
A symbol of blessing and honor and purity and victory and righteousness.
Chapter 7, which, Lord willing, we will look at in more detail next week,
Describes those in the white robe as belonging to God.
Their robes are washed white in the Lamb’s blood.
So, these martyrs given white robes in ch. 6 are being assured that they truly belong to God.
But then they are also commanded to rest a little longer.
Basically, they are told to wait.
They asked, “how long?”
God said, “not yet.”
Not until the predetermined number of fellow Christian martyrs are slaughtered.
There are more believers that, according to God’s sovereignty, must suffer to the point of death.
Until then, Jesus says to rest and trust in Him.
This is all according to His sovereignty.
As Grant Osborne notes in His commentary;
“The emphasis is on divine sovereignty. God knows each one who is to be martyred, and will vindicate them all at the proper time, which will be soon.”
God’s delay does not mean He does not know or He does not care.
As Graham Goldsworthy notes;
“Those who have died for the faith (and those who will yet die), have not suffered in vain. They are secure because they have the robe of Christ’s righteousness.”
They, like us, must trust that this is according to God’s sovereignty,
And, as mentioned earlier, His timing is perfect.
YOU: All Will See (vs. 12-14)
YOU: All Will See (vs. 12-14)
As we see in Rev. 6:12-14,
In His perfect timing, Christ will return and all will see.
When he opened the sixth seal, I looked, and behold, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black as sackcloth, the full moon became like blood, and the stars of the sky fell to the earth as the fig tree sheds its winter fruit when shaken by a gale. The sky vanished like a scroll that is being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.
The martyrs were not told to wait forever,
But for a little while longer.
It may seem like the time of Christ’s return is taking forever,
But He will come much sooner than most expect,
And tragically, much sooner than many are ready for.
When that time comes, all doubt about God will be removed.
All will see the judgment of the Lord because creation will fall apart.
History will come to a close.
Some believe these events are symbolic, and that very well could be,
But the prominence of these descriptions throughout the entire Bible would lead us to believe what is more likely is a genuine and literal description.
The end is first signaled by a great earthquake,
Something we see as an indicator of God’s judgment throughout Revelation in Rev. 11:13; and 16:18, for example.
And at that hour there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.
And there were flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, and a great earthquake such as there had never been since man was on the earth, so great was that earthquake.
As well as an indicator of God’s judgment and God’s presence throughout the OT too.
We won’t read them now for times sake but passages include:
Exod 19:18; Jer 10:22; Ezek 38:19; Isaiah 2:19; Hag 2:6 Joel 3:16; Nah. 1:5;
This earthquake would be enough in and of itself.
But that is only the start.
The sun turns black as a sackcloth made of hair.
Light is impaired.
And the moons turns red as blood.
Joel 2:31 describes the same thing.
The sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes.
Even after this, God’s judgment still is not done!
The stars fall to the ground like winter fruit or unripe figs fall off trees.
Perhaps like a meteor shower, but a meteor shower worse than any shower the world has ever experienced.
Then vs. 14 says the sky will disappear like a scroll being rolled up.
I can only imagine what exactly this will look like.
This description of God’s judgment once again alludes to the OT
In this instance, we see similarities to Isaiah 34:4;
All the host of heaven shall rot away, and the skies roll up like a scroll. All their host shall fall, as leaves fall from the vine, like leaves falling from the fig tree.
Don’t overlook the fact that John is seeing the world fall apart before his very eyes.
He sees the earthquake destroy the world.
He witnesses the sun turn black.
He watches the moon become blood.
The stars fall out of the sky before his very eyes.
Then the sky where they stars were placed somehow just disappears.
While we cannot forget that this apocalyptic literature is symbolic.
The symbolic literature in this case is easy to understand to some extent.
We can tell that the earth as we know it will end.
The stability of the world is in question.
Creation will unravel.
All of the universe will meltdown.
The destruction from the sixth seal is the climactic end of history.
When the sixth seal is opened, the wrath of the Lamb will arrive.
But John will not be the only one to see this.
When that day comes, all will see this destruction.
This unusual phenomena involving the sun, moon, and stars are the precursor to the great day of Christ’s second coming.
The great day is also predicted in Zeph 1:14-15.
The great day of the Lord is near, near and hastening fast; the sound of the day of the Lord is bitter; the mighty man cries aloud there. A day of wrath is that day, a day of distress and anguish, a day of ruin and devastation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness,
This OT allusion to the great day also point us to the end of our passage this morning,
WE: Wrath of Absolute Severity (vs. 15-17)
WE: Wrath of Absolute Severity (vs. 15-17)
To Revelation 6:15-17, where we see the Lamb’s Wrath of Absolute Severity.
Then the kings of the earth and the great ones and the generals and the rich and the powerful, and everyone, slave and free, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains, calling to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, for the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?”
The wrath of God is absolute.
It is a universal final judgment.
The Lamb does not play favorites, no one is spared,
Kings and slaves and everyone in between will face God’s judgment.
It does not matter how rich or influential or wealthy or powerful or revered a person is.
When judgment day comes, your position or prestige will not matter,
No one is excluded from this judgment.
If you are used to getting special treatment, prepare yourself,
Because you will receive no such treatment from the Lamb.
Everything anyone is this world has achieved or accomplished will dissolve the moment they stand before the Lord.
That is what is perfectly fair about the judgment of God,
We all must give an account,
God’s divine judgment levels the ground for all.
We also can understand that God’s wrath is absolute and His judgment is universal because there are seven types of people mentioned in vs. 15:
kings of the earth
great ones (nobles)
generals
the rich
the powerful
Every slave
Every free person
Throughout Revelation, we’ve talked about how seven represents completion or perfection, or absolute.
So, the seven types of people suggests complete judgment or judgment of absolute severity.
You would think this would draw us into broken confession and repentance.
Tragically, that does not happen for every person.
For example, our passage shows no sorrow over sin.
Instead, the people beg for an avalanche to fall on them in hopes of hiding from the severe wrath of the Lamb.
This echoes the words from Hosea 10:8;
The high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed. Thorn and thistle shall grow up on their altars, and they shall say to the mountains, “Cover us,” and to the hills, “Fall on us.”
Our human ancestors, Adam and Eve, first tried to hide from God,
And people throughout history, still today, and all the way up to judgment day.
Continue to try to desperately hide from God and His wrath for our sin.
This hope however, is placed in vain because God sees and knows all.
Hiding from the wrath of God is living like an irrational fugitive because there is nowhere to hide.
It shows how sin makes us stupid.
We think and act in foolish ways as a result of sin.
People who flee to hide from the Lord,
Who hope in the world or the rocks for protection,
Will find out that there is no avoiding God’s judgment.
And it is sad really, as believers, seeing the face of God is a comforting promise.
But for the people described in our passage, they attempt to hide from God’s face.
Think about this for one moment.
Imagine being so afraid of something that you wish a boulder would crush you instead.
That is the level of fear we have when we have to face the wrath of the Lamb.
Once again in Revelation, we are seeing the Lamb placed on the same level as God,
Because the Lamb is God.
The prophets of the OT repeatedly spoke about the day of the Lord being a day of judgment,
AND a day where God’s people would be delivered.
Our passage this morning is focused on the judgment, the destruction, the darkness, the gloom, the punishment of earth-dwellers,
And the absolute wrath of the Lamb.
The Lamb’s wrath is an unexpected irony.
This Lamb is not an ordinary lamb.
This Lamb is God, it is Jesus Christ, the sacrifice for our sins.
And we see that Jesus is not some soft, lovey-dovey pushover.
He is love, but we also see His wrath against sin and injustice.
The cross is where we see the grace of God and the wrath of God in perfect harmony.
God’s wrath is directed at sin.
Sin is something that all of us do,
Because none of us can claim we are perfect,
Therefore, we are all sinners.
Which means God’s wrath is directed at us.
How then is the cross where we see the grace of God and the wrath of God in perfect harmony?
Because the suffering and the death that Jesus endured demonstrates God’s wrath.
And it was horrific, His death was,
If you need proof of that, watch the end of the Passion of the Christ film.
We have it available in our library right over there for you to check out for free.
So, again I ask, then how is God’s wrath and grace in perfect harmony at the cross?
Because that wrath is meant for us.
But instead, in His grace, God poured it out on the perfect Lamb, Jesus Christ.
But we see the Lamb in Revelation 6 because Jesus rose from the dead,
Proving that He is victorious over death.
The only thing we do in response, is believe this is true in our heart,
And confess with our mouth that Jesus Christ is Lord.
{PAUSE}
Revelation 6 ends with the question, “who can stand?”
When OT writers reflected on the day of the Lord, where His judgment was poured out,
They would ask who could endure, just like our passage this morning.
For example, Mal 3:2 says;
But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire and like fullers’ soap.
The answer to this question is “no one.”
None can stand!
Our only hope is faith in the Lamb who died in our place.
Instead of trying to run from the wrath of the Lamb,
Repent by the grace of the Lamb.
God’s wrath is punitive,
It is God’s righteous indignation at sin.
When that righteous indignation comes, none will be able to withstand the wrath of the Lamb.
The severity of the Lamb’s wrath means we must place our hope in God above anything in this world.
The Lamb’s wrath will shake apart the entire world.
We should be terrified of this wrath.
Craig Keener rightly summarizes in his commentary;
“There is no security, no firm ground to stand on, nothing in the universe to depend on except God himself. The rest of creation will collapse.”
We place our hope in God because it is His good pleasure to give us His kingdom instead of His wrath.
Jesus explains this in Luke 12:32-34;
“Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
This hope in God then provides great peace and comfort, because we do not have to fear.
The apostle Paul piggybacks off what Jesus is teaching here.
Clarifying to the church in Corinth in the middle of a discussion regarding those who are unmarried in 1 Cor. 7:29-31,
Paul calls us to live in this world as if we are not in this world because this world is passing away.
Look at 1 Cor. 7:29-31
This is what I mean, brothers: the appointed time has grown very short. From now on, let those who have wives live as though they had none, and those who mourn as though they were not mourning, and those who rejoice as though they were not rejoicing, and those who buy as though they had no goods, and those who deal with the world as though they had no dealings with it. For the present form of this world is passing away.
You see, this world will be shaken.
And when it is, it will pass away.
But the kingdom of heaven, which we are granted access to by the blood of the Lamb, cannot be shaken.
Therefore, our response, is one of worship and gratitude and awe,
As the author of Hebrews explains in Heb 12:28;
Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe,
Let us be grateful and let us worship God
Because Christ has brought salvation.
During our life on this earth as believers, we must anticipate suffering.
Our life here will be radically different from heaven.
Christians will be slaughtered for their testimony to Jesus,
And vindication will not be immediate.
While we will not create heaven on earth,
We strive for kingdom principles like justice, peace, and unity.
We are not promised, health and wealth,
We anticipate suffering, persecution, and martyrdom.
But there is a day,
It is a day of judgment,
Where all will see the Lamb face to face.
The absolute wrath of the Lamb will be poured out on the sin in the world.
The result will be the annihilation of the world as we know it to set the stage for a new world.
All of us have the opportunity to either stand with the Lamb in His salvation
Or stand before the Lamb and face His judgment.
We will rejoice in His grace
Or fearfully fall to His wrath.
Danny Akin asks;
“Grace or wrath? Forgiveness of condemnation? Where will you stand? Take your stand for the Lamb, King Jesus, now. A day is coming when it will be too late.”
The end is coming, it is a day where sin and evil will be punished,
A day where wrongs will be made right,
A day of perfect justice and vindication this world yearns for!
Do not wait for that day, to trust in the sacrificial Lamb.
Believe in your heart today and confess Jesus as Lord.
Repent of your sin and you will be forgiven.
Because the reality is, none will stand.
Pray.