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Day by Day Devotional - Year 5 of 5
Revelation 14:14-20; ; Revelation 15:1-8
The Lord had formerly announced to His accusers: "Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven" (Revelation 1:7; Matthew 26:64; Matthew 24:30). Here He is, that Son of man, sitting on a white cloud. Once crowned with thorns, now He wears a crown of gold; instead of a reed, He holds a sharp sickle. The One who was judged by men has become the Judge of men. As such, He orders the great harvest of the earth, followed by the dreadful grape-gathering, both of which had been foretold so long ago (e.g. Joel 3:13; Matthew 13:30; Matthew 13:39).
One final wave of judgments (the vials) is about to begin in ch. 15. Yet again, the saints who will have to go through it, are first seen in safety (vv. 2-4). Then the seven angels responsible for carrying out the plagues leave the temple and receive seven vials full of God’s wrath (cf. Jeremiah 25:15). Dear Christian friends, this world which is about to be judged, is the one which God loved so much that He gave His only Son for it. The angels of destruction have still not been charged with their terrible mission. We have a quite different mission to carry out while we wait: it is to proclaim divine grace to the world (2 Corinthians 5:20).
