Amazing Facts
Daily Devotional
August 1st
Their Just Due.
John Huss, Thomas Cranmer, William Tyndale, and many other Protestant �Reformers suffered martyrdom at the hands of the Roman Catholic Church. Such hatred against God abounded that even the body of John Wycliffe, “the Morning Star of the Reformation,” was exhumed 43 years after his death and burned at the stake.
Countless Christians went to their death for the crime of believing in the gospel as it is proclaimed in the Bible and the Bible alone—that salvation comes solely through faith in the grace of Jesus Christ (Acts 4:12; Ephesians 2:8). They believed that it was the Son of God—not the Church, not the pope, nor any other man—who could give them life everlasting; and they were murdered for that belief and for sharing that belief with others.
The Bible foretells that the same persecution will befall God’s people in the last days—and by the same beast power too. We have already been warned “that the image of the beast should … cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed” (Revelation 13:15). Jesus, when prophesying of both the destruction of the literal city of Jerusalem by pagan Rome and the end-time universal coercion by papal Rome, declared, “Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake” (Matthew 24:9).
Some will die, boldly enduring in the faith. These are frightening thoughts. But for all who will fall in the last days, today’s verse is for you. These last plagues are evidence of the promise that God will “judge and avenge Theophilus Senyo blood [of the saints and prophets] on those who dwell on the earth” (Revelation 6:10).
The Gilbert and Sullivan opera The Mikado popularized the phrase, “Let the punishment fit the crime.” Indeed, as we learned, “he who kills with the sword must be killed with the sword” (13:10). This is not for man to do but for God alone, for it is God who is “the Just” (Acts 3:14). After probation has closed for the world, God will give these persecutors “their just due.”
O Father, may the coming judgment against sin move me to place all injustices done into Your trustworthy hands.
For Further Study: Deuteronomy 32:4; Job 8:3; Proverbs 24:12
KEY BIBLE TEXTS
For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy. Revelation 16:6
Daily Devotional
August 1st
Their Just Due.
John Huss, Thomas Cranmer, William Tyndale, and many other Protestant �Reformers suffered martyrdom at the hands of the Roman Catholic Church. Such hatred against God abounded that even the body of John Wycliffe, “the Morning Star of the Reformation,” was exhumed 43 years after his death and burned at the stake.
Countless Christians went to their death for the crime of believing in the gospel as it is proclaimed in the Bible and the Bible alone—that salvation comes solely through faith in the grace of Jesus Christ (Acts 4:12; Ephesians 2:8). They believed that it was the Son of God—not the Church, not the pope, nor any other man—who could give them life everlasting; and they were murdered for that belief and for sharing that belief with others.
The Bible foretells that the same persecution will befall God’s people in the last days—and by the same beast power too. We have already been warned “that the image of the beast should … cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed” (Revelation 13:15). Jesus, when prophesying of both the destruction of the literal city of Jerusalem by pagan Rome and the end-time universal coercion by papal Rome, declared, “Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake” (Matthew 24:9).
Some will die, boldly enduring in the faith. These are frightening thoughts. But for all who will fall in the last days, today’s verse is for you. These last plagues are evidence of the promise that God will “judge and avenge Theophilus Senyo blood [of the saints and prophets] on those who dwell on the earth” (Revelation 6:10).
The Gilbert and Sullivan opera The Mikado popularized the phrase, “Let the punishment fit the crime.” Indeed, as we learned, “he who kills with the sword must be killed with the sword” (13:10). This is not for man to do but for God alone, for it is God who is “the Just” (Acts 3:14). After probation has closed for the world, God will give these persecutors “their just due.”
O Father, may the coming judgment against sin move me to place all injustices done into Your trustworthy hands.
For Further Study: Deuteronomy 32:4; Job 8:3; Proverbs 24:12
KEY BIBLE TEXTS
For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy. Revelation 16:6
Amazing Facts
Daily Devotional
August 1st
Their Just Due.
John Huss, Thomas Cranmer, William Tyndale, and many other Protestant �Reformers suffered martyrdom at the hands of the Roman Catholic Church. Such hatred against God abounded that even the body of John Wycliffe, “the Morning Star of the Reformation,” was exhumed 43 years after his death and burned at the stake.
Countless Christians went to their death for the crime of believing in the gospel as it is proclaimed in the Bible and the Bible alone—that salvation comes solely through faith in the grace of Jesus Christ (Acts 4:12; Ephesians 2:8). They believed that it was the Son of God—not the Church, not the pope, nor any other man—who could give them life everlasting; and they were murdered for that belief and for sharing that belief with others.
The Bible foretells that the same persecution will befall God’s people in the last days—and by the same beast power too. We have already been warned “that the image of the beast should … cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed” (Revelation 13:15). Jesus, when prophesying of both the destruction of the literal city of Jerusalem by pagan Rome and the end-time universal coercion by papal Rome, declared, “Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake” (Matthew 24:9).
Some will die, boldly enduring in the faith. These are frightening thoughts. But for all who will fall in the last days, today’s verse is for you. These last plagues are evidence of the promise that God will “judge and avenge [the] blood [of the saints and prophets] on those who dwell on the earth” (Revelation 6:10).
The Gilbert and Sullivan opera The Mikado popularized the phrase, “Let the punishment fit the crime.” Indeed, as we learned, “he who kills with the sword must be killed with the sword” (13:10). This is not for man to do but for God alone, for it is God who is “the Just” (Acts 3:14). After probation has closed for the world, God will give these persecutors “their just due.”
O Father, may the coming judgment against sin move me to place all injustices done into Your trustworthy hands.
For Further Study: Deuteronomy 32:4; Job 8:3; Proverbs 24:12
KEY BIBLE TEXTS
For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy. Revelation 16:6
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